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not if SAAS becomes the standard way of doing things, you can't emulate what you don't have, if all we're going to end up using are thin clients to cloud-based software once it's gone it's gone forever
That's quite cool - didn't really know about that!

The only thing is that the reason VBA is so widely used is because it's built in to every single version of Excel (except Excel 2008 on OS X), which is why it's ubiquitous. Are Power BI and PowerView things that can be used within Excel without using a server? Are there additional licensing costs?
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> Wouldn't it of been easier if Amazon had been a bit humble and say: "Yes, things are not perfect, we will try and make it better for our employees." Rather than fighting it out in public with a newspaper.

No, probably not. Although humility seems like the sensible approach for decent people, a newspaper that has published a deliberately biased hit piece against you is not decent people. The Times declared war on Amazon, not the other way around. If Amazon apologizes, the Times will merely use that as ammunition in their next hit piece.

Amazon knows NY Times is going to attack them no matter what they do or say. If Amazon makes any admission of guilt, the Times will simply use that as ammunition in the next hit piece.

> Rather than fighting it out in public with a newspaper.

Here's the thing: when you call something a "newspaper," especially in this context, you're giving them a privileged status. This privileged status comes because people expect newspapers to behave with journalistic integrity. We give them status because we trust them to do their research and make reasonable efforts to maintain objectivity and be intellectually honest. If even a portion of Amazon's criticisms are true, it is clear that the NY Times, in publishing this article, violated the journalistic standards that earned them the status we accord to them.

If the NY Times is deliberately trying to promote narratives about Amazon rather than doing research and reporting objectively, honestly, and factually with reasonable attempts to minimize bias and maximize credibility; then it's not only imperative that Amazon stand up to them, but it's imperative that you do, too.
Ok, Wikipedia says it's KL26Z, also 16K RAM, good. I was concerned there may be some cheating with higher RAM available on it. But nope, folks now will really need to optimize stuff to do something useful in 16K ;-).
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you can definitely voice search in French on Google. Heck.. voice search in Hungarian works pretty well.
You don't need to give lexcorvus a hard time. Isn't it evident from his/her personality that he/she has enough of those already?
Let's Encrypt's DV certs will be validated the same way that any other CA's DV certs are, so im not sure why this should be the "one place" where its adopted.

They are also planning on support CT.
A search for "Facebook" currently has no ads for me. Same for "Yahoo". They aren't making a killing on navigational searches.
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Because, of course, all applications of the solution used in bitcoin are inherently invalid when applied to anything else.

rolleyes
He never said that the mode was 0.5... he said "The mode (most common number) will be below [1 search per day] too."

And it is. According to his numbers, the mode is precisely 0. The most common number of searches is zero... more people do 0 Google searches in a day than do 7 or 1 or any other specific number.

This is not a USEFUL statistic, but (according to this data) it is accurate.
Yes, but I am often looking at 10 or 20 things at the same time. I don't need to "read later", I need to read all of them now. I'll probably lose like half my trains of thought if I have to wait multiple seconds to switch back to page rendering one of the other umpteen search results...

For tagged bookmarking I use jotmuch: https://github.com/davidlazar/jotmuch

For more context, I almost always use my phone with this emergency pocket keyboard: http://www.amazon.com/ZAGG-FOLZKFLEXSLV-Zagg-ZAGGkeys-FLEX/d... .. so I somewhat normal, high input rate.
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That's also the draw for Harvard Business School.
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Those are all carrier locked, so the actual cost of the phone might be higher than the retail price. I don't think net10 is spending huge dollars making their phones cheap, but I'm sure they spend a bit.
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This is a very good idea. Might as well just use a VM and throttle that as a test too.
It would be super ironic and fascinating if Google's low-cost mobile operating system was what wound up killing their search business. How long until they start inserting ads into their app store?
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I was recently basically forced to get a new phone because my Galaxy Note 3 had become virtually unusable from software updates over the past few years. Common tasks would freeze the phone for seconds at a time. All animations were laggy. It was as if it was running on 10-15 year old hardware, not 2 year old hardware.

Just to be clear, I've experienced similar degradation with Apple products as well (specifically an older iPad), but never as severe as with the Note 3. My old iPad is still definitely useable; it's just not as smooth as it once was. The phone on the other hand had just become complete junk.

Meanwhile my girlfriend's Nexus 5 phone has been on a roller coaster of battery life changes. Not too long ago, an update caused her battery life to drain to 0 in roughly half a day of light usage. Then it was fixed. Then it was ruined again in the update to Marshmallow. She's going to have to get a new phone as well because hers too has become nearly unusable.
Seconded. I am very interested in learning more about this question.
Dillo is part of Pkgsrc, and can easily be installed on OS X.

Bootstrap this : https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/

And then it's as easy as : pkgin install dillo
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Well, Let's Encrypt models is based on automated confirmation of domain ownership (or to be more accurate, control rather than ownership). Automated software proves that the entity who is asking for a cert for a.example.com really does have control over a.example.com, because they were able to make a change on the host that a.example.com refers to. And based on this, issues the cert to the entity.

This level of proof of control is standard for DV certs, although other providers haven't automated it to the extent Let's Encrypt has, at least not with as high-quality software. One hole in this verification of course, is that 'control' may not actually be 'ownership', it could be someone who's hacked the host or DNS. But that's not unique to Let's Encrypt, it's a side issue, proof of control is standard and accepted for verification for DV certs.

So anyway, that kind of automated proof of control is a lot harder to apply to all of *.example.com, not just an individual host a.example.com. There are likely ways to do it well, but it's harder to do and harder to get right. Is probably why Let's Encrypt, at least for now, is not doing it.
How did you force remove the Google apps and Google Play Services? Did this require root?

I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition that I bought in February, and it lasts nowhere as long as my wife's 2012 iPad3. Such a disappointment. I will sell it, last Android device I buy.
> Is $200 unlocked not what you mean by low end?

You get reasonable (unlocked!) Android phones for as little as $100, and entry-level ones for a lot less. Low end is really, really low nowadays.

Edit: The cheapest I could find: http://www.alcatelonetouch.com/global-en/products/detail?mod... Sells for less than 50€ unlocked.
It is better than you think. In my experience Italian, Spanish, and English voice recognition work almost flawlessly now.

I'm also learning Chinese using a mixture of tools on my smartphone, including speech recognition. I can't tell how good this is in general, but it is clear that the transcription works when I pronounce something correctly.

The worst performance I get is when I try to speak in my home (American English) dialect. "It can't see the forest for the trees" becomes "Kansas City forest with trees." So yes you may need to code switch.
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That doesn't matter if people don't click them. If someone is doing a navigational search they're overwhelmingly likely to click the first result. The amount of revenue navigational searches generate compared to all other searches must be negligible.
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> That said, I'm sorry for any headache induced by my post. Some ibuprofen might help.

Yours didn't, I was just wondering why so many people have adopted this turn of phrase. Most other discussions have.
I left with the same feelings. I clicked on "This is a guest user" expecting some sort of explanation about guest users, but instead I get redirected to some strange page with different branding.
http://imgur.com/fiLeSBk

Very unclear as to what I'm supposed to do here so I left the page.
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I often use jq to extract data from REST apis, e.g. email addresses I need in a CSV file.
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Tax money is not taxpayer money. As soon as one pays their taxes, it is no longer their money. If taxpayers want tax money used in a certain way, they should convince voters to tell the government to use it in that way.

That's how taxes work.

Talking about 'taxpayer money' is language trying to establish an entitlement to tax money that tax payers do not have. It is anti-democratic language because in trying to establish such a spurious entitlement, it throws the power of the electorate to dictate government under the bus.

I'm curious where all the assertions in your argument came from, because they do not come from law, and they do not come from classical Liberalism which is the foundation of western democracies. I've only ever seen it trotted out in an attempt to establish a relation of accountability between governments and property owners instead of the foundational relation of accountability between governments and voters. Doesn't sound so nice, really.
Really cool project, people might actually pay for a setup like that to show up around town given that response.
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Personally, I suspect the claims are 100% true.

The point is that "journalists" have ethical guidelines they have to follow. Failure to do so compromises themselves and their profession. It leads to the defense and promotion of "fake but accurate" articles that tell a great story but risk being just that.. stories.

It's the equivalent of asking Hillary Clinton's opinion of Donald Trump. She may be 100% accurate in her assessment but she is not neutral or impartial.
Given the size of flight schedules datasets and the likelihood that not all the fake flights are that obvious, it's probably easier to buy the data from one of the proprietary schedule data vendors than clean up unauthorised scraped data...
The code itself works very well. Mason, founder of Luakit and most generous contributor, got hit by a bus so new maintainership roles have yet to get filled by existing and new users and developers. All current development takes place outside of "central" repo, and it needs organizing and compiling. Once this takes place, development and merge requests can continue full course.
Well, yeah, at the scale of "real research" it doesn't really work. But you wouldn't want to do that on a tiny screen even if copy/paste was up to it. You probably wouldn't even want to do it on a laptop screen. That's just a tool/task mismatch.
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It will likely be settled out of court. AMZN cannot risk having any of the NYT story ex-employees be bought up in a courtroom. The truth could be devastating and validate NYT. If I were Olson I would let the lawyers work on a simple 35-40% commission.
A couple of years ago I found the voice search useless, but these days even e.g. searching for channel names on Youtube that doesn't even match dictionary words works near flawlessly despite the fact I speak English with a broad Scandinavian accept.
Seems like the logical place to put it!
So I'm not aware of any RAND clauses or harmful patents that made it into the ODF standard. Quite the contrary, afaik ODF is under "RF On Limited Terms", which means that all patents must be licensed for everyone's use, for free, with some provisions that are reasonable. We are not talking about RAND. And I'm not a lawyer, but if the FSF supports ODF and given they've got lawyers and have had a no compromise policy, I trust that ODF is safe. See: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/odf-oasis.html

So care to provide some references?

PS: I wasn't thinking of NATO, but of individual countries. ODF (and not OOXML) is mandatory in France, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Russia and it's becoming mandatory in Italy.
A data analyst is much more likely to be assigned to a business department andnbe the local Excel guru who cobbles together SQL against the enterprise data warehouse, or whatever passes for one. They essentially fill the gap between IT resources in terms of the business's data needs.

The analysis is typically the application of basic arithmetic under the constraint of gnarly "business logic," which is almost never logical.

This is not meant to be pejorative, but represents an amalgamation of the traits I've seen in those who have the title of data analyst at our client companies.

A data scientist tends to have an advanced degree or significant experience in applying statistical techniques to the corpus of business data.

To give an oversimplified example, the data analyst likely answers the question "who are our best customers and what are their traits?" whereas the data scientist answers the question "what traits of customers can predict their becoming a great customer?"

Since we all live in a bubble, I will share mine for context. I work for a BI and analytics consultancy that also has a data science practice and our clients are primarily mid-sized corporations.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to refute you quite categorically. I did two months of work for Collabora and at no point did anyone ANYWHERE ever encourage the introduction of any bugs.

In fact, I introduced a few bugs into the VCL demo tool and Michael Meeks was quite (how should I put this?) direct in his feedback to me. Those inadvertent bugs got fixed very quickly by myself.

I can assure anyone reading - Collabora only cares about good quality work, and in fact if any work is pushed into the LO git repository that is substandard the other non-Collabora devs either a. fix it immediately or revert the changes, or b. have some stern words with the Collabora dev, or (I'd imagine) to Michael or Kendy.

P.S. Eventually all code Collabora writes gets pushed into the TDF's LO git repository. Maintaining incompatible branches for any length of time in insanity, and aside from the fact that contributing back to LO is the ethos of the Collabora Productivity team, it's better for them to do so in order to allow others to help maintain and enhance the code they write.
Very handy, thanks!
Any level of reliance on hostnames being secret seems like a very poor design decision.
Culture rot takes a long time. It's slowed by the employees who just want to vest their options and get out of there. It's promulgated by the jerks and sociopaths who see no problem with the culture of stepping on others to rise up the ladder. It's calcified by those same jerks who become managers and justify their actions, because everyone else at their pay grade is doing it. By the time it becomes a real problem, upper management is such an insular echo chamber that they can hardly recognize or acknowledge the problem.

Enter the harbinger of American corporate stagnation: the outside management/PR consultant, whose job it is to identify the problem, be thoroughly ignored by management, and be quietly paid and asked to leave while the rest of the executive team plays hot potato with the blame until they find the right people to fire for Wall Street to stop bellyaching. Then once the stock is back up enough, fly out with a golden parachute.

The people at the bottom of the ladder? Fuck 'em. If they don't recognize what's going on, it's their fault they get taken advantage of, right?
That won't be enforceable.
I'm probably an outlier but I don't bother with that many apps on my iPhone. I just Google everything.

Look up a movie? 'imdb spiderman'

Want to know how many calories is in something? 'cinnabon calories'

What's the football score? 'piggers score'
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Data Analyst is a general run-of-the-mill person who has some understanding of Excel, SQL, massaging the data etc. Data Scientist is a buzzword these days but should in reality entail having an advanced degree in statistics or math, ability to reason about underlying data and associated models.
It feels awkward at first, but it really helps with a smartphone. You get used to it. I now use speech-to-text for the majority of the text input I perform on my mobile, including text messages, short emails, and search.

I also do everything I can to avoid the need for a lot of text input on mobile and save it for when I have a real keyboard. I agree with other users that the decline of physical keyboards on mobiles has had a terrible impact on their real-world productive use, but speech-to-text helps alleviate that a little bit at least, if you don't mind homonyms getting mixed in there occasionally.
couple of countermeasures

In CDA, the responses are encrypted by the card, which means a they can no longer be spoofed.

The only lingering possibility of this type of attack occurring is in regions where offline transactions are still permitted, and if you can find a terminal which still does not have CDA capabilities or if you have a card which doesn't have CDA. Totally possible, but the opportunities are diminishing rapidly as the issued has been RESOLVED.

Edit: Found a decent write up on the CDA differences over DDA: http://www.infonomics-society.org/IJICR/Fraud%20Reduction%20...

The CDA cards have this advantage over the DDA cards, in that the message signed by the ICC which includes an additional Application Cryptogram (AC), which is used to protect and validate the specific transaction messages (amount, time, etc) generated during the transaction. The ICC uses the AC Session Keys (derived from the ICC AC Master Key, shared only between the ICC and the card issuer) to place this MAC on the transaction details.
How will this differ from the many static site generators already available? Is it only the fact that you host the site?
Why would one adopt a methodology with so many pitfalls?
While I agree with the conclusion that mapping data should be free, since it's useful infrastructure and will probably help the entire economy more than it costs to make it free, I don't see how your argument necessarily follows.

Governments can own things in a way that doesn't mean that everyone has property rights over it -- just a democratic right to influence how it is used. The government owns the pavement, that doesn't mean I can dig it up and take it away (copyright is different from this, but just to illustrate "government propety" != "everyone's property")

In the case of mapping data, a government can choose the invest money in a product, which it then sells to a subset of the population. Charging means that taxpayers pay less. It also means there are direct customers that can drive the development of the product along the economically highest impact lines.
No, but those activities are dwarfed by time spent passively consuming content on Facebook.
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Wow, thanks. I don't like the conclusions but great article.
If money from governments starts flowing to LibreOffice development, I would expect it to improve quickly to fill the needs of said governments.
Good, but giving feedback in an unrelated forum that the author probably doesn't read is not useful. The page has a "Leave A Comment" box. Give feedback there.
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I laughed at the fact that they revealed the master location information via googling "what is my ip" and checking out the weather report.
One my phone I thought it was tough to read. Now that I've opened it on my PC, it's practically impossible to read.
What's wrong with intermediaries?
It's both.

Private insurers need to make a profit for distributing risk, and due to there being a lot of them, those risk distributions are much smaller than they could be. Adding a public, non profit "cost + x percent" type plan, say Medicare part E for everyone, would very significantly improve this, particularly if it were allowed to bargain for bulk pricing.

(that we don't allow Medicare to do this is just nuts!)

Private entities also need to make a profit, and there is no meaningful check on this at present. A similar, public non-profit type delivery entity would reduce prices on most common treatments and maintenance activities.

Those wanting to profit on primary care could add value, such as home service, etc... and do it that way, rather than mark up common, mass delivered treatments. Secondly, niche specialization could remain high profit, high value add and more people would be able to afford those services.

Doing something like this would carve a big hole into much of the profit inherent in the US system, which would bring our national costs closer to those found in the rest of the world, while leaving high profit, high value on the table.

Some of us would not be able to afford those high value offerings, but would definitely benefit from much improved access to preventative and or more common, well proven health care.

This is all a compromise. The US could make much better choices and improve both access and outcomes.
> Today, it is possible that no one would have died or been injured but the project would probably take ten times as long and cost ten times as much.

It took eleven years for One World Trade Center to exceed the height of the Empire State Building; it took over 13 years for it to open. Granted, it's a larger, more complex building—but still, that's a remarkably long time.

Human life simply isn't priceless: it's obviously not worth $1 trillion to save a random person. Nor is it worthless: it's obviously worth 50¢ to save almost anyone. Somewhere in between, there's an economic balance. I recall reading that from numerous estimates of the value that people place on their own lives (through insurance purchases, risk ratios when pursuing various activities &c.) that we tend to value our lives at about $1.5-2 million.

A safety regulation which costs significantly more than that to save one life is, quite literally, not worth it.
It's literally the law. At least that's what my lawyer told me. I hope she's not lying?
Very cool.

I bet you can make a business out of it - not only for game purposes, but also training.
As a taxpayer, I'd much rather the government made a profit from its commercially-motivated research or IP ventures rather than simply spending its tax revenues underwriting the profits of third parties that copy its work.