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I bought an iPhone X and it's my favorite iPhone I've ever owned. I've fallen (back) in love with the iPhone and can't quite explain why.

A big part of it, to be honest, was my dislike of my past few phones. The 6 felt like the PERFECT form factor and was a good step up from my 5S, but it unfortunately suffered from the battery issues Apple claimed "only" affected the 6S. Once the 7 came out I realized my 6 was 2.5 years old and was seriously showing the performance impact of an aging phone (typically I stick to a 2 year cycle). I couldn't bring myself to spend the money on a 7 which I felt was no real upgrade; the better camera on the 7+ was the only thing to get me to "jump". Everyone I know who owns large Android or Apple phones swears you'll love the big screen and never want to go back.

I gotta say, I never liked the 7+. I kept expecting I'd get used to it and warm to it, but I never did. It was too big to operate with one hand, I always had to adjust it in my pocket to put my leg up to tie my shoes or get in the car or whatever, and the added screen size did nothing for me. Every time I picked up my wife's 7 I thought "this is more like it".

So I bought the X because I didn't want to pay MORE money and "downgrade" to the single lens camera on the 8; I felt like it was going to be let down. The X was a bit of a gamble. I was sure I'd miss the home button and touchID; I regularly used it to unlock my phone while lying flat on my desk and wouldn't want to pick it up to face me, but thought why not get a big screen in a small form factor?

The switch to the X was seamless. I have to say, within 5 minutes I had forgotten all about the home button, in stark contrast to all of the tech journos who said it took "weeks" to get used to. I'm in my late 30s so I'm well into my "I feel like a luddite" years, and it takes me seemingly forever to adapt to new technology, but the lack of a home button was a serious step up. Every gesture on the X feels totally natural and it all makes sense again.

The form factor of the X is amazing, it's perfect for me and what I want. The screen is brilliant, everything is just amazing. It's not enough to tell someone to switch from Android or from an iPhone they already like, but for the first time in years it feels like a serious step up in every way for Apple.

Another nice thing is, as someone who doesn't really like to stand out, in a black case (I use a QuadLock to attach to my bike handlebars), it looks like absolutely nothing. It's totally featureless on the front and it's a small-ish phone so it doesn't look flashy or draw attention to you.
I love projects like this, and I'm probably off to go code an agent after this comment.

I've also been thinking about building one of these based on killing the barrier of entry inherent in telling people "you can play, but you need to code a bot -- here's a tutorial". Perhaps it's just me itching for a fun little side project, but I've always wanted to code up a server and client as projects on github that could just be cloned, and use GitHub's API to e.g. automatically detect all repos forked from the client repo and run them in a persistent world -- and then also detect all servers forked from the server repo and run all clients across all worlds with some free hosting.

Obviously, there's a lot of security and stability concerns with hosting arbitrary code and effectively spinning up free instances for anyone who just clones a repo, but I think it'd be a super-simple entry for this kind of game that really benefits from having more players (especially when you bundle in some kind of skill-based matchmaking so newer players are often matched with players of their own skill and "move up" instead of just going against the top players all the time).

Is there any reason something like the above wouldn't work? I'm honestly surprised I haven't seen many "just clone this repo and it's automatically synced to your client hosted here" AI games.
So obviously you're in the group which thought it was a bad idea to alter the ledger. I think there's a reasonable case to be made for that point of view. My point was that in the end, everybody got the chain they wanted.

I don't think the word "hacker" should be considered pejorative on a site called "Hacker News."
What an aweful name :)
I made quite a lot from bitcoin so far.
I always understood a lot of the industrial age jobs took a toll because of hazards & health issues. Occupational hazards like mine collapse & black lung, heavy machinery, fumes, and so forth. Are there many accounts of people simply being "all worn out" from hands on work? Are, e.g., lumberjacks who aren't injured, healthy or worn thin?
His own metric is performance vis-a-vis the market over full cycles (top to top). In the past, he did well on that, but during this cycle he's so deep down the hole that it'll be difficult to catch up. Nevertheless, it'll be worth revisiting his performance after the next crash.
>It's almost as if it's lack of constant (even low-grade) activity that's the problem, rather than whether you're sitting or standing.

Yes, IMO. And I would add to that: it is likely that the lack of a change is also part of the problem, as in lack of change (at not-too-long intervals) between action and non-action (such as walking or moving for the former, and standing, sitting or lying down for the latter). Noticed it in myself - if I walk or move for too long (many hours), or stand or sit or lie down for too long (ditto, except for sleep), I start feeling uneasy or affected in some way (obvious way is to get tired due to the former, but also uneasy due to the latter).

Edited for typo.

Also, adding to above my points in this comment: about lying down for too long, in particular, I've noticed that if I do that, whether intentionally (not often, maybe sometimes due to getting engrossed in reading something interesting), or accidentally / unintentionally (say due to a fever), the body feels uncomfortable after a while, which seems to reinforce my point above about some change being good.
> There is a point when perf and features give diminishing returns and we are there. Good!

I don't understand how someone on hackernews can be excited about the stagnation of innovation... lol
Most markets don't do CPM anymore they pay per click, so you end up with an effective CPM below 10 cents if you have poor click through rates and/or low payouts per click.
Apple has a long history of deprecating ports and peripherals ahead of the rest of the industry, potentially prematurely. Nobody should be shocked by this anymore, it's part and parcel of being a customer of theirs.

However, looking back, they have a pretty good track record regarding what they remove. Keyboards and mice didn't really need separate ports, floppy drives weren't all that great, and optical drives ended up gathering dust in a nice battery-shaped hole.
> Because 100+ years ago someone saw the right path forward and they forced this into existence with political power. How can this be done today? Elon Musk comes to mind. Humanity seemingly has to be forced forward by a visionary backed by power.

New York's current problem is that it already has too many elected officials with power that is completely unchecked and uncheckable by voters[0]. I'm not convinced that the solution to that problem is to have another person whose power is completely unchecked and uncheckable by voters.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15988458
This couldn’t be farther from the truth!

Happy iPhoneX user here.

FaceID is a complete game changer IMO...a paradigm shift!

Not just for unlocking the phone but the fact all of my apps (banking, etc) also support it makes authentication be a problem of the past...all friction gone!

It’s amazing and can probably only be expierenced in person...which might be why sales have been weak.
> The question is "which place to store your coins is riskier?"

Where did you get that idea from? Not from my OP, that's for sure:

> One of Bitcoin's selling points is that it's decentralized. By keeping coins in a cloud operated wallet that you don't fully control, you're willfully giving up control over your own wealth, and needlessly putting your coins at risk.

Please, do not misrepresent my views. I do not have much of an opinion on the security of wallets, because I know that unless you go cold storage, any other wallet approach is about as safe as the one in your back pocket.

You can't seem to stop injecting your own totally unrelated arguments and also seem to refuse to actually comprehend the complaint I aired in my OP.

The concern I raised was one of centralization. The Bitcoin white paper is pretty explicit when it comes to explaining its rationale, and in fact mentions negating centralization in the very first sentence of the abstract[0]:

> A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.

[0]https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

So there's really no reason to continue to ignore what I am actually saying, because it's a valid concern that strikes at the core tenants of Bitcoin's intended use case. Your concern, on the other hand, is splitting hairs on a subject that does not at all address the actual, fundamental issue of using a Coinbase wallet. This has nothing to do with Coinbase the exchange, this is about the Coinbase service which offers wallets, to which they and only they control the private key.
Absolutely cannot disagree more. It brings more real estate in a smaller package, it looks better, and it works better. The gestures are far better than the home button, and I adapted almost immediately (seriously, within 5 minutes). It feels far more natural now than the button ever did, and when I look at an older model it looks dated as hell.
This feels like the statement of someone looking for something to complain about rather than an actual user experience.
Wiring your house for video is not crazy at all. Wiring it for video where you have to rely on the security of cloud provider (especially a free one) is what's crazy.
Counter point: I haven't thought about Touch ID since picking up the 7 (my first iPhone). Screen is good. Camera is good. I don't use gestures. I have an extra $1000 in my bank account from not buying the X.
Yes, but it isn't clear if they are worn out from 45 years of physical labor, or worn out because their body is 65 years old.
Quickstart: https://github.com/Harvey-OS/harvey/wiki/Getting-Started
> True enough, but your point is merely a digression. Nothing you say seems to refute the argument that characterizing the modern Democratic party as the one most motivated by racial resentment is... yeah.

They've changed their colors but not their tune. Historically the Republicans said that everyone should be treated equally under the law and the Democrats claimed equal treatment was bad. Today it's the same thing but they're targeting a different demographic, so they still oppose equality under the law but it's a different set of exceptions.

Democrats need black votes much more than Republicans need racist votes, because there are a lot more black people than racists in the swing states. Which means Democrats need the narrative that Republicans are all racists to stick, so they spend a lot of time telling everybody that and publicizing every little instance they can find.

The Democrats would be in serious trouble if black people started believing that entrepreneurship is the best way for their communities to get out of poverty and voting for politicians who made it easier for them to start a business.

But if entrepreneurship really is the best way for a community to get out of poverty...

> Come on. Republican bang the drum for the culturally scared white vote, and they've done it consistently for over half a century regardless of the fidelity with which one explains civil rights legislation.

Don't conflate race and culture. The difference is really important. Because the difference is that a black man willing to work two jobs to go to college so he can get a middle class paycheck and live in a middle class neighborhood with middle class schools, can actually do that. That wasn't the case a century ago. And it's important to notice that nobody of consequence is asking for that to go back to the way it was.

The problem is that Democrats are now trying to pin their mess on Republicans and pay lip service to solving it. Even when they've had a legislative majority (e.g. Obama's first term), they still don't actually fix the criminal justice system, or gang violence, or a dozen other things that are actively making life hard for poor communities.

And when they claim to have done something like the ACA, it ends up being a huge taxpayer subsidy to corporations that donate to their campaigns and an arduous bureaucracy to the people it's supposed to help.
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In fact, single-tracking in most of the subway degrades service even more than it technically needs to, due to the inability of the interlocking system to reverse track directions. To single track the MTA has to tie down the stop arms and coordinate by radio, and it is almost never worth it. The MTA does sometimes use single tracking in the East River tunnels, where the interlocking allows the track direction to be reversed.

Thanks for adding this - I'd forgotten about that.
The X has been doing super well in China, which is pretty expected as a status symbol that can be distinguished from the 6, 7, and 8.

http://bgr.com/2017/12/18/iphone-x-sales-china-256-gb-quarte...
Have you considered a career in healthcare, e.g. nursing or EMT?
Author here. The list is the first paragraph of the section, there is no guessing.
I am curious to see how this gesture based UI will be received.

Apple is probably the only company that can push such an UI (with people willing to take the time to learn it) but I have still rarely seen it work for normal users : if a button is not visible; it won't be used.

If I were to buy an iPhone X; I would just wait a generation or 2 for this notch to hopefully disappear (also hopefully to have a more resistant frame even though I doubt it will happen , form over function).
Agree. The biggest surprise to me was how simultaneously novel and polished the gesture/flow interface was from the very beginning.
I don't quite get the USB port issue... the MBP has 4 of them.

They're type-C, but that's the direction all consumer electronics are headed in. All of my daily gear is USB-C now. It's a much more capable port in general.

And for legacy USB gear, you can either just swap out for a C-to-B cable, or get a small C-to-A dongle if the cable isn't removable.

I'd much rather have the extra type-C ports, myself.
Presumably that's what studies would be for. Compare the joints of an office worker to the joints of an uninjured lumberjack.
Given a market in a steady state, as long as your (return+premium) rate is higher than your expected payout, you're still ok. So your premium-expected_payout could be negative and you could hopefully still keep the lights on, no?
Hated every minute of my 7+, happy to have gone back to a sane size with the X. I could see how someone with insanely huge hands, or someone who needs a phone to "make a statement" wouldn't want something smaller, but for most of us, it's great.
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This article is from July as well.
It COULD also be a sign for the end of times.
Plan9 was the 'next version' of Unix made by the people that originally made Unix. It was a small (tiny!) network packet routing kernel (routing 9p, a layer above IP) that is meant to be fully distributed and networked.

https://www.quora.com/How-is-Plan-9-OS-different-from-Unix
Not only that, but some of those markets (mostly defunct ones by now though, and only a minority) hired "official" doctors to answer questions from the users on drug use or similar.

You also have communities (like the "DNM avengers" one) that will freely and anonymously test the products of some vendors to confirm whether or not what they are selling is in fact the product described, and how pure it is. Some vendors in turn will proudly link to the posts describing those tests.
What's the average upgrade cycle of iphone users? I feel like there's diminishing features in every new iteration of phones in general now. I have a few years old Xperia Z2 and have been looking at new phones in stores when I'm near one. Cool screen, this and that, but in general absolutely nothing that I would need to buy vs what I have, and I'm even inclined towards parting ways with cash for it - just can't find any valid reason.
There is no name conflict with mayan edms though...?

i mean, yeah, Roberto Rosario is a great guy and mayan edms is objectively better than Paperless, i've no idea how that has any kind of relevance to the name conflict...?
Standing desk + anti fatigue mat + tall rolling chair. You can sit or stand any time, don't have to adjust the desk, and standing is less tiring. No need for an adjustable desk is also cheaper.

I will say the one downside is I'm short and even at the lowest settings the tall rolling chairs sometimes have the foot rest too far away for me. I prefer to rest my feet on the floor.
I wish the mods hadn't changed the title; I chose the original title to focus more on what's cool about it.

Anyway, Harvey is distributed in the same way that Plan 9 is/was distributed: the services are meant to be run across a network. On a properly set up network, you'll have an authentication server which does only authentication, because that's the keys to the kingdom. Similarly, you'll have a file server which ONLY serves files, and speaks to the auth server to manage access. Then you'll have a CPU server which lets remote users connect and do stuff; it mounts its root filesystem from the file server and authenticates users with the auth server. You can also have terminal machines, which typically netboot, get their root from the file server, authenticate with the auth server, and basically act as a personal workstation for whoever sits down; when you're done working, just save your work and reboot the terminal.

Of course it doesn't have to be run like that and many people don't, because they don't want to run 4+ systems. You can combine auth, FS, and CPU services onto one machine and just connect from a Windows, Linux, or Mac machine using 'drawterm' (think of it as an ssh equivalent).
There's a little more context here: https://notamonadtutorial.com/harvey-an-operating-system-wit...
Yeah but blocking domain names is just pointless. They should go after the guys who run the site, or other things. I'm sure they can find way more effective means to stop pirate sites
Following in the proud tradition of Plan 9 :)

edit: and rio, and 8½, and acme, and the rest of it!
> It is a very inefficiently designed public ledger governed by a highly centralized group of developers who can change it on a whim.

But they can't just change it without the network going along with the change. And, after all, it is the network who decides what the code does in the first place by running the same protocol.

It's still a system governed by consensus. The network came to a consensus that it wasn't how the contract should have executed.
Don't worry, they'll slow you down either way, because... battery... and reasons!
One doesn't have to fund the other; run both operations in tandem and it's a smart way to diversify one's criminal portfolio. If either end of the business goes under, there's still a revenue stream.
Crypto loses 100bn in value as Bitcoin plummets, reveals Ponzi scheme traits
Apple's getting lazy. Clearly drowning in money doesn't do much to motivate employees.

Given Apple's deep pockets and platform ownership, how is it that Spotify is still alive? How is it the Apple Maps is still lagging Google Maps so profoundly? Or that Apple can't muster any response to Netflix at all? Let's not even get into the farcical self-driving car project they aborted

Apple has now had years and unlimited funds to compete in these service markets, but still is behind. Tim Cook needs to do some exec shuffling, the company is coasting. Shareholders and analysts won't ask tough questions, everyone is making money and they don't want to jeopardize access
My Patreon numbers, roughly:

51 patrons, $100 per page of comics I draw.

On a productive month I can get eight pages drawn, which is currently about 2/3 of my rent. It would be all of my rent if I wasn't living alone in a two-bedroom Seattle apartment. (Yes there are other sources of income.)

When I'm regularly drawing comics and posting them for free (I haven't been lately due to the last KS taking forever + some Life events) I see a slow climb in the number of patrons; it's been pretty much steady for the year or so I haven't been getting much in the way of comics done.

I think it took maybe a year at most to rise to that level; I wasn't building my fanbase from scratch or learning my craft, so that helped a lot. I estimate that getting back in the groove of posting pages regularly would see my whole rent covered in six months to a year.
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The downside for me is the older ones can't drive high res displays at a decent refresh rate. I have a (single) 4k monitor for windows gaming, but I use it a ton with my (company) 2015 macbook pro for work/development, which works great so long as you use thunderbolt -> displayport.

Using my personal 2013 macbook pro (13in) with the monitor is a freaking nightmare. It just can't handle the higher res monitor, the mouse looks like its moving in slow motion. Same story on the 2015 macbook pro via hdmi.

This on its own will be a huge factor when/if I replace my personal laptop. I'm gonna hold on to it for as long as I can though...
automatic ingredient dispensing is the biggest one. the second biggest is automatic removal of the bread from the pan.

the other comments are wrong, bread machines make very good bread. ive been basically living off of bread machine bread for months so i happen to know.

the idea of a bread machine is to render bread-making easy. so you can set a timer on the machine and have it start the mixing and baking process whenever you want. however, the bread must be removed from the pan as soon as its done baking or else it will become soggy. this is a pain and almost completely nullifies the overall convenience of the machine because yes you can set a timer but you have to make sure to be around when its done -- this is highly, extremely annoying and also dramatically reduces your ability to make bread spontaneously. automatic removal would be very easy to implement, i have a few ideas myself on how to do it. but nobody does it.

the automatic dispensing of ingredients would be the final key stone is the whole arch of bread making convenience. for simple whole wheat bread, like the bread i make, there arent very many ingredients and all but one are dry. so automatic dispensing is conceivable. i would love to be able to fill a few hoppers with cheap, healthy ingredients and then be able to simply push a button and later on find a fresh loaf of bread waiting for me. but apparently im the only one.

also a bread machine with a nice display and ui would be nice. nobody seems to be able to do it.
The paper links to this entertaining YouTube video from 2009, in which someone demonstrates the effect by literally shouting at a rack of servers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4

(EDIT: replaced the link I found via YouTube's search with the original, thanks robotmlg!)
Enforce mandatory installation of a processor throttling program, tied to an exercise bike, on all software developer machines. This should prevent them from slacking off when compiling!
Got any pictures of this stool?