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Ask HN: Yesterday's Apple Event a bit... weird?
Just cause I don't have a blog and all of my FB friends are non-techs (go figure)

1: Did anyone think yesterday's presenters were a bit nervous? Cook stumbled on some words, almost all of his presenters did also. The Black Knight reference was such a dumb mistake to make it's almost comical - if your such a fan of the Dark Knight, you'd have gotten the name right. I'd have at least corrected myself...

2: Everything was incremental which I think was to be expected; what I didn't expect was non-retina display MacBook Pro's to basically receive 0 updates and the strong push towards Retina based MBP's - the 15 inch MBP Retina which is what I would purchase if I was in the market for a new laptop seams higher priced then usual. For sure, this is to account for the retina display, but... ?

3: I like that the iPad Mini is more or less identical to the iPad Air and I think the price points are good. Why no Gold version? Both iPads got the A7 and motion processors. I can understand no Touch ID knowing how Apple operates - new features like this are held back a year (for no apparent reason) but at least make the lines match. I could imagine the house wifes and the like buying gold iPad Minis to match their new gold iPhone 5s.

4: The whole thing seamed pretty unrehearsed and kinda dry. I am NOT attributing this to Steve Jobs not being present, unlike most will in the press. I think Tim Cook is doing a fine job (albeit, incremental) it just all seamed a bit... sloppy?

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At least they're honest about misogyny. Some people see no significant difference between renting machines and females, to carry out commands.
so what.

edit: seriously. that's the response this commands. no capitalization included.
Man, what the hell. This is despicable but also just dumb - someone already got in trouble for this exact same stuff last year and there was media coverage.

At least when lame-o's come up with new forms of misogyny it advances the conversation forward, this is just a rehash.
If you've already bought the machine and Windows OS then you should be able to install steam on it, buy their new controller and have a roughly similar experience with the big difference that the whole steam library will work today, without requiring streaming from another box.

SteamOS will be great for linux, but people seem to assume Valve are taking a very exclusive, traditional console approach, when they're trying something a bit different.

I also assume that basically any Steam game that comes native to Linuxt will also come to Mac OS X.
Maxwell brothers spring to mind. Panicking and using a single cut type shredder to shred documents after Captain Bob's demise. I gather assembled piece by piece over months by UK forensic science employees.

They should have just had a barbecue.
There's a helpful "Why Snap?" page that points this out, as well as that it supports animation.
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I need access to the old docs too, so I decided to host them here:

http://fontawesome.http410.com/3.2.1/
Awesome. This is like the "Pimps & Hoes" party back in college. But you know the reality of these parties, the golden rule of engineering applies here, 80/20 rule - meaning the gender ratio and probability of odds/goods are good.

Oh and before anyone gets their panties in a bunch, let's not get worked up about stupid names in tech events and work on real gender equality in concrete substantive programs.
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Do I really need a mobile "rapportive" (acquired by linkedin recently) in exchange for ALL my emails? NO :P
ValleyWag pretty much nailed it:

"Beer. Dance floor. Shot bar. Food truck. Girls." Nerds. Obliviousness. Poor judgment. Skewed cultural views. Social regression. Bros. MySQL. Crushing it. A party atmosphere combined with everything that makes the rest of the world hate you, Silicon Valley: this party is not smart."

http://valleywag.gawker.com/hackers-and-hookers-startup-part...
thank you ^_^
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That said, if you use [...] or Go, the heavy lifting has already been done for you.

Not really. Go used to have a nacl port, but that was years ago. It was abandoned when the nacl people decided to use a different method for isolating code.

Porting Go to use the new method would require writing another compiler, like {5,6,8,}{c,g}.
Doctors are getting better about it because of better awareness of the problem. My kids' pediatrician is similarly good about it.

Last year NY state started putting out "when does my child need antibiotics?" pamphlets that they have in the exam rooms.
BTW, technically speaking is really cool
I’m with the Band [Led Zeppelin] (and their Private Jet)
If you're like me and need access to the previous version's documentation, I'm hosting it at http://fontawesome.http410.com.
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"It's supported by LinkedIn and AFAIK they're not in the habit of shutting things down"

You mean besides job agents, Answers, Events, ...
Previous (killed) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6600829
Try the 'submit' link, instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601168
Damn. I'd give anything to go back to 1973.
"Time theft" is a term better reserved for systems that demand such a micro-accounting of your time per project without allowing for a good chunk to end up in an "admin/overhead category", especially if you're being paid hourly and billing a client. On-paper efficiency ends up looking great, but every employee is forced to choose between either shortchanging themselves or overbilling clients for quasi-focused time.
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How do you feel about Triclosan in toothpaste?

I dated a heatlh care professional for a while who was pretty adament that it was causing detrimental effects in the same manner as antibacterial soap.
Apart from actually giving them the power to slip-stream their content into your messages, how is this different (access-wise) to what people have granted to the email-management app Mailbox? Seems like in both cases, you're handing control of your inbox content over to an additional 3rd party unnecessarily.
Couldn't agree more, not just because of the possible security implications, but also because it can seriously back-fire against you, in terms of potentially damaging your reputation.

A closely related example would be of a web app I stumbled upon recently via an unexpected email I received in my LinkedIn inbox about a new educational platform that supposedly one of my contacts was recommending me to try. Curious and suspicious, I opened the link and clicked on 'connect with LinkedIn'. In small script, the app was requiring me to authorize it to send emails on my behalf, which is exactly the case of the original unsolicited message I had received: another unsuspecting user just glossed over the terms and connected their LinkedIn account to this app....resulting in all of their contacts being spammed with the message. The 'victim' was displeased to say the least when I warned them what their account was doing without their knowledge.

Had I not been careful about that and proceeded to authorize the app, I would've most likely been booted off at least a few people's contact lists for spamming them with such stuff irrelevant to their interests.
I'd be all for this if the proxy were running on the device instead of LinkedIn's servers.
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I was going to say... this already exists...
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Think of it like a value proposition. Is the (dubious IMO) convenience of having Linkedin profiles in your email worth the cost of Linkedin having the content of your email? Even if they pinky-swear to never read it, don't forget that this proxy email server would be, overnight, one of the most valuable corporate espionage targets in the world.

(If yes, you should probably ditch reading email and do something more productive with your time, like picking up cans.)
The unseen power of Temporary Disposable Email Creator Tool
If you are a marketer and blogger, then you know that what is Temporary Disposable Email Creator Tool? and if not, then you can use my favorite one 10minutemail.net to know it.

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One of my use is renew the demo versions of:-
NinjaPinner- A marketing tool of Pinterest.
TumbleNinja- A marketing tool og Tumblr.
Raven SEO tool- A whole package of SEO tool.

So now, this is your turn tell me your experience with this tool here and help other marketers...
This is cool. I'm a little concerned that what they've done expose some security holes in the iPhone mail client. And, all of this work will be for naught when Apples fixes those.

(Specifically, iframes in emails have been stripped from most modern email clients for years)
> It would have been an easier sell if you could do the IMAP proxying on the local device somehow.

This should be easy to run an background proxy under Android. Not sure if this is possible under iOS7 though.
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Ah, I hadn't even considered that - I just remember reading a few articles about their projects but it didn't occur to me that it might be complete vaporware.
Hopefully, it doesn't end up like TL;DR.

http://toolong-didntread.com/
This is a truly awesome hack. Good job!

The value for LinkedIn to vacuum up my email is immense! They'll know everyone I email and the content of the emails as well. They'll know where I shop and what I purchase. If I send a private email to a friend who has this installed, I've now unknowingly bcc'ed LinkedIn. Not only that, but they know this for the entire history of my email account! The person I stopped emailing 7 years ago... LinkedIn has access to that as well.

But in this case I don't think the value prop for the user is big enough to make me overcome this large of an ask.

I appreciate LinkedIn addressing this in their Privacy Pledge, but so long as they retain the right to change it at any time, I'm too uncomfortable to install this. But, I'm still in awe of the creative work-around. :)
I believe the point being made was not pedantic, but to express the difference between a blind watchmaker (as you say, evolution) and a sighted watchmaker (theoretically, the effort of humanity, science, ...). Of course, that assumes that humanity as a whole, or in part, can actually recognize the need and organize an effort compared to how quickly the blind watchmaker works. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I think I see what OP is getting at there.

In fact, a bacteriophage may or may not be the most promising vector, but a bacteriophage engineered to attack pneumonia or specific infections would be the work of a sighted watchmaker, not dissimilar from ideas of targeted radiation or chemotherapy that are moving forward in the area of cancer treatment. I recall an experiment (not that this is my area of expertise at all) in the recent past that was attempting to use magnetized medicine along with some sort of electrode insertion, I believe, to coerce medicine to specific areas of the body.
Hopefully it doesn't get acquired by Sencha as well. I'm done with all things Sencha.
They fear a weakening of the patent system. We fear a strengthening of it. Our goals and fears are at odds. Our interests are misaligned. In a perfect world this company would exist to invent and license new ideas. In our imperfect world they exist to invent licenses for new ideas.
Lazy travel pictures. Interesting concept? 
Have been working on this for a few months but want some feedback on the general concept. Thanks!

Pitch:
When you travel you want to relax and don't want to take pictures. At the end of the journey you want pics anyway. No problem! Just indicate your route and we will send you a photobook.

Link: http://travelpics.launchrock.com
For the record, Node's I/O performance is better now that it's based on libuv (after libuv removed its own libev dependency) than when it was based on libev. This doesn't necessarily mean that libuv is always faster than libev, but at least for Node's use case it was.
Germany: U.S. might have monitored Merkel's phone
The company is doing pretty well so I think that might be hard to pull off. But then again I'm no accountant so it would seem anything is possible. Pull enough tricks and perhaps it would look like there is nothing left for anyone. I will delay buying that solid gold yacht for the time being.
How Mavericks ruined Apple Mail for Gmail users
Alas, I was suffering from TLDR syndrome. I will definitely give Snap a try, along with seeing if it plays well with Raphael for graceful degradation for older browsers.
Can I debut my 'uber for sex' startup there? #whoresmakeitwork
Why we do time management
Coincidentally, I just got back from a re-employment seminar at my local unemployment office.

Personally, I think a tool like this is cool but I would never pay for it (not in it's current incarnation). The same way Linked In wants me to pay for premium services; I'm unemployed! No unnecessary spending. Every dollar counts towards a bill!

That being said, you could expend the feature set. Add a way to add comments to saved jobs, for example: "Sent follow up email on x date. Spoke to x person on date." etc...

Not sure I like it as a bookmarklet; you could spin it off into a small web app and allow people to track what their doing. Maybe have a printable version so they can take it with them to the unemployment office on their next visit.

just some thoughts.
Apple seemed to be a primary brand in promoting the "giant shelf" of a palm rest, combined with a sharp front edge.

I find this extremely uncomfortable, especially when working on a surface I can't adjust to optimum height. For example, at a conference table, many cafe tables, and the like, the laptop is "too high" and that front edge -- so far from the keyboard -- presses into my bent wrists. Ugh.
Sparse matrices or not? You could look into OpenCV's Mat and SparseMat here:
http://docs.opencv.org/modules/core/doc/basic_structures.htm...
Pivotal Opening Up Big Data Opportunities for Asia
When dealing with games you will most likely want great responsiveness and performance.
to trigger both of these you will want to go to the lowest possible level, this can give absolute control over what happens in your game- (mostly for the graphics and the logic engine - A.Is and such).
you will also probably want better control over the memory usage, which (mostly) can be just easier in low level which c / c++ offers.
Narrated title. Went to post to a social network and realized the real title is "Why being a thinker means pocketing your smartphone"
There will never be another auction site like eBay. They completely trounced any chance of anyone getting into that business. And as for eBay, I think it's been made clear that they are trying to move toward buy it now items to be more like Amazon. That means the auction market (save small niches) dies with the auction arm of eBay.
Dynamic roles is a fairly hard problem, which we hope to solve by building a different tool on top of Serf in the near future. If you want multiple roles that are static, it can be simulated by just providing a comma separated value as the role (since that is just an opaque string value to Serf)
I don't think this is good policy in this day and age.
Anyone can send email as anyone else anyway. That lack of security is inherent in the way email currently works. Not sure I see how giving IMAP access makes things worse since IMAP doesn't have a mechanism for sending messages.

I would also hope they're not storing passwords in plaintext. Obviously they need access to the plaintext password to auth with your mail server, but I would hope this is still stored encrypted.
Why does being a thinker take quiet time? The article never says, as far as I can tell.
>>there is no test that you can use in clinic that says "this patient just has a viral infection"

I believe there are some labs-on-chip that can detect multiple(even thousands) bacteria and/or viruses. I'm not sure if they are in commercial usage.
Great way of thinking and building the product in a very lean fashion !
My biggest issue would be : why would people pay to subscribe to a newsletter ? Do you have specific use cases ? (I guess that letter.ly closed for a reason?)
I'm sure that spending a week to build it and see if people would use it is one of the best ways to answer that question though. I'm just wondering what you, as a developer, think.
I really like this, it's so easy to navigate and at the same time have a view of the overall 'feels'.
The reason Linux hasn't seen widespread adoption isn't just that it doesn't have the marketing power of Microsoft behind it. It's flaky, it lacks support for a wide variety of hardware, it requires a level of understanding that the vast majority of the population just don't have time or willingness to gain, it lacks obvious usability features in the most recent versions of major distros.

The general population requires their computer to make their life easier, Linux just doesn't do that. I've been hacking around with Ubuntu now for the past month and I'm still not satisfied with it. I have a laundry list of things that are far from satisfactory that I don't yet have the capability of fixing myself... and I've been developing software for 20 years. If the learning curve is this steep for a long time developer, imagine how daunting it is to the general public. They don't get a computer because they want something to tinker with and figure out how it works for hundreds of hours a week, they want a computer to do something for them that will enrich or simplify their life in some fashion.

Perhaps if some of the more fundamental features were fixed instead of adding nice to have trinkets, you'd find more people will take it more seriously. I shouldn't have to go and hack around with complicated and potentially not-yet-existing files, referencing incomplete or inaccurate blog posts written by the last guy who tried what you're attempting and got so pissed off with it that he thought he'd save the next idiot the headache he'd just gone through - only to omit the most important piece of information that's not to be found anywhere else on the internet.

That is why Windows has a major market. Because unlike Linux, shit just works... for the most part.

They say that Linux is free as in "freedom", but honestly, how free are you when you have to spend all your time tied to the computer just to get shit working?

I'm trying to love Linux, I really am, I'm on my 4th distro in 2 months and so far I feel like the only thing I've achieved is getting Stockholm Syndrome.

If Steam can fix this, I say please, please bring it on. Torvalds, I think you've got the right idea, honest to God I do, and I'm trying to love your system but it seriously needs some love from developers and usability experts that understand people.
Good summary of human being's advantage in the war. But don't forget bacteria's key advantage: iteration speed.

Bacteria may be blind and and random in their micro-level behavior. But the speed at which they replicate is multiple orders of magnitude faster than the speed at which we can test and iterate new defenses.

It's a race of blindingly fast random iterations VS top-down snail-paced logical defense. If human's are to win, I think they will need to bump up the defensive iteration time an order of magnitude or so.
It was a route sales job. Not possible to automate. I had 60 customers to visit that day, at their place of work.
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Thanks so much for the feedback!
I like some of those featured ideas and do think there are some logical next steps for improving it, but still comes back to the $$$. I 100% agree that most job seekers (without a job) will never pay for it. But I wonder about things they might pay for (e.g. https://www.udemy.com/how-to-negotiate-salary-negotiating-a-...) which I could promote and make $ as an affiliate, as it could help you make more $ in the long run.

Thanks again - will keep you posted!
The "Don't Patronize!" lesson is new and interesting to me. Come to think of it, I remember being first introduced to programming with Logo and its "drawing turtle" back in elementary school. While fun, it didn't spur much exploring for me then because I didn't see its possibilities out of that sandbox.

Only when I encountered C, a "real language used by adults!" did I really get interested...
Did anybody else spend half a minute trying to interact with the "app", then give up and close the tab, thinking it was broken before coming back here to discover that it was just a full-page screenshot of a desktop app?

I'd never heard of Pixelmator, so I made the natural assumption from what came up on screen that it was some form of web-based photoshop thing.

But it's not. And there's nothing but a screenshot above the fold. So it just looks broken.

I wonder how many potential customers they're bouncing this way.
Buncha pathetic bros. I think they believe this pitch will actually entice female humanoids to attend.

If this mysogynist debacle comes to pass, I would love to see pictures. Bro-dudes are always funny.
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