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by Dave Thomas (PragDave)

"LoneStarRuby 2015 - My Dog Taught Me to Code by Dave Thomas" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBUsd52a3s

and

"GOTO 2015 • Agile is Dead • Pragmatic Dave Thomas" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-BOSpxYJ9M
By far my favorite talk is and has been for a very long time Bret Victor's inventing on principle, for me, nothing comes close, except for some of his other work I suppose.

https://vimeo.com/36579366
It's really not there. (My phone number is in the 617 area code.)

http://static-s3.sokoloff.com/random/amazon/IMG_1880.jpg

On other labels it's after the "DF3..." ID.
Google have implemented their own version of asynchronous time warp in the Google VR SDK (can't remember what they call it atm), so that ought to make it on par with Gear at least, until either gets positional tracking.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635729 and marked it off-topic.
Khronos Launches Dual Neural Network Standard Initiatives
Actions on Google opens Assistant to third-party developers
Wish apple was as enthusiastic about processor specs for the mac lineup as they are for the iphone lineup.
The corporate structure of Alphabet does not make sense to me.

Nest was broken out as a peer to Google, but now apparently hardware is using Nest staff and expertise, but hardware is part of Google.

And apparently this new hardware team is going whole-hog after the smartphone market, which is WAY larger than thermostats and web cams. But Nest is an Alphabet sub, and hardware is under Google.

And Android needs a "firewall" to protect existing hardware vendor relationships from the new hardware team. But both Android and hardware remain under Google, with YouTube and Search.

And there are 2 separate Alphabet subs for biosciences, and 2 separate subs for finance.

It doesn't look like it's implementing any sort of coherent strategy. Aside from company politics, why are some programs peers to Google, and others are subsidiaries of Google?
Uber is not substituting public transport in this instance. They are augmenting it. They are substituting a parking lot, according to the article.
Libpostal API: international address parsing via machine learning
Google overtly scans your emails for anything.
Sometimes you just need to do something the old way:

let element = document.getElementById('some-element');
while (element) {
// do something
element = element.parentElement;
}

let doesn't get in the way with behavior such as hoisting, and the code will break if you redeclare a variable.
Still sad it doesn't have a hardware keyboard.

I really, really, really want a good phone with hardware keyboard.

Even better if the dialer is not a common app, and is something you can access immediately even if the "user OS" crash.
I suspect the biggest problem there is that you're comparing a drawing to a photo
Even when price is no concern to me, I am pretty picky about the exact arrangements. Which seats at the concert? Which restaurant, what reservation time? Which airline and seat on the plane (for the also common travel example)? Etc. Yeah, I'm busy, and I book this kind of stuff all the time. But I don't trust an automated system to arrange things the way I like them. With a human assistant, they quickly learn my preferences and style, and can make informed guesses (or ping me for a preference if they need to). Automating this isn't attractive to me.
When's the last time you've been to Union Square?
What's the outcome for a white kid born in a trailer park vs. a black kid born in a wealthy suburb?

I don't think this is a productive framing when there is a huge excluded middle in there, but to your point, when have you seen an upper class white person treated like Henry Louis Gates?[1]

See also: Paul Mooney's "Nigger Wake-up Call"[2]

Americans are focused on race being a primary driver of inequality and distracted away from the much bigger issue of class.

Class is a function of race in the US.

"The latter argument—“the issue is class not race”—claims that because we have poor and well-to-do people within all racial groups, what matters is really class difference. As the argument goes, differences in average wealth across racial groups are in fact caused by persistent class differences; race no longer has a measurable effect. Again, this dismissal of the issue of race does not hold up to empirical scrutiny. Class matters to be sure, but so too does race. Moreover, studies find that minority groups are not able to pass middle or upper-class status on to their children with the same frequency as Anglos. And the “class not race” argument simply avoids the most pressing question: Why should there be such drastic class differences between racial groups to begin with?"[3]

1. http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8cDmLpuzg

3. http://www.guleninstitute.org/publications/analyses/240-how-...
Not as far as I could tell. I'm sure they would have included it in their ad copy if it is.
The difference is Google Daydream is really making the fabric texture very, very obvious. It almost looks like a soft American Apparel tshirt or something like that: http://i.imgur.com/F2iR3nm.png

On the other hand in Oculus marketing the surface doesn't even look like fabric: http://i.imgur.com/UnRJndA.png
Those parts detract from an otherwise clever story. Among the many reasons women might be uncomfortable in software -- dudes who joke about killing them.
The only thing I ever use them for is to set an alarm to wake me up the next morning. Even then, the semantics of the built in alarms make it needlessly painful. They stick around in an inactive state after going off and there's a maximum number, and the virtual assistants all just give up when they hit the maximum.

That, and seeing what in says in response to personal questions, insults, jokes, etc.
A 10gbit unmetered server can be leased for under $3k a month. 1Gbit can be under $300 a month depending on the hardware.
Lets take it a different way:

You're knowingly sending your data to a 3rd party. You're not encrypting. It's not through the USPS (special protections).

It seems bloody evident that, of course, your email provider can read your emails! Unless you're encrypting with GPG, then they can (and they can still read the signing keys).

Yahoo, Google, and friends all scan, dedup, and all sorts of tricks to determine marketing and quality content (spamming). If you're worried, run your own mailserver. It's what I do, along with using gmail. But I know that, at any time, people/scripts/ai are reading everything sent and received.

edit: I'd much prefer to hear commentary/how wrong/how right/how crazy I am, rather than -1's.I'd like to hear a discussion about the "Secrecy of text written on postcards"....
"Requirements: A Daydream-ready smartphone, like Pixel"

Pixel is the only one for sale I believe that is Daydream ready, but more are on their way from other manufacturers. ex: ZTE Axon 7 and Asus Zenfone 3 Deluxe[0].

[0] http://www.androidauthority.com/google-daydream-vr-ready-pho...
Linus Torvalds talk about git

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
The rationale given for including mirrored half-stars as separate codepoints is right-to-left languages. I wondered why this was needed, since Unicode already has the a right-to-left mark (RLM)[1].

I found the answer in a comment on "Explain XKCD".[2] The RLM usually only reorders characters, but does not mirror their glyphs. The exception are glyphs with the "Bidi_Mirrored=Yes" property, which are mapped to a mirrored codepoint.[3]

The half-stars proposal includes a note on that property: "Existing stars are in the “Other Neutrals” class, so half stars should probably use the ON bidirectional class. The half stars have the obvious mirrored counterparts, so they can be Bidi mirrored. However, similar characters such as
LEFT HALF BLACK CIRCLE are not marked as mirrored. I'll leave it up to the Unicode experts to determine if Bidi Mirrored would be appropriate or not."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark

[2] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1137:_RTL

[3] http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/BidiMirroring.txt
It was extremely effective at building my confusion about whether they were trying to explain their product, or convince me Tim Cook is super rad.

iPhone whatever: I carpooled here, did you see I know celebrities? I dropped my tiny mic towards the end, too, that's a stage performance thing.

Honestly, the comment elsewhere here about how the Pixel doesn't have a camera sticking out, making it point of contact with any flat surface, matters more to me than just about anything in either video. Maybe I'm not the target demo, but I am upgrading my cell phone soon, so I think I should be?
> they would be lying in the response to their subpoena

The court can compel a business (or individual) to lie about that sort of thing.
https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub

Start with, in order:
Hammock Driven Development,
Simple Made Easy,
The Value of Values,
The Database as a Value,
Chuck Rossi - How Facebook releases software: https://vimeo.com/56362484 I remember thinking "Dr. Cox as release manager."
I see no reason to automatically equate "elderly and disabled" with "poor" (bodega?!). Ubers/Lyfts are not terribly expensive compared to owning and maintaining a car+insurance in the city, especially if only used for shopping and not commuting.
Hi there! That's awesome.

The short answer is, we're still figuring it out! Part of the approach we're taking is about letting us test things with real users against live feeds without bugging people every time we change our minds (about the content of the extensions or about the format of them), and we're still at the very early phases.

The somewhat longer answer is, we know we would like to get better promotional / onboarding data from the feeds - including things like a 140 character description for the feed that references similar content from other media (like tv), or the best gateway episodes to present new users with. Ordering is a big one, for shows that are e.g. serialized, or even for shows with short, strictly ordered series embedded (think 2 part specials in a daily news feed). The folks at https://syndicated.media (including me) have been keeping track of ideas on Github (https://github.com/syndicated-media/sn-spec/issues), and you would be most welcome in the slack group for syndicated media, where things are just starting to pick up. Shoot me an email if you would like an invite!
I was starting to think i was the last person alive that wanted this. Please keep making noise. I really hope the next lineup has a 4".
One of the things that makes a phone developer-friendly is how accessible it is from a price perspective, i.e. not a £599 price tag.
At 6 mi^2 and trains arriving once every 30-45 minutes at rush hour, that's enough time for a fare to be picked up at the station, dropped off at home, and the driver to return to the station to repeat.
It's not just pressure, it's an order by government. Court orders aren't really optional.

And as much as you might think this is a huge problem, it's a bigger problem with companies aren't restrained by government orders. Imagine if Exceleon politely declined to allow nuclear inspections.
Herb Sutter, Modern C++ - https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2014/2-661

Great overview of value types, performance and how hardware that runs things still matters.
South Bay, East Bay add wealthy families middle-income drops
What advantages, besides standardization, does WebVR bring to the space?

VR is still a relatively high-performance 3D realtime application space. Those aren't generally adjectives I associate with either "JavaScript" or "Browser," so if I were trying to invest in an experience the average consumer will enjoy, I'd be extremely skittish about this tech stack unless I can see some successful high-performance demos.
Google I/O 2009 - The Myth of the Genius Programmer

One of the best talks about code reviews and similiar things

https://youtu.be/0SARbwvhupQ
Similar here. After 10 minutes of headphone use, my tinnitus flares up, after a few hours, it hurts.
How to Flip Frustration into Growth
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to
search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific
information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according
to people familiar with the matter.

Wonder how much of the 4.8 billion can be attributed this custom software program?
It seems like Google treats the phones almost like concept cars. They are really just there to push the 3P manufacturers in the desired direction.
I think what we've learned from the past several years in game development is "Let Unity paper over the SDK differences, and if you need to rip apart the engine, hire a subcontracting game dev studio to port your stuff to other architectures."
Yahoo “scanned customer emails” under top-secret order
Well said, but I actually had the UES in mind, specifically as compared to the UWS, which always seemed much more accessible by comparison. More trains, fewer hills, and better spacing-out of services. But the socioeconomic make-up is also very different, so it might be a non-issue.
google has never sold a phone directly. The pixel is the first one. Second no one know how much income google generates from Android or Android related services.
Police use-of-force data is finally coming to light
I'm with verizon anyway.. but just switched to a 6p about 6 months ago, so will hold off a while... nice to see a Verizon option out of the box... getting my 6p setup with Verizon as a byod wasn't fun.
Same here. The first time I heard my tinnitus was when I had my headphones on in the open office trying to drown out conversations.
In the long term, if elderly people are able to be more active (walking etc) they're going to have a better quality of life. The reduction in air pollution will also help.

The elderly people (>75) I know don't often go to places like Home Depot. In Barcelona supermarkets will be within walking distance -- if I've found the correct area on Google Maps, there are at least 3 within 300 metres of each other.
Yeah, but turns out some of us are in unexpected swing states. Georgia, of all places, was leaning Clinton for a bit. And Trump's lead isn't insurmountable, polling 4.3% above Clinton right now [0]. She probably won't win here, but it's unusual that she even held the lead at all. His drop, and her rise, on those trend charts corresponds with the first debate and its aftermath. It could be enough to pull things in her favor if she keeps bad press limited and the focus on him and wins the next two debates. A very unusual election year here.

[0] http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/g...
I think a middle ground is possible in this specific case. The government could have said "we're placing a selective gag order, meaning you can't publish this notice but you can publish the redacted notice that we've helpfully attached", rather than wait for OWS to file a petition to publish the redacted version.
> Imagine if streets were for strolling, intersections were for playing and cars were almost never allowed.

Why is it considered progress to go back to how urban life was several centuries ago? Peter Thiel is right; we used to be optimistic about the future being better than today.
WikiLeaks also posted links on social media to its millions of followers via multiple channels to a set of leaked massive databases containing sensitive and private information of millions of ordinary people, including a special database of almost all adult women in Turkey.

The remarkable thing about this is that, almost universally, the media organisations who claim this condemns Wikileaks support the person who actually uploaded all that personal information and gave everyone the link, claiming it was something else. Some of them, like Wired, have even argued he did absolutely nothing wrong. It's almost like no-one actually cares about that sensitive information being exposed to the world, just attacking Wikileaks.
"Google EnnUI: The UI for Existential Boredom."
WebAssembly does seem to have a promising future, with the caveat that it needs to get traction beyond the web to really take off (which is the goal - https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/249#issuecommen...).
I like this definition of libraries vs frameworks by who owns main() too.

I've always said that libraries add functionality to the language, whereas frameworks are half-assed DSLs.
Yeah, Galaxy Nexus did. And HTC One (m8) did as well.
I think this doesn't make sense from a business perspective. The cell phone like the PC will become a commodity item. Why get into a business with a lot of competitors. No real differentiation. Google should be trying to get google search into every phone which they are already doing. That is where they make their crazy margins and strength.
I haven't had any experience with the Gear, I'm afraid. Can you compare it to the Rift?
Seriously. You can get a decent smartphone, new and unlocked, for like $50 now. The market has just expanded hugely so of course entries like this, which vie for "best phone in the world" status, are going to be higher price.
So, just to set expectations:

All of the big SV companies need to have a VR play and this is Google's.

Personally I believe in the long-term viability of VR, but in this case it just seems like an expendable just-in-case-it-takes-off thing.

/ Feeling slightly burned from them more or less abandoning the last Google hardware I bought; the Nexus Player tv set-top-box.
You can no longer decouple strong cryptography from the global economy, that could be considered a strong political solution because it represents a loss of political control.
On the current situation on the US, you'll know privacy advocates made progress when people start going to jail. No sooner.
/tg/ has its moments as well.
Is that true? Usually developer friendly means not-carrier-locked, which has always commanded a _higher_ price tag.

Meanwhile, iPhones have no cheap developer option either. When has developer equated with cheap?
If leaked-but-redacted documents were of interest for a prosecution, couldn’t the originals be obtained by subpoena, either to WikiLeaks or (preferably) their original source?
Y Not - Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs

The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing by Cory Doctorow http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html

Cybersecurity as Realpolitik by Dan Geer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-TGvYOBpI http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
Ask HN: What are good examples of programmer portfolios?
It's easy for designers to have portfolio websites since they are images that are easy to display and digest. But if your primary deliverable is code, it's usually either:

(A) Hidden behind NDA

or

(B) Not very digestible for portfolio consumption

Does anyone have good examples of programmers (probably freelancers) who have created great portfolio websites? I feel like I need to update my website for future freelance work, but if I know that most of my code is under NDA, I'm not sure how I can showcase my skills beyond my limited Github open source work.
I'm liking my Nexus 6 but it feels a bit big at times so I think the trend towards 5 or 5.5 is a good thing. Not sure about the price though, my 6 would have to completely croak before I upgrade from it.
> 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.

The Surface is basically a superior option to the iPad Pro, which all accounts give inferior sales to.
I mean, Christ, can you imagine if a teacher were caught on camera threatening to crush the skull of one student, and plant a kilo of cocaine on another, and the TEAHCERS' UNION fought to keep that teacher's job?

Fox News would explode.
Hearing damage. In order to drown out conversation, you have to play at too loud a volume.
> 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).

One reason is that VZW structures the phone price into your bill. So buying directly from Google costs more than getting it through them. (They don't lower your bill for not using the phone upgrades.)
Didn't know that, but you are right on this, I agree and therefore I upvote your comment. But I still hold my other points as valid.
Like blackberry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoDSv5KpEJk

InfoSec talk. Best lines from talk..

"Basic lessons are not learned such as know thy network"

"You have to learn your network, you have to have skin in the game"

"Defense is hard, breaking stuff is easy"

"If you serve the God's of compliance you will fail"

"Compliance is not security"

"Perfect solution fallacy"

"People are falling over themselves not to change, shooting great ideas down."

"Perfect attacker fallacy, they don't exist, they are a myth!"

"Attackers are not that good because they don't need to be that good."

Speaker is Eric Conrad
Perhaps you are forgetting Google Now [0].

Google Now displays cards with information pulled from the user's Gmail account ...

[0] https://www.google.com/search/about/learn-more/now/
I'm not in this field directly, but I have spent a lot of time interacting with scientists and medical professionals regarding new approaches to the field. I'm a little surprised I didn't see more about resistance to unfamiliar technology from the medical field. The essay touched on this briefly, but I find there to be quite a lot of pushback in medicine against new methods in general.

In some cases, this is a simple problem of embedded traditions, or worse, resistance to something that could put you out of a job. In a lot of ways, though, the resistance to change in medicine is seen as an important safeguard; when you're dealing with people's lives, you hesitate before making any changes in procedure, because we know our current methods work okay. Even if there are others which seem to work much better, we should proceed cautiously. How worried are medical professionals about adopting the more opaque techniques of AI? Can you persuade people to accept a diagnosis from something that can't explain its reasoning? Are you worried about any "bugs" or undiscovered unusual behavior in edge cases?
Those two? I'm assuming cancer and marijuana? What we know of several of the cannabinoids is that they participate in apoptosis of the cancerous cells. You get several cell divisions each day in your body that go bad but the cell knows something is wrong and terminates itself with its mitochondria. Cancer happens when apoptosis fails to happen in those circumstances. It's one of the bright hopes of cancer medicine that understanding this process will bring about a general cure.
Sorry if I wasn't clear, but my comment was strictly procedural and divorced from the topic. We ask that community members post civilly and substantively on Hacker News or not at all, because we're here to learn and to gratify our intellectual curiosity. Any substantive discussion of the merit of the original post would include information, which your comment lacked.
Google Pixel at Google Store
Does anyone know if the headset is supported by the Nexus 6P?

The 6P is a very capable device and I don't see a reason to upgrade mine. But I am thinking of trying out some Daydream VR development.

I know that till now, 6P was the only device to develop for Daydream, but I'm wondering how well would it work with the actual headset released today. Maybe just run at some low fps but not too bad for trying it out? Or is the headset locked for only "Daydream certified" phones (I doubt they'll lock out the 6P though).