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The problems on iOS have never been with the market but rather with Apple’s developer tools and store software and the fact that you have to put up with those sub-par experiences in order to publish at all.

It’s quite frustrating when, despite having a great experience developing a game (good APIs, solid technology, etc.), one finds that the entire process for building/releasing/updating the game is horrible and one finds that the App Store is just about the worst imaginable way to expect anyone to find and buy a new product.

When I first published a game, I literally couldn’t find it on the “new improved” App Store after typing in THE APP NAME, and I sure as heck wasn’t going to find it with their absurd browsing interface. To this day, I have been wasting limited space in my search-keyword list to include the app name because I’m not convinced that their search will be able to find it otherwise. There is also absolutely zero useful filtering; why for instance can’t I simply get “things published in the last month” or any of a dozen other very basic searches?

Also, the slow and manual nature of the app build and update tools is insane. Every single update requires unnecessary GUI-based questionnaires in Xcode, and then unnecessary web-based questionnaires in Safari, through an abysmally-slow web interface that for some reason is completely incapable of even finding your Xcode builds for a painfully long period of time after you’ve already uploaded them. It’s been 10 years and there isn’t so much as a terminal command available for scripting; all I want is a "publish_app_update --id=com.something.myapp --yes-for-the-40th-time-my-ad-identifier-did-not-change --yes-my-encryption-did-not-change-dammit filename.app".

Apple charges way too much considering that they are not investing noticeably in many of their most critical tools (or investing less than nothing, if you consider depreciation over time from tools that have been terrible for years).
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If you want to get into electronic tinkering the Kris Cochrane youtube channel is a good palce to start. He only uses hobbyist kit (so really cheap from AliExpress) and he'll teach simple soldering and surface mount soldering. He also walks through building reallly cheap chinese electronic kits.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh8JiW2G9yR2v7TwUm04m_g
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It's not quite Cyanogenmod though, don't get your hopes up too high. It doesn't have the most critical stuff I liked, like blacklisting non-contacts.
Divorced my wife. After that, my Arduino experiments feel pretty limited in impact on my household.
Veil has two modes. One is a image-based browsing. Another is focused on eliminated RAM artifacts and DNS caches on the operating systems side. I agree there are a lot of solutions, and we don't solve all the problems. The point is that we wanted to challenge the current notion that only browsers can provide incognito mode. We were thinking is there a way for developers to do this since they are the ones delivering the content in the first place.

The point of the paper was to create discussions like this! Thanks for your thoughts. I really appreciate it.
Open secret: FirefoxOS "failed" because it could not get a few super popular services in the targeted markets to write apps for it. It's very hard to break the chicken and egg issue without that support when bootstrapping a new mobile OS.
Oh, great. We just have to lobby for the people privileged with extra political power by the current system to voluntarily give up the extra power that they are given. That sounds like a very workable plan.

It will probably work about as well as it worked when Americans in 1776 asked the people with geographical-based privilege in their political system to voluntarily give it up.
//I can go on.

Please do

I made many of the same predictions.

//BigCo gets hacked.

this
Dark skinned people age well because their skin color conceals the effects of aging skin that you can see in light colored skin: mottle, precancerous lesions, and wrinkles
The horrors of modern webdesign... Looks over usability...
I really want PostMarketOS to succeed, for one because it would be really neat to have an open phone OS but also because I think it would cut down a lot on the number of phones that end up being demolished long before their actual life-span is at an end.
The lack of notification numbers/icons on Andoid still bugs me though and Samsung does add those. Windows Phones even have/had numbers on their tiles. iOS has them also. The third party versions don't work on Andoid Oreo currently.

Edit: Oreo notifications dots clear all notifications when you open the application which is rather useless imo. Also still doesn't display a number. https://android.stackexchange.com/q/191401
Current AI trend in all major companies is take classic AI - neural networks, Bayesian networks, Monte Carlo -> and than apply cloud scale hardware.

Nothing really impressive has actually come out of AI yet except running old AI on bigger databases and faster hardware.
> but I will use it until some component fails in a terminal way

This is what I told myself too, but I also upgraded after 3-4 years after being annoyed at just how slow my phone was (or to put it another way, just how much CPU power apps demanded now). The phone still works perfectly fine, it just slows down to a crawl right when you're in the biggest hurry. (e.g. at one point Google Maps took multiple minutes to refresh the screen right when I was driving and trying to figure out the right directions, and I still haven't been able to reproduce it, but I sure as heck don't want to live through that experience again.)
> except you only have a limited number of chances before you cap out the time on your visa

That's not true - anyone with a submitted I-140 can renew their H-1 or L-1 visa indefinitely in yearly increments. See sections 104 and 106 of AC21.
Glances is a cross-platform system monitoring tool written in Python
> Samsung is jumping the shark.

You meant to say: every phone manufacturer is jumping the shark.

I am shopping for a new phone and none of the current models are interesting.
Could it be that HN is filled with early adopter money anxious to portray a threat in the worst light possible?
My job didn’t exist 20 years ago. Did yours?
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While there is a subset of people who are quite bothered by minor typos and grammar errors, most people read right over them. Which is fortunate given that I type into this site in my phone.

Poor reading comprehension is much more of an issue. Even assuming reading happens is a generous assumption given how often people clearly only read the headlines of stories.
To me the mistake that was made with Firefox os was going after android instead of going after chromebooks. If firefox os had been designed to run on commodity x86 hardware like chromium os it would not have fallen so hard because a lot of people would be able to run it on an old laptop even if no one was making official hardware for it. Because these run html5 web apps the lack of appstore depth would have been a non-issue as well.
Try "media volume only"[1]. I use it and it claims not to drain battery and it is open source. This should be a setting imo.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=catchpower.gog...
A have a slightly fizzy memory of finding a recently installed run of fiber optic cable along the old transcontinental route. I think near the Chinese Wall.
He does provide examples here, and numerous times elsewhere, of claims which turned out to be entirely false. This has happened in the past, in Iraq with the WMD lies, and Vietnam with the Gulf of Tonkin. This is a big problem.

I'm not convinced of your smear against Greenwald as a pro-Russia journalist. As an openly gay man he would have a lot of difficulty there. And Jews have been fleeing Russia. As far as I can tell, his biggest bias to protect minorities like himself, so it would be exceptionally odd for him to be pro-Russia. There is certainly no evidence I have ever seen of that.

Anyways, before this election, if someone told me that Russia, China, Iran, etc, were all trying to influence US politics, hack US gov/bus, etc, I would say that is a given. Everyone knows that. There is a reason for the Russian fear mongering and not Chinese fear mongering, Saudi Arabian fear mongering, etc.
Inefficiency is a feature of democracy: Checks and balances will inevitably slow things down, but they also prevent emotional decisions from escalating too quickly. It's exceedingly frustrating to watch a decade-long battle over universal healthcare, but it's still way better than e.g. efficiently starting a war.
Can you mail me or I you? I believe I can make this work as open source and with enough funding.
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on the home launcher ?

Oreo has added those

Sounds like it is a matter of preferences though, they could disappear and I would not even notice : I read most of my notifications from the locker screen or notification shade anyway
Windows Phone is discontinued, but sure as heck wasn't experimental. I've used it flawlessly since about 2011 with rock-solid stability and battery life.
Yes! If the country has at least a weak consensus, each generation builds on the last, with politicians competing on who can make more progress faster. Resistance to a radical faction is a feature, not a bug.
I decline a EULA. Basically the one offering ads. I don't think it's necessary for anything actually useful.

It's very nice to connect to the TV by Bluetooth. It's nice to plug stuff there and browse the web too, but does not make all that difference because there's a Kodi machine just under it (right now I'm not sure I will keep the computer).
Suggestion for project: Highlight words library extension
This could be a good app to add to your browser.

You type in words you are always looking for (for example, your favorite band names, but could be any regularly interesting word), and your browser auto-highlights those words anytime they're on a page
For a contract that big, AWS will build you your own private datacenter. US intelligence bought one themselves back in 2013 [0] and AWS just built a second one for them (different security clearance for each)[1].

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/announcing-the-new...
China will scrap limit on presidential term, meaning Xi Jinping can stay on
No. I am running Oreo. They do not work like iOS and Windows Phones. It dismisses all notification for that application when you open that app. Not to even mention there is no number.
Related reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14839629
> Unless Samsung start manufacturing their S-range phones out of synthetic diamond I won't be buying another.

I think diamond is brittle? :-)
That's pretty cool for an app idea.
I've been wishing for something like this or a standalone unit for CarPlay. It would be amazing if I could just mount something in the CD slot in my car and plug in to the aux jack. I'm sure Apple would have a cow at the idea though.
If Putin were so popular he wouldn't have to suppress and murder his opposition
> The green card diversity lottery is based on exactly the premise I mention. Applicants from countries with low rates of immigration to the US have a great chance of winning. Applicants from countries with high rates of immigration to the US are ineligible to apply.

Sure. But that has nothing to do with employment-based green cards.

By all means, choose for diversity when it comes to other types of immigrants (extended family, lottery, etc). But it makes no sense to consider country of birth for skilled worker green cards, where employers hire based on talent - and especially so when the beneficiaries already live here and pay taxes here.

> The alternative is to turn the green card backlog into a problem for immigrants of all nationalities rather than a problem for immigrants of some nationalities.

Sure, but a 3-4 year wait for everyone (while living here) is literally an order of magnitude lower than the current 60-year wait for those born in India. Problems like not being able to switch jobs, kids having to leave when they turn 21, etc, are just less likely to occur when the wait is shorter and more transparent.

In order to prevent a shock to the system, per-country caps should be phased-in over 2-3 years. That way, those currently in the system will all get their green cards in the expected 1-1.5 year timeframe, while future applicants will know, prior to applying, that the wait will be 4 years for everyone. HR392 does this.

Think a 4-year wait would be too long? First, let me point out the hypocrisy. Second, a solution then is simply to increase the employment-based numbers, from 140K currently, to around 220K (these numbers include immediate family: spouses and minor kids). This is hard politically, because Democrats would also want to increase chain migration and other categories.
I remember. There was excellent Nokia hardware and shit software. The only way to get access to proper APIs that the other 2 platforms had was to become a Microsoft partner. The blame for that debacle rests entirely with Microsoft. They had lots to say, but not an ounce of willpower to back it up.
Yeah, Waymo is so stodgy and brittle. /s
That seems like a dialer feature, not an OS one.
They could have a recovery partition (personaly not a fan of this) like all pc do these days. Would make it super simple to restore.

They could also reactivate the warrenty if you restore the phone's OS like some router manufacturers do.
It's fairly normal for terms to have different academic and non-academic usage. There is a reason so many surveys define terms.
> These changes are coming, and we need to tell the truth and the whole truth. We need to find the jobs that AI can’t do and train people to do them. We need to reinvent education. These will be the best of times and the worst of times. If we act rationally and quickly, we can bask in what’s best rather than wallow in what’s worst.

Saying "find the jobs that AI can't do" like it's this obvious thing; we haven't the slightest clue what AI can't do in five years. Practically yesterday Go was the go-to example of what computers couldn't do, and now it's the go-to example of how they kick our ass. Well-informed predictions for widespread self-driving car deployment range from "in five years" to "half a century at best." And the jobs that aren't threatened by AI, and that are accessible to most people, are threatened by much "dumber" kinds of automation. Human-facing "empathetic" jobs are often considered safe, but what positions actually need a human, anyway? People are happy to do a bit of extra work to get "expert advice" from a database when it comes to travel, law, or finance; stores are happy to let customers use automated checkout rather than talk to a cashier. Dextrous, highly-physical work is still safe (pending advances in robotics, which seems to move a bit slower), but only until someone figures out a way to offload the dexterity-requiring bits onto a factory, or render the whole thing obsolete. And finally there's second-order effects of the resulting economic turmoil; if most of the middle class can't count on keeping their jobs, not enough people are going to be ordering fancy lattes to pay for your role as a barista. Planning a relatively low-skilled career (anything less than a four-year technical college degree) is walking a minefield.

Us highly-educated technical generalists are probably fairly safe, but not everyone wants to study for 6+ years after highschool- and regardless, they could expect to have to relearn all the applied skills in their chosen field when the tool they originally studied gets replaced by something completely different and orders of magnitude better. The old model of "learn a skill, get a job applying that skill, eventually retire" will no longer reliably work on any point of the scale.
I thought Watson would; what's happened to that project is a salient lesson.
if it's not a random ammount per word it can still be guessed though, and even then it wont work unless they use a monospace font.
Well - SOAR.
1. Yes, that happens, although constitutes around 10-15% of work being done.

2. I am certainly listening to any suggestions, but don't necessarily actively encourage it before proposing a solution. Perhaps this is a direction I need to move towards.

3. Mostly yes, as overwhelming part of the complexity just comes from knowing how various parts of the system interact. From time we have an open-ended 'research' (where the outcome is not known upfront) project, but these have a very mixed success rate and tend to overextend the time budget.
That's not even remotely true. We are seeing significant, growing app development on the "hybrid" stack at Ionic, and strong interest in Progressive Web Apps.
At that point just leak it anonymously somehow. If you do something this cute everyone will know the person doing the reacting effectively leaked it intentionally. Why not just take a picture, strip the metadata, and pass it to a trusted journalist?
Using deep learning for fake news detection
> First, my impression is that Microsoft Surface hardware is, too, heavily advertised in developer forums and social media

I use a Lenovo Yoga X1 2 in 1. Using the laptop form factor, linux works great(as I had expected). However, using as a 2 in 1, it is not a good polished experience.

> What does it mean to have touch on a software developer system?

It means when I purchase my own personal system(which I do intermittent dev on), I can buy a multi purpose device which replaces the need for me to buy both a laptop & a tablet.
same should be said of minimum wage.

Minimum wage is probably the worst form of income redistribution we use.

not allowing people to have salaries competitively priced vs machines will cause most of the swift pain AI will bring.

please, replace minimum wage with more welfare or better yet negative income tax.

Of course, some jobs will die regardless. But minimum wage greatly exacerbates this.
I paid $650 for my Pixel last February.

One thing it could do off the bat was work with my $50 Daydream VR headset, which only a few Android phones could do at that time.

I am an Android programmer so having a nice phone is worth it for me.
I agree and can't imagine how they asked the employers the definition of critical thinking and got that response. The answer is so ridiculously wrong it that they must have asked a loaded question to get such a response.
I think that bursts of technological progress follows more from the model of individualized intelligence, whereas continuous progress follows from the distributed, networked model of intelligence.

A promoter of the distributed model of intelligence might argue that Einstein was only able to produce the general theory of relativity because of the knowledge already contained within society, such as the mathematics and physics that had already been built up to that time. All the stuff from Euclid to Newton to Gauss to Poincare and Minkowski that Einstein's work relied upon.

Does that imply that Einstein wasn't really smart? If you narrow your focus to just the innovation Einstein made, where did that come from? Did it come from the "hivemind" or was Einstein himself doing something special that allowed him to develop the insight?

More individualized intelligence would predict that we would see smaller intervals between bursts as society increases in size and connectedness (more chances for Einsteins to appear, more likelihood that they can work together). But if intelligence is somehow an emergent process from the network of all humans itself, then as society grows we shouldn't see many bursts at all, just a fairly continuous increase in knowledge as little bits and pieces get absorbed and distributed.
It's an alias for 'event'. It only exists for backwards compatibility (shouldn't be used nowadays).

See "ANNOTATION 3" here: https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/interact.html#SVGEvents
How many of top 20 apps in App Store are web apps?

I agree that web apps are faster to iterate but the user experience is guaranteed to be worse.

I've worked on some of the web apps that are usually featured as "see web can do this". I'm not an outsider. I'm just observing how any app that is successful is either native already or they are making it native asap
The individual tasks a manager does are important - my point is they can be handled under many different roles.

All of those roles are quite different from the traditional manager - for example none of those "managers" had strong authority over the developers day to day work the way a manager typically would. Nor did they speak on behalf of the developers.
hmm, sounds suspicious, in that the seat sensor was disabled? Even our vehicles won't move, when in gear if no one is in the seat. Seat senors cut the drive train. Even my 15 year old el-cheap-o Sears garden tractor does the same thing: cuts the engine off if I stand up out of the seat while in gear.
What part of my reply seems like a personal attack to you? Pointing out his unbecoming opinion of immigrants who follow the rules, or asking why he felt he needed to come here to begin with?
Y combinator startup benefits: "We have deals of varying degrees of formality with many companies in the technology world either to give free services or special access to YC-funded startups. Deals range from $500,000 in cloud hosting credits from Microsoft Azure to 60% off Optimizely’s A/B testing plans." [0]

Google also has a dedicated page where they partner with a bunch of VC's [1].

[0]: https://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#connections

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/
Thank you for your valuable contribution to the discussion.
HMD uses Android for smartphones.

KaiOS is for feature phones only. It has to run just few basic apps. It's not a platform for Nokia.

Funny fact: Nokia sold 75 million phones last year. Only little over 4 million of those were smartphones.
I wonder whether or not there should be a rule on HN about linking to classified information. I am an extremely harsh critic of the american security state and the IC in general, but lower level employees can be fired or even charged with crimes for viewing things they're not supposed to and I don't think its right to disregard the effect on the individual. Obviously, in this case, it's only a single word, but i've seen leaked docs here before.
Love the 3x2 aspect ratio.

Wish they hadn't copied the silly cursor key layout.
Take Samsung Galaxy S9 or similar phone, but Xiaomi for the fraction of the price.