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Nice publicity stunt but completely useless from an anonymity perspective.

On their website, they mention the following:

> Simply, your mobile device can't connect to the Internet, it can only communicate with a Tor Bridge within our closed network.

> Configure the Tor daemon on your device to use the bridge at 10.11.12.13:9000 and wait for the network to bootstrap.

This means they are hosting the Tor bridge themselves, but the device's traffic is still going through the carrier's network in plaintext (it's weakly encrypted over the radio link to the tower but unencrypted after that).

Technically the Tor daemon is still running on your device, but is forced to use their bridge with no other options. I'm not too familiar with Tor but surely this can't be good for security right? I can imagine an attacker on the other side of their bridge spinning up a fake Tor network pretending to be the real one (a "sybil attack" with tons of fake nodes).

Basically they're giving you the worst of both worlds. The inconvenience of using Tor with none of the security & anonymity benefits.

I am involved in the mobile industry and this kind of bullshit really makes me sad. They're eroding customer's trust not just in them but in the industry as a whole, making it more difficult for anyone that actually provides a good service.
Sorry for hijacking the thread, but since we've got you here:

I'm a happy FastMail user with two separate accounts (one personal and one for business). With the latter, I run into a following issue: there's no proper way to specify a tax ID number, in order to get an invoice that's valid in my country. I run that by your support last month, they generated me a new invoice manually (this one had boxes instead of non-ASCII characters, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), but it seems I'll have to resubmit a ticket each month to get the invoice. Is there something both me & the support team is missing? Is there a chance for a "tax ID" field in billing info UI?
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You may be right about the numbers in Europe but it certainly is the case in Italy where automatic cars are nowhere to be seen (except some luxury sedans). I’ll argue this is because is way more fun to drive a manual transmission.
See my comment above. Basically they host the Tor bridge and so your traffic (before being Torified) is still visible to the upstream carrier.
well, the three proposals are from the same group of people. they probably are reactions to feedback from the unicode technical commitee[0]. I've looked into the utc meeting notes, but those don't really contain much info[1].

[0]: see the progression at https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2/18-275... and https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2/18-235 and https://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetMatchingDocs.pl?L2/17-435
[1]: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18007.htm and https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18272.htm and https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18115.htm
With hindsight, this article has all the pieces for understanding what happened with home computers but didn't quite put it together. The article is correct that software was going to drive computer sales and that you had to depend on what at the time was a cottage industry. They even mention IBM being about to enter the market, but the article doesn't seem to be aware of or recognize the importance of the PC architecture in providing a common platform for software creators to target.
Propaganda from deep-pocketed individuals and organizations is a problem, but the current cure is worse than the disease, particularly when the censorship itself is biased. It takes more to be labelled fringe and justify censorship for left-leaning speech, than it takes for right-leaning speech.

The root problem with modern discourse and social media is subtle, unforced siloing of communication within subgroups, so that there's not enough subgroup-bridging discussion. Overton windows shrink until subgroup-bridging discussion is mostly impossible. That all happens without any active censorship.
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To me, there is no better guide to meditation from start to advanced than Culadasa’s book “The Mind Illuminated”. I suggest it to nearly everyone I can—it breaks down the meditation process into concrete stages, skills to practice, and issues that may arise along the way.
I have a pink laptop cover for the same reason.
btrfs is designed with a developers POV, zfs with a sysadmin POV. This means that the former is a pain to use, the latter works really well.
It is possible to build an MVP in this way - my suggestion is to take a small project with clearly defined deliverables and shop it to 3-5 minimum developers as a super alpha of whatever it is you are building.

In this way you are able to test the quality of the outsourcing company you are using / freelancer.

Also, as a note to anything - if it is not working out - fire quickly.

Good luck!
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Back in 2015 I wrote an ebook called "how to start and grow your subscription box from 0 to 1000 subscribers", as I felt I had learned enough about the topic while running my own business to have something useful to share. Odd thing happened though soon after releasing it, I'll get to that in a bit.

I recall it sold about $2k right after release, as Product Hunt happened to have just opened a book section back then and it got to #1 place for a day. I put it on Amazon, iBooks and Gumroad. Basically all the initial sales were from Gumroad.

But the cool thing is that although comparatively sales slowed to a trickle, now 3 years later it's still selling about $10 worth each month, now completely from iBooks and Amazon. It's not much, but at this point it's completely passive.

So the odd thing? While I was writing it I had just crossed 1000 subscribers myself. But after I released the book, I soon found out that a lot of my subscribers were actually using stolen card numbers and I had to cancel about a third.

So now I have a book out about how to get 1000 subscribers, but I don't actually have 1000 subscribers, and turns out I never really did, although I was convinced of it while writing it. It feels a bit like karma from being too proud too soon.
So you're telling me that russian bots spreading lies are merely "ideas you disagree with"? I can't... I can't... jesus...
Because TOR provides anonymity not privacy, privacy and anonymity are in principle opposites the more private something is the less anonymous it is and vise versa.

Privacy is the agency you have over controlling your interactions and information, anonymity is the level of distance you have between a certain interaction and your identity.

A private conversation cannot be anonymous because you need to be able to establish and verify the identity of the parties involved and have trust in them not to dessiminate that information further.

TOR focuses on anonymity which means that if you use it to access things in private such as your gmail or bank account that anonymity goes out the window as you now can be tied to an identity.

Pushing everything through TOR can also include services that are not anonymous by definition which can expose your identity.
It wasn't until the late 80s the the PC ("IBM compatibles") became more popular than the commdore 64 even in the US.
Thankyou for that piece of anecdata.

I was thinking seriously about joining a few months ago, because I think a "social network" / forum that caters to its paying users instead of advertisers, and has a membership fee and something less than 100% anonymity to keep the riffraff away is a nice idea.

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be a practical business model.
Has an Army data analyst cracked the D.B. Cooper skyjacking case?
Built a package manager to transfer user selected data from one installation of the system to another. The data was stored in a mysql database, and used foreign keys everywhere, so installing the exported records in the right order was necessary. Some data was local to the machines though, and should absolutely not be exported. But exported entities need to be able to reference these local settings, so these references were exported using a symbolic value - the records had a name field which was used. Exportable entities included packages, so the whole thing was recursive and all requirements also needed to handle that.

Sounds fun right? Well, everything should also be installed keeping the integrity of the system intact, and if something didn't work out (say, an entity of the same name as one that is being installed already exist), then everything should fail in a controlled manner and the user should be given a good error message and there shouldn't be any crap left behind in the system.

Then the people in charge realized that this is nice, but as they built a big package hierarchy that was then installed and modified slightly in the customer systems, it would be nice to be able to serialize, and uninstall the local changes to packaged objects, uninstall the packages, install a new version and reapply the changes. These should also be possible to package, so that each customer system was possible to recreate. Supported serializable changes was not only fields, but also above mentioned symbolic references as well as whole new records.

This is easily the task that has formed me the most as a developer.
Well, one thing that is mentioned in the article, but deserves a lot more attention is IP theft. You should read about the chilling IP theft case of the bullet train where China pretended to contract Japan for the bullet train, but used it to steal their IP, patent it all and screw them over.

Here's a really good documentary on how much engineering went into Japan's bullet trains.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA4aaSzqT9s

To see all this being stolen by someone who just walked in, pretending to make a deal, is so painful.
Not OP, I personally find it makes me calmer and increases my ability to focus.

A good way to visualize is to think of thoughts as a bunch of waves. A thought wave can trigger another wave and usually, it ends up multiplying and the mind ends up with multiple thoughts. When you meditate and observe your thoughts, the waves start to die out. The state of a 'clear mind' where no thoughts appear in your mind is usually fleeting. The longer your meditate, the better you become at the ability to maintain a 'clear mind'. The longer you can maintain a clear mind, the better you are at focussing .
I'm a freelancer been working on both projects which succeed or failed. The outcome depends more on the founder however a freelancer can easily be blamed.

My few cents are:

1. Hire a freelancer if you have not enough budget to hire a studio / agency which is 2-3 times more expensive.

2. Hire a good freelancer. How much a website or app costs is not a secret. Hire a freelancer which goes by that budget and time.

3. Make sure the freelancer has done similar projects like yours.

4. Call the freelancer, have a chat, make sure you like each other.

5. Start with a one week task. If you like the outcome go for the next week. And so on. Reduce risk by divide et impera.

6. Make sure the deliverables follow standards / best practices. In other words: avoid vendor locking. If the project has to be picked up by someone else make it sure it is possible.

7. Make the freelancer you first employee / co-founder. Many freelancers would go by this scheme.
I got interested in computers because I wanted something to play games on, that's all I cared about... and my cousin wisely told my parents to get me an Amiga 500 instead of what I wanted. It came with a lot of manuals which I devoured, and though I didn't program much on the Amiga, I owe a lot to all that (most importantly a point of comparison -- it's not like I haven't experienced all the stuff that came later, and I know I missed out on an even more "empowered" time in the 80s, I barely just catched the tail end of a golden age).

https://archive.org/details/commodoreamigamanuals

Glorious.

Sure, most kids who had an Amiga didn't get that deeply into it, e.g. a friend of mine who also had an Amiga never seems to use his computer for much more than playing games and watching movies to this day. But for anyone interested to dive deeper, the doors were wide open and and as encouraging and honest to newbies as humanly possible. Even my non-technical kid friends knew how to load up a neat module in protracker. None of that focus on quality and openness for the sake of quality and doing the right thing was to the detriment of the "casuals", and a polar opposite of a world of stuff like miniminzed JS that does nothing interesting, smartphone apps that half-ass what a website could do, games that just rehash and dumb down the same shit to keep people consuming.

The shift from tools and variety to mere consuming and fads is rather crass, come to think about it.
You can't un-fire the missiles.

This might be a great approach for some (plausibly very large) subset of cases, but it can't handle everything.
I've distributed hygiene kits such as those in a shelter environment and most people were very grateful for them. It probably depends on the environment you're in. But the bottom line is if something isn't well received then don't offer it, or try to offer it in a different context.

If someone was really dedicated, then they would sit down with one or two people from the homeless community and ask them what they want and how they want to receive it.

Most of us aren't willing to do this, and that's fine. I think the problem is that we expect it to be easy to please a homeless person because they "have nothing." But in reality they are complex human beings like everyone else and they don't want to be treated as lesser.
Transactions and strong exception safety have two things in common: they're easy to use and hard to implement.
Vipassana is advertised as a scientific method but I discovered it has more to do with a sect. I left after five days. I'm sure there's a lot to be gained from meditation, but I don't trust this organisation.
I've had multiple friends who were first-timers who have taken this course and all of them have given me positive reviews. Unlike the mount analogy, you can leave the meditation camp at any point of time. It's completely free, so you pay nothing and they only accept donations ( completely optional) from people who finish the full 10 day course.
Holy shit yes please. And grap.
The Orthodox Church has the concept of prelest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelest

It's something like spiritual misdirection and there should be greater awareness of the phenomenon in Western society.
> "I think that the kids-these-days who aren't hacking their smartphones are the same kind of people who didn't do much more than watch TV in years past."

True. But most people never took the TV to the toilet with them. Yes, It's the same type of person. But today there's no norms to discourage usage (e.g., most people didn't watch TV at work) and thus ever less self-regulation.

Note: I'm not longing for the good ol' days. Just wanting to add some clarity to the comparison.
Where this crosses into defamation is using the fact that Proton has a small office in Vilnius (representing <10% of total headcount) to imply, without proof, that Proton is part of some Lithuanian data mining conspiracy.

This defamation becomes willful when an attempt is made to spread this to the press and on social media, even after the story has been debunked.

The data-mining narrative is false, has been verified as false by third parties, and that's where we would like to leave things.

Unfortunately as this false narrative still comes up from time to time, we still need to comment on this from time to time. What we can do from now on, since it bothers you, is to leave PIA out of it when responding. However, that won't change the fact that many people are aware the allegations were first made by PIA. This last point is beyond our reasonable control.
Abstract: The Green Bay Packers are the only community owned team in the NFL. Legally they are a very unique organization - a non profit with stock-stockholders - in fact the NFL even considers them at a competitive advantage to all other teams because of that and has control over Packers right to offer/issue new stock to raise capital. But when the NFL does permit the Green Bay Packers to raise money by issuing new stock, the Packers file a No Action Letter to the SEC setting out their legal argument that Packers Stock is not a security or does not need to register. We published their original documents, our redline versions and our final version of the SEC letter and Public Offering Document. Our Delaware Certificate of Formation and Operating Agreement are also worth a look because they memorialize the LLC units being maintained and issued on the Ethereum Blockchain and include the addresses for the “Blockchain Stock” (ERC20) and public offering smart contract.

The SEC does not accept hypothetical No Action Letters so behind the cloak of anonymity of The Satoshi Nakamoto Trust we launched a Delaware LLC and submitted our legal argument. Initially intended to be a safe/sandbox startup to legitimize our legal framework, we memorialized the duration/powers/duties of the LLC into a decision tree - which isn’t but could further be memorialized in smarts contracts in future iterations - which begins to look a lot like a Delaware DAO.

SEC No Action Letter- Delaware LLC & Operating Agreement

1. The Green Bay Packer’s Proposed Stock Offering “No Action” Letter dated June 16, 1997 [1]

2. A redline version of the Green Bay Packer’s Proposed Stock Offering “No Action” Letter dated June 16, 1997 [2]

3. The Blockchain Stock Company’s Proposed Blockchain Stock Offering “No Action” Letter dated 31 October 2018[3]

a. Exhibit A - The Blockchain Stock Company’s Certificate of Formation (Articles) [4]

b. Exhibit B - The Blockchain Stock Company’s Operating Agreement [5]

Public Offering Document:

1. The Green Bay Packer’s Public Offering Document [6]

2. A redline version of the Green Bay Packer’s Public Offering Document [7]

3. The Blockchain Stock Company’s Public Offering Document [8]

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hhv5dKkU2R9D81wZUYaH5wxWAE1...
[2] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ATCnecraourkjNx5FYPsXzPsoJe...
[3] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XbUuDO-R1JUMh_BnHnSbcq5rRG5...
[4] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mrzY9mTXAqgXq-0SzevvYOmGCvK...
[5] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1noePTMojVq-sw3UVMxSffAss1zX...
[6] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrfu1eTGiev8bOa_cnGiOPr3-YU...
[7] https://drive.google.com/file/d/10J1-oGCKXmuK1WeUqdcNk0ntjy1...
[8] https://drive.google.com/file/d/12IC7oYYNzIcLp3uX1JJbumPY0Qe...
>Prices have not been adjusted because people don't actually believe, on the whole, that Brexit means anything material

I'm a London property owner who's pondered selling. Brexit will probably make a big difference but who knows how it's going to go just now. I'm going to sit it out and see but there could be a big fall with a no deal brexit. That said we survived WW1 and 2 so we'll survive a trade hiccup.
I've always wanted to try genetic algorithms in practice, but whenever I came across a problem that could be solved this way, I was stuck on point 1.

How to parametrize my problem? Be it mathematical operations, source code or gates, how to separate it in pieces that can be mutated efficiently?
That’s not the point the point is that their mobile carrier tracks your location and device which they can’t control and pushing all your traffic through TOR deanonymizes it if you use any service which is tied to your identity so a default route all rule for daily internet usage via TOR isn’t a good idea.
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The situation in Serbia back then may not have been perceived as an apocalypse (or not by some, anyway) but that is very far from perceiving it as harmless, or, even more absurdly, desirable.

I'm Greek. The Crisis wasn't an apocalypse. We're still here. But we really didn't want all that to happen to us and nobody wants that happening to them, either.

You know what I mean? If you cut my leg off I won't die, but I really, really don't want you to cut my leg off.
I agree with the first part, but your second example is pretty much exactly how the residential construction process works (and likely the commercial sector as well, but I have no direct experience there). The general contractor hires local subcontractors (roofers, electricians, plumbers, rough carpentry, finish carpentry, drywall/plasterers, painters, tilers, etc), manages the overall project timeline and budget, and pays the subs.

Bringing it back to OP's question, the comparison might be: many companies use technology (have a website, maybe even sell online) but are not technology companies at their core. Other companies that seem tech-light might have amazingly deep tech underlying the business.

If OP is founding a company that is going to happen to sell some things on a Shopify site, or create some gadget that has a few blinky lights on it, it could be perfectly reasonable to outsource the tech. (100% agree that if there's deep tech involved, that you need a tech-savvy founder or an amazingly committed tech advisor at a bare minimum.)
Then offer them treatment as well, but the fact remains that being poor with a substance use disorder is worse than having money with a substance use disorder.

Let me ask you this: if someone doesn't have money, how do they get drugs?

Refusing help to people with substance use disorder is a form of toxic moralizing that does nothing to help them.
I also didn't think the canonical effort went anywhere? Maybe I'm wrong. Re:wsl You are correct thank you for the catch. I was missing a few key words.
manuals are still inherently more efficient than fluid couplings, and they are going to weigh 60-150 lbs less than a traditional automatic or dual clutch transmission. also the "small cost difference" is $1000 or more on all the new cars I've looked at recently.
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I am not a professional programmer , just a guy fooling around without job. But I am surprised that stuff like this would make it to HN front page . I have checked out the link , it is indeed great but it is not what I should expect to land here. My take is that Rust is hot nowadays.
Going to agree with the Seaborn guy here. While you qualify your stance with some diplomatic terms, it does come off as very aggressive. Adding polite statements to a rude letter doesn’t make it polite; and a provider of an open source maintainer doesn’t have do to anything for you. You call the software objectively wrong and are telling the author that his product is wrong when you really should be asking how to use it on stack overflow.

Seaborn is a really nice way to take off matplotlib overhead and make your non-seaborn plots look better too. I highly recommend it.
> To see all this being stolen by someone who just walked in, pretending to make a deal, is so painful.

I mean, if you want to talk about pain, a lot of Chinese people see Japan primarily as the country responsible for the Rape of Nanking [0], among other atrocities. It doesn't make IP theft justified, but it probably puts it into context for why the Chinese government, people, or companies would have very little compunction against doing it.

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

EDIT - wow, people here really hate China. Is it so hard to see human factors affecting behaviors?
“It’s different this time”.
Sure. And Kazakhstan has survived worse times still. It's in way worse shape than the UK, in every aspect you want to compare. Maybe the UK after Brexit can survive like Kazakhstan survives?

Or pick your (least) favourite nation that's in dire economic and social strates: DRC, Yemen, Myanmar, ...

The UK will certainly survive. The question is: in what way.