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True. But that means that the old AppleTV is now the only hardware that Apple is selling which has no software support. Pretty unusual, considering they're still supporting the 4S.
You gain AppleCare+ as a benefit, bringing the price a lot closer. It's also unlocked, which could be nice for some people.

Here's the big difference, though, at least with AT&T's Next: With Next, the "how often can you upgrade" and "how long do you have to pay" are highly mismatched.

The most frequent upgrade plan is once very 12 months ("AT&T Next 12"). To get this, I have to commit to paying 20 months (or ~3.33 years).

If I want to upgrade two years in a row, I've committed to paying 40 months (2 terms of the plan). That at least gets me 3 upgrades in that term. If I want to go for a 4th upgrade, we're now at an overall committed payment term of 5 years.

That's fine if you're doing this long-term, but Apple's appears much simpler: You pay for 2 years. In that time, you get 2 phones.

Verizon's program lets you upgrade "any time" you want, but only once you've paid off the cost of the new phone. Unless you pay a chunk of change early, this means one upgrade every 2 years, just like a contract, compared to Apple's once-a-year.

What I'm not sure about with Apple's is whether you can end your 2 year plan with a second phone, and then terminate and keep the phone. This is what I'd most like to know before considering this further. The Terms and Conditions page doesn't seem to be up yet..

Given that the upgrade is once every 12 months, timing also seems important. I'd imagine you'd want to activate the plan just after a new iPhone comes out, and hopefully time it so that you end the 2 years right after another new iPhone comes out, if you really want the latest-and-greatest.

Overall though, it seems to be more fair compared to AT&T's Next and Verizon's Early Upgrade programs.
I think Apple will have a very hard time convincing companies to port / produce complex apps that come with a lifetime of free updates. Mac App store has failed pretty objectively at applying iOS conventions to serious software.
I'm not surprised that there are people that would rather use prepared or quick-mix products than cook on their own.

I'm somewhat surprised that, given the vast array of viable prepared and quick-mix meal products, both shakes and otherwise, that have been on the market much longer than Soylent, that so many of those people think Soylent is something revolutionary. Its clearly a triumph of marketing.
EDIT: Have a look at this: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20150127/102855/HHRG-...

I cannot readily cite any scholarly papers on this subject; this is from my observations as a frequent reader of /r/syriancivilwar, jihadology.net, and Iraq/Syria-related social media content. The typical pattern is for ISIS to release a video to their propaganda sites and for jihadist social media users to tweet the link.

al-Ḥayāt Media Center (ISIS's media outlet) relies on the ease of distribution via protected (proxied) channels to reach their large audiences. The reach of this content would be more limited if companies like CF wouldn't shield it.
I literally laughed out loud at this comment. HN is always predictable.
> But IF is a special form, built into the language.

It doesn't have to be built into the language; it could be a macro based on COND or even on WHEN/UNLESS. But…

> A basic set of special forms is needed and can't be implemented as macros.

One has to have some special forms in order to build everything else as macros. And in practice, of course, there can be some big efficiency gains to having lots of special forms vice having only a few and lots of macrology.
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Ensure complete retail is gluten free so if you wanted a liquid feed you could try that.

http://abbottnutrition.com/brands/products/ensure-complete-r...

I'm not sure it's a great idea and you may want to check with a doctor first.
And apparently des-cbc3-sha is still a thing...
They copied it off the Surface. When in Rome...
Amazon is not just selling content, though. Their push with Fire Sticks and Fire TV is in part to get "Echo" / "Alexis" into the living room.

Until you can ask Siri to buy you laundry detergent in your next subscribe-and-save order, Amazon wants to own whatever you use instead of Siri.
Actually they could, but they would lose their common carrier (see a sibling comment) protections.
> Maybe we can designate this week as Lisp week every year

For some of us, every week is Lisp week grin
I use Airplay to stream anything I can play on my Mac to my AppleTV. I suffered from a bit of lag and occasional syncing issues, so I switched to Beamer, and it's been absolutely rock solid: http://beamer-app.com/
I suppose that's why Apple devices are so much cheaper than the competitors.
Why? Do you enjoy being an ass?
I was quite disappointed there was not iPhone 5S sized device. Will hold off on upgrading for a bit, then...
File management - new built-in app in iOS 9: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-hidden-app-in-ios-9-lets...

Compressing multiple files - this has actually been possible since iOS 8: http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/winzipr-for-ios-now...
Blaze is the Google-internal thing. Bazel is its Open Source clone.
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The traditional wisdom (backed by multiple studies starting decades ago) is that the language used doesn't statistically change the number of debugged lines of code per day, but may often change the number of machine instructions executed per line of high level code written.

We are digressing here, yes? I read the article quickly, admittedly, but I didn't notice him doing language advocacy.
And not everyone can conveniently hang one up (I live in an apartment). Plus, you get the option of portability too. For now my wife and I just use our MacBooks.
I had to saw my Sphero open to replace its batteries (lesson learned - don't leave it charging). Its guts are very similar, and I used some plastic-specific adhesive and then clear repair tape to hold it shut. Ideally the shell would have screwed open and shut, given the wall thickness (I have seen some other repair / upgrades that used clear plastic balls, like xmas ornaments, as the replacement shell). The polycarbonate is very strong, my Sphero once fell ~12 feet onto hardwood, without any damage - physical, mechanical, or electrical.
Mostly XP by now I think.
I'm a dinosaur still waiting for something to replace paper.

Maybe this is it, maybe not. What I want to do: read things, highlight, scribble notes, diagrams, outlines, sync, search, etc. Basically I want something that completely replaces paper coming out of a printer. It seems like the younger people maybe are more adapted to digital documents, but I have very strong spatial memory for paper and can find things I've written or read in paper very quickly.

Surface Pro has this, but is overkill frankly. iPad, kindle, other tablets have not been sufficiently usable to actually replace a printed or blank sheet of paper. This device may fit that use case, but it inhabits a priced point that's worse than Surface Pro. For some reason I'm waiting for something in the $200-300 price range to show up--things that are more expensive I feel like I have to protect and coddle. So, yes something like iOS definitely could work there. There are even some interesting eink devices that go after the paper replacement route. But they are also too expensive compared to Surface Pro.

Maybe this will be a big enough kick in the butt for Google to start supporting pen input in ChromeOS or Android (there are Android tablets that have pen input, but IIRC that support is plastered on top by manufacturers increasing support and integration costs significantly, so software updates don't happen).
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That's a very intriguing block of code there. I'd like to think that while Rust may not have been designed to guarantee that leaks are prevented, it so happens that anything that could leak memory sticks out like a sore thumb in code review, since the code to get something to leak needs to be explicit. I'd consider a global variable or a channel that has the possibility of not reading all its values to follow that pattern. Whereas it's much easier to get something "stuck" in memory without a reference in C++. But you're absolutely right that memory safety does not at all imply "leak" safety, nor is the latter well defined at all!
> (And Wang beat that by several years with a 3" thick monstrosity that, IIRC, went nowhere.)

What was this and where can I read more about it?
There has never been a product like it before. No one else has ever made an iOS tablet like it. :)

It's an admittedly nuanced statement, but not an outright falsehood.

I don't think anyone in that room took it for anything else - they've all seen the Samsung and Microsoft tablets that inspired the Pro. Just like they were inspired by the original iPad, which was inspired by... which was inspired by... etc...
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Not for me to defend Apple, but the iPhone did launch six years after the iPod, and it's been only five since the iPad.
Unfortunately Apple TV sitting next to my Fire TV makes me feel like I wasted a hundred bucks. I only ever use it to airplay podcasts and audio books.
Blaze is the internal name of Bazel in Google (I don't know if both projects are identical, or if Blaze was just the "inspiration" for Bazel)
I find it kind of interesting that bloberdoo's comment[1], voted to the bottom, is substantially identical to this one here at the top.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10192171
So is this like Pentaho but more general purpose?
http://www.pentaho.com/product/data-integration
I remember https://twitter.com/nestsupport/status/606246459822997505 and other similar tweets days after I reported the 768-bit DHE problem to Google security. (affected server was https://transport01-rts10-iad01.transport.home.nest.com)
I think the most important takeaway from this article might get lost in the other points it makes: you are better off when you have fewer features and have fewer features that interact with each other.

20KSLOC programs just don't appear out of thin air. They start as small programs that, if you apply good programming practices, can scale beyond 2KSLOC. And if you apply good program design practices can scale up to 20KSLOC. But all along the way you'd better be thinking about whether you really need a particular feature and how coupled it will be with the other ones. That should happen in every program. The problem is that we are not used to challenging the features that are selected for our systems and recognizing their price as the system grows.
You’re going to learn how important detail is in product design
It depends on one's use cases. I use an iPad Air for two main tasks: 1) to sketch and "paint" (using ArtRage); and 2) to make music in various apps. For these applications, screen size trumps portability (larger canvas for art, wider screen for audio timelines and more keys on keyboards).

I don't think I'm going to upgrade anytime soon, but when I am looking for a newer tablet, the iPad Pro will tempt me.
But don't forget to charge the keyboard ;)
Android TV is different from Chromecast. Android TV can behave exactly as a Chromecast (you can wake it up by casting from your phone), but it also has a remote driven interface, voice recognition, and apps with non touch interfaces. Developers must release a android TV version of their application in order for their app to work with Android TV, the entire android ecosystem is not available to TV by default.
To the extent that they are not prohibited from doing so, they would also not lose common carrier status if they did. The rules applied to ISPs under Title II -- the FCC's recent Open Internet Order -- do not prohibit blocking unlawful content, only lawful content.
They still haven't included it...
A call to update outdated copyright laws
Employers are subject to market forces just like everyone else. If they need workers in order to make money, but workers can't afford to get to work, they will pay more money. Not by choice, by necessity. If you don't believe that, fine. Just raise the minimum wage instead. Subsidizing the usage of road space is a terrible solution to the problem you're describing.

Road space is scarce. Poor people get less scarce goods. Luckily, road space is easy to share, which is what poor people do with scarce things. This is not an affront to the current order. There are plenty of things I want to pay for so poor people can have more of them. Road space is not one of them.
The problem is that after a string of successes like iMac, iPod, iTunes, iPhone, there is no way to out-do that. There is no market so ripe for disruption that plays to Apple's strengths the way that the iPhone setup. That's why the iPad is so disappointing to analysts and why nothing Apple does is that impressive now. There is no opportunity for the next iPhone-level success in the market today. It's out there somewhere in the future, but everyone carrying around a $700 pocket computer is a game changer of a magnitude that can only be approximated by physical implants. It certainly is not approached by any imaginable Watch or Google Glass type of device.
From that article:

> Koh frequently remarked on the similarity between each company's tablets. At one point during the hearing, she held one black glass tablet in each hand above her head, and asked Sullivan if she could identify which company produced which.

> "Not at this distance your honor," said Sullivan, who stood at a podium roughly ten feet away.

I get what you're saying, but they were asked to tell the difference over an unspecified distance.
Whats the issue with Linkedin?
Yes, this is laugh-worthy. It's Apple's sneaky manner of building planned obsolescence into otherwise very competent devices. Just like my 4S, the brand spanking 6S+ will in a few years be choked by iOS updates's climbing RAM requirements. Not updating isn't an option either, as app updates demand the latest OS quickly afterward.

The iPad Pro is much more affected by this because it competes with Wintel devices. When you compare it to the Surface Pro, the later isn't considerably beefier except when it comes to RAM, which is enough on its own to give it double the life span...
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How is DSA different than OpenHAB, which already supports pretty much everything out there?

http://www.openhab.org/
What makes legal restrictions any less "valid" than technical ones? Just because you're an engineer and not a lawyer?
Can specific apps still block airplay? I haven't used AppleTV in a long time, but it was crazy frustrating when certain apps restricted you from being able to airplay to a big screen.

I'm guessing mirroring the entire screen might be a possible workaround but I thought perhaps apps could detect this as well and shutdown.

Can anyone clarify?
From the faq (http://bazel.io/faq.html):

Did you rewrite your internal tool as open-source? Is it a fork?

Bazel shares most of its code with the internal tool and its rules are used for millions of builds every day.

What's up with the word "Blaze" in the codebase?

This is an internal name for the tool. Please refer to Bazel as Bazel.
My vehemence about soylent stems from the blatent lies they told during fundraising. They dangerously and irresponsibly made claims that they shouldn't have, and got away with it.
Why am I always left yearning for more with these latest Apple keynotes? I feel like Apple's innovation has gone from "groundbreaking" to "safe". All of these products are just too predictable.

It used to be that after an Apple keynote you'd be talking about the products with friends, family and coworkers the following afternoon/day and waiting eagerly for them to hit the stores. No longer. The "I need to have this!" feeling has evolved into a "maybe one day I will consider that".

I see people's critiques of the iPad Pro being countered with, "But it's not for you!" ... Then who is it for, exactly? Apple didn't seem to imply or treat it like a niche product in their keynote. Tim Cook said something about it being the centrepiece of the iPad lineup.

I'm an avid Apple TV user but they aren't doing anything groundbreaking with it. Enough with the charade and actually give me something I can replace my cable package with. Despite the nightmare that is cable TV, Apple TV's available content doesn't compete, especially for new content. Fix that and charge me for it. People have been yearning for Apple to modernize TV like they've modernized music and aside from what appear to be basic agreements with distributors for pay-per-episode next-day TV shows and some movies that they've had in place for a while, they haven't brought much to the table.
"Orbital time near the surface doesn’t depend on the size of the object. If two planets or moons, or even asteroids, have density similar to earth, it will take about 90 minutes to get around in low orbit. Size doesn’t matter! (Only density and distance from the surface.)"

Density doesn't matter either (at least for objects with a mass that is a negligible fraction of the Earth's, and even if that is not the case it would be mass that is the primary factor).
I'm using Duet too.

It's a little quirky - the most annoying bugs are unpredictable disconnections and occasionally screen freezes, this seems to happen mostly when my macbook locks and reopens. But these things don't happen regularly enough that it causes a major problem for me. It's a bit annoying but I can deal with it.

One thing to note for anyone considering it - it performs really well at displaying text. Things like tailing logs, or displaying docs. However, anything involving typing and using the mouse is a bit painful compared to your main screen because the lag can be tedious and uncomfortable for fast interactions. In addition, I keep the refresh rate at 30Hz when on battery to save power, which compounds this issue.
I don't think it's particularly hard to see the distinction between "do whatever you feel like, but someone will write down that you did" and "no, you can't do that. You'll do what we tell you to do".
Android TV devices act as Chromecast receivers, so you can do the same thing on Android TV, at least with media player apps. However, I don't think there's a built-in way of transitioning state for full-fledged Android apps. Samsung's apparently been experimenting with it [1], but it's still in beta, currently only works with a few Galaxy devices, and requires apps to integrate their SDK. I'm interested to see what Apple's approach looks like.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samsung.fl...
In fairness to Microsoft, they have been working on reducing the space Windows takes on the drive. IIRC, Windows 10 introduced some new features to combat this. Also, storage is expandable by its SD slot.
Especially since it's not that expensive a feature anymore. There's actually a $15 Pi-like ARM board called the Orange Pi PC that does 4k, because apparently ARM media SoCs with 4k support are that cheap that you can put one in a bargain-basement board that's not even aimed at media applications. Admittedly it's restricted to 30 FPS at 4k, but still, I'm sure Apple could do better if they wanted to.
I am confident that either of them would only pick on countries powerless enough not to cause us significant harm.
Ask HN: Build a product with no revenue?
Hey guys, currently I am prototyping an education app and have signed up every high school in our city with full support from the principal and select teachers. Interest seems amazing for something yet to be built, we are using proto.io to showcase how the app will work.

The only problem is that I can't figure out a way to monetize it. Schools don't have money, neither do teachers and students will never pay.

Should I continue to work on it when I have no clear way to make money? Granted the costs are minimal but it just doesn't seem like a great way to pitch investors later down the line with no monetization plan.
Shipments of Windows servers has been dominating for years - http://www.computerworld.com/article/2469469/network-softwar...
If you have 1% market share and you grow to 2%, you have doubled your market share. That's the angle that Cook used.

If the market leader has 90% market share and they grow to 95%, they have grown a lot less than you relatively (so the minor player can claim they have grown the most) but they now own a bigger piece of the pie than they used to.

This is why you should always be skeptical of anyone who uses relative numbers (growth) instead of absolute ones: the reality is probably that they have lost market share.

Which is what we have seen Apple do compared to Android these past three years.

You will notice that the early keynotes right after the iPhone and iPad came out were showing absolute numbers in shipments and dollars, and now, they just stick to percents and vague claims ("We're growing the fastest").
Yup. It was. And no USB either, also not usable with Windows, not usable without Firewire. It was utterly useless for 99% of people out there - Rob Malda was right, despite all the retconning. It took years and several hardware generations to actually fix all these problems...
If you really wanted to be objective, you could replace "Apple" in your comment with the name of just about any leading tech. company.
I've found another "invisible" consumer of space tends to be iMessage threads. If you exchange photos or videos and never clear out those threads it can consume your entire phones spare space pretty easily. The only way to extract the media is to save them one by one or use a 3rd party tool to do so.
Yeah, the "put your leftovers in the fridge" part is really impossibly difficult. Guess we all have to eat bland nutrient goo now.
The observation implies that public opinion should match law, that doesn't necessarily mean it's the latter that should change rather than the former.
And that is why HN is worth coming back to time and again. A perfect nugget of history in amoungst the mud and dirt of day to day tech.

Thank you - that's brilliant. And explains why such a few fire ships had such an effect - always wondered what the problem was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie#Lying_by_omission

>I don't think anyone in that room took it for anything else - they've all seen the Samsung and Microsoft tablets that inspired the Pro.

Perhaps that's true for a room of tech experts and media. As for the thousands of common consumers watching at home, they may not draw the same conclusions.
I think they simply worded that poorly. Apple could be growing at higher Y/y %, but still be loosing ground in terms of actual units being sold depending on overall market growth.

For example, below appears to be the report Cook used for his "+14% vs -0.4%" slide, which at best, is very misleading.

"In the worldwide mobile phone market (inclusive of smartphones), vendors shipped 464.6 million units, down -0.4% from the 466.3 million units shipped 2Q14.[1]"

Truth is, the smartphone market actually GREW by 11.6% (Q2 2014:302.1m => Q2 2015:337.2m).

1. http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS25804315
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That logic doesn't isn't really iron clad since people could also be buying the 16GB because it is the cheapest version of the shiny new iPhone they want. If you want to use iOS, you're either paying for the base 16GG or paying a lot of money for the higher storage tier, there isn't a cheaper option.
I agree with you in principal, but we're talking about a national park with 3M+ visitors a year. The public position has to be to leave artifacts where they are found.