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The thing is, Microsoft started pretty early: in 2010, when Windows Phone 7 was released, the Apple and Google app stores were not nearly as large as they are now, and a lot of people didn't own smartphones yet. I just looked up some statistics that show that less than 50% of American adults owned smartphones that year. The barrier to entry was a lot lower then, and it should have been surmountable.

I think Windows Phone failed primarily because Microsoft did not take early steps to cultivate a competitive app store, which they probably could have done back then -- these days, it would probably be impossible. They also didn't have very many desirable flagship phones, especially compared to the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy series.

Microsoft's failure was partially self-inflicted, but Mozilla and Canonical would have had no chance even if they did everything right. They don't have the scale, and they are now up against app stores with millions of apps. It doesn't matter how nice the OS is if it can't run Facebook, Snapchat, and a bunch of popular games on day one.
I guess "timing analysis" means something else, more akin to correlation of meta-data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_attack is pretty clear, so maybe I was referring to something else than the OP.
As a long-time (but now, former) financial supporter of PBS, I am of two minds here.

There is a lot to like - focus on the arts, science. serious topics, quality children programming.

But in recent years, the news and politics programming has turned - almost to a caricature level - unabashedly partisan and ideological. Not a single white male to be seen on the cast of NewsHour, other than a couple of low-level field reporters such as Jeff Brown, an obsession with stories like the abuse of women in southern Nigeria, while they completely ignore white male citizens of the US are left to rot (and die from opioid abuse and suicide) in West Virginia, etc.

It is their prerogative to set the agenda as they like, but I feel that a publicly funded channel should cover all points of view.

I feel the same about Planned Parenthood. Even though, personally, I am pro-choice, I can understand that people who are opposed to it may have a problem with their tax money used to fund it.
This B2/B2 elimination also immediately jumped out to me as being wrong.

But a Youtube comment wrote:
> "But the thing is, I ran a few tests through a big randomized sample set, and... he's right. It's super weir … the second boy-girl problem had ~51.9% change of containing a girl. Keep in mind this was about 100 million randomized samples too.﻿"

I can't wrap my head around it.
This. The network itself becomes the inescapable tracking supercookie. They would provide web publishers a JavaScript snippet that took the user's IP address and returned the targeted ad. And Verizon can tie each IP adress not only to its previous browsing history but also their name, address, credit reports, even contacts that they slurp up using their bloatware phone apps.
Win10 doesn't have it out of the box, but third-party software that implements it (like f.lux) has been available for a very long time.

(Also, FWIW, Win10 insider builds do have it out of the box.)
That one is easy. First let's clarify what exactly we mean with bigger. Let's say we mean larger in volume. Now we pick a procedure for determining the volume of animals, say we submerge them briefly in a large water tank and mark the resulting water level. That animal that lead to the highest water level is the bigger one. Any objections?
Why couldn't you just tell them you were going to have to rewrite it if you couldnt get it embedded?
Indeed he's the judge Judy of tech IP trials. The java one was the first I'd ever bothered following on a regular basis, very entertaining.
Nice post. I didn't know about the followTags = true until now and I'm using it in my .gitconfig.
Judge Judy isn't even an actual judge, so I certainly hope he isn't the judge judy of tech IP trials.
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You are only a small step away from "assume a spherical cow" or something involving Hilbert's Hotel.

Which part of three (doors) are you having snags with?
Agreed. I used to bevery enthusiastic about continuum in Windows. But now, I've come to realize that the interface better be separate for different usecases - plus, no one want to plugin their phone and use it for work. What I want is seamless takeover from one device to another - something like Apple's continuity but way better. In today world this is all scattered into different components*, the first company that does everything can lock in a huge revenue stream.

a) Files - Dropbox
b) Activity - Various browser sync for bookmarks, history (and passwords)
c) Handoff - Mac is pretty good here. Windows has no equivalent.
Not out yet, but you can go to https://www.ansible.com/open-tower for updates. The cool thing is that even though it isn't out yet, it will be, because that is the Red Hat way.
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How come Hacker News can't fund itself? Not everything has to make revenue.
The new disgraced Pepsi ad for example. It's all about brand perception, not product quality.
I can't help but feel all the examples are a terrible stretch to fit the sophmoric hypothesis. Selection bias is not a strong enough critique, but man does it fail the smell test.
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I think it's because we've mostly had a master-slave relationship with pigs, but dogs have always been a (lob-sided) partnership.

The other aversion is the efficiency of dogs as food, being carnivores it takes a lot more resources to raise dogs for food than it does for pigs. Any society that went for dogs were going to get out competed.
You're right, but the article may be confusing two things: First, ISPs tried injecting a header ("supercookie") into HTTP requests, which won't work over HTTPS unless they MITM certificates (not easy). Second, because they provide the last-mile connection, they know your MAC address, connecting location, and billing information, and can see every host you contact. That's a whole lot of surveillance capital.
I was looking (for research purposes only/for a friend/by mistake/I was bored) at the model used by the porn industry nowadays. I've never paid for porn, and I believe most people haven't either, but they have an incredibly efficient model. Instead of going for 1 shady website with some porn videos, you can signup for a porn network (brazzers, RealityKings, etc) that contains multiple smaller website as well. So for one flat monthly price you get multiple sites, each with a different theme to their porn content.

The free sites (pornhub, redtube and alikes) around use a different model though, where they make money from a side business of real time video chat, where you can tip the model with coins you buy in bulk, like a mobile game where you buy in-game currency.

I couldn't avoid making a comparison to the publisher business. Porn is just so much more efficient and advanced.

I would probably never pay a $5 subscription for WSJ, NYT or WaPo. But a $20 that gives me access to any news site online or even a $15 that gives me access to a good set of them now that's something I can wrap my head around.
This bit is different: Levandowski has not been charged with a crime. There is no plea, guilty or not guilty, for him to enter. He is not even the defendant in the civil suit.

He (or his lawyer) believes that talking about these documents could open him to criminal liability (whether he's guilty of anything or not), so he is choosing to remain silent.

Now, if other evidence is unearthed and Levandowski is indeed charged with a crime, and it made it to trial, that would be his time to enter in a plea of not guilty.
I think it's a combination of largely unrelated historical trends (dating to way back, when Qt was GPL-only, and even before that, when it had its own incompatible license).

That said, it's interesting that most commercial desktop software for Linux these days seems to be written in Qt, not Gtk. Also, while this is anecdotal, most new projects (as in, started recently, as opposed to old software having new releases) seem to be trending Qt in my experience. So there's a weird divergence here between the DE and the apps.
>If your ISP is Verizon or peers with them, and your content exists on the other side of their network, there's absolutely nothing you can do to avoid them - they own the road

You can avoid their tracking by using a VPN.
Actually, I remembered that there are relevant results from clinical studies that are available. Here are the side effects of OxyContin.[1] (Euphoria is considered a side effect.) The most commonly-reported side effects were constipation, nausea, and somnolence. If you look down further, you can see that both euphoria and dysphoria were reported rarely.

[1] http://www.rxlist.com/oxycontin-drug/side-effects-interactio...
> I still see some ads using Origin, where with ABP I don't

Given that both Adblock Plus and uBlock Origin ("uBO") uses EasyList to block ads, this is a dubious claim, requiring at least some evidences.

Now add to this that uBO supports filter syntax not available on ABP[1], this makes your claim even more dubious. Feel free to provide actual examples.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#...
Are dolphins ever in danger of starving? Looks like they have a fairly abundant food supply that we're the biggest threat to.
It wasn't already written in prolog. It just would've been much easier and more straightforward for that particular application to write the business logic side in prolog. From a UI standpoint, I've never used prolog for a GUI so it would've needed to be embedded in something else (likely C# given the office preference) anyways, so the decision was to put everything in C# and skip my prolog idea. If I still had those notes, I basically translated handwritten prolog-esque code into C# anyways.

EDIT: In very corporate offices like that one, you don't get to use <language of choice> unless it's staying strictly internal (this one had the potential to be released to customers), you have low oversight and can get away with it (not my case), you have a history of choosing wisely (I had little history with them at that point). They prefer to minimize the risk on the maintenance end (NB: doesn't mean they do what's needed to make maintainable code, they do what's needed to make it easy to hire maintainers by sticking to popular languages and frameworks instead).
It might not be that hard to create the OS. But it is pretty hard to find operators willing to preinstall it on phones, which is what you need to have any sort of marketshare for it.
I've decided the best company is calling old people and selling them extended warranties for their Buicks.
Google's business was to stick itself between you and link you wanted to get to. Verizon is sticking itself between you and Google. I wonder whats next?
If you don't mind me asking. What's your business?
This dichotomy reminds me of scones/biscuits. Here in Australia (and UK/NZ), scones are dainty things associated with middle-aged women and afternoon tea. In the US south, biscuits (same thing) are manly things to eat with a hearty breakfast.
> They even made their product less appealing when they helped Microsoft run it inside their OS

Why does it make it less appealing? Ubuntu userspace running inside WSL is still Ubuntu. If you need support for it, you'd still go to them, same as if you would if you were running it in a VM or on dedicated hardware.
> I'm not some FOSS crusader

Give it time, friend. In another ten years you may find yourself exactly that. FOSS is the only way out of this hole we've dug for ourselves.
Perspective is a point of view. This perspective definitely has no basis in hard science (as of today) but is not "nonsense". To decide whether to eat an animal or not is an ethical/moral question (unless the animal is poisonous). This model allows you to answer that question. Also models like this are quite common, for example - karma, meditation, etc.

And, this idea is in Western civilization too. Look at the origins of the phrase - "you are what you eat".
As pointed out in the article, there's probably a state problem here. I don't repro on the one 10.12.4 machine I have. What's really mystifying is that it eventually works (five minutes later), and the author states that nothing networky is involved (the example uses date command). My first guess was that sudo foobar was trying to access $FLAKEY_NETWORK_RESOURCE, but apparently not.
What's your point? Not only is ridicule non-beneficial, it's destructive. Which is why I wouldn't blame any system that chooses to punish it.
Well, in hindsight I can see that's my fault... Jacob Appelbaum. My bad!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13891513
I'm actually not sure it's theft. It might violate confidentiality agreements, and using those files outside the scope of the former employer might constitute unlawful use of trade secrets, but simply copying the files and bringing them home may not actually be a criminal act.

(I'm just putting this out there because I don't actually know, and hope someone else knows the answer. Not attempting to be authoritative.)
Do cane toads not excrete enough for a fatal dose? Dogs aren't known for their moderation.
Privacy is only one of many problems that arise from ISPs deciding to provide other services. They can easily mess with anyone whose business model uses the Internet. You are right that privacy is a larger problem and we need to get stronger privacy rights. But we also need to strictly enforced that ISPs are only allowed to sell transport of bits to consumers. No selling of content, no selling of priority access for content products or any other shenanigans.
That sounds like Firefox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJUlqBsZtE&t=300s

I've seen the discussion elsewhere. The CPU player is certainly good, far better than I'd expect from an AI. But there are significantly questionable moves: like random F-Smashes and other such attacks that just don't seem optimal to me.

Not that I'm an expert or anything. But its clear to me that the bot has superhuman reflexes and precision (a bunch of perfect blocks that really shouldn't happen... the huge length of the dash-dances... the fact that the AI basically always "Sweetspots" the F-Air Knee). And that's its primary edge. Its strategic planning is kind of awful, and its quite evident from the match.

For example, this is extremely unhuman and basically impossible to precisely execute with a normal controller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXJUlqBsZtE&t=104s

The AI also seems unable to punish the low-recovery of the Humans: so the Humans always recover low safely. (If you recover high on the other hand: the AI is damn perfect at edge guarding so its a death sentence)
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IIRC, that's one mining pool, not one miner. The power of mining pools is relatively limited. If the workers see that the pool is attacking Namecoin and devaluing their NMC (not to mention ruining a cool project), they're liable to switch to a different pool.
>> Uber is in no position to deny it, only Lewandowsky could. And he can't deny it, because then he could no longer invoke his right to remain silent.

> So he should give up his 5th amendment right to fend off an accusation? I don't think so, that doesn't sound like justice to me.

That's how the 5th amendment works. It gives you the right to avoid self-incrimination, but if you invoke that right and there is other evidence against you then you'd better have some other way of refuting that evidence.
In the past century, at least in the Western world, we've developed a completely new concept of mobility. We live in a world where pretty much anyone with a passport and $2000 can spend a week on the other side of the earth, but the caveat to that is you're depending on being able to travel quickly (who can take the time off work?) being able to depend on the physical security of the society you're traveling in, at least to some extent, and having a global financial and communication network to take care of you while you're abroad. Go back a hundred years ago and most of that's out the door. Go back 1000 years, and all of Europe was still living in walled cities. I think people traveled back then, but it was far fewer individuals doing it. (And probably a lot more walked out into the hills than ever came back...)
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I wonder how mature Nix is on OS X.

I don't have any Apple hardware anymore, but I just wanted to mention how fantastic this package manager is. NixOS quickly became my favorite OS, simply because of the sheer power of Nix.
Farm accounting software. Boring to most, exciting to me! Just maybe that's a key
The power: require a rethink of approaches to programming
The failure: the claim by such folk that all compute problems are best solved by prolog/clojure/related even when such a domain specific language is not pertinent.
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They tried this with Google Fiber. Problem is that municipal governments are in Verizon's pocket. To build any infrastructure requires the permission of the local government, who are cozy with entrenched infrastructure providers. So we, as consumers, continue to get fucked, while existing infrastructure providers continue to enjoy a substandard monopoly.
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I think you're on to something. “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984.
Those problems should be addressed, not the entire thing defunded.
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The differences are:

1. If Google tracks me, they have maybe 50-70% coverage of my whereabouts. My ISP gets 100%.

2. I mistrust Telcos more than Google, based on historical example.

Google hasn't quite remained true to "Don't Be Evil" (dollars are corrosive, billions of dollars doubly so), but at least they sorta try.
Seems like the same old gap=kids explaination to me...

And the only suggestion is make all hours equally valuable? Right after I get rid of 'prime time', 'rush hour', and the solar cycle, I will focus on that. Wtf.
I do think it reflects some new archeological findings, and possibly also a new interest in globalization among historians due to the events of the last couple decades, which then causes them to revisit old evidence.

I teach my students a combination of the two models that you mention. In other words, the premodern world was indeed a place where most people didn't venture beyond their own village. However, among elites (diplomats, ambassadors, religious or political leaders, military officers) there was a remarkable amount of mobility and cosmopolitanism. I find that comforting too - I like knowing that people hundreds or thousands of years ago grappled with the same issues arising from cross-cultural contacts that people do today.

One example: my wife was born and raised in Iran, and I was having a lot of fun yesterday reading a 17th century Englishman complaining about Persian food ("their Cheese and Butter will make your mouths water at it; I ironize: in good earnest the cheese is the worst any ever tasted... its dry, blue, and hard, ill to the eye, bad to the taste, naught for digestion... their liquor may perhaps better delight you."). [1]

Incidentally, if anyone is interested in global travel in a slightly later period (late Middle Ages) I wrote a blog post about a Spaniard visiting Samarkand a few years ago. I'm really interested by people who aren't Marco Polo or Ibn Battuta but who made similarly epic journeys. [2]

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=mlJBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA240#v=on...

[2] http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-spaniard-in-samarka...
I think the difference boils down to (a) trust and (b) power. Maybe also (c) competence.

(a) Many have criticised google over the years, especially it's slogan of "Do no evil". But the fact of the matter remains that, by and large, they have always convinced people with superior services, and been very careful not to through their weight around to force people to do business with them. They may actually be terribly evil, but their interests and those of consumers just happened to be aligned, most of the time. One example: they have never tried to block ad-blocking extensions from chrome, although it those are somewhat threatening to their business model. And despite conspiracy theories saying the opposite, it appears to me as if their search rankings are, to this day, not influenced by ad spending.

Providers, on the other hand, have a long history of anticompetitive behaviour and have proven that they are extracting the profits of being dominant whenever they can (proven by the much-better offers that suddenly materialised when Google Fibre came to some cities).

(b) Power: I'd argue that even for consumers, it's easier to largely avoid using google, than it is to avoid providers. It's almost a truism if you accept that there is tacit collusion in many areas where only two or three providers exist, i. e. they do not seem to be aggressively competing with each other.

Almost more importantly, at least in this crowd, may be how afraid people are of the end of net neutrality. We have all seen how cool ideas (sometimes) managed to grow into something extremely useful (or fun, or beautiful). At least I am horrified of a future where this becomes impossible, because the pipe companies want to extract every penny they can, and they do it by requiring everyone, everywhere to pay them. This isn't about the money. It's about retaining the slightly anarchic dynamism of an internet where a good idea, some technical expertise and $4 for a domain registration may be enough to change the world.
Reference implementations of medium sized applications are incredibly useful for leveling up as a programmer. While there are many large successful open source applications, many are overwhelming to read and learn from.

Having something that outlines the key features and components and which ignores the important but complicated edge cases assists in keeping the attention focused.

Now if there are annotation within the source code, that would be truely incredible.
MUUUUUCH BETTER!! I was blastin them fools so good on that one! :)
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https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-Janua...
The OS is between me and the ISP - no OS provider would ever collect a bunch of data about me, would they?
You're being That Guy.

Don't be, and never be, That Guy.

Please stop.
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I'm not a lawyer, but wouldn't that local authority be delegated by statute from state governments?

Google Fiber was a fluffy bunny sort of thing.

Verizon trying to drain the river of gold before it reaches Google is existential-threat stuff. In their position I would go to the mattresses.
That would constitute arson, and arson is a crime. It's not legal to procure criminal behavior, whether by an employment contract or by other coercive means.
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I've seen this sort of thing happen many times and been in similar shoes. It is very disheartening.