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you can orbit a server without too much trouble. Then you still need to power it up and get it to a spot where you can route packets to it, which if you only orbit one server and have one groundstation means geo-synchronous orbit. That isn't cheap, and those that fly satellites into orbits like that typically are very much in bed with the very nation states that tpb is trying to get around.

And then, when you have finally cleared all those hurdles you'll realize that you can be just as easily blocked as though you had plugged that server into the nearest outlet at the groundstation.
This is what you're calling Ice Cream Sandwich?
Revenue in the current quarter should be less than last quarter, but YOY growth is still insane. iPad 3 launch seems to have gone well, which will help the next quarter.

It's reasonable to at least project the same growth for future quarters, year on year, as Apple got in their Q1 (which includes christmas, iPhone 4S launch, death of Steve Jobs, ...).

This year should have a rev of most of the Mac line (hopefully Pro if they don't kill it, too, although it doesn't move the needle on revenue), iPad 3 selling an absurd number of units, and an iPhone 5. The big innovation I've seen with Apple in the past couple product cycles is keeping their older iOS products on sale at a reduced price point, so now you get to choose iPad 2 or iPhone 3GS/4 on price vs. any competitor (and still better), or iPad 3/iPhone 4S as absurdly better at about price parity. Makes more sense than trying to create low end and high end products simultaneously.
> why not close the account and move to a less desperate bank?

FTFY.
As this is being announced prior to the market open on a Monday you can be sure this is good news (at least to investors and Wall Street) and the stock will go up. Bad news is released after the markets close on a Friday.
What do they mean by 'modern radio transmitters'? Are they planning to use open Wi-Fis or LTE networks or use something else that I'm not aware of? Is there some off-the-self tech available for this kind of thing?
This same article came to my mind after I first heard about the TAL retraction of Daisey's Apple piece. I only learned about Gladwell's dramatic embellishments long after first hearing him tell the tale on The Moth as I was Googling for the phrase ("perverse and often baffling") that he recounts competing with his Washington Post colleague to insert into newspaper stories.

The Moth is a storytelling show and it's a great rather harmless story, though I was sorry to learn that it was largely fabricated. I think Daisey has a credible defense of his stage show when he claims that he shaped facts to enhance its dramatic impact and emotional truth. But that was why I turned it off when I heard it on TAL. The first-person storytelling format didn't seem appropriate to the subject matter and I had no doubt that Daisey was crafting and overdramatizing the truth for his performance. Given the suffering of some of the factory workers he represents in his piece, the format and his righteous tone rubbed me the wrong way: was he indignant about what happened to these workers or was he indignant because it plays well theatrically?

The TAL Retraction show made it clear that Glass and TAL were explicit with Daisey in informing him that, prior to going on the air, his TAL piece had to meet a journalistic standard of accuracy. He deliberately subverted that standard and it was painful listening to him cling to his denials and rationalizations during the Retraction piece.
> I lay my thumb on the bottom of the trackpad and hold it down

That's an awesome tip. I didn't know that the Apple trackpads would do that. They're less reliable if you just try to throw a second finger into the mix, which seems to generally lose the drag and turn it into a secondary click scenario. The bottom of the pad seems to be special-cased to avoid this.
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> Jobs aren't obsolete. There are plenty of jobs. Part time, low wage, no benefits jobs.

The 600,000 the article mentioned were mostly of this type, I presume (not the part time maybe, but the other two).

E.g. Secretarial/bureaucracy type jobs which rarely pay more then $15/hour, and usually ~$10/hour, are quickly being replaced with computers.

> Careers? Full time, living wage that can support a family, full benefits packages? Those are becoming obsolete, and fast.

I wouldn't say obsolete. I doubt they're growing at the same rate of the population, but there are still many fields where building a career is a reasonable venture.
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How about doing what radio pirates did, and having a station in international waters?

You are still bound by whatever law your vessel is registered under, but many of them just don't care. If you (probably illegally) could send out an autonomous unregistered vessel, it would be really hard to take out.

An armada of solar powered autonomous buoys ... that would also be kind of cool.
It's taken as a sign that the company doesn't have anything more productive to do with the cash than buy back its own stock. This could be a positive or a negative.

If Apple had $5b in cash and decided to buy back stock, that would be a bit bearish -- they certainly can continue to make incremental cash investments (in supplier agreements, new products, etc.). $100b (which is actually probably $110-120b now, a month later) is way beyond that. Getting $50b returned to shareholders wouldn't be a sign of lack of investment options for Apple.
pieces on the ground? Care to give an example of this?
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Do you have to compile because it's ARM?
Windows 8 is not an over-the-air type of automatic update. It's something a user decides to go to buy and install. This is the type of thing where you _do_ want it to look at least a little different, otherwise the user will have the feeling they paid for "nothing".

That's undoubtable one of the reasons that the Snow Leopard price was so low ($29 vs $129), even though I assume it was on the same order in terms of engineering effort.
This all seems a little silly. How does it connect to the Internet? Keep in mind the main point is to obscure where it's proxying to.
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I'm bilingual too. I found this abstract interesting:

"bilinguals typically have lower formal language proficiency than monolinguals do; for example, they have smaller vocabularies and weaker access to lexical items. The benefits, however, are that bilinguals exhibit enhanced executive control in nonverbal tasks requiring conflict resolution, such as the Stroop and Simon tasks. These patterns and their consequences are illustrated and discussed. We also propose some suggestions regarding underlying mechanisms for these effects. "

http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/19/1/19.short
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Once in a while you just have to give someone credit.
I once made pictures in the Computer museum in Berlin of the Zuse first computers. http://thenextcorner.com/2008/01/zuse-computer-tentoonstelli...
Sorry, site is in Dutch!
does it necessarily need to be different?
I wonder if pirates are the new innovators that porn were/are on the web.
They are going to buy out foxconn. :P Well maybe not.

Then again foxconn is supposed to add 1 million assembly robots.

Maybe they will buy out their factories.
I didn't know about QT Creator, it looks really good for application development. A lot of people are using Ubuntu for their desktop, including me and my friends. But, Ubuntu's landing page doesn't have a tab called "develop" for leading users to develop applications for ubuntu. So, My impression is linux is a great OS with libraries and frameworks necessary for system development. But, it didn't had the tools to build applications. But, apparently it does. Linux distributions should encourage users to write applications. The best way to do this would be having the information right on their landing page.
To be honest, of the two comparison imaged displayed, the Samsung one seems a lot more informative, legible and quickly accessible, therefore useful.

Though it is not possible to tell that much from the comparison since the screens seem to have different features.

Also, perhaps Samsung are working on a revolutionary revamped skin too, that integrates Ice Cream more closely with their offering model.
There are ITU treaties and maritime laws which have changed since the pirate radio period of the 1960s, mainly to eliminate that possibility (mostly as a secondary consequence of trying to prevent platforms for territorial claims for oil/gas/mining at sea being used to exploit resources far from shore.)

I actually don't know what the rules would be for an autonomous sea robot (which wasn't transmitting, and which wasn't a hazard to navigation), like those ocean monitoring glider things. It might still have to be registered as a ship with a flag, but I don't know if there would be liability (other than seizure of the robot) for the operators otherwise.
How is this Hacker News? This isn't even a thinly veiled advertisement ...
Interesting.. Why not have a single element who's text is updated rather than using multiple elements?
You need an event-driven system because the number of "tasks" rarely matches the number of physical cores available. One tried and true, fault-tolerant event-driven interface is provided by the kernel: processes (and threads). It has interfaces for binding to NUMA regions and such.

Any system you design will have to tackle a lot of the hard problems that kernels deal with. Now maybe you have a simpler system in mind, but it has to be drastically better for anyone to consider giving up binary compatibility.
Ask HN: How do you learn math and physics?
Honestly, this stuff is hard for me, so I'm wondering what HNs' experiences are? What learning/study tools are most useful? How do you train yourself to "think" in mathematical terms?

My story, FWIW: I was the kid in high school that didn't pay attention in math class and just figured out the problems during the test. Instead of math and science classes, I took art classes and read philosophy books.

In college (2nd year) I'm majoring in philosophy. Knowing the history and philosophy of mathematics and physics has sparked a renewed interest, and I'm now taking a college physics course (algebra-based, not calculus. I basically failed calc last year, probably due to my high school slacking).

Sidenote: How can math/physics professors throw out terms like Euclidean geometry and Pythagorean theorem and Cartesian grid and not mention anything about their other contributions? I'll never understand how they can gloss over stuff like that...
The goal was to use low-cost commercial radio equipment to connect users on Oahu and the other Hawaiian islands with a central time-sharing computer on the main Oahu campus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet

It worked out pretty well, 3G mobile phones use a variant of the communication protocol.
That's not ad hominem, it's just an insult. But you are right that he's attacking an argument that nobody made.
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> Yes! Charles Moore has been essentially living this since the 1970's. No many have his level of courage though.

I'm an unbounded admirer of Charles Moore. But courageous? He's a software solipsist. His approach is certainly bold but I doubt he sees himself as courageous.
Typo on the front page: "intension" should be "intention". You don't want to confuse all those philosophy majors out there :)

I'm looking at your screenshot [1] right now, and one question comes to mind: How are users going to organize their bookmarks on Nilai? The drop-down design shown in the screenshot reminds me of Gmail's labels, which will turn into a mess once you go beyond a certain number of tags/categories. Besides, everyone else uses the same organization system and similar features. Why should I try Nilai when I've already paid a one-time fee to Pinboard?

Well, here's one possible reason. Just the other day, I was trying to import my browser bookmarks into Pinboard, but aborted when I realized that Pinboard would not preserve the elaborate folder hierarchy (270+ folders) that I'd created over the years to organize my 5600+ bookmarks, many of which I never tagged. If there's any non-social bookmarking service that allows me to use both folders/subfolders and tags/labels to organize my bookmarks, I'll sign up in an instant. This isn't about fancy features, it's about basic paradigms. So there's a little feature request!

[1] http://nilai.co/assets/images/screenshot_desktop.jpg
Charlie Stross brought this idea up on his blog recently; what does a post work-for-pay world look like? What would you do if you had a home, food, and health care as a basic right?

Could we even get there with our current basic cultural value being that if you don't work, you have no value?
I will say this in the spirit of somebody who started competitive public speaking as therapy to overcome a speech disorder which would have been virtually disabling professionally: you can hack your way through hesitation noises. A lot of the HN comments suggesting practical ways to do so would be effective. ("Speak slower" and "Use the air gap for a dramatic pause" are my two favorites.) Practice plus directed effort will very quickly make this not a problem for you. It is totally not a given that you will revert to habit when not paying attention, when speaking off the cuff, or when saying interesting and important things. You just need to get into a new, successful habit, just like you long ago cultivated a habit of e.g. not spelling words wrongly.

(n.b. I have issues with hesitation noises myself occasionally. When I have the opportunity I watch / listen to tapes of myself, count influencies, and avoid things that cause that number to spike, because improving on this is a priority for me. For example, the worst I ever did last year -- TwilioConf -- had 1/20th the incidence of my typical performance in middle school, and on good days you wouldn't be able to tell I'd actually struggled with this.)

[P.S. This is going to sound a little fluffy but it is absolutely true: one of the first steps is to stop saying "I am not a good public speaker" and start saying "Some of the speeches I have delivered have had a lot of umms in them", because that identifies a specific issue which can be fixed by an identifiable behavioral change, rather than solidifying an identity around features of past speeches you may have made.]
Exactly. I'm sure it will be simply because the possibilities are endless. But that isn't my goal.
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Google does reach the consumer with their Android apps, such as Gmail and Play (the app and entertainment store).
As a 4-inch screen smartphone user I am not too excited about a 7-inch tablet. It just doesn't feel like such a big upgrade over my phone.
Good question. I can honestly tell you that given your needs, Nilai may never work well for you. I hope you find the exact service you're looking for though.
IMHO if a company vertically integrated, it will not have many examples of how it is vertically integrated. Right now I think the only thing missing for Apple to be 100% fully vertically integrated is to buy its own factory.
There are many egregious wrongdoings there, but I find this one particularly pernicious:

> "Last year, the bank was sued, alongside some of its competitors, for conspiring to rig the London Interbank Offered Rate."

LIBOR + the US T-Bill rate (plus the Federal Funds rate?) is generally considered the risk-free rate of return, upon which all other interest rates in the economy are indexed. I'm sure there's nothing more heady and master-of-the-universe-feeling than manipulating the entire world that way, but it's pretty fucked nonetheless.

One problem with the increasing concentration of wealth and the financialization of the global (or at least Western) economies is that banks and ibanks are becoming more and more able to play games like this with markets. Beyond a certain threshold of capital and leverage, market manipulation becomes not only possible but a viable business strategy.

I know it's happening now, especially with HFT and algo systems accounting for over half the volume on major exchanges, just not the extent of it. The incentives are getting seriously out of whack.
You can remove hydrogen from water very easily, so refilling it would be easy. Plus, hydrogen is lighter than helium.
As a software engineer, I would love to see all the tedious tasks people do all day replaced by technology. If having money is the only way to stay alive and I had a job, I would even pay higher taxes, just to let people do more of what they might love more (and what in the long run would benefit society in other ways). -- I guess, that this opinion is diametrical to current ideology.
While we're handing out recommendations, check out of the BBC documentary Human Planet. The name might suggest otherwise, but it breaks out of the increasingly stale Attenborough mold. It's as much anthropology as nature documentary, even more so than Wild China.
On one hand they couldn't afford Intel, and on the other, Twitter wouldn't even be a blip on their cash reserves.
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There will be resistance to the new interface. The severity is anyone's guess. Microsoft is betting that most people will acclimate to it.
Yes, he said 'um' a lot. No, it didn't bother me.

We're all only human.
Perhaps that's what they're going to announce. Some kind of understanding with the feds that lets them bring back money to the US.
I think a dividend is imminent because at the rate of inflation that is likely to occur over the next several years, holding that much cash is a huge mistake. If there isn't a use for it in the long-term, and they can reasonably expect to print more, I agree that they should start dispersing it to shareholders.

Typically I would think the beginning of a dividend program to be a signal that the company has hit an innovation wall and doesn't know what to do with its cash. I think this doesn't really apply to Apple because cash is going to continue to flow freely into it a ridiculous rate for the foreseeable future. Hardware is extremely profitable, and they are still better positioned than anybody else to ride the shift to mobile. I still think Apple is a strong buy.
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Actually, the cave you saw is very near my hometown, it is not that bad. The ventilation in it is good, and currently we have modern household electrical appliances as well.

Lots of local people adopted all things that exists in normal buildings, such as TV cable, Internet access, cars parked their own in the yard, etc.

You can refer to photoes at http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g528735-d1307902-Rev...
It's not irrelevant. If our economy one thousandth the current size, even a trip to the moon would be difficult. It just wouldn't be producing enough fuel, metal, ceramics and quality human capital necessary for a trip to the moon. It is a lot easier to takes these things from a much larger economy than a small one.

Larger economy can speed up technological advancements too, but I guess that is irrelevant here.
Really? Apple has been about vertical integration from the start (apps + OS + hw), at least compared to the Wintel and Android worlds. (the exception being iOS apps, but those were neither in Apple's original plan nor are a huge amount of revenue relatively to Apple; I suspect Safari, Mail, Calendar, iMessage still get the majority of the use of apps on iOS).

Deeper hw integration (buying chip designers was obvious; I do not think they'll buy a fab; maybe hw assembly if that is somehow non-commodity), or upstream integration (applications on mac osx, content sources, services) would make some sense to me. Buying a shipping company to ship the devices, probably not.

Maybe they could just buy Goldman Sachs.
Can the same argument not be used for the industrial revolution? The job of the specialists was replaced by technology. The job of the orchestra in theaters was replaced by audio recording/playback technology. And the list goes on. Now it is no different, more automation.

The real problem is that we keep reproducing uncontrolably. The religiously crazed keep pushing having tons of kids with NO WAY TO SUPPORT THEM. Furthermore, better medicine means more kids are surviving, so that means population keeps growing. However with a growing population there is less and less opportunity for each member to contribute to society. It's a cycle. We need controlled population growth globally and an incredible education system. There is simply no other way to go.
You are completely misunderstanding me. I am not saying "let's all move to this new utopian system". I am suggesting that we move away from the idea of making universal systems entirely. Write software that is small enough that complete rewrites can be accomplished without trouble. The current situation is to build ourselves a problem that gets harder and harder to undo as time goes on.

You can't call something that's been around for less than 100 years "tried and true". I'm not saying we can't have "virtual CPUs" for tasks that can handle a performance hit. But it is becoming an unavoidable impediment. "Simple" doesn't mean "easy". It means predictable, small and undoable. The exact opposite to where we are heading.
I did not appreciate how useful IronPython is when developing with C# at work until read this and thought about what the alternative would be like. To test our wafer handling robot, I can just instantiate it's individual axes at the REPL and move them around. Our I can create the whole device object and move them around in a coordinated manner. Any level of the system can be tested or cycled for reliability without having to write test fixtures in C#
My understanding is that the stock price is actually adjusted downward by the per/share dividend on the ex-dividend date. For regular small dividends this change is not really noticible in the noise of regular trading but for large/special dividends it is.

For example, look at the historical stock prices for Microsoft in 2004 when they issued a $3.08/share dividend:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=MSFT&a=10&b=1&c=...

You can see that the difference between the close on Nov 12 and the open on Nov 15 is $2.63 where the difference in the surrounding days in about 20 times less.
Depends how fast it's going.
I'm wondering if I'll live long enough to where this won't be a joke anymore.
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Spot on. In the short term there's multiple factors, but population is a big 800 lb gorilla few in political leadership will ever touch.
How does that help them at all? You'd think those "mums" would be have been potential investor for her son who studied in the US and returned to start a company?! (or another child starting up a corner store.)

Now the government is planning to tax the money she invests in him!