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Eh, don't want to make any assumptions on your age, but I'm young enough that iPhones were introduced around when I was in middle/high school. Here in the US, living in an upper-middle class area, lots of kids got them right off the bat.

I've never had anyone SERIOUSLY be mad about me being the green bubble, but when you're doing large group text coordination and someone drops me in, then starts doing tapbacks and sending rich media, I get some shit. And it gets thrown out as a joke in general conversation all the time. "Oh, he's a GREEN bubble..."
So you are saying if we remove some of the scaling limitations of the human brain with biotech (i.e. by enhancing memory detail retention, figuring out a way to serialize memories to computer-compatible storage, etc.) it could become illegal to look at a person without consent (since you would effectively become a walking, breathing CCTV)?
This tool allows removing the DRM from Kindle books. [1]

This tool allows removing the DRM from Audible books. [2]

[1]: https://apprenticealf.wordpress.com/2019/03/30/dedrm-tools-6...

[2]: https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3
Specifically, the word tech means very little. What Ben is describing here -- and what WeWork was trying to present themselves as in their S-1 (by using the word tech 100+ times) is some type of software platform.

For instance -- Intel is a clearly a tech company, but specifically they are more of a manufacturing company than a software platform provider.
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Gov finances do work that way. That's how the anti-tobacco campaigns are funded in USA.
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I remember the ah-ha moment while interviewing at Lumosity was when the CEO burst in the room and excitedly told me how much he wanted me to make their site "Web 2.0". My heart sank and I noped out of there pretty quickly. A junk implementation of sound science sounds about right to me.
You just listed all the features that make the iPhone 6 a pretty darn good phone
"Office Hours for Startups Tackling Climate Issues" is an awkward title. Lots of companies are "tackling climate issues" without that being their sole focus. My first read of the title was that this was about companies shifting their office hours to reduce heat/ac loads, or to facilitate commuting schedules.
As far as I understand, Valve stopped HL3 development a long time ago.
Agreed. Wish there were more games out there like Portal, but it seems to be entirely unique in the industry.
It would work but also you'll face more restrictions or outright blocks. For example, you register an account and put you are 5 years old. After clicking register you get redirected to disney.com or something.
Alkaloids. I can't remember if the heat denatures them or they are solluble, I think it's a mix of both.

There's a theory out there that 'bitter tasters' are an evolutionary adaptation by our Eastern European forebears who lived in an area where alkaloid levels were high in soils. If you avoided alkaloid-embittered foods your liver lasted longer, and so your genes were better represented.
I really like the connected database visualiser (dbdiagram.io)
>Have you ever read Murray Bookchin?

I have not but it sounds like it's someone I should. Thx.
> 24 hours a day [...] 10000X [...]

I find it infuriating that it's either small or all the time + many orders of magnitude more. It's unfair to say "any look is invalid" because of perceived/potential scale. Scale only matters when defined.
Even if it wasn't explicitly stated, the Second Amendment was written by people who had just used militias as a big part of their force to overthrow the government. They weren't senile. They hadn't forgotten. They knew what they were saying.
Can you tell me exactly where you saw that? I don't see it.
I personaly prefer to have the old Hardware, too ^^. What is more fun; to set up an old windows XP-System to play Half-Life 2 in an original 'Setting', or to get a $30 Xbox360 to play in in um HD on your TV-Set (adding another maybe $2,-for the game-disc) ?

'And now for the real freaks' - 'What is a more comfortable-girlfriend-ready-solution ?'

Hint: It took her about 10 hours to make her Half Life 2 walkthrough. P-: (I wasn't that good wayback...maybe there were some more levels... 'orange'?...heck who knows...)

So is money the only real plain goal here, or may there are others, too ? (In case of visiting HN - also called the 'X-Files for computer', sometimes... (-; )
brave is incentivized to push this narrative, accurate or inaccurate as it may be. i am not ad-tech guru, nor digital marketer. i do know that brave's entire premise hangs on traditional ad-tech strategy remaining static, consumer sentiment around "big tech" to sour and a groundswell of "privacy focused consumers" to materialize. that groundswell is their identified target market for their product.
Much faster if constraints are represented by single bits in an integer mask and binary masking operations are used - even the hardest soduko solves instantly.
>Your biggest competitor is your internal non-business efforts that distract from experimenting with what gets people to pay in a repeatable way

>Unfortunately, shiny engineering won't solve drastic product market fit iterations, and consumes the limited time & $$$ for achieving it. That's a lot of otherwise good habits and instincts to unlearn for engineers who never really had to go from idea to paying

Having worked in startups and the corporate world, I would apply this also to the role of product owner, who is often responsible for setting up those experiments to learn and also filling up the tech pipeline for the next sprint. I've seen product owners having a hard time to grasp if the technical need for things pitched by engineering is real or just premature optimization. You either need a more technical product owner or a tech lead that puts it's business hat on quite often.
Kinda curious how you never find those dumps by a normal search on Google, basically you have no way to know if your data is there if you don't know where to look. I don't use Facebook but I always suspected my data is there due to friends having me in their contacts and using their apps.
They will leave you alone if you choose not to send an HTTP GET call requesting content.
>Scientists started with written texts from 17 languages, including English, Italian, Japanese, and Vietnamese. They calculated the information density of each language in bits—the same unit that describes how quickly your cellphone, laptop, or computer modem transmits information.

I feel like the whole "bits" calculation is a neat way to get into the media, but not actually related to "information density".

Edit: Been informed I'm deeply ignorant on Information Theory.
Simply boycott DRMed stores and only buy in DRM-free ones. Vote with your wallet.
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So, you would walk up to someone and say "Hello, I see you are clearly having mental problems! I have some products you are going to LOVE!"and then expect nothing but a positive response?
It was also exposed that pedophiles were talking to children on youtube through comments and getting them to do inappropriate stuff like telling them to do the "Popsicle challenge" or "stretch challenge" to basically get them to unintentionally expose themselves. These kids actually have youtube accounts, know how to use a phone to record themselves and were basically doing these challenges then immediately after uploading the video to YT. Parents were completely oblivious to this. The parents think their kids are dumber than they really are. "My son? He couldn't figure out how to register a youtube account" etc. meanwhile the kid has been uploading daily for months.
It's sad that 4.7" has become the new "small". I seriously struggle to use large phones and I would love a new 4" premium phone from any company.
I take exception with Brave's phrasing here.

Essentially, Google assigns an anonymized identifier to a user and sends that to prospective ad buyers. The idea is that the ad buyer can use this to target ads to people who have visited their site as they browse other areas of the internet participating in Google's auction. This is called remarketing.

An example. You go to footlocker.com and put a pair of sneakers in your shopping cart but decide not to buy. When you go read an article on the New York Times site, a potential advertiser recognizes your anonymized id and bids to serve you an ad for the sneakers.

The issue Brave is raising is that the same anonymized id is served to each potential ad buyer. This isn't an issue with data Google collects or exposes, but Brave states that buyers could theoretically collude to build profiles by sharing the data collected on their own sites with each other joining by Google's identifier. There is no evidence of this actually happening and Google's contract with ad buyers specifically prohibits this activity.
What is the best framework/language to build webapps as fast as possible?
I had some really good experience with groovy/grails in the past. I really like how the language is simple and how it could quickly generate the front end for simple CRUD apps. Are there other better options nowadays?
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One of the writers posted a script for HL3 which made it pretty clear that the project was dead.

https://twitter.com/marc_laidlaw/status/900902074954661888?s...
> Also, worth noting that it's beneficial for the market, not necessarily (and probably not likely) for the individual investor, who will pay higher fees and may underperform the market.

Excellent point. Indeed, I believe the academic view is that due to decreasing returns to scale, funds flow in and out of active funds, with an equilibrium only when any alpha (performance above the norm) is entirely swallowed by fees.
Note we're talking about LVCSR, you're not going to get 0.01 RTF doing that. Still, wav2letter is quite impressive from the numbers I've seen (although you're still going to need an insane amount of compute and data to train a good model). I've been meaning to try it out, but the setup is so complicated I haven't gotten around to it (I tried it and at some point while going down the dependency tree I said "fuck this" and stopped).
Only up to a point there is a lot of legal case law that defines what an employee is and uber is on the wrong side of this.
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No headphone jack, no credibility.
You can also just scroll down to read the entire article.
They are working on Half-Life VR[0].

Also, there's a community-made HL3[1] in the works!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OijNv8mFcIc

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIwjZDUbNJc
It decreases the chance for a duplicate nonce in somewhat the same sense as increasing key sizes decreases the chance of a guessed key. In cryptography, past some threshold, you get to rely on probability.
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It's not obvious that it could eliminate the gender gap. If men start higher, why couldn't they stay in the lead as both sexes improved? That's why you have to do the research.
Google: hold my beer.
For that matter, even if you wanted to do some evil psychographic ad thing, why would anyone sell that info to advertisers? What are they gonna do with it? Like, why hand them the literal data, when you could allow them to just bid on ads that may be targeted/ranked using your painstakingly collected psychographic data (a la Cambridge Analytica)? Why sell cow when you can sell the milk?

Because you don't have the platform. Not every company in data brokerage out there owns an advertising platform so that advertisers/ad networks can bid on ads. Furthermore, data isn't only about direct advertising. You can also analyze trends. See what influences purchases. Correlate purchase habits with news events or various other sociopolitical indices. Make your product better. Make new products. Find out which area is hip so you can open your new shop there, or buy some real estate. And the list goes on. Advertising is just the tip of the iceberg. You can exploit such data in myriads of ways.
The point of studding something like this is to make sure that common sense is correct. A lot of things sound right but are dead wrong.
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>Not sure that's true. A gallon of gas has 33.4 kWh in it, and the US limits fuel pumps to 10 gallons per minute - it's moving 334 watt-hours per minute, or moving 20 megawatts.

This is something often overlooked when comparing fossil to electric fuels, on any average car you can "charge" enough fuel for 600miles in 10min whereas on an electric you need to charge for 75min to be able to make 350miles and that's if you have a supercharge station available.
That's an impressive arbitrage.

Sell a $0.10 egg and $3 of postage for $15.
This would assume that active funds exit at the right point in the crash. What if they wait to the bottom to sell? What if they sell during a temporary dip, then the market rallies (pseudo-bubble that never happens?)
I tried to learn those languages, my IQ level can handle java/golang/python/c just fine, but c++ and rust is beyond my comfort zone for sure, for c++, getting familiar with it is OK, but getting good at it is hard, really hard, mastering it is impossible for me. similar can be said to rust as far as I can tell.

even python has some "tricks", try "x=256; y=256; x is y" and "x=257, y=257, x is y" under python, or 'x=[], y=[], x is y; x=y=[], x is y' you will know what I mean, you actually need know some internal designs to use python properly.

At the moment I feel golang has the right trade off for programmers, be it beginners or senior developers.
The DRM industry (recording companies, RIAA, Macrovision) have been awfully scarce on public benefits of the technology, but there's a quote snippet from 2003:

To make the new discs more palatable, Adam Sexton of Macrovision Corp., which makes copy-protection technology for music and movies, says they should be loaded with extras, such as live recordings or music videos. Consumers should expect to receive more when they put the disc into a computer, not less, said Sexton, a marketing vice president.

https://web.archive.org/web/20030920055153/https://www.mcall...

That's what I've come up with by digging into old mentions on sites, in HN discussions, and Google Books. Actual benefits discussion is very hard to find, and criticisms began quite early.

The McCalls article was linked from TechDirt:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030911/0217252.shtml

Update:

There's also Macrovision's response to Steve Jobs, following Apple's decision to exclude DRM from the iPod (arguably a major factor in the latter's popularity, and path-paving for the iPhone):

DRM increases not decreases consumer value -- I believe that most piracy occurs because the technology available today has not yet been widely deployed to make DRM-protected legitimate content as easily accessible and convenient as unprotected illegitimate content is to consumers. The solution is to accelerate the deployment of convenient DRM-protected distribution channels—not to abandon them. Without a reasonable, consistent and transparent DRM we will only delay consumers in receiving premium content in the home, in the way they want it. For example, DRM is uniquely suitable for metering usage rights, so that consumers who don't want to own content, such as a movie, can "rent" it. Similarly, consumers who want to consume content on only a single device can pay less than those who want to use it across all of their entertainment areas – vacation homes, cars, different devices and remotely. Abandoning DRM now will unnecessarily doom all consumers to a "one size fits all" situation that will increase costs for many of them.

-- Frank Amaroso, Macrovision CEO

(Excerpted from the longer source.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20070306004546/macrovision.com/c...
Can you link some example photography captures using the linked camera? I browsed some reviews (first 2-3 that popped up on Google) and I'm not impressed. I feel my iPhone XS produces similar output.
Yes, the bike shed should definitely be green.

I knew somebody was going to object to that little factoid despite its irrelevance to the point at hand. I've updated my comment to remove any reference to any specific in-browser debugger.
> UK: ... It forced them to retreat from many businesses and to shrink.

The UK Banks didn't so much retreat as split their business in to a ring fenced operation (for retail), and a non ring fenced operation. The non ring fenced operations sometimes having their customer facing portion offshore in IOM, Gibralter or Channel Isles subsidiaries.

I believe one or two may have completely retreated.

Stuff like over the counter share trading which used to be available in UK Retail banks, no longer is. One has to deal directly with a stock broker operation (which could just be another company in the same bank group).
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An executive recently deployed Yi Home, and our security monitoring package discovered that it was sending telemetry about our APs, SSID and perhaps other information to numbered servers in China.

He was understandably disturbed. Has anyone else seen this happening? Is this normal? Does anyone have a recommendation for what he can replace it with?
Have you asked a lot of academic crypto people about their bill rates?
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Ther are efforts underway to turn that script into a game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIwjZDUbNJc
The ability to indoctrinate the children of the future is worth magnitudes more than this measly penalty.
Google/youtube still won't be able to do anything because kids are smart. They'll just make accounts saying they're 22 years old. It reminds me of the times when I was like 14 and started watching pornography. To say the least, you quickly learn to just click the "yes, I am 18+ years old". That's the reality. If YT/google were to really enforce it they would make all YT/google accounts require ID submission for commenting/uploading etc.
> "at a price that was reduced to reflect the fact that we were getting a limited product"

I've never in my life expected, or witnessed, a company to reduce prices once they had a stronghold on a market. To assume this would be different with DRM or other consumer-limiting tech is idiotic.
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Yes, like I said, the Democrats did it because the entertainment industry is an important constituency of theirs. The Republicans did it because they thought it would be good for business. But the businesses that benefit most from expanding IP protection (record companies, movie studios, publishers) are not very big as big businesses go. Sony pictures made $9 billion last year. Exxon-Mobil made $279 billion -- probably more than all the major studios put together. So it's possible that the Republicans could be persuaded to cut the entertainment industry loose. You could tell them they'd be helping millions of smaller businesses who could benefit from lower IP costs and that the departing RIAA and MPAA members weren't their kind of businesses anyway.

This is a longshot. I'm not pretending it isn't. But if it did work, looser IP laws would fall clearly on one side of the political spectrum, making it possible for them to get enacted in time. When they aren't on either side of the spectrum, there's no chance.
When a small time creator does sell something, they might even still lock it down! Serial keys and web-activation? That's the bread and butter for countless software titles.

I've now bought a blu-ray player 3 times from Cyberlink. What's going to happen to my blu-ray player when they go out of business? I doubt I'll be able to get it to play blu-rays at all unless I find a crack somewhere. The software I need to play the media I own is DRM'd lol.
See my reply from above. Just state that up to X% of the restricted funds are used for marketing purposes and I'm fine with that.

> For Mozilla their diversity campaigns are the same way. They’re banking on bootstrapping a large undervalued talent pool as a long-term growth strategy and social good.

I would prefer not to see tech companies trying to fix our society. We have seen numerous examples where this went really wrong and maybe we should stop that right now.
Do you feel their is a difference between asking people what they want in a browser and telling people how they should live their personal lives?

Because I think that is a core distinction many of the commenters are concerned about here.
Same here. Thank you for the tip, GP.
It's in his saved addresses because he saved them.

Any explanation involving some mysterious cross-contamination across Google's various data repositories (as if everything is in one giant database) doesn't pass the smell test.
As a solo founder, don't worry about it.

> shell out hundreds of dollars to some law firm

hundreds? LOL! $10,000 to get a DIY kit.

From one of your replies:

> I want to be able to tell customers that my service is GDPR-compliant.

This isn't possible with a one-man company. Rather, it's possible to tell them you are (there is no certification body) but it's not possible to be compliant if you don't already have expertise.

> DPO

I don't know why others are mentioning a DPO. You won't need a DPO.

The easiest route to compliance is to not collect Personal Data.
That's like saying that its the users fault if their box was compromised by heartbleed. You never know what exploits are out there.
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According to 501c3 law, the funding must be restricted to whatever the donor suggests or rejected. I mean if you suggest adding every single condition to your donation, you're not really helping the organization at all.

Otherwise you'll have a cash cow project that finances everything else. While that might be nice for one side, the other side would love to know that their funds are used to improve the already good product.

It's a holistic endeavor. Improving the product includes getting it in the hands of a lot of people, making decisions during conflicting ideas, writing better code, etc.

Restricted funding only hampers this on the perceived notion that the organization is stupid and will waste it all. There's no indication Mozilla will do this.
Facebook: "This dataset is old and appears to have information obtained before we made changes last year to remove people’s ability to find others using their phone numbers."

Not that "old." Some of those "update" dates are just a few days ago.
I’d be interested to see such an example with a more secure language like Rust.
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Couldn't the pension funds be fully funded and solvent without population growth? Assuming lower yields would mean higher contributions levels for similar benefits, or additional funding from say capital taxes, but seems plausible.
Apologies, didn’t intend to detract from your point. I thought people might be interested in the history of it since very few people even at the time seemed to know of its existence.
It's hard to translate to bits, but there is definitely different information densities between language. E.g. when you write a paragraph in Spanish, the total number of keystrokes you'll need is higher than writing the same thing in English.
For me, my go to problem tends to be a simplistic lisp interpreter.
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