skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an unadvertised TV package from Comcast called Digital Economy that has most of the non-premium channels (USA, Discovery, CNN, but not ESPN, SyFy, FX). Paired with 25/6 Mbps Internet, it comes to about $95 / month (and rising).

The cheapest Amazon Cable option, which requires a two-year commitment, has a promo price of $90 that goes up to $170 after the first year. Not for me.

I know there are people that get intro rates every year or two by threatening to cancel, but that's just not my style.
The central bank pays.

As an example, in the UK personal deposits of a failed bank are guaranteed by the Bank of England up to £75,000.

The Bank of England can always cover the amount, since they can simply print money as needed.

http://www.fscs.org.uk/what-we-cover/products/banks-building...
So a 3GS? :) I sure hope so, that was my favorite size/shape.
We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

That sums it up pretty well. It never was about fighting drug use or preventing the harm it can do. Can we now, please, get that behind us and move on? If we only spent 10% of what we now spent on prosecuting drug use on prevention and rehabilitation, that would be a much greater service to society than fourty years of "war" have been. Not to mention the benefits for privacy, the decrease in violence and so on...
It's the gist of about 1/4 of the posts on this thread.

It's a little worrying that people will be upset by something that didn't happen to them and throw it all away without a second thought.

There was an op-Ed in the New York Times the other day about a former UN bureaucrat saying the UN is broken and needs reform, and the astounding reader reaction was essentially to burn it down and start fresh.

I don't think many programmers here would seriously advocate the same approach with large systems.
Microsoft is forcing android vendors over patents for things they didn't even invent. Imagine what they would do if people used things they did actually invent.
interesting it says "not available in your area/zip" and I currently have the package they are talking about.
I know. My point is that even if it's not guaranteed, it still works that way for the most part.
Most other smartphone makers propose a majority of models with an SD slot. Only Apple doesn't provide any means to add more storage for cheap.
I somewhat disagree: At least in my experience with Comcast, the customer support is far worse than the internet. They're the best ISP I've ever had, except when I have to talk to a person.

I suspect the support issues are mostly a result of Comcast trying to save as much money as they can on that front. Supporters never want to spend the time figuring out what's wrong: they want to end the call as quickly as they can, and probably hit their quotas.
We have the same gas mileage (fuel per seat mile) as a lay-flat bed in business class. Since the aircraft can do nearly 3X as many trips in the same time, on net it's better.

That's just the start of course—with more innovation on fuel efficiency the price and emissions both come down.

$5,000 is what a business class ticket NY/London costs today, and many business travelers are able to do that routinely. This compares to up to $20k on Concorde.

We will get the $5,000 way down over time—this is just the start.
Sorry, but they would also buy the equally priced entry level phone that was 32 GB. Next argument, please.
The page doesn't even render correctly in Firefox. Big boxes around the images and I assume they should should be transparent.
Again it might have changed since the last time (about one year ago), but I was trying to port a command-line utility from OS X to Linux using GNUStep, and it was so buggy it was almost useless. So I gave up.
Do you know if you still get backend access to Comcast to manage your bill and such?
I'm not sure if I just need more XP to downvote a submission, but really wish I could with this... the whole UX feels slimy to say the least.
> Do you actually think most anyone can afford $5000 round trip to London?

I'm genuinely curious where you got "most anyone" from their marketing copy. I read it as "affordable for people flying business class," but that might be because I was thinking in the context of Concorde pricing.

Edit: Derp, totally glossed over that part of the parent comment.
If you can spare an hour, I recommend Leslie Lamport's talk at React San Fran 2014:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCRqE59VXT0

Where he shares some anecdotes from Chris Newcombe about Amazon's adoption of TLA+.
Exciting work! I'd be glad if supersonic flight was a reality again.

How do you plan to tackle the challenge of opposition to supersonic flight? Overland supersonic flight has been banned in US and Europe because the loud noise of sonic booms annoyed residents that the planes flew over. Coastal residents continued to object to supersonic flight. Is there a path to offering transcontinental flights again, and if not, will the program be viable with only trans-oceanic flights? (I notice NYC/London highlighted in the marketing materials)

Alternatively, is there a viable way to make supersonic flight quiet enough to fly overland? (That would be a game changer!)
I just wish they'd have offered 128GB as an option.
There is LTE support in the 9.7", they just didn't talk about it for some reason.
More or less the same way we did? Reading about vulnerabilities, reviewing metasploit modules, fuzzing applications on your local box, reading hack post-mortems (all of which is SOOO much easier than it used to be).

They will also have the huge leg-up of being able to download vm images like Kali and DamnVulnerable{Linux, WebApp} to practice with/on. When I think about how much time I spent early in my career hand-rolling a vulnerable machine so I could try out some new msf module, only to crash my laptop when it executed and have to start over...

This myth that everyone learned by hacking actual websites etc, and therefore this is the only (or even the best) way to learn needs to die in fire. Lots of elite practitioners learned their craft without doing anything that would be considered remotely illegal.
Some Extras; i.e. no air conditioning
Unfortunately, there's a ban on supersonic travel over land in the US since the 1970s. When this is reversed, we can fly SFO-JFK in about 2:20.
Homeschooling/independent education workflow. Let me pay you so I can setup my child with the curriculum they need from Grade 1-12, track their progress, etc.
They plan to ramp up production to meet demand, and they think their pricing is at the correct point for that. What should they do, start out with a higher price for early orders, then bring it down? I don't think people would like that behavior at all, and it sure doesn't seem to me like an "artificial shortage" to keep the price at the level where you think it should be in the long term.
Dherman is the founder of Mozilla Research and it is spare time project for him.

There is a fair amount of activity in their slack.

https://rustbridge.slack.com/messages/general/

which you can join from here

http://rustbridge-community-slackin.herokuapp.com/
This is fantastic -- I'm a huge fan of high res live streams of various places around the world (eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOu3DfLC4Os )... now I gotta check some of the other links here. :)
Well, at least you have a constant 3G connection. I can't even get that. In a freaking capital of the country (Bosnia & Herzegovina).
$5000.00 and I can be there in 3.4 hours. $900 if I decide to go slow.

Hmmm... I'm not that impatient.

But then, I'm not that rich either, so maybe that's my problem.
I dont get it, aren't tablet sales declining? I was waiting for this to finally get an iPad as a secondary device for reading and netflix watching but a $100 premium over the previous generation?...
There's the option to hunt them, with a mission to explain the mechanics and rewards as well.
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It's technically a computer. And the "Super" is not even in the same sentence as the word "Computer." I don't think this is misleading. Furthermore, super just means better than average. The average computer by a general definition of computation runs with an ARM processor in a washing machine or toaster.

So I conclude that, technically, it is "better than average." You wouldn't expect to write programs on a toaster, would you? (Although you probably could because toasters will run NetBSD. But toasters running NetBSD are not the average.)
Obviously, shortening an international flight provides the highest value for your first major route. How well can this scale down to domestic flights? Turning a 3-4 hour flight into a 60-90 minute flight, or a 90 minute flight into a 30 minute flight, appeals quite a bit.

EDIT: your answer at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11330935 applies here.

Do you have concrete plans to change those regulations? Do you have solutions for the problems addressed by those regulations (e.g. noise)? Will this scale down well if you have to reach a certain altitude first?
There are many nations where the posted price is not the actual price, and haggling is expected and normal, even on something as mundane as groceries. Without exception, these nations are backwards and economic disasters. There's a reason for that

That's a big claim that you make very authoritatively. You should back it up, or change your wording to better express that you're making a hypothesis without much evidence.
So they probably have the number 1, 2 and 3 most sold phone, and the 1, 2 and 3 most sold tablets (ipad pro is outselling the surface pro already) but you want to "fix" them by removing their profits/margins and getting into more hands? Did you watch the event? 1 billion apple devices in the wild.. And they need to get into more hands?..
I'm hoping/wishing that Peter will name and shame.

The installation process he just described was acceptable in the late 1990s but things have moved on since then.
I used to live under the Concorde flight path near Heathrow. Twice a day there'd be this crackling rumble and all the windows would shake; and this was flying subsonic.

Concorde was really, really loud --- a lot of that was due to being a really old plane with old engines (aircraft have gotten way quieter since the 1970s), but even back then it was considered loud:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3581192.stm

It was exempt from the usual noise regulations and on takeoff it'd set of car alarms in the airport carparks.

I still miss it, despite the noise. I'd hear the noise and look up, and there'd be this beautiful delta-wing shape slipping through the clouds...
The page is comically broken in Firefox, which is weird since usually Apple's product pages are fine. iPad images don't have transparent backgrounds so they show up with white boxes around them.

http://i.imgur.com/MKN2yS9.jpg
Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" comes to mind
does asyncio in python = green threads in python, therefore defeats the GIL?
The Xperia Z5 is really marvelous. Unlucky for me, my Moto X 2013 is still going so strong, that I have no reason to change it...
I'm disappointed that it still uses the first generation Touch ID. The finger print sensor on the iPhone 6s is wickedly fast. It would have made a nice addition to this 'Pro' branded iPad. I imagine it has more to do with their ability to manufacture them at a larger scale, and less about differentiating their product lines.
Showy brutalist architecture without an emphasis on pragmatism is kind of ironic: it's got the charm of a fallout shelter with the convenience of anti-cubism.

It's like "utilitarianism theatre."

There were lots of brutalist style buildings from the 50's and 60's where I grew up, but at least they were ugly _and_ practical.
I think if we were to go back through Apple keynotes--say, the last decade or maybe 15 years--we would find that the vast majority of keynotes were incremental in nature.

There were a few major innovations--some of which, like the iPod, have an impact that is only visible in retrospect (it was met largely with question marks at the time). Others, like the iPad or watch, have a mixed record since then.

But in terms of groundbreaking, huge, obvious innovation, I think there are probably only a couple keynotes that meet that bar: the iMac, and the iPhone. The former rescued the company and set them on a new path; the latter transformed the entire mobile computing market.

For me, the biggest announcement today was the health stuff. It feels like a thin wedge under the huge load often known as "health IT." I think it's fair to say that so far, the promise of technology to revolutionize health care is mostly unfulfilled. And who knows whether Apple will have a real impact. But the work they are doing now seems to be connecting good technology with the right people.
> I don't think there's a need to publish those addresses. There are already lists with those IPs available...

Interestingly, the IP address of that router is _not_ present in either the base (attacks within the past 360 days) list or the delisted (manually removed from the base list by the person in question) list.

It's almost like no single list is terribly likely to be complete, and that publishing collation of a master list is required for completeness. :)
this is my main gripe with republican, as opposed to libertarian views. they believe in personal freedom and limited government... except where they don't.
Those damn socialists, with their paid vacations, short working days, good infrastructure, cheap services, and free school and healthcare. Not to mention all the wine, cheese, secularism and protesting. Heathens...
For their image resizing tasks, I wonder if they've tried anything more complex than simply cropping around points of interest, something like seam carving [0]. I imagine that it would be pretty cheap to run a bunch of different algorithms on an image and then A|B test it on Amazon mechanical turk.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seam_carving, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcIJXTlugc, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJtE8afwJEg
The card companies in the UK try to encourage people to pay by contactless card (debit or credit) for low value items. That's perhaps no surprise.

Transport for London, who run the public transport in London, are encouraging people to use contactless debit/credit cards rather than their own stored-value card system or cash.

In Denmark I've had the man selling sausages from a wagon on the street ask me to pay by card. I guess he didn't want to bother going to the bank, or carry all the cash around.
They are; they went from the 6 to the 6p and 5x; the 5x is smaller than both 6 and 6p.
Depends on your use case. I use Dropbox for storing photos, since my network connection is generally good enough for it to be fast and seamless (I guess they send resized photos). I do keep music on my phone, but I don't need my > 500 album collection, just some new stuff that I change every couple of weeks.

Among computer illiterates in my family it also doesn't seem to be a problem. My mother has been using 16GB iPads and iPod Touches for years and never ran out of storage.

Sure, if you play lot's of > 1GB games (which seems to be typical these days), you don't want a 16GB model.
iPhone4 is still my favourite phone in terms of feel. Dense and substantial in the hand.
While I completely agree with this point - as a front-end developer its entirely maddening trying to keep pace and learn what the "next big thing" is going to be.

For instance. . . .

After leaving a very small local company I was working at, this is what I found after doing a few months of research and interviews:

I had several interviews, every single one for a front-end role. They ran the gamut of JS frameworks. Do you know Backbone? AngularJS, Polymer, Typescript, ReactJS? A combination of some? or none at all? Not a single interviewer asked me about jQuery or my "vanilla" JS skills - NONE. Every company big and small was using some kind of framework, in some capacity - albeit in vastly different ways.

The point here is there's no way for you to predict how your next great learning experience is actually going to help you down the road. Our landscape is changing virtually by the hour. I have now given up on trying to have a learning opportunity whereby I can add some really good skills to my resume not only for now - but for future opportunities.

It's made me a bit jaded that our industry is so fragmented that even by learning a new library or framework, you effectively remove yourself from consideration from a host of companies because you didn't pick the "sexy" framework
I'm using a fii0 x1, which has a sd card slot for up to 128gb of storage, and it has decent battery life and a very nice UI. Also has a dac for great quality sound, and supports lots of file types including flac. Bit more pricy than some cheap mp3 players, but it's very durable and will last a long time I imagine.
reminds me of Codecity
Thanks! We are very excited to be doing this.

We're starting out focused on long flights that are mostly over water, like New York - London or San Francisco - Shanghai.

Around an airport, our airplane will be about as quiet as other new aircraft. The sonic boom will also be much quieter—and we'll continue to make future iterations even quieter. It's hard to say exactly when, but I expect the supersonic overland ban will be reversed in the coming years.
I guess if you have enough hardware resources, and the delta is low, it may not matter.

After all, we run Unix commands tens or hundreds of times a day, alone or in pipelines, to get things done, vs. putting all the needed functionality into one program and calling it.

Various pros and cons exist for both approaches ...
The same with Democrats (personal freedom).
I don't know, Amazon is historically pretty good at being the screwer, rather than the screwee.

I'd honestly love to see Comcast try to fuck with Amazon, and then the frantic backpedaling as Bezos throws a thousand lawyers at them.
> Not just as a private jet, but something most anyone can afford to fly

From the original comment.
Here's a proper example written for 3.4+: https://gist.github.com/madjar/9312452
WTF. €609 in Europe vs $499 in the US for the 64GB model.

I will not let them get away with this pricing model. Keeping my trusted Nokia 2700 :)
I wouldn't. I don't really like food that much. It's easy to ignore when you've had something a million times, but it's harder to ignore when it's a completely new, unpleasant sensation.

But, I understand that other people do like food. And that's ok.
>No 3D touch is a very odd fragmentation. You'd think they'd want to shore up their devices to be completely compatible with this across the spectrum to motivate developers to use it as a key part of their UX.

1) 3D Touch is not that important a part of the UI anyway, as devices are fully functional without it.

2) Developers will add it to their apps anyway, to entice high end users -- it's a very competitive landscape for apps, so they can't afford not too, even if it's only in half the new iPhone models.

3) Eventually it will be present to all devices anyway. In the meantime, the cheaper SE models allows Apple to cater better to places like India without sacrificing much.
What success? iPad destroyed Surface sales by an order of magnitude last quarter 16.1M to 1.6M.

Even the iPad Pro alone outsold all MS Surface products despite only being introduced midway through the holiday quarter.
128k is pretty awful quality though.
That's not a terrible theory. The UX of holding the screen down is terrible because it's completely hidden and requires you to guess. Not sure why they opted to include it in the first place.
Got mine sitting right next to me here.

I was going to jump to the 5x, but a limit of 16GB storage with no external storage in this day and age of high-end phone cameras, video, app bloat, etc. is just flat out unacceptable for me in a phone at this point.

It's a shame they have such an awful UI, because Samsung is doing some really great stuff with their Galaxy line on the hardware side of things.
I'm not going to buy another apple product until the case with the FBI is settled.
it does it for you, if your phone starts getting full you'll notice apps randomly switch icon and name to Clearing or something like that quite a bit.
Are there preorders where this isn't the norm? Whether you're camped out for the latest iPhone or preordering some hot new game, it's always understood that your place in line is a major factor in when you get your product but it's not a guarantee and the ordering isn't strict.

I'm baffled at why anyone would think it should be otherwise. Guaranteeing a strict order would be essentially impossible, and it would mean that a problem with a single unit would delay the entire group of people behind it.
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>There has never been a supersonic passenger aircraft built with modern turbofan engines.

that is one of the major issues here. Modern turbofans on large passenger planes like 787, 380, etc... are that efficient in major part because of high by-pass ratio. Which is not really an option for 2Mach+ speed.

As somebody mentioned, more comfortable 0.85Mach flight would be preferable in many situations to uncomfortable and very expensive 2Mach. If i were starting something like this i'd go straight for suborbital SFO to Singapore in under couple hours. Technology-level wise not that different, money is no issue in that segment (Branson's $200K is not that far from super-premium-business class for your priceless CEO) and there is always large money-no-issue fallback customer - military.
Different spins on Oligarchy/Corporatocracy. The Sanders wing of the Democratic party seems like the only one challenging.
Microsoft had to go through an extremely painful and still incomplete transition to make windows suitable for tablets. If apple tries to make a mac tablet then it will be a horrible experience. They can't fix the fact that mac apps are designed for mouse/trackpad interaction and dense UI, not pen/finger and big targets.

And as for making an iOS tablet that's more suitable for productivity, the iPad Pro is that device, and basically as good as it gets.
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(Complete conjecture)

I think it's because it's in their best interests to not have that form factor be a 'thing'. Apple wants to sell you a macbook and an iPad, not a single Padbook. If they don't enter that arena, then they force Microsoft to do all the work to get the market there (if at all), when they can come up with a me-too form factor device without any real lost headway.
Whereas developers and hackers tend to like a surfeit of user interface features, the mass market is not as comfortable with it. Apple really likes to be the party in control of the degree of minimalism in the UI expressed by iOS devices.
That happened for me too.
Ask HN: What laptop *do* I buy then?
Even though I knew there probably wouldn't be any macbook announcements, I still stupidly hoped there would be.

I really need a new laptop, I have a very old MBA which struggles to run Intellij & Chrome at the same time.

I am open to not having a macbook, seeing as they haven't been updated in a long time. But at the same time I dont know where to begin on alternatives. I am nervous about getting something and being massively disappointed at the trackpad/keyboard/display.

So what are your recommendations?
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[citation needed]. Depending on which report you believe, between 50-90% of ALL email traffic is spam, so...
Because it doesn't make sense to get any "real" work done on a tablet OS / touchscreen for many people. They have the MacBook if you want a small productivity machine.