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Having been a Dell, Acer, and HP customer: yes the Apple world is so much better. It's staggeringly focused on a smooth customer experience. The other manufacturers are as well set up for customer friendliness as a kitchen appliance manufacturer, ie. Not at all / that's up to the retailers.

The points you bring up are rather suspect:

1. Besides the Lightning port, which was arguably created because dual-sidedness is a unique feature no standard has, what port is non-standard? MagSafe I guess - but it is pretty much standardized across their laptop lines and I still have a power supply from 2007 that work with my 2013 laptop using a $5 MagSafe 2 adapter.

2. How often would one take a laptop in for a new battery? It's a once in every 4 year event, at best. Pretty much never unless they bought it used.

I think there may be drastically different understanding of what customer friendliness is. At least with Apple I can talk to someone to fix my problem at the local mall, or have Apple support call me almost immediately with a specialist via their website -- as opposed to waiting on hold to talk to someone that knows nothing, only to be placed in another queue.
There are slides, which give you a quick synopsis (look under the video)
Excellent point. I hadn't thought about that.
>I hope that my english didn't distract you at all, i want to show that even not normal signals of a heart attack can be a sign of much bigger problems coming up.

It is my experience that those who self-apologize for their "poor" English skills are the ones who have the least to apologize for. You have a better grasp of the English language than most college graduates in the United States.
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IMO, Bay Area shouldn't get special consideration from you.

If you really like the work, then, yeah, go for it. But don't choose a crappy job there just because startups.

Edit: it's well worth investigating specific domains that don't get as much airtime on HN. They're probably more technically interesting and demanding, which is what you want from a first job. Ultimately, I can't imagine a technologist finding long-term happiness in pop-tech culture.
I assume you meant 9 Months: 31k?
Can the AliveCor product detect a heart attack? http://www.alivecor.com/home
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In many cases you don't know. You have a suspicion. It is probably nothing. Nope, it was something. Don't underestimate the human capacity for denial.

On top of that you have interesting incentives that you get to think about with your doctor: are they recommending this treatment to make more money?
> What, precisely, do you believe poor Americans are suffering from? The only concrete answer I usually hear is envy (I.e. "oh noes the inequality").

Even if that was the only thing and the only source of suffering for poor Americans was relative deprivation compared to others in their immediate context, so what? Relative deprivation is an important, extensively empirically demonstrated, source of disutility. If one is interested in alleviating actual human suffering that exists, rather than artificially creating self-justifying excuses to defend perpetuating suffering, one would recognize that it is an important problem (not necessarily something which we should blindly bear every cost to minimize, as doing so may at some point do more to exacerbate other sources of suffering than it does to alleviate the suffering directly attributable to relative deprivation, but likewise something that should be considered, weighed, and addressed to the extent practical without doing more harm than good.)
Yep, I dont know how long it will last, but this is one thing jobs was credited with after coming back to Apple, they had something like 36 choices for computers to buy, and that went down to 3 iirc.

It is a good marketing tactic for something people perceive to be complex and difficult, and while they are absolutely as guilty as the pc manufacturers for making non-standard parts (and more guilty than mobile imo), I could still connect magsafe adapters to any laptop that accepted them with no problem, plenty of pc manufacturers cant promise that even in their own lines, once a model changes the adapters often change as well.
Your continual use of the word 'envy' belittles the psychological affects of poverty. Your use of that word seems to imply that poor people can somehow eradicate their psychological suffering through positive thinking or something similar. It's the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" approach to reducing poverty, as US conservatives so frequently say. It is these clever uses of words that aim to reduce very complex issues to simplistic ones, ignoring systematic affects and pointing blame at individual irresponsibility.
Which part is an exaggeration? The death? Hardly. It usually takes some time to get someone to an emergency room, so if their heart fully clogs, the outcome is often death.

Or that people will usually forego seeking treatment because they can't afford to rack up huge bills? Again, not really an exaggeration. If you have a house that you live in with your spouse and child, then you need that house, and people will often make decisions with the best chance of preserving it. If you go bankrupt, you can lose your house except in some specific circumstances (http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/lose-home-file-chapte...).

It's easy to forget, as programmers, that most people don't enjoy the same benefits we do. Most people are living paycheck to paycheck with little savings and children.
This is an insightful thread on Macscripter.net, about how bad the javascript implementation on OS X really is.

The dev team that implements JavaScript on OS X have even been provided with a reference implementation that does stuff the right way but no . . .
He is in the US? UNC Chapel Hill hospital?
Considering their recent acquisitions on the cutting edge of robotics and artificial intelligence research, I certainly hope not.
That goes for every software you install. The only solution is to not install any software. And then hope that the preinstalled software on your device is OK:
My thing with piping curl to a shell was always that a severed connection will run a partial script, which can have weird consequences. I wrote about it awhile back:

http://blog.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html
I sense that the reason these kinds of things are growing in popularity is that there is a command-line renaissance occurring among certains kinds of developers. I'm guessing that about half of these pages are used principally by Ruby/Rails crowds, for example.

This is a natural outgrowth of Rails itself which expects even the novice dev to do everything from the CLI. I also notice a certain amount of machismo surrounding this sort of thing, which means that the novices are that much more likely to blindly install things, in spite of the more senior devs blandly insisting that they should "read and understand the script before running it." This is ironic because of course they are novices and learning how to do a security audit on a random bash script is a non-trivial affair, to put it most charitably. It's also ironic because Rails is supposed to be all about easy and convention, not auditing everything for oneself.

The designers of OSs did not have in mind non-experts using the CLI with su turned on (or even off) all the time. In fact, user-friendly OSs are designed to prevent non-experts from doing any damage, anywhere. In all, it seems like this sort of thing is circumventing basic protections provided by experts for non-experts, and that is probably not something to encourage.
Getting calls from aggressive debt collectors at work, at home, on my cell, even to relatives and coworkers, is a form of "debtor's prison"

Well, have I got great news for you! There is this thing called the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Here it is:

http://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/rules/rulemaking-regulatory-r...

Want to stop calls to your work, at home, on your cell and even to your relatives and coworkers? Send them one registered letter telling them to stop calling you. Instantly gone. Why?

Because every single call they make to you about this debt after that one letter means they owe you $1,000 in statutory damages. When you sue them they even have to pay your attorney's fees so there are a million attorneys willing to take these cases for contingency!

Here's a quick write-up of what you can do for the harassment you described:

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-can-you-do-if-de...

Frankly, if you've been living in a "debtor's prison" like you've described, I'm assuming you haven't lifted a single finger to get out of it because this information is widely known in the U.S.
Who do you enter your passphrases, pins, etc if you box is controlled by someone else? How do you know there's no keylogger running? How do you use PGP if you don't care about the security of your private key?
Right. But would you blame the cash? rather than the "enthusiasts"?

Also, note that this "cash" is readily exchangeable for US$, Euro, etc. which makes this "BTC smells" argument absolutely pointless.

Just imagine you got envelopes with Indian Rupees in them. Why on Earth would you go on a rant on the currency? What happened hardly has anything to do with it. It appears to me some people are just looking forward to express their dislike about Bitcoin or whatever else they dislike, be it relevant or not. Thus, "rant".
I normally do a curl | less before doing a curl | sh and take a quick peek. Not perfect, but at least it's a step in the right way.
Like someone says, it's a matter of trust (but verify).
You should watch the 30 Days episode about living on minimum wage. It is not a life you would want to live.
Perhaps most of this is accurate, but the number one issue I see with webpages, almost universally, is the loading of innumerable javascripts, especially ones hosted offsite. As a no script user, I shouldn't have to allow random js from other domains I don't know or trust just to see your page like you intended. Most of the time if I see more than 2/3 loading I just close it out and consider it not worth the trouble.
They're releasing it under the Apache licence 2? Impressive. That definitely seems like something the Mono project could just utilise directly without any licence concerns.
I'm experiencing the same thing right now, and talking to multiple doctors about it. They all claim it's related to stress, and multiple tests have found nothing at all unusual. I'm inclined to believe them, but it's damn unnerving when it happens.
Race condition. :)

Save it to disk, examine, then run.
> No it's not because MSI packages and EXEs are signed

Sure, some are. But most software packages that a user is going to download aren't signed.
You can do that for all of these, just request the file directly and copy it out of the browser.
You have to look at their overall performance, not a single visit. In general, the experience is pretty consistent, and they perform well financially.

One of the things I don't like is that the food is designed to taste good when it is very fresh (I remember documentaries of their food scientists working on the perfect french fry, but they didn't show them waiting 8 minutes to taste them or whatever). But it's always the same. That's a remarkable accomplishment at their scale.

I also don't think the food actually tastes all that good, or that it is all that satisfying, and too much soda. But I can see that they are very intentional and successful in making it that way.
Inflation encourages "investment" which is another way of saying inflation encourages gambling.
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Here's thirteen reasons why you should come work here: (1) Our goal is to build the best engineering team in NYC (2) Every employee gets salary + equity (3) As we get bigger, you will be able to focus on what you are good at (4) We are all different and we love it (5) GPL compliant company (6) You choose your workstation (7) You choose your tools (8) No worries, free your mind: NY salary + medical + dental (9) No vacation policy (we don't count the # of days you take in a year) (10) Company invests in you: Fly to PyCon and other conferences (11) We prefer quality over quantity: Focus on clean code and test coverage (12) Your voice will be heard (13) We just got a cold-brew coffee keg for the summer

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Exactly. This is little more than cargo culting.
I have a great deal of historical fondness for GIMP, dating back to the Spencer Kimball/Peter Mattis Gimp 0.5x. One of their last contributions to GIMP before moving on was to develop GTK as a part of the non-Motif GIMP 0.9x series. Gimp thus acted as a natural rallying point for would-be Gnome developers as they reacted to KDE's choice of the non-open-source-at-the-time QT toolkit. Gimp really has been very important to the open source GUI landscape....

That makes it all the more sad that Gimp development seems to have stalled, relative to other open source imaging packages. Gimp was 8bpp in 1995 and 19 years later Gimp is still 8bpp. I had had a great deal of hope for the GEGL architecture, but these days I get the distinct impression that the project picked an architecture that was beyond the ability of the available developers to complete in a reasonable amount of time. Krita, Paint.NET, and the GIMP-based Cinepaint are all existance proofs that it's possible to implement high color depth image editing in open source in less than 20 years.
I'm still looking into Meta Trails but can you speak to how it is better than web apps that are so common like Codecademy? With those, it seems like it's easy to just go through the motions and complete the tasks without actually learning anything. Is Meta Trails even close to those coding teachers or is it entirely different?
Trust is really the only solution, we as developers might be able to inspect some code before we run it but if it is sufficiently complex we could spend months auditing it. Even worse for the non-technical users that can't tell a hello world from a keylogger, there really is no solution other than some trust based system.
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>Dollars stockpiled in some account are not doing anyone any good.

Why is it that Keynesians believe that money just gets stuffed under a mattress or stockpiled somewhere? It is loaned out at X% interest rates to people who need present-day liquidity to fuel growth. What do you think the VC industry is based on, Keynesian economics?
And yet, I can't shake the feeling that if you took away all my money and property, I would be employed and back in an apartment in a month. What's a guy to think, when folks complain about how its too hard to move, to get an education, to save money, when I know I can do it?

Its hard to empathize with people with an outlook so different, that they can't imagine working their way out of poverty. Because I can.
Why not advance medicine in general, moving civilization quicker up the technology curve? Won't more people benefit in the long run? Medicine doesn't advance at an exponential rate, but progress can be made more quickly.
As already mentioned, save to disk first to avoid network connection failures messing you up. To avoid an extra command use "tee" to output to file while viewing it (i.e. it's "less" and ">" functionality combined).
I was thinking something similar. Addressing just the disease is fine and good, but the terrible sanitation and lack of medical access issues are still there. Are those who normally going to die of malaria now going to die of something else due to environmental and social economic conditions. I guess this is how progress works. You take out the big baddies first and work your way down. The smaller baddies might also have an easier and cheaper treatment plan.
Show HN: An app that keeps track of your Tv Shows - Episodify
The Guardian's headline is very misleading. Google's mission statement is not "don't be evil" - it's "to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Larry Page is clearly referring to the mission statement that may need to change, not "Don't be evil." This is all made very clear in the original FT article The Guardian cites, they just chose to go for a more inaccurate and salacious framing of the entire story. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/3173f19e-5fbc-11e4-8c27-00144...

[edit: the guardian changed the headline!]
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I desperately needed an app to keep track of what i was watching, and where i left off. All other apps were to complex for my needs, so i created a simple and basic app that does everything that i need.

I would really apreciate some feedback. :)
Oh, thank god. As long as I only fear a 10 year sentence by the legal authorities and death by the local religious groups, it's all good. I'm just as likely to emigrate to India.
What I'm wondering is what a pointer-dereference would look like. Is every pointer dereference in asm.js implemented by TWO dereferences (one to find the heap, and then one to find the index within the heap)? And are there mutexes (or other synchronization directives) used per dereference in a typical implementation?
Well, FWIW within the Apple ecosystem it's pretty standardised: I pretty much know that wen I go to a coworking space someone will have on of the two cables to charge nearly all current Apple devices: MagSafe or Lightning. Sure, not an open standard, but widespread enough to be a de-facto "standard".
OR

I could verify an asymmetric cryptographic signature based on a public key I already possess. As long as the private key is not stolen, an attacker who can breach the server cannot backdoor the software I'm downloading.
feel free to ask anything :)
Xamarin is selling licenses to proprietary gamedevs for quite a while now. That may put a dent in their business.
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You would still have to hope that sshd is enabled and accepting connections (which by default it shouldn't, at least on end-user distros).
asm.js isn't a binary blob, it's JavaScript. It's not a threat to a web of open standards.
Malaria isn't a small one. Its a corrosive disease that not only reduces the ability to work, it makes you a burden on your family/community. Solve that one, there's loads more energy left to solve the others, locally.
I'm not sure that curl | sh is a "broken paradigm" -- no more broken than than running JavaScript in a browser. The only difference between the two is in the sandboxing.

The solution I'm proposing isn't to add Windex, but to cleanly wrap whatever curlpipesh is doing. Make it equivalent to opening a browser tab: interact with it safely, keep what you like, and throw everything away if you don't like the way things look.

Curlpipesh can be just like loading a site. We have the technology to do it; we just need to figure out the UX.
Just to add to the other comments, Power over Ethernet would be a handy way to save on batteries.
Would something like

curl http://google.com/keylogger.sh > temp.sh && sh temp.sh

work?
Ask HN: A need for new Bitcoin mining software
I've spent a lot of time with bitcoin and altcoin. I feel like there is room for mining software that does things different, easier to configure, easier to use, make mining easier.

Does anyone feel there is room too?
I had a lot of bad experiences with Dell laptops a decade ago, and swore off ever owning one again. For what it's worth, they've definitely seemed to step up their game in the quality department over the past couple of years. Not quite to Apple (or even Lenovo ThinkPad) levels, but enough that I find them clearly head-and-shoulders above Acer or ASUS now. Who knows what tomorrow will bring, but I'm hopeful that going private will be a good thing in the long run.
How is investing NOT risky if inflation occurs? All you are doing is pressuring people into investing (aka gambling, because there is no guaranteed ROI) and causing a fluctuation of returns amongst people who "invest."

Some of us actually have advanced degrees in Economics, so let's not act like you're Krugman himself.
Late-2013 15" MBPs support HiDPI with 4K Displays.

So it looks like you can hack 13-inch Displays to work with 1080p HiDPI at 52hz (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1741440). Since it maxes out at 52hz, I'm guessing the problem is hardware-related (either rendering ability or bandwidth).

However, this means that you are just running at 1080p effective resolution. It seems like 1440p HiDPI mode is what we really want, and I don't believe this is possible (I couldn't get it to work, and the information I found on the web said the same). Hopefully the next-gen 13" MBP (Broadwell) will have DP 1.3 and more GPU rendering power, which will enable 5K displays.
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Hi! Thanks for the detailed reply. I see where things got confused.

> You pointed to the efficacy of cigarette taxes in clear support of the Prop E tax

No, I didn't.

You wrote "So a tax that is regressive represents 'progress'?"

I replied to that by giving an example of a regressive tax that represents progress. That's all. Your comment struck me as annoyingly glib, constructing a false contradiction through word games. Since cigarette taxes have been so successful, I thought it was a good counterexample to the false contradiction. Everything else you write is about what you read into my statement, not what I said.

But to address your point:

I agree that a sugary beverage tax in San Francisco could lead to substitution and no net health gain. But A) the circumstances are different enough (and the original sample size is small enough) that I'm happy to try it out to see what happens, and B) if it doesn't work like the proponents hope, I think that's fine because humans often have to try the obvious thing before they will try the less obvious thing.
>First, you don't understand what the sentence you quote means. For one, it doesn't mean "maybe".

When you said, "he may have played loose with the rules" I didn't take that to mean, "he played loose with the rules".

But, I misunderstood you and I apologize.

>if you read my message thinking I was worshiping him

I apologize if I misrepresented your opinion. However, I would hope that if you read back your glowing post in regards to Bill Gates one might get the impression you may not be aware of all the wrongs he did as CEO as well.

>you're greatly exaggerating the wrongs he did as CEO.

Can't say I agree with you there when one critically looks at the sources of evidence that supports my supposition:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8551072

>he isn't the second coming of the devil either.

No, he's not. Nor is he Hitler, etc. I apologize if within my short response to you I gave you the impression that I thought he was a spawn of Satan. I'm a bit more of a complex thinker than that, I think. But, I suppose I deserve that since I errantly implied you "worship" Gates. :D

Then again, I tend to get compared to Satan once I criticize Bill Gates in most forums, so I'll own it instead.

>Take a breath.

Thank you, I will. :)
As someone who doesn't eat sushi and avoids ordering tuna I would prefer to see the American sushi craze die out.