skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure,

1) can you cite your source? Apple is known for their sleazy wordsmithing and, having followed their lawsuits last several years, throwing completely unsubstantiated accusation at their opponent (see my comment about a 2012 USITC case against Samsung where Apple's own witness came out testifying against Apple). I'd like to read it myself as I'm pretty sure there are a lot of footnotes and modifiers that are not conveyed in one-liners.

2) whether contract manufacturers' licensing with Qualcomm precede LTE is immaterial in this case. Any LTE handset maker sourcing those contract manufacturers will (indirectly) pay the same rates. Apple and Qualcomm had business "collaboration" agreements in which Qualcomm provided additional technical, support resources and monetary compensation for sticking with Qualcomm (see Qualcomm's lawsuit). Apple is likely paying far less than smaller handset makers without such agreements with Qualcomm.

3) "You cant NOT use Qualcomm patents in LTE" <-- not sure what you mean. Qualcomm like many wireless patent holders routinely publishes their (initial) FRAND rates and if the company is engaged in unfair licensing practices, it would be easy to find that out. I'd like to emphasize that, contrary to Apple's view on FRAND, FRAND doesn't mean cheap and SEP patent holders are under no obligation to license their patents. (ETSI IPR Guide, Section 1.11 (http://www.etsi.org/images/files/IPR/etsi-guide-on-ipr.pdf):

The purpose of the ETSI IPR Policy is to facilitate the
standards making process within ETSI. In complying with the
Policy the Technical Bodies should not become involved in
legal discussion on IPR matters. The main characteristics
of the Policy can be simplified as follows:

• Members are fully entitled to hold and benefit from any
IPRs which they may own, including the right
to refuse the granting of licenses.

4) MPEGA licensing schemes are fundamentally different than that of the wireless industry. For starter, theirs is based on some fixed cost per unit which caps at 90M per year; whereas Qualcomm's is a percentage of end-user device with no limit in quantity. Apple is allegedly paying something like $2B per year to Qualcomm as a result. Further Apple is an active contributing member of MPEGLA standard and most patents holders pay nowhere close to the publicized figure due to various sales and cross-licensing agreements.
Zillow to add 3D models of homes to real estate listings
Well the problem might be price fixing of RAM (speculation, btw). There's competition in CPU world but its a different matter in the RAM/HDD world. RAM has actually been getting more expensive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/6xth78/is_ram_jus...
I can't decide whether this is a) good marketing by the Ethereum foundation, or b) Bloomberg waving the crypto flag to attract eyeballs.

In either case, zero-knowledge proofs, while necessary for putting trades onto the blockchain, are only one of many, many, many issues to solve before it happens, if it ever happens.
This is a blatant lie.
Don't think Mozilla could really afford to implement that right now. You can only piss off advertisers so much before webpage owners stop supporting your browser and Mozilla is already pissing off advertisers in many ways. Especially compared to Chrome which is worth supporting more due to its oversized market share, too.
The Moto devices feel like a well kept secret in the Android community. They are all priced well and the quality is generally quite good.

Its too bad that the cameras tend to be subpar, though.
Bret Victor (of Apple fame) made Alligator Eggs which could be fun to play with a five year old. The game represents the untyped lambda calculus. You can download the PDF from Bret Victor's website.

http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/

EDIT: Thinking about it, when I studied Petri nets at university someone showed me a Peri net board game.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/9727/play-net
I don't know what you guys are talking about. What happened was very clearly:

1. Group #1 joins who care about site

2. Group #1 improves site. Sense of "community" keeps things in check.

3. Site grows in popularity and group #2 joins

4. ?????

5. Profit
https://www.google.com/search?q=define:entertainement
https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/ would probably be what you would need to build your own. I think you can also use just Google drive to make something like this.

Not sure of more straight forward hosting options
You're kind of out in the weeds now.

Also, you don't sign software or whatever with a public key, so I'm not 100% sure you understand how this works.
Amen.

You can pay a lot for an Android phone too!
>This is a blatant lie.

No, it's not. Try recovering your iCloud password from the web right now. I couldn't believe it either.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204921

"For your security, recovery includes a waiting period that may be several days or longer depending on the information you can provide to verify your identity. Apple Support cannot help you shorten this time. "
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Wow. This is very obscure language and I'm disappointed. They don't even mention that this is a "BUG".

I didn't have any trouble with High Sierra so far, but was disappointed to upgrade to iOS 11. It is still unstable. A lot.
They are just media commentary. Should newspapers do movie reviews or should they stick to baseball box scores?

I sort of think the radical idea is that a "news aggregator" is some new thing that can operate without editorial standards. People should be mocking Google for the shit job they do highlighting content.
Without knowing the circumstances of how the bug was introduced, and the testing infrastructure, I'm torn. On the one hand, I could be convinced that some believable scenarios exist where test might have missed this through something other than incompetence and sloppiness.

OTOH, I'm having a hard time imagining what that "believable" scenario might look like. You hand me Disk Utility to test, and I'm going to do some exploratory testing to cram some large strings in both fields, yada yada, we all know the drill. You know, take a moment or two before hitting the code editor. I'm just grasping to figure out how I wouldn't find this bug in like five minutes. And that's before formal tests start getting written. There's missing a bug, and then there's "maybe testing software isn't for you".

In summary, I very much want to give Apple the benefit of the doubt here, but I'm sure having a hard time of it.
well.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
I whole heartedly agree. I would like at least one desktop platform vendor to not start with the defeatist mindset that Web / Mobile won. Desktop is where I do most of my productive work, the basic way I do my work (programming / research) has not improved in a long time. There is tremendous room for innovation on the desktop.
That's a lovely idea, but said requirement isn't in our election laws, and it's quite clear that plenty of voters lack even basic critical thinking skills.

29% of LA Republicans blame Obama for the federal government's response to Katrina. http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/polls_show_lo...

It's fundamentally responsible for news media to take a subject like vaccines or "was Obama president during Hurricane Katrina?" and give a solid, well-sourced answer instead of "well one side says X and the other says Y".
The first sentence isn't.
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Well, at this point, which anti-virus product you use is gradually devolving to "which state do you want to spy on you?". And the problem is, the answer may not be "the state I live in", since that state is the most likely to tax and otherwise regulate you.
Likely they were talking about the iPhone 7, which does not come with a laptop jack.
> Mostly people don't realize I am the one they are talking about. It is the same on Reddit...

> Often I get downvoted on Reddit about VLC, like I don't know what I'm talking about :)

Even if you preface it with something like "Hi, VideoLAN President / VLC lead developer here ..." (or something) ?

I'd expect on the more technical subreddits, that should suffice? (maybe not on the biggest/general ones though, too many people makes for some may not even read the whole comment before voting)
> I have a MacBook Pro, and the keys no longer work reliably.

I have the 12" MacBook and the keyboard is absolutely miserable. I seriously got warned by the Apple Store when I bought it that if I got any dust on the keyboard at all that the keys would get stuck, which is totally unrealistic. It turned out to be true, which has meant I mostly just don't use a laptop anymore, as the keyboard is just so unpleasant. I have had it on my todo list to move all of my data back to my now-repaired 11" MacBook Air (which had a totally reasonable keyboard), but that entire task is just so depressing. A few days ago I was talking to someone I know who loves their 12" MacBook and how they find the keyboard just fine... and then he seriously told me that some incredibly large percentage of the time his O key doesn't work and I'm just sitting there totally dumbfounded wondering how he could even use such a machine.
It makes my heart swell to know there are still those out there thinking of dear Natalie, petrified and with hot grits down her pants...
slashdot was one of the few news sites that stayed up during 9/11. I think there was even a follow-up technical article about how they kept it up that day.
My mother-in-law was a kindergarten teacher many many years ago and she said it was typical to have to teach 5-6 year-olds the names of colors, shapes, and to identify letters. Then Sesame Street became widely available and the next generation of kids already knew everything they would normally teach.
The comma is important. They removed the headphone jack (from their phone), and all of the significant ports from their laptops.
Unless I'm bad at their webshop game, it seems bit curious that you can't get a T470(p) with both dGPU and low-power CPU. Dropping the GPU the equivalent model (with 3yr warranty) comes to basically $1500, compared to $1900 for the anniversary model. $400 (~25% increase) for the keyboard seems still bit steep, dGPU most likely being more of a burden than benefit for doing anything useful (ie running Linux).
I don't want something as large as 17 inches, and having purchased a machine without discrete graphics, I'm kind of regretting it.

> GPUs are the new DVD drive.

Coincidentally, I'm also missing the ethernet jack and internal blu-ray drive that my last laptop had. Dongles and external hardware suck. They make the whole experience of using the machine more awkward and less streamlined.
> That's a lovely idea, but said requirement isn't in our election laws, and it's quite clear that plenty of voters lack even basic critical thinking skills.

The problem is beyond repair then.

> It's fundamentally responsible for news media to take a subject like vaccines or "was Obama president during Hurricane Katrina?" and give a solid, well-sourced answer instead of "well one side says X and the other says Y".

The first amendment has no such exceptions.

EDIT: (hn throttling limits kicked in)

> I said "it's fundamentally responsible", not "they should be legally compelled by the government".

If your policy doesn't exist in law, it doesn't exist; it's an unfunded mandate with no teeth. We might as well wish for unicorns that bring us gold.
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> I have a MacBook Pro, and the keys no longer work reliably. I also barely get 2 hours of battery life.

How old is your Macbook Pro? Mine is 4 years and I still get 7-8 hours of charge even though I have been using the Battery almost everyday.
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I think making it open source would be better in the long term, but I'd personally use it either way if it works.
I think encryption uses a generated key to encrypt most of the disk, and stores that key encrypted with the user password on the disk. That makes changing the password fast; they only need to re-encrypt the encrypted key with the new password, and write it out. Problem is that an attacker who knows the old password may already have decrypted the generated key, so they can decrypt the encrypted data from the raw data, even after the password was changed.

Erasing generates a new key for the data. I think it could be done without reformatting, but they still would have to read each block, decrypt with the old key, encrypt with the new, and write back the result. Testing the recovery procedure for that (how do you know where to restart that after it crashed?) would be a challenge, though.
Intel Core I7-8700K a 6-Core Chip That Punches Far Above Its Weight
Jacob Applebaum publicly claimed (at the Chaos Computer Club, Germany, in the mid-2010s) that the Five Eyes and other intelligence services, for better or worse, attack employees of network providers, SaaS providers, and likely native software providers.

It's not clear to me if it matters what country they are working from. If the NSA has a credible threat in the USA, they can be authorized to assist with domestic intelligence services to infiltrate services required to get their job done.

One specific attack he claimed happened was a MITM of LinkedIn connections at foreign ISPs. I don't think it's a stretch to call them a "cyberthreat", especially if you are a Russian citizen or are trying to secure computer systems outside of the USA (I'm giving Kaspersky a generous benefit of the doubt).
This High Sierra bug is bizarre and disturbing. But Apple would have to commit an act of outright betrayal (such as lying about FaceID off-device storage) before I would consider going back to Android. Not because I think there is concerted malice by the Android overseers (partly because that kind of control doesn't really exist as it does with Apple), but because the potential for negligent design to cause damage seems so much greater. And from the perspective of a long-time iOS user, it seems that Samsung has a potentially strong hold on the Android ecosystem. And I trust their security and design chops far less than I do Apple's.

That said, I could see myself sharing your same disillusionment if I have to upgrade from my 4.5 year old Macbook Pro. I don't think I've ever had a laptop for more than 3 years, and I was happy to have an even shorter cycle when it came to Apple computers. I helped a good friend purchase a new MBP, and the most I can say is that I'm happier that she's on the MBP than on the old Dell laptop that she reverted from Windows 7/10 to XP. But I'm willing to wait another year or 2 for a improved model.
> Do you trust your CO alarm to Amazon or did you call the fire brigade just to be sure?

No, I bought it from a retailer that isn't a multi-seller marketplace known for mixing inventory from unreliable sellers who push counterfeit products where they are a middleman with those that they are selling themselves as the retailer.
He did a lot of the lectures for this course, with 3d visuals of course.

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/multivariable-calculus
10.6.8 seemed to be the most stable for me.
I've been playing IQ Twist with my 7 year old and 3 year old. It is fun for all of us.

https://www.amazon.com/SmartGames-SG-480-IQ-Twist/dp/B004TGV...
It's pretty terrible UX, but I can see how they came to the idea. If the mouse lasts all day, then surely the user will just charge it when they are done. However, this is a hard thing to train people to do. For people with a desk that step away at the end of the day, such as leaving the office) it is a bit easier to build the habit. However, if you are a user who uses the computer on and off all day, or doesn't have a permanent desk, it might be hard to remember to flip the mouse over and plug it in at the end of the night. Particularly if it's in your backpack. I don't personally use a mouse with a laptop, but I know plenty of people who do.

The mouse also just looks weird when flipped over to charge, and you can't really try to even charge it while it's in a backpack if you wanted to, due to the 90deg angle it makes when plugged in.
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>They removed the jack, and all ports from laptops.

What are you on about? Audio jack is there.

>They placed the charger for their wireless mouse under the mouse so you can't use it while charging

And? Mouse lasts MONTHS on a single charge. It notifies you 12 hours ahead that it needs charging. A 5 min charge can last you an hour.

I think this is a lot better than having a hole on the side of your mouse at all times.

This is an issue only to those who've never used it.

>and the list goes on and on--particularly with software.

Please list it. I'm dying to know more!

>It's just not premium stuff anymore.

Silly opinion.

>I've already switched to Android, and I am not buying another computer from them.

We're talking about Macs. What does Android have to do with it? You're mixing up your hate memes.

PS: You clearly never even owned a Macbook Pro. You're probably getting your "facts" from bullshit 4chan memes.
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A recent scenario. Kid gets their face painted and it seemed to take longer and look better than the few in the line ahead of us. When finished the person running the operation pulled out a camera and asked to take a photo “For my Facebook feed”.
> The first amendment has no such exceptions.

That's silly. I said "it's fundamentally responsible", not "they should be legally compelled by the government".
https://www.clamav.net/ ?
how do you have infinity billions of dollars and fuck that up, damn
It demonstrates panel availability up to 12.9 inches, but not necessarily up to 14.
The problem is rehabilitation only works on some people, and punishment works on virtually no one.

Prisons are a dumping ground for people with personality disorders. You can't fix a personality disorder with rehabilitation, or with punishment. (Arguably you can't fix a personality disorder at all.)

Some people are relatively rational. They commit crimes for a variety of reasons, a good proportion of which are a direct outcome of poverty and/or economic abuse and/or racism.

The best way to rehabilitate them is to rehabilitate society so it doesn't push them into a corner, or create subcultures where crime is a reasonable survival option.

The people with psychological issues are much harder to deal with. Keeping them locked and away and occupied is more humane than trying to "punish" them, because the punishment is pointless and will have exactly zero effect.

Running prisons as a for-profit industry instead of a social service is barbarism, and ultimately just puts more criminals on the streets.
They asked for new leadership, not new developers. The 'mistake' wasn't a bug in XYZ, but a leader who took feature deadlines ahead of actual functionality. That leader should be axed - that's what GGP was discussing.
FYI: The title sounds like clickbait, but is actually explained in the article. As technology improves further in the next few years, we’ll be able to scan so many more stars simultaneously that a possible discovery would be have to be made (if they exist).

Overall an interesting article by Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute.
Indeed, this is the problem. If their algorithm is so naive that it accepts frickin' 4chan, it's probably going to end up making the wrong decision in the other direction (that a reliable thing is not).
Right but to have a meaningful answer to your question one would need to know specifics right? As example a spanner setup that will perform on par with the largest reasonable PG setup you could have would be in 100K-150K/month range
Completely agree that adequate automated testing would have caught this but still ...

You'd think the developer/QA that worked on that particular feature would have manually tested it at least once.
You can be sure that whomever was involved with the bug will probably never make that mistake again.

We all like the story of "just spent a million dollars training you", but experience tells me that there is absolutely no assurance whatsoever that any random person won't be repeating that mistake in the future.

EDIT: and to be clear, of what tiny bit I know, I blame test more than dev. From the dev side I can see someone making a stupid mistake (that for the record I could just as easily make) swapping the foo with the bar, or some mis-click in IB. But I'm still astounded that this made it out of test without getting caught.
yeah, i definitely noticed that my lungs were better off vaping than smoking but they are certainly not 100% vaping
An article or two or three would be one thing. But when I can flip between the two windows and see NINE of the same articles, there's something afoot. It's a big world out there. Lots of news to be had. Someone's being lazy.
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Are there benchmarks around this you could share?
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Certainly we've seen a lot more quality problems recently than we are used to seeing from Apple, even in first releases of a new system. This is bad for users and bad for the brand.

However I wouldn't say all of these are terrible faults any different from what they've done before. As a vertically integrated, full-ecosystem brand Apple has consistently chosen to design towards where they feel the industry ought to be, not where it is incrementally advancing towards. They did this with thunderbolt vs firewire, and they are doing it now with bluetooth 5 vs headphone jacks. With Airbuds you can have a single earpiece (well, two) that provides high quality two-way audio for your macbook while working, your phone while driving, and your watch while running, and eventually your HomePod while walking around the house, and their handoff technology automatically switches between them. THAT is what they were designing towards, but they just didn't tell us that when they introduced the iPhone 7.

Is this good or bad? It depends. It is a lack of personal choice and a concession of liberty. Ted Kaczynski* would be appalled at everything Apple represents, for reasons that as a libertarian I can understand. However Apple's "abuse" of its monopolist position has allowed the creation of a highly integrated and seamless technology ecosystem that genuinely makes my life better, at some cost to my pocketbook, and could not have existed in a free market. And since no one is forced to buy Apple.. is that still a bad thing? It's definitely not black and white.

* Not someone I usually bring into conversations, but I saw Manhunt recently and it was rather thought provoking. Highly recommend watching, regardless of whether you typically enjoy police procedurals.
We've not been in a world where the web browser can be separated from the OS for at least 7 years.
I always find it's worth pointing out that you can also bookmark the about:profiles-page and stick that into the bookmarks-bar. Or if you don't use the bookmarks-bar, you can also go into Customize and drag the Bookmark-Items-element into the Navbar and then put it there.