skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the changes actually impact productivity for those who have muscle memory; it now takes two swipes up from the home screen to get to your list of all apps. They already had one line on the all apps page dedicated to a list of apps they're predicting you'll want. Now they have a second line on that screen dedicated to actions they think you'll want to take.

I hate this change. Of course you can shove more icons on your home screen, but now we're back to iOS where you just puke everything on home with no automatic organization on the first screens you see when you unlock. Its not productive. I already disliked Android's method of searching apps; on iOS, you can pull down, type the first few letters of an app, and its there. On Android, you click the search button, start typing, and it feels like you get lucky if an app appears there, or if it gives you google search results. Its infuriating.

Oh, and the kicker: If your main google account is on G-Suite, its a complete shot in the dark which features are available and which aren't. On my Pixel 2, the default clock+upcoming events widget simply didn't work for the longest time, then one day it just started working with no G-Suite configuration changes.

I really dislike Google's push toward making hardware and services that aren't designed to be tools. I like tools. A tool is simple, having easy to predict input and output, with the ultimate goal of empowering humanity. There are applications of AI that are so powerful and self-contained that it makes sense to deploy it, but then you get the (admittedly really cool) Duplex stuff and its like they aren't even considering the ramifications on both the user and the business if it doesn't work.
Simply use Founder and highlight the role you’re applying for. Indeed, it all depends on what type of jobs you’re looking for. Being a one man band in your case would be impressive for an individual contributor. For example, an experienced developer. If you’re applying for roles such as manager or product manager, this experience may not cover the major required skills. Building a team, managing people, cross-functional team work, communication or even as simple as team player.

I would personally hire someone like you any day. Having a entrepreneurial spirit and a DIY attitude is awesome and rare in more established companies. It’s also a huge plus if you’re applying at startups.

So, to answer your question: “Founder - Lead Engineer” or “Founder - Product Manager” for example.
> Qualcomm's primary revenue stream is patent trolling

This is not fair. By describing Qualcomm as a patent troll, you dilute the meaning of this term. CDMA alone is a pretty huge development and has enabled lots of fantastic technology. Why shouldn't they be able to reap the rewards of their patent portfolio?

> How was this server business going to affect their patent license gravy train?

The two are mostly orthogonal. QCOM's facing three major challenges right now: (1) still reeling from a narrowly-averted LBO. (2) They're no longer getting some revenue while "renegotiating" its licensing agreements with heavy hitters like AAPL. (3) Their acquisition of NXP is in jeopardy as it's up to Chinese regulators and current geopolitics seem to be working against them.

Their big bets like server chips were a good hedge against smartphone market saturation but now QCOM wants to get leaner and more focused.
Confirming this. People from Qinghua University Group do whisper around that Qcomm has their man in Trump's advisor's panel and T is effectively lobbying for them.

That "China must buy more American microchips" was pretty much about a single company.
No love for U+2028?

(I slightly kid; that's the official Unicode "line separator". Never actually seen it in the wild, and not entirely sure how the Unicode consortium expected it to come into usage.)
I think user-replaceable batteries are designed for shorter life.

- Sent on my iPhone 6 (almost 4 years old); 95% battery health.
I don't know about the iPhone, but I'm still using a Nexus 7 from 2012 just fine. It runs Lollipop (released in 2014) and in my experience, most apps support it just fine, although I'm sure their developers hate me :)
Semaphores are great for creating simple read-write locks.
Show HN: Plainflow – simple behavior-based customer journeys for SaaS
“The sole reason one likes to write is insufficient...”

Interesting that they did not seem to want to attract people who just enjoy programming..
who else left for ARM-Server-Chips? so far many if not all ARM-server efforts fell apart.

it took a long while for xeon to get where it is today in the data center, maybe it is as hard as making Xeon run on cellphones comparing to getting ARM into Servers.
But do you know what that covers?

Coinbase supports wallets for USD...is it only USD wallets that are FDIC insured?
All I care about is to know if they fixed the horrible direct share issue that makes the share sheet unusable for couple of seconds everytime I share something.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/05/05/google-please-fix-a...
I's say that nobody really tried hard enough. All of them can make a true killer product. And Intel has little defence against defeat in details, other than "being Intel." Many, many niches are not being hold tight by Intel, and they can't spare resources to fight them all.
I think there are some measures you can use to say some aspects of society are more broken than in the past, for instance suicide[1].

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-su...
Where is the disconnect I wonder? Your old iPad I am sure runs software that is many more times more complex, more lines of code, and more intense than the ad tracking software on a browser. Will web assembly help here?
I haven't worked with microwave feeds, but from the war stories I have heard, not even IP is used but data is sent using whatever low level protocol (Ethernet or something similar) is used by the transport.

In fact the payload might be empty or mostly empty and data can be encoded in protocol fields (for example encoding symbol names in address fields as the link is otherwise point to point).
The rooting issue has been fixed, you can now deativate root after flashing LineageOS. There are also apps which hide the fact that you unlocked your bootloader.

As for the updates: This depends on the device. Check the list of supported devices and you'll see that there are quite a few with weekly updates.
- Curated a list of bugs/features/issues that are accessible to noobs as well as veterans

- Coordinated with project owners that wanted to be involved

- Setup a structure for mentoring and leadership on projects

- Broadcast the initiative

- Focused the project list on things that would build a "more healthy internet"
Glassdoor was valued at ~7X revenue [1], and was growing ~30% YoY [2].

This means they were doing ~$170M top-line, up from $130M in the year prior.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-09/japan-s-r...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-26/jobs-webs...
According to its proponents, Bitcoin is digital gold. (Interestingly it’s not an “electronic currency” anymore even though that was the original title of the 2008 whitepaper. I suppose Lightning Network or something is supposed to fix that with new transaction layers backed by the Bitcoin gold.)

One aspect of gold’s historical value is that it’s traditionally recognized even in societies in collapse. I’ve never understood how Bitcoin is supposed to hold its value in such an event — something on the scale of nuclear war, or Germany in 1945.

After an EMP wipes out data centers and cell phone towers, you can probably still bribe people with Krugerrands. Who’s going to accept Bitcoin transfers when the infrastructure is either gone or under military control?

Or is the idea that Bitcoin will be valuable again when the wealthy finally crawl out of their New Zealand bunkers and reestablish the financial system?
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you would be surprised how many apps include analytics and gather in app usage data.
> in the future people hoard currency

People hoard(ed) currency in the past and present as well
You changing your diet will not have that big of an impact, you're right. Just like your vote won't sway an election. In aggregate, these things matter. In the U.S., over 9% [1] of the population follows a vegetarian/vegan diet. That absolutely has an impact on how much beef/chicken/pork is produced.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country#Unite...
I should say, I think that highly contextualized events, like say, "YC founders", or "Xoogler Founders", etc are useful. I think because a) there's a shared context and more probably shared interests b) there's frankly more signal-to-noise ratio, i.e. more likely than not people are worth knowing there.

But the paradox here is that you already need to have the relevant background to join such groups.
* Your USD wallet at Coinbase is FDIC insured.
EU has mandatory insurance for €100k in savings accounts. Of course, there're all kinds of scams running all the time disguised as "investment saving accounts"...
CloudEvents, Multi-Cloud, and the Gloo Between Them
SOA & Micro Services are not the same. Services in 90s & 2000 are SOA in a monolith. They were not isolated all the way till databases. Micro Services by definition need to be isolated all the way.
And if a hovercraft is an array of size 331, then it should hold 331 eels.
Bitcoin seems to have already undergone a deflationary collapse. Its original goal of Internet money has been abandoned in favor of the concocted idea that it is a "store of value." Unfortunately it's a poor store of value since it requires a constant stream of electricity to maintain. Gold, land, and other traditional idle stores of value just sit there and are free to maintain with the exception of the cost of physical security. On top of this Bitcoin is fragile as it requires an operating Internet or at least operating computers. In the event of a severe stress or collapse scenario it will cease to exist, while gold and other assets will continue to be viable units of tradable value.

I still don't understand why significant deflation is a desirable characteristic for a currency. Mild deflation is tolerable unless the economy is experiencing hyper-growth like the early 20th century, but Bitcoin is more deflationary than gold. Strong economic arguments that I don't have time to type in can be made that an ideal currency (as a medium of exchange) is slightly inflationary (in the monetary base sense) to the degree that the economy as a whole is growing.

Edit: collapse you say? But its value has held up! But this is exactly what happens (for a while) in a deflationary collapse. The value of money skyrockets but its velocity tanks.

http://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-velocity/

Of course given all of Bitcoin's undesirable characteristics as a store of value I suspect that its value in USD/EUR/etc. will eventually tank as well. This might take a while unless something causes a panic since the market for BTC is slow and thinly traded.

IMHO all deflationary cryptocurrencies will undergo this kind of collapse.

Of course not all cryptocurrencies need be deflationary. Software defined money can be programmed to do anything you want it to do within the bounds of what is possible under e.g. the CAP theorem and other relevant concepts from distributed systems.

Cryptocurrency as a system is also inflationary in a whole-systems sense as new money can be created by forking a code base or creating a token on those coins (e.g. Ethereum) that support it. This argument holds as long as all these currencies are reasonably fungible without too much hassle. As it stands things like shapeshift.io make converting them fairly easy at least for the popular ones.
That’s a very Wittgensteinian view.
Basic Live Agent Implementation
This is a huge problem. Every single one of my iDevices outlasted their software updates. Yet, I can still install Linux on a 20 year old computer and it runs fine.
At what point are the miners/network considered the centralized institution?

Are corporations considered “decentralized institutions” in the world of bitcoin enthusiasts? After all corporations are made up of decentralized shareholders that can vote for and change the directors.

If that doesn’t fit...what about a credit union? Like bitcoin there are no “owners/shareholders” of credit unions they are simply comprised of members.
Yes but it's important to note that the FDIC insurance is only for your USD-denominated balance.

Your BTC (or all crypto?) balance is insured by Lloyd's. I assume this is only insured against thefts/failures of Coinbase's, so if your balance were stolen by attackers who had your Coinbase credentials I suspect your balance would not be covered. But this might be similar to your liability from normal online banking fraud/theft?

The fact that Coinbase pays those private insurance premiums makes them the no-brainer suggestion to people who are considering holding some BTC.
Small companies maybe, but larger companies seem to have different cultures depending on which department you work in and where. I worked in a satellite office of a company that was based aboot 200 miles away and our experiences were a lot different from each other.
Companies Have an Aha Moment: Bullies Don’t Make the Best Managers
That's in the context of writing the text, not of writing programs. So I'm not quite sure what your point is.
The one or both speakers could use a handshake noise at the start of the call to tell the receiver that it's capable of "speaking" a modem protocol. It might change a little every time, or be of an especially low or high frequency so that a person doesn't realize they're talking with a computer. After handshaking, the receiver could send a URL that would allow the channel to be upgraded to the Internet... or not. English is a good fallback if both people speak it and you can't find a more efficient channel.
Unless Apple surprises us with an iOS 5 update that includes a browser with web assembly - no, it won't help.

Either way, simply going to spiegel.de crashes (!) Safari in a 1st gen iPad. The Washington Post web page also would constantly get reloaded in my iPhone 4S.
melamine?! Jesus, that's what my dinnerware is made out of.
Neural interfacing is not that complicated. It's just a microcontroller with two of the GPIO pins connected to antenna nerves, at most $5 worth of hardware.
Apple always took location privacy seriously. I remember an interview between Steve Jobs and Walt Mossberg years ago on this subject. I looked it up again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39iKLwlUqBo
you mean the entire tcp stack and network to network communication?
> OS X and iOS developers are pretty fine with the OS tooling.

That's because they are "fine" with anything Apple does, I guess removing ports wasn't enough for them to see beyond their own stupidity.

OS X developers have to be the dumbest of them all, if Apple tells them to jump off a bridge they probably would too.

They are blind for a brand.
That's a shame, but understandable. I think plink does in fact pass raw escape sequences though, so I think that could be wrapped.
Microservice is a monolith. So what you're describing is essentially: I've got a few front-end microservices tied to 1 huge microservice I call the database.

There's no "data layer" that is managed outside the microservice. It _is_ a microservice.

That's one of the reasons Google uses a monorepo: any microservice can easily import a database instance and start using it as part of it's structure.
Some say the Earth is flat.
Those were speculative investments, not bank accounts. Nobody lost money in an FDIC insured account.

The comparison is also dubious for another reason: everyone who did even the tiniest bit of diligence knew the mortgage and derivative markets were in a huge bubble. Phrases like “liar loan” were common, they had to invent new ways to rate derivatives which didn’t meet the traditional standards, etc. but so many people were banking on the greater fool theory lasting long enough for them to cash out before it popped. All the crash proved was that the traditional banking standards were there for a reason and the people who never abandoned them were fine.

This is relevant in the Bitcoin discussion because we see the same dynamic where people who pay attention to the fundamentals are saying it’s a bubble and the get rich quick crowd is saying that the rules are completely different now because magic.
If you have the option to update to Android P and choose not to, you definitely miss out on the security updates in Android P, and possible updates to Android P afterwards.

The fact that many Android phones don't receive security updates is not relevant here.
Just a side question but related: Is there any good-and-new ML research/model/example for "Language detection"?

For example I have a conversation in both English/Russian and I want to segment the input according to each language then handle each language separately.
Even smarter: "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." I wish more people or "the industry" would take this advice. On the other hand what would be left to sell if everything were simple and reliable.
Companies can write nigh-any clause into their EULA or T&C and people generally have little recourse. There still seems to be enough wiggle room legally because they control the platform. Some places (think EU) fight this, but I don't think it's in any way settled at this point.

They've done this in the past in subtle ways - cautioning developers about using private API, which they reserve the right to change at any time, thus breaking applications. For a practical example, Google "Apple kext signing certificate". It's not simply a matter of paying $99 and off you go, the barrier to entry is higher.

There have also been no-so-subtle warnings - see Charlie Miller's blacklisting - that even a proof of concept for a bug is not allowed because it could get out in the open and cause widespread damage.

> We got that with the DMCA and DRM modules, phone unlocking, and console rooting.

Record labels had little choice and needed to ditch these restrictions in order to have a viable business. TV studios, cellular providers, and console makers fight to this day to preserve these limits as a means of competitive differentiation.

I'm not saying I agree with it, but that is still largely the reality we have to deal with.
I don't see the FDA being disassembled anytime soon. Hopefully.
Awesome piece of content.
> Large underclass, big welfare spending.

I don't know what the comparable figures in Berlin are, but in Silicon Valley, about 11% live in poverty.

"About 11.3 percent of Bay Area residents are living at or below the poverty level, according to the report, “Poverty in the Bay Area,” that was released by the Joint Venture Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies. The data reflects levels reached in 2013, the most recent year for which these statistics are available."

https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/04/01/poverty-rates-near-re...
That's because - and everyone but the uninformed or idealists know this - it's an investment product. It's simply not suitable as a currency, because one, inflation / instability, and two, it can only do what, a dozen transactions a second, if that? That's not nearly enough to become a viable currency.
Salads are profitable for QSRs in a broader sense -- they're loss leaders.

QSRs are happy when the customer comes in to buy a $5.59 salad that costs them $5.85 to make, because the customer also usually buys another product that has great margin, e.g., a $1.79 drink that costs the restaurant $0.20.
"...So what does this mean? The long and short of it is that microservices are an SOA variation for container and cloud computing..."

I do not agree with this at all. I think one of the biggest problems microservices face is the over-application of pre-existing paradigms. The failures I see are big object models, large frameworks, dependency on shared resources, complexity in the service, and so forth -- all signs of 90s and 00s thinking moving over to microservices.

I agree that everything old is new again. I'd suggest you need to go back further. Good microservices, in my opinion, are not only loosely coupled, any sort of coupling at all is provided by the OS, nothing else. So you'd need to go back to JCL days to find a good analogy for microservices. Trying to stick these other concepts into the microservices bucket looks like a non-starter to me.
> Mark my words, Berlin will be Europe's Silicon Valley within a few years.

Reminds me of this classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e22vY4CWpEI
Does anybody know what happened to Windy Apple Technologies? They promised the lowest latency microwave connection from NY to Chicago, then promptly disappeared...
Indeed. The stockholm syndrome of Keynesianism is pervasive and unnoticed by many. The correct response to erosion of value is hoarding.
$10B at what point in time?
> I guess I'm being subsidized particularly by all the families whose kids insist on sodas.

Bingo
Where is Sanskrit!!!?
And you think this bank (re: the article) falls outside of those? You won't be able to get your btc out quickly in this one either. Same with online exchanges for that matter.

They also have much lower transaction fees.
Czech Republic sort of has a reason for that.

They got ripped off after the cold war/ the wall fell - most of the countrys assets (land/buildings) beeing sold of to western investors for cheap.

Ironically that is what makes them so good at tech now- if all you got is your head and your skils and no investments to sit on, that blad will be sharp.
I understand what you say, and I agree for the most part, but it really seems impossible that a two-hour car journey emits more than manufacturing a smartphone...

I mean, building a smartphone involves digging for raw materials, extract them, transport them, assemble them, etc. And i'm not counting the emission during the design process.

I know that a two-hour car journey is really not optimized, and that manufacturing phones on a large scale is very optimized, but it seems impossible to me that manufacturing a phone in China from components from all over the world emits less that a good big steak in a restaurant... I that's true, that's incredible.
Explain China then.

Apple is being hypocritical in this case. Giving in to the demands of government when it hurts their business ( if it did take privacy as seriously as HN makes it out to be, they would take a stand in China) while advocating privacy in Western world.