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> Won't this make it even harder to build a compliant version of python that runs on mobile devices where you can't install packages (>_> iOS)?

Why wouldn't you be able to install packages? iOS stops you from making executable pages, but cpython runs bytecode anyway.
>>yohann305 8 minutes ago | link

>> It seems the magic comes from the fact that a paper sketch turns into a game.
It will fool the average consumer or a child. However I am baffled with the fact that you have to use a pen and a paper instead of drawing directly on the iPad screen itself.
Also it seems, it does not work on a regular piece of paper... You need a drawn grid, which defies the concept of a handy pen and paper.
Nice mind trick!

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I would think that even today, sketchwork on grid paper is common in the videogame-designing scene. I don't think there's any "mind trick" going on. It's an interesting product to help people out in their already existing workflow.
* Must have a company name which SHA-1 hashes to e8b06511aa36381fc2306eb6f8181204585c5453.

Hey, there's a theoretically infinite number of company names which meet this requirement...
Seems company once it realizes it's in PR crisis mode should immediately:

- take down all problematic reviews, including any with an email or contact info, or other embarassing/private details. (Yes, someone will have to read them all.)

- reach out to all doctors and patients with a more formal opt-in to the review program (or suspend it until further notice)

- fix UI which implies patients are making a private doctor communication

- launch a HIPAA review of the whole program
I'm happy to report that the install was pretty effortless. Even with my unusual File Vault (encrypted HFS+) & Bootcamp setup.
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It happened to me too. Apple -> Software update and the patch was still there. So I installed it again. Great success; now waiting on the Maverick download.
We developed an iPad app called GamePress. Its live in the app store for free. http://www.gamepressapp.com

Teachers have started using it to teach students about programming and game development.

It is similar to Scratch, but it is more powerful (and easier to actually make a game). The behaviour system has thing slike timers, if statements, math functions, variables.

So far from what we have been told by our users it is a great intro to programming concepts.

Keep in mind we never developed it for teaching programming! it was made as a fun and easy way to make and share video games!
You should make a browserify transform (https://github.com/substack/node-browserify) so that it can easily be put into a pipeline to convert generator code to es5 code. Folks using browserify will be able to use it very easily.
Taking dollars out of an account != exiting a trade. It takes one to two days to get USD out of an OANDA account (source:http://fxtrade.oanda.com/help/how-to-withdraw-funds). So 3 days isn't terrible.
As I mentioned, clock speed is only one difference. The cache is not the same, and from a bit of research, it looks like the E5 has double the memory bandwidth over the E3, so it's not at all a trivial difference.

> I imagine you think it logically impossible that Apple could be marking up the cpu

What would make you think that? I just want to see an actual comparison, not comparisons with parts people think are "close enough". Maybe that's impossible right now, in which case I want people to stop trying instead of coming up with "close enough".

The question is, how much does it cost to build a PC "with the same parts"?
I'd love a synopsis of the algorithm you use to do the transformation. I always thought it was possible but grew weary whenever I thought of having to transform everything (loops, etc) and keep the state. So glad to see that this was done!
And 5 years in Scotland and 6 years in the rest of the UK
Yeah I am going to pop into Carphone Warehouse this weekend and have a good play with the 520. Visually I quite like Windows Phone but I want to try it out in person. I also need to check out the apps available for it. Obviously it is poor compared to iOS and Android but as long as it covers the few areas I need I should be happy.
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"Pushback" isn't such a great name for this specific phenomenon, since it's already a general business-jargon term for any kind of opposition to something that someone is trying to get you to do. As in: "I'm getting pushback from the customer on delaying the release date."
No it is compared to iPad one. Which makes it ridiculous. They are just keeping up with Moore's law (or are slightly ahead of the curve). And I suppose the GPU is mostly increased die area - will wait for the teardown.

I think that apple is having a case of "taking ourselves too seriously" lately and have believed all the praise parts of the pundits are pouring on them so they cannot see how absurd that sounds.
I think there are a lot of secondary objectives in those rules. Being secondary, they are not pushing for a working website. Stuff like town and country planning (putting a building in an area that need jobs), economic (the made in USA, small business), social (hire old people, disabled, women in tech etc.), competitive process to keep the prices in check (haha), bulk buy to get some discount etc.

Obviously when you have so many targets, you don't hit a lot. Maybe the obamacare website was perfect in some secondary objectives.

But it also arises from perfectly true premise, that big spending is a force on the society and that it as secondary effects, and that maybe we can twist those effects in a political manner. The whole Silicon Valley is living on federal actions.
You can hook up an AppleTV to a big screen TV (which is typically what conference rooms have)
I'm glad to see this link submitted here. I was going to use the standard process to upgrade my OS, but I thought that this time I'd check HN first. Turns out my gamble paid off. Thanks, OP!
I've come to dislike the boxes because I then have to discard them. When I didn't have a car I just dealt with them. Now that I have a car and I go to the grocery store every week, I don't get things like toiletries or paper towels on Amazon; they are never cheaper for these things and if I get them on Amazon that's more boxes I have to move out of my house.
Apple TV can do this for you.
The reason they offer it for free is pretty simple to me. They have an app store which is making them more money than the Operating System itself. The more people who have access to the app store the more money they make, so why put a price barrier between the user and the store?

This is why Windows 8.1 is free and I will assume the next iterations of Windows will be. Windows now has an app store and they are banking on getting as many people into that ecosystem as possible. While they may lose money in the OS purchase, that isn't where the bulk of the money is made anymore.

It's all about money.
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I am super excited to see Apple push Flash out of the browser.

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/safari...

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/safari...

Flash has been in decline since the first iPhone, but is still used to track people with unkillable cookies and to make obnoxious ads. Hopefully those days are now over.

I wish Google and Microsoft would follow suit. Google probably will resist the most due to the entrenched interests of DoubleClick and YouTube.
Has anyone noted that the government perhaps just shouldn't be in this kind of business to begin with?

Any market based solution website has to be very agile and responsive [edit: to succeed at it's goal] but the government can't be super responsive and in many ways shouldn't be super responsive. The state spends all of our money and enforces mandatory decisions concerning our lives. The state shouldn't have the agile qualities needed to produce the beautifully flexible websites created by the private sector.

In general, I'd claim the state should certainly be smaller but that it shouldn't be less bureaucratic, shouldn't be more like a corporation. Civil service is boring and bureaucratic by design, specifically it was created to combat the "spoils system" that plagued the early American state [1] (though the prize of modern state eclipse what Tammany Hall etc could have imagined). Modern corporations are agile by having a command structure which lets them quickly maximize profits - which is great if we believe the market system benefits everyone when operating properly. But states with the ability to trample the fences of ordinary market shouldn't not be also given the ability to move quickly and agilely to do this. Corporations have no internal limits to their "greed" but we citizens of democratic market capitalism are assuming that's OK, indeed desirable, as long as the corporation face the strong external limit of markets and individual choice.

The current fashion for what could be called "state-enforced private consumption" is sold as giving us the best of all possible worlds but in reality gives us the worst (IE. the reality is the wealth of this society is indeed being vacuum-out by a kind of private-public rent seeker limited by neither the traditional bounds of the democratic state or traditional bounds of the market).

Note: I'm not a conservative rooting against Obamacare. It seems like it was a terrible approach for achieving affordable healthcare but I still would prefer it succeeded that failed because, well, I and many friends need it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
Can't wait to see all the amateur investors wishing for an opportunity to short Bitcoin like we saw in Jan/February when it hit $60.00.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22short+bitco...
Seems like a sensible move and going with the flow. OS upgrades seem like a strange thing to pay for these days. It adds to the proposition first time macs converts.

One downside is that paid software upgrades provide a useful feedback mechanism. It must get over the 'is this worth $100' bar to sell. I think this is probably important for iwork also. Between creating revenue vs enhancing the mac's value & pulling users deeper into Apple-land, I think the right decision could be to go free. OTOH, that would absolve iwork from having to be good enough that users choose to pay money for it.

Still, free OS upgrades seem like the right choice.
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What product(s) did they cannibalize with the iPod?
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Maybe I was unlucky with my hardware but for me it was an uphill battle all the way and I never got anything near working.

The best I had was a system which booted (incredibly slowly) and for which I could never get wifi working.

YMMV, but you have been warned. Even with good documentation, there is absolutely no guarantee you'll get anywhere at all.
>The Mini seems like the better device of the two, for less! And I don't understand why anyone would consider the iPad 2.

Bigger screen without paying $500?

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Plus the iPad 2 is a phenomenal device that is just now starting to look dated.
I really have no reason to doubt this guy as he's a pretty prolific trader. That said...traders are rather known for hyperbole.

Per the 20%, I forget what it was but I know trades were rolled back and there was some kind of threshold for them. When I first wrote this, 20% losses was what I remembered. There's an article on it somewhere with the actual amounts. I think it had to do with how far stop limits were off from the open price of the stock.
I canceled my mobile contract in March and haven't looked back since. I've become more familiar with my surroundings, more focused conversations with my peers, and have overall experienced a better quality of life.

The first few weeks were pretty tough; life without GPS made it an absolutely requisite to study the route to your destination before departing, and I did have a constant urge to check a device to see if anyone "needed me" yet. This feeling became negligible after the first month, to vanishing entirely by about three months in.

Sometimes, it helps to gain perspective.
Anecdotal strawman? It's hardly anecdotal to say that the Lumia, being made of solid polycarbonate plastic, can withstand impacts more than an iPhone made of glass and rigid metal. There are multiple YouTube tests that show how much force a Lumia 920 can withstand without breaking. Your example is an anecdote, since there are many forms of proof that the iPhone is quite fragile as well as, for example, the Nexus 4. (anecdote: I shattered my Nexus 4 dropping it from a window sill onto carpet)

Likewise, how is it a strawman? The original comment was that the person doesn't care about thinner because it becomes thicker when you put a case on it. A phone that doesn't need a case need only be thinner than a comparable phone with a case on it to be thinner in practice. That's a direct response to the original comment, providing a case where the comment is true.

So you don't have a case and you protect your phone quite well. That is a pure anecdote. Just because you want it to be an anecdotal strawman doesn't mean it is one.
As a deuteranomalous trichromat (aka, what is popularly called "red-green colorblind"), yes, red and green are fine.

I've explained this in more detail before:

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1oomt1/how_are_r...
Since a triple monitor configuration is a de facto standard for pro users, pro configurations, etc., I would disagree with your characterization of "three 4k" as being "amazing".

I would characterize it as the absolute bare minimum to even be in this space.

I have 5 monitors attached to my 2009 pro (3x 2560x1600 main displays, a 1920x1200 offset on the wall, and a 1920x1080 "tv" cabled out to another room) and I've considered adding a sixth.

It's hard to say how many <4k displays you can add to the ports on the back in addition to the three primary 4k displays, but it had better be more than "zero".
No "history of Apple" page? He may not have played an active role for a long time, but it seems a sad property of corporations that they constantly whitewash the past.

Like: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/his...
Oh pish posh - maybe it is not completely true, but as far as I have seen it is.

The Apple versus Microsoft computer decision for regular people buying computers is more about the price of the computer than the operation system. If you ever go and work on the other side of the "computer store" you should see that most of the customers do come to buy a computer and not an operation system and often they do not even understand how powerful computer they need.

Of course there are those who have heard that Apple computers are good and buy Apple because of that, but those who do not have money for Apple computers do buy Microsoft computers because they do not have other choice at least here in Finland as we do not have any Linux or BSD computers on sale and probably never have had one on a regular home electronics store at least I have not seen.

It is also such a fiasco trying to sell Windows 8 computers when the customers who do not have money for Apple computers do not want Windows 8 because of the bad rumors which have gone really far and even beyond. They only decide to buy these Windows 8 computers because we do not have any Windows 7 computers on sale anymore and they are not ready to buy another operation system because they know someone on their family will pirate Windows 7. Those who do not know how to replace Windows 8 are stuck with it.

So where does a regular customer have the option to decide the operation system for the hardware they want in the store? There is only Microsoft until customer has enough cash to pay for Apple.

Oh boy I forgot about Chrome OS. It's cheap and people buy it because of the cheap price, but the return amount has been pretty damn high, because Chrome OS just can not do what those little more advanced computer users want like native gaming. Even the regular people want to install some game like diablo 2 on their system.

Of course in enterprise the decision is done, because these IT persons do know the options exists, but regular customers usually do not.

I am saying that the decision for customer to select different operation systems has been made for them for quite some time by the computer manufacturers.
"The 10th major release, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, is named after an awkwardly plural California surfing spot..."

Can't tell if he's joking or not.
Okay, that makes sense. I take it the screen sizes are also close enough in size that font size difference problems will be minimized? I've been wondering how Apple is going to respond to the need to sell better hardware while keeping their design targets minimal, which IRC is a major developer selling point for them in comparison to Android.
This plus that
Great idea. Issue filed: https://github.com/facebook/regenerator/issues/20
Thanks. My Mac came with Mountain lion pre-installed; where can I find install media to install ML into parallels?
A somewhat more informative specs page is up now and it mentions 12-core configurations, http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/
Out of curiosity, why aren't you naming the no-support supplier? Are there any rules forbidding you to do so?
64TB of memory? Yes please.
Who wants to talk about china?
Over the last few days the volume of transactions on btcchina has doubled. Gov run chinese media outlets have been surprisingly positive about btc. What is going on? One of the potential uses of btc is capital flight, and that is something that china has been incredibly strict about with their capital controls. Why aren't they clamping down?

edit: some commentary from someone in china familiar with the baidu subsidiary announcement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=315380.0
pip continues to improve and they are providing it outside the stdlib.
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>The smallest MacBook is the Air, but the biggest iPad is the Air? That makes sense.

The biggest iPad is smaller than the smallest Macbook.
Thanks. I'll pick one up, see what's what. (I don't have TV.)
The Iris Pro 5200 has 128MB DRAM ("Crystalwell") embedded in the CPU/GPU package. This one is in the 15 inch model. The Non-"Pro" Iris 5100 in the 13 inch Macbook is the same GPU, same clock speed, but without the embedded DRAM.

Depending on the task, the 5200 seems to be up to twice as fast. Also, the DRAM is actually a huge Level 4 cache for the CPU, which means that it should speed up other things than graphics as well.

Benchmarks:

* http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Graphics-5100.91977....

* http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Iris-Pro-Graphics-5200.90...
What is with this bizarre argument that paid legal representation doesn't legally represent their client? By definition, unless the USB Forum directs the VTM Group to retract the C&D, it represents the Forum's position.
The weight does not exist in a vacuum. It has to be evaluated in light of not just the other specs, but also the user experience.

Think about this: if the Honda Civic was upgraded to be able to do everything my SUV can, including towing, off-roading, cargo capacity, and overall comfort, but its size AND price stayed the same, would that not be considered revolutionary?
Rumor is that they have supply-chain problems with the TouchID sensor.
Kudos to Siracusa for making such an extensively documented review.
Also 2mm thinner warrants the "Air" title? I seriously think Apple are parodying themselves...

Have you considered that the term "Air" may be a name change that sets up space in the product line-up for a future higher-tier tablet – just like they have done in laptop line – rather than being mere braggadocio?
Can you cite any sources for this?
I have a little bit of experience doing this - I built my former startup in a dusty little corner of Nicaragua and then we opened an office in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I'm in the mvp-building process of starting a new company here in Costa Rica.

The biggest benefit of starting in Latin America is the cost of living ... I worked for 2 years without a salary because rent was like $200/month for a house. Downside is that makes building an unsustainable business easier as well heh.

Disadvantages can include poor infrastructure, in Nicaragua I used to get elec/water/internet outages each week for hours at a time. It's also a very hot part of the world although I'm Australian so that doesn't phase me much.

Language and culture can be barriers in subtle ways, it's hard to surround yourself with like-minded people outside of the internet and this will be especially true the further you get from Guatamala City. The distance from your market may or may not be a problem as thesingularity mentioned, I don't think it matters that much for most of the time plus you can fly up to SF or anywhere else pretty cheap.

You will have trouble hiring sales/marketing/bizdev guys with a global worldview but that may not be a problem for today.
Yeah I had hard time with XOR as well.
The marketing goal is differentiation from people's mental conception of the base product.

They named the one iPad Mini, because they want people to think "smaller than the iPad".

They named the other iPad Air because they want people to think "lighter than the iPad".

Which suggests two interesting points:
1. the public at large has a mental concept of how much "the iPad" weighs.
2. enough people think it's 'too heavy', to justify a rebranding to make them reconsider. A simple marketing story of "the new one is thinner / lighter" wasn't considered sufficient.
> Any market based solution website has to very agile and responsive

This is provably false by visiting any number of old, large company websites, esp in healthcare or banking. In addition the government isn't in this kind of business, it outsources almost everything to "free market" companies, who extract as much margin as they and their lobbyists can get away with.

Complexity has much more to do with size of and number of evolved entities than whether they are profit motivated or not.
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> The smallest MacBook is the Air, but the biggest iPad is the Air?

When you frame it like that, it might sound confusing. However, the word "Mini" implies size. The word "Air" implies weight (or bulk). Both MacBook Pro and MacBook Air come in 13" sizes. However, if they introduced a MacBook Mini, I don't think you'd expect that to be 13" as well. Ergo hoc procter & gamble postdoc: Mini == size, Air == weight.
The feedback request, which headlines: "How was your visit?" and asks "please leave a review for your provider" is in a branded environment from a service that schedules every interaction from your doctor. It's pretty clear patients thought this was the Physician asking for a private review /w comments.

Lots of doctors these days use at-home surveys, medical assessment forms, and other "internet" data entry vehicles -- that it's done over the internet is exactly what makes the service valuable.
Someone was talking about an actual medical problem to someone thought to be employed by the medical doctor who had treated it. I don't share your amazement.
Honestly, tiny company, couple years ago, don't remember now, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a couple dudes who look at Fed announcements and say "hey, I can buy that off the shelf and ship it to the feds for a profit".
It "fixes" the problem by making the swaps a lot faster, and silent - so you don't notice them!
Not really. The campaign is centered on a single objective, that of victory. the government tool has to be forward-compatible for decades to come, not to mention that it is subject to Congressional supervision and so on. If it was run like an agile development project then there'd be loud screams about the lack of accountability, process, etc. This is a 'big iron' project if ever I saw one.