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> Unless the advertising landscape changes drastically from what it is today, I will never not use an ad-blocker, and I reject the notion that it is somehow unethical:

I go to a site. That site hands me over to a completely different network. My target site's owner has no idea what's running on that other network.

My target site exposed me to danger.

No thank you.
Even when I carry a DSLR, I probably shoot about 4:1 on my iPhone versus my DSLR.

I used to argue the same, but this is no longer true. The cameras are really good now. Smartphone cameras have beaten point-and-shoot. They won't ever beat DSLR, but most people don't need a DSLR.

The future of the camera is the phone.
£160 gets you a nice handset these days in the UK sim free. I couldn't put down £500; too painful.
For how much can I expect to get a Nexus 5 (last year's model)?
The last thing I need is another OS. I really like the Chromecast for doing its job without fanfare. It puts the smart in my otherwise dumb and un-networked TV.
"Winner" is a reflection of social status in this context, it's not a measure of some objective state.
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No, they can't... not without designing changes into their hardware to allow retrieving the keys from the secure enclave.

In theory Apple could modify iMessage to MITM the key distribution server and enable eavesdropping. The only way to protect against that is to provide in-person validation mechanisms so users can directly compare keys. I hope they add such a thing, not that 99.99999% of their users would ever use it.

As far as the US legal system goes you'd need positive law to enforce wiretapping requirements. Courts (as a general rule) can't issue orders to force Apple to write new code or modify their silicon design to support something the government wishes it could have. Given the way SCOTUS has been approaching cell phone privacy I'm not sure such a law would pass muster.
The Xperia Z5 Premium announced a few weeks back has a 3840x2160 display which gives it a whopping 806 PPI [0]!

[0] http://www.sonymobile.com/global-en/products/phones/xperia-z...
Isn't the probability of something going wrong higher if the delivery infrastructure isn't staffed with full time people? I would guess that mishandling, loss, misdelivery, theft would all be more likely under the flex model.
"all ecosystem components ... will need to congregate and come up with acceptable ad formats..."

That's the ad industry's fantasy - that they can come up with "acceptable ad formats" which will be allowed through ad blockers. This comes from the AdBlock sellout - you can now pay to get through AdBlock. But AdBlock isn't the only game in town.

Ad servers can fight back. HTTP 2 will probably be used as a tool to fight ad blocking. When it all comes in through one pipe, it's harder to identify ads. We'll probably see ad insertion at the CDN level, with the ad stream integrated with the content stream into one HTTP 2 bundle. Cloudflare may already be doing this.[1]

Then we'll need better ad blockers. Current ad blockers are rather dumb. They mostly use some huge file of regular expressions to recognize ads. Those files are maintained by humans, and they're always a behind changes in ad formats. Systems that automatically recognize ads, regardless of format, are needed. Ad blockers of the future must work more like machine-learning spam filters.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/infolinks
Aren't you paying for the size the storage has been compressed down to at these prices?

Itty bitty little tiny chips? Your desktop 512GB 850 EVO isn't going to fit into the space a smartphone has for storage.
It can be pretty fast. Apple's new iPhone gets storage speeds in line with a low end SSD [1].

[1] http://anandtech.com/show/9662/iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-...
The lines between national interests, immigration restrictions, inherited wealth and cronyism are very blurry though, and not just empirically or historically.
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Google, please, please, just let me see the stupid page even if I'm not in the US. Just put a huge, red warning sign saying that the product is not available in my country.
A lot of the equipment is 3d printed in house since most all of this tech is still so new. The directors really like manual focus for much of their work, so I'm pretty confident there's no auto-focus ability. Similar to when you add a conversion between manufacturers with rigs and lenses. Hoping we can post more soon on the fun stuff the team is creating!
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There are still large markets where people don't have easy/plentiful internet access.
Three exciting colours to hide behind your tv! :)
This is the problem with tipping culture. It's misleading to advertise a delivery charge and then still expect to customers to tip, and when the driver and the customer are in disagreement or even just unaware of the other's position, it leads to people looking (and maybe feeling) like assholes on both sides.
Fantastic writeup. Another example I can think of offhand would be the VBA remake of the original Genesis Shining Force.

Some comparisons:

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pewTGCkt4qE
Remake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uVuOd4Aiag

Not sure which one is really better - the original has a very different color palette. The sprites are probably nicer on the remake, although I think the character portraits in the original are superior. The remake does have a number of gameplay improvements.
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Ugh. Apple software quality has been going downhill so fast lately I loathe seeing the "Software Update Available" notification.

If I'm lucky everything will still work, and it will merely scramble the interface and hide a bunch of stuff.

Unfortunately, my expectation is that on top of the interface scrambling, a bunch of stuff that's worked fine for ages will be broken in some stupid way I can't even imagine how it could happen, like it will start duplicating playlists on my phone again. Oh, and I'm guessing it will try to shove at least one unwanted, half-assed Apple service down my throat, integrate it with everything, and force me to search online for 20 minutes looking for how to turn it off, only to find out there's either no way to opt out, or the option is hidden in some obscure, unexpected location in System Preferences, or via some command line BS.

Every new release from Apple I get one step closer to switching back to Linux. Love their hardware, but their software people need to get their shit together.
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I more or less accidentally found out that Google released an ethernet adapter for the original Chromecast[0]. Purchasing that has given me a lot more utility from my Chromecast.

I love the device. I am loving how much support there is for it among sports streaming services: WatchESPN, BTN2Go, and NFL Sunday Ticket all support Chromecast streaming.

My biggest issue with the device right now is the lack of official Spotify support. I would love to be able to stream spotify from my phone to my Chromecast.

[0]: https://store.google.com/product/_ethernet_adapter_for_chrom...
Advertisers will never be able to overcome the fact that humans have free will.

With sufficient mental training, any person can add an ad blocker to their own brain. The mind of such a person instantly disengages the instant it detects an unsolicited sales pitch.

Having conceived the end goal, we now imagine such tools as may be helpful to achieve it. Perhaps it is useful to build a tool that blocks the most intrusive and annoying advertisement on Earth from the senses of the human whose internal ad-blocker is not yet perfected. Expand the tool such that progressively less annoying ads are blocked for those with progressively less perfect anti-ad discipline. Continue until the tool allows one with no training whatsoever to have the same ad-free existence as the adblock monk.

Once the person has chosen to not attend to unwanted ads, there is no countermeasure any advertiser can take. The human is the ultimate arbiter over the thoughts that enter its own brain. Whatever cannot be blocked can be ignored. It is the desire to ignore that leads to the blocking.

The traditional method to alter the desires of the consumer--advertising--is not likely to affect a desire that specifically targets advertising. You can't get people to pay attention to ads again by advertising for the practice of advertising.

All you can do is stop the bleeding, by immediately curtailing all practices that led people to start tuning out ads in the first place.

At this point, if you want me to attend to ads, you will have to pay me, directly. I will open one end of a channel that leads to me. If the cash stops coming through, I'll close it. If the cash that comes through is insufficient to compensate for the peace of mind I would otherwise have by closing it, I'll close it. I will then take that cash, and spend it on whatever it is that I would like to be ad-supported. Maybe I will spend a little on something that was advertised. Maybe not.

An advertiser might ask, "what guarantee do we have that you will actually pay attention to the advertising we push through that channel?" And my answer is that no advertiser ever had any such guarantee in the entire history of mankind. Even my own spouse peppers a seemingly unending stream of words with frequent "are you listening?" pings. If my own spouse cannot trust that I am paying attention at all times, no advertiser stands a chance. And as I find those pings to be annoying, anyone else that asks the same thing is likely to be told, "I was, but now I no longer will be."

Advertisers are just going to have to accept that most of what they do is a waste of money and effort. They are broadcasting seeds with a low germination rate, with no way to test beforehand which ones will ever sprout. If you don't throw them all out there, all the sterile seeds along with the fertile, nothing will ever grow.
Word2Vec was a fork or based on a more exhuastive vector space approach here https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial/forums/t/1234...

I've compared the summarization to others like OTS http://libots.sourceforge.net/ which I believe strictly relies on TF-IDF and it seems better and allows for context to control the summarization.

Other similar approaches might be based on Latent Semantic Analysis, Latent Semantic Indexing or LDA.
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> Laws can and have been written that require companies to gather data.

Not just that. Laws can (and probably have been) written that require companies to gather data and to explicitly lie about it.
>I could probably write a lengthy blog post on our experiences of C++ vs Java

I'd be interested in reading that. There's still a lot of FUD around using C++ for new projects.
This thing claims it shoots 4K video. That means at 32 GB you can shoot 30 minutes of uncompressed video or around an 60 minutes of compressed video (depending on a lot of factors, including compression ratio, format, etc).

The thing will likely overheat or run out of battery before 60 minutes of 4K video, but still the point stands, something that is featuring 4K video but then limits you to only 32 GB of storage is kind of contradictory.

I feel like this device is saying: "We support 4K video* (*but don't actually try to use it)."

PS - My point about overheat/battery is based on previous phones which claimed they supported 4K video. If you tried to use it the camera would switch off after a few minutes due to overheating, and the battery consumption would go through the roof.
From what I heard, it's still pretty rough but gets the job done. Lots of 3d printing and trying new hardware that's coming out in the filming circles (that I'm not part of, heh).
Anyone have any opinions on the following questions? (where my opinion is in parentheses)

1) Did the TrueCrypt developer introduce the bugs? (extremely doubtful in my opionion)

2) Is this what the TrueCrypt developer meant when he said "Don't use it; it's not secure"? (also very doubtful IMO)

3) Do these bugs compromise the encryption directly? Obviously the bad guys can install a keylogger, etc., as in a zillion other privilege escalation bugs that afflict Windows. But does it allow bad guys to break the encryption in a powered-off TrueCrypt-encrypted laptop that the bad guys seize, find, or steal? (very doubtful I think)

It'll be interesting to know since when the bugs existed for further insight into questions 1 and 2.
I switched to an iPhone recently and can't wait to switch back. Already preordered the new nexus.

PC hardware specs are important, my biggest complaint about the iPhone is how little RAM it has. My nexus 5 could support doing simple things like running an email app, web browser, and maps app simultaneously. My iPhone is constantly reloading stuff when I attempt this.
I'd be more than fine with investments into high refresh rate screens, a true 240Hz desktop monitor wouldn't be spec boasting it would be the dream.
That's what's making me consider it. The Nexus 6 is a solid phone (my wife has it), it has wireless charging, a good camera, the Nexus brand - everything I want. It's just no longer "top of the line."

It'll have Marshmallow, so if it's cheap enough.. it's worth getting it and waiting for the 820 and hopefully new top of the line phones from Motorola and Google next year making use of them.
Plugging into the TV's USB port worked for me here.
Where is the API ? The last I've known they only have it available in Android and iOS so no desktop yet.
Reminds me: is there a name for the particular lexical operator "f(x)" of (what is apparently) Euler's notation, in the way that the syntactic operator "(f x)" is usually referred to as a reduction, and "f x" as a juxtaposition?

I'm aware that the semantic meaning of "f(x)" in most languages is function application—but I want to know what term I should use when, say, talking about how I wish in Ruby you could do "f(x)" with Procs, but are stuck instead with "f[x]".
It's illegal for restaurants to pay below minimum wage. If a server's wages including tips do not add up to the regular minimum wage, the restaurant is supposed to pay out the difference.

How often that actually happens, I have no idea.
I didn't know that either. That is definitely interesting. That definitely can overcome the lack of 5Ghz. But that plus the original chromecast is now more than the new one. I only have a Roku so they only thing I am interested in is the chrome tab casting.
> In any case I like your Arch Fallacy! I think I will use it.

I'll use it too, it's great and I don't recall any term for that particular error in thinking. I've already started spreading it (the name, not the error) among friends, hoping it will catch on.
Is it me or I sense some kind of racism right there.
Precisely - you're not arguing against the article at all here. The point of this piece is that it is possible to learn how to do something without ever being exposed to the underlying rules. Or even to the fact that such rules exist.

Calculus, by comparison, is built on firm rules about what you are allowed to do and what you can't, when cutting a shape up into pieces and rearranging them. The piece is arguing that it might be possible to make headway in calculus by just being exposed to usage, and the formal rules can be kept to later. That seems quite compelling.
I think you're confusing linguists with usage mavens. This type of research isn't prescriptive -- it's descriptive. The "rules" are attempts to describe how people actually use English, in a variety of contexts. If common usage changes, the rules would change.

Saying the rules shouldn't exist is like saying Newton's laws shouldn't exist -- they are just patterns that someone has noticed.

While there seem to be exceptions to most rules proposed (because natural usage is complex), the rules are still fairly accurate for most cases.
Apple does continue to expose new infrastructure to third-party developers. For example, Yosemite added Hypervisor.framework, which made xhyve (http://www.pagetable.com/?p=831) feasible. xhyve has the potential to be very useful for tools like Vagrant and Docker Machine.
Real-world fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of new passenger cars in Europe [pdf]
I used quotes because I don't know if it's actually possible to assassinate the character of a government organization, in the sense that I'm not sure if a government organization has a character to be assassinated per se. Generally I'd save that term for individuals. I wasn't being flippant.
I have a 2014 MacBook Pro and had the Yosemite Wifi issues. And looking at the Apple forums a ton of other people had them too. It has become better (from totally unusable) but Wifi still cuts out from time to time.

I wonder if these problems were already apparent during the test phase.
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I only did upgrades on my old MBP too, and always found it fine. I went from Leopard to Snow Leopard to Lion to Mountain Lion to Mavericks. Nothing serious went wrong at any point (though I did have to reinstall or update the odd program), and there was no noticeable deterioration in performance over time.

There was the odd infuriating bug (I'm not convinced it's tested as thoroughly as Windows is...), but overall it was fairly trouble free and the smooth upgrade process played a part in my decision to buy another. It certainly wasn't the price, at any rate.
Yes the "what's new" section is the first thing I looked for! Does anyone know if this new version supports HEVC/H.265 video? I would upgrade my existing Chromecast if more codecs were supported but I didn't see any information in the articles I read. 5 GHz Wi-Fi is not as important to me because the 2.4 GHz band is not very crowded in my neighborhood.
Poor website. It delivers no information, it does not convey the vision (because there is no, probably) it does not create a product impression. What are "Advanced photo and video features", for example? Why Google is so brilliant in terms of engineering and so miserable in terms of design?
I feel guilty that the content I enjoy isn't receiving any funds from me to continue making that content, but I'm not convinced ads are the correct solution to that problem.
I believe that is the wrong question. Apologies, my ulnar nerve says I need to stop typing, so I refer to Appelbaum's response to a similar question, which I agree with completely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Xw3z-8oP4#t=4028
Yet somehow you still keep going to the target site.
I just wrote a Twilio tool to get into my building with a text message, and needed a bit of voice guidance for the bit at the buzzer box. It's useful for more than just those "awful things".
Your website looks a good idea. Have you released any content yet?
It's incredibly difficult to figure out what portion of users experience a certain issue, especially for a very new (or even unreleased) OS, and especially for things like WiFi performance and battery life, which most users don't measure rigorously and thus may be imagining or exaggerating the problem.
Now I'm curious, what does it look like outside of U.S.?
As long as the strong countries (e.g. Germany) control the value of Euro then countries like the size of Greece will be always in trouble. I am Greek and the biggest mistake that we made was to enter the Eurozone. Euro is good only for very strong countries, but even those countries can have problems sometimes. A very good example is Finland and Sweden. The former has problems because of Euro but the latter thrives because they control their currency.
And Greece may not produce cars for example, but our agriculture is strong. Because of the globalization though every country nowadays relies on other countries. See for example Iran's problems because of the sanctions. Iran is huge compare to Greece and they don't even have to import gas, but their economy on the other hand is weak.
Previous Nexus 5 was released in 2013. Last year was the Nexus 6 (6 meaning it was 6 inch device)
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Such a great tool. It can more often than not correctly suggest resolutions to problems with homebrew. It’s a level of helpfulness to which many dev tools can aspire.
Spotify support for Chromecast was announced today. http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/29/9409673/google-chromecast-...
I pay $30 for 6GB of LTE data per month (Rogers, via a promotional plan that they've offered countless times). And I generally use about 200MB in an average month as I'm virtually always around WiFi of some sort. Which is exactly what Google envisions, with most of their cloud solutions defaulting to only operating over WiFi.

SD storage has always been a mess on Android because it was originally added just as an easy way to port music and movies over. It was essentially supposed to be read-only memory. Then of course apps and users started using it and the ugly, messy history is notorious.
But it would also be a lot easier to track what happened to that package and pinpoint a specific individual for the loss/theft/misdelivery, since Amazon has the driver's personal info, GPS location, and list of packages that they are delivering.
Yeah, Spotify is the reason I use my Apple TV much more than the Chromecast.. There's no AppleTV app for it either, but at least you can do the Airplay from any Apple device and it will play from my good speakers and show the album art on the screen.
So, don't update? I'm still running 10.8 on my 2008 Macbook and I only install security updates. If the new version doesn't have any features that you must have, why update?
Also have to factor in the risk of using your car for commercial purposes and/or adding the cost for commercial insurance.
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you've enjoyed the articles thus far :).

The adjective order rules are interesting in that we have to reverse-engineer them from our brains, but aren't consciously aware of them. It's apparently an area of ongoing research why certain orderings are correct. (Maybe there's something about the specificity of the adjective, where the more-specific items are closest to the subject.)

I think the higher-level concern is we can get tricked by thinking we need to consciously master the structure in order to be fluent, vs. letting our brain's pattern-matching skills do some of the heavy lifting.
I think they might have fixed the link meanwhile?

Anyway, this is what I got:

The Google Store isn't available here yet.
Products like Jira help organize tasks within workflows, but don't automate any that organization. Orchestra takes care of things like "which reporter should I assign to a new story?" without requiring humans to make those decisions.

Research from the Flash teams project that I mentioned in another comment (http://stanfordhci.github.io/flash-teams/index.html) has shown that this type of automation can decrease end-to-end workflow time by as much as 2x!
>some sort of facebook integrated news reader.

The main feed already acts like this, only the news stories are those false sensationalist articles being shared by people that believe them.
Amazon will most likely cover such problems, no questions asked. They will be defrauded more, for sure, but they gain a possibly gigantic network of distributors.
Clearly you aren't a Calvinist.
Size comparison of Nexus phones
As the user Someone said..

Amazon won't do anything about it. [I feel] If my last experience with Amazon CS is any indication they'll read a script, and just refund your money. (Not reship.. I've had that issue as well) Also, if you're a prime member and have spent quite a bit of money on Amazon.. They still won't care.

I plan on cancelling my prime membership and seeking out alternatives.