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I also have that model, bought the Motorola because an update to M was promised to come "soon". Three months later I'm still waiting on it, it's disappointing it takes so long and nobody can tell you when it will come.
Truly courageous of Assange to to write that "Should the U.N. announce tomorrow that I have lost my case against the United Kingdom and Sweden, I shall exit the embassy at noon on Friday to accept arrest by British police as there is no meaningful prospect of further appeal," at the same time as the BBC is reporting that they ruled for him.
The tech simply isn't there yet.

Conventional fighter jets have more speed, travel and strike range, and more maneuverability. They will outflank drones every time -- I'm not kidding, they stand absolutely zero chance against fighter jets.

You could send a couple dozen Reaper drones out and a pair of Su27/F15s would shoot them out of the sky before you can say "Hellfire."

Not to mention modern anti-air defense systems would chew through them like candy.

What are they good for then? Cheap, high-altitude, medium-range (~1500KM), endurance (>24hr) missions.
>Is Apple's software quality truly declining?

I'm not really sure, it's hard to point to something that's just plain broken. I noticed that some small UI features that I don't like in El Capitan, it seems slower, but nothing's crashing or preventing me from working.

Part of it might be that Apple is moving in direction that many professionals/developers don't like.

iTunes is different story though, that piece of junk needs to get replaced. Half the time it would even find my iPod and I doubt Apple cares because "get an iPhone".
This is a really good point. My gut tells me that if the old people were relying on the massive indebtedness of today's college attendees, then that has been a cruel error on their part, an injustice that should be righted.

Also, the artificiality of the debt--and the idea that a jubilee won't really hurt the creditors--is put into striking relief by the Rolling Jubilee. Right now, people are already buying that bad debt for pennies on the dollar, just to wipe it out. I'd like to see if anyone's modeled what would happen if that behavior were just turned up to 11, who'd be harmed, etc.
You mean "expect", not "suspect." "Suspect" refers to people or facts, "expect" refers to events. (I suspect that English is not your first language, so I expect that you will occasionally make mistakes like this.)
Transistor fabrication: so simple a child can do it
OK, a lot of these criticisms are fair enough, but this one seems objectively false to me.

There are constant one on one matchups of a dribbler trying to beat an attacker, or clever link up passes, or long balls contested by attackers and defenders, or, yes, shots on goal.

A fair number of NFL plays are just running up the middle for 1 or 2 yards gain.

So I really fail to see your point.
I know a lot of people who are very smart and who also have ADHD. (There's this theory that this combination may be more common in the computer science industry.) Honestly, for those people it was a relief just to recognize that their brain was just wired a certain way - so they could stop beating themselves up over the way it behaved.

Another thing that's helpful for concentration is just getting enough sleep, enough exercise, and enough healthy foods. (Alan Turing used to run marathons, and a healthy heart does pump more oxygen to your brain...) :) This also can help burn off any leftover stress from a hard day of programming... (It's always good to get outside and relax for a bit.)
I don't know if this is just me, but I used to be full of ideas, half finished projects and several projects that I talked myself out of.

Since having children, I no longer have ideas, and rarely work on anything than paid contract work.

Has anyone else experienced this? I feel void of ideas.
Gotta put some newlines in your quotes, so we can read them. :)
Personal Finance Is More Important Than Skill in Software Development
The numbers are seemingly tossed about without all those pieces you need to add it up. It reads more feel good we got an investment to sell you than actual talk from a home builder. The costs completely ignores the costs of land and ongoing taxes as well. Besides issues with neighbors they are likely going to need to get all new zoning as this price point won't support larger lots.

I am all for good priced construction, groups like Habitat for Humanity would benefit too, but to ignore known savings and counter with "jobs" and such without quantifying it all comes across as a late night infomercial
Last time I was looking into it, Glassdoor didn't seem to do a good job of covering bonuses and stock grants, which are very important factors.
I can't upvote you enough. This is my #1 pet peeve with modern UI/UX design. I'm perfectly fine with the "big green button" scenario where the most most common use case is the one that gets most of the visibility, but those advanced features NEED to still exist somewhere. Minimalism taken too far can and will hurt the quality of the product.
Medium seems a common enough share source these days that it might be worth HN looking into filtering out the junk at the end of the URL for deduplication checking.
Show HN: Linemate – Draw canvas lines between HTML elements with ease
Done. [1]

1. http://www.google.co.ug/patents/EP0881577A2?cl=fi
Users remember Firefox as the browser that gives them control over their experience

Power users, or users? Among the crowd here, sure. But in the rest of the world?

unlike Chrome which babysits and won't let you interfere with Google's need to harvest data.

Firefox has been getting more and more nannyish and chromelike with every release.

* There's the "let's throw out semantic versioning since Chrome already did it"

* There's the UI rework which sacrificed information density and usability for what I evaluate as a weak attempt to look more like Chrome.

* There's the "thou shalt not install plugins from places other than we say is okay" rule that was recently implemented - which Chrome did first.

* There's the upcoming "all your plugins are going to break, many permanently" when XUL gets thrown out and the new hotness won't have feature parity at release (in other words, Firefox plugins will be as limited as Chrome plugins)
uses xenon (https://github.com/ten-eleven/xenon).
Example test spec: https://github.com/ten-eleven/xenon-boilerplate/blob/master/...

For testing angular apps but you can test a react app (searchkit is built in react)
Scarcity is not a property of physical abundance, but of use. To say that scarcity is over would effectively mean all wants have been satisfied and the economy has reached its final state of rest, and this is ludicrous. You can have a bundle of inert goods, but as soon as they are employed to fulfill plans, they become different goods where spatial, territorial and property constraints enter into motion.

Also people have been saying this for a long time and it has yet to bear out. Galbraith was railing on about the affluent society, how corporations are somehow artificially inventing wants through advertising and the necessity of an activist state. Developed countries have had their states get larger and more activist to no avail.
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Already done. Excellent suggestion though.
After Returning the Money They Stole, Feds Will Pay Interest and Legal Expenses
iTunes was hideous. I once tried to reverse engineer the XML that stored the library and concluded it must have been designed by a distracted intern.
Hmm? If the prevailing wages are low, then claims that there is a shortage are lies; if there were a genuine shortage, then any employer could guarantee they got as many as they wanted by offering a better wage, and would have already done so. The entire point of setting a wage cutoff is that it's an impartial standard, which can't be fooled by false rumors of shortages. Making exceptions would defeat the purpose, and it would be bad for the people in fields covered by those exceptions.
direct link to ruling: http://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ECF-No.-35_Order-De...
I'm not sure any OS really suffers from system crashes these days. The expected quality bar is now much higher (Fyi: I use Windows, Mac and Debian every day).
I love it here, too, but not sufficiently loving the Steelers can be dangerous around here. :)

(And I do love the organization and what it means to the city, just finding it harder to actually enjoy the games as much as I used to.)
It's less about Snow Leopard having been supposedly perfect and more about how OS X feels like it's just floundered around randomly since then.

Agreed. It's not that Snow Leopard was some magic release that can never be bettered, it's that it has never been bettered. I can't think of any new features since then that I really value in OS X.

there was a day where I never wanted to touch Windows again

I switched from Windows to OS X back in 2006 thinking I would run Boot Camp for Windows 90% of the time. Boy was I wrong. But nowadays, if the Surface Book trackpad was as good as the Macbook's (it might be, I don't know) and cygwin was better integrated into the OS, I would be very tempted to switch back.
So rather than a chance that something may happen, you've guaranteed nothing will. The app could have just as well doubled its revenue. Selling out such an absolutely minimal work involved app is not worth the chance that the "economy collapses". Spend all that free time setting up apps on all platforms. You don't get anywhere without taking chances.
I agree with everything you wrote except for the strike part. The idea that the F-35 needs to be a mini F-22 is one I don't understand. It's designed to be a striker, to replace the F-16, the Harrier, and to help the CVW get a survivable striker with longer range than the Super Bug, and a bit of self-defense capability. Just as the F-16 isn't tasked very often with CAP, same with the F-35. I think the F-35 will excel at strike
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Still convinced this sort of thing is why the Web is still (and for the foreseeable future will be) the platform of the future
I run a nerdy community. #1 and #2 are so impossibly ingrained in my users that this was both painful and cathartic to read. The only "potential fix" the author has is for people to read this and recognize the signs, but #2 prevents me from telling anyone there about it sigh
I wouldn't say it's degraded to the point of being Windows yet, but it is definitely in danger. Personally I noticed the software quality started taking a dive around iOS 7. 7 was practically a beta.

OS X Yosemite was a travesty, made worse by the fact that as an iOS developer I HAD to run it, I couldn't stay on Mavericks like I would've greatly preferred. Yosemite had a lot of good things to add, but at the same time it was plagued with tons of bugs and horrifically un-optimized graphics code (full screen blur with no caching brought my Macbook Pro Retina to it's knees many times). El Capitan has been a huge step in the right direction but I can't help but notice so much of the OS's new features weren't so much optimized or fixed as simply regressed.

Additionally, speaking as a developer, many of Apple's API's and SDK's are outright terrible. iCloud implementation for any iOS app is a nightmare, as is using the shared keychain. Then there's the constant obfuscation of the file system on both iOS and OS X which just drives me insane, and the tendency of all Apple apps to operate as if they are the only app you'll ever use for any given purpose, which seems obnoxious at it's best and outright nefarious at it's worst.
The profound power of loneliness
As far as workflow and window management goes, OS X is a good half decade behind Windows, and in a lot of system-level ways, it feels a decade behind. I use a MBP Retina at work, and it feels primitive compared to Windows 10, which I use everywhere else. Everywhere else, I'm doing audio, video, and photo editing though. If your day to day work is more CLI and *nix oriented, I can understand the appeal of OSX... although some of the variations of Vim that I see people running might as well be GUIs.
>how OS X feels like it's just floundered around randomly since then.

Well said. For nearly a decade, every OSX was clearly better than the previous. The GUI kept getting more efficient, bugs disappeared.

Now when there's a new OSX version, my first thought is, "Oh no, what's going to break?"
There's an example. I suppose most standards/patent agreements are something similar.

Of course, caveat about standards being written and covering parents held by larger players.
Assange made his statement at 3 AM GMT, when did BBC leak this?
Certain physical goods will always be scarce and there is a limit to energy utilization. I agree that subsistence work for survival is on the way out but I'm unconvinced humans will stop competing for status and resources because of abundance.
My 2013 Macbook Pro keeps crashing with Firefox, a few times every day. I cannot use Firefox anymore, I had to switch to Chrome. And as I am writing this Mail crashed because I wanted to forward an Email with a large picture in it. And messages has crashed numerous times, I don't use that either anymore.

So yes, for me Apple's software quality truly has declined sind Snow Leopard.
It's worth working on a project you care about. It's ok if the manner in which you care is that you care about making a lot of money and that the problem you are solving is one that you don't care about directly...but it's probably harder to maintain caring only about the money over the long term.

The big problem is it's easier to care about the solution than the problem because coding is fun and other people's problems tend not to be fun. This leads to imagining problems that other people have and building solutions to those imaginary problems instead of actual problems. So it probably helps to start from caring about the people and then the problems they care about matter more than the solutions to problems you imagine they have.

It's even easy to solve problems that you imagine you have...because again, coding is fun and people's problems, especially your own problems, aren't.

tl;dr Do something for someone you care about that that person cares about. It doesn't really matter the person you care about is you or someone else.

Good luck.
>Instead of everyone joining in the patent suing racket, these big players should be lobbying for the laws to be changed

Except you have to do both - if you ignore the racket you are much more exposed to lawsuits. Patents are used defensively between companies like Apple and Samsung, and if you give up that defense while trying to change the laws you are severely exposed. Tough balancing act..

The flip side of it is that I don't think we're likely to see these laws change until the current 2 party corrupt system is torn apart. Congress is completely bought and sold on both sides of the aisle and their owners like the current system (more laws = more lawsuits = more $$ for lawyers).
£35K is not unreasonable. However if you ask me it should be £35K outside of London and £38.5K within. It far too easy to find a London job that pays £35K, even a lot of entry positions are in the high 20s (27-28K).

That being said, while it is fine for workers, what the UK government have tried to do to people on family visas is very immoral. And has caused a lot of families to be separated.

- To sponsor a spouse you must make: £18,600

- To sponsor a spouse and one child you must make: £22,400 (+£2,400 for each additional child).

For reference the medium salary in the UK is around £22,044, the average is around £26,500 but neither tell the whole story, the UK has a wide salary disparity (in particular London Vs. elsewhere), and some charities project that the above rules preclude over a third of the population from bringing in their family.

Can you imagine being separated from your spouse and child because you don't make enough? Even if that spouse is perfectly able to work? And the worst part is that a lot of people get caught in a poverty trap, where they don't make enough to pay for the skills that they would need to escape it.

The problem is these types of rules come from London where wages are much higher and from very affluent individuals who came from money. They typically impact the poorest parts of the UK, but as they say "out of sight out of mind." Who cares if someone in north England cannot see their family for years... Certainly not Westminister.
Three and a half degrees of separation
I've found the opposite, its been rock solid for me.
That full page ad on first load is incredibly annoying
Pacemaker battery life ‘scandal’ exposed by two senior doctors
I've heard this said a lot recently, but I must admit it hasn't been my experience. I've had generally no problems with any version of OS X, having used it since Tiger; upgrades seem to have led to general improvement, with the usual proviso of various broken bits and pieces in the first release, pretty much in line with the advice that's always been in place for Apple services – don't use the first release. The same for iOS.

Regarding the specifics pointed out by the author: OpenGL support does and always had lagged behind (sucks) and there have been security gaffes (sucks). I don't agree that the SDK needs 'modernizing', whatever that means, however.

Apple has problems with software quality, granted. But is it realistically any worse than any other provider, or is it getting worse? That's not my experience, at least.
Neither the GS analysis, nor cursory observation of daily reality can possibly lead to any such conclusion. Wealth is increasing, globally, at an accelerating pace. The number of players creating and sharing such wealth is also increasing at an accelerating pace. These trends are not showing any signs of slowing down, much less of reversing (and might in fact be non-reversible).

As a consequence, global well-being (by any reasonable measure) is also increasing at an accelerating pace.

Note that this DOES NOT contradict the fact that various "inequality gaps" are also increasing at an accelerating pace. This is natural.
2016 finally sees first U.S. IPO
Another app idea for making money off Christians: the Rapture Alert, which would set off an alarm if a configurable proportion of its users suddenly vanish.
>El Capitan had fewer new features and concentrated mainly on performance issues.

Well if that was their goal I think they failed. I skipped Yosemite, so I'm comparing to Mavericks. El Capitan feels much slower, I don't think I ever seen the beach ball so often.
All throughout elementary and middle school, I used Macs. My schools had them, and my family had one that I used for all my work. I went from System 8, to 9, all the way through 10.0 to 10.6.8.

I bought a Mac this summer to do some OS X-specific development, and I was truly shocked by how bad things had become on the desktop. Performance is generally poor, UI has apparently gone out the window, and the UNIX features that Apple once heralded have been hidden below new toolkits and proprietary replacements of old systems (discoveryd anybody?).

In many ways, I was reminded of how things were both on System 9 and during the early releases of OS X. It's not nearly as bad now as it was then, but Apple also doesn't have nearly as many reasonable excuses to for such a regression in quality.
I read a pdf with the details once. can't find it now but i think it mentioned quite a bit of violence as well as um... inserting during one's sleep. I'm aware it's not a clear cut case because the victims don't hate him. but i'm sure the judges can determine his culpability better than I. I do however find his behavior disgusting.
If you don't want to wait/pay too much, there's something similar available at Harbor Freight.

http://m.harborfreight.com/digital-inspection-camera-61839.h...
After I Lived in Norway, America Felt Backward
I run a German based webhoster for like 2 years.

I have to say, that you dont do such thing for a passive income. Its hard work. We had 24/7 support (customers want this kind of service). Also we run our own servers. This is because you dont want to tell a customer: Sorry, the downtime is forced because XYZ has crash his servers.

But anyway. Eleven2 (https://www.eleven2.com/reseller-hosting/) has nice reseller plans and managed servers.

You have to spend around 1 hour a day, e.g. to answer ticket requests, setup new accounts or servers.

If you seriously want to start a webhosting company, learn how to administrate a linux server and to use cpanel the right way. A administration panel isn't the answer for all kind of server administration.

-Mumu
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That's fine, but this study (or the effect it measured) is vastly too small for us to significantly raise our prior estimate of an effect.

There is consensus (among physicists who know QM) that non-thermal effects of RF radiation on the body are negligible. Simple calculations and easy experiments show that thermal effects are tiny, vastly smaller than turning up the thermostat by one degree or walking out in the sun.

The fact is that the results of this study are not even particularly suggestive of being worth of investigation.

Concretely, based on this study and my prior knowledge, I'm willing to offer bets at 1000:1 that a sufficiently large study [1] will show that cell phones have a smaller effect than turning the thermostat up 1 degree.

[1] This number assumes a perfect study; adjust this drastically downward for small studies with high p-value cutoffs like 5%. If the study is underpowered, then offering 1000:1 odds on outcomes is like offering 1000:1 odds on`if (Math.random() < 0.05)`.
This house is not for you. This house is for poor people

Not everybody who earns a good income is required to spend it on pointless status-signaling. Some of us enjoy inexpensive, low-footprint, low-consumption living.
Gamer builds computer inside of Super Mario Maker
Most relevantly for the HN audience:

"The truth is that almost a quarter of American start-ups are not founded on brilliant new ideas, but on the desperation of men or women who can’t get a decent job. The majority of all American enterprises are solo ventures having zero payrolls, employing no one but the entrepreneur, and often quickly wasting away."

This is an interesting perspective that probably doesn't get much air in the tech startup world.
Couldn't it just be "is a multimillionaire and doesn't feel like working full time anymore"? I know i'd be tempted in his position.
I'm semi-serious here, but if you noticed that you are serving ads that are harming your users, why would you continue to use ad-sense? Why not switch to a different ad network and let Google know why you switched?
The Surface's hardware in general would be a great fit, as it is also very reasonably spec'ed for a laptop. Unfortunately, Linux lacks drivers for the touchscreen, camera, buttons and the typecover connection.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/3xhmu7/just_i...
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