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Stop thinking of it as tech news and think of it as tech business news. It's news for investors, people who would like to be invested in, fashion-conscious consumers, and people who enjoy living vicariously through all three groups.

A blog that focused on computer technology would rarely have features on Apple, because they rarely (if ever?) innovate on technology. Also no one cares, other than techies, and it would be covered as badly as all other popular science, by non-techies.

People care about Apple because it can make (or lose) them money, or it provides conversational material amongst people who share an interest in the current fashion of that brand.

The coverage of different fashion houses, their shows, collections, brands, and retailers they're selling to or who are showing interest isn't materially different than popular tech coverage.
How do you figure out the types at run time with zero overhead? I guess we have different concept of "zero".

As for the price of my skills - my paycheck told me that. And sure, it could be low demand (there are vacancies in my field, that had been open for years, but I don't really know what kind of demand there is for Python, could be decades for all I care). I am just happy for my compensation and if others have more expensive skills - I am happy for them too :)
Below is what I feel is a relevant excerpt from Text of SXSW2013, Closing Remarks by Bruce Sterling [1]:

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Why does nobody talk about them? Because nobody wants them, that’s why. Imagine somebody brings you a personal desktop computer here at South By, they’re like bringing it in on a trolley.

“Look, this device is personal. It computes and it’s totally personal, just for you, and you alone. It doesn’t talk to the internet. No sociality. You can’t share any of the content with anybody. Because it’s just for you, it’s private. It’s yours. You can compute with it. Nobody will know! You can process text, and draw stuff, and do your accounts. It’s got a spreadsheet. No modem, no broadband, no Cloud, no Facebook, Google, Amazon, no wireless. This is a dream machine. Because it’s personal and it computes. And it sits on the desk. You personally compute with it. You can even write your own software for it. It faithfully executes all your commands.”

So — if somebody tried to give you this device, this one I just made the pitch for, a genuinely Personal Computer, it’s just for you — Would you take it?

Even for free?

Would you even bend over and pick it up?

Isn’t it basically the cliff house in Walnut Canyon? Isn’t it the stone box?

“Look, I have my own little stone box here in this canyon! I can grow my own beans and corn. I harvest some prickly pear. I’m super advanced here.”

I really think I’m going to outlive the personal computer. And why not? I outlived the fax machine. I did. I was alive when people thought it was amazing to have a fax machine. Now I’m alive, and people think it’s amazing to still have a fax machine.

Why not the personal computer? Why shouldn’t it vanish like the cliff people vanished? Why shouldn’t it vanish like Steve Jobs vanished?

It’s not that we return to the status quo ante: don’t get me wrong. It’s not that once we had a nomad life, then we live in high-tech stone dwellings, and we return to chase the bison like we did before.

No: we return into a different kind of nomad life. A kind of Alan Kay world, where computation has vanished into the walls and ceiling, as he said many, many years ago.

Then we look back in nostalgia at the Personal Computer world. It’s not that we were forced out of our stone boxes in the canyon. We weren’t driven away by force. We just mysteriously left. It was like the waning of the moon.

They were too limiting, somehow. They computed, but they just didn’t do enough for us. They seemed like a fantastic way forward, but somehow they were actually getting in the way of our experience.

All these machines that tore us away from lived experience, and made us stare into the square screens or hunch over the keyboards, covered with their arcane, petroglyph symbols. Control Dingbat That, backslash R M this. We never really understood that. Not really.
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[1]: http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/04/text-of-sxsw2...
Poor guy just need Jesus in his life.
" 2) Someone should make a tablet with slots so it can be upgraded like a PC"

Wouldn't that be a Windows 8 convertible laptop with a touchscreen?[1][2] Once you put expansion options on it you start compromising mobility.

[1] http://www.futureshop.ca/en-ca/product/dell-dell-xps-12-5-ul...

[2] http://www.futureshop.ca/en-ca/product/hewlett-packard-hp-sp...
You should use an even thinner font.
It's very sad. At LinuxCon last night we went to the National Museum of Scotland and saw the original Black Knight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_%28rocket%29
Mixed AppleScript signals
The performance of a PC from five years ago is probably adequate for web browsing and office tasks. For anything more demanding, the advances in power consumption, execution efficiency and process node are huge leaps from five years ago.

In 2000, a three-year-old PC couldn't run modern games. Today, a three-year-old PC simply forces you to switch to lower graphical settings. The race for hogging all the hardware resources did slow down in the past years, which is a good thing for consumers.
Silence fills the room...
It's not that people don't need a new PC because their old PC does just as good a job as it did 5 years ago. It's also not because your average mom and pop are upgrading their own rigs themselves that new PC sales are slow.

It's that when tablets hit the scene, people realized they don't need their PC for 90% of what they do on a "computer". Email, social networking, shopping, music, video etc.

Us old geeks who swap hardware, play PC games, tweak OS settings and generally use yesterday's general purpose PC will be the ones remaining who keep buying new hardware and complete machines.

The general public meanwhile will only buy a PC if their tablet/smartphone/phablet needs expand beyond those platforms.

The market will shrink but it will turn more "pro". The quicker MS evolves into a modern IBM the better.
"Maximize profit" is not a well-defined single thing. For instance, the suggestion that companies maximize profits without regard for their customers must explain why the customers actually stay with that company; in general that may be a short-term win but a huge long-term loss, and many companies have died that way. If nothing else you've got to consider long-term profit vs. short-term profit, and there are in fact many other "something elses" to consider (what level of risks to take, etc).
I think #2 is not done so they force you to buy a new tablet every 2 years.
Shouldn't the title be "Marissa Mayer breaks 2005 promise..."?
Windows 8 is made to use with touchscreen monitors ! so the argument of this guy is just stupid.
> But banner advertising is one area that Google had vowed never to experiment with.

Marisa M wrote the blog post in 05 and she's no longer there (if that was the obstacle). It's time to make more money on the results page.
@pandaman: Just a minor nitpick about the statement that C++ library is not a part of the language: How come 'new' (builtin language operator, and reserverd keyword) can throw 'std::bad_alloc' (library construct) then? ;)
Yes, the site uses Bootstrap, I am, quite obvously, not a very front-end person. I have been making back-end systems for the past 15 years or so.

Can you elaborate on the institution to which you belong, either here or over email? Would like to discuss further.
Your understanding of how mortgage-backed securities work is flawed. MBS holders have no control over how the collateral backing their securities (the houses themselves) are dealt with in a default. The servicers of the MBS are responsible for this. In other words, no investor buys MBS with the expectation of owning houses because that's simply not what happens.

Out of all the "victims" in the housing collapse, MBS investors were arguably some of the more sympathetic. They were the true bag holders, overpaying (in the form of lower yields than was justified by actual risk) for lead that credit ratings agencies assured them was gold. Following the collapse, many any of them sued, alleging amongst other things, fraud.

On the list of "victims", many but certainly not all borrowers were less sympathetic characters. Some individuals had no problem lying about their income, and many others took out adjustable rate mortgages with the incorrect assumption that they'd be able to flip their homes at a profit or rent them out when their payments increased. It's hard to see these folks as anything other than willing participants in the game.
It was surprisingly easy. I'm not saying you over-paid, but for $2,500 I could have built something pretty ridiculous. Most of my money went into processor and GPU, which are typically your two big ticket items.

I trolled around Newegg looking for upper-middle tier components with a higher quantity of good reviews. A lot of the times you won't see a lot of the recently released stuff with useful reviews, so some of the parts were actually circa 2009'ish instead of being latest and greatest (2010).

I didn't splurge for a super expensive case, and my power supply wasn't modular (making it pretty cheap). i7 with a decent mobo. Went AMD for the GPU since (at the time) they were the best bang for buck. Got some cheaper G.SKILL 1600mhz DDR3 RAM (which has worked awesomely for me) for next to nothing, and I was ready to roll.
Misleading title.It is more about "New Relic now supports Node.js"
My Background in Web Development (podcast)
> The PC is not dead, we just don't need new ones

It's really nice when some build process takes less time because of better hardware. Also, try running some upcoming games on an old PC. Obviously the need for some hardware depends on what you are planning to do.
A "non"-profit? Different definition of profit, it's trying to maximize something else
How Amazon and Goodreads could lose their best readers
phr4ts what's the down-vote for?

Conduct a poll and u'll see that alot of those who dislike win 8 the most are on old hardware.
Does this sound like you?

Wake up in the morning. You have about an hour to prepare and get to work. While you're eating breakfast, you read Hacker News. Multi-tasking. Now you have finished eating breakfast. Yet you're still reading Hacker News. You just gotta finish those last few links. And maybe check up on your email. Then you realize you've wasted minutes of an already tight schedule and you really got to rush it to make it to work on time. You arrive maybe 5-15 minutes late and a little flustered because you were racing.

Then you realize you could have just left the house quickly and read Hacker News at work, on the clock. Yet you'll make the same mistake tomorrow.
In my opinion, the colours don't look professional or polished at all. It's like something that an amateur designer comes up with.

I would have preferred the colour scheme of Flat UI: http://designmodo.github.io/Flat-UI/

But I'm not a designer. There could be a valid explanation as to why the chosen pastel colours are the absolute best for iOS 7.
Can you give an example of a faster rate in the past?
Braben's presentation from Game Developers Conference (2011):
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014628/Classic-Game-Postmortem
Tablets need to be very small, lightweight and thin. Making them modular and configurable would go against that.

Look at some ipad teardown for instance and watch how everything is packed together. Not to mention that these days everything is in SoCs: you can't upgrade the GPU and CPU separately. Even the RAM can be stacked on the SoC package and if it's not it's soldered right next to it.

Contrast that with the innards of a desktop PC which is mostly empty space.
Constructive Law of Excluded Middle
Yeah looks absolutely horrible on my Chrome 30 on OSX: Mountain Lion
> Not to mention road obstacles, and animals (in my country moose collisions are common, and deadly).

It always fascinates me that this argument comes up from the negative side of self-driving cars pretty much every time, but it's actually the poster-child reason self-driving cars are better.

A self-driving car is at least as likely to recognize a potential collision with a moose as a human is (given current sensor tech) and probably much more so since it can't be distracted.

The advantage of a full omnidirectional sensor array is that it can pay attention to the kid on the bike, the moose crossing the street, the 5 cars around you, the alien spaceship in the sky, and the kid using your bumper to accelerate his skateboard all at once (or at least in timeslices small enough to count as such). You can only pay attention to a couple of those things.
Founder of Code Climate here. We help developers improve the quality of their code by providing automated code reviews using static analysis. There are no manual (human) code reviews involved at present.

You add a Git repo, we analyze it (Ruby and now JS) and then track how it's changing over time. There's a heavy focus on providing clear, timely information rather than just spraying out a bunch of metrics.

If you have any questions, please let me know!
If I understand correctly, based on what you said and comparing it to the rainbows on wikipedia, a trichromat would be fine with red vs green, since they are distinguishable, but nearby colors to those (red -> orange, green -> blue) look more similar (different shades of the same color). And looking into it some more, a dichromat would be fine as well because the two colors would be distinguishable because green would be essentially dark and red would be light (i.e. "the dark side goes up" in the USB example).
Just replace the thermal paste (easy to do on a Thinkpad) and clean the fans, it'll do wonders!
I don't disagree with this post, except on semantics.
Maybe the font he/she using is following the latest Mavericks? It seems that the font in latest OS X is slimmer now.
Patent Power 2013
The PC is dead, it's just not dead for computer professionals, and never will be. But for the rest of the world - think mom, dad, gramps,grammy - why on earth do the need the headaches of a full PC (mac or windows)? A good tablet is basically enough for almost everyone else.
I bought a ~1000 setup in 2009 and it still runs most games acceptably (not necessarily highest settings).
it was a Dell boxing day deal $500 computer + $350 video card (GTX 260) + changed the case and PSU.

Maybe the OP doesnt play some of the most demanding games?
I think it's both. Most people are better served with a new, inexpensive tablet and their current computer than they would be with a new ultrabook.
Are there docs on python macros for LibreOffice? I'm having trouble tracking them down if there are...
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Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa plan for alternate Internet by 2015
I used to dislike ads in general, until Google came along and made ads actually useful. There have been many times when I needed to search for reliable vendors in my area, and being able to perform a query for a product and receive an ad for a vendor that sells said product proved to be very useful and a huge time-saver. I no longer had to dig through search results, the ads were my search results. Same thing goes for the great set of Youtube video ads that have been improving lately: some of them actually are useful. Gmail ads are also very interesting. They sometimes inform me of new technologies, or other things that are related to what I'm reading in my inbox: that can be valuable. I really hope the trend continues with these banner ads. Being able to add a touch of graphic to an otherwise dull search result page can be useful if done right, and Google does seem to care about their ad business. Anyway, those are just my personal thoughts on the subject.
I happen to work for a company that does economic impact assessments, and I'm skeptical of this "study", to say the least (it's hard to tell w/o a link to the full paper, only a press release). Basic unanswered issues:

(1) How do you show how many guests would not have come to NY at all if AirBnB didn't exist? This is called the counterfactual. (If they would have come anyway, then hotels lose the same amount of business, leading to no net gain.) And, if money is just being shuffled from midtown to the outer boroughs, how is that a net win for NYC? Broken window fallacy, anyone?

(2) I guess you could argue that NYC is better off if the same dollars are going to residents rather than corporate hotel chains (if you show higher multipliers, maybe some good externalities like supporting artists). But that's a very complex assessment in itself, likely way beyond the scope of this study. And you've got to count only net benefit versus the counterfactual.

(3) Sure, AirBnB guests might stay longer and spend more (what data is that based on? Don't many people use AirBnB because it's cheaper?), but that correlation doesn't mean that some magic AirBnB pixie dust caused them to do so. And is this offset by less money spent on the lodging itself compared to an hotel?
> I can still run just about any modern AAA game at the highest settings.

AAA games mostly target the console. Look at GTA5, which isn't even out on the PC. Most AAA games will run on a PS3, which came out in 2006, and has 512MB of RAM (combined system / graphics).

That said, there's a point of diminishing returns - making games look much more realistic will take obscene amounts of resources.
There are more divisions than the article can get into, of course. I think the main one is between AI to solve engineering problems and AI to better understand the mind. The article is about doing the latter when everyone else's definition of AI is the former.

What you're talking about, I think, is various approaches within the latter group of researchers. I defended Hofstadter in another reply because I find his goals worthwhile in and of themselves - in a "basic research" sense. Discarding anything that's not an optimal solution - the attitude taken by a couple of responses here - ignores a whole lot of interesting science, and as a scientist it bothers me quite a bit.

That said, once we're talking about the goal of understanding the human mind, GOFAI is, to be sure, incredibly old-fashioned, and you won't find me defending Hofstadter anymore as far as his approach. His goal is a worthwhile one, but you're right that his approach shouldn't really be considered an 'underdog'.

Personally, I think the best hope for understanding what intelligence is, in a general sense, comes from non-equilibrium thermodynamics, as in the sort of research goin on here:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/heco20/24/1#.UmlRN_mfihM

but that's a can of worms for another post.

As an aside, regarding your last comment, I completely disagree on your view of philsoophy. It may not have produced results but it has guided science. But I agree with the thrust of your sentiment: an AI researcher with the goal of understanding the human mind should be spending as much time studying humans (as in, doing Psych or Cognitive Science experiments) as programming AIs.
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It's not the touch that's the problem. I'm running Win8 on just about the newest hardware you can buy, and it's a user-experience hell.

The "metro" screen is neither the start menu, nor is it the desktop, nor is it the new OS itself. It's stuck in this artificial layer of existence that I can't even discern.
I didn't say it would go that far, I said there was no limit to how far it might should it choose to. There are plenty of horror stories regarding jaywalking prohibition enforcement. In some places, the state does indeed go to remarkable lengths to stop that activity.
Is the volatility graph of Bitcoin in this article really representative?

Some people have mentioned that in the huge price spike in April, there were not actually that many people buying, and then there is this article on Bitcoin spreads that calls into question whether Mt. Gox is the best measure:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2013/09/03/how-bitcoin-s...
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Well now you should just post some core specs so we can test your claim. Exact CPU, GPU, and RAM amount?
One could argue that the advertising situation has changed. Back in 2005, the types of banner ads that they opposed were heavy, often Flash driven punch-the-monkey junk.

Now, they are putting non-animated (from the samples that I have seen) banners that are completely relevant to your search.

Does that argument hold up? I don't really think it does. But maybe that is their angle?
Sounds like it should be substantially better than those cheap bottle coolers that usually just have a suction cup and a small electric motor to spin a bottle while it's covered in ice.

Definitely a really neat & smart concept -- wonder what it'll cost though.
You overpaid. You're better off spending $800 and upgrading 3 times as often.
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Yeah! Normally this title format means "X acquired Y", so made me do a double take.
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You're disappointed in your own paranoia?
"no more fitting epitaph" != "a fitting demise"
Founder of Code Climate here. I can give you my take on it.

We do a lot more than linting. Code Climate finds complexity and duplication issues as well, and turns that into clear, timely feedback for the developers. For example, if you introduce some new duplication (perhaps you intended to refactor but got sidetracked), Code Climate can let you know as soon as the code reaches GitHub, so you can resolve it right away (or not -- depending on the situation).

Linting is a very small part of what we do. If you're already using JSHint locally as a pre-commit hook, it's probably not better than that. (We'll pickup and automatically use your JSHint config in that case.) We added linting because in our experience a lot of projects with JS (especially Rails apps) don't use linting, and we wanted to expose the value of linting to those people in a zero-effort way.
Very true, but the vast majority of computer users aren't pushing the limits of their systems, and I think that's what the author is getting at. If you look at the market as a whole, the need for more powerful computers isn't nearly as big as it used to be.
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I think the issue is that the rate of improvement has fallen pretty hard. I remember when nvidia moved from the 5 series to the 6 series, their new flagship card doubled the performance of any current card on the market. The same thing happened with the 8 series. Processors before multicore would show direct improvements in the speed of the machine, especially if (like the average consumer) your machine filled up with useless, constantly running crap over time.

These days I just don't see that. Graphics cards seem to improve by 30-50% each generation, and because so many games are tied to consoles now, they often aren't even taking advantage of what's available. With multicore processors and the collapse of the GHZ race, there's no easy selling point as far as speed, and much less visible improvement (now all that useless crap can be offloaded to the second core!) and most consumers will never need more than two cores. Crysis felt like the last gasp of the old, engine-focused type of game that made you think "man, I really should upgrade to play this"... and that was released in 07. Without significant and obvious performance improvements, and software to take advantage, why bother upgrading?
Oops, sorry. Makes sense now. Thank you.
Right. Soon they will run out of surface area. And then they will squeeze out more money by cutting costs. Such is the life cycle of the corporation. They aren't able to monetize their other novelty projects yet, they are almost wholly reliant on advertising. I'm surprised their stock is priced as a growth company.