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Apple did the right thing by releasing dozens of customization options for watch. They also did the right thing by having different sized watch mad phone. The whole average adult hand size is just that. Average. It ignores the fact that women have much smaller hands and wrist.

Phone has evolved to become everyday life commodity. You have to consider practical needs for devices that are going to be on you half your waking life.

What worked for apple in the past may not work for them in the future. For what they are they are solid devices.

The bigger problem apple has isn't the marketing. Its that they are making products that are predictable.
Content addressable systems trade CPU and memory with disk space. If you expect duplications to be low, you are usually better off with a background scrubber.
Scrooge tried holding a copy of Edward Tufte's website in front of some zombies: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

LOOK!

Not a thing. They ran neither slower nor faster on the treadmills he'd set up for them.
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Yes, that makes sense.

But we might take it as a negative comment on the modularity or ease of configurability of the environment supported by Android (or, more generally, by Linux).
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What happened to all the typewriter repairmen when computers became ubiquitous?

Certainly there will be upheaval in the labor market. I can certainly see unions and lobby groups pushing back against autonomous vehicles and delaying adoption.

But I dont think its significantly different to other technological revolutions (the wheel, the transistor, the computer, the internet).
Ugg, set top box debugging. I feel you pain. Have you looked at weinre[1]?

[1]: http://people.apache.org/~pmuellr/weinre/
He's right about the iPhone but not the watch. Jewelry is a completely different sector where individualization is not just nice-to-have but absolutely required. They would sell a few watches to die-hard fans if they didn't show "the 60", but they would miss the market they are trying to hit: people who wear watches. In effect, the ONE is the 60.

I'm not saying it was a perfect launch, and they may have gotten it right unintentionally, but they still got it right.
Again, you are missing the point. Steve identified the insight (the WHY) behind a product before he introduced the details and design. Cook & team skip all the important foreplay. It makes the products feel less Apple-y, less inspired, and simply, more like everyone else's. I love Apple and will keep buying their phones, the watch, and Macs. But for some of us, the company is also part of the products.
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Use && there, not ; - consider the result if either of the
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One wonders if quarantine and isolation will be enough to allow it to burn itself out.
Try pitching your startup to investors in the style of Tim Cook, see how far that gets you. Then you'll get it.
But an "I phone" does phone. An "I watch" doesn't watch.
An inspiring video from a young man with this condition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrWgGj9strs
The project is at a very nascent stage. I am not sure if 0.2 can run numpy put eventually it will.
At the risk of suggesting anything Microsoft on HN, have a look at the Xbox music API. It has search functionality as well as streaming (for people with a music pass). It will also give you some artwork to display as the song is running.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn546671.aspx
No. They're doing it to create beautiful, innovative products that make life more beautiful. And innovative.
I'm pretty sure a bunch of old realms having long time land disputes and family feuds and ethnic disavowals for over a thousand years is different from an industrial military complex that keeps conjuring up wars for oil and to keep itself well-oiled, and worse yet stirs its fat finger in the world's cup in the name of self-righteous capitalism.
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I think you mostly hit the nail here.

Google+ should have been a seamless (and transparent!) way of sharing content from all Google services.

Instead it is a weird social network, seated between the seats of a twitter and a facebook clone. It's probably great for twitter style yelling in the wind, but it really looks like its a facebook style only-shared-with-mutual-friends kind of network.

And Google services are awkwardly connected through G+. Are my pictures on Picasa or G+? And when they are on G+ are they shared with people I've added to my circles or with people following me? Or are they backed up until I decide to share them? This can all be controlled for sure, but it is completely non-obvious.

It is the same with hangouts. If you go to google.com/hangouts (a google search for hangouts will take you there as well!) you get an ad for the hangout app for mobile devices.
But if you want to access hangouts online you have to go to G+. And from G+ you can log out of hangouts (what?) so what is hangouts? Is it a seperate service or is it g+ chat? If it is G+ chat, then why do I get an email instead of a G+ notification when people write me on hangouts?
This, this, this. This is what is missing from Apple now.
That's what the multi-million dollar charge marked REDACTED on your quarterly earnings report is for.
While this is partially true, you need to remember that about half of the pitch here seemed to be that this item is fashion. Fashion typically isn't "pitched" as a solution to "problems" (right? runway?). Thus, Apple found itself in a very delicate balancing act between showing off this device's capabilities and appealing to our rational capacities while not going overboard and establishing it as something in a line of succession to Mac, iPhone, iPad with traditional, as you call it, foreplay. The device had to spend a lot of time speaking for itself, as good fashion does.
"Messy. Too many options. This is such a huge blunder."

"It's hard enough to craft desire for a single identity."

"Can you imagine if the original iPhone in 2007 came with sixty customizable skins?"

Seriously? Is changing the wallpaper such a "huge blunder" for Apple users?
>>Try pitching your startup to investors in the style of Tim Cook, see how far that gets you. Then you'll get it.

It would work if you were Tim Cook. But you aren't.

That's what people mean when they say, "you have to find your own voice." Tim Cook has found his. He simply needs to change the content of what he is saying. I think if he explained the importance and significance of the iWatch more forcefully, it would have been a better presentation. But that has nothing to do with style.
He's just misinterpreting the quote, and then setting up a strawman to make an slightly related point.

"A" players make an outsized impact on a rapidly growing organization. Successful startups aren't like other activities - it's built into the model that the early team has to be truly, deeply, amazing. If you don't think that "A" players exists in startup land, you're just not paying attention. Just like there are "B" players who join a startup and then just coast along and don't make a giant impact.

I've never heard Jobs (or anyone else for that matter), claim that all people could be permanently categorized as "A", "B", or "C" players.

You want to be Apple? eject the "B" players.
The previous time this was submitted, it was deleted, so I guess I'll post this again:

Over the years, I saw many presentations from Steve that I thought were bland or off in some way.

Pointing out Steve's statement that nobody would want a big phone, implying that a big iPhone isn't something Steve would have allowed to happen, ignores Steve's famous habit of dismissing something and then doing it anyway. I remember when he said nobody wanted to watch movies on an iPod, and then new iPods came out with the ability to play movies.

I often see complaints that "Jobsian Apple" would never release multiple versions of something, even though there was the iPod, iPod mini in several colors, and the iPod photo; later there was the iPod nano, iPod classic, and iPod touch. A watch is a fashion device, and it would be strange not to have style options.

Steve got too much credit. Apple was led by a team, and many of those people are still there. Some of Apple's most successful decisions were choices Steve opposed or had to be convinced of.
I honestly have no idea whether it would have been better for Apple to sell a single version of the watch, but I see no reason to assume that Steve would have made a different decision, seeing as Apple sold 5 different colors of iMacs simultaneously under his leadership. At least the watch doesn't come in flower power or blue dalmation.
Sure, nothing stops a website (or app) from going to Google to ask for your contacts. This is the classic "invite your contacts" strategy that Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. have employed since the beginning. But granting that access is almost never mandatory with such services. Why? Because people just wouldn't sign up. It's not even necessarily a question of people not trusting the service, because the UX hurdle of forcing the user to enter yet-one-more-password is enough to hurt conversion rates.

On Android, this is not the case; if you use the Facebook or LinkedIn apps, you will be forced to give up access to your contacts (unless you root your device). The reasons for this are twofold. First, Android permissions are all-or-nothing, which means that apps have to over-approximate their required permissions. Second, because granting access is so easy (no UX hurdle to speak of), there's really no downside to doing so (which is to say, conversion rates will not decrease substantially).

The issue of how the device gets access to the data (e.g. whether contacts are cached locally or are purely remote) is really not the issue. You could easily implement the Android API with no local caching of data, and aside from the performance hit the behavior would be identical.

I could certainly imagine a version of ChromeOS which supports Android apps without the Android permission model, essentially by returning empty data sets whenever the app asks. This would be compatible with ChromeOS's current security policies, and would protect user privacy. But it would be so easy for Google to break that line in order to promote "better UX" for apps in the style of Android, that I can't honestly convince myself that they'll never go down that road. And that's why I can't be entirely comfortable with believing the ChromeOS security model will remain intact.
Sure, but that's how they are going to get anyone in the end, especially with their current mass spying capabilities and fishing expeditions. Remember this?

http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487044715045744...

If you don't cooperate with whatever they want you to do they'll get you for something, and then they'll paint you as the scum of the Earth in the media, so nobody pays too much attention to what they did exactly.
Here are some stereo pairs of Mars, Jupiter, & Saturn,

http://www.sunflower-astronomy.com/index.html?http://www.sun...

And the moon,

http://lcni.uoregon.edu/~dow/Marks_photos/stereo_pairs/Apoll...

Here are some artistic (not real) stereo pairs of the Heart nebula,

http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2010/04/ic-1805-as-stereo-p...

Some explanation of the artistic method,

http://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/2011/02/sh2-132-as-stereo-p...
iOS users spend more, are worth many times Android users to ad buyers, get laid more, and are an all around better demographic. It's true - look it up.

http://www.wired.com/2010/08/gadget-sex/

http://fortune.com/2014/06/27/apples-users-spend-4x-as-much-...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2013/11/15/android-d...
I bet the same, but that's not what we're talking about here.
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I find it odd that they only report the results in percent in the first place. Maybe the baseline drag of a rider back in the 80's was much higher than today, making 0.6% old the same amount of force as 7% new.
I've putzed around on something very similar to this for performing analytics on terrestrial radio stations and the commercials. Great work, and I love that you've open sourced it...I didn't use python for mine (C++), but, python allows for a much easier barrier to entry versus my spaghetti code :)
Yea, haha. Reminds me of a time when I was a kid, and a friend of mine hadn't learned much about the four mountains surrounding Tucson. When I told them their names, he said, "Wow, they named them after the high schools."
I'd say that you're right, mate. Stuff outside of your circle of friends (i.e. this site) does enrich lives. So why make tiiny?

Maybe 'connectedness to their friends' isn't a good metric for tiiny, as maybe that's not their goal. But I would say it's a good metric to keep in mind for people in general, and one that I think is being overlooked as people consume more and more 'social' content that doesn't really make them feel very social at all.
Metadata/data checksums are CRC-32C on all platforms and is per 4KB fs block. And ext4's (optional) checksumming also uses it. TCP is 16-bit and not CRC, although ethernet makes use of CRC-32. While SHA-2 is a cryptographic function and CRC-32C is not, and therefore inferior, as a checksum in the context of mostly but not entirely trusted hardware is adequate. It's also fast to the degree on modern hardware there's no point using nodatasum to disable it. Even 32-bit hardware handles it.

Btrfs send/receive snapshots are read-only. So you first take a read-only snapshot, send it and upon receive it's read-only. To make it rw, snapshot it (without -r), and optionally delete the ro snapshot.

I agree the kernel currency issue to get more urgent fixes is a problem for making filesystem usage friendly, in particular while development is heavy and backporting is non-trivial.
It's not just a big fan, they also come with all the measurement equipment.
Endemic in this situation is used as commonplace. He's just saying that cases are commonplace. It's not a perfect use of the word, but one I've definitely seen and used.
And Microsoft puts money on F#, Haskell and OCaml, all of which already have better Linux support.

Swift is great for pushing functional programming down the throat to mainstream developers that wish to target iOS, but it is no more pragmatic than OCaml or F#.

For the OP use case, targeting Linux server software is already better served by the languages I mentioned.
Ok, In this case why use a file to file copy like tar,cp, or rsync instead of a block copy like dd?
Prev HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7752528

Congratulations to Anupam and team!
Everyone criticized the Yo app for being a dumb thing to develop and a dumb thing to invest $1.2 million in.

Then the developers partnered with a service in Israel that sends alerts to users about incoming mortar fire, therefore potentially saving lives.

The point is that you should never, ever judge technology by its cover. In the end, it's all about how it is used.
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The entire GPU programming landscape is so fragmented and unapproachable now. If they'd only exposed the processors directly and worked to unify behind a common compiler frontend... Imagine a world where a good GPGPU language was a standard GCC/LLVM frontend and all the GPU vendors worked in harmony to improve their back-ends in the upstream compiler. This would enable development of new cross-vendor GPU languages to compete with the ailing OpenCL.

(This is what Apple has done with Metal Shading Language btw, minus the open source part. And what Intel's Larrabee would have enabled.)

Even if you disregard the licensing, the union of NV + AMD + Intel capabilities (software stacks included) is so weak that it almost never worth the effort. The comically bad software from AMD and lack of hardware oomph from Intel means the only option is to require NVidia and build on their software support. This is passable for a narrow sector of activities that can tolerate vendor lock-in (Cuda), like short lived HPC projects.

All this has resulted in lack of open GPU programming languages. OpenCL is better than nothing, but even if the implementations were of usable quality, it's not a good compiler target for higher level languages and it's not a good language to write by hand.

The situation pretty much guarantees GPU computing stays in the fringes for the foreseeable future.
Just like with Milk and Oink, right?
With virtualization/containerization that's not an unreasonable scenario. One of VMWare's selling points is that a sufficiently expensive vSphere cloud can expand and contract over its available hardware depending on load/time-of-day. With iLO integration, it can even power off the hardware it's not using and power it on when needed. If one server goes down, its VMs can be distributed over the remaining hypervisor, leading to potential resource contention but maintaining availability.

So, sort of.
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Also there is no mention of unrecoverable file analysis like error handling of cp operations in the article. And with this many files it would not be feasible without using an error log file.

So going with a simple block copy should suffice IMHO.
Loved Prolog, pity that it stayed mostly in academia.

Even got 3rd place on the Portuguese Logic Programming Contest.

I guess Erlang might be the way of keeping it somehow alive in the industry.
There is a difference between "symmetric key encryption" and "symmetric encryption".
Will you pre-buy the iPhone 6? Why, why not? Which size?
You can add/delete devices from raid5/6 volumes now. The raid5/6 code is still experimental, in particular while detected problems are fixed on-the-fly to userspace, the fixes aren't written back to drives. That limitation applies to normal usage and scrubbing. A balance detects and fixes these.

Also the determination of a drive being "faulty" (in the md/mdadm sense) and how this gets communicated to userspace isn't in place. If it's in place for ZoL (?) that'd be a considerable difference, a bigger one than checksum algorithms in my opinion.
As long as you happen to understand what goes thru the pipe, which isn't always the case.
I am thinking about the 5.5". I have a Nexus 5 and an iPad mini.
I think you totally summarised what we really feel while using G+ and related services.
Marten is an amazing guy. I bet most of the price that HP will pay is to get him.
I am so happy to hear about this, and about Lift in general. I've had a number of loved ones effected by this and seeing products that make life even a little bit easier is just really cool.
Yeah this is a pretty odd choice, it would be fascinating to find out Motorola's reasoning.

Motorola was comfortably TI's biggest OEM back when TI was actively pushing OMAP for smartphones. The original Droid (Milestone outside the US) through the Droid 4 were all OMAP (first OMAP3, then OMAP4) and I believe also used TI WiFi/Bluetooth.

The last "flagship" Android phone to use OMAP was the Galaxy Nexus, which had Android updates stop with 4.3. It's been rumored this was because TI had stopped maintaining up-to-date kernels/drivers for use with Android.

This would make it a bigger chore to bring-up the current version of Android than it would be on a current Snapdragon.
Also, the OMAP3630 is just an old chip: 45nm vs. 28nm used by the other (Snapdragon 400) Android Wear watches.

If I had to guess: Motorola had a bunch of OMAP3630s still left in stock (and was quoted a very good price by TI for more)
The proper thing to do is include valgrind.h and use the macros to determine if it's running under valgrind. Alternatively to accommodate other tools, hide it behind an env var. We should make it as easy to test production binaries as possible.
Guys, really, that is an awesome idea, especially when it comes to several countries in the world that limit the access to data. This data doesn't necessarily require multimedia, sometimes its all about access to basic information like dates for demonstrations, or other political topics and things like that. This could be really hand for hundreds of thousands of people who are just not informed and kept silent by their governments. Think about that when implementing. There is a not-so-small audience out there.

Do not get discouraged by all those people who are telling you that its too expensive. Those guys are sitting in behind a high-speed access and don't seem to look beyond the horizon, that sometimes its not about getting 2GB across with SMS (really? ... I mean... REALLY?!), its about getting basic access to information. Not every country is as awesome as the US or Europe in this world. Not everyone is free. And not everyone uses the internet the way we seem to got used to it.

Keep up the great work, its an awesome idea. For sailors, for people without access to internet, for quite a bit of an audience we like so much to forget. Keeping it open and turning down VC firms is even better.

GREAT JOB!
IMDb is a just a watch list. FilmCatch is more for organizing movies you own, or have lent to friends.
Just seeing the dates that the companies complied (or were forced to comply) is disappointing. A full year after Steve Jobs passes and stepped down as CEO, then Apple is added to that list.

Way to go Yahoo for sticking it our then.
> "2nd, they don't care about older-than-3 iphones"

great, so we agree.
Akzidenz-Grotesk is an interesting font choice. Its kerning makes it less readable than Helvetica but its glyphs are beautifully designed and very distinctive. It's an iconic font, but at the end of the day I think Helvetica surpasses it in terms of practicality.

Still wonder how MTA would look like with this design.
This has the slight flaw that you create two copies instead of one for each file (double write IO, double number of inodes) if there aren't many hardlinks.

I don't think that's an acceptable perfomance penalty in most situations.
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Great!
I think GitHub should create a rank of streak. :)
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What are some of the best books to refer to, on Software Design in general and Object Oriented design practices? Amazon link to the same would be awesome!
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If Tesla’s Gigafactory can run on 100% renewable energy, why can’t others?
Number of files on the drive shouldn't matter that much, actually. In a single folder is a different matter, of course (for that you definitely want to disable 8.3 compatibility). But the only way I can imagine right now where the number of files on the drive makes a difference would be where you crammed the drive almost full, resulting in a very fragmented MFT (normally the file system tries to keep space for growing the MFT, but not if you try to fill that space with data, too).
mercury is really nice.
For example, it has uniqueness typing for IO combined with syntactic sugar to make all of this rather terse.
Also Romania.
Avoid an embarrassing degree of self-reference -- Post your evidence, not your opinion. Other scientists agree with my view:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...
The design of the iPhone is guided by what is technically possible as much as by ergonomics. As the size of our hands hasn't changed, how can a 4.7 inch phone now be perfect when previously 3.5 inch was deemed perfect? Here is one reason: as the devices become slimmer, your thumb can reach farther than before and hence cover a larger screen. So: it's the combination of thinness and size that makes the iPhone 6 still usable with one hand. I'm not denying that people might not care as much and simply want a bigger screen, too, and this is an additional factor.
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