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> The iPhone's interface might be details, but the iPhone itself certainly wasn't. It singlehandedly brought smartphones (and the screen-only form factor) to dominance.

A good couple years before the iPhone appeared, I used a Sony Ericsson P-800. Most of the time, I used it without the cover and used the screen or voice to dial. It was mostly a screen, not unlike a Palm before it.

What the iPhone brought was the sleek and fluid interface and the solid build and the multi-touch gestures (which, TBH, were not possible with the tech available in 2002, when the P-800 was launched). It's remarkable, of course, because it was obvious when we saw it, but not before.

The iPad applied the same "first that doesn't suck" logic to the tablet format. It wasn't the first tablet, not by a light-year. BTW, on its own, the Newton's OS is very interesting. The iPad was simply the one built after the tech allowed it not to suck.

Apple has achieved great things in design, but visit any museum with a decent industrial design collection and you'll discover the universe didn't start with the Second Coming of Steve Jobs.
I'm glad your charging for this. I took one look at the output and immediately decided that it's something I would pay for!

Buying it now...
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> In Massts. it had been fully confirmed by experience that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing men

"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."
I don't see that
I up voted your response as it's correct, but for anyone who doesn't want to believe, here's a fully referenced post I made a while back with specific references in the Intel documentation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12900834
Fair enough. My main ergonomic requirement for a workstation is zero noise at rest, and reasonable otherwise. I'm interested in seeing what I can get in form factor though.
The paper is actually reporting measurement of millinewtons with 40/60/80 watts, and estimating that when pushed up to a 1kW it would generate micronewtons.
We had ICBM's before 1970. It was dropping too many that killed it. Like 4 on Spain. Solid-fueled missiles didn't help ease the fear over a first strike much; they're still vulnerable.
I also have the Skullcanyon, as a laptop replacement machine. None of my previous personal computers have had ECC RAM, but none have had more than 16GB either. What is your use case that benefits from error-correction, if you please?
How about the stupid idea of making a minimum block size be a multiple of the number of platters to write to. The block is divided evenly amongst all platters and are always at the same parallel track/sector. That way you can multiply the read/write speeds to be a function of the number of platters.

Instead of 50-100MB/s, you can get 4-8x the speed in large linear transfers, which helps get dead racks back up faster and would work quite well in backblaze's backup model.

Your block sizes will be huge, but I think in backblaze's case that doesn't really matter so much.
That doesn't even make sense. What happens if a server goes down and needs to be replaced? Do you have to wait for someone to remove the old box and insert a new box in the rack? Obviously there needs to be a handoff of the same name because everyone in the world is linking to the "license-plate" URL....
Which is a pretty dumb shortcut to use one handed and compared to alt+tab.
It Took Japan Just Days to Repair That Massive Sinkhole
DJI Phantom 4 pro
In the Ship of Theseus case, no-one is disputing the facts of the matter, and, for the most part, this is so for the other thought experiments presented here. The issue seems to be one of language - yet language does not seem to be deficient, given that we agree on the facts, and that agreement is reached through language. Perhaps the issue is in our intuitions about what we expect language to be able to do.

As is always the case, someone (in this case, Parfit) says 'we have to give up the notion of X', where X in this case is personal identity, but that seems to me to be an over-reaction; instead, all we have to do is to accept that there are corner cases where our intuitions about the universality of language do not work. For the most part, we can talk about personal identity without problems, but in the corners, we have to be more specific.

We have lived our lives with ambiguous language, so is it that much of a stretch to accept that that's all there is, that there is no Platonic-ideal, complete-and-sound language no matter how careful we are with definitions and usage?
AWS Welcomes ZeroStack to Partner Network
This comment brings me so much joy. Ultima Online is my favorite game of all time, having played since T2A (I was nine years old at the time). I have fond memories of hacking away at my own shard, cobbling together scripts and editing MUL files (a custom file format that the game used to store binary content) to add new creatures and items. My first exposure to "programming" was SphereServer, which used one of the worst scripting languages I've ever written in retrospect. Later I took a stab at C# with RunUO and while my attempts never manifested into anything noteworthy, they did establish a foundation for the career in software I have today. It warms my heart to see kids embracing this sort of creative spirit for games like Minecraft. The modders of today could be the engineers of tomorrow.
I think it's a great tutorial for setting up multi-platform cross-compilation. I'm just not sold on Rust as a 'scripting' language :)
As this has just launched, we would love some feedback in terms of, concept, ux/ui, ease of use etc etc
I don't do CAD but powerful linux station in small package that can power multiple screens is something I would be in market for. Let's wait for reviews...
[cockroach labs employee] most of the 'stability' related PRs/isues were labelled explicitly [1].
Going over the ones with the heaviest discussions could maybe point you to what you were looking for [2].

[1]https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/labels/stability

[2]https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%...
How Fujifilm’s cameras and lenses are Made in Japan
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Blogger Reveals Horrors of Living Under ISIS
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-pagespeed-i...

Ridiculously simple chrome extension I built while learning how to build one. Tells you the Google pagespeed insights score for the website of current tab.
Hey

Any chance you guys are going to offer something that is on the lower end of the spectrum for ARMv8 in terms of pricing? For eg. Scaleway has ARMv7 servers for 3 EUR/month (https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/)
DJI Inspire 2
Solid point. Mac Pro competitor in mini form factor. If only Apple had something like that, that would be crazy.
Prejudice Isn’t Just a Trump Problem – It’s a Tech Industry Problem Too
Apparently my memory is faulty, but I could have sworn I tried to find ICQ 10ish years ago and found it no longer existed. I guess what I likely found was that no one I knew used it anymore. I wonder whether they still have a significant group of dedicated users.
anecdata: I've bought more hubs than I care to count for multiple employers and not had issues. Also, the monitor hub route wouldn't affect the "clean look" of the machine any more than having a dozen cables sticking out of it every which way.
Awesome! Hopefully you find it useful!
I clarified my position. This isn't a blame game. My point is to seek out the help because if you're experiencing this on this level, then you have a problem. Its not VR and its not normal.
I'm quite frankly amazed ICQ is still alive, I thought it was one of those things that had just died out some time ago.
I notice half of my banner is various GPL 'LICENSE' files... I still like it :)
- Added Guarani (gn) locale
:) Thank you
I'm not sure there is excessive fan noise here, they have two fans and customized heatpipe design for what, 60W of excess heat at full load?
> thanks to Apple now we expect beautiful electronics

I expect that since I was a kid. I blame my mom, who got us a beautiful, now classic, Braun Atelier TV set (adapted to PAL-M) through a friend in the German consulate (importing stuff was problematic in Brazil by the late 70's).
Well in the author's opinion it's actually not the same. That's why he specifically points out counter examples of non-VR experiences which have similar but notably less intense effects.

It's still an opinion, sure, but the author did address this comparison.
The History of Recycling in America Is More Complicated Than You May Think
Very few good monitors I've seen support it though. :(
This quote from Gavin Schmidt is two years old. I'm not sure what is has to do with this blog post by Curry about what climate models are.
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Are you willing to

- Never take a taxi, Uber, or Lyft unless both ends of your trip have parking or passenger loading zones available?

- Never have food, a package, or mail delivered unless your building has a dedicated cargo loading zone?

- Never shop at a store or eat at a restaurant which lacks a dedicated cargo loading zone?

Short term double parking is okay because living in a dense area would be totally infeasible if no one broke that law.
http://www.openwebanalytics.com/
Migrating to Druid: how Crashlytics improved the accuracy of stability metrics
How Facebook Convinced Itself Fake News Isn’t a Problem
I am more optimistic. Some people may react to those feelings by going and constructing some of that world in reality. Isn't that sort of the link between a whole range of SciFi/Comic books in the 50's and landing on the moon?

And we can not only hope that the Star Trek economics of abundance comes about, but that it is made true through a combination of technology and new economic thought.
Yes it's pretty much common best practice

Mail providers offer sending to your webhooks or block them directly on their side (so you dont have to worry about it)
Oh wow. I wasn't aware of it... this is cool.
We are going to have such great bouncing bombs. The best.
Yes, we are considering a Type 0 ARM server, but we are still working through the proper design to enable full Armv8 (vs v7).
How COD Modern Warfare Started?
According to the author, yes there are similar effects but no they aren't as intense.
This article asks the wrong question. And answers an unrelated one.

First off, the question subtly implies that nuclear power should be the last resort. That's already setting the stage for a slanted discussion. The correct question is to ask whether we want nuclear power in preference to coal, oil, natural gas, and a little bit of solar and wind. As far as I can tell, the answer should be an emphatic YES---but the point isn't the answer, it's the loaded question.

Second, the WSJ asks what's necessary to hit emissions targets. That's dumb. We ought to ask what's necessary to stop global warming. I don't know what are the current targets, probably something like cutting emissions in half by 2050. I think we can do that by switching more industrial processes from coal or oil to natural gas. But if the dire predictions of the IPCC are true, we're still going to die, only a little bit slower. To stop global warming, we need to get CO2 emissions to practically zero, and natural gas doesn't get us there. Neither do unreliables (sun, wind) combined with natural gas backup, nor the vain hope for a magic storage solution nobody knows yet.

And finally, the stupid environmentalist hack proceeds to answer a different question. He tells us that nuclear power is expensive (still cheaper than wind and sun, though), but if indeed it was "Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets", we wouldn't care. We'd do it anyway, wouldn't we? But naturally, the ecotard doesn't even listen to the question and just rattles off his canned talking points...
Was a hardcore ICQ user for years until the AOL buyout and subsequent horking of the overall experience. Kept my account but moved to multi-protocal clients such as Pidgin. Glad to see someone still loves it like we all did.

And yes, I still can recite my 7 digit UIN.
Why not bother linking if the things she has said are so obviously wrong?
our current implementation for JOINs is our first, non-optimized implementation. we're currently working on speeding this up but here's the blog post from when our first implementation was out if you're interested [1].

[1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdbs-first-join/
My feeling is that a lot of people around these parts use Linux as their desktop environment and think that just because it works for them, then it will work for everyone else. What they fail to realize is that if they're reading HN comments then they're probably above average when it comes to computer prowess and they're not reliant on someone else to support their computer needs.

I've been using Linux in various forms for over 15 years in all forms including daily driver desktop, daily driver laptop, HTPC, foisting it upon my children via netbooks, custom router firmware, Raspberry Pi development, custom ROMs on cellphones, home server hosting, cloud hosting, NAS appliances, development VMs, and production VMs. I tried use the desktop environments really hard for about a decade and constantly founding myself wondering why certain tasks had to be so hard. I always chalked it up to inexperience or unfamiliarity and pushed forward but then my job required me to use OSX. I quickly realized that it was the Linux desktop envs and not me. It was also around this time my kids started using computers more heavily for school and the Linux netbooks I provided them just couldn't cut it. Surprisingly they were able to use Nexus 7 tablets for their school work with relative ease.

I still use Linux daily but never on the desktop. CLI or nothing.
A couple of times I've been stuck at a desk with limited foot room, despite being surrounded by monitors. This would have been helpful.
Wow, what a frighteningly effective deadman switch. Normally I'd be worried about forgetting to reset it but in this case it's hard /not/ to use a Google product in a normal day.
VW confirms Audi software alters emissions results in tests
Well, yes... But to somebody who's barely familiar with 6502... this is brain-melting.
Freetype 2.7 introduced a new rendering engine. I cannot link anything at the moment but the Arch Forums have pretty detailed help.
I always thought this was the more nuanced but clever part of the operation.

That said, I would hate to have been one of the test pilots for the barrels. One of them bounced too high, and ripped the plane in half.
Anyone care to guess the margins on the $199 and $299 books?
Just tried it out and the file size is huge (350KB).
I really do not understand the transition slider between images, it is so ugly.
My projects:

- Sensorama for iOS: it's meant to be an open-source data science platform for obtaining data from your iPhone's sensors. And you get the JSON file with data e-mailed to you (and I get a copy too!).

Install:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sensorama/id1159788831?mt=8

Read code:

https://github.com/wkoszek/sensorama-ios (main repo)

https://github.com/wkoszek/sensorama-artwork (artwork, scripted: generates all JPEGs from cmd line)

I did everything myself: coding and design for it.

- LastPass for SSH: https://github.com/wkoszek/lastpass-ssh You keep your SSH keys protected with a cryptic pass-phrases and you store them in LastPass.

- Asset toolbox: https://github.com/wkoszek/asset-toolbox My attempt to improve the workflow with asset on iOS. I've used that multiple times to get all the resolutions/sizes during random moments of weakness.

- Finite Automata Simulator written in QT/Graphviz: https://github.com/wkoszek/flviz

- Network Simulator written in C, with visualisation in Graphviz: https://github.com/wkoszek/kmnsim

- Other stuff from my junkyard: https://github.com/wkoszek (feel free to let me know what's the most interesting, or fiddle with GitHub stars)

My next target would be to get some paid online projects done and delivered to users, so that I could pay my phone bill with software.

Great thread. Thanks for making it.
There was a Channel 4 documentary a few years ago where they made and tested one of these. I didn't see it, but there are clips online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IeGYkwVIWw
Note that this blog post is not "about what climate models are". It seems she's been making the same types of arguments in the past, and this blog post is no different, so the past criticisms are still relevant.
On Immutability
Homepage says lite is free and unlimited, pricing page says it's limited to 10 invoices per month?
This is an ad hominem attack and has no bearing on this specific article about what climate models are.
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In addition to the header info mentioned in other comments, email providers let you subscribe to email Feed Back Loops. You register for FBLs (man it's a neverending process since there's a never ending pile of new email providers), and when someone marks something as spam, the email provider (gmail/outlook/etc) will send an email to a registered address, you just listen for emails on that address. I wrote a custom handler to do this, as we already had a system in place to process incoming email from users (respond to comment email instead of replying on web form etc). I then unsubscribe the address in question.

Not all providers offer FBLs, in that case my internet provider gets an abuse notice which is forwarded along to me. Not a ton of activity there on a 500k person mailing list, the FBLs are pretty effective.

Also, since we have the email processing system in place, it's easy to detect bounces and auto unsubscribe people. I immediately unsubscribe on a hard bounce, and wait for 5 soft bounces before doing the same thing.
You can report a bug in Firefox Reader Mode here. Identifying the "important" content on a page is a hard problem. :) FWIW, Safari's Reader Mode doesn't include the article's graphs or pictures either.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Toolkit&c...
I still remember my ICQ number and I haven't used it since 99b.

And looking it up reveals I was stupid enough to fill in my birthday correctly for it, which still displays publicly to this day.
This is one reason why I enjoyed using Java so much in the early days, even without JIT.

The differences between MSVC, LLVM, GCC are nothing to worry about, compared with the early days of C89 or C++ARM in the process of being standardized, coupled with different levels of POSIX support.
Ah, I see your point about outsourced thinking.

If you take a bunch of informed, critical thinkers who do their research and point them at the same group of sources, I wager you'd end up with a largely consistent set of questions being asked, and relatively "factual"(from the pov of an average American) group of answers (who owns them, how was this article paid for, etc). Through this, you could make whatever bias exists in a piece really explicit (loosely defined as relations & incentives).

So the "vetting" toolsets that make this easy and available are what make consuming news more humane.

I think the "ministry of truth" thought is valid, because an organization started off of good will and good intent might be that way for a while, but after it is cemented in and the people who run it filter out, the power structure it leaves is ripe for abuse. But this is what the hard question is: how might we tackle this, beyond just telling people to think better?

If you had to create a new "article" primitive, meaning, you had to have these things to be considered an article, what would you put in it to aid explicit bias and relieve the burden on informed thinkers? (Title, Author, Contents, ...)
That's not official NASA biography. It's the biographical information he himself provided for summer series video presentation.
On metadata
I do not have the time nor anywhere near the resources that Mozilla has to handle this. If i had either i would not be sitting here.
I'm far more wary of Windows updates than Ubuntu updates.

I have the same install since 14.04, I have updated to each version up to 16.04 and it still works fine.

OTOH, I reverted the Win10 free update and went back to Win8.1 because Win10 did not work with my bluetooth devices, the tablet functionality was inferior to Win8.1 and it was actually unpolished compared with the Win8.1 experience.

Your second point is simply opinion, and while I can't argue against it, my own experience using Ubunty with multiple monitors and virtual desktops makes Windows feel limited in comparison and therefore much less professional.
It validates that my solution was appropriate.

It does!

It’s unfortunate that NewsBlur and Feedbin bind the feature to their platform. But I guess it makes sense, Feedbin is even trying to make money.

Unfortunately, this is nonsensical and obnoxious. I'm perfectly happy to pay for a service, given that "free" tends to mean "shuts down in a couple of years". And I'd have to pay for a server anyway if I wanted to run my own.
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But if it is, then literally every discovery in (say)
particle physics in your lifetime has been a fluke: just
dumb luck.

Why couldn't conservation of momentum, as we understand it, be incomplete, like Newton's Laws, rather than wrong or coincidental?

Note that I'm not grasping at straws wrt the EmDrive. The distinctions between incompleteness and error is far more interesting to me, especially in the context of science. And I'm curious if your statement was more than a rhetorical assertion.
I agree that the environment could in principle be a tie-breaker. But it's such a weak argument that in practice, whenever all other things are not equal, the environment is not going to tip the scales from one side to the other. And all other things are not equal, because the environmental effects don't happen in a vacuum, they're correlated with all sorts of other things. So anyone bringing it up is just using it to support the answer they've already decided on.

Suppose the environmental impacts of the HTML-only page and the JS-driven page were flipped, but the user experience remained exactly the same - the JS-driven page still takes longer to download, uses more memory, and doesn't work unless JS is enabled; but it's marginally better for the environment, by the same amount that the HTML-only page is better in the real world. Do you now think the JS-driven page is preferable?

If not, you don't get to use the environment to argue for the HTML-only page. It doesn't sway you, so you shouldn't use it to sway others.
I combined the best saliency detection frameworks with a aperture kernel to emulate depth of field and bokeh on iPhones with only one camera. (The app is free with watermark
https://appsto.re/se/c3lxfb.i )
I was reading Oryx and Crake and I was thinking "There's no way this could happen... right?" then Trump said he basically wants to get rid of the FDA and EPA and now there's talk of a biomedical duel in human gene-editing?

Oh boy.

I can't wait to get a rakunk, myself.