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Disclaimer: I currently own both Apple laptop (MBP13) and Lenovo laptop (T430s).

When my previous Thinkpad T400 needed servicing - a line of bad pixels developed on the display - the display was replaced by the next business day, for free (under warranty). The kicker is, that I didn't buy the NBD service and I didn't need to prove anything about the date of purchase or something - I forgot to bring my proof of purchase and the service center looked up everything they needed in their system.

I can't expect anything approaching level of service for the Apple laptop. In my country, we don't have Apple Store and Genius bar, and in the past it took the authorised repair center cca 3 weeks to do anything, including simple swapping faulty power supply. Not because they are lazy (they are great guys actually), but because they have to wait for spares.
"If your portable Mac has a built-in battery, you don’t need to calibrate the battery."

Also, this 'calibration' is just charging and discharging. Which happens normally. Also, the mac doesn't go to sleep, it crashes, so I guess it doesn't get calibrated.

Maybe I'm holding it wrong. ;)
Um, no. Larry and Sergey you know, hired a few people to help them.
I don't know about the MB Retina, but I get more than the advertised 9 hours on my rMBP 15" running Word and Outlook.

Your problem is probably Chrome + screen brightness. Recommended monitor brightness in an office setting is 100-150 cd/m^2. The MB gets up to 375 cd/m^2 for outside use, but inside it should be at like a 35% setting. Also, Chrome guzzles juice like there is no tomorrow--use Safari.
I assume Apple is still liable, at least for Europe. I'd say Apple knows very well the requirements very well too and the stronger consumer protection factors into the decision of manufacturers to price their devices higher in Europe.
> it's hard to find big projects as single freelancer.
> server side, front end, android/ios app finished in the same time

This is not true.

The freelancer simply needs to position himself as someone who can build and manage a team that can do that. I've served as a technical lead on projects managing other freelancers. Large projects.
I would personally trade those millimeters for better serviceability

Same here. I've been a dedicated Mac user since 2002, and have been contemplating upgrading my 2010 MBP. The decreasing serviceability gives me lengthy pause, though I'm not sure that I would be happier with something else (even if it were more serviceable).
"Trust me, my opinion is the right one" is not a terrifically compelling stance on HN.
In the case of electric cars, the state and federal incentives that help to make them attractive are available only when they are "new".
I live far below my means and save a ton of money. I do it partly for moments like this. If my employer comes to me tomorrow and says "we need you to move to X city/country or else we have to let you go" or "we are eliminating your position, sign this deal that makes you available for 2 years" or any other exploitative ultimatum, I can call their bluff without fear for my own well-being. If more people lived that way, this sort of thing wouldn't happen.
Problems:

1) Your signup page (the link for this post) doesn't say anything about what you do. The signup page and "what is this?" page should be the same.

2) Your landing page at brightwork.io is painfully slow. Don't make us watch animations to find out what you do. Put it in static text so we can read it as quickly as we want.

3) I watched the painfully slow animations, and I still have no clue what you do. Tell me what pain point you're eliminating or what I'll be able to do with your product that I couldn't do before.
The local library doesn't really like donations. Most get tossed. A separate charity takes them, tosses most, and conducts sales to raise money for the library with what's left.

But the fact is, if I'm retaining a copy of the book (with my scan), I can't give the book away. I still have it. That would be stealing. It is really disheartening to see people here on Hacker News who believe that intellectual property should be stolen and/or has no value. That's disturbing.
Prey for the Gods Is Basically Shadow of the Colossus, for the PC
I found this Apple page that appears to offer battery service for $129: https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=Unite...

I have the same "Service Battery" warning and I was hoping to eventually get this service on my 13" MacBook Air.
A SSD and some ram upgrade can do wonders for an older machine (and price is pretty reasonable for both these days). You can even get kits that allow you to take out your 'superdrive' and install a second hard drive.
In IT/Programming, if you go out to lunch, a beer or two is not going to hurt your technical abilities. (anecdotal)
Don't move the goalpost.
> I know I would personally trade those millimeters for better serviceability, especially the day I realize I need a new battery.

Eh, does any non-tech savy person really care about anything outside of size and weight? And maybe "speed", hah.
I guess we'll find out in about 50-60 years if we're still here.
More and more PC laptops are moving to the same model. There are a lot of benefits for the manufacturer. Fewer parts (less $ to make), less to break (less support $), can make the laptop thinner and lighter (so you can charge more $), the battery no longer has to be a easy to use shape (have you seen Apple's tapered layers of thin batteries?), extra engineering costs, etc.

There are people who really like/want removable batteries but it doesn't seem to be enough to keep most of the market supplying them. And now that laptops use less power little juice packs (not unlike those for cellphones) become reasonable. Plus in general removable batteries made a lot of sense when basic typing would only get you 3 or 4 hours, but now that many machines can do basic typing for 10+ hours a ton of users can get by without needing that second battery.
Take a look at the Energy pane of the Activity Monitor sometime.

Chrome on the Mac is very tough on the battery.

A switch to Safari increased my battery life by about 80%.
The only real consumer benefit that this article describes for factory-direct sales is cost savings from no longer carrying inventory. But that's a completely separate issue: there's no reason an indy dealer can't have a low inventory and custom-order new cars for all their customers.

Dealers carry a large inventory because it works. People (for the most part) want to pick out their specific car and drive it off the lot. They form an emotional connection with the car before they own it, and the dealer needs that emotional connection to close the deal. Going factory-direct with a wait time of several days would snap buyers back into logical reality, and car companies do not want that.
Server side Google Analytics collection api using python – (not just client)
Video back linking engine
I've witnessed many replacements of screens, motherboards, and CPUs on Dell laptops performed next-business day, on-site. It's all about how much you spend on the warranty.
"[T]he trade-in cost for my car they offered was literally half its market value."

I'm curious why you'd expect them to take it for more? They wouldn't do trade-ins if they couldn't profit off of them, and you can't buy things for market value and run a successful business.

If you want close to market value for your car, you have to sell it yourself. And if you think about why you didn't do that, you can see why it costs you something to do a trade-in.
All new breakthroughs start expensive, though. Not until economies of scale come in does the price get driven down.
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Agreed, and I was going to make the same point.

Apple having service centres (ie, the back of their retail stores) scattered in convenient locations in large cities all over the world, where many repairs can be performed while you wait or the same day, really is a treat.

Which other brands are offering a similar level of service?
Great, you can buy a chunky ass hp laptop and enjoy that big ol paperweight all you want.
The article mentions that the actual work takes a few hours, but the wait to get the machine actually serviced was 3 days. That is totally store dependent and very clear in the article.
Divine+Elegance
Linux user here. I have had little luck with graphics working well on the Macs. The pro's used to have dual graphics card (nvidia and built-in) and I never managed to run linux nicely on them. The best luck I had was with running linux on parallels something which messes up all my keyboard shortcuts.

I switched to the thinkpad (currently, lenovo carbon x1) and honestly it's fantastic. Never had a better laptop in my life (way better than Macs).
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ITT:

>Let's take money out of local communities and place even more wealth and power in the hands of wealthy megacorporations!

HN truly disgusts me sometimes.
Yep. I'm still using a 2010 MBP. I maxed out the RAM a few years ago and it performed better. Now I've got an SSD in it and it feels like new. Almost nothing I do pushes it so I simply have no good reason to replace it. If I hadn't put the SSD in I would have replaced it two+ years ago because it felt slow.
Thank you for the feedback.

Brightwork makes it easier for Developers to gather data from their mobile applications.

What makes Brightwork different is really the ease of use of the dashboard. There are other API Management tools out there, but Brightwork takes the best of the available mobile APIs and puts them in one place for Developers to be able to figure out what's working and what's not working. Think Cloudability, but with data.
Clock losing 10 minutes nightly on Android Marshmallow
Tuberculosis mortality nearly halved since 1990
I went through something similar with Apple not that long ago. I had a retina MBP that had a faulty keyboard. Half of the home row stopped working, starting with a single key in that row. It was some type of physical failure.

I thought the computer was still in warranty but after talking to half a dozen people at Apple they told me it was 3 years out of warranty. Then they told me they'd have to replace about half the computer which would, not surprisingly, cost me 50% of what I paid for it.

I complained politely for about 45 minutes, talking to a few more people and then they reactivated my warranty and asked me to take it in to a shop. I got it back in about a week and was happy to see that they had also replaced my battery, which for about a year had given the same warning as in the article.

While I was happy about that, and it made me like Apple more, the reality is my computer is a business expense and in the big picture not a really large one. Also, computers are still developing fast enough that they're not practically a long term purchase. People talk about wanting to service computer themselves but that's a very small percentage of the overall market.
While the "article" here is fairly light on content, I will say this: Lindsey Sterling (the subject here) is a wonderful artist and absolutely deserves the success she's won. Her music is amazing listen to!
Similar laws apply in Quebec.
I can't find any information on the protein they're using - do you know which it is?

From a proteonomics perspective it seems interesting, but spider silk is several different proteins polymerized into amorphous semi-elastic regions, so I'm skeptical about their 'spinning' process.

Processes using yeast to produce simple proteins (like hypoallergenic insulin) have been around since the 1980s, so I'm curious about how (or if) they solved the protein folding problem and stats on how their silk compares to natural silk.
...and, if you want to know why things are going to continue to suck with respect to Copyright, blame Congress for letting Disney and large corporations rig the game for their interests.
My impression is that early outsourcing did work but it worked because the first outsourcing in India companies were founded and staffed by an elite fraction of Indian developers who, for the money, were in many cases sufficiently better that the in house counterparts to overcome the very significant problems of remote development. Capitalism works and that huge salary differential has eroded to the point where this is no longer the case. You can no longer get a Phd to work on your in house CRM system for $20 an hour. Outsourcing companies tried to scale past this talent imperative through heavy process focus but this of course only works for very well understood problems of which there are few in the software world.
That would partially explain why an Apple laptop in Europe routinely costs $500+ more than in the US.
They bleed lots of money and that allows the Darwinistic decimation process to kick in and ultimately wipe them out.

Better yet -- they bleed lots of money but don't die out, due to being hugely profitable, so they continue bleeding lots of money and we finally get the trickle-down economy Reagan promised us.
Honest question: what is the difference between a “for profit” school and one that ends the year with more than that it started with? If Harvard manages itself such that its endowment increases, is this not a profit? What is the practical, operational difference?
That is completely not my experience. Not at all. I had to replace the battery on my 2013 MacBook Air. The battery cost 99 British pounds(~$150) in the Apple Store, that included the work. I made an appointment using their app in the morning for an afternoon service, walked in, they took the laptop, I waited 20 minutes, they came back, I paid 99 pounds, got out. Easy, pain free, cheap.

Yes, you read that right - cheap. When I wanted to replace the battery on my Dell XPS 13(2010 model?) Dell wanted 220 pounds for the battery, which was absolutely nuts(oh and the delivery would take 3 weeks). Ended up buying a fake one from China for 1/4 of the price.
Not tried it to be honest, I'd run out of energy by the time I looked up all this, then saw the code, sucked in air sharply between my teeth, then decided I'd better things to do.
What did we learn today about security through obscurity, children? ;)
Shouldn't their salaries be enough as a compensation?
VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues
No other car makers get their emissions tested in real-world driving conditions, so that's irrelevant.
By the way, you didn't mention the OS of the machine with one USB port... So I don't know if you have a base64 decoder handy!

Let's suppose Windows... The internet says that `certutil` can decode base64.

If your machine doesn't have that tool, try constructing a .eml file and copy/paste the base64 content in as an attachment. OutlookExpress can open that.
They are screwed in almost any public school system but not because of money issues.

The reason why charter schools work is because parents are often more involved in their kids education. The school simply forces it.

For instance:

Readling Log.
Every day we have to write which book we read with our son and what book(s) he read.

Student corrections.
The students are measured everyday from Green (no corrections) to yello (some and a warning) and red (paren't gets called)

Pick-up
Parents line up and the teacher tells them how the day went and if there are things they need to improve.

Just a few of the things that are forcing parent involvement.
I agree with your assessment of brick and motar store. Having it done in store saves so much time.

5-10 years ago I had a laptop with some screen issues. I took it back to the retailer where I purchased it and they sent it for repair. I was without my laptop for 8 weeks for a simple swab of a screen.
Yes and no. The maroon rectangle doesn't directly say anything. But Russian Expressionism wasn't free to paint that maroon rectangle, so the maroon rectangle could be a powerful statement of freedom.

In Park City, Utah, there is (or at least was) a gallery that sold Russian Expressionist paintings. It had a painting in it that was controversial in Russian art in the 1960s. It showed workers in a cloth factory, and it was controversial because one of the workers had a wistful or dreamy expression on her face. That expression nearly cost the painter his license as an artist. That's how heavy-handed the USSR was toward art - you needed a license to be an artist, and the government cared about the expressions on peoples' faces in your paintings.

Another thing I saw in that gallery: There was a difference in the landscapes done after 1990. They still are impressionist landscapes, but they have little dots of bright color where there were flowers. Pre-1990, the landscapes looked the same, but the overall impression was more drab. The freedom that came in 1991 showed up even in the landscapes, because the artists felt different.
Why Go is a poorly designed language (from a perspective of Go lover)
The rage is that for many lines of work (like mine), 4 days of computer downtime is absolute unacceptable.
Stupid battery warning meters are a lie, and a waste of valuable power.

No, they're not. Knowing the charge of a battery accurately is essential to managing the performance of a lithium battery; they're pretty sensitive to this stuff.

If you have enough power to show me that you don't have power, I know your battery meter is full of shit. It means the board can still operate, and is probably performing a small subset of tasks without my awareness, in a low power mode.

See above. Power management systems never let a battery completely discharge; this would destroy a lithium battery. There will always be a small amount of reserve power available for managing battery life.

The greatest sin of all, though. The hands-down WORST crime committed, is when the hardware IS PLUGGED INTO A POWER SOURCE, BUT REFUSES TO POWER ON BECAUSE "THE BATTERY NEEDS TO CHARGE FIRST."

Again, this is down to the sensitivity of lithium batteries. If the charge of the battery falls below the minimum safe level, the device will charge it before allowing you to take power. There are a couple of reasons – it's important to make sure the battery doesn't fall into deep discharge, and to ensure that device power isn't immediately cut off (=hard crash) if the user subsequently disconnects the power before the device charges to acceptable levels.
Funny. In my experience telling something as it is is a very easy way to piss of the client, who in general have huge ego that they are from a superior culture.
> gather data from their mobile applications

What data? User behavior/tracking? Data from the API that I wrote? Data from a BaaS like Parse?

I still don't understand this at all, and I've never heard of Cloudability.
Apple tends to use the space savings to stuff in class-leading batteries.

I have a T450s at work. The stock battery is only 46 watt-hours, versus 75 on the similarly-sized 13" rMBP. The 15" rMBP has a 100 watt-hour battery, which you can get on a T550s only if you buy the extended battery that sticks out half an inch from the bottom.
I like it a lot! The only thing that bothered me was how the star ratings show numbers instead of the stars, so I have to look carefully at the ratings before choosing an app.

With a star * rating the rating is visual, so I can easily see at a glance what the rating is.
How “eXtremely Distributed Software Development” Is Different
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I've never been able to understand the appeal of the ultra-light, ultra-thin laptops. That it comes at the cost of user-serviceability just makes it that much more incomprehensible.
Well AppleCare is terrible IMHO. On the phone most of them have no clue. If the issue gets escalated you have someone who understands the issue but cannot do a thing. Then you always end up in the Apple store and they will only become active if the issue is acknowledged by Apple and their hardware tests find something. All other issues are basically ignored. I am having kernel panics since 10.10.3 [1] and there is no way to make myself heard... Had to leave my MBP with them for 5 days and they didn't replace a thing even though it has full coverage.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7000724
Ask HN: Why do legal documents sometimes use caps?
I often see sections of caps in legal documents, such as a Terms of Service. What are companies trying to achieve with this, and do you think they're achieving it? eg:

12. Representations; Warranties; Disclaimers
You represent and warrant that (i) you have full power and authority to enter into the Agreement; (ii) you are the owner of, or are legally authorized to act on behalf of the owner of, each Property; (iii) you are the technical and editorial decision maker in relation to each Property on which the Services are implemented and that you have control over the way in which the Services are implemented on each Property; (iv) Google has never previously terminated or otherwise disabled an AdSense account created by you due to your breach of the Agreement or due to invalid activity; (v) entering into or performing under the Agreement will not violate any agreement you have with a third party or any third-party rights; and (vi) all of the information provided by you to Google is correct and current.
OTHER THAN AS EXPRESSLY SET OUT IN THE AGREEMENT, WE DO NOT MAKE ANY PROMISES ABOUT THE SERVICES. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON’T MAKE ANY COMMITMENTS ABOUT THE CONTENT WITHIN THE SERVICES, THE SPECIFIC FUNCTION OF THE SERVICES, OR THEIR PROFITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS. WE PROVIDE EACH SERVICE “AS IS”.
TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE EXCLUDE ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, STATUTORY OR IMPLIED. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM THE WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
It's called trace/execution replay and has been around for decades in various platforms, not just Windows.
Assuming that users who installed the app already understood the need to provide their location data. This allowed them to axe out the long-winded welcome flow and make the permissions request the second screen. The text was changed to say that users needed to “Enable Location Permissions”

Just so wrong.
Again this is simply wrong. Success Academy one of the best performing schools have a lottery so there is no way to get your kids into that school otherwise.

Also public schools in NY are zoned so you have to live the right place to get your kid into the right school.
The difference is that the T450s takes literally 5 seconds todo a battery swap and you can keep using the machine during the time. No downtime, no bureaucracy, just go to Amazon and wait 2 days for your battery arrive.
> only when they are "new"

Ahh yes, they must benefit the environment only when new :)
>Pricing is for service through Apple.

Likely the $129 is for the labour portion and doesn't include the parts cost.
The chicken crossed the road to speed up the process of evolution and natural selection.
For the old ones, I am referring to non-Apple machines.
Thanks for the information. I wish I could get over my hangup about destroying books, because that sounds like a very reasonable workflow otherwise.
89% charged, 4h calculated time http://replycam.com/i/batterylifetime_1BE12F3F.png (but in reality, it will be shorter)

yeah, chrome is in there.

but switch to safari? my thoughts
a) i'm a developer, i rather like new APIs, latest HTML 5 features
b) my whole company infrastructure relies on google services (and they work best in chrome, no surprise there)
c) my old macbook air (2013, maverick, killed one month ago by my son with self made kombucha) had about 7h battery-life
Chrome also turns on the discrete GPU for seemingly no reason.
I expected a bit more than 50%. Anyway, my argument isn't about trade-in sales, its about typical profits of dealerships. They absolutely do not make "only $200" per car. When you factor all the things they typically do, they can and easily do thousands per car sale.
10-4 rubber ducky.