skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine you tried to subject your computer to extreme physical conditions - every combination of humidity, heat, cold, pressure, submergence in liquid, dropped, bent, etc, for 18 hours a day for years. How long do you think it would last? Not very long, I’d suspect. I’m amazed phones last as long as they do for as hard as they’re used - harder and for longer hours than almost any consumer-level computers.
Not just technically. There's nothing complex or "technical" about it. Huawei is announcing something they are not even close to shipping. Apple will be first, period.
roc did, supposedly, in late 2007. See https://robert.ocallahan.org/2018/01/ancient-browser-wars-hi...

It dates from back when Mozilla seemed to be losing quickly, and actually rebranding Chrome (with their own changes) might have made sense. I'm glad they didn't, of course.

I have no reason believe he, or anybody else at Mozilla, currently thinks that way.
The frame design element is nice. Other than that, I find the simple branding style that a lot of companies are adopting to be very bland. I like minimalism, but there is very little to set this new branding apart from the dozens of other companies with very similar branding styles.
Is there a way to disable it on versions of Windows that lack the Local Group Policy Editor?
I imagine that Google Europe and Facebook Europe will just slice themselves up into a swarm of subsidiaries that each have less than 50 employees and less than €10m turnover.
That's assuming they could cool off such a design. Cooling is harder to deal with in a mobile device. Can't just throw big fans in there.
That's actually a point of proof in favor of the GDPR, it shows clearly that companies are still trying to work their way around reasonable controls placed on the privacy of their end users. The fact that they resort to implicit blackmail to force your consent (which isn't consent if it is forced...) is interesting.
Is Pedialyte getting famous because it's actually used for hangovers, or is it getting famous because it's associated with some drug consumption (either as an ingredient or as something available at festivals, etc.) ?
To make a UK version of the law.
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They're not individually flagged, but automatically killed. I suspect because they were judged at some point as low-quality, if you want to know for sure contact the mods via e-mail.
Google’s first all-hands after 2016 election [video]
And he also added a lot of products during his time.
I think most people would believe that, in most cases, the amount of liability they receive is disproportionate to the amount of harm they cause. And as more and more companies seek to ban class actions and require binding arbitration, saying that they actually face liability for their actions seems laughable.
I think the baity headline words "Taught in" should be changed to "Covered by".
The Warren law would simply reintroduce several systems that were in place by convention until the '80s.

That earlier period, by the way, was not a living hell of industry killing regulation but in fact had less consolidation. It also had higher GPD growth, lower cost of living, and more economic stability, so apparently it won't kill the economy either.
People who write inadequately negative reviews should be punished too.
Sample bias here. But this hasn't happened to me since the early 2000's. I do not have any ad blocker, no ad bothers me, unless its an adult site, they've gone really crazy there.
Let's take a look at some background here. Freedoms are in the eye of the beholder and what is considered a "right" by one can be and often is quite different to what is considered a "right" by another.

The changes going on at such governmental levels should not be unexpected. These kinds of changes have been happening over many decades. Very few, if any, governments (I am not talking about politicians here) want to give the citizens of itself the freedoms that could threaten the well-being and growing control of that government.

Politicians may have agendas (obviously they do) and can in some way direct how the relevant government will operate. They have less control than they think and they are there only fo relatively short periods of time. Most of the legislation that citizens end up suffering under is dictated not by the politicians but by other control structures.

Policy changes made by the various political representatives will be warped by those who are in charge of bringing these policies into reality.

The changes being discussed here for the EU are in line with the premise that government will gain more control over its citizens and the ones who have pushed for this will find out quickly enough that there are very large unintended side-effects that will come back and haunt them.

The fundamental concept driving all this movement towards control of what citizens can and can't do is to ensure that when needed those same citizens will follow whatever directives are given. This is just repeating what has happened in the past many times.

Does that mean we lie down and just take it or is there something that we can do?

If you are going to actively do something, you must start out first realising that there are going to be consequences. You have to make up your mind as to whether or not you are willing to face those consequences.

Then you need to look at what action you can take and take without the destruction of others. Peaceful civil disobedience can be a strong motivator of change in some cases.
From what I understand, Google isn’t actually giving away people’s data to “hundreds of companies” for advertising purposes.

When an advertiser wants to target a specific group of people, Google doesn’t say “here’s everyone’s private data, good luck”. GOOGLE does the filtering and targeting internally.

I’m sorry but that isn’t evil or bad. Unless we want to start paying for google searches and Facebook, this is how it’s going to be. And personally, I actually like getting ads relevant to my life. For example, I even got my current job based off a highly relevant Facebook ad.

My personal suspicion is that people are just jealous of how much success Google and Facebook have had.
1. One of the goals with their original rebrand to a logo was to make the brand more accessible to people in markets that don't use Latin scripts. Looks like this rebrand abandons that goal.
2. Why do another rebrand just two years after the last one? New team, new leader, new OKR?
Uber doesn't need a visual refresh, they need a values refresh. People who are choosing not to use Uber now aren't put off by the logo but by their corporate culture. Maybe, maybe if they got that sorted out first, they could come up with a visual identity to support the new and improved Uber that would have some value.
The last tweak was in 2016, under a different CEO.
> A modern B corp permits a board to balance this traditional fiduciary duty to act for the benefit of the shareholders with other specified goals defined in its charter and agreed to by those shareholders.

A "modern B corp" doesn't permit anything. There is no legal concept of a "B-corp". It's a certification issued by a non-profit that a standard corporation is being run in a particular, socially-responsible manner. Any corporation can choose to do this, regardless of whether they want to pursue that certification or not.
I dont understand what you mean by comparing require with include. Lua's require only loads each module once, and doesn't introduce any new variables to the local scope.
Those are not the guys I'm talking about. Sorry for misusing the term.

The people (and companies) who enrolled folks into "predatory" mortgages (NINJA loans - no income, no assets, no job), the low level agents that should have done the paperwork for the credit check, and warned the wannabe clients about the risks (of default and so on).
It would probably take Windows five years to properly use the small cores.
Gmail search is terrible... it’s the one thing I don’t get why it’s so bad.
I believe you, and honestly with the latest improvements with Quantum I can see why.

I _am_ curious about the motivation behind Firefox Focus though. I use vanilla Firefox on Android and really enjoy it.. what was the motivation for using a Webkit base for Focus? Seems like the stripped down, privacy focused experience would have worked fine based on Firefox proper?
FYI this domain is blocked by default for uBlock users.
I work in the O&G industry and I think this is backwards. You're far more likely to see conventional wells be choked back or shut-in during price drops. That is what we saw in the recent oil price drop.

With unconventional wells (horizontal fracked wells) decline rates are so high that you will see a dramatic decrease in production by simply stopping drilling of new wells.
> Your razor does try to stop you from using a blade from a different manufacturer

Not very successfully.

> your printer tries to stop you from using ink cartridges from a different manufacturer

I can inject ink into the port, for cheap.

> your car will often strongly discourage you from getting it serviced by anyone other than an authorized dealer.

Only the top-range cars, for rich and upper-middle-class people, who have the ability to buy different but won't because it's a silly status symbol.
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How would any software know which CPU to use?

Apple controls the entire OS and SoC so they can schedule different tasks onto different classes of CPU.
A few generations ago they just stopped being able to reduce minimum feature size. Instead they're working on some kind of hypothetical combination of work-per-watt and transistors-per-centimeter, ignoring additional layers.
In the hope there is a google employee reading this, i want to shout a big plus one here! The next time the chance to look at the latest Microsoft offering comes up, I’ll do it, using vanilla gmail is just so clunky compared to inbox and i don’t want to go back to it.
Is it just me, or are they slowly gravitating towards Crate & Barrel's aesthetic?
> the language echoes a previous fight that rightsholders are still pursuing, which is links to infringing content should be punished as strongly as hosting content itself.

There was a story in a similar direction a few years back: A state court in Hamburg decided that when you set a link to some other website, you have to check whether that website contains any illegal content.

The fine journalists at Heise wanted to link to the verdict, and because they are law-abiding citizens, they inquired with the court if they can guarantee that all content on the court website was legal. The request was denied.
QA team needs a dedicated environment
> So in the current state of affairs only the scraper gets paid, and the content creators are left with the bill.

Googlebot respects robots.txt. Anyone who doesn't want to be indexed, isn't. For some reason they still seem to want to be.

> I'm sure that we can agree that journalism and web scraping have nothing in common, just like xeroxing a book is not the same thing as writing a novel.

What do you mean? It's basically the same thing. When a reporter interviews some guy, they put his words in their story -- without compensation. How is that fair?
To add details.

The DVD seller isn't making the copy, but requesting them from the original manufacturer. The DVD seller telling the purchaser that this service is contingent on the manufacturer providing back up copies free of charge. However, the manufacturer can at any time refuse, if they no longer make them, or no longer wish to support it.

Its probably not Apple's decision to limit the download, it most likely the original rights holder.
It’s not gambling. Some people schedule medical procedures accordingly. Some people have complex medical situations etc... insurance isn’t a gamble and not everything is emergent.
That is certainly how they are often used in the America and the West today, but always seems a gross exaggeration. For example, regulations against child labor.
I used to think there is another government agency in charge of alcohol and nicotine - ATF yet FDA makes sense as it is about safety of a thing people consume internally.
Makes sense. I will try to update the article!
Feel free to use whatever library that helps you to compose your program nicely. It would be nice though, if those libraries were in a set of standard libraries ;) If you need to implement all helpers yourself, my point "in Julia, you can just sit down and start implementing a pretty difficult problem" would become a bit watered down... First of all, Julia is also pretty multi-purpose - and secondly, if you put it to the extreme, you could just write a DSL that you parse in C++ that is perfectly tailored to the problem, and consider the challenge as won :P
Sure, their website is slow, takes a bit to load the media, and uses up your CPU -- but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't an aesthetically pleasing website. Their website reminds me of a musician's website for some reason. Scrolling through the page tells you a story about the Uber brand. I especially liked the "System Icons" section and how they use a slider to let you transition between light and dark versions of the icons.
Looks like Europeans can no longer hang over our American heads that our politicians are crazy. Turns out theirs are crazy too.
https://github.com/paulirish/git-open
Have you seen Higher Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/business/energy-environme... (see quotes from Yergin and others explaining why they think that US exporting has economic impacts on OPEC and other exporters).
Looking at stock price is a poor indicator of performance, it's too tied to market sentiment. Remember when Elon Musk smoked that joint and Tesla stock took a 10% hit? It's all nonsense.

Look at revenue, look at earnings per share. Steady growth for Ballmer across his tenure. He did a good job.
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IMO, the link should be updated to point to the original source. The Verge article adds no value to the discussion:

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-googl...
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It's been a while, are you sure they are still the same old Uber? Do you work there? Do you know people who work there? At some point a company needs to go through a rebrand to change their image both internally and externally.
Also talks about the issues of measuring inter-generational mobility ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socio-economic_mobility_in_the...
What innovations does the Pixel have that you feel are missing from iPhone?
How are these things different from home-made rehydration solutions? Basically it's sugar and salt in a specific proportion, right? Or are the salts more complicated than what you have available in your average kitchen cupboard?
There's a hash of the registry key stored "securely" somewhere. Only the API the control panel default apps UI uses changes this registry key and updates the hash. When the application key is called to run and doesn't match the hash it's reset to the value from "C:\Windows\System32\OEMDefaultAssociations.xml"

It's terrible behavior.
It really pisses me off that they use cryptography to make replacing keys so expensive.

My wife lost her purse with (it turns out) the master key to my minivan. The minivan is maybe worth $4k. (I'd have to fix it before I could sell it.) Getting the key replaced is $750. Because that is what Toyota wants to charge and nobody else can do it.

If I had an older car, it would be a cheap visit to the local Home Depot to duplicate the remaining key.

I haven't replaced the key. I don't value the threat model that they theoretically protect me from. I do value the convenience of being able to replace the key. But it isn't worth $750 to me. Instead that is just one of several things that are on my list of "replace if X happens".
> I wonder what the next 20 years will bring, especially with the shift to electric vehicles.

The expectation of a shift to electric vehicles is highly exaggerated. In 20 years, most of the cars will run on gas with a small market share of electric/hybrids/hydrogen cars. It's pretty much a certainty at this point. Even if electric vehicles are economical today, everyone isn't going to switch their current cars. Moving the car market towards electric will take many decades, if it ever goes electric at all.

The projections for oil is the projections for every energy source but coal. Up.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=32912

This is the same conclusion reached by pretty much every institution. Oil will be the dominant source of energy in 2040 just as it is today.
> to the Android version of Firefox

Out of curiousity, how well does that work on a bigger screen like that?

I recently installed the Android version of Firefox on my Essential Phone and find it pretty snappy and nice to use.
It upsets me that this is the highest comment below my post because you completely missed my point.

I specifically said that I prefer the Dutch way in general, and that I don't mind paying higher taxes to support this. Hell, I live here, I hold a Dutch passport, and I vote for the related causes.

However, what I hate is certain aspects of the regulatory environment that choke out startups. That has nothing to do with healthcare or education but rather to do with very restrictive EU + Dutch laws.

Making it difficult to start a business makes the incumbents more powerful, and the incumbents already have high prices and limited selection here in the Netherlands.

[partially copied from a comment of mine below]

Starting a company here in the Netherlands is quite difficult. It involves compliance with every law related to your business, hiring employees, purchasing services for the business, etc etc. All of these things are more onerous, expensive and difficult here.

I've been involved with many startups on both sides of the ocean. In America (for better or worse) you get up and go. In Europe, simple things like creating a contract and paying someone are way more difficult and the barriers are much higher. Everything from the address you register your business at to protecting yourself legally is an issue.

It's difficult to explain exactly how debilitating the regulatory environment is to someone who hasn't experienced it firsthand. Startups are fragile. Many companies that are now unicorns were at some point on the brink of collapse for a good bit of their early life. Just one trigger can kill a startup, and additional regulations can be that trigger.

Sure, there are other things crippling innovation in Europe: a total lack of venture capital and fewer "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" play a big part.
It's a fairly time-honored tactic to redesign a brand that has lots of negative associations built up, and I could see Dara driving this as part of the overhaul. Typically that results in a full name change though.

Having read through this, it sounds like the brand team considered more radical changes but ultimately found that the broad name recognition and generally positive associations with the stark black/white aesthetic were too strong to ditch entirely. What remained was the ability to iterate on the original brand, and that's what you got.

I agree with ditching "the bit" icon in favor of a "U" though. That logo made zero sense, and always felt like a creative team stretching to imbue an abstract mark with some sort of meaning.
It's amazing that Apple's watch is now the cheapest cell phone in their new lineup.
Ugh, making accessible plain text into inaccessible images. As a blind person I really hate this.
I like all of this. As a system it's very cohesive and makes a lot of sense. It's fresh and at least aligns with the new image of Uber which afaik is essentially "we are totally not the old uber". I do wish they would have brought back a logo alongside the logomark. The outgoing 'chinese coin' logo was not doing anything for them but it is clear that the U is important and I think they could have done that justice by using it for more than the 'u-frame'
It's also the style guide.

It helps to ensure that teams e.g. third party agencies from around the world are using the Uber brand consistently.

Same way we have development style guides for when you have large dev teams.
Fair, I just posted the link I originally saw. And I can't update myself. Mods, feel free..
> Bezos is out to make an empire, everything else comes second.

Amazon investors just got a hard-on reading this.
They may have motives but there are laws in place that prevent them from falsifying the data required to come to an intelligent conclusion of whether Tesla will pay off their debt or not so the data better not be false.

As for the news organizations, there is a possibility they have motives and the way many of the articles are composed does not help the case that they do not have motives, whether that be get the most clicks or push down another organization. I believe they have laws in place as well to protect readers from this sort of behavior, but I'm not sure.

Both types of organizations have been known to break the law though so we're left wondering what the future will hold. It will be fun to look back in the months ahead and see which theory was correct.
The stronger they push ridiculous laws like this the more it will force perfectly legitimate business to go underground. We will end up with all the problems of prohibition all over again.

> is intended to give publishers and papers a way to make money when companies like Google link to their stories

So Google should pay you when they send you more traffic? More traffic = more money. Most companies would be overjoyed if someone sends them free business. Google and countless others even provide tools like Adwords so you can monetize your site if you can't figure out how to do it yourself.

I wonder how long until companies outside of Europe decide it's easier just to block all traffic from Europe in protest.

This is a weakening of safe harbor provisions. This law makes it extremely difficult to have a platform with any kind of user generated content. As long as a company is taking reasonable measures to combat piracy, hate speech, etc, they need to be granted indemnity from the actions of rogue users.
i got 36.2 mb of resources on a page load without caching

yikes
Uber is nothing, they should be a 50-100 person company with most in support. But they are not, they are a legion of thousands. And in fact, twitter should have been their match making service and something else should have been their Y.

If the web composed, uber shouldn't be a company, but a mashup. And it shouldn't have a board, it should have a blockchain.
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From a technical standpoint they could, but they didn't because their technology wasn't ready?

So .. they couldn't?
Heap CTO here – would love to answer any questions you have.

This was my first exposure to btrace, which a super useful swiss army knife for JVM debugging. That made this a worthwhile adventure for sure.
> Part of the issue is that these separate "persons" aren't actually able to be held accountable.

They are able to be. Government just chooses not to do so.

> When corporations do something illegal by, say, killing people out of neglect, they aren't imprisoned (shut down temporarily) or executed (dissolved).

They can be, and have been (the latter more often than the former.)
>I honestly cannot comprehend how anyone could support this law while having any understanding of how the internet works.

Who do you think has their arm up the politicians' ass and making them talk?
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This was my experience as well.
That and the new "minimal install" option both jumped out at my when I set up my latest dev box.
I think the closest analogy would be Typed Lua. Titan is a bit of a different approach (simpler type system, more focus on performance)
Friends don't let friends depend on Google products.
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