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I wonder if Google will need to, eventually, move away from Java or if it's simply impossible at this point. I've owned an Android device with every version of Android so far (all flagship devices) as well as iOS devices and I find it difficult that Android still has that annoying (but occasional) lag that everyone equates to Java and garbage collection (though with so many initiatives from Google to eliminate this I have to wonder if it's really garbage collection that's the problem). I see this on my wife's S6 Edge and on my Moto X 2014 both running Lollipop.

iOS is always buttery smooth and while I enjoy the power and flexibility of Android FAR more than iOS it's hard not to get distracted by the occasional lag / hiccup that I've seen on every single Android device I've ever owned or tested.

I also find it annoying that Google doesn't seem to be able to focus on delivering a full user experience. For instance Android Wear let's you respond to test messages but you can't if your phone uses the default Messages app on the phone (I had to download Google's or almost any third party SMS application to do it). Such a flagship product with features being advertised that you can't use by default on most of their phones is just...dumb.
Really, they are largely automated already. Used to be you needed one for all sorts of things that Matlab, Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha etc do now. Just like the rank and file of Lawyering got replaced with automated searches when computers/databases got cheaper.
It's Google I/O week.

These articles are just a more verbose version of "You wouldn't believe these 10 things about Google" click-bait.

They literally released these articles the day before I/O, to ride the keyword search wave from whatever is announced.
Those shared secrets were likely obtained by either phishing or a data breach. There's no indication thus far that the IRS was the source of the information that let people obtain these returns.
Abandoned projects and "projects that are not hosted on SourceForge", which appears to include projects that still have a Sorceforge page that's actively maintained if the project has moved elsewhere. So if you move off SF.net, they'll take over your page there and use it to distribute adware-enhanced versions of your software. Incredibly underhanded.
No doubt they've done great things, but the wealth gap still exists and has potential to cause social/economic/political problems.
Tenure for administration. It's easy to point fingers at presidents and regents, but really all the aids and advisors on up are are pretty much unfireable.
Unless you installed AdBlock[Plus], uBlock[Origin], Disconnect, Ghostery, etc - then facebook knows about every page you've ever visited that had a "like button", whether you were logged in to facebook at the time or not, whether you've pressed the "like button" or not. Did you intend to tell them that? Your browser did anyway.

Also, they know everything your friends say about you (your pictures, which they feed into their face rec engine to find you even if you weren't tagged; and the exif data in those pictures often gives location data ...). And they have a shadow profile of you even if you never created a profile yourself.

Oh, and they have a copy of your phone contacts if you use the FB app or the whatsapp app.

All of this is documented by Facebook.

Facebook knows a lot more about you than what you are explicitly telling it.
You can download and install the binaries on Ubuntu: http://pokstad.com/2015/02/03/installing-go-binaries-on-ubun...
> I don't get how the US can go after foreign nationals not on US soil for something that was done outside the US and not an attack on the US.

Here:

(1) Several of the charged principals are US persons (individuals or corporations),

(2) All of the other principals are charged with conspiracy with the charged US persons,

(3) Several of the charged acts took place in the US or by means of US institutions,

(4) Several of the charged persons, and the various properties allegedly illegally acquired through the illegal acts and against which criminal forfeiture is sought, are within the US.

(5) Also, the main charges are not paying bribes, but receiving/profiting from the bribes (constituting fraud against various organizations, money laundering to conceal the proceeds, etc.)
thanks! this is really cool!
Study co-author here. We did observe that it's essential to be careful about comparing package version numbers on a per-bistro basis, and there are some tricky cases such as the one you pointed out, and rpm epoch numbers as another example. I believe we handled them correctly in the study.
That's not my problem. If it were, I'd solve it by embedding ads in the video stream itself, which is how traditional video broadcasters have done it for more than half a century. In the audio realm, Pandora already does this with third-party clients perfectly fine.
I really wonder how one could establish the required parallel connection. You need quite the wide connection interface ... (If I recall correctly brains work in a parallel fashion.)
These systems are huge, so you might get them in a drone but it would be a large target as in the size of 20 seat business jet to a full 747.

Line of sight is ed: Nm.
Nothing gets imported into the namespace when you import a package in go, except a reference to the package itself. The only way to pollute the namespace is to use import "foo" . which is strongly discouraged.
Google's strategy isn't to maximize returns from each user, but what about developers?
Note: no need to click, that quote is the only interesting fact in an op-ed piece full of disjointed blather.
Nice extension. I did a similar project to plot conversations on Google Earth when I realized how much location information was available: https://github.com/maxmouchet/messenger-to-earth
Interesting to see Google included in this comment, since they are currently the only company profiting off of the snapchat user base. Snapchat is built on the google cloud, presumably one of its biggest clients, Google gets a piece of every bit of funding that goes to snapchat. More users -> more growth -> higher cloud costs. Profitable or not, snapchat pays google.
I thought he was tackling the other problem which is that you frequently find web pages that have both UTF-8 codepoints and single bytes encoded as ISO-latin-1 or Windows-1252
It's not a blurry concept. If you're a company in China, you've got aluminum and milling machines. You can import PCBs from Taiwan and SOCs from Korea. What else do you need to make an iPhone? The intangible stuff that's made in California: PCB layouts, machining processes and specs, CPU/GPU designs, firmware, software, branding. That's all IP, protected by a web of copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, and contractual rights.

To tie back to the original point by 'colechristensen: the U.S. is rapidly becoming a country where people spend all day working on products the end result of which is intangible. As production of tangible goods becomes commoditized because of robots and 3D printing, it's going to be the production of intangible goods that's going to give countries' competitive advantages in the global marketplace.
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Since it is not open source how do I know it doesn't contain a virus? It would not be the first time such has happened.
There have been Phase 1/2 clinical trials of a new Lyme vaccine by Baxter (which I believe is now owned by Pfizer) http://www.bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=11537.

The trials seemed to go well but I don't know the status of further trials that could lead to this coming to market. Lyme's a real problem though with sharp increases in infection rates in New England in particular.
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> Essentially there's no laptop where everything just works. This is absurd.

Like I said though, my Clevo 740su did work perfectly out of the box. I don't have to fuck with the trackpad, my sound worked, my pic works, webcam works, battery life is alright considering the SOC (I get about 4 hours idle and 2 hours load). The only missing thing is keyboard resume, which is barely a blip on my radar.

There are combinations of parts that work perfectly out of the box in Linux. It is just nobody is putting them all together on average, and Dell seems to rather brute force unsupported hardware rather than field parts with comprehensive support. They exist, you just have to use them instead of their belligerent competitors.

Macbooks are always strange, because there are dozens of hackers who will spend night and day reverse engineering each new Macbook to work on the Linux kernel. You don't get that kind of hobbyist support for pretty much anything else.
Your comment is completely off-topic and irrelevant. It's not like the US can only investigate one crime at a time.
Along with everything else Bret Victor has done.
hmmm... wait... UCS-2 is just a broken UTF-16?!?!

I thought it was a distinct encoding and all related problems were largely imaginary provided you /just/ handle things right...
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2014/01/adjunct...
nice!

any plans to open source the extension?

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Here's how it's working on the page, not sure if the extension works the same, but seems poll based:

1. they grab the top stories from https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json which is a huge json array of ids .. then they take the one in the head and ..

2. load: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/9611829.json which is a json object with the post's metadata
It's an example because the question asked is an obviously and inherently sarcastic one. Betteridge's law's default answer only applies to questions that at least appear to be earnest, and inverts on sarcasm.
It's strange that they're releasing this after they've signed a merger agreement with Hot Topic. Are they trying to raise the bid enough that the eventual winner pays so much that they can pay Hot Topic to go away? Is this a common occurrence?
The New York Times: mighty now, but not forever.
Leaked TISA text reveals plans to ban FOSS mandates, globalize anti-spam laws, and limit protection of personal data.

The White House wants almost unilateral power to enact extreme digital rules in secret.

1) Preventing national parliaments from acting in the best interests of their citizens seems like a bad idea.

2) Doing it all in secret seems like a very bad idea.

3) Allowing corporations to influence the rules while keeping citizens and the press in the dark seems like an extremely bad idea.

What is the counterargument from supporters of TISA, TPP, TTIP, et al? I've never heard a rationale for secrecy and short-circuiting the democratic process.

Have they even attempted to justify this?
Another use for this: fixing afflictions with brain connections issues in healthy people. HOWEVER this should be done as an infant. At later age this could cause a personality shift !
I didn't know about this, but really wanted this to exist, and it makes me happy! Keep it up
Advertising will evolve slightly -- to manipulate your AI agent's decisions, sort of like SEO today.
Are they trying to insinuate that power users move to iOS?

Well, if Google tries to make Android more profitable by adding more restrictions and trying to make it more like an iPhone-- I'll be faced with the decision to either switch to iPhone (which is probably better at being an iPhone than Android) or one of the Android forks. As the article points out:

Even in the rest of Asia, where many low-cost phone manufacturers do include Google’s apps on their phones, there’s growing interest in finding some alternative to Google’s version of Android. About 30 percent of Android smartphones shipped in the last quarter of 2014 were actually modified, or forked, versions of the OS that may not be very hospitable to Google’s services, according to the firm ABI Research.
I assume you're comparing only Nexus devices, because the breadth of Android devices in different sizes is by no means limited.
I think you are mis understanding "Sunk cost fallacy".

What the parent comment was saying, and something I'm quite familiar with, is that when you have invested a lot of time and money in getting a Phd, and then find the job prospects slim to none, you are likely not to just give up and take a different job outside your field because you have "sunk costs" into becoming an academic. Thus, you may take a job as an adjunct in hopes of getting to be a professor someday, even if your economic position may be better to just get a job in industry somewhere.
For audio there's the known latency problem, but photography(the more popular category), android recently released new camera API's . won't they solve that issue?
I presume what eli_gottlieb meant by "sunk cost fallacy" is more like this: "I've spent X years chasing tenure; if I bail on academia now, I'll never get it (and therefore waste those X years), but if I keep trying, I might make it."
You could modify this service to email you instead of send you a text message (this is a tutorial to text you anytime a certain URL shows up on HN) https://www.twilio.com/blog/2015/04/get-notified-when-someon...
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What about the prior lawsuits? Wouldn't it be inviting a fiasco?

I wonder if a Federal law in the USA could prevent lawsuits for specific vaccines.
Past experience and humor, mostly.
How likely is one to land a tenure track position based on teaching, though? I mean, most professors have to teach if they aren't buying out their teaching load, but 90% of the tenure decision is publications and grants, no?
Let me complete the sentence in the title "... before this cycle of the tech bubble bursts"
i think linux/mac systems default to UCS-4, certainly the libc implementations of wcs* do.

i agree its a flawed idea though. 4 billion characters seems like enough for now, but i'd guess UTF-32 will need extending to 64 too... and actually how about decoupling the size from the data entirely? it works well enough in the general case of /every type of data we know about/ that i'm pretty sure this specialised use case is not very special.
When I go to ThinkGeek I know that I'm being pandered to as a geek, but that's okay because ThinkGeek treats the geek demographic with respect.

It's all too easy to just slap some popular geek culture references on a t-shirt or a hoodie and call it a day. Likely profitable, too, considering how many "daily tee" companies I've seen. Those companies don't get much brand loyalty, they could disappear tomorrow and a replacement would step right in to fill the gap.

If anything happened to ThinkGeek, I don't know if anybody else could fill their shoes without years of effort. Whatever happens, I hope they retain their brand and their reputation.
They didn't think I was creepy, just weird :( ;)

I didn't have the impression that people I talked to cheated on the OKCupid questions.

But I had the impression that most questions are irrelevant.
> Similar irrational fears prompted the development of the "acellular" version of the pertussis

Those fears were not in the slightest irrational. People had really really bad reactions to the regular pertussis to the point that people routinely advised new parents not to get it for their children.

The the new version is not as effective, that's true, but people refused the old version, and rightly so - the side effects were much worse.

So what's better a vaccine that doesn't work as well, that people are willing to take? Or a vaccine that works well, but far fewer people are willing to take it?

And on top of that since DTP was given as a unit, people refused the D and T parts as well (the Dr. may or may not have had it separately, but people weren't always so aware that the reactions were from the P, so refused the whole thing).
Out of curiosity, what registrar did you use for the hn TLD?
The details don't actually matter. The impression is that doing business in the US is risky for your personal safety. Look at Bitcoin start-ups. Look at Silent Circle who have moved to Switzerland. The uncertainty of the rule of law and perception of draconian punishment will hurt the US economy in the long-run.
It does not ignore Search or Play:

> ...Google collected about $11.8 billion on mobile search ads in 2014, with about 75 percent coming from ads on iPhones and iPads... 2014, Google Play sold about $10 billion in apps, of which Google kept about $3 billion

Yes, I can buy Google Play media on other devices, including my iPhone, but surely non-Android Google Play revenue is a rounding error.

The claim about "a billion devices per year" is false - around 30% of Android sales are forked AOSP, which Google does not allow Maps on. The concern is that these forked variants are most popular in growth markets.
I'll still never understand why people don't move off of SourceForge; GitHub and Bitbucket (among others) are almost feature complete, and for the things that they're missing (mailing lists) there are plenty of free alternatives out there that are fairly easy to port.
I think in this formula the altitude should be in feet, while the result is in miles, so 30,000 feet actually gives 213 miles.
> Of course, don't let the facts get in the way of all the Qatar/Russia bashing.

I think the fact that the charges indicate a massive pattern of corruption by FIFA and subordinate organization executives in a wide variety of decisions is quite relevant to the FIFA-bashing over the decisions regarding the way that the Qatar and Russia decisions, given the factual conditions surrounding hosting the cup in those countries, seem inexplicable on any basis other than corruption at FIFA.

Even if the charges don't include charges specific to corruption around those decisions.
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Actually if we talk about post-Soviet countries some degrees there have value. They teach physics and math really good, otherwise, why would there be so many talented Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian programmers? When it comes to social studies, economics, law, not so much, but if someone got degree from place like MFTI it's probably gives that person more credit that degree from average US university.
Are you sour because you don't understand pointers, or something? I'm 22 and I almost exclusively use C++, C, and x86 assembly. These types of languages are not going anywhere, and a fair portion "the next generation of programmers" is perfectly fine with that.
We use "5PM sharp" or its equivalent in Urdu or Hindi but usually it doesn't mean much.

When we want people to be on time and don't want to assume that they will be late, we usually say a little more or give a reason (like we made reservations etc).
Gandi. Credit to niico for discovering that Hacker News has their own tld. :-P
Whenever I think of Dolby anything I think of that noise reduction filter they used for cassette tapes.

I think of cassette tape hiss.

Or I think of the hot mess that is movie audio standards and home theatre playback.

Not things I would want to associate with my innovative browser.
I don't even do social media, I can't imagine having thoughts as they happen shared with others.
I wonder what will be next? Calling a sports association "WTF"?

http://www.worldtaekwondofederation.net/

=)
Because Google is a publicly traded company and has a fiduciary obligation to put its resources to use making many for its shareholders. It's apparently pretty hard to actually succeed at making a lawsuit for breach of fiduciary duty stick, but waste is one of the valid reasons for which one can bring such a suit. They can do outlandish research, but there has to at least be a glimmer of rationalization for how the thing could make them money eventually.
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I was lucky enough to work with François Bancilhon, who was CEO of Mandriva for about 6 years https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23410 (I worked with him at Data-Publica).

He was an incredibly smart and cultivated man, and it makes me sad to see Mandriva go down, it was a beautiful and successful project (at least for a while).

I am very thankful for all the hard work people put in these fantastic projects
>Google's strategy

Android's strategy isn't to maximize returns from each user, not Google. It's all market driven. Google is trying to maximize returns for each AdWords user, for example.

App developers all have their own markets and their own strategies which are mostly irrelevant here.
It would only be a red flag if I was a value-based investor. Warren Buffet won't be there in other words. But if revenue, profit, earnings, and assets were the only metrics used for investment the stock market would be tiny compared to where it is today.
They fucked up big time.

That's what people said about Facebook in 2006 when they turned down the Yahoo offer. I predict Snapchat is going to be a dominant player in mobile advertising, like Facebook and Google. I wish I could invest in it now, even at this high valuation. Also extremely bullish on Tinder and Pinterest.
I love this. I'll be signing up.

Just one thing, browsing by topic doesn't seem to have any sort of rhyme or reason in its ordering aside from some vague first-letter ordering. For example, there are numerous "I" categories, with one "I" for "interactive" and another one for "Interactive". One grouping of "I"'s includes tags "ios", "iOS", and "ip", but the next "I" grouping below just contains "IP"

Edit: I see the ordering issue now. There's a list of topics. The list is printed out in alphabetical order. But for some reason when the first letter of a topic changes between capital letter and a lowercase letter, a new letter grouping is created. Probably it's creating a new category whenever the first character changes, but it did not take into account capital and lowercase characters being different.
Yes. sizeof(wchar_t) is 2 on Windows and 4 on Unix-like systems, so wchar_t is pretty much useless. That's why C11 added char16_t and char32_t.
That has not happened, though:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/11/405955547/b...

Besides the issues with building stadiums in states without a football tradition, Brazil is facing the problem that people just don't go to the stadium much. For example, the national league, which finished its third round last week, has had only 3 games with more than 20000 spectators so far.

That was already a big problem before the World Cup, and only became bigger after it since the cost of maintaining the stadiums is much higher now, and so are ticket prices.
to_nil is actually a pretty important function! Completely trivial, obviously, but it demonstrates that there's a canonical way to map every value in Ruby to nil. This is essentially the defining feature of nil, in a sense.

With typing the interest here would be more clear, of course, since it would be more apparent that nil inhabits every type.
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Except this whole thread exists because an American company, SpaceX, led by a foreign national who chose to become a US citizen, Elon Musk, could create a company that competes directly with government run competitors here and nowhere else.

There are superficial similarities. But any investigation shows real difference.
Tesla's "My Inventions" autobiography

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I think the entire point of the article is that it may not be temporary. If the connection between the two minds has enough bandwidth they will become one and at best only one of them will still exist. The consciousness of the other person will be for all intents and purposes gone.
Wouldn't it be safe to use in C-land as long as you kept a reference to it in Go-land? Something like:

Create memory in Go-land
Use memory in C-land
Dispose of reference to memory in Go-land

That becomes a bit problematic if the C-land use is for a long-running process - you need a go object that owns the memory that has a lifetime that (at least) matches the lifetime of the C code execution.