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> If you want no more hackers in 20 years you should give your kids devices so locked down they can't do anything.

Sure, but for the average person iPads are devices that are so locked down that they can't really do anything.

People herald the original iPhone as a revolution, but don't seem to realise what kind of revolution. Its main innovation appeared to be the touch-screen interface, but aside from the flexibility this gave for UI design, what this mainly meant was that all of its surface could be turned into a screen.

The actual edge it had over the competition is that it was hyper-optimised as a consumption device, a pocket television so people can sell you more crap (oh sorry, "apps") any time of the day, any place in the world. The device itself is a perfect billboard.

The iPhone and iPad are designed to appear as having impressive, magical, hard to grok technology under the hood that allows ease of use at the surface. Apple consciously seals the majority of people off from the actual power within, except through buying apps. By default, an iPhone either lets you consume, or create media for consumption yourself via photos and videos. Just think about how much less freedom you have to tinker with your phone on iOs compared to Android as an end-user (and let's not even talk about the demise of Nokia). You have to fully buy into the Apple ecosystem and become an app developer. Because my goodness we can't have people actually be empowered to fully use their computers, can we?

Alan Kay has described modern computers and their interfaces as bikes encrusted in gold bling and jewels compared to the "bikes" of twenty, thirty years ago, but we're still stuck with the training wheels[0]. I say this definitely applies to iOs.

And if we accept that iOs hardware is mainly designed to be used as a consumption device, that its success comes from being that portable TV (and don't misunderstand: I do have problems with that being the case), then the demands of the author of the article are perfectly sensible, especially if you keep discussions like [1][2] in mind. I doubt you would protest if instead of an iPad, the article described a portable TV with YouTube.

EDIT: corrections

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsy9Lotcdbg

[1] https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-in...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16783748
TL;DR - Thousands of extremely unpleasant videos have been published to Youtube for Kids where they have got billions of views. In many cases the videos have expensive production methods such as stop motion. Youtube has been aware of the videos since 2015. Here is an informative video on the topic.

Just a heads up, there are disturbing content and themes here. This topic is not for the feint of heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32X45J-MRUE
I think that I don't need to educate what is blockchain. Could you give me another decentralized role-playing game which isn't using blockchain? If you can not, it is explained. Right? :)
I see. That is very interesting, thank you. I also believe there's something really wrong with our society, and unpleasant and ill things are being normalised little by little by the media (youtube is the media too!), etc. It's frightening to think too that people will get fed up and the pushback will really be ugly.
cheaper than vimeo ?
Honestly, fuck you. If you can’t understand why impressionable 16/17-year-olds, who have been told their entire lives that they have to go to college or else they’ll just wind up flipping burgers, might make a financial mistake like this, then you clearly have your head planted firmly up your ass.
Good to hear!
Here is a paper I wrote begining of this year:
http://liberit.ca:43110/1PLUkrWc9KGrj3d8BaPctpC3CbrXtspHq2/p...
I wish I had the power to bully giant multinationals.
That link is broken, but if it's the paper I think it is, the key result is that you can extend safe Rust with safe components that do use `unsafe` as long as you are able to prove these components to be sound.

The same is not true of neither C nor assembly, and there are already soundness proofs of most unsafe components in the standard library available, which means that safe Rust + the standard library is sound. With safe Rust + the standard library there are almost no data-structures that you can't write.
> Honestly, California is the only state where I'd unabashedly recommend this path though. The community colleges are consistently good, you have multiple choices in terms of top tier public universities, and transfer students are given priority.

The are curriculum-design rules at the 4-year state schools in CA to smooth the transition too, which I think is fairly unusual. When I was working at UC Santa Cruz, my department proposed a new degree program, and an important part of the overall proposal was to show that there would be ways to fulfil the first two years of credit requirements (plus the prereqs for years 3/4) via courses commonly offered at in-state community colleges, so you could transfer in and still graduate on time. This does complicate design of certain kinds of curricula (it tends to discourage course sequences that strongly build on each other), but gives students more options.
OT but why were you going out to sealand? Did you have server racks there?
Excellent CSS-in-JS library #CSSinJS
It's weird, recently a solar plane circumnavigated the globe, but got very little publicity.
Kubrick shot it using Super Panavision 70 film and it's supposed to be seen in theatre for the immersive experience. Sadly there are only a handful of theaters that can screen 70mm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_70_mm_films

I love to geek out on this film so this thread is a welcome respite.
I wouldn't go that far. I often see cited that 60%+ Of commits on Github come from Macs.
Not even lately, as it's a long recurring pattern. Very relevant story:

I was in Cleveland in 1989 at the time of the Tiananmen Square massacre, where 10,000 student protesters were killed [1]. At the time, we know there were many deaths through word of mouth (our Chinese students stayed in touch with friends and family back home) but nobody knew the actual numbers. So we held a local protest to support them, lots of white and Chinese students, in downtown Cleveland. There were Chinese men in sunglasses and trench coats with long-lens cameras taking pictures of everyone present. The Chinese students told us they were government political officers, keeping tabs on them, and they were accustomed to seeing them. They feared retribution on their families back home, and on themselves if they went back home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1...

PS. When asked, at the time, why a billion people don't stand up, a common reply was "such a people deserve such a government." At the time they were largely agrarian and pre-internet; only people with good information or who had travelled abroad knew how bad they really had it.
>The US, and consequently the western democracies

How is that? To me it seems Europe very much has the moral high ground.
The Casiquiare canal (it's natural, despite its name) connects the Orinoco and Amazon river systems during peak waterflow system. That's #4 and #1 in terms of discharge, and they don't form a clean water divide.
Africa is physically splitting into two continents according to Geologists
Yes, if someone should be paying for random medical tragedy, that's a discussion that should happen at government-scale such as with subsidized insurance, not something pushed around like an externality or hot potato.
Комбинации всех символов в разном регистре до 5 знаков – Тематические словари
So there are many hacker type comments below. And I somewhat agree with them. My kids use an Ubuntu box where while they are not sudoers they can do what a user can.

The tablets (android) are different. For one the age can be much younger. My 2 yr old can play with the tablet, but I don't think giving her access to settings is going to
help make her into a hacker. Ability to read makes a big difference between iPad and computer.

I will also note that giving your kids access to scratch and python is far more likely to build the next generation of hackers than having access to iOS settings.
When a clot blocks off blood flow to an area of the brain you expect that area to die and, as a result, lose its function (“clinical deficit”). The blockage is an infarct; the downstream area suffocating is infarcted.

When you look at the area of brain that should be downstream of a clot and therefore nonfunctional, that’s the “infarct volume”. It’s the volume of brain that we believe is infarcted.

The “mismatch” is when we do a CT, find that, say, the chunk of your brain that moves your right hand is downstream from the infarct, but your right hand is still working. This suggests that that part of your brain has enough blood coming to it from other, less salient, arteries that it’s dying slowly instead of fast.

That “mismatch” area is the one that, if we can go in and surgically pull out the clot, we can save.
Agree, this said the "dot don't matter" is also an awful thing. I'd rather have gmail create a real alias system instead of this hack. That's the thing that is good with Yahoo.mail, it has real alias system.
Try empathizing instead of merely sympathizing.
In fighting homeless camp, Irvine's Asians win, but at a cost
That’s likely true. They produced the 10,000th 737 in March, so if each plane were airborne eight hours a day (not unrealistic for commercial planes), two thirds of all 737s produced could be out of service to get at that 1000 ⇒ I would guess that actual number is closer to 2000, possibly even over iT.
Why do we like Conways game of life? Why are we interested in AI-generated art?

I found the outcomes delightful and hilarious (there are lots of photos in one of the other sites linked to from the article).

Perhaps more interesting is the collaboration between humans and AI to turn the AI's "imagination" into something that physically exists.
It's not paradoxical at the extremes, but rather in how it goes against the beliefs that many people put into practice. 'I need to go in to the office this weekend because I have a lot to get done.'--'I had to pull an all-nighter to get the project done.'--'I stay late a few nights a week to make sure I get all my work done.'

Incidentally, in all three of those examples I suspect the advantage comes from working when fewer people are available to distract you, but the implication is always that you get more work done by spending more time doing it, which is being refuted as a valid concept for knowledge work.
ThinkPads are great value for money especially if you pair them with the latest Linux kernels. Lots of ThinkPads are Ubuntu certified. I recently bought a T480 and Bionic runs flawlessly on it.
My son loves YouTube kids (my daughter not so much) but luckily we haven’t come up against Elsagate yet. He’s simply too dorky with his video choices. He has learned all about astronomy through YTK and most recently he has learned all the American presidents from YTK videos.

I am surprised that there’s no whitelisting though. Looks like we’re going all the way back to the original Yahoo days with their curated list of acceptable web site lists.
Man in charge of half the internet, who can never be fired from his job learning
My favourite author talking about my second favourite author, discussing my favourite movie. Truly a rare treat.
A Phone Setup That Will Make You More Mindful
Is that what they teach trolls at the IT cell? Because that's the same thing bhakts and idiots have said me and never do they have a valid rebuttal for my points.

So let me be clear, my friend, unless you can prove that my points are wrong, you are the one who believes the "Powerful if true, Ram Bhagwan really travelled to Himalayas, forward it to 100people amd let Mudiji win"

And since you brought up the point of Whatsapp forwards, pray copy paste the forwards you get your information out of
I bought a discounted Bebop 1 (well below $200) about the time it was replaced with the Bebop 2. It's got GPS (albeit not an especially good one) and RTH. My reason for buying (apart from the discount) was that it's immensely hackable. Although, to hack it you need to practically deactivate the built-in control software. That's not as bad as it sounds, as there is working open source control software available, which you can use as a starting point for your own experiments. So, if you should stumble over some shop that is still trying to rid themselves of their old Bebop 1s, you might want to take it into consideration.
All the CCs in my area have direct transfer agreements with their state universities and some private colleges.

For state uni's they have a two year plan where all the credits transfer and you start as a junior.

A lot of the out-of-state uni's also list courses on their websites that will directly transfer so you can check if you're planning to attend later.
Using a web app requires one to upload their file 100% of the time. Using a local app requires one, I'd expect, to upload their file 0% of the time.
I grew up around Washington DC which had some fine large screen theaters. One had a curved screen (the Uptown, IIRC, movies were all in 70mm format) so if you sat in the first few rows, the screen almost wrapped around you. IMHO, the only way to appreciate some of these great movies (2001, Lawrence of Arabia, How the West Was Won) is to see them on a large screen. IMHO, you just don't get to see how spectacular the cinematography is when you watch on a TV or a small screen theater. Unfortunately, most of the large screen theaters have disappeared.
This may seem like a silly question, but does anyone know why the alphabet seems to flip from 500 bce (ancient Latin) to 1 ce (Roman)?
or I'll release source code after 2 weeks later. At that time, you can see how it works exactly.
Am I misremembering, but I thought in Jared Diamond's GGS, the claim was made (and fairly well substantiated IIRC) that although writing was invented independently in several places around the planet, the (concept of an) alphabet was only invented once, and basically was propagated outwards.

It's an appealing idea, not least because it seems so bizarre.
MOOCs have been developing en masse for the last 6-7 years. What, aside from the obvious associates degree at completion and an accelerated pathway to a bachelors degree from a 4-year program, does community college provide that MOOC micro-programs do not? It seems reasonable to assume that MOOC service providers are establishing pathways to undergraduate programs just as community colleges do. Are the value gaps narrowing?
F-Droid is down
Why is it okay for the link on the email to automatically sign you into your Netflix account? I received a similar email as well and suspected a phishing attempt and was genuinely surprised when it wasn't.
Just more ratcheting up of the new cold war propaganda justifying a new iron curtain the west is trying to build to shield from intergration with russia and china's multi-polar world, dangerous times ahead be aware that we are now closer to nuclear war than ever before.
obligatory cstross Accelerando excerpt:

> Manfred is jolted awake by the hotel room phone shrilling for attention.

> "Hello?" he asks, fuzzily.

> "Manfred Macx?" It's a human voice, with a gravelly east coast accent.

> "Yeah?" Manfred struggles to sit up. His mouth feels like the inside of a tomb, and his eyes don't want to open.

> "My name is Alan Glashwiecz, of Smoot, Sedgwick Associates. Am I correct in thinking that you are the Manfred Macx who is a director of a company called, uh, agalmic dot holdings dot root dot one-eight-four dot ninety-seven dot A-for-able dot B-for-baker dot five, incorporated?"

> "Uh." Manfred blinks and rubs his eyes. "Hold on a moment." When the retinal patterns fade, he pulls on his glasses and powers them up. "Just a second now." Browsers and menus ricochet through his sleep-laden eyes. "Can you repeat the company name?"

> "Sure." Glashwiecz repeats himself patiently. He sounds as tired as Manfred feels.

> "Um." Manfred finds it, floating three tiers down an elaborate object hierarchy. It's flashing for attention. There's a priority interrupt, an incoming lawsuit that hasn't propagated up the inheritance tree yet. He prods at the object with a property browser. "I'm afraid I'm not a director of that company, Mr. Glashwiecz. I appear to be retained by it as a technical contractor with non-executive power, reporting to the president, but frankly, this is the first time I've ever heard of the company. However, I can tell you who's in charge if you want."

> "Yes?" The attorney sounds almost interested. Manfred figures it out; the guy's in New Jersey, it must be about three in the morning over there.

> Malice – revenge for waking him up – sharpens Manfred's voice. "The president of agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.AB5 is agalmic.holdings.root.184.97.201. The secretary is agalmic.holdings.root.184.D5, and the chair is agalmic.holdings.root.184.E8.FF. All the shares are owned by those companies in equal measure, and I can tell you that their regulations are written in Python. Have a nice day, now!" He thumps the bedside phone control and sits up, yawning, then pushes the do-not-disturb button before it can interrupt again. After a moment he stands up and stretches, then heads to the bathroom to brush his teeth, comb his hair, and figure out where the lawsuit originated and how a human being managed to get far enough through his web of robot companies to bug him.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
The site https://f-droid.org/ currently shows:

Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

This look more like a configuration error than anything else.
Why Some People Get 'Skin Orgasms' from Listening to Music
I'm supposing that this comes up in the context of people complaining about Apple. It's interesting to see an example of a company which basically chained itself to backwards compatibility and a sort of focus-group dedication to what "pro" users wanted, and ended up losing the "pro" market as a result (to a company that willfully broke compatibility and developed something nobody seemed to be asking for).
The solution is not an iPad feature. It’s you deciding to be a good parent.
Some more factors not mentioned in the blog:

- Canon came out with Image Stabilization lenses first and had a 3 to 4 year head start on Nikon. (Arguably, Nikon invented VR Vibration Reduction first but they didn't beat Canon to market by making professional lenses immediately.) This started the mass exodus of professionals to Canon and caused the "sea of white lenses" you see at every sports event.[1]

- Canon bet on in-house CMOS technology for sensors instead of Nikon's strategy of partnering with Sony (and Kodak). Canon iterated faster on their digital cameras. In 2002, Canon had a very well-received 1ds full-frame digital while Nikon only offered a body for Kodak's horrible Dcs Pro 14n. Nikon didn't have their own full-frame camera until 2007. In technology races, 5 years is an eternity. Although the most expensive camera is never the best-selling product, any leadership position in the top-of-the-line camera can be leveraged and its features can trickle down to the cheaper mass-market cameras.

- Canon was the bigger company with other profitable product domains outside of cameras such as photocopiers, video camcorders, printers, etc. (E.g. Canon made the imaging engine for both Apple LaserWriter and HP LaserJet.) This allowed them to plow more capital and investments back into the camera division. Nikon also some other domains such as scientific microscopes and film scanners but they were less profitable.

In the film days, Nikon definitely had the perception of being the "Ferrari" of cameras but the shift to digital allowed Canon to take the lead.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q="telephoto+lenses"+sports+ev...
We are not there yet, but we're on the track. Simple answer. It's especially hard to digest hard-to-quantify / qualified data, like text. And the world is run by people, people are run by emotions and we're not there yet to understand it good enough to let an AI make the right decisions. AI can help to make decisions, manage economically, but AI can not lead.
Which MOOCs give you credit that transfer to a 4 year university?
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, as I have no experience with helicopters or scuba diving. But wouldn't it be easier and dramatically safer to just keep emergency scuba equipment onboard that might give you ~15 minutes or so of breathable air to give you time to deal with the situation? Full scuba tanks might be impractical, but something with a small supply of air probably wouldn't take up that much space.
For me community college was the pathway to the middle class. I went to several community colleges in the Los Angeles area (due to affordability, proximity, availability of classes) and then transferred to the UC system. I had 0 support besides the Cal Grant/Pell grant and my part time job

My kids will be strongly urged to go to community college, and I recommend it to everyone I'm close to. I may have missed out on college friendships, but I moved away after college anyway. I had about $13k loan debt at the end of 4 years, and I paid that off 2 years later even though it took me 9 months to land a job (because I didn't study CS and went for web development)
What happened to þ?
Let's count the number of people assassinated by the Chinese government and the CIA, shall we?
How about IPFS? OpenBazaar is an IPFS case study. They recently released a revamped v2 built with Go.
I realise this is an Apple-centric (refer "posted in apple" in the footer) blog post, but there's 21 'ipad' and 0 'tablet' references, so it seems very much like an anti-Apple dig ... which is fairy nuff, but I suspect the same claims can be made about almost any generic consumer device these days.

I note that none of these concerns applied to my initial computing devices.
GDN is not the only piece of business that'll be impacted by strong user privacy. Search and YT will also be impacted, given there's ability to buy ads based on users being in-market for a product/service etc [1]

You can also be targeted with ads based on emails you receive in Gmail - it was possible to target down to keywords in emails, but that was discontinued. Now, the emails you receive, domains your getting them from etc. influence signals, that puts you into an 'audience' that can be used for targeting across the Google network.

Without the ability to do targeting, or personalization, as Google calls it, their business will fall apart. Everything they do is geared to collecting more information about users to improve "personalization" - from Google Assistant, to Google Home [2]. It's so advanced that your experience (results) on their platfrom, especially within Search -- will be unique to you.

Google will fight alongside AT&T, Comcast, etc to protect their business model, in-fact Google is trying to reach their ranks with the 5G war [3]

[1] https://searchengineland.com/google-adwords-in-market-audien...

[2] https://twitter.com/benthompson/status/864293485439893505

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/google-le... - (search for: Spectrum Access System )
Tectonics would like a word with you
> Facebook does contribute to efforts to improve our digital lives, including one on youth education at the center I co-founded.

Why isn't this disclosed at the top of the article?
Which is why I said "more like".

Can you give examples of this "much much more" you're referring to?
In Wisconsin you could transfer all classes from the two year schools to the 4 year schools and the pricing was definitely much better. I don't know for sure if that is still the case though. But it also had the advantage of being taught by the actual professor and not some TA.

When I transferred to a private school I was a bit older so they really gave some leeway in how they transferrey credits. I am guessing they would not have done the same for a 19 year old though
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