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> it didn't matter if Brave did anything cool if it never gained traction

With due respect, I don't agree even with that.

Technologies, knowledge, and people live on, even after a particular business or product goes away: Opera has never gained much market share but their ideas have - you probably use them every day in your browser. Brave could change directions and focus on part of its portfolio, maybe a micropayments system independent of a browser. Maybe Google, Mozilla, Apple, or some advertising or payment company will use Brave's ideas, acquire Brave, or hire their employees. Some Brave employees could go on to start another company, taking the knowledge and tech they developed, and the lessons they learned from Brave's successes and failures - just like Netscape employees went on to found Mozilla. Others trying to similar things also will learn from Brave. The failure of one particular product is often only the first step. (And that's only if Brave's browser never gains market share; it's much too soon to tell.)
Lua as a Python’s secret weapon
I'm also worried. At first, I rationalized weakness on the Mac front as a side-effect of a strategic prioritization of the mobile & cloud ecosystem. But then I got the new iPhone, and I've been surprised by my emotional reaction to it feeling buggy.

It's all relatively minor in isolation; voicemail consistently fails to load messages multiple times before it succeeds, voicemail occasionally crashes, apps get stuck halfway down the screen after I swipe to check the notification screen, texts and iMessages sometimes show up hours or days late, notifications appear on the lock screen but are missing when I unlock the phone, the weather app sometimes displays a blank temperature, web sites have broken behavior with auto-playing, the state of the device when using volume controls changes unpredictably, and so on.

Most of these are undoubtedly caused by my service provider, or a 3rd party app, or me fat-thumbing an interface, or my complete misperception of a UI paradigm, or are otherwise not Apple's fault. But that's entirely besides the point, because we're talking about my emotional reaction, not reality, and we're talking about something Apple used to bend over backwards to control.

If the common narrative about Apple's modern successes being rooted in design sensibilities is correct, I don't see them being able to sustain leadership in the areas where they've been leading. The good news for Apple is that there still aren't better alternatives for customers who are heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem. The bad news is that there eventually will be, and also that there is material economic harm in keeping customers but losing their enthusiasm.
My Android phone has that and it's infuriating!
A curious case of memory leak in a Node.js app
My understanding is that this is just the OS trying to fetch a known page over HTTP and, if redirected, assuming it got a login portal and presenting it to the user.

I assume this can continue "working" (with your noted caveat that it doesn't even always work today) forever, as the process that checks doesn't need to understand HSTS or to ever try HTTPS, regardless of what actual web browsers start doing.
This is a good point. One year the military healthcare company was hacked 2-3 times. Imagine all the information the govt makes you fill out to do something simple, how easy it would be to hack an email account knowing all the info you need for medical services.
We Don’t Have a Fake News Problem–We Are the Fake News Problem
This is the worst comment I have ever read on Hacker News.

One of the things that keeps me coming back to HN is the Pavlovian feed of new information. I never know when I'm going to learn something new here.

So, I didn't think the worst comment on HN would come from you, nor did I think it would be so calmly written, or so superficially civil. But I've learned something new. It turns out that a calm, carefully written appeal for direct ethnic violence by an adult is more horrible than any unhinged edgy "alt-right" rant by a teenager.
I had come to the same conclusion with respect to ID which made the plot a lot easier to swallow.

They were essentially a hive mind working with a single purpose and were therefore incapable of conceiving the notion that they would need to secure their systems against an attack that essentially used their own technology against them.
I think there are a lot of things they did incorrectly with OSE, but I like the premise of maintainable self-built open hardware. There's simply not enough open hardware. I don't think it's practical to build it for the third world, at least not now.

Paying a bunch of engineers, farmers, designers etc, that would otherwise be working on farm equipment to design farm equipment blueprints in and open way is an amazing idea. Do they have to be in the field, in a hut they built themselves talking about grand moonshots like changing the world economy or developing lives for the third world. Absolutely not. I agree with you that this seems like developers thinking they know better how to fix the world than those working in it.

So yeah, OpenHardware is cool and it should exist, but it's not going to replace commercial endeavors anytime soon and it's not practical for anything but a hobby today. There's no reason we can't have the Linux conjugate bulldozer option at some point in the future though.
Now they just need put a disclaimer at the top of all of Donald Trump's environmental policies, stating that climate change is real.
I've ranted about this to friends but they didn't get it. Glad to know I'm not alone on this!

Also the audio jack on the bottom: can no longer use headphones and prop the phone up on a desk when using FaceTime (which is surely a common use-case)
RT switched to HTTPS a while back. https://www.rt.com/

> I'm not surprised that they are worried about the financial impact of https on their (very modest) revenue.

I don't see anything to that effect in the article.
Perhaps a more narrow description would be for me to have said most free-market economic theory and/or Chicago-school theory, which is what I studied. Other schools of economic thought do a better job of explicitly taking into account the assumption that information is costly.
It looks kind of nice I guess? The l and i really mess with my eyes and I'm not sure they make CSS any easier than any other font.
It could be ported if the potential revenue was high enough, even if it meant rewriting the functionality that used WebKit to use something else. Instead, I think it was more likely the state of the App Stores themselves. The tvOS App Store market is even worse off than the macOS one, and I doubt they would have recovered even a small percentage of the cost of development had they chosen to pursue it.
Ah, I didn't realise there was no JIT. In that case, I'm not sure what caused it, but there was definitely a lower framerate at the start.
Basically, they try to phone home and if it redirects, they assume it's a captive portal login page. It's a sort of controversial practice, because it means that the OS vendor now always knows where and when you're accessing the internet.
https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
Agree with the author 100%. We want tons of new JS tools and frameworks out there so we can learn and evolve newer and faster ways of developing. I still remember when jQuery first came out and how earth-shattering that was. This inspired so many more devs to create better and easier to use tools.
No powers, but I've long loved the ads- and comment-free experience of quietube: http://quietube.com
>> "New iPhone has been the worst selling one in relative numbers since the iPhone.

1. What do you mean relative numbers?

2. Any stats to back this up, as I've seen conflicting data?

Regardless, of course it's not going to be a big seller. It's the 10th(?) generation of a device everybody already owns. It's also the third year running the design hasn't changed at all (presumably as they want to make a big splash on next years 10th anniversary).

As for the MacBook's, in my experience ordinary people don't really put all that much decision making into buying a computer. They want something that looks nice and almost any computer on the market has the power they need for Word, Facebook, and email. The touch bar is something all my non-tech friends think is really cool and makes them want a new MacBook.

The Watch update may not have amounted to much but you're completely ignoring watchOS 3 - that was huge. They managed to make a pretty crappy device really good with only a software update. Early adopters don't need to splash out another load of cash on a piece of hardware, they can get most of the benefit through a free software update.

While I agree there has been nothing mind blowing I also haven't seen anything mind blowing on an Android device or software update, a PC, or any wearable device. Also, I really struggle to find things that my iPhone/Mac don't do that I need them to do. What substantial new features did you seek from the new MacBook?
Why not just use the raspberry pi's UART and the C64's com port?
What a terrible title. 137 interviews, of those 48 scientists mentioned Dawkins (unprompted) of those 80% felt he "in some way misrepresented science or the scientific process".

It's also unclear if they have a problem with the man's scientific work (he is/was an evolutionary biologist first) or is hardline stance against religion.

Nothing to see here, just click bait at work.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13061454 and marked it off-topic.
I don't understand how our government can fight against the widespread use of strong encryption but in the same breath insist that it is the ONLY way to conduct an election?

This argument that everyone's vote or at least the default method of voting MUST be absolutely inviolately private and secure while our most personal conversations and details of our lives be matters of government scrutiny seems, to put it in the most charitable light, "inconsistent".

A much more plausible explanation would seem to me to be that making voting more accessible regardless of security implications will change the voting demographics in ways that haven't been vetted and agreed upon by both parties in our two party system.
Parking chaos as payment app RingGo offline across the country
Isn't WhatsApp widespread enough in your circles, as a IM replacement? I thought it was quite universal.

Or is it a particular feature of iMessage that WhatsApp is missing?
I had no idea that a large-capacity scale[0] was something that I could reasonably build myself. Granted, I don't need one, but I can think of a bunch of non-farming uses for something like that.

Some of the concepts, like the vertical garden, could give city-dwellers the opportunity to grow their own food on an apartment balcony or make better use of a small back yard.

[0] http://farmhack.org/tools/livestock-weigh-scales
Well Apple has had design defects in almost all of their products. (Most manufacturers do. If you know anyone who works at a repair shop, ask 'em)

The annoying part is Apple silently ignores defects for a while till it becomes unpopular not to. But yeah, Apple has had design defects in several Laptop cycles. over heating issues, hinge breakage, the infamous swollen battery, retina coating issues, etc etc.
Ask HN: How do you take notes (useful note-taking strategies)?
Whether in lectures or learning things on the job, how do you retain what you learned? How do you write them down?
It says under the video "All sound effects added; the actual process is extremely quiet."
Between this and the Windows 10 dual boot blowing speakers in the new MBP, I question the short term Linux viability on Macs, let alone the long term.
The second thing a CEO should focus on is building a repeatable sales model. Some products "sell themselves" but most products need a lot of experimentation with the sales model until they become profitable.
If your numbers are correct, and I did the math correctly in my head, that's about five thousand pounds of thrust. A nuclear submarine might weigh ten thousand times that. Obviously a nuclear sub operates at much lower power level and obviously the hull doesn't have to be as thick for a spacecraft so I think it not a ridiculous comparison. Also you're spacecraft need not carry dozens of ICBMs, torpedoes, hundreds of sailors, etc.

Obviously the first engine ever exhaustively tested is usually not the highest performance achievable. A factor of a thousand seems possible although a hundred is more likely.

So for a very large nuclear plant, if the EM drive were weightless (LOL) then maybe 1/10th G applied to that nuclear sub is some kind of theoretical limit not entirely ridiculous but possible.

Now consider that to one sig fig a G of acceleration for a year is the speed of light. And if you're careful maybe you could run the plant for three decades.

So a round trip to the speed of light and back again is more or less back of the envelope possible to visit some distant star.

Relativity rears its ugly head and ten years of ship time around the speed of light is a lot further than 10 lightyears and time passing on earth is a lot longer than ten years.

Of course at the speed of light you're going to need a rather substantial hull, an active radar that can avoid interstellar crud, etc. If you can detect "stuff" at a day out, at a tenth of a G accelerating for an entire day you can be quite far away indeed by the time you pass it.

I can't run the numbers in my head like above, but even 1/100th G slices a very substantial amount of time off a Mars mission. Some unverified google results imply 1/100th G means Mars in a month not a year and a half.

At least as a back of the envelope calculation its quite a useful vehicle.
Is it based on "cool" tech? It's just Laravel and Vue.js...
Take them to small claims court. It's really easy and they will almost certainly settle rather than fight it.
If the point was th be sensible, this project wouldn't exist in the first place.
Security is it's own separate issue. There are best practices that must be observed in all frameworks (preventing xss, sanitizing user data). Of course sometimes there are bugs, but the OSS community resolves those rather quickly.
I have a 4 year old son that I have started teaching how to code. He is picking up on it very quick. My wife and I are very proud. :)
If you liked Fallout Tactics I would give Wasteland 2 a try. It's a squad based tactical game in the same genre.
Thank you guys for explanation. I had feeling that it must be the thing you've described, but was not sure. I was missing js fatigue of what (context). To give example: js fatigue of new frameworks, js fatigue of constant changes... Anyway now I understand. PS: I don't feel js fatigue of any kind and actually like the pace js is progressing. I just don't jump on hype train anymore. Rather wait till things settle and prove their existence.
> fake problem of JavaScript fatigue

Can you elaborate why you called the problem fake? Not disagreeing, genuinely curious as to why you called it that.
Just look at Android phones and tablets and non-Apple notebooks: Apple will be fine. (I'm an Android user).
I have to admit I was absolutely fascinated with the PizzaGate story, and more specifically the people on Reddit who were adding to it. The sheer amount of will and investigation that went into to connect random points of information was astounding and terrifying.
FO3 + NV have massive replayability, especially when combined with mods. People played those games over and over again, role playing totally different characters.

Your gut-feeling about Bethesda games lacking replay value is at odds with objective stats. Skyrim is even still in the top 10 played games today on Steam 5 years after release (and was a stubborn fixture in the top 10 even before the remaster)[1]. Fallout 3 + NV stayed there for years. Admittedly, FO4 dropped out quicker than usual, but a lot of people blame the constricting nature of a voiced protagonist. FO4 is nevertheless still in the top 20 for most players today a year after release.

So their games have definitely got replay value, they really get replay value. Their worlds are full of unique locations. I do admit they got something a bit wrong with FO4, but I think even they must realise that at this point given the player feedback.

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/stats/
The Man Who Invented the World’s Most Important Number
Everdrive is great. Expensive, though.
Announcing the General Availability of MongoDB 3.4 and Bug Hunt Winners
In retrospect, keeping the original components would have been a good idea. In those 4 years I moved 3 times and the original components were lost to the ether somewhere in there.

Still, they should have honored what they promised in their manual. The fact that I even had to break out the manual (via PDF) is an annoyance. The representative's failure to honor that language, even as they readily admitted that yes, that was an official Apple manual, and the manual says I should be covered...but we're not going to cover this repair because we're not going to cover this repair...that was where I lost patience. I left the store and vowed to never buy another Apple product.
Toefl is a surprisingly easy test to pass even with a strong non-native accent. I know people with mediocre to bad command on English who achieved scores of over 100 on the online test. There is no reason to cheat the system.
Honestly, I have found salary has correlated strongly with responsibilities you are given. Stronger than job title. Probably because higher salaries are given to people who they respect.

If you optimize for salary, you will probably be given more responsibility.
The fatigue comes from having to constantly keep up with JavaScript and everything new.

5 years ago building JavaScript page was straight forward. Most of the time you would include JQuery from a CDN, and code in a server side template. If you were really serious, you used something like Backbone Or Ember (both very new). But the options were limited. JavaScript was often limited to AJAX requests, a modal or two, and some JQuery plugins. Very few people were "JavaScript Developers." They wrote JS for their webpages and Ruby/Python/Java/Whatever for everything else.

But NodeJS and ES5 broke open the floodgates for JavaScript Development by elevating Javascript from something only seen in a <script> tag to a fullstack language. With that came a surge of new libraries, frameworks, methodologies, and opinions. It's exciting when a community grows so fast and puts out so much. Many old Javascript patterns and styless were declare obsolete and new ones were created.

A new framework and stack seemed to come out every month. Suddenly Javascript needed build scripts and a pipeline. Grunt came along to solve that problem. Which was replaced by Gulp. Which was replaced by npm scripts. And now yarn? This rapid iteration of technologies appeared all across the Javascript ecosystem. Backbone, Angular, React, Vue, Angular 2. Flux, MobX, Redux. But these switches are as much a change in fashion than real improvements. But either way, the change takes effort to learn and implement.

It turns out learning a new framework, library, pattern every 6 months is tiring. Its fun to learn something new. But having to constantly be learning, and at such a high rate, takes a lot of effort. That is the fatigue. The fatigue of every time you open up HN, there is some new JS library that will replace whatever you are using now. And if you don't switch, you are an idiot using old technology. Or at least the community makes you feel that way.
Announcing the release of MongoDB 3.4
This may be a little dark, but this year is the first time I've watched an Apple conference and thought, "Man...it's like Steve Jobs is dead or something..." It is like Apple has no idea what it's doing anymore, if you went back in time and showed me the latest Apple and Microsoft products side by side I don't know that I'd be able to connect the right name to the right products. I think we're entering a new era.
Is anyone concerned that these institutions are trading a level of detached respect for a temporary boost in popularity? I really don't need my dictionary to be "woke" and I'm not sure I enjoy listening to it shade people on the internet.

I think it weakens trust in institutions when they are all willing to stoop to the lowest common denominator.
IMO this is totally backwards. A new product should justify why it's preferable to what's out there. Don't waste potential users' time making them research when you could just lay it out for them.
You have no idea. Faulty hardware? We'll fix it in the drivers.
Or is it a particular feature of iMessage that WhatsApp is missing?

The feature called "Built into the ROM of every iPhone".
"P\'olya and Hilbert conjecture..."

cornell can't manage string contexts to avoid injection vulnerabilities.

you're all idiots.
Would anyone care to explain how this works? The crystalline structure of the diamond and the directionality of the radiation source doesn't give me a clear idea about where to add terminals to this battery.
Google wants to move you to the cloud. They can't ensure the data collection they need if it's regular Linux.
“look for startups that can't be articulated in the right words. “
So true. Thanks.
I think the implication is that mongo is picked because it's "cool", and eventually everyone realises another tool does the job better

(e.g. regular sql database/redis/sqlite/etc)
So basically if you use up all the hot water in your shower you are going to be in hot water!
> Farming equipment was built ruggedly in those days, and it was simple enough that you can keep fixing and patching and welding it up almost indefinitely.

Interesting thing about the little old tractors, they were generally just the engine & transmission, with a seat stuck on top of the transmission and wheels attached. No real body or frame to speak of, it was all drivetrain. See this pic for an example: https://cdn1.mecum.com/auctions/gf0311/gf0311-103923/images/...
No difference conceptually. Huge difference in practice when looking at the track records of the two approaches.
I think the idea is barely. Thus the adverts and extra load hurt the experience too much. Consider that it might take some time to load the video, now add in the advert on top of that and it might no longer be worth it.
That reminds me of a really cool experiment we did in chemistry. You can create anice packs" that are basically a super-saturated solution that precipitates when you snap a little trigger in the corner of the pouch, creating an endothermic reaction. It was really awesome, and I definitely remember a lot more from experiments like that then I do "titrate [x] in to [y] and take notes" experiments.
I'm pretty ambivalent about this whole issue, but would like to point out that the ban was not on "magnets", but on these particular magnets when packaged and marketed as toys.

There's a reason the CPSC banned lawn darts but not blowtorches or medical sharps or the safety pin you probably used to pierce your ear. There's not much ambiguity about the dangerous things the CPSC doesn't care about. But you can't say that about the magnets, which cause truly horrible medical calamities that most ordinary people do not expect.

Also, not sure if we were just hiding on different ends of HN or whatever, but it's good to bump into you again!
How the Apple and iPhone Has Turned into a Status Symbol