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The main problem I see is Intel and Microsoft have given up on power users and it is all Apple envy and phone envy, no wonder people don't buy new PCs.

Back in the 0s I had a policy of never rehabilitating an old PC because a new PC was better in every way.

The other day a friend brought a Macbook from 2007 to me with a busted HDD and I put an ssd I had laying around in and we got Win10 running on it with no drama and no Apple malware (iTunes, boot camp, etc.) It feel faster than a skylake machine with one of those useless hybrid hard drives and after puffing some hcfc gas through the fan it is great.

Any and or pre core 2 machine would go to the trash, I would not even donate it to the poor, but frankly broadwell and skylake are just an excuse to reduce the io slots to put manufacturers of gfx cards.

They say customers get better battery life but software screws that up if they really tried it and the most you can get is spend a lot of money on a thin and light machine that the doorman can slide under the hotel or get a 2 in 1 machine just because you need a trackpad on a touchpad machine and have a fight over if and where you stow it with the stewardess just to have another reason to get arrested at your destination.

I mean, even IBM sells 360 chips that clock over 5 that use water cooling. It is not that hard.
prediction - Tesla will be making 10kWh Powerwalls for solar storage after the refresh this summer.
I'm not a fan of moralistic handwringing, particularly when it's brought about by uncharitable interpretations of what is clearly just marketing. This and the related articles are such poor quality that it makes me sad to see them get so much traction here. It's the sort of thing I'd expect at dailytech or slashdot.
I think you're raising the phone to a much higher level of importance than it truly holds. The fact of the matter is that if someone can afford a brand new iPhone6, they don't deserve any help buying food because they spend a huge chunk of available food money on an expensive luxury. It must be torturous to use a phone you can actually afford!
The fact only enhances my point. You have to either be running a really high speed signal or over a very long distance. I doubt either is happening in this case.
I typed vain, vein and vane, but not bane. :)
I understand why someone would feel this way but the unreconcilable reality is this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

The majority of those machines Apple is "mocking" are running operating systems that have known exploits in the wild and people are doing their personal banking on them. The shitty, stuck up delivery doesn't change the fact that it actually would be better and more private for people to dump their unsupported windows xp/vista/7 boxes and use an iPad Pro. Then, at least, they'd have a semblance of security.

I'm not even willing to say that Apple didn't intend to mock the poor but the facts remain regardless of delivery or intent. I think we can agree that for the majority of the people we're talking about here, "They don’t need an upgrade" is simply not the case.
Dear Everyone Doing Devops: do not build gems on your production servers. Build a tarball, test the tarball through dev/staging, deploy the tarball to production.

For any value of tarball- literal tarball, deb/rpm (actually CPIO under the hood, but who cares), prebaked AMI (not tar at all), docker image (tarball of JSON + nested tarballs. Seriously, it's tar all the way down).

Everything will be better. Roll forwards. Roll backs. Speed. Attack surface. Reliance on 3rd party services that will rate limit you hard.
They talk about harvesting the raw metals and elements in the video... The hard part in ewaste recycling isn't collecting the devices, it's breaking them down into their isolated components. The robot's aim is to do that instead of a shredder so that they can have a much higher re-use rate.

http://mashable.com/2016/03/21/apple-liam-recycling-robot/

And of course this is also a project to have a robot do the reverse--assemble iPhones.
I have an even shittier PC than you (Celeron 2.6 GHz for 40 USD, no dedicated GPU) and it is still absolutely fine for everything I do (web development, image processing in python, typing papers in TeX, editing images in Gimp, ...).

If I had to upgrade one component it would be my 22" monitor which is 6 or 7 years old but even for this there is no need.

And replacing my PC with an iPad Pro? lol, wtf? No TeX, no Python/matplotlib, no SublimeText/vim/emacs, no real filesystem, ...

btw, I think you can drop a SSD into almost any shitty PC/Laptop and make it usable again. Before SSDs I had to update my PC quite often because it always felt slow, but SSD have been an absolute game changer for me. I even revived my old trusty T61s by adding a SSD and now it is good again.
> Remember, Airbnb and Dropbox...

This comment has also been made pretty much every batch.

Trotting out companies that were picked before the growth strategy was implemented as evidence that the growth strategy is a good idea doesn't make sense.

Dropbox and Airbnb were massively successfully with in 2-3 years. What are the big successes from 2013 to the present?
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> The implication being that in the last 5+ years the PC industry has failed to offer 600 million users a compelling reason to upgrade

Or maybe the PC world did so well 5 years ago that Apple hasn't provided them a compelling reason to switch to an iPad?
What's the point? DNSCrypt is already encrypted and Tor offers zero privacy but it does offer the FBI helpfully monitoring to de-anonymize Tor clients and servers. Using a VPN and DNSCrypt together would far better. Plus, Tor adds unnecessary latency (unusable for daily use) and suspicion, rendering it's benefit nearly nullified apart from paedophiles or people trading drugs.

i2p and others seem to be headed in the right direction as to future of distributed, overlay networks.

https://vpn-services.bestreviews.net/vpn-comparison/
I don't know if this is how you'd do it in markdown. My text tables are generally done this way:

+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| label a | label b | label c |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| r1f1 | r1f2 | r1f3 |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| r2f1 | r2f2 | r2f3 |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+
Is there anything sad about using a 5 year old mac? I'm hoping that eventually my mac book pro will last 5-10 years. With multi-core systems, SSDs, and 16 gigs of ram in MBP's do we really need to be upgrading so much? Also, clock speed advances have stalled.
Recycling can be a net environmental negative, plus you still have the environmental impact of creating the replacement unit.

Not replacing something that still works is way better than replacing it even if you recycle the old unit.
Aggressive? How? My hyperbole comment? How could I not call you out for that?

I in no way said privacy was solely in the hands of the customer. I said your personal data is a currency that the customer must budget. That is not the same thing.
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I've been really disappointed in Intel's desktop offerings. At the 300$ high end (quad core i7) desktop price point we have been at 4 cores for years. I would really like an option for more slower cores at that price point.

I guess I kind of get why. Might be a socket compatibility and cost issue, the allocation of die space to a GPU, but it would nice to see some movement. Also probably zero demand outside of software developers, but I have to wonder if it is kind of chicken and egg problem.

It's actually kind of funny if I recall on desktops more of the die is GPU than CPU.
I owned my tiny 2001 sc1 for only a month before I had my accident. There were wet leaves on the road and a Honda Pilot coming the other way lost control and swerved into my side of the road, hitting me head on. I don't know if I'll ever experience anything as terrifying as that massive hunk of SUV thrusting itself directly at me with nothing but the front of this little Saturn protecting me. Before the impact I was sure that I was going to be severely injured and possibly even killed.

Aside from the scrapes on my wrist from the airbag deploying I had no injuries whatsoever. The first responders insisted I would have back pains later but they never came. Meanwhile the driver of the Honda Pilot (which had twice the mass of my saturn) was unconscious.

When driving it's easy to forget that you're surrounding by massive metal objects moving at incredible speeds that can instantly kill you. In my case they did not, thanks to the people who made my Saturn.
- Will you need to put your phone in airplane mode to prevent a call or text from ruining your print?

- Your phone is unusable for the likely 2 - 12 hours it takes to print

- In the video they show what is apparently light sensitive resin in clear plastic bottles
aws t2.nano is $4.75 monthly http://www.ec2instances.info/?cost=monthly
That's why I'm looking into IPFS(https://ipfs.io) as part of my infrastructure. How that would look then, with IPFS...

> "So what you're saying is, your computers cannot possibly not continue damaging the plaintiff's interests." "That's correct."

> "You're being honest with me." "Yes, your Honor."

> "Will the computers continue harming the plaintiff's interests if shut off?" "No it wouldn't, your Honor.".....

And suddenly things like NPM can transfer the data to other machines, and those machines themselves can also provide to others. Deletions are impossible if people still want the content.

And IPFS guarantees that if a single node has the data, then any node can download it and also be part of the cloud that provides the data. Once it's out, it's impossible to retract.
PyCharm 2016.1 is here with an outstanding lineup of new features
AI? LOL. It will be some cron job running off some defense contractor's forgotten ubuntu 7 server with the password password123.
-- sent from my almost perfect 9yo laptop
Thank you! In the near future we will add these functions.
I don't think the OP's criticism is on the "poor person", but rather on the fact that Apple's business model and marketing scheme is premised on a false need to buy some new "revolutionary" iThing which actually offers little or no functional benefit over a perfectly fine older PC or less-powerful android.
Last Macbook Pro generation is from 2012... this is really sad, it really is.
Bought a dual CPU workstation with 12gb ram and two quad core 12 mb cache xeons for under 400 bucks. It's about 5 year old tech and its awesome!
TurboTax tells Mac users to turn off security
>If you're already poor, then an iPhone (not a smartphone) is definitely a luxury.

Depends where you get it. I've known some teens who have managed to pick up iPhones on the second hand market really cheap. There are enough people always wanting the shiniest new thing that more enterprising individuals can pick up a generation old iPhone for less than many cheaper Androids.

The luxury is being able to pay full price for a brand new device.
And this is why subdividing code too finely is as bad as not finely enough.

In an informal way I think of it as a good design being 'square', as in the design is distributed evenly across all scales. So a small program might have ten functions of about ten lines each. A bigger one might have ten files, each containing about ten functions of about ten lines. It's different in every project but solid, elegant, well structured systems always seem to feel 'square'.
I also bought the iPad 1 and was similarly burned. The iPad 2 however has had tremendous longevity. I think the iPad 1 came out just one generation too early.
Voltaire is also attributed to saying that (in French of course). General Patton said it differently, and I quite like his take since he adds the aspect of time to it:
"A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan next week."

http://www.edbatista.com/2009/04/voltaire-patton-perfection....
That's partially related to Intel running against a wall with CPU speeds around that time, and partially to the mobile boom.

An 2011 i7-2600K desktop CPU is still competitive with current generation i7 CPUs for general-purpose computing – most improvements were in specialized instruction sets like AVX or TSX (which infamously was broken on the first generation shipping it). Lower-end i3 and i5 are even worse off, because they don't get most acceleration instruction sets in the first place.

For consumers, it makes absolutely no sense to upgrade their desktop PCs unless they break.
Our original goal was to make this tool completely free to personal users but charge for commercial uses. However, after some research we found that no such open source licenses exist, so we're currently considering alternatives.
> how Moore's law will progress.

I think it's all but confirmed at this point that it's not progressing. What we're witnessing here is it's death.
If that is truly a serious question and not just feigning surprise, then I have a serious question for you; have you ever worked on a project with so many people and so much history there is no way that you can personally understand it all?
Is everyone here really acting incredulous at a giant corporation promoting consumerism?
I believe most of the laws could be applied to building a minimum viable product.
It'd be interesting to see a comparison with the other $100 3D printer: http://www.peachyprinter.com/

That also uses photosensitive resin printing, except they use a laser and mirror rather than your cell phone.
I don't understand, TFSA max contribution for the year is 5.5k with current cumulative of 46.5k so how can you end up with a perpetual tax free account for more than that?
The problem is, we program as we have evolved. Single Threaded, solving one Problem at a time, focusing on one aspect at a time, in series.

If you want to have a paradigm that is really succesfull, it would involve using every aspect of the human mind.
We are good at perceiving 3d space.
We are good at instantly computing physics.
We are good at perciving other human behaviour.
We are good at recombining existing tools to create more sophisticated tools.
If you want optimal results, without the struggle of reeducation, tailor the paradigm to the existing creature, not the inverse approach.
Exactly. The comment was specially awkward when you consider that they spent a decent part of the event talking about how environmentally friendly they are and how they reuse and recycle.

That "joke" was terrible in many different ways.
I have used Blendle, and currently for me the problem is that most Dutch people have totally different interests than me. Especially don't like the articles coming from the emails. There are articles on Blendle I like, for example the Dutch business news.
It is that simple. This is how we learn as young people what is important in life. It gives us character. I was poor growing up, I always had garbage clothes and shoes, and people made fun of me. I learned that if someone made fun of my shoes, they didn't have very much character. I also learned that shoes don't matter too much, as long as I have a pair that protects my feet. All of this focus on self-esteem and confidence are bunk. We've become a society of soft, pathetic whiners. you know when I had a nice pair of shoes? I got a job at Subway for 7.00 an hour and saved some money to buy a pair.
Thank you, hope that our app will be helpful.
People spend money on the things that they are not given for free.

I don't know if my comment is worthless, but even well off Americans/Westerners take for granted an immense number of things they receive effectively for free. If everything was itemized and billed directly society would be organized very differently.

This is not subsidized just through tax revenue but through forced borrowing as well as things others are obligated to perform for free (as complex as hospital care to as simple as clearing the sidewalk of snow in front of your property.)

Some of these things may last indefinitely, others the economics simply will not permit it, yet they are viewed as existing indefinitely by most.
I don't dread it so much any more. Gas stations have gotten a LOT better in the past 5 years or so, at least here in the South. We've got Sheetz and Wawa, which are actually pretty nice to pull into. Everything's generally new, there's lots and lots of pumps, and if you need to use the bathroom or want to buy some snacks, the bathrooms are usually nice and clean and the food selection is pretty good for a quick-stop place. The newest ones even have made-to-order sandwiches and other lunch food.

It's a huge difference from 20 years ago when gas stations were nasty, dingy places with the worst bathrooms in the world.

It's not as good in the Northeast, however. Most of the gas stations up there tend to be small and pretty crappy.
Compiling DataFrame code is harder than it looks
Downloaded TurboTax for Mac, and I was shocked to see that TurboTax is not correctly signed.

This is the kind of security that prevents the ransomware seen in Transmission a few weeks ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234589
Another reason might be they have no AMD pushing them. They are hitting physical physics barriers, but the fact they have no real competitors makes them have less incentive to push the envelope.
When I worked in a fab, we saw process variation driven by weather patterns, so fabs are quite sensitive to their environments. (Barometric pressure can affect both diffusion and wets.) But I have a hard time seeing how a nearby farm would affect a fab. The air handling systems are pretty intense, so I imagine you'd see more filter changes if anything, and every change point has the potential to harm the process. But that's a pretty indirect mechanism. A sibling comment mentioned heavy machinery, which also seems unlikely. The lithography equipment had its own pedestals grounded in bedrock, separate from the building foundation, and each stepper/scanner has its own vibration damping. The rest of the equipment is less sensitive to vibration.
Well, I've had my desktop computer for nearly 5 years.
Upgraded the ram once, and added a new hard drive.
It still does everything I need it to do.

I understand this is sad for Apple, but I don't see how it's sad for me?
It buys them signaling. Why is that a good thing?
Opinion: Why the iPhone SE Should Have 3D Touch
Large core counts are the bread and butter of enterprise/cloud. I suspect Intel is binning those chips for their real customers (not desktop users). Probably has to do with wafer yields or something if I can hazard a guess.
Drew Houston said (in an interview) that he viewed HN's response to Dropbox as extremely positive. A few people made critical comments but thousands of people signed up and it was highly upvoted.
>Apple themselves don't believe their own products will be worth using after 5 years

I think you got the gist of this thread! It's not actually about the poor but about competing products lasting longer than their product planned lifespan, and that's a bad thing for them.
I'm upset that Bugatti doesn't make cars that poor people can afford.
Why that would be considered cheating?

I often google names from personalities that I know and get a footballer or a singer in the first results.
> but I have to wonder if it is kind of chicken and egg.

I don't know. Low-end i3s have 4 virtual cores, i5s 4 physical cores – and most consumer software still makes little use of even two. I just downgraded a bunch of users from quadcore 55W i7-HQ to dualcore 15W i5-U CPUs (laptops) – they don't notice a performance difference, because Windows and Office and all the web app bullshit is still single threaded.
"I want to be offended!"

signed,
people who take offense at a off-hand remark like this.

Grow some thicker skin and stop wasting my screen real estate with irrelevant non-stories like this.
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You could always just rent a regular gas car for those long trips. Or just take an airplane or Amtrak or a coach.
The suit will get you a better paying job. How many of those buying expensive shoes are using them in a way that they are expected to pay off like the suit does? I'm not saying it is impossible, only that it doesn't apply in most cases.
Show HN: Steno – AI assistant who joins your conference calls to take notes
Chris from Imagga here. Just tested with the provided image and the demo returns the following tags: child, happy, kid, cute, person, caucasian, little, boy, people, happiness, childhood, smile, fun, portrait, smiling, pedestrian, children, outside, etc.
We are less conservative with keywords we return and usually offer way more than just two words, that made me check what the API returns.
> "Won't somebody think of every single possible group that is possible to somehow offend in some way"

I'm pretty sure that is part of the job description of marketers.
To be clear, I never intended to say that 20 Euro a month would be affordable for everyone. I"m only saying its an objectively small sum of money in a first world country, and we could reasonably imagine some otherwise poor people fitting it into their budget (unlike a Rolex, a nice car, etc.). Especially if we believe a person would consider it their most important possession -- they can have the (debatably, I use a Nexus) best version of their most desirable possession without going outside their budget. I've known plenty of hard-working budget conscious poor people who have saved up for possessions they very much wanted -- nobody ever said being poor means you can't have anything nice. It just means you can't have everything nice.
And as Gliffy is discovering to their detriment, exactly how long said restore takes...
Oracle lobs copyright lawsuit at HPE
Google is reportedly making an iOS keyboard with search functionality
Dominant Colors for Lazy-Loading Images
Instagram starts showing notifications on the Web for all users
5 years is a little short of a time frame but this wasn't mocking poor people.. this is a bit much.
You could always use the AWS free tier if you're still eligible.

Unless you're serving a ton of traffic that would break you well out of the free tier's plan, it should be free or something in the $2 or less range even with pretty high traffic figures.

The catch is it will only be available at that price for the first 12 months.
I'm curious as to how the higher layers of the print will work, considering the light has to shine up through the whole thing?
Top Three Smells That Turn Off Home Buyers
You're close, the poor in most cases have self-defeating money habits. Any time they get money, they spend it immediately on things that have a short term feel-good effect, because their life has so little of that otherwise. This might be junk food, cigarettes/booze/drugs, lottery tickets, restaurant meals, gadgets or other "bling" etc.

They rarely have a person in their life who models delayed gratification and saving behavior, let alone strategic investing, so they never see the benefit of doing that.
Compelling reason why I had to upgrade my iPhone 3G, iPhone 4 and original iPad after less than 3 years? Painfully slow and unusable.

Exactly. Upgrading is a cost; not just money but also time. I upgraded my 1st gen iPad's OS exactly once (5 -> 6 I think) and it was a completely horrendous experience, involving PC iTunes.

The main driver of PC upgrades, apart from improved games, is bloat and the slow deterioration of Windows installations. It's not as bad as it used to be but reinstalling the OS and cleaning the fans can often substantially improve an old PC.

I still have my original iPad, but it's used for a very limited set of things as the browser is crashy and many apps aren't available for its OS.

Users want neither forced upgrades, manufactured obsolescence, nor bogus SaaS rentalware like Adobe Creative Cloud.