skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comments about the women are entirely consistent with the first theory, in which Assange misbehaves sexually to some extent and the women - who view him as a hero - are initially inclined to put it down to a misunderstanding until after comparing stories they start to worry it might be more of a pattern, and their sexual health might be at risk.

It's not as if a prosecution deciding to press charges even when some of those making the allegations are reluctant to follow through is exactly unusual, especially when those expressing reluctance to take things further might have strong personal loyalties to the accused and are facing an internet hate mob. Faced with an allegation that a sleeping person had been penetrated in a way they'd explicitly asked not to be, the police aren't expected to rely on the victim's understanding of rape law and/or whether the victim thinks the alleged's other behaviour has been positively heroic. And yes, complex and public cases like that get reviewed and sometimes reopened by more senior prosecutors, especially when the nation's bestselling fiction of the past decade was written as a polemic criticising their judicial system for being ineffectual in protecting vulnerable women from high-profile sex offenders. The alternate idea that instead of it being a pure (but unreasonably messy) fit-up-job there was some sort of Swedish prosecutorial conspiracy to get Assange to the US that involved actually waiting for him to be reported for a crime is too ridiculous to warrant a third theory, frankly.

You can insist the Swedish prosecution service is lying about the timeline for Assange leaving the country and the warrant being issued until you're blue in the face, but that won't change the core fact that Assange was aware he was facing some serious allegations in Sweden, and dealt with the police in Sweden without any apparent fear of illegal rendition whatsoever until it became clear that he faced actual charges, for a crime allegedly committed on Swedish soil.
> you can't easily rewind a few seconds backwards

There is a technical reason for this, and it's not a QT program problem, but rather a QT container problem. The QT container file does a horrendous job at synchronizing audio and visual streams. QT playback software exploits this problem, though, by intentionally lagging the start of a video by a few frames in order for the audio and visual streams to match up on the timeline. By not having to track the sync after the initial playback lag, the file plays more "reliably" and "quickly" but this also means that the decoder has no reference point from which it can scrub backwards. Because the "quick" in QuickTime really is a misnomer. This is lazy time, not quick time.
Here is the author's list of gripes:

On OS X this is especially true: OpenGL implementation has fallen behind the competition, the filesystem desperately needs updating, the SDK has needed modernizing for years, networking and cryptography have seen major gaffes. And that’s with regards to the under-the-hood details, the applications are easier targets: it’s tragic that Aperture and iPhoto were axed in favor of the horrifically bad Photos app (that looks like some Frankenstein “iOS X” app), the entire industry have left Final Cut Pro X, I dare not plug my iPhone in to my laptop for fear of what it might do, the Mac App Store is the antitheses of native application development (again being some Frankenstein of a web/native app), and iCloud nee MobileMe nee iTools has been an unreliable and slow mess since day one.

I've found myself thinking along similar lines. The two biggest offenders in my opinion are (1) feature bloat and (2) poor UX/UI decisions. iTunes is a prime example of how the confluence of both can turn a relatively simple and popular app into a quasi-unusable nightmare.

I've also noticed a lot more freezing and kernel panics on my iPhone, to the point where I've stopped updating the OS for fear of what might be introduced in the next version.
Meanwhile, poor Sydney Australia is going in the other direction:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/would-last-person-sydney-plea...
2 & 3 aren't really counterpoints - 3) explicitly states "If you go pure Java", and 2) regards compatibility issues, not lack of libraries.
Everyone defined their own metrics. Good talk everybody!
Site layout is broken on mobile (at least Android Chrome)
Even the article is buggy!

"The best thing for Apple to do is to re-take their position as a leader of software quality before it's too late: consumers know that Apple's hardware is the very best, but more and more their using apps made by Google and Microsoft and Facebook."

*they're
There's no guarantee that app would continue doing $100k a year - competitors pop up, platforms change, economy collapses, you name it.

I think he did alright.
Timeline of the Far Future
This is great advice.
What? For me it was always super slow, ugly and unfunctional. Reminded me of Divix player.
NYC metro area - I've been commuting by train, but I know many people who live in NJ who commute in by bus.
They're not supposed to be extradited if they will be tortured either, but prolonged solitary detention is not considered torture for reasons of political convenience. (No one wants to call the U.S. out on their extensive ongoing humans rights violations.)
I feel the same way - but if I were in Assange's position, however little the risk is of execution, I wouldn't take a gamble.
I agree that religion can do that. Mine doesn't. :) The aspiration I referred to is one of being and living in happiness that continues w/o end, very much over having and appearing. Or at least as individuals we can do our best, and try to help others also but never compel. It works very well.
apple's stock symbol is AAPL, not APPL.

also:

> consumers know that Apple’s hardware is the very best, but more and more their using apps made by Google and Microsoft and Facebook.

"they're", not "their".
This. Java (the platform) is absolutely not out of fashion, only Java (the language) is - though since Java8, this is not as pronounced anymore.
Exactly this. Ads served through Adsense are flooded with these. We have spent countless hours trying to block all of them but they just pop up again under a different domain. So is Google going to punish publishers who are using Adsense if these ads come through Adsense?
If you look at how much the B-1 cost to develop and fly... Wow.
I'm glad to see that other people have noticed this. iTunes has always been a pain to use, but otherwise Apple's software used to be incredibly robust and worked well. Nowadays Apple seem to be pushing out updates without proper testing. It's got to the point where I'm hesitant to actually update my devices for fear they'll become unusable. And that's never good.

At one point both my MacBook and my iPhone were suffering from regular graphical glitches. It's still an occasional problem, but at least Apple have got on top of it for the most part. I just wish they'd do something to stop my iPhone from kernel panicking and automatically restarting itself every so often.
I was on about a specific resume that featured on HN about a year back (give or take). I wasn't aware of jsonresume.org when I made my comment. Sorry for the confusion.
> During a product review, Mayer would count the number of keystrokes it took to get every job done. Too many, and it was back to work.

Palm once had a tap counter that had the rule: 'If any task on the Palm Pilot takes more than three taps of the stylus, it's too long, and it has to be redesigned.'

https://www.ted.com/talks/david_pogue_says_simplicity_sells/...
Reddit Machine Learning
> or if it's received too many features to be properly maintained

That means that it's not properly maintained, which means declined.

> or if now it has so many more users that the flaws have become more apparent

More eyes do find rarer bugs, and hundreds of millions of eyes is a LOT.

But I can tell you from personal experience that all sorts of little simple things that used to work don't and it gets very obnoxious. I've been using Apple stuff since ~2004 (ignoring the iPod I had earlier) and I do think things are worse.
I collaborate with the team at Google who work on Kubernetes, and I know that other platforms are given a lot of love - we test end-to-end on AWS, for example.

If you're interested in getting involved in Kubernetes-on-something-else, we'd love to hear from you. Drop by Slack at slack.k8s.io!
That door curtain is a fantastic idea. When my company would go to Governor's Island I did dropdown curtains from the floor above.

I've actually been light duty for the past 2 years so for all I know drones are putting out fires now. But about the time I went out they were updating all the ventilation procedures bigtime.
I haven't read much about Jobs but I wonder how he achieved the perfection in his product. Force the teams to work overtime to correct the bugs? Did he double the QA size in order to catch all these bugs? Did he demand that all code checked in must be at incredibly high standards, thus forcing the devs to QA more of their own code?
I've noticed the same thing, but with one proviso: Only after an upgrade, rather than a clean install. And with quite literally every major OSX release since Snow Leopard.

Just generalized instability and "weirdness" for lack of a better term. The problems always seem to go away after a fresh load.

It sucks that this is required, but between Time Machine bringing my apps and settings back, and launching the upgrade at night before bed, it's not really that much of an annoyance.

I'd still rather use OSX than any other OS at this point. But I think we need a Snow Leopard 2, a release that only tightens up the backend stuff with no new shiny features.
Objective Criteria is your best friend... Are you in a major market? The usual suspects of glassdoor, angel.co and annual market surveys typically have pretty good data, but it can be tricky in smaller market or in a very niche position.
Do you have actual experience with Christians all over the world? I've certainly met a few that put the lie to your assertion, from a variety of places, and I suspect you're making the classic mistake of calling the place you live "the rest of the world" in comparison to the US.
WW3+MUSLIMS+harras+blond+wife,+husband+knocks+them+all+out,+-+YouTube
Sanmay Ved, Former Googler, Got Big-Time Reward After He Bought Google.com
This is the result of blue ocean strategy in play (whether consciously applied or by accident). When it's easier for me to create a new market and reap huge profits, than to struggle into fighting with Big Co for a share of their huge profits... guess which way I'd rather go. At the end, both I and Big Co win.

We are already living in a new time period - a new age in world history, fundamentally different from all other ages experienced by humans so far. We have entered the age of ubiquitous abundance. All economic, political, moral and philosophical frameworks revolving around the concept of scarcity are fast becoming obsolete.
I think you have rose colored glasses about Snow Leopard. It had plenty of bugs and hiccups.

People deride the "iOS style" features of El Capitan but first, what specifically are you referring to besides Launcher? Do you think adding Notifications to OS X is bad? I find them extremely useful, and like the integration better than the spotty support Growler had among third party software.

I never use Launcher but it's not there for me. It's no skin off my nose that it exists for other people. And it's not like Finder or Spotlight have lost functionality, if anything I feel Spotlight in El Capitan is much better than it was in Snow Leopard or any prior OS X.

Mission Control works great and I think is much more elegant in El Capitan than in previous OS X releases. Granted in older OS X you could arrange your desktops in grids instead of just left to right but I only use about 3-4 desktops anyway, so I don't mind.

OS X has also improved for power users since Snow Leopard as well. Lion introduced FileVault 2 which I find to be a fantastically easy to use encryption system, that I have had no problems with. I enjoy my Retina screen and the Retina support that later versions introduced as well. Air Drop is also handy since my wife and coworkers have Macs as well.

In my mind, each new release of OS X, like each new release of iOS or anything really, has good things and less good things in it. But on the whole I'm glad to be running El Capitan today rather than Snow Leopard. I don't pine for those days.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this guy agnostic? I believe he created the app as a business opportunity, not that he is practicing Christian himself.
It definitely is now. Quicktime was always pretty bad. iTunes worked well in comparison to its contemporaries when it came out which is why the iPod did so well initially (before Apple had a music store). Safari on Windows was always awful and was discontinued without notice leaving users insecure without knowing it.
> The problem with christianity (or any religion, for that matter) is that it tends to encourage people to believe things for bad reasons.

>...acting according to astrological advice is not a reliable way to do good, and might well lead to bad consequences in other cases.

Something needs to inform your knowledge of what is 'good' and what is 'bad'. Why do you take feeding a starving child as a good? It's likely that you've internalized a morality and ethics from your culture that tells you so. So what makes the externalized (religion) more wrong than the internalized (culture)?
I think I'm in the same boat, only a Mac user for less than 5 years. It seems to me that it's never been perfect, but that it remains somewhat above its alternatives, especially with the hardware/software integration they can have... but it can't compete with its own reputation.
It is unclear if a higher score is considered better or worse.
Firefighter culture/behaviour, at least on my department, is very complicated. It often resembles toddlers fighting for toys in a sandbox and I mean it... calling us Toddlers is being nice. Literally 2 minutes later it can resemble team-work that would make General Patton proud. I do not watch firefighter shows or movies as a general rule, so I can not comment if they mirror reality.

I don't think I could write about fire service culture in a comment on HN that would satisfy myself or my brothers and sisters in the service. It is just too complicated, at least from my perspective.

The example he gave is day one stuff. Never give up washing the dishes, never give up the nozzle, never give up rolling hose, never give up tools, and so on... especially if you are the junior guy/gal. Seniority plays a big role in my department.
"YAGNI stands for “You ain’t gonna need it” and tells developers to keep things simple and only design and implement the things that you know you are really going to need. It can be tempting to think that in the future you might need feature x and so you may as well already create it now. But remember that requirements are likely to change so chances are that you won’t need it after all." [0]

I work in a platform team in a large multinational and had to laugh about the XKCD. I also was a bit surprised about the one-sided view presented here to unexperienced readers who might not think ahead. I cannot count the number of times I encountered the other side of the story where each team tells me their code is special, different from everybody else. Costing the company lots of money while all they are doing is reimplementing data storage, authentication, image processing algorithms, or feature X for the 10th time. The surprise on their face when we let our generic platform component handle it for them with just a few lines of code is always priceless (usually after such a demonstration they come shopping and start "aha-ing" when we tell them that other feature they now want for free from us is too specific to have in a platform :D)

[0] http://www.csfieldguide.org.nz/SoftwareEngineering.html#agil...
Duplication is usual problem with Medium stories.

In this case the story is interesting enough to submit and gain a few points, but not enough to get to the front page, so it's not easy to link to the previous main discussion and try to keep all the comments there.

A similar problem has the "Banned by Tesla (I)" and "Banned by Tesla (II)" stories. I think one of them was more lucky, but I'm not paying too much attention because I think it's a pointless discussion.

I remember a few previous case, were one submission was very successful (front page and many points+comments) and it was unintentionally resubmitted many many many times: "The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment", "The Sad State of Web Development", "Paul Graham Is Still Asking to Be Eaten"
Damn. Cause if someone patented NullPointerExceptions they'd sure be rich.
Small but important quibble from a Texan's viewpoint: these settlements are being decided in East Texas which is over 500 miles from anywhere in West Texas (imagine the distance from Cincinnati to NYC), and I think the juries there have more people in poverty than farmers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tatami_Galaxy

http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/bipolar.htm

For those of you who suffer from this, don't worry! It works out in the end, and it's just part of growing up. Reading random blog posts isn't going to solve your problem with motivation. Smoke a joint and cut yourself some slack.
OSX doesn't need to handle that many hardware and driver issues, so I don't see how that's relevant to a Windows comparison.

I've been using OSX since just after Panther. I generally agree with the idea that some things started getting worse after Snow Leopard, but I still don't think it's come close to a point where I'd actually move back to Windows or try out desktop Linux.

And I'd say Windows had far more issues that BSODs and memory problems. I've used Window for music production for years (by the time I switched everyday stuff to OSX, I was locked into my music workflow and haven't cared to spend the time learning a new package like Logic, even after all these years). The way I survive Windows problems is pretty simple: never plug in an ethernet cable. I'm sure things are far better now, but for a large part of the past 15 years, doing so opened you up to a lot of problems and required utilizing software you simply should not have to install in order to have a functional system.

Also, a high percentage of OSX users have no idea what XCode is, let alone care if it's not as nice as VisualStudio.
No, you can usually increase your billable rate to make up for that difference. If for example your current salary would be $100k/2080 (work hours in a year) you'd be getting paid $48/hr. You'd likely set your contracting rate at at least $60/hr to make up for the difference or no PTO, insurance, 401k, etc.
It is impossible for an epidemiology study to elimate hidden factors, no matter how many statistical tests they run. Hidden factors are hidden, which means the statistics can't tell you about them. Information not available to the researchers cannot be evaluated by the researchers.

This is why the concept of a mechanism is important in science--it provides a framework for simplified experiments that exclude hidden factors by their design. For example if the hypothesis is that cell phone radiation causes sperm problems by damaging human cells, then human cells can be directly exposed to that type of radiation to see what happens.
One wonders if the yearly release schedule has something to do with this. It's got to be a constant rush to tick off the new feature boxes, and then we don't get the period of bug fixing and stability before the engineers all rush off to start implementing next year's new additions.

For a long time it was effectively on a two year clock; they had releases in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Now it's half that.
Depending how long ago you started using a Mac, you may have started using them after the slide started.

From my own experience, and the experience of other Mac users that I know, I think that the quality of their software has had a marked decline in the last decade or so. The exact reasons aren't totally apparent, but it seems like there's too much rush to add new 'features' without fixing and refining existing ones, and that annual releases aren't giving them sufficient time to polish what's already there. It's no accident that Tiger was incredibly stable and 'complete' after having nearly three years of work done on it.

I'm not advocating they work for three years on each version of OS X, but even 18 months, and fewer new 'features' per release, would give them more time to improve the quality of what they're releasing.
Show HN: React and Kemal Realtime Chat App Under 100 LOC
Similarly, my home is from the early 1800s and my parents house was first built in the 1600s, but most of the current part was built in the early 1700s.
Both of these houses are perfectly functional and warm, and barely use that much more energy than most modern houses (we've insulated them well and use efficient lighting etc). And yes they do have inside toilets ;)

I guess housing stock in the UK is just much older.
It's undeniably true that Apple software has lacked in quality in the last couple of years. I say this as my Siri stopped working altogether, Photos app upgrade destroyed my library and my iPhone keeps telling me the songs I downloaded aren't there.
I just tried it on the getpaint.net site (mentioned elsewhere itt) and it only had an option box set with three options: inappropriate, repetitive, irrelevant.

But you could just right click and copy the ad link. The link would point to the ad network (e.g. googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk), but it would be better than nothing. Also, many ads include a domain, sometimes in a tooltip, and usually just the tld, but again, better than nothing.
Avastium RCE
The Challenges of IoT Interconnectivity and How to Tackle Them
While my point of view is strictly limited to security, I really don't think Apples software quality has declined. I think it's always been really shit, but has been receiving unprecedented amounts of attention lately.
Yeah not like we haven't seen "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" or anything a billion times.
Risk and Uncertainty in Estimating Software Projects
Helen Nissenbaum on resistance through obfuscation and weapons of the weak(2014)
No, it's not good enough. It's a bizarre colour that is too similar to the white that they use to write 'Ad' in it. A website with white-on-yellow text would be painful to read.

Also, they don't even bother putting it next to each ad. On the right hand side, there's just one 'Ads' at the top and then everything underneath is an unlabelled paid ad. Why?

Google ads started out quite distinct, but they have gradually made them blend in. They used to have a stand-out background colour, then they had a very pale background, and now there is no obvious 'advert box' at all. Google know that many people are misled into clicking on the adverts, but they don't care because of the $$
3 of Apple's closest watchers say the company has a growing problem
I mean it makes displaying "Download Now!" banners less effective. You can bypass the alert; Chrome puts the alert if I understood.