skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No not courts. Apple did not win in other non American courts. Not in Germany. Not in Japan. Not in Australia.

Only in a courtroom in Silicon Valley. And with a jury headed by a jury foreman with very questionable opinions and patents himself. He had to be told to shut up after the verdict because he was going around interviewing saying things that tainted the verdict not so greatly.
2000 seems so long ago, but then I realize I was a "mere" 23 y/o at that time. Now that makes me feel old.
And notably, Rust didn't start the "zero-cost abstraction" meme, C++ did.
I do like video games, but when I play video games my house gets messier and messier. Lately I've been making more deals with myself, rewarding myself in various ways. Thinking about life through more of a lens of "is this behavior a reward, or an activity which will warrant a reward?" If it is neither, why would I do something so unfruitful? It's been a bit better on my psyche. Been going to bed earlier, as well.
Used to love playing with the coyotes in the Rural northeast as a bored teenager. MY brother and I would crouch in the long grass in a 300 acre hilly field and see how close we could get to the coyotes. I don’t think We were sneaking up on them, they just didn’t see us as a threat. Once there were 4 rather than the usual one or two and they started circling us which was both amazing and nerve-wracking. Eventually we stood up and waved our arms and they loped off at a very unconcerned pace.
True, but on an absolute scale AirBNB is still very big.
Doesn't work on Chrome mobile for me.
Actually because internal distribution at companies is generally considered to not be distribution because it's the legal entity that is the company that's using it. The internal employees actually watching/changing the content are simply acting as the agents of that legal entity.

Therefore only the legal entity that is the company needs to have rights to the content, not the employees.

For instance, you can install windows on computers at work (which definitely is distribution), without the rights to do so. Only the company needs said rights.

That's why "the rules are different" for companies. They're not different, they just apply to different legal entities.
Well, French Guiana isn't part of Metropolitan France, is it?
Nonsense; I generally find that dismissive drive-by comments on Hacker News are better much thought through than actual court decisions made at the conclusion of a court trial. /s
Based on my experience, that means they "developed the solution" out of entirely off-the-shelf existing software/infrastructure.
Hah, yeah I wasn't really suggesting it. Just one of those quirks. I am no lawyer but I suspect we couldn't write up some paperwork to claim a country without them agreeing to it anyway.
When you're dead you don't have much expectation of privacy in the eyes of the law, they can run a toxicology report for no reason (or more likely as part of an autopsy). For a living person it requires reasonable suspicion to initiate. That said, IANAL
"If a builder has built a house for a man, and has not made his work sound, and the house he built has fallen, and caused the death of its owner, that builder shall be put to death." - from Hammurabi's code [0][1], circa 1754 BC.

Liability in the case of house-building has been established for millennia. Liability in the case of social networks is somewhat less well-established. I'd argue that being able to deal with the consequences of the results (e.g. the social consequences of ads and posts in the 2016 election, or leaking private conversations, or hitting pedestrians from today's HN front page) is a key part of maturing an engineering field.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

[1] http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp
So Grab, Didi Chuxing, Go-Jek etc do not have self-driving cars projects. Have they failed? Are they failing?
Actually Apple's design cases were thrown out everywhere, except Apple's hometown court.

The only difference is that Apple's hometown judge Koh and magistrate judge Grewal didn't allow prior arts in the courts.
it would be interesting to see how this correlates with known glaciation periods.
Ah, this poor, tiny company that raised only $330m: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/essential-2#section-...
Design patents don’t protect novel technology (and in fact, if there is a functional benefit to the design you can’t get a design patent). Design patents protect arbitrary design elements to keep people from copying the non-functional look of someone else’s product.
IIRC, there was no "social" part of the media. It was just random links to other sites. Most of which also had zero social media factor. SU was just curiosity.
What are you using to make the menus pop and slide?
Instrumental portion of a Lindsey Stirling song.
People making this argument seem to be under the incorrect belief that Apple patented a grid of icons. They did not. They patented a specific aesthetic and functional design that incorporates a grid of icons, but is much more specific than only that.
I think aside from the Essential product itself, the smartphone market is basically at a mature stage now just like the laptop market, so for a new product to successfully enter the market, it would need a lot more money to be wasted for marketing and production just to compete with the giants.

Mature market, smartphone users still growing but not as fast as before:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/201182/forecast-of-smart...

Microsoft apparently had ~1 billion dollar loss in first year in North America region while promoting and selling the Windows Surface which illustrates the difficulty in selling in a competitive mature market with high stakes.

Microsoft makes loss when selling Surfaces:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2476544/tablets/with--...

Also noteworthy, reputedly global smartphone sales in Q4-2017 sees downturn:
https://www.ft.com/content/6ef7e850-17e6-11e8-9376-4a6390add...
This isn’t monopolizing some technology. These are purely arbitrary aesthetic choices, and the only reason to infringe the design patent is to make your product look like someone else’s more popular product. That’s not socially valuable activity, it’s free riding.
Really, folks... we can't even get the net to work the way we want, but then we heap these enormously sophisticated, delicate tasks onto relatively-untested, non-deterministic warez, and pray all goes well.

Much like running into a human on a bike, but less deadly. (Unless there's a psycho in my contact list.)
So, lately my definition of depression has come to this: Someone who screwed up a high resolution thing, like forgetting to pass the salt, which they cascade up the pyramid into 'well I guess that makes me a bad dinner guest, which makes me a bad friend, which makes me a bad person'.

I find this fairly accurate for people with depression, and I try not to let actions cascade into my identity, but I try to make my identity drive my actions. If one of my actions doesn't symbolize my identity, I don't change my identity, I just try harder to make my actions truer to my values. I think if a person does this, they are still subjects to bouts of sadness and normal grief of life, but not so much as to invalidate themselves as a person and then fall into depression. `yourActions.onfail = function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); }`
In places where winter weather is normally cold and snowy, big storms aren't really disasters. It's necessary to plan for them but it's very unusual where just being in a location during one exposes people to a lot of danger.
It sold moderately well and had fantastic software (up until it was ruined by management decisions...)
Interestingly, there is no evidence that Picasso said that, and Jobs is the first person on record claiming that he did: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
I would imagine Shopify on Black Friday is under heavier load.
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If you get a request today, you've got a month to comply, so in a way you're right. However, it really depends on how big your company is and how little you have prepared. Your absolute minimum is to have a statement that says that you are going to use the data you gather for contract purposes and to list the 3rd parties that you need to send that data to for contract purposes.

But then, if you are using data for other purposes, it's a bit complicated because you'll have to refrain from doing so until you are compliant. It doesn't necessarily have to be shady stuff. Even if you aren't sure if what you are doing is contract basis or not, it can be a pain. It's not necessarily massively difficult, but if you woke up yesterday and thought "OMG! We haven't done GDPR! What are we going to do?", then I can see this.

I've written earlier about how the company I'm working for now has changed what it is doing with data, even though I don't think they were doing anything shady previously. But it's more like, "Do we really want to list a lot of things and piss off the customer?" So now there are heated discussions of what 3 (or whatever other small number) of things we might collect data for because we believe that's the kind of limit that the customer will tolerate.

All of these discussions take time -- especially in a large organisation. And you can see in discussions on HN, there is going to be a large backlash of "Why do we have to do this anyway? Can't we just ignore it?" which wastes a lot more time.

Sounds like they want to be compliant, but are just not ready yet. A miss on their part, but hopefully they will get things in order quickly.
> while the real "bad guys" that are actually doing bad things with our data are going to continue ignoring the law.

This is already happening without the GDPR (carders, dumps, etc), so I don't buy it. The black-market analogy (e.g. illegal drugs) also doesn't hold when applied to companies.

> the hilariously large fines (regardless of company size, even)

Oh no, proportional fines! How socialist!

The whole point is to make it somewhat independent of the company size, so bigger companies won't just swallow the fines. This is typically what Google et al do, they just factor it in to the cost of business. The GDPR wasn't written in a vacuum.
Not just text, but temporal and geographic distance as well. There's plenty of Youtube reaction videos going back and forth of people just bashing each other, like any other flame war.

Also, let's not discount the effect an audience has. I would hazard that most negative public comments are actually crafted more for the benefit the author gets from the public reading it than the purported target. What's a little hurt feelings of one or a few when you get that buzz of doing something that shocks or amuses 20,000 people?
I suppose with that logic you don’t even need node red.
You could just put your requirements into a .js file.

What’s your buy-in?
What are you doing with node red that can’t be done with a text editor and npm?
The "flexible" mating habits of the coyote, leading to the Coywolf, have led some to call them a new species appearing right before our eyes.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coywolves-are-taki...
Abstract machines for programming language implementation (2000) [pdf]
Love this. I wonder if there would be a way to add some randomisation to the font without replacing it with generated images.
Same issue on mobile Chrome.
I don’t know about Oregon. The really big one is supposed to happen anytime now.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

New Mexico’s alright. The only real worry we have is fires. Even so, they never seem like as big of a deal as the ones in California.

Now, there is a supervolcano in the middle of the state, but it seems pretty docile at the moment.
"is there anybody out there?" - pink floyd

I would love to find the same. Now that product is nearly done, it should be possible.
GDPR doesn't care about your site, it cares about user data.

The big thing with shutting the site down is it might make it impossible for users to request information about their data and/or request to have it deleted. That would violate the GDPR and could land the site in trouble.
Were the Google Nexus phones considered low-budget?
There was a fun high-scalability article around their 'fan-out' approaches to disseminating tweets by popular users etc : http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw... .

When I was working on something with similar technical requirements I also came across this paper (http://jeffterrace.com/docs/feeding-frenzy-sigmod10-web.pdf) that outlined the approach in a more 'formal' manner.
> “bully businesses into compliance“

I am not sure I understand this sentence. That’s what laws do. “Bully” you into compliance. I think you might have meant something else?
If you check their Github account it looks like they built a lot of interesting Scala tech.
SERIALIZABLE in PostgreSQL 11 and beyond
The x-y plane contains zero actual airplanes. Popular misconception.
Record $152M Lawsuit Ensnares Blockchain Project Augur
As the orbit elongates we experience greater variation in distance from the sun. At the extremes, we get colder winters and hotter summers.

Perhaps another explanation for climate change.
Don't underestimate how dangerous even a small fall can be, you can end up fine but you could also end up smashing your face into the curb.

A friend of mine, in his 50's very fit, cycling to work and back every day, broke both his arms while doing literally a 10-meter test drive in front of a bike store.

The bike's brakes were setup reversed compared to what he used to, so he ended up breaking with the front brake, flipping the bike over and breaking both his arms while landing. His fault? Sure, but still a rather scary story how quickly even mundane things can go really wrong.
They did, but Apple's hometown court judge didn't allow prior arts to stand in that case. Apple's design cases elsewhere failed because of the obviousness (and prior arts).
You can't buy games using this app. It basically just allows you to stream your games from a PC.
Student lists his high school for sale on Craigslist, gets in trouble
At times of higher eccentricity you get more pronounced differences between summer and winter. If this coincides with a glacial period (and it has) that probably means that the glacial period sets in faster / is colder than when the orbital eccentricity is low -- but it also means that interglacials set in faster and are warmer.
Paragon: accessible React components
It's similar to when people here talk about "tech".
No. I'm a librarian that teaches computer skills to the elderly, so I'm actually in pretty high demand in rural areas. My wife works in an office doing invoicing. Childfree, so that helps quite a bit.
Me too, since I date back to before signals had symbolic names.
> Actually, I'd go so far as to argue that viewer time is worth, incrementally, a negative amount. I'd expect their goal is to have just enough content to keep subscribers interested, rather than to maximize viewing time.

That might be going a LITTLE far. Netflix subscribers who don't actually watch Netflix not only don't give Netflix enough data to make programming decisions from, but I'm willing to bet that an engaged Netflix subscriber is much, much, much less likely to cancel than someone who barely ever watches Netflix. If you think of viewer time as inversely correlated with probability of cancelling, the obvious metric to optimize for is viewer time. You're never going to watch so much Netflix that the marginal infrastructure cost is meaningful to them.
Totalbiscuit, one of gaming's most popular YouTubers, has passed away
Who was going to do it?

Microsoft was stuck on making Windows Mobile a small PC.

RIM was poo pooing the touchscreen two years after the iPhone came out.

Google was aping the Blackberry with the Android and completely started over after the iPhone came out.

Nokia didn't have the OS or the platform to make a full fledge smart phone. But they were the most likely.
Great response - since OP has no written contract seems like they are stuffed though?
But the client could also see the SALT which makes it possible to use Rainbow Tables to decrypt the hashes. The SALT should be a secret to the client. Furthermore, as an attacker, I could just steal the DB hashes and send those from the client and viola I just bypassed your authentication without decrypting anything. If the server does the hashing, then it will recompute the hash of the hash which wont match.
Singapore was great for subway. As to the stops at a particular spot, lots of the Asian trains do that, USA and others not so much, we noticed it too.
Well, I think average HN'er has much better judgement over average Joe jury in Apple's hometown on technical design and patent issues. The role (or problem) of non-technical jury in highly technical patent litigation is also often debated in academia too.
What was he think man? Maybe he saw how easy XiaoMi made it look and wanted a piece
I don't understand how selling 88,000 phones isn't considered a success. That's $44M in revenue, assuming the phones sold for $499 each. For a startup, even one founded by a Google veteran, like Rubin, this seems like a home run for a first product offering.
I personally miss What's Better (two random photos and you click in which one is better, like a Seal vs a Bird, or AIDS vs Jazz Music, or Europe vs Ben Folds Five).

It didn't last long and it was written entirely in Python .. had some scaling issues too.
anti-competitive behavior does not require a monopoly. For example two gas stations on a corner could enter into an agreement to fix prices. Neither has a monopoly on gasoline but the action is still illegal.
Selling a product that had a voice command UI we found that people will go out of their way to mess with it. Sometimes for fun, sometimes to unload their frustration. There is something strange about a voice UI and I think it is the expectation that the intelligence should be about the same level as human intelligence. If it is not there, and it is making the user look silly by making them repeat something obvious multiple times, they will quickly start hating the product as a whole. It's almost better not have a voice UI unless it is pretty darn good.
Are coupons unethical? These are just different coupons...

I tested about a dozen different offers for each b2c role I've had... never once considered the ethics... if a customer complained that their neighbor was getting it cheaper we'd just give them the discount.
I developed for Windows Mobile before and slightly after the iPhone. Windows Mobile was slightly ahead of the iPhone as an app platform until around 2009.
Holy fuck how is this still around?!

edit: never mind. Most of the links are dead and half of it doesn't work. Kinda makes me think of this old Jurassic Park website that's still alive:

http://www.lost-world.com/Lost_World02/hammondsoffice.html
This is the problem when startups are founded based only on the founders name. Foolish idea shouldn't have got a penny of investment.
If you bought designer drugs 10 years ago, the act of buying was legal, even though storing it today no longer is. Same here, collecting it or using it 10 years ago might have been legal. Storing it today is not. You might be confused which action is covered by the law, and that action is "storing". You can decide to stop doing that action today, so it is not retroactive at all.

I don't really see where the age of the data you store comes into play.
No thanks. I did not find it convienient having US, Malaysian, Singapore, and Japanese coins in my pocket. I like having a single card that has an always current exchange rate with no fees, and in fact pays back 1.5%.
> HTC is selling one too, I think. Motorola also maybe

The entire Nokia (HMD) line is Android One. With LTS commitments on every android phone they release.

I picked up a cheap Nokia 6 a couple months ago and was pleasantly surprised to see it actually OTA updates with no nonsense and actually works on voLTE.
This is pedantry. It's the same as them saying "You need a rocket to send a payload into space" and someone retorts "No: you can also use a space elevator". The presently is implicit, and space elevators don't (yet) exist.
Minimal enforcement can be used to make everyone a criminal. You then selectively apply the law against people you don’t like.

Taxation (I would hope) is not minimally enforced.
Apple has rejected iOS version of Steam Link app
How exactly would it benefit them though? They are working now on their hardware and their own Linux UI (for some reason they weren't satisfied with existing options like Plasma Mobile).

Full supported OpenGL and Vulkan implementation for i.MX 8M would speed things up for them a lot.

Another good thing would be someone implementing a browser based on Servo working on that GPU. But that again requires better OpenGL / Vulkan support for i.MX 8M (and possibly Vulkan for WebRender).

I don't think Essential would help with any of that.
> What are you giving your mom? A Mac running OSX or a PC running Linux?

I gave my 60 year old mother my old PC running Debian with dwm as its WM.

She likes it.

> The idea that if these devices ran free software they would be more humane than the proprietary software they currently run is ridiculous.

Is it though? I am pretty sure that Amazon already gathers free data from its users, such a thing would not exist in a free as in freedom device.
I have owned 10+ phones during the last 10 years, and the Nexus phones were only ones I bought new.

- Nexus 5 was low cost and amazing for the price. I was able to forgive every issue it had. And another international friend also asked me to buy it & ship it to her.

- The 5X was not low cost, but then it could also be bought cheaply through the Google Fi "loophole." I know at least one other person IRL who bought it through the loophole.
Apple should be restricting its business interests to “things that make people want to buy the device”, and any kind of game streaming certainly qualifies. A Steam app would increase the ownership value of a device and therefore should be desirable.

Instead, they seem to look at everything from the point of view of “one day we might do this ourselves, therefore go to hell”, which is becoming increasingly irritating. Seems that developers have to aim for things way in left field, lest their app be discarded unceremoniously into the trash when Apple enters the game.
Tesla in Autopilot sped up before Utah crash
This is cool...
The web page is using a hand written styles google fonts. Variable fonts may be a way to randomize the font at every render.
Data from the Model S electric vehicle show it picked up speed for 3.5 seconds shortly before crashing into a stopped firetruck in suburban Salt Lake City, the report said. The driver manually hit the brakes a fraction of a second before impact.

The driver of the vehicle, Heather Lommatzsch, 29, told police she thought the vehicle's automatic emergency braking system would detect traffic and stop before the car hit another vehicle.

She said she had owned the car for two years and used the semi-autonomous Autopilot feature on all sorts of roadways, including on the Utah highway where she crashed, according to the report.

Lommatzsch said the car did not provide any audio or visual warnings before the crash.
Hm, I never realized that hexadecimal mixes the Greek prefix (hexa-) with Latin suffix (-decimal).

However, wouldn't proper Latin be sedecimal?
Tor: 1100 relays still run end-of-life tor versions