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> Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong.

Another possibility is that your opinion is wrong.
is there anything like AppleCare+ -- 2 replacements for $49/ea?
It's available in India, not from Google play store, but otherwise available. I own one. It's a wonderful device.
Back then, if you used something else than C, people would discard it as too slow. And almost nobody had learned the chainsaw juggling that is "writing safe C", now mastered by a few superheroes. Most people's creations just died by the wayside, unlike things like Bind and Sendmail and BSD Unix, which got incrementally patched up with varying success.
If only they spent all that time and money they spend on lawyers on R&D and developing new products instead...
Please don't say Linux.
Why are moving sidewalks so incredibly popular in old SF novels ?!?! The concept is silly. The constant energy use is a showstopper, and even if you assume thorium reactors would handle it, there's material fatigue.

Another early SF prediction which which is baffling today:
everything (houses, cars, highways) made of... plastic. Plastic being the material of the future. But perhaps it's not as naive, seeing as early plastic was really durable, some our plastic bowls are still in good shape after 20 years. LEGOs are very durable, too.

Hovercars - ordinary 2D cars are one of most common causes of mortal accidents today. Imagine the chaos with an extra dimension! Hoverbuses - perhaps, but cars ???

But the one that really cracks me up is by Strugatsky brothers: carbonated soured milk (Impossible according to one chemist).
I think most of them do, contrary to the article. I have to deal with this all the time.

DomainPeople does have the feature. It is also the registrar for Gate.com and Hostway.
> Technical teams from CloudFlare, OpenDNS and Google jumped on a conference call and discovered what appeared to be malware on the site to which the NYTimes.com site was redirected.

On the HN post "Google.ps domain was hacked (google.ps)" [1], HN user biot predicted this exact scenario, although not a zero day most likely. He talked about submitting hacked sites to HN "... and thousands of HN readers get infected by a zero-day exploit. Maybe. If you're thinking of submitting a known compromised site to HN, consider instead submitting a third-party site which explains/documents the compromise. Ideally from a respected security research company". [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6278737

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6279253
Also works on Win8 and Metro apps. Disabling animations removes the fly-in and makes the system feel snappier. I doubt it makes much difference, but it's nice to have the option.
As for the best keyboard I've ever used:

http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/freestyle2.htm (Freestyle2 VIP3; forget the "Ascent")
the title in the write up is unnecessarily sensational, your impression is exactly the model proposed in the paper. You could not read out the methylation pattern in a cell and retrieve the memory, the memory is the methylation + the cells.
> "Should I use a fold or a loop or a tail recursion?"

Neither, use a combinator, like map or traverse. (And that applies to all languages that support this style.)
For the record, there are lots of other places where you do numerical work. Any kind of genomics work, for one, will involve tons of data processing and numerics, and it's it's not strictly an academic pursuit.

At my previous job most of my day-to-day work was on algorithms for speech recognition and topic modeling, which is pretty well doubles flying left and right. That wasn't academia either.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. People don't work because they want to support someone else, they work because they want to support themselves.
The article doesn't really comment on why Apple would actually want to trademark the word 'startup'. As far as I know it isn't used as part of their marketing anywhere. Can anybody here offer some insight?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6278737
Right, you're right, I overlooked CREATE TABLE OF.
That was a very insightful, and honest article. Thank you for taking the time to put that out there for everyone, and cheers on a handsome looking product.
There's something very corporate about how they go about this, though. It's not uncommon either.

Retail stores are a kind of small scale capitalism, with lots of merchandising. It's all about shelf space. The Korean shopowners don't know what to stock, so they leave it up to Goya.

That's not that different from having Frito Lay stock your snack rack, or having Bimbo USA control a few meters of baked goods, or having Coca Cola dominate your soda fountain. Why does Grumma dominate tortillas when there are dozens of tortilla factories in my city?

It's just a different brand. I see "Fud" brand deli products (it's pronounced "food", and it's kind of a joke), and they do the same thing. The get lots of space to do demos. They're competing with Oscar Mayer and Farmer John. The product is not that different - it's middle-range premium product.

Goya appeals to immigrants for the same reason Fud, Kraft, McDonalds, and Farmer John appeal. They're okay. Not awesome. Not crappy. Just a tad above average. Nobody is fooled.
That they designed it specifically to get extra revenue through repairs or replacements on what is, by most accounts, essentially a margin-free device? Yes, very crazy.

But it's fair to say that the designers had different priorities (primarily aesthetic ones - weight, thinness) which mean the device is more breakable than it could be. The iPhone is the same.
I think any of Logging/Monitoring/Metrics at scale can be thought of as Chicken & Egg problems.

They are important, hard to do well and have a bad habit of only causing issues which swallow engineering time when you are firefighting furiously trying to scale core services.

That's why as someone pointed out separately Spunk is a $5Bn company and people who have had these problems previously are very excited by this news.

(It's also why StatsD&Graphite/OpenTSDB, Riemann/Sensu etc etc are all super interesting)
>And I notice, nowhere in there does it say anything about chiropractic manipulation as treatment.

we were arguing diagnosis, hence the link that quick search brought.

I'm really surprised by the prejudice [especially baseless prejudice which is just plain offensive] against chiropractors that i met in this thread. I understand that you(+your family) had mixed experience and that provides basis for your opinion. My experience is completely different.

Even without going into personal experiences and opinions which as we see may vary (like in the case of regular medicine as well), the objectively most important fact here is that insurance covers chiropractors - this is ultimate and most important endorsement in the US :) - speaking from my personal experience of fighting an insurance several years ago when they refused to pay for a procedure an MD performed on me.

Wrt. my experience with chiropractors. My father was successfully treated for back pain by a chiropractor 30 years ago back in Soviet Union, and my wife got successfully treated for a joint issue here recently, and in my case everything has so far been consistent with my knowledge/understanding as well as with medical info i could find.

So, i don't see any reasons to worry or be suspicious with chiropractors beyond what would be typical and prudent in any other encounter with any other medical professional.
Some of the support parties have tried that, and have been shut out, so the government reaches across the aisle on certain laws. Our previous government tend to do the budget with the opposition party rather than their support party, for these reasons. And the same with our current government.

The only problem is that if the government cannot find an agreement across the aisle, they have to go to their fringe support party. So the opposition always have to wager this when negotiating. If they don't want to find an agreement with the government, the result might be worse than a compromise. So it is an advantage to the government in negotiating positions sometimes.
Linux has come a long way.
Spoken like someone who hasn't used Linux in the past decade.
Despite Google's global presence and all the smart and capable people they have, are still unable to offer international purchasing/shipping for one device almost one year after it's launch?
Stream local content on Chromecast? Not yet. - Stabley Times
Simone you can't compare the two things: they are an ISP and according to their tech pages it looks like they're using linux-powered devices in order to create an Hiperlan mesh network for internet access. It's like comparing.. a Raspberry PI with Telecom Italia/T-Mobile/Verizon deploying their own home routers for Internet access... You're also saying "offering a service is hard", Flutter is not offering a mesh service, they're trying to provide an Arduino compatible electronic board with long range wireless communication and with mesh and crypto features.
Linux is actually not half bad nowadays. It's not 2001 anymore.

I've migrated my main laptop from Windows 8 to Elementary OS and the only complaint from my very non-technical SO is that things "are different" (i.e. the close button is in upper left corner of the window).

Apart from that, everything just works. In fact it all worked out of the box, with the noticable exception of Skype.

Linux is turning into a pretty viable option. Really.
He neglected to mention another effect: it also makes you two years older.
Interesting stuff ... sadly with shipping and VAT + customs it will come close to 270 USD in Europe. But probably I will purchase one.

It is very close to the perfect keyboard for me - just add blank keys and replace the clear with green (I love the chaingun sounds early in the morning.
As if there is anything not shady. Just definition of shady vary among the people.
For Android, there's an OpenVPN app too - it uses the very handy and neat Android VPN API and besides needing certificates in the right format (not the text versions), it works well.
What would happen then? MS spends lots more money on R&D, does it matter?
Say one thing OS X does objectively better than Linux. I honestly can't think of any.
I'm in Denmark, and yes it does work. Companies get their work conditions checked every two or three years, an office worker is no different from a construction-, warehouse- or factory-worker. Two years ago we got a remark for being on the floor, rather than tied up under the desks, we got two weeks to change it. In the end you'll get fined if you do not comply.

Most companies don't really think about it, providing adjustable desks, external monitors, dockingstations, etc. is just the norm.
He's trying to make the case that there's some great conspiracy to keep people employed in jobs that shouldn't exist.

I suppose he'll next tell us that the rich are "job creators."
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I never stop wondering how those prices are possible. I had a 2e/month plan on my mobile, unlimited everything. Adding to that 0,07 e per sms/minute. Lucky me company now pays my bills so I save whopping 5e/month.
That's why you need a Pebble. My phone is always on silent (no vibration) and I haven't missed a call or text since.
I just signed up. There is no setting for Germany in the account details, just United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
What does this comment even mean? Questioning semantics to undermine the parent comment's argument? Quaint strategy.
Do we really need that kind of comments here on HN?
Fiberglass siding, modular order-and-build houses are made of plastic, and the matter looks pretty damn futuristic and cool.
Laptop battery life.
I disagree with the author. Handicaps are real, very real, they are not mere excuses to protect our sense of self-worth. If anything, what the handicapped/troubled person desires is to lift and be free his burden - and not to use it to fail repeatedly.

Apart from that, yes subconscious fear of failing, of being not good enough, can paralyze you and demolish your productivity. You spend time searching for that perfect design, then you stumble upon someone's else work, feel inferior/get jealous - go back to the drawing board, and your project gets never completed, not even halfway done. You can never be perfect enough.

So, striving for perfection is not a good ally, striving for providing solutions is.

But please keep real problems/issues out of that, you don't have the right to insult troubled people and call them under performers, and diminish their burdens to "excuses for failure".
I wonder how much net gain a better keyboard gives you in terms of time spent getting it, extra money buying it, and time lost on the internet arguing about it, compared to whatever minor time you save from typing slightly faster or making slightly fewer errors.

I'm kidding though, I understand the appeal of having nicer things. But I suppose the reasoning above is why we aren't all typing on dvorak right now.
The risk of stock market diversification
I'm not sure it would have helped in this instance. If the attacker got access to the administrative interface for the registrar, all he'd have to do is unset the relevant flag first, using the same interface, before changing the name server records.

These flags are the functional equivalent of forcing you to break a piece of glass before pushing the fire alarm button.
Gotta agree with this article. A standing desk has such a minor effect compared to actually doing vigorous exercise.
The trademark application shown in the article offers a hint. The categories listed include "retail store services", "maintenance, installation and repair of computer hardware", "technical support services".

It sounds like Startup will be a service offered in Apple retail stores, similar to the Genius Bar.
Animations are hardly the worst thing about iOS7. After playing with betas for several weeks on an iPad 2, I, for one, have developed a cordial dislike for our iOS7 overlord. I've been trying to figure out why it feels so bad, and this is my pet theory:

In "Thinking, Fast and Slow", Daniel Kahneman talks of the two modes of thinking as System 1 (automatic, fast, involuntary cognitive processes like face/pattern recognition) and System 2 (conscious, attention-requiring processes like multiplication).

"System 1 runs automatically and System 2 is normally in a comfortable low-effort mode, in which only a fraction of its capacity is engaged. System 1 continuously generates suggestions for System 2: impressions, intuitions, intentions and feelings. If endorsed by System 2, impressions and intuitions turn into beliefs, and impulses turn into voluntary actions. When all goes smoothly, which is most of the time, System 2 adopts the suggestions of System 1 with little or no modification...

When System 1 runs into difficulty, it calls on System 2 to support more detailed and specific processing..."

A good principle of usability is to keep both systems humming in the manner described above, reducing "page faults" into System 2 to the minimum.

The realism and skeuomorphism of old Apple design (reaching godawfully kitschy heights in leather-stitching and reel-to-reel tape) with the 3-D buttons and shadows had this in their favour: they made it very easy for System 1 to parse the landscape. Navigating an Apple UI felt smooth and intuitive; never effortful.

But now, struggling through the anorexic fog of iOS7, I guess they've thrown the baby of usability out with the bathwater of realism. System 1 is often forced to fault into System 2 to make sense of patches of stark, undifferentiated space, a mess of thin fonts, single-pixel-wide, poor-contrast UI elements. The more attention you have to divert into basic navigation, the less you have to focus on the content. Most system apps (Notes, Mail, Calendar...) suffer from these issues. Plus the eye-wateringly terrible icons and saturated colors (seriously, who came up with the Safari and Game Center icons?) and poor readability of app names. Change the background image from the default of Dark Nebula to one with sand and the readability gets much worse. I waited to see if it was one of those things which you get used to, but no luck.

Not everything's bad: the layering effects, blur, control and notification panels sliding in from top and bottom are all great improvements from iOS6. But surely it's possible to create a UI which is navigable by System 1, which ruffles the minimum of aesthetic feathers with re kitschy realism? IMHO, Mountain Lion has done exactly that: Gradients, shadows and colors have acquired a quiet, subtle elegance which are a far cry from the days of lickable buttons.
Operator overloading can certainly do good things. Not going to argue with you there. Though, in the case of units, you can actually go a long way with that (http://play.golang.org/p/iCqB2euJj8). It's not perfect, you have to do some function calls to multiply units of differing type correctly, but you do gain all the proper compile-time safety, and you don't need to do all sorts of method calls.

What are you doing with uncertainty that you can do operator overloading with? You usually want to do Bayes rule with probabilities, but that gets intractable fast.
It should be noted, however, that he correctly predicts that batteries should be disposed of only by authorized centers undoubtedly due to their hypothetical radioactive nature -- which is clearly wrong -- but I think we can give a quarter of a point there for even thinking about the ramifications of disposable batteries.
Back of the envelope, and assuming their design is the same like their board pictures posted on the kickstarter page (i.e. no PA, all RF done inside the chip):

The CC1200 puts out 14 dBm [1]. Receive Sensitivity from the datasheet at 915 MHz is -122 dBm @ 1200 baud, -110 dBm @ 50 kbps, and -97 dBm @ 500 kbps. Very good overall. (all these values are from the datasheet.)

Free space ideal path loss at 915 MHz and 1 km is -91.7 dB [2]. This gives an ideal budget of 44 dB. Toss in some antenna gain and you should have plenty to play around with for losses in the passives, connectors, antenna alignment, etc. 3 km is pushing it, with another 10 dB of path loss. So I would think 1 kilometer is easily attainable at 1200 baud with this chip.

However, things start to change with FCC compliance... 15.249 devices (a lot less limitations, including fixed frequency) can transmit at max -1 dBm. [3] So the compliant device at 50 kbps, -1 dBm, 1 km has 15 dB ideal budget, right on the edge of working. 500 kbps is probably not going to happen at 1 km except in perfect conditions.

So now you want to use hopping as a 15.247 device to get the limit up to 30 dBm/1 Watt. This chip doesn't support DSSS, so we are frequency hopping. This limits us to a channel bandwidth of 500 kHz, so you can't run at high speeds - maybe 200 kbps or so? Downside is you are spending some time hopping and waiting for PLLs to stabilize, there is a chance for interference on certain frequencies resulting in periodic dropouts until you hop to the next frequency, and the software side/hopping coordination is tons more complex. But you would be able to communicate pretty far!

Also, note that RF is very unfriendly and link budgets can easily be used up with obstacles in the way, walls, trees, not to mention pesky humans etc.

Hopefully this clarifies some things? Please let me know as well if I am off anywhere, I know a little about this but it is also late...

[1] http://www.ti.com/product/cc1200 (see datasheet)
[2] http://www.qsl.net/pa2ohh/jsffield.htm
[3] http://rfcalculator.mobi/convert-dbuv-3m.html, 15.249 allows 50 mV/m @ 3m = 93.89 dbuV/m @ 3m = -1.34 dBm EIRP.
[4] FCC 15.247 & 15.249
Interestingly, you can actually connect the Palm Touchstone coils to some newer phones that have the right connections on the back and use a Touchstone for inductive charging - I did it with my Galaxy S3 for a while, it's a pretty simple mod. Yeah, the magnets are really nice, I almost can't believe that other manufacturers wouldn't put them in their charging bases.
So, if my DNS is hacked, I can call Google and OpenDNS and have them correct my records upstream? And then contact Verisign for a registry lock? And expect a personal response from MelbourneIT (even though it's likely their reseller's fault)? This is great news!
Why is it a shame that you dislike the "official" charger? The N4 uses the standard Qi charging protocol, so you can get pretty much any charger you want.

I've tried a bunch of Qi chargers. Samsung's official S3/S4 charger is my favorite. They cheap out and don't include a USB cable or power supply, though, so you have to buy those separately. (Anker sells one on Amazon that does include a power supply that works great with the N4. Works very poorly with the S4, though, which just goes to show you how flaky random Chinese imports can be, even if you pay $50 for them.)
They also have conveyor belts in Las Vegas hotels and IIRC on some of the walkways connecting the hotels.
Don't many (most?) satellites use radioactive batteries?
It's not clear yet what the trademark is for, but you generally don't need a product or service on the market for a trademark application to go through, just an intent to use it. TUAW speculates that the trademark is for some as-yet-unannounced retail program: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/24/apple-files-trademark-for-sta...
YES! We need!
Multiple screen support.
This is the single best comment I have ever read anywhere, ever.
I don't know the current state of high density display support in X11 (and I may just be an ignorant user and plain old wrong about this), but it was a totally broken deal breaker for me a year ago.
Diregard Taleb,the man cant trade (buying OTM puts and hoping for the world to end is not a trading strategy.)You are looking at basically a three regime model,(standard statistical events,macro breakdown,and "dont know").The problem is "fractals" is not a decent way to distinguish the three states,so now you have 3 problems. For what its worth I think Mandelbrot was onto to something but its a long way away from a trading strategy.You could decompose movements over different frequencies ("Fractal Self Similarity) and test for some sort of state wise relationship between recent micro and macro movements.Im largely sure this will exist but extracting a leading indicator out of this may be difficult.
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Fun fact: the ISS would be technically impossible to build on Earth because it would collapse due to its own weight. No gravity makes creating structures much easier both to move and to support.