skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will happen naturally once we don't have a word for apps and another for websites.

Icon on the home screen and finding the "app" on the store is what most users need (basically bookmarks).
Yes, but they issue a list of errors that need fixing, rather than a broken binary (assuming your compiler isn't broken, anyhow).

As mentioned below, it's their responsibility to write the patent correctly. Once it has been issued, it's too late to modify it, though they often try this with creative interpretation.

Similar to what was said to Humpty Dumpty, there's a question of whether they can have it mean N=1 and N>1 at the same time.
I figured I'd have to do that but I wanted to do some homework first. I'd love to read some language that is more benign to have an idea of what might be possible.

Is this a situation you've personally dealt with?

Can you point me to what might be considered a benign contract somewhere?
This is what concerns me most about as blockers; the potential for collusion. Without transparency around rulesets, they are fundamentally untrustworthy.

That comment in the iOS content blocker screen where it says that a blocker cannot send information back to the app is very literal; while it can't communicate with the app, it could communicate with the outside world.

I wrote a proof of concept showing how a content blocker can be used to disclose a unique tracking token across all domains - seeing collusion happening with one of the biggest blockers makes me think that this could actually happen. It's a little inelegant, but it shows that it's possible.

Proof of concept for those interested - https://github.com/MattOfNZ/Hypercookie

Any feedback on how practical this seems would be appreciated, I am not sure if my concerns are real or unfounded.

Edit: swapped 'seeing this' for 'seeing collusion'
Does it have a benefit on something else than ABP?
Lol, sure.
It seems like a lot of people assume that the success or failure of a startup is entirely random. A statistic is not the same thing as a probability, and it's dangerous to conflate the two. Just because less than 1% of startups succeed to the degree that you can retire on your equity, it doesn't mean that there aren't ways you can tell when your equity is that valuable. You can look at the team, the product, the marketplace, your customers, and your overall gut feeling to decide that. Treating the statistic as a probability ignores all of that valuable information.
No it's just the traditional "first to the app store with new feature" cash grab.
> Undermining a publisher’s ability to monetize is stealing

That is ridiculous. Stealing is taking what is not given. Stealing is not the lack of taking what is given.

We really are in an era of redefining words to mean whatever suits you. Everybody seems to be doing it!
Adblock Edge also still has 0.71 million daily users despite the fact that it is no longer maintained. (The maintainers recommend uBlock Origin instead.) That's more than all of the uBlock add-ons combined.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/...
And the phone knows what time it is because...?
All an attacker has to do is put the phone in a Faraday cage and spoof the cell time while the cert is stolen. trivial.
Eat24?
OK, it does sound like CW misunderstood their own patent in an earlier filing. And maybe that technically makes them lose the point.

But CW's current filing contains this:

According to the patent, “The MAC-e PDU is sent to the physical layer every
n*TTI, instead of once every transmission time interval (TTI).” If the integer were to be 1,
the MAC-e PDU would be sent to the physical layer once every TTI, which is expressly
excluded by the specification.”

In other words, the specification excludes the n=1 case, and the n<1 cases are nonsensical.
ESP8266 is where the excitement is now. You can buy three ESP-12's on Aliexpress for the price of a CHIP and get free shipping to boot. No Linux, but you can program it now with the Arduino IDE. FCC approved 802.11 b/g/n built-in, SPI, UART, a few GPIOs, faster and more RAM / FLASH than Arduino, etc.

https://nurdspace.nl/ESP8266#Technical_Overview
Steve Keen have some lovely lines in his presentations about those assumptions.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ProfSteveKeen
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I think this a very unfair comparison.

Everyone who works with Python who understands its limitations has usually found reasonable workarounds for the things you would expect the language to bend to, much like other, similar languages that occupy that niche.

By the same token, we can claim that C++'s horrendous and undecidable syntax and footguns make it a language inadequate for "general purpose" programming; and for many cases you would be right!

But there is no such thing as a language that can do everything well. The other big contender for "general purpose" is the JVM languages, which also suffer from innumerable issues such as slow VM startup time, long VM warmup, enormous RAM usage, lack of very reasonable primitives such as unsigned integers, etc. etc.

Those are the reasons why very large systems either use a hybrid of languages and runtimes for different tasks, or use a monolythic solution and make the adequate compromises.

No one will disagree that the multithreading story would be easier in Python if it chucked the GIL out of the way, but then again, if you're doing that you might as well start a project in Elixir, Julia, Rust, or any number of modern languages that don't suffer from the cruft, but easily will need a decade to catch up in terms of library support and tooling.
An innovative form of cheating emerges in MOOCs
san francisco can't even paint straight lines on the road (i saw it with my own eyes last time i was in the sunset - shockingly bad), do you it's because they lack the money or technology to do so?
Isn't v8 doing this kind of optimization? Astounding, if not.
So the way iOS apps already do this...
iAds seem less shitty than most web ads. And the web isn't going away anytime soon.
Watsi launches 5-day donation campaign after raising $5M to help 5K patients
Logo design, custom logo design , the logo boutique,
Yes, if you were going to write an obfuscator, LLVM would be a good place to start. But, to a first approximation, nobody in the world obfuscates their mobile apps.

Actually, I should raise the 'NateLawson alarm; he can probably tell us precisely how many mobile developers obfuscate on either platform.
TL;DR — "The preeminent geostrategic challenge of this era is... the impact of China’s ascendance... war is more likely than not."

Don't let that summary stop you from reading the article, though; it is interesting.
at least 50% of companies will refuse to tell you when making an offer to you. It is insane that they tell you about these shares and play it up like it is great compensation then when you turn around and ask a very simple questions "how many outstanding shares are there?" they will refuse to answer. Once i hear this i immediately assume the shares are worthless. I cant understand people who put any value to made up numbers they tell you, companies deliberately create more and more shares so they can give away more shares to employees that are even more worthless but people hear a big number and think it is great
<<the web can do pretty much anything you need with content and data>>

Not on mobile. Due to serious, oft-encountered performance issues, the web remains crippled on mobile compared to native.

By "native" I'm referring to apps where the UI is rendered natively as opposed to being rendered in a `WebView`.

React Native is bending the rules here but it is important to note that it is divergent from the web platform and convergent with the native platforms.
Nicolas Cannasse (Haxe author) about his game Evoland 2
Most apps are delivering content, so they also fail when offline.

Yes, there are a number of apps that cache some data locally, but I believe they're in the minority. Even casual games have to check in with a database and retrieve a couple datapoints about your progress, your in-app purchases, and what powerups are available to you.
I have a certificate in geographic information systems. It is an IT field. He knew what it was and was a powerful man in the IT department. If I had been male, he could have been a networking opprtunity. He was well positioned to understand the value of my niche training and what relevance it might have for a company drowning in information overload. That angle apparently never crossed his mind. He only thought of me in terms of being an attractive woman that he wanted to date.

It was against the rules at the company to sleep with someone you were in charge of, even if not directly -- even if there were several layers between your position and theirs. Therefore, any high ranking man in a different department that slept with me was de facto barring me from ever working under him. Depending on his position in the department, this could bar me from a single team or multiple teams or the entire department.

I wanted an IT job. Him asking me for a date was potentially making it impossible to ever pursue that at the company where we both worked. I am sure that did not cross his mind. He made enough money, he could have provided for me even if I did not work. But I want a career. I did the homemaker and mom thing already. I am not looking for a man who wants me to be his little lady. I want one who will support my dreams instead of one who assumes it is all about his. I did that once. I got burned. I want something better the second time around. If I can't get it, I am content to remain alone.
I dispute the claim that bitcode makes this task so much easier that it presents a real threat. Everyone with a financial or policy interest in backdooring Signal can do so on stripped ARM binaries without any trouble.
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Here's an experiment: get a million people to guess the results of a thousand coin-tosses. By the end, a miraculous few will have a 100% record and will be hailed as geniuses. Books will be written about this incredible group. These books will find the traits that, by chance, the group members happen to share with each other. ("My god, they all have brown hair!" "Yes, but they come from eclectic backgrounds - housewives, factory workers, math professors." "How fascinating!") But what is the probability any one member of that group correctly guessing the result of the next coin toss?
Yep, was about to shell out for a Pro, but now I'm going to wait for #1 version 2.0 for them to work out all the kinks and #2 this cloud connection business. I refuse to buy any equipment that doesn't work if it's disconnected.
Planned obsolescence. You need an incentive to buy a new iPhone.
iOS is Opt-In
That carrier doesn't look like British carriers. I always thought they had a curved launch ramp while USS carriers have always been a flat deck.
I was talking about the O(n log n) algorithm that computes the DFT.
> Women almost never initiate touching with men. It is well established this is a sex based "male privilege." Men tend to take it for granted that no woman is allowed to touch them without permission. I am clear that a man touching me without permission -- a married man, doing nothing to in any way benefit me and intentionally avoiding being helpful so as to not be seen as being sweet on me -- was violating my boundaries.

This honestly is news to me as a male. I've had a fair amount of women touch me without permission. Not like hand on thigh or anything, well a couple times, but hand on hand, hand on shoulder, hand on ass, hand on waist.

Not saying you're wrong but from my personal anecdata this is not well established. >.< I could bring up more things but to be honest all they are is experiences I've had with the women I've worked with. I try not to let it paint my views of women overall. Also trying to think back if i've accidentally touched anyone at work wrongly, I probably have but might have just been absent minded about it.

If that happens absentmindedly is that bad? If so that probably means I'm some sort of male pig because I can't say I never did that at all with any certainty.
Apparently the block list is compiled/JITed to native code when loaded for better performance and battery life.

They probably decided it wasn't worth the engineering effort to add a second code generation backend for 32bit phones (which are now three+ generations old and already facing RAM limitations).
Half are bots and there's no incentive for facebook to really find out which accounts are fake, astroturfed, bot-driven and which one's are not.

Instagram, with some of its fake accounts, now with its claimed 400million accounts, overlap with facebooks.
> Status: RESOLVED, VERIFIED, CLOSED Content: chair

> Zarro Boogs found.

I don't know what I expected -- there's no "Other > Desk furniture" in the products list of the public Bugzilla....
You should really look at the bitcode that is actually submitted. It seems your opinion is based on what clang generates usually.
Lots of men are already pretty hostile towards women. This kind of behavior only fuels that hostility and it is particularly frustrating to see it because it is a situation where a woman does not have to do anything wrong to catch hell over it. A man who presumably thinks he is championing the cause of women can do this and thereby make our lives harder.
YouCompleteMe crashes frequently on my mac. I can't find a solution. Does someone here have a solution?
I feel your pain. I used to work on a project started out with Pylons. But we got to give credit to Pylons & Pyramids folks. Despite being the least "famous" (well everyone has a different scale) these days, they still manage to pull in a lot of good code. Pyramid is my goto if I want to roll out everything on myself (once you know how to use things like tween it's really fantastic). I still can't get my mind around principal though. :{

I should go back to Django again, I started out with 0.90 when I first learned about MVC with Python.
This article reads like a "submarine article" for one of the WSJ's articles. Is this a future for journalism - use an article-as-advertisement to promote your articles?
I did. Facebook drives most of the traffic towards news and media sites; http://fortune.com/2015/08/18/facebook-google/

It is also the most used app on the mobile devices by a large margin;
http://marketingland.com/facebook-most-used-mobile-app-googl...

[Primary sources seem to be behind paywall)

There is a large group of users whose first internet connected device is a smartphone, so Facebook has an cultural grip on the net that seems unassailable. Facebook still hasn't figured out how to capitalize on that besides forcing businesses to shell out to reach the userbase, but if they do, Google have a lot to worry about.

My original comment was an oversimplification though; The big G is still the largest contributor to referrals to specific info, like ecommerce listings and scholar texts.

Apple's attempt at information services have been stillborn till now. Maps does not work in most of the world and Siri might as well be the world's most racist digital assistant since it can't understand any accents in English. The additions in iOS9 seems well integrated, but I have to test them in my other home on the other side of the world, where Apple does not have a significant market share. I don't think Apple takes this section of their business all that seriously.
This caught my attention, as I am allowing "acceptable" ads.

1. What was the ad like?
2. Didn't disabling "acceptable" ads on ABP work?
I'm surprised there isn't more use of Power-over-Ethernet or similar concepts in projects. Ethernet doesn't need complicated configuration or crypto for basic security. It's not a good choice for general consumer products (how many people have cat6 running through their house?) but I imagine that won't slow down people assembling IoT projects.
It looks like the folks at Atavist did the right thing. As far as I can tell they created a publishing platform that lets folks format thousands of words of text and photos and videos, which is a very good use case for a web browser. Plus, contributors can add links, italics, subheds, captions, etc. This is not the best use case for mobile apps.

They have a beautiful digital magazine that doesn't need to live in a native app -- and had no compelling reason to.

When we started building our smart news app ( more info at https://recent.io/ ) we considered creating a non-native web app and took a few steps in that direction. But we rely on touch gestures a lot, require no keyboard input except for searching, update news recommendations minute-by-minute, and wanted to appear in the app stores, so we went down the iOS and Android paths instead.
i wonder if john watched daredevil one episode at a time or if he binged on it

i was intrigued by the virtual theatre concept, but i found watching a film was too much for comfort's sake

ignoring resolution issues, or strain, the goggles pressing against my face was the source of the most discomfort

when i took off the goggles my face was hot and sweaty and my eyes had white circles around them where the blood had been kept out

these current vr headsets are goggles with elastic and as long as that is the case i think they will fail to attract a consistent, returning, user base

your eyes are unable to breathe or receive blood

imagine watching a movie while wearing ski goggles, then have those goggles shine bright lights into your eyes

it is an uncomfortable experience

MSFT's holo lens are glasses that sit off your face, allowing circulation below the lens,this sort of design is certainly the way forward
I specifically use Newsify over Feedly's own app because it allows me to use Chrome to open links.

Ironically I use Firefox on my Android phone, because you can use extensions...such as adblock :)
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This isn't specific to Wind River.

Scuttlebutt is that engineers in other areas of Intel are concerned and anxious because there's a big RIF coming. Reportedly it will be the usual "early retirement" thing.
Isn't all Canadian currency designed by Canadians? Not to be tautological, but does any nation they outsource the design of their currency?
- Talking Machines

- a16z podcast

- Software Engineering Radio

- re/code decode

- JavaScript Jabber

- Talk Python to Me

- The Changelog

- Startup School Radio

- Stanford Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

- Full Stack Radio
Just speculating here, but it could be similar to how Google such do voice controls. Meaning that there is some processing that needs to take place that is offloaded to some server cluster somewhere, rather than attempting to do it locally.
Agreed, that is the thing I want. It would be like a proper sane calculator.
There are minor benefits without ABP. For each page/iframe that is created, we can avoid running the CSS cascade (and share those data structures) for the UA style sheets. It's saves something like 100 KiB per document.

If other add-ons insert a common style sheet into all documents (it's plausible Stylish does something like this? though I've never checked) then we'll again be able to avoid running the cascade and having duplicate data structures for the cascade across different documents.
average non YC specific age to start a company is late 30s.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10248601
> I'm not clear on how Bitcode changes this, apart from expanding the already huge attack surface of the app store. Code execution inside app store servers is already game over for end-user privacy, isn't it?

I think the point is that it would be harder to detect if this happened, as, with Bitcode, the author loses the ability to compare binaries downloaded from the App Store to those produced by Xcode on their machine.

> FairPlay encryption already made it really difficult for developers to make sure that Apple distributes the build you think they are distributing. But at least, with jailbroken iPhone, I’m currently able to get some idea of what the binary I’m distributing looks like and compare it to the one I submitted to Apple.
Just uninstalled Crystal and installed your Safari Blocker. Works great so far and has a far larger filtering list (and customizable lists too it seems).

Thanks!
Facebook joins YouTube in showing 360-degree videos – including Star Wars
Interesting. Looks like it affects all version of llvm (at least those that compile).

I guess with LTO the result could be the same, but asking to always inline seems like asking the compiler to fuse operations, and then it sees shortcuts. Dunno.
i hear the same bullshit since the time when iphone was released ( and without apps support )

yet, there isn't a single "amazing" case of webapp.
( the same for xamarin, phonegap, cordova, name_your_cross_app_development_here )

i call it laziness to learn how to code native apps.

the only cross development that works, is for games ( almost all top 10 mobile games are in unreal or unity ( or cocosx ) )
There was some female speaker who talked about this. A man in the audience stood up and, iirc, pissed on the idea. She walked out into the audience and placed her hands on his upper arms. He was livid and described it as feeling like he had been "raped."

Things are changing, but this remains generally true.

If you were absentmindedly touching me, my judgement of that would depend on a great many factors. I have had male friends who were honest to god just friends.

Again, I drew my conclusions about the man in question based on a great many factors. It wasn't any one thing. But the touching really stood out, in part because he smacked me hard enough one day that I felt assaulted. I chose to not contact HR. Purely coincidentally, I quit not much after that incident.
"Take a look at the link I included in my original post, which shows 108 commits in jdt.core just in the last month."

You need to take another look at the timeframe for that statement.

The link (http://git.eclipse.org/c/jdt/eclipse.jdt.core.git/stats/?per...) in your original post shows 15 commits so far in September, not 108 as you claim. The 108 figure is total commits since the beginning of June.
Keeping your personal development on track
No, they lose one naive way of performing that comparison.

But even stipulating that you're right, this still doesn't make sense. The argument here is that someone with control over Apple's code distribution infrastructure could not, in the absence of an all-bitcode submission system, surreptitiously backdoor iOS apps. But of course, there's a million ways Apple (or someone who owns up Apple) can backdoor apps in ways that don't alter the app binaries themselves directly at all.
Looks like frozen bubbles that popped.
iAds might seem less shitty but AFAICT most apps don't use them. Download any app that lives off ads (think most F2P games) and they certainly aren't using iAds. I often see an unskippable video commercial between every round. I usually delete the app at that point just like I close the tab in my browser if something similar happens on the web. But the fact that Apple is only blocking web ads and not app ads suggests it's at least possible Apple has an ulterior motive than "it's good for users".

Also the web, or at least ad supported sites, will go away if they can no longer make money. Given that more people browse the web through phones than PC and that difference is growing, blocking so many ads could easily be the end of many websites that are living off ads. Some examples of such sites. Arstechnica, Tom's Hardware, Slashdot, Boingboing, Polygon, ...
sounds like oculus is coming just in time.

i am picturing an open office full of people wearing VR headsets and i am kind of freaking out a little, because that's either the best, or worst thing ever.
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