skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While OnePlus (i've owned all OnePlus phones since OP1) is a great example however there is a common misconception that it was "new" at that time. The OnePlus 1 was almost identical to the Oppo Find 7A in specs, price, etc [1]. Also not commonly known, OnePlus was started by an ex-Oppo executive and is actually (majority) owned by Oppo Electronics which is the parent company of Oppo Mobile [2].

Also while price was definitely a huge factor for it's popularity, the main reason IMHO was because it was the first phone that officially supported a popular AOSP at that time - CyanogenMod (now LineageOS [3]) and it even had the logo branded on the back. Almost everyone I knew with a OP1 phone bought it simply for cyanogenmod and how fast/smooth it ran it with no issues. Remember that when OnePlus 1 was first announced in 2014, android phones were well known to be filled with vendor bloatware (Samsung Galaxy S3,S4 anyone?), expensive, became really slow over time and for those of us that wanted custom ROMs, it was relatively painful to flash/root a stable AOSP on any device. OnePlus 1 was the first phone that I had absolutely no issues with having CyanogenMod on it such that I even turned on nightly updates knowing full well that it was tested at least on a OnePlus device.

So yea, I think OnePlus became popular simply because of price and their official support for CyanogenMod which meant a phone with a fast & responsive running android and most importantly, no bloatware.

[1] https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=6214&idPhone2...

[2] https://www.gizchina.com/2014/04/28/oneplus-responds-oppo-co...

[3] https://www.androidauthority.com/cyanogenmod-lineageos-65481...
> If that is the case, they've just eliminated any incentive for someone with a gun to not shoot at them or to resist arrest.

Yes, I think that's a good point — it is a vicious cycle and sort of self-perpetuates.
> According to Comcast, median Xfinity data usage in 2H 2017 was 131 GB

Given their recent push for data caps (and make money off of overages), I'm sceptical of their numbers. They have a pretty obvious incentive to misrepresent (if not understate outright) the value to make their caps appear generous.

Also, is median (same as 50th percentile, right?) really the right statistic to consider? I'm not sure any one number is sufficiently meaningful, as the shape of the graph can be particularly informative.

More importantly, how has that changed over time, as compared with the penetration of 4K TVs versus 1080p ones (or the availability of 4K content or some similar metric)?

Conversely, I think mobile data is also more likely to be significant as competition in multi-person households, even with the caps you mention, because those have a chance of being per person/handset (absent family/share plans), while Comcast is likely to be one cap per household no matter how many people/screens stream at one time.
It’s debatable whether it worked the first st time! But I am happy that to be guided.
They have said this.

a) they have said they don't want to punish companies for the sake of it, they want to use it as an incentive to fundamentally change the approach to the handling of user data. This means not suing tiny companies for more money than they are worth.

b) they have said that the standards will roughly increase with the size of the company and resources it has. A company with 27 users (and few employees) would not be expected to have a data protection officer, or many of the control processes that a company with data on 1.5B people.
I was 100% prepared to buy (upgrade to) an Essential phone on Sprint until they pulled the deal after massive abuse (people buying for $150, canceling line, and flipping on eBay for $300 profit).
The idle draw is exactly the sort of thing one would expect to be fixed well before volume production. I've been at companies that made hardware (in fact at least one of my co-workers from one of those jobs is at Cavium right now) so I honestly think that's a bit of a red herring. Comparing pre-production hardware with production is always a bit unfair; let's not make it more so.
Same on iOS.
Otherwise great job! I can easily see his being used for rapid prototyping so give clients the feel that the UI is not set.
Would be good to use the awesome font at the front as actual font face in text controls. Or perhaps some fixed width / typewriter font.
Smartphones have found product market fit, this isn't X for Y trying to get ramen profitable while consulting on the side.

This is a company with $300 million in funding. You're supposed to knock it out of the park, not pivot endlessly.

Imagine GE making a new turbine engine, it's supposed to fucking work, because that's why you give GE/Rubin/'the adults' $300 million and not some kids in a garage a couple hundred grand.
Global revenue of the parent company!
I would be interested in seeing examples of large fines that have been handed out to business by the EU that don't first of all meet the general conditions mentioned in this article.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/gdpr-hysteria
The Obligatory GPDR Notice
The promo code that I used, "mindpump", no longer works. I'd keep an eye out for any new podcasts sponsored by Brain.fm. That's how I discovered the old promo code.
I saw multiple US police officers with M4s [1] at the Warriors game this week. I feel like its becoming increasingly common at public events here.

[1]: I think they were m4s but they could be another similar looking rifle, I'm no expert.
It was really great for finding new things, both in and outside your interests range! I'd tried it again once or twice in the past few years, and was annoyed at how often and how noticeable the 'sponsored stumbles' became. Felt more like watching a series of hyper-curated ads instead of a natural discovery engine.
Some Androids (like mine) won't lock for a few seconds after turning off the screen. It's a nice feature when you press to turn off the screen, and quickly realize you need to do something else. Just turn on the screen and it's still unlocked.

Entering the pattern after it's locked is pretty much impossible though.
People who hallucinate guns in civilians' empty hands should not be on the police force, and ideally shouldn't even have access to guns themselves.
I also enjoy the same things about the essential phone as you. It looks like Zune has a new friend.
I think his main crimes are conspiring(1) to delete evidence(2) (obstruction). I'm not sure what "wire fraud" is for — maybe just by virtue of (1) and (2) being done online instead of by phone, letter, or in person.
This was built to be sold to Amazon. The plan didn't pan out.
This is ridiculous, its not like they didn't have notice.
No clue if I had a copper line. I didn't mean to dispute that it was or wasn't VOIP or copper, my point was only that I was using a dialup modem five years ago, in direct contradiction to the statement that they haven't worked for 15 years. This was in Chambersburg, PA through Centurylink.
Funny, all this contention around technology that simply doesn't exist yet. When automakers market SAE Autonomy L2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Classification) certified vehicles as "self-driving" in official marketing media, and even more so when their sales reps blatantly lie to customers (both of which should be illegal), they're responsible for lost lives and undermining their companies' image, ethics and financials.

There's only one car certified for SAE L3 / "eyes off" and it's the 2018 Audi A8, only up to 60kmph - this is still not self-driving.

The primary concern here is false advertising as pervasive as it is blatant.
The agencies that can enforce the GPDR want you to be compliant, not to fine you.

Says who? The only perfectly clear parts of the GDPR revolve around the massive fines.
We're talking about a small company here. Sometimes small companies don't have the resources to move forward with a 2nd product if the first one didn't pay off.
They don't use x86 segmentation and normal gcc should work fine.
Same here (well, I can manage a few basic phrases in Japanese, but that's about it). Navigating Japan's rail system was very easy. Well, unless you enter turnstiles at the station and then try to exit right from the same station, that seems to confuse SUICA a lot and you have to go through the manual lane...
I think he's pointing out that many (most? all?) unicorns are built atop open source software that only exists because of a significant counter-cultural struggle that happened in the 80s and 90s.

I still remember when the idea of running a free software stack was considered deeply weird.
Oh, I thought it was a search for a new product, the Google Stone. Now that is a product I would buy.
That's not what he was charged with, AFAICT. That would be manslaughter or something along those lines, right? I think he's getting charged entirely for the cover-up.
This is increasingly my suspicion. I'd expect that they could have solved any technical issues around disabling tracking or letting users opt-in/out by now, which leads me to suspect that they have their business model based on being able to share certain data. It's very possible that they've A/B tested GDPR compliant flows/messaging, and found that their metrics/revenue dropped enough that they feel they have to do something more drastic. Although the argument against that is the fact they have literally just disabled access for European users.
Grid-of-icons dates back to the earliest icons in UIs too.
You can always try to find the salary range online, too (sometimes). Glassdoor, paysa, + indeed and other sites sometimes try to provide a guestimate range. Take each with a grain of salt of course. I'm very direct with recruiters typically, as I don't like having my time wasted (as it has in the past).
And hilariously don't consider Fox News or Sinclair mainstream in spite of their viewership numbers.
I saw plenty of police in south Florida (Ft Lauderdale/Holywood area) walking around with M4-style rifles and what looked like flak jackets five years ago. I never bothered to be around them long enough to figure out what they were doing but their grouping (only a few officers at a time) and frequency seems to suggest it is a common occurrence here.
AWS's UX is better than GCP in most aspects. You should be transparent about the fact that you work for Google. They did not "give away" Map/Reduce, they simply published a paper but that paradigm had already been in use. iOS's security is miles ahead of Android. Have you tried installing a notepad app on android until recently? How many permissions have you had to give up?
Steve Jobs' friend Bill Gates cloned the Macintosh with Windows and his other friend Eric Schmidt cloned the iPhone with Android.

I'm sure that felt bad but his primary feeling should have been pity. He created a company so much better than his competitors that their biggest successes are poor clones of his next-generation products. He showed Gates the future of PCs and he showed Schmidt the future of smartphones.

But he was unable to get over the feeling of betrayal and he felt the need to use the terrible patent system against them. It's petty behavior that was always beneath him and Apple. These lawsuits against Samsung are part of that petty behavior.

He could have been magnanimous and taken their pitiful cloning as a form of flattery. He knew that he could keep beating them indefinitely by creating superior products.
Happened into a random chat with a small commercial fisherman (think Jaws boat) recently. He was lit and fed me a lot of details. Sounds like he makes a lot more than I do as an experienced computer guy. He certainly has a lot more houses.
This is the only comment that gets at the heart of the matter. I would add that culpability is not zero sum. The shooter was 100% responsible, and the others were also partially responsible.
> Discussing potentially offensive or sensitive issues

Sexism does exist, but incidents are often blown out of proportion to intent.

Whelp, there goes my ability to contribute to Go code. :)
Possibly, although other lawyers are saying other things, and my understanding of the official guidance suggests this is an overreaction.
Guess they didn't make it to exit strategy then
Have you tried buying a non-smart TV or a non-connected car recently? Or even a feature phone that is basic in features but good quality? I do have quite a few devices from just before the madness became almost inescapable, but it has become increasingly difficult to get hold of these things in recent years. Aside from the sales and marketing aspects, there are other pressures that are forcing older models into obsolescence prematurely, such as changing encodings and DRM mechanisms for video, changing standards for wireless communications, and environmental and safety issues that drive older cars off the roads.
Except it didn't, and that's why they are selling the business:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/12/17004278/essential-phone-...
Yes, another article on HN a few days ago said blue light wakes you up while red light makes you sleepy (and I follow the science of that one more):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17117656
Calculating SHA-1 in the Browser
Mine will sometimes / often go off when I say "ok, cool". It's simultaneously amusing and annoying.
But then that means if you put it in your pocket it might suddenly do something because it's not locked yet.
Chuckles just keep coming!

Time was never a "left-wing mag", in any era. The Nation, In These Times, Ramparts -- those are/were left-wing mags. Time was always about the establishment, and Great Men, and the vital center.
Now you have me curious about what you've read. For what it is worth, all the numbers from before are from Statistics Canada (and CREA for housing data). A few data points can never tell the whole story, but they seem like very pertinent indicators.

Understandably rural is pretty vague. Almost the entirety of the country is rural, and like not all cities are booming, not all rural areas are either. I want to be clear that I am speaking about a set of rural regions within the country.

I vacation in Toronto a few times a year, and keep in touch with residents there, so I feel I have a pretty good idea of what the people are saying. Their stories are usually on point if you consider them to be several years out of date. That is the impression I get, at least. If we were to select a rural location at random, the average person would have no idea where it is and I feel that due to that there is some inherit information lag. It is not like these places are in the news every day, so most people just don't know.
Still. I've never seen a conductor yell at anyone for being loud, especially in the cities. Maybe it happens in the inaka...
Why do you think it is more likely that a given obsessive editor is a good-faith Wikipedian who cares about an unbiased and comprehensive encylopedia than an agenda-pusher? My proposal was implicitly based on the opposite assumption, namely, that removing obsessive editors will reduce the agenda-pushing set much more than it will the unbiased encyclopedist set. I think that, considering the real world, this is reasonable: we clearly see many more people dedicating an extreme amount of resources, up to and including their lives, to political causes than to abstract values such as objectivity and the accuracy of the historical record. The example that spawned this discussion certainly seems to involve a highly active editor being driven by a political agenda (do you dispute this?), and this is the case for almost all other instances I am aware of (though of course there is a selection bias here). Do you actually contend that the subject of the opening post has no agenda to push, or do you count him as a force for an unbiased and comprehensive Wikipedia because you think that his agenda is correct?
Then it's just a short step to creating new stories in a known style:

LAFORGE: Computer, in the Holmesian style, create a mystery to confound Data with an opponent who has the ability to defeat him.
COMPUTER: Define parameters of programme.
PULASKI: What does that mean?
LAFORGE: Computer wants to know how far to take the game.
PULASKI: You mean it's giving you a chance to limit your risk.
LAFORGE: No, the parameters will be whatever is necessary in order to accomplish the directive. Create an adversary capable of defeating Data.

We're steadily approaching science fiction when it comes to creating things like this.
>"Barriss allegedly then called the emergency 911 operators in Wichita and said he was at the address provided by Viner, that he’d just shot his father in

Ok, and there was no skepticism on the part of the officer taking the call?

Shouldn't you ask for some confirming information? Come on.
If Phillip Bloom uploaded these videos to Youtube, didn't he consent to a broad TOS on the usage of these videos for internal company purposes?

I'd be surprised if he had a case, which may be why he's taking his grievance to the media instead.
I mean sure, you could have a world where everything was free and unpatentable.
In my first experience with trains in Japan, I had to take a jaunt that included a leg from Nagoya to Matsusaka. The train ride was about 90 minutes, and I was anxious about knowing which station to exit. I anticipated that the signage would all be in Japanese. So I asked the station attendant in Nagoya how I'd know when to get off. He looked at my ticket and said, "The train will stop at 1:11PM. You get off."

The train stopped at promptly 1:11 PM, and I got off in Matsusaka.
I used to have a setup where StumbleUpon was permanently on my TV set, and the Stumble button itself I had hooked up to my remote control, so I could stumble my way through things on the couch. It was infinitely better than TV itself.

I agree with other commenters how it expanded their online world, and I'm saddened that there is no real alternative to this now, especially in the land of insular internet bubbles we live in today.
A fellow HN user who also loves Ludovico! He's amazing. I had the opportunity to meet him a few years back and he's one of the nicest people I'd ever met. When I told him that I play drums to his music he said he'd love to hear it. A very humble and gracious individual, that Ludovico.
It was a joke. Essential introduced the "notch" in the phone around the camera. And it was a well-designed implementation.
And even before "Looney Tunes", coyotes (including wily ones) were part of the folklore of many Native American cultures in the Southwest US and Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_(mythology)#By_culture
Cloud flare needs a feature that let's you ban all EU ips
Are there any good examples of copyright hypocrites? That is, companies which have spent great effort pursuing copyright infringement while infringing on copyright themselves.

I don't consider Google to be largely this sort of company, as they've fought to expand access (when it's in their interest, at least). Companies like Disney come to mind, but they're not exactly the same. They often adapt works where the copyright has expired, while lobbying to prevent their own works from having their copyright expire. That is definitely unfair, but not quite the same.
"ʒaɪv"
I bought this phone and the 360 camera and I can say that so far I have thoroughly enjoyed owning both and would do it again. I came from the Apple ecosystem, too.
One of several previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17131378 (not the first, but the most active)

This is really a non-story. Look up TheRetailEquation if you want to see how physical stores ban customers.

I would love to see a comparison of % of banned customers between stores.
There's a small learning curve but they do a great job on signage and maps.

I kinda feel bad asking for assistance in Japan. Most of the times I needed help they went way beyond my expectations to assist.
Blocking EU users temporarily doesn't remove the need to comply - they're still holding data from these users.
the controls inherit the font. So the person using the components can set them to whichever they want. I use 'Gloria Hallelujah' from google fonts' handwritten set on the website.
Does any one please know a curated list of all lawsuits between Apple and Samsung?

I've checked the Wikipedia page, but it's missing some trials and lawsuits.
In such a world, it would make more sense to limit the scope of the law until enforcement can catch up. Minimally enforced laws that are enforced subjectively are problematic regardless of why.
> it was a lighted road

The report is a bit ambiguous about that:

The videos show that the pedestrian crossed in a section of roadway not directly illuminated by the roadway lighting.
Its readily taught in the US that NZ is apart of the Australian continent and not Zealandia. We are taught 7 continents thus NZ is closest to Australia so we go with that, no need for specifics...
"Hell, the gas man would pass me on the street randomly, hand me my bill and expect that I would pay him on the spot. Different culture :-)"

That's weird. I mean, Japan is still cash-centric, but at least you can take your pile of cash to the combini to pay the utility bill. :-D

Was it one of those kerosene guys in the little muscial trucks?
A Walk Through Johnny von Neumann’s Garden [pdf]
> Huh, so they're going after people who didn't make the call and ignoring the biggest culprit that is the police officers?

First, while we can all agree that the police didn't act well in this matter, I would certainly not classify them as anywhere near the biggest culprit. If you job is to sometimes exert force, possibly even lethal force, to enforce the law and protect people, if you aer primed for an encounter with someone who has already "killed their father and is holding someone hostage", it's easy to see many ways this meeting could have gone wrong, and it did.

Second, regarding "people who didn't make the call", read the article if you haven't. I had the same initial thought, but then you quickly realize, from the actual chat logs of the accudes which are included in the article, that the person being swatted first boasted he wasn't scared of being swatted, and then when challenged on it asked them to swat him and then supplied to fake address (actually, his prior address, which his family still owned and rented to the family of the victim). As for the third person, he's the person that actaully requested the SWAT call. From his own chat statements:

Defendant VINER: I literally said you’re gonna be swatted, and the guy who swatted him can easily say I convinced him or something when I said hey can you swat this guy and then gave him the address and he said yes and then said he’d do it for free because I said he doesn’t think anything will happen

They all contributed to make a very unsafe situation, which then culminated in the death of an innocent. They all have some culpability in this.
You mean going up against Samsung, Huawei, and Apple, + Sony, Google, Motorola, LG, Xiaomi, HTC, Microsoft, Nokia, BlackBerry, BLU, ZTE, Kyocera, Alcatel & a bunch of generics. That's tough!
Uber in fatal crash detected pedestrian but had emergency braking disabled
This is a Trade Dress lawsuit

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/18/8619871/apple-samsung-app...

It’s not that Samsung has rounded corners and grids of icons. It’s that they had phones that were almost indistinguishable from iPhones.
https://xkcd.com/1807/
Ask HN: Will I lose my data when GDPR takes effect?
I have not taken any step to give explicit consent regarding GDRP to services I use. Does that mean they will delete all my data when GDPR takes effect tomorrow? That would be tragic...
My point is that I believe people would appreciate less ad time. Tools for skipping ad time are a band-aid rather then a solution.