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> the whole point of free market capitalism is to ensure the price of a product is as close to its "free market value" as possible

You forgot competition. In a healthy market, a big difference between manufacturing cost and final price is a strong incentive for competitors to enter the market and undercut prices. You can see this in practise in unregulated markets like electronics, leading to a flood of really cheap devices, for example you can get a Galaxy S4 clone on Alibaba for about $200, whereas an original S4 goes for $400 right now.

You can bet the Chinese would also do cheap generics, if the FDA would let them.
(1) Is it really a problem that apps can't be pixel perfect on the 6+? How unsharp are we talking about? Are there workarounds such as device detection and an additional set of image assets?

(2) Will Apple aim to re-enable pixel-perfection in next year's iPhone release? Was this just a stopgap measure due to yield challenges inherent to display manufacturing?
Google is integrating Nest with Google Now this fall ("Google, set the temperature to X degrees") although after thinking about it I realized that Google Now is available on iOS (just not constantly available as it is on Android devices enabled to listen constantly for the cue.
But the synced files are still on your computer and phone.
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> American mass-produced fruits are in general disgusting.

When it comes to tropical fruits it is the same: American bananas taste like Styrofoam, guavas are bland.
"Seriously?" is not an argument. Neither is 'oh, please' or 'you must be really stupid to believe that' (for future reference.)

edit: If you feel the need to downvote this comment, pretend that it was "Whatever - communism wasn't so bad." and upvote it instead.
My problem is that it is picking up invisible elements too.
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Hmm, what if the checkerboard pattern is at 1:1 (1x1 blocks)?
I've slowly felt my soul being crushed after five years at a small, Office Space-esque mechanical engineering firm in an LA suburb. Our perks include two 10-minute breaks per day where we can make personal calls, walk around the parking lot, or close our office doors. Actual methods of analysis draw heavily from '70s to early '90s engineering. I sound horribly millennial (which I am) to complain about these things while I'm making six figures at age 29, but it feels stifling and inhumane to work like this.
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The data isn't accurate to address, it's to some area, a little larger. I forget what. But the dots are randomly distributed in that area.
Oh I only counted the people actually inside a prison. I didn't think probation or parole counted in this argument since they're not locked up.

2,266,800 / 319,000,000 = 0.710595611% Forgot to move some decimals in my previous post
To those dots can we easily add local population density, and income?
Velodyne recently released a 16 channel LIDAR for ~ $8000. I agree with you that the cost can come down tremendously with volume. You also need to consider the differences within LIDAR systems. The velodyne system is for 360 degree field of view. Other automotive LIDAR systems (See continental, Valeo, Ibeo, etc) with lower FOV and functionality (forward collision warning, blindspot detection,etc) are much lower cost > 10x ....
I did, in fact, use one of them for some time. Then it was discontinued, because Google killed the ability to utilize the number through their API.
So you gave the idea to Microsoft, then abandoned it and now you are angry someone from your team picked it up again and offered you shares?
Could you explain why I should favor client-side auth over server-side auth, especially if I want to do some action on behalf of the user, like generating word-clouds of their posts, etc. And what makes helloJS different from oauth.io, which has open-sourced their server?
"Author: V. Shiva"

The link to the full paper isn't working but if that is who I think it is (Vandana Shiva) I'd take that paper with a massive grain of gluten-free sea salt. She's the one responsible for the Indian farmer suicide myth, as well as a bunch of other complete nonsense.
Just used this and it works really well. Keep up the good work! Emailing back and forth trying to figure out a time to meet is super annoying for me.
Can you speak more about why ZFS is better than BTRFS?
Great idea!

But why is the site blocking the Ctrl+D keystroke? Don't they want to be bookmarked?
[directionless rant that I'm going to post any way]

I've skipped red lights, not just to make way for ambulances and police cars (but yes that) but also when the amber->red transition is very short, you're doing the speed limit and when you check your mirror prior to putting on the brakes the driver behind is seemingly trying to read your GPS or check themselves in your rear-view mirror [ie is too close]. Slamming on the brakes then is dangerous; that's an offence too, damned if you do ...

The "must" in "You MUST stop" is an interesting one. The Highway Code is basically [correct me if I'm wrong] a summary of a code that if applied correctly should keep you from being in breach of the Road Traffic Act/ other similar Acts. So it says you must stop for a red light or you will breach, for example here, RTA Section 36 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52?view=plain).

Now reading RTA Chapter 52 Section 36 I find it tells me about traffic _signs_. So, wither traffic lights, well the interpretations at S.192(1) are useful and refer me to Road Traffic Regulations Act (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/section/64) but still not finding anything that tells me about traffic lights.

The details in RTA 36 concern proper placement and use of a sign, but this doesn't really seem to cover the complete situation - clearly a policeman on duty could direct you to cross a line at a red-light, or indeed the Highway Code says that when lights fail (and you know that how!?) then you can ignore them.

So, traffic lights are a special case of traffic signs that don't really get well accommodated it seems. I concede I gave up when I hit the fifth "reference this other section for what a 'traffic sign' is" so there could be detail elsewhere.

/rant

PS: Ah, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3113/regulation/10/m... = TSRGD regs 10 & 36, does the bit about traffic lights. Apparently only a red light is a sign under S.36 above.
I'm not looking for the ability to strictly invert, I'm looking for the ability to make a canonical sugaring. desugar+resugar may or may not give me the same as the original, but it will be idempotent.

Scheme macros? Oh wow we really are talking about completely different things. I'm talking about fixed transformations that are part of the language (just like the original comment seems to be, as far as I can tell), not arbitrary user-supplied transformations.

And I admit that I'm coming at this rather casually, but I'm considering languages I've used that have very little sugar and writing this sort of mechanism would be easy.

I looked at that paper a bit, they're tackling a very hard problem by taking languages with complex sugar and making a program that automatically processes sugar into an algorithm for resugaring. That's much harder than codesigning language and sugar to be amenable to resugaring.
Well for one thing you are providing your email address to a website, which might later sell it as a "high quality" i.e. personal email to receive SPAM.

By contrast, when I sign up to a service, I can start out using some throwaway email or a even mailinator.com email. Here, I have to put the ones I care to protect.

This is a bit like those services that say "enter your domain name and we'll check if it is registered" and then front-run you in registering it!
Doh... I am on there. Anyone have a good way to find all the accounts linked to my email address? I have tried searching for

subject:(register | confirm email | activate | account)

in my gmail account anyone have a better way?
Since the points are rendered in pixel-perfect form and then down sampled on the iPhone 6+, the only potential loss of fidelity is in the downsampling step. Since we're in an age of not even being able to see pixels, there should be no fidelity loss. The image displayed will be rendered at a higher resolution than the display, and thus every pixel on the ultimate display will be "perfect". Back when pixels were big enough to see, I was one of those "pixel perfect" people too. You had to get it right, or the error was noticeable. With retina displays, this is much less of an issue. (to me at least)

I have seen android devices advertised with 4k displays at a 4-5" diagonal form actor. That doesn't make sense to me, because beyond 300dpi there isn't much point in higher pixel density. Yes, it makes sense for Apple to choose this size display (as 1080p is a commodity size).

The real issue is, if you want to compare the platforms, which platform has better resolution independence support.

I won't criticize android on this, but I will say that the iOS reliance on PNGs has gone on way too long. 2x was a decent solution for photographs... but we should have moved to SVG or some vector format as a native format in iOS several years ago.
Good to see someone documenting a situation where DNSSEC would help if: 1) the mail servers were performing DNSSEC validation (as postfix now does); and 2) the DNS zones were signed that included the MX records.
The max-security ones are the ones that are biggest problem. They exacerbate mental problems the person had and often release people back into society unable to function normally. And no, not all the people who are locked there were repeatedly violent.
There must be a way. Otherwise the samples they have shown in the keynote of the landscape mail with the split view or the "enhanced" CNN sample app would never work as in the default mode outlined in this infographic, the screen can't possibly offer any more real estate for UI than the smaller screens, but the samples in the keynote were clearly showing more UI content.
The Apple Watch looks beautiful when photographed by itself. It looks absurd to me when photographed on someone's arm.

In time perhaps history will prove me wrong.
I can change my password anyway. How would this website possibly know about all the pwnage going on in the world? It doesn't even give details as to what the databases are, until I provide my info.

For the record, I am not arguing against THIS particular site, which does seem legit based on the other tabs on the site and the kind of things it talks about, but still, these are general things to keep in mind.
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Can you talk about performance of virtual machine disks on ZFS?
How is ZFS better/worse than BTRFS?
> I'm sorry you're wrong, different screen-sizes (and resolutions) are NOT market fragmentation. It's not hard to handle them and we've been writing phone and tablet apps for years now, so that's a solved problem.

Yes it is fragmentation. Just because it is "solved", doesn't mean it doesn't create extra work, extra bugs, and from a test matrix perspective, more compromises.
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On Eric Schmidt:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7623873

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8156005
I've made a site just for this purpose:

http://www.programmingpodcasts.com
This article mentions price controls. There are tax benefits to using green electricity/cars versus polluting electricity/cars, but should gas cars be price-controlled up and electric cars price-controlled down? Should Tesla be made to accept only a set amount of profit as a measure of increasing the average health faster than it would otherwise?

Actually, Tesla is a great example of how the health > economic efficiency question is answered decisively in favor of economic efficiency (or at least, profit for existing stakeholders). If governments cared about health more than profits, Tesla would never be barred from selling in a single state.

If you start thinking that health and welfare are more important that economic efficiency, I think the vast majority of the current economic policy goes out the window. The IMF certainly shouldn't be advising struggling countries to cut education and healthcare first if health is truly more important that economic efficiency. If economic efficiency were truly second to health, the world should look very different. Would that really be better?
Hm, this chart shows average weight dropping as people get older.

http://www.halls.md/chart/men-weight-w.htm
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Debian is the last major Linux distribution where it is not easy to do / on ZFS. It might be possible to implement a module for Debian's initramfs generator in ZoL upstream. I suggest filing an issue to inquire about this possibility:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/new
Even working at a "change the world startup" can beat you down after a while. Working under a high level of stress for long periods of time, wearing 10 different hats and doing the work of 5 people while not knowing for sure if the investor who promised to cut you a check next week will actually come through.
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That's the point OP was making.

They would know that you know that they know.

This means they could be very, very targeted with an email/social phishing attack to try and get a newer password or other account information by referencing the previously compromised site. It could help the bad guys establish trust. A bit tinfoily but well within the realm of possibilities if the lookups on this site are logged.
Wow I would love a Jane Street shirt
Emoji One
Exactly that. I inferred from surface analogies and was disappointed.
Using AWS does not magically give you a HA infrastructure when you have a complicated service oriented architecture like Netflix. All the stuff mentioned here are still relevant even if they're running their own DC.
Would the Wall Street Journal be sufficient?

http://online.wsj.com/articles/gardeners-on-alert-as-pennsyl...

As for word of mouth, until John Deere adds a repeater onto their tractors it's what we have to work with. I'd use my Chromebook, but Google's networking layer in Javascript continues to remain broken.
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I think it's actually pretty clever. Developers clearly have trouble writing apps to support arbitrary scale factors. Resolution independence was supposed to be a feature of Windows since Vista was codenamed "Longhorn" (before 2004), and Windows is still a mess on higher-DPI screens 10 years later. Making it so developers only have to think about 1x and 2x and 3x makes the task easier.

Also, look at it this way: with the diminishing returns of resolutions above 300 dpi, is it really a big deal that you won't get the absolute best use of the iPhone 6+'s 400 dpi? Seems like a pretty reasonable trade-off to use that extra resolution in a way that makes resolution-independence easier for developers.
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Stupid question, but why the point resolution for the iphone 6+ isn't a perfect divider of the pixel resolutions like it is for the other iphones?

Since there is more than one point resolution anyway.

And also, how is it different for android devices?
good luck man. hope you'll have more clear skies ahead...
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Texts and emails are not 100% accurate of course, especially given my accent and given that proper nouns can be problematic. But it's still faster for me to start these activities by voice and just fill in the corrections. Searching for trivia (to settle random arguments etc.) is always, always faster with the OK Google interface.

For almost any activity on the phone, hunting for an app icon and finding the appropriate context in the app (e.g. searching for the correct contact to send the message to) etc. are usually the most time consuming and frustrating activities. Those are nicely bypassed (with a very high level of accuracy) by the no-touch interface of the MotoX.

Creating calendar entries and setting alarms etc. are two other activities where natural language queries are pretty much the best UX compared to any screen based UI on any device. Google Now has extremely high accuracy in recognizing these tasks.
I remember taking this in University, lambda scared the hell out of me.
> API/Platform fragmentation is the big problem. Supporting multiple APIs and gracefully degrading to older versions is much harder than being able to scale your UI. Apple has been pretty good with keeping customers devices as current as possible. Android, not so much.

This is highly dependent on which kind of APIs you are interacting with. Most API families are part of Google Play Services now which means they are generally available back to 2.3. Framework API differences between platforms are generally small and haven't been much trouble to work with, although some types of hardware interaction changed significantly between some platform levels (e.g. audio).
Yes, Monsanto lobbies, just like every other relatively large company in this country.

> The privatization of water and food as population control and hostile takeover of land is very real.

I'm sorry, but this sounds like tin foil hat nonsense. Care to substantiate that?
Why stop at upvotes? If hacker news were a truly free market, you should be able to buy any action the site supports over its database, and for a higher price, any operation the database itself supports. If Hacker News really cared about economic efficiency more than things like "insight" and "good discussion," we could buy shadowbans, changes to vote weights, and edits to comments or post titles.
Where do you want to "go" as a society? Is the goal to have the same "diverse" racial distribution in every community? I for one am ok with people living in communities that are mostly of the same race. I think these communities preserve cultures better. Something I personally would not like to see disappear. For instance, I would not like Chinatown to become 50% white, 20% black, 20% hispanic and 10% asian or something. I think that would be terrible. As long as there isn't legislation that is forcing or evening economically coercing people to live in segregated communities, I kinda like just having the chips fall where they may and people live where they feel comfortable.

I also wonder what other countries would look like if this same analysis was applied? My guess is that you'd see the same basic result. Cities more diverse, rural areas less. Within cities, you'd still find segregation.
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Please do not contribute to public ignorance. You clearly haven't tried to use rsync, which has its name for a reason -- it's a synchronization utility. All synchronization operations must know which is the source and which the destination. Something this is arrived at automatically, but in the case of rsync and iTunes, you must tell it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync

Quote: "rsync is a file synchronization and file transfer program"

SO which word is confusing?

> Both are the source of their own actions, and both are the destination of each other's.

Of course. But let's return to planet Earth. Consider this example. Two systems have directories with independent collections of files. System A has 9 files. System B has 10 files. The operator tries to sync the two systems. But to do so, the operator has to tell his synchronization program, which is the source and which is the destination.

The outcome depends on the operator's decision, it cannot depend on the contents of the directory trees.

Read the original post, the one I replied to -- the OP lost his music collection by choosing the wrong source for a file synchronization operation using iTunes. I replied to explain what "synchronization" means in that context.
nevertheless, he made them to put that sentence into their settlement. good for him.
I find iTunes to be very useful. One place to manage all of the content on my device, back it up, and restore it (if necessary). Android file transfer is buggy and exposes too much to the user. While it is cool to look inside of DCIM or wdh_update, it isn't helpful or even understood.
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The samples with the wide split screen are rendered at 1242x2208 (3x 414x736, which is larger than any other iphone which is either 320x568 or 375x667) - and then downscaled. My question was really about whether is it possible for software to render framebuffers at 1080x1920 (3x 360x640) - perhaps bypassing UIKit completely.
the idea of consumption as a stint to growth i could relate to from the perspective of: cultures more consumed with self give less reason for growth. From another perspective: in a society that worships the self child-bearing is a product of boredom or issues with self-confidence? But it just doesn't fit entirely.
For anyone interested, over the past couple weeks I have heavily researched ZFS, and created a couple screencasts about my findings [1, 2].

[1] https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/35-zfs-on-linux-part-1-of...

[2] https://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/37-zfs-on-linux-part-2-of...
This write-up (also on the front page currently) is a lot simpler and focuses more on the actual dimensions, instead of frankly half-baked marketing analysis. http://www.paintcodeapp.com/news/iphone-6-screens-demystifie...
1- We'll have to see a device to know for sure, but I expect his will not be a problem at all. For my apps, I'm going to do nothing, but make sure we support the additional point dimensions.

2- I think this is doubtful. The first time I saw a WWDC presentation about Resolution Independant graphics was in 2003 (maybe 2002.) Apple's been preparing for this time for a over a decade. The iPhone just was a bit too skeumorphic in its early versions resulting in a focus on raster assets rather than vector.

Either we're all going the Paintcode way (authors of this post) or Apple is going to have to start taking CSS or SVG or some vector format for its assets.

I think this is more likely than tying displays to a rigid multiple of the original iPhone screen size.