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I’m disappointed by the discontinuation of the iPhone SE, and I’m not the only one.

Frankly, all of Apple’s recently-introduces hardware options have a bad combination of being too expensive and simply not appealing enough, the lack of upgradeability on MacBook Pros being a major example.
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"the ones I treat like notepads are often less than 10MB"

Interesting. That's not much off the old "eight megs and constantly swapping" joke.
I know exactly what you mean, and there are many things that factor into my evening energy. Here are a few that I use as a mental checklist, roughly ranked in order of impact:

1. Sleep: did I get enough high quality sleep for the past few nights? This is by far the most important.

2. Exercise: have I been exercising regularly? Weights and cardio?

3. Caffeine: what was my caffeine intake like during the day? Did I have a coffee-induced spike at 4 that is causing a down-swing when I get home at 7? Having more moderation and reducing caffeine after a certain hour can really help me here.

4. Breaks: did I take enough breaks during my working hours? If I forget to, I usually feel mentally drained after work.

If I get the "lie down and not want to do anything" feeling in the evening, it's usually because I slacked on some combination of these four. For me it's usually sleep, which I've found to be the key foundation that makes the rest much easier to manage as well.
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Gift cards can be a reasonable gift. For example, you know someone likes hiking etc. and buys gear at $OUTDOOR_STORE but you really don't know what they want/need. But on the whole they're a bit of a scam based on what's mostly a relatively upper class attitude, at least on the US, about giving cash as a gift.
You'll be disappointed when you notice the degradation in sound quality. Anecdata: My Kenwood car stereo has both and the difference is immediately noticeable.
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The price drives the sales volume in a predictable way, so it's a rather self limiting problem.

But the "amateur using pro gear" is widespread, not just in cycling. And what's acceptable is a matter of culture. I've noticed that a person riding a $4k bike will get criticized by someone who drives a $40k car, with no irony.

I'm an amateur musician, but I play a professional quality instrument. It really comes down to the sheer enjoyment of it. My instrument won't get me into the Chicago Symphony, but it sounds nice in my living room. And it still cost less than many pleasures that people afford themselves.

At first glance, the wooden bike has to be for someone who is interested in the aesthetics and novelty of it.

Disclaimer: I ride a bike that I assembled from mostly spare parts for less than $100.
Hopefully they never have a fire sale.
I agree that his actions would end up in lawsuits anywhere in modern world, and I understand the attempt of former employers to block him as much as legally possible. Kudos to employer for not simply hiring a hitman.

That said - who in all honesty will root for some paranoid vengeful billionaire? I couldn't care less if he loses some 30 millions in his multi-billion empire. Which, according to the article, shouldn't be the case - strategies expired, the secret isn't worth anything anymore, and this is just bullying and revenge, because he can and his ego got hurt. With almost 100% guarantee he is 'optimizing' everything to Guernsey he can tax-wise, so British citizens don't see anything from his vast income.

Not much sympathy for some little man with big ego and even bigger wallet.
> The rise of outspoken fascists and racists

Do you have any data to backup "rise", because it sure looks like increased media coverage of fringe groups and not any sort of actual rise in these things.

If you want to protect "everyday people", "free speech at all costs" is the way to do it. Otherwise the people in power will decide what speech is allowed and what isn't.
Yeah, I've still rarely seen honest discussions about what damping means in terms of structural materials.

If you made a bell out of cast iron instead of bronze, it would still ring, but it would ring for a shorter duration. This is because cast iron has higher internal damping than bronze. It is a viscoelastic effect, in that energy lost is proportional to the speed of movement (strain rate) within the material.

I imagine that most of the discussions about bike frame damping are not focused on this viscoelastic damping effect, but are more focused on the dynamic shock absorption effects that are a consequence of the mass and stiffness differences embodied in different frames. When you change frame material, you change so many other variables (tube wall thickness, etc) of the frame that a real apples-to-apples comparison is weird.
Same here. Galaxy Note II, still going strong. I bought a new battery for it a year ago, expecting the old one to go out soon, but I still get more than three days battery life from it.
I bought an S7 (1 year old) off ebay for ~£300, and I pay £10/month for service (with giffgaff so I can adjust the plan monthly if I need more or less data for a given month).

I don't get an iphone, but it's a fair bit cheaper...
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Isn't that also true of a branch in the same repo?
I use my iPhone for personal use and business, as a replacement for a camera (completely stopped using a DSLR) and to provide navigational assistance on the ~1 day a week I spend in the mountains.

Pretty much a bargain as far as I am concerned.
I think you might be viewing it backwards. In this case, Amazon is the only one selling but lots of places were buying.
I wonder if this is the false equivalence behind the thinking of whatever soulless product drone came up with this idea?
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I planned a holiday to the USA last year with my wife. Intentionally planned our trip to Disneyland (1 of 3.5 weeks) to avoid school holidays etc.

Accidentally planned to attend the week of thanksgiving. Fortunately realised before my flights were booked and changed it to the week after.

Near miss :) apparently it’s one of the busiest weeks for Disneyland. And many families end up taking the entire week off not just thanksgiving? I had no idea and found that crazy but there you go :)
I don't know where you live obviously, but in the US you can get two brands of very puncture-resistant tires: Gatorskins, made by Continental, and Armadilloskins, made by Specialized.

I used the latter almost exclusively for years on thousands of miles of urban rides in Houston, and almost NEVER got a flat. I finally switched to a softer more supple tire when I bought some new wheels this summer, and they are WAY more comfortable and a bit faster, but I've had two flats since I bought the damn things.

It's all a tradeoff.
Not an economics expert at all, but what happens if profit per unit is still more significant? Maybe Apple is targeting something like:

Total Profit = Volume * Profit Per Unit

So even though Volume is smaller because units are more expensive, the increased markup increases the total profit and that's the reason why they are getting ~90% of the profits in the industry. This idea makes more sense to me considering guidance for the next quarter won't include volumes.

Is there any reasoning behind only targeting volume that I am unaware of? Genuine question.
I think they look cool and everything, but it still doesn't seem very practical for real use. Maybe if you are just occasionally cruising around on a nice day. Most people don't do very well with bike maintenance and I assume this would be a major issue with a bike like this.
It's best to review Musk's goals over the longest term possible, because who cares about being late for a few of the objectives if they are widely exceeded soon after the deadline?

I invite you to re-read the early presentations for the Model S and Gigafactory. Question: of the goals that have been achieved and those who haven't, which are the most important? And for the less important, are these delays interfering with Tesla's mission or just a temporary postponement to further focus on things that matter (e.g displacing oil and disrupting fossil fuel investment plans)?
Regarding your original comment, I can't say with certainty but it was probably flagged because it's misleading.

You stated that the EU doesn't have freedom of speech, but your link shows is specifically about Austria and how the ECHR isn't going to overrule it on this case. Pretty much every EU country has some form of free speech, and the ECHR sets a baseline on what's expected from member countries. It seems like Austrian law is running pretty close to that baseline but, as much as I'd personally prefer that case went the other way, supranational institutions need to draw a line between what they can and can't do.
> banks would be thankful for not having to pay Apple for the privilege of having their customer use an iPhone.

Could you expand on this? I’m not aware of banks having to pay Apple.
American War by Omar El-Akkad, read by Dion Graham. Not many characters but a riveting story about a plausible second American Civil War.

The Power of the Dog and The Cartel by Don Winslow, read by Rob Porter. A must read just for the vast characters Porter plays, many of whom are Hispanic. An amazing feat that tells a riveting story.
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I have an old-school analog watch for similar reasons!
From my understanding:

The Einstein cat example is about trying to coerce a non-compliant entity that you cannot communicate with into complying. The Stephen Hawking cat example was about trying to model the behaviour of the non-compliant entity in order to persuade it to comply. The use of a cat as the agent in both cases alludes to the behaviour that people dealing with cats frequently experience.
There is a bike messenger in NYC who rides a PX5...
Wow, there aren't sensors which already are capable of measuring distance between two points with error less than 1mm. (With barriers in between)

I am kinda shocked at the state of affair.
Here's a video of this test being performed on another frame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCU7VT9fOpo

With a 20 cm drop the velocity is 4.95 m/s, or a pretty average bicycle pace (11 mph, 18 kph), ridden directly into a wall. All things considered, a 4-5 mm deformation isn't that bad. As long as it isn't splintering or splitting, which would be dangerous, the bike isn't going to see much forces in that specific direction. Rider weight doesn't matter because the rider will immediately be thrown over the handlebars.

In more realistic scenarios like hitting a curb or dropping the bike, the force will be much more vertical, which will give a several-times-higher mechanical advantage due to the fork rake. The tires will also absorb a lot of the shock loads.

In general wood doesn't lose strength from being beat up, no. Wood construction standards (which admittedly, I know only the basics about) usually assure you that dents and surface defects are not a big deal. The strength in most woods (particularly soft woods) comes from the fact that they're very fibrous and anisotropic, so when they're dented it usually moves the fibers around without actually breaking them.
Relevant rebuttal regarding making conclusions based on supply chain rumors from AppleInsider:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/11/19/poor-news-curatio...
consumer use cases of NFC:

- travel cards/apps (afaik Apple supports at least emulating some cards through iPhones)

- quickly connecting consumer devices to the phone (be it to establish a data transfer, connect an app to a device, ...). NFC can skip most of the discovery/network join dance you otherwise have to do.

- games
I did consider your point, and in general, I agree with it in most cases. To me though, it’s like the road system in US. The transmission lines are very much like the shared cost of maintaining the interstate highway system.

I agree that there are advancements in transmission needed. All of your points are correct, but I disagree that the risks of the free market are the way to get there.

I just drove from SF to LA to let my kids have some some fresh air (ironic, right?). It took us 4 hours, all the way to the grapevine (just past Bakersfield) to not see the smoke, to have more than a few miles of visibility. The cost of the risks from an improperly maintained grid would be horrendous.

I’m not an electrical engineer, and my knowledge of how the grid operates is limited, I’ll admit, I’m just incapable of seeing a free market solution here, where failure can result in a catastrophe like we’re experiencing here now. As I understand the interconnected nature of the grid, it needs centralized management to control the transmission system. I luckily have the means to get my family to safety (we came back yesterday as the air is finally starting to clear), but that’s not an option for many people. I don’t believe the free market you speak of could ever exist, and I don’t think it’s worth watching things deteriorate to find out.
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Please can you post the link to the proposal that you've read?
Yes branching is done in Git by forking the sequence of commits into two? Giving you your own fork of the software.
I believe your in the united states, in which case is so different from my country (france) that my comment above is not very useful. Here, most costs are covered by public health insurance. So that's one less burden to carry.

Best wishes
The original SE was released "out of cycle" so maybe the sequel will be too?
You’re not getting it. “The City of London” is not what you think of as London. It’s a tiny square mile that is essentially sovereign and outside national law. Corporations are allowed to vote there and there are more corporations than people. It’s sort of like if you had Switzerland embedded in Manhattan.
Oh, sorry. I misread. Franklin was certainly a polymath. But putting him in as a legendary genius next to da Vinci seems off.
It's hard to say they don't target EU users, when they host a whole conference in Berlin: https://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-berlin-2019/
I remember a previous HN discussion where someone mentioned working on improving design for a conveyor belt, but only on the drawing board so to speak, and only when they went to see it in action did they find out to their dismay that it was being used to transport chicken to get sorted and have their beaks singed and all that.

Or something very close to that; if anyone remembers that comment, and the discussion in general, not only would it be relevant here, I would be very grateful. I was never able to find that discussion again, I have no idea what the actual subject was... but the comment stuck with me.
> Apple could use the next iteration to reduce cost

They're already doing this, while flogging the decreased functionality as "improvements".
I guess that explains why it works so well.
I agree but in containers' defense they weren't supposed to be about security in the first place. In my understanding the main incentive for the huge push behind them was immutability and them being microservices-friendly technology.
Yeah, EarPods.
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That works for throwing Shai Hulud off the track.
Apple takes a cut of every ApplePay transaction.
Ask HN: What tools do you use to familiarize yourself with a new codebase?
Sometimes a codebase has sparse documentation, or the maintainers are too busy to answer questions regularly. This is especially true for open-source projects.

When looking over a large codebase with poor documentation, what tools and tricks have you learned to understand it faster/more easily?

Examples can be language, platform or IDE-specific, e.g. "projects on github have a handy search in project feature!"
To be fair, my Samsung S7 from the previous year is also still running completely fine. Apple's competition are also building reliable phones..
Philip May is a relationship manager for a company that among other things, manages mutual funds. While I don't doubt that some of those funds own BAE (as it's a component of the FTSE100, more funds will own it than not) this is a very silly link to make.
"powerful" isn't "most powerful".
Engineered wood and chipboard/ Oriented strand board (OSB) are a very different animal that particleboard or MDF. Each has their purpose. True particleboard is a very crappy material, best used for ballast and being cheap. MDF is smooth, stable, and machinable, and OSB provides a lot of tortional resilience.

For any home woodworkers, I don’t recommend working with OSB or particleboard. However, OSB is moderately waterproof, which neither of the others is.
Although not universal, a lot of companies give the day after Thanksgiving off as well as Thanksgiving itself. (And, typically, not a lot gets done on at least the Wednesday afternoon as well.) So it's a pretty common week for families (and others) to take off.
Under "The Argument From Complex Motivations", I encourage you to read the linked paper on the orthogonality thesis

https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Orthogonality_An...

and then compare it to the OP discussion. The OP doesn't address any of the arguments in the paper. His response is just "nah".
I would argue "no" on Sagan's effect on the car's provenance.

Not an expert, but years of watching Barrett-Jackson and Mecum auctions (along with their commentary) leads me to conclude the following will generate interest:

1) Cars owned by famous racers

2) Cars owned by other famous people who like to race, e.g. Paul Newman

3) Cars involved in a well-known incident, e.g. Bonnie and Clyde http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=283

4) Cars owned by celebs who have expertise and resources to maintain their cars well, e.g. Leno and Seinfeld

The car itself must be exciting - Jeff Gordon's minivan won't cut it.

For instance, I think people are still looking for James Dean's Porsche.

One of Howard Hughes' cars did OK - https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2014/12/19/howard-hughes-recor...

OJ's Bronco? Maybe not so well.
Apple demands transaction fees from the card-issuing banks. From media reports, that's one of the reasons Apple Pay took so long to get to e.g. Germany.
The gullibility of cyclists is the industry's most valuable asset. In tests, cyclists cannot tell the difference between frame materials when the frame is covered.

I think it is just really seductive to think you can get magically faster by a significant amount just by buying a new frame with that new bottom bracket that's claimed to be 30% stiffer.
What was wrong with the 5c? Was it too cheap to be worth it to the bottom line? I thought it was a nice phone for the price. Referbs of it typically cost less than $100.
I hear ya bud ... but it would be great if they didn't result in such an inconvenience for everybody else.
Hmm, why would one run several emacs instances? Emacs supports the client-server model, which I find very convenient and fast. Basically having `EDITOR="emacsclient -n"` allows you to use the one emacs everywhere.
>It's doubtful they would follow others in including a redundant, inferior technology (their perception).

They said 4 inch was the perfect screen size. And now? They shunned wireless charging, dual sim, multi-tasking and many other things.

Give it time. Apple will soon invent in-display finger print.
Another viagogo refugee?
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What would a matching plan cost you without the phone?
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> I don't see how the EU as an institution is bashed for this.

I think people are seeing a general trend of internet laws and bashing their creators. One could argue that this stage of the process is where bashing should occur. When it did with other ridiculous legislation, on both sides of the Atlantic, nobody excused the institutions making the suggestions. To many, myself included, this trend has to stop and sadly there isn't enough bashing to curb it, especially as there are so many cheering it on.
This is if you exercise at/after the IPO. If you can afford it, you can exercise early, get taxed on that earlier value, and then it will be mostly capital gains. Higher risk, cause it could end up being worth nil, but higher reward.
The 5c is a 32-bit model and is no longer supported.
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Yes. I was diagnosed very low vitamin D level. I generally speaking don't like sun but last summer I exposed to it so I hope that helped.

Besides I'm going to do some more blood tests (GTT, Ferro etc.) to check if I have problems with insulin. That might be the indicator of insulin resistance, Hashimoto's thyroiditis or other form of diabetes.
Just out of curiosity, what system are you working on?
Ask HN: Is there a wired alternative to the Apple Magic KB?
What wired alternative is there to the Apple Magic Keyboard? (Similar to the scissor switch type feel, but with a USB cord, under $120, and made by another company.)
I've done a road trip more than 1000k on a ~$100 aluminum frame and vibration was never even a minor concern.
If you're going at very high speed or constant rough ground I can see how it'll get you, but seat design and quality of shifting/braking components were by far the biggest factors.
270c, 518f. Cook anything at that temp for 90m and you've got charcoal.
If you’re purchasing or renegotiating something for the first time on a large scale (say a monitoring tool or key—value database) a 30 minute call with one of their analysts can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars. They add an enormous sales team on top of that.
> is that seriously the bottom end?

It's the middle end by average sales price -- about half of people pay less than that, about half pay more. Check out https://twitter.com/asymco/status/1040240778860146688 for the whole picture.
PINs have been universally used all over the world for 40+ years. You have seriously have nothing to do with this terrible event.
Maven is possibly one of the worst build systems I've used. It's an imperative build system with a declarative syntax; not parallel by default; always requires a clean build in practice, unless your code is all stuffed into one big blob. For a long time, it happily downloaded executable code from the internet without even basic cryptographic verification.

Even the ergonomics of the tool are poor - it spams log output with all sorts of information other than what you actually need (like the output of a failed compilation). Getting information from a failed test is painful. If you change one module that another depends on, the latter will not be rebuilt - letting you find issues via NoSuchMethodError at runtime. Annotation processors require special care to enable, and don't always run when they should.

I would rather use make and javac than Maven. Gradle, Bazel (and its diaspora of non-google imitations) would be much better choices.
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Does it hurt to put 24 organizations instead of 24 recipients. As clickbaity as it can get.