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Last year I sailed my 30' boat from Oakland to Hawaii. I went three weeks with no sign of life aside from Albatross and flying fish. None. I couldn't even get my sat phone to work 90% of the time. I covered, roughly, the distance from Oakland to about Massachusetts. My boat was much smaller, and had very little as far as safety equipment on a passenger jet. While both might be exceptionally hard to spot -- even a 1000' vehicle with 1000' span would be hard to find on solid ground somewhere between CA and MA, add deep water, and that piece of wing was not attached to the plane when it hit the water. I know this as it still was shaped like a wing. I'm also a pilot and can only guess as well as other pilots, but when you over-stress the airframe from a loss of control, you can fold a wing. No life jackets floating as they're still in the plane which likely hit well before that chunk of wing fluttered down into the water. I doubt we'll ever really know. Seems unlikely to have been a bomb, as shit would be washing up.
1. Know the right person.
2. Actually make millions for your employer each year.
3. Negotiate well at review time.
4. Profit (but a small fraction of what you would make if you ran your strategy yourself)
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I suppose in 20 years google might have developed a machine translation tool from patentese...
I had a motherboard fail on a 2011 MacBook Pro running Windows 7 - I just wiped the drive on another Mac and put it back in and have it to them. No questions asked.
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I wonder how much of investment in, i.e. Apple, is presently based on assumptions of future Chinese domestic consumption.
Yup. I agree. We need a good PC with the form factor of Mac mini but without Mac OS. Only option I have is to buy a Mac mini and install Ubuntu on that. Or buy Intel mini PC (Intel NUC). Both options are quite expensive, at least in India.
No, I read it right. It's American public debt they hold. They don't have 1 trillion dollars in cash sitting in a vault. They are holding U.S. Treasury bonds.

And again, I don't understand why having 1 trillion dollars in a reserve bank is a useful measure of economic power. The Chinese economy has a GDP of $10tn compared with the U.S. economy of $17tn. That is an example of a meaningful metric of power.

^^^
the parent commenter edited his entry after I submitted my original comment, which changes the relevance of my comment.
You've been saying that across this thread, but let's say that Chinese banks start to go bankrupt because of nonperforming loans. The Chinese central bank holds large amounts of US treasury bonds. What would be the effect of the bankruptcies? A sell-off to bail out Chinese banks? How would that work; they'd get dollars for their tbonds; then what? Would it depress tbond yields? They can't go much further before you have to pay to hold them... I don't understand the reasoning behind the 'but the Chinese hold lots of US debt!' argument. This isn't like a mortgage where the lender can call in the loan at any point, and if you don't pay they'll repossess your house; or a loan from a loan shark who'll break your kneecaps if you don't pay up. What would happen with or because of these debts?
That may be true in the current environment, or in that which you measured in your study, but might be totally different in a struggling economy. Say they decide to have a massive sell of at a strategic moment. Combined with other factors it could have a larger effect. The value of one play matters in checkers but in chess it's the combined value of your moves that win the game.
I can relate: I have a X230 at home with Ubuntu 14.10 and the wifi has a weird tendency to disconnect and then have a hard time trying to reconnect.
They do. I bought a Lenovo from the Microsoft store. No crapware at all (well, you can debate about some of the driver update software both from Lenovo and Intel, but definitely no added root certificates and such).
Uh, based on what evidence? Empirically speaking, the Chinese stock market has, observably, lost enormous value in the past year, with probably further to fall.
Cheapest Smartphone in the World
1. The phone runs the recent Android Lollipop 5.1 OS with the help of a 1.3 GHz quad-core processor.
2. It supports 3G for lightning-fast web browsing.
3. It will have a 4-inch screen.
4. It even has a 1GB RAM.
5. The phone has 8GB internal memory which can be expanded to 32GB with a micro SD card.
6. You even get a camera on both sides. 3.2 megapixel on the back and 0.3 megapixel the front.
7. The phone has the 1,450 mAh battery which won’t last you all day but no one can complain considering the price.
8. The Freedom 251 will be officially unveiled in New Delhi.
9. The phone will have some apps pre-installed to make it more useful to the women, farmers, fishermen and everyone in general. Women Safety, Swachh Bharat, Fisherman, Farmer, Medical, Google Play, WhatsApp, Facebook, YouTube are some of the apps to be installed out of the box.
10. By the way you also get a 1-year warranty on the phone backed by their 650 service centers across the country.
Won't let me respond to the comment below this one, but China doesn't determine the volume of the secondary market for UST. It's mostly in New York and in London.
all these comments to debate what is actually still a standing point:

name a non-mac laptop that' doesn't suck

(is it injection molded plastic with a screen that will eventually flop flop flop? then it sucks!)

then let's find a distro that doesn't suck!
(does in include binary blob drivers? then it sucks!
is it unity? then it sucks!)
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Funny, I always use the nipple instead of the trackpad on any Thinkpad I have ever used.
I bought a Lafité here: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/lafiteII/.

I believe it is a rebranded Clevo, which is custom-built for you. Lately, I changed the WiFi card without any issue. You can also change the SSD if you want, same for the RAM. The best parts are: Build quality, price (you don't pay for the OS, only if you want to and you get to pay for parts you want), keyboard is nice, lightweight and screen is great.
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11111893
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> Decoupling the installation of applications from the base operating system is a good thing.

How is that a good thing if an application needs some core OS features that are not available in its current state? Newer libraries become available for all software and benefit from the upgrades. And yeah, sometimes some things break, but it's easy enough to roll back to a previous library version if you need to, instead of bloating the system with multiple versions of different libraries.

> You can install Homebrew in another directory, it works fine.

But it's not its default. How many users change its directory ?

> And Homebrew tends to be more up to date then most distribution repositories. Especially if I want to have a stable OS.

Honestly you can't compete with AUR (Arch) on that level.
That, or you were finally right last summer.
Do you really don't see any value in a long form piece like you'd find in The New Yorker? I'm not saying that's all gold - it's easy to screw up and some topics simply don't need it, but if well done, I often find myself not being able to stop reading.
I think what the parent comment is saying is that channel surfing is no longer common. For me, it basically died out when we switched from ~100 analog cable channels to a zillion coming in over a STB that takes forever to change from channel 10 to 11, and then to 12...
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Self returning super market trolleys!

This technology could be used for those pesky shopping trolleys that left in various part of car parks.
Big banks have horribly dated systems and are bureaucratic to the extreme, but I doubt peer to peer lending will make more than a small dent in the consumer lending market. For a simple reason: banks can lend that much money that cheaply only thanks to a large, cheap and stable source of funding: bank deposits. And there are two types of deposits: current account and savings account.

Current accounts come with the capacity to make payments, and for that you need to be a bank. So the only way the p2p lenders will access this source of funding is by becoming big bureaucratic and highly regulated banks themselves.

Then you have savings account. It sounds like an investment but it's not. It's really a risk free, lazy investment. If the bank makes a loss on its loans, it is not passed on to the depositors. Even if the bank goes bust, and unless you have a very large deposit, your deposit is insured by the State. People who keep money on savings accounts aren't the type who are looking for risk and high returns.

P2p relies on investors actively investing in these vehicles. I don't see how this will be nowhere as large as the deposit base in a country.

On the wholesale funding market, things are different. Investors are active investors and it is much easier to shortcircuit banks and lend to corporations directly. Initially the banks were arranging the transaction, but I expect the investors to increasingly cut the middle man.

And all these articles miss what makes the biggest barrier to entry to the banking market: regulations. A bank would typically employ dozens of people just to read and follow all the regulations that apply to them. Regulations kill their profitability (they have to operate with 3 times the capital base they had in 2007), but also shields them from competition.
> cornucopia of crap that is the PC laptop market

Haha! High-end Dell and ASUS machines are good, but the lack of Apple competition is why Microsoft made the Surface Book. "We gave you nearly twenty years to make something good! Fine! We'll do it ourselves."
Japanese and especially European car manufacturers are good examples of the problem. They load so much restrictive software onto their cars, that these cars are now deemed unusable by at least half the global population. This leaves a fantastic opening in the market for producers who offer an alternative. Car manufacturers which are either less reliant on software or else use free software are bound to win substantial market share.
Other posts in this thread refuted the arguments in the article quite well I didn't see a need to repeat them.
I think it's appropriate to search anyone who might be relevant.

There is no blanket rule, each situation is different.

You need to have some reason to go searching someone, it doesn't have to be a great reason, but you do need a reason.
I re-read this and I see where I went wrong. I thought I had made a general statement about the cost of memory safety abstractions in programming languages that was misinterpreted as a specific statement about Rust and safety in general. This was because I was not clear in my phrasing.

I guess I felt I was being attacked for a point that I wasn't even trying to make. That is, I was responding to you under the impression that I had clearly said something differently than what was interpreted. All without taking the time to read over my own post carefully. Then I got overly emotional which resulted in us talking past each other unproductively and rude remarks on my part.

So I'm sorry for being a melodramatic jerk yesterday. I am actively working on my self control and civility, but I definitely made a mistake here. Hope you have a good day.
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Amazon Acquires Emvantage to Build Its Online Payment Platform in India
I also find this annoying. The reason is because there are no locks in Nodejs. It never waits for a query to execute, so you have to use callbacks.
This makes your app super performant. You can now run your service on one CPU core where you needed twenty physical servers to handle the same traffic before.
I wasn't suggesting that JS directly influenced you. Rather my point was that JS was of the most important languages that brought lexical scoping and closures to the masses. By the time Go came around, it was considered a bog-standard feature, because of languages like JS (and others) that popularized it. That meant that programmers could more easily pick up Go.
CES revealed a bunch of new laptops that seem promising: LG Gram 15 [1], Samsung Notebook 9 [2], Dell 7000 Series [3]

1. http://www.lg.com/us/laptops/lg-gram-15Z960-A.AA75U1-ultra-s...

2. http://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-introduces-new-notebo...

3. http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/6/10720212/dell-latitude-13-w...
It will be found eventually, perhaps by a film crew in 50 years.
Maybe the culture is "get it done now" with no care for security and the managers may be ignoring the engineers.
+1. This article should be at the top of HN.
I'm going to get down-voted into oblivion but this is the best thing I've read all week. Well done.
I have used five (5) post IBM Thinkpad and the build quality has been absolutely fine and they mostly just work as you put it. And all of them have been reinstalled with Ubuntu at some point.
You seem to have only looked at the older PCs. Have you looked at the Dell XPS 13 or Microsoft Surface Book? They may dispel your complaints. You can even buy the XPS with Ubuntu.
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You've pretty fundamentally misunderstood them if you think immutable practices in anyway damage the ability to deploy fixes. Years of shared library hell is what causes things like this to go unfixed.
Interesting you chose android though. Apple is way better when it comes to accessibility.
I use a screen protector on my MBP: it removes the glare and covers up the horrible ugly streak marks (production fault which Apple only admitted after being sued).

Still, I've just bought an XPS15; it has a better screen than the MBP and incredible specs. The only real downsides are 16:9 and not using the new Samsung 950 Pro PCIE-SSD (which is 25% faster). Upgradability, a massive amount of RAM, fantastic screen and a tiny shell more than make up for that :)
Not to mention that the entire casing of the MacBook acts as a heatsink, which is really just awesome design.
Why did you do this? Did you believe that if they knew you were running Win7 they'd void your warranty?
That depends on your taste. I bought my first retina macbook pro last year and I really don't like it compared to my Air. Actaully it's rotting in a cupboard now because of the ghastly battery life. I agree with the premise; computers are locked down and cheap build quality in general. But for me only battery life matters, so I bought a stack (from a broker; it was very cheap) of Lenovo X220s with a 9 cell batteries and i'm happy as a clam. It costs a fraction of the Macbook Pro (10% actually) and it actualy just chugs along with Ubuntu installed for 12 hours after which I just swap batteries for another 12 hours. I was never that bothered with the whole lock-in thing before but now that i'm back working in Linux (2009 was my first Mac, before that I went from DOS to Unix in the early 90s and after that straight to Linux until 2009) I really don't want to touch anything else. But YMMV.
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Blue Iris and IP cameras, you'll never look back.
Am I missing something? Can't you just boot Ubuntu on a Macbook if that's what you want to do?

(This is a genuine question - I've always found OSX sufferable enough to not need to, and I have a fanless Acer for Ubuntu that travels with me).
Worthless battery life for such costly machines. I would've bought the XPS 13 with Ubuntu otherwise.

Edit: I read reviews like this http://www.iretron.com/blog/posts/dell-xps-13-is-a-major-dis... cannot find the other ones though. It is better than I remember; I thought it was worse. Still; 6 hours is not really usable in my book.
> C compiler performance in the 80's for home micros was so bad, that functions were basically naked entry points to full inline Assembly.

For good reason: memory and disk were ferociously expensive until about 1996-1997.

Things like unchecked bounds make sense when you can barely get your computer to do what you want. Designing a VLSI chip through about most of the 1990's was HARD. Everything was an exercise in how to fit things on disk, fir things in RAM, run enough polygons, or run enough instructions on the emulator to actually boot.

Now: we can emulate a 6502 in Javascript while animating it. We can emulate entire PowerPC chips at real-time speed. So, yeah, NOW allocating a couple of cycles to bounds checking and garbage collection makes perfect sense.

We should have started the conversion away from C in 2000. The problem is that 1) sunk cost keeps design decisions made in vastly different environments around for far longer than is reasonable and 2) we didn't really have good replacement options for C until starting about 2005.

And then the cellular phone revolution hit and put us back to programming like its 1995. Finally, now that cell phones even have an overabundance of CPU, storage, and memory--we now can start to care about security.
new constitution, which favored closer ties with China over India.

Really? They have it ingrained in the constitution?
If Geo-political situation changes, and they need to re-balance their ties? They are going to need constitutional amendments?
Thanks, that's a better URL since it's not just a video, so we've merged the threads and reset the clock on that one.
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There are third party batteries that will puff up and explode. I wouldn't blame Apple for that. If it was an Apple battery, I'm curious which Apple store gave you grief about this. Care to tell?
Believing China's GDP growth rate blows all the credibility out of your argument.
I like Ada a lot, but I agree with you here, the guy had a bit anti-GC bias.

Actually I feel Modula-3 had a better approach to systems programming, but unfortunately it died when DEC Olivetti went down.

It is very hard to overcome anti-GC bias to anyone that never used GC enabled languages in systems programming like Modula-3 or Oberon and its derivatives. Or the interesting outcomes from Singularity and Midori projects.

Nowadays the proper alternative to GC is probably a mix of dataflow and affine type systems, but they have yet to gain wider acceptance.

However in Ada's defense, it does allow a lot of automatic memory management RAII style as described in the presentation, but it does require more effort than the alternatives.
> Not even mentioning Dell tells me this guy misses a few things.

I fully expected to see the (2015) XPS 13 mentioned too and perhaps Microsoft's Surface Book (which could be used as a laptop 100% of the time if required).

The way he talked about "Microsoft Surface" made it sound like Microsoft only made the Pro model.
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If you still want to bring your old MBP back to life, I just replaced the battery on my sister's 2011 MBP with an aftermarket one from Amazon. There were a lot of pro/con reviews and it's only a couple weeks in but so far it's great. I went the one branded by Anker and it came with the correct screwdriver which was a nice touch. Installation was very simple. She also needed a new HDD so I put in an SSD and the machine is surprisingly zippy with the latest OS X.
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I want you to re-read the first paragraph you wrote. That's exactly why I don't use Linux. I don't mean this to be a condescending comment, but really, the contents of your entire first paragraph are just things that I don't want to deal with. It's all just bullshit, and I don't have time to deal with bullshit like that. I really just don't want to even think about stuff like that. Not even a tiny bit, not even for a second.
Yeah, I shouldn't have used the term "dynamic scope" there. PHP has dynamic environments that can be mutated at runtime, which languages like JS don't (well, outside of direct eval).
I used to buy only Toshiba, Fujitsu & Panasonic. Panasonic still has great laptops in Japan and Fujitsu (used to) have the best warranty I could get where I live; no questions asked new laptop whatever happened for 5 years. But that time laptops were all expensive if you wanted something good; now these are overpriced last I checked.
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I believe most people vastly underestimate the military might of Israel.

Certainly Israel has been very formidable against weak armies such as those of Egypt. However, I don't think Israel's brief 2006 war against Hezbollah went all that well. Very little achieved at considerable cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War

My impression was that the average Israeli soldier involved was like: "fuck this, what the fuck am I fighting for?" Shades of Vietnam!

The Israeli army of 2016 is not at all the same as the armies that fought in 1967 and 1973. But I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff, so I'd welcome corrections.
China's GDP is misleading, everyone including the government themselves doesn't trust it fully(see keqiang index), but odd enough, anyone else's method is more problematic. Then again, it is not reliable, but doesn't mean it is blatantly lying, you need to decide yourself to which degree you would bet on it.
The author thinks apple.com is the pinnacle of web design, values form over function as he prefers the x1 carbon, gets overwhelmed when having too many choices, dislikes seeing user reviews on a product site and probably lies on the ground on a fetal position at the thought of replacing a hard drive by himself.

He is exactly the kind of person Apple makes products for. Just get a Macbook already.
(I work at Hackerrank)

You could give hackerrank.com/jobs a try -- if you qualify, recruiters are required to respond within a few business days.
Why do you think it's globalization in action?
"And now there's a bunch of good ideas that I know are not being exploited for value by anybody."

Serious question: How could you know that?

(Someone could have re-discovered those ideas independently and/or your past employers may not spend effort to identify infringement.)
It's also only 3g, but if you're not into photography and mostly use wifi, it could be a good little device.
> the down-to-earth-ness of this interview

That would be the interview at http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35585571. We changed the URL to a text version of the story.
I'm wary of such massive growth, they might not reach a stable structure. Also shit happens. But maybe mass trumps everything else and they are massive.
The EliteBooks aren't even close to Macs in engineering. They're probably the closest thing I've found, but there are teething issues with all of them - like poor speakers, or noisy 3.5mm jacks, or poor display, or iffy keyboards, or poor trackpads.

Apple get all of this stuff right almost all the time, in almost every machine they build.

In fact, I only say almost above because it seems like they would have at least one lemon, but I can't think of what it is.
Would it be worthwhile to write a Golang API on top of such a low level implementation or would that just negate the reason it exists in the first place?