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Show HN: Block Stackoverflows “Hot Network Questions”
I find myself wasting time reading unimportant questions thanks to stackoverflows new "Hot Network Questions". I know a number of people here have mentioned spending too much time reading about workplace woes or movie plots so I wanted to share this.

It's easy enough to block that element using AdBlock Plus or uBlock Origin by adding the following line to your settings.

`stackoverflow.com##^#hot-network-questions`
I'm past ready for driverless cars. My quality of life would improve dramatically. No more stress caused by people who drive insanely. Assuming they don't hit my driverless car, that is.
"Hackers: Heroes of the Computing Revolution" is probably the most common source for those who "weren't there" about AI Lab, and it paints a story of the lab being destroyed by Symbolics, proprietary software etc. - I have personally seen the meme of "AI Lab hackers got bought out" with referrals to the book itself.

What a lot of people don't know is that one of the descriptions used by RMS to talk about how "AI Lab lost people", the story of how he couldn't meet people at lunch, isn't because they left AI Lab for "evil corporations". It was because a lot of people avoided RMS, especially after lawsuit often considered more crucial for the creation of GNU than the Xerox printer story (Stallman violated Symbolics-MIT source licensing deal).

From better sources, I have met two AI Lab members from 1970s - one even claimed to have been RMS' supervisor back when RMS was Harvard Undergrad working part-time (and if certain war story is to be believed, is indirectly responsible for Emacs happening) - the impression left was that a lot of RMS' AI Lab contemporaries wouldn't shake hands with him since 1980s.

Heard also interesting stories on RMS' mismanagement of early Hurd initiative and how it resulted in close to 0 work being done.
It is about choice and driving down cost. Love google keeps pushing the envelope which is good for everyone
I'm really happy Google are giving a go at making ChromeOS into something more than browser on steroids. I really believe this is a path to a decent Linux Desktop future.

I'm def considering getting a pixelbook for my main machine this year now.
There's some automated stuff for routing but generally speaking you will be answered by a person. They may get blocs of text as prompts to use and the kinds of responses they can give are quite restricted by their policies but they are still real people.

Also in this case she thought she was compliant with the rules, but according to Amazon (which is not always reasonable) she was not compliant. Amazon support tends to send out these kinds of robotic emails that require a very specific phrasing in response (again, like I said elsewhere in this thread, similar to playing a 1980s/90s text adventure game).

If you don't get the adventure game reference, in those kinds of games you would have to solve bizarre puzzles using a very specific syntax. If you had to open a lock with a key, you might have had to try a bunch of strings like >"use key in lock" > "You cannot do that." >"turn key in lock" >"You cannot do that." >"use lock with key" >"The lock opens. You can examine the drawer."

Once she included the magic phrasing that Amazon requested, her account was unfrozen.

You may think that this is just because she is some tiny author, but you would be mistaken. Even top ten US/international sellers with tens of millions of dollars of sales per year are held to the same silly standard and hitched up by robotic support people even when they pay over six figures for special reps at Amazon.
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What if Amazon got rid of reviews?
Tab compiletion while programming is hugely different then this completion and phone completion is somewhere in the middle.

While I am programming I usually know what method I want, I might not know the exact name but I know what it does and when I see it I select it. There may be a rare case where I want to see what methods are available but that is just a convient way to read "documentation". However this is guiding your sentence as you write it. I suspect that most people would have different phrasing if using this feature then they otherwise would.
Apparently blockchain related job titles are the modern day equivalent of "Special Projects"... a vesting, semi-working responsibility.
</sarcasm>
The US still has direct sanctions on Iran, which is why the US-Iran trade numbers are so low: very little is allowed. The nuclear deal only addressed the US’s secondary sanctions, which apply to the EU entities (and others) that are trading with Iran.
Now if they'd just give me resizable fonts in the Character Map app, I'd be a happy camper.
If you speak with a robot you should know that. If you can't tell, the robot should identify itself.
It's illegal, too - in at least 12 states, you cannot record people without their explicit permission. Impersonation could be a legal issue as well.
This supports that, yes, it was more aggressive 40 years ago, and simulatenously remind us that correlation isn't always causation:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-c...
You could go be a bankruptcy lawyer and write the same threatening letter over and over every day for the rest of your life
The standard in the 1960s, USAS X3.4-1968, actually prescribed both forms.

But (in §4.1.2.2) it "strongly recommended" that people "use CR and LF to obtain the effect of New Line".
Whoa there, you seem to have gotten your things_used_to_be_better metaphors mixed up:

DOS: install program by copying a bunch of files to a directory. Start program, won't work as it needs something in config.sys. Add that something, reboot PC, try again and the program now complains about not having enough low memory. Fiddle with expanded/extended/extruded/exploded memory to get those extra 15 KB which the program needs. Reboot PC, the program now works but that other program which used to work doesn't anymore as the special something in config.sys conflicts with its own very special something.

Modern OS: install portable application, problem solved.
I've heard it before but never really noticed it. Here's a reference on a page on confusing business jargon (!): https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/alternatives-t...:

"Surface [verb]: To make easily readable or noticeable on a web page or app
If you'd rather avoid it: Highlight; showcase; present; display"

"It’s easy to see how handy this word is for web developers, page designers, and business strategists, because it efficiently conveys both the goal and the act of making something appear online in a more prominent way. Although its meaning is transparent, it’s still new and specialized vocabulary, and probably will sound odd to most people."
Intonation is not the only way of showing emotion. (Regardless of whether I agree with it being unethical, a robot voice != a talking robot.)
>I think both arguments generalize,

I cringe at my own pedantry here but I think it's important to the larger conversation.

All arguments generalize. That isn't just the point of the argument, it is what an argument is - a synthesis and generalization of evidence. That an argument generalizes isn't the problem, how and to what extent the argument does and the implications and chain of evidence for the generalizations is what matters.
Lower GPU price for all, I am for it.
That doesn't even make sense. The restaurant booking, as shown during the presentation, can only be triggered through Assistant. It's not an API that you can program. You will still have to input it to the Assistant that book this restaurant on this date at this hour. And even if you do program that, Google can control it at the account level that things are not abused. You are assuming as if Google hasn't dealt with DDOS situations before.

Disc: Googler but nowhere close to the project.
> I'm unable to extract anything specific from your comments.

That's ok.
Programming is an art, and you, and me too, we are like artists in the meaning we juts don't want to give up being creative, and solving challenges is a large portion of the reward we get. Besides of the money of course, we all need that.
Seems like a great way to lose business.

You just got called by an AI trying to make a reservation for someone. Do you:

a) Let it book the reservation, and take the customer's money when they show up.

b) Hang up on the AI, potentially losing a sale. "Sorry, I tried making a reservation but they hung up on me."
On my Pixel 2, and the 1 before it, the Maps UI is sometimes weirdly jerky. Purely anecdotally, it feels like there is some blocking network IO on the main thread.
Two package managers are a bad idea. They would need to cooperate somehow. Pacman developers probably have heard of Gentoo, but I wouldn't call it "based on Gentoo".
heavier sure, general purpose I'm not convinced
Ok.. now it is good news for me ;)
RDF was not designed for arbitrary graphs. It was specifically designed for resource descriptions on the Semantic Web.

> reliance on the web infrastructure (IRI, DNS, web servers, ...)

This is the whole point of RDF. It is what enables Linked Data.

> I read the history of JSON-LD by one of its main author [1], and it does not originated in the RDF community.

Not sure what you mean exactly, but here’s from http://manu.sporny.org/2014/json-ld-origins/:

> JSON-LD started around late 2008 as the work on RDFa 1.0 was wrapping up. We were under pressure [...] to come up with a good way of programming against RDFa data.

JSON-LD definitely was always an RDF serialization, created by people intimately familiar with RDF and the Semantic Web.
I'll admit, a lot of the time, you just can't get good enough vacuum on Earth. The best we could do was the nano-torr range, but space is much better. This does effect testing somewhat. Also, a lot of the time, it's the 'black swans' that really matter. Fun fact: the Hubble flies butt first, as they experimentally discovered that meteorites will affect the telescope less than flying it lenses first. I can't find the pic right now, but there is a softball sized hole in the computer (butt) section.
The irony beeing that iran, culturally is much closer to the west then all those "natural" allies in the region except israel. The few iranians i met where quite open minded, scientific endavouring and driven people. Very creative.
They even have that messianic martyr streak that makes for such nice founder stories.

"For one year we suffered, wearing the cross of 16 h days- and then my company died, but on the third day, i pivoted and it ressurrected." the pull through narrative of the champions.

Iran is one huge memorial for top-down modernization gone wrong along with turkey and i presume very soon - saudi arabia. Turns out- that when some cruel elite percived as a outsider force inserts a ideology, the people will reject it quite violently and ralley behind whatever oppossition available.

The iran nuclear deal was a attempt to contain and prevent a local nuclear arms race. Which now will go into full gear i presume- israel has nukes, saudi arabia and iran will want them too - or at least join some retaliation strike pact like NATO. Which can be provided by any major nuclear force in the region. So lots of diplomats currently travelling and offering nuclear umbrellas.

The colonial era drawn states dissolve and entitys alligned by culture/religion re-appear.
What remains are some mixed out of the way clusters for minoritys, a small kurdistan, syria and a very large iran(including most of the former iraq) with some proxy states, and a wahabi- power block.
Turkey will be cut off from the wahabi-block and get stuck in something similar to vietnam.

Lots of the players will go for nukes to cement there conquered territories and enjoy the status of North Korea - in particular since the US seem to be on its way out into isolationism.

Russia supports iran currently by accident. Israel has chosen the lesser competent evil as ally and supports saudi arabia against iran- although the very same saudi arabia still propels most the religious narrative of the islamic oppossition to israels existance.

Its a great game, and the west is actually percived by now as a unreliable buisness-partner and dangerous - often absent replacable ally.

A good coherent strategy would be for the west to force its actual allies - not by propaganda or current ruler, but by cultural development direction( israel, kurds, iran) into a coherent block and leave the rest of the region to do what it always does, repeat past mistakes.

PS: North africa is turning into a bunch of warlords playing europe for ressources and bribes in return for holding refugees back.
Hopefully they considered this and the condition is actually "7 days passed or total loss of battery power occurred"
The hover text on that one is priceless.
apt-get is still the golden standard for installing apps on Linux because of its dependency resolution system, and being able to "sudo apt-get install <package>" is a core use-case for end-users (i.e. students who are learning how to use Linux / code for the first time).

Disclaimer: I work at Google, but not on Chrome OS.
It was the most impressive thing in the keynote for sure, but given the current state of AI we should have no reason to believe that this would work well enough to be employed at scale. It also feels weird that it is trying to trick the callee that it is a human. I believe even if they used a mechanical voice, the system could work, because businesses would learn to recognize the "google call" and respond to it the way they respond to any voice-enabled call center. It seems to me it is more of an (impressive) PR thing than something that will get actual use.
Wow! Thanks for this! I "signed up" and it looks very interesting so far
Nowadays Quora is a much better resource than SO. Much less jerk moderators, and good quality answers.
> Unless you're asserting that the hardware token is just as crackable as a password

That's completely outside the scope of what I was describing. You've taken my words out of context.
I can't wait to open this app and be faced with shame as I stoop lower into my depression induced by attention-maximizing technology. I want to change, google throwing low key shade on me via specific details about my habits isn't going to change that. The problem isn't to what extent I am wasting my time – that much is obvious.
I'm 30 and been doing software as a day job for a decade, and as a hobby for three.

Other than being passionate about coding, what keeps me going is taking regular breaks - small and big. And by break, I mean stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with computers: downhill longboarding, hitch hiking, sailing, etc ;)

The industry pays really well, even on average, so taking a 1-2 month break between jobs is totally doable. Finding a job in tech that allows you to balance work&life is a bit harder, but if you're any good, it's gonna be you choosing the employer, not the other way around.

Recommended reading: http://expatsoftware.com/
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What does it matter? What we care about is the cost. The TPU gen 2 are about half as much as using Nvidia in the Amazon cloud for the same work. To me that is what matters. If the TPU 3 further drops the cost fantastic.

How many chips sounds a lot more like a pissing contest. What if it was a giant chip with actually a bunch of chips inside? Who cares?
You're not crazy. Go to products -> maps, click on one of the themes, click on View live map. Like this one for example https://www.mapbox.com/maps/streets/

It's like they don't want to show it.
> I disagree about the ethics of this. This is no different than having your (human) assistant make an appointment for you.

Except your assistant is a human, and this is not. I can't quite put my finger on it, but I get extremely upset when I'm called by a robot. (If it's important enough to call me, it's important enough for a human to call me.)
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How does Chrome OS and its display server compare security-wise to a regular GNU/Linux distribution?

Is each desktop application going to live in its own sandbox?
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That's assuming that economic sanction or a retraction published on page C19 are effective resolutions.

If you are going to address this, it seems to me to almost require a pre-emptive rather than a reactive approach.
What about product liability?
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Favorite books:

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen. And Listen So Kids Will Talk.

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Spend with them? Who?
Anbox[0] already does that. It's not official, it's not from Google, it's not perfect, but .. it works, and integrates the android apps into your system (does not have a weird VM or few gigs of ram overhead).

[0] https://anbox.io/
Mindblowing .. Google AI calls businesses to book appointments
I believe they don't use Gentoo, rather they use Gentoo's build system (portage) to build ChromeOS.
They use their own tree (ebuilds) and they don't include portage into ChromeOS.
Corpspeak. Usually on part of Account Managers and sales folks, where every wheel (including the English language itself) must be reinvented in a cycle of no more than 5 years...

...or you're not "moving the needle."

I've been in agency for a decade or so, and yeah, this is pretty much how it works. Don't even get into the use of the word "agile" around here.
I wonder if we could solve phone spamming with this? By having the bot call back any robocall numbers to get one of their human salespeople on the line, and just waste their time. If enough people did it, would it destroy that shitty industry?
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Chrome OS puts the core operating system on a read-only partition, which is why people have been using chroots in developer mode up until now.
It's an absurd situation. After starting what's arguably the most successful phone hardware program ever (Nexus), Google has stopped making Nexus phones. The only phone they're selling at all right now is the $650 Pixel 2 with a gigantic 6 inch screen and no headphone jack. And even at that price they're only guaranteeing 3 years of updates.

After getting great and steadily improving hardware like Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 5X, we're now in a place where you can't get a high quality 5 inch phone with a simple rectangular display and headphone jack running vanilla Android at the $300 price point. Exactly the thing Nexus promised to provide.

I fear the day that my 5X dies. I guess I'll end up with something like a Mi A1.
The definition of "fake news" when I first heard the term more or less dealt with sites parroting outright falsehoods. It didn't necessarily have to be explicitly political. False gossip sites, outrage-inducing headlines to the wild side of the tabloids, fake business news (http://fortune.com/2017/05/30/fake-news-sites-local-business...), troll-ish article sites (ala the National Report), homeopathy woo (ala Natural News), and other conspiracy oriented venues (eg GlobalResearch, Infowars) were among the many types of "fake news" out there.

The political angle it has taken is unfortunate -- due to the prominence of "fake news" in the last US election; the net effect has been a devolution of the word into a snarl word for "I don't like your particular political point of view". IMHO what you are describing -- a news organization has a bias or opinion (strong or not), but still tries to maintain some degree of connection with factual data -- is not fake news.
You would turn down an appointment/sale because it was scheduled by a machine with a human voice?
We don't know this to be the case.

Unless you some evidence to the contrary ?
Something tells me those taking objection to my comment are missing the point that I am criticizing the parent....

If your counterexample is just reinforcing the parents erroneous point that WAFs only protect against specific applications with known vulnerabilities, and that not all websites have "doors", then you are missing the point that many WAFs have detectors for fairly generic sql injection and path traversal techniques that could very well find problems with even custom application endpoints....
Not sure why you're using future tense here.
Would doubt it and not really make much sense in 2018.
I want as little meaningless human interaction as possible and I can't think of a less meaningful conversation than calling to book something.

I also don't care if someone I probably won't even meet thinks I'm a tool for using bleeding edge tech.
To be fair, society was significantly more aggressive than it is now:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/01/30/5-facts-abou...

Violent crime rates both in America and within the developed world at large are way down. This is usually overlooked because we've now become hypersensitized to remaining acts of violence - a "mass shooter" that kills nobody but themselves is now all over the Internet in real time, while when I was a kid in the 80s, everyday violence within large swathes of American society would just be a "just another homicide in a blighted urban area, don't go there". But by the statistics, America today is a lot safer than 30 years ago.

Now, I have no idea whether this is because of spanking or not, and drawing a causal connection is much harder in the face of all the conflating changes within society since then. But it's factually incorrect to say that "society wasn't significantly more aggressive than it is now", because it was.
I'm not surprised your feeling has dissipated. A computer really can do anything you can think of. After that, I'm not surprised your utility from that has disappeared.

There are a lot of different types of jobs in the world. Most require you to sit at a desk in a suit and attend meetings. Programming is fun because problems come in text format and you can solve them in a sense that more abstract disciplines cannot, i.e if you run code and it does what you want, you solved your problem. If you want true happiness, solve problems you care about. That true happiness is rare in any industry though. You probably maximize it if you're your own boss.

The only thing that can keep you going is you. Try to understand what you love and do what you love until you knock it out of the park.
Sure, but they should consider the future. That number will only get smaller, especially if Duplex or other services say "we'll handle all your phone and online bookings for you for $SMALL_FEE, and still forward other inquiries to your phone as before".
I'd guess they wanted a simpler solution. Debian mostly has stable packages, but if users want more it is easier to get it compatible with Ubuntu repositories and packages.

For example if chromeos users wanted to install steam on their system having a Debian base would help.

Aside from this I'm really surprised that they are using Wayland instead of X11, this decision ought to bring some stability issues until Wayland gets widely adopted.

If I were to guess this feature has been added as a freetime project amongst Google employees. As such, I don't think we can expect continuity. If those developers go away/get reassigned or lose enthusiasm, I don't think Google would allocate resources to maintain a linux VM inside their OS. IMHO if it were important to Google that users could be able to use Linux apps, they would've strived for binary compatibility with Linux from the beginning.
Hence the sovereign citizen movement...
I totally agree.
I installed Moment on my iPhone a couple of weeks ago to track my usage and scale it down a bit.
My commitment was unrelated to the app though, and I was able to use my phone less. So much so that two days ago I disinstalled moment because the daily notification about phone usage had become just another annoyance.
Apps that want to help use apps less are superfluous.
So google is recording the content of our phone conversations? Did this corpus come from Fi?
Who is getting recorded?