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Two-thirds of Android devices in use are still running versions of Android older than L which allow Google to remotely bypass the unlock pattern on demand from the authorities. Companies are still releasing new low-end smartphones with these older Android versions - for example, Walmart recently started selling several $20 smartphones with Android 4.4
I think a chaperone is primarily a safeguard against indiscretions. Their raison d'etre is to make sure nobody damages the goods before you have decided on a suitable match for your daughter. Which I find rather archaic.
Yes, a human is a machine too, still I think we are more than our physical body.
The control panel in newer versions could still be that clean if Microsoft hadn't tried to reinvent it three times (XP, Vista, 8).

Of course, the 9x control panel is, in a way, a reinvention of the 3.x control panel. It's just a very clean one, because the 3.x control panel was a window full of icons, and the 9x control panel is an Explorer window full of icons.
Anbody have expirience with alternatives that provide group voice calls and support all platforms (win,linux,osx,ios,android)?

Group calls are the only thing I use Skype for...
Boten Anna! such a classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYQUsp-jxDQ
NHS Connecting for Health literally was that board.

Also, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity -- or, in this case, incompetence. If you're telling yourself that the difference between billion-pound boondoggles and small, competent and motivated teams working to agile principles is a bit of low-level corruption (so lightweight that none of it could be discovered and prosecuted under the Bribery Act), you're looking in the wrong place (and you'll also struggle to explain how and why the Government Digital Service was set up, and why they're succeeding).
The thing with PCA for dimensionality reduction in regression problems, specifically, is that it carries an assumption: that small variations in your predictor variables will not account for large variation in your dependent variable. This may or may not be justified. If you regard small variations as noise then by all means throw them away; if you don't, then you risk throwing out a minor component X that has a major influence on Y.

Regularized regression such as ridge regression can achieve the same thing without the risk of throwing away small but significant variation. So I think a current trend is to replace PCA+regression with ridge regression. This paper seems to take that trend a step further by replacing PCA itself with ridge regression even when the desired outcome is PCA, which is neat.
Embraces Linux.
join existing calls, not initiate new ones.
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Yes. On a mobile. We might have a different interpretations of the GP's requirements.

Given that they replaced Lync/Skype for Business™ I assume they ideally want a comparable offering: Voice and chat for a number of platforms.

Signal would give you voice on mobiles only and chat on mobiles only, ignoring the Chrome App beta thing.

I might be entirely wrong, but I assumed that the GP chose Telegram for now due to the multi-platform support (chat on all platforms, replacing Lync/Skype in that regard completely). If that is correct, moving to Signal would be a trade-off, exchanging multi-platform support for voice calls. It's not a solution, it's a different subset of Lync's/Skype's feature set
Well inability to join group calls is false.
I do group calls on Linux using Skype every day.

The client sucks, but it ain't unusable.

Screensharing is my biggest concern, it does not work. I can't see other people sharing screens.
https://zoom.us is not bad, from my experience
Microsoft is doing a service to all of us by destroying Skype. Nobody should use it anyway from the moment MS has bought it with sole purpose of handing data over to NSA&Friends.
One of the problems with this is that platforms have an incentive to use the platform rules for monetization - for example, by charging per message and restricting the ability to bypass the platform.
>She knew before moving to SF that she'd be making SF's minimum wage, not SF's living wage.

This is what confuses me. You seem to agree that she was not being paid enough money to live on, and yet you think there is something wrong with her writing a blog post saying so. No employer should be paying its employees less than the cost of living in the relevant location.

What I don't understand is all this judgmental bullshit about her instagram feed. We don't know who was paying for that food. We do know that she was not paid a high enough salary to pay for all of it herself.

>I don't think anything is being exposed here, and I don't think she's going to start a movement to get enough people to complain enough to get things to change.

Well, sure -- you are very cynical about this. In the past, things have changed because people complained.

>This person was working at a place that provided unlimited coconut water to everyone all the time, and she complained about it. I'd hardly call that harsh working conditions.

What an absurd thing to say. Coconut water is obviously no substitute for money.
As a GNU/Linux user, I join the choir of frustration. I'm not adding my own experience, since it's the same for everyone.

My two cents about alternatives: appear.in
Not so good with connection establishment, but works fine most of the cases.
A US court can order Apple to do what it likes inside US jurisdiction, including things that would normally be illegal in the US.
I think employees want control of their own life, more share in decision-making. Essentially, they want democracy, even if they can't articulate it. But in capitalist society, where the ownership of capital decides, this cannot happen.

There are attempts to tiptoe around this problem with holacracies and Agile methodologies and similar concepts, but the main problem still remains.
Hangouts is a decent alternative although for some reason it is not always reliable either.
Couple questions coming--sharing some experience and hoping to learn something.

Do you think the use of parser generators is practical also for performance-critical binary data? For example video streams? (I've never parsed one but I imagine they could be so optimized that it could be impractical to do it with a generic parser generator).

What formats are examples of complex structure where parser generators are practical?

For my personal needs, I've been getting along very well with plain text relational data. Like

numPersons 2
numAncestors 1
person john "John Doe"
person jane "Jane Dane"
ancestor john jane

That's so trivial that I would never want to depend on a parser generator. Instead I handroll a parser for this format in 10 minutes and 20 lines of C if I don't mind bad error messages. And what parser generator would make it easy to check (relational) integrity of above data in a secure way?

If I leave away the num* fields above, the parser would need one token of lookahead. What type of grammars are these two versions?
Tinder doesn't operate over SMS and so isn't subject to that particular regulator. I have no idea how Tinder deals with harassment/death threats/etc.
Have you tried that with captchas already? I would laugh my ass off if this would work with the "hard" fallback reCaptchas as well.
It's the LinkedIn of IMs, huge in the mainstream business market. Most customers expect people to be reachable on Skype or Skype For Business (Lync). If you are a small business, considering you have to keep it on, might as well use it for internal comms as well.
It says nowhere how the police got injured (attacked by the protesters, tripped and fell, got a dose of their own pepper spray, accidentally struck by a college when they used force on protesters). It does not say if the paramedics were attacked or if the injuries were just accidents.
It also says nowhere that any police vehicles were torched, just that some police vehicles were somehow damaged.

If I recall correctly (well, this is from 2011), the majority of injured police was not at the hands of protesters but accidents, exhaustion and "friendly fire" - but a very few police got attacked or were injured in brawls and suffered minor injuries - the paramedics were mistakenly pepper sprayed by the police, and the police vehicles mostly had accidents where they drove into ditches and such, but a one or two were e.g. scrapped or damaged by people throwing train track gravel at it.
Both injuries and damage (to police property), were aggravated by heavy rain and storm and the events taking place in rural areas and/or on gravel train tracks.

According to the police itself, most protesters were strictly peaceful and caused property damage to the train tracks at most ("Schottern").

So you got it mostly wrong, I'm afraid.

I do think it is extremely unreasonable and actually harmful to democracy for the police to track lawful, non-violent peaceful protesters exercising their basic rights (Grundgesetz) of free speech and freedom of assembly, or sanction or discourage them otherwise. This does not include violent people or people breaking the laws by e.g. willfully causing property damage, of course.

I also think it's very wrong to sanction people who you claim to be racist. If they are found to be unlawfully racist by an actual court, or demonstratively found to spread racist garbage as a teacher at a school, then again, that's a different matter.
I've switched from Linux to OS X 3 years ago, and even then Skype on Linux was considered abandonware and far inferior to the other OS's versions. It's sad to see it doesn't seem to get any better.
On the other hand, I don't want to be condescended to by managers that invite me to meetings about improving me, assessing my personality, helping me "grow."

I want to help improve the product, and the most fundamental way to engage me with that is to ask me for input and take my ideas & concerns seriously.

Just coffee and a chat every now and then is a great setting for that. No need for made-up agendas and bullet point lists and awkward quizzes.
I have to investgate further. Is libvpx used?
tbf maintaining anything proprietary under linux is a chore, with the ABI changing every year for no reason and yet having to support users having all kind of version combinations. I can see how a company would hate devoting that much resources for pleasing a smaller user base.
Impressive. They seem to have reduced how much noise it makes during normal operation. Does anybody know how long will the battery last on the current version?
I don't get all these attacks on PEG being "ambiguous". This is a feature, and it is great once you get it.

And if you have a sufficiently smart compiler, it'll warn you about most of the practically important cases anyway. I wrote PEG parsers for dozens of different types of languages, and never ran into problems with an explicit choice order. This anti-PEG FUD should stop at once.
I'm surprised M$ haven't killed skype like the next day they bought it as they often do when they buy/take over companies and their products.

Skype is actually the only M$ product I use, and I would be more than happy to move to anything else as long as there would be a good alternative to it...
At least the robot leaves after that. No Stockholm syndrome.
How to learn object-oriented programming?
Music is too limiting. Might as well just provide wifi and let the passengers use their personal devices to entertain themselves whatever way they want.
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Pretty much any example of someone sacrificing their own life to save someone else's, which happens all the time. (And not only with people who they are closely related to.)
I found it interesting how lots of the top comments on YouTube (ie: a wider generalist audience) were concerned about robot abuse and the robot uprising. We may scoff, but it's a real concern of lay people.
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Maybe. But the thing is that they're going after everything. Add some hot key words. Back in the day, we used sigs for our Usenet posts that were loaded with hot keywords.

Anyway, this would cost real money, for sure. But the labor supply for fake friends is huge, especially if you don't care about proficiency in English.

Edit: For example, one could generate numerous fake Russian acquaintances of Edward Snowden, and have each buy a few fake friends. Maybe the fake friends would be impressed ;)
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> But the truth is, they simply mask ambiguity away!

Incorrect. The choice is explicit. Ambiguity gone, period. If the order makes some of the branches unreachable, it can be easily statically proven. In practice this is more than enough and does not require nearly as much effort as all the other parsing approaches.
If you are using for work, I would recommend HipChat !
Nope, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofer_%28programming_language%..., the neutered Haskell clone.

Don't get me wrong, I certainly think that functional programming has its place in the world, but as a first year uni student all fired up about finally learning "real" programming after years of teaching myself (back before the internet laid everything out on a platter), I was not impressed.
I've looked at yacc + bison a couple times and always turned away before even attempting to write parsers in them. It's ugly as hell and I figure sprinkling code is hard to understand and thus insecure.

However, have you tried parser combinators? Parsec (a Haskell library) is really nice if it fits your grammar.

Here is one guy who simulated that in Python, also very nice:

http://jayconrod.com/posts/37/
Yuck, thanks for the heads up.
GitKraken[1] was mentioned in the comments on the OP. It seems quite nice, though I haven't had a chance to play with it.

1: http://www.gitkraken.com/
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All such articles are always mumbling about "ambiguity problems", and never cares to provide even a marginally real world example of such.

In practice PEGs do not have an ambiguity problem, period. Stop this FUD!
Don't forget the ongoing costs. Nhs choices costs £3 per page-view from last year's figures. It's a largely static site.

Imagine, they could actually pay health care workers properly if they stopped hosing taxpayer money down the gigantic nepotism drain.
> where the ownership of capital decides

Well, "the ownership of capital", in a lot of public companies, is basically an absentee landlord. So it's not entirely about ownership, but rather about management. You can have cooperatives that are de-facto feudal/tyrannical structures, and private companies that are de-facto democracies.
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Google Music has a lot of users?
Juggling Jobs and Gigs. I'm doing it successfully
I think I could try moving to GAE if they had Postgresql offering for database storage.
2-way street
Have no issues on osx 10.11.3 / skype 7.19(407). I did noticed some chat history missing couple times, but i can live with it.
The end of the establishment?
The last time I used this tool (two years ago, I think), it was quite problematic to have it running. I was not able to find a suitable tutorial for it. Was this problem fixed nowadays?
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Not to deny the fact that profiling happens, but it occurred to me that the assumption your wife was carrying something for you might have also been at play. White women carrying narcotics is not an unheard of phenomenon. Sorry if that de-funs the situation!
I have British friends in Berlin who run a bar and they pay around 800€/year. I don't know what your business is like, but I'd imagine a Bar is on the complicated side of things (lots of small transactions, changing personell etc).

You probably don't even need to do double-entry bookkeeping. If you look at your files from the last years, it should be pretty easy to figure out how to handle the different transactions. It only gets complicated when you start hiring people (as employees, not contractors) or have debt/investments.

Your accountant should at least let you do the monthly stuff yourself (usually very easy: just add the VAT you charged) and then do the yearly accounting for much cheaper, as long as you can get him/her the data in an easy=to-process format.
The best thing we could do for the “third world” would be to help develop a non-corrupt legal system. Until this is fixed then all other efforts will just go down the drain.
In the end to the end user "linux sucks" because skype sucks on linux.
Good article, thanks. Employees want to feel fulfilled, and engaged in their work. A huge part of that starts with leaders, NOT managers. The world doesn't need managers, they need leaders.
Pictures of every calorie eaten for 90 days
I will snap and post every calorie eaten during 90 days as an experiment. I started 2 weeks ago and it is quite interesting. What do you guys think?

https://www.instagram.com/every_calorie_log/
What else can do group text chat with easily started temporary group voice chat and group desktop sharing all in one?
Why? It's about a time for everyone to unlearn the OOP, once and for all.
Author here. The thing that strikes me here is how something like Reddit Math can fall for the same kinds of 'wisdom of the crowd' things we'd typically see on Facebook.

Some people like the analogy, so the the math isn't questioned. The post hits reddit's Best Of and more people vote it up. Now it's three months since the post and you'll only notice the error if you collapse the first comment, which is full of praise for the analogy. This is despite Reddit math being a self-selected crowd with a specific interest in the topic.

Note: I originally said 'nobody noticed the error' but as @tzs points out, some users did - collapse the first reply thread and you'll see them.
You basically want to be treated as an adult and your expertise respected and used - everything after this is just window dressing.
On the other hand, it's just a matter of maintaining the number of open parentheses. Similar fact, one can't count string lengths in linear time (because lengths can be arbitrarily large). But for concerns of implementation it's just O(n).
How do they get $ with killing a product? Currently they are placing freaking annoying ads in Skype for freeloaders.
Rather unfortunate wording!
Hi

I think its great that you try new ideas in this area. Don't listen to those who didn't event try to create better tools, but rather just crying around that all the "css in js" solutions are bad, ignoring the fact that the current traditional CSS is bad for lots of cases too.

I am biased because I am author if jss https://github.com/jsstyles/jss

What I understood from descartes is that you are trying to make styles dynamic by allowing listeners. So that when user interaction happens, styles can change accordingly, while the logic for it is contained in the style itself.

I had the same idea in jss too and ended up with this api for dynamic styles: https://github.com/jsstyles/jss/blob/master/docs/js-api.md#s...

I am still looking for a way how to make this idea more usable.
The only good communications program MS has ever produced is Comic Chat.
If the claim that the Linux client is no longer able to join calls is true, I think the Skype team really needs to respond.

Microsoft has been doing all sorts of cool things lately and it's odd that the Skype team hasn't been a part of this movement toward a modern, multi-platform world.

In my little corner of that world as the owner of an agency which spends money on Skype credit every day and uses Skype for a healthy part of our business communications, if Linux users start having trouble connecting to calls we are done with Skype immediately. There are enough alternatives out there nowadays that we will drop this tool.
> 1. Qualcomm knows the product and has the engineers. Qualcomm is uniquely positioned to build usable reference implementations, chips, etc, and to charge for this service and for support. This requires no legal protection whatsoever.

Why should you or anyone else get to decide on how Qualcomm is monetising the product of their investment?

Qualcomm spent millions on developing this, nobody else should be able to decide this.

> 4. As you said, the sauce is secret. I think the question of whether Qualcomm should be permitted to keep the sauce secret and how much the law should help or hinder this secrecy is worthy of at lease some debate.

It is Qualcomm's property, they can keep it secret or open source it however they decide. I deeply reject the idea that government should have the right to order us to share our private property with the public.
I was thinking on this topic. You know what's the problem with alternatives? Nobody uses them. I'm seriously pissed off by this.

I recently saw how all my friends moved to Telegram, and this is nice. But for instance my company has daily skype calls, and I have to get skype for those.

I eventually decided to give it up on my (Linux) laptop and get the calls only on Android, where it still sucks, but at least it works.
Try an older version?

http://www.oldversion.com/mac/skype/
How well does video chatting work within the browser nowadays? If it works well, then I would say Skype's days are numbered.
Does someone know if they are using ROS?
Google talk circa 2008 was a lot nicer than Hangouts is now, too.

The resource usage was lower, the UI was nicer and it was more responsive. It's really a shame they killed it.
Good. The sooner Skype ends, the better.
Weird, the URL to the GPL'd source code behind a registration wall.
What will the bank of the future look like?
Link to the tool the author used: https://cartodb.com/deep-insights/
In theory workers co-operatives are this, but they have a habit of not doing so well in the real world. It is a really interesting question why this is the case. Why should a business owned by a capitalist for their own benefit be able to outcompete a workers co-operative?
We have been using Managed VMs in production for while now, integrated in a micro-services architecture, for non-essential, non-frontend services and are quite happy with it. Using custom VMs (Docker based) and work like a breeze.
I've been educating as many people (especially Management and Business people) as I can to switch over from Skype to any other alternative (like Hangouts). Because Skype is:

* A memory hog

* A bandwidth hog (its really inefficient about network usage, and uses a lot of bandwidth even when idle)

* Has much lower call quality (a consequence of the above), just try having a call in Hangouts or Skype and notice that Hangouts has much lower audio lag, doesn't kick out people constantly even when screen sharing, etc

* Is now owned by Microsoft

* Never cared about privacy or security (not that Hangouts does, but Skype just sets a very very low precedent)

* Group Messaging is a mess

* Individual Messaging is a mess

The list goes on and on. Its 2016, and "Let's Skype" is not cool anymore. There are much better options available.
They are trying hard now to brink Hangouts back from the brink.
I'd believe Gallup if they weren't hacks and crooks.

Five to ten years ago they had a big program that they peddled to organizations about Employee Engagement.

They ended up paying the Justice Department 10.5 million dollars for crimes associated with contracting irregularities (aka bribes.)

Looks like they're going to turn their "survey experience" to another part of employee training.

It's really sad about Gallup. They've been riding on their good name that they developed 60 years ago. They're bad pollsters (they predicted McCain would win in 2008) and they're pretty blatantly partisan. Oh, as as mentioned above, crooked.

That being said, yes, I'm sure that employees want "a great boss who cares about their development." I knew that years ago. I also know that this "story" is a puff piece to sell Gallup consulting services.