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_jn··on Show HN: Optimage 2 – compress images thoroughly
Turning that into a premium feature is a pretty good opportunity for profit imo.
_jn··on Show HN: Optimage 2 – compress images thoroughly
OP might also want to consider releasing a CLI / other form of library at a higher price.
_jn··on Snap to Release New Spectacles
Thank you :)
_jn··on Snap to Release New Spectacles
Mentioning “on Cheddar” in the title seems very much promotional. Could we get a title change on this post?
_jn··on Henley Passport Index – The number of countries holders can travel to visa-free
Their competitor's website (which has slightly nicer sorting/filtering functions, imo) is here: https://www.passportindex.org
_jn··on JavaScript in the Internet of Things: JerryScript and the Fitbit Ionic
Same here! I've had the pleasure of meeting them both IRL, and frankly, Intel can consider themselves lucky that they're on the team.
_jn··on JavaScript in the Internet of Things: JerryScript and the Fitbit Ionic
As well as the person who put JS on Pebble in the first place (Heiko Behrens, rocky.js) and Pebble's Head of Dev Tooling (Katharine Berry, CloudPebble etc.)

And yes, the Vaunt glasses run JS.

_jn··on Pebble is dead and hardware buttons are going with it
Turning off Bluetooth and uninstalling the app (or stopping it from running in the background) after the initial update worked just fine when I tried it.

Not sure why you’d want that, though.

The vast majority of users will buy a smartwatch expecting it to be smart, so giving them instructions for how to enable those features seems logical to me.

>lock you in

Wait, how?

>demographic information

...which is optional?

_jn··on Ask HN: What are the career opportunities?
You should have a look at the monthly Who Is Hiring thread[0], assuming you already have an idea of what you can do.

[0] This is January 2018's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052538

_jn··on Blots: A simple paper-based storage format
w/r/g/b/c/m/y/k is 2^3 and would allow 1byte→3dot with little parity, or 4dot with a bunch of extra parity.
_jn··on WeWork is set to become the No. 1 tenant of London office space
Obligatory grammar/style comment:

What’s with the British English-style conjugation in the byline—I thought Bloomberg was US-based?

(Also, City of London != London.)

_jn··on Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps to Create One User Experience
I think we'll also see an influx of great Mac apps as lots of engineering talent is currently trained to use UIKit (iOS).
_jn··on Ask HN: When do we give up on net neutrality and build a decentralized internet?
Linking freifunk[0], which built up some p2p mesh nets and developed OpenWRT modifications for their protocol.

I'd be interested in knowing what regulatory issues would exist for establishing point-to-point parabolic antennas, as it seems like that would help with long-distance communications. (I'm not an expert, etc.)

[0]: https//freifunk.net

_jn··on Resistance to Being Productive
Completely unrelated to article content—I very much hope that standardnotes’ publishing feature becomes a real medium competitor. They’ve made a great product so far and I’d love to see it take off.
_jn··on Can Japan burn flammable ice for energy? – CNN
Can we get this renamed to "frozen methane"? "Flammable ice" is kind of a ridiculous term.
_jn··on How to Get 100/100 Google Page Speed Score with Middleman and Nginx
That should take approximately as long as a client<->server ping, right? So shouldn't it be irrelevant for JS/CSS that loads within that time (say, 50Mbps & 15ms ping --> everything below 93KB gzipped?)
_jn··on Bananapocalypse: The race to save the world’s most popular fruit
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425918.
_jn··on A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs?
Interestingly, this breaks Betteridge's law by giving an indeterminate response instead of the negative.
_jn··on Ask HN: Dropbox like site that respects .gitignore?
I’m personally running it only for my projects folders & syncing to B2. Upload/storage pricing is super low for that, but downloading from them gets expensive if you use it often. If you’re switching to rclone anyway, I’d suggest you do some research to determine what cloud provider makes most sense for you :)
_jn··on Ask HN: Dropbox like site that respects .gitignore?
If you're interested in messing around with `rclone`, I've found the filtering rules[0] to be very nice. Among others, it supports Google Drive and Dropbox itself.

[0]: https://rclone.org/filtering/

_jn··on Ask HN: What is calculus used for in Computer Science?
The US high school curriculum tries to provide different courses in a way that may be great for creative subjects or languages, but simply doesn’t work well for math. The level of interconnection (eg uses of calculus in probability theory and geometry) means that basic calculus (limits, continuity, one-variable derivatives and integrals) really should be an integral (sorry, couldn’t resist) part of a curriculum in which it is largely ignored.
_jn··on iOS 11's Misleading "Off-Ish" Setting for Radios Is Bad for User Security
The communication isn't great, but the "off-ish" setting is visually distinct from the true off setting (the latter showing a struck-through icon.)
_jn··on High Sierra vulnerability exposes the password of an encrypted APFS container
Agree. It's probably an issue with the form, nothing underlying. (which means encrypted containers created via the command line should be safe from this vulnerability?)
_jn··on Dyslexia
I'd be interested in seeing is how syllable splits (for ex·am·ple, with mid·dots like this) affect reading comprehension for dyslexics.
_jn··on Solving pocket Rubik’s cube (2*2*2) using Z3 and SAT solver
I had expected something like this knowing that it's impossible to solve a 3x3x3 after assembling it with a corner rotated incorrectly. Thanks for this insight!
_jn··on Solving pocket Rubik’s cube (2*2*2) using Z3 and SAT solver
Shouldn't that be 8*2 values since the rotation of the cubelets is also important? (I haven't done much research on graph-trimming rubik's cubes, so I'm not quite sure about this.)
_jn··on Solving pocket Rubik’s cube (2*2*2) using Z3 and SAT solver
Though the "define center colors" approach sounds reasonable, a R/L' turn (and T/B' and F/R') are effectively equal, leaving you with {R; T; F; R'; T'; F'; 2R; 2T; 2F} = 9 possibilities by having the bottom-rear-left cubelet at a constant position. (31 billion nodes when the graph is not trimmed whatsoever by removing redundant moves.)
_jn··on German Students Hit 201 MPH in SpaceX Hyperloop Contest
That's not really the point—this test track is very short (0.8 mi). I don't really think the competition proves anything, but at least it's good PR.
_jn··on Coinbin.org: A Human–Friendly API Service for Crypto Currency Information
How about a https://coinbin.org/lbc,btc,eth -type query? (similar to a few stock market apis I've used)
_jn··on Self-Driving Taxis Will Become the Most Disgusting Spaces on Earth
If this really becomes an issue, (and assuming companies manage to coordinate) you could simply require a one-time security deposit around $50–100 to be sent from a bank account. Voilà, no chargebacks.
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