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Mac OS X: The 2000-2003 period included three full releases (not counting 10.0, since that was the culmination of several years of work), and didn't have quality problems. The 2003-2011 period had four releases. So I don't see an obvious lesson that one year is sustainable.

iOS: 2007-2011 four updates at one year intervals before the decline in quality that lots of people perceive starting with iOS6. Again, hard to say one year is the culprit.

I do think Apple needs to restrain itself, and work on figuring out which features can be shipped without compromising quality. But whether it needs to do longer releases or do smaller releases is hard to say.

As for Mac OS, when I read Siracusa's review, I was thrilled. There aren't consumer features, but they're doing so many things to make desktop machines more responsive and efficient. It's even more exciting than Snow Leopard.
No description whatsoever of the technology.

Is this device a wifi device that makes calls and texts over wifi? What is a "built-in mirrored sim"? This is not typical terminology (a google search brings up only this article as a result). Is it a GSM / CDMA device? Which carriers will support it? Will it be unlocked? Does it run Android or some other OS?

The line at the end, "This is the first device to ever offer a phone free calling feature" seems patently false for most common-sense definitions of "calling feature."

This is just atrocious journalism.
There were several reasons Google TV failed. One of the biggest was that it launched with no NDK support so games of any high caliber were not portable to it.
This book taught me an awful lot about software engineering. From learning a little bit of a language, then learning a powerful framework, then going back and mastering the language to mastering git (commit early, commit often!) to test driven development to client side JavaScript, to serverside, to SQL and relational databases. This book is packed and well worth its price (free online, to boot!).

Michael Hartl, if you're reading these comments, I attribute much of my best Software Engineering practices to you.

This book focuses on Ruby and Rails, but it is one of my favorite programming books that I always recommend.
I don't have any iOS devices, so I can't download it, but apparently at least one person has downloaded it, as their is a review on the apple store that says the app crashed and never worked on his iOS6 iPhone 4.

As far as getting users, why are you coming to HN looking for users? You clearly read HN, you read about how to do PR and pitch, did you miss everything on how to find product market fit? Did you miss everything on research before building, or building MVP and getting friends to try your app?

I don't think you app is a bad idea, but it isn't something I'm going to jump on until I know other people are using it. If nobody is using it, their are no anon 'broadcasts' to be shared. You have a classic chicken-egg problem. Nobody is using your app, so their (likely) isn't any content their which is making people interested in viewing that content.

This is part of the problem with anon apps, where people can't try before installing. There is no point in me telling a friend, hey download this app because I'm in it, because... if I'm anonymous, they aren't going to see who I am anyway. What is your pitch to your friends as to why they should use this app? What do they say. Get 5 people you know to install and use it, then adjust based on feedback.
ETA: when the next version of Windows Server is released.
Not to mention that red lining (aligning to pixel boundaries to eliminate anti-aliasing artifacts) becomes less of an issue the more pixels you have, which makes it easier for developers to build decent looking apps.
A Harvard study a few years ago found the externalized cost of coal to be about $350 billion per year in the U.S. alone: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/16/usa-coal-study-idU....

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want to bring government subsidies for renewable into the discussion, you also have to consider the externalized cost of legalized pollution. The only defensible calculation is to look at cost per kilowatt hour excluding government subsidies and including externalized costs. That's the true economic cost of the energy source.

And coal is miserable on that front. I wouldn't be surprised if coal use is a net loss to the economy (i.e. the value of the energy generated by coal is less than the environmental cost of coal use).
Absolutely. Ruby is one of the easiest programming languages to get up and running with. It also has some of the coolest metaprogramming techniques I have ever seen.
Growing public awareness and dialogue on issues that affect a lot of people. Plus high profile suicides and other incidences in the startup / tech industry.
FWIW (anecdote warning) I have the Galaxy Note Tab 2014. The Stylus works great, but I only use it for drawing, and definitely wish I'd just waited for the Surface 3.
Plus, because we have a finite number of police, they have zero time to do anything traditionally associated with police, like proactively walking beats. I would be all for adding more police if it meant that each one had a patrol area of less than 1 square mile and they could actually get out and walk it.

You see so much more when you walk.
Couldn't you accomplish this with a vmod?
I understand what you're saying, and I wear a seatbelt every time. Having said that: should "saves lives" be a consideration for making laws? Cigarette smoking kills (or hastens the death anyways, along with causing suffering); should we ban cigarettes, or fine people for smoking, in the interest of saving lives? Suppose tomorrow research comes out that, say, taking a folic acid supplement daily saves lives (I just picked a supplement off the top of my head, please don't get hung up on that). Should the government mandate daily folic acid intake? Should you be fined if you forgot to take it (let's assume a cop can detect if you took it or not)?

I'm no libertarian, but I worry about "saves lives" being the sole justification for a law... This is not a strong opinion, so I'd be happy to hear counter arguments.
> "Firing when out of battery, i.e. before the slide has locked home and the brass is sufficiently supported (which is iffy to begin with, especially with their .40 S&W models at least some time ago), is another HUGE no no in my book."

Is this done intentionally by Glock, or is this a failure mode for glocks? I was reading about open bolt firearms and different blowback mechanisms the other day, and learned about Advanced Primer Ignition which sounds like you are describing. It seems like it would be primarily useful for fully automatic sub-machine guns though; it seems too nuanced and prone to error for a gun is marketed with reliability claims.
To your point: I didn't even know you could pull up the sidebar content on Alien Blue.
Thank you so much for your response!

This is really helpful-- the way we're building our system gives ours customers their own instance (so update at your convenience). So this feedback makes us feel good!

And sorry to hear about your experience with Parse. Building a startup is hard enough.

If you consider using a BaaS in the future but want a different / more flexible experience, please get in touch: falling.hill@gmail.com (or drop me your contact info and I'll get in touch).
But this article is already out of date. Only hours after this article was published we learn that the second nurse to test positive was allowed to fly commercial a day before her diagnosis and after the first nurses diagnosis. We definitely can't compare our response to Nigeria's.
Shon Harris – RIP Oct 8, 2014
If it spreads to central american slums a panicked wave of people will rush the US border. The current authorities are insane enough to not stop them.
Android caught up because competition within the Android market brought prices down and features up, and encouraged consumer-attracting partnerships with carriers (cheaper phones on contract). This isn't relevant to the Amazon/Netflix knife fight.
very true...although HD over the air coverage is not universal and can be finicky even in areas with supposedly decent coverage. and not to mention pirate streams via e.g. sportlemon.
Best practices for load-testing Web apps
I haven't seen the Roku interface, but rather I use Netflix and Amazon both from my PS4. If a show/movie is available on Netflix I always go there first. Way better experience right now.

I've been a long time subscriber to Netflix however, from back when it was DVDs only, and their service used to be pretty terrible. Amazon is behind right now, but they will iterate and improve.

I really believe that Amazon in the long run will come out ahead of Netflix, but I'm not sure if that is a good thing. Amazon is becoming such a huge monopoly in so many ways that I don't see this as turning out well for consumers in the long run.
I was just trolling. We're cool.
Hey KANDARP,

I guess, It must have been an experience to get through all that. You may have gone wrong this time and who knows.....you just have to be right just one time.

Ship early, fail early.

One more: You need a copywriter.

Best of luck.
>I'm not seeing any top physicists working in this program (McGuire is not one).

McGuire is a top physicist - he is currently working on a compact fusion reactor at Skunk Works, which came out with the SR-71 Blackbird among other innovations.

Oh, did you mean, ones who had already succeeded in their top projects? Well, how do you think they got to succeed - by not doing it?
Show HN: FavIconX: make progress bars out of favicons
Last week on my NAS I found some old code that I had created about 2 years ago. It was a small (7kb) vanilla library that enabled you to make progress bars out of your browser tab icons. I never released it because it was so similar to piecon. However it seems that piecon hasn’t been updated for the past two years. Since my library has a bit more configuration options, I thought I could brush up some documentation and open source it for anyone to use.

Cheers
Funny though that they didn't change the name to "Reddit"
Will.i.am is an interesting guy. This looks much more refined than the weird iPhone camera accessories he launched a year or two ago.

I still believe that smartwatch ecosystems outside of Android Wear and Apple's Watch are unlikely to thrive.
MAVEN captures first images of Mars atmosphere
Nurse with Ebola called CDC before boarding flight
Going all the way back to yesterday....

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Two-l...

> Confronted by a gunman just blocks from the state Capitol on Tuesday night, a Democratic legislator from Northeastern Pennsylvania pulled his own weapon and traded fire with a would-be robber.

Remaining question is to look up the legislator own voting record on the issue of gun control.
I know the Netflix story is all about streaming now, but I'm kind of sad that according to the financials, Netflix's DVD section has halved its subscribers over the last two years.

That service definitely seems to be degrading, almost everything in my queue has become perpetually stuck on "very long wait," something rare for me of a couple years back. They're clearly winding things down.

I don't know what happens in a couple years for anyone who wants to see an old movie. The streaming libraries are still incredibly thin. New releases will be available somewhere, sure. But we're facing the death of access for film history buffs or hardcore genre fans.
You need to relax on the analogy. Consider - why does someone look at a box of pizza and decide that it tastes bad? Why does someone looking to buy a watch walk past a jewelry store? From the app preview alone, I can tell you that there is nothing really standing out here. Why do I want to share anonymous pictures of Katy Perry? If I want to share anonymous pictures, I already know of Snapchat. If I want to share anonymous text with a random group of people, I'll use Yik Yak or Secrets. If I want to share photos, I can use Facebook or Flickr. I can make an 'anonymous' account on Flickr to share photos. Why do I want this app on my phone?

You need to work on the pitch a bit more. Just throwing together the words "anonymous" and "pictures" doesn't do it for me. Also, try not to take it so hard. When you said "Jesus Christ man...", I got the impression that you were taking this pretty rough. It's nothing personal, but in a world with so many apps already, why should I add your app to my home screen? Why should I spend another 10 minutes a day with this app?
> You can't use speech recognition on public transport.

Sure, that's why I just waited the 5 minutes instead. It wasn't all that long ago that people waited weeks or months for responses to a correspondence, waiting a few minutes isn't the end of the world, somehow humanity got along just fine waiting a little. I already don't answer my phone if it's not convenient (it's why they invented voice mail).

There's some keyboards I suppose I could hunt around and install if I really need to text that very second.

While I'm at it I suppose I could just get a subvocal mic so I can talk to my texting app while on a bus.

https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/c8e1/
I disagree wholeheartedly as a fellow sports fan cable cutter. The problem with those sports packages is that you can't follow your home team. You can follow literally every other team, but not your own. As a White Sox fan, I would have missed probably >70% (a guess) of their games had I paid for the MLB.tv package.
Awesome and thanks for the heads up. We noticed it a while back and it got lost in the shuffle. We really should get that fixed though.
Of course it will not stop all wars, but it will stop most oil-related wars. You still will have resource-related wars like cultivable land, and fresh water but with the space-revolution soon humanity will have plenty of land and water too.
Users can install software on iOS devices without jailbreaking. The most common method is resigning the software using an enterprise cert (there are plenty of sites on the internet that do this).
The period between 2000 and 2003 is kind of hard to draw any conclusions from or the classify as "not having quality problems". That period started with quality problems and saw Apple scrambling to make Mac OS X a reasonable OS to replace OS 9. For example, 10.1 re-introduced disc burning which was missing from 10.0. OS X 10.0 was also riddled with kernel panics and really sluggish. 10.1 continued to have pretty severe crashes and sluggishness, and I remember Jaguar being the first thing that approached actual usability. Panther arguably ended this transition period (where people were still unsure whether to "make the jump") and ushered in the more stable phase I'm referring to (2003 - 2011).

And sure, if Apple only focused on a very sensible amount of changes, then of course a year would be enough. The problem is the contention of a 1 year release cycle and "150 new features!".
> The Bitcoin "solution" to this problem is, in essence, for each node on the network to provably waste energy in an exceedingly flagrant way, in hopes that the costs of taking over the network are too high for any individual bad actor

This is like saying, "The traditional banking 'solution' is to have a bunch of lawyers and government agencies waste time, paper, and ink drafting up and verifying documents, in hopes that the costs of taking over the system are too high for any individual bad actor." Obviously it's not perfect, but neither is any other financial system. They both serve a purpose: addressing problems that haven't been solved any other way, so it's not a waste.

I'm not even as rabid of a Bitcoin fan as some others, but it's just silly to read "OMG, mining costs energy!" when so does any other activity. At least put out some numbers to show how much more wasteful mining is than other systems, in your opinion. And who appointed you to decide which uses of energy are dumb/immoral/wasteful? Why do you care if miners are willing to buy electricity and electric companies are willing to sell it?
I swear when I read issues like this I think I must be an absolutely gargantuan man with vast pockets of holding (I'm not and I don't).

I mean really, if I can't fit my own not-very-large hand up to the wrist in pants I'm trying on I consider them defective and don't buy them. Turns out my Note is about the same size as my extended hand w/r to length and width and about 1/3rd as thick, so if I can fit my hand in my pants I can fit my phone. It also means I can fit my hands in my pockets when it's cold and to get stuff in and out of them.
What's bad about it on Roku? All I do is find what I want to watch (on IMDB usually), add it to my watchlist, and then navigate to the watchlist in the Roku Amazon app. Seems pretty damn easy. The only thing they could improve, in my opinion, would be to allow me to start playback on the Roku from their website.
You can upgrade to Alien Blue Pro for free this week:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alien-blue-reddit-official/i...
great ... I'm in Japan (signed into Google/Gmail in English) and the whole page is in Japanese without any obvious way.
Great Job Google ...! (sorry for the rant, my Japanese is not so bad now, still it annoys me ...happens very often with google pages)
And a typo ("PULS") to boot.

I'm confused, where is the typo? That's the name I've scene in other articles (though case varies).

As for other articles, I found plenty. Try [1], it provides at least some details (Android based, etc.), if you are really interested.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/meet-puls-will-i-ams-gigantic-wearable-cu...
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I've had the Droid Maxx for about a year now. I watch documentaries on YouTube, stream music over LTE and WiFi, and use Facebook/Quora/Imgur/Hacker News throughout the day and never think about the battery. I charge it maybe every other day.

I've never had a phone that actually delivered on its promised battery, but this one comes quite close.
They should buy the Reddit Enhancement Suite too.
A few times I've wanted to chime in with expert answers in my field and they didn't let me without giving my real name and personal data. So I didn't.
Qualcomm to Buy U.K. Chipmaker CSR in $2.5B Deal
With the CDC's OK because her fever was only 99.5 degrees F instead of 100.4. What idiot at the CDC made that decision? Did nobody, including the nurse, consider the idea that the fever might progress and that it would be better to be safe than sorry? When did so many people become so deficient in common sense?!

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/10/15/ebola-patient-traveled-da...
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Funny enough, when I'm in Korea, normal people there have phones that dwarf the Notes of the world (like 7") and being fashion conscious wear fitted trousers yet somehow have managed to figure out how to get along in their day, a seemingly impossible conundrum for the audience here.
Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage http://www.amazon.com/The-Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Espionage/dp/...
lots of people carry a bias into their opinion on purchased items. sort of like a buyers' remorse, but with the goal of getting others to make the same mistake in order to achieve some sort of normality with 'the pack'.
Xcode 6 (the latest version) has a really good set of features but there's a huge number of crash bugs all through the app (and supporting tools like Instruments). Depending on what you're doing, you can get stuck in constant crash loops.

Fortunately, Xcode keeps perpetual auto-backups; otherwise you'd lose your changes multiple times per day.
> perhaps see a competitor come along and displace them who are committed to a more open model

You talk like Stack Overflow and it's sister sites don't exist!

I want whatever you're having.
I don't think the US has a problem with an ebola pandemic. I do believe that the governments around the world are understating how contagious this disease is.

I wonder how many of those 19 infected people died? Did they attempt to save them, or did they essentially wait for them to die? Depending on the answer, it could make the reaction of health workers and patients in Nigeria behave very differently.
Carrying TCP ACKs within WiFi’s link-layer acknowledgments
Startup news sites are not a business plan and relying on them is a mistake. Similarly, tons of material about startups is just advertising, the majority of it should be ignored.

Building something people want is really hard, can take a lot of trying and failing, and is the reason why almost every startup fails. You have to keep trying until you figure it out. Think about who your ideal customer is and how/where you can find them. Then do that until you have many of them.
Rootpipe – a new local vulnerability that works on OS X 10.10
> "neutrons make other things radioactive."

Source for this claim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_activation

Neutrons are radiation, but not electromagnetic radiation. I'm guessing that nitpicking this is why you were downvoted? Dunno.
I pick a macro plan (protein/fat/carbs), then eat according to my macros for each meal. So I set them prior, then just count them via the labels.
The significance is more that the panic-mongers are wrong. Even if California is just following trend, it means that prohibition makes no difference, so from a social policy perspective you have two choices:

1) Some number of people smoke weed, there are no violent gangs involved in its cultivation and sale, harmless college students don't have their lives ruined by a drug arrest and the security-industrial complex gets smaller while its former minions have to go do something that isn't a deadweight loss.

2) Exactly the same number of people smoke weed, there are violent gangs involved in its cultivation and sale, harmless college students have their lives ruined by a drug arrest and the security-industrial complex gets bigger while its minions suck the life out of the productive economy.

Which would you choose?