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Totally zen :) I mostlynlearnednto be with it, with one exception. Anyone I see a share from a radio station, I block that radio station's page. 9 times out of 10, they only share insipid memes ... And my feed quality has improved significantly.
Indeed but he can be manipulated by his family and his lawyers just as easily as by the investigators. He simply can't be relied upon so you have to look at the evidence instead.

Based on that I don't think he's guilty, there is really nothing to tie him to the crime and to believe he would be able to clean up any traces is just ridiculous.
Can you offer any references to the google docs papers that you refer to?
We seem to be in the tail end of a consolidation phase right now, the one the article is about. I think it's largely brought on by the final commodification of the internals of a phone/tablet; even a $50 Amazon Fire tablet is now a decent tablet, something that wasn't true in that price range two years ago and perhaps even one (I wasn't looking then so I can't quite vouch for it). (Yes, it's probably subsidized a bit, but it still ends up setting the bar.)

Once that completes, I'd expect the market to expand a bit more as companies seek ways to stand out other than "we have the cheapest thing".

But you may never again see a "phone" with a physical keyboard. Too niche. Instead, you'll have to look for a case with integrated keyboard or something: http://www.amazon.com/Sliding-out-Wireless-Bluetooth-keyboar... I don't think it'll ever be economical again to produce a phone with a keyboard built in, but that niche can be filled with orders-of-magnitude-smaller runs of keyboard cases.
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Not everyone has to agree. That's why we have the scientific method and research institutes. If the current science shows that something is worth exploring in more detail, that some avenues are worth spending money on, spending money on them makes sense.

Bullshit Ideas like AI apocalypse and singularity, transhumanism, downloading brain into a computer do not fit into that criteria.
That astounds me. I met some expatriates that were illiterate (well, they couldn't speak much either) when I lived there -- but they usually came and went over the course of three year stints. They lived with their families, in expat neighborhoods, and their kids went to Western (American) schools.

And they left. Every ~3 years or so.

Even that would kill me. For me, literacy is job one. I never understood how an adult would be - could be - willing to be functionally illiterate as an adult.
Most people work for a company that make software and hardware decisions, and the user cannot make such choices to ditch a brand, unless they also decide to ditch their job.
Because usually reimplementations are done in a way that would allow programs/libraries written for the original platform run on your platform, i.e. reimplementations are usually done in a way that makes them drop-in replacements to the original as much as possible. That is not the case with Android. Running existing Java programs is a non-goal, and reusing libraries is only a goal as long as it helps Android's separate ecosystem (Java libraries -- for any Java standard -- work on Android only if they happen to use the subset of APIs implemented by Android; this is not due to any real limitations or lack of developer resources, but simply because being a drop-in or near-drop-in replacement for Java is not a goal for Android).

I will note again that Google is free to use OpenJDK however they like -- they don't need to be compatible or anything -- as long as they comply with the GPL license.
Google was found to be infringing on Oracle's copyright when Google implemented APIs that mirrored the organization of the APIs exposed by Java libraries of the Java platform (as well as other portions of code).

From what I infer, Google borrowed the implementation of classes from Apache Harmony's project, which had nothing to do with OpenJDK. That is, it is an independent implementation of the J2SE, etc.. If that is the case, Google can be found to be infringing on Oracle's copyright when it distributes binaries derived from Apache Harmony code that infringes on Oracle's copyright over Java APIs.

The version the article is talking about is OpenJDK; Oracle holds the copyright of the OpenJDK implementation, and licenses it under the GPL. By using OpenJDK, Google is allowed to distribute programs and code derivative of OpenJDK code as long as it complies with the terms of the licenses.

A word of caution: IANAL.
As I understand it (and I've only briefly skimmed this story) there has been some scepticism of the juror though, as it seems he's been attempting to make money from his story.

The whole thing reeks of media manipulation on the one side, and botched police work on the other, with everybody in it for themselves. Looks like a dystopian novel's version of justice.
I think there a lot of good ideas in this post and if Scott can make them happen .Net development will get a big shot in the arm. Things like native compilation and NuGet package generation are great but I think the biggest change is in the attitude of the Microsoft world. They are finally realizing that not everyone likes/needs a GUI and that some (lots of) folks are much more efficient with their existing workflows for things like Ruby & Python.

Now, if only I could shake the feeling of a license monster hiding right around the corner ready to bash my head in as soon as I make something useful. :/
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I had some code that converts amazon links to a buy list (with price). Used that against the current version of the list to generate this: https://gist.github.com/captn3m0/d34dbb6ca67e958e75a4

Will get this content back on the spreadsheet if I get some time later tonight.
Don't bring up the Eisenhower administration, it isn't relevant.

It's also quite foolish to try to evaluate people in a vacuum... would you extend the same privilege to a member of a criminal gang or jihadi group? No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Threat_Research_Intellig...

https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

"Campaigns operated by JTRIG have broadly fallen into two categories; cyber attacks and propaganda efforts. The propaganda efforts (named "Online Covert Action"[4]) utilize "mass messaging" and the “pushing [of] stories” via the medium of Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube.[2] Online “false flag” operations are also used by JTRIG against targets.[2] JTRIG have also changed photographs on social media sites, as well as emailing and texting work colleagues and neighbours with "unsavory information" about the targeted individual.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEXINT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optic_Nerve_%28GCHQ%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...

There's your evidence-- it's been here all along. These programs are targeted at US citizens, some with the explicit aim of discrediting them, blackmailing them, or propagandizing them. These are not the actions of a friendly nanny state but rather a malevolent surveillance state.
Anecdotally - I would guess between 2 and 3 years based on the habits of my friends family and colleagues.
It comes down to five things (in general; not specific to WM & attention, but inclusive of):

1. Diet - Eat reasonably well.

2. Physical Exercise - Can be as simple as walking around the neighborhood; just stay active.

3. Stress Relief - Stress wears you down; get zen when you can.

4. Socialization - Just being around other people helps you stay sharp.

5. Brain Exercise - Different and varied challenges. Crosswords, puzzles, board games, etc. all help. Something that's complex and engages your long-term planning engine is great: she likes strategy games (like Starcraft or Age of Empires). Basically, find ways to put your brain to work. And like physical exercise, variance is key.

The problem with Lumosity and #5 is that any "improvement" you see isn't improvement in mental acuity, but efficiencies in repetition.
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I took a week off of facebook two weeks ago. No interaction with facebook, at all, except one messenger session with a design contractor who is doing our UI overhaul. I haven't been so productive in years. And, it mostly broke my facebook addiction...I check it once a day now, often just on my phone while standing in line at the grocery or during some other downtime. I'm able to ignore it most of the time (notifications have been turned off for years, because I hate anything dinging at me and interrupting my thought process; I leave the ringer on my phone off for the same reason, I can check my voicemail in Google Voice a couple times a day to deal with important stuff).

I'm considering doing the same "fast and then reduced consumption" for my other social media habits: reddit, HN, twitter. When I traveled full-time, in the past, I would often find myself with little or no Internet connectivity for a week at a time, and that imposed periodic social media fasting, and it was sufficient to keep the addictions in check. After living in a fixed house, with very fast Internet, for a little over a year, the urge to check my phone/tablet first thing in the morning and last thing at night has become notable and annoying.

In short: He's right, and I notice my own inability to do things of substance has been significantly impaired by the time and attention I give to social media, and it's only reasonable to abstain in the interest of spending more time doing the things I truly value. It can be hard to make that choice, however...one more shot of dopamine (or whatever chemicals the constant affirmation of social media provides) seems harmless.

(I note the irony of this being an HN comment.)
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to me they're all ideals that the creator is striving for. By putting that out there the author is reminding themselves of what's important to them and making themselves publicly accountable to them. If I read someone's /now page and it says "I notice things and try to make them better" I'm likely to ask them what they've noticed and improved the next time I encounter them. If they haven't noticed or improved then I've just helped remind them that they've allowed themselves to stop focusing on the things that are actually important to them.
You're hypothesising about something that has never happened. Check out some 3rd party cloud uptime metrics - the major providers (AWS, Google, Azure) have had less than an hour of downtime in the past year. Reliability is no longer on the agenda - it has been proven.
That's one way to interpret it, no doubt. But as I said, the vagueness is a part of the problem (as I see it anyway).
Credibility does have a place, it's just frequently too high a place by the credulous.
This is /now

;)
> even read Japanese literature

That's a pretty high bar. Newspapers, news magazines and technical materials (economics, poli-sci, math, circuits, algorithms, mechanical designs, chemical processes)are straight forward enough. And enough to consider one functionally literate, I would contend. Enough to participate in day-to-day culture, I would contend.

Japanese literature can be completely different level of challenging.
Res is low I think.
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Well I certainly didn't know that.

Is there a way to make it so it screens out all the content that comes from content factories ("You won't believe....!"), but still see things such as pure text or user-created photo posts?
Thank you a lot for the nice response and the kind explanation. You are definitely right that there are never any bad intentions behind the various experiences that can be had as a foreigner.

Perhaps my problem is not really the experience itself, but that I don't know how to deal with certain situations in a smooth and sociable way. I also have not lived in Japan long enough to really master all social interactions. It's quite easy to forget when you're from another culture how much routine your own culture already has and how different it can be.

So, stage4目指せ!
About leaf blowers and waste disposals, I think it's not about the "effects" so much as the item itself. These devices do perform a function but their original reason for existing is arguably to profitably sell motors (or small engines in the case of the leaf blower). Having lived mostly in countries where they aren't used, I'd say it's a skepticism about the real utility of the device that makes them unsuccessful there, not a reasoned assessment of the effects of widespread use.
the case with a keyboard is an interesting suggestion, thank you!
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…who are paid to work full-time on it. How does that not count as Google investing in it? What else would investing even mean?
It is true. No Java standard is supported by Android: not SE (maybe some of the new SE compact profiles, but those don't apply to Android's version of Java), not any ME profile, and not any other more obscure Java standards. If a Java library happens to only use the "Android subset" then it will work, but as that subset is not specified by any Java edition or profile, such compatibility can only be coincidental (of course, Google made sure that the libraries they thought may help their ecosystem will work, so it's not a coincidence from that perspective, but it certainly does not make their case for interoperability).
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It seems the algorithm would interpret that as 'show less posts from this person' or 'show less posts about this topic', rather than 'show less posts that are links'.
>If manufacturers are introducing fewer models, it's because there is reduced demand for them.

That assumes manufacturers solely pay attention to demand before making and selling a device. Which is wrong. They pay attention to what carriers want. Which is usually what will help them sell expensive data plans. Also, companies care about what Samsung is selling. In Samsung's case they care about what components they themselves supply to other companies (SoC's, OLED's etc.). So it's in their best interest to keep them in demand.
Not to be too cynical (which I doubt is possible when it comes to US politics) but I suspect that there will be no lack of demagoguery on either side of the aisle this year, irrespective of the actions of North Korea.
Google for "Operational Transformation". That turns up lots of good stuff. The wikipedia article includes links to Google Wave papers, which I think is the papers I'm referring to. It's been several years since I read them, though.
I find it very ironic that someone would mention Cuba in this post. Cuba is the epitome of income inequality where the ruling party (Castro and friends) controls all the capital, while the 99.9% hold virtually nothing.

You may argue there are benefits and people can be happy under a communist regime, but you cannot deny that income inequality is extremely high. If anything, your argument actually corroborates PG's statement that income inequality is not inherently bad.
"Yet we have millions of software engineers working on building a surveillance society with no sense of ethics, constraints or consequences."

No, we don't.

We have probably a few hundred doing hard-core surveillance. We have another few thousand functioning as enablers by making social media and ad networks really attractive. We have a whole lot of non-engineers insisting on placing ads and tracking on their websites.

And then there's the mass bulk of software engineers that have nothing to do with it, and nothing they do will stop it.

50% of doctors decide to stop doing something, and it gets noticed. 99% of software engineers decide to take enormously strong stands against surveillance even at great personnel cost, and surveillance continues on as if nothing happened, except maybe those who work on it get paid a bit more to make up for decreased supply.

It may, in that weird 20th/21st century fashionable-self-loathing way, feel really good to blame the group you're a part of, but basically what you're proposing won't do anything at all. You're imputing to "software engineers" in general abilities they don't collectively have. You've got to attack it at the demand level, you will never be able to control the supply. This also matters because if you waste your energy with that approach, you might decide you've done something about the problem and stop trying when in fact you've done nothing.
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I bought this "pocket-phone" recently (4.5" Android One). Not brilliant but good enough. Only available in Europe, I think:

http://www.bq.com/es/aquaris-a4-5
I have an elevator pitch on my desk. It has a 180 degree reclinable screen, basically designed to be a thickesh tablet.

I do the opposite, and put the screen desk-side down, to use the keyboard (have become accustomed to it, not great, but very good). So the screen lies face-down, and the keyboard is face-up, attached to a monitor. Not a particularly fancy monitor, but it is nice having things at eye level when at a desk and having sizes blown up big, basically, easy on the neck.

Perhaps the environment, I don't know, but the amount of curiosity this provides to others to my little alcove is impressive. Anyone that notices mentions. From curiosity, not realising it's a laptop, to 'I have a ThinkPad too and I wish it could do that'.

So, elevator pitch, have something so vivid it can be picked up, touched, played with. Not words, a thing that doesn't need to be particularly innovative as-in changing the world, just, that's a neat idea, I'd like that too. Then it gets easier to sell.

None of my colleagues want to get T-series ThinkPads in the next acquisition round because of a simple screen on another range that can be reclined more than normal.
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> this criticism is very unfair, very hurtful, and mostly bullshit. You don't have to believe me - but you now have a second data point for your consideration.

No I do not. All you've provided me is a point of view without anything resembling rational reasoning. I believe that trains can fly. You don't have to believe me, but now you have another data point for your consideration.

> this kind of criticism is impossible to defend against.

See my initial statement. All you have to do is point flaws in the above link.

> To prove that it's mostly bullshit would take me literally writing a book - in which I would surely make mistakes,

If you're not confident in your ability to assess and refute an argument, then why bother making it?

> that then could be used to discredit it entirely in a single article.

Nobody is saying the article above is perfectly written, or that the critique is 100% on point, but that does not mean the broad point he makes has no merit. Same would be true for the hypothetical book you write.

> When people read a powerful criticism "debunking" things about a group they vaguely know, the default for most is to agree with the criticism. For some reason it's natural to humans.

Do you have any basis on which you're making that claim? No, because if you did, you'd provide that.

> All I want now is to make people stop for at least a moment, consider that the article may be unfair, and to not make judgments before double-checking the claims.

But WHY? WHY? You've, objectively, given me ZERO reason besides "it's malicious and people are biased when reading debunking articles". You've clearly refused to engage in the content. You haven't even quoted a single line and proved that it's false. Whereas the article in question is an in-depth exploration of the community of people, their beliefs, the personalities involved, what they believe, their education background and many more things. What have you done? Nada.

I can go on and tear down your whole reply, but I'll stop here.I come off with the impression that you're taking this personally and therefore, as a natural response, you're defending it, which is fine. I'm not trying to be a dick, but perhaps you should work on your argumentation and logic skills before trying to defend or take any side.
If interested, they were on FLOSS weekly last year:

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/334
The best one is when you read the code, say "this guy is terrible, who is it" and then find out it was you
Lots of writers [0] do their first draft with pen and paper. There are studies[1] that show that using pen and paper to take notes boost memory and the ability to recall information, so of course a writer doing the first draft of a long novel would want that for themselves.

[0]Do a Google search for "first draft pen and paper" and there are scores of hits from both authors and writing websites advocating for this
[1]http://www.medicaldaily.com/why-using-pen-and-paper-not-lapt...
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Arguably? I loathe the sound of gasoline-powered leaf blowers, but they are quicker than rakes and brooms. I'm not sure that my neighbors are willing to pay for the additional labor needed by a lawn crew to rake leaves or sweep sidewalks.
This has to be hyperbole - how can you live in a country for 28 years without learning what a single word looks like?

reminds me of teens today who feign ignorance of popular music and only listen to classic rock or some other specific genre and love to criticise others' taste in music.
wish brits could care this much about the problems our country ACTUALLY faces
If Apple isn't making the product you want, why not buy a big ass Android or Windows phone and use until Apple does? Waiting on Apple's product-feature matrix roadmap is a tradeoff too. It just happens to involve certain current "unhappiness" for possible future "unhappiness", that is the pain/pleasure ratio of Android or Windows may be less than that of the unfilled want. Perhaps reducing the dependency chain is worth trying here to?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songun

It depends WHY it falls. The existing system is almost completely military with a sorta civilian mostly hereditary aristocracy leading it. So if it falls because the military collapses it'll be nearly a wasteland, total anarchy, but if the military stays in total power then instead of hereditary civilian aristocracy they'll have a genuine combat soldier (or at least a semi-experienced general) in charge.

At the very tippy top the Chinese like their buffer states, and are not going to be happy with reunification with SK. Of course the same people said the same things about Eastern Germany.
SQL is an international standard. IBM has gave up their rights long time ago.
There's a little problem with the article:

> The most interesting stat I saw in the report is this chart about device distribution in 2015:

> It’s very much a normal distribution centered around the 5.5″-6″ mobile phone (phablet). There are still some people out there using smaller mobile phones and small tablets

Actually the graph shows the growth of time spent on devices, not total distribution of time spent. I'm sure total time shows quite a different thing than "some people" using small phones.

Of course the rest of the post is still correct, though.
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Leaf blowers are very overrated, unless you buy the industrial grade backpack type. And that's only a niche application.

I use a rake, which works faster for my consumer-level yard than a mid to high-range blower, to get the leaves all in once place. Then, I use the blower in reverse to chop the leaves for compost. Not the intended purpose at all, but it works for me.