I don't understand how HN can complain about Google sucking up data and rarely if ever mention LassPass's terms of service which basically flat out state they share your info to marketers. Effectively they appear to be making money by looking at all the sites you log into via LassPass. If you're using their browser plugin I can only guess, given their Terms of Service, that they're spying on all pages, not just pages you're getting a password via their service for. Though even selling the info of which services you're using is bad enough.
Sure, they have a free plan and so you are not the customer. Why do they get a pass?
Note: I have no proof they are spying. I only have the fact that their TOS points to their privacy policy and their privacy policy says they can collect pretty much anything you'd expect software to be able to collect and that they can share that info with whoever they decide to partner with.
Contrast to some other password managers that stay flat out, they don't collect your data and don't want to know it.
From their Privacy Policy
> 1. Information We Collect and Receive
> Service Data (including Session and Usage data):
> When you use our Services, we receive information generated through the use of the Service, either entered by you or others who use the Services with you (for example, schedules, attendee info, etc.), or from the Service infrastructure itself, (for example, duration of session, use of webcams, connection information, etc.) We may also collect usage and log data about how the services are accessed and used, including information about the device you are using the Services on, IP addresses, location information, language settings, what operating system you are using, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data ...
> Third Party Data: We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you. We may also receive information from other affiliated companies that are a part of our corporate group. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new prospects for marketing, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.
> Location Information: We collect your location-based information for the purpose of providing and supporting the service and for fraud prevention and security monitoring. If you wish to opt-out of the collection and use of your collection information, you may do so by turning it off on your device settings.
> Device Information: When you use our Services, we automatically collect information on the type of device you use, operating system version, and the device identifier (or "UDID").
That's pretty much everything given they put an extension in your browser and can collect all of that info for every page you visit
> 4. Information Sharing
> ... We may share your personal information with (a) third party service providers; (b) business partners; (c) affiliated companies within our corporate structure
Why would anyone want a password manager with this privacy policy?
You can't have HTTPS everywhere until we can get HTTPS for IoT devices. My router doesn't serve it's configuration screen via HTTPS. How could it? I have to connect to it to configure it before it's on the internet.
Same with my IoT cameras and all the various local apps I run that can start a web server. Heck, my iPhone has tons of apps that start webservers for uploading data since iPhone's file sync sucks so bad.
We need a solution to HTTPS for devices inside home networks.
An answer will already decay naturally if it goes out of date as people will downvote it for being wrong. There are plenty of relevent 10yr old questions and answers. Decaying old answers will just make good info harder to find.
imo they should get rid of the gamification. change the upvote to a "thanks" button and don't so the totals
IANAL and I'm sure this will get downvoted since people won't like what I have to say.
I'd concentrate on the positive rather than the negative, that if you get to work on this project via your employer from this point on you'll be getting paid to do the thing you were doing for free.
Getting paid for past work seems unlikely. You already admitted you didn't care about compensation by open sourcing the project. You were willing to give it to anyone, including your own company as open source. Not that you can't ask, maybe they'll be nice about it, but just saying it's strange that before they asked you were giving it away for free to any company and now that they asked you want compensation.
To be harsh you arguably did something wrong by making something that directly competes with your employer. It doesn't matter that it was on your own time. It's called a "Duty of Loyalty" and basically means you can't get paid as an employee and at the same time stab them in the back by competing with them.
Maybe you don't think it competes but you said yourself it directly relates to what they do so yes, as you admitted, you've cornered yourself in a bad place.
Some companies, like Google, have an easy way to get a signed contract saying they will not claim interest in your project before you start (or they'll point out it's a conflict of interest like if you said you wanted to make a cloud based mail service ... in which case my guess is they would try to get you to join the gmail team, contribute to it, or you could quit and start your cloud based emails start up). The point is they are upfront about the legal issues and provide a way to work out a solution. Most companies don't have a procedure for this until it's too late.
I am curious how hard a problem it is for the system to figure out what side of the road the driver should be on. Could they put a little arrow or something in the UX so I could point to which side of the street I'm on? Ideally before I order the car so the dispatch algo can prioritize cars that are more likely to approach from the correct side.
If the street is busy it can be hard as a pedestrian to safely get to the other side of the street. I've also had drivers just go the wrong way like I was standing between Gough and and Octavia on Market maybe 10-15meters from Gough. The driver came down Gough and turned left on Market at which point I knew it would be > 10 minutes before they could make all the correct turns to get back to pick me up. I cancel the ride and was surprised the system didn't direct them better.
I loved reading OkCupid's Blog but it rarely matched my experience with the site and the conclusions they reached almost always had other plausible explanations.
Japanese culture has used symbols (not kanji, more like dingbats) for at least 20 years if not 30 to 35. They use them in business documents all the time. The most common are probably ●○◎■□▲△▼△. In fact like in the USA a generic name might be "Smith" in Japanese they often using 〇〇さん.
Further, they've been using emoji for the last 20 years. So telling them they can't is basically telling all of Japan they're 2nd class. Their standards and ways of communicating don't matter. Lots of programmers from cultures where emoji and symbols were not in common use dismiss them because in their culture they were not in common use just a few years ago but other cultures have been using them much much longer. As such, banning them is unintentionally racist.
If I want to run porn apps on my VR devices what right does FB have to vacuum up that knowledge? If the porn app has a specific sexual orientation why should Facebook get to know that?
Facebook should not be collecting this data IMO. Microsoft and Apple should be working to make it impossible to collect and governments should work to make it illegal to collect and extremely high fines if caught collecting.
Users don't care about most of this. Custom colors? Tell that to Apple's customers who seems to have no problem using a non-customizable OS. Running on obscure hardware configurations? Users don't have those, programmers do. Company branding? That's not a user request. Touch gestures? Who made this up? Not users.
Why? Did Apple acknowledge all the PDAs that came before iPhone? Did Spotify acknowledge subscription music services like Rhapsody from 2003? Did Flickr mention Smugmug?
It would be nice to know the why's for each of these laws. I'm sure some seemed at the time, or maybe still do have legit reasons.
Houses, or rather apartments with a shared kitchen and maybe shared bathrooms are still a thing in Japan.
There are "share houses" of which maybe the most famous/notorious is Sakura House that has many locations and caters to visitors.
There's also https://www.social-apartment.com which is targeted more at locals. I've thought about joining one for the social aspect. I think there would be a market in other countries, especially if there was an activity director making sure events happened. I didn't know it would be illegal in the USA.
There are also high end apartments that have an activity "roof top". A friend lives in one. The rooftop has a restaurant, live entertainment, indoor and outdoor areas, a pool, and rooms you can reserve for private parties.
Tangentially, lots of old USA movies show characters living in boarding houses, having a room to themselves but sharing meals. Seems nice in the movies. No idea how it was in real life.
This is one of those crimes I'm curious why the police in certain areas don't do more to stop. SF is the worst place I've been for this. You can literally walk down Folsom street or around Dolores Park and see that every 2nd or 3rd car window was smashed the night before. Leave anything showing and your car will be broken into. It's so common it's hard not to notice the glass everywhere from previously broken windows. Given it's so common it seems like the police could just put a few honey pot cars out and the problem would be solved but they don't care to solve it.
LA is also bad though not as bad as SF. I've had my car broken into 6 times and stolen once. One I installed a removable stereo, forgot to remove it first day, windows smashed, stereo gone. Got a new one, it lasted 2-3 months. After that had to use a cheap portable boombox (no money for new car stereo). That lasted a few months until someone bust into car in my apartment's garage and apparently tried to steal the car. The steering column was jacked up and the car repair said that was from trying to steal the car. Those were in West LA. My car itself was stolen in Costa Mesa. The replacement was a used Samurai Suzuki (all I could afford). It had a $10 cheapo radio that was stolen in Huntington Beach (no need to break into the car for that). The 2 times, one time I think I forgot to take down the dash cam. Another I forgot to lock it, there was nothing showing but apparently someone was just checking for unlocked cars.
Then again maybe I'm just used to living in a country like Japan where breaking into cars is mostly not a thing and so you can leave stuff in your car and you can have nice non-removable car stereos and not have to worry about your car getting broken into and getting stolen.
It's funny/sad to me how having grown up in the USA I just took it for granted than having your car broken into and/or stolen was just a normal part of life in the world. Luckily I learned it's not though it can be also be sad to have your eyes opened just how messed up your country of origin really is.
Sure, they have a free plan and so you are not the customer. Why do they get a pass?
Note: I have no proof they are spying. I only have the fact that their TOS points to their privacy policy and their privacy policy says they can collect pretty much anything you'd expect software to be able to collect and that they can share that info with whoever they decide to partner with.
Contrast to some other password managers that stay flat out, they don't collect your data and don't want to know it.
From their Privacy Policy
> 1. Information We Collect and Receive
> Service Data (including Session and Usage data):
> When you use our Services, we receive information generated through the use of the Service, either entered by you or others who use the Services with you (for example, schedules, attendee info, etc.), or from the Service infrastructure itself, (for example, duration of session, use of webcams, connection information, etc.) We may also collect usage and log data about how the services are accessed and used, including information about the device you are using the Services on, IP addresses, location information, language settings, what operating system you are using, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data ...
> Third Party Data: We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you. We may also receive information from other affiliated companies that are a part of our corporate group. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new prospects for marketing, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.
> Location Information: We collect your location-based information for the purpose of providing and supporting the service and for fraud prevention and security monitoring. If you wish to opt-out of the collection and use of your collection information, you may do so by turning it off on your device settings.
> Device Information: When you use our Services, we automatically collect information on the type of device you use, operating system version, and the device identifier (or "UDID").
That's pretty much everything given they put an extension in your browser and can collect all of that info for every page you visit
> 4. Information Sharing
> ... We may share your personal information with (a) third party service providers; (b) business partners; (c) affiliated companies within our corporate structure
Why would anyone want a password manager with this privacy policy?