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Hard to tell afterwards. A botched-up situatation is just that, botched-up. During the AF447 accident so much things went wrong that's almost impossible to single out one that could have prevented it.

Being in aerospace, I slowly get fed up by all this "My airplane is better than yours and that would have happened if yours had what mine has" discussions. I know it is kind of OT right now and that it's HN here and not a pilots forum but I consider it just childish. It's the final report of the authorities that counts, nothing else.

Enough said on AF447, I think the 787 is one pretty plane. What I'm cusious to see is whos bet is right, Boeings' on more point to point flights or Airbus' on the more traditional hub-spoke structure. Just hope Boeing is getting the Dreamliner industrialized and built with less pain than Airbus had on the A380. It slowly becomes a shame how much problems aerospace companies have with that in the last decade.
If the web had proper time to incubate without the pressures of the dotcom craze, I suspect it would have developed in a much more controlled, and systematic way. As we know, development was very chaotic and competitive.

I do think we will get to a better place eventually. After all, the web is still a relatively new medium, especially when compared to the "Internet".
I think it seems so poignant because the general phenomenon has been corrupting our society for a long time. I can't imagine that this is the first time disruptive and powerful technologies have subverted the moral codes that their inventors were ostensibly upholding.
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That's just not true. They are saying that they will no longer comply with an out-dated standard. Their current practices in manufacturing, materials and offering recycling of their own products are superior to the EPEAT guidelines. They actual already go above and beyond the EPEAT guidelines and now they won't be beholden in their designs to those guidelines.

Just take a look at this article and check out the links to see for yourself how Apple was already doing more than the EPEAT guidelines required.

http://www.loopinsight.com/2012/07/10/apple-responds-to-epea...

http://www.apple.com/environment/

And as an aside - Microsoft in comparison is not a hardware company and the comments here aren't marginalizing the issue. The articles and reporting have blown this out of proportion to begin with.
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It doesn't generate an error, but it definitely generates a warning. You need to make sure whatever client/library you're using is passing that on to you, though.

That right there is the problem.

Other DBs, when you do something they can't handle, bail with a full-fledged error that stops what you're doing. MySQL doesn't do that for quite a few data-losing cases, and that's incredibly dangerous.
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Making their products harder to recycle does not make it impossible to recycle.

Hence the logic about less environment friendly is simply not true.
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That's really too much Apple love. While it's true that old machines can still be recycled. But, in older models you could easily replace the battery --- you can pop them out with a lever, get a new battery at the Apple store, and put it in. Without removing any screws (or warranty).

While this change does not matter that much to most people here (I readily admit that I replace my laptop every one or two years, selling the old one), the average consumer uses a laptop much longer, especially when a laptop is a huge investment for them. Apple's latest designs drastically shorten the lifespan of laptops, unless you want to pay the exorbitant fees of having the battery replaced or adding memory.

It is bad for the environment (more laptops need to be produced), the consumer's pocketbook, and only serves Apple.
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Yes.

In 2008/2009, another engineer and myself built an ad-platform that received around 500M impressions per day, 5M clicks per day. And it wasn't just recording a tweet or publishing out to followers. We took the user input query, had to do some keyword/relevancy targeting, geofiltering, matching to advertisers and deliver back a large result set of adverts. All within 100ms.

Our platform was also apache, mod_php, memcached, mysql and rabbitmq. So definitely not the most optimal of platforms by any means. We had two colos with ~20 servers (dell r410s) at each facility.

Twitter just recently announced 400M tweets/day. I'm not trying to brag about my experiences, because looking back now we made numerous amateur mistakes, but just showing that Twitter's "scale" is a joke compared to everyday challenges at any large internet ad network.
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I believe Uber simply sub-contracts to independent sedan drivers who have already jumped through all the necessary governmental hoops - it's not a dispatching system for gypsy cabs. The drivers I spoke to in my city (SF) said that they simply use Uber as an additional source of income.

This is certainly the case with their new "Uber X" service as well that got into trouble in DC - the only difference is that they dispatch hybrids from their partners vs. towncars / SUVs.
If by changing you mean weakening.
Apple's products are recyclable and they will even recycle them for free. http://www.apple.com/environment/

Apple is stating that the EPEAT standards are out of date and their practices supersede the existing standards.
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But many agencies cannot simply send devices, often containing sensitive information, off to 3rd parties without a specific contract and vetted protocol governing the exchange. Part of the reason that a government agency has to handle disposal themselves is so that they can ensure the legally-mandated destruction of private data.

Failing to meet EPEAT guidelines is not merely symbolic; it means that performing secure and environmentally-friendly disposal is rendered much more difficult. It also means the cost of ownership is higher since either the lifespan of the device will be shorter or experts will have to be paid to perform repairs.
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Decent amount of traffic ?

Sorry but the only thing laughable is that comment.
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Scott McCloud's book "Understanding Comics" outlines a path of 6 steps for artists. He proposes that the greats all master the same first 4 steps, but then split on which of the final two is their primary tool.

The "pioneers and revolutionaries" play with the form itself (Moebius, Picasso, Stravinsky). The "storytellers" use the medium for their ideas (Schultz, Dickens, Capra). Neither approach is superior to the other, and the line between them is certainly fuzzy.

The original Macintosh operating system, for example, was probably pretty lousy code by any modern standard, but certainly moved the industry forward. TeX, on the other hand, is arguably excellent code, and still used today, but probably never had as many users. Which is "better"? Neither, of course! In McCloud's terms, Apple focused on "form", and Knuth focused on "idea".
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That sounds like a smokescreen. Sure, Apple does a lot of good environmental stuff that's not covered by EPEAT. But that doesn't change that it's started gluing screens and batteries to cases, making them basically impossible to recycle, which is the real story here.
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There's also a risk we'll have another ice age. Global warming might be considered insurance against that eventuality. Whatever the perfectly optimum average planetary temperature for human life is, it is exceedingly unlikely that it was achieved in 1990. (And actually seems pretty likely that it's a fair bit warmer than now.)

Do we also need to actively "buy insurance" against meteor impacts?
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Exactly. This was an attack on the new "Uber X" service which will more directly compete with regular cabs. (Frankly the only reason I even take cabs anymore is the cost of the regular Uber service.)
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Are you arguing that Retina MacBook which complied with EPEAT would not be more environmentally friendly than one which did not comply?
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Disagree. I studied civil engineering and have been in it for five years and am presently building software that accomplishes the OP's goals (so far in theory).

The same advice holds for a writer of nonfiction. Don't study writing, study another field so you actually have something to write about.
Very cool site. I'd love to send friends a link to your site and have the itinerary information visible right there on the site -- otherwise you're expecting me to send non-technical people a link into HackerNews to see the details. I know already that will absolutely confuse them and turn them off from the site.

Consider opening up flight itineraries to the public for certain contests if you're trying to gain as much as possible from this sort of public exposure? (Even if that means paying the original contest creator back their $500, that's nothing given the future business you'll generate. Right now this link simply can't spread until more information is visible.)
As far as I recall, "Show HN" type posts get weighted down by the system. But more generally, it may have been flagged more times than the average post (though I wouldn't know why because it's awesome).
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i think more realistically, they are abandoning govt procurement as a business decision. for apple, i think this is smart, it allows them to avoid all of the bureaucracy of selling to govt agencies and better focus on consumers.

i don't buy any of the "IT lifecycle" arguments wrt apple equipment here either. for a massive govt contract like the state of california, the vendor is almost certainly required to replace any faulty equipment upon request...from the govt's perspective, reliability is simply a cost issue for the vendor themselves, not the buyer/govt
To expand on this, Maemo had a "Conversations" application that you could add accounts to. Out of the box I believe it did SMS, Skype and Google Talk. There were plugins available for third party services like Twitter, Facebook, MSN, Jabber, etc.
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He could add a noscript tag.
Your "giving back" paragraph about what motivates your users is completely dishonest. You know your users are clueless and installed your client because it was bundled with an application they actually wanted to use.
Ah ok. But they all seem to offer the same themes
Those text messages weren't really creepy as much as unwanted.
I just came across this which seems to be what I was talking about: http://www.symform.com/
Seems like making the calculation of Hash2 computationally expensive places more burden on the application than it does on a hacker trying to compute plain-text passwords. The app has to work twice as hard to verify (e.g. scryptX2) while to brute force you only really need to match Hash1. To keep latency down this might encourage use of weaker hashing for Hash1 which seems bad.

Of course you could seed your hashes table with false positive matches (perhaps from the list of the top 10,000 passwords), in an attempt to force a hacker to calculate the second hash, but that doesn't seem like a strong defense.
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> ... making them basically impossible to recycle, which is the real story here.

I would argue that they are "much more difficult" to recycle by anyone other than Apple.

They can still be recycled.
agreed. e-waste is a massive problem that most techies would rather ignore. most of our toxic electronic waste ends up in the third world, poisoning environments.
You obviously haven't read the indictment. They weren't totally ignoring the takedown requests yes, but they were knowingly assisting and profiting off content they knew was copyrighted.
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I don't disagree, but for some reason nobody seems to be writing that article, they're just writing about the city of San Francisco and hoping it feels important.
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no one in govt will care if they have apple computers or not...they all have something far more valuable than any toy a techie will have on their desk - A PENSION.

california is riddled with civil servants making six figures in retirement, i can assure you that they rationally understand that this is far preferrable to having last month's computer on their desk
yes - sort of - that's what the paper is about essentially - it details a gene therapy approach where T cells are removed, taught how to recognise surface antigens for leukaemia cells and re-injected into the body, leading in 3 weeks to a complete clearance of his CLL which he had had for 13 years and which was close to killing him.
Now THAT is a cure. So the immune system may be the key to doing this.

but for what you are asking:

Things we can do now:

- We can take things that lessen the chance of this damage occurring in the first place (Anti-oxidants, good diet, 'everything in moderation', etc)

- We can modify our lifestyle to avoid risk factors (Cut smoking, drinking, drugs, bad food)

- We can actively do things that are likely to strengthen our immune system and the constant immuno-surveillance that it performs, that already stop us from developing cancer at age 1 (Exercise, good sleep)

Things we Can't do:

: Because of lack of precedent, failure of mechanism, or lack of scientific enabling principle (Your 'dead end')

- We will probably NEVER (although that's a strong word in scientific progress - let's say not for the foreseeable future, 25-30-40 years) be able to take a pill that will REVERES the damage once it's done

- We will probably NEVER (with the usual caveats) be able to take a 'simple' drug molecule, as we understand the word to mean at the moment, to kill cancer cells wherever they are in the body

: Because we just don't understand enough about how to do this:

- We lack enough understanding to say what would happen if we were potentially able to design a molecule that acted as a 'backup' to the main TSP, p53, and were able to somehow deliver it into the cell to be a 'backup' tumour suppressor and make the cell autodestruct if it got out of control

I could go on and on about theorised Rx'es, things we do now, things we are just bringing online, and how I think it will all go down but that's probably enough for a buried response in HN that few people will ever read.
However if you have any more specific questions or I can help you understand something else, ask away
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I'm looking into the costs for an upcoming startup that requires cloud hosting.

The problem is that each user will need to upload a set amount of 1.6GB of data per month (no more, no less). Calculating on Amazon S3 pricing after 4 years, it will have cost $237 to host only 80GB of data per user.

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yeah good riddance I say. For each SF city that decides to not buy Apple product, many more iFans like me will some forward in support and buy more. What do I care if the product is bad for the environment? It looks shiny and expensive and makes me look cool.
Agreed for some value of progress. Some worrying aspects.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57468103-37/apple-bows-out...
You have to pick a niche that you think your knowledge in this domain is an advantage over the current competitors or allows you to compete at the same level. Don't think you'll ever enter a market where you'll be on your own with no competitors and everyone is paying you. That won't happen. If this happened then you are creating a market and soon after you'll have competitors.

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I just picked a random laptop off of Dell's small business site: The M4600[1]. Dell will sell you a replacement 97Whr battery for $170[2]. The M4600 gets 3.5 hours of life with the larger battery[3].

Apple will replace the 95Whr battery in a Retina MacBook Pro for $200[4]. $30 more than Dell charges for a similar-capacity battery, but this does include labor and the MPB gets 7+ hours of life with it[5].

I do not believe your assertion of "exorbitant fees" is supportable.

[1] http://www.dell.com/us/soho/p/precision-m4600/fs

[2] http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/category.aspx?c=us&l=...

[3] http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6400&re...

[4] http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/service/battery/

[5] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/retina-macbook-pro-maxi...
Interesting, but does that mean delivered all the way to the recipient, or just to the iMessage server? Is there good feedback? If I'm in a low-signal area, I need to know how long to leave my phone in that one spot that gets signal.
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refurb is right - we essentially do this now,
our limitations are:

- Cost of sequencing

- Toxicity of current drugs in combination

- lack of suitable drugs

- lack of patient trials

More on the last:
This is on which everything depends. Medical ethics 'bends' a lot of allowances with regard to anti-cancer drugs because of the stakes but you can't just start introducing things willy-nilly. A new drug does not a cure make. And drugs have interactions, sometimes serious. Using one new drug may lead to some shift of the survival curve (or at least shrinkage of tumour, maybe it is now more susceptible to Surgery/Radiation or is just going to give them better quality of life) but adding additional drugs may reverse this trend if they are not properly researched
All this requires money
All this takes years
But a surprising amount is already in progress. Sitting in on case conferences with practicing Oncologists and Radiologists, they have combinations of drugs with strange names 'R-CHOP' etc - have a wiki - to roll out against standards, are always reciting the latest literature, trying to get patients into new trials that show promise, all in the hope of continually shifting the survival curve further to the right
Could you elaborate? How does it end up there? And what does the poisoning?
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If you get the battery replaced by Apple (the only option) they recycle the battery. If you want to get rid of your old laptop, Apple will recycle it.

I have never actually had a completely dead/garbage Apple laptop since I usually sell them after about 5 years, they have a much longer lifespan then your average PC laptop.