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My acer s7 does pretty well;

I've repaired it from severe rain damage, and it's generally easy to disassemble and replace the parts to.

it's got a reasonably nice screen, nice build quality, and reasonably good performance, though you cant change out the wifi chip, nor the ram The webasite also said about enough to do well, and the windows install it came with just had some acer junk on it.
"As a team, we’re very proud of the product we built, now used by over 125k developers, data scientists and businesses"

...

"Because of our new roles at Palantir, it will not be possible for us to continue providing the publicly available cloud hosted kimono product. Effective 2/29/2016 we will be shutting down the service. From that point forward users will no longer be able to log into kimonolabs.com services or access any data via the website or API endpoints."

We were thinking about building something with Kimono. I'm glad we dodged that bullet. Not so great news for the 125,000 users who now have a few days to deal with the platform going away.
Project developer here.

The library is not new, it's actually been around for almost two years, but I've just pushed 2.0.0 and realised I never did a Show HN on it before.

In the past few weeks I've seen a lot of talk around Meteor (spawned in part by Sacha's posts[1][2] on the state of the framework), so I thought to share what is my practical take on it.

I never liked Meteor too much as a full-stack framework, but I found it fantastic as a real-time API server, a fully open source alternative to services like Firebase. In this regard, Asteroid is basically a js sdk for Meteor.

At my current company we've been using Asteroid in production in several projects, so I'd say its functionalities and utility have been battle tested. :-) Feel free to play around with it and ask questions!

[1] https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/the-state-of-meteor-part...

[2] https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/the-state-of-meteor-part...
Re: sailing around the world. I'm sure a lot of things have changed since this was written, but you might be interested in this ebook - http://arachnoid.com/lutusp/sailbook.html
Sort of tangential, my family is French and I regularly get in touch with them by email. I haven't touched a French keyboard in a long time, so I actually used to know all the ctrl+# combinations for special (i.e. non ASCII 65-90) French characters. I got lazy, it was too cumbersome, so I ended up dropping accents altogether (to the horror of my classical French teacher dad). My emails are completely understandable, but some edge cases can sometimes make it a little bit difficult. Ironically though, while I don't type them, I'm very aware of the accents, and this decision to drop the circumflex rubs me the wrong way, particularly since I've been taught to always be aware of the roots of words (thank you, Dad).

As an aside to this tangent, my family name contains a "ë", "e" with a "tréma", an accent which is used in only a handful of words. Upon moving away from France, the administration I was dealing with tried to input my name in their system, which it broke (reminded of https://xkcd.com/327/ here). Since then, I've dropped the accent from my name entirely, which has arguably made things easier in foreign countries. The main issue with dropping the accent is that my name now translates to "toy", and while the pronunciation of my name is the same as the object nowadays, it didn't use to, so dropping the accent means losing a bit of history (including meaning). On the other hand, I noticed that authorities don't care about the accent, at all, not even French ones. My various IDs switched from the version with an accent to the one without, and absolutely nobody picked up on it.
>"For those who are in the field, who were at the talk, I'm sure there was more than enough information presented for them to judge the claims (one way or the other)."

I can assure you 100% this is not the case. Perhaps they could get that info by extensively talking to the presenter afterwards (which will not be recorded), but no way you can fit it into a 15-60 min talk or onto a poster, or any way that will be shared later. Not physically possible.

Edit:
Ok, I imagined a bunch of androids like Data (star trek character), and believe it may be physically possible but would require superhuman capabilities to transmit and process information.
Populist anger is justified… low rates are a key driver of wealth inequality.

1. As interest rates approach zero, asset prices approach infinity (via "Discounted Cash Flow" valuation). The wealthy own most assets.

2. The wealthy tend to have a lot of debt (by choice). Low rates make this cheaper to deal with, and cheaper to obtain for speculation, lifestyle upgrades, etc. Point 1 above provides lots of equity to borrow against.

This is the "wealth effect” which the Federal Reserve and other central banks have been deliberately pursuing. They thought reflating assets would make people feel better and spend more. Unfortunately the wealthy don't need ten haircuts a month or twenty meals a day.

It also turns out that when normal people see houses becoming more expensive, they decide to save more. So the net effect has been negative.

All very predictable but central banking is pre-scientific.
Ask HN: Too many ideas. How do you decide what to work on next?
How do you decide what to work on next? Is there an app for it?
Maybe consider taking a cut of the savings... ;)
They have fallen into an ignorance trap. Too many thing that all regulation/paperwork is just a pointless homage to entrenched power. They think it cool to bypass red tape. They think they know better. They forget that those silly lectures often contain really important information, that someone with far more experience than they decided that regulation was needed.
Living guidelines on how to change the code is an incredibly important part of working code.

I'm going to move this out of wikis and into SCM ASAP.
I think that's only significant if you believe a candidate's display of interest correlates significantly with their ability to perform on the job. I am not convinced that that is a significant correlation or that it should be aggressively selected for.
It doesn't matter which way the calories come in (unless your diet is unhealthy). This concoction has about the same energy density as whole milk.

"Don't drink your calories"[1] is of course a wise maxim to live by.

Source: Starbucks is required by law to make available nutritional value of their drinks, and they do[2], just like any other food producer; use that data if you have problems with your diet.

[1] http://nutritioninmotionllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/d...

[2] http://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/409e621c271444f8b63...
Ask HN: What about site statistics when people are using adblocker?
A lot of people are using adblockers today and I understand why people do it. Nearly all third party trackers are or can easily be blocked by todays adblockere.

That limits the ways to track users and we should respect that, but I think the problem is only for thirdparty tracking, I don't think people have a problem with that the main website tracks usage.

That brings back memories like AWstats that analyses logs to figure out which are the most popular pages.
http://www.awstats.org/

But is that the future? I think so, but I have not seen anybody else talk about it. It is not as sexy and it requires a lot more to install than simply copy-and-pasting a javascript snippet, but it can't be blocked!

What do you think? Would love to hear your opinion!
There is definitely more technical detail and statistical process in that post, although I strongly question the use of a hiring test that intricate and time consuming for an internship.
afaik
most of that cost is paying for the patent royalties.

this is China.

they aren't really in to enforcing up.
The only role banks fulfill that couldn't easily be replaced by a digital currency is financing speculative investments by providing loans. Unfortunately loans also expand the money supply (and contract the money supply upon repayment/default), resulting in a positive feedback on investment, which can induce instability (i.e. the business cycle).

It would be much better to decouple the money supply from investment. The money supply could be controlled either by a trusted agent (e.g. central bank), or possibly by a built-in stabilization algorithm (an interesting avenue for research), while investment could by financed privately. This would be the best of both worlds.
> It may be time to look at applying antitrust laws to rental real estate.

Or better yet, look at repealing or modifying the laws that keep the supply of housing from rising along with the demand.
They're not "employees," they're "private contractors"... but from what she told me, their is no absolutely zero base pay unless you're working in the city of SF. Everywhere else, Oakland, the Peninsula is $0 an hour and your only income is from the tips.

I really drilled her on this because at first I couldn't believe it and she's not the most savvy person so I wanted to make sure she realized how after gas expenses, wear and tear on her car and the additional 7.65% in FICA that she's going to have to pay (the half normally covered by employers), she's really only making about $5-$7 an hour, if that. Also the job really eats up all the data on her phone because she has be on her phone for Instacart to scan and check off every grocery item she puts in the basket, then use their GPS system for the deliveries, and it's not like they reimburse her for any of that. Instacart sold her on the job promising $20-$25 an hour and she's absolutely not been making anywhere NEAR that.

By way of comparison, she makes a guaranteed $20 an hour under the table walking dogs, so I think she is going to go back to doing that.

This article seems to verify:

> Instacart declined to confirm whether it offers base pay, and some Instacart workers told HuffPost they are not offered an hourly guaranteed wage.

> “It’s a really strange job, and there are many weeks where you’re just sitting in the car waiting for orders and hoping something comes in, not being paid to be there,” one of Instacart’s personal shoppers

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/instacart-workers_n...
Pretty well, actually. The Cleveland Plain Dealer (as I recall) showed Cleveland as within range of the missiles meant to be set up there.

In the 1980s I talked with a guy who had been a landing-craft driver for the Army in the early 1960s. His unit was sent down the Intercoastal Waterway to pick up an armored division in Florida. Fortunately for all, the tanks stayed on dry ground, and landing craft went back north.
>Imagine if Apple, and the tech community as a whole, stood behind that decision.

You didn't counter his point. Again, its insane from a Game Theory perspective, it would require all players in the tech community to be effective, whereas if one person defects he now has access to a huge market where all the incumbents are gone.

Apple doing this would just mean "someone is going to create backdoor'd phones and capture the market, just not us", and we would get nowhere.
My wife was into it 100%.

We sold the big expensive house and moved into a 25' Airstream almost 4 years ago. I felt like I wasn't getting ahead. A bit stuck. I know she did as well. A bit different from the grandparent we still work a normal 40 hour week with normal (remote) jobs but have kind of checked out of the normal american dream.

http://i.imgur.com/FQfQIlu.jpg
That little dot in the middle is where we are spending this week. Middle of the Mojave Desert about 10 miles from any human.
The one that you are most passionate about. Often my ideas is based on where I see a need, but it does not mean that I have the most passion about that subject.

I can maybe build a great product for that need, but I need to be passionate about it, if I have to success with it long term.
> at least one having MD License Plates

Don't vehicles used by federal agencies typically bear U.S. Government license plates?
> Tim Cook: a really nice guy with blue whale-sized cohones.

... backed by a company that at one point literally had more cash than the US government. A company with a strong, expansive, and experienced legal team. He's not a small fish; he's a major captain of industry and has a lot of political clout. I mean, good on him for his standing on this issue, but he wields a lot of power here.
Always have a reasonable response deadline. For a security issue, above 1 month is unreasonable for a small deployment, above 3 months in a huge deployment in my opinion.
The problem with "you can go fix it if you want" is that the barrier to "fixing it" is very high, even with such great things as #debian-mentors.

I fully understand the need for all the process and policy but it can be very difficult to get things fixed in Debian without talking to the right people or attending the right conferences.
Because they're not making enough money for anyone to care yet.
I like the idea. Having a separate device is a pain - another thing to manage. Also this thing is designed to work with Windows Continuum: http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/6/8560195/microsoft-continuum...
I don't recall mentioning a battery case. But maybe you're replying to someone else?

>the funniest part was the assertion that Apple don't design for beauty

Where did you see this "assertion"? I think you're reading something else into what I said.
Amezarak is not (necessarily) assuming they are bad faith actors. Amezarak is pointing out, I think correctly, that the parent poster is inferring intent of an organization from its actions. Without specific documents from that organization spelling out that intent, I agree that such inference is analysis and not fact. It may be reasonable or even probable analysis, but that does not make it fact.
If it's like where I live, after your lease runs out you go to month to month. The owner could deliver 30 days notice to leave at any point from 30 days before the lease ends and then you must leave.
No, it really isn't. And this is not really up for discussion: it's on the test (question VA102 in .de). So don't take my word for it, read the ITU definition at http://life.itu.int/radioclub/rr/art01.htm: """amateur service: A radiocommunication service for the purpose of self-training, intercommunication and technical investigations[...]"""

Emergency communication is important, but ham radios other purposes are at least equally important. Society profits just as much from people getting into and experimenting with RF, or from communication between peoples. Also, it is generally understood that amateur radios role in disaster scenarios is to support official emergency responders, not itself be "societies backup". It's not about being independent of the state (I'm not implying you said that); quite the opposite.

Contest rules are made by whoever organized the contest - typically the International Amateur Radio Union or a national or regional group. These are democratic and composed of hams.

Besides, it isn't just a matter of rules, it's a matter of physics too. Contests are mostly about long-range (DX) communication. Disaster recovery needs reliable short- and mid-range communication. Different bands and/or different antennas.
Its also a beautiful thought terminating cliche that, whether designed to or not, shuts down introspection into a current society/time.

I get it, Socrates complained about the youth of today, that doesn't mean that there aren't societies that really need someone to point out the failings of the current zeitgeist, or that we aren't creating a culture based around consumerist banalities.

Societies before us didn't have mass-market advertising, industrialisation, instant communication devices, etc. Pointing out the inanity of our tech scene and commercial activities, is i think, not only accurate in its assessment, but I think a much needed cultural critique...
> I've met plenty of experienced engineers who still write bad code and design systems poorly. It has no correlation to how much of a tinkerer and curious person they are, in my experience.

Can they really be considered experienced then? Or are they basically just people who are first year engineers repeated for 5, 10, 15, etc years.
You wouldn't do interval training without a mileage base. There is no either/or there.

I follow the rule of thumb that no more than 3% of the weekly mileage consists of hard repeats. So for instance a weekly mileage of 30 "buys" about a mile of repeats, which could be, say, 4x400 at the track. Some intermediate percentage of the mileage is tempo running, say 15 to 20%. The rest, easy miles.

This is just the traditional "training pyramid".
How  to Fix Your Landing Page
>Tack on the millennial generation's hesitancy to settle down in one location and you get a set of economic conditions that encourage renting and regular rent increases.

Are we hesitant to "settle down" or are we trapped in a death spiral of student debt, rising rents and underemployment?
> The logical conclusion of this line of thought is that Al Capone should have walked free when prohibition ended. I can't support that.

Al Capone was famously only convicted of tax evasion, so I'm not sure this is relevant. And bootlegging wasn't what made him "Public Enemy #1", it was the violence he used to run his gang. Those actions would still be crimes without prohibition.

The US is fairly unique among Western countries in that the repeal of a law doesn't automatically end the sentences of people convicted of breaking it (AFAIK - this came up here on HN in the last few months).
Interestingly, Kik did this last year as alternative solution to custom stickers and emojis other messaging apps have. Looks like this trend is catching on with other services.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/16/chat-app-kiks-newest-featur...
It is logic that they do that, and the right thing to do
Yahoo mail has done it last year. They even have this on the web client on desktop.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/10/yo-dawg-i-heard-you-like-ya....
> Well, you can charge for the software as a whole, which I read your comment to claim you can't.

Ah, yeah, that was an aspect of my original comment I wasn't thinking of, but was implying, and I had glossed over that in your reply. Thanks for correcting me and clarifying. :)
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/iceweasel is getting there. The bug tracker has lots of integration with other Debian systems. I'd say it'd be a huge project to upgrade/replace.
> I also ask candidates to code on a realistic problem.

I just ask them to bring code, and tell them we're going to talk about it.

It doesn't have to be their own (it normally is though). It doesn't have to be good code (nobody has yet brought bad code, but I wouldn't really care).

I would rather talk to somebody in their own code and language. If they can't explain it to me, then that's a data point, too.
Your last statement really hit a note with me. I've been spending my life chasing money and recently realized that I was just filling a hole. I have found someone that is willing to go adventuring with me. Screw the boring office worker life, it's time to start living. Good luck and have an incredible life!
I am surprised Bing can Google stuff as well. Whats next?
My Nexus 7 (2012) was exactly the same... Lost my phone last week and needed a device to use in the meantime. Installed Cyanogenmod 12.1 on the Nexus and it's measures of magnitude better!

Now to fix the rubbish WiFi reception.
> Note the distinctly China-shaped hole in East Asia.

Quote: "Please note: Satellite coverage may experience outages for reasons such as government regulations"

I guess this is intentional because China may retaliate against violators (e.g. prohibit fly-overs).
Only needs to have access to software source code, and presumably a way to verify the binaries match. Not an entire factory.
I like the law/programming analogy, but theres probably more of a margin for error when your job is to convince some people, depending on if you're prosecuting or defending. If you make even a small mistake when programming, it could break your entire program.
> Scaling in terms concurrent users also has little to do with the web framework and more to do with your understanding of load-balancing, caching, databases, etc.

This is what it always come down to for me. I know that when we can get our app running efficiently with reasonable memory requirements on a single core, then scaling it is really just about launching processes and load balancing them. Scaling out boxes is always easier than scaling out code -- for better or worse.

I'm not talking about load balancing servers mind you, but applications on any given host. Two layers of load balancing. When I'm comfortable with the resource requirements I launch as little or as many of the app in a predictable manner across any number of nodes. It's comforting to know that given X, Y core and ram, I can run N services.
My rental contracts are always standard and calculated from a table based on how long I want to commit to a particular unit. I've never gotten any sort of quid pro quo for paying on time and not being an asshole. From the sound of it, though, New York is a whole different ball game as a renter from basically anywhere I've ever lived.

There are reasons to leave reviews for apartments (for which I'm taking landlords as a proxy, which is an assumption that may diverge from your take). I've lived in quite a few places and most of them had good and bad qualities that I'd love to share with someone who wants more information when apartment hunting.
Hazing? Really?

Hazing is the practice of rituals and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazing
And not their first attempt.

The nation has a severe problem of inequality. You have villages that are bordering on pre-industrial, at the same time as you have near scifi highrises in the cities.

I recall one project that basically equipped young ladies with a bicycle and a laptop loaded with textbooks on everything from agriculture to medicine. The ladies would then cycle between villages and help improve crop yields and diagnose illnesses.
It's also worth noting... the normal multiple used to be around 3x a single income. Now that many/most women work, the measure has changed quietly to "household income".
According to @HillRat in the other thread : "Based on open sources, NSA has a fleet of about 100 vehicles at most in CONUS, so they would be more likely to fly vehicles cross-country if DIRNSA needed to use a fleet vehicle. Having said that, NSA doesn't just arbitrarily get involved in domestic law enforcement cases, even ones involving crypto, so let's wait to see if there's more evidence than a random HN post to support this allegation." Good information and an entirely fair statement. I'm hoping someone from Apple can chime in directly.
> People would still have to subscribe to the service, and I'm sure China could control their population's purchases to prevent them from paying for it.

China is iirc (one of) the biggest Bitcoin usage countries.

> They could also use detectors (or jammers)

Jamming doesn't work with a proper directional dish, and detecting who in the country surfs via satellite doesn't work if there is proper encryption on the air protocol.
If that's the case, I bet the projects I've had the displeasure of working with were using wildly out of date versions of those tools.