skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You (and I) are one of the lucky few who live in area with gigabit internet. The average speed is 55Mbps (https://broadbandnow.com/report/2018-fcc-international-data-...).

But the price of cellular data has come way down. For instance when the iPad was first introduced, it was only available in the US on AT&T and was $25 for 2Gb of data per month. Now I'm paying an extra $20 a month on T-mobile for unlimited data for my iPad.

The cellular iPad wasn't even worth it for me until I could get unlimited data for $20. For that amount the extra convenience of not having to tether and basically having a second phone is worth it since you can get and receive regular phone calls to your paired cell number from an iPad even if your phone is dead.
Can you explain how a salary can come out below minimal wage? Isn't the point of the minimum that it's that, a minimum?
Uber Self-Driving Car That Killed Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency
I think the funnier thing about our Air Force is that their logo is a flightless bird inside a bulls-eye...
Your anecdote is valid, but there are A LOT of PDA's out there. Many of them have a grid of icons layout. For instance, consider the Sharp PDA's GUI -- it's a grid of rectangular icons broken up into pages (albeit with named tabs).

That being said, there may be something unique to Apple's patent, but on its face, "grid of icons" as a UI pattern predates the iPhone considerably.
I went through a similar transition. There is much less friction editing a quick post in markdown with Jekyll than with the heavy wordpress UI, much happier with that setup.
That's a bad way to put things. You can disagree with the outcome of the 2016 election, but it was a _feature_ not a _bug_ of the system the US has in place. The voters who got their way are equal in their right to their preference as you are to yours.
As an engineer, with as much else is going on on a day to day basis it's not surprising. A lot of the vagueness around the GDPR still hasn't been resolved, nobody wanted to get a head start just to be told "oops, we actually meant this" and have wasted countless engineering/lawyer hours as a result.
From the article:

It is common for developers to disable built-in vehicle features such as automatic braking to avoid multiple systems issuing conflicting commands, said Raj Rajkumar, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who founded and later sold an autonomous-car software startup.

The problem with Uber’s approach, he said, is the company didn’t replace Volvo’s system with its own automatic emergency braking. Instead, Uber relied on the safety operator, who was seemingly distracted and didn’t receive a warning to brake or swerve, he said.
Just wondering how is engineering stack at Twitter now? Is it still bandaging things like everyone is talking about here (in Rails days) or they have matured to good engineering practices. Interested, as I was considering applying for engineering job there.
The reason is that large firms are legally obligated to make sure that insiders aren't exfiltrating protected or confidential information.

If it makes people feel better about this, the same countermeasures also help with the case "Adversary pops any laptop in the company via e.g. phishing or malware and then pivots to All The Things." i.e. you don't need to posit non-trust of employees to want to implement continuous monitoring of work equipment.
This library is great, although I don't understand your frustration. An interactive mockup library with broken interaction is a bug, no?
It's not really his first product, Andy has a ton of experience with all the generations of Sidekicks + Android partnerships(one could argue the G1 was almost a spiritual Sidekick hardware wise).

I wonder if it might be time for him to branch out into a new domain, I feel like there may just be too much common ground that's already been covered before.
An incredibly terrible one.
Really? "effective" = large amount, so company won't do it again, "proportionate" = relative to revenue, "dissuasive" = make them an example so no one else will dare.

I bet you are going to tell me proportionate somehow makes it all better, but for companies that make money this way, the amount of money they make this way in proportion to their income is basically all of it.

So you can bet regulators will go for the full amount.

No company in their right mind is going to rely on the mercy of an EU court toward a non-EU company.
Heh, Facebook has(had?) a similar clause which pretty much drove the photography community away to Flickr and the like.
Close call? Seriously? GKE is a GA, production, supported platform, Azure is still far behind at the moment, in Preview with no declared planned GA date on the roadmap.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/roadmap/?query=container+s...
Once you've experienced it, it's hard to go back to a phone that doesn't have it.
Also on Firefox (in Debian). It's not exactly that the slider starts at zero. It's that, when you grab it, the starting position becomes a pointer offset. You can set it wherever you like, accounting for the offset. It reminds me of capture failure in VMs.
I think this is a classic case of someone using a term informally [me] being questioned by someone who wants to use a term formally, and exclusively so [you].

Unfortunately, language often doesn't work like that.

I'm using the term informally.
well then, frankly, that’s not good enough.
Lonnie Johnson’s Mysterious 12 String
> Yeah a genius isn't always motivated by the same success metrics are normal people sometimes they just want to make something amazing even if they know it's a one off because it's not just business it's art.

Are you calling Andy Rubin a "genius?" I'm familiar with his career, but I'm not familiar with any evidence he is a genius. Care to elaborate? And this is not a dig at him, I just don't perceive him to be a genius.
Hrmm. Many Americans see something like the GDPR as protectionist often because we can't understand the culture behind such legislation. I wonder if that's what someone in Korea or elsewhere would think here. An American, echoing similar arguments, might say that the patents apply to everyone equally, but that doesn't change the fact that it appears from the outside like a legal absurdity. Just something that crossed my mind in today's context.
You seem to be ignoring the status quo. I only need to prove it better than the current system, you need to prove that the current system is better. Those families and businesses that start from nothing still need money. Just that currently the money they do get is going to be worth less in the future.
Feature Phones are still a thing. You can still get such a thing.

https://www.verizonwireless.com/basic-phones/

There's a whole bunch of phones that do basically what you're looking for.
I used my computer. But it's entirely possible to type while blind on the iPhone using Voiceover, though I admit I'm rather slow. If I have to send an email on the phone, I usually use TTS, then go through it one character at a time to correct formatting using Voiceover.
Never pan out? Doesn't seem that way to me. Everything hasn't panned out but what has been achieved is quite astounding and far beyond what I or many others expected years ago.

It's also quite nutty to single out Elon for crony capitalism and never mention the dozens of far richer people and larger companies that have a longer history of taking more money from the state and delivering far less. Elon is a bargain compared to old aerospace, defense, federal IT, and other contractors.

IMHO the hatred for Elon comes in part from exactly those quarters. He's actually delivering something, which threatens those who take tons of taxpayer money and do not.
To establish a new brand, you must offer something new. Essential phone had nothing new and had a number of drawbacks compared to its peers. Oh and it was priced like Samsung's new flagships.
I can configure how long that delay should be. IIRC it's int he display/lockscreen menu.
I don't like it tho, as I much prefer the device to be locked when I tell it to, so I won't have to care anymore. The fingerprint scanner on the back makes the unlocking trivial though.
Why Can't Modern "Journalism" Go A Day Without Divisive Content?
While I share your skepticism, there's is pretty solid evidence that strong white/blue light is effective in treating seasonal affective disorder, a type of depression:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder#Ma...
ill also sell this one i just strated: 10K

http://freepickle.com
On the flip-side, Australia ran invade NZ commercials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUYbI64QHI

albeit tongue in cheek!

(Potentially where the no army/navy/air force myth came from?)
Which parts of GDPR do you think you're in violation of?

Answering those questions in a public forum would be extremely foolish. ("Do you know why I pulled you over?")

A lot of other companies have navigated the changes to the law without significant changes to their service or privacy policy

And how many of them are actually in compliance?
It may be illegal anti-competitive behavior.
“The evidence on processed meat and cancer is clear-cut. The data show that no level of intake can confidently be associated with a lack of risk. Processed meats are often high in salt, which can also increase the risk of high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease”
– Professor Martin Wiseman, World Cancer Research Fund International’s Medical and Scientific Adviser

This Recommendation is not to completely avoid eating meat. Meat can be a valuable source of nutrients, in particular protein, iron, zinc and vitamin B12. However, eating meat is not an essential part of a healthy diet. People who choose to eat meat-free diets can obtain adequate amounts of these nutrients through careful food selection.

from the source
I think west island means australia
The Flynn Effect in Britain, Kenya, and Dominica:

Black IQ Gains in Britain, Kenya and Dominica

https://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/black-iq-gain...

Eyeferth Study -- Children of Black American servicemen in Germany had the same average IQ as German children:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyferth_study

Thomas Sowell's survey of the work of Arthur Jensen and others. Basically, the patterns around the Flynn Effect are everywhere, and it shows up in Black populations as well. There is also a mention of a study of Black children raised by white families, which found the average IQ of that population to be 106.

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/27/archives/new-light-on-bla...
It's actually related to where the slider control is located relative to the page. Chrome and Firefox return different coordinates for SVG node bounds when the node is transformed. Need to find an alternate calculation that works on all browsers. https://github.com/wiredjs/wired-slider/issues/3
Osaka probably isn't a good representation of the rest of Japan's public transport and I can see why it wouldn't leave an impression. Particularly if you catch the slow JR between KIX and Namba. Osaka-jin are typically more laid-back and could perhaps even be considered 'disorderly' compared to the norm - they like to stand on the right side of escalators, but the entire rest of Japan stands on the left. This leaves an initial bad impression in Kyoto central station, where you have many people arrive from Osaka and you end up with people stood on both sides of the escalators. As soon as you leave this area of the central station though, the rest of Kyoto's transport system is super efficient, even during the busiest times. I find it better than Tokyo's, although it's obviously not quite as busy. I think my impression might be slightly biased because of how much a lifesaver the aircon is in Kyoto stations during the dog days.

I think the biggest difference between Japan's train system and elsewhere is less to do with the facilities than it is to do with the people. In Japan people don't push, they queue up in straight lines and wait orderly. The system works because people don't try to game it. In stations in China, the reverse is true. If you just waited in line you would never get anywhere because there will always be someone who'll push in front of you. There's no way Japan's system would transfer over well into this culture.
Pretentious shopping is not a new phenomenon: see the Magnificent Mile. But yes, there is a tech cluster starting to appear in the West Loop (not to be confused with the much larger poor Hispanic West Side).
It is not nearly identical as did the Supreme court find.
These patents are 10 steps back in the direction of inmovation and fair market competition; 10 steps forward in the direction of market monopoly.
Let others to copy, educate the consumer, but leave the consumer to make the decision what to buy not some judge in California.
> Does this lead to some occurrence such as a mass extinction or something of that nature?

I have no doubt there will be dozens of astrology videos about this on YouTube within a few days.
Show HN: Crypto trading game
Would TVD help?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_variation_diminishing
tl;dr: It's a crypto trading game. It has coins, bots, and more. Yay, feedback!

More details:

I don't know about you, but personally, I've found myself doing more CPU/GPU mining than actually trading or even buying crypto.

And one day I may push through the minimum mining payout threshold on XMR (and I've spent way more on electricity, GPUs, and Xeon upgrades than I'm likely to get back, well, ever), but...

I've also talked to a lot of people who want to get into trading/investing in crypto, but really don't know where to even get started.

On the other hand, maybe you have a friend like mine, who kept posting months ago on Facebook about what he was HODLing, and now he's posting about where he's traveling. "Wheels down in <exotic locale>..." I'm happy for him, really (it helps that he's actually a really nice guy).

Raging jealousy and FOMO aside, I have been looking at getting more involved in cryptocurrencies.

I wanted a simulated trading app.

A lot of stock trading firms have simulated trading, but I didn't find anything for crypto. It may be out there, but I didn't find it.

So, I set up a simulated trading game. It's got coins, ICO's, bots, stories behind the coins, live quotes, etc.

Orders are at market, and there's a maker fee. You start with 1000 coins in a base currency, figure out what to invest in/trade, and away we go.

Right now, it's SaaS -- I've tested it on Chrome, FireFox, IE Edge, and Safari. (Full disclosure, I'm full stack, but better at backend than frontend, so I'll recommend going with Chrome) Mobile is coming...

More info: https://nxtmtn.com
Try it: https://coin.nxtmtn.com

Thank you in advance for any feedback!

JR
The slow and painful death of a developer
If you want stock android, try Android One phones.

I have Xiaomi Mi A1, which is Android One, and it's amazing.

HTC is selling one too, I think. Motorola also maybe

Android One are stock Android phones, and I get updates once a month more or less. It actually delivers on its premise

Also, I think Elemental phone or whatever was the name had stock Android
'Whistleblower' taped to chair and gagged
It's not anybody's fault. Everything is working exactly as it is supposed to do. Except for the leaky abstraction of a "pty".

I wish there would be a better world than people constantly fighting for their terminal, TERM, terminfo, termcap, curses, tty, ...
I somehow got a hunch that the recent overfunding trend made startups as inefficient as large companies are, so there's not much incentive left for acquisitions if you can simply copy it in-house for much less.
That's a really good point, I
never thought of that
This phone cost about the same when it first launched.
So this is what poe’s law looks like.
That's because it does. You're competing with other OEMs that all have razor thin margins.
Agreed. I should note I am too young to remember much before 9/11; I just remember the attitude shift at the time.
> He added: "I am sure they meant no harm and that was the boys just being boys."
Because I myself went through many of them while I was starting out, but I still faced a ton of questions that I didn't understand. I've tried to address most of them in this post.
Apart from the how's, I've tried my best to answer the why's.
Yeah, I think our thinking is pretty similar. I think OOP is very natural fit for thinking about lots of things, and I think there are some great ideas that have come out of the functional paradigm. I still prefer to use a language that has OO organizational structures, but I definitely feel some pain if I can't have first class functions. I also value the idea of functional purity and whenever possible I'll write my functions so they're pure—but I don't adhere super strictly unless in a part of the program that critically needs it. Same with immutability.
I don't understand, isn't that how trains work everywhere? Otherwise how are the people in the next city supposed to know when they need to be there to board that train?
But I don't use that function on my phone. And it's not the main purpose of the device. And it's been around longer than Alexa. That's my point. Not the same thing.
I've built something similar just the other day. But the purpose is to find items on sale below a price point.
Yeah, that's pretty much me. I don't do it to pamper my phone. It's that I find all of those situations uncomfortable otherwise. However, I still do feel that people who behave callously in those situations are exhibiting: "This is why we can't have nice things."
Ctrl+D has a learning curve because its default meaning (i.e. when you're not messing with termios) is quite surprising. From `man tcsetattr`:

> VEOF (004, EOT, Ctrl-D): End-of-file character (EOF). More precisely: this character causes the pending tty buffer to be sent to the waiting user program without waiting for end-of-line. If it is the first character of the line, the read(2) in the user program returns 0, which signifies end-of-file. Recognized when ICANON is set, and then not passed as input.

In other words, most programs that exit upon Ctrl+D never see the Ctrl+D, they see an empty result from read() on stdin and interpret that as end-of-file. However, that only works when the tty buffer is empty. Try this: On a Unix shell, run `cat`, type something without pressing Enter, then press Ctrl-D instead.
You know we are talking about design patents. In which case Apple's patent is completely legitimate since the home screen remains unique to this very day.

And Apple never patented a grid of icons.
In the early days of Twitter the "fail whale" was so common it got assimilated into culture as a term to use for anytime any site gets overloaded. Nowadays it seems like that term is "hugged to death"

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...
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I live in a metropolitan area that has creeks feeding a river that flows through the city. I see coyotes regularly. Its an interesting thing seeing wild life in urban areas.
Roblimo, thank you for being a huge part of my introduction to geek culture. RIP
Nice project. However, I think Chrome is what people are talking about when they say Electron in heavy, not node. I have built apps with CEF and they are not really any lighter weight. You still have multiple processes of Chrome that are memory hogs. It's not like Electron's Chrome build has much more than CEF's.
This is a design patent.

Does that look like an iPhone home screen ?
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