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Security is in a way orthagonal to privacy.

A product can be secure from malicous attack whilst still leaking information to the Operating System provider, unless of course you don't trust the provider of your OS, in which case you're completely stuffed anyway :)

Microsoft have made a lot of advances in the security field and have a generally good relationship with the security community. In contrast, I would perceive Apple as having a less good relationship with the security community (they're very secretative about what they do, they've taken actions like revoking Charlie Millers Dev creds for pointing out vulnerabilities). Linux is of course not uniform enough to e able to assign a single value to it but there are some potential concerns about their view of security bugs as just being like any other bug...
Benjamin Franklin became a vegetarian at the age of 16 but gave it up when he was on a boat and someone was frying fish and it smelled delicious. When the fish was cut open Franklin could see smaller fish inside:

"…when the Fish were opened, I saw smaller Fish taken out of their Stomachs: Then thought I, if you eat one another, I don’t see why we mayn’t eat you. So I din’d upon Cod very heartily and continu’d to eat with other People...”
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The article is objective observations of evident intelligence in various forms. If you'd read the whole article you'd probably agree that it doesn't make any speculative claims about animal thinking, which is left to the reader. I'm not sure why God makes an appearance in your criticism either.
Vinge's description of that project seems to be rather directly inspired by Google's book scanning project -- in which universities were involved (including Vinge citing, as the motivation for the fictional project, a paraphrase of Google's corporate mission statement.)
Cool. Is it possible to load historical stats?
I think that was meant to provide access to men trapped in the ship, which was not going to go anywhere with or without the rudder.
OEM's follow what sells, which is probably whatever has been pushed to consumers via big corp marketing. i wouldn't be surprised if "smaller is better" is the next fad though.
I'm not equating them absolutely, however I'm pointing out the Planatir began utilizing existing tech to make in roads into national defence while using that cash flow to create more proprietary technology that, once released, allowed the company to grow much quicker and that tech became it's mainstay. Presumably initial funding rounds and contracts were predicated on this being the strategy, not novel tech being utilized immediately (which is inline with what Theranos has done). The comparison stops there, at a macro level not micro level as you're describing, thus why only a sentence was devoted to it.
Well this one's easy: Yes.

I wrote a crappy scraper for phone stats if anyone's interested in that: [1] No warranty, just enough duck tape to suit my needs, etc; you'll need to patch it to answer your own questions, but if it can save someone 5 minutes, go for it. Currently it just scrapes the cyanogen wiki, but I think I'm going to start yanking some other sources because the wiki content is... less than fully reliable for mechanical parsing.

[1] https://github.com/heavenlyhash/phonequery
You say [doctors', lawyers' and many smaller businesses'] PCs shouldn't be online at all? But they are and many of them run on Windows. Scary.

And almost certainly very illegal in a lot of places. Not only do you have whatever routine data protection rules apply, but in cases like medical data or legally privileged information there are higher standards required in many jurisdictions as well.
Don't be too down on it. We might get vertical display space back! Hopefully we get square displays so you can show 16:9 and 9:16 videos with full resolution. (I want more lines of text on my display.)
If you enjoyed this you should check out Carl Safina's book "Beyond Words" (review here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/10/08/amazing-inner-liv...).

While we shouldn't simply assume animals have minds, what we have tended to do instead is just as bad: assume they do not. In the West, Descartes famously declared animals are automata. Safina shares this quote from Voltaire in response:

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Voltaire disdainfully called out Descartes’s contradictions of logic, even referring to him and his followers as “barbarians”: “What a pitiful, what a sorry thing to have said that animals are machines bereft of understanding and feeling,” wrote Voltaire. He continued: Is it because I speak to you, that you judge that I have feeling, memory, ideas? Well, I do not speak to you; you see me going home looking disconsolate, seeking a paper anxiously, opening the desk where I remember having shut it, finding it, reading it joyfully. You judge that I have experienced the feeling of distress and that of pleasure, that I have memory and understanding. Bring the same judgment to bear on this dog which has lost its master, which has sought him on every road with sorrowful cries, which enters the house agitated, uneasy, which goes down the stairs, up the stairs, from room to room, which at last finds in his study the master it loves, and which shows him its joy by its cries of delight, by its leaps, by its caresses. Barbarians seize this dog, which in friendship surpasses man so prodigiously; they nail it on a table, and they dissect it alive in order to show the mesenteric veins. You discover in it all the same organs of feeling that are in yourself. Answer me, machinist, has nature arranged all the means of feeling in this animal, so that it may not feel? Has it nerves in order to be impassible? Do not suppose this impertinent contradiction in nature.

Safina, Carl (2015-07-14). Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel (pp. 79-80). Henry Holt and Co.. Kindle Edition.
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What makes you feel that Windows 10 is any more of a "spyware OS" than Google Android?
I'm still rather happy with 7, and I don't think I'll make a switch. If only they would stop pestering me to update...

It's stipulated that 7 will be the new XP, and 2015 may be the first year to start XP-ization of 7.
> Thirdly, due to your obtuseness

Personal attacks are not allowed on HN, regardless of how obtuse someone seems. Please post civilly and substantively, or don't post.
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This is actually the big lie of being a Digital Nomad. It's not legal.

As a US citizen there are only a handful of countries/territories that you can work legally without any sort of paperwork (Puerto Rico, USVI, Samoa) and a handful more that have official working holiday schemes:

- Singapore

- New Zealand

- Australia

- South Korea

- Ireland

If you are in the EU citizen you can work freely within the EU.

However most folks aren't writing about working holiday visas or working within the EU. They are writing about South East Asia and Central/South America. Neither of which allow people to go and work without permits.

People are breaking the law and being way too public about it.
Why not? A strong premium hardware manufacturer is needed pretty badly right now in the PC industry. The last one standing is Lenovo, and most of its product line is shameful garbage. When manufacturers compete on merit, everyone wins.
Do you include insects smaller than the naked eye can see in this number?

If you didn't, why not?
Mens Rea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
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It's in another galaxy where space travel is common.
They seem to have removed Go from the frontend list, but they have PHP and Node in the list too. If I was doing purely frontend dev, I wouldn't expect to have to use Node or PHP.
"Inventor of Online Ordering Software". Really?
You don't know how old the GP is. He did say, "...at my age..." He could be 60+, in which case the likelihood of him finding a really great partner really isn't very high, unfortunately. Also he doesn't say, but kinda implies that he's always been single. Usually, people like that never get married. It's sad, but true.

Remember, as you get older, you get more set in your ways usually, so it's harder to find compatible people. It's easier when you're in your early 20s and your personalities are still developing: you can "mold into" each other.

Obviously, when you "gave up" you must have been rather young for that to have been over 30 years ago, and for kids to have resulted from it. Either that, or you're in your 90s (and your wife is several decades younger than you), or you're a vampire or something.
I'm not the person you asked, but to play devil's advocate...

I think law enforcement agencies should be able to wiretap suspects of crimes to listen to their phone calls, subject to judicial oversight. I do not think they should have unrestricted, unlogged access to a database of recordings of every phone call ever made by every citizen.

Same line of thinking IMO. There's a difference between an individual identifying themselves and signing a usage agreement before requesting public records from an individual county, versus dumping online a public database that lets you query the personal details of 191 million people. The same data is available, but the extra hoops you have to jump through change the potential for abuse.
You live in fantasy world if you think men's rights activists are an American thing. They are biggest in 3rd world countries, you just don't hear about them.

> it's being oppressed by feminism and women are evil succubuses and must be avoided to punish them.

Ughhh... no that is not what MRAs talk about. And can we just look at some data about when suicide rates rocketed? And as a feminist I was under the impression that women were the ones going through more stressful working conditions?

That is the problem here. If the gender ratio was reversed no one would have to suffer through "sarcasm in quotes".
> I embraced OS X as soon as it was available and have never looked back.

I used the original Mac OS from 1984-2000. I've used Windows since before 1995 until earlier this year. I've used Linux since 1998. I've used Mac OS X every once in awhile when using other folks' computers.

I honestly don't know why someone who's comfortable on the command line (and doesn't need certain proprietary desktop-publishing programs) would use Mac OS X (or Windows). It doesn't give me a decent window manager. It doesn't let me keep my hands on my keyboard (right now, my mouse is almost two feet from my hand, and yet I'm completely happy and able to get around as I need). It doesn't use screen space very well. It's not free. Where having the menubar atop the screen was a good design decision in 1984 with a monitor a few inches tall, it's a horrible choice on a modern large screen: I spend so much time moving the mouse that I spend very little time actually using the computer, rather than moving-and-reading. It certainly doesn't feel like a well-designed, well-integrated whole: it feels like a colossal heap of mystery meat navigation, where nothing is obvious or intuitive, things bounce and slide for no apparent reason and I can't just get my work done.

I get that for certain desktop publishing tasks it's superior, and that if one wants proprietary software then it's a friendlier alternative to Windows (which is the obvious best choice if one wants proprietary software support). But other than that, why pay extra for a Mac? A modern Linux has terminals, web browsers and editors; sound and graphics are not the pain they were in the 90s; what else does one need than a command line, a web browser, a decent editor and some music?
Well-said. That's exactly what I'm arguing. The patent suits, the cost, and the results work against innovation. This is provable by looking at patent-holders' behavior then what resulted from it. The combo of market forces, legal threats, and silo-ing led the industry to be an oligopoly among a handful of companies with two, large OS's.

Apple's patents and position led them to make insane profits close to $100 billion. Yet, their innovation isn't significantly greater than the more open alternative. The money goes goes into their pocket, mostly, plus some R&D and lots of lawsuits. The true result of the U.S. patent system: making owners money.
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There's plenty of science showing that people with different gut bacteria can lose / gain weight while eating the same amount of calories.
That argument proves too much. It justifies eating cannibals, which nobody considers as acceptable as eating animals.
> One of [the women]—oddly, on an island with no men—held an eight-month-old baby boy.

What oddly? There were men on there just a year prior, in August of 1775:

> Why had only seven castaways survived, when 14 had been spotted weeks before? It seems the newly marooned sailor had tried his luck as a latter-day Castellan. With the help of the now-natives, one assumes, he had salvaged whatever could still be used from L’Utile’s wreck and built his own Providence. Sails were improvised from birds’ feathers. Unlike Castellan, the unnamed sailor had taken some of the slaves: the last three men and three women. Also unlike his predecessor, he failed to reach Madagascar.

The article even speculates that the white sailor was the father.

I'm also not sure why it says "14 spotted weeks before" - according to the article, over a year had passed since the 14 were spotted.
> So they don't know how

Along with the shift in meaning of "literally," another major shift in language is occurring w/r/t to the use of "How."

Often these days, you can substitute "How" with "That."

For example, in this article, it's not about "How the lights helped people." It's more like "That the lights helped people."

I'm not trying to say you're wrong or that I like this practice. All I'm saying is it's part of a bigger trend.
I'm also working on an open source RSS Reader called HappyFeed. It's compatible with Fever RSS API, so you can use it with Reeder, ReadKit, Press and so on.

I work on this project mainly for myself, but if you're interested and want to contribute, feel free to get in touch!

Screenshots and development blog: https://need.computer/happyfeed/2015/12/20/happyfeed-drag-an...

GitHub: https://github.com/aleks/HappyFeed
Wife, kids, mortgage...

But totally doable when I retire in a few years.
The other ugly factor is that the rate of single-parent-dom has increased enormously. So tons of kids are growing up in households with only one adult, are "latchkey kids", and aren't seeing any role models for what loving adult relationships should look like. This does not bode well for the future.
> For example, Hacker News nested comments are displayed as being on one level.

That's probably because HN uses HTML rather poorly (from the point of view of HTML representing the semantics of the content.)
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once on a camping trip we ate so much cheese all of us could fart at will. as superpowers go, not the greatest, but after learning about the fartiste, I feel much betetr.
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Not knowing anyone where you go, or being 'lonely' has a positive side. John Carmack used to get a hotel room in a state where he didn't know anyone, so he could work for a week without distractions.
How would this compare to a diagram of degrees of separation from other skill-sets?
Good answer to an excellent question. But I do not agree.

POSIX is the whole of a lot of utilities. Most of these utilities I never use, and there is a lot of utilities not part of POSIX that I would consider part of the "command line experience" (editor, tmux, some home grown tools, a REPL or debugger, ...), ssh, ...

Sometimes I refer to shell programs, or shell environments. This adapts to all that I actually use quite flexibly. Both to the tools, and with a special attention to the glue: the POSIX, Ba-, Da-, Z sh.

Interchageably, I also happen to use TTY (pronounced as Tee Tee Why ;) ), terminal, and Console .

I am not particularly happy with any of these, and also do not have a strong preference. I would like to be more consistent in my wording, so opiniated replies are most welcome :)
Allowing settlement without even habeas-ing the corpus[1]? This is absurd.

[1] A "writ of habeas corpus" is basically a request for a trial to pause until the person being tried arrives. Habeas Corpus is roughly translated to "you must have the body".
Why do you think ordinary users should try to disable all the cloud based features of their OS? Surely a lot of the features they want (e.g. Google Now, Siri, Cortana) are based on the OS provider knowing about the users and having information about them.

If your threat model is that the OS provider is hostile, no amount of changing of settings will protect you from their actions...
I'm curious what exactly you think a French ship sailing from Madagascar in 1761 has to do with African Americans in 2015.
> This island provided the basics for life and yet could not sustain it.

The very bare minimum of basics - hardly any water, and hardly any food. But it did sustain over a dozen people for over a dozen years, with basically scraps of the ship they came in!
I'd like to see an anonymous representation of that first degree of connection. Maybe the number of empty boxes leading to that second degree. Or is this information implied in the grouping (i.e. this is all from only five of his connections)? I can't tell.
There are some legitimate cases where AWS support is the right place to issue a request. Just the other day I had a VM go down and I issued a request to stop the instance and it just hung there with no valid way to keep shutting it down. Turns out AWS support is the only way for most users to get an instance on a host that suddenly goes down while stopping your VM to be correctly stopped because the underlying API call does not go through and it seems like a small critical section of sorts.

But when you pay AWS so much they are pretty beholden to your requests and can wind up becoming a lot like an MSP. I've spent countless hours with those poor guys waiting on a traceroute failure or for mtr or sat to give some anomalous event that everyone suspects is something wrong in AWS when I've insisted AWS is almost never at fault because our incompetence is almost certainly the problem.

The AWS support team's worst engineer is probably at least in the top 25% of our support engineers I'd argue so I'm sure if my customer had the option they'd want to pay to have them troubleshoot our own internal networks but that's what my team is for I guess.
Your kids (or any American who qualifies) can go to school in Germany for free.
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> globally

Sure, globally that's probably true. It's a bit more complicated because some of the terrorist groups are openly racist.

> You can find similar disclaimers on websites like Stormfront.

That's partly because of the years of right wing terrorism happening in the brought considerable attention to sites like Stormfront.

When you have the FBI listing your members on the top-ten list you either put up warnings or go underground.

But even so,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormfront_(website)#Controver...

> According to a 2014 two-year study by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)'s Intelligence Report, registered Stormfront users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since the site was put up in 1995. In the five years leading up to 2014, Stormfront members murdered nearly 100 people.[23][24][25][26] Of these, 77 were massacred by one Stormfront user, Anders Breivik, a Norwegian terrorist who perpetrated the 2011 Norway attacks.[27]

It seems the disclaimer doesn't do much.
All the ascetics have historically shunned sex, except Osho who... went in a whole different direction.

If you are reading about MGTOW then most probably you are reading a very slanted view of them by people who don't like to here that men are suffering. MGTOWs don't hate women nor they consider feminists as enemies. It is very much a political movement and hence gets shitted upon by political feminism. Not a surprise there. But to listen to ignorant people talking as an expert because they read something written by equally ignorant people with malicious intent is mostly funny, until you realist the very high number of male suicides. As I said earlier, if gender were reversed we wouldn't be having this conversation.
That doesn't apply because you're not working for a company in the country you're working in.

i.e. if you're American, and you visit Australia on a tourist visa and work for an American company while doing so, that's perfectly fine.

If you wanted to work for an Australian company and earn Australian dollars, you'd need a work visa which is a whole 'nother thing.
Thank you for this link, I've been looking for this kind of functionality ever since the first RPiA came out, thankfully some smarter minds finally got on the case with the Zero.
"I created a horse-racing simulation game in Applesoft BASIC in Manhattan Beach Middle School’s computer classroom and ran a small gambling operation."

Great story about a successful business that gained tremendous value based on domain knowledge and grit. But you can't say you knew nothing about software.
F.lux (proprietary) and Redshift (open source) can help with this, if you find computer use is giving you sleeping problems.

F.lux: https://justgetflux.com/

Redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
"Don't trust Microsoft. It is in their DNA to screw you."

Companies don't have a DNA. Humans do. Companies change as employees come and go, as the environment changes, etc. Don't antropomorphize them.

Companies act in their financial interest. Very rarely not, but mostly yes. I don't know why is it so hard to accept that.
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Yeah, it's unfortunate. There were a number of systems in the past that got very clever with networking and it made everything easier for developers/users. Mostly happened in the 1990's. Most are aware of Plan 9. More interesting were Amoeba distributed OS and Convergent's CTOS. The CTOS was a commercial, alternative to mainframes that distributed the system among cheaper computers. Had a lot of take-up before it was canned by Unisys after an acquisition. Couldn't have innovative products threatening their mainframe profits. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_%28operating_system%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_Technologies_Operat...
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It's not any of those. Are you sure it's running linux? Also, you're off by a few orders of magnitude. 191mm records * 1kb each is 191 gigabytes.
So where is the database?

If there's any legal or ethical problem with doing this using the Ohio Voter Registration files, I would like to know. I recently made an interface to it[1] to use when gathering ballot access petition signatures for Bernie Sanders in Ohio[2]. It's freely downloadable data, though[3], and the Board of Elections officials I shared it with weren't aghast at the idea.

[1] http://gobernie.net/ Source code: https://github.com/coventry/voter_lookup

[2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/929112173802716/

[3] http://www2.sos.state.oh.us/pls/voter/f?p=111:1:0::NO:RP:P1_...