skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite get the behavioural analysis bits. I spend time on my phone reading the news, reddit, HN, a couple blogs, WhatsApp with friends and I also play games here and there until they bore me. The game I logged the most time in is a port of a game made by a shareware-style developer back in the ninetees.

Where was such analysis involved in driving my usage patterns?
I'd like to see that used on a plane in economy. Given that I travel a lot and don't always end up in business/first, this is one of the first questions I ask myself when considering any new laptop.
If it exists anywhere it would be in third party publishing deals where the developer takes an advance on royalties with the possibility of more royalties if the project is profitable. I've been involved in a few deals like this and although I have no proof of Hollywood Accounting I've had my suspicions.
You sure about that? It's a removable part.

http://blog.macsales.com/38440-ssd-in-late-2016-entry-level-...

It may take a while for a 3rd party replacement to become available, but it's not soldered onto the motherboard. If you take it to Apple with a SSD failure, they're not going to bill you $800 for a new logic board to fix it.

Not sure where this assumption came from. It's like everyone's saying "I don't like this computer, so everything about it must be terrible."
It's someone's personal blog with less than one post per month. You can read the blog post here http://feeds.feedburner.com/codeclimber
>>They have been consciously been buying outdated and overpriced hardware until now, and they have been super proud about this too.

It's not about the hardware. It's about the tight and seamless integration between the hardware and the software. The competitors are living in a completely different reality in that regard.
It smells of SQL Express.
I loved weightlifting, but you're right. Currently recovering from a nasty back injury despite doing all the right things, and having a dedicated trainer. You'll never do it all correctly every single time.

I'd love to do it again, but I can't see how I'd ever justify the decision. Luckily swimming, running, yoga are all just as fun.
Nothing said here is true. Windows 10 is not a "privacy nightmare" (ironic coming from an Android user!), nor a usability one. There are no unprompted upgrades, but it is aggressive about keeping your device up-to-date (will auto reboot if you postpone too long) which is A Good Thing.
I agree, the underlying philosophy is wrong (at least from a hacking/tinkering perspective) but again... how many people outside our tech bubble are actually doing these upgrades?

The average Joe with a Mac (or a Lenovo or a Dell for that matter) doesn't know about RAM upgrades or SSD random seek times. He doesn't want to know. Apple still manages to deliver a laptop that will work decently out of the box for the years to come, with a reasonably fast SSD and an acceptable amount of memory for most tasks.

Now, why the rest of their product line (Mini, iMac) still ships with sub-par hardware (4 GB base memory and/or 5400 rpm drives), that I don't know. I guess they're becoming products for a more and more niche market.
So here I am about to pre-order and I think: "This render looks a little thicker than the magic keyboard I have" and it makes me wonder if it's different.

According to the page this keyboard is physically the same to the Magic Keyboard in height, width, depth, and weight. Somehow I don't believe that, but I'd love confirmation cause it'd be awesome. I could just swap this in for where I have my magic keyboard now.
Do Mac developers care at all about function keys? When I switched to a Powerbook G4 back in the day, I learned vim key bindings because of the lack of function keys (and page down/up). To address the specific complaint about the ESC key, I've been using CTRL-[ with the CAPS LOCK key mapped to CTRL for as long as I can remember.

Does the typical Mac developer care at all about physical / virtual function keys given their workflow? I would imagine not, but would love to hear about others' experiences here.
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If you want to argue the point, I'd suggest you talk to Rosen, not me.

But my take is that yes, it's still clear cut. Becoming informed doesn't happen in a vacuum. I wasn't particularly informed when I started voting at 18. But being a regular voter and wanting to do it well has forced a lot of my activity around getting and staying informed.

Democracies are dynamic processes. We're always absorbing new, underinformed voters and turning them into better ones. If some potential voters are underinformed, the solution isn't to discourage them from voting; it's to educate them. And journalists are in the business of informing, so I think Rosen reasonably leaves out here that journalists are already openly in favor of informing voters.
>And that is where Apple wins for me currently. I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and Windows just doesn't have that unix base that I'm comfortable with.

It literally runs native Linux with Windows subsystem for Linux:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux
I'm not explaining myself well.

Consider fencing vs. sword fighting. In fencing, my goal is to turn on a little light when i touch your body with my epee. In sword fighting, my goal is to kill you. it's a gruesome analogy, and hard to really crystalize. The big 5 have something to lose. They fence. The little guy is sword fighting. Did you ever really feel like Microsoft would go out of business because they lost the phone market?

There is an umami to sword fighting. There's this whole other flavor that's hard to describe, unless you've tasted it. I know, it's kind of a bullshit argument. There's this visceral sense of impending doom that leads to brilliant or lucky moves. I don't believe a large, successful organization can really get that flavor. you can take fencing seriously, but it's still different than sword fighting.

I dunno. the best idea i have is to try playing poker. You have to face this horrible, awful feeling. You know the right thing to do, but it's so hard to do it. A good fencer will do the right thing. A sword fighter will do the right thing out of desperation.

I don't doubt Microsoft's commitment. I think they were committed at the wrong layer. Furthermore, i think their income level makes it impossible to see the layer to commit at.

My apologies if this seems crazy. It's hard to articulate.
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EDIT: Disregard this comment

Leaving my mistake for context.

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L3 is also a defense contractor. I wonder what happens when a company is purchased for one line of business, but is under contract on other, very different, lines of business.
Looking at the bug you mentioned, the status is "Fix released", so yeah, it too them a while to make a GUI option for lid closing, but they did.
I think he might mean things more like CES and other trade shows. Apple has frequently been involved in technical conferences.
Not having a passion or drive. I've pretty much floated my way through life, and I'm still not happy with what I'm doing. I don't know why, but I'm not...and I don't know what to do to fix it, or if it's even a real, actual problem and I'm not just imagining it.
I've been using Google Play Music since it launched, and I'm very happy with the service. It works very well on web/Android/iOS, and there's rarely anything that I find missing from its catalog. And, for the rare times that I do, Google Play Music comes with YouTube Red, which gives you ad-free playback and offline caching.
I just want to meet the consumer who looked at the old MBP and thought, "wow this is far too thick!". And the same goes for cell phones. Thinner is better, but only to a certain point and certainly not at the expense of battery life and features.
But how does extreme thinness help there?

I got alot of work done on planes with what passed for a laptop in the 1990s...
Interesting paper on the falling pricing of transit (2010) :
http://drpeering.net/white-papers/Internet-Transit-Pricing-H...

On the other hand, I understand transit is a commodity, but not sure I want to see what happens when a "too big to fail" company goes under, in countries that have heavily-privatized backbones.
I need to carry a high-end PC laptop (4k screen, 980GTX, etc.) and a MacBook Pro (Mid 2014). I used to use Windows 70% of the time and OSX the other 30%. That's flipped to 95% OSX, 5% Windows, since Windows 10.

I completely mirror your thoughts. Windows 10 is an absolute disaster. I've lovingly used Windows since version 3.1.

The 4k screen is basically unusable when I'm plugged into an external monitor - no setting seems to get HiDPI and regular playing nicely. Windows has automatically updated the drivers at least three times, leaving it in a non bootable state, which has taken numerous hours to fix each time. System restore points are now absolutely vital.

The trackpad is completely unusable, I find myself accidentally moving files and folders about when I really didn't want to.

Forced upgrades are a disaster. They always seem to happen at horrendously inconvenient times. There's nothing quite like having three or four people standing around while you wait for Windows to install updates for a completely indeterminate amount of time.

Adverts (or what certainly look them) on my start bar... really?

The absolute mess of numerous different styles of settings screen - I used to know my way round Windows like a Pro. Now I have no clue when I click a setting if it's going to show me classic style window or a fullscreen Metro options screen.
> Regarding processor tech I was mainly thinking of the move to 64bit and secure enclave which completely out-manoeuvred the competition.

Why is the move to 64 bit so important, but the move to 4 cores isn't? I don't really see why 64 bit makes sense for < 4 GB RAM devices and I also bet that no one can really tell the difference performance wise.

This is also the first time I hear about Secure Enclave. TouchID isn't that secure anyway (https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2013/ccc-breaks-apple-touchid), so I really don't care how the fingerprint is stored.
If you haven't read "Ways of Seeing", I heartily recommend it. Without spoiling too much, I'll say that it opened my eyes to a whole layer of interesting ideas, and changed how I look at art and images in general. It's very philosophical, but not overbearing.
With regard to CarPlay I disagree. I will never buy a car that doesn't support it or Android Auto. The software that car manufacturers create suck. I'd rather have no computer interface - all knobs and buttons - than deal with the garbage that car manufacturers use.

I know I am just one data point but pretty much everyone thinks that the infotainment systems that car manufacturers create is junk. As CarPlay increases in use I think the demand for it will increase as well.
I agree with you, but in defence of my grandmother...

A) Things were a bit different 30 years ago. Flying from Australia to Europe is expensive now, it was even worse then.

B) Things are particularly different when, like my grandmother, you're a working class person, living in a working class inner city suburb, in government housing.

Given those circumstances, I think planning a "once in a lifetime" trip is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
It's right there in the macOS EULA http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1012.pdf, Section 2.B.(iii):

"[...] you are granted a limited, non- transferable, non-exclusive license: [...] (iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using macOS Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use."

This section was first introduced in the EULA for OS X 10.7.
The beginning of the end was when they started shutting down APIs to lock out third party integration.
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In an athletic context, one of the key benefits from weight training is injury prevention.
The other parts of the problem deserve mentioned here, because they are extremely problematic and eclipse present environmental crisis and strategy.

Syrias civil war began after billions of dollars where somewhat clandestinely spent on fomenting violent revolution there - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawma...

Libyas security collapsed after its infrastructure, including its world class irrigation system was bombed out under the guise of implementing 'no fly zone'
4. Apple finally produces a new external Apple Display.

They presented a LG monitor during the event saying they partnered with LG to build it and presenting as the perfect monitor companion and ultimate dock for the MBP.

That's not entirely out of character for Apple to backstab its new partner by producing its own competing model, but considering that Apple just got out of that business, that looks unlikely.
Two things.
"Brave" = risk and cost/benefited to death decisions that a bunch of people don't understand

Generally speaking... Apple sells iPhones, Microsoft sells software

The overlap of their profit centers is minimal. Comparing perceived corporate personalities is your click-bait for the day.
I don't make "good enough use of" most of my computer's features - I'm not really enough of a hardcore gamer for the graphics card, I rarely if ever need as much memory/CPU/etc. as the machine. I don't think I've ever used the SD card slot. Just like I don't think I've ever run my oven at maximum temperature, or driven a car at top speed. Once a tool reaches the point where it's cheap enough it's worth having a version that's a bit overbuilt.
Or can someone explain these numbers otherwise (since people seem to disagree with down-votes)
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I guess the author was using customer's perspective of Apple's failure. In the sense, customers are more likely to be harsh on Apple for their failures rather than other companies.
That would true if L3 was acquiring Century Link, but Century is acquiring L3.

From the OPs article link:

"In a memo issued to employees Wednesday, CenturyLink CEO Glenn Post said that sinking legacy revenue has resulted in a loss of $600 million a year for the company."
I have never understood how Synaptics touchpads can suck so bad running on the vendors own drivers but are amazing running on drivers probably reversed engineers by some guy over a weekend in his basement.
I'll clarify, they understand how to write software, but not what software to write.

They killed Aperture rather than compete with Lightroom, despite many people still using it. They replaced iPhoto with Photos (which is TERRIBLE, even for consumers). They replaced Final Cut with Final Cut X which eliminated half of the features at launch. iMovie loses random features with every major update (cut/paste across projects? really?) I don't need to really explain the number of things wrong with iTunes. The Mac App store itself doesn't work that well, except in highlighting the poor reviews of Apple's own apps.

imovie: 2 stars
garageband: 3.5 stars
Pages: 3 stars
numbers: 3.5 stars
facetime: 2 stars
apple remote desktop: 3.5 stars
apple configurator: 2.5 stars
macOS server: 3 stars.

Now, nearly 2 years later, Final Cut and Logic have passed 4 stars, but they no longer offer a real photo editor of any kind, and they replaced Aperture/iPhoto with a pathetic iOS clone app.

So, I think I'm on pretty solid ground saying they don't get it.
The Razer Blade Pro is 17.3in and 7.8lbs, so probably most people who aren't looking for a luggable workstation or high-end gaming rig.

The Razer Blade is fairly compelling, although it isn't cheap (over $2000 if you want the version with the high-res screen), and weighs (a bit) more than the 15" MBP wile only having a 14" screen.
Not maintaining friendships.

I'm sociable and confident and I have never found it hard to make friends, in almost any context. When it comes to actually maintaining those friendships, I am simply awful at it - it often takes me months to reply to messages, and when I do, the platitudinous "We must meet up soon" never even translates to so much as my glancing at a calendar to work out when that "soon" might be.

I sometimes wonder if I would be better at maintaining friendships if initially making them didn't come to me so easily, or whether the kind of people I find it so easy to make friends with are, in fact, simply also people just like me (ie. they are awful at maintaining friendships too). Both seem quite plausible.
two completely different companies.
Oh they do admit mistakes.. They just don't say it:

Steve Jobs on why the iPod color doesn't have video said something to the effect of "nobody want to watch video on a tiny screen". a generation or 2 later the iPod (classic style) can play video.

You can totally make do with html/javascript apps on the iPhone. Not long after there is an SDK/app store.

cut and paste on iOS: It took a couple years but here is our version that is world beating.

That round mouse they included with the original iMac didn't last long.

I think a lot of projects were killed (Newton, Pipin, iPod, the motorola phone that used iTunes.) that just didn't work out.

Not to mention 'ping' (social media for iTunes) and the cloud based infrastructure.

I think the problem is Steve really liked the mac, and you could see that during his demos he was a power user and understood the product better.
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For distraction-free writing, instead of a word processor I recommend Draft[0].

[0]https://draftin.com/
That's very odd, especially as Windows' trackpad support is so very far ahead of what Linux has. That said, scrolling and zooming is dependent on the app... Legacy apps and those which do their own non-native (non-DManip) scrolling aren't going to feel as good. Sadly last I checked Chrome was still pretty bad for touch and trackpad scrolling on Windows, but that's Google'a fault.
Peter Wadham, head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at University of Cambridge, has repeatedly made claims that Arctic sea ice will melt "next year". Eg in 2012 he predicted it would fully melt in sept 2016. Since that didn't happen, he now predicts it will fully melt in 2017/2018. IPCC estimates it will fully melt in the late 2030s.

Articles about him in legitimate media are [1][2]. Climate deniers get to say things like [3].
Other climate scientists think he is alarmist [4], and the 2013 IPCC report mentions his papers but is super dissmissive: See section 11.3.4 of the IPCC AR5, references to Maslwoski.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/21/arctic-w...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/18/ice-sc...
[3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/10/07/experts-said-a...
[4] http://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/arctic-will-be-ice-fre...
SQL Azure sounds like.
Gains:

1. No issues with licensing for third-party components or drivers, which is most of them.

2. Reduced risk of source updates leaking news about new products and features

3. No need to spend time managing an open-source release process, ensuring that sensitive data isn't leaked outside, etc. Just the legal review for release & accepting contributions is not trivial.

4. No support requests from people who installed someone's fork with a bug in it.

5. Perceived less helpful to someone in a country with lax intellectual property enforcement making a knock-off device and undercutting you

No matter how much you like open-source, there are real costs. You can make the argument that outside contributions will balance those out but that's hard for something like this because much of the cost is up front and all of the benefits are hypothetical future contributions and in the case of firmware relatively few people have the skills or interest to contribute. I might make the argument that the fixes you'd get are probably less frequent but higher value (thinking of e.g. sysadmins fixing difficult in-the-wild bugs which aren't easy to reproduce) but that's pure speculation.
Nah the problem is the underlying platform. I see a lot of these around

"Server Error in '/' Application.

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.6421; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.6427 "

LOLOL
To be honest, I feel like the fact that you have to reach back 10 years to find a genuinely interesting Apple experiment more or less supports the point made in the article.
This is what i'm planning on. It'll be another ~year or so before i care, but i hope to find a very highend laptop that compares with Apple MacbookPro quality. Great keyboard, touchpad and very high PPI monitor. Then, put linux on it.

This Apple announcement really lost me. Luckily i don't care about the OS (i dislike it, infact), i just want really nice hardware because i use this laptop for ~10h a day.
Eclipse is also free and it's better.
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Most of the healthcare dollars goes to poor, elderly - who have much more chronic health issues. The iPhone isn't strong in that demogrpahic, due to economic reasons(source: a post by a health IT guy) .
The cable will be released 2 months later.
honestly? Getting in to software development. I should have been a mechanic, carpenter, machinist, or just sucked it up and spent more time really studying math and gone the engineering/architecture route.

I've known my entire life that I needed to be making tangible physical stuff to be really satisfied, yet somehow I have never made the leap because the money is too good in technology land, and building software seemed like a pretty good compromise. Now I'm bored with software engineering, transitioned in to a corporate information security role to take a break, and feel like I'll never get back to anything I like more cause the money is just too good.

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, and falling in to the trap of telling myself "look how cheap you live compared to your income, you can just retire by 50", which probably won't happen anyway. Hell, even if it does, I'll be 50. Not the end of the world, but not as good as doing what you enjoy through your 20s, 30s, and 40s.

tldr: first world problems. As much as people like to make fun of the stereotypical "white guys are either in business or start a brewery" thing, I get it.
>As a happy android user...Windows 10 is such a total dumpster fire - privacy nightmare...

I don't understand how you can be happy with Google collecting anything/everything you do on an Android, but then complain when Microsoft does a fraction of the data collection.
CarPlay will change my buying behavior!

If I want to buy a car (used or new) and find out that it has CarPlay I will go back because I refuse to buy an iPhone and it wont work with my Android so what's the point?

Edit: why so many down votes?
Thats the opposite of what selling commodity does.

Selling commodities means low profit margins. So if Intel has high profit margins and is selling a commodity it's despite that not because of it.
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> What we can count on is that MacBook Pro prices won’t get any higher for many years

This is pure speculation stated as if it were fact. It makes me question the validity of the rest of the article.
No, you're thinking of L3 Communications. Totally different companies. Level 3 is a backbone provider, L3 specializes in military communications technology.
I was going to go to CalPoly for CompSci, but instead went to a local school for emotional/relationship reasons. I ended up staying together and marrying my girlfriend (and now we're 13 years in with two kids), so it's hard to really weigh the options against each other.
Do those people also spend the rest of their time using those things for personal use? Probably not.

And while metaphors are nice, you can't really compare a laptop to a piece of metal attached to a handle.