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At the end of the airplane ad: gotta go to aisle 2 to help with a Keynote issue!

1) Why was the first guy having so many issues?
2) To the average user, WTF is a keynote?
3) I thought that Macs were easy to use? Why do we need
a "genius" to help use them?

In hindsight, I have no recollection of the nature of the issues the Genius solved. I just remember that lots of Macs were being used and lots of problems were occurring, leading the genius to have to run around the plane. Or something.

This is in stark contrast to Apple ads of the past:

* Rainbow colored people dancing around with iPods.
Music + simple + fun = iPod. Got it.
* I'm a Mac. Funny, non-threatening, laid-back hipster versus clumsy,
goofy, sweaty guy. Macs are simple, smart, cool. Got it.
* Old iPhone ads. Lots of swiping, cool effects, plenty of brands, easy to use.
Pick up an iPhone, noodle with it and I'll get it. Got it.
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Thanks. In that case, I will try to be less emotional about this issue.

When I was talking about China hacking lockheed as far back as 2005, everyone said I was nuts! (I freaking worked at lockheed!)

There needs to be a better way to log and track this stuff so that we can point people to some sort of Tyranny Wiki.
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A subtle point is that the Spanish royalty funded and helped organize Columbus, but none of the royalty accompanied Columbus. Why? Back then class and "castes" had significant meaning. The decision-makers sent expendable people similar in spirit to the way we would send expendable robots.

Our approach today is not unreasonable or atypical of past expeditions.
'Chicks' are one way to get meaning in one's life. Student radicals certainly seemed to get the 'chicks'.

As for defining away: I did no such thing. The data speaks for itself; guerillas use different tactics and strategies than terrorists, and that's why they are not conflated by most people.

Also, Mao and Lenin don't come up in the datasets as far as I know, and if they did - well, it's not hugely clear that guerillas are much more successful! There's a lot of luck in their careers. Lenin could have been shot like many others instead of exiled by the Czarists; Mao could have died at any point in the Long March like many others; etc.

(How strange that suggesting terrorists have motives other than terror and are not omnipotently effective brings people out of the woodwork - the false flag criticisms are the most obviously bizarre, but the guerrilla/terrorist definition isn't much better.)
What I am witnessing is someone trying to inform people, while effectively censoring himself by delivering in such a way as impedes its delivery.

You obviously have a vested interest in seeing your "message" be received, so stop ignoring what people are telling you about your tone and change it. Figure out what it is that people do listen to, or else you have no one but yourself to blame when they take issue with your tone.

To wit: Your tone is defensive. Pejoratives and cursing undermine your expression. What you are effectively telling people is that your thoughts are not important enough to merit self-restraint. Detailed explanations following assertions are also helpful.

FWIW, I work in the performance marketing industry and, IMO, the most complicity facebook could be said to have in this issue is in not placing a sufficiently high priority on preventing bots from clicking on their ads. Even if it is a sizable project there, they represent such a large target that the difficulty of the job becomes much greater. I see no salacious story here, other than a company found itself unable to optimize a campaign into profitability, which I think says more about them than facebook. Ho hum, find a different traffic source and move on.
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You're arguing semantics.

Yes, we all believe in the Third Law of Thermdynamics, and understand that the arrow of time is defined by entropy.

"Renewable" means that the specifically tapped resource will renew, by its own access to its prime driver, faster than we can deplete it. In your geothermal instance, it's the geothermal reservoir that's considered renewable. It's also possible to tap geothermal as a nonrenewable resource (generally in open-cycle systems in which groundwater is vented, release, or otherwise not returned to the reservoir, resulting in eventual depletion).

Even fossil fuels are renewable if the extraction rate is kept below the creation rate. Given that FF were created over roughly 200 million years, and will likely be practically exhausted in fewer than 200, that rate is on the order of 1 million times less than we're utilizing them now (probably more if you consider that extraction rates have accelerated the past 100 years).

Your harnessing plant isn't considered part of the fuel resource, and isn't considered in the sustainability equation, generally, unless you're doing something silly like open-pit nuclear fission to capture waste heat for generation, in which you'll likely exhaust your available habitable planetary surface.

Most likely you're not physically transforming your plant in a way that excludes, say, recycling of raw materials, and/or your plant is comprised of very abundant materials (iron, silicates, etc.) relative to your fuel source. It's not the absolute magnitude of plant material involved in generating energy, it's the portion of same relative to the available resources for replenishing these. Generally, structural materials are much more abundant than energy-containing materials. Starting with the matter surrounding and below you at this moment.
So let me see if I have this right.

What you remember is that "If you are having problems with your Mac (no matter how dumb) then an Apple genius is available who is willing to do anything to help you."

Sounds to me like Apple achieved the purpose of the ads.
It's great in tandem with Redis. http://mikeferrier.com/2011/05/14/my-beautiful-dark-twisted-...
drunk or stupid people probably won't click 'back' that quick.
Well sure, but it's just zeroing free blocks; that's the same operation (with the same desired outcome) whether you're using the disk image in a virtual machine or as an encrypted loopback device.
I can't believe people on hacker news are caught up in this meta-discussion of an advertising campaign. When people are writing comments in response to blogs written about blogs about advertising campaigns, it's time to stop.
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I suspect a key demographic for these commercials is parents who're afraid to ask their kids for help. I can imagine loads of commercials where a parent heads out of their noisy, busy house and heads over to the Apple store for a relaxing session at the Genius Bar. I think my parents would be turned off by the relative chaos and difficulty implied by the commercials.*

Additionally, I don't think that younger target costumers will be engaged by a spastic know-it-all with the job title "Genius".

* I saw the commercials last night and don't recall them that well, but was left with this impression. And my wife and I turned to each other and mouthed "WTF?" after the commercials ended.
It's "Ctrl-Shift-R twice". Hit it, wait a few moments for the page to start reloading, then hit it again.

Otherwise it doesn't reload everything. Verify this by watching the Developer Console's Network section. I can only assume this is intentional; my coworkers told me this trick last year and it still seems to be the case.
I'd say this is completely wrong and this attitude is preventing us from advancing more rapidly in space.

There's a lot to yet to discover in space. Developing better tools, robots for example, to explore our solar system will also benefit us on earth. At some point the costs will drop and it will become safer, or we'll discover something valuable that we'll want to bring back.

If you look 100 years out, which route get use to having he most people in space? Let's release early and release often.
"eliminating extra steps (collecting/moving static assets)"

Interestingly, we extended the collectstatic command in many ways to perform minification, combination of assets, generation of sass and javascript variables (based on settings in python), etc. It's part of our deployment and if we were serving static files through django, we would still have to run a similar command.

I'm also happy that nginx is handling file uploads, aliasing, redirection, virtual hosting on different IPs and Ports with different access control, real ip extraction (when behind a load balancer), etc.

I'll be following more closely this trend of moving static asset hosting from a regular web server to the application container, but I believe that web servers like nginx and apache can do a lot more than just serving static files (at least, in complex deployment scenarios).
Definitely doesn't belong in the same sentence as the Star Wars prequel.
And to be honest, promoting security by obscurity as a reason to switch to Mac was just stupid for reasons that should be obvious if you think about it.
Just because you can't think of a better ad doesn't mean these ones aren't bad. Maybe there could have been the same setup and a much better script. Maybe TV ads aren't the right place to advertise the Genius Bar / Apple Store. Maybe they could have advertised how great the service is without being condescending to the target audience.

I don't know, but I think it's a cheap excuse to say that you, personally, can't think of anything better.
I understand where you're coming from, but I feel as though you might be evaluating the ad's concept and not its execution.

The Apple Store is clearly an awesome value add (I even hesitate to reduce it to merely that), but I don't think these ads do a great job communicating that.

They're simply not focused: the schtick muddles their message, and dropping the names of various pieces of Apple-specific software (Keynote, iMovie, Garageband) makes them even harder to follow for folks who don't use Macs already (and probably for some who do).

Add in the (according to some people, though I don't see it myself) subtly condescending Genius, and I think you've lost both the audience you're looking to reach in addition to the one you already have.
A fan? We're not sitting on the sidelines hoping they score. Most of us professionals make a living and have invested of thousands of dollars (if not 10k, 100k, or > 1M) into the platform.

It's not that they're turning OSX into a consumer platform. It's that they're doing it so clumsily, with such garish hubris and lack of focus or reality, that it's worrisome.
I really wish Reddit News could support HN. It's has such an intuitive design (loading comments and the article simultaneously in a split pane so you can swap between) as well has a nice comment navigation (buttons to navigate by submitter, navigating top level comments with a button, highlighting recent comments).

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=reddit.news
Any chance for this API service to be open sourced or public?
Considering that:

1) Drugs for recreational activities such as tobacco and alcohol have very well known harmful effects, even when consumed in small dosis.

2) There are 0 annual casualties from the use of Marijuana, you just can't overdose to death on it, and it has lots of medical and non-medical uses.

Can someone tell me why it was criminalized in the first place?
The ad implies it's not easy.
>What you remember is that "If you are having problems with
>your Mac (no matter how dumb) then an Apple genius is
>available who is willing to do anything to help you."

Negative. I remembered that "I should expect to have problems with my Mac". I'm more concerned about that than I am about having help nearby. AFAIKnew, Macs were supposed to be easy to use. My wife, non-technical, was left with the same impression.
If you don't post frequently you can pinpoint where you got the mark. Search posts by your user and see where the auto-dead begins. I did some trollish posts on my first account, but got a ban because of a front-paged duplicate instead.

Details on my profile. I felt cheated because I had no heavily downvoted comments.
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My understanding is that anyone can do it if they provide a validation study showing that the IQ test directly correlates to job performance and doesn't discriminate on other protected statuses. My understanding is also that the number of companies that have done this is as close to 0 as makes no odds.
Why? I never heard about this "law", and now I just learnt about it.
Oh my mistake.... you're right. I suppose this is why I'm not a journalist.

On a related subject; note to WP: do not have guest posts published under an editor's byline. Instead of

"By [editor]

[italicized paragraph explaining that this is a guest post published by an editor]

By [actual author]"

Have 1 byline... the person who wrote the article.
> But what about the Nicaraguan Contras, the Tibet Autonomous region, or the Chechnyan rebels. How could he have missed these?

What about them? Tibet is still ruled by China, and Chechnya is, last I checked, still ruled by Russia. The only of the three even remotely successful is the Contras, and the president elected after their dissolution doesn't seem to have owed much to them or do much that they would have wanted.
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I can't believe how high the expectation is for tv ads. It's just commercial, folks. Did you expect to see it starring Christian Bale and featuring mind blowing CGI and special effects?

As for the new ads, they aren't that bad. These ads aren't for us, geeks. Nope. These are for the majority of population, ie the rest of us. Apple's ad has always been about warm and fuzzy feeling of being human, not about cold and intimidating machines.

Sure, these ads are corny. It's cheesy. lame... But that's why these are so great. Someone mentioned in the comment comparing it to the lame Dell Dude. Yes, it was lame... but everyone remembered him and his line when we mention it. These ads leave permanent impressions in our mind. That's why these ad campaigns are effective. It's memorable, perhaps even embedded in our subconscious mind.

What I did get from the ads? The message is "Mac is great because it comes with support. If I need help with iMovie or Mac or anything else, I can get help from a Genius. We can ask them anything" Sure, it might be limited to talking to some snobbish teenage "Genius" at Apple store, but it's still better than trying to get tech-support on the phone with some guys in India who has no idea what the hell I'm talking about, or bugging children/relatives/cousins who happens to "know a lot about computers" during Thanksgiving/Christmas.
If you actually look at the quotes made up by most of these journalists, they are mostly things about the weather that day and the color of the house or whatever. Look at the actual quotes from the Jason Blaire scandal, it's all completely trivial stuff.

On the other hand, it's hard to argue that cigarettes aren't actually dangerous, since they kill around 500,000 Americans per year.
I guess on the plus side the ads present the friendly, cheery, non-threatening genius as a contrast to some grumpy, over caffeinated helpdesk guy you might have working at your office or a sleazy, lazy Best Buy customer service rep who just wants to sell you another warranty. What's odd though is that every ad shows exactly the situations where you wouldn't have access to a genius :S

Here is everybody analyzing these ads like they are a long-lost Kubrick reel so I guess it still works on some level among the Apple faithful.
No, the guy 100 years before him would have. Meaning the first guy who had the robot. They would have measured how long it took, known the best routes, then tens of thousands of people would have followed shortly thereafter because a lot of the danger would have been taken out of the voyage.
As the other reply says, that is what news blur is trying to do and i think it is the right way to go.

I had, but never got to try, an idea to only show users a small percent of the articles. Then, since metainbox was designed for quick triaging, you could show people more articles based on what other people read or queued. It would allow the "curation" to be done by more people
While it still may not be technically legal, ethically I believe you're in the clear. Enjoy all of the 24 BBC Olympic channels - you'll probably find BBC iPlayer quite useful for catching up on the days events as well!
OSX was ALWAYS designed as a consumer platform and has been part of the reason for Apple's growth in the consumer sector.

So not sure what you mean ?
I like the one called Mayday (http://www.apple.com/mac/videos/#tv-ads-mayday). The awkward delivery of "I'm a genius" comes off as sincere modesty, in contrast to the condescenion of Justin Long's "I'm a Mac" character. This is actually charming.

The task in the commercial (creating a video from lots of raw footage) is something a non computer pro wouldn't expect to be easy. Being able to do that in "27 minutes" sounds impressive. And the fact that a Genius could show you how to do this in that short amount of time is appealing. This isn't portraying Macs as having lots of problems--it's showing that mere mortals can do impressive things with them.

Finally, the guy the Genius helps first actually gets up with the Genius to go help the guy in 21F. The commercial ends with him saying, "Let's do this." The Genius gave someone such confidence in their Mac skills that he feels ready to become a Genius-like helper himself.

The other two suck though.
From the sounds of it the Creators are reaching out to some bigger players in the API game.
I didn't say called terrorist, I said are terrorist; what laws apply to them? Are they on anyone's watch lists? Are they treated by anyone as terrorists? Greenpeace has disavowed its more violent early days; BTW, the citation in Wikipedia doesn't actually say what you think it says: http://web.archive.org/web/20080311231725/http://www.fbi.gov... C-f for 'Greenpeace':

> Since 1977, when disaffected members of the ecological preservation group Greenpeace formed the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and attacked commercial fishing operations by cutting drift nets, acts of "eco-terrorism" have occurred around the globe. The FBI defines eco-terrorism as the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature.

So it was 'disaffected members' 40 years ago and the acts themselves only are 'eco-terrorism'. This is not a ringing endorsement of your claim that Greenpeace has been called a terrorist organization.

There is no citation for PETA.

And people have died in their Greenpeace activities and IHH's activities have led to even more deaths, so if you want to be a stickler about innocent civilians...
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Hi Rudhir, Drew from the Google Security team here. Actually, the authentication cookies that are set on mail.google.com aren't sent when you visit google.com, so the scenario you described wouldn't work. Those secure cookies are only sent over SSL. That's good news for the people in your scenario!
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This misses his point that originally he had app <-> nginx <-> user, then he added cloudfront so he had app <-> nginx <-> cloudfront <-> user. At that point is nginx really serving much purpose?

I think for the average use case the answer is no, nginx doesn't buy you much. However nginx is a lot more flexible than cloudfront, so if you have more complicated caching rules and such nginx is a perfect fit.
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I don't know why a professional graphics person would use a monitor with no controls except for brightness (other than "to see what consumers see"). Having control of the contrast and colour levels is vital for calibrating a monitor, which is something that everybody with a professional interest in visuals should do.
They could show the product in use.

An older man in a business suit walks in with a visibly old Apple laptop -- say, a G4 iBook or similar vintage. He explains to the tech that it's a great computer, but it can't go very long without being plugged in any more. The tech checks it out for a moment, comes back with a new battery, installs it, "all set sir, anything else I can help with ... (etc)". Cut to the customer on a plane the next day, smiling as he uses it for something.

A young woman walks in to an Apple store holding an iPhone. She bought it a few months ago, and this morning, it wouldn't turn on. The tech checks it out for a moment, apologizes for the problem, copies everything over to a new iPhone, and hands it to the customer, "anything else ...". Cut to her using some personalized feature, like browsing photos, which people are often afraid of losing during computer upgrades.

Swap in genders and ethnicities as desired. The point is to have something that happens to real people ("my computer doesn't work as well as it used to", "my phone isn't working"), and then demonstrate how the product solves their problem.
FB turning a blind eye towards shady a advertising practice because it generates revenue? See: Scamville http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming...
Those are exactly the user agent strings the bot would spoof.
I shared similar sentiments about the airplane ad that started popping up recently. It really does feel like a watered down, misdirected version of Apple. My initial reaction was an audible "huh?"
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For those, you need to check your good taste at the door and erase childhood memory.
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I'd say you're missing the point if you think each (i.e. Enumerable-like) behavior solves the problem.

This still forces an inversion of control as far as who is in control of writes, i.e. the IO operation drives the generation of data to write, and not the other way around. I find this incredibly annoying.

FWIW I have implemented both patterns in my own web server Reel. I definitely think It's Just A Socket (duck type) is far and away the way to go.
sadly my analogy failed most peoples IQ :facepalm:
But short of evidence (say, a randomized controlled trial) there is no reason to believe that the baskets would be better in any way.
Standardizing APIs is a Good Thing. Unfortunately, standards alone don't seem to be enough. (oAuth2 anyone?)

Therefore, offering a proxy that has enough benefits to developers to make them switch to it's standard seems like a more realistic approach.

So, I truly hope Mashape takes off.
Apple used to demonstrate effulgence and creativity.

These were Lifestyle-channel ads.

I couldn't watch after the first one.
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I said "quite a bit" not "all".
Oh right, I forgot about the alarm one. That has actually bit me. iMessages and iCloud I don't even use, don't really need it.

You're right there are a few things that should have been caught in QA.
I didn't even click through to his stuff, initially. The branding resulted in a false positive from my mental spam filter.