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When Jio Phone was announced, I was excited as there was a possibility that FireFox OS (KaiOS) had a chance of gaining significant user base in India. With millions of units sold, it actually has.

But as this article points out, the dependency on WhatsApp in India is too high to ignore; the last I heard was that the effort to bring WhatsApp to Jio Phone failed and the Jio Phone 2 would run on Android.
I am honestly sick of hearing "but no one will create anything without copyright" as if money was the sole motivator that made doing anything worthwhile.

To be fair, I think copyright has its place as a minimal safeguard for artists' work, but in its current form it is entirely too aggressive and lasts way beyond its scope should cover. Copyright should not be reason to send SWAT raids to people's homes, just as much as it should not cover 70 years after the artists' death.

I am certain that if we seriously rolled back copyright, our art would still thrive, albeit perhaps less AAA content.
I read it differently. It sounded to me like he was trying to keep momentum up while he figured out a way to serve people. Maybe I misread it?
>I think Netflix is a huge vindication of copyright. It started out as a middleman simple peddling other people’s content. But copyright forced them to start producing their own content, and they’ve turned television on its head as a result.

Really? They make license agreements with the content/copywright owners in order to stream it. It does break apart the idea of using a single copy and lending it to someone though. I thought they were investing in their own content in order to attract more users, and improve the overall offering.
I heard a neighbor kid get hit by a car. A bunch of us were outside playing tag, heard the tires screech and the thump. The kid was an impulsive type, and the lady who hit him was our lunch room monitor, a very very sweet and kind woman. The kid was shooting across the road to check the mailbox, even though his mother had just told him she already picked up the mail. Other than the screech and thump, the only other sound I remember was our lunch room lady wailing when the paramedics stopped trying to revive him. We were half a block away observing, but is was like she was right next to me.

The kid was a grade or two below me, so I wasn't really friends with him. 40 years after the fact, that event still sticks with me.
That warning is before the film in the US as well. It's just part of the film.

Unless we're talking about in theaters? Because it doesn't show up there.
The vast majority of content providers would go out of business, and product discovery would largely disappear.
A lot of users in the Indian market own two cellphones. One is a smartphone with (usually) a prepaid data plan, and a “dumber” feature phone with a cheaper data plan. This allows people to effectively use WhatsApp from both phones, making it convenient to leave one at home and still be able to access your messages.
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Sure, a sponsorship or freemium model would cover that though. After all if the users don't have that much money to begin with, advertisers are already wasting their money.

And if you don't care about a service, why care if it goes away?
Plenty of economists have negative views about inherited wealth, and the negative sociological and economic effects of inheritance inequality that result. Copyright goes beyond wealth -- it is a defacto monopoly on creative work that the public cannot benefit from without paying someone for the privilege of usage.

Although you are taking the "family" viewpoint, the reality is that copyright more atypically tends to be shuffled around and bought up by large rent-seekers corporations. Many times, the original artist's descendants don't even make a penny. Example: Before invalidated in 2015, who benefited from the strange copyright on "Happy Birthday"? Was it the ancestors of the originators (Mildred J. Hill at the most direct, but probably with several other hands involved before it morphed into its familiar form)? No, it was Warner/Chappell Music.

To me, it would be very hard to argue that the benefits of extended copyright at this point. It's a form of rent-seeking, an activity many economists have problems with. (It was actually pretty easy to find an economist -- a Nobel winner -- blasting rent-seeking. Nobel winner Angus Daton did so here for instance around the 30 minute mark -- https://www.c-span.org/video/?424924-5/national-association-.... It was more in the context of our broken health care system, but similar issues apply with government-sanctioned monopolies of creative works.)
Sounds to me like you've argued yourself around to pitching them for inclusion! I find the argument that web-windows-1252 is supported by modern browsers very convincing.
Jesus, did accidents just disappear once the car was invented?
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This happens everywhere, not just India. This happens in the United States in the prison system, for example.
> The test is whether he, or any other actor, gave the order to sell while in possession of material information.

Wouldn't that reasonably make any sale, at any time, illegal?

Or, alternately, when would a CEO not possess (non-public) material information?
It's surprising to me how often reverse engineering turns out to be useful even in normal programming jobs.

Even if it only happens once or twice a year, if you're the only person on your team who can figure out how to work around some framework or OS bug, people will think you're a magician. Stuff like that can make performance review cycles all by itself.

It really depends on the type of work you're doing, though. Most people got into reverse engineering because they find it fun. If you hate it, there is probably other stuff you can spend your time on more productively.
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Didn't he also run a control condition on Mechanical Turk? Why isn't that analyzed here to show the effect?
Their siblings, affine types, change the world in the form of Rust. ;)
yeah they kind of lost me at that point
A few weeks ago I left my phone in the office on a Friday evening. I was going to go back for it but decided I'd try the weekend with a dumb £20 samsung lozenge phone for the weekend. It was something of a revelation.

The biggest issue was that I didn't have Whatsapp, either on my phone or on my laptop, as my main phone had shut down and so the keys were offline.

I started searching around for a cheap phone that would run Whatsapp, but they retired all the non-smartphone stuff last year. If someone sold a $50 phone that just had voice, text and Whatsapp I think they would sell a shit-ton, especially in the developing world...
How many deaths would getting rid of modern transportation cause? You can't just measure something by the negatives.
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I think it would be good to even have a site where you could check this, or a filter. I am not suggesting that any content should be removed.
Not essentially zero. Around 10 % of road fatalities in Sweden are pedestrians (somewhere around 30 per year) for a population of 10 million.

Swedish:
http://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/260-doda-i-trafiken-2015
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Well, half the Old Testament is one tribe murdering another, and God either doesn't care, or support one side (usually the victorious one - if it's Jews it's because they were nice, if it's not Jews it's because Jews were sinful at that particular moment :) ).

He tells Saul (if I remember correctly) to murder subjugated people, women and children included, so at that moment to any sane person God is actually acting as a force of evil, corrupting the believers, who wanted to save them (for a life of slavery most probably, but still, better than murder).

He makes a bet with the devil over Hiob's life, and kills his entire family (or allows it to be killed, same thing) just to see that Hiob's indeed faithful (which he knew beforehand because he's omniscient, but whatever).

God of Old Testament even calls itself "jealous", and tells people he "punishes sins of ancestors on X generations" (3 or 4 if I remember correctly).

Kinda angry and evil, isn't it?
Such a great movie. You might want to put a spoiler warning on that though.
Others already did it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card#Cryptographic...

Granted it's not foolproof but it's definitely a step forward compared to the SSN bullshit.
That's exactly what I meant. maybe I'm not familiar enough with what "arrest" entails, but at least keeping them at the station to make sure she's ok or something.

To clarify my comment, I wasn't talking about finding a way to point fingers at her or something. but really, just sending her on her way, driving the car she just used to kill a child with, is irresponsible.
It blocks certain tracking features, not advertising per se. Ads would and does continue to exist, it's just slightly less adjusted per-person based on tracking said person.
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Most property isn't taxed, in most places. The big exception is land/real estate, which is sometimes taxed.

For copyright, part of the problem is that most copyright is valueless in many senses (including financial). No one is making money off it. No one is reading/watching it. It's like art in a vault. Freeing the works would allow people to access them. Free as in liberty, as well as beer. The two are related, often.
> It looks innocent, makes the impression of a childlike idea how to make the world better.

It answer's Richard Scarry's question, "What do people do all day?" [1]

They watch each other.

[1] Still one of my favorite books.
Why should the street be a live firing range in the first place?.

The streets are paid for by every citizen, yet pedestrians have to adapt to car traffic, even though they are not the ones carrying a weapon.
On a very cynical level, autonomous cars will still help. If the person in the article had been a passenger in the car when they hit the child, they would undoubtedly feel far less guilt about the incident, and their life would have been far less affected as a result.
This is a huge pet peeve of mine since I've had several windows phones. Trying to find the "windows mobile app store" or "windows phone app store" online was nearly impossible since they kept changing the name. Then when they went to Windows 10 Mobile, they lumped all the apps together. You'd search for an app you found online and then find out it wasn't compatible with your phone when you searched the store on your phone.

Trying to find any articles out about the Windows phone? Maybe you're looking for a better Twitter client or music player? Good luck. Some authors would use "Windows Phone" or "Windows Phone 8" or "Windows Mobile" or several different variations including the 10 versions depending on what the flavor of the month was. Do I want to do 10 different searches just to find a handful of reviews? Not really.

It was so frustrating to and find anything related to your version of Windows Mobile or whatever they were calling at any given time. It was just another issue that didn't help being a Windows phone user and made it even harder for Android users to switch over. Why would you want to switch if you can't even determine if the Windows Phone store has the apps you need? To me, this was another Achilles heel for the whole Windows phone experience and another reason their phones never did well.
The Indian government isn’t on good terms with Facebook due to the failure of the Internet.org experiment (links elsewhere in this thread)
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Lots of everyday technology has the potential to cause death. People sometimes get hit by trains and those run on tracks. Whether the advantage of using the technology outweigh the downsides is always the tradeoff we need to decide on with an eye on trying to eliminate the downsides as much as possible while retaining the benefits.
> How do you guys feel about the sort of mob justice that happens in such cases in India?

It's dumb. The whole point of the criminal justice/judicial/investigative systems is to prevent mob rule, which makes no attempt to reach truth, just get revenge.
As the article mentions in like the first couple of paragraphs, those results haven't generally withstood replication.

But more so, the effects in the Slate Star Codex survey are extremely strong. You'd expect that an effect that strong would be part of the common wisdom, not something that has to be teased out in a psychological study.
Capitalism should be abolished.

As it stands, capitalism serves little positive social purpose. The overwhelming majority of laborers get paid little if anything for their work, and still there is a glut of production. So there should be no fear of the world losing lots of great production if there was no capitalism.

Most of the benefit of capitalism is reaped by the middle men, who profit off the work when the laborers that made it have long ceased to do so (if they ever did). Abolishing capitalism will thus mostly affect these middle men, and have little effect on labor itself.

Those laborers that still want to get paid in a capitalism-free era can find business models that don't rely on capitalism, like the military, collective farming, or secret police-like models where one is paid for future work.
In the anecdotal cases I mentioned, inflammation is a catch-all. More specifically, congestion and joint pain decreased significantly. In one case, I know someone who had many days where she wasn't able to walk due to joint pain. Those days appear to be gone.
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Perhaps you've never been on rural roads that also have houses? There are many places where a 50+ mph speed limit is appropriate even though there are little clusters of houses dotted along the route. It's not practical to lower the speed limit for every house that has children.
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Microsoft started doing ads in Windows 10 and, more importantly, they have bought LinkedIn. One of the most obvious ways to monetize it, other than paid services of course, is to deliver highly targeted ads. They know your age, your occupation and can guess your income more or less precisely.

I won't hold my breath.
Yeah there's no need for a record label to ever sign another band when you can simply continuously re-package the Rolling Stones into infinity.
Actor model cannot be implemented wrapping CSP, because CSP is bounded and synchronous, while Actor model is unbounded and asynchronous. But you can implement CSP on top of Actor model.
And how would you do that? Would the browser load every single page on a Google search and then badge?

You can't test a page's load speed from Google's servers and then expect it to load for the user in the same way.

Especially because one of the key points behind AMP is the use of CDNs, especially global ones (like Google's, Microsoft's or Akamai), which greatly speed up load times while also reducing traffic for the ISPs.
Too true: my uncle's stepson was killed by a police car that T-boned his car as it (the cop car) jumped a red light in response to an emergency call (that later turned out to be bogus, as if the story wasn't grim enough). I imagine that the possibility of this happening to them preys very heavily on the minds of police drivers everywhere.
I'd be worried, but given my experience with Fujitsu enterprise solutions, we'll all be in the grave before tech support responds to Big Brother's ticket.
Fun anecdote: my friends christmas gift for his wife was revealed pre-christmas. He bought a trip to London and a particular theater visit that had some special significance to her. But, he was doing all the planning on their shared computer so it started showing ads for this, so she added A, B, and C and in the end wasn't very surprised on christmas eve (still happy though).
Yes, but at the cost of:

1. Increased complexity on the server side to handle both cases.

2. Degraded experience on the client side (page reloading for simple actions like upvoting).
Autonomous cars could actually lead to increases in road deaths (or at least, less pressure to improve road safety, and hence less potential reduction in deaths), because people would be far less invested in the accident. There would always be someone else to potentially blame: the manufacturer of the vehicle, the programmer of the software, the creators of the sensors, or even the owner of the vehicle not cleaning the sensors enough. Every party could make a compelling case for why someone else was the cause of the death. There would be more people with blood on their hands, but those people would feel less responsible and be even further removed from the actual incident.
Those houses are generally located far away from the road (farm houses) or are in some other way separated from the road way. If it’s a rural highway and houses are near the road, it typically results in a speed zone, even in desolate Nevada.
The work week in my organization is M-Su. I'm not particularly awake on Monday mornings, so I fill out and submit my time sheet for the previous week, which may include support hours over the weekend. Due to my brain core dumping over the weekend anything I did the previous week, I have to piece together what I did from my calendar and Sent folder.

Usually my periods of high productivity are 10am-12pm, 3-5pm, and 7-9pm. (I'm not usually in the office after 5pm so my employer doesn't benefit from the last burst. But they would if I did.)

Friday is my day to get backlog stuff done. Depending on how you define productivity, I'm either highly productive at solving old bugs, doing documentation updates, etc. or not productive at all on Fridays.

I have to echo others' sentiments: the analysis is severely flawed.

[EDIT: Added paragraph starting with "Friday is...".]
I'm not sure what you want to happen here. An arrest is a (temporary) suspension of a person's civil liberties. There has to be a legitimate reason under the laws of the jurisdiction to do it. I don't know the law in England, but in the USA, if the investigating officer does not have evidence for a crime (the act, and "mens rea") or you aren't deemed a potential flight risk because you have some relation as a person of interest to someone who does in an ongoing investigation, you aren't arrested. You can be detained (which is technically what happened here - she was not free to run away from the officer while being asked the questions). She cooperated, and the questions were answered to the officer's satisfaction. Once his superiors read the report, if they find his work on scene to have been sloppy and her actions or answers suspect, they can go back and arrest her if there's cause.
I guess there's a subtlety at work here that's difficult for the most vocal people on HN to grasp, going by the overall tone in the comments here. There's a difference between someone who's spent years of their professional life, largely ostracized by a tech community that should've supported them more, who suddenly gets a massive influx of users and initially assumes it's an attack and, when they discover it's not, take a hacker-ish approach to playing with the situation before sitting down and devoting 20 hours a day for days on end attempting to make the service work for those users even though they're clearly unwilling to pay very much for it ... and other actual assholes that this site has regularly worshipped, people who have built entire businesses out of exploiting users and employees alike.

I suppose that if any of us are lucky, we'll be successful enough one day to be burned at the stake on HN by a bunch of folks who can't tell the difference between "did one or a couple of things badly" and "is a bad person".
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> What mechanisms?

Case-by-case application of the Open Internet principles from 2005-2010, Title I regulation from 2010-2014, Title II regulation from 2015-2017. The case-by-case approach was struck down by the courts in 2010 while the Title I regs were being drafted; the Title I regs being struck down in 2014 with a specific identification of Title II as the legal basis that would support the kind of rules the FCC adopted under Title I is what prompted the Title II regulations to be drafted.

> The cases of fraud or misrepresentation are just that.

The VoIP and BitTorrent blocking cases before the Title I regs were adopted weren't based on general fraud or misrepresentation principles, but on the FCCs publicly adopted Open Internet (net neutrality) principles.
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> Your life (well, chance at ever being happy again) is effectively ruined by the death of one child

I think the sentiment here has a lot of truth, but it's just a bit too strong.

My parents lost my sister when she and I were young. It was terribly painful for them. It still tears me up to think about it. I think I've only ever asked about it once or twice in 40 years, and especially never dared to do so with my dad. But they seem to have found ways to be at peace about it. They are happy in their own lives and happy about me. Time and love and wisdom can eventually make it OK.
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Would it be though? Think of how much attention and focus people would regain for themselves.
Middle child here.

I didn’t like the methodology of this study, so I did my own little study, my wife being the core respondent.

The results were astounding and the P value is off the charts (higher is better in this case - trust me).

Conclusion: middle children are the best
To pick an example out of thin air, think of stage act trying to keep a number of plates spinning. You can keep a number of them going, but the LRU one is the one most likely of falling because it's lost some energy, and you need to check it to keep it up in the air.
My biggest problems with things like this are that everyone is subjected to it, but not everyone has access to it. In seems almost dystopian that our surveillance applies to the people paying for it, but not the people deciding on it. I can't watch a live stream of a politician's meetings, but governments have access to where everyone goes with their car at all times.
I'm reminded of George Orwell's quote:

“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
Why though? With the changes announced in this post (e.g. using the web packaging standard), loading an AMP page from Google's servers will have pretty much all the same security guarantees that loading it from the origin's servers would have.
That would be an acceptable outcome.
Exactly my point: Madrid to Barcelona is a medium distance application where high speed rail makes sense (in a general sense - geography can be a confounding factor)