skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there didn't seem to exist any means of linking to specific elements on a web page if they hadn't been given IDs to make a fragment identifier out of

There's archive sites that do this, without a browser extension, and since it's an archive site instead of a live page, the content won't change underneath the target: http://archive.is/RUyWM#selection-253.74-253.223
no it didn't. see the actual ruling

quote: "The District Court determined that Microsoft had maintained a monopoly in the market for Intel compatible PC operating system"

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/253...
JSON isn't a good configuration language
In the prophetic taxonomy of the Dead Kennedys' California Über Alles (https://genius.com/Dead-kennedys-california-uber-alles-lyric...), they're 'Zen fascists':

Zen fascists will control you
100% natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face

Though today, they'd be more "fleece/denim secret police".
Clickholing about at random, I ran across a 9 page doodad Feistel wrote for Sci Am in '73 which is straight up this entire thread (without the thing you've run off to look for but it covers almost everything else that's come up).

http://www.apprendre-en-ligne.net/crypto/bibliotheque/feiste...
Bogus moral considerations are a great rationalization for censorship, charging Marie Le Pen for sharing photos of reality being a good example.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/01/marine-le-pen-...
If you do not believe the parent of your last comment does so I would like to hear your thoughts
Finland has a huge collection of quirky things, really:

- the allegedly worst musicians: Elekäläiset

- Literature that starts with glorification of collective suicide only to be attempted, failed, called off some pages later. Then rescheduled, and called off again, lather, rinse, repeat.

- the most quirky looking blues-harpists: Sväng

- allegedly Finland remains the only nation without weaponizable satellites

- Finnish music, from classical through to folk, rock, metal and Avant-Garde there's literally everything and anything. Did you know they invented Tango?

- Finland is kind of the opposite of Japan with its many islands when it comes to lakes. There are too many of them to count.

- The language is amazingly versatile and abstract. The Finns also don't like borrowing words from other languages. If there's a word, there's probably a Finnish construct for it that sounds nothing like what you've heard of.

- Home to a certain author famous for pissing off translators for her frivolous approach at above language.

- Finland is, together with Scandinavia, home to an amazing bunch of Eurasian indigenous people

- Finland is home to the creepiest Santa Claus there is. No dispute there.

- Oh, and whatever started on that comp.os.minix newsgroup in 1991 is currently running my entire IT infratructure as well as that of my workplace's.

I could provide sources to all of these claims, but that would be no fun at all, right?
It sounds like a case of a small claims judge ruling in favor of a defendant simply because the defendant had a lawyer, and the plaintiff did not. Of course, there may be more to this story, but in general, lawyers almost always get preferential treatment to non-lawyers in court. That is sad state of affairs.

The plaintiff can still appeal the case though, and stands a good chance of having the case heard, if the facts are as presented.
Im ignoring that request and review process. I don't need a beaucratic process. Im just going to do it.
If you're insulting a plausible opposing opinion as disrespectful, you should be backing up your claim with facts. You suggested that people are "naturally" night owls, the other side suggests that nightowlism may be caused by lifestyle choices and that many night owls are unaware of this causality. There is nothing disrespectful about either side of the argument, both are just hypotheses at this point (and a bit of anecdata).
Both New Glenn and BFR are effectively paper rockets at this point. Seems reasonable to compare them.
There is nothing wrong with rationalizing, contrary to your tone. I'm explaining my thought process in response to a discussion.

> Cloud Imperium Games is just promises at this point.

Completely and utterly Wrong. There are alphas. They are doing everything they are saying they are. Delays? Sure, but they are (now) being transparent. You can buy a package, download, and play now.
Military radios are unlike civilian radios in that they have to transmit and receive on a really wide range of frequencies. The Wikipedia article on the AN/PRC-152 handheld radio claims it can receive from 30 to 870 MHz. (As of 2014, they cost $13,000 each, in a tiny production run of 1500 units https://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2014/08/air-force...)

The military also wants the ability to change waveforms and protocols on the fly to avoid detection, another thing civilian radios never need.

They're trying to replace all their current radios with the Joint Tactical Radio System, which is the usual defense procurement boondoggle. Billions spent, not much produced: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/how-t... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/the-a...

>The final contract for Rifleman Radios, awarded to Thales and Harris, was for up to $3.9 billion to deliver 193,276 more radios. That amounts to around $20,000 per radio, including accessories and support; in 2014, the military expected the Rifleman Radio to cost about $5,600 per unit. The Manpack radios were expected in 2014 to cost about $72,000; the actual line item for Manpacks under the 2017 budget was $114.9 million for 1,459 radios; that's nearly $78,000 and does not include the maintenance, accessories, and services. That's not exactly the kind of cost savings one would expect from a commodity, standards-based system.
Another great resource is:

https://noiseexplorer.com/patterns/IK/

(Click the "full details" on each message to get the tokens mapped back to the cryptographic operations they represent).
And yet, Google is preventing vendors from selling phones with FireOS or LineageOS on them. How would those phones "fragment the Android experience" if they don't have anything to do with Android?
This. I work as a sysadmin and the number of keyboards I have to interact with makes using anything other than QWERTY more of hassle than benefit.
On a typical day I will interact with my phone keyboard (blackberry priv, hardware keyboard), my primary work desktop, my secondary desktop (used by colleagues sporadically), my gaming PC (used just for gaming), and my personal laptop. Now add the times I have to jump onto someone else's station or a family member's system and the constant context switching is just not worth it. I tried dvorak some years ago, but found it more trouble than it was worth it, since everyone else doesn't use it.
As the adage goes, if a for-profit corporation gives something away for free, you're not the customer, you're the product. This applies to OEM's, in this case. The "product" is a Google-controlled mobile landscape; the OEM's aren't customers, they're a means to that end.

These days I actually feel more comfortable when things aren't free. It means the company's motives aren't (completely) obfuscated.
> you keep shaking the box for a few years or so

That was the part I was unsure about: Does the universe keep on shaking? The answer seems to be: Due to quantum uncertainty - yes. Why? No one really knows because we don't have a god-damn clue about why the universe works the way it works (although we have a good understanding how the universe works in many points, but not a coherent theory or framework that gives a conflict-free explanation).
This comment doesn't make much sense. This one/two-time pad system was in use for all diplomatic traffic; not just by the intelligence agencies.

See pages 47-49 here: https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB278/01.PDF
Or for those who read left to right:

Read
Eval
Print
Loop
Read the parent comment again, GP is long past that stage. If it worked so far it will work a little bit longer.
he's bluffing. it makes no business sense for Google to charge customers or OEMs for Android. Android would lose market share.

it's not like the world was clamoring for Google to produce Android in the first place. Google is good at search and advertising. they weren't a mobile OS and dev tool company in 2006 and they're still not.

Android isn't all that good.
>there are far more elegant and explanatory frames of reference for discussing the phenomenon Kundera describes (mostly drawn from psychology).

Such as? I thought "kitsch" perfectly summed up the essence of a restricted, infantilized worldview.
i dont think literature can ever replace actual business. most books that sell are not even literature.

as for the new nokia, maybe the old nokia is also the new one? i have no doubt a lot of people there still know how to make good phones.
I’d love to see a cost breakdown for this.
>What kind of writing system allows people to change your words after you've written them?

The kind that gave us this: https://i.imgur.com/pfkBj1D.jpg Edit: Turns out this one's a photoshop

or this: http://jokeindex.com/images/batman/batman06.jpg
The thing that confuses me is, if the universe were to reach any type of steady state over infinite time, my question would be, what caused it to be in any other state than steady to begin with? Almost feel like this is a causality question.
Having helped people set up 2-factor auth, I find that SMS is a reasonable mitigation for people may find U2F and other measures to be intimidating enough to not try. That is, the vulnerability introduced via SMS is at least a magnitude less compared to 1-factor-auth of email/password. The pragmatic optimist in me thinks that it's more likely that we'll see phone companies meaningfully harden their customer auth processes, because it's easiest to focus public blame/scrutiny on them for the time being.
Someone probably deployed a plot device.
Ah, yep, you're right. Well, your search engine is certainly better at parsing that forum layout than I was :)
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In all the scripted tests we write, one of the first lines will be:

export LANG=C

A similar construct is also used in most places where we call sort (except where we're actually sorting strings of text that will be read by an end user), eg:

<some source of data> | LANG=C sort
interesting !
could you describe the key technology behind optinadx to a layman, in some more detail ?
I'd agree that sleeping is better than no sleep, but cannabis definitely does affect how you sleep. Granted it's anecdotal, but talk to any regular smoker who took a tolerance breaks. One common thread that always seems to be there is how vividly the dreams come back while they're on a break.

I can't remember the specific episode of JRE, but he had on a sleep expert who claimed cannabis prevents you from getting into deep REM sleep. From personal and anecdotal experience, I'm inclined to believe that's true. I have no idea what that actually means as far as sleep and life quality goes. I felt perfectly fine when I was an every day smoker. I just wanted to point out that I do think it has a major effect on the type of sleep you're getting and talk about how crazy it is when the dreams come back. Especially after years of not having them. I don't mean to prescribe any lifestyle changes, merely highlight an interesting anecdote.
I am not sure why Google should not make EU consumers pay those $5B fine by increasing prices of Android OS and other Google services for EU region.

EU has become a parking lot for unelectable politicians who meddle with other people's life while themselves living at other people's expenses and this just another example of how EU will eventually simply break up.
Without having read this article...

Isn't it an indication of racism to have one's identity shattered by a DNA test?
I imagine keeping the community interested, thriving, and paying for years of development is a tough nut to crack. Obviously it's not impossible (see Minecraft, Fortnite, etc), but the success ratio seems to be orders of magnitude lower than the traditional game development model.
From [1], the teams alternatively pick a hero from the pool. In this case the pool is not random, but fixed to the 18 heroes. Calling this Random Draft is confusing. Would be nice if they can confirm that the humans would have a choice in the heroes they play. Otherwise the larger hero pool is meaningless.

[1]: https://dota2.gamepedia.com/Game_modes#Random_Draft
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There is a very clear and distinct difference between words changing meaning over time, and drastically changing the appearance of a word or symbol in previously written texts.
That is __severely__ underestimating the true probability - it considers only random thermal fluctuations. But the universe is really powered by processes that dissipate energy across a gradient to fuel a structured, very low entropy state.

The math is the same as calculating the probability that the glass you just broke will spontaneously jump back onto the table and reassemble itself. Which is a standard introductory example in thermodynamics... but you add self-awareness and suddenly this rather mundane thing is spooky and amazing.

You should be far more interested in what's happening when you boil a pot of water and convection rolls spontaneously form.
Is there a 2018 version of this article?
Europe’s Smack to Google May Only Be the Beginning
Have you heard of marketing before?
The down votes for logic , politics in tech, the saddest thing.

The question goes back to the root. Why do you think IBM is failing ... ive seen this comment in multiple posts and it seems very flimsy and biased. An even more direct question is "fail to do what?" They dont seem to fail to pay their employees which is more than I can say for a majority of startups.
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It's the only case where anecdotal evidence is acceptable.

Actually, no. That would be the existence of my own consciousness. Just mine. Not yours. That's it.
You cannot save 100% of your pre-tax salary. That said, you make an interesting point
The battery heat issue is especially problematic with LiPo cells, since they tend to swell up and break open the surrounding device enclosure.
Corning Debuts Gorilla Glass 6 with 'Unprecedented' Multi-Drop Protection
Why Google Just Got Hit with a Record $5B Fine
The paradox of tolerance has already been written

>> if a society is tolerant without limit, their ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant

Karl Popper - 1945
Pretty good briefing on self-driving cars
> They cannot be uninstalled, because they are part of a partition that is read-only.

So Google is lying in its press release, proving my point?

Also, I do not care on what partition they are installed. That’s a technical detail which cannot serve as justification for locking in users.

What isn’t a technical detail however is the fact that regular users do not know how to disable apps, because that option is hidden in the Settings menu and comes with scary warnings.

Also, there is no app uploaded on https://f-droid.org/ that depends on Google Play Services, so the point on persuading all app authors is obviously stretching it, since some of them have been persuaded already. Also this being about choice it’s pretty obvious that if I want to disable Google Play Services then I also want to avoid any app that depends on it.

On the security risk, I don’t know if those components get loaded or not. As long as that code is on my phone, I cannot trust it not to be executed at some point in time.

What if I enable that app by mistake? What if it gets enabled via the dozens of exploits that happen every year? Do you promise that it won’t ever be executed again? That’s not how security works.
This is why:

> Google has prevented manufacturers wishing to pre-install Google apps from selling even a single smart mobile device running on alternative versions of Android that were not approved by Google (so-called "Android forks").

Hence the fine.

You cannot have something open and control it at the same time.
Yea, but it also depends. I'm a developer. I like talking on HN at work because I find it helpful to take intermittent pauses between code. I could be paranoid that people are reading my comments. That's a preference I can't expect everyone to understand why if it was happening, it would bother me. It would bother me because it would be double reinforcing my own perspective, which makes it hard for me to interact fluidly with people around me, because I'm not used to people agreeing with me. I'm used to people shrugging off my introspection as insightful but mostly pointless. Everyone validating my own perspective is a dynamic I am unaccustomed to and would prefer not to engage with if it's not grounded in pragmatism, real data.

Well liked is difficult to define from the perspective of someone who devotes less resources to processing social information. Social information becomes hard to process when there is extreme diversity or extreme uniformity in perspectives. Extreme diversity means, it makes no sense to process social information internally because it's easier to just listen to people when they have things to say. There's the expectation that people will all behave in assertive manners. Extreme uniformity is additionally difficult to process because it's a blind spot. There's always that tiny little margin of error that occurs when people engage in group think. An overload of uniformity compels the individual to establish a difference. These differences add up over time, and can be generalized as 'being difficult' but that trivializes the phenomena and attributes all that build of behaviors to an individual when it really could just be that an individual is manifesting a collected set of behaviors of a group dynamic in the attempt to maintain some sense of external consistency and cohesion.

Furthermore, it consistently doesn't account for the person's perspective who has the hard time with other people. No one bothers understanding that person. Why would anyone try to? It would seem logical to assume having empathy or understanding for that person would lead to social ostracism. But it doesn't always have to - that's a choice people can make when understanding turns into awareness, and that's just the point. It would be nice to feel as though one were not constantly teetering on a balance of everything devolving into chaos.

This duality of categorizing behaviors into well liked behaviors and disliked behaviors, it is a problem that has no solution, because it doesn't have to be a problem if it's not a problem.

Perfectionism, silly. People are people. Can't please everybody. It leads to a lot of inconsistencies. Forming expectations about people. Good or bad. Perspective, hindsight bias. It is inconsistent reasoning. Uses the past to interpret the present. It misses a portion of the present in exchange for an understanding of the past. Future prediction, mind can not work that way. It is perpetually terrifying to live an existence this way, sometimes. Bad things sometimes happen. Can't control everything.
The Finns did not invent tango, which is an Argentinian dance. There is such a thing as Finnish tango, though.
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1) Proxies and botnets obscure origin and make attacks appear globally distributed so basic rate limiting has little effect on these attacks.

2) Extrapolated averages on incomplete data are certainly suspect, they are meant to be taken with a grain of salt and are most applicable to people in the affected industries for them to validate against their own data. FWIW The highest percentage of malicious, automated traffic that I've seen has been 99% which, yes, is crazy and should sound unbelievable.

3) Noted, definitely. It is certainly a tough number to nail down because it is very dependent on all the things you mention. I trust our data because we've been at this the longest, were the earliest, and we see a lot of the unadulterated attack traffic that has gotten through many existing defenses so we see the stark difference on day one.

Disclaimer: I contributed to the report in question (but was not consulted or related to the posted article)
You have a culture problem.

Maybe because you are not a nice company, and you are selling people's private information to ad networks?

That's one possible reason z another is that you probably have huge egos everywhere internally, and it's kind of tricky to actually care about customers then.
> It's not the EU's responsibility to come up with a new business model for Android that isn't illegal.

Actually it is. A regulatory body is supposed to give maximum freedom to business to help them come up with cheaper and better products while not violating other people's rights.

EU is equivalent of the white cop shooting an unarmed black kid and then have audacity to call himself the defender of law and justice.

But Google is simply pointing out that the people who will end up paying the $5B fine is not Google shareholders by the EU users. As a person who owns Google shares I think Google must modify their playstore policies to charge EU android users and extra fee to pay for this $5B fine.
OK, having read the article... not so much.
I think I understand what's happening here. If I click the temperaure on launcher, it opens the Google Search app querying for "weather" - here it is in celsius.

Temperature units preference is saved in Google Search app. Pixel launcher, even though it shows the news cards from Search app, cannot show temperature in the units of my choice unless I give it the "Web and App activity" permission. Just Google things.
> What surprises me is the lack of an emoji with an unambiguous meaning...

Yeah, unfortunately that is hard to express pictorially as there's no universal human gesture or face for it (unlike most facial expressions). I have seen the clapping hands [1] use to say thanks, and alternatively the right-facing fist[2] (as in fist-bump) - but the meaning of the latter can be lost entirely depending on demography of recipient, or interpreted as being aggressive (I'll punch you), and the former might be understood to be applause.

1. HN does not render Emojis - https://emojipedia.org/clapping-hands-sign/

2. https://emojipedia.org/right-facing-fist/ sometimes combined with the left-facing fist to make a fist-bump.
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Thanks!

I forgot my password, and have trouble setting a new password for the previous account via the reset link; the website says "Please review the problems below:" but doesn't show anything else...

Should I create a new account...?
Very interesting, thank you for the post! I will say that from our perspective on the outside, we (as in techies, app developers, etc) were pretty damned excited for open source. Its why I ditched my iphone and have been android ever since. Pure android is a much better experience, imho, than iphone will ever be or has been in the past.. the problem with android is that you get a nice new android phone and its riddled with crap ware you can't get rid of unless you know how to root and install a nice AOSP rom and the phone is even popular enough to warrant someone figuring out how to root it... which is great for me but not for a lot of other people who don't even know what root is.

I also don't understand why the nexus phone line got cut. I guess it wasn't selling well? I can't understand why though. My wife has a nexus 6p and its a great phone that was well priced.