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A huge amount of disinformation in this thread, including people who are pushing personal opinions and state narratives as fact.

Sad to see this on Hacker News.
He chose homeopathic remedies when first diagnosed with cancer rather than the known and proven effective treatments.

By the time he realized it wasn't a joke the effective treatments were too late.

He used his wealth and influence to get on organ transplant lists in numerous states. At the time doctors were publicly confused because the organ could no longer save his life, only extend it. This action likely cost another person their life.

With his final days he designed and built a super-expensive yacht...

Steve Jobs may not have been sociopathic but he wasn't someone that cared about the well-being of others. He was the first member in the cult of his own ego.
I think the article is suggesting the opposite to what you are saying.

"quantum entanglement of whatever the underlying ‘atoms’ of spacetime are"

You are arguing Einstein's version of the universe. The disproval of his EPR paper [1] led to the discovery of entanglement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox
Caching doesn't help that much if you're only sending the subset of the font that you're actually using for a given page. I'm not sure the same font gets loaded from different places all that often either.
> How can you possibly compare the Indian armed action to regain occupied territory and her sovereignty back from the Portuguese to anything else?

Quite easily. The claim was that India was never the aggressor, not that all the aggressions were justified by some extenuating circumstance or national interest or whatnot. The "never the aggressor" claim clearly doesn't hold for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Portuguese_India. I'm not saying that India shouldn't have done it, note, just that India has in fact used military aggression when it felt its national interests warrant it, which is perfectly normal for nation-states.

We can have a long discussion about whether we expect such situations, where national interests are judged to warrant military aggression, to arise in the future. But that's a discussion that should be had, not dismissed by appealing to untrue claims about history.

> It was the only time India had to resort to military action

Did you stop reading halfway though my comment?

Seriously, I think India has done a quite good job, as nation-states go, at not attacking its neighbors. But claiming things like "it was the only time India had to resort to military action" just doesn't look like it's supported by the facts to me. "One of the few times", yes.
In what way do they make it difficult? Leaving their ecosystem means you're giving up the hardware/software you've paid money for, so the only real question is data, right? I'm struggling to come up with ways in which Apple makes it hard to export your data. The best I can think of is you can't export your iMessages, and any TV/Movies you've purchased on the iTunes Store aren't portable outside of Apple's ecosystem since they're DRM'd (which is not a ploy by Apple to lock you in, but rather a requirement imposed by the content producer), though if you're switching to Windows you can still use iTunes there if you want. Everything else I can think of has at least some way to export it, e.g. Pages/Numbers/Keynote can all be exported into alternative formats, Contacts and Calendars can be exported, etc.
When I bought I was working in Westboro. There was almost nothing tech-related in Boston/Cambridge at the time. The modern Kendall Square (much less Seaport area) is a relatively recent phenomenon. I know it's probably hard for many on this site to comprehend but relatively few of my classmates--even those who worked closer to Boston--had much interest in living in the city.

I imagine you're right about real estate prices. My house is sufficiently "quirky" albeit on a nice and large plot of land that what I see on Zillow probably isn't representative (and Zillow has some details wrong anyway). I'm also not sure our schools qualify as "good" although I have no personal experience.
> with some extra features

That's what got them where they are right now.
no company is going to say.. wow facebook made you and offer work for us instead right now.

I've interviewed hundreds of people and the biggest question is usually "Do you want to work with this person?" The interview process is more about how well the team thinks you'd work with them and not so much on your tech skills.
Thats not entirely correct, if the build is reproducible the upstream apk with the upstream signature can be published:
https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Deterministic,_Reproducible_Bu...
This article is of remarkably lower quality than is typical for the Economist.
I use flow with vs code. With the extension, it will highlight type errors and provide intellisense.

I'd try a to-do app with the flow extension on vs code. Or take an existing project and incrementally add types.
WOT (Web of Trust) addon logs your web browsing, TV identifies top politicians
How Mobile App Maintenance Differs from Website Maintenance
Vape clouds smell awful. Like all the artificial flavourings I dislike, applied the way a 13 year old boy applies deodourant.

If it's rude to spray perfume or eat smelly food, then it's also rude to vape.
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I am out of the country (US). Worked remotely with US couple of times. NDA, contract governed under California law with mandatory arbitrage, send invoice, give IBAN, collect swifts.

Or he can start one man ltd corp in his country and make company-company contract. It is mostly a matter of will.
I think the point is that it's morally questionable to call it a "backup plan" as it it's actually viable. Mars is better than nothing and it's worth pursuing, but only with the understanding that maintaining and fixing Earth is a much higher priority.

It's sort of like the autopilot thing. You shouldn't call it autopilot unless you're ok with people thinking they don't need to worry about driving anymore, and you shouldn't call Mars a backup plan unless you're ok with people thinking they don't need to worry about Earth anymore, because Mars will be there if we ever need it.
I'll like to know that too. Geopolitics is my thing, but haven't found a non-partisan site to engage.
When I used a Bouncer, all messages that I missed just were there after logging in. I could just scroll up. Easy!
Where's the lock-in exactly? Because I can't think of any besides "this application isn't available for linux/windows/android".

Photos -> Export unmodified originals

Calendar -> Export as iCal

E-Mail -> IMAP anyway (and most people use gmail anyway)

iTunes -> Stuff you bought is .aac without DRM. Music subscription can be cancelled every month

Personally I'm mostly using google services, some of them in parallel to Apple's (i. e. Photos, Cloud Storage) and some exclusively (Gmail, Calendar). I could switch any day. But I use computers professionally and lack the time to debug kernels to get audio or sleep or networking to work. And I lack the tastelessness to spend the majority of my working hours with a tool made from cheap plastic.
My feeling on web fonts is that that they can sometimes look nice but aren't worth the page weight. My approach is to pick two fonts I expect MacOS and Windows to have, then fall back to generic. Other times, I'm more lazy and just use the generic.

To put it more bluntly: https://bestmotherfucking.website/#remote-fonts
Halite is an artificial intelligence programming challenge
It's 2016, cigarettes aren't cool anymore.

I used to date a girl who used an ecig and would exhale a cloud of vanilla cookie aroma everywhere we went. I thought that was pretty cool to be honest.
So if they're working on their laptops, why were they in the meeting? They're not paying attention, they're not contributing to the discussion, and worse, if they do need to pay attention and contribute, they're going to make people repeat themselves because they're not paying attention.
Does Slack even understand that there are MANY enterprise companies that don't use Slack simply because it's NOT Microsoft?

Hubris is rarely a good quality.
> It's a chat room. With channels.

And the iPhone was just a phone with a pretty UI.

Slack is winning exactly for the same reason that the iPhone did, and you're misjudging it for the same reason that a lot of people misjudged Apple: It's all about execution. The first iPhone had the same features as previous phones, but those features were executed so much better than the competition. Slack is the same way. It's an evolutionary product with a revolutionary execution, and should be rightly praised for being innovative in an industry that often moves in surprisingly slow ways — which the state of IRC, HipChat, Skype etc. shows needed serious disruption.

And as with the iPhone, Slack is facing the same problem: Once you've shown how things _can_ be done, everyone else will jump on the same wandwagon.

(I realize you didn't say anything that contradicts the above; this is more about the dismissive attitude towards leaders like Slack.)
It's even more miserable that it's the de-facto standard where I'm at currently.
> I'm not so sure about that. Having been around during the period when he was canned from Apple, founded NeXT/Pixar, and subsequently came back to Apple Jobs had changed considerably.

This is what makes me most sad about Isaacson's biography. He left out the one period that I was most interested in. The time at NeXT, combined with the developments in his 'family situation' seemed to have really changed him for the better (or at least better at running a company). I was so curious about that, and instead I got stuff I mostly knew about and too-frequent descriptions of Jobs' tantrums/meltdowns. Such a shame.

(btw, if anyone can recommend material on this period of his life, I'd love to know!)
I was able to get everywhere I needed to go, granted I was staying at an AirBnB so I didn't need to go shopping, but I rode past a safeway during my adventures and I can put plenty of stuff in saddle baskets.

About the people driving, I also found that there are tons of roads right off the main through fairs that are very very bike friendly, very little traffic and lots of bike lanes. I think you underestimate just how far you can get on a bike in a reasonable time. Like I said I commuted from Menlo park to Redwood city and to Freemont ( across the bay ) with no trouble whatsoever.
People bash StackOverflow for their draconian moderation, not because it would be technically trivial to implement (it wouldn't, nothing at scale is).
I thought I was being charitable in interpreting "corporation" as "for-profit corporation," because the literal sense of not wanting any formally organized group of people working in elections is pretty nutty.
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Or not going to the meeting at all, or leaving after you're done.
Kudos to another chromebook dev! Are you running Ubuntu in a Crouton, or another setup? I'm doing that and I run Atom without any complaints. It might just be the way I'm using it however.
And yet the brains of Apple... the man who would take down the Android/Google juggernaut... was laid low by simple fruit.
Um.... "persecuted"? HN accounts have full support for anonymity. Why do you care if an anonymous account on some board gets "persecuted"? Where "persecuted" means you might get a -4.

This is about throwaway accounts (people creating accounts on the spot to say shitty things, while having their other account for non-shitty things, so they never lose points), not anonymity.
Depends upon age. Anyone in the UK under 30-35 grew up using MSN messenger so even the least technical of non-technical people are happy using something that as far as they can see is basically the same as MSN.
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Anyone remember Tamara Rand. [0]

Well, one of the greatest Tamara Rand jokes was from CNN sports tonight: "The Cubs are predicted to win the World Series. Only thing is it was predicted by Tamara Rand."

Quite cool at a time when tv commentary was never light hearted.

[0] http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/tamara_rand
I have had the exact experience in the last month. Being on a slow connection, I've come to loath web fonts. There is nothing wrong with them in general but it's just that they've come to symbolise over-indulgence and a myopia towards the users actual task-focused needs as opposed to aesthetics.

Part of the issue is dealing with progressive enhancement as far as slow internet connections go. How do you solve that problem? There is no native browser API to my knowledge that does not depend on using JS which isn't ideal imo.

Would love an attribute on script and link tags that could be conditional based on connection speeds.

P.S
Would also encourage those who have the choice to use system fonts (https://medium.design/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596f) instead of web fonts. Seems more in-line with the spirit of the web and these fonts are very well tested in general.
Ask HN: What should I do with this site?
What should I do with this site after the US elections are over?

http://youarefired.com/

The ideas so far:

- Fire anyone: A gag. Enter someone's name an out comes a certificate of firing or something like that

- YouAreFired page: You can create a page with a picture and a pitch and have others come over and vote to fire or not

- Fire public figures: List a bunch of politicians Pinterest style and people vote on fire/don't fire

- Causes: Vote for/against various causes

- Fire your boss

- Post firing: Be able to order stuff like a t-shirt that reads "I just got fired by <company name> and all I got is this stupid t-shirt"

Interested on what HN members might think. Thanks.
So we only had evidence of a state actor using it against its objectives.

Now we can be sure everyone is using it because the bug is public.

I think it is easy to understand why this has been a mistake. I believe a patch was announced for next week; what's the risk for the general population if only one actor knows the bug? What's the risk if everyone knows the bug? IMHO this hasn't made the general population safer, quite the opposite.

Google doesn't want to wait for the scheduled fix? Then disclose the information to AV and security vendors and at least we have a headstart against general exploitation of the bug until the fix is out.
The Measurement That Would Reveal the Universe as a Computer Simulation (2012)
But India has already done that. They're not at a nascent stage that they need help, they already have a fully functional nuclear program with working ICMBs.
This is why both Scala and Kotlin make a lot of sense for Android development.
Boris Johnson Says ‘Brexit’ Will Be a ‘Titanic Success’
I too am waiting for the JavaScript implementation.
> He chose homeopathic remedies when first diagnosed with cancer rather than the known and proven effective treatments.

That strikes me as stupid / naïve more than sociopathic.

> He used his wealth and influence to get on organ transplant lists in numerous states. At the time doctors were publicly confused because the organ could no longer save his life, only extend it. This action likely cost another person their life.

That's selfish, true, but I could see myself doing something similar when faced with the fear of death. It's human. Not admirable, but human.

> Steve Jobs may not have been sociopathic but he wasn't someone that cared about the well-being of others. He was the first member in the cult of his own ego.

I'm not sure he was introspective enough to be a member of the cult of his own ego, but yeah, he wasn't a nice man. No argument there.
you're good if you're using a regulated mod, which almost everyone is
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This is what monadic syntax is for. You can do the following for any Future in scala:

for {
resa <- asyncCall(1)
resb <- asyncCall(2)
resc <- asyncCall(3)
} yield new Obj(resa, resb, resc)

which just gets rewritten to

asyncCall(1).flatMap(resa => asyncCall(2).flaMap(resb =>
asyncCall(3).map(resc => new Obj(resa, resb, resc))))

This doesn't just work for futures, it works for any monad. This is super amazingly useful. Also, query syntax for LINQ in C#/F# can support this too.
I'm guessing the downvotes are because nearly everyone on this website accepts the reality of climate change, and your comment doesn't seem that relevant.
Curiosity Mars Rover Checks Odd-Looking Iron Meteorite
You can just route it a bit to the East and bypass Syria completely, going directly from Iraq to Turkey. If you are willing to go underwater you can go through Jordan, Israel and Cypress.

I get that it's a bit shorter to go through Syria, but a war, just for that?

There's a major station in Doğubeyazıt, you can link to that.
Save 4 hours of London commute daily ... I know that diversity is in vogue - but the diversity in "days since last shower" on the Underground can get tad too much for my nose in rush hours.
That's the problem with ideology. Facts don't matter, and history can be revised to fit the desired narrative.

Countless videos show assad forces shooting at unarmed protesters, in some cases killing and wounding dozens. I do not deny some soldiers were killed in the early stages of the Revolution. Some were killed for refusing to follow orders. Others may have been killed in isolated incidents.

But again, the protests were largely peaceful, and assad forces were (and still are) responsible for the majority of deaths.

Edit: typo
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> Additionally, the same reason explains why Siri sucks Apple might have brilliant researchers working on it, but they don't have the same data that Google has access to

Nah, I think it's mostly because Google has hired better talent (and more employees working on ML) and invested more money into research. It's only natural that a team of 300 does more than a team of 30, but I am just guessing. Apple has a web browser and two OS platforms, with cloud services. They have tons of data in the system, just like Google.
For God's sake man, don't leave a huge, fast gif infinitely looping where I can see it while trying to read your blog post. Make it activate after I scroll down to a certain point, or on hover, or anything that doesn't make me feel like I'm trying to read through a strobe light.
HDLs and FPGAs, such luxury. In my undergraduate days, we had to design a 32-bit processor by laying out individual transistors by hand (n-wells, p-wells, polysilicon gates, and metallization layers) in a 25 micron CMOS process with two metallization layers in very little chip area and then prove that it worked in simulation. It was like Tetris from hell; I'm still proud of the compact barrel shifter design I came up with. We also had the option, which I will forever regret not taking, to have the chip physically fabbed as well, as long as we agreed to do the work to validate it afterward.
Because it's a preexisting set of files that can be distributed geographic down to closer and closer endpoints in the network. When you're watching Netflix you can just as easily be watching from a pure-fiber connection point to your local ISP that's not reaching across the internet at all. Viewership spikes will be more predictable based on their own choices, preferences, schedules, geographic region, etc. If an interruption happens, it's also very likely going to be isolated to a small subset of users.

With a live broadcast like the Super Bowl, you're talking about millions of simultaneous individual streams at the exact same time period, globally, from a central point, across the network and if there is a problem it's probably going to happen to everybody. The more people that tune in, the harder it gets.

Comparatively, TV broadcasts are a much better option for this type of event. You've got a single broadcast for every channel that people can tap into if they want to watch. The total bandwidth is 1 stream per channel instead of 1 stream per person.

Tapping into the WatchESPN app or others for sports that aren't being watched heavily is fine. Tapping into it for something with very high viewership is an entirely different ballgame (pun intended). The broadcast model is just much better suited to live events.
Manage Storage doesnt show every backup time, just the last. Say for example a person 1) backups their phone to icloud 2) restores their phone from itunes (bad) 3) their phone backs itself up to icloud (overwriting the known good icloud backup with the out of date itunes backup). iCloud shows the LAST backup (a bad out of date one), but if i want to restore the known good backup from step 1, i need to erase the phone (or find a different factory reset device) before I can see all the available icloud backups. If you call Apple Support they can also see the full list of backups and tell you the time each occurred, but there is no user facing place to confirm the information except on a factory reset first boot.

As for the secure element, it's a credit card number, I hand it to a waitress every time I eat out. Its basically public information, given how many hundreds of companies have it. I dont need secure hardware to protect the 16 digit number I flash at multiple humans eyeballs every day. If it gets abused, I change the number.
Have you found a partisan site(s)?
That doesn't make any sense at all. If they're doing work in the meeting, then they probably didn't need to be there. If they do need to be there, then they should be concentrating on the meeting. Otherwise the number of meetings needs to be cut down.
Done development for both here.

On Dev Tools / Programming:

I'd have to say Google's Tools are 100x better than they used to be. Android Studio is based on IntelliJ IDEA and they've done a decent job of getting emulator performance where it needs to be on good hardware.

That being said, I think Swift was a huge win to Apple developers who were unhappy with Objective-C. Xcode and the iOS simulator are still way ahead of Google's tools on performance.

On SDKs:

This is where Google is really blowing it and where Apple shines. Apple's SDKs tend to be well thought out and well documented.

Android's SDKs on the other hand are poorly documented and are fragmented into a mess. To expand a bit, there are new SDKs for new features on new hardware and tons of "compatibility" SDKs that have to be used to bring modern features to your app if you want to support old Android releases (you have to).

Android's SDKs show both a lack of direction and a rush to patch up the fragmentation mess. This isn't a knock at their hardware (Pixel, etc), which looks nice. There's just a general lack of coherency among their APIs and no clear path on how they're going to fix it.

TLDR;
It's fair to say Google is making progress making their developer's lives better but Apple (and it's community developed SDKs) still make a better developer platform and a better software to develop with.
Is like to say cooking is just about mix ingredients.
After seeing yesterday's Show HN about building a Tetris game on a game, I decided to take a crack at it and build it within a short time frame before I went back to studying for my midterm. I rarely code in JavaScript so it added to the challenge. Several features are missing but I am satisfied with what I accomplished during my coding session.
Being able to create microtonal scales is the attraction here for me, most synths whether they're digital or analog lock you into standard western scale tuning.
>they have terrible health effects

Nicotine alone doesn't have 'terrible health effects' for those that are otherwise generally healthy. Yes, it is addictive and can exacerbate existing conditions (e.g. high blood pressure), but nicotine consumed through methods like lozenges, patches and gum poses negligible health risks.
Yeah that's the one they wanted.
This is an opportunity to MS to reply in kind and demonstrate a sense of humour.