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A big part of the secrecy is the way that they can surprise and delight people by blowing their minds and then making the product available almost immediately. It's theatre as much as anything.

In this case I definitely agree with you. Professionals should have some sort of roadmap. Pro software investments can be huge, and I wouldn't want to invest in pro software for a platform that may no longer support pro hardware.
I just bought and watched this. I have to say it is a MUST see. This is one of those films that will make you appreciate true passion and what goes in to indie game development. I would have gladly paid $20 for the experience I just had. Pure awesomeness.
Think about the overall tone you want to use. Do you want your writing to read like directions or do you want to do something more "fun," such as using humor and making pop culture references throughout the text? Congrats on the book deal.
"the new iPad starts at $500. Premium Windows 8 tablets will likely run between $800 and $900."

Which is why I am more than happy to stick with a much more functional & useful laptop, that's slim and has a long battery life. With the added bonus of a built-in cover for the screen, without having to add a bulky cover for that protection.
It's the difference between the word "confirms" and "announces."
Basing any valuation rationale off the Instagram purchase makes me wonder if you meant to be sarcastic. Given that it had essentially zero revenue, it's almost impossible to do any kind of comparison, anyway.
I don't see why it should have equivalent modeling power, the set of decision surfaces that it can represent is strictly larger.
> Can anyone figure out how to solve that problem?

4 miles? Why don't you walk or cycle?

I live in NH and walk to work every day. 4 miles would make a good jog/walk too if you are looking for more exercise time (depending on what you take to work with you).
The remarkable thing about this email is that Apple never pre-announces things.

Exactly.
A good example for you might be the "jQuery: Novice to Ninja" book. It cuts out a lot of the BS that makes other books annoying and cuts straight to the chase of DOING. Think of a group of sample projects, or maybe even think of a single project to build and build upon over the course of the book.
Reminds me of the good ol' Turbo Encabulator...
I don't disagree, but isn't that the same problem we face when we mentally classify someone as a "friend"? We might always be wrong, mightn't we?
Image quality. I realize that they're most likely from OpenStreetMap and I applaud the project but Google Map image quality is hard to beat.
I'm wondering who this news really impacts. Do Pro Users actually update their desktop systems more than once every four years? My Dell Precision 650 (Circa January, 2004, cost $4300 back then - top of the line workstation at the time) - is precisely as productive today, as it was when I was using it 8 years ago. The apps all run just as fast, I get the same amount of work done, I don't really have any need to upgrade to something newer. With the exception of operating system patches, it's mostly the same software.

Now - I _want_ a newer system, but, if you asked me whether, at the end of the day, my work output would be any different, or whether I would just be happier, I would have to answer the latter.

Instead of HN commentators feedback about how old the Apple platform is, I'm wondering whether they could comment on how the USB 3.0 + Thunderbolt + Retina Display upgrades they wanted will make a very real difference to their productivity. That would make for some useful reading, if it's the case.

It's not my sense with Pro Users that it is - and their tools will continue to work just as well for now. I think the Pro market is just different from the "upgrade every year or two" consumer market.

Also interesting, would be feedback from Pro Users who have decided that Apple not upgrading more frequently, will result in them changing platforms, and, what platforms they will change to - and why.
I was trying really hard to work some sort of joke about Norwegian trolls into this Swedish trolling story.

If anyone reading this is on the fence about watching the linked film, I would be honored to nudge you to the "yes, watch it!" side.
My guess would be familiarity with binary numbers and powers-of-two in a computer context (bytes, ints, longs, shift-operations, etc.) helps make the lily-pad answer 'obvious' to some people. Experience in a particular domain can hone a different reflexive intuition from the norm.
What if there is a social upper limit on energy development? Ever-greater energy generation density and capacity means that any mistakes are likely to have correspondingly larger consequences.

We should be using our remaining fossil fuels to fund the development of advanced nuclear power, which has much greater power density and capacity. Instead huge portions of society are pushing for solar and wind and geothermal etc, which are less dense and lower capacity. There simply is not the appetite to accept any nuclear fission accidents. And let's face it, accidents are inevitable on a long enough time span with complex new technologies.

But we're not going to cross interstellar space on solar and wind.
This is awesome. Although I find the upside-down-and-backwards guitar chord diagrams rather jarring.
I used to edit video in Avid on a Mac Pro. Multimedia usages will drink memory like water, and your system being more powerful directly implies that you get more work done. Less render time is a big one.

To that end, I can understand some of the complaints.
I find the abundance of "See? Smart people are actually dumber than I am!" posts amusing.
>Is there some reason that sandwiching air between the evacuated tube and the water wouldn't work?

Yep, because now you've just got your air rushing into the vacuum through the cracks, instead of water.

The ocean depth point is interesting. The article says "engineers would tether the tunnel at a fixed depth." I take this to mean tethering to the bottom and relying on buoyancy to keep the tunnel floating at the right depth, which presumably could be 30m or so.

Even if you could get it to be neutrally bouyant at 30m (realistic estimate? dunno) you're now stuck with a tube, five thousand miles long, floating free in the ocean and anchored only to the bottom. Even neutrally bouyant, there'd have to be huge strains on the joints due to ocean currents, plus presumably some up-and-down forces as the season changes the water temperature and... heck, even a whale headbutting such a flimsy structure sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. And remember, you can't afford to get any imperfections in your tube or it'll leak -- that probably eliminates anything you might have used to build in a bit of flexibility.
... behavior attributed to a "thug" (which, by the way, is not even racial in nature)

The denotation of "thug" may not be racial, but it has racial connotations in many contexts.
The only unusual terms in that paragraph are "dyno manifold" and "routing mesh", both of which are Heroku-specific technologies that Heroku users should know of. The rest is just normal systems stuff.
But it is not as easy to use while carrying around. Which one you choose will ultimately depend on your needs. If you need both, there are convertible tablets.
No, they could add features, but leave out those features on older devices just like they have done previously with each new iOS release.

Many if not most of the new features in iOS 6 doesn't require more processing power.
One exception to the diatonic norm in pop music is Radiohead's "Just", which uses an octatonic scale: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qMagfZtv8

(ya, I consider Radiohead "pop music")
For a company supposedly kicking their professional customers in the face again, and again, and then again just now, they really aren't doing too badly. My personal theory is simply that they just don't make all that much money from them...
Yes, given that C major is the most popular key, it follows that C, F, and G are the most popular chords. That's called a I-IV-V chord progression, and is the basis for most blues, which rock (and subsequently pop) evolved out of.

Oh, and a G chord isn't any easier to play on a guitar than a C# chord.
Actually, it hasn't been four years between updates:
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#Mac_Pro

The Mac Pro had updates in 2008, 2009, 2010, and yesterday. They may not be the type of pie-in-the-sky updates you might want, but that's another discussion.
There is a river in between. You would need to bike up to the George Washington assuming he lives in Hoboken and commute to Midtown. Either way you go from a 45 minute commute to maybe a 2-3 hour commute if you are lucky. Even worse since now using a bike his commute is ~20 miles instead of the 4 in the first place.
Giving out that sort of information would change some amount of people from just buying now to waiting for the new product. That's nice from a customer standpoint but bad for Apple.

Consider:

1) Less outdated inventory moved.

2) More problems keeping up with new product demand, which Apple already can't do.

3) More customers think about the question of buy now or wait when making a purchase. This doesn't sound like a lot, but Apple strives for the simplest possible buying experience.
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>It is a matter of you messing with something you didn't understand, jamming the machine in a bag to overheat, and then having to replace the battery.

Wrong.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbook#Suspend

>If this workaround not used, there have been reports that the laptop's memory controller setting may be screwed. After an incorrect suspend, if the corruption happens, many memory blocks starting with ~1G will be corrupt. Good way to see it is to use "memtest86+". The only way to fix controller setting is to open the case and plug off the battery. Please note that on this ultrabook the battery is not a user serviceable part and this could mean that by opening you can get your warranty void! If you start Windows or Linux with a corrupted controller, you will get system crashes or/and damaged file system. More info here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42728 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/962798
> the standalone gem

@vanstee is referring the Grocer being a RubyGem and not needing other dependencies like Resque.
> Eb with 3 flats, for instance, is slightly (though not statistically significantly) more common than F with only 1 flat.

Ask any singer: F is the hardest key to sing in. Most people who have to sing in F unaccompanied will inevitably go flat over the course of the song without lots of practice.

I would have plotted the frequency of each chord relative to the key. (e.g., count chords as I/IV/V/ii/etc. instead of C/F/G/Dm) This automatically corrects for the relative popularity of different keys seen earlier in the post.
The disadvantage of your solution is the environment impact of such a transportation system. An electricity based solution seems to be much cleaner (especially if we imagine the same kind of traffic as the plane one today).
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This article resonates with me, I really appreciate it!

I would like to add a source or two of grumpiness.

To the "Work cross-functionally" section: it is possible to be injected into the creative process too early and too far. I may be creative, but I am not a replacement for a designer or graphics artist. I can sketch a wire frame, but I get really grumpy when someone says "now we want a screenshot of what it would look like in the real website."

Also a source of grumpiness is being expected to know everything about computers and be able to do/fix anything. As a programmer, if I say I can't administer a production level server, I hope that will be respected and someone qualified will be found to take care of the task.

I know there are really talented people with a wealth of cross domain knowledge and expertise, but for me - I'm a programmer, Jim, not a graphics artist or a system administrator.
Good points. I hadn't thought about it from a supply chain perspective or that of cannibalizing sales. That's definitely a consideration.
The larger frameworks might have a better out of the box experience because of the 101 videos and tutorials. Smaller frameworks do have some getting started material as well. I find you are also learning a lot about how to do it the framework's way (HTML helpers, ORMs) while not really learning the underlying technology (HTML, SQL). That's going to hinder you.
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Airbnb is getting me kicked out of my NYC apartment.

I just received a notice of termination from my landlord in the mail. It states that I am violating my lease by using my apartment as a hotel/bed and breakfast and that I have two weeks to move out. As evidence, they included my airbnb posting and the two reviews I received from the two people who stayed in my apartment (one for two nights and one for five nights). The apartment is not rent stabilized and I have lived here for two years, always paying my rent on time. I don't know if it is legal that they are trying to kick me out of my apartment with two weeks notice, and I don't know if they can use my airbnb posting as proof. I'm going to see a lawyer this week.
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I too have a handicapped child and I know how much work it can be to make even the littlest progress. I'm so glad to hear you've found such a great tool and love that you have also noticed such a big spike in ability ... my son's seem to come during and immediately after trips to Disney World.

And I can also sympathize with the idea that you might lose the sudden gains. Our son didn't walk until he was 3-4 years old, and then at about 9 years old his knees started degrading. Which leaves me with this ... sometimes all I can do for my son is to pray and I'll do that for you too. But I'm also going to send my elected officials your story. It needs to be heard.
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These are so good they cannot be real (humourous).They read like a Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G, Borat) film script. Here I thought the Swedes were the more intelligent inhabitants. Sonja has proved us right/wrong? Can't wait to see this new meme go viral.
Your statement sounds sensible, yet I can't seem to reconcile it with the fact that Justin Beiber is one of the wealthiest musicians of his time.
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But of course we don't know and mods presumably also have access to this function without a story needing flags.

Kinda ironic that a post about heavy handed moderating gets censored.
The problem is, that things like these create a misguided perception in the general public. Papers like these should be full of disclaimers that making predictions about any technology 200 years in the future is at best highly speculative. Ultimately I would argue the value of a constructed research like this is very little more than the work of a scifi author who just makes up some story based on the last 27 years of his life experience. The choice ultimately comes down to what method one prefers for speculating on what is going to happen 200 years from now.
Why don't YOU tell us :) I'd love to hear about it. Bizdev/Marketing is still really undervalued in startup land.
Better than Apple can without Google? Maybe. Better than the existing Maps app? I use transit directions in Maps a lot and the transit apps I've downloaded very rarely.

I'm skeptical about this.
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I have a pessimistic theory on melodies that could be enforced by this study. Melodies are sequence of tones that can be remembered and sung. We have 7 or 12 or 5 tones, about the same number of distinguishable time patterns. Memory for melodies seem powerful, maybe allowing up to 40 elements in the sequence.

By pure combinations it seems the space of melodies is very large. But this space is in fact dramatically shrinked by the very strict relationships imposed on subsequent tones and the result could be that "we have finished exploring the space of interesting melodies", we are deemed to repeat ourselves, musical invention is something of the past.
The people I know who buy Mac Pros keep themselves quite up to date with technological developments. They know when Intel releases a new processor family, they know when nVidia and AMD release a new generation of GPU. They know that when these items are on the market they could easily call up Dell or HP and have a workstation with these components, but they don't want a Dell or HP, they want an Apple. As a result they are annoyed when Apple continues ignoring their flagship product, a product that now is now two generations behind in both CPU and GPU.

They're also typically the type of people that are irked that Apple's geometry shaders run on the CPU and not the GPU.
Even if Justin Beiber himself is clueless (and I don't think he is), the people around him are experts at creating a product that appeal to their target demographic. The most successful stars that, to you, seem to create shitty music are those that actually have the most clever people handling them.
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I myself couldn't afford (and didn't need) a Mac Pro several years ago. However, I could really use one now. I'd buy one of the existing ones, but man... I really feel like a sucker paying so much for a system that's clearly lacking in a lot of spots, to know that I'll be upgrading in a year. And the current pricing feels absurd (although normally I feel Apple pricing is fine, right now the Mac Pro isn't a great deal).

It could be argued that a real "pro" would make their money on it either way, but I myself am sitting more in the "prosumer" market. I make videos for Youtube, but I don't really make much money on them... but I really enjoy doing it. The workflow on my Macbook Pro right now with 1080p is just painful.
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> Try to remember which airlines (RyanAir) never have fares listed on aggregators

Hipmunk does list RyanAir actually http://www.hipmunk.com/#!DUB.LGW,Nov19.Nov24
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I am sorry, but as ColinWright has already indicated, we don't know that it was "censored". Since you admit we don't know, I wish you wouldn't use such a loaded, accusatory word.
Who deletes Wikipedia?
I remember seeing a Discovery documentary named "Extreme Engineering: Trans-Atlantic Tunnel" that precisely details this concept. It's available online in five parts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frYWTrEfPRs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKaVQ5Tt_Zk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zci_6AOCAo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2c6vzcmULU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoPI2doRkgA
If the Swedish version of The Family Guy has an evil talking baby named Sonja the circle will be complete.
the 11" macbook air looks like it strikes a nice balance.
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That's why I got myself an inexpensive laptop (Vostro 131, comes with Linux) and a Nook Color (promptly rooted). Good enough. And I barely went over US$ 600...
What is it supposed to do? I can't even..
We feel that Dell as a member of the Linux foundation should support Linux on all of it's desktop and laptop machines sold on it's American and Canadian websites as long as they are proven to be certified by Ubuntu engineers http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/ or by the Red Hat for the Fedora/RHEL distribution. Dell currently forces customers to buy Windows 7 and Microsoft Office if they want the latest and best Dell hardware on it's main website even if it is Ubuntu or Red Hat certified. This imposes an unfair "tax" on customers who just want the hardware alone or want it with a certified Linux distribution installed.

Make a difference and tell them to stop this unethical marketing practice now and to stop supporting a convicted abusive monopolist....Click on the title link above and get your voices heard. Only when we start making our voices heard will large OEM's like Dell stop supporting the Microsoft Cartel and stop trying to destroy Linux...
I would classify his handlers as manipulative, not clever. I would classify Justin himself as clueless, largely due to his apparent immaturity that he constantly exhibits, but I'm sure he'll be pretty sharp when he grows up. We were all young and clueless at one time.

As for my previous statement, it was mostly a joke.
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Windows 8 tablets can't sell for $800 or $900. I don't care what the tablets cost the manufacturers to make and license, they simply won't sell any for that price.

It may well be more featured packed and powerful than an iPad - but it will be the premium product. At that price it will be pretty damn close to the price of a Macbook Air or Ultrabook which aren't any more arduous to carry. The only advantage of a tablet of those notebooks is the form factor. So how many people are out there looking for the form factor of a tablet but find the iPad's specs constraining?
This is unfortunate, I do hope there is some recourse for him. I am curious, are there similar cases of this happening for the Android platform? Would there be another opportunity to plead his case before being banned?
Is this part of the nReduce program? Is it beneficial so far? Or more of a distraction?
If you're interested in the topic of digital delivery services, I also wrote an article comparing a couple of them:

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/03/29/selling-digital-g...
Doctors, teachers, parents, people working outside - there are many reasons that a laptop is cumbersome for various vocations.
Best solution here would appear to be never sync that iPad again, back it up to iTunes, disable its Wi-Fi, and consider it her speech appliance. Don't update the OS, don't sync to iTunes, never do anything with it again aside from using it for this essential purpose. If you have to buy another one, restore it from your iTunes backup. These are the 'legal' avenues, clearly with jailbreaking it's simpler.

Unfortunate that a legal battle puts you in that position, but if this app is as important to her life as she says, she should be perfectly fine freezing that iPad where it is and not treating it like an iPad any more. It is now a dedicated appliance, not a general-purpose iPad. Buy another one for everything else.

Sucks, but, best solution given the circumstances, I think. Obviously, it'd be great if the circumstances changed.

(Edited to add backup.)
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Ok, I've read it twice. I'm not sure I understand the argument. It reads like the argument is "This technology helps handicapped people so you shouldn't allow it to be patented." Is that a reasonable argument? PRC seems to have a valid patent, they sell a device the people in the article could use, Speak For Yourself infringed without a license and they are the good guys why?

The patent argument would go, "PRC figured out how to do this thing (invented it), we give them a limited monopoly so that they will continue to invest in doing things like this."

Now I completely agree that if there is litigation in progress that it's uncharitable for Apple to pull the app without a court order but it is their playground. And as everyone points out its not like they reach out and delete it on your iPad (which is why VLC still lives on mine btw)

So what exactly is the question?
WOW - AMAZING & COMPELLING STORY. 2 THUMBS UP. wtf is this doing on HN?
Here's a video of the Maya in question using the device.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXBb_30NNYE