skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SIM card is a smart card, i.e. a secure piece of hardware, that protects the telephone network from the subscriber - most importantly, it ensures that the network has someone to bill.

In most western countries, SIMs do little else; however, they are full application platforms, allowing stuff like Kenya's mobile payment network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa.

For what it's worth, you really don't want to have every network provider negotiate with Samsung for the particular access policy of that network. "Not compatible with your telephone" indeed!
But most aggression comes from disgreement over who property belongs to! Whose property is Israel/Palestine again? Who "owns" the air and can expliit the resource of increasing its CO2 contents?

Is it obvious that humans can own large areas of land simply because their grandfather did? If so, then in the case of US, why do you start tracking property after the natives who originally used it were forced off the land? And so on.

Property is not a simple concept and something to easily be for or against.

Property is almost always disputed and almost always linked to use of force somehow.
Sorry got carried away
These is a clear and balanced assessment of the pros and cons of pursuing a career in the arts:

https://80000hours.org/career-reviews/pursuing-fame-in-art-a...
>Whose property is Israel/Palestine again?

Yes, but we recognize that as a disagreement over who has legitimate claim to the property. With taxes, we take property that practically everyone, except the most snobbish socialist intellectual, and certainly the courts, would recognize as belonging to the individual.

It's on a totally different scale in terms of how certain we can be that it's a violation of property rights.
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Most of your list is either a specialized requirement, or something that probably wouldn't be that much easier on Windows / MacOS. I meant that simple things like browsing the Internet, video chatting, and playing music (the needs of 99% of computer users) work out of the box. GP was saying that you literally can't install Linux without kernel patching and command line wizardry, which is totally false, and the only point I was refuting.

I'll add one to your list -- dealing with Linux audio. I have a stable music production setup now, but it took me a long time to iron everthing out.
The economics of a minimum wage is much debated. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Economics_models

However you are both making different points. @kardashev is making a the classic argument against a minimum wage. You're arguing that giving low income people more money will help them.

It's not hard to think of other ways to top up incomes that don't involve setting a minimum wage. The simplest would be to pay low income people money directly instead of through an employer. A direct transfer system like this would probably satisfy economists more than a minimum wage would, since a direct payment has less of a negative effect on economic behaviour than a price mandate.
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SIM card provides hardware-based, simple and secure authentication of subscribers to mobile network operators. Until manufacturers start to embed standardized secure element on all phones, alternative software based solutions (password, etc.) are more complicated and insecure.
Memory is still the number 1 limit I have to deal with, every day. Both on my laptop, and on the server side. It remains highyl relevant exactly because of that kind of attitude.
Hoo boy. Can't wait for the Rothbardian argument from you about why a marketplace for infants is a good idea.

Also love the revisionist history that welfare has in any way grown. It hasn't, in fact it's been scaled back dramatically since the 90s, and the consequences have been horrendous: http://www.demos.org/blog/2/12/16/welfare-reform-was-quite-b...
> Approaching a woman to let her know my 'intent' isn't 'unwanted sexual attention'

In some situations in some countries, especially in the workplace, it is unwanted sexual attention and it will cause problems for you.
Copyrighted song lyrics are not gpl compatible? Well, hmm. Do you have a better example, say of included code under an incompatible license?
> I'd try to reason with you, but it seems we're not in the same world anyway.

Claiming that I'm too unreasonable to debate with won't win you any points.

> Also it sounds weird to talk about people's labor as if they were potatoes

It's not weird since it's something that has a market value. People are not their labor. Someone's labor can be bought and sold, and the availability and price of labor is subject to the same economic laws as potatoes.

Some potatoes are worth $0.60 but not $0.80, and if the price of potatoes were dictated to be $0.80, the $0.60 would go in the trash.

I don't want potatoes or people's labor to go in the trash.
The government awards him both the patent and the intellectual property, the latter not being defined by the constitution.
If you have an iPad there is already a software solution:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/apple-sim/

It contains what is known as a remote provisioning SIM:
https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/research/?file=81d866ecda8b...

So clearly the only thing stopping the industry is the telcos who would very much like to make it as difficult as humanely possible for you to switch carriers. Especially in the US where there is a lot of competition and hence high churn.
jQuery doesn't provide a structure for you app, it's just a library for DOM manipulations, not the framework. So jQuery and Vue.js are not comparable things. Using Vue.js or Angular you are not supposed to work with DOM directly apart of the directives.

It's a key thing to define a flexible structure when you are working on a complex project. It's supposed to be harder to learn Vue.js or similar things than jQuery since using such kind of frameworks you will probably be working on the complex project, so you will have to use your brain to define a proper app structure, to keep code base maintainable, to conduct a refactoring, etc.
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> If some job needs to be done it will be paid.

The opportunity cost of a service is the limit for which one would be expected to pay for it. If forced to pay $1,000,000 to have someone clean your bathroom, you'd end up cleaning it yourself.
With facial recognition, we could make a t-shirt that makes you violats the DMCA: every time a face is detected looking at the shirt, it breaks some sort of "digital lock." I'm thinking we have it decode an ISO of a DVD, but it could be almost anything.
There are some solutions out that are in software that are "eSIM" which allow devices to switch carriers through an OTA update.

Also see a company called SIMless.

There's a lot of market momentum around SIM cards and it keeps a telco's offering really sticky. It is more effort for people to swap hardware instead of software.
For some perspective, check electronupdate's recent 'decapping': http://electronupdate.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/decap-of-cell-...
It is not just a little block of secure RAM labelled a 'smartcard'. It contains as much CPU as a low end phone. Amazing.
> Now, if someone lets me put images in comments, that would be amazing. Good for state transition diagrams and random scribbles

That's exactly what JetBrains MPS (https://www.jetbrains.com/mps/) does. Even better: the state transition diagram is the code. Some of my colleagues are playing with it - not sure if it's used in production yet.
all true. moscow is really great, safe and clean
After seeing your comments in this thread and looking at your comment history, I have to ask: What is your affiliation with Signal/Open Whisper Systems, if any?
Would you mind elaborating a bit on "a wide array of utility functions that you would typically use in your vue.js app."?

I am an amateur developer (home projects) and started to use Vue which I find excellent. I had the idea, though, that using Vue and jQuery at the same time is not correct (= technically it works but it is not recommended as Vue is supposed to do the jQuery things. If you use jQuery then your Vue design is wrong. Again, this was my understanding). Except for AJAX where I use qwest anyway.
Yet Trump vocally opposes Planned Parenthood.

Trump ardently and vocally supports Planned Parenthood. He was the only candidate at the Republican debates that did so. He was booed on the stage by the audience and maintained his support in the face of disapprobation. He was willing to lose votes for it.

Trump believes deeply in women's health and maternity leave and women in the workforce and has hired vast numbers of women in executive positions to run his real estate empire. It's one of his major points of departure from mainstream Republicanism.

(Are you perhaps aware that he's reluctant to go to war just for the heck of it like most leading national Republicans, too?)
I think this comes about because of that thing, you know, too many cooks spoil the broth.

Too many UX designers fuck everything up.

I just use my smartphone now to sent SMS, make and receive calls, and read HN. Because the user experience of doing anything else on it makes me want to throw it in the river.
I think it is more of a traditional security approach of "pairing hardware with hardware" and a case of "not fixing what is not broken" instead of making consumers suffer. It just works.
> It will stimulate the economy to promote more jobs.

It will increase the cost of labor, and result in fewer, more expensive goods and services.

We can both claim things all day.
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Not really. Military grade weapons are a big deal. They're used to kill people.

Export controls are there to prevent killing machines getting in the hands of a countries enemies (or potential enemies in the future)
Locking devices to networks (as US telcos do) makes it harder to switch providers than swapping a $5 SIM.

Same with switching devices and keeping a provider. Using a SIM, takes about a minute. Not using a SIM? Call them or whatever, maybe pay a fee.
Human vision is not a single snapshot.

We have two 'cameras' and they scan the image they are looking at by jumping around the image 20–200 ms intervals. The perceived image is integration of many of these jumps and its' constantly changing.
I don't think you understand what the author saying. The author is saying that the new keyboards are terrible, and when he realised why he thinks they're terrible he went out and bought a mech keyboard.

He's sad that Apple are choosing this new keyboard technology for the MBP range, and from what I gather, he won't be purchasing a new Macbook Pro.
Why not move the company overseas?
Or, posting online before contacting each other directly? Incomprehensible to me.
> The Mac Pro is overpowered for them.
I'm not sure if you are trolling?

Moore's law has slowed down btw and is predicted to end in 4-6 years (2020 - 2022) as it would be physically impossible to shrink transistors any further /unless/ there is a change from the current silicon CMOS technology.

In fact, manufacturers are no longer even targeting the doubling of transistors anymore! Instead they are focusing speeding them up.
"the entire Javascript community seems to suffer from ADHD"

^^^ THIS ^^^
This is classic libertarian bullshit. Ask them how they enforce private property and watch the web of insane bullshit about how market intervention is "violence" unravels. Hilariously, the newest trend in libertarian thought is to embrace something like feudalism without reservation, which is basically the inevitable consequence of a libertarian society.
The downside with proportional representation is that it really only works as long as you have "near two party" conditions. I.e. two large parties plus a couple of smaller parties are ok. Once you have many medium sized parties, the outcome of your vote on a respective government becomes completely unpredictable as well, because you will get pretty random coalitions. Because this forces all parties to get rid of major disagreements, it feeds fringe demagogues agitating against the "mainstream". Eventually those conditions can lead to "great coalitions" of the remaining larger parties, which then have 2/3 majorities and similar things you would want to avoid.
This reminds me of the similar joy of stumbling across a pianola museum in Amsterdam.

Always a pleasure to find such a well curated niche set of exhibits.
>I don’t know why either. When I found out that the Chaos Computer Club in Hamburg is kind of the center of this global hacker-encryption culture, I was surprised.

>There is a strong undercurrent of right-wing movements in Germany, right?

This is a bullshit insinuation. The Chaos Computer Club was founded by leftists in Berlin and they have consistently criticized projects of the CDU, Germany's largest right wing party. They tend to be much more left wing libertarian than right wing libertarian and they are very far from being conservative in any way.
> Feels like this is probably the result of telco networks wanting as much friction as possible to change providers, but is there something more to it?

In 3rd world countries, people regularly swithch their SIMs as they travel across borders because no one has cross-country access. Taking a SIM out only uses up a minute of your time, and standizing on a hardwardware dongle like that is great because if company A goes out of business, you just grab a new SIM and stick it in.

It's a bit harder in the US, where phones are locked to their providers, and you need IDs to buy SIMs but that's really all just a regulation issue, not a technical one.
Wouldn't e.g. a username and password accomplish the same thing as what you're describing?
Well I glanced in and saw a decorator for event functions, like a debounce for an onClick.

That seems like a whole different thing. Isn't it worth while?
That has to be a spec violation of at least one part of the system. How can a USB-A port possibly ever receive power? Does it actually charge the battery or does the phone just think it's delivering power - perhaps because of a non-compliant cable?
If you can't pay 21k in fines, you definitely can't afford the engineering and safety testing required.
Function composition is so common it deserves its own syntax.
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> There's a lot of market momentum around SIM cards and it keeps a telco's offering really sticky. It is more effort for people to swap hardware instead of software.

I'd love to see evidence of this. Switching SIMs is something non-technical users do regularly.
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I honestly don't know that part of the Unix philosophy. And it starkly contrasts with my experience related to Unix, where most of the time we throw nothing away.
What Apple does with purchased MacBook?

It will be funny if Apple puts ban on reselling these devices and disable their iTune accounts.
Now any hacker that finds a flaw in a mobile OS will be able to impersonate you with another phone. For what gain?
Do you mean "Appeal to nature"?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
This applies to my computer as well. I use it to drive on the information superhighway.
Let me try it: Saying that my labor isn't worth $11/hr surely doesn't sound nice to me. But the intentions of saying that to me are making a huge difference. If you're just being mean, begrudging, racist or otherwise inhumane - offense is duly taken. But there can be a compassionate intention too. Denying that this intention could exist, leaves me believing the world is against me instead of actively acquiring working skill.

Coming from the other side of $8/hr I can assure you that you'll had so much inhumanity coming at you, you will very likely recognize the true intentions.* Looking back, I cannot thank the moments of compassionate harshness enough and could almost get angry at those denying these moments exist. Instead I say to them: It's easy to wear those rose-colored glasses if you don't have to live with its repercussions.

* granted, this works well on a personal level, maybe not so well if it comes out as a political press release
Wow, a man page that is actually readable and understandable.

I've been using Linux for years, and never once have I seriously looked at a man page. One of the more useless pieces of advice Linux beginners are given is to `man [tool]`. The documentation often has tonnes of useless information and no examples. It's frustrating, and it's also why projects like tldr[0] have gotten so popular.

But, the page linked in the OP is actually brilliant. It's easy to read, has examples, compartmentalises into sections that are relevant to different people. It's a step in the right direction.

Note: I'm not saying there aren't other pages like OP. There probably are, but the vast majority are not.

[0] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
SIM: Subscriber Identity Module almost says it all, on top of that a SIM can store your contacts (up to a certain number).

The SIM is what separates your identity from the hardware of the phone (which has its own identity called 'IMEI').

A 'software solution' would need a carrier, that carrier IS the SIM.

Another nice benefit of having the SIM device is that it makes it much harder to 'clone' a subscriber ID, something that would regularly happen in the days before the SIM card, note that the SIM was a development that came along with GSM, and that GSM was the first mobile phone standard resistant against cloning. It's one part of the 2FA (something that you have) that gives you access to the phone network (the other being the PIN code (something that you know) required to unlock the SIM).
A directed graph to represent arbitrary user-defined element-event relationships between fields that triggered changes in values depending on one or more events on other fields. Since the events could repeatedly cascade, skipping transient states drastically improved the performance.

I also avoid using exponential complexity all the time.
I don't think it's equality that's the problem. It people who are championing women's issues then vilafying men. The two don't need to go hand in hand but often do.
How about you act like a decent human being instead of making ridiculous strawman arguments against me?

Regarding welfare, I was being vague, so let me clarify: social welfare spending has increased substantially over the last 40 years in the US:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/what-is-...

In Western countries in general, social welfare spending is substantially higher now, as a percentage of GDP, than it was before the 1970s. Social democracy on the scale we have today is a relatively recent phenomenon.

Regarding your claim that welfare reform has had "horrendous" consequences, it is overly narrow and simply assumes no broader and longer-term negative consequences from compulsory income redistribution.
The Sony Xperia Z5 from last year has a headphone jack with no rubber flap, and it has a higher IP-rating than the iPhone 7
A more realistic list would be:

Maven, Dropwizard, Guava, Guice, JUnit, Mockito.

(Jersey and Jackson too, but those are included in Dropwizard so ideally you don't need to care about them) Also, ideally, installing dropwizard, guava, guice, junit and mockito consist of just adding 5 lines of XML to the pom.xml file for each - no configuration needed.

Of course if you fall out of the ideal world, things can get ugly. The horrors if two dependencies insist of using incompatible versions of Jackson but Maven insists that you can only use one version of it in your project at a time...
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Switzerland could be an inspiration for the UK, especially considering its financial sector and its unique relationship with the EU.

Direct democracy is talked about more and more here in the UK. We've had several referendums over the last few years. The questions are:

Were the referendum results determined by dirty tricks?

Why hold referendums when we elect (and pay for) governments to make decisions on our behalf?

Would referendums be necessary if parliament were representative (in the statistical sense) of voters?

Have the referendums really settled the issues, or will the same questions be asked again?
They don't really say.

I suppose the main reason for the inverter is to go from DC -> AC.

The Powerwall 1 required an external inverter. What did that inverter do? Converted from the DC -> AC? The Powerwall 1 had DC input? I guess not, otherwise you wouldn't need the external inverter.

So this powerwall converts internally from DC - > AC -> DC (battery)?

It's all very confusing!
You may want to give the Razer Blade series a try.
The XPS 15 is also expected to get an update soon.
Getting out of the coal business
People say "unlimited rates" but what they really mean is "indefinite rates".
Related story: Stephen Wolfram (the "inventor" of Mathematica talked at my university many years ago about an early version of Mathematica. It was probably version 2 or 3 at that point.)

He noted that Mathematica was a programming language (but different than imperative languages in a lot of ways) and said "but if I said that I created a new programming language, people would string me up because there are too many already" (or something like that.) He concluded, "that's why we call Mathematica 'A System for Doing Mathematics by Computer'".

It got a huge laugh.
I'll resist responding with the typical "drinking male tears" snark that usually comes in response to these stories, as that attitude is what perpetuates these feelings in the first place.

HOWEVER, before we ask people if they feel they are discriminated against, perhaps we should define what discrimination is. For instance:

* Being forced to not refuse business to gay people: NOT DISCRIMINATION

* Being asked not to make sexist jokes at work after complaints from your female coworkers: NOT DISCRIMINATION

* Being asked to use people's preferred gender pronouns: NOT DISCRIMINATION.

* Being confronted with gender and racial privileges that should be basic human rights, but that other genders and racial minorities do not get to enjoy: NOT DISCRIMINATION.

I'm sympathetic that the last decade has not been a steady march towards a brighter future for many Americans. Globalization is leaving a generation of poor and middle class small-town Americans with seemingly no hope for prosperity. And I understand why people in such positions are drawn to a candidate like Donald Trump. Their plight won't be solved by either candidate, though, and that's sad. They have some legitimate concerns, and their anger will only grow.

But they are not "discriminated" against.
I disagree that it is obvious. Most of the taxes are a cut of income that would not have been generated if taxes had not been invested 20 years ago in education and defense and infrastructure.

And who granted anyone else the ownership right to destroy the air I breathe and destroy the climate I depend on? Some taxes are a way to compensate for that.

It is more like a forced VC capital investment in your life... you get a big chunk of education and defense and security paid for you, but if you hit it big you have to pay a lot back for it.