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So here's my concern with Magic Leap. (And I say this with friends working there, so I WANT them to succeed more than anything, but I can't help but look askew at some of the secrecy)

If their technology is _so critically secret_ that everything needs to be under more NDA/IP protection than I've seen in almost any other consumer product, one would think that implies it's readily duplicatable if someone just had the secret sauce? But in that case, one would expect to see more results after how long they've been in dev. I've heard in many cases founders/VCs laugh at the concept of "keeping your million dollar idea secret" because of the concern that someone will steal it, let alone a concept so complex that a group of some of the better specialists in this area (AR/VR/robotics/wearables/vision) have taken this long to bring a product to market.

So is the concern just about entities like Google/MSR who would show up out of the blue willing to throw essentially endless money at the problem? Because off the top of my head they have not shown a great track record of even executing on _their own_ ideas with a compelling end product on a fast enough time-scale to be competitive against someone with a multi year lead. I'm just not sure I follow the benefit of this level of secrecy compared to the amount of skepticism it naturally generates in someone who would love to be an early adopter.
Other discussion - BBC article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12815441
In short: yes. I recently went through this with a new work laptop.

I checked a couple boxes, restarted, and installed ConEmu.

I added symlinks in my bash home directory for "c", "docs", and "downloads", and pinned my Linux installation as a favorite in Windows Explorer, which makes file management between the two systems incredibly easy.

I installed git, and zsh, and a lot of the other basics. Zero issues. It's a normal Ubuntu installation.

I've been thrilled with it, so much so that I just plunked down some money for my first Windows laptop in years, and I'm selling my old Macbook Pro.

It's the real deal. Microsoft is on fire lately.
just google VPN providers, read the reviews though, some are much better then others.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ is one that i use, its decent.
Indeed one of the categorisations that qualifies you as self employed is whether the times you work are dictated to you or whether you set your own work timetable.
This will be expensive for Uber if they lose the appeal and I am not sure how they could win it at this stage. The appeal would be a way to slow down the impostion of this ruling however it is likely to be backdated to this date if they are unsuccessful so it would mean extra cost with no benefit.
Yes, I meant for Uber.
I just checked, I can get from my place to central London and back for 47.80€ (so no savings). The cheapest flight to London from where I live is 26€ return (with Ryanair, to Stansted). Train to/from the airport here is 10.60€ , and from £10 (11.2€) for the bus into London and back. That's so cheap it's almost scary.
It's misleading because the Mac pricing has risen in EVERY country.

HackerNews tends towards fact-based information, not politically biased stuff. The article was laughably trying to shoehorn in a Brexit narrative. And I'm already seeing the article being shared on Facebook. When it comes to Brexit, facts become irrelevant it seems.
I think this is a strange way of looking at it. This is the British legal system making an example of Uber; asserting that existing laws apply even if you manage your workforce via an app.
"they KNEW their status"

... and what's that to you? Dog shit?

Everyone knows Uber and similar companies entice workers through referral/sign-up bonuses, and are notorious for reducing pay-out when markets allow. There is a reason indentured-servitude is no longer possible. First-world countries have labor-laws, and rightfully so. Why should Uber be allowed to skirt around these laws? What makes them special? People have rights.
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That is not a careful reading of the statistics given.

The full quote:

"Approximately 65 percent of the human population has a reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy. Lactose intolerance in adulthood is most prevalent in people of East Asian descent, affecting more than 90 percent of adults in some of these communities. Lactose intolerance is also very common in people of West African, Arab, Jewish, Greek, and Italian descent."
Supposedly AR glasses with multiple focal planes and with localized occlusion (blacking out the world; don't know if this part is being done at the different focal planes, I'm more skeptical of it than any of the other parts, because all of their through-glasses views have been in very dim rooms).
I'm not sure what's going on, but the reply link on your comment appears in italics.

Is this a formatting bug or some new HN thing I'm not aware of?

EDIT: I guess formatting bug. The comment ends with a trailing <i> in the DOM inspector.
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I looked at the prospects of starting a React, Aurelia, or VueJS projects a few days ago and a year ago. Anyone who wants to wait to upgrade to these new things will be really happy to see how much nicer these things get every year. Tooling and starter kits just keep getting better, and best of all, you could probably wait a long time to switch and miss out on nothing important.
> I find them at least a third cheaper than taxis in London

They're much cheaper than black cabs in Manchester too, but still about equivalent to private hire companies, surge pricing aside.
Exactly. At best we'll have 15 different standards, and Fords only talk to Fords, Toyotas only talk to Toyotas, and they all speak different incompatible protocols.
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Too bad it's not detachable. And flexible.
If you played Alpha Centauri and liked any aspect in it then I wouldn't get Beyond Earth that aspect has probably been cut from Beyond Earth (I have played both)
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Atom is clearly better until you want to open a file larger than 64 bytes.
I like the native Linux support on the XPS 13 but it too tops out at 16GB of RAM with a 512GB SSD (Order Code cax15w10ph1603m). With all the VMs you can spin up playing with Docker, Kubernetes, etc the more RAM the better, man.

If I configure nearly equal systems - i7 with 16 GB of memory and 512GB SSD, the premium for an Apple system stands at $700 ($1,799 versus $2,499 prior to a Dell 10% discount offered on their website.) I say "nearly equal" because the processor on Dell is quoted as "up to 3.5 GHz" and Apple's is 3.3GHz. The 16GB limitation is disappointing because according to Intel's ARK for the quoted Dell part (i7550u), max memory is 32 GB. http://ark.intel.com/products/95451/Intel-Core-i7-7500U-Proc...

Edit: According to wikipedia the top-end 13" MBP sports a i5-6567U but the apple configurator will let you select a 3.3 GHz i7 part. No idea which actual part it is. Anyone know?
Oh trust me, I'm not on Uber's side in this battle. Not that I necessarily think drivers should be employees, I haven't put much thought into it. I just hope we can get rid of our obsession with this cash-hemorrhaging law-flaunting business before it permanently changes our cities. We're starting to see cities basically substituting Uber for functional public transit and that's awfully dangerous when the business model isn't even close to sustainable.

Rulings like this (regardless of if they're good or bad for Uber) are good for us simply because they give us a bit more signal on where things are going and how to prepare for it.
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I'm struggling to believe you're a digital artist if you're complaining about the Surface Studio. A Cintiq monitor, with no computer, costs nearly what the surface studio does, and gives you an inferior display to boot.

The machine is not "purportedly about graphics", it's about 2D artists, and they made that clear in pretty much every presentation I've seen on the device.
I find this perspective a little chilling, to be honest. In what way is Uber going to "make an example of" the UK? Companies follow laws, laws do not follow companies and that's the way it should be. Corporate interests are already extremely over-represented in Government, Government should be looking out for the people not the companies.
Hardly making an example of the UK. Whats more likely to happen is that Lyft, or some other Uber competitor, would happily take their place, customers and drivers alike.
The only loser in that case is Uber. Uber has made most existing minicab firms step up their game - quite a few were experimenting with apps before Uber arrived, but now almost all but the one man shops have apps (in addition to phone operators), text messages on arrival, car tracking, etc... I'd be surprised if Uber can't find a way to make it profitable here, it's a long established market and they're not /that/ much cheaper, if at all, than the competition - unless the minicab industry is simply one which doesn't scale.
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Insulate yourself from Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and deceive others), Narcissism (egotism and self-obsession), Psychopathy (the lack of remorse and empathy), Sadism (pleasure in the suffering of others)
Certainly not all cats and dogs experience all of those things. All you've done is highlighted the possibility for a nutritionally unsuitable meal source. Obviously it's possible to construct a food which does not meet our nutritional needs, many Americans have managed that themselves. That does not however dismiss the existence of pets which live long and healthy lives, or the possibility of an analogous fodo source for humans.
Or Webpack.

Or stop running every dependency through Babel (which is the biggest source of build slowness I've seen in the wild).
As a consultant (freelancer) myself, I was going to recommend that as the best way to gain maximum control over your terms of engagement, but based on your username, it seems like you've already figured that out :)
I was hoping psychedelic dog heads would become the default stock photo for AI news, rather than red eyed robots
In the USA, we love to aspire to be other, "better" people. It's why some poor people vote against their own interests to cut taxes on the rich (thinking that one day they'll be wealthy enough to benefit from it), it's why Uber is a "revolutionary" and not a regulation-dodging jitney cab service, it's definitely what's powering much of tech bubble at this point, and Soylent is but another example of all this in action.
Good point - I don't really know, depends on your needs I guess. I don't do very much memory-intensive stuff so 8GB has been fine for me.
Not only that, these 'disintermediators' tend to be structured in such a way that they get all (or even more) of the benefits of having employees without having the employers responsibilities towards these de-facto employees.
'Uber basically has little choice but to exit the UK..'

Outside of London Uber doesn't have that much of a presence. And, where it does, the drivers are often regular private hire drivers using Uber as an extra form of revenue.

So exiting the UK isn't going to hurt them so much.
What's wrong with skipping a meal? (While we're on the subject, what's right about it?) Folks have been sold a solution to a problem that does not exist. Marketing and its various permutations wins again.

The use case of this aptly-named "Soylent" product is a load of hooey. When the military starts using meal replacement powders instead of MREs, then I will reconsider my position on this issue.
Good. Good for the drivers, for employee rights, for reducing inequality.

Good for the short term. Because within the next few years expect Uber to move to self-driving cars. Automating truckers will be a watershed.

There will come a time when basic income of some sort will need to be considered by advanced economies, or else expect unemployment, unrest and the rise of populist demagogues who will be much better (worse) candidates than Trump.
The XPS 13 Ubuntu version seems to not be available. Does anyone know what's up? I tried to do a comparison yesterday with the new Macbooks and wasn't able to. The Windows version is still available.

http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
I am extremely happy with my Lenovo ThinkPad X1. It is beautiful, powerful, and is pure joy to use.

Dell XPS 13 is also a very good alternative, I've heard.
Maybe they're not shills, just folks trying to expose themselves to new ideas and possibly caught out by some that upturn their current views.

Sometimes they might not understand, so they reach out and converse with others: "I don't understand why anyone would X, because Y has always worked for me." What's so wrong with that conversation and assume they're shills?
What about today's announcements makes you want to "leave"?
That doesnt make sense. Yes I know that Uber want to transition to driverless vehicles but they cannot do that right now, they will need to maintain their momentum until such a time that they can do that. Which right now means adhere to the ruling to ensure that Uber still has a brand in the UK when they introduce driverless vehicles.
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Not sure what the ability to capture enemy builders/settlers and use them to build your roads should be considered. This has been in every single main civ game as far as I know.
Well I accept :) Give me the Matrix's gruel tomorrow and I'm sold for life.
I'm sitting here eating my scrambled-eggs breakfast taco. Fry eggs, fry taco (for decadence), add veggie condiments that are already prepared, eat. I even use a cast-iron skillet so I don't have to wash it, just rinse & leave on the burner a minute. 10 min.

Cookbook author Melissa Joulwan has an algorithmic approach to weekly meal prep that results in delicious and easy weekday meals, if you're willing to make the "cook 2 hrs on weekend + cook no more during the week" trade-off. It's not the mere minutes that Soylent promises, but for some folks reading this it might be useful. It's paleo so easy to adapt to high protein/low carb/high veggie/whatever floats your boat here.
Yes, but the real costs are only clear after the negotiations, and at that point I don't think the EU will allow a way back (with the risk of doing the whole thing again a few years later).
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Engineer's Disease.
I'm on that boat as well, hoping Bash on Windows becomes great too
Not really. We still really don't know as much about nutrition than we think we do. That is why eating a varied diet is promoted; because we just don't understand what we need as well as we think we do.
> If you aren't the world expert, you're just kidding yourself about your chances for success.

Do you all agree with this one?
Not "almost". It would make more sense to put a frivolous toy on the MacBook, and keep function keys and ports on the MBP.
You rally against a false dichotomy and then commit one in almost the same breath. There isn't a choice between a "food prison" of fast food or soylent.

The reality is you should probably choose neither.
According to the ONS, prices on most electronic goods have actually fallen over the last couple of years. Apple also put UK prices up a bit last year. With inflation running <1%, it's hard to see why it would suddenly rise this year by 20%.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/datas...
One would imagine a case where some blood product recipients got sick after a transfusion, and the data would be helpful to narrow down the cause relative to donor histories.

I bet you could encrypt all the histories with a public key however, and only decrypt in such cases: private key held in a safe in the director's office, etc.
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I think the point in the article is that if your income in GBP remained stable since June 23rd, Macs in the UK have become less affordable. That is, they're the cheapest in Europe in October 28th pounds sterling, but not in June 23rd pounds sterling.

Now that may or may not be entirely due to Brexit, but price inflation is a real thing nonetheless right now in the UK, and signs are it's about to get a whole lot bigger.
The company's margins are irrelevant to my purchasing decision.

Kudos to them for putting in the R&D to come up with substantial features that commodity laptop manufacturers (and Microsoft) have failed to replicate for years. That doesn't make any of the things in my list less valuable relative to alternatives.

> Apple's keyboard quality has decreased significantly across all products. For example, compare the keyboard on a 2016 12" MacBook to the 2010 17" MBP. Or a 2010 15" MBP to a 2016 15" MBP. Key travel is shallower and there's less physical feedback.

OK--that one's a little subjective. How about the other dozen or so things in the list? Can you see how they (perhaps) might justify a higher price to some people?
MacBook prices went up in all of Europe, just like the iPhones went up in price. I feel a lot less bad about getting an "old" MacBook 2015 last year for the old prices.

I think a lot of people would like to see the UK crash and burn because of their audacity to get out of the EU, but I don't think there will be much of a negative impact.

If you see the kind of treaties the EU likes to sign with Canada or the US they absolute have no problems to follow the money eventually. It goes above all principles really. They will figure something out, the real problem is the EU doesn't want to make getting out of the EU look like an appealing idea so in the short run you will hear a lot of these negative stories.
This is the relevant chart.

The fact is that the U.K. Is pretty cheap and probably will face some inflation if the low pound price persists.

For many the vat / sales tax is a deductible otherwise go to Japan where you will get the sales tax immediately back at purchase upon showing your passport.

:-)
Creative Cloud on Ubuntu would be awesome, would suffice a lot of reasons I have to buy a Mac
You don't need web workers to be "responsive". You just need to cut the job up into bits, and yield to the UI thread every so often.

It's utterly unresponsive because it's not programmed very well. Not because it's not using web workers.

The demo is a great example of why Threads are inefficient for most cases. Better programming is what's needed.
These aren't public services, they're private endeavors.
We'll the Macbook Pro 2015 is still a decent machine. We should expect to see some discounts as it phases out in the following weeks.
> Key travel is shallower and there's less physical feedback.

I really just can't fathom this. As long as you know you've pressed the key and when you haven't, what's the point of more key travel and feedback? The MB keyboard's trigger mechanism is very precise--you're never wondering whether a key press actually registered.
The traditional taxi drivers in UK are already classified as independent contractors.[1]

If Uber wanted to stay in the UK market, what would be the minimum they would have to do so that the Uber drivers are considered "contractors"? Is it just letting the drivers set their own fares?

In other words, if sellers on ebay are not employees of ebay and programmers submitting apps to Apple iTunes Store are not employees of Apple, what does Uber need to do so they are considered a platform instead of an employer?

[1]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-notice-70025-...
Or simply the stakeholders in the ISP who suffer from the fine and bad publicity are not the decision makers who benefited from the sale.
> All of my experience in the field tells me that they were better protected than the vast majority of organisations of their size.

Which is a nice tell on what's going on elsewhere without having direct insight.
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That's quite strange limitation. Is there some technical reason for this? Is the memory soldered in to save space? Do they only have one dimm?
>It will even do things like full field the alternator up to 18+ volts to slam the windows shut super fast in the event of a rollover.

I imagine this breaks the window mechanisms. However, you've been in a rollover, probably doesn't matter anymore.
Anyone in Santa Clara (California), I believe there's a ballot proposition this election to try to do something at the local level (basically, requiring additional work hours to be offered to existing employees first -- pushing them over into full-time status -- before hiring more part-time staff to take the hours).
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Uber always seemed to have a weak case at best, and seem to know it with their arbitration clauses - but no doubt they'll apppeal.

If they ultimately lose then Uber will be liable for backpay for the employees, backtax and possibly a fine.
I hope all their investors have their fingers crossed that governments are going to be totally okay with self driving cars. Despite, you know, a) totally unproven technology, b) no legal structures for liability, c) no legal structures for taxation, d) unemployment of local transportation workers, e) 100% of "gains" from said unemployment going to a Silicon Valley company, f) Uber's long track record of basically being an asshole in every market it sets foot in, g) did I mention the fact that there are no driverless cars?

And hey, if they're only losing (not spending, losing) $600,000,000 per month, they've got what, at least another couple years of VC money to burn? I'm sure everything will be figured out by then.
That was a good way to teach you commutativity, though.
If a multinational operates in Europe, they should (and almost certainly did) know the status of the drivers.

The reality is that you have to meet a couple of criteria to avoid the "fake self-employment" laws, and the drivers don't.

You can work for a single client as a freelancer for extended periods of time, but you have to demonstrate that the project requires significant creative input and you're not just following orders (or a dispatch system in this case).
Cognitive dissonance is the great problem of UNIX developers. They want a PDP-11 yet don't want a PDP-11.
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Just a quick counterargument from a regular Soylent consumer: I drink a coffiest for breakfast every morning and drink two liquid Soylents on days when I don't have time for a nice lunch or dinner. It's convenient, healthy and tastes good. I've never had any intestinal troubles. I use it as a meal replacement, not a complete food replacement.

It sucks that they included this ingredient in their powder and bars that has caused people problems. But HN folks should know that doing startups is hard, and we all make mistakes along the way. Food is obviously a much more sensitive and important application than most mobile apps.

But I expect Soylent to figure out what went wrong, correct it, and keep iterating and improving.
"Uber to move to self-driving cars"

I still don't understand why that scenario requires an Uber. Once self-driving cars are a thing, why does Uber need to exist? Their competitors in that case would be actual car manufacturers, and rental car companies that already have a distributed system for deploying cars (and partnerships with manufacturers). What edge does Uber have? Certainly they have mindshare, but that can evaporate as quickly as it was built.
Based on the serial number they can see the manufacturing date. And because each market has a different model number (due to things such as power plug, wifi frequency restrictions, keyboard layout and such) it's easy to spot a "USA" model versus a "South American" model.
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