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>What's your most convincing argument for why an average person should care more? Explain it to me like I'm 5.

Account was created four hours ago to ask this specific question. Not sure if it's a practice in information warfare by <insert three-lettered agency here> or what the deal is but that's highly suspect.
The game Engare [1] is another enjoyable way to explore this kind of thing - a more spirographical approach though.

[1] http://www.engare.design/
I more in the camp that if someone takes it, I write it off. I don't want to get my life dragged down in the minutia of "who took it, where is it". I just want to restore from (encrypted) backup and move on with my life.
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You may have a look at all the most common fears and find how many of them could be connected to privacy at all, in any meaningful way. From irrational (clowns) to semi-rational (immigrants and robots) and rational (shootings) ones.
I found in my own amateur UX studies that there are drivers who hear "in a quarter mile, turn right" and don't know how far that is, even after having heard that prompt thousands of times. You'd think that after a while they'd build a mental model of the distance. Instead, they seem to just tune out the "in a quarter mile". This is one of the classes of users for which products need to be designed. (I have similar problems with people's heights.)

Also, as a passenger it's fairly easy to say "turn in five blocks" and track how many blocks are left, maybe even while holding a conversation. For drivers, that seems more difficult, probably due to cognitive overload, unless it's just a couple of blocks. And I've noticed that some drivers react to that kind of direction by scanning the view and quickly translating the number of blocks to a landmark.
Hot corner it is for me.
For many of us, submitted articles are just social objects for provoking a discussion on particular topics. Also, sometimes the articles are really worth a read, other times they're garbage; usually they're something in-between. Going straight to comments is the fastest way to discover which is which.

Commenting without reading the article is fine. Speculating about what's in the article without having read it is a problem.
People happily pay premium prices for apple products, and they're interests are clearly not aligned. For instance, apple fights against the right to repair. I think this extends to a lot of companies.
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Is it possible to get 60fps with current network speeds?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11051095
"I have nothing to hide" has got to be the single worst argument I have ever come across. If you think about the implications here for even 5 seconds you'd see what a terrible, shortsighted, untenable argument this is.
There aren't a lot of good alternatives to Maps though.

I do find that the service is becoming more and more unusable with all the shitty product placements.
You spelled Pantera wrong

Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. The group was formed in 1981 by the Abbott brothers – drummer Vinnie Paul and guitarist Dimebag Darrell – along with lead vocalist Terry Glaze.
"The Dark Web is infamous for the trading of illegal weapons around the world."

[citation needed]

yes you can buy guns though mostly it's 3D printed shit where with every shot fired the chance that it blows up in your hand increases. There are some guns which are better quality but they are very probably tainted.

The darknet is lending itself extremely poorly for this type of transaction. Anonymity is exactly what I do not want when obtaining a weapon (yes even you tend to commit a crime with it). you may remain anonymous but the potential history of the gun certainly won't be and is traceable more accurately than any fingerprint.

The only reason why you might want to sell a gun there is to get rid of potential evidence while at the same time pin the crime on another person.

According to a study conducted by RAND Corporation, most firearm vendors on the darknet (59%) originated from the United States, but the combined revenue of European sales are 5 times higher than those of the US.

Most guns sold in Europe are coming via the South-West into Europe, usually from Russia, via Moldova, Serbia, Albania, etc. Small firearms are highly available in Europe if you know where to look. I very much doubt that the sale of all guns on the darknet is higher than 1% from all total trade. It's neither profitable nor practical to sell arms on the darknet.
It is, and I acknowledged that. But it gives a sense of the scale involved. Just as there are very few websites/apps that need to handle, what, 2000 requests/second (and simultaneously don't intend growing by more than a factor of two or so), systems that need that kind of performance in any other field are similarly rare.
"I continue to be amazed by the level of nearly complete indifference that the general populace still has towards privacy."

Where should it fit on their list of concerns? Let's say the average person is struggling to fit their current life into their day, to add their aspirations and bucket lists. Then they have concerns or arguments about the political landscape or the climate or they're worried about job security. Or they're worried about immigration one way or another. Or about security of themselves and their property. About the future for their children. Personal health concerns. When are they going to have time to go through a seemingly distant issue which isn't impacting them right now and doesn't really have an analog in basic instincts?

The apathy doesn't amaze me at all.
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Spanish-Portuguese has a solid line while Italian-Portuguese and Portuguese-Spanish are dashed, so the chart agrees with you.

I don't think the spatial potions represent anything, other than allowing the grouping and giving a rough guide at a glance.
Most cases seem to be due to users mistakenly removing the permanent screen protection layer. The company claims that the foldable screen has been tested for 200,000 folds -- i.e. about 5 years of rigorous use.
My friend built this audit / lockdown tool for enhancing security defaults in Mac. Maybe you will find it useful :) https://github.com/0xmachos/mOSL
The short answer is it’s about more than the person. I can’t speak for others but I wouldn’t argue that he’s not a prick.

But honestly, what exactly is cowardly about self-preservation? Do you think Chelsea Manning wouldn’t have jumped ship if she could have? - I doubt she was interested in being caught in the first place, surely you don’t think her attempts at being anonymous are cowardly. Would you call Edward Snowden a coward for fleeing to a country which isn’t actively interested in seeing him dead or behind bars for a long time? What good is a dead or incapacitated martyr in this world?

Also I don’t know where you read about that alleged blackmail attempt but it sounds extremely far fetched.
>The device the BBC handled, incidentally, was taken away by Samsung shortly after filming was finished, so our team hasn’t had a chance to see these issues for ourselves.

This seems a red flag, when devices involving mechanical innovation the reviewers should insist on long term review & shouldn't term anything less as a review.
Apple's consistently fought for privacy, though, and against ads and crapware. That's a good example: because you're paying a premium price for the product, they won't jeopardize those profits through contracts with other parties.

With the right-to-repair, your interests are definitely not aligned - each time you repair an iPhone, that's money you give to someone else that you're not giving to Apple. It's good to be aware of these situations - you'll never avoid all of them - but at least you can predict in which ways companies might try to screw you over and decide if you're okay with that.

The only reliable promise is someone else's self-interest.
While not directly comparable, the flexible flat cables in flip phones took years to be 'good' enough to last the phone's lifetime and those moved as much as this thing is going to. This might just be a cause of early production models and early adopter problems and might work out later.

Note: the flex cables are not bad per se as they are also used in cubesats for instance.
Muji has fantastic socks.

In their European branches, that is. Possibly they are also great in their Japanese shops.

With a shoe size of 11 1/2, however, you don't really get a chance to test that, since you won't find anything for your feet in that size.

Even sneakers are problematic.
I actually can't believe this. How in the name of all the is holy are we letting them get away with this.

Sure, we talk about the problem a lot. But we need to take action. It seems every big corporation are abusing the trust we give them in some form or another.

Please, for the love of God, can anybody prove me wrong. Are there any companies than don't abuse our trust?
Haha, the best part about privacy advocates are how uninformed they are. You're being tracked everywhere you go already. I've worked with the people who make it possible.

And they're private enterprises sometimes in contracts with the government.

If you're one of these privacy advocates go ask someone to join you from ad tech. You'll learn enough to keep you busy for a year, including stuff that's been happening for half a decade already.
HN's clearly stated and often-reiterated purpose is for content/discussion that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" [1][2].

There are some politics topics that could be gratifying of intellectual curiosity in theory, but are not in practice because people with the strongest reactions/staunchest positions on either side of the topic will dominate the discussion.

In other cases, such topics are introduced when people have an axe to grind, so they bring a heavily partisan or charged-up tone to the topic, and thus an intellectually gratifying discussion of the topic never has a chance to get started.

There are plenty of other places on the internet for people who want to have impassioned debates about the political outrage du jour.

HN is still a place where interesting discussions can be had about some controversial topics, particularly when they're about new emerging phenomena.

But it's never going to solve the biggest problems of the world, or settle the most vexed arguments in the daily news cycle or the U.S. presidential cycle.

HN is just designed for different things, and it works well by keeping it that way.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=gratifies%20intellectual%20cur...
Also if you have a Touch Bar Mac you can add a “lock” button to the Touch Bar. I mostly use that one and unlock with my watch when I come close.
I wonder, if a phone with folding screen truly was a Jobs Steve's "joke?" May be it wasn't, but what a bad design decision it is.

What I hear here in China are engineers saying that "all it took a fashionable American CEO to make up a joke about phone with folding screen for Huawei and Samsung to spend billions actually making it."
CNBC reported that they never removed it but the screen still broke

https://twitter.com/robotodd/status/1118585937712250880?s=21
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If it's so easily removed, how is it "permanent"?

Also, you'd think that there'd be a "DO NOT REMOVE THIS" warning on the packaging.
If it’s pernanent, why would it be removable?
The true hidden cost of innovation is stress testing. It’s clear that Samsung (and Huawei for that matter) are trying to establish themselves as innovative leaders. Creating the next industry changing device, like Apple did with the iPhone. The ‘secret’ however, lies in stress testing your products to the extreme. Which is why Apple manages, most of the time, to introduce pretty durable products. The recent cancellation of their charging pad due to not being able to meet their own high standards is an excellent example.
There can be many reasons they took the devices with them after filming. The explanation can be as simple as Samsung UK not having enough samples for all the journalists in London.
That's not true Donki, this is true Donki: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp-0hieFC9D/?utm_source=ig_web_o...
If the protection layer is all that is "protecting" the screen, why make it removable. Or why not put a big warning label on it (or in the manual) when you unbox the phone. Just saying :)
Most cases seem to be due to users mistakenly removing the permanent screen protection layer.

Let's not push blame on to the user. If the screen protection is so vital that the screen will fail within a day without it, then the problem is that the screen protection is removable and to easy to remove.
No courses like those for special operations specifically let you voluntarily withdraw even for people already serving as they only want volunteers.

The military isn’t all sir-yes-sir as people think - if you don’t want to be there then they don’t want you to be there either.
You are assuming people would pay for an ad free GMAPS. Google tried this with YouTube Red. It doesn't work.

Apple users may be willing to pay for apps, Android users don't swing that way.
> the flexible flat cables in flip phones took years to be 'good' enough to last the phone's lifetime

Early flip phones used high spec slip rings instead of flex cables. It's a shame that the industry making those high spec micro slip rings went away with flip phone era.

Only when phones reached the point of being a disposable commodity, they switched to less reliable direct cabling.
I don't know. I'm not a Samsung rep. I merely stated what's currently known.
60 different conferences to sit around and talk about how they do nothing.
Twitter snark is a larger net negative contribution to our profession than misguided interview techniques.
What is it, an L-system?
It's a german site, the english article is just an exception. They have on average one english article per year, so they don't bother adapting their site for other languages.
I will second this as someone who really likes these two pens and was disappointed in the Preppy.
Let me put it like this: I consider it only a matter of time before a lawsuit for this completes and Facebook has to pay a multi-million dollar fine. A lawsuit against WhatsApp was filed in the night that the GDPR became active: https://noyb.eu/4complaints/

The lawsuit is not just for this matter, it's rather because users were forced to consent to the privacy policy in order to continue using the services, which is very hard to justify under the GDPR, but I presume/hope, they will also look into what WhatsApp wanted users to consent to and how they presented it (89 screens full of legalese).

In theory, there is some clause in WhatsApp's terms of service which requires every user to get that written permission from all their contacts that I joked about.

One actual thing that WhatsApp will be able to cling to, is that they do have a 'legitimate interest'. Without uploading these contacts, their service would not anymore grow at even just half the pace.
It's not removable, that's the point.

If you try to remove it, you'll break the screen. See Marques Brownlee's pictures:

https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1118580472576118787
You're describing Donki within dense tourist areas, further out they become still-mad-yet slightly more standard fare.
The only certainties in life: death, taxes and surveillance
I've been through those, and for me it just didn't click. I like the rest of Erik's course though.
Yes! I still have Daiso things, yet Donki things seem to have not been kept.
The easiest way to stop payday lending is to mandate weekly pay for anyone making under $100K a year. Why should workers be loaning two weeks pay, on average, to their employer?
That's a philosophical question (i.e. useless).

You are same enough for practical purposes like holding relationships and retaining knowledge and skills.
How this compares to hfst?
I keep sounding like a broken record. This is not for your "average user" but I use two methods to block all data transmissions for applications that doesn't make sense to have internet connections (e.g. a selfie app):

a) The device's App-Data settings. I keep most boxes unchecked. I don't understand why CamScanner (legit super useful app) needs internet connection when I just email myself all the scans, and not using the cloud-options. Only Email needs internet connection on that scenario.

b) NoRoot Firewall, I either recognize the IP or the domain name, or I check on ipaddress.com the IP, and then I end up global-blocking the whole block of that IP and be done with it.

In this world you have to go with Security in mind. Default state is block-everything, and only allow the truly needed/useful (to me, not the app developer) connections to go through.
Does the code work? When it stops working then worry about it. Why are you pulling your hair out over duplicate code. Do you know how much duplicate code there is in the Linux Kernel? Gee man, my nerves a shock!
Funny thing is the pirated apps often remove spyware and other crap.
Let's assume that they knew this was a half baked product.

Not a "first edition" product like the first iPhone, but a rushed, half baked product, released without consideration of sales but just for being the first in the market for this niche.

Given this assumption, why would you give it to reviewers at all ? Remember "Vertu" ? They were the Ferrari of phones during the Blackberry era and were _shit_. I got my hands on them as a kid and was astonished how bad they were compared to my dad's cheap simple Blackberry. There's a reason why they were not reviewed widely, or positively by a large margin.

Why not just do the same thing? Don't be daft and give it to the hands of reviewers who have twitter on their fingertips and will tell everyone about every single flaw about your device, when you know your device has flaws.

Give it to the CEOs/Sports personalities, and let them flash it around for a few days/events, and cover up the flaws in the second edition. If it breaks on their hands, they certainly won't care to advertise that fact, they'll just get another phone.

If they actually thought they had finished this product, well... SSNLF is going to notice a strong presence of gravity for the next few days.
Just on the point of simulations and not specifically being down on your suggestion of using them but thought people would be interested. I listened to a great podcast from Sean Brady, a forensic structural engineer, who said that if you can’t verify your simulation by doing the maths on paper then you shouldn’t be using it because you don’t understand how it is getting the results. He said that simulation tools allow engineers to make more mistakes faster than ever before because the simulations are complicated to set up and engineers tend to get distracted from what they are trying to simulate by tweaking the parameters until the simulation ‘compiles’ and feel they have achieved the correct result once that happens...
Technology wise I think I am a top software engineer - in the sense that I have learnt many types of programming languages / frameworks or can learn new tech fast.

What I totally suck at - creating something that people would want and tell their friends about.
This is the direct result of rushing to offer something that can be called innovation after years of a draught. But foldable phones are as much a gimmick as 3D cameras.

Phone innovation is indeed dead -for the customer, that's ok, but for the vendors it's a nightmare.
There is currently a widely reported issue with display backlight failures in MacBook Pros, apparently caused by a failure-prone flex cable which can’t be replaced:

https://ifixit.org/blog/12903/
If the facts as presented are correct, ruling Assange's actions as illegal would violate the rights of a free press. Which is why the distinction is important, protecting a source is the duty of the press while trying to acquire additional information is not.
Just for the reference of us brats that don't know what "the eeee thing" was, could you please enlighten us?
> the most ridiculous part is that you can fix this by not letting them shoot up in the bathroom.

On this I agree, I personally am against legalizing drugs, but I am also against criminalizing drug use. Public safe places to use drugs that are not used as bait from the police are essential (IMO) to solve drug problems when they are already widespread.

However I agree that it is not wrong to be scared of drug users, especially just after use and when you or the people you know are not prepared to handle someone under influence.
> Why do IT folks, people who are supposedly expert in computers, fall for phishing emails etc?

Phishing is a numbers game. Make it convincing enough, send to enough people, and wait for someone who's too busy/tired to think to fall for it.

> The onshore US IT team always complained about how security changes will make life difficult for them.

Because that's absolutely true and valid complaint. From their point of view, they're being paid for doing jobs, and then the company starts spending money to prevent them from doing their jobs. I've been on the receiving end of this in the past, where only sanity of our internal IT team prevented making all software development take 3 times longer, because the company decided to apply some completely bullshit "security practices" they found in ISO-whatever compliance handbook.

Security needs to work with people, not against people. You can't just announce security changes that utterly destroy existing workflows, without helping develop equivalent replacement workflow (with all corner cases accounted for), and while still expecting the same amount of work from people. You'll just see people push back hard, and then ignore the new changes to the extent possible while still trying to meet their deadlines.
I think you see that more with other tech companies.

There is a certain amount of anti-silicon valley sentiment in the media and as a result there are a lot of stories maligning tech companies in ways that aren't always fair. Especially when the media companies are campaigning for some kind of problematic legislation that the tech companies are on the other side of and so will take any excuse to try to make them look bad.

Then there's Facebook, about which nobody has time to write a story maligning them unfairly because there is never that long between any of the stories maligning them fairly.
"Dystonian".

California-styled "dystopia"

"Dude ... cough cough that's like, totally dystonian man ..."
Jesus Christ, apple and grape?!? Poor Americans... in the UK that's Lime and Blackcurrant.
Yes, but this is only because home broadband has essentially stalled. If you look at what's happening in areas where there is a market for wired net bandwidth, computers are connected at around 100G speeds. Yeah, server environments traditionally always had better networking, but you can chop off an order of magnitude or two to account for this, and still the comparison shows how consumer wired is stalled.
Right. I agree.

I feel Donki is not particularly cheap. It's just presented in a way that makes it appear that it would be.
My understanding is that C/UNIX were together portable between platforms. Portability of C between OS was relevant mostly later.
I think that website might have a goal of making money from people paying to remove the bad content. I've seen this for arrest record sites. If they can get high SEO for your name it could affect job/interviews, especially low level stuff.
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