skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an HTML5 API for vibrating devices, including phones; this isn't necessarily an Android-specific problem, and there are legitimate reasons for browser content to use features like vibration. (It isn't implemented in Safari, but it apparently works in other browsers on iDevices.)

The Play store launching without permission I haven't seen, so I can't guess at.
I like them because they are the only headphones I can sleep on my side while they are still in and not hurt. I've got expensive headphones for listening, the ear pods are good enough for listening while laying down.
Some of us gain perspective from comparisons like that. We don't need guilt to motivate us. Its unfair to imagine folks only react to guilt but not to a real appreciation of their situation.
> It happened because the majority - the people who voted to leave - are mainly older and roughly speaking don't have to live with the consequences, whereas the minority - the people who voted remain - are mainly young and will live with the consequences for the next 30-40 years.

How is that an explanation? If these surveys are actually true, the reason the vote ended as it did is because younger people didn't care enough to actually vote.

The claim that older voters don't care about the future because it doesn't affect them personally as much is just derogatory. You could say that they have invested decades of their lives in the country and care about it more, they also knew life (in the EEC) before the EU was formed in 1993. Young people are just afraid of changes they cannot anticipate and have nothing to compare the status quo to.
> And how does the average voter get involved in "drafting bills"

This is exactly my point - real democracy means engaging in the political decision process on all levels, and taking/feeling a sense of ownership of/to it.
> It happened because politicians didn't listen to voters or do anything about their concerns and money was always the deciding factor in everything they do.

Yes, and this disenfranchisement led to disingenuous politicians and media scaring people into thinking they were under attack from "The others". Almost every single argument betrays this underlying way of thinking. If immigration is so bad, then why did the places with the most immigration vote the least to leave? I have yet to hear a good example of a 'Bad' EU law, or one without good reasons. The commission is clearly chosen by elected politicians; and is demonstrably no less democratic than the choice of prime or government ministers. The new leader of this country will not have been elected so - which is our system, which is fine - but don't pretend it is any other. (interestingly, since WW2 there have now been as many mid-term changes as there have been elected prime ministers).

We in theory elect politicians effectively as 'Experts' who can take the time to make the right decisions with the knowledge that we don't have time or the interest to accumulate. But we've reached the place where emotional appeals are so easy and effective to spread quickly that as soon as someone starts acting in the long term interest (which is often not so good short term, and short term is much easier to defend) they are swept aside.
It is.

But it's never got much love outside of Advertising/Marketing circles (was originally a animation toolkit for Flash, now JS) because it was closed source and pay-to-use.

It (probably) is the best animation library out there.
Click bait. I think Android is doing fine, Google seems to be on a great path with N and a more solid OS to use daily than my iOS device currently (but I'm sure apple has some tricks coming)

Also, they didn't downplay tablet features in N, they added stuff like split screen which is a HUGE improvement.

Ahh modern journalism. You'll never believe what he typed! Click the headline to find out... ;)
> Democracy "works" only when majority of population is well-educated and cultured

Who gets to decide who is smart enough?

Universal suffrage is a feature. It's a defensive mechanism against self-interested parties ignoring the needs of the people. You may see those less educated or cultured than as you as rabble, but the democratic process punishes that bias to ignore those people.

> The crucial thing is that members of such aristocracy must be quickly and easily replaced when fail or lost support.

Recorded human history suggests that "competent and educated" aristocrats fail to remove themselves individually or as a an empowered group.
I'm not saying that can't happen - I'm saying the metric they're using is flawed.
She won't let you touch the funk
>instead the armies would execute soldiers for cowardice //

Was it not a necessity (on the basis of "winning" the trench warfare)?

If you can go home to a nice feather bed and being looked after in a care home without even the appearance of an injury by presenting as having PTSD/shell-shock then the effect on moral and ability to force men to go over-the-top with the threat of capital punishment for desertion is going to be detrimental to the offensive capabilities. Here's me 6-inches deep in mud sitting on a firing step, thirsty and flea-bitten, nursing my shrapnel wound; there's Joe going home without a scratch on him??

Cowardice and PTSD/shell-shock probably present in similar ways on a battlefield too - I'm a huge coward, I'm not trying to suggest anyone had less honour than they did, just that I'd expect to be a gibbering wreck without any shell-shock.

With the tactics employed it looks like it was a numbers game, to play that game they couldn't afford compassion for the fighting men of either side.
I think he mentioned Brexit because it's an example of too many voices getting lost/ignored in the 'noise' of democracy i.e a democracy needs to represent many complex issues. In the case of Brexit, many votes were cast, each vote complex in it's own right, on a binary referendum that has far reaching consequences. My take from what he's saying is that the world moves far to fast, and is far to complex for the current democratic model we hold dear to function properly for all.
Disabled teen sues TSA, Memphis airport after bloody scuffle
Google does have help, but it is difficult to get, and not well publicized. For Adsense products you need to hit specific revenues to "unlock" help levels. For example, I think it is $25 a week in revenue to have email support. Then if you do more than $500 a month you can get chat support. And finally, the holy grail, is doing enough revenue to get your own account manager, but they don't tell you what that number is.

For Google apps, if you have a business account ($5 a month per user no minimum), their phone support is incredibly good. You can call right in, talk right with a support person. I have had to call a few times on migrations for email and some issues with Google docs and the support has been nothing less than impressive.
Wouldn't it be that the Alto uses normally available standard netboot protocols that could be set up easily with a Linux box somewhere?
Me too. If you have been contemplating suicide, this could serve as a rehearsal showing you that it wouldn't be so bad.
A depressed brain can react to input in ways that seem counterintuitive for the non-depressed.
Yup: https://help.webflow.com/article/how-to-enable-ssl-on-webflo...
Standardize Getting Started: The Need for ./bin/start
Spend most of my days thinking just the same.
Equal rights are the must. Not a single objection to that. It is a cornerstone of civilized society. The final decisions however shall not be taken by a snap voting of "mere plebs".
I started a twice a week program with a personal trainer almost 2 months ago. Looking to up it to 3x/week soon. So far so good. Still have some shakiness.
I wonder if this is something that could be addressed as a userscript.
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yes sleeping has been a challenge with earbuds. usually keep only 1 in the non pillow ear. Will test it with originals if i can find them somewhere :)
In how many other countries did the universal suffrage get granted by a democratic vote?

Calling that a failure of democracy just because it took longer seems silly to me.
I thought people voted for Brexit because they wanted more autonomy and didn't like the free flow of immigrants, but I guess saying people were "scared shitless" does indeed make more sense.
Strangely it had no impact on the outcome. Marching millions of men 'over the top' to be mowed down by machine guns was pointless. Even though the tactic failed utterly, they kept doing it. Out of desperation? They executed a generation.
The headline is pretty click-baity, the article outlines that Android OEMs are struggling and going the way of the PC OEMs a decade ago.

While this is true, there are still PC OEMs now, and there is no evidence of the Android ecosystem collapsing (besides of a claim in the article that people rather want iPhones running Android).
> In-Browser NoSQL db with syncing and persisting

Is the syncing part as straightforward as Pouch[1]? I couldn't find anything about syncing on its docs. If a db comes with an easy offline-first and sync-when-possible model with granular permissions, it will be very interesting. Current solutions have (IMHO unacceptable) fixed dependencies on the backend or the architecture.

[1]: https://pouchdb.com/
A "correct" fix would be to build stylable core UI elements from the chrome itself. Leave the accessibility to the browsers (and by extension their UI toolkit). For this, you need a standard `<menu>` element, which is in HTML5.1:

https://w3c.github.io/html/interactive-elements.html#the-men...
Is that how most felons earned their felony conviction?

Because that's what I asked (rhetorically).
Yeah, NVIDIA is an "example" of that.
Well, I know what it's for, and I can appreciate that aspect. I just know it's been used on me and had that effect.
The average Prime user doesn't shop around or comparison shop. If you really do you are an exception and not the typical prime shopper. Prime users feel compelled to "get their money worth" by using the service more and they think of their shipping as free where it is actually prepaid. Getting someone to prepay for shipping for a whole year is a great way to create loyalty.

Honestly, I, personally, don't understand Prime but I also don't buy very much stuff and don't find getting my stuff in two days compelling 99% of the time so I wouldn't spend even close to $100 on shipping. I very, very often buy my basics online (TP, paper towels, pet food, soap, etc.) but I just wait for a sale from any retailer to buy. Other than basics I rarely buy much else.
Glad you posted that, didn't know where I'd read it. Good read on an aspect of the trench war I hadn't heard about before.
> FTSE down, £/$ down a long way,

FTSE is up, not down. It's pretty much at its highest point yet in 2016.

Tourism is booming and the economy will benefit greatly from the GBP drop.
> HN is not a chatroom - it's a news website.

I normally wouldn't comment on this but since you've self-identified as being interested in correct grammar and punctuation, I will.

A hyphen isn't appropriate where you've used it. It should be an em dash. You can type an em dash with shift+option+hyphen on a Mac or by holding alt and typing 151 on Windows.

http://logicmason.com/2013/the-difference-between-hyphens-en...
> FTSE down

The FTSE is at an all year high right now, outperforming European indices after the Brexit. However, the main reason for that is compensation for the GBP drop, because most FTSE funds are internationals so the value of their foreign assets went up against the GBP.
Sorry, but you're not enlightening anyone. Maybe there was no real business model to begin with. What you're essentially saying is that the demands of bloggers to make money are more important than the security, privacy, and experience of web users. I and many, many others don't see it that way.
> Now after months of using Ubuntu (unity, xfce) and Mint (Cinnamon) I'm convinced that OsX is best for average (and power) desktop user by a huge margin.

I recently set up Ubuntu and Mint computers for some folks, and can report that Mint is not bad, but Ubuntu is dreck (seriously, the change-user-password dialogue hangs: do Ubuntu users never change their passwords‽).

I've been running Debian with stumpwm for years now, and am convinced that this is the way of the future: a tiling window manager, extensible in a real language, capable of performing literally any task I ask of it. Most of the time, my main window is full-screen — that's odd to someone used to a classic desktop interface (as I used to be), but it's actually very much like a modern tablet or phone.
Also on bitbucket...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12030373
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Back in the 90's, the high-assurance community fleshed out the issues and solved many of them on top of strong endpoints. Here's an example:

https://www.acsac.org/2006/papers/epstein-paper.pdf

One from 2005 that I sent Joanna in gripe about Qubes not having a trusted path:

https://www.acsac.org/2005/papers/54.pdf

Good to see she added a better graphics system at some point. I suggest looking at prior work, though, as it's by security engineers with knowledge of adding it to every aspect of lifecycle and intent to minimize TCB. For example, GenodeOS is using Nitpicker + a microkernel. The abandoned EROS OS, whose site is still up, combined a different windowing system with a capability kernel and new networking stack. All to minimize risk in system in fine-grained way.
It acknowledges that some people think it is a problem, but it does not itself make any statement about whether or not it's a problem.

For those of us who believe economic inequality is both good and natural, this is a great rhetorical device for undermining the left -- "in this time of great economic inequality, life is better than it has ever been for the general populace."

A person on the left may use the opposite rhetorical device, "in this time of great economic freedom, people are increasingly poor."

As this is written, there is no way to know which rhetorical device they were using.
So it's now open-source? If so, cool.

> was originally a animation toolkit for Flash, now JS

I wonder how difficult that transition was.
This has little to do with the study in question. It wasn't about weird metaphysics, it was that MRI scans could predict what choice people would make, before they reported making a choice. Showing that the unconscious mind makes choices before our conscious mind is even aware of it. I don't think this result is affected by this new issue, because it seems to have been done with old fashioned EEGs too.

You can read more about this stuff here: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5975778/scientific-evidence-that-you-...

This adds to other work from split brain patients, that our right brain explains away the choices we've made even if those explanations are totally false. E.g. they ask the left brain to pick up a toy soldier, and ask the right brain why they did that. They say "well because I always liked toy soldiers when I was a kid", or some other made up explanation. There's even cases where one side of the brain is paralyzed and can't move its arm, and the other side makes up explanations why it doesn't want to move its arm and refuses to believe it's paralyzed.

I think it's possible humans don't have Free Will. Not just in a philosophical, or determinism vs nondeterminism sense, but in a very practical sense. That our actions are highly predictable. And that once you start to see the inner workings of the machine that is our minds, it starts to seem a whole lot less magical.

This intuition is hard to explain, but in general many systems seem to have "agency" until you understand how they work, and then they start to seem just like normal "non agency" things. As we learn more about how humans work, we start to look a lot less agenty. More on that here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mb0/agency_is_bugs_and_uncertainty/
They should.
Not far from truth.
Not far at all for many of us.

PS: Some good ole Pink Floyd music would suit this as well.
I use FreeBSD on the Desktop. It took me a bit to set up my system, so I keep lots of backups. I've been exploring the idea of building an image that contains all the stuff I use.

I find that FreeBSD is generally a lot simpler and more discoverable than Gnu + Linux. If you want a bare-bones UNIX experience free from SystemD and Pulse Audio, I'd recommend giving FreeBSD a try. The FreeBSD handbook is very nicely written, and at the very least using FreeBSD is an educational experience.
I disagree. Calling it improbable rather than impossible muddles language. It's a fake sort of precision that removes an important qualitative distinction, and that is what bothered me the most about this discourse. A lot of naive language prescriptivist that want to discard perfectly good words for the sake of an irrelevant logical/philosophical point.

It's improbable to flip a coin 10 times and get head ten times. It's for all practical purposes impossible to do so 10^10 times. This level of mathematical probability is functionally indistinguishable from 0 thus it is entirely accurate to call it impossible.

It's not logically impossible of course, it just happens not to be possible in our universe. It's physically impossible. Like the prime cookie. The appropriate amount of time spent on investigating prime cookies is not "very small", it's 0.

Now there is of course reason to investigate the EM Drive to some degree: To figure out where the bug was. To learn about potential experimental errors. As a puzzle, to solve the apparent paradox. But any other framing of the issue is dishonest.
> Young people are just afraid of changes they cannot anticipate and have nothing to compare the status quo to.

Changes with definite, visible negative consequences Versus not having any clue about changes that can not even be guessed at, advertised on explicitly untrue premises?

Younger people have grown up less isolated in a much more connected world, where other ways of thinking have not been so scary and alien. This isn't 1993, and despite the hints from the campaigning, having voted to leave won't make it 1993 again.
Steinbeck (in Grapes of Wrath?) had a character recite the 5 levels of moral development. It went something like this:

1) I don't want to get in trouble

2) I want to please someone

3) I want to follow the rules

4) I want to help other people

and the highest level,

5) I have a personal moral code, and I abide by it

He explained these as levels we reach with age - entering school at age 5 or 6 we first hide from trouble. Then in first grade we want to please the nice teacher. Somewhere in middle school kids become rules-lawyers. Later in life they may learn to be philanthropic.

People can be stuck at one of these early levels for life.
Remember this from 2009: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/dont-listen-to-the-whingers-l...

> I remember coming away from some discussions with the clear sense that the policy was intended - even if this wasn't its main purpose - to rub the Right's nose in diversity and render their arguments out of date. That seemed to me to be a manoeuvre too far.

> Ministers were very nervous about the whole thing. For despite Roche's keenness to make her big speech and to be upfront, there was a reluctance elsewhere in government to discuss what increased immigration would mean, above all for Labour's core white working-class vote.

> This shone through even in the published report: the "social outcomes" it talks about are solely those for immigrants.

The politicians knew what easing immigration restrictions would be unpopular, but they did it anyway.
This isn't really massively newsworthy or particularly insightful -- however Brexit and it's consequences are though.

The only underpinning piece of insight at play I can gather from this piece is that when a currency drops in value it attracts tourists of which I think is fairly basic economics and something that most of HN already fairly au fait with.

I mean this article would be fairly low down on Bloom's pyramid for me. Am I missing something here perhaps?
Teaching Programming in High Schools Will Be Useless
Also the author of The Microsoft Sound WAV that played upon Windows startup in 1995.

At the time probably the tune played most often per day for a number of years.
Disagree. Argument is every vendor is racing to the bottom and vendors are getting squeezed out. Fine. Race-to-bottom didn't seem to hurt the PC industry. Plus, cheap Android phones in the developing world.

(Agree that it's clickbait.)
My plan is Win8.1
Agreed, even highly intelligent people can be completely oblivious to certain basic things or have severely skewed views of reality which may actually be worse for society than mere stupidity.
You can substitute "Portugal" with "Italy" without affecting the validity of the sentence.
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The accordion can work via keyboard with some styling changes, e.g. position or clip checkbox instead of display:none, add visual indication on :focus. I didn't check the others but their accessibility may be similarly correctible.

Of course for accordion in particular it would be better if the pure HTML solution of using <details> and <summary> elements was supported in all browsers. They're already in Chrome and Safari and will come out from behind a flag in the next Firefox version. A polyfill for IE etc. can bridge the gap.
Even if you get an account manager, you cannot call him/her directly. They'll only call you.