skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big issue is that our society faces massive challenges wrt. population growth, climate change, environmental stress, technical change and population crashes over the next two centuries. To make it through these it will need a lot of its members to do a lot of creating and experimenting. The complete loss of privacy will chill these efforts and prevent the rapid adaptions that I believe are necessary.
> This is what cancer cells do: Proliferate without limit, avoid cell death, monopolize resources, co-opt the labor of other cells, and destroy the surrounding environment.

Rings a bell
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Not widely known - MSFT was throwing around cash at developers and brands to make apps for windows phone. Even providing developer shops to code it.

MSFT handed us a check and a dev shop to pay with it. We designed the app in their ui paradigm and had fun doing it. Had enough money left over to take the team out for a fancy dinner when it was all done.
From the article cited regarding the YouTube app developed by Microsoft:

> The problems with that, according to Google, are three: the app enables users to download YouTube videos, prevents ads from being shown, and plays videos whose owners have set to only play on certain platforms. Microsoft’s app, Google says, violates the YouTube terms of service, and uses the YouTube logo in a way that contravenes the company’s branding guidelines.

Is this just an excuse used by Google, or did they really have these features? Because I could understand why Google doesn't want a service to demonitize their service. Why wouldn't Microsoft just remove those features? It seems like a reasonable response.
Yep! I think this point is sometimes underemphasized as NixOS has some rough edges and its users tend to get carried away and geek out about how it works.

But it's a great platform for fearless experimentation, because it's so easy to revert any change you later decide was undesired.
Kotlin is a better Java, or simpler Scala. Simpler can be better for plenty of teams, especially for those coming from Java. But I'll not be switching any time soon.
Not all homicides are premeditated. So it's not always gun or something worse, sometimes it's gun or be alive. Also, that gun is the better death is again not a certainty.
> The amount of "bullying and abuse" by the US is grossly overstated.

How so? I don't think so. AFAICS - and I lived in the US for a decade and would do so again, I have no beef with the country, just saying what I think I see/know - the US has always been an expansionist and later empire-seeking country at least for significant (i.e. with enough influence) parts of the powerful.

It's hard to prove or disprove your 2nd paragraph claim since we cannot have the experiment. I think that while you can certainly (as always) find plenty of examples in support the opposing side won't have any difficulties either. Overall the statement is way too fuzzy and broad to be either attackable or supportable.

> Multipolarity means warfare and carnage on a scale much greater than anything we've seen

Sounds like a vote for a global dictatorship to me.
Same here. I wanted to add that even in 2000 with a Handspring Visor PDA running Palm OS you could sync with the Internet (news, maps, etc ) when it was in the cradle attached to your pc. There was an app where you could manually tell it your location (street intersection) and it would show you restaurants near you. A coworker had a “Ricochet” cellular modem for his Palm device and he would send emails from the Caltrain. This was in 1999-2000. For me, we had versatile computers with apps in our pocket 18 years ago, the difference now is high-bandwidth, cheap, ubiquitous wireless data everywhere you go.
In fairness, despite Windows Mobile being positively ancient, the constant reboot of Windows' mobile OS, even once it was called Windows Phone, was a contributing factor: customer confusion, developer confusion, variability of upgrade paths, and just market fatigue.
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If we kept inflation close to zero (or negative) wealth would tend to concentrate in fewer and fewer hands, and the bias would be toward idle rentiers. People like property landlords would get unbelievably rich by collecting mandatory continuous rent payments. Since deflating currency holds or increases in value they'd have zero incentive to do anything with it other than hoard it. Eventually you end up with a landed nobility.

Add to this the fact that deflating currency makes loans hard to service and biases the lending market toward default. This further decreases the incentive for those with a lot of currency to lend it since the probability of losing it to default becomes higher.

The ideal is probably a little bit of inflation. I think it's possible that we have too much, and that we are misinformed about that because we are measuring the wrong things. I'm not positive but I seem to remember that the CPI does not include things like rent and college tuition, which if true is utterly insane and makes it a bogus statistic.
I find this comment extremely sexist.
1. Ring is a GNU project (see https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html#ring).

It is mainly developed by Savoir-faire Linux. A free software consulting company based in Montreal: https://savoirfairelinux.com

2. It is fully decentralized. OpenDHT is the backbone of the network. Calls are made using the sip protocol and are initialized with ICE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_Connectivity_Estab...).

Some situations require extra nodes:
- If ICE can't open a connection with: ip-to-ip, UPNP, udp hole punching, it will revert to using a TUN/STUN server hosted by Savoir-faire Linux. Note that you can configure your own TURN/STUN server in the Ring settings.

- The first time that Ring connects to the network, it needs a "bootstrap server". A bootstrap server isn't really a super node, it is just a "know active node". Every DHT-supporting bittorrent client supports this. Note that you can point ring to another bootstrap server in the settings.

- Ring uses an optional blockchain (ethereum) based service to register usernames. This isn't part of all ring nodes by default. It has to be installed separately and then you must point your ring client to it. You can chose not to use usernames if you want and call people with their full RingID instead.

3. We have several clients, all of them use native frameworks.
- GNU/Linux: GTK
- Android: native android libraries
- Mac: native mac libraries
- Windows UWP: native UWP libraries
- Windows win32: native win32 libraries
- IOS: native ios libraries

4. Ring (sflphone) was released in 2004. At first, it was a SIP softphone app. It only became decentralized a few years ago. However, the app still supports SIP.

The development has been generously funded by Savoir-faire Linux since 2004 and there is no plan to stop. Savoir-faire Linux has taken every step to ensure that Ring remains free. Joining the GNU project, (2016) was one of these steps:
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2016-11/msg00001...
Always end up forgetting that Kareem is a great author in his own right with a multitude of inspirations and influences
Not necessarily, but such things can be.

Say I have a FB-based profiling system that will calculate the star rating alternative. It works slightly better than uber's current rating system. Ie, it's a better measure of how much you will like the driver. It also works before the driver takes his first fare. In fact, uber's minimum star rating policy can be used as a hiring/sign-up filter.

Would you consider such a thing dehumanising? Its essentially how insurance works, and is increasingly becoming a viable business MO.
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It's a bit strange to fault Google for killing Windows Phone while it was essentially users making that choice.

The article is looking at Windows Phone with a lot of rosy glasses. Sure, WP had tiles and neither iOS nor Android have them, but WP had been behind on tons of other features that Android users had been enjoying for years, starting with apps being able to call each other indirectly (the intent system).

WP failed because it was late in the game but also because overall, it was inferior to Android on most fronts.
Auth0 Security Bulletin CVE 2018-6874 – April 4, 2018
I think it is a mistake to think that what we "see" comes from our eyes rather than from a large, trained visual network in the brain. Consider, for instance, the behavior of the eye's blind spot, or the fact that we perceive objects in one plane of vision despite having two eyes. These effects can't come from just raw data.

Someone who hasn't learned/trained that processing is probably going to see something much more strange--do you think you would be able to differentiate between a sphere and a square by looking at hexdumps of bitmap files?
Slime molds are another excellent model for studying cheating. They're typically single cell organisms except when starved. Then they chemotax an aggregate into a multi-cellular organism. At this point they undergo sporulation, producing a stalk and a fruiting body. Cells in the stalk die while those in the fruit are hopefully whisked to greener pastures. When the slimes are homogeneous this works just fine. In a heterogenous setting all bets are off.

Cheater mutants have been widely observed and fall into two categories: obligatory and opportunistic cheaters. The obligatory cheaters refuse to participate in the stalk, while the opportunistic cheats preferentially segregate themselves into the fruit. It's easy to see how these behaviors might be beneficial. There's a double edge to obligatory cheating, though: in they cannot undergo sporulation.
Sorry to hijack, but the real hero in much of the progress described in the article and in mobile OS overall, is non other than Matias Duarte with webOS. Innovation includes features such as Synergy, Just Type, gesture bar and the card interface.

Highly suggest you watch the launch video from CES 2009:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw3cHOEnwTw
I think an interesting direction to take reading up on the subject is instead of it being the spread of sugar look into the spread of industrial seed oils and how much their intake has increased.
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> That said, today I use only a handful of apps and barely if ever explore new ones - I mainly only use Firefox, Lyft, a mail client, a reddit client, and photos. I see similar 'app fatigue' among my peers, so I wonder if Windows Phone would have fared better in today's mobile market.

I don't think so. While there's definitely some level of "App Fatigue", there's a lot of apps that users would never give up. e.g., WhatsApp, Facebook (& Messenger), Snapchat, CityMapper, Google Maps, any banking apps, just to name a few big names that would be used day-to-day. And then there's a lot of miscellaneous apps that I don't use regularly, but do use occasionally, like all the airline ones, or food delivery, or Trainline, or Taxi apps, etc.

The transport ones are notable because they make it really easy to add the ticket or boarding pass to the iOS Wallet, which means I have offline access to them (very important when travelling).

I think most users have found the subset of apps they really want, and don't have a pressing need to look for more, yes. However, the apps they do have, they would definitely miss if they were gone.

Now, a lot of those apps might not be necessary if the mobile web site integrated with the OS well enough (mostly notifications, mic/webcam access, Apple/Google pay equivalent, responsiveness), though some probably wouldn't. WhatsApp is a good example here - all the content is stored locally, on the phone. Making it a mobile website as the default option would go against what they are trying to offer (Signal is the same, I believe?).

But since none of the existing platforms offer full integration like that (AFAIK), there would probably have to be some extra work building out those features on the mobile site. And I guess that brings us full circle back to the "no one builds anything for Platform X because it has no users" problem?
No idea why you are being downvoted. A Red Queen's Race is exactly what's going on. Even without much currency inflation there is constant pressure for businesses to outgrow each other because... well... everyone else is doing it! It's exactly like the constant arms race that occurs between nations and forces them to constantly spend trillions of dollars on weapons that will mostly never be used.
> "Humans uniquely appreciate aesthetics, experiencing pleasurable responses to complex stimuli that confer no clear intrinsic value for survival."

It seems to me like music has a clear value for survival. Music is a type of cultural transmission (memory technique), and humans do sexually select for musical ability (ask a musician).[1] Groups that sexually selected for the ability to transmit oral knowledge through generations (via memorization, including things like meter, rhythms, melody, and rhyming) probably had a greater chance of survival. Before writing, people stored their cultures' encyclopedias in their minds, which often involved music in some way.[2] Cultures also organize around music, people follow the ideas of musicians, etc. Napoleon made some interesting comments about the active use of music in leadership and group behavior.[3] A prehistoric human with an ability to organize groups through music probably had a higher survival/reproduction rate in general, or at least benefited the group through organizational techniques.

[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735613482025

[2] https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/general-books/pop...

[3] "Of all the fine arts, music is the one which has the most influence on the emotions, and it is this influence which the legislator must encourage most warmly. A piece of "moral" music, one by the hand of a master, cannot fail to touch the heart and has much more influence than a good, "moral" piece of writing, which moves the mind but has no effect on our behaviour."
Yes, my use-case is more complex sadly. It's more about installing some scientific binaries which are generally really dirty to build, in a quick and easy way.

I need them to reproduce other papers so I cannot stay away, sadly.

I think a better FHS or Steam.Env would help me more.
What about their new webhooks API for notifications?

https://dev.twitter.com/webhooks
Yeah this is my understanding too. Quaker Oats for example wrote: "Yes, oats are naturally gluten-free. However, during farming, transportation and storage, gluten-containing grains like wheat, rye, barley and spelt may be unintentionally introduced."

Just like Sweden, in North America you can buy gluten free oatmeal that's made specifically to not include cross contaminates.
It started becoming a problem when Wal-Mart started offering cheap PC's, and they were running LindowsOS because there would be no profit margin if they paid $50 for a copy of Windows.
This feels like a modern day version of the PRC system where each residential block had a concierge (spy) who would spy on and denounce residents, and a group discussion session about behavior. Sorry, it’s been so many years that I can’t remember what this was called
New mobile chrome has the controls on the bottom. It's dumb. I'm using Firefox now.
One angle missing is accounting. Percentage makes it really easy — Tell me revenue earned on licensed devices in aggregate, without even revealing breakdown, and we know the royalty.
T-Mobile plaintext password data breach thought to be imminent
Most likely Apple would make a similar license arrangement with Bing.

But what would really be neat is if they bought DuckDuckGo instead, made it the search engine of choice, and expanded on it's abilities. Apple has quite a lot of cash to throw at such a problem and DDG would line up nicely with their stance on privacy.

I wouldn't be surprised if they've given something like that serious consideration. Much the way Google tries to break Apple's grip on high-end smartphones, Apple probably wants to keep some leverage of their own.
It's a shame that Windows Phone never took off. Microsoft are known for functional but clunky desktop software, but Windows Phone with the Metro UI is, in my view, one of their best UIs. It doesn't feel like a Microsoft product and it's quite refreshing that they took a different path from the UI approach of iOS and Android. The simplicity of the live tiles is a neat way of combining widget-like behaviour and launching an app. A single swipe from the home screen gave you a A-Z list of your installed apps (not a grid of icons like iOS and Android).

Contrast that with Android phone approach of separate app widgets, separate app icons and even separate home screens. If you love to tweak to the nth degree, you'll love such features. For the rest of us, it all feels stodgy and overcooked for a smartphone.

Interestingly, Windows Phone design guidelines contained ideas we'd also see later in Google's Material design guidelines e.g. such as the emphasis on animation as more than just mere decoration.

Here is a presentation from the Windows 7 design team that describes the new Windows Phone UI. It's from 2010:

https://www.slideshare.net/stevecla/windows-phone-ui-and-des...
I'm still using Windows Phone - an HP Elite x3. I always preferred it to Android but I've refused to use Apple products for many years and when I decided I was done with Google products I went back to Windows Phone. I'm not big on apps anyway and I've mostly found it a positive not being able to succumb to the temptation to install time wasting or privacy hating apps. The biggest inconvenience is not being able to use the app for one of our local car sharing services but there is an app for car2go so I've just been using them instead. The official LastPass app is really bad too but I get by with it.

Not sure yet what I'm going to do for my next phone. I've backed the Purism Librem 5 so holding out hope that will actually ship and be a usable option. Biggest challenge for me there would likely be not having WhatsApp or Telegram (Windows Phone still has both).
Can we stop calling these "REST" tools? They're just HTTP clients/tools. There's nothing "REST" about them.
Windows Phone was a beautiful platform for consumers and developers. What Samsung did for Android, Nokia Lumia line undid it for MS. Fautly hardware, devices with one major OS version lifespan, shipped late to the market.

Nokia is the company that got stuck in 2005.
To supplement and illustrate your claim about NixOS being easy to package for, I'd like to share an example:

I've been using NixOS more or less exclusively for ~2.5 years now. Whenever I want to run software on NixOS which is not already in Nixpkgs, I package it (if I want it bad enough). This week, for example, I packaged KSmoothDock so that I could try it out.

This is the whole thing:

{ mkDerivation, lib, fetchFromGitHub
, cmake, extra-cmake-modules
, plasma-framework, kwindowsystem }:

let
version = "5.9";
in

mkDerivation {
name = "ksmoothdock-${version}";
src = (fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "dangvd";
repo = "ksmoothdock";
rev = "v${version}";
sha256 = "1fbghyd079xk4q5na8msna5zkfg85c4ksyfqy524v2pm96dyl2dr";
} + "/src");

nativeBuildInputs = [
cmake
extra-cmake-modules
];

buildInputs = [
plasma-framework
kwindowsystem
];

postPatch = ''
substituteInPlace CMakeLists.txt \
--replace /usr/share/ share/
'';

}

It didn't feel like much work and I think it only took a few minutes. In this case, I was able to base the package definition on another 3rd-party dock for Plasma, so it was even easier than usual to get started. I just copied the other package and changed the package name and location of the source code, and everything worked. I then cleaned up by consulting the README for the project and removing as many extraneous dependencies as possible, and smoothed over a quirk, which was pretty painless.

Once you get a feel for the docs (and the Nixpkgs source, just because it's a treasure trove of examples), packaging for/with Nixpkgs is usually pretty easy, and the results pretty readable.

I should also add that the range of packages already included also seems to me to have improved a great deal over the years that I've been using NixOS. And I think once NixOS gains support for Snap packages and Flatpaks (the latter is in the works and has been making good progress recently), it will become a much more viable desktop OS for those unwilling or unable to deal with packaging the odd missing application.
I wonder if sites like google will launch their own orbital servers
My thoughts exactly! So, I programmatically name my campaigns per person, and I’ve still got perfect tracking.
None of the scenarios detailed in your 1st reference are an inherent vulnerability of SEDs it is describing vulnerabilities in the software that drives the SEDs or physical designs of the computers they are installed in. Also, reset attacks apply to software encryption as well as SED's.

Check out the sedutil project on Github it's an opensource implementation of software to manage SED's

https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil
> Am I just lucky?

The only one “lost” permanently (had many lost temporarily) was put on an earlier flight than mine. Fairly likely wasn’t lost by airline / airport, but rather stolen. Conveniently the cameras near that carousel weren’t working that day.
Facebook Is Adding Unsend Message Tool After CEO Caught Unsending
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread part of it is economic but part of it is also a macho business culture that views overwork as a status symbol. It's really bad in some professions. If we think engineers and tech businesspeople have it bad talk to an architect.
Jaguars Literally Cannot Resist Calvin Klein’s ‘Obsession for Men’
I am certainly not saying steak isn't more filling but just a random anecdote. As a dieted down currently lean person I ate 4000-6000 calories (all weighed to the gram) of steak/ground beef a day for a month no problem.
This was sufficient to gain a substantial amount of weight in that time. But figured id try the meat only thing being talked about in the last year on myself.
T-Mobile Austria customer service can access the first four characters of your password. They ask for your password over the phone for security purposes.

This indicates they are potentially storing passwords in plaintext or at the very least the first four characters.

I'm shocked by how Käthe of T-Mobile Austria responded. I would be surprised if she keeps her job.

> Excuse me? Do you have any idea how telecommunication companies work? Do you know anything about our systems? But I'm glad you have the time to share your view with us. ^Käthe
I have a Nokia 730 Dual Sim. I have had it for close to 3 years. Great build quality. I have dropped it several times and the phone is still intact (touch wood). Battery lasts over two days. Here Maps work just fine. The only downside is there are no user apps. No Firefox, no AnkiDroid, my bank doesn't have a Windows Phone app. Despite lack of apps I am content with the phone. I am trying to spend less time looking at my phone.
But you must specify for what target you compiling and typecheking for.
Savoir-faire Linux has been doing it with Ring (https://ring.cx) (initially sflphone) since 2004.

It turns out that the skills that the company has acquired by doing this pays back with consulting contracts.
I suppose a quick lookup to keybase for a gpg key (as it already asks for email), and then encryption with:

https://github.com/openpgpjs/openpgpjs

Would be one approach. Or, as a link is sent "out of band", I suppose one could simply provide a symmetric key in the email. Not as secure - but might be sufficient.