skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it is true that Apple laptops have been getting thinner, the rest of your comment is severely out of step with reality.

MacBooks and MacBook Pros do have repair options. At least until they are obsolete. And since Apple caps the price the consumer pays for parts at a set per-model limit, the repairs can be surprisingly reasonable, especially if several major repairs are done at once. We had a top cover with keyboard, battery, motherboard, and MagSafe charging board all replaced with new ones for a total of under $400, a low price that was then waived because we had AppleCare.

As far as sustainability and being green, Apple takes computers for recycling at its stores. Where I live they also have a dedicated electronics drop off spot separate from the store, but then I am in Silicon Valley. They then have centers which break down the computers into parts, eventually recovering precious metals and reusable components and responsibly dealing with hazardous waste. I have visited this place and seen it happening with my own eyes. Not on some arranged fake tour, but from the back door, catching glimpses of what was going on inside, while dropping stuff off. They are being acclaimed for all this work they are doing. I'm not sure what other option you see, given that we all demand power upgrades with every new system we buy.

There is also the hacking risk which everyone on your side of this discussion loves to overlook. If it's easy to install bugging devices in a household member's laptop, then it will happen all the time. Apple is a big target. Instead of a hugely fragmented hardware ecosystem where makers of rogue, key logging, components don't even know which model to target, Apple presents a unified attack surface, and thus needs to be better defended. It really makes no sense for them to make it easy for me to hack your laptop so that I can destroy your privacy. It makes all the sense in the world for them to protect their user's hardware from unauthorized tampering.

I hate that I can't repair my own device. But there are some good, valid user-centric reasons for it, not just the profit-centric reason the outraged anti-Apple crowd assumes.
CoinHive DNS Server Hijacked by Unknown Hacker
I believe this suggestion came up at the time. I think we didn't do anything like it because it would have been more complicated both to implement and to describe, and because it's not particularly common for people to use/need the values that can be returned by the statements that we can parallelize.
The future, though, is long and open.
One of my pet peeves on the new products launched on HN has been a missing "About" page. If people are asking for personally identifiable information like emails etc, they should be open about who they are and what their competencies are in storing this kind of data.

Secondly, I don't see an explanation for what exactly the promoter score is?

Lastly, the source of data. While I am sure that is the secret sauce here, some of my personal fields have thrown up results which are far off the mark.
Congress Votes to Overturn CFPB Arbitration Rule
So safe to say if we haven't received an email then we didn't get an interview for W18?
This is hilariously wonderful! At least they have a sense of humor about it. And gives me a lot of hope for my venture and future ones. No one knows a company as well as founders do. Thats why if you still believe in your idea and execution, work on it day and night. Dont be turned off by a few VC rejections. Take their comments in stride and learn from it. Also, remember that most VCs just like most people have personal biases. Maybe you dont fit in the right box yet.
I do a lot of work in calc but there is a definite problem with large files..and they aren't solved by adjusting thr included memory options.
Do they send out rejection emails in addition to invites? If so, has anyone received such rejection email?
Nvidia can play the game however they want. But they were not pushed into that situation. Their choice, they get to own it. I think it’s a fair comparison.
Consumer devices are mostly ARM and AMD, there's not a lot to be sandwiched out of.

OTOH Intel has
That's my assumption based on what I've read between here and Twitter. Disappointing but also motivating in the long run.
That doesn't work for the simple reason that there is no market, therefore there is no way to determine that price. The whole point is essentially that the manufacturer can only have the monopoly on repairs if they are free, if they want to charge for it, they have to allow competition.

As for intentional damage, I think that should not be handled based on costs at all, but simply based on depreciation. Based on normal durability of the device, if you damage the device, you have to pay the remaining value in order to get a new device.
Toronto here. ordered food through UberEATS; waited 45 minutes then got a notification saying the order was cancelled. We called to find out why and it turns out the restaurant wasnt even open on that day.
> the ones I have spoken to seem to think it is necessary

Why do they think it is necessary?
Yup — and this is the same Google who have conspired to prevent you from installing your own SSL certs, so that you can see what data that module is sending to them.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11816/is-guy-gen...
Anyone have any updates? Rejections/invites in the last 15 mins?
This can't possibly be the case.

Nerd culture has spread and with it all things nerdy.

Look at the growth of GenCon for one example of how explosive this has been. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Con#Timeline

Board games sales are up 28% in the US http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/from-monopoly-to-explo...

If anything, I'd say that Stranger things is a symptom of nerd culture. I mean, look at things like Big Bang Theory. There is no way that show would have hit mainstream without nerd culture being even remotely popular.
That was one of the first thing I noticed about this too - the 'alternative' pool is just too broad and in some cases nonsensical.

For example - I searched for replacements for 'Intercom' because it is of particular interest to me, having gone through several support chat tools over the past 2 years.

Most of the suggested alternatives were NOT in fact, replacements for Intercom. Some were product walk through demo apps (not really in app support chat and knowledgebase at all). Other suggestions, while being great front end web chat systems, were nowhere near the functionality of Intercom as far as back end app support chat systems and shared help desk features go.

I know this from personal experience jumping from system to system over the past 24 months, looking for a viable alternative.

(BTW - No affiliation with Intercom, apart from being a paying user 2 years ago, then a period of not using them, then back to using Intercom a couple of months ago due to not being able to find a good alternative).
Speech recognition is such a gimmick. In practice the applications are quite narrow. The truth is, most people with properly functioning social faculties feel like complete dicks when talking to a machine.
No emails yet. Does this mean a rejection?
My worst experience with DoorDash was recent - DD didn't have enough drivers and so double booked my driver who had to run off two different orders at he same time... had no way to text or call driver and the chat support took forever.

I will admit that DD made it right but I wonder if I would've gotten anything if I didn't straight up ask the support chat person for a credit.

Never used other services.
not sure if mentioned in the article, but Vin Diesel is an outspoken fan of D&D :-)
So I think this is pretty misleading. I could see how mapping against IPFS could improve mapping because IPFS uses more advanced replication strategies than HDFS. But the reducing step would be really important to measure here and my guess would be that these number would be all over the place if you were trying to use this out in the wild.
We are still waiting...no rejection / no confirmation
Fill out your profile here on Hacker News. It should give some idea of what you do, that you are available for remote work and some means to contact you. Then make sure you participate in a way that makes folks think well of you.

Do the same with any other forum or social media accounts you have.

Make sure to check the Freelancer Seeking Freelancer post that HN does on the first of every month.

Edit: I am not a programmer, but I do work 100 percent remotely.
Ask HN: Who is hiring entry-level/junior developers?
Do you have a reference for this? I would believe you if you said "an infinitesimally small value" rather than 0. If it's true then I'm very surprised. For one, 0 = -0, so if sin(0)/0 = 1, then -1 = -sin(0)/0 = sin(0)/-0 = sin(0)/0 = 1
Variations in High Availability
Food delivery service by city:
https://www.recode.net/2017/10/3/16384050/food-delivery-serv...

Experiences might differ accordingly.

On a personal note, we have Swiggy in Bangalore and there were tons of issues when it was starting out. Now while the wait times are longer at least the food is delivered promptly.
Interesting tint on your glasses there...
Does GoogleSheets actually match Excel's feature list?
Absolutely a great way to do it. I got paid to attend a great state school (above and beyond room and board), had several travel grants, and was sent to 20 countries and Antarctica! I've never had any student loans and it really helped me take some riskier career moves earlier on.
same. no invite/rejection
Same here. Still waiting.
This was a great story which previously didn't hit the front page. I'm glad for the re-submit policy. I enjoyed learning about the build structure of QR codes. Years ago I chose to learn how barcodes are constructed so that I could create custom barcodes for my college library. Having access to nothing more than Microsoft office, I naively decided that a whole lot of conditional formatting rules would be enough to build the thing in Excel. And I was right! But it's not a method I would recommend anyone ever attempt.
What features in a PbP forum do you like?
The car doesn’t decide... physics does. The regen peddle is still engaged, it’s the jolt that overpowers the regen. It’s just physical brakes recover better from that jolt than regen.
Had a couple of good encounters with UberEats;

1. Ordered some burgers and milkshakes, guy rocks up quite late, quickly hands me my bag and shouts (very loudly) "BEWARE". Turns out "BEWARE" meant, "I've spilled both your milkshakes all over the rest of your food". To their credit, Uber refunded me the whole order.

2. Looked at the app and noticed the driver was sitting at the end of my street and had been for about 10 minutes. I called and got no answer, so I wandered down to see what was up. He was angrily pounding on some random door, apparently thinking it was my house. Then he got mad at me for not coming down to find him sooner?

These days I prefer to use apps like EatNow that let the restaurants use their own delivery drivers - much more reliable in my experience as the drivers are actually accountable for what they do and have a direct relationship with the restaurant.
Nvidia isn't involved in nouveau, it's developed completely by the community. Since it can't use hardware in full, there is no point to compare it to radeonsi performance wise.
Had an Amazon Restaurants deliver a pizza sideways in his shoulder bag. Opened it to show him the pizza was now a clump at one end of the box and that I was going to need him to try again. He called and seemed very confused as to why I wouldn’t accept the pizza in that state.

45 minutes later and had a flat replacement delivered with a refund and credit from Amazon. Other attempts from other services have typically arrived cold and late. Allowing me to see notifications as to when the food is ready, then wait in agony as nothing happens for 30 minutes, gives me a pretty good idea what I’ll be getting. So far, I’m not a fan.
Let's see what they do with 60G WiFi.
Some shameless self-promotion, please. Link?
He probably is biased - but it seems they were building "spreadsheet for advanced users" when most people who use a spreadsheet are not or will ever be advanced users.
The engineering challenges of the data path [video]
Humans make those mistakes too. Once, while talking to somebody about money, I asked "do you know what inflation is?", meaning what the rate is,to help make a decision, but they were offended and replied that yes, of course they knew what the concept meant.

Having a "the" in there like you did should remove ambiguity though. I guess Google Maps defers to Wikipedia when it doesn't know what a term means.
That's irrelevant. Every missed opportunity stings the same. It's relative.
One the pillars of psychiatrical diagnosis according so doctors I met, is that any kind of diagnosis or treatment is only to be judged by its ability to improve your quality of life.

If you don't suffer in any way shape or form, it doesn't matter how many boxes you tick, if you feel fine there is no compelling reason to go through with diagnosis, except possibly if you have kids.

Autism spectrum disorders are quite heritable, and it's a tremendous advantage to be aware of ones own psychiatric oddities when you raise a child with his or her own. I speak from experience, I wish I known about my ADHD-PI/ADD with a dash of Autism earlier. I am however very happy I got to know about it early enough to help me guide my daughter into a way of thinking that has helped her a lot.

In general, without the knowledge that people on average might have a WILDLY different cognitive landscape than yours, it's very very hard to know which advice to take to heart, and what to completely ignore.

With that said, I'm fairly well aware of what type of questions are on those questionnaires. If the test is legitimate, a result that high over the limit would probably include at least a few 'yes' answers to questions that usually have a negative impact of quality of life.

Adding to that, in my experience people actually on the spectrum are the least likely to self diagnose prematurely, even when the answer is essentially staring them in the face.

Anything that can improve quality of life a little is worth considering, because sometimes it's really hard to judge the magnitude of how it can help.
I think it's just changed. They can't read your diary or your photo albums anymore, but they can see purchase history down to the second, they can (in theory) track your location in real time and cross reference it against others, they have full financials, social media, etc.

It's still the case that dumb criminals without good opsec will get caught and prosecuted, and it's no news that criminals that have good opsec are hard to catch.
The last time I ordered from Postmates I got $75 worth of Chinese food for a big group (5 entrees, 2 sides of rice). When the food arrived I got 3 entrees, one of which was sweet and sour chicken without the sauce, and no sides.

I contacted Postmates about it and they refunded me $17. Huge inconvenience since the food took forever to get to me and I was missing over half of the order and had 4 other hungry people. Never ordering from Postmates again.
Review of online Pharmacies and drugstores in India
I had this a couple of weeks ago -- order placed, waited over an hour and the order was then cancelled. They (UberEats) "couldn't find a driver". Spoke with their customer support, who offered me 50% off if I re-ordered, so we did... Again, after an hour, the order was cancelled again. Same deal.

The restaurant actually cooked the food twice - and the second time, I asked if I just could go down there and get the food - but apparently this isn't possible. Uber just use the excuse that their drivers are contractors - and they can't do anything.

I'd understand if this were the middle of nowhere, and on a Friday or some other busy time. But at 8PM on a Tuesday in San Francisco... Yeah. Probably they should sort this out.
"Bowing to public pressure, Apple apologized and fixed the broken phones with a new [software] update. But a precedent had been set. Previously, Apple had made it difficult for people to fix its products by restricting access to parts and service information."

"When you buy such a machine, the hardware becomes yours. But if you ask manufacturers, theyll say that the software inside still belongs to them."

Apple's strategy has been to make repair difficult by restricting information and access to parts.

They can send C&D letters to anyone who publishes information about repair.

But what about users, who are not publishing information about repair?

Apple cannot send C&D letters to users, who are free to use the hardware however they wish.

Apple may have IP covering manufacture and modifications to the hardware, they may have IP covering information about the hardware, but they have no IP on the use of the hardware that they could assert against users.

However because users rely on Apple-controlled software, Apple could manipulate the use of the device via automatic software updates. And that is exactly what they did.

The solution for the user is to select hardware that allows users to install their own choice of open source software instead of giving away control over the hardware to a corporation via corporate-controlled software and "automatic updates".
Agreed! Goodluck to you and your business
Except there isn't really anything paradoxical about it. A law that allows murder is more permissive and obviously does not increase freedom. It's simply a fallacy to think that not putting any limits on what any individual can do results in maximal freedom for society at large.
It works OK if you are willing to submit to their new paradigm, but some people like a traditional inbox. Try Aquamail for instance. It's what gmail would be if it worked properly.
Britain had concentration camps for Boers (Dutch settlers) in South Africa during the Boer War 1899-1902. Around 30,000 died of disease in these camps.
Obscure words are very well suited to esoteric subject matter where precision is needed. A particular brand of function optimization is exactly that.
Remember folks, the acceptance rate for YC is lower than Harvard. If you didn't skip college because Harvard rejected you, then don't stop doing your startup because YC rejected you. :)
YC W18 Application status
I have not recieved an acceptance or rejection mail for W2018.
Not even close - I'd guess its about 20% of the features excel has.
Open source speech recognition on Github:

1. speech-to-text-wavenet (https://github.com/buriburisuri/speech-to-text-wavenet)

2. kaldi(https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi)

3. Speech recognition module for Python (https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition)

4. DeepSpeech(https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech)

5. Natural Language Processing Tasks and References(https://github.com/Kyubyong/nlp_tasks)

FYI.
Finally! I'll be glad to be rid of all the nasty browser extensions for Salesforce, Hubspot, and the like on all the Sales laptops.
Downvoted for truth. I don't like it either, but the world is not fair.
It seems like they are faking to generate traffic.
Unlike many of the other replies, I have had largely positive experiences with UberEats, especially compared to some of the other available services. Doordash's wait time is long at 60-90 minutes usually. Postmates has some insanely expensive delivery fees, sometimes as much as $25, fully doubling the cost of the order. Grubhub doesn't have a large selection.
And Amazon Restaurants seems to be rolling out via zip code, so even restaurants in close proximity are unavailable because my zip code hasn't been activated yet.

A few things that UberEats does well: the live-updating map of your driver, which makes it seamless to anticipate the delivery time and meet your driver at the curb in the event that their GPS doesn't accurately locate the address. Speed of delivery, which may be due to having a larger network of cars and drivers to pull from. And price / checkout flow - it's very easy to place an order with pre-saved checkout information and the prices are usually lowest (edit: even including raised menu prices - the total price is less).

I personally have no love for Uber as a company and have actively avoided it for transportation, so I feel that UberEats UX has done a lot to retain my business despite it being Uber. If there's ever a Lyft of restaurant delivery (maybe an official Lyft offering?) I'll switch.

FWIW, my UberEats experiences have been in the Dallas area.
It would not be a horrible decision for Apple to make, because they embrace a solution to the Innovator's Dilemma.

The Innovator's Dilemma [1] is something that Steve Jobs seemed to have solved. How? Selling one product that cannibalizes sales of another from the same company was A-OK on his watch.

The iPod Mini was a perfectly fine device, yet Apple introduced the iPod Nano at the height of the Mini's popularity. The Nano had less storage [2], but it had solid state flash memory, and therefore was thinner yet.

How'd that work out for Apple? Just fine [3] - they kept about 80% marketshare for the entire life of dedicated digital music players in the market, and that market only went away when Apple brought out a phone so good that it made carrying a dedicated digital music player unnecessary.

Competing with themselves is a key piece in Apple's sustained success in a few markets. The iPhone 8 / X matchup shows they continue to not be afraid to do that with their phone, and I think that's a very healthy thing for their continued success... which also feeds into continued success of their ecosystem, including app developers (like myself!).

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Dilemma-Technologies-Manag...

[2] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/ipod/ipod-faq/differences...

[3] https://stratechery.com/2010/apple-innovators-dilemma/
Has everyone gotten their rejection emails ?
Why is the "business point of view" relevant here? It's the business point of view that got us DRM in the first place.
https://gitconnected.com is great for finding trending articles, participating in discussions, and meeting other developers.
I once ordered (aug 2017, seattle) breakfast from UberEats at 10 am. They cancelled my order at 11 am saying they are unable to fulfill it. No further details. Decided to never use them again.
At least Postmates has transparent pricing. UberEats and Doordash raise the prices on the menu items 10-20% in addition to charging you a service and delivery fee. And on Doordash you can’t even change the tip after delivery for poor service.
Piffle.

There's no such thing as an antiportfolio or "missed opportunities". You may as well say "why didn't I pick the correct lotto numbers". The answer is "because you didn't".

Why didn't I make every decision in my life the right decision? Answer: "because you didn't".

I could have made a billion dollars if I had know all the right stocks to pick. The VC antiportfolio is the same thing.

Proximity to an opportunity seems to make people feel a greater sense of that they "lost" the opportunity, but in fact that lost opportunity is precisely the same as the whole world full of other opportunities that the person could have taken at that moment.
I don't think androids intent system has any large security implications (I think it has had some but in general). But what I find more interesting/suprising how often I read about these types of concerns given that desktop operating systems provide very limited protection in this area e.g firefox can read all my emails since thunderbird and firefox are run as the same user.
It's not 10 PM yet. I thinking maybe that is why?
What about Pushbullet. I've been using it for a while it seems to have meet a "good enough" requirement for me.
True - wouldn't the same hold true of the iPhone 6s and SE WRT headphone jack arguments?
Still waiting