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I would recommend getting the hd5770 and trying the 10.8 upgrade before going all out on a build for Mavericks. My experiences with 10.8 on Mac Pro 1.1 (flashed to 2.1) have been hit or miss, and I'm honestly not sure about Mavericks. The 10.8 install did work (it booted), but the machine would lock up on me from time to time, and some stuff wouldn't work. It was also obvious that Apple did not want this to work, so maybe they'll put more effort into making sure Mavericks does not work. I concluded that it was not stable enough (for me personally) as a development environment, but maybe it will work out for others. If someone wants to do a Mac Pro build for Mavericks, I'd recommend they start with a 3.1 or 4.1 (something with the 64EFI)

The new Mac Pro 2013 is beautiful man. I'm not the target market, but I can see professional audio/video engineers getting excited about it. Editing 4K video in real time? Pretty badass. I was also impressed with the case engineering, but we'll have to see how it performs. I don't really see the design as form over function. It was designed to use a single fan for the entire machine.
> But, structuring the a whole life around arbitrary restrictions (can use pneumatic tools but not electrical, can use a car but have to paint it black, can't own a car but oh, you can hire a taxi, can own a tractor but has to have metal wheels, can't use electricity for light but can use it for power tools in the shop)

Arbitrary? The entire article was about showing the nuances and reasoning for the very things you cite. Electricity is not OK if it's on the grid, because it creates dependencies on the outside world. If you're dismissing the "handicaps" as arbitrary, I fear you've missed the entire point of the article.

And it's never been about handicapping anyway. These people want to be as productive as possible. Do some reading about Mennonites (similar philosophies) in Russia; they were some of the most industrious and cutting edge farmers in the nation. It's always been about preventing harm to the community from new technology, not about deliberately making their work more difficult.
You seem to be right. Here's an article [1] with details about the transaction.

The main points of the deal are:

- Microsoft pays € 5.44 Billions for all of its Devices & Services business, including the Mobile Phones and Smart Devices business units as well as an industry-leading design team, operations including all Nokia Devices & Services production facilities, Devices & Services-related sales and marketing activities, and related support functions.

- Nokia will grant Microsoft a 10 year non-exclusive license to its patents as of the time of the closing (with option to extend to perpetuity), and Microsoft will grant Nokia reciprocal rights related to HERE services.

- Microsoft will become a strategic licensee of the HERE platform, and will separately pay Nokia for a four year license.

- Microsoft has agreed to make immediately available to Nokia EUR 1.5 billion of financing in the form of three EUR 500 million tranches of convertible bonds to be issued by Nokia maturing in 5, 6 and 7 years respectively. It is at Nokia’s discretion if it chooses to draw down all or some of these tranches.

- To avoid the perception of any potential conflict of interest between now and the pending closure of the transaction, Stephen Elop will step aside as President and CEO of Nokia Corporation, resign from the Board of Directors, and will become Executive Vice President, Devices & Services

[1] http://www.efinancehub.com/nokia-corporation-adr-nysenok-doi...
> So what happens to the rest of Nokia?

Nokia keeps the other two divisions.

Nokia is now primarily a telecoms infrastructure company, like Alcatel-Lucent. They're pretty closely matched. Alcatel-Lucent had €14.4 billion of revenues in 2012, while Nokia Siemens Networks took in €13.1 billion of revenues.

There's also the mapping division, but that's just 10% of the new Nokia's revenues. I'm surprised Microsoft did not buy it, as Google and Apple both own their own maps. In fact, I wonder if the mapping division wasn't what scuttled the previous attempts to reach a deal.
The other manufacturers don't have any alternative but to stay with Google despite Motorola and the tightening noose of Play Services.
The article describes in detail how the lack of technology inspires and encourages an inventive spirit. He calls them "hackers" because tinkering and inventing is so prevalent in the group as a whole.

It may not fit your own definition of technological progress, but it's true all the same.
Wow, I can't say I'm completely surprised but still. It is an amazing thing. It has to be pretty scary these days to be a phone maker.
The idiomatic way to create webpages, in this day and age, is to try to separate content of a page from how the browser presents it.

Which is why "modern" frameworks like bootstrap still encourage grid layouts using explicit width classes like span3?

Face it, we haven't gotten any better since Mosaic.
Might be cool to weight scores per round based on speed of selection. That will, however, favour even more those who get easy combos or languages. French, Thai, Arabic, Cantonese, Italian, etc are all very easy when compared with differentiation between Yugoslavian languages or guessing some that I either hadn't heard of (Kannada) or I'm much less familiar with (Scandinavian).
Tomi Ahonen is as anti-Nokia and MS as it gets, and hence I do not enjoy his blog. As his narrative stretches the truth a lot, and prime example is his Nokia analysis. Nokia was already in decline with Symbian, but go on his blog and he presents very contorted factoids.
I think it'd be more fun (and less difficult) to guess the accents of people speaking English.
I expect no name change this time. Microsoft will attempt again to buy Yahoo! under its new CEO, and become Microhoo!.
Apple reportedly blocking Employee Vacations due To Imminent Launch
I had the same thing happen with Hebrew, 3 free wins with the same clip.
I'm also not a lawyer, but I think you wouldn't be able to make an ESOP for a startup. The value of the stock which you buy from the pool is determined by an outside auditor that evaluated the company. My guess is that startups are too volatile to evaluate and simply no one would do it.

Also, the ESOP I work for doesn't have the 401k invest back into itself. lol. That sounds super shady. It's a normal 401k through a 3rd party company, where you choose to invest in different funds. I don't really touch it and just keep it in the default fund b/c I see the whole things as gambling.
Great. I'd also like a tutorial, which plays two languages with superficial similarities and points out the differences.
Is Google About to Unleash the Next War in Tech?
What ever I have seen in the media was bring in bunch of known names of execs in tech space and start speculation. They do not have any official hints or reliable sources guiding them. How about Mr.X. The whole argument can be discredited from the fact Ms.Sandberg is being discussed along with Mark Zukerberg, can we be reasonable people here. You might as well pick your local butcher to spice up the discussions.
And it was so rare that Time did a story on it.

I'm not saying that it doesn't happen, and this guy gets lots of credit for attending/transferring to Columbia w/o a high school diploma. But that just underscores how difficult the transition can be.
> ... and added a 240GB M500 SSD ...

This is a long shot but would you happen to know anything about the built-in encryption on this drive?

I bought the 480 GB version a few months ago to put in a new laptop and the primary reason I chose the M500 is because it is a "Self-Encrypting Drive". IIUC, third-party software is required to actually benefit from that -- but I'm not sure that I do understand correctly.
"Its device business now gone, Nokia's plan is to focus on three core technologies: NSN (its network infrastructure) HERE (its maps and location-based services); and Advanced Technologies (a licensing and development arm)."[1]

It'll still exist. Most of the top executives are moving to Microsoft as part of the deal though.

I am curious if this deal required shareholder consent of any type. I'm sure the board had to approve. Still I don't know how I'd feel if I was holding onto a decent chunk of Nokia stock right now and I didn't get any say in selling out our core business.

[1]http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/2/4688530/microsoft-buys-noki...
From what I hear, you might be violating your internet provider's terms and conditions by hosting websites and email server on your personal connection. And other email providers might also reject emails sent from personal servers. Anyone here has more information on these issues.

That being said. It looks like an amazing product. As a long time Arch Linux user this is very pleasing.
I found it rather fun pressing the "next" button and then switching away from it and just listening and forming an opinion thus before looking at the options. Region of language was often pretty accurate thus if I wasn't able to guess the precise language.
Those combat terms assume zero-sum conflicts. There can be a situation where the smartphone OS market consists of multiple survivors, even if it's only a duopoly.
I suspect this is closer to the truth, defects in firmware being more likely given more firmware. But it is also true that less experienced people are being asked to build bigger and more complex systems and there is a cognitive limit.
Ok. So the stuff about abuse and control is just speculation on your part? I think you should be clear about that when making accusations.

Regarding the restrictions, anything where one doesn't understand what's going on seems arbitrary. The elements and their properties look pretty arbitrary until you get cozy with a periodical table and a chemistry textbook.

These are real people, people who won't be speaking for themselves here on HN. I'm uncomfortable with the way you're taking your ignorance and using it to justify calling them crazy, abusive, and arbitrary.
Nokia bought Siemens part of Nokia Siemens Networks earlier this year. That will be their focus onwards. Ericsson did the same many years ago (when Nokia started to dominate the mobile phone business) and is now the biggest networking company.
I am being reasonable. I'm saying Elop will be the next CEO.
The real loss is only one OEM - HTC, other than that there is not a single one worth mentioning
Yes, a brilliant strategy to have an aging company buy a device maker that markets to an aging customer base.
A few years ago, after having used Macs almost exclusively for a few years, I decided that I would never again buy a computer that wasn't a Mac.

(I bought a new Thinkpad W530 in May, though.)
Android has 80% worldwide market share, but it's much much closer in the US. If you take out the crap phones that are smartphone in name only, it's much closer worldwide. While Android is clearly winning by a decent margin, I'm not convinced it's over. I think the hopefully coming soon cheaper iPhone could make things a lot more interesting.

Note that I don't actually want the iPhone to win. I would very much prefer that neither "wins". 50% each would be a better outcome for consumers for years. Better yet, windows gaining share and having 3 at 33% would be awesome.
Palo Alto, CA.

You- Senior rails dev w/ mysql experience. Must have gone to University(CS degree not necessary). Preference if you have worked at a startup before. You enjoy small teams and working on something really exciting. (our team will always remain small). No perks, no big paycheck. Generous options and an ability to help shape the company as it grows.

email your resume and samples of your work/projects to: schoolishteam@gmail.com
Maybe you missed it, but the DEA already uses the questionable NSA secret surveillance to find drug dealers, and constructs evidence against them to hide use of the surveillance.
Try hackdesign
I'd love to see some stats on how others have done. Also, it would be nice if you didn't have to press back fifty times (or long click select) to go back to the last site you were on.
I've been playing this game on my own now for decades...just trying to guess what language people are speaking eavesdropping on conversations and listening to radio.

I'm easily able to break 1000 points but some of those African languages (Dinka) are really hard!

I'm so thankful for this site. It's really really cool!
I used Hackintosh machines in the past. The problem with those is that after you've invested lots of time and effort, you end up with a machine that doesn't work, but performs that task extremely fast and is relatively cheap.

This article is actually great, because it paints a very realisting picture of the experience. Most hackintosh fans fail to mention that your machine might not wake up from sleep, so you either run it 24/7 or shut down fully and wait ages for it to boot afterwards. Or that you'll get weird networking problems. Or that your video card driver will crash every once in a while, taking your whole machine down with it. Or that you can't click "update" next to an OS update and usually need to manually go through the process of waiting, then reading the forums scanning for people's experiences, then moving various kexts out of the way and patching them back in after the upgrade.

Yes, I realize there are many people with a nearly flawless experience. But not everyone can get one.

In my case, I decided it definitely wasn't worth it and bought a real Mac Pro. Couldn't be happier, especially as 3 years ago it wasn't easy to build a machine with 32GB of RAM. Net result: yes, it was expensive, but it works.
Or maybe marketshare and investment, like every other app maker.
Yes. Their communities are naturally limited in size (since they meet in their own homes and barns), so they are probably very responsive to the needs of the specific community. On top of that, everything is voluntary, and rule-breaking is handled non-violently.
> One of the greatest things about Apple's combination of software and hardware, IMO, is that It Just Works(TM). A Hackintosh doesn't.

For sure, and my primary machine is a rMBP 15", but my Hackintosh is also about $2K less than an equivalent Mac Pro would be (if they even fielded Sandy Bridge ones). Personally, I can be a point release or two behind as the kinks in the updates get worked out for two grand in my pocket.
Please correct the title on this post - Microsoft is only acquiring the devices and services branch of Nokia - they do have other departments (e.g. mapping).
Looks good, better than http://markdownlivepreview.com/
I LOVE this. This is something I've been doing on my own for most of my life. I'd like to think I'm pretty good at picking out what languages people are speaking but Dinka is really hard. Distinguishing between some of the Balkan languages is harder than I remember.

It's be great if there were an iOS app of this. You'd easily get my $2. :)
I have no specific knowledge at all of any cross-licensing here (and if I did, I surely won't comment on it in public), but from the few license deals I very tangentially know of, they happen in terms of portfolios of assets valid at a given time for a given period. That is, you get rights to portfolio X of N issued patents for M years, and I get rights to portfolio Y of P issued patents for Q years. We negotiate to assign some value to those portfolios, and if they don't even out, somebody pays the other a royalty.

However, I cannot imagine anybody signing an eternal, all-encompassing cross-licensing deal to each others' portfolios. This is for many reasons, one simply being that one never knows what could be invented, and another being one simply doesn't know when the other will stop inventing and thus, reciprocating.

Yes, Apple certainly has a cross-license deal in place with MS (in addition to the one from the 90s, given the number of UI features WP shares with iOS but has not been sued over). But I would be very surprised if this acquisition was included in those deals. Rather, the relevant cross-licenses were made when Apple settled with Nokia.
Some people can't just "fix" their accents though. I think that's a large part of the problem most people have with what Paul said. It's not completely irrelevant. It's the whole point.
One of the languages is labelled "Bangla", the transliterated form of the native spelling বাংলা. Given that you've used the English names of most languages there (I can't speak for all of them), I'd prefer the consistency of "Bengali" there.
Most opt for Samsung or HTC

...but that's price fragmentation, not a commentary on the 'cohesiveness' of the Nexus 4, which is a brilliant device.
Because most of those solutions have their own half-assed impls of
* Loading indicators
* Navigation through history
* Error display
* Scrolling
I could go on.
Actually, Tomi's latest blog post series theorized that Ballmer wanted to buy Nokia, Gates vetoed this and that's why Ballmer's getting kicked out:

Gates looked at the real performance of this partnership. Gates said in public that Ballmer has made mistakes and singled out Windows Phone project as 'clearly a mistake' and so badly mismanaged, that recovery was no longer possible. Thats what Gates said on Charlie Rose in February 2013. This is when the decision was made to not buy Nokia. So we know, Ballmer wanted to buy Nokia, but Gates stepped in to override that decision. And at that moment, Ballmer's career as Microsoft CEO was ended (as I said on this blog). Gates gave Ballmer six months to quietly sort out his future but clearly said in February to Ballmer, get out. And Gates vetoed the Nokia purchase.

Now Nokia has been gutted, all its options destroyed, and its up the proverbial shit's creek without a paddle.

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2013/08/ballmer...

Doesn't quite pan out in light of MS actually buying Nokia.
Elop: Mission accomplished
> So, is there any Nokia left after all this?

Yes, it leaves Nokia Siemens Networks and HERE Maps.

Last quarter, NSN accounted for 49% of Nokia revenues, and 108% of operating profit. (Not a typo -- the phone division lost money.) HERE Maps is insignificant, but for some reason Nokia wanted to hang on to it.

So, Nokia now has a slightly increased operating profit, plus an extra €5.4 billion from Microsoft. According to the press release, when you subtract out the purchase price for the "S" half of NSN, Nokia has €7.8 billion in net cash. For a company that closed yesterday at a market cap of €11 billion.
All sources reports on "Microsoft/Nokia acquisition for $7.17b"
Hear the news from all the different angles.
I feel blamed for relying on the docs, it made me angry. The first version of this comment made a snarky reply.

I've actually become quite familiar with some parts of the Angular source. It's the only way I can make sense of the documentation.

This is not my dayjob. I am doing this because I recognise that front-end is one of my two biggest weaknesses. Right now I am making forward movement by headbutting. It seems unnecessarily like self-flagellation.
Zapier is absolutely not a replacement for Rails. It is, however, all Matchist seems to pitch. I'm sure that they get a lot of clients asking for that sort of work, and that their projects are representative of that particular market. My point is, that's a market I have little interest in entering right now. Think of the difference between e.g. Pivotal Labs and the local "computer store" that advertises web development below networking and VOIP. I want someone to help push me towards the Pivotal Labs end of the spectrum. I don't need the opportunity to compete with other developers for low-value, low-skill work. I would like to pay for the opportunity to work on challenging, career-furthering projects that aren't the coding equivalent of "wham, bam, thank you RAM." That opportunity could take the shape of an agent.

I have two counterpoints in favor of the agent idea. Let's say I sign up with Al the Agent. Al's responsibilities can be roughly described as business development for an individual - i.e. me. I'd like it if Al could talk to me periodically, find out what I do and what I'd like to do, and keep putting opportunities for appropriate contract work in front of me. That's MVP. There's lots of room for improvement and other services, but MVP is literally someone else pounding the pavement. Now, to my counterpoints.

First, I don't care if Al has multiple developers. I only care that he can keep my pipeline full when I need it. Sports, film, television, music - all these other fields use agents, and those agents represent multiple clients in controlled ways. I don't care if Al represents 10 other developers, and in a way, I hope he does - it raises his profile (and, implicitly, mine). As long as he's still able to adequately meet my needs, I'm happy. If he starts pitching low-value WordPress theming (something I have no interest in), I'll sever the agreement. Even if this agency did turn into a Matchist-type service (which it needn't), that would not be a bad thing. As long as it doesn't turn into another boss, I'm happy.

Second, constant communication isn't really necessary. I can just talk to Al on a weekly basis, tell him what's going on, what I'd like to do, when I'll need more work, when I'm going to be on vacation, etc. That's not a taxing amount of communication, especially since I'm willing to make the economics work with a large percentage cut. I have a very limited amount of time I can put towards moonlighting (roughly 20 hours a week). If someone can help me do more profitable things (e.g. coding for money) with those hours, I'm happy to share the spoils. The common wisdom on HN is that a good developer can command somewhere around $100/hr for freelance work, which doesn't seem exaggerated since SV salaries can easily push $70/hr before benefits. If Al can get me 20 hours of work a week at $100/hr, I'm happy to cut him a big slice of that pie if he's willing to do that sort of communication.
Remember how governments work. Transportation and energy are different budgets managed by different entities.
Guy says it's not about benchmarks but the innards seem to be entirely designed around generating a ridiculous Cinebench score for a keynote demo.

Right now it's trendy to criticize the new Mac Pro for boxes it doesn't check that the current version does; mainly a lack of enclosure space. That's something Apple can easily address with their in store setups. But when the thing releases all anyone will be able to talk about is how much Apple is charging for the high end version with the E5 2697 and 2 W9000 Firepro cards.
If you don't trust someone, there's no point in verifying. Verification is for when you're wrong about being trusting.
I built a similar thing, with a physical representation, covering US accents: http://moron4hire.tumblr.com/post/60153233552/a-thing-i-buil...

for this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Labov

it ended up in this place: http://www2.fi.edu/
Leaked iPhone 5C Manual Shown In New Spy Photos
The "ministry" isn't paying for it—it's being privately financed by JR central (which is a private company).

From Wikipedia: "On December 25, 2007, JR Central announced that it plans to raise funds for the construction of the Chuo Shinkansen on its own, without government financing."
> Interesting...
Now that Microsoft is buying Nokia, it seems unlikely that Microsoft will buy Blackberry. Unless it's a firesale for the patents.

Note: RIM changed its name to Blackberry Ltd, with a stock ticker of BBRY.
At least RIM had a smartphone customer base to buy.
Cue Snake on Windows RT jokes