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Having used both extensively (but Android more so), I find them both pretty straightforward to use for most common tasks. Both still have their more granular settings hidden behind menus but that seems to be the tradeoff for surface simplicity and aesthetics.

That said, every so often there's something I need to do or want to do that's a little bit outside of the default setup. Little things that matter to me nonetheless. Things like keyboard layout, default apps, home screen layout, icon spacing, etc.

On iOS the keyboard thing seems to be solved now with addon keyboards but even those other minor preferences or layout tweaks are often limited or impossible on iOS (unless you manage to jailbreak your device). On Android they're usually just a setting change, app install, or (rarely) an APK install from an independent developer away.

This isn't meant so much as a critique of the Apple way of doing things. I'm well aware that my needs and wants aren't necessarily the norm or in line with the majority. Spending efforts addressing every possible use can cause just as much harm as good in a final product.

That said, once I have multiple options that both "succeed" well, I start to choose based on which one "fails" better (ie: which one makes it easier for me to change or fix the rare thing that doesn't just work the way I want it to).
Why do you think it will be short lived and on what scale is it short?
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I bought the 5x on day one....markdowns followed very quickly and I was a little bothered at paying full price.

I doubt Google can get $649 for these phones, and I expect them to get marked down within a few months.
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Hopefully a hard switch for true silent mode. A man can dream...
I'm intrigued by your quote "all physics is either harmonic oscillators or phase transitions". Could you please elaborate on that? Just looked up online sources but can't seem to find this quote anywhere.
You're probably right - look at the value such regulatory concern (in its infinite wisdom) brought to Yahoo shareholders by complicating concerns of Microsoft's (non)acquisition of Yahoo oh-so-long-ago.
The camera doesn't stick out the back of the phone and become the main contact point for all surfaces. This is true innovation :)
Could you back up these claims?

In fairness, I don't know Uber did the things I am concerned about in this case, but I do know that they've done them in other cases.

> Anecdotal cab complaints are probably real, and for verification, just be a person who has had to deal with cabs

I am, in several towns, and am a very satisfied customer. I've almost never had any of the problems described so regularly here. That doesn't make them impossible, of course. Also, I don't think anyone would say Uber was above astroturfing on HN.
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In all seriousness, please take your anti-science fear-mongering rant and GTFO.
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"The result of these emotionally driven discussions is that once again, Americans are focused on race being a primary driver of inequality and distracted away from the much bigger issue of class. It's a very convenient tactic for the corporate elites who own our government and want to prevent real change. Racism is a convenient target, because it allows people to blame a problem whose solution doesn't involve massive overhauls of tax policy to better redistribute the wealth that is accumulating with the .01%."

I'd upvote this tenfold if I could. I think the race discussion in America pits us against one another and creates Trumps and anti-Trumps, instead of pinpointing the elite (both the leaders of the Trump and anti-Trump camps are elites).

It's horrifying how far away we are from talking about class. Racial privilege exists, but by focusing on it as the number one priority, the number one problem in America, we've turned it into a wedge issue.
Info on how to preorder is vague. Says it's available to preorder today, doesn't say where or how.
Also curious as to the opinions of others here. (Although I have considerably less money.)
> Feel free to have a discussion about the rights and wrongs of euthanasia in some other thread.

And yet DanBC did exactly that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635572

And the second-highest comment currently is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12635825, which praises the decision.

Clearly some folks think this thread is for at least the discussion of the rights of euthanasia; not discussing the wrongs seems rather biased.
If your objective is to inform the public, you get the information out with time to spare so it can be investigated and objectively assessed. If your objective is to sway the public, you release at a time of greatest impact where people's reaction to the accusations and implications will drive their actions, instead of the complete facts of the matter, which it would be silly to assume Wikileaks could provide (there's always context that can be added).
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It's about basic geometry, not cost. You simply cannot fill the streets of San Francisco, Seattle or New York with all the people who would take the bus (not even speaking about trains), with 4 people per car max (often 1 or 2), and not expect streets to be clogged to death. It takes way less space to transport people by public transit.
Sounds like she was a pretty terrible CEO all-around. But as a user, I would never use a service run by Marissa Mayer again. She lost that trust for good.
Isn't that what literally every android manufacturer has been doing since day 1?

Google doing it "too" doesn't sound like a game changer.
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Its a cool idea.
Do people actually provision a fixed amount yearly for all their charities?
I suppose the intermediary makes money by taking a percentage (5 percent?) of the donated amount?
Is there something I am missing? One would not really need YC to implement this
The reference was not to 'active headphones' (e.g. for running), but to 'active noise cancellation' where an "inverse wave" (inverse to incoming noise) is played to cancel out sounds. These can be in both in-ear or over-the-ear form.
Does not work. Middle men and black market will still exist.
Sourcegraph releases new semantic code search UI
It makes it easier to surf different sites, as each browser is tailored for specific content. So on Reddit, I can disable images globally and it only affects Reddit and not other sites. And the bookmarks menu doesn't have to be a cluttered mess either. You can do this easily in Chrome by creating different profiles. In Firefox you can do it by switching profiles. It helps because I find it's easier to navigate the web
My Nexus 4 from several years back keeps getting timely updates. And still works pretty well.
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The headphone jack would be the only thing I can think of, as when they mention it, they don't show it. The other 5 faces don't have it, so its the only remaining location for it.
The full sentence is:

> This is unacceptable considering the value of data and the strategic leverage it can have today.

The last part is important.

Just because it's been true in the past, it doesn't mean this trend will continue. Maybe it keeps being true for your run-of-the-mill MVP, but I don't see it being acceptable for a system in any industry w/ any chance of making serious money in the mid-term.
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Judge: Vague IP-Address Evidence Is Not Enough to Expose BitTorrent ‘Pirates’
A Quarter of All Chinese Companies Can't Pay the Interest on Their Debt
Just what VR needs, another slightly different platform...
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It's cable cars being torn out for cars all over again.
> 1Gbit on amazon costs 22k/month

Is this 1 gigabit of accumulated traffic, or sustained bandwidth guaranteed for an entire month?

1 TiB of accumulated bandwidth at DigitalOcean costs me $5/month. I am unaware of what sustained rates are given that tier of pricing, however.
No, but Morning Light Mountain was in it. It was built by Anomine to protect the universe from the prime.
I actually trust OWS in this case. They have taken every precaution to make data seizure (all but) impossible.

Signal is the best shot we have at widespread, usable private communications at this point. It's about time we get around to supporting it. Be pragmatic.
I thought it was odd they used SMS when they had a few other communication apps to chose from.
Introducing Bcoin
LG V20 was the first device with Nougat, although that was Nougat 7.0.
Recently, Apple has been about a year ahead. Compare the A9 (which shipped in the 6s in fall 2015) with the Snapdragon 810 (which shipped in the Nexus 6p at the same time).

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9837/snapdragon-820-preview/2
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9686/the-apple-iphone-6s-and-i....

Heck, in many cases the A9 leaves the Snapdragon 820 behind, and that hasn't even shipped in a Nexus phone yet (the Pixel will probably have the 821).
Maybe that would be a good case for combining characters. digits+/+digits = fraction. Where + is combing character and digits is digit(+digit)
As a person who has to build a relatively simple webapp from time to time, it's tiresome. I usually take a look around - what's trendy. It results into lost night, since I learn that everything requires two times more stuff than six months ago.

In the end I go with vanilla JavaScript and whatever new APIs I can use and polyfill.

No, wait. I made a webapp with React. While occasionally seeing Flux and friends mentioned, I was strong. I went with vanilla ReactJS.

I mean, those web stacks just get obsolete too soon. Your super tuned gulp setup will be obsolete in a year or two. What will you do then? Re-learn all new things?

It seems to me that there is a frontend development stack bubble coming. When I had to change bootstrap's base font size, I had to download and learn awful amounts of stuff. Which is on my machine. And I will never use it again.
I think the degree to which the ink is raised to be legible Braille is greater than what you'd want for simulated letter press. However, finding uses unrelated to disability would make it more viable and affordable.
Yeah, I guess that was my question. I know they can come from other areas, but when I've taken commuter rail to the suburbs, there are always a few taxis waiting, but never enough to handle the traffic of people who need to get home, it's usually just 1-3 taxis waiting.

That said, the town is 6 square miles and they're not getting rid of the existing lot. If you're close enough to the station, why not just walk?
Maybe they had to hide the top because this version was made before they decided to add a headphone jack back in?
One option requires massive cultural change plus invention and creation of new technologies and disrupting uncountable entrenched business models, the other merely requires massive cultural change (although I'd argue comparatively less because its existing deployed in use technology). If its not possible to pull off the simpler one there is little point in trying the harder less likely to succeed option.

Its that old advice about minimizing attack surface. Rube Goldberg machines are cool but not good engineering.
It's the headphone jack.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/K66DEwGnEsmayteb04wc6y2nEJ...
Until something sticks in the market, it's good to have a variety of products. The differences for software devs are essentially some camera projection settings and tolerances to sensor error.
“Google is now the seller of record of this phone,”

And who is the servicer of broken phones? Is there a warranty? Can I get a customer service agent on a real voice line?

Given Google's track record of hardware they could have answers for all of this and I still wouldn't own one.
Groundbreaking new faster algorithms for convex and combinatorial optimization
PushToCompute: Deploy containers on Nimbix with a single Git push
We're in a strange world where animals obey crosswalks.
They mention this in the paper. The chance of all 7 depts changing their reporting simultaneously is pretty vanishing. Much of the paper is dedicated to understanding the cause of the lack of difference between experimental groups, check it out.
Seems like there is just the headphone jack on the top: http://img.bfmtv.com/c/883/515/472/2c07f97e107ddbe1a0fd8fa99...
> But as a user, I would never use a service run by Marissa Mayer again. She lost that trust for good.

Realistically, this is every American company. Why trust anyone?
Eh, it's boilerplate.

Supposedly it's open for integration with mobile apps, so you could say 'Order ahead my usual at Philz', and it would ask you back, 'Order a large tesora for pickup at Philz Coffee in Santa Clara in 15 minutes?', to which you say 'yes'. Theoretically, anyways.
> Pixel is available for pre-order today starting at $649 in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany and Australia. Pre-orders in India will begin October 13.

In the Google Store.

However, availability in 5 countries? Google, you want to take on iPhone with that? Apple phones are available globally. Even with previous Nexuses, they were available in many countries because the manufacturers did sell them, not because Google. Google sold them only with few countries; even in EU, they bothered only with about 14 of 28 (depending on product).
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"Ask HN: What are your favorite videos relevant to entrepreneurs or startups?" -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7656003

"Ask HN: Favorite talks [video] on software development?" -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8105732
probably the same reason they released the pixel (notice the name?) chromebook, to have a high end reference design.
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Considering the amount of access they have to the White House: why would you assume that they haven't?
I wouldn't bet a bent penny on it:

"Experts said it was likely that the NSA or FBI had approached other Internet companies with the same demand, since they evidently did not know what email accounts were being used by the target. The NSA usually makes requests for domestic surveillance through the FBI, so it is hard to know which agency is seeking the information.

Reuters was unable to confirm whether the 2015 demand went to other companies, or if any complied.

Alphabet Inc's Google and Microsoft Corp, two major U.S. email service providers, did not respond to requests for comment."

It's not a hard question to answer. You either are or are not searching all emails in realtime at the behest of the NSA.
It's much more nuanced than that though. Increasing the evaporation rate also makes exploitation much harder, not to mention that the positive feedback cycle on previously very good edges can take a long time to dissipate.

ACO for dynamic environments generally require much more attention to how the problem is applied to the environment or the generation of a more hybrid approach.
Apple Releases Third MacOS Sierra 10.12.1 Beta for Public Beta Testers
That's a very bad way of handling it. When will people learn that you can't rely on everyone being a good citizen? Is it really so hard to realize that you need to make your technology sane from the very beginning?
In the image you linked: why are the OS home-screens switched?
Is the new phone water resistant? I can't find anything in the details
Sorry about that (and thanks kogepathic for expanding)!
>Another person points out that even if you hate 4chan (or especially if you do), it'd be better left intact to contain the culture that foments there. Otherwise we might see /r/The_Donald style posts all over the internet.

I used to believe this pretty strongly, but lately...I'm already seeing /pol/ style posts all over the internet, despite its existence, so I'm starting to doubt the 'containment board' thesis is valid.
Wouldn't that depend on the font? They appear the same size in my browser (Firefox), in 15px Arial on Windows 7.
The ahem at 0:47 is great ;)
Super excited for public launch - We've used it extensively and Paperspace is an excellent product
In the past 10 years the definition to humor changed a lot. What is considered to be acceptable AND funny today is a very small subset with an increasingly self-censored filtering.
With different words, you have no sense of humor.
I believe the expression is wish in one hand, and shit in the other; see which one fills up first
I wonder if or when they'll think to ask for the user's associated push messaging ID.

Then they could ask Apple or Google to turn over any cloud data they have for that phone.
They have distinct uses and cultures. I use both. Destroying an outlet for a culture leads to migrants and discord at the new host.

This was demonstrated repeatedly when moot would attempt to delete a problem board like /b/ or /pol/ (diffusing that culture to other boards) or when digg would make a significant change causing an influx of migrants to Reddit.

I doubt they would come here though. If 4chan were to disappear entirely, most users would end up going to 8chan. Voting sites are not compatible with the provocative nature of image board cultures.
(OP here) I think that would be a useful thing to do in some situations, but it often won't get what you'd like. There's no guarantee that a view will ever call it's superclass' implementation, so inserting code has to be done a the leaf view classes not further up.
This doesn't quite fulfill the role either though...

A quick search for SFP+ cards that can handle 10Gbit/sec shows that the typical price is ~200 USD/card right now (this is still at least 3x the cost per card I'd prefer to see).

Given the pricing on individual cards I'd hate to consider the price of a switch, if such a thing even exists.
They'd have to pick one of their dozen offerings for that. Can you really say that one child is your favorite out of your whole brood?
This is a little underwhelming.
Oneplus
>I recall several netizens posting concern about the buyer of 4chan, how he ran some other Japanese sites into the ground.

The situation with 2channel was actually a business dispute, at its core. That's not to say Hiroyuki isn't shady, but Jim Watkins/NTTEC (who played an important part in it, and was on the board of 2channel) was also at fault.

Summary: Jim Watkins's company/NTTEC wrote something like 4chan Premium for 2channel back in the early 00's. This was intended to help keep costs under control, and it succeeded by paying for all of the infrastructure and profiting at some point.

But this was not to continue forever: around '13 the application, which didn't encrypt credit card data and associated all posts made using the application to the individual's real names for an arbitrary period of time, experienced a breach.

Because Hiroyuki had given control of the domains and servers over to Jim Watkins, who had up until that point just been his colo, to dodge legal obligations in Japan, Jim Watkins took over.
Hiroyuki had nothing to do with the administration or creation of the software that was breached.

They're shady individuals: both are manipulative (they play dumb) when you try to interact with them on their respective forums. But not knowing the specific timeline or everything that happened in the business dispute, it's hard to say who's more at fault in the 2channel situation.

It might also be important to note that the "legal obligations" that Hiroyuki was dodging in Japan are fines for libel, due to Japan not having an equivalent to the USA's Communications Decency Act §230.
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Actually, it is, GPL doesn't in anyway imply mandatory handover of copyrights to a 3rd party.
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> Google’s First Real Threat to Apple’s iPhone

That's funny, I thought all the ones before it were "iPhone killers". Hmmmmm.