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Is this translation service available online? I tried different services recently while travelling, none of them were better than basic knowledge of the language and a dictionary. Full sentences sometimes work well but anything else is problematic (e.g. restaurant menus).
OK! I was referring to this and it was before the acquisition indeed: https://news.softpedia.com/news/Skype-Provided-Backdoor-Acce...
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So what are the benefits over virtualenv? You have given me the downside of another binary to manage. What do I get in return?
The article was flagged yesterday.
Instead of linking to this alt-right website it makes more sense to link to the actual website with the report:
http://www.aspiringminds.com/automata-national-programming-r...
I think this is tricky because as soon as you shut down the obvious stuff (ok, dead babies...) you will quickly arrive at barely or non provable stuff, acai berry level things, and medical claims (fructose intolerance! real thing btw!) which you are going to need a phd to sort out. I am not sure how youtube or any general content site could realistically be expected to have a policy on all these things.

You can't eradicate the nonsense you can just change its nature. In some ways I think having complete nonsense out there is healthy in terms of promoting skepticism amongst normal people.
A question for the author about the blog page: why did you set body {visibility: hidden} and prompt some people with a blank page? I don't know which one of the privacy extensions I'm using probably prevented some JavaScript to turn it into visibility: visible, but why shouldn't it start as visible since the beginning?
I am going to assume agencies will be the biggest benefactor here. Would be interesting to see if companies like uber/lyft don't spin off agency type setups to isolate the company from the service providers.
They have these illustrations in the paper. https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.07389
Please learn the difference between bandwidth and data transfer.

Bandwidth is a speed, data transfer is an amount of transferred data.

Yes I’m aware that a lot of hosting companies show it as “bandwidth”. That doesn’t make it right.

Bandwidth is like the diameter of the water pipe coming into your house. Data transfer is the like the number of litres/gallons sent down that pipe, and measured by the water meter.

It’s baffling and depressing to me that so many people in this industry get this wrong. It’s like the tech equivalent of the word irony.
I’ve had iPhones since the 3G and have used force touch for years and I’m still learning about obscure but incredibly useful features.

It’s a good idea but it’s discoverability is terrible. This is a perfect example of that.
> from inside EU we see it as for the people/society

No we don't. Some of us do and some of us do not. You are self-admittedly in the former group, I am not.

Also, just because something cost big companies money on one front does not mean it doesn't increase the monopolistic power of said companies and even increase revenues on another. Let me use your own example as a hypothesis we will be able to observationally falsify or not in the coming years. By eliminating roaming charges many smaller companies in the space will have to compensate for the loss of funds and will therefore either have to reduce their current plans, drop service offerings outside of the current country, or eventually collapse entirely. Regardless of the outcome, the total market competition has decreased and ultimately the mega corporations stand to win through decreased overall competition in the space. Additionally, due to lack of monetary incentives, I would expect the rate of innovation in large-scale roaming technology and infrastructure to decrease compared to countries which do not have such legislation.

Socio-economical systems are complex and nonlinear in nature, unfortunately, we i.e. humans have not evolved to think well about nonlinearities neither have we built ourselves sufficient tooling to augment our prediction capabilities for such systems. IMHO, this is the well-spring for the difference between intentions and outcomes in regulatory policy.
Diffusion of Innovations is an established corpus of knowledge. Including, of course, common causes of variation in speeds of adoption.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
It’s not that puns are bad per se, it’s just that people making them tend to be pompous bores anyway.
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Actually I upvoted it hoping for some meaningful discussion regarding the findings from the report. However, the website is rubbish and it seems most comments seem to focus on that instead of the findings.
>It's OK to make mistakes.

We should punish mistakes. Especially stupid mistakes.
You would have to keep turning slightly South to maintain a bearing parallel to the lines of latitude - the only one that's "straight" (it curves downward, but not North or South) is the Equator.
Aprt from my mini-rant, data transfer charges vary a lot by host.

AWS for example, have ridiculously high charges.

Can you give some rough figures of how much data and how much you’re paying?
Actual public Certificate Authorities have done this too.

You request a cert, it's authorized everything seems fine. Except, huh, the guy who was supposed to authorize is off sick today, how did that work? The email to the authorizer should just be sat in his INBOX until he gets back.

Oh - the company's "Malware protection" system automatically dereferenced the "Do you want to issue this certificate?" link from the email and there was no second step. So for affected companies basically anybody could request any certificate in their domains and it would get issued.

As far as I remember nobody has proof any bad guys ever used this, but grey hats posted some fun they had with it. Likewise for a CA that decided to OCR the images from an unco-operative DNS hierarchy that wouldn't provide machine readable data to them. Grey hats obtained domain names that confused the OCR into allowing them to get certs for other people's names. Did any black hats do it? We have no proof.
> Do we expect the embedded guys to grok HTTP/REST?

REST is irrelevant to this; HTTP alone covers the reason why this is bad. So ultimately, the question is: "Do we expect somebody designing an HTTP API to understand HTTP?" I think that's a reasonable expectation. If your embedded guys don't understand HTTP, then get somebody who does understand HTTP to design the API. They don't need embedded experience to do so, they aren't implementing it, just designing it. This isn't a difficult cross-functional intersection, you just don't assign tasks to people who aren't qualified to carry them out.
Should've been born in the first world then.
I miss the pre-internet days when all we had to worry about was Wintel's stranglehold on the desktop market and crappy DOS viruses. I thought Linux was the light at the end of the tunnel but instead it was just a false dawn.
I admit I upvoted it even though I consider the website to be trash, because the findings from the report seem interesting.
Archive.is is awesome. It just works.
It was an extreme example saying town size isn't the entire thing.
Last time I asked aound this, the replies I got were roughly:

1. this is not the focus of TLA
2. TLA is for high-level protocol specification, there probably wont be 1 to 1 mapping to code

But I know i.e. some AWS team used TLA in their project, and I would like to finde their workflow, because it is not really clear to me, how do you usually get from "This spec checks out" to "I have a working code"
"A global map with resolution of 1.85 kilometers has over 230 billion great circles. Each of these consists of 21,600 individual points, making a total of over five trillion points to consider."

What? Is there something I'm missing here, or did they just decide to include "individual points" as an utterly useless way of inflating the difficulty of a brute-force approach?
Two thoughts:

1) Twitter is a terrible medium for anything, let alone posts longer than a sentence.

2) The level of over-engineering tech people readily engage in without a second thought is truly mind boggling.
Background tasks become essential as soon as you need your phone to be a data aggregator for external devices.

As an example, if you monitor biomedical sensors on your body, the app needs a way to reliably run in the background without being shot down.
In another thread related to SO, many high ranked users said they feel demotivated, when other high ranked users comment their answer saying they shouldn't answer this question and so on. They never log in again or answer questions in fear of facing same situation again. You answered someone, some jerk didn't like it, so what? My comment got downvoted on HN, so what? Should I be afraid of commenting again, feel oppressed? No, do what you do, correct someone if you think they're making a mistake, be bold sometimes if needed. Post a link to some self help blog or "how to make friends" next time when some elitist or some hostile jerk dislikes your SO answers instead of feeling bad about toxicity. I think Bill Burr stand ups have some good highlights about the over sensitivity in society in general.
Sounds like you just needed to buy Mom an Android device with decent storage - and/or maybe a "flagship" device that isn't left hung out to dry.

I too have family with shitty Androids. My Mom runs an iPhone 5 that is so far behind she's afraid to update it at this point (holding out for new iPhone) I also have family with flagship Android devices - completely different exp.
I would invite you to do some web mapping, Level of Detail is the hardest problem, and it makes no one happy.
No, it means they have to apply to people connecting from the EU.
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I was searching for such dashboard utility and I found this:
https://github.com/oschuett/appmode
It may be useful for some of the cases.
> Youtube is a private company and can do whatever they want with their own website

The oft overlooked caveat to this line of thought is: we don’t have to like it.
Given the length of the line over water, that would be a somewhat bizarre map.
The expectation is that a brute force attack would try orders of magnitude more IDs than you actually have. It means that if a random ID is 90% likely to have a unique hash and 10% likely to map to one of your real IDs, then your real data won't have that many collisions, however, if someone does a brute force check of (for example) a million email addresses, then they'll get 100 000 positive responses, the vast majority of which will be false positives.
Be cautious using WeChat. If the Chinese authority could retrieve something from the device, the U.S. authority must be able, too.

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2018/04/confirmed-deleted-w...
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> She bought cheap phones

I think I found the actual problem.
I bought one for my wife so she doesn't appear "away" on Skype while working from home which is very helpful.
My wife once bought an 8 GB iPhone 4, and regretted it pretty much immediately. That was a horrible experience, and I was stunned that apple would sell such a thing.

So far I've learned it pans out this way for iOS devices:

- 16 GB: the bare minimum for any sort of user. Don't expect to be taking a lot of pictures or use a lot of apps without a lot of storage twiddling.

- 32 GB: fine for regular app use, avoid if you want to take a lot of pictures. I find this to be the sweet spot for coffee table iPads.

- 64 GB: the baseline for people who take a lot of pictures and videos. Anything less and there's too much storage management involved.
Yeah, but if you leave JavaScript disabled how can the trackers fire?

I assume that's the real reason for all these pages which would work just fine without JavaScript requiring it.
Through Greece and I didn't read the other one because the author is a terrible writer.

Central America (?)
What WAY more information do they get?

They know that I use the site and (to some extend) when.

I am under the (possibly false) poison that the risk is to let the requesting site (HN here) request to much data from, say, Google (my age, shoe size and whatever they store about me)
>I also fail to see where race comes into play.

This is what the advocates of racist policy always say.

Enforcement is where race comes into play, you don’t see it because you don’t care. Otherwise it’s very hard to miss.
> The F-35 has less than half the range of the larger F-22 and lacks the Raptor’s advanced long ranged air-to-air missiles

What long range missiles? I thought the longest range missiles carried by both fighters are the AMRAAMs.
Isn't "straight line" somewhat arbitrary? How about "the longest circle you could sail without hitting land" or some other reasonably smooth shape?
Pardon my skepticism, but Microsoft has most definitely advertised to the TLAs that Skype communications are available for review.
Don't make your users jump through hoops to unsubscribe. That seems like a typical dark pattern to me.
Yes, the failure to success scale of puns is measured in anger. A pun so awful it makes the listener angry is a grand success.
Not sure what a 64GB _sim_ is? Did you mean a memory card? Or is it some funky US thing I haven't heard about before. Sim cards here have marginal storage at best.

But to the point: Glad to hear that her situation improved when going from a $200 to a $800 phone (or whatever those cost), but I wonder what the story had been if she had gone to a $800 Android instead - with e.g. 128GB of internal storage.
Maybe you just hate bad metaprogramming

Metaprogramming is hard to get right - often harder than writing good libraries, and the number of programmers who can do it well is correspondingly smaller.

So of the metaprogramming that's out there in the wild, a correspondingly greater proportion of it is bad.
You could try this: http://www.geekityourself.com/files/The-Golden-Book-Of-Chemi... it was written a bit before health and safety became and thing though.
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Why doesn't it delete / trim the caches automatically? If they are safe to be deleted by the user at any time, the device itself should be clever enough to clear the space.
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Yes, I'm sure that's it and not the fact that no one builds for the 0.1% of users with javascript disabled.
From that page:

> the Earth deviates from spherical by only a third of a percent, sufficiently close to treat it as a sphere in many contexts
Real computers have blinken lights. In an age of dull beige boxes, that’s what truly set them apart, at least to a layman.

I’m half joking, but half not. Nvidia, Cray, etc need to put some blinken lights on these drab racks. Something with AI needs lights, and it looks sexy to Joe Public.

Like in classic sci-fi, a sentient AI machine would have columns of blinken lights, tended to by women with clipboards, lab coats, and high heels.
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Is that a straight line? Maybe they allow crossing rivers but not seas/lakes.
> and/or maybe a "flagship" device that isn't left hung out to dry.

I think you are missing the point there. She's on a fixed income.
The iPhone 6 is on contract. When she got it, it was £0 down and £17.99 a month. Compared that to a much higher costs per month for a flagship phone.

Not only that, once the 2 years has been up. She'll just get another contract and an iPhone 8. Rinse and repeat and she'll always have a decent iPhone. It doesn't need to be the best one.

Also, she isn't a power user. A flagship phone is completely wasted on her.
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The only thing keeping me definitively locked into an Android phone is Google's excellent Fi cell service.
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This is the truth, FB is being fined by EU regulators for dissembling.
It's actually quite simple.

If you don't want to do business with someone from another country you certainly don't have to comply with other countries' laws. If on the other hand you do sell a product or service to businesses or people abroad you have to comply with the relevant laws of their respective home countries.

That's not a new or GDPR-specific situation but rather has been the case since pretty much the beginning of international trade.
My projects so far are open source, and have taken two approaches for naming:

Either reuse a name of different context that kind of maps (eg a flexible, versatile framework/library called Bamboo)

Or literally just what it does: recently I’ve been working on projects called: Koalephant {Failover,Certificate,Proxy,PXC} Manager

Koalephant is the name of my company, the tools are management/sync helpers to setup failover, tls certificates, tcp and http proxying, and percona Xtradb cluster.
Perfect, thanks! I don't mean to criticize, I just want to make sure that my bank will be able to survive and won't unexpectedly shut down. Thanks for the clarification!
DASH uses big chunks of operator selectable size though as it is codec agnostic. I wonder if coupling transport and codec could have benefits for the massively scalable VOD case. (ie pre-render a bunch of stuff up front and run a "lite" codec that is coupled to the transport layer and aware of network conditions)
Pardon for ignorance, what language is Firefox written in?
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RequestPolicy on Firefox stops redirects cold.
Background: https://www.seroundtable.com/matt-cutts-has-helped-you-25652...
Do you really like having to confirm every action? For interfaces that you use all the time, it's nice to be able to eliminate extra steps.
>Also a lot of convicts financially supported Mexican cartels and bear some responsibility for their crimes.

Lawmakers created the Mexican cartels, and therefore bear most of the responsibility for their crimes?

>letting the winners to keep the money but let losers go would not be exactly fair.

Frankly it feels that you care much less about fairness than you care about enforcing terrible laws.
Starting in 2000, yes.
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Hey, seashells is neat. I can't get a non-http port out of corporate nannywall though.
I haven’t switched, but I often use my fiancée’s iPhone (which isn’t at all the same thing, I know).

The way that I put it is that the iPhone is a better smart phone; Android is a better pocket computer. If you want something which is basically a small communications device, which does one thing at a time & gets out of your way, then you probably want an iPhone. If you want a flexible, capable device which does many different things and respects your choices, then you want Android.

Things I like about iOS: on brand-new hardware, it feels snappier than Android on similarly brand-new hardware; the experience within a single app is less distracting.

Things I like about Android: real Firefox; headphone jacks; ability to sideload apps; open source apps; back button; task switching; less lock-in (iCloud, I’m looking at you); doesn’t make me want to chuck the phone at a wall after using it for three minutes.

I trust Apple more than Google, but I trust me even more than Apple, and with Android I can have a mostly Google-free existence, while with an iPhone I cannot have an Apple-free existence. For me, the choice is easy.
Ah, that's an app I stumbled upon called Calltrack. I installed it a while back, and it's been pretty reliable.
I think we should not be afraid of making laws and rules because we are afraid of unintended consequences, if we have such side effects we can update the law.

Your point is that we should not have made the security belt mandatory in cars because there could be a side effect somewhere like a person won't be able to evacuate in time, the idea is to calculate the benefits and the drawbacks and if benefits are much larger then we make the law and update it later.

I am sorry if a small telecom company can't adapt and compete without the roaming charges but we should not pay billions to the big companies so this small company also survives, we can make laws to help small companies like preventing abuses from big companies
Funny enough, my wife works at an insurance company that has "walking stations" where you can work while on a treadmill and the fitbit doesn't detect steps that way unless you remove it from your wrist and jam it in your belt or bra, which doesn't always work when the walk stations are not private.
You are breaking the social contract of copyright when trying to use it as a tool of censorship. The whole underlying rationale for modern copyright was spelled out in the first country to adopt it:

>To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

We, the people, trade our natural right of copying and selling anything we see for the benefit of increased dissemination of art and science.

Your integrity is kept perfectly pristine if your work only stays in your draw. The second you publish your work it is no longer yours.
> is 77
> Never heard from her again.

You might want to check up on her to make sure it's just the phone.
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Having a single confirmation step to prevent "oops" clicks doesn't seem like a dark pattern to me.
I agree it's a tough cookie. I actually don't think layers and layers of abstraction is a good idea.

But something were you can describe something like "Read this value from this field, do some math based on fields in another table, return the result"

That's why I raised the question, how do we do that over long periods of time without rewriting it in several different ways? (ASM to flat files, COBOL and JAVA to different SQL flavours, what else is next?)

And if you migrate, let's say from Oracle to MSSQL it will work for 90% of the things, for the last 10% it will be a PITA.
I like small and light phones so I bought an Xperia X Compact at the end of 2016. It's more or less the same form factor of the SE and it still works very well. Unfortunately its ticker (9.5 mm vs 7.6 mm) and it weights more (135 g vs 113 g). The Xperia Compact XZ1 from 2017 is 2 mm less tick but weights even more (140 g). If I could make me like iOS I would have got a SE immediately. The Compact is probably the best small phone in the Android world but I stopped researching phones. I'll start again when the Compact will be about to die. I hope it lasts at least as long as my old Galaxy S2, 5 years.
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I was just thinking this. If it is allow to sail over the same places more than once, they must be a route that is just a circle. Maybe along one of the southern parallels?
Have you not seen a DGX Station?
I found two apps a while ago which have been pretty reliable.
One is Backup to Gmail [1] for the text messages. The other one is called Calltrack for the calendar things.

It's nice to have it all integrated and searchable inside Gmail and Google Calendar.

[1] Just checked the Play store, and I think it's called SMS Backup+ now. There are a few alternatives too...
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