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Yes, Android and iOS were the winning ecosystems, there is no argument there.

I was making the point that their influence on culture and society is limited, and using Nokia as an analogy. Nokia was Finnish, yet this didn't have any perceptible impact on its hundreds millions of users. None of them started going to sauna, spontaneously developed cross-country skiing skills or realized that having a summer cottage on a lake is holy grail of life.

And yes, smartphones do have ways in which they can influence behaviour to a larger extent than feature phones, but those too shaped the nature of mobile phone interactions for whole generations.

And most (global) end users are non the wiser that there is a place called Silicon Valley where these devices are designed, just like many people thought Nokia might be Japanese - but didn't know for certain.
Tell me, where did I say that? This behavior of yours (putting words in people's mouth and accusing or insinuating them of sexism/racism/elitism etc.) is exactly why this stupid "singular they" phenomenon has arisen.
Why is there a queue for entering beta when it is possible to get the source and install on Chrome right away?
Why does it seem like some patents expire while others don't?
> https://xkcd.com/893/

It's sad that they don't need a model of arrivals. I would like to at least hope that someone will walk on the moon before 2035.
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The product and the company that created it cannot be separated in terms of origination. The product required those specific inputs to exist. As such, it was the company that created the profound impact on the culture. To remove that connection is to pretend the product could have been created by any given corporation and corporate culture.
The rules and audits don't seem very effective: it's not just Diginotar that has been caught issuing rogue *.google.com certificates, but to my knowledge it's the only one that got removed from root stores.
Amazing story. Did you not know she was pregnant when you decided to sacrifice her? Did she have the baby still born? I've never played the game but almost want to now.
Sorry about the formatting issues. I can't seem to edit the post :/
While the conclusion -- co-founders should get equal shares -- seems generally reasonable to me, in a sense it's just punting the question. In the following cases

I started work­ing n months be­fore my co-founder
I started work­ing full time n months be­fore my co-founder
I brought on my co-founder after rais­ing n thou­sands of dol­lars
I brought on my co-founder after launch­ing my MVP

how do you decide if a company has two co-founders or one founder and one early employee?
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What about using something like http://electron.atom.io instead. This would likely be the best of both worlds - native, but not browser-dependent.
A better way to test it would be to deterministically generate the days that you want to test with. That might be one date for each day of the week, or one date for each day of the year, or some set of dates that include some normal dates and edge cases like leap days.

The problem with having non-deterministic tests is that when they break you don't know if it's because the test broke or the code broke and even if it was the code you don't know when it broke.

What if someone checked in a change that broke how things were handled on Sundays but the tests were only run on Sundays once/year? You'd have to run each build through the test suite, one by one, and you'd have to do it on that day, just to figure out which check in broke.
Hi there, thanks for the response. I actually don't mind the title--I've certainly been guilty of trying to increase my audience with a catchy title. I think the main reason I posted my comment was that even after reading your whole post, I still came away with "the 100-hour rule" sticking in my head pretty prominently. I think if I had written the article and chosen that title I would have tried to make people come away with a much stronger feeling about the fallacy of thinking about it in terms of "n hours" and more in terms of just deliberate focused effort.
Hehe sure. However, both me and my colleague connected the sound without the visual. But we both saw one of the other Chewbacca videos a few days before so that's probably why. ;)
> Whisper Systems has a track record of prioritizing 'good enough' ease-of-use ahead of 'perfect' security

Why is Telegram always under for their flawed security challenge despite the good-enough track record then? They also have perfect usability, native apps, 3rd party clients, etc. If the security is not the first priority then Signal isn't very attractive compared to the competition I think.
On the front page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10664554
It's unlikely that the Kazakh government would be able to do that much with it.
Kazakhstan has a population of about 18M and internet penetration of about 35% if they would really want to sift through all that traffic they are more than welcome to do so, just keep in mind that even the US would probably not be able to do so with any degree of effectiveness.

The only thing that Google et al. could do is refuse to provide service to Kazakhstan which would only harm the people even more, if you are a dissident you are already taking a huge risk denying people the ability to access information and to connect with others won't help to reduce that risk just only make it worse as it would only isolate them further.

China is doing the same, so do many Gulf nations to some extent or another, no one is arguing that we should not cooperate with China, cooperation is the only real way to effect change in those nations in the first place, or would you think China would be as open as it is today if we would have a technical and cultural embargo over it?
Because doing that requires you to almost download and run a different Chrome.
While a cool project, the author's commentary seem like total nonsense. What does quantum computers have to do with VR? Was it just an attempt to link two cool sounding topics in to one uber topic: quantum VR.
Interesting article. Scientific theories are often proven to be obsolete -- business should be no different.

To me, this article also underscores the ever present friction between theory and practice. I recently was speaking to an advisor (in academia) and, while his input was incredibly valuable, much of it contradicted what we know to be true based on interactions with our customers.

How have you all managed this balancing act? Is there a place for academic theory in product development?
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1: A server using HPKP with the reporting feature turned on will receive reports from browsers when the certificate does not match what was expected (provided HPKP is being honored).

2: Browsers ignore HPKP when the server certificate is trusted through a user or administrator installed root CA. All mainstream browsers on all platforms behave in this way. This is by design specifically to allow enterprises to do the sort of traffic interception that Kazakhstan is implementing. The rationale is that if an attacker is able to get as far as installing their own CA on your system, you're screwed anyway.
Both are available in Kazakhstan. I don't remember twitter being blocked here. LJ was blocked due to former high-profile official's blog.
Well if the purpose is to drum up enough public support to rid ourselves of license plate cameras then they are on the right track. It would do a number of the delivery business persons as well as those providing other legitimate services using their own vehicles.
A better question, in my mind, is why they'd choose Ubuntu over CentOS or RHEL, since they're running on Dell hardware, and Kickstart is far, far superior to Debian/Ubuntu's PXE install (and preseeding is awful to configure). My org went through a lot of pain because of this choice (which preceded me) and I'd hate for anyone to go through what I went through.

Also Dell's maintenance tooling barely works on Ubuntu at all; they don't even officially support their OpenManage stack on it. And forget about online firmware upgrades.
I have a theory that even though the bombers didn't necessarily always hit what they were aiming at, the bombing campaign was important in tying up the Luftwaffe and degrading its capabilities through attrition, thereby hastening achieving air superiority, which provided a major advantage in the later ground war. I'm not sure that better tanks would have made as much difference; and, furthermore, I suspect that the US was able to absorb the costs of the air war without much difficulty, so it wasn't really siphoning resources away from things like tanks.

I'm not sure what to make of the Sherman tank. On the one hand, it was famously under-armored and under-gunned; on the other hand, it was fast, maneuverable, reliable, fuel efficient, cheap to produce, and perhaps easier to ship across the ocean than heavier German-style tanks would have been. So, in the final accounting, I'm not sure if it was really a bad tank or if its shortcomings were justified in the big picture.

I'm not any kind of WWII expert, so please fill me in on what I don't know.
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sort of how the old captcha helped digitize books, people entering recaptchas is free tagging to train vision's net.
Wasn't trying to be condescending, but the reason I mention it is that in rocketry, the required thrust is very different (not linearly proportional, I mean) from required delta-V, especially in deep space missions where you have lots of time to do your burns.
Get more RAM and swap.
If you pull up on your ear with your opposite hand while putting in the earplug, that will helps it to fit better.

Having a pitch black room, covering any LEDs with electrical tape, and using an eye mask also help.
I did not expect to see another islander on here. I saw a tool or report a few years ago that would show how much of the island would remain with different sea level rises but I cannot find it now.
Someone who's using mysql_* functions is probably not compiling their own versions of PHP.
Been collecting a few links on this topic:

https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/

https://github.com/mrzool/cv-boilerplate

https://github.com/posquit0/Awesome-CV
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Interesting, I honestly don't know if that makes a difference.
I am not sure I follow you. What strawman did I set up?

I made an observation. Said why I think it's counter productive from my line of reasoning. Then I asked for comments. Because there might be a good reason.

Where did I make the strawman?

Do you really think I don't understand it takes time to read?
"PHP has no place in modern development" implies that peers choosing PHP for new dev are essentially incompetent.
As much as I agree with your overall sentiment, the sad truth is that centralized architectures enable many of the UX affordances that users take for granted today in a modern chat app, many of which are much more difficult, sometimes simply impossible, to implement in a decentralized architecture (think features like automatic contact discovery, offline messaging, etc). Without some of these affordances, a chat app has simply has no chance of gaining widespread adoption in such a competitive landscape. This is why it is very difficult to justify pouring any significant resources into building a decentralized chat app, because too few people will ever end up using it to justify the investment.

For what it's worth, I am the author of a decentralized messaging app myself [1], and have spent a lot of time thinking about stuff like this, and eventually reached this unfortunate conclusion and decided to leave the project at the prototype stage.

[1] http://toc.im/
Try rereading it, and note the words:

"an Atoll" vs. "used to be an Atoll"
There are zero "cert" mentions.
Actually our AUC is 90% and that beats the state of the art in the literature. Accuracy is easy to game. We could get 97.5% accuracy by just predicting False all of the time. We don't advise reviewers to use the prediction directly, but rather to set thresholds on the probability. 70% probability is a very conservative filter and will catch about 10% and a little bit less than half of them will actually be damaging.

So, this is useful enough to reduce the workload by 90% right now. As we increase the model's fitness, we should be able to drive that up to 95%, but I doubt we'll get much better than that.
apologies, the API key thing is fixed now
I'm feeling dirty, because I don't like to be that negative, especially if we're talking open-source software. And I feel that I kinda hold this project to higher standards: If I compare this to WhatsApp/Telegram/Threema/Whatever, I inheritently, somewhat subconciously expect more from Signal.

And I'm disappointed. I tend to repeat the 'central server' and 'a phone number is not an address and not public information, it certainly is no identity' criticism.

When I read the headline/title, I thought 'Now maybe that would be enough to be ~good enough~ to ditch Telegram' in spite of these problems (which Telegram has as well, ofc). But really. A Chrome app. And works only (yeah, I think I said it before: Phone numbers suck) as a secondary client. And only if the first client is Android?

I seriously don't get it. And it certainly is not for me: I don't like that browser (I do have it installed for testing and to follow it at times, but there's no 'app' I'd run in Chrome). I don't want to tie something to my phone and I don't think that it should matter what platform my handset runs on - SailfishOS looks nice, FxOS progresses slow but ticks a good number of boxes for me.

Full circle to the first line: I don't _like_ to be negative and the headline gave me hope for a couple seconds. Unfortunately this release just deepened my belief that Signal wasn't meant to be for me.
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Great! The recognition seems fairly accurate, based on the examples they provided (haven't used Google Photos myself much, though). I'm still wary, though; I really hope we won't see a repeat of the labeling black people as gorillas fiasco, which happened as recently as earlier this year: http://mashable.com/2015/07/01/google-photos-black-people-go.... The article mentions that Google was looking into how these mistakes can be prevented... I wonder what they did/are doing?
It has not been released yet.
Isn't recaptcha just a checkbox now?
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What video game doesn't have constants?

const LIGHTSPEED = 299_792_458
I found LaTeX to be an enjoyable way to create non-traditional PDFs with better control over styling than you would get from something that rendered HTML to PDF directly, like Prince or WebkitToPdf. The downside was all the Googling and troubleshooting when things didn't behave as expected -- LaTeX is pretty much the opposite of WYSIWYG and doesn't have Chrome Developer Tools ;-)

In my case, I was actually stuck with creating a template for Invoice/Order PDFs based on a CRM that was written in PHP, so I made a PHP script that output LaTeX, then rendered that in a folder. The trick was to use a temporary folder for each document render, and to manage the process hands-free using latex-mk: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/210500/why-is-somethi...

The resulting PDFs then didn't break lines in the wrong places, had the correct margins on the first page vs other pages, were very graphically rich with vector graphics, and could be produced quickly on demand through their web-based CRM, all thanks to LaTeX and a few days' time debugging.
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My best guess it Wordpress will still use it's PHP4-style architecture for years to come, until it's entirely rewritten in JS at some point.
At my last job, my manager tasked me with finding a way to defeat Chrome's update mechanism for all of our employees because a new version had introduced a bug that broke our internal web applications. I disregarded his plan and just introduced a workaround for the bug, but the point remains that enterprise customers already consider it a value-add to freeze their software in time for perpetuity. Hell, my workstation was running XP until I needled IT to grant me a "premature" upgrade to Win 7.
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This article sums up basically what I learned through my own experiences.

For myself I've found that an uninterrupted chunk of sleep > a long sleep with waking periods caused by interruptions (bathroom breaks, police sirens, etc.).

It is for this reason that a year ago I adopted the usage of ear plugs when I go to sleep, and now I cannot sleep without them. I found a good brand of ear plugs that are comfortable and dampen ambient sounds (traffic, footsteps), but don't completely block out all sounds so I can hear my phone or the alarm clock.

Another thing I've found is that usually when I can recall having a dream, I feel like I was able to achieve a deep level of sleep, and consequently I feel more refreshed that morning. I often don't remember details about the dream, and I even quickly forget what the dream was even about (or even if it was a nightmare) but the important thing is that my mind went into that dream state.

I would value a 4 hour chunk of deep sleep more than 8 hours of sleep broken up by some interruptions.
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Yeah, well, the original developer never got the frame rate high enough for Mona Lisa to ever actually be playable.
Is Search _really_ so positive-returns-to-scale that only a single player can exist?

I mean, yes, Google's percentage of total Web search is embarassingly huge (north of 80%, or is it 85%, last I checked). But the user lock-in is slight.

Advertiser lock-in is where I strongly suspect the action is, where Google offers both networks and tools which appeal to online ad buyers in a fashion that's difficult or impossible to match.
Not getting enough good quality sleep with a newborn baby in the house is a real problem. But what is the solution, though? Hiring a full-time stay-at-home nanny seems the only way both parents can get enough sleep for the first several months, but there are many reasons why one wouldn't want to do that. Does anyone have any advice?
Yep, it's closed source. I dream of a day where they open-source it, but IIRC the creator has turned down various monetary offers so as to retain complete control of the game, so it seems unlikely that he'd ever release the code.
It's exciting to see more of these services come to market.

IBM Watson has a suite of vision APIs available that have some similar features.

For example, the demo at http://vision.alchemy.ai/#demo has example images that demonstrate facial detection and identification, label extraction, object identification, and so on.

Another demo at http://visual-insights-demo.mybluemix.net/ uses the Visual Insights [1] API to identify a set of relevant tags.

And the recently released Visual Recognition [2] API allows you to train the model with your own dataset. Demo: http://visual-recognition-demo.mybluemix.net/

Disclosure: I am an evangelist for the Watson Developer Cloud suite of services at IBM.

[1]: https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc...

[2]: https://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/developerc...
No a career building those types of tools taught me SoL is garbage from most vendors. Cray, Dell, and HP are (arguably) best with mostly reliable SoL, but they still are awful. If you paste a buffer too big into a SoL session, the dell DRAC will freeze, so you have to kill and restart the serial connection. If you have > 1000 machines, hardware serial is the best thing to do for management, in addition to IPMI for power management.
Isn't that just horrible? A secure messaging service that requires a google account for installation.
I would assume that stronger gravity would just come along with a different set of health issues (joint and muscle problems dealing with more stress, heart would be affected having to work harder to pump blood, etc).
yes, but the fallback is a more traditional, image tagging captcha. see https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/are-you-ro...
The thing is, I don't see anything actually restricting the scope of discussion to subtype polymorphism.

"The more I code, the more it feels like type classes are never not a good answer."

As they are used in Haskell, they sometimes get awkward where you where multiple instances are relevant to the same data in the same scope. You can newtype cast around, but I've been wondering (with multiparameter typeclasses) if reifying the instance we care about is 1) useful, and 2) actually still distinct from explicitly passing the dictionary as a record. Regarding 1, I've consistently leaned "yes", although without tremendous confidence. Regarding 2, I've gone back and forth over time.
"...He rules out Uber because, from the start, it offered a better level of service than existing taxi firms, rather than something cheap but inferior... "

I believe this is exactly where the author an many people get Ubers success wrong.

Uber big disruption was in challenging legislation not in providing a better service.

Uber started by allowing limo drivers to make extra money. They then moved on making it possible almost anyone to start as taxidrivers and thus flodded the market with available rides. This wouldn't have been possible if they had used the normal channels.

They also benefitted from the popularity of smartphones and GPS removing the need for a taxi central for people to call in an order rides.

The problem with existing taxis wasn't in the quality of the service but rather with accessibility. This is what they disrupted.

Where some of Claytons theories break down is in his second book. Innovators solution. "Be patient for growth not for profit" which isn't necessarily wrong but Facebook proves that wrong.

I once asked him about this over twitter he said great question but never answered it :)
Todays challenge is "Call a random number and try to figure out the first and last name of the person on the other end." :)
Blackberry caved and gave the Saudi's and other gulf nation the ability to decrypt the traffic, as usual money plays a bigger role than morals.
Not that morals played anything in the decision to begin with BB calculated that it would cost them more to cave than to resist in terms of because it could sway existing customers to switch away from their platform, that was true for Pakistan but since Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have money it wasn't true in that case.
And if you are implying that Kazakhstan was "free" to begin with that's utterly wrong, you are also wrong about China the "Great Firewall" didn't came online until 2003, and they still do not implement wide scale SSL MITM attacks (I've used Internet in China that wasn't a special line for foreigners or was routed through HK and many sites like wikipedia for example were blocked over HTTP but not over HTTPS).
That said fighting such activity by boycotting only aggravates the situation as you are doing even more harm to the people of the country, it's bad enough being monitored 24/7 but at least you have access to information and people from all over the world.