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Thanks for replying in spite of the fact that the audience would have moved to other threads by now. I am totally with you in the claim that to deploy a solution one has to be fully cognizant of its optimization theoretic implications. What I meant by orthogonal is the the properties of the model does not care what algorithm was used to optimize provided you reach an unique optimizer. Here it is tricky to make the same claim because although convex in a set of variables, its not jointly convex.

Where I am not with you is in the hint that kernels have feature maps that are necessarily opaque. In fact inhomogeneous poly kernels ar great examples where the feature map is known in closed form. Although such a map is available it is not always efficient to use it. But what it lets you do is optimize the weights of each dimension on tje mapped feature space but executed in the native space. In fact, and I am greatly tickled by the coincidence, I had sent a mail to colleagues where I suggested a form where instead of the standard Euclidean dot product in the poly kernel is replaced by a convex combination of other favourite kernel of choice. The training algo remains almost the same. I was not aware of this piece of work but the mechanism is pretty much the same (little more general. Essentially replaces the std dot product that appear in the kernel expression by other kernel expressions. If you are thinking recursion now well that's intended) and can be pushed further.
It is not clear what question you are asking.
These aren't the styluses you are looking for...
Predicting now price of $1k or higher.

Also the press is absolutely going to hammer Apple for copying the Surface Pro (even down to the name.)

EDIT:

Ended up a bit high for the base price, $800. But add on any additional storage/LTE capability and you're at $1k. So I was damn close.
For navigating and general use on a 3.5" screen, he was dead on.

For drawing on a screen of any size, especially a 12" one, the stylus makes plenty of sense.
He was right for phones. You are quoting him out of context. Why?
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Why is "environmentally friendly" an aspect of design here? Maybe industrial design but certainly not a factor in digital design.
I don't understand the allure of a "pro" iPad. Wouldn't you just want a laptop then? The keyboard is (at least for me) the fastest accurate text input device ever invented. It's the main reason I type everything instead of write it by hand.
This quote

- The whole of Twitter right now

But, this is just an accessory. See also: beats headphones, smart case.

Unlike the comedy "smartphone" attempts of 2005 which Steve Jobs was alluding to, you may still freely use your fingers.
Yeah the force sensor is in the pencil, not in the screen.
Can we get a bot that regexps for Google in the article, makes sure Google's actual ads products (AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick) are not mentioned, and then posts this worthless comment so it can be ignored/downvoted into oblivion? Thanks.
It's interesting that you would think difficulty is somehow related to this. Unless what you're really asking is "why is it so difficult to give me whatever I want" in which case the answer is not anything you're likely to want to hear.
It's literally not a general purpose computer, you can't compile and execute code on it. DOS at least came with an assembler-debugger and a linker.
Predicted by a 3 year old comic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large
Are you seriously suggesting that anything more than a tiny fraction of Windows apps are any good on a touch device?
I'm hoping that was deliberate phrasing...because it would reflect the (correct, IMO) opinion that Apple's office suite isn't a replacement for MS Office, and that that opinion is agreed upon internally.

That said, it'd be fun to hear from a Apple employee...do they frequently use iWork for intraoffice documents?
Yeah, I lost track of it being a response to someone making the exact same point I made in a different subthread rather than a downstream response to the post where I made that point, and have edited my post appropriately.

The argument says "you can't argue" a point nobody argued for in the subthread it was responding to (or, AFAICT, anywhere else in the thread, or, for that matter, anywhere else ever.)
Why not insert another sediment filter stage in front that uses easily serviceable cartridges? Then leave the problematic one empty or in place with longer service intervals. Bonus points if you can find a suitable filter media and rebuild your own cartridges.
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Looks like the Surface Pro with type cover and Stylus. As long as the mobile OS and locked down ecosystem limits it, many will be better off buying the Surface.

Although the stylus too seems to be inferior - it has batteries. Both the Surface and Note ones don't - probably because Wacom? If that's the case this is classic NIH case - putting out inferior product just because they couldn't call it Apple Pencil.
Great. I love it when a company re-evaluates and introduces technology they previously said was a bad idea, but have reconsidered. More of this sort of thing!
Hence, it's not a stylus, but an actual active pencil-like device for drawing.

But yeah, lets not let the facts get in the way.
Does Rust do anything to prevent deadlocks?
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Now that's just bragging with the express purpose of making me envious. So how fast can you come to India :)
I think it's probably geography. I'm in Seattle FWIW. The number one hit is a movie from IMDB: "Chef (2014) - IMDb".

The SEO shouldn't actually be too tough because people are quite a bit more likely to link to Chef the company using the word "chef" than anything about cooking.

And hey, Google went with "Go" which is nearly impossible to SEO and it worked out.
That should not be an option - the device should (and IIRC is required to) be designed with a grounded housing, so if you do actually accidentally connect a live wire, then it would just blow a fuse by that short circuit.
Because those systems have no good touch enabled software.
No. No one wants to be required to use a stylus to successfully use a device. This is true, and remains so. What has become apparent is that there is a need -- especially for artists -- for a tool more fine-grained than a finger if you want to do more complicated tasks.
They are saying all this and not saying how much Ram it has.
Can I open a game on iOS and let it play? Say I want to idle in Clicker Heroes while I browse the net.

Can it do that? Without jail-breaking it?
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Yes, that is true. However, the fact that only my cloudflare domains experience this suggests either,

1. They are targeting domains specifically with cloudflare nameservers.

2. They are somehow obtaining a list of domains running on cloudflare.

Both these tasks are not hard to accomplish. And it is extremely irritating.
In a similar vein, there's Blendo Games' Quadrilateral Cowboy in development.
so this is an ad block advertising itself. feels contradictory.
Jim Blandy may work for Mozilla, but otherwise he has no connection to the Rust project (nor Servo). He has not been involved in any of the design discussions, and his only commits to the Rust repo are four minor documentation fixes.

I've assisted Jim in giving presentations on Rust at OSCON this year, and trust me when I say that he has no qualms about criticizing the language when he sees fit. His perspective is definitely that of an outsider's, and like you I agree that that's ideal from a pedagogical point of view.
$799 for 32GB model.
The old, grim joke was "a tactical nuke is one that explodes in Germany."

But yeah, small and designed to be delivered against enemy troop concentrations, as opposed to the larger strategic weapons that are designed to be used against enemy population centers and strategic weapons.
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You compare current features against previous features, not globally available features.

Many software platforms still aren't as good as Hypercard or even a damn Amiga from the 80s, but we pretend to have continual "advancements" anyway.
Off Shore Clouds storage debate
Off Shore Clouds - thoughts?

I'm curious what everyone is thinking regarding the debate over government access to cloud stored outside the US. I work in the industry, so I'll try to leave that specific bias out of this conversation. As an US citizen, I feel I'd prefer to have my "data" located in the US. I don't do a lot of world travel (outside of NA) so I could tolerate latency if I were abroad. The issue isn't consumer cloud data, but business cloud data and therefore the sales of cloud services to global companies. I would think security would come first, but I see this easily going down the path of the great firewall of China, where data can't leave physical borders. Thoughts?
So many submissions, so little discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9575107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9525456

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9189119

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9188863

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8818947

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8317497

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7673964

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7288590

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7257459

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7254131
I'm buying a Rift as soon as it is available for shipping. I experienced about 1.5 minutes of Dk1 and was sold.
+ the pencil @ $99 and the smart keyboard at $169. > $1k for the entry level model to be comparable with the Surface Pro 3 at ~$930 (which starts at 64GB, btw).
It's not just the windows - it's a host of details. I spent many hours staring at that original monochrome Macintosh interface, and the homage here is obvious.

- Single menu bar at the top of the screen
- System logo menu to the left of the application menus
- Clock on the right side of the menu bar
- Desktop icons arranged top to bottom on the right
- Trash icon in the bottom right
- Same medium grey dithered desktop background
- Same light grey dithered scroll bar fill
- Horizontal stripe pattern in the window title bar
- Centered window title text
- Identical window zoom icon placed in identical location
- Identical file browser window header and column arrangement

The system font is different (likely because it is smaller), the scroll arrows are different, and the Mac never had accelerator-key underlines in its menus, but it is very, very clear that the people designing this interface knew the classic Mac OS well and have purposefully based their design on it.
While this is certainly a well-intentioned idea it's problematic for several reasons (I'm not saying it's impossible but anyone trying address this issue should be aware about these problems):

There have been high-profile abuse cases with Airbnb already and Airbnb is a service mostly used by rather well-off people from developed nations with some sort of profile and identity record. Authorities are struggling already with ascertaining the nationality of many refugees, let alone their identity. The by far largest share of refugees certainly won't be coming to Europe for committing crimes but it's unavoidable that there'll be a fair share of strange people, criminals and terrorists, too. If you happen to unknowingly accommodate one of those who'll be liable for potential damages to your property? If the person commits a crime you're effectively hiding a criminal.

So, your good intentions good ultimately even might have you end up in person.

What I could imagine is requiring participants in such a service to at least have some sort of official documents before being allowed to apply. That doesn't really solve the underlying problem, however, which is that there currently is no sufficient infrastructure for registering and accommodating all those problem.
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Most of the input they've been showing is drawing and using the stylus. It might not be ideal for programming or writing, but this is going to be ideal for artists, photographers and anyone who wanted a 13" Cintiq.
If they do, they'll be being intellectually dishonest, given that 'Pro' has been part of Apple's naming scheme for a decade. 'Mac Pro', 'MacBook Pro', 'iPad Pro'.

Microsoft wasn't even making computers when Apple started using the name.
Author here, would be interested to hear people's take on the addition of illustrations (illustration is being generous, I know). Do you find them distracting or do they help break up the text?
I am not sure that toasting technology has gotten orders of magnitude "better". Energy in toast out.

I also don't think it was necessarily a conscious decision to make disposable toasters (or cell-phones or effectively computers), just that a market segment opened up and overtook others. We might blame consumers, but we can only blame them in aggregate for incenting a trend to continue by buying into it.
Yeah thanks. He also told Tim Cook not to make decisions based on what Tim thought Steve would have done. Which nobody on twitter seems to remember when they post this quote.
Ditto with not wanting to be tracked by "targeted advertising." It's like, the one thing the Snapchat CEO believes that I agree with - it's just plain creepy.
Wacom force sensors are also in the pencil, but they get their power through induction or something from the tablet.
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Replace drugs with machine and we already have such a thing. However the pleasure from drugs is stigmatized and prohibited, and the addiction to the pleasure machine is seen as life destroying.
Hmm ... call me stupid but ipad + keyboard << macbook . What is the point?
A lot of artists use Surface Pros.
I'm running a small agency with two friends and we're keeping mitro alive (and better: are fixing issues) here: https://passopolis.com/

Firefox and Chrome extensions are working, and I'm currently spending a few hours a week on migrating to the new Firefox-extension protocol.
Exactly. Google's game for the last half decade or so has been setting up an OS-agnostic ecosystem. That's why they have (almost) their full suite of apps on iOS too, even though they have the Android platform.
This is my thought as well-- but the iPad isn't for us, it's for grandmas and quasi-luddites. The marketing and feature set reflects this.
Do you draw with your keyboard too? Retouch photos with your keyboard? Your laptop comes with 5million pixels?
I happily pay more for well designed products that do less instead of crap products that do everything.
"Small" does not signify scope and purpose the way "tactical" does in this context.
This is Apple definitely responding to high-end pressure from increasingly successful Surfaces in the same way the iPad mini was a response to pressure from the low-end by small Android tablets.

This is basically Apple saying "let's make a Surface with a bigger screen and do it the Apple way".

It's weird seeing Microsoft participate in it.

Other than size, there's not much that Android tablets need to respond to, there's already been large high-end Android tablets with great pen input (no angle detection, but they're all Watcom class).

What I think was most interesting here was the incessant pitch that this is a productivity device not a media consumption device.

For the full experience you're looking at:

$800 for the pad

$100 for the pencil

$170 for the keyboardcase

And we're in low-end laptop territory without necessarily cannibalizing their laptop business, but it fires shots across the bow of also increasingly popular Chromebooks which are around this price point.

Edit: for people confused, I meant a low-end Apple laptop not a Windows machine, which are much cheaper. This is priced to barely overlap with the bottom-end. The pricing ensures the two segments are partitioned.
Indeed, CloudFlare will happily run an HTTPS front-end proxy to an origin which is using a self-signed certificate, or even to a HTTP origin. Thought that site was secure? Think again!
>As long as you're not making unauthorized copies of it, you can lend it out or do whatever else you like with it.

How does this work with files? How do I distribute a file without also copying it?

If I cut->paste instead of copy->paste the file for a friend, am I distributing my original file? What happens if I give my friend my music library and decide to buy myself new music?

I'm allowed to make copies of my music for personal use (otherwise good luck getting that MP3 on your computer to play on your mobile device). I make a copy and give the original to a friend. My friend then makes a copy of the original and gives the original to their friend. The copies made are authorized and we're lending out the original.

It doesn't work once you leave physical constraints on scarcity and existence.
I think they are nice. I think you made the basic ideas behind Lisp accessible and fun. Good job!
I like the illustrations, but I love Land of Lisp which is filled with them so... I think I'm already predisposed toward illustrations in text.
"if you see a stylus, they blew it."

- Steve Jobs, after the 2010 iPad introduction.
This is flatly false. There are numerous programming environments available on iOS, and it has the JavaScript environment with the most advanced available JIT built in.
You've identified one of the key defects in capitalism today...the disconnect of a "true" market where value is measured by folk's willingness to pay for things.
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Both are easily available without stealing - books (videos, ebooks) from libraries and food from food banks. Heck the files that are shared are usually very cheap - why not just rent/buy them?

Some will make the argument that things that are easy to duplicate are OK to steal. If I wrote a book, I can assure you it would not have a low production cost however easy it was to duplicate/steal/"share".

What is really at work here is that people have become accustom to stealing easy to duplicate works and now they will use all kinds of mental gymnastics to convince themselves that they aren't actually thieves.
Is Sniping a Problem for Online Auction Markets? [pdf]
Very good post but ewwwww to the way you have to implement it in Javascript.

Still, seems very accessible and useful to people who don't feel like going through the trouble of learning/building a "real" lisp but will read a blog post.
How many of iPad users even know what "compile" means?
Why not forget that world does not spin around developers once in a while?
see you later surface
This is an existing stylus product that works with the iPad called Pencil.
> will read and clear codes for you at no charge.

In many states they won't clear codes. Even for trivial faults that aren't safety issues.
exactly (that's why they are called 'active digitizer')
Keyless SSL only prevents CloudFlare from having access to SSL key material. They can still read and modify any traffic that passes through them.
You can use XCode on any Mac and compile and upload apps to your iPad just fine. No need for a $99 developer account anymore too.

There are plenty of programming apps in the app store too if you just want like a Python, Javascript, etc. shell to mess around in too.
This is not a valid Show HN until you have something for people to try out. People can't try out an email signup, which is why email signups are explicitly excluded by the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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For anyone that doesn't know this, you can connect USB keyboard to the iPad Camera Connection kit. It works with most keyboards, including mechanical ones.
It seems more comparable to the Surface 3 ($499) than Surface Pro 3. The "Pro" moniker doesn't buy you a laptop replacement with Apple like it does with Microsoft.
I have to second this 180 page book "A tour of C++". A best book out there to get an overview of the C++ land. There are so many bad books out there on C++; there is a guy in Israel, who maintains a list of bad books on C/C++.
This looks very nice, but I would need browser extensions and mobile apps to go along with it.

1Password is honestly the one app that has kept me from switching to Linux from OSX. Would love to see a decent open source alternative.
Ask HN: Safe to store pgp encrypted keys publicly on GitHub?
His first startup didn't really get anywhere, he was living at his parents house for the most of it. He dropped out of university for it.

His second startup got somewhere.

His third one became Uber.

Still for the first decade for his working life, he was less wealthy than the typical software engineer. He had the advantage of having his parents house to live at and a middle class upbringing, but millions of kids have that in the USA today.

Also a 3 bedroom house was probably way more affordable when he purchased it. In the SFBA the unaffordability really only started several years ago, not counting the general real estate bubble.
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>Also the press is absolutely going to hammer Apple for copying the Surface Pro

The press only give the writers' equivalent of blowjobs to apple. It has been that way for a decade.
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Induction basically.
He was talking about the iPad at the time. Further his statement was the existence of a stylus, not the necessity of it.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/jobs-if-you-see-a-stylus-...

He specifically refers to the iPad in the actual quote. Anyone claiming otherwise is simply wrong or a revisionist, though such sorts seep out of the woodwork whenever Apple cedes prior claims, rephrasing and adding unspoken criteria to somehow make it prescient and relevant, seen throughout this discussion.
I've got two kids, 2 years old and 5 months. Juggling is always tough. What do you guys do to balance demands at work and home?
> "this is going to be ideal for artists, photographers and anyone who wanted a 13" Cintiq"

No, a 13" Cintiq is perfect for artists, & photographers who need a 13" Cintiq.

This is perfect for anyone who has no idea what they're doing.
> "programming in Rust"

* what kind of animal should it have on the front?

* will it tell me 8 different, confusing, obsfucated ways to do something that would be much faster with printf?

* will it do that in chapter 1?

* ???

* profit?
Not excited at all. Mobile OSes are crippled by design, especially iOS, so why would I spend this much when I can just get a real computer with a very similar form factor? Mobile OSes are fundamentally designed for quick, limited interaction use cases like ordering an Uber car or checking a web site, not for "real work."

I'm sure someone will buy it, but I don't predict it'll be very big.
iWork is strongly encouraged, but they'll equip you with Microsoft Office if it's essential for your job.

At least in my department, there was one piece of software you could never use: Powerpoint. You MUST use Keynote for any internal presentation. If you even say the word "Powerpoint" around the wrong person, you'll get some nasty looks.
Sort of ignorant and at least a little tangential here, but the notion of 'licensing' an instruction set seems a lot like licensing an API (cf the Java API copyright controversy) - are there parallels/precedents here or is it an unrelated issue?
As it is a mobile OS (iOS) rather than a desktop OS (e.g., OSX), it seems more comparable to the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro 12.2 (Android) than the Surface Pro 3 (desktop Windows 8.1/10).
http://hijinksensue.com/comic/surface-tension/
I think it's pretty good. The grid is rather irregular so it looks a bit disjointed, but I think that's the intended effect.

Reminds me of a magazine layout.
no USB port to be able to easily copy files to/from seems a bit detrimental to pro usage, as well as no way to connect an external display for presentations.

This said there are plenty of use cases for a larger ipad with a stylus, I am sure it will be a very successful product.