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Purism's privacy-focused phone will support Ubuntu Touch
> "We are hopeful that this transplant will help restore near-normal urinary and sexual functions for this young man." - W.P. Andrew Lee
Director, plastic and reconstructive surgery
As somebody who had an always on internet connected PDA back it times when most PDAs were black and white, I can say it will eventually pass. The sense of novelty will vanish, and the thing will not be as interesting when an average person first see it.
OpenAI, Allen Institute for AI, MIRI, etc. are quite successful in the AI industry. Those are all in the US and pay competitive salaries though. It seems to me that Salary is a primary driver here, why stay at Cambridge for 40k gbp/yr when you could do the same research at Google Brain for $200k+ but if those two numbers aren't so out of wack I think it becomes a much more difficult choice.
Announcing npm6
The Great Exodus Out of America’s Blue Cities
The allocation is for equipment within the packet radio network and, if you announce BGP, for your gateway connecting that equipment to the wider internet. I'm happy for UCSD to keep this block but I may be biased due to my participation in the network and general vicinity (~10mi) to the school itself.
Did you read the article? It's not about buying a flip phone, it's about turning your smartphone into a slightly dumber phone, to alleviate your brain's addiction to it.
This is one of the advantages of using a Windows Phone these days: fewer apps to tempt me into letting distractions creep onto my phone :-)
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Another more extreme step I've heard others take is to put their device in one of those locking cookie jars:

https://www.thekitchensafe.com
First they wanted to unlock my house. Now they want to unlock my car. Why does this feel creepy?
Personally, I would love a flip phone with a removable battery and a physical button on the side to turn WiFi hotspot functionality on/off -- with OFF being the default. Having a phone that you only need to charge once a week is a great feature!
It is very much in use - it may not all be visible to the public internet however.

If you said it was underutilized, you'd be correct.

But before we go after the hams, what about the absolutely massive address space held by the US DOD and related agencies? its literally 20x the size of the /8 held reserved for the ham community.
This is wonderful news. Let's hope they go after Google, MS, and all the other tax dodgers out there after this.
Flipboard goes all-in on tech coverage
Apple wants cheaper OLED panels from Samsung
Amazon should sell installable mailboxes that hold packages delivered by Amazon. Amazon can have the key to that.
I've moved the content of http://pymust.watch/ to Highlight in an effort to gradually build a better ecosystem around it. Keen to hear thoughts.
What strikes me as a paradox is the premise that answerers do not have time to 'do my homework' or 'Google that for me' but they do have time to understand my complex real-world constraints in enough detail to make this judgment for me, before answering a question that is a minuscule detail in my overall solution.
I've been implementing a similar regime on my smart phone for the last few months. After cracking a previous phone and resorting to a brick phone, I remembered how much I'd enjoyed the time I used to have with out a screen, either to read or just think.

I was eventually swayed back onto a smart phone after moving to a new city (for google maps) and now use that almost solely along with music, and occasionally chrome for fact-finding.

Would definitely recommend giving it a couple of months trial!
Allo also doesn't have encryption by default. It's considered only in "incognito" mode.
Who holds the review board accountable for making bad decisions vs the accountability of the courts? I think this question is just as important. Aside from that, I imagine it's far easier for a lobbyist to get someone who is industry friendly appointed to the review board vs appointed as a judge, which is concerning.
>amoral self-referential quantitative utility framework

My goodness, that's quite a phrase. What do you actually mean?
Why restrict it to Stanford? Why not include MIT, Berkeley, etc? BTW these are not CS lectures (all this startup stuff is not CS, like say algorithms, os internals, database systems, ML theory, etc)

EDIT: I like the idea very much, but not in its current form.
I'm pretty sure they do. I remember seeing something about community mailboxes Amazon was offering for this exact reason to apartment buildings and such.
>The YouTube channels for CNN and Fox News were heavily monetized during the Las Vegas shooting. I mean, these corporate YouTube channels increased the number of ads because they knew lots of people would be watching them. But at the same time, any smaller channels that even mentioned guns or shootings had large swaths of their videos demonetized.

I'm a little confused by what people mean when they say "monetized".

1. Are you saying that Youtube showed more ads with one group over the other?

2. Are you saying that because Youtube puts more ads on CNN videos that CNN is getting paid more?

Finally, unrelated to my questions, I am genuinely curious: Why do people think Google owes content creators anything? I am asking more in the down-to-earth legal sense, not in the nebulous realm of ethics. Did Google ever promise:

1. That you will get money if they show ads on your video?

2. That they will decide who gets ads/money based on a well defined criterion?

Essentially, I'm wondering why people think Google owes them anything. What if Google says "We run ads on videos to help pay the bills, and to make a profit. You, in turn, get a nice service. We do not need to pay content creators anything." Has Google ever deviated from that stance? As in are they paying content producers as part of a strategy, or because they are obligated to by their terms of service?
Summarized on boingboing as "Public goods are REALLY good: thousands of years later, the Roman roads are still paying dividends" https://boingboing.net/2018/04/10/romanes-eunt-domus.html
The traditional media (newspapers, TV news, etc.) seems to have the idea that they shouldn't provide links. Linking would be the natural thing to do, so it seems like they are going out of their way not to do it.

I'm not exactly sure why this happens, but I have two theories:

1. Their mindset is to see their web site as a sort of port of their existing media product to a different platform. And not a native port. (A newspaper sees an online article as an electronic copy of a print article. TV news sees an online article as a replay of a video segment.) Since they wouldn't put a link in the original non-web media, they don't have one in the web version.

2. They are used to controlling the flow of information. The relationship they expect is that you come to them first for your news, and you keep coming back regularly. They don't want to encourage you to go directly to the other sources because then they wouldn't be involved.
I misread this as Patient Death Squad, like health insurance claims or something similar.
Complaints about SO remind me of the Louis CK bit about WiFi outage on airplanes. "Everything is AMAZING and no one is happy." SO is a miraculous effort that took a mob of people and harnessed the best aspects of their social nature to build the best Q&A site ever seen. But it's a little annoying sometimes to people with Copenhagen morality love to have on it. SO tram knows this of course and they make a lot of UI tricks to be very friendly and gamified. The site was designed by a world class product manager and it really shows. (It's one of the biggest and best Microsoft/ASP/.Net(!) sites on the internet, especially for non-Microsoft content!). The parts where they aren't perfect
(like the ego burn of getting a question closed) are highlighted by contrast to the rest of the experience.
Maybe they could start building apartments next to distribution hubs?
Huawei selling customized AOSP with WeChat doesn't represent Google's participation in the Chinese market. Chinese Android users aren't Google users.
> Also I do not need to have directly accesible stuff on my home network. I can use dropbox or buy cheap VPS if I want to keep my data in sync.

You also can walk everywhere instead of using machines to move around ... but why would you?

> One is security, NAT is nice for that a lot smaller attack surface.

No, it doesn't. It's a common myth, but NAT does not provide any security, it only hides insecurity.

> Second keeping your stuff always running at home is unreliable and annoying.

Complete non-sequitur?
1.9M customers locked out of their accounts for five days
Off topic, but this seems like as good a place as any to ask: It's my impression that numpy is really good. Is it as good as Fortran? That is, if I have a large, sparse, complex matrix, Fortran will have an efficient solver for it that will also be numerically stable, and will have four decades of use to find any weaknesses. Is numpy equivalent (except for the four decades part)? Is it close? Or does it just cover the basic cases well, and for the specializations you're on your own?
This is already being built from a company with a similar vision : Lite Phone
https://www.thelightphone.com/

Lite Phone 2: Campaign
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2-design#/
> I've upgraded to the original Nokia 3310 years ago, and it does the trick.

I wish there was a "dumbphone" that supported and extremely small number of utility apps, like Signal.
A coworker of mine recently picked up a Nokia 3310[1] for that exact same reason/purpose.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310_(2017)
Interesting. I wonder if such big difference between prices mean same scale of difference in quality...
Ask HN: Short stories that take advantage of the web as a medium?
Hi HN,

Anybody know of any short stories that take advantage of the web as a medium in the way that Huffpo Highline or eminently the NyTimes Visual Stories use the web as a medium?

Huffpo Highline: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/index.html

Example Highline Story: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/nick-ayers-mike-pence/

Nytimes Visual Stories: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/21/us/2017-year-in-graphics.html

Example Nytimes Visual Story: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/24/travel/underground-railroad-slavery-harriet-tubman-byway-maryland.html
I adhere to a lot of these rules myself and have recently noticed peers doing the same.

Another I'd add that really makes the phone boring is putting it in grayscale mode. On iOS: Settings > General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Color Filters > Grayscale. Then you can set the Accessibility Shortcut to Color Filters, and when you triple click the home button your phone goes grayscale.

I don't have it on 24/7, but do enable it any time I feel myself getting sucked in too frequently.
>since this is optimizing for a hypothetical future reader at the expense of the actual person having a problem

Which is fine because there are N potential future readers but only one OP.
Hacker News is the same way. Users here are extremely hostile to most questions.

I've seen questions here that are on topic, asked very politely, and in good faith downvoted to all hell. I can only assume that some people here are very upset by "easy" questions or ones that have "obvious" answers and think this place is only for "smart" people who already know everything. I upvote most questions that are asked nicely and in good faith, even if the "obvious" ones aren't grey yet, because they certainly will be soon. I don't believe that people deserve to be punished for asking question, asking questions furthers the discussion and I'm absolutely positive everyone has some "obvious" gap in their knowledge.

If you want a specific example that sticks out in my head someone said "blah blah blah remember 2008?" in a discussion about financial fraud. Someone else replied "What happened in 2008?" and it was downvoted to all hell. There are people on here that were children in 2008, it's entirely reasonable they are only vaguely familiar with a financial crisis that happened when they were 8 years old!! Especially if they live in or grew up in in a non-Western country.
I have the same experience as you do. I've reported the pictures from the bloodbath inside the Bataclan, everything is apparently totally fine and I also know people who had issues with nipples as well.
But you have to go back to what people were doing when the law was written. The law was written using the commonly understood meanings of that time. The meaning of a law shouldn't change just because people start using words differently.

If the meaning of the law should change with the times then get the law-makers to update it.
It doesn't help the UK that one of the largest ISP's, Virgin Media (the only cable supplier) don't yet support IPv6. They're talking about going with DS-Lite, which carries its own problems.

Once they go live, expect to see the UK climb significantly.
Good write up I’ve been working on a similar trajectory for my own smartphone usage. I’ve toyed with getting a dumb weekend phone but I think this might be the way to go. I don’t want to ignore technology I just want to make sure I’m in control as much as possible.
> Accessibility should be the default on all platforms, not something that application developers have to go out of their way to support.

Complain to the browser developers then, they’re the reason why this is so hard for Qt running on the web.
I think the standard originalist response to this is—if you want to change the law, change the law. There’s an entire branch of government for that. Courts should focus on interpreting and applying the law that’s already in force, and if no one has changed the relevant aspects of patent law since 18th century England, we’re going back to 18th century England.
Voting on the schedule might be a good idea, especially if voting power was weighted based on how much each user has engaged.
You mention the key bit; for lack of additional legislation, the court's job is to interpret the existing body of law to determine what, if any, affect it has on new situations.

Whether the court should use an 'originalist' interpretation is debatable, but the fix, regardless, is to draft new law. Unfortunately, we have a bunch of old, mostly techno-ignorant people in office, so here we are (this is not to comment upon the original link, and whether the decision is a good one or not, just that the basis of such decisions even at the legislative level is clearly founded on a poor basis).
If you're on VDSL try grabbing an HG612 from ebay and using that instead, with a decent router behind it. I was running a dual stack setup like that for over a year without issue, before moving over the Virgin Media and having to rely on a HE.net tunnel.
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I just changed my work video editing workstation order. I will have two 970 EVO NVMe for my OS and Project drives. There actually is a bottle next with raw 4K, 5K and 8K Video and playing it in an editor.
>In such cases where the OP and the community agrees, reformatting the question would avoid making a useless landing page.

And if the question is 10 years old the day I need to reformat my linux hard drive? The OP might not even still be alive. Certainly there will be resistance to rezzing a 10 year old thread to make the question more general.
I was ready to spec an ML-backed plugin that would use insights and algorithms from cocktail party problem [0] [1] to remove copyrighted audio from muxed video when a quick search for "post-processing audio to remove copyrighted music" yielded among its first few results a YouTube help link titled "Remove claimed songs from videos" [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_separation

[2] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2902117?hl=en
The rise of the tag nazis
Necessary for what? Maybe not optimizing iPhones. But somebody has to make the music that goes on the iPhones, and it's pretty hard to do that if you're working on their hardware full-time. There are already plenty of "necessary" people who consume the cultural output of the "unnecessary".

As for their eventual disappearance, they'll be neglected, but they won't be slaughtered -- if nothing else, that doesn't look good for the cameras. And if war breaks out in Elbonia between its "necessary" and its "unnecessary", Elbonia's enemies will probably provide military aid to the "unnecessary". It's worth remembering here that America lost in Vietnam.

That said, I think a lot of the support for basic income around here is connected to the demise of academia as a viable career track. Personally, I'd like UBI, but mostly because I'd use it to free up 40 hours a week (plus my commute, time outside of work invested in a career) for research in fields I'm interested in.
Thank you to the author for a thoughtful, nuanced take complete with actionable suggestions, that doesn't talk down the immense benefits smartphones have brought especially to the disabled.
> If I get a Rolex watch as a gift, and a friend asks how much I paid for it, I would not be wrong to say "I got it for free." The fact that someone else paid for it doesn't change the fact that it was free for me.

The difference is that you don't end up paying for your Rolex. But you do pay taxes during your life time and in return you get services provided by the public sector. So how is it free? At the point of consumption someone else will be paying for you, but in the future you can be said to be paying back what you owe. If you never paid any taxes, then yes, you could consider your education free.
that's interesting. Do they say why?
It's not necessary to live here. No one has to live here. As has been discussed there are far better options in central London with more space for the same price.
Using this:

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/load-balancing/http/ba...

The load balancer expands variables to empty strings when it cannot determine their values, for example for geographic location variables when the IP address’s location is unknown, or for TLS parameters when TLS is not in use.

Geographic values (regions, subdivisions, and cities) are estimates based on the client’s IP address. From time to time, we update the data that provides these values in order to improve accuracy and to reflect geographic and political changes.
What's better than SO?
Search has been an incredibly finnicky experience. I had to use PowerShell commands to correctly search the contents of files in a folder, checking the options in Explorer did nothing to accomplish this. "No results found", yet I run the script and oh look 25 project files contain this string.

The Start Menu has constantly been slow for me, and often times I can't search and/or click anything. This is incredibly frustrating.

Having to disable so many features out of the box is annoying, and the amount of effort to disable telemetry without some helping script is absurd. I'm not sure I even got everything the first time since it seemed like more registry values needing modification were being discovered continuously.

Any large update takes a substantial chunk of time and multiple reboots. I sat in front of my computer as it updated for at least two hours with 4 reboots. I didn't even get to use it. This was last week. On top of that it restarted while I was grabbing a snack. I didn't get to use it again before bed. This is hardly acceptable when I may actually NEED to use it.

Still have gotten blue screens of :) death on multiple computers, work and personal. They're happy now at least, but doesn't change the fact I lost some work.

Inconsistency between Windows programs is also frustrating. There's at least 3 different design styles, maybe more, than go into the default Windows programs. Difference in font, spacing, window design, icon design, alerts, etc. that really show fragmentation even still after 8, 8.1, and still on 10 trying to modernize their OS.

These are a few things that I've still found wrong with Windows 10. Just about all of these in the last week, I'm not trying to look much farther back.
Seems more like a ~pantry~ for DNA synthesis than anything functional, especially given its four strands make for difficult reaction kinetics.
Here lies jk2323 except for his best friend who is currently standing in attention in a bus station in Amsterdam.
You should have been /be creeped out by on-star if anything. Every on-star vehicle can be tracked within the triangulation limits of cell towers (aka. within half a mile if not better.)
Sure, but you should bring a lot of evidence that it will actually work before you do something that disruptive. If the criteria for doing something is maybe it will work if we do it at a large enough scale than almost anything is permissible.

Edit: And with airplanes, or almost any engineering artifact, you start with a proof of concept and then build from there. We didn't go from container ships to cargo planes, we went from the idea that a person could fly to a very brief flight in a barely airworthy "airplane" that is nothing like a modern plane.
Because nobody is going to opt into basic income temporarily.
> higher unemployment, because that means, that those people have either to find another job or the will live on welfare as well.

Remember, “welfare” means “health, happiness and good fortune”. Yet “living on welfare” has somehow come to mean being unable to afford shelter, food and decent access to society.

If you aren't faring well on it, it's not really “welfare”.
Taken down now

Backup 1: http://archive.is/WnwiB

Backup 2: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
I recommend another documentary for anyone interested in the history of the Linotype:

http://www.linotypefilm.com/index.html

Used to be on Netflix, but not presently.
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I did read the article, I don't personally have a problem with addiction. My phone only gets used when I'm either sat on the toilet, waiting for a bus/taxi, or deliberately talking to somebody.

The problem I do have with my phone is that its not actually under my control.
>Talk to full-time youtube creators, the people who pay their rent via youtube vids. It is a precarious existence. Shifts in youtube policies mean income varies wildly from month to month.

What you describe is the norm for pretty much every art form. Why are people expecting it to be better with art they post on Youtube?

These people are running a business. That their future earnings will be very much out of their control (i.e. in Youtube's control) was something pretty much everyone knew. If I view this in business terms, they clearly made a very risky gamble and that they're losing is not a surprise.

It's one thing to try to make money on the side via Youtube, affiliate links, etc. It's another to quit your job and work on it full time. If you do, you should own the consequences.
Get a 3310 and a mobile hotspot with a data-only sim? The Huawei E5770 has 500h standby 20h activity, an ethernet port and USB power output (to act as a powerbank).
I'm in the top 3% and I've noticed another thing: it's enough to have 10k points to be in the top 3%. I haven't been answering anything for a couple of years, and I still get something like 200-400 points per week/month - it depends. So I think I will be in the top 1% next year doing absolutely nothing :)
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Great insight. I just want to add the nice thing about the internet is that we can build our own platform to meet the needs people currently have.
It should not sadden you. The alternative (civil law) is that your rights are subject to the whims of the revolutionaries of the time, whoever they might be and whatever they might believe. The common law system at least provides a sensible default rooted in the wisdom of past decisions.