skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Essential then? They shipped updates faster than Google, was close to bone stock, and was project treble compatible for custom roms.
I've had a Moto x4 Android One (Project Fi) for six months and I am still very impressed with its battery life. Right now it's at 75% after 15 hours of admittedly light use, but even under heavy use it easily lasts a full day. Great phone, especially as a "mid-tier."
Given they are actually not allowed to use their gun when a large terrorist attack is going on right in front of them [0], it could be argued their role is mostly public relations.

[0] page 53 of this official report:
http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/14/pdf/rap-enq/r3922-t1.pd... (gist: neither the head of police nor the army allowed the soldiers to open fire, arguably for good reasons, but then what's the point?)
FLIR for turning off a light in a room seems like a ridiculous amount of overkill. I don't know numbers off the top of my head but I feel like at that point you're using more energy for FLIR than the light itself. Not to mention the cost of a single FLIR sensor is probably pretty high.
It would be MUCH easier to legally argue against the retroactiveness of the GDPR while coming into compliance than to risk being active during the actual deadline while coming into compliance.

I strongly suspect that the GDPR applying retroactively will get litigated and will have a very difficult time legally.
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So is this the new fad after almond and coconut milk?

Or does it also cater to people who are lactose intolerant? I wonder if I will be seeing Camel milk at a Starbucks soon.
They might have lost them in the end, but they were certainly not “thrown out” as would have happened if they simply patented a grid of icons with trivially-obvious prior art. Regardless of your belief in the overall merits of their case, it’s very obviously a much more nuanced issue than people here apparently believe.
I mean there is a time posted, and it won’t leave earlier than that, but it may leave a lot later. Here is the delay distribution for the train I would take to work if it wasn’t so late: https://juckins.net/amtrak_status/archive/html/history.php?t...
OTOH Steam players and mobile players have very different profiles. There is some overlap but I don't think it's that large to warrant this action from Apple.
> So if someone traveling in the EU gets GDPR protections, does someone traveling in the US lose GDPR protections? Are the GDPR protections only for the data that was collected while someone was in the EU [...]?

Roughly speaking, yes. E.g. a Brazilian business not specifically targeting transactions within the EU or EU nationals doesn't come under the GDPR. Conversely, an EU business basically has to apply the GDPR to any data collected inside the Union, regardless of the individual's nationality. (Obviously, this gets messier online, but if the currency was e.g. Euros and the company is in Belgium, probably covered.)

Having said that, you might have trouble as a non-EU resident to get the data protection agencies to care for trivial, individual cases. (My opinion as a European, not a fact.)
I thought Jobs borrowed the GUI from Xerox.
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Apple also had it's home-country's executive intervene when the Obama administration blocked the import ban Samsung won against Apple. Yet snarky HNers act like there were no fingers on the scale.
This is great we need those everywhere.
By that standard, if you had purchased a child porn magazine in the 1970s when it was legal to do so, you would be in the clear if the police searched your house and found it. I am not a lawyer, but that doesn’t seem likely.
Social network scaling is not a technology problem.

Technology has imposed scaling on societies and patted it self on the head for the unintended benefits derived, while burying its head in the sand on the unintended consequences.

The roman empire, Genghis Khan, the East India Company, Napoleon, Hitler etc etc etc achieved scale and then what happened?
If he is a British/still EU citizen, this part of "terms" might be worth the value of white noise.
Some seriously convoluted run on sentences in there.
In Melbourne at least it seems like the system is run exactly at capacity. If one train has to stop at a platform for 3 minutes extra because of a signal fault or a sick passenger, every train on that line (and probably 2 other lines) for the next 3 hours is critically fucked.

It seems like there's no leeway in the timetables to make up lost time, and no extra trains parked in the outer suburbs (morning) or CBD (afternoon) to make up services.
It's a shame. I was really looking forward to playing controller based Steam games from my iPad Pro.

I think Apple is shooting itself in the foot with these stupid decisions, but time will tell.
If only it hasn't come into law two years ago, then this argument might have a change.
Since 2013, I always have to double-check whether the context is Unix programming or mass surveillance when I encounter this term...
The reason you can't buy books in the Kindle app probably has more to do with the fact that Apple requires payments for all digital goods to go through it's service and collect 30% of the revenue (15% if its a subscription after the first 12 months). It does not make the same requirement for physical goods.

I continue to be divided about this, the point of view is understandable, as it would threaten app store revenue (every app would just switch to a digital subscription outside of apple and never charge for the apps) however there's also a clear line of digital goods that are more physical like in nature (rather than just the software) such as eBooks etc and the 30% margin is high enough to ruin most business plans.

This particular rejection is somewhat irritating though.
So, basically you retain your ownership rights, but grant YouTube all rights that (co-)ownership would grant?
When people in japan says "the train will be there 1:11PM", they mean, "it'll be there 1:11:00PM sharp, not 1:10PM, not 1:12PM".
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Is it even worth it to post now that this article has been up for a few days? Funny how all of these comments just sit there on a server somewhere. Produced. But what value does it add? Will anyone even look at this?

For me it's about the job but I'm sure everyone has their own reasons. I'm secure and don't have to struggle. I apply for jobs and don't hear back, interview and don't get the job, etc. I'd be willing to move somewhere new if I knew I had a job lined up. While savings is good, it's stressful and scary to have no income. It's like holding your breath and eventually panic sets in. Doesn't feel good. I'd love to move to a bunch of different cities but many of those places don't seem to have jobs that fit my background. I'd jump to a new career but not sure I could float the expenses while also saving for the future.
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Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Valve sued Apple for this.

This is definitely anti competitive practices and I think there is a case to be made for it. Even more if they decide to do it in EU.
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Nice, while we're on the subject, I saw trello used photos from https://unsplash.com/, which looks like a great resource.
Oat milk[1] is the next fad after soy, almond and coconut milk. These are mainly for people who are lactose intolerant, although perhaps some people who aren't lactose intolerant prefer a different taste for lattes or cappuccino drinks.

In the US I believe there’s now also another type of milk called A2 that doesn’t have certain forms of beta-casein proteins[2], which allegedly will help ease the discomfort lactose intolerant people feel after they ingest cow's milk.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/style/oat-milk-coffee-oat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_milk
Yes! When I first visited japan I used the same method. Every train trip, all I had to do was look at my ticket for the arival time, and look at the clock and, to the minute, it never failed to help me get me off at the right stop.
This is why I didn't let Google index my podcast. Other sites just ship your RSS, Google insists on hosting your podcasts and granting itself a license to them.
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Of course, the Nexus 4 cost $299 on launch
One night during the drought, I came upon two coyotes killing a cat right in the middle of old Mountain View.
Can you explain why? What benefit does it have? It is there to house a part which they weren't able to place anywhere else? Or is there really something that the notch "does"?
"Don’t believe the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." loosely related
That's fine, the problem is there was no choice before. OK, Google Analytics is somewhat easier to block, but e.g. Facebook with their shadow profiles? How do you block that? Is it feasible to expect teenagers to not use FB/Snapchat/Instagram when all their friends are just to protect their privacy?
Today I learned: "anyone convicted of two or more murders is banned from Facebook." (One murder is okay though.)
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Oh my god, not again.

I mean, yes. I thought that was universal knowledge, oscillation in earth's orbit?

(nickname finally relevant, by the way)

This is also why climate science is (mostly) junk science, don't let them get away without accounting for stuff like this in the future..
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That's the Bill Thurston! He's the guy that practically invented low-dimensional topology. He sewed up the entire field of foliation theory, and showed that most knots are hyperbolic. He won the Field's Medal ... he's someone to listen to!
Never seen a conductor do it, but I've seen other passengers lay into someone for being too rowdy or (especially) talking on the phone. Usually following a comically obvious build-up of red-faced anger over 5-10 minutes or so.

Anecdotally I've heard that social censure is far more common and ruthless in the women's-only cars.
Like Do Not Track (DNT)? Oh, wait, that exists, and almost all companies ignore it.
Exactly, but what is new here? The duration of the complete cycle?

Well, that number is new, to me at least, but the principle was well known before, I assume?

I don't get it.. don't they teach basic astronomy in schools anymore?
I'm still not sure I understand. Are you complaining that Reason's distribution is optimized for JavaScript developers?
Indeed. In one of my podcasts a biologist described studying a female coyote that lived in downtown Chicago traveling between several parks in the wee hours. IIRC he tracked her for a couple years until the tracking collar fell off. For several years after that some folks who knew he was watching them sent him surveillance video of her passing by. She even raised a litter one year.

We're in the far western 'burbs (DuPage county) and regularly see them on our morning runs. One morning a large one crossed the street about 50' in front of us just as we turned from our drive into the street. It never looked our way but had to know we were there.
Isn't lactose the ingredient that causes discomfort with lactose intolerant people's stomach's?

As someone lactose intolerant, I looked at the citations and none of them claim A2 milk is lactose free, as I understand it.
Awesome!

Also, I chuckled at part of the GitHub org description, a "fun sketchy look."
This is beautifully done. I noticed the affiliation with investmentcalculator.io - I love that you guys are working on stuff like this. Beautiful, simple products that do one thing with a focus on UX. Make more, please!
It reminds me an old trolling technique - using "XBox Shut Off" as your nickname in video games ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGZeU4s28kk
The issue, I think, is that this is a Steam streaming platform, versus a generic desktop streaming platform (eg Moonlight). And as soon as you boot it up, you’re one click out from a digital storefront that’s built in to the other end of the streaming client.

It’s also weird since the vast majority of the games on Steam aren’t available on iOS or tvOS, so even if Apple is afraid of having revenue cut off from outside sales, it’s not revenue they would have captured in the first place.
Anti-competitive practice makes anti-competitive perfect.
Well, ToS are rarely to be taken at full value. It obviously differs between countries, but in many countries, ToS cannot override the law, or might even already be invalid, if they contain things that a customer can not reasonably expect to be in there. So, no selling of souls through ToS.

Similarly, it is perfectly valid to take your grievance to the media, if the ToS contain such bullshit. Almost no one reads the ToS, so a company asking you to sign off your rights in it, is an asshole company that deserves shaming.
The other day my train had to wait for 5 minutes just outside Flinders St station because didn't have a platform to park the train at. Flinders is a real bottleneck, if the flow starts to stutter there, everything falls to bits.

Upon saying that, Melbourne's trains are usually pretty good, over 90% on time. It's the buses here that I have issues with. The timetable at the stop is completely useless, and the app is not much better. Sometimes the PTV app says the bus will arrive in 1 minute, and it arrives 5 minutes later.
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From 2008:

Scaling is fundamentally about the ability of a system to easily support many servers. So something is scalable if you can easily start with one server and go easily to 100, 1000, or 10,000 servers and get performance improvement commensurate with the increase in resources.

When people talk about languages scaling, this is silly, because it is really the architecture that determines the scalability. One language may be slower than another, but this will not affect the ability of the system to add more servers.

Typically one language could be two or three, or even ten times slower. But all this would mean in a highly scalable system is that you would need two or three or ten times the number of servers to handle a given load. Servers aren't free (just ask Facebook), but a well-capitalized company can certainly afford them.

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/5/why-can-t-twitter-scal...
These cheap 8x8 sensors may be useful[0].

[0] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3538
I'm not sure what the connection is here. Is it because Facebook sponsored development of Reason? Should we consider not using anything that Facebook touches?

What if Facebook pays a developer to work on another popular library like Vue.js? Should we consider stop using Vue?
Is it just me, or how come I never heard of this phone?
It seems like an easy safeguard to implement to prevent sending unwanted emails/texts would be for Alexa to generate a unique confirmation phrase that the user has to repeat back in order to actually execute the send command.
Something like
Alexa: "Say 'purple people eater' to send email."
Real Person: "Purple people eater."
Alexa: "Email sent."
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Animals can smell and hear water quite well, even when it is going through containers and pipes.
This is why I threw in the word "allegedly" above. The producers of a2 milk are trying to go with a new theory that claims that people who self-report as lactose intolerant aren't actually lactose intolerant, but that the cause of their symptoms is their inability to digest the A1 beta-casein protein which is commonly found in North American milk[1].

That's the spiel anyway. I have yet to try it. I'm one of those self-reporting-as-lactose-intolerant-people-who-experience-discomfort-after-ingesting-cow's-milk.

[1] https://thea2milkcompany.com/about-us/
> Why does a "real need" have to be urgent?

Because continuously reposting the same position for months/years and interviewing hundreds of candidates just in case a god of computer science happens to apply to your company wastes candidates' time and makes us hate you ("He would be prefect except for that thing he does with his eyebrows while he talks, so let's pass and wait for a better candidate.")

> This bullet point sounds absurd to my European ears.

I'd rather my employer just hand me a (large) wad of (tax-free) cash and say "Go buy yourself some health insurance", but that's not what happens. My current employer's prescription drug plan (Express scripts), for example, is the worst thing in the universe. I'd much rather be able to shop around.
I think most interestingly is "... (The reason: While people may commit a single homicide accidentally or in self-defense,..." homicide would be unlawful killing, so now I'm curious, is this per incident... as in, imagine someone had to kill two individuals at once in self defense, would they be banned from facebook?

sidebar: I have had my facebook deleted since 09/2015 so I may not be the key audience ever of facebook. Also, I am not condoning deadly force used legally or illegally, I am just curious as more of a thought experiment.
I'm pretty sure even in the US, sentences for breaking the law vary depending on the case. And what's the point living in civilisation if you can't trust the judiciary?

There are options to appeal, so you're not at the mercy of one regulator/judge/<x>. Europe and the GDPR are no different.

EU banks not dealing with Americans/FATCA is simply down to it not being worth the effort. Luckily, the GDPR wasn't written in such an absolute way. It doesn't apply to non-EU companies doing business outside the EU, even if they might get the occasional European using their services (unless they specifically go after EU subjects). For example, a Japanese company selling specialty arcade joysticks and I, as a UK resident buy one using yen, not pound sterling. Even though they might ship to the UK, as they ship to loads of places, they aren't doing business in the Union, and they don't have to follow the GDPR.
Hahaha. I had one of the original XPS13. When I got it delivered, 4 or 5 keys on the keyboard were broken (they were attached on 2 points, when of those broken).

I got a new keyboard delivered, spend a solid 2 hours opening the whole thing (YOU HAVE TO REMOVE THE KEYBOARD FROM THE BACK OF THE LAPTOP WTF???), put the new keyboard in, only to realize a key was broken on the new keyboard.

That was my last purchase of a Dell laptop.
<sarcasm>The Scottish Civil Service doesn't have a Code of Conduct to prevent this sort of thing?! </sarcasm>
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Well that's just great. How am I supposed to talk about my cocaine poodle now
> exposure to blue light has a calming effect on one’s mood,

That did sound strange. I know that light therapy is used for treating seasonal depression (a sibling comment already mentioned that). 84% reduction in attempts seem pretty significant. They even quoted the accompanying study which showed that it didn't simply shift the suicides to other station that didn't yet have a light installed.

I wonder if there is another reason besides just the immediate "blue light make the depression subside" effect. Maybe something like "someone is aware of my pain and they tried to stop me by installing this silly light".
Having been around camels, they can truly be foul tempered creatures (while 1% are quite lovely) and I do not envy anyone who works with them daily.

On a side note, I am going to go try some camel milk now.
But this absolutely seems more like a fad then reality. I mean goats milk seems to have a solid market share (and I am a sucker for carrageenan free chocolate goats milk)
but unless camel milk tastes like a fresh macaron, I don't know if I would go out of my way or pay a premium.
> The founder has said that he underestimated the amount of work it was going to take.

Source?

Pinterest which owns Instapaper (2 years ago mind you!) has raised $1.47B to date. There's no legitimate excuse here.
There is already a Steam app though (separate from the steam link app). If Apple had a problem with Steam itself on their store, why wouldn't they reject the standard app as well?
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That's good but I think I prefer http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-04-24
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Would Valve even need to do so, or could an EU government (or the EU itself) step in?
Hi Alex, I see in your examples section the pulling data from various cryptocurrency API's. I see a lot of potential in your product through targeting the cryptocurrency market. Is this a direct goal of yours or just a use case?
You had two years to get ready. Why wasn't this announced months ago.
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Usually HyperDia covers these cases with different companies using the same tracks. It never has misdirected me so far.

http://www.hyperdia.com/en
A couple years ago, Bieber tweeted out a Twilio phone number for people to text. Luckily it happened on a Friday night, or it would have caused widespread outages.

Celebrity is an edge case that you have to be prepared for.
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And really, why not make it a 55 gallon drum of personal lubricant instead?
There was a big change between Rhapsody & OS X. The mach part was upgraded from 2.5 to 3.0 and the BSD part was rapidly being update. The other addition was the new driver abstraction library as NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP on i386 used Objective C, while OS X uses C++.

I don't think the code ever really sat that dormant, as they were working on 88000 based machines for the NeXTRISC before that was canceled, and sold off to Cannon who eventually shipped a dual PowerPC 601 machine based on the NeXT design that at the time was to include dual 88010's.

There clearly had been some work on PowerPC back when it was first announced as some early code made mention of a MC98601 aka the first gen PowerPC.
And then you go to jail...
I've seen a statistician (and not one with advanced degrees, just a bachelors and years of experience with SAS) become a kick ass front end dev in the last few weeks. I'm betting front end devs have a harder time becoming statisticians.

There was this essay by pg where he called this concept "upwind".
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I have two cheep Chinese Android phones and both have stock Android. I'm writing this reply from $49 100g 4GB "myPhone pocket". But I'm not gonna lie, I had to write my own browser to make it usable.
Nice. Myself, I did not see price drops -- I've been paying ~ $100/mo for cell phone plan (5GB data) for some years now -- 3 years at least maybe 5 years or more.
I think the closest thing to what you want is a Blackberry keyone, great battery life, nearly stock Android with unobtrusive changes and a great qwerty.
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https://mashable.com/2015/10/30/justin-bieber-hotline-bling/... - It was an interesting experience.
Did he end up purchasing the bike?
Parent's point is absolutely valid, and my killjoy-meter registers nothing.

The web did not use to be like this. There were banner-ads (oh, take me back!) and there were sensible headlines, and it isn't all that much more than ten years ago.
I'd classify it as a budding use case but one we're really interested in! Anything specific you're trying to do or would like to see Parabola support? Would love to hear more - hi [at] parabola.io