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I'm curious, when has Amazon facilitated US government over-reach? I couldn't think of anything off the top of my head, and googling only provided a bunch of documentation for AWS's cloud offerings to government agencies.
I must have missed something, can someone elaborate on how Amazon has enthusiastically facilitated government overreach into citizens' privacy?
On the other hand you don't need a powerful gaming rig and aren't tethered by cables. That's big.
I have no doubt that is true. Utterly unnecessary and somewhat jarring!

I can remember being made to feel uncomfortable and quite unwelcome upon witnessing a renowned female* developer and entrepreneur joke about killing a group of men who had offered advice on suitable materials for makeshift bottle openers.

* Or "chick" shudder, if we're accepting that "dude" is holding the appropriate tone for this conversation.
What has outstripped coal for baseline production?
My first thought was: a sleeping mask!
Given that Samsung, LG and others are now competing with Google directly, maybe Firefox OS was too early.

Maybe we'll actually start seeing Tizen headsets from Samsung.
I would replace both of your uses of "regardless of" with "independent of", both because different types of privilege aren't directly comparable, and because it results in a weird "both > and <" situation if you compare a rich black person to a poor white person.
Isn't this the same as the Snowden revelations?
Joel Spolsky is openly gay so I think it's just a dated joke
I'm really bummed that this thing is $899 in Canada. I wish they would have actually competed on price with the iPhone...
Eric Brandwine at AWS talking about how they solved the networking part of the cloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qln2u1Vr2E
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I'm sure Google's shareholders won't much mind if the Pixel could command anything close to the kind of margins Apple collects selling iphones.
Can you please go with me to the Seattle or Bellevue Apple Store and help me make this transaction? I went to both over the weekend and things did not go well. They didn't seem to understand the basic process you outlined above.
That's quite tangential.

How surprising is it really that Android sucks if you refuse to use Google services? Where have you been the last 3-5 years?
Right now it's Boundaries, by Gary Bernhardt. He details the importance of separating out pure business logic from the plumbing code that brings it input and directs its output ("functional core, imperative shell").

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
They can learn a lot more from Barcelona's $39m/km subway construction costs, compared to something like $1b/km in New York. Some of that is NY's density but worldwide averages are still around $300m/km and Barcelona is a stellar outlier.

Also their way of having dedicated bus lanes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM

How Google backs up the internet.

At the time it changed how I thought about backups/reliability.
Oh, ok, so if we just pretend that all humans are perfectly objective then it's not an issue?

Ridiculous.
7.1 is a maintenance release of Nougat.
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it's even closer when you talk on it. But i agree we don't need any more reasons to hold it so close to your head.
Virtual reality sickness depends on age or sex?
Wat: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
That's the point of "Daydream-Ready" phones - to have adequate enough specs for a VR experience.
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> If VR is going to go beyond the high end gaming niche

Why should it? Frankly, that seems to be the main use case. VR that can fit in a phone isn't worthwhile VR, it would be incredibly underpowered.
One would not need YC for many of the things YC supports, but the mentoring, dinners, intensity, those things help deliver and make a success.

And I have operated a 10% on net earnings since forever. Well, since I learned about them at school... from a Sikh friend. It's called Dasvandh in Sikhism, and is literally 10% and must go to community. Islam has the Zakat, Christianity the Tithe, and atheists just give (though there isn't as widespread awareness in predominantly non-religious countries of the habit).

I choose to give to a variety of charities, but things like Open Rights, MSF, Computers for Africa, etc win out. And of course I consider open source donations and contributions to be within this.

Mostly... it's static, and one just needs accounting tools. But sometimes it varies by demand, i.e. Open Street Map request recently, or perhaps a humanitarian crisis.

Giving individually, direct, makes it hard to make adjustments as a reaction to urgent things like that. One cannot just cancel and renew standing orders easily, most charities wish to own the whole thing (naturally, as they want to have a base revenue guaranteed), but this actually makes it harder for donors to give more at times and makes it harder for donors to give more regularly (if they may need to make adjustments).

5% is too much, I'd probably suggest barely 1% on the payment processing. Instead it's services to charities that would produce the revenue, and fees to donors when you help get their tax return sorted, after all you would know that you helped them claim back a certain figure. There's obviously a lot of money there, but the business model would have to be worked on to make sure it didn't discourage giving.
Being totally serious here, given how terrible their mapping software is, I'm not really surprised they're not crushing autonomous vehicles. I'm by no means trying to say mapping is an easy problem but if you couldn't pull together a competent version of the much easier problem, chances are you won't do much better with the harder one.
I have to agree since it seems it's not about say owning your data and controlling how it's transformed for your purposes but more for Google and other corporations to consume that data to sell to their actual customers (advertisers, govts, whatever). This was inevitable, to be fair, since how do you get people to manage their own data these days? The fact most non-technically inclined people refuse to a use a desktop/mobile email client or host their own sites even when it's easier than ever to do both shows that the bad guys already won. No one wants privacy in the strictest sense. Hell, look at the robbery of Kim Kardashian for the most extreme example of this absurd openness. It's probably why I still use pseudonyms that don't tie back to my legal name, only because I do fear I might set off some jerk and be hounded or worse. Yet everyone and their mother seems to be ready to embrace the panopticon that's come where everyone can see what everyone else is doing (minus govts, corporations, and paranoid jerks like me).
Have you tried using third party apps on the iPhone? You can't change the default browser, mail client, maps app, etc. on iOS. At least it's possible to switch the defaults to 3rd party apps on Android.
Agreed.

Was gonna post this if it wasn't up already.

After this, The Birth and Death of Javascript:
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

He could've taken the concept further tho. I think there are real hardware simplifications you could do if the OS is a jitting VM - no memory mapping unit and take out the expensive fully-associative TLBs.
There was this story recently on hacker news about that Oracle lawyer that published this exact information:

> Google Inc.’s Android operating system has generated revenue of $31 billion and $22 billion in profit

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-21/google-s-a...
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Related quote:

>We are working with a number of smartphone manufacturers to create a specification for Daydream-ready phones. These smartphones enable VR experiences with high-performance sensors for smooth, accurate head tracking, fast response displays to minimize blur, and powerful mobile processors. [1]

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[1] https://blog.google/products/google-vr/vr-google-jump-expedi...

(Disclaimer: work at Google, but not speaking as a representative of the company.)
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Deconstructing Functional Programming by Gilad Bracha:

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/functional-pros-cons
What would you consider progress, then? To me, this concept of the future sounds better than today. I'm optimistic that people have begun to realize that car-scale cities aren't the only option, and that human-scale neighborhoods can be great places to live. I see this as progress informed by past mistakes (that is, designing cities and neighborhoods around the needs of cars).
The major obstacle isn't so much the file formats as just the raw file size.

Recording 16 tracks at 96/24 is 4.6MB/sec.

A typical 3 minute pop song is almost 1GB.

If you're keeping multiple takes that will obviously balloon tremendously.
Like I said before, I imagine the large platform companies want to see how much a revenue generator it can become if it reaches mass appeal. This can only really happen on mobile.
Won't most of this be solved if you wait a year?

(Or maybe the new generation is already there).

It just seems easier to add functionality to the $1000 investment you already made.
I wonder if there's any way to periodically compensate for the drift, such as with video information taken from the camera or something like that? Seems like it should be possible to do this.
My current favorite is Jake Archibald's offline-first progressive web apps talk at Google I/O 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmGr0RszHc8

It's a terrific window into the future of web application development.
As a huge Alexa fan, the big differentiator for me is the Chromecast integration. The ability to walk into my apartment and say "Play the latest Colbert" while I do a couple chores is a holy grail for me.

Alexa accomplishes this scenario well for audio (music/news/audio books) but not video.
iPhones use LCD displays; low-persistence OLED is a minimum requirement for Daydream.
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Don't forget this story.

Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio who <edit> claims to have </edit> resisted NSA spying is out of prison (2013)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...
What kind of privacy features can you expect from a Google phone?
> fearing that you will be "deactivated"

without reading the article, I'm imagining Jason as the AI driving the (self-driving) car..
It honestly looks like a cheap iPhone clone. Why did they choose to go for the same aesthetic?
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Resilience in Complex Adaptive systems by Richard Cook at Velocity Conf 2013:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGLYEDpNu60
Wow, I read this a few hours ago, and I didn't even notice that it was written by Ben Stiller.

Here's a video where he talks about it: https://www.howardstern.com/show/2016/10/4/ben-stiller-goes-...
So, is this correct, in this context?

Pass: Apple, Google

Fail: Microsoft, Yahoo

Unknown: Facebook, Twitter
Thanks. I knew I wanted to quote that study but had forgotten the name :)
You're right, that US govt bulk-scanning is terrifying, especially without warrants. But what happens when Facebook scans your private chats and reports your illegal doings to the police? ( http://www.infowars.com/facebook-monitors-your-private-messa... )

What data restrictions do we have that would prevent $dataCompany from sharing data with other actors? I'm sure a "privacy policy" can do something, but in the end, not really. The FTC doesn't require a privacy policy; they can only enforce one and apply lowball fines for bad behavior.

For example, what laws would prevent me from running a "* As a Service", scanning everything, ranging from copyright violations, spammers, criminal enterprises, and today's bugagboo of terrorism; and forwarding each of those things to the relevant authorities? Can a law protect criminal behavior in cases it is illegal? What responsibilities do you have if you know of criminality?

And specifically talking of emails, unless they are encrypted, they are akin to postcards with the content all in the clear.

(And for your example, I get your sentiment, but I'm guessing they'd have a neural net that triggers on examples of terrorism discussion. And they'd run all messages through it. Not saying I agree with it without a warrant...)
Digium seems to think it has some, so they have been dragging their feet for ~3 years now. So this is a start.
Absolutely agree. I know there are other cheap android phones but Nexus was always a good bang for your buck. This is like Toyota discontinuing the corolla to compete with Maserati.
For reasons completely unrelated to the content, Identity 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpajcAgR1E

Watching that talk brought me over to the "a picture or a few words per slide" style of presentation, rather than the "wall of bullet points" style. It also helped me move from "stop talking, change slides, start talking again", to smooth transitions while talking.
But the HTC One is not a stock Android phone like the Nexus line and now the Pixel.
I think it's closer to "you deserved your message to be read, since you put it on the back of a postcard". But ok.
That's not that big a deal. Today's high end gaming is tomorrow's mainstream gaming and the day after tomorrow's budget gaming. If the market wants it, the market will get it.
Here's betting that the first killer app for phone VR will be viewing fpv videos made with those silly snapchat glasses. I mean, aside from porn. And watching movies in bed without disturbing your SO.
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This is essentially what non-destructive edits are in the photo-editing realm
Just because minorities on average have a different experience than white people doesn't mean there are not white individuals who have exactly the same experience as some minorities. Telling those white people that their experiences don't matter because white people on average have a better experience isn't likely to make them feel better, though.
The uncensored documents could be provided to courts and legal agents (civilian and government) if requested, while leaving the censored ones available to the public and media. Censorship is not, itself, a destructive act with respect to the original material.
Windows threw up CRC errors. I am not blaming Windows here, that would be unfair. Perhaps it was the only one that checked CRCs on read and one of the others didn't write CRCs on write.

My use case was to store many large git repo clones and MP3s.
I wonder how Oculus' fabric needing to be IR-transparent for the tracking LEDs affects their choice of fabric. Maybe it has to be black?
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The article says:

"Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft Corp, two major U.S. email service providers, did not respond to requests for comment."

Isn't that pretty much saying "I'm sorry, we are unable to answer your question"? If they weren't doing the same thing as Yahoo, they could say so.
Only if it's a Galaxy Note 7.
I'm mostly agreed with you. I believe that functional programming is the next paradigm shift in programming, and that shift is happening now. I'm not sure if something like Purescript or Elm will be the future of JS, or some bastard combination of Typescript and future enhancements to JS. History suggests the latter, unfortunately.
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No it's not like that at all, cities are for people, freeways are for cars. Delivery trucks and trade people, sure, everyone else should have to park on outskirts and get bus / train / bike in.

I bet most planners who let cars into cities had some kind of vested interest in doing so.
This is worse than Samsung.
This article reads like a fear-mongering hit piece rather than even remotely unbiased journalism. It's unfortunate because I think the author does have some detailed knowledge on governmental regulations of self-driving cars as well as differences in implementation between the various companies, but the article as a whole seems to dismiss all self-driving car technology as not even being remotely viable based just a few recent incidents.

>For now Uber’s cars have limited operating hours and terrain, and they must travel with two humans up front—a designated “safety driver” behind the wheel and an engineer in the adjacent seat. Even so, the company is pushing this technology onto the public when it remains largely unproven and other tests of driverless cars around the US have yielded their fair share of accidents. Earlier this year a self-driving Google car hit a public bus while trying to make a right turn in Silicon Valley. In May, the driver of a Tesla Model S died in an accident while he had the autopilot function enabled. Google suffered its worst crash yet just a few weeks ago when another driver ran a red light and barreled into its self-driving Lexus.

>Uber is taking advantage of a regulatory void in Pennsylvania, which has yet to enact autonomous vehicle legislation. Its self-driving cars are insured for up to $5 million per incident, in line with pending legislation in the state. Uber has repeatedly declined to specify to Quartz who would be held liable were one its self-driving cars involved in an accident, saying it doesn’t deal in hypotheticals. The company also doesn’t have an ethics board and is reluctant to discuss “trolley problem” scenarios, in which a car might have to protect one group of people (say, its passengers) at the cost of another (i.e., pedestrians). The DOT cautions in its guidelines that self-driving cars will inevitably have to be programmed to make “ethical judgements.”
But they still did. The "Verizon" Galaxy Nexus was basically a completely different phone from the other Galaxy Nexus versions and didn't get the same support or updates.
Nice people dying and terrible people living like forever, this world sucks :(
Agreed. RSS is an amazing technology, but I miss a real good feedreader. I loved FeedDemon, but since its development stopped it got so sluggish when handling my RSS feeds.
I was under the impression their hand was forced. I vaguely recall various nation governments insisting on open standards or they would no longer use Office.

The OpenOffice formats were going through standardization and Microsoft quickly bought their way through the standards process (this part I remember). There was a lot of complaining of how they exploited the particular standards' body. They bought seats, that then sat vacant after they got their standard pushed through, and couldn't meet quorums on other standards being voted on.

There were also many complaints about the Microsoft standards themselves. Particularly, that you couldn't implement support for the documents based solely on their standard.

Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm working with a few people on ML applications for medical image segmentation, in Finland and south east Asia. I think ML aided diagnosis will be commonplace pretty soon.

Here in the UK, DeepMind has been doing interesting work on retinal and radiology images with NHS.

While I agree that large enough quantities of labeled data and legal access to it can be hard to get, interestingly, there are many more low hanging fruit in medtech space that don't necessarily have anything to do with machine learning.

Take hospital IT software for instance. Doctors literally waste double digit percentage of their time wrestling with really bad legacy software.

Even the really expensive solutions, like Epic Systems, is horrible. I am hopeful that better options will become available and future public health budgets don't get wasted on the kind of systems that exists now
Generating jobs is easy. If generating jobs were the goal, unemployment would be zero, internationally.
Sure, as far as we know, MS and Apple have been in the public eye as being against government overreach. I suspect it's less about protecting customers from the government and more about protecting themselves, though.

But one needs their hands and toes to count the other areas in which Microsoft and Apple have conducted themselves... poorly?

Apple in the poaching employees lawsuit. Spurious lawsuits over "design" (ie rounded corners on rectangles) trademarks. Colluding with music execs to push customers to their streaming music service (instead of ad supported "free" streaming on labels sites). Since this is about a CEO hate, Steve Jobs was a complete asshole by a number of accounts. Horribly abusive.

Microsoft... well their track record should be well established. The absolute worst of which was releasing a mass market OS that was egregiously insecure by default (yet, around here, the conversation often is "I wish MS tested like they did back in the day." when webcams break, but I digress). Again, the CEO thing, Ballmer was borderline incompetent, Gates was involved in a number of shady market capture schemes.

But you know, because in this one context of government over-reach, they did a bit better than Yahoo!, the parents position that they're all untrustable is complete nonsense.

The only thing "wrong" Marissa did was not make a shit ton of money for Yahoo! No one would give this story another thought if Yahoo!'s stock was worth $100 more than it was when she started.

That's about all MS and Apple have done "right". That end justified the means.
> "Finally, an honorable mention to three papers that don't qualify, but which I think you should read anyway."

If we're going for papers, then I'm guessing books are allowed too. If so, for anyone interested in giving themselves a grounding in the fundamentals, it's worth checking out Code by Charles Petzold. I've been going through it, it's excellently written, and has helped me fill in gaps in my understanding of how computers work.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Sof...
James Mickens at Monitorama: https://vimeo.com/95066828

Aside from the comedic aspect (which makes the talk incredible), Mickens is a genuinely brilliant thinker and has a marvelous way with words.
Could that product video be any worse?

Not a single static shot of the whole phone, plus the 'new' suffix on every strap line (except the headphone jack - har, har) doesn't work.
I can't compare without trying the others out but the camera on a Nexus 6P is amazing. I am not sure how big a difference would the camera be on the Pixel over the 6P.
Is that required to be there? Is that just a curtesy? It would be unconstitutional otherwise, but, I don't know. It just seems odd. Is the attorney now bound by a gag order?
Of course it's limited, but it beats the high-end solutions in other metrics (I'd guess price (if you aren't buying a phone just for it), weight, computer requirement, cabling) so there's going to be a market if it manages to work otherwise. The high-end solutions require quite a big commitment in comparison.
Not really. Your eyes are focusing into the distance. It's not really "2 inches away" when you are looking at it.
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If you're fine with a significant margin of error with people's lives, it's a step above. If you believe psychiatry is a mature field (it's not) it might even make sense.