skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use Signal with MicroG[0] and "checkin" to GCM in order for notifications for queue wakeup to reach your device. GCM is only used for notifying the device there is a message on Signal servers.

You can also disable permissions on the Google Service Framework and use something like XPrivacy for MUCH more explicit permission control (revocation, spoofing, etc...) if you still want GApps on your device.

[0] https://microg.org/
Thanks for putting the list together.
I've been using silk.co for a while now. It seems quite similar in it's use case... I wonder if anyone might be able to comment on the differences?
For example, it has Privacy Guard by default, does not send any info to the mothership, gives you the control over your device, etc: https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Why_Mod%3F.

Another small discussion saying it fits for privacy-oriented users:

https://forum.cyanogenmod.org/topic/28109-cyanogenmod-from-a...
Did you even read the article I linked?
Especially to exotic destinations and to services which my ISP feels like choking a little (such as Youtube)...
Yes, it's best to buy when rates are very high, then refinance when they fall. Our last refinance was at 2 5/8%.

One big issue with Prop 13 is that people that would normally sell and move to a smaller place, or to another location, don't, because of the property tax consequences. Prop 90 partially addressed this, but most counties opted out because they did not want an influx of new residents paying artificially low property taxes.
Accounting in 8 steps,

1. Memorize this: Assets + Expenses = Liabilities + Capital + Income

2. Everything is positive, no negative numbers!

3. For every transaction, Total Debits = Total Credits

4. "Credit" is source of money, "debit" is destination of money

5. Assets and expenses increase with debits

6. Liabilities, capital, and income increase with credits

7. Expenses and income may only be increased (debited & credited respectively)

8. At the end of the accounting period, distribute income less expenses to capital accounts

Example:

Your business buys a property for 90k with 50k cash down and 10k closing costs.

Assets: 90k house (debit), 50k cash (credit)

Expenses: 10k closing cost (debit)

Liabilities: 50k mortgage (credit)

Total Credits: 100k

Total Debits: 100k
Install them Ubuntu, KDE Neon or Mint. Works for my parents since... I dropped Windows XP.
Agreed. PowerBI has so much more functionality - and more adding every month. And with the ability to use R to make charts, it has a lot more customizability.
Missing: lynx, links (both have headless mode), curl, wget, nscurl.
I thank the lord i lived long enough to see that article published. Possibly the most interesting thing I have ever read in my life.

TL;DR; Man buys tablet to use as a camera, so turns wi-fi off. Decides to share this momentous event with HN.
I a sense, I DID play with electricity as a kid. My father was an Electrical Engineer and a Ham Radio operator, so we had "stuff" around the house. I learned to solder at a young age. Some time ago, I realized that one of the best toys I had as a kid was the controller for my HO train set. It had a Speed (voltage) lever and a Forward/Reverse lever. Basically, it was a safe, variable voltage DC power supply. I could play with switches and flashlight bulbs and small motors and learn how they work. I've recently gotten back into Electronics as a hobby and I'm having all sorts of fun with Arduinos and Pis and such.
Not familiar with that one (can you supply a link to a website?), but since the Daily Mail's coverage of this is better....

Then again, the thing that's astounded me about the Daily Mail is just how good its reporting of very current events can be, including stuff that you might think would be obscure to it like the EF-5 tornado that ripped through my home city 4,500 miles away.

Well, it killed 160, so "if it bleeds, it leads", but, still, their reporting on it was timely, accurate, and their collection of pictures was better than any paper in the region, two of which I snarfed for my own page on it.... Whereas I have nothing good to say about its tabloid competitors (and despair at what the Torygraph has become, etc. etc. but that's for another discussion).
That would be interesting, but would it be economical?
You can start with ubuntu that is immune to most of malware and enough if your parents needs are internet + video palying and downloading + office suite
Not the answer you want but an ipad might limit the damage that can be done. It would remove the need for education.
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It's missing the browser engine and version that each of them use. Even latest PhantomJS only uses Chromium 40. Most important metric IMO.
Not when you look at the used car market or lease options. Here's an article describing how you can get one for 130/month on lease:
http://leasehackr.com/blog/2015/11/8/californians-lease-a-bm...
> no one is skeptical of classification any more than the people doing the rating.

And perhaps the people being rated.
Hmm... people seem to take whatever I wrote a bit too harsh on the religion thing. I take religion as inspiration on how to live my life. I'm not religious myself though, never will be. Perhaps I needed a proofreader first before publishing whatever I wrote.

My apologies for scaring people with the overtones being interpreted as religious. It wasn't my intention.
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A lot of people like a house in the suburbs with a two car garage. Should the fact that more people want to live in their town force them to have their house torn down so high-density housing can be built?
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Why are they terrible? Do they misrepresent the information?
If simply educating them on what not to do (clicking on 'free' stuff, downloading without discretion) won't work, I'd suggest switching out the OS to something a little less targetted by malware. I recently got my mom a chromebook, which she loves. You say your dad uses lightroom though, so that might not work for your use case.
This is a very important conversation for this decade. Do post your solution on HN once you have it.
I was really hoping for a discussion on how to keep parents from watching videos about the healing properties of crystals and government chemtrail conspiracies...

...but to answer your question perhaps you can get your parents a Chromebook? I'm not sure what photo editing options exist on the platform, but hopefully it's an obscure enough platform to avoid the majority of malware.
Eh, it illustrate his point of view.
The usual narrative is that coverage of Trump and Sanders couldn't be more different, with Sanders struggling for attention while Trump received vast amounts of free advertising. There is a lot of truth to it, but, according to a study:

> Sanders’ media coverage during the pre-primary period was a sore spot with his followers, who complained the media was biased against his candidacy. In relative terms at least, their complaint lacks substance. Among candidates in recent decades who entered the campaign with no money, no organization, and no national following, Sanders fared better than nearly all of them. Sanders’ initial low poll numbers marked him as less newsworthy than Clinton but, as he gained strength, the news tilted in his favor.

And for Trump:

> By our estimate, Trump’s coverage in the eight news outlets in our study was worth roughly $55 million. Trump reaped $16 million in ad-equivalent space in The New York Times alone, which was more than he spent on actual ad buys in all media during all of 2015. In our eight outlets, the ad-equivalent value of Trump’s coverage was more than one-and-a-half times the ad-equivalent value of Bush, Rubio, and Cruz’s coverage, more than twice that of Carson’s, and more than three times that of Kasich’s. Moreover, our analysis greatly underestimates the ad-equivalent value of Trump’s exposure in that it’s based on only eight media outlets, whereas the whole of the media world was highlighting his candidacy. Senator Cruz might well be correct in claiming that Trump’s media coverage was worth the equivalent of $2 billion in ad buys.

It's an interesting read.

http://shorensteincenter.org/pre-primary-news-coverage-2016-...
Are you saying that the cost of doing this is low because of advertisers' experience? Or are you saying that it's ok because we already have a slightly less intrusive version of this in place?
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This is actually really cool, and I'd be interested in performance of this versus something like jQuery. That said, this is really only for really modern browsers as it uses a proxy which can't be polyfilled. For smaller projects that aren't as worried about browser compatibility, it seems like a great tool that allows for very expressive code (you can access dom['a.button'] to get all of the a.button tags in the dom, for example, or dom.a for all of the a tags).
It might be a low barrier for some, but for me I don't want to manage multiple services which could contain duplicated content (less value per $). In this case, I'll choose the most valuable service to me as a compromise.
Yes, and can you understand the concept of a silent malicious update being sent to specific individuals signed by the proper key?
The protocol may be in good shape, but Signal's permission model is flawed for an application that handles sensitive data.

A few examples of excessive permissions:

* Disable your screen lock

* Location permissions

* Set wallpaper ("kitchen sink" feature here)

* External storage (why not use internal "app only" storage?)

* System log data

Android's sandbox will do its best to protect the user from compromised applications, but it can't do anything to protect you if the application already has full permissions. Based on recent events, I would assume that Signal users are at risk of targeting as a block -- their desire for privacy makes them interesting targets from an intelligence and LEO perspective.

Many successful applications follow a plugin model, where intrusive permissions are split off into separate, optional applications. Signal should do the same.
You may login to your console, and the overview page 'https://console.hyper.sh/overview' shows all what you have.
I graduated with a degree in CPSC in the early 2000's and worked in the field for about 10 years before my wife and I moved to a more rural locale, bought a small herd of dairy goats, and started making cheese. It's a very different and difficult life, but on the whole is very rewarding.

The money will never be the same as working in tech, and you'll almost certainly have to scale back your lifestyle expectations. I still do remote freelance work in slower periods to keep cash-flow flowing, and to fund farm expansion as we grow.

Here's a fun video of my non-tech lifestyle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb0ur8cdOfY

More recently, I've been applying my past development experience to farming automation using Raspberry Pi's. I built an automated greenhouse controller last year and this year am working on a device to automatically mix and dispense milk replacer for all of the goat kids we have born each year. (You can of course purchase commercial versions of the projects, but it was a fun application of programming, while learning about the RPi and automation, which I'd never done before.)
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I agree they didn't add anything to the article, but if you ignore them I think it's a worthwhile read.
Use Deepfreeze or something similar. You'll mark a their documents directory as excluded and then every time they restart their machine it'll be back to the exact state it was in when you first set it up.

You don't want to have to support them using a new OS for the first time - you'll be in for a headache. I use Deepfreeze for anyone who is a "problem user" and most don't even realize they have it if it's set up right.
Looks and smells like a well-funded marketing campaign. See also this comment, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12894370
Thanks. I didn't see anything on their website to say they are focused on increasing security but maybe its not one of their main goals. I'll read into the links you posted. Cheers.
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I didn't say it was illegal. I do think it is unethical. It's what we call in legal world an ex parte communication. It's an off-the-record communication with the subject of the article. At the very least, it gives the subject advance warning to spin or do damage control in response--a courtesy I suspect is not granted to everyone.
Is it still true? I would have thought that by gaining popularity Apple devices would become the target of malwares as well.
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I got it taught about 3 or 4 times, and every time I understood it less.

In middle school they told me, it's electrons moving at the speed of light through a conductor.

In high school they told me, no no, they don't move at the speed of light, just when one electron enters the conductor, another one on the other side will leave the conductor, like with peas in a straw. And this enter/leaf is at the speed of light.

At university they told me, no no, you got it all wrong, it's about the electro static and electro dynamic fields which stand orthogonal on each other and produce electro magnetic waves... what?!

I seriously have no idea anymore.
You could limit his user rights, make him a Standard user and don't let him install new software.

Also, have a look at how suitable a Chromebook will be for his workflow (simpler to maintain from your perspective and harder to infect).
The paper of the guy who can't even publish it on arxiv because he's banned there (it seems that's why it's on vixra instead)? And not because of what he writes but because it is below the necessary scientific literacy level. Arxiv's standards aren't particularly high. Is there any physicist in the world taking his papers seriously?

The comment of his previous work:

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1021214/pg134#pid1...

"I'm serious --- the writing appears to be that of a very intelligent schizophrenic who was trained in physics. It alternates between true statements and nonsense like rap rhymes. A key symptom is the various forms of "holistic fields" or what not that connect to DNA and brains --- this is part of the schizophrenics search for the origin of his internally-created hallucinations and delusions and feeling of "understanding the Universe"."

Regarding the paper you quote: it is... weird... and had he really found anything that would disprove the Michelson-Morley results (what he tries to claim between the lines) he'd already be famous and with his Nobel prize or just wait to get it.

You know "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"? It appears he doesn't even know (or doesn't want to know) what the necessary evidence for his claims would be.

Is your name by any chance Stoyan Sargoytchev (or B.M. Quine)? If not, where have you even heard/read about that paper?

Edit: (the answer to the response) thanks for answering with "I used first link with keywords similar to what I expected to find. I read linked articles and they are crap, so let dismiss this paper. Sorry." Regarding your question: "Can you accept, after confirming of gravitational waves, that there is field, called „gravitational field“, which affects speed of light, at least temporary?" the answer is: no, it seems you don't understand the basics of physics -- that is, the issues that were known before Einstein and the way he solved them, making the testable predictions. As the Michelson–Morley experiment was performed around 130 years ago, and confirmed many times since, it's really a lot that you miss, so I'm not going to continue the discussion.
Linux machine, subscribe to more adblocker malware prevention lists - my mother's laptop has more ticks on the adblock subscription lists than squares - and in case of my father an awkward conversation where I told him a list of safe porn sites.
There are a lot of people that will be pretty happy if they can reduce their list of (communication) adversaries down to Open Whisper Systems, Apple and the US Government.

You take it as a given that everything will end up on Wikileaks, but I wonder if putting some of their day to day procedural discussion on a secure, ephemeral messaging system would have kept some egg off of faces at the DNC.
In this respect, the FTC has failed 100% in their mission. Normal, non-tech consumers cannot use the Internet without falling prey to the outlaw landscape that is the WWW.

I think you need to explain to them that the Internet is too much like the Wild West, and they need to stick to trusted web sites, as their "sight" is not tuned to see the dangers. Leaving them too scared to randomly surf might not be a bad thing, in this situation. I have the same type of situation with my 85 year old mother. She is somewhat tech savvy, but not enough. Her browser has every possible 3rd party toolbar, no matter how much I educate her on the situation...
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...and, in the UK, he was responsible for many of the episodes of Tales Of The Unexpected, a similar sort of show that ran through most of the eighties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_Unexpected_(TV_se...
Work to live not live to work. You're at least the 4th programmer/woodworker on HN I know of. One thing I enjoy about programming is the pay and free time and lack of physical exhaustion such that my fine woodworking tools are proportionately cheap compared to most woodworkers.

I've been doing this awhile and my first dovetail joint was pretty cool... but the hundredth is just sweaty labor, eh. My first whatever is always fun, but the dozenth or hundredth gets pretty boring.

Be careful with the table saw. I'm not a big fan of binary comparisons but there's only two sets of people, those who are terrified of table saws and treat every use as some kind of lion tamer trick and those who have missing fingers.
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In addition to the stuff you mentioned, for my mother in law I:

removed her user's admin privileges

install flashblock - one of the ones where you have to click on the video to make it run

spent a long time explaining that you will never be chosen to win something, MS support never rings you to tell you have a virus, if something takes over the whole screen and tells you anything suspicious/implausible to press alt+f4

convinced her free music isnt worth the risk of downloading something that trashes the machine. installed spotify
What do you base your assumptions on?
> Those who desire power make the worst leaders

But bringing it up here diminishes the absurdity of this case. This line stood out to me: "Her corruption was not self-interested at all. If anything, her corruption was self-sacrificing in favor of Choi Soon-sil."

Park Geun-hye has not used her powers for her own sake. She allowed herself to be humiliated in ways large and small, and eventually destroyed her own administration, for someone else's petty convenience. It is completely out of line with even a cynic's portrait of a selfish and power-hungry politician.
My post about is content created on the web in the form of text (which could easily be video if HN allowed embedded video responses). You replied to it. Two way relationship created. :)

Note: I'm not being snarky, sarcastic or rude. Just proving a point in a friendly way. :)
Actually, they don't. Per the Intel data sheet [0], the Skylake mobile processors don't even support DDR3, they support DDR3L (lower power variant of DDR3), LPDDR3 (what the MacBook Pro uses), and DDR4. Here's the max system memory per memory type:

DDR3L: 16gb (page 20)

DDR4: 32gb (page 21)

LPDDR3: 16gb (page 21)

So the only way Apple could've supported more than 16gb RAM would've been to support DDR4. [1]

I am far from an expert, but I believe DDR4 is only available in an SO-DIMM package [3]. Sure, we would all LOVE Apple to support upgradeable memory again, but that's very likely not going to happen. Just think how much thicker (teh horror!) the laptop would have to be to support that! [2]

I also suspect that Apple is using the Y-processor line which only supports LPDDR3 memory (per page 19), so that further negates the ability to use DDR4 memory. Again, this part is unconfirmed, but would make sense.

[0] http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

[1] I'm still curious how Intel claims the processor supports up to 64gb RAM on the short form of the processor specs. I could not find a configuration in the detailed data sheets that allowed 64gb of RAM.

[2] (sarcasm intended there, obviously it could be easily thicker and most people wouldn't mind)

Edit:

[3] Seems I likely am wrong. DDR4 is supported in a "Memory Down" configuration as well. This would've allowed Apple to use DDR4 memory if they used a U-processor line and also used DDR4 memory. From what I am reading online (no official sources, so not linking to more speculation), this would've had a battery impact of up to 20%, thus very likely why Apple didn't do it. More info on "Memory Down" here: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...
If you are stuck on Windows or Mac you can try a program that restores the computer to a safe state on reboot, like Deep Freeze.
Hi Trufa,

Apologise for the scattered approach. My name is Rume Gbenedio and I came across your request on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12887172

I have a work project that I would like to share with you however I would like to know the real reason that you are offering this proposal. I love to work with people with a vertical skill / mind set, because I respect and admire them. Hence my approach to you.

Also there are a multitude of ways to succeed The choice is very simple, either you become a developer or you hire one. So I am surprised this is free.

So questions

What do you get out of this? I have a long term interest in building may be a business around the product

Please reply me on my personal email rume.gbenedio@yahoo.com

Look forward to your reply
There are already good solutions below. The one thing I would add is that this may not be a "silver bullet" kind of problem. I'd throw everything I can into the mix to create layers of protection. Educate them but also add software solutions to the mix.

A small addition, how often do they need to install new software after initial setup? Maybe take away admin privileges?
Only is for FSF fanatics is this an issue.
> The reason for the initial error in the 2016 primary is obvious: the rural/urban split caught exit pollsters — who probably assumed things would look a lot like 2012 — completely by surprise.

Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to use the 2012 dem primary as a basis instead?

> And if you hear anyone say the exit polls are a sign of a rigged election, please do tell them that I told you to tell them that I said to say that they’re not very knowledgeable about the subject.

Yeah, it's too bad. Now that I know this info about exit poll results it would be nice if they could qualify the numbers a little when reporting them.
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