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Fun fact: I emailed Tim Cook in August after reading this story in the NYT, asking him to publicly oppose a weak federal privacy bill in the US [1].

I thought they might do it when Bud Tribble, Apple's privacy czar, testified in Congress at the hearing about privacy [2]. He was mostly non-committal until about the time when someone asked if California's law should be preempted, and he answered 'yes' but only if the law is strong enough, so I kind of had a feeling that Apple would at least advocate for it in a minor way. Now it makes sense why he was so non-committal, they were saving it for Tim Cook.

This is a full-on endorsement of GDPR in the best possible forum for this, a keynote speech at a conference for data privacy regulators. This is more than I could have hoped for. Crucially, this removes any possibility of a united front as the ad-tech lobbying machine kicks into gear.

I don't know if this was already planned or if it was my email, but I'm ecstatic either way.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/technology/tech-industry-...

[2] https://www.c-span.org/video/?451963-1/google-apple-amazon-t...
That's part of community building. A good community will reject noise and move on.
Cows are ruminants, so their production of methane is a necessary component of the fermentation that takes place in their digestive track.

Also, somewhat surprisingly, "free range grass fed diets" lead to more methane production then cows fed grain diets (factory farmed cows).

See https://www.fcrn.org.uk/sites/default/files/project-files/fc...
I think you are right but then I was never saying anything about the points, I was saying personally I’d find it difficult to make statements in direct contradiction to my actions. Which wasn’t clear and logical fallacies are definitely worth consideration! Maybe you have show a little bit of cognitive bias assuming I was trying to undermine the points he makes.
But I don't remember any BSOD wiping all my documents just like that.
How bad these news are for studies of human neurodegenerative deseases on animal models?
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That's exactly the problem I have. I don't want the unblockable ads and spying but I need my phone to be some cheap thing I don't have to respect or worry about. Once I started buying $150 phones every 2-3 years, I realised how much I need a device that I don't lose any sleep over it getting beaten to death and possibly replaced prematurely.
Well, yes, a lot is device drivers, but not most. You can make the Linux kernel, for example, minus almost all drivers. That usually slims down the kernel image by a few megabytes. More when you drop various other drivers and subsystems you technically no longer need. Though on most modern systems almost 80% of the drivers are modules and won't be loaded if not needed. The diskspace they consume is irrelevant for most intents and purposes (below 100MB on my distro).

> The more the merrier, we have too much of a software monoculture anyway.

Linux and some other kernels allow userspace apps to have their own network stack in userspace, latest kernels allow even larger sections of the networking subsystems to be entirely in userspace.

I think this approach should be favored over a unikernel since it uses the natural x86 privilege seperation between userspace and kernel.
12bn divided by 1,3bn devices sold according to this [1], 2018 not included, gives roughly $10. So now we have another data point. Not sure about the contract length though.

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/276306/global-apple-ipho...
Am I the only one who read the headline and thought this was about the personality scores given out to South-Asians as part of the Harvard admissions case?
Meanwhile suicides and death by opiates have skyrocketed across the actual country Gates lives in, exacerbated by the incredible increase in inequality that Gates actively helped create.

Things don’t happen in a vacuum. Some things are much better, some are much worse.

But Gates doesn’t have stats on the concentration of ownership of global resources in that post because it’s not a KPI for him.
IMHO Sears would have an opportunity now if they hadn't sold off their brands. Cobranding (for instance) Anker products as Craftsman would have me buying it there instead of Amazon for one reason: commingled inventory and fakes.
You realize 15 years ago was 2003.
Exactly. I have previously made a small contribution to Mozilla and I'm conflicted about making a matched donation to Tor. It almost feels counter-productive.
Relevant link: https://abc7chicago.com/man-uses-blowtorch-to-kill-spiders-s...

The Fresno Fire Department said a man who was house-sitting for his parents set the home on fire after he used a blowtorch to kill black widows...
Apple devices last a long time. My mother still loves using my old 2012 iPhone 5.

Used iOS devices are the Kia version.
Did they take it down since OP posted the link?
I'm thinking it's a mix of government action, organizations like the UN / UNESCO and the Red Cross, and both governments and donators that donate to said organizations so that they can do their work without needing to scrounge for money.
But I can’t help but wonder why there isn’t an alternative. Maybe a phone that is a bit more expensive then an equivalent android. It doesn’t need to have the hardware quality of iPhones or high end android phones but also has good, secure and privacy focused software developed by some company that doesn’t make most of their revenue from advertising.

But I suppose there isn’t a market for that. A majority of users would pick the phone that is only 289 instead of 319 Even if that means selling their data. And the few users that do care are willing to pay the premium for an iPhone. Considering that manufacturing a phone is expensive unless they can mass produce it in quantities such as Samsung and apple, there won’t be a company to make such a phone soon because it would be just as expensive as an iPhone with a lot less features.

And of course the Most important feature of any smartphone are apps and any new platform wouldn’t have any apps. Developer won’t develop for them unless there are enough users and there won’t be enough users unless there are apps. You could probably use googles play services and emulate android but as far as I know there isn’t a way to get around google’s push notifications without compromising the users privacy (which would defeat the purpose). Besides that would be expensive to make and gooogle might not license it at all because there is little in it for them.
> However, in the browser resources (such as scripts) will be loaded using multiple threads.

Are you sure about this ? I could not find anywhere something saying that the main JS execution would switch threads - and even if it did, it would not impact the observable behaviour of your JS code anyways. Everything I could find on google says "JS is single-threaded" (except for web workers of course).

Is this page wrong ? : https://itnext.io/how-javascript-works-in-browser-and-node-a... and do you have an example of problematic code ?
> Public intoxication is a misdemeanor similar to crossing the border illegally.

I’d argue trying to illegally immigrate to the US is a serious crime and public intoxication is not.
The same is sort of true of the mid-late '90s Phrack scene; I was skimming through some of the front matter on those issues and noticing how many people in the greets sections were people I'm still in touch with. Of course, this stuff got lucrative for us in a way that I'm not sure it was in the late '80s. But you guys had more fun than we did.
Office Space(1999).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/

timeless....
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I am not sure how often a person blog posts are posted on HN but I find it fairly common. HN do not follow the same rules as Wikipedia when it comes to judge whose opinion is worthy to be considered, neither requiring expert recognizing in the topic or third-party sources. It simply a question if enough people find the topic interesting within the time frame that a article has to be pushed to the front page.

On the topic itself, I find from experience that people tend to default a pronoun as to themselves when they don't know the gender of a person and there is no other social clues. I prefer to not attribute malice to that which has a equal likely natural reason, and defaulting to oneself is a rather good explanation for why groups with mostly single-gender tend to use a pronounce of that gender. For that I agree that fewer pronouns, "they", and "person" is more clearer and honest than defaulting when one do not know the gender.
Then again, I'm not convinced that these companies needed to be as specific as they were when denying bloomberg's story if they must comply with some court order.

That's not to mention the lack of evidence of an operation of this scale. Keeping that amount of people quiet for this long is something more newsworthy to me than spy chips.
Giridharadas talk is explosive in terms of its ideas. From what I can tell, he's not pulling any punches even though he's been invited to speak on a Google campus (Boston).

At 29:03 Giridharadas challenges his audience to demand that Google (and other Silicon Valley companies) generate an annual political disclosure to its employees, the very people in his audience. [0]

As a side note, Giridharadas is very clear and measured in his articulation, and I found that speeding the video to 1.5 times normal rate to be a good delivery speed (YMMV).

What Giridharadas says prior to the timecode I referenced is also provocative and politically risky. I can't yet comment on his entire talk, but the quality of the first half the video is superb.

[0] https://youtu.be/d_zt3kGW1NM?t=1743
There is real progress, but it also matters what we measure. A good example[1] is India building hydroelectric dams, which often submerge fragile ecosystems and displace their agrarian societies of sometimes hundreds of thousands.

The villagers go from earning "nothing" to earning $1/day according to our money system. They have been "lifted out of poverty," despite now living in disgusting slums in a city as foreign to them as it would be to us. Their culture (and perhaps knowledge of regenerative agriculture) are lost forever. We don't measure the carbon sequestration capacity lost by the now-inundated land, or the huge amounts of methane that the swamped vegetation releases. We just know we created "green energy." The villagers' risk of dying in those slums from many awful diseases has thankfully plummeted, but their profound communal loss will likely manifest in the form of depression or anxiety -- which are on the rise globally. Could that rise be a symptom of our realizing that while the "numbers" get better and better, it's occurring at the cost of obliterating the planet in possibly irreparable ways?

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of good, too. But there's a lot that gets missed in choosing what and how we measure.

[1] This example is lifted largely from a favorite author, Charles Eisenstein, from his new book "Climate: A New Story." You can read up on the Tehri dam. If it breaks (and some seismologists think it's a real possibility), it will cause untold more devastation.
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But testing is part of scrum! /s
We add node/npm to Django projects when we need a more complex pipeline for frontend JS than projects like django-pipeline can provide. If you want stuff like babel transpilation or tree shaking for your JS, all the fancy webpack stuff, you end up needing node in the mix.
Nope. You need to make more than you’re paid (on average of course). If this does not happen it does not make sense keeping you around.
No, it's pro-personal responsibility and pro not killing children.

The same thing goes for benefits programs -- nobody wants kids to be starving in the streets, but we would rather that people exercise personal responsibility in taking care of their own kids rather than expecting the rest of us to pay for their care.

Those positions are not opposed, and there's a lot of nuance in the whole welfare debate, it's not all or nothing.
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> can you imagine how much the US Navy would pay to produce jet fuel on board carriers (nuclear power!) and eliminate a need for underway replenishment?

They're already working on that too.
> One of the happiest points of moving to CA is not finding them on my pillow.

Christ this thread is seriously nightmare fuel for someone who grew up in a country where literally no dangerous wildlife exists. I cannot imagine dealing with deadly animals on my pillow.
Sounds like scrum
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Floating point operations, and more FLOPS.

Definitely.
Assuming we erect such a system, what's my incentive to not use an ad blocker anyway? I don't want to see ten ads a day, I want to see zero.
I imagine part of the reason they can afford to be pro-privacy is that they make enough money on actual sales to matter. If your margins are how, you will start looking for other ways to generate revenue.
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andy_ppp was not trying to invalidate what Tim Cook was saying but just remind everyone that the motivations here may be less than altruistic
It might be interesting, at least as an exercise, to combine unikernels with the split kernels from distributed "lego os". Having a slimmed down only what is used footprint spread out across the network could lead to multiplied advantages.
Does the choice of shallow rather than deep binding have any semantic impact in practice?
Yep, tons of spider in Missouri... I used to be somewhat freaked out about brown recluse spiders as a child but now as an adult I could care less. There is one with a web setup in my basement that I walk by every day, I just let it be since there is a pile of dead bugs under the web.

I remember one kid in high school got bit and had a nasty necrotized spot on his ankle, other than that I have only heard of a few people who have been bit.

As far as black widows go, I have only seen/caught a couple of them and never heard of anyone being bit by one.
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It took me more clicks than I care to admit to realize that the awfulness was the point of the site. When I first got there, I was thinking, "How did such an awful site get to the front page of HN?"
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There's a sentiment which I see on HN regularly which seems to relish the idea of automated judgement where laws are strict and "objective" and violations are 100% caught, preferably by machine. The argument is that if the law is unfair, it can later be adjusted.

This was most visible in discussion of "smart contracts" where people love the idea of "code-as-law". Unfortunately, it seems to creep into much more personal stuff now, such as using machines to look at everyone's face and know who they are and where they are, all the time.

Whether you agree with automated enforcement or not, the outrageous level of power-imbalance that works against individuals here is disturbing.
“Those Google guys are really evil! Here, buy our privacy-first $9 DRM dongle!”
I worked last time on a large scale project with full waterfall and heck, it was good. I knew what to do, when to do it, team lead had great domain knowledge and was a nice guy etc.

Then the company decided that products are not built fast enough, so we should be "agile". Guess we all know the rest of the story.
Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem
I hear what you are saying and agree in the sense that a lot of this is being misused by people who want to take advantage of what they know about you/us in whatever shape or form they can get the data to get away with.

Chinas use of data is definitely not the way to go.

However, I would also caution against the push for almost complete privacy as that IMO leaves out a number of potential advantages from systems having enormous amounts of data about us.

The primary advantage of technology is that it is able to automate and remove a number of things we would otherwise have to do manually, semi-manually etc.

To the extent that we do more and more in the digital space, our digital identity becomes much more important and that creates a new problem that can't be solved through privacy IMO but have to be solved by allowing digital identities to learn how to trust each other (which means exchange data/information).

I don't think there are many ways around that unless you want to get off the grid completely (which is certainly one way to do things).

This is where I think the decentralized part becomes really valuable. How can we own our own data but exchange it with others and build trust over time just like we would in the real world.

Cause in order to take advantage of the technology you will need to feed it with the primary thing that keeps it alive, data.
I guess he's continued his career as a security researcher .. I really don't know. I extricated myself from that company back then and moved on, myself, to other things .. but it always amuses me to remember looking over his shoulder and seeing MIPS assembly up there and wondering "hmm.. what does this have to do with the website we're building, hmm.." ;)
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I can't pinpoint it personally when exactly it ended, I enjoy some episodes into season 12, but I can tell you that two jokes on the show told me the writers have either gotten dumber or think we're dumber:

1) In some episode Smithers catches on fire, he rolls around on the ground saying "I'm flaming" and Mr Burns breaks the fourth wall and makes a goofy face like "he's gay, of course". Ugh.

2) Bart makes a reference to Bart Jr, making you think he's referring to his undercarriage only to find out it's a frog in his pocket. Not a great joke but what make it really, really terrible is the frog hopping out and ribbitting "I thought he was talking about his penis". Yeah, thanks for that pointless addition.

That kind of stuff, the utter need to explain jokes and treat viewers like they're morons. I don't tend to watch anything beyond season 12 because there's just so many landmines of explaining jokes and terrible writing like they just didn't care anymore.

As an aside: I get so many emails from Quora with vague questions like this just for answering a few Simpsons questions a long time ago. It's astonishing how many people can ask when/what was the best era of the Simpsons and when/why did things go wrong. Those questions must be on there hundreds of times.
Agreed. ruby is really nice. I've worked some time on a better ruby VM, potion by _why.

but in the end ruby had the same struggles as python and perl, and basically killed themselves. it's much more racist over there than in perl. php was the only major scripting vm which had some proper progress, but they started from a very poor stdlib, so the old sins are still hurting them.

It's more worrying that that such an absurd badly designed language such as Javascript took over, and Dart was put back. And that the Lua vs Luajit fights were not resolved. This hurts everybody in the long run, because luajit would have been the best of all.
It was always this creepy. It just didn't have the means to do so at scale until now.
Sometimes, dead is better.

Have you seen some of the industrial cities in India and China?

I think I'd rather check out at 30 in a world where I could actually breathe.
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> What about online standups? Nobody is standing up and not likely to.

Then it's not a standup. Maybe you can find another way to achieve the same aim, or maybe Scrum isn't suited to remote workplaces (I don't have enough experience either way) - if someone had tried to follow agile practice in a remote environment and found it doesn't work there, that could be criticism I'd be interested in hearing. But I just never get the sense that someone has actually engaged with Agile and found it wanting[1]; it always seems to come down to something like them: "Agile sucks" me: "What's wrong with it?" them: "We have this mandatory Agile meeting that everyone involved in agrees is pointless", just some criticism of something that has nothing in common with Agile except for both being a process.

> What about managers that fall into injecting themselves into every standup? Hard to fix that, hard to eject your manager from a meeting, and its a likely state that becomes the inevitable end point (see Markov Chain).

I haven't experienced managers in standups being a problem, but taking it as given that it is for you: if you're saying that you can't fix that then aren't you essentially saying that any process that your organization adopts will inevitably fail (unless you adopt a process with no meetings at all, which has other problems)? Agile gives you every possible explicit opportunity to fix the broken things in your process, including a regular dedicated meeting that's devoted solely to doing that; if your organization is incapable of doing that then I'm not sure what could ever work.

[1] Not actually true; there is a group of people who prefer more up-front planning and tend to give a quite different genre of critique. But they also tend to be more measured and don't frame it as a problem with agile as such.
Title makes no sense to me ("Teenager beats Tetris game older than he is to become world champion [video]").
> The fallacy is defining all crimes as drug crimes, then saying legalizing drugs will end all crime.

But no one is making that argument. You’re attacking a strawman.
Looks definitely very shifty, almost feels like seeing used needles in a public toilet.
Then all your data belongs to the web app servers.
Author is trying to come to grips with the idea of sum types. Which are great. Unfortunately, the article conflates sum types with algebraic data types in general.
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Your slide was simply:

GERMAN
ASSHOLES

We were not amused but didn't cry wolf as it would happen nowadays with a CoC. I would never use such terms, but perl5 leaders are very keen to throw such accusations around all the time because it conveniently distracts from the technical arguments you need to avoid. You kept with this slide for several years, but since then deleted all youtube instances.

I'm not a german btw. but my mother was born there, so I felt with them.
It doesn't work that way, every transaction is fully traceable all the way back to the block the coin was mined in.
Some things monopoly’s are prohibited from doing other things everyone is prohibited from doing.

Tying is legal for non monopoly’s.
Sad that Apple stopped making iPhone SE, still expensive compared to other brands, but the cheapest to jump on the Apple bandwagon.
> I'm thinking we need a new application platform entirely.

Well the state of the art seems to be Whonix[1] and Qubes[2],and TailsOS[3]

[1] https://www.whonix.org/

[2] https://www.qubes-os.org/

[3] https://tails.boum.org/

The idea behind these Operating Systems is that even if you somehow got hacked, it limits the damage caused. For example, in Qubes you can open a potentially malicious PDF in a separate dedicated Fedora template/image, then delete the VM after viewing the PDF.

With Whonix/Tails, you can also limit the damage caused, so if some intel agency decides to drop an 0day/RCE vuln in your Tor Browser session, then your real IP can't be leaked, because it defaults to Tor for all network activity (and spoofs the MAC address in the case of TailsOS).

But for the 'average person' as you describe, these tools are typically not within their threat model. I can understand journalists and marginalized communities using them, but not run-of-the-mill users who like to Skype grandma on their Windows machine and have Internet Explorer as their main browser.