Hacker News: jakewalker

New comment by jakewalker in "Use RSS for privacy and efficiency (2021)"

jakewalker — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:48:56 +0000

Strongly prefer NetNewsWire, which is free and open source. www.netnewswire.com. Available on Mac and iOS.

New comment by jakewalker in "Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]"

jakewalker — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 14:24:58 +0000

He addresses this in footnote 1 on the same page, though. "A different company, Sun, created the library. But because Oracle later purchased Sun, for simplicity I refer to both companies as Oracle."

New comment by jakewalker in "Cloud Storage for $2 per TB per month"

jakewalker — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 21:54:47 +0000

Sounds kinda like the people who thought that bundling a bunch of bad mortgage debt together in slices could get it rated AAA.

Hell’s Kitchens

jakewalker — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 01:13:02 +0000

Article URL: https://popula.com/2019/11/18/hells-kitchens/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22017311

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Art Technica Review

jakewalker — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 17:23:21 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/macos-10-15-catalina-the-ars-technica-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21183457

Points: 15

# Comments: 5

New comment by jakewalker in "Yahoo Customer Data Security Breach Litigation Settlement"

jakewalker — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:09:54 +0000

Plaintiffs' class action (mostly securities) lawyer here. I have no idea what you are talking about.

New comment by jakewalker in "Trump orders U.S. firms out of China after Beijing sets new tariffs"

jakewalker — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:44:08 +0000

Not unilaterally, without any process.

New comment by jakewalker in "Trump orders U.S. firms out of China after Beijing sets new tariffs"

jakewalker — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:43:34 +0000

He does not. Which doesn't make the headline inaccurate. But he does not have that authority, and no one right-thinking believes that he does.

New comment by jakewalker in "Trump orders U.S. firms out of China after Beijing sets new tariffs"

jakewalker — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:43:03 +0000

Absolutely not. It's not remotely a thing, and would not withstand any scrutiny whatsoever.

New comment by jakewalker in "Starbucks, monetary superpower"

jakewalker — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:27:24 +0000

That may be part of it, but Starbucks has done a very good job of getting their regular customers to sign up for their loyalty program and online/app ordering, and to have them sign up for automatically replenishing (every time my balance goes below $10, load another $25) gift card accounts to use both features.

New comment by jakewalker in "Google Forcing Nest Cameras’ Visual Indicator Light To Be On"

jakewalker — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 02:03:18 +0000

We use Nest cams for a baby/child monitor at nighttime. Haven’t seen the change yet, but I suspect it will make it so that this use case no longer works.

New comment by jakewalker in "How transportation can transform a city – Seattle's double decker tunnel"

jakewalker — Sun, 03 Feb 2019 10:40:03 +0000

The Big Dig in Boston was full of the same overruns, delays, and even corruption. All worth it.

It's the best thing the city has ever done, far and away. Fundamentally changed the city and is responsible for incalculable property value and quality of life improvements in the city.

New comment by jakewalker in "DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps"

jakewalker — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:55:05 +0000

why would it be a "donation"? DDG isn't a charity.

New comment by jakewalker in "Apple to deploy 1Password to all 100,000 employees, acquisition talks underway"

jakewalker — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:59:59 +0000

"Rumours of my acquisition are completely false. My humans and I are happily independent and plan to remain so."

https://twitter.com/1Password/status/1016710603359096846

New comment by jakewalker in "Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door"

jakewalker — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:48:35 +0000

No it isn't.

http://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol107/iss4/1/

New comment by jakewalker in "Amazon Key is a new service that lets couriers unlock your front door"

jakewalker — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:47:16 +0000

And there are multiple inaccuracies in all of these replies.

New comment by jakewalker in "Coda, a “next-generation spreadsheet” – from rows and columns to custom apps"

jakewalker — Tue, 24 Oct 2017 18:47:22 +0000

Lotus Improv was one of the best programs I've ever used, and I wish it would come back in a modern form. It was much more sophisticated than just having "names" instead of row/column coordinates. It had an easier to use and in some ways more powerful version of PivotTables. Man, I miss Improv.

Everything you need to build your own Turn Touch smart remote

jakewalker — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:33:00 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@samuelclay/everything-you-need-to-build-your-own-turn-touch-smart-remote-1689da664d62#.n5f8p0sap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13746555

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

What's New in Subscriptions – Apple – App Store

jakewalker — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:49:14 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/whats-new/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11864083

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jakewalker in "Judge: There’s no proof Yelp manipulates reviews"

jakewalker — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:34:01 +0000

The standards for adequately pleading a securities fraud lawsuit -- which this was -- are incredibly high, and the plaintiff has to meet that standard without access to any discovery from the Defendant (here, Yelp). Which is all a way of saying that it is extremely difficult to read too much into the dismissal of a securities fraud lawsuit.

The judge in this case was basically concluding that plaintiff -- a Yelp investor -- could not adequately allege in his complaint that Yelp or its executives made a false statement of material fact in connection with the sale of a security. And plaintiff had an extremely high burden to survive such a motion to dismiss because of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Securities_Litigation_...).

So, in short, there is very little that one can conclude about Yelp's actual practices (for better or for worse) from learning that a securities lawsuit like this was dismissed.