skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm their target market then. What differentiates google for me is the SERVICES they offer: gmail, maps, search, photos, voice search, voice transcription, google voice.

Even if my perception is wrong, I picture google as a company that is better able to deliver cloud software. Since the hardware is all good enough now, what makes me consider going from Apple to Google is that I prefer google mail and google maps, and the google ecosystem. I also think google is better positioned to take on Amazon and Microsoft and Facebook. Apple is in a distant fifth place behind all those companies. And then you have Sony, which in many respects DOES have a better hardware ecosystem than Apple, for the home (speakers, playstation, cameras, televisions, headphones etc. and vue.) HomeKit and HealthKit are the two places Apple is competitive, and music/movie services are a dime a dozen at the moment, im not committing to an ecosystem if for example I liked iTunes/Beats more than Google Play. Lest we not forget Spotify and Roku are still independent beasts.

And on the other end Apples value proposition is that their store has all the flagship versions of apps (companies tend to treat iOS as their first class citizen) and privacy as a promise. That is a compelling sales pitch; to be treated as just a customer, not as something to be data mined and targeted.

Google REALLY needs to figure out Google Voice, Hangouts, Google News, Google Reader etc. Theres no reason Facebook should be a better feed and messenger, google has all the parts and talent, and cannot for the life of them unify them into a coherent simple product. Stop treating google voice like an afterthought, its a killer product. Google needs to figure out android vs chrome. Its very scary to buy into either of these product lines (at least I know my data is stored in google services regardless.)

Its a very hard decision right now to go Alexa vs Google Home, vs HomeKit. It sucks liking Swift apps, Google Photos, Facebook Messenger, DirecTV, Xbox Live, and Sony TVs. And pretty soon I'll need to have Sony, Disney, Hulu, Apple, Youtube, Netflix, Vudu/MGM, Prime, Facebook, xFinity, DirecTV/HBO/WatchTV (figure your shit out ATT). And that still leaves me without access to anything CBS/Viacom/Paramount, except what comes from DirecTV and VRV. Who am I trusting to make my multi-service experience the most pleasant; Roku, Apple, Google?

Ecosystem commitment is maddening, and paradox of choice has never made not participating more attractive.
And another thing, having severance will protect you from future mangers that fill the role you were trying for, especially if that position had authority over you. Bad managers, like things their way, some even build shit lists of employees they want out. So they do things like labeling people as having “communication issues” with no proof or examples (aka a kafkatrap). They then might also direct you to do something, then let you take the blame and lie stating they never to you and their boss, hence giving more fuel to pushing you out the door.

Having severance protects you from all this, as you are now untouchable by the new manager.
That proposal appears to only create additional restrictions: operating a drone under 200' without the permission of the property owner would be considered "aerial trespass". There was nothing in the article about guaranteeing the right to fly drones up to 200' over your own property. One presumes that under this proposal you would need the permission of both the property owner and the FAA.
You might not, but 90 people using other languages might appreciate it. That's a pretty good purpose.

Substituting ᱁𑛂೩᮴୫᱆᥍𑇘᱙꘠ for 1234567890, though: that would definitely be considered malicious. Even if it does work in Perl 6.
Google famously has no "internal" pages (but a lot of private pages of course).

Instead of using a VPN solution for off-site, they have a reverse proxy sitting in front of their back-office sites, the reverse proxy verifies user authentication (inc. 2F) and permissions before allowing access to the site in question (both from on Google's campus and off-site).

The theory goes that even if you break into Google's campus and plug into their corporate network, or find an employee's computer you'll still have no easier time accessing their private pages than you would otherwise.

It is actually a really interesting topic all in its own right.
Diff, designer / developer collab tool in app
Link to diff:

https://getdiff.app

Hey all,

I'm the CEO & Founder for getdiff. We are building a browser extension to help designers and developers collaborate in app and I'd love feedback or thoughts.

Some of the key differences of diff:

1. It runs inside your web app instead of a separate design only app

2. Designs can be attached directly to web elements (visualize only what needs to be changed rather than exporting an entire view).

3. It tracks and visualizes changes to your html and css

4. Live comments and updates

Any feedback, comments, or questions would be really helpful.

Thanks,
Diff team
The massive weight of the American military is going to be a wonderful addition to its enemies when they take it all over using "admin:admin" .
The alternative to closing the file in the destructor is leaking OS resources in the event of unexpected control flow destroying the file object. I fail to see how that is preferable.
Is that a picture of Nobel laureate Friedrich Hayek with the word "fraud" plastered over it? And what is the word "libertards" in the headline supposed to mean?

> It's The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Also known as the Nobel Prize in Economics, selected by the same institution as the other prizes (the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), announced at the same time as the other prizes, awarded at the same ceremony as the other prizes, and selected "in accordance with the rules governing the award of the Nobel Prizes instituted through [Alfred Nobel's] will."

> Just imagine the ridicule if instead of the Turing or Shannon awards we'd have the ACM Prize in Computer Science in Memory of Alfred Nobel, or the IEEE Prize in Electrical Engineering in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Why would that be ridiculous?
Yeah the iPhone 6S with its much improved SSD and CPU/SoC was really a game changer. With a new battery and iOS 12 I’m still really happy with mine.
I've done Python webapp development on an unmodified Chromebook that supported Android apps via Termux. The only catch was that the network layer doesn't make 127.0.0.1 the same for Chrome and Android so I ended up testing in Android Firefox, which is hilarious but worked fine.
Thanks. Meant the Nokia as you said... I was too fast with typing and cannot edit anymore ;)
And I agree to your comment. I had Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 5, Nexus 5X and Nokia 7 Plus is the best so far.
I thought there was no sound in space? "Boom" sounds like a sound to me.
We're getting into subjective stuff, but for me once I get more than 3 notification icons up there what I get from glancing at it is less "here are the specific notifications you have" and more "you have a lot of things you need to address". I think I generally don't get a benefit out of having 8 or whatever notifications visible at once.

I get that it is still a downside. It may not be a big downside for everybody though.
And you don't think such a device could be made quite a bit smaller today, with better manufacturing support?

I'm thinking it's entirely plausible that such devices exist, and are broadly in the wild. Mostly targeted. That said, our own govt (US) is not innocent. Neither are China, Russia and many others. It's what government espionage actors do.

I think it's a fault of many that US mfg has fallen off as much as it has, and that critical infrastructure would allow foreign mfg in general. Or at least final inspection and assembly internally. Not just the US, but most countries.
> I am talking about just using basic references & borrowing.

... yes, I know. And is presumably what you referred to as "trivial." But this in fact comprises the vast majority of Rust code I've written. So you can call it trivial if you want, but as I said, it significantly reduces the weight of your dismissal.

There's plenty of Rust code I've written that makes use of Arc/Rc, specifically for cases you've called out (global caches, structural sharing, etc.) but it's nowhere near ubiquitous. So what I'm trying to say is that your representation of the problems that Rust solves is at best misleading, as supported by my experience writing a not insignificant amount of Rust.

So in other words, sure, you can call most of my code "trivial," but on the other hand, I can say that the problems posed by you in your top-level comment are actually solved in most of my code, regardless of whether you think it's trivial or not.
Edge to edge on sides is easy enough. The reason why all Android phones have a noticeable bottom chin is because you have to house the display driver (essentially, connections to OLED) somewhere. Apple's idea is to sacrifice part of display and bend it, so the display driver could be underneath the display. It's expensive, requires complicated engineering and manufacturing, and is also patented.

It's way cheaper to just house the driver below the display, as all the other phones are doing.
There was a popular story a few days ago explaining how this could have worked. You're not trying to override "1000+ connections," you're trying to influence how the system boots. If you can force the system to load a bootloader from the network instead of from ROM, you can make it do all sorts of things.
I upgraded from the iPhone 6 Plus to the iPhone XS Max, on a complete whim. The biggest difference is of course, snappiness of applications. The OS, not so much, because I think Apple does a good job at maintaining iOS. But Spotify used to take 8 seconds to cold boot for me on my 6 Plus, and sub-second on the XS Max.

I would love to see hardware upgrades halt for five years while we all (collectively) get our software shit together and optimize everything for performance. That'll never happen, because I think it's in our human nature to Get Things Done in the short-term with compromises that affect the long-term.

Poor software performance is our digital world's global warming.
Imagine trying to fix something that's not exactly like things you've dealt with before, but of the same nature. While you're concentrating on the problem, several people around you are talking about related things, using similar terminology, but trying to accomplish something else.

It's wonderfully distracting.
All true. I would like to tack on, that Apple recently stopped providing the included 3.5mm headphone adapter with newly purchased iPhones (include iPhone 7 and 8 purchases)[0].

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/12/iphone-xs-tidbits-airpower/
Essential showed their notch what, one and a half years ago?

Apple is good at making features user-friendly, but rarely are breaking completely new ground. Perhaps it's easy to miss that if one doesn't follow tech that closely.
I own many voting shares in Google and I support them whenever they decide to choose whichever side they think benefits humanity more. They have good heads on their shoulders and I trust their decision making. Google oftentimes is just trying to make the world a better place and fill missing needs. Say what negativity you want but the world would sorely miss them if they weren’t around.

If you want a stock that soaks up DOD contracts, pick up Raytheon. I have a friend that works there and he can’t tell anyone what he does there.
It’s not that different either, only google phones 2 years old will get android p, exactly like gp said that is the case for android ones.
This is what I am thinking as well. The initial denial could be due to a gag order if the investigation is ongoing or if the information was simply deemed classified. However, to go to these lengths to deny the story makes me feel that Bloomberg may not have gotten all the facts straight.
P/E ratios in the USA are more favorable than many emerging countries. Given how expensive some of these countries got; and how shitty they are still are they'll need to correct. They still make very decent money even though they are well below the US or the western world on a per capita basis.

The rich of these countries will need to flock somewhere. While you might think that the prices of the USA stock market is high, these guys will find the deal favorable to what they have in their own countries.

It is not only Turkey that seeing the correction. Many countries in North Africa, South America, SEA, Russia, South Africa are getting squeezed. You'll be surprised at how much money is looking to leave these countries and settle shop somewhere safe.

You just need a passport and a tourist visa to open a bank account in the US. Moving your business there is pretty straightforward if you have enough turnover and will to pay some taxes.
Hey, OP here. Thanks for reading.

For sure, this was a bit intentionally glib. My own understanding of macroeconomics is relatively light, so I linked to two different perspectives on this event and glossed by it a bit.

The point I was trying to make (suggest? raise?) was that regardless of your views on printing $2,000,000,000,000, the crazy Cost-Disease-funded-by-debt does not appear to be a symptom of a banking system gone mad chasing risk (ala 2008). Which means it can rationally go higher still, which means it will keep going higher, past the point where all surplus wealth generated by the median Americans is consumed.

I was just trying understand what was fueling this fire, and whether it was rational or irrational exuberance.
Finally - a script that also includes a positive life impact!
retire it in favor of Angular 6
It means he makes money off of it, i.e. he works in the field.
The Specialized Field of Fetal Surgery
The vast majority of people don't have a year-old phone, never mind a flagship model.
>"We're talking about different things, the 'intent' I'm talking about, and is the subject matter of this thread,..."

No we are talking about the same "intent." Your response was to the point being articulated in the two parent posts.

>"Some people in this thread have suggested Google dropped out because they couldn't meet specifications to get certifications, that's the cynical interpretation"

No the cynical interpretation is that your company dropped out of this Pentagon business due to some moral considerations.
I used to do normal, line-of-business programming and I stand by the comment.

If it sounds like I'm saying that Haskell is not useful for boring, line-of-business programs then I wasn't clear... Haskell is a research language, yes, and not exclusively so. But I'm confused why it's objectionable to spread a "myth" if that myth is, in your words, "not wrong". The stated purpose of Haskell, when it was created, is a matter of historical record.

> It should be suitable for teaching, research, and applications, including building large systems.

This, to me, means that we are not going to freeze the language, and sacrifice research, in order to support business applications. That would go against the goals of the language.

Doing everything as a library seems "un-Haskellish" to me because there's an ongoing and vibrant community that's doing research into things like type theory, which can't be done as libraries, and kicking that group of people off the Haskell platform just to support business applications would be a failure of Haskell as a language.

Haskell can support both groups.
Personally, I only use italicization when I make a digressive sidepoint (for instance, using e.g. or examples given), or offer a different perspective away from the central voice I use. Its a matter of formatting preference though. Italicization helps improve readability of writing if used correctly

I have never really seen anyone in the states use italicization with the "No, thank you" example. Its better to just use emojis instead to get the same message across. Italicization used this way is sometimes treated as sarcasm or passive aggressiveness. Using italicization this way more excessively eventually goes to things like * <bashes away at keyboard> * or writing actions in written form. Those aren't subtle, but they are really awkward to read.
The story literally quotes the general of the NSA, saying they go though the FBI to get a FISA court order to compel the company..

Additionally, the story quoted talks about how the UK obtained the data and gave it to the NSA.

Nowhere is the NSA installing covert implants. They just don't do that.

The CIA does that :)
Do you know that Perl 5.0 actually had less syntax than Perl 4? It had more generalizable syntax, and was mostly backwards compatible, but it had fewer actual syntax rules!

Useless trivia. Both the . and the -> notations for OO programming have their roots in C. If foo is a struct, and bar is a property of the struct, foo.bar pulls that property out. If baz is a pointer to foo, then baz->bar does likewise.

In Perl the . was already taken for string concatenation, so -> was the next reasonable choice. And the analogy is surprisingly exact. For example if $foo = $bar = {} then calling bless($foo) will also bless $bar since both are just references to the actual object.

As for lots of ways to say the same thing, TIMTOWTDI was an intentional goal.
I’ve been using Netlify since at least 2015 and it’s invredible.

I’ve put a few small paying clients on their platform.

I hope they succeed!
Asus zenfone max pro M1 has a close-to-stock version of Android 8.1. I am using it for the past couple of months and pretty happy with the phone.
Do you vote? Do you invest? Do you say, I'm not the problem, someone else it?
duplicate, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18168400
I mean, I guess it's not documented as well as it could be, but the only alternative to dropping close errors would be panicking, and that would be significantly worse. Destructors aren't supposed to fail.
Don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. Most people don't have the power to make their employers remodel their offices. But most people can buy a pair of headphones and make their open office more bearable.

Getting a new job is not a good solution either -- lots of tech jobs are in open offices or cubicle farms these days.
Just brought in my 6s for the $29 battery replacement. Hanging on to this thing as long as I can.
This is absolutely brilliant:

“As for the design? Cash says they modeled the glasses after the 1988 film, They Live, in which a magic pair of sunglasses exposes the subliminal messaging in advertisements. When viewed through the special lenses, billboards revealed messages like OBEY, CONSUME, CONFORM, placed there by aliens to surreptitiously control humanity. It struck Cash as the perfect metaphor—just replace the alien overlords in the film with the mind-hijacking companies of Silicon Valley.“
Octobox maintainer here, we’ve done a lot of work recently to make Octobox work better and fast for power users. I’ve heard that Shopify is using it to handle very high volumes of notifications and seem to be happy users.
Doing business?

How many US companies do business in China, and have at least some access/collection of Chinese users' data? Are they all traitors?
The market is basically in a holding pattern. New features tend to be situational and the performance improvements are pretty modest year-over-year. What's more, even old phones are fast enough for most uses, so even when the new one is 50% faster that's not a huge deal. It's hard to justify $800 to make a webpage load in .75 seconds instead of 1 second.

I'm still using my iPhone 6 and iOS 10 (I have some 32 bit apps that I still use). I'm considering swapping the battery instead of buying a new phone. Right now I would only upgrade if I severely broke it.

In some ways it would be a downgrade, because I use the headphone jack to wire it into my car's audio when doing navigation, and plug it into the cig lighter because navigation is a battery hog. It's pretty clear that Apple has no intention of ever bringing back the headphone jack.

Maybe I could find a bluetooth adapter on a headphone jack? I wonder if it could draw enough power from the headphone jack to not need a battery? Probably not.
Sure, that's what the design doc says: https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub43231

As for the implementation...
Robotgo v0.60.0 is released, desktop automation, refactoring window and example
> An application could provide a user frequent alerts to get back to work or put the phone down if they’ve been using it for 10 minutes or more. Taking the idea further, there could be some financial or other incentive (maybe the user escrows some money toward buying something they want) if they hit their goal.

I recall an application made for college students that rewarded them for not using their phone during their lectures. I believe it it called Pocket Points [0].

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-points-college-reward...
That's probably why they didn't use the word "free", yes.
Except you can’t walk into a store and walk out with a repair or replacement.
The Essential phone came out on August 25, 2017, and the iPhone X came out in November of the same year...
Except they didn't keep it wrapped, did they? And people all the way to the CEO knew about it.
I get your point, though I actually like the intent of a lot of these devices. I mean, if the smart refrigerator weren't so overpriced, I can see the value in a calendar and shopping list on the refrigerator. Its exactly why people hang paper ones there, but with the added benefit of being synced.

But yeah, there are definitely a lot of overboard cases. I can't imagine using the Alexa microwave or voice controlled headphones. Some of these definitely have a 2008 app store vibe to them.
I am working on building a teach your kids how to program with Scratch 3.0 tutorial. It is slow going, but my daughter is having a lot of fun working out the details
> This is common information security practice.

No it isn't.

If every vulnerability in every product turned into a "We've been breached" disclosure the industry would be a disaster.

Yeah, they didn't keep sufficient logs and they fucked up really badly there. Still silly to call it a breach.
Netlify is great. I have 5 sites there. All for free. My only concern is that it's too good to be true. I hope nothing changes for the worse (i.e. they get bought and cripple the free tier).
Excel and Powerpoint were successful product acquisitions for Microsoft; Maps and Android were successful product acquisitions for Google. Both did better post-acquisition than they could have on their own.
If you want to see what full neighborhood teardowns look like, plan a visit to Vancouver, BC. The number of McMansions popping up all over the place is shocking.
Is no one going to mention that the named source is ex-Israeli Unit 8200, whose alumni themselves have a long record of espionage in the US telecom sector?
Pixel comes with unlimited photo and video storage in the cloud, and will automatically delete backed up photos and videos if you start running out of storage. Any phone besides a pixel I would need above 128gb, but with the storage management I've never run out of space on my 64gb pixel 2 xl.
Agreed scrolling on mobile safari is borked, will definitely get that fixed up!

Privacy policy is at https://octobox.io/privacy
Great point.

But ... you can sell to parents. Their _job_ is to place helpful limits on their kids due to the fact that the kids' frontal lobes can't (yet?) do it for themselves.

And "tech addiction" is a huge problem among teens.