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Bit of an aside: Apparantly ChrF – character-level n-gram f-score – is the new hotness in evaluating MT systems http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W15/W15-30.pdf#page=412
Too many Forbes articles. They're months behind on this story and have an aggressive anti-adblock so I'd rather not see stories from them.
> most working on very obscure problems spraying "shittonium on silicon 111" or making no progress in various theories of everything.

That's the problem with foundational research: It always looks obscure and impractical until suddenly there's a huge breakthrough out of nowhere. Same dynamic as with startups, where 99% will never make a significant mark of any kind, while 1% change the world forever. And you cannot know in advance which startup (or which foundational research) falls into which category.
Oh of course I'm aware of that, that's why I said the whole thing as my own wishes ("I hoped we would be"). I can also see the value in such a device, my main gripe is the total lack of realistic alternative in the smartphone market right now.
There exists a word for that in English too... I use ’acknowledged’. ;)
I've just submitted an update to Codea[1] that allows for the importing of user projects[2]

It has been "In Review" for a suspiciously long time now. So I think it might be testing the application of these updated policies.

I have often submitted updates to App Review which include the ability to download and install executable code (along with review notes detailing my reasoning) with the knowledge that they would be rejected. I have also appealed Apple's rejections in order to effect a change in policy for the App Store. At some point during phone calls with the reviewers they told me they were "advocating for policy change internally on my behalf" even if they couldn't approve my app right now. I'm so glad policy has changed now.

[1] https://codea.io

[2] https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/873692454947442688
Apologies. I reacted poorly to being accused of slander, which I did not do.
He did another interview of of Meta previous, back when they were in a mansion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTBR9kQoVMg
SS7 is harder to obtain and alot of good operators have now protectons for hiacking via SS7.
I couldn't find it either. Neither on their project pages nor that specific blog article and not even the "Search" option (where I searched for inkscape) on the gitlab.com/ site.

Thanks TranquilMarmot for posting the link to the repo.
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42/60 GB available, so no. It's just a slow POS.
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That was exactly what I thought about when I read the title. It may have been a very temporary waterfall, but it must have been enormous.

So does the Black Sea waterfall not count because it was so temporary? Was it still somehow smaller than the one from the article? Or has its size not yet been verified?
I was going to protest the full Lena image without a NSFW warning, but hadn't realised the full story of its history[1]...

The site in general is a beautiful work of art, a great blend of attention to detail with comedy of computing in that era.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna - tl;dr is this iconic test picture for computer imaging was a cropped Playboy centerfold from 1972. I've just finished a PhD which included a fair bit of image processing, but I was unaware of the story behind this iconic image.
I didn't think about that, because all phones here have a removable SIM card.
There is a fairly well known Dutch pilot whose last name literally translates to "brick".

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide whether that is an example of nominative determinism or not.
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Github praises open source but they sure do keep their own stuff as proprietary as possible. (Even their EE is obfuscated code)
Well, we're already seeing VCs diversifying into other sectors. Also, I'm inclined to see the huge amount of VC money as an indication for an overall shortage of investment opportunities.
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I don't doubt that. In my experience sometimes a phone number is required and sometimes not. When it prompted for a phone I didn't find a way to work around that.
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How big a job is customizing all this to work on a different board? At work we use iMX6-based SoM's on custom baseboards, and so far have stuck to Linux. But we'd like to experiment with Android, just to see if that is a viable/interesting option for embedded systems.
Not sure how it works on iOS, but on Android apps tell OS what websites they can handle.

This does have some security implications, so there is a mechanism for web sites to vouch for an app.
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Everything in C++ is bonkers. You cannot put everything into a language and expect it to be consistent and safe.
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You've been able to write and run code on iOS for a very long time. Since the first iPad was released.

Pythonista came out quite a long time ago now, and it's easy enough to write your own script to download and install projects from a git repository or elsewhere. Same for my app, Codea. What Apple has never allowed was an easy way for users to transfer / download / install code onto their device that was built into the app. If the user was willing to write (or copy and paste) someone else's code then Apple were kind of OK with it.

Both Pythonista and Codea have the ability to export Xcode projects for publishing on the store (though regardless of whether they have that feature, you were never prevented from writing and running code on your iPad).
I'm a long time user of Yahoo Mail. The problems started to appear just when they tried to keep up with the new technology (I read that they use React). Up to that point everything was good.

Now, when I load the web mail client, sometimes it let's me select emails but the action buttons remain grayed out. This is a problem with the app state and also a problem with overthinking things: why would you disable those buttons at all? I know, active/disabled buttons show you what you can do or not from the current state of the app but it's not like the app is so complicated that you can not figured it out yourself.
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Apple should just do a Darwin/macOS ARM VM on the iPad so developers can have ARM Homebrew and other Unix tools they are used to.
i did, they said the amount was too much money.
I am very curious how many devs will stop and how many will start contributing because of this move.
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Context: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Stork-Eugenics-Defective-Americ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Haiselden "Harry John Haiselden (March 16, 1870 – June 18, 1919) was the Chief Surgeon at the German-American Hospital in Chicago in 1915 who refused to perform needed surgery for children born with severe birth defects and allowed the babies to die, in an act of eugenics."
For a dumb git host GH is passable, the problem is with their additional features which many projects use. If/when GH goes the way of the dodo they will be at the mercy of 3rd parties' ability to scrap and import this stuff.
That sounds great :). Any place I should keep an eye on for updates?
This Github repo has some very good tips on how to do it: https://github.com/aredridel/how-to-read-code/blob/master/ho...
Can you provide more details? What's the company, the device and what exactly is the issue you are facing?
Did they? Or did the industry quickly lock hardware devices into little gadgets for generating income?

I don't think most people know what they want. They've never understood the trade-off. Instead they just go to their local electronics supplier and take something off the shelf.
drove Yahoo further into the ditch, got paid millions for it. glad to see her go, most overrated tech executive ever.
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This headline decided me: stand by for my new software project, Area Man.
Of course, you could always use a trustworthy service that downloads and builds the source directly from Github and signs it with its own key - like F-Droid...

...if Moxie allowed it. Instead you're just supposed to trust him.

I much prefer SilenceIM anyway, which uses the same encryption but tunnels it over SMS. Like Signal used to, before that feature was inexplicably dropped in favor of becoming another internet instant-messenger. Which requires giving root on your phone (!) to the largest ad company in the world (!) to use properly.
I don't see any change in my env, people still say "okee" in text to me. Sometimes "ok", but never "okay" (the English one)
If you ever have to annotate one tree using a completely separate tool, you need to do something to ensure the names you choose are different from the ones used by whatever produces the tree. You can choose odd names, but there's no guarantee. Namespaces can provide that guarantee, via uniqueness of URIs, ultimately relying ICANN.
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In context, PSI likely means https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psionics
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But is this just a dumb counter though? Instagram shows the list of people who liked a photo.

Say, if one of my friends has a picture with 5 likes from people I recognize, and another friend has a photo with 100 likes from weirdly-named accounts, I can tell which ones are fake.
> The wifi is crap - 802.11g

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You won't get more than 20MByte/s over USB 2.0, but it should still be a massive improvement over 802.11g.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Archer-T4UH-Wireless-Adapter/...
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Whatever it is they are however, they're doubtless more advanced if it's they watching us.
Isn't Android a realistic alternative? Certainly it has its own problems, but the ability to 'side-load' whatever app I want far out weights those, at least for me.
for text anything with a terminal is fine...

If it can do vim and owncloud I'd be golden for text.

I do however work with media, so no, low end is not good at all.
There is no trade-off for most of the users. Time to drop that notion that the whole world consists of wannabe developers. Peope have other activities they want to spend time on instead of tinkering with their devices.
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Little reckoning the far wider existential threat of GRRM abandoning altogether and the universe simply ceasing to exist ...
I've been using ACK and NAK with friends, but I'm not sure we can get the non computer scientists on board...
Taxing the purchase of a car seems non-sensical to me. It is not, so much, the ownership that is the problem, but the use of the car that creates congestion and health issues.

Tax fuel and bring in road pricing.
The author doesn't know what he's talking about. Credibility of the website goes down a lot, even though the main idea is good.
> Ask any Firebase user what they feel about this.

I'm curious what you mean by this. In a world of discontinued acquihired services and breaking changes, firebase has just kept working across major organizational and product changes.

For example you can still use the old client libraries and URLs from before google bought them and it just works. REST urls, admin UI urls, everything redirects perfectly.
> - Autonomous IoT on mission critical hardware. (We rolled out a pilot with a government for this)

> You should NOT use gun for any globally/strongly consistent data, like bank account balances and such.
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I am not sure about naming the company, as I'm not sure it would help them (but maybe?). The device is in the IoT/fitness space. I don't think explaining good security practices to a customer support person is going to help as they are just following their script. The bug is irrelevant to the security issue of asking for a password; it is not a security bug itself.
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I'm talking about, specifically, looking at the natural capabilities and overall success of people who are identical twins and one twin has, but the other does not, a given disorder.

Autism, OCD, anxiety, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, ADHD, dyslexia, are the ones I am aware of. I'm sure there are many more.
Here you go, reproducible builds. https://whispersystems.org/blog/reproducible-android/

Removing encrypted sms messages wasn't inexplicably dropped. It was explained and one of the reasons was terrible security https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/

You don't need anything Google on your phone to use Signal. https://signal.org/android/apk/
Just curious, is anyone else hearing popping sounds when they click on various things? Unsure if its intentional, and if so, trying to emulate an old hard disk seeking or speakers popping from interference.

Otherwise, kudos to the devs for creating this amazing work of art!
my main gripe is the total lack of realistic alternative in the smartphone market right now.

That's my main gripe as well. I'm currently using a Nexus 5 with Sailfish OS as my daily driver, but it's hard. I really do not have the time anymore like I did in the past to make it all work.

I'm running it with Alien Dalvik so that I can run WhatsApp and some other Android apps that do not have a native version yet. Without that it wouldn't really be possible.

(The reason I'm testing SFOS out is that Jolla (the developer of Sailfish OS) has a deal with Sony to release it on their Xperia X on the near future. Also Jolla's got a deal with Russia as well, because more entities are worried about the walled gardens.)
Windows is getting there very very fast too.

I made a fresh install of the latest windows 10 pro this week end, and it is now very difficult to do simple things like changing the default program for an extension. I wanted to use Irfanview for jpg files but the primary menu for allocating an app to images will now only allow you to select a windows store app, not a local app (and you cannot change the default program from a contextual menu on the file anymore). Otherwise you have to go through a list of thousands of extensions to find manually the correct one (of course no search). Needless to say I didn't bother to change png, bmp, gif & others.

Windows is more unappealing by the minute. It will become the same locked down OS than iOS, unsuitable for developpers and power users.
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Parts are even in metasploit.
They don't have to. People have been compiling to arm for years now on macOS. Apple just needs to make the standard + Foundation + Cocoa touch libraries visible and linkable on iOS and then you'll have everything you need to run any unix tools and compile iOS apps on iOS.
Interesting stuff, but all they've managed to do so far is find models that fit historical data better. Would be interested to read a follow up a year later to see how their models actually performed.
> At first, I thought this is a VNC connecting to a Win93 in a virtual machine.

That would be very impressive, considering that Windows 93 never existed.
Android's becoming more of a walled garden as well. More and more stuff depends on the opaque blob that is Google Play Services and an increasing number of apps (even games ffs!) only want to run when SafetyNet says the device is save.

The SafetyNet stuff is somewhat understandable for banking apps but it means rooting, Xposed modules and custom Android builds is out of the question, taking away a lot of freedom.
Honestly sounds like the work of a Fiver gigster to me. Super tacky.
Insightful perspective. Sad that weeding out the smart or self-respecting people is such a cheap and effective strategy.
Pity the Run dialog doesn't work, I wanted to try "c:\nul\nul" [0]

[0] http://windowsitpro.com/security/device-names-crash-win9598
I'd have said the opposite. I'm in my mid 50s and always spell it out; while most people I know in their 20s use "OK."
All economic exchange is some form of trade. The parent was assuming the buyer was making an informed trade. I disagree.

You don't have to be a lawyer to know that if a person enters a contract that's cheating them? They probably wouldn't do it if they knew. You don't have to want the world to all be lawyers. All that's happening here is that one person is saying folks are happy with a trade and another person is saying most folks don't understand the trade. Professions, skillsets, or how I'd like the world to be have nothing to do with it.
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This site has a uncanny attention to detail: The C-drive inside "Virtual PC" differs from the C-drive in the "host OS"!

Given that kind of zealotry, it irks me that you can launch an infinite amount of nested "Virtual PCs". Obviously it makes for some fun screenshots and is technically impressive in itself, but Windows early on never allowed you to run Virtual PC inside Virtual PC. So this is clearly wrong!

In short, not considering OCD, where do I file the bug-report? :)
I want a sandboxed OS where random app X doesn't access my $HOME data just because it feels like it.

As for developers, iOS is quite suitable as the set of developer sessions last week at WWDC 2017 proved, and I do have lots of fun targeting UWP.

Many of us, developers, are quite ok with following the rules of the platforms we target.
>vehemently defending anti-developer policies purely because of the amount of personal investment in the ecosystem

Well, some consider them pro-user or pro-ecosystem policies.

Not everybody agrees in the "open for all" as the best option for every tech.
Nigeria is a big country. It's sad that their main claim to fame is a notorious scam, but there's a lot more to the country than that.
They got personal trainers for your social network account...

Thats just cute.
>> You guys seem confused: I'm not claiming that what you're calling semantics doesn't exist; I'm saying that it's merely convoluted syntactical rules, and calling it a different name is misleading.

Syntax and semantics, or structure and meaning, are completely different things- in fact they are entirely unrelated and their only association is by arbitrary convention (we all agree that certain structures are associated with specific meaning).

This is why you can do translation, for example- where you're essentially taking the semantics out of one kind of syntax and putting it into another.

In NLP it's easy enough to reproduce the structure of a corpus- simple, unsmoothed n-grams will do that well enough already and with a little more statistical elbow grease you can train a model that reproduces your text very well and even generates new text that looks quite resonable. Except of course that it rarely makes any sense at all. To generate text that is both syntactically correct and makes sense you need a lot more than that and we haven't really managed to do that except for very short durations (a few words at a time).

I'm saying: in NLP we can deal with structure very well indeed, but meaning is still a long way off. If it was just a matter of "more syntax", we'd have solved all our problems a long time ago.
>my main gripe is the total lack of realistic alternative in the smartphone market right now

Isn't Android (at least stock) more open, if one so wishes?
May I humbly ask what was so enjoyable about this article?

It's fairly short and as far as i can tell almost entirely devoid of content (the moral seems to be that Satya is a nice & humble manager?)
REAL 2fa with SMS is marginally safer (but not much more so), since it requires password and SMS to do anything.

The problem is that nearly every single 2fa setup out there does something radically stupid such as use your 2fa method for password reset, or a combination of 2fa + email. This is horribly, horribly broken and worse than "no 2fa at all." All it takes is a SIM clone to steal your phone #, which you use to reset the email, and then email + phone/SMS can be used to reset nearly every single credential under the sun. The only exceptions are those that use proper 2FA such as one-time password apps -- but not Authy which just syncs your OTP/2fa credentials to the cloud and happily transfers to the cloned device :(
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Reminds me of videogame streamers opening crates; a similar kind of thing that relies on the thrill of gambling with opaque odds.
I rather use XCode and other nice GUI tools.
How does Designer compare to Illustrator feature wise, and as far a usability? We already have Illustrator. Is it worth adding Designer?
I actually appreciate that Apple stipulated "apps must make the source code... editable by the user". I personally think this helps with the educational spin to this currently, as it assures users are able to see source code but also tinker with it and learn. This is something I wish I would have had when I was in school - there were some editors at the time, but none of them could run any at that time to my knowledge.

I think this could really help a lot of students for what it is, and I hope it does well in that regard.
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Samsung's browser does, and has reasonable marketshare. With a few tweaks iOS content blockers could achieve this, and I have to wonder if Apple are considering it.
At least you have a legal path:

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Not exactly an easy thing to do with a phone number.
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Interesting perspective.
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Windows 95 made a click-sound by default when activating things iirc.

It was one of the things I very quickly disabled upon new installations :)