Depends on the type of hacking. A lot of hacking doesn't fall under any specific law.

USC § 2511 says that for intercepting traffic on a wifi network without permission, you can get up to five years in prison. [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511]

The site isn’t going to mean anything unless people in power use it for their decisions about policy.

I sometimes think that half the reason political polarization has gotten so bad is that politicians aren’t citing the same data. One lobbying group can provide one dataset, and that’ll get picked up by Democrats to support their idea. Another lobbying group will provide another dataset, and that’ll get used by Republicans for their counterarguments.

If this site could become the definitive source of data—the one that both sides of the aisle trust—there’d be a common data source in policy talks. That could lead to consensus much quicker.

In most circles, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft are collectively considered the "Big Four". Some throw in Amazon to round out the "Big Five".

Do you think he left Microsoft out on purpose?

Well he might be buying into the idea that desktop computing is dying (which I don't know if I agree with). Maybe that would be too much for Microsoft to survive.

He included IBM in referring to Apple's size. So I don't think it's intentional... just like he didn't mention Amazon.

Reminds me of the game Lose Lose. When you defeat an alien, a random file is deleted from your computer.

Please don't play it.

https://www.engadget.com/2009/09/30/lose-lose-game-deletes-f...

My two cents:

- As a fan of pick-up basketball games, I could definitely imagine myself using this (in fact, I've read people ask for this exact app). I wouldn't use it unless there was a good deal of activity in my area. Try and incentivize first-time downloads.

- It'll be difficult for people to find your app with the name Sportal--it's the name of a Bulgarian sports site. Aside from ease of discovery via search engines, there might even be a copyright issue.

- Try to get on to iOS as soon as possible to expand your audience.

Thank you for giving this nice and small feedback.. I got your points!

My guess is that they trained the model for this with the data they collected from [Quickdraw](https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/)

I think different tests are being run based on the version numbers: the dev test is v1.25.2, whereas the production version is v1.24.4

I've thought the same thing, but the people interested in using such an extension would get their news from places other than Facebook.

Self-selection bias greatly reduces the efficacy of such an extension.

They could get their news from Facebook too, they would just more likely subscribe to more reputable pages and have less hoax-sharing friends.

Then they would claim that reputable sources too are biased against their beliefs and they'll come up with their reputable sources. Paranoia is some people nurse and profit from—unfortunately.

I'd imagine at least part of Twitter's rationale for doing this was to make users contrast their proactivity with Facebook's stalling on labeling or removing fake news. Twitter looks more on top of things as a result.

Given Microsoft's increasing emphasis on businesses, it makes sense that this is more enterprise-focused.

The product itself doesn't seem much different from Apple's Automator. Microsoft's marketing of Flow, however, is better at demonstrating the product's power. Apple never quite did that.

Hopefully its UI isn't as inscrutable as Automator's.

I agree. I've opened Automator with a naive optimism that I can learn it and become more productive. I've been wrong each and every time!