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Software issues are common in jet fighter aviation. Here are two little known, but potentially deadly issues:

* 1986 F-16 Inversion when flying over the equator - Flying the F-16 in simulation over the equator, the computer got confused and instantly flipped the plane over, killing the pilot [in simulation]. And since it can fly forever upside down, it would do so until it ran out of fuel. Note: some claim this is a myth and to my knowledge, it has never been verified, but I tend to believe it could have happened. Source - http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/3.44.html

* 2007 F-22 Complete systems failure over International Date Line - At the international date line, all systems dumped and when I say all systems, I mean all systems, their navigation, part of their communications, their fuel systems. They were—they could have been in real trouble. They were with their fuel tankers. The tankers – they tried to reset their systems, couldn’t get them reset. The tankers brought them back to Hawaii by visual, line of sight flight. Source - http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-b...
Micro-USB is not reversible.

Spend any time with an iPad or iPhone, try plugging it in in a dark room, and you'll curse Apple for having such a lame 30-pin connector.

Problem solved, finally. In fairness, it's hard to make a 30-pin connector reversible. And Apple probably didn't want to annoy legions of customers by switching until they had something that was incontrovertibly better, and that they could hang their hat on for a good long time.

The real question is: why does micro-USB suck so badly? The standards committee could have gotten it right all those years ago. They just didn't bother.

Apple bothers. I appreciate this, so I send them some money every few years.
"C++ is dying off now," ... 12 years later ...
(I know the interview is satire but I don't think that line was wholly satirical)
It would be more difficult to set it up to protect users' messages. Government will also come after you for not being able to tap into communications with a warrant.

It's all besides the point. This is a chat product not billed as being extremely secure. Just easy to use.
Here's what I wrote in my appeal. I tried to speak in the most simple terms as possible. I hope it works:

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The rejection states that "if the purchasable content, functionality, or services are intended to be used within the app, they must be purchased through IAP, within the app" - This is absolutely not the case. Pay Pad for Stripe allows USERS to accept payments from their customers with their iPhone & iPad. Nothing that the user is accepting payments for would be used within the app.

Pay Pad for Stripe is companion app to the Stripe API (http://www.stripe.com).

I am not selling anything inside of the app. There are no subscriptions inside of the app. There is no exchange of a fee or subscription money between myself and a Pay Pad for Stripe user. They cannot buy any content, products, or services from my while inside the app.

The most straight-forward way I can describe how someone might use Pay Pad for Stripe is this: My wife has a Stripe account which allows her to accept credit card payments. She downloads Pay Pad for Stripe so that she can manage her Stripe account and accept mobile payments. She takes our daughters to the local grocery store to sell girl-scout cookies. A customer of hers want's to buy a box of thin-mints. She uses Pay Pad for Stripe to take a credit card payment from the customer for those thin-min cookies.

That's it. The feature is identical to what you will find in the popular Square and Pay Pal apps. This is not in-app purchasing. This in enabling B2C business transactions. There is no money exchanged between myself and the Pay Pad for Stripe users.
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Ah interesting. I wonder if they had to part ways with Google a little before they were ready to?
Sorry, you guys are just not thinking differently enough.
I couldn't agree more on Settings. Apple made the hideous mistake in iOS 2 of placing each third party app's settings in the OS's Settings app. Developers correctly determined that nobody wants to leave their app to change how it worked and mostly ignored it. But there they sit, dozens of them, ignored forever.

For screenshots, Android absolutely does not get a pass. iOS has had instant PNG screenshots since 1.0. That it took Google 4 years to provide any kind of screenshot functionality at all sans debugger is almost insane.

The rest, yep. Many of the unconventional features and idioms in IOS were released to great fanfare to the fans and featured in advertising. Those coming to the platform after the fact are left playing "hidden secrets".

(as an aside, how are you unable to move icons? They are all movable. only a few built-in ones cannot be placed into a folder.)

You're not dumb. Users are not dumb. They simply have their expectations on how something works met or not, and the more expectations and prior experience you come with, the more frustrating it is when those expectations are not met.

Mobile OSes are not the end of the line in simple computer design. I firmly believe there's another order of magnitude to go, and I am certain I'll see it in my life.
All comparisons matter I think but Engadget is not a benchmark heavy reviewer. They don't even give overall grades anymore.
Google Glass App Mockups
Too bad, since given the discussion topic here this would have made the perfect pun: "no company in its right mind would start a C++ project without a pilot trial" (emph. added) (rimshot)
> But, [Maps] isn't nearly as comprehensive as Google's offerings on Android. The biggest drawback is the unfortunate lack of public transportation directions. If you haven't quite mastered New York City's subway system, you won't get any help from your iPhone 5. Curiously, the app offers to give you public transportation directions, but should you choose that option it pops you straight into the App Store with a search for "Routing Apps." Right now, there are zero results.

By itself, no public transportation directions in Maps should be a deal-breaker for anyone living in a big city. How Apple could have allowed such a huge feature regression from the 4S/iOS 5 to get into the final version of the iPhone 5 is beyond me.
"Most Yahoo Mail ads generate revenue based on impressions, not clicks. So Yahoo isn't directly making more money by grabbing these "random" clicks"

perhaps not, but surely if I was to buy such an ad and pay per impression, I'd probably like to know what the impression/click ratio was. no doubt Yahoo advertises a low one to potential buyers...
As a general rule, I would be wary of this comment. When the time comes to do your math, use excel. If you're just out of napkins at the bar...GTG. Don't rely on a web app, though for more. [1]

[1] That's not an observation about this submission, its just horses for courses.
Red Herring used to be a major tech magazine back in the day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Herring_(magazine)
Why all of that complicated setup? Why not just support pip install pjson? :)
Sorry, apparently somebody downvoter prefers dry prose to sarcasm. A more temperate reply:

Flatline3, you're wrong in pretty much every particular about how I work and how my company works.

It's certainly possible to mentor younger developers well and at low organizational cost. It depends a lot on your process. In particular, I think pair programming, frequent commits, good unit tests, and collective code ownership together make it entirely safe to hire somebody younger, and you get substantial benefits.

I also think it's shortsighted to say, "Hey, let the shitty shops train junior developers." Great senior developers have to come from somewhere, and I think they'll never get great working at places that don't have their acts at least somewhat together. I benefited a lot from people taking a chance on me when I was younger, and I think I have a professional obligation to return the favor.
The joint strike fighter (F-35) coding standard is very nice: http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf
Check out Augustine's laws: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustines_laws . I believe he said software was a boon as all other ways to add expense to an aircraft eventually are limited by weight.
And by "partner" BGR of course actually meant "competitor".
Part of the article discussed a "trick inventor" who's pretty much stopped coming up with new ones in favor of other things, like writing about the history of magic, since it's reaching the point where he couldn't make a profit on it:

"Invention is all fuzzy, sloppy stuff," Steinmeyer says.
"I have patents, and I have had patents that have expired.
Everything has a limited lifetime. But when a person can't
make a living by coming up with new material, that's when
you have to wonder about the system. I would say that over
the last few years, the last ten years, it's a net zero.
I'm putting as much money into it as I'm getting out."
It’s all about the product, not the technology
Enumerating vertex induced connected subgraphs
Look everyone, it's pretty.
7 John McCarthy papers in 7 weeks
That was definitely not the intention. But sure, you could certainly target whatever demographic you want using the targeting options of Facebook and LinkedIn.
Coincidentally, I haven't programmed in C++ for about 12 years. I'm sure its dead for a large segment of the programming population, and its still much alive for another segment.
Yeah, opposite for me.

I've had the same cell phone number for a decade, and it's what I give out for personal contacts.

I give out my GV number for professional contacts. I generally won't answer an unknown number if it's coming to my personal number, but if it's coming from my GV number, there's a good chance it's something important.

Makes it easier for me to screen calls without changing the number all my friends have had for years.
> "They don't even give overall grades anymore."

Thank heavens. Because we all know how judging phones by letter grades, percentage points, and benchmark scores is so useful.
Don't worry, Jelly Bean is steadily removing those buttons.
Pre-release iPhone 5 name: "iPhone 4Stretched."

Tim Cook: "Couldn't go with that one, they're stupid, but not that stupid."
An entire squadron of F-22's (non C++) lost all systems when they crossed the International Date Line en route to Japan in 2007. The pilots almost lost control and only survived because they could visually follow fuel tankers back to Hawaii. You can't blame that on C++. All systems have bugs.

Source - http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-b...
In Firefox, I believe that chaging the about:config setting font.size.inflation.minTwips to 0 might disable it -- that's the setting desktop firefox has.

It's possible that tweaking some of the other inflation settings would allow for more pleasant inflation, though.
"Small retina display images are fucking huge."

Even when reshown on retina displays, since the HTML standard is to attend to the pixel size and not the physical resolution. Screenshots taken with the standard Cmd-Shift-4 or similar all include proper resolution metadata, should someone want to show it at the correct size.
Really? I've never really associated Australia Day with eating meat, but if we were going to organise something on that day a barbecue would be quite likely. But that's probably true of any day where we'd be organising a family gathering. It's certainly not like Christmas where you have to pre-order a turkey.

I do find it ironic though how barbecues are considered to be an Australian tradition. But then the most well known brand for barbecues, Weber is American.
Microsoft bought out a large part of SGI's patent portfolio in the early XBox days. Then they sold the company to Rackable.
I have zero desire to upgrade to iPhone 5. At this point, I can't see anything that would compel me to plunk down any money for the device over what I have now (iPhone 4).

That being said, if I had a free upgrade, I'd take it, but I wouldn't pay any money for it.

I'd actually be more interested in a new iPad (please call it the iPad 4...'The New iPad' is a ridiciously stupid name) with a better processor for playing Madden NFL type games.

BTW..the most curious thing I saw out of the Apple news the day the iPhone 5 was announced was the new Nano. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_...

I can't believe they are using those round icons. Does that strike anyone else as odd? It doesn't fit with anything else they are releasing and, IMO, looks pretty terrible.
Andrew Ng's course ideally excellent, he's a very good lecturer.

I'm liking this course too, it's really about functional programming more than Scala. He says in the first lecture that the curriculum is mostly from a well known book on scheme, just with the languages swapped out.
Damn. I can only imagine what a bunch of hackers could do with $1.5 trillion.
+1 for Basecamp http://basecamp.com/
He didn't talk about the last level for some reason.
I disagree with all the points of the article you linked. I guess most android users with a micro usb port can disagree just the same.

I charge at 2A and it's not burning. Yes you read right. Many modify their chargers to charge at 2A. Also most computers charge them at 0.5A as it's the standard (yes, some charge at 1A).

There no function micro USB cannot do due to less pins, because its 100% digital.

But then, those are just nitpicking and lightning is just fine here.

There's however actual advantages to micro-usb:

- it supports USB3, which is faster than lightning

- everyone and their dog have micro usb cables

- every phone with micro usb works on every device, dock, what not, that has a micro usb and uses usb standards for storage, audio, etc.
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Not that I disapprove of the sentiment, but wasn't announcing the reason you were dropping support the equivalent of waving a red flag in front of a bull?
Apple iPhone 5 Review: It’s All About Refinement
>> the pain of switching ecosystems far outweighs any benefit to be gained by switching ecosystems.

Not sure I agree. Most people I know ended up with their phone because that's what was popular at the time, or because it was pushed into their face, or it was reasonably inexpensive, or it was what their company handed out. They use it, play games, might use a specific app here and there, and might use the more advanced ecosystem features but more than likely those confuse them. They use it because they're used to it by this point, and not much more. Meaning changing wouldn't be the end of the world.

Personally I have an iPhone (and iPad) and have a good number of apps, though I regularly use very few of them and am enamoured with even less. I'm not necessarily invested in the ecosystem -- I wouldn't mind throwing away most apps I paid for since they were $1 and because I don't even use most of them any more, and the ones I do care about are most likely available on alternative ecosystems. It also doesn't help that my backups in iTunes fail 90% of the time and the bulkiness and slowness of iTunes does not often lead to a positive experience. I'm not saying alternative ecosystems would be all roses, just that this is my experience and that it prevents me from becoming overly attached.
Such a shame, this is such a good article. A respectful adult discussion of real problems. From which we could have a great conversation about these issues, and better, brainstorm solutions. Which would be an incredibly fun and productive thing to do. Even Matias Duarte himself replied to the article.

After reading the article I clicked on the HN comments, excited, expecting to read insightful solutions I could never have came up with. But instead, 90% of the comments here on HN, including the top voted ones, are just childish attempts to show off how cool you are for cheer-leading for either iOS or Android more. This is so sad.

This place is in desperate need of more moderation. The ratio of active users/mods seem out of control.
I am not referring to a single bad experience with a single laptop. I am talking about every laptop I have ever used, regardless of settings, that had this feature enabled.
PaintbrushJS, CaymanJS, VintageJS and Filtrr all do this for free.
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I don't understand why the back isn't all glass or all aluminum. The two seams on the back don't appear to be functional or visually appealing.

Can anyone explain what the deal is?
I was under the impression that ecstasy is mdma + an upper, while molly is "pure" mdma.
Still big. Not quite as ubiquitous as it once was. I'd say there are far more people in support channels, and less people in purely social channels than was once the case.

Edit: Internet Relay Chat chat. Sorry. Couldn't help myself.
> The iphone is very popular in Japan, so I'd think Apple would be somewhat reluctant to just give its customers the finger like that...

This is a potential goldmine for Android OEMs. The Japanese frequently buy new phones (more so than any other country, I believe), and if word gets out that the iPhone doesn't have public transit directions, they could easily make a lot of sales.
I know, but the question was about security, and I think the answer is incomplete without a description of your treatment of user data at rest.

You're doing the normal thing, and it's probably appropriate. I'm interested in hearing about products that do different things, so I asked.

Btw, government will not come after you for not being able to tap into communications. Where did you get that crazy idea?

Edit: sorry, I didn't realize you weren't speaking for Hipmob.
Doesn't work in Browser, the #1 androd app. Holding on the tab switch button or the three dots menu button does nothing. Holding Back opens the history menu, holding the app switcher does nothing, holding home runs the Google Now animation. Better luck in other apps maybe.
I disagree. With experience, keeping behaviors decoupled doesn't cost more than the alternative. It's not a time to market issue.
> Android absolutely does not get a pass. iOS has had instant PNG screenshots since 1.0

We're comparing usability, not features. Android's interface is more usable and intuitive.

> only a few built-in ones cannot be placed into a folder

I never use Newsstand. Why shouldn't I be able to place it in a folder

> You're not dumb. Users are not dumb. They simply have their expectations on how something works met or not, and the more expectations and prior experience you come with, the more frustrating it is when those expectations are not met.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. All I know is that, after several months, I'm still frustrated that I can barely do basic things like type on the phone properly (at a reasonable speed) because of all the sloppy design with the text entry. Since the iPhone doesn't let you swap keyboards out, this means that my only other solution is to use my Galaxy Nexus for any serious work.

So there you have it - this incredibly expensive hallmark of 'good design' is relegated to being little more than a flashy toy e-reader! Oh, the irony....
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Well, I don't think people turn to Kickstarter funding solely for the money. It's a pretty decent way to do some cheap marketing, too. If you can get $100,000 from a bank, or $100,000 from 1,000 people in your target market, it makes sense to do the latter.

I have no idea if this is or isn't the case with Lifx, but I always viewed Kickstarter as a funding/marketing package.
So, everyone who downloads iOS6 onto their iPhone 4/4S will have to live with this "upgrade"?
From what I understand, yes, that's correct.

You will probably be able to jailbreak and replace the Maps app with the older version. That may not come out for a month or two though.
I believe this is correct. If the billing address you provide doesn't match up to what your creditor has on file, the creditor won't authorize the transaction.
Going with Maps over Google Maps is one of the worst regressions I've seen in an OS/Software in a long time. Google Map's is simply brilliant, the de-facto standard, always being improved, flawless in a sense and these guys go with their own mapping software. It really blows my mind. I'm thinking it's simple arrogance on the iOS teams part (perhaps management as well). I've read many stories of how big of an asshole Scott Forstall is and I believe them.

Apple is a great company and their really driving themselves into the ground (well, maybe not yet) with all these frivolous patent troll lawsuits (claiming shape patents, suing a grocery store in Eastern Europe), Sandboxing app, rigorous Nazi-like App store tactics (they claim quality here, yeah my ass, there are probably 300,000 of the 500,00 apps which are pure garbage). It's got to end somewhere.

Anyway, back to Maps. It's a bad move, I've been playing with Maps on iOS6 since the first Beta, I don't know what they're thinking (or even if they're thinking) and it shows the character of that company.

The lightning adaptor is also bullshit - since now everyone will have to spend $100s on adaptors and new chargers. The 24-pin, while dated, worked and was just fine. I haven't played with the new connector yet - but it looks to me like it's easy to disconnect. I remember the older 24-pin connectors had clamps so to speak on the side to lock them in place and the current ones do a good job of staying put. This connector seems very fragile and flimsy and I see it disconnecting all over the place. Again, can't make this call until I play with the device.

It's the same logic with the "new" MagSafe 2 connector. Get outta here. The Mag Safe was just fine. There was nothing wrong with (aside from maybe, the ridiculous price tag). $30 for an adapter is obscene. These things cost $1.99 to produce in China (probably less) and Apple is simply milking the fanboys and corporate "we don't care we'll buy anything Apple because it looks cool" clients. I would know, I'm the one buying $100k of Apple products every year for the company I used to work for. It's really something.

BTW, the iPhone 5 is the iPhone 4Stretched. Bigger screen and a A6 process. Come on. The 4S has an A5X, I bet the performance benchmarks are negligible between the two. Software and the placebo-effect will do a hell of a job convincing the normal user that it "feels faster."

They could have done a lot more with this phone, they didn't because they didn't have to. I don't blame them.
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Yes. However, Google will be releasing a Google Maps app shortly to replace the crap that is Apple Maps.
With an adapter, sure. My G1 has a small adapter that accepts a 3.5mm jack and plugs into the phone's micro-usb port.
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Just a guess, but could it be to alleviate previous reception issues?
@fingerprinter - couldn't agree more with your comments.

I'm surprised they didn't release a smaller iPad to compete with the new Kindle Fire HD, which looks pretty damn good actually.

Check out my post above this one on my thoughts on Apple.
On JB screenshot is two buttons. Maybe you are describing a cyanogen feature.
Lightning is another scam product from Apple to sell more accessories and fatten their margins. Just like MagSafe 2. Garbage.
Yes, I definitely worry that of the many negative impacts of Apple's patent lawsuits that the worst might be creating a popular constituency that has begun to believe in the legitimacy of our deeply broken patent system.
Optimizing for the MacBook Pro with Retina display
> Instapaper is simply more up-front about how and when you will pay.

Whatever Pocket ends up doing, nothing's preventing Instapaper from doing it too.

They may not need to, but as we've seen in the past, you can't assume that that one-time purchase means you're now the customer again (and not the product).
They don't. They no longer pipe audio out through the dock connector, you have to plug in a headphone cable, or the external device has to have its own DAC (ala the giant adapter they have now).
They should just disable the home button for a half second after any keyboard press, like track pads do.