Too much tech: Today's kids struggle to hold pencils, study says
Overuse of touchscreen phones and tablets is preventing children's finger muscles from developing so they can properly hold a pencil says a new report.
United passenger records heated exchange with ‘rude’ airline staff over carry-on bag
Though the pair were eventually allowed to board, Natalia says the event left her and her Russian-born mother, who speaks limited English, feeling humiliated.
American Airlines passenger films argument with ticket agent
An American Airlines passenger taped a heated argument with the ticket agent after missing their flight, claiming the airline treated them like 'animals.'
‘Cocaine babe’ pleads guilty to smuggling $30M drugs on cruise
Known as the “cocaine babe,” a Canadian cruise passenger finally plead guilty to smuggling over 200 pounds of cocaine on a Princess Cruise in 2016. Worth between $21 million to $30 million the drug bust was Australia’s largest to ever take place on a boating vessel.
'Cocaine babe' pleads guilty to smuggling drugs on Princess Cruise following sentencing of porn star friend
Melina Roberge, 24, and Andre Tamine, 63, have entered guilty pleas in connection with the Aug. 2016 incident after their partner in crime already pleaded guilty in November.
Climber abandons 'completely suicidal' solo ascent of deadly K2
A Polish-Russian mountaineer, who was attempting to become the first person to climb K2 -- one of the world’s deadliest mountains – by himself in the winter, aborted his mission on Sunday over safety concerns.
Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business?
178 by boldslogan | 56 comments on Hacker News. Without going too much into my own product. I have recently found out after watching the AWS conference that I am now directly competing against an Amazon product... I am looking for stories of how your company reacted and maybe the successes or failures...
Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
113 by christophepas | 66 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I'm Chris, founder of Slite ( https://slite.com ). We’re building a tool for modern teams to write down and retrieve things that matter. I've launched two companies in the past and basically ran them on note-taking apps. The first was a hiring SaaS and the second an on-demand fashion-delivery service, and while the two were pretty different, I needed to write down a lot of stuff: interview notes, mentoring, email and article drafts, notes on customers and so on. I had this habit because notes are versatile, incredibly user-friendly, and immediate. They made up my personal knowledge base but the biggest frustration I had was sharing those with teammates. So I decided to build a note app that would work with teams from day 1. This is in line with the current problems in team collaboration. A lot of people were thrilled to dump email to get on Slack, but recent conversation has shifted towards Slack killing team productivity and leading to loss of information. This topic even trended on HN a week ago: http://ift.tt/2nSGHeM . We’re building an asynchronous writing tool for teams to organize their work with one simple yet crucial goal in mind: make sure teams stop losing valuable information and find it more quickly. We want to remove the back and forth you have on Slack, via email or even offline to find information. We use the same channels pattern as Slack, mainly because this avoids the folders structure where content is hard to find, organize and where permissions are a nightmare. But using Slite allows you to separate use cases: channel chat a la IRC or Slack to communicate instantly, Slite to write and retrieve information. Another major product focus is search: existing tools such as Google Docs or Dropbox Paper make it hard to organize and navigate through content (not to mention Slack where everything get lost between cat gifs). We put huge efforts on making it seamless in Slite. With these basic differences we've already convinced hundreds of teams and thousands of active users to switch their content over from Google Docs, Dropbox Paper or other tools. We’re now entering a new phase where we’re focusing on integrations, allowing teams to push and access their information from anywhere in their workflows. It’s an exciting time and we’d love for you to check it out and give us your feedback. And we're eager to hear your ideas in this space. Please share your thoughts in the comments!
NumPy Exercises for Data Analysis in Python
342 by selva86 | 28 comments on Hacker News. I compiled a list of numpy practice exercises related to data analysis. Might be helpful if you want to practice some data munging problems. Feedback welcome! http://ift.tt/2CnJk13