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> The fact that you are still free to upgrade and mod it awesome.

It is, although of course the downside is sheer heft. Compared to the new models, that thing is a huge and heavy aluminum brick. But yeah, I can cope with that in exchange for the convenience of more storage and upgradeability.

> What kind of work do you do that would cause it to break?

I'm just carrying it with me 24x7, basically. This laptop has seen the world, and it shows.

> It's like owning a vintage car. Everybody will be envious.

Doubtful but it's an interesting take ;)
Yeah, a small bump, but still nice. It was already rumored that we wouldn't see a new gen of processors until next year.
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Ex Apple employees on the 'Edge Cases Podcast' - xib files were extremely brittle initially. Merging conflicts would be impossible to handle without dedicated tooling.
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I can think of a few likely problems. The lack of surface area would make it harder to get fresh water; something that's already difficult. One of the main exports is copra, but I doubt that growing coconut trees on a platform will be economically worthwhile. The same holds for other agriculture currently on the island. (Sea level rise would also affect aquaculture in the lagoons, but I can't guess if it would be better or worse.) I expect it will be extremely expensive to raise the two international airports and over a dozen domestic ones.

Assuming intense agriculture at 0.25 acres per person (that's 8x the current population density) implies 100 sq. km of platform area. I see that sea docks cost around $30/sq. foot. That's just a bare dock, without soil, so let's say $50/sq. ft. "furnished" and at wholesale pricing. (I suspect I'm far under the actual price.)

That's roughly $50 billion, or almost 20x the country's GDP.

On top of that, add maintenance costs. I can't begin to estimate that.
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Is the Internet now just one big human experiment?
Definitely something I'd be interested in also, but sadly seems to be struggling with the load.
From what I have read, the Broadwell processors will only be ready by Q1 2015 and not the holiday season 2014?
This is only a minor iteration; they've bumped the processors, but left them at the same TDP, and bumped the RAM. That's about it. Battery life changes will happen when Broadwell Macs show up, late this year or early next depending on how Intel's schedule works out.
I agree that KPIs are misused quite a lot but that does change the fact that they can provide valuable information and setup incentives to follow certain goals.

I think it is rather simplistic to say that having more than one KPI can be reduced to "a more complicate KPI". Sure, it won't solve all problems with badly setup KPIs but to allow for detailed incentive structures you need detailed KPIs.

My major point is still that decision making based on KPIs should not be made solely on what the figures (or any red/yellow/green flag next to it) show. It requires analysis - which is something that I've always seen done.

The good thing about KPIs is that it can be a great communication tool and open discusions about why a trend has changed or similar things.
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I'm not a doctor, but I would hazard a guess that a child with leukemia would not be prescribed tamoxifen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamoxifen
I think there was low demand for the anti-glare stuff. For what it's worth I've been using my macbook air (2013, 11 in) outside without much issue. I think as long as the screen image is sufficiently brighter than the reflected scenery it kind of looks ok.
Want to know even a funnier thing? I don't like Apple at all, the last product I bought was an iPhone 3G because I didn't like their business practice but I gave in to the mbp because it's a nice machine and I wanted to expand myself instead of keep developing only on Windows. Guess I was right when I decided to ditch Apple.
Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive.

Bonus: now you have your data around even if your laptop breaks.

Once I learned to live with a 64GB macbook air, I realized that 90% of the data I was keeping around was not useful.

It's very liberating.

Yes, I realize 64GB of data is huge, but not for modern machines.
This is the same; there's nothing new; the whole laptop market is dead. There's not a single machine I would buy -- the combination of decent keyboard, screen and user replaceable components is nonexistent now. ThinkPads had good keyboards and replaceable components and (unless you want to go back to T60 times) shitty screens. Now they have shitty keyboard, many don't have replaceable components but the screen is good. The Apple trajectory is not better.
The author uses "peddle" instead of "pedal" twice, and thinks bicycles have a confusing number of levers to figure out. I think it's safe to say they don't know what they're talking about.
Google's culture of automated customer service continues a long tradition of poor people skills, and disdain for feelings and livelihoods, as well as their own reputation. I was contemplating switching from AWS to the Google Cloud, but it's posts like this that remind me that, oh yeah, I myself have been unjustly banned twice from one of their services.

Google cannot be trusted to handle relationships, whether with developers or companies. It's clear that they don't care and that's fine. They have their niche for providing services to those who don't mind the lack of the human touch. Just not for me.
Compared to my 2011 MBP I Like the Retina, 16GB is nice as a standard but I have that now (and honestly I don't foresee needing more soon). But man would I trade that 256GB SSD for a 2 or 4 TB HDD in a heartbeat.
I feel very "bearish" towards dating sites. People convince themselves they are saving time meeting more possible "matches" in less time but they forget that meeting online is not the same as in person, "turn-based" chat is different than "real-time" chat.

Some years ago randomly I met a girl online, that most of men (based on her picture) would wife up. I was living abroad at the time and we were only able to meet in person some months later. After few minutes in the date I could see that we would not go anywhere. There was a lack of "real-time" empathy and I hated some details in her personality that I couldn't realise before meeting her (not her look, surprisingly she was even more beautiful in person than at photos). If I had met her in person instead of online, I would have saved months of my life.. I will not do it ever again.

edit:
Because of her I met my gf of 5 years, but that was just serendipity working, not because of a dating site.
No the best time to buy one is immediately after they release a refresh.
> What does the actual implementation of this look like?

If you look at the video, the prototype "implementation" is just two display panels laid on top of each other. There's also another one involving projectors which involved more complicated optical setups.

> Is it just one display being fed 2 low-resolution image streams?

Yes, this is the impression I got.

> And is there any effort required to synthesize the cascaded image?

Yes there is but that was achieved in real time with GPU acceleration.
They're going for very small launches to LEO; they're probably targeting small scientific (NASA/ESA etc) payloads more than anything else. They're not really competing with Arianespace, SpaceX etc, whose major business involves launching multi-tonne payloads to GTO.
I agree that is the better setup, however I'm often on a train or other environment where I can't rely on a connection. In that situation a weak CUDA device is better than nothing.
I chose an air a while back, and it has been fantastic for a lot of things. However, now I'm considering going back to the pro.

The biggest limitation for me is the single thunderbolt port. If I want to connect to ethernet, a display, or other thunderbolt devices (like an audio interface I have), I can only connect to one. Even on the 13" MBP, I can connect all three since there are two thunderbolt connections plus HDMI. The other biggest limitation has been video performance and CPU performance. I've ran into performance issues with virtualized boxes for local development and also with connecting an external display.

As far as retina, I could care less. It's nice, but not a necessity for me. Also, you get more battery life without it. That said, I'll still be moving to a MBP.
I'm not sure who submitted the link (I don't think it was anyone from the seL4 team), but I inserted the http://sel4.systems/ link into the repo's README file, which will hopefully help a little.
Forking is not that much a problem when it's limited to a program. Typically in the case of MPlayer, you had mplayer2, and nowadays mpv, and this is fine really. It's just a program that could live with the others without much trouble.

On the other hand, with a project like FFmpeg which actually provides libraries, it can really hurts the users community. Especially when the forking is made without changing the library names... which is exactly what happened here (thanks to the confusing name of the fork, chosen on purpose).

Basically, the fork was made such that only one can survive (example: only one "libavcodec" can exists), because they were actually confident about the outcome. But it seems they didn't anticipate such fundamental changes in the way FFmpeg continued to live.
What is the difference of the high end models compared to the release last fall?

Only thing I can see is a faster cpu, is there anything else?
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if only they could serve warfare tested windows drivers.

I can't believe when people tell me my macbook pro 2009 with 2GB of ram is a "little too cheap" for mavericks or xcode 5. I can't even install windows on it because the superdrive is busted. I managed to install ubuntu, but there's ALWAYS a wifi/touchpad/heating issue.

Not to mention the hardship getting some C++ project working on xcode. (like ogre for instance). Making games on it seems to be a pain since you need to find a way to move around the displaylink.

I won't try to get a mac again. If a computer cannot be nice enough to build C++ projects with, I won't use it. You all are working on web based apps, but I'm clearly not a customer of this.

preference:

1. windows laptop
2. linux laptop
3. mac laptop

It's a shame because the hardware is great, but since apple force feeds you with itunes and doesn't really want you using windows, I'll pass. Their hardware is dedicated to their OSX thingy, and I don't want it.
will you be able to make work some C++ IDE on it ?
Whoops, my mistake. Sorry.

Why did I make this mistake? Did I subconsciously associate the initials NY with evil intentions? It wouldn't be surprising if The New York Times become a casualty of the The New Yorker's policy by accidental association.
However, statistics can be misleading if not filtered.

I am proud to say, I am part of this 35%. I have owed $15 to a hospital for a long time. I also owed a bigger bill for a long time. Despite having the money. We moved, lost track of correspondence, had life happen to us etc.

I'm not sure, however, which employers reject you on such bases. When I worked at a hospital, we had background checks. At my present job, no such thing.
> Stop being a packrat and move cold data to an external drive.

How does lugging around an extra piece of equipment that is inconvenient to handle equate to being less of a packrat? No. Inventing time-consuming and frustrating coping strategies just because newer tech is more limited than the old stuff? That's not a path I'm going to embark on. There is nothing liberating about it.

The restrictions Apple currently imposes on us do not exist because they believe we should throw away our data as a matter of Zen. They exist because SSDs have not caught up yet, though at some point they will.

> Bonus: now you have your data around even if your laptop breaks.

What does breakage even mean in this context? My laptop right now has an SSD for fast system things and an HDD for bulk data. If one of them breaks, the laptop will still be usable and I just put in a spare part. If the laptop is completely destroyed, chances are an external HDD in my backpack will also be.

It's not like carrying an external backup HDD is impossible just because my laptop has adequate onboard storage - it's obviously a false dichotomy.

> It's very liberating.

I absolutely get that shedding ballast is a liberating experience, but it pertains to physical things. I have gotten rid of many, many things in my life that didn't have any real value anymore - including almost all of my books, CDs, and DVDs. The books and CDs are still with me in digital form, which is kind of the point here (the DVDs are, too, but on my home server).

The neat thing about digital possessions is that they can scale very well without encumbering you.
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Americans can be imprisoned for debt too if the debt was caused by legal fees and fines.
Smokescreens were widely used as a defensive tactic during World War 2. Assuming that the bombing crews are attempting to hit a target rather than just indiscriminately bomb an area of several square kilometers, they were very effective before the advent of infrared cameras all-weather radar. Smokescreens do require relatively calm winds though.

You could e.g. read "Target Tirpitz" which is a historical account documenting among other things how smokescreens were used to defend Germany's biggest battleship against a large number of bombing runs. A battleship is pretty much the biggest target you could have on a battlefield, showing that this tactic is very effective against non-indiscriminate bombing.
Can you explain why you are unsure the seL4 model is the best for a secure system?
> My point is, that the entire nation survived even though for two decades they couldn't even identify as Polish in public.

How do you distinguish between a nation surviving, and a new nation being founded with the same name?
There are tons of x86 chromebooks
I can agree that the US health care systems seems to be uniquely f-cked up. (No other term seems possible to apply.)

But centrally planned European health care systems are far from perfect.

I am familiar with the Swedish system and it is unable to diagnose problems because of administration. Afaik, international benchmarking comparisons supports this. The doctors at the "sharp end" don't have enough minutes per patient to find problems that aren't obvious.

People have to try to go to multiple doctors, until they find someone that isn't just too traumatized by the system to do their job.

I would guess somewhere between 0.5 and 5 percent (this has not been examined) of the Swedish population walks around with some simple to cure problem which lowers their life quality for years and decades. From myself and people I know -- knees, food allergies, lack of some vitamin/mineral, bacterial infections, thyroid problems, etc.

I have quite often heard the expression about someone with problems -- "too sick to get well". That is, that person is too ill to make enough noise that the medics have to take the energy and diagnose, just to get rid of him/her.
Parchive is also a must have

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
Yes. I don't think I've turned on my Nexus 7 since I got my Nexus 5. The phone is more comfortable to hold and the screen is plenty big for anything from Netflix/Twitch viewing to ebook reading.

I always felt the original iPad 2 was too big and heavy to use comfortably for very long, too. 5"-7" seems like the sweet spot.
> Unfortunately this will be yet another proprietary technology from Nvidia that nobody else will use...

This is a scientific/technical research paper for a computer graphics conference. It's not even near being a technology that ships.

There's a reason that there are so many "Nvidia only" technologies. Take the G-sync displays for example. It's a problem dating back to cathode ray tube display technology but to overcome it, it takes integration between the display controller hardware (in the graphics card) and the panel control electronics. Display manufacturers do not make the GPU hardware so the only option is for a GPU company to try to make the first step.

In the long run some of these technologies will become standard and widespread but someone has to take the first step and that must be economically viable.
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I think the answer would be to propose the beacon to be part of the Bluetooth SIG specifications. Any group of 3 companies in good standing in the Bluetooth SIG (adopter or above) can propose this to the SIG. This is called a New Work Proposal. This can then be taken up by a Study group/working group to actually get the specifications adopted by the Bluetooth SIG.

This is the link to the NWP:
https://www.bluetooth.org/docman/handlers/DownloadDoc.ashx?d... (Requires login and you need to be a Bluetooth SIG member)

Edit:
This may be a better link as it shows the dcouments available in the Bluetooth SIG.
https://www.bluetooth.org/en-us/specification/reference-publ...
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Yeah, it doesn't seem like Apple really focuses on any development outside of their platforms (iOS, OS X). It has naturally become a popular choice for web design and development because of the strong graphic design user base. Over time, the community has built a lot of great tools for web dev on the mac, though.

"Their hardware [being] dedicated to their OSX thingy" is actually a great thing for every day use. Their software (OS as well as other pieces) can be testing against very specific hardware and think that is a big part of why it is pretty reliable. That and being unix-based is a big win over windows IMO.
You can live without a car if there is an acceptable public transport. That being said, car ownership among young Americans is going down. There have been some "OMG car is independence and growing up, they do not care about that" cries few months ago.

I guess it is blamed if you buy a car (luxury) and blamed if you do not buy a car (car being a symbol) case.
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Does the Steam ecosystem provide any support for marketing and discovery of new games, or are users relying on word of mouth networking?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(software) mentioned Steam Greenlight for estimating demand for new games, but it is apparently being phased out.

Is it limiting when a platform (Apple, Valve, Amazon, etc) owns the customer relationship? Seems like it would be difficult to apply conventional marketing techniques to learn about customers, if the platform provider owns the user's contact info.
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You can reference mac buyersguide http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#MacBook_Air
I currently have a 2012 MBP/r, but considering getting the Asus NX500. After 2 years of seriously using a mac... I still can't stand it. I feel much more productive in Mint or Windows.

/opinion
Then don't use xcode as your C++ IDE. Xcode is for developing in the Apple ecosystem, but there are plenty of other options on OSX if that's not your target. Nearly every C++ toolchain and editor available to you in linux is available in OSX as well through brew/macports(/fink).

Also windows can be installed from USB nearly as easily as ubuntu.
> I agree that KPIs are misused quite a lot but that does change the fact that they can provide valuable information and setup incentives to follow certain goals.

The problem is that KPIs are misused like, 99.9% of the times, starting from elementary school. It's rare to see someone using such scores as (one of many) evaluation input and not an output. It's good that you put effort into doing real analysis; sadly, not many people do that.

I think that KPIs, or grades, let you as a manager/evaluator be lazy. You don't have to think, to investigate why the scores are bad, to talk with poor performers. Probably you'll be even discouraged from doing so by your superiors / the whole system - you are not allowed to completely disregard the scores at your discretion.
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Fantastic - thanks! I shall indeed check that out.
That's something we're considering, but as you say it's likely to be kinda painful. We'd ideally prefer to get higher-quality developer contacts.

The LinkedIn suggestion is excellent - thanks!
Every time u implement someone else's API you fall
Into the same trap.
It'll be in the regular HN "Hiring?" thread ;)
debs built with fpm[1] have been working for me. Unless you need something particularly complex, it should just be a matter of setting up a directory with the right layout and calling fpm with a couple of parameters.

[1] https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
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Picked up a new one about 2 months ago just knowing in the back of my mind that something new would be released soon. Glad I didn't miss out on too much =)
Koreans still make cans that thick. Every time I buy korean soft drink I'm amazed by its can toughness.
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Your counterargument sounds silly because it is silly.

Email is a federal system. Even if it's more decentralized than having a single point of failure, it still has authoritative nodes and just a few points of failure (maybe 4-5 instead of a single one, not much of a difference here).

If your system has servers on which clients have to rely, it's not fully decentralized. A fully decentralized system is peer-to-peer only and does not rely on anyone else. You just join the network as a peer and that's all. There's no single point (or a few points) of failure because everyone is authoritative.

If, for example, GMail is taken over your email is gone and any email sent to you thereafter is lost. Your mail address is owned and controlled by GMail, they just allow you access. Even switching from GMail to Yahoo is a burden! All your contacts have to update their address books and all non-updateable media (think printed, downloaded or out of your control, like some whitepapers I published which feature my email) is stuck with your old, unusable address forever. My Bitcoin address is working, regardless of who joins or leaves the Bitcoin network.

Your GMail/GHash simile is misleading. GHash users can leave the pool and they'll still have their coins in their wallet, operating normally. If GHash is closed or DDoSed users could carry on normally, or even switch to another pool if they want to do so.

GHash is external to Bitcoin (a service to gather peers for convenience), while GMail and other massive email servers are critical parts of the system.

Even if you set up your own email server, other servers could refuse to relay email to you, or perhaps DNS servers might choose not to handle your domain... and you're gone. In a federal system, other authoritative nodes have to acknowledge you, which they might not. And even if they acknowledge your existence, your server is still a single point of failure for yourself! And you're still relying on other single-points-of-failure for delivery. Even if your server is fine, you might not be able to deliver messages to your friend in GMail if it's gone.

We've already seen this happening. MtGox is gone, but Bitcoin (the system, not the community) didn't even notice.
Somewhat related: Google released a Quantum Playground that includes visualization of quantum states. Pretty nifty: http://qcplayground.withgoogle.com/#/home
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The screen size! The day they announce the 15" Air I'm there.
The text is super-hard to read, field spacing needlessly big: http://cl.ly/Wnhs

If the whole idea of this is to have good UI over BitMessage, it's not that good of a UI.