skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were Apple, right now I'd be more concerned with losing customers to Android devices.

Case in point: we have an iPad here that is still on the iOS 5 generation it came with. It has been widely reported that iOS 6 was slower (as well as breaking things like Google Maps), iOS 7 was slower still (as well as making various visual styling changes we don't like) and both iOS 6 and iOS 7 have suffered at least one severe security flaw that iOS 5 did not have. In short, there appears to be no rational reason we would "upgrade" this device as we are repeatedly prompted to do.

Recently, Apple appears to have changed the rules for app developers so new things going into the app store have to aim primarily at iOS 7. At some point we upgraded an app we'd bought a while ago to get some much-plugged new feature that someone thought was interesting. Aside from the fact that the new feature itself turned out to be paywalled anyway, so the upgrade invitation for the app was basically just spam abusing the app store mechanism, the "upgraded" app also had a horribly glitchy UI where previously it had been smooth as silk drawing exactly the same screens.

Can we "downgrade" that app back to something that works, which we already had before, via the app store or otherwise? No, it doesn't seem so.

If we "upgraded" iOS itself, as suggested to fix the app (though we've seen no reports that doing so does in fact fix this app), could we then "downgrade" again if we didn't like it? Also no, as far as we can tell.

As it happens, we need to have Apple devices around for testing our web stuff, so we're stuck with spending some of our company money on new gear now and then for as long as our customers are doing the same, and we're stuck with using more recent versions of iOS on some devices for the same reason. But at this point, nothing would ever convince me to spend my own money on an iSomething. I was always suspicious of the lock-in and kindergarten UI, and seeing it in action, the results are at least as bad as I expected.

What is possibly more interesting is that it seems average users are getting fed up as well. Not so long ago, mobile visits to a site I run that isn't particularly geek-related were utterly dominated by iOS devices. Today, while iOS still represents a clear majority, it is a much closer balance between iOS and Android, and the trend is strongly in the latter's direction. I can't help wondering whether this is people who've now been not-upgraded to more recent versions one time too many, or who've been forced to dump expensive and otherwise working hardware for artificial software reasons, starting to vote with their wallets.
Also, only some things in OCaml are structurally typed (modules, objects, polymorphic vairants), others are not (records, variants). For example:

# type meters = I of int;;
type meters = I of int

# let meters i = I i;;
val meters : int -> meters = <fun>

# type newtons = I of int;;
type newtons = I of int

# let newtons i = I i;;
val newtons : int -> newtons = <fun>

# let f b = if b then newtons 12 else meters 12;;
Characters 36-45:
let f b = if b then newtons 12 else meters 12;;
^^^^^^^^^
Error: This expression has type meters but an expression was expected of type
newtons
You obviously do not understand how this even works. With my kind of ADHD. Okay here set a remminder to do this, except with your reminder, you forget to remember the reminder.

"Remind yourself! But I forget to remember!" It just doesn't work in the space planning/organizational structure that normal people use to cope with their problems, and their stupid fucking instructional ways to suggest otherwise just give other people with armchair opinions more safe-guard to continuously allow people to have shit opinions.

People with ADD, are much more likely to engage in drug abuse, criminal behavior, and under-perform. It is a societal COST to not help them out.
Well, trying to diagnose ADHD in a 5 year old is witchcraft at best -- kids at that age just naturally have no attention span. It's not ADHD when you're 5, it's being a kid. I was diagnosed young, and let me tell you: the meds are no fun for the kid. You're amped up on pills all day then when you come home you're a zombie. It likely results in a lot of depression issues for kids who don't really understand what's going on.

When unmedicated, an adult with ADHD literally cannot focus on a subject that is uninteresting. You try, then OOH SHINY. You can try cutting out distractions, great! You get 5 minutes of work done then you have to pee. Then you notice a magazine on the table. Then 3 hours of this later, you remember that you originally had a task you were trying to complete.

It goes beyond simple procrastination: short term memory is a real issue in general, especially about doing things. It doesn't matter how hard you need to focus, you'll constantly be distracted, and when you get distracted, you forget what you were originally supposed to be doing. Likewise, you may then hyperfocus on something that is interesting to you and end up playing around with an Arduino for 4 hours without realizing it. You know how you have a nagging feeling you were supposed to do something? That's pretty much life for an adult with ADHD. A constant feeling that you're forgetting to do something. But you can't remember what it is.

It's hard to explain the difference between ADHD "hyperfocus" and just being "in the zone"; but I'd have to say it's the in-the-moment perception of how time passes. Most people when they're "in the zone" make a conscious decision to stay there: with ADHD it's almost an accidental thing where you enter a trance and only leave it when your task is done or when someone smacks you across the face.
nknighthb is completely right. It is user hostile. It even makes a huge assumption, that clarry is programmer in the first place. With "Patches welcome" you might as well be saying "If you don't like it, spend a year learning [Language] to fix this issue." How is that anything other than user hostile?

If my mom can't open a pdf in pdf.js, I'm not going to tell her "Well mom, patches welcome."
What have you ever done other than snarked in the internet?
Thanks, don't know how I missed the links at the top of the page. I only checked each category on the left nav of the docs page.
See also Julie Cohen's 1996 paper on this problem:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=17990
jQuery was probably already cached on your end, all 300kb of it
I don't in anyway shape or form think 20% of boys should be diagnosed with ADHD. I think something is seriously wrong with our society if this is happening.
Catherine, you are confusing "Holacracy" for a generic term that means "flat organizations" and "lack of structure".

Holacracy® is a specific system with clear rules (available here: http://holacracy.org/constitution ), and is far more structured than what you describe in your article. See for example the structure of my organization running with Holacracy: https://glassfrog.holacracy.org/organizations/5

It's mistake to associate Holacracy to flat organizations — Holacracy is actually FARTHER AWAY from a flat organization than it is from a conventional hierarchy. It pushes very strongly about the looseness and lack of clarity around accountabilities in a structure-less org. It even pushes against the lack of clarity in conventional hierarchies as well. Overall, Holacracy instills more structure in an organization, not less.

Ev Williams, who uses it at Medium, puts it this way:

"Holacracy is the opposite of the cliché way to run a startup. People think "freedom, no job description, everybody does everything, it's totally flat, and that's cool because we're all down with those rules". But actually that creates tons of anxiety and inefficiency, and various modes of dysfunction, whether we have to build consensus around every decision, or I'm gonna do a land grab for power... People romanticize startup cultures, but I know it's fairly rare that people in startups say "this is it, it is amazing and everybody is super-productive and going along". So in Holacracy, one of the principles is to make the implicit explicit — tons of it is about creating clarity: who is in charge of what, who is taking what kind of decision — and there is also a system for defining that, and changing that, so it's very flexible at the same time." (source: https://medium.com/p/89fb713a8786 )

So... I'm afraid your assessment of Holacracy is really backward. I'm not saying Holacracy is perfect, but it's certainly not flawed in the ways you describe.

@oliviercp
Girls try parallel parking
European Parliament resolution on the US NSA surveillance programme
Bye Bye Evernote, Hello OneNote, we meet again, this time on Mac!
I think the 10x label is just something that is easy to say and comprehend. But the real impact of a high-performing developer is probably way more than 10x. It's not really about lines of code. It might be that this person makes a breakthrough which changes your industry. It might be the difference between staying in business or not.

I've had the pleasure of working with very high-performing developers and the positive impact they can have on a team is amazing. I can see how some people don't believe it if they have never worked on a team where one person amazed and inspired them.
Betterdige's Law Of Headlines:

"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

Unfortunately here, as it would be great to have a wise and effective Supreme Court.

The last time there was thought to be a chance to abolish software patents before the court, four conservative justices were against abolition and Scalia refused to join any opinion fully. (Scalia, comfortable knowing that he's the smartest, is often willing to be humble when he isn't sure and says so.) That situation is likely to repeat itself.

This is a much better article, incidentally:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/26...
Well he ought to apply to work at a bitcoin startup, because his name-branding alone would probably be worth $$
Not to mention that gravity is kind of puny even at that scale. The rate of energy loss from the Earth's rotation due to the tides is about 3.3 TW. In 2007, the US consumed about 3.1 TW.
From most Australians I've spoken to, it won't take much spam action on their parts to exhaust their (expensive) Internet plans' (very small) data caps.
That's really encouraging. I reposted your comment to Reddit [0] - is that alright?

By the way, your third link is broken. It should be:

http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/hous...

This is why defeatism annoys me. There are things we can do to fight this, and we should be doing them.

[0]: https://pay.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/20mk33/asio_and_...
You're either being deliberately pedantic or missing my point, which was to illustrate how silly "run rate" can be as financial metric unless it's backed up by fundamentals. The $1000/month candy business is a bad business and in fact the more revenue it "makes" the more money the business actually loses.
Just add an option to undo moves. :)
Chrome Browser: How to emulate a touch screen
I haven't actually done this, not to this extent. Still, I absolutely see myself morphing more in Roy's general direction as I get older. I see it a little like extracting karma from the world on my own terms. That is, in my youth, some companies got a slice of my brilliance at a deep discount, because of my young age. Now, having lost much of the naivety of youth, particularly with regard to what companies and executives want to tell me the "deal" is, I take advantage any way I can, at every turn.

It goes without saying that you shouldn't hire me, but you won't know any better.
A typical ADHD complaint is that the "hyperfocus" happens but the problem is that you can't choose what you want to focus on.

Or maybe these are in fact 2 different disorders?

Sure. Even with our woefully incomplete understanding of things, there have been recognized subtypes of ADHD for quite some time, as well as recognition that there are a great many things (situational depression, clinical depression, etc) that can affect one's focus.

And yes, diagnosing little kids with ADHD and giving them medication sounds horrifying to me.
2048 in 4D
It could be the difficult to quantify ROI of strategic benefit from keeping it out of the hands of Apple, Google, MSFT, etc
Or it is maybe just due to his quick visit with the nice people at Langley.
Perseverance and burning out.
The difference between constantly improving and burning yourself out.
Why are domain renewals getting so expensive?
A few of my domains are up for renewal in the next few months. I checked the prices and I'm pretty shocked to see $xx renewal prices. When I bought these domains for multiple years initially, with no discount, they were $7.99. I recall a few years before that that I was renewing domains I owned for only $4-5.

What gives? It amazes me that $1.99 will get you 100GB of cloud storage for a year, that you can run your website including its API in the cloud for an insignificant cost, and that you can stream unlimited movies for less than $10/month yet somehow maintaining a couple of DNS records (and some associated paperwork?) costs $xx/yr. Is it the registrars expecting unjustifiable levels of profit? I also see no real competition, maybe ICANN is collecting fees (and if so, where is the justification)?

Is there an actual reason why these fees are much above cost to maintain the records let alone increasing at a pace that puts just about any investment source to shame? More importantly, is there anything we can do about this? It seems completely absurd to me.
http://huonw.github.io/2048-4D
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Good idea, but nearly all 0-confirmation transactions are confirmed later.

Let's call invalid transactions "Dorian"
35 USC §101:

"Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title."

Yes, rayiner, that's pretty broad but I don't see software in the list. Maybe I copied it out wrong?
As an illustration, around 2200 years ago, 200 years before Jesus, a Greek scientist actually measured the curvature of Earth not moving from his town(!) only by observing the shadow of the Sun and cleverly thinking, giving the circumference as "50 times distance between Alexandria and Siena." He didn't have the exact distance then, but knowing that distance today, he measured the circumference of the Earth with the error of less than 0.2%.

http://todaslascosasdeanthony.com/2012/07/03/eratosthenes-ea...

150 years later, still before Jesus, another scientist, Posidonius, repeated the experiment.

Most of the things we confirmed today survived a lot of checks. As Asimov writes it's not that there's much "wrong" in what science knows today, it just that is "incomplete" in the smaller (from the perspective of the common experience) details.
This guy is still (sorta) after one of my coworkers. Apparently the direct threat of jail isn't working so well.
Very relevant: http://flagger.io/

> Flagger is a browser add-on that automatically puts red flag keywords (like bomb, Taliban and anthrax) into the web addresses you visit. Install Flagger and help us send a message: government surveillance has gone too far.
The docs were outdated indeed, we fixed this, thanks!
Yes, we should be more like the 'free' US, what with their frequently paramilitarised police and 'free speech zones', law-enforcement drones and police kicking down doors because "I smelled pot", and an incarceration rate five times higher with people doing considerably longer sentences (despite the consitutional requirement for no excessive punishment).

Australia is not the bleak wasteland you paint it as, and it's not a police state. Using this kind of hyperbole does no-one any favours. Do you really think that Australians fear their neighbours like the people in East Germany did? The PM recently said that the government broadcasting agent should not be so negative about the government and should be more like it's cheer squad. He was pilloried by the private press for saying such a thing.

I'm interested to know what privacy and personal rights you think the US has that Australia doesn't. The US has 'bear arms', true. It has slightly greater private freedom of speech, but in practice slightly worse freedom of speech for the press.

As for the content of the constitution, that's not the way we do law. Just because the US shoves every silly thing into their constitution (or at least tries to), it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist for us if it's not in our constitution. We have shitloads of law outside the constitution. Hardly surprising, since in the US, you only require politicians to amend the constitution, but in Australia, you need to hold a referendum. And even in the US, the vast bulk of nattering about the constitution is just grandstanding - a law is a law. Being in the constitution simply makes it harder to repeal. Not being in the constitution doesn't make it any less legally binding, just easier to strike down.
And yet nobody denies there was something highly unusual about Michael Jordan.
Thanks for this. I'm only a few weeks in on OSX and nvALT is just what I was looking for. I also hooked it up with iA Writer, which is only $5 at the moment.

I was looking for a personal wiki-type thing on OSX, but this is a fantastic set-up for me.
Yeah, I encountered this problem after registering butt.ventures... I always wanted a butt domain :(

The last version of Chrome I got, didn't recognize it as a domain, but the current one does.

I probably shouldn't try to conduct online banking with those email addresses.
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> Are you sure that "hyperfocus" is a symptom of ADHD?

Yes. The name is a misnomer. It's a kind of executive function disorder. The ability to prioritize and focus at will on what is needed. Hyperfocus means that other things that might need to be a priority are being dropped. Hyperfocus is only good when it is on the right things.

> it's all a matter of determination.

That's good for you, but what about the people that can't no matter what level of determination? Determination isn't a solution to erectile disfunction so why is it a solution to adhd?

> on the other hand it's often misdiagnosed and those drugs may in fact do more harm than good in many cases.

Isn't that true in almost all treatments? In how many cases have medication caused more harm than good?
Possibly, but that would probably lead to him suing Dave, which Dave already spent a lot of money to avoid!
I don't see why innovation of your software means you have to lose compatibility to old data.

It seems to me you can do pretty much anything whilst having a small set of conversion scripts to get the old data into your preferred new format.

Its not "big data", not streaming data, not rocket science.
It's sometimes been proposed to define:

1 dorian = 100 satoshi

However, whether Dorian is the real Satoshi or not, it'd be disrespectful. (If he's the real Satoshi, who wanted his meatspace name out of it, he's earned deference to that desire, and the true honor is to not involve his name. If he's not the real Satoshi, he deserves the same distance from the project as any other unrelated private individual.)
That statement includes software, not explicitly excludes it, unless I'm missing something.
More people seem to care about one sentence in the article than the rest of it.

In fact, many people are missing this sentence:

"I don't know if there's any solution to this. I certainly don't advocate not hiring people Roy's age -- I'm now older than he was then."

...and thus taking the following sentence out of context:

"But every time a company hires someone who is not a young male, they run the risk that the new hire isn't there to work, rather is there to scam you."

Edit: that said, the author really needs to rephrase his words or he is going to piss more people off.
Any chance a non physicist / scientist can understand in a nutshell what it means? (5σ at .2) it has been a long time since college. Is that a statistical notation? or something specific to physics? Googling it (or even using symbolhound) didn't render good results for me.
It's too bad companies and employees don't have loyalty to each other anymore. You could have been respected for having paid your dues.
Ok, well how about this: I don't ever remember what happens in meetings. Because of this, I learned to take really good notes. As a result of my coping strategy, I always have a distinct advantage over people who don't have ADHD. I can look at my notes from 6 months ago and tell you what we talked about in a meeting.

I don't really think of it as a "disadvantage" because it's really just about knowing your personal limitations. One of mine is that I can't remember shit. Some people struggle with complex math problems (which I would say is a bigger weakness than memory issues which are easily solved with an iPhone and a notebook.) It doesn't have to be a weakness if you manage it.
I get your point that it can be indirectly devalued. That should be true for any store of wealth imaginable.

A transfer of cash is a transfer of a continuously devaluing currency. If I bury a barrel of cash to give to my heirs it might be worth half in today's dollars by the time they dig it up. Not so likely with bitcoin, assuming demand for it remains the same or higher than now.

The gov't could ban bitcoin transactions but that's becoming more and more unlikely as Wall Street gets into bitcoin-related services.

> If you transfer money by other means (e.g. the bank, bonds, etc) there are perks that make up for the additional cost generally. If nothing else, simplicity.

Agreed. For heirs, for example, a living trust is probably the way to go, over bitcoin inheritance.
I have used Titanium Backup to restore Google Authenticator and Battle.net Mobile Authenticator onto a different device and both apps have retained my accounts with no problem at all. So yes, you are correct in assuming that you can restore OTP generators from backups.
>women are underrepresented in tech. Whenever a well defined group of people is absent from (or underrepresented in) a source of power, discrimination is taking place, period.

3,000 us army deaths in Iraq, and of those, 2,938 were men, 62 were women.
There's two good reasons to hang out somewhere like HN:

1) It gives you perspective - yes, you're not "the best" and neither am I. Learn to live with it.

2) It helps you get better. There's a saying that goes something like "if you're the smartest person in the room, leave - there's nothing you can learn there." While pithy and not entirely true, it tends to push you in the right direction by making you push yourself. Maybe you never thought some of those things were possible, but if others can do it, there's a good chance you can too (whether you want to or not is another question), and you can learn a lot on HN.

Apart from that, yeah, HN can be a time sink.