teknover's comments

“Nvidia invented the GPU in 1999” wrong on many fronts.

Arguably the November 1996 launch of 3dfx kickstarted GPU interest and OpenGL.

After reading that, it’s hard to take author seriously on the rest of the claims.

It’s a pity that the leading eBike brands like Van Moof and Cowboy are not available in Australia.

I believe part of the reason for the delay & resulting country exclusivity is due to needing a repair presence to support the bikes.

Speaking to an independent senior bike repairer, they told me that they’re unlikely to fix eBikes as they can be more complicated & once they touch a bike to repair the onus is on them to bring it to restore to a repaired state (ie if you pay for a repair and it’s not repaired then the fault will lay with them until corrected).

So unlike traditional bikes that largely are free & operate mechanically similarly, you’re more likely going to see a more electronic car-style repair model (eg where only Tesla are repairing Tesla cars) and a push to consolidation where the 3rd party bike manufacturers or parts (eg Bafang motors or no-name) will lose out to those who have a physical store & large network (Trek, Giant, etc).

I’d love someone’s opinion on this to validate or challenge the thinking here — as for now, it seems I’ll wait forever and never to get a Van Moof or Cowboy & importing seems a dead end since it wouldn’t be repairable by any local repairer.

What would be a fair non-PoE unmanaged 10GbE switch?

So far I can only see TP-Link and Netgear options, both are expensive for Australia.

Is there anything in the pipe that will see these devices coming down in price?

My cat that I adopted is a hermaphrodite. I am wondering myself how rare it is, or where I might learn more.

Reading the comments, I thought I’d jump in to try Apollo again. I recalled it being stifling and yep sure enough, it hasn’t changed:

Basic navigational functionality such as swiping through content from one post to another is not available by default, instead it is behind a paywall.

Look, I totally get if there’s premium functionality such as notifications, better posting functions that you need to charge for it.

But as it exists it has less functionality than the default reddit app in which you can navigate. If you’ve already broken user trust by degrading a basic service I will not trust to pay you for the rest.

The (billion) dollar question: does it remove dark spots under the eyes?

No worries. There's five rows to interact with in the app. Pickup time, Pickup location, Destination, Car type and Request. Car type is what you're after.

Selecting 'Economy' car type puts you in a ride share, Taxi and Maxi are taxi-related rides, Premium is hire cars or Uber.

Ride types and the monikers given have been a natural evolution in the industry. Even for most folks, when they say 'Uber' they're likely referring to 'UberX' not a hire car premium experience.

Grab's massive! Unless you're deep in the country, you might not have known but it's actually pretty big. Quote from CNBC from June 2017: "Grab facilitates as many as 2.5 million rides each day, making it the largest ride-hailing platform in Southeast Asia with over 930,000 drivers in 55 cities and seven countries. In the past six months alone, daily rides have more than doubled."

Steve Yegge famously just joined them after leaving Google/Amazon, a great blog read if you're curious about their culture, mission.

*Disclaimer: I managed GoCatch operations from Nov 2013 to Mar 2014.

GoCatch has ride-sharing options since February 2016 (that's two years). While I can't state accurately to today's figures, there was akin to 350,000+ unique passengers last time I poked around.

In ASEAN/AP region, Grab is huge. It's founder is from the region (Malaysia) and arguably bigger than Uber in most countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and yes, Vietnam: https://www.grab.com/vn/en/

"He noted that treatment guidelines for every metastatic lung cancer patient worldwide recently changed in the course of one week after a research presentation at a cancer conference."

Isn't this a good thing then that there's a digital assistant to ensure doctors are up-to-date and provide the right treatment plans?

Story sharing time!

I run a local user group that educates developers on Google's technologies that while proudly independent from Google, has a great working relationship with their developer relations teams.

Back in March of 2012 (that's almost two years ago) I first brought to the attention of the Chrome developer relations team an extension called Bookmark Sentry that essentially contained a trojan that hijacks links to serve up spam ads. You can read more about it here: http://stopmalvertising.com/malvertisements/beware-of-the-go...

What I found troubling was the response back. I received an official response that it was within compliance of Chrome App Store policies. Specifically I was told:

"Ad injections are not in violation of the Chrome Web Store program policies. The policy requires that ads must be presented in the context of the extension or, when present within another page, ads must be outside the page's normal flow and clearly state which extension they are bundled with. We believe that ads are a legitimate way to monetize, but that they should be a known cost to the extension user."

I certainly hope since then they've changed their policy on this issue and are actively policing and enforcing against spyware and malware.

Chrome App extensions can access extremely sensitive data such as webforms with credit card, contact details, passwords and more and in the wrong hands can do untold damage.

Taking on the model of moving fast, breaking things no doubt.

I am surprised by some of the inclusions such as overhauled grid system to include four tiers instead of the original three of RC1.

To change something so fundamental does seem more like a beta feature than RC1 and no doubt people who've built 2x to 3x converters will be a little more anxious now.

That said I'm sympathetic to the fact that if you're going to change fundamentals or pivot, now's the time. Looking forward to more releases and feature stability.

Hey guys, love the idea! I just noticed you had a preferred voice option to listen to the streams. Certainly lends a bit more variety than vanilla podcasts!

What was the design choices of having the particular voices out of the many you could have chosen? Does your data show a particular preference by region?

You guys should do an Ask HN on what people would like to see as the default instead of random. Could lead to some interesting discussion!

Tip: It'd be great to see a 'preview' button to hear what they're like especially the premium

These guys rock. I'd been using SoundGecko to que up and convert articles for listening on the train. Syncs with Dropbox or Drive, done. Love the concept of putting a dedicated station for content providers, social aggregators like HN.

Re. HTML5 audio, until recently Chrome for Android had a problem where if you closed the screen/changed tab it would cease the audio playback.

With the new Chrome Beta app, it solves this. Download it here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chrome.bet... - hopefully after testing this change will be pushed to standard Chrome.

Is there a price matrix on different Australian payment systems? Here's what I was able to quickly glean:

Pin: $50 p/month, 3% transaction + 30c transaction Source http://createsend.com/t/j-BE42B41F1ADAD444

Braintree: $55 p/month, 1.75% transaction + $0.25 transaction + Visa/Mastercard Intercharge rate (0.33 to 1.98%) Source https://www.braintreepayments.com/pricing

PayPal: $0 p/month, 2.4% transaction + $0.30 transaction Source: https://www.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-receiv...

Am I missing something here or is there more to why I'd use Pin? Would love to hear a compelling case and a reason for why paying more per transaction adds value.

I'd say that at the end of the day, most merchants want the payment to be secure + cheap, that's it. Analytics etc. are nice but can come out of free open-source tracking methods.

Lastly as a developer, the per month cost is a killer. It completely shuts down the idea of having a boutique site earning residual money.

I've received the following error when trying to register: "Found Errors: Screen Name has invalid characters"

Which is bizarre since the username, email address, password all seem to pass the validation test.

The Screen Name in case you were wondering was simply my "firstname.lastname" and it's not an obsence amount of characters (4.9 char)

I'd agree.

As with all things in life, sometimes even the best of us get into arguments. From semi-colons to jumping the shark because your app is published on multiple platforms, geeks have been known to have their fair share of silly rants. And this article represents one of them.

Let's ignore the obvious confirmation bias of the author with their Eclipse background and ask ourselves the pertinent question: even if the author is correct, so what?

With open choices, we can choose to use any IDE we feel like. Some, like myself, feel that Eclipse is too cluttered and would prefer a visually streamlined system. Why then devolve yourself into putting down the work of others because you don't like it?

There's an absolute difference between a review and the way the author propositioned and explained his rationale as to why Light Table was not for him, explained by the reactions here in HN.

Let's be critical, rather than criticise.

Isn't the question of why the account was locked just as pertinent as how?

What would be racing through my mind was my account hacked, as if so maybe other services I use be hacked.

Or did I possibly break the terms of service? If so, what may have been the justified reasons for me doing so, or Google's reason for preventing me so?

That's where full communication with Google would be so essential to remove the ambiguity and resolve what may be a bigger question at hand.