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>Still a total disregard of Fitt's law. Horribly inconsistent keyboard support. Behaviour that should be trivially configurable seemingly set in stone. Still, I think, impossible to cut a file in Finder. The transparency is an abomination.

Well, those are not software quality issues. Some of those are design decisions, and have been with us forever, not random accidents: "Cut", for example, has never been on the Mac. Transparency in 10.11 is so lightweight you don't even notice it -- nothing Vista-like about it.

As for "total disregard of Fitt's law" that's not some decline either, as it's not worse or better than it has ever been in OS X.

>However many shots that take, apple can't get WiFi working properly.

Well, that qualifies as buggy software. But I have to wonder.

I've had an iBook, 2 MacBookPros (1 company issued), an iMac, a MacBook Pro Retina (current), 2 iPads and 2 iPhones thus far. And I've travelled all over the US, Europe and in several parts of Asia. I've never had any trouble with wifi, even to non-chain, el-cheapo motels.

The only offender has been my iPhone(s), which indeed I've not been able to connect to 3-4 places (restaurants etc) while traveling, over many hundreds of locations over 8 years. And I can't even know if it was because of the iPhone crapping out, or they using some crappy, third party router.

So I wonder, what are all those wi-fi issues people mention in forums etc.
Callit
http://devpost.com/software/callit

Lately people have been looking at my hackathon portfolio and were intrigued by this project. I am probably more proud of this hackathon project as opposed to the others because of all the elements that were in play at the time. First of all, it was built in 24 hours. It was one of only a few hackathon projects where the demo was legitimate. We actually made it work as opposed to making it look like it works (usually we are still debugging when it's time to present, so we just do little magic tricks to give the appearance of full functionality for the sake of the presentation). Three different types of software and hardware were involved. There was the Pebble and its dev language (C language), Android + server (Java) and Unity (Javascript and C#). The first portion of the hackathon was spent trying to find mentors who knew if the Pebble watch had any sort of connectivity to the Unity game engine. Not to mention, we utilized a Java TCP server. Neither me nor my teammate had ever done anything server related before. We sought out help periodically, but no one had ever considered utilizing the Pebble for a VR game. There's no direct connection between the two interfaces. In the last few hours of the hackathon, I built a game in Unity and started adding the Oculus packages. The idea was to have a VR experience that was controlled by a Pebble because having a watch as opposed to a controller feels more immersive. Anyways, it was a ton of fun and the first time where I felt like I had "hacked" something together. So I'm super happy to share it.
I hope it's fixing bugs.
Not really, no. Dogfights don't happen one-on-one like in the movies. The air frame's flight performance is less important than other considerations.

You're still better off winning most of your battles BVR and relying on your wingman in a dogfight than going toe to toe in every battle.
Most churches don't have enough money to fund their ministries.
Europe’s top court mulls legality of hyperlinks
I will say, I was happy to see the 135 degree angle mentioned. If you meditate, you know how much posture and physical positioning can impact your state of consciousness.

Having an upright spine (standing/kneeling/sitting with a stacked spine) facilitates an alert, problem solving state of consciousness.

But for less mentally intensive tasks (code cleanup, research, intra-day relaxation) reclining in a "zero gravity" position is an ideal restorative posture. We don't need to be upright for all types of work!

Individual productivity is intimately linked to spinal positioning and physical comfort. I've been working on creating a product to elegantly facilitate multiple working postures. If anyone is interested, DM me and I'd love to chat about it!
Krugman also denies that the broken window fallacy is a fallacy -- he actively thinks it's a good idea to destroy things (or produce shoddy goods) so that you can get the economic stimulus of building them again. He may be famous, but that doesn't mean he knows what he's talking about.
It's an average, not a maximum.
> So as usual, Apple is lying/misleading people here. At least 'technically'.
No. Apple are arguing that the patents are invalid. They aren't sayin they have been found invalid already. The TechCrunch article said "All four of VirnetX’s patents have been found invalid by the patent office"
Yeah, it's ARM-based. Fortunately this isn't a big deal when the idea is to use a mix of new application created specificaly for this platform and existing open source applications, nearly all of which compile on and have been packaged for ARM.
I don't feel any substantial difference in software quality of Apple products. IMO, it's more or less the same for the last 10 years.
This sounds really cool, and is something I've on-and-off been wondering how to make happen for myself. I'd also be interested in learning more about the Slack chats and forums you mention.
Is there a specific reason for using typedefs rather than (packed) structs? With typedefs you get no real type safety (you can pass a widget_counter_t to a method that expects a foo_t if both typedef to the same thing), do you?
Email me. :)

I'll be in Montreal in a few weeks for Confoo and would love to chat over a beer or coffee.
Amazing, that's actually what I wanted. Didn't know that existed.
Why Donald Trump When You Can Trump Donald?
Cheers :)
The US does have different enlightenment-era founding principles from countries that are based on ethnicity, religion, or even a shared history according to its founding documents. The priority for individual dignities may conflict with ideas about social safety nets that have become the norm, but it is compatible with sympathy for people who are oppressed and who are undermined.

While immigration is critical to the vitality of the US economy, that is not its only goal. Furthermore, an attempt to optimize immigration for the predicted economic output of immigrants won't necessarily have the most favorable economic outcome. I think Silicon Valley itself serves as a perfect example. There is a significant number of second generation immigrants whose parents escaped abuse somewhere else in the world, then worked hard at a menial job to raise children that went on to do something great.

Whether or not there are problems with the interview processes, making the world a better place by getting people and their families out of terrible situations is a good goal on its own merits. There are a lot of loud anti-immigration people in the US who claim to be proud of selfishness and potentially undermining the economy, but the actual experience for immigrants is better than elsewhere according to friends who have worked around the world.
>Which means rent is still transferring money from the poor to the rich.

Suppose I start with nothing, get a mortgage on a house and then rent it out. Am I rich?
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Frank McSherry Responds to Differential Privacy Critics
Not an economy, but individual businesses.

The better analogy in computer services would be if your e-commerce site made $100 per hour and took 1 kilowatt to run, but then the price of electricity rose to $101 per kilowatt-hour. As soon as the price fell back below $100, you'd be back in business -- the same is true of the fracking companies as soon as the price of oil rises.
Physicists discover new properties of superconductivity
That's what intelligent, self-aware people think (on good days).
Wow... I'm amazed by this story... I can't believe it's this easy to make millions of dollars...
Auburn University is in Alabama. These houses are designed for the rural South. You don't have to dig down too far to reach the frost heave line (14" or less). The primary climate concerns are therefore summer cooling, storm drainage, and tornadoes. When there is a freeze warning, people let their faucets drip.

These designs could be used in Tennessee and North Carolina, but that's as far north as I'd be willing to try them.

But then again, it's a lot easier to dig deep holes for piers than a full basement, and you could insulate the underside of the house more thoroughly than is usually done.
I'm not really sure I understand your complaints... Kotlin is about encoding the best practices in Java as a language not re-inventing the ecosystem. If you want those other things you should look at something like Ceylon which is actually a fair bit more revolutionary (but at the same time more far more complex).
That is something you could ask about everyone who has ever been accused of anything and later acquitted. Unfortunately, it's also the same thing everyone accused and later convicted would like to say, so that logic can't control.
That's the vendors fault really, forcing their crap software onto the OS and not wanting to invest to keep things up to date to allow updates. Google and Microsoft both do regular updates to their OS, and if you go with a non-vendor phone (like Nexus), you'll get all those updates.

But yeah, the software situation from most phone vendors is atrocious.
We aren't actively testing against it yet (although plan to in future), but have heard reports from the community that it works fine: https://github.com/coreos/rkt/pull/1766#issuecomment-1578394...
I agree that photos is a lot better than iPhoto & co. The performance is blazing and I migrated from lightroom to it because of it. I can't find a faster and easier to use photo library management app. Lightroom is really slow compared to it.
Bear in mind that this was a design patent, not a regular (utility) patent.
This worries me, and not because I'm a user of FirefoxOS.

Much of Mozilla's value is its influence; its ability to push for open standards that prioritize end user's needs. Before mobile, when ~20% of the world uses Firefox to access your service, you couldn't ignore them. But without a meaningful presence on any mobile platform, how much influence does Mozilla have?

IoT is another huge space and I hope they have success building influence there.
I've had a really bad time getting Ubuntu to play nice on my MBA. I don't really know a ton about the process so I just follow the instruction I find online but it never works well.
It's not a crime to be sleazy in the US. Ask the Donald.
No, the question is, "Can heat cause any effects on any aspect of our machinery for sperm production or maintenance that reduce sperm quality? Or the same for the sperm itself?" See how that broadens one's perspective above "Can heat produced by X microwave energy do damage with Y effect?"

This is what I'm talking about with assumptions making people think too narrow. You know enough about one phenomenon that you're casting the entire problem in that light. This may turn out to be justified here but it's also one of top sources of scientific mistakes or delays in understanding. So, I have to call it immediately as an unnecessary risk to force people to clarify their own position and make their own assumptions explicit.

Unfortunately, my knowledge of biology is too limited to help past noticing you were dismissing a broad phenomenon or range of possibility based on a narrow set of data or theory. A pattern that exists in many claims that are dismissed later. I wish I could do more than spot the problem here as it's an important research area. But I'm out of my depth if we start talking the molecular or cellular machinery itself. (shrugs)
> Your other comment was flagkilled because it said something like "Fuck off, JTRIG shills", which as you know is completely unacceptable on HN, regardless of how correct your cause may be. So please don't do that again.

Fine.

> More generally, accusing other users of being astroturfers or shills—when you have no evidence for this other than that their opinion disagrees with yours—is a serious breach of civility that is not allowed here.

Wasn't trying to direct an accusation at any specific individual, but rather to speak in general that their presence should be anticipated.

As I cannot obtain evidence for this claim without, say, compromising a protected government computer, I don't see what the standard for evidence for cautionary comments should be.

I've moved my comment to not reply to anyone else's. Is that acceptable instead?

> You can and should and must make your point without stooping to that, if you comment here.

My point is simple: Beware of NSA/GCHQ employees and sympathizers that want to sling mud at Assange.
> I'm not sure how anyone could seriously use Safari.

I seriously use Safari everyday. Works fine for me. In my experience it's noticeably faster, more stable, and more battery friendly than Chrome.
Maybe if these luxury crops can't be sold economically without resorting to illegal labor, they should be replaced with other products that are more economical.

I can go pick my own strawberries in New England when they are in season for $1-2 a pound. That season might only be about three or four weeks in June/July, but there's other stuff the other eleven months of the year. If I want fresh strawberries in December, they ought to be at a premium.

We used to use a lot of teen-aged labor for this kind of low-skill seasonal work, and I don't necessarily think there's anything wrong with that. There's still parts of Aroostook county in Maine where they have a weird school year, because traditionally they needed every warm body to get the potato harvest picked in early fall.
Thanks!

System Preferences -> General
Hey, since we practically know each other, could I borrow $20?

Thanks!
So your building process depends on the availability of an external company?
Almost every country has that. What, do you want to split up families and loved ones?
The government plays a regulatory, distributive role in society, allowing profits to accrue to capitalists but setting taxes and running social programs at the proper level to ensure that society as a whole functions smoothly, and that there are opportunities for everyone to improve their situation.

Most of the economic world is in agreement that financial deregulation was a huge contributing factor in the crash of 2007-08. The repeal of Glass-Steagall allowed banks to take on too much risk with too little supervision.

This would have been fine if the banks had been the only ones punished when their bets went bad - but they had also been allowed to accrue so much power (through consolidation/M&A) that it was impossible to let them face the consequences of their own bad decisions and fail. So they had to be underwriten with public money in the form of QE.

A functional society requires healthy levels of both capitalism and socialism to survive. But the most important thing in my opinion, is that those who intentionally commit fraud or do not act in the fiduciary interest of their stakeholders are adequately punished. This last part is of course the rub - how can you tell if the leaders of business and finance were intentionally setting up their dependents for a crash? What is the adequate punishment?
Sigh, I would love to try Ubuntu on my x86 based Lenovo tablet. But this is not that. This is tablet maker X trying to get unit volumes up by adding another OS choice other than Windows 10 (so I presume they only have ARM tablets)
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Oh, sure. I have a zillion ideas. Most, I ignore. Some, I pay interest. This article prompted me to finally stop paying interest on The Tragedy of Obi-Wan Kenobi - admitting I'll never get around to writing and producing it. It'd be lots of fun - a retelling of Star Wars as a revenge story, with Obi-Wan Kenobi as the ruthless villain (nothing actually changes except perspective), done as a comedy musical that also explores my personal history and the relationship of art, artist, and audience (with questions of ownership addressed).

Great idea. Not gonna do it. So I should stop doing any work on it.
> If anything things have got better, to the point where we complaint about trivial stuff.

This is the key. We're definitely spoiled by how solid a lot of the basics are.

I can fault them for some of the cloud service issues nowadays, but even those work better than they did in years past.

Apple has always had strange hardware and software issues, just like everyone else. Just today I was trying to buy Windows 10 to install it on a PC I'm building, and the MS storefront and my Live account couldn't sync the deletion/addition of a credit card until I logged out of everything, closed the browser, and logged back in. No one is getting this stuff working flawlessly.
Got any actual evidence for this? Yes, I remember Apple Maps; I worked on the team. Apple Maps was the result of Apple being smart and not wanting to be beholden to Google Maps forever; eventually you have to roll your own.

And yet, here we are five years later, and Google Maps is still on the iPhone, shows no evidence of leaving, and Google's iOS apps are ALL still present and better than ever, and Google is still the default search bar in Safari. Meanwhile, Apple Maps is a great product too and has been worked on and polished for several years. "Remember Apple Maps" betrays a mindset where you read one article a few hours after it was released, half a decade ago, and you have no updated impression of the product at all. Apple Maps is, in fact, rock-solid for me right now. It is, in fact, now superior to Google Maps for transit directions, and in some other ways.

So really, I'm not sure what you are talking about, at all.
Thanks for the valuable tips!

Currently, my biggest 'bottleneck' when developing React applications is managing complex forms. Right now I'm using redux-form [0] which is a great tool, but not very performant on dynamic deep/complex forms (more info and partial hacks here: [1]).

Other than that, I don't have performance problems, but I'm curious when will I hit Redux limitations (single store sounds great from the conceptual point of view, but I'm not sure about the performance one). Also, can second ImmutableJS recommendation, after a while of using it's completely natural to use.

[0] https://github.com/erikras/redux-form/

[1] https://github.com/erikras/redux-form/issues/529
I am immigrant and I like the idea too. Ted Cruz's call for a very high minimum salary for H-1Bs is also the only thing I will probably ever agree with him.
> A lot get bought out on the way, and many fizzle out.

The concern is who does the buying? The number of public companies is small (and shrinking btw), how much more acquisitions can they absorb? If it is other private tech companies, the money is just changing hands between VC funds. In either case those sources of funding have to grow or change to provide more acquisition opportunities.
:) Yes you are correct.

I try to avoid details when higher levels of abstraction are sufficient for my audience.
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There were no comments here...then you started a JSX debate...
I want to assume good faith, but OCI is starting to look like standard-washing. What good is runC if you have to use docker pull to download images first?
I'm not buying one unless it sends all my interactions to amazon

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2840401/ubuntus-unity-8-deskt...
Please don't change the title to make it a question.

The title of your post is "How to spend $100K in your 1st year as a startup.", the main topic is "In this post, I would like to focus on how we spent our first 100K" and nowhere do you describe how you visualised it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
250,000 miles on average between accidents? Does anybody think this is unbelievably high number?
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Study: Social networks of political donors and effects on campaign donations
considering that apple is in itself a patent troll of the worst kind (buying companies with interesting patents, such as FingerWorks, and forbiding any and all licensing on those patents) i'm not even mad with this news.
> Feels like a move to to clear the way for AI to drive the algorithm, versus running outboard and afterwards as a tweak/tune cycle.

Well, to be honest, you still have to tweak and tune your AI model so that it works. Data speaks for itself. You have to run experiments, so the approach they have is going to be the same ANYWAY. AI isn't magical. It may just happen that both sides feel it is time for someone to take a new position. I think that's the better way to put it. But why this new guy not other seniors on the same team? That's a good question.
Imagine you're a healthy man of age 45. What can you do today that means you get taken care of when you're old? You can try to convince your children to do it, but that's fairly risky - and it doesn't scale well on a national level. Anything you build today is going to break down and undergo capital depreciation by the time you're unable to take care of yourself. If you help build a road, it needs maintenance.

There's few good options at societal scale. One of them is to get the right to extract valuable resources and sit on them until later - this is what Norway's doing with their North Sea oil. The other is to make things, and trade them for promises to make things later. This is one of the huge fundamental forces acting to make debt for the young generation easier and cheaper - the previous generation needs to do things now to convince them that they need to part with their work later.

It's not an error, it's there by design. The only way to get retirement savings on that massive of a level is to make things for people who can't afford them (yet).
On the other hand, the savings from the income tax deduction is easily nullified by local property tax, maintenance costs, and the differential between homeowners' and renters' insurance.
Your response to lots of people's programming effort is "Hahahaha"? Get lost.
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How do you document what you are learning at work?
We run a whole bunch of micro-services at work and I keep discovering things about them when I am reading through the code, fixing bugs, runbooks or whatever else. Right now, I have a note for every service and I keep appending to that. Evernote has some serious issues - no versioning, easy to totally delete the note (no warning). How do you all keep track of all the incremental learning?
You really don't want necessary healthcare companies going bankrupt on a regular basis.

Perhaps healthcare could be efficient on a long enough time scale. When we all live to 1,000 years old maybe it won't matter so much.
$101/kWh is a black swan event that would take down your competitors and customers just the same, "falling to the lower end of historical norms for oil prices" is not.

Even so, if your business depends on some resource staying at a certain price, and you do not wish to couple your profitability to that price, you should buy options or forward contracts, as that's the benefit of modern financial instruments. Oil-intense businesses (like airlines) tend to hedge against big fluctuations like this.
When there isn't a single result on that whole screenshot that isn't an ad? No that's not enough!
Right, I remember the controversy over Lokpal, I was following India news more then. Developed countries tend to have less overt corruption and more implicit corruption; the populace simply doesn't stand for open bribes. Chicago is probably the most overt location in the US for corruption; elsewhere it tends to look very much like "rotating door" policies, as well as police looking the other way for important people.
Thanks, not a bad idea. I'd love to have it connected to loads of other things, like CI builds, err logs potentially.