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But in the UK renting is far more expensive and in general the USA's housing is far cheaper for similar area's
I was really hoping to see 5th gen Intel Broadwell chips with the update. When are they expected? Intel said mid-year, but when will Apple incorporate them in?
>> The first available Force Touch trackpad shipped on the new MacBook which was announced on March 9th and released on April 10th.

Wrong. It first shipped on the 13" Macbook Pro. I know because I bought one at the start of April (before the release of the new Macbook).
It is interesting how Uber/Lyft et al are interested in the taxi market, or seem interested in it.

China also has Uber/Lyft equivalents, but they just sell a smartphone service to taxi drivers (inexpensive) and unlicenced taxis (also available, but only after unlicensed taxis in the local area have not responded for a considerable amount of time).

What China's Uber/Lyft/etc are after is micro-payments. A micro wallet to pay for services such as taxis, and them other things too. Why reclaim receipts when it is through and authorized payment channel?

Is this not on the Uber et. al. game plan, or are the markets too different?
I would think the latter [0] if you are seeing around 20% appreciation in price.

0: http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=EUR&to=USD&view=2Y
Does it mean that whenever I click on a link I must be afraid that my computer will start to participate in a filesharing network?

What if a website uses the technology to spread copyrighted material in the background without me knowing about it? Maybe the website had a simple XSS hole that allowed an attacker to do it?

So later I will get a fine for spreading copyrighted material and I don't even know where it came from?
The first two seasons of Alias did a decent job in the depiction of computers, computer use and code.
I have the 13" MBP with Force Touch. Hands down the best trackpad I've ever used. Apple continues to dominate in this space.

The "Taptic Engine" part of the Force Touch system is imperceptible from hardware "clicks". The ability to have a second level click seems interesting. Turning of the computer and pressing on the trackpad is like a magic trick.

While not many apps (and not many portions of the OS, even) are using the "pressure granularity" system of Force Touch, I will reserve judgement on its benefits and usefulness, but it is incredibly well-engineered.

Overall, I can see Apple including this across their entire product line, if technically feasible. It is as good as Touch ID.
Apple has clearly decided that the tradeoff for making a UI both touch and mouse friendly is too great. Given the reaction people have had to Windows 8+ I'm inclined to agree with them.
Can somebody tell me how they deal with all the heat generated by these powerful cpus/gpus in a laptop? Do you just put it on a desk all the time?
Exactly.

What the cultural diversity does though, is it makes it harder for startups to serve one big market - that's where US startups have it easier.

Are they "tougher" because of that? I don't think so.
The poster here seems to legitimately view it as an attack on some sort of perceived group identity, that it is somehow being imposed on them from the outside.

Of course, the people writing the codes of conduct are speaking for themselves, not the perceived group identity mentioned above, and the poster is attempting to speak on behalf of the group they see, probably without carefully apprehending the range of opinions that exist within the group.

I'd also consider the idea that much of the push back is disingenuous sophistry coming from people that enjoy going to conferences and hassling people.
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In my case, only key whats and whys go to the commit message. Most of the discussion is left in the issue tracker.

(Of course, the commit message refers to issue ID, and vice versa.)
Please feel free to be so flippant several years from now when you are obese, undernourished, and diabetic; as well as being financially dependent on food assistance.
To add to the other answers,

Any given team has information flowing between members (be it business or technical knowledge) - some members give out more information than they consume - they are usually the senior ones.
OT, but the only times I've encountered the word "foster", it is in the context of the European Commission, specifically in the context of what they want to achieve with grants.

Is it my limited exposure to English, or has the European Commission appropriated this word, and has by the way infected WSJ to use it?
Is anyone else here mad that Apple has time for these gimicks but can't get their software fixed? Lion to Yosemite was a big regression and I don't mean the UI.
I just found this episode, and while I have only watched half of it, I'm completely hooked!

Is the entire serie like this one?
Did you work specifically on the engine controllers?
Have you considered speaking to the accident board about this?
I have only tried it in stores, but I find that even the highest "click" setting feels too shallow to me, and not as satisfying as the old trackpad. I also was not a fan of the very short travel distance on the new Macbook keyboard.

That said, I have heard generally uniformly good reviews, so I imagine it's one of those things that after a few weeks you get used to and perhaps even start to prefer.
It is like if someone goes to a group of starving orphans and offers them food and board and education, but in exchange they must work.

On one hand, you are helping them compared to how others treat them. On the other hand, you are exploiting them for your own gain.

Even ignoring the morals of offering a bad deal to someone who only has worse deals to choose from, there is the fear that such an actor would eventually evolve to lock out others who want to help without (or with less) exploitation.
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It might have occured when the Retina screen was no more optionnal.
Where is the "actual failure rate" number coming from?
Is that appropriate though? Just because it is done that way doesn't mean it should be. It's not that uncommon for people to pay their internet in advance, only for a line outage to go unfixed for a fortnight.

Patticularly in the US, internet access is a cage. There's often only one provider, and their terms and conditons declare service not guarenteed. What choice do you have?

Then google fibre and municipal wifi start showing up, and look how hard comcast et al are screaming.

Maybe your rent, cable and phone need escape hatches as badly as your movie collection?
Before you start throwing insults, what exactly is a language to you? I'm pretty confident that determining the difference between a language and an API is not so easy a thing to do.
So... an open source foundation putting out software press releases is a thing now.

Interesting(tm).
The US has a different notion of who owns personal data than Germany or Europe in general. In the US, the collector of your personal data owns it, more or less.

Notice that in this case, the FTC is attempting to use the court's approval of the sale of Radio Shack's assets in order to force restrictions on the use of the personal data. That's because they couldn't use virtually non-existent personal data protection laws.
Indeed. I was initially surprised I hadn't read this one before, but then when you remember how much he wrote there's no way I've read even a tenth of his stories. So I really shouldn't be surprised at all.
No it isn't. Neither market has been overtaken by commodity products at all. Your argument about Apple products being commoditized is totally without merit. The Mac and iPhone continue to gain share in markets that have commodity alternatives. The iPad sales have slowed but they haven't slowed as much as the commodity alternatives. iPod sales have slowed not because people are buying commodity MP3 players instead, but because people are no longer buying standalone MP3 players.
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While Dijkstra sits in his ivory tower , patiently figuring out the most elegant algorithm , in the startup world as Zuck says is all about moving fast , breaking things in order to find out whether we even need the algorithm in the first place.

When my boss comes to me with the next story , I can't tell him that , "Hey , I think I need two weeks for this as the system is becoming overly complex. I think I need some time to refactor the system into something simpler and more reliable .. "

I've seen an example of this first hand. We had an image editor that allowed users to manipulate and rotate layers using like you have in Photoshop. Instead of using straightforward affine transforms , they came up with some weird , extremely complex implementation I'm yet to get my head around .It isn't even documented as to how it works.

Finally when the time came to make it behave differently , I reimplemented only the new behaviour using affine transforms and simple trig and routed the flow through the old code or the new one using flags.

Not the most elegant solution but that's how it is in real world projects. It's only the output that matters. The internal complexity is not something the customers gives a shit about. They want their feature and they want it now. And they're not even sure what they want.

So the need for rapid iteration to discover what you need to build in the first place , and the quest for the most ideal and mathematically elegant solution will always be in conflict with each other.
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I organized Code on the Sea 2015 (http://www.codeonthesea.com/) back in Feb/March, and it was a very rewarding experience.

Best of luck with your cruise conference!
Of all the things I'm supposed to be outraged about as a consumer of news, this one rises to the whoopdie fucking so what? level. Radio shack was collecting in their best ever year maybe half a dozen data points on me. It's not like they had my DNS requests over the past ten years or my history of cell tower signals or my click history following searches for "painful rectal itch" or how long I typically watch dwarf porn before closing the browser...if I were to do such a thing.

There are big privacy issues and little ones and this is definitely the latter. How revealing the Radio Shack's data is of people's behavior should be measured by the outcome of Radio Shack during the period in which it had exclusive access...and here the context is a bankruptcy proceeding.
Have you had a poor experience with Elance or something? Just curious, since I've used it twice before and plan on using again shortly.
A language has syntax and semantics; the combination of domain specific semantics with general purpose syntax is a domain-specific language.

Of course, with host languages that support user-defined syntax rules, an internal DSL may also have specialized syntax.

The cumbersome term you invented is not an accurate replacement for internal DSL.
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It's interesting to see this alongside the efforts by traditional vendors to further integrate servers and networking. Cisco AFAIK has been pretty successful getting people to buy into the UCS idea.
Sure. I think that using 'cost of toys' index for inflation and 'cost of living' index not at all is a ridiculous way to go about things.

If the majority of people are at income / wealth levels that mean their personal inflation rate is the cost of living index, then the general rate of inflation should be equal to that. It is literally an expression of what money is worth to the people for whom money is anything more than a metagame token.

(Compare with median vs mean income. Mean income really doesn't mean much, especially if you exclude the unemployed.)

Either that or we really need to reconsider what inflation is used for. The idea of it being used as a sort of way to determine 'real returns' is broken if most of the things people care about are left out of the index or demoted in weighting.

Even a wealthy person does not have 0% inflation in the UK. They are probably buying flats in London or similar, which are going up in price all the time. How is that not inflation? Your money buys less... inflation is (should be) a measure of that.

Toys really do not make up vast proportions of the expenditure of, well, anyone.
The city should just embrace sunk costs, I mean, double down, and invest in helping the laid off workers create a startup scene. That at least has a hope in hell of achieving something
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That's exactly what I was wondering. A boat full of software engineers is going to want some internet...
Yeah, this is an interesting thought exercise. You could even, ad banner style, put an iframe on all sorts of pages letting a computer serve as part of a torrenting network.

(Provided the page stayed open, of course)
This is exactly why you should never give your data to someone unless it's absolutely necessary. If someone asks for your contact info just so you can buy batteries just say no.
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I see this kind of thing all too frequently. Our clients are retailers. From time to time, one goes pop, and goes into administration. The liquidators look at all of their assets - initially, at things like stock and other physical assets - but then look at their other less tangible assets, like user data, as selling it can be the difference between settling with creditors or not.

Typically, when you license your data to a company you accept that they can sell that data as part of the sale of the business, in the event of administration or liquidation, and a variety of other situations in which you don't want to have to ask the permission of your N million users to go ahead with a merger or other essential business activity.

Further to this, we've also seen client service agencies who are processors of data seizing user data as an asset if a client goes into administration and leaves their service providers as unsecured creditors (i.e. "you're up the creek, we'll pay you £0.000001 for every £ we owe, your £80,000 is now £0.80"), as they also have a responsibility to mitigate their own losses, and again, contracts usually allow for the seizing of assets in the case of default.

So, long story short, this is not even slightly abnormal, and something consumers should consider before providing their data to anyone.
This site is great! My wife and I were just discussing how we needed to get a living will/will written down so our wishes are clearly understood in the case of an emergency.
Also don't expect this "hypervisor" to be a complete software package like Xen or VMware. I'm speculating here, but all that's needed is a rather fixed allocation of peripherals, interrupts and RAM for each guest (radio+SIM+a few MB RAM to baseband, everything else to Android), likely compiled statically for this particular platform. No fancy emulation of hardware or device-drivers giving paravirtualized access to complicated peripherals necessary.

In that case, and with a CPU and peripherals designed with keeping this concept in mind, the overhead will be almost non-existant compared to, for example, running the baseband functionality as a "regular kernel module"; with the added advantage of clearly separating both worlds, and isolating the realtime-requirements of the baseband from the Linux kernel.

For some similar concept, have a loot at "RTlinux", where the Linux-Kernel runs as the lowest-priority task in a very thin realtime-OS to achieve guaranteed reaction times for, e.g. motor control applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTLinux
> Also, be aware of scummy people and any decisions that you make that can affect your future career. I lived near the 'other' valley where most porn is produced and received unsolicited contacts from small porn companies. I didn't take on any of those projects which is good because later I did consulting in Defense and NSA projects and also worked for a major San Jose based tech company for a couple of years.

Given recent events, I would consider government contracting far more of a black mark than anything in industry.
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I especially dislike overuse of the DSL term because many Ruby type of DSLs are not compiled and are thus act like stubs that can only resolve at runtime. Nobody would call SOAP bindings generated by a code generator a DSL. The only distinction I am seeing in practice now is that a DSL does not mean you have to learn a lick of the foundational language to be productive in it. This would be different from libraries like Scalding in Scala for doing queries where they're just sugar and more like an ORM. But nobody calls an ORM a DSL despite changing a lot of semantics used to reason about the underlying system.

As far as I see it, you can certainly call your API / library a DSL when you have to write your own compiler rules for it in some capacity. Chef and Puppet code are not DSLs in this respect (especially Chef - the files have .rb extensions, gee) while SQL and CSS would count as DSLs free from being tied to a specific foundation language.
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While RS had no real data on me, what this story points out is that companies will do this in bankruptcy, maybe even after carrying a no-share/no-sell policy for years. The wider issue it illuminates is that there seem to be few general protections for these cases, where having your data sold wasn't part of the bargain you were asked to make, until they changed the deal.
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I bought the first one as well. Huge waste, since it was not clear when I bought it that it wouldn't support my VW TDI (Diesel) engine.

edit: just got the email about supporting my TDI a few minutes ago
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You're right. That was March 9th. Still can't be "a few months" yet.
I think the title framed it like a serious study. I wouldn't mention it if the title was "Simon Pegg on sci-fi", or "Simon Pegg talks about adults' response to sci-fi", or similar.

As soon as you write something with an authoritative sounding / study-like title, my first reaction is to judge it as one. The title/envelope matters for framing the discussion.
Harassment is subjective.

An outsider who doesn't program Python eaves drops two Python programmers. She interjected, took a photo without permission. Who bullied who?

Outsiders from twitter and political wiki's who don't program try to hijack the discourse of a community on the forefront of diversity. Open source already welcomed programmers. What are we to make of these outsiders?

Codes of conduct are welcome bait for professional victims and attention seekers with no intention of coding.

Would you be convinced if I compiled the statistics in a blog post?
I see these "OS X is getting worse" posts from time to time but it doesn't match my experience. Care to elaborate?
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Having an API that matches a natural language is not a DSL per se, either internal or external. It may help creating an internal DSL though.
An external DSL is parsed and compiled or interpreted into or by another general programming language, usually.
An internal DSL, the way I see it, is a 'language' that uses the language it is embedded in in such a way that it makes it easy to read and understand by those initiated with the DSL (ie. the domain experts). And may not look all that much like the embedding language.

The benefit of a DSL can be that you can do verification etc on the semantics of the domain. An API with handy naming may not be able to do this trick.

Note that the readers and writers of a DSL may be very different audiences: the readers can be domain experts who give feedback while the writers may be software engineers.
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Planes with four engines are certainly not designed to fly with 3 of 4 engines out...
I ran across this site the other day as well as my wife and I were discussing that with a kid now we should get wills.
Agreed. I guess HN in general does not share our sentiment, though NPR did the same story in 2013.
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People get mad when there's a "stability" release because there's no new features. People get mad when there's a release full of new features and it's not stable.

Rumour is that this will be a stability release for iOS 9 (presumably OS X as well?) [1]. I guess now everyone will be mad that there's no new features.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2015/02/09/ios-9-stability-optimiza...
Tell that to the many startups in Berlin, where it is cheap to live and there are a lot of great tech companies. Berlin is like the Los Angeles (aka cultural melting pot) of much of Europe.
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Great idea! One thing though - this is presumably USA specific but nowhere does it actually spell that out, which could be confusing/timewasting for any brits or aussies who want to get their shit together. E.g a UK will has completely different wording to a USA will.
Any good single source you'd recommend to encapsulate all that makes Skylake the obvious next hardware upgrade to the MBP line? I've been waiting for the right time to upgrade and I'd love something to read about the future. This is the first I've seen it mentioned.
Go to "Stock Look-up" and click on "Spreadtrum".

Maybe they don't allow direct linking.
I am a Brit living in Switzerland who lived most of his life in America or Asia. Qualify as European? Agree, lots of diversity in Europe and lots of great entrepreneurs as well as resistance to change.
And there's a new lower-end retina iMac starting at $1999. That's an impressively low price point for something with that display.
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Apple has never tied themselves to one GPU vendor- they have gone back and forth more times in the past ten years or so that I have been watching Apple than I care to count.

give it 18 months and the new top-of-the-line will have nVidia in it again, assuming they don't move completely to integrated.
These days for VPNs it's hard to beat OpenVPN with TLS auth enabled and using keys, not passwords/passphrases.
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Aren't all (or most) baseband OSes real-time OSes? You can't really run a baseband with Linux. I imagine the virtualization software is there to run the baseband OS and the Android OS side by side on the same CPU.
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> Those ever-cheaper laptops started as copies and spin-offs from the "helping the poor" projects and related technologies.

I doubt that's true: can you substantiate that? How was the EeePC a copy of OLPC? The only commonality was that they were cheap (for the time). I'd say the cheaper laptops are as a result of a confluence of things: Android, the battle between ARM vs. Intel Atom, a glut of TFTs the high- and mid-range won't accept,