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Maps with turn-by-turn navigation (long overdue) and transit APIs sound very promising. Having portable maps is one of the key strengths of a smartphone and this kind of lower-level integration now kicks it up a notch. He mentioned "biking and hiking" for the transit apps: that's exciting!

Also, turn-by-turn navigation has this "overview" mode--tap it and you exit the forced-point-of-view navigation and get to pan around the map in 2D mode. This is critical for being able to inspect the area for improvised routes. In the past, this has not been easy to do on all my old-school GPS navigation devices, including a Tom Tom hardware unit of a year ago. Cannot compare to Google Navigation or Tom Tom on the iPhone, so it would be great if anyone familiar with those can chime in.

Fully vector maps (no more f'king double tap to get that shit at pixel-perfect view) and much more legible traffic marking (such that it doesn't kill the name of the street) are two minor changes that will have a major impact for me personally.
There's no technology problem waiting to be solved. Laptop manufacturers could build in LTE chipsets today if they wanted to. The issue is that no cell carrier wants them to; it would create demand they're not prepared to meet. The current trend is just the opposite -- to lower monthly limits and increase prices for 4G data services. Creating more demand would just lead to cities where there are more people connected than the towers can handle.
By adressing not the anxiety itself but the root of anxiety. For minor problems it should suffice. I strongly suggest to reach for professionnal help though if anxiety is delibitating in any way. Be very cautious with internet advice and the self-help dev. movement.
Was this announced in the keynote? Why did they keep it out?
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when the non-user-replaceable battery inevitably fails

Battery replacement is $99.

For some strange reason Apple has managed to put retina displays in their laptops before LG or Samsung (who probably manufacture those panels) manage to put them in their own laptops.

Windows probably doesn't support retina properly (which is sad, considering that MS has been working on retina support since Vista). Also, Apple may have outbid Samsung for the panels.

Samsung really has the potential to be an industry leader. They make everything.

Except software.
Not to mention that, but you can jailbreak it and install things via cydia.
It supports iPhone 3GS, though, but that does have lower resolution.
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Why for heaven's sake is the new macbook pro €2279 when it's only $2199 in the US? It's a beautiful machine, and I'm used to some price differences between the US and Europe (USD = EUR, right, Apple?) but this is outrageous! That's almost 500 dolars more...
If their ranking algorithm is pushing reviews with high page-views to the top, then perhaps it's as simple as negative reviews getting more attention, either because negativity draws people in or because people are more interested in trying not to have an awful experience than in having a great one. On the other hand, if the algorithm is optimized around other values (credibility, for instance), then it wouldn't make sense for reviewers with no history to get their reviews pushed to the top. Hard to say, given that it's a trade secret.
And a new Airport Express that no longer plugs directly into the wall. https://www.apple.com/wifi/
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not if the house is overpriced - how do you otherwise explain that your net wealth has fallen 40%, when in reality it hasn't changed at all?!? (you still own the same house!)
In modern economics, there isn't really any distinction between "real" and "nominal" wealth. Value is value, measured by current market prices.

There are heterodox economic systems that do make a distinction; for example, Marxian economics distinguishes between "exchange value" (current market price) and other kinds of value, such as "use value" (e.g. the usefulness of your copper pan for cooking does not decrease even if the price of copper crashes). But those aren't too popular among modern economists.
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Where "new" means a minor speed bump of the old 12 core Mac Pro but still on the same, last generation CPU tech, a 2.5 year old graphics card, no Thunderbolt, and no USB 3. (Though the latter 3 could all be solved for existing Mac Pros with the right add on cards if Apple chose to do so.)
I think they're keeping the size of stuff the same, just the pixel density changes so you get a clearer image.
What problems do you have with hardware for Linux?
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Really? Is that why they just partnered with Canonical for Azure? Microsoft needs to stop sending mixed messages/lying to different audiences.
they haven't really lost anything - they still own the same house, and no money, just as before(at the height at the bubble)
We took the link to this out because it didn't really work (at least according to our stats) but here is our how it works page: http://refer.ly/getting-started

Sounds like we need to do a better job showing you what you'll get before asking you to click the big orange button
I wish the zoom slider existed too. Sometimes I cannot afford to use two hands to pinch-squeeze and it would be nice to adjust zoom level with one finger.
iPad 1 does have a microphone; I use mine for Skype calling at times.
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Price-wise, the new retina MBPs seem to stack up pretty well with a ThinkPad W-series, so I don't really see a price issue here. What are people comparing against that they see the price as steep?
For this exploit, the security defenses didn't impress me as much. The immediate question I have is why are there chrome:// URLs at all? It seems you could achieve a much stronger sandbox by using native UI controls that are simply not attached to the webview. Then it would not be possible to trick it into making a same origin mistake.

I mean, this is standard advice for web apps and services, right? You build the control interface completely outside the main user app.
Here is someone else claiming that 2% is the average:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/224600-2-real-per-capita-gdp...

[NB I have no idea which one is correct!]

Edit: The two studies have quite different starting dates - one is at the start of the 19th century and the other at the end.
I hope the maps don't change for the user. Frankly, I don't care about Apple and Google's map bickering.

If the new Apple Maps app is now a crippled maps app for my iPhone compared to the existing Google Maps iPhone app, that's a big problem.
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> Why did they keep it out?

Apple doesn't generally hold events or give keynote time over to simple spec bumps in product lines that aren't hugely popular, like the Mac Pros, or the Mac Minis.
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Not so sure about the updated MacBook Pro as the spec sheet does not list a optical drive. So it might also be gone.
"Facebook is not acquiring the company, technology, or customer data."

A genuine question: Since this is essentially a talent acquisition, why doesn't someone else continue running the product? or perhaps sell it off to another company?
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Aisle50 is hiring developers in Chicago
This is an opportunity to join the YCS11 company that was voted No. 1 by its 62 peers at the end of the summer. We’re looking for developers who want to build. We’re funded ($2.6M; elite VC investors); we have a web app and a paradigm that works; we have big-company partners and a chance ramp this up quickly.

The right candidate will be hungry to learn and help our awesome dev team keep their current momentum. We’re a Ruby shop, but all comers are welcome to apply. Agile generalists work well as we’re a nimble team that responds well to each week as it unfolds, bringing new clients, new customers and new features.

We are disrupting the way grocery manufacturers’ market their brands. We integrate with grocery store loyalty cards and we give food manufacturers the ability to target, track and follow up on their deals. In short, the business of marketing food is a big one ($35b+) and we do it better than anybody else.

We launched in August and our clients now include General Mills, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Kimberly-Clark, Conagra and Clorox. We offer serious equity and a full slate of benefits including health insurance and a 401k. We have a Killerspin ping pong, a baseball signed for us by Ryne Sandberg, the best sandwich shop in the world 500 feet from our office and a talent for smoking pork shoulders to perfection. We also have a friend at Hershey’s who keeps us deep in Kit Kats, Kisses and Paydays.

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Because someone else won't leave it alone. Someone needs to establish our rights online. At least they're trying.
I thought there was something in Facebook's terms that you can't sell Like's etc. in exchange for any form of currency? Not to sure though.
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And by clicking back immediately you lower their quality score so they have to bid more for the same terms.

I do the same thing, even though I know that in reality it's not making any significant difference.
I certainly don't think it's a bad thing. Seems like without a MOC the programmer would have to write more code or file all that meta data in a separate file. So it's all good.

I was just curious since I haven't touched Qt in years and this post implies it is moving toward more standard C++.
Apple is currently selling iPhone 3GS (free in the states if I'm not mistaken), but thy ceased selling 3rd gen. iPod touches 2 years ago.
You forgot to add *Refurbished
It's $154 new http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Companion-Google-Keyboard-Con...
I wish they had added some form of multi-user or user control to iOS. Today, if you hand your iOS device to someone they can access things you might not want them to. Same if you loose it or need a repair. I'd love to setup users for kids and guests and segment app access in this fashion.
Nothing says ergonomics like typing on a hard glass screen.

Not that they're doing it right either. I don't want to have to carry around a dongle in addition to a fake laptop. Better to sync my data to the cloud securely and have my device of choice (for actual work) automatically pull down the relevant data.
The problem I have with this sort of thing is it duplicates what is already out there. Between my Github activity and Trello anyone can tell exactly what I have been doing, and what I'll be doing next.
And they're charging (as far as I can tell from finding the same/equivalent parts on newegg for the lowest end $2,500 model) 4-5x the actual hardware cost.

CPU: $260, 3x2GB ECC DDR3: $60, 1TB 7200 RPM HDD: $120, Radeon HD 5770: $120
Ask HN: Feedback on startup, Fol.io
After months of development and testing we released Folio last week and would love your honest feedback on our concept and platform.
Any feedback in relation to:
- what you think of the concept in general?
- would you be more interesting in buying or selling?
- what strikes you as positive/negative about the platform?
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- what type of content would you be most interesting in selling?

All thoughts, feedback and opinions greatly appreciated!
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That isn't how it's working out for thousands (maybe millions) of homeowners who've defaulted, either strategically or because they lost their job and simply can't afford to keep paying for a mortgage on a house worth tens or hundreds of thousands less than they paid for it. Banks are foreclosing at an unprecedented rate, and even sometimes doing so on homes of people who haven't actually missed a payment.

My parents neighborhood is now about 20% uninhabited, because of bank foreclosures. My parents are $70k+ in the hole on their house, purchased during the peak of the boom, and it would never cross their minds to default on a debt. $70k is a pretty devastating economic hit to a middle class couple, now living on savings and Social Security.

It's easy for folks not impacted by the economic meltdown (like those of us in the tech industry) to make light of the very real pain a lot of lower income and middle class home owners are going through right now. But, the reality is that people are being screwed left and right by the very banks that caused the crisis.
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I consider myself a power user and I find nothing wrong with the finder. The fact that I can drag/drop just about any and everything is a huge plus.
As a photographer, I support this part of the bill, at least in the spirit of that section. I don't want my photographs used in professional situations without AT LEAST my permission.

Could you please expound upon what you've said instead of quoting the last right?
Looks like a white Apple TV.
Plenty of Windows laptops have built in 3G/4G and the carriers are happy to take another $60/month from you.
Hiring RightNow on H1B 
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Well, that was the reason for the creation of the Fed in the first place, the idea that you could have technocrats setting macroeconomics policy without political influence. But then Allan Greenspan happened, an ideologue disciple of Ayn Rand. When the federal budget was running a surplus in 2000 he told congress that budget surpluses were dangerous, then he pushed for Bush's tax cuts and then he helped inflate real estate and ignored everybody that was saying it was an out of control bubble.

So no, unelected elites aren't going to save us either.
In my opinion Spain needs to hit the big reset button, Argentina style. There are a lot of very interested parties in finance that don't want to see that happen, but it'd serve the Spanish well. Digging out (which appears harder by the day) otherwise will take decades, and has no greater chance for succeeding. Pull the band-aid off quickly and get on with rebuilding and putting people back to work.
I just wish everyone didn't take the opportunity to also tap into the 'post to you activity stream, spam your friends' goody bag at the same time.

Use FB by all means, but don't fail the auth if the user declines the extras.
They haven't lost anything, in the sense that savings appreciating slower than inflation is not losing anything, although few would suggest that this is not "losing" something.

What has been lost is choice and opportunity for an easily identified class people (homeowners in areas that could not sustain the demand for homes) on a relatively large scale. I, on the other hand, a renter who has most of his wealth in securities am not so much impacted: I only lost some liquidity in the few years it took for the stock market to bounce back.
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I get little hints of Apple losing it's finesse. The plugs are on either side of the new MacBooks, a detail that Apple previously didn't miss. And two Thunderbolts? Does anyone here actually have a thunderbolt device?
That was, in an antiquated sense, the premise behind the US being born a republic. Not macroeconomics in particular, but insofar as it is a compromise between technocracy and majority rule and self determination. Philosophers and political theorist have been struggling with this since before Plato's Republic.

Its a very very real question, though the consensus that democracy is the best thing we've got has been building for centuries.
Completely false. I've flown with electronic boarding passes out of ORD, LGA, SFO, and a few other airports on both United and AA. The TSA is 100% fine with mobile boarding passes. Their readers often work better than the airlines', actually.
The wordpad exploit, unless I'm mistaken, is basically just the equivalent of LD_PRELOAD. As such, there's nothing to fix.

This may be of some interest, as it there's some discussion of when it's an exploit and when it's just the way things are supposed to be. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3005832
Yeah, this stuck out to me as well, more than pretty much anything else they announced this morning. This has the potential to be quite a large piece of their ecosystem. If they do it like they have done with iCloud -- starting out with a few applications, then expand its functionality later -- then it could be quite interesting.
Side question: does anyone know why Apple uses edgesuite.net for these things? Is that an internal name, a third-party corp. managing their video distribution, or something else?
My mom used to push my dad to buy a 2nd house in Florida. They wanted to retire there and the prices were rising so fast she believed they never would be able to afford it if they didn't get one in 2005 or 2006. (They are retiring in the next 2013-2014 range).

My dad always refused. He ran a medium sized manufacturing business (about 100 employees) and is certainly in the top 5%, but not the 1% of people in the country in terms of income.

His rational at the time for not buying the house was very simple: "There aren't that many people in this country that can afford a house this expensive. It just doesn't add up to me. I know that most people don't make what I make, and if it's a struggle for me to do it rationally, something is wrong here".

They didn't buy the house, but we all thought he was being too pride bound at the time.

Now they're looking at what used to be 1.5 million dollar places that are going for $550-$600k. Meanwhile our house in New Jersey dropped in price roughly $100k because the bubble economics didn't take hold here as much.

The bubble was absolutely crazy. At the end of the day there were a lot of people buying houses that they could only afford assuming the value of the house increased signifcantly before they sold them. Essentially they could only pay the carrying costs - and that was before the jobs market tanked.
The proposed adaptive optics imager for ELT has a (1 sigma/1hour) limit in the visible of a 32mag object - with better than HST resolution.

A 0mag star gives you about 1000photons/s/cm^2/Angstrom so the 40m telescope in visible light would capture about 2E13 photons/s for the brightest star in the sky.

But 32mag is 2.51^32 = 6E12 times fainter so only a few 1000 photons in an hour long exposure.
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?

It reminds me strongly of PDF and Acrobat. PDF is great for mailing around print-ready documents, which are more-or-less guaranteed to look the same for every viewer. Writing a PDF renderer is not easy, but it is straightforward, and there are multiple stable implementations without significant security problems.

Then Adobe comes along and they add forms, and 3D charts, or Javascript, or multimedia, and Acrobat grows from a document viewer into what is essentially a backdoor on every Windows computer.

A similar thing is happening with browsers. The core purpose of a web browser is the ability to render HTML+CSS into a human-readable document. Then browser vendors added forms and Javascript, so XSS was invented. They added persistent data storage, so looking at cat pictures can compromise my bank account. And now, Chrome+Firefox are /competing/ to see who can add more features, security be damned.

WebGL exposes your graphics drivers (never security-audited before) to the internet. <audio> and <video> expose multimedia codecs, which in the past have caused numerous security problems. Flash is, essentially, a cross-platform way to let arbitrary people run exploits on your machine.

When will it stop? When will browser vendors take a collective breath, look around, and realize the insanity they've been perpetrating?
Apple decoupled the compiler/command line tools from Xcode specifically so that projects like MacPorts and HomeBrew can continue to exist on the Apple platform. There was a post on this a while back on HN!

I absolutely love HomeBrew, it is modeled a lot after MacPorts/FreeBSD ports tree and provides a way to compile packages from source (some are even hosted as bottles... no compiling required). It is an excellent tool to download and install libraries and do development with. Will Apple keep all those tools around? Only time will tell, but so far it is looking good and I don't think it is in their best interest to move away from it.
A lot of it is just "The Way It's Done", I'm sure. The "about://" and "about://plugins" urls have worked since the very early days of Netscape (and still do in chrome, which redirects them appropriately). It's an interface that Chrome inherited. They didn't design it, so it didn't receive the same security attention.
Kickstarter doesn't help organize peer to peer distribution lines or, necessarily, open up new forms of decentralized business, other than making it more attractive for customers to prepay for products in development.
Out of a random sample set of 1000 people, how many would want to buy trail-mix from the internet rather than pick it up at the store?

Out of those, how many are likely to trust you with their credit card number?

Out of those, how many would be willing to pay $4 shipping on a $7.50 mix?
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With all this diversification, Apple to starting to look like a younger Google
We don't sell likes, we only reward people if an actual purchase occurs as the result of someone clicking on a link
It wasn't $99 at bestbuy, it was $300 when it was released, which is a big part of why it failed.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/08/logitech-revue-with-googl...

Also it's still not $99, it's going for $150 new http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Companion-Google-Keyboard-Con...
I don't know about warranties for spills, but Thinkpads have a drain to greatly reduce liquid damage.
The two factors aren't actually linked. My father got his original training as a city planner before going into IT, and NIMBY, combined with the desire for high property values, is the single most powerful political force in America. We simply don't have urban planning as it is practiced in most other countries, nor the land-value tax used in many places to drive urbanization.

Though you may be interested in reading the essay, "The Problem of Scarcity".
I'll be even more bold and declare that the top 1% has no more ability to effect the median than any other 1% of the population.

Using the median isn't strange at all for this kind of calculation.
Yes, I think with XCode 4.3 I had to upgrade to Lion from Snow Leopard.
Visual/Graphical programming is a failure.
A big yes! As a father of an autistic child, the first thing I actually cheered for was being able to lock out the home button! Such a simple thing will make a big difference. I haven't even spent much time looking at the other features under Guided Access yet.
these "good" and "bad" things are two nice little categories - they make thinking so much easier. i think this is the reason why i don't like this hegel guy.
The Mac App Store version is dead for Snow Leopard, but you can still download 10.6 compatible builds directly from the developer portal.
iPad 1 has a microphone, I Skype on it all the time.
2 external displays at the full thunderbolt display (2560 x 1600) resolution. I'm betting you could do more displays if the resolution is lower, however I don't think you can buy external displays with lower resolution that use the thunderbolt port.
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