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>> there is no obvious need to move away from Android

I don't disagree as of now.

If there'll ever come a time when Android has its Windows security moment, the trigger this time should be Privacy.
Are you sure you know the target market you're speaking of? They're not coming from Android world, so they're probably used to exactly the kind of services these phones support.
The author can't really be totally certain if they lost money though, since it's entirely possible the ad will make an effect on people long-term. Maybe they'll break even in a few months, who knows.
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> Have you ever used Windows?

Indeed, since 3.11. I switched my personal and academic stuff completely to Linux in 1998. I've developed about 6 years with embedded Windows Systems. Today I use Windows for some non-development tasks at work, but I develop exclusively on Linux.

> The odd time I need to create/edit images, there is no equal on Linux for paint.net. None. not pinta, not GIMP. Nothing else hits the feature/complexity sweet spot like paint.net. There also is no equal on Mac.

Many people like Krita. I've never used bitmap drawing much, but I really like to work with Inkscape which is a vector drawing program.

Apart from that, I appreciate there are different opinions.

> Secondly, we're in a world where Webex still exists. It is very easy to use on Windows & Mac, & all functionality is available. Using it on Linux involves using a more limited version which runs on JVM and involves you having to figure out what dependencies to install. Using Webex in a VM isn't feasible as there is a noticeable ~3 second delay for voice.

WebRTC works very well with Firefox or Chromium. One needs nothing more than the browser and a link to appear.in, for example:

https://webrtc.org/start/
"People will find a way to stay busy."

Ugh?

Yes--finding a place to sleep without breaking any laws will keep them on their toes.

Non-profits will keep them from starving to death--maybe?

They will become adept at sign making?

And, they will say they hate it, but are secretly relieved when they end up in jail.

Hay--this is now?

The wealthy will always be fine. They are always fine. They have the world to sell their stuff. They have the money to buy political influence.

The cameras will record any act of malfeasance. The wealthy communities will have surveillance (Tiburon Ca.), aggressive police tactics. All designed to keep them away from the zombies. They won't have to look at the eye sores. God I hate that phrase. It's always cones out of the ugliest peoples mouths?

We will get used to seeing people dying on the streets. We will get used to the smell of sewage on the sidewalks. We will get used to looking the other way.

Hay--this is happening today.

California has one patch of land that people can go to die/live for nothing. They can pitch a tent. Drink the water they brought. Eat the food they brought. It's in the desert of California, ownded by a Teacher's Union? It's a piece of land the wealthy would let their dogs poop on. It's hell. Federal land? No--the rangers will monitor you like a melanoma. There's just nowhere to go when you don't fit in.

Yes--people will busy. Busy just barely surviving.

So many of us are just barely surviving, but taught to not complain. This is America? It's the land of opportunity? A country that helps those need with well funded Safety Nets. A country that made too many laws--laws that stomp on the poor, and unemployed.

Ugh. Some days?
Nice device, horrible software. If Samsung did another Google Play edition like they did with the S3, I'd buy one.

I've been looking for an upgrade to my current Android phone for a little minute. I just want vanilla Android and an aesthetic device. I don't care about the camera, bigsby, or face/touch unlock.

The Pixel 2 feels great, with it's super stock Android, but it's design is very lackluster. If I am spending a thousand dollars (Australia), then I don't want to make any compromises.

As a consumer, I'm feeling let down by the selection of phones. Honestly, the iPhone has never looked better to me.
There's a huge difference between using the prepackaged black box solution for the sake of efficiency (as everyone should), and not caring at all to understand even the basics of how it actually works. The later usually leaves one too intimidated to change anything and vulnerable to any unexpected situation. And things break all the time, you need to debug problems with tools and servers and run into all kinds of exotic issues. I once worked with a front-end dev who would restart his machine when he needed to reset a local web server, because "it's not his job" to learn a bit about using the command prompt. For me that is plain crazy attitude and it's not that rare...
What Android app do you use that does autofill? I use keepass and I could never find such an app.
I just can't wrap my head around the fact that they are about to have raised $2.3bn with a product that isn't released but in development for 8 years. 8 years. They almost started before the first iPhone.
"We believe you."
>>I quit electronics once I figured out that software gives me 'infinite parts' at a zero budget.

Same here. You can build virtually anything in software.
Thank you very much for sharing. I can see quite a few very valuable suggestions here. I'll try incorporating that in my way.
Not even a preview?

Also I like how the payment forms work but literally nothing else on this page.
> Oh, and why do you think that insulting me is an appropriate response?

Yeah, that was probably snarkier than necessary. But we increasingly live in our own little bubbles, and "folks hanging around the supercharger" is definitely a small one.
> > At least one person has already been killed in a crash while using a proprietary software auto-control system.
> This is just a silly argument. If there were an adequate sample size of open auto-control systems you could make a case.

You are taking the sentence without context, making it look like a silly argument. Kuhn was juxtaposing it to unfunded claims that open source is known to be more dangerous than closed source.

Later on the discussion takes a rational approach: "until you can prove that proprietary software assures safety in a way that FLOSS cannot..."
I don't think we mean the same by "control".
In my opinion, if your paper has content, it should not be difficult to publish it. Degree or not, the end result what everyone wants is high-quality content.
Most people don't buy $800 phone, they pay $30+/mo for two years until it is paid off or they trade it in for something newer and continue paying $30+/mo.

$30/mo is comparable to $20/mo for most people, and they get the newest shiniest thing (and non-tech people don't know that Android phones don't get updates after the new model comes out).
This lesson struck me hard when I was working with a major conference organizer. Even upon surveying them, they'd struggle to establish how attendees had heard of the event first. For the majority of attendees there was no direct way to correlate ticket purchases with ad spend because almost no-one immediately buys a $1000+ ticket after clicking an ad :-)
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Put it in one of those sealable jars with hinges - stuff a few packets of dessicant inside to stop condensation and you're done. If you need to pass through wires score a v-shape into the seal and make sure they get squeezed tight when you close the jar. Something like http://img4.foodservicewarehouse.com/Prd/1900SQ/AmericanMeta... make sure to get some extra sealing rings if you do passthroughs as it's hard to get the scoring right.
No, not really. I'm just thinking about my mom--she doesn't know anything about phones or technology, but she'll ask right away if Whatsapp works.

Also, in my original comment I was speaking more in general rather than about KaiOS alone.
May just invalidate a few patents..
The focus of Android One seems to be running an unmodified Android? I don't think there is an emphasis on a minimum hardware spec. The phones showcased there do impress.. https://www.android.com/one/ Is there a requirement for how long the phones are supported with software/security updates?

If I were to add to the brief spec I defined above I'd also require speakers at both ends of the phone for stereo output, and require keeping the 3.5mm jack (yay S9?). I still think Samsung likes to make slippery bar-soap phones that I cant hold.

I still don't like how permissions are done even on LineageOS - I wish I could grant access to the camera for an app "for the next 5 minutes".

Now I'm really off topic. I shall diminish ~
You're missing the entire point. It is fine to have a framework like AMP that puts up technical constraints leading to a performance-friendly web page.

The problem is the cache and specifically the preloading of it. This gives AMP an unfair advantage of multiple seconds over anything else.
Thanks for the info. Although the reason is even more stupid then I thought...
Please take money!

We will throw in another 5 if you also take your closet-case VP with you!
My wife has also experienced having a kidney infection with a clean urine sample. It happens.
Precisely - "marketers" these days don't grasp the concept of brand building. Just because you can measure directly results it doesn't mean the goal is to get a direct conversion - specially from a platform like youtube where people are actively consuming content - not buying stuff.

The idea of compound investment into brand building doesn't seem to exist.

I don't know if these guys thought that decades of TV advertising campaigns were made by clueless people, with no education, with no market research, benchmarks, that dumped millions to build reach and frequency to try to fill a small spot in the mind of consumers.
I'm interested if a free spot at the top of hacker news hot articles will end up being better in terms of advertisement than spending ~$14k on youtube ads.
Also a good time to mention “Van Eck Radiation”. This is something all CRT screens, and to a lesser extent, LCDs, emit. If you pick up this radiation and know the model of the screen being used, you essentially have access to a live visual of a person’s monitor.

Also worth mentioning that just like the Secret Service has an ink database on all the printer types in the world, the NSA is supposed to have a database of what different keyboards sound like. This means that simply by recording the sound of you typing, they can infer keystrokes / characters. Obviously the easiest way to record this is by hacking your phone, which is right next to you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
Indeed. People are subjected to feel more secure about a brand that is more familiar to them (e.g., Tide).
I wish sites like steemit realised if their front page is all meta content about how good the site/coin/blockchain is, it looks like a scam.
And my point is that what the minimum wage is doesn't matter anyway. You can't lower your minimum wage by law, but you also can't live on that, either. What does it matter if your salary is competitive with that of a machine if you can't afford food, shelter, or any other of life's necessities?

Minimum wage is, by all accounts, a success. It prevents employers from creating jobs that prevent a person from ever being successful. And we know that it's good and successful because we have the data to show that it does indeed raise the quality of living to a "barely first world" standard for many people. Seeing this on HN:

> not allowing people to have salaries competitively priced vs machines will cause most of the swift pain AI will bring.

is startling to me. Who does the OP think this person is that can live on $5/hr or lower? Minimum wage _as it is_ is arguably too low. It's sad that this illusion of "if you lower minimum wage, people will work for the lower wage" seems so pervasive, because it's thrown out as if minimum wage employees are trying to be competitive. If you've eaten twice in the last two days and you're about to lose your car, you'll work for almost anything if it means keeping your head above water for a couple more days. Minimum wage is a solution to a human problem, not a business problem. If a job can't be performed competitively for a survivable salary, employers shouldn't be allowed to say, "well if you don't mind not having heat in your home..." and should instead be forced to use automation. Yeah, it sucks being laid off, but there will always be more minimum wage jobs. If you take away minimum wage, now you're left with even fewer reasonable prospects of a job that pays a survivable wage.
Agreed. I always figured this was a meme that made it easier for the police to track you down (just do some forensics on the magazine paper, fonts, etc., and locate someone with matching subscriptions).

"Hey boss, we got a subscriber to Mad Bomber Monthly, Torture World, and BYTE."

(flipFlipFLip) "One of these three guys?"
Was it a company valued at $100M, or a company generating $100M in revenue? My guess would be the former - usually if the founding team has figured out how to reach $100M revenue, they're smart enough to avoid hiring the kinds of idiots you're describing.

At $100M valuation however, it happens all the time. I've seen it happen too, and it's very sad to watch.
Available systems in the marketplace seem to suggest that you either need a windshield with special light-filtering properties (as in new Volvos), or you get a separate piece of glass/plastic material to project the HUD onto (every other OEM system I've personally seen). But maybe the light sources simply aren't bright enough.
Most extreme west point is actually in Washington state (Cape Alava).
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hi, I'm the author of the article. I have no idea how to stop it. Bad press doesn't seem to matter, as this has been around for years.

One longshot I could think of is reporting it to the EU as anti-competitive behavior. In the case of exclusive AMP preloading on a dominant market (search), it's not that far fetched.
Yeah, but on WebOS it was a little different... the home screen was actually the open app list, and the app launcher was accessed from that home screen; compared to iOS, which has the app launcher as the home screen, and the open app list as a semi-hidden double-click feature.

I much prefer WebOS's approach. On the other hand, in those days you wouldn't really have more than a few apps open at once, unlike iPads which could have dozens of apps or browser tabs. So who knows if WebOS's style would translate well to today's usage patterns.
To me, it's not about magic, it's about the abstraction. Most implementations of this style of database demand that you consider internals of the engine before storing anything. If you don't design your keys the right way, then you're screwed down the road, and there's no way to fix it without just copying the data to a new table (and losing metadata like TTL). When I use something like Redis, or any SQL databse, I don't need to consider the inner workings of it unless I'm trying to absolutely max out my performance (one slight exception being atomicity of Redis commands).

But with LSM style databases, you are going to have a really bad time if you don't have a team member who has dedicated serious time to understanding the internal workings of LSM itself, and the details of your chosen implementation. That's a real mark against it, IMO.

tldr; LSM databases are like a colander in the world of leaky abstractions.
You could add multiple instances of “REDACTED” to show approximately how much stuff is missing I’d thats important.
Yes. Most UK libraries have a setup so that their members can use the online OED from anywhere on the internet (you just have to enter your library card number). It uses cookies so you don't have to log in every time you want to look up a word, so the user-experience can be very convenient. I have a firefox keyword search shortcut for it.
I remember reading this file back when I got Llamatron on a cover disk in the 90s. Jeff Minter has been a bit of a hero ever since then. Llamatron on the ST was/is remarkable and great fun.

It's strange to see the various turns that the industry took after Shareware. A small number of people did very well out of it; I'm not sure Yak did. But analyses of Shareware vs. Freemium are interesting. For example: http://www.whatgamesare.com/2012/08/freemium-is-not-sharewar...
> That’s the correct financial decision, according to traditional economics—to drive the extra distance no matter the original cost. Saving $50 is the same regardless of the amount of the item in question. But wealthier participants saw the savings in relative terms, noticing the percentage savings. By contrast, poorer participants thought in absolute terms. To them, $50 saved was $50 to spend on groceries or the electric bill.

Then traditional economics is a fool. Rich people value their time and their headspace. I’ve seen this again and again with someone close to me: they assign the same priority to tiny financial decisions as to big ones. They do make very optimized decisions but it is within a very small context. In the meantime they don’t realise the world of opportunity they are not seeing because of their obsessive focus on small items.
This was the goal of The Underhanded C Contest in 2008.

http://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html
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I tried 16.04.3 and it failed and after I did get it to install nothing worked.

I then tried 17.10.1 and it worked! All the hardware works even the backlit keyboard!

Thank you so much for letting me know you had success!
>YouTube allows you to pay to show an ad before a video plays.

Is also the reason why I installed an adblocker.

I do not know if anybody still remembers the time when ads were not intrusive and did not try to hog all the CPU cycles.
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>Really stood out to me - if anyone needed further evidence that Google is still an ad company, and that the free services are about driving ad traffic.

97% of their income is through ads. Maps, Docs, email, Google Plus, Youtube, even Search - it all exists only to increase advertisement profits, and to get ever more minable data from the users. If the ads money ever dries up for whatever reason, the entire company goes belly up.
I'd venture to say it's not the marketers acting on their own in many cases. Shit runs down hill. VCs want fast returns, CEOs want their investors to be happy about their CAC, marketers want to prove their value in this system. And EVERYBODY is obsessed with analytics, often as a poorly constructed crutch. You try pitching brand building in that environment.
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> "a nefarious legislative plan of cutting taxes and not spending, to intentionally manufacture budget crises surrounding debt, to cut social welfare programs"

That's an odd thing to cite as it really isn't a form of corruption.

A limited federal government is a core pillar of conservatism and the republican party. That "nefarious" plan is the what they (and many right-voters) consider the most viable strategy for reducing the size and scope of the federal government. I think you'll find more instances of corruption/pandering/populism on the right, in the places where they are expanding the federal government.

Its a bit like calling democrats corrupt because they have a "nefarious" plans to confiscate more of your money (in the form of taxes) to pay for federal programs.

I find this is the way many of the back-n-forths go in the "party x is more corrupt" game. <insert party here> is so demonized in the minds of their opponents, literally acting in accordance with their political philosophy appears like a form of corruption.

I guess the "they want to kill your babies!" style rhetoric actually works.
Xiaomi Mi A1 does, it is a android one phone and is expected to get Android P at launch.
Makes one wish we'd get closer to 100% adblock coverage...
Probably wanna stay away from boxing if you're looking to improve your memory.
I read the weather report (in Danish). [1] The local warming in Greenland has already happened in previous years at that particular weather station.

The spike in temperature was caused by a foehn-like wind -- same as a chinook wind in the Colorado or Wyoming Rockies; the temperature in Boulder CO can easily climb 10-20 C over a few hours and rapidly melt the snow, then return to a deep freeze the next night.

[1] http://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/arkiv/nyheder-2018/februar/plusgra...
The Raja fan died immediately on the pitch after the riot
Very useful post thanks. I didn't like your ad though. It doesn't show me the product. Every food item ad I've seen: slow pan on the food product and then someone eating it - inserted somewhere in the sequence. (Given that they all do this, I would bet there are million dollar marketing budgets somewhere with data to support that this works.)
Well, no, you're not "f--ked", there's just a pile of boilerplate. Not fun - and likely not worth it for the marginal benefit of being able to reuse + that way - but plenty possible.

And for what it's worth, I certainly agree that the way Num is structured is a wart in Haskell, and I think the previous two commenters agree. It's just that we should be clear about where the blame lies - and that's not the type system.
The article is looking at genetic differences, not environmental ones. The small gender difference in neuroticism is actually overexplained by the difference in rates of childhood sexual assault alone, meaning that if anything females are genetically predisposed to be less neurotic.
I know Addict was only mentioned in passing, but I am curious: is that becoming the goto authentication library for Elixir/Phoenix?

In my work with Phoenix so far, I've taken the author's roll-your-own approach.

It did take longer to setup than just including Devise in Rails, but I also understand exactly how it works so I think there is some benefit there.

But for folks just getting started with Phoenix (esp. from Rails), I wonder if there should be a goto Devise-like option.
Sure, but airline could show anonymous browsers the maximum price for any tickets, and only display discounts for customers known to be price sensitive.
We have to differentiate between prefetching from search and prefetching from the actual page being opened.

Google CAN preload arbitrary websites. They fully load your website, JS included, when they index it. As for the security problem when on google.com, they could still preload the HTML, CSS, webfonts, do all the DNS/HTTPS overhead, all of which would be safe to do, save those first few seconds, and create a level playing field.
good overview of how tokenized securities could disrupt the finance industry
This makes a good case for not learning machine learning three years ago. If you wait long enough for new paradigms to coagulate, you can use your energy more wisely during the chaotic transient period (e.g. by spending your effort on time-invariant parts of human knowledge, such as gaining a deeper understanding of parts of pure mathematics, or even philosophy or history), while you wait for a new set of fundamentals to converge, and really solid pedagogical explanations to surface.

The same could be said about skipping the earlier period of javascript frameworks. Had you used your time to learn things that are still useful today, and will remain useful decades in the future, while waiting for the industry to jump here and there, eventually converging to what seems to be a fairly robust steady state (react), then you'd probably be better off today than if you followed along with the hype cycle month after month.

A counter argument is that you might miss out on a lot of the monetary rewards that comes from learning the much desired skill that others don't have the time or will power to tackle in the period where doing so involves a lot of friction.