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I'm wondering, how prevalent is DSL in the US?

In France, cable is basically non-existent except in a few large cities. DSL is everywhere as legacy infrastructure and fiber coverage over the whole country is increasing at a fast rate.

Is the US in a somewhat similar situation or is cable found pretty much anywhere?
Design Sprints 2.0
Could app removal be done via an app?
This app could also provide a scan and tell you which apps are bloatware. Bonus if it was a global registry.

Or is it only thru ADB that you can remove (unless rooted)?
https://www.maketecheasier.com/uninstall-system-apps-without...
Really? It doesn't make much sense to have bonuses for automation since it's largely a group effort. And that's probably the main reason why those performance bonuses are disappearing.
Can you tell me more? Sounds quite humorous. And quite usual...
>>There is a simple solution to this. After the board is done someone can just ask "Has anyone got anything else to add?"

That doesn't cut it. Being expected to talk about stuff doesn't put you on the spot, and purposely requesting the team to address a concern makes you stand out as the one creating problems where none existed.
> You'd see a comment from a coworker on your PR and be like "argh who is this guys think he is! He's totally wrong" but if you can talk with him about it in video it becomes a lot less confrontational. You can apologise and be apologised to.

Unless that doesn't happen. Perhaps he digs in his heels that he's "right" when he's demonstrably wrong? Or 'he' is the team lead, and it doesn't matter whether he's right or wrong, we all now move in that direction "because". Having to have video/f2f in situations like that adds more stress.

Dealing with this situation now, and it's bad.
> Parallel programming isn't the hardest part [...] it is the parallel debugging that is - or at least the second pass over the same codebase.

We need better IDE parallel thread debugging tools. I don’t like how VS won’t let you open a separate Autos/Locals window for each thread, or easily step each thread - setting a breakpoint in a function currently executing in multiple threads is a usability nightmare.
that's not mathematical induction though. it's what philosophers call "induction", i.e. building theories out of empirical observations (as opposed to deduction; mathematical induction is weirdly named because it's actually purely deductive)
Lots of phones in the UK don't come with a charger. It was a big initiative a few years ago.

See https://www.o2.co.uk/thinkbig/planet/sustainable-products-an...
Women have more prospects than men. The average woman has a lot more men going after them than the men do, so they can be picky. Just go to a pub or nightclub and you will see that most women get hit on by many men.

I didn’t check these particularly hard for quality, but quick google search:

from https://www.elitedaily.com/social-news/men-women-tinder-expe...

> After one day, Brian accrued 269 matches and had a mere 28 messages in his inbox; whereas, Briana had 701 matches and 378 messages waiting for her reply.

Also:

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/women-men-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/3j4r6d/why_do_you_...

For what it’s worth, I live in Western Europe and my experience is similar to that of America.
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Motorola (edit: and Google, Nokia, probably other) phones come without bloatware - vote with your wallets. (The preinstalled Moto apps are very small and actually quite useful, like accelerometer-based gestures for quick acces to camera or flashlight)

I buy phones as a platform for software, so it makes sense to pay attention to more than the hardware.
Yes, and the programmer thinks: "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime, 9 is not prime, 9 is not prime, …"
> StarCraft: Remastered – Emulating a buffer overflow for fun and profit [pdf]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16305769

fun and detailed write up of reverse engineering and then emulating behaviour caused by memory errors in a previous version of starcraft, to preserve backward compatibility for community maps that depended upon the undefined behaviour to implement unexpected custom logic
Enforcing user replaceble batteries would actually be quite nice. Also publicly availabe original spare parts.
> I got all my money back in 3-4 days.

Sounds like this was as a customer. PayPal are known to have good service for customers; most of the horror stories are as sellers (where getting bad customer service, having your funds frozen or account closed is also a LOT more painful than as a customer since it could sink your business).
> I wonder if HNers describe their startups as "anonymous shell companies"?

HNers' LLCs probably have their names on them, they're not anonymous. This article is talking about it not just being the name of a company being in property records, but that the actual "beneficial owner" of the company not being named in the incorporation records.
> Any reason laptop displays can't internally have a rather standardised connector?

Don't they? I thought LVDS was nearly universal for a long time. Didn't mean you could always swap panels though, resolution and timing needed to be supported, even when the screen physically connected. I've seen boards for sale to add external vga/dvi to old panels, but ultimately did not buy any.

I think there may be some movement towards internal display port, too.
We don't really need traders anymore.
Stock pickers won't disappear, though, because it's much harder to automate (it would be akin to having a real artificial intelligence).
I can totally recommend the Nokia phones like the 7.2 or 5.1. They run A1 and have a great feature set for the price.
Any blacklist-based syscall filtering solution that aims to run untrusted code is bound to be doomed, as the surface of all possible syscalls and ways they can be exploited to bypass some policy is enormous.

Poignantly, the naive approach of 'let's just block read(2) to prevent file access' doesn't work - there's multiple ways to bypass simple read(2) filtering like this. The easiest that come to mind are:

- using readv(2)
- using sendfile(2)
- sym/hardlinks to bypass path checks, and the inherent TOCTOU exploits of further naive checks

The same applies to any other policy you wish to implement, and for every one of those you need to consider the collection of all Linux syscalls and filter all of the relevant ones. There's around 300 syscalls in Linux as of writing.

Not to mention typical newbie mistakes that this project makes: not following forks, not checking for 32-bit syscalls, etc.

gVisor [1] does this well - instead of filtering, it reimplements the logic for handling Linux syscalls in userspace (eg., is actually responsible for handing out FDs and other handles, presenting the filesystem to the user, etc).

[1] - https://github.com/google/gvisor
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There are brands without any annoying crap preinstalled. If you want iOS go for it, but "Android has crapware" is not a very strong reason.
>Any reason laptop displays can't internally have a rather standardised connector

They usually already do, eDP (Embedded DisplayPort).
The Art of Innovation
In a sane world, they could buy or rent a reasonably sized apartment in the new development going up nearby.
The feelings are not incompatible with lots of things. For instance, you could say, “I’m mystified by the fare schedules for transportation zones in London”. That’s a valid sentence. If the schedules make sense to me, though, I might ask “Why are you mystified?” and then you might say something like “I don’t understand why it costs more to travel from X to Y than from X to Z” and we can discuss it.

If you were to, instead, say “Is mystification incompatible with pricing schedules?” no one will have benefited.

So, put simply, “What part confuses you?” is the question.
Regarding original question: it (and parent comments) assume that most of the population somehow "suffer" from the lack of "human rights" or "freedom of speech".

I assure you it's not true. Democracy, human rights, freedom of speech are things that are very vaguely defined. It means that you can blame anyone arbitrarily for being insufficiently "democratic". This is what USA actually uses as a pretext to declare a war for resources. You can call any country "undemocratic" for some definition of "democracy".

"Democracy", "freedom of speech", and other abstract concepts, doesn't affect the daily lives of 99.9% of population. Most people do not care: they wake up, have a breakfast, go to work, come home, have a dinner, go to bed. They do not really care what is exact way the president is elected (or not elected). They do not care about so-called "freedom of speech" because they aren't journalists or writers.

On the other hand, when somebody drops bombs and rockets on you and your family, when infrastructure (schools, power lines, roads and other things) in your country are destroyed for tens of years, when there's anarchy and chaos around that causes huge rise of crimes, it makes a great difference to the everyday lives of the people. And that is what US/NATO really brought to people of Iraq, Libya and other countries.
ex-cia: sleeper cells in LA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3lNhNh7Kc

Arrogance blinds.
> Why not have a SETI-in-the-primes project, after all?

Sure, it can run alongside SETI-in-the-burn-marks-on-toast and SETI-the-flour-spilled-on-the-table projects.
You can use duck.com
More terrible than needing a converter for every pair of wired headphones, and a separate converter for the highly advanced case of wanting to charge my phone while listening to music?
I think when you install Java in windows it says that java runs on 3 billion devices and has been saying so for the past 10 years or so
Can't we have an open source search engine with publicly sourced "indices"? Anyone who wants can then crawl the web and build a graph of parts of the internet. The search part and the crawling code would be open source. What's the problem?
I'm blaming mostly Samsung for this. Because of some, for me mind-boggling, reason, Samsung grew to be The Android manufacturer, and still is today. In earlier days I really don't recall their phones being any much better than their competition. But their software was and is bloated beyond good taste. And I guess because of that, other manufacturers just followed along.
I couldn’t find a more recent source but as of 2015 there were a total of 24 schools that generated net revenue. That’s out of a total of approximately 2,500 schools with an athletics program.

About 99% of schools lose money on athletics and require direct institutional support to survive. That means, yes, stealing money from the math department.

In practice it doesn’t really work out that way. Students just pay more in tuition and get the same education they would have if they paid less. Just look at UNT and what they did a few years ago. Raised tuition to fund a new football stadium.

If you’re looking at this from the perspective of Texas A&M you’re looking from the wrong perspective.

http://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/athlet...
Thanks Ricca. These are valuable materials.
That is not correct. While SOME religions teach this, not the majority.

Marin County, which is not a hot bed of any religion other than yoga pants, EV, soylent drinks etc, is the largest population of anti-vaxxers in California.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
I got a moto because of this. It has _almost_ no bloatware. LinkedIn, DropBoxNativeClient, and a few other apps I don't use cannot be uninstalled.

Edit: some others I can't uninstall from my international, unlocked Moto G6: Google Drive, Duo, Chrome, YouTube,
The EU simply told the manufacturers to agree on a single port or else they would have to regulate one. Apple ruined the party for everyone.
Is it no code or no programmer that’s the goal. The latter seems reasonable if you’re software product customer that would like to trim out the person between you and the product that seems to be slow only to misunderstand what’s needed.

E.g. if you could get the end product with Less waiting and miscommunication. I can see that being a sales pitch that resonates
Modern Macbooks and Thinkpads are both USB-C, so it looks like things are moving in that direction.
AOT compiled to native code.
"Low Code" is currently where it's at.

Intelligent subject-matter experts who are non-programmers can build 80 to 90% of their business info capture and reporting requirements inside the walled garden of their chosen platform.

Programmers are called in temporarily to complete the final 10 to 20% of the LowCode app, and integrate with external services.

It's been happening since Excel, through to Wordpress and nowadays splintered into 100's of directions and platforms from Wix to Podio to Notion.so
This sounds horrendous. It doesn't really feal like it would achieve much either except making standups even harder.
Isn't Software Transactional Memory more for concurrency than parallel computing though?
The EU strongly recommended that manufacturers would agree on a single charger standard, no actual regulation was put in place (just a large "or else" invisible attached to those announcements).

So now the EU has watched the farce with Apple long enough and it will be forcefully regulated.
While I agree with the author, it's only true when speaking of software that requires custom logic.

For instance, "no-code" website creation offering has done wonders in replacing the "install wordpress on a very crappy cheap host and let it rot with vulnerable plugins" paradigm.
Hainan is first Chinese province to establish a professional e-sports team
See: Android One

https://www.android.com/one/

No bloatware, updates available.
Thanks for the feedback - I've made sure this is logged internally.

It looks like it may have been an edge case around capitalization where "meteo roma" was working and "meteo Roma" wasn't.

We can only find cases like this when users report them - so if you run into one again, feel free to use the feedback button on the bottom-right hand side of the screen! :)
It can require a certain multiple of the dedication & focus normally excercised by casual employees. More energy too.

>Surely the answer isn't "The founder must be financially independent and have savings", "The Founder resigns to a life of semi-homelessness and poverty"

Well, that's not the only two possibilities, just two of the extremes, so not the complete answer. Most will fall somewhere in between.

I would avoid IP issues by bringing productive technology to employers rather than taking it away, with outside efforts separated by a distant tangent at the closest.

Independence involves a lot more leaps than only financial, and any aspect can be a gamble.

You might want to have great confidence in your wagering ability, based on a realisitc foundation.
Why isn't Epic buying Discord?
Aardwolf has always been more like an infinite farming noobland (where you could also spend some real cash). Although, yea, very noob-friendly.

For serious pvp+rp, Carrion Fields.

For non-ROM based RP MUDs, Achaea or the like (although these days you'd likely have to spend real cash there as well).
5A is a huge amount of current. For anything. We're talking microwave oven or a couple of desktops.

And FWIW, my laptop charger is 2.25A output. There is plenty of room within a 5A envelope for higher current, faster charging battery tech of the future.
this is why i never run stock rom
I wonder if TV lcd panels also have some kind of standard or if it's completely random
Oh wow. My Moto phones never had anything like that. Moto G3, G5, and One Vision. Bought in Germany without contract.

Edit: I don't see Google apps as an (additional) problem. Google already controls the phone and its apps don't waste CPU time or memory while not active.
You may have misinterpreted the comment chain. It sounds like you're talking about vendor lock-in. They're talking about being locked out of their Google account due to a Google bot incorrectly categorizing their work as spam or abuse. The implications for them being locked out is that they can't use anything related to their Google account. That could include their personal phone, personal email account and personal cloud services.
As much as bloatware is awful and Google could probably have some better rules on this, Google itself doesn't ship bloatware on it's own phones. I guess it depends on your definition of bloatware, but YouTube isn't exactly bloatware on the same level as the junk that comes installed on most third party phones, and it can be uninstalled - a lot of third party bloatware is installed as a system app and can't be deleted.

If people don't like junk pre-installed on their Samsung phones or by Verizon, they should probably complain to them, or stop buying those phones. There are plenty of brands with stock Android that don't come with pre-installed junk.
Discord spy on an unperson? That's unpossible.
Ask HN: How long does it take for you to build an MVP ready to launch?
Hi,

the question you saw in the title is one from the survey I created to learn more about the indie developer / maker community (it is focusing on people who are trying to make a living by creating digital products). If you are one yourself, could you please, help me with your answers?

https://themakerreport.com/

It takes about 15 minutes. Most of the questions have predefined answers, so you only need to select one of them.

Thank you.
Not sure if this is the same as what was on the link you sent, but you can take a look at the Discord Data Mining project [0].

[0] https://github.com/DJScias/Discord-Datamining
I suppose by this way of thinking I've been soundly trouncing cars for years now. They wear out after a few decades, but I can keep going on and on and on.
>or no programmer

That seems to be the gist of it. SaaS seems to tackle this specific issue by trying to move everything away from the customers in the first place. Don't need sysadmins or software devs(here) if they're in the cloud(over there).

Their pricing model is often advantageous to smaller companies aswell; only paying for what you use, even if that price is ridiculous per unit sold, it still often beats hiring dedicated staff. This effect lessens over time as company grows.
How to Prepare Your Android App for a Pentest
Or, simply not try and skirt EU anti-trust regulation by a pay-to-play bidding system.

DuckDuckGo tweet thread + link to research on choice screens: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1215307399978016774
> the law

Which law?

> That's still your private mail. They can't go looking it it,

They definitely subject it to all kinds of automated scanning for spam and potentially abuse. The nearest thing to a public statement from Google on the subject seems to be: “very specific cases where you ask us to and give consent, or where we need to for security purposes, such as investigating a bug or abuse”

i.e. there may be abuse cases where they read your mail without asking.
I think it's about time all this can/is easily fixed with QI.
No more need for a cable to charge your battery!

BTW: the title is a bit misleading, as the article states a lot more products then just mobile phones.
As a samsung user i can confirm this , maybe it has its own contribution to competition, but i dont see any excuse creating and dictating your own ecosystem for every single bit of mobile functionality but i am pretty sure its not limited to samsung. Also what is wrong in my opinion is that they do prevent flashing stock images
Haskell absolutely lacks the soft documentation needed to attract new people. Just about every library could use a "mini tutorial" in their README, at the very least, to allow even novices to quickly bootstrap them and start getting productive without having to understand all the underlying concepts.
Wow, I really feel sorry for whatever situations you've found yourself in.
Not just that. The reality is, unfortunately, that money is used for a whole bunch of illegal activities too. Most notably child pornagrahpy.
I wouldn't want that kind of currency flowing through my house, even if it was only for legal reasons.
They probably had data showing that black students are caught cheating and fail tests more often. One interpretation of this is that black students are unfairly targeted by such practices and therefore the practices should be eliminated or reduced. You see similar sentiments when discussing policing crime.
The coolest thing about this read is the idea of a free-beer.bounty lowkey CTF file in my home dir.
Google actually had a program that addressed this head-on, where it retailed 'Google Play Edition' versions of flagship phones like the Galaxy S7, updated directly from Google, with their own factory image and no bloatware:

https://www.xda-developers.com/discontinued-a-look-at-google...
This is why I love the idea of the "Library of Babel". The basic idea is that it's a vast "library" of every permutation of letters and punctuation in a book. Almost every book would be complete gibberish, but there much also be every book ever written, already created and waiting to be discovered.

Is any idea truly created, or simply discovered first? Or is the simple fact of having too many possibilities man that there's no possible way you can "discover" anything at all, and anything much be invented first to be looked for?
Google actually had a program that addressed this head-on a few years back, where it retailed 'Google Play Edition' versions of flagship phones like the Galaxy 7, updated directly from Google, with their own factory image and no bloatware. For whatever reason, they killed the program without it really going far or being marketed well, which was a real shame:

https://www.xda-developers.com/discontinued-a-look-at-google...
It's not only the "threaded code" approach, that makes Wasm3 so fast. In fact, Intel's WAMR also utilizes this method, yet is 30 times slower..
Also like this method. Walking to board every day isn't always necessary, there shouldn't be that many changes from one day to the next. But by only using round robin every other day, people actually have something to say.
Having made a no code tool myself at yazz.com I definitely agree with many parts of this article. For prototypes or very simple one screen crud apps no code can be the right fit
If the blowback from the 2008 financial crisis wasn’t enough to kill it, I am skeptical that anything can.