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> Thanks for the info. I've been learning now for about a year,

A year is probably still too early to be able to read handwriting well. You probably need to have about 2,000 known characters under your belt and also have a good feel for the language such that you are able to fill in gaps based on context - that is be able to complete parts of the sentence based on knowledge of what words/characters are likely to fit.

There are many cursive characters that reduce to something quite similar so having knowledge of what fits in the sentence makes things easier.

As an example, with 王 above, by itself it might not look like anything you can recognise, but if it was written like that on a note starting out like 尊敬的王老师 then from context it narrows down the possibilities significantly.

> She wandered over and scrawled something that neatly fit in the line. "How the hell did you do that... ?" :)

Practice! It's one thing to know how to write a character, it's another thing to have the fine motor skills required to write it proportionally within a confined space, and you can only develop that skill through practice. If you're interested, one of my side projects [0] is a site that lets you generate custom Chinese worksheets of varying grid sizes and fonts (including some handwriting fonts) and other things, which can be useful for such practice.

0: https://www.hanzigrids.com/
As a user of 1Password, the lack of "Sync" Button is frustrating when trying to use recently added passwords across devices.

"It just works" isn't always best - especially when dealing with cross-device data sync - I know it isn't magic, I'm not "fooled", I know it's actually data that needs to be transferred to the new device. Hiding that, not giving me the option to force sync and see the progress of it is a very frustrating experience when I can't see passwords (or any state) that I'm expecting to see.
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It's really nothing new. Relatively-low-level IT staff have been able to access the CEO's emails, mostly unabated, for the past couple of decades now. Very few companies actually have working data protections of any sort, let alone audit trails. I've seen setups where virtually anyone with a computer had access to real, valid personal information, including birthdays, employment history, and raw SSNs, of hundreds of thousands of people. This is 100% the norm.

In the digital age, privacy is not really a thing, and for the most part, anyone semi-integrated in modern society should just expect that virtually all information about themselves, including things like shopping and television watching habits, conversational "metadata" that is not-quite-so-meta, and so forth is quietly being trafficked by all kinds of parties. Only a tiny portion of that traffic is actual identity theft, though each step along the way increases its likelihood.

Do not make the mistake of believing this is exclusively limited to online activity either. Wikileaks has revealed that the government would remotely hijack a common brand of wall-mounted televisions and activate the internal microphone (???) to listen to private conversations, and this has long been a speculated use of cellular phones. Many people willingly stream everything that happens in their home, video and audio, to Google via the NestCam or similar devices.

If you've carried your cell phone on you, BigBroCo knows that you were (or weren't) at church on Sunday, Walmart on Tuesday, and that you spent a suspiciously long time parked in the far corner of a parking lot yesterday.

It's pretty likely that the relevant parties have already deduced which transaction in Walmart's payment systems was yours and have indexed the contents of your shopping run (even more likely if you've explicitly enabled this by using something like Walmart Pay in the Walmart app). Transactions are tied to your profile and it's all shopped around not only through AdWords but private B2B databases that want the information to try to target you with relevant solicitations. This is trivially visible in a variety of ways, since almost everyone is using such programs in some way or another.

It's naive to assume that such gold mines have never tempted anyone, especially when many of the people with an interest in accessing some of that data would also know how to bypass any auditing systems that may exist, and especially when there are many people who'd be happy to grease a few palms for the inside scoop.

We're coming in on the world where interest in the vast trove of personal data expands beyond targeted marketing and ultra-high-level political malfeasance. We have a thorny and potentially very scary road ahead of us.
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> Which usually don't have OS upgrades beyond what they were sold with

Flagships usually do (Samsung flagships, and numerous phones lower in their line, tend to get two major version updates.)

> and Project Treble won't change that

If update practices are something a worthwhile market segment looks to in buying decisions, and Trello makes it easier on OEMs because their is a cleaner isolation of the device-specific pieces, then, I'd expect it to make more OS updates happen.
I applaud the level of detail, and I don't understand any of it, so I'm not sure if it counts as a useful explanation to someone with a very general question about the energy->gravitation relationship expressed in the parent comment.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but another way to explain this would be to say that the mass->energy conversion reduces the general amount of mass in an area, which would then reduce the pull of other objects towards it, which is the same as changing the shape of space nearby. Since this particular energy conversion was so large, and doesn't happen all at once or at a consistent rate, it's detectable like a ripple in a pond.
The fact that Mark is not trustworthy is a real issue, and I've been screaming it from the rooftops since 2004 because I was actually there. In fact, it was the subject of my first post on Hacker News, for which I was ridiculed.

See also:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/71uva5/iama_classmate...
Data anonymization is largely BS, it has been shown in the past that with enough data it is fairly easy to specifically figure out who the person is. This is how people receive highly specific and targeted ads. I know this because I have worked in advertising and it's amazing & creepy that how specific I can get in my targeting. So yes, they in reality make money by selling user data and showing them ads using that. My bigger problem here is that when I buy a mobile device by paying money, why should I have my privacy not respected.
Yeah, but the sync button doesn't always work either. For example, my email client has a sync button but I have to go to the web app to really see what's going on.
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If it is like many other such projects, just to say they did it.

Why climb Everest? Why play a video game on the hardest setting? Why learn to write Hello World in the top 100 programming languages?

I can't say I wrote a spreadsheet in 220b. They can.

Maybe the question is, "Why not?" It is Hacker News, after all.
The proposed solutions are a total sledge hammer approach. How about if you want PHAsset to give you location information, you have to ask for the Location Permission? Problem solved. Devs can use their custom pickers and cameras and can’t spy information they haven’t asked permission for.
I wot not the attitude of others to such matters, but I find the presence of a close button that doesn’t appear to do anything unreasonably frustrating. (After an office move a couple of months back I encountered my first elevator in Australia with an close button that does little to nothing. Fortunately I work from home normally and only endure the elevator every couple of weeks.)
You can even use google photos app on the iPhone. There is no limitation.
Now try getting your compute newb friend/family going so they can sign, verify signatures, encrypt, decrypt, add keys, etc.

Now try web of trust, key servers, revoking certs.

Then the finer points of what to when you find tons of different keys for people with the same name.

Then subkeys, short term keys, and keeping long term keys offline.

See.. easy!
Probably you should first consider that our browsers contain a fully capable programming system which this golfed program abuses as an expression evaluator. :-) By comparison, this C program [1] (hints are at [2]) is a stripped down spreadsheet program for X, and it only has an RPN evaluator (probably to make a room for graphing features?).

[1] http://www.ioccc.org/2000/jarijyrki.c

[2] http://www.ioccc.org/2000/jarijyrki.hint
He’s amoral.

http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-mark-zuckerbergs-se...
This is ingenious! This is still a huge part of why privacy/security is still a long way off across all platforms. The attack vectors are much more nuanced and complex than the simplified permission system we think about
Yeah, but there are things like some game can backdoor the clipboard while submitting a score or whatever.

I like to know if an app has access to the network. If it does, don't install unless I trust the parent company.
Traveling, eating factory-farmed meat, waste generation, etc. etc. etc.

I can do better at all these things, but it doesn't matter. It simply doesn't. We need systematic solutions. The externalities need to be priced in, and only then will the markets cause people behave sustainably at scale.

So I see my actual best contribution as being whatever I can do to push that forward. I spend much of my free time trying to fight the battle of ideas. I fear that's probably as useless as becoming a vegetarian at actually making an impact, but that's where I'm putting my chips.
This was posted in one of the threads a few days back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nLKHYHmPbo

Starting at 12:00, Toby Hemenway talks about agriculture led industrial culture & its problems. How we are missing a spot where horticulture can be long-term beneficial.
It's not really the same because if the NSA wants to know where everyone has been, something automatic that applies to everyone is of significant value, while trying to mine Apple's data of people personal folder hierarchies is worthless.

Also, we know Google is actively engaged in mining this data in order to do something. Today it's to improve the user experience which I believe is an honest motivation, but inevitably this empowers a surveillance apparatus that both governments and powerful corporations want.

I think it's worth pushing back a bit on the sort of standard operating procedure of tech companies today, and question where this is all leading. Apple are definitely not saints, but at least they provide something resembling a dissenting viewpoint on the issue of customer data privacy.
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Perhaps annoyingly you’re spot on. The “local net” near me in London is full of Brexit breathing Farage supporters whining about their XYL. The clubs aren’t any better. It took forever to get my license sorted because of this as well. I was new blood that didn’t want to drink beer, play with black box rigs or bitch about the wife.

So I stick to 40m CW. People just want a QSO or two and then go back to playing with their oscilloscopes and soldering irons. It’s too hard to rag chew on CW.
During the mid '90s it was possible to get mobile internet connectivity at dialup speeds but it wasn't easy. Also, it's remarkable how this preceded even the web.
Wow. You must be a hacker or something.
Thank you for your follow up question, it is on our roadmap to rework the navigation with animated transitions to make it more clear what is happening.

In this comment is some explanation about the meaning of levels. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15339086
It is like levels in a building (or reaching up to the of the mountain). You start with real practical stuff, like task you want to do this day, where it is clear what to do.
The "higher" you navigate in the app (or walk up in the building) the lists become more abstract. Projects, Decisions(No, Done), Ideas. For the future the are even more higher levels planned like goals. The highest level will be your visions, kind of "why"(golden circles stuff) for every item in the lower levels.

The more the lowest level is aligned with the highest level the better you feel. (Means doing stuff that brings you were you really want with your life, and not only daily stuff that keeps you just busy)

Because all the items in the different levels are connected, it would be possible to give you feedback about a small daily task and how it relates or moves you forward with your big visions.

We work to improve the understanding of movements of items between lists, here a first explanation:
I believe that if you understand the meaning(relates strongly to gtd) of every view, the movement of items follows by logic:

InView (List managed by user) - Capture everything without more work

IdeaView (List managed by user) - Stuff you want to do in the future, no next step known here

ActiveView (List managed by user) - Stuff you want to do next. For every project(more than one task) you have to define a next step or wait for somebody or defer to date xy.

ArchiveView (List managed by user) - Stuff you want be able to find again in the future or reuse

DoneView (Sink List) - things you have done

NoView (Sink List) - things you decided not to do

NextView (Auto filtered list) - all calculated nextsteps from activeView

AwayView (Auto filered list) - all items you marked as away from activeView

ReviewView (Auto filtered list) - all items from ideaView, activeView and archiveView that needs to be reviewed

2 examples:
From idea to active means you finally decided to tackle an idea and want to define what to do next. So moving make sense here.
From archive to active means you want to reuse for example a grocery list or a visit to known restaurant from your list. So copy make sense here.

Our goal is to make this complex relationships as intuitive as possible without the need for the user to understand everything. Lots of work to be done here :)
A metaphor I really like: Many people drive a bicycle everyday because it is faster than walking, but not everyone needs (and wants) to understand the physics behind a bicycle to use it.
This problem would be solved if HTTP provided state synchronization rather than just transfer. Then we wouldn't need a reload button.

The invisible college built a solution called Statebus: https://stateb.us It's a backwards-compatible HTTP but with automatic synchronization. It eliminates these bugs.
So I'm not necessarily taking sides, as this is mostly a one-sided piece, but just answering your question of what people might find dirty about this account: the allegedly transactional nature of being a Flayboy Bunny, including the pressure to be part of Hefner's group sex:

> Which is where she first encountered the seven-at-a-time harem that Hefner, who was then 74, maintained. After a year of being a regular at the mansion, and with both of her roommates moving out, Madison was desperate to stay in Los Angeles, and decided she'd try to be one of the girlfriends. (A spot had opened up.) After all, she had been assured that none of them actually had sex with Hefner, and it seemed like a nice — and free — place to live.

> The decision immediately cut her off from friends outside the mansion. Madison said they would say, "'Ew, gross, you hooked up with an old dude?' I thought I was an adult and thought I was making my free choice. And I was. But I wasn't sophisticated or really prepared. And kind of got in over my head. ... I could understand how people thought it was strange. But I guess I wasn't comfortable enough to explain why I thought it would be fun or why I thought it would be a good idea."

> ...As Madison learned her first night out with Hefner and the girlfriends, sex was a requirement of living there. Wednesdays and Fridays were "Club Nights," and Hefner and his ladies would go out in Hollywood, getting VIP treatment at various clubs. (Hefner's fame as a septuagenarian sexpot novelty was then at its peak.) Hefner offered Madison a Quaalude, telling her, she writes in Down the Rabbit Hole, that "in the '70s they used to call these pills 'thigh openers.'" She turned him down, but did get drunk, and by the time they all went back to the mansion, she was told that it was time to go to Hefner's bedroom.

It's worth pointing out that these excerpts alone (which come from a book, which I haven't read in its entirety) don't necessarily allege illegal behavior -- the sex was consensual, as was the taking of the quaaludes. But even for people who enjoy pornography and sexual liberation, the implication that sex was coerced as a matter of employment might feel "dirty".
Of course he would rationalize it as being a boon to democracy if Facebook ever gets into China.

Which is a complete joke as we now see.
huh... is touchID more useful? Is a PIN more useful?

I'm honestly curious, what's the difference between "I refuse to look at my phone" and "I refuse to enter my PIN" when being detained?
I just watched the video and here is what I think could be approved. As someone who knows nothing about your project the first thing I’d like to know how it runs.

So I think you could get out more from your demonstration and place it before the API usage tutorial part.

Right now the demonstration feels a bit hasty and nervous. It would be nice to have more detail on whats going on in the demo.
He probably meant to say deidentified.
And how is it possible for newly mined blocks to be worth less bitcoins that earlier blocks? I'm talking about the limited quantity of bitcoins. How is that achieved?
Would you please stop posting such generic, unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? They are tedious and break the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Samsung's still making a flagship line with a stylistic after pretty much everyone else dropped smartphone styluses; and they brought back external SD cards, too, which a number of manufacturers (themselves included) dropped from flagship lines.

It's possible that dropping headphone jacks could become universal, but I don't see any reason to expect it's likely.
The zone may be signed locally, but the DS records for ed25519.nl haven’t (when I checked myself just now) yet been exported into the TLD zone. It’s basically equivalent to a self-signed certificate. The lack of DS records in the TLD zone is the reason why WHOIS says "DNSSEC: no".
Kind of scary to think that what people messaged each other as younglings more than 10 years ago can come back to haunt them.
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Clippings.io is a great tool for easily exporting Kindle highlights to Evernote, which is quite valuable to many users! We love what you've done, but we're going in a different direction. Thanks for taking the time to create a profile to share this feedback with us.
> Though, the classic dense methods have been implemented and optimised and ported to death with LAPACK/BLAS, haven't they.

Those are generic algorithms that are effective but may be far from being the most efficient, particularly if the problem structure isn't taken in consideration.

> What you're talking about is parallelisation, moving to GPU, and modern (combinatorial) methods for sparse systems, and that's fairly cutting edge, and not trivial to implement/port.

Those are by far not the only issues. For example, dense matrices require n^2 elements, which means that in practice 32GB pack at most a 63k*63k dense matrix. This is rather small for some engineering applications. If anyone wishes to go beyond this, they either have to throw money at the problem to continue running naive code on HPC hardware or they work on algorithms. Today's solvers are actually bundles of custom-made algorithms that apply sequences of algorithms to "massage" the problem to improve their tractability, such as applying partial factorizations or reordering schemes, to improve efficiency.

Moreover, there is yet much research work to be done in the field of matrix factorization. For instance, matrix reduction schemes are starting to make their way into practical engineering applications, and among them we are seeing an increase in demand in specialized techniques such as non-negative matrix factorization. There are no "classical methods" for this sort of factorization scheme, and yet it's a very basic technique.
That's what communication is. Even a movie is sharing information. Even a music video is sharing information. The whole Internet is sharing information. Some of it has less value than the rest, but it is still information.
Would you please not post snarky, unsubstantive comments here? They break the site guidelines and degrade discussion below the level we're hoping for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes it is surprising. Wondering what's really the cause of it? Is the ATM Front end code or ability to train and maintain windows XP.
It feels like the sign of times - the need for instant information. I like to be able to force refresh in Gmail, because sometimes I know I was just sent some notification / receipt / whatever. But normally it doesn't really matter... whether I find a new email I wasn't expecting immediately, or after an hour is irrelevant.
> Imagine an idiot (any idiot) blurting out bileful rubbish.

There's no idiot shortage on Twitter (or elsewhere), but I'll bet an overwhelming majority of the people who read your sentence above thought of the same person.
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You don't need that, just `=alert('Hi')` is enough.
I think that asshole is going to run for president.
> Facebook et al know mostly about how you externalise your identity towards other people. The data they store would be well structured, but would also be limited, mostly to what you would tell your closest friends.

100% bullshit, for Facebook at least. They have user-tracking elements all over third party websites just like google does (maybe not quite as many), and if you have any of their apps on your phone (including things they own like instagram and whatsapp) then they have access to almost the same data that google does.
Agreed, that's actually part of the proposal as well

> An alternative approach would be to have an extra permission layer to access the picture's metadata.
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This~

I've lost count of how many times I've pulled to refresh on a scrollable view in an app that doesn't refresh that way. Feels bad man.
I made a full circle. First, I was in love with iDevices. Then I was more and more uspet by their limitations - notably inability to directly copy content (music, videos, e-books) to and from as I wished. Mind you, these were the times that in order to even start using the phone you needed a computer with iTunes installed! So I switched to Android, only to discover you need to handle over so much data to Google you have a feeling they know more about you than you do. In the end I realized Android is just a data collection platform. I switched back to Apple, even though I still use some Google services (like Maps).
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> Too bad Linux still doesn't play nice with most games. SteamOS was a failure.

It depends heavily on the engine being used or if custom engine on how much the devs have relied on stuff designed to wall your product into windows.

There's like a couple of games out of ~100 I got on Steam that I've had big problems with in Ubuntu. A couple others just needed launch options to prevent the game from guessing settings so wrong I can't even fix those in-game and launch a launcher program where I can tweak those before starting the game.