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Tablet manufacturers are finally coming to grips with the fact that their devices have a much narrower range of use cases than they'd thought. Tablet operating systems are unsuitable for content creation, as their application compatibility and multitasking leave much to be desired. But they're simultaneously too big to be ubiquitous. It's almost as much hassle to carry an iPad as it is to carry a laptop. In both cases, you need some kind of backpack or external carrying case.

The main use that tablets have is as e-readers and "second screens" for Netflix, Hulu, etc. Given that those are hardly taxing in terms of computational resources, it's no surprise to see that most customers buy a tablet and then never upgrade it. Tablets simply don't have the "killer apps", like games, that PCs used to drive their upgrade cycles. Nor do they have the carrier-driven two-year upgrade cycles of phones.
It definitely sucks, I never used to have to doubt the quality of amazon products, now I'm having to make sure I only buy amazon basics products or run reviews through some fake review spotter to try and make sure I'm not buying a lie.
I don't buy it. Increased wealth at lower levels benefits everyone. The main problem of poverty, at least in America, is that the welfare system traps poor people in government dependency. Another massive issue, homelessness, is due to terrible mental health treatment, which is especially sad.
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$1500/1920 work hours a year = $0.78/hr. Seems reasonable to me.
Intel's AVX2 instructions don't crash the machine, but lead to an extreme increase in voltage and, thus, temperature. Sustained use of these instructions (say, for example, in signal processing and iterative parameter estimation algorithms implemented using routines in Intel's MKL) requires cooling way beyond what the usual boxed cooler that comes with an i7 CPU can deliver in order to prevent throttling.
I would be very surprised if many people are not confused about their high end TV purchase, and trying to figure out which ones are better and why.
Mobile homes have a distinct legal disadvantage: they are classified as vehicles rather than real property. Local municipalities have statutes on the books that readily allow impounding vehicles and regulating their parking that are much more 'action oriented' than the legal formalities for liening real property for zoning non-compliance.
Thanks for the excellent rundown. That matches what I saw as well. I showed up 5 minutes late for a few events, assuming I was out of luck, only to find I could walk right in.
I'm not suggesting courage will protect you, I'm saying it will stop people from allowing their dignity, quality of life, and freedom of movement degraded for objectively insufficient reasons.
Uber’s Messy Breakup Complicates Search for COO
Hi duke360, it was done on purpose to show that the different ease functions can be used
I think if you miss doing proper algorithmic coding and feel stuck gluing frameworks between a db and a web browser, you should just try to avoid web related development.

In embedded, desktop, games and a ton of other disciplines, there is lots of old school and fun dev and a minimal amount of CRUD boilerplate.
Imagine spending $49,000 on this boxhouse, and then seeing this 72 airstream go for $35k: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/tro/6036307617.html
Oh I understand fuzzing won't catch all bugs. But I see, glad they do run random over.
years ago I read an article by Bruce Schneider in which he said he doesn't put a password on his home wifi. Anyone who wants to connect to it can.

His argument was that if someone downloaded illegal materials like cp and his network was password protected, they would argue that it had to be him (when we know this isn't even remotely true as software people).

The thing is, I kind of dismissed it and then several years after reading that I came across an article that just floored me. A cop was accused of accessing cp evidence repeatedly (presumably for himself). The article quoted the chief of police as having said "we know it was him because he used his password to log in and it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone else to have gotten into it".

I've emphasized the word impossible.

I went home that night and opened up my home wifi and I've ran it that way ever since. The idea that a police chief would believe it's impossible for anyone else to get into an account because it's password protected is about some of the scariest shit I can imagine.

And what's scarier in my mind, is how easily people are swayed. Look at how many people are arguing that it's ok to jail this guy indefinitely for refusing to give the police a password. And they BUY the argument that because the police are only asking him to perform an action (enter the password) and not actually give them the password it somehow changes anything instead of it being bullshit hairsplitting by officials.

I'm not really a tin-foil hat sort of person, but the people who can buy that without blinking are a part of the reason why we can't have things like free speech, only acceptable speech.
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I would not be surprised if it was. The specific problem I'm having is that the domain login.live.com is failing to load. Given that this domain handles logins for all of Microsoft's services, it's not surprising to me that a failure here would cause failures across a number of other services.
Personal attacks are not allowed here. We ban accounts that do that and it looks like you've done it before, so please don't do it any more.

Re downthread: Whether or not comment quality on HN has "massively declined" (such perceptions tend to be in the eye of the beholder), please don't make it decline more massively still. "One more for the pile" is the credo of a litterer.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924820 and marked it off-topic.
Arianna Huffington: Sexual harassment isn't a 'systemic problem' at Uber
On the other hand, is it possible you could have gotten a lower price by not having a realtor? Since the seller wouldn't have to give up a percentage of their earnings to you realtor, they might have been happy to lower the price.
Half a meg of RAM is cheap. A $5000 software license isn't.

It wasn't the price of RAM that made Smalltalk expensive.
First paid programming gig was working on network equipment in the 90s. If you thought MacOS was primitive, we had to write everything from bootstrapping, to the OS, to the network stack and up from scratch. On some platforms we had to debug with morse code on an LED, uphill both ways in the snow. I miss those "primitive" times as well, but.. We're so much more efficient now. Things that used to take person years now take minutes to download, and we can move on to making our stuff do things that are much more valuable to society, rather than duplicating the same work as everyone else over and over. We have the shoulders of the Stallmans, Torvalds, and many others of the world to stand on now.
We'll make it clearer on the website, but the 49k version includes a 1.5kw solar array, ~15kwh of battery storage, all water systems, full smart home functionality (ie 'alexa, trigger windows' to go from transparent to opaque), and furnishings down to the utensils. Our 9k barebones model is closer to how most mobile homes I've seen are outfitted (but with better insulation and design in a boxouse); looks like these average over 60k new: http://www.dailyyonder.com/manufactured-housing-sales-bounce... . am i missing something?
Scanning the workers. A full body scan is low enough dosage that it is safe to be scanned every ~3 days (IIRC), so 30% of workers would be randomly selected for a whole body scan each day when they leave the mines.

Since then it has been repurposed for extreme cases like unconscious car crash victims in order to determine the extent of injuries. Or so I learned in a medical imaging elective.

The technology behind it is really cool! By using temporal separation for the different parts of the image they reduce scattering blur, allowing them to use a much lower dose to get the same image quality.
I should probably go that route. I'm looking for ways to beef up my IT chops and that sounds like a great work platform.
This seems somewhat unrealistic as the shapes do not represent what most sofas look like unless you are into the custom funky sofa look.

I would think that we would be better served asking the more practical question of "what is the largest rectangular sofa that we can fit around any given corner?" Additionally, the article as presented does not appear to take the z-axis into consideration.
"Possible targets floated by investors include Thomas Staggs, the former COO at Walt Disney Co.; Tim Armstrong, CEO of Verizon Communications Inc.’s AOL; and John Martin, CEO of Time Warner Inc.’s Turner, said a person familiar with the matter. The three men declined to comment."
Right, this is the same as the welfare trap. Keep the poor reliant on state largesse and count on their votes. Its still exploitation.
He also found vulnerabilities in many more security products out there. At some point, years ago, Microsoft became very hostile toward him, but things seem to be better now.
Okay, thanks for clarification. I was thinking about the floating bug which they had to recall the defective processors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
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- Look at the market for web development jobs.

- Look at the kind of skills that are being asked for.

- Perhaps talk to a recruiter to see what sort of skills are in demand.

- Ask someone experienced for feedback on your CV, portfolio and/or pitch.

- Think about all your other strengths and experiences. Get feedback from others.

Use all the above data points to improve your offering in the market.
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I am not sure how many hours he worked a day, but if he did the full 8 hours, then for me I see this as costing just $100 plus cough $10k in sacrificed salary!

Taking that into consideration it would have been more prudent to outsource a lot of the things and cut it back. I would be more interested in what you can launch in 16 hours (a single weekend).
> Lastly, you’re no longer allowed to define a response for GET and DELETE (which matches how RESTful APIs work).

I get that part about the DELETE, but no response for GET sounds odd. As I couldn't find anything in the spec RC: Is there further information available regarding that?
The context mixes the metaphor and the pun(intentional or not).
s/CIA/arbitrary third party/

Headline makes it sound like the Cisco routers come with a CIA SSH key baked in.
As for me, I can't log in to my Skype account at all
What is going on over there? They let people sell the crappiest stuff on their site these days. Plus at least in my experience they seem to have serious logistical issues, literally the last 3 or 4 items I've purchased on Amazon have not actually shipped to me.
The most holy triune God of the Bible.
But tablets were going to ruin the pc market.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/25/tablet-pc...
or the recent C2xxx bricking 'fiasco'

http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-atom-c2000-chips-are-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/5sqg30/pot_...
thanks for the feedback. what are the most compelling prefabs you've found that are actually shipping, and how much do they cost?
Sounds like you need to pick companies better or brush up on these questions.

https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
> miserably poor

Poor as in not wealthy, sure. But miserable? No, I doubt that.

Yes, if you compare wealth between different time periods many people have more wealth today than they did yesterday, but that's not important. Poverty is a measure of economic relationships: What matters is differentials in access to resources and means of production and how those differentials shape the structure of our society today. Even if an impoverished family in Appalachia today has more wealth than hunter gatherers several thousand years ago, their poverty marginalizes them, immiserates them, and drives the decay of the social structures around them. The issue is social relationships, not absolute wealth. It's about the dynamics of our society and how class structures form around economic relationships.

Comparing wealth between time periods is always a red herring in discussions about poverty. Poverty certainly does exist because it's profitable because poverty is about class and economic relationships today, not the relative wealth between, say, a vagrant in San Francisco and a vagrant in Rome circa 50 CE.
hah surprised it doesn't honestly, you'd think there'd be a need for people to discuss feed rates, cnc bits, materials and so on, especially with quite a few techie woodworkers nowadays building their own CNC from kits
Please help me understand how, "You are as out of touch as a republican supreme court justice. Willfully out of touch even." isn't somehow about 'rayiner, personally, given that it was said in response to his comment.

When I say "HN strives", I'm not talking about some sort of intentionality on the part of the community as a whole. That's not even a point worth debating (in this context, at least, though it might be fun after we've passed a joint around a few times...). I'm talking about every one of us, individually, and our specific contributions to the level of discourse here.

When you say "HN fails", you're therefore saying you failed (for the specific, situationally appropriate value of "you" — in this case, you, specifically). Especially when you follow that with "One more for the pile." Being all, "Welp!" in the face of the degradation of discourse you complain about makes you part of the problem, not part of the solution.
TL;DR - software update with new algorithm to use less infill material by dynamically generating on a per-model basis rather than filling the whole model with a repeating pattern.

This is not a new product.

From my (outside) perspective, it seems like the consumer/prosumer/hobbyist 3D printing scene hasn't seen any big innovations in a number of years. The last one I can remember was the rise of rostock/delta-bots. Is there something I've missed?
No, but there are VoIP solutions, such as Google Voice, FaceTime audio, Skype, etc.
This is generally not true. The seller of the home has a contract with the listing realtor. If there is no second realtor the listing realtor will usually get 5% or 5.5% instead of just 3%.
Yep. Looks like it. And from @danjoc's comment, the book in question "Python for Kids" has been uploaded to google drive by someone and it's out there...

This was (and still is) 1 major factor holding me back from trying to publish a technical book. They are so easily pirated.
The specific result produced by the data path is probably not very relevant in the case of a lockup. The control path involved with instruction decoding, register renaming, out-of-order execution, SMT, etc. is generally the cause of issues like this. With interactions between different blocks of the CPU and the size of some of the data structures involved, the full verification space is much, much larger.
Some of which are quite serious: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2015/06/why-your-core-2-process...
i wonder, is it that century old regex bug?
One swell foop.
It looks like the Microsoft Live sign-in is affected, hence Skype, OneDrive and Outlook - all of them are affected.
I remember reading about a case where a porn star actually showed up to a trial of her own volition and showed the judge her license to prove she was over 18 when she did the film.

Had she not responded when the guys lawyers contacted her, the accused would've gone to jail for child porn.

That's how insane and scary these laws are. I'm all for coming down hard on someone for having cp, but it wasn't cp, just a young looking actress.
This Wii emulator lets you buy actual games from Nintendo’s Shop Channel
"iPhone 7, iPhone 7Plus, iPhone 7S, iPhone 7S Plus, iPhone SE. Which is better?"

Bigger numbers are still better. "Plus" means the big screen. S is off year version, incremental upgrade on the previous number. Agreed SE is the odd one out, but don't think it's too hard for consumers to figure out "its the cheap one".

Because new iPhone models are introduced only once a year to great global fanfare, I bet a lot of consumers actually know the meaning of the version conventions very well.

Agreed on iPad and Mac versions, though, those are a mess.
No - these contracts are usually enforceable. But even if parts of them are not - it doesn't matter because the IP risk is just too high.

You're making a video game 'on the side' while working at a gaming company?

Then you want to 'raise money' - now the VC's say 'hey, you made this while you were at XYZ, weren't there contractual issues' - you say 'oh, it's not enforceable'. The VC says uh, no thanks, not looking forward to having all of our property owned by the company.
Just have to take an Uber.
Hospitals = real estate + admin staff + operational expenses.

Liability insurance for example will come under this and so will the retainer for the lawyers who will help you understand complexities of ACA.
Algoriz? Seriously? Nothing but a tarted up Excel. This is what gets into YC these days?
Good comment.

Just curious, just how much funding should basic science and theoretical research get, exactly?
> spent it all on flat screen TVs

Flat screen TVs, like most consumer electronics, have gone down in price over the years: http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-4k-tv-on-a-budget/
I just bought a Surface 3 recently. The kickstand is nice, the weight is tolerable, and the 3:2 aspect ratio is really why I bought it. Everything else about it sucks, from a tablet user perspective.

Every once in a while when you reboot, you'll have to wait for Windows to install its updates. Sleep/hibernate are more finicky than an iPad, which sips so little power in idle that it never has to hibernate. Desktop mode is absolutely terrible to use with fingers. Tablet mode has missing functionality so you'll have to switch to desktop mode periodically. Battery life is worse, even though Windows makes use of hibernate. There's bugs that plague the Surface line that don't get addressed for a long time. I had to manually disable wake from sleep using keyboard/mouse on my SP1 otherwise it would stay in a powered mode and never properly hibernate. A normal user can't do that.

Lack of apps is a real thing. There's no official YouTube app. You can use the desktop site, but every time you try to pull up the controls, the player interprets it as a touch and plays/pauses the video. On the Netflix app, if you try to drag the slider, there's no feedback from the slider so you can't see if you've actually dragged it or not until you let go. Makes for some very imprecise scrubbing.

I could go on and on, but an iPad is simply better for media consumption if you don't need a specific Windows tool.
Why are prescriptions expensive in the US over wholesale ? it's pretty easy to open a pharmacy and margins should go towards zero, right ?
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Certain crimes are under-reported, but on the whole even accounting for that crime rates are significantly lower for the sorts of petty crime that impact most people.
OSMC Gets Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless Support
Take every happy client you have from the last two years. Send them each an email...

Brilliant! This falls into the 'Get Out of The Building' category of client discovery/relationship management. The best guy I've seen do this has a rotation list of 100 individuals he regularly pings for coffee/lunch meetings throughout the course of the year. The upshot, he's gets to select the projects takes on.
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I see, maybe it should say 'specifies' and/or whatever other edits needed to make that read like English.
I am because I googled first to confirm average trailer rent is $200-300 per month, which is consistent with the number in the article.
Apple has killed the “air” brand
I've got to say, this attack looks a little too obvious; that doesn't reflect well on lastpass.
Ask HN: What was the project you most enjoyed working on?
It might not (or maybe it did) have made you rich and/or famous. It might not have been "impressive" to any of the internet cool kids. But it was the technical project you had the most, sheer fun and joy doing.

What was it? Why did you enjoy it so much? Does your paid work come anywhere close to matching that level of enjoyment?
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Yeah, fair. The article editorializes and seems to advocate for more culpability on the people delivering the services. Which feels a little short-sighted, since poor people wouldn't necessarily be any better off if they didn't have these services at all.
Yes. Depending on the location and length of time the boxouse will be there, we can do off-grid (tanks monitored and filled/pumped as need, RV-style) or grid-connected (linked to existing house's plumbing)
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> there is an almost universally held belief that such a failure exists in the telecom industry

There is a widely acknowledged market failure in the telcom market but it doesn't here. Specifically, telcom is a naturally monopoly so we expect there to be one provider and for it to have monopolistic pricing power. Whereas a healthy market has many providers and better pricing (from the consumer's point of view).

In this case there are zero providers because there isn't a high enough collective willingness to pay on the part of the would be consumers to cover the costs, much less any profit. That's not a market failure, at least as it is generally defined.
You could get a cheaper Windows tablet from another vendor, however, and they're still great.
What he did was evict anything that happened while he was not present and thus didn't have his "touch"...
There's more than local zoning at play. There are health regulations regarding potable water and sanitary waste disposal for dwellings that occur at the state level. There's ADA and FHA at the Federal Level.

Also at the local level are things like occupational taxes and building permits. Unlike room and whole house rental, a container provides direct visible evidence of the activity from the air, over a neighbor's fence, or sometimes from the street.
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The Surface is also a lot heavier and more fatiguing to use as a handheld tablet.
> but surprise surprise - engineers don't really like working in the browser! :-P

c9.io changed that for me, the chrome secure shell also keeps me in the browser.
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The 3.x is still updated, but they're replacing it soon. 4.x is a WebExtension, with a different UI.

See https://blog.lastpass.com/2017/03/plans-to-retire-the-lastpa... for details.
Be careful about your definition of absurd. Somewhere, right now, some poor bastard is building an NT 3.51 workstation for some stupid reason. I'll bet you $0.05 that some future poor bastard will be building NT4 or 2000 devices in 2038. :)
Key passage for me

>MP: We sell a lot of patents, maybe more than anyone else. Usually, the only way to pay back [lenders’] loans is to sell the patents. So people aren’t paying what the company would have been worth but usually enough to pay back that secured debt.

So many companies saying they'll only use their patents defensively... may find that their patents will fall into the hands of someone who doesn't share their perspective.
Used this for my audiointerface. Works great and is super cheap. I wonder if the fit is pure coincidence or if there is a useful norm behind this.
Can't do wildcard via Let's Encrypt