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"devices we use constantly, all day, probably some absurd number of times per hour"

So, they're like phones, then. ;) When I was a teen, my peers and I used our phones (some of them even were landlines) constantly. But the fashion attribute was minimal, and the functionality was pretty much identical regardless of brand.

Not that that kept me from feeling immeasurably cooler than everyone else when I got a nice and tiny Nokia 8290...
This just in: a bottom-rung retail job doesn't pay very much.
It's interesting that you talk about a PC "at home", but it's actually just a cheap laptop. I only use laptops when travelling; weight and size then are far more important than performance. High-performance laptops, IMO, are for laypeople who can't afford two machines, students and homeless consultants. My PC, on the other hand, is liquid cooled for reduced noise, has SSD, 32GB of RAM, 680 GTX graphics, 2 monitors (limited by desk space), etc., and generally performs far better than anything in a mobile form factor. Windows "experience index" is 7.9 across the board except for CPU/memory at 7.8.

Pretty much all trackpads suck. Apple's big glass trackpads, when running OS X rather than Windows, are the best implementation I've seen, but mostly because the two-finger gesture scrolling is so slick - it's continuous, rather than anything for Windows which is stuck with discrete mouse wheel up / down buttons. (Mouse wheel movements are not continuous.) Apple trackpads are great for reading single long web pages, but when you need lots of fine control, particularly while maintaining a dragging operation, they too suck horribly. They're not a decent alternative to a mouse.
It took me awhile to figure out that I actually needed to click the photo to see the stories. I tried all the other links first.
Yeah. Sports teams, stores, schools, authors, movies, music, foods...

I think it's harder to come up with categories I've never seen fanaticism over...
That link somewhat misleadingly downplays the role of other dollar-denominated assets held by non-US. Now it is true that the fact that trillions of USDs are held in treasuries by other countries (China, Japan, etc.) cannot significantly affect the interest paid on those treasuries, because this interest rate is largely a result of Fed monetary policy.

On the other hand, it is very obvious that the fact that the Chinese government is buying up treasuries is what prevents the USD from dropping versus the RMB. So China is effectively giving the US a whole bunch of real goods for free, by buying up those treasuries. This may be irrelevant from the financial perspective, but in real terms, this is a huge benefit for the US.

That said, the fact that China buys lots of USD doesn't have anything to do with the whole petro-dollar thing. It just so happens that their industry is geared towards exporting to the US, and it is not possible for them to restructure their industry quickly. So in a sense, the article is still correct on the whole petro-dollar front, but misleading in others.
Exactly. All of these "there's no way anyone could have known that" stories ignore the fact that there is another person who could have known and provided that info.
Android fanboys pick on me because I bought an iPhone and I should really have chosen Android because bla bla bla. I have an iPhone 1st gen (bought in 2007) ...

What I noticed though is that since there are great Android phones on the market, the number of fanboys seems to have diminished quite a lot. It is as if having some real reason to like Android, they don't need to crusade anymore. People are weird.
Welp... Pogue's point is really proven now.
Haukur, thanks for your kind offer. I'm really tempted as Iceland is one of the few places in the world I really want to see but haven't done so yet. I'm wondering, what are the living costs, that's the part that concerns me about Iceland. The flights are reasonable but what can I expect to pay if I eat 3 meals out per day, some coffee and maybe some beers?
I spent a day in Copenhagen recently working out of a coffee shop and it was too expensive to do for two weeks.
Not every feature, sure. But there are a lot of features that don't have an increased hardware requirement. I know this because I use TomTom turn by turn on the iPhone 4 right now, same maps data that's on iOS 6. I also use video calling ove 3g on the iPhone 4. So yea, it's a little hard to swallow why these features are being excluded, well except for the money. I'd even accept 3 years for a tablet, but not two.
Autophagy is a repurposing of the same cell machinery that is used to engulf and digest large pieces of external material. Instead of extending a membrane outward from the cell surface to engulf an external particle, it forms a membrane inside the cell and uses it to engulf some part of the cell's contents. Either way, the result is a membrane-bound bag of stuff, which is then merged with the cell's lysosome, which is full of acid and digestive enzymes.

Autophagy is a fairly recently-discovered mechanism (compared to, say, apoptosis), but it already seems to be a universally-used pathway, for everything from killing invading bacteria, to clearing plaques and aggregates of misfolded proteins (such as those that cause neurodegenerative diseases), to self-cannibalizing unnecessary cell components for energy and building blocks during starvation conditions.

There's some evidence that autophagy is protective against a wide range of neurodegenerative diseases, so a good bit of research is focused on how to stimulate autophagy in neurons in a safe and controlled fashion (since obviously too much autophagy will kill the cell outright).
If you're giving someone access to a service that you can revoke (e.g. web hosting, VPN, etc), it doesn't seem like there's any practical risk in optimistically giving someone access once you see the spend hit the bitcoin network. It's not infeasible to do that in a matter of seconds.

If you're shipping something physical you're not going to be working on a timescale less than an hour anyways.

Really the only time that I see Bitcoin's transaction processing speed being an issue is when you're doing a moderate to large transaction where waiting around would be inconvenient.
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I suspect that back door is a browser cookie. Tons of sites don't deauth old cookies on password change. Hacker News being one of them. Why doesn't anybody freak out over the HN backdoor?
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You really equate "portable" with "to be used outdoors"? I can't recall ever using my laptops outside.
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All the money Apple puts into engineering and marketing counts for squat if someone goes into an Apple Store and has to deal with salesperson who is unhelpful or not knowledgeable. Best case you end up with an unhappy customer, worst case you loose a sale or a customer for life.

The Apple Store isn't Walmart, the people that work there aren't just cashiers. Hang out in the Apple store for 10 minutes and listen to the people there talking to customers, now do the same thing at Best Buy.
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That's a bit harsh. Like with Java or Perl, there's an enormous installed base of PHP apps which need maintaining and upgrading (and replacing, wherever possible); a lot of people end up inheriting systems they didn't build, and having to keep them up _ad libitum_.
Sorry, but no. I have worked retail, as have many of my friends and family. It's a low skill job, which is why it pays what it does and is done by armies of teenagers.
This story reminds me of my friends who worked for non-profits. It would be a perpetual hamster wheel of recruiting volunteers, organizing events, preparing. All of them were burnt out after two to three years and left. That is typical industry turnover.

Once they left, many were able to find corporate jobs in which they doubled their meager salary. Working for a recognizable non-profit is a filter for someone who works hard (at the entry level, the higher up you go, the more it is about being friends with major donors)

None of them regret it, you believe in the mission and thus you give them part of your youth.
Looks like this would work as a native alternative: http://batchloaf.wordpress.com/commandcam/
yes, but PayPal is so huge that ripping off customers here or there is not a big deal to them. Hopefully they will answer a wakeup call when Square and Dwalla will continue to rise the way they are right now.

I learnt to respect someone accepting bitCoint online, especially after dealing with PayPal for last 6 years. If I have to chose, I use bitcoins, and 10 minutes is not a big deal to wait; no worries!
Sure - non-Retina, yes you could compare. That was precisely my argument in the beginning.

But, actually, if you look at the specs, which I went heavy on the updates and mods for the HP, I actually spent closer to $1,600 to get the highest resolution display, fastest SSD, and highest performance CPU (which is still beaten by the MacBooks Ivy Bridge, but not by much I admit). $500 is a fairly negligible difference and the HP is far too full of defects for that price point while the $2199 MacBook Pro w/Retina which offers a far better quality in design and function. The 'aluminum body' on my HP is a half-assed attempt at looking cool but it's a joke. The overall quality of most PCs I have bought in the past two or three years is horrendous, even if they are cheaper.

Again, I have been doing this for a long, long time and I know value when I see it. Otherwise I would have stayed a skeptic for the rest of my days.
Glossy displays are exclusively better in controlled lighting, because their black levels are actually good. Controlled lighting is not difficult to achieve and is already a necessity for graphics work.

Actually, it can even be better outside. A screen with reflections on it is not as bad as a screen that you can't see due to low contrast.

(I'm currently using a matte desktop LCD, but wasted tons of time looking for a model with an 8-bit screen and good contrast.)
https://github.com/skottie/rawr-box

Not really designed for public consumption, and the code is quick and dirty. Designed to run on a Mac.

Can also be used with speech recognition and applescripts to curl the web server for voice commands.
Pyschopaths that twisted wouldn't get very far. It's the same thing with a disease; if it's very lethal and highly contagious, it's not actually very dangerous, because it will kill most carriers before it gets a chance to spread.
Craigslist needs to be stopped. This is the third incredibly useful service I've seen shutdown in as many weeks. I was heartbroken when Carsabi had to stop indexing Craigslist a couple weeks ago.
How about all the ipad apps that access craigslist data? how do they get away with that???
The CEO doesn't necessarily know about each article, but you know the Times doesn't run a hatchet job on a major corporation without it filtering up to the top floor offices. Story lists are circulated among the executives. When I was a photographer for Reuters and Sipa (1996-2002), I had, on occasion, photos that would find their way up to the executive level before they'd be released. I can specifically remember my photos from Jasper, Texas and the James Bird Jr. murder getting some extra attention before they went out on the wire. Another situation involved a Black Panther protest and KKK counter-protest at the Gary Graham execution in Huntsville, TX.

Executives definitely know what's going on, especially with highly visible targets.

Stories are promoted, killed, "massaged" or delayed for various reasons by the executives. To believe otherwise is naïve.

The Times is losing subscribers, losing profits and you bet your ass that reporters are worried about it -- their jobs depend on the company's survival. Apple is increasing profits, hiring people and they're also non-union. Polar opposite of the NY Times organization. I'm not disputing any of the Times's facts, I am disputing the slant. Instead of addressing the very high youth unemployment among recent college graduates, they instead attack a company that's creating jobs -- without government "stimulus." That scares the typical Times reporters because it goes against their common refrain that government spending is necessary to save the economy.

Apple devices, specifically the iPad have cut into traditional newspaper profits substantially as well. It could be said that the internet killed the newspaper and the iPad is just fast tracking that process. People are consuming more content, but they are paying for it less frequently.

They could have run the same article about McDonalds. Billions in worldwide sales, yet cashiers are making low wages with no 401k, no stock purchase and very modest, if any health coverage. Yet, the take on Apple. What's the motivation? Are employees being abused? No. Are they being paid below market value? No. Are they being denied benefits? No.

What's the story? "Apple employees make less than the executives but more than nearly everyone else in retail." Big f'ing deal.
I'm going to assume that the NYTimes didn't think it's readers were too stupid to figure that out. He was still the person who finalised $750,000 worth of business.

Besides, the most effective marketing apple has is still it's fans and I'm sure Apple store staff have evangelised Apple products plenty outside of work hours too.
IMHO, Microsoft could be seeing a similar problem as IBM 10-15 years ago. They couldn't hire and keep the Great Ones any more. First it meant getting out of the OS business. Then it meant buying software firms rather than developing software. They realized that they were an Enterprise Sales and Services organization.
Because Go is concurrent and has mutable types, race conditions could cause the assumptions gleaned from the booleans to be false in the very next statement. Boolean blindness is a result of the language.
How much is that Best Buy job paying these days?
> I wonder what conclusions an insurer would draw from my supermarket purchases (mostly meat & dairy)?

"Follows paelo diet."
I agree completely.

Sales requires a lot of talent and should pay commission. Certainly. But "Specialists" at the Apple store need only to be cordial, competent and informed. While not sales, that does deserve a premium above the wage offered at a fast-food counter, which at $11/hr they are getting.

I do, however, think the jobs should be in the $15-20/hr range not the $10-12/hr. That is the difference between a paycheck and a living wage in a lot of places. And Apple certainly can afford it. I'd look to Whole Foods for an example.
thanks, should have looked up this source..
In mobile platforms, be it iOS or Android, the main problem is the SDK/API itself, not the actual language. For me, Qt is much more pleasant to work with than over-engineered Android platform.
This is an argument against copyright. I think it's a rather extreme position. Copyright is useful as a concept even if it's gotten completely out of control.

The issue with the GPL is that it takes the most critical component of copyright away -- the ability to control the distribution of your work in any meaningful degree (e.g., by charging money for access to it). You can tinker with the copyright code to say that works transformed away from direct human readability (i.e. things that require a machine to be understood, like binary compiled code) are not copyrightable, requiring everyone to release source code, etc., but the premise of freedom 2 is neither self-evident or inviolable. In the real world, people have to make money, and without some form of intellectual property law, any digitized work immediately has an infinite supply, which will always usurp any level of demand no matter how significant, making it impossible to profit off of the digitized work directly.

I don't believe there's a moral requirement to allow everyone access to the fruits of your labor for free. If the software generates value for the end-user, it seems fair to expect some recompense for the work you've done. Why do you believe it is unfair to actually make money off the product you build? Do we see people giving grills away for free and attempting to make a living off of "selling support" for that grill?
But if the plaintiff was an upstanding member of the community, then the threat to publish alcohol sales - even if he wasn't an alcoholic and they weren't unreasonable - might be enough to convince him to drop the suit.
Seriously? AGain!? This is already in the top stories.
Bewildering or not, and whether you want to believe it or not, I wouldn't put it past your bank: all the economic incentives are firmly stacked against you.

As things stand right now, the regulatory environment permits banks to send you a difficult-to-understand, filled-with-legalese notice letting you know they will be sharing a lot of your information with third parties and certain "affiliates" (such as, say, joint ventures with other companies)... unless you call some call center to opt-out.

How easy is it to opt-out? Here's what one consumer found out when he tried to opt-out from one well-known bank's default "privacy" policy: http://blog.joemanna.com/chase-sucks-with-new-privacy-policy...

Then one reads about companies like Acxiom in this recent article in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/technology/acxiom-the-quie...
Nicely done! I like that you used the referring site (or at least int his case Hacker News) to fill in the search field.
Comments such as these are seriously out of touch with reality.

For me it is actually rather interesting that they went with HTML first, considering that they had the resources to skip on the HTML version completely. And I'm sure that they did this, not because HTML was the fad of the moment, but because HTML has inherent advantages ... like, when Windows Phone 8 gets released, Facebook will be available for it from day 1, just as it is available on any phone that has a web browser.

And of course they had to go native. Developing web apps for mobile phones is extremely painful. For instance the last time I developed something for an iPhone, upload buttons in the browser were disabled. So basically in the name of user experience or whatever the hell reasons Apple is conjuring these days, they deliberately broke the user experience for web apps by not allowing uploads of photos. And considering this is the number 1 use-case for active users of Facebook, they were forced to go native anyway.

The alternative road, which both Facebook and Google took, was to wrap that HTML in an app container that would let them bypass the browser restrictions (like uploading of files). But this was a bad idea, at least because the web view on iOS has much worse performance characteristics than the browser. For Facebook at least it's amazing how they accomplished the feat of making the native app more sluggish than loading facebook.com in the browser (which is perfect btw, except that you can't share photos with it and it also doesn't have any mechanism for giving you notifications in real time, but I don't miss that because that's what email is for).
Someone can chain fake btc transactions to your system granting themselves an infinite supply of access on short-lived accounts if you accept an immediate validation.
I am definitely no medical expert - Are we sure Alzheimer's is not a causal result of consuming prions (BSE or CJD)?
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I think the most interesting thing is the mention that a huge number of college grads work at Apple stores.
I wonder if this is just due to the economy with more educated people just gravitating to retail in general or whether employment at an Apple store has a prestige that is comparable to a more traditional role for a degree holder?
> “trusted sites” — ones that are popular and uncontroversial

LOL! zynga? it's not controversial only because it's settled that it's evil by anyone who matters.

facebook, once again, is going after the weak.
I applied to be an Apple Store employee a few years back, when the economy was pretty sour. I got into the group interview with 15 other people...among them, an opera singer, a Harvard masters, a helicopter pilot, and someone recently laid off after 20 yrs in the pharmaceutical industry.

Before people here say, "Apple is doing a lot for people in jobs meant for teenagers", keep in mind that Apple retail employees are of very high stock. And don't kid yourself, if the average Apple employee were as apathetic and unskilled as the average Gap employee, there'd be no way that Apple would be so renowned as a retailer. When you're selling a product that sold itself, you still need good people...as these particular produccts are luxury, and customers have higher demands for service
Earlier, jwz in 1994:

"There's finally an Indy on my desk instead of a Sun4. This means that I also have an IndyCam, so I hacked up a script to grab and save a frame of me sitting there every five minutes." (http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html)
Why not just maintain a list of bookmarks online?
GemRB - Baldurs Gate 2 on linux
GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of Bioware's Infinity Engine!!!!!!
karma down -> lesson learned
Just wanted to mention that your site rocks, I really look forward to using it to discover athletic events around where I live!
> Employees are people, and people are complex.

Except c/c++/Qt programmers -- they're pretty simple to predict, apparently.

The best devs I know tend to accept challenges to learn new systems and do well whatever they're working with, even if there's a particular language/platform they love more than others.
Big data mining has made it radically easier / more practical, to mine everybody's purchase records for cross matches on lifestyle choices. In this case, impacting things like health insurance.

By shifting to cash, they can't track any of that.
"Perhaps it isn't about being paid, but about taking pride in the work you do."

Even if you take pride in what you do you expect to be treated with a certain level of respect. ( Not that being paid means you should be disrespected of course. )
Right, but I wanted it to fluidly resize in the WP twentyeleven theme, so setting it to a fixed size wouldn't work.
Blogspot TLDs are being exploited
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Zookey
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Kizo

Exploiting different TLDs so as to avoid the filter.
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How much did BetaBeat spend to make their website switch to a page flipping tablet mode? And do they realize that that mode makes whatever pages of this project inaccessible?
Why would they care about Nokia's survival? Frankly, it's even better for Microsoft if Nokia fails - they'll be able to acquire whatever's left for a tiny fraction of its value before going WP7.

Also, another parallel is Palm. They had PalmOS phones when they partnered with Microsoft and made the Treo WinMo line that ended up competing and reducing their own offering's relevance.
I have. In both cases I had to leave quickly before while I could still suppress the urge to commit violence.

The only difference was a greater amount of smug condescension in the apple store, and a greater amount of brofest bra' salesmanship in Best Buy.
Have you heard of the iPad?
Why not build this as a browser extension or Greasemonkey script?
Development teams do not scale for supporting apps
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CL is obviously in their full rights to do so, but I really wish they could have waited a couple weeks before they did it. I'm moving to another state this Tuesday and PM is especially helpful when you don't know the neighborhoods.
Just looked it up and realized that MapQuest went on board with OpenStreetMap back in 2010. I never knew that, props to MapQuest!