skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The most interesting points of the article were this:

1) iPhone unit sales growth has essentially stagnated, because the overall market has reached saturation.
2) Apple has successfully managed to maintain growth in the face of 1) by increasing revenue per device (ASP).

I think the question of "What does Apple do, now?" is a hugely important one. However, I disagree with the author that the only reasonable approach Apple has is to "settle down" in its middle age position.

That question is important, because it implicitly asks, "What is next?" I don't see Apple deciding to not create a product that attempts to answer that question. We will have to wait and see what that product looks like (AR?), whether it is successful, and when it will come. Apple is definitely not going to rest on the iPhones success forever, though.
Given Google refused to allow you to store pictures local-only, Glass' camera was... it's least-used feature for me. I loved notifications without having to get out my phone (or look at my wrist). Google's absolute refusal to make photo sync optional on Glass was honestly the beginning of the end for my trust in El Goog.
"XML...Fully Typed: No."

XSDs don't count then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_schema
One could, in theory, yes, but given the strictness on banks, I'm pretty certain they would have no problems auditing it.
I'm really perplexed as to why people would not want to buy into market tracking ETFs or Blue chips that pay dividends. For a young person a portfolio of this nature provides a healthy amount of risk while having historically good returns. The crypto crazy is not regulated and extremely volatile, I can't quite see how people are referring to it as an "investment" when there's not a great way of computing intrinsic value as analysts do with company valuations.
Best we've got is "resign in protest."

There's been a bit of it lately: 8 of the 28-person National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC), all 17 members of the Presidential Committee on the Arts and Humanities, co-chairs of the Sustainable and Healthy Communities Subcommittee of the EPA, 5 members of Trump's business advisory council, 6 members of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, the State Department science envoy...

(I haven't been keeping track, this was just a quick google search; probably there are more I missed. Not to mention the wave of early retirements, lateral moves to private sector, sudden new desires to spend more time with family, etc)
If the longevity of a product is a selling point, can provide a competitive advantage or help capture a premium then Capitalism is absolutely fine with it.
A plumber I know once told me he could tell the ethnicity of the family that lived in a home by the type and color of grease clogging the drain.
SimCity 2000 even has a demo that includes most of the graphics assets. It wouldn't put much of a burden on the user.
You could also sue Equifax in small claims court while documenting and publicising the process to help others repeat it, get involved in local politics, and help undo the weirdness caused by gerrymandering.

Personally, I'm not really convinced democracy is such a great idea. I'd prefer tests for knowledge and intelligence to qualify to vote or run for office.
>some publications/contests/etc have limits on what alterations they allow

In general, news outlets have very strict policies about manipulation of editorial photos. Some limited adjustment of exposure and contrast is OK but the removal of even irrelevant background detail to make the photo look better is pretty much verboten.
On Unikernels – Which Is Heavier – VMs or OSes?
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I am so sorry to hear it. First you have to do is cut your losses. Sell all the crypto and widthdraw them to your banks asap. Its all collapsing like a house of cards.

Secondly, zoom out and reflect on your life. You have your health, probably a caring family and new opportunities in life. Do something you like, and enjoy your life.
I froze my credit for free in response to the Equifax breach, and it gave me a little more piece of mind. However, I just had the experience of thawing my credit and I discovered that the companies are back to charging you for the freeze.

I had the pins for all the thaws and they went relatively smoothly, except for Equifax, who required me to call and answer ridiculous questions about banking I did over a decade ago (and suggested I would always have to do this regardless of the fact that I had my pin and an account).

I shudder to think what would happen if I lost my pin numbers. Especially if I didn't realize until right before I needed a credit check.
What does, in your read, mean 'auditor backed out from auditing'?
How I Built My First Electron App and You Can Too Pt.2 – Preparing the Workflow
It depends on context.

I don't think many would disagree that it would be easier, but better is very broad. Better in what way? For what purpose?

For example, if you already know Rust, then "easier" may (or may not, depending on what sense of easy you mean!) not be a compelling argument.

Rust is certainly not the best tool for every single task, but it also has broader applicability than "I can't possibly accept a GC."
I feel helpless to move the political system too, so I work on open source projects that I think will make an impact. It seems more effective than anything I can do with voting or door to door canvassing.

I’m not saying everyone should do it, but it’s something I can do that feels helpful.
Fitbit Ionic has a five day battery life, give or take. But a smartwatch pales in comparison to how convenient Glass was to use: I used to be able to be read and reply to texts while doing anything, including driving, safely. And not having to interrupt a conversation when I noticed the incoming call or message was unimportant was fantastic.
> Your entire claim is a red herring, unless you're claiming it's somehow better that cops murder non-black people and get away with it.

It's not a red herring. The implication that "police murder blacks" is that there is a racist component in police murder, but the data show that this isn't the case, at least not in the last decade. I'll leave it to the reader to decide whether or not this is better or worse.

> So I ask you: are you defending cops murdering people and getting away with it? If not, why are you posting? I suppose it's academically interesting if cops murder all the races evenly, but it sure comes across as if you're defending cops murdering people and getting away with it.

No, of course I'm not defending murder. I'm posting because fixing problems requires properly understanding them. I understand that many people have no qualm with worsening the problems they purportedly care about so long as it lets them get a punch in against some group of people they dislike; however, that's not really my style.
Companies that get a competitive advantage or can command a premium from selling long lived products don't hate it at all. It's the core of their business model.
Interesting, well I guess folks using it should be just as careful as the rest of us. Someone with a 116.90.81.14 ip was really interested in it. Username "bernard" is also a new one on me.
Cool book. I would be interested in knowing what software was used to make it.
Order-significance is exactly how the relational model was defined in the beginning

"An array which represents an n-ary relation R has the following properties:

1. Each row represents an n-tuple of R.

2. The ordering of rows is immaterial.

3. All rows are distinct.

4. The ordering of columns is significant -- it corresponds to the ordering S1, S2, ..., Sn of the domains on which R is defined (see, however, remarks below on domain-ordered and domain-unordered relations).

5. The significance of each column is partially conveyed by labeling it with the name of the corresponding domain."

-- A relational model of data for large shared data banks[1]

[1]: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~david/cs848s14/codd-relational.pdf
Often I have found lunch to be the culprit for feeling tired at 2-3. Once I limited my carb intake during lunch my afternoon slumps stopped.
> Impressive how many of the buildings are still there and recognisable. Nice to see most of the 30+ year old apartment blocks still standing and well looked after.

Have you seen many cities where buildings that are merely 30 years old do not exist anymore ?
Since about 1988, after the publication of Ecclesia Dei, the Tridentine Mass has made a considerable comeback. In the Archdiocese of Washington, there are three parishes that offer a Tridentine Mass, but only the cathedral has a Novus Ordo Mass.
Had lunch with an investment advisor yesterday, here's what he told me: if a client of his is suffering from losses, and also worrying that they may lose more, he tells them to sell their position. You eat up your loss, but earn the relief from the day to day stress, fearing to lose more.

I thought this was sound advice.

Take your mistakes as lessons learned. Many lessons learned are extremely tough. Everyone goes through many of these throughout their lives. They're still a lesson nonetheless. This shall pass, you've lost money, but gained in experience. You've tried something. Taking risks is an essential thing in life if you want to grow from your status quo. It's a matter of learning to better assess the risks the next time. Your past and present need not equal your future.

Money is abundant. Skills are more rare. Focus on skills that enable you to grow. Learn to take better risks the next time and you increase the odds to your favor in the future.

All the best to you.
Arguably it's not the same Apple. I don't see a lot of continuity in approach between the company that brought us the Apple IIe and the company that makes the iPhone.
I've found that windows benefits from being reinstalled every once in a while. Try a fresh install of Windows 10, and see where that gets you?
1985 was a long time ago. Despite upgrades, I wonder if building from scratch with automation-first at the forefront, would automated ports not be more efficient of they didn't have to defer to legacy technologies?

Automation-first, from ships to containers to ports to docks to distribution.
>All of a sudden, in the course of about two minutes, a rapid cascade of very small trades (a few tens to a few hundreds of dollars) propelled it back to ~98.5 cents. It looked really dodgy.

What's dodgy about that? I think everyone here would love to buy a virtual dollar for 90 cents. Especially given the behavior of the market the past month.
Heh, check out https://www.obj-sys.com/asn1tutorial/node15.html

ASN.1 dates from 1984. So much for Mark being “modern”!
That's all well and good, and I don't think many people are disputing the value of having more and better memories of loved ones.

The trouble is in resolving that against the kind of culture that has fostered things like the "creepshots" subreddit.

Smartphones (and GoPros) have already shown the value of being able to film and share more of our lives, but they've also shown the downsides of having our graceless moments broadcast to the world, or the many events that are now impossible to enjoy in a sea of smartphones held aloft, or, if you're an attractive woman, far more of you put online for other people to gawk at.

Until those abuses are resolved somehow, people are going to resist having a little camera attached to everyone's face.
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-10969

Note that their new one plans are excluded because one plans are already "unlimited".

https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-24291

Also states this.
There is nothing sad in that. Yes, it might be non-optimal, but by trying out your own approach you will find out its limitations first-hand and understand the problem and reasoning behind alternate approaches much better.

Junior talent doesn't become senior talent by just doing the right things, but by doing the wrong things and learning from them.
Second this.

It's my anecdotal experience that the trend of people 'feeling tired all the time' in modern American society is a result of the extremely large caloric intake that's become common for most meals.
Rofl.
Are people still talking about Russia in the US election?

I'm not a US citizen, but I thought that was dead in the water long time ago. If that is indeed still is on the agenda I think someone are desperately trying to blame anyone but themselves.
The purpose is the illusion of responsibility. If politicians didn't even attempt to pretend they were trying to fix things, people might actually get upset - or even worse, actively interested in fixing the credit system, or government.
Distributed Tracing with Istio and AWS
Let's say you transmit an object of type Person, that is also a Student and a MartialArtist. Your inheritance graph may define that a Student is also a Person. So not sending the Person type could be fine. But would you define a common subtype for Student+MartialArtist, just because your data serialization handles only one single type per object? Obviously no! You want to send your object with types "Student" and "MartialArtist". I.e multiple types.
^^^ This is sound advice.

Focus your efforts on things in your control. To put your energy and efforts into things outside of your control is not only irrational but it'll bring you paralysis and misery.
Thank you! I'm excited to see this stuff progress, but since I'm not involved with D anymore, it's hard to keep up at times :)
Why did you invest more than you could afford to lose? This advice is literally everywhere on Reddit and even YouTube. If you can't stomach 20%, 50%, or even 90% drops in your portfolio's value, then you clearly invested more than you could afford to lose.

Did you really think you could just get in at any point in the crypto lifecycle and the value would keep rising, and rising, and rising? Especially if you got in when there was a media frenzy?

We seem to be approaching the "despair" phase, as your post clearly implies:

http://www.thegoldandoilguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/S...

Remember you only take the loss if you sell now. Do with that information what you will. But I think in a year's time you'll regret selling for 2/3 loss. And you'll probably want to get in again after the crypto value has risen another 10x, and all the media talks about it. but with only 1/3 or less of your money. Rinse and repeat.
A biohacker injected himself with DIY herpes treatment in front of live audience
Is it reductive for me to say that we're finally getting the GridBagLayout that I was using for Java Swing UIs 15 years ago?
"pushing political agenda"
"politics shoved in my face"
"don't agree with his politics"

It's always the same boring meme phrases.
I know that having a persecution complex is effective politicking but it comes off immature.

I read the article you posted.
You should understand that an individual artist is more important to Spotify than an individual user to Spotify.
Especially artists like: Men At Work and Savage Garden

The playlist was called Australian Conservatives and was a public playlist. If you're advertising it, then it's not personal.
Normally if you want music associated with your brand, a company or political party has to pay. And artists have the right to refuse.

It looks like Darren Hayes posted this:

Hi @CoryBernadi and @AuConservatives. I do not want to be associated with you, your party or your views. Remove my music from this stunt or expect contact from my publisher.

Responding like this doesn't really work in the real world:

“Get over yourself darrenhayes. Music is for everyone.” Bernardi tweeted.
^^ P.J. O'Rourke's observation
What has Rick Perry done?
Brain Neural Pathways Formation in Homeschool Kids
I don't think anybody reasonable believes they're actually backed by USD at this point.
I'm really sorry.

You've suffered a large loss. You'll have to find some way to draw a line in between your present and your past, and to move on.

Make a decision about cutting your losses on this investment based on the understanding that anything you leave in could plausibly depreciate further.

Enumerate your opportunities. Focus on how you can use and build them in the long term.
Original Apple Watch
I'm quite happy that I have Canadian citizenship, so if things continue down the current path, I at least have an exit strategy...
0. Have $5.1 billion so you can do all the above
Your "middle" would likely be "lower" to most people around here.
> Would you love that camera if it was pointed at you?

If the camera had a light indicating when it was actually recording, that seems better. There are probably many small changes to make such cameras more acceptable.
To add to the mix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kVeCqQCxlk
Make political donations to viable candidates outside your district / state.
The Cuckoo’s Egg Decompiled Online Course
This is a different doc for a different game, but it is an interesting story about the rise of MLG. It is called Smash and it follows some of the early luminaries of competitive Super Smash Brothers Melee. Highly enjoyable and fairly long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSf2mgkRm7Q&list=PLoUHkRwnRH...
The assets for all of the Infinity Engine games were lost as well...

That's why the plans for "Baldur's Gate HD" were downgraded to "Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition" :'(

* http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-12-17-enhancing-baldu...
where can we sign-up?
I googled vaunt and first thing that comes up is a bra company, NSFW: https://sneakyvaunt.com/
I also have a question: If you are one of those folks that don't use the phone function on their phone often (mostly games and reading and timekeeper while i'm out of the house), and only gets occasional email... is it still useful?

Honestly, they've always looked like a less functional phone strapped to my wrist.
The punk rock internet – how DIY ​​rebels ​are working to ​replace tech giants
I respectfully disagree...
Is there any suggestion in the article that he didn't do all this stuff before he became wealthy?
Amazon and Netflix Don’t Care About Making Money: Why?
Measurement of Interrupt Latency
There are some powerful tools popping up lately to help with many of the challenges laid out in this article.

Straple (straple.co) and Abstract (goabstract.com) come to mind.
Locks Used in Database Management Systems
Mind Machines Archives – mindmachines.com
I'd add to this that Apple's current approach to AR and wearables is not one that necessitates the cannibalization of the iPhone. They are taking a constellation approach (as noted in the article), with the iPhone in the center.

I think that approach is not one based in defense, but one that actually plays to their strengths: personal products with an excellent experience, vertically integrated. Because of AR's computational requirements, it will be a long time until we have an AR experience that is untethered to a mobile computing device. A vertically integrated, constellation-based system will offer a better user experience, at least initially. Intel's recent Vaunt glasses [1] could be much more powerful if Intel also controlled the entire device the glasses co-ordinated with.

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16966530/intel-vaunt-smart...
3D Color Print
I'm not sure how that would work. It sounds like the opposite of a normal bank relationship.

In general the idea of fractional reserve is that you, the customer, deposit dollars in a bank account, the bank lends out those dollars to borrowers, but still allows you to come and get your dollars back at any time you like. This takes advantage of something like statistical multiplexing -- it is unlikely that everyone will want his dollars back at the same time. And in modern times it is backed up by various government schemes which will provide liquidity in the case of a run on the bank.

If the bank issued you a cryptocurrency at a rate of $1/coin then it would be same thing as giving you your dollars back. It would reduce the banks reserves.

I guess your scheme would make more sense on the other side of the bank. That is, the bank could lend out coins rather than dollars. But in that case there isn't a multiplier for coins, because the reserves would still be in dollars.
Pebble watch?
One of the few good things to come out of the hive of scum and villainy that are the rpgcodex forums.

Thanks felipepepe!
They do now. My wife(Ohio) has sold plenty of things from there.

https://www.mercari.com/help_center/article/163/
W-9 and 1099 are US specific tax forms
It's a fair point. Most intriguing to me is the reaction to even the allegation of external meddling, where there seems to be an element of surprise or disbelief. Many Western governments have meddled and interfered in the name of their own imperialistic foreign policies yet it appears unthinkable to some that it could ever be returned in kind.

It's certainly not a mentality unique to the US (with Brexit you can swap Russia for Europe and get a similar result, for example). I choose to see it as a lack of self awareness, where being apathetic is good when everything happens the way you like it, but is everybody else's fault when it takes a turn for the worse.
Thanks for suggesting CBOR. Mark shall definitely have some binary representation, like BSON or CBOR, in future.
The difference between mtGox and this is that bitfinex is seemingly infinitely solvent. Some estimates are like 20-30 million revenue per day. Its the top running exchange. I doubt they would expose themselves to a bankrupcy event having such a cash cow.

I believe they did market manipulation, and that they are committing fraud with tether, but I'm not convinced tether is not solvent.
I would just hold on. And next time don't put money in, that you can't afford to lose.
Agreed. I switched whole-heartedly in 2006, when the combination of Unix, mainstream UI, professional apps, and "It Just Works" showed a lot of promise. The fact that my 2006 MacBook Pro lasted for six years earned a lot of loyalty.

But there doesn't appear to be any strategy or overarching vision anymore. Changes are introduced haphazardly, almost schizophrenically. There is zero focus on software or hardware quality. "Design" at Apple is no longer about the marriage of tech and artistry, but about tech being trumped by artistry.

- Make the keyboard work better? Maybe marginally with Gen 2 butterfly switches, but it's still mostly about the "wow" factor of the Touch Bar.

- Make iTunes work correctly? Nah. Just change the UI.

- Extensive pre-release regression testing for High Sierra? Nah. Ship with root access bugs and a new wallpaper.

- Keep making best-in-class wireless routers? Nah. Not sexy enough.

Apple has abandoned the values that led it to become so rich. It is still profitable, and probably will be for some time, but eventually its wellspring of good will from past successes will run dry. Features don't matter if they don't work.
> no one has the slightest freaking clue how to audit crypto

This is a fair statement. Auditor resignations are a red flag, not a conviction. Given the background scumminess of the cryptocurrency space [1], Bitfinex/Tether's management's evasiveness and structure's murkiness [2] and the $2 billion with a "b" figure, heightened skepticism is warranted. In that light, the Tether spokesperson blaming the "excruciatingly detailed procedures Friedman was undertaking" for the auditor's resignation, with no corroborating statement from the auditor, is unsettling.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ico-ernst-young/more-than...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/mystery-s...