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I don't understand the general moan about the touch bar. These are exactly the cases I think will make the touch bar great.

Is it the most innovative concept ever? No, but it looks like it's been executed very well. I think developers will like this macbook.
What I'm wondering is when will Apple finally update the OpenGL drivers, so we can take full advantage of the GPUs ?

Of course it's possible to do many things with workarounds, but for example compute shaders are introduced in OpenGL 4.3 IIRC, and Apple currently supports only OpenGL 4.1 with some 4.2 extensions, released in 2010 already :P

Any idea if Apple has any plans to update their OpenGL drivers to modern versions ? Or are they just gonna focus on the more iOS/mobile optimized Metal ?

Sucks anyway to do cross platform graphics development on a Mac laptop soon if they don't do something about this.
> Since IntelliJ Studio is the defacto standard in Java IDEs (having surpassed Eclipse and Netbeans)

Incorrect. Eclipse remains superior and is in far greater use across the world and the enterprise landscape.
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"So Goldman Sachs is upset that Apple didn’t at least bid for Time Warner. I’m pretty sure Apple didn’t even know Time Warner was for sale."

Is there really any person, anywhere, who isn't absolutely certain that in ten years time we will all look back on the time warner / ATT merger and how badly it turned out and the 20 billion dollar write off and blah blah blah ?

In fact, in this case, the actual company in question has already been the subject of the very same narrative - the disaster that was the AOL/TW merger.[1]

It's incredible to watch the people who spent all of their B-school years studying these train wrecks dive right into a new (but almost identical) train wreck of their own. Goldman complaining about Apple not being involved is either stupidity or a selfish for the m&a fees that would have resulted.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner#Merger_with_AOL
I know, hence why I said "was". I offered to write it but their engineers did instead after asking what functionality was important first.
WordPress.com stole Ghost platform code, now accuses Wix for the same
I think this dudes are using metal mesh for the touch panel so ghost touches should be in the past
Very cool article. Sitting here in CA, it seems that the tide really has turned on this one.

The medicinal loophole was always a "paper bag for drugs" that compelled people to lie to doctors in order to obtain prescriptions for things that should never have been illegal.

Now with Prop 64 being widely supported, the state should finally start to see revenue from marijuana, reversing the decisions of a costly - and fruitless - war on drugs that began almost a century ago.

I'll be curious to see if the Swarm's skepticism in the Bible Belt's states proves accurate.
Oh, if you can, stick to trackpads without custom drivers ("Precision Touch Pads" in Windows). Surface trackpads all fall into this bucket.
Ask HN: Maintaining projects open-sourced for previous employers
At one of my previous contracting gigs I worked for a large company and we open-sourced an iOS Swift component under the company's Github account. The desire to open-source was coming from the team itself and we put a lot of extra effort into it at home and on the weekends.
It was a small contribution but it gained some popularity with more than 1000 stars and was featured in the Swift newsletter.

I finished my contract shortly after. Since then I didn't have any access to the repository and didn't see any updates: PR's are left open, issues are unanswered and Swift 2.3 and 3.0 support are lacking. Forks are now in the hundreds and I suspect the main reason is the lack of maintenance.

I reached out to the company and offered to maintain the codebase if they can transfer ownership which they rejected citing legal concerns. They also offered to add me as a contributor so I can do some maintenance.

For a company this size it always looks good to have some contributions on Github and have a good reputation if they want to hire good developers. But it seems they are not serious enough about open-source since they have no structure to back it or developer time set aside to do it well.

What should I do now?

I'm not comfortable to accept the contributor role since that would mean to do the work for them while they can maintain good looks.

On the other hand it's frustrating to see our work getting shelved and people struggling to use it without forking including myself.
I don't understand why the majority of people are ignoring Microsoft's history and thinking they're turning a corner as a company. Sure they're making some interesting consumer-end products but at the end of the day they're still the same Microsoft that hands over emails and got rid of P2P connections with Skype to help the NSA. This is the same company that's launched a smear campaign against linux in the 90's. Given their track-record people shouldn't trust xbox one's always-listening functionality.

It's just ridiculously clear they don't have the consumer's best interest.
I only met my great grandfather once before he died, but I remember his name, and my parents still have the artifacts he left behind. He was a carpenter, and made several wooden pieces we still have, including a turtle footstool, a doll house, and a garage for toy cars. He also made a kid's rocking chair which sadly got destroyed over time. I played with all of them plenty when I was a kid.

I plan on keeping these things in the family as long as possible.

Make things and leave them behind, and hopefully your family will still cherish them. I write and make board and video games, I'm hoping some of those will stay in the family. I also want to get into woodworking once I own a home, and make custom components for my games.
Let's agree to disagree then.

The autoupdate scheduling is terrible. You can set a "active hours" window where it won't try to force reboot on you, but it's limited to 8 hours, and there's no provision for setting different active hours on weekdays vs weekends. Because obviously the usage profile on my home computer is the same on Wednesday as it is on Saturday.

The autoupdates load garbage onto your computer (Candy Crush Soda Saga?) even if you've previously uninstalled it and obviously didn't want it.

I paid >$100 for this, and it's stuffed with ads. Solitaire and Minesweeper are freemium apps with a subscription of $10/year to get rid of ads. Seriously? Minesweeper needs to be a subscription?

I've been running Windows on my desktops, but I've lately relegated it to gaming only, and am dual booting Linux for programming and content creation work.

Windows 7 was great, it stayed out of the way and let me get my work done. Windows 10 has a feeling that I have to work around the computer to trick it into letting me be productive.
This idea has been around since the creation of public schooling in Prussia in the late 18th century-- which the American system is based off of. Created to benefit the nationstate, not the individual.

"I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers" - John D. Rockefeller, who funded much of the beginnings of our public edu system including the General Education Board
What I do when a student asks for help
This has always seemed like fun to me - is it hard to get started?
And here I am, just finding out the 15" has discrete graphics after buying the 13" which does not.

Regardless, to me 13" is a much better form factor. I had a 15" years ago and it seemed to have so much awkward empty space around where your wrists go.
I think the bigger idea is to think outside the box. Apple has stacks of cash to experiment with. This is precisely the sort of thinking it should take into consideration, spending big on wild ideas to see what works.

Perhaps the _exact_ idea he mentions isn't solid, but the spirit of it is true.
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Apparently, the lack of a higher capacity RAM was due to the performance/energy ratio.

https://twitter.com/DanFrakes/status/791754757404626944
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> "Now I'm bored with software engineering, transitioned in to a corporate information security role to take a break"

> "Depressingly, I can see myself slowly moving up to middle/upper management (it's already started a little bit) because once again the money is too good"

It's like you're writing about a future version of me. I'm now just pondering getting more into infosec.
I think we have to ask what kind of stupid times we live in when a 3.2 is a mediocre GPA. If you didn't game the system, as you said, to look like "the best of the best of the best", then you suck?
>https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community

IntelliJ Community edition is free.
So some analyst thinks Apple should get into the content business. Yawn. For largely historical reasons we have a model that is divided between content producers and content distributors. Apple is essentially (at best) a distributor not a producer. It's good to have this separation (which at least in part came about from the Paramount decision). If Apple becomes a producer too then that could hurt their distribution efforts (eg trying to make the Apple TV a distribution platform).

The real problem with post-Jobs Apple is that Jobs had a vision and Tim Cook does not. Don't get me wrong: Cook has done wonders on the logistics and provisioning front to turn Apple into the behemoth but is he the leader Apple really needs? I have doubts.

When Apple announced the watch, I raised an eyebrow. Personally I think smartwatches are stupid. The tech just isn't there yet (battery life, size, etc). Apple traditionally only got into markets once they were proven. That wasn't (and still isn't) the case with smartwatches.

Look at Apple's change in direction. The first Apple Watch was positioned like a luxury brand (another change for Apple). This one is focused on health and fitness. Even there it's a compromise (eg for any serious exercise with a heart rate monitor you need a chest strap and no one has yet invented an HRM without one that's sufficiently accurate without one under stress). But constant health monitoring and potentially warning before you have a major health event (eg stroke, heart attack) is a real potential growth market. But again, the tech just isn't there yet.

Steve Jobs famously stuck to having one mouse button. I think he was wrong on this one. The right-click is here to stay but he did have a point about discoverability. So I was once again shocked when Apple introduced Force/3D Touch as it has even more discoverability and consistency problems. It also adds weight and cost. The haptic home button is also (IMHO) a step backwards.

And again, ditching the headphone jack seems too soon. In another shock, Apple's Ear Pods have been "delayed". Has Apple ever not had their shit together to delay a product after announcement like this?

So phones are becoming if they haven't already a commodity. What I mean is that pretty much any smartphone you buy now is probably going to be good enough, even the prepaid phones you buy for $150 or less. Oh the hardware front, only these things seem to matter now:

- Display (although arguably they are or soon will be all good enough)

- Battery life only to the point that it's sufficient (ie beyond a certain point it doesn't matter and they'll all get to that point)

- The camera

One the last one it does seem like the Pixel is better than the iPhone 7 (disclaimer: I work for Google).

After that, it's software the matters and is the real differentiator between phones (IMHO). iOS, once clean, simple and elegant, seems to have gotten clunkier, confused and is suffering more from feature bloat. That's natural if product managers and UI/UX people aren't reined in.

This is mirrored in OSX, which seems to have gotten worse starting with Yosemite.
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That is what I'm calling viewpoint, not bias. Bias would be if they shaded their reporting to support their viewpoint.

As an example, they could just not talk about the people harmed by free trade. But quite often they do. Consequently, their editorial pieces regularly recommend taxing those who win on trade deals to help retrain those who lose their jobs.

They don't always succeed at being biased, but I think they do a better job precisely because they're explicit about their viewpoint. I prefer this to American "view from nowhere" journalism, where the effort to subtract viewpoint makes it harder to discern and excise bias.
I don't know about Eclipse being better. I switched to IntelliJ two years ago and I love it. I find it much better, faster and less buggy compared to Eclipse.
Yes I do and the escape key. I use the escape key all the time to cancel out of modal windows. I also use the function keys quite frequently when using Intellij/Jetbrains products as they have quite a few shortcuts bound to them in the default config.
I am curious, did you try to build VisualSfM yourself?
I had to use it for a project at Uni a few years ago and the build process was quite adventurous, without this[0] guide I would have been completely lost.
Would be interesting to know whether it has gotten any easier.

[0] http://www.10flow.com/2012/08/15/building-visualsfm-on-ubunt...
Backup encryption is already out there, even. Time Machine is a very popular solution, and implies a lot of desirable demographics (owns a Mac, set up something about as complicated as a BC wallet, probably has no other backup). So there have been some encryption schemes that stick around silently pending a Time Machine backup and then take out the files there too.

It's pretty hard to say that users "should be safe from this" - most of the solid solutions discussed in this thread are probably used by <5% of people, and maybe much less than that.
Sensational creations !!!
> But more than that, I realized that there were many life lessons regarding self-discipline, training, and teamwork that I missed as well.

Absolutely this. I did play football in high school and actually was not really in to it at all (parents forced me to play something). I was also quite anti-social, in to computers and video games, never went to parties, etc. Then I got a degree in English literature and spent three years in the Peace Corps.

These things all coalesced in interesting ways for me:

- Football taught me about self-discipline, training, teamwork, leadership, etc.

- My hobby interest in computers from a young age built up a strong technical foundation and ultimately gave me the skills needed to land my first job.

- Studying English lit. taught me about effective written and verbal communication, analytical and critical thinking (beyond what I learned doing development), etc. and has been massively useful in my work life.

- Peace Corps taught me how to be social (finally!), patient, self-motivated, etc. and also about generalities surrounding important things such as culture, language, history and identity.

All of this stuff has led me to success in the job market and, I think, a powerful appreciation for my work and the work/life balance. It's very interesting to think about.
I don't "happily" buy phones now and I doubt most people do. Most phones are this bizarre compromise between the political wills of some corporation (or designer) and the needs of the user.
I've been a Mac user since I was old enough to crawl, so I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiment. However it would seem the issue these days is actually that they're unable to prioritize the right product decisions for their customers, because of the internal mechanisms which ensure their short-term continued growth. A symptom of the modern world, IMO….
The article mentions this interesting detail:

"The deal also promises to help CenturyLink by giving it access to about $10 billion in tax credits that Level 3 is carrying on its books, Jennifer Fritzsche, an analyst with Wells Fargo Securities LLC, said last week."

Can anyone comment/speculate on why L3 has $10 billion in tax credits that is "carrying"?
I regret I still can't get passport of civilized country because I left university (and don't have degree now). As an immigrant, I have less rights than refugee, despite I'm not going to get any social payments and take workplaces (I'm a freelancer).
He isn't a manager, he is a founder. The management layer is supposed to be the empathetic layer between the worker and the harsh realities of founding, growing and defending the company that pays them.
Ah, I didn't watch the event but I did hear that LG had a new monitor. I guess I just want the Apple "It just works" guarantee that I can (usually) expect with its first-party products. I've gone through so many third-party monitors that don't quite sync with my MBP (colorspace, sleeping, brightness control, etc). But I guess if Apple is bringing up LG as a partner, then it's reasonable to expect their monitors will work as we'd hope a new Apple Display would.
This is quite inspiring - a lot of us leave creativity behind in high school, kudos for sharing!
It works for me in Safari macOS Sierra
Most cars with CarPlay also have Android Auto.
I haven't announced anything and I haven't submitted this link to HN. I just added a comment to let people know that I might read and try to answer questions if they have any.

This submission's title at least reads "release notes" and not "2.12 released" like the submission yesterday, when people found the artifacts on Maven.
It is impossible to know just from the fact that it's using SQL...
What percentage of your time over it's entire lifespan is spent using a it on a plane?
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I've heard of some non-scripted ransomware that "phones home". If it points you to an email exchange with the scammer, there's room for a person to sound you out, maybe google you or work off your email address and information reported by the ransomware.
But luck in [0,1] would even make less sense as luck^n (as it goes to 0), while as luck in [0,1000] could scale a successful startup by the factor of up to 1000.
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Yeah, exactly. In this case the first MacBook (with the single USB-C port) would be the first awful prototype. The new MacBook Pros would be the improved followup. But I don't think they'll be as popular as the Air, not yet.
> I would be willing to bet that within a decade you HAPPILY buy a phone without a headphone jack, whether that be an Android or iPhone.

Is there a site we can legally use to register that bet? I'd be interested in taking it.

I honestly don't think that the headphone jack will ever go away. Wireless audio is like wireless internet, in that it's better than nothing but worse than something with wires and a stable connexion.

I daresay you're correct that Apple think they're right, but … I think they're wrong. The question is, can they remain irrational longer than the rest of the market can be rational? I _think_, given Android's market success, that they ultimately can't: Apple have made too many mistakes in too short a timespan.

But only time will tell.
"Even the setbacks were valuable learning experiences, and often were good experiences."

Unless these said setbacks have permanent, unassailable bad consequences that you have to live with. Add here "that others have to live with" which is worse by any normal socio-empathetic judgment. It's good to be optimistic, but there is larger set of contexts you should be aware of.
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Works for me in Safari macOS Sierra. But the default search provider for the address bar is Google.
Naming consideration, WSDL is already a very common name for XML API description files.
Same in America too. I should have joined the football team instead of doing marching band.
Yeah my bad. I only read summaries of the event and didn't catch that nuance about LG being a de facto replacement for Apple's official displays. That's good news.
Why not take a vacation and go find her now?

Maybe she still feels the same way.
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How did you find this out? It seems really hard to understand what's messing you up if your messed-up state seems normal to you.
Ah, I wish the same too.. spent so much time watching movies...
Wow! All of these "internet" provides have the capital to buy other internet companies/providers. BUT they cannot expand and provide access.

We need some kind of government regulation and incentive in the USA to expand fiber (fuck wireless) to every city, town and state in the USA.
When I'm using IntelliJ Idea on Macbook I use function keys very often. Having those on touch bar would mean need to look to ensure that I'm hitting F7 instead of F8 or F9 when Debugging. I'm able to change those shortcuts but I like to use the same shortcuts on OS X and on Ubuntu.
OP doesn't account for all the dongles you would have to buy, that could easily come out to about ~$200 per Macbook - which puts the price much closer to the Surface Book's with equivalent ports.
Is there a 15" XPS that works with Linux? I'd like a larger display.
So... then don't?
I'm planning to do the same, I have a hard time imagining that it could be worse.

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/09/13/pandora-to-launch-%E2%...
Ah, silly me! I thought there was something weird about L3 buying them but in a way it's even weirder to see it happen the other way around. Thanks for the correction.
From the author's Best Textbooks On Every Subject

Subject: History of Western Philosophy

Recommendation: The Great Conversation, 6th edition, by Norman Melchert

Reason: The most popular history of western philosophy is Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy, which is exciting but also polemical and inaccurate. More accurate but dry and dull is Frederick Copelston's 11-volume A History of Philosophy. Anthony Kenny's recent 4-volume history, collected into one book as A New History of Western Philosophy, is both exciting and accurate, but perhaps too long (1000 pages) and technical for a first read on the history of philosophy. Melchert's textbook, The Great Conversation, is accurate but also the easiest to read, and has the clearest explanations of the important positions and debates, though of course it has its weaknesses (it spends too many pages on ancient Greek mythology but barely mentions Gottlob Frege, the father of analytic philosophy and of the philosophy of language). Melchert's history is also the only one to seriously cover the dominant mode of Anglophone philosophy done today: naturalism (what Melchert calls "physical realism"). Be sure to get the 6th edition, which has major improvements over the 5th edition.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gu/the_best_textbooks_on_every_subj...
I'm not asking this as a joke or facetious question but are you familiar with Cringely? I personally wouldn't categorize him as a couch analyst. Maybe checkout his Wikipedia entry or Youtube for "Triumph of the Nerds", he has been around the block.
> Depressingly, I can see myself slowly moving up to middle/upper management (it's already started a little bit) because once again the money is too good

If the path upward involves management, and that doesn't appeal to you, consider looking for a company with a better technical job ladder. You can climb the ladder without going into management.