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I am in the same bucket. I have such a number of 3.5mm devices. A couple of pairs of cheap over-the-ear headphones that I use for running and walking. A few pairs of noise-blocking earbuds: work desk drawer, home desk, normal backpack. A decent pair of headphones.

There is no way I'm replacing all those with much more expensive bluetooth devices, all of which I need to keep charged. And I'm also not buying six dongles or carrying an adapter with me everywhere.

I just don't get the obsession with getting rid of the jack. I'm sure some people don't need it. And I even get it with Apple; they have a strong sleekness bias and it lets them sell more expensive AirPods. But is everybody else just cargo-culting Apple?
Congratulations for the launch. Definitely a good idea. I'm a developer and personally won't need this, but I'll definitely suggest this when I think this could replace some "real coding".
Yeah a genius isn't always motivated by the same success metrics are normal people sometimes they just want to make something amazing even if they know it's a one off because it's not just business it's art.
Also why sentries get easily taken out in action movies.
The bizarre thing is that Waze is owned by Google. People speculate they haven't merged information due to regulatory reasons.
I mean, with all due respect, there's only one actual reason there that reduces to an actual consumer need, and it's low fee transactions, which as we've seen is not really a selling point for crypto as of now. The rest of your reasons reduce to "I think it's cool" basically. Which is totally up to you but hardly diminishes my point.
Yea...there were definitely fans like me. When I would show others, it wasn't completely uncommon for them to go out and buy one the next week. The marketing was terrible though.
I believe the biggest problem with social media is that it seems to impact people that don't even use social media. I haven't had a facebook account since 2012 yet I still feel like I'm somehow wrapped up in this social media dragnet bullshit.

It was interesting watching Zuck choke and stutter when he was practically forced into answering to the EU about shadow profiles:

He is asked about it here:
https://youtu.be/x66fB7CM--Q?t=1h21m36s

But he chokes and stutters here
https://youtu.be/x66fB7CM--Q?t=1h22m48s

basically saying they collect data on you whether or not you have a FB account in order to "prevent bad activity".

Give me a break... this guy is so delusional it make me sick. The audacity of him to just glaze over this stuff is just some next level BS.
They were partnered with Sprint, clearly it just wasn't enough. I think they simply weren't different enough to convince people to leave the more trusted brands. Smart phones have reached that stage of maturity where the new generations offer little change over the older and the market is accordingly reaching a sort of stasis/equilibrium.
OnePlus is also increasing the price of their phone with each new version and they don't want to be perceived as a cheap brand.

For example, in Canada, the latest Oneplus 6 cost $699 CAD. That's not cheap. Sure, iPhones and Galaxys are more expensive, but I don't know a lot of people who are ready to drop $700 on a phone from a internet-only brand.
How is the timing here relevant to attacking shacrypt? The run time is a function of the length of the attacker-provided string containing the password guess. That's totally fine, the attacker already knows that string. The output is a fixed-length string that is then compared to a stored (also fixed-length) hash using a constant-time comparison function.

The run time does not depend on the length of any secrets here. I don't see the issue. How can I use that to determine the length of the actual password? That length isn't even available to the password verification system anymore.
It's not renewable, but it is closer to carbon-neutral than fossil fuels. Advocates generally push it as a stopgap measure for climate change, after we transition away from baseload coal and before we transition to baseload renewables.
I do agree that one thing that Alexa does get right is smart device management.
Yeah, no EFS in Fargate is a deal-breaker; we manage our own nodes in ECS right now, just because we want EFS support. It was kind of too-little-too-late, same thing with Route53 DNS-based service discovery—it's annoying when you feel nickel-and-dimed into adding an (relatively expensive, IMHO) ELB/ALB per service to be able to direct requests to the backend.

I'm hoping EKS will evolve a lot more quickly and stay up to date with the upstream; it would be awesome if AWS has full and stable support for all the major bits like persistent volumes (on EFS or EBS), LoadBalancers (ELBs/ALBs, hopefully more configurable someday), etc.

It sounds like the beta period is over and AWS is ramping up for EKS' GA soon.
This looks pretty good, like Yahoo Pipes or IFTTT with a decent flow editor.
Does this all run as some user's ID? Is it storing/managing credentials for them?

RPA tools seem to be all the rage, but questions around accountability, auditability and other security aspects still stand out.
They missed the biggest one of all: Washington, DC.
Great quote.
That was exactly the period when blogging came into its own and current events were happening at such a pace (9/11! anthrax in the mail! aluminum tubes!) that news-lite magazines like Time pretty much had to get out of the game.
No one said "they won't go after small timers". Hitting the big players hard makes everyone wary of violating and they will absolutely catch some small fish as well.

It's just silly to expect any enforcement body to go after everyone equally. It doesn't even make sense; company A has data on 1.5B people, company B has data on 27 people and the owner's mother. Why would you go after B before A?
This is sensational because it's Amazon. As someone who has worked in a major retail business, returns are a long tail. Some people are just returns people and review/use/abuse return policies very aggressively. Most people are reasonable, and occasionally return things. Very easy to tell the difference in the data and ban abusers. Don't like it? Buy somewhere else. This typically harms the suppliers more so than the retailer, which is why the retailers even let you return so much in the first place.
>What’s so bad about having a small processor run a recognition routine on all incoming audio, discarding everything that doesn’t match, and activating the device if it does?

If that was the case, nothing. But we have enough evidence to believe it's not. While having the device listen, even though it's been explicitly configured not to, is a bit more of a stretch.

>Are you just worried about accidental activation?

That could be an inconvenience too, but I'm more concerned with malicious intent.
Let me know if you have any questions...

Which parts of GDPR do you think you're in violation of?

Why do you think removing access for users currently in the EU puts you in the clear legally?

What are you doing with European users data currently, have you deleted it all?

A lot of other companies have navigated the changes to the law without significant changes to their service or privacy policy, just by tightening up how they hold data, and making sure they are clear on permissions with users.

Are you sure you have good legal advice on this?
> but the need to keep them spinning 24/7/365 is a big maintenance issue

So is keeping batteries up to date. Many a failure has been attributed to stuff like:

- batteries gone bad without anyone noticing over the years (lack of acid, crystallization, loose contacts, dust in cooling components, ...)

- switch-over between grid and battery inverters fails somewhere

- some part of the inverters fail when they're idling for years and then have to go into full load suddenly

A huge flywheel only needs bearing lubrication, that's it.
That's because Microsoft completely lost its lead in the smartphone market, and people no longer wanted Microsoft software on their phones.

Some form of Windows Mobile held close to 20% of the market before Apple came along with the iPhone.

Selling an Android in an Android world is completely different.
Employees have no rights to internally modified GPL software. The software has not been 'distributed' to the employee.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#InternalDistrib...
But stumble upon's logo is so much better than mix's...
Modern GA literally means generally available, as in:

> that service seems to be down!

> huh, its generally available...
And I think the other major confounder in all of this discussion is also the tendency for US culture to mistake $$$ for intelligence and worth to society.

In addition, in almost every discussion where people say "successful", the implicit assumption is that you understand they really mean $$$.

The idea that intelligence or usefulness to society might negatively correlate with $$$ is so far removed it's almost a culturally forbidden thought.
Users of sha256crypt and users of bcrypt should all be pre-hashing. That doesn't mean the argument is invalid, it's just flaws to work around.
Yes, I'm sure their legal team missed that one...
Not only do I not speak any Japanese, but I'm colour blind, and don't have any kind of subway or metro at home - and I had no issue navigating around Tokyo or Kyoto stations. And in Tokyo, on multiple occasions there was even an excessively helpful English-speaking Japanese stewardess that insisted on helping us from A to B.
> When I was young I tended to equate academic performance & raw smarts with success, but as I've gotten older I've notice that long term success is less correlated with raw intelligence and more with disposition: charisma, grit, and emotional intelligence.

I think it's understandable given that, for example, the US educational system and culture has been inculcated with this false belief that taking tests, memorizing facts and following the rules are the main keys to success. When, in fact, they merely favor compliant, learned helplessness, leadership-dependent workers.
Ditto; I remember a few years ago seeing a few massive traffic spikes (larger than Slashdot in its heyday) to some posts, and the traffic from SU was a lot more sticky than from other tech sites.
I'm a kiwi who has lived in North America for over a decade. It's astounding to me how many people I've met have no idea where New Zealand is or believe it is near Scandinavia or Iceland - I'm not sure that issue is due to NZ missing from a map occasionally though! Likewise with the number of people who believe New Zealand is really part of Australia.
There isn't disinterest, there are priorities. And this is low on the list for the core team compared to the long list of high priorities. There is the whole playground codebase that anyone (you?) could use to handle the language server protocol.

It is a shame some people are disinterested in helping out. The Kotlin team can only do so much on their own...
I've noticed most of my friends that would be deemed "successful" by most of society only have 1 thing in common...parents with exceptionally large bank accounts.

I can only point to a couple people that came from middle class and lower families that are now successful (though I'm not terribly old yet), with them they had above average intelligence and above average charisma.

However, being exceptional seems to be a minority factor in being successful when compared to being born with more resources at your disposal.

I mean, you can't really be a billionaire in today's world if your parents weren't millionaires. And it's like this all the way down.
The likely answer is that the Japanese are an efficient people in general.

It's not surprising that a group of people following the same social norms would have an efficient system for public transport.
They launched around the same time as the Pixel 2, with similar price and slightly worse hardware. It was unfortunate timing.
That's not unreasonable. Lots of good things come with risk and when they go wrong we blame someone. Your house burns down and you blame the arsonist, not yourself for having a house made from fuel! Car crashes kill people and we blame the drunk driver not the victim innocently using the road which is known to be one of the most dangerous places to be.
Sure, but if you were on a highway, would you slam on the brakes? I hope not.

There's a calculation here of balancing the perceived risk of an obstruction with the consequences of avoiding it or braking in time. Drivers have to make this decision all the time, on a highway they will generally assume it's safer to hit most things than swerve or panic brake, because it's mostly likely not that dangerous to collide with.

At least one stat I saw from AAA is that ~40% of the deaths from road debris result from drivers swerving to avoid them.
I can't speak to Cal OSHA rules but where I work, in BC/Canada, yes it would legally be the owner's responsibility. Working for a large multinational it's also our policy in the US and around the world even though it may not be legally mandated in every jurisdiction. By owning our contractors' safety performance, we are trying to remove the perverse incentive that local management had to improve their own stats by contracting everything out at the expense of overall safety.
Any marketing blog about Play Protect should immediately be prefaced with the fact that independent testing ranks Play Protect as effectively useless: https://www.av-test.org/en/antivirus/mobile-devices/

And even more hilarious, is that their machine learning efforts only detect 60.3% of what Google Play Protect detects: "So far, our machine learning systems have successfully detected 60.3% of the malware identified by Google Play Protect in 2017."

60.3% of a 58.9% detection rate is a detection rate of about 35.5% of malware. So much for "doubling down on security".
I'm the type that likes to save time cooking too. The Kroger kits today do include pre-prepped vegetables.

Example - https://www.kroger.com/p/prep-pared-meal-kit-vietnamese-insp...
I agree, it seems like it would be a perfectly reasonable behaviour and furthermore it could prevent future situations like this.
> That's not a factor in whether or not you should comply with the law.

speaking generally here, you know laws aren't always right? we had plenty bad laws to draw from to challenge this particular point, from racial to abortion laws.

gdpr isn't as draconian as these but still has plenty trash in it between the vague wording, the moving target 'state of the art' represents and the weird requirements and absurd implications of the 'right to be forgotten'.
And the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/mapswithoutnewzealand/
I'm all for audacity, but I think it's better to have at least a few stones. It surprises me that they only raised enough money for one throw.

I believe there's still a lot of room for innovation in smartphones. But if your whole company is riding on your first product, I think it produces a lot of weird design pressure. You simultaneously want to be low risk and super edgy. While trying integrate a lot of new people, new partners, and (hopefully) new tech. Getting an industry-beater in one go under those conditions seems like winning the lottery.
If you'd give around $300000 it can be done ;) Battery life could be an issue though. Also taking pictures with an e-ink screen won't be a very satisfying experience.
Unfortunately I'm not convinced there's much more than a few hundred people worldwide who would pay good money for a "phone" that can't run any popular apps.
My friends own a "vape juice" company - one of the larger ones I think. They're currently doing around $10-15M in revenue after starting just a few years ago.
Not quite what you're looking for, but at least somebody trying something different: https://www.unihertz.com/jelly.html
I get what you're saying but that feels like a reach
I had never even heard of this phone until now, and I think I would've bought it over the Pixel 2. Think I'm the target audience, but word never reached me. Maybe they just whiffed on marketing.
I wish people would stop taking their anecdata so seriously . . .

> What you can see happening is that people treat Facebook more as a news feed then as a platform to communicate with friends.

I see the opposite trend. People ignore worse-than-useless feed more and more, moving to messenger and especially group chats.

Until serious competitor appears (and I mean real one, not HN-ideal decentralized-blockchain-powered one), FB stays. Tons of people using it in spite of their dislike of the platform has not stopped FB's growth, and who knows if it brings any actual change any time soon.
I think its kind of cool because if true you would basically derive the "golden rule" of most religions from first principles.

Treat others as you'd have them treat you because they are you.
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More on the shisa kanko Point-and-Call system here:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-j...

I've heard of people doing similar things with small children for safety reasons, things such as point both ways before crossing, and the old "fingers on noses before the door closes" for car doors.
Lower than average intelligence does not cause people to become "wife beaters". The lack of emotional intelligence on display in this whole comments section is deeply and painfully ironic.
People care about privacy to the extent that they don't want people in their social circle knowing stuff. They don't care so much about a faceless organization taking it.
> while it's true the same rules apply, it's not true that those rules necessarily produce the same results if that is the only element that changes.

Right, and I was only talking about the legality. It's not any more legal for Google to infringe copyright internally, even if the material impact might be less.

> neither copyright law nor general federal law on civil liability has a parental liability provision which would have this effect. State tort-law parental liability provisions generally aren't expansive enough to cover most (or in many cases any) copyright claims

Federal and state issues of parental liability are discussed a few places. You're right that it's not super clear cut, though many states do have general parental liability laws that hold parents accountable for damage.

https://www.newmediarights.org/copyright/are_parents_liable_...

https://www.eff.org/document/parental-liability-copyright-in...

https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/parental-...

Worth mentioning that in some cases the RIAA filed suits against minors directly. Also worth noting that many families settled before any ruling on liability or even guilt. Being sued under plausible sounding rules can be damaging even if there's no actual law to back it.

Regardless of the technicalities here, @mankash666's question wasn't necessarily a legal one. The real answer to that question is that you are at least partially to blame for files being shared if you make videos using unlicensed music and share it with your son who then shares it online. Even if you don't get caught or fined, it's still kinda your fault.
I think the author is arguing that if someone were to send a 1GB password that it could cause a DOS attack on the server performing the sha-hash of the password. Seems to me the simplest solution is to limit the length of password fields to something reasonable.
I disagree with this. By starting at the low-end, you will never be able to "out-cost" cheap Chinese manufacturers, with their economies of scale. Across all industries - (Apple with the original iPhone, Tesla with the Model S, etc.), the hardware startup value proposition is in the high-end.

You have to create a sustainable, innovative value proposition. That's easier for a startup to do (much harder for a big company to take a "leap"). Essential thought they had one with their "camera" system, but it didn't catch on.
It certainly isn't a provision in the law that if you feel that you won't be able to deal with your users legitimate requests that you have the option to lock them out entirely.

I can imagine something to the effect of stopping further gathering of data (to stop digging the hole deeper), to give your users the option to request what is their right through some kind of form and to park those requests until you're done with the implementation and in the meantime give them continued access.

After all, the law already has a provision in it that you have 30 days to respond, and another 2 months after that if you are for some reason technically incapable and need an extension.
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No. Read the PDF.

Volvo has automatic driver-assistance emergency braking. That's turned off while Uber's self driving system is on, because obviously the two systems are not built to work together.

Uber also disabled emergency braking from their own system. That was because it would "drive erratically" when it was turned on.
Slick idea - I'd be concerned tho that, given the semi normal rough distribution of heat on the face (there's a reason head wounds bleed so much) that this attempt to game the system would be easily detected as gaming the system. The good news is any idiots building a product by bolting together parts from OpenCV that they barely understand would probably fall for it. Me, I'd be embarrassed if I didn't tag you as anomalous.
HOWEVER - if you were really really good and accurate with the application of the blocker (cause if its zinc oxide it does work in both directions) and you backed it up with makeup for the visible light side of the house, you probably could fool most by establishing a completely different facial geometry.
Anyway, certainly a concept worth ruminating on. :-) I think it would beat me at my imaginary best if done well. Have to find a counter, I guess.. Like gait :-)
According to those numbers, lots more people want shit, or they are willing to pay more for it.

Not sure what you're getting at.

P.S. A little thing called "sports" is compatible with shit, but not filet mignon. And after years filet mignon has make negligible progress in this area.

Also, filet mignon is shipped inside shit tubes, and probably will be for a very long time.

P.P.S. I hate shit analogies.
> suicides

Suicides should be a human right (and I don't see how they are relevant to guns anyway).

> overseas military adventurism

Colonialism was a thing that started before the american revolution.

> law enforcement killings

Authoritarianism and all the deaths caused by it existed since the ancient times.
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I bought the OnePlus One when it was released and it was and still is a great phone, however their price point now places their newer offerings with the Samsung S series and Nexus/Pixel devices. It doesn't have enough going for it to warrant paying those prices. If anything it taught me that phone brands I hadn't heard of could compete with the top line ranges. After my OnePlus I tried a bunch of Chinese brands and found Xiaomi to have the best combination of features and price in the market, plus due to their ubiquity they also get plenty of custom ROM options.
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Something's wonky with your DNS, a minority of the queries I make for dijit.sh take over 3 seconds. Unfortunately, the first one must have timed out when made by my resolver and was negatively cached.
Interestingly, the picture shows that the car seems to have tried to avoid the collision by moving to the right.

Of course, every human drivers with experience knows that you pass pedestrians behind, not ahead. The Artificial Intelligence obviously was not smart enough.

In other words, as suspected, the self driving cars are a pipe dream. One can't just mix a bunch of statistical woodoo into a neural net and hope it will work. It may work most of the time, but the mistakes would be catastrophic and incredibly stupid.