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So? If Apple's goal is to increase total number of devices running iOS, then they have a good model to follow (Android). If it's to eventually end up in second place again in yet another market they should have owned, then they can feel free to keep on keeping on. There's nothing but their business model keeping them from doing it.
Sorry, is that link supposed to be HTTP?
It's PHP. Unfortunately, enough developer got bit by the fact that PHP doesn't prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot, and shot themselves in the foot.

So, you'd probably be pretty ornery too when other people had more discipline to use the language without shooting their foot and were also employing it successfully. You'd probably want to make assumptions, and word hard to belittle them. Insult them.

And they'll talk about beauty. And zen. And wonder, and joy in a language. And they'll gloss over the major problems that it suffers from. They'll imagine all is well. And they'll try and tell you that nothing good can come from the tool they once used to shoot themselves in the foot.

Just walk away. Because you still have two feet.
Wiretapping and spying has been a "liberal" position (by the conventional definition, not necessarily lukifers) at least since the Clinton era. Republicans got on board with this only in the Bush era.

Joe Biden's reaction to the Patriot Act was simply to protest that Ashcroft just copied his 1996 bill.
With no intention of trivializing a genuinely inspiring story ...

[Deckard picks up paper unicorn.]
Gaff's voice:	It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
Deckard :	Gaff had been there, and let her live. Four years, he figured.
He was wrong. Tyrell had told me Rachael was special: no termination date.
I didn't know how long we had together. Who does?

Hope in the face of utter uncertainty. Now that's fortitude!
What is "tasteful" source code? What characteristics make a code base tasteful? Do you have any samples?
What's funny about the iPad mini, at least from my perspective, is that my daughter made that her first savings goal and achieved it with impressive speed. And she uses the device constantly. In fact among carrots and sticks with her, the most effective stick is to put the iPad in timeout.

Her coaches use it to record video of her routines for instant feedback in practice. She checks for her homework on learning point (I do still have unfond memories of learningpoint/blackboard). We are military, and she keeps up with friends from all over the country. Via Wi-Fi she can call her Grammy, mom or me. In some ways it is more functional then my full-size retina iPad. Except I really like having a full-page PDF on the iPad.
REPL's aren't really interactive programming. In Bret Victor's demo, he makes a infinite loop and as he is typing, the mistake is immediately clear.

Pry is awesome though, it's just not really close to the things that Bret talks about. In fact, I think in one talk he specifically speaks against REPL's being interactive.
Somebody is gonna get sued.

They are more than shady, they straddle the line over which they become misleading.
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What a ridiculous comment. Large budget in comparison to what? So the scientists who have dedicated their academic lives to research are just in it for the money? Does NASA waste the $16.6 Billion they receive? The Saturn 5 was developed for hundreds of billions. There is absolutely nothing that would substantiate your "gravy train" buzz phrase.
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“The 7.9-inch iPad mini represented about 60% of total iPad shipments and 49% of iPad-related device revenues in the quarter.”

That's from the quoted report.
How is this different from Ark.com?
Awesome article! I agree that the API represents a huge opportunity (aka potential for disruption). Software is eating the world and I see the API as a building block of technology innovation. Data has become a commodity, and the API controls how Data flows. Two of my side-projects relate to API's, but I'm still in the process of team-building for both Projects. I'm not really aiming for replacing people or automating things to the extent you've described here, but I still find the concept fascinating. It will be interesting to see how the API evolves!
and a browser extension that executes them in place.
I got firsthand experience of this as well. We built a system that leveraged Bayesian filtering for risk measurement and transaction approval (above and beyond CVC and AVS) in high risk markets.

When things were going well, they were great but when they weren't it was really bad. In short, card issuers tend to side with clients (card holders_ and even with the best risk management, it is not an easy business to get right.
Apple's goal is to make money and the last time they licensed out their OS it didn't turn out very well for them.
At this point we almost need to stop saying facebook programs in PHP. I know this was defending PHP, but look at what is happening. Facebook ( big engineering firm, lots of developers and resources ) could not get php to work for them short of rewriting the core (HPHP ) and then adding on features to the language that most other languages have determined are useful enough to be baked into the language.

Here is my TL;DR of this article. PHP is bad we all know this and accept it. Facebook has made it better by keeping most of the syntax and chucking everything else out the window. Run your stuff on HipHop ( unless you need extensions in which case your OOL )
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>most of the scientists involved have been keenly interested in fusion energy

Can you back this statement up?
Both companies are in the business of monetizing apps in an app market. That is what they are about- money through apps.

One company (Apple) chooses to restrict the hardware they let their app platform run on so they can have more control over the experience.

Comparing the use of one app platform to use of a competing app platform is a perfectly reasonable comparison.
Thanks for the information, I was guilty of perpetuating this myth too.
Steve Jobs drew his own red-line over 7 inches being too small for tablet, due to the size of hands. I've heard that parroted back at me by apple fans a few times. This is why the ipad-mini is decidedly not a 7" screen, but an 8" (7.9) screen.

Here's Tim Cook still talking about how horrible 7" tablets are in 2012.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/25/tim-cook-we-will-never-make...
In this instance, Citi Dividend World MasterCard in the US.
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$ uname -s
Darwin
$ type seq
seq is /usr/bin/seq

The man page says --

The seq command first appeared in Plan 9 from Bell Labs. A seq command appeared in NetBSD 3.0, and ported to FreeBSD 9.0. This command was based on the command of the same name in Plan 9 from Bell Labs and the GNU core utilities. The GNU seq command first appeared in the 1.13 shell utilities release.
Absolutely shady. It's a shame we don't have consumer laws or JustFab would have been closed a long time ago. Good thing they raised some money, at least they can afford lawyers for a while.

Another major deception going on is on search engines. All of them. They deceptively designed ads in a way so a lot of people (roughly half http://www.seobook.com/consumer-ad-awareness-search-results ) do not know that they clicked an ad. Imagine seeing a commercial and thinking it was CNN content or reading an article and thinking it as an unbiased one from NYT? If you're buying an item and search for it, the ads do not have your best interests in mind, so this matters a lot. Of course, if you think the result is unbiased you're more likely to buy it. That is fraud, plain and simple and it has been going on for a long time.
I didn't sense any "hatred" of Islam from that author. Can you explain how you perceive this to be so?
This may be the closest thing to journalism TechCrunch has done since AOL took over. It's definitely the first time AOL has impressed me since giving me 30 hours free internet ~16 years ago.

Edit: I hope they have the stones to do a follow-up about the JustFab articles vanishing from HN.
Personally, I liked that the slides are up there publicly, even if I don't get to see the talk to go with them - they function nicely as a brief overview to the future of Angular, letting good devs fill in the rest. Much of this isn't new, but I liked seeing some example code snippets comparing current and future syntax.
I hate these types of articles because they bring out the worst of HN. Accusations of fanboys and vitriol over both sides are spewed and incomprehensible arguments rule.

It's like Slashdot all over again.
Apple in general doesn’t report how different models of a product sell. That it also didn’t for the iPad mini doesn’t indicate anything. (The only exception I can think of is the iPod touch were Apple also didn’t report any specific numbers but at least said that most iPods sold were iPod touches. I think it’s quite obvious why Apple felt compelled to be a bit more specific in this case, what with the iPod touch running iOS and being part of the ecosystem, unlike all other iPods. Other than that Apple will report how many portable Macs they sold, how many desktop Macs they sold, how many iPods they sold, how many iPads they sold and how many iPhones they sold.)

That Business Insider article is pure bologna, no doubt written by someone who is quite clueless about how Apple typically reports its numbers. You can go back through apple.com/pr and look at everything they typically release after launches and Apple’s pattern becomes quite clear.

(I also think it’s general consensus that the iPad mini is quite successful. Which is not saying anything about hypotheticals. If you measure Apple against the size of the market they clearly could sell more. Can they, do they have to, do they want to and can Apple’s iPad business still be considered a success if it doesn’t are then, I feel, the most relevant questions.)
I'd love to see this broken up by what I'd call "true tablets" (like the Nexus 7) and devices that are marketed primarily for media consumption by the media producers (Nook HD/Kindle Fire).

In the wild (I'm talking Houston, not SF or NYC, so maybe it's a different story), I see very few non-iPad tablets. I can't honestly recall seeing more than maybe 1 out of 50 or 100. I do see tons of Android phones, however. (Maybe it can be explained that Android tablet users are less likely to show off, and keep the device in their home/office?)
Have you tried changing the cap? I exclusively use the concave "soft rim" cap (http://support.lenovo.com/ContentResources/Migrated%20Assets...).
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What's so awesome about Lobste.rs ? Looks like a HN clone.
If that's the case, then should we be including Kindle in the Android basket?

Amazon pretty much owns its own fork, and is substantially different.
Keep in mind that the high end Nooks and Kindles are Android tablets.
> A failure by Apple's standards might be a runaway success by most other's standards, but the mini clearly isn't flying off the shelves

I worked within a flagship Apple Store during the mini launch and the after, and I saw this exact thing happen first hand, especially around Christmas. We called it the year Apple ruined Christmas because the demand far exceeded the stock and many weren't able to give the Christmas gifts they were hoping for.

Although I no longer work directly with the sales, I would guess the mini accounts for about 30-45% of iPad sales?
also assumes y-combinator acceptance increases your survival odds, right ?
oh, dude, seriously, there is no school outside of US, right?
I like the general tone of this piece, but how many salaries are below market rate at a startup these days? The fringe benefits are pretty insane right now too.

IMO, the biggest concern for an employee is dilution. Sometimes this happens in non-obvious ways, like on exit what happens to undistributed shares allocated to the employee grant pool?
You are unable to properly mock static methods. So, for example, if you have a AuthorizeNet class that has a static method ::submit(), if you test the code then every single time you run it you're pinging Authorize.net's servers, which opens you up to a world of hurt.

Properly mocking methods allows you to get rid of this unknown and say, "The submit() method will return an array of this specified data" without Authorize.net ever getting a ping.

With static properties, the problem is that they do have memory. If you change it in one place in your codebase, that static property will then be changed across your whole codebase for that execution, even if you have multiple, separate object instances.
It could be used as a known vector to crash the program. Turn the file that it reads into something that will fill up RAM unless Python has some size checks before slurping.
But from a developer's perspective, what matters is where the customers are. I still think in the near term, paid apps are a bigger market on the ipad but if your application is free, then android may be a better bet for initial deployment.
Adobe no longer (over a year now!) supports Flash for Android, so there's no Flash support there either.
Edit: we are still unsure if the cost of membership is in addition to the cost of the shoes? Would love if someone could clarify.
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Funny enough my sister informed me that she ordered a pair of boots last night. I immediately think of this and ask her if she's heard of JustFab to which she says "how did you know?".

For what it matters, she is a law student and actually took the time to read the TOS(yeah!). She has it all planned and will cancel her subscription Monday.

Also learned from her that if you just make an account and wait for a few days, apparently they let you in for the first month for $20.

My sister felt a bit shitty after I showed her HN's view but at least for her she's getting a good deal. Too bad almost every other customer isn't likely to have the same luck.
Is different because you need to type your untyped type!

I think in just a change in the "." or ".." character. So is not necessary to type the untyped, just change the dot for another thing to bypass the type checking in compile time
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If you read the article again you'll note that companies can opt to get paid part of the ad revenue. If a company hasn't opted to, it's whackamole
How smartphones make us less impulsive
Likely it doesn't bother Cringely because he's such a public figure. Like most celebs, I bet he gave up trying to hide the vast majority of his life anyway.

A scan of his Wikipedia page [1] gives me more information than I know about the vast majority of people I interact with on a daily basis.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_X._Cringely
Understand distribution. As you'll probably find out, building a great app doesn't translate into downloads.
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I <3 TechCrunch, but it's true that HackerNews did the Journalism here. Maybe they deserve credit for this scoop, but I don't think so, IMHO of course.

I think AOL impressed me by buying TechCrunch, BTW, and that wasn't 16 years ago.
Really? Because it looks like they just picked the best comments from the Hacker News thread on the matter and just stuck them together.
When do we start counting phones? The galaxy mega is 6.3 inches.
This may be the closest thing to journalism TechCrunch has done since AOL took over.

Ummm, they had the chance to investigate on their own and declined to. HN did the heavy work and TechCrunch couldn't ignore the direction their story took https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6455391 . (from "JustFab raises lots of money" into "they are a scam company")"
You missed the point, and the problem. PHP tries way too hard to try to mangle input to kinda sorta work with the operators at hand. Were it a reasonable language, it would throw out a warning, or better yet, an error, to handle a fairly broken situation like this, rather than try to pick and choose the parts of the string it thinks is appropriate.
I don't specifically follow the code itself but I watched the youtube video, and my undestanding is that it takes a 2d array of the previous game board as 0's and 1's, duplicates it 8 times (that's this part: ¯1 0 1∘.⊖¯1 0 1∘.⌽), uses the rotation operators to transpose the arrays left, right, up, down, upleft, upright, downleft, downright, sums the result (this part: +/,) , and runs that through a test for whether the sum in each cell is either 3 or 4 (this part: 3 4=) , turns that into a 1, and returns 0 on all the other cells. the result is the next step.

There's little details in there that I don't quite get due to my unfamiliarity with APL
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This definition of "liberal" is frequently termed "classical liberal" for clarity. Both party-line Democrats and party-line Republicans draw on some of the ideas there when politically convenient. Libertarians probably have the best claim in the American political spectrum on a strict adherence to classical-liberal principles (arguably to the exclusion of other valuable principles, and arguably with an overly narrow focus in application - "policy debates should not appear one-sided", to borrow a phrase).
This has been my biggest frustration with Macs. I've never been able to get used to the weird mouse acceleration curve. Using a non-Apple mouse usually makes things a little better, but it's still just not right. I even tried installing a 3rd party tool once to fix the issue, but it didn't help much.
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They took a shot at a VC darling, signed up with and without VIP subscriptions, and went through the cancelation process, and didn't sugar coat what JustFab are doing and why they're evil.

That's a lot from a company whose specialty is monitoring RSS feeds, HN, and favored companies' press releases for stuff to reword.
The lack of retina display really dampened things. The fairly rapid launches of 3 and 4 probably also hurt it. I think a model with retina display, where you have a market with a 12+ month old iPad, will do well.
Thanks - fixed now.
> Way too creepy for me.

Based on my use so far, it only displays information that the user has access to, so I don't see anything creepy about it.

What's creepy (in a good way) is how they manage to pick up the things that are actually interesting and relevant, which I often miss since my friends' walls are so busy already.
Despite focusing too much on profits and not enough on products/experiences, during the early 2000s, Ballmer was one of the good guys. His passion and heart is so old school and very much unique to him compared to the rest of the industry.

He'll be a tough one to replace.
> Explain to me how tags get me to an understandable view of my DAG so that I can see clearly what has been happening to the code, by whom, and why.

That's what the commit history is for. If you don't like seeing merges use git log --no-merges. You can use rebase to avoid seeing merge commits, but it's awfully unnecessary with the nasty side-effect of destroying history.

I was suggesting tags as way to keep an alternate history of features or releases. Features can be developed in separate branches for them, but you could tag features when you merge them in if you want an easy history of feature merges. You can list tags by date, use prefix's for sorting, etc.
How can a software overtake a hardware ?

Sensationalist headline.
Ah, ok... I didn't know they had a license picker. Cool!
My source is the book I linked. Not everything's online.

But I should probably say "many" rather than "most," since he didn't give actual numbers.
Judging by that TL;DR people would think that there's an article with pages upon pages of what Facebook decided to eliminate from PHP, and not to make it easier but to make it possible to mantain their codebase. No such thing can be found in the provided PDF.
Look at it this way: you don't have to use it but people you meet might be using it :)
For what it's worth, I'd like to read a story about a redhead, a juggler, a spy, and a florist. It sounds like something interesting would happen.
If you're processing something one line at a time, and outputting something based on each line, then you don't need to read-and-process the entire file before printing everything out.

Other than that, it's more memory efficient.
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Just wondering, do they atleast send an email reminder mentioning that you have to select your pair for the month?

That should give an indication to some people to cancel their subscription.
These numbers are kind of useless when Apple is weeks away from refreshing their iPad line-up. You'll see Apple back in the lead in market share after that. Developers will continue to target iOS first because of that and because iOS users pay for apps.
I love Refresh.

It pings me about 5-10 minutes before I meet someone with a dossier on them. It includes highlights from social media, things we have in common, and our last interactions. Very helpful in catching back up where you left off.

One feature I like is that once the meeting is over, the app asks if you want to remember anything about them and gives you notes field to edit. This shows up the next time you meet them.

It's gotten REALLY good at highlighting interesting things about over the last few months.

All in all it's very impressive technology and I look forward to the push messages. It's hard to say that about many apps.
In any international discussion, "liberal" used bare is going to be tremendously confusing - there is no "conventional definition", there are 10 different definitions each of which is mainstream in a different place.

Wiretapping and spying was a Democratic position under Clinton, and the virtuous Republicans opposed it. Wiretapping and spying was a Republican position under Bush and the virtuous Democrats opposed it. Do you honestly expect, though, that there wasn't spying under Bush Sr., who had been head of the CIA? And obviously wiretapping and spying was J. Edgar Hoover's position under a host of administrations of both parties.

Really, in recent times wiretapping and spying support/opposition in politicians seems to better track the power held by the politician than anything else.
Personally, it takes me a long time to disengage my mind from "this tricksy problem" and bring it back around to real life. I suspect this delay is comparable to that for waking up with adrenalin. Anyway, no matter what, the policy is probably going to be that at least one pilot is awake with their mind on the job at all times.
Probably, but good luck breaking out the numbers on those.
Even better: alexcrichto is ridiculously fast, and [src] links will be landing in a few hours (assuming tests pass) in https://github.com/mozilla/rust/pull/9577.

Example: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~acrichto/doc/std/from_str...
I think the parent's comment is better phrased as "There's no constraint preventing iOS from being just another tablet OS."

Apple consciously refuses to decouple their hardware from their software (and I agree with you that the iOS experience is better than the Android one, although I don't think it's an objective truth).

Comparing iOS adoption to Android adoption is not some universally indicative metric (I'll bet all the money in my pockets that many more iPad owners know what "iOS" means than Android tablets know what "Android" means, which is incredibly important when you're, say, trying to build an ecosystem) but it is still important (I'm a developer with limited time resources! Do I spend X hours building an Android port?)