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I'm in an IT department that primarily supports the core business. The UX is an afterthought in a tight margin industry and we generally settle for "it works and isn't too confusing". I'm not happy about that, but it is what it is. <banghead>
You can use Ctrl + Shift + Eject to lock your screen, also if you open up Keychain Access, then in options (Apple + ,) select "Show keychain status in menu bar", now you have a lock that shows up next to the rest of the menu bar icons, clicking on it provides an option named "Lock screen".
I have no idea if AirBnB does that to apartment rents but I do know that some formerly sleepy coastal towns became too expensive (in recent decades) for locals to buy a house due to second homes being bought there by wealthy non-residents. I have no idea how to fix such a problem but I know it is real.
I have found that XBMC makes for the ultimate entertainment PC. Simply install Ubuntu, put XBMC in autostart and enjoy. It catalogs all the movies and TV shows you've got on your HDDs and displays them in a stunning UI.
Why a separate app when Keychain Access already supports this out of the box?
At least the beta supposedly just points you at the app store for public transport in Boston.

(haven't tried this myself, asked a friend of mine who installed the beta)
Good trolling, almost got me.
"I love it when a (geeky) plan comes together!"
By that I mean improve you offering, implement paypal, and fix your shipping cost.
> So what you're saying is carriers are not "technically" prepared to handle it?

No. I said what I meant; it's not a technology problem. Demand exceeding capacity in the short-term is a capital/resource allocation problem.

Capacity isn't constrained by a need for new specs or new hardware. It's constrained by most of the cell towers only having <50mbps backhaul for 3G. New towers need new radios, new equipment to drive it, and new backhaul to provide enough bandwidth to share among the connections. It takes a lot of time and money to upgrade and build out the network.

The carriers are carefully managing demand through pricing and service limitations so that it doesn't outstrip the rate at which they make those upgrades.
Here are some interesting code examples with a web demo: http://kotlin-demo.jetbrains.com/
Sort of FYI, Google's original effort at providing their own database for map information was that Navtec would not license them the right to use map data for turn-by-turn navigation. It was really quite amazing to see all of the constraints that were put on map data (it was so much easier for Trimble, the original company, to exploit their map database than to try to compete in the gadget space).

I don't doubt that Apple has been working on their own database to use for turn by turn and it wasn't until now that they had it ready to go. Stuff you need that isn't "normally" in a GIS database are driving restrictions, road quality metrics, etc. There are also 'quirks' exceptions for this data like "In theory you can get from A->B->C in Portland on this route but you really want to go A->D->C." some of the "roads" in SE Portland would challenge dune buggies :-)
I wonder how much interest there is in a "usesthis" series for SW tools + processes companies & individuals use rather than just the more hardware-centric stuff on http://usesthis.com/.
It's worse than strange, I don't think it works at all.

Wealth increases from the bottom 1% to the top 1% at an ever accelerating clip. If you take the median, you have absolutely no clue what the health of the groups above or below look like.

For example: if the median wealth is $77,000 --- you can't use that to then calculate how much actual wealth is in the middle 80% of the country (not even close in fact), because that $77k figure is radically off base for the massive skew that the top 10% in that 80% group is going to contain. But you have no means to derive how much wealth you're talking about being contained by that 10% group in the top of the 80% bracket (no means to figure out the skew at the top or bottom).

If you had 1 million data points, and your median is $77k, what does that tell you about the total wealth in the 1 million? It tells you almost nothing. What's the increasing skew like for the top 10,000 in that million? Because that probably contains 30% of all the wealth in the million set.
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They recently created a meetup in SF, might be worth checking out if you're in town.
> If browsers didn't do it then some other software would
> fill the niche. Having general purpose computers to run
> code written by other people is something everyone wants.

It's fine to run code written by other people, but that code should be run in a safe, completely sandboxed environment. Modern smartphones have it right -- the user downloads an application, typically written in native code (or pseudo-native, for Android), and that application has only very limited access to the system.

The $0.99 game I downloaded does not have the ability to inject keylogging code into my bank management application, and this is enforced by the OS itself.

> Your attitude above seems to be that Javascript is a bad
> thing, which IMHO is just insane.

I don't think it's insane at all. Implementing applications as the moral equivalent of a highly-dynamic text document is what's insane. The concept of a "web app" is fundamentally broken, but despite users largely rejecting it (see: popularity of native apps vs safari apps on iPhone), nerds keep pushing it because it seems like a cool plot to a sci-fi novel.

> And the bit about "security be damned" is just flat
> wrong, as evidenced by the linked article. They're
> working very hard at getting the sandbox architecture
> right, and have been so successful that it takes a hack
> of this magnitude to actually break it.

This is security after the fact. If they actually cared about security, they'd disable Javascript, disable Flash, disable WebGL, and turn Chrome back into a web browser.

When a boat is sinking because the hull was made of cardboard, don't point to the conveniently-placed bailing buckets as evidence of good engineering.
Genius idea re: os integration, I can see this gaining traction quickly if executed properly :)

Enjoy!
So… what are you proposing? We go back to the web as it was in 1995?
Good catch! The image is 668x222, but the img tag is width="667" height="221".

<img src="http://images.apple.com/ios/ios6/images/title.jpg"
width="667" height="221" ...>
The question right now is if the RAM is upgradable or soldered to the board a la the Air...
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Wouldn't work too well in Dutch where the kj happens quite a bit in various words.
@mmayernick - that's exactly what we're trying to achieve as I believe that the need for assets is specifically part of the production workflow (whether it's design/development, etc) so it's very action driven (i.e. I need something I search, I'm selling something I post). So we believe tight integration with IDE's is vital.

Right now it's about 30% of our overall traffic which is probably higher than we expected but certainly not what our vision is yet.
"LinkedIn does not have a chief security officer whose sole job it is to monitor for breaches." That seems fairly problematic.
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Without any software upgrades ever, the iPad will become the future IE. In fact, this is worse because of Apple's closed system they also won't allow 3rd parties to upgrade the software either.

Huh? Citation needed. Apple didn't suddenly cut off App Store updates to iPad 1. Developers are free to support (or not support) iOS 5, just as they were with other iOS updates.

Furthermore, are you remotely surprised by this? iPhones prior to iPhone 3GS aren't supported by iOS 5.

Do you have the same issues with Android? There's a platform that's destined to be the "future IE". How many Android users are stuck on 2.2 or 2.3, with a horribly crippled browser?

Finally, Apple does allow other browsers, audio players and other new types of software. They don't threaten Apple's platform, the bolster it.

I'm not sure where you're digging up this FUD, but it's way off base.
Erm, yeah. I don't think I'd ever be proud of someone giving me a nickname like that!
Any eligible* student planning on purchasing the retina MacBook Pro can get the base model for $1999 USD (a $200 discount) plus a free $100 Apple gift card.

Details here: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/campaigns/back_to_school
Well, there's also already (as of today anyway) a thunderbolt to gigabit ethernet adapter for $29.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A?fnode=MTY1NDA3Ng
Yeah, I was just about to post the same thing. What a ridiculous rip-off. A 5770 card? Really, for that price I get a 5770? I just built a new PC for $1500 that blows it out of the water in every aspect but the CPU (I went with an i5 2500k quad-core @3.2Ghz, OC'd to 4.3). I like some things about Apple, I'm typing this on my iPhone, but I would never buy another PC from them unless I needed an ultra-portable laptop. They're just not worth the price tag.
You're saying that the language should make the programmer's job harder, and that it's a mark of laziness to try to arrange things to make common mistakes less likely?
Have you tried Udacity, Coursera etc? These courses are also giving some certificates also.
@bmelton - thanks, for some reason when I tried to submit it with a URL the post wouldn't submit!

@davidandgoliath - thanks for the support. We're working hard on version 2 already, hence hunting for more feedback :)

Cheers.
It's annoying that I have to do some sort of three finger claw salute. This is just me being lazy but is there any way to reconfigure the shortcut?
Have you done even a minimal amount of homework to see if this question has been asked before? Here are a few discussions:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4058492

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3251877

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3703024

The question has been discussed several times:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=title%3A%28...
Both companies are developing their platforms based on how consumers are actually using the devices so it's natural they are going to follow the same basic trajectory since most people use both types of devices the same way.
I propose we give up on the flawed idea of "web apps", and go back to native applications. Mac OS, iOS, and Android show us that this is both possible and practical.

The web can continue to be what it was and should be, a set of interlinked documents to be interpreted by applications installed on the local computer.
This would be covered under the "market fluctuations" I mentioned. You may own the same house, but it's only worth what someone else will pay for it. If the market value of your house drops 40%, then your net worth will take a proportional hit.
I support the idea. PG's dismissal of IP in general is quite a bad idea, in my opinion. Yes it will be very difficult, but I think it is important.
I would suggest that the median is taken, in this case, because it provides the biggest and sexiest headline number.

The average (and by extension the total) wealth has gone down by a much smaller percentage since 2007. The fluctuations just happened to have hit the people around the middle particularly hard. The people at the bottom haven't seen their net wealth decline at all, because they never had any. The people at the top have seen their net wealth decline substantially, but since it was largely in other asset classes less so [percentage-wise] than the people right in the middle, whose net wealth was dominated by home equity.

Bottom line: recessions suck. They happen every decade or so. Plan with this in mind.
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Dramatically lower resolution. That's the key – iPad's larger display puts far more pressure on its GPU and, because there's no dedicated VRAM, it also increases the system's memory usage and reduces the amount of free RAM usable by apps. The latter issue is really a serious problem on the first iPad.
They didn't invent it, but they've sure run with it. There's no about://downloads in firefox afaik, to pick one example from the exploit. It just feels like the obvious solution to "superuser" web pages is not some high tech intrusion system, but to not have superuser web pages. It's like every heist movie ever made where the thief dodges through the dancing laser beams. I think the ideological pressure to make literally everything be the "web" is costing them real security here. And just like the movies, it does look cool.
...that has dual wired ports. This is a good thing.
As you can see it's still in development, so it can't be as popular as it can be when released final.

Kotlin and Ceylon are the two new JVM Languages that have a lot of potential and I hope will be pretty popular :) The first is developed by JetBrains and the latter from JBoss, so they have good people working on them.
I was hoping for new Mac Pro's this WWDC. These look to simply get a processor upgrade. No Thunderbolt.
Proof that Facebook/Twitter are used by people to avoid working
Gone. You can only order an external drive.
I am platform agnostic.

That said, the one thing that continues to concern me with Apple is the continuation of their closed philosophy. The Mac App Store being the latest incarnation of their quest for total control. I, frankly, don't know what to make of it.

An Apple ecosystem would have no competitors. Like it or not, Microsoft enabled an incredible level of global competition that, ultimately, has been responsible for bringing us the Internet as we know it. Stop and think about what I just said before you disagree. Nearly all of the hardware developments in the last thirty years have come on the backs of the MS platform. You can build inexpensive and powerful servers today because of MS. Same with Linux and other advances. They lit the fire that triggered an incredible evolutionary chain in both consumer and professional computing.

While I understand why Apple does it this way --and they are fully entitled to do so-- I would not want to see a world where their computers are adopted en-masse unless they let go and break the chains.
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> Portland and Orlando

Completely off topic, but I always do a bit of a double take when I realize that from Florida, Portland is a lot farther away than, say Bogotá or Caracas. I guess you get used to looking at US maps without any context as a kid.
So no web interface and no satellite views or are they just not showing that yet? Seems surprisingly ugly too.
A step backwards in functionality is never a good thing but I do like Apple's approach of saying that third party developers can do a better job for some parts of mapping. The kitchen sink approach of trying to cram everything possible into one app has its limits.
I use Windows on a very, very, very regular basis. My comment has been taken completely out of context. Were we not talking about people who had Macs being mocked for not being geeky enough? I merely offered an anecdote about my peers that ironically tout that line because it's funny.

Ironic that I'm now at -15 for pointing out that in my situation, the opposite was true.

Seriously, which part of my comment has every Windows fan out there thinking I hate Windows? I don't know how that was the takeaway when I was merely remarking on the times where I, like the grandparent, was trolled by Windows users.
The HNSearch crawler was behind due to an IP change related to our move to an AWS VPC. Everything should be up-to-date now:
http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=ask+hn%3A+w...
Also no USB 3, and no Bluetooth 4.0, which means, they didn't design a new motherboard.

Which, in turn, says rather loudly to me that the Mac Pro is not a high priority for Apple right now.
The first thing that jumps out at me there is the use of the vertical scroll bar and back button, instead of hardware scrollers and back buttons.
Their docking solution is their thunderbolt display. When I go home, I plug in 2 cables (thunderbolt & power) and I've got everything connected.

Their thunderbolt ethernet adapter is $30:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD463ZM/A
Don't you have anything better to do? Did the votes last time not teach you anything? I was offering an anecdote, I'm in a Windows environment more hours a day than OS X or Linux combined.

You're like a badly broken record no matter what it is you're spouting. Seriously where do you get off following me around talking about the same things over and over just to be an obnoxious ass? Just leave me alone, you're creepy and obviously have some misplaced superiority complex, well maybe inferiority given how much you seem to stalk and put me down.
Oops, I've actually never used it. So I guess Siri should be able to work on iPad 1 also. Anything Apple says about the hardware being incapable of using Siri sounds is probably a load of their typical bullshit.
Mac Book Pro with Retina display = 2279 EUR in France
http://store.apple.com/fr/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macboo...
Yeah, at $30 I'm not as upset. I still predict they'll be annoying, but if you bring your own cat5e cable too (vs. plugging into an existing cable), it's less likely it will be left behind. (I'll probably order one for my 2011 MBA anyway).

Keys/wallet/etc. remain in pockets when not in use, though -- so they're a LOT less likely to be abandoned than something which is small, connected to another long cable, etc.
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What an asshole. I do not appreciate being called a liar by an egotistical fool passing off his own misinformation as a correction. I have said nothing untrue or dishonest. Yours is one of the most angering posts I've read on HN in 4+ years.

The Revue retailed for $99 new for almost a year, since mid 2011, until stores ran out of stock. Here's the announcement direct from Logitech's VP, Digital Home Group, about the retail price drop to $99 at all stores:

http://blog.logitech.com/2011/07/31/logitech-revue-now-99/

Best Buy carried it at $299, $249, $129, and $99 all in new condition. The $99 price was in early 2011, raised to $129 in November 2011, and dropped back to $99 before going out of stock. You can find these price points in Google through mentions on sites like Slickdeals that tracked the price drops.

Sears carried it for $99. Newegg carried it for $99. I'm sure other stores did too. You can still buy it new for $99 from TigerDirect.

Next time you feel compelled to call someone out as a liar, be damned sure you're actually right about it.
$65 a month for USED designer clothes for a BABY? Unreal.

Kudos to your friend if they manage to cash in on this.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dev_:_Firefox_Chrome_URLs
Why not just properly sandbox web apps?
Apple Store Monterey had no idea, but not today. "We'll know more in a couple of days. We might have them by the end of the week."

I ordered online.
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If other audio recording apps (I've never used any) work just fine then any excuses Apple uses to not support Siri the iPad is a load of bullshit.
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Successors to the Verix 2.5 and the almost-a-desktop Chimera laptop: the Mir 730 and Verix 530.

Both available with up to i7-3920XM and 32GB RAM, and a price tag well under the new MBPs.
You'd have to give each web page its own sandbox, at which point installing/using it is no more convenient than a native application.
The GT 650 has NVidia's Optimus technology, so it should be OK if you're not doing 3D stuff. That said, with an 1800p display, anything that touches the GPU is going to peg it, and I have no doubt the machine will get quite hot under these circumstances.
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I was talking about specific cases that happened to me, in support of precisely what the GP was describing. I use all major OSes and spend most of my day in Windows. I don't know why or how my comment was perceived the way it was. Clearly I'm wasting my time trying to explain myself.
With the MBA 2011 the connector sits very low such that simply putting the laptop down on a couch will disconnect the connector in my experience. It's the #1 issue I've had while trying to use an MBA.

If using a thinner connector let Apple fix that problem, that would be quite nice. Of course it's possible that it didn't. I haven't had a chance to try the new thing.
> Is anyone else dismayed by the implicit view of these sorts of articles, that browsers should be complicated and full of all these insecure features?

You're taking a position 100% against all additions to web browsers, it seems. And some people responding to you are taking the 100% opposite position. But there is a middle ground.

Browsers should include the minimal amount of technology possible, and strike a compromise between number of features and security (because more features always means less security). What the right compromise is, is of course debatable.

But I don't want to just say "extremes are wrong, the right middle way is best" in a generic manner because that's always true. More specifically, Google is the browser vendor including the most nonstandard technologies these days, and therefore incurring the most risk. For example, NaCl, WebSQL, a large extension API (even including things like text to speech), a closed-source PDF reader, Adobe Flash, Chrome Web Store frontend, and apparently soon Dart. All those things add to the attack surface of Chrome, I would argue needlessly.

Of course other browsers are guilty of similar things, just to a lesser extent. At least Microsoft does not bundle Silverlight with IE (but it will apparently bundle Flash..).
Nice article. Definitely more valuable for people who have a basic understanding of music/audio recording.
cynicalkane: I suspect many readers here agree with much of what you wrote, but nonetheless feel the tone of your comment doesn't quite meet HN guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The soviets had an economic crash.

The USA did not win the cold war, the USSR lost it.
What jumped out at me was the 71% for the reload button. Unless they've changed the layout since I customized my copy, the reload button defaults to being a tiny button at the right end of the awesome bar. I moved mine to where Chrome has it and these numbers indicate that a lot of others have done the same. That or Mozilla moved it and I naturally didn't notice.
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You would get whatever resolution your display/graphic card supports.
Passport could be pretty big... point of sale advertising, in store purchases, promotion, etc... A lot of potential revenue here.

I had an idea similar a while back and then found...
http://keyringapp.com/

Apple is in a much better position to launch something like this, as it needs quite a few relationships difficult for a new start up to establish and scale.
You'd lose portability across platform (OSX, Windows, Linux, each with a variety of browsers).
This is very reminiscent of "The Day After Tomorrow"...