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> Problem #2: It's expensive to support millions of users who post shit

Is it? I always assumed all their money was plowed into moonshot development to try to find something, ANYTHING to make a billion dollar company (stuff they throw away within 12 months, like Twitter #Music)

Just supporting their core functionality could be done with a fraction of the workforce, and could probably be profitable (although it would never satisfy the investor valuation)
For anyone curious, I built a project in C called tgc (https://github.com/orangeduck/tgc) which has some similarities. It's essentially a stand alone version of the Cello Garbage Collector (http://libcello.org/learn/garbage-collection) and provides garbage collection for stack and heap objects allocated via the given functions.
As an Fx user, I'm glad that favicons are stored though. The icons are a much easier, quicker indicator of what the tab is, when I'm scrolling through dozens of tabs to see which one to click and load.
Where are those 10 second videos stored? At Snapchat, on the phone, into the glasses? That changes dramatically the privacy implications of both the glasses and Snapchat. Remember what he said: he watched videos from one year ago. Snapchat has been all about deleting everything now.
Interestingly they didn't address the "flag mass videos" which I thought was the more painful point
> Under a similar trade deal the government of Ecuador was ordered to pay German oil company Occidental $2.3 billion for, apparently legally, terminating a contract.

No. Occidental is a US company, the trade deal was US-Ecuador bilateral investment treaty ("BIT"):

http://kluwerarbitrationblog.com/2012/12/19/icsids-largest-a...

Such kind of penalties are planned by TTIP too, and I don't see the major EU leaders rejecting that approach.

Also, don't forget there's at least CETA and TISA, and CETA is to be signed very soon. More demonstrations are needed if EU citizens want to attempt to affect anything!

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/ttip-ceta-tisa-trade-dea...
As one example, a hostname leak might hypothetically be useful for a spearfishing+XSS attack.
'course, he beat women too...

http://connectnyc.globat.com/documents/Mad%20At%20Miles%20by...
>> It might destroy their relationship by scaring her into leaving him, which is perfectly fair game.

So, should Krebs have flown over to Russia and beat the shit out of her? That would have definitely "scared her into leaving" the guy.

Again: how is it "fair game" to punish one person for the actions of another?
This seems to more or less do what Qt's deleteLater()[1] does.

[1] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qobject.html#deleteLater
With TTIP, I kind of got the impression that the "Trade" part was just an excuse to push various policies politicians know very well are not popular with their voters.
>> Nokia 9300i for me...

Yes! Yes! That thing was THE best phone I have ever had.
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You're describing 3 extremely different issues though -- it's easy for something going wrong to involve helium tanks because it's something that's used in the rocket that can lead to an overpressure event.
Of course, CETA has vital concessions to EU interests such as banning Canadian companies from marketing Canadian cheese as "parmesan-style" to Canadians.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, said someone pretty famous on one side of the Atlantic.
Looks interesting. But I did not find binaries for it and do not want to setup a rust env to try it out.
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The full text is going to be released. I've heard most trade deals are negotiated this way, but I don't know how true that is.
That's been in Cocoa as "autorelease" since 1994. Comes free with memory pools too.
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Yes. You can already get some of the benefits as evidenced in the slow adoption of functional concepts into mainstream languages. Lambdas, generics for example.

Being legos is fine but monad transformer stacks and free monads are legos that I can't see most coders putting in the yards to understand. But that's the level you need.to get to to do useful stuff, lest you just do everything in IO but that's imperative style really.

I think a great example of what I mean is Linq and async/await in C#.
For me the Discover Weeky playlist is probably the biggest innovation in recorded music distribution since the beginning of commercial music distribution. I've found a couple of artist that have become all time favorites that I very well might never have heard of (Anekdoten from Sweden and Motorpsycho from Norway, the Scandinavians seem to be the only non-English cultural family that get rock)

It completely bypasses the music distribution industry's gatekeeper behavior. This is previously unheard of, because the labels have a lot at stake, wherever there is a natural interface where music can be presented, they quickly move in and start to use money to control the playlists. I'm pretty sure Spotify's charts are heavily influenced by music industry shenanigans at this point.
I think it's both. People like the hardware, but most of them get it primarily because it runs OS X. But, Apple makes most of it's money off hardware margins.

Apple bundles their OS very tightly to their hardware, so it's not as if there's really a choice between getting the OS or getting the hardware. Even the OS EULA forbids you from running OS X on any non Apple brand hardware.
I, and I think most other folks, treated a youtube video as write-once, read-many resource.

That trust has taken a massive hit. You can no longer reply on the same video-id having the same content as before.
Yes, the latency is too large.

When I want really instant messages I've to switch to WhatsApp because Hangouts on my phone takes a minute or two to receive messages (tried all configuration tricks in the book). Just an example where latency with messaging apps is already too high.
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There are no secret trade deals. What there are is closed-door trade negotiations, because it's impossible to get anything done if every time you open your mouth you have street protests from the industries you're considering removing protectionist measures from.
Zero-install is half of the reason why browsers are popular. The other half is that the Web puts the users in far more control over the content in their viewport than anything else that has been widely deployed except for probably Microsoft Excel.

If your first thought is that desire for control is a niche thing, an instance of power users projecting their biases onto the rest of the world and not a concern for some mythical "everyman", you are wrong. Because those normal folk are exactly why Excel even gets a mention.
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I think this comes down to the definition of competent. I was using using the word in the - perhaps loose - sense, of being able to perform a correct legal analysis of the implications of the outcome of the case. For many purposes your definition is certainly valid, and clearly better explains that she will clearly not be out of a job just because she published what I maintain is a completely invalid analysis.
US elites got used to a very sweet state of things in transatlantic relations post-1989, and it got even better after 9/11. Steamrolling Europeans was almost too easy, because Euroelites had been fully co-opted by the American way.

Unfortunately, 13 years of unpopular wars have taken their toll. There are now two generations of politically-active Europeans who were not invested in the Cold War, and see the US fundamentally as a big bully. Couple that with tight economic times (which, many feel, have been foisted upon us by reckless American finance), waves of unwanted migrants generated by US foreign policy, and the self-inflicted loss of influence of "Airstrip One" Britain over EU matters, and you have a situation where US negotiators likely found themselves surprised by European pushback on all sorts of topics.
So you're actually investing in startups, but instead of your money, you invest your time/expertise?

I don't know anything about Matasano, apart from seeing the name on HN frequently, but I was wondering if you already had a successful security consultancy and sold it, why set up another one? I guess this answers that question.
Many theoretical aspects of quantum computing are well-understood, just as a lot of early work on computational complexity etc. predates the existence of (nonhuman) computers.
Usually I'm all for that everything made these days, should work across all browsers.

That said, the Chromecast was always named just that: Chrome-cast, after Google's proprietary browser. It was for instance not called the Web-cast. That's a pretty clear signal right there.

There's a thousand different browsers available to the curious user these days, but for years and years now the only (2?) browsers that have been supported was chrome and chromium.

Firefox for instance, has never received support. A big fuck you to what at the time was 25% of all internet users. The "fix"? Tell people to move to chrome (and how is Chrome's market share these days?).

This change just brings the amount of supported browsers down from 2 to 1 and the amount of unsupported browsers up from 998 to 999. Hardly a big change if you think about it.

Now... You have a proprietary browser, running proprietary nonstandard extensions to interact with proprietary online services and give them preferential treatment...

That's way beyond anything Microsoft did in the 90s to get the famous MSIE antitrust conviction.

How come Google gets off scot free?
While Spotify does a great job in marketing, I think that in reality, YouTube and SoundCloud recommendations are by far superior to 'Discover Weekly'.
All it would take for this is more love from the existing apps from big corporations (Skype, WhatsApp, etc) towards properly supporting mobile, desktop and web clients.

They already have all the users, which is really what makes a messaging platform (I won't use a new app if my family/friends/coworkers aren't there even if it has the best clients everywhere).

Skype seems to be trying with the new web and Linux clients but it's too little too late. There is still time to revert it through. If they opened their API so anyone could embed a client on a website, it would be massive.
A trade deal has to be negotiated, and your position as a negotiator improves when you and the other side know that you can follow through on any commitment you make.

Therefore it follows that anyone who can negotiate from a position of secrecy or absolute power (dictatorship) is in a better position to achieve his goals during a negotiation.

You might laugh at this but I believe this is exactly how the EU commission thinks about this. Maybe they will try later again in a more dictatorial manner since secrecy has failed, who knows.

The other extreme would be that you negotiate from a position where you are constantly attacked by NGOs and your own people, which certainly doesn't help with creating trust that you can follow through on anything you sign. You can certainly place your signature on a document but it means nothing because you can't execute.

This was actually a problem during the Cold War crisis between JFK and the Soviet leaders. The Soviets were hard to convince that JFK could follow through because he was so heavily opposed by his senior military staff. They actually believed that there was a real possibility that JFK would be disposed by a military coup so they thought a war between the Soviet Union and the US was imminent and acted accordingly.
Yes but there are plenty of cases where police departments aren't even bothering to get the service address from the ISP. Look at the case of the farm in Kansas or the house in Atlanta, The police don't have some independent source testifying that that IP address was in use by a customer at that service address, they're literally just using a geolocation service and raiding wherever the marker lands on the map.

This is the one thing that irks me the most, I don't expect law enforcement to understand the technical side of things but this is just a complete failure to do good old fashioned police work. If a judge was asked to sign a search warrant predicated around the results of a homemade drug test tutorial on Wikihow there's no chance that they would ever consider granting it yet when the same thing is asked in regards to an IP address somehow that passes muster.

At a minimum, police should be required to contact the IANA to figure out which AS an IP belongs to and then contact the AS to figure out what the service address is for the customer. Academia is built around citing any kind of source information, why is that too much to ask for from law enforcement?

Ideally, law enforcement would contact IANA to get the AS, look and verify that that AS was the only one advertising that IP block at the time in question, get the serial number of the modem in question from the AS if the subscriber is using a DOCSIS modem, go to the service address and confirm that the modem is actually present at the service address by doing a disconnect at the road, and then execute the warrant. I get that most of this is pie in the sky wishful thinking, but omitting any of those steps could result in raiding an innocent person needlessly and a lot of those steps could be executed concurrently. Heck, you could also throw in looking for signs that the IP address in question is being used as a Tor node or any other simple proxy and sniffing wireless traffic and trying to correlate the timing of wireless frames to the traffic from the modem in question. You could even do the wireless sniffing at the same time you go out to verify where a modem is on the node.

Even though this would be extra work for law enforcement, wouldn't it be worth it many times over if it just saves a small proportion of innocent citizens from a dangerous police raid?
"We can't do it because it's a different business model than Apple's" ;) ?

From 9Gag to HN, Windows 10 is a recurring meme of disrespect for the -cattle- consumer, in a world of Snowden and Facebook where we don't even own our computers. I say there's a demand (with money available) for a trustworthy OS in the PC world, and for a open-source in the Apple world.

Selling today's OSes might be impossible indeed. But a lot of people would switch to Linux even if it had fewer features, just because of Linux' values (which would be properly marketed around values of compatibility, open-source, reusability, privacy, cryptography, distributed services, ownership, offline work, etc). What about marketing the idea that Linux will bring pervasive effects in our democracy, like a global understanding that security systems can only be verified if they're open-source? What about the community value of VW and Tesla being required to open-source their security features, generating better security for them, for competitors and pull requests to upstream projects? We can make customers dream about a lot of values in addition to adhering to a great-UX Linux, and this value is not currently captured by neither Microsoft nor Apple. If only we had the money to kickstart a paid Linux...
This was linked a while ago: https://nugget.one/

Not affiliated, not even a paid customer, just thought it was well made.
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"... Upon the insistence of the US, the documents are not transmitted any more as electronic or even printed documents.[5] They are only made available [to authorised readers] in secure rooms at the European Commission HQ in Brussels, in a number of US embassies,[5] and at the offices of member states' trade ministries.[61] In all these secured rooms phones or other types of scanning device are forbidden.[5] Blank sheets of paper, marked with the reader's names, are provided on which visitors can jot down their notes.[61]..."[0]

How can my representative be really productive in analyzing such a deal? Why all the barriers to understand the document?

I didn't find out the time it's supposedly be public for debate, but if you're doing a deal for the people, you want people to negotiate, not just accept the deal as it is, which, as history taught us, it will be a really tight timeframe for debate and it's approved few days before a major holiday when people are distracted.

Our representatives must have our [all citizens] best interest at heart. I don't see how this is in our best interest.

And I didn't event talked about the deal itself, only the procedure which seems flawed.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Invest...
I feel like digital wallets would definitely solve this but there is never enough demand from consumers or merchants to give them sufficient traction. Maybe it's just a really slow shift since the benefits are marginal for most people.

Google Wallet recently added integration to bank accounts though so at least there are some progress in that aspect.
I could not agree more. It's quite ridiculous that there's no non-US alternative that's affordable.
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It's obvious that Google is able to change their own videos - and that it does it only to them and maybe premium partners (like Vevo, to upload higher quality versions of music videos). Nothing has changed to anybody until you show any proof that contradicts me.
Lenovo haven't made a decent thinkpad in multiple years now.
I wish this whole SSH business would be less complicated...
Nobody (as in the general population) cares about all of that, unless they have been personally bitten by it.

Someone needs to take some Linux and focus solely on the desktop environment. Make it more beautiful than OSX and Win10 and that may drive attention. That's an awful lot of work (not only the apps but getting the ecosystem to cooperate).

We've driven ourselves into the ground with our desire for free things. And we paid with our privacy, willingly or not. I think that reverting this trend will take a very long time now.
Here is a nice explanation of the reasons for secrecy:

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-trade-agreements-like-the-Tran...

tl;dr: two reasons: if each minor step in the negotiations is made public, lobbyists and NGOs will constantly bug the negotiators. Furthermore, if one side publicly states which lines it will never cross in the negotiations, it loses leverage because the opposite side now knows on which points they can expect less resistance, and will use this knowledge as a tactical advantage.
Out of curiosity, what do you use it for? I'm intrigued by platforms like MT, but have never had a real use myself.
What OS? The only one I've heard of is Unibox (for macOS): https://www.uniboxapp.com/
The content which is produced isn't that different from the kind you get from The Daily Show or South Park.
Absolutely incorrect. Anything above 90-100 bits of effective (symmetric) strength is currently more than enough, even against nation state actors.
>RSA 2048: yellow recommended to change

Could someone provide a link with decent explanation why? Is it solely out of fear that it will be cracked soon on quantum computer?
I'm truly curious, why would you hope it makes them a lot of money? couldn't care less about the fact if a company makes money with a new product. It's not a company that has a shot at world peace or curing all diseases, so why care?
or, better wifi...
I guess you're not based in the UK, but monzo(previously Mondo) (https://monzo.com/ ) sounds like the start of what you're looking for. Their API (https://monzo.com/docs/) opens them up to all sorts of uses for your bank account.
Jeez absolutely. The lack of innovation in customer services in banking is awful.

A bank account wherein I can ring-fence amounts and set a preferential order in which these ringed resources are drained. All with alerts on top. "Warning: you're spending more than recommended on fancy breakfast items, jeopardising your ability to pay your AWS monthly bill (which by the way has increased over the past 3 months)".
TXODDS has various pull/push APIs. Betting odds is the focus, but they have more fixture/stats/resulting services under development and can be approached for custom solutions.

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I'm watching Monzo (previously Mondo) with interest.
Agreed. They don't make niche devices anymore.

The last great phones for me where the N950 and N900.

Everyone is building what they think appeals to the "average consumer". With every yearly product iteration, features regress more towards the mean.
They just build bricks that look the same now, competing with each other on how many fractions of a millimeter can be shaved off. This is because phones are no longer seen as productivity devices, they're a status symbol like cars and jewelry. A keyboard increases thickness, which would be unthinkable for them.

I actually invested in a Jolla phone two years ago, but the promised hardware keyboard never quite panned out.
What gave you that impression? With `zpool attach` you can attach a device to an existing VDEV (single device, mirror, RAIDZ) to increase redundancy. With `zpool add` you can add a new VDEV to your pool to extend its capacity.

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An ebook reader/protocol that would let me write or read comments left by other readers or the author(s). It would also be nice to be able chat with other people currently reading the book, especially for more technical books. Basically, make ebooks a bit more like MOOCs.
Something I don't understand is the "hate" that RSA gets. Yeah, Elliptic Curves are promising, have benefits (smaller/faster).

But RSA isn't broken, it is well understood, is "boring" (a plus on security, usually), has bigger bit sizes (according to people that know a lot more to me that's a plus point, regardless of EC requiring smaller ones, because of certain attacks), isn't hyped and sponsored by the NSA and isn't considered a bad choice by experts.

Not too many years ago Bruce Schneier was skeptical about EC, because of the NSA pushing for it. Now, I also trust djb and i an sure that ed25519 is a good cipher and there are many projects, like Tor that actually benefit from it, increasing throughput, etc., but for most use cases of SSH that might not be the issue, nor the bottleneck.

So from my naive, inexperienced point of view RSA might seem the more conservative option. And if I was worried about security I'd increase the bit size.

Am I going wrong here?
Can you trace your cellphone-to-cellphone contacts, and conclude where a User is by comparing his environment?
I always imagined for fun a "underground" internet consisting of multicellular social-organism, that traffics data by handing packets over to another organism that is most likely to meet the user.
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dont count on it for the next 10 years
This is my thought as well. This was probably an ill thought through change. Most likely they have only done this to their own content or like you said, to other premium partners for small changes like quality issues etc.

I'm rather going to assume stressed bad ideas over deliberate dick moves.
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Why would it not be released? CETA has been public for two years now. No reason to assume different about other EU trade agreements.
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This isn't news, of course they're able to change their own videos!