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And current HN discussion (older than this one by a minute): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622252

> post-quantum key agreement experiments in Chrome Link for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16811554

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16659656

The original HN discussion about the Uber accident is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619917 There was also a previous discussion about the report that Uber may not be…

Police have clarified that the victim was walking her bike across the street: https://twitter.com/AngieKoehle/status/975824484409077760

> On the other hand, it mentions a bicycle, but also says the victim was walking, which I find odd The police clarified that the victim was walking her bike across the street: http…

Yeah, the police clarified that she was walking her bike across the street: https://twitter.com/AngieKoehle/status/975824484409077760

Yeah, that's the real question. Especially since, according to the article, Swarm was already planning to make their future satellites larger after the smaller design was rejected.…

> perfect is the enemy of good enough Funnily enough, that's also how the original article described the opposition to the Authors Guild settlement. As it turned out, killing the G…

It's not clear to me inteleng is objecting to any possible religious connotations, so much as saying that astrobiology's success is far from assured and that much work needs to be …

While a good step, this only makes up for a portion of what the settlement would have allowed. (Most obviously, it appears this only covers books from a 20 year period and it takes…

That's great for material that's public domain or out of copyright, but the Authors Guild settlement could have digitized and made accessible orphan works that are still under copy…

It's frustrating how the opposition was so painfully naive. As the article says, it was so clearly a case of "perfect being the enemy of the good." The following paragraphs deconst…

China is less homogenous than you might think, and Japan has groups that face discrimination too even if the divisions are less obvious to Western eyes. And people do criticize Jap…

Good tip. I would add that maxresdefault.jpg returns a higher resolution image, e.g.: https://img.youtube.com/vi/HlxLo2sMnXg/maxresdefault.jpg

I was interested to learn that, though the "OP1" processor in the Samsung Chromebook Plus is manufactured by Rockchip, the "OP" brand belongs to Google and is used for ARM CPUs opt…

True, the continent of Europe (10.2 million km^2) is larger than the United States (9.8 million km^2), but the context suggests wskinner meant a comparable geopolitical entity such…

I think you mean this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631084

The Google cache link didn't work. F-droid.org loads fine for me, but if it's not working for others here's an archive.org snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20171019193128/http…

Also being discussed in the thread "Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15508603

Apple and Valve did announce at WWDC a few months ago that SteamVR would support Macs: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/steamvr-is-coming-to-... I think DK2 works with SteamV…

> 3. Two finger touchpad scroll doesn't work on Android apps for scrolling -- painful as heck when Wikipedia links open in the Android app in laptop mode I think that's a bug with …