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That doesn't sound like a good idea at all, any of it. Why is microsoft doing this?
With respect, this sounds a little like when Snowden broke, and the NSA said "besides, it's just metadata."

Before I blocked ads, ads would follow me around. The information to do that was collected, and possibly sold, probably not by my ISP. It wasn't "my browser history," but it was as a result of my browsing activity.

This news has thrown around "your browsing history," which is at once sensationalist (because, as you point out, no one is selling that) and obfuscating, because someone is collecting and selling data that comes from browsing activity.
> > Rules against firing someone for being gay or a different religion are a great example of something a union would negotiate

> Except they're not, that's what our existing laws are for.

Ironically, unions are allowed to terminate memberships for reasons that would be illegal to use as grounds for firing someone[0]. In a closed shop, terminating a membership is tantamount to firing someone, so that literally means employees covered by a closed-shop union contract have less recourse if the union decides to fire them than they would if they never had a union contract to begin with.

Also, a democratically-elected body will (in theory) represent the majority of people whom it governs. If a majority of people want to target a minority religion or race or ethnicity, a democratically-elected body representing them will do just that. Unions actually have a long history of lobbying for unbelievably racist laws throughout the 20th century in order to protect their majority-white members[1].

I know this is unpopular to say here, but as someone belonging to a group that was explicitly targeted by these unions as a scapegoat, and who had their US citizenships revoked and property seized due to successful, xenophobic lobbying by those unions, I'm really sick of the pervasive assumption that unions will inherently protect minorities, or even minority members.

[0] This includes retaliatory termination

[1] The AFL is the most well-known of these, but they weren't the only ones.
I don't have the sense that this is much of a problem here in Canada, though I haven't researched it.

It's ironic that you have a Security Exchange Commission down there which will put you in jail for trading on an insider stock tip, yet they don't crack the fuck down on this sort of blatant anti-trust between health and insurance.

The US is such a cop against corruption abroad. I worked for a US firm for some years and had to regularly go through anti-corruption training.

Like, clean up your local messes first that affect the lives of millions of Americans at home, before worrying that someone working abroad is wining and dining some foreign official to get a deal and how that affects their democracy over there.
Bit of a tangent but how was the switch from web to desktop apps?
"In the west we developed this system of manners based on freedom, where we let people do things we think are wrong, as long as they're not hurting us."

I agree that west is more free then anything else. However that freedom in general sense or relatively new thing for large parts of population. And for that matter, marihuanna is still illegal and harms no one.

I think that west ultimately created system where groups were able to succesfully win fight for their right to not harm others. But it took fight and abuses happened every single time.
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It is unclear how the comment to which you replied led to you being reminded of "Submarine".
The interface from Ubuntu 10.x back.
And Carmack is unlikely to ever join such a group, being as he is a staunch libertarian.
Stupid Patent of the Month: Storing Files in Folders
There's way less of a market in other demographics. For example, white women: we have less interesting hair. There simply aren't as many things we can do with it, because the structure of the individual hairs is less complex. Plus we have every women's magazine in the US and Europe assuming our hair is the "default." I'd say they know exactly what they're doing aiming at their own demographic.
Linux was originally advertised on evil Usenet... I here there is all kinds of bad things there.

Get him
I'd rather go bathing in a volcano.
"TrackMeNot" from the same ppl who made AdNauseam but instead of clicking on ads it creates random queries on various search engines

https://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/
I am using https://cursive-ide.com/ since early public versions and nothing from vim or emacs world compares to this for Clojure.
Another good point. Even assuming that Google has lots of government ties and no real respect for privacy, I still don't expect them to roll over with no discretion whatsoever. I pretty much expect Verizon to do like AT&T and surrender all their user data unprompted.
Thanks!

Yea, as I said in the post, I think it's drastically easier to start a hardware company now vs 10 years ago. And it's still pretty hard, ha! So I can just imagine what you went through.

Yep, the battery is "exposed" in that we don't have a cover over the battery. But each battery does have protection.

And you aren't the target market, yet! Making cases for just iPhone made things easier, but we are hoping to expand to the most popular Android phones.
Why is there essentially a paywall on a press release?
MathJax is such a great thing. Paired with simple markdown it really helps me structuring all my study work, sharing is so much easier with HTML files than TEX files. So sad to see the CDN go. Also: Hey Google, wanna do something really great? Sponsor them! wink
I think this is a symptom of internal rivalries at Google. Seems like a combination of Dart (arch-rival to Go) and ChromeOS (arch-rival to Android).

That's not necessarily a bad thing -- Google's M.O. has always been to try lots of different things at once. But it may mean they literally don't have a solid long-term plan for it yet.
And that's exactly why I will never join a union. As soon as that happens at any job I have, I will hand in my resignation the next day.

I can negotiate very well on my own, as opposed to being stuck into seniority "levels", thank you very much.
Wow C is back. Figured they were using php and Wordpress. :-)
There are a wealth of information about lisp variants, clojure, and functional programming. If you did some simple research you would not be so disappointed.

Lisp has been around decades, surely you can find some "real world" examples that you can learn from.

Personally, I started reading the clojure documentation and going through 4clojure https://www.4clojure.com/ , a kind of simple programming introduction problems to clojure

People have solved all the questions, and you can find them online really really easily

https://gist.github.com/SegFaultAX/3607101 for example.

Just do some research, and come back once you have done a basic amount of work, and can no longer say "I've never touched clojure".

Instead, come back and say "I did some research, I worked through some 4clojure questions, and I still don't understand..." then I think you'll get a more productive discussion.
It's silly I even have to type this out, but I'm clearly aware of sudo shutdown now, and it isn't helpful.

1. I want the system to progressively fallback to more aggressive measures. Don't lock me out of ssh just because nginx has a 0day. Don't take out my static file hosting if there's just a rails vulnerability. This is the type of stuff I don't want to think about I just want to set my paranoia level.

2. Of course I know how to shutdown a server immediately, but knowing when to do a hard shutdown vs one that waits for the processes to clean up isn't something I feel qualified to make a decision on.

I don't understand why usability around security is so brutal. How many times are we going to get locked out of our ssh because of a shitty chown. How many times are our servers going to get hacked and our DBs dumped just because admins and software developers don't have the tools to confidently mitigate 0days? Just make it easy for me.
Cheers and best luck to you!

Once I upgrade to the 7, I will be buying one of your cases. You've solved all the issues I hated about previous battery cases, which actually had me go back just a "normal" slim leather case.

I.e. no lip, and that I don't have to tether my phone back to the wall when I'm charging it.

Additionally, I believe this will solve the issues I've had with lighting connector wear.

I'm very excited to read about your alibaba connections and sourcing however.
Interesting clip from Good Hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCEX34-1o6M
Sorry, you are probably right... Will stop doing that
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We will monetize through product sales, stylists booking/referrals like you mentioned and native ads targeted at specific hair types within the black hair-care community.

With regards to your second question, the closest to her natural hair is the 1st pic (Nov 2016). Hers will be much shorter and will have to be straightened to look like this. It's surprising that none of the styles show her own hair.
"Por que no los dos?"

They can do all of those things and in addition sell your history to make more money.
please provide something to educate me. Who has more spy bases around the world? Who has disseminated their spy tools so widely that they have become available to 3rd parties? Who else is tapping undersea fiber? Who else is behind the SSL layer at google? I like primary documents obviously, but publications are fine too.
This comment seriously violates the guidelines around civility and name calling, and is just nasty besides. If you'd like to continue to post on Hacker News you can't do this again.
>>>The article is sympathetic and argues the author had innocent intentions. Perhaps that's the case, but the problem is that it would be very difficult to persuade people of that

So you support the idea of Guilty until proven innocent, combined with Guilt by Association. What a terrible combo

Most people believe it is up to government (or anyone making the claim it was not for legit use) to prove their claim, it is not up to the defendant to prove they had innocent intentions.
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It’s not very fast, but it’s surprisingly easy on the resources, especially memory.

Compare using VS Code w/ Typescript Language Service to any type of dev stack that includes the word “Scala.”
MacOS actually in my experience seems to handle this all perfectly. Normal-DPI screens you chose resolution and dragging windows between monitors works as you naturally expect (it pops between DPIs).
So why aren't you using that thing in Dosbox?
>As a parent of two teenagers and a twenty-something I could see myself wanting to turn on a web cam without them knowing it. I hate to say it but my kids get up to some crazy stuff on the web and have defeated a lot of my efforts to monitor/block that activity.

What the fuck. It's well past time to give real responsibility and freedom. This sort of behavior can and will cause long-term damage, pain, and resentment to your own children. And for what, to selfishly assuage your own anxiety?

IMO, riding roughshod over a basic fundamental need for privacy is child abuse, and it ought to be more widely considered as such.
Racket is not Scheme (anymore). Racket is a Lisp-1 with lots of different features and "batteries included" stdlib. It's a "descendant of Scheme".

Worth taking a look into definitely, but it doesn't have STM and "persistent data structures" which jfaucett seems to want. It does have solid concurrency and parallelism primitives, though.
See, this is the problem. Don't blame it on "trolls", analyze where you screwed up and how you could have defended yourself better so you know what to do next time. Then open up shop under a different alias.

If you're not vigilant about your own security and safety, no one else will do it for you. Take responsibility for your own actions.
Did you miss the "YC W17" in the title? Of course they're announcing their launch on news.ycombinator.com. (Mind you, they probably rolled their eyes as they hit submit, knowing they'd get this kind of comment.)
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For IBM and Yahoo at least, I think it was a head count reduction strategy. They wanted it to be inconvenient enough that employees would quit.
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Yea, so I think scale, both in volume and in number, is a huge variable.

Our cases are relatively small so they can be printed in a couple hours. And during the development phase, we are going through hundreds of prototypes. (The fit has to be just right, so if a part is 5% off, we scrap it and reprint.)

Also, I love that you mention the fiddling as an annoyance. My co-founder loves fiddling w/ 3D printers so outsourcing all of our printing would take away that hobby :).
Show HN: Purge old kernels and headers on Linux using apt-get
Hacker News today features an Ubuntu story with sysadmins asking how to purge old kernels and headers by using apt. This is necessary maintenance on some systems because /boot fills up.

Here's how we do it:

apt-get remove --purge 'linux-image-[0-9].*' linux-image-$(uname -r)+

apt-get remove --purge 'linux-headers-[0-9].*' linux-headers-$(uname -r)+

Complete script with comments here; we welcome feedback and also pull requests.

https://github.com/SixArm/sixarm_apt_scripts/blob/master/apt-purge-old-kernels-and-headers
The SLS cost is going to be over $2B per launch with all costs. NASA is going to spend $20B on development before it's first flight, and the $500M/launch number doesn't likely include annual operating costs for the massive infrastructure it requires. And you assume that NASA, which has never hit it's cost forecast for manned flights,and under-estimates costs as a political necessity, is going to hit those cost levels.

And you are quoting launch capacities for the SLS that won't exist until later versions many years later, if they ever exist at sll.

Why should any company build a SLS sized booster if NASA is going to build its own? SpaceX already is working on a bigger design than SLS, I imagine they'd invest more and have even more progress if they had a shot at NASA heavy launches. And the SLS doesn't even have a planned mission.

I'm all in favor of antarctic research because it didn't cost nearly $300B. Nearly all the science we got out of ISS could have been done far cheaper with robotic probes. It's the most expensive PR event ever, an orbiting destination for school kids projects. Just like when NASA refused to make the Shuttle fully automated, they've refused to allow any ISS experiments to be fully automated, so they can claim in both cases, "see, we need a super expensive manned program".

NASA is the hindrance to manned space flight, not its contractors, Every project it does has one key customer, congress. It requires its projects to be built across many congressional districts, and maintains hugely expensive unneeded infrastructure, all to please key congress critters.

It tried to kill the air force space program and gutted commercial launch capacity in the early 80s by moving them to the shuttle. And the shuttle was so expensive it was a step backwards, and now the SLS is a repeat of that very same game plan. Soon they'll demand every government launch to ride the SLS, starving companies like SpaceX.
Maybe they don't connect it to the Internet for one thing.
That wasn't the aspect I was going for. More for a period of incremental improvements in understanding, from which emerges a particular thing with enormous potential, and then the field is dominated by applications of that new thing.
>Go spend some "quality time" on /r/the_donald for a more typical experience.

/the_donald has almost 400k subscribers. It is what it is. Do you assume these people are stupid, or do their beliefs and interests (and sense of humour) differ from yours?
> Unlike real life, there is nobody to paint over them.

In the real world having your tagging painted over is one of the saddest feelings. I wonder if there's a way to digitize that sensation but I think people are desensitized to things being deleted. It would have to be beyond that.
Hate to break it to you, but Berkeley is going to be more expensive to rent than SF.
I think this is more, that things are being developed without an explanation of its purpose. There's no "here are the new features in Android O" blog post
No offense taken at all! Tech Solidarity is about in-person meetings, so I get that it's not easy to get a sense of the agenda from the outside.
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Oh man, have you ever tried to have a political discussion on Facebook? Even citing sources, trying to be diligent... And then, the only response you get is... "that's not right!". And that response is somehow given equal weighting?

I actually wish Facebook, the place where a majority of Internet discussion probably occurs, WOULD institute a dislike button and suppress those comments that get down voted too much (like Hackers News or Reddit).

Right now, it's either a "thumbs up" or a neutral stance, and that's just not enough to accurately describe the level of discourse occurring.
That's because he knows for a fact something you can't possibly understand: nothing but waste and suffering can come out of funneling trillions of dollars through an entity that has a monopoly on violence over the populace.

If you want to try and see if Marx was "probably right", go right ahead and emigrate to North Korea.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but citing your experience with people is equivalent to trolling. Your anecdotal evidence doesn't agree with what's been studied in Behavioral Economics.

The problem is not that a tiny minority are untrustworthy; the problem is that a large majority lie (a little bit) often and by nature.
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I had to do such a presentation about myself (I think the intent was to gauge other things than technical knowledge) in the final round of interviews at BMW in Germany. This obviously was after a series of technical rounds including a chat/collaborative editor screen, a short homework project and final whiteboard interviews.

I doubt any company would do just a presentation interview.
Fair enough. Just giving the full context of the origin.

I'd thrown quotes around the term to indicate some level of irony / metameaning: the term was intentionally borrowed and adapted, to make a point, and one which Chomsky's first readers would fairly likely have been aware of. Chomsky's use of the phrase has now almost certainly eclipsed Lippmann's, one of the occupational hazards of re-working this palimpsest of social consciousness we're all engaged in.
Regarding coupling to the JVM: https://funcool.github.io/clojurescript-unraveled/

Regarding being a hosted language... that was it's intent. Use one of the best run-times available, with a better language. Granted once you design the language to be hosted, it can find other hosts as we see in ClojureScript.
Is this one of those cases where implementing a solution is practically impossible, so all of the existing solutions are just the horrible old ones that were grandfathered in?
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Thanks for the kind words yial!

We've found that a big reason people upgrade is due to a failing battery. So if that's why you are upgrading, I would just save $$ and get CoBattery now ;).
if the internet is supposed to be a truly public platform, that is to say a space where different opinions can collide productively then the internet at the moment is clearly losing.

It's not that the trolls occupy the corners, it's that they occupy the big, visible public spaces of the internet, while everybody else is driven into digital sanctuaries. That clearly is a failure if the stated goal is to genuinely democratise knowledge and discourse.

I'd even go further than the author and say that we're way past a 'potemkin internet with a nice facade'. The facade is pretty darn ugly as well. The kind of stuff people are willing to post under their actual name is pretty scary.
That's just another level of indirection.

"I'm not selling guns, I'm selling machines that automatically make guns."

"I'm not selling malware. I'm selling random bitstrings. Here's the email of someone who sells a different kind of random bitstrings, and here's a URL where you can download an AES implementation."

You still need someone with the technical know-how to make that machinery, and the commercialization of such machinery is very easy to regulate because pretty much only industries use CNC machines.

Computers, on the other hand, are everywhere.
leader |ˈlēdər| noun

1 the person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country: the leader of a protest group.

• (also Leader of the House) (in the UK) a member of the government officially responsible for initiating business in the House of Commons or House of Lords.

You're arguing the second definition, which is specific to the UK.
I use a LG Optimus Zone 3 - black - 4G LTE - 8 GB - CDMA - smartphone. It's a good basic phone. I bought it for about $10.00. It's hard to beat.

Overall it's a good basic phone, apps run at an acceptable speed. I can run the major apps. The screen is large enough but not too large to get in the way. The camera is very basic but it does the job.

I don't play games so I can't speak to that. The biggest draw back is the amount of memory available for apps. It's very low. I only keep a 2 or 3 of the major apps at one time. You can't beat it for the price. Specially since I could probably buy 30 of these phones and still be below the price of some of the expensive popular android models.
There was an earlier article on HN related to engagement

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/how-t...

I think some of this may play into it as well. If everything is written to be inflammatory, it becomes an echo chamber of sorts.
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Yes, they've been accused of that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/world/europe/wikileaks-ju...

> WikiLeaks, he told a Moscow newspaper, had obtained compromising materials “about Russia, about your government and your businessmen.”

> Mr. Assange, asked soon after by Time magazine whether he still planned to expose the secret dealings of the Kremlin, reiterated his earlier vow. “Yes indeed,” he said.

> But that promised assault would not materialize. Instead, with Mr. Assange’s legal troubles mounting, Mr. Putin would come to his defense.

There's also the fun time they came out against leaks that hurt Trump on the baffling assertion that Trump deserved to get to read them before release: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/817322050297745408

> The Obama admin/CIA is illegally funneling TOP SECRET//COMINT information to NBC for political reasons before PEOTUS even gets to read it.

Odd stance for the organization to take.
It's also because ARM doesn't have a stable, standard BIOS the way x86 does. ARM is otherwise great, which is why people use it, but it has that one big downside. Every phone has a different hardware configuration, and getting that hardware working is always a fiddly bespoke job.
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Initial autodetection and scale-factor setting is ok. Otherwise most regular users would just say "all my icons and text are too small on my new notebook". Windows detects the high dpi in that case and sets the scalefactor to 200%, which gives a good starting point. Of course the user should be able to override this permanently if it isn't his preference.