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To prevent that you'll want to s̶t̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶s̶n̶a̶p̶s̶h̶o̶t̶s̶ ̶r̶e̶m̶o̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶w̶h̶e̶r̶e̶.̶ use a surge protector
Sounds like a UPS with the standard protections is going to be somewhere in your future... Just not somewhere a cleaning lady can touch it.
Some people have small hands and/or short fingers. If you don't, it's hard to sympathize. Imagine trying to use a nine inch tablet with one hand.
Sorry, got my info from wikipedia. It may not be totally accurate. I was intending to mean '90 meters', not miles.

> It can travel up to 90 m (300 ft) per hour

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_%28rover%29
when the wheel is being re-invented, it should be cheaper better easier.

https://www.fullbloomhydroponics.net/hydroponic-systems/

https://www.instructables.com/id/Hyduino-Automated-Hydroponi...
If you need a phone but can't go without a smartphone the SE is excellent: small; decent camera; good battery life; runs the latest iOS.
They are standardized, though: EIA RS-453/IEC 60603-11
This blog post has some of good answer - http://codecanyon.usercv.com/blog/13/5-reasons-to-run-udemy-...
It's a really tough sell for most people when you tell them they need to have at least two copies of their data if they care about it. The vast majority of people will rather "take their chances." Usually that means another $100-500 bucks for most people.
One option is to find a donor organization that's aligned with your values and get in touch with them to hook you up with one of their grantees. Small local orgs have a tough time with paying and retaining talent so you're likely to find some low hanging fruit. Not necessarily open source but lots of opportunity to have a big impact.
The 32 GB model is $249
Game development isn't what it was ten years ago; better tools have basically reshaped how games are made. C# is a serious contender for most-used language in game development, because the gains in productivity thanks to related tools easily make the performance impact worthwhile. Besides, hot points can always be rewritten in something faster.

Or rather, many game developers already switched to C#. Most every major engine has C# bindings to some degree.
$ 249 / 32GB

$ 299 / 128GB
I can reach most of the screen with just one thumb. It isn't gigantic
The article "What Can a Technologist do about Climate Change?" [0] by Bret Victor is one of the best things I've read in regards to this issue. Not only is it incredibly interesting but it's also massively inspiring.

If climate change doesn't take your fancy as a cause, 80000 Hours have put a lot of research into this list of the world's most pressing problems [1]. Maybe you would like to help tackling one of those.

[0] http://worrydream.com/#!/ClimateChange
[1] https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/
> IMO, even the dumbest of murderers don't carry their phones with them

Your opinion is simply factually wrong, which is why there are regular stories about murderers bring caught with cell phone location records as key pieces of evidence.
They really are getting desperate.
I've been using SE for the past 2 years and it is perfect for its price and I have a plan to at least use it for another year too. Its fluid animation and acceptable performance make it way superior to most Android phones. I switched from Nexus 5 and I am not going to buy any Android phone until Google guarantees I am going to get OS+Security updates for at least 4 years.
The physical layer operates at 3125 bytes per second which just isn't enough for anything more than a single instrument

The typical MIDI 'instruction' requires 3 bytes. So, 1000 non-intense instructions per second. Not good enough for intense controller mods, but if the played 'instruments' do most of the work, that's over 80 ips (notes e.g.) for each of 12 voices. (Also that's 3125 bytes per MIDI input, of which you're welcome to use many.)

Perfectly adequate most of the time ... and one reason that the original, genius design lasted this long.

NOT to say that it isn't insanely great to hear this news.
One of the studies in the meta-analysis was about rats in agricultural areas ("From 1948 to 1986, male rats trapped in the rural area gained 4.5 per cent in body weight, while females gained 5.2 per cent, and the increases in the odds of obesity were, respectively, 19 and 26 per cent"). They are not eating junk food.

There is a paper from 2010 about obesity in marmots: https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/news.2010.366.h...
Crédit Suisse had the ability to create lambdas in excel in 2005. It only took 14 years for Microsoft to figure out it was a good idea
And how many months do the people that support such laws get of jail, when their policies affect the poorer and younger workers disproportionately?
Motorola has a few that are good, clean and in that range
Well, carbon taxes are the way to get there by letting the market decide what is preferable technology as opposed to some rando on an internet forum decreeing that we need nukes (not that I disagree).

Poor people are actually the most price sensitive and lowest consumers of services and manufactured goods, they would end up paying a smaller portion of the tax. There is nothing stopping the government from reducing other taxes in compensation or using the revenue to provide, say, a minimum level of free health insurance for all.
I think a more important question is whether Rust will supplant C++ for new development at some point. Obviously, no one is going to rewrite the existing C++ code base from scratch.
If we're talking about Spreadsheet programming, the work of Felienne Hermans [1] [2] (former mentor of mine) is definitively worth a read. She and her group have done a lot of research into how spreadsheets are used as software in companies and how software engineering research can be applied to them.

[1] "Spreadsheets are Code" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdfNvYPxkOY

[2] http://www.felienne.com/publications
Ground loops. Stages are very electromagnetically noisy, mainly because of lighting dimmers. If you connect a mains-powered computer to a mains-powered master keyboard via a USB cable, you've just created a big antenna for all of that RF noise. That noise will travel through the ground plane into your USB audio interface.

In that environment, isolation is a constant concern. Connections that are inherently isolated make fault-finding far more straightforward and obviate the need for external isolation boxes.
It already was happening without it. Before MIDI, there was CV.
I had emailed them 5 months ago about whether they planned such a store and whether it would be worth planning to make an app in time for the librem release, but did not hear back. This is the answer I suppose. The question is whether they plan to monetize it. I think they have to - there has o be a way for developers to pay their rent when working with free software. I hope they can pioneer something along those lines

How did the elementary app store pay off BTW? Are there any numbers available?
Thanks for elaborating.

The Swedish tradition is that you cannot vote to stop a budget, you can only vote for another proposal. That is, if there is only one proposal, you only allow 'yes' or 'abstain' votes, and if there are several, you do a series of votes to eliminate the lesser proposals until only one stands, and then only allow 'yes' or 'abstain' again.

I hope that explains why I find it so strange.

Another peculiarity we use to avoid stand-offs (it has always worked up until last election) is negative parliamentarism, where the prime minister is tolerated, not elected by the parliament. What it means is that a majority of MPs have to vote "no" to not elect a prime minister, which means that a lot of parties vote "abstain" (we had such a vote yesterday where the PM was tolerated with the numbers yes: 115, no: 153, abstain: 77, absent:4). This has historically meant that minority governments have been able to flourish.
Having roads with no speed limit is one of the reasons why to make cars with high maximum speed. Without that next generation cars can have 300hp and 90mph maximum speed.
How about a smallish wheeled rover, with temporary battery pack, powered by the nuclear battery? Guess that would be greatly limiting the power of the main device to fly. At first I was thinking you could try for a solar powered rover, but it's much farther than mars, and you pointed out the atmosphere is blocking.

I feel so lucky to live in this grand age of exploration - where computer power, materials science and advanced engineering enable us to visit our solar system.
It’s auto curated, but we use the metacortex platform our company built. That works by ranking experts in related fields and then ranking content they discuss accordingly.

It works extremely well, and some of our data sources include hacker news and reddit.

As such you can see it in action:

https://hnprofile.com/
All of them are a full inch larger in screen and most even larger in bezel.
We have some small amount of this happening:

Chucklefish’s new game is in rust.

EA: SEED has been using it.

Some people left SEED and started a new AAA studio (Embark) that’s all Rust.

Ready At Dawn has moved all development over and has even been releasing some open source. Their CTO has said some really nice stuff on Twitter, repeatedly.

Other rumblings and rumors.

We’ll see! Exciting times.
In practice, compaines end up doing signaling: have a rock-climbing wall, go-karts, different marketing.

You cant make people do things they dont want to do. You can force them to pretend , or to not do them. But if there is a will, there is a way.
> Hard to understand why someone would pay for that

Friend was telling me about the cost of internet on a superyacht...holy shiiaatt.
npm hell, I assume it's still a thing?
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I bought a brand new SE a few months ago for $180. It was from a third party but Apple verified the serial as original and unused. It wasn't availability or pricing that kept them from anyone who wanted one, it was the lack of name-brand-new-thing validation.
how about a foldable small phone?
amaccuish hasn't been downvoted and flagged.
Don't forget to replace your surge protector on an annual basis (or more frequently if you have really dirty power). Also, you can have a nasty fault in your PSU that fries everything also (If anyone knows of a surge protector that sits between the power supply and the motherboard, I'd really like to get one).
A friend of mine who has repeatedly sought to help out impactful non-profit initiatives over the years jumped from Google to 18F and he is really glad to be there. He has always leaned towards those interests and while he enjoyed some experiences at Google, he has never been interested in making a lot of money and I know he relishes the challenge of solving not just technical problems but also organizational improvement challenges in what is a stereotypical slow-moving bureaucracy! He would invite any interested parties to keep an eye on openings and apply to join 18F. I always think of it as a sort of Delta Force for the government.
Very next article on my version of the page: "Europe’s Most Important River Is Running Dry" (because of climate change)

Grow up, could there maybe be an upside to limiting emissions? One this writer with his childlike and provincial worldview can't appreciate? (Provincial because it's FAHREN auf der Autobahn, and childlike because the chosen substitute-word is "fun.") This isn't about your shallow "fun fun fun," it's about everybody's "death death death." And I hate to break it to you, but driving 100MPH on a German highway (which I'm pretty sure he's never done, or else he might've seen one or two signs with the words Fahren or Fahrt on them somewhere) might not be the only thing he'll have to say goodbye to. You actually should probably STOP ALTOGETHER hauling 2 tons of dead weight around with you everywhere, and do it TODAY, or be overrun with migrant refugees of drought, war, famine, and fascism tomorrow. (Or maybe your place succeeds in keeping them out, in which case you're probably in the fascist place from which you'll be the refugee.) Gauge how likely that future is, by the number of shallow and petulant downvotes this comment gets. I've pretty much accepted it as a near-certainty. It will precede the much-needed, massive die-off of homo sapiens back to a more sustainable population size.
Is service worker ready?
Beautiful design- but it’s effectively dead on arrival due to iOS being too bloated for dated hardware, and it’s only going to get slower as newer iPhones get faster.
Perhaps but you can do the same with BGAN, iDirect, or Kymeta Kyway with better bandwidth this just seems like it has no competitive advantage over competitors except perhaps coverage at the poles.
I prefer using other devices for videos/gaming/etc.

For something to listen to music, order a car, view maps, communicate or browse a web page it’s really perfect. Fits in a pocket and can be used with one hand.
I think currently front end development becomes a bit messy.

One could compare it to a wild west.

And most likely its caused by misusage of javascript. Typescript is now just a "lets learn less competent ppl how to write frontend", technologies change too fast and have too many holes.
Young folks want to be recognized and jump from one bandwagon to another..

This whole mess could use some refined standarization enforced by browsers (like apple store process)

Ps. Sorry for bringing so many topics here but situation is that bad and i didnt even mention security..
I live in the Austin area and tried this for a bit. There are tons of decades-old local businesses here, so I thought it'd be a treasure trove of jobs building fresh ones. I got one solid gig with a local music shop who needed a website with a CMS for maintaining an every-changing product inventory, but that was all I could find. Everybody else was good with Squarespace, so I went back to a desk job. I'm sure if I'd looked a little harder I could've found some "medium businesses", but I'd expected the finding part to be easy, and it wasn't.
Meh I hate generic names like this, especially if they are taken already.
For instance taskwarrior uses the task binary as well.

Have to take a look at it nonetheless

https://taskwarrior.org/
Yes really. It's a direct link to the actual product landing page to buy the product, complete with price information in the HN headline to draw the customer in.
I didn't understand one thing: is this implemented in Nim and run Python code? If yes, why don't run Pipelines in Nim too? Wouldn't this be faster?
You might be right, but as far as I can see the SE is half the price of the next cheapest iPhone, the 7.

There is going to be a market for people who want a phone that is not $500 American dollars, and it is wise of Apple to cater too it.
iOS flies on my SE
Kudos to Synology for having a process to recover on a Linux box if the Synology box craps the bed. I was reading this story thinking "this is a good lesson on why you don't buy an expensive SAN, unless you can afford to buy two".

But, the other lesson is: Backups. Sounds like backups were shut off 6 months prior.

The other lesson is: Monitoring. Backups were going to the USB drive, but it that stopped working at some point. Unless you have some tested monitoring of your backups, you are likely to lose data.

Glad this story had a happy ending.
Haha. Okay so this wasn't the crucial evidence. He cycled by in his hi-viz carrying a gun and equipment. If you guys aren't familiar with Britain, you should know that carrying a gun is extremely rare and being all decked out is not a thing people do.

The GPS watch wasn't got him.
I wouldn't plug any PC into anything not surge protected...
Must be a solved problem, since USB is ubiquitous.
XLSX files are just zipped XML files: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

Hint: as far as I remember compression ratio is 0 (stored) - best to keep such on re-save for compatibility.
If it shocks you, then you haven't been paying attention. How do you think the USA behaves in general to the rest of the world. Have you seen who's president?
The best solution I found as an alternative to an off-site copy is to set up a USB drive and something like a Raspberry Pi in my car. When I pull into the garage, the house server senses it and syncs new data to it.

This can be supplemented further by having it auto sync to a computer in your office whenever you pull into work. Add in some monitoring so you can get a phone alert if any of the synced copies are more than a few days out of date, and you are almost golden.
I am less likely to need a specific gene you sell (cf your list: cancer, inherited disease -uh thanks but no thanks) vs a few genes of interest that may not interest other people. You may want to adjust the price and the service accordingly, for "one shots".

Actually, if you can start selling service soon, get in touch. There are 2 phenotype genes we'd still want sequenced this year.

We just want the raw sequence of the maternal and paternal alleles. No nonense, no counseling or whatever - just the full raw data.

It's the perfect opportunity to get your first customers and open minded guinea pigs :-)
I have, I think, relatively large hands (I'm a 5'11" cis guy / I can comfortably play a 9th on a piano and uncomfortably play a 10th) and I still find the SE as large as I can manage. I want to be able to hold the phone in one hand and reach everything with my thumb. I can't do that on the 6 or anything larger. (I'd prefer the iPhone 4 form factor, with one fewer row of icons, if possible.)

A couple years ago they called large phones "phablets." We've lost that word now.
It has the internals of a 6s. Most folks I know with either are happy with iOS 12.
Some people will never be pleased.

When Lenovo came out with that throwback laptop the HN thread was full of curmudgeons nitpicking every little detail they thought was wrong about the retro laptop they always said they wanted Lenovo to make. The same thing would happen if somebody made a new small premium phone. Such people are impossible to please and there isn’t much point trying.
Thank you!!!! Going to grab at least one!
20 years ago plenty of people who should have known better complained about how crappy 'MIDI music' sounded. I liked to point out that MIDI doesn't make any sounds. It's a communications protocol. A Casio is not a Moog. Hollywood managed to work miracles with MIDI.

Similarly, if you find modern music 'glib and lifeless', that's not the fault of the instruments. For some reason the audience hasn't chosen to support something better. And let's just say that a lot of producers like to loop the same sample endlessly, because .... (they can't play? they lzy bches?)
I was reading through the Handbrake changelog and noticed it mentioned changes to how blurays are handled on linux... So I tried to rip a bluray and it worked. Hopefully I can survive without MakeMKV now.
That's a really cool solution.
I do, in fact, use really weak passwords on sites where it doesn't matter, and I reuse them whenever I feel like it.

Passwords already suck. Please don't make them suck even more.
Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) was shipping libav, but since 16.04 (Xenial) it went back to ship ffmpeg instead. So for Ubuntu LTS users at least, FFmpeg had "won" since at least 2016
> It's not diversionary: its neccessary. The lead question I see on alternate AOSP sites after how to make it work is "how do I get the google apps"

I'm not sure this is because they're in a big hurry to stuff themselves with apps. I think that a handful of apps like Uber, Whatsapp, etc are the drivers, and people want Google apps because none of these work on Android without Google Play Services.

I think people are less concerned with "apps" than these services, and if you could cover them, you wouldn't need an app store.

However, since the difference between an app store and a package management gui is the branding, I'm not so sure this is as big an engineering lift as the grandparent fears.
Have you driven the Autobahn before? This is quite normal Delta in speeds. Everyone is generally aware and slow vehicles promptly move to the right.
After thinking about this kind of data apocalypse for a bit I realised that the portion of my data that is mission critical is actually really small.

Throwing it on multiple clouds with version history isn't an issue.

(I'd recommend an O365 sub + duplicati...in theory you can push like 5TB to MS cloud).
Not really readable or editable though.
We’ll see if anybody can make one that doesn’t have a compromised user experience.

Even so, people who like small phones would complain that the screen is too big to use one-handed when the thing is unfolded.
The jack. Also the iPhone 6 was bigger and the rounded edges and corners introduced a bend/crack hazard, so in a back pocket, sitting down, there was enough leverage across the larger size to introduce force that bends it in the middle, cracking the screen.

So, the iPhone 5 appeals to people who want a small, durable, fully featured smart phone, with a normal headphone jack. The iPhone 6 and up all have bigger screens, but 6 is the last version with a headphone jack, and it is definitely less computationally powerful and measurably slower than everything after it.
It has a headphone jack, is usable with one hand, and fits in girl pockets.
Well probably because the dude stole the repo, lol
Japanese traditional music is primarily pentatonic or heptatonic and aligns closely to western 12-tone equal temperament. Contemporary Japanese music is entirely compatible with western music theory. That's a happy coincidence for a Japanese-American project, but it's distinctly inconvenient for Arabic, Persian or Indonesian musicians who use notes that have no useful equivalent in the western scale.
My point is being "undecided" on climate change is no more reasonable than being undecided on a round earth or a heliocentric solar system.
I'd say "engagement is the new oil". As long as users keep scrolling, clicking & viewing the money keeps flowing :-/

Data without engagement is less valuable, unless you want to monetize it in less-ethical ways. For the time being, big tech companies aren't stooping to the level of outright selling user data, despite what critics claim.

And just like the production & consumption of oil, capitalizing on maximum user engagement produces some severe negative externalities—particularly in politics.
I'm on the latest iOS and I haven't felt it be any slower than iOS 9 back when I first got one. I do see it shut down at an arbitrary percentage below 10% (whereas it would previously run until 1% and get slower), and I can no longer run 32-bit apps, but that's about it.
This is huge: "Added support for AMD VCE and Nvidia NVENC hardware-accelerated encoders". Shouldn't that mean 5-10x increases in encoding speed for your average gaming Windows machine?
AMD's Radeon 7 pushes PC gaming to 'the bleeding edge'
Even at half-price, the cost is still out-of-this-world.
If 98% of cars today are ICE and this is implemented, it's going to create a hazardous condition.