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School is not about learning, it is about ranking. Usually it's about ranking people by some weighted sum of intelligence, conscientiousness and conformity. Obviously your school placed a high weight on conscientiousness and conformity.
You could be arrested or your children could be taken away from you.

http://www.freerangekids.com/category/child-protective-servi...
The number of people that side load apps are so small as to be completely inconsequential.
Plastic produce bags are still free and are even better suited to human waste than non-sealable open grocery bags.
You very much do. Or rather, there are several companies that do so called blockchain analysis and cluster addresses together in order to identify to whom they belong. They are quite efficient at what they do. If you're unable to identify an owner of an address, you are at least able to identify the on ramp or off ramp the individual used and use that information to identify your suspect.
upsetting, yet expected
I wonder what kind of initial capital was needed for this. Any guesses for a ballpark? Couple of millions?
Wow, clickbait on HN.

So basically the justice department is using 'AI' or rather Machine Learning/Classification powered tooling to aid in their work. Reminds me of the engineer who wrote a chatbot to handle claims on a parking fines in NewYork:
https://qz.com/719888/an-ai-powered-chatbot-has-overturned-1...

Aka: "AI-Powered Robot-Lawyer now winning cases in New York City and London Metropole".
just because it is published that doesn't mean it's easy to track who the funds are coming from.

In traditional finance there is usually some sort of method in place that directly associates (either concretely as in say requiring an ID or loosely as in just having video surveillance correlated with say a money order or money gram transfer) a persons identity with an account anytime they are conducting any form of financial transaction.

With bitcoin, there is no way to pinpoint exactly who created an address. I can create thousands of wallets, and distribute them to all my terrorist buddies across the world for example, and it's not like traditional finance where i had to get somebody connected to the government (as the banks are) to sign off on me doing that.

The only weaknesses bitcoin has that I can see is

1.

that people's computers are typically less secure and easier to break into than banks who do a good job implementing security, and therefore its way easier to steal..

2. Because its decentralized and entirely electronic based when somebody actually steals your money it is virtually impossible to reverse that without requiring a hard fork of the block chain and for some currencies you just can't do that. (for example, nobody is going to be able to hardfork btc and take over it just because somebody ripped off a $1m worth of BTC from joe shmoe who hadn't updated his Ubuntu PC in 2 months because he's too lazy to type in his password everyday)

And lastly, the fact that bitcoin (and all other currency for that matter) becomes virtually worthless when nobody is willing to give you fiat in exchange for it. There is always going to be a weakness in the fact that these terrorists are going to need to convert their bitcoin into fiat eventually. Realistically, it doesn't actually make any sense why terrorist organizations would do this because of this weakness. You'd have to find a buyer for them who can give you fiat directly without raising suspicion. Which means direct cash exchanges and if you are already at that level of coming out into the open. You might as well just mail people cash using bogus identities and PO boxes.
Yeah.. I've been hearing this since the Tesla Roasters came out in 2008. Yet, nothing in the market has yet to compete with the 2012 Model S when it comes to range/performance.
You can't spend crypto directly on many things, most need fiat. Currently on ramps and off ramps are still used and can be used to identify suspects.
> at the very least you can distribute your app independently without jailbreaking the phone.

The discussion in the article is about developers. If you’re kicked off of Play by a robot, there’s nothing you can do.

> with ads-blocking extensions and everything, as the default browser.

Ad-blocking is easy and well-supported in Safari. Safari’s tracking prevention extends far beyond anything Firefox has even with the best extensions.
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Note that by default Google analytics puts the cookies on the root domain, and you need to change the JavaScript snippet to avoid that.

Cloudflare also puts cookies on the root domain.

I definitely agree though.
> Does Android have something similar to iMessage?

Kind of-ish. The RCS support is rolling out slowly. Of course there is a big difference in that RCS is not end to end encrypted. Also, there is nothing stopping Apple from implementing RCS as well, but I doubt they will do.
Do any of these actually operate near 350kw with any production cars yet?

Anyways, it's a good thing for the whole electric vehicle ecosystem that multiple charging options become available. That multiple companies are competing on charging infrastructure is excellent!
Wow it's so good that even terrorists are using it? Imagine that, terrorists are ditching the all-powerful greenback cash for bitcoin. Surely this is bad for bitcoin
If only.

Industry this days is more about headcount than quality itself. Why hire two good engineers when you can have three mediocre ones for the same price?

On simplicity, common wisdom these days dictate that we should use bloated kitchen-sink backend MVC frameworks that generate dozens of directories after `init`, because supposedly nobody knows how to use routers. Frontend compiler pipelines are orders of magnitude more complex than the reactive frameworks themselves, because IE11. And even deployment now requires a different team or expensive paid services from the get go. We're definitely not seeking simplicity.

The second point is also something that most developers and managers would balk at: "To build good software, you need to first build bad software, then actively seek out problems to improve on your solution". Very similar to the Fred Brooks "throw one away" advice that no one ever followed.
WRONG WRONG WRONG, nobody falls in love, marries, and brings new life in the world for "mmmm, POPULATION" it's because it makes us happy!
1 year later, China becomes a communist utopia. Can hardly keep the rest of the world out

Who would have known that the only thing you needed to do to make communism work is to take the human element out all the way up to the top? Sounds like communism and terminators were made for each other.
I find the idea very interesting and I'm excited to see where it goes.
From multiple previous news articles, Child Protective Services hounds you, possibly takes your children for a bit, and then sticks you on a list for if there's ever any sort of repeat 'trouble'.

Given, these things probably get to be news because they're so extreme, but it pops up every few months. Look up the Maryland family that got in trouble for letting their kids walk to the park for the prototypical example.
Which is not going to happen because Google has multiple competing messaging apps.
No. You can press anywhere on the input box and it still works. I am really curious which phone you are using.
heh, at least i have my idea for the slackjaw humor competition
Clicking the link forwards me to https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=3_...

I guess that would then redirect me to the article but I block that domain at the dns level.
It’s for their paying subscribers. Welcome to monetization of content.
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The Satoshi reveals every now and again always remind me of someone claiming to have deciphered the Voynich manuscript - except it's way more scammy and fraudulent.
This sounds really cool, please start a mailing list :)
>>>> Every electric car slated to arrive has been called a Tesla killer
>>> Nissan Leaf
>>> Tesla Model S
>Not comparable cars.

Not comparable, but look at the post that was the origin of that response, it was only about "electric cars" in general.
With the correct configuration, www.example.com cookies do not leak over all subdomains, but it's impossible to configure example.com cookies to _not_ leak over all subdomains.
> anti open source culture

I feel like it's more like anti-GPL (because of some specific licensing terms conflicts), and there's nothing intrinsically anti-FOSS in there.
It'll be a few more years before you can realistically start talking about failure.

No one reasonably expected the old car companies to leapfrog Tesla in a year or two. This is going to be a long battle for market share. It'll take a while for the "newcomers" to get the consumer trust in their electric cars that Tesla already enjoys.
>Ad-blocking is easy and well-supported in Safari. Safari’s tracking prevention extends far beyond anything Firefox has even with the best extensions.

Do you have any links so I can read further on this? I'd like to compare it to both Firefox's built-in tracking protection (and fingerprinting resistance) and the functionality provided by e.g. uBlock Origin.
Of the six beaches (2 US, 3 UK and 1 Canadian) Omaha was, I believe, by far the most heaving defended.
The Vision Fund is, among other things, the manifestation of the idea that an order of magnitude more scale will qualitatively change VC investing.

VC funds historically have been in the hundreds of millions, so you can invest up to tens of millions in any one company to keep a balanced portfolio.

SoftBank's Vision is in the hundreds of billions, so it can invest up to hundreds of millions.

This means they can single-handedly shepherd companies across the 'valley of death' or out-spend the competition to reach critical network effects... Essentially instead of just making bets, they're tipping the scales.

The point of this strategy is the scale, which is only possible by raising billions from sovereign wealth funds and mega corporations.

No one company could do it. Apple's net income last year was ~$60 billion.

The Vision Fund launched with $100 billion.
The screenshots don't help me figure out what you're doing but it sure is pretty!
Do bitcoin mixers really work, with respect to this? Especially those who break links through fiat.

If yes, then they may publish a dynamic list of mixers to use, and SoF would be non-determinable. Mixers may have more problems than usual then, but afaik they are already banned in all white business bitcoin operations, so probably not a big deal for them.

Otoh, CIAs could control the pipe by powering some mixers themselves and promoting them among enemies.
The title is missing the point..

It says "... to be used for the completion of “repetitive basic work” only..."

That is what most software automation attempts to do!
There are plenty of good organizations out there still, providing good data. You have to use logic to rule out the impossible and improbable, look for biases, and support initiatives for open access to data.

America’s true success was in having a large contingent of people trustworthy enough to cultivate a society that didn’t get bogged down in small transaction costs like needing to bribe town officials or worry about deliveries or food/vehicle/road/etc safety and quality. If we lose that trust in America for each other overall, then we will unravel.
Man, I love party games. I'll try it out next opportunity.
I would prefer people read the original paper than any second-hand explanation of it. The paper is very readabale and understandable, and is probably relevant as long as into the future as human beings write code.
I don't understand why people publish paid content. How the hell are we gonna read it. BTW, I've read the article and is not that worth subscribing medium.
wait, what? can i not pay in cash for illegal product/service?
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Indeed, one of the reasons for the current auto-slowdown in India appears to be the drastic decrease in benefits offered by Taxi aggregators, which is hitting taxi drivers hard. Can't complain, since taxis saturate the roads in Bengaluru already.
That's not a problem. That was precisely Apple's idea: a not interoperable message network.

We had XMPP among others, and Apple decided not to be open. We now also have Signal or Telegram, which are multi-platform.
I was about to suggest the same thing. This paper should be mandatory reading for anyone that is professionally involved in a software development project.
Anyone who cares about anonymity uses a Bitcoin mixer.

Notwithstanding what you say about blockchain analysis, I'm not aware that anything mixed by Bitcoin Fog has been deanonymized. And that includes some major Bitcoin thefts, such as the 96000 BTC from Sheep Marketplace.
You're substantially overestimating China's political and economic stability. Large authoritarian regimes like China's simply do not have a track record of lasting long. Tibet and Taiwan and Hong Kong are just the beginning; the harder China squeezes the sand, the faster it will slip through its fingers. Don't believe me? Ask the Soviets.

Come to think of it, the PRC is right around the same age the USSR was when it collapsed...
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I'm a little lost here. The article doesn't mention video games anywhere that I can see, the words "video" and "game" don't even appear in it. There's a handful of passing mentions of "screens" but the article fairly clearly dismisses that convenient explanation and classifies it as a symptom rather than a cause.
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My favourite example of the definitions and distinctions between UI and UX is Amazon.

Their UI hasn't really changed in years, but their UX has, a lot. Do you think they would have seen the same amount of growth if they'd focused on improving the UI of their site, rather than the UX of their service?

It's not that UI is unimportant. On the contrary, I personally think it's very important, but only in as much as it serves the UX. This for instance means that a company like Apple has to invest a lot more in evolving and improving their UI. It's fundamental to their UX of beautiful, useable devices. In a sense the UI is the UX, so they're tied together very closely. For most companies/products that isn't the case though. Most are more like Amazon.

To Amazon, the UI just needs to be functional, and get the user through to making a purchase as quickly and with as little hassle as possible. That's why they've stuck with essentially the same design and layout for years - customers know it, and it just works. Any changes making it fancier or prettier would be, at least in the short term, detrimental to the UX.
I haven't looked at the OP yet but as convenient as AirDrop is, I find its reliance on both BT and WiFi confusing. One needs both the devices to be connected to the same network to be able to able to drop stuff.

Few days back my home router broke down and I was unable to send URLs from my iPhone to Mac just because there was no common network.

I wish for AirDrop to be more like Pushbullet.
Same like with everything else in life. They cannot get the job done.
>>"Because you can't just take corporate cash and invest it in a private equity fund."
Says who? And yes you can, indeed read their financial statements, SB Holdings is a principal investor through and through. It is the directors duty and their imperative as good corporate governors (a rare phenomena in Japan) to deploy and allocate capital in the most efficient manner possible to the highest return opportunities. This reeks of cronyism. The vision fund is a mess of hand marked low/negative free cash flow generating businesses, check out their share price performance in 2001, for a preview of what's to come.
At the official website, they also refer to it as AI judge.
Besides that, it is using facial recognition and voice recognition through WeChat running on mobile devices.
Years ago when some friends and I first heard of "pycrete" and the plan to build an aircraft carrier out of ice, we wondered if it would be feasible to build a boat out of ice ourselves, and go punting down the Cam on it among baffled crowds.

We concluded we'd need several cubic meters of ice, and the thing would be impossible to transport outside the river, so it would have to be built in-situ, and the obvious choice for that much cooling was liquid nitrogen. Unfortunately we ran the specific heat numbers and concluded it would cost several thousand pounds to buy that much LN2 off the shelf, so there the project ended.

Given a homebrew LN2 supply, lots of fun (and dangerous) possibilities will present themselves.

(I've also been to a make-your-own-icecream festival in a wood which was done with LN2; blend ingredients, add LN2, stir frantically)
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There's talk about using off-the-heap data structures in one of the most successfull software piece written in Lisp, AllegroGraph.

"Escape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7nEZ3TuFpA
Yes, government sometimes do stupid shit. But so do large corporations, and governments aren't particularly worse.
With or without mass adaptation of BTC, you will still have to convert cryptocurrency to monetary value. If you make a purchase or transaction - If you actually USE the funds it will still have to be converted to something physical or a service. There will thus undoubtly still be a trail to be followed. It might be more difficult but I still see it being very much possible to track terrorists with sufficient resources such as that of a nation state.

What I'd think would be interesting to see, is what the security baseline and tech-saviness is of many of these terrorists. Do they simply outsource this? If not, apparently our traditional view of backwards thinking savages might not be that applicable anymore.
Exactly. See you later open web.
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What was your spend? A $100/month customer's profits can easily be wiped out by a couple of customer service queries.
> For scent detection dog handlers, beliefs that scent is present might result in either sufficient inadvertent postural and facial cues so that dogs will respond regardless of the absence of scent

I don't know how good dogs are at pose detection, but it's definitely plausible that they can tell when an alert is expected.
You just have to be within bluetooth distance; AirDrop doesn't require the same wifi network. It does require wifi to be enabled, because AirDrop creates its own wifi network side channel for the actual transferring of files.
> If I pinky promise to indent my code anyway, then why does it matter whether I also have braces or not?

Without braces copy-pasting becomes a context-sensitive headache. That's poor usability.
This is on my plan, should be done in next release(within several days), you can watch the repo to get notification about it
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What would that Germanic language cover? German, Dutch, Flemish? That's it, right? English is out, because that's half French, and the Scandinavian languages have drifted too far from German to be even half-assed mutually intelligible, no?
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>Because you can't just take corporate cash and invest it in a private equity fund. Fiduciary duty requires low risk products, and liquidity.

I call bullshit. Specifically, what you wrote is not remotely true under US law or under Japanese law.

A company's managers have very broad leeway to spend the company's cash however they like. In fact, if the cash, treasuries, corporate paper, etc, of a company starts to pile up over the years, the markets tend to take that as a sign of managerial incompetence or at least managerial lack of vision.

Anyone that can buy and hold shares in SoftBank can also hold cash, treasuries or corporate paper directly. In other words, SoftBank's investors don't need SoftBank to hold cash, treasuries or corporate paper on their behalf; they invest in Softbank because they expect that SoftBank has a more ambitious plan than that. Creating and selling the iPhone is an example of an ambitious plan that turned out extremely well for investors in the company with that plan.

If that argument is not persuasive enough, consider this concrete counterexample to your claim: for 6 years, Google had a venture-capital arm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GV_(company)

Specifically, although GV is currently owned by Alphabet, for a period of 6 years before that it was owned directly by Google (under the name Google Ventures I believe).
I actually had the reverse experience to this. My app was 1.5 years old and had 4mil+ downloads with ~200k monthly active.

After updating my app, they banned my app instead of the other clones and crapware. Citing "Repetitive and Duplicative Content". The clones were so bad to the point that they literally decompiled my app, loaded in their own assets and published it.

Appealing did nothing and I got the exact same response as the article. That was 2 years ago.

Going by this, I would assume that my app had better Ad revenue to Google, but comparing in relative-ness, they dont care about the 4-5 figure you make. Another person will take your place in no time.
Taiwan can win a war with China (2018)
They can probably smell their handler getting interested well before the handler's consciously even aware of it.
Thanks for the links! The Purism phone is a lot more than I would want to pay, but I imagine the trade-off there is for the polished experience. Part of the fun for me would be the hack-ability.

The Pine phone on the other hand looks great (at ~$150), hopefully they do a better job than what they did with their netbooks (I believe they had issues with the keyboards and the displays had dead pixels). There's even talk about porting Ubuntu phone, which is awesome! My guess is that it's still a long way off though, if the project doesn't die in the meantime (as a lot of these open source projects do).
But that’s not correct. Amazon changes the nuts and bolts parts of it’s UI a lot and they do not tend to make egregious UI mistakes.

They use dark patterns, sure, but don’t confuse useable UI with beautiful UI.
In theory, Bitcoin is about creating a global anarcho-capitalist economy which can't be taxed by governments or interfered with by law enforcement (irregardless of whether it can be in practice.) It's about empowering people and dis-empowering the state. It just happens that criminals are the ones who find those features more attractive than fiat.

And it's kind of funny seeing people here get offended at the idea that criminals would find it useful. That's supposed to be a feature, not a bug.
Here's the Porsche Taycan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP9kokeyxGU

If you try to do the same in a Model S you'll just overheat it.
Really? I'll give it a try again. It was clearly not working for me when the router was down.
That doesn't seem to be a problem in any other field of security in the world. If you steal a shirt from a shop you'll get told whether they hace security footage of you stealing, an alarm went off or a security guard saw you.

It might be more convenient for google to not say, but it's pretty disrespectful towards clients that choose their platform to make a living and might get caught as a false positive.