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Current iPad sizes:

- iPad Pro 12.9"

- iPad Pro 9.7"

- iPad 9.7"

- iPad Mini 4 8" (edit: thanks pdpi/trymas)

It really should just be iPad (9.7) or iPad Pro (12.9) should it not? Now the customer has to decide between two 9.7 models with not so obvious differences between the two? And now there are two (edit: three) different iPad pages on the sales website you have to go through.

This changes the immediate conversation visiting the site for the first time between why I should get the iPad... to what's the difference and available options AND why should I get an iPad?

The Macbook vs Macbook Pro distinction was more obvious because it was basically casual/school vs work. But I don't really see tablets having that work vs casual dichotomy. It's more high-end vs affordable. Which from a mental categorization perspective doesn't fit neatly into the current product line.
What's the difference between the "bs regulations" like the "taxi union" and other regulations like tax? I'm not saying one is better than the other, but it's hard to appeal to the idea of "BS regulations" without admitting the possibility that VAT is BS.
Not really. I was expecting you to be somewhat right since it's such a high profile thing and come on, Bono runs it, but their financials are pretty nice.

https://www.one.org/international/about/financials/
I've never finished reading more than a page in a moving car without feeling nauseous.
Skeptics, Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
Aren't style guides supposed to help write code that is more standard in style, and hence easier to read - because your brain will become accustomed to that style.

And PEPs cover many things.
It's not so easy on Windows side either. If you are really after a powerful machine that is convenient to carry with you (that means quad-core, 32GB), the choices are quite limited.

These the Dell stuff of course, but for example on Lenovo you would need to go with P50 or T470p. The latter is just a refresh of an old model and lacks for example USB-C and also the PCIe NVMe is only 2x. Kind of acceptable for now, but not so future proof. Also the displays are not really on par with Apple. To get a nice display you would go for X1, but there you are stuck with dual core and 16GB. Then we you start looking at the laptops in detail, you find out things like thermal throttling under load, displays getting dimmer and CPUs slower when running on battery etc. There's much more to the laptops than just the CPU and max memory capacity. Also lets not forget that Lenovo announced the new lineup already last year and still they are not shipping all the promised features. That's like over 3 months between promise and delivery.
I taped my now updateless and painfully slow iPad 3 to my kitchen wall facing the counter. It's got a web browser for recipes, can play YouTube, and can play music via Bluetooth to my stereo.

It's pretty great for that use. I regret not having thought of it before.
It's one of the elements found in the minerals breadite, crackerite, and hardtackum.
I'm the author of METAQ. I wasn't contacted for this story, but feel free to ask me anything of interest!
IP's the more specific case here. The company both owns and is responsible for anything an employee does during the course of their employment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_of_employment
France has GPON with the ability to pick your provider.

The problem is with AON is that each provider is installing their own more expensive head-end equipment.
New Technology Combines Lip Motion and Passwords to Authenticate Users
At all the companies I've run I always allow engineers to work on personal projects on personal time and have never cared if they did it on their work laptop. The only time I can see a hands off IP agreement being an issue and is when the project is commercial, in the same space as our product and is cannibalizing the company's user base which it seems Github has allowed in it's IP agreement. I've never tried to get a lawyer to work similar language into an IP agreement so I've just eschewed them entirely. Looks like we may have to get one if we decide to go after funding. Does anyone think sensible terms like ones used by Github will suffice for VCs or do they all want the draconian "all your thoughts are belong to us" IP agreement I've seen commonly thrown around?

Hopefully articles and practices like these will continue to become more commonplace and influence the current VC dogma.
> Employment is dead, contract is the way of the future.

I am pretty happy with my employment. Paid vacation, paid sick days, reasonable hours and all that good stuff.
“It’s time for Act II: WINNING!” read the subject line of Peluos’s blog post

Nothing says "high-quality leadership role-model" like Charlie Sheen.
> "I completely got away with it"

No, because you didn't do anything wrong.

Border crossing is not a crime, last I checked, despite the best efforts of some to make it feel that way.
> However different legal doctrines say, if they find more in the normal course of events, they are now admissible and can be used to create new charges.

Sure, but that's not the case here. They apparently already know he possesses a certain number of such photos, and now are now trying to compel him to incriminate himself further.
Plus the iPad Mini 7.9".

As a 9.7 Pro owner, the differences between the 9.7 Pro and the regular iPad are quite important. I just wish they made the comparison easier, though.
Not expensive considering the better quality of the educational and fun apps and content available on the platform.

I'm a firm believer in the value of gaming and learning... it's a priority.

That aside, as an adult I'm still using my iPad every day.
Which AI and chatbot events will you attend in 2017?
> Finding nothing can often be just as important as finding something unexpected.

From a scientific point you are right. From a political point or the point of securing further funding this statement is (unluckily) wrong.
Busy vs. Productive
It seems like the law is kind of ambiguous on this (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#United_States_v._Joh...), unless my interpretation is completely flawed. I wonder if this will have to go to the Supreme Court at some point.
True -but is present there as a thing for men to aspire to, or recorded as a historical fact?
Here's the thing about leaving Japan: it's always way more dangerous than staying in Japan. US homicide rate is like 10x higher. I'd bet your "upstanding" friends have layers of reservations about visiting.
Is it? Wouldn't it be better if they paid their taxes?
http://www.apple.com/ipad-mini-4/

ipad mini still exists
> But in this case Serverless Framework is not broken... it is very very good.

Just as a caveat, though, they've had a lot of breaking changes in the last few releases. Each release, it does feel broken for a while.
Employment is lower risk. It's tougher to fire employees than contractors, so there's lower firing risk for employees. It also reduces your work overhead for stuff that HR can take care of for you (health insurance, life insurance, etc). As well as sick days.

And at some places, this lets you focus on larger problems that you'd never get solved working from contract to contract.
Yeah, "default" is a hard word to understand.
This. So Much. There needs to be a rationalization initiative at Apple to streamline things. If you want to command high end profits, you cant release commodity grade products. Is there even anything new here with this ipad?
That's very interesting. Do you use it for ideas exclusively, or "personal logging"/journaling too?. I've found a program called Connected Text[0], which bills itself as a "personal wiki", and. I'm also looking at refining my use of OneNote Desktop which I've been using for years, and it has a [[link]] feature.

[0] http://www.connectedtext.com/
So terrible... what would you do, not allow children to have fun?
Thanks, I missed that "first generation" detail.
There is law review paper[0] about this song.

> And I know my rights, so you go’n need a warrant for that . . . If this Essay serves no other purpose, I hope it serves to debunk, for any readers who persist in believing it, the myth that locking your trunk will keep the cops from searching it. Based on the number of my students who arrived at law school believing that if you lock your trunk and glove compartment, the police will need a warrant to search them, I surmise that it’s even more widespread among the lay public. But it’s completely, 100% wrong.

Caleb Mason, "JAY-Z’S 99 PROBLEMS, VERSE 2: A CLOSE READING WITH FOURTH AMENDMENT GUIDANCE FOR COPS AND PERPS", http://web.archive.org/web/20130216120816/http://slu.edu/Doc...
Or, conversely, that maybe "taxi union" regulations are not BS.

Either way, arbitrarily ignoring laws is not how one should run business in a civilized society.
"Many people assume that if you have a lot of money, you must be a good person."

That sounds like one of those things that people assume everybody else must think, but nobody actually thinks.
The loss of lamination is a regression, but the other features were only present on the Pro model.
> So, they have taken a group of homosexuals, without any history of leadership, and asked a group to rate how they would do as CEO based on voice only. The group answered based on sound alone that those individuals were not CEO material.

Forgive me for asking this, but the article is currently unavailable due to 503.

Did they describe at all the group who did the rating and choosing?

I would think that if the goal was to identify whether or not homosexuals are barred from senior corporate leadership positions, they'd want to test groups of people who actually evaluate people for suitability in senior corporate leadership positions. As opposed to average people who only know CEOs from television, and thus could only evaluate whether someone fits the Hollywood stereotype of what a CEO is.
Since QCD can't be calculated perturbatively at low energy, there are unsolved problems with how to get those predictions in the first place.
i'm just hoping for a revolutionary new way to develop.
Such offers must be refused. I know it's easier said than done when you have your back against the wall.

But turning down such people in favor of those who respect your IP is always the better investment down the line.
"For example, when shown only the eye region ("without brows and cropped to the outer canthi so that not even "crow's-feet" were visible"), perceivers were amazingly still able to accurately identify a man as being gay"

That's pretty mental.
Like in the demo, as long as you don't hijack native scrolling and just use it to do smooth jumps to anchors then it's fine. This library is a nice tool for anyone who doesn't want jQuery bloat on their site, but like animated transitions. Of course, there are plenty of designers who think it's a good idea to hijack scrolling...
Great Video! Minor nitpick (And he did mention that he wasn't counting things like workstations and servers), but the history of Key locks on desktop size computers was not a novel idea in 1984.

At my university there's a busted Data General Nova (1969) front panel with the lock cut out gathering dust in a cardboard box. I wouldn't be surprised if even earlier computers had locks, although most probably weren't desktop size like the Nova.
Ask HN: Keyboard heavy-users: What keyboard/pointer setup are you happy with?
Due to pain from using the mouse I have moved over to use the keyboard as much as possible (trying to use the terminal as much as possible, with tmux and vim, the vimium extension for vim-like shortcuts in the browser etc).

This has really helped, but I have also realized that this puts higher requirement on the ergonomics of the keyboard: I get a growing pain in my wrists if I don't use some kind of split keyboard layout.

Now, I haven't yet found a good enough combination of keyboard and input device. I'm really happy with the logitech k400 in terms of touchpad and the compact keyboard layout, but, it's not splittable.

Tried the "Oyster" splittable keyboard, with a HP touchpad at work the recent weeks, but both the keyboard and touchpad are simply not good enough.

So, a questions for all heavy keyboard users: What is an ergonomic setup that you've been happy with?
It doesn't appear to have it, which is a shame. That would of been a killer feature on a tablet this size for a lot of people.
I agree--this is excellent and very tech-talent-friendly. As an example on the other side of the spectrum: I work for a very large Silicon Valley company that is well known (you've heard of them) for secrecy and obsessively guarding its IP. Here we can't[1] work on Open Source, work on potential start-up ideas, moonlight writing software for some extra cash, publish (either academically or releasing software online, app stores or web), or really do anything substantial regarding software outside of work. On personal time, weekends, on our own equipment, doesn't matter. It's a serious drawback, to the point where I've been actively looking around. I'm certain this will have an extremely positive effect on GitHub's attractiveness as an employer.

1: Technically, the policy is "ask your manager" but everyone knows what the answer is.
Chapter 5 of SICP actually goes into the details of how to implement a register machine to execute Scheme, including a simulator, assembler and compiler.
Consider doing an animation like the Sublime Text website: https://www.sublimetext.com/

Would make the homepage more engaging and demonstrate value quicker.
My mum noticed that if she sets her kindle to 2 or so sizes larger text, she doesn't get motion sick any more.
He was referencing this statement from the GP: "Looped around a waist and​ the same person can get up to about 1.0-1.5x with cleats on turf." Point is, if tug-of-war players have been known to lose hands because the rope was wrapped around them, do you really want to see what happens when you wrap it around your waist? Maybe it's safer because your body is much thicker than your wrist, but is that really an experiment you want to run?
There's similar program: Nimble Commander, I use it for a long time and I like it.
Amazon pay VAT in the UK or they need to pick their battles better?
The theory uncertainties are large. Any measurements within a broad range would also agree with some calculated masses. That doesn't tell you much.

See e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4806
Ok. Now imagine you are getting twice as much after taxes for the same work but without benefits. Would you still be as happy? Hell, even 50% more. And you are spreading the work across multiple clients so any one client 'firing' you is suddenly not a huge thing since your income is distributed across multiple clients. Sure, you don't get paid benefits, but you get higher income and the ability to work for multiple clients. Not every person can do that and even among those that can, not every one has the motivation to do it.
It sure feels like Apple is getting desperate. Not sure what's going on. I know this is a single data point but just a few days we went to our local Apple store. It wasn't quite empty but it was nowhere near as busy as it was, say, a year ago. No buzz.

At my personal level, we have not updated our iPads and iPods for a number of years. Don't plan to.

I still have a 4S. I have disliked everything Apple has done since then and so did not upgrade. The device is getting slow over time. This, by itself, is enough to bother me. It used to work fine. Software updates have made it sluggish. This is wrong. I know I will have to upgrade at one point yet I am not looking forward to upgrading to another iPhone. Apple probably has one shot at convincing people like me with iPhone 8. Hint: I am sick and tired of "thinner". I could not care less. "Thinner" ceased to be a benefit a very long time ago. They need to solve real problems. Beyond that, you can only say "beautiful" so many times before it becomes a joke. Beautiful, beyond a basic aesthetic, isn't a solution to any real problem. At least none I have.

Past that, we have pulled our last app from the app store. Actually, Apple required an upgrade and I decided not to invest the time and money to do it. Why? Because the app store is useless unless you get lucky, throw money at it or both.

App discoverability is impossible. The other thing that is also impossible is to create relationships with your users. Business is about relationships and this walled garden prevents you from creating such relationships. In a way I equate this to groups on Facebook. FB has made it so that you have to pay to reach an audience you worked hard to create. You can have a million person group and only reach a couple thousand or less people per post. If you want to reach more you have to pay. In other words, you don't "own" your audience the same way you would through an opt-in email list.

And so, it is goodbye to the App store, it isn't worth our time, money and effort.

All of the above leads me to conclude that the Apple era is in jeopardy if they can't come up with enough of a pivot to provide value and get people exited again.
The change on strategy with no simulated ball between predicted trajectory and target catching point is pretty interesting, although it would also have been interesting to have an speed estimate on target catching to assert how fast the ball is approaching you, either an ETA or a color change?
Ask HN: Have you developed a site on Shopify?
I generally make static sites for clients (small businesses), and have a potential client who wants me to build an ecommerce site on Shopify.

I wanted to know if any of you have experience using Shopify to develop an ecommerce site before agreeing. I'm well versed in HTML/CSS/JS and various frameworks so really looking to see if anyone here experienced issues while trying to use Shopify's platform.

I'm not a fan of Wordpress or Squarespace's development platform (I've learned my lesson there) so would like to avoid any potential headaches that would arise on Shopify. Any input or advice is much appreciated
The tracking on the HTC vive is good enough to do juggling. I can comfortably throw and catch a controller while wearing the headset. I'm fairly sure I could juggle them if I had 3.
It worked out ever so well for Yahoo when Mayer did it so surely it'll work for IBM who has two orders of magnitude more employees...actually, perhaps the end goal is voluntary resignations?
The company prior to my last had 50,000 employees. We were still able to design and implement a solution for a core aspect of the division. I had to push in the direction of Python + Redis, but when people saw the results, the higher-ups listened to our team.

I think you're right that if a system is massive, there won't be many major changes to it. But that's true regardless of who has authority. It's always possible to solve smaller business problems with self-contained projects that can then be integrated into the larger system. But not if an environment is set up to prevent someone from doing this by forcing them to work within the constraints of the existing monolith.

(It's possible to do this without creating a microservice, in some cases. The important part is simply to be allowed to experiment with alternate solutions, as long as it's not interfering with your main duties.)
I always thought that was the iDevice's strength. With Android, you have nothing actually made by Google but by OEMs, with different names and branding that don't give any real information.

Which phone is "the android"? My mom doesn't think she has an android phone, she thinks she has an LG and that Android is a different thing. People buy a low end Android phone and hate the entire ecosystem because the phone performs like crap. I have a friend who thinks the Galaxy S7 would be a crappy upgrade because they already have a "Galaxy Core Prime".

When there was just the iPhone, it was really easy. It was expensive compared to other options, but you knew it was the best iPhone, and the one with a higher number was better than one with a lower number. Yet an LG G5 is better than a Samsung Galaxy S6, they are somehow both "Android", and Marshmallow is better than Jelly Bean.

Now the iPhone isn't that bad, but it's not simple anymore. iPhone 7, iPhone 7Plus, iPhone 7S, iPhone 7S Plus, iPhone SE. Which is better?
> What they really mean is that if someone thinks you're gay or lesbian then you're likely to suffer from homophobic discrimination.

Discrimination is always based on characteristics as percieved by the one doing the discrimination.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/compare/

I think that's pretty good comparison.

Reminds me of iPhone SE - make a product from older tech, where all manufacturing is cheap and smooth as ever and sell it as cheapest option (I imagine with still veeery big markup).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria
The problem has to do with precedent. If the prosecutors give up on this issue, then future defendants can cite this case in their defense.
To both of your who replied, yes, there are various other attacks, but that's a different issue that what I was replying to.

And, still, at bulk these things aren't feasible, or even necessary. You're not taking your cynicism far enough. Why does the government need to sorta kinda hope that you might maybe take a flight with your gear someday when they're already capturing all your email and web browsing anyhow? It's a ridiculous theory that you're only entertaining because our trust has decayed to the point that the mere fact that something is an accusation against our government is all but proof that it must be true, no matter how silly it is.

No, the government is not going to set out to physically attack every laptop passing through an airport, because what would that give them that they don't already have, except huge operational costs and risk of detection?
Oh sorry. Amazon pays VAT in the UK. Will fix comment.
I'm not a lawyer so this isn't legal advice but that's very interesting about English law, because in the USA employees have the "in the course of employment" as you state but USA independent contractors retain copyright unless they assign it as part of their contract, so about 99% of contracts have a clause to assign ownership and copyright to the client. Also in the USA putting language like "employment" in a contract is like asking the IRS to please audit you for faking a 1099 relationship while being in a W-2 relationship, which might also be a USA thing. I can imagine a tax system could be created where the local equivalent of W2 vs 1099 has no financial impact on the government (perhaps via most funding being from VAT?) therefore the local equivalent of the IRS simply wouldn't care if you LARP as a contractor or employee while actually being the other.

Is that just in England or is that the norm in the whole UK or even former commonwealth like Canada? I've never had a Canadian client so I donno. I would imagine simple rule changes like that would have interesting effects on the whole employee vs contractor relationship.
I have a performance-critical Python program that I started running in pypy for an extra speedup. It was trivial: I downloaded the package, untarred it, and then ran my program with ~/Downloads/pypy-whateverversion/bin/pypy ./myprogram.py and it worked. Fancier stuff may require more effort, but the basics are really simple.
Disclosure: I'm a developer at IBM, but not speaking in official capacity. The comment here is completely personal.

I went through this article and it seems like a lot of FUD. The line to note is:

> Though not every department at IBM will be asked to colocate, many will.

So yes, some departments have been "asked" to colocate. However, AFAIK nobody is being "forced". My team lead was asked to colocate but decided to stay where they are because of personal reasons (family).

Speaking generally, I've had incredibly flexible hours, more so than at any other place I've worked so far (and I have worked at some of the "hip" places).

Anyways, the headline itself seems truly sensationalist.
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