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> currently made at Apple's facility in Austin, TX

Assembled in the US, not made. It's cheaper to ship boxes from China, where they were made, full of components that stack than it is to ship assembled products that leave a bunch of empty space.

And under US regulations you still get to slap a 'Made in the USA' sticker on it and charge even more.
Where else in the world can you hire the guys who solved exactly the same problem (Monolithic Rails Stack) at companies like Twitter, Airbnb, Zendesk, etc.?
> we associate with thinking is some biological/spiritual aspect

Well I don't.

> The fact that we have different words for "think", "compute", and "calculate"

Also my native language (Finnish) doesn't have separate words for "compute" and calculate". Both are covered by "laskea". (Also "suorittaa" is used, but that is "execute".)
I so much want this to be true, I can't wait for it. Not having a layered memory architecture means no VM, everything has be rethought from the filesystem down.
On a related note:
"Operating systems have not been taught what to do with all of this memory, and HP will have to get very creative."
Anyone knows what this could possibly mean?
Exactly. I've been pitched this same idea literally hundreds of times over more than a decade, most recently about a month ago.

And yes, it is a great idea, if the implementation were great.
What if Apple is actually better without Steve Jobs?
Link to the printable version, for those who don't like paginated stories:

> http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/206401-with-the...
Silent corruption can hit NTFS just as well. The only protection is to have a good hardware with ECC RAM, raid with redundancy and a FS that checks data on every read like zfs,btrfs,ReFS,... and backups.
Ah, interesting, thanks for the explanation - I was wondering the same thing as your parent. I always do db:migrate instead of db:schema:load, but I can see the advantages of avoiding that (particularly if you have tons and tons of migrations).
"I actually find colo'ing a new server quite fun and enjoyable... even after doing it a half dozen times... as a techy... something is just so cool about putting a server in the same racks as some monster equipment."

Agree. If there was a question on some test that said "I find colo'ing a new server quite fun and enjoyable" I would give that a 9 or 10 for sure. Have always loved the sound of the machine room. (This dates back to the days of the computer center at school with the tape drives and Dec terminals.)
I'm actually working on something similar, but we're spending quite a lot of time on the algorithm - it's quite hard to get it perfect.

One note is that your search isn't working for me, it seems to just be rapidly refreshing the page. Latest build of Chrome on Mac OS X Mavericks.
as for a new OS, single level store OSes should work just fine in such an environment.
"Every good scientist is half B. F. Skinner and half P. T. Barnum"

I've seen Warwick speak. He's not afraid to throw science away completely in favour of making a dramatic point.

I remember him claiming his flesh "embraced" an implant by growing around it when he described the typical immune rejection response he experienced.
With a large enough user base, you'll definitely encounter people that will be sufficiently intrigued by the idea of paying with Bitcoins they don't have (or confused by accidentally clicking on the Bitcoin tab) to get distracted and end up making the payment via one of the other hotel search website windows they have open. That's true even if the Bitcoin tab is much more discreet than the "credit/debit card" default.

There are, after all, enough people confused by a concept as non-novel as the address their credit card is registered to for some companies to be willing to pay higher interchange fees and accept higher chargeback risk to omit those fields from their CC forms.
Probably has to do with the way we interact with RAM (memory addresses?) vs persistent memory (file system). Can those two be merged, or is the whole system like a giant RAM disk?
Haha wow. It's just a programming language. == vs === got you tripped up?
True, but parent meant used in the qsort and qsort_r implementations.
Site's down, here's a pastebin of the text: http://pastebin.com/6kkCTgjg

Neither archive.org nor Google Cache have this. Weird.

Video from article: http://vimeo.com/83886950

Image 1: http://i.imgur.com/r62FSfE.jpg

Image 2: http://i.imgur.com/xsxutc3.png

Image 3: http://i.imgur.com/zL9DFbr.png
Considering most of the Internet was developed under UNIX machines, the alternate universe would be almost unrecognizable, for good or bad.
Is there a better way to test a tech than to make a product with it?
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And the point I'm trying to make is that curriculum choices at the K-12 level are a democratic decision, not a matter of personal conscience by educators. You don't get paid by the government to teach whatever you like, you get paid to teach what the government pays you to teach, and you're evaluated based on how well students know the material the government asks you to teach them.

Removing evolution from the curriculum is a political problem that voters need to solve. It's not something you can fix through teacher autonomy. The real issue is getting politicians and administrators to ask teachers to teach the right things, and it's their fault -- not teachers -- when the curriculum is bad.
Great product with some impressive traffic numbers! Looks like a good candidate for flow based programming. side-note: I'd happily pay for streaming that had less compression applied.
A memristor is the 4th fundamental circuit component, along with capacitors, resistors, and inductors.

The important part of memristors is that they can be arranged to form a crossbar latch, which acts like a transistor.

This crossbar latches are very very small, and very low power. HP plans on achieving data density of 100GB/cm^2 [1] with read write speeds approximately 100x faster then flash memory while using 1% of the energy. Also with lower energy costs, expected data density is 1 Petabyte per cm^3 (due to 3D stacked circuitry)

Basically when this technology comes of age we'll see smart phones reach the order of terabytes of storage.

[1] http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1168454
This IT worker had to train an H-1B replacement
The major problem with Eclipse.org website
Wow, did they put any work into that thing at all or just hook up the default chat bots we've had for a decade? It would be pretty trivial to just have it keep track of what it said and never repeat exactly, never ask where someone lives after a location has been mentioned in any way, not call itself a little boy and use correct punctuation, etc..
I don't think it's reasonable to avoid improving something because it might then be less likely to be replaced. We do need improvements right now.

The only way around the problem you raise is to make something truly better, and convince people to use it instead.
I think you missed the part where Magpie can put its repo anywhere, (even on your local machine). But to your point about 'fixing the problem', that problem is already addressed, but not packaged particularly well.

There are already enough 'cloud' providers to provide the necessary diversity, and there is already enough crypto to provide the necessary security. What there isn't is an adapter layer that puts those two together in a way that lets folks like the Author build their favorite UI on top of it.

One such architecture might be a git server on a machine at one's home, which uses fuse to create a replicated secure backend across S3, some VPS, Dropbox, and what ever. Giving the git server on the machine a 'file system view' while creating a replicated and encrypted block back end using a variety of cloud providers.

You could do that with a VPS in the cloud as well, but it has some exposure to infrastructure seizure or damage. By hosting it at 'home' you trade some slightly stronger legal protections for the limitations of your home internet connection.
The demo is slow as molasses on my 2012-era Macbook Air (Google Chrome). Seems to have something to do with the scroll hijacking, which IMO is usually a bad idea. I wonder if there is a way to do this kind of vertical presentation while still allowing me to use the browser's native scrolling.
What could OP mean in the booktabs section about a necessity in LaTeX's table layout for vertical separators? The linked-to post seems to mean vertical rules (as opposed to inter-line vertical separation), but vertical rules are obviously not required in LaTeX tables. And, some inter-column space typically has to be there.
Same here with Chrome 33 on Mavericks.
SwiftDevs.co – A new place to share and earn knowledge
Heap (YC W13) is hiring engineers to build a new take on analytics
I see lots of recommendations for Uniregstry and I created an account with them, but I'm still a bit wary since they are practically a new registrar.
I know Frank Schilling is a co-founder so I'm going to give them a shot any way.
I would recommend everyone look at xspace.

It only has one tiny aim - to deal with spaces after commands.

Given: \newcommand{\S}{Bob} then \S is \S. expands to:

Bobis Bob.

While: Given: \newcommand{\S}{Bob } expands to

Bob is Bob .

One can write: \newcommand{\prog}{\textsc{prog}\xspace}. Then we get:

Bob is Bob.
The Future of Irssi
I would have expected a lot of HN users and a majority of those working professionally in technology to have at least basic high school knowledge of electrical and mechanical principals.

If I where interviewing some one for a developer role and they had not at least heard of ohms law or similar basic principals I would probably pass on them.
I'm not against it for everyone, I just want to have a choice there. This button usually stands out from the rest and is quite useless when you are actually typing.
>Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD), is a class of parallel computers in Flynn's taxonomy
Traffic Snarls in Europe as Taxi Drivers Protest Against Uber
Feedback:

- The lack of an option to search only vegetarian recipes makes this pretty much useless for me.

- Adding ingredients has a fairly large delay. I suspect some optimizations could be done there.
is it morally wrong for me to create a program consisting only of a singular red button, that when pushed, sets the sad flag?

We could discover tomorrow that there's a "sad ganglia" in the human brain that can be set on or off with an electromagnetic field. Does that mean that humans are ultimately biological machines without rights?
Are you sure? I just did a .dump on my signons.sqlite. The login and passwords are not stored in cleartext.

ubuntu 13.10 firefox 27.0.1
Testing Core Data Migrations
On first glance an interesting idea. However a few minutes spent perusing the content (or non-content, more like!) had me almost pining for the Youtube comments section.
Some services will ignore security entirely at first, because it doesn't directly contribute to getting a viable product to market quickly (obviously, users will use an insecure site or app so long as they don't know how insecure it is). Then when the app becomes viable, they will continue to ignore security because it doesn't directly contribute to growth. Security becomes part of the nebulous "optimization" stage which is pushed somewhere down the road - and at some point the application becomes so complex that security isn't deemed worth the effort or the money.

I'm not saying that's what happened here, and depending on the language and platform you're using, xss can be a difficult problem to solve. But it does seem to be a common trait to disregard security until you have to apologize for it.
7 US visa options for international founders
Interesting. Reminds me of survey bias - where people answer one way because they think that's what you want to hear, or because it aligns with their own perceived values, but they _act_ a completely different way.

Can surveying the crowd for inventions produce mass-marketable ideas? Probably. Does a large part of the value chain have to do with marketing and distribution? Undoubtedly.
This is a generality but anytime I've looked at that what I see is a bunch of low loss leader prices (that lure you in) that when you add on extra features you get nickel and dimed up to a point where you are overpaying.

I've seen cases where there are charges (as only one example) of $10 per month to be able to do a remote reboot which of course can be done on any box with an IPMI at no charge if it's your box and that's the way you bought it. So if you don't know what you are doing my point is you can easily be lured into thinking you are paying a reasonable price but then paying more simply because you aren't doing a true comparison of features and benefits.
Auto-generate Grunt tasks using Static Analysis
You might be joking, but in case not: reddit's code base is open source, so others can use it without moving the community under the reddit umbrella.
A quick intro to vim macros
A version of this which focused on drink ingredients could be a (perhaps more easily manageable) implementation of this idea.
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> Basically when this technology comes of age we'll see smart phones reach the order of terabytes of storage.

Looking forward to carrying the library of congress, netflix's entire catalog, and all of openstreetmap on my phone in the next 5 years.
Probably need a permanent connection of some sort to run a credit card, too.
It is doing OR search which doesn't make much sense to me.

try to search lime and cilantro http://skipthepizza.com/recipes/cilantro+lime

recipes either have lime or cilantro
and there is no guacamole
Since "top 10" is better than "top 9", I'd add TikZ.
Ok, you need it only if you need to draw pictures, but it's an incredible tool.
You're making a big assumption, which is that all those good engineers love to live in Silicon Valley and want nothing more than to stay in the area their entire lives. For each one of the engineers who feel that way, there's someone who worked here for awhile but now dislikes the area for one reason or another. Enticing good people to spend a few years in Berlin working for a company like Soundcloud might be easier than you think.
It really is incredible, the innovation that comes out of these Silicon Valley startups!
"if you co-lo provider sucks, you can move and keep your IP space. (This is vital for email, but I recommend it for everyone)."

Why is this "vital for email"?

I agree that obviously if you can you want your own space.

But if you are planning your move you can handle the new ip space by dns ttl. Which is what we have done since the 90's with moves where we didn't have our own IP block. And yes it is a huge pain to be avoided so I'm not disagreeing just wondering about the "vital for email".
My two packages that get used pretty much all the time are biblatex(-chicago) and memoir. Memoir is my friend because it includes so much of the functionality that is otherwise spread across a bazillion packages, and makes sure it all works nicely together.
Mi – Chinese Apple?
Losing Apple
In good 'ol California bay area, you can get a full cabinet with un-metered 100Mbps port + 20A power for $600 a month.

Hurricane Electric data center in Fremont, CA, always has specials running.
"Its what I want for christmas :)"

No you don't you want some 2 letter .com's for Christmas.
Yeah, and they're mostly in the financial world.
DevOps in the Enterprise: My interview with Gene Kim
I assume the initial prices will also be 10x more per GB than what we have now, too, much like SSDs and flash storage in the beginning (it's still the case actually) - compared to flash storage that is - so 100x more per GB than HDD storage.
Unless their employees, partners (hosting, etc) get paid in BTC, it actually does matter if they "sit" on the BTC they receive.

Many businesses and people still require to get paid in USD (EUR, etc) in order to do business. This may not always be this way, but as of today it is.
This means we might be able to make a literal version of the hitchhikers guide. All of human knowledge in your hand, no network connectivity needed.
Ok, iOS apps are sold through iTunes. These apps work on iPod, iPhone, and iPad. If you sell an iOS app and want to sell to more than just the small percentage of jailbroken phones, you have to sell here.

This guy is selling a Mac App. Mac Apps are sold on the Mac app store. Separate thing, and you don't have to use it. You can sell separately as this guy does.

Shame he doesn't know the difference between iOS and OSX though.
We didn't design the gem to handle "dev" data, the idea was really to handle "real" data, such as Product in our case.
Though if you feel like there would be a use case for dev seeds, I would be happy to discuss that with you (either here/twitter/mail etc ...)
Plus, Dart will be able to use SIMD support when compiling to JavaScript :)
Please don’t stir conflict by only reasoning in terms superior and inferior.

Things are different, no need to order them, especially on one single axis.
Twitter can be great, but you have to be careful how you use it. I severely limit who I follow (I have friends who I don't follow because their Twitter habits just don't match what I want to see in my feed) and I'm not afraid to block anyone who gets abusive.

However, it is an inherently tough environment. If you were deliberately designing a service to be as anti-intellectual as possible, you'd be hard pressed to do better than Twitter's extreme length limit, realtime operation, and obscured context. You can work around it but it's still there.
Getting Started with Sysdig: A Video Introduction
I'm a bystander and a lurker. I've never heard of your "service" before now. I needed an account to post with.
Analyzing the ingredients of 29k recipes (2012)
ZFS was never promised as the way forward for the default filesystem on consumer machines.

The truth is despite all the Siracusa "We Want ZFS" nonsense, it's an absolutely terrible choice for a consumer filesystem. All of the nice features come at the cost of it eating an enormous amount of RAM and CPU resources, and it's integrity guarantees are meaningless if the machine isn't running ECC RAM anyways.

Apple was never going to ship laptops running 10.5 where 4 Gigs of RAM were immediately eaten by the filesystem and battery life was halved from 10.4 due to the extra CPU load. ZFS as the default for OS X was always pipe-dream nonsense promoted by people with no understanding of or experience with ZFS.
Could you add an option for recipes which include only these ingredients/expands the search if it doesn't find very many?
Full Stack Engineer at Gliffy - San Francisco - Full Time

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In this role you would have the opportunity to work with technologies like Scala/Playframework and make a measurable impact as part of a small, but insanely bright team. Gliffy is established and quite profitable, but still operates like a startup (hackatons, quarterly outings, innovation days) and the leadership/team is fantastic (and fun). They are based in SF, but they allow engineers to work from home Mondays and Fridays (alongside some other nice perks).

Gliffy has hired me to help them on the search (an engineer I placed back in March is loving it and they've asked me to find one more as they grow the team).
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It'll come down. Demand will be massive (if it lives up to the hype). This could potentially unify the RAM and Hard disks in computers.
Brilliant. I love the idea and I have always wondered why such a thing doesn't exist already.

Now give me an app :)
Al-Jazeera writes that Tikrit has fallen:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/06/iraqi-city-...
When the startup I previously worked for was acquired, a Google CLA I had signed while at the startup was the source of much contention between the startup's and acquirer's lawyers, and caused much last minute stress for the startup's CEO.

AIUI, acquirer's lawyers contended the CLA might grant Google leverage over the acquirer's patents.
Yeah, vertical rules aren't necessary in standard LaTeX, but I think I get where he's coming from. Most people who grok publication-quality tables are probably using booktabs already, and those who don't are probably overusing vertical rules.
You look at it.
Microsoft SharePoint does everything of WinFS, it acts as WinFS like file-server for office documents. It comes with default schema (columns) and the administrator can add specific company relevant metadata fields. You can group, filter search, create custom views based on metadata. It all works great, but in the end of the day it's just a website and managing more than one file at a time is cumbersome (it's a website not Explorer/shell) and even if one can open directories in Explorer using inbuilt WebDAV protocol the WebDAV integration is ok but it is as featureless as the zip-file support in Windows shell (no rightclick menu entries, no new file, etc.).

With a native OS integration other applications could take advantage of the new possible features.
Why can't the handset itself do the DS-lite IPv4 NAT/encapsulation, or why is 464XLAT easier to do on handset than DS-lite?

Yeah, I've made exactly the same argument. As you found, there's a lot of history here. As I remember it, T-Mobile was originally pitching NAT64 because it required no support on the phone at all and DS-Lite would require the phone to do encapsulation. People pointed out that DS-Lite supports v4-only apps and NAT64 does not, but it seems like T-Mobile chose not to hear that argument. Then, having already committed to the NAT64 route, they added a stateless NAT46 agent on the phone to fix v4-only apps.

I think that agreeing on a standard is more valuable than continually iterating towards perfection, so I wish the industry had just declared DS-Lite "good enough" and stopped, but now we have this menagerie of transition schemes.
It also correctly works with PageDown.
Related: A huge collections of images showing Symbolics UI and the software written for it: http://lispm.de/symbolics-ui-examples/symbolics-ui-examples....
Has anyone ever worked at a company that effectively banned side businesses or asked to pre-approve all side businesses?
I see today that the action is back :-) Thanks!
You're talking about components and assembly, but that's not what's being suggested here. This was from a time period where there was almost universal consensus that Microsoft's horizontal business model (sell the OS and let other companies create hardware to run it on) was thought to have utterly and completely demolished Apple's vertical business model (create and sell both the hardware and the software that runs on it) for all time. The narrative was that Microsoft had beaten Apple in large part because the horizontal model was always going to beat the vertical model.

In hindsight, it obviously isn't that simple- there's room for both models in the industry, and each has its own set of risks, rewards, strengths, and weaknesses, all of which are constantly changing as the industry evolves. But yeah, that particular item isn't telling Apple to outsource assembly and components, it's telling Apple to stop even thinking about hardware and to try to become Microsoft circa 1997.