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You probably think it is just a cached hdd like momentus right
It seems this has sparked some debates on nuclear vs renewable energy so I thought I'd add a ted talk that explains some pros/cons of each for those interested: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_mackay_a_reality_check_on_ren...
> In one full swing, this business model would reduce unemployment, national debt, and poverty. But you're also creating an incentive for the universities to innovate. I can just see something like A/B Testing being set up. "Okay. So are you telling me students who take the general courses do not earn more than the student's who don't? Get rid of these courses!"

Let me try to answer this seriously: So, the problem with your idea is that Universities are not just workshops but they are also places where research is done, where people work day in day out cranking out experiments for a pittance. If you want to optimize for a single cost function: Money, you will find that these people lose the training that got them into science on the first place. They sure as hell wouldn't go into research because the pay for Grad. Student or a Professor sucks. Also, all we would be trying to mint out in this case would be business men and lawyers. Guess what? Tech does not pay as well as you would think it would.

Also, there is a special place for classrooms and Universities irrespective of this "free distribution of information" which AFAIK has been existing since the 16th century (books): Mentorship. One of the greatest experiences that going to a world class school can give you is the ability to interact with people who have significantly shit tons of experience than you, have the wisdom and depth of knowledge in the subject.
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There wil be a blog with screenshots in this weekend.
I'd love some data on what the demand is for this. Don't most people have a fixed address that can receive packages? Can anyone share a typical need that a large demographic has? I'm sure I'm missing something, so enlighten me....
Am I the only one who is far less likely to read an HTML email? If I see that I need to click to allow external images for my email to load, I'm probably just going to delete it. It's amazing to me that HTML email can be effective for marketing.

You're not alone - but you are in a minority (well - apart from here probably ;-). Most people don't really understand that there is even a difference between HTML and plain text mails.

The difference that most people act on is a well designed vs a poorly designed email - whether that be plain text or HTML. A badly designed text mail will lose to a well designed HTML one. A well designed text mail will beat a poorly designed HTML one.

Since you have more design options for HTML you can normally make the HTML mail be the most effective option.
The prices are easy enough to verify independently. I looked up the iFixit teardown[1] which confirms that the SSD connector is proprietary (although I'm sure someone will eventually start selling compatible drives).

I find it very disappointing that hardware (especially laptop hardware) has been moving towards proprietary connectors solely for the purpose of extracting more money from consumers. Several years ago, I bought a new DVD burner for my IDE-based Toshiba Satellite, but it turns out that the laptop's IDE connector wasn't quite compatible with non-Toshiba drives and it ended up being a waste of $60 and several hours of my time. I also accidentally fried the laptop's board while trying to get it working. I haven't bought a Toshiba since.

[1]: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Mid+2012+...
ITunes 11 looks great, but still tries to do too much (incl. vid.)
This image is always my first reaction to these types of posts:

http://www.flipkik.com/uploads/pics/how-to-draw-an-owl.png
You dont have to be at home when stuff arrives.
Fusion seems kind of half assed. If I want a fast drive, I'll get the largest ssd I'm willing to afford. If I want a cheap drive I'll get the smallest HDD I need.

If you're buying an apple product, pricing is low on your list.
Are you posting the entire archive of Functionn?
I`m not talking about haxe in genereal. I`m talking about the idea of NME which is really nice but would fail in many (higher performance visuals) cases when it comes to javascript/canvas.
must read about it, for any social site developer: http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
Racket version (should work in most Scheme implementation too actually):

(let loop () (display (list-ref '("╱" "╲") (random 2))) (loop))

Use `racket -e <expr>` tu run it directly, for Guile it should work with `guile -c <expr>` but it seems that the unicode charaters make it crash (however it works if you copy the line of code in Guile's REPL rather than on the command line with -c).
Humm I find it quite an interesting article, but very imprecise. The only useful thing I found on the net about "Thor Energy" is this presentation http://www.docstoc.com/docs/63561509/Thor-Energy-companyover...
Ask HN: Where to write and publish simple post?
I just want to express some though about the startup world and write about my experiences but I don't want to set up a blog or something. http://www.medium.com Looked nice for that purpose but it is still in private beta for writers.

Any ideas where I could write my content?
C'mon man, the entire archives of Functionn has like 600+ AWESOME RESOURCES like UltraREPL, you think it's feasible to post all of them here?

Nope, posting only what I think the HN Community will appreciate and new upcoming resources, if it's not wanted, then I will cease doing it :)

EDIT: If anybody else thinks I should stop posting the useful resources I find for the blog everyday, just drop a comment here.
Whether it's an excessive amount or not clearly depends on the person, isn't it? I studied for about 2 months and still didn't get an offer.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4704039

I don't know if preparing more would've made a difference, but it's possible (though personally I don't regret not having studied more, it simply wasn't worth beyond that point).

Below you mention FizzBuzz. My phone screen question was about implementing a simple, concurrent data structure that could hold a fixed number of items. Not a big deal, but still significantly harder than FizzBuzz, in the sense that pretty much everyone that gets the data structure question right would also be able to solve FizzBuzz, while the converse is not true.

> The reason Google has a reputation for hard interview problems is that before they came around, the standard technical interview was "So, $NAME, tell me about what you did at your last job".

FWIW, This is essentially how Japanese companies still interview. I have never been asked an actual coding or algorithmic question by Japanese companies.
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Hi guys,

We have just built Ultimategiftlists.com

My girlfriend keeps asking me what I want for Christmas. I also need to buy stuff for my nephew. So I wrote a list of stuff out for my girlfriend and sent her an email of links showing her the stuff I wanted. I found that my brother did exactly the same to show me what I should get my nephews.

There had to be a better way to do this. Amazon wishlist exists but it doesn't do it as effectively as I wanted. Therefore my mate and I built our new site - www.ultimategiftlists.com - it's hopefully very simple to use and has a really cool feature called 'giftmark' which enables you to add items to your list on the move. We originally built it just for us, to solve the problem I describe above. But, we figured it could be useful to other people.

We'd love any feedback you may have. Thanks in advance for looking at it.
But why use it at all? Casual swearing has very few positive benefits, especially since the rest of the email was well-written and expletive-free.
No, but it's hardly a point in their favor, either. Anyways, OO looks like Word because the professional-compatible text editor UX is generall pretty static Toolbars, buttons, etc.

BB on the other hand is just missing some curved buttons on their UI - you have to admit the resemblance is uncanny.

I get the same gut feeling from Bitbucket as I would from a chinese knockoff of a well known product. Sure it might even be better in some ways but it still feels like a cheap imitation of the original.

Call me crazy :)
“256 cores by 2013”?
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Well, I am an Opera user too, and I was happy to see that they did not say use a modern browser like Google tends to do.
This looks really promising but seems very buggy here (Archlinux, node 0.8.14).

First getting an error, which made me have to modify the bin/ultra-repl to even get it to launch, and then I get errors about missing modules.. I might be doing it wrong :)
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> You're forgetting the university as a place to get drunk, get high, get laid, and play football which appear to be pretty high priorities for many if not most students.

So...? While these may not be my priorities, people who are paying through their nose to go to these schools are welcome to have other priorities. The thing is that just as elsewhere in life, there are people who would like to do different things with their money, I love the American experiment because it lets you do whatever you want with your money.

> You're also forgetting the university as a rubber-stamp credential, an exclusive mark of membership into a particular subgroup of people we like to allow into our other particular subgroups, which from my anecdotal experience is the #1 reason parents want their kids to go to college.

Uhhh...This is exactly how society works. Everyone makes first order approximations based on certain metrics. Hell, there are people out there who approximate based on the fact that you have a social media profile, have worked for google and play video games (Yes, even nerds ). The fact of the matter is that it is incredibly hard to judge people (Professionally and Personally) which is why we use these markers and throwing away universities is not going to make the markers themselves go away.

> The university as a "place of higher learning" was created back when monks copied every book by hand. I think the way we've managed to gold-plate all of the more modern and typical reasons for college with this lofty image thousands of years later is pretty impressive. By now I think we can probably come up with much better/cheaper forms of "higher learning" but I suspect too much of society depends on keeping it where it is.

I feel like what people are really looking for are tech shops that teach you how to do software engineering. Those are cheaper, more effective in teaching you how to do that specific task. The problem is that Universities are inherently designed to be a place where you are encouraged to make mistakes in the hope that you eventually get lucky and move humanity forward (This is the "higher learning" bit).
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Dear fellow free market enthusiast,

I fear it is not possible to determine a price for the storage of nuclear waste, because it needs to be taken care of so long. If one could estimate a price, I would doubt that any of todays companies companies is yet big enough to pay for it.

If you look at germany for instance: We are using nuclear power since decades, in almost 20 plants. Yet there is no solution for waste storage, so far. And it will be society paying for it, not the companies.
It is a spec. Python in general prefers a statement over an expression, so the while statement does not have an expression form.
Email transport is done in plaintext on the public internet -- it provides no confidentiality or integrity.
"Claiming something to be revolutionary while it's not" - This is simple marketing. A business needs to say something to differentiate itself from its competitors.

"modifying standard connectors to remove your choices" - I'd argue they did it for performance issues, not some conspiracy to get you to buy their adapters. Modifying things to suit a different purpose is engineering.

"charging you more for that is evil." - You charge what your customers will pay, not what it costs you to produce. It's a business, not a charity.

Take emotion out of it and just look at the facts.
Disagree. It's not that overpriced to have a native SSD pre-installed for $250. Sure, it's more than buying it alone, but most other companies would charge similar prices for Apple is doing here.
Markets can only work, if the prices for something tell the truth about the costs of something. You won't solve that with just cutting subsidies for all energy sources.

And carbon emissions are not everything. The idea to reduce them by trading certificates collapsed in the minute when the total amount of certificates were not lower than the amount of carbon emissions in the past or when it was not adjusted for the solar and wind power which were build over time. If you would cut the amount of certificates in half and auction them off, it might work. Otherwise the market will fail.
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The article is basically correct on the details, but like you stated, it has a terribly negative and biased tone.

It seems like his issue is more with the price and compatibility of SSDs than anything with Fusion Drive. I'm not too familiar with the specifics of the situation, but it pre-dates Fusion. Starting on the MacBook Air a few years ago, they started using a proprietary connector with a smaller form factor for SSDs. This has since expanded to their other laptops and iMacs. At the time the SSD drives were significantly smaller than what I saw on the market, but that doesn't completely explain the proprietary connector. This is probably the biggest reason I'd consider other laptops when it's time for me to upgrade...so maybe it's good he's making noise about this.

As for the complaints about pricing, again I haven't followed details of SSDs too closely, but I know SSDs vary in price widely based on performance/quality--and the $80 SSD he links to has very mixed reviews. An inflated price is in line with Apple's spinning disk and RAM upgrades, so it's not surprising they'd overcharge. He also fudges some numbers by repeatedly saying Fusion Drive costs $450 ($200 because you have to upgrade from the base model and $250 for the SSD) but doesn't mention at all that the upgraded model doubles the spinning drive (500GB to 1TB) and gets you a i7 instead of an i5 processor (I was looking at the Mac mini).

At least for laptops, I think his suggestion of using an external SSD drive "will experience nearly every advantage that Fusion Drive has to offer – at a fraction of the cost" is absurd since the first thing you'd put on the SSD would be your OS--which I wouldn't want on an external drive.
Agree on the pros of OSX for web development but for me that is less and less important.
Today you can so easily use VMs (eg. vagrant) to really have the same enviroment for dev/qa/production it doesnt really matter what OS you prefer.

The beauty of Apple for me is much more about the exceptional hardware quality thats blends with very good software
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Most e-mail users are using browser-based e-mail clients over HTTPS so in order to access the plaintext email one needs to tap the senders local network which would only work if the sender is not using an HTTPS webmail. Plaintext public internet attacks for email were more common when people used unsecured POP3 and IMAP.
So you monetize it via Amazon affiliate program, right?
If I, for my next iMac, had to choose between a 256GB SSD and 1TB spinning-disk, I'd pick the spinning-disk because I want the space more than the speed.

With this Fusion system I get almost the best of both.
Excuse my noob question, but what does hackpad have over Google doc? Except the startup / Silicon valley hype.
Does it make things faster: yes

Do you have to buy it: no

I don't understand how people write long articles about Apple's pricing strategy. They can charge whatever they want and people will pay whatever it's worth to them.

From the technical point of view:

There is a nice Ars Technica post on how Intels SRT differs from fusion drive:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10/more-on-fusion-drive-ho...

An excerpt:

> Intel SRT does not handle writes this way—whether it's operating as write-back or write-through cache, SRT mirrors writes (immediately or within a short amount of time) down to the hard disk, which is not the observed behavior. Plus, as has been noted, SRT currently doesn't work with SSDs larger than 64GB. It is absolutely clear that Fusion Drive does not use SRT.

As you can see, Apple does what it's best at:

1. Take existing technology

2. Improve it

3. Polish it

4. Sell it.

It's this final touch, attention to detail and hassle free operation that people seem to be willing to pay premium for.
It's actually kind of funny to hear you talk about this.

Meg Whitman "enshrined WebOS's abandonment", "After a long tortured process", "Agonized for months".

Steve Jobs on the other hand "Within months [...] slimmed down Apple's product portfolio to a handful of products".

Is it just me, or are you describing fundamentally the exact same actions? I sense a spin doctor in the house.
With secushare security is one of the starting points. Simply having a distributed network doesn't mean it would be secure. If authentication and access management isn't done correctly, distributed network could be real security nightmare.
See: http://secushare.org/
I would like to add that Google+ Is not an option for me. Its a social network I don't and won't use.
I'm not saying it's bad or that you should stop. :)
Hi,

Yes Amazon affiliates and also Skimlinks (skimlinks.com)..
Don't you hate it when people pick standards, and then actually stick with them?
Huh, I thought we established that the fusion drive didn't use the same basic cache idea as Intel SRT? There was an Ars article[1] that came out shortly after the new FDs did that did a lot of actual digging and came to the conclusion that, as I understood it, the SSD is ALWAYS written to, and then those storage blocks are, when needed, relocated to the HDD.

In other words, I call bullshit on this whole article's technological assessment. (Though I can't disagree that it's kind of pricey, but not so much as to be called a "ripoff", at least objectively)

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10/more-on-fusion-drive-ho...
you know you like it :P
Cheers, no hard feelings :)
First my mom learns to use an Ipad, next she's hacking together a recipe book for her phone. Developers are losing their monopoly.
The landlords of privately managed buildings tend to be pretty flexible. They judge on a case by case basis. If you meet with them in person, and seem respectable, you should be fine. Just remind them you're Canadian! Letters from previous landlords help. Having a bank statement with some cash helps. No full-time job will make it harder though. Worst case you could offer to prepay for months 4, 5, and 6 or something.

Google California tenant laws so you know your rights, don't let them screw you on security deposits for example. Get everything written on the lease and signed. Take detailed pictures when you move in and out.

The west side of LA (Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Westwood, West LA, Culver City, Venice, Malibu, Santa Monica) is by far the nicest in my opinion, but it's also relatively expensive. Santa Monica is the only place there's any concentration of startup stuff like co-working, offices, and events.

Good luck.
The Austrian postal service does something like this. People can install boxes on their homes that will be used to deliver packets. I believe for a single household it is quite expensive though, but probably useful for larger buildings that could share a box.

(They are also starting to put up automatic stations, like the German postal service does.)
Haven't they let humans travel by air at hypersonic speeds already?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde
The amount of work involved is entirely dependent on how different your User model is. If you've got a model where the username is even similar to the normal Django User, you don't need to redefine anything - you can use the existing forms and ModelAdmin.

If your model uses a different identifer field (e.g., email, rather than username), or doesn't share common fields with the default User, then yes, you'll need to redefine some forms. That shouldn't be too surprising, though -- if you've created a model that's nothing like Django's default User model, it shouldn't be surprising that you need to do some work to support it.

However, you shouldn't need to redefine any views, and the forms that need redefinition are fairly simple -- a fully worked example is in the docs.

On top of that, those forms and ModelAdmin definitions should be extremely reusable - it will be easy to package an "email-based" user model for reuse between projects.
And of course, if you leave NYC after breakfast and head to Tokio you won't get there by lunch

More likely you'll get there for dinner and a night out

At Mach 5 this will take 2h (not considering acceleration/deceleration times)
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Do a few of those tuts before you start saying that :) This isn't the same as learning how to code, that you have to understand every step along the way. You need practice, and you can actually just copy what he's showing, and by doing you will learn how these drawings come apart as objects.

And as a quick answer to your question: in most of the tuts you always start out with either a rectangle or an ellipse. In fact, what he always does is he picks the object that looks most like the shape he wants to draw. It's either a primitive like the rect or ellipse, but other times he duplicates already existing objects. But it's just shape matching, afaik there's one where he clones the nose to shape into an arm :) The point is you can add and delete nodes using the pen tool, so you can tweak the shape entirely, but it helps if you got somethat to start with that already has the right basic shape.
this is a false dichotomy, i want a faster drive than what I have (otherwise I have no interest in upgrading) and more storage than 250GB (because I already use more).

The Fusion Drive may not reach it's goals, but it is designed to fill this space, and if it was 50$ less expensive it would be awesome, IMHO.
"Neither country will go for coal."

Uh? Not only does Germany rely on coal energy (more so since they plan to get rid of nuclear) they also export it (which is great for politicians in Sweden, cut back on nuclear and call yourself green is great PR (then import coal energy from Germany)).

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-19/merkel-s-green-shif...
Check out the dock plus, another kickstarter project that is designed specifically for the iphone5.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dockplus/charging-dock-f...

The FAQ at the bottom specifically mentions that it is not just an adapter on the existing lightning cable.
>I'd argue they did it for performance issues

The article clearly says it's the same connector that's just modified. How can modifying just a connector affect performance? You are free to support Apple, as long as you have the facts straight.