skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like it's a cultural thing. "Designed by Apple in California" where you just drive to work so a bigger phone is only a benefit (larger battery, easier-to-read text when you're using the phone). But in NYC, small is a huge benefit, and it's a shame that the transit-deprived West Coast tech companies don't understand our use case here.

Ahh, you nailed it and I've bitten my metaphorical tongue to avoid saying loudly: the damned mobile phone ecosystem is designed and tested by people in giant suburban, car environments like California. Not subway takers. Not pedestrians. The giant two-handed phone design obviously is torture on a subway. With navigation buttons even Andre the Giant would have had trouble reaching.

You know what else, though, shows the bias? Apps that think they're always connected to data. Even Spotify, with its glorious offline ability to play music, hangs stupidly in its main home screens (the one that has the we-made-this-for-you playlists). Other video playing apps with no real caching or notification or awareness to the user when there's no data.

There are many examples of blind spinning waiting type hanging behavior, as if no one can fathom using a phone during a commute that isn't in a car (or a red yellow and green type of bus?)
Google Talk to Books: what is the purpose of painting?
Winamp was my fav after AcidTracker.

Warez/demoscene apps were usually awesome with badass visuals and music.
Is there an equivalent for tiny bytecode programs?

The general list of tricks seem focused on either reusing code-data by just finding some byte/nibble you need in the code or finding op-codes that happen to accomplish multi-op-code effects.

I'd like to what you could get with self-modifying code. But naturally on 80x86, that's suicide since the code very, very heavily cached.
It's interesting that x86 is making inroads into mobile, yes.
FlowDock is/was the best of the chat apps pre-Slack due to threading, search and tagging that worked. HipChat/Campfire were scrolling hell.
It’s most often not features I want change but features I want to have in the first place: Proper PWAs, NFC, wireless charging (things Android has for an while now). Self signed apps.
There are a couple of complications regarding a wireless truly split keyboard. As you correctly assumed, the wireless communication between the halves and having separate batteries would complicate things very much and make the design more expensive.

I doubt that it'd be possible to offer a wireless UHK under $300 if we insisted to our current features and quality standards. The market is limited, it's a huge R&D effort for a small company, and a large company couldn't care less for a niche product like this.
Regardless of whether you like the keyboard or not (or have no opinion), I strongly recommend you check out their blog: https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/blog

They gave a very thorough overview of the (many, many) challenges involved with "kickstarting" a hardware product - and how they overcame them (from issues with banks to FFC and CE certification). It's a great source of knowledge for anyone who considers doing the same.

Laci also did an AMA on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3tkyme/iama_l%C3%A1sz...
How the Weather Channel Creates Stunning Hurricane Florence Visuals
I feel like stabbing is usually a criminal act.
I became a nomad on our 4-person team because of visa issues. It resulted in our company optimizing to be remote-first, and now post-visa-issues we're still all remote.

No question about it, the best part of being an all-remote team are the days when we get together to cowork in person, and it can't happen regularly enough. Funny how that works.
He should probably change it before then
I think mobile phones have browser cache too.
I'm curious why the downvotes. To be clear, I searched through some microsoft financial info to try to figure out what app store revenue is, but I couldn't find the number. It's very genuine curiosity.
It also depends on your personality; some of us don't really get lonely, even with a bare minimum of social interaction (I can't say I've ever tried full isolation).
Great find! Didn't even remember of talking about this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17954823
It's more like if there was a communist revolution in the US followed by a civil war, with the anti-communists ending up holding Texas or California and establishing their own government there. The Chinese Communist Party has never ruled Taiwan, and Taiwan hasn't officially seceded.
... it was just US equipment with a different coat of paint
Does that demand exist at a scale that makes sense for a $1T company with many rapidly-growing product lines and high product margin expectations, though?
This is retarded. Lawn mowers can't remove obstacles, you're supposed to remove them yourself before mowing.
Or is grass the metaphorical obstacle?
The Lifetime of the Universe (2005)
I actually had some trouble finding it, but I had strong memory of reading the answer to the wireless question in the past, since I wondered the same.

Have you considered adding it to the FAQ? I feel this is a thing many are curious about.
Puerto Rico was listed separately from the United States, and it's clearly not a political statement. I think Apple is safe here. Apple should turn this around and say China is showing its ignorance on US sovereignty over Puerto Rico :p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY3ZVmkAKyM

There's shit for everyone. That's not the point.
I liked it well enough until keycaps started sticking to my fingers and falling out while I was typing. I think the overheating weakens the tiny and fragile plastic hooks. Also, some keys get stuck or repeat letters but I got used to it.
Yeah, I can just about manage a 7 one-handed. But definitely couldn’t go bigger. Not a fan of the big phone thing at all. It’s not just a problem on the train, either; a one-handed phone is also useful while walking.
Start with this for the obvious ones seen in Apple's products: https://www.cultofmac.com/188753/the-braun-products-that-ins...

The Design Museum has a better background of his career. You should be able to spot a few more borrowed ones, and not just by Apple. https://designmuseum.org/designers/dieter-rams
> You can reuse a successful core design like the Pentium 4 and adapt it to a modern 14nm or 10nm process

The Pentium 4 is not a technical success. It was an inflexible hot rod with a compromised architecture driven by marketing. That is why its architecture was abandoned.

The 486 started out on a 1000nm process. Shrinking it to a modern process and enhancing it with modern goodies like a larger cache is comparatively easy.
That's just bullshit there are always phones getting late support for newer releases sometimes even over 1 1/2 year later. Don't spread lies like this.
It's buried but my IDE has a similar feature.

I meant support for running systems, not local development.
I adopted a dog when I was married, and now that I’m divorced, when my son is with me and asleep for the night, I can’t just leave him alone in the apartment and go for a walk. I use Wag for those nights, and it’s great.

Hell, I’m out of town right now and needed a sitter for my dog. Opened the wag app and within 10 min had someone scheduled (and insured) to watch my dog for 5 days.
We're looking into that. Thanks for being really helpful about it.
It would be even more pleasing if "API" were dropped in favour of "protocol".
> But I'm sure they'll re-introduce a revolutionary new fingerprint scanner soon enough.

I doubt it. Having to use TouchId or enter my code on my non-X devices feels archaic now. FaceId works so well on my X, I often forge the device locks at all. I'm ready to buy a new iPad when it finally gets added.
Nomad != remote.
It’s extremely common in Japan. Literally everywhere.

Never seen it in the UK.
I’m offended that you didn’t wait 3 more months before being offended!

(Kidding, and congrats on the child)
Nvidia Turing Architecture White Paper. [pdf]
Completely agree on the charting percentage, and the options chains.

Thanks for the feedback on the font and news line. For the news line, do you mean that you'd prefer more text to show up in the news section?
Some tunings I would like:

5 string bass: BEADG
Baritone guitar: BEADF#B (2.5 steps down)
Baritone drop A: AEADF#B (like drop D, tuned 2.5 steps down)

Would be neat if you could just select a standard tuning and then have a spinbox to say how many steps up or down to modify it. Makes lots of combinations available.

Thanks for the tool!
> Lawnmower parents go to whatever lengths necessary to prevent their child from having to face adversity, struggle, or failure.

This is pretty much exactly what the term “helicopter parent” refers to, so this just seems to be inventing a new word for a phenomenon which has been well-known and widely complained about—with its own special term—since the 1980s.
My phone is permanently on silent mode, and I have revoked push notifications for almost every social media app. No distractions during work day at all.
Would it be legal to release an encrypted archive and then release the key after 6 years (or whatever the statue of limitations for patent infringement/copyright is)?
Get the battery checked and replaced if needed. Then install iOS 12 in a few days.
There aren’t many (any?) Android phones the size of the SE with remotely acceptable specs.
Rails are a lot of infrastructure to install and maintain. People complain that sticking down magnetic tape is a pain in the butt.
I’m looking at a list of permissions here:

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacy/blob/master/README.md

Most of these permissions either require individual consent after you run the app (and can be revoked in settings) or aren’t allowed under any circumstances.

The exceptions I see are:

Clipboard

Internet access (you can block cellular internet access on iOS and 3rd party keyboards can be blocked from allowing any network access)

Prevent links from opening in a view - depending on which type of web view that an app uses, the native content blocking framework that third party ad blockers use for Safari also work in the WebView. For instance, the ad blocker I have installed works with Feedly - my RSS reader.

The only sensor I think that can be blocked is the GPS.
At least it's not /r/os
I remember using Google Finance in one of my business classes in High School. I haven't checked on it since, but I didn't know that Google would kill something that was definitely promising.
I have similar problems, but experimentation suggests that gloves can easily be too tight, esp. at the wrist, and that interferes with circulation. I pretty much always buy XXL gloves now.
What if I want to have google services?

While it's awesome you're building a competing infrastructure, it's dead in the water (at least to me) if it doesn't integrate with what I have already.
All of the above, and some you've never heard of before.
Or they threw the radio out to save weight.
The issue is there isn't really a second dimension there -- it's all value that can be measured in money. There is a number of dollars at which it actually does make sense to log the forest. The problem is that the government allows it happen for much less than that amount.

Setting explicit prices may help in theory, but there are two major problems. The first is that the price is inherently subjective. There are no market transactions to look at to see what "forest continues to exist" is currently trading for. It's the existing state and self-perpetuates without anybody having to do or pay anything until such time as someone actively expends resources to change it. So at best you're speculating, and choosing the wrong value -- whether too low or too high -- is costly. Too low and we haven't solved the existing problem, too high and we can't have a transportation system because no one can mine steel to build trains or cars or ships. So accuracy matters, but accuracy is expensive. Getting the valuation right is a detail-oriented labor-intensive process.

And in theory we already have this. It's supposed to be the job of our representatives in the legislature to do this. Which brings us to the second problem, which is that because the value is subjective, we still have the collective action problem. The logging company lobbies to have the value of the forest set low, the diffuse general public doesn't strongly object, and we're back to square one.

One of the strong options to solve at least some of this is to require all budgetary issues to be put up for public referendum. Not just "entire government budget, yea or nay" but at the line item level. The government proposes to sell the forest to the logging company for ten million dollars, yea or nay? Then the public votes nay and the legislature has to come up with the money some other way.

Naturally that isn't very popular with lobbyists because then the public tends to vote down the harmful but politically expedient revenue generation methods, so there is always strong lobbying pressure not to do things like that, and we're back to the collective action problem. It also has the general direct democracy problem of people not having enough time to evaluate issues carefully, but in principle there shouldn't have to be that many different or complex revenue generation methods. The existing tax code is unnecessarily complex and people could plausibly make time to understand a much simpler one -- which would also remove a large number of the existing harmful carve outs for groups with strong lobbyists.
It takes 48 seconds to view an Oracle blog post
Obviously it is for Apple to decide who Apple's customers are. It is just really sad to have something that works so well for me that no longer exists.

I won't buy a large phone, which in 2011 meant I could buy the best phone on the market and in 2018 means I'm facing a future with some phone that just doesn't match a 2011 iPhone in looks, style and maybe even functionality and objective quality.

I'm sure they have great reasons, but it is very tempting to wave a fist in the sky and yell "why do they have to keep changing things?". The Apple ecosystem was great for me, and now I'm being forced out. It is like watching open source projects try to nuke themselves out of existence with the Big Trendy Rewrite; except Apple is wildly profitable and successful.
I thought the same thing, but in another article about "lawnmower parents", "helicopter parent" is defined as parents who rush to help their child when he/she encounters an obstacle. I guess the idea of "lawnmower parents" is that they do the work upfront so the kid never even knew there was an obstacle.

In any case, I tend to agree with you, looks like the same thing.
Other comments have mentioned culture, individualism, etc. The society as a whole expects you to portray freedom and success. Financial, responsibility, mobility, and we're pretty selfish even to our family. I'd say, yes living with your parents as an adult is a negative stereotype, there's a stigma to it deep enough that most people just WANT to leave the nest. They also want freedom from their parents/rules/etc so they really just build an urge to leave the home through their teen years. I personally feel like american teens have a ton of rules and limitations. Not sure how it compares to other cultures, but I feel it's getting worse in the US and fear is a big driver IMO.

Parents can be rather selfish too, most can't wait until their kids turn 18 and leave the house. The want to live alone too. We like our personal space. It's common complaint for us Americans when non-USer's stand too close to us or otherwise invade our space. This is a common issue we encounter when standing in line at a store and the other patrons get too close to us. It makes us very uncomfortable and irritated. (This is a generalization of course, but I've had this conversation with dozens of people... it's a thing).
Anyone using Austin, San Antonio, and DFW as examples of "less zoning" is making a severe error in fact.
The problem is that moment didn’t include locales as a default at one point, and then suddenly it did. And it’s the kind of thing you don’t want to do module splitting on, date functions can be used in all sorts of places so it’s really a core lib
> marketing

Ah, yes, that would indeed explain. And it certainly agrees with the accounts I've heard about my employer's Marketing department's abject stupidity.
I need Moment because Date.parse does not do the same thing in Safari as it does in Chrome
Would the opportunity come up? Palestine's GDP is $12B, Taiwan's is $1.1T.
Isn't this the point?
He is corroborating and elaborating. All agreement. The example fits the thesis.
So far I've been able to avoid that by only looking at chunks of the datasets. Can you give me some keyworks for what to look for/point me in the generally right direction? (I dread the day my supervisor wants to look at all the data at once.)
My only real effort in this direction was a 64-byte MS-DOS .COM file that draws colored circles on the screen:

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/morecircles.s

00000000: b013 cd10 c42f 89e8 f72e 0000 89c5 31c6 ...../........1.
00000010: 31d2 89c1 31db 88f7 89df c1fb 0201 df89 1...1...........
00000020: c3c1 fb08 01df 01f7 5b26 883d 4353 89c3 ........[&.=CS..
00000030: c1fb 0401 da89 d3c1 fb04 29d8 e2d6 ebc6 ..........).....

There's a lot to learn from tiny demos like the ones (I didn't write) dissected in http://canonical.org/~kragen/demo.

Oh, I also wrote a Linux HTTP server in assembly with an executable under 2000 bytes: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s with some explanation in http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme. I use it occasionally for testing stuff, since it's slightly less hassle than using python -m SimpleHTTPServer. Previous HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6908064

The demoscene diskmag "hugi" did a series of sizecoding competitions in 1998–2009, with truly astounding results. http://www.hugi.scene.org/compo/hcompo.htm Highlights include a working textmode Pong game in 142 bytes, a Brainfuck interpreter in 98 bytes, a Snake game in 48 bytes, and a perfect Tic-Tac-Toe player in 213 bytes.

The 8086 is a reasonable design for this kind of nonsense, since it's full of shortcuts and special cases that you can take advantage of. IBNIZ is an architecture really optimized for it, though: http://pelulamu.net/ibniz/ and in practice I often find that I can get things smaller with ARM Thumb-2 code than with the 8086. For example, https://github.com/kragen/dumpulse is about 350 bytes of code on most architectures, but just over 200 bytes on a big-endian ARM.
For the love of all that is holy give me back my scroll on your website. https://e.foundation/ I thought we got rid of this scrolljacking nightmare.
If I may, I'd like to offer a different perspective.

In my job as a prosecutor, something I see over and over again is juries wanting to believe the defendant, even when their story isn't credible. If you have a likeable defendant and there's any doubt, reasonable or not, juries will acquit.

So when the little old lady government worker who could be your grandmother says that she was just doing what she thought she was supposed to and golly gee she doesn't understand this whiz-bang computer stuff ("They keep talking about digital evidence, and I just feel hopeless putting up my defense... I don't even know what digital evidence is!")... it's very hard to convince a jury it was intentional.

Shredding paper ballots is a lot more of a compelling narrative to put in front of a panel.
Few people in America pay full price for the phone. All of the carriers offer zero percent interest payment plans as does Apple. Yes I know it’s paying the full price but psychologically, most people only care about the monthly amount.
I just visited the Midway in San Diego this spring. The ship has been turned into a museum, and the Bird Dog is one of the first exhibits you can see. It’s an amazing vessel, with lots of awesome and terrible stories to tell. Veteran crew are always aboard to answer questions about the ship and their service. HNers might especially like the CIC and other information handling rooms — they’re configured like they were during Operation Desert Storm.
Is the Universe a Simulation? Scientists Debate (2016)
I wonder how much about remote work also applies to remote school, i.e., online education. The boredom and loneliness of trying to get something like a college degree remotely must be staggering.
How does that differ from a city street with multiple lanes?
People were saying the exact same thing about the 2012 MacBook Pro after the Retina came out.
> 10% of that market -- 8 million dogs in need of walking every day

Although 10% may, ultimately, be a good estimate, it's a bit misleading to equate all owned dogs to the whole "market".

At the very least, you'd want to exclude rural dogs, who, presumably, have plenty of outdoor access. Probably pro-rating this for some definitions of "suburban" would make sense, too.

I'm not sure how multi-dog households would work in terms of pricing for a dog-walking service, if an owner wanted them all walked at once, but it seems better to count dog-owning households rather than dogs.

Most importantly (and this could obviate the need for any of the other filtering), the real market is only those owners who can afford to pay $20-$30 for a walk. Of those 80 million dogs, how many are owned by people who can afford an extra $2k-$11k/yr on top of basic pet care expenses (<$1k/yr)?
Any keyboard can do it, it's just a software thing. Mac even supports switching the Caps lock to escape in the system preferences.
How many state subsidies went to DJI?
Not gonna ask. Nope. Not gonna.
Not on a moving/bobbing/weaving/zigging/zagging carrier, but here's Alaskans doing what they do best... taking off and landing in ~3m / 10 ft.

https://youtu.be/f7u1jzjFL8s

And here's a "helicopter" plane that plants it in 0 ft... doesn't even need a runway. :D

https://youtu.be/HJJI3kPZ0-I
Pretty good read, but it's from a mailinglist, and is littered with quoted-printable residue. If someone wants to preserve this, it would be worth converting it to a readable form.
posix sh mandates certain constructs work. For example:

x=foo; x=${x%o}; echo $x # prints 'fo'

Supporting that is non-trivial in python. There's no quotes around the strings, '%' is kinda weird there, etc.

Of course, in python you can just say:

x="foo"; x=x[0:2]

... but those are not compatible with each other. colon does different things in posix sh than python, and it would be quite complicated to reconcile it.

I'll also point out the parent poster, when they wrote "sh-lang", meant "the superset of posix-sh that zsh/bash users expect", because at this point quite a few bash features are expected to work in most sh-like shells.

Naturally, both xonsh and sh (and all other shells pretty much) are turing complete and can execute programs, which makes them all equally capable.

Having equivalent capabilities does not mean things are compatible though. I recommend reading up on what a POSIX shell is, and then reading fish and xonsh's arguments why they're not POSIX compliant (spread through various locations)
Nvidia Turing Architecture
I started with the iPhone 4 then moved to Android for a bit with a Galaxy S3. I thought the S3 was perfect until I went back to a iPhone 5S. When the TouchID gave out, I went with the SE.

Much like you, I believe that the SE is absolute perfection.

Even with my large hands, I don't personally have a need for anything larger. The only benefit, for me, is that I could have a larger playing field for Galaxies [1] -- but that's about it.

Combine the form factor with the fact that 11.3.1 is an excellent version of IOS that is also jailbroken, and I've pretty much covered the bases for my needs and desires.

With the SE and talk of the SE2 (RIP), I was really hoping that smaller phones would catch on.

Macbook-wise, I'm on a late 2013 15", and I love it. I'm quite protective about both of these devices, as there doesn't seem to be anything comparable coming down the pipeline.

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/gala...