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I can't imagine what it would be, but less than 10 years ago a colleague was lamenting that Microsoft was invincible and would never have any competition. Google looks that way now. But no company maintains their lead forever.
New Zealand's TradeMe auction site just automatically delays the expiry by 2 minutes every time there's a bid within the last 2 minutes of the auction. The auction is not over until 2 minutes has passed with no further bids.
There is a threat though that consumer unhappiness with their device's glaring lack of storage may lead to long term problems for Apple in 3 years from now.

It's short term gain for long term pain to the quality of the brand.
And programming anything, or taking over the universe for that matter, is just a matter of the hitting the right keys on the keyboard in the right order.
Exactly, almost certainly every kid now will need to teach grandma how to manage storage on her device because Apple wanted to make more money.
Yep. Now add some buttons while viewing an A4 paper. On an iPad they fit nicely next to where you're holding it, on a Surface you either have to put them in an awkward position, shrink the content or have them it popup in some generally non discoverable gesture.
Bastion (a 2.5D isometric action RPG) on my iPhone is 1.2GB. Transistor (one of the games they featured) is 1.84GB on the App Store for the iPhone version.

Feels like a disconnect between the docs and reality.

PS: Transistor is fantastic - that music!
The main problem with this analogy is that the thing it's trying to explain (gravity) is tangled into the analogy (balls bend the sheet because of gravity) so it doesn't provide an independent viewpoint. On first encounter this analogy seems to lead to great enlightenment but a bit of thought reveals that it doesn't really explain anything, even in simplified terms.

It's not hard to summarize the basic tenants of GR, here is a very good attempt: http://physics.stackexchange.com/a/3018/852. For a layperson I would focus on (1), what a geodesic means (what's the shortest way to travel from NYC to London, etc.). Then I would move to (2) and say that we don't know why that is the case. This would be a nice segue into a discussion about how Physics just describes observed phenomena with equations and the explanations are iterative.
"Not that I use those languages, but it tends to be that the weird stuff tends to appear there."

I guess programmers of those languages must desperately want to escape to another language.
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This comment made me create an account and clear some things up.
1. It's not a full game, just a mod for Dwarf Fortress, and will never be monetized. All releases have been, and willbe, free.
2. I work on it anyway. The 230 a month is just the point where it beats out my day job in terms of monthly income. Nothing more, nothing less.
I don't plan on quitting that job, even if that milestone is reached, if for no other reason than the fact that I need to regularly leave the house to avoid going stir crazy.
Whitfield Diffie... I have to admit that's pretty cool.
That's a rather lame response, coming from the guy who submitted this and who's clearly affiliated. If you're only posting this for the "Oooh's" and "Ah's", you might want to submit it elsewhere.

You'd definitely come across more professional when taking criticism to heart rather then getting all defensive.
Correct - seems to really only prefer mp4. About half of my library is not compatible. Fortunately a re-download isn't so bad, especially if it's an opportunity to get a higher resolution version (that's the optimist in me speaking). There are other VLC-like players available, but the drawback is the video must stream from your iOS device rather than the NAS.
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The problem is most consumers don't realize what they're getting themselves into. Apple will make a profit on those who upgrade knowing better, but many won't.

When grandma needs to learn how to manage storage, this is going to make everybody's life harder, from people who do tech support to application developers who need to rethink how they use application storage space.

Literally, the only player who benefits here is Apple. And even that is disputable due to the problems it will cause to iPhone app developers who now need to be extremely cautious about storage use.
Thanks. These tools are very nice. WorkingCopy looks seriously awesome. Will try it out. Like you mentioned there are lot of limitations on these tools and iOS itself. Would love to see local servers (is that even possible?) or other deployment strategies to test when access to desktop is not possible.
A program that tells a computer how to draw something in a specific and unique way.
The numbers of android include huge numbers of unusable devices that exist to displace feature phones. Don't kid yourself about what this means.
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Anyone else remember an old libpng hack that distinguish IE, Firefox and WinXP? exact one PNG file, viewed differently on each.

Sorry my Google-fu failed and I can't find the link.
Well for games most of the size is content and you can just download that: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...

That way the OS can clear out unnecessary files and they just get downloaded again the next time you play the game. I imagine there is room for temporary video caches etc.
Welcome to the real world.

I'm not talking about Lambda Calculus and related.

I'm talking about Lisp implementation. Real world Lisp implementation.
They produced 2,100 warheads for it and it was actively deployed from 1961 to 1971 (I believe it was deployed to the Korean peninsula among other places).

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/07/20/king-of-the-wild-f...
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I'm doing the same thing in the post-secondary market. In fact, feel free to drop me a line (email in profile); I'd love to hear about what you're working on.

The answer to your question depends upon a few things. I think the most important are: how sticky is your product, what are your opportunity costs, and are you motivated to see this through over the next 2 years.

Schools won't want to let your product go if it's sticky. For example, you could offer the product free for a year or two with the expectation that you'll charge for it later. This helps you avoid the red tape, iterate upon feedback quicker, and grow faster.

If you can spare the time and this product excites you, go for it! What's the worst that can happen? Even if you fail, you have an amazing story and portfolio piece about a product that you built and brought to market. It shouldn't be hard for you to land a great job after that.
Is it possible to get cython to build C extensions that are compatible with pypy? If not, is that something the pypy developers are interested in? A lot of the code I use depends heavily on C extensions, but it would be nice if I could the power of pypy's JIT compiler on the pure-python portions of my codebase.
I hope you haven't been following the news about BBC...
(I wrote this horrible thing)

It's pretty horrendously bad on spinning rust - you get very, very close to 100% fragmentation, so the disk has to seek for each cluster. A lower bound average on seek time is probably something like 4ms, so your max transfer rate is going to be limited to 125 * cluster size. Depending on the disk size[0] the cluster size may be up to 32KB, so we're looking at maybe 4MB/sec best case. I'd guesstimate it'd increase boot time by somewhere between 10x and 40x.

0. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/140365
Lots of SF contains black holes however - for which OPs statement basically applies as you write yourself. Knowing the limits of current science is important I think - especially for SF authors, since this gives them some ways to have fantastical elements (i.e. powering an Alcubierre drive) while staying scientifically acurate.
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How am I supposed to know if my toast is ready? Go over and look? What year is it ... 1934?

I will overlook the conspicuous absence of flying cars, but the year is 2015 and I want an email when my toast is done!
Just upgraded. Too early to say, but so far everything works except Little Snitch.
Android TV is a buggy, slow, confusing experience. I'm trying to buy a new TV at the moment and after having used it on a few TV's don't have good feelings towards it.
> Enforcing arbitrary rules breaking brand names is a bad thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion

Why is it a bad thing? What measurable harm has come to Apple - hell, anyone - by having the link here titled with 'TvOS' instead of 'tvOS'?
Install the nightly build, it works :)
Didn't Jobs publicly bash flash-based music players and then they released the iPod Nano?
I believe the article is primarily talking about single programmer codebases, although team codebases come up at the end.

I think everyone would agree that a second year undergraduate (who had not programmed at all before university) is not generally going to be able to write 60,000 lines of code single-handedly. And certainly not in one term.

When comparing experiences, I think it's important to be careful to compare apples to apples.
I'm with you, but depending on how cynical I am on a given day:

- maybe the monetization path isn't obvious yet, but you've got a project that is getting traction. Figure out the monetization later! (positive)

- Software is special, and eyeballs have value (neutral)

- Snapchat is worth billions, despite losing hundreds of millions/year and having almost no revenue let alone profit. Maybe my personal money plan can be to get outside investment. (negative)
Valid market research often requires deception. If the test subjects know what the test is, their behavior isn't indicative of real-world behavior. For example, a market test for magazines might leave them in the "waiting room" for a taste test of cookies. There's no ethical problem in that.

Whatever the problems with Milgram's experiments as experiments that show quantifiable results, they are a compelling exercise in investigators' prejudices and an exploration is how easy it is to put someone in a position of petty authority and elicit cruelty to the point of torture in them.

We ought to be refining Milgram's experiment designs, and designing the working environment of police to counter those effects that are measured.
The article was clearly written before today's announcement, given its detail.

This means that Apple's PR team is behind this piece, giving this reporter early access then framing the story around the touch device which is the big feature of the iPhone 6s launch.

The article may be good, but it puts into question the independence and neutrality of the article since its an article that was clearly initiated by Apple's PR team.
Does it work with System Integrity IForgetTheName turned on?

I've been trying to keep tabs on what does/doesn't break w/ that addition (totalspaces/totalfinder appear to be having a rough time, for instance), trying to hunt the Little Snitch forums now
>For example with their free plans would they need to identify all clients, scan their content and judge accordingly?

Ever heard of this little thing called abuse reports?
> Computers, internal combustion, electricity and medicine are the only major advances we've got over those living 1000 years ago...

What about external combustion engines? Also, read about agricultural and industrial revolution.
The biggest problem for me hasn't been the battery but the sluggishness of iOS8 on a 4S. There are times when it simply won't react to touch input anymore for a while. Some bugs have accumulated as well - my alarm clock won't go off anymore (timer still always works, even over night, strangely enough), sound output is sometimes broken until I open up "Music" to sort of reinitialize it, the lockscreen is sometimes frozen etc. It's been barely usable but I've held on. Sad there is no iPhone mini.
I used Prompt, by Panic.

I basically used the tablet as a terminal to an EC2 instance. vim, tmux, git ...

When I was away from Wifi, it was a good excuse not to think about work.
...and a bit more focused on "flows".
Two years ago I tried really hard to use my iPad as my primary workstation (or at least primary outside of the office). It didn't work. No mouse support, no multi-tasking, and very mediocre keyboard support. What they released today doesn't fix any of the above.
Both of those languages will semantically deadlock: forget to send a message on a channel and a different thread will sit there waiting forever. It's not a mutex-deadlock, but it achieves the same thing. Neither of those languages protects against this. (And Rust has exactly that level of "deadlock" freedom: it has channels too.)

In any case, you seem to be ignoring what everyone is saying: Rust doesn't guarantee deadlock freedom, but it still tries to help. Mutexes can be an important building for some things, but they're not the final story. There's atomics and channels in the standard library right now, and now that 1.0 is released, there'll be a growth of even better abstractions.

One of the people working full time on Rust has a PhD in concurrent programming, and has it as a personal goal to make Rust great at it. You can see his initial work on his blog[1], and read his thesis which introduces "reagents" (something he has expressed interest in implementing in Rust)[2].

1.0 is the start for Rust, not the end.

[1]: http://aturon.github.io/blog/2015/08/27/epoch/

[2]: https://www.mpi-sws.org/~turon/turon-thesis.pdf
They invented/adopted a bunch of agricultural things in the agricultural revolution. That was between the 1000 years ago mentioned and the invention of the internal combustion engine, electricity etc.

Like a better plow, using legumes to replenish nutrients, etc.
Anyone find a secret command line 'default' setting to change how Mission Control / Spaces works so it shows the previews without having to go to the top of the screen?
An unfortunate thing about Vox is that they don't appear to have normal letters to the editor or, indeed, any way of responding to their articles. Nevertheless, it's something I might consider.
Why would anyone need to buy a 64GB Apple TV rather than a 32GB one?
5k hosts is not that impressive, SaltStack can do that in dog slow CPython.
Right, cute, but you're cutting out the context that it's outputting the same thing as the input.
How many offices are using iPads as their workstations?

>Very soon iOS apps will match and/or exceed most desktop apps.

I expected that to be true, but we're coming up on 10 years of the Apple App Store and I'm still waiting.
I think this is the angle of attack that Apple is taking here. They want to catch up to the handwriting and sketching abilities of Surface, but they don't want a hybrid OS.

In a lot of ways the Surface is a laptop with a detachable keyboard and the OS and eco system is still based on that. Apple wants their eco system to develop from a clean touch OS base into productivity areas. Having said that, they are really lagging in this area and the momentum has shifted well away from iPads in the business world.

The Surface might beat the iPad pro, but I do wonder if the either will be the future of productivity compared with a laptop and a tablet.
Something similar was tried during WWII. See [1]. This was an explosive ship used to attack an important drydock. The explosive ship part worked fine. But there was a complicated commando raid on other nearby objectives attached to the operation, which didn't go as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nazaire_Raid
You might want to edit that comment. I suspect "depends heavily on pypy" should be "depends heavily on C extensions".
Read some texts from the cold war, perhaps?
> Our archetypal team is one product manager, one designer, two engineers from us and two engineers from the client.

This organizational system is also referred to as "squads"[1]. We also use it at DSC and it works remarkably well.

1. https://labs.spotify.com/2014/03/27/spotify-engineering-cult...
*On iPad. This gesture does nothing on my iPhone 5s running iOS 9.
Apple Inc. launched a broadside Wednesday against wireless phone companies, saying it will for the first time finance iPhone sales directly to customers without requiring them to be tied to any particular carrier.

In the US. This is pretty commonplace in other countries.
Thanks! Installing Nightly Build 3.6 fixed it (it's El Capitan compatible)
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I use railgun on a few sites, it does make noticeable difference in page load times.
I find it interesting that these hallucinations do not maintain a consistent 3D perspective: the images look really flat and any noticeable three-dimensionality is localized to a small part of the image.

Intuitively, this makes some sense - one would expect an object classifier to not care too much about determining viewpoint, so the amplified representation of a dog or a slug is flat. I think convolution layers being the bottom-most layer also has something to do with it.

My dreams are a lot more perspective-correct though. Deepdream certainly entertains the idea that biological dreaming might be somehow similar to gradient ascent. Even if it were so, it means that the sensory experiences we feel in our dreams somehow integrate a much more unified "reality" than what we would experience if we were only dreaming with an object classifier.
> I'm of course not the target audience for iPads, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking they're anything but a toy.

iPads have been getting a lot of productivity improvements lately, however many have decided they're just a toy and in doing so have been rather blind to their advance. To just name one, extensions allow inter-app handoff and are quite powerful at this point and well received by iOS devs and power users. Extensions solve the document transfer use case discussed in this subthread, and they don't invoke cognitive load around filesystems. I'm hoping we can use 3d Touch to trigger them from the share button to further improve their efficiency. But that's cool, lets all keep dragging files around with a mouse or typing in terminal and wait where did I save that file I was just working on again?

Another way to think about this is with iOS, Apple is going down the list from most common to least common use cases for end users, whereas over the last several decades with CLI and then WIMP interfaces, traditional PC devs have been going up the list of use cases from most dev-oriented to most end user. Nothing wrong with the results of the latter for development, but it turns out there's a lot more end users than there are devs, and an exposed filesystem is a sacred cow of that the latter approach that can be solved in more than one way for the end user.

> It takes something much more serious for a new computer generation to usurp its predecessor

Mainframe guys said the exact same thing about minicomputers.
Your comment motivated me to wean off the caffeine and re-prioritize fitness in my morning routine. Thank you.
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In theory, you could make the disk performance even worse by alternating between the beginning and end of the disk, though you may need to do a little tweaking to ensure this doesn't inadvertently allow read-ahead to help.
It's interesting to note that the Surface 3 diverges from the Surface 2 and RT in that it has an x86 processor. I think this may be a concession that bringing developers over to write WinRT applications is an uphill battle, and the device marketplace is not going to stand still and wait for that to happen.

"Our Windows app runs fine on Surface" is a better story than "Our Windows app doesn't run on Surface at all".
Simple use cases that were more complicated

- We wanted to collect files from various locations and push that in hdfs. Nifi seemed like a good way to build a self service setup. Once we setup source and sink, if we read + processed + removed file from destination, Nifi copied it again. We did not have control of always removing source files as soon as it was copied on destination. Components we used were GetFile, PutFile and some options in Conflict Resolution settings for these components

- Inspect file name, run a script to generate new subdirectories for partitions and place the file in appropriate partitions. Attaching a script was easy. Changing the destination path on the fly was not.

Some Complex cases - there are other ways to do this but setting this up in Nifi was a breeze

- Set up file collection from ftp, sftp, file copy from 20+ locations. This was painless, few minutes per source

- Add REST interaction within data flow easily

- Read CSV files and convert to Avro/Sequence files

- Read files and route part of data to different processors

We also ran into some strange bugs where Nifi got stuck in some type of loop and kept copying data over and over again.

We were able to do all this testing in 2 weeks. Give it a shot, it might work out for your use case.
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"maybe doing good work and shipping good products ought to replace advertising" is the best thing I've ever come across in fine print.
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Neat, I wasn't aware of bisqwit's hack. Looks like he supported FAT12 and FAT16 but not FAT32, whereas I only supported FAT32.

His has better status information.
CloudFlare isn't the government, and so they are under no legal obligation to allow certain content. But their hands-off approach is precisely what gives them the rational standing not to censor any website any group finds distasteful. Furthermore, the threat of censorship does not only come from governments. I don't want to live in a world where a handful of corporations can decide what speech is allowed to be disseminated. Opinions like yours lead us head first to such a world.
"Valid market research often requires deception."

Willing to go to jail for fraud, deceit, or unjust enrichment for that?
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> It is against HN rules to merely comment about how awesome something is

Why do you say that? Of course it isn't.
Isn't that exactly what a thread is? Well, threads generally have some management by the OS to allow more threads than CPU/share tasks evenly, but at their core, they allow you to give each core some code to run on.

(And yes, Rust's threading safety applies equally well to that. It doesn't care about the details of how code is running concurrently/in parallel, just that it could be.)
It's not against HN rules. :)
In short, and very simply - it means the nuke is smaller and more focused.

From my time in combat zones - we always thought of tactical as the level at which a battalion or lower might operate. Strategic would be entire regiments or larger, potentially involving entire countries.

A nuke that clears the path for a battalion (political implications of using a nuclear weapon aside) is tactical. A nuke that eliminates a capital or engulfs many battalions in flames is strategic.

I would imagine, though, that a "tactical-sized", or smaller, nuke could have strategic implications if you detonated it somewhere of great import (eliminating the leadership while all in one building, for example). This would be a strategic use of a nuke.

But in actuality - it is very complicated. Something like a nuclear weapon is a multifaceted action and cannot be distilled to a single word.
Spoken like a true gentleman.

I suppose that you're referring to "theft", but copyright infringement isn't theft: it's just infringement. So, mind your terminology in the future, and you'll be just fine.
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Bahahaha. That's funny. ESPN's entire business model is based on being just popular enough that any cable company not carrying it would go under so they can demand something on the order of $6.50 per subscriber when the majority of subscribers don't watch ESPN.

If they ever offered an individual subscriber deal they sure as hell wouldn't do it for $6.50 per sub per month.