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> Stock Android is fantastic.

Yes, and I don't think I could go to some manufacturer-customized bloated version ever again. The only thing I'd like to be better on my Nexus 5 is camera. Otherwise it's an awesome device.
To be fair, both issues you mentioned are "soft" issues[0], albeit important ones. That doesn't quite seem like the "10%" the GP is referring to, or may be it is, but it gave me the impression he was talking about technical issues, not soft ones.

[0] as in people/social/management issues
This might be a good place to ask this: if one decides to go deep into Haskell, is it a good gamble? What does the job market look like for Haskell developers?
Bullshitters don't tend to proactively preface their statements with caveats on their own credibility, but I take your point. I'm essentially parroting information obtained from others in my own words, likely imperfectly. I'm not spinning yarns on my own personal theories and opinion while presenting them as The Truth.
Time for advertising go (mostly) go away.

- 10+ years of Google not giving a damn over all the "Fake Download Button" ads, "Click here to Play" ads, "fake Next Slide" ads and me un-installing malware my parents accidentally installed by clicking on those ads.

- Google not giving a damn about fake clicks from competitors and bots when honest businesses purchase adwords.

- Websites with 3mb of advertisements loading.

- Video ads that start playing automatically.

- The days when TechCrunch.com has almost 10mb of scripts loading (during the Sarah Lacy John Carr days). Yes. 10MB of all sorts of analytics and javascripts loading on TechCrunch.

- Me paying $300 for a top banner ad and making NO sales of my Calendar ToDoCal on a design website. Then for the hell of it, paid $20 for a sidebar ad on porn network and get 2-3 paying customers from it.

- Spending $200 in Google Adwords competiting with 20 other businesses for a $1.50 click that doesn't even turn into a customer.

Yeah, we're pretty pissed at ads and the ad industry and they deserve exactly what they're going to get. Expulsion from people's lives. It's sad a lot of good content fueled by moderate ads will get caught up in it but. Hey, that's life. The moderates are punished by the actions of the extremes. All 7 computers in the house have ad blocker and will continue indefinitely. It's been storming for a while. Let it rain.
The prokaryotes are already split into two domains, so there's no way they will be called subspecies of a single species.

Note that all the millions of eukaryotes fit into one domain. The domain is a much higher level than species. It's Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_taxonomy .

Thus, it's hugely more likely that the intermediate classification terms will be used, rather than group everything a subspecies of a small number of species.

Even if there are billions of prokaryotic species.
As someone who experiences asmr I was expecting a somewhat similar experience while listening to the 'sleep' module/mode. But I don't think this does anything for me, in fact the sound set me a bit on edge for no apparent reason.
Last month, about 60% of our iOS users already used Swift, and the gap in favor of Swift is growing very quickly (it was 50/50 in November 2015). Some of our Swift users you’d probably expect: apps from Vimeo, Digg, Hipmunk or Misfit wearables. But in the past 1-2 months we’ve seen Swift + Realm apps from some real large companies like Cisco, the NFL, NBC Universal, GoDaddy and 7-Eleven. I hope this helps!
Doesn't help. I'm about to rip my headphones off. Such anxiety inducing music (intense focus) ... pfft.
Hi, I'm a co-author of the book mentioned. Unpublished might be a bit uncharitable, the current version of the book is 26 chapters and over one thousand pages.

As for why? We make certain you actually learn everything you need to know and we _aggressively_ test and review the material with actual learners. My co-author Julie's first programming language is Haskell, which she has learned from me and while writing the book.

Here's a screenshot from our Zendesk for processing reader feedback and reviews: http://imgur.com/EdpL4ql

We are writing the book because I've been helping people in IRC (#haskell-beginners mostly which floats around 300 users), on Twitter, etc. I saw too many people burn out and give up with the existing resources (free & paid), despite maintaining a guide for learning Haskell with free resources: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

It's just harder than it needs to be, so we're fixing that. Even the better existing books/resources don't cover nearly enough for somebody to move on to, say, writing a web application.

I wrote about the pedagogical issues with some of the existing resources here: http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-12-31-functional-education.h...

If you didn't find it difficult to learn Haskell, that's great! But most people find it intensely difficult and I think that's completely unnecessary. I've given a talk on this titled, "Learn Haskell in less than five years" located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg9ccYzMbxc
Well, if you're talking about giving an old phone a new lease on life with a replacement battery as a once-in-a-lifetime service operation, it's fine to break out the tools to replace the battery.

If you do battery swaps as a nightly workflow so you can have a day battery and a night battery, then yeah pop-out replacement is the only option
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Robert Heinlein apparently felt the same way, "Galactica" the language of spacefaring humans was based largely on Spanish in his books
I always write my C code with a C++ compiler, since it has some quality-of-life improvements. I think C++ is free to define undefined behavior without worrying about backwards compatibility, so I wonder how many of those still apply if you use a C++ compiler.
It's called "commitment and consistency" among Cialdini's six principles of influence (in "The Psychology of Persuasion", which I believe is sort of a classic)
Speaking as the co-author of the Haskell book mentioned in the post and somebody that has used Haskell 9-5 for a couple years - you'll have more luck getting permission to trial Haskell internally than you will competing with other Haskellers for the jobs that are out there.

I recommend getting comfortable with the sorts of libraries you'd use at work before trialing to avoid what fizbin mentioned elsewhere in the thread.

tl;dr create, don't take, a Haskell job
This article is around the lines of why I think Spanish is the best language to rally around as the global language. It's phonetic, if you can speak it you can (for the most part, especially compared to other languages) read or write it by just knowing the basic rules of the written form. It's already in widespread use. It's modern and not behind the times so there are terms for everything, and it's Latin based so it has every root word that English does to grow from. It just makes more sense than an artificial language that doesn't have a 400+ million person headstart. For myself, I like the way it sounds too. I particularly dislike the Scandinavian languages and only slightly like German a bit more than those, and English a bit more than German. But to my ear (having lived in Europe), the Latin varieties are just as powerful sounding but also elegant (subjective of course). Latin languages like Spanish also have the advantage of interlingual comprehension. A well-educated native Spanish speaker (meaning college educated or similar), can understand the Pope when he speaks in Italian. Or know much of what a Portuguese speaker is saying much of the time. This doesn't apply as much to folks who barely know their own language, which is where most people pull their perceptions of groups like Spanish speakers from (desperate immigrants with little to no education). It's spoken across all 5 continents.

Due to these reasons and more (encouraging friendship with neighbors both here and on a national scale), I've fully embraced Spanish as a 2nd language as an American. It's a good thing.

There's a reason there's no spelling bees in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
no it isn't and no it doesn't. All natural languages carry a large portion of ambiguity, to the extend that Steven Pinker even count ambiguity as a defining factor of natural language!
> Maximizes happiness and minimizing suffering,

Why? Utilitarianism is fine, but the variable you choose to optimize and why is precisely what is subjective. Why optimize for happiness and not order? Or security? Or liberty? Or really, anything else? Simply because you prefer it.

> But, arrogant enough to dismiss thousands of years of philosophers on the topic of ethics. Got it.

Are you sure you're not picking and choosing your philosophers, and picking and choosing what they had to say on the subject? While there has been an abundance of philosophers writing reams and reams on the subject, I think you might find the majority of them simply wrote to extol a particular brand of norms (usually the imagined ones of their past) without justifying them on any solid rational basis. A careful examination of these 'ethics' generally finds they're quite distinct from what a 21st century westerner actually regards as ethical. There have also been plenty of philosophers saying exactly what I am saying.

> I'm not sure how to even have a conversation about ethics with someone who denies the very existence of ethical behavior, instead replacing it with adherence to popular opinion (and demanding objectivity while relying on something as shifting and difficult to observe as the beliefs of large groups of people).

The fortunate thing is that the product of normal socialization is a human being who has already been instilled with the norms that society wants it to hold and therefore most people are in agreement about the broad strokes of what is right and wrong. And if they haven't been convinced, then ideally the law keeps them in check. Naturally, because our society is so large and there are so many influences on people from different perspectives, and because societal norms are fundamentally fuzzy, people can argue for days about whether particular things are right or wrong.

And yes, cataloging the changing norms of societies is an incredible and fascinating enterprise that, even more than a hundred years from its real beginning, still has a very long way to go.

In general, you should interpret what I'm writing as descriptive, not prescriptive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globish_%28Nerriere%29
Where are all of the security exploits? I keep hearing about that Android armageddon that was supposed to happen because of the Stagefright bugs, but nothing ever happened and the FUD fizzled out into nothingness. As long as you stick to the Play store and don't install apps from shady app sites or downloads then you have nothing to worry about.

I suggest you watch Adrian Ludwig's State of Android Security on YouTube to see how really ineffective malware on Android really is.
I would not be surprised if a very large component of the dominance of English is due to a dominant British Empire flowing directly into a dominant American empire, with a sidetrip into the near complete destruction of European economic output during WWII. Because the British and the Americans in the aftermath did not horde their academic research away from Europe (unlike Russia), it created the massive incentive that we continue to perpetuate today to publish everything in English.

In other words, Spanish is not more popular because Spaniards didn't invent the modern economy.
How can it be dead? It hasn't even begun yet. The original iPhone was $500 w/ contract, the first iteration of a new technology is always going to be expensive.

Plus the Rift and Vive are just the high-end headsets, the GearVR is doing pretty well at a much lower price point and now is being bundled with Galaxy S7 pre-orders. There will be millions of consumers with headsets by the end of the year and there's tons of momentum, it's not dead, it's unborn.
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The difference between 'ship' and 'sheep' and 'sheet' and 'shit' is the difference between a tense and a lax vowel. Italian doesn't make use of this distinction, so it's hard for Italians to hear the difference, but it's a perfectly ordinary distinction in vowel quality used in many languages.

There is no difference at all in the pronunciation of 'buy' and 'by'.
What? Spanish conjugation doesn't seem so bad. Simpler than French, at least. Bigger challenge with Spanish is that conjugation of second person stuff varies by dialect - Argentines, Mexicans, and Spaniards do it differently.
I don't think the problems with that advice are singular. Perhaps the most ultimately-relevant is that looping exactly N times without a "ceremonial" counter is really only very rarely useful. Truly, how often do you see the canonical `for (i = 0; i < N; i++)` pattern in C with no references to `i` anywhere in the loop body? (Hint: if there are any, it's not "ceremonial".) Blindly repeating the exact same sequence of code just isn't something you want to do very often.

To address the issue of "okay, in what languages could we do this anyway?": taken in full mathematical generality, such a capability would necessarily require bignum support, which cuts down your options significantly. I'm not sure if that was actually the intent, but if we instead accept the limitation of "up to some largeish power of two", constructing a macro to do this "directly" in C would also be quite easy. So...(shrug)
Appears that the light is stationary, which to me seems like it'd be a bit creepy.
Good luck. The nexus 4 was one of the cheapest flagship smartphones of all time.
That's odd, what kind of decent conversations are based on fatuous speculation on facts that are a google search away?

I'd much rather have real conversation about politics, whether "The 100" is good TV, social issues, or just about anything really, than an argument about facts that could just be googled.
With SD cards so cheap nowadays I don't see why this should even be an issue.
Ditto conjugation. I actually like in Spanish how it's redundant if the pronoun is included, and alternately you can drop the pronoun for brevity.
I also don't understand why at the beginning I was downvoted...
Somewhat true. But should be good enough for beginners though.

I would also love to learn other good machine learning discussion panel out of Reddit as well :)
Actually, I think support for nuitka would be amazing.

Its already 2x faster than cpython on pystone, but its even more promising to compile everything into a binary blob for easy distribution.

http://nuitka.net/
Currently listening to intense focus. I've been casually looking for background music like this for a while. Thank you.
The S5 can deal with it. Considering my Nexus 5 has dealt with all versions of Android including the current version means that the S5 can too. The S5 has a more powerful CPU than the Nexus 5.

The problem is with Samsung and their terrible UI.
The company's website suggests that you can change the position of the sun, presumably there's nothing preventing you from modifying it on a timer or slider.
Ironically, Mozilla solved this in a privacy-respecting way, and the internet went apeshit over it and demanded its removal from the browser.

That whole "sponsored tiles" thing was actually incredibly thoughtfully designed:

* Third parties provide tiles to Mozilla, who gets to vet them, etc.

* Tiles get put into bundles hosted by Mozilla and carrying metadata which can be used to target.

* The browser periodically downloads bundles of tiles and client-side, the browser decides based on browsing history and bundle metadata which tiles to display.

Nowhere in this process did advertisers or even Mozilla get to know the browsing history of the end user. Nowhere in this process did advertisers or Mozilla get to know which sites in the browser history caused the decision to display a particular tile. All storage of history and decision-making on what to show was done client-side-only.

The more I think about it, the more I think something like that needs to be discussed as a real alternative to how things are done now.
I'm not sure if that's fair.

They (claim to) have [0] a bunch of PhDs, and have a page with the same kind of words on [1] as parent.

[0] https://www.brain.fm/about
[1] https://www.brain.fm/#science
Not me, I'm listening to the Calm -> Guide Meditation one and wow is it relaxing. Not quite getting asmr symptoms, but one average I feel quite relaxed and content. I agree on the on edge quality, for me it's subtle though and probably why I'm not getting full blown asmr bliss.
I've been using music for years to improve my focus, relaxation, sleep, happyness, sadness, social relations and many more. Music make us feel things, we all know that. For me it's out of question that it can make you better, speaking broadly.

Now, having brain.fm picking the music so I can feel X seems like a step backwards. I already can do that but much better just using the wonderful universe of existing recorded music.

I don't see the value for me here.
While it is of course possible to replace the battery in most phones with specialized tools, for some of the newer models it's very difficult to do without damaging the device. When we're talking about a phone you just bought on eBay with the intention of making it your daily driver, that's a hard sell.

All other things equal, I will always pick the slightly thicker phone with a removable battery over the one that might have me breaking out the spudger.
English about very basic knowledge exist then I say want word convey way exist word is?

Nah, I don't really believe it.

* The first sentence was more or less direct word-to-word mapping of a Korean sentence meaning "If I have a very basic knowledge of English, then I can convey what I want to say?"

I suspect that people say "it's very easy to speak [English] badly" because the worst they've ever encountered is a still half-decent attempt at English grammar (with years of training by the speaker), because anything below that is totally unintelligible and won't attract any attention.
Yes, though the gendered nouns and verb conjugations are a chore. No language is perfect.
Thank fucking god
GCC has builtins for overflow-detecting arithmetic operations, and has done for a while. These generally compile down to one of the jump instruction flavours on x86.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Integer-Overflow-Builtins...
Not a windows user but for what is written in the post, it looks like it will cover more transversal topics. Will follow it for a while, to see what it brings to the table.
The specialized tools are a tiny screwdriver and a plastic pry knife on some phones - the adhesive doesn't come in until screen replacement. You can buy battery replacement kits with that stuff included.
The sounds are unusually good for algo music, which typically has very poor production values.

I doubt you've perfected HRTF, because everyone has a different HRTF, so you'll always get an approximation at best.

>Imagine a rain sound for a second. Hundreds of thousands of drops! Imagine now that each and every drop is synchronized to the purpose of the stimulation. Now imagine a symphony... That is Brain.fm.

This is marketing. As a statement about technology or user benefits, it's meaningless.

To be fair, I liked the audio a lot, and it's the best algo-comp effort I've heard yet.

The literature on entrainment seems unclear. There are a few studies about binaural beats I know of. There's not a lot in mainstream neurological journals - just in a few fringey publications - although this may have changed since I last looked.

I think if you're claiming AI-created symphonies of brain stimulation you're going to have an easy sell to the New Age demo, and a very tough sell to a lot of other demos.
How many times did you pivot? If not, what kept you from pivoting along the way?
The investors are hoping for a second-coming of Steve Jobs but they are delusional. But they also have a profitable business. Instead of cutting all these verticals, I think they should build on them, as long as they are accretive to earnings. Yahoo has significant name brand recognition, especially amongst the 40-something and older.

Why not just build an entire lifestyle company around this? Yahoo Internet TV, Yahoo Banking, Yahoo Insurance, Yahoo Real Estate, etc. It might not make Wall Street happy because they're not growing 20% YoY but they would become a one-stop shop for everything a person would need on the Internet, and they can capture a lot of stickiness that way. They tried that to a certain degree but never to the amount of commitment that would make it stick. I think they should double-down and get things like banking and insurance in there, as well, so that people who need to pay bills, etc, will all use the same site.

And keep throwing shit on the wall and see what sticks, maybe they do come up with something that revitalizes them like an iPhone.

But their brand is the most valuable thing about them now, why not just expand horizontally into slower-growth but ultimately profitable businesses?
The Dreamcast game Phantasy Star Online kept time using Swatch beats! I think the idea was to help players around the world synchronize their gaming.
> charity work

$50 for your labor, no?
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Interesting! How come no boost?
For years the Western world dreamed about a universal tongue. It's here now, and it's English. Every complaint in the article is correct, but ask yourself this: if you had to choose between English and nothing, which would you choose?
Sounds like typical "drone" or "space" electronic music, which is arguably a subcategory of "ambient" music. (Not my cup of tea, but it is what it is.) Also recently discovered http://mynoise.net they have some interesting soundscapes.
The alternative universe includes a different C++ standard and potentially additional language constructs or types to opt out. Different defaults have cultural implications far beyond the mechanics of any single compile.
For some reason reading Talin's article made me really enraged.

If you read it you will realize quickly that she is ready to blame everything else but herself.

Unfortunately she will be used by the media to portray the wrong picture of Millennials.

Whatever attributes she has - is hers and hers only. It could be due to parenting, it could be due to her environment, etc. But please do not use her as a picture of the average Millennial.
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Looks like it's 35,000$ after 50 systems and 1 year.

http://www.energysquad.com/products/coelux-45lc
Depends on where you are. The pacific northwest and great lakes regions could use some fake sunlight: http://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/cloudiest-...
The central axiom of linguistics is that no language is inherently more expressive than another. Yes, that means that conjugation and declension is no more complicated than strict word order. Grammatical gender provides redundancy, and conjugation allows for subject pro-drop. Orthography has nothing to do with the actual spoken language and things like "phonetic" pronunciation are not really an intrinsic feature of any language. Any language can be matched with a phonemic orthography; the only reason written English hasn't been is due to historical inertia.
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Classic inner-platform anti-pattern?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
I agree, I think phone manufacturers should be punished for not making batteries replaceable and contributing to waste. Having a few screws to get to a battery is OK but gluing it in such a way that it requires special tools is just idiotic. Same goes for laptops.