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I don't know why I typed kidney. Obviously, I meant liver. There is no edit link so I can't fix it.

Make fat feel guilty about their weight and get them to continue eating sugar and corn syrup has only made the epidemic bigger in the last decades.
Out of interest, is it quicker to do these things by voice than just using the phone with your hands? I always try texting by voice and when it gets it wrong (often!) I find myself just using the phone normally and am reluctant to use the voice features again.

Does anyone else have this experience?
Only if humidity is low enough.

Otherwise, moisture from the air will condense on your skin (making sweating completely ineffective).
Well, there's The Art of War and the Autobiography of Malcolm X.
They're not, depending on how much experience and understanding of Javascript you have it can be a painful experience. In my opinion, I've experienced AngularJs in a few projects, the learning curve was a bit longer then I expected but the community helped me a lot, plus there's lot's of tutorials and also, you don't need to learn everything and it's not that big in comparision with Backbonejs that depends on Underscore, jQuery or ZeptoJs, etc.

On SailsJs I tried for a bit, but all the NodeJs frameworks are in a different league, so I think you shouldn't really compare them.

Some tips, there's this website called echojs.com (like hacker news for the js world), there's also frontendmasters.com with really good learning resources for a small monthly fee from experts all around the world.

I've been working as a Full Stack Developer for a long time and now decided to do just front end development and I couldn't be happier with the state of tools we have nowadays, specially for debugging: Chrome, Firefox, etc. For example, have you checked the new Firefox feature that allows you to get the list of event listeners attached to a DOM element ? That's sick! What about remote javascript debugging ?

In the end of the day, maybe javascript is not for you or you need some more time.

The new kid on the block is famo.us! Have a look!
Yes, let's just completely ignore the aesthetics of the device and focus only on the technology. It's almost as if you didn't read the article and the finer points about the design of the face, straps, etc. that the author went into such painstaking detail about.

He didn't even mention _any_ of the things you just talked about, instead deferred it to another article.
ODF files! Those sick sick people.
Marvel! Name it Hunger ¡ jajajaja
> If you think about the parent's case, unidirectional syncing ended up causing empty dataset to be synced from the computer to the iPhone.

Not if the user selected the new iPhone as the source. In fact, that's the only way the described outcome could happen -- assuming the desktop machine originally had a full collection of music and the iPhone was empty.

> That doesn't seem right.

True, it doesn't seem right. But the customer is always right.

> Or consider your mobile device calendar. You add an appointment on your phone, it doesn't disappear when you sync with your PC (or with cloud, as is common today).

A perfect example. What if your phone is the source of most of your appointments and contacts? Wouldn't it seem logical to make the phone the source for a sync transaction?

Let's take the next step -- what if your phone is the source of your music collection? What if you add music to your phone while on the road and want to add those tracks to your desktop machine's archive? To do this, the sync program must accept your instructions about which device is the source and which the destination. So you must not get it wrong. In other words, in order to get the expected outcome, you must know how sync works.

To repeat your earlier point:

> Or consider your mobile device calendar. You add an appointment on your phone, it doesn't disappear when you sync with your PC (or with cloud, as is common today).

Yes, that's right, but you're not taking that example to its logical conclusion -- the smaller, more peripheral device, the phone, is the source for the sync. If that device has no music on it, the desktop machine will have its music collection erased.

> I didn't mean to imply that dictionary defines the meaning, but it does seem to agree with what I mean with "sync".

Yes, true, which explains why I've been hearing so many accounts like yours -- people rely on dictionaries to define technical terms and end up erasing their music collections.

> Where does this "true technical meaning of sync" come from?

Logical thinking:

1. "Sync" means that two directory trees end up with the same content -- exactly the same number of files, same names, same everything.

2. For (1) to be true, the program performing the sync must sometimes delete files as well as add files.

3. For (2) to be true, the program must know which directory tree is the source. Therefore the user must know this too. But users, reliant on dictionaries, may not understand what sync actually means.

Q.E.D.
Absolutely... giant red apples with a vinyl-like skin and mushy interior, so highly polished and waxed that a chance reflection can blind you.

I call them ASOs (Apple-Shaped Objects)... and IMHO the only place they belong is in Snow White ;-)
I suspect that this is because calls to numbers in the US and Canada are paid for by the receiver, and calls in most other countries are paid for by the caller.
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I appreciate your comment buro9, thank you!
Is all that money that the App store rakes in still mostly crappy, IAP-stuffed mobile games?

I know people like to pretend it's all artisanal productivity apps, but aren't the revenue numbers like 80% games?

(A quick Google finds some sources vaguely claiming this was true a couple of years ago, can't quickly find newer or better sourced stats)
>> You know what he meant :)

How can you say this? I certainly didn't; colloquialisms are often geographical in nature.[0]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism#Examples
> If you have an ecommerce site or a site with a login feature, you already have a secure site.

wut
Something to be careful about - MediaTek has a reputation of being very hard to work with. As long as you're not trying to do anything beyond what Seeed Studio has already provided for, not a problem.

But if you run into something where you need MediaTek's help, you're out of luck.

Just hope I can save you that little discovery.
But not pictures on the device, which was really what I care most. Maybe iCloud is better now, but it's an extra layer of blackbox I will need to worry about.
Analyzing the effects on health of a single nutritional item - salt in this case - in pretty useless IMHO. The more I read about nutrition, the more I come to realize that it is the ratio of different nutrients what is key to our health.

Take Omega3 for example: It´s much healthier to reduce the content of Omega 6 in your diet than popping a couple of Omega 3 pills a day. This is so because our current diet has screwed up this optimal ratio [1]

Same applies to salt: The problem is not Sodium, but refined salt, that has a mineral composition so unbalanced that makes Sodium problematic.

Just eat unprocessed food.

[1] Optimal ratio Omega6/Omega3=around 1. Typical ratio in western diets: 15/1
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332202...
If only the UK had such Android wallet capabilities...
I completely agree that different roads carry different risks - I think cycling around a city centre is completely different than cycling on a winding country road - but indiscriminate of the magnitude, I think it is undeniable to say that there is a risk.

Causes of accidents have such a diverse and complex range of causes, I think it is not right to make as clear-cut an argument 'if everyone drove safely there would be no accidents'.

In my mind it is much safer to consider the road as a complex system with relatively predictable probability of injury (which in its function contains the risk of meeting an unsafe driver, but is not limited to that). I realise on a case-by-case level there is a definitive split of blame and I'm not attempting to isolate drivers from any blame, but simply from the cyclist's view all I'm asking you to accept is the following:

1) a risk of injury for cyclists originates from the 'system' of traffic on a road

2) someone who enters willingly into a situation, aware that doing so carries a risk (eg climbing a ladder) must accept some (not necessarily all) responsibility in that decision if the risk becomes realised.
I use their subscriptions plan to call home from my Nexus 4. Most of the time skype on android shows offline users as online. Sometimes it shows me that I am signed in and online, but nobody could see me till I try to signout and signin multiple times. The worst problem is it reboots the phone frequently whenever i do video calls. Gets updates often, but they never fixed any of these problems.
Apart from Alfred being the only CrunchFund company among the six finalists (and Mike Arrington tweeting it as the winner on Twitter before it was publicly announced), three of the finals judges have already invested in Alfred through SV Angel (David Lee as Managing Partner, Marissa Mayer and Kevin Rose as LPs). Alfred was also the only SV Angel company in the finals.
Okay, I might have misread. From where I come from, when people watch something, say en Apple show, instead of working we say "some don't have work". That's what I misunderstood. I also assumed (wrongly ? I haven't checked) it was in California which meant it was morning already.

The parents say "don't" not "will not". Even though there are trouble I very much doubt people are fired on the spot, they're too busy fixing it. But sure, some might. Later, in the future.

Anyway, the comment was out of line an the downvotes deserves.
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I think you underestimate watch makers. The watch industry already survived the 'quartz crisis' back in the late 70s and early 80s. Companies like the Swatch Group own semiconductor subsidiaries specialized in ultra-low power integrated circuits, micro controllers, lcd displays, sensors, tablets and so on. They also own battery manufacturers and have years of know how in this field.
Q&A: The sci-fi optimist (Neal Stephenson interview in Nature) [paywall]
Fitch parent company Fimalac’s ambitious digital strategy with Webedia
Well, keep in mind the author mentions that he saved and bought an Ikepod Hourglass, which according to this link[1] costs $28,500. He also posits (rhetorically) that a 25-years-old would typically want an Omega watch, which typically starts at $2500.

His article makes some great points about the watch itself, as he clearly knows what he's talking about. But I would take his non-strictly-watch-related opinions with a bit of skepticism, as I don't think he's playing in the same league as the rest of us.

[1] http://www.hodinkee.com/blog/2011/3/29/the-ikepod-hourglass-...
Something Hacker News Taught Me
At the other end of the country there is the wonderful "Heart of Neolithic Orkney" - which has stone circles, enormous tombs and an entire stone-build village that still has stone furniture in place, like something from the Flintstones, after 4,500 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Neolithic_Orkney
Considering the UK has pretty specific guidelines on bitcoin mining and trading, I'm very surprised that I still can't buy through coinbase.
Niklaus Wirth: A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf]
The article also suggests this is due to comfort regulations about airflow, which were originated by the heating and cooling industry and so are not likely to be friendly to methods that don't involve their products.
Everyone uses the term DPI for displays even if the correct term is PPI. It's not worth fighting about...
The colored version can be seen here : http://code-art.chintanghate.me/The%20Dark%20Side/BinaryJell...
> That's nonsense.

You either need to read more carefully, or you do not understand what "sync" means. Please do not add to public confusion about this.

1. Synchronization means making two directory trees identical -- same files, same count, no more, no less.

2. If tree B (destination) has more files than tree A (source), sync deletes files from B so it agrees with A.

3. If tree B has fewer files than A, files are added to B so it agrees with A.

4. If tree B has the same number of files, but different contents or dates, the sync program replaces them with files from tree A.

5. THEREFORE, ERGO, the operator MUST say which is the source, and which is the destination.

For the life of me I can't understand why people find this so confusing.

> Sync has always meant merging semantic changes in state between two or more devices.

YES, as clearly explained above. And that means if the user chooses the wrong source, for example a device with no music tracks, then the program will dutifully erase all the music tracks from the destination device.

> iTunes in the grandfather's case, chose to merge incorrectly and lose data.

Yes, but that outcome resulted, not from an error in iTunes, but from the user misidentifying the source device, and that, in turn, resulted from his not understanding sync, a misunderstanding that he revealed in his post by attempting to rely on an incorrect dictionary definition of the word.

EDIT: consider this hypothetical example.

1. Directory tree A has 9 files.

2. Directory tree B has 10 files.

3. In your description, the user doesn't have to say which is the source -- no user intervention is required.

4. If so, without user intervention, how does the sync program know what to do? Does it add a file to tree A, or delete a file from tree B?

Think before answering.

EDIT: Readers, do not downvote posts simply because you're confused. Ignorance is not a justification to cast a downvote.
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Has the switch to Apple devices happened because you have had increased purchasing power as a developer? Before these 5 years, you likely had disdain for Apple devices as being "overpriced" compared to PC equivalents, and thought "I could use Linux for that!" and would spend plenty of time hacking around to get things working.

Are you now an "Apple guy" because you have money to spend and no longer consider Apple devices overpriced for their value, and you now value your time more?

Just curious (this is what happened to me you see; I want to spend time getting things done, not faffing around).
1) "Smalltalk".

2) My partner brought home from a charity shop a VGC edition of Goldberg (Purple Edn.) after overhearing me talk about Smalltalk. It changed my opinion of charity shops for ever.
Using client-side script to restrict access is a big no from a security stand point. From what I have read this library is intended to interact with third party services rather than for access. E.g. pulling in photos, contacts etc
No More Cracked Smartphone Glass
Not from Sir Mix-a-lot.
How culture shapes our senses
Assuming OAuth uses random numbers (don't remember if it does), one issue could be that the RNG of Javascript is not cryptographically secure. I'd be interested to hear the opinion of a security expert too.
The new types of Linux desktops put me off (abandonment of typical desktop window management paradigms, removal of options), and I therefore stick with a Fedora 12 (!) VM running GNOME2 to write any Linux code on.

I too have the same problem with NFC, apart from here in the UK no Android payment systems are ready on the phone itself (you can only install it on some devices).
For you specific purpose, I don't see why not using the built-in caching mechanism of Angular
https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/service/$http#caching

The cool thing about angular-data, is that stuff it available, even when the browser is offline and you do a refresh.
Yazidi girl tells of escape from ISIS kidnappers
I like being asked what to open it in. It means you can stop certain application pinching file associations, as typically happens in Windows (and iTunes is notorious for doing it on OSX).

But I can understand why it would be annoying.
Re-install OpenEdX on a Ubuntu 12.04 server
The Electronic Composer Who Reimagined 'Dune' as Music
Because for historical reasons those apps are backed up to itunes where they may eventually be transferred to an iPad.
Not all drivers have to allow dogs in their car. Just the ones who drive people places as a business.

Buildings are the same way. Most residential homes do not have ramps unless some one lives there who needs it.
> deep philosophical reasons about not wanting to encourage any business decision that focuses entirely outside of the Facebook ecosystem

What you're proposing would be a radical expansion of the facebook ecosystem, not a departure.
Dimensions – Measure everything you see in the browser
How Cities Build Vibrant Tech Scenes
Should you hire a designer?
Brand relates to an old Northern European word still in use today. Brand in Dutch and German means fire, the marks were burned into cattle, products and anything else that needed a hard to remove label.
Yes! They "fix" things that don't need fixing. Like their old Android Maps application - how does typing "OK Maps" logically mean you want to save offline maps? Why remove a menu item?

I keep the old one on my phone and resist installing the new one. Also, Google Local has gone?

That's the problem with cloud services I suppose, but at least if they had the decency to keep cloud services going whilst there were obvious users of them (without breaking things), that'd be appreciated. I mean, how long has MobileMe been going for OSX?
I completely agree. Cyclists will always go on about how they have the right to use the road, how they have the right to be in the middle of traffic how they can block country roads by cycling in big columns. Then they will get pissed when they cut across a lane and get beeped at, shout at cars as if its their fault and how perfect they are.

Then next thing you know there a cyclist gets on a path and cuts through a red light. Then complain when a pedestrian gets in the way on the path. I have been hit and nearly hit on the foot path by so many cyclists and they seem to blame me.

Cyclists can't have there cake and eat it too no matter what they think.
Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter
Here's What's Becoming of America's Dead Shopping Malls
That seems like the only thing that they managed to keep - the assured physical dimensions of UI elements. The 44 point as a minimum guideline for tappable button size is valid for all resolutions (4:3 1x, 4:3 2x, 16:9 2x, 16:9 3x).

P.S. At least on the iPhone. The iPad mini (sporting the same resolution as the physically bigger brothers) will produce smaller UI elements.
Very interesting, in terms of pragmatism OCaml was the best choice for them at the time but now Minsky would also consider using Haskell or Scala. I guess Scala might arguably be the most pragmatic of the lot (access to tons of high-quality Java libraries, etc)?
High status individuals will probably view this as a toy for the 'plebs'. Of course they might buy one because of a passing interest, but in order to impress their investment banker buddies, they'll still go for Patek Philippe, IWC, Audemar Piguet etc.

I also don't think that the Apple watch will convince 'normal' people to suddenly start buying watches again. Why on earth do you need this if you already have an smart phone? Maybe as some kind of mini iPod? If you remember the gimmicky 'smart watches' of the 80's and 90's, everything they offered has been solved by smart phones a thousand times. Calendar, birthday reminders, calculator, moon phases and so on. What does the Apple watch bring to the table compared to an iPhone? The only thing the Apple watch might be somewhat useful for is as an unreliable sports / health sensor for people who don't want to buy into Polar or Garmin's ecosystem.

To me, the thing looks entirely ridiculous. Sending your heart beat? What a fucking gimmick. Having to recharge a watch every other day? Are you kidding me?

A lot of people will still buy it. Apple is good at marketing. But this won't be a new iPhone success story.
I would not necessarily take the blog post author's advice. He appears to be a big self-promoter that's more impressed with the perceived prestige of a management consulting job than the success of his actual startup.
Is looking at your watch whilst driving also dangerous? What about using your arm to change gear? How do you use dashboard SATnav if you shouldn't look at your GPS whilst driving? I have a TomTom that suckers to the windscreen and has a display on it. If it was dangerous to look at it whilst driving, would it show a map with turn-by-turn directions whilst driving?
I agree there's a difference. As the objection is not to the person. But being that the person needs a dog to go anywhere in public the two are very intertwined.

Also itd serve as loophole to discriminate since many blind people have service dogs.
Firefox Developer Tools videos
I've heard some fascinating stuff about passive airflow architecture. The floor plans of old buildings were often laid out in very specific and sophisticated arrangements designed to take advantage of local prevailing winds and weather patterns so that opening certain pairs of windows at certain times of day would effectively ventilate the entire structure. It's interesting to also think of the secondary effects we've lost by effectively sealing out the outside world and living in a closed box.
But the first OSX versions were horribly buggy. Nobody wanted to upgrade. Real stability came by about 10.6 Snow Leopard.
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Would there be 10 books on any list of the favorite books by the general population that wouldn't be turned into movies?
It's not clear to me what you're expecting from a JavaScript 'framework'. It seems like you're looking for an all-encompassing backend and frontent framework?

Try to go for a more loosely coupled approach and look beyond MVC[1] frameworks in general.
I'd suggest trying React for the front end. It's not a framework, but it will definitely influence the general architecture of your app. That is, you'll probably end up using some form of 'Flux'. http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/flux-overview.html

[1] Nothing wrong with MVC as an architecture, but most attempts to reify in a framework don't work out IMO. Pretty much same goes for OOP.
From my understanding, they did kept the DPI in line. A 44 point button will have the same physical size in all iPhones, including 6+. It will, however, require three graphical assets (if you intend to support non-retina).

However, as you point out, this is not true for the iPad.
Remember that the Internet wasn't as big as it is now, and not many people had access.

I remember there being a big market for these devices and apps back in the day.
T-Mobile’s next huge announcement: A brilliant move to improve coverage
I love Racket, and thus Schemes of many kinds, but that chapter is really difficult for me to read compared to more academic or technical approaches - and I am really not an academic or technical person!

I find the use of some sort of Socratique dialogue to be deeply confusing, distracting and frustrating. Creepy, SCP-foundation or Welcome-to-Nightvale-like asides such as "We did not expect you to know this." only add to my confusion. It makes simple concepts like recursion look like some sort of House of Leaves nightmare world.
"if a killer app"

That's a pretty big "if" though isn't it?

The killer features of watches is that they tell the time. Yet the jury is still out on the Apple Watch (and horribly divided, it seems).
Nanotechnology aids in cooling electrons without external sources
I don't understand the downvotes either. The only way I can explain them is that there are certain categories of debate on HN which instantly attract large numbers of trolls intent on suppressing certain avenues of discussion.
"UI for kids"

Haha that's made my day thanks. Very witty.
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