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> I had no idea this was happening!

It was actually posted to HN early during the campaign, but the capricious Gods of the HN Frontpage didn't bless the submission.
Sadly it wasn't Max Headroom. How hackable is the EBS?
Cue gratuitous protocol changes from MongoDB.
I always expect from new products in a line up to perform better than its brothers and sisters, because there is no reason in buying one if it would be worse than my old one.
So, we charge Nestle for water. Good. Now Nestle executive decides to move to another State and what you get is just a bunch of unemployed folks as well as several businesses losing the contracts they used to have with Nestle.

The question, in this global world, is wether Nestle is paying the fair "International price" given that the transaction is net beneficial.

Yeah, the state might be getting less comparing to yesterday. But remember this is the 21st century and things have changed. Many businesses will just move instead of dealing with your issues adapting to the new order.
I'm not saying Go's design is dumb, it's obviously successful at what it set out to do.

I'm not trying to be dishonest or insulting. I've described the philosophy of the language in exactly those terms to Go users, in person, and gotten nods of "Yes, that's right, that's why it works."

I think it's more dishonest to claim that the language designers didn't intentionally limit the language to less than the state of the art as of 30 years ago, on purpose, because of concerns about the mental capacity of users. They themselves admit as much.
With all of the processing wizardry that goes into phone cameras these days, gets me thinking: will we reach a point where cameras are digital paintbrushes that construct a human-pleasing image out of hints from the real world, rather than tools that capture the real world?

There are probably plenty of people that will pay for a phone camera that makes them look less like themselves if it makes them look more attractive in subtle ways.
I hate that there is such a double standard with this. Corporation can eliminate my employment at any time with zero notice and suffer minimal reputational impact. If I decide to quit right now and walk out of my office, I have to worry about long lasting reputational issues and "burning bridges". I get why it's like this, corporations have all the leverage, just hate that the dynamic exists.
I don't know that the incremental gains are unnoticeable, but we've definitely hit a point where no one camera is so vastly better than any other that the "winner" isn't going to change hands before you get a new phone.
Most users don’t get each new phone iteration. If they upgrade every 3 or 4 years, those incremental updates add up to a noticeable difference.
> Now, a Harvard University study has done what any person with Google Trends could do, and pointed out that Google searches for “iPhone slow” spiked multiple times, just before the release of a new iPhone each time.

This isn't news.
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I found a lot of this advice, coincidentally, in the book "Respawn" over at game quitters (I had a horrible video game addiction that I decided I needed to break) -- that is the advice to apply the same psychological principles that get people hooked to video games to other things in life. This is the ultimate life hack for me and something I am still working on.
7 productivity hacks for UX designers
Geoff Hinton - surely. But I think most experts will disagree on the other two.
In terms of deep fundamental contributions I don't the think other two have made much.
I think Andrew Ng has been a great popularizer/marketing guy - primarily with that Cats project.
Likewise Demis Hassabis has been a great application creator - with amazing results of course - AlphaGo, Atari, etc.

On a side note:
I lost all respect for andrew ng after the Baidu cheating scandal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/technology/computer-scien...

I felt he got away too easy on that, without any apology or even a public statement - especially considering he is a former academic. (And that too he silently deleted his google+ posts.)
Imagine if something like that had happened at a Google research team - I am pretty sure Jeff Dean or Peter Norvig would have stepped down.
somehow relevant: TV Series "Taboo"
Very good one, explores the time and doings of the East India Company (not as a main theme)
Not really. Almost all Uber drivers in London used to be minicab drivers (or work for e.g. Addison Lee), and the pay, rates, customer-base etc. are similar.
Samsung doesn't update the software on their old devices.

This leads to security holes for sure, but my older Samsung devices running old Andriod versions are actually pretty snappy.

To bad there isn't a middle ground, but I guess that would be expensive to maintain old OS versions.
Are Google, Apple or Facebook German companies?
I've backed the KS, used it every day at work for more than a year, never going back to another git porcelain.
Smartphones have already killed off the casual camera market. I don't think Canon or Nikon would be willing to help Apple kill off the high-end camera market, too.
Notice that none of these images are zooming in on pixels to get the comparison. The fight for quality among high end DSLR's is nearing the description of unnoticeable difference, but phone cameras are benefitting immensely from new tech.

In fact, it's probably the area where we see the most gain compared to any other improvements in iPhone versions.

Perhaps your feeling is from the fact that new phones are released in rapid succession. If that's the case, just compare quality in phones a year or two apart instead of a few months.
The reason for that was that while dmix was available for a long time, it was not enabled automatically on hardware without hardware mixing. More recent versions will silently (heh) enable it on hardware thats known to not have hardware mixing.
I assume you're joking. Nevertheless, for missiles, it's more about detecting and correcting early when the error is still manageable. If you go at Mach something, a few meters off course can quickly become a few hundred.
> But actually not like and hate are the same only in your dictionary.

You're just being deliberately obtuse, now.
You're normalizing progress, and taking it for granted.

I'm never not amazed at the state-of-the-art.
This reminds me of the famous Scott McNealy quote from 1999 ("You have zero privacy. Get over it.")

A lot of people are making the assumption that digital information can be somehow protected when in fact it seems the opposite assumption is more likely to be correct--any information in digital form accessible on a network will be compromised. It's just a matter of time and not even a very long time in most cases.

What if we take this as a starting assumption for information management? I think this leads you to a different way of thinking of information protection, specifically that we need to come up with ways to extend the time that private information remains protected. For example, what prevents us from having physical "information wallets" that we carry around with us and unlock only on demand and in return for specific services? This sounds a lot like an iPhone. Why don't we put things like medical records in them?

I think the technology to do this is already on the horizon, especially if you assume that the information that people truly need to protect (e.g., financial records) is not that large.
It's not rhetoric. It's research. https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/about.html
This is a 2014 story (and also utter nonsense.)
Wow. After something like that happened I'd start looking for a new job regardless of whether I was laid off or not.

Similarly, I started looking to leave my first job out of university when they started offshoring some of the engineer positions to Ukraine. They weren't laying anyone off in the US but it was clear that they were trying to hire more people in Ukraine, which might put downward pressure on the wage raises of the US-based workforce, so I started looking and got out of there within months. The offshoring never did quite work out for them though (turns out that it's hard to offshore consultants).
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I've been asked (UK) do I "want antibiotics" (scratched cornea IIRC), a question I didn't understand.

"Well is that the treatment you recommend?"

I mean, the NHS are spending millions and having hundreds of doctors and researchers look at these questions ... why am I, completely uninformed, being asked to make a judgment??

Beggars belief.

The doctor presumably considers that you need the treatment otherwise they wouldn't recommend it. If they would recommend a treatment they know you don't need then they should have their license revoked. The only answer a doctor should be able to give is "only if you want to get better".
I know of 2 banks that bought an OpenStack private cloud solution from HP and even though they were over a year apart HP could not get it working for either one and had to change at least the hypervisor to VMware
GitLab's UX Researcher here. I'd love to talk to you so I can understand what you've been struggling with. I've sent you an email.
GlobalFoundries Weds FinFET and SOI in 14HP Process Tech for IBM Z14 CPUs
So the answer is yes, you did make up the number. Thank you.
there is already higher supply than demand in the industry but the profits still have to rise
You mean absolute vs. relative measurement. Accuracy vs. precision is a different concept.

It is possible that a setup with high-precision absolute measurements can produce high-accuracy relative measurements, but the former does not imply the latter (imagine, for instance, any source of error in absolute measurements that's locally non-linear).
Can you sue them for libel then?
Cities and States Are Picking Up Trump's Slack on Climate
As an American currently in the middle of an EU-GDPR implementation I am envious of the level of protection EU citizens will receive. Fortunately, there will be some collateral benefits when companies (such as mine) decide to apply GDPR to all their customers, not just their EU customers.

A 3 minute intro to GDPR for those unfamiliar:
https://youtu.be/n5WJOncaHt4
Care to share some of the arguments that made you change your views? For instance, wanting to build a family (having kids tends to force a morning schedule).
They mention that you can use the Vive lighthouses and controllers. Would the Oculus sensors and touch controllers work?
pretty much. Or rather: the more you pay for something the harder it should have been to produce.

I think in almost every situation you shouldn't be spending a half-mil on a logo redesign. That's super excessive.
Vitalik's interview from blockchain experts perspective
I don't think the "treadmill experts" at treadmillreviews.net are any more reputable than Good Housekeeping's youtube channel.

In response to your platitude on the environmental impact, I assume you don't mean 'literal species extinction' because of your optimism that it will be repaired once found. So, you need to define what you mean by "too high a burden." Your opposition's argument is that it's "unnecessary" which is measurable and, in my view, not disproven in the research from the treadmill experts.

"People are different, and have different requirements and priorities" is an intellectual dead end.
Reminds me of John McPhee's "A Fleet of One"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/17/a-fleet-of-one
At least up to iPhone 7 the camera sensor wasn't made by Apple:

https://itstillworks.com/manufactures-apples-iphone-camera-1...

Currently, it seems to be made by Himax Technologies:

https://www.cultofmac.com/473737/iphone-8-rumors-cause-share...
As mentioned in the article, there is also a 100+ score Twitter account: https://twitter.com/newsyc100 which has sibling accounts for other score limits.

Not related but still worth a mention due to apparently considering coming out of retirement after a year's hiatus: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says
You are unemployed. You just have some money around for a few months (usually 3 months) to look for a new job. It's tough out there to get a new job, even senior engineers have hard time getting through interviews.
Being unsexy is the new sexy for some time now.
For me, "paying bills" is not the literal act of making payments to vendors and creditors. It is the act of exporting one's labor outside the family, in exchange for the medium of exchange required to pay one's bills.

I don't "pay my bills" by writing checks and mailing them. I "pay my bills" by working at a corporate peon job for 40 hours a week. If I do the same kind of work at home on a side project, that is still work, but not "bill paying" work.

The literal act of paying bills takes me all of five minutes every month. An hour per year, whenever I don't have to add any new payees to the system. I spend more time voiding my bowels, which I always seem to have enough time for, regardless of how much time I spend working.

Maybe ancestor post was referring to doing accounts payable and accounts receivable accounting work for the business? Seems like that might be more labor intensive than hitting the "pay" button for the electric bill, even with modern business accounting software. Even then, it wouldn't be something I'd do every day, and if all I felt I could do in the afternoons is light administrative work, I think I'd just knock off early if I didn't have enough to fill at least a solid 2 hours, or if it was the last day of the month.
Every time a friend of mine bought a phone in a country like China or Korea, the camera app had built-in filters to smooth the face and prettify the eyes. Often times these were also the default setting. So I think we are already at that stage in some parts of the world
How frustrating is it to change GOPATH? In each GOPATH, create a file called "source" or something, and put the following in it:

export GOPATH=/home/ubercow/project2/

Or even:

export GOPATH=`pwd`

When it's time to work on your project just say

. source

This seems like an INCREDIBLY minor step to take. It's certainly no worse than using pyenv.
Statements like this make me cringe:

> I’ve cost them time and money going down the hill. It’s a macho thing. Drive the hills as fast as you can and be damn sure to humiliate any sonofabitch who’s got brains enough to respect the mountains.

It's unfortunate that trucking is one of the last middle class industries left in the US. We need jobs like this, but at the same time I can't wait for automation to take the human factor out of this equation.
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It's one of the few things that takes me back to Google (others being !gi & !gm).

Get that 'in last year' filter already, DDG. I think I've complained about this through feedback before.
Are there any audio summaries of HN? At this point I'd even appreciate pointers to listenable podcasts which primarily consist of discussion/opinions on recent HN stories, but I'd really appreciate a "just the facts, m'am" summary.

Preliminary research:

Some sort of experimental text-to-speech of the article titles: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnAsMIl3kF9LAYJuKxH8Ebw (last updated: June 2017)
And I have tried many apps but I have always felt better using the website both on desktop and mobile. This way I also check it less.

I try to keep bare minimum of essential apps on my phone. Rest just websites whenever I have to use it.
Interestingly, the article points it out how far cellphone cameras have come by comparing shots from just various versions of iPhones and you can see how much better the quality has been getting even just from Apple.
It's actually very discoverable. The video lacked the sidebar showing the keypresses, though.

Generally, each time you press a key that is part of a sequence, you get a pop-up explaining what further keys are available. So for instance, I opened magit (M-x magit-status) on a project and pressed ? (for help):

https://i.imgur.com/c5cmmpB.png

The popup lists the keys I can use on magit-status page, and if you know git it's pretty obvious where to go in most cases.

Also, at any time you can press ? and then one of the key listed in the popup to get a detailed description and/or an appropriate manpage.
Thank you for saying this.

I love the FSF and what it stands for however, I really think they have a huge communications issue with the average person, heck, most people.

Just looking over the page gave me a headache.

No one is going to go through all those steps to secure email when, to be perfectly honest, most don't care if their email is secure.

If they want most people to adopt secure email, they should look at how easy let's encrypt made getting and administrating SSL certs.
I hate to break this to you but most photos on social media have some kind of enhancement, whether that’s simply makeup, digital contorting or simply taking many many photos until the one that appears looks nothing like the subject. The new Apple Portrait mode will be another example of this.
Bitcoin has a usability problem
Making Reel Valley, a game built using Nim
Hahahha wait so the study is just, "more people search for this"? This doesn't show anything. Show me an actual speed test pre/post software update.
Canada to get its first cryptocurrency ETF on TSX
typically its because in the past they fucked up and it was super expensive.
Move fast and break things is anathema to billion dollar enterprise where the mood is mostly "keep the money rolling in".
This is clickbait and (low quality) speculation. Should we allow this type of story to appear on the front page?
I am skeptical that apple would be that shortsighted. If there was a smoking gun here, it would likely kill their smartphone business. I will share an anecdote that I hear at every release cycle for each new idevice:

Stepson: Hey, my phone is glitching and slow. I think I need a new phone.

Me: Really? let me take a look. <tap through a few apps and settings>. Hmm I dont see anything wrong, other than you are connected to the wifi network that is about 300 feet away from you.(My inlaws have a wide open wifi network in their house)

Stepson: oh, ok, but its still glitching. I need a new Phone!!!!!!!

Me: whenever you are ready to pay for it in cash since you still owe about 600 for that one...

Stepson: :(

<a few weeks later>

Stepson: hey I dropped my phone, I need a new one...

I am convinced that apple has built a time released lubricant into their phones that causes kids to drop them when the new models are released....
I think we are almost there already, the difference between my burner phone and a Pixel XL (previous 'best' camera-phone) is such that I find the ground beneath my feet as viewed through the lens of a Pixel XL to be much more beautiful than in real life.

My camera points outwards rather than in, sadly selfies are not helped in my personal situation.
The portrait with the tree and the sun in the background is a clear example. Whether the sun is shining through the leaves of the tree or not will overwhelm any inter-phone differences.
If you process this kind of high-throughput data in R then yep, you get it as 3 data.frames as you describe, it's nicely tabular and easy to "join" by just matching index numbers.
I don't doubt your claim, but what terrifies me about this if it's true is how willing companies are to give up all their data, security, etc for Google and company to mine, sell, etc. I would never do that. I just don't get that. To me it's insane to let others have and manage all your data. Doing god knows what with all that precious clear text data and and then not knowing who has access to it once it's in the "cloud". Just crazy.
True, but healthcare costs would have risen with or without Obamacare.
Don't forget HN over Gopher: gopher://hngopher.com:70/
I'm not certain that crime is one where the perps are logically weighing the pros and cons.
> the incremental gains we're seeing with each new phone cycle are almost unnoticeable

I don't think so. As someone with a whole lot of expensive "real" camera gear, I was astonished - and I don't really say that lightly - with what I saw a friend getting out of her iphone 7+. If three years ago you had shown me some of these images I would have sworn they were taken by at least five grand worth of gear, expertly used. And by all reports the 8 is another giant step up.

This techcrunch review tells the story: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/19/review-iphone-8/

I find this all incredibly exciting. It reminds me of the great democratisation of electronic music, where all of a sudden you didn't need $30k worth of hardware synths to make music - a single computer would do. A cambrian explosion of creativity ensued.

High quality and highly capable cameras - and video cameras - in the hands of the masses? Bring it on I say! How many thousands, if not millions, of incredible, moving, moment-defining images will be captured now we don't need a pro photographer on hand to do justice to a scene?

If we're gonna have cameras in smartphones - and we're gonna - they may as well be good, and Apple is setting the pace - and forcing down the price. Good on them.
While the cabbies do hate Uber, I'm not sure you can blame the current moves entirely on them, there's quite a lot more to it than that.
Ask HN: How do you monitor your LAN traffic?
I was getting terrible speeds for several nights in a row and suspected something might be happening on my network. I installed pi-hole (DNS logger) and it's helped me a bit.

I was wondering what kind of setup other HN people have.
The time frame is symmetrical - both employers and employees have to give 4 weeks notice (default). In my case, the US parent company decided on 12 weeks, probably to retain the software developers.

Note that depending on unions (rare in IT) and mandatory employee representation (Betriebsrat) for big companies, firing people can be harder, especially for long-term employees.
Source pls.
I have an iPhone 6s and the camera it came with was noticeably better than the Nexus 5 phone that I had prior to that.

And my Nikon DSLR still takes much better pictures than any phone on the market. If smartphones will ever improve to equal the better optics of a DSLR, we shall see, but there's tremendous room for improvement.

And most importantly, light is everything and biggest difference between a good camera and a bad one is the ability to make photos in poor light conditions. Improvements matter because I've had many attempts failed due to poor light, which are essentially lost memories.
The painful thing is being asked to stick around for a few more weeks or sometimes a couple months for a transition. That sucks, because you join daily standup, have tickets in your queue, but you have to pretend you care... Go to meetings where people just want to suck out everything from you, including your soul, so they can replace you. That's a nightmare, but many don't have a choice because they need to pay bills.
.cat domains work properly, e.g. http://www.elperiodico.cat (tested from Barcelona)

TL;DR: if you break the law, expect to get punished. The operators knew they were breaking the law, so involved sites in that domain were blocked. I.e. not a ".cat" generic blockage, but a specific action driven from a court.
Slight nuance, but I'd say it's assuming the existence of a collective intelligence and homogeneity in the population. Its a slight backhand insult to prod readership for anyone who doesn't already know the subject. It pushes that button of the fear of being left out of a trend.

It's clickbait in another form. Playing psychological games with readers.

It's disrespecting its readers for making an assumption that readers are too shallow to show interest in substance. So, agree, insulting readers' intelligence.