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> People willing to consume media are people that don't have or want the opportunity to be extraordinary in their lives.

That’s an interesting thought that I can’t disagree with.

Myself and many people in my circle, including clients, have had played games in the past, probably to the point of unhealthy obsession when we were kids and getting an education.

But all of us became less enchanted by the medium as we became more successful (success in terms of increasing our financial wealth, control of time and ability to experience or get what we desire in life). We just couldn’t justify the time to play the games that were coming out, which we believed were not sparking the same fire in us that games we played years ago had (possibly due to rose-tinted glasses).

According to the article I guess I now seek games with more depth. Games that can impart some useful knowledge and help me reframe things in life, like a good book can. To use BioWare as an example, I believe their older RPGs like Jade Empire did this well, that struck a balance of philosophy, problem solving and interesting narrative. But this went away when they dove more into RPGs that dived deeper into the power fantasies that most consumers want.
>Yes, the car industry in argentina is toast, but now argentinians can get cars at half the price thanks to the generosity of the brazilian taxpayer. The argentinians have become enormously wealthier by such a measure at large.

Temporarily they do. Once the Argentinian car industry is gone, however, they can safely jack up prices again knowing that bringing it back will be very, very hard. That money will leak out of the country, driving down the Argentine peso, making Argentines poorer overall.

>Theres another thought around this topic: that you can destroy an industry, and then increase your profits later on as a sort of monopoly power to recoupe the initial investment. IT would never happen that way: the moment prices rise up, investors would flock again to the argentinian automotive industry and take those profits away.

The flagrant gaping hole in your argument is the presumption that you can build a car industry overnight. It takes decades and requires a lot of investment. The Japanese government threw a not insignificant portion of its GDP at its car industry before it even started showing promise.
They did say on average it would be less than a comparable gas fill up, so not exact but an indication it would be a fair price.
It works just fine for me; maybe try again. In either case, here's the text:

Four years ago, Tesla introduced the Supercharger Network – the world’s fastest charging solution – to enable convenient long distance travel. Today, more than 4,600 Superchargers allow over 160,000 Tesla owners to drive across the continental U.S., from the Arctic Circle to the south of Spain, and across all of the population centers in China and Japan, among many other places. Supercharging has even helped owners drive their Teslas around the world.

We’ve designed our network so that all customers have access to a seamless and convenient charging experience when they’re away from home, as our intention has always been for Supercharging to enable long distance travel. That’s why today we’re announcing a change to the economics of Supercharging – one that allows us to reinvest in the network, accelerate its growth and bring all owners, current and future, the best Supercharging experience.

Ensuring Use for Long-Distance Travel
For Teslas ordered after January 1, 2017, 400 kWh of free Supercharging credits (roughly 1,000 miles) will be included annually so that all owners can continue to enjoy free Supercharging during travel. Beyond that, there will be a small fee to Supercharge which will be charged incrementally and cost less than the price of filling up a comparable gas car. All cars will continue to come standard with the onboard hardware required for Supercharging.

We will release the details of the program later this year, and while prices may fluctuate over time and vary regionally based on the cost of electricity, our Supercharger Network will never be a profit center.

These changes will not impact current owners or any new Teslas ordered before January 1, 2017, as long as delivery is taken before April 1, 2017.

The Road Ahead
Just as you would charge your cell phone, we believe the best way to charge your car is either at home or at work, during the hours you’re not using it. For travelers, the Supercharger Network has become a powerful, unique benefit of Tesla ownership. As we approach the launch of Model 3, this update will enable us to greatly expand our Supercharger Network, providing customers with the best possible user experience and bringing sustainable transport to even more people.
We try our best to be even-handed, of course. But it's impossible to see all the comments, so there's inevitably some irregularity.

Any time people notice comments breaking HN's rules that we haven't replied to, they're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
I recommend just keeping your dev environment in a VirtualBox or VMWare VM that is mobile between physical machines and OS'es. That way you at least get some insurance, AND you get snapshotting and easy backups.
Yes the car already performs a handshake with the supercharger and verifies the car's eligibility. At some earlier point they sold lower-end Model S's that did not come with Supercharger access. Presumably they can lock out stolen cars, etc.
I think you presume to know too much about the habits of these MBP users. Even if you spend 90% of your time at the same desk, you have meetings at customers', you travel, you work on the weekend or at night and no one wants to have 2 machines.
Whoa, what happened to the verge? Just scrolling through that page and my browser has downloaded ~100MB!
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>he is revolutionizing both industries...

I would wait until that is achieved. I mean, with what he did with the hyperloop thing, I will take what ever thing he says with a huge grain of salt....

One thing is certain. Elon Musk knows his audience and knows them well and knows very well how to milk them. That way, I would say he is the Christopher Nolan of entrepreneurs...
good idea: https://cyclenerd.github.io/gallery_shell_demo/
This list is incomplete if you don't include Minecraft, the canonical sandbox game. Play in creative or in peaceful mode, and you don't have to do any fighting at all (though some resources are still best collected from mobs).

Other categories of nonviolent or non-FPS games would be puzzle games like Tetris or Candy Crush. Also, video games can reproduce or make single-player versions of the classic board, card, and dice games like chess or yahtzee.
I have not had this problem with any of mine (I've had a few) and wonder what the heck you're doing to affect it in this way, usability-wise
Can you swap batteries at these stations now? I saw the removable demo when announced but its it a thing now?
Wouldn't enabling two-factor on the primary login and naming sites whatever you want solve most gripes with this (in the comments here)?

i.e. I name hacker news hn or hack, as opposed to news.ycombinator.com - one more thing to guess for an attacker.
No it's not and yes I did, unfortunately.
Net net: they intend super chargers to be for travelers and not everyday use. Probably because the super chargers are getting clogged up with people who are actually driving locally and could have charged at home.
almost all centered around stuff like health and ammo

I don't know about "almost all", but even if 90 percent of games indeed fit that description, the remaining 10 percent would take 100 lifetimes to consume. Really--if all you bought were the bi-weekly dollar bargains on humble bundle, you'd have all the gaming variety you could have time for. I suspect most of our complaining is for the sake of complaining.
5 years ago 8GB was the max you could buy for a MBP.

16G wasn't available and was considered overkill. I remember that quite clearly because it was 2011 and I bought my fully maxed out Macbook Pro from apple with 8G of ram and I was looking at 16G upgrade kits on iFixIt a year later.

So, no, 16G was not "fine", 16G was considered future proof.
I do frontend web and backend web services. I have 4GB on my Mac, it's tight but it works. As someone else below said, I want something for the future, and I don't think 16GB will last 5 years.

Considering you can get a ThinkPad with 64GB ram (P50) for a couple of hundred more than Apple'a base price, they seem very overpriced. Apple's laptops were already thin and light enough for me, I don't see the point in paying more to get less anymore.
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Yes that is absolutely correct, we'll be using an agressive filter for what data is indexed, and to make it fast, the search will primarily search the most recent emails & files...
This is awesome.

When something usually goes from paid to free, it's an indicator the product fit isn't working. In this case it's the opposite.

Now we're seeing the free incentive to buy being given a marginal cost to help ensure the spread of the service. This is likely because of increased usage and/or projected demand. So basically, it's a sign Tesla is doing ok.
Using adobe apps confirms the theory that 16gb is not enough. Maybe those who think otherwise still think a 16gb iphone is adequate these days. Memory is cheap, apple is purposely building in disposability.
Wut?

I guess my viewpoint is skewed as a developer. I spend most of my time making the product I work on use as little RAM and CPU as possible.

RIP js developer's RAM.
Weird; I find the opposite. Posting online helps me make online friends, making eventual irl meet-ups less stressful. There's a shared history already, instead of having to try to start from absolute scratch.
edit, I mis read and thought it was 1k per month. my argument is pointess now. sorry about that.
I keep a lot of money in cryptocurrency in my cold wallets. Those can't be seized, no run on the banks there, and thus far the appreciation has been great.
For web development? I'd hope so.
The worst part is that today 16 bytes alignment is no longer necessary as x86 can do unaligned vector load with little to no penalty while keeping the stack aligned all the time still has a cost.
And yet his being told to go fuck himself downthread was left uncommented upon.
I had a few Powerbooks in the 90's. I can't remember which one it was (I think it was a Pismo) but I was working on the couch one day with the laptop on a small stool in front of me.

Someone knocked on the door and I got up, catching the power cord on my leg. The stool fell over and the screen shattered.

Magsafe is definitely a great feature on my MBPro 2012
Well, if you have a USB-C port that charges your device, this does exist, although some reviews say the magnet is currently weaker than the MagSafe's was:

https://smile.amazon.com/Griffin-BreakSafe-Breakaway-Chromeb...
I think that there X and Y chromosome games. With some subset of X liking Y and vice versa.

For me - the greatest game ever is Serious Sam - give me a chaingun, enemies and bullets and I am happy as a worm in an apple. Obviously Katrina would not find the game interesting. She also would probably not enjoy a Thaddeus raid. Or ripping spine fatality.

Testosterone loves adversarial, brutal, violent games. Estrogen - not so much.

One interesting correlation is that women that like real metal (not bon jovi) and beer tend also to like the video games that serve mostly the male audience.

So big part of the market is underserved. But I think that for that we must put inclusiveness on hold - nobody in the publishing industry expect sizable male audience for 50 shades, or sizable female for Brandon Sanderson.
Crappy upstream kernel support on alternative boards is probably why the Raspberry Pi is king of this kingdom.

I chose to forgo all the cheaper options from China for a recent project, and instead go with (considerably) more expensive Raspberry Pi 3's, because I didn't want to risk the shite software support. I know I'm going to get kernel and firmware upgrades on those boards for a good long while, and that's one less thing I have to worry about.
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The lower tier model does have an escape key. For Touch Bar machines, there will be an escape "key" on the touch bar, which I don't think will be much more inconvenient than reaching for the actual escape key. Lots of Vim users map that key to something else anyway — it's not well placed for such a commonly used key.
Crikey, I never realised my glowing MacBook Air logo was visual pollution and by not covering it I was breaking an implied social contract with my fellow humans.

Good job I'm upgrading to the latest MBP and upon receipt will cease the ongoing infliction of my selfish ways on the general public.
The only relevant point that's missing is the economics of that.

If your car < 2017, free supercharge on some models.
If your car > 2017, there'll be a fee after some use (1,000 miles, more or less).

What will be the price of the cars > 2017? What will be the fee? It might be fair (if the price reduces enought so that the fee is compensated during the car's lifetime). It might be tricky (no price redution and a fee that just annoys those who travel and count on supercharge).
Quick math for you:

- Chrome alone eats 2-3GB of RAM

- Windows 10 needs at least 6GB allocated in a VM

- Slack, Skype, an editor, Firefox etc. take up another 2GB easily.

That's just 10-11GB for boring stuff. If you have Photoshop open or sites like Zeplin that consume a lot of RAM you can reach 16GBs easily.

No need to be dismissive.
I was also an Elite in Elite with the STUPID prism for copyright stupidity. I also made a few thousand dollars in RTS games in the 90s.

Single player = figure out the math/winning algorithm

Multiplayer = Competition. Playing against humans with the same rules. I am to old for basketball now my competition juices get to flow in less then 3 minutes. I jump into a game play for 5 to 60 minutes and then I can just walk away.
It was fantastic marketing imho, seeing a row of those in the window of a coffee shop is a fairly strong signal.
I thought the implementation was still up for discussion so I doubt it has been assigned a release yet, do you have a source?
Wow, I didn't realize others felt so strongly about this. Now I feel like a rebel for just not covering my glowing Apple logo. That's a good way to start the day.

After attending a hackathon yesterday, I was going to cover my Mac with the stickers I picked up. But just for you, I'm going to leave the logo uncovered.
I didn't realize Toshiba is stopping selling consumer laptops! Such sad news. :( I've exclusively bought Toshiba every since I got my first laptop way back when.
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Most times the snake is inside in the form of disparaged employees or corrupt managers: how are Tesco bank personnel recruited and treated, compared with their peers at more established banks?
I genuinely don't see a difference between looking up an unknown timezone, and looking up a 'part of day offset'. As it stands I need to look up an overseas timezone and then figure out the offset from my timezone. With a universal time, I would instead lookup a 'part of day' offset to know if it is okay to call/schedule a meeting.

But the benefit is that the overall system is far simpler - Time no longer has alternate interpretations.

And for semi-local contexts, you already know that the next state over, or the other side of the country is one or two hours ahead/behind - the same as today.

And mostly the mental model people use for long distances works similarly to universal time anyway - I know my time, and after a few interactions, I know an 'offset' to their timezone.

Though, I guess the real bummer would be being in a 'part of day' zone where the date changes in the middle of the workday... ha
> The IO monad and do-notation let you write sequential code

It's actually much subtler than that due to lazy evaluation. The 'palindrome' section of http://learnyouahaskell.com/input-and-output illustrates this.

You basically write code that says: read all input, split lines, do something per line, join result into multiline string, print.

If you did that in Python it would block until EOF on the input and then print the result. In Haskell, due to lazy evaluation you will interactively get the response on a per-line basis.

What Haskell really gives you is a declarative language to describe what you want to happen to some data and then the lazy evaluation sorts everything out. Underneath, it's effectively a load of callbacks processing data streams.
True that, I'm actually upgrading from a Macbook Air and have none of the issues that my fellow HNers are shouting about.
Your cryptocoins can be tainted by a government though.

That is, the addresses can be published by whatever entity with a threat to taint addresses they send value too unless the target addresses turn the value over to the government entity.
> don't buy AAA (apart from very few select titles)

Yep, that's a good rule to live by. There are a lot of great games out there if you put in the effort to look into them (and know where to look)
I suppose Perl 6 "taking off" and becoming such a "poster child of "scripting languages" nowadays is not so much about "scripting languages" but rather "application platforms" instead. Gone are the days where one would just write a bunch of scripts for a cgi-bin--you're now supposed to write a complete environment for deployment onto highly redundant, low-latency clouds--bonus if going "Serverless" and transpiles to JS.

That said, Perl 6 is becoming such an attractive platform for those who have bothered themselves to go and actually try it; being a Perl 5 hacker myself, I'm taking my time learning it in parallel to a few other languages, and its interesting to see how 2 decades of wandering has brought forth. I suppose that maybe Perl 6 will become like a Lisp (in such that learning provides for a deeper appreciation,) or maybe not (e.g. we actually make https://xkcd.com/224/ happen,) but at the end I know Perl 6 will be there as a tool I can reach for.
Im wondering if this post caused the change (or was the final straw)

https://pay.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/5bgdp5/another...

Apparently they're getting hogged up by ride sharing companies. Some even have their cleaning crews scheduled to show up at the super chargers to clean while they're charging.
I agree that the author knows about those games, but there was some weird equivocation in the article.

The problem I saw as I read was that those games don't get publicized. Shooters and RPGs are a big public entry point, while great oddities like Papers Please are mostly advertised in-market. If you don't open Steam or read gaming sites or talk games with friends, you'll never hear about them. It's a real shame, because there are people who would love these games but can't get there through the traditional channels.

The other claim, which was stated in the article, is that there's a shortage of these games. That the industry is uncreative and demographically challenged, and so it doesn't make these things. I'd love to see more of them, certainly, but it's hard to see how that will bring in non-gamers who aren't learning about what already exists.

So I think it was not just implied but stated. It felt like an inconsistency at the heart of the piece, where we got two disjoint stories; one about making unusual games, and one about publicizing them.
I think Apple mostly choose excellent components to build their devices, be it the screens, ssds or cameras. For a buyer getting an iPhone or Macbook is usually the best way to get hold of a well put together and high quality device.

Sure you can get the same quality in other devices but it takes research and most devices of equivalent quality are usually as expensive as Apple devices and sometimes even more.

The Dell XPS, Surface book or HP Spectre are not cheap or without issues. Even equivalently configured Asus Zenbooks with i5 and not core-m are not cheap.

For instance the previous generation 13 retinas were the only laptops with 28W i5 SKUs. The rest of the i5 ultrabooks in the Windows ecosystem were the standard 15W SKUs, so with the Macbook 13 Retina you got slightly better performance and Iris graphics.

The current dissappointment is valid as people rightly expect far more from Apple than boring incremental updates. The magsafe ommission is head scratching and 1299 to 1499 is a huge jump.

I think people are getting disenchanted with paying for 'let's make things thin' brand of engineering that adds little to no value to end users.
Every time I've seen someone ask for more RAM it has been because they are spinning up multiple VMs.
I don't understand why you're subtracting inflation. Yes I know doing so gives you the 'real terms' increase in value, but if you stuff £3,000 in a mattress and pull it out after a year you don't notionally add inflation to it's value when comparing it to the value of savings. The savings in that account would still be 3% more than your mattress money, not 2.4% more. Unless you're comparing it to spending all the money right now.

Anyway, £6 (or £7.50) is the price of a meal. £72 (or £90) is the price of a few decent Christmas presents. These things add up.
Why didn’t PDF die like Flash?
If a lack of insecurity is beneficial to individual, is another question.

I am asking how essential is the insecurity in indviduals, for sustaining our current setup.
Then the problem isn't really the lack of memory: it's crappy apps that use way more RAM than they really need.
This does seem to be a real problem in the games industry, but I think there are plenty of bright spots that speak to more than just adolescent boys.

I think the best example of all time is The Sims. I saw that game draw in non-gamers like nothing I've ever seen before or since, and draw them in with a passion and obsession only matched by hardcore gamers. That's all the evidence you need to prove that there's big money in something that doesn't have a "kill" button or a win state.

Another bright spot: the entire Wii platform. I agree that the problem is probably due to a lack of diverse perspectives. The games industry disparages these experiences as "casual." Ouch.
No. They ran a trial but Musk said the demand wasn't where it needed to be for the economics to make sense.
It's 1000 miles of free power a year, not a month. So this is nowhere near providing enough power for the average annual US driving distance.
Have you checked armbian?
for example: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/724-quick-review-of...
Yes, VMs, used in a wide variety of ways.

And being reliant on connectivity to a "big box" to simply get your work done is suboptimal. Also, how big of box do you need when you've got hundreds if not thousands of devs? Much easier (and cheaper, since there's no upkeep) to throw another 16GB of memory inside every developer's system.
Ctrl-[ is a better Escape, though. (and is enabled by default in Vim, in your terminal, and Vim modes in other editors.) You don't even have to lift your fingers off the home row.
>When was a notebook ever the choice for running multiple VM's or heavy editing of video?

There has been a category of laptops that are classified as mobile workstations for quite some time now, including IBM/Lenovo's retired W5xx series and current Pxx series and Dell's Precision laptops. The MacBook Pro is (or was) considered to be Apple's equivalent.
Few (possibly none) of the chips in this market segment have USB3 PHY interfaces. It's significantly more complicated.