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Only the high-end Macbook Pro Retina 15 got discrete graphic card!!! Is Iris onboard graphic card that good?
I think the bigger hit to Microsoft, or just as big, is the free and much improved iWorks. Now there are 2 office suites from 2 big companies being offered for free (Docs and iWorks), which are becoming increasingly more popular not just with consumers, but a lot of enterprise customers, too.

Microsoft should be terrified. Both of their cash cows are getting rapidly commoditized.
Twitter And The Real Economy Of Jobs
No. There is no night life either.
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"Insurance"
Ask HN:  A Startup in a Developing Country
I've wondered for some time whether it would be possible to do a startup in a developing country. I mean, obviously it's possible, but how would it affect its chances of success?

The country I'm thinking about is Guatemala. I've spent time there over the past two summers, and I love the country. I speak Spanish well enough to live there, and I have friends there, so I don't think I'd have too many issues on that front. Incidentally, the plan would be to move back to the USA after getting the startup off the ground.

I can see advantages in that the cost of living is low, giving me a slower burn rate, and I don't think there would be very many distractions, so I could focus completely on the startup in a low stress environment. The reason why I'm even thinking about this is that I love Guatemala and it would be a lot of fun to live there for a while. Since I want to do a startup as well, I'm wondering whether I can combine the two goals.

Disadvantages would be that there's not many potential investors or potential employees. Obviously, the startup would have to be runnable almost exclusively over the Internet, but almost any kind of startup I would do would be like that anyway.

My question is, can you all think of any other advantages/disadvantages to doing a startup in a developing country? Do any of you have any experience doing this? Any general advice?
> the old days (> 100 Euro if I remember correctly)

Yes, 129 for single-user and 169 for family (5-user).

And these are not so old days, Leopard was 129 and that was in 2007. Snow Leopard and Lion were 30, and ML was 20 (in USD, IIRC $129 translated to 129€ but ML is "only" 18€)
They needed to change the name, and have been trying to get away from the numbering scheme. Remember how they tried to call the iPad 3 the "New iPad" but it failed to catch on?
So what's the future of the MacBook Air at this point?

Does the Retina MacBook Pro just keep getting thinner until the Air is obsolete? Is there some fundamental technical reason they can't keep iterating the Air thinner and put a Retina display on it? Or a business reason why that's not a priority?
if your linux install is autoruning every bash script you have a very serious problem
No, they are not. SMBs have stable business model. Startups are searching for a business model. This is startups 101. Startup can become a smb in the future. SMB may decide to pivot and create a startup that is developing a complementary product.
My, how entitled we are! Your priorities may differ from the tens of millions who have bought these, the most popular tablets in the world. Apple is making safe, welcome changes to their products, which is something you can do in times of plenty. Personally, I will be happy to have an iPad that lasts longer, doesn't take ages to turn a page in a high-rez PDF, and is half a pound lighter.

What happened to doing something revolutionary? Lord! Do it yourself! Who says you can't write a book? And why do you have to do it on an iPad? Why not a Surface or whatnot, if that's your priority? Why not a MacBook Air or ultrabook? Your complaints infuriate me!
That doesn't solve the noise problem though. Internal drives are significantly quieter than external enclosures.
Does anyone else find it ironic that Obama's campaign was a picture of web execution but in his administration it's the opposite?
> Apple still makes money selling the computers that are running free OS X Mavericks.

Well you can install Mavericks on machines from 2007, that's money from quite a long time ago.
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I solved that by having a NAS at home with multiple disks in it. A lot cheaper. I just copy whatever I want on my laptop when I'm away from home.
For the MIT alums out there, I remember a 6.170 exam that had the question: "When is it appropriate to use the waterfall model of development?"

The answer was any time you are developing software for the government! The professor specifically mentioned it in lecture once, so that alone was enough for full credit on the question (other reasonable answers were fine too).

Later I TA'ed the class twice and made sure to eliminate these pure lecture-attendance-check questions.
> I really hope HN doesn't end up turning into an Apple fanatic site

You obviously haven't been around HN very long. Major apple announcements get significant coverage on HN. Always have, always will.

> 2mm thinner

Did you miss the ~30% weight reduction?
The newer processors have more fine-grained "Turbo Boost" so if you're using single-threaded or two-threaded programs, they can clock up to 3GHz+. I looked on Apple's site, but didn't find which processor they're using. But from Intel's site, the only 2Ghz quad core seems to be this one:

http://ark.intel.com/products/76087/

So you could hit 3.2GHz single-threaded.
It sounds about right to me. For example, I have a Samsung phone that predates the EU agreement by a couple of years and even though it charges off 5V at USB current levels and uses USB for data syncing, the charging/data connector is some proprietary Samsung one and it can't charge from a USB port with the official cable. There's a couple of Samsung connectors, Sony Ericsson had one, Nokia favoured barrel jacks with various oddball voltage and current requirements, and Motorola Razr phones used the mini USB port for charging in a way that was incompatible with everything else.
What about virtualization? Previously, one would only be allowed virtualize OS X if they purchased a copy (you can't virtualize the copy that came with the computer). Since it sounds like that's no longer an option, do I get virtualization for free now?
Who would have thought that investors would ever lose confidence in the Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange?
I really really despise what distro maintainers do with packages. Pinning some stuff way in the past, esp deps used by lots of projects, this then forces consumers of those deps to get patches against their code to work causing a schizm in the public version and the distro version of the library. A huge pointless wasted mess.

I almost always use pip and my own installed code (kinda homebrew like) to put dependencies onto a box. It takes more work but I can skip the bullshit.
I find that refurbished iPad3s are the better deal over iPad2. I think the iPad2 really needs to be at 299
T-Mobile is now an option for LTE iPads With Free Data up to 200MB/month
I'd say it's because unlike your iPhone you don't take it out of the house as much.
True. Nonetheless, I find myself a bit disappointed. At this point, the only thing iPad has is a first mover's advantage aka the App Store. There are very compelling alternatives available in both 7 inch and 10 inch range with interesting experimentation - Surface Blades for example. Nexus 7, Lumia 2520, Surface can match the build quality.
I don't think it's the fault of the VM. There have been other languages that worked with intermediate code, and they weren't inefficient. It's just that fixing old stuff after you get millions of users leaves you with a very strange language, even a stranger one than if you add completely new stuff along the way. The latter is inevitable, but the former ought to be avoided. The Java people probably didn't realize in the beginning what they were building. (Well, of course, who would have, in their place?)
> And I don't understand why anyone would consider the iPad 2.

My guess is corporate and government/education use. They want to extend their existing fleets, with the same hardware as it is vetted and known and supported (by their IT departments, etc). Having a single SKU is likely seen as a big benefit to them.
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I could see that happening. The Mac Mini is a beloved machine, albeit not a very exciting one.
Ask HN: Advice about equity split
Here's my situation:

I recently joined a startup a few months back that was founded roughly two years ago. However, in that time period, they never released a product nor gained customers.

Since I've joined, a product has been released (100% my IP); we've gained a few customers; I've managed to narrow the scope of the business while honing in on our core value proposition.

Currently, the startup only has two people working on it - myself and the original founder. He had a couple other co-founders work on it over the years, but due to various uncontrollable factors, they are no longer working on the product.

When I signed on, I agreed to a status as co-founder and 25% equity, which I thought was fine. Now I know any percent of essentially $0 valuation is still 0, but I can't help feel I've really brought life into this startup and my contribution is more significant than 25%. The orginal co-founder, I recently found out, has around 60% equity, while the rest belongs to the other original founders (vesting, I guess).

I have 0 complaints about the original founder. While not technical, he works hard, is passionate, and seems to be doing the right things.

I haven't signed any document whatsoever, so my split is not set in stone or anything. Should I just throw this notion that I "deserve" a higher stake from my mind?

What are your thoughts?
Offline means nothing in a world where NSA slides reference jumping airgaps with hardware backdoors.
Being wrong rarely stops people from predicting things
I don't think so. The Air was only updated a few months ago. More likely that the battery technology just hasn't got there yet- the Air doesn't have the space for a battery large enough to power a Retina display.
The K represents a specific series of the same cpu but with an unlocked cpu multiplier for over clocking purposes in the desktop environment.
I think you may be thinking of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act, which is what Apple cited for charging for some upgrades in the past (that and GAAP)[1]. If I remember correctly, things have changed on that level now, though I don't know if it's through legislation or through a reform of accounting practices

[1]http://appleinsider.com/article/?id=2419
I'm seeing 98 feet. You could have them in a locked closet or cabinet conceivably. Expensive though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_%28interface%29

Note: I haven't read the entire wiki or triangulated it so this is a quick take.
Why is no-one disrupting BART?
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You are worried that this is becoming an Apple fanatic site because we are discussing new Apple products the same day they were announced?
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It's that time again. I'm glad they do paid eBook versions now as I'm not an ars subscriber, but they definitely deserve some money for putting the OS X review together every release. I love reading Siracusa's minor gripes and grumbles, and when he feels something deserves genuine praise.
Has anyone experienced a successful co working space in a more rural location? I'm wondering what kind of local population is required to support them.
Or you can have a z820 which has much more space, cheaper, and has a much better warranty and support(next day engineer on site, for free.)

want two GPUs? sure. want 96 gigs or ram? go for it. want three fusion io cards? you betya.
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I'm curious why the recruiting profession still exists when it's bad for the employer, bad for the employee, and the recruiter isn't adding any value that the two of them couldn't contribute? Why do people still pay for these guys?
It's about the same size as their G4 Cube really. It had cables coming out of it's bottom and it's back, and that never detracted from an incredibly amazing piece of hardware. The internals are fairly similar too, oddly enough.
As the owner of a recording studio, you know that you'll be paying at least $3k, if not much more, for software to actually go on this thing. Most AV professionals I know spend much more on software than hardware.
From Apple's tech specs, the only differences I can see between the Retina Mini and the Air is the weight and size of the screen (the resolution is the same). So the extra $100 is for bigger heavier pixels?
Ask HN: How do you create your TOS and Privacy Policies?
I want to know whether I should create a Terms of Service and Privacy Policy page for my website. Searching on google brings out quite a few free online TOS and policy creators. However, I do not have the know-how to figure out how good they are.

How important is it to have those pages? Do I need them even if I am just validating an idea? or at an MVP launch?

Is picking up a free template online a good idea? Do I need to see a Lawyer?

Do you have a startup(s) whose TOS and Privacy Policy you refer to?

Any other things I need to keep in mind?

Thank you for your time and help. I love this community.
I live in downtown Boston which seems to have no convenient shopping like DC or Florida. Very overpriced CVS is where I must buy stuff.

When I buy things like you describe, I price check at walmart.com. typically amazon is less after shipping.
nah, it depends :D
Sometimes, it needs to inspire the creators as well. And some build it and some just want a beautiful one to get job done. And to be successful for Apple or not, it's based on their research about the market.
Let’s get serious about ES6 generator functions
Top 3 exchanges over the last 30 days: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/list?currency=ALL&span=30d

39% mtgox
23% bitstamp
17% btcchina

And over the last 24h: http://bitcoinity.org/markets/list?currency=ALL&span=24h

33% btcchina
25% bitstamp
23% mtgox

In other words, Bitcoin's popularity is massively increasing in China, as we speak, and this is what is causing a surge of the exchange rate. Other observers have noted this as well:

http://bitcoinmagazine.com/7615/bitcoin-breaks-1000-cny-rall...
The most technical reason for not offering an upgrade to all 10.5 users is: PowerPC-Architecture! 10.6 was the first Intel-Only OS X, and 10.5 the last one for PowerPCs.
IS it just me or is anyone else disappointed that they didn't port over the flat design elements of iOS7 into the OSX Mavericks UI?

I thought that would have looked awesome on my iMac!
The Mac Pro would be awesome...if it were the Thunderbolt dock to a meat and potatoes box I could store out of the way and expand whenever I saw fit.

If you want to innovate, give me a way to separate the things I need to use my computer FROM my computer.
I took this journey from crappy commute and job to working for a boss 5000 miles away. http://www.mikadosoftware.com has a few notes, and it was partly luck and quite a lot of determination - I was out for two nearly three months and two years on the cost of that break is still hurting.

But it made a vast difference to my life - I went from a miserable commute eating three or four hours a day in a car, doing "management" work at a large company that did not get it to working in my own office twenty minutes walk from home hacking in open source code for Rice University in Texas.

It's not some over night, all is perfect now story, I have not treated myself as a proper business, I have not done the right things - but the big stuff, that's in place and I hope to stay the right side of the tax collector and produce not awful code for paying clients - it's a good road I am on. Join me. seriously, just start putting the word out and be prepared for some pain to start with.

jump :-)
And could it be dropped down some stairs/from a great height and still work? (My MBPr has a nice dent in it and a 15" MBP of mine fell down an entire flight of stairs, still worked great :-))
I've seen plenty of cases where someone said they could build an equivalent PC for less, and then ended up not being able to, because they were thinking of cheaper and worse components than Apple used.

I don't know which way it goes with the Mac Pro. But it's certainly not obvious to me that there's any sort of substantial markup on Apple's part here. The CPU alone is going to cost something like 1/3 to 1/2 of the total purchase price. I don't even know what the GPUs cost (can't find any mention of the model Apple lists outside of Mac Pro discussion) but I bet they're not cheap either.

Apple stuff is expensive generally because it's high-end, not because there's a huge markup. When people say that e.g. the Mac Pro is too expensive, they generally mean that it has more than they need (e.g. they don't want a Xeon CPU), not that it's overpriced for what it actually has. That's why I preempted the use of non-equivalent parts, because it's really common to start out this sort of comparison with something like, "Well, I don't actually need a Xeon, so I tossed in an i7 instead, and I don't need a workstation GPU so I used a gaming GPU instead, and..." and they end up with something much cheaper but not at all the same.
What's the cause of the consistent disparity between exchanges? Is it just the slow speed of transactions?
It's definitely a great incentive for users to update their hardware. If you could still use iOS3 on your iPhone 3GS, it would be reasonably fast and responsive but because the upgrade to iOS6 is free, you go for it only to discover that it is now unusable. Same logic goes now for Macs.
That looks very similar to this one: http://www.ecotao.com/holism/add/enron/Enron_whole.jpg

If you look at it up to about end-of-year 2000.
As a recent Mac convert, who plans to do Mac software development but hasn't started yet - is there a way to copy the existing mountain lion install on my Mac to a VM image so I can test on ML after I upgrade to Mavericks?
Campaigning and governing are too very different things. One is sexy and draws the attention of very talented people for a limited period of time. The other is boring, bureaucratic, (probably) extremely frustrating.
If they had introduced the 7" mini before the full-size model, I don't think the bigger one would have been very popular. Once you go to the mini, it's hard to go back to the larger model, it just feels way too big.
Strange that pyCharm does have a community edition (http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/index.html) but phpStorm doesn't (http://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/download/index.html)
For "average" users, mining has been prohibitively difficult for a while now. CPU mining has been worthless for years. GPU mining has also been mostly worthless, unless you picked (or happened to already have) one of the few cards that perform well.

So anyway, I think we're at a point where the mining difficulty has little impact on the price. Newcomers are going to buy coins, not mine them.
Totally agree with this. In the keynote they played one of their new ads like they normally do, with the usual monologue from Jony Ive and he said something like "It's difficult to make something smaller AND more powerful at the same time" Well... stop trying to make it smaller then. Would prefer bigger improvements in battery life or performance or some new feature over a 2mm gain of um... space...
Of all the options, the most obvious one seems amiss:

Build it properly the first time with progressive enhancement. Then it will work for all visitors where the JavaScript doesn't kick in for some reason, not just Googlebot and Bingbot.

You know, this: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2013/10/21/how-many-peop...
question of relevancy is driven by the market. If the markets (HN viewers) up vote it then it goes to the top if not something else goes up there.
As for the iPad Air, I wouldn't call it a minor update. I think it's the biggest update they had since they moved to retina a few years ago. I personally never liked the bulk or the weight of my retina iPad. So this is a first time, I have found a need to upgrade. To that extent, I do so much online reading before going to bed, that I began having problem on my left hand from holding for too long. I think the lighter and thiner iPad is a welcome relief.
Air still gets its place on the market. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57588850-37/why-the-macboo...
Due to this blog post, power consumption seems to be the most important factor why they don't put retina on Macbook Air.

I will double check the 13" new Macbook Pro to decide to get it or 13" lightweight Air :P
The fan in the Sonnettech is very noisy. I don't want that enclosure in my edit suites.
i believe they are saving it to be something that is (currently) exclusive to the iPhone 5s, as a differentiator.
Wait and see if iWorks makes it into corporate environments. I'm not sure it will. Google Docs has a better chance.
I think it just pays Apple more in customer satisfaction to have everyone on the same boat. Simple economics. They make the money on the hardware after all. Same thing for free iLife and iWork, customers pay for the complete experience in the price of the device.
Money from quite a long time ago is worth more than no money at all.
Obviously because Apple does not want you to use a stylus with it. Or perhaps, they don't want to be the ones to tell you that you could use a stylus with it if you wanted. They want to perpetuate the idea that it's self contained; a stylus would contradict that.
Are these custom d3.js controls that you built? Would be interested in hearing about the process in building this out.
Well I guess we won't know until they release part numbers on the CPU, and that part number is available form Newegg/Amazon. It's not clear to me if they're going Haswell or Ivy-Bridge. The I-B E5 Xeons on Newegg now are all 6+ cores and very expensive (into the thousands of $s). The closest I can find are Haswell quad core (the new Mac Pro is 4-core) and are much cheaper: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116...

> I would be interested in seeing the cost of a truly equivalent generic PC build. ("Truly" equivalent meaning no non-Xeon CPUs and other "almost as good" parts, something that's all too commonly done with Mac Pro comparisons.

I agree with that. We'll have to see.
Its not about biggest though, its "thinest"
The 'appliance laptop' market is too similar to the failed netbook market for Apple to approach or care about, I think. If Apple were to come out with an new or hybrid category I don't think it would resemble an 'appliance laptop'.

Afterall, the MacBook Air wasn't a competitor to the netbooks - it was a competitor to the ultrabooks being touted by Intel et al. The iPad was the sleeper competitor to the netbook and killed that market (with help from Windows and Intel desperate to not have the PC platform not go that far down market).

If Apple comes out with something to address the 'appliance laptop' market I expect it to be an official Apple design and manufactured keyboard for the iPad line* and not an entirely new product.

I've not seen it mentioned anywhere yet, but the "iPad Air" and "iPad Mini" monikers leave room for the simply "iPad" moniker to eventually refer to something entirely re-imagined or ultra-premium. At the least it leaves room for a larger "iPad".

* What is the state of the art in usability in the 3rd party iPad keyboard market these days?
Just reading through the (largely critical) comments in this thread, I don't think there's much of a chance of that happening.
Microsoft has a history of giving away free updates to the operating system when you buy their hardware: I never had to pay for any OS updates on my Xbox 360.
Everyone wants 911, no matter they have $60k or can afford $200k.

"Pro" is the same. Everyone wants the "Pro" thing. No matter if they will just browse Facebook or run serious business on it
That is the ultimate future, or rather ideal future, but yes: You get it.