skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For sure, but it varies. My experience is from the iPhone camp, so I'll speak to that. Some iPhones certainly became obsolete after two years. But some of them were troopers. The 3GS, for example, had a very long life, as did the 4. My 5 is starting to get wonky, but it's good enough that I haven't upgraded yet.

My boss has been using the same Android phone for a few years now, so I know a similar pattern exists in the Android market.

The point is that you can choose when to upgrade, rather than being more or less forced to upgrade every two years. This is especially helpful to those with tight budgets, which I think composes the majority of people.
I'd agree w/that take based on my experience in the field -- key issue is finding the right person at the utility to help you w/rhe solution.
Great question. Reminds me of what Samuel Johnson had to say about Paradise Lost ("great, but nobody ever wished it was longer")

My $0.02:

Andy Groves - High Output Management fits your bill

Most Seneca

Robert Frost poems (but maybe S/N is TOO high for comfortable consumption here)
I would argue it actually has a happy ending. It's not a spoiler really.
Still, that dart code looks a lot more complicated than it needs to be. While progress is obviously being made, it doesn't exactly give me confidence in using dart as a compile-to-JS language if it's going to have an overhead because of the addition of a runtime library.
Why?

Edit: you edited that comment from a single line since I posted this.

To elaborate:

I think that codes of conduct can be very very useful, especially in resolving disputes or setting community standards. I don't think it's driven out of distrust. High profile harassment on GitHub is not good for GitHub, or the open source community as a whole.
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All of this info (sans the HTTP 300 issues) is accessible via means which have been specifically GIVEN to users on the statistics and profile page. All I've done is point out combining these lovingly provided sets of information may have a role in what has happened.
> Really - the only thing you need to remember is - be nice to each other and be patient with those supplying advice and those who are asking for advice.

Or even simpler - don't be an ass/jerk. I guess it's just hard to define...
Stuff like that doesn't belong on an issue tracker, whether it's invited or not.

Bring back the mailing lists.
Y, based on my experience, the utilities generally have different teams that handle the fibre installs.
A decent carrier like T-Mobile who has had no contracts now for years will not do this, except to offer lower priced plans, which they have.
It's almost as if they might have magically appeared from 4chan or Reddit in order to troll or something...
The attackers didn't give hints either :(
Expanding on what you said, the top 10 metres are by far the most dangerous due to rapidly dropping air pressure in the lungs causing shallow water blackout. For serious freediving, your partner meets you at -10m as you ascend. This can clearly be seen in the fantastic william trubridge arch video. [1]

It's quite common for an instructor to dive alone with students. Even a first level freediver knows how to save someone from a shallow blackout; it's unclear if her diving partners were suitable or if she took excessive risks. This is a good reminder that no one is invincible.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXQbucZUDA
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In an employment environment, that is clearcut sexual harassment. The OCC is bringing some of that professionalism to open source communities.

Why would it be a joke to ban annoying personally-targeted behaviors that are unrelated to the work product?

I can't think of a case where discussing cuddling someone is appropriate for a Pull Request, mailing list, or IRC chat
> I set up my web browser to automatically change
> "political correctness" to "treating people with
> respect"

https://twitter.com/byronclarknz/status/628702214391902208

If you use the phrase "social outrage" or "social justice" as a pejorative, you're part of the problem :)
That's been my experience with Android phones. When I bought an S4 when it first came out it was barely usable with all the bloatware from AT&T and Samsung. The battery should run down within 8 hours. I flashed the Google edition and it helped but I couldn't stand it. Same stuff happened after 12 months, decreased battery life, slow and sluggish.

Switched backed to an iPhone 6 when it came out and haven't looked back. It's been great and the past 8 months nothing had shown down and my battery still lasts a full day of browsing and Spotify.
I certainly didn't say everything is terminated like EC2, so I don't know where you're getting that from.

And it looks like we agree: any attempt on Amazon's part to create something like this would be complicated and would still not remove the risk of data loss. An service interruption is, of course, a certainty.

So as far as I can see, the feature still doesn't make much sense. It's only really useful to people who aren't doing anything in Amazon that matters.
There is also the case for a potential increase in his conversion rates as a result of adding SSL.

Online shoppers I've observed in usability sessions often scour sites looking for evidence of security measures (e.g., green EV certs in the browser, various icons in the footer). This is especially true when you're asking for something like SSN info...

If appealing to the desire for security of user info doesn't work (unfortunately), appeal to his desire for more customers...
I could cut half of my editors off, of course. But then I'm loosing even more context. And I have a shell output that is full width but not very tall, so I can't see as much context, and I have to scroll my code more. Again, this isn't a pissing contest. The point is that there are reasons people prefer it. What are you trying to argue? It seemed you were trying to suggest it is purely a historic throwback and pointless.

It all comes back to this question: what proportion of lines in your code use more than 80 cols? If it is a small proportion, the geometry is simple: you waste more screen by having longer lines.
Using two soundcards at once: AdLib, Gravis Ultrasound
Fry's have good selection candies though.
Yeah I don't get the 'textual' descriptions bit - and physical contact doesn't really apply to an online community. I suppose describing sexual contact is probably unwanted, but that's covered under the sexual harassment section.
Be careful with errno
We don't know what happened to her exactly, but if she had an issue while being still deep (more than 20m) that would have been very hard to spot for a buddy, and even harder to do a rescue. She was not alone by the way.

The only way this could have been totally safe would be to dive along a line, using a lanyard to not drift away. This is the setup used in all competition or deep training and this has prevented many casualties.
Are there any languages that suggest optimizations? Where you can explicitly enable them?

Something like this seems like something a compiler could relatively easily do. Have a bunch of different ways of storing structs (word-aligned, size-aligned, bit-aligned, modulo/remainder, modulo-next-prime, modulo-next-easy-prime, etc {what else am I missing here?}), and be able to specify to the compiler via an annotation or similar which you want, or what your typical sizes are and let the compiler choose from there.
Intel did remove it in the modern CPUs after the author alerted them.

As for why it stuck around until now: backwards compatibility + that CPUs are rather rarely constructed from scratch, rather evolved upon.
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UberX launched in early 2012, before Lyft. But Lyft, Sidecar and Uber were all likely developing their 'low cost uber' versions at around the same time. After how much success Uber had already had with just Black cars, the idea for a lower cost alternative was obvious enough that lots of companies jumped in.
hugs plonh
In an employment environment, that is clearcut sexual harassment.

Wait, really? I've never posted it myself, but textual descriptions like "[hug]" as a way of expressing gratitude or solidarity are common and mundane in plenty of communities.

Now, sure, cluttering technical discussions with stuff like this isn't preferable. To call it "clearcut sexual harassment" is ludicrous and completely devalues the term in question.
iOS8 battery life on pre-2014 hardware has gotten worse with each update. Hopefully iOS9 will remedy the situation for pre-2015 hardware.
I for one read that part of the code of conduct and think of a few grey areas.

I mean, it's not uncommon for people to write 'hugs' or something like that - surely that should be fine (assuming it's not wildly off topic)?
I was thinking of doing something similar as a chrome plugin to counter propaganda on mass media sites but I never got around to it. You've inspired me to bump that up the weekend project to-do list again
I agree, the maintainers could have merge one of the many pull request than removed the reverse -ism section, but apparently it was something they couldn't agree on.
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https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sinkhole

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3fz6z6/blackhat_usa...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10024324

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10020134

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9663249
Yup, one of the few still in operation is actually used by IranAir.
I don't think its Americans that would rather get loans on things. For cellphones it's the only option available with the big 2 carriers (the others used to do it too).

Last time I was in the store the reps had to explain about the installment plans over and over. Most people were outraged and didn't believe the employee telling them their phones had been subsidized. They couldn't fathom the actual cost was $649+. We also don't have much prepaid plans unlike what people have told me they have in other countless.
Ask HN: Moving to the next level
So, imagine this https://github.com/enrmarc/minesweeper-api is a "real" product/service. Call it THE_APP. Just for the sake of this post, imagine that THE_APP does "something valuable" and people would love to pay for it (ignore that it's just a pseudo minesweeper api).

I know how to write code. I don't write excellent code. I'm getting paid for writing decent code. I'm not very experienced programmer. I know things like OOP, FP, MVC, patterns, Ruby, type systems, http, Java, Android, Scheme, databases, JS frameworks, eval/apply, PHP, etc.

Now, I have no idea about: scalable architectures, how to deal with hundred of thousands of users, db replication, real time, https/ssl, cloud, message systems like zmq, security... in summary I have no idea how to make THE_APP a service that could work in a happy real situation (millions of users, a lot of data, etc).

So my question is: how I can learn all of those things?
I'm curious what patents Sidecar holds, if they truly were the innovators, and if they can use that as some sort of advantage against Uber and Lyft.
The Japanese air industry is really strange - I've never understood why using large widebodies on short hops is so popular there.
I kind of agree with you "high signal to noise" take. It is highly subjective. Most of the times, going with populistic choice seems to be way forward. Unfortunately we have very short time. Personally very liberal estimation of my reading prowess, I don't think I will read more than another 500 books in my life time.

My emphasis with my comment is to read books, ideas with healthy dose of skepticism, rather than worshipping it as gospel.
Seriously? Do cc vendors allow any random home hacker to create collection forms for credit cards. If I were visa I would at minimum have a checklist that must be fulfilled otherwise the store get their license withdrawn.
And this is what socialism is bringing to Latin America. Brazil is about to explode, Argentina's president is accused of murdering the prosecutor on Iran case, Chile is also on a shitstorm of corruption, just like Bolivia.

Looks like USSR, China and Cuban examples wasn't enough.
I thought that modern architectures tend to read in an entire cache line at once?

In which case bit packing can be problematic as it can stretch across a cache boundary?
Outpost was great back before Fry's bought them. Now they're about as useful as Best Buy's website.
At least the GitHub's Atom and Electron projects are evaluating alternatives. See: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/8206#issuecomment-128858...
Using Google keyword planner to estimate your market size (and more)
US banks lack any care about security in this area and rely on being able to eat the costs of fraud. This is clearly obvious even from logging into their sites. Many sites require weak passwords, have no two factor authentication, mix secure and insecure items, etc. They also are not very scrupulous when approving loan and credit card applications (for small amounts) and will do so even when the application has obviously been shredded and taped back together, for example, a clear sign of someone having grabbed it out of the garbage.

Regardless, between the greed and the complete lack of interest in security in this area leads customers extremely vulnerable as the only things that are required to open a credit card in another person's name are usually a name, address, date of birth, and social security number, all of which are essentially public to anyone who is even the least bit dedicated to committing fraud. This current situation benefits banks so much, the few costs they do actually have to pay for insurance and after the fact pale in comparison.
Its not a spoiler. Go see the movie.
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Well at least for virtual births, given the trend of fingerprint storage, once the real virtualized baby is of age or otherwise required to submit prints, the other identities are pretty much useless.
We have access to so much great work on the topic of computation today thanks to the internet, and especially because of work in computer languages and research over the last 20 years, but GEB was published in 1979. At the time it was ground-breaking, making work that really only a handful of people knew about and were interested in accessible to many.
It's offensive, to a woman, to talk to her without permission from her male guardian.

It's offensive, to a woman, to ask for some man's permission to talk to her.

Both of these are true. Both of these are false. In order to know what's offensive for any given group, a written summary is extremely helpful. Posit a group of people brought together from around the world from many varied cultures. They have no way to know what is, and is not, acceptable behaviour. Insisting that people just "behave like adults" is no help at all when different societies can have wildly different views of the correct behaviour of adults, and you also get the effect that each of them believes they are behaving like an adult and it's the other people who are wrong. It's a recipe for disaster.
Thanks, that's what I immediately thought.

If you know someone or have formed any kind of relationship with them, that sort of "virtual hug" can be appropriate, but in other contexts it can be a pretty damn creepy way to push buttons.

This is me violating your personal space.
Just as an for some extra context:

Google's keyword planner tool can be used to quickly gather the following useful data:
-Relevant keywords for your product or niche
-Market size (using Google search volume as a rough estimate)
-Market share (how many clicks you'll actually get using adwords)

All useful stuff for validating a product or business idea BEFORE launching. This is also known as a "bottom-up" market size analysis.
If you die you die. What difference does it make if a second ago you enjoyed your life. If anything it makes it even worse. Dying when you enjoy the life the most? I can understand that someone wants to die when he suffers terribly, but not this.
> Look to the airline industries. Did they stop their absurd baggage checking fees when the price of gas went down?

Well, baggage isn't costless to the airlines. In theory thing should be more efficient if the consumer saw approximately the correct price. I just wish Kayak would start showing prices assuming 1 checked back by default, and give you the option to specify how many you expect to bring. That would remove a lot of the incentive for those gotcha charges.
3-days free trial isn't freemium.
Sounds like we're one sweet OS boot screen away from the movie 'Hackers'.
If you don't know that something can break, it's hard to get it right. But I have many colleagues who've never exploited a buffer overflow, but who still do a fine job of counting their bytes. High code quality and coding patterns that reduce mistakes are really important; knowing a little about exploitation is useful to judge impact and to design anti-exploit defenses, but don't overestimate the impact - defenders' time is often better spent elsewhere. (Of course, hacking is sexy.)

(I write high-security software. )
"Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini

Pretty much a must-read for anyone interested in sales, marketing, or "persuasion". However, even if you're not in that line of work it will blow you away. Lots of good examples and not a lot of fluff (despite what you might think just based on the title).
How can people still deny that this isn't clear discrimination against straight white males? The PC police talk about all the "coded racism" that they see all day but they can't tell that this is coded racism?

They should just say what they mean: If you're a straight white man it's okay to treat you like shit.
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> In an employment environment, that is clearcut sexual harassment.

I'll never understanf this stuff. In fact I don't even understand how hugging and giving people real backrubs is sexual harassment, let alone mentioning it in text!
As a black man, <insert negative remark about black people>.
I agree with criticisms of the very idea of a code of conduct. Why is it astonishing? Documents like this enable the worst amateur Internet lawyering.

If your parents, teachers, and local cops did not teach you how to conduct yourself, there's absolutely no way a text file will. On the other hand, it will be used to justify all kinds of unnecessary non-technical debates.
Not at all, when the talk starts out quibbling about the 80-column standard.
For assorted type system/PhantomData madness, see also:

http://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2015/07/abstracted-algebra-in-ru...

http://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2015/07/more-abstracted-algebra-...
I agree. I have yet to encounter a truly bad interaction on Github.

And what if I did? Learning to ignore things that could unreasonably sour your mood is a valuable skill in life anyway. Life itself doesn't really have a code like proposed.
This is an interesting and fairly well explained post, but a little light on real world examples.

Can anyone maybe suggest a few examples of where this could be used (or is used already?)
I enjoyed reading through the Django ORM code to understand how it worked. Metaclasses in python are fun, but I can rarely justify actually using them for anything other than messing around. Oh but how I wish I needed to use them more!
> What's the moral difference between that and checking to see whether they also emit some electronic signal when present?

If you are visually noted to be somewhere, then you usually subconsciously know that you were noted. He saw you, and you saw him seeing you.
I've also been reading The Battle Cry of Freedom and it's been amazing. The analysis and insights the author can pack into every single page is just incredible. And all those political, social, and historical insights have just as much applicability today. It really has been essential reading for understanding the major fault lines that have defined American life, and continue to do so in major ways.
I can't believe I had not heard about this before today! That is really crazy, all the more so in an era (thanks USA and FATCA) of increased internationalisation of bank regulation....
I don't think grand parent was being sarcastic. In case they were, I'd like to add that I am sincerely thankful for the copy paste.
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What gets me is that they don't distinguish between description and simulation.
All you have to do is bring your bag to the gate and they always check it for free. It wastes more time for everyone but they still get to charge the poor honest people at the ticket counter
Hey there
Your customer segment sounds very interesting. There's clearly a need for your project (I'm kind of familiar with construction projects). However I don't get what you're offering and how it works. Can you please explain me again? May be I can help you in return.
Thanks
That'd be hard for a compiler to suggest for this case - it requires knowing the range of each value that you're storing in the struct (and not just the number of bits).

But if you're happy to do that, there's no reason it couldn't be offered by a compiler. However it's only useful for an unusual use case, when you have data that could just fit in memory, but doesn't fit in memory without the bit-packing.
>I am trying to explain to him why this is bad, but he doesn't really care.

"You are losing sales. People look for the lock icon on the address bar."

Also, he can get SSL on his site for FREE in < 5 minutes using Cloudflare.
"Getting to Yes" is probably the shortest, most useful book I've ever read. If you have to negotiate anything, this book will help.

I read it 22 years ago and it pays off regularly.