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I also have a Nexus 6 device and personally I don't find the integration with the recent apps list useful. Unless we are talking about apps, otherwise for browsing I much prefer to have those tabs grouped together in one app. Plus Chrome's "normal" tabs where more annoying to use than Firefox (continuing the tradition from the desktop).

The thing that bothers me about Firefox is the broken behavior of "Add to Home Screen", which doesn't listen to the website's Manifest.json. There are issues raised in Firefox's issue tracker for this and this will get fixed, but currently if you want to pretend that a website is an application, then Chrome is better.

I'm doing that for a small utility I've built for myself: https://parolamea.org/manifest.json ... funny thing is that even though Chrome is sexier to use for this use-case, I'm still using that website in Firefox because Chrome doesn't offer to save passwords for "ajax logins", a known limitation.

But either way, I end up using both. I'm using Chrome for apps (e.g. I prefer to access Facebook and Twitter through Chrome, as it's better for privacy and I don't want notifications and all that crap). I'm using Firefox for browsing, as the default.

Here are some reasons for why I like it ... it has the Awesome Bar (e.g. much better search capabilities in your own history), it has the Reader View + Reading List (i.e. I don't need Pocket or Readability, although if you like Pocket, then it has the best integration available), it has AdBlock Plus, uBlock and an alpha but functional version of NoScript and really, many websites are simply unusable on mobile without an ad blocker.

On Chromecast support, I don't know about the desktop, but if it's not supported on Firefox desktop already, then it will probably be supported pretty soon. Other mobile features have leaked into the desktop version as well, for example Reader View.
It feels a bit different here, at least to me. Nmap had a Sourceforge account, but now it's been taken away from them -- "hijacked", as the post describes it. And Sourceforge at least used to be a reputable site and has (had?) some lingering aura of trust around it.
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I think your point is good, and depends on the question of how much can be done on current and future hardware, and what differences might result to product quality in local-only storage and processing.
Unless it changed recently, but I used to click there through Google search results and still get some blurred out page, or only one answer, or a timeout that tried to make me register.

And quite frankly, I prefer the rather diverse universe of stackexchange sites.
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If only those alternatives were actually safer than nuclear.

People die in installation and operational accidents for wind and solar at a higher rate relative to amount of electricity provided than all deaths attributable to nuclear.

And hydro has a quite horrible track record thanks to construction accidents and dam failures (even if you exclude the single worst incident - the Banqiao dam failure that killed an estimated 171,000 people).
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But, why do you care about the lack of updates if you would be happy with a 'dumb' TV? Just plug your desired source into the input HDMI socket of your 'smart' TV, obsolescent or not, it won't matter, and move on with your life.
I don't think it works, at all, if the OS uses the gestures. The demo page does nothing on my Mac with a trackpad.

Gestures are tricky thing to use on a web page, because you have almost zero discoverability. It works in Mac OS X, because you can choose to not use the features and slowly learn them over time, through guides in the OS. Still, even on the Mac you sometimes get surprised when you accidentally trigger a gesture.

Many have be fans an proponents of gestures since the time Opera introduced mouse gestures. Personally the swiping between workspaces on the Mac is pretty much the gesture I think works.
I agree with the demographics, but I've never understood this connection. With Facebook, the intrusion of privacy happens completely out in the open and you can work with that. By now pretty much everyone concerned knows that they collect and potentially use everything they can. With email interception, on the other hand, that's something you don't have any control over without encryption. So in my mind, I can be a heavy user of Facebook and a heavy user of PGP without any contradiction.
You're generally allowed to refuse service for any reason you want, provided it's not specifically outlawed (for example, if you run a hotel you can't refuse service on grounds of race).
Coal contributes vastly more to radioactive environmental contamination than nuclear does, by hurling radioactive particles into the atmosphere. So on the contrary, the fear over nuclear has done far more to increase our exposure to radiation that what we would have if coal plants had been replaced by nuclear.
> A modern browser engine is millions of lines of highly optimised code long, and that corresponds to hundreds of millions of dollars of investment

Currently Firefox is 12,000,000 LOC, so each line of code costs $25 per year? o_O If so, I am in the wrong business, given my main project is 300,000 lines of my own code.

Now, I totally believe the costs are astronomical to run a web browser team and all the servers required for such a feat. But surely it can't cost nearly this much. Especially with volunteers working on it as a labor of love as with many other major open-source projects, such as Linux.

In my ideal world, access to technology has become so essential that I think it's not unreasonable to consider public funding for things like an operating system and web browser. I do realize this is the worst site possible to suggest such a thing, of course ;) There's countless problems with that idea as well. We'd need a government that didn't spy on its own citizens, and wasn't far more wasteful than the private sector. But a man can dream.

But at this point, I'd be happy with a $1m Kickstarter to develop a fully-featured Webkit-based browser UI that is absolutely by the users, for the users. Taking only their input in mind (no crazy designers that "know better than the users"), no compromises on corporate interests (DRM), and never implementing any form of advertising nor doing any backroom deals with companies that want to mine your data like Google and Yahoo.
The hash matched the official installer. I doubt they are crazy enough to deliberately hide malware without prompting.
fair enough, it probably wont match native for that.

Personally tho, speed has always been sufficient for me to never notice. I use it most days, but I don't do comparisons.
The problem is that it is basically impossible to completely close and remove a software project from Sourceforge. The best you can do is tag it as "inactive" or "relocated" and provide a link to the new site, but the project site will still exist.
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Well, it is actually very demanding. ASR systems usually work with the speed of 1 RT (RT= real time factor, meaning recognizing 1 second of speech in 1 second). Approximately %60-70 of these processing goes to acoustic scoring. Rest is search in a large sub-phonetic+words graph and feature extraction (feature extraction takes a tiny percentage actually).

Nowadays acoustic scoring is done by large deep neural networks. And they are quite computation intensive. One can use GPU for that and indeed it works really fast if you have all the speech beforehand (off-line or batch mode). But for live recognition, GPUs lose their advantage quite a bit. Probably that is why Google worked on quantized vectorization and other tricks to make the DNNs fast in CPU [1].

I am quite sure this creates an immense pressure on their servers when tens of thousands of concurrent speech streams are queued for recognition. Perhaps todays GPUs are better in that aspect and more work can be delegated to decrease the pressure. There were other interesting work which utilizes almost all processing in GPU [2].

In short, ASR systems are very very processing hungry and a challenge for everyone, probably even for Google.

[1] http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...

[2] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ianlane/hydra/#&panel1-1
> Not a month goes by without my iPad requesting my iCloud password so it can back up my entire tablet, even though I've repeatedly declined to provide it.

Apple prompts you to backup your data... so they must be analysing your data? Can I get whatever brand of space cakes you're snacking on?

> They need it because it's an arms' race

Google/etc are dependant on that information - without it they have almost no revenue at all.

Apple sells physical and digital products, and provides services. Almost all of these cost money to use, and the amount of data personal information required from the customer to provide those services is close to zero.

So tell me again why apple "needs" the data which they have repeatedly said they don't collect and don't want to collect?

> Unless you tell me you never, ever use a search engine

I refer you to https://duckduckgo.com/privacy & http://donttrack.us
Sounds like a wise saying that I've read on every submission about Sourceforge, problem is that I think it is in general bullshit.

If we'll look down in history, I think there are very few villains that have acted as heroes when starting out. The signs that such companies are assholes are in general there, from the start. As an example, I don't remember a time in which Sourceforge was the hero, as much as I try. Since as long as I remember Sourceforge, it was always the "necessary evil", the nuisance you have to deal with because bandwidth was (and still is) very expensive.
Almost every OS support VPN. you don,t required a box for doing this activity. http://www.cygnismedia.com/web-application/
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The correct analogy would be "by that argument, everyone should think very carefully about the pros and cons of using a CDN to serve part/all of their website".

Which.... is true anyway, regardless of the potential for government-enforced data collection.
Seems weird that I could install Hadoop and get some shitty toolbar as a result.
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> Google has never sent me a suggest-sell email.

Did I say it was Google doing this?
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I wouldn't mind hitting Quora through Google on occasion, but sometimes they actually have just a stub page, where the question isn't answered at all, so it shouldn't rank so high.
> But what if the otherwise loathed real name policy could
> be turned to service this particular need?

The link between a real person and a Facebook account isn't secure - I could make an account with your name today without too much stress (no need to provide ID unless Facebook thinks your name isn't a real name).
Time to disable browser history altogether? Is storing things like that on a ramdisk considered destroying evidence when you power down?

Part of David Kernell's charge was defragmenting his hard drive! Seems a stretch since it's a legitimate maintenance task, or was more commonly useful in 2008. Hopefully they gave a decent argument that it was done with intent, and didn't just bamboozle the jury.

Considering that every second a computer is on, it's potentially losing forensic data, I guess they just want you to call the police immediately after doing anything on your computer that may have been illegal. But it's not self-incrimination!

It's also interesting that in that case, they caught a break in the form of malware that happened to log Kernell's activity.[1] It was "designed to collect a lot of different data (including) banking and finance data" -- but somehow I have a feeling they didn't lift a finger to prosecute that crime. Maybe they would if it embarrassed a Presidential candidate.

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there's a dude there asking how to pick an email address. i'm pretty sure it's serious.

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Very interesting links, thanks for sharing. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Android's speech recognition, but it seems to work offline as well. I wonder if they offload the computation to their servers when you're online and compute it locally when you're not. However the latency seems to be on the same order of magnitude.
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Not to bad if you stand back and consider the entire US economy reflated only on the bullshit of the Fed!
My dad claims that the level of brainwashing in USA far far exceeds that of the WWII Germany he says.

Of course statements like that evoke Godwin's law and a hard to swallow. However, my dad grew up in USA and trained troops on the use of artillery equipment during the Vietnam war. He's been around the block and has seen firsthand the US propaganda in multiple countries.

If you think about the insidiousness of troll-style, FUD propaganda, it's way way more psychologically insidious than the overt US propaganda. You can't cut off access to facts and appear "fair"--instead you make people question the truth.

USA just raised a whole young generation that's a socially-backwards by a generation. Homophobic, racist, blame-the-russia feelings are rampant.

During the early days of the Ukranian conflict, I was surprised to hear a close relative in USA tell me how she has seen videos on Youtube of "blacks from Africa" killing innocent US youths in Nigeria.

This shit is real.
We've been using this for a while, documentation isn't great, but it seems it's the best library for what it does.

We had particular trouble with double tap recognition early on but I believe V2 improved this substantially.
I'm not making it up; if you google the phrase "better Unix than Unix" you'll find a number of references to these words. However, it probably wasn't a direct quote by Bill Gates, as was claimed.

http://www.uniforum.org/publications/ufm/aug96/unix-nt.html

https://books.google.fi/books?id=g0CPF6MEFcUC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1...
Cool, but bad for my productivity.
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I've got a reasonably good knowledge of the current state of play in VR, and to the best of my knowledge the answer's "no".

Why not? Looking at the device, I'd say there are three problems that would put me off working on it:

1) Lots of moving parts. Likely to make it expensive to make and a pain to maintain.
2) Risk of injury to user. Powerful motors attached to the user's feet mean that software glitches could be really bad, for "permanent injury" values of bad. Not a great profile for a Kickstarter or other software startup.
3) How would you turn? Adding the ability to turn, which is pretty key for VR, looks like it'd make the entire thing an order of magnitude more complex as you're now looking at having free-moving robot arms.

If you want to be sure that no-one's doing this (and get feedback from people considerably more expert than me) I'd recommend asking on www.reddit.com/r/oculus or www.mtbs3d.com .
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My first response after reading the headline...

But why?
Yep how to fuckoff both the Black , Grey and White Hat communities.
Like you say, some issue are inherent in the problem-space.

but... multiple versions of Cygwin can coexist these days. It did used to be an issue, granted. tho these days quite a few programs distribute their own cygwin dll and tools.

I agree, licensing may be an issue for some people.
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Could also write mails to the mirror providers listed here: http://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mirrors/

And ask them to stop mirroring SF because they distribute Malware. I don't know how many of them provide the mirror for free though. I remember quite a few universities provided SF mirrors back in the day.
I don't mean to argue because basically I agree with you, but a great example of more features costing less is the average midrange AV receiver which probably offers a tuner, digital inputs, and some sort of DSP as well as multiple amplifiers for 5.1 or greater outputs, compared to a 2 channel stereo amp aimed at the audiophile market - which although it [i]may[/i] measure better, probably doesn't sound any better in most peoples living rooms.
From what I remember, even though Firefox is open-source, you can't use the Firefox name on distributing it without getting approval from Mozilla. This is why Debian went at some point with the Iceweasel name. So Mozilla controls what gets distributed with the Firefox name and they could sue for trademark violations if they want to.

IMHO, all open-source projects should protect their name. For example last time I tried, VLC for iOS was banned from the iTunes Store, yet there were dozens of obscure apps using VLC's name or logo on iTunes Store (this was happening in January). Especially given that there is such a thing as an unregistered trademark, that is valid through usage. Even if you fork it, then authors should have the courtesy to use a different name.
No, it's write-only. You can ask "does this fingerprint match the one I stored earlier?", but you can't read out the original fingerprint.
It makes me chuckle when you mention this being like a YouTube comment section, thanks! I always found it very sad that the comments section on YouTube is typically chock-full of disgusting insults, profanity and general horrible comments. It should be renamed the "abuse" section instead of "comments". It makes you lose any hope in humanity pulling itself out of the cess pool.
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You're both correct and slightly missing the point.

Normal people use spreadsheets. These spreadsheets then grow into monsters.

What's needed is an invisible migration path so that people use what they understand but have somewhere to grow when they start abusing formulae to do what a real RDMS would do naturally.

It's essentially a UX problem - to all extents and purposes a database == a spreadsheet with multiple sheets - as soon as you start defining relationships between the sheets.
> List public keys for a user - Lists the verified public keys for a user. This is accessible by anyone.

Hardly 'kudos' for them; the API to list public keys is listed by GitHub as 'accessible by anyone' in the documentation, it would be difficult to construe what they did as 'unauthorized' because of that.
I suspect pointing Oracle's lawyers at their MySQL account that sf-editor "owns" might be worth more than collecting donations...
Read that as expert sex change, and thought you were revealing some very personal information on HN.
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Yes it works off line and it is a work of marvel IMO. Seems like all work is done in the phone when you are offline. And it performs close to the server counterpart. Latency is probably because of the nature of the live ASR processing. System cannot recognize word sequences immediately, just as humans.

There is a paper from Google on the issue:

http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co...
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I wonder how many copies of nmap are running against Sourceforge's servers right now?
This reminds me of a late 1990s/early 2000s company called Starbridge Systems that commercialised FPGA-based "Hypercomputers" embodying what I took to be a compile-to-FPGA technology (trademarked Pensa if I remember correctly). It seems to be long-gone and defunct but this is the best reference I was able to find on the web: http://www.forbes.com/2003/03/25/cz_dl_0325star2.html
For me the real question would be, why was/is anyone still using sourceforge? Inertia?

I hope everybody still hosting there will take this reminder to finally move their stuff to a different host.
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Awesome, awesome. We need things like this in the web.

That's the idea of "the slow web" movement.
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apkmirror link - http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/soundhound-inc/hound/soundhound...

Edit: Currently, only US devices are supported. You can sideload using the apk link.

In either case, you need an invite code for which you can register from in app or on the website - www.soundhound.com/
But it is debatable as to whether they really do cater to you. In the end, if they release a product you don't like you have to like it or lump it. The same goes with their software.

There was a significant backlash from when they changed the style in iOS7. They didn't ask you what you wanted.
There was also a backlash when they introduced Lion and got rid of "Save As" or got rid of the maximise-equivalent in Yosemite (you have to hold down Alt now, how irritating), or when they removed the Web Sharing option in System Preferences and you have to manually restart Apache etc. etc. etc.

They also removed DVD drives on laptops, never gave us a Bluray drive, stopped us being able to upgrade RAM in laptops and Mac Minis, ditched accelerated graphics for the Mac Mini etc. etc. etc.

The list is quite long of the things that they have changed or removed that you can't do anything about (and it is frequently irritating). As you decide to buy them and are happy with them, you may rationalise this as them making products that cater to you, but in truth they do not.

I say this as a developer who writes software for OSX as my day job btw. It's not an anti-Apple rant - it's more truth.
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there is a point though in having as much data as possible for trainig and learning purpose.

Even with a locally installed AI, it will need to be trained on real and up to date data, it needs feedback on what was well recognized and on which data it failed, etc.

the training and update cycle can be done on an individual basis, but having a distributed system sharing a huge set of varied data would accelerate the process exponentially.

Ideally training data shouldn't be stored once it is ingested by yhe AI, but we'd need at least interconnected AIs dharing data from different users
I thought they would be nervous too but there is still a market for screen based VR. Like the holodeck experience. Sometimes you just need to take people to a whole different place, one that doesn't include your current surroundings. #readyplayerone
That is even better.
Actually, that is their PoC. It actually works. Watch this video by Graeme Devine for more on how they do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAAqbKSjRrk