skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fixed link: https://goo.gl/ay9KEi

Reader needs to be familiar with non-relativistic quantum mechanics + statistical mechanics.
You make death out to be a problem, which is... unintuitive. What is to gain from "fixing" it?
"Anecdotes aside, let's find some data:"

FWIW: I think it's pretty sad that almost all of these phones are certainly collecting this data (even if only in internal dogfood populations, etc), but then the stats we get are based on random things like "talk time" or ...

I wonder if anyone started a public app project that auto-tracks and uploads battery stats that folks can participate in.
Pretty funny but I think that the article is overcomplicating it. In reality, each framework is more like a toolbox; and each toolbox is suited for a specific range of jobs.

Building an app without a framework can sometimes feel like buying a nailgun and nails separately - It may be difficult to find the right kinds of nails which are compatible with that specific nailgun (if they exist at all)!

If you use a framework, you'll get the nailgun with compatible nails and a bunch of other related tools... You might not use all the tools from the toolbox, but at least all the tools work well with each other.

Of course, if you have to perform a double heart bypass surgery on someone and you come equipped with a carpenter's toolbox; the outcome will be disappointing... Regardless of how good a surgeon you are.
Is your intent for Section 508 compliance?

If the table cells have specific individual widths and heights, and contain a .gif or .jpg of equal size within them, then that is an inappropriate use of tables today.
My Nexus 6 from only a couple of years back however doesn't have Nougat and doesn't look like it's going to. It still work great though.
Preorder is available: https://store.google.com/product/pixel_phone
Does this offer any advancements over the Oculus/Samsung GearVR? Given that they're launching a full year after Oculus, I would hope for something more than a direct clone.
Interestingly, during the presentation today, the woman said "running Nougat", no mention of 7.1
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted, so I gave you my upvote because your comment is relevant.

I've clicked on the link and your employer is CenturyLink, which is not a bunch of friends with a rack in a garage.
Oh, I won't object to them being beautiful, I'm just noting that as vehicles, adult me is less than enamored with them. While I like how classic Mustangs look, I have zero desire to ever own one again. I still own a 240z though, and while it's been mothballed for a decade, I still dream of getting that back on the road. That's a wonderfully fun car to drive.
>There's just no benefit, except maybe feeding fear against them.

There is already enough fear (justified or not).
No data -> no diagnosis -> no remedy -> even more tensions, fear/hate, etc.
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634590 (6 hours ago, 194 comments)
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I'm not a fan of Mayer's, but sounds like she didn't want to fight the order since that hadn't worked in the past:

"Yahoo in 2007 had fought a FISA demand that it conduct searches on specific email accounts without a court-approved warrant. Details of the case remain sealed, but a partially redacted published opinion showed Yahoo's challenge was unsuccessful."

Her real mistake was going directly to the e-mail team to implement the backdoor without telling the security chief about it:

"They were also upset that Mayer and Yahoo General Counsel Ron Bell did not involve the company's security team in the process, instead asking Yahoo's email engineers to write a program to siphon off messages containing the character string the spies sought and store them for remote retrieval, according to the sources.

The sources said the program was discovered by Yahoo's security team in May 2015, within weeks of its installation. The security team initially thought hackers had broken in.

When Stamos found out that Mayer had authorized the program, he resigned as chief information security officer and told his subordinates that he had been left out of a decision that hurt users' security, the sources said. Due to a programming flaw, he told them hackers could have accessed the stored emails."
Also because we have evolved with complex spatial awareness as an innate trait. Yes, I have been developing websites since 1994, and I have been on the bleeding edge most of that time. Of course I can come up to speed with whatever stack du jour the kids are fawning over these days, but that doesn't make it simple.
> I want to own main().

You can say the same in an article on "Why I hate compilers", or OSes, or web servers.

This article is more about a way to design software than about frameworks in general. It just happened that Java web frameworks were all designed that way by the time.
Here is an image of the top edge: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hYE3ZZEpDkaT6PkjmodS4RsYbc... Nothing obnoxious. Just a 3.5mm jack.
> Freenet ... which has led to conviction by police, unfortunately.

Just for using it? That's crazy! Do you have a source?
To be fair, the article links to the review of the camera by DXOMark [1], who rate it very highly. In my opinion, they're the most reliable reviewers of cameras out there so if they say its the best phone camera, then it is.

[1] - https://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles/
Amazon ban on incentivised reviews
Android N is coming to the Nexus 6 today or tomorrow!
Since we are being pedantic, how would you separate 'jargonistic' usage from a buzzword.
Added more contact info, thanks... I'm @tracker1 on github and npm as well.
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Chromecast Ultra: This is not how you launch a product
so you have to buy their new phone to use this?

cross this off my list then.
I've had the 4, 5, and currently the 5X. Never had any crapware, always got updates within a week or so of releases. Insofar as I'm aware it's totally stock.
The A10 smokes it even worse. The best Android phones are competitive in multi-core performance only because they have 2x many cores as Apple.
"It's not a hard question to answer. You either are or are not searching all emails in realtime at the behest of the NSA."

It's easy to answer if you're not. If you are, you can't answer (at least not truthfully).
I was a windows phone user for a long time currently switched to android.I checked quite few android devices and I think Windows phone has better feel and usability for apps like messages, dialer,recent call list,app list etc.I have never used a nexus device though.how is stock Android's basic apps like messages, dialer etc? Do we need to install apps to get basic features like nice threaded views, message search,recent call list which shows duration or simple call history search(instead of searching entire address book) etc?
Sure! And thanks for pointing that out. What I'm suggesting is that it's even more expensive in heavily space-constrained countries like Japan.
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Carrier crapware? I guess possibly if you decide to buy yours from the Verizon store. Still, I'm not sure why you'd get it there instead of ordering online straight from Google (unless you can only get one that works on VZW from the Verizon store).

Interestingly, on the order page they don't even ask you what carrier you're on. When I've ordered iPhones from Apple they usually ask if you want the Verizon model, the AT&T model, the Sprint model or the TMo/unlocked model.

Wonder if this means it's finally a non-issue and if so, why they didn't bring this up in the keynote as it's at least as much of a perk as some of the other techie details they mentioned.
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Can we merge https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637302 into this? Same exact headline
Same discussion on this topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637126
Depends how big your hands are. I have a 5.0" inch and can use the whole screen no problem one handed no problem. 4.5-4.7" would exclusively be a downgrade for me.
Different strokes for different folks
"Lasix" is not one technology or surgery. If you meant the oldest variant of LASIK or LASEK, the complications are known, it is quite major eye surgery. Newer variants have lower rate of both short and long term complications. (femto-LASIK, the Epi-LASIK and more modern no-touch variants)

Also there are a few big studies comparing long term quality of life. Pretty favourable for surgery. This easily trumps "we found changes in cornea".
Two responses:

* Uber is not substituting for public transport. It's replacing the "last mile" of suburban commuters driving to the local NJTransit station with a pool of drivers who can keep rolling throughout the day.

* Uber replacing a mass-transit link (especially something like a train line into NYC) is unthinkable. The links for cars between NJ and NYC are already at or beyond capacity, and the planning is right now trying to drive commuters to use public transit when possible.
I've owned iDevices, and they have this curious ability to 'age' themselves into the dumpster after two years of iOS updates. The latest iOS versions run incredibly slow (or not at all) on older devices and you are left with something you can't even flash a custom ROM on.
You can wait for the AnandTech iPhone 7/A10 review, but the rough consensus is that it's around 40% faster than A9, and the A9 is about as fast as the fastest Snapdragons (http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-i...).

> the parts on apple things are a bit older than the competition

Not sure where you got that impression, maybe you're thinking about Apple's laptops? Apple get the best and the latest from TSMC, which at the moment is 16nm finfet and next year expected to be 10nm finfet. Intel is the only company with a better process, and they don't make smartphone SoCs. And Apple has hired all the best Austin-based talent for their design team, poaching AMD and others heavily.
They say the spy program/backdoor was installed last year. But I only see evidence of Stamos finding it last year. What if it was really installed in 2014, and it's what led to the record-breaking data breach?
> This is how I feel about javascript for the moment. I actually don't think the churn will resolve.

I still hope we'll see large adoption of WebAssembly (or WebAsm, or something like that) and get actually good frameworks for creating pages, that actually integrates the frontend with backend (instead of just using the same language), interpreting our templates into something dynamic.

I hope in a few years we can start retiring JS like we are doing wit PHP now.
I get you, but I philosophically disagree and personally place significant value on the benefits I, as a consumer, receive from "intelligent" services. I also completely understand your POV re: erosion of privacy, and that's a-ok, too. Speaking as a googler, though, I think you attribute far too much to malice when what from their POV are stepwise improvements to consumer services.

But yes, unless things change at the macro level, we're pretty quickly moving into a future ruled by corporations: health, energy, technology, etc, and that is scary.
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It seems like they edit content when it's convenient[1]. And they make very obvious threats when caught.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/9/12864328/wikileaks-threat-r...
In this instance, Uber is making public transportation _more_ accessible. They are crowding out people driving from home to a parking lot.

Anyway, the article mentions this is maybe ten to a hundred rides a day. This is either a PR thing or a prototype; time will tell.
My question is whether this will help or hurt access by the elderly and disabled to supermarkets and other big-box stores like Home Depot.
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Interesting. You're (correctly) identifying the government as the problem and the solution you come up with is more government?
It's different, but it doesn't mean it's an iPhone killer.

MS started making their own hardware and it certainly helped push the market but the Sufarce never turned into the 'iPad killer' that tons of sites decided to declare it.

It's a new Android phone, Google was heavily involved (more than the Nexus line). That's it. That's not bad, but it doesn't automatically make something an X killer.
No, the Nexus 4 and 5 don't get Nougat either. What he meant would be the 4 is still getting the monthly security updates. And typically you'll still always get the new Google stuff like Assistant and all, since they've decoupled most of what they can from the OS.
They worked pretty hard to whoop Apple in the camera department. The HDR looks great, 4k video, unlimited online full-res storage through Google photos, it's the quickest camera ever, and yeah, I can't wait to play around with image stabilized video- I've been waiting to see that in a camera for a long time, it addresses a huge problem.
> Copyright assignment is done so that FSF has the standing to sue for GPL violations.

Were they are a licensee authorized to make and redistribute a derivative work, they would have standing to sue for violations of the copyright on the derivative. Copyright assignment is not necessary for the FSF to have standing to sue for violations of the copyright on GCC when it incorporates the UCB-owned code.

Copyright assignment does, however, prevent UCB from having standing to sue for violations -- and I think making the FSF's standing exclusive is exactly the point.
If a human engineering team creates a car with adaptive software, and that software does not contain sufficient safeguards to ensure it at all times directs the vehicle in accordance with laws and applicable regulations, then the engineering team is liable. That is how engineering works, outside of the software industry. It doesn't matter how 'smart' the car is; it is not a force of nature or a human being. It is a product, and any catastrophe engendered thereby is the responsibility of the organization that produced it.
That's kind of what I did... It was not in a modular fashion though as a lot of it was trying to discover how the lifecycle worked in Angular 2... basically, I wanted to be able to trigger an effective redirect from angular or via redux action or via a route/hash change, and have the redux always reflect the current route... there were some bits with how the change detection works in ng2 that I had to tap into, apparently this is one of the bits that changed since I last used it though.

If I have to use ng2 again will take the time... aside, I really wish they'd renamed it to Angular 3 (3.0) for release, given the massive changes to "Angular 2" over its' lifetime and the number of broken blog articles and tutorials...
Yes, a lot of things.

But most significantly, the auto calibration and focusing. (Currently, if you have a VR headset and want to use it with a phone, you have to go through a painstaking process of making sure the phone is in the dead center. Sometimes even when you have centered it, it can get a little bit off if you shake the phone really hard or whatever... and then you get headheaches if it's not properly aligned). This is a pretty big deal in my view.

Other than that, the whole integrated environment and the new joystick-like interface thing is a pretty big deal too.
> what's that one talk that changed the way you think and you feel everyone needs to see?

Growing a Language by Guy Steele.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
Minimum £600 is quite insane. I think they will drop the price rather quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLyobOhtO4
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12634855 and marked it off-topic.
The evidence of good tech being important is at your finger tips.
In many jurisdictions the police do have to pay for damage during a search/raid. You do have to file a claim, though.
Anything to put more competitive pressure on Apple to release a VR implementation is good IMO.
I'm a bit sad that so many here go on tangents instead of finding out what Pieter really is/was about. Trust me, when you go through his blog entries at hintjens.com and read his books, you will find yourself in a magic wonderland of better ways to program and be happy. This is not a sad day.
Well, you barely hear about the UT mode scene. Now think of three Quake mods, quick:

Team Fortress, Quake Chess, AirQuake, ThreeWaveCTF, Xonotic (kinda, sort-of)

Think of three Half-Life mods, as fast as you can:

TFC, Counter-Strike, Natural Selection, Sven Co-op, Science & Industry

Think of three Quake 3 mods, as quickly as possible:

OSP, CPMA, ThreeWave (again), OpenArena

Think of three Doom mods/mappacks, fast:

Memento Mori, Brutal Doom, Batman Doom, Russian Overkill, The Sky May Be, Tech Gone Bad, and so many more

Think of three Minecraft mods, as fast as you can:

Thaumcraft, IC2, Buildcraft, Forge, FMP, Thermal Expansion, Better Than Wolves, RedPower, NEI, Ars Magica, Applied Energistics, Aether Mod, Tinker's Construct. You want more?

Think of three UT mods:

Ummm... Errrr... Ummm... If you count mappacks, somebody might have made a version of Aerowalk for it?

Now, that's just me, but I doubt others would have dissimilar responses.
1Gbit/s for a month, 328.5 terabytes.

On the expensive end you'd be looking at around $600 for such at $NOT_AMAZON, and on the cheap end you'd get it for "free" because a plenty of hosts have excess bandwidth.

DO doesn't separately charge for BW or enforce any limitations AFAIK.
How are they with the monthly security updates?
I don't think the actual device is really any different. I mean its just two lenses in a box, really. I think the idea (who knows how this will play out) is that Google is going to create a meaningful VR ecosystem, which currently does not exist at all for GearVR.
As other people said, blockchain technology will outlive bitcoin. In this case I am saying "short" to mean a decade or so. I expect Unicode to last much longer.
Maybe it should be more like building a spice rack instead of a house. The whole UNIX philosophy of simple programs that do one thing well was successful for a reason.
The controller is a big plus, but otherwise not too much. Comfort factor seems nice, but I'd have to try it to say what's better.

I'm worried about apps being able to run at 30fps on Daydream, because even 60fps like the Gear has can be slow for good VR.

That said, this looks like it will do well and I'm pretty stoked for it. OC3 starts tomorrow, so I'm hoping for some announcements from Oculus/Samsung to compete with this!
No, they won't.
Nice (best in class) camera is one of the highlight features.
Do you have a source for that? It doesn't have a track record (for obvious reasons).

Has Google promised the carriers don't get to interfere this time?
Kinda hard to ensure it keeps being trustworthy after you're dead.

Also, who said it was random? What if they simply run out of money, for any of the hundreds of reasons why companies do? Laws can't magically force them to keep it running if they literally can't afford to.
You probably haven't used a Google branded Android phone in the last 3-4 years.

Project Fi + Nexus 5X + Stock Android is as good as it gets in integration and UX. The other day I lost my phone so I typed "where is my phone" into google. It showed me immediately. How many passwords do you have to type and licences to accept to do that on your Apple cloud?

I agree the article doesn't explain it very well, but the bottom line is google is now controlling hardware, software, network and full online life (search, gmail, google play, calendar, map, etc) and they have the capacity to integrate it all.
I recognize people are happy with their iPhones and they won't switch because of switching cost or fashion, but Google is creating some word class product here nonetheless.
After lots of talks I started going to the library and found out it's a lot more effective to grow knowledge. Maybe I'm too ADHD-able when watching videos.
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Does anybody actually use these virtual assistants? They seem like the bluetooth dongle of the mid-2000s - friends wouldn't let friends use them. Is it just for people who drive? Or will there be a tipping point when it won't seem so arrogant barking commands on the subway or in a quiet office?
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This is a prototype for Uber in a suburban area where public transit isn't as robust as what you'd get in a city. Summit itself doesn't have much by way of intra-city public transit (just a few bus stops downtown and one at the train station), but is spread out enough that walking or biking isn't a viable option for most residents.
> The FSF wants copyright assigned to it, because that allows them to sue people that infringe the GPL

But that's not at all true: they can sue people that violate the copyright on the derivative work incorporating the UCB-owned code (or code derived from it in the future) if they are properly licensed to create a distribute derivative works, which have their own copyright.

Assignment just means UCB loses the right to sue over violations of the copyright, and the FSF's right to sue becomes exclusive -- which also gives FSF stronger negotiating power in settling lawsuits, since otherwise settling with the FSF would potentially leave others with legal claims.