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Apple Says Future Versions Of OS X Will Be Free, Notes $900M Increase In Costs
Apple used to kick Samsung's ass every quarter so I'm rather shocked to find the tables turned already.
Code golf requires its own skills which are not particularly well correlated with being an effective programmer.
This is exactly the problem, people think Microsoft shops have an allergy to open source? You ever stop to think that maybe people are just using the best tools they can for the job?
It's the way business is done everywhere. My perception is that in the US the 'bribes' aren't paid at the bureaucratic level but at the campaign 'contribution' level. That way the 'regulation' is hobbled before the legislation is passed. And if big business somehow gets hung up in a regulatory/legal issue, a la the banking industry or the oil industry, they pay their fines and it's back to business as usual.
Given that he's supposed to be a "videogame critic" (egads), that conflict of interest probably wouldn't serve him well with his audience.
Deploying a Ghost blog using Capistrano
I keep expecting to see one of them bring up the Falkland Islands. That's where these threads usually go on the Economist's site.
There is GitHub integration in JIRA. Not as much as with Stash, but it's ok.
You can up-vote the IFRAME thing here:
http://support.thedash.com/forums/226177-suggestions/suggest...
Ruby-FFI to be licensed under BSD
I'm sure it is. Google obscures their involvement with Ingress by funding Niantic Labs, a "Google start-up company" that just happens to have the same address as Google's San Francisco office.
>* remember a classic demo at one conference where they used a PSU.* //

Wifi from inside a grounded PSU casing inside a (possibly metal) PC casing doesn't sound like something that's going to work very well?
Umm... this has been in the top Google results for "api best practices" for months. I use it all the time.
I love this. How easy is it to turn this into a Windows / OSX / Linux screen saver?
I'm getting invalid certificate.
Considering that it's WebGL, pretty sure it's that age-old spectre: graphics drivers.
now if there were a printer that could print a 5000 sq feet lot for the house, with all the building permits approved, kickbacks/bribes/political donations paid and utilities connected...

The 3D printed houses will be a life-saver on Moon and Mars though.
Can someone give the tl;dr;?
Not going to lie, posts like these make me really want one for myself. I've toyed with using a tablet and keyboard combo and doing all my work as a networked thin-client but it is nowhere near the experience of working on a laptop.

Having a tablet form factor with the hardware to run everything locally and a physical keyboard is exactly what I am looking for. Sure there is the MacBook air which is an awesome device and has its advantages over the Surface 2, but to use it you need to be in a "deployed" state even if it is just on your lap. With a surface you can quickly check up on email or just relax and then deploy when necessary or convenient.

I think the only thing that still would bug me is the touchpad, I haven't used the new keyboard cover but I'm almost certain the touchpad experience is no where close to a MacBook, correct me if I'm wrong because I'd love to hear it. I feel carrying around a bluetooth/usb mouse with it everywhere is going to be required to get a comfortable production experience which would be a nuisance.
I think it would be incredibly cool just to see your doppelgangers. How many people look like you, and how similar they are. Similar to searching for your name, only to discover other people have the same name, and the curiosity of who they are. Imagine searching for people who have the same face?
Let's remember that everyone was anticipating the iPhone 5s for all but 10 days of the third quarter, which naturally slowed iPhone 5 sales. Then Apple almost instantly ran into supply constraints after its release. Because of these two factors, these results aren't that meaningful. 4th quarter results will give a far more meaningful picture of iOS's place in the current market.
Worked fine on Windows Vista, on a Lenovo T61, while watching VOD in a different tab.
If I could upvote this a million times, I would. I don't understand why they think people would rather have an iPad with USB ports than a laptop shaped like a tablet.
Totally disagree. Carnegie Institutions, Wellcome Trust, etc. are all 'private sector' and dispense millions of dollars of grants for fundamental research.

You probably mean, 'for-profit private sector'. But then, you disregard the several Nobel prizes that Bell Labs received, the intangible impact of IBM's Deep Blue and other programs on computing, etc. If solving a basic-science problem can result in several million dollars of revenue, you can be sure that a company will throw money and man-power at it. There are several examples even among the non-Bell Labs, non-IBM, non-Xerox companies: Google's search algorithms, pharma companies' Lipitor, Viagra, etc., Intel and AMD's industry-defining minuaturizations, 3M's optical films, etc. etc.
Santa Claus VS Justin Bieber - The santa is freaking BADASS 
This is an animation!
The context, without further comment, allows the reader to be informed of the perspectives and possible biases of the author. I ask "How that is not relevant?"
The Surface Pro 2 hits two of the biggest weak points of the original design: battery life and heat/noise. The battery life is underwhelming relative to say the MBA 11" (which has a smaller battery), but the Surface Pro 2 takes that from unusably bad to just bad.

That said, I don't think it's "good enough." It's not a cheap machine: 8GB/256GB model reviewed by Gabe retails for $1,299. It's got a small screen and a keyboard/touchpad combo that, on an Ultrabook, would be considered absolute trash. I think you have to really love that Wacom pen to justify the Surface Pro 2, and that makes it a pretty niche product. Of course, "niche" can be turned into "market-creating" but with continued mis-steps like underwhelming battery life, it's not clear Microsoft can make the "pen tablet PC" market happen.
Somewhere along the way, a cpu became the cheapest way to build the timer.

If I had to build a reliable variable timer these days, I'd choose a PIC and a few lines of code instead of a 555 and fiddling with resistor and capacitor values.
> Technical analysis has been repeatedly proven to not be a valid investment strategy over long periods of time. Even still, your statement is true since technical analysis requires no effort...

Technical analysis is not an investment "strategy." It is a technique that many market participants use to varying degrees. You're free to dismiss it, as many critics do. Regardless of whether you use fundamental analysis or technical analysis, profitable investing/trading requires a lot of other things (money management, discipline, etc.).

I will say this in response to your "hero" comment: I personally don't know a technical analyst who was long US equities in late 2007 as long-term trendlines were breaking. And you can probably do the math on what short positions produced in 2008. On the other hand, for example, there are very smart folks sitting underwater on AAPL stock they bought in the $600 to $700 range who are arguing that the company is undervalued according to fundamentals. Maybe they're right, but they're not making money and they're currently paying a very high opportunity cost.

In short, in my experience, technical analysis in its most basic form keeps investors/traders on the right side of the trend, and enables them to more easily identify when the trend has changed. That right there is more than half the battle.

> If you don't understand fundamental analysis, why would you comment so forcefully about fundamental analysis?

There's a difference between not understanding something and not relying on it. I never said that I didn't understand fundamental analysis. I argued that comparing the price-to-sales ratio at IPO of a small number of companies today to the price-to-sales ratio at IPO of a larger number of companies in 1999 is not a valid methodology for proving or disproving the existence of a bubble.

> ...he has the most successful incubator in the history of tech investing. Maybe it is worth considering what he says before assuming a ratio you haven't spent much time thinking about is not that important.

I respect Paul Graham and what he has done with YCombinator. And I've pointed out in the past that YCombinator is far more insulated from the "bubble" than others because it invests very small amounts of money in lots of companies at their formation. As such, YCombinator is nowhere near as exposed to valuation inflation as other investors.

None of this means that everything PG says should be accepted without question. Appeal to authority arguments might sound convincing, but they're probably not going to make you money. If your own due diligence suggests that you should invest/trade primarily off of price-to-sales, I wish you the best.
This reminded me a of a TED talk I saw recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_pqhMO3ZSY

It's only 15mins long but you can skip to 2:35 for one of the face experiments and to 8:00 for an experiment they're running now. That latter experiment is quite creepy but I'd love to know the results.
Scientifically minded parents should make decisions based on science. But telling a child "hitting is wrong" is easy for you to understand and apply (since you're bigger), but to suggest that common social skills are not complex because they are common is a bit naive.

Of course, since I'm not a parent, I wouldn't know anything about it, you have a kid so you are the authority here. I don't know why we have scientists at all, we should just hire parents who've managed to reproduce and ask them what their desires are and how certain behaviors make them feel.
I DID read the article first, and then saw that other participants here had already identified the handwaving. So there is no hypocrisy here on my part.
This video is so much better at conveying what the Surface offers. I really did facepalm back when the first ad came out and was not surprised at all by the low sales.
I don't think FizzBuzz leads into interesting interview questions. That would be too dependent on the hope that the candidate does implement an overkill solution for fizzbuzz. Much more interesting questions can be derived from the problems the company is actually working on.

FizzBuzz is a simple "can you code at all" filter. If you write the obvious solution, you move on to the actual interview. If you write an elegant and amusing solution, you move on to the actual interview.

Surprisingly most applicants for programming positions cannot write any code that uses a for loop or an if statement at all, and fizzbuzz is a 3-minute test to prevent everyone from wasting their time.
We've reached out to some other wifi mapping projects like OpenWLANMap, OpenCellID, and WiGLE. None of them collected all the data we were looking for and their databases are published with different data licenses that may not be compatible.
In a similar vein, it'd be perfect if it was 13". That would cement the "for creators" aspect of an "iPad Pro". Instead, the 10" form factor means it's just slightly too small to get work done nicely while slightly too big (or too small, depending on your orientation) to read on comfortably.

To be clear: if the Sony Vaio Duo 13 was using Wacom as the original did, I'd have bought it instead of the Retina 13 (and in addition to the first Surface).
Google Replaces JavaScript with Google Dart?
Mostly though he's had to delay his retirement significantly due to huge medical expenses he and my mom have been unlucky enough to have to deal with over the years. They have spent more money on healthcare than most people could even imagine. I think their insurance, not counting out of pocket costs, just premiums (now that they both have bad pre-existing conditions) in some years have been over 20k a year.

Yes, some of these treatments are really expensive. You have to also realize that these treatments are really expensive to develop. Why should I expect incredibly smart and highly specialized people to give away their time for free? It takes huge amounts of resources to solve a problem like cancer.

I promise you I understand the problems caused by the cost of healthcare as much as or more than most people. That being said, the option to be poor and alive is still much better than being dead. You can always come back from being poor.
$180 doesn't sound right. One of the most expensive combos (say an Angus Tasty or something) is around $90ARS.
It is somewhat infeasible to use linear colorspace, because you need a lot more precision in order to do this without banding. You end up with substantially bigger texture maps, possibly twice as big; but actually it ends up being a lot more than twice as big, more like 8x or 12x, because the compressed-texture formats that graphics chips are able to decompress onboard do not support this extra precision. So if you were to try using something like S3TC compression to reduce this bloat, the result would be really ugly.

In general, games only use light-linear texture maps when they also need HDR in the source texture, which is not that often. Ideally it is "purest" to use HDR for all source textures, but nobody does this because of the big impact on data size. (And even for the few textures that are stored as HDR source, often the data will not be integer, but some other slightly-more-complex encoding.)

[Claimer: I have been making 3D games professionally for 17 years, so this information is accurate.]
You can't blame Microsoft's marketing here. The use case for Surface Pro 2 is pen computing. It's real, but it's also niche. To justify the expenditures on the product, Surface has to be more than niche, and that's why it's marketed the way it is.
The sock puppets love their astroturf upvotes.
You can increase the number of particles by changing this line:

totalLines = 60000,

My PC starts getting slower after 150K, but it works, though slowly, even with 1 million.
By 2020, Millennials Will Be The 1st to Use Soc Network Since Birth
This is not apples to apples. I actually just went to the site and got a quote. The site works well and I don't want to diminish what they built, but I ended up getting quotes from like 3 different insurance companies. Compare that with dozens (if not hundreds) operating on the federal level.
I define "power user" by what they do, not what they understand. I consider him a "power user" because his workflow goes beyond the standard browse the web, send email, write some Word documents. He uses a suite of programs specific to his profession and has a workflow situated around those programs and the OS.
hella cool:)
Data source? What are their growth rates?
Another good reason for irons, they are a bit heftier than a lot of other small goods, giving less variance from the weight of a small chip.
While the exploit itself was very impressive, I was also very impressed by how clearly he explained it, and how he was able to do it without stumbling, and generally was able to keep playing while explaining. Great communication skills.
No, thank you for replying. I'm not sure I deserve it -- a little while after I posted, I realized that my C# in many cases missed the point, and in a couple was flat out wrong (BitSet). That led me down a path of researching more about Scala ... and after some neat reading, my "gotta get back to real work" timer dinged, and I never got back here to clarify. So thank you for the insightful and detailed reply. My post's main value was in eliciting yours :).
Samsung's profits are up mainly because of chips which makes sense when they're manufacturing Apple's chips (and Apple's iPhone sales are up significantly). Samsung's growth in high-end phone sales is slowing down.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-24/samsung-profit-surg...
Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call
Both the Ingress website and the play store download page list "NianticLabs@Google" as the creator. Was it ever a secret? The ads were meant to be mysterious in general, but I can't remember any coverage that didn't mention the Google connection pretty prominently.

On a different note: I can't believe the game is still invite only. Do people still play it? I tried to get into it, but quickly grew tired of it because everyone around me was much better than me and I couldn't sustain the interest needed to learn the ins and outs of getting good at it.
But you are only able to participate on Hacker News from your distant perch, after enjoying a two-year road trip, because of the consumerism (what the author I guess means when he says "growthism") that provided the infrastructure you used on that trip and for your current Internet connection.
I have a lot of Apple devices, and I am sure there are others out there like me who are stick using an original iPad 2.
Those devices have not really needed an upgrade unless you wanted to move to the mini. My device is almost at its end, I have dropped it a bunch of times and the battery is struggling to last a 10 hour day at work (I dont use it a lot during the day, only really in meetings and on the run).

There is probably a big fleet of iPad 2 users out there who are almost ready to upgrade when their device dies. I think Apple have done right by the consumer by making iOS 7 work on the iPad 2... they could have chased profits and limited iOS 7 to only the newer iPads...
Now you can also check if your app is sleeping on the dashboard :)

https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/6/20/app_sleeping_on_h...

Also, I used pingdom.com once to make sure that my "very low in traffic" app never sleeps, but any solution that performs a request in this interval would be valid
The fact that at least one HTTP numeric error code is well known among normal, non-technical people is amazing enough.
Inflation means that the value of 100 pesos in the future is less than the value of 100 pesos now. In countries under hyperinflation, supermarkets will raise their prices several times a day.

"During the Brazilian inflation of the earl 1990s, for instance, supermarket workers reportedly spent half of their time replacing old price stickers with new ones." -- Essentials of Economics
Agree. I really want to like this, but at about $1450 (with keyboard) for the 8GB/256 model (and 8 GB is minimum I consider for a laptop/ultabook)....I'm not sure I want the Wacom Digitizer that badly. I can still use my Wacom Intuos 3.

The screen looks great, though.

I'm kind of curious now how the Dell XPS 11 turns out. I'm looking for some alternative to MB Air 11", but with better screen and digitizer pen input/hybrid.
> indexing >300k files is tough (very easy to get to that count if you're keeping open source codebases on DB … Also throughout this dropbox repeatedly overwrites work files while I'm working on them (thankfully with backups.)

To their credit, it sounds like you should have been using source control all along.
Roku Tries To Poach Google Employees Directly Off Google's Bus
Interesting.

What this shows to me is that md5 needs to die. Perhaps it was a good in times past, but now it is too easy to crack with commodity computer hardware. The rig shown in the article costs <$2000 USD when priced out on newegg.com. Top-shelf gaming GPUs are only going to get faster.

I was surprised to read that the right to freedom of speech is not recognized in France. Anyone here from France willing to affirm or refute article's claim in that regard?
Hey Google, don't use Wikipedia data for Knowledge Graph
Guy who needs a stylus to draw things about video games loves tablet that has a stylus and can play video games.
There certainly are USB use cases which Dropbox flat-out doesn't account for.

At one point during the setup of my new gaming PC, I somehow hosed things to the point where I couldn't install Windows (motherboard BIOS update, maybe?). I was getting driver detection failures during the install process, my peripherals (keyboard + mouse) wouldn't work, no NIC functionality, my CD drive was unusable. I ran out to Walmart at 1AM to buy a 16GB USB drive/16GB SD card, tethered my phone (my only functional computer at the time) to my PC, downloaded the required ISO to my phone's new SD card, moved the ISO to a USB via a live instance of Ubuntu running off of another USB, and installed Windows via USB (and things magically worked from there).

Dropbox is fantastic, but USBs aren't dead.
Or distribute out the median_5() work to many cores at once since each call is independent of the others.
I was ready to dismiss this as "de-pseduonomizing" people, because in order for Gravatar to work (suitably well), they submitted their actual email address to the website host.

Intentionally "anonymous" individuals don't use real email addresses.

But the slides turned out to be pretty interesting when it gets to the email cracking part.
Modbook has been doing this for years. They put a Wacom digitizer on top of a display installed over the bottom half of a Macbook Pro to make a tablet: http://www.modbook.com
Pretty blatant plagiarism:

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/04/16/google-speeds-up-its...
Oh, Definitely! It couldn't be the layers of parsers, spaghetti Javascript libraries, web protocols, the DOM, WebGL itself which is a part of Javascript, or a million other crufty web things, it has to be the microsecond latency introduced by hardware-level API abstraction...
You might like this video [1]. I used to scoff at the idea of 'tweeting toasters' etc but watching this gave me a different perspective on why things like this are going to be big.

[1] http://vimeo.com/61862454
A guy who doesn't know much about computers and who draws cartoons likes that he can run his old Windows cartoon software on a touch screen laptop PC without a keyboard.

It is basically an "I like Surface Pro because it isn't an innovative product" review where the reviewer could have had the same experience with a convertible ultrabook or previous generations of Window tablet computers.
> So if everyone is given the genes to be massively intelligent, is that a good thing?
> I'd say so, yes.

My thoughts on this are overshadowed by Brave New World. I realise how enormously snobbish and arrogant this sounds, but there are some jobs where having an enormous intellect would definitely be a burden. So either we have to automate those jobs (not necessarily possible), accept that some people are going to be very unhappy, or breed a specific group of people with lower intellects.

I guess this is a variation on the 'tragedy of the commons' - something that's wonderful for your child and my child would probably be a disaster if it were given to everybody's child.

> Just because someone is perfectly capable of living a happy and fulfilled life with a birth defect doesn't mean the lack thereof wouldn't be preferable.

I think sometimes disabilities are part of what make them amazing people. Would Beethoven have written such wonderful music if he had full hearing? From what I've read of Dame Evelyn Glennie, she seems to say that her deafness taught her to hear the music in a different way. So I'm worried that removing everything we perceive to be a defect results in a rather bland human race. It would be better to work on improving society so that being blind didn't cause many people to become depressed, for example. Adding lifts and ramps to buildings as well.

> Keep in mind, not choosing is itself a choice.

I'd like that the choice is not even possible. If the choice can be made confidently by a large proportion of the population, then it would inevitably go this way.

Yes you're right, a lot of this does depend on what we're considering a defect and at what stage. We have obviously done the whole Down's Syndrome scan, and we had no idea what we would have done if it had come back positive. If I could have done this pre-conception, then it would be a more comfortable decision. But if the question was about being short-sighted (which both my wife and I are), or whether we'd prefer a more athletic child, then the question gets much harder.