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I have bought laptops, but not a whole desktop ever in my life. I've been through two desktops, mind you, that were both built from scratch[1].

I think this article gets it about right - I've started enforcing a 3 year cycle for both phone and laptops because they were costing me too much (in a mustachian sort of way) - and I've stuck to it with laptops (I made 3.5 years on a 2009 MBP) and will be doing so with the iPhone (due for replacement spring 2015.) If the nexus devices keep getting cheaper and awesomer, then I might jump to those a bit earlier (particularly if I can sell the 32GB 4S for an appreciable fraction of the new phone cost.)

Working with the 3.5 year old laptop got slightly painful (re-down-grading back to snow leopard from lion was essential, I even tried ubuntu briefly) but perfectly bearable for coding and web browsing. I'll see how slow the phone gets, but I'm quite relaxed about not having the latest and greatest iOS features (I've not seen anything compelling since iOS 5; I only did 6 because some new app requested it.)

[1] or rather, one was, and then I gradually replaced all the parts until I had a whole spare PC to sell on ebay, and one mobo bundle later and I'm still using it with no problems, playing games etc.
Because there isn't one problem with one solution? Case in point: I think most people would not find that the best solution for them is GnuCash and Spreadsheets.
> Maybe the OP doesnt play some of the most demanding games?

I play some pretty demanding games, but I was able to get a lot of performance per dollar building custom. I knew where it was OK to spend more/less and did a lot of research/shopping around.
This appears to be a waste of space and money...It's the same concept as other "fast chiller" devices.
I can't read the article without subscribing. Flagged.
This shaking is certainly going to make cokes to explode when open.
Relying on a Google API and going over the quota on launch day
My first career was in the food industry, as a chef (and later a pastry chef). I was fairly successful (relative to expectations within the industry), however there are some major issues with the industry.

First of all, food related businesses have high startup costs, high maintenance costs, low margins, and don't scale well. There's many incumbants, tastes are localized, sourcing produce can be a nightmare (if you want good produce), and every market is different. And because of the low margins, wages are low, the workforce is uneducated, and then you have to deal with things like high turnover and theft. Which is why most people in the food industry are sociopaths.

Anyhow, there is already fairly healthy, tasty fast food out there already, things like shawarma, falafel, some tacos, and most 'traditional' ethnic snacks.
While it is true that the stereotypes that article perpetuates are bad.... You know what makes me feel better? The very high salaries, unheard of job flexibility, and never ending job propects.
Reminds me of certain TV network from my country airing alarmist "news" circa 2005, about how people who spent more time in the internet also spent... less time watching TV! How dare they!
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So big company can infringe on small company's patents with tiny revenue because if it's cheaper than actually buying the license?
I would really like to see a comparison between this flat fee per "unit" (in this case users) model vs tiered pricing based on the number of these same "units", where the "unit" is one that will be predefined and remain mostly static.

So in this case, something like "$15 per user" vs "$39 for <= 3 users, $99 for <= 10 users, $249 for <= 30 users".

Can anybody share such a study?
I have a retina.

Still looks unreadable.
The argument the article attempts to make seems a touch knee-jerk to me and slightly absurd, as if to ignore the immense benefits the Internet has given us, so I really like where this thread of your doing (and what tokenizer started) has gone.

The thing is though, some of these are ridiculous. 9.6 fewer seconds at parties? 6 fewer seconds at cultural events/institutions? Well, I don't party for one (it's a waste of time, and I'm an introvert), and what is a "cultural event/institution?" There's few museums near here, the university theater has few interesting plays, and I likely wouldn't go to them anyway. Maybe I'm lacking an adequate amount of culture, but the only museums that really tickle me in my happy spot are air and space museums (with a few notable others touching on such subjects as archaeology or anthropology)...

As tokenizer pointed out at the top of this thread, less time shopping doesn't imply people aren't shopping. It could imply they're supplanting their shopping with online shopping, which is often more convenient. Depending on where you live, online stores might even have a better selection!

I can think of a few falsifications, borrowing from yourself, tokenizer, and several others. 1) Instead of partying or socializing, some people are more apt to replace that with playing games with friends online and using VoIP clients (TeamSpeak, Skype, etc). 2) Instead of spending "other" leisure time watching telelvision or the like, it's supplanted by browsing or gaming. 3) Can you even prove that spending Internet-related time isn't someone's idea of relaxing? Moreover, how do you quantify "relaxing?" Does the notion of what constitutes relaxation change from person to person?

Personally, I'd personally rather if someone were to waste an evening reading Wikipedia than watch television, so I'm not sure how one could quantify "36 fewer seconds on educational activities." This is doubly true for those who use the Internet as a means to further their own interests (the article almost implies they're mutually exclusive).

The other question is thus: Does it matter?
Ah, yes.

I was hoping this would be using something like laser cooling[1], which can be though of as the actual reverse process of microwave heating.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling
It's how i got rid of my cookie clicker addiction
>renters need to eat etc
Wouldn't they have to eat regardless of where they stay?
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What's China's First Famous Consumer Brand?
This has nothing to do with microwave technology at all. A sad face is warranted.
(disclaimer - I work for WePay which is another payment processor)

If you are collecting credit card numbers in your application, then you are still required to be PCI compliant (see TOS for the companies you've mentioned). The reasons are obvious: if your servers are hacked or you have a malicious (or just incompetent) employees then the credit card data will be at risk. Thus you will still need to do SDLC, firewalls, HTTPS, and a few other things.

If you don't want to deal with PCI at all then you might want to checkout the iFrame checkout from WePay. This way you are completely isolated from the credit card data and PCI while you still keep the user on your website.
You are right. Maybe we should see multiple sources. That's fair, from government to non-profit to university.
I can't watch videos where I work, so could someone briefly explain what this does? Is it anything to do with actual microwave radiation, or is it using accelerated conduction?

EDIT: if only YouTube is blocked... there's a video available here: http://www.v-tex-technology.co.uk/ It mentions nothing about "microwave", and is just a deceptive title on that food blog's part.
Privacy issues aside, have we really set the bar this low on what is or isn't technically "impossible"? Because if so, that's terribly sad and as an industry we should all be ashamed.
Chrome is Used More Than Firefox, IE, and Opera Combined
Great writeup. Consensus is important, but total dependence on agreement can water down solutions and lead to gridlock. Plus, settling on a solution (however modified) that one person has advocated from the start helps them own it. So long as mistakes aren't lorded over anyone, this is a great way to help people develop professionally; you learn best from your mistakes, and from the initiatives you spearhead.
I agree that this is not about Apple. In fact, it's an article about politics, but seen through the glasses of a person interested in tech.

People care about Apple products because they seem to be on the forefront of new things coming out. In many ways, they were the first to really make smartphones and tablets popular. So people want to know what they'll do next, because that'll likely be the direction that all related technology moves. Recently, it's been incremental updates. But eventually they'll announce something new: a TV, a streaming TV model, etc.

And as for it being mostly iterative changes: Personally, I don't view the new fingerprint scanner as simply iterative. Between iCloud Keychain and the fingerprint scanner, I think they are going to change the way we think of passwords. I think that's their play to make 2-factor auth mainstream. Sure, other devices have had fingerprint scanners (I had the Motorola Atrix 4g, which was an early Android inclusion of fingerprint scanner). But to make it really work, and integrate it somewhat into apps (so far it's just iTunes, but I imagine that'll change) is the real magic. I expect this to be a big change in the mobile industry in the coming years.
For me a basic tag based file system needs several things: A unique ID for files (a strong cryptographic hash of the contents is probably best), a name for each file, and a list of tags for each files. And of course, a number of logical volumes on which the files are "located". Where a directory structure is actually needed, files could have special names, like "/os/glad/file_42" (that's a name, not a path).

A variation on this theme would be to do away with explicit names altogether, and only use tags. The "name" of the file would just need to be reasonably unique. That one is probably best.

Now, when you search for a file, you just query for tags. Can also be done through the shell: it's just that those two commands would have the exact same effect:

cd /foo/bar
cd /bar/foo

As for the volume, you need them to transfer files between your USB key and your computer.

Oh, thinking of using cryptographic hashes to name files… When you modify the file, the ID changes as well… that's a
new file! By default, the old version should still be around. Imagine that: Git for the masses.
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phone: 00800 1 777 7777

e-mail: cs.deutschland@cac.mercedes-benz.com
Hacking the salsa industry?
Nothing is ever good enough for a development box when you use an IDE and work with larger and larger projects.

Faster CPUs, more memory, and faster storage are always welcome. I look forward to the day when Eclipse and other IDEs really start taking advantage of GPU stream processors for indexing and validation.
It's like all of the color combinations designed to tire out my visual system all on one page.
'do' is not a superset of 'try', unless every outcome was desired from the outset. e.g. I 'do' create software bugs, but I to neither 'try to' nor 'want to' create software bugs.
While I agree with your criticism it boils down to the fact that measuring the impact of lobbying is difficult. I haven't seen convincing evidence either way as to whether the ROI is high. I suspect it is, at least for sophisticated firms, but is capacity constrained: You can't spend money if there isn't an issue to lobby and any given issue is subject to diminishing returns.

That would be consistent with high-ROI but limited revenue in lobbying.
Is this new? I can remember wine coolers in British supermarkets in the early 90s where you placed a wine bottle into a receptacle, pressed a button and extracted a very cold bottle about 90 seconds later. I'm guessing they just circulated cold water round the bottle.
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…in 20 years, when the patent expires.
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Yeah, I pretty much agree with that premise. In my experience, faster CPUs and RAM make little difference compared to the gains from an SSD. Hard drive disks are such a huge bottleneck compared to other upgrades that the average user gets the biggest gains in responsiveness from upgrading to an SSD. And for a lot of PCs that doesn't even necessitate buying a new one.

For laptops it's a different story. The big push seems to be in reduction of power consumption for longer battery life, which sounds pretty sensible to me. I guess if battery life is a big concern for a PC user, then it makes sense to go to a smaller process. That does seem like a pretty small reason to upgrade, though.

Another good indicator that the PC "game" has changed is that the two major commercial PC OS's just released their latest versions (Mavericks & 8.1) for free.
I think a counter-argument along with the down-votes would be appropriate.
You want a guarantee that a $10 purchase is improved upon in perpetuity?
You can still call him. "Best yet" is not the same as "best possible."
I have an old Dell D830 with a 1.8 Ghz Core2. I put an SSD in there and it made it feel like a whole new machine. My parents were complaining out their slow computers. I had them buy SSDs.
I agree that the critical problem with Bitcoin is the inability to inflate at a controlled rate. It inevitably follows from the idea of having a decentralized currency - something has to control currency creation rates, and if you aren't going to trust an organization of people, then math is the only alternative, which is kinda both empowering and limiting. Because of that alone, if nothing else, I don't think we'll ever have a major economy in Bitcoin only.

That doesn't mean there's no use for it though. There may well be purposes and segments of the economy that find it very useful, and it may even be possible at some point for people in some niche markets/occupations to exist entirely in a Bitcoin economy. It'll just never be very big compared to any first-world national currency.
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Not sure how they are using it but from what i understand it can be used with gps to help locate you faster.
I guess this will change for a little while as updated consoles come out and games can improve their graphics as a result, and also when 4k monitors start coming out. But yeah, until those two things come into play, older computers still play games just fine.
If you are staying for a day or two, you most likely would go out and eat your meals (including breakfast). For longer stays, especially with kitchen access, you probably would buy cereal, milk, juice, and other items. If you are estimating the cost of food based on average or median restaurant, you aren't capturing the true dynamics (note: as they said in the report, the average stay is close to a week in length)
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From Concord to Virgin Galactic
It takes a lot of effort to get something like this out. Just think of all the things the author could've done with time invested in this. And to make it open source and donate it to the world is just crazy. Props to the author. The naysayers ought to suck it up unless they've poured their free time in an open source project like this.
The Truth Behind 'The Most Widely Misunderstood Story in America'
Lots of people have an irrational fear of money. But in reality, money itself is rarely a problem.
Are there any non-business journalists left? last time I checked CNN had no war correspondents anymore and most news sites have turned into gossip rags not that different from tabloids a decade ago.

I think the core problem is that tech is not so important for most people to care about the wrongdoings of the industry and because no pageviews=no money then nobody runs the story.
Looks about the same as spinning by beer in my freezers ice tray for about 20 seconds. I would love to know how long you have to wait until the can of beer won't explode.
My point is if I search for jetblue and I dont get the southwest image that's not a banner ad, at least not in the traditional sense. If fact if you search for southwest without being in this test group you'll see a southwest image on the right side. Is that a banner ad, if so these images are old news.

Now if I were to search for plane tickets and get the southwest image, that's a banner ad.
I would posit that those people are unlikely to be sufficiently motivated to spend time learning or doing something more constructive anyway regardless of the Internet and nothing is likely to change that. While the Internet has certainly lowered the bar of entry with regards to "entertain me," it has done the same to information access at large.
Don't worry, PC manufacturers are currently selling machines that are already obsolete.

My dad went to Walmart and bought a computer (why he didn't just ask me to either advise him, or ask if he could have one of my spare/old ones I don't know) and monitor for $399.

It's an HP powered by a AMD E1-1500. It's awfully slow. Chokes on YouTube half the time. My dad is new to the online experience, so he basically uses it for watching streaming content.

I could have grabbed him a $99 Athlon X4 or C2D on craigslist and it would better than this thing. I'm not sure if he'll ever experience a faster computer so I don't think he'll ever get frustrated with this machine, but it's amazing that they sell an utter piece of shit like this as a new machine.
I'll never get this point. Laptop - fine, yes, but a tablet? How do you chat, post FB status, or write an email from the virtual keyboard? It's painful. Especially if you are 50+. I don't see my mom or dad using these devices.
CPUs are actually getting slower after overclocking

I have water cooled 2600k at 5GHz running 24/7. Bigger GPU and more cores brings additional complexity and more heat. No other CPU can handle this without blowing up.
it says it uses a Rankine Vortex[1] where a substantial amount of the velocity profile is zero - thus it doesn't "disturb carbonation". As others have pointed out, this is exactly what a lot of other "fast chill" tech already does.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankine_vortex
Somehow I don't think my mom would trade her iPad for an e1505 with a broken display, external monitor, plus the periodic need to upgrade the hard-drive and install/upgrade Ubuntu :)
No, the article explains that is not the case.
Good lessons:

* Make pricing easy to understand

* Don't make customers guess how many widgets they'll need

* Don't make customers afraid they'll run out of widgets or need to pay a different amount later

* Convince customers that tier X has everything they'll need and is cheap and easy

In other words, make the checkout funnel as smooth and frictionless as possible.
Anecdotally, I've found that "non-technical users" have trouble adjusting to any new UI, including Apple laptops, phones and tablets.

For them the choice is between keeping an old computer, on which they already know how to send emails and compose documents, and buying a new tablet on which they will need to learn a whole new set of UI idioms. In addition, physical keyboards and larger screens (and no "ipad neck") make laptops and desktop computers more attractive.
That would kind of defeat the purpose of Bitcoin. The main advantage is the transaction system, rather than the store of value.

The transaction speed isn't really much of an issue as long as the block reward is much higher than the value of your transaction. For most modest transactions, like food and consumer goods, just seeing the transaction come across the network is good enough. It's possible to beat this, but doing so requires a large enough effort that nobody would bother doing it to get lunch when they could be getting dozens of block rewards worth thousands of times more instead. Waiting for one confirmation takes around 10 minutes and is likely to be good enough for anything of less value than buying houses and cars and other things that are 5+ figures in USD.
I think even for the casual user there are a still a lot of use-cases in favor of a PC. Basically anything to do with managing large amount of content like photos, music or even fairly light content creation like writing long emails is much easier to do on a computer with a larger screen and mouse/keyboard.
The article is right on one point: Bitcoin is volatile. No one denies that.

However the article is wrong that "volatility must decrease for it to survive". If anything, the fact it has not only survived for 4 years, but succeeded by gaining market share and gaining value (1000x since 2010!) despite its volatility shows that the market does not care that much about volatility.
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There used to be a chilling device as a party store near my house. There was a tub of super-chilled green or blue liquid that was in a whirlpool of sorts, and you could dunk your just-purchased drink in there for 1 minute and it would be cold when you took it out.

But doesn't beer benefit from always staying cold?
The jump from Pentium 4 to Core2Duo. You could go from a typical Penitum 4 in 2004 to a new C2D in 2006 and get a major performance boost.

The C2D to i7 jump was pretty significant as well.
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Startups: How to Get Mentored When You Don't Have an Official Mentor
Anandtech has a nice analysis of the progression of CPUs over the last 9 years: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-...

Depending on what you're doing with CPUs there have been improvements, even at the high end between Nehalem and Haswell (on the Intel side). Anandtech's data shows a nearly 2x improvement between those generations for certain tasks.

But the reality is that for other tasks (e.g. the winrar compression benchmark) the speedup is minimal compared to previous years (see Haswell vs Prescott). In many cases where there is a speedup, performance is already so good that you wouldn't notice.

It's pretty crazy to see that in the consumer world, not even games are demanding so much performance from our CPUs.
This is all true, I still can do pretty much everything on my 2009 PC, but truth is also that I do it rarely, specially since I've got a new console a few years ago and stopped playing on PC... everything work related is on my laptop, playing games on console is nicer, PC desktops are simply not needed anymore (for what I do, and also for majority of not-tech users)
Indeed. I work with RAW photographs fairly often, and simply exporting an album with a few hundred RAW files to JPEG takes a surprising amount of time with fast, modern hardware.
I don't use the weather app with any computer that has a mouse attached, so I am not sure if this has been corrected or not. I understand their decision to design the system this way, but I can also understand your frustration when it's not working the way you expect it to work.
How is this on the front page of hacker news? Nothing in the article was new, revolutionary, or interesting. The author threw a recent quote in the article to make his point relevant.
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This is content marketing done right.
Poll: How often do you check your Email?
As much as I can. I keep hitting Refresh
Once a day unless something critical
Few times a day depending on free time
Never. I don't use email.
That's why we all needs tablets. A tablet for you...and a tablet for you...And you get a tablet....and you get a tablet....We all get tablets..... Oh! these tablets kind of suck to actually produce or do anything on. ....... ok, back to laptops and all-in-ones.
I thought it is intentional, and the whole thing is a joke. But if it isn't, I am frightened.