skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mu guess would be that iPad sales are down simply because a) hundreds of millions have been sold already, b) even more competing (primarily Android-based) tablets have been sold, and c) contrary to smartphones, tablets aren't typically bought on contract and replaced every few years, and they don't add nearly as much utility as a smartphone for someone who didn't have one before.

These 3 things combined indicate the market for tablets has been nearly saturated, and the majority of people who want one (and can afford it) already have one. The iPad has moved from 'growth market' into 'replacement market'. I know many people who are still using iPad 2's or even the original iPad, for example my mom still used the iPad 1 I gave her when I upgraded myself, so I'm not surprised Apple doesn't sell nearly as many iPad Air 2's as they sold iPad 1 or 2.

The article itself is pretty dumb if you ask me, and far too hung up on the truck/car analogy, and the premise that a device can only be useful or enjoyable if it replaces some other device like a phone or a laptop. I have a smartphone, tablet, laptop and a fixed desktop at home, but if my tablet died I would get a new one the same day. My laptop and desktop are far more likely to be replaced by a single device than my laptop/tablet or smartphone/tablet.

Just looking around I see iPad's everywhere, all the time. I see people who hate computers but love their tablets. The idea that declining sales imply they don't have a use is quite ridiculous.
I had the same experience, I bough one and a week later I sent it back. It was annoying to hold on my lap because you can't put the screen at the angle you want, my macbook has 5hr plus battery life, it is on when I open it, it never has viruses, it just works... like an iPad.

My in laws however, who curse their windows machine when they have to reinstall every year because of unbearable slowness and crap piling up, that is a very different story.
Ideally, it would be a completely automated system. You don't need to understand machine learning to know that it would be better for the computer to do everything itself without human intervention
It looks like the X1 Carbon (3rd Gen) might be adequate, but the more compact X240 still has the virtual mouse buttons.
I wonder what she has to be wary of, now. I assume that being near strong magnetic fields and other things is probably... problematic. (No more MRIs for her, I'd wager.)

I also wonder if it's big enough to set off airport security, or other metal detectors.
Importing data from Excel shouldn't be this painful.

I'd love to see a service that takes in a user's mangled spreadsheet and some regex validation for each column and spits back perfect JSON-formatted data, walking the user through corrections along the way (ie: intelligently guessing column mappings, highlighting malformatted cells, column joins, down/up/title casing, and string substitutions). Something that could be integrated in a line or two of javascript would be fantastically valuable (especially if that "$100,000 in engineering time" heuristic is accurate).
While that (AI safety) is something that definitely should be taken care of, I find it has next to nothing to do with the type of rhetoric often cited in the media
I wish i knew what the hell he's talking about, but ABC doesn't like dirty foreigners being interested in their content it seems.
You're thinking of reddit and 8chan and places like that.
Well, number 1, an iPad is good for reducing the amount of free tech support you do for your parents, at least in my case. Reducing doesn't mean eliminating, unfortunately, but buying my parents iPads was still some of the best money I ever spent.

I have three iPads myself. I use two of them every single day, for work, for entertainment, for study, for the weather, etc.

btw, Apple just announced a record quarter with incredible iPad sales. For whatever reason, Apple has a very odd history with the press. You basically shouldn't bother with any story about Apple unless it comes from Daring Fireball. He's kind of an Apple cheerleader, but he also seems to be the only person in the world who will fact-check a story about Apple before publishing it.
Not only does this make your code easier to read, it also means that the entire ecosystem is available to you rather than a partitioned between sync and async libraries.
See ICE's "Operation In Our Sites" and related domain seizures. See also: DMCA and ContentID abuse.
It could just be that the market has saturated. Most people who want a tablet have one now, and there aren't compelling reasons to upgrade. This could spell trouble for tablet makers, but doesn't say anything bad about tablets themselves.
That's a nice little idea, helps that you picked my favourite blue colour for the UI (which is pretty fresh by the way).

What did you use for the backend - Parse or something?
I've done some user support, and browsers showing PDFs in an external app instead of inline is an extremely common user complaint.

Not only that, but PDFs embedded via <object> don't get shown in external apps in any browser. And this does in fact happen. For example, if you want to get your pay stubs or W2s via https://portal.adp.com you end up dealing with just such a setup.

I realize anecdotes aren't data, but this also applies to your anecdote; you're very much not a typical end user (starting with the fact that you're using Linux!).

I should note that "Netflix doesn't work" is probably a deal-breaker for the average user all on its own.
The biggest issue for me is: iCloud sync/Documents in the Cloud. When I used the iPad I had to manage my global/individual app settings daily and still found annoying holes where an both first and third-party apps wouldn't sync across my iCloud data. What's worse is that Apple doesn't give the user enough feedback when it's syncing data. (It's supposed to be magic, I suppose..)

I found that Third party sync services seemed worked much better than iCloud for me.

It just got too annoying. I couldn't ditch my iPhone, so the iPad had to go.
Micro-benchmarks lead to optimizing at the wrong level. In the real world, if process startup time is a bottleneck in your application then you are creating too many processes too quickly.
We use passive/active partitions, very similar to how CoreOS does OS updates on their servers.
Donate to the Tor Project. They currently rely on mostly government grants for funding their important work.

TorServers.net has also been mentioned already.
This is, of course, great news.

However, it's my impression that there is a surplus of entry and middle nodes, and a serious shortage of exit nodes, especially fast ones. Also, I've read that the geographic diversity of exit nodes is inadequate. I base these comments on discussions on the tor-talk and tor-relays lists, and from posts on the Tor Project blog.
It is completely automated. It automatically incorporates human/user feedback into ranking.
Chartboost has a dinosaur in their San Francisco office
I agree about the title. As best I can tell, when
they say "nobody" they mean "nobody in the marketing
department." In short, there's no single overarching
theme that describes what iPads are good at, so it's
hard to advertise.

Mainstream media continues to be surprised by the numerous use cases of a Turing machine.
Google Chrome's device mode has a subset of this functionality where you can make Chrome throttle the connection simulating different conditions (GPRS, DSL, offline, etc.).

Access device mode by clicking the smartphone icon on the top left of the Developer Tools (F12) right next to the Elements tab.
And why is it best for their users? Because more users = more money. As I said, business as usual.
Eclipse does this.
iPads are different, because Apple refuses to retire the iPad 2. Officially they don't sell it anymore, but they still sell the original iPad mini, which is just an iPad 2 with a smaller screen. iOS 8 needs to work well on an iPad 2 in a way that iOS 8 doesn't need to work well on an iPhone 4S.
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> featuring the television star Melissa Raunch

Whoa there! It's Rauch. Kind of a Freudian slip there, considering the actress is being named in relation to a sex scene.
We have users doing smart locks, digital signage, Point of Services systems, logistics, amongst many other use cases. More on this here -- https://resin.io/usecases/
I don't really buy this. I see literally dozens of people a day using tablets – mostly iPads. They're reading books, playing games, watching videos, using Facebook. I think it's pretty clear what it's good for.

I suspect that iPad sales have declined not as a result of the iPhone 6(+), but because the market is becoming saturated. There's little reason to upgrade past a certain point – sure, iPad 1 -> 2, and iPad 2 -> Retina were improvements. But aside from general performance improvements, there haven't been many changes since. In this situation, it's hard to see why most users would upgrade.
Using agile concepts to manage marketing work
The pajama idea seemed to play pretty well for you, I noticed it when watching the episode. All of the sharks seemed surprised by both of your backgrounds after the first impression.

How much of a bump in sales/interest have you gotten from being on Shark Tank?
The way EME is designed, the browser is responsible for fetching the data from the network and passing it to the DRM module. This is no different with MSE, as far as I can tell; what you buffer up is the encrypted data, then pass it on to the DRM stuff.
My business partner and I have been using Slack as our primary messaging tool and been somewhat stuck with Skype as a secondary tool for voice and screen sharing. I am definitely interested in seeing where this goes, and it's definitely a feature we'd pay for.
Also not a lawyer, but you can still be charged criminally in the USA:

"Charging a corporation, however, does not mean that individual directors, officers, employees, or
shareholders should not also be charged. Prosecution of a corporation is not a substitute for the
prosecution of criminally culpable individuals within or without the corporation"

from http://www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/documents/reports/1999...
I'd agree with your distinction, but I think it's beyond dispute that an effect of mass posting cartoons of Muhammad has been the incitement of hatred, on both sides, and that a significant proportion of the people posting said cartoons are doing so purposefully to achieve that effect.
Tech cofounders might be in a state of frictional shortage. Before people argue with me (it's rare that I'd call engineering talent in a state of "shortage") I think it's important to note that fault lies with the business co-founders. By "frictional shortage", I mean that cultural factors (low social status of technical people, due to a half-century of us selling ourselves poorly) prevent the market (with equity a larger factor in this market than salaries, because tech base salaries are quite reasonable) from clearing.

Right now, business co-founders trade 2-4 points higher on a 10-point scale. I'm a Tech 8, and a Biz 8 wouldn't, realistically speaking, mix with me. A Biz 6 would try to push me down to 5-10% equity, with the cliff and vesting that would make me more of an employee than co-founder anyway, and take the CEO job.

A Biz 6 can deliver Sequoia on an idea, and a Biz 8 is turning away executive-level offers and board positions and 11-to-3, 7-figure jobs at VC funds. A Tech 8 is happy to break $140k and get interesting projects. I've written at length about this skew: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/an-insight-o... . Biz 8 have other, very lucrative, options. A Tech 8 who is objectively just as good at his job (and a harder job) doesn't have the same.

The Tech 8+ drop out of the co-founder market around age 30 (and it's rare that someone even gets to Tech 8 before that age) because they get used to Biz 5's offering 2.5% equity to work on someone else's idea (as opposed to a shared idea with hard technical problems at the core).

See, too many business co-founders want to charge so much for the investor-level contacts, like they're Marlo fucking Stanfield charging $10 million for "a connect", that people usually trickle out before they even get to the Tech 6+ (much less Tech 8+) level. Jeff Dean stays in-house at Google for a reason.

Technical co-founders wouldn't be hard to find if the market could clear. They're hard to find because, while early-stage startups can't pay market salaries for understandable reasons, sociological factors keep equity amounts at shortage prices for good tech talent.
Ah, alright. Carry on, then.
Of course one can view a company's actions through various lenses, and this one still comes down to money. Facebook doesn't want to be the catalyst that incites mass rioting because they became a poster child for free speech.
Even the startingly accurate Chrome predictions?
I missed the previous post, but I've been looking for something to help me write... Then I went to the homepage and saw "...exclusively for OS X". I noped out of that tab as soon as I could
You really shouldn't do something like this without at the very least mentioning Kyle Kingsbery and the Jepesen test suite he wrote to validate how distributed datastores actually follow CAP or not.

For any devops / sysadmin / systems engineer: I highly suggest reading this if not only to understand failure conditions better:

https://aphyr.com/tags/jepsen

The entire "Call Me Maybe" blog series is because that is Carly Rae Jepsen's stupid pop song, for which he named his test suite after. That and Kyle's posts are absolutely hilarious to read. Seriously, read them.
It will be pointless for me to even try to argue facts for the following reasons. The subject we are debating is something that neither you or I know about first hand. Our entire basis for the discussion is based on reports of the subject through the media lens. Not sure about you but I'm monitoring media from both the Western and the Russian civilizations and there is no away that we can agree on the necessary facts if you are getting your opinions from just one source. The facts that we can agree on are probably trivial or have a conflicting interpretations. What do you think?
Written in Go for nothing, you might as well hack a cheap shell script.
" after 2 years she made only one video of that series"

In actual fact, she's come out with several, and as a backer I'm perfectly ready to accept "delays from pressure of constant abuse and death threats" as a fair reason for delay.
I use my ipad daily, for work and entertainment. When I'm working from home it's nice to have on my coffee table so I can see when I get a new email, or alert from the office. I leave my laptop in my office connected to a bigger monitor and would just go downstairs if I needed to reply to an email, or something. Then in the evening, I read hacker news, tv guide app, awesome Netflix/hulu remote with the chromecast. When I go to holidays at my relatives I always bring it to facetime my dad who lives in Hawaii. It's lite and easy to pass around the room so he can have a little visit.

I'm not able to write code or really produce much, but it's a great tool IMO.
Even that is too much contact for some people. A sane average person wants as little contact with the legal system and authority types as humanly possible, and for good reason.
Fine, I assume he'll apologize for the treatment of Ben Noordhuis then.

EDIT: And the ministry of truth voting is on the side of some rich silicon valley guys again.
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Here.com from Nokia Labs – an alternative to Google Maps
This sounds exactly like what SheetJS does. Where are the gaps between what patio posted about and what you are asking for? Just the JSON output and working as a service part?
I forgot about DNS munging shenanigans. Not only do some people selectively block DNS, but there are also cases where middle boxes and proxies pretend to be remote DNS servers but really aren't... or rewrite DNS traffic, insert fields, etc.
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It doesn't require human intervention.

Simplified:
Machine learning algorithm constructs page to show human.

Humans click on this or that on page.

Click data is fed into algorithm.

Algorithm uses this data decide how to show better page to humans

You are taking human input. It is still completely automated, it requires no human intervention.
I can't really see where they're coming from. The existence of an easy tool doesn't eliminate the more powerful tools, and even advanced users sometimes want easy tools.

I'm a computer power user by any reasonable definition. I program for a living, I customize a lot of stuff, and I get pretty upset whenever I try to run an unsigned binary and my Mac decides this is too unsafe and makes me jump through hoops to make it happen.

But I also use my iPad a lot. If I'm reading on the couch or watching a video, it gets the job done much better.

It's fine to say that it's not for you, but it's ridiculous to say that simpler tools must only be for people who are incapable of using advanced tools.
I love the house metaphor. I'm going to use it. Thanks.
Just yesterday I noticed my bill had gone up to $147. I called and did the yearly "I'll cancel if you don't give me a discount" nonsense. An hour out of my day.

Btw, they had raised the price of my 5 static IPs to $24.95 (from $9.95). I have to lease their modem ($12.95) because of the static IPs. I did research and found out that my registrar (namecheap.com) has free dynamic dns, so I'm going to switch to that and give up my static IPs.

So, after the $40 discount I got yesterday, plus the extra $38 for the modem/IPs, I should be down to a reasonable rate again.

I fucking hate Comcast.
That's apples to oranges to sharia law.
Forming a spanning tree; or equivalently, having a unique path between any two cells. Sometimes a few additional connections (adding cycles to the spanning tree) are considered ok.
You just reminded me that I have been dragging my feet upgrading my two OpenWRT routers for the last few weeks. I guess I know what I am spending my lunch break on!
Looking at sales as an indicator of the success of a product is warped and silly. The fact that it is considered the right way is a shining example of the fundamentally flawed nature of our capitalist system.

Up until last year when he moved out, I continued to use my dad's first generation iPad while he used his new mini. The first generation iPad worked great, I used it all the time. I saw no reason to go and purchase one of the newer ones for myself other than the fact that I couldn't install iOS 7 on it. The software pushed obsolescence, not the hardware. My dad kept it when he moved out because it was still a great device.

A more accurate title would be "No one knows of any reason to buy the new generation iPads because their older ones are working just fine"
`--device=eth0 --latency=250 --bandwidth=1000 --packet-loss=0.1`

This could have been named `--i-am-in-india`
I find it hilarious that "profitable" is the last milestone.
Is such a thing really possible? To convert CSV (flat data) to JSON (hierarchical data) you need to know the hierarchy. When you convert from JSON -> CSV you lose that information, and to get it back converting CSV -> JSON you need some sort of out-of-band schema information. Otherwise you will just end up with "flat" JSON, which is not better than CSV.
Is Google getting fragmented?
Yeah, I feel bad for normal users who buy pc laptops. The come loaded with antivirus crapware that they threaten the user to buy after 30 days, and usually become virus laden and slow after a few months of use because normal users are so naive when downloading programs. For that reason alone, the Ipad is a better device for most people.
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I also forgot TCP through TCP tunnels, which causes strange timing and flow control behaviors due to never actually dropping packets on congestion and double-ACKing.
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"It’s like the Hacker Gods got lazy and just set a constant Kicker Improvement parameter throughout the universe."
It's from BoingBoing. By definition, the article is biased and propagandistic. It's their shtick.
tear out.
I think it should replace all the textbooks in the university. It is incredible the amount of dead trees that goes into making all those textbooks that are in turn are very difficult to transport and use.

Perhaps textbook social learning app? Something, native, fast and reliable. So you can do your homework in your study group and have the results to be shared between all people in one place with a textbook.

I think iPad fell short with its textbook software - can someone make a platform. There is the issue of expensive and profitable dead tree textbooks though.
Allowing people to participate in schools without vaccinations causes proven harm. Being in the presence of a Wi-Fi network does not.

There's a pretty large difference.
Nice, and the detailed README is appreciated.

I do have to wonder if the name won't cause you trouble though...
I just wanted to point out how awesome your user id is in relation to this thread. :)
I think your observations re: Gazelle point to the situation that telecom companies drive shorter upgrade cycles for phones, often hiding their cost and allowing three year upgrades. In contrast people generally pay full price for tablets, and upgrade less frequently.
I personally don't like the woman, but while scrolling down the list, the contrast between these people and the people i know online and in real life is so stark that i can only wonder:

Who are these people and where do they come from?
Hi there,

Diffs and other improvements that affect bandwidth requirements should be complete in the next two months, before we announce pricing. Our agent requires standard web ports, so a firewall that allows web browsing should allow a device to connect. We are funded by a well-known Silicon Valley VC, this will be announced in a few weeks.

Pricing isn't finalised yet (will be announced in 2 months) but drop me an email at alexandros@resin.io and I'd love to let you know our current thinking.
Daring Fireball is down
I got some idea for hardware hacker with some free time. Epilepsy might go unnoticed for years. Friend of mine was diagnosed just because episode happened during GP visit.

Some non-invasive monitoring device with some sort of recording could be very helpful to many people.
I am not entirely sure what you are saying here, but the way I have always understood it is: data is knowledge; the ability to apply knowledge is intelligence.

Netflix has a considerable amount of data (knowledge) and its algorithms exemplify some efforts to apply that knowledge (intelligence). As it stands presently, though, humans still tend to be more intelligent than any algorithms we have created. (Generally speaking, of course.)

I think we are trying to say the same things here, right?
How could we go even more minimalist and eliminate even the bag? The heaviest things in it are your laptop and your clothing.

How to get rid of the laptop and still get work done on the road? Remote access to your laptop at home over VNC in net cafes? Wouldn't be quite the same.

How to eliminate having to carry multiple sets of clothing? It would be wasteful (both time and money) to keep buying new ones every day and on the other hand people wouldn't feel comfortable with any kind of service that would involve reusing washed clothing left by other travelers.

I guess your clothing and laptop are both personal items that you have fitted and customized to yourself, so they seem difficult not to have. I guess the best one can do is to get a laptop that is as light as possible and clothing that is light and easy to wash.
I'm totally agree with you. Same here.
Google: YouTube is so overloaded staff cannot filter content
I think you missed where I said a resolver would not accept these exploit records. You can not set up your own DNS server and have a resolver pass your records on. You have to be the target's resolver or mitm it. Or do it locally.