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Apple is after consumers with their new set of never ending, shiny, made in china toys.

That's all cool.

With Ballmer and his me-too copycatting and being always late to the party strategy gone soon, Microsoft better (and likely) will stop playing gadget and widget games and refocus on enterprise software and services department as well as cloud strategy.
Yet, keynote in the iCloud Web App is free for everyone who have iCloud account.
I originally read it in some in depth article that was talking about this. I can't find this now, so I removed that part. Now that I think about article might have been talking about "spirit" of open source license - if it is useful to you, contribute back, rather then actual license requirement.
In a lot of places it has. I can't even remember the last time I opened anything in Office. At work people share links to google docs instead of sending docs.
Healthcare.gov is all opensource: https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/

Some chunks are made in node.js: https://github.com/STRML/Healthcare.gov-Marketplace

They've taken down the source on github, though it used to be all there. The server they're running it on is AkamaiGHost, and likely linux (although I've heard they're running some on it on windows)

It's an odd choice of technologies. For scalability I would have chosen something that scales across the cloud easy. I'd put my money on the different calls between organisations being at fault. There seems to be many API calls going on. It would take only one server to be slow to cause a cascading affect.
Note: OP is asking for upvotes for this story on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/SeanEllis/status/392797877514162176

http://i.imgur.com/AaMLcUp.png
Beheading videos still OK for Facebook, nipples still unacceptable
Do you have a source for this claim that 12 million coins are being hoarded?
sidebar:

> HIPPA

HIPAA

very common mistake.
At this point in time that's a ridiculous proposition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Last check, Google Docs didn't work on the iPad Safari. Has that changed?
How is driving similar enough to coding? You can take 2 coding projects and the times for a team to complete them and their estimates will differ wildly. Commuting on the 280 to Palo Alto from San Francisco is 45 minutes on average. There is nothing mysterious about this or complicated. Coding is much harder and the OP is guilty of a bad analogy fallacy.
Tim Cook describing the Surface as a “sorta-tablet, sorta-PC” thing, reminds my Steve Ballmer mocking the iPhone few yrs ago. In both cases I find it immature and short-sighted.
the hardware looks pretty impressive for the price. I'd like to see Linux running on it.
A lot of the comments here seem to be oblivious to the details of the original indictment:

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/021110aleyn...

It pretty explicitly details how the "backup" program he wrote had flags to select what to copy and some of those flags specifically copied GS option pricing code that he had never worked on.
Right. Like I said, the reason to go to the (programming) effort is that I can make sure it valgrinds clean, which means (if I'm being moderately smart along the way) that I'm not dropping things on the floor that I don't mean to during the program run when I still care about it. Adding a flag for "I don't care about valgrind, go ahead and exit" is then a tiny bit of extra programmer work to save the processor a bit of extra work each run; not sure it's worth it but not sure it's not.
I think the point is, it will behave the same as an inflationary currency for the next century. Many new people to bitcoin do not realise this.
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You can use open source code without giving up your modifications as long as you don't distribute it. Even if a GPL program is modified by GS and runs on their mainframes, GS is not required to release the source code.

You only need to release the source if you're distributing the modified code, which GS obviously would never do...
Asked followers who enjoyed the article to help it get discovered on Hacker News. Removed tweet. OP
Goldman was actually violating the license terms of the open source software it had modified by not releasing it.

I down-voted you because people keep saying that and it is false.

The Vanity Fair article uses the qualifier "possibly" when talking about GS violating the licenses and that's because none of the major license families (BSD, GPL, MPL, etc) have a requirement to release modifications if the whole is not released outside the organization that made them. The Vanity Fair article does not say that the code was ever distributed out of Goldman.

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...
Well, truth be told, I'm a bit of an interloper. I'm quite old and C is my 'native tongue', although I haven't really programmed in it for years, until recently.

At the beginning of my career, I spent fourish years professionally writing K&R C. Before that I had convinced my profs that I could submit my assignments in C rather than the mainframe Pascal that was being used by the other students. The balance has been spent in Smalltalk, Java, Python, etc.

I must say that I really like the re-adjustment. Even though there are 'endless banks of RAM', C forces the programmer to be stingy with memory and come up with neat hacks, simply to avoid the enormous pain of being too clever.

Using malloc() is like lying. You've got to remember them all.
IMHO, people still send the docs or portable files especially when they have to share final and binding contracts. There is quite a bit of lifecycle of a document after it has been created on Google Docs!
Yeah, GDocs wins in terms of collaboration: comments, revisions etc.
Those are all risks that come with using Bitcoin. I'm sure with time we'll see lots of improvements. For now a good way to store coins is by using paper wallets: http://www.bitaddress.org/ -you can print them yourself using any printer. Some say your keys shouldn't even be on any computer until you're ready to use them.

But for the rest Bitcoin is like cash. You lose the key you lose the cash.
Do we expect Apple execs to praise its competition? Google Docs competes both with Office and iWork, its also free! PR quotes for the perfect linkbait articles.
How is this not double jeopardy?
Maybe I'm the only person who has this issue but Amazon's categorization of items, broken search filters, and poor administration of 3rd party listings makes it very difficult for me to find items that I would regularly want to buy.

I can search for something like "Vacuum Filter" and receive results from 26 departments including Baby Products. So say I go to Home & Outdoor > Vacuums & Floor Care › Vacuum Accessories › Vacuum Filters › Upright Filters. Now I want to search by brand but there's nothing available for my model when I filter the search, however I can buy a Dyson filter under the "Hoover" sorting. Then half the listings are from 3rd parties who only include a lone 120x120 pixel image, an incorrect product description (or none at all), and with 0 product reviews. Then I give up on logical searching, type in the product code and the only listing was in the Automotive department after all.

Sorry to go on a rant but I find the shopping experience on Amazon to be incredibly frustrating. I usually end up using Google or another site and even when I do find the Amazon listing I'm hesitant to buy because of the sketchiness of the listing.
"'I could be arrested for this action,' Ladar Levison told NBC News about his decision to shut down his company, Lavabit LLC, in protest over a secret court order he had received from a federal court that is overseeing the investigation into Snowden."

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/13/20008036-...
I think I see your point, but I wonder... do GS distribute code to their employees? To partner organizations? If so, what are the terms of that distribution? If they are anything other than the original license requires, that's a violation.

Oh noes, now we can't have nice things anymore...
Apple will say that tablet/laptop hybrids are dumb right up until they announce their own.
In fact, I would bet money that the Macbook/iPad convergence is already in the works.
It's good marketing and I don't blame them for hitting MS where it hurts, but on the other hand this is the same company that wants customers to pay $3000 for a desktop model.

EDIT well a tower model, but you get the point. The Mac Tube reminds me of the G4 Cube.
If that were true, then removing HFT would bring back floor dealers. Clearly, it is false. Electronic trading, not HFT, deprecated floor tradrs.
I am not familiar with 'free-standing', though, I think that malloc in most environments never returns the same pointer twice (an alias). Though I may misunderstand your point.
Remember when "cool new government technology" was a thing (in movies)? I do.

There's a huge debate going on in Redmond right now (ex-MS employee here) on whether to focus on big, rich, slower-moving enterprises, or faster-moving consumer tech.

Microsoft has rightly realized that consumer tech (not big companies/government) is setting the agenda for the path of technology, and they're going to fight tooth and nail to remain relevant to consumers. I think they have the right idea commercially.
Sell something on craigslist for bitcoins, and let the buyer pay you in bitcoins in person. Couldn't be simpler.
Excel is still king of its domain, though.
I am always fascinated by people sharing corporate documents on Google Docs... It blows my mind to put that in the cloud, than allow people to share if among themselves, so if any of them gets his/her account hacked, the hacker will have access to company's corporate secrets... And that's without assuming that Google has access to those as well.
Not really sure it's a completely fair comparison.

I've seen a huge trend recently in people using Keynote over PowerPoint. Everything out the box simply looks and "feels" better. Last time I checked, Google Docs didn't let people start making up the presentation on their laptop and then finish it off on the train on their tablet, with no internet connection [1]. In fact I don't think I've ever seen anyone give a presentation to a room from Google Docs, but maybe that's just me?

It also doesn't easily allow people to present to a room with the help of iPhones & iPads to cue/preview the next slide.

Google Docs is amazing, but I think Apple went after them today as well - let's not forget the big bullet hurled in their direction [2].

I'll still be amazed to see any immediate, large scale shift away from Excel anytime soon though.

[1] - https://support.google.com/drive/answer/1628467?hl=en

[2] - https://www.apple.com/iwork-for-icloud/
Automattic open sources their privacy policies and tos across their multiple sites. See http://automattic.com/privacy/ as an example.
Just the first 3 out of 10. The remaining 7 are small images.
When you put it that way it doesn't sound nearly as impressive:

Real World:
A) Upgrading the software on our hardware costs money.
B) Upgrading the software on our hardware does not cost money.

Reality Distortion Field:
A) Our software upgrades cost money.
B) Our software upgrades are free! (Look how nice we are now!)

In a way, it reminds me of enterprise updates and services...

My NAS is about 4 years old now, yet I'm still getting brand new software for it, because making that available to me as a brand-loyal customer comes at no extra cost to the manufacturer, because the value is in the upcoming hardware.

(Additionally, I'm less inclined to upgrade my old software when I'm forced to purchase hardware to get access to the same software later anyway)
Wow, he talked to a cop without a lawyer AND signed a confession...
"If you prefer the old behavior, uncheck the "Displays have separate Spaces" checkbox in the Mission Control preference pane. Doing so will also restore the ability to have windows that span more than one display."

From the bottom of http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/os-x-10-9/11/#multiple-...
Upper middle class kid here. I've made a throwaway to avoid blacklisting, because money does weird things to everyone.

Sure, I'm not in the 1%. But I'm from a well off family. In my room alone I have 6 computers: a Macbook Air, an iMac, a high-end Ultrabook, two Windows 8 tablets, and a low-end HP Notebook running Ubuntu. Also a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino.

I love programming. It isn't taught at my high school, so I have taught myself since 3rd grade by reading textbooks on my own. I'd list my GitHub, but as I said I don't want to be blacklisted.

So yes, I code. And I enjoy it.
I suggest you read the GPL faq which should help clear up some of the issues for you:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePos...
I think an internal user could easily be persuaded not to demand the source code.
Agree 100%. That Apple is even acknowledging Microsoft is a big deal; the best companies act as if their competitors don't exist.
For everyone bringing up the GPL licence, strait from the horse's mouth:

> The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.
But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#GP...

Distributing the code within a company/organization does NOT constitute 'distribution', and does NOT require you to release your code.

Edit - and in the licence itself - Version 3 of the GPL

> “The Program” refers to any copyrightable work licensed under this License. Each licensee is addressed as “you”. “Licensees” and “recipients” may be individuals or organizations.
And

> To “propagate” a work means to do anything with it that, without permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying, distribution (with or without modification), making available to the public, and in some countries other activities as well.

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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Should we encourage that as users, this quote war between Apple, Google, Microsoft and co? They just play the game of Apple fanboys in this particular case, and I find that immature and totally useless.
I guess that is a reasonable argument, but it was not at all what I got from your original post. Obviously all the features must be considered in concert under the umbrella of "user experience" but that is also nearly impossible to discuss as everyone's experience is personal and difficult to express. I don't think the iPad shaving off 200g is anywhere near upgrading a Civic to be able to do everything my SUV can for the same price and size, but I can see someone thinking that.
Microsoft has never charged for service packs. They are being a little more generous with 8.1, but I still lump it in with service packs.
Individual resellers on Taobao don't play on small margins but on specialization and service. They sure compete on price but also on reputation, maybe even more.

So if clients would like to pay in btc, I see them allowing it easily and accepting the risk. However I don't see the lambda Chinese girl paying her purple furr stocks in btc.
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Yeah, Apple hardware is often decent value for money at launch, if your needs are exactly met by one of Apple's handful of models, with nothing that's overkill or unused and nothing missing. How many people is that true for though?

For example, if - for instance - you want a decent dedicated GPU you have to get a Mac Pro with an expensive Xeon E5 CPU and a workstation-glass GPU, even if you only need a much cheaper i7 or i5. Similarly, if you need lots of CPU power you have to pay for an expensive GPU even if you don't need it. These are hardly unusual requirements! (Also, Apple famously skimps on RAM compared to the rest of the system and then overcharges for extra RAM.)

Maybe sometime you should try the reverse exercise. Pick out a handful of popular PCs and see how much it would cost to buy an equally-powerful Mac.
I don't know man, while those possible sources of complexity and complications may be the case, to me they're still inexcusable. Many companies each year manage to successfully implement and release systems of ungodly complexity compared to whatever had to be dealt with to make some website like this.

All those sources of inefficiency are, to me, consequential of the fact that the people doing this work don't have proper incentives. $90M for a failed website that has to be redone? Well it's just tax dollars, let's suck in some more.

If any private company were to perform like this, they would be obliterated and their work would be done by people who are competent.
I've been using rbenv. I didn't realize it could install gems without using sudo when the system Ruby is activated. Thanks!
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"A tank is a tank is a tank, pretty much, plus or minus a few bells and whistles."

Geeze, such amazing ignorance. If you're vaguely interested in this sort of thing, and want to learn all the process and engineering reasons the Abrams M-1 became the King of the Killing Zone, get a copy of the book by that name: http://www.amazon.com/King-Killing-Zone-Orr-Kelly/dp/0393026...

Written by someone who initially expected to castigate it due to early (mis)reported teething problems (e.g. the whole "it throws tracks (more than other tanks)" was due to a proving ground's faulty tension meter), he got completely sold on the tank which has since totally proven its worth.

Lots of fun stuff, from their modeling everything with strong constraints like weight (i.e. what bridges can it cross), e.g. they didn't want to provide a heavy M2 .50 BMG but the tankers demanded it. To the successful development team's leader, a grizzled Chrysler car exec who drove them crazy with "that doesn't look good" sorts of complaints.

Which often turned out to be a boon (ignoring that weapons should look good so their users feel good about them, which the M-1 delivers on). Said it was too high in an ugly way, so they figured out how to shave a foot off, which is very important for the European theater (not so good for deserts). Didn't like how the armor skirts didn't extend all the way to the back. So they gave in (I'm sure the modeling said it was only a minor net loss) ... and found that made a critial difference in keeping cruft thrown up by the tracks out of its turbine engine.

Very much an iterative process, in a domain where you truly "bend metal" to get things done.

So take the author's words with a big grain of salt, she's woefully ignorant of a huge domain in which we've been building for a very long time the world's most sophisticated artifacts, and learning how to, and how not to do it ... with stakes no less than national survival. Digital computers used for IT are a very recent development as these things go.
Initially, I also got confused by Actors, Scenes, etc. and did not use it. I figured it out later, but a lot of code was written already. In my code I have a lot of arrays and objects that represent the objects in the game. For example, I have an array named Fleet that keeps track of all aliens. The I have an array named Bullets, and one named Particles and one named FloatingTexts, etc. Now, all these would be Actors and you would place them in Scene instead of having a lot of separate array.

I also used Sprites for some stuff, but I also have a lot of pure batch.draw() calls for one-off copying directly from texture. When you use the Sceen model, you use Actors instead of Sprites.

I used to make games using SDL, so I'm used to blitting the graphics purely by coordinates and just build my own stuff over it, but Scene-Actor stuff is very well done, I will use it for my next game for sure. It also comes with some nice UI elements, which I also had to invent myself in mine code.

The best resource was asking questions at Stack Overflow. You can also google for some stuff, but beware, some of the code out there is suboptimal as you can see in my post about making screenshots.
Organization seems like an odd qualifier. Certainly you have to make the code available to everyone you delivered modified binaries to, and at GPL conditions (meaning they are then free to further distribute it, per GPL)?
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Doesn't matter. Open source licences, patents, nothing matter. Code on the employer's computer is considered property, copying it is the same as stealing the actual workstation...
From a hardware perspective being half and half is fine, I think the criticism of the surface is that the interface and software is optimised for neither paradigm and the device suffers as a result. Apple may well release a Mac Air with a touchscreen, but I doubt it will run in IOS mode and in OSX mode, it will more likely pick one and stick with it.
Ask HN: I'm building an audience on Twitter. What's next?
Hi HN!

Instead of building a side project, I've decided to try to build an audience first, and then build a side project for them.
I've worked on this for 1h per day for almost a week now, and I have 150 followers on Twitter. They are real followers interested in a specific niche market.

My question is: what's next? Should I keep building my number of followers? Should I make a blog? Should I try to make them sign up to a newsletter? Should I start asking them questions about potential problems they are facing that I could solve?

Thanks!
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Na. If you get the right parts(mainly gigabyte motherboards) and read TonyMacOSX, you can get a Hackintosh up as easy as a Linux install.

It's literally build the computer, put the required software on USB drive(Unibeast). Boot computer, format drive, install OSX. Run Multibeast. Voila. Keep usb drive for when you update.
Perhaps.

But then, as it occasionally happens, they might also deliver something overwhelmingly superior to anything around.

As Gruber recently commented on the Galaxy Gear: "About the best you could expect from Samsung without having anything to copy from Apple: overpriced, ugly, laggy UI, terrible battery life, dubious utility." (Come to think of it, that seems to fit the Surface quite well.)
Truth. I was talking stocks with my girlfriend. She thought it was too scary to get involved in something as potentially volatile as the stock market. I told her basically what you just described.

There are many people in business that are literal sociopaths. They will bury and burn any and all barriers on their path to making an increase in share price. "I will not let this company flounder on my watch!", they hypothetically say in my mind. To these mythical business people, the share price is an extension of their character. Maybe that's a bit extreme and that's not why I'm investing.

But it's why the market doesn't scare me. Too many sociopaths all want one thing: the numbers to go up.

I know I'm right too. Just rewind to 2002-2008.
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