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I don't think that's really the case.

I can unlock my phone (probably already unlocked anyways), swipe down the status bar and tap an icon to disable location services.

The first time I get a pop up that apps won't be able to use my location and that's it. It won't ask again, and it's a matter of 2 seconds.
Really tired of cutting the last element in an array and causes an error on that last little comma in json. TOML to the rescue.
I believe Apple ship the last version of bash released under GPLv2, and do not ship versions under GPLv3.
Based on the outage people noticed the other day with www.cloudflare.com, we actually know that www is delegated to other nameservers.

Notice that there is an SOA and NS records for www.cloudflare.com if you dig for them.

Given this, they can't just CNAME from one zone to the other (if they want to include additionals from the subzone). So my guess is that the resolution of cloudflare.com is relying on rules setup for an HTTP 301, as opposed to the relying on DNS aliasing.
True Believer is included in Between Devil and Dragon.

I like how you stated “I’ve never regretted the time spent reading him” as I don’t agree with many of his statements and sometimes his writings seem a bit self-involved or exegesis in need of a peer review, but I’ve found it valuable to read through and think the power of some of the ideas I keep, or just strongly disagree, are worth all the material I discard.
Those were the same three features that were a core part of thefacebook before they introduced the News Feed. If it was the same site that it was in 2005, but with more people, I'd still be using it. But now, it's mainly a machine that turns other people's content into dollars.
Fortunately I do not use android. I’m using iOS with no iCloud and Location Services are turned off as well.
It’s rich that the representative from Irvine thinks hourly pay is the problem and not the cost of housing in CA. I am in the 96th percentile of earners and there is no way my family could afford to live in Irvine.
> There is a strong moral argument to be made that the government has no rights to secrets kept from its citizenry.

Such arguments don't hold water when the process of classification is determined by a fairly elected representative of that citizenry.

Americans could elect somebody who promised to ditch classification altogether, but they wouldn't, because reality is not so clear.
Not if you'd otherwise spend the extra $50 each month.
I would guess that most of the people not worried because they have nothing to hide don't have a worst enemy.
Its a failing battle to try and outsmart the people who are _professionally_ prying into your private information. You might make it harder for them, even harder to the point where you partially fall out of their datasets, but you will never truly escape. These days it isn't even enough to stop using privacy comprising technology. As I said above, the only real solution is a social one. If you try a technological solution you will always lose because you are significantly out funded.

Also: vote with your wallet. If you see a technology that aligns with your ethical goals, pay for it. To that end I will probably buy a Librem 5, even though I don't expect it will actually do much for my privacy.
I compost and one selfish advantage is I now never run out of space in my bin. That food waste takes up a lot of volume.
Exactly this. It used to be a real-time showcase of what my friends and family were up to. Great to keep tabs on everyone I care about lives. Now it's just ads and the same few posters. I don't even read the newsfeed at all any more. I go directly to a few people's pages to see updates on a few close friends, nieces and nephews and that's it.
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Nikita sounds probably only male (with an echo of Sovjet anthem in the background) to me because I learned about Nikita Chruschtschow early on.
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There’s a good book called Nudge by Richard Thaler (and someone else I can’t remember) where he goes into great detail on the default decision.

Tl;dr; people usually accept the default so your prompts yield very different results.
I still use IRC. People are still plenty chatty.
With single payer you could possibly expect a tax-reduction for the same care.

You guys pay top 3 in the world in taxes towards healthcare, and just as much out of pocket, making it almost 2x as expensive for individuals than for example the nordic countries.

As a comparison 1 year max coverage for all visits and procedures after which you pay $0 is about $125 and another $125 for meds in the nordics. That's with the same $ amount of taxes per capita to healthcare.
That's a choice of Apple's though, not the US government. If Apple wanted to host a bunch of porn, they could.

But freedom goes both ways. You can't force another group to view and host porn just because you want to see it.
Living in 2019, I’m not referring to the medieval context of the word.
I'm obviously a few decades late to the party, but I've been obsessed with analog hardware synths for a few years now.

There's something magical about messing around with a sequencer/arpeggiator, mixing together a couple of VCOs, changing their wave type, detuning them, modulating filters, amplitudes, rhythms. The sonic options are staggering, you can sit there all day turning knobs and stumbling upon interesting and quirky ideas.

Part of me thinks that "it's all been done before", yet there's joy to you doing this yourself from scratch, even if you're not the pioneer.
If you're using Android, you can look into YouTube Vanced, which blocks ads, provides a dark mode, and enables some other features that are normally exclusive to Premium, like background play.
Yes, "we" don't, but the law does. So not giving a legal adult due process has opened up this litigation can of worms.

Obama, the lawyer, should have anticipated this perverse outcome. But maybe he did and was just trying to make more jobs for lawyers with all this excess litigation.
The (unsubsidised) cost of a product or service already exists as a reasonable proxy for waste and petroleum usage.

Are you suggesting we add carbon and pollution taxes to offset some of the the externalities?

Your income level is a superb indicator of how much of the planets resources you are using.

Does taxation that goes to the government change that? Does the government use taxes more "greenly" than consumers?

On topic: if they shut down the centre of Madrid, they could get pollution to zero!
If Apple wants to do business in one country in a way that upsets people in another country, then they have to face the consequences of that contagion. I honestly don't know what you expect to be different; people aren't rule-following robots.
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This is a false choice. These aren't the only two options.
It has access to and parses the web page and can as such do advanced pattern matching in various ways. Domain, subdirectory, file, you name it. It can also hide HTML elements known to contain ads in order to collapse the blank areas where the ads used to be.
Pigs even eat pork. There is currently a problem with swine fever infected pork being reintroduced as feed in places like china. It is one of several vectors for the lethal (to pigs) disease.
> This totally misses the point of the article :(

I didn't. There wasn't much to the blog post. In fact, the blog musings are the same criticism we've heard a thousand times. But please don't suggest that I missed some deep point in a trivial blog post when you really just mean "I disagree".

I even pointed out a real-world concrete example where JSON config is made pleasant to edit by hand for humans: an IDE like VS Code that pulls in JSON schema.

Though since you only doubled down on the blog post's opinion instead of responding to a single point I made, can I say that you missed the points of my comment? You didn't even address my criticism by pitching an alternative. How are we supposed to have a conversation?
What would happen if you embedded say 100 of them in the same document? I think doing it the other way around, Emacs in webkit/browsers, is the only feasible way to do it. I'm sure someone has tried that, but it doesn't seem to be adopted yet.
> What does JavaScript have to do with it?

Um, the article is about NoScript.. which (drumroll) allows users to manage Javascript on a per-website and/or per-source basis.
Many people do feel that way, though I personally find the idea of any significant multinational as being from a specific country silly.
They have a German holding company. The shareholders could move it to Luxembourg tomorrow if they wanted, or Belgium / Cyprus / Malta / Singapore / Dubai / etc.

This doesn't really matter, because holding companies are in their simplest form empty shells that merely hold shares of other operating entities. They group equity participations. You want a holding company to be based in a country with an established and stable legal system, of which the African continent has exactly none.

Jumia is for all intents and purposes, an Africa focused group.
What I understood him to mean by that is that, because the software of the vehicle will be updated with more capabilities, the value of the car, perhaps not in monetary terms but in terms of utility, would increase over time.

Of course the use of the term 'asset', since it is typically used for financial value, is confusing if that was his intended meaning.
8 years ago insurance was allowed to have yearly and lifetime policy limits. They could deny coverage for preexisting conditions and increase your premiums if you developed new conditions. You were also 8 years younger, which makes a big difference despite being only a few years.

Many people had policies with $100k yearly limits, any serious condition and they basically didn't have insurance.
This really hits home. So what ruined Facebook?

The Wall was replaced by an algorithm which sunk original content below a flood of ads, fake news, and externally shared content "you might like". We stopped seeing original content. Then, people stopped sharing personal stuff, as nobody interacted with it.
XML does suck, but at least it supports comments.
I think especially if you're a vertically scaling kind of gal, and you have a fondness for conciseness, parsimony and efficiency; you'll just end up attracted to many language solutions

There's a question I really want to ask HN related to this.

In the compression challenge (how well can you compress this data), the forbidden cheat is to put all of the data inside the "compressor/decompressor" and have the data be a single bit. The way to block that is to mandate that the total size is compressionTool+data size combined so you can't just move the data around.

So is there anything like that for comparing programming languages? If something is "easy" because it's implemented in a large runtime environment you have to ship as well, that's cheating. If it's easy because the language is powerful and well designed, that's not cheating.

If you like "conciseness, parsimony, efficiency", is the entire Python stdlib and the entire R library and a SQL engine and NGINX consise just because you hid all the implementation details in them, and they let you write your "compressed data as as a single bit"?
But the higher prices in Guangzhou could be due to a much higher "maximal use" value from allowing denser development. If the property is 2x as expensive but holds 6x as many units (30 story tower in article vs typical 5 story American midrise), then that's a win. That type of cookie cutter high rise is very common in many Chinese cities. They will plop down several of these towers in the same area, typically 10+ stories, with few burdensome restrictions on parking and elevators. Can't speak to London, but I was blown away when visiting SF just how little dense development there was in most of the city, and how little new construction there was even of midrise buildings.
>they sell their ability to know everything about you to anyone willing to pay for that information

Can you prove this? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and that's a real whopper of a claim.
Sounds clean, healthy and economical.

But what about older people, people with disabilities, and work commuters? It seems it might not work well for some of these.

I hope it catches on and the above are just worries that don't materialize.
Are the large majority of major companies in Africa African?

The issue isn't about a few foreign companies. Is the majority of Canadian market cap foreign?
Can you share which startup you work for? I've been wanting to work for a company like that
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Just go into Settings and disable "Background App Refresh" for all the apps you don't want running in the background. And also check your Battery section to see which apps use the battery the most.

I'm a recent convert to iOS (I've used Android for 7+ years) and I find that it "phones home" a lot less than Android. You can easily run a Wireshark and confirm it yourself.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/idle-android-ph...
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, Japan introduced 100 year mortgages (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/106195...).

Then the economy went into a multidecade slide.
While certain facilities may have been shared, my understanding is that generally speaking people have been able to have a space that they or at least their family owned. Personally, I would be thrilled to own the place I live even if things like bathrooms were shared.
That's absurd, there are plenty of large cities doing relatively ok keeping housing costs in line. Try visiting San Antonio, Dallas, or Houston, 3 of the 10 largest cities in the US that are quite affordable.
China lacks many old buildings because historically things were built from wood, not stone, and wood burns.
Throughout most of North American history post-Columbus, sure. The rest of history was what we developed world moderns would call grinding poverty for most people at most times. And the only reason peasants had land (when they did actually own land) is because it was their source of sustenance. It wasn’t the place for idleness that land is for most people in the developed world.
I bet it was far more exhausting to be a developer before 2000.

They only had "don't do this but since it's all we got, do it anyway".

Feel the luxury of choice not complain about it.
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Great to see a big follow up on the story which was first reported by a local news outlet in North Carolina: https://www.wral.com/Raleigh-police-search-google-location-h...

I remember it being reported the same time as the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out (literally the same week IIRC) and getting almost no notice, despite being, in my mind, a story with far greater implications about our privacy.
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But what happens if you send a "sensitive" message over iMessage? On WeChat (or even the messaging system inside Didi!) you get censored. Does it happen on iMessage?
It's blank! I don't think HN shares the email you put in by default?
How about 'most police are public servants that don't harm anybody. They bring protection, comfort and services to the people they protect. They prevent crime, and discourage criminal activities. Without police, bad people would quickly overrun the planet.'?
Yes. You will need to pick it up in orbit though.
Author of the article here; I think this is a complex issue with no single "right" answer. It depend on the context and what you're doing with it.

I wrote this after getting annoyed with MediaWiki's new extension format which uses JSON files to set up the extension. What I wanted to do is not include some CSS if a certain plugin is loaded, and that's pretty much impossible to do in a declarative configuration file. Using a JSON file – or any other declarative config – to describe how code works is not a good idea IMHO (although it's probably fine to add basic metadata).

The worst case of declarative programming gone wrong that I've seen is probably k8s.

I can't really judge your Gradle example, as I've never worked with Gradle (or Java in general).

> I'm getting a bit fatigued of these you're-doing-it-wrong posts

I agree, and I would rename the article if I hadn't put the full title in the URL (I have since stopped doing that exactly because I wanted to rename this). In my defence, at the time I was annoyed with MediaWiki, PHP, this JSON stuff, and the reasons I even had to work on MediaWiki in the first place (which is a long story involving a lot of drama).

That being said, I think using JSON as a human-editable configuration format is, quite frankly, never a good application of the tool. I can't think of any cases where it's the best tool, chiefly due the lack of comments, but also because it's kind of a pain to write. Variants which allow comments – such as JSON5 – are okay, but that's no longer JSON.
From the recent front-page story https://www.politico.eu/blogs/the-coming-wars/2019/04/how-eu...: "Then there was Kuka, the crown jewel of German robotics, which was taken over by Chinese home-appliance maker Midea in 2016. What happened next has become part of a now recognizable pattern: Once a firm is acquired by a Chinese company, its European suppliers are abandoned for Chinese value chains."

Silly or not, Chinese firms will favor other Chinese firms. This behavior isn't limited to China.
I am from approximately the same age group as the author. I remember FidoNet and PhpBB forums. I remember blogging, and LiveJournal. But I completely missed the Facebook craze. The first time I logged into Facebook — after having used LiveJournal for several years — I was shocked by the unfamiliarity and unintuitiveness of the interface, and the total absence of formatting options. I looked around — and then ran back to the familiar internet tools and services.

It’s weird. Seeing stories pop up lately about how people get disenchanted with Facebook, I keep wondering what the big deal was.

(And another source of wonder and cognitive dissonance is how a company with what seemed like such an unappealing product managed to attract so smart engineers and to bring about a number of significant technical innovations.)
Great, positive suggestion. I'll work at this.
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> Historical preservation is stealing from the future.

No, it is not. SF problem can be fixed with a few blocks. A 35 stories building with 1 bed-room condos can host up to 700-1000 persons. I'd bet lots of SF tech developers will opt for a very small high tech condo with amenities (pool, gym, library...) than the crap that is right now.

Say you build a hundred of these. That's 100K person and more than 10% of the population of San Fransisco. You plot the land 10 miles south of the downtown. You make a fast, efficient and new subway that connect from the plot to the downtown.

It is easy considering that the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese are doing it everyday. SF has the money, land and tech to do it.
For now. Maybe opportunity awaits for others. (Hacker News is full of resourceful people. Maybe some of us!)
There's a show on Netflix called 'Easy' that has an episode about how the solution to this is changing cultural norms. Specifically, the recognition that we all make these mistakes and will inevitably start forgiving each other. Season 1 Episode 5. Great episode.

But yea, it's going to take a long time. And it's going to be a crazy ride.
I can’t speak for the Chinese, but my countrymen in Iran are horrifyingly privacy-blind. The concept doesn’t seem to be well formed or understood by them, and even if it is, they just don’t care. Of course, this is not true of all Iranians, but it is still true of almost all the traditional people (which themselves are probably %95 of the country), and most of the more “Westernized” “modern” people. In fact, I can count Iranians I know personally who have been outraged by privacy crises on one hand. And the country is teeming with such crises; E.g., Most people here use Telegram, and most Telegram users use government-affiliated clients for connecting to it.
I'm not sure what that means. Can you clarify?
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> learning Haskell has changed the way I write code in any language

I think that's the bottom line. The creator of Haskell confirmed and explained: https://youtu.be/iSmkqocn0oQ?t=22
Huh. Didn’t know that. I stand corrected.
It always baffles me when people say companies like Google and Apple can simply “make a stand” on censorship. Make a stand how? Refusing to comply with official decrees and get banned altogether? Seek solidarity from the Chinese people through free speech? Call for help from elected representatives of the people? Challenging the Party in an independent judiciary?
Contextual carryover has been present in Alexa for a while too.

https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/15bf7d2a-5e5c-...
When they call it a json parser, they should stick to json or call it json5 parser. There is no "relaxed" json.
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XML is a lot less pleasurable to parse from a programming point of view though. With a JSON file it's something like:

const config = require('config.json');

console.log(config.apiKey);

With XML you often have to use things like XPATH etc. to extract the data which is a lot more effort.
The outrage here is specifically that Apple is taking this action. If they do it by their own choice, doesn’t that make it even worse?

The wider discussion about corporate censorship involves lots of examples that aren’t compelled by law. And people get upset about some but completely ignore others.
You could try to explain the last point with "imagine never having to listen to your neighbor's stereo at 2:00 in the morning.
Lack of comments was the reason I never liked JSON for configuration. JSON5 looks awesome.
> Yeah he's IDM not EDM, IDM is a older term from the 90s they called it "intelligent dance music"

AKA "beard stroking music" in the D&B world.

It's music that doesn't energize people and get them on the dance floor. Go see a IDM/"experimental/"beard stroking" DJ live, all you see are a bunch of young male hipsters standing around stroking their beards, commenting on the uniqueness of the "interplay".
Plex says this about their commercial removing tech:

"The process is CPU-intensive and can take several minutes to complete, depending on the recording duration. On a reasonably fast CPU, we typically see a 30-minute recording take 2-4 minutes to process."

Assuming they know what they are doing, real time blocking seems not possible with a reasonably modern approach.
Also, if the US government doesn't want stuff available, they don't stop at pressuring Apple, Google or whatever. They get sites taken down. And they extradite or kidnap operators, and prosecute them. For example: DPR, Variety Jones, Kim Dotcom, DPR2 and Julian Assange. With a little research, I could list hundreds of them.

As far as I know, China has never done that, except for Chinese citizens that they find in ~friendly places. They did mount quite an attack on the Dalai Lama's organization. But that didn't include physical violence, to my knowledge.
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I think that you can just look for specific markers in the stream to detect ads. e.g. I look for SCTE-35 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCTE-35) in Twitch streams to filter out their ads. It takes no CPU at all to do. I believe broadcast TV has a similar thing in many places.
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If the news feed was status updates only, no links, no news, no pics, it’d be decent.