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The fact that one has to struggle to name companies with large Mac deployments is a sign of the reality of Apple's ecosystem: It's a premium (and expensive) device that can hardly be justified for the average mid to large business.

Of course, there are industries and use cases where they just make sense. Web development being one of them, mainly due to it's unix underpinnings. Although I have to argue strongly that Linux is a far superior choice. We deploy on Linux and it just makes sense to work on Linux. In terms of web development there's nothing whatsoever on a Mac that provides an advantage over, say, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

The CAPEX side of the equation is i portant for most companies. We can't compare a Google or Facebook to a car dealership (even a large one), a fulfillment center or a manufacturing operation.

As one small data point, I just bought two brand new HP laptops for my kids. They have 15.4 inch screens, powerful quad core processors, huge hard drives and tons of memory. Quality is excellent. Cost? $249. These would be perfectly good business machines.

To a business this is huge. A Mac laptop of the same screen size starts at $2,000. You can buy excellent computers for EIGHT PEOPLE for the cost of a single Mac. Or, you could buy a few less and outfit each one with a second monitor, something that is absolutely proven to increase productivity by a significant margin for certain use cases.

And so, when faced with having to outfit 100, 1000 or 10,000 desks one cannot ignore a CAPEX differential of 8x to 10x.

Support. It is a myth that PC's require an innordinate amount of support. Before having my own business I worked for companies with deployments of a couple hundred Macs and lots of PC's. The support nightmares were there just the same simply because most issues were "operator error" rather than issues inherently related to the computer hardware or OS itself. In fact, it was weird to see Mac users (people who used them at home and work) drown in relatively minor problems while PC users typically needed help with higher level issues. The typical user at this company was a graphic artist (stills, video, animation, 3D modeling).

I could not imagine most businesses being able to justify such CAPEX decisions. The Google's of the world get away with it because their profit margins are huge and there's a culture to support. At the opposite end of the scale is the owner of a chain of restaurants operating at 5% margin. That's probably closer to where most of the businesses in the world exist.
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This article makes some fair points but the authors opinion is tainted by recency bias. A new technology doesn't need to be as good or better then recent technology it just needs to be different and unique in some way.
Gamers and gaming has a really high bar of expectations. I agree that generation 1 of consumer VR won't meet existing AAA game title experiance but it doesnt have to garner mass market appeal. This is like expecting the first mobile phones to be as polished as the iPhone, or early versions of online video to be as good as highdef tvs for mass market appeal. Clearly that wasnt the case, people found value in these early versions of technology even though they were not as good as alternative options because they added some additional element that was unique. For mobile phones if was mobility, for online video it was easy sharing and watch on demand. What will be the key value consumers derive from VR? That remains to be answered but there is something unique and different enough about VR that makes it promising.
I've reversed those files in the past as well, and you're correct, they are TrustZone applications (like Widevine, DxDHCP, Keymaster and more). I have a script which can be used to reunite these pieces of code into an ELF file which can be loaded into IDA (more about this in about a month!)

Anyway, if you're looking to load arbitrary code into TZ, wait for the next blog post (approx. 2-3 days)!
They do it because they can. However, if you start killing cockroaches with sledgehammers, you are likely to leave some dents in the floor (i.e. collateral damage).
Excellent article.

I too find myself looking at ways I can reduce my reliance on Apple these days. For me it's getting burnt with Aperture, discoveryd causing all my Airplay speakers to constantly act up, $1000 Thunderbolt displays flickering on my $6000 Mac Pro as well as parts of my iTunes library getting spoilt by the new Apple Music stuff. List goes on, but Daniel is right, I just don't really have much (if any) faith in Apple when it comes to my data.

I think that this erosion of trust will take years to rebuild. The sad thing is that Apple in the mid 90s had a similar rep for flaky products and Tim Cook was widely credited for tightening ops to improve product manufacture, quality and reliability.
This "it's not high-profile" trope is just self-aggrandizement from nerds who want to feel like their outsized salaries are just rewards for a lifetime of persecution and neglect.

In reality, most work done by most people is not "high profile".

There are lottery-win careers like managing director path investment banking or high-end corporate consulting, which only a tiny fraction of all the practitioners in those fields get, and there are medical doctors.

Pretty much everything else is just a job, like all the other jobs, and you're crazy if you think office managers, machinery parts sales reps, and accountants have higher-status jobs than software developers.

It's time to kill this meme about tech being low-status.
iTunes is absolutely terrible. I did several updates for my girlfriend and friends, and none of them figured out iTunes. Most of them downgraded.
Why doesn't a company have the right to record their public areas 24/7 without authorization? It seems like that's a reasonable right for security and safety of everyone involved.

Also, if those recordings are deemed "illegal"and dismissed because the cops didn't know, does that mean any jerk who robs a store with hidden security cameras can claim the same?
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DK2 isn't that good - ghosting, no positional tracking, screen door effect, etc..

CV1 really is amazing though. I've tried it. I wonder what the author would think.
Try this fun Python program to see how multiples of 9 are always generated no matter how you combine the digits:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import random

digits = [1, 4, 2, 8, 5, 7]

for times in range(20):
digits_left = digits[:]
nums = []
while digits_left:
this_num = 0
for i in range(random.randint(1, len(digits_left))):
digit = random.choice(digits_left)
this_num *= 10
this_num += digit
digits_left.remove(digit)
nums.append(this_num)
print " + ".join(map(str, nums)), "=", sum(nums), "(a multiple of 9)"

Sample output:

4271 + 58 = 4329 (a multiple of 9)
7412 + 58 = 7470 (a multiple of 9)
8 + 124 + 5 + 7 = 144 (a multiple of 9)
845127 = 845127 (a multiple of 9)
147285 = 147285 (a multiple of 9)
1 + 824 + 75 = 900 (a multiple of 9)
5 + 2 + 481 + 7 = 495 (a multiple of 9)
758 + 41 + 2 = 801 (a multiple of 9)
47125 + 8 = 47133 (a multiple of 9)
7584 + 12 = 7596 (a multiple of 9)
1275 + 8 + 4 = 1287 (a multiple of 9)
475 + 12 + 8 = 495 (a multiple of 9)
12 + 5 + 478 = 495 (a multiple of 9)
4251 + 7 + 8 = 4266 (a multiple of 9)
185 + 274 = 459 (a multiple of 9)
28514 + 7 = 28521 (a multiple of 9)
41278 + 5 = 41283 (a multiple of 9)
457182 = 457182 (a multiple of 9)
845712 = 845712 (a multiple of 9)
2718 + 54 = 2772 (a multiple of 9)
Write a song about it.
This article is very much spot on. I think the true value of VR is the ability to provide new ways of playing in virtual spaces, but those ways of playing need to be compelling, they need to have good gameplay, like anything else. The 'gameplay' for watching a movie in VR is going to be absolute shit, because the viewer inherently has zero agency. The experience must be interactive and it must give the player a sense of agency (re: why hands are critical), otherwise the cost of putting on the headset will be too high for most people. Similarly, VR won't replace other experiences that have good gameplay and give players a sense of agency. Alien Isolation is an absolutely amazing game because the level of quality for the writing, pacing, level design, sound design, voice acting, control scheme, gameplay mechanics etc. are all in the 99th percentile for games and more importantly all of those parts complement eachother. Producing something like that is HARD regardless of the medium. For every Alien Isolation there are going to be a pile of shit games that you really don't want to play.

I think most of the VR guys admit that bad games in VR are going to be exceptionally bad, but I haven't heard anyone articulate quite so clearly Jeff's concerns that the experiences will just be boring. Watching Conway's game of life run: boring. Setting up and _playing_ with a fully interactive Conway's game of life: wait is it already 2am?!
Blender is a good option too. You can cut and do things very fast using full timeline with overdrop or the regular flow.

IMO for anything more complex than that the UI gets on your way. I even learned most of the keybinds but it just doesn't feel intuitive.
Yes, I've also noticed an increasing number of software bugs on my Macs. FWIW, I wanted to try out the Dell XPS "Developer Edition," which appears to be about as close as you can get to a Macbook level build quality in a linux box (without having to jump though the hoops of installing linux on a macbook itself), and you simply can't order it from Dell's website. A chat with a rep suggested that it's out of stock.

So, I think Apple is creating market opportunity -- a high quality linux based laptop aimed at developers that, like the Mac, doesn't require constant fiddling or kernel rebuilds to get working.
So, you moved from volume pricing to limiting features that we can use instead. heh.
I'm not so sure about that.

A small infrared camera and led mounted near the eye can track the eye. Along with tracking, you can also calculate the depth field by determining the circumference of the retina. This in turn allows for software-defined focus to be built in on applications.

I also see an interesting future for light-depth-field cameras and displays that capture all depths and allow user controlled focus. The question is: can we replay this data format in a single display?
Is Dolphin Smalltalk no longer available? Cannot reach the object arts server.

As of today, what is the recommended Smalltalk to use if I wanted to create a 3D scientific visualization app using OpenGL/Metal/Mantle?
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When you hit that difficult to reason about evaluation order in Haskell, it'll take that time you thought you gained.
So much for your privacy I guess. That most likely isn't the only thing wrong with their infrastructure if they missed that.
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Apparently there's no way https://twitter.com/softwaredoug/status/628911762105049088
No, but for roughly $1k USD, you can have many big hospitals sequence your DNA for you.
I'm not the OP or the grandparent post, but I wonder what happens if a significant portion of the market starts indexing? My gut is that there are strong incentives against that: as more people start indexing, the gains from not indexing become more diverse.
That's kind of what Chutzpah means. What does the word mean to you?
iTunes Is Illegal Under UK Copyright Law
Judging by the top comment I think they lost on the 'safe' bit, probably on the 'smart' bit too. They may still win on 'innovative'.
Google is deploying to cities where the admins are bending over backwards to accommodate google to come to their city.
http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/ is the best I've found for ML.
"future" is the key word here I think. Yes, that's where it is going, but not yet.
IT's purpose isn't to dictate, but to respond.

It is neither. Its mission is to advise on technology solutions to help an enterprise meet its budgetary and operational goals, to engineer the systems selected to meet those goals, and then support those system.

Insomuch that you can get "random employee comfort" on management's list of top priorities, I suppose an IT department could end up in a primarily reactive/responsive role, as non-IT employees demand implementation of whatever solutions they dream up. That's likely to be an expensive and painful way operate a company, though!
> But they care a shitload about the lion.

If we're going to use 'Average American' as a measure, they don't give any more shits about lions, or any other animal, than the Zimbabweans do.
Fun fact: The first two use cases are actually illegal in Germany. You may not run the motor or any in-car appliances while the car is not moving, and you may not move the car if it is not desperately necessary (yes, taking the car to visit your neighbor 20m away is actually illegal)
Companies continue to store more and more customer data and property online, out of direct control of the customer, and in increasingly proprietary formats, all governed by vague and often unfriendly terms of service, and all of it at risk of compromise and theft, and all of these companies are racing to provide less customer service than their competitors so that they can operate at slightly lower cost. The only way to resolve disputes is to raise a big stink on discussion sites and social media and hope the story gets enough traction that somebody somewhere at the company can be moved to care.

Everybody keeps doing it because, "Hey, it's always worked out fine for me. I have never had any trouble with Amazon's | Apple's | Paypal's | Google's | Facebook's | LinkedIn's | Microsoft's | Github's | Craigslist's | YouTube's customer service."

(A few people think this situation isn't too great for the consumer and try not to participate, but we're crazy.)

It's too bad this happened to him, but this isn't exactly news. This story has been repeating itself for a decade at least, just the names and details keep changing.
Pity that Apple seems to be abandoning its professional market to chase consumer market maybe apple needs to split into two.
maybe we should be looking at this in the opposite direction, if you want to live in a good sized city that has low bureaucracy government then look at where Google is looking to put fiber
This is dangerous, because you have to design for use model, not a generic model.

If you design for a generic model, you're going to end up with a crappy interface.
How I got into computer science, and why I keep returning to it
That package looks useful. Thanks for sharing!
Holy wow.

Typescript: 15 lines

Haxe: 18 lines

Coffeescript: 26 lines

JSX: 228 lines

Dart: 791 lines
It is, of course, entirely possible the FBI or some other agency was able to extract the password from Glenn while interrogating him – the man changed his plea to guilty halfway through the case, and may have sung like a canary.

In other words, the title is clickbait.
They don't want you to test another person's DNA without that person's permission.
Perhaps when that 1 human could be a Norman Borlaug, Linus Pauling, Marie Curie or Louis Pasteur.
Well, at least to me, losing $1000 worth of access to digital media that he has paid, with no recourse, it is as serious as its sound.

Amazon staff can think this is not serious as its sound, this is just a drop in the ocean for the company.

It maybe easy to fix, but if its not communicated properly, it can go both ways for the customer, so yes, it can be serious, unless Amazon confirms that its not.
"Competition is for losers." - Peter Thiel
On my (2009, no power locks) car, I manually toggle the lock after opening the door and close it. Locked. I did lock myself out of a 2009 car with power locks though, but only because I was borrowing it and no one knew the combo for the keypad.

Buuuuut... we're talking about OnStar remote access, so that's not very applicable. :)
Many useful analysis can be done from inspecting webserver request log. You can use AWStats and the similar script.
What are you talking about? No one believes in the "wonder" of compound interest. They believe in the mathematics.
The lack of comparison regarding the tooling is very unfortunate. A nicely designed language is always slick but that doesn't drastically alter how productive I can be with a language (at least within the range of difference between TS and Haxe).

The differences explored in the article are borderline 'religious' reasons.

Why Typescript? Simple: VSCode. One of the things that Microsoft does best is IDEs/editors and the Typescript experience in VSCode (and VIM and what-have-you) is no exception.
I think it can be unexpected if you're used to other semantics, but the behavior of laziness is very well defined.

> let x = [1 .. 100] :: [Int]
> seq x () -- force the first cons
> :sprint x
x = 1 : _ -- we evaluated the first cons
> foldr (\e l -> e + l) 0 x
5050 -- printing this value forces foldr to complete
> :sprint x
x = [1,2,3,4,5...100] -- all conses evaluated
I always thought that shooters worked well on the Wii - simple rumble force feedback gives you recoil, and the Wiimotes work great as pointers, because the pointing mechanism was closed loop. What they lacked was closed loop position tracking of the Wiimote itself, which is why we ended up with terrible waggle controls in games. Oculus Touch & the lighthouse system will be closed loop, so they should be significantly better.
Isn't this exactly opposite? They're trying to move from hobbyists to enterprise users.
A lot of job sites have location-specific sites, e.g. http://www.monsterboard.nl/geo/siteselection

Germany: http://www.monster.de/
Netherlands: http://www6.monsterboard.nl/

I can highly recommend NL as a great place to live.
I run this activity every Sunday as a volunteer at the Boston Museum of Science. We used to make our own dough, but this became pretty labor intensive, and we found that regular Play-doh has only a slightly higher amount of resistance than the homemade dough, and is actually cheaper when you buy Play-doh in bulk (the dough recipe here calls for a lot of cream of tartar, which gets costly).

I've done a lot of development on additional components for this (basically all in my free time, with my money. I bring them into the Museum and just train other people on them, and they get incorporated into the Squisy Circuits kit) -- logic gates, on/off switches, blinky components, resistors, etc. The sky's really the limit! When the Museum started doing it, people got really bored easily -- I'd hear from staff and volunteers that it was a really limited activity and hard to really keep kids engaged with it. I found out that the people running it didn't exactly know a lot about circuits themselves, so all it took was a little training, experimenting, and coming up with activity ideas for it to really take off!

In addition, it's one of the few activities we have there where I'm secretly teaching the adults more than the children. A lot of adults are too embarrassed to admit they have no idea how electricity works, so I just pretend their three year old is really really interested in the difference between parallel and series circuits -- actually in the hopes that the adults are the ones absorbing it, and can teach their three year old in a few years ;)

Just all-around one of my favorite activities! My boyfriend gets bored from listening to me talk about Squishy Circuits constantly, so I'm really glad to see this show up on HN, and get other people interested in it!
I agree with you, but the article is making a pretty strong argument that indexing discourages competition in a way that makes everyone worse off.

"[Elhauge:] 'Fourth, if index funds alone would create a problem of anticompetitive horizontal shareholding in a concentrated market, and those index funds feel the benefits of diversification across all firms in that market exceed the benefits of influencing corporate governance, they could commit not to communicate with management or vote their shares.'"

I believe that is the case now: index funds don't vote or attempt to influence management (at least I've never heard of it). Also, each individual fund is limited in the proportion of an individual company it can own, but that limit does not apply to the total sum of index funds.

"If you think that institutional investors are causing managers to stop competing, there are more plausible mechanisms for that than voting. Just leaving managers alone, for instance, probably itself tends toward anti-competitiveness: If shareholders don't pester management, they will probably compete less hard, just because that is easier. 'Voting with their feet' is another: If shareholders invest indifferently in both the best and the fourth-best firm in an industry, that will keep up the fourth-best firm's stock price and lower the best's, reducing incentives to be the best. Or there is just fiduciary duty: Managers may want to do what's in their shareholders' best interests because that is what they are supposed to be doing. Even if the shareholders don't actively force them to."

In fact, as I understand it, index investing is just an end-spectrum case of institutional investing in general, and "Posner and Weyl blame institutional investors for income inequality. Elhauge blames them for runaway executive pay, and for the rise in corporate profits unaccompanied by economic growth and investment."

Runaway executive pay, for example, seems to be a consequence of interlocking executive roles: the manager of this company is a director of that, and vice-versa, resulting in a positive feedback loop.

I am, and have been for a long time, a major index investor; a big chunk of my portfolio is in various indexes. But it's already the case that a good way to get an extra boost is to buy the shares of a company just before it enters the S&P500. If the indices are having effects in the other direction, there may be problems in store.

How about this for a universal law?

Nothing in economics is an unbalanced positive.
Spotify is a possible replacement (even without their streaming and music finding services), but I find that application quite buggy.
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People form stronger bonds with animals that aren't edible.

On top of that, lions are regarded as noble animals, and this particular lion was killed in a dishonorable way, AND suffered for over 40 hours.
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Some put their location in their post. Try your browser's "find on page" search and search for different cities?
Apple makes things that "do more" than their products of old, and we expect them to do more than devices past. The combination of features plus our expectation that all our devices be aware of what is happening on the others at all times is a recipe for a combinatorial explosion of unpredicted states, race conditions, you name it. I too miss the simplicity and "it just works" factor of past days. But it's a lot easier to pull that off with an iPod and a Mac, than iPhone + Mac + iPad + watch, etc.

They're the biggest company in the world and nobody needs to make excuses for them - I'm not saying "well, it's to be expected and it's not their fault." But I always think, who would be able to do this better than Apple? And I think the answer to that question reveals the depth of the situation we're in. As much as Apple screws up, could you imagine using a watch + phone + PC + tablet from some other vendor, and it being better? That's what really sucks about now - Apple screws up and they're the best we can hope for.