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> Does this mean that third-party launchers won't work, even on custom ROMs?

No, this is just an app launcher. You can still install a different one.

> I don't like the idea of Google having that much level of access to data about my homescreen. Even if they're not accessing this data now, it seems that they're setting the stages for that a few versions from now.

If you're running the default app launcher today, I don't know who you thought wrote "GoogleHome.apk", even if you didn't know the name. If you're not, then just keep running the one you are.
Look at the 4KB demo scene from the early PC era to see just what is possible with sound and video in a tiny amount of space. Audio processing algorithms can be extremely simple and tiny.
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Really? I make like... 3 calls a week from my phone, generally of low importance. I deal in hundreds of emails which range from the trivial to bank account details. Why would I trust Google with the latter and not the former?
Sharing some of the analytics behind how you think people use the site would probably make for a much more interesting discussion around monetization.

EG - I can't figure out how or why 6m uniques would show up here, or what they're doing.

And that's not an insult, I am curious - are they looking for discovery / trends? Are they looking to see all the latest pics of a user? etc?

Those are dramatically different user segments / values.

You've got a bit of a 31-flavors UX where I can do a lot, but as a result wonder if you could massively pare this down, improve focus, and discover monetization through understanding what people actually use it for.
While you nitpick on grammar, I'll remind you that "their" is plural. ;) /s
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For advertisments, maybe.

If they were interested in privacy, it wouldn't be difficult to fetch top-10,000 information for municipalities you live in. It could pre-fetch data for future locales if it sees you have a plane ticket somewhere... just a thought.

I doubt Google could provide you relevant feedback for a private phone number 2,000 miles away anyhow--that would basically be just trolling for information.
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Reading the developer release notes, it sounds like they are making it easier. I haven't played with it myself, so I don't know the details yet.
I will if you pay me a Mac :P
It's not Reddit's "politics section" but one of the many subreddits - independently managed forums, each with its own policy.

This distinction should be obvious to anyone familiar with the platform and a more accurate title would be "the /r/politics subreddit bans..."
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Fucking awesome. Thanks for that link.
Third-party launchers still work fine. As far as I can tell this is just making the Google search app the default launcher on Nexus 5 / Google Play edition phones and adding launcher functionality to the Google search app.
In the hardware/embedded engineering world, this is what is known as The Moment. How long it takes for a developer to experience The Moment is correlated with how closely they are to the metal. I'm not sure if it's the solder, the silicon, or the flux, but it seeps into your mind and slowly, but surely, The Moment will happen.

The project is going swimingly well. Smoother than normal, actually. The calm before the storm. Suddenly, abruptly, your device fails. Maybe you were there, maybe someone else reported it; neither makes it less mysterious. You brush it off with more important things to do. It happens again. Now it bothers you; top priority. You try for hours to make it happen consistently. No amount of tin foil, bunny ears, or interpretive dance will make it happen again. So you give up, you start steel plating the code. Paranoid error checking everywhere, setting variables twice, resetting, extra padding on all the timing parameters. PARANOIA. You code begins to look like a lunatic wrote it. But the bug never happens again. Your paranoia and double guessing fixed the problem.

The Moment! From then on, whenever something doesn't quite _feel_ right with your projects, you start inserting strange, almost ritualistic incantations in your code. If anyone asks why you decided to sleep for 14.23ms instead of the prescribed 10ms, you just call them a devil and run away back to your ancient cross compiling GCC and make a sacrifice to the Upstream Gods.

I feel for the author. From that Moment on, his code will never be the same. His sanity, now left on the cutting room floor along with the trust he once had in Datasheets and Programming Manuals.

Embedded 4 Life.
No ads if you sign in with twitter? Maybe that's the problem, since it's a search engine specifically for twitter...

I'd be curious to see some information regarding the number of ad impressions/clicks too. The only ad on the homepage is way at the bottom (I think).
I don't understand if it has 6 million unique visitors a month, how can he not monetize this? This seems to be more about how the revenue via advertising has dried up. Can barely pay for the servers !?
The moderators of Reddit take bribes.
Wow I am really in a tough spot. For me to cover my family and my spouse will be $630 a month for bronze i.e 60% coverage.

for zip code 03570

I recently came across http://samaritanministries.org/intro/ and it's much more appealing.
It's already been done. Get yourself an N9 (same hardware as the lumia 800) or an N950 (most beautiful phone hardware I've ever had the chance to use but hard to come by as only a few thousand units were produced) and install nitdroid.

The problem is that the OS and hardware really go hand in hand. Installing a completely different OS than the one the hardware was designed for often results in a disappointing device. The N950 running Meego for example is still to this day what I would consider the pinnacle of hardware and software engineering when it comes to smartphones. It looks gorgeous, it feels amazing - no other smartphone I've ever used (and I've used many) comes close.

But install Android on it and it suddenly looks and feels like an unsightly brick. The way android looks like, the UI gestures, the way Android is meant to be used in general is different than Meego and it doesn't fit the hardware at all. It's loads of subtle and seemingly small details but the end result is a very unpleasant device.
Don't panic. No changes to API related to launchers was announced. That means launcher is still an app.
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On linux, you can use espeak as it is installed by default as text-to-speach engine:

echo "Nexus 5 launched" | espeak
Which sites were banned on grounds of reporting about reddit protecting that "violentacrez" pervert?
Jumpers are not expensive. You've already got dozens of the same kind of pin inside of every classic IDE and floppy connector on a motherboard.
This was my reaction right away as well. But anymore when it comes to "convenience" there is certainly a price to be paid. Here, it is (at a minimum) perceived loss of privacy.

Just as I intentionally inconvenience myself to avoid places like McDonald's, I'll do the same here.
> If you're running the default app launcher today, I don't know who you thought wrote "GoogleHome.apk"

Well, that statement was in the case in which the third party launchers are no longer available (or simply a layer on top of the Google launcher, in which case Google still would collect the data either way).

If Google's launcher is fully replaceable, then that's not an issue, as long as it stays that way.
Site-wide bans really rub me the wrong way. It implies a very simpleminded, idealistic understanding of organizations, as if all the writers and editors were a single hivemind -- as one spams, so do all the others. But the reality is more complicated than that, and while there are pragmatic considerations at play here, it's sad that there can't be a more granular-kind of ban, because each of these organizations put out some fine works of journalism, no matter what your gut reaction to the organization may be.

Huffington Post, for example, won a Pulitzer last year for an extremely important (and still undercovered) topic:

http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-National-Reporting

As far as HN goes, I wish HN could remove the site-level ban on Buzzfeed. Yes, mercilessly flag the shit out of its "23 Gifs about some Linkbait topic" articles, but they've been investing some money and resources into serious and original work.

They have a longform section:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/longform

They were the employer of Michael Hastings, the late-investigative reporter who died in a LA car wreck: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-hastings-r...

And they recently hired one of my former colleagues, Pulitzer Prize winner Mark Schoofs, from ProPublica, to lead a new investigative team:

http://jimromenesko.com/2013/10/21/mark-schoofs-leaves-propu...

Then again, you could always argue that BuzzFeed's (and their linkbaity peers) good contributions aren't yet enough to outweigh the burden of modding their junk.
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I loved my debian and I still do. But the last hdd fail prompted me to try something new and I was very busy at the time. Naturally I wanted the OS to work 'just outside the box'. I'm reasonably satisfied with the Mint now.

Sort of.
So if NYC just made airbnb charge the 5.875% tax, most of their complaints would go away? And by increasing the hotel supply, hotel prices would go down to better match actual long term renting? Then it would create a more liquid housing market enabled by computerized markets? It would still allow casual renting of people's houses that way.
You can hate Gawker all you want, but I find they consistently produce great prose that I enjoy reading and often find educational and valuable. Not all the time, but you can't write off the entire org just because of defamer. Sure it's snarky, I appreciate that sometimes though, especially when you're writing about something as pathetically retarded as the US govt. shutdown or Sean Parker's wedding and his ridiculous defences hence.
pg could vastly improve the tech world productivity if he would set a general noprocrast at certain hours.. from 10 to 12:30 and 14 to 16..

The individual noprocrast is not very useful at least for me, as I don´t have the willpower to keep it on..
I would hazard a guess that it's more to do with the reaction of the commentators on r/politics to the articles these sites put out than anything else. Here on HN there are certain topics which tend to descend into pointless roundabout arguments and typically these tend to disappear off the front page fairly quickly.

I'm guessing the mods got fed up with policing the same tedious/endless/toxic conversation and decided to kill off the major causes of them.
It seems quite ironic that this was written in Slate - I have seen just as many examples of bad journalism from Slate as from HuffPo/Mother Jones.
There was definitely speculation at the time that Morris the elder was the source of the DES encryption code in the worm. I can't google up any references, but I distinctly recall that idea bandied about.
This episode exposes a weakness in Reddit's overall structure, namely the opaque process whereby moderators are chosen. When domains are banned completely and against the wishes of the broader community it shows that Reddit's otherwise democratic processes can be fairly autocratic.

The solution is a system where users can vote on who is a moderator. Between this and /r/worldnews Banning of Russia Today it is apparent that moderators have far too much power over the content of various subteddit's.

Such voting could be limited to once per month, and two users who have a certain karma. There might even be an opportunity for a competitor site which does this very thing.

Edit: The number of moderators should be a function of the number of subscribers as well.
See above for Mongo vs Redis. As for "feature completeness", this is a pretty feature complete job scheduling library. It leaves the writing of a Web interface to someone else, but for scheduling jobs it gets the job done. (Haha, that pun was irresistible)
I like that the columns get progressively less intelligent from left to right. If you ever finish the entire third column, call an ambulance immediately. You may have suffered a stroke.
> Interesting. Please provide empirical evidence indicating that fewer people use KDE now than 10 years ago. Thanks.

I'm one of the people that moved from KDE to Gnome after the fuck-ups with KDE 4.x. Plasma taskbar became unreadable after a few hours use and they kept blaming nvidia drivers when in fact plasma had a pixmap leak. I moved on and never looked back.
> class="cf-captcha-submit"

Yea, looks like its a custom CF page. I got the standard CF captcha screen when going to pastebin. Screenshot and HTML source below.

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/bylyqlM

HTML: http://pastebin.com/6HrfCWFY
News sources are now saying that the TSA agent is dead.
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I emailed a few months asking about an internship in Chicago but got no response. Are there spots open for interns?
I was under the impression that every state provides a foster home or group home for children in need. Is that incorrect?

(Granted, I'm under the impression that these systems suck. But it's not as if there is no effort to care for the children.)
My company has straight up told me that they know I'm a "flight risk". I've been there for a year and a half, and they know I'm looking to do "bigger" things then what I currently work on.

So, they've been continually giving me raises. It's really nice, but frankly, it doesn't matter. I'm still interviewing elsewhere.

They're right; I want to go somewhere where I'm challenged, and unless they can pay me 40% more than what I'll make on the free market, I'm a "flight risk".
The ban list changes are pretty clearly ideologically driven, not arbitrary.
Engadget was banned sitewide on Reddit and then got unbanned shortly. Maybe the same thing will happen with this too.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/31/engadget_reddit_spat...
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I just don't buy that everyone is equally a bad actor here. Even if we take for granted that Google are two faced liars who secretly love patents, their public messaging is completely different. Google repeatedly has come out against them. The members of Rockstar brag about their patents, even flaunted them in the iPhone announcement. That difference is enough to make me draw a line in between the companies.

Of course, as Gruber's mocking of Android's openness has shown, he believes attempting to live up to an ideal and failing somewhat is worse than not even trying. At least when it comes to Google.
I'm going to hold judgement until I understand the size of licensing fees being requested (and if there is a separate FRAND rate for any Standards Essential Patents).

Google bid $4.4Bn for this portfolio so they must have see value and/or danger in these patents. I disagree with the article's statement that "Google has plenty of patents" as this doesn't seem to the case in the current battles with Apple and Microsoft. The Motorola purchase doesn't seem to have helped much in this area either.
Nothing wrong with it, but MS decided to go the Apple route by providing a locked-down system. That works well for 90%+ of the population, but I need to be able to use my device as I use my PC, installing and configuring anything I want. Android and its custom ROMs are the best offering I could find. Ubuntu and Firefox OS could be good alternatives too.
I get that people are trying to be helpful, and think that's great.

But this blog post was awesome, raw, and captured something that so few of us can really relate to.

Dude grinds for 10 years, keeps grinding, doesn't know where to go but will probably keep grinding.

"Twicsy, you son of a bitch. You frustrate me so. I love you, but oh how I hate to love you."

Shine on, buddy. Best of luck!
Have you thought of doing in content ads when people search specific things? I.e. If I look up "party" maybe there's an alcohol ad or an ad for a local bar. I have so many ideas around this.
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It appears the pictures are actually hosted on Twitter, so not that much traffic.
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Zoning is still a contested topic, it has been blamed for enabling much of the NIMBYism in America for example. Another one is creating huge traffic and commuting situations that don't need to be there by putting business in one zone, housing in another and forcing people to move between the two every day. It makes such things as shopkeeper residences where the shop is on the first floor and the family who manages it lives on the second or third floors significantly more work.
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It depends on how you view it. From a FOSS standpoint, yeah it might be a bad thing. From a user experience standpoint, being able to get new features for your existing phone without having to install a custom ROM is a pretty big bonus.
There's a good section on the Morris worm at the back of "The Cuckoo's Egg", too.
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This is all because of the Lumia 520, which is really driving Nokia's sales. There is a good space at the low end of the smartphone market and with people moving towards prepaid or no-contract in the US, a cheap off contract smartphone like the 520 is a really winner.

This is also good because Nokia is like 80+% of Windows Phone sales, so that means Windows Phone is creeping upward against Android (for better or worse)
Presumably there's only so much caching you can do it this case - the points change on articles every second. Not like everyone has to see the most up to date content but it would be a trade off (that many wouldn't like)
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interesting!

Question regarding the security restrictions - why disable built-ins such as `all`, `set`, `list`, `enumerate`, `min`, `sum`, `sorted`, etc?
I'm pretty sure the competition aspect has nothing to do with it. The moderators are unpaid volunteers, and Conde Naste has historically been incredibly hands off.