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I have not seen any amount of corruption which convinces me of genuine wrongdoing. The biggest thing I've seen is a lowest level classified document was sent to an unsecured email account.

In my opinion, the whole email thing is making a mountain out of a molehill to rile up Trump supporters and give them some irrational reason to oppose the other side. It's groupthink at its finest. The sexual predator stuff is the same thing on the other side, both issues are totally irrelevant.

I'm voting for Hillary because she is far better suited for the position, and her platform isn't based on bullying and boasting of impossible plans.
The big source of bias is the selection of what stories to include.

Do you think TE will write an article focused on crazy things said by leaders of the EU? Never in a million years. They will happily devote large amounts of coverage to statements by politicians they disagree with, however.
> They made a conscious decision to focus on internal development and I'm OK with that -- Google isn't open-source either (certainly not all of it, and when I was there, very little of it), and I'm OK with that too.

Focusing on internal development is not a justification for making software proprietary. A software license has nothing to do with development style -- you could do code dumps like Oracle while also licensing the code under a free software license.

> An open-source business that doesn't survive (cough ReplicaDB cough) isn't necessarily better than a closed-but-extensible one that does.

I disagree. All businesses will die eventually (or at least, almost all of them will). The difference between a proprietary business and a free software business is that only one of them actually makes a lasting contribution to society in terms of software (hint: it's not the proprietary one).

> The underlying toolchain (LaTeX and packages) is fully OSS, and isn't going anywhere;

True, and even more of a reason to prefer free software solutions (a proprietary version of LaTeX and packages wouldn't have survived for as long as LaTeX has).

But, each to their own.
I am happy to continue this conversation off-HN, perhaps Gitter? http://gitter.im/eventsourcing/eventsourcing
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This is your definition of "professionals"? People who use USB sticks, and external monitors for ppt?
Instead of XPSs, we bought Precisions 15 5000 at work [1]. They are basically XPS 15, (virtually indistinguishable apart for the engraving on the bottom), but you can spec them to bits (you can even get a Xeon processor if you want,have them with no OS / Ubuntu). All of us are reasonably happy with them.

[1]: http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/precision-m5510-workstatio...
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Does anyone know anything about the magstrip data? Is it signed in some way that they can't forge?
really? jeez. That's even worse. And probably enough to put about half of HN into prison.
I'd be happy if they'd kept the Magsafe and two USB3 ports and the SD-Card reader. Add 2-4 USB-C ports on top of that and I'd be happy.

Using a USB-C adapter for Video output seems acceptable to me since VGA ain't coming back and there are quite a range of replacement connectors which are all semi-incompatible to each other. An adapter for wired Ethernet is also acceptable since you're connecting to other wires anyways. Not optimal but acceptable.

Not acceptable, though, is having to carry an adapter to connect a common USB-Stick or SD-Card. These things won't go away in the next 4 years.
AFAIK the Linux client is just an Electron app, so that last point would pretty much be the same for the browser client and the "native" client.
We had meat and heating before petrol, why would you expect it to go away?

Are you in California by chance? Because you seem to ignore the fact that large part of already-inhabitated world is unlivable without heating (and, possibly, meat).
Canada, Scandinavian countries, Russia, even then Germany and Poland, and as south as Bosnia.

It's as if you were thinking that warm countries becoming unlivable is tragedy, but cold countries becoming unlivable is desired.
I like the __'s, when listing methods you can immediately scan it and ignore all the built-in stuff if you want, to see what is special about this object.

In order to get "split" in ruby for a sequence, at least a one time, hopefully cleaned up by now, you end up mixing in some huge number of methods and made any method list in the console impossible to read.
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Ok, you go tell everyone that they can no longer be prosperous, and must live a more drab, crappy existence.
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I agree with you that we are constantly bombarded with propaganda, but a lot of the backlash is coming from long-time Apple users such as myself, who feel that Apple is no longer making computers for us. And you know what? That's perfectly fine, they're a business and are catering to the high end where the margins are best.

The proof is littered all over HN and Reddit where blog posts all begin with the same defense, "I"ve been using Macs since... and have bought Apple since this, this and this."

Personally, I wish there were a company selling a generic looking, uni-body notebook, similar in aesthetic and price to the new Xiaomi laptop. If some company could optimize hardware like that specifically for Linux, from the ground up, then maybe I could ditch this aging mid-2011 Macbook Air running Linux.
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They want to be monopoly by entering in our home as an IoT devices, pocket as a smart phone, desk as a laptop, office as a desktop, road as a car, wallet as a digital credit card etc. They still have not entered inside our toilet.

I guess most people can see the problem and their potential as our next dictator.
It seems to me that they know exactly what it's for, people who are sat in front of their laptops, and therefore have no desire at all to gorilla-arm their way across a touchscreen Mac.

You can tell who Apple thinks a product is for, you can tell because they SAY and SHOW YOU. Whether you agree with their assessment or not, it seems foolish to say they don't think they know.
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Considering how doing things the proper way led to the Obamacare website kerfuffle in the first place

Actually, that wasn't the case, whatever the competence of the contractors (and the lead company did a fantastic job on the Medicare Part D (prescription plan) subsite, which I have been using for a decade now), they were faced with a no win situational where major changes were being made right up to the week or half month before launch, requirements in general were delivered too late, CMS, which tried to play the general contractor role for which they didn't have the expertise, among other things required them to use a non-RDMS database with a paradigm they weren't even familiar with, I can go on and on and can dig up contemporaneous HN posts with more details.

Bottom line/TL;DR, the higher quality "dream team" people retained to "unfuck the Obamacare website" would have inevitably failed if they'd been in the same position prior to its launch, it's only after it became a crisis that anyone had a chance to make it work.
> spies on you

Any reason to believe MS does this more than Apple does?

> their OEMs like Lenovo will listen in on everything you do at the hardware level.

MS making their own hardware looks to be at least partially a response to that.

> - build quality machines that seemingly never wanes in performance while provide enduring support that make them last so much longer than their competitors that it shifts the arithmetic when comparing the YoY cost of their wares to their competition

Again, this really isn't the advantage it used to be. MS first-party surface hardware is really high quality.

> But let's all calm down. Apple is still a cut above. USB-C connected peripherals will likely storm into the marketplace. You'll probably get the new MBP. If you really can't handle the dongles, get the 2nd to latest version. It'll last you more than 4 years easily. If you're the type to get a new model every year: either you work very closely with the MBP hardware itself or you need to re-examine your life.

Apple has long offered an excellent direct user experience but extremely poor interoperability. You're still not allowed to run their OS in a VM or on third-party hardware, nor develop programs for Apple systems on non-Apple systems - and if you want a different configuration than the very limited choice Apple gives you, tough. There's plenty wrong with MS but I feel like they're at least somewhat open to alternatives if I don't like their way of doing it. Apple is very much "our way or the highway", which is not where I want my software to be.
The apple team will have worked hard just to get the weight improvements. That stuff is hard.

I like the pitch that computers are "bicycles for the mind", and value things in this lens. The keyboard changes seem a step backwards.
Oops, you're right. In my haste, I really did link to a parody piece. Very embarassing for me.

I was trying to illustrate the point that Bioshock Infinite's early sales were disappointing. Early projections had 2K selling 3 million copies in the first month:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-03-06-bioshock-in...

But it actually sold less than a million:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/npd-bioshock-infinite-march...

and only hit 3.7 million after 3 months.

HOWEVER... Don't cry a river for 2K. Bioshock Infinite eventually sold 11 million copies, becoming the biggest Bioshock game:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-06-01-bioshock-in...
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> We want features, not just slimness.

You want. Please don't generalise. Personally, I have always wanted my laptop to be thinner. And I am a "professional" who hates dongles by any possible definition.
Great, thanks for clarifying that.
I have an XPS 13 "developer edition" (comes with Ubuntu installed).

It's mostly good, but 1) doesn't have an ethernet port and 2) only one of the USB ports delivers enough power to connect a USB ethernet adapter thing.

Keyboard's a bit rubbish, but then laptop keyboards just are.
Would using one effect your Apple Developer status if you are seen using one of these?
Yea, it's disappointing how biased the reporting is. I suspect the science is almost as biased. Even the papers that do show that things aren't as bad as we thought find some way to say "Don't worry, it's still bad!"
That's if you can successfully install it (http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/solus-1-2-review.html)
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> If the offload factor is sufficiently small there is no rational reason to burn battery on it.

Sure, but there’s also no cost to it, if you go with the piggyback/opportunistic approach. That’s the point. It’s either net positive or just neutral. Whether the local offload is effective or not— that’s a different argument.

Anyway, the driving reason for my interest in IPFS is re-decentralization of the Web. If it can, theoretically, save some data on mobile—so much better.

What it needs, though, is simply work on mobile at least as well as HTTP. There’s no doubt IPFS has no fundamental architectural problems in that regard.

Though, full disclosure, it does have some major implementation issues at the moment.
As a happy Surface Book user, I don't see how the Surface Studio is niche? I don't use the touchscreen that often, but it's great to have it - why would you ever not want touch to work? And there are some things that are a lot better on a touchscreen. In 5 or 10 years every desktop computer will look like the Surface Studio. At the moment it's a premium product (but so is everything Apple makes).
I think Microsoft needs built it's own hardware. Windows isn't exactly a delight to use, but it's only made worse by the crappy hardware most people are running it on.

Currently my work laptop is an HP ProBook, and just as much to blame for my poor Windows experience as Windows it self is.
What do you use trackpoint for? I' always had trackpoint but never found any need for it when you already have nice touchpad.
From my personal experience, a good vs. a mediocre IDE can be the tipping point between really getting into developing or only doing it because you have to.

Of course CS students who come to university already programming and with a strong intrinsic desire will overcome difficulties regardless, but a good chunk of fellow students in business informatics/information systems were turned off by complicated setups and steep learning curves of IDEs and chose to steer clear of technical specializations.
That depends on your definition. Googling brings up
"dishonest: not honest; disposed to lie, cheat, or steal; not worthy of trust or belief"

Thus I think a scammer can be called dishonest.
Buy the old or choose other like Dell and Thinkpad. The new MBP is very bad to programmer.
When has it not been? Apple for the most part, doesn't innovate. They take ideas and polish them to a mirror shine. MS actually does: they have a really strong research department, and did a lot of things that were unheard of when they did them.

Face it, Thinking Different has always been MS's ball. Them and the Unixes.
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Great feedback Animats, the cloud is something mostly editors had requested where they move from studio to studio, it's an option to simply download the their specific work flow to that terminal; it's optional; it's just a stored profile a user can elect to download to the keyboards flash. It's not like an IoT product logging keys; instead we have an API on the client which communicates with stored mappings on flash.

In regards to the fibre cabre, that's PR speak for a non cheap cable. Thanks again for the feedback; it's great to hear from other engineers etc.
Err, ahh, English soccer... that's American football, right?
Getting off topic, but "lowest level classified document was sent to an unsecured email account" does not describe the NSA TS/SCI/SAP GAMMA material a no longer cleared Sidney Blumenthal sent out. I suppose there are higher level classified materials like nuclear weapons designs (check out the DoE Q clearance), but GAMMA is already stratospheric and the compromise of it is in the "can get people killed in real time" variety. If you haven't read about this, you need to expand your sources of information.

I've also read, without sufficient verification, that the names of 4 CIA agents were burned, and in general it's clear it's a counter-intelligence nightmare of catastrophic and unprecedented proportions.

ADDED: Getting back to the email in question (which I found in full at https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36617) there's no way of telling if anything nefarious was implied, it's all the way back to mid-2014, so unless the structure was set up so illegal coordination would be required, and which sort of structure was to be set up was in the air, it's unlikely illegal "illegit" was implicated.

More likely Schmidt was generally ignorant of the details of these sorts of things and wanted to make sure the structure would be set up so nothing like that would come into play. And we haven't heard of anything like it with whatever his org eventually became, but it's something to be careful about, as the Project Veritas sting videos demonstrate.
GNOME terminal uses Ctrl-Shift-C to copy from the terminal...

You can also configure urxvt to copy whatever you highlight.
Of course they have ! The difference is that now we have all this technological means to spread the messages faster and to an wider audience.
It's also stored on the on board flash, the cloud is an option to download a user profile stored online to a new keyboard. It's an optional feature that editors expect, if we didn't include it we wouldn't be addressing a key market want from a different demographic.
I actually have mixed feeling about the Pirate Party. I do agree with their major points about economy and social issues for instance.

But the part that leaves me really uneasy is this idea they have of bringing: direct democracy to people and let them vote for a lot of issues.

After Brexit, do we really want to give the people the power to vote in issues that are way above the knowledge of most of the voters and to have media skewing and manipulating their views of the problem according to the interests of the few ones commanding the media?
I agree with this entirely. There's nothing here for power users and laptop-as-desktop-replacement users. We need more power not a lighter form-factor. There's nothing else in Apple's lineup. The desktop Mac Pro line is shipping obsolete -- $4,000 for a computer that isn't VR-ready. The Mac Mini hasn't been refreshed in over two years.
I think this is more about feeling heavier than it looks. Pretty sure it's heavier than my 13" MBA though (despite being smaller, area-wise).
I'm not a Mac User but I know that the Dell XPS 15 is a decent notebook with a very good keyboard and all the connectors you need.
Except PAM stands for "Pluggable Authentication Modules" (as in "PAM Library") - plural.

You then write a module for the PAM library, so it makes the most sense to call it a "PAM Module", even if there is some redundancy in the acronym.
What about a hoverboard? Maybe two people could walk alongside him and keep him supported or something. They are easier than skateboards and a similar or better experience.
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Haha, of course, we have an API on the client which comms with the on board flash; the cloud is just a back up of a user profile so if an editor is at a new studio they can dl their profile quickly. It's an option that creative design demographic constantly ask for.
Superficial article that comes up with the only answer the author knows: "competition".

I'm as pro free market as the next (liberal) economist but competition had little to do with why the IR didn't happen in China.

One obvious counter example to the article: Europe had centuries of bloody competition before IR, so why did the IR take so long to come about?

And the simple answer is that what enabled the IR to happen was the Enlightenment and the core of the Enlightenment is essentially, value pluralism. Before the Enlightenment, God or his representative on Earth, the monarch, was the sole source of truth. Science, or any other sources of truth were squashed. The Enlightenment broke that link, most obviously with Locke's argument for the separation of church and state.

The lack of value pluralism also explains the lack of innovation and progress in other cultures through history.

A footnote: Machiavelli is misunderstood in the popular culture. The reason he is so important is not because he was the originator of the idea that there are different moral frameworks for princes (rulers) and the ruled, but that it a necessary, indeed a good thing that there are different moral frameworks. Machiavelli wrote in the 16th century, and was one of the early value pluralists.
I think it would be fair to say that Apple is not that great anymore and Microsoft sucks less. However Apple is still a better choice for many pro consumers. For example Microsoft/Windows doesn't have avb support.
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Is this just a guess or did you investigate?
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Would I be wrong to suggest that the majority of people who buy the Mac Pro (or who have them assigned to them at work) are neither creative professionals or unix-centric developers?

I would say for these people that sleek design, high battery life and low weight are the three somewhat superficial attributes that stand out the most - or are the most important in making a purchasing choice.

I understand all the dissapointment. However, I think if you analyse Apple's decisions, it probably does make sense from a marketing perspective. They seem to be aiming at the premium aesthetic market that has emerged in the last 5 years within the Mac fanbase. Only thing I dont understand and seems kind of cheeky to me is the price hike.

btw - I am a developer, I use a Macbook Pro at work and a Dell XPS 15 at home - so I am somewhat aware of the price/spec/value differences.
Yeah, to use it first check if navigator.standalone is defined (should only be available on iOS devices). true value means it is running from Home Screen, false means it is not. Allows for better fullscreen, can easily add buttons where usually url bar would interfere.
I really wish I could find anything at all that works well with linux, has at least 4G RAM (better 8 or 16), doesn't have a heavy screen , and is no wider than 28cm. Buying laptops has become really, really difficult. </digression>
Great point, we work a lot with E Ink Holdings and they have a ton of IP being developed (like 350 patents) and some exciting product updates which from an engineering perspective are impressive. Their principals scientists are incredibly talented guys, pleasure to work with.
Thats my understanding from that tweet too. The concerned part was when he asks about legitimacy of 'Eric Schmidt project' and they want to convince him with some position/reward later on.
> I read his articles through a lens of "the language he really wants probably is never going to be Python again"

I always had that opinion that what I would like Python to be like is never going to happen. This is not something new with Python 3.
Cool maybe, practical and inexpensive I'm not so sure about.
The whole hurricane thing sucks though. They'll happen no matter what you do, of course. It does seem like we have some influence over how many bonus bullets we want to put in the gun while playing russian roulette.
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out of interest, why did you do this as a gist rather than a project? That way, people could have raised pull-requests to add their project to your list.
I think Apple has a little more influence on application developers to gain adoption than Lenovo does.

How many applications were modified to take advantage of the Lenovo adaptive keys?

Now compare that to developers already playing with and releasing software that makes use of the touch bar.
Yeah, in the UK I'd go with SCAN Computers[1] or PC Specialist[2] (SCAN I can personally recommend).

[1] - https://www.scan.co.uk/3xs/custom
[2] - https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/laptops/
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Sparse Access Memory is like a differentiable hash table. I'm wondering how many new differentiable data structures could be invented in order to augment deep neural nets?
I've also been using Apple computers since Apple II. I've had every Apple PC, iPod and iPhone and I've been a loyal fan and loved it.

But these are just words. Actually, I just lied, but you would have probably believed me, because, why would I lie in a comment ? Well, why not ? :)
I got my first ever Mac in 2008 and I've only owned an iPhone 5 and 6.

So truth and falsehood on the internet is very cheap - it costs nothing to write something outrageous - and people would probably not even notice it.

Being paid to write a lie ? Easy money...

But I totally agree on the need for an open source alternative to Apple.

I'd also like to see an open source version of UIKit..

With Swift being open source, I think people are already working on it. You'll have an army of iOS devs ready to build cool Linux applications in their favourite language, using familiar UI concepts.
I'd love to get involved into something like this ;).
I know about this, tried it few years ago, will do it again when I find enough free time to play with it in VM.
Will it take far longer? I don't know... if they continue this push of implementing mobile features on macOS, trying to make it more and more like iOS. This seems like it could be a very effective way of alienating even more pro users. To an extent it has already happened.

Seems like Apple has become unwilling to spend resources on features pro users want.