skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Apple doesn't focus on the Mac Pro because they want to abandon creatives, it is simply because the Mac Pro doesn't enable any meaningful use-cases not served by the 5k iMac or its notebook line."

Well said. This thought has been banging around in my head half-formed for the past couple of days. Thanks for expressing it so succinctly. I think this also answers why Apple has made the decision to limit/remove expansion and upgrade options in their hardware.

"Apple built its PC business on the backs of creative professionals because they were among the few groups who thought Macs were worth more than $0.00, thanks to its superior experience with Adobe's creative suite when compared to Windows."

This idea of creatives being the core market for Apple during its early years is often floated. I'm not questioning its veracity, though I'm curious if anyone knows of references that backs this up with numbers or research? Education was a pretty big market early on as well. How do they compare?
>If they supposedly pay so well, I wonder where the money for that comes from. Just high ad-density?

Probably because ad-networks pay per click, and if you have something SO clickbaity like these ads there's a lot of ad clicks. For example if google ads and Outbrain both pay $7 per thousand clicks (I have never used either so this is just a random number) and google ads bring in 1000 clicks while outbrain brings in 3000, you're making 3 times as much money.
I see, and that makes sense. Thanks for the reply.
Or The Mythical Man Month ( https://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineeri... )

Honestly I'm kinda surprised that didn't come up sooner...but only half-surprised.
Tipping requires leaving your banking information and SSN on a site which offers at best a "brokered" anonymity.

And in fact tipping itself has been one of the mechanisms by which Imzy's anonymity has been breached:

https://www.imzy.com/imzy/post/privacy_issues_with_tipping

My own experiences with Imzy have been less than salutory.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/500ysb/the_imz...
What a pity that we predominately live in coastal regions, and what a pity that you're ignoring the issue of our water table being inundated.
What, like Solanas' SCRUM Manifesto?
Seeing as Imzy has little moderation and much censorship, there's a validity to the description.
The tiresome discussion of initial GMO expectations
Our Environment Minister doesn't believe in Climate Change. I expect we'll utterly fail to do something like this again.
>> Functions, by definition, are pure.
>That's just not true.

I think there's some naming confusion here. That's because programmers overloaded the original meaning of "function" so that it's equivalent to "procedure". So now when something behaves like an actual mathematical function, we have to explicitly call it "pure".

PS. i remember seeing you in some Yogscast videos, used to be a huge fan of those. funny to meet you like this.
I was talking with David Beazley and he had some of the same confusions around asyncio. I think it would be nice to revisit it with a round table and fix it in 3.7.
How will that get rid of ransomware? It might reduce their profits, but as long as even 1℅ of people pay up, they make enough to keep doing it.
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Yeah, seriously. I'd fly out to California just to take a trip on it.
No, my point is Apple is pushing consumer's uses such as typing emoji above the developer's needs, such as pressing ESC. Yes, you certainly still can "press" ESC, but I suspect I won't be used to the touching a screen sensation when reaching for the ESC key without looking at my key plate. I'm very aware of the contextual TouchBar.

Yes, I'm sure the Touch Bar will useful for the consumer demographic. However, there are many of us who are much more effective with the keyboard rather than using a touchscreen or a mouse.
maybe a street luge on a not so steep hill?
Air has viscosity. Even for extremely smooth surfaces, you would expect the flow to be fully turbulent over such a distance.
Not to mention that we're incredibly hypocritical about the fact that we happily burned coal and oil and continue to, but expect developing economies to just... stop. It's worse when you consider Europe getting uppity about migrancy, which is being causes in large part by drought related to climate change.

It's going to be the story of this century: the people least responsible for climate change are going to disproportionately suffer for it. Meanwhile those most responsible will demonize them for their efforts to survive it.
The changes to the editor are released, but the license says that if you incorporate the editor into another peice of software (as Wix has done), the combined work must be released as GPL-licensed source code as well.

There are some narrow exceptions, but Wix's use of the editor component doesn't fall under them.

There is a license that says that you only have to release the changes you make to the component itself, it is called the LGPL, and the Wordpress developers could have used it if that was what they wanted. But they released under the GPL, and Wix should abide by the terms of the GPL, or simply not use the code.
Are professional users really a "vocal minority" of the MacBook Pro?

I'm not a developer. I run an online business and use a MacBook Pro for video recording, editing, and general website admin.

I needed the extra processing power, and the ports. The new model has me apprehensive, though I'll certainly look at it.

What's the target demographic this new MBP is serving, though?
Long Live Closed Source Software (2007)
Depends on their specific Terms of Service. Some GPL software is distributed through Steam, so the platform itself apparently doesn't have mandatory rules like that (or nobody complained yet, although I remember some press when they forgot to include a GPL license notice a while back, so people have at least been looking at it). Just because the platform can do DRM doesn't mean it's not compatible with GPL code, if proper exceptions exist.

If they blanket-apply restrictions to usage of all software redistributed through the store, then yes, they are incompatible.
Who will fact-check the fact-checkers?

Supposed "fact checking" has become a major new weapon in the 2016 presidential fight. It has been horrifically bad. The favored team gets away with sarcasm, hyperbole, fuzzy matters of opinion, "oops I misspoke", jokes, and anything that can't be definitively proven beyond a doubt to be intentionally false. The disfavored team gets none of that leeway. When the favored team wrongly says "X, Y, and Z are so" it's counted as 1 lie, but it's 3 lies if the disfavored team says it.
Yes, because it's still their home.
I use Focus by Mozilla with iOS Safari. It does a decent enough job. Not sure if there's an Android analogue.
> Apple now has a dominant position in the PC market, not because they catered to creative professionals, but because they listened to their initial creative audience and focused on making their computers better.

How are they at all dominant in the PC market?
> This idea of creatives being the core market for Apple during its early years is often floated. I'm not questioning its veracity, though I'm curious if anyone knows of references that backs this up with numbers or research?

Check out Steve Job's first keynote after returning to Apple in 1997 starting at 18:35. He enumerates the assets the company still has at its disposable to claw its way out of almost imminent bankruptcy. He specifically mentiones creative proffesionals and educators and backs them up with some interesting stats.

https://youtu.be/IOs6hnTI4lw?t=18m35s
I really wanted to use Elementary, but couldn't get my Lenovo laptop to connect to WiFi... Someday maybe
Given the Mac's history in the last few years, and the fact that it only accounts for 12% of Apple's revenue and 8% of shipped units, I see two scenarios:

1) Apple gets out of the Mac business in a few years - Apple is not the kind of company to wait patiently for its product lines to run into the ground. The only reason they really need the Mac is Xcode for all those iOS apps that need to be developed. I wouldn't be surprised to see an Xcode for iCloud, or maybe even some kind of partnership with Microsoft (Visual Studio already lets you build iOS apps, just not in Swift).

2) Apple is working on the Mac's second act (third?), which could only be a switch to ARM. It makes business sense because a lot of the R&D will be united between iOS and Mac - making those A9s and A10s sure isn't cheap. And it explains the lackluster progress from customers' perspective.

My bet is on #1, so all the criticism about the MacBook's ports or RAM is just barking up the wrong tree.
Apple is removing ports for a reason.. Jhonny Ive just revealed a couple days/weeks ago I'm not sure that Apple was headed towards a wireless future.. and that seems to be the reason they're reducing/removing ports.
PC meaning Personal Computer market, not the Windows/IBM PC.
A lot of video shops also used Mac extensively for decades. It seems it wasn't only good marketing, they were alright for this profession.

Saying this lightly, I was a kid in the 90s, but I do remember a lot of ads for large Mac stacks (towers, disks, video cards, etc). Tiny SGIs in a way.
He was not suggesting to adopt libmill, only to adopt a similar concurrency scheme.
People are mostly concerned about:

- 16GB max RAM

- Function keys

Personally I am only concerned about the RAM, I don't use the function keys ever and I can remap another key to replace ESC. I would have gladly forked over for a 32GB MBP, instead I just ordered an i7 ThinkPad x220, extra RAM and an SSD to see if I can do my day to day work on it before buying a top spec non-Apple X86 laptop.
links2. Found it easiest to customize.
No MPRIS (media keys, media info display), no local caching, poorer power usage (browser vs native)
In principle it's super easy to detect, encrypted files look like random data and it's unlikely users would be replacing every file with random data on purpose. Its a never ending war though. If you got enough users to do this, the hackers would then switch to encryption that mimics what normal files look like to fool the detector.
Lenovo and Dell sometimes have broadcom wifi which are utter crap. If you do go down that route just order an intel wifi and replace it, normally a 5 minutes job and save hours worth of headaches.
In 5 minutes you can configure your word document to look just like something LaTeX would output.

It is interesting that learning LaTeX is a completely reasonable thing to spend time on but learning the basics of styles (surprisingly similar to how styles work everywhere else) is thoroughly unacceptable.
Sure, no larger than 5 is a good limit. But how about 3 (backend dev, frontend dev, designer)? Or 2 (dev and designer)?
Agreed. Hacker News has jumped the shark.
There are legitimate reasons to need that much RAM. What I don't see people doing though, is asking if they are using the correct tool (laptop) for the job (video editing, data processing, compiling, etc).
Assholes on the internet. Now that's an image i won't be forgetting soon.

Reminds me of the following quote:

Assholes ARE like opinions - Everyone has one.
Surprised to hear that Apple does not provide power management for other operating systems. Are there any recent benchmarks for macOS versus Windows in terms of power saving?
I'm asking that same exact question.
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Are the versioned backups physically separated from the infected machine? Otherwise what stops it from just encrypting your backups hard drives as well, everytime you connect them?
If you enjoyed this, you might like The Vital Question by Nick Lane (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OD8Z4JW), which discusses the origin of life, and the jump from prokaryotic to eukaryotic cells, focusing on energy.
And how are the dominant in that? They've got about 5% of the market share.
The web must be hell to people without multiple levels of adblocking extensions.

Meanwhile, I'm confused the NYT is now citing random people from Twitter:

One Twitter user asked The Guardian in April: “Don’t these @Outbrain articles kind of undermine the integrity of news outlets?”

That must be Outbrain inside.
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Switched to a MS Surface Book after nearly a decade with Macbooks. Reasoning:

1) Powerhouse specs (core i7, 16gb ram, 512gb SSD, nvidia GeForce) for running pretty much anything

2) Convertable to tablet for casual browsing, watching videos and drawing

3) Super accurate pen and touch support, pen acts like a mouse so can be used for OS level interactions not just specific apps, even hover works

4) Pen mounts to screen magnetically

5) Can be used like a traditional laptop on your lap

6) Beautiful 3000x2000 pixel display, higher DPI than retina with a 3:2 aspect ratio

7) Windows 10 with all the patches is actually a decent OS and supports all form factors, touch etc.

It's really nice to be able to do creative work, everyday work and gaming all on the same system. Currently playing Overwatch with no issues!
Every time I see the HyperRail stuff, I just get this little song monoloop'd into my head. It's so strange. Anyone else have that too?

EDIT: I found the song!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM
Thanks so much for posting this. I'm not blind or partially sighted, but I do work on one of the software tools that you mention.

I would love to learn more about how you would like development tools to support you in your work.

I know as an industry we have a long way to go, and I would love to work with you to get us there.

My email is in my profile, and I will also reach out to Talitha. Hoping we get a chance to chat.
Have you seen libmill[0]? Single-threaded coroutines - no mutexes, semaphores, etc. We're using it in Zewo[1] with great success.

[0]: http://libmill.org
[1]: https://github.com/Zewo/Zewo
That sounds nice, but it's actually insane in this context. "Don't listen to developers" is fine is you're making some web thing, or an Uber for tubers. If you think you can run a computing platform without support from developers... good luck!
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A next-gen iPhone.
A latex tip: hover over equations in Wikipedia to get the syntax.
I find that Armin's blog posts about Python 3 are generally destructive, not constructive. A constructive way would be to post suggestions on python-ideas and python-dev mailing lists or report bugs and feature requests on issue tracker.

Python is open-source project and there is not a single core developer working full-time on the language unlike his beloved Rust.
Y'all make this all sound so appealing.
The standard two slot SO-DIMM laptops can support 32 GB now thanks to 8Gbit DDR4. There was also 8Gbit DDR3 that is less common and more expensive, but is supported by Broadwell for example.
If it was all about battery savings, then why not use DDR4? DDR4 is more power efficient [1]

[1] http://www.memcon.com/pdfs/proceedings2013/track2/Designing_...
I made the switch from Aperture to Photos
Although I am not aware of any recent development, you should look at Stackless Python which was inspired by Limbo. Stackless Python has lightweight threads (stacklets) and synchronous channels a la various Bell labs family of languages (include Go). The greenlets that Gevent uses comes from Stackless.
Cost. Margins. Their current price point is already an increase. Not sure what using DDR4 would do to that but presumably newer tech translates to higher costs.
Sure, this can annoy desirable people, but...

Suppose that people actually took your advice. Those desirable people, along with everybody else, would soon be lonely. In the long term, population would decline.
Ultimately the money comes from a mark further down the line. For example some poor sucker desperate to fix their health problem spends hundreds on a flakey high margin product, be it physical or digital.

Sure there are legit ads too but I'd guess the greyhat stuff will give higher EPC.

Google ads takes the long term view and doesn't tolerate shit like that. They are very strict and would rather not take that money and destroy their brand. Result? People still use Google to search for stuff.
Theres Adguard for Android, which installs itself as a local VPN:

https://adguard.com/en/adguard-android/install.html#howToIns...

It seems to be reasonably low on the scum scale as far as Android apps and ad blockers in general go.
I have not use it, I my first glance make me think is only about analytics, but maybe that could work. I will try and see how well...
Ransomware can infect your backups to though. HDD failures aren't contagious.
You can and I do and have for years. This is becoming the most tired criticism around here regarding the new Pros.
It’s definitely “legit”, in the sense that the creators/backers are members of online keyboard communities with good reputations. New hardware projects are always incredibly difficult, but I expect them to ship all their keyboards, possibly with some delay.
> What's the target demographic this new MBP is serving, though?

Apple doesn't seem to know or care. I don't know who this MBP is for. Increasingly less people can justify an Apple macOS portable when an iOS device covers their requirements satisfactorily and it doesn't meet the needs of many professionals at all (present and anticipated needs for the machine's useful life).

Apple is behaving as if they're a boutique OEM.
No. But building the backend and development for other things aside iOS, YES. Is not the current fad "Full-Stack developers"? I'm one since I start this 17 years ago (way before it was called "Desperate developer do anything for food!" instead of be "full-stack" ;).

Is not ideal to have more than 1 machine.
tl;dr: ~600 GB photo library, took ~3 weeks to migrate, some things are awesome (access to all my photos everywhere, on any device), some things less so (faces don't get synced, no loupe, no five-star rating system, no pro-level editing/batch workflows). All-in-all, I wish Apple didn't ditch Aperture... but it's not the end of the world moving to Photos.
Would be nice in an oscilloscope, though many have a good set of waveform measurements.
~~Older MBPs were thicker and could support 32GB. So Apple both cut away a little bit thickness for no reason, and then used that as an excuse to drop max RAM support? Something smells odd about that conclusion.~~

EDIT: No 32GB MBP ever existed. My bad.
Skateboard vlogger Ty Moss has a Samsung 360 cameras and I wouldn't be surprised if he would think it's a great idea.

https://youtu.be/10Du25iIHNg
I can see taking issue with a couple of them.

"They pushed for USB-A standard 19 years ago. They killed parallel & serial ports."

Apple wasn't part of the initial group of companies that were involved in the USB standard. The iMac did greatly lead to its adoption. I think "killing parallel and serial ports" is a little over the top, but one could argue that the adoption of USB greatly reduced the use of serial and parallel ports.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1135017/imacanniversary.html

"They started the trend of making beautiful devices that don't feel like minified mainframes."

Subjective. Though Apple's designs have been very influential, sometimes outright copied.

"They made the first music player that could handle more than 8 songs."

I don't know what the capacities of other offerings at the time.

"They revolutionized smartphones + introduced touch based keyboards."

The influence of the iPhone was pretty significant. Was there an earlier phone that was widely known that had a touch-based keyboard?

"They created WebKit."

This one's pretty clearly not true. WebKit's lineage goes back to KHTML and KJS.

Which ones do you take particular issue with?

Edit to add portion on Webkit.
year over year grown >50% seems a lot for a car company.
I use AdBlock on my iPhone with Safari and it's seamless (even though it's AdBlock and I'd much prefer uBlock)
It's perhaps confusing because people think the constructs they read about in category theory have 1:1 mappings to the world of programming and they don't. It's why we talk about the category Hask.

Every single concept is overloaded.

P.S., Wow. Someone here who knew about my hobby? I figured it'd never happen.
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The market works!
Interesting tidbit, the x260, which is the current version of what the x220 was, has a limit of... 16 GB memory.
Me neither. Thankfully the 13 inch mode doesn't have a toxh strip so the upgrade is clear.
And in either case my view is concurrency is best done in a language where there is proper support for it, whether the model is threaded or processor based concurrency.
I'm happy to see a link on the top of Hacker News that is grey (visited) for maybe the first time ever. I've been frequenting Shorpy for many years. The view on the past it gives is always interesting and often stunning.
Not to mention the Esc and function keys still exist.
I spent a lot of time fighting with macs to get it to behave like other operating systems. Like setting up the terminal to not look stupid.

A lot of time was spent fighting to get tap-to-drag without a release delay. Still nope.

Overall, it can be a pretty infuriating operating system as well.
There are several reasons, the main one being that glaciers and ice sheets exert a large gravitational pull.

http://harvardmagazine.com/2010/05/gravity-of-glacial-melt

http://m.nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/why-our-intuition-abo...

From the last article:

"Three things happen. One is that you’re dumping all of this melt water into the ocean. So the mass of the entire ocean would definitely be going up if ice sheets were melting—as they are today. The second thing that happens is that this gravitational attraction that the ice sheet exerts on the surrounding water diminishes. As a consequence, water migrates away from the ice sheet. The third thing is, as the ice sheet melts, the land underneath the ice sheet pops up; it rebounds."
As a professional developer, I would have loved to stick with Apple laptops but clearly us pro's aren't one of their target demographics, maybe we never were. (And I don't mean that in a snarky way.)

Metaphorically speaking, sometimes when a girl is nice to us, we think she's more interested in us than she really is. I think Apple was just "being nice" to us in the past and we took it the wrong way.
>Apple is behaving as if they're a boutique OEM.

That's how Apple has behaved since day 1, save for the few years when Sculley was at the helm.
The ad content is designed to look as though it is part of the source website, so claims made appear to be those of the originating site. Outbrain seems to be the web's answer to native content marketing.

Unfortunately NYT, Huffpo, Wapo don't realize by putting these on their legitimate articles they're allowing these third parties to siphon away some of their credibility.
Remember if your backup solution is a USB drive, you actually need at least two USB drives, with at least one of them disconnected from your computer at all times. If you only have one, the virus will encrypt that one along with your computer. That needs to be spelled out, because people intuitively think backing up to a single USB drive is sufficient.
> They would have needed to make the whole laptop noticeably thicker

Or, they could have just stayed at the level of thickness Macbook Pros already had.
Doh! I stand corrected.
Does Focus actually block ads? All of the settings seem to concern trackers, not ads.
Yes they do. Homogolation rules mean they have to do exactly that.