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I think the key point brought up here is that there is greater convenience in external accessories once there is more than one computing device to use them with - and I'd say that's a much more common scenario than it used to be.

My suggestion to Apple (or 3PP), would be to make a stackable accessory form factor (along the lines of http://www.123macmini.com/accessories/guide/enclosures.html) with built-in Thunderbolt connectors, or at least cable guides. They could be styled in the same style as the Mac Pro. Imagine just slotting on another level of your little accessory tower, with a single Thunderbolt going to the "capital ship".

I have a similar situation with multiple countries and friends and family back home. Facebook is a good tool for that. Sure, the toolset itself is only ok (crashy app, opaque list-management, messy UI). But more than half of the value of Facebook is NOT the tools it provide, but the fact that almost everyone is ON it. A stellar social tool startup would be of no use to me considering it would take years before the people I need to talk to are memers, if ever.

With that said, Facebook is slowly reducing the Signal-to-Noise ratio, and it's an ominous sign for the platform as a whole.

It seems to be focusing on reconnecting with old acquaintances. I think that will be hard - that is all about the network effect, to make sure that the people you know are already on the network - e.g. the case of Facebook. Coming as a new player with that as the main feature seems difficult. Better to go for the angle of finding people based on topics or shared contexts (e.g. similar location).

An application health dashboard should be standard practice in large software, especially software that supports plugin and interpreting code. I am sure I am not alone to feel that software get sluggish with time, or that certain updates causes a lot of crashes. A dashboard could monitor this and transparently show whether the application is working as intended, and if it's slow, show what's slowing it down. Good initative!

Try Boxcryptor, probably even less hassle to set up?

Very well written. However, I believe he takes the conclusion one step too far. As he says, the issue is complex. The problem can be _both_ sexism and narcissism. The issues can co-exist. Clearly, a lot of women have to deal with a plenty of vile crap. One can be active against rape threats and also _at the same time_ speak out against those that misuse important issues to brew stormy cups of tea.

This is a nice idea, and I love IFTTT, but it doesn't substitute Google Reader for most people. First, as pointed out, it is setup on a per RSS-feed basis. But still, take 50 or 100 feeds and you'll very quickly have a problem over too much information to handle. Google Readers deals with this well, but if you pile it into Pocket, it will be difficult to sort and track your reading, and your normal Pocket saves will be buried below mounds of RSS-articles that you may or may not want to read.

To me, the beauty of Google Reader (and iOS apps like Reeder) is the ability to sift through a lot of incoming information and DEAL with it, e.g. send it to Pocket, Pinboard, Evernote, etc. I'd actually wish Google Reader was even MORE optimized for dealing with large and quick information flows (such as - why can't I feed it Twitter feeds, or any page with/without RSS?). And the reader should do some pre-filtering or guesses on wheter the articles is of interest to me or not.

Glassbox engine has been shown as a challenging and CPU-sucking way of solving the simulation. I'd love for it to actually work, but is it really so difficult/resource intensive to solve the problem? In old SimCities one could click a house and see which route that invididual worker would take, e.g. a (permanent?) mapping between worker and job, student and school, etc. Of course, then the actual traffic simulation in previous SimCities was just crap. Why couldn't an agent based system work, just that you keep in memory for each agent where they belong and where they go? And then at regular intervals (every few game days or so), randomize some of those mappings to create people moving, jobs changing, etc. Is it that the path-finder is too resource demanding if every agent has a pre-defined destination, and much less taxing if just picking random targets?

This is indeed interesting, but I'd say far beyond the needs. 10Gbps wireless transfer already exists (e.g. http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/27/ntt-docomo-confirms-succe... ), and that is beyond what flash based memory can do. In any case, it would mean transferring a BluRay in something like 30 seconds, assuming you had a faster drive.

Possible future?

June 2014: Google Glass released to the public.

Dec 2014: First face recognition app released.

May 2015: App to detect "dateability" with strangers reaches #1 on the appstores.

Nov 2015: Trend among girls to apply make-up that makes Glass' face recognition fail.

Apr 2016: Updated algorithm and use of IR-spectrum now greatly improves face recognition capabilities.

Aug 2016: Three women killed by stalker equipped with Google Glass

Oct 2016: Prototype IR-lamp for mounting on Google Glass also works by blinding any onlooking cameras, making face recognition impossible again. It's now easy to film others while avoid being filmed yourself.

Feb 2017: New Glass version includes upgraded sensor, that can filter out selected spectrums. Weeks later, the major face recognition library updates with support, able to block out "blinding lights".

July 2017: Malware discovered on many Glasses, which can spread by WiFi and automatically blurs recorded faces. Security researchers find that it also is able to send back the actual face recognition data to secret servers in Iceland.

Nov 2017: New e-inkpaint makes it possible to create pulsating patterns that disturbs or even crashes Glasses that look at them. A celebrity vlogger is seen wearing it.

And if you click back to his website, you'll find that it seems to have been solely built using WordArt, which is quite an impressive feat!

Fun and completely irrelevant fact: "Xinu" is the name of the God of Pain in a popular Swedish role-playing game (pen and paper). See here: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js...

So this implies that it would be delivered over Google CDN, e.g. from a network close to requesting location?

This is all a very nice philosophical discussion. People argue that libraries do pay rightholders - whatever amount, it seems to be less than $1, and that's nice. BUT, why can't we just agree then that we pay a couple of dollars straight to the rightsholder and in exchange we get to download it with one click and use it as we like? Is it really that difficult?

Why is this topic so complicated? A Google news snippet very rarely would suffice for a user, if they are interested they would click through, if they are not, they would not visiting the newspaper anyway. Google are not showing ads in Google News, although they might show them in search results. But still, no profit that newspaper could address is being taken by Google. In fact, Google is providing traffic.

So taking all the philosophical statements out of the way, what is the econimical case that the newspapers are making? If Google actually showed a bigger part or the whole articles, they'd obviously be taking revenue from newspapers, but it's not the case.

That statement doesn't make sense. If they didn't contatenate, the string would be even longer and less useful as hashtag, or it would be concatenated again, as most hashtags in English are concatenated words...

But that is what CDNs do. A content provider, such as Apple, will pay both for their upstream carrier access, AND for the CDN access. And the CDN will effectively pay each network on the way to the destination, by renting their lines and hosting servers at their PoPs. CDN is a QoS service, it's just that the access networks feel they aren't getting part of that cake.

That is true, but they all represent somehow the older version of connected software, as a pure extension of the device rather than a service on it's own. iCloud works great for a device as an invisible backup, but you can't use it to share files, co-operate, publish, share data between applications, etc. And I'd say the popular web services of today are so because they integrate across services and socialize the usage. Apple are still stuck 5-10 years behind.

I can sympathize and I feel less content with Apple than I used to. I love their hardware - anyway I always find myself buying a new device rather than upgrading. Apple does great stuff but as other's I'm really worried that they won't fix their awkardness with the web.

But another note - how come no one can throw in a bit of analysis to back up these kind of argument? Otherwise it just seems like typical disillusionment (as products and companies inevitably evolve). As such it doesn't mean anything, it just means one person with a blog decided to use Ubuntu. There is a guy with a blog for every product that has ever changed. Throw in some analysis, and it may make a bigger difference.

Here you can read the draft Recommendation ITU-T Y.2770, Requirements for Deep Packet Inspection in Next Generation Networks: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:hZQFa54QIRsJ:...

Wait a minute. ITU is composed of the national regulators and interested companies. ITU cannot regulate, they can simply recommend that each regulator goes home (in US case, FCC), and proposes some regulatory change, which has to pass normal due process. So this it not a matter of UN or ITU applying regulations.

With this said, I think it's best for ITU (and regulators) to keep it handsoff with the internet. ITU has a history of complicated and old-fashioned standardization that would do more harm than good.

I see it as an existential test. If you ping localhost, and it doesn't answer, is anything at all real anymore? ARE we living in a DREAM?? IISS ITt 4LL MANOFACTURED TROoTH????

This is what HN is about - expertise, pointing out an area of improvement, and offer of help. Kudos.

Note that a kind of sender-pays is already used in practice as all big content providers pay for CDN on a per GB basis, and the CDN company in turn pays for bandwidth.

There's a lot of misconceptions on DPI going on here. Without taking position, let me just share a few facts (I work with this...).

- DPI is used in most networks in the world, and is mainly used for throttling P2P or for traffic analysis. Legal interception e.g. classical wiretapping is a different thing, although it could use same hardware.

- DPI does cost some resources to the operator but the impact on end users is negligible (except for malfunctions or improperly dimensioned DPIs). It only adds a tiny amount to latency, which puts an upper limit on bandwidth. In many cases, the bandwidth is limited somewhere else on the link.

- DPI hardware works in several stages, typically: analyze IP flow (shallow inspection), if not enough to decide, to DPI (analyze HTTP headers etc), if not enough to decide, rely on heuristics based on traffic pattern etc.

- DPI is not very good at all at dealing with encrypted traffic, and most DPIs will not be able to do anything else than shallow inspection. (some claim to do traffic flow analysis, and some (normally transparent proxies) can break the HTTPS flow in two, but it would generate client errors).

- ITUs specifications won't have much impact on what ISPs do at the moment (as they already do it) but I guess could be a part of the wider regulatory discussion.

In every social network or social area online I follow, I see people saying these things regularly, along the lines of: "I can't take it here anymore". While I understand and respect it, I think it comes from what importance you put on these services in your life. You control your own mental filter - use it. No point getting upset by what random people on the internet said, and to completely stop using a service seems like an exaggerated response, as these services DO provide value.

That's true about "customerS" but not for "a customer". There will always be a percentage of customers that expect more than the norm (for good or not so good reasons). The company cannot treat everyone's opinion the same, as they'd then need to design a product and customer support that makes the most picky person happy - which would be nice for all customers but very costly.

In the end, the company has to decide where they put the bar for "good customer support", from "making at least 50% happy" up to "making 95% happy" but never "making 100% happy". And of course, the price paid should be in relation to this, which in Apple's case, it may not be (but to be fair - I hear a lot of good stories about Apple support as well, so this one event cannot determine whether Apple does support well).

Well, one would of course hedge bets and reach farther by going for multiple platforms. But the whole point was that the Daily (and most iPad magazines) mostly go for a "PDF with bells and whistles" approach, and it is exactly that which makes the product poor in usability. PDF is the lowest common denominator, and also the worst in usability and value. But it shouldn't be to difficult to deliver a lean iPad App AND a PDF for those who wants.

Operators in all countries are worried about reduced profits due to expensive data traffic, and all operators have paid large amount of money to governments for their licenses. So yes, they did build the roads.

I believe it has been widely recognized that Zynga, GREE, etc earn most of their revenues from "whales". And I think it's an ok practice. But in order to get the money from the whales, it often seems that the rest of the players (the 99%, if you wish), have their experience hampered by constant dangling of offers in front of you. As a player, I'd rather pay a small sum once to avoid the virtual currency - and find other ways to create whales (e.g., as suggested, more like content creation, sponsoring and some vanity items).