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I believe Threema is more focused on business messaging these days. My employer recently qualified it as our official mobile messenger.

Providing an Open Source client seems no goal anymore.

What all the other messengers should copy is their poll feature [0]. It can basically act as an integrated Doodle.

[0] https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/threema-poll-feature
C programmers with Mac experience wanted for revival of Eudora eMail client
Indeed, there was a bug with determining when to switch to floats, that was fixed by Zoffix in August:

https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/fec1bd74f97e257d4c88673cd62fdcae39f587a3
We use Wire at work. It's sometimes a little buggy, but given the advantages (see my other comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18838010), it's a definite recommendation. Full disclosure: my company is one of the independent auditors of Wire (though they did so before I joined them).
Build your own Mint
I heard this once... "If you don't know where you're going, any road can take you there". Just start doing something, anything, if it's not the right thing you'll know.
I organize my projects inside my Documents folder. Specifically, my main folders are:

~Documents/MSc
~Documents/Projects
~Documents/Documents

the MSc folder goes like that:

~MSc/A/class ----> letter (A, B, or C) is the semester, and then the class (simplified of course)

inside each class the structure is:

~class1/class_material ----> where is the documents (pdfs, slides etc) provided by the instructor and scanned notes if any
~class1/Project(s) ----> where are the projects for the class.

Each project has 2-3 subfolders:
~Project1/src ----> source code (different approaches for the same project go in here in seperate folders)
~Project1/documents ----> reports, presentations etc, and a txt with refereneces to papers, books and websites used.
~Project1/Results ----> if i have to do tests comparing approaches, models etc I keep my results in here
In the root folder of each project I keep the project requirments

My /Projects folder has the same approach

My Documents folder, for now is divided in two folders: ebooks and papers, and inside those folders are just bunch of files (with proper filenames, though, so searching is working)
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My Photos folder goes like that:

~Photos/year/month/event

each "event" folder has the raw files and an "exported" folder where the processed photos are. If I do panoramas, there is also an extra folder, called "panoramas":
~event/exported
~event/panoramas
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my Downloads folder is just a temp folder, so there is no need to waste time there.
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My Desktop is always empty (and icons hidden)
It's not about the majority - don't you see that?

It's about the 1-3% who will f* you for being a naive sheep.

That is why we can't trust these corporations and that they get more powerful everyday doesn't ease my mind (accumulation until we only have "the shop").

The problem with our economy is the basis for that. In our world (at least in the west, can't really compare that to the east as I only know it from western propaganda) the biggest goal is MONEY (=POWER).

Ethics, environment and people just don't count in this equation (ok they do if you want to improve your image).

Sure that's not what majority of the people sees but also they don't know anything about computers & software and most of them probably haven't thought much about ethics & philosophy. Just because majority does something is not a very good argument (see lemmings).
It doesn't relly matter that much if Facebook has your metadata or Telegram has your metadata. What's more important: WhatsApp E2E is more secure than Telegrams self built E2E, that needs to be enabled and doesn't support group chats.

Also, Telegram isn't that open source either: server side is closed source and the client side seems to be still an undocumented, mirrored mess.

So for me at least, as I don't want anyone that easily to read my messages: many other solutions > WhatsApp > Telegram.
I've been using Matrix with Riot since 2016 (then called Vector). Rooms aren't encrypted by default, however you can turn it on with the toggle of a button. One drawback I've noticed is Riot uses a lot of battery on Android (this is probably due to me not using the GCM back end), and on Linux as well (this is probably due to it being an electron app). Sadly there is no other Matrix client which is as featureful as Riot (for example, most of the others don't have E2E support), and so we're kinda stuck with it.

I also tried setting up a matrix home server with synapse, however I couldn't get it to work with an nginx reverse proxy and let's encrypt, and decided to just settle with using the default home server with E2E enabled. Others have had more success with this however, so I must be doing something wrong.

The experience is pretty good, and my friends and I have tried the Slack, IRC and Telegram bridges and they seem to work pretty well (infact the telegram bridge was so fast that I thought my friend was using the native client when he was messaging me). Haven't tried WhatsApp yet, though.

I've also used matrix and riot to connect to large group chats on IRC and Matrix and overall its a more pleasant and user friendly experience than using IRC, especially on mobile.
My '"partner"' is.
You might mix that up with syncthing-inotify, which was an external small inotify watcher that then pinged syncthing via its API. It was the recommended way to get inotify support till the functionality got merged.
Meh, jurisdiction is one thing, but if the trust model does not include the server (a e2e encrypted chat app does not require a trusted server by definition), it doesn't really matter that much. Most they can do is social network analysis (as in, who talks to whom), against which the only solution is using an anonymisation network like Tor (no jurisdiction is going to disallow their intelligence services to see to whom an alleged terrorist is talking).
Wire only if you register first on a computer. from the phone if you create an account you have to use your number.
Uber employees' feelings about the company revealed in leaked worker survey
Corrected, thanks!

Curious though, why does WhatsApp not do it if they use the same protocol anyway? Why bother with the phone as an annoying proxy?
Believe me or not, there was a J2ME app called Talkonaut that was wildly popular in the middle east, and used phone number direct mapping back in days. There is no chance that Whatsapp never heard of it. I made few localisations for it back in my high school years.

Syria was a very big market for it.
No both separately. But I'm going to look at OpenOCD now.
They were, actually. MtProto v2 satisfies IND-CCA now as opposed to what the blog post claims: https://core.telegram.org/techfaq#what-about-ind-cca
I was talking to a very intelligent Chinese friend of mine who was struggling to describe scenes in English. My first thought was "Gee, maybe he should memorise passages from Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast trilogy, since that has some of the best scene descriptions I have ever read".

No shortage of students like that. You can imagine my hopeful start at seeing Peake's name on the list at the start of this article, then my slump on discovering that that was for death+50 years countries, and Australia/US are death+70.

This stuff kills culture. I can't even propagandise great English literature to someone trying to learn English. He'll have to go with Jane Austin like every body else, and he can chuse something more modern if he's got more money than sense. Thank goodness she died 200 years ago, or I don't know what I'd do. Maybe learn how to read Chaucer.
Riot.im is a damn pain to set up. I've been using computers for a quarter of a decade and I still get flummoxed by the UX.

Bridging Matrix/Riot to IRC/Telegram/Whatever seems to require some black magick beyond my capabilities.

On the other hand, even my grandmother can (and has) set up Telegram and WhatsApp.
Fingersnap, a React UI library powered by hooks
You do't need identity politics to provide more equal distribution of opportunities. Why not just assess every person as an individual, and dole out help according to their specific situation? For example, a kid from a dysfunctional (or even just very poor in money and culture) family needs extra help and skin color or gender are not relevant.
FF, Safari and chrome all have that option. Dig in the settings.
Micro Men (2009) – BBC Documentary
Where can I sign up?

Serious question because I can't tell a few dozen friends and family to either run their own server, nor do I want to play customer support for all of them.
A theoretical concern about MTProto that was already fixed over a year ago with MTProto 2.0.
> 2) The Nvidia drivers are buggy and problematic (related more to setup and compatibility with the rest of the system)

Aren't scientific farm servers running on Linux kernel with Nvidia cards ? It would not be used if it was that buggy, so I think that claim needs precision
Depends on what you base the percentage on. If it is the global population, then 5% of 7 billion is 350 million. So to be in the top 5% there must be at most 350 million people better than you.

Now consider a niche sport, say Ultimate Frisbee. I would guess that much less than 350 million people even know the rules. So invest an hour to learn the rules and play it a little with your friends. Voila, you are in the top 5%. And that is for an athletic sport.

You are probably talking about 5% of the people actively doing it like being registered in an association. In this case, 50% sounds more realistic to me.
Oh, man, you just have written my exact thoughts!
I also have a problem revisiting my notes, ideas, etc. I was thinking about creating a note-taking app with reminder. I know, that there is a whole world of note apps as well as reminder apps, but i wanted to have specific tool. Also, what is the point to be a programmer if you don’t create things for yourself, right?)
"Telegram provides a feature called "Links previews" that's available and on by default in not encrypted chats, anyways if you use a "Secret chat", Telegram app ask to you if you want to use "links previews" adversiting that it previews are done in the server side. How can they know what links are you writing? Can they read your messages still if you are using "Secret chats"? (Not sure but is a edge case)."

They probably do pattern matching on the app, why would they need to send anything to the servers for content previews?
This post has some useful information, but the recommendation of other centralized platforms that rely on a phone number make this post seem like the pile of FUD that Telegram has been enduring for long. Contact theft, metadata, susceptibility to phone number for setting up or verifying an account are issues shared by the other recommendations too. [1] For someone who doesn’t know much about security, it comes down to “who can be trusted”, and that question applies to Signal and Threema too.

[1]: Edit. I wasn’t aware that Threema does not require phone numbers. Thanks to dbrgn for correcting me.
Thank you for the tip. I still seem to get screen tearing with this option enabled, however.
I found OneTab [1] and Pocket (or similar read-it-later services) to be an efficient way to cope with too many tabs.

OneTab works similar to bookmarks but preserves the date & time they were added. It’s even possible to add a title, i.e. context, to a group of links along with the timestamp. Links can be moved around with drag and drop.

A great improvement to OneTab would be to be TST aware and maintain the tree structure.

Pocket makes reading bookmarks a lot more pleasant and the tagging system helps to preserve some context.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/onetab/ (also available for Chrome)
Then it is good. The worse NVIDIA public image is - the better.
Ask HN: Looking for Co-Founder for My New Domain AndroidCart.com
Hi, My name is Rocky Sharma.

I bought back androidcart.com domain from my client, almost a year ago! I am looking for Co-Founder for my new Domain "AndroidCart.com".

I am personally occupied with more than 15+ website, I don't have time to concentrate on new project right now. Therefore, I am looking for healthy business partner for domain androidcart.com

We can run any app like:

- Android affiliate electronic product
- Android blog
- Android tutorial site
- Android Forum
- Android store (app store or electronic store)

or any other business in your mind (except mobile app builder)

Connect, if you are interested in running with partnership on androidcart.com domain.

Thanks
The original version of the Ribbon had no way for it to be minimized, and did not display the keyboard shortcuts that could do the same job. I’m not sure about this, but at the time I believe you could not use the Alt key to access any menu item the way you could before and still can now (IOW, it also killed the menu bar completely).

At a time when laptop sales were eclipsing desktop sales, using up all that valuable vertical real estate for the menu, combined with seriously gimping the power user experience, and also definitely, suddenly changing the experience, it was unsurprising it received a lot of flack.

Later versions of the ribbon showed how powerful the concept was, but it may have been a better idea for MS to have introduced it with their non power user apps first (I.e. Not Office, or at least, not Excel) until the kinks were worked out, and they may have avoided a lot of the initial flack.

Personally, as someone whose primary computer was a desktop with a massive screen, and was already adept with all the KB shortcuts, I was always a fan of the ribbon
You should hold a pool cue and a rifle based on your dominant eye, not necessarily your dominant hand.
You are absolutely insane. Never settle!
I used to use Yahoo Notes for this. When they shut it down I created my own web app for this, and now it is available to anyone: https://circles.app

Features: Notes can be accessed from any web browser. Web site is mobile friendly. You can share notes with others. You can encrypt notes. And the most important feature: You can download all your notes by clicking "Download all" and you get a .zip file with plain text files (with line breaks compatible with your OS).

Other features: You can save links to random websites, you can create lists, store some files and so on.
Before moving to Electron, Signal was a Chrome app. I'm not sure if it's still available as such, however. A way to generalize between the two from the development side would be nice.
A good rule of thumb is that if it says somewhere "x inch" in a common kind of measurement, then the device never has any length of x inches.

Eaxmples:

- 3.5 in floppy disks have no 3.5 dimension (the disk is 86 mm, the cartridge is 94x90 mm, the drive is 100 mm).
- 3.5 in hard drives have neither 3.5 in platters nor are any of their external dimensions 3.5 in
- Ditto for 2.5 in drives, likely also true for 5.5 and 8 in drives.
- Any kind of inch-sensor size (e.g. 1/2, 2/3) is not the size of the sensor measured in any way.
- ...
Johnny.Hexadecimal?
A lot of home users have had IPv6 “silently” enabled, while many corporate networks have never implemented it, or only implemented it for a small portion of services that need it.
Language in Programming
Anyone that lived through the decline of Dell and Gateway and the other PC companies knew this was coming.

It was inevitable.

Apple just did not transition fast enough to recurring revenues.
Final Project – First Gene-Edited Babies
Recently, a Chinese researcher named He Jiankui has created the world’s first CRISPR-Cas9 babies through his secret, self-funded research. The creation of the first genetically edited babies is like the opening of Pandora’s Box, which provokes uncertain and uncontrollable ethical concerns and social issues that could ultimately alter the future human world.
Genome editing is no doubt an advanced technology with wonderful prospects. A well-known example is the malaria-resistant mosquito which had been predicted to have enormous impacts on human health. Similar experiments have been conducted on other animals samples to find out solutions to diseases and to develop medicines for the sake of improving modern biomedicine. However, the research done by He Jiankui was considered illegal and unethical. First of all, the experiment had not been reported to any public hospitals or medical ethics committees. Secondly, He Jiankui had violated the medical informed consent law. Lastly, he performed adoslucation and genome editing and planted the human embryos inside the female participants’ wombs. The nature of this experiment was no different from human experimentation, which has highly been considered morally wrong by any means.
There are also social issues caused by He Jiankui’s research. The biological and social effects on the girls are quite unpredictable. There could be other potential diseases caused by the immature technique of genome editing.
All in all, researches like He Jiankui’s should be banned. The twins were born to have a distinct identity than normal people and to be more difficult to get the society’s acceptance. The long term effects on them are waited to be verified by time. Further researches need to be done rigorously for advancing the future application of the technique to lower the possible risk and to guarantee the benefits.
Maybe, however all my Debian installations are very strict in their repository configuration, and I'm failing to see syncthing-inotify package in Debian snapshots server [0].

...or maybe I'm making all these up from all the things I read while researching syncthing, who knows :)

Regardless of all, it's working very well and it's dependable now, and it's the point I think :D

[0]: https://snapshot.debian.org/package/?cat=s

Addenda: Actually, forgetting all little details about it is a reliable sign of an application working well and just disappears to the background IMHO.
I believe you can move chats between devices, they just have to be sourced from Signal and not SMS. SMS/MMS chats are what you may be talking about as immovable from Signal. Those are not shared between your Signal devices for security purposes, I imagine. You can back these up or move them yourself separately. Also, Signal device linking only works between one mobile device and multiple desktop clients. To move between mobile devices it requires a Signal chat backup and restore.
> Floppy disks are tech from the US though, and everything about them is hence in inches, from physical specs to tech specs, so the metric docs translate the units.

Do read the specs someone else linked in this thread. All major dimensions are even metric measurements and thus are not even imperial measurements.
How do you clean one hand without the other? If you don't have soap, wouldn't cleaning hands actually increase the risk of infections?
Absolutely. But it might be a simple habit thing.

When going to the UK I find it easy to orient myself to look in both directions when I cross traffic as I usually do that. Even driving a car as I am highly aware that it is different but I am at least still in control.

But the first taxi ride from the airport when we hit the first roundabout freaks me out every single time!
I use Keep for everything. I just wish it 1) wasn't owned by Google and 2) started up faster.

It lets me create searchable yet unstructured notes, lists, and photos. It's unbeatable in terms of simplicity and functionality.
I found that the best way to make long term decisions is to pose the question to 5 year old me and 55 year old me.
- 5 year olds are full of optimism and dreams
- 55 year olds are full of wisdom and regrets of a life wasted

When you pose the question to yourself in that manner you’ll find that both personalities tend to agree with each other and set you in the right direction for what Ray Dallio terms “regret minimization strategy”
Energy and AI are totally needed.

AI can fuel research in every domain, including healthcare.

Energy is becoming the dominant cost of more and more things. And the transition out of oil is, IMO, the most likely to be a civilization-ending event if we don't do it correctly.

If you love on of these subjects, dive in. Let other well intentioned people go into the other fields, we are many!

And to answer your question, when I was 14-15 yo I stumbled upon the notion of post-scarcity and on the question and AI and what I did not know at the time was called the technological singularity.

I think the creation of human-level AIs will be the most significant invention since the invention of fire or agriculture so this has absorbed most of my thoughts and focus in the last 20 years.
Threema does not rely on phone numbers. You can use it anonymously, and you can add other contacts without knowing their phone number.

More details can be found in the crypto whitepaper: https://threema.ch/press-files/2_documentation/cryptography_...
> Some people can work just for material benefit to themselves and their families. However, eventually that juice runs out because money is just not useful beyond a point.

Admittedly, material benefit to myself and my family isn't the only reason I work. However, the argument that "money is just not useful beyond a point" isn't a strong one in my mind. I'm in my late forties right now and make a reasonable sum of money. I doubt I will ever get to the point where making more money won't get me more of what I want. Right now, I need to weight priorities when it comes to spending money (generator for my house vs something else). Getting to the point where I don't need to do that (for important things) would be my "more money isn't useful" point. I doubt I will ever get there.
My sister and me are both right-handed, but hold the knife in the left hand and the fork in the right. Our parents are also both right-handed but hold the knife in the right hand, so we didn't learn it from them.
I’ve been convinced all along that this is just mass hysteria. Anxiety and stress can cause almost all the symptoms they’ve talked about.
A perspective about China’s demographic crisis