skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They're a part of the same suite of apps that provide the "Android experience"

The thing they were fined for was

>[Google] has required manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search app and browser app (Chrome), as a condition for licensing Google's app store (the Play Store);

How is the Play Store related to the Google Seach app or to Chrome? One is an app store, one is a seach bar and one is a browser. They have nothing in common and don't interact in any meaningful way (except perhaps the interaction between the Google Seach app and Chrome, but that relation isn't part of the ruling).

This is clearly Google using the dominance of the Play store to push other, completely unrelated apps.

>zero customers want a vendor to do anything different

The first thing I do with a new phone is to try to get rid of that google search bar on the home screen (I open a browser to seach the web ...), I don't use mobile chrome, and I prefer rooted CyanogenMod / LineageOS over stock Android. So I am clearly impacted by all three offenses Google was fined for. I suspect I am not the only one.
> Many AAA titles take a decade or more from start to finish.

AAA titles that take a decade or more to develop are usually stuck in some sort of development hell.

>I want the best space sim and I like what RSI is doing.

You like that instead of making the best space sim, they are adding focusing on adding an first person combat? It's clear as day that Roberts and Co. lack any sort of discipline. It's a perfect example why sometimes constraints on creative freedom (usually forced by eviiiil publishers) are a good thing.
It's a relative thing. Students back then didn't have to pay three hundred bucks for a textbook and they didn't have to go so deeply into debt they could've bought a Ferrari.
Cue the rebuttals about how safe the Autobahn is, and no real danger was presented...
The Hubble field of view is pretty small too, something like 25 arcseconds the internet tells me.
Unfortunately, I do like it. To each his own.
The only monopolies are the ones created by gov't.

Another shakedown of Google cuz "market abuse". What the fuck is market abuse?

They offered a superior product than their competitors. And we bought it.

Politicians wanting their 5B cut.

Shakedown
But I am 33 today!

Happy birthday.
> why should I be the one exposed to uncertainty when there are plenty of other complete and patched games out there vying for my attention?

Because sometimes if you don't fund an idea that idea doesn't happen. Of course I'm not suggesting you jizz $4500 into a promise of a game like the guy in the article but throwing ten or twenty bucks behind an idea you wan't to see happen isn't always a bad idea.

If it happens and it's bad? nevermind it was only 10 bucks, nice to see the idea attempted though.

If it happens and it's good? awesome.

If it implodes and I get nothing? meh, never mind it was 10 bucks.
Here in the suburban west they've become replacements for SUVs - for hauling kids to soccer. People have them because it's either a culture thing for them or it makes it a lot easier to haul gear skiing or camping (I live in Colorado). I only know 1 person with an actual work truck and about 5 with kid-haulers.
Zomerfruit rijker aan suiker en niet geschikt als je wilt afvallen?
He lost because of a forced arbitration clause. This massive privatization of justice where any boilerplate service or product now comes with forced arbitration is making my blood boil.

The justice system should always be an option when arbitration fails, and arbitration should take no more than a reasonable time to fail (say, two weeks for this $5000 amount). The whole point of a small claims court is to handle such cases, not offload them to a dodgy corporate lawyer masquerading as a judge.

If the public service of justice is slow and expensive, we need to fix the public service, not replace it with a free market simulacrum. That's always the case with non marketable but essential public goods.
Ironic that these posters (at least the en-UK versions) are in PDF
Based on what I see around me, people just use the first browser they see. Until someone with technical know-how comes along, people will use Edge on Windows (and usually complain about how the internet is acting up, but that's another story).

The same goes for Samsung and its own browser, simply called "Internet": people often have heard of Google Chrome but won't go looking if there's a working "internet button" right in front of them. Other vendors use the same trick.

Personally, I would think this is a good thing as it takes away some of the monopoly Google has, if Samsung etc. would just give their browsers regular updates through the Play Store/their own app store (latest version I can find on the Play Store still uses Chrome 59).

There is no technical reason to install the Google app or to install Chrome. Vendors can easily install their own WebKit/Blink engines for all the WebView/technical requirements (as seen by alternative ROMs) and the Google app can be deleted without affecting the other Play Services.

I think this is a ploy to prevent companies like Microsoft from coming with their own ROMs that focuses on Microsoft applications (Cortana, Bing, Edge mobile, Outlook, Microsoft Office etc., MS have a near complete stack of applications for Android) without offering any pre-installed competition like Google does.
That's not an escape plan, that's just what wealthy people do. They own things.

Peter Thiel's jockeying for New Zealand citizenship however is an escape plan.
I'm curious why author decided to completely disregard reinforcement learning.

"Note that neural nets are neither. There has been a relatively small amount of non-mainstream work of getting neural nets to control very simple robots, mostly in simulation only."

This is just plain false. Playing Arcade Games involves controlling an agent and there is a lot of widely published, very mainstream work from DeepMind, OpenAI and many other less known research groups. The big part of hype is about using deep neural networks in tandem with reinforcement learning. It's a very reactive system.

In complex environment a work from Nvidia is notable "End to End Learning for Self-Driving Cars": https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07316

Also, Alpha Zero is very clever combination of reinforcement learning, neural networks and symbolic reasoning (tree search). Alpha Zero is not only reactive, but also deliberative. Interestingly Alpha Zero, in very limited domain, managed to surpass not only unaided humans, but many years of programmers effort based on purely symbolic methods by beating Stockfish in Chess.

The author is no doubt a world class expert in the Good Old AI, but to my surprise he seems to be out of loops with more recent advancements.

Or am I missing something / misunderstood something?
Female body guards are generally preferred for these reasons:

1. They aren't perceived as such, rather they can be mistaken for a partner, friend, or personal assistant. They are therefore allowed into places where bodyguards normally aren't and the attacker doesn't expect them.

2. Some rich prefer a female to guard their daughter or wife so there are no awkward situations.
No one forced you to buy their phone.

No one locked you up at gunpoint.

Stealing from a corporation 5B and lining the pockets of politicians as "justice".

Corrupt af
Wow - thank you! really appreciate the detailed feedback.

1-4, 6: noted, will keep in mind for the next update.

5: yeah i have been asked this a few times as well, we are pulling from a growing list (200+ forums), so might not be the most user friendly. I think brand/manufacturer works as a proxy.

7. did not spend too much time on the copy, but maybe now its time to update! great suggestions, will definitely adjust.
Yeah, well, tell that to Fox News.
Who is the author of the Mindstorms book? I see several different books with this title.
It's a great little book. I had a copy which I gifted to a friend, thinking I'll just buy myself a new one... Turns out they go for over 100 pounds a pop...
Conclusion (translated):

After the first benchmarks, the results are sobering and fall short of expectations. The Coffee Lake U-Chip consumes more power than the Kaby Lake R CPUs, and the MacBook Pro 13 can reach the temperature limit of the processor within seconds.
What web-app like?

If browser vendors don't change course in regards to WebAssembly's roadmap, Flash and Applets are back, just give it one more year to mature the eco-system.
I'm not supposed to take a drink out of my cup holder either. Or change the radio station "old school" style.
thanks for catching that. the parser isnt 100% perfect - stuff like this really helps make it better going fwd
This misses an element that's really worth mentioning to designers. Simplicity is good. Few games suck because they didn't have enough rules, so probably if your game sucks you shouldn't try to fix that by adding more rules.

In playtesting this means noticing - the players never seem to cause X to happen. Is that because X seemed cool to you but actually the rules for it are confusing and add nothing to the game? Rip them out. Cry about it if you like, hold a mini-funeral for feature X, but rip it out.

The temptation to have too many rules is exaggerated for video games, because whereas a human player won't put up with six binders of rules for a 20 minute board game, millions of lines of custom code isn't a blocker for a AAA video game title even if, again, the complexity actually makes the game worse.

Which doesn't mean your game needs to be Snap, or Pong, but it means that making the core shooting mechanic of your shooter feel a bit better is a superior use of your time to integrating a half-arsed RPG element everybody will ignore anyway; a few more weeks on fine-tuning the card text for your hybrid card plus dice game will go a lot further than adding two other sizes of card, a cloth playing area, paper money, plastic tokens, and a life-size plastic rat.

Unless the whole point is to get the maximum possible money for your Kickstarter, in that case go for it. Stretch goal of hand painted miniatures for each of the 640 possible playable characters? Why not.
> People would install Chrome anyway

Which only serves as strengthening Chrome's position (Chrome being a I/O vector for Google's ad market).

> and they already dominate search, so why bother.

Which obliterates any chance of a remotely widespread alternative emerging. The homescreen search bar is technically a widget like any other yet it is the only one that cannot even be removed from any stock launcher!

Imagine a manufacturer whose part of its proposition (whether through deals or genuine customer interest) is for whatever reason to sell a phone that comes loaded up with Firefox (or Opera) and has Bing (or DuckDuckGo, or Qwant) as a search widget. This is currently impossible and the decision aims to change that. The fact that Google uses its Android - because there is no viable alternative platform - and Play Store - because without the apps the platform is useless to the general public - dominance in the phone market to strong-arm manufacturers into preloading extensions of its search and ad market is a huge issue, turning the "Google experience" on Android into an all-or-nothing proposition.

But there is a related yet more subtle issue that isn't addressed: log into the Play Store, and you're helpfully logged into all other Google services such as Gmail, Chrome, Calendar, Photos... The only thing you can subsequently prevent is automatic syncing, but cannot disable each one of those services at all (unless you disable the whole app). So basically you log in to download whatever app on the Play Store and you turn on a huge firehose aimed at Google's datacenters. As an Android user the feeling I have of the "Google experience" is one of coercion, not freedom.

BTW your iTunes/Apple Music example is interesting, although it could be developed further to better match the situation.
whatever dude, good point :)
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I think the headline is wrong, but I think the text in the section actually does a better job of presenting a more balanced view.
I've been trying to use it on Android for 40 minutes now (read: brute forcing and trying to match what I see with the docs) and I just figured out how basic stuff like backspace is supposed to work.

Some getting-started tips:

- The first thing you need is to touch all 5 fingers in a comfortable position to the screen. This activates the view that you were expecting to see. (This info is buried in the second to last paragraph of intro text.)

- To reset the buttons' positions (and get to pick new locations), activate another keyboard and then activate this one again.

- The arpeggio versions with two options (such as "tab/del") are directional: A->B is tab and B->A is del, where A and B are two of the five buttons.

- "del" is the equivalent of "backspace", not "delete".

- Backspace is supposed to be the arpeggio version of L, which is "- ##--" (index and middle finger), with middle finger first. So what you do is: press and hold middle finger, wait, press index finger, then release both. Do not release middle before you press index, do not be too fast, and do not be too slow. It's easy to be too fast or too slow, so keep practicing I guess...

- That mysterious little 6th button is the repeat key (this is also mentioned somewhere in the middle of the text).

- All keys disappearing when you tap next to it is not a bug but a feature: it allows you to use a second finger (while the first one hides the keyboard UI) to tap something behind the keyboard, such as opening a menu or selecting text.

- The lowering of audio volume (and perhaps some stuttering) is not your hitting the key combo for volume changes, but it's your music app detecting that this app is playing sound or vibrating or whatever and lowering its volume temporarily in response.
The solution in the United States at least is that states regulate insurance and you can complain to them. I'm not sure about overseas.
fine tuned geo search is something im looking into atm. trying to figure out if its a nice to have, versus a need to have feature - as it will take a ton of work on the back end.

thanks for the cali example, yes, that does not sound right to me. i think ill have to expand the scope of the sources to include more "affordables" (under 10k). the sweet spot is really in the 15k-50k range.
> Imagine that Apple forced telcos to block Spotify.
But they do. Telcos are not allowed to pre-install Spotify on iPhones, are they? iTunes on the other hand is pre-installed along with Safari, Apple Maps and Apple Podcast.

Of course once you have the device you can do whatever you ... can. Similarly once you have your Android phone you can install an alternative browser.

In fact I have had Samsung phones with two app stores and two browsers. Guess which one was was I unable to delete without rooting the phone first?

I am not a fan of whataboutism, but in this case it just seems unfair that the creator of a (more) open ecosystem is taking all the beating.

Note: I actually hate the search widget as well as the assistant, but there are hundreds of alternative home screen apps.
> Just put shielding on the parts that touch human skin

That’s literally the entire case. There is no part of a laptop designed to never touch human skin.
it's certainly far from trivial to remove the search bar at the top of the home screen. i tried once, it broke android, and i had to reset the entire OS. but, tbf, the entire process did take <1 minute
You really found a way to do mental gymnastics around this.

None of this is avoidable. Give money to the government, they are going to give it to their friends.
I've been given the task of handwriting thank you cards at my job, and within the first 4 or 5 cards, I had already memorized the multiple paragraphs worth of "script" I was given.

I was shocked! I've always had a horrible memory.
Here's a typical warning from a manufacturer: http://www.arcticsilver.com/as5.htm

> While much safer than electrically conductive silver and copper greases, Arctic Silver 5 should be kept away from electrical traces, pins, and leads. While it is not electrically conductive, the compound is very slightly capacitive and could potentially cause problems if it bridges two close-proximity electrical paths.
I've followed this groups research over the past year or so. Their approach to understanding the (human) issues behind semi-automated driving are quite intriguing, yet they haven't produced much research on the topic. Waiting to see where this goes.
:) looking into potentially expanding into regions. AU has a great supra forum...

tough thing at this point is gauging demand but as long as i keep getting the ask - something to consider
So sad that EU tech company can't compete with google they have to resort to extortion.
So it's only against the law once the company becomes big enough?

If, for example, BMW _did_ become an extremely successful car manufacturer to the point where they were capturing >80% of the market, would they suddenly no longer be allowed to bundle their own entertainment system with their cars?
It's literally comment after comment of playing the victim.
Is there any chance this book will become available on Amazon.co.uk? It's cost about double the price for Europeans to buy it from Amazon.com due to high shipping costs and import taxes and fees.
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Yes, the judgement. There is almost certainly no written opinion.
The problem with these offerings is: They are special developments targeting a niche. For that, they're great.

But I am not willing to spend 650 Euro on a BlackPhone2 when a 250 Euro phone is technically/hardware-wise enough for me.
If things go as the EU wishes, Silent Circle could offer mass market phones at competitive prices and with the software most users expect (full Google Android experience) in addition to their current offering - allowing for MUCH better scaling effects and thus lower prices for their phones.

You can s/Silent Circle/ with any other manufacturer, e.g. HTC or Samsung. Those are already targeting the mass market and thus are already producing at scale. In theory they "only" need to develop a source tree variant, add some bucks to the price for Enterprise phones and could then serve a (gut feeling: growing?) privacy niche as well.

I don't know if that's really worthwhile for any them, I honestly have my doubts; what's the local saying? Hope dies last... Whatever way this turns out, at least now the manufacturers have more legal options (in the EU).
>I personally recently switched my daily driver to an iPhone for that reason

Thats funny you think Apple doesnt have bad practices... They are seemingly the worst when it comes to IP and giving customers and developers what they want.
The presumption is that they have the permit.

Unlike firearms, the seller does not have to verify it.
I started to write a list ... but easier to google!

* https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/10/meet-europe-top-tech-...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_European_compa...

I actually hadn't realised Spotify was Swedish! Deezer is French.

Pretty much every high-end car manufacturer.

ARM.

Did you know the modern three-point tractor hitch was invented by an Irishman? Modern motor cars come from Germany. The Web as I mentioned earlier comes from CERN which is a joint European project.

Ericsson, Siemens, Philips.

Airbus is also another joint European cooperative.

Raspberry Pi.

Arduino.

Betfair.

Jetbrains.

Interesting exercise!
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Somewhat related: I remember it being a little disturbing to learn that during this period (and for a long time before) the leaders of the most powerful countries were related.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and King George V of the United Kingdom were first cousins. Not to mention leaders of Norway, Denmark, and others.

Considering that, it's almost surprising how stable the time was.
> (which I had not encountered before)

Me neither, in this context - though there's the US legal concept of "exigent circumstances" which allows police officers to enter property without a warrant if they believe a crime is in progress.
Game of Thrones, Texas Instruments Edition.

It's getting ridiculous lately...
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It is now incumbent upon Kickstarter to ban such private arbitration clauses on its site.
I think this is by design. My Subaru does this too. My feeling is that it’s an emergency feature meant to keep you on the road, not something you should rely on to steer the car completely, so they don’t want it to be too good. The quicker jerk back into lane is also enough to grab your attention, and bring it back to the wheel.
This is a fascinating scientific discovery and i love the visualization on their website!

13 observatories and 5 satellites contributed to the discovery.

If you are interested in the topic and understand German, check out Episode RZ073 of Raumzeit Podcast, topic: IceCube Neutrino Observatory which covers this (no affilication).

https://raumzeit-podcast.de/2018/06/06/rz073-icecube/
> Control question: did you click the icon on the left or on the right?

This is the first time I've ever been stumped by a simple read-only field. I think my confusion was due to the floating label animation on focus which I would expect only if the field was editable. You typically don't encounter read-only fields in mobile apps but they're common place in enterprise desktop apps.

Regardless, there is a bug since clicking the down arrow on the keyboard still allows me to select a state even though the field is read-only.
> Do I think I've gotten $1k of enjoyment from the game back when I was playing it? Yes.

Not trying to be negative, but this sounds like rationalization. There are better games for much less money.
Awe-inspiring. You can see the individual spectrographs at
https://youtu.be/-fh2Y6Zyhwc?t=1089
2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae".

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/20...
What extra burden?

They get paid by customer to deliver bits.

The only extra burdens I see is the "burden" of 1) not double dipping and 2) not overselling their offerings.
> But these heralds who have volunteered their clairvoyant services to us [...] just know that [superintelligence] is going to happen soon, if not already. And they do know, with all their hearts, that it is going to be bad. Really bad.

This is an unfair characterization of the the most prominent figures in this area. This article by Allan Dafoe and Stuart Russell from 2016 refutes it: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602776/yes-we-are-worried...