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Yes, cryptography will become the standard. No, that won't protect you from the little brothers mentioned in the interview.

Your email will travel securely, so the government can't read it. It'll travel securely from Chrome on your Android device to a server somewhere in a Google datacenter. Your web browsing will be encrypted with https, so your ISP will need to use their DNS logs and traffic analysis in order to deduce parts of your browsing history. If you turn off location services, your location won't be stored with Apple, but your Telco needs to know in which cell your phone is located in order to route calls there. And it'd be a terrible waste to just throw that data away the day after, now wouldn't it.

Encryption helps. And we need encryption. Everywhere, and as quickly as possible. But privacy is also political issue, and a technical solution alone won't resolve it, no matter how advanced.

Oh, and not to forget: Ease of use is the way to mind share, not security. WhatsApp is by far the most widespread secure messenger. Not because of its security; in fact its security used to be terrible. The way in was ease of use, with security added to the mix at a later time. And, more importantly, without disrupting the user experience.
EDIT: Completely misread this as ReactNative instead of React for some reason. Ignore all of the below.

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This is being released on the back of the "official" Mapbox GL React Native library[0] just having new resources[1] committed to it after having been neglected for 1.5 years[2].

I haven't looked into it at all yet, but I wonder was it borne out of frustration (commits seems to have started shortly after the last MBRNGL release), and what the Mapbox guys' perspective on it in terms of differentiating the libraries.

[0] https://github.com/mapbox/react-native-mapbox-gl/

[1] https://github.com/mapbox/react-native-mapbox-gl/issues/590#...

[2] https://github.com/mapbox/react-native-mapbox-gl/releases/ta...
There's a town in the US which has replaced its buses with subsidized "ride sharing".
Same video over and over again
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People downvoting you are probably taking your statement as normative, whereas it's purely positive. It's not about what the govt should do. It is what it does.

For example, the police, the IRS, DHS etc etc. (and hence the state) WILL be helped in their jobs by increasing surveillance, and so will always be trying to increase its scope.

Whether it's _worth_ the loss of privacy is of course a valid debate.
If English is your second language, then I highly recommend their premium plan. Both my wife and I love it and how much it helps us in writing better English and getting better at it (in terms of that 'last mile' learning which could take up to a decade for most people to get perfect).

This is how Grammarly's premium edition would have corrected your post:

> Grammarly is a great tool. I never forget to check my article ~~with~~/on (Incorrect correction, think 'with' makes more sense here) it before publishing. If you had asked me a few years ago how much would anyone pay for a Grammar-checking tool, I would have guessed it would be no more ~~that~~/than (Probably a typo on your end, rather than a grammatical mistake) $3-4 / month. Grammarly charges $29 a month. Of course, its value can be measured with the improved communication but $29 _is_ a lot. It's amazing that it convinced people that it's worth it.

>~~High~~/The high (probably the most common mistake non-native English speakers do) price point is the only reason why I haven't gotten around purchasing its premium plan even though I think it would very beneficial for me.
For clarity -- this is not cryptocash or cryptocurrency. Its is a User Issued Asset (aka token) on the WAVES cryptocurrency blockchain.
We typically call these 'cryptoassets' or 'tokens'. You cannot mine these. They are purchased via the WAVES network, in 'BTC' (which is another 'pegged' asset on the WAVES chain).

Edit; I bought one whopper coin 3 days ago via WAVES. I paid $0.50USD (majorly overpaid for it!)
Aren't the concepts of an "overview" and a "complete guide" orthogonal?
It's also very simple and quick to run a Jupyter notebook on your VPS, accessing it from your browser. It's how I do deep learning work from my Air. There are AMIs with tensorflow+ already installed.
>privacy needs to be a mainstream political issue

There was a great piece on NPR this weekend: They developed StingRay and what-not cell tracking devices to fight terror, then Obama expanded it, now Trump is "doubling down" on using surveillance tech to find and deport illegals -- and the government is paying police depts to have the tech...

Snowden was right, and now, its way worse.

What is even more abhorrent than this, is that tech companies (yes even ones that YC is funding) collude with government for expanding even deeper.
> But I have seen times when you could make 5-10% more by mining $ARBITRARY_ALT_COIN (and perhaps taking the altcoin to exchange for bitcoin).

Right - maybe you could even make 100% more with an alt, for a limited period. My point is that you'd need to be able to make 20000x as much as you could make with Bitcoin before you reach parity with using traditional ads.

> shrug, seems like we're on a tangent. This thread was speculating about whether the claim of an ad-served-miner exists. The fact that a small JS miner exists for one PoW doesn't seem to rule out the original claim, nor does it rule out the possibility that a wasm/asm.js cgminer might exist.

Gotchya. I was just trying to show that giving access to computing resources instead of viewing ads is not currently anywhere close viable.
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I think the real news here is that the NHS, FDA, and all other government agencies cannot be trusted. They lie to make money for corporations. Following their recommendations is just stupid. That'd be a good thing for parents to teach their children.
>There are other services running which create files as root on other distros

Did the user affect the system to create those files?

Assume the user can't install packages, then they can't create these files. (Maybe they can flood them, by sending bad packets, but they don't create them. If a file is created in root's name, because of user activity, then I'd guess the user must have run some setuid program.)

If admin doesn't install some setuid program (or say, an ssh server), there won't be any root-owned file created containing a log of authentication rejects from the ssh server for the user to flood with error messages by sending bad packets.

Maybe the user did cause these files to expand, for example if they are access logs... but generally the only user access activities that are logged are those that are enabled somehow by the system admin.

What user process is creating files in /tmp owned by the root user? X11? Explained by setuid bit, and hardly ever anymore as the user is not responsible for starting gdm.

All I'm saying is, it is against the principle of least surprise for this pkcon to be the default configuration.
The problem isn't that someone mentions something else, the problem (from the standpoint of discussion of this story) is that comments like this resonate enough with people to get upvotes. That's actually Google's problem.

Even if you think it resonates because people are just drinking the Apple kool-aid, that's still Google's problem.

Let Google handle its own problems, and use whatever vote power you have to help steer the conversation here. Complaining about it doesn't exactly reduce the signal to noise ratio.
What’s with the majority of the shots being crop shots, or shots that don’t involve the object moving completely in or out of the frame? Seems to me like it’s potentially hiding some visual defects
Just wondering what are your team's thoughts on Elm?
It's still interesting, and it's still a very good demonstration on how to explain a concept new to people.

https://xkcd.com/1053/ - Ten Thousand
Is it true that users need to be in the "wheel" group for this configuration to affect them by default? If so, I withdraw my position. This is an obscure fact that I learned a long time ago, and everyone else should know (I gest) that "wheel" users are administrative users and they will be given opportunities to escalate their permissions (via sudo, or otherwise.)

If you are creating users in the wheel group and you don't know what that means, it's your fault when they get access you didn't mean to give them. If this policy applies to any local user regardless of wheel, then I guess my position stands.

Your argument is that users should know how the system works; I'm saying this system is different than others I've adminned.

If I read the manual in its entirety, then yes, I will know all of the quirks of the system. That's true. Naïvely though, I might have thought as a sysadmin that by configuring a disk quota, I had effectively put an actual cap on how much disk a user could consume.

I would be wrong, surprisingly! (It is surprising, if you haven't just finished having this conversation.) That is a violation of the principle of least surprise.

Please take a look at the nine section treatise on disk quotas from the RHEL7 manual:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterp...

Notice the conspicuous absence of any mention of polkit or pkcon? That is because nobody would think the system provides a way for unprivileged users to affect it in a substantial way that circumvents their disk quotas. They're not obviously related, so it is surprising that a default policy makes them related. (I'm not talking about methods that the users can maybe cause a flood in some logs, because log rotation is usually configured by default.)
That's not what the article states.
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Right, so your situation doesn't fit the condition being described.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the Hacker News guidelines. Would you please stop creating accounts to do this with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"people dont care"

There are pleny of ppl that care. the problem is the tools allotted to them to affect change....

...few....
Developing a User Profile Store with Golang and a NoSQL Database
100% of my friends who have used Mongo/similar NoSQL have given up and had a nasty rewrite back to pgSQL.

This seems to be the journey:

1. Lack of migrations is awesome! We can iterate so quickly for MVP

2. Get users

3. Add features, still enjoying the speed of iteration

4. Get more users

5. Start building reporting features for enterprise/customer support/product metrics (ie: when the real potential success starts)

6. Realise you desperately need joins, transactions and other SQL features

7. Pause product dev for 1-3+ months to migrate back to SQL, or do some weird parallel development process to move it piecemeal back.

I think the most interesting question though is would they be able to get MVP and initial customers that set off this if they were moving (slightly) slower due to SQL and slight overhead that comes with?

My thought is definitely yes.
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Being generous, I believe go meant to assume that the device would be programmed to disable itself once the contract is settled.
Also check out: https://venturebeat.com/2017/08/28/8th-wall-raises-2-4-milli...

Supports Unity, and works on both iOS and Android out of the box. (I'm not affiliated, just a supporter.)
No kidding. I can't decide whether this is more techno-culturally weird in the Gibsonian way, or more iconoclastically post-modern in the Stephensonian way.
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Well yeah, but if your other consolation idea is 'suicide,' I'd take the million-to-one shot.
It was mentioned that the fee was not part of the contract.

I'm inclined say the tracker is part of the car, and the dealer has no rights over it (unless mentioned in the contract), similar to how a furnace, thermostat, or water heater is part of a house (because its nailed/bolted to the house).

(IANAL)
>>money talks

>>>representatives that are supposed to care

You can do the math.
It's like a rubber ball fired out of a cannon into a concrete box. It hits reddit, it hits HN, it hits FB it hits forums, wash, rinse, repeat.
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There are two types of people; those that can extrapolate for incomplete data.
I'd love to get feedback on this approach.
Haven't people been laundering money via in-game virtual items in different MMO games before? This is just another seemingly "frivolous" channel that humans can do unofficial exchange in.
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I saw a couple speed by while the rest of us were at a standstill. I was envious.
The reuters article referenced below [1] claims that 58 percent [of adult refugees] had spent 10 years or more at school, and just under a third had attended university or a vocational school. Presumably, if you take children into account the figure will be even smaller.

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-germany-s...
You can do that via blockchain as well; I imagine BK will own all the transaction processors, so for any transaction to an external wallet, you add on a fee. Ethereum and Bitcoin also do this; only the mechanism for determining the transaction fee is algorithmic rather than a fixed % of the transaction value.

All that said, loyalty points have a lot in common with crypto currencies simply from a functional perspective. It's a pretty natural application. You just merge the points back into the blockchain via an app or something. But this way it's secure, auditable and likely costs the company less to operate.
My tweetstorm tool is Mastodon.

1. Post something approximating a complete thought on Mastodon.

2. Screengrab it.

3. Tweet this image, along with a link to it, and text like "Thread".

(Today I learnt that HN ignores emoji in your comments.)
My default reply would get voted down, a lot.

I don't care. My verbiage is intentional.

We all salty, Marine. We all salty. It took me years before I could leave my rack without ensuring it was squared away. It took years before I could invite the missus to touch me while I slept.

Eight years is what I served. Worse, it was in two pieces and separated by time at MIT. Yeah, I was a smart Marine. Don't laugh, I can drive a broom like it is nobodies business.

Anyhow, I won't tell you I understand. I will tell you that I can relate. As for the karma, I ain't never scared.

But, you're right. Always be nice to the folks who decide your life. Strangely, that's frequently not the person who projects power. However, I speak to the choir. Hopefully someone else will pick up on this. Otherwise, I ain't never scared. Karma was meant for burning.
Organized crime has used xbox multiplayer to communicate with each other to evade wiretaps[0], criminals have used tide as a currency[1], why not Burger King, too?

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2470702/cybercrime-hac...

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/03/why-are...
SV ageism is a blight that spreads globally fast.

I've seen some very bright minded people in just their mid 20s think they're too old already to find their calling.
I can't believe they are patting themselves on the back for performance. I'm running a brand new macbook pro, latest chrome, fiber internet AND asana fully cached. It still is a 6 second initial page load and then every single UI interaction is slow, slow, slow. My entire companies biggest pain point with asana is how insanely slow it is for a simple product.
And now we wait for the next version of Cryptowall or Wannacry which will demand payment in tasty, tasty Whoppercoin

What a time to be alive
Ask HN: Which of the major MOOCs provide better credentials for my resume?
Hey HN,

I would like to know what's your opinion on which of the major MOOCs (Udacity, Udemy, EdX, and Coursera) is better as a credential to add to my resume and impress future employees.

Context:

I'm a 37 yo, recently self-taught web developer on my first job as a junior developer.

So far I learned only through online, free resources (freeCodeCamp, documentation and tutorials). But now I think it is a good strategy for me to improve my resume with some credentials mostly for purposes of employability.

Taking into account my budget, schedule and knowledge needs I narrowed my options to any of the major MOOCs. I want to choose the one that potential employees will take most seriously as a "formal education" on the field.

On top of that I already decided to read a few proper books to learn what I currently lack in CS. Namely "The Algorithm Design Manual" by Steven Skiena and "How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing" by Felleisen, Findler, Flatt, and Krishnamurthi.

Of course, I'm open to suggestions if this decision at all makes no sense or better ways to achieve my goals of career development.
> Add to that, you need to support like ten thousand devices, many of which are running Android 4.4 (which, IIRC, is like three years old) and have a WIDE range of screen sizes.

I've been developing Android apps for years (before support lib even existed, much less all the fancy new kids) and range of screen sizes has literally never once been an actual issue. Use 'dp' instead of 'px' and you pretty much never have a screen diversity problem. All the platform views & layouts handle the majority of the work.

Does React Native make this more complicated for some reason?
How Cold Is Too Cold for a Sales Email?
People like many things cold. Salad. Ice cream. Beer. But cold emails certainly aren’t one of them.

Cold emails came as a godsend to the marketers and sales reps who were trying to maximize their campaign outreach. But at some point of time the emails started to get redundant and clog the inboxes of people and what followed next was the outburst of internet users. Thankfully, spam filters and email regulation came into effect and it became very much easier to avoid these emails with a few clicks.

Where marketing emails are quite generic, sales emails, on the other hand, try to sound personal and relevant even though everything in their content screams, “Buy me! Buy me!” and hardly anything else. It has come to a point where these emails have ceased to be attention-worthy and are often considered as spam.

Every company uses such emails in their outbound sales, and for good reason. However, if you want to do things a little bit differently and develop a healthy connection with your customers, it’s time to change a few things to make your emails such that your receivers would be glad to open and answer to.

There is nothing wrong with a cold email if it can deliver something of value to the customer. This can be achieved in many ways:

A connection: In a study by Aberdeen group, personalized emails had 14% improved CTR and 10% improved conversion rate.
Specific data and personalized content.
Highlighted benefits of your product or service than its features.
A laid-back and friendly tone instead of a sales pitch.
Any insight or helpful advice about best practices.

Now that you know how a good sales email does its job, a great salesperson does his job in a similar manner.

If your sales team has teamed up against these impersonal cold emails and working to make them more noteworthy and relevant, let us know what’s working great for you at AccountJoy.
So if you want to play the largest variety of indie games, rather than just the hits you're better off buying an iPhone.
small constructive criticism. The images are really big and take up a lot of space. If you want to keep them big, consider a slideshow like display instead? As is, the information density is a little low and requires a lot of scrolling. Viewed on desktop browser though, might seem more appropriate on mobile.
The Axoloti is a superlative design for audio - both at software and hardware, layers. The Arduino, not so much.

The Article Author doesn't mention whether they've also abandoned the Arduino MIDI libs and written their own. Probably there's some latency up-stream that can be reduced, as well ..
Yes.

There is a lot of discussion here about how Apple has a headstart on developer commitment with ARkit.

What will actually happen for the majority of games targeting AR is people will write it in Unity (or perhaps Unreal), and then set it to compile for iOS and Android.

The S8 was the top selling Android phone this year, so this can be rolled out immediately to phones. I just tested out the sample app on my Pixel. As time goes on, the percentage of Android phones with this capability will increase.

ARkit does not work on iPhone 6 or earlier, or the iPad Air 2 or earlier. It can roll out to a greater percentage of Apple devices right now, but Android has a larger overall market share any how. Two years from now, I expect AR on iOS and Android to be fairly on par (of course we have to see how the two stacks measure up against one another).
You don't need carbs to survive. You do need both fats and proteins (for production of hormones and tissues).

You can get glucose through glucogenesis of fats AND proteins not just carbs.
Ditto.
To add more wood to the fire consider that those 2 billion Android active devices are not “Google’s Android” devices. In China, where the largest bulk of those 2 billion devices are, Google isn’t allowed. Which means that SDKs like this one that are part of or require the Play Services framework are nowhere to be found. I would put Google’s Android active device numbers somewhere around 300 million. Translation - ARCore will show up in 1 out of every 100 users six months downs the line when Samsung, LG and other partners decide to release it. In the meantime, around Sept. 29 of this year Apple will have 100 million+ ARKit ready devices - based on the 80%+ install rate for new iOS versions - when iOS 11 is released. Just saying.
What would be the Sterlingesque way?
Interested in why information gain wasn't included as a measure of variable importance (as far as I can tell)
Wim Hof Method, baby.
Idk that video of the Big Mac that never decomposed after being left out for months shows some compelling evedence in the other direction...
Funny, because then you'd meet the amateur hour that's Xcode automation and continious integration. As soon as you graduate from a toy app to something you need to maintain for awhile, you find out just in what horrible state the Apple development tools are when it comes to UI testing, building in general and constant breakagaes of code when new iOS is released.

We literaly spent a month of man-hours every year to fix up constant breaking Xcode CI setup and iOS API breakages while Android team continued development unimpeded. Not to mention constant breaking changes and crashes of Swift language and IDE toolchain.

I do agree that for a complete beginner the experience is significantly better in Apple world, but please do not comment on "commercial purposes" development if you haven't done either.
Wtf you talking about.

BK will allow you to redeem for Whopper's at their ATM/mobile Kiosk.

The level of ignorance is juvenile.

Would you rather implement, at non trivial expense, your own loyalty points. Or copy paste 50 lines of Solidity and call it a day and automatically be compatible with all ERC20 wallets?
Nonsense. The tracker is removable and remains the property of the dealer.
One of my favorite things about Medium posts is the completely irrelevant hi res image that they nag you to add.

Definitely contributes to the story. Clap clap clap.
Do you think that's high or low?
If your monitoring can't handle your what system is doing, aggregate locally until it can. Having systematically incorrect stats (because loss is correlated with load) is worse than having none.
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