skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same dimensions as the 5s actually, but with 1g more mass.
Reminds me of paying more for faster internet, yet the contract states they have to provide UP TO what ever speed. You can technically get less speed while paying more. Just another way companies write the contracts in their favor.

It wouldn't surprise me if this becomes the norm in any 'place in line' list with high value items. Companies would love the ability to offer the chance to consumers to put a down payment for a place in line while at the same time removing any liability in case they have to break that agreement.
I don't keep "slow tv" up, but I tend to have Netflix running on my left monitor, my requirements on my right monitor and my IDE or text editor in the center. If I get too busy, then Netflix goes away. The motion to the side helps keep me from getting bored.
> postfix + opendkim + smtp + tls + spamassassin + fail2ban

Yes, here's the reason people don't run their own servers!

> is not too difficult a setup to achieve...

Yes it is, for a lot of people. Not to mention security patches for all this software.

Add that to the fact that Google reportedly is reportedly aggressively classifying mail from new servers as spam (your point 2) and you greatly increase the transaction cost required for people to run their own mailservers.
Looks like it works OK in Safari and Chrome, I looked at it in Firefox.
Thanks for an interesting sharing. And for RushWallet reference: I had a hard time of finding a good alternative to now-defunct InstaWallet.
The original keyboard design was meant to be used to type the characters present in the APL code page [0]. My intention was that one would still be able to type the same (or perhaps mostly the same) characters as the original keyboard but using Unicode instead the APL encoding (which is based on EBCDIC, yuck).

My design may or may not contain the same keys, because I am not sure how many would want the original APL character set.
APL keyboards are available, so the market exists [1], but that doesn't mean much. I plan to have the micro-controller user-configurable and replaceable, so one could change what symbols were type-able with the same keyboard. As I expect to use UTF-8, this keyboard could be used to type any character in the UTF-8 code pages.

[0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(codepage)
[1] = https://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=69386.0...
Annotated walkthroughs of example Twilio applications
First dates are probably most analogous to phone interviews. It's a testing of the water. If you've met the barrier of entry, you'll probably make it to the next one unless there is no chemistry whatsoever.
Really? I think this might be a case of trying to over-polish a turd.
That will be incredibly shortsighted though. Developers are looking for more powerful machines all the time.
I worked in an organization where we used behavioral interviewing techniques to get to the core of how someone operates.

"Tell me about a time in which you..." works very well. If they resist answering the made mistakes questions we prompted them to understand that an honest answer is important. If they could not do that then they were not considered.

These were not developer roles but most were very technical / analytical roles for an organization that paid well and candidates knew up front they would be interviewed this way. In addition some jobs were "cased" where you had to solve a problem and talk about how you solved it to the interviewer. Great fun when I went through the two days of interviews. I ended up doing maybe 200+ behavioral interviews over 6+ years for the company. I saw this approach work time and time again.

Some people could not answer for themselves: "the team did..." "They did...". When pressed we usually discovered that the candidate did not have the ability to get the job done themselves.
This is going a little off topic: But Microsoft's on-screen keyboard has the best trackpoint for doing that. Doesn't require 3D touch and works wonderfully.

Looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/eX2bfHp.jpg

The blue dot is always there, but the four way arrows only appear after you press it, and you can drag further away to move faster, or closer to move slower.

It is one of these things that after you use it you wonder why everyone hasn't copied it yet. Microsoft's keyboard is actually the best thing on Windows Mobile.
No new monitors again...
If wifi had come first, everyone would be excited about deploying copper waveguides that give 20x the bandwidth with almost no attenuation or interference.
> If you feel that changes in drug policy should be pursued through federal legislation, then you should be in favor of the Supreme Court upholding existing federal law.

Personal possession of weed is already completely legal under federal law via the equal protection clause. Once they passed the law saying that it's legal in DC, that means that it's now legal everywhere, even if they haven't yet taken the time to strike the old language from the books.

The only time federal charges are still pursued is if there is a firearm involved.
Why didn't they just implement the two finger trackpad from the ipad?
I have not upgraded specifically because of the design of the 6, so there must be others that feel the same way.

I'm really happy about the SE and will be upgrading now.
> the deal".
Mr Wagner, who claims to have a stellar record as a serial entrepreneur, was still telling everyone who would listen that his was a company that would be bigger than Google or Facebook one day. As recently as last October, he told Evan Davis on Radio 4's Bottom Line that the business had been valued at $2.7bn by its backers Wellington. Evan suggested that was a meaningless figure because Powa hadn't made any money yet. "We're a growth tech business," Mr Wagner replied, maintaining it was other people who had set that value.

holy crap this reads just like the interview with Pets.com in a 1999 edition of some PC magazine
I'm 16. Five months ago, I was diagnosed with terminal cancer
Ask HN: Anyone here uses myhosting.com?
They are not responding to support (email, IM, phone) for a week now. Truly worried!
Here in the UK I can add: assisted suicide, many sexual activities particularly on camera (even between very enthusiastic participants), driving in a vehicle on the public highway without a seatbelt, working for under the minimum wage, corporal punishment and polygamy.
I'm not sure "Boom" is the word I want to mentally associate with aircraft.
I'm excited about this phone, especially the screen size. Not having 3D touch is not a deal breaker for me. I'm going to buy it as soon as it becomes available.
If I could deal with Amazon customer service instead of Comcast, I definitely would. If I had any sane option other than Comcast for internet service (i.e. not satellite), I would jump ship in a heartbeat, even if it meant paying twice as much.

Every time I've had to contact their customer service, they act like the issue is my fault, then try to sell me a bunch of shit I don't need or want, then insult me again when they eventually get around to actually fixing the issue.
They definitely included a slide featuring measured battery life.
Did... not... know... this. Very cool.
Smart and concise.
Amazon warns Kindle users: Update by March 22 or else
RxWebSocket: Reactive WebSockets in Swift
Yes, that's why I said I wasn't sure what they meant, as in they didn't specify future phones or not.
To be fair, some apps have implemented '3d' touch on android which is basically just a glorified long press, so you can at least access the same kind of ux purely through software.
I think I've only heard one in my life. It was on surfside beach TX where I lived at the time. I was on a dock and heard a really low thunder sound. I can't say that it was "loud" like it would hurt your ears, but it really rattled everything around me (including my insides). And with that the neighbor's dogs came running over to me with their tails between their legs, and off in the distance I could here a jet really cuttin' through some wind.
I hate it on the watch. I'm not that uncoordinated and always misfiring it and confused by what happens. For anyone actually disabled I'd imagine it must be a sick joke accessibility anti-pattern.
I don't want just 24 hours of music, I want a comprehensive sample of my entire music library. In my case it exceeds the 16gb (or whatever it's available after iOS + other apps) easily.
Not bandwidth, though.
I honestly started laughing halfway through scrolling because I thought this was satire mocking the startup scene. Wow.
Interviews are like blind dates, you need to be in the social circle to have an idea of what you're getting into before you go to the interview.
So will I lose my cable TV service too if Amazon closes my account for violating unstated terms of service?
It seems that it would scale just find with RabbitMQ, and worker queues. It may not be maximum performance per node... but that's not the same as scalability.
$100 more for pencil support, next-gen processor, huge camera bump, hardware keyboard connector, and that cool true tone thing all sound about right to me.

I just don’t get the naming. Does this mean the iPad Air is end-of-the-line? Or will there be an iPad Air 3 someday that is simply an iPad Pro without the connector and Pencil? weird
Not to mention their management UI is migraine-inducing.
It might not be too difficult, but setting up Mandrill took me like 15 minutes and zero maintenance time ...until now.
Ian Sommerville: Further reflections on test-driven development
Apparently, nobody told Wang that Parse is shutting down. Someone, please find and inform Mengyan that his work is wasted.
Looks like it's still 1 GB according to a leak from a few days ago.

http://www.besttechguru.com/apple-iphone-se-retail-box-image...

Too bad; I would love to have a smaller form factor than my 6S. I waited for awhile to upgrade from my 4S to see if they would introduce something like this, but with ad-cluttered pages, web browsing can be really painful on 1 GB.
"Gold is just another fiat currency". Did you come up with that or did you read it somewhere? If you read it somewhere, I'd love to read that article.
I don't think people have the right to pollute noise everywhere.

And I do wish humans where mindful about the noise pollution the dump where 'nobody lives'. The noise emitted by shipping vessels is having a harming effect on sea life.
That's an awfully nice interest rate on that loan he made to Tesla (from Tesla's perspective)
Actually the attackers used a highly secure encryption technique "One Time Phone"
Strongly agree.

I went into the Apple store and couldn't even figure out how to get 3D touch to work and spent quite a while. After research it seems like you need to magically know which apps support it and even then which interfaces within the app. It is very obscure.

Apple is often first to market with new stuff, and sometimes I look on in jealousy (e.g. when Siri first shipped), but 3D touch is one of those features I never want Android to copy. I think it makes Apple's ecosystem worse and is opposed to their "simple and straightforward" UI strategy.

What were they thinking?
You're right, it has been awhile since the mid-60s. If we were talking about flying F-104s and B-58s, that would be very relevant information. As I understand it, Boom are developing a new aircraft. They're probably aware of that test and indeed lots of other information about supersonic flight.

This whole "engineering vs physics" question reminds me of the misunderstandings people have of modern radio technology. Yes, in the 1920s they had to divide the spectrum into exclusive-use bands so that any particular use could transmit and receive clearly, but that was a limitation of engineering, not of physics. In the 2010s that is not a limitation we face, in general. Likewise, I expect that with modern materials and engineering software, progress can be made on the sonic boom issue.
SeaWorld CEO: We're ending our orca breeding program. Here's why
(Some of the responses here are hilarious. I feel like I'm reading a Slashdot thread from 1998.)

I think it's interesting to compare Objective-C with Microsoft's COM. Both originated at roughly the same time (late 80s). Both aim to add dynamic, object-oriented features to plain old static C. Both provide a thin runtime library and C-based API to bring those features to C. Both use the same reference-counted memory management. Both allow you to dynamically load objects at runtime, and query about the capabilities of these dynamically-loaded objects in a general way. Both have been integrated into multiple different object-oriented programming languages. Objective-C differs in that it is both a runtime library and a language, where COM is just a runtime library.

COM become hugely popular in the late 90s. While it's natural to use COM to implement a plug-in framework for an app, people started to use COM for everything. This led to the deCOMtamination movement of the early 2000s.

I too did a bunch a COM development in the late 90s, just like everyone else. If I knew then what I know now, I would have ditched COM entirely and used Objective-C and OpenStep. But even if one had a time machine and could travel back to 90s with knowledge of the future, there is no way you could convince anyone else to ditch COM for Objective-C. The syntax is unusual to C, C++, and Java programmers, and there are just too many misconceptions about Objective-C floating around (e.g., see some of the other responses in this thread).

Objective-C has many interesting features that make it ideal for doing the kind of large-scale client-side desktop and mobile app development that it's known for. But I think the truely compelling aspect of Objective-C is the cohesion between the language and UI frameworks that make up Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. The frameworks and the language were developed hand in hand.

Objective-C without the Frameworks isn't compelling to people who aren't already familiar with the language, and those frameworks are (now) only available on OS X and iOS.
Camera bump is nice upgrade
At least for all them youngins, we all use soundcloud of bandcamp for the most part. Depedent on data? Yes, but with that you get live updates of new songs or reposts from your favorite artists.
Yes, we've taken a lot of inspiration from what Elon has accomplished at SpaceX and Tesla. Supersonics are technically challenging and capitally intensive. But the world should have faster travel—and it doesn't look like the big aerospace companies are about to make it happen. (I'm a founder at Boom)
And still +$130 for cellular.

I really think Apple needs to accept lower margins and hit some price points that would get its devices in more hands. By only compromising on margins, it would not be compromising on product quality.
I hope number 2 ends up to be true, but most likely number one. Phil Schiller described the ipad pro as "The ultimate replacement for the PC", and that means Apple is all-in for replacing the laptop in the mass market, while also very convenient for profits since their closed hardware will only run an OS and Apps signed by Apple, with only one store to buy Software.

They don't have an incentive to support open computing, and for the first time in years IBM and Microsoft have better products (Carbon X1, Surface book) while OSX haven't seen a major update and MacBook Pros that once were the best professional laptops are really past generation hardware and software.
Nice! I've been doing my own taxes for almost 20 years now. A few years back I wrote a little Python program like this one, and it's made the whole process much less onerous. Each year there are some tweaks to the tax code [1], and some differences in my situation, but mostly things stay the same from year to year.

My question is: why isn't there already a good opensource 1040 calculator? Does a liability disclaimer like Py1040's not cut it? Is it the extreme unsexiness of taxes?

[1] Unfortunately this does involve scanning through the relevant forms and instructions for changes over the prior year -- my kingdom for a diff...
I am unclear. Are you talking about someone reluctant to talk about their personal lives? Or just someone not speaking their mind in work related questions/situations?
I doubt there is such a thing as the "average people". There will always be some overlapping skill area and something one can learn from another, even if both got the same number of years of experience and very similar backgrounds.
I finally switched from Comcast to another provider and I get the same service now for half the price. It wasn't customer service that drove it, it was their predatory attitude toward offering deals to keep me onboard, then gradually increasing the price of my service. When I left, I called to cancel my service, and they sent me for a 10-minute conversation with a "customer loyalty rep" or some such thing, who wouldn't even give up when I made it clear that the other company's box was already installed and working in my house.
Bomb bar dee eh
I love the car. It's fun to drive -- smooth, quiet, and zippy acceleration from a stop. I haven't paid for gas or any kind of maintenance in over a year.

But I would definitely not buy a Leaf unless you're a 2-car home and have something else for a backup and long trips.

If you have any fun with your car, as opposed to driving in eco-mode all the time, never accelerating hard, coasting down hills... you won't get the rated range. If it's cold out, you won't get the rated range. If you like to blast the heat and A/C, you won't get the rated range. Which means you will limit yourself to a 20-30 mile radius to feel safe, which is much less than the 80-100+ miles the sticker says you'll get.

The battery also degrades pretty fast. You can't tell what you're buying used unless you buy a copy of Leaf Spy Pro for your phone and hook up a bluetooth OBDII scanner to the car to actually find out how much of its battery life is usable. My 2012 model has 16kWh of the original 24kWh available for driving, though the dashboard shows 11/12 battery life "pips" remaining. That means I get a max of 70-some miles driving conservatively in good weather. It'll only go down the longer I own it, which is why I'm looking forward to that Chevy Bolt, hopefully before winter when my usable range drops even more.
I remember Jobs talking about never making a larger phone. I really wonder if it was a case of him caring about "taste" over "giving people what they want."

There was some leaked Apple internal document where they said that people wanted larger phones. The post-Jobs Apple created larger phones to meet market demands.

One thing that always makes me giggle, though, is the fact that if you double tap the home button the screen slides down so you can reach the navigation bar at the top of the screen. If you have to provide a hardware solution like that, isn't it proof that the larger phone provides a worse user experience?

I'm excited about the smaller phone. My iPhone 6s is overly difficult to maneuver.
https://www.animatron.com - online, vector based, exports to video, svg, svg+smil, js+dom (html5), gif

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Yes, you are right. Although given how phones are now pocket computers I expect them to have additional storage options that are not cloud based. I find it that paying $500 for a device that does not allow additional physical storage is absurd. Given how good of a camera it seems to have.
Secful (YC W16) Prevents API Attacks Automatically and in Real-Time
Why does the UK tax year start on 6 April each year?
So every time a faster processor comes out, the MSRP should increase? I thought the whole point of technology was faster for cheaper. Apple's iPad Air design was stale and everything you listed was iterative improvements that could be expected from any manufacturer trying to compete. But maybe that's the problem: Apple has no competition in this segment, unless you count $2,000+ Microsoft Surface tablets.

Honestly, Apple's pricing is a joke, but I'm sure plenty of people will swoop in to defend them.
I wonder if doing this is part of a content licensing agreement to get more content onto Prime Video.
Made especially for Trump sized hands!
I used wkhtmltopdf on a project, custom built a version of bootstrap from the less files purely for outputting via wkhtmltopdf, it worked really well and produced some nice looking PDF's.

https://youtu.be/TC_uv_AD808?t=1m31s all the PDF's in that video where generated, that was an early alpha of the product.
"Settle for Ergonomic"
I hope we see new iPhones with 256GB of storage this year as well.
Good idea! I'll take a look into it.
Hi - I'm Blake, Founder/CEO at Boom. After watching no tangible progress in supersonics since Concorde was shut down, I started Boom because I want supersonic flight in our lifetime. Not just as a private jet, but something most anyone can afford to fly.

Will try to answer as many questions here as I can.
As opposed to service with Comcast where you can't get rid of it on purpose.
Its also not just closing a single deal but also creating the relationship for the next X deals.

(Note: I'm sure parent understands this.)
The bad customer service I think is a reflection of the bad practices internal to comcast. Unless Amazon uses their might to leverage comcast to upgrade their network etc, they're just going to be a friendler face ontop of a bad service.
I think iOS has this application caching issue. Apps seem to always be caching data to the storage, but there is no option to erase, or remove it as needed.
Node.js on Google App Engine Goes Beta
I loved Beos. I still have R4 disks lying around, very nice system.
A) Nothing wrong with average half the people are below average

This isn't necessarily true. Imagine a system where we could rate developers. There are 4 'A' developers (92,95,97,91) and 2 'B' developers (83, 85). Only 1/3 of the developers are 'below average' as compared to below median, and flip those numbers around and 2/3 are below average. This is kind of important when evaluating the type of company culture that you're in. Is it a place where there are a lot of 'top 5%' developers, and a short tail of good, but not great developers. Or is it a place where there are just one or two developers that doing 'A' work, but a long tail of developers doing solid, but not great work. The 'average' could be misleading in these cases.
I've been holding on to my S4 mini for years now. Samsung keeps growing the size of the phones in their Mini line which is ridiculous. If you keep increasing the size of the phone it stops being "mini" at some point and becomes just an expensive, underpowered, flagship lookalike.
Wow that's amazing. I'll use this so much now.
Show HN: Advanced Swift
Semi-pro.
I am shocked by Apple's lack of commitment to making an actual productivity oriented computer in the form factor of a tablet.

The iPad Pro is likely a reaction to the success of the Microsoft Surface-- but the reaction is not much more than a name change and split screen. The Surface on the other hand actually is a productivity machine. Why isn't Apple diving fully into this area?
A Gliffy outage is preventing users from logging in or accessing their diagrams
Why technology would fail Ramanujan and other great minds
It's hard to buy your client a beer over tele-presence.
16GB is enought for me. I don't watch movies, I don't listen to much music and I don't install apps. Just a phone with some basic apps and internet connections.

I also think 4 inches is decent size for my pocket.

I think I'll buy my first iPhone soon. Good job, Apple.
Just in time! My iPhone 6 just broke and its about time to get a new one. I have no problems going back to a smaller phone if it still carries the class and power of the phones that have recently come out. Not to mention the price makes me happy as well :)
How does the environmental impact per passenger compare to a modern passenger jet?

Do you actually think most anyone can afford $5000 round trip to London?