skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quote: "The precise value of the abandoned cities, towns, agricultural lands, businesses, homes and property located within the roughly 310 sq miles (800 sq km) of the exclusion zones has not been established. Estimates of the total economic loss range from $250-$500 billion US."
Calling someone a liar without providing any proof, or even good reasoning on why it's likely beyond the minimum "I find that hard to believe." provided, is an asshole move. Please don't do that.

> Since we're sharing anecdotes

Well, some of his points were anecdotes, some were observations about how he interacts with apple, and some were specific accounts of problematic functionality.

> iCloud seems fine to me, but I don't use it extensively.

The claims were that it had some poorly worded confirmations for deleting files when you unsync a device (subjective but testable), that iTunes has a history of destroying files on syncs (should be testable with some searching), and that iTunes will add apps to his computer after he deletes them from his phone (probably needs clarification, but definitely testable).

Responding to a comment with an accusation that it's full of anecdotes and then responding to a portion of that comment which has real, testable assertions with a hedged anecdote is not a useful way to further relevant discussion.
The apps on Mac are always sideshows. My understanding was that one of the earlier versions of iMovie was essentially a 1-man, (or small # of people) effort that was shipped, and eventually replaced.

The difference is that everything worked.

My personal opinion, based purely on speculation is that once Jony Ive & company rolled over everyone in the company, as with any corporate struggle, their priorities are the only ones that really matter. The Apple Music nonsense, that somehow managed to break an already broken product is a similar story I'm sure.

Lots of attention was paid to the visuals in Yosemite, but "unimportant" things like broken wifi, and gratuitous changes like discoveryd were allowed to see the light of day. I think Jobs was the only person able/willing to tell anyone to go fuck off, and the company is suffering from that loss.
I wonder whether they shouldn't be stripped by default for everything. It seems like they're hacking what's supposed to be an in-document anchor, so it should be something HN can safely ignore. But that might be too simplistic.
Indeed. I'm in constant dread that they'll make Pages 09 incompatible on a future OS update.

I have a migration plan, but it will be a lot of work. Whereas my Pages 09 workflow is perfect. Pages 09 did exactly what I wanted it to. I've heard no one say similar things about Pages 13.
"You Don’t Need a DevOps Team. What you really need is a holistic approach to software development. Yes. it’s not an easy route. It takes a long time for teams to get good at these things and it will affect the way in which you organize your company, not just your development or operations functions. You’ll be surprised at the end — your organisation’ll get to the high ground of effective process. The one that best fits your needs. So break down barriers, increase automation, bring collaboration and iterate."

So all of your developers are going to have operational experience? And be on call 24/7?
The apps on Mac are always sideshows. My understanding was that one of the earlier versions of iMovie was essentially a 1-man, (or small # of people) effort that was shipped, and eventually replaced.

The difference is that everything worked.

My personal opinion, based purely on speculation is that once Jony Ive & company rolled over everyone in the company, as with any corporate struggle, their priorities are the only ones that really matter.

Lots of attention was paid to the visuals in Yosemite, but "unimportant" things like broken wifi, and gratuitous changes like discoveryd were allowed to see the light of day. I think Jobs was the only person able/willing to tell anyone to go fuck off, and the company is suffering from that loss.
Of course its discrimatory, it discriminates in the favor of british and eu citizens, is that wrong? Are we saying that non citizens have the same rights of entry as citizens?

I live in the far east, in order to qualify for a residency visa, i have to show assets of at least $50,000. In fact i have to bind that in an accredited savings account. So minimum asset determinatiins for residency qualification is common and not a vile abnormality as sugested.
Thanks for your reply!

Yes, my point was about the goal. And it should be set properly (e.g. our goal is our product and happy customers, not "Hey, now we have the best process as other guys").
Not yet but we're looking to spread the model.

Drop me an email and I'm happy to chat details. :)
So whatever happened to the blink(1) Kickstarter that was doing the same thing? Does anyone have one?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thingm/blink1-the-usb-r...
I'm not invested in this situation either way.

I think the charges against Assange are weak, but that he should face them. I don't believe he ever will, though.

I do not believe in the conspiracy theory that the US wants to spirit him out of Sweden; in fact, my personal belief is that if he himself flew to JFK Airport tomorrow, his only problem would be that we would take 8 hours of waiting in a room at customs before informing him that we wouldn't let him in the country at all. A lot of the hypothesizing about the US kidnapping or assassinating Assange makes sense only on a message board. In reality, just about the worst thing that could happen for the US is for Assange to suddenly disappear.

Meanwhile, I think things are playing out in the embassy exactly how everyone watching it figured it would, and exactly as Assange hoped: he's waiting out the charges, which grow staler and less immediate to the victim and harder to prosecute by the day. Eventually, Sweden will stop caring enough to force extradition. He'll never be able to go back to Sweden again without risking prosecution, so he just won't, and that will be the end of the story.

The comparison to Polanski is apt.

Let me just say this in advance: I am a person on the Internet who probably does not agree with you about this stuff. You need to be ok with that. I'm certainly ok with you, a total stranger, not agreeing with me!
>But there are also creditors as well. Think of grandparents who have a 401k for retirement. Through the interconnectedness of the financial system, a component of their retirement income will depend on payback of those "bad" college loans.

Do most 401Ks really invest in student debt?
I'm so glad both my work and personal machines are still on 10.9. I've been contemplating updating, but everything I've ready continues to say I shouldn't.
How can capitalism result in anything other than crony monopolies?
Sticking random fragments in place to avoid dupe detection is a very common tactic. Intelligent dupe detectors should ignore fragments. However, people can also throw in random query string variables and it's impossible to tell if those substantially modify the content without visiting the page itself and comparing.
He mentions TransferWise and Azimo. Does anyone have experience with Azimo, maybe to compare to TransferWise?

I'm very happy with the rates and transparency of TransferWise [1], and Azimo seems to do something similar but it isn't very clear how they work or what their vague claim of "best rates" means (it's not like they're the only ones that claim that).

[1] If you want to try it, with an invitation link you get your first transfer of up to £3000 for free, here's mine: https://transferwise.com/u/5d78
tl;dr no. AdSense sucks, but all other networks are actually worse. (There are tiny ad networks that are actually trustworthy, e.g. Project Wonderful, but they won't make you a living.)
I suspect some of those crashes are hardware related.

Anecdotal for sure, but Google Maps has been solid for me on Nexus devices.
And be on the receiving end of any fees incurred as a result of their bail violation.
Apache Kafka Security 101
I bought an album on iTunes last week and it downloaded everything except for tracks 1 and 5.
Hardware releases
It could be viewed as No True Scotsman, but in this case I don't think it is.

Goldman talks about "reversion to the mean", which is a generally-accepted thing in the financial world. If you've got above-average returns, people tend to take note, and try to get some of those returns, and so there's more competition for those returns, and that goes on until there aren't excessive returns any longer. This is a generally-accepted thing because it's been observed a bunch of times. It's the normal functioning of a market.

So if Goldman is questioning whether this is going to happen this time, it's a recognition that the markets aren't functioning the way they normally do - which I think is financedfuture's point. (He/she is going a step further, and [EDIT]implying that either the financial firms or the government broke the system that had been working, which, if the system historically worked and now doesn't, seems like a reasonable guess.)
Yes, but it's also a huge indictment of "free market proponents" who tend to oppose any regulation, as it implies the need for muscular regulation of the market.

In American political terms, calling it an indictment of 'capitalism' is a little imprecise but not really wrong.
I don't think that's the take away of the article. It's pointing out that Goldman Sachs may be open to recognizing that there are inefficiencies in our market, and that it's not benefiting from some attributes of capitalism as a result.

Anyone who seriously claims that capitalism inherently doesn't work is typically talking about something much more specific, like cultural/social interactions with capitalism, or (again) efficiency concerns.
Normalizing Cross-Browser Flexbox Bugs
I have worked mainly at nonprofits. Some of them with lots of money, some with hardly any, but salaries are always taken from a relatively fixed budget. I've been fortunate that I've rarely had to ask for raises, but my eagerness to ask for more has absolutely been suppressed by the knowledge that if I got it, someone else wouldn't. (Sometimes my salary is coming from the same pool as my team's, even).
Hey, I use PayByPhone all the time in Seattle, I'm really glad you made it, it brightens up my day any time I can use it! Thank you, and congrats on the successful exit!
Great feedback, but I don't own it, I just found it on google. Also, charging a one time fee to join is actually really common for Slack communities (ie hashtagstartup.co). It keeps out people that aren't serious or want to spam.
Google can't do that. It'd be fraud.
Introduction to the Economics of Religion [pdf]
> The banks would scream bloody murder, obviously, but their slack policies got us into this mess in the first place.

So, your solution to "the banks" slack policies - which were actually caused by government meddling: Affordable Housing Act, guaranteed student loans, etc...

Your solution is more government meddling? Forcing the banks that didn't want to give out loans... to lose money on those loans?

How about stay-out-of-the-way economics?

Socialism - take from the "rich" and give to the "poor" - disincentivizes people from working and being productive. Why work hard, when the trash down the street lives better by being worthless?

I mean... it just blows my mind that people see these issues... issues caused largely by interference... and so many think that the answer is more interference.
You beat me to bringing that one up !

Indeed, it's been a huge bonanza for the local residents as big corporations have rolled into town and spent millions on PR (often as close to the courthouse as they can get). Everyone in town is courted (forgive the pun) to try and see corporations in the best possible light, just in case they turn up on a jury in a case against $BIGCORP at a later date.

<humor>It's the American Way.</humor>
When will corporations defect? [pdf]
> according to DistroWatch, Ubuntu is below Mint and Debian in terms of popularity.

Distrowatch is a shitty indicator of anything other than Distrowatch hits. Plenty of people like myself have been using Ubuntu for years and not gone to Distrowatch for years.

Out 'in the wild', I've never seen a distro that's not Ubuntu or openSUSE (desktop anyway). Most statistics on sites such as Wikipedia or Steam also point to Ubuntu's dominance (according to Steam's hardware/software survey, Ubuntu is about 7x more popular than Mint Rosa, which of course is also Ubuntu-based).

> In implementing a new UI, Ubuntu acquired a lot of new bugs, broken features and reliability issues.

To be honest, most of the issues I've ever had with Ubuntu are upstream issues. The 'Unity' interface these days pretty much IS the equivalent of 'legacy'. It's certainly not as radical as Gnome Shell or even some of the happenings in KDE Plasma-land. No one uses Compiz any more, except apparently Ubuntu (yes, I realize eventually we'll have a non-Compiz Unity interface).
Dead reckoning and the exploration explosion
Be Happier
> Web development used to be nice.

Interesting how we can have so completely opposite experiences. I'm feeling like webdev is just finally geting a tiny bit sane. When I started doing it in '98 or so, it was horrible beyond description. Now, with ES6/7, Typescript, Less and Jade (and the Chrome dev tools), I can actually get some work done instead of fighting the browser at all time.

I would say LOL if only it wasn't so sad.

Edit:

> A SPA will lock you into a framework that has the shelf life of a hamster dump. When you think you need a SPA, just stop thinking.

Seriously? Backbone is super mature, but with a steady trickle of minor updates and fixes. And it isn't really a framework, just a small library.

There are plenty of great use cases for an SPA. A blog probably isn't one, but like with all technologies, part of your job is knowing when not to use it.
> The problem with Apple, and I've said this for ages, is that Apple is fashion. It's a status symbol, Sony used to be that same way, and look at it now. It had similar business verticals, pushed the same proprietary nonsense instead of adopting what the rest of the industry is doing and they were drowned as they began to expand their portfolio of devices.

Apple already did this when Microsoft released Windows and NEC made "clones" that worked really well for a lot less price.
Quite honestly, if someone asks me for a technology for their backend, I'll ask if they need performance or flexibility. The answers will be Java if they want to be fast, or Ruby if they want to be flexible.

Those are not shiny new kids on the block, but they are understood, proven technologies.
XFCE would be happy to have you :)
Oops. I'll edit my comment. I use all of those. I was taking the ones that worked for granted.

Well, actually, I don't use Safari, but that's a very particular use case. I wanted to block sites, so I disabled Safari, enabled parental controls, and am using the Google app because it's less convenient and less likely to suck me into time wasters.

Though actually, the dictation search in Google now is better than Safari. And I like being able to have my homepage be a google search. Impossible in Safari.
> iTunes was awesome on Windows when it came out

It forced a bundled QuickTime install (still does I believe), and back then, it tried hard to become the default media player on your system (even reverting your "no" choice after updates). This led many people to remove QuickTime, only to discover now their iTunes refused to work. It would fail halfway through sync's and upgrades of iDevices routinely, had a generally pretty buggy interface that wasn't very responsive most of the time. It's iDevice backup process was cumbersome for normal users, and often failed without the user knowing (leading to very upset individuals when they needed to restore but couldn't).

Now it seems every new version redesigns the UI in major ways, causing even long term users to not know what to click, etc...

If you really just listen to music, maybe it's fine. For all other purposes, it was/is horrible, however I can't complain because it generated quite a lot of work for my side repair/contract business back then.
$500k is nothing to sneeze at. Some folks get too wrapped up in how important they THINK their business (or stock options, or whatever) should be worth or might be worth.

Rather than valuing them at what they're ACTUALLY worth.
The article may be hogwash, but this "analysis" was worse.
16 Tips to Reduce SaaS Churn from Industry Leaders
The Former and Current Employees (FACE) of Amazon
Except Apple already did this once, and honestly the under the hood bits are mostly fine. Virtually all the bugs that people complain about are in userspace programs, like Mail, Safari, or especially Finder. Using a different kernel and switching form BSD to GNU under the hood isn't going to fix any of that.
Isn't the best way to print for success Tweeting?
Super MEAN Stack: Starter Kit and Video Tutorial
The government _not_ hand-picking winners and losers (bailouts, lobbyists, etc.) would be a good start.
Get Rid of Paper and Pen and Give Way for E-Assessment Electronic Devices
Amit Singhal – The Journey Continues…
Neither of these things seem 'sociopathic' or 'psychopathic' in any way - maybe 'ignorant' or 'misinformed'?
The interesting thing about changing return types is that you can alter the return type of spectral_contrast to float_t without affecting behavior, since float is promoted to double for argument passing (it's passed and returned in the xmm registers).
But their growth primarily comes from hardware, how much would OS X updates influence that growth?

Their hardware from 2008 is running El Capitan, so there isn’t much persuasion for existing customers to upgrade. It seems like if someone is going to switch to Mac, they would do it regardless of any features introduced in the last 3-4 OS X releases.

I don’t know, I’m not a sales guy. But it seems like the tradeoff of losing your customer base due to unreliable software isn’t worth it.
On Windows, Apple software has always been bad.
Instead of FirefoxOS, I'd rather see Mozilla pushing Web applications on Sailfish and Plasma Mobile.
You seem to be asserting that this is what most "entrepreneurship" is. Can you justify/document that assertion, or should we just take it as merely one person's opinion?
If you look at YouTube on android, I see evidence that they are f'ing up there in how advertisements are presented.

Put yourself on 144p quality. Watch a few videos till you get to an ad. It seems like they disregard your preference and pump up to 4k for your ad, which sucks when it takes 2 minutes to download a 30 second advertisement.
q.e.d. means in Latin quod erat demonstrandum, meaning "which is what had to be proven". q.e.d. is used at the end of Philosophy (I was a Theology Student) arguments and in science. It seemed strange to see that used here on Hacker News and I have no idea what you were trying to say. I am asking what did you mean by q.e.d.?

>The problem with christianity (or any religion, for that matter) is that it tends to encourage people to believe things for bad reasons.

You have a strong bias against religion without data. To me it just seems that you really don't care about religion and your reflecting your negative feelings on a subject and building a straw-man out of it. The vast majority of the world and almost every person of historical significance were religious. This idea that religious people are lesser and clearly not enlightened isn't very different then racism.

> bible clearly tells them that they don't need to do anything because god will take care of it.

There is no reference in the Bible for that and it isn't the basis of people's belief why they are against Global Warming (It is based on Conservative Pro-Business politics and not religion (In the US that is they identify as Republicans as they believe all good God Fearing Christians belong :( ) http://www.ibtimes.com/what-do-christians-have-against-clima...
A patent troll getting patent trolled, great.
Well, it depends on a company size. But when you have a growing business, usually it's better to hire a good developer or a good operation engineer and focus on communications.
This is the best explanation I've ever seen. Just lots of focus, attention to detail, and iteration until they got it right:

http://inventor-labs.com/blog/2011/10/12/what-its-really-lik...
They didn't call me a liar. They just implied I was wrong. Big difference. You can be wrong without lying.

I was wrong. I had forgotten that I do use several default apps, taking them for granted, and overstated my case.
well, it may be a bit of an exaggeration (I'm not the author), but do you think usage of clock to set alarms (or calculator) is strategic to apple's future? I hope not. Whereas use of the browser or maps or email services is. And most people I see using iphones don't use apple's offerings in those (not trivially substitutable) areas.

As for my SO, syncing iphone 5 to mac (on 10.10) just doesn't work anymore. I'm going to have to spend hours debugging why the fuck not soon. And recently her iphone has stopped connecting to wifi. To make it connect, you have to delete the wifi credentials then reboot the device. She already walked through a reset with apple over the phone but it continues to happen. It's infuriating.
Yes, but having them say we may have to question whether it works is big news.
Won't work because trolls will spin up a new company for every lawsuit - that's already what some of them do.
Fusion removes disposal. Right there is worth it—much of the fearmongering surrounding this hugely efficient energy source would be ameliorated.
World Renowned Ultrasound Experts Join UBeam’s Engineering Leadership Team
Zed may be a divisive character, but he's a net-good for the larger programming community as far as I'm concerned.

Very few people take the time and resources to put out that much free content and supplementary learning material. While I personally didn't learn anything the hard way, I kno a few people who wouldn't have been able to "get it" if it wasn't for one of Zed's books.

So even though I disagree with a lot of his opinions (especially about OOP), it's cool to see that Zed Shaw still doing his thing in 2016.
Each trade is information. Trading can only come from disagreement, so each time you trade with someone, it's basically as if someone was screaming "you're stupid" in your face. Of course, you hope they're wrong and you're right (they're hoping the opposite).
Did your office find a Pages alternative, or are you still using Pages09. (Or Pages13?)
Sadly, not much any more, by the looks of it:

http://escapedynamics.com/
Back when iOS 6 was released with Apple Maps and no YouTube, Google could be forgiven for problems with their replacement apps, as Apple had somewhat surprised them with the timing of the removals. That was three years ago, though. In the present tense, it's hard to imagine what you mean; it's not like iOS has some library to inject crashes into Google apps, or Apple is preventing updates to those apps from being published on the store (as ruled out by the frequency of updates).

There's the fact that iOS currently doesn't allow replacing the system hooks for Maps and Safari with Google Maps and Chrome (or any other store apps), but that's not the type of problem the parent was complaining about.
"I was amazed by the then patterns-obsessed ludicrous verbosity of Java projects. Programming for the sake of writing so much text to accomplish so little."

Tell me you've seen this:

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
It's not just that web development was pretty complicated and terrible back in the day, it's also that web development hits so many more targets and platforms than it did 10 years ago: not just multiple web browsers, but multiple breakpoints and behaviors of those browsers based on the physical constraints of the device.

We should expect a rise in complexity if our ability to reach users has increased accordingly.