skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but I'm not going to get into any specifics about the CAD systems. I have seen first-hand (though fortunately as a third party) what happened when someone upset the wrong big name in that industry, and I have no interest in either spending the next part of my life defending a frivolous lawsuit supposedly necessary to protect their reputation nor in having licences tied to me revoked under blatantly abusive EULA terms. I will say that your assumption was wrong, though; it was not AutoCAD that I was referring to.

As for the Adobe issue, as I see it the point is that the original product was known to be faulty, and a means of correcting the defect was already made. Given the cost and expected useful lifetime of the original software, and given the relatively small and presumably diminishing-over-time cost of maintaining an update server relative to that, I have no problem in this sort of case with literally requiring perpetual availability of the existing updates for as long as the developer is around and it is commercially viable to do so. I don't think this is a universally appropriate solution, but for the kind of software we're talking about that makes many millions or billions in revenues, it doesn't seem at all unreasonable to me. If the software developer doesn't like it, they are free not to incorporate artificially limited technology in their product in the first place, for example by distributing updates in a freely downloadable form instead of via a proprietary system with limited availability.

Incidentally, if a software product really has no remaining value after just 6 years, the developers are welcome to relinquish the relevant copyright as well since clearly it also has no remaining value at that point, and then anyone else who is willing and able to solve any future problems with that software can lawfully do so. Perhaps the law should no longer give the developers a choice, by including a specific exemption to copyright for actions reasonably necessary to allow the continued effective operation of the software according to the original deal. In this case, that might extend up to and including installing a cracked pirate version instead, provided that the use would otherwise have been lawful.

As you say, I suspect in the near future a lot of these big software developers are going to try to bypass these issues entirely by moving everyone onto subscription models anyway. I don't expect that strategy to remain a viable exclusive proposition in the longer term, though, because it's too hostile to users. In most cases, it will naturally create opportunities for less hostile alternatives in the market, as we're already seeing with the increasing competition faced by Adobe Creative Cloud from smaller, cheaper, but still professional-quality and well-regarded alternatives in various niches.
True, though it's also easier to test code too, right?
Too much attention is being paid to the pods and not nearly enough to the elephant in the room: how to handle thermal expansion in the track. See:

http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/08/hyperloop/
For a desktop OS, what's the alternative? Windows 10? Ubuntu? I've used both recently and neither felt like a step up from OS X.
I got to see the FDNY in action in my East Village apartment building a decade back after a neighbor's boyfriend set her place on fire. We locked our door and got it popped and it was amazing how quickly and efficiently they took out doors, windows, ceilings and floors as needed to control the fire and get the smoke out. They definitely knew their business and we were back in our 300 sq ft 6-floor walk-up in no time!

Thanks once again, FDNY!
Torrent: http://cdimage.linuxdeepin.com/releases/15.1/
This is meta, but I think comments like these should be banned from HN, because they demonstrate a lack of willingness to seek out an answer on one's own, implying (in my opinion) an adversarial model of the conversational exchange.

If `gadders` really wanted to get to the truth of the situation, it would be easy enough to make a few google searches, and if those really came up empty, post a comment asking for a citation with notes of which google searches failed, to help future information-seekers.

Waiting for the other party to deliver a citation on a platter puts the exchange on hold until that point, and wrongly allocates karma to intellectual laziness as people see the seemingly-reasonable request for a source and second the notion.

These comments certainly add no useful information, and they detract from the conversation by making it more adversarial.
How I sabotaged my own tech talk
Firefox is a brand present in a highly competitive market. It's a brand known by consumers who are used to associate a name and a logo to an experience and can easily get confused (such as people seeing the "blue E icon" as the way to "start google" for instance).

Mozilla protected more agressively its Firefox brand to cope with malware-stuffed clones which were hijacking the name.

Projects such as VLC or Android protect their brand too, Chrome is only available through official closed-source builds, many linux distributions only package chromium.
I can understand that. You do need leverage to negotiate such a deal - a niche skill, or familiarity with an existing codebase.
Practice.

Just like everything else, really.
I don't think anyone could guarantee that. What if he was extradited to Australia and then Australia gave him up?
Although the death penalty in the US seems to be a very remote possibility, one gathers that the prospect of 45 years in a US jail is not. At present it looks like 45 years in the UK Ecuadorian Embassy: ""We will not allow Mr. Assange safe passage out of the United Kingdom nor is there any legal basis for us to do so," UK Foreign Minister.
The Presidential aka executive branch does not have that kind of direct authority in the United States. At best, the executive can start a criminal investigation, which case must be made before the court branch; the laws that were broken were set by the legislative branch.

Courts in the US are given an extremely high degree of independence, in the goal of limiting corruption.
I said more nannyish AND chromelike.

Three good plugins? Have nine. Here's my plugin load right now:

* uBlock
* Privacy Badger
* HTTPS Everywhere
* Calomel SSL Validation
* FoxReplace
* Vimperator (which used to be Pentadactyl before Mozilla decided that I can't use it anymore[1])
* Noscript
* DevEdition theme enabler
* 1Password

And please spare me the "insecure legacy tech" argument. The new plugin architecture explicitly can't do things that the existing plugins can, per Mozilla's own words[2]. And also per Mozilla's own words, the new architecture takes after Chrome.

if I wanted to use Chrome and have its limitations, I'd fucking use Chrome.

And I have zero faith that they will fix those limitations by launch time either. seeing as how their attitude towards adding features nobody wants (Pocket, Hello, Australis) or removing features people actually want (installing whatever plugins I damn well please without a nann^H^H^H^H approval process, accessing sites with broken certs) up until now has been to ignore all feedback and just do it anyways.

[1]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CZVvYtKUsAAtMl7.png:large

[2]: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...
Of course it is.

It's also wildly over-diagnosed. There are physiological reasons it can exist; there are also environmental reasons the symptoms can exist.
Not every website I visit has its code integrated right into my open-source browser.

And you can build a pretty accurate profile of a user from analyzing the content people mark to "read later" (and how long they spend reading them).
Voice of bugs bunny and daffy duck dies at 64 :(
Congrats!!!
I got a small app and some ideas, stories like this make me want to pursue this fultime.
I wrote a blog post about this for iOS apps: https://dannysu.com/2015/12/11/best-ios-email-apps-for-priva...

If you're on mobile, basically majority of the apps out there suck at this.

You need to turn image loading off by default and then Gmail, built-in Mail, and FastMail are the only ones that pass.
You don't use any of the default iPhone apps? I find that hard to believe. What about these:

- calculator
- camera
- clock
- contacts
- messages
- phone
- photos
- safari

If you literally use none of these apps, I would be really surprised.

Since we're sharing anecdotes: I've never had a problem with WiFi connectivity or Spotlight on El Capitan across multiple devices. I don't use iWork or Siri, so I can't speak to that. iCloud seems fine to me, but I don't use it extensively.
Meaning everyone did not consent to sex.
Mavericks was tough to give up, stable, fast. No discoveryd. IMHO, its the best release of OS X. Maybe everyone has amnesia but pre 10.3, OS X wasn't really usable full time. Each 10.2.x release was a whirlwind of changes.

Early iOS had wonky reset issues too.
I agree that the statement is wrong. For me is something more like "the way we try to apply capitalism is not working". But as some people only accepts "capitalism" as their way of applying it, the dialogue gets confusing. "Capitalism is not working" can be translated as "the way some people defines Capitalism is not working". And I agree with that as much as the numbers indicate a growth slowdown or even recession in all major economies.
I don't think that most people advocates for abandoning capitalism, but to improve how we do things in a way that helps everyone instead of a selected few. Better public education, better health care, better work conditions is still capitalism but just of a different kind.
What makes a developer better?
Burp, Collaborate, and Listen
I'm so glad that I'm not the only one! haha
I don't know about that, but it is flat-out psychopatic to claim that the rate of entrepreneurship in the US has declined when it has been increasing faster than ever in the past few years[1].

[1] http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TIMELY_BDS_ISIC...
Steve Jobs publicly mentioning only praise about things Steve Jobs made? Unbelievable!
I switched to OSX originally because the company I was working for was all-Apple. I probably wouldn't have thought XP was shitty enough to change otherwise, even though it obviously was.

Conversely, I'm now working at a company that's all-MS, but even after two years now (albeit, only a month on W10, previously on W7), I'm still not feeling much of a desire to switch to Windows at home. My Macbook is getting pretty old now and I'm going to want to replace it sometime soon and it's going to be another MBP.
Why would there be a specific need for Christian developers? Sure looks like an atheist can do just as good of a job.
and Moven https://www.moven.com/ - Curve http://www.imaginecurve.com/ Osper (kids bank) http://www.osper.com/ - Secco http://www.seccobank.com/ granted, osper, moven and curve are not much more than prepaid cards
So assume they finally hammer out terms with Ecuador so they can interview him. Let's assume the outcome of the interview is that the prosecutor formally charges him.
(as everybody expects, because there's been no suggestion Assange has cast iron evidence that could radically change the prosecution's view that it's worth bringing to trial)
What happens then? Are we genuinely expecting him to walk out accompanied by a couple of police officers and get on a plane to face trial in Sweden? Or do we expect him to stay put, perhaps issuing new legal challenges claiming there were elements of the questioning process that weren't conducted under Swedish law and so the original warrant is now invalid...

Regardless of whether one of five Swedish Supreme court justices chose to write a dissenting opinion criticising Ms Ny's handling of the case, do we really think that the questioning in the embassy is going mean Assange suddenly stops doing everything in his power to avoid standing trial in Sweden?
I ran their developer version on an old Nexus 7 for a while, and it was more like the latter (Windows analogue). There is still a full terminal experience available even on the phone as I understand it, just a lot more proprietary software.
Yes, which is pretty much the answer to the original "why.". Different skill sets. You can't necessarily compare two wholly different stacks and say one is just as good as the other so why don't you use mine when there is accumulated knowledge associated with both. I have seen people arguing that rails is hard to set up in this thread, too, which seems really strange to anybody who doesn't consider setting up homebrew and rvm a burden. People have different things they have done and are familiar with and are productive at doing again. I think that is the complete answer to the thread.
Helprace Introduces New Authentication Options, SSO
Top China defector passes state secrets to US
Accelerated growth and capex.

I once saw a very nice chart about the number of users for a great, cool start-up everyone knows about. The CEO illustrated: "You see that inflexion point on the release day? That's what happens for every release. If we postpone it by 3 months, we not only lose 3 months of new customers (painting the 3-months area between lower and higher sales). We also miss on the offset." and he painted the unlimited area between the lower sales and higher sales. And he talked about the recurrence of the inflexion for each release, and he talked about the immobilized capital inventory.
You're right, thanks for the criticism. I'm experimenting with blogging, and I've learned my posts need to be even more substantive.
Because they've figured that the group of users remaining on older devices and actually caring that they run the latest software is pretty small and they don't want to dedicate the resources needed to support them.
Any blockning of "malverts" should arguably just emulate view so it costs the advertiser even more than the lost view. If Google don't want to do that themselves (which would be understandable) they could likely expose it in APIs so plugins like ad blockers can do it.
I've been proudly using my Mondo account/card for a week now. So pleased with it so far. Definitely worth checking out.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880604
How does Twitter feel about Bernie, Hillary and Trump (tweet sentiment analysis)
Because it discriminates based the nationality of who you marry. If you marry someone from the EU the rules do not apply.
Not every website collects data. A pure HTML/CSS/JS site can be examined fully.
The sad state of HN dupe detection for medium.com links

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880604

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10882762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11035143

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11020911
Not exactly congruent experience here, but something similar has manifested itself for me in "number of f*cks given, zero".

Though I attribute this less to having a kid and more to just not being able to drum up the exuberance for the endless stream of wheel-reinvention that seems to be commonplace in tech right now. I can still get interested in novel or sufficiently esoteric things, but the endless parade of random javascript UI frameworks, dashboards as a service, fitbits for dogs, and all-new-way-to-send-dick-pics chat platform just isn't very compelling.

It often seems like today's marketplace is one of "me too" ideas. "Me too" ideas are boring. Like hearing a really fascinating story at a dinner party, and then the person next to them tells a worse version of something similar, and then the person next to them tells a still worse version of similar, but slightly different thing, and so on until the conversation reaches you and you realize that the last person talking to you was actually a plain baked-potato, but you didn't notice because the level of intrigue had dropped so low that a butterless, chiveless, baconless potato had stolen the spotlight.

When I was younger the "computer" part of computer science was enough to keep my attention, as I get older I'm finding that the "science" part is what sustains my engagement with the field.
Declining? I didn't know software quality could go any lower than 0.
Where Did the Empathy Go?
The marriage of democracy and liberalism is not inevitable
> they need to grow the world’s biggest company every quarter to keep Wall Street happy

Keeping customers happy is important. Keeping "Wall Street" happy is the root of most problems.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2013/06/30/the-six-ha...
Declining? I didn't realize quality could go lower than 0.
States that are under-served when it comes to Micro-Breweries
This only matters if you use Pocket.

This is no different from search integration. There's local code that lets you do Google/Yahoo/etc searches from the home page or the awesomebar. What these sites do with your data on the server side is unknown.
Does Google cache work in that case? http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZFFaYjV...
What's the price on this, does anyone know?

Also, typed Ctrl-F "linux" on that page and didn't find a single mention, which is interesting from a branding perspective.

Edit: Can this run, say LibreOffice or Gimp or any other Linux program?
I'm surprised this surfaced on HN, which is usually crazily in love with all the 'innovative' new web technologies that keep popping up. Some of my favorite quotes from the article:

"You see the Node.js philosophy is to take the worst fucking language ever designed and put it on the server."

"That’s right. All you guys using React like it’s the only way to solve every problem ever are using it because Facebook couldn’t build a fucking notification icon."

"PostCSS - People actually use this thing. Can a library actually do shit out of the box anymore? I just want to install something and use it, not decide all the little plugins I want to use."
SpaceX's Mars Colonial Transporter
Make Apple Great Again

FTFY
In my time using Apple Mac gear since the Mac 128K days, Apple has put a moratorium on new features and focused exclusively upon stability and bug fixes for an OS release only twice in my memory; once under Mac OS, and once under OS X. Software quality at the polish and attention to detail level is a Sisyphean entropic struggle for everyone, though. It's just that Apple's enormously successful "It just works" marketing message from 20006-2009 continues to doggedly trot out with its fans today, so Apple gets tarred with the same bar to clear today despite an enormously more complex operating environment since then.

It doesn't help all the review channels (magazines, newspapers, blogs, vblogs, videos, etc.) focus their attention exclusively upon new features in a new release. You need someone as persuasive as Jobs to pull off convincing those channels to review refinements to add stability as new features. The people Apple has put forward to hopefully capture that role hasn't resonated with the public yet.

But software QA should never be an episodic, herculean, release-bound effort. There are ways to market it positively, but I'd always rather use the finite PR time surrounding a release marketing and selling the quantum leaps that set me apart from the competition, not the incremental steps.

In the age of Big Data, instrumented apps and online-inline updates delivery, a possible initial pass at identifying problem areas to shore up that is actually hitting people in their daily workflows is to simply track on the search engines the popularity of complaints about major bundled applications, subsystems and components. An OS X release should not, for example, let the first-page results for Contacts be about entries disappearing [1], three updates into its lifecycle.

There is still plenty of space for innovation here, I think. There are auto crash reports, but no systematic, automated means for a publisher like Apple to send targeted offers to users sending crash reports that pass a specified threshhold (number of crashes, kind of hardware, stack trace pattern, etc.) to update their app to an instrumented one that give developers not just the results of instrumenting the one or a handful of users who happen to persist enough through the now-familiar troubleshooting dance, but hundreds or even thousands of users at the same time, opening up opportunities to automatically search for commonalities and assist with the manual troubleshooting.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=mac+contacts+%22el+capitan%2...
>> "My theory is that a lot of the really experienced engineers (the one who started with NEXT and OpenStep) left when they were rich after the iPhone stock jump."

While possible true I think the real issue is resources being spread too thin. Remember they had to delay the release os OS X one year as all their engineers were working on iOS? Now they're doing yearly releases of both OS's. I'm sure they've hired more engineers but pre-iOS there were probably lots of engineers who had been working exclusively on OS X for years and were able to maintain quality. New people take time to get up to speed.
Along with a few other issues with OS X updates over the last month or so, iTunes continually downloads previous purchases that have already been downloaded like 5 times.

This is an incredibly stupid bug and it's eating up my disk space (until I clean it up of course). I am literally talking about 10 entire albums at a time every time I make a purchase. It's been going on for the last year. I'm not sure why I still use iTunes anymore to be quite honest. I buy my songs through iTunes and then they get uploaded to google music, and I think I've just been going about it as a matter of habit all this time.
My grandmother was part of a church that heavily depended on gifts. The priest would send her envelopes with 10 cents in them. You can't really buy anything with 10 cents, but you sure feel bad when you spend it. So she would usually send back 1010 cents (10$ and the original 10 cents). Don't know why I am telling you this, but that is a hell of a fundraising effort.

The customers that would buy a bible-app are the same who would gladly donate to their church. Indirectly this app may have already contributed its "winnings" back into the community. Maybe someone got inspired by reading the bible-app and did a good deed or grew spiritually. How is that for a winning!

The biggest Christian publisher in my country has been sending take-down notices to websites offering bible texts for free (vs. their paid access). They rather see money than people strengthening their faith. Mull on that for a while.
The lozenge is not enough. I had a user last week who googled "<ispname> email" wanting to get to her email. Instead of clicking the official link a few results down she clicked on of the ad links at the top. This took her to a page which started beeping, playing a virus alert message, and creating JS popups telling her that her computer was infected and she needed to call the phone number on the screen.
> There's the "let's throw out semantic versioning since Chrome already did it"

Firefox never followed semantic versioning. Versions 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 3.6, and 4.0 all had equally major changes to them. It's worse if you look at the internal version numbers: 1.8, 1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2, 4.0. The change to the rapid-release model was driven more by the pain of the protracted Firefox 4 release than by trying to ape Chrome.

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

Actually, Firefox started developing the design before Chrome did. They just took far, far, far longer.
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