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It's not often that Android's fragmentation is touted as a benefit, but the fact that Android isn't a monoculture is certainly one of the hurdles to developing a worm capable of mass deployment. Supposedly the varying implementations of the Android media services mean a libstragefright exploit may or may not end up with root access.

Now, if this were an iOS zero-day exploit...

[Actually, it'd be trivial for the carriers to filter the payload, so I don't reckon SMS/MMS is ever going to be a viable transmission vector.]
You can try getting a tighter fit and see if that helps.

I've noticed with any consumer heart rate monitor, if the fit is not tight and the monitor moves even a little bit, the heart rate the monitor reports will be off. I'm assuming the same will apply to the Apple watch.
> How is this handled at large US based hacker conventions?

The police raiding the NSA?
Arduino IMHO is bad and harmful: it "gentrifies" the hobby, floods it with people who have no desire to learn the basics.
Absolutely true. The cable companies are about to revolt -- what happens if Comcast says "Fine, we're just giving everyone Netflix + Hulu Plus subscriptions and a Roku box, so ESPN and the RSNs can fuck off; subscribe to MLB/NFL/NHL's streaming packages if you want to."?
Talk to more devs, or refine your idea based on feedback.

If you can't attract anyone, probably either your idea sucks, you personally don't add any value, or the scope of your idea is starting too large.

Ask them for feedback.
You write tests specifically for testing multiple changes. You shouldn't be testing changes to global state by seeing how multiple supposedly independent tests interact.
Show HN: Realm Status for World of Warcraft iOS App
Roads that charge electric car as you drive may arrive sooner than you think
I think this just exposes how much of an unnecessary middleman cable companies have become.
You're like a far less intriguing Guy Debord.
Ignoring that it's a wholly new flash/storage chip just being introduced to the market, scaling up flash storage is not a great mystery or difficulty -- add more chips. The reason consumer drives are at the sizes they are is a matter of consumer tolerance for pricing levels, and we saw all of the noise when 1TB flash drives were announced, people annoyed that it isn't for less than $100.
A bail companies will put up the actual bail, and charge the arrested person a flat fee that does not get returned to them.

Of course, if the arrested person runs off, they're out the money they paid the court.
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> IMO, the Android echosystem is a clusterfuck and Google needs to get a hold of it. I would buy a Windows phone before I would buy an Android device.

This is nowhere near as bad as the situation with Windows XP 10 years ago.

The difference is that Android has the majority marketshare worldwide and Windows phone does not, making Android the more attractive target both for researchers and malicious actors.

Security by obscurity is not entirely without value, but it's not particularly strong as a defense either.
Complete with read/write heads hanging off an X-Y plotter mechanism.
Skype for Business mobile coming soon
You need a license to be a bail bondsman, though TFA said that NYC recently passed a law to allow non-profits to post bail without a license.
It easily goes into the hundreds of thousands, and when people with mental illness end up in jail, off their meds, they often stack up all sorts of charges for relatively minor behavior that sounds ominous on paper as "assault on a penal officer" or somesuch. Now you can get bail in the millions, and prejudice from every corner of the system.

It's no longer about a straw, it's about a guard who says you punched them when in face five people were holding you and you had a spasm or something.
Oh she does all of that. These are 120 lb robots with 100+ amp circuits. She wires up the control system board system board, uses CNC mills to fab parts (and many other tools), works with the designers to ensure that the design can be build, does on the fly diagnostics and break fix. She is getting really good experience. She also works with the programmers to ensure a smooth control system. And much more.
Your mindset about this is shocking and scarily misogynistic.

A person doesn't "have" to say anything if they are not interested. That's pretty much a great way to show you are not interested: don't respond. Ignore the text. It lets both parties move on without some explicit and awkward rejection.

You are blaming all women for the fact that some men can't take a hint.

And that screenshot of Google search predictions (seriously, what the hell). Why would you think that has any bearing on how anyone should think and act? Why would you think that defines all women? Do you hold your own self to the standard of what a Google search prediction tells you to do?

I sincerely hope you are just an angry teenager who has time to grow up and not a professional man working with others.
People only think they want truly a-la-carte. The fact that most people don't watch most channels is already built into the system.

The average consumer won't save any money because the price of these channels already reflects average viewership. Those who watch a bunch of different channels would pay a lot more. Only those who watch a very small amount of channels would actually save money.

But paying for access to a channel doesn't really make sense anymore. Why should anyone care what channel content is broadcast on?

Why should someone watching a few hours on two channels pay twice as much compared someone one watched one channel all the time? The later is consuming much more content. Paying by channel is just a shitty way of gauging usage.

A la carte will reduce the amount of content without really reducing prices. Every station will essentially be like TNT or TBS.

Netflix shows that people want the opposite of a la carte. They want an unlimited plan.

It's probably a moot point, video on demand is going to kill cable no matter what.
It could be just because we're coming from Android, but my friend and I experienced an approachability problem with the iPad about a month ago.

I was using an iPad on a flight (the in-flight entertainment was broken) and it took us, both computer engineers, a good ten minutes to figure out how to turn down the brightness. It was a painful experience trying to find the settings - swipe down? No.. swipe other directions, nope.

It took us forever to discover that 'settings' is just an app on the tablet.

Maybe it was just because we are part of the Android ecosystem, but using one didn't seem very logical.

Note: Neither of us specifically avoid Apple products, but just found them way too expensive with university for purchase.
TFA mentioned several cases where it was under $2k.
Wow, I like the feature selector. That page has gotten snarkier since I last looked.
I'm quite amazed at how responsive it feels compared to sharelatex or the likes. It's extremely simple. I like it. I may not use it myself, but I'll mention it to friends who are learning LaTeX.
> This reorganization makes no difference on the financials.

In the short term, it doesn't. But it may be preparation for something in the longer term that does.
The shrinking engineering support network
Pretty much goes with the territory. Javascript is sort of a mess right now. Everyone is figuring out the best way to do things. The exact same thing happened in previous projects of Yehuda's like the Rails merge where 3.0 brought a tremendous amount of pain, but 4.0 significantly less so. Or Bundler, where people cursed it up and down for the first two years, but once it stabilized it was amazing and now everyone just quietly uses it without problems.

I really trust Yehuda and Tom's approach with Ember. Yeah there will be pain and breakage, but that's better than making a long-term commitment to the wrong thing. Over time it will converge (and I think it is already to a significant degree) on the right abstractions and then stability will come, but to do so prematurely leads to an inferior framework. If you need stability in your front-end then Ember (or god help you Angular) is probably not the wisest choice—I would even consider your options of just going server-rendered for current projects to give a bit more time for the ecosystem to mature.
I wasn't putting a dog in this race with that comment, just urging you to get that battery checked up on before it dumped you at the side of the road. Headlights pull some wattage, but a radio really shouldn't and there's no way 15 minutes should cause any concerning symptoms. Just trying to help :)

I'm not sure how I feel about it, personally. I share a lot of the concerns that have been raised here (battery cutout wiping my clock+radio, vibration, longevity, cranking+jumping ability, etc), and I'm always a bit wary of "One Weird Trick; Auto Companies Hate Him!" claims. I'm certainly not going to be the test dummy for that one, I got places to be that aren't the side of the road. Give me 5 years of early adopters and we'll see.

Neither here nor there, but I was one of the early adopters of electric motors in R/C airplanes. I was doing it since before brushless was a thing (about 15 years), my first plane used a brushed Graupner car motor and Sub-C car packs (boy howdy was that underpowered). I can tell you that batteries have a very finite lifetime, especially when you abuse them under high-current loads. I worry that a lot of hybrid/electric owners are in for some sticker shock when their packs wear out. That one unit is a pretty significant fraction of the total cost and it's a wear item. I know there's steps taken to lengthen the life of the pack, but you can't run them indefinitely.
I really wanted to like Parse, but I saw a startup get burned badly by it recently. It works great as a fast way to get your app up and running, but it absolutely falls flat on its face as soon as you do anything more complicated than a basic read/write interface.

The real problems show up when you've all of a sudden got these old apps out in the field with no way to upgrade them to a newer version of the DB. If you aren't being diligent and making all your Parse DB calls through their cloud functions, you are guaranteed to end up in a situation where your older mobile clients are holding back schema and feature evolution. You can try to hack around it using triggers, but these are too buggy to be reliable.

Other examples of where Parse is painful:

- beforeSave/afterSave triggers are completely unusable! They are unbelievably limited and each one you add slows your app down by as much time as it takes to run. If you want to do something like add users to Mailchimp, you have now tied the length of time it takes to save a user to the length of time it takes to talk to mailchimp!

- There is absolutely no way to test your parse code other than uploading it to a parse app and hitting it. You can hack together some node code that sort-of tests it, but it's nowhere near representative of what happens on the server.

- You can't manage Parse.Config programatically. There's a web interface and that's that. None of your config can live in your git repo because there's no way to read or write it from the command-line.

- The schema tools are pretty bad on the website. IIRC they introduced REST APIs to make changes to schema recently, but unless you plan on writing tooling around those, you'll be manually syncing schema between prod/staging at some point in your life and you'll probably also miss a critical column that got added.

- Parse has a bunch of weird datatypes that act strangely in their cloud code. Want to make a pointer and store it in a parse field? Construct its internal representation and set it! I wish I was kidding. If you construct a pointer incorrectly, it can actually create a phantom object in another table. Also wish I was kidding about this.

- createdAt and updatedAt are special and Parse won't let you touch them or set them. Heaven forbid you want to actually set these to a meaningful time other than the actual last time the record was written. Nope. So you end up making your own updatedAt columns and just using those.

For your own sanity: stay away from Parse. The range of use cases where it is actually useful is so narrow that you'll leave that very quickly unless you are building a toy app.
At the os level I have only had a more stable system with every OS upgrade.

Wifi is back to its old happy self with the last few patches and seems more stable, Yosemite early days it was a bear I will give you that.

What I have found is that some things just don't play nice with the OS. Openvpn is kind of a bear and I'm not sure what the underlying cause is, but its easy to kill and restart so not a major issue there.

I do regular heath checks and cleanup though. EtreCheck is a great way to get a look at all the cruft in your system and make some calls on what to clean out/up!
I don't get this.
Sure the watch makes it easy to collect your heart rate date, but where is the data on whether they are eating a burrito or watching game of thrones going to come from?
Says "Suspected child abuse content has been removed from this page."

Chances are high google found some questionable images that matched the protected database and it was auto flagged.
If anybody ever asks me what Hacker News is, I'm going to screenshot this thread and send it to them.
> Very risky advice for the nonwhite.

Very risky advice for ANYONE. Doesn't matter your race, the police don't like people to stick up for themselves. Judges tend to frown on this behavior as well, even if it's morally right. The truth doesn't matter when the judge doesn't care.

EDIT: That's not to say that all judges will allow these kinds of questionable abuses, just that there are enough that you're kind of taking your fate in your hands in a more substantial way than say driving a car or taking an airline flight.
Related- The author says he had his Facebook internship offer revoked for this.

http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/011df79360244011b1ee6bce2...
In the case mentioned in the article, though, when the man is _holding_ a soda, and has said that he's going to use the straw for that, it seems farcical to consider treating the straw as drug paraphernalia as "probable cause".
Facial recognition software moves from overseas wars to local police
SSDs are just chips on boards, which are manufactured using very mature, very high volume technology and yet they improve at best 2x/year. There is no reason why SSD prices would drop 10x in one year.

Hetzler et al. have calculated that the industry would have to spent over $800B to build enough fabs to replace hard disks with SSDs. http://storageconference.us/2013/Papers/2013.Paper.01.pdf
The Mac App Store Still Needs Paid Upgrades
They could get that through dividends even if Google went public.
Vulkan from the POV of a hobby 3D developer
The entire model of having "channels" is going away. Studios already produce content across multiple genres; "channels" are just their way of organizing those shows into packages to make them easier to show on a linear cable channel.

Netflix and Amazon have shown that you can manage a single brand with many genres beneath. There's no need to have channels; we can just have "ABC", "NBC", "Fox", "Scripps", etc. ABC would include ESPN, Disney, and all their other channels; Fox would include FX and whatever else Fox has, etc.

It won't happen overnight, but I would expect channels to go away gradually over the next decade.
For anyone, especially for the nonwhite. FTFY.
MTV isn't free. Paying customers are still their product.
Moore's Law has always been concerned about transistor size. Solid State Drives are nothing but a big pile of transistors, so it's no surprise we're seeing incredible capacity growth.
I don't think "advances" are bad. This woman experienced continuous harassment after politely declining an "advance." That's where things should have ended, but didn't.

The fact that we need to suggest social education to educate professionals in the workplace about when a person is not interested in them is kind of shocking. It should be considered basic communication skills.
Great to hear, thanks!
Apple's Marc Newson Believes Automotive Design Is Lacking Progress
Once birth control has either failed or been neglected, men really have no choice in the matter. A man can't (and shouldn't be able to) choose whether a woman terminates her pregnancy.
Keep in mind that this 16TB SSD costs $20,000 or more; it's not comparable to a $200 consumer hard disk.
Dell Chromebook 13
That's good advice. When I had a Moto 360, I also sometimes did the opposite: loosen the strap one notch, and slide it up my arm slightly till it was taught again. Your forearm is a slightly easier place to measure pulse than on a bony wrist.
You can watch all the motos here:

http://www.promotocross.com/mx/video

Maybe not live but I watched both 450 Unadilla motos the following Sunday evening. I have no cable/sat package.
> Uninformed consent is not consent.

Better way of arguing for your point would be to say that you cannot consent if you are uninformed, but if you were presented with the privacy statement then whose fault is it that you are uninformed and still went ahead agreeing to something you don't understand. Do you also take candies from strangers? I don't think what Microsoft is doing is ethical, but then I think it would be much more unethical for us to take Microsoft's right to free speech. I think you are arguing for nanny state.
how do you trust the hosted CI company not to look at your code?

Contracts, not firewalls, make the world go round.
Not sure about this.

The irritation is about what we may expect to be another quoting level (e.g., back-ticks) is implemented as plain code. By doing so, the language specs are dramatically inflated by the addition of HTML grammar. We may note in this context that in JS the DOM-interface is _not_ part of the core language, but kept a separate implementation.
The shovel doesn't care who owns it. If the employer owns it, the employee gets paid less because the shovel rental is effectively deducted from his pay. If the worker owns it, the end consumer can (theoretically) pay less, because the worker does not need to pay any rent on his tools. The purchase cost of a better shovel is a barrier to entry, not a marginal cost of production.

By the time you get up to giant mechanized excavators, the barrier is so high that a guy with just a spade and a dream can never get that far, because anyone either renting or owning a better tool can outcompete him at every turn, and the rent on a better shovel may be such a large proportion of the cost of shoveling that the laborer using it could never accumulate enough savings to buy his own tool.

That's where you have to rely on an external force to change the status quo, "force" being the key word. The guy who doesn't play nice gets metaphorically whacked in the head with a shovel. Taxes are just one of many ways to do that.
It's a curious thing-- we live in an age of disintermediation.

Nobody likes paying a middleman fee, especially true in the professional workspace.

Yet even with the global Linkedin platform-- Buyers & Sellers of talent have an impossible time connecting.
Because it's pretty damn obvious when someone doesn't like you versus when they are being playfully coy. If you can't tell then just back off and assume they are not interested. Because if you can't tell then they are probably not interested.
People who don't have thousands lying around tend to have friends and family in similar financial situations, may not have a bank account, probably don't have a mortgage, and little credit.
Either that or keep the platters circular but make the case hexagonal.
You are correct. It runs with system and graphics privileges on many devices. It is a native service started at system init and is automatically restarted if it crashes.
how do you trust the hosted CI company not to look at your code

One can probably assume that they are not relying upon the secrecy of their code for security.
Tesla is one business, "Battery Manufacturer". They currently have a few products in their line. Home batteries, Industrial batteries, and some battery powered vehicles.
There's a simple economic argument for this.

With paid individual therapy, the therapist has a few competing incentives: 1. To make you feel you are progressing towards solving your problems. 2. To not do so in a way that pisses you off so much you leave. 3. To not completely solve your problem so that you no longer need therapy.

I'm not cynical enough to think therapists deliberately heed the third point, but I believe the second one—not being so confrontational that you drive the patient away—is a real challenge.

With group therapy, the other unpaid participants have no such incentive. There are others in the group, so if you are not making progress and are stifling the group, it hurts no one if you leave. They can be direct and honest with you because there's no incentive for them not to do that.
In the HDD market there are actually just two companies: WD and Seagate. There are other brands (Toshiba, HGST) but these are not completely independent (HGST is owned by WD, Toshiba still exists mostly because WD feeds it with technology whenever they are threatened by anti-monopoly rulings, so they can say competition still exists).

In the SSD market there are lots of brands, but only a few flash chip makers - so it's the same lack of competition but better hidden to the consumer.