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The UI was fantastic. It was extremely well thought out, consistent, and easy-to-use once you learned it. Even the swipe up to go home was super natural.

> I really wish someone would do a phone UI that is a lot more text focused.

It has to be consistent, otherwise there's little point. BB10 had one-button keyboard shortcuts everywhere—it was baked into the OS, and it worked really well.

Part of the reason it worked well is that there were standards. Backspace was always "delete", C was always "create" or "compose", I/O was zoom in/out, T/B was scroll to top/bottom—you get the picture. Keyboard shortcuts typically corresponded with menu items, and the shortcut would be shown in the menu. It's not like desktop multi-key shortcuts that are super hard to remember. Mostly because BB10 shortcuts were contextual.

On the home screen, long-pressing a key would also open an app, which you could customise at will.
>everyone will be plugging their car in at home

Absolutely not. Having to wait for hours to get a few kms of driving distance is way too much of a friction point for EVs to ever be more than a novelty, in addition to the usual complaints of people with only street parking, garages without outlets, etc. Either we'll get the battery-swap situation rolling or invent a faster charging tech, but either way there'll be some sort of "station" in the picture.
Is it Telnet? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/30/huawei_enterprise_r...
Most Vanguard funds, even the Admiral ones, only require $3,000 USD minimum these days. The expense ratio is often 0.15% or less. Index funds are as low as 0.04%.

https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/share-classes
That's only because the make money on it. If soundcloud can figure out how to get listeners to pay more money, then more will go to the artists. I'm leaning towards a patreon model like I mentioned in another comment.

I've been paying for the SoundCloud Go+ plan ($9.99/mo) since November 2016, which I match when I buy 1-2 albums on Bandcamp. Its not enough. I would gladly subscribe to some artists and pay $5/mo.
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The last two sentences appear to undermine the headline:

While the Water Reclamation Facility in Bozeman found the chemistry worked, the logistics of transporting the liquid brewery waste there are too expensive for now. If regulations get stricter, the plant may consider this approach in the future.

So did they save $1M using this approach, or are they not even using it after all?
While that's true, having the ability to capture strokes now allows machine-learning models to better determine what potential strokes were used to make a specific shape. Just because we didn't have it for everything doesn't mean it's not useful for adding accuracy to the past.
>At least at the moment the trend tends to be towards demand for the benefits of increased density, as the culture has shifted to valuing experiences more than large (expensive-to-maintain) spaces.

In the US, everyone in my circles acts the same way, until they have children. Then the priority becomes quality of school, which really means socioeconomic status of all the children in the school, which leads to the well known rule of thumb to buy the cheapest house in the most expensive most suburban neighborhood you can afford. Or be rich enough to send your kids to private school if you want to continue to stay urban.
I wrote to the maintainer in late 2018 and he informed me that the project is no longer under development. He mentioned that CoreObject (coreobject.org) would still be active, but that was over two years ago and I can't say for sure.
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With the increase in rapidity and ability for developers to get code into production, a specialization has emerged.

Someone who focusses on the security aspects of the code pipeline. There's a lot to do here, which most companies are not. For example, not pulling random containers and packages from the internet, and having a trust path for auditing.
All right, same question: Is there a "Rust: the good bits" book that someone can recommend?
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Stuff I learned writing a JavaScript tracer
Author here. No doubt that low interest rates are driving investment dollars. In my talking with the physicists who are starting these companies low interest rates and funding availability is only part of the equation. What's motivating them to start new companies is strongly influenced by new technologies.
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But the relevant comparison is the cost of exception handling vs the cost of manual error checking.

Of course if you don't check for or otherwise handle errors, the program will be faster. It's literally doing less work.
Yes! Would love to know this - highly beneficial information sharing.
If the interest rates have to be that high, maybe these loans just shouldn't be made. There's got to be a better way to "help" these people than saddling them with predatory loans.
or (c) eat the loss in order to gain market share. Thats the SV way!
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If Bayer weren't regulated, would you still trust their product?
It's an implementation of a single qubit, tested through several transformations (one of two critical parts of a quantum computer) using a quantum dot. A useful qubit can be placed into a superposition state, say with a probability, on measurement, of being found up or down. A quantum dot is an area of a semiconductor that acts like an atom, but doesn't have a nucleus. The paper focuses on a novel implementation where the electron of interest is in a higher shell than other implementations, and quantifies the performance, finding higher shell electrons perform better than lower ones.

Finally they claim they may be able to implement coherent entanglement (the other critical ingredient for quantum computing) but it is only mentioned as a foot note, with a nod to another paper which analyzed quantum dot electron spin qubits under entanglement, but not with the higher shells.
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That's recent enough that it's very possible the poster you are replying to didn't know about it, or just forgot. But certainly up until 2018, it was a well known bit of "received knowledge" that Southwest had never had a passenger fatality. Until the incident mentioned above, the only fatality they'd been involved with had been when a plane skidded off an icy runway (at Midway, I think) and hit a car sitting a stoplight, and killed a passenger in the car.

In any case, in terms of actual outcomes, Southwest has had a pretty good track record over the lifetime of their airline.
Isn't there a rather significant difference between NSA and CIA+BND?
Not the parent, but I once inherited a bunch of tools that used the same tracing function. Akin to dtrace. 6 people wrote 6 tools over different domains all with their own post-processing, filtering, formatting, etc...

It was a support nightmare, so we built a common library and collapsed the code base by 70%. Each tool was probably in the -8k eslocs range. Thankfully it wasnt c++.
A magnetic coin, might be the "trick coin" that was being posited.
Do you mind explaining why it is a bad idea in principle?
It feels like if we have a decent implementation (a big ask, to be sure), it would be safer and more convenient than the actual way.
This is a long-contested debate in the field of international development. The model you propose is called microfinance, and has been attempted for decades. Here's a summary of the issue: https://blog.givewell.org/2013/01/04/cash-transfers-vs-micro...

In short:

- Microfinance programs that grant small, low-interest loans aren't sustainable. Administering those programs (especially in developing countries) carries massive overhead that isn't offset by revenue from interest.

- Furthermore, there isn't strong evidence that low-interest loans actually improve their recipients' well-being on net (considering the harm that indebtedness can cause).

- Evidence (from randomly-controlled trials) shows that direct cash transfers are effective in improving recipients' well-being on a number of metrics, and that recipients do not spend them on "sin goods" like alcohol or tobacco[0].

[0] https://www.princeton.edu/haushofer/publications/Haushofer_S...
Are you saying that economics is, or should be interested in physical reality?

That might be hard to model mathematically.
The Chill channel on SiriusXM used to stream rare tracks only found on SoundCloud many years ago, before it became more mainstream.
Do they need the money?

It's always struck me it should be even cheaper than it is.

Perhaps cc.tld registries should be able to register any non-cc domain. Then registrars could shop for the best service.
Bandcamp is a great service, but I wouldn't say its a great product. I will get emails saying that an artist released a new album, but when i check my feed it doesn't show up. I have to go to that artist's page directly sometimes. The feed system is buggy, and that's an important part of a music app for discoverability.
And the mobile app still doesn't allow me to save offline, last I checked, also important for a music app when streaming on the road.
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Which is drastically different from my experience from flying a different carrier with a very empty plane. The original seat assignments had all of the passengers bunched together and the flight attendants denied anyone's request to move to empty rows until the plane reached altitude. They finally explained that the plane's load master stated that's where the weight needed to be during take-off/landing. Once they explained that, everyone complied without any further complaints.
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Agreed, and given available data from Baremetrics, that's actually quite a bit above average:

https://baremetrics.com/blog/how-fast-saas-companies-hit-arr...

On average it takes a company a year(ish) to hit $4kMRR.

EDIT: I mistakenly thought they launched on Oct 2019, but a comment further down puts launch at Dec 2018. Which means they're doing well but not spectacularly...which means they maybe should raise prices.
I've developed a personal sniff-test for software development work that exists right now but isn't actually very intrinsically hard. Those areas are ripe for products like this that simplify or partially automate the process. It was only a matter of time before "glue code" got streamlined.
I've been using Hub[1] (though not aliased to `git`) for years now, and it's PR management capabilities have been invaluable working on larger projects. Hopefully GitHub CLI is as stable and reliable!

It looks like the main features I use from Hub are already well-supported in the GitHub CLI, and it looks like whether or not Hub will still be maintained is an open question[2].

Edit: Just noting that `brew install github` doesn't work, it's actually `brew install github/gh/gh` — that's a new format for brew packages I haven't seen before.

[1] https://github.com/github/hub

[2] https://github.com/github/hub/issues/2470
I have a model 3 with autopilot and it takes very little pressure in the opposite direction on the wheel to disengage autopilot before it gets very far.
That's a good point. One of the original appeals of Python is that it started as a pedagogical language, and it shows. Even Python2 today still has most of that feel.

Python3 on the other hand, just isn't. You're pretty much required to constantly deal with Unicode and its related issues, and this is a burden for beginners. In Python2, you can kick that can down the road almost indefinitely.
They're saying it's too expensive to do outside of Bozeman. The sentence that begins that paragraph clarifies it.

"But it may not work everywhere."
It's interesting that in the study they described, performed on blindfolded people, that their descriptions have similarities to the DMT experience:

>>> One subject, a 29-year-old woman, saw a green face with big eyes when she was standing in front of where she knew there was a mirror—though she couldn’t see it. Another 24-year-old man, by the end of the second day, was having difficulty walking because of all the hallucinations that appeared to be in his way. He reported seeing "mounds of pebbles, or small stones...and between them was running a small stream of water." By the end of the study, he reported seeing "ornate buildings of white-green marble" and "cartoon-like figures."
The other issue with Spotify is that they had no answer for Dropbox, clyp.it or more recently, Bandlab.

Back in the day if you wanted to collab with another producer, vocalist, rapper, whatever, SoundCloud was the quick and dirty way of sharing audio ideas and files in the browser. For larger projects you used Dropbox.

Shame they tried to be internet radio and not a place and tool for content creators, like YouTube. They could have been the YouTube for audio, like podcasting.
> one day background services in Android will simply cease to work, all in the name of better battery life and customer care.

In that instance, having an app which centralizes the push service needs of other apps would be highly useful, as it could then be installed as a system app with the same kind of access as the FCM service. For many phones, custom ROMs are available. Average people probably won't have the skills to install custom ROMs. But the goal of OpenPush is not to replace FCM from all phones everywhere. It's to meet the needs of the subcommunity of people who want to use degooglified Android, maybe also later on integrate with non-Android mobile OSs. In that subcommunity, people likely already use custom ROMs, and among those who don't, the readiness is higher to install one.
Ospreys in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. It looked like a mother/father osprey teaching their young to fly. It was stunning.
I witnessed the last ICANN Meeting... They definitely don't need the money.
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Pangolins suspected as potential coronavirus host
There are and always were satellite radio options that don't have to be built in to the car. My first satellite radio (Sirius, before they merged) was actually battery powered and portable - I could clip the antenna to my backpack and listen while I walked the dog. (This was before mobile streaming was really a thing.) Like others here are bringing up though, I've found the variety on the music channels to be lacking. These days I get more mileage out of Pandora and a few podcasts.

Also a fun little note - if you have a standalone radio with active service, then turn it off and stuff it in a box, cancel the service, and wait a few months or a year before pulling it back out, you'll have free service for the life of the radio. They stop sending the device specific kill codes after a while so it will just keep working.
I disagree. He was informed enough about the technology and aware enough of its limitations to write extensively about it. Tesla and all other assisted driving technologies all give the user a warning to stay alert and maintain control of the vehicle. He was clearly distracted somehow because he was relying on the technology.

Also:

> Recovered phone logs show that a strategy game called “Three Kingdoms” was “active during the driver’s trip to work,” the NTSB said. Investigators said the log data “does not provide enough information to ascertain” whether Huang “was holding the phone or how interactive he was,” though it said “most players have both hands on the phone to support the device and manipulate game actions.” Huang’s data usage was “consistent” with online game activity “about the time of the crash,” according to the NTSB.
He was an engineer - he probably wanted to try and "solve" the problem (isolate the car's behavior and see what inputs are causing the incorrect reaction) and engineer a solution. As an engineer, I can understand this drive. He probably felt he was on top of it because he knew of the bug.
This theory depends on hundreds, maybe thousands of doctors and peditricians, many of whom would be specialists focusing on blind patients, a similar number of teachers, social workers, care takers, blind training centers staff, parents ... ALL missed schizophrenia, which is often a debilitating illness, because they are "sighted".
Very neat idea.

On a side note, seeing that photo with the massive tubs of spent grain lying around makes me gag just thinking about the smell. For those unfamiliar, leaving out spent grains for a day or two results in a putrid buttery + vomit smell, likely due to butyric acid.
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It allows you to set the speed but only up to 8 mph above the posted speed limit (or something like that).
> Would you bet a family member?

I bet myself and my passengers and everyone else on the road every time I take the wheel. That's what seat belts and other safety measures are for. I'm also willing to take those risks of other drivers I can't control. Why wouldn't I extend those risks one more step to a proven system? (The onus is on proof of that risk)
Pulse to Tone converters are a thing. It's possible to use a rotary phone with one on things that expect DTMF tones, which is pretty much the entire world now.

Though, honestly, if you're the type to use a pulse to tone converter to keep your pulse phone alive and in use, you probably enjoy using it on a modern phone tree.
You seem like a Nimmer. What would you describe as the biggest downsides of Nim wrt Python? (aside from the fact that it's currently a niche language.)
Judging by the number of wars it started in the last century... it's definitely the American.
I am glad they used Go to develop this command line tool.

Knowing how big GitHub is on Ruby and Node.js I was afraid they had used one of these two languages to bootstrap the program.

Being able to drop the binary in any computer and have it work without hundreds of files as dependencies is a bless when you write programs in Go.
This is the coolest thing i’ve seen this year! Thanks for sharing.
I don’t understand what you mean by ‘cc tld registries should be able to sell non-cc domain’
> There are many security switches that are generally left off in widely distributed kernels that provide deep protection when you don't need to support everyone's project and app.

Is there a place where these options are listed? Preferably with the pros/cons of enabling each option.
Logo’s a Lisp. Swift’s an Algol. The latter are much more complex, and also much less expressive and customizable; alas, thanks to C they’re also firmly entrenched as the status quo. Logo emphasises compositional thinking; Swift Playgrounds algorithmic hoop-jumping.

Ironically, Apple did do a Lisp[-in-Algol-clothing] back in the 90s—Dylan—but abandoned it when NeXT took over. Shame. Closest thing since then was the “Objective” part in Objective-C, but that was always a bit smoke-n-mirrors (since it’s still C at the bottom) and is slowing going away now in any case.

I do not think Swift is a good K12 teaching language (it’s a nicer C++, roughly on-par with Java in complexity), but Apple’s goal here is to create lots of new (and preferably locked-in) iApp developers, not raise talented independent CS students†, so that’s not a problem for them.

Real-world Swift App development also gets varying degrees of ugly/tedious/painful when dealing with BSD/Foundation/AppKit/UIKit idioms and APIs due to the impedance mismatch between Swift and Obj-C worlds, so the sooner it has its own native APIs for everything the better. I don’t think SP can really prepare anyone for that tangled mess, though if/when SwiftUI is fully ready for primetime I can see SP boosting that. (Whether SwiftUI itself is particularly good remains to be seen.)

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(† Mind, most K12 and college “computing science” courses nowadays are really “software engineering” and not really CS either; and even SE can be a stretch considering how much software today is garbage.)
Ask HN: TypeScript, native compiler/VM implementation?
Is there any native implementation of TypeScript, compiler/VM? I mean not a JS transpiler but something independent?

Any work on that in progress?
We are using https://www.leaseweb.com/dedicated-servers#NL which is indeed a monthly contract.
That's because there aren't enough Manhattans.

A similar situation plays out in cities like London - a ton of people move out to raise families; historically it's been possible for the middle class to have children and live a few zones out, but it's getting much harder for anyone without inheritance.

The problem is that there are very few cities that aren't either tiny, or endless car based sprawl.
One thing I really hope they keep from Hub is the way it creates pull requests, namely by opening $EDITOR and using the first line as the PR title and the rest as description, ie. exactly the same mechansim as git uses for "git commit".

Needing to navigate a menu to set title and description as it seems to show in the screenshots seems like completely unnessecary friction.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Mostly kidding this looks cool.
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There was a great blog post I saw some years ago on HN about someone reminiscing about halloween candy trading as a kid. They remembered fondly about just how organized the trading quickly became. it was all barter, but there emerged quickly a candy franca. All the kids were willing to accept three muskateers bars because they knew others would accept them, and worst case they were at least tolerable to eat.

While I agree that the barter economy as a rhetorical construct is most certainly made up, being very useful in freshman econ, I’m not convinced it money could possibly happen without first having trade in general. I would argue that money happens very quickly, which is why you’re not going to see a lot of evidence of extensive barter. If one childhood is enough to establish a candy currency, then you’d expect a similar currency to develop very quickly in any society.
C’mon man you should know better than that by now. Here on HN you only read the headline. Nobody actually reads the article. At most you read a few comments to get the gist of what people think the article might be about.
Cool app! I noticed you let users connect their spotify for on-demand listening, any plans to inclued apple music?
I am about to rewrite something (different cloud, blabla) and if I do a good job I think the program’s LOC will go down by about 25%, the unit testing LOC will go up by maybe 50%, and maybe 50% of each will be the same old logic while the other half will be new logic.

I have no idea how I would try to count that if I wanted to measure “productivity.”
With this article in mind, why don’t breweries become algae farms for biofuels or fertilizer?

Im sure micro breweries would love to add an additional revenue stream.
I'd probably think of Bool as being isomorphic to Maybe (), which would mean your map implementation looks a bit like:

map :: Bool -> (() -> b) -> Maybe b
map True f = Just (f ())
map False _ = Nothing

Or, in Haskell because you've got laziness you could go with:

map :: Bool -> b -> Maybe b

Which already exists as a combination of Control.Monad.guard and Data.Functor.(<$).

map tf b = b <$ guard tf
I can understand that drive too. I cannot understand allowing a technology that you know to be unsafe take over completely so that I can play a game on my phone.
I think your comment is pretty fair and not an indictment of the project. It's 100% worth mentioning.
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This is just an ad for NDepend.
Can Artificial Intelligence be more revolutionized in the coming era?
Compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author