skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AirPods, Apple Watch, Apple Music, Apple Pay, FaceID, huge strides in mapping, Privacy-aware services and much more were all created in the past couple of years and have tremendous category-defining value.

I don't think you can overlook those things and take them for granted.

There's still not great alternatives to AirPods or Apple Watch to this day. Music streaming is pretty much just Apple and Spotify at this point. Also, few companies have been able to align privacy and embed it into their business models.

Apple has also quietly built one of the best chip design teams in the industry - pumping out various custom silicon that is powering FaceID, ML, Photography, and AR among other things. The # of custom chips Apple uses in their products grows every year.

So they've done a ton of innovative things over the past couple of years, it's just that you're not going to get another product like the iPhone which is perhaps one of the best businesses of all time.

We may never see another business like it anytime soon, from anyone. So I think it's a bit unfair to grade everything Apple does on the "iPhone Curve".
I think maybe it's something like the fashion adoption curve: first almost everyone thinks something looks radical and weird, but a few people adopt it; then a few more think it looks acceptable-enough, then it becomes slowly more mainstream, then it is mainsteam, then it looks old-fashioned, then no-one uses it anymore.

I know that in my own case I think that AirPods look ridiculous and stupid, and I can't believe anyone allows himself to be seen in public with them. But I think that less now than I did two years ago, and presumably in another two years I'll think that less still. No doubt in a decade I'll think that they don't look dumb at all, and maybe someday I'll have AirPods or something similar. And then one day I'll quit wearing them, because they're out of fashion again.

Heck, digital watches were popular for about 15–20 years, right? Maybe AirPods will someday be looked at as the digital watches of the early 2000s.
This exists—income based repayment plans. There are different types [1], but basically you pay a maximum 10% or 15% of your income, and the remaining balance is discharged after 20 or 25 years. AFAIK, it’s open to everyone—but you have to apply. It would probably help a lot of people avoid default if everyone was auto-enrolled in IBR.

Also, there’s the public service loan forgiveness program (10 yrs public service job -> discharged loan balance).

[1] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/understand/plans
Just to share an anecdote from my experience in China. I was in Beijing over the holidays and met up with a handful of friends who live there, surprisingly they all switched to Huawei within the past year, three of them even in the past 2 months. The Huawei phones they use are flagship models and not cheaper than iPhones and they have all been Apple users for years (like myself) and who still use Macs today.

I asked each one of them if patriotism or the recent Huawei/US kerfuffle influenced their decision. They all resoundingly said no. When I asked why they chose Huawei after being in the Apple ecosystem for a decade, all of them said "camera". They said camera quality isn't about DXO scores or 4k60 but being able to take "beautiful" photos out of the box for some definition of beautiful. To them, iPhoneXS is the same if not worse than a 6, because the iPhone camera doesn't take more "beautiful" photos, only more "realistic" ones.

Obviously anecdotes are meaningless and all that, but I want to note that China is a very homogeneous society given its population, so even a brief first-person glimpse into people's everyday lives can be pretty telling. I would not be comfortable making similar conclusions about any other cluster of 1.3B people.

TL,DR: I don't buy that the economic downturn in China and the Huawei/US situation are the sole perpetrators of Apple's problem in China. Apple is missing opportunities due not innovating in certain crucial areas.
You can, however, make "clones" - essentially instances in OOP except that there has to be one initial instance.
5D optical data storage is all the rage these days. Wouldn't want your data to disappear with a tectonic plate shift.
People can act without representatives too.

Remember Aaron Swartz?
Yup. And if you've ever done maneuvers manually in KSP, you know that a tiny error in your nudge early on - e.g. hamfisting the throttle, or being a little too late in mid-maneuver staging - leads to a huge difference farther out, which you then have to correct, wasting precious ∆v :).

I'm very much impressed by the control precision of real-life space probes.
It's big but still has a lot of structural problems like any emerging market (e.g. very high unemployment, poor statistical data, only quasi-free markets, very high poverty rates, low per capita gdp, poor judicial system, et al). So it's pretty clearly an "emerging" market, i.e. non-OECD.

There's an unrelated question as to whether OECD and non-OECD countries should be treated differently.
Can scratch be run offline?
I think I'm with you in that a better camera is really what incentivised me to switch. Modern phone cameras are simply stunning - the video on the X series and the photos on the Pixel devices are incredible for their form factors. To me it was never a question of "Do I want to spend $1k on a phone", it's always been a question of "would I spend $1k to have the majority of my photos from these 4 years be of much higher quality". That's what made me switch.
They seem to have cooling fannies in their fannies. :)
It took me too long to figure out how to run my scratch. A run button would be nice for us old people.
Indeed, and that why Apple was actually cranking up their effort to get more "presence on the ground" in China.

Apple tries to be less public about them having HUUGE R&D and business units in China with lots of things being done here.

In 2016 they posted a tiny press release about them opening their "first" R&D centre in China in Shenzhen, and deliberately making an impression of it having no significant role.

In reality, it was their _third_ RnD centre in Shenzhen only. Besides their nominal "design centre" in Kerry plaza, they rent a whole building in Discovery park in Nanshan, and have own section in Foxconn campus. The rumor is that they also rent yet another office for their product/project management staff somewhere closer to Longhua.
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Correct, unfortunately, this is only for federal loans. I'm advocating that this program should be expanded to also apply to private loans, since those are also not dischargable by bankruptcy.
Look up the term “Strawperson”. Requiring an existing person’s name does nothing.
I don't necessarily agree Apple stopped innovating, but I think that as the smartphone market has matured the places ripe for innovation are not in areas of Apple's strengths. For example, Apple's design and hardware/software integration excellence were absolutely perfectly aligned with the transitions from "phone" to "high powered computer in your pocket". But now most of the innovation is happening it data-related AI areas where Google and Amazon are much stronger. I mean, Apple Maps was released 6 years ago, and while it has improved by leaps and bounds I still don't see any reason to use it over Google Maps (and that is despite Google Maps becoming ever more annoying with more clutter every release).
Sex differences in glioblastoma: imaging analysis, transcriptome, and survival
That's not how it works (ohm's law for firsts)
The strangest Black Mirror: Bandersnatch ending is all about Netflix
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The ID, is closer to a Golf in size, which is significantly smaller than a Passat.
In next phase of project I am planning to start adding locations and allow users suggest best locations to eat foods in cities. It is very nice to hear people wants to contribute. I will let you know when location suggestion feature is ready. Thank you :)
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LCoE for utility-scale solar-plus-storage is very roughly $30/MWh:

" Xcel Energy in Colorado saw bids for solar-plus storage at $36 per megawatt-hour, compared to $25 per megawatt-hour for standalone solar, and NV Energy has seen even lower bids in its solar and solar-plus-storage RFPs.

That equates to about a $6 to $7 per megawatt-hour premium for solar projects that are partially dispatchable — if not completely dispatchable in the manner of a power plant. By 2023, when the ITC window closes, the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of combined solar-storage projects will put them in direct competition with traditional generators, Manghani said."

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I'm glad to see other people working on this kind of stuff. The old Descent games had a related—although more primitive—rendering engine that could be (ab)used to similar effect that was a lot of fun back in the mid-90's. Some of the home-brew levels back in the day exploited this for some pretty mind-bending overlapping non-euclidian level design.

As for myself, I've been working on a 2d-space combat game set on the surface of a Poincaré Disk as a hobby over the past few years, not sure i'll ever do anything with it for real, but it's fun.
I started programming with Scratch 1.2 back in 2007. I'm now a computer science major in college, so I'm glad to see the Scratch team at MIT continuing to make great progress. Scratch (and similar programming environments) is a very successful way to introduce children to programming and I hope that it continues to do so.
It's been benchmarked that from Sandy Bridge to Kaby Lake the IPC only grew 20% https://www.hardocp.com/article/2017/01/13/kaby_lake_7700k_v... but the power efficiency has brutally increased: This is a 35W CPU in 2011 https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/381 and this is an Y (4.5-7W) CPU from 2017 https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/1822 .
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Firestick Won't Connect to WiFi
> The other thing that isn't helping apple is the went from a simple system to understand iphone 6, 7 8 (s for the bigger models).

S has always been for second models with the same number (kind of like a minor version), they invariably are released one year after and are the same size (not bigger) as the corresponding non-S version (the XS Max is the only exception, there is no X Max, and XS Max is just a bigger same-year cousin of the XS, but the XS has the normal S-to-non-S relation to the X.)

This holds the whole way back to the first S, the 3GS.
You're thinking of the AirPower not the AirPods.
It is not open source.
I thought it's easier to find openings if you have less money to deploy.
As an investor what you would be betting on is that services revenue growth will be enough to compensate for the negative iPhone revenue growth. For the previous quarter, iPhone revenue was ~3.7x the services revenue. So if the iPhone revenue drops by ~30% in the next 2 years and the services revenue hits the goal of doubling since 2016(~12B), you would essentially see a flat overall revenue which is problematic.
What are the use cases for this? I was expecting more in the readme around use cases or real world examples.
Fragments of Euclid: https://nusan.itch.io/fragments-of-euclid
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I helped out with a coder dojo where we used Scratch to teach kids to code. In that setting the biggest barrier was the parents getting in the way of their kids natural exploring. Solve that and you can basically just put a kid in front of scratch and expect them to be productive on their own within a few minutes. Just be there to help them get unstuck. A pre made lab can be helpful though.

Most problems I’ve seen them run into are basic algorithmic issues. “I want the ball to change direction when it reaches the wall” we’ll “perhaps we can let the ball test if it is at the wall? Here’s a block that does tests”
singularity requires suid components; it is not true unprivileged containers.

singularity must be installed by an administrator of the system, binctr doesn't care about having privileged components installed.

binctr is a lot smaller and more grass-roots as well, which could be good or bad.

It's possible singularity wishes to also have truly unprivileged containers, but if that is one of its goals, it currently fails at it.
Sorry to go off on a tangent, but do you recommend Authy instead/because of this?
Oslo-Bergen is ~460km crossing mountains.

Oslo-Stockholm is ~530km mostly flat.

You probably need to charge either way.
At the bank I used to work for, we had a monorepo with around 2500 developers committing in an average month. Total codebase was 35M LOC.

I gave a talk on it, "Python at Massive Scale", at PyData London 2018. Videos on YouTube/PyVideo.
FB has a monorepo for most of the known universe
I could imagine far worse things they could make TV's auto-play.
Except that that method wouldn't let you have, for example, a hyperbolic plane that could be traversed without obstruction.
For reference for other people, it's the green flag button near the upper right hand corner. There's also a tutorial that runs if you go to https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted that shows it.
Maybe siestas are more of a Hispanophone thing, not a Lusophone one.
I remember what it was like 20 years ago. There were a whole host of things we didn't have, at least partially because battery technology was so much worse.
But most apple services really work only/ best on apple devices. If they're selling fewer phones, its less itunes/imusic/icloud revenue.
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I've been using Shopify for 2 years as a marketer and ecommerce manager, and I've sold >$500k worth of product in 2018. But, we use Slack, and I've always wanted a Shopify app that sent order notifications for new, refunded, and fulfilled orders to Slack but I also wanted this app to include discount codes used, tags, and UTM tracking for the order so I know what's working and what's not. I tried every app I could find, and nothing had this level of tracking in their Slack notifications.

So, I decided to learn to code and make an app myself.

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I am in my forties and barely know the basics of finance. I have a checking account that gets deposited with my salary and pay my bills. Does someone know of resources that have sound financial advice. Few years back I had to borrow money to pay rent.
Mercurial rollout on the massive Google monorepo continues
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Apple hasn’t given enough of us reason to part with 750-1000 for an inferior phone to what we already have. I like what I have more than the new models. Fortunately I can test on the simulator..
Huh, given the color photo, it reminded me of a potato. Yes, I really did find a potato looking like this once.
This is definitely one of the bigger issues. Early on, GIMP adopted the Emacs development style of building a solid core of functionality in C combined with a REPL for a scripting language within which other features can be developed.

Unfortunately they picked Lua instead of developing their own language like Emacs did. Lua is pretty notorious for having an absolutely abysmal implementation and is very hacky itself. It's also unfortunate that the GIMP team didn't have the same hardline commitments as the GNU devs to code correctness (GNU will often delay project releases long past their expected drop dates just to make sure the code is maintainable and nothing is hacked together - see the year-long delay in the release of IceCat Quantum for a recent example of this). This situation got even worse when the devs decided to abandon the graphical toolkit the whole thing was written in in version 0.60 to invent their own, which didn't even include bindings for the scripting language they themselves were working in...it soon became quite a time commitment for any major feature to be implemented because the code base just wasn't designed with futureproofing in mind.

Eventually GTK grew out of scope for GIMP and became a GNOME project. Around this time large parts were rewritten again in glib when GIMP became a GNU thing. Add twenty years, and GIMP is essentially a giant steaming pile of hacks that never made sense in the first place, full of components that barely work on their own, much less together.

It's a sad state of affairs, especially considering the project had so much potential back in the day. It could have been the Emacs of photo editing, but poor planning from the get-go dashed that possibility.
I don't know squat about USB C (I don't have any equipment that uses it yet), but with A & B, my solution to this problem is simple -- I use charging-only cables that don't pass the data lines through.
Taleb is using the idea that in order to create a world where, barring extreme circumstances, such as birth defects and disease, people are of roughly equal ability we have to pretend that, baring extreme circumstances, all people are of roughly equal ability and attack any information that points out anything to the contrary. The idea being that by believing a reality is true and attacking anything that contradicts that belief we can make it true.
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I don't see this here, but could a student debt bubble result not in a wave of defaults but as a contributing factor in a market slowdown or recession because the average borrower will have less disposable income to spend on other goods and products due to the insane debt payments? A wave of defaults most likely won't hurt any major institution except the federal government, but the lack of consumer spending seems like a potential problem for our consumeristic economy.
Very cool. Think this game also used fractals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_on_Fractalus!
Hi! We do have some remote folks and I think we're open to it on a case by case basis. For this front end position we're starting a new team and I think remote would make that pretty difficult at first. Our Platform and Product Engineer postings may be more open to that right now.

Hopefully as time goes by we have more flexibility :)
Apple Watch. They didn’t create the category, but they sure as hell definined it.
> I would like to thanks them all and their publishers as well

When you get permission from the publishers, how on earth is it "piracy"??
That's the path many data-driven companies take lately. Most companies start with plug-and-play solutions such as GA or Mixpanel but as they start to dig into their customer data, they either hire data engineers or use ETL solutions to collect their raw event data into a data warehouse and BI tools in order to track their own metrics.

That way, you will have more control and be able to ask any question you want. We have been working on a tool that basically connects to your Segment or Snowplow data and run ad-hoc analysis similar to Mixpanel and GA so that you don't need to adopt generic BI tools and write SQL every time you create a new report. I was going to create a Show HN post but since your comment is quite relevant to the topic, I wanted to share the product analytics tools that we have been working on, https://rakam.io. The announcement blog post is also here: https://blog.rakam.io/update-we-built-rakam-ui-from-scratch-...

P.S: I also genuinely appreciate the work the people have done at Countly, it's often not easy to use ETL tools to set up your own data pipeline and create your own metrics yourself so they're a great alternative if you don't want to get stuck with GA or third-party SaaS alternatives.
Today's Times newspaper (3rd January 2019) celebrates Bitcoin's 10th Birthday