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Firefox 18 beta supports retina finally. Think its January release date or so.

Also 1000% this, high dpi, retina, whatever you want to call it rendering is so much better than non I've asked my bosses if I can buy a macbook pro to use for work. I work with text all day, this screen is so markedly better for text its not funny. Jarring? Not in the least, Jarring is using other displays after this.

Call me a fanboy if you want, but when my eyes don't fatigue from extended reading sessions, I think I'll take the fanboy label.
Why am I getting impression that startup people are ruthless?
They can target everything.

Country,City,Age,Sex,Relationship Status,Language,Education,Workplace,Platform and finally interest based.

Interest based can be as specific as "Liking" a minecraft page or as broad as gaming. They can target you for using a specific app on facebook or playing a specific game.

They can target every single thing about you.

Edit: It's late.

I've re-read your comment.

It would probably not be a direct message from Thinkgeek , but more like a marketing email with whatever content they provided to facebook.

It would feel weird to receive a direct message from a company and might look sketchy.
No, it doesn't. I don't think that you understand how an overlay works. You run a command or modify a configuration file to add the overlay. Then you can install any packages in that overlay. Those packages would be the games.

The package manager on Windows (Steam) isn't needed on Linux because there's already a native package manager on the majority of distros. In fact, you can already buy games through the Ubuntu package manager. I believe they're in a separate, "partners" repository. Steam should just be another repository like that.
I gave them as much of a chance as they deserved. I already own a Mac with an OS I very much like. If you don't impress immediately, you're not going to get traction.

And it's not like I'm new to any of them. I ran Linux nearly exclusively from 2005 to 2009.
Feynman explains it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN87y-iEx0&t=46
I wonder if Supercell's widely advetised cells structure explains their success (and could be learned from?) or if it's just a "secret sauce" myth they cultivate to add flair to a well-run and/or lucky company.
This was common knowledge for anyone doing business in China (since before the Microsoft acquisition). Here is an article from 2008 outlining it: http://www.informationweek.com/telecom/voip/skype-defends-vo...
Drone bombing has no different legal status from manned bombing.
Koding raises $7.25 million more, Matrix Partners’ Josh Hannah joins the board
A minimal amount of googling would've uncovered the actual purpose of the chip: http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/09/23/boom-pins/

Care to provide any sources describing the DRM capabilities?
Although the simple explanation is "Apple is greedy and wants to milk their users with overpriced charging cords" I think the real explanation is more complex.

Occam's razor says that everything you wrote after this paragraph is wrong.
Sorry for the easy joke but they should say "based on ex-users feedback".
great advice. i will use your technique.
i am not good in web design. do u think i should add a carousel instead of those 4 boxes?
Senate Passes Netflix-Backed Privacy Revision. Coming: Facebook Sharing
To (2), it probably uses IP geolocation.
Per spec USB2 output max 500mA per port. This is enough to charge an iPad when it's asleep, but as soon as the screen is on it will stop charging to power itself.

The wall charger and Macs include a non-standard trick (a resistor on the data pins in the wall charger, probably some active negotiation on Macs) to output up to two full amps.

Higher charge rates are part of the USB3 spec, but this would require both devices to implement it, and I don't know if it's even a mandatory part of the spec.

So, plug your iPad on a PC and it will charge, just slower, and only when sleeping.
XMPP + OTR + ZRTP to the rescue.
As the saying goes:

"Once you've seen one HL7 message, you've seen one HL7 message".
> Why would we have thought that they would sell the new adapter any different then the old 30 pin?

Before the new connector was announced there were rumours that licensing for it would be more restrictive. Also notice how you can't license MagSafe at all.

I'm not saying Apple's decision is the right one, but IMHO it was clear there was a risk regarding licensing.
Yes, it does, via plugins for PHP and Python. Based upon the other comments here, it seems the release cycle of plugins lags a bit.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/1887
They invest in the team, not the idea. Most ideas can be copied superficially (Facebook, Pinterest, Airbnb etc), but the team can't be copied..
Oh c'mon! When you build a product that is completely dependent on buy in from a independent third party you need to account for the risk and shouldn't be surprised if they exercise their right to not accommodate you. At very least it's not excusable to call them aholes because you got emotional about something that is so painfully probable. Apple owes him nothing and judging by his reaction they probably made the right choice. I certainly wouldn't want to associate my brand with that behaviour.
> I would like to preface this by saying that I couldn't give a rat's ass about the rest of the arguments but in this case I just have to chime in since the quoted bit is just bullshit. The only difference between browsing the web on a retina display and browsing it on a normal screen is that, on a retina display, the font rendering is a million times better.

Actually, this is what's bullshit. Having used a retina MBP, viewing websites without retina images looks very jarring, especially when the browser itself has retina assets.
OP used mushrooms. If you can get mushrooms, you can get garlic.
Because Apple added DRM to the interface. They are active because Apple made that a requirement.

People should stop being apologetic about the bullshit like this which Apple is doing all the time, in small dosages here and there.

If you keep taking this, there soon wont be any open, general purpose computing-platforms left.
Damn, this is actually rather disturbing--my Nexus 4 automatically presents USB storage when I plug it in, and I can't figure out how to disable it! Locked or unlocked, you can access my files by simply plugging in the phone.

Edit: Figured it out, it actually only presents storage when plugged in if you unlock the phone. If you unplug the phone, let it lock, then plug it back in again, you're ok.
I wouldn't generalize that far, because by doing so you punish companies (like Google) who do their best to side with their users.

What Microsoft (and many other companies) want you to believe is that they only do what is legally required of them. Clearly, they go way beyond that, and we should take note.
> The really awesome thing now seems to be HVDC transmission -- eliminates capacitance problems and problems with multiple grids.

This. Imagine a global grid connecting alternative energy sources for each optimal locale: Geothermal in Iceland, Solar in North Africa, and of course Thorium in Norway.

Peter Thiel seems to think this scenario is improbable[1] but I don't think it takes into account ABB's recent breakthrough with HVDC switching[2].

[1] http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/23787022006/peter-thiels...
[2] http://new.abb.com/about/hvdc-grid
The ThinkPad X1 Carbon has a trackpad of quality equivalent to the MacBooks, just look at reviews online. Plus you get the TrackPoint, which is much more efficient once you get past the learning curve.
> but it's not unserious: for my money, retina support is just not optional anymore.

It's interesting how one thing makes or breaks the deal. I'm the same :-), however my top feature is keyboard (I type a lot). That's why I'm always sticking with thinkpads. Sadly, I'm screwed for my next upgrade, because Lenovo have announced that they're ditching the traditional keyboard in favor of chiclet version. That goes for their complete thinkpad line.
You'll probably find that it does trickle charge (though doesn't own up to it), but just barely.

Your PC likely isn't delivering enough current via USB to charge an iPad. (I think it needs a 1A supply and the USB spec only requires 500mA or something like that).
What does it even mean for Apple to license this connector?

Apple built DRM into it. You cannot work with it without Apple giving you the keys first.

Yes. Apple managed to sell the iFanboys a proprietary, DRMed USB-connector and make them believe they were getting something better than everyone else.

If that make Apple geniuses or Apple's customers retardec is your call.
I fixed your garlic problem in your food desert:
http://www.amazon.com/Casa-Fruta-Fresh-Garlic-3lb/dp/B000Z8T...
Well, it's not really drm

Except that now nobody can make a cable/connector without Apple giving them permission first.

Sure sounds like DRM to me.
Ask HN: December 21, our (app) world has ended?
Ok, now that I have your attention...
so we built a mobile security application that we put up on Google Play and started seeing the downloads coming and getting feedback. Google sends us an email saying we are violating the TOC - they mention some vague reasons - repetitive keywords and claiming features that is not supported by the app... none of that makes sense to us as we are in the early days of our application and we dont even know how to do everything that is mentioned there.

Nonetheless, we looked at the copy on Google Play and compared it with other (heavyweight) vendors in the space and made it very similar. We figured that if someone else is approved and getting downloads, they must have done something right that we didnt understand. We notify Google after the email that we have taken action.

Time goes by, then suddenly one fine day in December, we receive a cryptic email that our application has been yanked for similar reasons to one listed in the previous email.

We appeal that we have followed all rules and regulations to the best of our knowledge - however, we didnt get any response so far. There is no phone or person to talk to.

Oh, BTW - we spent close to 2 years building this app. This is not a game app that was done by an Indie developer in their spare time.

Does Google care for its developers? If yes, then they need to be more articulate in their reasons and respond better to such incidents.

As far as we are concerned, our (app) world has ended today...

BTW, some of our other apps are live which follow the same copy and principle..

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=syncnscan&c=apps

Has anyone else faced this problem? I would love to hear any experiences.
Yakitake!! is deservedly one of my favourite all time Japanese shows. None of my friends understand why I like it, but then again, none of my friends have watched it.

As soon as I saw these images, I knew exactly where they were from (it's an audience participation segment of the show).

[edit] The protagonist of the show is upset that while many other countries have their own bread (eg French Bread) Japan does not. He sets out to find the perfect Japanese Bread, and in the process creates a series of different breads labelled Ja-pan #1, Ja-pan #2 etc. It's a great show. He has extremely warm hands, which help when kneading the dough.
I also had this issue, in my case the culprit was the Kill-Flash extension. Adding nytimes.com and brightcove.com to the whitelist made everything work.
Interesting - I didn't know that. Do you have some examples?
Anatomy Of A Horrible Web Design Client [Infographic]
If you try to get 'vanilla' Skype in China you constantly get redirected to the TOMSkype download pages, even if you go via one of the popular download services like download.com. The only way I found round that is to go to one of the 'old software versions' websites and download a recent version of Skype from there.
Are you using a proprietary graphics driver? With Intel graphics, none of these problems seem to pop up.
Huh? Deep Freeze, Deep Dup, and Ownership Transfer are all strategies to avoid multiple concurrent actors mutating the same objects at the same time.

Even the last proposal, which I think has to do with fine grained locking, is still a strategy to avoid issues with mutable shared state.
Convection vs. circulation. The heat comes from the bottom with rice cookers and crockpots.
Awesome. What's the minimum overhead required for each global context?
Windows 8: A thorough evaluation
The Node.js REPL is Broken
Sorry to hear that mate... Hope Google wakes up before its too late
> it's incredibly unlikely

why?
About the first paragraph, that's exactly what I am trying to get going.

About the second paragraph, I 100% agree with this.

I did create this pocket of excellence (myself only) and lead the way for some time. Yet no one notices it and the ones who do, well, they don't care about it - both for junior and senior developers. IMO, the most influential peoples are so called "rockstar" developers within the company and they clearly stated they don't see the interests. I already talked to them and attempted to convince them. I am running out of ideas.
"Cannot be handled" and "inefficiently or slowly handled" are not the same thing. Almost all big data applications can be trivially implemented in basic scripting languages, and most can be handled quite easily using SQL. Big Data is more about speed than it is about quantity.
Yahoo’s Vivek Sharma: Spam Is Like Terrorism
Why Yahoo Didn’t Release Mail Apps for BlackBerry, iPad, and Windows Phone 8
Because the difficult problem in software developer recruitment is finding candidates, not finding jobs.
Care to type up a paragraph of the most egregious misunderstandings?

BTW broadly speaking, I agree. I see smart people saying really frightening things, then think about all the not-smart people.
This is yet another example of Google/Apple appstore owners highhandedness. I cant believe that they rubbish someone's efforts of years with a single email and dont have the courtesy to respond. This is the least they owe to their app developers who have made them successful and the envy of Microsoft!
Now compare your argument with how they treat software on iPhones and iPads. Apple is a control-freak company.
I did try that and it did not work. See explanation above.
Would love to see such a tutorial. Not that I have any use for it but it would be interesting to know.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:Wikimedia_Foundati...
Sure, but that chip doesn't have to do anything but authenticate. So what, ten cents?
Idea for Fixing Conference Call Frustration with Software
Does anyone else feel sick about a title like this as I did? A nation can't do things; a government can.
Hopefully you'll live another day ! - It does beg the question does Google care about startup's anymore ?
The title sounds as if it's the end of the world.

Oh, wait a second...
> They get input from the program that determines their function.

Agreed, this is a program, yet this results not in software, but (configured) hardware.

> That gives you the magic parallelism.

And thus it follows that it's not magic at all, merely physics. Put an electric signal in, an electric signal gets out, and everything happens at 'once' (bounded by the speed of light and various other electronic considerations). This is what the essential difference is: hardware (however configurable, it is not software) vs software (however low-level, it is not hardware), and it is a very fundamental difference.
This is a great move! I hope Adobe doesn't mess it up, its an entire community they've acquired. With power comes responsibility and hope they wont use it to monopolize the design industry altogether.
Back then the site also went down in a stiff breeze.

It's 2012 and "I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that."
Wonder whether the game has somesecret subliminal message in the executable? Something like the Trolls game for PC
http://www.mobygames.com/game/trolls/trivia
TechCrunch goes to Greece
No, it's not as bad as Microsoft. The software is actually reasonably fine, it has its warts, especially when Apple gave their incessant mania to reinvent the wheel to run free, but OS X provides reasonably comfortable environment. If you stay out of iOS prison-like ecosystem, Apple's software solutions are reasonably hacker-friendly, I think.

The hardware is not that bad functionally too, in many aspects better than the competition, but there are much more things that suck. Primary of it being connections to outside world. There's still no proper docking solution for Macs, which is just shameful. Power connectors universally suck through all recent Apple hardware. Macbooks power sucks, iPod power sucks, iPhone power sucks. One can't help but think it's done deliberately. And on top of that they don't even agree to be charged from any USB, some just don't work, no idea why. I'd say "worse than Microsoft", but as Microsoft doesn't make any comparable hardware, Apple is left in a class of itself, without peer to be compared to.
>Thats exactly the point why people are reluctant to donate

The evidence appears to be against you on this claim.
Every time it wasn't built with Bootstrap I wanted to know what it was built with...

v2 maybe?
Exactly, what I mean is that I would like to have an IDE of JetBrains quality to be able to do Objective-C/C++ multiplatform.

I could care less about iOS development as it is not part of my day job.
The site appears to work, responds quickly (despite being on Hacker News), so good job. Bookmarked.

Howeveer, it did claim some domains are free when they are not. I searched for "hit feed", it brought up hitfeed.com as free, but it's already registered.

What would you say your site does better than leandomainsearch.com?
Why Glass Radiators are the Next Big Thing in Interior Design
There are various sane reasons to have a chip in there to process data.

There is no benign reason to involve authentication to shove 5V over the wire.
Soooo, sort of "DRM with plausible deniability"... ><
Its actually better for the advertiser to pay for this service.
Instead of building a email list for mailing/spamming they now get targeted customer/user with their attention ( as it would land in their inbox) even without the user approving it. Fancy that!

The idea of opt-ins/opt-outs from newsletter/product emails/updates would diminish if this goes through and everyone starts using facebook again.
Fifty Shades of Grey is just Jane Eyre rehashed - young virgin falls in love with rich powerful man. Same story, just a little bit more descriptive when it comes to the sex scenes.
F# really does look like an amazing language. I'll consider it seriously when someone ports it to the JVM.
I've a lot of experience in back-country, including places like Iran where I skied several peaks. The one time I got into trouble (we had to be rescued by helicopter) was a scarily similar situation to this. I was with a large group (12) of some of the most experienced back-country people I've ever met. I was far and away the least experienced. This group included two Everest summitteers and the head of a mountain rescue service. Because everyone was so experienced they all assumed everyone else was taking the right decisions so they could switch off and relax. Group dynamics are everything in this situation - as they are in any sufficiently complex environment. Luckerly, after a cold night in a snow hole, we were rescued but my learnings were:

1) You need to always have a leader

2) The whole group needs to be aware of the plan at all times, you cannot over communicate

3) Listen to the nagging voice of intuition - if something feels wrong check that feeling out

4) Experts are not always on the top of their name, especially when tired or cold

Stay safe this winter people!
Exactly! So, this is neither surprizing nor unexpected. They've been doing this for many years, so nothing new.
I'm an avid backcountry skier myself, and currently reading a book about avalanches by one of the leading experts in the field. He had a table in the book that considered 100 day seasons, and a 95% stability of snowpack (all avalanche slopes are safe 95% of the time, all the time, roughly and on average). That means a person with no knowledge is 95% safe, someone with perfect knowledge is 99.99% safe (I think that was the number he used).

The survivability rate ranged from 2 years (or was it even 2 months?) for those without knowledge, to 100 years.

Avalanches are scary. The mountains are scary. And yet there's no place I feel more at home. I wish I could do this more often, but right now I can't. In any case, I respect nature and want to learn as much about it as I can.
Pen Drive Locker: Encrpt/Lock Pen Drive with Password on Windows
God watches the watchers. God is just.

God says...
sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears
of corn.

2:24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the
sabbath day that which is not lawful? 2:25 And he said unto them,
Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an
hungred, he, and they that were with him? 2:26 How he went into the
house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the
shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave
also to them which were with him? 2:27 And he said unto them, The
sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: 2:28 Therefore
the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.

3:1 And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there
which had a withered hand.

3:2 And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath
day; that they might accuse him.
Men facing deportation for unannounced torrent site
I took both and I confirm Scala course was less work than NLP. However that might be just because NLP course had much bigger and more tweakable tasks - on some algorithms, you could spend literally days to squeeze one last percent of accuracy out of it (and then end up overfitting, failing the hidden tests and having to start over again). NLP tasks weren't actually general programming tasks but more NLP-specific work - which is great, but it doesn't compare to generic Scala course. Scala tasks were much smaller and well-defined. I probably could use a bit more complex tasks, but being complete Scala novice before the course, I couldn't really - at least yet - do some heavy lifting with Scala as I could, say, with more familiar to me languages like Python or, say, C.
FrogSort (comic)