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I haven't encountered this problem personally. I think most people are just playing for fun not to get their number higher.

The only feature from CM that I miss is the ability to hold the volume up button to skip to the next track (as a global option, not just a per-app thing). Everything else that they did so well has pretty much been added to stock android.

It was a non-commercial open source project at first. Then they decided to go found a company and get hardware partners to have CyanogenMod phones.

The time to try it was like 3-4 years ago!

The question is about who you trust and how you make sure that all the actors are being fair.

Would you feel better if the government designed the machines? A lot of people would probably feel worse.

Right now, you have each state's board of elections making decisions - they get observed by both parties so that they can all sign off on what's happening. Idk. You can never eliminate the possibility of fraud. I just think the likelihood of all of these actors colluding is really low... I mean congress can't even pass a budget.

Isn't this what the whole point of the free market is?

Are there really more bad ideas for crappy products now than there were in the past? I mean, "snake oil salesman" used to be a real thing, right? It's not like it's anything new going on here.

Duckduckgo? Don't know how much cash they have to throw around, though. Certainly not as much as Yahoo or Google, but maybe it'd be enough? I hope so, anyways.

Wake up, People! The government is not here to fix your problems.

And private firms with monopoly power aren't either.

It's maddening.

The real painful part of the process is caused by everything around React, including the build tools.

Can't agree with that more. I really like the way react works. It just makes sense and doesn't get in your way very often.

BUT it's incredibly frustrating dealing with npm dependency hell. Especially if you really are concerned about security and don't just trust that "someone else has probably made sure this code is safe, right?"

I just want to use something for longer than 6 months :(

The people who are affluent enough to buy all those gizmos and apps and educated enough/have enough leisure time to care are generally already the healthier ones.

The point is that they're not showing you what you wanted - if you search for Firefox, I'm pretty sure you don't want a malware-infested version. You want plain old regular malware-free Firefox.

So Google isn't showing you what you searched for.

If you search for torrents or illegal downloads well that's different, isn't it?

Emacs is also from the 70s, so that's why what he said doesn't really make sense.

How is sublime fundamentally different? Sure, it might be shinier and easier to get into, but is it a different "paradigm"? No way.

If anything, vim is the most unique editor with the most unique "paradigm" I've ever really had much experience with. Atom, Sublime and Emacs all seem pretty much the same in terms of how you interact with them.

Pretty sure saint ignucius will damn you to proprietary software hell for dissing on the One True Editor (tm).

Can't they just have a stand on the back like the surface does?

Doesn't really give you a "laptop" experience, but at least you can still set up shop on a table.

Anyways, it sounds cool. To me, the specs seem pretty conservative so hopefully it's a low cost device. Something cool to hack on.

Looks like it uses https://github.com/kelvinh/org-page

You can see an example and more info there

Holy shit

Ha ha what? This is awesome!

To be fair, I bet a lot of agencies would be ok with just having the keys at all times so that they can do surveillance. You could still have encryption for logins, financial transactions, etc.

I don't think that's a good idea either, but there are people who would probably see that as a reasonable middle ground.

Thanks for sharing - not really interested in the 3d stuff yet, but the fact that they're doing tutorials like this is amazing!

  BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit; wait until time.
      open spellbook, study, read (scan, select, tell us);
  write it, print the hex while each watches,
      reverse its length, write again;
      kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
          unlink arms, shift, wait & listen (listening, wait),
  sort the flock (then, warn the "goats" & kill the "sheep");
      kill them, dump qualms, shift moralities,
      values aside, each one;
          die sheep! die to reverse the system
          you accept (reject, respect);
  next step,
      kill the next sacrifice, each sacrifice,
      wait, redo ritual until "all the spirits are pleased";
      do it ("as they say").
  do it(*everyone***must***participate***in***forbidden**s*e*x*).
  return last victim; package body;
      exit crypt (time, times & "half a time") & close it,
      select (quickly) & warn your next victim;
  AFTERWARDS: tell nobody.
      wait, wait until time;
      wait until next year, next decade;
          sleep, sleep, die yourself,
          die at last
  # Larry Wall

I think apps have just done a good job keeping you in their little walled garden - they don't want you browsing the web, checking other pages, etc. They want your eyeballs on their screen so they can sell ads.

I think it's easy in theory (and probably hard in practice) to solve this problem. Google just needs to reduce the friction of web searches. I think they've gone a long way to achieving this goal on Android 6.0. For the uninitiated, they added that weird hold to search which automatically picks stuff out from the screen to search and often presents results in a way where it's really easy to switch back to what you were originally looking at.

Imagine if all you had to do was think about something to initiate a google search. Okay, that would probably get pretty dystopian but it would let you do many more searches even while your screen has been abducted by an app.

I think all google needs to do is reduce the frictions to search.

Why can't we see median? That's also a really good metric to have... in fact it arguably makes even more sense because salaries have a long tail on the higher end which inflates the average by a large amount while moving the median in an easy to understand way.

Spying on other spying agencies seems like 100% fair game even if they are our allies. I don't think the NSA should be collecting massive amounts of data on ordinary citizens in a way which violates our constitutional rights, or that they should collaborate with other intelligence agencies to effectively do the same thing, but I think they should still exist and they have a real reason to exist.

Not enthused about this leak.

It's not. That's an "enhanced" color picture, meaning the colors you see include information from stuff like infrared images and whatnot. Maybe the contrast has been increased, or colors added to make certain features visible. Well, certainly a lot of work has been done to that image as the article suggests. Not surprising considering the extreme conditions the photograph was taken in (the speed of New Horizons, the light available, the instruments used, the fact that the data has to be sent over such a long distance, etc).

Relevant, as always: https://xkcd.com/1508/

This is really infuriating... Microsoft, what the hell?

I really hope steam machines take off (and stay relatively open). As soon as I'm happy with the number of games Linux supports I'm dropping windows like a rock.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14400.htm

Interesting fact: adding the unemployment part of the dual mandate came after the recession of '73-'75 which saw unemployment hit 9%. Originally, the Fed's only mandate was to keep prices stable.

[1] https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/speeches/our-dual-ma...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%E2%80%9375_recession

Experiments are pretty damn crucial to the entire scientific process, right? What if you couldn't do controlled experiments? That's where economics is right now. Until we either get enough data or economists can run actual experiments (ie those that don't just rely on fabricated mathematical models) I don't think we'll have real rigor in economics.

In the meantime, we still have to do our best. People still want ways to predict the future which suffer less from human interference (which is ideally what a mathematical model will let you do). That's still better than just asking people what they think (in some ways).

A lot of simplifying assumptions have to be made to say anything useful about a system which includes billions of intelligent actors trading trillions of dollars. There's obviously room for improvement, and I think that'll happen once people are given the proper tools to make it happen.

Then they would have basically no way to compete with one another other than marketing and specs. Touchwiz and all those other gimmicks really do sell phones. That's just speaking from anecdotal evidence, but I assume big corps have done their homework on this one. Remember that the types of people reading this comment are not your average consumer. We might hate it, we might know it's not as good as stock android... but we're a very small segment of the market (especially for Android). You probably don't see a ton of nutritionists/personal trainers eating at McDonalds, either.

The downside of having an open platform is that OEMs will add crap to differentiate themselves - just look at the weird media bs that comes pre-installed on tons of windows laptops.

Something I'd really like Math.js to do is to be able to simplify expressions.

Say I had "abx + c = y", I'd like to substitute values into a,b and c and get something like "5x - 1 = y" back. But Math.js won't allow you to have these kinds of "symbolic" variables in their expressions - trying to eval statements such as the ones above will just return an error saying x and y are undefined. Huge bummer in my view.

Anyone know about easy solutions to this problem? I may end up doing it server-side before I render the equations I need, but I'd really like to use someone else's open source project rather than try to figure this stuff out myself...