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I think your feeling that Apple keeps dropping support for computers by releasing bloated, less stable releases is a bit off base.

I can't remember who, but I was hearing an ex-Apple employee (it was someone like Don Melton who lead the Safari and WebKit team) talk about Snow Leopard after they left Apple. They were saying the "No Major Features" tagline was something that was thought up by marketing very late in the process. Also, the bug count was on par with other releases. Sorry to drop such a bold claim without a specific citation. I think if it was more rock-solid than other releases it was more luck than anything else.

While that may not have been their goal marketing/Steve Jobs might have picked up on how that version developed. Snow Leopard dropped PPC support, which I'm sure streamlined a lot of things and shrank the size of their fat binaries. Finder was rewritten in Cocoa--which is very user-facing (and could have introduced major bugs). With the drop of PPC support it dropped support for the largest number of computers I saw in use by friends and family. OSX releases from Mountain Lion (2012) until just today with Sierra, didn't drop support for any computers. Even then, the newest computers they dropped support for were from 2010.[1]

I'm not saying new versions aren't slower than predecessors. OSX 10.0 was incredibly slow and I think there was a lot of low-hanging fruit to increase performance (heck, moving desktop rendering/compositing to the GPU lightens the load on the CPU a lot).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS_Sierra#System_requiremen...
A pretty standard laundry list of no-go items and then...

> * collection of charitable donations;

!! This seems really different from all the other prohibitions. What's the idea behind that?
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I've written it elsewhere, but it might be worse repeating here:

OS X is not like some third party program that works for ages and you decide whether to bother to upgrade to the next version or not.

It's more like modern browsers: it's evergreen and you're supposed, if your hardware supports it, to be running the latest version.

Regardless of any major new features, a new version gets the security updates going forward, the bugfixes that stop for the previous OS, is the one compatible with new hardware, etc.
Reminded me of Part 4 of https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/FPGA-relatedWork/Comp... . Intellasys/GreenArrays are kind of similar but only with tiny local memory.
AMP makes pages fast by forcing you to drop all the website fluff. Most will argue that fluff is not needed on mobile sites (I agree)... but try telling your client that.
It's almost like they've done this before. [1] Probably a bag for use at Cafe Macs or Retail or both.

https://www.google.com/patents/US20120024859?pg=PA1&dq=Longo...
YC also encourages companies to spread more equity among the employees, and eliminate restrictions on exercising options when employees leave. http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity
>Does anyone know if a different storage engine can be used in place of iCloud?

Obviously not. There was not even a chance in hell that that could even be possible.
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Also, consider that gasoline for cars and electricity have been heavily subsidised for a good number of years, this has caused oil demand to be always high.
Average income here is way below Bay Area however, and it has less EV per capita than Norway. Perhaps you chose a poor metric.

Parking is not free, although some municipalities subsidize rebates for EV spots in select garages. Urban dwellers (majority of EV market) nearly never take ferries. Incentives were clearly temporary from the beginning, you are hardly breaking any news to me here. The price of car is not subsidized, a Tesla here costs more dollar-to-dollar than it does in California before rebates.

Sure there are (also temporary) import tax incentives, but it's about the only way a government can encourage adoption of clean tech in chicken and egg infrastructure situation. There has to be some upside for being the first guy in the town who can't fill at gas station. As soon as it gains momentum, the incentives will be rolled back. It is however already clear that EV adoption in Norway is a success.

Also you have to be really really broke to see an ordinary German sedan as a status symbol, certainly not anywhere in Western Europe.
Somehow I don't imagine Royal Dutch Shell will be that eager to dive in again, unless they've got some very strong assurances that the next government isn't going to just pull the rug out from under them again...
PS works surprisingly well in Wine, but that I could understand.

Emacs works better than any IDE.

Your browser is usually good enough for multimedia unless you're talking about creating it.
If this is your mantra, you aren't really working on code that require performance. If you where, the "make it fast" and "make it right" would be the same thing.
This seems like it puts forth fundamental limits of learning, in general. And even then, the only real limit is that sometimes, things are ambiguous, and pattern-matching is hard.
Callsign offer all of these. It uses your phone as an identifier and a pin that can be used with all Callsign integrations.

See: https://www.callsign.com
Such as? HIPAA generally has to do with organizational access controls and not specific technologies.
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When I try to visit this page on my iOS device, it opens the App Store instead, where I am shown a nearly-blank screen informing me that "macOS Sierra is only available on macOS". I can then click a link to "Learn More [sic] about this app", which opens the page I originally wanted to view in Safari.
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> Remember that TV show application? It was the perfect use case for MongoDB. Each show was one document, perfectly self-contained. No references to anything, no duplication, and no way for the data to become inconsistent.

> One Monday, at the weekly planning meeting, the client told us about a new feature that one of their investors wanted: when they were looking at the actors in an episode of a show, they wanted to be able to click on an actor’s name and see that person’s entire television career.

> The client expected this feature to be trivial. If the data had been in a relational store, it would have been.

> I learned something from that experience: MongoDB’s ideal use case is even narrower than our television data. The only thing it’s good at is storing arbitrary pieces of JSON. “Arbitrary,” in this context, means that you don’t care at all what’s inside that JSON. You don’t even look.

> When you’re picking a data store, the most important thing to understand is where in your data — and where in its connections — the business value lies. If you don’t know yet, which is perfectly reasonable, then choose something that won’t paint you into a corner. Pushing arbitrary JSON into your database sounds flexible, but true flexibility is easily adding the features your business needs.
I believe that the wage pressure moves in the other direction: most Silicon Valley firms prefer local engineers, but they're a limited resource. If you're paying $2000+ in rent, you're incentivized to seek unusually high wages -- and, as a local engineer in Silicon Valley, you're in a position to do so. Employers are competing for /you/.

(Of course, we shouldn't dismiss the less market-determined psychological factors at play: if you're an executive at a startup flooded with easy money in a culture that doesn't particularly value corporate fiscal responsibility, you may want to pay better-than-market for the pure gratification of doing so.)
I like this personal story. It has a point, is long enough to develop the story, yet well written enough not to be any longer than necessary.
Great for surveillance though!
I think it's more like, the current economy needs X barrels to function. Because the people who control the oil fields have been lax in maintenance, they're now producing X - 50,000 barrels. They could produce much greater than X, but the current system is crufty and broken.

It's the opposite of a bootstrapping problem. Consider running microservices. you need logging, monitoring, continuous deployment, all kinds of very specialized stuff. Now, your resources decline dramatically, and your paging system doesn't work anymore. You've grown beyond the point that it can be handled manually, what do you do? Software is kind of a goofy example, because those kinds of problems can be fixed fairly quickly. A better example might be AWS increases it's prices x100, and there are no alternatives. It's going to take a while to buy servers, internet access, find a place for them to live, and move everything over. In the real world, equipment is expensive. If you let the billion dollar pipeline (or whatever) decay, you can't just whip up another pipeline on Wednesday. It takes months or years to restore that service.
For you maybe, for others, many of the new features have been very useful.
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If you mean DOS games... use Boxer (it's basically a way to package DOSBox into self-contained apps).
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That's beside the point. The question of centrally distributed updates is orthogonal to that of self-driving cars.
I'm not sure if I don't like AMP... Sometimes the page looks better and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you try to find a comments section that isn't there because it was amped out.
AMP pages are pretty finicky for me (and still only top stories).
Possibly... Do you have Fedora running on the 15? ...not required, just curious.
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Well the benefits of the suburbs are that they usually don't have a lot of through traffic, and you can have a large house or lot.

And no my vision for these fixed suburbs would involve the removal of most parking garages and lots, so there won't be anywhere to drive to. There wouldn't be a reason to drive down any street really. Ideally what you'd want to do is make it very expensive to park at meters and the maybe one garage you have, and then have parking on side streets for residents only.

Then we would only have autonomous vehicles which don't need to park, uber/taxi, and walking/biking.
Thanks for a great post Michael! Definitely agreed on Step four about setting up a constant cadence for company news and stories. In addition to the risk that your single, coordinated, monolithic launch could get buried by bigger stories that day, with the speed of media now, many people who would have loved to see your story simply might miss it in the feeds.

P.S. Sent you an email, Michael!
I reported incredibly strange IKE behavior on PIX 6.x to Cisco in ~2005. They escalated to TAC, confirmed it was a bug, and eventually "patched" it. Wonder if it was same codepath?
I keep hearing, both from the media and individuals, Apple Watch is way better at dictating than iPhone (nobody really knows why). I have seen increases both in latency and accuracy using the same phone/mic. I wonder what the major issues are for bad Siri experience? It does seem like they're continuously improving it. Often, it seems like a technology like this gets released, it kind of works, and you don't see any more development.
Rings a bell.

I seem to remember that someone sometime got into some trouble for something like that.

Just a fading memory.
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I haven't figured out a way to find the actual text of the agreement(s). Does anyone have it?

When I explored doing something like this in the past (a binding pledge via 3rd party under US law), one issue brought up by lawyers was that there needs to be some "consideration" http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/consideration-every-c... ; I'm curious how they worked around that.
SpiderOak might be interested in running a Roughtime service / participating in a Roughtime community to support Semaphor.

As it is, Semaphor clients include a local timestamp among the signed content of most actions, and the server rejects actions that aren't within some tolerance (strict ordering however is accomplished via hash chain.) Roughtime would allow improving this situation from several angles.

One of the logistical challenges is client network traffic footprint. Enterprises that deploy a collaboration solution often want to have a strict definition of which upstream servers it can be expected to talk to. Would it be possible for a single Roughtime service to incorporate verifiable information from a larger Roughtime community, such that end user clients don't have to communicate with additional addresses?
Just switch to DuckDuckGo and be done with it. The results are mostly good.
Is it (1) the home page news.google.com that exhibits the problem, or is it (2) the individual AMP news pages?

If #1 then the problem is completely unrelated to AMP it's just a subpar js scrolling engine that they decided to use on Google News. If #2 then that would indeed be an iOS-specific issue because on Android AMP pages are just using native scrolling to my knowledge.
Great catch. We just made a change 20 minutes ago that must have broken this. Thank you very much!
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Except they've just created a long, immediate history of running the country like a basket case, so they have to pay an enormous premium for foreigners to come in and compensate them for the risk of reneging and re-nationalizing those leases.
So if you implemented a lisp on the 6502, you could run it on this emulator and then it'd be turtles all the way down?

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Hi, I'm the one who's putting together The A/B Testing Manual with Patrick. Gonna answer a few questions (thanks for asking 'em!):

1. On the difficulty of A/B testing: It is heavily dependent on a lot of different factors in your organization. Developers' ability to quickly generate variant pages is a huge issue: lots of places simply can't make changes to revenue-generating pages. Lots of places deal with politics that keep them from rationally analyzing A/B tests. And c-level support can ram through a lot, of course.

I know that we're all from planet Vulcan and are very hyper-logical about testing, but most orgs don't work that way. 98% of my work involves doing therapy on people who are used to making design decisions by internal debate. Shifting that culture is tremendously difficult in large organizations where lots of smart people have lots of strong opinions.

Put another way: yes, it's easy to run an A/B test. It is hard to ship the revenue-generating design decisions that come from A/B testing.

2. On where to start: I try to research my test ideas so I know that I'm testing the right things, in the right places. Messaging tends to have much higher impact than specific design elements, so you want to make sure you're communicating to people effectively.

With total blank-slate clients, I get your GA install in order (nobody ever has this), and run heat & scroll maps on all the key pages in your funnel. I also email a survey of your existing customers to see if there are any surprising patterns. And with my bigger clients, I even run usability tests (on usertesting.com) and customer interviews (recruiting through ethn.io) to understand their motivations for purchasing.

None of this has anything to do with actual A/B tests – but it has everything to do with making sure you're not stabbing in the dark when you do test.

Finally, agreed with @gk1 on big, drastic changes. Harder to implement (see point about dev time above) but much more likely to bear fruit – and force the org to really question how they're speaking to customers.

3. It's a new article. The A/B Testing Manual was launched yesterday at abtestingmanual.com. Videos will be ready in a month or two, tops. Launch discount expires this Friday.

Great questions. Keep 'em coming!
AMP makes normal browsing so much harder. My pet peeve is there's no way to see/copy the URL making sharing something a PITA.

The interface doesn't feel right either.
What is the minimum requirements? When I click the support link in the app-store for Sierra and then click "upgrade requirements" I am taken to an OSX El Capitan page.

EDIT: Found it myself here: https://www.apple.com/macos/how-to-upgrade/#hardware-require...

Does anybody know what is different hardware wise between mid-2009 macbook pro and late-2009 macbook?

The Macbook can run MacOS Sierra, but not the MacBook Pro, but they look the same hardware wise.
>Emacs works better than any IDE.

In the immortal words of Jeffrey Lebowski: Well, that's like, your opinion, man. Good IDEs like IntelliJ and VS have so much better integration for given languages that only result in ad-hoc, ho-hum solutions in Emacs (if one can suffer the millions of key bindings).

>Your browser is usually good enough for multimedia unless you're talking about creating it.

Well, if multimedia we mean "watching web video" or some flash pages. The browser can't even put up with viewing RAW images or playing FLAC files...

But true, I'm talking about creating (which doesn't mean anything at the Michael Bay level -- even something as simple as family vacation video or high school project).
Ask HN: I created a “SaaS platform”, but I have no idea what to do with it
For over a year I have been developing a web application (SaaS) for very specific line of business, together with a guy who works (and runs a company) in that business. I have been doing all the software development, and he was responsible for the domain knowledge. The idea was to let his company be the "pilot" for the application, and then when we have enough of a system we would sell it to other customers. He had a lot of connections as well, so there was a good chance to get several customers early on.

However, things didn't work out. I halted the development. Soon after, he contacted another developer to solve the problems. The developer built a quick solution very specific to his company, so there were no longer a need for my system.

I'm no longer interested in continuing in working towards that line of business, since the only real connection I had to it was through the guy I mentioned before. And to be honest... the business specific functionality of my application wasn't really that advanced.

However, I still have my web application, a multi-tenancy SaaS web application, responsive and developed with the latest technology. I know the codebase very well, and it is 100% my own (no legal issues). So I was thinking taking on a completely new idea, and work towards a line of business.

What do I do with the code base? What would you have done? How do I find another line of business that I can customize my application towards? Any ideas?

tl;dr: I have developed a base for a SaaS / web app, but I have no idea what to do with it.
>Hackers will easily figure out a way to spoof the communication, and could play with traffic.

It's far far easier and quicker to throw a brick off a highway bridge but that surprisingly happens very infrequently.
Socialists. I really was getting tired of hearing from the usual anti-US types on how wonderful Venezuela was back in the early 2000s and how Chavez stands up to the US and such, meanwhile it was led by what was pretty much a strongman with socialist policies and industry nationalization that quickly destroyed their wealthy oil-rich country. Now we're selling them oil so they don't starve in the streets. Curious to see how well Putin, the CCP, Assad, Khomeini, and other heroes of the anti-US left and their respective countries hold up in a decade or two.

Considering sites like HN and Reddit are full of the anti-US left, so its almost impossible to have this conversation, but I'm glad to know that Chavez is gone and things are probably going to get fixed there as Maduro loses influence. On top of Cuba slowly drifting away from autocratic authoritarian communism due to normalizing relations with the US. I hope the anti-US left can see some wisdom in getting communists and socialists out of power and putting in a democratic process thats open to all those who want to participate in free markets and protecting property rights, speech, and human rights in those countries. Downvote away.
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In most cases, it is at least partially tied to how much value someone can extract from you, which really has to do with how much value they bring in the market.

It's less about the 'value I create' and more about the 'value company X is able to create using my skills'. And... in some measure, you're going to be tied to how good the company itself is. I could give the same deliverable to two companies, and one may be able to make 20x more than the other, owing to other factors like network, sales, marketing, image, etc. In that case, they could probably pay me more as well, because they're earning more, but that then gets in to business vision and politics - do they see the software/tech as a cost-center or a profit-center?
I'm extremely short-sighted. After looking at all the pictures, and thinking "Okay, that's pretty nifty," it occurred to me to try taking off my glasses and viewing them again. The result is amazing :) All of the individual shapes blur into invisibility, leaving only a very recognisable if fuzzy version of the original image.
> Some HIPAA regulations that pre-date the rise of shared virtual servers in "the cloud" are quite outdated and cause quite a bit of trouble for no real benefit.

What HIPAA regulations are you talking about? Other than HITECH guidance (which can sort-of be seen as a "HIPAA regulation"), HIPAA regulations don't generally specify technologies at all, and I can't think of any that I would describe as outdated or troublesome due to the rise of shared virtual servers and "the cloud", whether they predate it or not.
This feels very regressive. I thought we got rid of "m." for a reason.

Is there anyway to effectively "AMP" a page without maintaining a separate set of HTML/CSS/JS?
Also, certain provisions of FERPA precluding use of cloud accounts for holding student data. I think those may be the archetypal examples.
I'm on a vanilla iPhone 6S running iOS 10 and can't get this to work on Chrome or Safari. Does anyone have an example search term?
My customers read newspapers who do cover startups in the city, in this case would it better for me to focus more on these outlets than the typical pure tech outlets. fyi : my location is Chennai,India.
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Crap, I recently switched to these guys because it has some big names behind it. I'd avoided it for a long time because I knew there would be a please donate, hard luck story at some point and I still fell for it. Now I'll have to consider going back to GoDaddy.
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Can you elaborate on this? Is OSX deleting iCloud documents if you run out of space?