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Indeed, requiring the air-gapped machine to first running malware doesn't exactly make this revolutionary, and the bandwidth is so incredibly low. Also, likelihood of ambient interference is quite high that the reliability of this seems suspect best.

It all started with light bulbs... http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/history/the-great-lightbu...

Interesting article and the little "What class are you" quiz though is wacky. I played with data points, when asked how often do I pray, I answered never because I'm an atheist. Apparently though praying daily raises my class from 6.5 to 7? Also, working part time vs full time vs unemployed had no bearing? MSNBC has seems to have stouped to Buzzfeed level quizes.

The youth obsession in tech is strange. I understand a culture fit but the best programmers I know are 40+, they just had the drive to stay up on trends and experience that goes back miles.

I wouldn't go quite that far, MS touch has been hell with some pseudo states as hovers often require holding a finger down as it treats a mouse hover and touch hover the same in IE10.

Its unexpected when Android and iOS both freeze on the hover state.

"conclusion he starts with a trendy conclusion, HFT is bad"

I tried finding the Amazon review linked but didn't see it. While it seems that Lewis has a distorted view, there still hasn't been a compelling reason for HFT other than the exploit the edge cases and loopholes of the current system.

While Apple has been in the business of simplifying ports there is a difference at least in previous cases we were ready to move on I'd argue. Back in 1999 I don't think I had used a floppy for a few years, zip drives? Sure, but not a floppy. Dropping the optical drive was bound to happen, I don't think I've really used a optical media bay outside of a game console for years.

However, every day at work, I plug my MacBook Retina into two monitors, plug in my USB 3.0 drive, sometimes my iPhone to charge or do dev stuffs, and charger, and frequently use my SD card slot as a 3rd HDD. Apple now is in the business of offloading the problem of I/O to the user, they haven't fixed it. It wouldn't have hurt the MacBook to include 2-4 ports, all USB3c

As I recall, the character in question was constantly at a brisk walking pace and was rather obese with bad eating habits.

I agree, Skeletor is an oversale of the health benefits but as common knowledge, the further you are from your ideal weight, the easier to is to lose weight and balanced with proper eating habits, its not unreasonable to suggest that a walking desk is would slim someone down, especially if aided in other exercise outside of work.

I'm in the skeptic camp too, one of inevitable bonuses of a full college is having many fields in close contact.

Cross academic pollination probably is one of the best aspects of college, and honestly with the amount of resources at their disposal, they could facilitate programs for the current state of "Startups" as a minor or even major, ideally paired with an unrelated field.

This on paper looks more like a trade school, I imagine a program like this could be designed to churn out competent programmers but beyond that, I'm not so sure.

Considering ThunderBolt 2 isn't quite up to snuff for PCIe enclosures at bidirectional of 10 GBps, USB 3.1 isn't going to be enough just on bandwidth terms.

I'll add another question: Does USB-C have a spec for requesting additional wattage?

Example: I have a USB-C Printer/Hard drive/or otherwise, and plug in my MacBook Air, will it charge my MacBook or will I need an intermediate like a specialty hub to charge?

This seems egregious if every device needs to provide power for the potential of charging device in question...

I've heard some horror stories of mistakenly nested extends resulting in CSS files that were in the megabyte+ range at the local Sass meetup. I've shyed away from extends mostly from a sanity perspective as I've found mixins more sane.

I'm one of the few people I think who joined MySpace after Facebook since my college opened the doors to FaceBook 2005 (or more accurate FaceBook opened it's doors).

MySpace was the wild west of social networking. I only joined after so many people kept asking if I'd join. FaceBook was so limited when it started out, with minimal interactions, one picture and groups. The only reason Myspace lasted as long as it did was FaceBook took time to gear up and open to the public. After that, it was doomed.

I see more of an amalgamation of what he's describing and what's currently offered. For many fields, it requires hands on with labs. While these will increasingly be virtualized, there's still something to be said for hands-on, field studies, physical ed, etc.

A chemistry major still will inevitably need access to chemistry equipment. A wave-form physics major will still need access to a laser and so on...

The conclusion I'd draw that female CEOs are a indicator of a company culture likely to be more accepting / more meritocratic / less nepotism internally which likely makes for a for a more agile company.

Regardless, stats like this hopefully help erode long standing views of women and leadership.

This seems like it could be ripe for abuse... Want to obfuscate your competition? Wipe them off Google maps street view. I wonder if they have various safeguards.

Couldn't get the OS X binary to mount and I'll have to fire up a VM to try a different binary.

However there is a nice txt file, Bootchess.txt that has some interesting excerpts. I was curious if it has an AI, to which it does:

" Usually the heart of any midly advanced computer chess games includes a MinMax function (or its unique call merging sister function NegaMax) called recursively evaluating both sides' possible moves and trying to minimize loss whilst maximizing captures : each evaluation pair rundown is called a "ply" in chess jargon. It can take Kasparov some 27 moves to battle a 3-ply and the champion programs competing with grandmasters usually have at least 5-ply. In the case of BootChess there is alas not enough space (512 bytes binary program size and 640 bytes RAM execution environment) for such level of sophistication. It uses a variant : while maximizing captures it tries to minimize the taxi/Manhattan distance to the opponent's black king rank. This weaker ai element combination will be named "TaxiMax" for the occasion and can be viewed as a half-ply plus."

Gmail seems to be in working order

Chiming in with others, my immediate thought was "Wearing a beanie and gloves seems undesirable", certainly a click bait title.

"Clothing coated in AgNWs would feel virtually identical to normal clothing because such a small amount of AgNW solution is required to achieve high reflectivity."

Normal as to outer winter wear? I imagine for say, pants, they'd be more akin to shell-pants for snow than blue jeans. However, it does seem like a prospect for better winter wear. It'd take quite the cultural shift or cost pressure to make people forgo heating their homes and opt to wear mittens in one's own home.

I'd like to see an interim conversion adopted for charging from USB3.1 to things like Magsafe on the MacBooks. In the dark days of laptops, stepping on the power cable could end your laptop, USB 3.1 looks like it'd be a return to that if used as a primary charging source.

Other than that, USB3.1 looks fantastic. Thunderbolt 1.0 speeds, big power, and much better connector.

I wish I could remember the HN thread, but another HNer who claimed to have worked for Sony Picture's security described the security system as non-existent and was surprised that it hadn't happened sooner... Now to go looking for that.

"Most importantly, Duet Display is the first app that actually turns your iPad into a second display I’d actually like to use. As someone who has tried Air Display and uninstalled it shortly afterward, frustrated, I can honestly say this is the only option that’s worth it."

Interesting, I tried Air Display and (another app) ages ago and used it off and on. It was "neat" and worked well as my Terminal window but a very poor stand for a monitor.

Looks like I'll be dusting off my iPad 2.

Agreed, watching the video, it looked very disorienting. These mostly seem to be a stop-gap until hard launches of products that actually can cope with the ultra-low latency and orientation accuracy that is required for VR headsets.

I'd liken this to the position Microsoft held in the late 90s and early 2000s. Most people had an active dislike for MS, and undoubtedly helped the meteoric rise of Apple as the MS-alternative.

FaceBook already has had companies brand themselves as the anti-FaceBook.

I agree, this is more of an eloquent critique. Also this reads as "this is why I don't like twitter" instead of "stop liking things I don't".

My grandfather is cut from the same cloth, at 87 he still still farms and does hard physical labor. He's slowed down and is semi-retired but he golfs nearly every day when not working (carries his own bag for 18 holes). Retirement isn't an option for some people...

I don't see ditching all your Apple devices as a requirement, my buddy is a huge Google head but uses all Apple products.

I'm deep in the Apple eco-sytem, iPhone, MacBook Pro (work), Mac Pro (Home), iPod, and a mostly unused iPad. My relationship would be listed as complicated though. I'm not a huge fan of Google but I can't give up on Gmail, GChat, Google search and maps.

On my iPhone I use the Gmail app which is fantastic and I'd argue as good as mail. MacBook/Mac Pro Gmail + a notifier, Adium (IM client).

If you have a real beef with the OS, you can always install Ubuntu on a partition and give it whirl. There's no need jump ship in one swoop. Figure out what works best and run with it.

Honestly, I thought it took a lot of gall to even name the startup by name. There's always a fear of retribution even minor.

That was my initial reaction as an iOS developer would have access to Simulators via Xcode.

That said, I could see this as a tool for sharing to a client for demo purposes.

That seems to be the case for most people I know, switching jobs is the new promotion. I've had minor raises, entirely remittance, but the few major pay increases and job title changes always have been entirely attributed from leaving an organization for another.

I found it surprising when I worked for a company (more than number years ago) that was primarily a retailer preferred to hire externally for new store managers instead of hiring from its pool of mostly college educated sales staff.