skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do viruses relate to hardware longevity? Are there viruses in the wild bricking Windows PCs?

I bought an $850 Thinkpad T410 in 2010. Every time I've checked new laptops in the past couple of years I concluded that it wasn't worth upgrading - I'd only get a twofold increase in performance for $800+.

(Also reduced weight and increased battery life, but as a 6 ft. guy with a roommy backpack, carrying a 5 lbs laptop and a 1.5 lbs spare battery is not a problem.)

It still works fine but I ended up buying a higher spec'ed* mint-condition refurbished T410 for $250 this year, and a USB3 expansion card. I expect to get a good run out of it since I can cannibalize the old one for parts.

Not everyone has the time and know-how to service their own laptop, but for someone who does, like me, the nice thing with the Thinkpad ecosystem is the abundance of cheap end-of-lease refurbished parts and accessories, which are i) cheap and ii) probably better maintained than what you can get used from some bloke on craigslist.

(But the flipside is that new Lenovo parts and accessories are horrendously overpriced, since they target businesses.)

*HDD vs SSD, 8gb vs 4gb memory, i7 vs i5, 1400x900 vs 1280x800, discrete vs integrated graphics.
He also said he doesn't want to live in a society were all of its citizens are not covered for healthcare and praised ACA for including more people (~20 mil).

And his analysis of Trump seems better than most who claim he is dumb and/or Hitler. I don't agree with Adams nevertheless he is thoughtful.
Well surface is quite expensive
If as you say the stock price falls, Apple could just buy back their own stock. They have a huge cash reserve.

What I'm getting at is I think everybody is overly concerned that Apple isn't releasing any "new" devices. They don't really have to. Looking at market share, they completely dominate on the products they already have. If anything, they can sit back, wait for the "next big thing" and do what Apple typically does best: Copy it, and make it so much better.
Peter Thiel: I’m voting for Trump because
Unaffordable is impractical. Most families cannot afford an extra $5K unless there is a reasonable amount of benefit to them, they don't have that kind of disposable income.

So unless they can quantify why a Bolt is superior to a Hybrid (and cost definitely isn't a winning argument) you'll struggle to convince the average American household to own one.

To me that is impractical.
There are no Macs packing Nvidia 10xx GPUs.

I had problems in the past because I was using a Hackintosh with an AMD card that didn't work with OSX at the time.
Hasn't been my experience, but I've never had a car nav system, just attempted to use other people's. Could be a learning curve issue since I'm used to my phone UI and not the cars'.

People downvoting honkhonkpants, please don't. You may disagree with him, but it's a well thought out discussion.
With big theta you strictly have to talk about best and worst cases, because for e.g. insertion sort, what's true of worst case is not true of best case (and vice versa). For big-O, what's true of worst case is also true of best case, so talking about worst case suffices. Big-O is less precise and therefore more useful, because average case usually = worst case anyway.
It's not officially supported and so probably isn't a good business investment.

The Razer Core is (I believe?) the first non-chinese/ebay/type-thing solution that is officially meant to work on laptops (other than Razer or whoever makes the eGPU dock).

However I read a thread today saying someone who has one of these couldn't get it to work with the new 13" MBP. Don't know if that means it won't be possible in the future though. It's also very expensive ($400?) to add on top of the GPU.
Correct the record had a $6 mil budget back in May - not enough to hire trolls. Mostly they identify themselves and link to http://correctrecord.org/. They certainly don't waste time trolling cartoonists.
I agree it isn't useful and you could argue dangerous but I am very curious!
You do realize that people are specifically voting against the ideology that backs your opinion, right? People aren't voting for Trump because he's racist or sexist; they are voting for Trump because of the ideology behind moral-elitist people like you.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody"

I use my MBP for dev work, and would love to have faster compile times for example
They're factoring in the fact that most people will take $7500-$10000+ off that price via tax credits (either themselves or via the leasing company), so it's a $28-30K car. There's no avoiding the remaining markup: that's essentially the cost of the battery.
They were literally* marking up the price. It's not uncommon for popular models. Offer a couple thousand below MSRP and see how it goes.

*A rare proper usage of the term "literally"
They did but I've found its hit or miss sometimes. It's really weird, on my account (been a user since 08') sometimes it doesn't count them and sometimes it truncates longer links and takes the rest of the link and subtracts it from the character count.

Here's the article about them not counting links in character count:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-16/twitter-t...
I believe the point is media not digging into Wikileaks' papers. You can compare it when Wikileaks showed Bush's faults -- the media was after it right away.

It doesn't take a lot to understand Hillary is corrupted. Watching CNN from over the ocean here it's almost a joke. They only talk about Trump's sex allegations that are not even at the court yet. At the same time you can read from Wikileaks about shady things Hillary is doing, but the breaking news is a pornstar accuses Trump, Trump said that, Trump did a funny face.
There's no social media blackout. If you look at trending topics in politics on Facebook, you have Anthony Wiener, Harry Reid, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch -- all related to the letter.

Twitter Moments is full of related news, especially if you click through to Election 2016.

Trending Buzzfeed news is very rarely political.
Why would you even bother to think about the meaning of color?
Wow, I was surprised at how much the 'Moon Alphabet' diagram reminded me of the Graffiti handwriting recognition alphabet from PalmOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)

I wonder if this is convergent design, or if Palm's Graffiti was more directly influenced by the Moon Alphabet.
wait - Taleb supports trump ?
Why moving from a big corporate to a start up is the best decision you can make
Why replace the wifi card if you don't mind me asking?
A Day in the Life of a Data Engineer: Yelp
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A couple of years ago I was misdiagnosed with lung cancer. It was only a preliminary diagnosis from an x-ray, but after several nodes were circled on my chart with “malignancy suspected” written next to them, I thought I had late stage cancer with weeks to live. What else could it be?

It turned out to be histoplasmosis shotgunned through my lung system, but for about 3 weeks while I underwent further testing, I was preparing to die.

At the time I wished I would have spent more of my life giving to others. I also wished I was more financially prepared; my kids, who would take care of them? I would never see their weddings or even graduation. How would they go to college? And for those of you reading this who really are in that situation, my heart goes out to you. For me it was a nightmare I could wake from, at least for now.

Anyway, after I found out it wasn’t terminal, my perspective on priorities shifted in a major way. One thing in particular was focused on technology. I sat back and realized what a stooge I’ve been over the years. As a developer, one thing I always detested was chasing the latest tech, always trying to decipher the tea leave to make sure I wasn’t out of work in 5 years when the wind changed direction. Feeling not much more than a pawn to large tech companies.

I realized I had so many unexplored areas that I wanted to research that were slipping away, and would always slip away if I didn’t do something about it.

So I did. I now spend my free time diving into areas that I find interesting and have even reached back in time to finish a project that I dared not before. Funny thing is, I’m still learning new things (some a complete waste of time), yet I’m much happier doing it and I’m building a new world around me while discovering new interests at the same time.
Yes.

But if you bought one of the PC laptops linked in my document, you might end up with a system with unsupported graphics.

MIGHT.

I had huge problems with hackintosh in the past because my GPU was newer than the Kexts OSX had available at the time.

EDIT: You edited your comment. The difference was the cheaper model shipped with Ubuntu. Didn't notice because I was watching Star Trek. Haha.
That's completely fair. However that's a corner case for most people. I think the general use case is that people have routines in their day to day and fit these devices into their predictable routines.

Adapters suck for unpredictable situations but those aren't common enough and Apple knows this.
If you're going to leave a cable in your car (I'm assuming that's the plan) just leave a lightning to 3.5mm cable.
Peter Thiel Speaks at the National Press Club [video]
Your argument seems to come down to the idea that apple products are good investments. However, this isn't much use if they keep ignoring how their users use their computers. All I wanted was the same product line with 32 gigs of memory. Looks like I'll never get that computer. What's the point in investing heavily in a different computing future than you want?

Microsoft may not be any better on the software end of things, but at least they're doing interesting things with hardware, WITHOUT killing what works.
> PRICE AS TESTED: $43,905 (base price: $37,495)

> can be had for less than the price of the average new car.

Emphasis mine and obviously they are factoring in the $7,500 tax credit which I guess is fine.

I dislike this "price of the average new car" line and it gets repeated a lot. Car manufacturers must love it since it tries to normalize that price as "average" when its not very representative. Grand total "average new car" price that the media is using everywhere is $33,666, but that's only because of the average price of luxury cars and trucks driving the number way, way up. There's a breakdown by sector in KBB's numbers:

http://mediaroom.kbb.com/new-car-transaction-prices-up-2-per...

Scroll down to the second table for more realistic numbers. At any rate the median new car price, if we could get it, would be much more telling. Sadly I can't find it anywhere.

After the tax credit the base model is the average cost of a Mid-size Pickup Truck ($30,045) or average cost of a sports car ($30,712)

But well above the average cost of a mid size car ($25,095) or crossover ($27,056) or subcompact ($17,218)
I much prefer inbuilt nav systems when they're done well (integrated, simple dash view is a must) like in VW Golf and Merc A Class. Phone can't compete to having just the right information, right when you need it in the console. Particularly when travelling and hiring cars.
You can use a thunderbolt GPU enclosure; not sure how useful it is if Apple don't update their OpenGL drivers.
He speaks in a very similar manner as Mark Zuckerberg, that is the first time I noticed this.
Its either they are asleep at the helm or are furiously working on something else, like VR, not too focusing product renewal of current product lineup... It is an essence of a magic trick. You follow left hand while right one is about to surprise you, isn't it? I hope they are working on something extraordinary.
> "Successful entrepreneurship is like a lottery"
>
> I disagree with this statement. [...] I'm on my fifth company and my current one makes over six figures

So what? You winning the lottery doesn't make it any less of a lottery!
Apparently the wifi card comes with the laptop does not yet work with macOS.

Both are 802.11ac capable however. I think the DW1560 is a bit slower.
Previous success does not mean it's a good or advisable idea. This is the kind of thing companies will tolerate until they decide not too and then drop a horde of lawyers on a few 'examples'.
Good point. It's also generally a bad idea because it eliminates the pressure for novice writers to "write like your life depends on it."
> OEMs like Lenovo will listen in on everything you do at the hardware level.

Are you talking about this[0] (which seems inconclusive), or something else? All other spying incidents I see from Lenovo are software-based.

[0] http://www.geek.com/chips/spy-agencies-shun-lenovo-finding-b...
My mistake, I didn't see it on the official Bolt website, so I assumed it wasn't included.
Not only that, but while it is orders of magnitude more difficult to fix than a classic gas engine, those don't really exist anymore either. Pretty much any engine electric or otherwise is out of range for typical home repair. (And I say this as someone that still has a manual with the thought that I could replace the clutch on my own, if I want to.)

I hasten to add that I do not know the expected cost of repairs between the two types of engines. Would be a good fact to know.
Not only that but the fact that people are buying lightning headphones for the current gen.

They are in a shitty place right now. They can't go USB-c without pissing off a good amount of their customers, but they can stick with lightening forever either (it's already starting to show its age WRT transfer speeds and other abilities)
Why do people expect Apple to deliver a completely new product every year?

There's not much to be changed in the macbook pro. Yes, it would be nice to have more cpu or a better gpu, but no, not at the expense of battery life.

I think the bar is awesome, although I won't upgrade since my 2013 retina mbp is doing everything perfectly fine. If I would be able to add the bar for $300, I'd do it.

The last 10 years, apple has created: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, the Retina macbooks, the new macbook, the new mac pro, new imac, better icloud, the new appletv, better music/itunes, the app store and probably lots of other things.

All greatly different than before.

Whenever Apple does something, it always seems incremental... Until 5 years down the road when they realise they were in a revolution.
Apple's desensitisation of the human race to fundamental security practices
Dunno I'd see it easily being adopted in apartment parking garages "$150 a month gets you unlimited car charging!"
> My current employer doesn’t let me work on Open Source projects or personal projects without prior permission

That's ... weird. I hope they're paying well for this.
Come visit my company gym, we have 20+ perfectly good treadmills that all have outdated iPhone chargers. The best part about micro USB was that it was absolutely ubiquitous. If my phone was dying at a friend's place or at my neighborhood coffee shop chances are I could charge my phone.

My least favorite thing about my 5x is that it's USB-C. I regret upgrading before USB-C became more commonplace.
Trusting Developers is Dangerous
> If programmers stop buying Macs, because they're just too expensive, too limited and unexpandable, the apps will start drying up and users will start drifting away. Maybe.

Well now you see why XCode can only run on Macs. Want to write apps for the biggest and most profitable mobile ecosystem? Gotta buy a Mac, we don't care if you don't like the lack of upgradability.
Before 'drone' became a buzzword, they were just called remote-controlled airplanes.
I've been using pyCharm for the last 2 years and its code completion has helped me code and learn at a much faster pace than other editors.

It offers code suggestions for any module that has been imported in addition to everything in the current script. Sublime and vim's code completion seem very primitive in comparison.

That said, I usually use the free Community Edition because it loads faster.
Probably Mac OS X doesn't support the original WiFi card.
"Never" is a bit of an overstatement. There was an apology for Apple Maps. I think better way to put it is that Apple doesn't engage in a genuine way with customers. It communicates with favored individuals in the press or chosen customers via email, with the expectation that the email from Tim Cook or Phil Schiller will serve to get the word out.

Compare the number of Google employees making public statements through blogs with the number of Apple employees who do so.

There's very little acknowledgement of public input, as if anything the public had to say about Apple products doesn't matter because Apple knows better.
Why does SetThreadPriority sometimes take a really long time?
Yes the entire argument from IBM revolved around lower costs for company's helpdesks because mac users needed less help.

But, to be fair, apple's computers tend to be well built and not break easily. I had a powerbook that lasted 9 years (used for a few years then gave it to my parents). All the apple computers I bought lasted a long time (except for a second gen macbook air I had). I've had a small toshiba laptop and it broke after 3 years shortly after the insurance stopped.

It's anecdotal but I've seen it also with friends.
Uh. It's open source. I built it from source myself.
Oh, that's cool, thank you for your response.

I've taken a look on the Flutter, but it seems (through a glance) that it is another React-Native (or take Xamarin). So, this is not the first solution to share code between web and mobile. React-Native, though, is not the best for Android, and this framework should be awesome for it, thanks for the same company.

But the main question for me personally – experienced JS developer, looking into possibilities to write more better browser code, why should I consider Dart instead of TypeScript, or ClojureScript, or Elm? I am really curious about this question!
Bots are the new Apps
I hope you are not comparing $700 PC laptops to a $2k MBP here, because there are a lot of very rigid and durable PC laptops available.
How is julia or it's type system not suitable for general purpose programming? Multidispatch seems like a generalization of python...and fields don't have to be typed.

general purpose programs in julia:
https://github.com/shashi/Escher.jl https://github.com/essenciary/Genie.jl
Swift, Java, Node.js, or Ruby? The Advantage of Server-Side Swift
The article seems to be more lamenting the decision to shut down 2K Australia, given that (from the author's perspective) it was still a productive studio. It's far from a finely-tuned, hard-hitting, ground-breaking treatise on the topic, but "how did this make it onto the front page of HN" seems extreme. If you know of a better essay on the topic of "What happened to 2K Australia?" or "What happened to Borderlands?" I'd love to see it.

I realize that things like:

> People didn't get along. Things fell apart.

and

> Ken Levine got tired of it.

might well tell the whole story...but I guess it leaves me wanting more (particularly since you imply that there was more).
The source is the license agreement for macOS. It explicitly says that the software is licensed to run on Apple branded computers. If you run it elsewhere you are running it unlicensed.

Can you also provide a source? Would your acquaintances mind if you provided links to the apps they have developed with their Hackintoshes for years?
I think we are all tired of slick talkers and charismatics full of hot air.
Good point. The i7-7500U is too new for now to consider running macOS on it.
The topic before was "Should YC disassociate from Thiel from YC?"

The argument from YC was (more or less) "businesses shouldn't let political differences stop people from working together."

Here's my question to the YC community: At what point does the activities of an employee / partner bring potentially unwanted attention to a business?

Yes, I wouldn't fire an employee for having different political opinions from me. BUT I would fire an employee for going around publicly campaigning and publicly donating vast sums of money to a political agenda.

Again, it's about bringing potentially divisive attention to the business - not about political differences.
The Surface Studio Story: How Microsoft Reimagined the Desktop PC for Creativity
Ugh, I lose a 1/8" to 1/4" adapter for my headphones at least once a month. I've bought extra and try to keep one in any device I have with a 1/4" port, and yet still they manage to come out and get lost. It's easy and cheap to order a dozen of those. It's not going to be cheap to order a dozen lightning->analog adapters.
> Wireless audio is like wireless internet, in that it's better than nothing but worse than something with wires and a stable connexion

It depends on what factors you value. Wired beats wireless for reliability and speed. It gets crushed for convenience, though.

My home wireless is really spotty. I want to run Ethernet to several locations... in order to install more access points.
I was surprised the Macbook didn't have any Lightning ports to be honest. I figured they would use that for direct device connection.

As it stands if you have a brand new Macbook Pro and iPhone 7 you can't connect the two without an adapter, which is just stupid.
For what it's worth this was (and is) my red line that prevents me from ever buying an iPhone. That's one person who agrees with you at least!
I'm still wringing my hands over no matte-screen, though honestly I don't miss my 17in mbp. It was way too big.
> What frustrates me the most is that Apple never admits a mistake.

They have backtracked from decisions made, several times, and admitted to mistakes too. Apple Maps is a good example. MobileMe, the return of buttons to the iPod shuffle, price cut on iPhone... same.

The problem is that what you or I think is a mistake, it might not be one in the eyes of Apple.

A lot of the frustration I see these days can be summed up as "Apple no longer is making a product that I like, therefore it is making products that nobody likes".

Well, maybe. Time will tell. But I think they have a very clear vision about how they want their computers to look and feel (same for iPhones) and they are heading there full-speed. For some customers it will be a deal breaker, for others it might be what they need to jump ship and buy a Mac or upgrade from a Macbook Air to a more profitable Macbook Pro.
I assume that's why they haven't already switched but they just releases Macbooks with nothing but USB-C connectors so I imagine the debate must be on internally at Apple.
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> If you are not subject to the draft then those that are should not be subjected to your vote.

Makes sense. Only 18-25 year old, healthy men should be able to vote. Totally makes sense.
I did one that took me probably 30 minutes and it looked nice in Manjaro. Those are just nice Environments, don't have to go all the way.
I guess it's just a matter risk tolerance then.
Which the iPhone 7 handily comes with (and clones are readily available on Amazon although YMMV as to their quality, obvs.)
People in informal language constantly use "insane" to mean "frustrated."
> In general, I can take libertarians seriously... but not Peter Thiel. ...and I'm what might be derisively called a "big-government liberal"

Thank you. I'm glad you've been able to distinguish between Thiel, perhaps one of the most anti-liberty, authoritarian 'libertarians' in modern history.

I likewise take many liberals (and conservatives!) seriously, even if we do not always agree. For example, one of my favorite congressmen is Alan Grayson (a pro-liberty Democrat/liberal) and one of my favorite senators is Rand Paul (a pro-liberty Republican/fiscal conservative). I don't always agree with them, but I appreciate their willingness to stick up for their beliefs.

Sadly, people like us are relatively few and far between.