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You hit on something, but didn't follow it through. Yes, other companies are doing the same business process that Apple is doing: Prototyping, testing, iterating. I would argue that other companies are also doing it at the scale that Apple does. Google's Street View and Book scanning projects have a huge scale

As you said, the difference is how Apple does it: out of the public eye. While all companies do internal dev and iterate a few times, it feel like Apple will keep something internal and iterate on something longer than others. The result is a product that feel more developed. It is often said that Microsoft needs 3 public releases to make some good (i.e. Windows 3.x was the first reasonable and "good" GUI). Apple hides those first 2 internally.

Go back and watch the iPhone launch video. Try and remember how crappy phones were in 2007. There are a lot of things the iPhone famously didn't have. However, the iPhone didn't feel like a 1.0 product. Clearly they had done a ton of work and iteration to make the features that did ship pretty well done and a great UX.

The first Samsung smart watches introduced last year were jokes with terrible compromises. Will they get better? Sure, But that happens in public.
sigh. plain text paragraphs cant be claimed to be invented by markdown. sorry. good try tho.
Can someone please explain to me the cause of the sudden outbreak? The ebola virus doesn't seem to be that new. Here in an excerpt from a Patent dating back to 2008:

"The family Filoviridae consists of two genera, Marburgvirus and Ebolavirus, which have likely evolved from a common ancestor'. The genus Ebolavirus includes four species: Zaire, Sudan, Reston and Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) ebolaviruses, which have, with the exception of Reston and Cote d'Ivoire ebolaviruses, been associated with large hemorrhagic fever (HF) outbreaks in Africa with high case fatality (53-90%)2."

http://www.google.com/patents/CA2741523A1?cl=en
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found these relevant discussions on planning to implement 2D context loss events on Chromium dev channels:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=322335
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...
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I'm in the early stages of developing a web app that has a heavy emphasis on comments.

I'm debating if the app should go the traditional route and save all comments indefinitely or if it may be better to delete comments after 30 days.

Q: if HN had ephemeral comments would it change the number of times you post or the quality of your posts?
> It is often said that the best way to get a correct answer to a question on the internet is not to ask the question, but to post a wrong answer. It seems to me that what Poettering is doing is the exact same thing applied to open source software, and I for one am grateful for it.

That's an interesting way to look at it, and I think you're right. He's coming up with what he sees as a solution to something that, while it isn't broken, isn't great either (in the case of systemd, other init systems work but they all have shortcomings), only this time I think it backfired. Now the "wrong answer" as you put it, is being implemented by the major distros except Slackware and Gentoo, and I fear that it's gotten to the point that it can only be fixed by being surgically removed and replaced with something else, which may end up being even worse.

My personal solution is to stick with non-systemd distros, for others it's grimace and bear it, and for many it's not a problem in the first place.
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I think many immigrants will have children in the US and then they can't return with them (who will be alien to their home culture).

But I guess they may return separately.
And David Lynch will direct all episodes :)

Looks like Laura Palmer was right when she said she'd be back in 25 years: http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/6/6919641/twin-peaks-prophec...
It sounds like you're asking if practice makes a difference for me outside of the time where formal sitting practice occurs. The answer would be yes. My experience has been that there is a connection between the dimension of stillness which one arrives at in meditation and the phenomena known as intuition, and also the phenomena known as emotion. To put it into plain English, a regular practice makes me feel "less depressed", more patient, and creativity seems to flow more easily.

I realize that the description above may sound too general, or even like I'm describing a panacea, and perhaps I am, that's the thing.
It's not really about being silent. It'd make much more sense if the Miranda copy was "you have the right to not be interrogated without a lawyer present; if you invoke this right, your silence in response to further questions asked without your lawyer present cannot be held against you. Anything else, can."
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I'm not condemning box-giving. I'm just pointing out that only giving boxes to short people is by definition discriminatory (I hope you agree or we need to have another conversation).

It's positive discrimination (which, coincidentally, is how affirmative action is described) but discrimination nonetheless.

I'm not judging. I just thought I would share because I find it useful to remember.
It makes the reader aware of the writer's true position on the matter, adding emphasis and clarity to the situation. It strengthens the impact.

It could have been "This code is bad. I will not accept this code.". Except that would not have communicated the same message.

It's not always desirable to strip away emotional content.
Doh!! Thanks, post updated! No wonder it seemed to converge faster when I added a tiny derivative.
(The gains were pretty much just guesswork, did two runs with just water before adding the eggs. It's a one evening toy setup after all, so don't want to spend too much time calibrating the pid loop)
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> "date with a price"

Freudian slip? ;)
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Some states require you consent to sobriety tests to keep your drivers license. You have the right to remain silent. But they reserve the right to ruin your life.
Hey Obie!

I'm one of the aforementioned creators of Trailmix. I am indeed a thoughtbotter, but Chris is actually a GitHubber.

So far, our $3.99/month price seems to be working out well. We get the occasional comment that the price is too high, but people are still signing up at a steady clip (~5/day).

I'm glad to hear that you (eventually?) plan on charging for your site. While it doesn't cost much to host something like this, the opportunity cost of time spent on support and maintenance is real. I'd be uncomfortable using a free, freemium, or "pay what you want" model given that. It's probably fine for your first year, but as your free user-base grows and your passion fades, I imagine it's tempting to shut it down. After all, the OhLife guys used a freemium model too.

Anyway, best of luck to all of us!

Our site: https://www.trailmix.life

The code: https://github.com/codecation/trailmix
Maybe, just maybe, "your mom should have aborted you and i hope you die" is just an overly elaborated form of saying you are wrong and should not be taken literally.

> They care is they're told they are so wrong they should kill themselves or be killed. Honor killings are unfortunately still a big deal in some parts of the world.

Nobody is wrong enough to warrant that. I see the "elaborate insult" thing can get out of hand, but, still, it should not be taken at face value. I believe the proper way to deal with this is to either engage in an escalation of extremely elaborate insults (provided you accompany that with technical argument defending your "bad" idea) signalling the insult is not the topic being discussed (but it's "adorning" the arguments) or stating, privately, that the insult crosses a line and asking the person to please not to that again. It usually works.

Disclaimer: I am a caucasian straight married male in his mid-40's. I probably belong to the demographic least susceptible to bullying and some of the situations described here are probably very alien to me. I appreciate constructive feedback, however. I do not know how the moderators would react to an insult war, however, so I advise against it, even if you think it proves your point.
He didn't email the right address and didn't bother to look for it. Yahoo, like google and facebook, has a large security department but if you send your report to support@yahoo.com and not security@yahoo.com and don't get a response you don't get to say Yahoo is lax in security because you didn't take a second to google for the right address.
I do not feel the last part of your statement is at all true. France is absolutely proud and protective of its language, but is trying very hard to teach English to its population.

France has mandatory English lessons. 7 years when I was going through my education, but I believe it's closer to 10 now - I know you can start English lessons at 8 but am not sure whether you have to.

Additionally, when I was going through higher education, it was next to impossible to avoid English lessons - that's easily another 3 to 5 years.

Put together, 20 years ago, I went through 11 years of English lessons through a fairly standard cursus, 7 of which mandatory. And as I said, it's gotten better (or worse, depending on your point of view) since then.

I'm not pretending that most French people have excellent English skills, but I do feel it's unfair to paint France as dragging its feet when it comes to learning foreign languages, English in particular.
That was my first reaction, too.
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Strange - I just clicked on the link and got a CloudFlare page, checking my browser for "compatibility" and DDOS, before loading the actual site.

Anyone else getting that?
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It's interesting to see that when IE was the most popular browser it was the most problematic. Now it's Chrome.
The core ethos of feminism is that simple, yes. But how do we get there?

That's where things like affirmative action routinely work their way into the discussion, and I hope you don't mean to pretend otherwise.
"A mobile app version would be better."

Do you know that for a fact? You probably meant "I think a mobile app might be better."
I have no idea who these people are that you think celebrate Steve Jobs' asshole behavior. Those are not people who actually know anything about him; those are randos on crappy tech forums if they exist at all. He was an unusual person with many good and bad qualities, not all of which were factors in his success.

Usually when people cite Steve Jobs' (or Linus', or anyone's) asshole moments as being somehow constructive, it's because they wish they could act the same way towards the people around them but they can't get away with it due to their own lack of power. It's not an attractive quality for someone to have. It's one thing to be somebody's lousy manager, it's another thing entirely to be envious of lousy managers.
Interesting, I've seen a lot of definitions for a startup now, but none of them really seem to grasp the core of it. Startups have repeatable business models, large growth rates, but Amazon is that and it's not a startup anymore. I like the above description that a startup still is confused about its product, customers and how to make money.

So what about Uber, Airbnb, Dropbox then for instance? For me Airbnb and Dropbox are definitely startups still, however Uber not anymore, even though they have similar size.

Why is that, is it the culture, where flat hierarchies are combined with high-growth rates? This is not the case with Google, definitely not Amazon, Apple, Facebook anymore, however, it is the case with Dropbox with 979 employees and AirBnb with 1,876 employees. Uber has 2,625 employees, are they already out of the startup size that is maybe 2,000 employees?
Hans Rosling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVZNGGxdxJQ) had the spread at 1.7 per infection at the 29th, last I heard it was 2, but that may be a rounding of the previous number.
Found this email from him archived on Seclists:

I identified that a few major sites were actually compromised using the vulnerability - Yahoo! being one in
particular. Tripod/Lycos and WinZip.com were also compromised. Yahoo! reached out and gave me a response, albeit a very
weak one, only after the FBI, media and CEO Marissa Mayers was contacted... WinZip patched their boxes and didn't
bother responding or notifying me that they got it done.

And, amusingly, an apology for his rambling:

Please do excuse the scattered nature of the email sent to
Marissa Mayers @ Yahoo! - there were other correspondences that are currently being kept private, and at the time that
I wrote that one, I had been awake for roughly 48 hours and was fueled on caffeine and nicotine.

From http://seclists.org/nanog/2014/Oct/158
Is the graph cumulative or showing the number of people who are currently being treated for Ebola?
Hilarious site. It's always fun to step out of reality every once in a while.
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That's what sometimes happens when HN frontpage DDOSes a webpage that is protected by CloudFlare. It's just checking to see if you're a "legitimate" visitor or an automated bot.
Quick example of how we use this at Segment... for each integration (https://segment.io/integrations) we need to create a vector logo. This got a bit tedious after the first 50 :) so we built nightmare + nightmare-swiftly so that our chat bot could "auto-generate" vector logos: https://cloudup.com/cEA-dTd3glM

Hope it's helpful!
A drivers license has always been a privilege, not a right.
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The unfortunate realization that many of us have come to is that there really is a choice between rejecting the assholes and getting things done. An open, warm, inviting, inclusive, and friendly community that cannot author useful code is of immense social value but very little technical value.

Before setting out to change things, I advise figuring out what the desired end-state looks like. And what means of getting there are acceptable.
Cuba already has small private business. It will swiftly transform to China-like capitalism if you let them do so.
IANAL, but my guess is that asking for an attorney is the equivalent of asserting your right to remain silent as the police are not allowed to continue your interrogation. The right to counsel is a part of the 6th amendment though, not the 5th.
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We have a different approach. If the customer wants a fixed scope and price, we make an estimate (considering both our internal cost, and the value of the work for the customer) then double the price.

They usually do not accept and want it cheaper. Then we offer the project at the estimate and to split any difference. So if we use 1 hour less at 200$/h, they get it 100$ cheaper. However, if the project ends up taking 1 hour more it will only be 100$ more for the customer.

I really would wish that the customers would trust us more and accept it at the hourly rate to get the initial work. Then we can iterate on that until they're satisfied.
On the Canadian donation portal you can select "Ebola response" during your donation submission. That's what I did.
But the system works, you're just saying it doesn't work as well as it ideally could if everything was coordinated.
Hmm, I use inboxalias.com which has persistent disposable anonymous email. Is tempmail better? if so, how?
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You think people like Boris Johnson don't receive the occasional death threat? Laughable.
I find that pill very hard to swallow. It's just too self-serving. Any religious figure is going to try to convince people not to pay any attention to the "man behind the curtain."
There are those who identify as neither male nor female, and who furthermore are biased against both. (That's probably not what the article was talking about, but it is theoretically possible.)
Why the down vote? I never apologized for the violence leveled at him, just that you are not entitled to be a member of any community, and that you cannot expect the culture of a community to change simply because you want it to.

Communities require membership contribution to change. You want to change the culture, you have to get involved. IF the communities culture is too poisonous for you, then maybe that's not the community for you.
>1 byte reads with sys-calls is a beginner mistake. Kay was/is not a beginner. He also had at that point had repeated complaints from Linus about the quality of his code, and showed no sign of listening.
This conflict eventually culminated in Linus making it clear he'd had enough, and will no longer merge code from Kay until he cleans up his act

Then this is all Linus had to say. This, exactly, is a great sentence on why you'll no longer be accepting code from a party, and sums up both what they can do to get back in, and what other developers can learn from this. There's no need to sink to insults, especially at the level Linus can dish out.

We have to deal with clients so clueless, I don't know how they manage to even email us with the stupid questions. But we're polite to them and when speaking about them publically. We keep the abortion-comments private, between the developers whenever we go out for happy-hour. It's not very hard for the open-source community to do the same. (I know the majority of the open source community does not do this. But a vocal minority do, and the rest of the community seems to be okay with this, when it's not okay).
:) You're not the only one.

First, read this. Note the date. http://www.crime-research.org/library/grcdos.pdf

I read that shortly after it was originally published. And I thought to myself: COOL!

I was seventeen. I had a spare Windows 95c (or was it 98se?) box laying around, and some experience with inctrl5, a linux box which could operate as a router, and some basic knowledge of tcpdump(1). Importantly, I could also script the behavior of an IRC client.

At the time I was a channel operator in a relatively popular IRC channel on EFnet... "Don't ask to ask!" :) Users would come in and request assistance with malware all the time, so I was already roughly familiar with the mechanisms of infection and CnC.

This is a long story that I must cut short: I ended up in the same CnC room as Gibson did. Not the same type--the same one. I met some of the people in the story. :D
There is an XMPP standard for link-local messaging. It's supported in Empathy through the telepathy-salut library. In other words, it's installed by default on Ubuntu (though you need to turn it on) and presumably other distributions.

It'd be nice to see mobile apps supporting this standard, too.
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Correct. There are about 3300 reported deaths: http://healthmap.org/ebola/#timeline
The key question is how long does it take for it to level of?

Right now it its infecting 1.7 persons per infected person (avg) so it is still growing, however it is also in the slums of the poorest area on earth.
And he even knows it : "I guess in a way with the energy we are pushing the changes we propose with we are calling for opposition"

On one hand, personal and death threats are way out of line. On the other hand, he kinda rip what he sow. He could have done the same post without mentioning Linus and Gentoo for instance. When you put so much "energy" to push for a key component, don't be surprise by the push back. Especially if you're not willing to compromise. Yes, it can get out of hand, but that doesn't mean the push back has no ground.
The article mentions this as a question if you want to confine the amount of money you spend: “How much do you want to invest before we stop?”

I think this is one of the fundamental issues with Agile, if a client wants to hire a consultancy to complete a project, they want to know how much it will cost and what will actually be completed.

Forming the question as: “How much do you want to invest before we stop?” requires a large amount of trust in the consultancy, personally I have worked with a number that supply below par developers and so asking “How much do you want to invest before we stop?” gives the client no guarantees and the consultancy no obligation to what will actually be delivered.

I think agile can work for in house software teams but not so much for consultancies, where in reality there are normally 2 or 3 of those variables mentioned in the article fixed.
Indeed – Imagine a newspaper has just interviewed a city official suspected of corruption. What but the most obsequious editorial staff would give the official a final look at the story before it goes to press?
"for some reason"

Yeah, cars should only come in one color, right?
On the one hand, this is an excellent post. On the other hand, leading off with "I'll probably get burned for saying this" makes me want to downvote it on general principle.

I don't like being confused this way. :(
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I'm from a state that does this and I have to confess, I'd never really thought about it this way before. There are so many other ways this sort of principle can be exploited: your ability to have a cell phone contract could be contingent on allowing the police to search your cell phone at any time, remotely; your ability to have a computer could be contingent upon the same; your ability to have an ID card could be continent upon consenting to constant facial recognition tracking.

It's pretty insidious. Obviously nothing is going to be done about it.
It wasn't stated which language was learned before the Internet, only that (s)he learned how to code before the Internet.
> why didn't chips suddenly jump from 100um to 100nm scale?

Another point is that Moore's Law is at least partially self fulfilling. If you are a Chip Fabrication company you need to spend money to make new technologies, the smaller you want things to be the more money you have to spend. You could spend a comparatively huge amount of money and leap ahead of all of the competition, but then you'd have to charge more than the competition for your services. All of your customers are expecting things to progress according to Moore's law, so they won't be prepared to spend the extra money. I suppose ideally you want to be just ahead of the competition, not way ahead. I hope that makes sense, I found that hard to articulate.