skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a wonderful opportunity for Microsoft right now.

Many managers have already switched to OSX for personal use and if they can (including at places like IBM) for work as well. The reliability is unbeatable especially as Windows becomes more and more unintuitive, unreliable and bloated.

The key factor to this switch was porting Excel, and to a lesser extent the rest of Office, to Mac. Even with the reduced feature set, it means non-technical and semi-technical people can now work from a mac. Excel probably runs in virtually all companies in the world today.

If Microsoft were to invest some time in porting Excel and the rest of Office to Linux/UNIX, which are today very user friendly to non-technical users (my mother uses Ubuntu on her desktop, for example), they will give people a way to avoid the high pricing and increasing unreliability of Apple. This should boost sales of non-macs which is good for Microsoft's competitive position, even if these devices are immediately wiped for a new OS.
This is an awesome project and I'm very impressed with the skill levels demonstrated, especially the video pipeline.

If you just need a thermal camera though, there's a 120 EUR one on AliExpress.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/HT-02D-Handheld-Thermal-Imag...
That's true and part of the challenge. It's not always clear what's a powerful technology wave and what's the wrong one.

I've actually got a bit more of a personal connection to DropBox - Drew was active on HN before founding it, he posted it here before posting it on Digg [1], and he took me out to lunch right after they'd gotten their Sequoia seed round and asked if he could convince me to be employee #2. At the time, I was working on a casual game creation startup with a friend, and I declined, #1 because I felt I couldn't leave my cofounder and #2 because Drew had a startup, I had a startup, and at the time it wasn't clear which of us was actually more likely to be successful.

Before you laugh, consider the environment in Feb 2008 (when this occurred). My cofounder was a consultant at Monitor Group, where he'd been researching the casual gaming space and had run across multiple reports saying it would be a $200M, $1B, etc. space (market research reports never agree on market size, because they're largely bullshit). Kongregate had just raised a Series A from Reid Hoffman, Jeff Bezos, and other luminaries. Max Levchin had just raised $50M for Slide the month before. Zynga had just been founded but Farmville hadn't come out yet. The Web 2.0 bubble was in full swing, AJAX and Javascript were the new hot buzzwords (I had just ported Arc - PG's pet programming language, which HN is written in - to Javascript, which is what caught Drew's interest in the first place), and as you can see from the first comment on DropBox's "Show HN", anything that required installation of software was considered a non-starter. And our product concept let everyone, from teenagers to retirees, build their own games instead of being at the mercy of a studio & professional developers.

My lesson from how things evolved - learned much later, and I'm probably still grasping the implications - was to preference personal experience over industry zeitgeist and prestigious research reports. Drew's personal experience with the problem domain and his 75,000 beta signups were worth a lot more than the famous people and industry market research reports around the problem domain we were solving. And this insight has actually saved me a lot of time & aggrevation chasing fads that people realize are bad ideas 4 years in.

But this is not obvious to someone just starting their career, probably because they don't actually have all that much personal experience to draw upon, and because it takes a certain amount of chutzpah to hear about all these eminent people saying "This will be the next hot thing, you better get in now!" and think to yourself "Actually, sounds like bullshit to me." Personal experience is also inherently limited because you've only got your own and it takes years to build; it turns out that the set of problems you can viably solve is actually quite small.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Yup, they took some bad press and made it good for themselves and their customers. This announcement should be used as an example for other big companies. Be sympathetic, truthful, and human. I don't own a single apple product but I respect how they handled this.
You want your ISP to [be able to] spy on, and track, your browsing habits? For unencrypted pages, that would probably take the form of DPI and injected javascript. For encrypted (SSL) web traffic, all your ISP has access to are 1) the ip of the website, 2) SNI hostname, if any, in the SSL helo, and 3) how long the TCP stream stays alive, which is probably not representative of your interaction with the site. They have no page-level information.

There's already a service that is probably capable of doing what you ask. It's called google analytics. Google's in the payment business, and google's in the tracking business. If only all publishers could agree to use analytics.js, and petition google to implement micropayments with some agreed upon fee structure.
No, the consumer doesn't have enough information in this case. They are more than likely going to buy a new phone rather than a new battery.
I found the scrum master (;
Yeah hopefully assailants will also be educated in the futility of their actions

If the whole idea of a kneecap-breaking plot fails because transferring the funds requires multiple signers then they arent going to break kneecaps
Probably because low power mode is completely different, and probably doesn’t do much to reduce the CPU usage peaks that the old battery protection code protects against.
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This would be a bad PR move. A giant insanely-rich company suing news publications?

Apple has dealt with overblown controversies before (Antennagate, etc.) and the best way to deal with them is to do what they're doing: communicate better, improve their software, make repairs or returns more affordable.
My 6S was affected by the faulty batch of batteries, and it was a miserable experience to have my phone shut down unexpectedly at 40% if I was using it outside in ~60F or colder weather.

Apple replaced the battery once they admitted to the faulty batch, and my phone has been great since, but the way they handle battery issues is extremely frustrating. Going to an Apple Store and having them to their standard test, being told everything is fine and there's nothing they can do is not what I expect from them.
I agree mostly. Lack of innovation could be solved by letting the government own and define the platform, not build it; instead they can use contractors, which could be large tech companies. Also, universities can help design the requirements.

Note that the definition of platform is broader than OSes. For example, Uber and Booking.com are also platforms (and they have similar problems as OS platforms).
https://www.thelocal.fr/20171228/french-lawsuit-launched-aga...
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On mobile but the original essay (https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-...) has definitely appeared on HN before
This is what I had in mind. And it can scale to any "n of m" you want, without any if the downsides if multisig wallets (namely larger transactions, and more complex Bitcoin wallets required)

2 of 2, 3 of 5, 7 of 10, etc...
What other reasons could they have to degrade the UX that they should have reasonably disputed in this context?
This just reminded me why disabling autofill is one of the first things I do when using a new browser.
That’s a typical California politician’s comment. If someone else doesn’t provide something free or heavily subsidized, they pretend it doesn’t exist.

Pretty dumb to ignore the fact tha buy cutting back on a few $12 beverages at the game one could either drive home or afford a Lyft...
WhatsApp's push notification story is in the Wikipedia page, though I think I'd read it in a news story profiling Jan Koum after the acquisition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp#History

I was wrong about timing though: it was only about 6 months after WhatsApp was incorporated (2 years after they left Yahoo though, so they might have been working on it beforehand).
The elephant in the room is, of course, Apple's obsession with thinness which makes it near impossible these days to get a usable laptop because PC makers totally copied Apple alas. It also gave us nonreplaceable batteries and any successful lawsuit that comes out of it is totally justified.

No one asked for this. Lighter, somewhat, yes but thin to the point where batteries are barely functional? Samsung's colossal Note failure is just another symptom of this. I had a Panasonic CF-Y5, a 14" 1.5kg laptop ten years ago and somehow it managed to be that light without this thinness craziness.
That's a great response PR-wise, but it doesn't answer the question of why these batteries are degrading to a point where unexpected shutdowns are a concern in a single year. The iPhone 7 is only one year old. That just isn't OK.
don't they already snub publications that they don't like anyway ?
I had to turn off that episode after Casey opened the segment by condescendingly dismissing any concerns about the behaviour. Quite rude and annoying.

Marco doesn't see the value in tracking podcast listeners, but I'd think he'd benefit to know what causes people to stop when listening to their show.
The news could have slowed upgrades to iPhone 8/X ahead of the holidays if buyers thought adding a battery could speed up their device.
The Nexus 6P recently had a big consumer backlash and refund process bc phones would shut off randomly below 20% charge once they got older. I would guess the same thing is happening here. I would have much rather had reduced performance than a phone unusable under 20%. Luckily I got a free upgrade to the Pixel to fix it.
You can annotate D functions as 'pure', which would have that effect, but purity is used for other reasons.

Evaluating functions at compile time has another wrinkle in D - it is path dependent:

int square(int x) {
if (x < 100)
return x * x;
printf("oops\n");
return 0;
}
const int x = square(3); // works
const int y = square(100); // fails at compile time

I.e. the path taken through the function has to be pure, not every part of the function.
How a Scholar of Conspiracy Theories Became the Subject of a Conspiracy Theory
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Luciferase, luciferin, and Co-Enzyme A

Who named these? I feel like this field needs “meaningful variable names” just like anyone educated in Computer Science is taught.
The "dollar" has been adjusted over time, though, and is currently actually USD 1.90.

Your tone sounds sarcastic but I don't see the justification for it. The number of people who are actually hungry and malnourished has gone down significantly, and far more people are vaccinated today then 25 years ago, and far more children can go to school and literacy rates are up.
A misunderstanding of what the "Urgent Pointer" field in the header means. I go into it in more detail here: http://blog.mecheye.net/2017/10/urg/
RFC 6093 [1] provides a bit more insight into this and other behavior.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6093
I disagree. Isolating from an environment which supports constant interruption and does not support focus, is incredibly important.

Also, meditation is not running, meditation is rest.
My wife’s 6+ was incredibly slow after the iOS upgrade.

My 6+ drained the battery incredibly quickly. I was told that upgrading the iOS would fix that problem [0]; it didn’t. Instead it slowed my phone to the point of being unusable.

If I’d have known replacing the battery would have fixed both of them, I’d have done that. Instead, I stupidly bought two new, very expensive phones. Since we were already locked into the Apple ecosystem (with paid apps and media), we bought iPhones.

This does nothing to compensate or win back the trust of customers like me.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/OYZr7zd.png
But they already admitted such before Christmas: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/21/572538593...
What about programmers? Now you can have more than one home row.
Show HN: Python bot framework for trading cryptocurrencies on Gemini
Apple is doing what is best for the user and the battery. This was poorly reported on by those without technical backgrounds.
I’m curious whether anyone who was organically affected by this power management feature actually could notice the peak CPU throttling, and especially if the throttling would be anywhere near as noticeable as the gradual increase in random shutdowns. Of course it will show up in synthetic benchmarks, but I haven’t heard any analysis of whether people’s perception that their old phones are getting slow had anything to do with this power management code.
For anyone clicking to see what they look like: the first picture, of the tree in a field, is not glowing and not from MIT. It's a stock photo of a very bright LED behind a tree.

To see the glowing plant, scroll down a bit to the other 2 pictures, or watch the source MIT video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp-vqd8zJM4
Yeah, some other manufactureres phones just carch fire instead.
They could have begun the battery replacement plan/prices in the new year.
> A good group project with people who are mature enough to handle someone's expression of vulnerability without judgement might be what keeps them in the class.

Yeah, and a bad group project with somebody who is dumb enough to express their vulnerability to me might be what drags my grade from an A to a B.

> If you reject someone over an expression of doubt, it was never about the doubt.

I hope you realize that this is meaningless nonsense.
Reported crime.

They also reclassified many crimes. Also, cops aren't always eager to take reports (I speak from experience).

Yes, there are less homicides than ever, but it's still painful to watch manipulation of statistics in slow motion.

On the flip side sex crimes are quite up (again, reported).
> Don't hate on all journalism (or anything, really) just because of some bad apples

Unfortunately, since these days anyone with a smartphone can call themselves a "journalist," it's become like the lawyer situation — the 90% bad ones give the 10% good ones a bad name.
Fixed comment with clarity.
Eek, I wish I hadn't capitulated so quickly when iOS 11 came out and my wife complained and complained about performance issues on her 2-year-old iPhone 6 until we just decided to buy an 8 and be done with it. It's not like she would be willing to move off Apple, and we had the money. I doubt my situation is unique. Oh well.
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OT but I used Gentoo since about 2003, the issue for me anyways was Q/A of the packages and migration when updating old systems. I was constantly fixing or working around issues.
I’m not sure why you got down voted. This is a completely valid opinion and comment.
Is there any evidence that, all else being equal, Apple’s batteries degrade faster or degraded iPhones shut off during peak usage more than other smartphones?
I like this vision, it's terrific!

If the duration of the effect is only hours and then it runs out like rave glow sticks, is this tech still in a fetal stage? To fulfill the vision, an even more radical and novel approach is necessary to enable a "lightbulb plant" to be self-sustaining and not burn out for years.
The only times I've been closed to getting fired weren't because of technical skills. I don't believe I've ever come up against a technical challenge that I couldn't solve by putting enough man hours into it.

But, the one thing that I've gotten a couple of "improvement plans" about were surrounding my lack of emotional intelligence and attitude. Those nine years between 2008-2016 were just as much about improving my emotional intelligence as learning technical skills. I look back in horror about some of things I did during the first 12 years of my career. I can very much see where the article is coming from.
Lucifer means light-bringer.
I stayed on iOS 10.1. Other than 10.1 being RAT-able, it was a great choice.
It's been in D for a decade, and has been extremely successful, to the extent of becoming a critical feature.

An early example was someone wrote a ray tracer in D that ran and generated output completely at compile time.

A more useful example is D's regex package can build the engine at compile time, thereby emitting a custom engine for the regex, instead of at runtime.
Because iPads were not affected by this.
Yes, if they want to be petty about bad publicity, there's other effective strategies like denying access to the publication as they did to Gizmodo back in 2010.
> because it knows the batteries it is shipping with its phones won't last more than a year.

There is no evidence for this. Plenty of people use iPhones for two or three years and don’t have an issue, and didn’t before any of the iOS changes that “hid” them.

Some people are just really hard on phone batteries. I have a few relatives that way. I’m not sure I’ve ever had an issue using the phone for 2+ years but I don’t tend to drain it down near the bottom much.
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> Linus compared it to a car performing worse after 1 year of usage

I hate to break it to him, but a one-year-old car will perform worse than a brand new car. A car is a hugely more robust piece of machinery than a telephone, so the degradation is less noticeable, but it's there. Why do you think the car depreciates the second you drive it off the lot?
Are you sure? I bet the iPhone 7 batteries simply haven't aged enough.
Coal releases lead, radon, and other toxic pollutants into the environment.

And you haven't supported the assertion that coal-powered EVs emit less CO2, and it contradicts what I've generally heard elsewhere.
Also see Uridium on the ZX Spectrum.[1] It's the only ZX game I can remember that had smooth scrolling, and when I first saw it, it left me in awe. I'd love to see how this was achieved.

[1]: https://youtu.be/CKZO-dnEReM
I don't think the doctor comparison is very appropriate to what I'm describing. There is a very prescribed path to becoming a doctor. You go to school, pass some exams, become a resident, etc. You know exactly what you need to do to be successful.

The same is not true as a startup founder. You can read about what other people have some, but you can't do exactly what they did. Your idea will be different, market will be different, timing will be different, team will be different, etc.

Anyway, I'm looking for other people who want to work on side projects/startups but aren't sure how to get started/want to meet other people in the same boat.
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Read other people's working code. Figure out what they're doing and why and why you like or dislike it. Add their unique qualities to your own repertoire.
Yes, definitely. But at least if that happened I would know it was the right thing to do and not be stuck in that hellish cycle of “what if”.
> because it knows the batteries it is shipping with its phones won't last more than a year

Actually, it's an 8% decrease starting after the first year. But go ahead and keep on spreading the FUD. Your HTC stock should catch up soon.
It's not clear to me why this doesn't also apply to the 5S. The same software is in operation on these, no?
What counterexamples would you offer? Bearing in mind that it may have been intended only to apply to consequences that he was responsible for, not things that he had nothing to do with, but I can't think of any examples of the latter right now.
Unfortunately, this is just how Apple is treated by much of the industry. People love to hate Apple, so there will always be: "Fingerprint Scanner: how Apple is stealing your identity and eroding your privacy", "Thin phones: how your phone will break in half", "WiFi On/Off: Apple & NSA tracking you even when you think your WiFi is off" articles, etc. This battery thing is just the latest Apple FUD and panic with a perfectly reasonable explanation.

I work with a guy that doesn't use Apple products at all, yet _always_ forwards this stuff to me. I don't even argue about it or defend Apple—it isn't worth my time and it isn't worth Apple's time either.

Maybe they have a defamation case, but really who cares?

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It is not infantilizing to accept expression of doubt or some kind of negative feeling. People have opinions and feelings and sometimes express them. Getting scared of that and yelling "shape up or ship out" is as immature as stopping the work altogether because of it.

Also, in my experience, the people who express such feelings are the ones who tend to be willing to do a lot of work and also the boring work needed to finish the thing.

The one person doing all the work in group project imo, is because group projects are quite dumb exercises. It has little to do how real cooperation in just a little competently managed work works and keeps more hardworking people hostage to lazy ones. Regardless of whether it is lazy or hardworking who is more open about his state of mind. It has nothing to do with infantilization - many adults in same situation will slack, because that is how incentives are lined up.
I don't think it's an either/or. They should do what they announced today and sue for defamation. When they announce the suit they could state that they intend to donate any awarded damages/settlement to charity to counter the "Big Company sues blogger" stories. But I think the reputation damage is very real and it would give Apple the opportunity to testify under oath (if it went to trial).
From a 1969 paper titled" The Meteorite Flux at the Surface of Mars". [1]

The abstract says that Martian meteorites having a mass greater than 1 metric ton hit the surface with essentially their space velocity, undecelerated. Those with mass less than 10 grams hit at terminal velocity, whatever that is for Mars. In between, I suppose there's a continuum of impact velocities depending on the mass.

[1] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1969PASP...81..399D
(paywalled, but they show you the first page with the abstract, which tells the tale)
Maintanable CSS (how I stopped worrying and learned to love the BEM)
Lucifer means 'light-bringing' in Latin, as in the morning star, as in Venus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer
It is possible that it was done by a corrupt secret service (SBU), that recently started raiding people involved with crypto currencies in Ukraine and stealing their coins. The ForkLog guy was not afraid to speak up [1]

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/ukraine-security-service-alle...
Moviepass is great on the low cost aspect of the movie experience

But on the other hand I would pay $50+ for that kind of entertainment. I enjoy the experience as it isnt tolerable to have such overpowering speakers in a home setup, or especially in apartment complexes. It is a well done escape.

I wouldnt pay that much for a movie-going date or children’s tickets though, with the high chance that they arent into it
Lots of people saying that Apple only had two options - make old handsets slower, or have them randomly shutdown.

Might be a reflection of the culture those commenters are from, but it's disingenuous to assert.

Other options existed -- notably to advise the user, as part of the update, via mail-out, etc, that this choice had been made from them, and (optionally) what they could do about it.
I’d wager if such an unimportant comment would have a serious effect on her prospects working for you, her prospects weren’t that good to begin with.
If you ever get the chance, do try playing with a thermal camera! It gives you a whole new appreciation for the great that flows around us that I never was able to grasp from a physics class. You can actually see footprints and even can write on the wall just by dragging your warm fingers against it. It's really incredible!