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It's pretty naive to assume that Apple is going to eat the added costs of US manufacturing instead of just building it into the price, ala Nexus Q.

They've probably got enough good will out of all the misleading coverage to cancel out the $100M they're planning to spend already.
And, having just spent 8 days in RPA Hospital in Sydney, that Medicare levy could stand to be a bit higher! You don't really get a true picture of how strained the public health care system is until you spend some time in it (either as an employee, or a patient).
To avoid "memory overload", I have taken to literally ignoring parts of the system which I currently don't need. I.e., I don't even look at other classes' code before I don't need them. Else, I would have to spend 3 days of understanding it all. That's for very big programs, and of course I do look at the overall structure and what patterns have been used to couple classes together. But if a method promises something with a contract, I won't read through it, but treat it as a black box. My theory is that cognitive power is like money spent during the day. I can recharge it after a few hours by taking a nap of 20 minutes, but I better watch what I expend my cognitive credits for. And spending it all on reading other people's code (which has probably already been revised 10 times) is not worth it.
It's not as simple as charging per pixel. First of all, raising the resolution that high is still fairly new compared to 1080p. Lots of screens are going to come out not 100% perfect. See Catleap as evidence that lots of panels come out with defects even at non-4k resolution.

Second of all, because the screens are harder to make and prices are high because of that, adoption is lower too. With lower adoption comes lower economies of scale which mean higher prices again. So two factors at least that push prices up.

We won't see low prices until they can improve the manufacturing process enough to drop the price, which will increase adoption, which will drop the price, which will increase adoption, etc..
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With your childish comment you just showed how much you know about programming, zero!
I'm not buying your answer. I've never heard of any of my friends selling or buying anything on Facebook. Craigslist is their #1 choice. I buy a shit ton of random stuff on Ebay. I bought pretty much all of my sports equipment on Craigslist.

I don't even understand the idea of selling to friends - what are the chances of them wanting to buy it? It's such a small demographic compared to what you get on CL or Ebay.

I think you're solving a problem that doesn't exist, and you've convinced yourself that you are solving a problem.
Once a website reaches a certain scale you better have a backend that generates your forms already.

Since input elements already have unique names/values, otherwise the backend wouldn't know what you've posted. You can use a (scrambled) version of this, plus a sequence number if required in case of multiple inputs with same name.

Remembering to manually insert the label for every radio input is just bound to fail.
Came here to post this. This is very important and as a bonus, if you add some padding to the label the click area around the actual radio button becomes a bit larger.

You can combine nesting with for="id" to make sure you get complete compatibility.
That link mentions use of kerosene for lighting. Do you have any cites for the number of people using kerosene for lighting?

(http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/87/9/08-057505/en/)

> Paraffin, also known as kerosene, is among the most frequently used fuels for cooking, lighting and heating among people living in low-income communities lacking electricity in low- and middle-income countries.

> The homes themselves were modest. Almost none had running water and most were constructed of some combination of tin and wood. They averaged 2.0 rooms and 1.4 beds. Although more than 80% of participants had electricity in their home – often through illegal tapping of community electricity sources – they also reported paraffin as their primary fuel for cooking (36.6%), lighting (27.4%) and heating (95.6%). Most (92.8%) participants reported daily paraffin use, and all but one reported at least occasional paraffin use.

Kerosene is still used by very many people for lighting, (even among people who have some access to electricity). The use of kerosene for lighting causes harm.
You wrote 513 characters about a subject you don't know anything about. Why is that ? You didn't use dropbox, you don't know how it works (hint, what made it so popular is the desktop client that syncs your data in the first place. And it's written with wxpython.), but you felt compelled to write 513 chars about your ignorance and wild speculation ("Maybe in their earlier days blabla").

Then comparing apples to oranges "I use Ruby for light scripting" vs "widely deployed desktop app with users from the three major desktop systems (Windows, OS X, Linux)."

This kind of behavior is a serious annoyance in online discussions.
At 500$ I wouldn't be surprised at all. Did you read the article? That's just 200$ over the manufacturing cost of a retina iphone. I'm rather surprised that lenovos retailed at 2500$ are still stuck at low resolutions - and they still have quality control issues like overheating GPUs. People that call out rMBPs as expensive clearly don't get what they're about, there are simply no comparable alternatives at that price point.

Note: Other points critizised such as repairability are very valid however.
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Mods, please put back the word SideProject into the title. I don't want people thinking this is a hosted service or something like that. On a related note, why was the post title modified at all?

For reference, the original title I submitted was 'Show HN: Sideproject - I built a distraction free Markdown editor last weekend'. Seriously, the moderating is getting quite heavy handed here.
First, as you say, these languages were spoken by very few people. I remember reading not long ago, the obituary of a Scottish dialect spoken in a single village. You can't really expect a language with such a small group of speakers surviving the advent of the automobile and the radio for very long. And these languages did not die by a thousand loanwords: the young folk didn't learn them, and the old folk who could speak eventually died.

There is also another factor at play here. "Proper" languages (that is, not dialects) have hundreds of years of written material behind them, and this is critical to ensure a language's survival.
I'm having a bit of a hard time imagining working on so much screen estate, I think it would rather distract me. However I'd like to try some flight simulators there ;).

What field do you work in?
Grunt - a Javascript build tool
Thanks, interesting! Not mentioned on that page, but a notable natural language which is similar in its goals is Lojban [1]. It's actually based on predicate language, which is actually what Inform 7 uses as well in order to derive the actual meaning from natural language sentences. It manages this because it is based on a limited subset of English.

But I'll note that we humans manage to understand each other just fine without resorting to a controlled natural language. We solve the ambiguity problem basically by taking the most likely interpretation of a given sentence, given the context, or asking questions if too confused. And in fact, there are natural language parsers out there that can predict the mostly like parse reasonably well for single sentences.

The biggest problem here is that programmers like having full control of what's going on, whereas this sort of idea brings in a large dose of unpredictability: how will the parser interpret this sentence? I think this can be solved to some extent by having the parser tell you what it parsed in less ambiguous terms. In fact, you might ask the parser to present a normalized version of the code that is more specific about exactly what's going on (and probably more verbose), and also expanding out phrases to show you exactly what they mean for debugging purposes. Also, when a clear parse cannot be made, the parser can simply ask you to clarify, presenting the multiple parses that it could not decide between.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
Where are all the high resolution desktop displays? They are stuck in the 90s. Back then I had a 21" CRT that could run at something like 2400x1800. Not all the way to retina but still in a different league than todays screens. It could also run at something like 120Hz refresh rate, but then you had to turn down the resolution to more like 1280x1024.
I like the idea, but I dislike the "we'll distribute this for free" attitude. Distributing any kind of stuff for free has major economic impact, especially in poor countries where you replace or obsolete parts of the economy[1]. It's very common in the poorer parts of africa (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, ...) that people make their living of buying fuel at the gas station and reselling it by the liter for use in cookers and lamps or by collecting and selling wood.

A better way to go would be to validate the concept and find a way to produce the lamp and as much parts of it in the target communities, helping them to become self sustainable. The current idea just replaces local economy with earnings for a {american, european, chinese} manufacturer, effectively funneling funds away from the people that you want to help. So the goal is laudable, but I can't support the approach they're taking.

[1] other examples include food help which drives the local farmers out of business or donating clothes. Clothes often get sold for cheaper prices than the locally produced ones. Both may be useful in very specific circumstances, but are harmful in large scale.
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Now granted, I'm still in (probably) the first third of my life, but one thing I've come to realize is that there is too much stuff for me to learn. Even if all I ever did was sit in a room and learn stuff, I would never learn it all. Not just that, but if I sat in a room and learned only the interesting stuff, I'd still probably croak from natural causes before finishing. And even if that was all I did, why would I want to just sit in a room learning stuff if I never had time to apply it and build interesting things?

Maybe you learn faster than me. So be it. But, given all that--that I don't even have enough time in my life to learn all the interesting, no, fascinating, things that are so boring as to be considered the current scientific consensus--why should I want to waste my time listening to things that are likely to be bullshit? I don't. I don't have time for bullshit, and neither should you. But the thing is this: Just because you exclude the bullshit it doesn't follow that you can't have talks that cover the cutting edge of research in science and the humanities.
EAS is supported on Outlook.com, so I believe connecting it to desktop Outlook should work fine. Thunderbird, not so much.
because now if you want premium chipset features, you will be forced to buy a premium processor along with it, and vise versa
Rich Hickey made some very similar points in his Strange Loop presentation "Simple Made Easy" http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
They have an ad banner almost as big as the login box, why would they be bothered with usability of that checkbox?
...this is what we all try to do I guess. You said "I don't even look at other classes' code" but I always find it much easier to not look at a function's code or at the code of a method of an immutable object or a "predicatively mutable" objects than for classes of highly mutable objects.

...that's why I'm currently investigating functional programming as way to make it easier to hold larger parts of programs in your head.
Shouldn't we all wait and see what they actually do vs. marketing hype?

If they only make a dozen jobs for supervisors and the rest is machine automation, does that count?

What if it's in a US territory to escape minimum wages and standard benefits? Does that count?

What if no-one works more than 29 hours a week to dump the health costs on taxpayers instead of Apple? Does that count?

What if all the machines, tools, parts, building materials used in the facility were made outside the USA? Does that count?
This is so cool. Follow-up question:

> There's even some work to encode legal knowledge using them

Where do I learn more about this? What's the name of that language, or research project, or...?
Microsoft has Office 365 as the business paid service. I don't really see them switching Live Domains to a paid service anytime soon, except for a Hotmail Plus-like experience as an addon (no ads, etc).

They're definitely pushing the new Office 365 subscriptions with Office 2013, so I don't think they'll be too keen to offer a competitor to O365 anytime soon since they're pushing it so much.
The fact that Ubuntu is open source wouldn't change anything if those things were true. Just because you can look at the source does not mean you're looking at the source of the code you're running, because you almost certainly did not compile the whole Ubuntu distribution from the source, rather than that, 99+% users just downloaded the precompiled iso and installed from the official binaries, where a backdoor could slip by and you'd be none the wiser even if you did the insane task of reading all of the code you're running (which is not possible for a single human being) and then there's also the fact that you can slip a backdoor that even a great programmer wouldn't necessarily notice at a glance while looking at the sources, so there is that.

The crux of the matter is, you can't trust your computer.
Even if you did trust nearly every single human being involved in the process, it just takes a compiler writer to break the chain of trust.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack
Check out The Resistance: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41114/the-resistance

Advantages:

- Defined game length (max 5 rounds)

- No deaths

- Actual data to base your votes on (Mafia can be fun, but the games of it I play never have 30 minute discussions because there's just nothing to discuss -- we just pick someone semi-randomly to lynch.)

The commercial release is very nice, but it can be played with regular cards too.
That is because the present value of $320m paid back over a year is less than $320m. Still a pretty rough deal for them, though. Having cashflow issues sucks.
I just went over there and clicked it and all that happened was the box checked/unchecked :(

Maybe it's because I didn't fill in any other boxes?

The thing I hate is the warning that tells me that I'm about to view pages over a secure connection
I'm quite pleased with the el cheapo 2560x1440 Korean 27" IPS panel I bought on eBay a few months back. Set me back less than $300 including shipping to Europe.

It's nowhere near the pixel density of the small devices of course, but it's quite adequate for my use.
Which leaves open the question of what to call
Dropbox. Well funded, profitable, late-stage
startup?

They are a successful business. What matter does it make if they are a start up or not or how you define them in 1 sentence?
Time to think is the most precious resource an analyst has.

Which is another reason why the "normal" 50+ hour working week is so harmful to startups.

If all you're doing is coding and sleeping you're not leaving any time for thinking.
What if you have a lot of energy yet live in the country without much going on?

Would you be able using Buddhism to transform yourself to enjoy the surrounding or you better of moving to a big city with more happening around you?

I found that by living in different places you discover who you are. Then you can use the Buddhist approach to cope better with the downsides of living in the current area.
> Maybe we could define a new kind of organization that combined the efforts of individuals without requiring them to be interchangeable.

...reread the whole thing and this thing got my imagination "high" ...I feel there's some deep wisdom in here ...maybe we do thing wrong in most of our organizations by requiring complex components like people to be interchangeable, instead of accepting the fact that they are not and that the "personality" of an organization should be allowed to radically change as people (or bigger "unique" subsystems) become part of it or leave it... maybe we could even end up with what Nassim Taleb calls "antifragile" organizations...
So the machines they use in China are made in the USA?

Or are those machines and the installers going to come from China?

Remember there doesn't have to be a single human-being involved to still get the "made in the USA" marketing label, in fact like "organic" there is zero enforcement or any real regulation.

For the "assembly" claim to be valid, the product's "last substantial transformation" should have occurred in the U.S.A

That's pretty much the only requirement.
I've noticed that, beyond a certain point, the term "program" is not actually very useful. Because it's open on the other window, is Facebook a program? Is the news feed a program? The buddy list? The chat features? The photo upload? The status update?

How about the API? Is that a program?

I could easily say that my scripts are programs. They're rarely more than a file large. But "program" is not a descriptive term for them; I say "script" because that explains that they are not services. They run once, do their job, and finish. Or something.

At work, I have a domain focus. There are swaths of code I own, and other swaths that my domain has strong and weak connections to. I know my domain. I can boot it up in my head at will, though it's too large to stick: I have to walk through each room independently, rather than having some manifold presence in every room. And there are a ton of things that I have to look up every time, because I don't actively work on those pieces. But there's no clear division at which I can say, "This is the program. I should put it all in my head."

We just remember everything that we can, and try to remember where to find out everything that we can't. I think that's reasonable.
It's basic economies of scale. --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale

So the actual view point is that the intention isn't to "rip off the early adopter". It is that the early adopter isn't subsidized by a product that is produced in volume.

Here is the simple theory:
- Buy 1 Custom T-shirt = $50/unit
- Buy 10,000 of the same "Custom" T-shirt = $5/unit

Is the person who pays for a custom t-shirt being ripped off? Taking all things into consideration, No.
It's not just the "personality", though. It's also the idea that if your sysadmin gets hit by a bus, your site doesn't become unusable.
Most hipsters are too cool to drive.
But will Android clothes have an awesome UI layer? Not to downplay Android's success, I find it very hard to follow the jump from smartphones to everything else. I don't see Android scaling up (to run on computers like Windows 8). And when it scales down, Google doesn't win anything.

The OP reminds me of business analysts in the last years. Some metric in the PRC increases XX% year over year, and a short back-of-the-envelope calculation later, Westerners shouldn't teach their kids anything but Mandarin anymore. And Android is not even as autonomous as the PRC. Suppose it runs on 99% of all devices (whatever that means at the time) - I can easily imagine a court forcibly separating Google's services from the OS.
Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?
Is there a website out there that's more technical than HN, has less negativity, and leaves out the "social" aspects of technology?

What I'm looking for is a site where I can discuss things like:

-Programming language design (functional languages, different type systems, point-free style, etc...)

-Interesting mathematics (deeper understanding of statistics, implications of Godel's incompleteness theorem)

-Interesting science (advances in quantum mechanics, optical gyroscopes, etc.)

-Other technical oddities (Turing complete systems, global illumination on GPUs, supercomputing)

-News on start-ups that solve technical rather than social problems (DE Shaw instead of Socialcam)

I'd like to avoid:

-Tech products

-Heated arguments that make me feel bad after reading the comments instead of enlightened
Since there are no organization private gists [1] you can't use that method for private repositories.

[1] A gist can only be "private" in the sense that it's not listed on the public gist page. No access control takes place once someone guesses the url. That's probably good enough for most uses, but not for all.
IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol.

Consider IMAP as being the cloud email service. All the emails are pulled on your device/web/client whenever you want or whenever they arrive. Its like the standard protocol for all possible clients/interfaces to pull the mails for you.

Soon after IMAP was created, Microsoft introduced its own protocol called MAPI ( Messaging Application Programming Interface ) which practically is IMAP for hotmail/outlook. MAPI is now commonly known as Exchange as it runs on their Exchange Servers.

Practically all email services ( apart from outlook/hotmail) support IMAP now as its accepted almost everywhere and used on all web/device/clients.

As Exchange/MAPI are Microsoft products, only companies that have their own Exchange mail servers or use Windows Live Hotmail/Outlook servers will be able to use MAPI/Exchange.
It is because the PC industry doesn't innovate. It was driven to commoditization and 4 to 5 percent profit margins.
Sorry, it was automattic.com, dangrossman posted the headers.
Anything else I noticed seems insignificant compared to those ones.

One note though, in response to a comment above... be careful not to "force" people to be honest; they might leave instead. Motivate them to be honest by rewarding honesty and making it clear how they are rewarded. Feedback loops are your friend. ;)
id like to know what are you work in to justify that kind of setup :)
Funny, I was thinking about this last night. I had much the same experience, played as a smith 90% of the time. My reflection was on how much trust you can build through a game. Even 10+ years later and not having talked to them since I would trust those other smiths with just about anything.
Oh yeah, I completely forgot that it was $50/year/person. It would have been nice to have an option for $50/year for an account equivalent to the free version that they're taking away.
While I don't have personal experience with it myself, things like games lend themselves well to a limited use of OOP but also require performance-critical code and tight control over the language. With static analysis tools, I bet that C++ could be audited more comprehensive through automated tests than C could be.
Your question was about what defines a system programming language. I answered that. I don't care about ducks.
hm ok, i read some article on that suggesting that he didnt make much money at all from the RedHat stint. But yeah i am sure he is a millionaire, but i am also sure Guido is too, just considering what he earned at Google for the last 7 years.
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