skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now on Tap performs a Google Search or brings up a Google Now card by using the context of the current screen. Just hold down on the home button and a card will pop up related to the current screen. If the main screen displays a YouTube video of a famous actor, you'll get more information about that person.

To make this work, holding down the home button allows Google to "read" the screen by combing through the Android text fields and view hierarchy, sending Google that text plus a screenshot. This will work not only in Google apps and in the browser but in third-party apps too, as long as they use the standard Android framework bits. Apps can be data providers for the feature, too; for instance, in the famous actor example above, the IMDB app could provide a link into the app to display the actor's filmography.

I know, I'm old, but every time some "feature" like this pops up somewhere, I still can't believe that people don't mind using it.
Uniformly white background is convenient on iOS as it has an invert color mode. Not the best but it works. Until you switch to an application with a normally dark background and then you lose all vision, that's inconvenient.
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Actually, we do have some pretty good ideas about how to do it. That was covered in the article.
Not only was inequality less sharp, the inequality was also in favor of people with college degrees.
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In your example you're just changing one element and leaving the rest the same - a pretty trivial transformation. If you're applying map() to a list then all of the elements change.

If you have a pipeline then it's going to result in everything downstream re-running, unless you compare the output of the map() transformation to the previous value, like some build systems do.
You seem like you really like the TPP. How would you feel if we put it to an international direct referendum? Would that be too democratic?
> Its not just women that are being put off. I'm a man, and when I worked for an IHV, I dreaded every interaction with the Linux kernel community due to the tone of the interactions.

It's stuff like this that also drove out Con Kolivas, who was a fairly well-known kernel hacker before he got sick of it all and quit.

One of the things that drove him out was that other kernel developers cast doubt on his loyalty the project, and in one case refused to merge his patches, because his day job isn't a tech job (he's a doctor).

He eventually started kernel hacking again, but nowadays he just makes his own patchset that he distributes himself, and he refuses to submit anything to the LKML or have anything to do with mainline.
I have trouble with this. I'm not the target audience of these ads. I understand that many people find nudity or sex offensive in advertising, but why is it expoloitative? I'm always hesistant to tell a woman she shouldn't/"can't" do something, and that includes modeling for AA. I understand the accusations of racism (they had a rice-paddy hat a few years back that really didn't belong) but at what point are these criticims of sex-in-ads just veiled criticisms of the choices the women have made?
Yes, there are some used/refurbished on amazon for $200+ (or $300+ new). I don't like it _that_ much :)

But this prompted me to look on amazon again and I found an older revision for $80 and nabbed it. No luck on ebay.
What do you mean by mail filters and processing? Is there anything fun I can get, may you point a few links for further reading?

It happens that I'm right in the middle of configuring my own server. I've got only postfix and dovecot for now, nothing fancy yet.
Lollipop and later have auto brightness. Make sure that's enabled, and just adjust the brightness when it's too bright or dim. It seems to remember your setting for a given approximate light level.
> I'm unclear how we are supposed to intelligently send our concerns along if the text of the agreement will not be available for 30 days

It doesn't matter, it's not like the peoples complaints will mean anything.
# wc -m

Last I checked; thought leaders don't convey their thoughts in 140 characters or less.
Nothing of really value is that short. Sorry.

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So what? Your micropayments platform makes it easy to create an account with a website, put $5 into their payment bucket, and then automatically pay a cent or two every article you read. You're splitting hairs over definitions, but the grandparent's point is simple: The model is already there. Candy Crush bonuses or Journalistic Articles doesn't matter. Give the payers a bucket they can throw five or ten bucks into at a time, that gives them pain-free access for long enough that they don't feel annoyed throwing another five bucks in later.
Instead of telling Washington about my dissatisfaction I've decided I'm going to piss in the ocean. I suspect the outcome will be the same, except it feels so great to piss in the ocean.
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I sure hope not! What submissions specifically are you referring to?
It's mostly based on the skill and experience of the developer. Of course there is probably some asymptote in the quality and delivery time that is impossible to surpass, like the 3 minute mile. Human brains are not without limits and we didn't evolve to write software.
There is no such way in _C_.

C only promises the behavior of the C abstract machine. Data will randomly get spilled from registers into random places on the stack where you may be completely unable to reach them to zeroize them.

All you can do is best effort, in C-- I wouldn't expect rust to be better here.
Imagine in 30 years when the tech they are working on is common. Or imagine Woz with the Apple II. Now looking back on it, did it really matter that you put in all your waking hours into making the Apple II? Does anyone really care?
Maybe it is us who needs a change in mindset. We say he needs a vacation and he is obviously exhausted, but he is succeeding at creating a rocket company. That's right, a rocket company. Maybe more of us need to dream bigger, risk everything, and be willing to work just as hard.
> If you provide a way for market dynamics to price it and capture the value you can see what it is really worth.

And here is the problem. Content creators are still finding out painfully that what they create isn't worth what they believe it to be. Welcome to price discovery!
How is this any better/different than Open vSwitch?

http://openvswitch.org/
> There just isn't enough radio spectrum available.

That is why my bet is on Musk. With lots of low orbit transmitters each covering a small area you have "space division" like in a cellular network. I.e. less endpoints competing for the bandwidth to the same transmitter.
Try reading the article next time:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/android-6-0-marshmall...

" The assistant app only gets data about the current view if the user long-presses on the home button—it's not a passive scanner.

If all of this sounds like a privacy nightmare, the assistant feature can be turned off in the settings. Head to Settings -> Apps -> Configure Apps (the gear button) -> Default Apps -> Assist and Voice Input and turn off everything. Here, users can also set which app has access to the Assist API (there can only be one) and pick between sending the app text-only or text and a screenshot."
That's why I like it so much: I've been using thinkpads for years and got used to the feel of the keyboard, and also the trackpoint, so I wanted it when I was at a desktop too. It's really nice to not have to move your hand to the mouse for small motions, although I do still use a mouse for extended things like aimless web browsing.
it is a weird layout, but once you get used to it it is really really efficient. I used a thinkpad for about 5-7 years and would bang out a ton of code on that thing. particularly a big fan of the arrow key placement.
Worst part of avoiding further RSI via split keyboard is no more home row fingerable pointer. Now I gotta leave home row to twiddle with mousey thing.
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Without trying to sound glib... Why? Do you know something specific that would allow you to draw that conclusion?
I always have a small amusement when I have to take a picture with the camera covered to get an image I can use as my background. Easy enough to do. Embarrassing that I have to.
You'd be better off posting your link (https://github.com/NORMA-Inc/AtEar, from a previous post) as a story to HN. Also, as a hint for interesting the community here: try to stop using marketing language and just tell people technically what the project does. It will go over much better. Good luck!
You can't think of the word "person"?
Any free market policies being proposed for lawyers and doctors?
FTA: "every developer can use Galaxy free of charge for simple apps, or purchase smaller plans for projects that aren't a fit for a full commercial plan"
I'm sorry but in case anyone at Google is listening (not that they'll care what I have to say) -- that is definitively evil.
It's not at all about developer skill. It's about methods and process.

Ok, you don't want to have a bunch of total bozo developers, or the time to get anything useful done will stretch out to infinity, but still, it's not about just 'being good'.
What if their hard work is determined by the marketplace to have no value?
This makes me think that it would be nice to have two passwords for your device. One to access it, and one to erase the device and go back to default settings.
Unless that is illegal too.
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I don't consider my revulsion Pavlovian. Even if I have had that particular connection repeatedly made, the point is that if it requires super-mega-experts to code in a totally specialized manner, using libraries other than the easiest to use, using levels of care attainable only by the top 1% of programmers, it's not a suitable language for the vast bulk of people to pick up. And even the top 1% of programmers would probably be well suited to do something else with their cognitive firepower. The fact that somebody once proved capable of walking on a tightrope between World Trade towers does not prove tightrope walking above vast chasms to be a safe mode of transport.

For crypto, at this point, C is now too abstracted from the hardware to be useful. You need assembler, and that's getting dangerously abstract too, since it's actually an abstract language over the microcode that actually execute, the entire point of which is generally to provide lovely, wonderful things... that trash timing guarantees that crypto would like.

"I had to write code that allows remote attackers to own the machine because it was the only way to avoid impedence mismatch."

Incidentally, since it hasn't come up, note that I consider "C + useful static analysis tools" to be a different language. "C + useful static analysis tools" can be a sensible choice. I still at least have questions about the cognitive load being loaded on to the developer vs. a language that removes the problems entirely, but it must be acknowledged as having radically different cost/benefit profiles. However, I observe that very few people seem to be using useful static analysis tools beyond -Wall.
What strike me most is the amount of people around me who don't care about this.
Google Invests in Wall Street Messaging Tool Symphony
Looking+Glass+by+Sun+Microsystems
Building a scalable communications platform with queue consumers
See SOPA.
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declan needs a vacation too where is his news article! mine too.
I submit that subscriptions at the level of micro payments work..at least on mobile devices..$36 Billion in 2016.

Do it the same way first month is the free trial..want to keep reading each month than pay the month subscription
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/android-...

^ That is the thread and it was closed, not deleted (a subtle but important distinction)
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Doom gets ported to the Apple Watch
At least the US has a chance to debate it in parliament. In New Zealand, our cabinet passes it and there is no debate. If there's one thing I don't like the sound of, it's the ISDS clauses..
I just have to say - thanks for making my day man.
Redux in 99 lines
I know this isn't fully related to the blog, but I think I found my favorite Sandstorm contributor: http://i.imgur.com/nrlbY3f.jpg
More: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32461229/why-use-redux-ov...

Src: https://github.com/rackt/redux
Well that's part of it. You need to have the experience to know which methods and processes give you the most value and quality for the time invested. There's many skill sets involved and knowing good processes is just one.
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Find out who's been involved with the area of the code base recently, and mail all their @openbsd.org addresses directly in one mail.

If they don't reply after a few attempts, or give unsatisfactory answers, try mailing Theo. He acts as arbitrator in such situations.

If even that doesn't help, your last option is to write good fixes yourself, and keep submitting them as diffs to tech@ until you're either banned from posting to the list (at which point you should just give up) or your diffs end up being commited.
You eventually have to roll over keys at least once every N years, so if you are automating it, the length of time doesn't really matter.

In this case, they are just limiting the window.
"What about a free option? We've always offered free hosting to every Meteor developer through our meteor deploy feature. It's never going away. Now that we've had a chance to shake out key parts of Galaxy's technology stack with large production apps, we're ready to transition that free meteor deploy service to Galaxy. We've already started on that work, so that every developer can use Galaxy free of charge for simple apps, or purchase smaller plans for projects that aren't a fit for a full commercial plan."

So yeah, little specs plans are coming too.
And running one company is like a vacation from the other.
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Good luck with that.

When web advertisements finally die off, I imagine subscribing to one or two news websites, maybe the NY Times and a local site. Other than that, I'm not interested in paying for web content.

The funny thing is, the sites I'd be most likely to pay for don't have ads in the first place.

I really miss the days when people made websites and posted things on the web because they enjoyed it and were trying to be helpful, and not because they were out to make a buck on ad clicks. Quality has plummeted so far it's not even funny.
I'm not sure if I can agree with that reasoning. Sure, no-one is impressed with an Apple II now, but that doesn't degrade how significant it was then. By that measure, did the Wright bothers really need to put in all of that time since today we have 747s?
"I don't know why you were downmodded but this is absolutely correct."

Because nobody likes to talk about actually creating things. They feel like everything should be free, because costs of replication are low.
This is basically the catharsis of anonymous messaging boards.
The evidence in large open source projects seems to support that "if" - I mean, if an atmosphere of harsh personal criticism would significantly harm the end result, and a friendlier atmosphere would improve it without undue burden to all the participants (as in, people can leave/not join because of hostile environment but also because of being asked to change their ways), then for any competing or forked project we'd expect to see the friendliest community to win, and that's often not the case.

Since many (most?) large high-profile projects seem to have the problem of hostile atmosphere, then it suggests that when all things are taken into account, then policies that allow various contributors/maintainers to be as [un]hostile as they want have outperformed policies that would require them to be civil or leave the project.

I mean, we're seeing developers contribute to projects run by assholes instead of saying "well, I'm ready to maintain a fork and not be an asshole" and having everyone jump ship. So no matter what they're saying, in practice they're showing that yes, that they prefer that ugly "leadership" over the alternative - pushing away the person that doesn't want to change.
My thinking is that in these cases it depends more on the individual person than their position and circumstances. Some CEOs probably really thrive by being able to take a few weeks a year off to relax on the beach, but with someone like Musk (from what I've read), I think it's likely that would not be too relaxing or productive.
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3 shiny new techs, and one clunky older one. Why use Express.js instead of its successor Koa.js?
So many apps would require internet that users would become desensitized to the permissions box and just say "yes" every time the box comes up without even reading it maybe?
Best Practices vs. Witch Hunts
While I see you were explaining - I criticize their reasoning.

If you are looking for something, you will find it. Sometimes the reasoning is easy to follow - other times it demands such illogical leaps as to question the validity or reasoning of the person trying to show the connection.

Give me any two numbers and I'll find a way to transform it to 9/11. For a time, people had even made a game out of doing just that.

For example, I have a can of Pringles on my desk. It has 190 calories. 190? Divided in a way makes two numbers, 19 and 90. 90 minus 19 is 71. The original 190 minus 71 is 119. Reverse 119 and there you have it, 9/11!

What you have is a group of people intent on finding messages that aren't there. Sometimes they have some claims easily understood by others and other times they delve so far into absurdity where only they can follow the train of thought that led them down their path of reasoning. Even if I can follow the logic, that doesn't necessarily mean I should give it any credit or significant meaning.
"OpenSwitch is a network operating system for disaggregated switches that are built around OCP compliant hardware and that utilizes the ONIE boot loader to install and uninstall network operating systems. It is aimed at accelerating the transition to open networking as well as the adoption of disaggregated data center networks."
Interesting how this sometimes plays out though, a colleague of mine loves writing operating systems has found the number of people who want to do that steadily decreasing to the point where it becomes challenging to find paid work. I've suggested to him that the new "operating systems" are unikernels and microservices but he's been at it so long that he sees those as hosted applications rather than operating systems, and he has been at it so long, many of the views are ingrained deeply.
That would be called tampering with evidence, and is very illegal in the United States. You would likely be able to be charged with that and obstruction of justice just for giving them the kill-password.
He also doesn't have someone to give him permission to take a break. Psychologically, it changes things. In the latter part of grad school, my advisor was no longer at my university, and I was working mostly by myself. I worked every day. Not only was there no one to tell me, "Hey, take a day", I also felt, sharply, that any day I took off just meant I was one day further from my goal.

Saying "he has the option of separating himself from that stress" is true, but I don't think it captures the mental trap that people feel they are in. I also don't want to ascribe it to ego, because that has negative connotations. I think of it as a combination of not having an outside party to tell you to take some time, and working towards a goal with a single-minded focus.
Based on the press release, I was expecting a Heroku like full stack service. Was surprised to learn you need to setup the DB from FAQ.

> Does Galaxy include a database?

> Galaxy does not provide the database layer. You can run your own MongoDB server inside AWS, or create a database through any number of MongoDB hosting providers.

https://www.meteor.com/why-meteor/galaxy-faq
You should put some contact info in your profile.
I didn't call for nuking pakistan. Just said they as a country needs a Hiroshima moment. Similar to how the Japanese though they were exceptional and then the Americans made them surrender causing a collective realization in their society.

Pakistan thinks they are equal to the Indians. Not only the govt but also its people. This is why they need a Hiroshima moment. It could as simple as India being granted a seat at the security council - but I think given the view of the average Pakistani it needs to be something more stronger.

Sorry if you think my language is uncivil. But I am not interested in changing it since I have not met a single pakistani who would even accept the war crimes they committed in bengal in 1971, and I have meet many pakistanis. Their collective arrogance is what drives me to use strong language whenever they are brought up.
Without it Apple arguably would not be around today. In any case the people who purchased it certainly did care.

We all build upon what came before. It's hard to predict the outcome of the Apple II not existing but it would at the very least have changed the course of computing history if Apple were not around today.
GP is talking about Android's well-known problem of having horrendous audio latency, with no workable solution for app devs.

http://superpowered.com/androidaudiopathlatency/#axzz3nj4FLE...
I didn't really provide any value. Just being a clown ;p
Scapegoats, in other words. People don't do this on their own.
That's what I'm thinking and suggesting. Because, if we get down to it, anyone reading the claim would have to believe something along these lines:

1. There's never been a defect that could affect security in any OpenBSD software, from kernel to protocols, after it was released.

2. For meaningfulness, the default install supports real-world usage (and usefulness) of the system.

The good news for No 1 means that they never had to issue a patch in a protocol or software due to defects with potential to leak data, allow hijacking, or experience DOS. Knowing that, once released, every OpenBSD system was unhackable and needs no patches past functionality fixes would greatly reduce administrator overhead. Truly fire-and-forget system. If the website claim is true, that is. :)

Further, if No 2 is true, users won't have to use anything but the base install to handle day-to-day tasks on their network. Anything critical is included, usable, and secure-by-default. Users would only need to rely on 3rd party stuff for non-obvious use cases or stuff that truly doesn't belong in a baseline. So, the ports collection wouldn't even be necessary in most deployments (esp infrastructure, console desktop) as the functionality and what counts in security claims were batteries included like the competition.

I'll leave it to users and people following their bug trackers to determine if either is the case. Especially No 1 which is my main point. The mere existence of security patches would kill the web site claim. It would instead become, "Of all the defects found, only two were analyzed and shown to be exploitable over X years." Makes for a totally different impression, eh? ;)
This is an example of building a simple product that fulfills a market need.

Financial regulations are complex and harsh, but the technology is simple. Normal messengers would not be valued at such an amount or compete with apps like whatsapp.