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One thing missinh here is that dependencies are still published as ES5, sometimes with ESM as an addition. There is no easy way to provide a library with async/await as of today. We would need module:es2017 property in package.json for that. It mitigates a lot the benefit becausr in most code bases dependencies represent the majority of the final JS, and they gain nothing with this approach.
So if Michigan were collecting more tax revenues, you think it's likely they'd spend it on improving water access for people on other continents? They don't even take care of locals yet.
Regarding the universal efficacy of stimulants, it should be noted that stimulants helping with something is not diagnostic of a medical issue. Stimulants help everybody with with getting-work-done issues. That's why the majority of Americans take stimulants daily, and many workplaces give them away for free.

So sure, if someone is having trouble keeping up with the pace of their societally assigned hamster wheel and find stimulants help, sure, they should go for it. But they should not mistake that for an illness, any more than a person needing a step-stool to get to the top cupboard should think they have some sort of growth hormone deficiency. Artificial environments can require artificial compensation, but that doesn't mean there's some sort of medical problem.
That's crimes though, not rape prosecutions, which is different to the original posters claim.
As someone who owns a $1300 Fuji x100F, color me impressed. The only thing really separating my Fuji from the iPhone 8 is the level of detail when zoomed in, otherwise the images just look great.

The performance of these smartphone cameras is getting closer and closer to DSLR's nowadays. However the level of zoomed in detail still can't compete, but most consumers don't care anyway because most just want to take pics of their food and post on instagram.
Don’t you see that the face colors on the pixel are not realistic, she looks dead white. Also try zoom into her face, you will see how much worse the quality is as well
Wait I thought they already operated above the law and didnt care about any licensing stuff. Thats how they were able to offer low fees. What changed here? Why would they care about some licensing all of sudden??
Not about the referendum, but about what happened last days:

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/09/20/inenglish/1505917320_78...
I mean I'm not in the shipping industry, but I'd guess it'd be a long while before Amazon becomes very focused/involved in the particulars of the container shipping industry, where Flexport is focused. Amazon has a lot of other stuff on their plate to tackle. If Amazon ever becomes such a large percentage of global trade that they can actually make use of a whole fleet of container ships then maybe.

But for now, just to put things in perspective, Amazon only a year ago started up a cargo plane operation with ~20 planes. Depending on the kind of plane, that's around 1000-1500 cubic meters, 400-500 metric tons for their whole fleet of cargo planes.

For comparison, a single cargo ship (not even the biggest ones) caries >50,000 cubic meters and >150,000 tons. So we're talking orders and orders of magnitude difference when you account for a whole fleet.

I'd wait to see whether or not amazon expands their air freight more after using it to capacity before guessing that they'd get into the container industry.

But again, outsider perspective, so I could be way off, would welcome some info from someone more knowledgeable.
Certainly there's inefficiency in any human endeavor, but just cutting staff is unlikely to solve it. At least, not if you're doing it proactively to save money. Sometimes you need redundant roles just to make sure someone is paying attention to details that might get lost.
This is mostly correct, although it is a matter of dosage. People can exhibit symptoms that to the average person seem the same either because of a deficiency or an excess of the pathways amphetamine (the active ingredient of Adderral) controls.

In the case of someone recreationally taking stimulants, whether Adderall or methamphetamine/speed, they’re putting the control centers of the brain in overdrive which makes them feel pumped up and exhibit excited off-the-wall behavior.

In the case of someone with ADHD they have a deficiency that ameasured amount of the drug will address, bringing them back up to “normal” levels. Without the drug this might seem excited it off the wall with distraction, but this is due to a lack of self-control rather than too much stimulation. Even though the symptoms are nearly identical externally.

Hence the “paradoxical” effect on ADHD patients where the application of stimulants results in focused, normalizing behavior.
While I disagree with a lot of the Poettering-bashing that goes on, and the way it's expressed by some...

...he certainly seems to leave a trail of only-mostly-working yet ubiquitous software to the point that he is the only person whose name I associate with it.
Thanks for the tip! Are you in Amsterdam? Would love to catch up in the first week, if you are around.
Wow, your camera can take great pictures of a landscape during the day? I'm impressed. /s

So far they all suck at low-light photography or moving subjects (or both at the same time like taking pictures of kids indoors at a birthday party). That would be a real breakthrough.
I don't really care about cameras - I never really look at the photos I do take - but I feel like you're kidding yourself if you think these changes are small.
If you're able to build Chromium yourself, here's a trivial patch which does just that (only tested on Linux):

https://gist.github.com/blockoperation/5ec91d666e670e39584d2...
Is the 4 weeks on the employee side a social custom that can be ignored (it is considered rude to do so here but not illegal) or is it actually a law or contractual obligation? Can you quit on the spot if say you feel the work load is unreasonable?
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Have you had a chance to look at libhydrogen?

https://github.com/jedisct1/libhydrogen
it is not that someone has access to your credit history that is a problem nor who manages this information. the real issue is that agencies extending credit will lend without verification. it is not even credit agencies that do this, to many companies allow charges against all sorts of accounts; an example is spurious charges that sneak onto phone bills.

any company extending credit or charging a customer should be required to reach a level of proof required by law, to the point I would think that above a certain level of credit it requires a notary or such.
> Is it possible [...] that the next hollywood blockbuster is filmed on an iphone?

Yes.

"How one of the best films at Sundance was shot using an iPhone 5S"
https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/28/7925023/sundance-film-fes...

Or if you want something a bit more Hollywood, Gondry is experimenting with it.

"Michel Gondry debuts film shot entirely on Apple's iPhone 7"
http://mashable.com/2017/07/01/michel-gondry-iphone-7-film/#...
Eight year olds can't change the environment much. But if we are making a lot of eight year olds struggle when we put them in an artificial environment, I hope we're considering whether we've make mistakes designing that environment.
It's really easy.
I have found elasticsearch to be one the easiest database I ever had to setup and maintain. Some tuning to do when you have TB on multiple boxes but nothing hardcore.

2 TB/day is fairly easy... as long as you have a bit of experience AND one of the database that can scale horizontally AND the company buys the amount of hardware that is required.

StackDriver/Sumologic/logentries are cloud solutions, so obviously one doesn't have to deal with the database ever.
Give me permissions to all your base before I tell you how this shit works? FUCK OFF!
You don't think overuse of herbicides ALSO leads to resistance among plants? Dicamba is being pushed because Glyphosate is falling off in effectiveness now that weeds have developed resistance.

>If we didn't have broad spectrum herbicides, farmers would have to use many narrow spectrum herbicides to kill weeds of different varieties. More herbicide, not less.

The reverse is true. Narrow application of herbicides to just the weed plants encroaching upon a field results in far less herbicide application then spraying entire fields as a matter of practice.
Sorry for the downvotes - it’s early and the caffeine and adderall is kicking in. Your joke was funny.
https://www.glassdoor.com/

I do like the trend towards enabling anonymous wage transparency here.
I know a lot of people who make < 1 phone call per day and yet spend hours taking photos. Agree it's a shame.

Casting wide aspersions, I feel like it's because you can't get likes/upvotes for phone calls. But, Snapchat shows that ephemeralness is valued, so maybe it's something else behind the war on direct personal real communication.
There is a demand elasticity threshold effect. When people traveled overseas, the consensus was that they were out of reach. Cheap Internet access broke that consensus for text & images. Whatsapp broke it for synchronous voice. People can now maintain close relationships internationally. It did not happen linearly with international voice prices decrease: it happened suddenly with the combination of the cost reaching zero with accepted usability.
I don't really understand their tech yet but I believe Lightning is working on a solution to this problem: https://lightning.network/
Here's a conspiracy theory: what if some/most phones do this to some level noticeable only to the subconscious without any user knowledge of it happening? Maybe as some sort of marketing ploy to increase positive word of mouth.

"Hey $FRIEND, this new phone is great! I can't believe how good it makes me look. You can really see my eyes. Check it out!"
Oh, the irony of reading this when I was supposed to be working.
I'm skeptical. They've been saying this about iphones for years and my immediate family members who use iphones thing it has a crappy camera
Guess I'm being downvoted for snark. But the definition of technology is to advance the state of the art. None of us would be here if we thought everything was already good enough.
Direct political donations (known as hard money) are already capped in the U.S. Beyond that, the U.S. has a tradition of free speech, which means that direct public funding and limits on general political activity (party building, voter education spending) are unconstitutional. So those cannot be capped.
Kind of disappointing. Best thing for reading that I've found lately is Spritz (http://spritzinc.com/) . I use it mainly to read online articles. It's a shame there are not many apps that use Spritz to read books and other stuff. I tried some of the website recommendations buy they weren't very good IMO.
I would recommend becoming familiar with the 12 factor app methodology (https://12factor.net) and reading the following books:

https://www.amazon.com/Building-Microservices-Designing-Fine...

https://www.amazon.com/Production-Ready-Microservices-Standa...

https://www.amazon.com/Microservice-Architecture-Aligning-Pr...
have you tried the pixel? The low-light is amazing
Like Catalonia, Britain, Scotland, South Sudan, the United States, or India?

The circumstances matter. I can't draft a workflow for "ethical independence" on a Friday morning on HN. I can say there is a difference between self-determination and the desire for liberty vs. mass murder, conquering territory and waging guerrilla warfare against multiple nations.
It's Facebook that has access to this metadata.

> While the metadata is encrypted during transit, phone numbers, timestamps, connection duration, connection frequency, as well as user location are being stored on the company’s servers [0]

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.06817.pdf
Well, it improved years ago (like, ten!) and I haven't had to worry about it in recent years.

I still remember buying a hardware sound card (soundblaster emu10k) to enable ALSA to mix multiple sources (game audio + teamspeak or whatever voice chat people used back then) back in the early 2000s.
HPE still has labs? Note the last time anything was published by labs... https://www.labs.hpe.com/publications
Actually there is an example in the article, comparing pixel-level detail from the last 4 iPhones in a low-light scenario (“old man” picture). The improvement with the 8 is impressive to say the least.
I use hckrnews.com together with Stylish (extension) dark theme (https://userstyles.org/styles/117803/dark-hckrnews-2017). I also use a dark theme for Hacker News (https://userstyles.org/styles/113994/hacker-news-dark).

For me it is much easier on the eyes.
I'm using this right now to write a game. I've never developed a game before, so I don't have any comparison with other engines. So far I like it. I'm not a huge fan of the IDE, but the gdscript language isn't hard to pick up at all, so I just avoid it and use vim. I'm excited to see where it goes as it feels like a great starting point for people like me who want to make a hobby game, but also feels polished enough that I could see a professional using it.
This is great, and will definitely cut down on collateral damage and allow for precision strikes when causing enemies of the state to become room temperature.
The .cat domain was seized because the organization in charge of the domain IGNORED the orders issued by a JUDGE. So saying:
> "If such content is unlawful, a court order directed to the publisher or host of that content is the appropriate way for authorities to deal with that illegality, rather than the blanket removal of entire domains from the Internet."

Is simply put, bulshit. A court ordered taking down illegal calls to a referendum not approved by a democratic consitution. If that was ignored, someone had to take action.
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I only partially enjoyed the show... The sets, costumes, etc were all phenomenal. The story/dialogue at times was a bit boring at times, and overdone at times.

Either way, it's cool to see that the East India company was real, and about as terrible as the show makes them seem.
Right now they take nothing, since all they are doing is subsidizing the majority of the fare with VC money.
Selfies are inherently at a disadvantage, because shots are very close range with a wide angle lens exaggerate depth. Portrait photography is usually done with longer lenses, which you can't fake computationally so easily. So I think some of the selfie postprocessing is trying to make up for that.
> Honestly, I guess its because I chose my hardware wisely

In that case, you can also chose hardware that works well with PA, so I don't see JACKs benefit there. Also, I don't think they're equivalent in functionality.
I think the actual dxomark tests are, but the pics in the article are prettier custom takes for the audience?
The Evolution of Plasma Mobile
Partly (even mostly), this is a rant about hyperbole and cliche.

I'm not sure if this is true, but I've heard title "President" was selected specifically for its understated connotations (as opposed to pomous titles like prime minister). It escalated.

A lot of the tech cliches start as understated ways of being hyperpolic. Paradigm a fairly an abstract term. Disrupt is an understated term for revolutionize. But when they reach ciche status, they get annoying.

There's an art to understated but ambituous, and an appeal to it. Musk pulls it off at times.

I was about to accuse America for this and quote soft words and big sticks, but....that's an americanism ain't it? I dunno. I do think american tolerance for hyperactive positivity is in play somewhere.

All that said, disruption deos happens, but is hindsight it usually seems like a technological or societal disruption, not a company led thing. I mean, news has certainly been disrupted.
FreeBSD's OSS is not ALSA.

ALSA refused to do mixing in software for some time. Maybe it still doesn't do it, I don't know. So if you had a hardware sound card that would do mixing, you could play multiple channels with ALSA, but if you didn't, you were SOL.
You got an android update 13 months after it was released and a month before the next major update will be released by google? You're making my point for me.

Apple users don't have that problem, and they use the same phone companies.

If Samsung agrees to let the networks dictate when updates will be released, that is their fault.
Relative the the newer models the older models will be slower ...
Hasn't really worked for me - I hate mornings so I have traditionally worked out in the evenings anyway (although by coincidence I'm now trying morning workouts as a way to wake up!). This comment brought to you courtesy of the 4+ hours I spent awake in bed last night :(
So you would rather have no progress at all? I don't get it, it seems like you are annoyed but - at what?

Reminds me of this: https://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/...
MicroFocus bought some other well-known software company in the last few years, right? Can't remember the name, but it was a well-known one. Novell or SUSE maybe?
Nvidia claims AI potential is anything but artificial – Mobile World Live
Sure, but I don't think you can really blame the black cabs for the ban, there's a lot of substance to the complaints.
Could you elaborate why it is bullshit? Parent's comment seems to be a very good point. Is he factually incorrect? How?
Of course frivolous lawsuits are a thing, but this law is a fucking joke. It limits the TOTAL recovery of the CLASS to $500,000, not just for the lawsuit, but also of any following "series of class actions arising out of the same failure to comply".

Meaning that if they lose their court case, they can still continue to behave badly, and not face any additional fines once they hit that measly total.

Oh, and just in case that $500,000 might hit some small "mom-and-pop" credit reporting agency, the total damage that can be awarded (again IN TOTAL TO THE ENTIRE CLASS), is the lesser of $500,000 or 1% of the net worth of the person/corporation the suit is being brought against.

Meaning we are basically saying "you can't actually bring a suit against them that could cause them enough damage to actually change their shitty behavior"
Nice idea! Could be a great intro for new learners or even those who just want to get at making sound with a lower bar to entry- which is fantastic. I'd love to try it with a student. Have you?
Did Apple actually put different hardware and/or software in the 8+ vs the 8, or are we seeing the inevitable result of random hardware variation accounting for a 2 point swing?

Has anyone run an objective test on, say, ten iPhone 8 units vs 10 iPhone 8+ units? Other than Apple?
That meme isn't going to die because one of the creators of Go himself said it was created for dumb users (sorry, Googlers "who can't handle a brilliant language"). There wasn't any constructive criticism coming out of the Go team towards these other languages, rather, they were simply "too complex" in a general sense.

The creators have also strongly resisted adding features others consider basic for a decade now, with a variety of nonsensical justifications.

It's a stretch to even claim Go was designed at all. From the very blog post this thread is about, we find this statement:

Russ discovered—that's the right word—that the generality of Go's methods meant that a function could have methods, leading to the http.HandlerFunc idea, which was an unexpected result for all of us.

Go is not exactly a complicated language to begin with, yet the designers "discovered" things about it whilst building it.

Go gets a lot of criticism because it's an empirically very poor language and its designers routinely say absurd things that invite ridicule, like "Go is the language of the cloud" or "We have invented a GC for the next 20 years" or "Go was designed for interns and students who can't handle brilliant languages".
I'm surprised as well! Although I prefer hn-cli, a much simpler way to browse the headlines and jump directly to the articles you want to read.

https://github.com/rafaelrinaldi/hn-cli
> Walk for at least 30 minutes daily in a green place to relax your mind.

If you have this resource available at your workplace (or even from home), consider yourself lucky. I imagine most software developers, including myself, don't have access to green space to be able to take a 30min walk!

Maybe its time our zoning codes require preserving some green space around work places...

Whether I'm at work or even at my apartment, I'm surrounded by sprawl - highways, roads, parking lots. I am trapped no matter where I am.
There's a system of law in Spain, is called the constitution. And the unilateral call for seccession or doing a referendum not allowed by the constitution or the courts is not allowed in any democracy.

I'm in favor of a referendum so the catalans can decide if they want to be in Spain or not. But I'm not in favor of a unilateral decision.
The reviewers don't actually care about which camera is better. According to the author's earlier review of the Pixel, it rates better on every metric.. color, contrast, etc. They just rate the iPhone higher because it's newer.
It's a word. I didn't know that, until I just looked. It's a variant spelling of holistic. I actually like it better than holistic, since the base word is more recognizable.

P.S. At least I assume the "ouch" was about it being a misspelling. Maybe I'm wrong.
Voice calls are pretty much the least used feature in smartphones for me. Certainly way, waaay below taking photos.
The big improvements are somewhat lost in the overall, average score. If you look at some of the specific advancements it’s clear that some really impressive enhancements have been achieved. And if you look at a two or three year horizon, the difference is massive.
Canon and Nikon aren't even willing to seriously get into the mirrorless camera space (which Sony is currently dominating), there is no way they would be willing to get into the cell phone camera space.
Chrome, for example. Remember http://packet.city/ from a few days ago? All Chrome supports is mute or unmute.
Biggest game in DSLR world right now is low light. The new D850 is pretty crazy in that respect, with a full stop of ISO reduction. No phone camera on this earth is going to help me take better photos in low light restaurants(which I need for a side business).

Also, focus stacking!
What exactly makes Go more powerful or better tooled than Java?
Interesting, although that strange expression "incorporate material known as supercapacitors into armour" could be a warning of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. Whoever wrote that didn't understand what they were talking about, so what else did they misunderstand?
I strongly disagree, I was out taking photos with an iPhone 6 the other month. Photos of a night-time street market I took were rather impressive.
TMinus: A Social Countdown app to discover what are people counting down to
My worry is, does this make it easier for the big companies to silo the internet more completely? From a developer POV with regard to performance, this seems great, but from the standpoint of open communication, it seems problematic.