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Don't worry, it won't be there long.
The problems you're talking about are never going to be solved by ratings companies because you're talking about a completely subjective experience.

There is no such thing as an objectively good restaurant. In my town, there are famous pizza places which people absolutely love and then others who think it's an overrated, pretentious mess.

Nevermind attempting to control for different waiters, chefs, people having a bad day, etc. The problem isn't Yelp-specific.

The problem is entirely human.
I love love LOVE the terminal emulation idea for an informative website. I had fun just poking around with the commands, and I got my information on what it was and how everything goes sooo much faster than clicking through links. Bravo on UX for this site!
I actually agree on the point about linking to primary sources, but having said that Florian Mueller is a proven shill and his analysis should never be trusted at face value by anyone, particularly when he's analyzing anything to do with Google.
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Well, layering (really replacing or adding) is really the only option with regards to the Constitution. It needs to show a modern intent to some of the amendments that have suffered in the modern era.
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...which is one of the challenges of MSRs. Long-term high-temperature exposure to corrosive flourine salts is a not-completely-solved materials problem.
The fallacy of the "wisdom of the crowd."
for every one of these lawsuits i wish there were 10 more. we seriously need to get the patent courts so backed up that it should take 17 years to get your case in front of a judge and the same amount of time to secure a patent on an idea.
Putting aside the fact that the fab takes a healthy chunk of profit, the question is one of capacity. A fab is under no obligation to provide Apple with chips, and given a choice between one big contract with Apple or diversifying and having a dozen smaller contracts with other manufacturers and I know what I'd pick.

The problem then, for Apple, is that they can't just turn around and get their chips made somewhere else. There just aren't enough fabs in the world to produce them at the quantity Apple needs, especially using latest-generation processes.
We're probably just fighting over semantics. What you call opportunity sounds more like a proven idea versus your typical idea that needs proving.

Take the many instances when we say something like: "I have an idea: we could try selling blah to blah people." Is that an idea or a possible opportunity? I'd argue it is both.

Or "I have an idea: let's sell to blah people because I know they'd love this". Is that an idea or an opportunity? I'd argue it is both.

No where in the definition of an idea does it specfically exclude anything related to market opportunity.
More needs to be discussed about this group of entrepreneurs. So much emphasis is put on the full time, no-expenses-or-responsibilities-whatsoever early to mid 20s male entrepreneur s, but I think there are probably a lot more entrepreneurs like you guys.
Curiously, I would almost have believed Microsoft to have been the first to make a move like this. They have already been preparing their developer ecosystem for an architecture independent target for years with .NET and CLR/MSIL. As more software is developed in C#, switching CPU architecture is just a matter of supplying a new .NET VM bundled with the OS, and all your legacy software should continue to run - at full speed, even. (Incredibly, they decided that their ARM version of Windows 8 should be called "Windows RT" and be rather limited! What a missed opportunity!)

Meanwhile, Apple's developer tools are still churning out x86, x86_64, and/or arm assembly from Objective-C, so all existing software would at the very least need a recompile (hope your vendor is still around and has written portable code!) Or they could do another Rosetta, translating x86_64 to ARM. Doesn't sound like an efficient solution, though. And after a few years they'd drop the emulator from the OS anyways :P
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Yes, and no. The problems of what movies I might like or what music I like are also entirely human, but Netflix and Pandora have been doing a way better job of figuring that out than Yelp has. And what motivation does Yelp have to do better, anyway-- they don't get their money from me, they get it from venue providers both awesome and terrible.
Thanks a lot, Buzz Killington...
this is one of the cases where the gui [i like git-cola personally] is definitely a better way to do things. if you complain that it won't work "in a pinch", you're optimising for the uncommon case. yes, it's useful to know how to do it from the command line, but for day-to-day use i find the gui more efficient.
it was in the past appealing to creatives, designers, video producers, the publishing industry etc I believe those are processor-intensive applications that don't fall in the enterprise sector.

I understand even though apple tried to move out of the server market, every creative company offices i have visited they mostly work with apple products.
Obama never claimed to be against the PATRIOT Act. He claimed he would work to reform it. However, Presidents don't write legislation and reform has never made it into any bills reauthorizing the Act. That said, the president has directed the Justice Department to enact certain oversight above and beyond what is required by law.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr...
I see your point, so I'm here to clarify: I'm praising being an introvert here, not condemning it. This was site was made specifically to help those of us who have trouble fitting in with large teams still engage in the social coding movement!
I know it's probably not in your immediate future, but man does a refrigerator-sized LightSail Energy unit for my house sound awesome.
There's plenty of people that care, but it seems like it's not going to be fixed anyhow, so you don't see many complaints.

Personally I'd love it if the HTML template of HN would be a bit more semantic. I've had at least four false starts where I was like "yeah I'm gonna build this piece of userscript JS so I can more easily <check replies to my comments or whatever>" only to hit a brick wall when I am reminded how awful it is to parse, even with today's advanced DOM querying features. Fortunately there are those with more perseverance, so I am thankful to at least get to use someone's bookmarklet that adds comment-folding to HN :)
Some people may use twitter to follow information, not just broadcast. Also I have friends who are very extroverted online but when they get into a flesh meet they become quiet. So I wouldn't say this is entirely without merit.
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> if you were in a room and said "can all the guys sit on this side of the room?"

Interesting. What would happen if you said "can all you guys sit on this side of the room?"

I agree that other words avoid this problem and are more descriptive.
Some people may use Twitter to follow information, not just broadcast. Also I have friends who are very extroverted online but when they get into a flesh meet they become quiet. So I wouldn't say using Twitter is entirely without merit.
That's sort of like saying Facebook scaling is a "non-issue" because it's just a bunch of small, independent profile pages. Of course some elements can and should be sharded, but that doesn't mean that scaling is trivial, especially as you get into more advanced and social features and a rapidly increasing percentage of traffic is logged in and fully dynamic.

I think we agree that "scaling" small (sub-RAM-size) amounts of data to a largely logged-out and cached audience is easy, but I think you think of WordPress.com as much smaller and more static than it actually is. My apologies if I'm misunderstanding your point of view.

If you want to see standalone sites in the top 100 running WP besides wordpress.com, check out time.com, umbrellanews.com, celebuzz.com, and large sections of nytimes.com, cnn.com, and people.com. If you were to spider the top million Alexa domains, you'd find about 17% of them on WP:

http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_man...
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There is no question in my mind that Apple will gradually switch from Intel to ARM. I don't think it will happen until 2014, when the first 64-bit ARM designs come out. At the current rate of improvement, ARM processors in two years will offer roughly 4X what today's chips offer (with a better power consumption profile than current low-end Intel designs). By that point, ARM performance will probably be "good enough" for lower-end machines (such as the MBA) to use ARM rather than Intel.

I also think it's possible that iOS will eventually become the successor to Mac OSX.
Energy Storage is important because the supply of electric power has to match the demand in real time. Renewable power has problems doing this which creates demand for energy storage.

Many powerplants such as Nuclear or Coal can take hours to startup and shutdown. The power markets and grid management orgs spend a lot of time scheduling power production and balancing supply and demand. Plants tell grid operators, we're running from 2-6pm on Tuesday - and face fines if the power isn't delivered. Some plants get paid to be on "standby" to deal with surges in demand.

The price of power can at times become negative, because for some plants it is cheaper for the operator to get zero or even negative revenue for a short period vs. shutting down. Wind power Tax credits and carbon offsets at times mean windfarms can make money with a negative powerprice.

Wind power can have problems meshing with the grid and scheduling/dispach of power. If you're producing power when you're not scheduled and demand is low the price a plant gets can be very low, even negative, because it isn't needed. Part of this is because of market rules, and part of it is actual operations.

So if the wind is blowing during a period of time that people are not using much power the windfarm operator makes very little or nothing. If you can store energy for even a few hours it can be moved from periods of low demand to high demand which makes a lot of money and ensures you are not fined for failure to deliver power.

The big economic impact here is that there are a lot of powerplants called peakers that only run durring periods of peak demand. Peakers tend to be the least efficent plants out there because they are run so little, like burning 1.5-2 times more natural gas per unit of output. If you can store energy then you can build efficent power plants that produce all the time and use a lot less fuel.

Yes, I was an Energy Economist and part of the Enron Power Trading desk years ago.
There's no need to assume that a switch for some Macs will be a switch for all Macs. Multi-architecture binaries were standard for several years during the x86 transition. As they move to an App-Store model, it will be relatively simple to download the right binary based on architecture. Signed binaries could be required to be multiplatform. The minority of users who want to install software that's not Apple-approved will have to deal with potentially higher amounts of complexity.
I might be running more .NET software than I realize, but it seems to me that .NET isn't anywhere close to becoming the majority "instruction set" of software shipped on Windows.
I think Apple's LLVM architecture is built to handle these type of transitions.
Apple could pay for part of a fab for someone else. They have done this for other components (e.g. displays).
A bunch of people individually hacking on the same problem may find novel approaches that would not be found (or worked on) by a team.
> Incredibly, they decided that their ARM version of Windows 8 should be called "Windows RT" and be rather limited! What a missed opportunity!

The whole "Windows RT" thing has been horrifically mis-managed. If they're not going to let third-party desktop apps run, they should've used it as an opportunity to ditch the desktop altogether. And talk about bad branding... As if any normal consumer is going to have a clue what that's about.
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the first one is it! Thank you so so much! I tried hnsearch, but I guess I didn't have the right terms. Thank you!
Intel was washed up when the Athlon came out and was faster. Intel was washed up when the pentium 4 was too hot. Point being, intel has done pretty well for a company rendered obsolete a decade and a half ago.
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I never claimed he was unbiased just like no one would claim that Gruber is unbiased. But having posts from source like CNET that just water down the original source make it to the front page adds absolutely nothing of value.

Imagine if every John Gruber article worthy of making it to the front-page only ever made it to the front page after being laundered by a site like CNET? I think everyone can agree that we would be worse off without the original voices.

One of the biggest losses of not having original voices, even from the most biased of biased bloggers, is that it also dilutes the counter-arguments of those on HN that provide the balance to biased articles. For example, a direct link to Florian Meuller's article may elicit a response from a contributor like yourself where you point out where Florian's analysis may be wrong and shouldn't be trusted. Without Florian's post to rebut, it's more likely that people like yourself would remain silent on the issue.
See this report on Apple's CapEx spending in the last quarter: http://www.asymco.com/2012/10/31/hey-big-spender/

It's seen a big spike up and is ~ 30% more than Intel's $2.6 billion/quarter. And it spent three times in Q3 than Google, 4.8x Microsoft and 3.8x Amazon.

Speculation in the comments are that Apple is paying an as yet unnamed firm, probably TSMC, to build/tool/operate one or several ARM SoC fabs.
The motivation is to improve their service or risk losing users like you. They have no business model without happy users.
Netflix and Pandora are largely frictionless experiences. If I spend the money and time to get in a cab in NYC to go to a restaurant that sucks, I'm upset. That's the problem that Yelp is trying to solve. I can't quickly "change the channel" with Yelp, or any sort of ratings for that matter. It isn't a technical or algorithmic problem, it's a human one that doesn't scale well. Quantify != Qualify.
At least in my personal experience in the US, it is nigh on impossible to find someone that will sterilize a younger, childless woman. I have tried to inquire about it in my past (I'm 23 now) and every attempt to even discuss it with people that are otherwise open to discussion about most anything (e.g. Planned Parenthood) have been stonewalled.

I haven't seriously considered it and was approaching it more from a curiosity point of view, but the reaction I got was mindblowing. You are pretty much interrogated about and judged on why you're asking about it even if the doctor has no intention to perform any such procedure on you ("it's for your own good"), and sometimes it doesn't even matter that you already have kids. One of my friends has even gone to multiple doctors to find one that would tie her tubes despite having 3 kids in a marriage going on 15 years and problems with most forms of birth control. (I have no idea how men fare in this regard.)

The other unfortunate thing is that there's still no 100% effectiveness with almost all methods of sterilization: worst case it's no better than near perfect use of the pill, best case it's just slightly better than IUDs/implants - it's a matter of arguing whether one or a couple of 9s go after 99%. The only real benefit is that it's a do-it-once-and-forget type of thing as well as something men can do, unlike IUDs that need replaced every x years or similar that are only for women.

And my 2c to politics: I don't think abortion is an edge case as it ties into a greater freedom of reproductive choice for women that make up half the US population before we even get started on how this affects their partners and families. Obama is not incorrect in saying that this is an economic and also crucial issue, as even everyday things like easy access to birth control (one less stressor for me and my partner! thank you!) are being assaulted by the super far extremist right. How serious they are shall remain to be seen (and on a state level it seems pretty serious), but as a woman I am scared shitless by the idea that a presidential candidate is included in that group of people.

This is not to say that SOPA and many, many other issues aren't also important, but absolute single-issue voting doesn't help anyone in any regard because there are plenty of non-tested, extremist, and pointlessly single minded people that support SOPA. There just is no such thing as a candidate that represents everything I care about the way I want, so I choose the one that I feel will do the least damage across more issues.
One thing in favor of the move is customization. Intel has done an amazing job of removing the customization options from the x86 eco-system. No NVIDIA chipsets and no hooking into the faster bus on Intel motherboards. This has to be a problem for a company like Apple trying to build something non-stock.

Also, I cannot imagine the whole "Intel paying people to clone the MacBook Air" was well received in Cupertino.
Verticle markets were a hypothesis about how to get people to pay. Tablets were actually used in the 1990's in specialist/niche applications. The combination of enterprise customers with special needs would fork out $$$ for special-needs units. This actually did happen -- look at pictures of the NYSE trading floor from the time. People with a lot of money (and more to be made) underwrote secial-use tablets (complete with wireless 28.8 modems, etc)

Today, an iPad likely does not need modification to do most tasks, that were the placeholders discussed in the 1990's. It would have to be 10x better than the iPad, to be compelling to a vertical market player today. But, I don't think there is an order of magnitude opportunity on the sidewalk. The main constrains seem to be power/weight. As soon as you get to 2x Ipad4 you are looking at something like an 11-in MBAir, but that's already on the market for 1.5x the iPad cost.

So a speciailst unit would need to be something like the size of the iPad mini but with the power of a MB air. All in some kind of form factor (hardened/waterproof/secure) that was unique to a specialist application. I do think there are opportunities for that, but I'm inclined to think AAPL might be better to have a go at them. They would need an OSX competitive operating system, something like 512GB of flash memory, and some unique specialist application SW to be written.

That seems like a lot for a new entrant to pursue, and its unlear the market is large enough for a new entrant. Where the consumer/global market is now 1 billion middle-class professionals, gov'ts, and schoolkids, etc. The issue with pricing these things at $4-6K is that the depreciation would probably be huge.
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Apple should migrate from x86 to LLVM IR. Then JIT down to native code upon program installation. That way they can switch the underlying architecture as much as they like.

I'm surprised they haven't adopted this scheme with iOS already when they deprecated GCC.
Any chance those rules will be revealed? Or is this your secret sauce?

I heard you guys had to move offices during the hurricane to further up in midtown. Were you rolling this out during that move?
Why? Because intel can't make low power chips?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/4/3447984/motorola-razr-i-re...

Money quote: "Both have strong battery life compared to many Android devices, but from our tests and experience, it’s clear that Intel’s chip is far more frugal with power than the dual-core Snapdragon S4."
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In Hungary ember means people. :) So this is ads for the people.
A lot of people I know jumped to the Mac (more than 100 machines) because of bootcamp / vmware. I don't think they would have felt safe otherwise.
I loved the UX too.

The output of help re-flows when the window is re-sized. But the output of other 'commands' didn't reflow. I'm not sure if that's a feature or not.

But it's a really nice way to present information.
> What I'd really like is something built on my actual purchasing history, deeper into the venue than just presence

Maybe next Foursquare will launch a Pay with (four)Square competitor. I feel like they're uniquely positioned to get this type of purchasing data/history and do something useful with it. By comparison, Square has 75,000 registered merchants accepting Pay With Square [1]; LevelUp has only 3,000 merchants [2]; Foursquare has 1,000,000 merchants.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/technology/personaltech/as...
[2] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/levelup-zero-scvngr...
Don't know why but this reminds me of a Richard Stallman quote
"To understand the concept of free software, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech', not as in 'free beer'."
> ddg in not personalising at all

I think DDG has some personalization based on your location, for example if I search "weather" it shows me the weather near me.
No, it's about something that may or may not happen in 2017.
Foursquare can recommend places based on your personal history of check-ins. Our recommendations for you need not be the same as our recommendations for your friends.

(That said, the venue ratings product we announced today is globally consistent: everyone will see the same rating for a given place. Our Explore product, however, does make personalized recommendations.)
Is there really a need for a 24 hour laptop?

A laptop that doesn't need charging throughout the day, sure, but I don't think charging a laptop overnight is a significant inconvenience for most people?
Sounds like Apple and Intel are in the midst of renegotiating their agreement(s).
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I'm pretty sure binaries are still compiled down to machine code, so that would require your vendors to stick around and recompile and redistribute updated .app files for your old software.
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Do you have a number for the amount of air and water you need to store per kW-h of energy delivered to the load?

What's the real energy efficiency of the system?

What's the estimated energy loss per unit time of the storage system?
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You can't blame them for lack of trying to push it though, no? :)
No, you need to port Win32, COM and other native libs.
I would kind of like to read an article specifically about tuning performance in various IEs. (It would be, unfortunately, a very practical and useful article for me.)
I suppose it might! All the clothing I have that should be ironed is also dry-clean only, so it never sees the dryer.

I do have some clothes that I dry on a rack, and they always come out very stiff compared to the stuff that goes through the dryer. I feel like I should hit those sweaters with a rugbeater or something before I wear them.
Could we really develop something that is a turning point in social media?
Agreed. Also, Facebook offers Groups for just such a purpose. A collection of users who can share messages rather than a brand home page.
All small rotocopters only get about 10 minutes per charge. My cheap and tiny Ladybird gets about 8 mins. They charge quickly though.
Getting "Service Unavailable - DNS failure" from IEEE site. Did HN really just stomp spectrum?

Maybe mods could change to link directly to kickstarter instead?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/qfolabs/mimixtm-tilt-to-...

EDIT working again