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Ask HN: What's the most secure smartphone in 2019?
Apple announced that iphone sales are down. Actually, I have been thinking of getting off the iphone and android ecosystems. Are there other good alternatives? My primary needs are: email, google maps, text, slack, and lyft.
The tolerance is 1 cm so maybe someone can
Isn't that what programmers do? Abstractions are great...
Very secret.
Except not all of JavaScript is a valid CoffeeScript.
> No, you cannot write iOS apps completely in C++.

that's false. At least Qt supports deploying to iOS and you don't have to write a single line of objc
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I use my adaptive cruise control to prevent tailgating. Any time I find myself getting annoyed with a slow jerk blocking the left lane, I force myself to turn it on to make sure that I don't subconsciously creep up on his butt (because I know that's a thing that I sometimes do). ... I have also taken my owners manual's advice on the use of the high-beam flasher ... it calls it a 'flash to pass' ... so now I give a little blink of the brights after setting the cruise. Probably safer, but sometimes I fear that it may induce road rage.
Yes, my first thought was this post was WP related. (and then I actually read the link. ;) )
This sounds great for replayability... but does that even matter now that digital copy auth servers will be long gone before you want to?
Generell agree with the sentiment and also the specific case here.
One thing to note though is that a lot of the complexity of setting up Webpack correctly for a standard user is the very high and contradicting amount of SO/Google advice. This is caused by the (relatively) long history of Webpack and the major version jumps.
A layer on top doesn't carry this baggage so may indeed reduce complexity.
Rockstar should consider breaking their games down into sub games. They could build a G rated game about caring for wild horses and sell it for kids; they'd only have to remove content. In the full RDR2 game my daughter might have fun caring for horses, but she might also witness a random murder, pick up new words I'd rather her not repeat, witness a rape, who knows. I haven't actually played RDR2 but all of those thing seem like possibilities in a Rockstar game.
Yes it cannot be considered the same method, but my guess is that who is interested in this more advanced method absolutely need to know the Eratosthenes method. I absolutely need to use the method in this post with my children, one of the most powerful showcase of science I can think of.
> Another possibility is that the consciousness of the electrons is just following the usual laws of physics, but also it would be equivalent to have non conscious electrons

So I think this is where the disagreement happens. You are following the laws of physics, but I wouldn't say that you're not conscious. Notably, we're talking about "consciousness" and not "free will", which is what I think you're actually arguing against for the electron.
Is it possible that they deliberately priced themselves in excess of the competition in an attempt to cultivate a more exclusive, high-end image? With so much competition in the Chinese market it has to be hard to distinguish themselves otherwise.
> Forming a union has offered them some protection from being exploited by studios

If the Weinstein scandal is any indication, no it hasn't. Unions are not without their problems, while more widespread awareness about the actual working conditions in any given industry (be it acting or game development) is highly effective, one way or the other. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
> The legal system should work to make ethical things legal and unethical things illegal.

As a blanket statement, not it should not. As a counterexample, consider that the whole purpose of the US First Amendment as regards speech is that it should not be illegal to speak, even if others don't like your speech (including because they think it's unethical).

As another counterexample, the war on drugs and alcohol prohibition are examples, in the US, of people trying to make unethical things illegal. The latter is widely accepted as a failure. I'm pretty sure that eventually the former will be too.

In general, trying to equate "I disapprove of X" and "X should be illegal" is a really dangerous tendency that comes and goes. It seem to be on the rise recently, unfortunately, at least in the US...
> How do you tell from the "infinite inside" whether it packs away nicely into a bounded area?

Roughly speaking, you measure how fast the volume of a ball grows with its radius [1]. If it grows faster than you’d expect in Euclidean space, you know you’re in a hyperbolic space.

You can also draw a big triangle and see whether the interior angles add up to less than 180 degrees [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar_curvature#Direct_geomet...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_triangle#Properties
The verb "portray" doesn't mean what you guys seem to think it means.
Monorepo means using one repository. Polyrepo means using multiple repositories.

Advice summary: Start projects by using a monorepo, and when it grows too large to be practical, then refactor to a polyrepo.
I agree this can be a good outcome, but there’s a big difference between forcing seniors to do this versus letting them opt into it. Especially when hiking taxes does not guarantee that the “magic of the market” will provide a good solution in each case. There is a lot of intangible value built up in a home you’ve lived in for decades with the goal of retiring in it.
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $1000+ for a phone when you can get really amazing phones for $300.
You do realize that the L was closed every weeknight (22:45 to 05:00) as well every weekend, from circa Oct 15 through Nov 30 last year [1]? And yet people got their bread and newspapers, and the world did not go under. Comments like yours are hysterical hyperbole.

For the record, the JMZ are running close enough to the L that, while an inconvenience, for many people in the Williamsburg/Bushwick/Ridgewood area, it is a viable alternative. The L isn't everything.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.gothamist.com/amp/articles/...
That's part of it, but the bigger issue is China is rapidly slowing down. Otherwise Apple would be seeing shrinking sales in other regions, which according to Cook has not been the case.

WSJ today posted this alarming chart of Chinese consumption-tax revenue:

https://i.imgur.com/2LzUKrz.png

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-economic-downturn-takes-...
Is Android the only alternative in China? Can Google monetize the Chinese users at all? Must very frustrating to have 1/4 of the worlds population using your OS behind a firewall.
> Shouldn’t every member constantly threaten exit, then, whenever it wants more goodies?

Brexit has given Britain a choice between (1) the same EU goodies (cancel Art. 50), (2) fewer EU goodies (take the negotiated exit deal), and (3) no EU goodies (no deal Brexit).

As a strategy for “more goodies”, it's a complete disaster.
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Even if they revised the MBP to be everything people want on these forums, it still would not make a dent in the problem mentioned in this article (how they can grow beyond the iPhone era). There aren't enough people buying computers and many people buying the Mac really have no issue with the Touch Bar at all. If Tim Cook said that the Mac was going to be their future growth engine, he would be laughed at.

For the record, I hate the Touchbar, but I still see no suitable option in place of Mac. Linux on the desktop is still not there and Windows is atrocious (I use it for my gaming PC, but that's it).
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The article ends with a similar point: "I was often left feeling hopeless and wanting to get outside to enjoy real nature while I still could."
This reminds me of the "Everybody Dance Now" pose estimation algorithm. I'm not sure how they'd program in what a correct pose would be throughout all the duration of a single move, though.
As a musician, who has also worked on film, lmao. We don't see much money either. Not everyone is a star.
You could apply the same question to pretty much every consumer product on Earth.

The answer is a critical function of marketing.
What this might be telling us is that there is, in fact, a cap for the amount of money someone will spend on a phone. I thought $650 was a lot, but then it started looking reasonable as soon as we got to $1000 phones. I have been continually surprised for the last few years that people are not only willing to spend more money but Apple’s unit sales have increased as well.
So the zombie apocalypse could be real?
One should also note that a vegetarian diet may not be optimal for your individual health profile. People with colitis, diversticulitis, chron's disease / IBS or other allergies might not do well on a high fiber diet. In other words, there's a lot of debate still about which diets are optimal for humans. Clearly there's a spectrum, but a vegetarian diet or a vegan diet may not be the most healthy diet for a given individual.
On the other side, comments like yours also pop up with the same frequency. 'Just read the documentation', which sits at 50+ pages, does not make for a good developer experience. Projects like this are a symptom of the pain developers, new and old, feel when faced with a mountain of complexity just to get a module system and ES6 working on any small project.
You think Arstechnica is spam?? They do some great science reporting.
Would love to see examples of useful ux. Do you have anything to share?

I have this hobby project where I’m thinking of using some kind of knowledge graph to represent beliefs about scientific facts and urban myths. An attempt to crowd source peer review of the pop-sci cited in online fora of various kinds.

My prototype app being a nutrition planner based on dietary recommendation sources from the graph in question.

Not being a ux-designer, I’m a bit stuck on how to approach it.
I don't understand why anyone is paying $1000+ for a camera which doesn't make telephone calls.
GM has a fantastic camera enhanced rear-view mirror that solves a lot of these blind-spot problems ...

http://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/general-motors-technology/gm-...

Hope it catches on. Can't wait till it's on more makes/models.
I'm sorry but you should have a basic understanding of something before using it, that is just common sense.
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Ah, I thought it consumed the style rules and rewrote to them, so you could pick your preferred styles and have everyone submit code that met them even if they didn't write in that way. Which sounds mostly correct, except for the "pick" part.
You can't define right or wrong? Tell that to an Aristotelian. You can most certainly define it and ground a natural law theory in it.
Amid building boom, 1 in 10 Seattle apartments are empty, and rents are dropping
That fits the mood, at least among the pro-Remain press and social circles, but I'm not sure how objectively true it is.

Based on the facts we can now measure, quite a lot of the negative predictions from before the referendum about the results of a Leave vote have not proved to be accurate. We haven't gone anywhere near entering a recession, there weren't emergency budgets costing households thousands of pounds, house prices haven't collapsed, etc. Inevitably this also reduces the credibility of the same sources when they now predict severe negative effects over the longer term based on similar models and assumptions.

At least in some respects, it appears that the UK economy may be doing better than it has for some time. In some other respects, it's doing worse, but whether the cause is Brexit-related or other factors like austerity or increasingly protectionist global trade is unclear.

Probably the two biggest economic effects that have surely been triggered by Brexit itself are the softening of Sterling and the shift in migration patterns, but those are also areas where the change isn't inherently bad. Certainly there are other negative results as well, but a lot of those are more due to uncertainty and negative sentiment than anything that has actually happened so far, so while they are clearly bad for the UK and neither our government nor the EU leadership is going to win any prizes for effective government and leadership any time soon, it wouldn't necessarily be the case that another state considering leaving in the future would mishandle the process as badly as the UK and EU have this time.

It's a fascinating social experiment to watch, particularly as someone who is conflicted on the issue and has a lot of friends and family on both sides of the debate, because if you step back and try to look at reality from a neutral point of view, there's a lot of confirmation bias and selective reporting happening on both sides.
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If you want to learn more about viruses and (some) of their roles in evolution of species, I recommend you the book "Virolution". (Thanks to the HN commenter that suggested it in a comment I read months ago). This article is an example of one case that the book mention: two species that have diverged recently can "compete" using viruses.
Neither pricing nor the economy fully explains why Apple's suddenly doing so poorly in China and not in the US or EU. They're triggers certainly, but not the root cause. There's one keystone here-- WeChat.

In the US and EU, Apple has people locked into their ecosystem. That doesn't apply to China. WeChat is their alpha and their omega. They use it not only for chatting, as you might expect from its name-- WeChat is in many ways their _entire operating system_.

You pay your utility bills with WeChat, it's your social network, map app, phone app for VOIP, video calls, you access local services, your banking, payments like Venmo, your healthcare, read the news, buy stuff from online stores, EVERYTHING is in WeChat.

And WeChat is cross-platform.
Although I can agree in some respects... however, a browser gets you a LOT more than just a WASM platform... canvas + webgl can go a long way, but then why not get the reset of the rendering platform which gives you stylistic support of a hypertext/dom model that is well understood with cross platform engines for pretty much every platform out there.

Creating compiled applications that look halfway decent is REALLY hard with compiled UI toolkits, for the most part. And really easy for browser based toolkits. While I don't appreciate the additional bloat of Electron itself, it is a nice option. I would like to see something similar be available as a cross-platform baseline, auto-updated like chrome. Node + Carlo could be an option, which would at least use the platform installed Chrome.

In the end, something like Adobe's Air platform could be incredible, but run by a company that supported more modern JS, and rendering. My hope is that with MS changing Edge to use Blink's engine that something like this could evolve and be adopted by other platforms.
i think its because they are correcting for the commuter tax deduction. ask your HR folks about https://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/commuter-benefits-law.pa...
I really don't understand why anyone is paying $300+ for a t-shirt when you can get really amazing t-shirts for $10.
You're focused on the micro. Yes, Apple is doing this, but why are other American publicly-traded companies also raising their ASPs uniformly? What companies are not doing this who also utilize foreign manufacturing deals? And of those companies, are they purchasing shares back?

These things will answer whether or not Apple in the future will go back to selling phones within the ~$600 dollar range.
Is it not amazing that supply and demand are the main determinants of housing costs? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/24/17896482/b...
This is the big problem with forming unions. Those who are in the best position to bargain are generally happy the way things are, even if they could be better. And those who have the most to gain have little leverage. The junior devs and QA are expected to put in 70+ hour weeks without extra compensation. Unlike other industries where developers work in gaming it is common to layoff much of the staff during preproduction at a gaming studio, and then attempt to hire them back on later, or layoff staff after a release is finished.
But people are just too creative when it comes to exploiting systems. What if I force someone’s car to halt just under a bridge and then accidentally drop another car on top of it. Oops, a terrible ‘accident’! I realise this is a bit ridiculous but some other people are way more creative than I in this way.
I’m used to Lotuses being in the family car price range in the UK but, admittedly, that’s more at the Elise end.
Apple definitely doesn’t have the competency to do this.
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It's also a tremendous classic game for the Apple Macintosh https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3885-jetpack
I'm not sure who told you that but they clearly are unfamiliar with the WGA minimums... Writers get paid a minimum of $500k for a Hollywood film with a budget of $5 million or more. TV writers for broadcast and cable make a minimum of $75k per episode regardless of budget. In both cases, this does not include royalties.
That's a fair point. I don't know what the best solution to this problem is, but I do think there's a problem.

Requiring the users to install 20 or more dependencies (@babel/, @postcss/, webpack-*, etc.) and write dozens of lines of configuration every time just doesn't feel right (or maybe it is..).

And we know what the developers need, they need to bundle a web project in a way that's optimised for production, js and css compiled to run on N (configurable) most recent browsers (optionally). But that's not that trivial in webpack, if it was, perhaps we wouldn't have so many abstractions trying to improve upon status quo.

Perhaps that's just an inherently difficult problem. E.g. there are many many ways to handle CSS, people use variety of transpilations such as TypeScript or Flow, projects have different requirements.

Another data point is that Parcel this problem in a much more "everything works automatically" way and it's really resonating with people.
It's an optional feature and isn't built by default. See http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/config.html#cfg_clang_assisted_...
Thank you for a terrifically clear description of difficult concepts. This helped me a lot!
Yes, it's just not viable to develop for browsers unless you have the maintenance budget for a moving target. I decided on that after living through the Flash era and trying HTML5 for a little while. The browser is backwards compatible only for certain kinds of applications.
Thanks for sharing this. I'd rather see meaningful explanations for ongoing trends rather than read people complain about phone prices. Sometimes the latter can explain the former.
Are many people really locked into the apple ecosystem. Most apps that people here in the UK use are cross-platform too...
The semantic web is only useful if you believe syllogisms are the way to understand the world.

http://www.shirky.com/writings/herecomeseverybody/semantic_s...
There are many. If you want to get a feel for the market in the US, look at recent H1B filings at major studios/publishers.
Very few things are always lethal. Or always safe.

For context, the current Ebola Zaire outbreak in northeast DRC has about 60% mortality.
If this eliminates the blind spot, what's the white stripe in the 2nd illustration, between the side and rear mirror views? It's the blind spot. And someone on foot, on a bicycle, or on a motorcycle can fit in it. Turn your head, lazy-ass.
despite all the advertising, it may surprise you to learn that it's actually quite rare for people to buy expensive clothes. i looked it up one time. i think it said less than 1% of the jeans sold in the US cost more than 50$
Since we're listing games with long-lasting consequences, I'll have to recommend folks who have been living under a rock to play the entire Mass Effect trilogy – to me, still the greatest game ever made (and I've played far too many games)
What I've seen with OMG-promulgated standards is that the people involved know what they are doing but (1) they do a bad job communicating it, (2) people do a bad job of understanding it, (3) as with the W3C compromise in the standards process leads the specification to miss the last 20% that you need to make something that really works, and (4) some adopters of the standard see filling that last 20% as what differentiates them from competitors, so the standard is not so standard.

There are many homologies between W3C and OMG standards, one of them is that there is a mapping between the semantics of documents and the semantics of API calls, object definitions, etc. linking all the way back to the CORBA standards. Another is between the XSLT/XPath functions and the "Object Constraint Language". The OMG and W3C maintain a largely overlapping list of primitive data types, for instance.

Neo4J and similar products tend to support the "property graph" model which can be modeled with RDF/SPARQL.

As for document databases, that gets to the magic about RDF which is most obscure: a document full of facts is an RDF "graph". You can take the union of all of the facts in two documents and that is also a graph. You can take the union of all the facts in two million graphs and run SPARQL queries on it without doing any data transformation or import!

This is a necessary condition for a "universal solvent" for combining data from multiple sources but RDF standards haven't been sufficient. Serious semwebbers know about techniques like "smushing" that go a long way towards finishing the job, but oddly these are not incorporated into standards or widely known among beginners.
Do you know of any good analysis, reports, discussions about the rise, impact, and influence of WeChat?
Why is the comparison always done to the newest, high end Apple phones? The iPhone 7 is still sold for $550 unlocked and $23/month on installment in the US. I assume it is also more reasonably priced in China as compared to the high end XS phones.

You don't have to purchase the most expensive iPhone to get a high quality phone from Apple. Attributing the decreased demand in China to the price of the most exclusive phone seems misguided to me.
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Looks like the list counts complaints that a course does not exist as a recommendation, or why is the Crypto II course on coursere in the list? What was the original start date, September 2014 or 2013?