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There have been a few instances where someone wouldn't be too far out of line in assuming planned obsolescence with Apple. An example would be the notorious 2008 Macbook. When Apple launched Mountain Lion in 2012, it ditched support for the plastic Macbooks. So, that 2008 white Macbook my girlfriend bought only got new OS updates for 3 years, which was a pretty big bummer. For comparison, similarly equipped 2008 Windows laptops can run Windows 10 today without much fuss. In the end, her LCD started to short out anyway -- a common issue with Macbooks of that era -- so we got her a basic Toshiba laptop for about 1/2 the price of a Mac. It's still humming along nicely and I just dropped an SSD in it to give it a huge speed bump.
Show HN: I made a free iOS/Android app for anyone using Eligius Pool
Hey guys, just thought I'd share that I wrote a 100% free (no ads) app for both iOS and Android to help you monitor your mining progress and payouts is you are using the Eligius Pool. Here are the links:

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/eligius-pool/id1070165490?mt=8

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuwex.eligiusst

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Thanks
I had a quick go at this a few months back using Apple's CIDetector[1], and even at 'high' accuracy that didn't seem precise enough — it was distractingly jiggly.

[1] [CIDetector detectorOfType:CIDetectorTypeFace context:nil options:@{CIDetectorAccuracy: CIDetectorAccuracyHigh, CIDetectorTracking: @YES}]
This is the heart of the problem. It's not 'the cloud', unnecessarily complex feature sets, or any of the other complaints being thrown around

It's that the software was not thoroughly tested. Nest cut corners in R&D.

Consumers are also at fault for not taking the time to understand the hack job Nest has done to trickle charge the device when no common wire is available. Those with 'mission critical' needs (babies, elderly, 2nd home) rolled the dice and are as much at fault as Nest IMHO.

As more devices become 'smart', the companies that invest in design & testing will become more trusted. But also, consumers need to appreciate that a device is only as smart as the infrastructure it's connected too. Any limitations in your house need a fallback plan.

(I'm actually glad that trickle charge hack has come home to roost)
If you're asking whether companies pay more for you as an employee, I don't think so. Sometimes I even get the feeling that they like you less because you might be a threat to management (since you typically ask them about IT and the business aspects of what they do)

But if you ask whether they give you more money because you are now in another relationship with them (consulting?), then absolutely, yes.
Well, quite a few airlines already have satellite trackers on all their planes, even if it is just to provide free internet to all users, even over the ocean.
I'm really surprised there's no photos of the build process. It's hard to tell if this is actually what is being described, or just a blog post around a photo of a framed image.
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XMPP is a Russian nesting doll of garbage and the optional XMPP extensions ruined it for everyone because clients are always half baked.

XML inside XML inside XML inside XML inside

Edit: PSYC outlines XMPP problems pretty well. I wish PSYC was more prevalent.

http://about.psyc.eu/XMPP
What does the gender have to do with people being "awkward"?
Good mass transit that got cars off congested roads would speed your kind of journey just as much as building urban motorways, and be more effective overall.
Please note: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/4966 remains open and packages `metrics` and `exception-reporting` are still enabled by default.

* metrics: sends personal data to Google Analytics

* exception-reporting: sends personal data to bugsnag.com
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>> "I also hear quite a few "I felt more productive, less stressed out" etc. remarks. I wonder if 10 days of relaxing on a beach wouldn't have a similar effect."

I've never been to one of these retreats but for a while I meditated twice daily, morning and evening for 15 minutes. I only did it for about 2-3 months. I had a similar effect while I maintained it. Not so much with productivity but I was definitely less stressed. So although I'm sure 10 days relaxing anywhere will help with stress, short daily sessions seem to have the same effect.
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Council of Europe issues network neutrality guidelines
I haven't had a landline in about 4 years (known as "naked" ADSL - there's no dialtone on my copper line). I played with VOIP for quite a while but could never really get the quality I wanted. Then the mobile costs came down enough so I haven't looked since. Hangouts and Skype solved my international phone call problems, although I'm not entirely sure how they solved the echo/delay problems so well.

Edit: oh, right, this was an SMS specific article.
The scanned area is still just 1/1000 of the Indian Ocean, and very far from the coast. Finding two ships doesn't sound so bad to me.
Ask HN: Non-trivial data intensive angularjs apps
Hey,

I'd be really interested in reading the source code for some non-trivial AngularJS apps that dealt with large amounts of data. A lot of the open source applications/tutorials I've come across so far are pretty simple. Build a todo list, build a simple email app etc. I'd really appreciate anyone sharing any examples they had.

Thanks!
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up close the lack of parallax would give it away, but I think it would work ok if the viewer is sufficiently far away.
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Big systems growing over decades are usually easy targets for drastic simplifications by building upon better abstractions.

There's a great talk by Alan Kay titled 'Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"?' [1].

He shows for example the Nile system where they replaced several 10k of vector-graphics rendering code with 450 lines. An example from a different context is the miniKanren / microKanren approach to logic programming. It's basically Prolog fitting on a single page [2].

If a similar simplification and unification could be accomplished for representations of (solid) 3D objects, that would be a great great result.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
[2] http://minikanren.org/
> Could I see quotations about the history of violence? Buddhism has by far the lowest score of violence of all five big religions of the world. Not to mention that when that violence did happen (zen priests blessing kamikazes during WW2, myanmar riots these days...) it has been condemned as explicitly not-buddhist by the wider Buddhist world (for violence has no place in the Buddha's thought).

Buddhism is mostly peaceful, but there is currently a buddhist army (The DBKA) and 2 buddhist terrorist groups (the 969 movement, and Bodu Bala Sena)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Karen_Buddhist_Army

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/969_Movement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodu_Bala_Sena

Here's a news report of buddhist violence: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25866350

> for violence has no place in the Buddha's thought).

There are plenty of buddhist leaders who've said that violence is acceptable.

This wikipedia article starts by listing many of the buddhist doctrines against violence, and then gives examples of many times when buddhists have turned to violence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism_and_violence
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I think the mat around the photo is also rendered, so you can have whatever aspect you want - although a portrait image might look a bit lost in the middle of it.

Next step - mount the frame on a motorised bearing so it can rotate 90 degrees depending on the image aspect!
That's really cool! I'm not 100% sure, but what I remember from reading a few psych papers about this is that as long as the "mask" is similar to the original in a few easy to calculate sampling statistics (colour distribution, overall hue), it doesn't actually need to look anything like the original image, even calculating low-res imagery shouldn't be necessary. Our peripheral vision is just that bad (at least for static imagery, movement detection is actually pretty good). The foveated part is where the magic happens, and we've gotten pretty good at fooling ourself into believing this "foveated" part is much larger than it actually is.
Did they actually say it was a bug in the battery / recharge code?

It sounds like they could have just added some generic code that prevented the device from going into deep sleep.
If the employer disallows private communication at work and the employee disregards that rule, the employer does not have to special case private data on the company device. This is the same in Austria as the court case here just found.
We'll need a good representational form first, a UI/UX language or family of languages, something we can standardize on, develop, and use regularly to first establish representations of key, foundational concepts. Basically, we would need to scrape http://ui-patterns.com/ into a UI object ontology, map a bunch of its unstructured data about why each pattern solves some set of problems, and then we'd need a-whole-nother related problem solving analyzer system that could use that data to produce a software model. OMG recently released an Interaction Flow Modeling Language, http://www.ifml.org/ , and that seems like it has some added range of expressiveness compared to UML and some of their other description languages. I like these OMG guys since they seem to synthesize Semantic Web research and ongoing best practices pretty well.
Anything that discusses MS seems to attract this kind of rather heavy down-voting.
Great read, I especially liked the mum references.
A representative comparison of what the notification for a user going offline looks like in several IM protocols:

MSNP (older versions):

FLN user@example.com

IRC:

:nick!user@example.com PART #channel

XMPP:

<message
from='juliet@capulet.com/balcony'
to='romeo@shakespeare.lit/orchard'
type='chat'>
<thread>act2scene2chat1</thread>
<gone xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/chatstates'/>
</message>

MSNP (newer versions, unfortunately also XML-ified):

NFY PUT 268
Routing: 1.0
To: 1:mypassport@hotmail.com
From: 1:en-cn@hotmail.com

Reliability: 1.0

Notification: 1.0
NotifNum: 0
Uri: /user
NotifType: Partial
Content-Type: application/user+xml
Content-Length: 50

<user><s n="IM">
<Status>FLN</Status>

</user>

I think older MSNP and IRC are the best of all the IM protocols I've seen, and I've written clients for both. OSCAR (ICQ/AIM) is a binary format that doesn't look too hard to parse; I'd say it's still better than working with XML.
>Just like many people have committed violence claiming to be Christians

if you read even just a bit of 2000 years history of Christianity, you'll see that violence in the name of God and Church and toward the infidels/heretics/etc. has all this time been considered a virtue of a good Christian. Not that Christianity is any special here. The base of any religion is division between "good" and "bad" and fostering the feeling of superiority in "good" and hatred toward the "bad". In particular "<Religion> of peace" for any value of <Religion> is an oxymoron the same way as "white black".
Why doesn’t my phone understand me yet?
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I think you're referring to a business, not a startup. The definition of "startup" has been tranformed into basically "a business that is primarily based on a website or mobile app," which it is not.

Startups rely on fast growth. If you have a very narrow market or your end goal is $200k/yr in profit, you are by definition not a startup.

If you're actually a startup, you should not have any profit in the beginning. You should be pumping that money back into the company and seeking external funding in order to pour gasoline on the fire.

There's nothing wrong with having a business instead of a startup (personally I prefer the bootstrapped business route) but to say that it's a startup is not accurate.
That's generally true with Glasgow being a notable counter example - fortunately the equivalent designs for Edinburgh were never implemented:

http://www.gcat.org.uk/blog/?tag=edinburgh-motorways
Commodity hardware and general-purpose systems win every time.

Honestly I wonder, who the hell buys these overpriced networking appliances? Similarly with expensive proprietary databases, or ESB systems. Are they just leftovers of a different time (note article is from 2007)? Is it a case of management buying from the salesman who bought them a nice dinner? Some place where these things generate actual value that I'm missing?
How do you propose to put something inside a plane and guarantee it will float after impact with water? Conversely, how do you mount something outside of a plane and guarantee that it will stick there through rain/snow, but still dislodge after a water landing?
Re: VHS, granting that I was speaking in superlatives and that VHS might be one of one of multiple primary influences, here is a quote from an industry insider stating the same idea [1].

Re: AC/DC, DC was financially viable. You might notice that we still make use of DC, where it does much close quarter nut kicking. DC was financially uncompetitive over distance, but not because of magic finance. It was uncompetitive because someone had to buy, build, and install the associated hardware to make it work over long distances. AC required much less in that arena, because of the technology, not magical finance. AC as a technology was more viable then DC as a technology over distance because the technologist, not the banker, endowed it with such awesome, nut kicking powers. And nut kick it did.

[1] http://www.macworld.com/article/1050627/pornhd.html
I use a printer.
This is what happens when I try to read text in a dream.
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There is a difference between consumer grade hardware and aviation grade hardware. Just the testing to certify that it plays nice with all the other equipment is outrageously expensive, not to factor in hardware design (it has to live through going to altitude and back 10 times a day, for years), maintenance, retraining the crews, etc.
What subversive thing will be mainstream tomorrow?
> If the systems state depends on the ordering of operations, then each replica might be in a different state for the same set of operations.

Which is almost always the case. Except of course, if you build your data as a growing "collection of knowledge", where the order of facts doesn't matter. But this is cheating, since you're implicitly bolting an ordering-mechanism on top of the system in this case.
> Copyright law should be to protect IP theft.

If you want to fix copyright, you need to realize it's a complex matter with lots of different actors and conflicting interests. Thus you will need to be able to discuss it accurately, to ensure people aren't getting a mixed message.

So let me help you out with a starter pack of accurate statements.

Copyright is not a fundamental right. It's an artificial monopoly enforced by government based on promises of enriching society at large, by giving it back for free, in the future, after a limited period of exclusivity.

Violating copyright isn't theft. "IP" is a legal construct to make something fundamentally unnatural (owning an idea) seem natural. "IP" is not real property and it cannot be stolen.

Having firmware for stuff you own being copyrighted and implemented in a way which makes it illegal to tamper with is clearly not in spirit with the way copyright law was written nor its intent.

Having copyright last 100s of year in a time where something is obsolete or outdated in less than 5 years is clearly also at odds with "enriching" society. Nothing is being given back. And if it is, it's long past the period in which it would be useful.

If you want to "fix" copyright, we need to get more focus on the spirit and intent of the law, rather than the "right" part of the law and specifically how big corporations look at it like a blanket-right to profit, for all eternity.
I'm glad someone else realized this too. The author didn't try to tailor the message to the medium and as a result his control is the medium that the message is best targeted towards. Not a great control if you ask me. I think tailoring the message to the medium is the main takeaway here rather than the conclusions the author drew.
I'd be very interested to know as well. I remember when using Windows a fresh install was at least a yearly occurrence. I've heard that it might be to do with hard drive fragmentation but I'm not sure of the details, I heard that years ago.
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> The policy the employee accepts, and to be honest not enough employers explain these policies, should be the starting point of determining what is allowed and what isn't to a certain extent.

While true, we also have a "right to a private life" under Article 8 of the ECHR (where many rights protect you from employers as well as the State, including this one). When your spouse, or your doctor, calls you with an emergency on your company phone because they can't reach you on your mobile for whatever reason, should your employer have the right to know intimate details of your private life or health?

The answer we came to is "no", whereas the US might come to "yes" as its constitution only covers a very narrow definition of privacy which doesn't take into account many modernities.

So widespread, aimless listening on work communications, in the majority of cases, is probably against the law across the EU due to the above argument. Proportionate and limited listening is allowed - for example, if you wanted an alert every time someone accessed Facebook as using it for personal use is against policy, you could do that, but you couldn't go and read all their private chat messages and posts whatever your policy says (unless you have a reasonable belief the account was supposed to be work-specific - for example, you specifically authorized this specific account - and you accidentally stumble across something personal, or that the employee is e.g. sharing trade secrets through Facebook).
> With respect to San Jose, it's a crock

FWIW, the sentence quoted above says that cities with fewer urban motorways are overrepresented in that list of the richesty urban centres, it doesn't say every city listed meets that criteria.

The article also discusses goods and services in the case study it's looking at - comparison between the Montreal subway and highway built for the Expo. i.e. about how moving passengers onto underground subways leaves more space for movements of goods or services on the surface. A similar argument applies to any shift towards more space-efficient modes of transport for passengers.

Also, I don't quite see the argument on emergency services. Inner city highways/motorways are mostly for moving from the centre into and out of the suburbs. Emergency services need to go from any random point to the nearest hospital, which is a different thing. Sending hundreds of thousands of highly space inefficient cars into city centres (which have a fundamental limit on street space, and their capacity to handle traffic) is highly likely to increase congestion and make it more difficult, not less difficult, to move around on the surface streets from one point to another in the centre. You'd have to introduce some congestion charging system, or perhaps bus lanes, otherwise building the road is likely to make the situation worse.

Where highways really shine is in moving goods into and out of cities. If you have high-volume industry in the centre of a city, or for instance a port, you clearly need some way of getting the inputs and outputs into and out of the city. But there does seem to be a continuous, long standing trend of moving this kind of infrastructure out of city centres. Modern container ports and factories need greater economies of scale, and tend to be situated on the outskirts of, or outside, cities where land is cheaper. And Western economies are moving more towards services rather than manufacturing. A big part of this debate is about what a city is for, and how to reconcile that with changes in transport and industry.
To add to what others have said, this isn't really testing uis. This is testing different forms of media. A letter is obviously inappropriate in IM, and text speak is inappropriate in a paper.
Well gosh, I don't remember signing a contract, just clicked some button to make that stupid wall of text go away so I could use the software after I already paid for it.

I never met a human (excluding lawyers) who actually has read through a single EULA, and I doubt most of them would be valid if actually tested in court, at least outside the US.

[edit: typo]
It would be helpful to mention that the talk is about this topic as well, not just who's speaking.
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It would be easier if each Waldo was looking or pointing towards the next one.
Could you share the insights of your research? I only found solution involving the Google API (as it was also discussed here some days ago).
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Ha.

My first thought was, there sure are different definitions of what "dynamic programming" is, as I've only seen it as related to the Bellman equation (motivation for the name being that it would sound appealing to Bellman's superiors at RAND who had a distaste for mathematical theory).

But then, solving the damn thing is all about identifying and avoiding re-computing overlapping sub-problems, so I guess that is exactly what you meant (even though I have no idea what "memoization" is) :)
Some laptops check wifi minipci cards against a PCI ID device whitelist in the BIOS. For instance, all Thinkpads do this. It's seriously annoying and means that the OS must support a very specific set of devices or wifi won't work.
For some machines a hacked BIOS can be flashed to disable this check but that's not always available.

Apart from reverse-engineering yet more hardware and writing more drivers, there is not much the OpenBSD project can do about this.

Fixing the root cause would be best. Vendors who do such things must be convinced to stop doing them.

If vendors also released freely available documentation for the hardware (read: freely accessible manuals for driver developers, no NDA required to read) then end users of free software could live in a world where wireless not working would be the exception.
Don't panic. nginx is in Jessie. The link does work, unlike somebody else said:
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/nginx

Here's also a list of all Debian releases with nginx:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nginx&searchon=n...