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I've been an Apple-laptop user for 10 years, and a month or two ago my charging cable started fraying. It's less than two years old, and hasn't been used anymore than I have previous ones (if anything it's probably been abused less).

I'd assume it's just Apple reducing quality and raising prices (€85 for a replacement?!?) - Lightning cables are notorious for the same issue.
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A phone's soft keyboard is a compromise for size. Compared to a hardware keyboard, it sucks to type on. If you want to type anything but gibberish, you stare at the keyboard the whole time you're typing.

A laptop with a hardware keyboard is large enough not to benefit from that compromise. I mean, a little touchscreen's not without its uses, but don't get rid of the keys that I expect to be there.
There's enough market in delivering bits to make it worthwhile. The problem is the challenge from the existing people in that market who do everything then can to block you.
Cool app! I'm gonna give this a try for a party I'm throwing on Friday
Even as the owner of a 2015 MBP, hmmm.

Dell 13" XPS, i7-7500U, 16GB, 512GB SSD, 3200x1800 display, Thunderbolt 3, glass trackpad, 2.9lb, $1799.

MBP 13", i7-5557, 16GB, 512GB SSD, 2560x1600 display, Thunderbolt 2, glass trackpad 3.5lb, $2199.

Nearly half the power consumption on the CPU, lighter, $400 cheaper does not make for "Apple has the best prices in the market as usual".
Close. Each shift of an octave doubles the frequency, so octaves are specifically harmonics that are powers of 2. Other harmonic ratios make other intervals (including intervals that aren't in our scale, when you get to bigger prime numbers).

Most instruments produce harmonic multiples of the base frequency. (Percussion instruments don't.) So if you play a note at 110 Hz, there are also pitches at 220 Hz, 330 Hz, 440 Hz, etc. contained inside it. If you play a note an octave up, at 220 Hz, it contains pitches at 220 Hz, 440 Hz, 660 Hz... which is similar enough that it sounds like "the same note".

(This doesn't explain why 330, 660, 990, ... sounds like a different note, though. Maybe it doesn't to an untrained ear.)
Exactly. Might as well say we're going to put a stationary bike connected to a generator in every home. Sure, it would work, but the energy expended by the human isn't free.

Reminds me of the crazy ideas to put plates on the roadway to generate power when cars drive over them. Robbing Peter to pay Paul....
> If Google enters a market to provide a better service, Comcast et al. can easily pretty much flip a switch in that market to start providing a better service to hold onto their disgruntled customers, depriving Google of much of the market it needed to make Fiber profitable.

This is why the pure libertarian ideas about a completely free market just don't work for some services. It is a complete waste of human and material capital to run more than two last-mile networks (the second for redundancy and you could argue that is also a waste). When you've got more than 4-5 you simply can't ever make a return on investment.

The physical last mile should be separated from the rest of the business and managed by a public benefit or non-profit. It works just fine for electricity choice in states like Texas. We already know the physical fiber can carry 100GB, probably a lot more. The infrastructure would be suitable for at least the next 100 years.

Leave ONT and central office equipment up to individual vendors who want to offer service, which gives them the maximum ability to compete on provisioning, backhaul, customer service, and features.

If you want to object that it is government regulation ruining the free market... well I have news for you: a completely free market has never existed. Ever. In the history of the world. People use social connections, money, and power to stifle competitors. They've been finding creative ways to do that for thousands of years. To pretend that a limited and weak government will be able to exert any control over huge multinational corporations is laughable. Even Uber and AirBnB had to use social pressure to force through changes.
"I have to say, most startup origin stories I've heard seem to begin with personal pain."

Personal pain or recognition of a pattern of problem(s) that could be solved? This is an interesting point because if you limit yourself to simply solving your personal problems, these problems have to be experienced by either a large number of people (usually peers). Otherwise there is no real chance of a business.

I'd prefer to put this as, "solving a personal problem that many* other people face"*.
At that thickness wont this have serious thermal throttling like iMac's do for GPU or CPU?
Ugh. Meant fanless. That was good though
Macs also do pretty well with stock NICs.

This is well outside my area of expertise, but I think it may have been as much a chipset or bus issue as anything (e.g. other limitations presented by the motherboard), as all the issues I've observed or heard about have been with onboard NICs. Even the cheapest add-on cards performed loads better...
I measured my pcs can all do about 1 gig too. I think that claim is incorrect.
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Oh. My. God.

How did I not know about this? I have read everything Mr. Adams has published (I believe). Played a couple of his games. Listened to his radio output. Watched _that_ movie. But I did not know about this.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

I'm actually getting a bit emotional here. Bonus is that I'm super interested in the evolution of text from codex to semantic web (and beyond?) so both the purveyor of the content and the content itself interest me. That Ted Nelson, I tells ya.

Totally unrelated. One thing that the web could have had was _typed_ links. A number of people have made this observation but not many. The idea is built into the assumptions that gave birth to hypertext but the idea was never implemented. See here, for instance: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22907/abstrac...
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Dang, I've been waiting and crossing my fingers here in San Francisco for Google Fiber. I despise Comcast XFINITY (not to mention my bill has soared to nearly $180 a month).
Will there be an iOS version?
"However, I would still defend Youtube's right as a company to act as it chooses."

There are businesses in the US that have gotten slapped with fines for not baking a cake for a gay wedding (and were forced to subsequently shut down). Any other type of cake could have been purchased.

There is a clear bias with US law and the type of censoring we are seeing. This is part of the 'rigged' system that many people are talking about.

It's dangerous to allow businesses to do as they please, because unless you are independently wealthy, you will be ruled by at least one company in your life. It gives them too much control and power over our daily lives.

"If people dislike Youtube's behaviour they can leave the platform, and if enough so choose Youtube will feel the free market forces acting just like any other company would."

Youtube pretty much has a monopoly on video content. Yes, you could go elsewhere, but you will have almost no fan base.

"To see something along these lines that is actually going on in Canada right now check out Jordan B Petersons videos on youtube. [2] I really could not believe what's happening to this very intelligent man is real until I saw it for myself."

This isn't really surprising. Canada really doesn't have the freedom of speech.

Multiple comedians have been ordered to pay fines there for merely telling a joke that offended someone.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mike-ward-verdict-1.3...

"Anyway, I wish people could just calm down with the emotional outbursts and have rational debate to come to conclusions about specific issues or even agreements to disagree."

I wish more people were as rational as you. I feel like the safe space culture we see on college campuses today only hurts our youth and prevents them from being able to maturely process dissenting opinions.
No, the vast majority of the cost is digging the trenches and installing at the house. The cost once that is done is small, the difference between 200 and 1 gig is not that much over 1000 houses.
Well, RIP another Google product I guess.

I'm certain that Google Fiber is what spurred At&T to offer Gigapower fiber in Miami though. So thanks for that.
sha256 was chosen over sha1 because of the larger hash space making collision much less likely. These systems can store 100s of TBs to PBs and at that number of hash blocks you have to start worrying about the birthday paradox.
I would love a phone that I could plug into a dock and use just like a regular computer. I was certain that's what Microsoft was going after with their Windows 8 release. I'm not sure why they aren't pursuing it. I think I read somewhere that Intel dropped their mobile chip line.
Follow sporkologist's advice and also read "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle. It will give insight into why some approaches to practice produce far better results than others.
Yes, but you probably won't be any good.

I started piano when I was 23/24 with the goal of wanting to play Jazz / improvise and quickly realized that the biggest challenge is lacking the technical skills to translate the "mental orchestra" onto the keys.

Especially before bed my mind wanders and produces these amazing Blues/Jazz riffs or Moonlight Sonata-esque ideas, but my talent is far behind my taste when it comes to either trying to play or even transcribing all that I "hear"... at least without significant manual effort.

So yeah, maybe that just confirms what you're saying, but what I realized around year 1 was that "improvisation" is really just a musician's bag of technical skills/tricks combined together in their own unique ways... And ultimately the more technical capability you have, the more "improv" things will appear.
I bet that's what Google thought, too. My understanding, though, is that Google only went to cities that agreed to clear all the red tape, in advance.

So this project should have had most of the 'power of government' efficiency, short of the power of condemnation. I think the logistics and cost of last-mile wiring surprised them.

While government can do it, too, this experiment seems to show [hard wired fiber is] not financially feasible at $100/month to willing consumers. The Government won't be cheaper at building here; just 'better' at subsidizing or socializing the cost through taxes on people who wouldn't pay it otherwise.
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If Fiber does shut down it's going to be pretty devastating for Google's reputation going forward. We're talking about upsetting a whole different demographic of people that fall outside of typical Google users. These are going to be average Joes and Janes most of whom probably don't even use other Google products. They simply jumped on the internet deal because most of their neighborhood did. You abandon these people and they'll never buy any other of your products again. If Google thinks this is going to go over similarly to the shutdown of Reader than i think they'll be in a for a surprise.
I did it in 2015, didn't have any trouble coming back and getting a job last October. Definitely a lot of people sounded amazed and impressed during interviews.
Can someone explain to me why this page uses 2 GB of memory on my machine?
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>While government can do it, too, this experiment seems to show it's not financially feasible at $100/month to willing consumers.

It depends on what payback time they were expecting too. A government can handle it even if it takes 20-30+ years. Or even never for some things (like roads).
This is the first time I've understood diatonic chords, how a key called C Major could have a chord called D Minor.

(I am not much of a musician nor a serious student of music theory. If I were, I guess I would have eventually learned diatonic chords some other way. But it just goes to show you how good this course is, that a person with a passing interest in music theory was able to quickly learn even that.)
Windows has this feature built in. Win+1, 2, 3 etc maps to the location on the task bar. It's one of the best features most people didn't know existed. Swapping between applications becomes very fast and precise.
Are you using an SD card? Try replacing it, that may be the culprit. I'm saying that because:

1- Those seem to be storage-related issues

2- I've had that phone for a long time and the only issues I had were due to a HW failure in my SD (which I then replaced).

Also, when you insert a new SD choose the "portable storage" mode because in my experience it tends to be more reliable.
The problem with gargantuan languages like Scala and C++ is not that some people will try to use every feature, but that everybody will use a slightly different subset.

Most reasonable people will agree on using a subset of the language but few will agree on what goes into that subset :)
Thank you for correcting me, now I know! :)
People are already complaining about the introduction of tanks in new settings like local police forces. Also, when you send a bunch of kids into a putative warzone and they powerslide their tanks around the local streets at 60MPH, it tends to make the locals unhappy. And again, you are shifting goalposts to avoid talking about drones.
What's with him and birds? Let's not address why I had this saved though: http://imgur.com/a/iGMmb
Khao San Rd is more street vendors, backpackers, and travel agents. Maybe you were thinking of Pattaya?
and Electrode.io is exactly you need OOTB.
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Is that really true? We're probably done in 2D, but memory devices (flash) have been scaling vertically.

Of course, you have to lay them out 2D, one layer at a time. And power density is still a problem with circuitry used for computation.
Generality is relative.
> However, I recommend going there during songkran at least once in your life.

Hah. Did this by accident, had no idea what was going on, it was mental. Pro tip: Don't carry any non-waterproof electronics with you. :P
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I found it pretty odd that in an article about Thomas Merton, there wasn't a single reference to Jesus Christ.
I agree. If you want to learn to be a musician, you should start with practice instead of theory. The same goes for learning a language. It's better to learn a few phrases and sentences before the teacher sits you down and starts diagramming the nouns, verbs, prepositions, and so forth.

But just because this course exists doesn't mean you have to go through it first. Go and learn your instrument. Then come back in a couple years when you want to round out your understanding.
The notes that sound good together have a basis in the harmonic series, the 1st and 3rd are octaves of the fundamental, 2x an 3x the frequency. the 2nd harmonic and 4th harmonic make up the other 2 notes in a major chord. Periodic sounds that are not pure sine waves (like vibrating strings) have harmonics. Our ears are attuned to hear these harmonics and this natural phenomenon is the basis of all pitch, melody and harmony in music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)
What was the biggest feature upgrade for the new OSX? Siri.
I fall on the Android side, but that's mostly because of the developer requirements (one time fee vs 99+ a year) and the slightly less simplistic interface.
Very cool. I can't wait to try it after five years in Node land. The people behind zeit.co are great minds in the community.

It is funny how concepts come and go in circles. ASP.NET offered unified client and server development, though mostly in C#. It had the nuget package manager and VS store or something, but it was never amazing and packed like npm. Partial page postbacks and page state in encrypted strings..yikes. Now we have that in redux I suppose. It is all so familiar, yet so much better now.
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This seems like seriously flawed logic, we give up our tools (which are used to build Linux and ChromeOS) so we can build a more "free web", using essentially proprietary / centralized systems in some convoluted way?

I think we're better off putting our faith and efforts into technology like IPFS if we want to build a more "free web". This seems like the wrong direction to in.

It seems Google is turning into a privacy disaster, I want less of it in my life, not more.
You don't know what you are talking about. Not _everyone_ is sticking to callbacks. Many (if not most) are now on promises or async/await.

Also you slipped in weasel language to disrespect JS developers. I have been coding for 30 years in wverything from assembly to C++ to C# to OCaml to now for the last several years mainly Node.js. Your comment was (reading between the lines) as close as you could get on Hacker News to spitting in my face.

Promisifying works fine. So do rewrites, as the language has evolved rapidly.

We do not actually have a big backwards compatibility problem.

Dynamic languages are dynamic.
Yeah, it's like the best 30 seconds demo I have ever seen.
No escape key? This company is an absolute joke now. Guess it's back to Windows on a PC for me.
I hear that argument a lot, but it only seems to be true if you never need to look at code from outside your immediate team/project (either because you don't use it, or you use it without ever understanding it)

In the case of Scala:

If you ever browse the standard collections library you'll run into a lot of different variance rules and implicit constraints. It is quite hard to really understand the collections library if you don't get your head around those.

If you want to use Spray for anything more complex than they spell out in their examples, then you need to understand their magnet pattern.

If you want to be able to debug a problem in Slick then you'll need to understand shapeless.

If you ever go anywhere near scalaz then you'll need to understand every esoteric symbol and operator in Scala, as well as be able to read and understand Haskell (because the patterns and types in Scalaz are often explained by reference to the Haskell equivalent)

Yes, I can set rules for my own team about what features we use internally, but I want my team to at least broadly understand the syntax and patterns used in the APIs that they interface with, which means you need to either read & understand most of the features that you aren't using internally, or avoid a very large percentage of the scala ecosystem.
Electrode.io is also new by WalmartLabs which I have not try yet.
Especially now, that speech recognition is close to human performance.
Apple doesn't care what its power users want anymore. They've devolved into a company that sells shiny, underpowered, overpriced trinkets to cashed-up fools.
I don't know a whole lot about any of this, but isn't Swift's library bundled with iOS apps? Or is that for a different purpose, such as iOS being able to run apps that target different versions of Swift?
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I'm curious to know if any phone is made like this. The Surface is also almost impossible to replace on your own and about the same cost as you mention.
You're still pushing a false equivalence. There are to a first approximation no non-hardcore MRAs. Feminism, on the other hand, is entirely mainstream. It's like saying that the more hardcore ends of both Roman Catholics and Branch Davidians have a problem with violence.
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I once knew a guy with an `ALT-F4` plate in Texas.
I use a Xiaomi Note 3. Decent 16 MP camera, the battery lasts a good 3 days. Fits in my pocket. Dual Sim. Expandable storage. I bought it for approx $200.
http://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_note_3-7863.php
Great idea! Just FYI I'm noticing a fair bit of static when playing the various tones. It's mostly at the beginning, which makes me think it's just due to the discontinuity at the beginning (maybe start the volume at zero and quickly increase?) But I'm getting blips of static in the middle of most tones as well, so there must be something else going on. Tried both Chrome and Firefox. I suppose this could be an artifact from my onboard sound card or something like that, but I haven't noticed anything similar elsewhere.
> I've never been tempted to try LSD or cocaine (for example), because there is currently no legal way to obtain it and I definitely don't feel like engaging in risky activities just to try.

That's a real shame. LSD is incredible.
Quick story: here in Apex, NC, Google announced they'd bring Fiber here and everybody was really excited. A few months later when the website went up, everyone I know entered their address to check availability and it turns out that Google decided to draw the "line" just outside our town, stopping short of including Apex (a suburb of Raleigh) but including other suburbs like Cary and Morrisville.

The whole town was pissed. We were excited for Google Fiber and then had it taken away from us when they had previously said Apex would be included.

Fast forward another few months and we heard rumblings that AT&T might be debuting their GigaPower fiber service in Apex. Soon after, AT&T verified this rumor then started running fiber lines all over. My neighborhood (and others in Apex near me) all got gigabit fiber for under $100/mo, AND it turns out Google dragged their feet with the surrounding suburbs and they didn't get Google Fiber till months later, but by then everyone had just signed up for AT&T GigaPower and forgot all about Google.
Have you, by any chance, played Rocksmith? It seems like it might be an approach you'd enjoy.
A 'classic' new technology that comes up every few years.

They often try and say how it can be used 'efficiently' but it's hard to see it ever working.

Could you really install it on roads at the cost of billions just so you can turn car petrol power to energy at peak times?

Were is it going to be useful in remote areas compared to just shoving up a solar panel?

Walked on every day vs a solar panel which is never trod on? Which is going to last longer?
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And that's _exactly_ why Google didn't go that route! I'm all in favor of sticking it to Comcast/Time Warner/whomever, but I very much do _not_ want my neighbors taking it upon themselves to try and run homebrew fiber through the city park by my house, or under my backyard without my knowledge or permission. If I owned utility poles, I would presumably have some opinions about people climbing up to install their own cables, and if I didn't, I'm sure that whoever I buy liability insurance from would!

Look, there are reasons why cities have permitting processes. Those reasons sometimes do include regulatory capture, etc., but generally they have to do with making it possible for large numbers of people to make productive and stable use of shared resources and infrastructure in an organized manner. I'll be the first one to agree that some permitting processes in some areas are imperfect, but that's not a reason to ignore them whole-hog.
The OP? I think you mean the article? But I don't believe that link was in there when I posted.
Can your camera fit in a pocket?
These are the little things I love seeing on HN. :)
I think HN is having the same effect as Wikipedia here. Someone makes an obviously biased and unsubstantiated claim, and others downvote them bring it back to center, even though some are not religious.
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