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The old Nokia crowd seem to have a tough time admitting that all of Nokia's old software operations were beyond salvage by 2010. Symbian had turned into a sprawling pile of crap, and Maemo/MeeGo was painted in a corner by internal politics that had marginalized its development. Nokia was spending ten times as much as Apple on R&D, yet had very little to show for it.

Having two competing OS teams was a bad choice made much earlier by Elop's predecessors, who didn't understand software (the previous Nokia CEO came to that position from the legal department — a terrible mismatch for a company about to be overrun by Apple and Google). Elop was fundamentally right in killing both of Nokia's operating systems. Symbian sales were collapsing in early 2011 because the devices just couldn't respond to user expectations anymore, not because of anything Elop did.

I can see why Elop picked Windows Phone over Android: it truly was a more innovative UI and Microsoft was willing to pay Nokia a billion USD per year for the partnership. Elop's grave mistake was not having a replacement ready to go. The Lumias shipped way too late. Playing "armchair CEO", I have no idea how I would have solved that either.

In any case, Nokia didn't end up too poorly. Microsoft bought the phone division that was bleeding cash, and that money gave Nokia the opportunity to buy back its network division that had been a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens. The outcome was probably better than if Nokia had tried to downscale itself into a commodity Android vendor.
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I only left Spotify for Youtube Red/Google Music. It was not an easy decision because they have the best music selection and discover imo. They should acquire pandora and then I think they could dominate this space.
The lettering style is a little bit different, and there were a couple of common letters that we don't use, for 'th' sounds. (When you see "ye olde whatever", the 'y' is a corruption of the thorn letter: that was pronounced "the".)

An interesting page about runes in the Exeter Book: https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/2017/02/17/reading-r... (I put some probable misinformation here before.)
Are you familiar with the writing of Patrick Mackenzie? patio11 on hackernews, kalzumeus.org.

His career trajectory has been similar to your story, in that he was a line engineer who went independent. The think that makes patrick great, though, is that he took the time to write up all his lessons in a blog that is essentially a how-to guide for engineers who want to make the move from "I just write code" to "I am a sucessful self-employed software consultant.

If you haven't come across him before, I strongly suggest you check it out
Has there been a resolution as to who was generating the fraudulent comments on the FCC proposal? I believe they’re real I’ve just been wondering why someone/some organization would do that, unless it was some conspiracy by the ISPs, but they don’t need fake comments when they have lobbyists.
In the US at least, there are probably enough people with a significant number of firearms that it would take a war to make this work. I’m not usually fond of anti-government fanatics, but I have to admit that in extremes they can be useful.
Didn't own one but a friend had an N900. It seemed like a few things still needed polish, but it didn't seem slow to me - quite the opposite. He hung on to it for a good while too.

My plan was to buy the next one at next contract change - of course that wasn't going to be possible. (I've always had a liking for the Communicator layout, going all the way back to Psion 3s)
Can confirm pretty miserable on 25k
Perfect timing, I guess :) Good to have you on board, Dominik!

P.S Your platform fee is waived. Happy to be your first supporter :)
...Which they could probably satisfy less destructively with role-playing. The irony is extra ferrous.
I always feel compelled to introduce people to the sage words of that great philosopher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, on this topic: "Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million."
Despite other comments below, I think that the equivalence drawn between "failed to save" and "killed" reflects an interesting philosophical choice. I don't think that this equivalence is universally accepted, even by those who call thinking otherwise fallacious.

If an EMT fails to save a victim of a car crash, did he/she kill the victim? If the dispatcher misspoke and gave the wrong cross street, delaying aid, did the dispatcher kill them?
Their competitive advantage is discovery and algorithmic playlists. For my part at least, what got me onto spotify was the large library but what keeps me using it is the discover weekly playlist.
You listed the killer features of Google Music for me: no Youtube ads, auto-pay my favorite Youtubers, and upload my own albums.

Also the Youtube Music app.

I've found their catalog to be really complete, I've rarely not been able to find something specific I'm looking for.

Only advantage I'm hearing from Spotify music users is that the algorithmic selections sound really good. Meh, I put in about an hour a month of surfing different Play Music radio stations and recommendations. Works for me.
Stream fusion is only necessary for otherwise strict data types (like text, bytestring, vector, etc). Regular haskell lists will be 'fused' by default due to laziness, although the standard library does also fuse repeated list operations into an even more streamlined representation. However, this can be seen as more of a compiler optimization than anything, as it doesn't change the runtime complexity or the space complexity. Mapping over a list however many times always takes O(1) space, due to laziness.
At this rate, China is 10 years away from being the premiere surveillance state in all history. I mean, think of all the laboratory requirements they meet that no one else does in this grand experiment:

- Single party state

- President-for-life

- Full-spectrum surveillance of their own citizens with little to no oversight

- Court system that criminalizes political dissent

- Large "re-education" and "work-based" prison system

- Widespread and automated censorship of media and online discussion in all forms, combined with a willing rewriting of history (e.g., Tiananmen in 1989 has been completely scrubbed, and discussion of it in any form is deleted within minutes)

- "Social score" system that integrates the surveillance system into the legal and bureaucratic systems

- Limited access to external information of any form outside of the Great Firewall

- The money, capability, and the political willingness to implement and expand all of the above as needed

I am hard-pressed right now to imagine any other country that is drifting more quickly to a dystopian surveillance state than China.
More than half a century later, where’s the male pill?
Years ago a real estate agent driving me around to look at property relayed a somewhat pessimistic aphorism he'd picked up from his father: Life's a shit sandwich, the more bread you have the less it tastes like shit.
How many drugs were ordered using windows?
I hope it's not overly pedantic to point out that what you linked to is not a CAB forum thread. That's a thread on the Mozilla security policy list, which many root programs and CAs make use of for disclosure and discussion.

CAB forum has its own lists elsewhere. A relevant difference is that CAB forum discusses creating and modifying policy but is not involved in enforcement. The root programs typically deal with enforcement.
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For those of you who find this interesting and also enjoy anime, Psycho-Pass explores this premise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Pass

TLDR:

> The story takes place in an authoritarian future dystopia, where omnipresent public sensors continuously scan the mental states of every passing citizen. Collected data on both present mentality and aggregated personality data is used to gauge the probability of that citizen committing a crime, the rating referred to as that citizen's Psycho-Pass.
Interesting. Does that mean if you want to drink a vintage wine at a restaurant you should call ahead and let them know you'll be ordering it so they can prepare it properly? I've never been in a position to do that, but you never know...
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Facebook is taking a page from LinkedIn and expanding its job listings
Looks great :)

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/SeriousLemon
The NSA is already doing the same thing https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-n...

Machine learning is still a black box, and politicians don't seem to understand this.
Cross language but not cross platform -- no windows support, and none planned.
Spotify stopped using in-app subscriptions in their iOS app. I'd love to see the numbers comparing user growth rate vs cost caused by the in-app subscriptions, that led them to their decision.
I've always suspected that they use those numbers to inflate how many people are actually signing up for TV. From there you can potentially get better deals, inflate your monthly reports, etc etc.
I was a Spotify lifer until I butted up against their 10,000 song limit. [1]

Now, I'm using Google Play Music. There's no doubt in my mind that everything else outside of this limit is better on Spotify.

Please, Spotify, fix this! Let me help inflate your valuation!

1. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Library-Song-Limit...
For those into Black Mirror or PKD, new show called "Electric Dreams" is based on PKD short stories - I recommend it, a few excellent episodes.
Companies which name themselves after dystopic objects or ideals with a 'nod and wink' always creep the living hell out of me. There's never a good answer when they inevitably ask, "well what did you think was going to happen?"

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Palant%C3%ADri
True, you can do it with the buttons though (custom text, font, color etc.). It's pretty cool.

Thanks for trying us out, Mycah. Enjoy your first coffee on the house :)
>We’re on our way there too in the US:

Fortunately we have something called Habeas Corpus
Nice one bemmu. This was my first search, guess the keywords:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2767203
Well it's pretty easy to generate the ROC curves for this one. We're talking discrete events over a defined timespan, right? Just create a control group and monitor the difference.
Just clicking on your profile I see you work in London. From what I can tell most programmers don't get paid 'ludicrous amounts' there. Though maybe you have a rare role, or maybe you just have a very low threshold for what you consider ludicrous.
I don't think there is any reason to not think that there's a lot of inefficiency in the job marketplace that a large tech service that literally their entire market uses couldn't vastly clear up.

What I'm more worried about is that Facebook will drop the ball.
Or Fashion-MNIST https://github.com/zalandoresearch/fashion-mnist :)
The choice to go with Microsoft was reasonable; a way to distinguish themselves from all the other (unprofitable) Android manufacturers. But the whole execution of the plan from both Nokia and Microsoft was terrible.
Apparently puritains and others of that ilk regarded dice as instruments of the devil
Sourcegraph.

Firefox (kidding).
Thanks, @SeriousLemon!
Happy to be your first supporter :)
> By the end of this century, it’s predicted that Copenhagen will experience 25-55 percent more precipitation in winter months, while the city’s typically wet summer months will see up to a 40 percent reduction in rainfall.

Err... By the end of the century, it's also predicted that sea level will rise. If Greenland melts in any significant manner, which given the current heat wave in the Northern Greenland it very well might, increased precipitation seems to me like it'll be Copenhagen's least of problems.
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Vodafone and Nokia aim for the moon
Definitely depends heavily on region and your family situation. Using just actual dollar values makes this discussion difficult. A $150k lifestyle in the Bay Area with a spouse and 2 kids is vastly vastly different standard of living than $150k as a single dude in an apartment in a suburb of Atlanta. In the Bay Area for example, you’re not doing ANY of those things you listed making just $150k.
The first part of your statement is a pretty bold claim, especially when the nation is not a collection of tribes.
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That's terrible. Competent technical writing is criminally undervalued.
There is a massive difference: the NSA/USG isn't using that against it's own citizens.
I'm confident in Europe's ability to resist this trend, their privacy legislation is looking positive.
I wonder if Spotify will become a music label for the same reasons that Netflix has been making their own shows? Spotify could be severely damaged if only a few labels were to pull their content.
That's a beautiful Buy Me A Coffee page, @fady. Glad to be your first supporter!
Yeah, it is some fun, wish I had more free time to devote to it.

LORA doesn't handle any of the mesh behaviour, I'm doing all of that using LORA just at the send and receive level. The devices I am using are moteinos - a cool arduino lora mashup https://lowpowerlab.com/guide/moteino/.

I see various ranges from LORA, the environment is steep valleys and dense bush which severely dials back the range, sometimes down to a few hundred meters or even less. At this stage I haven't played around with optimising the LORA settings, but there are bound to be some wins there since the required data rate is so low.

Good question about installs, my current plan is that before setting out, the user places that part of the network where they are heading into constant beacon mode. The node can then be installed, knowing there's another node within reach.

In practice this should be fine anyway, as the recommended placement for traps for e.g. stoats is every 100 meters or so, so usually there will be other traps within range.
The title of this post is misleading, they eventually supplied a software patch that fixed the clock drift. The Israelis proposed rebooting as a stopgap until the bug could be fixed.
Are you coming from a top school? You're applying to R1 schools so I'm wondering if your anecdote, as an ideal candidate, falls outside the "normal" range of actual job search difficulty.
Correct, I was looking to be promoted to T5.
The DV CA space is such a mess. I still wish DV certificate issuance was the responsibility of the domain registrar, with technical measures taken to prevent competing registrars from misissuance. This way, you don't need to play whack-a-mole around your certificates, just pick a reputable registrar when you buy your domain, avoid the need to "prove" you hold the domain (your registrar control panel is today already the sole security barrier protecting your domain), and avoid the possibility that a third party can play the impostor game. And it would bring some meaning back to the reputation of different TLDs and their various registrars.
The UAE is an independent country and can do whatever it wants.

A few weeks ago the guardian was complaining about the "folly" of Musk sending a Roadstar to space.

It seems to me that anything that is not about feeding poor people is africa is a waste of time if you are a guardian writer.

I am glad that Dubai is pushing the envelop of engineering - yes its kinda stupid - but so was electricity at one point. Maybe these projects will someday lead to them gaining the expertise to turn the middle east into some sort of futurist garden of Eden ?

Compared to the looming war in the Congo, and the humanitarian crisis in Burma, alongside North Korea's nuke - doing a large civil engineering project seems downright nobel.

And the migrant workers getting paid slave wages ..

Are we supposed to pay them 3000 pounds / month like Journalists ? /s

They are getting paid better than what they would get paid back in the countries they are from - sometimes multiple times. I do not see Guardian writers shedding tears for all the folks in 3rd world countries that would consider themselves lucky to go work for tax evading Europeans so that they can feed their family.
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To rephrase: You could define whether it is being used corruptly by measuring whether it reduces crime.

This is a loaded research question, of course, because it's studying something that we find abhorrent: Prosecuting people for crimes they haven't actually committed.

Scientifically it's super interesting. Socially and ethically it's a minefield.
Looks like a good project. You should probably mention very, very early on in your docs, though, that this is for Bitbucket Server (self-hosted) and not for Bitbucket Cloud (bitbucket.org).
So much could go right or wrong, especially when in a war, or even when depending on technology in our households (fire alarms, replace your batteries!).

I feel "preventable deaths" is a preferable focus over "cause of death".
>if this is reducing crimes

Every apprehension under this program is a crime by any definition other than the arbitrary declaration of an illegitimate regime.

It would be absolutely astonishing if the people apprehended were likely to illegally kidnap and hold at least 1 citizen in their basement for at least the length of time that these people are detained.

Thus it can pretty much only increase crime.
Do you think this is a representative sample or a bizarre situational experience?
I ended up not taking a job through them (I did the math and relocating to SF meant I would have a longer commute and only slightly more pay after housing my family of 6), but the process was great.

After the initial test, there is a fairly long phone/remote desktop interview that consists of:

* Writing code (on your actual machine with the tools and language of your choice!) to solve a simple problem.

* Debugging (a smallish program with 5 failed unit tests)

* General knowledge questions (databases, web (both html and http), data-structures algorithms)

The phone interview then ended with them giving you a couple of tips on answering the non-technical interview topics that a lot of engineers flub (why do you want to work here, when can you start, compensation).

The next day I got a list of over a dozen positions with the recommendation that I pick at least 5 to move on to phone screening.

The phone screenings went well (3 of them were just varients of "all the candidatese triplebyte has sent us were great, so we just want to talk about our company"). This was also my first hint that compensation would be an issue; one company was immediately ruled out because they were early stage and I can't pay a mortgage with equity.

Then triplebyte scheduled the on-sites all in the same week so that I wouldn't have to go back-and-forth to the bay area.

Ultimately Apple was the only company on my list paying enough to get me to relocate, and they passed on me.
Highly liquid US equities, using discount broker API to find, initiate, monitor and exit trades - everything written in Python and hosted on few VPS around the world (for redundancy) ...

Options are to complicated for me :-)
Almost Watchbird: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29579
Those are good questions. Our challenge becomes ensuring that people are capable. How many of those displaced workers are less capable because of something intrinsic (some mental defect or insufficiency), and how many just need to be trained? I'm not sure if we'll ever reach a point where the "average" person is unemployable, but we can imagine a future where that is the case. But there's such little genetic variation within humanity that it seems likely that our education system could be made much more rigorous and suitable to ensure that everyone comes out of it at a very high level of capability.
I was thinking that Spotify would actually need to go in the Netflix direction and have the music equivalent of "originals" (that is, signing artists and having their own label) because otherwise record companies would try to spin off their own services and take their content with them (which has happened in video streaming), or the moment Spotify gets too profitable they'll see an opportunity to increase content prices since they know Spotify can afford it.
Don't worry. The Republicans are running everything right now and if there's anything they support, it's state's rights

/s
> I dislike the spotify UI though (why is it THAT dark and depressive ?) and play music removes the ads from youtube (us user) and pays youtubers, so that's an easy choice.

I am also not a fan of Spotify's UI. I've tried in order, Spotify, GPM, and am now on AM. I may try Spotify again, since my first try was a few years ago and I didn't care for the UI and became annoyed after I built a playlist and half the songs disappeared one day (rights issue I guess).

GPM is a great deal because it also includes YouTube Red and YouTube music if that's your thing.

You can also get a deal on AM if you buy for the year for $99 and use an iTunes gift card that you can usually find for ~$80.

The AM UI is not the best, but since I'm on iOS, the integration is nice.
the palantiri weren't dystopic objects. they were positive items used for communication until some of them were captured.

I think the name of the company is highly apt.
Well, a double organic whipped cream soy milk slightly frozen latte with Chilean beans from Starbucks is around that price tag.
That seems like a cultural thing, though - many Western cultures wrap up personal identity in job description, but there's nothing biological to stop people from just laying out a purpose for themselves and pursuing it.

There are plenty of financial reasons, but isn't that what we're talking about? If you have enough money that you don't have to work for the rest of your life, you probably have enough money that you can spend your time on whatever act of creation you find fulfilling.
The better word for organic here is free traffic. Buying newsfeed ads was either at a loss or break even but the sharing/interactions from the paid stuff triggered the free traffic.

The founders of LittleThings knew what they were doing. I’m guessing they pocketed good profits in the beginning and then tried to cash out at the end. Everyone knew this Facebook newsfeed traffic would end like Zynga.

It has been a big positive for publishers who were getting lower CPMs because these sites were sucking display network ad spend dry every day. I assume it’s also a big positive for society since fewer drivers are looking at dumb Facebook clickbait while flying down the highway.
I'm really glad software development has largely moved away from the terse names and symbols that used to be so common. I mean patsubst? What a terrible function name! At the very least I would have added the 'h' in path.
In the medical device industry the company who made the device can be found at fault if a clinician makes a poor decision that leads to death based on a fault in the device. If the soldiers would have sought better cover or be otherwise saved in the case that there was no missile defense system was there then yes, some, if not most, of the blame lies on the software error.
Spotify would be severely damaged if any major label pulled their content. That’s very different from Netflix.
I never read Brave New World, but I've heard that was a theme. Everyone used illegal drugs, but there was no enforcement. Instead, if they wanted to bring you in, they just charged you with illegal drug use --because everyone knows that everyone uses illegal drugs.
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There's also Wave, but they're not available in all parts of the city, so certain people like myself are basically forced to give Comcast money. I'd be thrilled if we had more options.