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>The argument isn't that it's unethical to not watch ads, it's that it's unethical to not watch the ads but still take what they offer in exchange.

And that argument is completely and utterly bogus. When you broadcast your radio or TV signal over the airwaves, I can watch or listen just to the content and switch it off, mute it, fast forward it, etc. during the ads. I have no obligation to watch or listen to them and I don't.

It's no different when you put a publicly accessible file on an open server. There are no restrictions on anyone downloading that file and not downloading other unrelated files just so you get paid. If you don't want users doing that, find a different way to get paid.

>Does the MPAA doing shitty things mean we should steal movies from them, or that we should boycott them? How is viewing content without seeing ads any different? Two wrongs don't make a right.

That's a complete non-sequitir. None of this is the same as pirating goods from the RIAA and MPAA. Those are not publicly available pieces of content that anyone can access. You have to break encryption and other similar anti-circumvention tools to watch them without paying.
The 5X has a 5.2" diagonal display and a 6.4" diagonal for the device with bezel and all. It's dimensions (in inches) are 2.9"x5.8".
> 518 pixels per inch

To the moon! Considering it's a six inch phone, how close to my face am I going to be holding this thing?

I wonder what's coming next. 240Hz refresh rates?
I had a slightly weird schedule, and didn't end up taking E&M until way after I had finished all four semesters of Calculus. I walked out of the Calculus series being able to turn the crank quite well, but I didn't have a very good feel for what it meant. E&M made all the difference!
What do you think the purpose of the NSA is? I'm trying to understand if you're arguing that the NSA should not exist or if in this case it is acting outside its jurisdiction?
Any known statements about CyanogenMod support in the future for those? Nexus devices should be fine, right?
Speed does not matter too much for music / video / photos storage.
Another Nexus 4 owner! My girlfriend has been giving me crap about how my phone is going to be 3 years old in a month and how I need a new phone. I don't. They are all plastic/glass bricks with the same Android operating system in them. I wish my battery life were better, which I guess would warrant a new phone.

I don't like that the battery is under 3000 mAh but it is only $380...though I guess others are saying that the Moto X Pure and the Xperia Z3 are around the same price point but better?
I don't think it's necessary to know the formal definition of big O (or big Theta or big Omega) but there's a spectrum there. If all you can say is "nested for loops are bad" and you can't explain why hash tables provide fast lookups then I'm not going to be very impressed.

On the other hand plenty of people can memorize that a lookup in a BST is O(log n) without understanding what that actually means. If you can explain that a balanced BST grows in height by powers of two without actually using the phrase "log n" then that's more impressive than the person who does rote memorization without understanding what it actually means.
First of all My Hearty Felicitation and the logo seems to be much perfect. Wish you all for your future endeavors.
On Android I use an App called Localcast, it can play directly from your device or from a network attached storage, DLNA or a link to a resource on the web. It also does Cloud storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive etc.

So it would seem like handoff to the Chromecast works really well. My TV supports Miracast and that does not work as well as the Chromecast does.
This is someone providing a library--and many IVRs have useful purposes, including when a call center is offline. I'd rather have automated access to my Amtrak account or pharmacy than none.
Yeah but this one comes with 32gb max.
> I think Google and Samsung have decided to ditch sd cards to prevent the user having a shitty experience.

I think Google has decided to ditch SD cards to encourage users to keep more of their data on Google's servers.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/29/9414419/google-nexus-5x-6p...
As an owner of Nexus 6, I was taken aback by the Nexus 6P pricing. Effectively you can get 6P for 500-50$ vs 650$ for Nexus 6 (32GB). Agreed Nexus 6P is smaller than Nexus 6 but if they can sell 6P at 450$ I wonder why they jacked up Nexus 6's price so much.
Still no AC3/DTS passthrough is a huge disappointment for a 2015 reskin.
In the language tutorials I wrote, I decided to write a whole section for people who didn't want to learn grammar. (http://langintro.com/kintro/grammar/hategram.htm) My example was Russian adjectives, where a 3 by 5 chart reduces to a 5-entry table plus two spelling rules.
This was a bug for which we know the root cause and for which a patch was actually developed. If it wasn't affecting you, I will argue it is more likely that you just have a high tolerance for these kinds of conflicts.

https://medium.com/@mariociabarra/wifried-ios-8-wifi-perform...
It's kind of interesting to see this cycle of flexibility and consolidation happen with software and hardware. I'd say that the ideal time to use a technology is when it's at the consolidation stage i.e. when the Company figures out which features to consolidate/cut/remove and creates a streamlined version of their product. All the ways in which third party code (often buggy) can plug into an OS have slowly been giving way to a more stable and robust OS. Until we hit the next flexibility cycle and start seeing all kinds of bloat.
> As to the state rights and such. Yes, that is a valid issue

Why is that a valid issue?
One day I'll just talk viral the whole day and see what happen next.
Is there any numeric evidence you can find for the latent support for YRO issues you claim exists?

My immediate reaction is that the NRA speaks to core identity issues for 100% of rural voters and the overwhelming majority of the half of the country that identifies as "conservative", as well as a pretty big chunk of non-conservatives who see guns as a constitutional bulwhark issue or who just like to nerd out on guns.

So it's not surprising to me that NRA activism generates attendance and financial support that dwarfs that of YRO issues, which have none of those features.

Again: there may have been YRO-type demonstrations that generated big numbers that would rebut this argument. Maybe you can find one?

Otherwise, this is a bit like saying "you can boot a candidate over abortion issues", which handwaves away the fact that abortion is a much, much, much hotter issue in the electorate than YRO issues are.

I'm not, like, personally invested in the idea that YRO lacks broad support. I'd probably like a lot of YRO reforms. But I am invested in the notion that we are all talking and debating inside of an echo chamber that is only loosely connected to reality.
I'd be very surprised if CyanogenMod isn't ported very, very quickly.

(that's lots of very's)
Damn that's a good looking phone.
I use Plex to stream media from my computer to my TV, it works beautifully.
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Amazon has been doing direct deliveries of some items here in San Diego for quite a while now. I don't mind it at all especially since it means some items are delivered the same day I order them.

I vastly prefer their own couriers to USPS (the increased usage of which has caused me to consider cancelling Amazon Prime multiple times now -- loved Prime when it was basically all UPS here, USPS finds new and interesting ways to screw up my Amazon package deliveries on a monthly basis).
And it sells and works very well with that niche. I know many non-techie people who just love their CC's for quickly transferring videos or images from their phones.
the protection plan is not included
> Is this intended to compete with the AppleTV/FireTV/Roku?

No, that would be the Nexus Player.

The CC competes with other streaming sticks...like the Fire TV stick, Roku Streaming stick, etc.
I must try harder to be more active @_@
Would be a nice edition for other's without brand loyalty.

I just have no desire to ever switch into the Apple ecosystem, and I've significantly bought into Google's
The fact that the comment to which you replied is the top comment of this discussion and there is so much argument below it about the phrasing of the title while the actual content of the article gets kind of ignored should be a hint that it is a poor title. It clearly demonstrates what a derail it is.
I provided the information for those that care about this type of issue. Regardless of the accuracy of the EFF article, it should of been there on the EFF page with potential candidates in the district / state that support the EFF position who could make a run.

Reading the stuff over lunch, I am a bit confused over the EFF's position.
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Sorry to nitpick: the point of OO is exactly what the original rant was advertising: compile your domain representation into furry little blackboxes that live inside the computer and interact with each other. Your point (and the HN hivemind consensus, because even the FP purists will agree) is that OO tools are better used in ways that do not follow the OO design principle.
Very well written text. I like the simple and comprehensible language.

Other companies should take this as an example. (Only problem: many other companies likely wouldn't want to tell in plain words how broad they are gathering and aggregating your (my) data)
(IMO) that is taking documentation in consideration while designing, and not designing to (it's not the actual purpose of the design).

Pedantism aside, I guess it was a phrasing issue.
no, that's what Android TV is for, with the NVidia Shield and Nexus Player. This product competes with the FireTV Stick and the Roku Streaming Stick.
I'd prefer my entire audio collection on the same device, not because I want to listen to several months of music without interruption, but to be able to choose that particular album or track that perfectly fits my mood now.
This is a fantastic collection of software into what seems to be a well organized and well documented package.
The Netherlands is on its way to be removed from that short list. The new WIV20xx (charter for information and security services) gives it very broad powers against very little oversight. I have been unable to find a decent source in English, but among its provisions:

- allows for "reconnaissance" on external networks, including breaking encryption or forcing targets to divulge keys. This "reconnaissance" apparently includes installing sniffers or data probes.

- allows for untargeted data collection on wired networks (including cell phone towers)

- has provisions for forcing data transit stations (including ISP's, but also AMS-IX) to comply with requests.

Only English source I've been able to find with a quick search is https://blog.cyberwar.nl/2015/07/dutch-intelligence-bill-pro...
I use lots of micropayment systems - Netflix, Apple Music, Spotify, etc. Seems like they're on the rise right now.
This is not much different than tpo light a tomato with a blue filter bulb and claim that they have discovered the first blue tomato in the world. Yes, things look weird under a black light.
This kind of feels like an opportunity to use bitcoin or another digital currency, doesn't it?
Looks like there has at least been some academic research on detecting astro-turfing on social media, although not sure if anybody has looked for the JTRIG stuff specifically.

http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/ICWSM/ICWSM11/paper/view/2...

https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3768

http://ra.ethz.ch/CDstore/www2011/companion/p249.pdf
When Amazon opened in China, they had a big problem with these temp couriers showing up for work, stealing a package, and going MIA
Hey hey, Christine here from the Nylas crew. Happy to answer any questions anyone has about this!
Laws could, however, force the company to secretly push out an update that sends your keys to be held in escrow on government servers should the need arise to decrypt your stuff.
Ever hear the term "false dichotomy?"
Chromecast is the "light" competitor. Why give it it's own OS when "everyone" (yes I know not everyone) already has a smartphone that can just cast it's content to it?

This allows it to be cheaper and means the device itself is less prone to bugs & software glitches.

For the more advanced, you've got the Android TV Operating System - on the Nexus Player and other Android TV manufacturers, or built into some TVs.
You can mirror the whole display or a chrome tab, but you need to use Chrome's extension for that. It streams via Cast protocol, not Miracast.
Link for non-US people: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/nexus/
If you honestly believe that then you should try to associate with more technically illiterate. The web is a metaphorical minefield of malware. The average internet user can't download chrome without installing two or three pieces of adware along the way.
I dig the One Metric That Matters (OMTM) concept. I've worked on projects with 30 metrics, and figuring out whether things are "going well" quickly turns into a debate.

Tangential:
I wish these online slideshare allowed slide comments or inline annotations. Dying to know what the Brahe + Kepler page was about :)
Anybody can have an old tin can on their counter. But if it's a fake tin can, that's art!
Sorry, I think that's complete bullshit. And there is indeed a great deal of theory that formalizes what makes music sound good; most of it is maintaining patterns of whole-number ratios to derive scalar and rhythmic intervals, and there are certain algorithms and formal rule systems that reliably produce pleasing results within particular genres. Even music that deliberately breaks these rules (like 'noise music' involving extreme distortions or recordings of 'unmusical' sounds) can be thought as a meta-development of those rules; the equipment or source material employed to make such 'unmusical' sounds acts as constraints, and lead to emergent structures of their own.
> I wonder why they jacked up Nexus 6's price so much.

The new thing is cheaper than the old thing, so the old thing must have been overpriced? Is it possible instead that in the intervening time components have become cheaper, Google has been able to negotiate better deals (perhaps due to higher projected volume), and so on?
SD card user experience is terrible, so we will fix the user experience (and just make them a joint overlay FS) but not include one, while still shipping phones with 16-64GB capacities like we did five years ago.

If they want me to ever buy an SD card-less phone, they better start shipping 256GB options at the real cost of the flash memory involved (ie, $40 more expensive over a 64GB option, not $100 or more).

When you are shipping phones with cameras nearing 20+ MP where you would fill up the paltry internal storage (what, like 10GB after OS on the 16GB models?) in a thousand photos at PNG compression (ie, about 10MB a shot) you are doing it wrong, especially when SSD manufacturers are about to start shipping 4TB options in m.2 form factors (ie, the size of a small candy bar).
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In this case I only made one change and remeasured. Runtime dropped more than the cumulative call time of that function.

But the thread you reference is a whole other kettle of fish, and I would call that observation #3 about failing at math.

Your boss says the app needs to run 3x as fast. Not "try to make it 3x faster" but "the customer isn't going to buy unless it's 3x faster because competitors". With targets like that anything taking more than 3% of run time is a target for improvement, because they are taking 10% of the goal run time.

People will adamantly refuse to look at the 4th slowest function until they've done something brilliant with the others, even if it's the easiest to fix. That function is only taking 10% of the time, they'll say, so it's not important. But it's taking 30% of the goal run time, and that's huge.
Right, because they makes more sense than ditching them because they are an unreliable mess that cause more problems than they solve, and are not necessary for the vast majority of users.

Do you think apple never supported SD cards because they wanted more people to put stuff in icloud?
I'd like to actually have a wireless display. AFAIK, the official mechanism for that, on Windows, is Miracast.

EDIT: Sibling comment says it's also supported via a Chrome plugin. That might be an option...
Yeah, native speakers won't typically be exposed to the same rules, and there aren't a lot of rules taught, but they are there to an extent.

I wouldn't say that one should learn in a rule-focused manner, but neither should one learn completely by example. A mix is best, even when your goal is to have the rules fall away in the end.
I really like the idea of wireless charging but the Qi devices I used left much to be desired. On the Nexus 4, the alignment is critical for it to work at all. The Nexus 5 fixed that issue with magnets but only if you had the official charger, otherwise you were back to trying to precisely align things. Randomly the Nexus 4 would freak out and forget it's charging or rapidly enter and exit charging mode, even on the LG charger. Devices would randomly decide to become hotplates, still haven't figured out what voodoo causes that to happen so I could avoid it. I'm pretty sure every 3rd party or knock off Qi charger I played with was a fire or shock hazard, probably both.

I think until they solve the range, alignment, and random hotplate issues that Qi is not ready for prime time. If they suddenly solve all of those issues I'll be gluing Qi chargers underneath every surface I own.
Since Whitehouse is broadly seen as a civil rights ally, and since he won overwhelmingly in the last election, directing time, attention, and money to a campaign to oust him in favor of an uncertain alternative (his seat was previously held by a Republican) seems like a dubious strategy for EFF.
> shared with other U.S. agencies and secretaries, including the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Commerce, the Federal Reserve and the Secretary of Treasury.

None of those are US companies. This is like every Snowden thread ever. A specific claim was made: the NSA provides private companies with tips. A citation was requested. Instead of evidence for the claim that was made, we get this, that, and the other thing, but never the requested citation.

Look, if there's no evidence that the NSA provided a company with tips, then just say "Sorry, I misspoke. I conflated spying activity A with spying activity B."
This article is from May '15.
> "Rendering Contexts across process boundaries" doesn't even sound like it has a good use-case for any direction Apple's been working on.

Well web sandboxing for one, and running opengl through your terminal for another.

Containerization seems like a no-brainer to me since a) sandboxing naturally follows, b) it's a developer's heaven in terms of deployment, development, and testing, c) mac os x is now the only major OS in existence without any containerization capabilities controlable by anyone but apple.

And these aren't just pet issues, no developer I know (except perhaps iOS developers, for obvious reasons) welcome them. Even the non-technical users I know see them as "pretty" PITAes.

And it's not that I don't get why they do it, I just wonder about how they view the *nix-ey developers who use the platform. I'm sure there must be plenty at the company itself.
If you have a microsd card that is not failing after 6 years, i'd be super-duper impressed :)
I have never gotten one past 3 with normal usage.
1. The Nexus line is supposed to be something like Google's Android reference device, and implements the minimum common set of features -- up-to-date computing hardware and screen, reasonable-resolution cameras, standard set of sensors (GPS, acceleration, etc.). An SD card slot doesn't really add any technical possibilities.

2. Google probably wants to push the idea that any storage beyond local apps should be to the cloud.

(which is comically unviable in Canada, where you're paying $25-50 per 1 GB of mobile data)

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A year ago, I got a Nexus 5 after a long search for a replacement for my stalwart iPhone 3GS. The lack of SD card was the primary sticking point, and caused me days of choice-agony. In the end, price and "cleanliness" (stock android, lack of shitware, doesn't fight software customization very hard) won out.
“Greeks are aware there are devastating consequences of being in a single currency, like capital controls,”

Then they are aware of the wrong thing. Capital controls are not the issue. My guess is that without some form of control capitals would leave the country making things even worst. Of course they should get worst, capital control is BAD, but it serves a purpose. Bartering is working because people are trading existing assets. It won't work when it comes to buy those goods from other countries, which is the real issue Greece has. Greece could stop paying debts and use feta cheese as currency and it would be great, if they could produce all they need without imports. As a matter of fact, they can't, thus they have to deal with other countries, thus they have to produce things people want to buy and that's the issue - Greece does not produce enough stuff that people buy to cover its expenses.
Then amend the parent and instead say "I feel ripped off paying $150 premium for a 128GB model when I could buy a desktop 512GB 850 Evo for that much".

And I guarantee you Samsungs SSD options are faster than their phone flash, because they go for performance way more on desktop parts.
I'm going to check Subsonic out, thanks for the recommendation. Now I really don't need to upgrade.
Most likely they do not store the image of the fingerprint. They may store the minutae which is not that good. But if they store the hash of the minutae (something like locality sensitive hash) it would be quite safe.
Wait, these don't have wireless charging? Ugh.
I've heard nothing but compliments about the photos from my Nexus 5 camera. They're very high resolution and look great. I'll post some from Imgur if you want. What problems are you having with yours?
Same here. Can we/anyone tell from the specs how good (say, relative to S6/iPhone6) the new camera will be?
If they're serious about putting your phone in a headset to use it as a VR display, that wouldn't be a bad idea.
>> low-level C implementation compiled with -O3, the max optimization setting.

IME, -O2 always comes out faster than -O3. In this case, though, the difference is fairly insignificant.
In high school our physics professor (and an actual physics PhD) decided that he can't teach us "real physics" without derivatives and integrals (the latter not being in high school curriculum at all), so by the end of the first year, he taught as both. Our maths teacher started tearing her hair out over this, complaining about lack of rigour; eventually she gave up and taught us integrals with full mathematical formality. Having those two takes on the topic helped us understand it really well.

Another science class anecdote - first year electronic engineering, the professor is showing us the derivation of transistor gain formula. He started from pretty much first principles, written out a huge formula, and then started to cross things out - "this in practice is close to 1 so we can ignore it", "in standard operating conditions this is pretty much zero" (and poof, half of the equation gone, multiplied by zero) - and kept going until he arrived at the standard I_c = βI_b. It gave me a new appreciation of just how much engineering is basically handwaving parts of reality away.
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