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Disclosure of bias: I work for Microsoft. I don't speak for my employer.

Windows Phone 7's chassis specification mandated that manufacturers include a hardwired LED that lit up when the front-facing camera is active. But Android did not mandate this (or much of anything), and so the Qualcomm Reference Device (QRD) didn't implement it. The QRD is important, because many low-end manufacturers bootstrap their product design with a QRD and make the minimum number of changes to arrive at a viable product. But manufacturers needed to do extra engineering work and add to the BOM to make a Windows version of their cheap Android products.

It eventually became clear that consumers weren't willing to pay any premium for Windows Phone's higher standard for privacy. (I'm not claiming this was the only cause of WP's failure in the market -- just one small contributing factor.) So we intentionally pared down later versions of the chassis specification to minimize the differences between it and the QRD, including removing this privacy LED requirement. In theory, this would have allowed manufacturers to churn out cheap Windows Phones as easily as they were churning out cheap Android Phones.

Of course in hindsight, that was all too little, too late. Android won the cheap phone market for a huge number of reasons, one tiny factor of which is that it didn't require a privacy LED. The moral I took away? If your products cost more because they're safer, your marketing needs to ensure you get credit for that. Safety isn't obvious to someone glancing at your product; you need to spell all it out for the consumer. And if you can't find a way to articulate it, then reconsider whether you really need that safety feature.
I don't know why my perception of the world seems so different, but my view of things is that people are generally nice to each other, and for the most part I can get along with anyone that I cross paths with in daily life (even if I wouldn't exactly want to be friends with them).
Dedekind Cuts [pdf]
Are there any plans to make this support Typescript in the future? :)
The very act of trying to convince someone is an act of manipulation, you can't divorce the two. Unless you're speaking simply to say your mind and without the desire to actually change something? Is that an act of integrity? Or is proclaiming what you believe for no other effect than to let people hear you an act of pride?
> File-system Based Routing: If your code resides in ./api/login.js it's exposed at http://<SERVER>/api/login. Inspired by good ol' PHP days.

> Auto Dependency Resolution: If a file does require('underscore'), it is automatically installed and resolved. You can always create your own package.json file to install a specific version of a package.

This sounds like a security nightmare.

EDIT: to be clear, I don't meant he combination of both is a security concern, that each one of them separately is problematic.
They're going to have to make PHP that compiles before we lose our jobs...
Validating File Integrity Using the Enterprise File Fabric
It's a Quality of Implementation issue.

The tape does this because it was mechanically simpler. But in other systems, where it may not be, this is still what you want. So, a good Implementation should do it anyway.

Portable minidisc players _could_ have been made slightly cheaper by removing the solid state storage, then they would have skipped if jogged like old portable CD players (and unlike a portable tape player). But all the official ones had solid state and so the experience for the end user was that they "didn't skip" even though of course in reality a spinning disc can't achieve that, the solid state storage hides it from you for long enough. Good Implementation. CD players copied this technology eventually as RAM got cheaper.

This is the same for TV channel up/down on most digital TVs. It's very slow. Why? Well, mechanically changing channel is more complicated, and so by default it will be slow. But that's not really _why_ the real answer is that consumers prefer a cheaper TV that has poor Quality of Implementation and so those have won. Vendors could spend $5 extra on the BOM (duplicate tuner and decoder circuitry following adjacent channels) and a few hours engineering to make it nice and fast, but why bother when customers won't pay a dime extra?
Without arguing with the last one, I imagine that for a great deal of content I won't consume it at all; a very small portion of things on the internet is worth paying for.

And also it will probably be ads+tracking+various levels of paying money.
> Why is it so difficult for these producers to find that market?

Is it? I think they are, what makes you say otherwise?
You can find real balsamic vinegar at virtually any grocery store. Made in Italy in Modena or broader Emilia region, using Lambrusco or Trebbiano grapes, aged at least 12 years, etc. Fully, legitimately balsamic vinegar.

Because the difficulty and complexity of making balsamic vinegar really isn't that far removed from, say, bourbon. And we all know you can find real, legitimate bourbon at any shady liquor store. It's a profitable venture so a lot of it is made.

Often these conversations turn into gate keeping, where we redefine what is "real" or not to disqualify the proles.
You can install a beefy "GPU" to do number crunching and still use the built-in Intel graphics ;-)
That might be true, but it seems tech is not that meaningful. Usually technological change carries with it a lot of need for human labor. (Eg. first it needs to be evaluated, planned, implemented, supervised, maintained, repaired, etc.)

And it seems that tech displaces the middle income jobs. ( https://economics.mit.edu/files/11563 ) Which of course puts a downward pressure on wages, which probably contributes to the decline of labor share of income, but this effect is no as big as using a different deflator, nor is the technological change well correlated with the aforementioned decoupling.
Bryson's book is a great read. Definitely weaves some of the monotonous details into a compelling story. I highly suggest people read this book if they like the highlights of natural and modern history and science.
I really should learn that. I often find myself maniupulating text data in emacs, turning it into CSV or something that I can then copy/paste into a spreadsheet for calculations.
This is extremely common throughout the history of music. The original context of a work is almost always lost as technology and culture change, presenting familiar pieces in new ways. How often are Chopin's pieces performed in huge recital halls, when they were meant for small salons/private parties? How about Schubert's songs, which were sang in very private settings for friends? Or the contrasting sides of two records? Or the continuous flow of record/tape/CD from one track to the next, vs. Spotify playlist's penchant for combining songs from all over the place. What about sampling tiny pieces of a work? Theme and variations on a work from an opera for a piano? Adaptations for new instrumental groups of old pieces?

Since music is inherently playful, and society is great at inventing new musical toys, I think we're destined to an ever-shifting musical landscape.
Why Banks Are Utilizing Data Captured in Mobile Banking Applications
It's not.

There are many proofs about contacts between Lega or 5 star movement and Putin's emissaries.

Unfortunately many of them are in Italian.

Just look for Jacobo Iacoboni articles, that might have been translated and published in english.

His book 'the experiment' is also worth reading.
Let's Talk about NewSpace
I never found Raspberry Pi 3B+ to have less laggy browsing, on YouTube it drops frame and sometimes video just hangs while audio keeps playing.

I am using Orange Pi 3 for a Router, which filters traffic/does DNS filtering too.

It has 5gbps USB3 and true Gigabit ethernet.
Chaos Toolkit 1.0.0 Released
Potentially naive question, but genuinely curious. How does someone know if a warrant canary has been "abandoned," as the article mentions, or used as intended?

If they disappear, that indicates something. If they stay there without change, that indicates something too. Or am I missing something?
Ugh, yet another bullshit website trying to turn people into single-issue voters on an election that's far more complex and wide-reaching than just who bears the responsibility of content filtering.

Single-issue voting hurts everyone including yourself.
I've taken a few, and these two are my favorites:

Learning How to Learn by Barbara Oakley: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn Hands down the biggest return on investment for an online class. It helped my future learning so much. Highly, highly recommend it.

Harvard's CS50: https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-computer-scien... Took this course when learning to program. It was difficult, but I learned a great deal. Fantastic professor, good problem sets, and great production value.
Perez Hilton Celebrity Blogger and Hacker
Perez Hilton, celebrity Blogger has a sister with her own persona going on! Her name is Ginger Voight! She is an author! She also is comedian Hal Sparks number one fan! Watch for Perez and Ginger on sat. morning in The Hal Sparks Radio program chat room! They are moderators! Perez Hilton makes up fake names to hide behind! He even uses real people and their accounts to post from! Sometimes he hides on his sister’s accounts!
I will never vote for somebody who's opposing to a free EU

Besides, as a long time activist for internet freedom, I agree that something like article 13 is urgently needed.

There is no freedom without protection.

What EU is trying to do is to protect the small local EU actors against the tech giants from outside EU.
Try to focus on one specific technology that is popular in enterprise software and become an expert at it. Take one to three months if possible and just focus on that one thing. I'll use the example of front end development with Angular. Watch a bunch of youtube videos on it and read the docs. Set up a free github account and set up a free github pages blog and do deep dive blog posts on angular topics as you learn and also build demo apps that demonstrate your mastery of specific angular best practices. Put that stuff on your resume and present yourself as an expert on the topic. Side opportunities may open up as well. As an example see how this guy has set himself up as a django expert: wsvincent.com
It's not hard at all. That market is high end restaurants. Especially when I was in fine dining, we'd have farmers, importers and foragers showing up at the back door all the time with various vegetables, bottles of oils and vinegars, truffles, vanilla beans, etc... The market for individuals trying to buy these things is very small, but for restaurants, just look up rankings in a guide and show up at the top restaurants.
Looking through the code on github found a .py file handler in the works: https://github.com/remoteinterview/zero/blob/master/packages...

Any idea of a timeline on this feature? I think it could be really awesome to be able to prototype with python in addition to js.
So they manage to launch a 2G - 5G MultiMode Modem inline with other Industry leaders ( Comparatively Speaking ) Like Intel and Qualcomm.

And Intel decide to end the partnership? Something doesn't sound right. Or did they get IP from other players?
The rsync.net warrant canary is 13 years old this April:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt

"The first commercial use of a warrant canary was by the US cloud storage provider rsync.net, which began publishing its canary in 2006. In addition to a digital signature, it provides a recent news headline as proof that the warrant canary was recently posted as well as mirroring the posting internationally."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
>>"We shouldn’t dismiss this as irrelevant, because many things that close only a small part of the gap may, when added together, close a large part of the gap. But this doesn’t do much on its own."

I'm not saying is not true, but I find this idea highly suspicious when there is a clear trend that start at some point.

I mean, what are the chances that many independent things move the trend, in the same direction at the same time, every year?.
Come to Linux. We have cake.

And your 3 year old hardware probably will work a lot better than it does under Windows ;-)
...why? I get that file-system based routing means you know the location of a source file on disk, but if anyone can access that file you've already lost.

And auto-dependency resolution also doesn't seem any larger a security concern, all it's doing is skipping an "npm install" command.
There's a real split in goods and service prices where certain classes of goods have risen incredibly (Healthcare and College) and others have fallen (computers and TVs).

Check out this chart to get a sense of it: http://www.aei.org/publication/chart-of-the-day-or-century/
Why does the sign say back OP door EN?
Listen to the On-Call Nightmares Podcast
Names are probably the least-interesting thing to study with respect to spelling, because they are completely arbitrary and there is so much variation even in identical-sounding names.

How many variants can you find for "Mikayla"?
My biggest take away from this is noticing America was in a much better mood in 1996.

> In theory, the use of objects makes program code easier to maintain and reuse, although no one has actually shown this to be true.

This has gotta be the cheekiest thing I've ever read in NYT outside the opinion pages.

>As a programming tool, it has roughly the sex appeal of a wrench.

We're way too sex negative and tightly wound for such a metaphor to get past copyeditors today.
If they at least turn people into voters they’d have achieved a lot. Most people don’t care about European politics at all, that’s why they get away with ridiculous crap like this article.
Sorry yes, you are right, I had a typo in there. I was trying to say that more gadgets have NOT been proven to make anyone happier.
Not many governments have a good track record with regards to regulating IT. My local government (Denmark) cannot even respect basic human rights in their IT laws, and even when said laws are deemed a human rights violation, they refuse to remove them, instead leaving them in place while claiming they'll be "revised".

There are also many other issues where EU does better than IT. Food safety, environment regulations and trade agreements, just to mention a few.

While smaller units are almost universally better (imagine how different history would have been if the provinces of China had been independent countries), but does mean that each individual country must make many more agreements on their own, and have to shape their own regulations for things like food safety and environmental efforts, which might not turn out as well if they are not forced by the collective.
Don't forget about the late great Tom Petty and his famous "Hello, CD listeners, in fairness to cassette owners, we'll take a quick pause while they flip their cassettes over.
Did you read your own citations? https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecri/2013/238253/ presents evidence rejecting even the weak-form EMH.
" If they stay there without change, that indicates something too."

Usually they stipulate that they are to be updated every X days/weeks/months/whatever. So if you see one that promises to update every Monday, for instance, and it's old, that would be the same as being abandoned.
9461 out of 10000 sites have Google Fonts
Though thanks to the bigger market the prices can actually decrease, so living standards could increase, even if wages haven't.
I guess it depends on where you live but in Japan tomatoes are considered a “noob” crop because they are so easy to grow
I think the nostalgia that a lot of folks feel is that a tape is a physical unit of audio. With digital audio, your device can fit a ludicrous number of songs (or stream magically from the cloud). With a tape, that physical object _is_ the sound that's played. It makes it more precious. It requires a substantive amount of effort to create or duplicate.

CDs were like this too, for a while. When everyone had a burner and you could fit 650MB of MP3s on them, the magic faded. The CD was just a vehicle, not the song itself. The songs could be downloaded and shared trivially. If you wanted a song on tape, you had to buy it or find someone that had it and make a copy in a slow manual process.

The closest we've ever come to reclaiming this magic, IMO, is HitClips.
Awesome. I look forward to beginning my future supersonic intercontinental flights with a dive from 50,000ft. Will certainly make travelling interesting again.
I want to do that so bad. If only changing dpi didn't make everything blurry :-/
New IoT Vulnerabilities Illustrate Risks of Connected Devices
unpopular opinion: the main point of these canaries is PR. As far as I understand (and I understand nearly nothing about US law, so pinch of salt blah blah), exploiting legal loopholes is something that makes people excited and talk about your product, but doesn't really change anything in a court.

If you assume the US govt is an adversary or potential adversary, and you assume that they are fairly powerful through direct and indirect influences, then I just can't imagine the NSA or whichever three-letter agency deals with this kind of thing going "oh no, they have canaries, can't do anything there" and going back to spying on private Facebook messages that old people send to each other or whatever they usually do in their free time
I look forward to reading Matt Levine laughing through this (predictable) development.
neither did I understand the parent comment as something that has to be romantic. e.g. I love my children, my friends, my dogs, my cat, ... none in a romantic way.
The js part (React, MDX, Node) is almost complete. I will put out a basic handler for python ASAP if that's going to be useful to you :)
"BTW they are only opposing to article 13 because Putin asked them to do so" I am really curious why Putin would care about that? How this law affects Russia?
I envy you a bit, because a standard GNOME to me is about as useful as Windows, just more stable? :P

I don't run a complicated (to some, compared to this it's probably only half-complicated) setup because I want to, because I fiddled with it until it didn't get in the way anymore.
I think it's spelled NaaS now.
What is to stop them from lying? They get a warrant, but don't remove the canary. Later on, someone finds proof of the warrant, but then what? You sue Cloudflare for...what? False advertising?
It seems to me that you should have a folder (www?) that is served by zero, and a folder (lib?) that isn't. Then files in the www folder can import from the lib folder.
In addition to those examples, it's significant that you can block Google Analytics without blocking ads, if you're worried about privacy more than disruption. In practice, blocking trackers is a privacy issue for me, while blocking ads is a security issue. Sites that are content to run ads as text or linked static images get through, but social media trackers and arbitrary JS from ad networks doesn't.

Also, you can turn off any of that blocking after you first visit the site. I don't understand how the narrative of "you agreed to use this site, then went back on your part of the deal" is supposed to work when the only way to discover what you're agreeing to is to land on the site and let it happen. Do Not Track was supposed to be a (partial) solution there, letting you state your conditions for use on arrival, but we all know how much respect those conditions got.
It's weird how capital is assumed to take credit for automation. Automation is built by labor.
Because if you ever have a broken upload system that allows you to drop a JS file somewhere accessible by the file system routing, you have remote code execution. Additionally, you now have to write guards in every non-endpoint JS file so that it doesn't get executed just by a misplaced HTTP request.

And as for automatic dependency resolution, this means you're not even aware of what transitive dependencies you're pulling in, what version they are and have no way to vet anything - everything is hidden behind a wall of magic.
I think I last compiled my own kernel more than 15 years ago, so times have changed...
Technologies That Could Create Trillion-Dollar Markets over the Next Decade
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater!
The EU provides considerable benefits for Europe, arguably the most important, but also the most invisible, being peace. World War II ended only 74 years ago. To be a little dramatic: As a German, I'll gladly pay bureaucracy for peace.
There's trade benefits inside the EU, free travel for all citizens, and, recently added, no more roaming fees for mobile phones. This is just what comes to mind right now.
There's plenty to criticize and reform in the EU, but I disagree that leaving would improve things for any country.
Polymer: Detect Outside Click of Custom Element
Digital Ocean Introduces General Purpose Droplets
Yes. Should be easy! As we are not a typescript shop yet, we might need a hand with that. Otherwise, I will try to figure it out soon.
Living in Germany for a semester taught me to appreciate American produce because everything in Germany was tasteless. I didn’t even like tomatoes when I went to Germany and came back craving them because I’d been eating flavorless red chunks on salads for months.
Mint with XFCE. Fast, lightweight, and good stability.
How is Article 13 helping small local EU actors?
Can you fast forward through commercials? All you can do is mute the TV and/or leave the room. Even in systems like TiVO where you can rewind and fast forward they still mostly block you from fast forwarding commercials... No different than circumventing adblocks, but nobody complains about that.

Hell even TV networks track you. They know how many viewers are on certain shows and that. That's how they're able to garner high prices too.

Advertising is just something we always had to deal with. You don't have to watch commercials. You do that by not going to channels that have commercials, or using different services that you pay to not see commercials.

My point is, you are entitled to not be tracked. You're entitled to not have to see ads. But you are _NOT_ entitled to the content without those if the website decides the trade-off of you getting that content for free is by enduring those ads.

Close your window. Go somewhere else for content if the site you're visiting displays ads.
>The kit kat taste WAY better than the red plastic clown nose people told them are tomatoes.

I lived in downtown Boston and we had a roofdeck with full sunshine nearly all day. We grew tomatoes and some herbs in a planter and it was awesome. It made you realize why tomato sauce always have sugar added (to compensate for lack of ripeness and sweetness). Tomatoes became a staple and even my finicky 8 year old loved to eat them!
"Through various experiments over the years, scientists have discovered that no substantial evidence exists to support the claim that sugar causes hyperactivity." (1)

"Nonetheless, other experiments show that sugar may at least influence behavior. Dr. Wesnes conducted a study in which he found that having a large amount of sugar for breakfast led to a severe deterioration of attention span when compared to having no breakfast or eating whole grain cereal. Dr. Tamborlane, also from Yale, reported that children given sugar had higher levels of adrenaline. A possible explanation for this effect is that since sugar is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream, blood sugar rises quickly, which can lead to higher adrenaline levels and thus symptoms similar to those associated with hyperactivity. Furthermore, children with ADHD also tend to have higher levels of insulin." (1)

(1) http://www.yalescientific.org/2010/09/mythbusters-does-sugar...