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I still use a point-and-shoot (I don't really like the highly-advanced camera on my Galaxy S5 because the interface is poor).

GPS is difficult, because navigation is so much better when you pull up-to-date maps from the internet - old standalone sat nav units go out of date very quickly, as do printed maps. But at the same time, I don't want the companies behind it to have free rein of my location data to spam me with adverts.

The rest of the sensors aren't that useful - the light sensor is a nice convenience to dim the screen, but Apple introduced the concept over 10 years ago and most laptop manufacturers still handle brightness manually, so swiping the control panel down on a phone and sliding for brightness isn't a big deal. The rotation sensor annoys me, especially if I pick up a device while I'm lying in bed, so I have the screen orientation locked. Other sensors like the health-based heart rate sensor on my S5 are neat, but totally optional.

In short, yes, no (mostly) and yes.
A business transaction requires the consent of two parties. “I choose not to do business with you” is not censorship; the nazis are free to go and stand up their own servers.
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I also find the idea that the exceedingly wealthy can effectively buy their way out of our tax system. Even if in this case all the money did actually go to causes of his choosing it's not a just system and I'm saddened you are being down-voted for just having a contrary opinion.
I also love this quote: "When the Lisa team was pushing to finalize their software in 1982, project managers started requiring programmers to submit weekly forms reporting on the number of lines of code they had written. Bill Atkinson thought that was silly. For the week in which he had rewritten QuickDraw’s region calculation routines to be six times faster and 2000 lines shorter, he put “-2000″ on the form. After a few more weeks the managers stopped asking him to fill out the form, and he gladly complied."

Even back then we had stupid process.
I don’t know your setup, but Ubuntu uses PulseAudio as default, and it can sometimes take the sound devices hostage. There is a package called pulseaudio-module-jack which will let you output sound from JACK through PulseAudio. Using qjackctl you can see how everything is connected and direct it to the pulse source. The pulse source can be connected, to say your speakers, by loading a loopback module in pactl.
Thank you for this honest post. When I read it I cannot help but think of how your grandfather fought thousands and thousands of kilometers away from his home (Japan, South Africa, Indonesia). In places that have never threatened him, his family or his people. If not for imperial interests, could you please expand on why he did it (if you know it)?
Christianity hasn't transformed, the politics of adherents has. The same truths stand. The same fundamentals of faith are still there.

Islam can't be modernised and still be Islam because it dictates a political order and holds a pre-medieval warlord as the ideal person.

They're fundamentally different in this respect at least.
Exactly. Fiber to the home is the only fiber than really matters. If there is fiber but my last mile is old copper, then that doesn’t do me a lot of good does it?

France claiming 100% fiber by 2022? They are dreaming, or perhaps even delusional. No way they can get FTTH by 2022. There are some places that don’t have any connectivity and you have to use Satelite.

They’re going to fix that in 4 years?
Its pretty easy: The law says, that you always have to set a willing action to opt in. There can be check-boxes, but they need to be unchecked by default ("privacy by default"). Simple. I have already received multiple communications from Banks and credit card companies, and they are all very explicit about it and it was very easy to see the choices and the effect of the law.
I assumed since they were asking they were using something else for prod. If you use Heroku for production, I’m not sure why you’d use something different for Dev.
I worked for Fiber for two years. It was both (wanting to succeed as a business and wanting to shift the industry), with a primary focus on succeeding as a business, or at least that was what the internal messaging was.

I won't comment on any possible changes in the last couple years or why they may have happened, except to say that to the best of my knowledge, at no point was the sentiment, "We've shifted the industry enough that we can stop pretending to want to succeed."
"Hi, I'm Zenify - The first mindfulness and focus training bot for Telegram ️ Would you like to learn more about me or you'd prefer to start right away?"

I have no idea why I'd want this.

"Learn more"

"Which of the below would you like to see?"

I have no idea why I'd want this. I can't ask that question, I'll try the closest one.

"How does it work?"

(huge paragraph of text)

Still no idea why I'd want this. Also it's frustratingly slow and I'd definitely bounce on the first cutesy typing animation under any other circumstances.

Your old landing page leads with that same paragraph, but then it answers my question after that. Though it's super confusing because it says "Zenify helps you build the tools..." so maybe it's for making my own meditation things? Since you give examples later I'm guessing that's not the case.

I think the biggest problem is you're selling 2 different things - the old landing page doesn't mention Telegram at all, and the new one leads with Telegram then just goes to the wall of text from the old one that doesn't mention it.

Also your new landing page has referral links to two other services which for some reason get shown before your bot says anything, which feels a bit weird and confused.
Oh, I see, thanks.
IIRC there's some animosity due to the fact that windows builds for xchat aren't (or weren't, I'm not exactly up to date on this) available for free.

In any case hexchat is available as package for debian as well, so I don't much see the problem.
You don't specifically need JS here.

Any endpoint could automatically update the user session token when it detects it's about to run out and update the cookie that it is stored in.
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Properly constructed information security questionnaires enable a business partner to conduct a high-level, non-intrusive assessment of your organization. You have a right to be concerned about the sensitivity of the data, but if you distrust your business partner that much, then don't do business with them. Your org is not a special snowflake and this is a very common practice by organizations of all shapes and sizes with organizations of all shapes and sizes. They are not the be-all/end-all of information sources (orgs regularly fib on these forms) and you do have a similar right to ask the inquisitors how they will protect your form data (that will also partoy show them you at least give lip-service to data security). It's also far more likely that your organization is going to get pwnd via phishing that is completely unrelated to the potential loss of confidentiality of this document. I say that as someone who has formally studied cybersecurity breaches for years.

Also, as cyberinsurance increasingly becomes "a thing", you're going to see this questionnaire situation increase in frequency. Your org should consider creating a pre-composed (and regularly updated) SSAE 16 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSAE_16) to avoid having to fill out unique assessment questionnaires for every request that comes in. It'll save you time and — unless you "go N/A crazy" on the SSAE 16 — should be accepted by any firm worth doing business with.
This headline is valuable in being so precisely mistaken.

I've been around Silicon Valley since the late 90s. It hasn't changed. What has changed is the amount of attention you can get by attacking it.

When Google was little, it seemed cute and inconsequential. To attack it would have seemed mean (and inconsequential). Now that Google is big, attacking it reads instead as "speaking truth to power." But Google is no more evil now than it was in the past. Which is not to say that Google was ever perfect, just that the change in reporters' attitudes toward it derives – whether the reporters realize it or not – from nothing more than its increased size.
One funny thing is that Emirates makes it look like they do care about security by implementing a surprisingly onerous Captcha requirement before Skywards login. I usually get it wrong a couple of times before I can get to my account -- lots of 6s that might be Gs, partially obfuscated 8s that might be 3s, etc.
Its interesting that if you have legacy baggage and technical debt, you can't NOT lock kids in cages for a whole day and all that industrial era foolishness, which would actually be pretty valuable if we ever get sent back thru a one or two century time warp. We have the best 1850 education system money can buy; of course its useless in 2010s but whatever.

At least for boys, if you grassroots up from first principles and implement what works pragmatically, rather than what we've always done or whats in the union contract, you end up with something like cub scouts or boy scouts.

Given the wildly divergent goals of school and scouts, where school exists to perpetuate and expand the bureaucracy and scouts exists because organized screwing around provides more learning opportunities than disorganized screwing around, they will continue to diverge until they're unrecognizable. But at least in theory boys learn at both organizations. Much more at boy scouts than at school of course, but they are kinda similar.

There exist merit badges in boy scouting for semi-academic topics like electricity or programming. The time investment has to be limited but its intellectually interesting to imagine that someday the only way to teach a boy geometry would be a boy scout geometry merit badge. Unimaginable amounts of time and money will be spent in schools on a line item named "geometry" but the legacy school system does not have any goal of teaching boys geometry so ironically thats the one thing boys will definitely not learn in geometry class, they'll have to go to scouts to learn.

I have no personal experience with girl scouts because of their "no male leadership" rule, which is about as appropriate as the now removed "no gay leadership" rule in boy scouts; My lack of praising girl scouts is due to a lack of girl scout experience not implying its bad or wrong. Its possible, even likely, girl scouts is just as good for girls. I do find the ratio bizarre where per capita girl scouting is around ten times less popular than boy scouts, that might indicate a problem in girl scouting.
I assume with two cameras on the back, it would be possible to create a stereo video stream and implement a transformation as you described.
Backpropagation was first applied to Neural Networks over 30 years ago

[Rumelhart, David E.; Hinton, Geoffrey E.; Williams, Ronald J. (8 October 1986). "Learning representations by back-propagating errors". Nature]
In places like LA it only took a few decades from the late 1800s on. Almost like China now.
There is no one true Islam.

To get a peacful Islam, all you need is a shift in pereception. Start seeing things allegorically and whatnot. Christianity could do it. Islam can do it. In fact it did. Check out Sufism.

I do consider the Sufis as part of the larger Umma. But not all islamic sects do. The differences often serve as an excuse for war.
To me, the increase in recent years appears largely due to autocorrect.
Your "About Me" page has information that would be considered very private/PII in the 21st century.
I have been using a OpenBSD system as my living room "media" computer for a while. Before that it was a Linux system. I have to discuss sndiod (the mixer daemon) as that is the interface that is normally used and it has the same API as the underlying sound drivers.

Comments:

1. There was a learning curve. You put all your default configuration in the /etc/mixerctl.conf file. After boot you use the mixerctl command to change anything you need to change. In my case I never use the mixerctl command as everything just works by using the per application volume controls. I have the master volume mapped to some function keys but I never use them.

2. The Sndio drivers, at least for my hardware, simplify the interface. That had good and bad results over the previous ALSA interface. The bad was that there were missing features. The good is that it was possible to actually figure out how to use regular audio. I was never able to figure out how to configure 5.1 audio properly on ALSA due to the ridiculous complexity of the onboard HD audio exposed through ALSA. When I moved to OpenBSD I was able to get rid of the extra sound card (which OpenBSD did not support).

3. The addition of sndiod (the mixer daemon) is for all practical purposes transparent. You get a single volume control per app and that is that. The hardware mixer controls are effectively hidden in a useful way. There is nothing like the separate ALSA hardware controls you have to mess with when you use Pulseaudio.

4. Once you set up your audio inputs (which are also done in a transparent way through sndiod) you are done. So when I pick up the mic to talk on mumble I expect that I will be heard, even if I have rebooted. Compared to my experience on Linux, this feels like witchcraft.

5. Sndio through sndiod has network transparency that is done in a fairly transparent way. You just add on a server name when specifying the device name. I use this functionality for a whole house audio system where the target is a sndiod running on a Linux system using ALSA as the backend. Debian has a sndiod package now.
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> It's not rewritten.

Don't the apocrypha make that a bit more complicated?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha
The idea that culture matters, has to be censored, seems a little harsh in context of the article.
Absolutely agree with you, having been a digital marketer and later Product Manager for an Airline, I realized the ill-effects of mindlessly using tools to "crack" the secret sauce of heightened UX and hence increased revenue stream. Would I do it today? No. Would a CMO push for third party trackers? Hell, Yes. The onus lies on CTO to evaluate products, third party tools against a checklist that also covers User-Data protection as one of the bullet points.
I hope Facebook should pay a lot to EU and in fine. This will be great.

I hope that the GDPR don't end like the cookie law, because the result of this law is more annoying people with alert about that you accept cookie.
Check out rocket fiber though
> GPS is difficult [...]

How about dedicated GPS receiver connected with bluetooth? I used to carry
one, it worked well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Also I just realized that the Biblical saying “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” is literal whataboutism as well
You'll be the shortest 1% on the planet due to non-natural factors.
I don't know about LinuxDevices.com, but have you looked at the Neo900 project? They're updating the internals of the Nokia N900, and their plans include fixing the USB connector. Even though their specs won't be brand new, I think its a quite interesting project as it will be libre software from the bootloader up, and they're designing the circuits to be able to definitely power off the GSM chip from the CPU, so that you can control it, not vice verse (since there's no libre GSM chips available).
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An oft reposted link, but it's a good story to remind ourselves of each time.
From what I have heard LA could support around one million people naturally along a very thin strip along the coast. Certainly not the number of people there now.

It's also not a desert climate but "arid mediterranean climate".
Market pressures take care of that when they exist. Networking is a pure commodity business, you can squeeze a lot of cost out of it, but in the absence of competition the providers get fat, lazy and rich.

Once you deliver the fiber, the marginal cost of increasing port speed is a rounding error as you do routine infrastructure refresh.

Where I work, we’re increasing many wan links to 10Gb because the cost is marginal at scale. In some cases, it can save money versus an older slower tech!
And surely not all links are HN-worthy. So it is more logical to "watch" HN, and once it gets posted, enable the comment section. or "add to HN" to comment.
> There must be an anti-pattern that describes this kind of behavior...

Sounds like a cowboy coder.
Pro tip: don't call your people “high maintenance”
How difficult is it to use/implement as a 3D scanner (3d modeling)?
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I guess I can't go forward without reiterating the argument, so I guess I'll stop. But, I think considering it easy is naive, considering the mountain of experience to the contrary.

Some things are hard to solve with laws.
It is possible that a ball can be hit out of a stadium and not be returned (but it is usually very rare due to stadium sizes and layouts).

If that happens they have a tray of prepared balls of different states, then they'll select one that most closely matched the previous one's condition/age etc.
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Yes, the sound emitted from the soundbar during calibration was almost the same sound as in that video.
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Not that I'm aware of. The only phone project I know that's trying to run libre software from the bootloader up is the Neo900 (new internals in a Nokia N900 case). And in the case of the GSM module, if I understand correctly, they're designing a circuit that guarantees you can power it off from the CPU. So basically, their architecture is to not trust the modem, since its running proprietary software.
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You know what I mean. It's like checking for poison after you eat the entire pie.
Where I live is irrelevant as this speaks to the point that "profit-focused corporations can't provide the same quality of service.". They can and do all the time. Maybe not in France and maybe not in USA - but the for profit model works just fine here. Why it works so well some places and not at all in others is the real kicker.

And yes the problem is exceptionally high levels of corruption - but if the Govt does not have a self granted monopoly on providing services this provides some measure of containment for corruption and also means that you don't have to pay for everything twice as I have to do now.

And sure - I would like to have a non corrupt govt - but that won't happen ever. So people who make this blatantly false statement that Govt services will always be superior from private services is just giving fuel to the cash grab perpetrated by the Govt of my country.

So yeah, thanks, I guess - thanks for giving the govt of my country excuses for looting even more money - like they needed any to begin with.
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Surprising part is that even on HN people disagree with "hackers should be judged by his/her hacking".
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I believe it is generally considered unwise to attach your authentication token to the URL, as it's highly likely to end up in a bunch of access logs.
The average "African" is not "predisposed to be taller" that is just a stereotype. Mainland Chinese people tend to be taller actually than the average West African.

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_human_height_w...

African Americans on average are taller, but that is probably due to environmental differences and selection bias (slavery etc).

I would suspect mainland Chinese people are much taller than they used to be due to improvements to nutrition.
Unfortunately, military use of radioactive elements doesn't stop at bombs. Today's use of depleted uranium - because of its elusiveness - is in some sense worse than the use of atomic/hydrogen bombs. (BTW, only USA uses DU!)

People of Iraq, Libya, Serbia (including Kosovo and Metohija), Bosnia, Afghanistan, Syria (and neighboring countries) but also soldiers that were/are part of the occupational force there are sick and dying of cancer and leukemia.
Fair enough, though as a computer scientist my statistics training was also awful. I actually tried several different stats professors' courses before I found one where I managed a barely passing grade. They all taught terribly and preferred solving meaningless integrals to teaching statistical techniques, applications, and intuition. /rant as well
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That'd be my option as well, but more as a workaround for a device that I really wanted otherwise but didn't have GPS for some reason and not as "that's the setup I want". If I were to carry a GPS tracker anyways sometimes (e.g. when I don't have a phone with me), then it might be different.
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Your comment landed kind of spammy, is it a free course?
I think "his late 80's" seems more likely. The GP post mentions his grandfather fighting in the Boer War (~1900) which would make him almost 110 years old in the late 80's
Not quite the same effect. The 3DS does have an actual 3D image, but you only get a fixed view of it, since the viewing angle for seeing 3D was very narrow. This is fake 3D (hence Trompe l'Oeil), but lets you view the "3D" object from a wide range of angles, since it works via head tracking.

Both have their advantages, but they're not the same thing.

That being said, the Nintendo DSi (the predecessor to the 3DS) did have a trompe l'oeil 3D game, called "Looksley's Line Up". It had a ton of charm, but the DSi's camera wasn't powerful enough to support the feature well. For whatever reason (price), Nintendo sticks with low quality cameras. Still, I've always hoped that Looksley's Line Up will eventually make its way to another system.
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>Turkey is richer (per capita) than many EU member states.

To be precise: than 2 of them, Bulgaria and Romania. Out of the 28.

https://www.google.de/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&m...
Literally the only purpose of the notch is to provide space for the god-dammed technology in the phone.
I thought “The Borgias” with Jeremy Irons was fantastic.
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You're not really doing Agile until you're meticulously tracking each hour spent. If this sort of thing helps, so be it. But those hours have to get into JIRA somehow.
I think companies have to become more evil or oppressive the bigger they get. They turn from nimble, innovative and disruptive to dominant and mainly maintaining the status quo. Happened to google, Microsoft, Apple and lots of others.

I think the current backlash comes mostly from the fact that Google got a lot of good PR out of slogans like "don't be evil" until it turned out that they are just another greedy big corporation.
Flagship phones in 2018 will all have glass backs, whether we like it or not
Well, given the Snowden leaks and knowing the forced complacency with government surveillance, I think that people are just waking up to just how invasive technology is in our lives.

The direction we're moving towards seems to be one in which Amazon controls what you can buy by blocking out competing products. Google controlling what you can learn by censoring results based on politics. Facebook controls which news you read by allowing for purchased content. It may be related to the size of the company, but I think it's more related to the general conscientiousness of society as a whole and the awareness of how dangerous these companies are.