skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's quite the opposite - I think Apple have always had issues with every product launch, but the number of people now using them, and the bar / expectations are so much higher - they can't catch a break, rightly so - they charge a premium, and for 10% of the cost you pay Apple you can get a competitors product that's 90% there.

Tim Cook & Apple's board have an absolutely stellar team of VP's, from customer service to engineering, but I think they've given themselves too much freedom in terms of "throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks". They're so comfortable with their brand, cash piles and whatnot, that they can release so many variants of so many products and not even worry about the wasted man-hours and resources spent on it.

I get the feeling there hasn't been anyone there taking a step back and going "Y'kno, we can totally do this, but we shouldn't".

Butterfly keyboard? I love how slim their laptops are now, but did they really have to go and re-engineer how a keyboard works? Even in its 3rd iteration, I have a space bar on an almost new Macbook Pro that just won't stop sticking.

iPhone XR? We've priced out the XS for most folks, but let's make a cheaper one too! Oh wait, we have the 8!

Watch Hermes? Or ceramic? Around the $3k mark you're in Rolex, Omega territory; and those watches will be worth more in a few years than anything Apple release.

Etc etc.

I don't know what motivates a lot of folks to buy Apple, but for me it boils down to:

- Stellar customer support

- Reliability & durability

I don't particularly care too much about having the latest / greatest hardware inside my products; but so far Apple are still lightyears ahead of the competition on those two fronts.

I can be pretty much anywhere in the world that has an apple store, walk in and get my keyboard issue sorted, and my many other iDevices have easily lasted a few years and are still going strong.
Some banks like USAA offer 0% loans to military members in this situation (but I don’t know if that’s military only). The local credit union offered 0% loans to the non-military federal employees here the last time a shutdown impacted the military base. I don’t know if anyone offers something similar to other federal employees.

EDIT: Wow, couldn't type well on my phone this morning.
You could do it via Node.js native modules.
Just because something causes pain does not mean it is violent. Violence requires significantly elevated risk of injury or damage.
Absolutely. Like, for the average school kid learning about vector multiplication or dot products of things of this kind are so abstract and seem kinda pointless. But the way he taught it, we had a problem in terms of making things look real. And the math was motivated as a strategy to solving those issues. Based on the real world problem, it was great to develop intuition for the results.
I remember that back then it was very hard to figure out which Apple computer to buy. Model names had proliferated, thanks to the marketing department, and you needed a spreadsheet to figure out the differences between them. One of the best things Steve ever did was to reduce the offerings to just "four great products." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkVs4ZqWgN8
Some days I think most people are just a floating cloud of ego bashing into other floating clouds of ego. Kids are like pure ego and desire at certain younger ages.
I think that's a fair definition, but when the phrase is used in the context of current US politics I get the impression it's meant to say that the virtue is all display and no substance.

It seems to be used to dismiss the entire idea being talked about. For example a liberal saying they want relaxed immigration asylum criteria, and a conservative says they're just virtue signalling, and thereby dismisses the topic. In that way it has become a sort of ad hominem attack. In fact it does a disservice to both sides of the argument because there can be very good arguments for strict asylum thay deserve to be considered but get masked behind such dismissive language.

I don't see a problem using the phrase as long as it isn't used to justify a failure to engage in an actual discourse or debate on the topics at hand.
You're right to have comments, and my only gripe was with the tone. Having been on both sides of it now, parenting is just really hard. And there really is a ton of social pressure to get it right, like no other pressure you've had. Get your job wrong, the worst case is you get fired (for most people without life or death jobs). Get parenting wrong and they literally take away your child forever.

I'm sorry for making assumptions. It seemed pretty clear to me that you haven't been on the other side of this, and there would be nothing wrong with that anyway. Different phase of life and all that. And in sorry for what you've been through. Being abused by a parent, who should be your source of all things good and loving, is a terrible thing.
> Hard to know what will happen when you drop your phone.

I find this is the real problem. I've had phones that I've dropped many, many times, onto hard surfaces, that have come away without a scratch. Then I dropped a Nokia 3 and the screen just flew apart.
Fuchsia's TCP/IP stack and file system management tooling are written in Go.

D is a project for a systems programming language with GC enabled by default. There a couple of experimental OSes like PowerNex.

RocksDB is not part of the Cassandra project, as far as I can tell.

Anyway it doesn't matter how niche they are, rather they were successful implemented and aren't mainstream as a consequence of politics and willingness to push it forward.

Doing UNIX clones is cheaper than improving the overall security.

Which is why in spite of the ergonic issues of using the NDK as it is, I enjoy the fact that Google makes it quite hard to use C and C++ instead of Java/Kotlin on Android.

Which on their little brother variant, Android Things, is even more explicit with user space drivers being written in Java.

Then we have Apple pushing Swift, which even if it takes another decade, it will eventually make Objective-C join Carbon.

Modern systems programming seems to be the land of luddites in IT.

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events...

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/csharp-systems-programmi...
Ironically it has become too confusing to know which Iphone to buy. The X* naming convention isn't helping one bit either.
Iirc, there’s a bamboo tree that grows very fast and has been considered for carbon sequestration. But the problem is, as with all trees, the carbon isn’t locked away from the atmosphere. It also takes up valuable farm land as they need something more like marshland than drier, more common land.
For simple, single page notes you can try simplenote [0]. It has nice Mac, Linux, iOS, Android clients, tagging and markdown support, and instant sync on official clients. It's also free. I use it for non-sensitive fast notes like a reminder notebook.

Also, applications/cliens like nvALT, nvPY provide a very very fast workflow for instinctive note taking and recalling.

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The same went for the MacBook lineup.
I don't want a Retina display, quad core, etc. I'll live with a lower spec for a $999 machine. And as a bonus my battery lasts longer!

By comparison I think the iBook was always a crippled version.
I remeber the same arguments for serial ports, ethernet ports, ADB ports and optical drives. The headphone jack is gone and not coming back to the iPhone.
Mostly due to bad programming practices, as already discussed multiple times in gamming forums.
Unrelated to the posted article, but native English speakers might have a small disadvantage in getting understood, because they don't always know which word choices are less known among those who learned English as a second language.

And native British English speakers can have a larger disadvantage in getting understood, among people who know English well but are not used to British accents. I was recently in a workshop where I had no trouble understanding the talks given by Chinese, Finnish, German, Indian, Russian, Swedish and whatever speakers. But a native British person, I really had to concentrate because they spoke fast and with a heavy accent. American accents I always find easy, though.

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20161028-native-english-spe...
I agree. Whatever he might have been in his personal life, his business sense, and marketing acumen really make it a pleasure to watch the keynotes, and video interviews.

Full disclaimer, I was a full-on Apple fanboi from the Nineties to the mid 2010s.
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Definitely do this. It's incredibly handy to be able to send a video to support of a startup sequence failing or some other hard to describe scenario. Only point of caution I'd raise is if any confidential information is contained in the images. I know one data centre that forbid cameras within the aisles.
>Wouldn't it be possible to carry the same amount of kinetic energy with lighter ammunition?

Welcome to 1944.

This is exactly why full power rifle cartridges were replaced with intermediate cartridges like 7.62x39 and 5.56x45.

Kinetic energy is only loosely associated with effectiveness, terminal ballistics matters just as much if not more. In the real world intermediate calibers kill people dead enough reliably enough that it's a non-issue and marginal decreased effectiveness is outweighed by increased capacity. The overwhelming majority of shots fired will hit nothing useful anyway.

Case-less ammo was tried (read up on the H&K G11) for slightly different reasons (weight saving was a goal but not the primary goal) but the cold war ended before it could make it into service.
Hi HN,

9 Months ago, I launched Mocktastic, a cross platform, downloadable, GUI desktop application, which allows you to easily mock up any REST API without having to write a single line of code, in a 'Show HN' post. You can even share your mocked up APIs with a team, and use the mock as an API Interface Agreement, between your API and it's consumers.

It got a decent chunk of votes, but not really much in terms of criticism. Since then, in the last 9 months, we have grown a bit and now have almost a hundred daily active users! I've also added a lot of features, in the multiple releases, and last week, I finally released a version with a much requested feature: Importing from OpenAPI files.

I thought since it had been 9 months since HN last saw Mocktastic, and since there is a huge new feature which you guys might find useful, I'd post again here.

Do check it out and let me know your thoughts!
How to have have a greater awareness of your life. Close 2018, plan 2019
Compare the cost of a traditional round to the manufacturing cost of a self-propelled bullet. And that's ignoring R&D entirely.
Apple has shown that they can dictate whatever terms they want to carriers before. Them not being able to do so in this particular instance doesn't make sense.
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The US should do whatever the US thinks it benefits the United States. China from the perspective of the US has the ridiculous restrictions on what American businesses can do. It is the high noon for the US to do the same.
whatsapp has already replaced iMessage in most of the english speaking world. in fact i'd say anyone using iMessage outside the US is the anachronism. i had to explain the concept of how iMessage uses the internet to send messages to someone else with an iPhone instead of SMS to someone in the middle east for example

whatsapp has fast caught up in features too - you can send and receive files/music clips/gifs etc. animoji/blue checkbox isn't enough of a differentiating factor to matter
Excellent, so they will acquire it by other means.
I thought so originally. But honestly, I think part of him is genuinely sad that Xerox failed the way it did.
But you still bought one and my guess will continue to buy them retelling stories of glory when the mac was best.

You are still part of there marketing machine.
It's definitely a good idea, and an easy way of taking notes from a screen in situations where copy-paste is not available. Or from oscilloscopes or other instruments. Just one thing to beware if your phone is synced to Google Photos:

> ""By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.""
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strange thing is that it is often ignored in trade negotiations.
Relatives that lived in Japan brought back bamboo stuff to the US, and it all cracked within a year or so.

The reason was that bamboo does well in wet climates where the moisture in the air keeps in flexible. (or something like that) But in the US, it's much drier (most places) than in Japan.

This fits with my experience of bamboo furniture over the years as well. It becomes brittle and fragile the older it gets. But oak/pine/maple don't seem to suffer this fate nearly as bad.
Yes and no. I think parent has a point in the fact that the predominant idea seems to be to patch a "current ailment" and get on with life (reactive mentality), instead of actually investigating a root cause of whatever causes that "current ailment" (proactive mentality).

For example, I'm having my sixth pharyngitis in less than a year. When I go to the doctor, the doctor only thinks "pharyngitis -> Pills A and B -> here, take these pills".

This will fix the problem. For now. What will happen in less than two months? I'll be back, to repeat the same procedure. Is this how the rest of my life looks?

Shouldn't the doctor try and discover what's the root cause of this? Pollution, some allergy, stress, what would i know...?

This is my personal case and it's becoming frustrating, but the problem is i know about many other similar cases. I really can't complain about the health service in my country (Spain, Barcelona specifically) because you will get the attention you need to not die, whatever happens to you, unlike many other places. But for things that are not critical as a punctured lung? "Take these pills and get out me office."
In term of high-tech making the situation worse, I know a soldier in the French army, who have used the new high-tech system, FELIN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%89LIN), which is adding a lot of weight between the batteries and all the high tech gadgets. Apparently the added weight made that it was rarely used.
And it never will be. I don't understand why so many people on Hn are obsessed with this utter garbage what crypto means.
The main problem here is that I went for hardware engineering, which almost no one is willing to hire as remote work.

I also happen to live in spain, comparing with other friends working in the same sector, I’m likely above top 10% in salary/age ratio.

Sadly in this country, at age 30 this is 40k€/y that after taxes becomes 29,700€.

Rent alone takes more than a third of that, I take ~3500€ directly for savings, and I need to stretch the rest to cover the rest of my costs, including stuff like medical insurance, gas, etc...

I know this is partly my chosing and the first comment that will come to a lot of people is “move”, but I can’t do it without heavily disrupting my girlfriend’s career (she’s still finishing her studies and working part time). Our hope right now is that her current job might give her the option to (legally) move to the US.
> seizes

ceases
Most infantrymen aren't carrying 7.62 and haven't since 'nam. The 240 is (on paper) crew served so you get to spread that load around several people.

I agree with everything else though.
And now we have

* 7 macs

* 4 ipads

* 4 iphones

* 2 tv's

17 products ?
i think the parent commenter thinks of google play services as bloatware too
That is a risk, but not an uncommon one. There are a dozen other workflows that rely on users installing CAs, maybe not quite w/o root, but all the same, installed, so this isn't a new idea.

Also, it seems to me that virtually any way to get those keys involve hostile code running on your machine, meaning you're already toast.

I do also wish it didn't install certs as non-root, but as pointed out in another comment, there is a workaround for that.
With fuzzy I mean that:

"foobar" may match a file named foosomethingbar.

Like this: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*VeGVAZsCVUYXrbI37...
Basebands are generally terrible black boxes. Even for new devices, they're a major security concern.
They didn't have body armour, no, and fewer batteries. You can get a fair idea of what how little they were carrying compared to current deployments from https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205194942

Allegedly RM commandos deployed in Afghanistan are carrying roughly twice the load ...
Who would have thought that choosing an LSTM on iteration 1 for embedded C code would have been fraught with challenges.
is playing pubg/fortnite not part of your normal use? coz everyone in the world is playing those games and the notch cuts out SIGNIFICANT real estate
This is so bad and so obvious that I have a hard time seeing how this isn't "supporting RSS" (for goodwill) while making sure no one uses it (for lock in).

Anyone wants to defend Medium on this one?
The firewall is there so that Facebook and similar companies made it possible to Russia and other states to interfere with election in the US cannot do the same in China. Yes, China has elections. I think most western people believe that propaganda that the firewall is a tool for oppression.
org-mode hands down
I am not the one who wrote an article making claims, so why should the burden of proof be on me? I dnn't think your criticism of my comment is fair at all.

The author made a claim, so they should support it. That has nothing to do with just world hypothesis. Also, he actually provided an example of somebody prevailing against the odds.

The only evidence that talent might be wasted is our feelings that it may be so. That's not enough.

As for contradicting statements, it seems to me my statements both say the same thing. Both are a request for providing evidence of (unfairly) wasted talents.
IIRC, self propelled bullets were tried before, and they found that the amount of propellant that can be held in the bullet is so low that it severely limits the velocity of the rounds.
"Murder on the Orient Express" also goes against the list, same for Sherlock Holmes in general.

I think it's one of those situations in which you deviate from the rules either because you don't know what you are doing, or because you know precisely what you are doing.
That would totally explain this! I'm often like, this tech is amazing. But wait, this doesn't even work with this other thing it should work with. It's definitely the fix / polish / integrate corner cases.

Google+ was a nightmare as well with youtube and other services - again, I was like how are you listening to users with these approaches.
You could say that in 2003, and that would have been even more true. Especially about BluRay players ;)
Pricing looks expensive, but quality is top notch. Do you know which TTS engine it is?
Seems a lot easier to register your own domain (useful for so many other things), point localhost.mydomain.com to 127.0.0.1 and run:

sudo apt-get -yy install --no-install-recommends certbot
mkdir -p le
certbot --work-dir ./le --logs-dir le --config-dir le -d localhost.mydomain.com --manual --preferred-challenges dns certonly

Follow the instructions adding the TXT record, you have a valid cert in minutes.
At the Blackboard:  Kurt Vonnegut diagrams the shapes of stories (2005)
Also probably missing some uses in the existing categories e.g. pellet fuels (grasses, rice or wheat husks and papers are already pelletised so no reason why bamboo would not be). Though I guess the ash factor issue remains.
One compelling differentiator is that they don't lag and stutter when you scroll the app menus directly in your mobile OS.
I've never heard as much about UX as now and never before has software been so broken.

Or maybe I'm just getting old.
I run timesnapper on my windows computer, it records a video of everything on my computer for the entire day. In the event I need to reproduce errors for sysadmin work

Whenever I have to debug / gut components out from my PC, you pretty much had to take pictures. Especially if you need to determine which point of failure you have (hardware, or software related).
That Tom Mueller guy is building rockets right now, though.

The point is, there may simply not be that many people obsessing about some things to the point of becoming geniuses in their field.
>>>>The US wants free markets to go both ways.

Are we talking about the country that pushed through many "free trade" agreements like this:

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/why-free-tra...

https://clas.berkeley.edu/research/tpp-nafta-whose-interest-...
It's been 19 years since I started learning to program with Rebol, it's still my go-to language for personal projects.
Regarding lvh, see also:

localho.st
For local web dev/testing most tools generate test temp certificates automatically or it's easy to get them, so the only issue is using it in production e.g. for communicating from web apps to local services.

The article links to Let's Encrypt post (https://letsencrypt.org/docs/certificates-for-localhost/) where they mention that "modern browsers consider “http://127.0.0.1:8000/" to be a “potentially trustworthy”". Before that several years ago it was just impossible to communicate from https to local http. Now most browsers (excluding Safari) support communicating with local http from https pages. And there is a hostile opposition from a Safari developer to support this, even though it is now a standard. (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171934)

Distributing an unconstrained CA root certificate and asking users to install it is a terrible idea. Even generating one locally is dangerous if private key is easily exportable. If one still needs to support local https, it's better to limit the scope as much as possible. E.g. to issue a certificate only to sub-sub domain and apply name constraints as @tedunangst mentioned. It's easy to do this with XCA tool:

* XCA: https://github.com/chris2511/xca/

* Name Constraint Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:NameConstraints

* How to create CA with NC using XCA: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/31376/can-i-res...

* An example how valid/invalid certificate look on Windows https://github.com/DataSpreads/CA

(Name constraints are also not supported on MacOS currently)
> PKVitality

That product doesn't exist yet, the video on the home page is 18 months old so it's probably not feasible / accurate.
You can get the same feature by doing a long press on the space bar, though!
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