skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting cheaper but those radios are still comparatively power hungry, costs of certification are high, and it's really up to the carrier if they want to allow it on their voLTE network. 3G/2G featurephones do exist.

Try buying an international phone with the correct band support and put it onto a US network, it'll kick down to 3G or 2G to make the call. No point really in having the extra data speeds a featurephone won't need (for most people). I personally would like to have a small, durable, and low powered featurephone I could also use as a usb modem.
I think it's the wrong comment, or maybe our wifi connection misordered content.. /s
Yes sir, I never thought I'd miss my cubicle until I got rammed into a folding table in an "open office". I bailed within weeks.
Well, true; it's hard to generalize. But some examples of not putting off things include travel to exotic locales, living overseas, starting a business, or spending extra time with a family member. If the only real thing holding you back is taking the step of actually doing it (which oftentimes is the hardest part), get over that and just pull the trigger. Better than to regret forever that you had the chance and passed it by.
I was also banned from AdSense a few years ago. They kept $30k that I had earned and I got no response. Still banned to this day.
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No, I usually skip them. We have these party type things about monthly in the studio bar/lounge area as well as team-specific things sprinkled here and there sometimes, but I almost never go. Sometimes I'll pop up to the monthly drinks event to fill up a bowl with free chips and other snacks and head back downstairs. They are just too loud for me to enjoy, it is impossible to have a proper conversation with someone most of the time, and I don't drink alcohol so there's really not much reason to go.
The range U+D800-DFFF is reserved for UTF-16 surrogates, specifically in two pairs of low and high surrogates. That means every surrogate pair can encode 10 + 10 bits of information, which is where the 16 astral planes (4 bits of 16-bit planes) comes in. Otherwise, there are just 128 code points in unallocated blocks in the BMP.

There is no space for expansion without reassigning private use areas or changing the encoding mechanism of surrogates--which is currently completely specified (each surrogate pair will produce a valid code point).
That is what Golem is building (https://golem.network/). Decentralized compute power that is a global P2P network of PCs. The platform will allow software developers to put their software on top as long as its approved (e.g. to make sure it's not malicious).
Nokia 130.
What the numbers say about refugees: Nature News and Comment
Ask HN: How much do you spend on hosting?
I was recently asked to give an estimate of how much it would cost to host a PHP/MySQL website that is expected to get X monthly page views. Unfortunately, I couldn't answer and wasn't able to Google it. It seems like this sort of knowledge only comes with experience and is rarely documented.

In the spirit of transparency, it'd be interesting if we all shared how much we're spending on hosting. Of course, every application is unique but knowing what others are spending for a similar application can be valuable information.

Please include some information about your stack (hosting provider, programming language, database, etc.) and how much traffic you are handling.
Around the same time I created a web page just for currency exchange in my country, a kind of fire and forget page that had like a thousand visitors a day, nothing big. I swear to god that I've never ever clicked an ad on that page which I seldom visited, once a month I checked my winnings and they were adding up like $5 a month on average...

Then all of a sudden bam!, unplugged without any reason, they stole my money and never gave any chance to appeal. Sent an email that got an automated response, sent another one got the same automated response, then gave up.

They served all the ads, they got all the money from advertisers, they pocketed it all including my goddamn money.

Plain thievery if you ask me, no matter how you dress it with all the PR in the world.
This is perfect -- you yourself seem to think that in order to understand what the post you replied to is saying, all you need to do is google a bunch of words from it. Hypotheses non fingo, indeed.
I think VSCode by Microsoft is a good example of Electron done well.

In their case, I don't think it's because their web technology devs are cheaper. I wouldn't be surprised if that team knew multiple platforms and languages. I think it's all about finding the balance between dev costs, making a great product, and getting it out fast on multiple platforms.
A Gentle Introduction to Machine Fundamentals
it's a practical guide, not comprehensive -- for most people this is a great start, especially if they are familiar with ASCII

you'll notice I didn't cover collation -- why? because explaining that would dilute process of understand UTF-x and UNICODE
It's basically all typeprinter font and expertly scanned, what exactly is the issue in using even basic OCR?
Gil Kalai and Scott Aaronson should debate this (and put the video on the internet).
How is news marked as disputed on Facebook?
The DRM/KMS subsystem from a newbie's point of view [pdf]
The Golem team (https://golem.network/) got their inspiration from BOINC. But now more people will have incentive to share their compute power because they will be paid.
No, it hasn't. Or, there's been aftermarket options and multiple attempts to make more efficient engines, but many have had reliability problems.

When your life depends on it, you're more likely to choose the engine that has all of the kinks worked out, has proven reliability, and where the failure modes are pretty well known.
In principle, maybe; in practice, currently, no: Scheme requires proper tail calls, and Javascript engines as a rule do not provide them. Yet.
Are there any good podcasts on public speaking?
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The mistake there was one of timing and approach and they learned from it. The promise of cross-platform, web-based technology is still there, that's why they created React Native.
> I wasn't trying to establish that they had stopped, I was pointing out that they adopted it quite some time ago.

My apologies, I wrongly assumed we were talking about the current network landscape. You would be correct.

> Hasty interpretation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM_frequency_bands at least indicates that different frequencies were used in different areas.

If memory serves. In the US it was GSM1900 up until the late 90's/early 2000's, AT&T Wireless decommissioned their legacy TDMA network at the time on 850mhz and shifted to using 850mhz for GSM due to better rural signal propagation.

Worldwide outside north america's 850/1900, there is 900/1800, and to a much lesser extent maybe 450 for siberia, and in other places likely better served by satellite.
Ah the mighty katana. Crosswinds can be a bitch, but eh not much different for a piper I suppose
Using Python webapp2 on Google App Engine with Google's NoSQL datastore to run a monolithic app with 120 visits per day (20% transaction conversion) and an admin panel for data management.

Costs $10 to $18 per month depending mainly on Datastore Queries as caching is limited to 1Mb per cache and I haven't fixed a function to handle caching with multiple keys yet so the cost can be lower.
Which provides strong evidence that patents are the root of all evil.
I like to think Eclipse had a shot, but they blew up in 2008. The housing boom might have been the only reason they existed, but the housing bust absolutely killed them.

Having to throw away that first engine design could have been survivable if the economy didn't get so sucky so fast.
The diesel engines that Diamond sells now (from Austro Engine) are unrelated to the the old troubled Thielert diesel engines they initially used, IIRC.
Thank you for the correction! 3 OOM off is...embarrassing.
I like how the number 42 is weaved into this.

At 177 light minutes into the journey, there is the following message:

Emptiness is actually everywhere. It’s something like 99.9999999999999999999958% of the known universe.

leaving 4.2E-21 or 0.0000000000000000000042% non-emptiness in the universe.

I can't find any sources backing up this figure, but I wonder if it was the author's intent to smuggle in a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference.

Edit: Just saw the second reference to this at 208 light minutes.
This is a completely inaccurate statement. The lift produce by both wings remains unchanged regardless of the roll angle. It is defined in terms of relative airflow over the wings, being always perpendicular to the former. Lift is NOT (usefully) defined relative to terra firma, a common misconception.

So in the relative frame of the aircraft itself, the lift vector is unchanged in terms of the machine itself. Rolling the aircraft rotates the lift vector, causing a larger "sideways" component and reducing the "vertical" component. For example, at 45 degrees bank the load factor is, in fact, 1.41, meaning that the wings ought to produce 1.41 times the lift to maintain altitude.

So the real reason why a dihedral tends to "auto-correct" the bank angle is that if you rotate the airplane into a bank without adding power then you really are not going to maintain your altitude against gravitational acceleration and are going to descend through the airmass. Now, given that your airplane is now at a 45 degrees angle relative to the source of gravitational attraction, the aircraft is going to see (from it's vantage point) some"sideways" airflow over the wings. Imagine an airflow component originating from the tip of the wing, towards the fuselage.

What now happens is that the "falling" wing is going to work much more efficiently because a number of reasons, causing the aircraft to experience an aerodynamically stabilizing force.

The easiest way to see is that if you imagine a V-shape object moving sideways (let's imagine from right to left), the \ part of the V is going to deflect airflow and produce some "sideways lift" while the / part will not exhibit such a phenomena.

But in terms of the 172, it's high-wing configuration actually does not require dihedral because the actual fuselage of the aircraft "shadows" the high wing, making in naturally less efficient at producing lift, thereby again correcting the bank angle.

Airplane designers attempt to balance this out so that the final design not only is statically stable (correcting in the right direction) but also dynamically stable (the oscillations should be self-limiting).
This show by Leah Remini has been covering it on gory detail too: http://www.aetv.com/shows/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-af...
Bitcoin fees are around 65 cents per transaction right now.

https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

http://www.btcsatoshi.com/

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
Are there any class actions you can join?
It's kinda funny, but I kinda don't want to make fun of it, so I'm left speechless. Maybe others too? Hence no comments on the content in a hour?

I do think that the Turing test is still the greatest test for strong AI, machines are still very far from passing it, and I feel that understanding human emotion should be a part of the general strategy of "understanding human things" on a level sufficient to pass a very long Turing test session:

* From a technology standpoint it's not clear that what we'd call human emotion requires a different approach than other "human things."

* From an application standpoint, a machine much dumber than an adult (as in totally can't pass the Turing test) but with developed emotional facilities is kinda scary, perhaps like an alien child ("human-like feelings" with undeveloped reasoning, and the reasoning is undeveloped in ways we're not familiar with - at least I'm conjecturing that this machine will not be able to pass "the human children Turing test" any more than the adult version.) It's not clear what good you can do with such a machine.

All of the above from a serious angle and without dwelling on the joy of sexprs like (Feels (Feels (Feels (Object)))).
I think we can all agree the correct model is a card that generates a globally unique card number for each and every transaction (e.g. coin failed, final). It should also have a 2nd factor authorization like CVV which is not embedded in the magnetic strip (can't be read by swipers).
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That sounds a little uncharitable to the student. I know that cars are good for carrying stuff, yet I don't rent one to carry my groceries for three miles from the store to my home. Finding a programmer willing to do it for free might alone take her more than four hours.
What does this mean? Someone builds a house and has their livelihood provided for while they do it. Once the house exists, it can be used for shelter. Money is imaginary. What is "financed by the future" and what does it mean?
We had a site that was banned with little explanation. We eventually got it reactivated but never got a good answer as to why. My guess is because the ads did really well and CTRs were crazy good. We had an Adwords account banned at one point too. Totally different site but also really good CTRs and we were able to optimize things to achieve really low CPCs. I think if your Google Adsense/Adwords accounts do well in these areas to an extreme that doesn't appear normal, their automated system bans you. Problem is then getting in touch with someone who can get you unbanned. The run-around is crazy and it can take months and cost you a ton of money.
Go to ebay and buy a featurephone from around 10 years ago.

I have a Sony Ericsson K850i that's quadband GSM and works on HSPA 850/1900/2100 (meaning it'll work on AT&T and T-Mobile's 3G networks as well as a good chunk of international 3G networks)
The article mentions the longest non-stop flight briefly - that was quite a story: the two guys flew for 2 months non-stop.

Here [1] are some pictures, incl. of the refuelling. Below some tidbits I found interesting or amusing:

- after take-off, they did a low pass to let a chase car paint white stripes on the tires, so that they could not cheat undetected (by landing somewhere and taking a break).

- they refuelled about twice a day

> “I once asked John’s widow if they handed down the waste during refueling runs. She said, ‘No. That’s why it’s so green around Blythe.’ ”

> Some time after the flight, Cook was asked by a reporter if he would ever try to replicate the stunt, to which he replied: “Next time I feel in the mood to fly endurance, I’m going to lock myself in a garbage can with the vacuum cleaner running, and have Bob serve me T-bone steaks chopped up in a thermos bottle. That is, until my psychiatrist opens for business in the morning.”

[1] https://disciplesofflight.com/flight-endurance/
Interesting - comments elsewhere here are disparaging about wood and laminates due to perceptions about longevity, while the stuff concrete is replacing in India was hardly short lived.
I think this article ignores or glosses over the hardest part about naming, which is when you have to start naming things with abstract behavior. Naming things with analogs in the domain is easy, but when you find yourself trying to follow the Single Responsibility principle and breaking pieces off you run into trouble.

My AccountingRow is something the user sees, and there's also a SummaryAccountingRow with similarities; both of these need SQL generated, so there's a AccountingRowSQLGenerator and a AccountingRowSummarySQLGenerator. These generally share some of the same business logic around how to join different tables, so there's a AccountingRowCommonQueries class. We also need to spit this out in JSON, so there's a AccountingRowSerializer and AccountingRowsSerializer and AccountingRowSummarySerializer, AccountingRowSummaryRowsSerializer. An AccountingRow also has an AccountingRowBehavior, and AccountRowAdder, and onward into infinity.

Now you have name soup, and if you are looking at this system for the first time your eyes glaze over.
What is this used for? Stuff like file encryption?
Ask HN: What's fastest for go to market?
Multiple apps (2 per platform), multiple platforms (iOS, Android) - 4 total.
It's even more bizarre... no one has an object at all. You essentially build up the object from a set of properties defined by asking yes or no questions, the answers to which must be consistent. It's actually possible that the object will only be known when the last question is asked and answered.
Do today's wired networks (1G+/FD/Cat6/fiber) still use CSMA/CD? I was under the impression that they don't.
> but if I was to move there I would actually not prefer one of the mega cities like Delhi or Mumbai just because of how polluted they are

I feel you. I grew up in Mumbai but I don't live there at present. The pollution seems to be worse every time I visit; I think it'll get worse before it gets better. Violent crime isn't that much of a problem in Mumbai in my experience (I've heard Delhi is pretty bad).

> Some of the nicer himalaya hill stations seem like a better idea for a retirement destination.

Can't say I haven't considered that also. Though a lot of them (eg. Manali) are horrible tourist traps. I guess it might work if you can build up a social circle there and you prefer outdoor activities (hiking, climbing, rafting) over city attractions (art, theater, restaurants and bars). And the Internet is going to be very slow. And every time you want to travel it's going to be an 8+ hour train or bus ride to the nearest major city airport. And even then $2k/yr is not going to be enough (unless you live like some of the poorer than median locals). So it's really not for everyone.

If you could see yourself retiring to a remote part of say Wyoming or Montana (comparing just the relative isolation), then you might have the right personality to make a success of it.
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There are a few local B&M merchants here that are using a specific model of chip readers, if recollection serves me correctly they're all readers from First Data, that are astonishingly fast -- at least compared to the all the others, which you've quite-accurately described.

Every time I go to the local mom-and-pop butcher shop I commend them on their chip reader's super fast processing speed -- and each time they comment that "Thanks, everyone says that!".

I find it incredibly funny and frustrating that their card reader is so fast, enough so that others have noticed & commented on it too, while everywhere else -- the local chain grocery stores for instance -- consistently have roughly >=1 minute processing times.

Also frustrating? The cashier has finished ringing my items up. I put my card in, select "No cash back", type in my PIN number, it thinks for a bit ... and then, it asks me if I want to confirm the charges?! No, I don't, I just typed in my PIN for kicks! I get it, it's to verify the amount, but I'd love to know what percent of the time a user [intentionally] selects "No" at that screen -- I probably _accidentally_ select "No" about 5% of the time, and roughly 0% of the time have I ever intended to select "No". Small things, but annoying UX overall.

I'd think that many larger chain retailers are working on this. Some may have it solved w/ more "proprietary" systems; I don't shop at Target much lately, but I recall their payment UX being superior to most, unsure if their chip system is too though.

I'd love to get the speed of swiping back! :-)
We work with Stripe exclusively, and offer credit card or ACH invoices. ACH we don't charge any fees since the maximum fee from Stripe is $5. Credit card is another story since our invoices are in the multiple of thousands (2.9% adds up).
Much like many of the other commenters in this thread we had our account banned and were never told why. We were not doing anything against the terms of service (and they never accused us of doing so). We didn't have "invalid traffic". We had millions of users and an account rep at Google.

Details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3803568

Since then we've transitioned completely away from ad based revenue which in my opinion is much better anyway because it aligns our interests better with our users (they are now our customers not our product).
That was more a paraphrase of the impression you get reading him. It was surprisingly difficult to find some kind of quote from him on the intelligibility of nature (it looks like it is one of those topics that has generated a lot of low quality commentary). Here is the closest I could find for now:

>"Newton refashioned the world governed by an interventionist God into a world crafted by a God that designs along rational and universal principles.[55] These principles were available for all people to discover, allowed man to pursue his own aims fruitfully in this life, not the next, and to perfect himself with his own rational powers.[56]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newto...

You can also read his principles of philosophy and general scholium to get an idea of his views. You will see he believed in a creator that made the universe as simple as possible:

https://isaacnewton.ca/newtons-general-scholium/

http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/newton-princ.asp
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Roman engineering was also rather more overengineered. You compare their columns to modern or say gothic ones, and they clearly have a lot of excess strength.
I didn't realize you could modify git command names. Initially it sounds like a good idea but I'm not sure I want to break my muscle memory. Saving a few keystrokes isn't worth the frustration and mistyping when I need to work from someone else's computer. This xkcd comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/1806/
It really depends on your Operating System.
It would have a much higher chance of success if they didn't strip out Android layer completely but instead combined web apps with Android app on (opensource) Android core. It is very difficult to get initial traction - even Amazon mostly failed, and they build on Android.
OT, but how can you tell who downvoted you?
My situation:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm...
The Verge coverage:
http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/3/3/14803582/goo...
I have heard of this before and while it horrifies me as a student, I would love to take a class with a policy like this.
you can't (well, unless they tell you).
My situation and discussion @ adsense forum:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm...
Yeah, the whole very light jet (VLJ) thing sort of faltered. There was Eclipse, Piper Altaire, Diamond D-Jet, HondaJet, Adam A700, etc.

Most of them were shelved, only the HondaJet is still being produced (in small numbers).

As they say: The way to make a small fortune in aviation is to start with a big one.
Why did you leave the aeroplane maintenance business?
What business did you go into afterwards?
The Trump administration has unleashed a Lunar gold rush
Wasn't the guy responsible during this time frame the guy who now heads Facebook security?
Amazon to install at least 50 solar systems on its fulfillment centers by 2020
Sorry. Noted.