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The Nintendo Switch seems like a nice tablet form factor game console.

I am a bit underwhelmed by their decision to compromise the usability of the right Joycon - moving the analog stick below the digital buttons is certainly bad for US/European bigger hands, bad for ergonomic reasons, an unreasonable trade off.

I am underwhelmed by their decision to add no additional fan to the Dock. It's just s piece of very cheap locking plastic that might scratches your screen. It could have cooled the Switch and get out more performance out of the GPU (now they have to underclock it).

I am a bit underwhelmed by the Joycon grip, that is not very ergonomic for larger hand, and is just a piece of cheap plastic. The Pro controller looks good, but it costs extra $ 70 ($ 20 mote than PS4/X1).

I am a bit underwhelmed that the Joycons have no analog trigger buttons. Already with Wii U the analog triggers were greatly missed in e.g. Lego City Undercover, the car acceleration was all or nothing which pales compared to GTA gameplay on PS4/X1/PC.

I am a bit underwhelmed about the tear down, while good executed it lacked the final tear down and analytics of the core components like the "haptics engine" and the SoC board incl ARM chips.

I am looking forward to a revised model at the end of 2017 that fixes things. Maybe even a XL or XS version would be great - like the New 3DS XL which was a greatly improved and better for larger hands. The ergonomics of the Wii U gamepad better than the Switch too, maybe they can adopt ideas in a revised version.
Absolutely. Paypal attempted to direct the funds to the United Way, a high-overhead charity that they had an existing relationship with. [1]

1: http://www.somethingawful.com/news/paypal-fiasco-summary/
Actually I just tried that and it worked also. But I think you're right that this hasn't always been the case because I remember being annoyed about it. Or maybe we're both crazy.

You definitely need to specify the type for an interface, but that makes sense.
How about starting some party and sending name here? I would like to join, maybe just for sake of testing. ;-)
Because they have legions of rabid fans who not only buy their products regardless of quality, but act as an army of apologists for them. The result ironically, is that unlike Sony's harsh lesson learned around the PS3, Nintendo has no such backlash to fear.

The worst they can do is just own the portable market, and sell a few iterations of a console to their diehards, which are numerous.
And then a rounding error in the software to exploit the rounding error ends up almost getting them caught.
His conclusion overlooks the key issue: memory burns power! This is why Apple tries to put as little in as possible.
Would you say that using an app to avoid speed traps is obstruction of justice? What about radar detectors?
It seems a great unkindness to link that. I hope you'll consider deleting it.
Early adopters... I do not understand you at all.
I am very very happy that I do not live somewhere where housewife is the norm. I think that you are right about there being a lot of sexism still.
Ah yes, Martin was the one I heard. Thanks for the reminder.
April 3rd
Can you share more details about mira AR headset? The website doesn't say much.
I'm just glad Y Combinator would never do business with a person like that.
It would be interesting to figure out how much of the process you could make public without compromising the privacy of the donors too much.

How much additional risk would be added by just publishing a log of all donations, with just the sender anonymized (with the sender knowing or even choosing the id, so they can verify their donation went through?), and how could that be mitigated?
iFixit Nintendo Switch Teardow
Good to see mention of Talos, even if it never came to fruition.
Google Street View Images Reveal the Demographic Makeup of the U.S.
It is demonstratively untrue that the US doesn't have a culture. You think the people on the Mayflower had mindwipes before landing? The country is full of people with a certain mindset.

One could argue that American culture is shitty, but it's a direct extension of western European culture. Why else are so many movies retellings of Shakespeare and not Romance of the three kingdoms?

Obviously Canada also has a culture.

Every 'no go' zone claim I've seen is followed by debunking , so forgive me if I take that with a grain of salt.
Wouldn't Alienware be also a good choice?

I was thinking of buying a desktop replacement, with good gaming capabilities and for me it boils down to Razer or Alienware. But I prefer Alienware because it comes with a 15" screen, which is perfect for me (14" is too small, 17" is too big).
With good auto completion, the user should never even have to press the compile button or hit a compiler error. (Slight exaggeration)

This means the user might have struggled a long time with the code before even hitting the compile button. If you only collect statistics from compilation you will miss all this pre-struggle.
There is another teardown on HN frontpage, but it pales in comparision to the professional iFixit teardown which shows everything in a lot more detail - but compare yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13789072
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Loses Bonus And Stock Award Over Security Breach
They've done at least one revision of most of them, usually with significant cosmetic differences and less features. There was the top loading NES, the SNES Mini, the GameCube was revised and the digital output port was removed, and for the Wii there was the version with the GameCube ports removed and the Wii Mini with all the remaining ports removed.
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I created $20m+ product, got nothing.

Skype: throwaway37655
You could also change the regulatory framework.
This also doesn't help ease concerns with those that are skeptical of many reports and models:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/5/climate-chang...

> “Gradually, in the months after [the report] came out, the evidence kept mounting that Tom Karl constantly had his ‘thumb on the scale’ — in the documentation, scientific choices, and release of datasets — in an effort to discredit the notion of a global warming hiatus and rush to time the publication of the paper to influence national and international deliberations on climate policy,” Mr. Bates said Saturday on Climate Etc.

> “What John Bates has done is to expose this culture based not on robust science, but on promoting an agenda,” Mr. Pielke said in a comment on Climate Etc. “Regardless of one’s views on policies, the scientific method should not be hijacked as they have done.”
> And if you see this as Uber's death knell better to bail before it tarnishes your own rep to have worked there.

Even if it's not Uber's death knell, as top exec it's probably better to bail now.

You can take your "I ran X at Uber" managerial propaganda and cash in on that for a better position. An Uber IPO probably isn't going to be life-changing amounts of money anymore for these levels of people even with the sweet deals that the hoi polloi would never get, so time to move on.
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This is for all intents and purposes Nintendo's console now that the Wii U has been discontinued. They are advertising it as such and it's gonna get those comparisons whether they want it to or not.

But really I just like trying new tech.
None of those are default configurations that you'd get with mkfs. And there is no UI in any installer to enable raid56.
Earth's interior temperature 60 degrees hotter than thought, student finds
I often reflect on the fact that everything is temporary. The people in my life, my abilities, my opinions and attitudes...

I learned this sharply throughout my twenties, and it lead me into a deep dive into Buddhism.

The past is gone, the future is a figment of my imagination. My interpretation of what's happening now is up for debate... Nothing I rely on, or want to rely on, is stable and dependable. All is subject to change, the good and the bad.

You have to find your anchor point or stability in the present moment. If you pay attention, you'll see that that is all there is, really. And it comes and goes, always, fleeting.

Buddhist monks have to reflect on the '5 Remembrances' every morning. It might do us all good to do so too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upajjhatthana_Sutta
Trickle-down economics suggested capitalists were somehow benevolent money spreaders instead of selfish, cheap bastards, but as applied to housing there is a sizable segment of affluent Bay Area residents whom will move when new/better options come along. The gotcha is that affluent residents represent such a minuscule fraction of inventory, giant flats can't possibly be false equivocated to building tons of tiny, cheap studios or much more section 8 housing.

OTOH, there is plenty of idle housing inventory (~8%) which could house all of the homeless and the very poor right now.
Don't the PayPal mafia all hate the current PayPal?
Another case of sexism at Uber from female management
It's the same CAT brand, yes, but the phone itself is developed by I think a British company.
You are a bit underwhelmed.

Got it
The title of this article could of just as easily been "Uber protects it's drivers from sting operations". I am on Uber's side on this
Interesting that this comment was downvoted so much. It accurately describes the reality of the setup.
FYI, Paypal is declared and regulated as a bank in the EU, declared in Luxembourg.

So if something like this happens to you as an european, either sender or receiver, use your rights.

> As of July 2007, PayPal provides localized versions of its service to customers in the EU through PayPal (Europe) S.A.R.L. et Cie, SCA., a wholly-owned subsidiary of PayPal that is licensed as a bank in Luxembourg.

Whereas:

> In the United States, PayPal is licensed as a money transmitter, on a state-by-state basis
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13784509
I theory, Rust's type system can provide hints to the optimizer, for example about pointer aliasing. This is currently not leveraged (LLVM isn't too good at this, and rustc internal optimizations on the intermediate language are still on the roadmap).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13786339
A classical "we've found a problem. let's fix it later, when it will be too late" approach to infrastructure.

I'm sure there will be dozens of "good reasons" why the repairs could not have been done in time, but the theme of the approach to infrastructure problems is disheartening.
Is naming things really that hard?
So normal people can't get into deals like this?
You call it disrespectful, I call it honest. Even in the past when staying at home was normal, people did not respected those women and looked down on them. Pretending otherwise is just lie.

There are plenty of people like that alive today and to say that nobody respects them is not true. People are different.
the Switch booting into its FreeBSD kernel:

https://twitter.com/Y_Mokko/status/837610472362786817
Statistically speaking, most bankruptcies are caused be medical expenses. Also, young people have huge amount of college debt.
The government hasn't represented "we, the people" since forever, so all your arguments are void. It cannot be morally unlawful to resist a government that doesn't represent you.
I'm a conservationist who frequently visits Hacker News. I find it fascinating. I'm also very interested in the extent to which environmental and climate stories feature on here - my guess is that these issues are a real concern for this community. I only wish there was a Y Combinator for massively scalable environmental solutions. As it happens there is virtually no money for early stage environmental businesses or approaches (only growth capital). The money that is available is administered very unimagineatively by bureaucrats. I raise this only because I would be interested in the ideas of this community in getting around this problem - where frequently the benefits of value cannot be reaped by a VC.
This is awesome, my kind of summary, thank you for sharing fearlessly.
>NSA 100%

What about the other powers? China, France, Russia have their own NSA's that would be asked to provide solutions to protect all the PCs in the service of their own governments, what are they doing about it?
This applies to all their languages, I don't think it's a real problem. (Repl.it's been around for a while.)
Trust is a two way street. How can you tell me that I have nothing to hide while keep secrets from me?
Ah, but is it deceiving law enforcement with the knowledge that that person is right now trying to arrest you, or is it just refusing service to law enforcement because they don't like them? The latter is covered by the TOS where it says they can refuse service to anyone for whatever reason.
Until this interesting video [1] by Tom Scott, I had never considered sand as a non-renewable resource. But now, it is clear that we now have one more resource that we might run out of.

[1] The World Is Slowly Running Out Of Sand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMLYLcniXIc
I've a male friend who acknowledges that he's not the brightest bulb in the bunch. He's in a relationship with a CPA who he thinks is super-smart. They're not married anymore, but got back together after a few years of living apart. She works during the week while he takes care of house-husband duties, and gets out of her space on the weekend. He figured this arrangement out on his own, so he's probably smarter than he gives himself credit for.

Sometimes smart women are challenged by their hormonal cycles.

My first wife was very difficult to be around. After we'd been unmarried a while, she called to complain that she was still losing half the month to PMS, and did I have any ideas? In the weeks that followed I found something for her to try, and she's been much more productive. She's much more driven to succeed than I am, and is doing quite well for herself now.

/methinks women tend to be smarter than men, on account of the female body's ability to producer greater amounts of Progesterone (which is also produced in the brain, as a neuro-steroid). This is the evolutionary balance for the gender generally having slightly less strength.

Sometimes modern women get intellectually handicapped with the use of 'imitation hormones' to suppress their menstrual cycles. I've spent some times reading women's posts in online forums, and there are a lot of complaints about side effects from so-called "birth control" prescriptions.

I suspect that my current girlfriend was made suicidal [0] with the injectable birth control Depo-Provera (Bill Gate's birth control drug of choice for use in Africa). When I met her, maybe 10 years after this assault, I recognized that she was a rather intelligent person who happened to turn to the street pharmacy to self-medicate depression. I helped her to get herself stabilized, and seems to be doing better now.

[0] This "side effect" of using Provera to chemically castrate otherwise-healthy women was mentioned by a caller on a Science Friday [NPR] segment: https://soundcloud.com/scifri/looking-beyond-condoms-for-mal... (The first caller was at 8min30sec):

SF: Denver and Jessica, Welcome to Science Friday.

Jessica: Hi, [...] I tried about six different birth
controls. Depo-Provera made me manic and suicidal, yet
that's still on the market and considered acceptable for
women to take. [...] It's okay that I was suicidal, and
that that form of birth control is still on the market.

[...]

edit: Birth control is great. Chemical castration is not. I birth control'd myself. It was easy, and reversed itself after a few months. I'm going to do it again soon, but I'll collect data this time.
In general I find Fictiv is a really poor source of information. They seem to be mostly focused on 3D printing, have next to no electronics knowledge and their knowledge of high volume manufacturing is dubious (these teardowns are always full of weird errors, e.g. in the Switch teardown they didn't even identify a heatpipe correctly).
The banks are ultimately to blame for the rise of companies like PayPal.

Bank transfers are still batch oriented and stuck in the 1960s, they have no excuse for not providing all the services PayPal provides.
Can't you set to 720p in screen settings?
With implied bounds my gut reaction is that you get c++ templates without "concepts". Ie the situation c++ is in today, where it's perfectly fine to instantiate a template with an implicit bound but you only get a super confusing error message later when you try to use a particular function that this bound requires.
But why? Linux desktop and Linux gaming are deader than democracy is in America.
They exceeded what they could legally do, and were stopped.

Contrast that with, say, civil forfeiture. Cops can stop you for little reason, and if they find cash in your car, they can take it. It's all perfectly legal. This is not theoretical, it happens all the time and enormous amounts of money are installed.
Because its a console which also is a mobile device. It not only comes with one controller, but, depending on the game, the JoyCons allow two players to share them. Without buying additional hardware. They also happen to be complete Wiimotes with motion tracking - something you had to buy extra before.
And of course, it is the best and most powerful gaming hardware made by Nintendo. A PS4 is cheaper and has more GPU power, if you don't mind it being a big box. And it doesn't play the Nintendo games.
Why is it, when an established company does something like this, the headline talks about "redirecting contributions", instead of calling it what it is?

Why not just say "Paypal Defrauds Donors"?
Madness. If you want black and white dashboards in your office or home, or if you want to mount it vertically and read PDFs, just get a matte HD monitor, and set it up for B&W on your software settings. Then, you can turn it into a fish tank display when you aren't reading or viewing your dashboard (which sounds lame to me, but geekiness knows no bounds, I suppose). What is e-ink for? The "powered off" viewability? A real monitor left on all year takes almost no energy. I mean, if you can consider $3000 to put a dashboard up to monitor the weather (what is happening to the human race?), you can swing the extra $20/year by just leaving a real monitor on 24/7, especially when you'll only pay $250 for it. Madness. Maybe go out and spend time in the rain and not know it was coming? Or just talk to people and get to know them? Or explore new places in town with using a mapping tool first? Sigh... we are all doomed.
Universal Basic Income Will Reduce Our Fear of Failure
I listed some fair constructive criticism of minor things that came to my mind trying it out to an overall great new game console.

You seem to be trolling, got it.
Important websites on one tab in mobile view
Chinese attitudes on race, from people who are paid to write objectively:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13750623
I'm not saying you're attacking women. I don't think I said anything even remotely close to that. I'm responding to your claims about the prevalence of women dependent on their husbands for financial support.

Bluntly, I think you made a claim you realize is incorrect and you're trying to walk it back to something noncontroversial. The whole thread from imesh down was about women staying at home with the kids so their husbands could have high-earning careers. Arizhel commented that this was a dangerous arrangement and you stated that this was the current norm. After I disputed your claim, you walked it back to just being "financially dependent on their husbands". Now you've walked it back further to couples being mutually dependent.

From high-earning husbands with stay-at-homes wives to couples that can't make ends meet without two incomes. These are vastly different topics and if you were really intending to jump from one to the other, it seems odd to accuse me of dropping a non-sequitur for bringing in some data.

I also think your notions of womens' employment are antiquated. You seem to think that women don't have "real careers that require education" and they "work when they can", but women:

* have 43% of their population working full time (for comparison, 56% of men work full time)

* earn more degrees than men

* are 47% of the workforce

* have lower unemployment than men

* hold 51.5% of professional and management jobs (aka careers)

https://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/Qf-laborforce-10.htm

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/pdf/women_workforce_slides.p...
>There's an alternative: put them in management and enforce mandatory management training.

IMHO, I think your faulty assumption here is every good engineer can be trained into a good manager, and I think thats just not realistic...
That's actually what I was aiming to say, but the way I phrased it could unfortunately bear both interpretations.
Nature now requires public data for articles, maybe The Washington Post should do the same with its sources. http://www.nature.com/news/announcement-where-are-the-data-1...
If you consider money to be a form of speech (I don't but it's been successfully argued in US case law) then I'd argue it is a right as I'd argue availability of anonymity is a prerequisite of free speech.
> I think it's just as likely that the people with grievances to air are far more likely to be listened to once an initial scandal breaks.

I think both things can be true at once.
Easy with your pitchfork jabroni, you might hurt yourself
>You've got a chicken and egg problem here.

Not really, say you are a manager and you want to groom a good engineer to become a manager as well. Step one is, can they manage their own projects, step 2 is can they manage a project with 1 other, step 3, several others. Once they can do that and display moral and technical leadership, they are ready to be a manager.

>The only thing that fixes this is extensive training before promotion

When it comes to leadership and people skills, training can increase chances of success, but does not guarantee it by far.
Well for one workers do not share scope, and at the moment sharing memory between the two is quite difficult. Second is race conditions like @btilly explained.

Right now workers are mainly used for extreme situations and eventually make it into libraries that others use.

I have created a library called Task.js that surfaces this idea into a promise compatible interface where you can just convert a pure function into a worker function. The end result is a promise supported function thats sends the function to a worker with your provided args and resolves when its done (also supports multiple workers and automatic queuing).

https://github.com/icodeforlove/task.js
My biggest beef with the dock is that the switch ROCKS in it. If you press the game card side down you will experience this. Sloppy :(
The is a weak argument. Nobody holds the spirit of capitalism.... People already in the US are jobless...so the state has to get them back to work. I am not a US citizen, but I feel sorry for poor and jobless Americans.
It's not just momentum. "Non-obvious" is relative. Every mathematical paper is built on top of thousands of pieces of foundational work, how do you pick which pieces of the foundation are obvious and which are non-obvious? And how do we even use descriptive names? Descriptive names were used in older works like Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica which are practically unreadable (even when translated into your native language) compared to more modern ways of writing things like "F=ma", "F=mx''", or "F=m d^2x/dt^2", which are fantastic to understand. Or if I'm writing something like "x+0=x", is there really some descriptive name I can use for "x"?

Or in short, we tried that and terse notation tends to be both easier to understand and more concise.
They do, but they also don't support quite a lot of its features: https://lwn.net/Articles/568230/