skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a trade-off that most buyers are aware of? I'm not sure it's as simple as "shaving off a couple of millimeters", but if that's the case I know I would personally trade those millimeters for better serviceability, especially the day I realize I need a new battery.

I was thinking about switching to a Macbook Pro, but for me this is just another argument to go with something else.

Can't deny that the hardware is great though, but to me this makes it less great. I had my last laptop for 8 years because I could replace broken parts myself, and upgrade to an SSD, I think that's a nice feature of the hardware too.
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Normally I'm not one to praise Apple, but I feel a 3 day turnaround on a process that necessitates opening the entire laptop is amazing: most other vendors would take several weeks.
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Agree. My older Macbook Pro basically has a dead battery and I'm thinking about just replacing the battery and swapping the hard drive for an ssd to give it some new life. That said, it is used primarily at the house so we just plug it in to watch some netflix and browse the web or pull up a recipe for dinner, so it isn't that big of an issue in the first place for my purposes.
That's a nice write-up but I think that experienced and well prepared liars would be able to beat that.

The best way I've found to detect lies is that truth is 'internally consistent' and lies never are, all you need to do is to focus on any inconsistencies not matter how small and then to apply pressure on them, they'll fracture the story much like a crystal with a flaw in it.
Criminal? AppleCare from a 3rd party retailer is literally just a box with a serial number inside. All you have to do is enter the serial number of the computer that you want to attach the warranty to and the AppleCare serial number online in order to link the two. I hate "pointless paperwork", but this is not it.
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Are Prions Behind All Neurodegenerative Diseases?
For the record:

- Kotlin does not have tuples, and doesn't allow abstraction over function -arity. So no, it can't to that.

- Reified generics are simply not expensive, at least not the way Ceylon implements them. But sure, Ceylon's reified generics were implemented by Stef Epardaud who is the best programmer I've ever worked with, so I can understand if some other people find them difficult to implement efficiently.

- I'm not talking about syntax. Syntax is uninteresting. I'm talking about semantics. In Ceylon, optional types are a trivial syntax sugar for a union type, not a hacked-in special case in the type system, as they are in Kotlin, and that means that I can do more with them, for example they naturally combine with union and intersection types to do useful things.

- Your link to documentation for Kotlin does not include any specification for the language. Do you know what the word "specification" means in this context?

Finally, I strongly recommend that you take the time to read the Ceylon documentation and inform yourself about the language. You'll find lots of really interesting ideas and information in there, and I'm certain you'll love the language!
I've been nothing but Apple laptops since 2001, when I ran Yellow Dog Linux on a TiBook, and co-ran a company with ~40 people all using MBPs, and my experience is that Apple hardware is getting significantly more reliable than it was before.

I think the effect you're seeing is just that more people are using Apple computers than were even 5 years ago, and so there's just more feedback to read.
At the risk of being "cites articles about cognitive biases guy", it's worth remembering that the reason that the old machines you know today still work is because people have generally gotten rid of all the old machines that are broken (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias)
It should be fixed now.
An extinct cave lion, at least 10,000 years old
What is the difference between morphologically and topologically in this case?
Agreed! Brilliant tool!
>Although an initial lie may have sparked it

Is there a single confirmed case of any issue that the #gg outrage is based on? Between the various topics above (Quinn, femfreq, "We are all gamers now" article) that, at least seemingly, spawned #GamerGate, it seems like it grew entirely from mob rage, and continues along in that vein.

>Complaints to the FTC even caused Kotaku and other publishers to add disclosure for affiliate linking.

Even terrible events can lead to positive results. A particularly bad fire that kills hundreds may get the fire code changed so that thousands will be saved; that doesn't mean that we encourage disasters for the sake of improving safety of those who survive.

The #GamerGate tag is irrevocably tied to all of the hate spewed by people associated with the tag at this point. It doesn't even matter that some people associated with the group may have done some good, because a lot of people carrying that banner spew misogynist crap and other hate speech pretty much constantly. It's not even the doxing that I'm talking about here; I'm just observing that, when I see a #gg tweet in the wild, it is almost universally associated with some form of hatred.

If you come along and tell me that those aren't the "real" GG, that the real GG is only about journalistic ethics in games, why should I believe you when most of what I see associated with the tag is garbage? If you're honestly not a misogynist, then I have bad news for you: Most of the people who tweet using #gamergate are, and you should find a different tag to represent the positive things you are doing, or you will be associated with what they're saying. If you don't mind being associated with what they say, then...well, I have nothing more to say.
In person is there for one reason: so the salesperson can direct the dialog, completely control the conversation. They are heavily trained in the dance of sales, and its all in their interest and not yours.

The primary reason to get the dealership out of the picture is, to get the salesperson out of the picture. You don't buy a toaster that way, or even a house. Why a car?
Are Charter Schools Required to Provide Services to Students with Disabilities?

Yes. The responsibility to make a free appropriate public education (FAPE) available to all students with disabilities applies to ALL public schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).9 Charter schools are public schools; therefore, they bear the same responsibility.

Who is actually responsible for ensuring that special education services are available to students with disabilities in a charter school? The answer depends on how the charter school is legally identified in the state.

If a charter school is considered to be an independent Local Education Agency (LEA) under its state’s law, that charter school bears the exact same legal requirements for providing special education services as any other LEA (or district).

If a charter school is considered part of an existing LEA, the LEA (or district) retains most or all of the responsibility for special education in the charter school. The charter school is considered a school within that LEA and is responsible for following LEA policy.

http://www.parentcenterhub.org/repository/charters/
Mark Zuckerberg Warns of Too Much Net Neutrality
> Chile

Apart from all the people tortured and "disappeared" by Pinochet?
What has happened to our culture? People are actually proud of being too lazy to read anything longer that a tweet?
It took 2+ full pages to tell people to keep things simple. Awesome.
Personally, I'd rather have a few extra mm of thickness and batteries that are not glued to a keyboard. Efforts could be made to keep this tech more repairable.
They've dedicated whole chunks of keynotes to talking about how the new batteries are integrated with the chassis. Obviously, most of their customers don't care, but then: you can say that about this story too! Most people just take their laptops back to the Apple Store when they want anything changed.
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As EC1 said they're reliable. Once you setup a Mac it tends to run and run and run. I feel like I used to have to do a fair bit of fiddling with my Windows machines, but that was over a decade ago so it may no longer be the case. Linux was definitely fiddly.

The hardware is very well designed, well put together, feels like a premium piece of equipment. PC laptops used to (and cheap ones still do) feel like junk. Apple is willing to put expensive trackpads (amazing!) in their laptops instead of accidentally crippling the machine with one piece of penny pinching.

OS X does everything I need and does have all the unix stuff underneath so I can use it to do development in an environment very similar (relative to Windows) to the Linux servers code is deployed on.

And OS X has a good community of software developers making great programs like MarsEdit, BBEdit, and all sorts of other things. There is paid software (Office, Photoshop, etc.) if you need it, something that isn't the case with Linux.

The total experience was so much better than I remember with Windows, and I can work well on it. I don't have to worry about tracking down weird drivers. If something is wrong there is one place to go: Apple. I remember the fun of Dell telling me it was Windows and to call MS, who would tell me it was Dell's fault.

So that explains the rise of OS X. I'd place the 'fall' of Windows at two things (this is just speculation on my part): stagnation and hardware.

Stagnation is obvious. Windows XP was great, but it sat around forever while Apple kept improving OS X. Then we got Vista (I won't judge it) very late, then eventually 7, then by 8 and 8.1 MS was actually starting to move again.

On the hardware side the race-to-the-bottom with prices really made it much harder to find good computers that weren't built like toys. By and large the PC guys didn't target that market very hard. Their 'upscale' laptops often felt like lower end ones with better specs but the same build. It seems like this is turning around (a bit) as MS tries to force it, which is great to see.
> Its inappropriate to do any drinking at lunch, if you have work to return to.

Wait, who are you to tell me I can't have wine or beer at lunch before going back to work?

This sounds like pure moral judgement and that seems completely inappropriate to me.

You could have said "it's inappropriate to do anything that prevents you from doing your work correctly", and that would have been fine, but please let me judge that by myself, because a lot of socially acceptable behaviours have as much influence on work efficiency, like not sleeping enough or being stressed out because of events not related to work.
>I bet Dell still keeps an inventory, it's just a vastly reduced one.

That's pretty common. I can walk into an Apple store and walk out with one of a variety of models. However, many memory and disk configs will have to be special-ordered and I'll have to wait a couple of weeks.

I expect if car selling moved to more of a BTO system, you'd see dealers/factory stores stocking some level of popular model/trim package/color combinations but everything else would be weeks to months to get.
AppleCare extends the product warranty for an additional year, but outside of an Apple Store (where they register the machine for you in-store) you are simply buying a warranty in a box. It's a failing of the staff that sold the warranty for not making this clear to the purchaser.
Solid machinery, has a genuine Unix shell ("Unix-y"? More Unix than most Linux distros), if it runs on Linux there's probably a port for Mac OS, sound works out-of-the-box (I know, cheap shot), and I get my work done with a minimum of fuss when I plug in hardware.

Personally, it's the only choice if I'm going to work on iOS, and conveniently I can do Android work as well. Basically (and again, personally) it does everything a Linux box is going to do, plus iOS dev.
Environmental pollution factors in cardiovascular disease
I know a family in South Korea with children, who wakes up at 7 am for Grade school until 1 PM. Go to English academy the next hour, then goes to several other academies of Math, Science, Music. Comes home exhausted at 7-8 pm but has to do online tutorials for English. Plus the homework after that. The parents pity their child. But they said they don't have any choice. The classmates are too competitive. If they stop doing that their child may look stupid in school. This is pathetic. But how to stop?
That's interesting – Macbook Pro batteries are rated for 1000 cycles. Since this machine has only hit 652, I would expect them to replace this for no charge – since it has not met it's published specs. But I guess I might not have all the information here.
I'd rather see a hard crash and know for sure that the battery is too empty to perform work.

Stupid battery warning meters are a lie, and a waste of valuable power.

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.

Maybe the accelerometer is still capturing events, maybe lots of things are happening, below the threshold of activating the monitor and expensive motors.

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."

WHAT???
Have you tried Cloudscrape? From the looks of it they can do the same, and then more?
That's less a foible and more a character strength :-) the foible is referring to someone as a mere "resource" (and yes, I am acknowledging my own foible here!).
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Have you tried another browser? Chrome has notoriously TERRIBLE effects on battery life on Macs.

I'm not kidding. Try Safari for two days and be amazed.

There are probably things you can do to make it better, but for whatever reason Google doesn't seem to care and ships (what I would say is effectively) broken software.
"In 2014, the WHO identified air pollution as the largest single environmental-health risk. In 2012, 3.7 million deaths in people aged <60 years were attributed to outdoor air pollution, and 80% of these deaths were the result of cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease."

Hard to understate that data point. These deaths were not retirees or generally weakened.
> manufacturers were screwing everyone over as much as they could

Not to doubt car dealers' reputation for honesty and integrity, but what's a good resource to read up on offenses the manufacturers have committed?
Speak for yourself. I want a thin laptop that feels almost like a slab of mysteriously lightweight solid aluminum, and Apple is delivering that.

It's not like this was a cost-saving measure for them; they're not pulling one over on you. They went nuts trying to make these things solid, lightweight, and skinny, and this was a tradeoff they made --- at significant expense.
The 'security' command is also a really nice tool to tweak your page:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/GCLI/Display_...
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Toyota is also a little funny because there's the sales groups associated with Toyota Motor North America (affiliated with Toyota Motor Corp) who service most of the country, and then there's Southeast Toyota Distributors (SET) who are independent of Toyota proper.

I found out about that subtle difference the hard way when I had a problem with a Toyota and expected Toyota to honor their advertisements. Turns out I bought from SET, so Toyota didn't care.
This is excellent advice. Thank you! I will be remembering this...
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As of June, Apple will replace laptop batteries under 80% of design capacity under AppleCare for free.
Usually you have a warranty exception on batteries, though, because they naturally degrade with use.
This comment needs to be at the top. Something is missing from the story.
I agree with this, although it should be noted that most community colleges do not offer anything higher than Associates degrees. I'm not aware of any that actually offer something higher, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to make a broader statement.

What I'd want to see is expansion of community colleges to include 4 year degrees, and I also support the model of Western Governors, which is much cheaper and allows students to take classes as quickly or as slowly as they can/want.
Chrome has long been known to kill battery life, hence most Mac users sticking with Safari
It's a bad thing because it doesn't work that way. Software engineers are skilled workers, not assembly line workers. And business Darwinism doesn't really work. Otherwise Comcast would have gone under years ago.
Yep, or just browse through some curated lists here if you'd rather (scroll down and read through the readme):

https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome
Exactly this. Open up your battery menu, it will say Chrome is using significant energy. I've never not seen it there
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The day has already come and gone. Macbooks up to 2012 had serviceable batteries. Technically not user-servicable, because you have to undo a lot of screws and expose the guts of the machine, but quite easy in practice. 20 minute job, tops. Batteries available for $90 OEM or cheaper if you want to risk a knockoff. Or you can run it with no battery at all and use mains power if you want.

Since 2013, batteries are unservicable and as a result I will not be buying any more new Macbooks. As long as 2012 models are available and continue to be solid, usable machines, that's what I'm going with, in fact, I bought one last week. $800 was a lot of money for a 5 year old computer, but well worth it for me. An unservicable battery, (and, btw, unservicable RAM, it's soldered to the motherboard), will never be worth one dime to me.
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This is what a specification looks like:

http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.1/spec/html_single/
From Wikipedia: "Many political and ethnic opposition groups and countries continue to use "Burma" because they do not recognise the legitimacy of the ruling military government or its authority to rename the country."
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"If future adaptation mimics past adaptation, unmitigated warming is expected to reshape the global economy by reducing average global incomes roughly 23% by 2100 and widening global income inequality, relative to scenarios without climate change."

This is pretty bad.
I don't even know where to start on what you've stated. So many incorrect statements I just have to move on.
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Why even include the government caveat? That's how subcontracting works most of the time.
I’ve had outstanding luck with DIY fusion drives. A cheap 64gb SSD can be had for under $50 and is more than adequate.
I don't quite understand the rage. Doesn't the service agreement comment on the time it might take? I remember from Dell there were different kinds of packages you could buy. Because I bought some business laptop once, they actually dispatched a technician to my office and fixed the problem on the spot. If you need that kind of service level, you simply have to pay for it.
Sure but you are ignoring important information. The car itself has not depreciated. We are misattributing the depreciation. It's a different bundle of products. There is nothing intrinsically price-reducing about being driven one mile.

The lower price is due to various market failures or trust breakdowns, not b/c the car itself has changed.
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This seems to explain somewhat the "safari is the new IE" phenomenon. If using the battery has such drawbacks, one might well wish to avoid doing so, web standards be damned.
Part of that comic is referring to the parent but I think a great deal of it actually refers to the way teachers are treated. They are treated like garbage by parents and administrators alike. They don't get to make any decisions in the classroom, and they are screamed at or fired if anything goes wrong. Parent involvement is actually the root cause of this crisis: the wrong kind of parent involvement however, the parent who thinks the teacher is an idiot and goes into school to "set him/her straight". That's in fact what's happening in the comic.
I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro and while I initially liked the portability compared to my old 15 inch laptop, I think this will be the last slim laptop and probably the last MacBook I get. The reason is precisely because the parts in it, like the battery or the RAM, are unserviceable.

I have had this laptop for a year and a half, I can't upgrade its RAM from 8 to 16 GB, the battery feels worn out, the Retina screen has stains on it and the command key is discolored from pressing it too much I guess. With my old ThinkPad these would have been non-issues.
That does seem rather short – most reviews of the 12" Macbook seemed to indicate that 8h was an achievable runtime.

I hear that Chrome sucks up battery like nothing else though; might be worth investigating whether Safari's improved power usage is worth the tradeoff in other aspects?
Yes, agreed, except that micro-assay isn't new, and is actually used on newborns all the time. It isn't used in adults because it tends to be wildly inaccurate/variable, even under the best of circumstances.
The technician that was servicing your machine made an error that can save the author some money. If you have proof of purchase for your applecare, and it was bought within the 1st year, there is an option for to add applecare to said unit. Dept on the situation, and how far the unit is out of warranty they would have to call an agreement admin, and have it added to the unit. Of course this could all be done in one appointment, Order the part, call the admin, when the part comes in repair the unit.

I blame the technician for not supporting the client, now of course the client was nuts for thinking that they could offer a turn around time for this machine in a day with no parts in stock.

There is also the testing phase to consider which adds several hours to the machines repair time, if not overnight.
Out of curiosity, am I alone in not wanting to use apple products because I find such practices as this to be unethical engineered extortion to extract more money from the consumer?

I find such things exploitive and the product's success giving a green light for other manufacturers to re-engineer their products based on less honorable principles.

For instance, on flip phones, batteries would eject if you dropped it in order to absorb impact. They were designed to fly out to minimize the damage to the device and screen. Very clever - solid engineering. However, what if if you want to sell a phone when the battery dies or make a fall break the phone so you can ... sell more phones! And now the industry no longer follows what was a very smart durability focused engineering practice.

Like the laptop in the OPs article. They could have decided to adhere it in a more clever way to make it removable instead of fusing it with glue. Screws, latches ... lots of technology was readily available.

I'm not interested in "debating" whether this is "true", clearly I'm the only one at this time, on this thread, that thinks this. I'm curious as to whether I'm just some minority of one here.
What do we have to cancel to get Buzzfeed and Vox Media to shut down operations completely? I'm in.