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Depending on what you dislike about the UI, you can probably make it more to your liking by using a different launcher (Nova is the one I use). It lets me make one or two minor changes to bring things more in line with my preferences but otherwise is just as fluid as the stock Google launcher.

Cyanogen is fine and has some nice features if they apply to your personal usage but the thing about games wanting to log into your Google account would likely be the same. It's the equivalent of Apple's game center or whatever it's called. It's basically a universal login for games so you can keep progress/settings saved across devices. I haven't found any yet that require it but typically it's an opt-in thing if you care about that functionality. I've only ever been asked to sign in on first run of a newly installed game so it's not nearly as obnoxious as the ones that constantly pester you to connect with Facebook or some other thing that's completely unrelated. On a Google phone I can understand using Google's games framework for your game profile but it's annoying to assume I want to use an unrelated service (Facebook) or even have an account with them.
> Sigh, par for the course for any patent-related reporting on Ars.

Honestly, I think there's a quality drop all around and not just in patent-related articles. Reading the comments on any legal-related articles is as much fun though as people watching in the homeopathy section of Whole Foods.

On 1, I didn't look at the cited references, but it'd be interesting to see if any of the Bluetooth-related patents were included.

On 2, I guess the only objection I have to NPEs are the type operating through shell corporations wherein their risk-exposure is so low that they can fill the courts up with frivolous crap. It'd be interesting to see if there was a way to curb that behavior (like putting up a bond or something). Are you aware of any proposals?
Google's screen reader integration could be hooked into, would be better than OCRing a screenshot.
This does not give you people who are talking about your own product. It gives you people who are already using your competitor's products but are looking to switch to something like your product.
Actually I'm asking because I'm curious whether the mind has the same limitations as a Turing machine.

I really like the simplicity of your example, but it seems like it only works if you can't see the source code. If you see the source code---which is what you'd allow to any Turing machine---why couldn't you figure this out very easily?
Now the NSA is in your hard drive, says Kaspersky
But you get the snow! (I'm visiting Boston at the moment. Crazy).
But private companies in your country tend to work better than the state, unless protected somehow by that state, don't they?
They were never utopic, so communism wasn't on the agenda. They wanted socialism to varying degrees.
Tried the email builder, loved it.
I not tested on iOs devices but https://www.codebox.io/ is interesting IDE and it's open source if you want install it on your server.
For real computers, yes, but we're talking about Turing machines. :-) By your logic there is no halting problem at all because every machine will eventually halt. A Turing machine has infinite tape and infinite time.
> Office U.S. and U.K. are really different shows, US Office dropped all pretence of the reality/mockumentary,

Did it? The US office continued the "looks" at the camera, the interviews; at one point the documentary crew was attacked (and it turned out he was in love with Pam), Jim had them make a video for Pam, and the very last episodes were about the documentary airing and a panel interviewing them about how they felt about their lives being filmed for nine years.
> If browsers want to warn that it's not encrypted, fine. So long as they don't go into ridiculous hysteria levels like they do now with self-signed certs.

I don't believe they can do anything apart from what happens now. Imagine someone manages to redirect your traffic. You were talking to some website which used known certificate, but this time you got a self-signed one. The browser has two options essentially:

- continue the connection - in this case you just handed over your session cookie, the person on the other side can act as you on that website

- go into "ridiculous hysteria levels" and tell you that the cert presented by the server is not trusted - so do what browsers do right now

There's really no situation where the first option should be allowed. How option 2 is implemented is the interesting detail.
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I know I'll sound like a broken record, but honestly that's why WoW got worse and worse over time. As balance improved fun went down.

It seemed like in classic there were all kinds of hidden tricks, and bugs to exploit. Most of which were pretty harmless.

However the best players knew all the tricks and used them to their advantage. If you wanted to do some of the top tier content you essentially were required to know tons of little tricks to min/max the game.

Now everything is super streamline, no tricks, everything is documented. But the game is a little less fun. Instead of finding fun, we now have to be handed it. Plus the game is orders of magnitude easier... When was the last time you died in a 5 man?
How can Medium monetize Images?
FT opening for full-stack engineer at Chalkbeat, an education news network
This is interesting. It seems like a very simplified version of what Socedo (http://www.socedo.com/) is trying to do.

They are generating actionable sales leads primarily for enterprise business. But I used the trial just as an individual, and that was also sort of fun and more useful than I would've expected!
Should work out of the box on OpenBSD's X11 as well, thanks to it being in Java. Though I'm not a fan of the language itself.
There is support for extensions, but they're, well, extensions. The only thing the protocol specifies is that a compliant implementation must pass-through unchanged any block it doesn't understand.

Compare with HTTP/1.1 where for instance the entire content negotiation mechanism is optional and clients need to be able to deal with it not being available.
There's the new Screen Pinning feature in Android 5. It's not /quite/ the same thing, but it's definitely possible to use it as a kiosk mode thing.
I love when computing mixes with philosophy, despite being unable to grasp most of it.

Take for instance Rich Hickey's Are We There Yet?[1], the Alfred North Whitehead quotes are great food for thought: you dive into it just as much you are able to swim.

[1]: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic...
Thats totally 21st century !!!!!
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I don't think we would send them up in the same month so that's plenty of time to check for design flaws. Also, Hubble was far from useless before correction it was still the sharpest telescope ever. Anyway, my point was not sending up more Hubble’s my point was a comparable telescope not a sexy mission. Still, for fun let’s go for something ambitious.

Shuttle launch cost around $450m x 6 = 2,700 million. Hubble mass: 11,110 kg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_II 6,000kg to LEO launch costs ~51 million.

So if we went with a modular design vs user serviceable we could get a Hubble equivalent in ~2 Delta II launces (6,000 x2 kg to LEO = 12,000 kg) for 102 million x 5 = 502 million.

2,700 million - 502 million = 2.2 billion to build 4 more copies of a similar design plus some extra design costs etc.

PS: There were plenty of other options including arrays of smaller telescopes. For a recent example the Delta IV heavy can launch more mass to LEO than the shuttle $375 million per launch so the shuttle tax was very real.
I'd dispute that the Red Terror and Collectivization were caused by committee leadership, since the authority of Lenin and Stalin was beyond question at those times respectively.

But what is more disturbing is that these actions were unapologetically intended to be violent; the lives of "bourgeois" or "kulaks" were considered to matter not at all because of their "class". The ruling ideology was that certain classes were "bloodsuckers" unworthy of life. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin%27s_Hanging_Order

A philosophy that reifies an amorphous abstract idea like class to the extent that people's lives don't matter if they're in a certain class is extremely disturbing. It is not clear to me that this was a Bolshevik innovation rather than something that is latent in Marx.
True, BUT, with Sendy one is not married to SES, any SMTP server can be used.
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...or use Chrome's USB connector, if you must use USB.
Kyle Johnson, 'Inception and Philosophy' – Talks at Google
Smaller cable companies hint they’ll sue the FCC on net neutrality, too
I don't think the particular examples are pitfalls that people actually fall into, but I do think they illustrate what makes Javascript hard: it's got a lot of arbitrariness.

Arbitrariness is a constant mental penalty a programmer must pay for while reasoning in a language. It is not insurmountable, but one must wonder what could happen if the arbitrariness tax were reduced or lifted. It could be that whole realms of greater, more trustworthy abstraction are obscured by mental barriers such as this.
> I hope this doesn't come off as flamey or troll-like.

Not at all, don't worry! I hope mine didn't either.

I don't think I listed any application problems -- I guess you mean the GECCO awards --- but I don't think they are all graph problems in the conventional CS sense, i.e. A* and similar algorithms do not apply.

I don't think we're in much disagreement. I'm not a cheerleader for GP, I just disagreed with your claim that your algorithm simply "outperformed" it.

GAs and GP have been used widely outside of the research community, particularly GAs. They're used for problems where there isn't an obvious approach, human intuition fails, the maths is intractable, etc. There are toolboxes for major applications like Matlab. Sometimes it's not obvious that this is the case. It's been a few years since I've been to GECCO (I was there when the benchmarks paper was presented), but they used to have a lot of industrial applications presented each year.

There are plenty of stochastic algorithms that are more effective by some measure than their non-stochastic counterparts. No rationale for bias there.

Anyway, this is probably a little too detailed a discussion for HN, ha!
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Most people can get by with Abiword and gnumeric. I often hear people say that there is some feature of MS Office that they need and that isn't provided by Abiword + gnumeric / OO / LO.

Is there a list of these features anywhere? And are the competitors to MS Office working on them? Or are they focussed on different things? EG a spreadsheet that focuses on correctness and auditing could probably be useful.
> It’s terrifying. I counted more than 100 indie games on show there. The video game industry does not need 100 games a year total. Let alone your roguelike 2D platformer puzzle-stealth game.

I don't know if this is true. It seems like it is though. It's what keeps game development a hobby for me. I'm decades too late to the scene now with hundreds of games being released every couple of months. That's a lot of pressure if you're going to try and make a living off of it with a mortgage, retirement savings, kids, and the whole nine yards.
> There is support for extensions, but they're, well, extensions.

So down the line, it will be pretty much exactly like HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 then.

Good to hear someone thought this thoroughly through before creating a mega-complex protocol unimplementable by most industry-grade engineers, which will also need to be debugged and maintained for all internet-eternity.
>I'm surprised there haven't been more lawsuits like this.

Why? Attacking Microsoft in the 90s didn't make Netscape financially viable ($40 for a browser?), didn't fix Windows, didn't make the web better, and didn't do anything but guarantee an IE6-like wasteland as motivation to innovate was destroyed by the DOJ. The deal MS cut with the DOJ lead to OEM empowerment, thus guaranteeing that the laptop you buy is full of crapware.

EU-like policies of "browser pickers" are asinine annoyanceware that help no one and confuse non-techies.

I think this nerd friendly activism about browser choice is positively anachronistic. I mean, this like clamoring for zip choice or image viewer choice. Those ships have long sailed. Browsers are boring commodities. End users who want a different one can get one trivially.
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Thank you for saying this. I'm so fucking tired of the masturbation by and towards Google when it comes to this stuff. People are so used to reusing over-abstracted libs by large companies that they never think about the fact that they're both locking themselves in and actively harming robust standards (since a standard that only a few people can implement leads to only those people defining it. As is already happening here with Google).

I have a side project going on where I'm doing videos for people I'm mentoring to show them what lower level systems programming looks like. One of these videos was socket I/O where I fetched a page via HTTP in about 10 lines. I'll never be able to do something like this again in the near future. Yet people call HTTP2 "simple".
> You don't see me forcing PGP on on your email, do you?

Not pgp (as in, not end-to-end encryption). But hopefully in most cases you are forced to encrypt your email (smtp/tls), servers forwarding your email are likely using encryption (smtp/tls between servers), and you're pulling the email over encrypted channel (imaps). Alternatively your mail submission/collection goes over https to the email provider.

And yes, I will insist on everyone using encryption in mail, web, everything. Because once you actually want to use it for some reason, you don't want it to be completely different from all your other traffic, basically screaming "hey, I'm trying to hide some data here, because all my other connections are in plaintext".

Fortunately we're at the stage where everyone is actually forced to use encryption for a lot of their traffic.
Emails That Win You Clients
This is a book I wrote over the course of the past year. I started Workshop, a service that helps freelancers find work. A lot of members made a lot of money but there was also another group who made nothing.

I found out it was because of the emails they were sending, not their level of freelance work. So I started working with everyone individually and extracted the lessons from those sessions into this book.
what neighborhood is that?
Yandex.Transport bought an access to API for positioning, but it's not exclusive. Everyone, including you can buy this access too, it's not very expensive.
> Basically on the coasts, there are middle and upper class people living in cities, which NEVER happens in the midwest. "the city" is a couple soulless skyscrapers, maybe a public uni, and invariably a giant crime filled slum. In the midwest all the cultural and entertainment stuff happens like a quarter mile away from the city or more, in one of the burbs.

That is incredibly inaccurate. Pick any mid-sized midwestern city as a counterpoint.
Nomading in SE-Asia I've definitely noticed similar trends which I find hard to voice without also sounding over generalizing.

It's often very subtle but plenty of things where a relatively small amount of investment would have a great ROI but it just isn't done because no-one else is doing it and it works just fine without.
> [H]aving the common decency to look a person in the eyes before stabbing is something one should learn at home in order to pass for a human.

You must have had a very interesting childhood.
I get the feeling that Conde Nast may not like this type of approach when they're not directly profiting from it. A study of the language between the SFW and NSFW type tags might be pretty interesting, or, well, not very pleasant. I did participate in a couple music communities for a while, but there's something in the stew over there that I'm glad I closed my account and never looked back. YMMV.
You don't need 2 cars if you live near work. You'll probably need 1. If you live in a city, you might not need any. Heating is not that expensive unless you have far more space than you need. It's true that a quality urban lifestyle is not cheap in the Midwest (I've heard people on the coasts say that 3000 SF houses in Chicago cost $100k, which is not true... more like $700k) because it is not cheap anywhere in the US, but it's cheaper than in NYC or SF by about 40%.

In practice, most people end up spending only slightly less on housing when they move out here, but take a quality-of-life bump. I'm paying (in Chicago) what I was in NYC, but I have 800 SF and a pool in the building, and I can walk to work.
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I don't care much about native feel. When the things I like in a platform aren't preserved (cmd-comma for preferences), I get annoyed. When the things I dislike (OSX maximize) aren't preserved, I like it.

Overall, I think a little convention breaking is good. First, code once is a genuine advantage. It means faster releases across more platforms and more benefit to users. Second, it generates a little internal competition. If more apps break OSX maximize and users like it, maybe Apple will change it.

In the best cases, the freedom to invent the wheel yields gradually improving wheels.
Another idea for addressing patent trolling: eliminate jury trials
I find this hilarious! Despite his epiphany in the airport line he seems to have no problem deciding the economic fate of not only his entire nation but much of Europe. Now that's a false sense on entitlement!
The high profile ones have a properly adjusted version in Amazon's store. When I got my Kindle Fire in 2013, I ran into a lot of apps in Amazon's store that refused to run or broke in weird ways for lack of Google's APIs.

I don't know if it's improved any since I gave up on low profile apps when using my Kindle.
Partying like it's LITERALLY 1999...
When I was working as a contractor for WesTower Communications, they were developing a Django app for their Intranet but decided to switch to PHP (which is why I was brought onboard) and then some layoffs happened and they settled on SharePoint
Since a few others have said you're wrong about MPLS, I'll say you're wrong about MKE. In my experience, you're wrong, I can't imagine going to the suburbs for "culture," (except perhaps Wauwatosa) I don't know anyone who does regularly, including people who live in the suburbs.

But Downtown is fairly empty, you're not incorrect. It's Offices, and lunch for office workers. For "Culture," or rather events, I go to the neighbourhoods. Bayview, Riverwest, lower East side.
Our point is that some people are treating this internet-protocol with a lifetime of decades like it was this week's update of Chrome.

It isn't. And it needs to be treated differently.
Pronunciation, spelling or grammar shows an ability to discriminate and classify things with precision. It's not a strong case, dyslexia for instance deceptively fooled caretakers into thinking one was subpar when he/she was not, but it still is a very good sign.
>> "then the whole thing sounds like a racket."

Yup, that's it exactly.
Even OpenGL extensions are now only available through the Google Play API. It is NOT an exaggeration.
Note: iOS only (for now, anyway).

Also, as German "UG (haftungsbeschränkt)" (aka "1 Euro GmbH", a German LLC that doesn't require the 25k capital normally required for a GmbH) sounds incredibly fishy (deservingly so or not). My instant reaction when seeing that in the footer of the Bynd app website was extremely negative; I think it's worth scraping together the cash capital for a full GmbH to avoid that potential first impression.
I think a lot of the hate in the comments is around the title. If it had been "How to get actionable leads using AYLIEN", it might have been better received. As is, it seems click-baity. It's 50 lines of code, using a third party service (which is fine, but should be titled as such).
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How Answers, a mobile analytics tool, handles 5B sessions a day in real time
None of that explains the paradox: why contractors aren't superior in general and why they're trying to turn contractors into quasi-employees, subject to centralized non-market control.
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For the future :)

https://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer
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I my experience, this is not an exaggeration. Most of the top popularity apps expect the Google Play APIs to be present. Have you had the experience that this is no longer the case?
> In the best cases, the freedom to invent the wheel yields gradually improving wheels.

Except on mobile we have a bunch of reinvented wheels of varying non-round shapes and they all suck, leaving the user to guess what weird combinations of touching, tapping, swiping, double fingered tapping, etc will perform the desired action for this particular app.
> What is the "I" that is going to choose?

Another good question!

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/

> It seems to me that all these compatibilist arguments aren't really taking that seriously. (Perhaps not surprisingly, since they're being made by philosophers, not physicists.)

They are. Nothing about naturalism implies "I'm a machine made out of atoms, nothing more." Even granting that I am a machine made out of atoms, I'm not just that. I possess other properties than just being a machine made out of atoms--e.g. those atoms are in a particular location, they can affect other sets of atoms, etc.

Going back to the original point, there's nothing innate about sets of atoms that implies they can't also be the subject of moral assertions. I understand that you may not intuitively agree with this position, but there's nothing about sets of atoms that logically rules out this possibility.

You should actually study the philosophy before dismissing it.
What problem? It's a 4 day-old open source project.
11 ways to get involved with Humanitarian FOSS
Having worked both in tech and non-tech jobs, I think firing hits people harder in tech companies, for one simple reason: tech companies spend a lot of time and effort trying to create an environment where people are made to feel special and valued. When people get fired, this entire world is upended, often without warning. The "without warning" part is probably exacerbated in many cases by the fact that especially at tech companies, most people over 35 seem paranoid about giving negative feedback to Millenials, or holding them to firm day-to-day standards in general.

No matter what the company is, when it reaches a certain size it's going to have HR people and lawyers, and they're going to put processes in place so even if you want to take the fired person out for a beer and an honest chat about what went wrong, you can't.

This discussion is centered on examples of the shitty ways people have been fired, but the really shitty thing we should be focused on is the tendency not to give people firm, dispassionate, detailed guidance on the company's expectations for their performance and subsequently give them accurate feedback on how they have performed relative to that standard. "We want you to crush it and do epic shit; I'm here as a resource if you need anything" might feel good to say to a new employee; it's a lot more pleasant than saying, "I expect you to know how to do X by Y date, while keeping me advised of any changes in A and B", etc. But the latter will reduce both your and their stress over the long run.
Yes, the downside of aggregating history is that you've aggregated your history. So far, it has worked well for us, partly because we try to keep feature branches small.