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> Also the Surface stylus isn't in the same league. So you'd have to compare to something like the N-Trig stylus which is an extra $50.

The Surface Pro 3's pen is an N-Trig... Yeah, so not $50 more, included right in the box. And it has reviewed excellently by artists.

> Yes, though I'd say the Apple ones are better quality (especially looking at the keyboard cover).

You have absolutely no basis for claiming that the Apple pen and cover are superior. Literally nobody has reviewed them, you haven't used them, nobody you know has used them, and you didn't even know they existed two hours ago.
The part I'm wondering about, and can't find any answer on Apple website: what happens if your iPhone is stolen/lost/destroyed?
On a 3.5 inch screen? Yeah, the stylus was terrible for that. Touch screen interfaces were held back for years because everyone blindly used a stylus as the primary input device.

This is for a much larger screen, and it is an accessory and not the primary input device.
... and kept the 16 GB base model.
Apple will never put an SD card slot in the iPhone. If you're waiting for it, you'll be waiting a long time.
Its easy to blow through 16GB when you take 12MP live pictures of every cute thing your cat does. Removing pictures off of iPhone is way harder than it should be.
Just my opinion of course but this is very bad for the consoles. Apple comes in with a stupidly huge and competitive developer community and everyone in their target audience already has access to plenty of controllers (iOS devices). I imagine we'll see big guns moving over quickly (I have four GTA titles on my iPhone).
thank you. Huge market for this.
Quite a few dumb tvs out there. Gave my sister-in-law a Chromecast for her birthday last year, but might get an AppleTV for her if it does Plex. I think they'd prefer an onscreen display.

My coworker uses a Roku despite the Plex app on his tv, apparently that's pretty clunky.
If no paired remote is detected I'm guessing it'll prompt you to re-pair?
And so it continues, I point out that this has been said of every Apple announcement since Jobs' return.
Libraries are only legitimate customers because they have massive public goodwill, and it is probably difficult to assault their position. It doesn't sound good to have librarians and educators rallying against you. It's probably better to suffer their existence for now.

But surely many publishers view libraries as affronts to intellectual property, as libraries buy both software and books and charge their users almost nothing, relying instead on minimal fees, taxes, and donations. Unless libraries are paying royalties or something like that, they have basically appropriated the works of authors and publishers by brute political and social muscle.

The fact that it's difficult to combat the goodwill credit score of libraries just means that businesses and authors assuage themselves with your magnitude argument: "Well, it's not that much profit or control loss. Communities will never learn how to scale their resources, especially in high-population areas where consensus is often difficult in government."

Also, libraries may fuel arguments for the public, forming a slippery slope by which the public continues to take from the private sphere for communal benefit. If libraries didn't exist, it would be a lot harder to appeal to the public via, "This website is just like a public library! It is an institution of community learning and knowledge for all."

I think the symbolic threat of libraries means that any attempt to establish a culture of digital libraries should be severely challenged.
Could be very useful if you can script jobs in code, and the gui just writes to code as well, so you can use version control and diffs to see what actually changed.
Ensure is marketed to 'old' people and women. Soylent is marketed to the tech savvy Silicon valley crowd :)
> San Francisco has mostly avoided or repaired that sort of urban planning idiocy

If you think that then I have a bridge to sell you. A nice International Orange one.

SF is a hive of planning idiocy, from dumb height laws, to 1:1 parking requirements, to terrible permit application processes. It's practically a model for planning idiocy at this point.
And Apple, the richest company on earth, can't afford a license, or what?
VLC is available from the App Store now. And you can make your own movies or license them from creators in various ways other than the general releases. Also in many places other than the US it is legal to rip content that you bought legally.
It's incorrect to say that Rust hasn't prioritized higher-level concurrency tools. Many of the design decisions over the previous years have been made with an eye towards supporting every concurrency paradigm.

For example, here's a post of Niko Matsakis' from Feb 2014 about changing a fundamental aspect of the borrow checker in order to better support data parallelism in the future: http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/02/25/rust...

For another example, here's an RFC from Nov 2014 about fundamentally altering Rust's concurrency support in order to better support fork-join parallelism in the future: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0458-send...

I'm also confused about your perception that the rhetoric gets ahead of the language. The type system does indeed make things easier and safer. When people ask what that means, we're eager to elaborate on the precise guarantees that Rust provides. Misleading people as to Rust's capabilities is not on the agenda.
Ask HN: What Is Apple's Live Photo Technology?
It's just mentioned in today's Apple event, but googling around yielded nothing in specifics about how Apple implemented the picture format with animations. Phil Schiller said it's not a movie format but rather a picture format but I doubt it's animated GIF.

http://photos.reportinglive.com/p/2015-09-09/f1441824921.jpg
> That is a conversation and no tool is going to automate it away.

That's my point. It's the developer's job to know what the product owner wants and write the appropriate tests for it. Cucumber brings nothing to the table.
Right, it's competitive... But being competitive and "most advanced", to me, are two different things. Not knocking Safari's performance, the battery life you get from it kicks butt. Still, different.

(Also, wow. Comex replied to me. Very cool.)
It's in-depth. So developers will have to design and implement a middle step, hence nothing is lost. You'll see all details on press, snapshot on semi-press
That's a rather big "only".
Test Driving Apple’s iOS 9
Aaaaand there it is.
The problem with Keurig k-cups is that you can't use them for anything else and you can't use them with other coffee machines. These bottles look like you could save them as water bottles in the worst case.
iOs 9 and OS X El Capitan GM Released
If you need to run Windows software, buy a Windows machine. If the applications you depend on require iOS, buy an iPad.

The Surface Pro and iPad Pro is where you'll see the whole "app gap" story inverted. The Surface will have "all the apps" (apps in this case meaning all existing Win32 applications and Enterprise software) and iOS trying to play catch up through partnerships like their one with IBM.
Any improvements to Siri?
You can use python, call out to R libraries with Rpy2 and speed up loops to faster than Julia and around native Speed with numba
I wonder if parent didn't mean to add a /s that statement.
I found it interesting that there was no mention of handwriting recognition for the pencil input - just not on the radar, it seems. Probably for the best, it's always been a disappointment on every device it's been used on.

Official support for an external keyboard for iPad is interesting - among the 'professional' kinds of applications that might now become possible to use on a device like this are development tools: code editors, command line interfaces... any chance that as they open up the scope of what's possible on the device, they'll liberalize the app store policies that currently prevent those kinds of things being created?
Apple is going to make bank by turning into a bank. The installment plan with free upgrades each year is brilliant. The user lock-in is going to be unsurpassed and no competing phone maker has the mountains of cash required to match it.
I hope we see Plex.
apple did not invent multi touch.
Speak for yourself - the Surface Pro line is sexy as hell and the fact that it's not a walled garden is a huge plus.
> Your laptop comes with 5 million pixels?

Yeah, actually
It depends. Amazon aren't ignoring platforms because they don't have time, it's because they want people to guy a Fire TV Stick/whatever.
Those errors are usually caused by CloudFlare automatic Front-end Optimization (FEO) stuff, like trying to losslessly optimize images, add cache control, gzip, SPDY/HTTP2, etc. It used to be a primary marketing point, and while its still there (and still causing problems) they have moved away from promoting it so much.

Its best to use of them as a CDN, DDoS sink, and SSL. Their other stuff like FEO or their web app firewall stuff really isn't that impressive enough to be considered a reason for switching.

Disclaimer: I work in the web performance space, and used to work in the web security space. As a whole I'm not a fan of the "stick a magic appliance in front of a website to automatically stop [web security issues | web performance problems]" approach, whether from CloudFlare or otherwise.
And I think pcwalton is saying that Jim Blandy is very much from outside the Rust project, and therefore satisfies that criterion. :)
"Many"? Who? It won't work for web design, because it doesn't handle a file system. It's a more expensive option than a Cintiq or a Surface Pro and doesn't work with the existing install base of Adobe CC products (or the tons of third-party software that works with them), and any other art tools that come out will be in the exact same boat.

I think you're projecting, and severely.
I'd love to see the lightest, regular swipe and tap act as a mouse on-rollover hover state and the slightly harder swipe scroll the page.

The harder press would be the on-press and on-release states.

I miss all of those interaction states, with multi-touch.

Not only will Apple not do that, but we won't even have the options to do so. It'll be all about new, gimmicky peek and poke style gestures. I'm sure they'll be nice, though.
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Good point. I had forgotten about that. Math is one of the few things I still use a pencil and paper for.
More or less, No.

Yes, it is a survivable diet.

No, it isn't an optimal diet.
The risk with Microsoft's approach is that companies will think "our Windows app runs fine on Surface" and invest little on making their application work great on Surface because they form a small part of the market.

The risk with Apple's approach is that companies will think "it's too much work to make a custom UI for such a small market".

I guess time will tell who wins this. Possibly, things will go like they went with Mac OS and Windows: some companies decided to build applications for the Mac, thus forcing others out of the market, and making it easier for them to develop Windows versions. Another possibility is that the way larger market in 2015 vs 1985 and the existence of many existing iOS apps makes more companies decide that developing a custom UI for iPad Pro is worth the effort.
Yes. Plex's Android TV app is very slick. I was impressed.
How much lead & cadmium did the previous one have? (with source please)
Won't nightly be the new stable in about ~15 weeks? That is pretty damn amazing. Using multirust [1] makes it easy to track (cargo,rust) for stable, beta and nightly on a per directory basis, super handy.

[1] https://github.com/brson/multirust
No USB 3.0 data transfer speeds?
Don't forget thread! http://threadgroup.org/
Sound as metadata, multiple frames in a single file pointed to by metadata? First "snapshot" frame the first, so works with normal software? Lotsa ways to play games.
Is control over your own data dead? Even if I use all cloud services I don't see 16GB being remotely reasonable for an age of HD photos, videos, unlimited music libraries (my spotify cache takes up 6GB alone). Even androids with microSD cards only go so big. If apple is serious about this push to using iCloud storage for everything I don't see myself using their products for much longer (and I've been a fanboi forever). Problem is I don't see a good alternative.
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I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it
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This is a little bit of an aside, but it's something I've been thinking about lately:

Only professional programmers program because we design our libraries and tools for a professional "workflow". We've all scheduled a few weeks per year for tooling, so every tool presumes you can spend some time integrating it into your tooling, and that you have a general understanding of how to do that. And everything assumes you have a bunch of ancillary tooling already set up. React presumes you already have an editor and a web host. Heroku assumes you already have a framework set up. There's nowhere you can just step in and casually play with useful, running software.

In other words, everything is designed with the presumption that you are a full time programmer. We have built a high wall around us in the form of tooling that takes 6mo to a year of full time effort to start to be able to solve generic problems.

As a side effect, the complicated tooling makes us all feel powerful and special... most of us quite like feeling like a wizard! And by keeping everything "in the profession" we keep our wages high. I think we might be a little let down if programming was demystified for everyone else. Most of us push towards the most complex problems we can manage, rather than making basic stuff doable by people who are just casually interested in programming.

But it's a chicken and egg problem. There are no casual programmers so there is no market you can easily sell into if you did. No market = no tools. No tools = no market.

I think it will change within the next decade (I've been trying for the last decade). Several people are making attempts. But because it's an ecosystem problem it's really challenging to get your MVP scope right.
> How is this compare to no-script?

Adblockers and Noscript are not in the same category. Adblockers are useful for everyone, and shouldn't break things as long as the block list is well curated. Noscript is for highly technical users who know they're going to break many sites they visit and are prepared to deal with the pain of doing so and debugging the result because they consider it worth the cost.
Lots of businesses build their own software. Do you think it's easier to deploy private software onto an iPad or a Windows machine?
If you buy the powder, it's easy to blend in some fruit or other flavoring, which gives it more variety and a better taste. Or by itself, it's pretty easy to prepare even in just a shaker bottle if you don't have a blender. I'm curious to see how the texture of 2.0 will compare to way it turns out when I make it at home, though. I assume we'll see the bottled form in stores whenever they're able to produce enough, and that's where they'll really start making money.
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Thinking the tech industry is the problem is pretty much like saying you get a cold because you go out in cold weather.

It's not true, but it sounds right if you don't look too close.

The tech industry isn't the cause of anything but growth. Growth isn't bad. Growth is totally manageable. It's not like these issues magically showed up in the tech boom of the 90s - it just made them worse.

However what DID cause this: bad urban planning, lack of ability to change, being systemically unable to fix the housing issues over the last 40 years.

Plenty of places cope with growth periods better than SF, but SF doesn't want to cope with them: it wants to have it's cake and eat it too. It can't, but it's been trying for a long time and failing horribly.

This is not a new development. It's not a new problem. The solutions have been the same for a long time but no-one wants to change to fix them.
Less: https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/2030650...
Great point! They've definitely drifted towards more "entertainment-focused" shows as of late.
They already have a Remote app http://www.apple.com/apps/remote/ that has all of the functionality of the last-gen Apple TV remote (plus things like a keyboard). I would be extremely surprised if this weren't updated.
and the worst part is that the Pencil will probably lose half of its business.
https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/

Enterprise customers can already sign their own apps for internal use.
It's 2015, they just added 4K recording and a higher megapixel camera and the base model is STILL 16GB? Is this a joke? I just can't understand that at all. That space is going to get used up so fast. Android manufacturers have the same issue so it's not like it's an Apple only problem.

The minimum at this point should be 32GB.
I believe the response from Soylent is that fiber itself is not necessary; it's only needed to move along solid food through the digestive system.

If you're only drinking Soylent, you should need far less fiber, if any at all.

I am seeing a lot of criticism of this online [1], however.

[1] http://discourse.soylent.me/t/reduced-fiber-in-1-5/21706/8
They must have needed a bigger battery to drive the faster A9 and the always on coprocessor. (M something?)
Apple always prefers to release late and do it better rather than play race-to-the-bottom games in perfect competition markets.
This video is super bizarre. While assembly lines are impressive works of engineering in and of themselves, I don't know how this engenders excitement about the product. It looks super artificial and not like food. I know that's the point that it's "fuel" but it would be nice to see the ingredients that turn into that white liquid. Maybe we don't want to see those...
This, but they missed the opportunity to call it a single I-Frame with only P-frames in each direction, if they actually did some effort in terms of compression efficiency.

Another thing is that any 4k capable codec is also probably magnitudes more space efficient than baseline jpeg for stills, with or without added temporal information.
Or, from the opposed perspective, you're paying Apple to do your sysadmin tasks for you.

(Really, you do have sysadmin access, if you care enough. My iPhone has a profile on it put there by my [big, enterprise-y] employer, which gives them the ability to do pretty much whatever they want—including side-loading applications. I'm surprised nobody has used the "corporate-owned device" method to build an App store yet.)
Are ensure et al nutritionally complete? As in - you can live off ensure and nothing else?

My understanding is that soylent (and clones) are able to be full replacements for food in general, whereas ensure, muscle milk, etc, are meant to be purely supplemental
It's easy enough for you to Google up the details. The "issue" wasn't with the content but with their labeling -- they only included the California Prop 65 warning on their website, not on the product packaging (which they claimed was sufficient since the website was the only legitimate source of the product).
2GB RAM.
Interesting. This is the first I have heard of this and CloudFlare's reputation has just gone up my eyes because of it.

Is ISIS dangerous and deplorable? Sure. Are there ideas so dangerous that they do not deserve to be exposed to public discourse and judged on their merits? I don't think so.
Well the important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior. Bravo sir, bravo.
As a lot of people have mentioned in previous discussions, Soylent isn't about being the best, it's about tradeoffs like most things in life. 60% daily value of fiber isn't optimal, but it could be more than you are getting on average now.
Not sure about this, in my (completely anecdotal, yes) experience, it's actually common for non-techies to think (consciously or not) that binary buttons can respond to different forces and press them harder when they are angry, frustrated, or being emphatic (think pressing harder while thinking "Yes, I REALLY want to turn on the microwave").
I had an insurance adjuster at my house to evaluate hail damage earlier this year and he did everything on an iPad. My doctor uses an iPad for Medscape (? not sure if that's right) and some other mobile point of care app. My mother in law is a real estate agent and her office uses iPads for everything.

There's a ton of them and it's a very hot area right now. It's a great time to be an iOS developer.
They didn't, but then again they also now have a stylus, so at least they are consistent.
Militant atheists are just as annoying as militant religionists. If someone tries to lay a religious argument on me I will mention that I don't believe, but only in the sense that I'm opting out of the divine premise and so I'm indifferent to arguments that depend on it. I see no point at all in trying to persuade the other person to share my belief - it wastes my time and will only make them feel angry or upset.
Both FireTV and Android TV have voice control via their remotes. Both have universal SDKs between TV, Tablet and Phone. Neither have touch enabled remotes or motion sensitive remotes, but both have traditional console game controller accessories and full blown (PS3 quality) gaming hardware. (http://shield.nvidia.com/games/android and http://www.amazon.com/b?node=7031433011) NVidia's Android TV will even play your PC games streaming off your gaming PC.
What does

.menu + .alert-danger { margin-top: -16px; }

do that

.menu + .alert.danger { margin-top: -16px; }

doesn't? Isn't "alert-danger" redundant? It means that, in practice, you need to do something like:

.alert-danger, .list-danger, .heading-danger, .foo-danger, .bar-danger, .hum-danger { color: red; }

instead of just

.danger { color: red; }
"Fed’s goal: get the U.S. inflation rate to 2%":
This is partially true, since the Fed's goal is also to maximize employment[1]. So really, they should add employment rates in these different categories as well. Which makes the job even harder.

In fact, balancing the two was thought to be a very hard job in theory, almost impossible. And that's why the EU central bank mission _is_ to only stabilize inflation and let each country focus on employment. (it's less and less true because of pressure from EU countries such as France and Italy).

[1] http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/mission.htm
I think the insanity inherent in drinking only soylent would set in far before malnutrition. I don't even think rob rhineheart drinks the stuff for 100% of his intake.

I'm guessing fiber is one of those things that comes easily with the impulse to eat "something solid"
Yes, ensure is designed to be a sole-source nutrition. When someone is in the hospital and can't eat, they are given Ensure as a sole food source.
Just disable all the optimization features and get the benefits of the SSL + DNS + CDN + DDOS protection.
Besides Cloudflare being the biggest man-in-the-middle on the internet, their DDoS mitigation offering is also questionable. If you google "clouflare bypass" [1], you get to websites that can tell you the origin IP address of a cloudflare customer's domain name. So, malicious guys could hit the real IP directly.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=cloudflare+bypass
Really?

It's pretty clear he meant "when you see a device can only operate with a stylus, it's a bad product."
64 bit ARM is a mostly new ISA.