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I've been transitioning from Visual Studio/.NET/WPF/Resharper to Xcode/Vim this past month. While I feel like the microsoft programming environment is way more productive, at the end of the day an I care less about the development environment, and more about whether what I'm making will have an impact and make money.

I'm expecting many developers that long for a better dev. environment to buy 3rd party IDE's like IntelliJ IDEA & AppCode. They also cost less than what you'd spend on Visual Studio Professional (yes, i know i'm ignoring bizspark here).

Along with this, I'm just not excited about microsoft's pitch with surface as a laptop replacement. I want a tablet that replaces books and paper. Those aspects still require hardware design that feels good in "vertical" mode.
Ugh, having to upgrade to the outrageously priced high-end CPU just to get the 512GB SSD is killing me.

I need to upgrade, but I'm seriously considering a fully loaded Air instead because it'd be nice if this came in under $3k.
Autophagy sounds like an insanely clever and awesome mechanism! What a hack. Thanks for sharing!
How so? Because they bought up all hi-res panel supply? Other manufacturers will catch up sooner or later on this, or they will face sale declines. I don't see how Apple intentionally prevent others from moving to retina displays.

If anything, the rest of the industry has to blame itself for delaying so long and investing so little on good displays. Now they have to bite the bullet by competing with each other for the remaining supply of hi-res displays. Would they see this coming a few years ago when Apple invested heavily for such strategic thing?
This is absolutely right. Techies often forget that for most of the history of computing approximately 90% of all software development has been making TPS reports, business logic, and data entry screens for database backends.

However, a lot of those folks who do J2EE and Dotnet during the day will have fun tinkering at night. So I predict there will be no shortage of amateurish and clunky apps for Metro platforms.
True but I think this price change is purely to stop people who are considering moving (because of high prices) from doing so.
Once a bank does take someone on, there are very strong regulations on what they can and can not do. A bank can't just cut you off and freeeze your money, as PayPal has done here.
1. You are making the assumption that the insurance companies models of what is and is not a risky lifestyle are correct.

2. For the same reason that your employer is not entitled to put cameras in your bathroom to make sure you aren't doing anything that might impact your job performance.
Cloud as a Tectonic Shift in IT: Part 2, by Sacha Labourey, CloudBees
This is an effect of human tribalism and occurs in just about every aspect of human life. People need to be part of a group, and part of being part of a group is castigating outsiders.

Businesses that recognize this and play to it will always have more loyal and ardent customers, but you have to be willing to black-ball some potential customers in the process.
Sorry, but Marco is mostly right. Microsoft's #1 problem right now is getting good consumer front-end developers to even install Windows, let alone write apps for their platforms.
I actually had to turn off adblock to see the complaint, and indeed it is terrible

We really need to start thinking about the post advertising economy dont we
I think on a principled level, many are becoming concerned about the ever increasing volume of data being collected on all of us. It isn't necessarily about any particular subset of data, or all the plausible abuses of it, it's just the idea that some would rather not have every move they make being recorded and logged into a system they have no information on or ability to influence.

More specific to insurance companies, the potential/plausible abuses to increase profit don't take much effort to ferret out. And to make matters worse the data they use will invariable flag a lot of false positives that you'll have little to no way of fixing. For example, my girlfriend regularly picks me up a pack of cigarettes on her way home from work. She usually uses her credit card instead of cash. Ok, now she's flagged in the system as being a chronic smoker and her rates get jacked up to holy hell. Except, of course, she's not actually a smoker and I'd be super skeptical about her ability to reasonably explain this to some random customer service rep over the telephone.

Data mining usage habits rarely result in lower prices for people making positive, less risky choices. Non-smokers will probably be giving a trivial token discount, but unlikely anything more.
Youtube-mp3 is embedding Criteo adds in an iframe, and this somehow means Netflix, Target, Samsung, etc., are sponsoring piracy?

Asinine article, that shows inexcusable ignorance of how online advertising works.
...and Where is this statistic you are alluding to? Facebook is the #1 example of a company who gave HTML5 100% of the company's focus and realized it was seriously misguided and is now redoubling efforts to write serious native apps for each platform.
Your comment, if I follow, seems to assume I was making the argument that being different would protect against data mining for underwriting purposes; I didn't. The argument I was making is it's likely to unfairly penalize some people because their actions aren't in line with the majority or the expected.

I honestly do believe that it's easy to position consumer data mining as a good thing by initially offering it as an option with the promise of "fairer" rates. Some people will be happy to donate their spending habits to get a discount. This optional program is likely to become less optional over time as people become more used to the idea of sharing their spending habits. After all, that's what we're doing with loyalty card schemes already, isn't it? Credit scores are the epitome of this kind of program.
Java has a lot of memory management problems, and as the flagship for garbage collection for so many years, many people confuse its issues with gc generally. So you're right, but in the applications most people work on, he's right too.
I'm surprised that FB doesn't have a full blown "FaceSense" program already.

People may not be in a buying mood while on FB, but they will be on other sites.
It's ridiculously fun! I highly suggest at least checking out a friend's quadcopter; you'll want one after the first few seconds of being behind the controls.

I bought my AR 1.0 used, but like-new, for $200 with the factory battery which lasts about 10 minutes or so, as well as a MaxAmps upgraded battery for extended flight time. I get about 20-25 minutes out of the aftermarket battery under normal wind conditions. It's plenty of time to have a lot of fun with, but I'd highly suggest having at least one spare battery to follow-up with for max flight time. On the flip-side, you don't want to run your equipment for too long without giving it some time for cool-down, so it's kinda a silver lining in regards to longevity.

If you're on the fence, I'd say spring for it and go for the AR Drone first, it's a great starting platform for people new to quadcopters and RC flying. If it's something you can see yourself getting more into, then debate pursuing more of a hobby-grade setup as you go.

There are a ton of nuances to the RC hobby alone, flying doesn't make it much easier for newcomers unfortunately. Start with something polished and make your life a lot easier, you'll no doubt be hooked. Either way, it's so worth it!!
Is there a better way to evaluate startup accelerators?
Please don't editorialize in the link title.
...and now it's deployed. You can see it here:

https://www.voo.st/
I can't comment on the legal accuracy of that interpretation of the law, but as someone who has performed jury duty on a number of occasions I can say that whatever the letter of the law, character assassination, in lieu of objective evidence, is common and very routine.
Yeah, they got big enough fast enough that it wasn't practical to squash them. So they got incorporated into the system instead.

If anybody finally does manage to create a transnational money beyond governments, it's going to need to be highly decentralized.
It doesn't matter. All you have to do is suggest the plaintiff is an alcoholic, and let the jury infer the rest. Ad-hominen attacks are par for the course in trials, because they are incredibly effective.
The person you replied to didn't state that the data is already being sold, however a quick Google search reveals concrete examples of this already being the case in the UK, which has relatively strong privacy protections: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2005/sep/20/freedomofinfo...
We have post-commit hooks into a web application that will play unreal tournament WAVs on a PA depending on how many commits you have made.

Rampage!
There seems to be two issues here being conflated as one (judging by the follow-up/updates):

1.) Two different items - because the same item is being offered by two different sellers. The $9 is Amazon's main one, the $12 is Macmillan's own specified price (note the "Sold by Macmillan" in that entry).

2.) Prices on the same item (identified by ASIN) do change at Amazon: sellers can change their prices, even to ridiculous lengths such as this from last year: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358 . In the retail part of Amazon, Kindle books are treated in much the same way as physical items, so the same flexibility of pricing is offered. Physical goods have cost of holding stock and 90-day-invoicing cycles, hence pricing seem to fluctuate based on that 90 day window and items still on hand at payment day. Kindle ebooks, less so, but there's still A/B testing to consider.

Online, especially for non-physical items are tending to have fluctuating prices, trying to find the ideal price to maximise profits.

One of my friends recommends http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/ for price watching items on Amazon. I tend to keep an eye on the Lego-focused variant over at http://brickset.com/buy/uk/amazon/ -- price watching is proving to be an interesting cottage-industry.

Clearing cookies / incognito mode triggers re-selecting a different bucket - that's why you are seeing different pricing. So, if you want, clear cookies over and over, find the lowest price, and buy right there and then.

Interestingly, the counter-intuitive strategy of increasing price can sometimes actually reap more sales. So having the lowest price isn't always the most optimal strategy.

I've had worse price differentials with British Airways. Go directly to the site for a flight and I get one price. Go to Expedia pick the same flight, get redirected straight through to the same page as before and the exact flight is £200 cheaper.
Punishable by death, ironically

Where and when was that?
Under Linux, one could easily substitute fswebcam https://github.com/fsphil/fswebcam for command-line pictures and avconv http://www.itforeveryone.co.uk/image-to-video.html to make the timelapse.

http://coderwall.com/p/ijgggw
For me , here's the key paragraph from the article:

"By the standards of retailing, Apple offers above average pay — well above the minimum wage of $7.25 and better than the Gap, though slightly less than Lululemon, the yoga and athletic apparel chain, where sales staff earn about $12 an hour. The company also offers very good benefits for a retailer, including health care, 401(k) contributions and the chance to buy company stock, as well as Apple products, at a discount."
I had a script that took a picture of my every half hour. This ran for about six months and gave me a brilliant insight into the ins and outs of my laptop usage.
Living your life according to contradictory actuarial tables cooked up by people running an anti-competitive market captured by government regulation? Sounds like fun.
This is why I think something like Bitcoin is so vital. As physical cash is more and more being replaced by digital money the ability to have financial privacy is imperative. Think about all the data mining that would be possible if your every transaction ever was recorded in some database. The financial privacy possible with Bitcoin is one of its best qualities in my opinion.
ILL DEATH BECOMES U _.flv
Show HN: Run Turing's reaction-diffusion on your own meshes
Not all speculation is pointless. There's a point in knowing that the evidence for Turing's suicide is inconclusive.

A recent biography of Van Gogh challenges the evidence for his suicide too.
Oh hell am I going to step into it.

Uh, its retail job. No one there creates the products they sell. Better yet, its not a hard sale. I would bet the majority of people entering an Apple store are there to buy something, provided they can afford it.

While some could and can make a living off of these jobs I see them as a stepping stone. As in, I would be forever fascinated by how these product I sell and obviously like are made, the design, the programming. So I would probably gravitate to learning the skills necessary to move into that line of work. Some may see this as a guide towards starting their own business, how do you market your product, present it, interact with people.

Still its not a job that requires any real education. It simply requires you to remember some product information, some tricks and tips, and not be a douchebag to other people, namely your co workers and customers.

They sell high priced products that are sold in large numbers, of course the numbers will be distorted. I really dislike articles like this because not all jobs within a company have the same value. When you have a product that nearly sells itself it kind of tells me who deserves more money - hint they are not at the store.
It seems more likely that the person on the other end of the conversation simply did the "import gmail contacts" option, and during this process they noticed the correspondence between you and him. Then when you changed your email for linkedin that connection was broken.
I don't think they were logging into email surreptitiously without you first doing a "Find My Friends" thing--that's clearly illegal. However, my guess is that they did at least the following (which is still creepy, IMHO):

- Used phone contacts from the mobile app to use as suggestions. I noticed a serious uptake on weird connection suggestions after I first installed the app a few years back. Checking it out on a proxy, I noticed that it wasn't using SSL, either, so I uninstalled that puppy quick. I assume they've fixed this between then and now.

- The "Find My Friends" from the Web and Mobile works both ways - so if someone you've emailed in the past chooses to do this, you start seeing them in your suggestions list. If I remember correctly, their original method for doing this was an actual login to email (which may be what happened to you; I don't know if there's any way to get them to clear out those suggestions once you've done it. I contacted Support about this awhile back & couldn't get an answer). What seemed weird to me about this is that all my wedding vendors popped up at the same time as suggestions...like they all got on LinkedIn at once or something.

- If you look at someone's profile or they look at yours--even anonymously, you're linked somehow for suggestions. I've seen people I haven't talked to or emailed in 15 years and three email accounts ago recommended, as well as their spouses(!). Serious privacy issues here if you spend a few minutes thinking about the possibilities. ;)

A quick tip--would bet many HN folks already know this, but I've talked to bunches of people who don't: Unless you explicitly set the "Select what others see when you view their profile," option (and keep checking it occasionally - just found mine was reset somehow), anyone whose profile you've viewed can see that you've viewed it. I love this feature (from the who's-viewed-me side, at least), but it's still creepy and something to be aware of if you're LinkedIn stalking someone...

Also, it does look like they finally added a "Security" checkbox in Settings to always browse using https - would highly recommend setting that one if you haven't already.
I notice that your HN profile and your personal home page give an email address, but no public key.
Right. If employees want a "cut" of the profits, they can get that cut by buying stock. They're also getting health insurance, 401k.
Apple fully embraced the open source community as a launch-pad for Mac OS X a decade ago. So the initial early adopters were all Unix/Linux enthusiasts that were establishing all the web technologies.

Plus, for the first time you could compile apache and use Photoshop in the same environment.

Then developers who were there early on because of that, started writing the tools that later became the standard. (eg. TextMate, Transmit)
It's called "Bitcoin", simply because it can serve as an independent non-political payment network.

However, its usefulness is limited by poor infrastructure and limited marketshare. Bitcoin is getting more useful, though. There's Bitcoin ATM, smartcards for bitcoin wallets, mobile app that utilize QR code, etc.
On the other hand, a quick search on the MIT keyserver reveals:

http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0xD...
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook-Pro-15-Inch-Retina-Di...

It's on the Macbook Pro in the display assembly.
Your jury duty experience was different than mine then. I sat on a criminal trial where we were told almost nothing about the numerous past convictions of the defendant, the fact that he beat his girlfriend, or the fact that the trial's key witness had been beaten shortly before the trial began in an apparent effort to prevent her testimony. I learned about all these things only when the trial was over. The judge even threw out a recorded phone call that the defendant placed from prison because it repeated some boilerplate disclaimers about the call being from a prison inmate.

My jury experience led me to believe that evidence rules are very stringently applied.
Garbage collection is not that bad.

Memory allocation being a bottleneck in high-performance applications? I'm not sure what your "high-performance" means (HPC? Games?), but profile an application without garbage collection and 80% of the time a significant part of the run time will be within malloc and free.

A garbage collector might even be more efficient, since it can delay/avoid the management. When will a GC actually do a collection run? At the moment, when it cannot provide an allocation request from its pool. A program which needs little memory might never hit this barrier. This is like a never calling 'free'. Of course, whether this can be done can only be decided at runtime.

There is nothing in a garbage collector which prevents alignments to cache boundaries, preallocation, or stack allocation. In the case of Java the Hotspot JVM can allocate objects on the stack. However, this is a compiler optimization in this case and cannot be directly controlled by the programmer. The upside is that the programmer cannot introduce memory bugs.

If you write a game with Java you can allocate a fixed size of memory up front as well. I do not see a problem with garbage collection here.
2% on any one item is of course not all that significant, but like any other salami-slicing deal you have to make a habit of taking advantage of it wherever possible.
I sold $350k-$1.2M / month when I worked at CompUSA in college (late 90s). I averaged $10/hr jan-september, about $18 november/december.

I was usually ranked 3 out of 100 salespeople. The rest made $6.60/hr.

I wasn't being exploited, and neither are the folks at the Apple store.
> The garbage collector has nothing to do with things like memory struct alignment.

Exactly - that's my point - with garbage collectors you can't do things like align to 16-byte boundaries for SSE, or so they fit in cache lines...

> And garbage collector makes concurrent allocation easier, not harder.

If it pre-allocates a huge amount of memory (i.e. a memory arena), yes. If it has to allocate the memory from the OS (i.e. it hasn't got any more available to the application), then it's a further painfully slow allocation. Allocating that extra memory is an extra step for the GC language (GC allocates amount at startup, but then when the program executes that isn't enough so needs to allocate more), whereas the C/C++ version can do it all in one allocation.

> And garbage collection doesn't prevent stack allocation.

I didn't say it didn't, I said Java did.

> You seem to have no idea what you're talking about.

If you say so.
Completely agree- Microsoft has solid line of business developers but their development community is sorely lacking people with rich UX skills.

Comparing the Silverlight community to the Flash community, the Silverlight community is much more concerned about architecture (MVVM, Dependency Injection, IOC, etc), while the Flash community seems to have much more of a focus on 'how to accomplish a visual effect. It's not quite that clear cut, but these are the general trends.

The other significant item is the cost to change development operating systems- Microsoft platforms have been stagnant for too long, HTML is fairly agnostic as a development platform so iOS has been pulling many people there. (Not to mention that a fair number of newer web technologies treat Windows as a second-tier platform).

Some of the larger costs for supporting development on multiple OSes, for a small company:

- Basic systems maintenance (OS licenses, user logins across machines, support, parallels?)

- Consistent development environment- sharing source control between systems, porting build/test scripts, etc

- Related tools- if you're doing a lot of UI work, may also need Photoshop or Illustrator on your new OS.
Conduit: JS to Objective-C... and back again.
Yes, eg: https://lwn.net/Articles/494993/

Linus took extra steps to no break autofs behavior, even though it was (more) due to a bug in GCC than anything else.
When you are an input, you will never get rich. Apple store employees are not tricked into the job. They are promised x and they get x. If they don't like it, they can go work for a Microsoft store. Or, they can stop complaining and create something themselves. Apple has created so many jobs, not just at Apple, Inc., but with the entire economy that has developed as a result of their products.

Perhaps the NY Times ought to be criticizing General Motors for stagnant growth and job losses rather than Apple who is actually doing something good for the economy. I think that the NY Times is just jealous -- after all, Instagram is worth more.

How many jobs has the NY Times created lately?

They find it easy to attack Apple, but seem to be sleeping when it comes to companies like Solyndra and Fiskar taking millions of taxpayer dollars and effectively wasting them. Apple is a net positive for the US economy, but the NY Times doesn't care about that -- it's trendy to attack Apple.

Foxconn, for example, makes stuff for HP and many other consumer hardware companies, yet it's always Apple that gets the worm from the media.

Nonsense. That's all this is. Linkbait rivaling Business Insider.

We can criticize Apple for many things, but job creation and economic value is not one of them.
I'm a Linux and OS X user all the way, but I don't agree with assertions like:

The even bigger problem, I think, will be the lack of dogfooding: most developers of the kind of apps Windows 8 needs don’t use Windows. .. or.. many of those consumer-product developers, now entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, to care so much about Windows development that they want to use Windows to develop for it.

It's easy to think that when entrenched in the progressive, UNIX-oriented crowd, as most of us on HN are, but take a little dive into the Windows world and the scope of even just indie developers working on Windows is mindboggling and totally eclipses the open source, Mac and Unix crowds, in my estimate (though this is truly just an estimate).