skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how many of the people who chime in with "AWS is so expensive" every time AWS is discussed, use Mailgun or one of those other really expensive mail providers? Incidentally, have you had a problem with delivery to e.g. gmail, because there are several old articles that claim SES is blacklisted?
If your parents are of the "liberals are ruining the country" flavor in particular, you can always point out that Colorado is quite purple.
basically :)

i'll take the thinner 6, and the slightly increased screen of the 5, but yes.
I think in 1995 with the Windows NT strategy marked the end. They were sliding in 96 and had already sold patents to Microsoft by then.
>It's because Apple has realised 3D touch is bad and it's also a very expensive feature to add to a phone.

What?

They regularly withhold features from cheaper versions to achieve better margins and lower the cost, nothing about them being bad.

And nothing about 3D Touch being bad. Where did you ever get that?
Here's another data point:

"Programmers who used Java or C# (when interviewing with us) go on to pass interviews with companies at half the rate of programmers who use Ruby or JavaScript. (The C# pass rate is actually much lower than the Java pass rate, but the C# numbers are not yet significant by themselves.)"

http://blog.triplebyte.com/who-y-combinator-companies-want
Transcrypt is next in a line of "let's convert syntax of Python to syntax of JS". Now this is really not what I want. I can learn and use new syntax without problems. What I want is to remove the annoyance of "undefined is not a function", automatic conversion int -> str, or even worse obj -> str, passing too little/too few args etc. etc. This is something that REQUIRES understanding of types and some VM to keep the semantics.
Yeah, that's certainly fair, I took it as a lesson on making sure I had backups.
They still refuse to tell me the maximum speed internet I can receive. Comcast's website lists speeds like 150 Mbps, but a neighbour claimed after signing up to Xfinity that they could only receive up to 25 Mbps, and weren't told until very late in the sign-up process.

Xfinity have several coverage maps, none of which legitimately tell you what services they can offer your property, just broadly what is on offer in the area.

I'm not even a Comcast customer and even I hate them. Their entire sign up process has tons of small print, gotchas, competing packages, and so on. Amazon might be able to improve that, but why would I want to have to deal with someone that obtuse?

Unless Amazon literally bought out Comcast/Xfinity, I don't think I can switch to them. The stress isn't worth it.
It seems dangerous to have the scanner on the device and I don't trust it to be safe. It's the print I'm concerned with not the hashes and crypto that connect you to payment. This is something enticing to authorities and I'm sure they'll want to figure out how to get it.
Are you sure you didn't just accidentally check out with everything in your cart? From what you wrote, it seems the "system messing up" was on your side (pebkac). It's much easier to blame someone else though.
Many very good points there, and it's definitely nice to see this suggested from the left.

Although:

- "We already live in a world that is, as far as the distribution of wealth is concerned, about as unequal as it gets. It may even be as unequal as it’s ever been." -- I keep seeing this kind of statement all over. It seems really, really hard to believe, presuming that "ever" includes antique or even more recent feudal societies, but perhaps there is something to it -- perhaps it might be true under some measure of inequality?!

- "Today more than 6 billion people have a mobile phone" -- similarly, I really don't see how this could be true, as it seems to imply something close to 100% market penetration worldwide for most age groups.
I can see how there might be 6 billion mobile phones (or phone numbers?) active, but 6 billion distinct people?!
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It's not "because it might be used too much," it's "because developers might bury tons of functions where no one will ever find them, because that's easier than designing a learnable/discoverable UI."

Whether you agree with the argument depends on how much faith you have in developers/designers to understand how average users will experience and learn their software, and in whether they might go for the lazy "shove it in a contextual menu" solution even knowing that it's questionable at best. 3D touch is supposed to be a "power user" feature; if you don't know it's there you can get by just fine. It'll take you an extra half second to open an email.

By holding it hostage on some new products, Apple can hope for more developers to say "I'll use this for time-saving shortcuts and other convenience features since the iPhone SE users don't have it." Once best-practices for that are more ingrained and many apps have implemented it in a way that lines up with Apple's vision, there's less risk of buried features when they eventually include 3D touch across the lineup.
Supersonics help most on long international flights. So that's the first focus. San Francisco - Los Angeles, so much time is spent on takeoff and landing that faster cruise doesn't help much. Hyperloop, self driving cars can help with these shorter trips.

As far as regulations, our first aircraft is much quieter than Concorde, and it will get quieter with future iterations. Altitude helps, but quieting the boom is mostly about nuances of aircraft shape.

Eventually, when you can get from San Fran to Tokyo faster than San Fran to New York, the rules will get updated.
Can you share your development practices in rust like TDD, Automated Builds etc
What's the regulatory situation in countries other than the US? Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico, South America?
Is anybody else deeply disappointed by the camera bulge? If you use the tablet on a tabletop, that basically forces you to buy a ~$100 case that adds unnecessary thickness and weight to the tablet. Cheap move, IMO.
I just had a different vision for how such a thing would be built based on my experiences and I think the great thing about programming and open source is that we're free to explore our own choices. I'm used to writing software in a certain way based on my accumulative experience and there's certain types of people who also gravitate towards it.
> Some random person who clicked on something they shouldn't have and is now part of a botnet which is continuously trying to brute force other boxes.

No. Some random sysadmin stood up some business-tier gear and failed to change the factory default, static username and password. He then also failed to restrict access to the built-in web server and SSH server to only a trusted set of machines.
To be fair it is a great productivity computer for all fields other than IT.
There was, briefly, a rumor that a 4" z6 was coming but it turned into a budget range of 5" 'x' phones instead. :(
>I wouldn't say 3D touch is entirely a bad feature. I agree with the argument that 3D touch features are usually hard to discover

That doesn't make them bad -- just hard to discover.

Once you find out about them, they are dead easy.

Not all UIs have to be immediately apparent, UI design is also about teaching users new idioms. Pointing with a mouse was alien once too...
Here's a link: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-pros-and-cons-of-Wizard-o...

'Definition of Wizard of Oz testing in Eric Ries' book "The Lean Startup": "where customers believe they are interacting with the actual product, but behind the scenes human beings are doing the work"'
They're high-quality JPEGs with SVG path-based masking. It's a technique that can work well in Firefox, but it can also be buggy. I have a site that uses this technique on the front page and fails the same way in Firefox--but only on the staging server. I never could figure out why and didn't want to put a lot of time into it since it doesn't affect production.
Too bad they don't offer Amazon prices on the Comcast service. $67/month for 25Mbps internet... give me a break.
>$399 USD is great

It's going to be $559 in Denmark. I had to check the prices on the other models, the cheapest 6S is $875. I never realized how expensive an iPhone is. Why anyone would buy an iPhone at those prices are beyond me. Sure, most will be buying via their carrier along with a subscription, but in most cases that will just make the phone more expensive.
I'm curious, since you posted a route and a ticket price: Will you be operating Boom as a new airline, or do you plan to sell your plane to other airlines?
The "agreement" is a joke. If you give them your money next week, you may or may not get a place in line that may or may not exist, to eventually maybe or maybe not buy a car. The date and time which you may or may not make a decision to possibly but probably not buy a car may or may not be known, and the price may or may not be what you think it is.
According to a recent Frontline, maybe we are moving on:

"A searing, two-hour investigation places America’s heroin crisis in a fresh and provocative light -- telling the stories of individual addicts, but also illuminating the epidemic's years-in-the-making social context, deeply examining shifts in U.S. drug policy, and exploring what happens when addiction is treated like a public health issue, not a crime."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/chasing-heroin/
I think it is one of the first times Apple couldn't bring the best out of a specific technology/concept.

As you can see from very beginning, Apple most of the time took an existing technology/concept, made it better and made it so user-friendly, usable, and simple that it always took off and became a standard. People loved it. Look at touch screen phones, tablets, buying music online, beautiful keyboard design (mac) and etc.

With forced touch technology, even though it really is promising and advanced, Apple's user base did not really consider it as a key feature yet. It has been some time and you don't feel like you are missing something if you don't have it.

I guess we will see with the iPhone SE if Apple thinks the same way. They may still think that it is an essential technology and put their time on it and I believe forced touch will be great if they continue working on it.
I can see from the comments that feedback is beneficial -- almost like having a co-founder:)

I'm not much on the social network scene, maybe I should give it a try.
I don't listen to albums anymore.

Google Play Music has spoiled me -- their station selection is vast. Albums don't even mean anything to me.

Plus I can upload all of my personal music collection to it and listen to it on the go, and it exceeds 2GB easily.
$5,000 isn't an "everyone every time" price, of course. But it's low enough for routine business travel. With more innovation (this is just V1!), we can improve fuel economy and reduce prices further.
> It is one of these things that after you use it you wonder why everyone hasn't copied it yet.

Patents are very possible
Steve Jobs never said that, or at least it's easily to misinterpret. Here's what he said:

"But in the end, for something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." (Businessweek, 1998)

The point is that Apple is VERY concerned about what customers want, and listen to customers, and usually achieves that through an engine of incremental improvement once the product is out there. They just don't believe in a focus-group approach to new products.

Secondly, the current internet meme is that Apple needs to slow down and make their products more stable. Yet we still want our innovation "drug hit" from their announcements. This is hard to balance.
The doesn't actually work if your hiring procedure is actually discriminatory.

There is a concept called disparate impact in US employment law. That means your employment process can't have a disproportionate adverse impact on a protected class, unless there is an actual business requirement that causes the disparate impact.

An example would be: if your job requirements is "must be able to lift 70lbs" it probably will have a disparate impact on women and the disabled. This is fine as long as the job actually requires heavy lifting (such as a mover). But if you require candidates to be able to lift 70 lbs for an office job - then it's illegal discrimination even if everyone who is hired meets that criteria.
Hey, I had one of those! When mine died I replaced it with a Sansa Clip+ with an 32GB SD card, and the Rockbox firmware.
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Yeah, that's about the only reason I wouldn't buy this thing. I hate 3D touch so the fact that it's missing isn't a concern to me, but the missing ram is a huge problem.
No. That isn't the way it works.

They would also buy the same spec for half the price. Or an entry level for the same price with 128GB. More realistically : would it be better to have a more expensive entry level with 32GB? Maybe. Just because apple might be technically able to offer the product configuration you want them to for the price you want them to doesn't mean it is the right thing for them to do.

Here's the thing. You don't get to decide what is right, or what is better, for anyone except you.

Apple may be doing this mostly for product differentiation purposes; they may not. But whatever the rationale, it is working for them, well enough to pretty much define the category of premier smart phone. Arguing that this is somehow irrational comes across as either sour grapes or naive.
"Good enough for the average consumer" isn't usually Apple's marketing message, either.
It's only $60 [1] or less to replace the iPhone NAND Flash Memory from 16GB to 128GB at Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei[2], labor included.

Obviously, it's advisable to do the upgrade after your warranty has expired. ;)

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2016/02/03/iphone-flash-storage-upgrade-s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaqiangbei
Beyond all the aesthetics and usability issues, I believe its more of business and ideology standpoint. Let me explain:

Reality 1: If there were memory card slots, easily accessible to users, then they would immediately see it as a way to put data "into" the phone. Data, here is mostly going to be movies, music, apps, etc.

Apple's Strategy: iTunes, and now iCloud. Period.

Reality 2: If users put data "into" the phone, then Apple would lose its money-making resource of "selling" data to the users, thus iOS would not be the most profitable ecosystem; "piracy" increases at atrocious rates; the industries (music, movies, apps, etc) will lose money; they could probably revolt against Apple for letting this happen, even when it did not intend to do so.

Apple's Strategy: No memory-card slots. Period.

Reality 3: Apple has cleverly involuted its strategies in such a way that it makes people pay for content; making iOS the best ecosystems for developers all over the world; influence the industries in a positive way; make people realize that there is joy in spending; selling cool new devices with really usable, useful, and necessary features.

Apple's Strategy: Make the best devices. Period.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-iPhones-have-a-memory-card-sl...
He is referring to a scathing article that was published on NYT late last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-w...

Sparked a lot of controversy. It kinda made me not want to work at Amazon ever. Although I hear that the Amazon experience varies depending on team and location.
Very interesting. Also interesting to see there is an official XML for such things (which this project didn't use :-P).

When I lived in Australia, I liked that there was only one piece of tax software. It's didn't look the prettiest, but the usability wasn't too bad and it was officially developed by the Australian Government. You didn't have to pay someone for tax software and it made filing very easy.

In New Zealand, taxes are automatic. You typically don't have to file and refunds are requested via their website.
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> has a promo price of $90 that goes up to $170 after the first year.

I hate that.

If you want to keep it cost effective you have to call them up once a year without fail and re-negotiate your rate. Otherwise they just rip you off like crazy.

Same thing with SiriusXM radio. $5 is completely reasonable, but calling up every 5 months to receive it is too annoying, so I'll just stick with FM/AM/etc.

I'd prefer to pay honest rates than fake-cheap/fake-expensive ones. Just set the rate between the promo and full price one (e.g. $130 for $90/170) and leave it the heck alone indefinitely. 0 month contract.
Ummm... This is a forum for people interested in startups, which are defined more as "start fresh, then use it to burn down the old thing." Not exactly the same thing, but offend driven by the same sentiment.
I have a Moto G 3rd gen with a 64GB SD.

I've sold my iPod touch 5th gen 64GB as I wasn't using it anymore since moving to a smartphone + big sd.
sandisk makes mp3 players with microSD card slots for around 30$ [1]

and 64GB microsd cards are only ~30 bucks also [2], you can get 128GB microsd cards for under 50$ pretty easy

Putting you at 8GB+128GB for less than a hundred bucks.

Haven't done it myself, but have been thinking about it.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VXMY262?ref_=zg_bs_12648...

[2]http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=lp_3015433011_nr_p_n_feature_two...

[3]http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=lp_3015433011_nr_p_n_feature_two...
> Why isn't Apple diving fully into this area?

Because it is very hard? It cost Microsoft a disastrous version of Windows and lots of pushback by customers before they got their productivity OS working both on a tablet and desktop.
We're teaming with existing and new airlines to bring aircraft into service.

Posted ticket prices are based on what's profitable for airlines with the efficiency and performance of the airplane. Airlines will set the final prices, but we hope they will make tickets as affordable as possible!
Why, did you hear anyone state that?

Only that "wearing F91Ws" increases the chances of them being a terrorist, which is already pretty high, given that we're talking about "detainees", not random people.
Yeah, I'm surprised that amidst all the kerfuffle that they aren't touting the security features.
This also created an awesome economy around "rares" where people had managed to pick up something from the backdrop, like a piece of a table or a statue. Since these were so rare they became extremely expensive with art collectors decorating their houses with them.
Honestly, I always liked the somewhat mediocre camera. I feel like it kept the number of iPad photographers at weddings to a minimum.

Go look at pictures from a recent wedding on e.g. Facebook, and mentally replace all those phones with iPads. Awful.
iPhone internal NAND Flash memory upgrade from 16GB to 128GB for $60
But the Nexus 5X is larger than the Nexus 5.

Comparing the 5X with the 6 and 6P is disingenuous -- the numbers refer to the phone size, not generation number.
I used to use i3m & dwm, but wound up spending almost all my time in floating-windows mode, and decided that was silly.

I was never able to come up with good splits. It's been years so I forget the details, but I think the problem was:

- On one monitor, these programs work best overlapped on the corners to have usable window sizes. Side-by-side or vertically stacked doesn't work.

- On two monitors, dual monitor support was not very robust so I couldn't leverage the two monitors well. My case was particular in that I was logged in via a remote desktop program, and the WM insisted on treating it as one really wide screen.
That's what private planes are for.
That was the target, yes. NeWS was too big and too slow, but what we ended up with instead is ten times slower, a hundred times larger, and a thousand times uglier. The promise of the world wide web of target-independent structural markup turned out to have its fingers crossed.
Developing their own curriculum from scratch that is not tied to common-core, NCERT(India) or other government-created ones which focus mostly on memorization and getting children through the assembly line.

I'd love to see more interactive exercises focusing on problem solving, creating projects, collaborating with other students instead of answering a bunch of quizzes after listening to 30 minutes of video.
Out of curiosity... what is the other hard problem?
Can you name 1 or 2 telcos that don't have hordes of angry customers cursing them?
Not criticizing at all since I admit it's irrational but that would drive me nuts until I could figure out why.
You're missing the fact that they talked about ALREADY suspect "detainees" in the parent comment -- not the general public.
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And on top of that, you have a clear separation of responsibility where marketing can do all the A/B testing of the different emails all by themselves, without any effort. It's a great way to reduce bottlenecks in your organisation by separating responsibilities.
I had my iPhone 4 for three years and dropped it not once. I'm used to my 5s now, and appreciate the bigger screen, but I agree with you. The 4-inch screen is a trade-off. I'll admit to preferring it, but the form factor of the iPhone 4 was superior in terms of hand feel.
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In my view, long before the government realizes the full potential of abusing a cashless society, private businesses will have bled us dry -- especially the poor -- with transaction fees.
More like Second Edition?
The best way to prepare for a position as a software architect is to build greenfield projects from the ground up, to completion. The more the better. The best way to do this is to get a position with a small to medium size software consultancy. Make sure to put time in on the entire stack when you work on a project, including UI/client and data collection/information organization/analytical techniques. There is a lot of intuition involved in architecture in terms of understanding root needs and predicting changes in usage/requirements that can only be built from experience.
Surface has not been much of a success:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/28/10858474/microsoft-earning...
http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/22/9599674/microsoft-q1-2016...

Apple fundamentally doesn't believe in a hybrid laptop/tablet "productivity" machine (for good reason, debatably). The iPad Pro is an attempt to bring iOS into the realm of productivity, rather than merging the experiences of iOS and Mac OS X.
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Well, I, at least found it great, because I am walking around with a dying iPhone 5 unwilling to 'upgrade' to an iPhone 6 despite all the features because it's simply two large for me to use in the way I want (i.e. one-handed). And I've tried with my SO's iPhone 6s.

So, the iPhone SE is great for Apple because they are about to extract $$$ from me.
Accent? Seriously? That's funny to me because as developers we are generally stereotyped as poor communicators, so I wonder why any employer would focus on filtering out persons with unappealing accents (unconsciously or not) when this has no bearing on their technical skills.
Sweet, but it's always risky getting the first generation hardware. I'm holding out for the iPhone SE/30.
Also FTA:

The Obama Justice Department urged the Supreme Court not to take the case. "Entertaining the type of dispute at issue here — essentially that one state's laws make it more likely that third parties will violate federal and state law in another state - would represent a substantial and unwarranted expansion of" of the Supreme Court's jurisdiction.
It's literally not their job, if the Supreme Court got involved now... they'd have to tell the states they are not allowed to legalize pot, right?
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