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But what are they going to do with all those dimes when they run out of nickels?

Seriously though, it does seem to be possible to buy revenue, buying profit is another matter. I suspect these companies are all hemorrhaging cash--while they can show strong revenue growth (btw is that growth linear or better with the amount of money invested? i doubt it), they still need the money to stay in business and support all the contracts they're closing.

Also, interesting relationship between money and terms. The more money you get, the worse the terms. The argument of "raise money while it's cheap" (IE, because you get better terms) works for what facebook in '07 when they got $240M for 1.6% from MSFT. For most of these big fundraising rounds though, that money is not cheap.
All shaders are beautiful :)

This is a problem with user content submitted sites. It's hard not to conflate the quality of the content (shaders) with the quality of the product (ShaderFrog). There are no default ShaderFrog shaders, they're all user created.

The more oddball shaders (my favorites) are the composed shaders, which are not eligible to be used as inputs to other composed shaders. Only the basic shaders, which are generally higher quality because they require more knowledge of how GLSL works, can be inputs to composed shaders.
You should try intermittent fasting. The first two or three weeks are hard, but after that its easy, and really seems to sort out insulin sensitivity (or thats my guess from reading the science and "gut" feeling - pun intended). No feeling tired after lunch.
Alas, community like this has very little empathy for non-tech, non-dev folks. I am amused how narrow worldview can be sometimes on HN. Every kid should learn to code, because nothing else is interesting on Earth, everyone is supposed to tinker with their devices, because what's else there to do, etc.
And when I state that "Inmates are running the asylum" is one of the book that changed my worldview it does not usually end well for me.
Why does icloud work in chrome on windows but not on chromebook
Hi

Does anyone have a guess to the technical issues that is preventing the icloud photos and drive from working in the browser on a chromebook while it works in chrome on other platforms?

On my chromebook I cannot click a file or photo, they are not accepting clicks.
>It's incorrect to say that Rust hasn't prioritized higher-level concurrency tools

I think it's a fair characterization given 1.0 shipped without them, and there doesn't seem to any timeline for standardization (please correct me if I'm wrong).

I don't think I have to tell you that concurrency is one of the most important challenges in modern programming. But all Rust gives you today (and for the foreseeable future) is a pthreads wrapper.

>I'm also confused about your perception that the rhetoric gets ahead of the language

The parent comment says verbatim "Rust goes out of its way to make it easy and safe to write multithreaded code". This apparently doesn't include preventing deadlocks, a problem that is common, hard-to-avoid, and difficult to recover from. Does that not strike you as a bit of an overreach?
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how did you build this? I'm getting like 10 fps on my chrome
I'm not releasing the kernel or graphics library code for the moment (it's not finished, for one thing), but application sources will be available and drivers, etc, will all be open-source. The fixed 16KB banking window is a pain in one respect, namely that applications (which themselves are relocated into the banking window) cannot directly access MALLOCed RAM. Of course there are ways around this, but I was a little envious of the more flexible banking schemes on some of the Z80 platforms described in the SymbOS developer docs. But it's also fun working around the Atari's limitations.
yes it did. outstandng stylus and multi-touch performance in a package that was a full OS, but also had the touch app ecosystem.
Interesting fact: adding the unemployment part of the dual mandate came after the recession of '73-'75 which saw unemployment hit 9%. Originally, the Fed's only mandate was to keep prices stable.

[1] https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/speeches/our-dual-ma...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973%E2%80%9375_recession
It's basically what they said in during the presentation: it's a 7000 alloy as used in aerospace industries[0], and it's a new alloy (proprietary, not a standard spec). The apple watch also uses a proprietary 7000 alloy (whether it's the same alloy is unknown at this point)

[0] not solely, they're also used in bike frames. Basically 7000 is zinc alloys, and have the highest available tensile strength, rivalling low-level steels at a third the density.
The AI isn't omniscient. If it spawns multiple copies of itself in an effort to improve itself, those copies must necessarily be mutants (otherwise, evolution can't occur). Why do those copies co-operate? Is the AI intelligent enough to forsee that it's own copies might have different goals and ends? Even if it is, how does it control it? Human beings show very little foresight in preventing their own destruction, there's no reason an AI would have any more. An evolving self replicating AI faces all the same challenges organic life does; it will face competition both from itself and humans.

You're presuming the AI has powers that there is no evidence for. Human black hats create botnets that are dumb and easily dismantled. Why do you assume that an AI would be orders of magnitude better than humans?
i would run buy one if it had a mouse and ran windows apps. otherwise, i'm not getting rid of my windows tablet.
Gruber wrote about the stylus thing too, you could have quoted that if you wanted. Here ya go: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/01/20/if-you-see
Statically checking that progress is made does imply that the language is not Turing-complete if I understand it correctly, which is why Coq, the proof assistant language where all programs have to terminate, is not Turing-complete.
iOS 9 will be released on 16th September
Really? I rather like their picture scroll. Sometimes when I have nothing to watch I'll just have that running in the background. What's pretty cool is that through the Chromecast app you can find more information about the picture. I've collected a lot of potential vacation destinations this way.
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/the-rust-programming-language-...
do you do a lot of web scraping? what sort of scripts are these designed to do?
Exactly. Your cardiac output is a function of age, routinely stated as "220 minus your age in years is your maximum heart rate." (Or: maxBPM(age) = 220 - age)

When I'm going all out, my watch says I hit 180 bpm which is pretty darn close to my (220-32=188) max rate.
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Growth isn't necessarily bad, but neither is it necessarily good. Some growth is manageable; some isn't.

It appears we both agree that rapid growth is a proximate cause of the problem, and the tech industry is the main cause of that rapid growth. Where we differ is that you think a bunch of other people should immediately change to accommodate you, while you simultaneously refuse to acknowledge their perspective, which is that their previous system was working well enough for them until tech people came along in overwhelming numbers. And that maybe they were perfectly happy with how things are, and feel no particular need to change to suit you.

The rest looks like dickish handwaving to me. If you'd like to just keep yelling at people, stop bugging me. If you'd like to have an actual discussion, then start behaving respectfully.
How is this news?
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What's the point of 4K on a TV again? So you can walk up to it and say "ooooh!", then go sit down and have it look like 1080p?

Is that brief standing-too-close moment worth the massive increase in bandwidth required?
Please stop this culture of insanity, it is destructive.

I get it, Soylent is targeting the "100X engineer" crowd who are supposed to be unflappably dedicated near-godlike ubermenschen. I get that people need to telegraph "how busy" they are by constantly talking about it to everyone with ears. I understand that people need to communicate high-value to each other, and do this by referencing how much responsibility they're given professionally or otherwise-- but long before the point of people eating nutrient paste instead of real food, this busyness fetish has gone too far. You don't need to be eating nutrient paste to convince me that you are important at your job and also good at it-- these concepts have nothing to do with each other, and the usage of Soylent as a prop for the persona of "being hardcore" is simply puerile.

Nobody in the real world is so "busy" that they can't stop what they are doing for a few minutes and prepare and consume real food in order to meet their body's demands. Even special forces soldiers on combat missions in enemy territory carry food that needs to be quickly prepared, which they can then scarf down. Relatedly, quality food is a big boon for morale-- and Soylent sure aint.

I guess if you're a meta-human weirdo who claims to have no inherent desire to consume tasty food and just wants to "get it out of the way", Soylent is for you. I don't believe you actually exist, though. I guess it's possible some brain pathology could cause a lack of desire for food, but come on, go to a doctor instead of eating Soylent.

As a parting shot, I'll mention that Soylent probably doesn't have any kind of phytonutrients or anything similar. Soylent also doesn't have any of the numerous pharmacologically active ingredients of common food items-- the effects of not having these may be subtle, but noticeable over time. Look, just go to your local farm stand, and buy some fucking fruits and vegetables. Most of them can even be eaten raw if you're gonna be a jerk about "not being able to cook" or not having enough time.
In R its very easy to simply create a function in C++ or Fortran, then call that. Plus there's plenty of functions already that you can call instead of using for loops in R (which really aren't idiomatic).
Are moobs in this year? https://slimgur.com/images/2015/09/09/e71ad5ce6fce8b6baa6532...
Or possibly, stats showed that a significant percentage of users don't even come close to filling up the 16 GB.
Mechanisms to think on:

1) Stiffening of tendon tissue via cross-linking and calification.

2) Loss of muscle mass and strength via all of the varied mechanisms implicated in sarcopenia, ranging from mitochondrial dysfunction to extracellular matrix disruption via cross-links and senescent cells, to fatty infiltration of muscles, diminished stem cell activity, etc, etc.

3) Inefficiency in blood flow to muscles, either through neurological impairment in the normal blood vessel dilation process or through cross-linking and calcification to stiffen blood vessel walls.

4) Dysfunction in cartilage for all the reasons implicated there, such as cross-linking, loss of stem cell function, and so on.

There are others, but note that all of these are secondary consequences of types of primary damage that occur as a result of the normal operation of metabolism. They are all targets for repair treatments yet to be constructed.
You can already add videos to the iTunes library. They show up under "Home Videos".
Can't recommend this book enough: http://startingstrength.com/
Surface Pro 3 has a fan, this doesn't. That's a big difference that I would pay a bit more for (I actually went with a surface 3 just for this reason). The screen is also higher res, I'm guessing the unit is lighter also. Looks like it might be time for a surface pro 4 though, so let's see.
Use more data, pay more bucks
> People like to bash x86 but it has a big advantage: it's compact.

x86-64 isn't. I've measured this: the average instruction length is just about 4 bytes. REX prefixes add up quick.
I have a Surface Pro. I'm generally pretty happy with it.

But the selection of programs that are comfortable to use with the touchscreen is very small. In my case, pretty much web browsing, email, Netflix, and OneNote.

For typical programs, you'll either be fat-fingering buttons that are too small or you'll be pulling out the stylus frequently. The tablet experience does not compare well to an iPad.
"A great model"

Not really, it suffers from the same issues that most STEM competitions do. The rewards go to the children of successful parents who gave their children important aspects of their own research or self-funded them to develop an existing idea.

The competition still has prestige, but most of the awardees didn't get where they are on their own abilities and interests.
Agreed. Apple and MS have completely different strategies. Apple chose to go the multiple OS route. MS is going with one OS to rule them all. (Also Apple ultimately wants to sell complete gadgets, whereas MS wants to sell software and services)
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All I wanted was more storage and longer battery life. Looks like I have another year to wait for those. Not to knock the other improvements, but storage and battery life are the two that bug me the most.
The other replies have summed up what I meant well, but I will add that a crucial component of a cynical Apple announcement day post is to preface it with a list of the number of Apple products one has bought in order to establish oneself as an unbiased authority on Apple products.

Look back at every single Apple announcement and you'll realize Apple just takes tech that's already out in the marketplace and refines it. They never do what you expected them to do today, and never will.
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>There is no fundamental principle that suggests most kinds of programming are any less susceptible to automation than any other kind of work.

There are two ways to "automate" programming. Make the language/framework easier to understand/write in, which isn't fundamentally different than it is now, or make the computer understand natural language and do interpretations on its own. The first is likely to happen, but learning to code now will only make you better at writing in whatever simplified language is developed next. The second is AI complete and won't happen till we develop REAL AI... which we aren't really that close to doing.

Learning to code is just learning to be very precise with your instructions. That is a useful skill regardless of whether you are actually coding or not.
Okay? I'm not sure what your specific usage really added to the discussion especially considering the camera phone is typically people's only camera nowadays so I feel like you'd be an outlier if anything. Photos and video already take up a huge amount of space on the phone; I don't even take a ton of pictures of my kids (my SO usually does) but even my phone, after 6 months of usage, has 3 gigabytes taken up in photos and videos. It goes really, really quick.

With 4K and 12 megapixels? It's going to go by so fast...
I think the GP specifically meant "no way of legally purchasing some big-name-production-house-licensed title as a DRM-free digital-native asset", the way you currently can with e.g. iTunes' DRM-free AAC audio files.
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Disappointing it won't run on the old AppleTV, considering they're still selling it.
Depends what you mean by "sustainable".

There's far more fresh water falling on the US than is being "used". Go look at any river. Gazillions of litres of fresh water per minute just flowing out to sea and getting salty. Then imagine the number of rivers doing that.

Of course damming every river and diverting it to other uses is impractical and would have bad effects on various ecosystems, but there's a lot of spare fresh water just running out to sea.

And then remember that the vast majority of the water that we "use" is not getting split into hydrogen and oxygen, it's staying molecular water and it's hanging around.
To make you pay for cloud storage?
>Ripping your own dvd

Tell me with a straight face that Apple gives a shit about DVDs.

>recording from tv

Fumbling around with capture cards is roughly the opposite of the Apple TV's ethos.

>public domain or cc licensed footage, public domain or cc licensed footage, buying from independent distributors or the authors themselves, video blogs, buying learning material etc.

Vimeo is already a pretty polished UX for most of the independent film use cases. Offline is a concern on mobile devices but not really relevant to the Apple TV.

Also, let's be realistic here, people aren't watching public domain content on their couches day in and day out, they're watching big-name TV shows.
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"No wifi, less space than a Nomad. Lame."
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By the way, I'm not saying they did, I'm just including the entire quote from Jobs.

The important part of the quote in this context is that Jobs was obviously referring to the stylus being the primary input device for the iPhone being unacceptable.
This is where HN breaks down. The branding is explicitly tvOS, not TvOS (HN used to have pedantic mods manually change all titles to make first-letter-caps even when not relevant, not sure if it's automatic now or not).

There's actually a special unicode character you can use to begin a sentence if your subject is lowercase: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/203e/index.htm
Just like the watch. I may be stupid but I really don't like that the watch makes me feel like I definitely am when I can never find or repeat anything on it. It's a really lousy feat of experience design
Let's hope this move from Apple forces Google to put some more effort into marketing Android TV.

It's a good (superior?) platform, but could definitely use a little better app-support.
Also relevant is the Battle of the Crater during the civil war, in which Union forces dug a giant hole underneath the Confederates defenses and packed it with gunpowder. The resulting explosion was so impressive that none of the soldiers were able to capitalize on the sudden opportunity.

General Burnside had trained special black troops to head this assault because of just how complicated this mission was compared to anything else in contemporary existence. They were pulled at the last minute by General Meade for a combination of PR reasons (can't have black people winning the war), personal glory reasons, and skepticism.

The entire thing is a very sad story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Crater
These Harry Potter images have already been done by Nokie: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2014/04/15/relive-th...
Apple does allow this, they just have to be in the correct format and loaded into iTunes on you computer. If your computers iTunes and the AppleTV are on the same network you can watch whatever video you have loaded. I do this all the time. It's probably not as easy as the Roku (I assume the Roku allows the playback of a larger variety of codecs) but for me it works perfect as I encode everything in h264 anyway to use for pitches, mood boards, etc as an editor working in advertising (where the majority of creative uses macs).
The actual toy moving:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Y2WfcCb4M

My dog would love it.
I've found that most servers in business environments are Linux-based, not Windows-based. It's significantly cheaper to spin up CentOS licenses for cost centers.
What hardware should I use if I want to be able to display arbitrary content on my TV and decide the lifecycle of my hardware myself? Apple TV isn't it, right?
To expand on steveklabnik's sibling comment, Jim Blandy's is writing a complete book on Rust, which will be published by O'Reilly, and is aiming for release by the end of the year. :)
And indeed, it's the representation Rust uses. When you have the type Option<T>, if Rust knows that a value of type T can never be zero (as is the case with pointer types), then the compiler uses zero as the machine-level representation for None, which indicates the absence of a value. I get into that a few paragraphs later.

What's important is that you can't use a value of type Option<T> as if it were T; you have to check it first. This is helpful for non-pointer types as well; I include an example of that.
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>Shouldn't you also be upset over all the other service providers including your own ISP that also doesn't block those sites?

I would argue that the moral dilemma is different if you choose to allow ISIS traffic to pass through you, vs have them as a client.
I must say I sat opposite someone on the train the other week and thought "what is that noise?". It turned out to be his Surface Pro. I'm not sure whether he was doing anything particularly intensive or just checking email, but the fact that it was audible above the typical noise of a train put me off ever wanting to buy one. Imagine trying to read or watch a movie in bed with that whirring going on!
I wouldn't really call an installment plan a very innovative financial product. And it's not like they'll stop making iPhones and focus on financing. It's just a power move to dominate the phone market and cement their lock on customers.
In my experience, the Apple TV's native subtitle rendering (which seems to be identical to QuickTime Player's rendering) is atrocious. It doesn't understand styled subtitles (e.g. separate colors for separate speakers, or bold/italics/etc.), or Unicode characters in subtitles, or subtitle screen-placement directives, and it frequently manages to do stupid things like displaying comment lines left in the subtitle file as if they were part of the text.

Watching subtitled video is the main reason I have a Mac Mini plugged into my TV.
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Every time I start writing a response to this, I can't help but feel it will simply be misinterpreted. I thought my original response was pretty succinct and clear. If you'd like to continue, please select one discrepancy and I'll be happy to discuss it further with you.
I've had one a few weeks and it's still utterly baffling
Agreed, I have an N5 and it's about as large as my hands can go. It could have a better display, but not a larger one.

I tried out the Moto X for about 3 months, like it a lot, display was just a little too big.

Now my wife has small hands and small fingers. She can't handle the N5 comfortable even.

I don't know the averages though.
This comment seems strange and misguided at best. Practice of religion or beliefs (especially when not infringing on other's rights to do so) is, I can only hope, _exactly_ how civilization should progress.

Instead, looking down on a group of people because they are ultra-orthodox (in any religion) - is "not how it...was supposed to go."