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I can't stand the Chromecast for TV watching. I don't want to deal with my phone when I just want to turn on something on the TV. The AppleTv is the best UI I have found, but last I checked could not do prime streaming. The device I would recommend right now is either a Roku or FireTV. Both can stream basically everything and have their own remotes.
Yeah I had that same confusion initially.

I guess they differentiate it as follows:

- It's the full photo data (12 MP) for each frame
- It captures 1.5 seconds before and after you press the capture button
- (Speculation based on a dot-point in the keynote) It's stored using some frame-to-frame compression thing, probably similar to a movie but with the option to recover any individual frame as a full size, full quality image

I reckon much of their photo technology comes from their acquisition of the SnappyCam app and that developer's custom JPEG encoding.
Working link for instructions:
http://www.aftvnews.com/how-to-launch-kodi-xbmc-spmc-and-oth...
I'm not being obtuse, I legitimately don't understand what the supposed difference is and nobody will tell me because everyone responding to me would rather grind their axe than just give me a friggin explanation.

I finally see a little glimmer of one here, though. The difference is an ethical one, apparently! OK, some progress. What exactly is the ethical difference between the two?
The linearity result assumes constant density, not constant mass.
It is also cheap. I bet many are now sitting unused in drawers.
It'll definitely be of interest to indie devs, but the console vendors don't really seem to care about them anyway, or at least put very little effort into making things easy for them.

For triple-A studios, the current-gen console hardware will likely always be a draw, though I'm sure this will get rereleases of old stuff, and possibly a downgraded version of new games (I suspect it isn't _that_ far from a Wii U, performance-wise).
How much of the functionality is a person at a computer and how much is software? It looks like a really cool project
You can take the "estimated monthly cost" that they showed and multiply by 24. i.e. $36/mo = $864. $32/mo = $768. It may not be exact but it should be close.
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"let's make everything a dongle"... that is to be expected from Apple ... or being completely unavailable... and stick to proprietary ports...
Thanks for the advice. Complexity is not much different than bTree for creation of hTree.
interestingly there is more than 95% probability that the index is going to be faster than the existing btree.
I completely misunderstood this graphic:

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/0342.jp...

It looks like 6+ and 6s are the same size, with 6s+ being huge.
Uh the treo didn't _REQUIRE_ a stylus, it worked when poked at with a fingernail. Which was fine for course operations with big buttons. The problems were things drawn as 4x4 pixel targets (or something equally insane). But that problem still exists to a certain extent. I have to be really careful with the iphone onscreen keyboard because my finger (above average hand size) easily covers multiple buttons. Unlike my wife, who's fingers apparently are the target audience. The cheap little iphone stylus can definitely help.
Steve Jobs was talking about a Phone. Not a 12 inches tablet.
Travis bought his house after selling RedSwoosh and being for 4 years without salary. He deserves every penny of it.
You can just donate the used plastic and cardboard to charity alongside your dirty laundry. Charities can use these things without further cleaning, so you're not harming the environment.
Voice calls over VoLTE or Wi-Fi sound great. It's just a matter of carriers rolling it out (and building interoperability amongst themselves).
Do you have the same criticism for all bottled drinks?

For instance if you were buying juice would you get a regular carton or a concentrate? (not exactly the same - not adding water vs removing it)

I think your point is a valid one; this just wouldn't be the first place I would apply it. There are countless examples of wasteful products. Excessive packaging alone generates so much garbage.
As someone who has never really programmed in a group, what are some examples of common scaling issues? I typically try to adhere to the principles of loose coupling, pure functions & immutability, clean & readable syntax, "don't reinvent the wheel", algorithmic optimization before code optimization, version control, unit testing, etc.

But I'm curious: what useful principles have other HN users acquired after decades of programming or working on giant projects that a "solo programmer" like me might not be aware of?
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I think the assumption is the density remains the same (rho=M/(r^3)) stays the same so GM/(r^2) becomes G rho r.
> I've used the Surface Pro's cover - it's crap. Based on the dome switches

Nope, scissor-switch. It is mechanical.

They used to sell one called the Touch Cover which is likely what you're describing, they don't anymore (discontinued, years ago).

> the Apple one is already better.

Because, why? You haven't used the Surface Pro 3 (as evidence by your own posts), you haven't used this (as evidence by the fact that nobody outside of Apple has), and you keep making basic mistakes about how both work.

This is like the N-Trig remark all over again.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who found the documentation on a sliding scale between "uselessly academic" and "meaningless marketing".

It looks like they've gotten a bit better. Now if they could only increase the contrast of their copy beyond 2.15, it might actually be readable.
Orgain is brown rice based, soy free, dairy free. They carry them at whole foods usually. Often ≤$3 per bottle.

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Maybe we can designate this week as Lisp week every year where we revive our collective love for the language. Sure beats shark week in value.
Right, but I don't understand why you ask: "is control over your own data dead?" in relation to the 16 GB iPhone.

Because even 128 GB is not enough for most photo libraries.

The amount of control over our own data seems the same as we had before — basically dependent on how much work we want to put in managing it vs. trusting and paying for cloud storage providers.
Hm... not really.

Say you have a function, `f : (bool, T) -> Option<T>`.

function f<T>(cond : bool, value : T) : Option<T> {
if cond {
return value // equivalent: Some(value)
} else {
return null // equivalent: None
}
}

let x = f(false, f(false, 1)) // equivalent: None
let y = f(true, f(false, 1)) // equivalent: Some(None)

There is no way to tell apart `x` and `y`.
It's official people, Apple has jumped the shark and it's getting rougher and rougher for them from now on.
I'm not sure that's the appropriate comparison. Why not compare directly with powdered soylent?
Ensure markets itself as a meal replacement, and plenty of people use it that way. In what way is it improper?
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the majority of Electoral College votes and the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and DC.

The national popular vote winner would receive all of the 270+ electoral votes of the enacting states.

Under National Popular Vote, every voter, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in every presidential election. Every vote would matter in the state counts and national count.

The bill has passed a total of 33 legislative chambers in 22 rural, small, medium, large, red, blue, and purple states states with 250 electoral votes.
The bill has been enacted by 11 jurisdictions possessing 165 electoral votes—61% of the 270 electoral votes necessary to activate it

http://www.NationalPopularVote.com
Wacom may well decide that the competitive advantage to them having better styluses than the ones Apple can make is worth more than any amount of money Apple could offer.
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After seeing a dead albatross with a bunch of plastic in its stomach; I look at all this, non essential, for convince sake--plastic garbage in a worse light than before.

I am guilty of using those plastic tooth picks, actually know the spoiled brat who made millions from his dad's invention, and seed money 30 years ago. I now see them disguarded everywhere. They must make it into the oceans?

Anyways, I hope consumers stop buying products that aren't reusable?

http://ocean.si.edu/slideshow/laysan-albatrosses’-plastic-pr...
> Casual gamers don't care about playing on their TV.

Is that really true though? Seems like an under serviced market to me.
I guess A8 chip can not handle 4k streaming or to the good user experience level Apple like. Apple TV uses older chip. It appears A9 in iPhone 6S can handle 4K thus you will see 4K support in next model. Anyway 4K content is not mainstream yet.
The plastic bottles are wasteful. This makes sense for retail locations, but not for home delivery.

For someone who drinks a fair amount weekly, I have to mix soylent with something to stomach it. If you remove that option I'm not really sure who they are targeting this at.

Also interesting the powder wasn't updated to the 2.0 formula.
Ouya was barely marketed, and had little software ready to go (and required the use of its own obscure app store with weird restrictions on devs). There are a lot of console and console-esque games already on iOS devices, many already with controller support, which could be ported over more or less on day one.
The article isn't presuming mass stays constant, but rather that density does. (That's a much more realistic assumption—a world made out of similar stuff will have similar density, for reasonable amounts of gravity)
I think a lot of this is going to boild down to whether people give a shit. A nicer way to put it is: Are these solutions for non-existing problems?

Yes, yes, we teck-heads can geek-out at the idea of a force sensing screen. We are not the market. The maket is the average Joe or Jane. And it is my impression Joe and Jane, for the most part, won't give a shit. I know plenty of people with 4s's who have not updated the OS in a while, no longer get any apps --free or otherwise-- and feel perfectly served with what they have. When we ask them if they'd be interested in spending several hundred dollars to upgrade, the answer is often monosyllabic: "Why."
Wacom may not be willing to license it.
Which vitamins and minerals?

Given the number of people under close medical supervision who are using Ensure for meal replacement, why hasn't vitamin poisoning from Ensure been observed or reported?
Whether or not this number is notable depends squarely on the nature of the product/service. One-man shareware shops routinely have tens of thousands customers and handle all of the support in addition to doing everything else. And hardly anyone ever brags about this.
I want them to succeed so bad. I try to support them.

But you're 100% right. The user experience for glass and google fi have both been pretty horrible. They don't even have a mechanism to receive feedback, yet they are purporting that I am "beta testing" for them.

I have a feeling when they want to know whats good or bad at about a product, they look 95% at a database.
The remote looks a whole lot like a Wii controller in disguise. There's even a wrist strap accessory.

What I'm really curious about is if there will be any support for pairing multiple remotes. There could be a lot of Wii Sports knockoffs popping up that would want to take advantage of that...
Surely quite a lot of the fun things are on consoles? And the consoles are _far_ less accessible to devs, especially indie devs, than this will be (assuming it uses the normal app store model).
All this has already been delivered in the form of a Samsung, Google or Microsoft product.

It's not new, except in the sense that now also Apple delivers it, a few years later than everyone else.
So what's with all this silly frivolous litigation by Apple over "swipe to unlock" and "rounded corners" if it's OK to copy or steal from each other?
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lol not going to happen. Did you see Microsoft on stage? MS can't really survive long term without iOS right now and they now it. Very soon iOS apps will match and/or exceed most desktop apps.
16GB is fine. Lots of people don't even download apps.
They're not to scale, the 6 and 6S are the same size (there's a fraction of a millimetre difference), so are the 6+ and 6S+.

I have no idea what they did with that slide, I guess somebody didn't want to overshadow the new phones and thought extra color was not sufficient.
It never crossed my mind to try and add sugar... I mean, my goal is to be "healthier than current diet" and not "as healthy as can be" so I'm not against it (as can be seen by my attempts at adding chocolate syrup).

Maybe I'll give that a try tonight and see how it is in the morning. Thanks for the suggestion.
It's not about belief really, it's about necessity. At google it basically rains ad money 24/7, that plus backbone internet traffic is where the vast majority of their money comes from, and it's a ton of money. For everything else it doesn't matter if it's successful as a business or not. In fact, the best case scenario is mediocrity and barely breaking even in terms of costs. Because that means there are no consequences, no bigger implications, no expectations for improvement, etc. Google is sitting on several enormous multi-billion dollar businesses (youtube and office tools, for example) but they don't care to actually develop them into such. Right now they can afford to not care, and all of the internal incentives are aligned to promote not caring.
Removing a layer of indirection when you had a reference type anyway is an optimization that runs into the issue that you describe. The obvious solution is to not apply it when null is already a valid inhabitant of that reference type.

Without collapsing that indirection, Option<Option<T>> is perfectly expressible:

Just (Just foo): <ptr> -> <ptr> -> foo
Just Nothing: <ptr> -> <0>
Nothing: <0>

It's true that some languages expose "nullable references" as a distinct type and not a detail of representation, and it's true (... and sometimes obnoxious) that this doesn't layer as nicely (in particular, it's not a functor).
Wait, copyright infringement isn't theft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States

So you're just wrong, technically as well as practically.
I thought it was well-acknowledged that the threaded servers get better performance, even on Linux (with NPTL), than the prefork ones. Am I just confused?
But smaller surface area means a smaller screen as well which works out rather well since the screen is the battery sink most of the time. This is one reason why tablets don't get better battery life than phones.
I don't speak for Apple. I think those are bullshit.
Shouldn't you also be upset over all the other service providers including your own ISP that also doesn't block those sites? Unless it's specifically against protecting people against criminal activity, in which case we are really going down a slippery slope.
I still don't understand the market segment at all. Super bizarre for me.
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I'm waiting for them to mature more before I give it a try. I waited a long time on Soylent for the same reason.
Is it just me or is ES6 kind of ruining Javascript by adding dozens of ways of solving problems that plain JS is perfectly capable of solving if you know how to use it?

Should I try harder to see the usefulness of it?

Right now all it seems to have done for me is make it impossible to use NPM modules because everything is targeting a different runtime and stuff that expects JavaScript breaks other libraries that expect ES6 and vice versa. I'm forced now to use what feels like a beta language in production because a handful of key libraries now require ES6.

I am seriously considering just forking every library that ports to ES6, which is preposterous, but I don't know what else to do. The whole point of JavaScript in my mind was that it runs everywhere, on every obscure browser and any machine with a node executable. ES6 has ruined what was Javascript's most unique and most powerful feature.
Nikon already has this for their consumer 1 series cameras. They call it Motion Snapshot.
Speak for yourself. I don't install anything or take any photos with my phone. I just use it to make calls and browse the web so I very much doubt I will ever use up 16GB.
The sub headers are too light to be readable before you hover, but my brain is still trying to read them. Also, it be nice if you could click anywhere on the squares, not just the text. Anyways, great content, I found a few things I had never heard of!
Elio Motors vs. XTI Aircraft equity crowdfunding – middle america vs. the 1%?
Cool, ty!
I went from a Nexus 5 to a Sony Z3 Compact and haven't looked back. The form factor is so much more convenient, I really hope more manufacturers look at it again.
For me that's not the case (even as someone who loathes doing dishes).

I use a quart size glass mason jar. Usually get away with just adding some water after I'm done and shaking to clean (even after letting it sit for a while)
San Francisco is a nice place. It will probably get nicer, as more and more grubby natives are replaced by nice presentable dot-commers.

It's just that some people object to that process. Including, seemingly, people who live and vote in SF. They believe they can have a city that limits overall housing supply while simultaneously growing housing supply for the homeless, for the working poor, and for everyone else.

San Francisco is a nice place.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10193201
based on what I've heard about universities there this surprises me, unless it's teacher's business to help get students a job there shouldn't really be much to have interventions over.
Huh? It's full windows and yet the ecosystem was terrible?

Doesn't compute.
I wonder if they have a 30% take on retail apps. That alone is a non-starter because 30% is massive for companies selling real physical products. For reference, Amazon charges 15% and offers best-in-class world-wide fulfillment and customer service.
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Count again. Of the 12 of the 13 lowest population states (3-4 electoral votes),
6 regularly vote Republican (AK, ID, MT, WY, ND, and SD), and
6 regularly vote Democratic (RI, DE, HI, VT, ME, and DC) in presidential elections.

Similarly, the 25 smallest states have been almost equally noncompetitive. They voted Republican or Democratic 12-13 in 2008 and 2012.

In the 25 smallest states in 2008, the Democratic and Republican popular vote was almost tied (9.9 million versus 9.8 million), as was the electoral vote (57 versus 58).

In the 25 smallest states in 2008, the Democratic and Republican popular vote was almost tied (9.9 million versus 9.8 million), as was the electoral vote (57 versus 58).

Now political clout comes from being among the handful of battleground states. 80% of states and voters are ignored by presidential campaign polling, organizing, ad spending, and visits. Their states’ votes were conceded months before by the minority parties in the states, taken for granted by the dominant party in the states, and ignored by all parties in presidential campaigns.

State winner-take-all laws negate any simplistic mathematical equations about the relative power of states based on their number of residents per electoral vote. Small state math means absolutely nothing to presidential campaign polling, organizing, ad spending, and visits, or to presidents once in office.

In 2012, 24 of the nation's 27 smallest states received no attention at all from presidential campaigns after the conventions after Mitt Romney became the presumptive Republican nominee on April 11. They were ignored despite their supposed numerical advantage in the Electoral College. In fact, the 8.6 million eligible voters in Ohio received more campaign ads and campaign visits from the major party campaigns than the 42 million eligible voters in those 27 smallest states combined.

Support for a national popular vote is strong in every smallest state surveyed in recent polls among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group

Among the 13 lowest population states, the National Popular Vote bill has passed in nine state legislative chambers, and been enacted by 4 jurisdictions.

http://www.NationalPopularVote.com
> Who they choose to give a voice to says a lot about them.

I don't think they're choosing to give anyone specific a voice. I think they're choosing not to make judgement calls.

Once you start blocking anyone, you've weakened your ability to refuse to block others. You'd see greater demands for blocking Wikileaks, censoring articles like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime, enforcing Europe's right-to-be-forgotten, etc. on the basis of "well you were willing to block ISIS".
Previous discussion:

Phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10193201

TV: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192978
That event is only available via HLS, which never took off in the way that Apple perhaps hoped (it's only supported by Apple stuff, Chrome on Android but not desktop for some reason, Microsoft Edge, and a few random things like VLC). I'm sure they'll shift from it in time, but it's not without its advantages if you don't care about latency; it plays nice with dumb CDNs and caching proxy servers, making it perhaps the cheapest way to stream to a large audience.
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> It's all just HTML and a JS engine

Yeah, about that... It's actually a [pretty huge piece of software](https://github.com/atom/electron). That's not saying that porting it is impossible, it's that if it was easy, an ARM Android version would already exist.
You do realize that "that sort" restricts the meaning of "urban planning idiocy" to the kind I mentioned in the previous sentence, right?

Assuming you do, then I guess this is just more spleen venting. Anonymous spleen venting of course; I imagine you wouldn't act this way in person: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
lack of Lagrange points is barely noticable when compared to some blunders that scifi works commit. every space opera author should land on the Mun to at least know what physics he's going to ignore.
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