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I'm on Wind mobile for my primary phone and pay around CAD 35/m (40 if you factor in taxes) for unlimited data (3GB full speed, throttled for more - but have yet to throttle me even though I always go above my data limit).

It's great if you travel in any area with coverage, anything outside and you'll have trouble - I recently decided to drive to Scugog (from Oshawa) - I didn't have data from almost the entire ride.

I was lucky as I had HERE maps (with downloaded offline maps).
Cultural differences? Maybe, but not in the way you think. It's cultural in the political philosophy more than anything else.

Let's summarize it thusly: the U.S. regulatory system, while not totally a free market, is a lot less stringent and red-tape-heavy than places like the EU. HOWEVER, you need a disincentive for 'bad actors' to cause harm, and in the U.S. we rely more on tort law ("wrongs") than in the EU, where things are more tightly regulated (in theory). It's a matter of degree. Rather than risk fines or even, in some cases, jail time, in the U.S. companies are afraid of getting sued, and thus you see all those 'don't put your finger in the socket' 'this knife is sharp, be careful' type notices on consumer products. The cultural aspect is around the idea that government shouldn't interfere overly in the market. The country was founded on the ideas of philosophers like Adam Smith.

If 30 million isn't enough, what would be enough? "All the profit of this product"? "All the revenue based on this product"? And .. would you award that to some random party? Because that's what this is about as well, no? Someone was hurt (financially, emotionally) and now there's supposed to be a pay out. Would you suggest giving the "victims" 100 houses for the one house they lost? One party/family should be able to own a small village of luxury houses to hurt Amazon?

Good question, and sometimes class action lawsuits (involving hundreds, or even thousands of people) happen. Note, the point of 'punitive' is punishiment. Disincentive. Don't do it again. It's up to lawyers / juries to 'decide' what the renumeration is. As to whom goes a bulk, well, you can rest assured law can be a lucrative profession for a reason.
> If I'm a storyteller, it's because I listen

Becoming good at anything, especially writing, is a practice in developing your attention.

1) Listen and Notice what's going on around you every day. Keep a daily journal of your observations. No one creates out of nothing. We only combine details we've seen elsewhere.

2) Focus on the smallest possible detail that still captures the meaning of the whole.

3) Do this every day. Create a practice of awareness. Life is full of meaning. We just have to learn to see it.
Well see what happened to Apple now??
Are you happy now
No autopilot?
"What frustrates me the most is that Apple never admits a mistake."

In a country as lawsuit happy as the USA, would any decent legal departement allow a company to admit a mistake?

And if these machines do not sell, I would expect they will cut prices or price the next version (which, then, may come out fairly soon) lower (it wouldn't surprise me if their roadmap already includes a version with a Skylake CPU and DDR4 memory at the current price point, while keeping the existing models around at lower prices)
Ask HN: Standing desks – still using over the long term?
I'm finally thinking of getting a standing desk since I was last at Ikea and found one for a reasonable price.

What are peoples thoughts on standing desks after long term use? First I have to consider the loss of desk real estate, but I should still be able to run my triple monitor setup.

Second is the fact that I do often take breaks for a quick run on the treadmill, lift some weights, etc. So maybe there is no benefit to a standing desk for me.
Indeed and for me I often feel a 511bit key better than a 512bit key or a 1023bit key better than a 1024 bit key down to the aspect of rainbow tables alone. Though I'm sure somebody with superior knowledge of crypto systems could prove me wrong, I've not had that pleasure yet and I love being wrong - it is when I learn the most.
Ecomo: Smart water bottle
Seemly this is a list of several NSA "zombies" used for cyberwarfare.

After googling parts of the file, I found a news report that claims they actually put some of the addresses there in SHODAN and actually did get into machines actually infected with NSA cyberwarfare software.
I think most people are actually leasing and getting a new car when the lease is up.
The weird, “silent” networking strategy that rakes in clients
There are combined cycle natural gas plants that can go up to 68% eff
They're not hard to find. Many people just lease a new vehicle every four or five years.
A list of compromised (or C&C) servers, and what tools are being used.

edit: Posted at same time as speeder, what he said.
What a relatable analogy!

I wonder if there is a cognitive rule / bias that explains how taking away zeroes makes comparison of figures much clearer...?
>> Who are all these people buying new cars all the time?

I'm not sure where you're from, but this is Hacker News, so I'll just ask - Who are all these people who can afford to live in California? ;-)

It's all relative. Remember, the annual new car market is the number of cars on the road divided by the life of a car. This accounts for the sale of used cars as well.
I was about to answer VLC and then I red your answer and realized I'm lagging 10 years behind.
This processor has no stack
Au contraire, I much prefer my 2016 car's built-in navigation system with consistent performance and features to the ADHD ever-changing, signal-dependent, random notifiers asking stupid questions, craptastic voice input, arbitrarily failing navigation apps of the two major mobile providers.

I don't WANT to update my navigation system. That's exactly what I HATE about Google Maps etc. In fact, I have gone so far as to opt out of updating my car's system to enable Android Auto after I tried it out in a rental and found it to be an epic bowl of buggy fail that nearly got me in an accident.

And of course, that didn't stop the Android team from breaking basic Bluetooth support in Android 7.0.1 on my Nexus 5x because they're go-getters in that department.

My car is a useful device that I need to count on daily, not a @#$%ing mobile app like Candy Crush.
Huh. I'm not sure why, but I was almost certain it was.
I want my laptop to still have enough memory for workloads 3 years from now, too. My VMs keep getting bigger; browsers (and web apps) keep demanding ever more RAM; image and video resolutions keep increasing and demanding more memory to edit; the websites I develop are designed for ever beefier servers.
Let's also add the saved time/trip distance in not going to the gas station.

But separately, depreciation on EVs is a bit unknown. The powertrain should be good for a very long time - but the battery pack may cancel out any benefit relative to IC cars.
I think I'll stick with my 2000 Ford mustang with 220k miles. The syncros in the transmission are mostly out, so I have to double clutch to down shift, but that just makes me feel more in control. Plus I can do awesome burn outs when ever I feel like it.
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> I cannot get it to reliably connect to a win10 samba server
Windows is by far the worst peer when it comes to file shares.

Are you sure it's the Mac? In my experience, things suddenly start working on the network once you remove Windows from the equation.
I'm pretty sure 99.999% of websites don't require Facebook complexity. And even if you do require it, I don't see why Vue.js can't handle what Facebook does.
Ask HN: How do you organize your list of academic papers?
I started reading a lot of research papers as of late, especially in Machine Learning. I keep a list of links to papers I want to read, or have already read, so I can easily get back to them.

I've been using Google Keep to do this:

- 1 note per topic (e.g.: Recurrent Models, Vision, Memory, etc), with checkbox enabled, and labelled "Papers"

- 1 link + paper name per checkbox item, marked as "done" if I've read it

This is not an ideal system, since it...

- breaks Keeps' search functionality (Keep highlights notes that match your search, not individual checkbox items)

- makes it very hard to reorganize items in separate notes (you have to copy-paste)

So I was wondering if y'all knew of a better way to organize academic papers. Is there a better tool out there I should look at? Is there a better way to use Keep? I've been suggested to use 1 note per paper, which also allows me to write down thoughts after reading the paper, but that also means cluttering my Keep with tons of notes and it becomes harder to organize papers by topic.
I wish people made more puny phones that work with my small hands. I'm really happy with iPhone SE, but I don't have high hopes that there will be a refresh.
The stance on personal after-work projects, as well as whether or not you're to work in an open-space office, are two things I'd really love every job listing mentioned. It would be the primary filter for me.
“Removal of powerpc as a release architecture”
one charger for many devices beats one charger per device. period.

Apple obviously knows this, as they just moved their macbook to USB-C.

now i can charge my android phone with the same cable as my macbook, android is more compatible with the new macbook than the iphone is; thats an embarrassment
Government debt is not like household debt

https://econproph.com/2011/07/14/private-debt-vs-government-...

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/01/14/why-public-...

https://mises.org/library/government-debt-not-private-debt

etc etc
> In my experience the only thing Google Maps navigation has going for it is superior data.

Well, I think most people would include price as something going for it as well.

Plus, data is huge. I have a nav package in my car but never use it because it can't route me around accidents/construction like Waze does. Driving in rush hour traffic on a construction-laden road every day, this has proven invaluable...
yeah, I know about the Linux compatibility in Windows. But I don't want Windows ;)

So Linux is good enough for me, but on the Laptop there are still many issues, like waking from sleep. Apple has an excellent product, but on the day that I decide that I need to switch, then I'll probably also try to contribute to help fix the Linux issues.
Is there any sort of open source non-browser interpreter for Webassembly?
With CarPlay and Google Auto you can get some of these features. What I'd really like to see is a way for a phone to get access to the car's odometer, that is how car navigation systems continue to work in tunnels (by using dead reckoning).
What grandchildren? The likelihood of me having kids at this point is extremely remote. The way I see it, if you're going to have kids, you have to meet a good partner in your 20s or even teens, and at the very very latest, your early 30s. I'm beyond that now; back in those ages, I never managed to meet someone who wanted to have kids and had an interest in a guy who wasn't a loud-mouthed extrovert.

My big regret: not moving to the PacNW when I had the chance in my mid-20s. Things would probably be extremely different for me now if I had. Or maybe I should have tried moving to Asia; women there appreciate intelligent but quiet men who have good careers.

So if I'm really really lucky, 50 years from now someone will still be using some code I wrote. That's really the best I can hope for as far as having "an impact".
We're All Mad Here
If you're an existing Mac user, the recommendations here to "just get a Mac" may be better, but I'll throw another possibility into the mix:

I ran OSX in VirtualBox for a good while in order to use some locked-in iOS dev tools. It was slow, but that was largely just because my underlying machine wasn't very new at the time, it was easy to install, and I never encountered any stability issues. It would free you up to get the best machine without worrying about hw compat.

Disclaimer: This was OSX Lion days. Have not tried recently. Ymmv.
A MobX introduction and case study
I don't think the point is that 'Apple doesn't ever fail anymore', it's 'Apple doesn't release strange and interesting things anymore'.

.. to your examples:

* Stranger mice have been made than Apple's. Also, Apple's 'strange mouse' lineage goes all the way back to the first iMac in 1998.

* Siri on the desktop isn't anything innovative, it's figuring out some way to build some iOS code to run in regular macOS.

* .. and the pencil is just a stylus. They can call it whatever they want.

IMHO, none of these rise to the level of something like MagSafe, which is a mundane part of a laptop done in a new and innovative way.
Open Source – Generate your startup's back end \m/ VANGAV BACKEND
Compatibility with their new MacBook Pros, which have four USB C adapters and nothing else.
I think it's a lot of money to spend on a vehicle, but if you look at leasing, lots of vehicles are less than $5000 a year, which is an easier number to wrap your mind around if you figure many of the people paying it aren't super focused on saving.
The Conjuring 2 – Google sketch up tutorial
Real question here is 'why isn't auth built in to the browser'. Lack of browser support is the reason oauth is so complicated (it relies on HTTP redirect to pass information around).

Imagine a web experience sans cookies and sans JS. If you take into account the economics of content, it can only happen with browser-mediated login.
Possibly. Even though I'm down voted, it's true. People just don't like to admit it.
It should be pointed out that much like a family, there are perfectly valid reasons you might want to carry 140k in debt on 20k a year in income -- owning a house or tools for your trade, investing in your children's future, covering short term cashflow issues, etc.

The problem is that our household really requires about the amount of money we're putting in to it (insurance, healthcare, utilities, etc), but part of our family keeps convincing everyone in the household to take lower paying jobs on the theory that we can use the free time to make even more money on a side project. So far, everyone took lower paying jobs, but the side projects haven't materialized. This mixed-state is definitely unsustainable long term.

I'd say it's just not realistic to have this low of a paying job, even if we did take on a lot of side projects for income, but that's a pretty contentious political debate. (I mean, I'd argue that history agrees with me, but doesn't everyone?)
Yes, in short: government debt is monetisable (circulated) and is indeed the whole basis for the currency. Household debt is not.
I used to think the same. We bought a new car 3 years ago with a financing which we still need to pay for 3 more years. However, we had to spend nearly $1000 on a new set of tires and alignment recently, and now I'm thinking it is better to get another brand new car as soon as we get a deal from the manufacturer or the dealer.
This is my minimum goal now, something I must do no matter where I end up.
I don't want Apple to stuff around with teleportation (or more realistically... cars)

I just want them to make a pro laptop
Exactly. Particularly once you jump between a few apps, and as I said elsewhere, I can't use media/volume/display controls and f-keys without the function key, so I don't use the f-keys on my existing MBP.

Haptic feedback would be interesting..
You should definitely check out the BMW i3. I just bought the 2017 model with Range Extender. It has some excellent cloth seat options, and favors use of recycled materials that are environmentally friendly over leather (although you can still get leather if you really want it).

The i3 is not only a blast to drive, I think it gives the Chevy a run for its money. First, it has 114 mile electric range, and an additional 70 mile gas range (in the range extender version) by firing up a small 2 cylinder generator. So, you essentially have an infinite range as long as you're within 70 miles of a gas station.

Also, it's a BMW, and drives like a premium car. Expect great handling, and great performance. It's BMW's fastest production car from 0-42 mph, beating out even all of the M cars, so that tells you a little bit about how zippy it is.
While I agree, you don't need formal fractional reserve banking to create the same sorts of crises, see for example the various US financial panics prior to the creation of the Fed in 1913 (e.g. go to the bottom of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1910%E2%80%9311 and hit Show on "Banking panics in the United States").
Yes, Gasoline in US is cheaper compared to other parts of world.
Thanks for advice. I'll try it!
> I make sure to preface my suggestions to the team with, "Now, this is probably another terrible manager-idea, but how about we…".

Does this work for you? I mean, do you get more constructive criticism using this? I tend to think in real life we are programmed to agree with our managers most of the time. Have you received more sincere feedback when you start saying this?
Totally forgot about Test Drive Unlimited's Oʻahu, mostly because I have no idea how that island looks like in real life. And TDU2 had Ibiza as well (Yet that game was somehow unbearable otherwise).

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/fvjnv/which_video_g...

It's fan made game maps even work with google maps: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=15SpJFVht9kXZ0yVMIz...
There's no hope of curing this in the popular press, but I think technical people should still be careful with the term. I think it's great that someone's called it out on HN.
UK chip startup Graphcore raises £30m for take on AI giants
They can't really get in and scrub these, because people are watching them now, so upside, some poor sap isn't having to go in and do a ton of cleanup work, downside is there are a lot of potential honeypots now.
Dart Developer Summit 2016 Videos
It doesn't matter what his _actual_ positions are. Trump represents a total F-U to American politics. This is what his people WANT.

He can say anything he wants and get away with it (... and he literally has).

There is some precedent here. Berlusconi in Italy was a similar character (another a-hole media billionaire) who ended up making Italian politics a laughing-stock by grossly mismanaging the running of government. Like Trump, he appealed to fake old-timey values, people were willing to ignore his appalling behavior and character flaws and accept him like some nasty uncle-like figure.

Unfortunately, someone like Trump as president in the USA would be capable of far more damage geopolitically and economically than that clown, Berlusconi, in Italy ever could.
Making what people want isn’t enough, you have to share it
I think you're thinking of asm.js, which is a subset of JavaScript that can compile to native code directly. WebAssembly is more or less a binary representation of asm.js.

Edit: Looks like WebAssembly is more low level than asm.js, and is actually closer to real assembly, whereas asm.js is more akin to C.
4K KVMs: Frustration with Terrible Hardware
As a convert who used to be an ardent Android supporter, I've learned a very important lesson after switching. It's not always about the numbers. In fact it's never about the numbers. You can't quantify sheer quality. You can't quantify how something makes you feel. I understand this can be easily retorted by "Well I get that feel from my Samsung Galaxy N, it's totally subjective", but I think that's just being dishonest. I've seen people mention that they're considering switching back to Android after the headphone jack thing, or switching to a PC laptop after the touchbar thing. For me simply touching the surface of ANY premium laptop currently on the market is enough to realize that Apple is light years ahead in terms of how they engineer their devices to feel. Simple things like opening a lid. Using the trackpad. The force touch. How the ringer switch clicks into place. All of it screams "quality". Not like 15% higher quality, but like light years higher quality. It's my experience anyway. It's like -- yes you can take the best mechanical Breitling and ask what does it do that the average Casio ProTrek does not? And there may be not a good answer for that in terms of numbers. But just take both in your hands, and try to objectively say -- which device you intuitively want to interact with more? Which one attracts you with some inexplicable magic? Which one your fingers are craving to touch and understand? Imagine having that feeling every day with a daily device. Imagine having that feeling as the norm. How could you opt in for something less, despite the numbers?
A 511bit key is just a 512bit key with the last bit zero.
OP probably means no discrete GPU, which these days means intel graphics. The latest ones should be able to drive 4K without issue.
The problem is, the file can get locked and still be available for backup. Smart enough malware will send an encrypted version when accessed over LAN while local access is unimpeded for some time. There is a reasonable chance that your backup will end up with encrypted files. This is why you need more than one.
Unfortunately, too many will look at this as a rationale to tax more rather than spend less.
How does it have the same impact on outcome? You're talking about the associative property of multiplication but he's saying the luck factor can either reduce your success to 0 or multiply the outcome of your endeavor by 1000. It obviously does have an impact (note: the results of .9 * .9 * 1000 and .9 * .9 * 1 are different numbers).
"Most people had a plain 27" iMac. Fusion drives were not even allowed." - Max Howell

https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/792050644093902848
Ask HN: Setting up testing framework for UI-Advice
I work in a startup and we have scraped through so far without a proper guideline/setup for web dev testing all through the mercy of good QA team. We want to follow best practices for our enterprise applications.

Criteria we are looking at so far
- a good testing framework, test runner and code
coverage tool.
- tools to enforce unit testing and js style guide.
- tools for enforcing in both code editor( we use atom and sublime) and in build pipeline.
- We also want to test our application in Firefox/IE 10-above and Edge/Chrome

We are moving to React/Redux from Angular 1.x, the backend is in Java which is well written code. Focus is solely on Front end now
You had me up until the "$10 for every phone sold" bit. Do you seriously believe Apple is happy to willingly sabotage sales of their tens-of-billions cash cow to make a few tens of millions on accessories?

They stuck with 30-pin because it was something their customer base had already bought into, and they didn't want to force a change. They went with Lightning because, let's be honest, micro-USB is shit — every micro-USB device I've owned has had the connector fail within two years. Lightning can handle 12W of power, micro-USB 9W. Lightning is reversible. Lightning has no moving parts on the connector, prone to breaking (or worse) grabbing onto your $700 device with a death grip and bring nigh-unremovable.

It would be great if they switched now to USB-C. They're clearly in the works on that, but didn't want to make a connector change on their phones after only two revs.
There is pretty bleeding-edge support for compiling to both asm.js and WebAssembly in Rust that recently landed: https://users.rust-lang.org/t/compiling-to-the-web-with-rust...

So, at the very least there's support for C, C++, and Rust at the moment, though of course since the standards aren't yet finalized and the toolchains are evolving how well it works at any given moment may vary. I'm sure there's work going on for other languages to compile down to WASM, just not sure of the status of any other languages at the moment.
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HERE got bought by a group of automakers.
Show HN: Vagrant replacement in ~250 lines of code in Python 3