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My local consulate (I’m an immigrant/ex-pat/whatever) uses FB for all announcements and Messenger is _the_ communication channel. If you need to talk to them, you need to either go personally (3h drive for me each way plus waiting lines) or you send them a message on FB. They usually reply within 5-10 minutes.

Many small businesses also seem to depend on FB for communication.

I can avoid the latter, but my consulate is why I can’t delete my FB account.

> Look, the reason iPhone sales are slipping is because of China's recent poor economic performance. Apple said EXACTLY that in their last earnings guidance:

Sure but that was one of the sections with reasons. They also said

> While macroeconomic challenges in some markets were a key contributor to this trend, we believe there are other factors broadly impacting our iPhone performance, including consumers adapting to a world with fewer carrier subsidies, US dollar strength-related price increases, and some customers taking advantage of significantly reduced pricing for iPhone battery replacements.

I don’t think we should ignore these either.

> The county is home to 88 incorporated cities, ranging in population from 76 (Vernon) to 3.9m (Los Angeles itself). Beverly Hills (population 34,506) is its own city, with its own police force, fire department and school district. So is Santa Monica (92,495). Even Vernon has a police department, with some 50-odd staff.

Am I misreading this? How/why does a city of 76 have a police dept with 50 people?

Aside from the obvious wrong of blocking people based on their origin, what's up with these companies closing accounts with no warning and no recourse? I know they're private companies and they _can_ do it, but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Why not give the user even a few days notice so they can communicate with support to try and clear things up? Taking the OP's story at face value, Slack should easily be able to verify with him that he lives in Canada. Instead, they simply block it and bye. I find this extremely hostile.

> Even if the biggest part of our attendees are men, we like to welcome women and encourage them to join security conferences. That’s why the goal of the network team is to not hurt them by fighting against p0rn on the WoS!

Maybe I’m a minority, but as a cis man I’d find a big public wall of porn in a conference disgusting. I’m definitely not against porn, but there’s a time and place for everything.

There are actually two problems here:

1. Bing allowing malicious ads

2. Edge not marking malicious sites

Problem #1 has nothing to do with Edge (other than Edge using Bing by default) and I’m sure Google may let malicious ads through from time to time.

But problem #2 is entirely Edge.

> The malicious URL that Bing is happy to promote can’t fool Google or Firefox. When I simply type the above URL into my Firefox browser I’m faced with a bold red page declaring “Deceptive Site Ahead” completely with details and an option to go back.

The recommendation to stop using Edge to download Chrome is indeed wrong though.

I don't know about movies, but you can definitely lose apps. I used to own a game called X-Plane that I played on my iPad. Then the authors created a new "version" (as a new paid app.) At some point, I reset my iPad and set it up as a new device and there was no way to download the app anymore as it had been removed from the app store. It is still hosted there somewhere, so if you have the backup, it will download the app from the app store, but it is not "findable" so if you have a new device, so sorry.

Are you sure it does that? I've always used Firefox and Chrome on my Macs and I can't remember ever seeing anything like that. This include my Mojave beta machine.

TBF, I automate my installs so both Firefox and Chrome are installed from the command line via brew cask. Maybe that's why.

Happens automatically when you run 'go mod init' in a directory containing Gopkg.lock. Caught me by surprise the first time as I had no idea it did that :)

Canada does not have an "investor passport." And AFAIK, neither do Australia nor NZ.

They offer _residency_ visas, not citizenship. Once you are a permanent resident, you can apply for citizenship once you fulfill the residency requirements (3 years over the last 5 in the case of Canada), but the article is about countries that offer citizenship _outright_.

According to one of the posts[0] on the photographer's website:

> The metal device visible in the left picture was part of a spinning chair. It held the head in the correct position during the photographing.

[0] http://www.marinamaral.com/blog/2018/4/9/faces-of-auschwitz-...

I have a family subscription of 1PW. I can easily share some password with my wife and our daughter is getting used to using a password manager before she's 10.

I totally empathize with those who refuse to use cloud/subscription services as, let's face it, there are a lot of bad actors doing crappy things with our data.

But for me 1Password seems like a small, honest company providing great quality service and software. I'm a happy customer.

Agree. The discussion with my friend was actually sparked by the home assignment someone asked him to do. That was easily a 10-hour job. That's way too much. He correctly declined.

I was discussing this with a friend just last week. He too believes it is wrong to ask for a home assignment. But I have serious anxiety problems so I find whiteboard coding tests terribly difficult. Same thing with pair programming -- it's fine when you know the other person as colleague, but impossible for me in a "judgy" interview situation.

I'd rather do it at home.

That's the point though: this isn't a new messaging service, it is a protocol standard that will be implemented by carriers, not Google. It is not thing that Google will shut down because there is nothing to shut down.

We have better alternatives (Signal, WhatsApp...) for those who care. Those who don't will continue using SMS, and for those, RCS is a good step forward.

It's actually https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account

> If Comcast announced they were doing this, HN would be up in arms about how they were modifying traffic. I'm aware of the browser vs service provider difference, but the end result is the same.

I wouldn't as easily dismiss the difference between the browser vs a service provider, but regardless, I assume Mozilla will make it an option you can turn on or off at will. I doubt Comcast would do the same.

If Mozilla comes out with something that changes content without user's choice, I'm willing to bet HN will justifiably be up in arms.

Same here. I find the Google Assistant's voice recognition very near perfect. I'm not a native english speaker but I would think that would make it harder than easier.

I love Gmail's UI but years ago I realized that I couldn't trust my online identity to a single entity.

What I did was to sign up for Fastmail with my own custom domain and forward stuff to my @gmail.com address. This way I continue using Gmail but with my own domain.

I could do this with GSuite (and in fact I did for a couple of years) but GSuite accounts often have limitations compared to regular Gmail accounts and I didn't want to deal with that.

Here in my area, 2-day Prime means 3-4 days. Their guaranteed delivery date is always 4 days away, but about half the time you'll get it in 3. But they still call it "two-day delivery"

Good read. I used to blog very regularly years ago, but since the end of Google Reader and the growing popularity of Facebook and Twitter, I’ve been blogging less and less. Always wanted to pick it up again.

Anyway, this caught my attention:

> Since starting a normal job (haha) it’s gotten harder to write on Sunday evenings, since that’s when the work email starts

Don’t do this to yourself.

It’s not that uncommon here in Canada. It’s not like it happens every winter, but it is not uncommon to have some huge snow storm or frost that leaves some people without power for days.

Just this last winter thousands in New Brunswick were left with no power in the dead of winter for over a week.

Same thing happened to us. My daughter learned a lot from YouTube. Then one day I saw her watching this video of My Little Pony (badly drawn) cutting each other with machetes. The recommendations started including lots of these things. SpongeBob committing suicide and stuff.

She has no access to YouTube anymore, which is a bit sad because again there's a lot of good stuff there.

I was recently surprised to find out they if you deactivate your account, FB gives you the option to keep Messenger. Might be an option for you or OP.

I have a relative who moved to the US a couple of years ago. A one-way ticket costed _more_ than a round-trip, so he and his family bought roundtrip tickets. They flew normally but obviously never caught the flight back.

The airline later cancelled his platinum frequent flying status and charged him with the difference threatening to sue for fraud.

EDIT: typo

Code is rarely the same as "inserting a few lines of code" though. They presumably had to think about how to work around the problem, look for an appropriate font, etc. All for the purpose of hiding a symptom of an underlying problem.

I believe it's either (a) a lack of understanding of _why_ one should use SSL or (b) a mistaken sense of principle of standing up to the perceived bulliness of Google, which, come to think of it, it's basically an application of (a)

I almost invariably read the HN comments first. In fact I often read _only_ the comments and end up never visiting the actual article

Quick correction: he’s an eight-grader, not 8yo. An eight-grader is more like 13 or 14 years old.

Oh I didn’t know that! Awesome! Thank you.