skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find 17 (New payment methods) interesting. This was just before bitcoin was created.
I doubt it - buses typically have the driver in the same compartment as the passengers, and are much lower to the ground than the trailer.
Uber Sells Stake to SoftBank, Valuing Ride-Hailing Giant at $48B
By installing and running tlp and having the 24 and 48 Wh batteries I get easily 11 hours of use on Linux with my T25. 7 watt average power use reported by powertop, but I mainly run i3, browser and tons of terminals...

T25 has the legacy 7 row keyboard which had no competition currently.
> Neither the government nor mass media wanted Trump to get elected yet it happened anyway, for instance.

His election was the opposite of truth and debate flowing freely and a textbook example of malicious actors poisoning the watering hole.
Which all of a sudden makes it EXTREMELY hard to waterproof compared to what you’re working on right now, which was a big win on the 6S and seven.
one of my favorite parts of NYC is that guns are not allowed. Everyone with a gun is either: cop, former cop, or criminal
Which is a more efficient use of our labor? The manufacture of a phone with a removable battery or the manufacture of a phone with a non replaceable battery?

Both situations benefit from the efficiency of modern production lines, but in the former case that device can be easily refreshed by a lay person out in the real world while with the other phone, the same amount of manufacturing resources went in to a phone that only lasts two years.

No matter how “efficient” our modern manufacturing methods are, using them to make a device that lasts two years uses more resources per unit of delivered utility than using them to make something that lasts 5-10 years.

Also the reason why it’s cheaper to manufacture new than to repair is exactly because repair is not engineered in to the design. If you have to de solder a battery and crack a case to replace a LiPo, it’s going to be more costly than if you just remove some screws and pop out a connector.
I could imagine the current exchanges becoming banks, in the disruptive sense. What's stopping them from creating interest-earning savings accounts and loaning out on a fractional reserve basis? Seems like we'll be back where we were a century ago, bank runs and all.
There are tons of ways to deal with sensitive data that don’t require hiding the entire bug reporting system. One is to allow links to things that not everyone can see (e.g. internal web sites or protected repositories) but still making the bug report itself and the comment thread entirely public and searchable. A lot of times, all I really need is a quick way to understand that someone else in the universe has my problem and that it’s being worked on.

I’m not even saying duplicates are useless. I’m saying that Apple’s method, taking months to ultimately communicate nothing except an unexplained status of “Duplicate”, is useless. Except it’s worse, because at that point I would have already: (A) painstakingly distilled a much more complex problem into a base test case purely for Apple’s benefit, (B) generated a system profile or whatever else was required, and (C) jumped through several other hoops. Also, during that whole time I must assume: the issue wasn’t known to Apple, hadn’t been seen yet by anyone else, and probably wasn’t going to be fixed; and, I required a work-around in the meantime that ultimately became the only solution that mattered.

Now, Xcode: it kind of doesn’t matter what else they’re doing when basic tools I need every day still have problems. In Xcode 4.x they reinvented their own window/tab manager and to this day I can’t get this “pretty good IDE” to put anything where it’s supposed to be and remember that next time. It still has problems automatically showing a source file and its header file side-by-side. Also, when I open projects explicitly, it likes to display a mixture of tabs showing source files from entirely different projects (a bug I actually did report, many many years ago, still unfixed). A tool that does some things right but fails with the basics is not a well-supported development environment.
awesome, and makes sense. maybe the subject of a future blog post :) thanks and stay well!
Yeah, if I were him, I definitely wouldn't use Detroit as an example of a low crime rate.
The tell me something you believe that nobody else believes is there is nothing non-trival that I believe that someone out there doesn’t also believe. I have always thought the closely related question of "what do you believe to be true than almost nobody else does” is better.
> A brownfield is a property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. It is estimated that there are more than 450,000 brownfields in the U.S. Cleaning up and reinvesting in these properties increases local tax bases, facilitates job growth, utilizes existing infrastructure, takes development pressures off of undeveloped, open land, and both improves and protects the environment.

https://www.epa.gov/brownfields/overview-brownfields-program

In contrast to "greenfield" projects where they don't have to worry about previous environmental contamination.
The lights do not go off in Australia on election day.
Oh come on. At least you can express what you think is wrong about my take on it rather than just calling me a shill.

I'm not a shill, BTW. I was affected by this and think Apple stinks for letting it get to this point. I found out my iPhone 6+ was running at 600Mhz most of the time when it would normally would run at 1400Mhz (going by CPU DasherX). Also, the real world user-experience seemed to be even worse than those numbers, so my guess is there are things affected even more by this than CPU clock.

But I just don't generally expect tech companies to always get it right, especially not the first time. I think this is just being realistic. So for me, the question is, how do they respond when they screw up. I think this response is excellent of Apple, except that it took too long. Knocking some points off for that, it still comes out to "good", IMO.
All of Apple's battery problems would disappear if I could replace the battery in my device instead of being forced to chuck the whole thing because the battery will no longer take/keep a charge. Surely someone at Apple can design a device with a replaceable battery?
SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Rocket Now at Launchpad Ahead of Maiden Flight
Yeah I was hesitant due to not that much support in the community, etc but after hitting the typo-squatting issue over like 5 times (you'd think once would be enough) it just had to be done. There are other issues for our plugin ecosystem since people fail to know which ones are from us and which are just another plugin.

I think before they were part of the paid npm plain or just not enough information about them, and the questions on what being an npm org meant, etc. Maybe Babel switching to them will help move that forward even?
Inferior keyboard? I LOVE the new keyboard. And Touch Bar works great.
Useful chart for drinking limits: http://www.tabc.state.tx.us/publications/brochures/BACCharts...
Feels like the number of things to turn off is growing out of hand.
Oh. So they're doing a witch hunt with plans for libel too? Sounds like a nice group of people.
You will be surprised on how Messenger is like iMessage of messenger apps in some countries outside the US.
Measurements are inherently probabilistic. If there was no trouble, there would be no physics.
Yeah. I just invented a more cost effective method with similar results

/me whips out can of glow-in-the-dark spray paint...
"Of course, when a chemically aged battery is replaced with a new one, iPhone performance returns to normal when operated in standard conditions."

I find this disturbingly vague. If the slowdown was strictly due to physical battery degradation (and I haven't heard what specific metric(s) they use to objectively measure age/wear), then replacement should instantly reset performance rationing back to its starting point.

They only say it "returns to normal when operated in standard conditions" without defining "standard conditions" and without saying how long it takes before they deign to allow you the performance you paid for.

Their official Battery & Power page[1] acknowledges none of this beyond a separate issue affecting only a two-month manufacturing window of September-October 2015.

[1] https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power

And weren't there earlier iPhone models that weren't designed with user-replaceable batteries?
I see where you're coming from and there's obviously some truth to it, but even an exceptionally well-documented OpenSSL with carefully thought-out command line UX would still be dangerous just by dint of what OpenSSL (as in, the "openssl" CLI) sets out to do, which is to provide an interface to low-level cryptography.
These kind of things are worse with the temperature is very cold outside. Is that the case for where you are?
It's strange how obsessed software engineers are about methods of working. At a surface level it's just: sit down and write the code. But actually there are thousands of programming languages you can choose from; there are build tools, code standards, testing(to TDD or not to TDD) and mental models you have to wrap your head around before you even can start to consider yourself a decent programmer. It's fascinating, but at the same time I wish it was all simpler. I wonder if there are other occupations in the world that are so much focused on tools, paradigms and methodology as software engineering(investing and trading come in mind. And it's interesting that these notes use so much investing and business lingo).
In theory, content would not be delivered until the ads have been fetched and reported that they've been delivered. In practice, that isn't a realistic option. Not because it isn't technically possible - but because people are impatient and expect near instant load times and this would slow things down a tiny bit.

The anti-adblocking systems are the equivalent of coming over anyway but complaining about not being able to bring 50 friends the entire time. Anti-anti-adblocking systems are telling them to shut up or don't come over.

There's something to be said about people who repeatedly invite the friend over who constantly complains about not being able to bring 50 friends. I tend to respect sites who ask me to disable my ad blocker: I just won't visit their website.

A low traffic site doesn't make enough to sustain from ads. The proper response isn't to push traffic away - it's to find a business model that works. Ad based models are increasingly not working.
> * From my measurements, TypeScript is quite a bit faster than Babel at compiling ES2017 to ES5. From a quick test, TypeScript took 35 seconds and Babel took 140 seconds when run on my codebase at work.

Hmm, I would of thought it would be the opposite but I guess it depends on the setup?

> * TypeScript is probably easier to set up and configure.

Yeah given it's more of a "language" TS can decide on those defaults although you can just make your own preset for your company/project as well. I think we can fix that too with a default/separate thing but not sure yet.
Normally degraded batteries are still usable at 50% charge. If the remaining capacity was truly unavailable they should not have been displaying a fictitious state of charge. But of course, then the pitchforks would be out right away with no chance of hiding this slick way to force upgrade sales.

The real reason why they implemented this extreme method of "protecting" the battery is that they are deathly afraid of what will happen when these older batteries are fully discharged.
You can have it changed. Perhaps you should check again.
A Short Review of Understanding and Common Sense in Artificial Intelligence [pdf]
If I came to a site, liked what it was about, noticed it didn't get any hits by uBO and saw an affiliate link with text (no images hosted elsewhere) like "Do you need AAA batteries and would like to support our site? Click Here", it's very likely I would click the link if I will need the thing any time soon. It doesn't have to be related to the content of the page or fit the genre of the site, it doesn't need to try and guess exactly what I need at this very second or prey on my insecurities. Just links to basic necessities.
That's natural since iPhones are being touted as the premium option while putting down Androids as "cheap" phones.

It's all about expectations.
>but Apple is stepping up and doing the right thing...

People are letting them off the hook too easily. I don't believe having even a perceived legitimate reason to slow down the phones explains why they didn't own up to it earlier. In fact, seems all the more reason they should have explained it, especially given the rumors that have swirled for so long.

In short, they certainly benefitted from the upgrades encouraged by the slowed phones, and it conspicuously complements their philosophy of releasing incremental upgrades to customers, which means they were certainly motivated to provide that extra nudge. I have trouble believing that's all coincidence.

They've had it their way on the front-end and profited handsomely. Now, on the backend, they are dictating the terms of their own penance. Pretty sweet deal for Apple.
So people don't get a day off then.
My brand new (3 month old) MBP 15' "Y" key stopped working for a day, had to clean the keyboard. Sometimes when I power on this mac I hear this scratching sounds coming from the laptop. Trackpad is noisier than the previous gen. USB peripheral hell. Speaker issues. Several kernel panics.

Now my older Mac's were never perfect, but I don't recall having so many hardware issues so soon. And living somewhere, where there is no official Apple store, getting anything fixed is a week+ of no computer.
I assume they’re referring to some of the other things they talked about, like how performance maybe temporarily degraded if it’s extremely cold outside; not unlike how the phone may have to shut itself down in extremely hot temperatures.
The intended word was probably "ludicrous".
Were you actually "harmed?" Let's not compare increasing pollution to you not being able to play Angry Birds with the same level of gusto.
Every place you mentioned I would expect significant police presence either because of the venue or locale. Since the Germans 'artists' swapped out the flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge there has been a permanent and rather disrupting police present on the bridge itself.
There is little privatization in the U.S. in the areas I mentioned. For example, less than 10% of Americans go to private or charter schools. In Denmark, Japan, Spain, Korea, and the Netherlands, that number ranges from 20-65%. Few American roads are privately-operated (mostly some turnpikes). In contrast, all of the French autoroute (highway) system is private. Much of Japan's highway and transit system is private too.

Transit is almost entirely publicly owned and operated in the U.S. For example, Amtrak is both owned and operated by the government. In contrast, Deutsche Bahn and Eurostar are are private companies (though subsidized by the government). SNCF, though owned by the government, is run like a private company. E.g. in contrast to Amtrak, where only a single route produces an operating profit, 80% of SNCF's routes produce an operating profit. Japan's key railroads are privatized, and the biggest one (JR East) receives no public subsidy.

Anti-development housing policies that drive up prices are all done by the government (compare to Japan's lax zoning laws).

Healthcare is really the only thing that's more privatized in the U.S. versus other OECD countries, though it's less than you might think. About 50% of healthcare spending in the U.S. comes from direct public money, comparable to Korea, versus 70% in Canada or Spain, and 75-85% in Italy, Germany, France, and the U.K. However, if you account for indirect expenditures (public subsidies for health insurance), the total comes to about 65%, not much less than in Canada or Spain: http://www.pnhp.org/news/2016/january/government-funds-nearl....
Timelapse video with an iPhone and CLI
Or maybe they were using a cryptocurrency miner during those 10 seconds as a substitute for ads.
Agreed, I remember the day when I looked forward to OS updates as often they made your computer faster.
"In 2015, Detroit had its lowest number of criminal homicides in 40 years"

is the point.
I was surprised this didn't already exist, so I made it... even though it's honestly just a wrapper around curl and ffmpeg!
That part of the article bugged me as well. I think there's a significant difference between being "authentic" and oversharing.

If being "authentic" is revealing the full nature of all your feelings to someone, I think that never really happens: language doesn't have the required bandwidth. Instead, I'd define being "authentic" is the opposite of intentionally misleading people.

Being authentic is a strategy that has served me well in my life: I routinely develop relationships based on mutual trust which serve me well. Plus I don't feel like a bad person.
As opposed to?
Learning how to be more social.

It may sound simple, but I constantly avoided social situations because I was worried about being judged and people disliking me. I realized by not even trying I already made people's judgements for them about me.

People are actually pretty friendly when you take a genuine interest in them. This in turn helped me to go on more dates and meet a nice woman whom I've been seeing for a couple months.

Someone told me that everyone wants to be loved, everyone wants to be liked and everyone wants to feel appreciated. I really took this to heart when interacting with strangers.
High Sierra, after playing with the freeze-ups and slow typing recognition for about a week I think I finally found the problem IMO. When Apple decided to re-format to the APFS file system they had a huge re-format dilemma for folks with only one SSD available to boot with. So Apple decided to go to a running format of the solid state drive included in the High Sierra package. Guess what! It doesn't work! Way too much fragmentation to the point of the computer gets confused and lost trying to find needed data or a place to store it and it want's to play beach-ball.

In the old Apple days we had to defragment drives constantly to keep from experiencing a beach-ball state of rest.

Anyway I had to do a bunch of invoicing in Quickbooks this morning. QB writes to the drive constantly to avoid any loss of financial data in a crash or outage. Ever since I installed High Sierra my typing response time slowed to a standstill. I could drink half a cup of coffee before it would finish a sentence or row of numbers.

I thought wow, this is just like the old days with my IIx. LOL And than it hit me! Ah, fragmentation! Being as I have 4 drive bays in my 5.1 Mac Pro and I had a CCC cloned copy of all my data with High Sierra on another SSD drive. I re-booted and used Disk Utility to erase and format APFS to my original boot drive. Then I transferred the cloned data back to that drive, re-booted and ran first aid on it.

I've had a smile on my face ever since! I used Quickbooks this morning for 4 hours without ONE freeze or typing slowdown. In fact, if I blinked my eye I couldn't see the page changes. It's now lightning faster than any previous OS X system I've used and I only have a 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core. Not one error or stall in this message or anything I have done all day for that matter so I'm a happy High Sierra user again..
> cops aren't always eager to take reports (I speak from experience)

Cops have no say in whether to take or not take a report. Call 311, make a police report, meet the officer dispatched to you and sign. I agree that getting the NYPD to actually act on a police report is puzzlingly difficult.
So an updated version of the classic browser/IP/country/OS sign people used in their forum signatures?

http://www.danasoft.com/vipersig.jpg
>>But there are many other digital currencies that try to solve those and other problems. Even currencies that implement the Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain, where no "Mining" is required for the network to function, and therefore no large energy requirements and no cost for transactions.

Most of these get rid of Proof of Work and blockchain-based distributed consensus without replacing them with any other automated and distributed method of establishing consensus.

For example, Ripple, Stellar, NEO, IOTA and EOS rely on trusted third parties to run all consensus nodes, which makes them effectively centralized, and destines them to becoming permissioned ledgers that must heed the censorship laws of any number of powerful nation-states (e.g. capital controls imposed by the Chinese government).

That makes them more similar to Venmo and PayPal than cryptocurrency.

The concept of a neutral global platform for censorship proof financial coordination is revolutionary. While Bitcoin has been effectively sabotaged with its hyper-conservative anti-adoption development roadmap, successor chains like Bitcoin Cash or most likely Ethereum could pick up the mantle and fulfil its original promise.
I always forget to install my ad-blocker after an install. Once I start browsing the web I re-install it. If ads weren't so terrible, I would likely just forget to install it.
Ask HN: What are some items you have on your desk?
Apple certainly should have communicated the real issue, I have no problem with that idea.

The idea I’m arguing against is that Apple either did nothing or purposefully made it worse. They tried to fix one bad problem (random shutdowns) and it caused a different, although less severe, problem.

Apples move to retard performance to keep the phone from suddenly dying was a GOOD move. It wasn’t a scam as some others have claimed.

But obviously they should have communicated to the user that they knew there was a battery issue.
I see, so you're saying it's a verifiable promise by the function writer that it can be evaluated at compile-time?

Meaning its entire purpose is to just be an easier version of a compile-time unit-test like static_assert(f(1) == 2)?
Tips for New Developers
Five data models for sharding and which is right
Modular houses can cost as low as $50/sqft. This Sears house looks like 900-1200 sqft, so 45k to 60k.

http://modularhomeowners.com/how-much-will-my-modular-home-c...
https://blog.capterra.com/the-pros-cons-and-cost-of-modular-...
How a Harvard student helped crack the mystery of the Inca code
What percentage of maximum CPU should all phones be restricted to to prevent causing these kind of issues?

That doesn’t seem like a reasonable solution.
Same here i had a iPhone 6s and i had exactly the same problems you described.

1) Drop from 30% to 5% in some minutes. iOS 10.x fixed this issue.

2) Now with iOS 11 the battery does even last a day and the phone was extremely slow.

Sure i had issues in the past after 2 years with my Nexus 5 and Galaxy Nexus but both were kind of mid range price ~400 Euros.

But with a high end phone that cost 800 Euros I would expect better quality and also better costumer support.

This xmas i just got myself a ~350 Euros Android and i'm much more happy. After 2 years if the phone has battery issues or whatever i will not be so furious has i am now.

I've been recently moving away from Apple mainly due to Quality / Price ratio. I have a 2012 iMac which is basically useless except from Browsing on the Web.
Other companies like Google, Amazon etc... ship good quality devices for much cheaper price.
So for me i'm not thinking in buying anything else from Apple.
>> you are locked-in into a proprietary ecosystem

Ok, so what do we do? Sell iphone ((or android phone)) and then.. get what?