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Did anyone else confuse this podcast interviewee with Eric Weisstein at first glance?

http://www.ericweisstein.com/ http://mathworld.wolfram.com

1) New York City, NY, USA

2) 3 in my building: RCN, Verizon FiOS, and Spectrum

3-4) Verizon FiOS: 940Mbps down / 880 Mbps up for ~$94 | RCN: 1000Mbps down / 20Mbps up for ~$65? | Spectrum: 940Mbps down / ?Mbps up for $65? (all prices including taxes, fees and modem/gateway rental)

5) RCN 250: 250Mbps down / 20Mbps up for $44

6) I use FiOS 100Mbps up / 100Mbps down plan for $54 (advertised as $39.99 but I pay $54 with modem rental and auto-pay from my checking account). The service is descent except it can slow down in the evenings when streaming video, which I suspect is due to packet shaping. I have found that using a VPN with a local server typically increases speed during these peak times and allows me to max out my speed.

7) Sadly no, but there is this: https://www.nycmesh.net/

8) I like how the fiber is run into my apartment and near my desk. I like how they offer a fast upload speed of 100Mbps for the cheapest tier. I don't like how I have to enable auto-pay from my checking account to get a $10/month discount - but I use a separate account for this purpose, different from the account I have my paycheck deposited into. Their phone support is descent and local to the NY/NJ area, which is nice. My price is locked in for a year, and after that, if they raise the rates, I am likely going to move to RCN. RCN is a cable service and claims they will be reconfiguring their network to allow for a faster upload speed in the future, greater than 20Mbps, though that should be adequate for my needs.

Also, I am quite lucky that my building offers 3 options for Internet. The most common provider is Spectrum, followed by Verizon FiOS, and if you are lucky, RCN I am told.

I use mobile dictation frequently since I prefer typing on a full-sized keyboard over typing on a mobile phone screen. I find it works pretty well for me (using iOS 12 on an iPhone 6s). If I am in an area with poor connectivity or in a noisy environment, or if I am using unfamiliar words, it may not work as well, but for my purposes, I find I spend far less time dictating and occasionally correcting what I meant to say over manually typing in text. I utilize the "blue underline" feature to help train the system to recognize words I say when the dictation software gets confused.

Great work! Reminds me of some things I have seen in this subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/FUI/

Another awesome list with some command line apps: https://github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#applications

Link from raspberrypi.org site: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-product-raspberry-pi-3-...

I second IEEE Spectrum. Also Slashdot: https://slashdot.org

Sun Microsystems, especially after hearing more about the company, it’s culture and products from this [0] talk posted in this [1] comment in this [1] thread.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217952 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18217762

I wonder how much they paid to acquire that Instagram @palm account (unless someone who works for them registered it early... Let alone the palm.com domain)

I've had success with spider plants and "Wandering Jew" plants by growing them in water for a while, and then adding soil at some point, and watering every 3-4 days or when the soil gets dry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophytum_comosum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradescantia_pallida

I am so sorry to read all these stories of loss of loved ones and so sorry for all these terrible losses of loved ones. Reading this comment about remembering the day of one's death is common practice. The word Yahrzeit (from the German words "jahr" for year and "zeit" for time), refers to the anniversary of one's death, and is observed by recalling fond memories of the decased, visiting their grave, lighting a long-burning candle, and saying a prayer (typically a Kaddish) with a quorum. [1]

The aspect of a community coming together to memorializing the deceased and supporting mourners is a core tenant of practice. The week following a death, family and friends come to the aid of a mourner by helping them around their house, providing food and visiting with them to ease their grief. Communal prayer that requires a minimum quorum of people is another way a community supports a mourner. Though many people may process grief in different ways, there is little chance a mourner will lack human interaction throughout their grieving process.

Donating to charities in memory of the deceased is also a common practice. My friend's grandmother passed from Alzheimer's disease and I made a contribution to the Alzheimer's association. I recently heard a story of a Holocaust survivor who's father had passed from asphyxiation in a cattle car filled with people en route to a concentration camp. In memory of her father, she would support other's ability to breath by making donations to supply oxygen tanks to a volunteer ambulance service.

[1] https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/281636/jewish...

I hope that issues like this further open a two-way channel of communication apple has with "pro"-oriented users. For most of us, computers are tools, which must meet our connectivity and performance needs (encompassing raw compute power and hardware endurance requirements). To continue serving this market well and staying relevant to professionals and power users, Apple needs to take into account our needs and use cases when designing and releasing future products, which was quite evidently an afterthought for the 2016 MacBook models.

If apple tomorrow released an updated 2015 rMBP with a Coffee Lake or Ryzen2 CPU, an optional dGPU, 2 (or better yet 3) full-sized USB type A ports, and (only in my dreams) a full-sized number pad, I would more strongly consider a purchase than migrating back to the PC world for my main PC.

I am hopeful Apple recognizes their shortcomings, learns from them and produces more innovative and powerful hardware that meets the needs of the professional and power-user groups.

I hope they keep doing so until a newer model with a descent keyboard comes out.

My mom is still happily using her original iPad mini with iOS 9. Some apps these days are not compatible with it but asurprising number are still targeting iOS 9. Lots of popular apps such as Telegram, Netflix, Overdrive books support iOS 9 and still get updates (unsure for how much longer). Others like the Target app, require later iOS versions and force her to use an older version, which tend to still be functional, though without the latest features.

Nice job. Reminds me of wikispeedia: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/

Indeed, though take a look at their supported device list: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

You may be able to find something more commonly available.

I had a similarly pleasant travel experience while visiting Moscow on a whim. It was a bliss to get all around the city and back to where I was staying easily. Trains would come often and would have multiple connections (and if you missed a connection, you could just take one of the circle lines to get to the line you missed. And being from southern California, I definitely agree with your comment about how much more difficult a trip to LA would be without having access to a car.

Indeed! It's why many Jews choose to name children after deceased relatives to honor and remember them.

Also a similar quote by Irving Yalom:

"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/153699-some-day-soon-perhap...

I wonder why Saudi Arabia's privilege of hosting this competition was not revoked when they decided to prevent players from attending based on their country of origin. This is quite petty and stupid from a government which is attempting to re-brand itself these days.

Check out Authenticator for iOS. Open source and has builds posted in the App Store

https://github.com/mattrubin/Authenticator

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/authenticator/id766157276?mt...

All of the above +HN, for me

While living away from my native California, I had a good laugh seeing someone with a "San Bernardino Beach" shirt.

Great suggestion! Here a more about this great book by Dale Carnegie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influ...

Thanks for posting and I'd love to take you up on your offer. Also likewise, I'm happy to share any knowlege I am familiar with. (just sent you a DM on twitter :-)

I just bought https://www.nostarch.com/Rust and https://www.nostarch.com/seriouscrypto Both are early-release, but look good from the sample chapters provided.

From section 1394 of the penal code (FyreWire (fraud)) ;-)

Site not loading for me. Internet archive mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20170629000253/https://www.raphko... (Also I realize I share a surname with the author but am of no relation that I know of.)

I too am perplexed by this. I sadly believe this trend will continue until some serious regulatory consequences are implemented.

This is super neat! Comments like this keep me coming back to HN. Thanks for sharing!

Ah! Very interesting! TIL. Thanks!