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> > Apple invented the smartphone (and the tablet)

> No they didn't

While you're technically correct, the iPhone was such a leap over any previous effort that it basically redefined the meaning of the word. If you showed an iPhone 1 to someone today, they'd at least recognise it as an (old) smartphone. A blackberry from the same era? I very much doubt it, and frankly I'd agree. The word now means "iphone 1 or better".

You're right about myspace though (and friendster before them)
The way I see it there are at least two possible ways to "fight" against this, that is if you're on the liar's side.

The first one is to offer to whoever is questioning you a "local maximum" victory, i.e. to pretend to hide a smaller lie compared to the bigger one you're supposed to be hiding. In the case you mentioned, you could pretend to be "covering up" the fact that you've been cheating on your SO, hence all the non-concordances related to your past locations. When the guys questioning you finally realize that you're lying on something, they'd think you had been doing so out of fear of not being seen as an unfaithful spouse, when in reality you want to blow things up (just to give an example). The downside to this strategy is that this fails when the "admission criteria" is 0 and 1, you're either a liar, which means you're out, or not, which means you're in. The one mitigating factor is that almost everybody lies all the time.

The second strategy is to be so good at this as to believe in your lies/stories you're telling. This is a little sociopath bordering on schizophrenic, but I've seen some people doing it almost to perfection (granted, the stakes were not very high). The one weak point of this is that you have to know exactly when and how to push the on/off switch.
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Indeed: one of the things that jumped out at me here was how much stricter European law is on data protection and suchlike than the US. Maybe that has a little something to do with friction emerging between certain US tech giants and EU authorities, rather than just irrational suspicion of foreigners.
I am a Dutch person living in Germany, and I've never head of GAFA or NATU either.

I also found the article quite weak. Sure, the 'GAFA' companies have different market penetrations and different revenue models. But there is also something that binds them: they all build ecosystems and try to bind people to them. E.g. All four offer cloud storage, three offer music and movies, three of them have phones and tablets (I'll not count the HTC First), etc.

I think some resistance against against these companies in Europe come from the fact that they aim for hosting your digital life, which leads to concerns, such as how they treat data and whether US law enforcement can easily access it.

The envy that is mentioned primarily comes from governments who are upset that their country does not have a healthy startup economy as SV. Or relatively old European companies (e.g. publishing houses) that see having Google, Facebook, and other as gatekeepers as a threat to their bottom-line.
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So awesome - please film this one ;P
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I don't think they would for me.

My Dell u2412m has a pixel density of 94 PPI (I think?) which is quite low for today's standards but it does the job and I can't justify upgrading it. Compare this to my current smartphone (xperia z3 compact) which at 720p has 319 PPI and is still considered low end in this regard.

Work provided me with a macbook pro retina and I don't see what's the fuss about. Hence running mostly on clam-shell mode.

On older notebooks I simply use the Dina font which looks great on low res screns.

Of course when I go to the stores and see these 4k TVs I definitely notice a difference but we're not talking media consumption here.

I feel the same about 21:9 aspect ratios or multi monitor setups. My favorites are still 4:3 or 16:10. I used to have a multi monitor setup for a while but ended up selling it.

I might have to get my eyes looked at, or maybe I spent too much time staring at mainframe screens.
I know it happens elsewhere, but it's insane here in China: People using their phone while on the road. Whether it be crossing the street, driving their car, or trying to keep balance while holding the phone with both hands and driving their scooter with their elbows.

I even see the police doing that.
check some japanese or korean websites if you want a tour to good old flamboyant 90s-00s. Here are some of the top:
auction.co.kr
www.daum.net
http://category.gmarket.co.kr/listview/L100000058.aspx

etc
The tax avoidance is allowed by the governments though. Not saying that it isn't a problem, but tax law is controlled by the government and its the governments role to set policies that allow them to collect tax revenue. The UK and Ireland have made some changes in this area recently.
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In the UK, you pretty much gamble whether an independent hotel, b&b, or holiday cottage has decent mattresses. There is less of an issue of quality of service but you really cannot tell how good the beds are.
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Best advice I received: imagine you're going to be on the plane for the rest of your life. Don't watch the clock.

I constantly underestimate the temporary IQ loss from altitude and jet lag. Bring light entertainment. Comedies, tell-all or humor books, documentaries. Do not attempt to read Douglas Hofstadter on a plane. And don't bring Game of Thrones in case the person next to you (a) isn't into it or (b) is trying to avoid spoilers.

Played correctly, I am mildly disappointed when I have to put things away for the landing.
But they tested it with fake liars, who, in my humble opinion, are less likely to exhibit emotions, and more likely to be too lazy to come up with good details on the fly for back stories.

Maybe it is just me that is sweatier and wilier when stressed.
I suppose there are more phones/mp3 players playing AAC files than the ogg format. It might gain more traction with this format. And the company behind it (Native Instruments) is really popular accross DJs and electro musicians (they do a lot of great hardwares and softwares).
This could be entertaining. They should write a script about the lawsuit.
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While there is indeed a large difference, I think the discussion here is around the alleged anti-competitive behaviors; for example, the EC case against Google has been regarding their alleged favoring of Google Shopping vis-a-vis other results on Google Search, not the Data Protection worries.
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As a person from northern Europe, I think this is all about envy: "I don't like you because you have success, so I have to impede you".

The European politicians hate that all the major new internet companies are US based, but they have absolutely no idea about how to foster a European Sillicon Valley that can compete and they have no interest in learning how.

Danish politicians thought they could make a new mini-SV by building a few expensive office buildings in a location with really bad transportation. No politicians here think it's important to listen to the IT sector, instead they just tell us (literally!) to stop wearing white sports socks so women will like us better.

When a rich person in SV talks about all the new startups he has invested in, he will be admired and cheered. One of the major show-stoppers in Denmark is that such a person will be thought of as a cheesy show-off, and therefore will shunned and loose social status. So it becomes impossible to build the network needed for startup investments as such networks often live on "happenstance meetings".

Nobody here realizes how important easy access to money is for startups and to have investors that like to take wild chances. Google would never have been able to succeed in Europe because they would never have been able to get the investment money needed to start up.

We have the same high housing prices as SV and almost no investment money. Add the lack of any IT center and that every country tries to do their own rather than having one common SV for all of EU. It's like if USA tried to build a SV in every single state, including Utah! The marmalade is spread too thin.
I see "while you were away" on the browser/desktop version as well....
Any one of these diagrams is the sort of thing that in one fell swoop demonstrates a principle and how something works, where a lecturer at Uni may spend twenty minutes with a couple of diagram and plenty of hand gestures and produce an inferior result. The combination of them all together makes this the sort of thing that would be a superb basis for more complete educational/training materials.
I agree. The Nexus 5 from my experience is the best Android out there. Now they're going to release a completely new model, instead of supporting/updating the current model, which is basically going to kill the phone for me.
It could be something trivial like Aluminum in bread and pastries because bakeries switched to faster (compared to iron) aluminum baking trays.
Pointing out a lie does little when it can't be punished with consequences; you were relying on the freelancer's conscience for a favourable outcome.

Border agents have the law, manpower, firepower, and territory on their side and are ready to use it at a moment's notice.
I don't think that would work in a browser anyway...
The difference: lies pretend to sound honest, while honesty doesn't pretend to sound like lies.
Previous discussion, which unfortunately didn’t get much traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10168930
For me it's usually ctrl-, ctrl-, ctrl-. I'd like to read more than 20 lines of text before scrolling. That's why I don't still use CGA.
Would the results be different, if the questions were differently worded - say How much would you pay for a 100% foolproof adblocker?
Also their willingness to ship a crippled UI "improvement" and other types of crapware

One of the reasons I don't even look at Sony's offerings
Too bad its in Norwegian :(
How is his age relevant? Would the task be less impressive if done by an 80 year old?
Not to mention that it's hardly a "US Tech companies" phenomena; Fiat is one of the four companies under investigation, for example.
A valid problem this.. I have been in Agra and was pissed off at how simple stuff didn't work.. there seemed to be seemingly simple solutions but the hotel owners/managers either didn't know or it seemed too hard...
Similar issues in the trip earlier in the year on a trip via Trivandrum in the southern State..
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A nice defense of a shady and failing business model. Ad blockers have worked just fine for a long time, and they're about to get a lot more widespread.
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I dunno, contrast it with ABC notation for something very much less verbose: http://abcnotation.com/examples
this is a live coding language, so trying to achieve what tidal and overtone are. EDM type genres have recognizable formulas for the drum and bass, and then for pads and leads above so all these environments are trying to abstract over patterns at different levels of the music.

i can't find a real tutorial, but there's lots of material to look at: https://github.com/overtone/overtone/wiki/Getting-Started

and this is the 1st ref: http://akustik.hfbk.net/publications/LiveCodingInLaptopPerfo...

in this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding

___________

tidal: http://yaxu.org/tidal/

disclaimer: I've been playing synths a fair amount and i have a hard time understanding a lot of stuff on the overtone cheat sheet
> How can Philips sell a set of 6 inductively rechargeable LED lamps with charger and glass holders for less than $80 retail?

Who in the world thinks $80 is cheap for a few tiny little lights?
I find the quality of the writing quite impressive. Probably because it is vocabulary rich, with very well built sentences, while avoiding being pompous.
Happy to answer any questions people may have :)

- Chris
Well, 2nd comment and you've already done your part to make it a low quality discussion. So that doesn't bode well.
Facebook. That's really Twitter's major problem. Facebook used to be mostly friends chatting to family and friends, but nowadays it's the single biggest source of news links and the sort of viral spam that used to circulate on Twitter.

Twitter is still a faster and more reliable source of breaking news, but not that many people (apart from journalists) care about speed. And Facebook's threaded chat provides a much better way to discuss stories than Twitter.

In sum, for most people, Facebook's news feed is probably now a better Twitter than Twitter.
Apple wasn't the biggest problem for the mobile phone industry though. They made an early bet on technology that wasn't mature yet and while they had some head start, partly due to aggressive business practices, other companies were catching up. If anything Apple was leading the way for more profitability. What really changed the industry was Googles price dumping of mobile operating systems.

All the other successful smartphone companies today are hardware focused, while companies with strong software departments like Nokia and RIM are struggling. Which is sad because in a couple of years hardware is going to be good enough, while we have ended up with a similar triopoly as the desktop operating systems market is suffering from.
> I'm just a little sad that it's all MySQL again, now that we're betting on PostgreSQL and don't really look back.

Doesn't Postgres have its own multi-master solution in the works with BDR?
"Thomas Ormerod’s team of security officers faced a seemingly impossible task. At airports across Europe, they were asked to interview passengers on their history and travel plans"

It is so sad that nowdays it is not seen as absurdal that some kind of policeman is asking passangers about their travel plans. The journalist get excited that new methods of catching "cheating passangers" are beind developed.

Apparently in the brave new World we have created this is considered normal.
The only thing Apple did for smartphones was capacitive touch for fingers, as opposed to QWERTY or stylus input. The first smartphone is arguably the 9000 Communicator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator), which was released in 1996. Even RIM (now Blackberry) only had a two-way pager back then.
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Apples or rather jobs main contribution to the rise of the smartphones was that he convinced the providers to allow mobile data at prices that were merely very expensive instead of astronomical like before.
The other innovation that accelerated the emergence of smartphones tremendously was the realization that resistive touch screens are crap and won't ever get good enough for comfortable touch control.
That pretty much made better on screen keyboards possible. Also i want to point out that the 1st gen iPhone was pretty much limited in what it could do initially - Apple got completely surprised by the magnitude of interest in mobile apps and games.
I'm not a car connoisseur like the guys in the article, but I appreciate beautiful cars.
I'm an 'old' Millennial though... I drive a 2011 Synergy Green Camaro 2SS. I got my license as soon as I turned 16. I've always lived in smaller towns/cities though, so public transportation is not a very useful thing and having a car is still very important. I just like the freedom it provides though as well.
I don't fit the 'Millennial' mold though in lots of other ways, so I'm probably just an outlier.
Great example.

Perhaps questioning him too and him feeling he was being pushed too far broke his implicit sense of trust, feeling loss of favourability.

It may have been a verbal agreement. It may have been his interpretation / perception of a verbal agreement (warped by assumptions, or by time), or it may have been a lie. Hard to tell.

A nice simple example that I'll remember, thanks.
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For Red Alert, there might not be much problems to do it since they made it a freeware[1] years ago and there are already plenty of projects around it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert...
I'm way too lazy for that, I simply close a page as soon as anything interferes with my reading experience. Whether it is small, low contrast text, survey or region selection popups seconds after initial page load, text jumping once the over sized inane stock photo in the header is finally downloaded, etc.

If the information contained is of any importance it will show up in a readable form somewhere eventually.
In the 3-season TV show Lie to Me (IMDB: 8.0), the protagonist relies on "micro-expressions" to catch criminals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me
So in summary, most websites have settled on a design with:

- Headline / key attention-grab in the most visible size possible

- Subhead / attention -> interest converter right below that

- Attractive visual element providing emotional context occupying as much screenspace as possible

- Benefits propositions right below those, exactly where you'd expect them to be if you're familiar with a Web browser

Sounds like a damn good approach to me. I mean, I'd be happy to see an even more efficient design that measurably increased conversion rates for most products, but if there's nothing currently out there, I'm OK with the state of the art :)
If you fall outside the norm then it's usually perceived as impressive. 18 and 80 would both be impressive.

In general, it's important to celebrate when people excel because the norm is a snarky comment on the Internet.
Until I saw the github link, I was a little excited -- chemical kinetics is still a somewhat empirical field, and the ab initio methods of calculating reaction rates an area of active research.
Not directly, but if the population doesn’t want stronger controls, no presidential candidate will pick it up.
Hm, why does that site need my authorisation to read MY profile when I can use it also to audit other people's accounts? A scam to get auth?
"Lying is a skill like any other, and if you want to maintain a level of excellence, you have to practise constantly." Words every founder should live by.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1jhCrqVtg
When will journalists reach the high standards of wikipedia and link to their sources?
But that's a different goal - you worked out he was a liar easily.

If you want to get someone to do something then yes you have to use different techniques (allow them to save face etc.).
Given the focus on market share charts, that's fair enough - but I don't think that's anyone's complaint with, say, Uber. There's a whole host of different problems here (including anti-trust, data protection, 'right to be forgotten', Uber's indifference to local laws) that are being amalgamated here to present European concerns as basically a matter of sour grapes at American success. (This is ironic, since they accuse Europe of making amalgams.)

Each of these issues is different (for instance, I think the 'right to be forgotten' case was absurd), and presenting them as an amalgam is ... unhelpful.
Assuming the laws of physics apply to the singularity then it will be constrained by starting at a single point in how fast it can spread. This means anything inside the light sphere will be under considerable pressure to be reorganised by the singularity given how far the human brain is from Bremermann's Limit [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit
First a nit: 'Now, he says, “cars have become virtual reality boxes,” infantilizing the driver. BMW even pipes phony engine noises through its cars’ sound systems...'
Chevy and Ford do this too with their trucks at least.

Second: 16 years ago I chose a car loan instead of a student loan. I was living in a small town and it was a ticket out. It was key to getting a higher paying job as employers required the mobility. In areas with poor or nonexistent transit, this is still the case. I live in Toronto now, sold my car 2 years ago, walk to work and telecommute and use car sharing. Why? Roads are too congested (I consider commuting in rush our soul destroying), it is so easy to rent a car today compared to 20 years ago and the big one: Insurance. It is prohibitively expensive and I have a perfect driving record. I now rent out my parking stall, and have more money available to travel and I no longer have expensive surprise costs for car repairs.

These people are describing a hobby and the author seems to have missed that.
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I think you put too much trust in the government's ability to regulate pollutants and chemical exposures. Governments are like using using an imperative programming paradigm to address a massively parallel system with innumerable amounts of state. Googling "unregulated contaminants" brings up quite a lot of articles.

You might be right about the air cleanliness thing. I recall my father saying how the air was disgusting where I live now, 40 years ago.
The thing is, a lecturer spends 20 minutes doodling this and can explain most of the same, especially if there is some ability to directly interact with the audience and clear up misconceptions. Maybe in the worst case a good lecturer takes twice as long to get the explanation across. If need-be, the lecturer can elaborate on any piece, or draw a completely new picture as the situation demands.

By contrast, making the fancy animated version takes 20 hours, plus another several hundred hours (or perhaps 1-2 orders of magnitude more) to build the framework underneath. Even better would be to make interactive explanations, but that would take dramatically more work than even the animated version.

If someone can spare the time to do it, it obviously has tremendous value, but each animator can only explain a tiny number of things in this medium, compared to, say writing a whole book with the same amount of effort. It’s similar to the contrast between telling hundreds of stories around the campfire or writing a novel vs. animating a few minutes of a Disney film.

Ideally we’d have ten thousand skilled animator/programmer/educators working on creating such explanations, sharing tools and ideas, coordinating effort to build more complete curricula, etc., but there’s not currently anyone paying them to do it, so today there are only a handful, working as volunteer hobbyists. There’s no incentive for current educators (say, college professors or high school teachers or textbook authors) to spend their time making this kind of thing, since it’s not an established and recognized genre yet, and a vanishingly small proportion of them have the requisite skills.
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What he has done, is standardize the experience in a hotel based on which category it fits (standard, premium, deluxe) and ensure you'll get a certain minimum standard of experience on your stay in any "OYO Room" across India. This is a huge problem in India especially at the lower end (sub $100). Also, what he has been very smart about is that his app/website provides the only interface with the hotel so you have to book it through OYO Rooms only, unlike other websites where you usually just discover hotels and book directly by calling/mailing the hotel itself.
You can improve the signal/noise ratio by using lists to follow groups of people with common interests. This is even more work, but in some cases, you can follow other people's lists instead.

You can get an even better signal/noise ratio by using Nuzzel, which extracts the most popular stories. Again, you can use it to read other people's lists.

http://nuzzel.com/
But you only have to spend those 20 hours once.