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You misunderstand. I'm not thinking that Apple is subject to anything. I'm not talking about their costs at all. I'm merely talking about our costs if we were to try to build an equivalent PC ourselves.

Apple probably gets a steep discount on all of its components, but that's completely irrelevant for this comparison.

I don't doubt that you can build a much cheaper PC if you go through the whole parts list and substitute cheaper, worse consumer parts for all the workstation parts in the Mac Pro. The question is, can you really build the same thing for the same price? I bet you can't, or at least it's close. Maybe you can, I could be wrong.

The question isn't how much a generic PC that's "good enough" costs. The question is how much it costs "with the same parts".
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Look for a Sears Outlet: http://www.searsoutlet.com/

My parents bought a giant freezer for $100 from one years ago. It sips power and keeps a week supply of food frozen. The catch is that you might have to live with a harmless scratch or ding.
> Why not a Surface or whatnot, if that's your priority?

Oh, that'd what I'd been planning to do. Only it turns out that the battery only lasts 6hrs, compared to 12hrs in the otherwise comparable MBA :(
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I'm not sure yet. For 10.9 the installer put all the necessary files in, and didn't download anything over the air for me.
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Well, the project I'm working on right now is a graphical programming project, but I'm not sure that it will end up as a startup (I plan to open source in a month or two). I really don't know what kind of startup I would do, but I'm pretty sure that it would be centered around some piece of software, and not likely a mobile app, but rather either desktop software (most likely) or a web service.

Okay, so I would be physically distant from the early adopters. Would this be a similar problem for me if I were to stay where I am (Phoenix)? We have a small startup community, but nothing like the Valley.

At any rate, I'll probably finish my degree before I do a startup.
Any incompatibilities people have run across yet. I want to figure out if there are any obvious dealbreaking changes before I spend time making a backup and upgrading.
...and the Developer Tools have always been free! I would say OS X is the best dev environment ever!
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That (CANBUS and RS485) works ok as long as everything agrees on what "ground" is. Using differential signaling (as both those standards do) does give you some noise immunity and does help with the ground issue somewhat.

The problem is that ground loops can easily generate 10's of volts at the highest impedance point, and there will be ground loops if you try to use this for "smart homeish" things. Most bus drivers and receivers aren't meant for voltages that high--many drivers/receivers have absolute maximum ratings only a few hundred millivolts below ground.

Isolating everything isn't a conceptually difficult thing to do, but you'll spend just as much on optoisolators as you would have on ethernet magnetics.
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Thanks! Let me know if you run into any issues or have any feedback! #floobits on freenode irc or info@floobits.com We reply right away, unless we are asleep. :)
Does this mean that iPad Air will have 264 ppi screen for a next couple of years? Or the Air is going to get 528 ppi screen?
Procurement rules are more to guard against corruption and cronyism than incompetence.

Without them, you could reward your friends with fat government contracts, regardless of what's in the public's interest.
That statement gets used a lot to downplay the concept of a stylus, and in that context it is flatly incorrect to be blunt. Viewing it that ways makes the assumption that you intent to use a stylus as a finger replacement. The finger and the stylus are different input devices with different levels of ease of use and accuracy. It is wrong to assume they are meant to accomplish the same tasks. No device should be limited to either one... finger or stylus. I use the stylus to draw on my Surface and quite frankly I love what it allows me to do. But when I go back to surfing, fingers all the way.
How much Mac software can take advantage of 2 gpus for processing, rather than 8 or more cores? I have a dual socket Mac at work with 12 cores total, not sure this would feel like an upgrade.
apologies - I remembered it wrong!
Why not just use a goddamn type writer? Man I love typing on those things. I still write up my programming assignments on it just to hear the clickity clackity.

Computer Science in hard mode: Do your programming assignments on a type writer. Once.
Snow Leopard was the first cheap version because it had "No New Features". It was $29 for a DVD. Leopard was the last one to cost $129 in 2007.
Anyone know how big the download is?
Everything being native isn't always a better way. Android's architecture keeps code small, makes sure nobody eats the global heap, shares common bytecode (really, anything) pages across processes, and provides memory-conserving modularity tools within each VM instance's heap. It's a pretty elegant system and the reason there hasn't been a lot of new work on the JIT may be that the JIT is as good as it can be without eating more battery.
I think what the OP is arguing is that if he has an active github profile:
1. the recruiter should have done the work to check that out before emailing him.
2. his/her profile should be enough to warrant arranging a meeting/interview, and a resume would add little extra information.

If you don't have an active public place where your work is showcased, then certainly a resume is a good (more) private way to provide a potential employer your skillset. Though certainly not the only other way.
Interesting, the RAM compression should actually increase performance. Well I would highly recommend an SSD for you, with 4gb RAM my Macbook Air flies, and it's all thanks to the SSD.
I know at least 2 people who'd love to have the option to buy Wacom pens for iPads. Right now it doesn't really work unless you use some very hacky solutions. I wish Apple supported pressure sensitive pens.

I'n also still hoping for an 11"-12" 16:9 iPad Pro (they can just make it longer like they did with the iPhone 5 that comes with a keyboard. It should basically be an iPad laptop (not hybrids, no point) that costs $700, and comes with a new A8 processor in spring, or at least A7X, and maybe 64 GB by default.
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Erm, yup. You're right; I was thinking of the Macbook Pro. I think I've put a mental block on the Mac Pro, but that's due to my use cases for a computer having no intersections with the Mac Pro's use cases.

That said, calling it revolutionary seems a bit much - the form factor is certainly new and unique, but none of its components (or its roles) are distinct from that of the previous Mac Pros. Certainly not on the scale of differences between the original iPad and its competitors at the time, or the iPhone, or the iPod.

It could safely be argued as a simple iteration on the PC's form factor.
I am blown away by what people will post on the Internet. Sure, the company should have at least made it more clear that these reviews were being posted publicly. At best they probably shouldn't have asked for anything other than a star-rating for the doctor.

But the fact that someone would write "burning exists not only to me but to my lover as his penis contacts my vagina" at all on the Internet in any capacity is just amazing to me.
Just remember, foundation 4 is mobile first and IE <8 don't support media queries. Have been burnt with this recently and it was a huge pain in the ass, so just a warning for those who still need to support such people.
It sounds great, but an OS upgrade shouldn't had been paid in the first place. For instance I would be pretty pissed off to pay to upgrade my phone's software. This is just a reminder that computers have become general consumer items.
> Bitcoin has a gigantic first mover advantage

Not only that, but:

1) People with investment in hashing power tend to hash on bitcoin

2) If another coin were to come along (as they do, ask me about Terracoin) the speculators would find it.

3) The coin would be vulnerable to attack from those speculators who control even a tiny fraction of the hashes of Bitcoin.

I'm not just talking about double-spend, I mean someone (or several someones) with a large amount of hash power (say, each individually much smaller than 51% of total) coming along to service the network for a short while, driving up the difficulty, and getting away with a lot of coins while actually processing transactions for a comparatively short amount of time.

TRC, as a network with usually several terrahashes[2] hashing constantly, had to implement some controls[4] to prevent this kind of attack.

When the coin is more profitable to hash, the speculators find out, they bring their hashes, and it drives the difficulty up.

When the difficulty goes up, a slog ensues (the per-hash temporary advantage of mining Terracoin dries up) as the speculators take their hashes elsewhere and the remaining sloggers have only to hope that they can provide enough TRC at low cost[3] such that there is never an advantage to speculators, and thus the network can experience organic growth bringing in more permanent hashes from those who support its development.

The controls only limit the mobility of the difficulty (it can't shift up by 4x or down to 0.25x of the last retarget)

So when the slog is particularly bad (high difficulty), or when the hashing hordes are particularly voracious (low difficulty compared to coin price)... instead, it can increase to 1.25x or decrease to 0.75x -- you have to watch the network pretty close to see when people are getting over on profitability, but when they do you can still feel it for days.

The effect of not being the largest network seems to be that your difficulty goes up and down, not always just up up up. It's hard to find long-term difficulty reporting.[1]

Of course when bitcoin spenders are willing to wait up to 10 minutes for blocks, and Terracoin targets 2 minute blocks, even "network's running slow" seems pretty fast in relative terms, as long as it's not uncontrolled adjustment.

They must be doing something right, they're still/currently the most profitable Alt-SHA256 coin, even if the share prices have taken a serious dump.[5]

[1] http://pool.bitcoinreactor.com/pool/statistics/?cur=trc

[2] http://trc.cryptocoinexplorer.com/

[3] https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/27

[4] http://terracoin.org/news.html

[5] http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency
But if they're going to reap the benefit of the free system,
they need to be transparent about their performance.
-- Ryan Howard, CEO, Practice Fusion

He just summed up 21th century privacy: if you are not paying for it, you are the product. I wonder what the law thinks about medical data being the product.

(I love how the CEO is trying to say all of this is ok because they included some bullshit disclaimer in a bullshit agreement in a 20px textbox. Stuff simply doesn't apply.)
So, what does that mean exactly? When are they not running in turbo? The 4 core is clocked higher in non-turbo, that makes no difference?
Yes, Apple is a hardware manufacturer that happens to make it's own OS (something that Dell or Lenovo could do any day if they could get off the MSFT/INTC gravy train - by creating their own Linux distro).

Switching models to compete with the Windows model is a mistake they were lucky to make once and live to tell about. They will not make that mistake again.

If you're looking for competition against Microsoft, look to Google. Both of these companies aren't hardware companies at their heart, and both want manufacturers to bundle their OS.

I'd say that if Microsoft had an ally, it would be Apple today (only in the sense that Apple doesn't care for Microsoft's business).
Amazon has "Enhanced delivery" for things like TVs. Basically they use a special carrier that will come into your house and set-up the TV and make sure it's working before you sign for delivery. More info in the link below

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=help...
Ah. I was intending to comment more on the claim that electricans would install AC and DC runs (aside from most building codes and common sense requiring AC and low voltage unprotected DC to be run more or less physically separately) +5V switchers the size and shape of a light dimmer with a little USB port have been COTS for many years now, for dorms and hotels and stuff, so its more likely the electrician would run 120 AC to some convenient spot in the room where its converted to 12V at high(er) current rather than a parallel scheme where the electricians homerun both 120VAC and 12VDC to a combined circuit breaker panel or some such.

Or in short (oh bad pun), DC power supplies are COTS and electricians know exactly what to do with them.

It is inevitable if you had parallel wiring they'd mess it up. Wanna be home electricians are made fun of all the time for screwing up 3 simple obvious wires line neutral and ground, giving them +5 would just result in fireworks. Admittedly most of the electricians making fun of the home wiring guys are the same pros who blow up 3-phase machinery by swapping a phase on an occasional basis too...
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Read the comments. Anything but praise.
Yeah, and that's one of the reasons I'm a bit wary of this "open-source is magic" mantra, that's putting a lot of cooks in the burning kitchen. Open-source means community management, public relations with opiniatred people, Linus-grade emails, and if you have really a big participation but no strong leader, it ends up like GNU hurd (is it dead yet ?).

It's all about organization, and trying to have just enough people to get the work done and nobody more, and the right people, and this has nothing to do with open or closed source.
Yes. I should have added that I understand the need for basic checks and auditing (and that the public expects us to be uniformly fraudulent as well as incompetent), but that the level of checks and removal from the process of experts who know requirements goes far beyond this need.

It's really all about optics rather than reasonable checks - no department wants to be the one that Congress targets, so especially in poisonous political environments the "checks" are significantly more expensive IMO than the actual "waste, fraud, and abuse" they guard against.
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I'm pretty sure that it only exports the structure, but it doesn't allow editing and running of the code in ipython since that would require having support for the plethora of languages.

Example:
There's a c extension to babel/org-mode that allows you to write a document like this in normal text, and then type:

+begin_src c
int test = 42;
printf("%i", test);
+end_src

and then run and execute this code block in the document, and have the results appear underneath it. That is already pretty cool.

But even cooler is that you can have a python block, and a R block and a ruby block, and then define a variable in python, and have ruby do something with that variable (i.e hand it over) and then create a new variable based on the ruby transformations, and hand it over to R to do some statistics processing with the data. Finally, You take the R output, display it as a table, and generate a plot for it.

All in one text file. Truly awesome.
Random selection of USD prices for the base model from different Apple online stores, for the curious:

$4,053 in UK

$4,010 in Czech Republic

$3,880 in Australia

$4,257 in New Zealand

$4,300 in Sweden

So to US-based guys intending to buy one: hope you spend your ~$1k on something nice :)
We cool.

I've switched to a morning smoothie for convenience. 1/2 bunch of kale, chard, or spinach as a base. Plus variety of banana, apple, ginger, frozen fruits (blueberries, mango, peach, strawberries, etc), hemp hearts, heavy coconut milk, cinnamon, sometimes others stuff (mint, turmeric, yoghurt) to add variety.

Per Dr Terry Wahls, goal is to get 9 cups of veggies per day. I usually hit 6 cups.
Don't you feel you wasted your time learning flask and django, when you could have just learned django?
Jobs was strongly against the stylus and famously said something like "God gave us 10 styluses at birth". Maybe part of his legacy is a company filled with people having the same opinion.
>which allowed millisecond level real-time guarantees using garbage collected java threads.

an anti-ship missile at 2 Mach would move 0.7m during an ms and it wouldn't be a lateral move - sounds like Java has reached the level of getting into fire control systems :)
I used to be an Amazon fanboy, too, but I don't buy much from them anymore after (1) Target, Best Buy, and other retailers started pricematching amazon prices. Since Target gives you 5% off for using Target card, Target is now almost always cheaper than amazon. and (2) Amazon started charging sales tax. That was a HUGE reason I ordered items from them.

I still like amazon, and still have Amazon Prime, and I am still looking forward to their Black Friday / Cyber Monday deals.
* if you live in a country where apple has such things (not New Zealand).
thanks for the feedback.

not all developers want to deal with managing servers, dependencies, the initial sysadmin, and deployment.

the idea is to put a HTTP layer over these heterogenous environments so that getting any functionality is as simple as hitting a url.

and for developers, its the power of heroku with the simplicity of a pastebin.
> One should be able to say "Compatible with USB2", in the similar way 3rd party companies made cartridges for the Nintendo.

The most prolific of those 3rd party companies was sued by Nintendo and lost.[1][2] Although that case is not directly applicable, and had different circumstances. I thought it was worth mentioning.

[1] http://digital-law-online.info/cases/24PQ2D1015.htm

[2] http://www.1up.com/do/feature?pager.offset=1&cId=3146206
This also has to do with the laws that mandate projects over a certain size need to have x% of small businesses, y% of veteran owned business, etc.
So we should punish successful companies that provide services people want through taxes because they might become too powerful? Increase the incentive for the company to influence politics? Feed the entity that has no competition by definition?
What build number is it?
Ask HN: Why aren't there any MariaDB Heroku Addons?
Is anyone out there really itching for this? Why aren't there any already? Wondering if it's a licensing issue? Lack of interest from the developers that use Heroku?

Disclosure: I'm on the https://gridkick.com/ team
Is Apple losing the tablet wars?
>Why is this comment at the top?

People tend to upvote valuable and truthful comments around here, so it seems.
It's worth noting that if you're in the EU you get 2 years warrantee for free - http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/
Well, there is for a David Wozniak, but I know you mean Steve :-)

What roles does Woz really have now-a-days in Apple's day to day?

Having met him a few times, he is amazing and for other things besides Apple too.
I just had a conversation with a federal employee last week talking about the issue of procurement offices being a blackbox and procurement officers not understanding the technical specifics of what they're bidding out. His solution was just to become certified as a procurement officer (apparently it's 72 hours of coursework) and deal with the bids himself. He said these kinds of problems have pretty much disappeared for him since then.
HIPAA is no joke. Even if this company is technically in the clear, being associated with a controversy like this is enough to keep doctors from using the service. Makes me wonder if they had any domain knowledge at all or just a "Yelp for doctors" pitch and some mumbo-jumbo about big data revolutionizing healthcare.
wining and dining college grads and telling them all sorts of great stories then laying the workload on them until they burn out or quit.
> And I don't understand why anyone would consider the iPad 2.

The 30 pin connector comment was in reference to this.
And like most things with government, you end up getting both: the bureaucracy to prevent cronyism as well as the cronyism. Speaking from experience. Sure it might be more obvious if the bureaucracy wasn't in place, but it's still there.
>the rate of production is fixed, so no one would have predicted that.

IIRC, the arguments actually went that GPU miners had their equipment already paid for, and so could afford to hoard their mined coins, but that ASIC miners, who were paying thousands of dollars for their equipment, would be forced to sell their coins immediately to pay for their equipment & electricity.
It's only "free" for Snow Leopard owners, which means not free at all, on the other hand this answers the support question.
>Just once, it would be nice if someone making a Mac versus PC price comparison could compare against a part that was better than the one in the Mac....

I'm very sorry. I couldn't find a faster xeon for sale and I thought it would suffice to demonstrate how a 200MHz increase most likely isn't worth $1000.

I imagine you think it logically impossible that Apple could be marking up the cpu, since I can't currently buy the cpu myself (and thus the cost for me is infinite)...

When I'm the most valuable company in the world and not just some guy searching newegg, I'll get back to you.
The eMac was, but that's because it had it's origins in education. That was also 8 years ago and Apple has changed.

I can't find any corroboration for your assertion about the original iPad. Every source I can find says it was discontinued immediately in favour of the iPad 2. Selling off old stock to the education market isn't the same.
Or the laws that are put in place mandating certain requirements for contracting and acquisition. It's a fucking mess.
This isn't quite right. The rate of production has increased, because the computing power is increasing at a very high rate between difficulty adjustments. Blocks are being solved faster than they are "supposed" to be, statistically.

It won't last, eventually the increase in computing power will taper off, but that's the state of things at the moment.
Why the last 20% of work takes the same amount of time as the first 80%
Looks like no: http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids

Though I'm not sure how accurate and complete this list is.

Edit the official list is here but they list their VIDs in dec.
fwiw you can also search for it in the app store and it appears. Or go to the "updates" tab, it's visible in there for me: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f921jp7mjcimfac/Screenshot%202013-... (possibly because I already clicked "free upgrade" in the search result? not sure.)

This doesn't appear(?) to be an unintentional early leak or anything. I'm installing it on a secondary partition, happy to report if it explodes :)

edit: so far so good. I like what I'm seeing for the most part, took very close to 30 minutes from "click install" to "booted into 10.9" on my non-stock SSD. I'm not claiming any responsibility for other people's problems, but it seems to work from here, I'd say go for it if you're feeling adventurous.

edit: have to re-install Java, XCode wants to reinstall a few things, re-enable accessibility (shortcat/dterm), all in all similar to a new install. so far all apps work fine.
Really? What happens when the founders who mined hundreds of thousands of coins in the early days cash out?
You can't actually withdraw USD from MtGox, so all the USD prices there are essentially fiction.
The irony is that they don't really do that. It's common in both procurement and hiring in the federal government to see bizarrely-specific requirements whose fairly transparent intention is to limit the potential bidder or applicant pool to a single company or individual.