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There are a lot of redditors that love samsung's apps. https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/62dmw4/samsungs_bi...

Messenger

Cloud

Pay

Calendar

Calculator

Video

Flow

Secure folder

Health

Internet

Contacts

Camera

All are apps I think are better than thier Google alternative

According to a redditor. Also check out /r/samsung
I quite disagree. Yes these kind of things exists outside of tech. but if you dump tens of millions of dollars on any fresh faced person that shows up at your door, this is what you get.
It appears valid to me and other systems -
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.pnc.com

It appears similar issues have occurred in the past - https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/1alZsH... I would recommend double checking to see if you are running the latest version of Chrome and comparing the cert information on other devices to see if your chromebook is displaying old information along with insuring that you are not going through a proxy.
mmmh... aestivation?
The diplomatic cable leaks proved that the purchase was politically motivated under heavy pressure from the US https://www.thelocal.se/20101203/30584
That's a ridiculously narrow assumption. There are millions of smartphone users who cannot afford either of these flagships, and people like me who could but refuse to spend the money on what I consider unnecessary features.
The (A)GPL does in no way preclude you–or anyone–from selling it. It does, however, require you to provide source code, at least upon request, to those that have received non-source code versions.

That said, the specific arrangement in this case may be a bit strange. There's a "commercial end-user license agreement", which I'm pretty sure is not possible–unless they are the author of all the code in question, in which case they can make up as many licenses as they want.
IBM CEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginni_Rometty
AMD CEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su
former HP CEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman
former XEROX CEO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Burns (still chairwoman, tho)
I'm always looking for youtube channels like this, and that's right in the timeframe I look for. Thanks!
I met the Samsung team by accident several years ago at TC Disrupt. We were having lunch at the same table.

Being in the mobile health space, I instantly went into my pitching mode and started selling them on the virtues of mobile health and why it would help provide some platform stickiness (if I have a chronic disease and have lots of health data there, I wouldn't want to switch platform and lose my valuable data). This was before Apple Health was launched or was ever mentioned.

Quickly it became clear to me, Samsung was ahead of me and they fully understood the value of health data. And it was very clear how strategic they were about the future of mobile and ways the would be able to keep people on their platform.

It's obvious Samsung understands the value of software. Especially as more Chinese or Taiwanese companies are making competing hardware, it's become very difficult to differentiate or be able to differentiate in the long-run.

It's natural Samsung would want to find ways of differentiating against their competitors. However, they have not been successful yet. I think part of the problem is corporate structure/culture. Will Samsung be able to build an entire consumer software division that is free to operate fast, test things and break things? Or will the team be slowed down having to coordinating with Seoul?

Either way, Samsung will alway be one step behind Google, not having full visibility in Googles updates. And there is a chance that Google may want to put a distance between itself and the other handset makers just to reap more profits from their hardware division.

If I was samsung, I would try to focus on killer apps within the asian market. For example, Yandex (of Russia) until recently (and maybe still) had far better map over google maps in their region. Even for places like Turkey, Yandex had a better map. Can Samsung become the brand for providing far better mapping technology in the region? Can they build much better search technology for asian languages?
Thats what i meant. I was listing similarities. Turbofans are rare on small combat aircraft. See the soviet/russian Frogfoot, the supersonic take on the a10, that doesnt have fans.
I've seen a trend of the word "sociopath" being thrown around here flippantly. While I understand what this hopes to communicate, the claims are unsubstantiated and it only serves to lessen the argument.
if you really want both, then either 1) use IEEE floats or 2) write your own data type, or 3) used a boxed data type, which is really the best solution for the dominant "missing data" abuse case anyways.
> So how do you make the decentralization of jobs more appealing to employers?

That's the tough thing. The only solution I can think of, protectionism, will be very rough on employers. The lower and middle classes would thrive, but corporations that previously had massive profit margins would see those almost disappear, especially after unions form again.

Obviously this would be very expensive, but I really fear that if we don't do something, our country will end up politically and socially unstable. A country with millions of minimum wage workers and a handful of rich-only cities is bound to have troubles.

As far as Toronto's housing inventory goes, I don't know enough about Toronto to comment.
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>The universe is logical. Each cell in the human body is at its core just a very complex state machine.

Even if determinism holds (and, spoiler alert from about 1927, it doesn't), you can't avoid chaos. Lorenz found that out and defined Chaos: where the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.

I assure you, biological systems exhibit all the hallmarks of (possibly) deterministic mathematical chaos.
I like to think of complexity sci as IRL psychohistory
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It's also my understanding that the LLVM, GNU, and Microsoft C compilers are technically (1) all written in C++. It's also my experience that larger embedded projects also tend to be C++. So maybe your microwave is written in C, but your car's control systems are probably C++, at least in the new parts.

(1) So the gcc codebase is almost entirely C but it is compiled as C++. Someone else might be able to explain exactly what features of C++ made this an attractive option . My intuition tells me it has to do with better compiler diagnostics, perhaps involving type checking. I'm on mobile or I would research and provide more authoritative sources.
I'm biased here because I help produce these, but the shows on the Heavybit network are worth a look. Each show is hosted by founders, developers, or product/sales/marketing folks specializing in developer focused products.

https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/

Is there a specific topic you're looking for shows on?
I'll be risking being contrary to popular opinion saying this, but can we go back to focusing on tech? I'd rather leave these types of 'floor is lava' social discussion to the philosophy majors of the world who enjoy it. I feel like we, as a community, get sidetracked by the bloodlust for drama and the media respondeds to that demand by pandering to the lowest denominator. So-called justice porn has no place in a productive society.
I see Go equally fast compare to Java/C# and uses quite a bit less memory.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/go.html
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You kind of get the sense of living in the future when technology that would have been pure sci-fi within your own past is not only real now, but used for a frivolous joke.
Is it disinformation that Canada cancelled their F35 order and bought F18s instead?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
For those who are interested, CORDIC (for COordinate Rotation DIgital Computer) is another technique from that era. It "is a simple and efficient algorithm to calculate hyperbolic and trigonometric functions, typically converging with one digit (or bit) per iteration." See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Digital_Circuits/CORDIC

For instructional purposes, here is a simple Python implementation that uses only adds and shifts in the inner loop, followed by a single scaled-multiply to finish it up: https://code.activestate.com/recipes/576792-polar-to-rectang...
> home viewing being a good enough cheap alternative.
So giving them a lot of options at home is killing going out to the movies? Makes sense.
In the ol' days cable TV was like 6 channels. So kids HAD to go outside and do stuff (play).
Thank you! I didn't notice it; think it was not visible on my old Android but could see it on my Mac desktop.
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There's a nice Veritasium video of an anechoic chamber here, with different people's reactions to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXVGIb3bzHI

I've been in sensory deprivation tanks, but never in an anechoic chamber (yet). However, I'm sure I'd love it.

Many people live their life fleeing themselves, fleeing the thoughts in their head, and fleeing the realities they don't want to face. However, if you're emotionally healthy and are purposeful in establishing your identity and life direction, silence is simply golden. Not just auditory, but visual, social, and conceptual.

Because of this, I don't think that there can be any singular preferable amount of noise for everybody. If there's some average, plenty of people will still find it distracting and grating, while others would find it too quiet and uncomfortable. Plus, I doubt it stays consistent even for a given individual. When you're stressed, you might want more quiet... or more distraction, depending on your preferences and reactions.
Aside from the similarity to others in the way that it collapsed, and the behaviors that happened within the company, do other people get the impression that zenefits actually a Bro-co? I can't claim to be an expert or claim to personally know the founder/leadership - I didn't get the feeling that it was particularly bro-ish.

I bring this up because while it's entertaining and perhaps a more-true-than-not narrative of the Brogrammer startup, it's a bit facile and may lead people to 1) automatically assume brogrammers are going to be a problem and more concerningly 2) ignore problems at companies that aren't run by brogrammers.
Now that google are making their own phones in earnest I think they will start trying to hobble Android on Samsung phones.
I have been thinking about "Yishan-style" CEOs for a while now.
Are there limitations on data or records? I have a SQL database that I'd be interested in migrating over to a solution like this if it can handle 1M+ records without worry.
I suppose you could stretch it to say:

1. Their optimistic / misguided (or is it? Can we be sure yet?) foray into self-driving cars was a result of arrogance stemming from their toxic bro culture

2. Their problem with subsidizing rides and losing money is due to a win-at-all-costs competitive attitude that demands they run Lyft into the ground, stemming from toxic bro culture.

3. Increasing regulation is due to their arrogant tendency to flout local taxi laws and run Uber anyway (this I might agree with, though I'll note that Uber is often wildly popular when it disrupts a local taxi market, and they have been able to get their way in part due to asking Uber riders and drivers to actively support regulation change in their area)

But, no, I agree with you. The idea that everything Uber's struggling with is directly the fault of the toxic bro culture that Kalanick has (seemingly single-handedly?) created is absurd.
I prepare a week of pills in a 14-slot pill case (mon-sun w/AM & PM). This results in a very simple decision: if the pills are present for the current timeslot, take them (with the sole exception of Sunday night post-refill, which is easily checked because the box is full). I also get at-a-glance evidence of any missed dose. When the case is empty on Sunday night, I refill all the slots.

Process requires careful consideration when crossing the international date line, otherwise has proved robust, and does not require a laptop.
I've tried a lot of these tools. The trouble is that things go extremely well until you hit a wall. With no way to extend them with something like freeform code, the wall doesn't move.

The best ones, then, tend to be the ones that have been around long enough, or had enough foresight to have covered various corner cases.

The other issue is that most of them have "per user / per month" pricing, which doesn't work for many use cases. Things like, for example, an applicant tracking app. If you use the functionality to a high degree, every job applicant is another end user license.

Two of the better ones: http://quickbase.com & http://ragic.com

Other ones I've seen: http://caspio.com, http://knack.com, http://fusio.com, http://trackvia.com/, http://podio.com, https://www.zoho.com/creator/, http://airtable.com, https://getzenbase.com/, http://www.zenginehq.com/

One of the more promising ones was DabbleDB. Twitter acquihired them and shut the tool down. It had a very smooth UI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVj5RZOqwY
> This is C obviously

No, that's C++.
This is an article about nothing. People used to fall for articles like this, not anymore.

Lets deconstruct it.

(a) Select for examples where white men (who the tech media has generally decided are evil and always are a problem) have failed in business
(b) Now we will identify these people with a codeword (tech bro) because we can't actually say "aggressive white men" without being overtly racist
(c) Now lets generalize and blame all the problems of the entire industry on these evil white privileged males who the media has decided to demonize
(d) Conclusion: White men aka tech bros are the root of all problems in Silicon Valley and must be controlled and stopped because they are bad human beings, all of them!

Once you see through the superficial dressing the underlying logic is hilarious.

If you read a lot of media you start to see the patterns. Over and over again the urge is to blame the nearest convenient white male CEO for whatever problem just happened. Donald Trump got elected? Lets blame Zuckerberg for fake news. Then lets blame Peter Thiel and then Sam Altman. Note: All white men in positions of power.

In reality:

People get rich frequently in Silicon Valley by being assholes, taking other people's property, customers, business, employees. We call this system "capitalism."

YouTube grew enormous on the back of pirated content. Alibaba and Amazon profit tremendously from counterfeit products. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates spent their careers suing, back-stabbing and stealing ideas form one another and those around them.

Don't even get me started about Larry Ellison.

Capitalism is not really nice, get over it.
What happens when the business outgrows what AppBuilder can do? I would assume that's a ground up rewrite. Seems like it's kicking the issue down the road and accumulating technical debt along the way.
"Not one of the top 10 highest grossing movies of 2016 was a live-action non-sequel/remake."

Actually 1 was: Suicide Squad. It was indeed a live-action non-sequel/remake.
I also don't like bro culture, but I don't think VCs are going to push it out. Venture capitalists are bros. Finance has a bro culture. This is a pervasive problem, not just a tech problem. Zenefits' downturn was because of fraud, not the bro culture. Despite all the recent bad press, I don't think Uber is close to going up in flames.
I have a Note device. I use S Planner that is a better than Google Calendar. Messages for SMS. S Health in stead of google fit (doesn'waste battery). S note works better with pen. Samsung apps all support spen, you can drag and drop content between them.
Your whole comment is indicative of why SV is now in the situation it's in, where disruptive apps aren't enough to overcome idiocy that the rest of us outgrew decades ago.

"So-called justice porn has no place in a productive society." I'm screencapping this as a warning sign on the road to downfall-by-hubris. Seriously, shake your head. Productive society without justice is every dystopian nightmare we've been imagining since we started wondering what tomorrow might be like.
As an off-topic aside, there has been very suspicious behavior with this submission. It has been submitted atleast 6 times in 3 days by mostly the same people (https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=athelas.com), and I know the OP of this submission submitted it earlier today and deleted it after it didn't get upvotes.

Don't do that. At the least, it isn't worth it for just a blog post.
It helps to have a bunch of pre-defined strings that you know are problematic, such as extremely long strings or strings that use ASCII codes or escape characters in weird ways. Trying all of those before moving on to purely random strings can help. Taking things a bit further, you can log the purely random strings that are known to cause problems and then add them to the list of things to try in the future.
whether or not its an effective use of money, i've always believed that it was a strategic interest to have all of these people at the ready.

frankly i'm sure that if it came to it, your average clip on tie beltway bandit employee would be more useless than 5 year old in time of war, but i think thats the thinking
My pleasure. Some of the earlier videos from his megastructure series are a little slow, but he has some absolute gems.

So far, I've really liked the video on "Black hole farming at the end of civilization", some of his Fermi paradox episodes, as well as the one on terraforming.
I'll be risking being contrary to popular opinion saying this, but can we go back to focusing on cotton production? I'd rather leave these types of 'floor is lava' social discussion to the philosophy majors of the world who enjoy it. I feel like we, as a community, get sidetracked by the bloodlust for drama and the media respondeds to that demand by pandering to the lowest denominator. So-called justice porn has no place in a productive society.
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> Not too many, of course, because the more you drink the less other critical thinking functions have to keep going. The trick is to drink just the right amount of alcohol.

Ah, the mythical Ballmer Peak[1].

[1]: https://xkcd.com/323/
The closed-source Google Play Services and the Google APIs ecosystem is Google's single life-line to stay somewhat in control of Android. They have been moving more and more core Android stuff into these closed source libraries and making sure the convenience offered to developers is too good to refuse. This all happened circa Android 4.x. They must have realized they were giving away the farm for free to OEMs and so almost all new Android innovation is now implemented in the Google APIs SDK + Google Chrome. Good for google, sucks for AOSP OEMs and developers who just like to look at the source code of the libraries&system apps that they interface with. Android developers got lazy and started adding heavy gapi dependencies in almost every app, so much so that OEMs need to support this and the Google Play Store to stay relevant, at least at this moment. If Samsung, for example, started implementing a Google Play Services compatible shim, then there would be a pretty big power shift overnight. Heck, reimplementing other companies' APIs is par for the course on Android (oracle's java cough cough)
You have to wonder to what degree the design of the Boeing X-32 impacted its ultimate rejection. There's got to be some general that was thinking "I don't care how good that plane is, we're going to be the literal laughingstock of the entire world".
And yet there seems to be an awful lot of aggressive white males or Tech bros, or whatever, creating shit culture.

Just because you are offended by it doesn't make it untrue.
Yes, and lately I've found myself even narrating everyday tasks a little. I do catch myself, and try to keep my inner-dialogue in my head.

I think spending hours on computers isolated daily is probably not good for long term mental health.
Isaac Yonemoto has suggested the use of ±∞ as a NaN, and it seems to work exactly like NaN does other than x/±∞ = 0 whereas you want x/NaN = NaN. I hate hardware exceptions. If you have a code that occasionally hits a NaN, that means the code is still under development. You would never release such a code into the wild, because it clearly is not safe to use and has not done the basic blocking and tackling of guarding against input arguments that will prevent any indeterminate forms, square roots of negative values, etc.

I haven't written them up yet, but _valids_ are what you want if you are want software that can gracefully and mathematically handle the results that make floats generate a NaN. Think of the valid computing environment as the numerical debugging environment for posits. It's slower and ultra-careful and rigorous, but once you get your algorithm to the point where it never tries to color outside the lines, then switch to posits and go FAST.

Leaving a NaN in a number system designed for lean speed is a mixing of computing esthetics. Which do you want? Rigorous and careful and mathematical, or good enough, fast, and cheap? You have to make up your mind, because if you _mix_ the two esthetics in one number system, guess what: You get neither. It won't be fast, because it has to check for exceptions all the time, and it won't be mathematical because it keeps replacing correct answers with answers within its vocabulary (that is, it rounds). IEEE floats are a mixture of the two esthetics, and that is their fatal flaw.
Having had the chance to work with some people I highly expect were diagnosable sociopath/psychopaths, I'd say the opposite is true. People really, really don't want to believe that about 1 in 100 people have absolutely no conscience and thrive on manipulation and sadism. Or that we've created a culture that rewards this kind of behavior. I've watched co-workers bend over backwards to rationalize people who make monotone "jokes" about their desire to harm and kill others.

I understand - it's a horrifying baseline condition for human society. But pretending like it's untrue or limited to some tiny subset of marginal deviants isn't getting us anywhere. Most socipaths/psychopaths are non-violent and still manage to cause immeasureable harm in people's lives, every day.
What if it malfunctions and the email gets repeatedly delivered? :-p
I believe a segfault is a type of abort. It is just enforced by the kernel rather than being enforced in userspace. Or is there something else you are getting at?
Should we be worried about artificial intelligence? By “we” I mean humans
How about a plugin that routes any request to a sdserver thru Tor?

That would really screw up things for any location tracking.
My comment was mainly a tangent off of yours. It seems I tend to do that... I should make an effort to make that more clear.

I will say, however, that only responding to my first sentence is sort of like only discussing the headline :)
I think there is meaning to the use of that word. It's not just an ad-hominem snipe, but it's an accusation on the values of these individuals' motivations.

When somebody says a CEO is a sociopath they are essentially arguing that the CEO has little/no empathy, believes their success is due to their own inherent superiority, views morality/law as an obstacles to their success, and defines success as in personal achievement without regard for collective wellbeing.

Moreover, by name-calling the trait (using a derogatory word) one is collectively reshaping the cultural definition of success away from "Make billions of dollars you have no need for and are going to leave to your kids" toward "Make the world a better place."

So I disagree on every level I guess.