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My mother solved my homework problem for me early in life. "You can't go play until your homework is finished." Since I knew better than to lie to her, I finished my homework before I would go out to play.

I remember the very first time that happened. I had a list of words, and I had to copy the definition for each word to a piece of paper. That was it. That was the entire homework. I thought it was such a stupid task. I can read the definition and remember it. Why do I need to copy definitions until my hand hurts?

But I knew I couldn't go play until it was finished. So I set my mind to finish as quickly as humanly possible. I turned off the TV. I tuned out all distractions and scribbled the definitions down as fast as I could. I was done with all my homework in a half hour and I could play the rest of the afternoon.

Not only did it not take me a long time to do it, but I didn't need to dread having homework to do after playing with friends. I became really good at tuning out the distractions around me.

But still I wanted to be outside playing and some days I would have longer assignments. So I would start doing my homework in class. As soon as I found out the assignment, frequently printed as questions at the end of a chapter, I would begin working on them. I wouldn't even pay attention to the teachers. I would tune them out too. I would read the material, teach it to myself, and finish my homework while the other kids sat bored and barely listening.

As a result of this, I became really good at focusing and self learning. The only thing I really hated were long papers with far away deadlines. I would always wait until the last day or two and end up having to power through them with all my focus.
As a first language, or even as a first assembly language. Once can certainly learn it, and it may even come across as half decent if you skip some of the less used instructions (like LOOP, REP, LODS, STOS, AAD, AAS---basically, the really archaic instructions that aren't really used or optimized). But with nearly 40 years of backwards compatibility, it's a monster of an architecture.
The Nexus 6 was sold by T-Mobile directly and has the stock standard tethering stuff within (with no T-Mobile-specific tethering software). I'm running one right now. Standard ROM it came with (OTA updated to 6.0.1 + May 2016 update), stock, unrooted.
Yeah, it's pretty bad. American telcos operate on their own terms and most people don't seem to care. It's one of those household jokes. Everyone knows they suck but everyone needs data and coverage, no viable competition in sight. I had to root my phone and add a flag to the com.android.prodivers.settings.db file. Now all tethering packets look like mobile packets. All this to get a feature I should have in the first place. I'm also probably breaking some contractual condition.

I'm optimistic that providers are moving away from the phone with data concept to the just data, bring us a phone concept and it can't happen soon enough. Less bundling, less bloat, less control of my device a telco has the better. There are still plenty of other real barriers, but it's a start.
Meanwhile my house a few km out of brisbane is lucky to get one bar :(
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Yep we have lots of coal for you to dig up.
Side note - he wasn't arrested, he was handcuffed, had a weapon stuck in his back, was detained, had an illegal search performed on his possessions, and all by purported law enforcement officers who refused to identify themselves.

I have some news for you. Arrest means nothing but detained/held/stopped. Most people imagine an arrest action has something formal to it, like having your rights read or someone announcing you're arrested. But it doesn't. You've been detained? You have been arrested. The cops zero obligation to tell you anything and they never have had such obligation.

As to whether it was illegal? The police have wide latitude to determine probable cause for whatever. You're right this kind of thing happens all the time, you're right it's despicable. But sadly, it's broadly legal and more or less the "normal" way the law works.

If you read the wikipedia article, it describes rights but you will notice the only limits in the US is how long you can be held and whether your statements can held against you (at which point you are supposed to be read you're right, except for limitless exceptions to this requirement).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest
She mentions that we should think of the android apis as a "system framework", and I remember a different Google Android engineer saying something similar about the RecyclerView, that right now the focus is on making the technical functionality and API solid and stable, even if not so developer friendly. Someone else, or future Google, can make a more developer friendly API on top of the awkward RecyclerView API. The problem with designing APIs that aren't really meant for app developers, but instead for higher level framework developers, is that those higher level frameworks don't actually exist, and even if they did, there's no clear message for developers to follow. Less choices, or at least a "recommended" approach, would be valuable.
I'm not so sure he wasn't arrested, legally speaking. If he had resisted I certainly suspect he'd have been charged with resisting arrest. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/arrest
Fortunately, someone already wrote the corresponding guide for software developers: https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
Seriously? You're really willing to make that comment? After George just tried to auction off the gun he used to kill Trayvon? Even after he's had multiple run ins with the law due to gun violence since he killed Trayvon? Really?

I don't know why I stick my neck out to engage with people like you about topics like this, on a forum like this, but what the hell is wrong with you? You were worried about the authorities kidnapping and holding someone at gunpoint (sans an arrest, that's exactly what happened) but the second the mom references another person of color who was possibly wasn't served justice, you just don't care anymore?

Is that really what you're saying? Or is there some nuance here I'm missing?

edit: I'm genuinely sorry I said anything; I should have ignored it and I won't be replying further.
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If you cite someone without any context to indicate the contrary, it means

* You hold the same position yourself.
* You think we should take So-and-so's word for it.

I find your explanation of "just telling a random anecdote" unconvincing.
Seems like this leaves a big unanswered question. Why haven't any manufacturers done this? Seems like it would give their product a big advantage.

In any case, as annoying as it may be that they don't offer free FM radio, I don't see why for-profit businesses should be under any obligation to do so.
definitely this. MIPS is a great start for anyone interested in taking the assembly route at any point.

as for simulators i enjoyed using MARS: http://courses.missouristate.edu/KenVollmar/MARS/
I paid $50 for a Nokia phone from T-Mobile (bought with cash at a K-Mart! I didn't even know those were still around!) and have no contract, $40 a month, and tethering is included.

The market might be (slowly) responding...
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While it gives me hope that legislation is at least acknowledging that the suffering of animals is something we might care about, it still is sad to see the same arbitrary pet/livestock divide.

Of course extending such legislation to farm animals would be politically impossible, but it still hurts to read

> the animal's dignity must prevail over the profitability of the industrial activity

when we all know it's not true.
Some software using this algorithm:

http://www.digital-scurf.org/software/libgfshare

https://github.com/ryancdotorg/threshcrypt (uses libgfshare, written by me - handles large files by splitting a key into shares and encrypting them with password-derived keys)

https://github.com/amper5and/secrets.js/

http://passguardian.com/ (uses secrets.js)

http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
Hate to say it, but Australia isn't much better. New Zealand is nice, I hear.
This sounds far more like a robbery or mistaken-identity case (or a theft victim thinking that the subject was himself a thief of that person's property).

There is nothing about this indicative of actual police procedure. Craigslist-originated robberies are fairly common in urban U.S. CL regions.

In any case, there are contradictions in her account. For one, she expresses concern about his "personal files" being probed, copied and taken (with no indication why any would be of any interest to any level of law enforcement), yet this was a computer he was selling to a complete stranger as it was -- why would any personal files of any value or vulnerability be left on it in the first place?
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First, referencing that regex is somewhat misleading. That's generally the end result of building the constituent parts through Perl's qr regex object creator, and them combining them into a larger regex[1]. Second, if you want to use a grammea, there's a way to to that in the more complex regex engines, you can use named captures to create a grammar within a regex, and then nun it[2].

1: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2953742/210749

2: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4840988/the-recognizing-p...
One doesn't have anything to do with the other. Zimmerman wasn't law enforcement. We also have only one side to this story.

It does appear in this case he was not treated appropriately but would like to find out more before rushing to judgment.
I spent some time searching for a good external transmitter a while back.

Turns out they're heavily regulated by the FCC. It all boils down to the requirement that you can't interfere with anyone else's reception. Any transmission strength that gives acceptable quality would do that. So they are artificially stunted.

It's possible that your N900 is exceeding legal signal strengths.
Oh, nice. I hadn't heard of this book before. Thanks for the pointer. I'll have to check it out.
Have you seen Streamus? YouTube shut them down over a year ago.

https://streamus.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9873552
I'm confused. I didn't say anything about Zimmerman. That dude is a dick.

It doesn't change the fact that Trayvon was a violent, brain damaged, hard drug abuser that attacked someone without just cause.
> theft, tax evasion, money laundering or homicide.

What the actual fuck? This is despicable no matter what. They just have to be "suspected" to be subject to these insane powers?

But, the real insanity is that a crime like tax evasion is included in this list. Seriously. Tax evasion? Now, I know that the thing these all have in common is that they're commonly purpetrated by the mob and all, but tax evasion just doesn't rise to the level of homicide or even money laundering.
<The police have wide latitude to determine probable cause for whatever>

No, they have wide latitude to try to claim probable cause but cannot create probable cause out of thin air. If a court later decides there was none, the evidence is tossed anyway (and permanently tainted).
Seems many people are missing the overall point of the post: The APIs Android provides that are listed here are intended to be used as the glue between your application and the rest of the system. However you want to build your application from that point on is up to you.

In particular, Android Activities aren't simply a main() function because they are designed from a multitasking standpoint; users are going to be going in and out of apps, changing the state of the device (such as rotating the device), etc. In other application environments, you might register callbacks to fire when the window is hidden or gets resized. In Android those callbacks already exist and are set in stone to encourage apps to behave as a good citizen on a potentially resource-constrained mobile device. But as the post details, you don't have to do anything beyond properly managing heavy resources (like camera access) and saving and restoring state at the appropriate points if you don't want to.
+10 points for Ada. Great language. Barnes book is a great resources
It's probably because like many "reporters" at Daily Beast, she apparently has an agenda to push. Why not just report the story, complete with facts like where exactly it happened, and maybe at least one interview with a witness on this "busy street".
You need only look as far as the large collection of flags involving the Intent object to realize how badly things went wrong.
I would like to find out more too. It is hard to believe that the police are just randomly hassling sellers of Mac-Books.
well, it has to run on 5v (standard ttl voltage) so the only way to speed it up is to decrease the pullup resistor values, which also increases the current consumption. it's a tradeoff.
I also didn't say I don't care. I just said that I was with her up until she decided to include Trayvon in the discussion.

That alone DOES make me question if she is only telling part of the story.
If The Wire had any truth it it, political corruption and terrorism are all the FBI cared about, at one point. That said, people say waste fraud and abuse about the private sector, but forget the millions investors put in private companies that end up being worthless. The difference is, governments have to be accountable about everything they do and if there is one failure, it's taken as representative of the government, whereas an industry can have immense waste, 9 out of ten startups can fail, but people focus on the successes.
Well I can't speak for many countries but Irish police figures are slightly more flattering with 8 people shot by police in total over 15 years. http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/eight-fatally-shot-by-g...

This is mostly down to how your standard police don't have any firearms at all. So you could say things are at least a few places elsewhere a little different.
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Maybe they can afford to because they've figured out other ways to screw the public?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G_spectrum_scam
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Microprocesso... a Skylake K has 1.75G transistors, which is nearly exactly 500000 times more than the 3.5K in this one. Take the square root of that and the linear dimensions grow by approximately 707 times, so the 32cm x 32cm of the discrete 6502 would become something closer to 23m x 23m. It's roughly a 6 orders of magnitude increase in density, or 3 orders of magnitude increase in linear dimensions.
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Exactly. We usually aim for a 10-month ROI and that's using higher-end Cambium radios (way better for ops at scale than something like Ubiquiti), Juniper network gear, batteries on everything, and proper telco circuits. We also have a few thousand subs so we get economies of scale on transport and transit.

(digression)
There's a kind of WISP valley of death roughly between the hobby WISP (0-500 users) with a owner/operator and one or two employees, maybe running on business DOCSIS for upstream and Ubiquity and/or Mikrotik radios & routers and the professional carrier WISP (2-5k+ users) with biz people, experienced ops people, longhaul fiber or licensed microwave for backhaul, etc.

Small WISPs often can't afford the time or money to be proper (if they even have the experience to know what proper is) until they pass the valley of death. Many fall to bankruptcy or burnout trying to get past the valley.
Most Android developers I know (and even some iOS developers) consider the Intent system one of Android's diamonds in the rough.

Could you perhaps explain how you would've designed it?
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So the subtext here is that the cops are racist, right? How would the police know the seller of the Macbook was black from the Craigslist post?

How did her son know it was a weapon pressed against his back?

How could the handcuffs possibly have cut his wrists? Handcuffs don't have, like, blades on them that just cut you as they're hanging off your wrists. Seems like something added to punch-up the narrative.

And then tag it with a couple "Trayvon" mentions at the end. This screams "hoax" to me.
> Contracts are not allowed in India.

They are allowed, they used to exist. Very few people are willing to use the contracts. It never made much sense because people use prepaid and don't want to be stuck to one carrier.
How does this compare to, say "Introduction to Statistical Learning" and "Elements of Statistical Learning" by Trevor et al? As I understand, the former is also supposed to be a concise introduction to statistical concepts while the latter offers a more rigorous treatment. Where does this book fall in between?
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Also his own markdown like text processor, and enough tools to ditch X for the framebuffer, all in very neat C.
IIRC, It's a carrier thing, not a manufacturer thing. One carrier (Sprint) already does it, no one else does.
CIA was 110% right to oppose "Communist" regimes such as the Soviet's and China's. Stalins Soviet and Mao's China were really fucked up. I don't know the full story of the Latin American ones though.
Same here. For those who have been keeping up with Ethereum developments, the DAO has been in the works for a long time, and people already have a general idea of what it is. There's been a lot of previous discussion about it dating back years[1].

I think the problem with the website is the people who created it are so deep into this stuff that they think it does a sufficiently decent job of explaining it. They've forgotten just how much of a learning curve there is for someone outside of the Ethereum community, much less anyone unfamiliar with blockchain technology. They may have not even planned for the website to explain it to such people, thinking they would be uninterested or unable to figure out how to participate anyway.

[1] https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/05/06/daos-dacs-das-and-more-...
You are saying the customer is responsible for how a company achieves something. (Tesla is a customer of the contractor.)

By that procedure of blame shifting, we could basically blame every Volkswagen customer for the diesel emissions scandal because they should have done their due diligence and realized that an engine couldn't perform that well without cutting corners.
Proof??
Ok point still stands
Unfortunately, the contents of this post are no surprise to any seasoned Android developer. It's very clear the Android engineers haven't given a lot of thought to how applications are to be developed.

I'm all for them not enforcing one methodology over another. However, in order to build an Android application (following whatever pattern) we do need core building blocks that have been well thought through on how they will be used.

In general performing Async tasks (in particular networking) is excruciatingly convoluted on Android - well, at least to get it right. Many inexperienced Android developers simply get this wrong, and quite frankly I can't blame them. Such a common task should be trivial to perform and not require hours of background reading.

The issue largely comes down to the fact the "system framework" has been designed to be simple (supposedly[1]) for system framework maintainers, and not developers writing applications. Destroying and recreating activities (so you can load different resources) may be simpler from AOSP's perspective, but it's not at all logical from the perspective of an application. Sure, there are several ways to work around this, but they're all stupidly convoluted.

Frameworks should be written for consumers, not maintainers.

[1] Okay, the system frameworks definitely aren't actually well designed / simple to work with for framework maintainers either, that was just the (missed) goal. If you want to see world's worst state machine (a stupid amount of booleans), check-out:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17847775/nested-fragments...
I hope she and her son get justice. Theres another story here somewhere. Those agents were looking for someone specific. Perhaps even a specific macbook. Who? Why?
>But music sharing didn't kill the industry then; there's little reason to believe it'll be the reason for its death now.

Not a valid extrapolation. The Internet is billions of times faster and more densely connected than the sneakernet.
How did the police know he was black from the Craigslist post when they set up the sting?
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Because a customer shouldn't be held accountable for another company's actions. The government's job is to enforce labor laws and it should do just that. Then we don't have this gross attempt to just find the biggest bank account to blame.
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Language isn't that strict.
Wow, what a great set of tips. This is also a great guide for benchmarking any software, so long as its execution is highly deterministic like compression algorithms are.

This will probably be my goto reference when someone shows me a benchmark with bad methodology. If nothing else it should give him/her an appreciation of the multitude of things that can affect a benchmark result.
It's slightly amusing that everyone seem to miss the huge difference between:

A. Individual office with open door
B. Open plan office

I'd imagine the ideal would be individual offices with no doors:

This would create a good enough sense of intimacy and would be obvious to people that when they pass the space of you non-existing door they are entering your space so they should have a reason to do it and you acceptance. And of course, having an actual separate ceiling atop your office is important - the visual part matters, we need the feeling of "private cave" even if we agree to share it most of the time. And open space above only brings anxiety and makes you feel that you are in an open savannah and a predator can jump at you from behind the bushes anytime.

But of course, we live in a plentiful age, obsessed with efficiency (oh, the bitter irony of the contradiction...), so all that wasted space and extra paid on rent because open-office spaces are probably cheaper is a no-no...
Haha, you really think that's all it is and they were able to convince people to send them $100 million to that address?
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They put in most of the up-front money to make an artist big (or bigger). Is that not risk?
> In any case, KCM sounds like it's worth exploring.

here is the previous (spartan !) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310090
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The concept may be a diamond in the rough i.e. co-operative multi-tasking. The implementation, not so much.
Could be useful for emergency alerts in natural disaster situations where cell coverage gets knocked out.
At least it's not just "orders delivery to a random location". Oh the amount of trolling that would lead to.