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Just to clear up the FUD, the Type-C connector supports 'Alternate Modes.' This allows manufactures to implement chips that can MUX different signal types onto the USB cable SS lanes. There are 4 SS lanes that can be reassigned and either 2 or 5 additional wires that can also be used depending on if it's a cable or dock connection.

So, can the Type-C connector support Thunderbolt? Yes.
Does the Type-C connector currently support Thunderbolt? No.
Will someone add Thunderbolt over Type-C? Maybe.

I've only heard of PCIe over Type-C (via the spec docs) and DP over Type-C (from the VESA guys).
Forget about clockspeeds, they don't mean much.

Let's see benchmarks first.
Don't know. Does it have to go? Can't they have a magnetic link of a wire where it breaks when stepped on?
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, what you say is true.

Apple did not invent the 'sub-notebook' form factor. There have been many notebooks without optical drives before it.
Anyone here who has already experience with it? Apparently a handful of hospitals and universities got early access.
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Ask your lawyer ,that's the only suggestion you should be listening to here.Really.
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So you're in your late 20s and started working when you were in elementary school? :-)
I'm pretty sure it was meant to be parsed like this:

> [Real applications like] For example, (keeping geostationary satellites in their correct orbit), (to counteract the aerodynamic drag from the very tenuous atmosphere 200km above the Earth).

Of course there isn't any significant drag at GEO, but you still need to use engines to do station keeping, thanks to things like Earth's shape, other planets and solar winds messing up with your orbit in tiny ways that tend to accumulate. You can't keep a stable orbit forever without correction burns the way you can in Kerbal Space Program (because it doesn't do full n-body simulation).

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping.
There's a good number of youtube videos where young kids give tutorials on modding Minecraft. Not quiet as raw, but certainly a similar gateway.
I'm pretty comfortable with asserting that there's no reasonable definition of "simple" which would make a mature Lisp compiler simpler than a mature C compiler.
I believe my drives use 500mA each for power.
AFAIK Clang (not LLVM) was entirely created by Apple and could have been proprietary

Also the x86 Darwin kernel was made open source with no benefit to Apple, and winocm managed to port it to ARM too (although it's pretty debatable if it actually provides anything useful)
...and the most worthless camera placement yet seen potentially on a laptop.
Buy as much as you can afford. If you expect to be using this laptop in 4-5 years time, the OSX and applications of that era will probably only perform well on >8GB RAM.
Several years ago while walking outdoors during the winter carrying my thinkpad in my hands, I slipped on a manhole cover that was covered in ice. The thinkpad fell about 4 to 5 feet straight onto the manhole cover, landing on it's corner (left-side palm rest corner).

The corner itself was obliterated, leaving a small hole where it used to be, but that was the only damage the laptop sustained.

Unibody metal laptops are nice, but I think the structural advantage of them is heavily oversold. Plastic laptops with metal frames can be amazingly durable.
"Do I understand right that it's got one port, which can be used for either power or USB, but not both at once? Man, that's the future?"

Within 18-24 months there will be a refresh that has two USB ports. It's already in the works and ready to manufacture.

Apple knows that people are using macbooks, successfully, for 4+ and even 5+ years, and they also know that a LOT of people will both buy the new macbook and buy a new one to get the "at long last" second USB port, which somewhat alleviates the "problem" of macbooks being too long-lived.
Not that much. I'd worry much more about the types of apps you need to run.
In practice, it'd be quite different because with ASLR, the compiler records the locations of all address references in the binary, so the OS knows what to fix up. At runtime, though, C programs normally leave no indication in memory of what is a pointer and what is pure data; even if you changed the compiler to emit this and the allocator to track it, you'd have problems with fairly common constructions like custom allocators, unions where it may be nontrivial to determine which alternative is in use (especially since the data may actually be uninitialized), tagged pointers, hashes based on the pointer value, et cetera. Garbage collectors for C run into the same problems and forbid some of those constructions, but they can always fall back on not collecting an allocation if they're unsure whether a reference to it is a real pointer or just an integer with the same value. If you're actually relocating things, you can't risk accidentally changing the value of some integer.

Honestly, I don't expect such a scheme to be implemented, considering how complicated (and limited) it would be. It sounds more realistic to implement a scheme that implements the full semantics even if at a severe performance cost, as suggested in the article, and expect ported Mill programs to stop using fork without exec for anything important.
We've had similar stuff like ResearchKit in existence for quite long. One of the most popular of such sites is patientslikeme.com .It and others did a great job around this, but usage is relatively rare.

The hard thing about such sites is:how do you incentivize people to contribute really personal information and do so on a regular basis(even if said action takes a relatively long time) ?

So i wonder what can Apple do to make this activity common, that other companies couldn't do ? How will they achieve this ?
This is not an Air. This is a "Macbook".

The Air line was also upgraded to core i5 and i7 today.
> That’s why it is good practice to not rely on JavaScript, but instead test for it and enhance a markup and page reload based solution when and if the browser was able to load and execute our script. This is called progressive enhancement and it has been around for a long time.

ONLY only for webSITES not for webAPPS. For Webapps I pretend js-disablers don't exist. For something like a blog, news site, etc yes it should work without JS but if one more person tries to tell me to support people with JS turned off in a webapp I'm going to blow. I simply can't be asked to push the envelope AND support people living in the dark ages. This was fine when we just used JS for some client-side validation or the like but now I'm working with drag/drop interfaces, maps, ajax, single-page apps, and more. Those simply DO NOT HAVE non-js fallbacks without writing shit load of duplicate server-side code. Now node.js may offer a way around this (render on the server-side the same templates that are on the client side) but I'm still not sure how you are supposed to replace a auto-complete dropdown for something like tagging friends or just sending a message to a friend on facebook...

If there are enough people to justify making a non-js version then great, here is an IDE, get started, do it yourself I'll even put a link to your site in my noscript tags. I'm past using JS like a little sugar you sprinkle on at the end of a project, it is integral to most of what I write.

Please show me a company (not Google/FB/etc) that supports a non-js and JS version of their site (A site that is interactive, not a blog or similar).
At university I move around a lot, and often there isn't a power plug because tables are out in the middle of rooms or something. I could try and sit next to a wall or something, but why bother when battery isn't a concern.
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That depends on how magnetic the body is. Unless you mean a magnetic breakaway cable, but that would mean a dongle that would stick out all the time.

I think both could be marketable if this gets big in a generation or two.
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He probably means that making it open source would benefit Apple moreso than if they kept it closed, not out of the goodness of their hearts
Thanks for the link.

I haven't seen anything after 375 iterations (600s). So I may still be exploitable, but that means you'd have to keep something running at 100% CPU for > 600s and somehow have me not notice the laptop fans going crazy.
Probably depends on the direction of the force and other conditions but I'd imagine the male part of the connector would break or bend in some scenarios.
>It's just a matter of synching info.

Synchronizing is hard. That's the problem.

I want to close my laptop after a day at the office and be able to continue working on the train or an airplane, immediately, if I need to.

This isn't easy to do without having a single machine.
They will be able to MUX two DP lanes onto two of the USB SS lanes and keep one for USB 3.1 as well.

Also, there are dedicated wires for USB 2.0 as well that are separate from the SS lanes.
Everyone who puzzles why Newton, perhaps one of the greatest geniuses in recorded history, dabbled in Alchemy should read Keynes's lecture that he prepared to read at tercentenary of Newton: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Extras/Keynes_Newton.htm....

Keynes was fascinated by Newton and when his papers were sold in 1936 he managed to buy about half of them. This part in the opening of the lecture fascinates me:

"In the eighteenth century and since, Newton came to be thought of as the first and greatest of the modern age of scientists, a rationalist, one who taught us to think on the lines of cold and untinctured reason.

I do not see him in this light. I do not think that any one who has pored over the contents of that box which he packed up when he finally left Cambridge in 1696 and which, though partly dispersed, have come down to us, can see him like that. Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with the same eyes as those who began to build our intellectual inheritance rather less than 10,000 years ago. Isaac Newton, a posthumous child bom with no father on Christmas Day, 1642, was the last wonderchild to whom the Magi could do sincere and appropriate homage."
Except for the 11 inch MacBook Air, which is the oddball of the family in that respect.
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It sounds to me like they're building an internal Truevault for managing patient data.
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There are 16GB SODIMMs, so why isn't Intel supporting those? The company that makes them claims this is purely on Intel/OEMs.

1: http://www.intelligentmemory.com/dram-modules/ddr3-so-dimm/

Update: Oh wow, the new Broadwell chips do support them. So maybe the new ThinkPad X250 isn't so useless after all! This is great news if true.
> There is no progressive enhancement way around this issue, and an opt-in string doesn’t do the job either. In essence, we break backwards compatibility of scripting of the web. This could be not a big issue, if browsers supported ES6, but we’re not quite there yet.

This post misses the single most important tool for users (to help them try syntaxes), framework developers (to help them be more productive and consistent), and standards developers (to get feedback):

Transpilers.

Because much of ES5 is reflective (and ES6 even more so), it makes a great target for the translation of a new syntax into old syntax. This cycle of reflective-api-to-new-syntax is exactly what Yehuda is talking about in his post http://yehudakatz.com/2013/05/21/extend-the-web-forward/.

The impact of transpilers on ES module syntax, ES classes, and ES promises as been amazing. You can see the same thing happening with decorators/annotations today- real world use in TypeScript is influencing the discussions of TC39.

> The current support table of ECMAScript6 in browsers, parsers and compilers doesn’t look too encouraging. A lot is red and it is unknown in many cases if the makers of the products we rely on to run JavaScript will take the plunge.

I disagree in the strongest terms. ES6/E2015 is a huge amount of changes, and browsers have been driving the discussion and implementing items as they have stabilized.
The DP over Type-C stuff (Alternate Mode) is not hub traversable.

So, you could talk to a single DP device, but that DP device could be a DP MST splitter. This could allow it to act as a DP hub for you to daisy chain a second monitor.
Would Vesalius and his anatomical research be as known today if it weren't for the artist who illustrated his book?? Art is longer.
Apple laptops have been limited by a lack of docking ports, which is my favorite use case for having a work and home workstation. Now, instead of hooking up a power cable, monitor cable and USB hub, you slide one connector in. How is that bad?
Listen to this advice. If you need the money, and it's your only source, you have to do what you have to do. This smells all kinds of wrong; and probably won't lead to money or money you'd want.
This site has a fairly good explanation of the benefits of 16:10 http://sixteenbyten.com/

16:10 is better than 16:9 for anything but watching movies because the screen would be as wide anyway, so the 16:9 turns into a reduced height display. Furthermore watching movies with a little black stripes above and below the video is not so bad.
I'd walk away in any scenario. It smells of a trap or a bad investor.
> we were able to move a 9TB filesystem to a different data center and hosting provider in three weeks

But it took you 3 weeks anyway?
This seems too good to be true. Are there any plans of making the curriculum available to students who are not in the US. Perhaps for a fee? You could reach a wider audience. Don't know how the internship thing would work. As a student on leave from school in the US, this is something i could see myself doing
Netbooks were an evolutionary dead end that failed to get traction. (Speaking as a happy owner of three of them for Lab Purposes)
I believe the market that anticipates an Apple keynote is shrinking. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.
No, we will have wi-gig devices, most things will talk wirelessly.
I know this thread is long passed but I wanted to say thank you! I appreciate the depth of your response and I believe it will help others who have similar anxiety.
Is there any way to benefit from this sort of negative attention?

I mean, it's still fame... Maybe she could get paid to not endorse a product, or she could start a blog and get ad revenue from the rage viewers?
> Threatening to turn his information over to the feds = threatening his life.

Snitches get stitches, huh.
Research works best when the subjects of long term studies can see and react to the data they are generating in real time. Anti-blind trials are the future. /s
I see only two of your comments in recent history are downvoted into the gray:

This one is not civil, as it personally attacks another commenter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9169613 "That says a lot about you."

This one is in defense of the less-than-civil comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9169781

I say things that many people disagree with all the time on HN, but pretty much the only times that I am downvoted into the gray are when I am not civil. For instance, the only comment of mine that has been grayed in this discussion is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9169426 That comment is little more than a personal attack, and was therefore downvoted.
>> The current support table of ECMAScript6 in browsers, parsers and compilers doesn’t look too encouraging. A lot is red and it is unknown in many cases if the makers of the products we rely on to run JavaScript will take the plunge.

> I disagree in the strongest terms. ES6/E2015 is a huge amount of changes, and browsers have been driving the discussion and implementing items as they have stabilized.

Agreed, I've seen a lot of progress on this front.

Also

> Transpilers

YES, we use babel (6to5) where I work and it's awesome, hook that up with some source maps and you get to write AND DEBUG in ES6. I don't plan on ever going back, my new personal projects all use babel now, I'm already living in a world of ES6 (well for things supported by transpilers and polyfills)
This tired liberal arts approach of mandatory enlightenment is exactly why we have students graduating with tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt with no marketable skills. Students can become a well-rounded person on their own time, through the many life experiences they can afford when they are not paying off debt. I am so happy to see the world of academia get disrupted, and I cannot wait for the coming revolution where liberal arts education is reserved to those people with a true desire to pursue it.
Why do you prefer it over Apache 2.0? Apache discusses patents and contributors and can allow for more complex attribution requirements.
I still use a wired mouse and a wired keyboard for my laptop (since I prefer the size and of a standard keyboard to the little rubber chiclets HP calls a keyboard.) It has literally all the advantages of a wireless setup, without ever having to worry about batteries.

This trend in laptop design towards providing fewer ports for what seems to be little more than aesthetics seems a bit backwards.
This reads like a parody of what grad students think.
i wonder whether they considered scala so they could stay on the JVM (no mention of it in the OP). i don't know Erlang but i develop in scala (w/ Akka) and always interested to know how the two languages are different/similar w/r/t enabling devs to build build distributed systems.
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I have the old chunky Pebble, and I really like it. It does get a week of battery life, and I can charge it while I'm wearing it (the charger is on the side). It's actively supported and will even get the new "Timeline" interface that's been announced for the new Pebble Time. Oh and it's $100.

They've explicitly positioned themselves as the anti-Apple Watch. https://web.archive.org/web/20141001213546/https://getpebble...

Edit: In addition to all that, we haven't even seen the custom sensors third parties will make for the Pebble.
Interestingly enough destroying a Panasonic Toughbook is easy. Stand on it with high-heels... The Panasonic rep had just been stomping on it, and then this smallish woman asks if she could try.

It didn't boot or do much of anything after she had traipsed all over it.

That being said, I am not saying the MB would fare much better, but those Toughbooks are not as tough as they are advertised.
This makes sense, but when designing the new MacBook, they still have to take battery life into account. For example, if Apple truly wanted the best device design at any expense of hardware, it would be even thinner with only 1 hour battery life.

But they knew customers would want more battery life than 1 hour. So rather than make it as thin as possible, they figure out: what is the best battery life:heft ratio?

That is what I was questioning in my OP: is this ratio, in the eyes of Apple, out of sync with this ratio in the eyes of the consumers?

Obviously, Apple knows how to build products. But it would be naive to assume that Apple always strikes this balance perfectly. I'm just suggesting that they may be pushing slightly more towards design over function.
I'm not a Mac person at all, but I greatly envy this, uh, aspect of their computers. The code I work with is vertical, not horizontal, so having more vertical space is good.
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Genius, pitch your service disguised in a genuine question. :)

I know it's not out of the realm of possibility on HN and I do like that HN is not adverse to shameless promotion but my first and foremost interest is in the opinions of the group on how to parlay this into what the team wants. As we just keep circling this subject, one of our big contracts is winding down again so the subject has once again come to the forefront. All of us have no doubt that we will replace the contract but no one is thrilled about the idea. There is a deep desire to have some ownership or at least some long term interest in a codebase.

Other thing that might work is to get into contact with recruiters (I know, I'm out of a limb). You can let them know that you have a team of devs ready to go that they can fall back on in case of emergencies or what ever.

This has been the majority of our leads, we have about 4 recruiters that when they see a pattern of hiring by a company tend to recommend getting in contact with us, they of course take their margin of the top of the team but it is less than standard recruiting arrangements. One of the things about us is that money is equally split among the team. None of us take a cut off the top.
My guess: the power brick will have ports on it. That would solve several problems nicely.
> the thing Apple fans don't have to worry about is which machine to get because even the worst Apple device is miles ahead of the non Apple alternatives

This is very subjective to define. It's true, if you like apple, and all you are going to choose is stuff from apple, then you don't have to worry about examining choices in depth because there aren't very many. But quality is a subjective thing.

I personally find almost every computer that exists today horrifically boring, compared to when I was growing up. The jump from no computer to computer has been much more exciting than each iteration of slightly better computer. That's really what I call 'miles ahead'.

Smartphones with unlimited data were slightly revolutionary for me, in a "I can listen to music and walk anywhere I want without getting lost" kind of thing, but honestly, I haven't felt anything close to the feelings I used to feel as a kid. Trying to figure out how the entire internet is structured and comparing that to a giant computer is slightly more exciting. Comparing data models to the human brain is slightly exciting. But miles ahead sounds like we're making leaps when we aren't. And you can go ahead and argue that every leap is made up of tiny steps, but when you fade in and out of technology enough, even then, some things really feel like leaps, and other things really feel like steps. And I think that's subjective, so I'm biased, but I find it very hard to have opinions without bias, if not impossible.
Try pulling directly down on a cord connected in a usb port. It won't just pull out. The magsafe would just disconnect after a little bit of resistance.
I don't think it's about where your documents are, I think it's more about where your local CPU is. Your documents will almost certainly be in the cloud. However then you have two radios, two CPU's, two sticks of RAM. I think the idea of convergence is merging your phone, your PC, and any other device with a CPU into one device. The data will still be in the cloud. The benefit is if you want to write something. A keyboard, and large monitor is better. If you want a phone, the smaller form factor is better. You want a better camera, you buy lenses... not a body. etc.

There's no good reason to have a separate CPU in each of these devices. When you can fit a CPU that's as powerful as a laptop in a phone, why not just have it in the phone, and only have one computer? Then take the CPU out of the laptop, and plug in your phone when you need it.
Walk away.

Your bad feelings are 110% of that decision--the NDA and potential for its misuse are icing on that cake.