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when apple launched the iphone, they went against the grain on what the industry (nokia and everybody else) was using for headset+microphone+buttons combo (unpatented, mind you). They simply copied the 4 connector headset plug, but surreptitiously switched GROUND and MIC (and patented). bam. all iphone users couldn't get a headset other than the one that come in the box, and it took some 6 mo to start shipping spare ones. and i will give apple that it was a decent one. even to this day, it is the only apple product i like. but that proves you are still in the reality distortion field left by jobs and still think apple poop is rainbows.
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lol. indeed!

but since it is apple, we get downvotes.

enjoy!

(btw, search online for the time --2007?-- that nokia forced the whole industry to microUSB, that every single phone uses nowadays, as the standard charger plug by being the first to mass adopt it. everyone cried charger monoply)
Doesn't work without a real concern to start out with. I was bothered by the 'mach bands' and unexpected background music. Then I couldn't click to type in the box (Safari 8.0.5/10.10.3). Good thing I wasn't stressed going in.
Cordova can be compared to java. The phone runs some kind of VM which in turn runs your code. Compared to a hosted app which would be the phone running your code directly.
Those statistics on marks in a classroom are the first hard stats I've heard of indicating a bimodal distribution in coding skill. I have no idea where they come from though. Do you have any links to sources?
Vim has great plugins for Clojure.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace

https://github.com/guns/vim-sexp

https://github.com/guns/vim-clojure-static

Also, this might be useful:

https://github.com/ctford/vim-fireplace-easy
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That's the link, I guess.
If he had a heat warning in LA, I worry about how the new MacBook will hold up in hotter climates (SE Asia, Middle East, etc.)
Awesome, I'd love to try working in an environment like this to see how it works and experience the tradeoffs.
And that should/would remain a crime. By legalizing the 'profession' you open it up to more scrutiny.

Prostitution is illegal as a matter of public health, codified by religious texts. It doesn't jibe well with the notion of individual liberty, nor does the personal use of drugs, defended also as a matte of "public health."

These types of laws (cascading down to the less oppressive blue laws) are attempts to create a unified morality. The problem is fares poorly with human behavior, hence the inevitable creation of black markets.
If you carry this attitude through a series of future jobs, you're going to demonstrate that you're a pretty awful employee. Not all work is exciting, and new hires are often going to get the worst of it until they prove themselves. If you can't suck it up for a bit and show some loyalty, then there's another candidate who can.

But realistically, you're very early in your career and can afford to burn some bridges and make some selfish decisions. Doing this once or twice isn't going to really stand out as a problem, so much as you taking a little time to get your bearings in the real world.

So be sensitive to your employer's needs (don't quit during a release crunch), and be open to any counteroffers they may offer as you tell them your plans, but do what you need to.
Interesting to see how many of these overlap.

For example:

Lux->Clojure->JVM

Lux->Ruby->JVM

Lux->Haskell->Javascript

Any more that I missed?
You should, I've played with it and it's quite amazing!

Edit: Here is one of the other creators talking about it a bit more: http://kai.subblue.com/en/frax.html
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Probably. After all, you already have a Lightning-to-USB A cable
Not only that but this is just his hobby.
Ask HN: Desktop tools for aws services? None to be found why?
Hi there, I have been working with aws services(read DynamoDB, S3,SNS, SQS, etc) for a while now, and I am starting to get frustated with the state of affairs when in comes to the tools. I mean, don't get me wrong aws provides a fairly practical web console, where you can get your job done, however it is far from a pleasure to work with.

Why is that there is not desktop tools for aws services? Is the status-quo good enough for people out there. I can see at least a few ways in which a desktop tool can make life much easier specially when dealing with DynamoDB. I know that S3(, EC2?) do have some desktop counterparts but that is it.

In any case love to hear what people thing about it.
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I feel like there should be a way to re-use algorithms and data structures across programming languages and platforms automatically. Sort of like a CLR/JVM etc. but really a common exchange format that could work across different VMs or systems. A little bit like how math can formally describe diverse systems, except you could automatically process/translate this format.
I'm surprised his battery life is so short (5-6 hours). I have the base model MacBook and I easily get 8 hours. To go as low as 5 hours, I'd have to keep CPU usage at 100% and run the screen at max brightness.

If I focus on prolonging battery life, I can get 12 hours. That means keeping the screen dim, quitting Mail.app, and closing unnecessary browser tabs. Then the only major eater of battery is compiling stuff.

Overall, I really like the new MacBook. It's thin, light, and fast enough for my needs.
HTML5 Offline storage can be used without an app. Part of the issue is not the storage, but how to run the app in the background to pre-fetch the content. Here's a table showing the limited access that hosted apps have. Looks like they do have access to certain device storage APIs, as well as desktop notifications, microphone, etc. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/App_permissio... Here's another page comparing "packaged" to "hosted" apps which seems to imply they are mutually exclusive - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Marketplace/Options/Pack...
As you may have puzzled out from other responses here, that's a very personal question. You need to figure out the cultural details that mean something to you, then ask the questions that reveal them.

For some people that's vacation, for others it's safety nets, and for others it's engineering processes. Only you know what matters to yourself.
Scala has a Dynamic type that is used occasionally.

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/Dynamic.html
Not anywhere near experienced, but I was using this "curriculum":

https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell

I have a general question about Haskell though: I've read in more than one place that writing high-performance Haskell code is not easy for a non-expert to do, and to at times you have to sacrifice conciseness.

While I love the aesthetics of Haskell syntax and higher order functions, I have this paranoia that beautiful code may be slow code.
> remove ability for people to use a cable to transfer photos

Where did Apple do that? They just made you need an adapter to connect an iPhone to your MacBook.
I've played with it. Quite nice.
This is nothing to do with antitrust. This is not Apple abusing a monopoly to enter another market.
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More like what the Lenovo Yoga is.
Obama has been President since 2008. The fact is he pissed around while he had the ability to close gitmo at the beginning of his presidency, and has blamed his failure on the rethuglicans as a convenient scapegoat.
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Three days, and it was the introductory dose as well. I struggled to stay awake on Day 3 and couldn't recall things from my mind. It was bad. If you can avoid driving while figuring things out, that would be awesome.

I'm now taking Prozac which is way way better for me.

The important thing is that you have to keep trying at it; finding the right medicine and right dose will take time, but at least in my case (and it seems like others here too), there is a right formula. It's rough going for a while, but like I said before, I just feel more like the normal me, not like the angry, irritated, anxious me. And I have to believe that would have ended up a net positive productivity wise.
Ban an entire market because sometimes the sources of labor are repugnant?

What percentage of the market has to be drugged-out sex slaves (often imported from some other countries, if the horror stories are true) before it's acceptable to shut down the whole market by criminalizing it?

Does criminalizing the market help those drug-addicted sex slaves, or does it make their situation worse?
So it took them a while to ship spares, but they gave you one in the box? It would have been a bigger problem if they didn't even give you one in the box, as you would have basically not been able to use a wired headset for that period.

> but that proves you are still in the reality distortion field left by jobs and still think apple poop is rainbows.

I am in no such place. For a variety of reasons, I choose not own any Apple products and am under no illusions about Steve Jobs. That said, Apple didn't get a reputation for great products (and associated hype around product launches) for no reason.
We got your back, bro.
The prison companies are probably bad actors that should be disbanded; their assets liquidated & distributed to the wrongly incarcerated & taxpayers.
waaaay back in the mid 2000s when search engines were large, complex, expensive pieces of enterprise software not unlike a commercial database, it was always assumed (and the customer told) that the search engine cuts corners for the sake of speed, in both indexing and searching, and that it should never be counted on as a database, or any kind of authoritative data store. it does one thing: search staggering amounts of information quickly at acceptable levels of performance and accuracy.

looks like expectations have moved beyond that, which is good, but it's not an easy problem to solve... especially with billions or trillions of documents in the index. leaving out all the the important stuff that made a database slow is what made a search engine fast.
Maybe they want you to sync over wifi.

Or... they want you to upload your iTunes stuff to the cloud and share it across your devices from there. Here's a Jobs speech from the late 1990s where he bangs on about this sort of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v0OTCl2nLI
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Take a look at Racket
You mean like how Google doesn't support MicroSD expansion in their Nexus devices so you have to store all of your media in the cloud, probably with Google's services?
To play devils advocate,

Why do you need to plug your phone into your laptop? Apple seems to found that tons of people don't, that was actually causing them problems. No one would update iOS because they had to be plugged into a computer, and no one would get your pictures off their phone for the same reason, so people would end up running back level versions and having your phones give them space warnings.

At this point it wouldn't surprise me if the average consumer basically never plug the phone into a computer. If you want to do syncing with iTunes it can be done over Wi-Fi, but most people probably just use iCloud. Software updates can be installed over the air. A computer isn't necessary to set the phone up anymore. The existence of things like iCloud photos also means that you don't need to plug your phone into get the pictures off.

People tend to have chargers all over the place, which is really the only thing people plug phones in to do. But you probably charge your phone in a cradle, or in your car, or with the charger that comes with it. Why do you need to plug it into your laptop?

There's been speculation the Apple expect you to treat the new MacBook a lot like an iPad: the port is only there to charge and maybe for an occasional need, but most the time you're not expected to use it.

Will most customers even use it to charge their phone on any kind of regular basis? Even if it came with the cable? Much more cynically, given the size of the battery and that it only has one port do you want to charge your phone at the expense of your laptop?

I hadn't thought of the fact that there was no USB-C to lightning cable. It is an interesting omission, but then again this is an interesting laptop.
I'd love a MacBook. However, I am a bit concerned: is the maximum performance of it worse than the 2013 MacBook Air (current machine)? On this thing I can play Counter-Strike: Source or Left 4 Dead 2 at reasonable settings at 60fps, and I can also get FFXIV to run at just about 30fps (windowed 720p on Windows with the Standard (Laptop) graphics option). I'm not really a serious gamer, these are all (with the exception of FFZIV) older games I play casually. I mainly do web browsing and programming.

If I tried to do these things on the new MacBook, would it run at similar speed, and would I get a heat warning?

Ignoring gaming for a moment: generally, when really stressed, are heat warnings common?
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I agree. The hybrid touch paradigm is fantastic.

What Windows 8 did wrong was messing with the familiar old-school interface a bit too much, which made many non-tech-savvy users confused and miserable. My dad had a terrible time with Windows 8. But me? The Surface pro is easily among my favorite devices ever.
Put the back of your hand (or your bare leg skin) against a laptop that's been in use. My Macbook is noticeably warm (maybe 15*F delta) in normal, non-charging, operation. That's with the benefit of conduction to the free air; I assume the inside delta-T is higher.
Gosh, I'm apparently old fashioned here. I would think that "I'm a startup that handles the sensitive information of our users" would immediately segue to "we should take prudent efforts to secure that data", not "fuck security till I'm mandated to do it by regulators, cause fuck those users until there's an exit". Get off my lawn and all that.
One takeaway from this is to have a machine for non-company stuff, and use it--there's really no excuse these days.
I'd love to see a success story of this type of analysis outside of their canned examples. I keep seeing them use the same datasets over and over again without any real benchmarks to state of the art. Its amazing how a data product is being sold without any empirical studies or benchmark datasets.

Ayasdi seems successful to me in that it has a lot of flash and their results make intuitive sense, but I don't understand how a practicing data scientist would use this.
Sadly it's all the more common nowadays to see everyone on board a new web standard... except for Apple.
Congrats on launching, and judging by your ratio of upvotes to comments I'm guessing a few people have 'Saved' this for their future use.

As a concept, I like it, and like most business models I'm intrigued at how to make hand-delivery profitable for $15 (not saying it can't be, especially with some scale, - I just love crunching the numbers on different business models).

If I wanted to nitpick, I'd suggest a different paper stock. Maybe historic Telegrams are mostly yellow because of age, but even if they were originally on white card (I'm assuming yours are decently thick) the 'yellow' effect looks more traditional and adds a nice touch. Also, I think you misspelled Haight-Ashbury in your sample telegram (? Not a SF local).
I've plugged my iPhone into my MBP twice, I think.

What will be interesting is what they do with the next model iPhone. I suspect we'll either just keep getting the USB-A -> Lightning cable or the iPhone will get a USB-C port (and come with a USB-A to USB-C cable?). The latter is inevitable, the question is 'when'.
I believe that was an EU law, not people chasing Nokia compatibility.
Pardon isn't on the table, his plan was to move them to a mainland US prison. I don't think he's ever said anything other than the people there are dangerous. Which, based on the way they were captured and held for over a decade without charges or rights, is kinda disgusting in itself that he supports that.
> For prostitution the U.S. ought to follow the Swiss (I think) model: to sell is legal, to buy is criminal, for the reason that the buyer inherently victimizes the seller.

Is there evidence that the Nordic model (of prostitution laws - go after buyers, not sellers) accomplishes anything, or is it a feel-good law that at first glance looks like it has the right law enforcement incentives (don't punish the sex workers), but doesn't deliver on making sex workers safer or improving their lives?

http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/04/criminalizing-sex-work-cli...

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/02/25/european-parlia...
Maybe if he threatened to pardon them they might get trials?

That'd be a little less extreme, and a little more, I dunno, constitutional?
I guess that's what you would call 'creative license'...

Don't Panameras have the same auto start-stop feature that the 981/991 cars have?

And who in the world replaces their exhaust system every 20,000 miles?
There won't be heat warnings. It'll throttle itself back down to its base speed when it starts warming up.

So yes, the maximum performance for an extended period will be much worse than a MBA.
Yes, I was more impressed by his narrative capabilities than the 3d fractal rendering. Sometimes he was a little too whispery but most of the time he managed to convey information at a near perfect pace and pitch.
There have been cultures that are prudish about sex for thousands of years. If you can't understand them, it says a lot more about you than it does about them.
'Connexion' is the one I have come across most frequently, and most of that was when an old colleague leant me a book he got as a child about engineering feats from the late 1800s and early 1900s (up to about 1940). They still used the 'x' instead of 'ct' when writing it, though it was British.
And an Apple Watch so you don't have to pull the phone out of your pocket to check every notification, and tripping and falling over onto your just-operated-on shoulder because you have zero balance.
(source: me, a week ago)
This is a lot like the first generation Air. It's a very light, very thin, low performance. If you want to machine for some simple surfing or to do a lot of writing or wordprocessing on that small and easy to carry around... this could be for you.

If you want any kind of performance or good 3-D capability then get the thicker MacBooks or MacBook Pro. That's clearly not what this machine is aimed at.
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I don't see the single port as a big deal (it's clearly the future) but I would have expected a USB port on the power adapter (PlugBug-style) at least for power if not transmission.
Nothing in the quote or article suggests using the 5K iMac as an additional screen, though. To my reading, the author was suggesting the iMac for working, and the Macbook for when you're on-the-go and (hopefully) not working.

Why would someone buy a 5K iMac to use it as a second display? That's what the standalone displays are for.
Criminalizing the market us why its run by the same groups that run the illegal drug trade and why the people working in it often feel they have no recourse against abuse -- it is, in other words, the reason why there are drugged out sex slaves. If it was legal, well-regulated, with effective workplace protections, the character would be radically different.
Nice concept, and best of luck developing it. I would second junto's comments on additional information, in particular sharing options.

This could be a perfect platform, for example, for my beautiful wife and I to share our (as yet, imaginary) baby pictures with close family who also have the App. My mother could then, in theory, open the App and have an album for each of her grandchildren instead of them being all spread out over Facebook and Instagram. I would value such as closed network more than the ability for me (or others) to share onto wider social networks.

Friends of ours have a 'Family Photos' dropbox folder with these sort of categories, by way of understanding the alternatives to your product. Clearly the additional story-telling and caption features in Babydook would give you the upper hand.
How about it switches to MacOS when a physical keyboard is connected? Touch-screen on a notebook sounds like a nice-to-have but also awkward.
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Why didn't the judges ask about interference? How can the antenna determine what RF is ambient and what RF is being used in transmission? Seems pretty cool. 30% gain in battery would be game changing...
Remember that lightning was designed specifically for the needs of the iPhone and the iPad, not computers in general. It wouldn't surprise me if Apple kept using it on the phones since it's not like there's a huge number of third-party parts that you might want to plug in.

I imagine lightning will be around for a while on the phones. It's still perfectly fit for purpose.
Perhaps in an advanced biology course. But, given that you have limited time in class, and DNA is just one tiny, tiny component of a Bio 101 course, just getting across the concept of DNA, RNA, CGTA, Inheritance, and the implications to cell division is a victory.

Trying to teach, "Hey, there are four bases, but no, not really, you can also have methylated cytosines, What is methylation you ask...."

And then 25% of the class doesn't even grok the four bases concept because you got side tracked on a detail that is not relevant to baseline understanding.

Admittedly, you can be too simple. When I took grade 11/12 chemistry in 1986/1987 in British Columbia, Canada - they did not teach chirality, and I didn't hear about it until watching an episode of Breaking Bad. So I see how one can feel cheated out of some pretty core concepts...
I'm using Firefox on OSX. It scrolls extremely slow using a mousewheel. It also won't scroll when the mouse pointer is over the Vimeo embed (with the mousewheel or touchpad)
You can transfer photos between iOS and MacOS wirelessly via AirDrop.
If I had to guess I would say it relates to the opinion of some engineers that formal verification is only possible in relatively simple systems, and even then only as a mathematical curiosity. As true or not as that may be, the current 'collective wisdom' is more oriented towards automated testing than formal verification, and anything contrary to the popular view gets some natural resistance.
I come from a fairly poor family in a smelly, provincial, meth-infested smalltown in the Midwest, and moved to a place in the Southwest that is much nicer. I noticed that there was much more measured mobility in my hometown than where I moved to. And then it occurred to me that because there was mobility, I could get the hell out. I'm not sure what that means about the measurements.
Says a lot about a mindset, when the best and worst place to grow up is only measured by income.
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Thank goodness not "every single phone uses" the galactically stupid MicroUSB.
I bet the people who work for these database companies have nightmares about getting bug reports from Kyle.

But seriously, his work is super impressive. Kudos to Stripe for funding this.