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My gut feeling is that 0.5% of PCs/Macs sold for business use are running desktop linux in the UK. This is based entirely on my experience of working for internet based businesses over the last decade. Where I am right now that figure is actually true, we have 200 or so PCs/Macs and my box is the only linux one. Okay, anecdotal but ballpark.

Lenovo have a 20% market share in the UK and my gut feeling is that 20 million UK employees sit in front of a computer rather than a sat-nav or a point of sale system etc.

Given that Lenovo have dozens of Thinkpads and Yoga variants, there are probably a dozen machines of interest to the linux desktop type of person.

If we assume that PCs/Macs get replaced every two years (generous) then the arithmetic works out at around a thousand sales per model per year to desktop linux users. I run normal Ubuntu not some variant - Mint/Debian/etc. Linux != Ubuntu, there are those that prefer the Red Hat flavours. Therefore a default Linux install of Ubuntu isn't going to be what picky linux devs will want.

Note that in the UK the keyboard is different and there is a 'u' in colour. You would want your default linux install to work out the box without having to change locale settings.

Obviously the US/Canada market is vast compared to the UK, but not more than 10 times larger. So that still means a low figure for expected linux sales even for the gigantic Lenovo company. Why would they bother to support it? There is no business case.
Hmm. My starting question in most cases has been, "What are the top reasons you think Trump is a good choice to be President, preferably without making it a negative argument about the opposition?"
I live in Greece. The US immigration is nowhere near insane levels. You guys have it easy! You have a lot of room, a solid immigration and integration process and a country generally very open to opportunities.

You simply have a job crisis. Everybody does, don't feel singled out :)
That an American Berlusconi is an optimistic take is incredibly dark.
To put a word on it, I thought that she felt entitled to be president.
do YOU understand the MAD doctrine?

it only works if your enemy believes that you will use nuclear weapons. If they don't think you will use nukes, than the threat of mutually assured destruction isn't a real threat, so MAD doesn't work.

purely in terms of MAD, it is actually good that everyone thinks that trump is eager to launch the nukes.
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Perhaps he a is pro cartel lobbyist trying to make sure they don't lose any business
But with such a low income you will receive either a Medi-Cal which is almost free or a substantial government subsidy to pay for your health plan.
The thing that bothers me both about Brexit and Trump is that the mainstream narrative is that it's about closed borders, racism, misogyny, etc.

There is no evidence to suggest that the largest proportion of the voters for these things were motivated by that. One side loses, then they scream racist/bigot at the other side and then because it's the mainstream media those labels stick around. That does not help anyone and does indeed only widen the divide.
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In theory? Veertu uses the built-in Hypervisor.framework from macOS, so it can run without installing a kernel extension. I think they're still working on building out features, but for my basic needs I prefer it on that basis alone.
Can't tell if you're making a joke? But this isn't about AirBnb office space, this is about whether airbnb can rent out units in SF.
I know the feeling. Trump supporters inadvertently called me crooked, corrupt, elitist, a liar, a murderer, a bitch, a cunt, and a nasty woman. And I'm not even a woman.
There are many flaws with your analogy. Other commenters have pointed out some. I'll add another: ISPs specifically have a safe harbour provision under the DMCA (for example) to specifically exempt them from the liability of anything illegal their customers might do (provided they abide by the other provisions).
How do you know? Where's your evidence? Relate how you tried to "prove the null hypothesis."
Come on, I think it was clear that by "jobs locals don't want anyway" OP was talking about low wage-low status jobs filled by immigrants instead, that would otherwise offer higher and higher salaries until the supply curve met the demand one if interest group didn't inject immigrants into the supply -at least that's kind of the trump supporter angle-.

And in your deal I can see someone getting the short end of the stick:

The employer gets lower costs and higher profits. The Indian gets a higher salary and access to infrastructure he didn't have to pay for. The local gets a lower salary, and the rest of taxpayers get one more body consuming the public services he had to pay, more people competing for housing and ~40$K less in demand for whatever he has to offer.
> "Soon, it looks like they'll be able to."

Based on what? You are just speculating now
American healthcare is run by the private sector with pretty much zero accountability compared to say, the UK, where the NHS is for the most part, a public organisation with open books.
It's not even legal to repost wholesale content that is not behind a paywall in most situations, since it's a copyright violation.
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What's simple about making 300 million people want the same thing?
> If thats case aren't you just perpetuating a narrative about Trump supporters being a bunch of racist bigots

You are though.
No, I meant consistency. You've misconstrued what I meant. That's ok. We all make mistakes sometimes.
I'm sorry but there's no way a well-off geek is going to off-set what Trump's EPA is capable of doing. The proposed interim chief is a global warming denier with dreams of privatizing our national and state parks for development and has issues with the Endangered Species Act and other "big government" regulations.

This reminds of previous elections when the GOP candidate would talk about gutting social programs and protections and that private donors and churches and such will take up the slack. Its fairly unrealistic for even large amounts of private wealth to make up for federal cuts. The EPA and DOI collectively have a near $30bn budget. If Bill Gates liquidized all his wealth and donated it, it wouldn't even pay for three years of their budget. Practical plans to keep animals from going extinct require non-stop work, sometimes for decades. I doubt we'd have bald eagles today if Reagan tried to privatize these agencies, gave away their lands, or removed their regulatory powers.
> You run the risk of drive failures with these

All drives fail. Any drive can fail at the worst time. You must have back ups, and you must test your back ups.
I'm excited about the potential of the Touchbar and I feel like a lot of the criticism towards it is unfair. Eg, "I'm a touch-typist and therefore don't want to look down at my keyboard". I almost always look down when using the current function keys despite being a very proficient touch-typist so I don't think this argument holds as much weight as people give it.

I'm excited about the reductions in size and weight. I carry my laptop to/from work with me every day (45min NYC commute) and I often have it with me other places because I'm on-call. Other people may not care about size and weight reductions, but I do.

I'm excited about the improvements to the screen, the sound system, the trackpad, the graphics performance, and the SSD performance. Granted, the internal upgrades were overdue and nothing stellar, but improvements are improvements.

I'm excited about the future potential of the ports. This is inconvenient in the short term, but I like the idea of simplifying down to one type of port. The fact that one port can provide power, external audio, video, USB, etc means I can have a proper dock setup for my machine when I get home or get to work. As it is now, I have several things to plug in or unplug and it's kind of annoying.

I'm not even bothered by the removal of MagSafe, as a lot of people seem to be (understandably). I almost never have my laptop plugged into power while susceptible to the cord being tripped because it's normally docked at my desk. I like that I can plug power into either side, bc it means I'm able to have an external display on either side. And when it's not docked, the battery life is mostly good enough that I don't need to think much about plugging it in and worrying about the cord being tripped. In other words, it's becoming a lot more like a phone in terms of usage patterns than previous generations of MacBooks.
Ask HN: What to do with plagiarized apps in the App Store?
Does anyone have experience with filing copyright issues with Apple? We found an app called LimeLight on Mac App Store http://apple.co/2eM3Tau and it is using the same design and UI/UI from an earlier version of Polarr v2.0 hosted at http://bit.ly/2fDfqYO (already deprecated).

We reached out the Apple Store through copyright claim and so far we are instructed to resolve this issue with LimeLight's developer directly. However, it seems like the developer has a lawyer in India protecting him and now they're sending us legal documents indicating that they designed the app way earlier than we did and we should not harass them anymore.

We downloaded LimeLight, run through a code analysis and found references to Polarr entities in their source code as well as them possessing the same source code structure as our deprecated Chrome app. Right now, Apple Store is CCed in our conversation chain but has stayed quiet about this.

Frankly, we don't think they're making a lot of money right now but we fear that they will start to copy our latest app versions (see http://bit.ly/2fyVZjk) and release to App Store, eventually jeopardizing our revenue and confuse our brand.

We're a small team so we are wondering what is the best approach to situations like this.
Wow. That's definitely news to me. It's really cool, especially considering how close Australia is (compared to everything else at least).

Uhmm...definitely need to go visit some day.
The pro moniker with most equipment means that somebody who makes money from using such equipment will likely use it. Cameras also use similar distinction. Everybody using a full-frame camera is not a professional, but most professionals use a full-frame camera.
"Its people like you that have poisoned the well of society."

There's a lot of heated discussion. Regardless of who won, this was always going to be a large population of people who were going to be disappointed if not strongly upset by the result. The polarized atmosphere makes discussion very difficult. Language like this makes it even harder for people to hear what you're trying to say. You're actively engaged in the discussion, which is great! We all need to work to improve the situation and make it constructive.
I love this blog. They had a great post describing a privacy preserving query proxy: http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2015/12/replacing...
> This is a part of modern life: You have to go where the jobs are.

There's a kind of unfairness in small communities creating safe and nurturing environments for families, educating children well, then waving farewell as their young adults move to a city far away. It's especially unfair if the young adults would just as soon stay in their hometowns given comparable opportunities.
Didn't stop him from getting elected.
Is Elm open source? If so, couldn't the author implement the feature themselves? If the maintainer doesn't want it, then idk, fuck off? Nobody said he had to use it. When did open source turn into "Do whatever random people tell you to do, for free"? Talk about entitlement....
First of all, how do you know his net worth? Are you taking his word for it? He said that his net worth fluctuates “with markets and with attitudes and with feelings, even my own feelings” [1]. Any accountant will tell you that a person's net worth does not fluctuate with the feelings of that person.

Unfortunately, we will probably never know, because he hasn't released his tax returns (which would at least have given us a partial picture).

The Economist tried to compare his financial performance with the S&P 500 [2] and is not impressed: on the longest timeframe (since 1986) he grossly underperforms the S&P 500.

Then there is the question of how he got his money. He seems to have left a long string of investors, banks, suppliers and partners that he essentially conned [3]. In the latter part of his carreer no American bank wanted to do business with him anymore (one of the reasons he switched to licensing his name instead of developing projects himself).

Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's partner at Berkshire Hathaway, a staunch republican and a man of brilliant insights who knows a thing or two about business (he made his fortune by evaluating companies and their management) says this about Trump [4]: "Do I consider Donald Trump an ideal decision maker or manager of anything? And the answer is no. The last person almost I'd want as the president of the US".

If you voted for this man because of his business acumen, I'm afraid you are the latest in a long line of people he successfully conned.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2016/03/31/how-dona...

[2] http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21693230-enigma-...

[3] http://www.newsweek.com/2016/08/12/donald-trumps-business-fa...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGLMnTzQIh8
> You'd imagine if he had Thiel speak at his convention, that kind of tips his hand

He also had Ben Carson speak, but the KKK didn't seem to be dissuaded by that.
Intel submitted a patch to the linux-nvme mailing list to support the original raid system used in the Lenovo Yoga.

However, the kernel maintainers turned down the patch because the hardware itself was bizarre, underspecified, and unreliable in common cases.

This is an ongoing story and i expect there'll be a resolution in a few months.

ML discussion thread is here: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-nvme/2016-October...
> when conservatives want you out of our personal and financial lives

Do they really? There are a lot of people that view the Republican Party as their ticket back to an idealized Leave It to Beaver world, which is definitely NOT the government getting out of your personal life (make homosexuality illegal, bring back "separate but equal", make sure that minorities "know their place", etc). Still others see it as a the path forward to a fundamentalist Christian theocracy. The same people that eat up Bill O'Reilly's "The War on Christmas" segments and get outraged that Christmas is "under attack" by the evil Liberals that want to destroy Christian values.
> Making a case for XXX workflow should always be grounded in the contexts present.

Here's the context: camera makers are getting the shit kicked out of them. The market is plummeting. It caters to the myopic needs of people who want to pretend that, to be a photographer, you have to work like it's a 1950s darkroom, only with computers.

Compact cameras a being destroyed by cellphones, which is where all the imaging innovation is actually happening. Without the cross-subsidy to high-end cameras, prices for lenses and bodies are going up with every generation, unlike every other tech out there.

But you know, keep pretending it's everyone else who's wrong.
As a self taught, inexperienced programmer, I hope you don't mind answering a question. Looking through the list of jobs it seems that I could perform the Junior QA. However, since I am probably suffering from imposter syndrome, I'm somewhat unsure. A bit about my background: My interest is in full stack development. I'm comfortable with python, html5 and am currently re-learning CSS, which I have found harder to understand than programming, but I am getting there. My workflow is mostly through the CLI (basic commands) and have some experience with git. I've toyed around with a few languages, racket and js come to mind. I could conclude by asking, if I'm currently not fit for that position, what else would I need to learn?
Ok, lets assume that the benefits of economies of scale don't apply here and take that it doesn't work for systems with hundreds of millions of people as a premise.

We know it works for systems of up to ~50m people because those are the larger EU countries. In that case I submit that it would also work at state level in the US. I feel that you can't even make a good argument that the reason it can't work at state level is because of the federal government because we're also a de facto federation within the EU and it works for the most part.

edit: I'm likely missing or wildly underestimating something here but I just can't shake the impression that what prevents the US from having all the nice things we get are cultural and historical issues, not economical ones.
Ah, interesting. So people were warning her, she just didn't listen. It was probably like large ship at that point, it was full of steam (donations and promises), moving ahead and there was just no stopping or turning it around easily.
Let's look at the data: about 30% of latinos voted for him. This surprised me and I bet it surprised Clinton too. So clearly there's other stuff that they care about more than Trump's racism.

As a sidenote, I catch myself expecting that _all_ minorities should vote 100% for Clinton. This is another example of the kind of complacency that led to this win in the first place. Trump was going on and on about how "democrats feel entitled to black votes without doing anything to help black people". Now, a policy specifically designed to help black people will get waves of criticism from Breitbart, but the point stands, and I think that Democrats shouldn't feel entitled to votes just because they aren't terrible.
The "Master persuader" series explains in great detail why and why trump won. It also explains how and why everyone got it wrong. great series.
> FFS the Pope said people should vote for Hillary.

He didn't. And he wouldn't do that either.
80% turnout. Hahaha.
> Oh yeah, I love commuting listening to music and livestreams, but you can't assume everyone does.

I agree, but that's not all there is. There are audio books, serialized fiction, narrated short stories in every medium you can think of, extended learning, and I'm sure more I can't think of. Finding something to do in this time is less a problem of content and more a problem of knowing it exists.

It of course doesn't negate that it does take time away you could choose to do something else, but it can make the time less onerous.

> Public transit shouldn't be reserved for major east-coast cities and for poor people.

Public transit doesn't change the equation all that much though. It means you need to be less actively involved in the process, so there's more available to you (visual mediums), but it's still time that is reserved for commuting. You aren't physically playing with your children during that time, or visiting with family.

Quick access routes to economic hubs might easy associated problems somewhat (double digit percentages if you're lucky), but it doesn't actually change the equation that is at play here, which is that dense groups of people have many benefits, and living close to that is desirable, and we all know what happens when demand outstrips supply.

The biggest gains you'll probably ever see in this area are likely to be had by putting less restrictions on an entirely different dimension of travel. Group your population up, not just out.
Ransom IS leverage. The payer is manipulating the captor's desire for money, in order to get an immediate release of prisoners that would otherwise not happen.

Equally true, taking hostages is a way to gain leverage by manipulating the payer's desire to protect the captives. Why do you think bank robbers and hijackers do it? Iran was unable to get that money for almost forty years, but by dangling four Americans in front of the Obama administration, they were able to collect a ten-figure cash payment out of America's coffers.

And you think there's nothing wrong with that?

The Americans are guilty of caving on their principles and giving tons of (borrowed btw) cash to hostage takers, and the Iranians are guilt of taking hostages in the first place.
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Ask HN: Is there a “code” HackerNews filter?
There are days when I go to HackerNews for a bit of technical entertainment. With code. Many days, the front page is "lawsuit progress; lawsuit progress; high level mass media over; merger news; ...". Is there a way to filter for only articles containing some source code?
It fundamentally comes down to you've got one candidate that wants to do to the entire USA what they did to New York, which is pretty darn cool, and another that wants to do to the entire USA what they did to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Benghazi, ...

You are grossly misrepresenting the facts and policies of both candidates. It's hard to take any of the rest of your post seriously when it closes with that paragraph.
What are the people saying after Trump's win? (Visualization)
The best argument I heard for her was that she was the most uniquely qualified for the job. She had experience at both the congressional and executive levels, plus she was the first lady for 8 years to boot. That was the argument my girlfriend gave me every time we talked about it and I respected it. But that message got lost when you dug too deep. There were a lot of mistakes made during her time as senator and secretary of state and so they never pressed on the experience platform much. It hurt her quite a bit in the long run.
I like this idea, but unfortunately the site is broken. Made a throwaway account - I voted for Trump, want to talk about it?
Yeah, I work every day in New York. I have no idea what this guy is talking about.
No discussion about what's going on with treasuries today?
> I don't want to live in Seattle (which I could barely afford anyway-- I like owning a house).

My understanding is that if companies were more spread out, then compensation would also be lower because there's less competition for employees. With compensation also being lowered, wouldn't you just be in the same situation because while real estate is more expensive in Seattle, salaries are higher too?

As salaries increase, the real estate near those companies will naturally increase. I don't see why having companies be spread farther out would change this relationship.

I live in Seattle but grew up in the suburbs and also sometimes miss living in a house (mainly because I play piano). But even my friends who live in the suburbs are struggling to save up to own a house, so as far as I can tell it's not any different. If anything, it's even better working in the city because as far as I can tell it's easier to save money since even if you save the same percentage of income you would make more.
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That statistic is heavily distorted by racial demographics.
Look, we in the U.S. just went from a multi-racial, forward thinking, cosmopolitan, thoughtful President...to Donald Trump...in one election.

I mean, I'm not saying we are as multicultural as Canada, just that political environment can change breathtakingly fast.
I agree. Combine that with her pretty much saying what she thinks people want to hear, and no real history of standing for anything, she really sucked as a candidate.

I also believe that the Dems suppressed Bernie in order to have Hillary as their nominee. I don't think Trump had a chance against Bernie. I am hopeful that this will be a blow to the 2 party system where we're forced to vote for lesser evil.
Its pretty bad for on-the-go audio people.
Many good/common/popular audio interfaces are still firewire-based, and I havent seen a solution that involves fewer than 2 dongles.