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I totally agree with you, and I don't see it changing.

Apple has trapped itself into a corner with the Apple ID. Apple puts on regular seminars for local school districts every 6 months or so in my area about how to integrate iPads for K12, and it is just brutal. At least 60% of the answers from the Apple rep is usually "you can't use it like that".

The hardships all come from the way that the Apple ID works. Apple wants the iPad to be a "personal device" for one person, but obviously in a school setting it doesn't work that way. The workarounds they have for school districts are laughable to the point that the Apple rep(s) always admit it to us when talking about manageability, security and tracking.

I love my iPad, but its just not enterprise/public school/multiuser friendly yet.
Those are costs, but they're not marginal costs. They have no bearing on the cost of each copy, nothing to do with scale.
Thanks! Just checked out your learning to program site. Dig it, looking forward to more posts. Cheers.
There used to be more information on his website that I remember reading, but this thread will probably tell you what they do: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3012956
I like what you're doing. Here are my thoughts:

The widget on the right side looks cool, but the UX overall doesn't make sense for me because I don't want to rewatch the debate or scroll through that tiny region. Is there another way you could structure the information that lets me quickly know the context of the fact-check was, then read the blurb? What you've collected is more interesting to me; I just need to be able to watch the debate clip that will give me context.
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I completely agree with this. This was also evident with the iPhone 5 release. When the competition (think Samsung Galaxy S3) was selling for a few dollars more, Apple didn't hesitate to bump their price to match. And, obviously, this has always been the case with every other product they've sold in the last 20 years.
I think there just isn't a good term for this feeling of vicarious embarrassment.
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A bit early for that?

[...] a desktop site won’t work on a seven-inch iPad Mini

Why? Sensibly designed 'desktop sites' work fine even on an iPhone.

[...] sizing up a mobile website will be the best approach

And that's exactly the opposite of what Apple just said in their launch keynote.
It probably came up during the discussion of Slate. Is this what you were looking for? http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/
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I understand what you're saying. What I'm saying is, as a practical matter, there's no reason to believe her case would have been reopened without publicity. The Amazon rep said quite clearly from Amazon's perspective the matter was closed.
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Thanks for the feedback! Scrolling works best by using a mousewheel or trackpad. I agree it's not ergonomic for the click and drag approach, and adding width would help that.

We ask for a username only to give a unique identifier for a comment, and so that you can see which comments are yours. We don't ask for an email or social network link because frankly, I dislike demos that do :-P
Google is supposedly releasing a new Nexus tablet with cellular in next week's event. I would wait to see what they come out with before buying an iPad mini.
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40ms extra latency on wifi is nothing compared to packet loss.
They render fine, but the page speed update is just a bit too slow, particularly if you read PDFs that have frequent references to figures that are 2-3 pages distant from the referencing text.
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Makes sense. Maybe put the username and comment together? It scared me off and I forgot what I was going to reply to.

I do love the idea of these annotated debates. I wish the last half was pre-annotated, at least with the questions and factcheck.org references. It's a nice way to watch.
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There's a 3rd category: non-fiction that doesn't necessarily require diagrams. For this category, ebooks are great in the sense that I can add highlighting and notes very easily. For me this is the largest category of books and so DRM scares me. It also scares me that the highlights and notes are not owned by me. I wonder if I can somehow retrieve all of them?
I know, that's what I was saying.
But you have the physical DVD. You don't have a physical copy of the books that they wiped. Or you do. I know I have some just for the convenience
I know that HN is not big on videos but this is a very interesting use of arduino, ingenuity and simple farming principles. I especially like the way he cycles everything to make it work in a nearly closed circuit.
the entire Android ecosystem
Ask HN:What are some great books, sites and blogs on hardware innovation?
Few days back I came across with a nice blog/site on "Guerrilla guide to CNC machining, mold making, and resin casting". Here is the link http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/.
I would like to know what are some of the best resources out there where a person can develop some hands on skill on hardware/physical product development. I would n't mind starting as a hobby.
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Thanks for clarifying the differences.

I was assuming that it was using the same infrastructure as cloud files, and that the performance characteristics would be similar.
Nor is that what irony is, but his analogy to the TDF is interesting anyway.
Word.

Awful, Zynga is.

A ponzi scheme, it is not.

Let's keep our criticisms to what is correct - there's so much of that to go around already.
If your not ready to sell, don't do it. A smart sharp person can learn a LOT from someone else doing a demo, you're only edge is what you know and thinking when you have less resources

Go read the Harvard Business School working paper: When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge. The main point of the paper is that entrepreneurs have an information advantage, giving a demo could waste that one critical advantage.
This is addressing a different level of hardware. I don't think the primary drivers of a hardware revolution (new tools, cheap and rapid prototyping, etc) extend to ASIC design. As a recently graduated Masters EE student, none of my fellow students considered VLSI and chip design to be a new or hot area or seriously considered it as a career path. I don't doubt that there's plenty of innovation there, but it's rightly or wrongly perceived as being less sexy than other subfields of EE.
Is there a way to tell if this book has DRM?

http://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Exploring-the-Brain-ebook...
zynga was compared to a ponzi scheme (rightly or wrongly) when early investors were paid off during subsequent rounds of funding. I think that's what he's referring to.
Someone downvoted you probably because they disagree with this practice. All I can say is, thank you for sharing. +1
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I think it will be a huge success for Apple. I know a lot of folks want to believe Apple's success has just been some amazing fluke thus must end soon but there's really no indication out there the market has changed much since the original iPod. Apple keeps running the same play over and over again because it works. It's very clever. Apple positions their products to be affordable luxuries. This is mostly expressed through the device's design but also because Apple protects their brands very carefully. There is no cheap iPad -- there's a thinner and lighter iPad that happens to cost less.

Psychologically this is interesting because Apple is pulling at a lot of strings here. They want consumers to feel good about buying the product. Not resentful it's not the thing they really wanted but couldn't afford. Part of it is almost Pavlovian. The customer pays more but in the process is rewarded in different ways. For having the taste to pick the perceived superior brand for example. It's an item coveted by others, again if only because it's perceived to be superior, and it's an item that broadcasts it's premium price tag like a badge of honor with a striking design. The customer enjoys the experience of everyone swooning over their new purchase. They like the idea thousands of people are waiting in line to get this thing they are holding in their hands right now. This is even more important in the context of giving Apple products as gifts. Buying someone the cheap but acceptable option sends one message. Buying someone the expensive and also acceptable option sends a different message.

Basically Apple cracked the code of getting people to pay more and be pretty happy about it.
WhatsApp is insecure, right? Did they ever respond to that? If any major company implemented a chat protocol that sent messages in plaintext today, I imagine they would be crucified. What can we do to get WhatsApp to adopt security?
I get a similar feeling when looking over my git commits. So satisfying!
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Re: "We’ve given our other partners 99.9999% uptime."

That's neither technologically possible nor commercially feasible.

Companies need to stop saying that.
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Is this likely to be any different from introducing a little error-correction?

Also, how were we not doing this already?

Also, I need a writer. Whoever wrote this up made it sound WAY cooler than when I explain error correcting codes.
I guess this is ruining the airlines margins when you miss a flight and they cancel your return flight while they are at it, and pocket all the fares.
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There are only a few product announcements each year, so of course there isn't a correlation with the overall price fluctuations.

However, you can be pretty sure what the price will do a couple of days before and the day of an announcement.
I've heard this a lot, but I honestly can't think of anything I use on my iPad that isn't built-in. I say more or less the same thing about my Nexus 7, aside from stuff like game emulators which are verboten on iOS (and, truthfully, I don't use them that often).

Care to share?
Interesting, then some of the news articles I've read on this are incorrect.
This is just a quick meta-comment, because I feel a simple upvote isn't enough: insightful comments like yours and its parent are the lifeblood of Hacker News. Please keep them coming.
Wow, yet another reason to drink and party at SXSW. Oh wait, that's the only reason to go to SXSW.
Thanks! I like your idea of summary/blurb. The point of the widget is to parse video, so clarity is key. However we're trying to make a general purpose tool with a crowd-sourcing element, so we also need to keep the structure down to a minimum.
So, did you resign from Lockheed Martin?
Well, or someone forgot to turn on HTTPS. How does the plugin know whether to redirect a given site anyway?
I'll read it. Thanks!
It's swings and roundabouts. The success of mobile has indirectly accelerated the development of self-driving cars (Google being a major player in this emerging area), and I think such vehicles have enormous potential to reduce orad accidents, fuel consumption, traffic, and all the ancillary waste that goes with our existing car culture.
What? That's not what this was doing at all. Not checking in won't cause you to miss your flight, just get a worse seat.
forth? lisp? try coding naked?

I think if you can find a combination of:

- dynamic
- REPL
- good editor support
- lots of libraries
- easy bindings for text/graphic display

...that will be conducive to "playful" programming.

Some of it might be how you approach it. Try coding silly things for yourself. Write a program to greet you when you first turn on your computer...or render a graphic depicting how your favorite sports team is doing against their rivals..or whatever you can imagine.
I'm curious, in what way does iMessage not work ?
I agree with taking him down in this case. A quick Google search would reveal that it's been done before and taken down before.

Southwest goes above and beyond the industry norm for making air travel painless (I fly them every week) and they have the right to keeping people from gaming the system.

The best solution I've found is to set your calendar reminder for 24hrs before your flight, with the confirmation number in the "Where" field, then quick copy/paste into their smartphone app. Takes two seconds and always gets you on the A-List. If that's too much work for you, pay them $10 for Early Bird.

This guy will make it more painful for the rest of us when they add CAPTCHAs.
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It turns out ATI's death sentence was rather pronounced when it was acquired by AMD. ATI is now far behind nVidia, and there is no catching back now that they depend on AMD's situation so much.
I'm not up-to-date on networking technologies, but it's surprising to me that some sort of error correction hasn't already been made a standard yet.

I wonder if something along the lines of old-school Parity files would work in the packet world? Basically just blast out the packets and any that were lost, you just reconstruct using the meta-data sent with the other packets.
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If you miss your flight on Southwest they credit 100% of your money back - even if it's your own fault for sleeping in.
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(this is from a throwaway to avoid naming the company I worked for)

I worked at a startup with a hardware product in 2011 (nb: I didn't work on the hardware personally, but was aware of the difficulties we faced), and the issues you describe are all very familiar.

It may be the case that the technologies you describe allow you to push the problems to later in the product development cycle, but from what I observed, they all still happen once you try to transform that product into a consumer product that can be manufactured and sold at a viable price-point.

It's true for example, that the hardware engineer founder built a prototype relatively quickly using off the shelf components, but the resulting product was so large, the housing so ugly, and those components so expensive that it would never have been economically viable.

Once they were past the prototype stage, they faced all the problems you describe: parts manufacturers and suppliers only willing to deal in huge quantities and make sales well in advance; finding manufacturers who can make plastics that are of high quality and meet safety standards is surprisingly difficult and slow [1]; much of the tooling for small, cheap, low-power-consumption microcontrollers seems to be from the dark ages [2].

What made it even worse was that many VCs we spoke to seemed to be unfamiliar with or unwilling to take the risks associated with hardware startups: much higher up-front costs to scale the business, and much longer product development times. It's possible the company I worked for didn't take advantage of all the modern developments available to hardware startups, or that they had the wrong strategy (trying to scale too fast or seeking the wrong customers, for example), but I certainly have enormous respect for the challenges hardware startups must overcome, even in these times.

1: Some anecdotes I remember from the plastics saga: the first overseas manufacturers they tried in an early attempt to make the housings cheaper absolutely would not, and maybe could not produce a housing in the correct shape. We would send them models in a form designed to be structurally sound and aesthetically appealing, and they'd come back as basically ugly square boxes. We ended up using a much more expensive US-based manufacturer for a long time because of this. (IIRC, they were more expensive mostly because their facility was really meant for rapid development and not mass production.)

I also remember a significant delay at a crucial time because we couldn't get the fireproof coloring agent we needed in the right color.

2: One of the hardware engineers spent a grueling couple of weeks hunched over an oscilloscope looking for a particular pulse that would indicate that the microcontroller had found and booted our company's software on the chip.
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I saw it and thought the exact same thing. For all of the great design work that Apple does it is a real shame. But it occured to me that the shape is made so that the device just looks like a flat plane when viewed at an angle (and what we are looking at is the breakdown of this illusion). To me that they are trying to cheat by creating an illusion of extreme thinness instead of designing something to be really thin.

Its ugly and from a design standpoint the dishonesty of form is a really big turnoff.
> I agree with taking him down in this case. A quick Google search would reveal that it's been done before and taken down before.

Only for commercial sites, right?

Anyway, if he just distributed the source code, there'd be nothing to stop people from running this on their own computers, I'd think.
Care to explain a bit more? On the face of it, I don't believe this can make sense. All costs scale, all costs are at some stage marginal. What are you proposing is the trigger or cause of incurrence?
Yup. I remember looking at udpcast. I did not select it because, amongst other things, it did not support encryption. And I don't think we could use IPsec.
Wow, this is the least technical content, most political posting to make it to Hacker News that I've ever seen. Congratulations.
This is actually why I tend to be pretty granular with my commits ... I just like looking at the list and saying, well, I done that!
if i remember correctly they _do_ encrypt your messages but authentication is based on something like your phone number as your username and your IMEI as your password or something absolutely ridiculous.

i read about it on slashdot, and told my sister, who uses it all the time. her response was "oh, should i care?". sigh
The only reason Intel would be even close to anti-trust worthy is because they use their own fab tech that they keep ahead of the competition to make their processors hard to beat.

And it isn't even really their fault that they are building new fab plants a year ahead of anyone else. It would seem wrong to me to force Intel to sell off yields on the market from their own plants if they don't want to, but that is the major reason they always dominate the pc space (besides the fact most software is for x86 and they license the architecture, but I don't really buy that anymore - hardware virtualization has come a long way, and I can pretty effectively emulate x86 on ARM under qemu with binary address translation and hardware instructions supporting it, which every major architecture now has).
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> Deal that started in 2004-2006 and lasted through to 2012 is 6 to 8 years worth of hosting. As far as I understand, they also offer one more year of free hosting as a compensation.

You might have to excuse some here who actually understand lifetime and unlimited to mean more than 6 to 8 years.

> but I don't 'fundamentally distrust' them based solely on this case.

But do you see how others would though?
If he didn't have an ethical problem working for Lockheed Martin why would he? His point is that IF you have an ethical problem with the work you are doing, it shouldn't be the devaluation of stock options that gets you to stop.
"Far behind"? Please elaborate. This may apply to the CPUs, which is unfortunate. But the GPUs are very competitive.
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There's a ton of good resources in here. Wish I had access to this when I was a TA to point kids in the right direction. It would be great if you could let other people make their own guides. I found that I end up getting asked the same questions over and over again and having something to organize everything would've been extremely helpful.
Your second paragraph seems as though you're arguing that Southwest's high level of customer service somehow affects the ethics of making a site like this.
Yea, that metric seems bizarre. It is worth mentioning though that the lowest TDP chips Intel is selling are 17w mobile ones, comparing a desktop to a mobile chip seems apples and oranges.

You also need to consider that Intel is at least a fab tech ahead of ARM chips. I have a Tegra 3 Transformer tablet and that chip was yielded at 40nm, 2 generations behind Intels 22nm, and it has a TDP of 15 watts. Of course under load it would run higher than that, but so would an Intel chip.
Two people who, in my experience reading their material, are biased and their opinions shouldn't hold as much weight as they do.

Everyone's biased. Read any political editorial. They are clear with their biases. There's a slant to everything you have a personal investment in (whether financial or just sheer interest in the topic). Truly objective journalism is very rare nowadays. An ersatz veneer of objectivity is common but that's more insidious, IMHO.

Do you really think that it is okay that they are allowed to be in journalism in an area where they both have financial stake in companies they report on?

If they disclose it, yes. Journalism is no sacred cow. It's as scummy and scabby as any industry. The fact they disclose their conflicts of interest puts them above any journalist who has been taken for dinner or drinks by a PR flack or big company or flown out on a press junket (pathetically common, rarely disclosed to readers).
PG, thoughts on this?

"How I Plan to Bootstrap Aspiring Hardware Engineers"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4691108
> but lifetime service claim sounds too good to be true anyway.

I like how you quickly turned this into the "blame the victim" issue. It is a pretty clear and obvious failure yet you keep defending them and blaming everyone who believed them.
You can probably scroll or flip pages with your thumb, so it might be comfortable to read long content with one hand (like a kindle).
Slightly off topic question, where did you get that wallpaper? It's gorgeous.
ok.

I got it now :)

Thank you!
I don't know if it qualifies as "good", but the internet has coined a term for it: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wahjah
Netburst was bad because they hit a mhz ceiling on the architecture and couldn't force the thermal enveolope any higher, while AMD went with dual cores and x64, which proved the correct path. They just hit a home run.

What nobody ever seems to consider is that AMD has revenue that less than what Intel spends in R&D. The fact they can even compete on the scale they do with Intel is a testiment to their success. Intel was always way too big for AMD to compete directly against, and after Athlon's sucecss they tried to move into the big leagues and fight Intel one on one, and lost just due to raw funding (I'd argue, at least). It is why they had to sell off Global Foundries to buy ATI, and such.
Even "resolutionary"?