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Totally agree - and I'd like to point out that while bloomberg wants you to put you through a paywall to read money stuff (his column) on the regular, Matt Levine has maintained the ability for you to sign up and get all of them delivered to your inbox.
But patchwork is a pale comparison to many of the web based collaborative code review tools. Its basically a patch tracker plus some simple state tracking, rather than a full blown interactive communications tool.
> A privacy policy that nobody ever reads is a poor place to put that.

Leaving that out of the privacy policy would be legally and ethically problematic. You should also tell people at the point where data gets used (unless it’s obvious), but everything your site does needs to be in the privacy policy.
> There's a big gap between making a working .deb file and

I assume none of us is even talking about this case. That is, a trivially working .deb could provide little more functionality than a tarball, so that's hardly interesting.

> getting something to pass QA to get into the archive.

The last part I have no knowledge of, since I only ever put my packages into internal archives. Were there political aspects, or only technical?

For the technical, I'm still looking for (ideally from the GP, but from anyone who shares the opinion), specifics.

> the documentation was fragmented and not up to date.

This is a common complaint I hear/read, and I recall it was part of my initial learning investment, figuring out where to go for what information. Now it's mostly bookmarked, and changes tend not to be drastic.

> Things have gotten better now you can use git-buildpackage

One thing I found, repeatedly and consistently, was that every single external (i.e. not from Debian) utility that tried to make the process "better" or "easier" ultimately did the opposite, since it would hide or abstract away an important aspect of the packaging process.

> Challenge - take a package like wget and try to update it to the latest version from upstream Git (or whatever). It should be one or two commands but I've never been able to make it work easily.

I can't recall if I've done wget specifically, but I've done this kind of thing before without much issue, assuming that latest version actually builds and runs on that platform without porting work and without needing a ton of new dependencies (or new versions of existing ones).

I tended to find most of my time was spent in chasing down and re-packaging various libraries whose older versions were no longer good enough.

> It's even harder if you're trying to port something across from Ubuntu

I'm not sure what you mean, since Ubuntu is already using Debian packaging.

> or to use a fork like wget-lua

Certainly forks are going to be more effort, but my experience is that this is true even in their unpackaged state, if they require more exotic (or specific) dependencies be pre-installed, a custom build process, or any porting work. If someone had already done all that work, comprehensively documented it, but merely not translated it into debianization, it would save me a ton of time in creating a custom package.
You can use things productively, or you can use things unproductively. This includes social media and Twitter. I have spent some time cleaning out so the only people I follow on Twitter post extremely valuable content. I block with extreme prejudice and will unfollow if they stop posting useful info.
Reddit Enhancement Suite

https://redditenhancementsuite.com
> There is no network access, other than access to Google IMAP server.

If it can't fetch arbitrary images from the internet, it can't render HTML email which (even if you don't want it) is a feature many people require. Even worse, if it can't talk to Google's SMTP servers, then it can't send email, which again is a feature most people require from an email client. (I mean, it's one of the two fundamental features of an email client, so...)

But if you can do either of those, you can exfiltrate data. And since data to arbitrary third parties is fundamentally what an email client does, that's probably unavoidable. :)

(And keep in mind that when dealing with third party email clients, it's very much a one click experience to configure them to both send and receive email.)

> What desktop apps have been doing since forever [I hope!].

That's never been a technical restriction placed on desktop apps. Historically they've had no restrictions, and more recently with app store sandboxes they don't have that kind of restriction. The most restrictive sandbox mode applied to desktop apps that I know of (the OS X app store sandbox) is designed around allowing apps to talk to the network freely, but restricting their access to local resources, the exact opposite of what you want.

> Make data protection a BigDeal

I endorse this goal, but I don't think this is an avenue that leads to a solution.
Would not the bottle be squished now that it is under more pressure?
I was just explaining what you have said to someone two weeks ago! Am actually a Sunday school teacher. If you treat the kids as you would other people I think you help improve "the wiring". They become mature and intelligent faster than their friends who are treated as lesser humans.
> All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep

This is the goal of https://notabug.io it's a p2p fork of reddit based on GUNdb. Still very early; but my hope is that there will be enough interest in lifeboats that people will be interested in helping to construct one.
Who said water does not compress? It doesnt compress much, but at the depths of the ocean it is a tiny bit denser than at the surface. I was suprised to see phys.org so cassually state that it doesnt.
But in what circumstances? How big is your business?

If you are running a SME office, then there are plenty of decent firewall appliances which are much cheaper than Cisco ASA, and have much lower support overhead than Sense.

If people are doing it for fun or as a hobby great. But given that you can get perfectly good appliances at $500/$1000/$2000 pricepoints, where is th price tradeoff where is makes sense to use Sense?
Ad hominem is not appropriate. Do you have a substantive disagreement with the claims in the article, that 3rd parties are less trustworthy than 1st party Google?

Google itself has reported major privacy /security bugs in third party integrations.
Media centralizes. This is fundamental.

There are zero marginal costs, so media providers are incentivized to spend huge amounts of money to create the most compelling content so that they can dominate the contest for attention. This creates a system with winner take all dynamics. Then, once you have won, you are incentivized to spend your winning to ensure that you continue winning. One of the ways you do this is by buying smaller competitors. Hence centralization is fundamental.
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You want all of the nearly ripe fruit, not the stuff that is easy to reach. It's a tremendous waste of resources (and rotting fruit on the ground can carry pathogens or parasites that hurt the tree next year).

So either you pick all of the ripe fruit, or you pick everything. By shaking the tree and catching everything that falls out.
I've come to loathe this about social networking sites. Twitter (which I use for sports buffoonery and hot takes from the community) is the absolute worst about this.

"Hey your friend did a thing, go congratulate them"

"Hey, a friend knows this person. Go follow them too"

"Hey, your friend just posted a picture of spaghetti, go signal your approval"

Hey.

How about I check in and interact with my friends on my time in a manner I want to?
Nukes. Putting your best and your brightest and your know-how all in the same place--efficient... but not smart. The corporate welfare was just a "bonus".
That's a rather poor option. Mac App Store and Android for example offers much better sandboxing options.
I just got a copy to my Drive, and I saved as epub where I can read as an ebook.
Wouldn't it follow then that all drugs, even the potent opiates, should be legal to produce, sell and consume? I know some people think that way, but it's a fringe position.
It’s amazing to me that a huge component of the problems TBL and colleagues are trying to solve are not discussed in the article, or here: we exchange our data to access services that are valuable, and expensive to develop to maintain.

Because our personal data is incorporated into a highly networked system (the various ad platforms), is worth much more than if it isolated, or “decentralized.”

Unless a new system, that allows individuals more fine grained control over how their data is designed to aggregate with mass numbers of other users’ data, this personal data will have a marginal value approaching zero.

This implies that other means of financing the vast client-server system,that is increasingly dominant in the first and second world societies, will have to be found.

It will also require pretty restrictive regulation to prevent companies from simply proceeding as they are, aggregating mass quantities of user data, from which they profit.

While awareness of the problems, potential and real, is slowly dawning amongst the “civilian” population, it is a confused and ill- informed type of concern.

I’m thinking of friends who get upset at learning the government is spying on everyone, who simultaneously post countless intimate details of their lives on Facebook (or Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, etc.)
Right but, then you have to sift through the dozens of unrelated comments, and if there are multiple versions of the patch frequently finding them and cross referencing the changes can be painful.

You need look no further than the versionX->versionX+1 logs some of the kernel developers do to understand the problem. From one patch set to another the conversation around a piece of code gets lost, so much so that for long running patch series people will frequently show up and make the same request someone earlier in the series made because they missed the 20 emails talking about the pros/cons of doing something a certain way 6 months earlier.
They should have bought Shine and called it a day. Amazing how poorly their new UI works compared to a Chrome extension.
Over 800 cryptocurrencies are now dead as Bitcoin feels pressure
If I am giving an app explicit permission to read my email then I would expect to be asked if I give it permission to send/write/save my email. If the user isn't asked that question then why would they think the app can do that. Full disclosure >> I am a technical person.
> supposedly they will support the old design for a long time

Just like supposedly they weren’t gonna do the user-hostile stuff described in this thread?
To bring it back to the anglosphere, I predict mass anger towards the hobbling of social media companies by Western governments if it occurs. We have all these conversations amongst ourselves about the evils of these communication facilitating companies, often with good reason. But we should be cognizant that only the squeaky wheels are squeaking and the general public is happy with their communication platforms. Take the elitist approach of telling them what's good for them and affect their uses and the tides will turn. Not in mass media or on sites like this one, but groundswells of annoyed yet still mostly silent masses will make conscious decisions where they can and elitists will not understand what happened.
Yea, you're absolutely right, I swizzled the analogy. I fixed my previous comment. Thanks :)
Do you do H1B visa transfers?
(Plaid seems to be working on building such amazing tech that I just had to ask)
Depending on how they did this, this could be an interesting experiment on the possibility of kerbing people's "screen" addiction. At least it looks like they are whitelisting some "social value add" sites, but taxing other less necessary sites.

If let's say they allowed X-time free after which you had to pay this tax and that climbed such that it served as a deterrent against too much unproductive screen time, it might provide some data for some behavioralists to study and reach some conclusions which are lacking.
Only the 'whoishiring' account is allowed to post hiring threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
What made reddit so great is that it was an underfunded company. What will probably be its ruin is that it is now an overfunded company.

It should be run like a public service, for the benefit of society. It's now being run like a business with VCs that want to see a return. Exactly the problem that ruined Digg.

Trying to turn reddit into a big profitable business will corrupt it. Hopefully the replacement will be a more decentralized phenomenon. But even if not, it will be replaced by something better shortly after it becomes bad enough. What reddit was is too important to not exist.
only China military and police for now. but no doubt there are prototypes doing the rounds.
> Bright kids deserve an educational environment where they can be challenged and develop their full potential.

All kids in public schools deserve that.

It just takes more resources than we as a society are willing to spend, especially when it comes to schools serving mostly poor brown kids in poor neighborhoods.
Try this one https://www.dropbox.com/s/8gnq2biztsl1iw4/Founder%20to%20CEO...
Great question! It depends what the goal of the tax is. Is the goal of the tax to raise revenue or to give the state more visibility on how its subjects use social media?

If the objective is in fact the latter objective of gaining information, having a small direct tax might be sufficient to cover the costs of setting up a new bureaucracy to more closely monitor the online activities of subjects.

In some sense, such a tax would essentially serve the same purpose as the global tax on wealth suggested by Thomas Piketty at the end of "Capital in the 21st Century". Piketty suggested that initially, some countries could decree a very low tax on wealth -- I forget the exact number, but let's say it's a 0.01% annual tax on wealth. This would require setting up all of the bureaucratic apparatus to measure and tax wealth, which as a side effect would produce a huge volume of new information that researchers, policy-makers and regulators could use as inputs to make more informed decisions about future taxation policy or controls for offshore tax evasion, etc.

See also James C. Scott's book "Seeing Like a State".

Of course, another objective might not be to monitor people but instead simply make it more irritating for subjects to use social media, by requiring them to first get permission from a government bureaucracy. This would discourage people from using mainstream social media and push them into something else (smaller niche services, encrypted chat, coup-d'etat, ...)
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> Of course adults should be free to choose for themselves what risks they are willing to take.

It's not universally the case though (see: drugs, seatbelts), and if you think it should be, you're in a small minority with that opinion. I think it's fair to consider externalities and then make laws that strike a nice balance between individual and collective interests. Bicycle helmets are a very small inconvenience, so i find it entirely appropriate to make them mandatory.

> "those who write helmet laws know that helmet laws reduce cycling"

Right, but that doesn't mean it's their motivation. That assumption, given that there are other prohibitions on dangerous behaviour, is a conspiracy theory.
I love paintball. You can definitely play without physical prowess — plenty of people sit in the back of speedball fields to "spray or pray" or call out upstream opponent positions to their team. Likewise with the woodsball setting even more so. It's much less physically demanding than one might think... you can be successful at recreation level without running. I've never been athletic but I was stable able to play local tournament-level paintball. I'd love to have it as a company outing.
>SMS and phone calls should never let the server see every file on your device,

That may be the case but the bug could still be on the server side:

Carol the Client: Hi Steve, will you send this photo to 111-1111?

Steve the Server: Hi Carol, I've sent your photo to 555-5555

Unless you encrypt the data to your recipient's client-side held key, the opportunity for the server to err and data leak, persists.
And after you check boxed an activity, were you able to continue?
For the record, I think that what happened to you over a years-old, minor donation - regardless of what it supported - was ridiculous. Whenever someone suggests that I move to the Valley because I am in the tech industry, I bring up your story as an example of why I want nothing to do with most of the people that live there.
Chrome's PDF printing function gives you an image PDF, even if the content is entirely text. So it's not searchable and is larger than a text PDF (which Firefox will give you). I've uploaded a version here, which I don't think requires cookies or block incognito: https://app.box.com/s/6mbbf3x1625uhcrm6t7tbld4jy1tnkjv
Those who did not said "show me a majority of constituents who care."

Representative democracy FTW.
You’re dismissing the observation that users habitually click accept or continue when prompted with a dialog. Sure, you can blame this on the users being lazy but it becomes ingrained into users when everything they access has a dialog, especially when that contains terms of service that would be twenty pages long in paper form (slight exaggeration). I cannot even count the number of times I’ve had conversations with people when observing this behavior. So many users inherently trust that what they’re agreeing to is not only safe, but widely accepted. After all, why else would the service be so popular and have so many users—“Someone out there had to make sure this was legit before me.”
I did not intend to accuse the EFF of anything unethical. Just because their positions on patent law are aligned with those of certain corporate sponsors does not mean that their views are influenced by those corporate sponsors. I assume that their association is merely one based on common beliefs.
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I use an adblocker and tried turning it off. No dice either way. Some Javascript bug is causing it to happen when I check the `console.log()` output. Luckily Wired is slow enough that I can refresh the page and hit the 'pause' button in the debugger and then read the content. Funny that the links don't work if you hit 'pause' too soon.
You see more content at once on the old site (same as on HN). You know that there is always something interesting coming up.
Is it “Kache” because Levandowski still has a cache of trade secrets from Waymo to use here illegally?

Or Kache like “I need some cash” because Waymo sued him out of the Uber job and now he’s broke?

Ohh Kache like the Chinese word for truck. Got it.
You should read section 4 [1] of that page.

Somewhere around the mid 90s individuals in most developed countries started to end up with lower IQs than previous generations and there are ever more results corroborating this change, whose magnitude has been rather significant. IQ results are distributed to ensure a population distribution with a median of 100 and a standard deviation of about 15 points. And of course 84% of all people fall within one standard deviation. We're seeing declines that already in the multiple points and they do not seem to be stopping.

One critical point here is that there are two 'convenient' ways to try to dismiss this. And they really amount to the same thing and suffer the same flaw. Those ways are to argue that humans have started to reach some sort of peak intelligence, or that environmental effects were driving former increases in IQ and as we reach a very healthy and wealthy society compared to past times, we're just seeing diminishing returns. The problem is both of those convenient hypothesis would lead us to expect to see an asymptotic decline in growth that would approach zero. We're not seeing that. We're seeing IQ literally decrease, not grow more slowly.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
This is naive to the point of self defeating. Since one can easily polarize pretty much any topic.

I mean, I think I get what you want to mean. But you would be hard pressed to encode it in any actual rules. Unless you are just going to constantly appeal to the spirit of the rules.
"This is the story of the soccer ball that survived". 200+ points. Horrible. Seems like HN is getting worse and worse.
The only commits from Tim himself are some documentation and a typo fix: https://github.com/solid/solid/commits?author=timbl

The project doesn't look particularly active from a commit standpoint, though I can imagine a whole lot of non-implementation work has to be done.

Best of luck to Tim and the Solid team!
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I think old is a gender now.
That’s not the same as making your emails public, ie posting them in a world readable archive.
> reach some conclusions which are lacking.

This is strong premise. I don't think we need more data when you have studies that show that social media as the same effect as cocaine. We specially don't need another tax.
Didn't Fujitsu buy IBM's SurePOS division a few years ago?
I've actually completely stopped using Reddit since migrating to HN. The content is better, the comments are far better, and the overall user experience is massively superior.
Could electrically stimulating criminals' brains prevent crime?