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I hope the market punishes them for removing the ports we regularly use from the MacBook Pro so when I'm ready to buy a new one in a few years they have brought them back.

In particular the removal of the magsafe power connector is maddening. By far my favorite feature of Macbooks and they removed it because??
Yes, I noticed that too.
Correlation doesn't imply causation. Maybe people are forced to work more because the economy is bad.
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This absolutely makes sense. It definitely is possible to generate a meaningful revenue from reasonably targeted ads at SERP, based purely on the search query.

OTOH what are you looking for may have a context. That same car dealership's ads may vary greatly in content (and click-through rate) if it is known that the person looking at the screen is a recent graduate, or has a family with three kids, or is a single at his 40s. It's hard to sell a family wagon to a recent graduate, but it costs the same to show an ad with a "wrong" car on it. This kind of precise targeting is what advertisers are ready to pay a premium for.
> how fast is within?

I replied to another question shortly ago regarding performance. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13285538

> does it use ray tracing?

No.
Thanks for the tips! I'd like to use ChezScheme, but haven't found a good way to get into it.
Great blog post here recently on Japanese work culture: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

"Traditionally, salarymen (and they are, by the way, mostly men) are hired into a particular company late in university and stay at that company or its affiliates until they retire."

"The employee hereby promises the company: Your first obligation, in all things, will be to your company. You will work incredibly hard (90+ hour weeks barely even occasion comment) on their behalf."

"Salarymen work large amounts of overtime, although much of it is for appearance’s sake rather than because it actually accomplishes more productive work. Depending on one’s company, this overtime may be compensated or “service overtime” — “service” in Japanese means “thrown in for free in the hopes of gaining one’s further custom”, so your favorite restaurant might throw in a “service” desert once in a while or you might do 8 hours of “service” overtime six nights a week for 15 years."

The whole post is a great read that comes from a first-hand experience.
I've been working on https://insomnia.rest for about two years, and have had steady growth since the beginning. It used to be in the Chrome Web Store, which helped attract users initially.

It's now at around 2500 daily active users.
Lets rephrase it to include only people not run by batshit crazy clones of Stalin.
My Christmas wish is that sales tank to the point of triggering serious introspection.

This would obviously bring back the headphone jack, and hdmi/magsafe to the mbp. ;)
> Pollution tax: yes; you are being taxed for affecting others. Soda tax: no; you are hurting no one but yourself, and it is a stretch to say otherwise.

In this case you should consider: who is hurting whom? The research of Ariely and the experimental results of the marketing industry have made it clear that your choice to buy soda is not simply a transaction between yourself and the grocery store. It involves the government’s need for cheap calories to prevent social unrest, and it involves the sugar industry’s ongoing efforts to keep carbohydrate overloads socially acceptable. Soda is the industry hurting you.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/the-food-industry-is-...
And you'd likely see a fork with support of the major handset makers and companies like Amazon. Google has a lot of control thru Play Services, but something that hostile would be a recipe for a split.
Before "investing" it got collected by coercion which is immoral. But to follow your hypothesis, can you demonstrate that the output of that "investing" turns out to be ROI positive?
Mobile is maturing and consumer upgrade cycles are starting to slow down because of it.

So yes, I would say we are at the end of an era.
I agree, a lot of waste is on households. However, I used to work at the nations largest grocery chain (surprise, not Walmart) and food waste was rampant... particularly in the bakery and produce department. Food that was a little off date was thrown away rather than given to local shelters due to the liability. This happened every day.
> If we ever decriminalize Marijuana at the Federal level, that seems to me like it would mean millions of prisoners held for offenses involving only that drug would need to be set free.

Decriminalisation isn't necessarily retroactive, that it's now legal or less illegal doesn't mean it was at the time of conviction.

For instance despite the Labouchere Amendment ("gross indencency") having been mostly repealed in 1967, Turing legally remained a criminal until his pardon in 2013.
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It's just good old-fashioned prejudice. Because you have attributes X, Y, and Z, you must therefore be a bad person.
Not to detract from your otherwise excellent point and story, but I take a bit of issue with:

> (who previously had tried the "mom will stop drinking if we ignore her" strategy)

As someone who's been the child in that situation, sometimes you really just need an extended break from dealing with a parent's addiction.

It's extremely stressful and really hard to get over the resentment stemming from a childhood destroyed by a parent's addiction.

Some people are more resilient and can be there for their addicted parents as adults, but I think it's a little unfair to fault people for needing to distance themselves from their often traumatic childhoods. It's a bit like blaming soldiers for not continuing their military service after suffering a PTSD-inducing event (which hopefully we can agree is not behavior we should encourage).

Sorry if you weren't trying to imply blame or fault on the children, but that does happen fairly regularly.
It's dubious to blame obesity on the free market. At the end of the day eating well and staying healthy is a personal responsibility. In most cities and towns there are just as many healthy options available as there are unhealthy options, and most of the time it's no more expensive (or even cheaper) to eat well than it is to buy junk. Fact of the matter is, a lot of people choose to eat poorly.

I strongly disagree with the concept that another person knows better than I do which food I should eat or how I should otherwise live my life.

That said, there should be more education around nutrition. Even free healthy food doesn't help anything if people are too dumb to choose it over junk.
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Where are you getting that impression? My understanding that was both the iPhone 7 and new MacBooks were the fastest-selling models of their respective product lines that Apple had ever released?
Cases I've seen done successfully:

–Accounting

–Risk analysis in banks or fintech companies

–Statistics ("Data Science")

–Lots and lots of other jobs that have "analyst" in the title, e.g. marketing analyst
This guy sounds like a plant. A plant which is great at mathematics.
Also, phones like the Pixel (which i hear many are having issues with tho) have the Google Assistant built in.

Siri which i have used since 2011 is junk comparably. For me having the best AI assistant on my phone is as important having the best camera. Such makes life a lot easier!
There are not millions of people being held for offenses only involving marijuana: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/dofp12.pdf (page 2).

There's about 95,000 people in federal prison with a drug offense as their most serious charge. About 11,500 of those charges involved primarily marijuana. (The overwhelming majority of that is for trafficking, not possession.)

Rolling Stone estimated about 40,000 people in prison for convictions primarily involving marijuana, with about half of those involving marijuana alone: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/lists/top-10-marijuana-m....

That is of course not to say that justice, for a few tens of thousands of people isn't an important thing! Though I hesitate a little bit to put trafficking in the same "justice" category as using. It's generally accepted that the government has much more leeway to control what is sold in the market than to control what people do with their bodies.
> Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often

I am at a loss to understand really why 'us' should start doing this 'more often'. Is there something inherently good about using ddg vs. google? Why should anyone use it more vs. what they have already decided works best for them? This smacks of 'make the world a better place by using ddg' unfortunately as many others have noted it's simply not a better mouse trap. And what does the name have to do with it at all?
I'm sorry but this is just incorrect. Education, specifically the education rates of women, is the leading indicator... all other correlations are merely side effects of this.
iOS and Mac OS X were built and scaled on Objective C, which is highly niche in that it has almost never been used for anything else besides these projects, and it was even less popular before those projects existed. Objective C would never have been chosen with risk-based technology decisionmaking. They would've chosen C++ or Java.

Apple was weeks away from bankruptcy when it adopted OS X, and is now one of the most successful companies in the world, having rescaled from the ground up on OS X.
The iPhone's iOS is perhaps the most financially successful bit of consumer software in history.
Foxconn's factories in Chengdu, western China, Shenzhen, southern China, and Zhengzhou, northern China, have been brought to the second or third phase, Dai said.
Do I read this right, 105 hours of overtime implying a 145 hour work week (if accounting for a regular 40 hour week)?
"Let's do what North Korea does, that seems to be working out really well," said nobody.
I think a comment like this makes light of the timeframe that ABI/API compatibility has been for the 1.0.0 series. 0.9.8's ABI/API has been floating around since 2005 and 1.0.0's been floating around since 2010- yet major things have been added such as TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2.

The ABI/API of the older versions had eventually become inadequate to describe what modern TLS/crypto applications need to do, and people had just consciously worked around it to dig into structs that they should have never been accessing anyway. Most problems I have fielded regarding this almost always turn out to be things that you never should have been accessing to begin with, but because of necessity people did.

If anything this highlights a more general problem with linking strategy against core libraries. There is no ability to add accessors without having a high risk of breaking the universe, and this makes the OpenSSL problem worse because packagers downstream like Debian and RHEL are making a bet against doing nothing and breaking nothing or doing anything and breaking everything.
The removed it because it was a proprietary port and felt that the market was better served in the long term by eliminating this kind of special case. I like MagSafe, but it's not really that big a deal.
Dumb question, but what is it about Instagram that made it so huge?

Snapchat I actually get, since it's presenting a new kind of communication model. Facebook I get. But Instagram is just like any old image gallery, with a very rudimentary comment system and almost no features unrelated to image uploading.
I'll be curious to hear what you come up with. You should be able to create the image file locally and then shove it into S3, and use AWS just for dd'ing it to EBS.
Better screen, better camera, better external speakers, added waterproofing, and faster. I'm not sure what people were expecting when they say nothing has changed.
Can you elaborate more on what "SVA and "Sozialpartnerschaft" is? My cursory English search isn't bearing much fruit. Cheers.
Reminds me of Amdahl's Law... There will always be a pyramid that has more people on the bottom (i.e. increasing the population), and the reproductive tendencies of the minority of the population are mathematically insignificant. But let's assume you meant to refer to the general availability of modern goods/services, which is indeed increasing for everyone on the pyramid. I don't have the numbers there, but I believe cultural changes / improvements in birth control with voluntary adoption / technology could slow the tide, but we're still animals driven by evolution. This isn't a characteristic that will be going away anytime soon.
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Tip: Find a real PM platform and ask them what they hate about engineers turning PMs. Here you get a lot of advice from engineers who basically say "be nicer to engineers than the other PMs I know". But there are reasons for these misunderstandings that go beyond PMs being arrogant pricks. If you can figure that out you'll certianly have an easier life.
What happens when no farm workers are left behind to buy farm produce? /s
It's the end if you still refuse to buy anything but Apple products. Check out new devices outside the Apple store. VR, IoT's galore, and look at all the things you can do with raspberry pi these days.
Audio engineering for VR
I get the heated response to the comment, but I'm not sure you can state this is "the ultimate dream of every designer and product manager". It is very simple and easy, but there are a lot of features missing (swipe left to undo for example).

Also, don't hate the bits & bytes in assembly, some HN readers read assembly and write bit operations on a daily basis. Those who write UIs in assembly are probably masochists. :)
Perhaps a hybrid of the two is good. Some form of basic income coupled with a basic food box, not unlike how the Finnish maternity boxes operate[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_package
Hard for Mac users mostly. Then again, Mac users make all the stuff for iPhone, Watch and iPad users to enjoy, so I suppose the difficulty carries everywhere indirectly.

If you read the recent Bloomberg piece (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-20/how-apple...) it doesn't sound like anything will improve.
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I don't think the people who make this website don't know this is a limitation, and I especially don't think that they have some database they are hand editing with new information I might provide on this thread: my comment and information (which also wasn't "so much work": it took a few minutes; I attended a couple years of meetings of the Santa Barbara LAFCO and so I know how this stuff all works) is only relevant in the context of this thread as a reply to the comment making the website sound more local than it really is?
Will this negatively affect immigration policy? Has it already?
Missed opportunity to call it 'Member :P
I don't think it's either - what indicates we are at the "end of an era"? We've only had practical smartphones for about 10 years, which is an astonishingly short time!
Now need to wait until Linux is installable on it.
I wonder if, and if then how much, sales of MacBook pros are corellated to sales of iPhones. I suspect the correlation exists and it's stronger than we'd think.
You're not. It's factored into their rates to the best of the insurance company's ability. Come on, this is HN...
Definitely. The goal was something I could just drop in as one file to a folder of docs, hence the ugliness :)
> 105 hours of overtime in the month
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Americans don't seem to be going hungry.
Can you link to a guide, YT video or something? I've never seen it in action. I just see a lot of my apps only get active when they are the front app. Side by side mixing and and generating sounds like the same direction I want to go when using a modern smart phone.
Normally I'm not a fan of clickbait headlines, but the authors totally whiffed on "Apple to decimate iPhone production in the new year"
Keep reading.

"There are 10 lights-out (fully automated) production lines at some factories, including table one in Chengdu, AIO (all-in-one) PC and LCD monitor lines at a factory in Chongqing, and a CNC line in Zhengzhou. ... Foxconn has deployed more than 40,000 Foxbots, industrial robots developed and produced in house, at factories in China."

The Chengdu plant makes iPads.[1] Foxconn refers to "table one" because they usually don't name their contract manufacturing clients.

Apple used to have robotic assembly lines in Fremont, CA.[2] Then they switched to cheap outsourced manual labor.

[1] http://micgadget.com/12674/the-inside-story-of-the-new-foxco...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk306ZkNOuc
Bunnie is also responsible in no minor way for both Chumby[1], and the Novena[2] open laptop.

Met him briefly at Maker Faire and I made sure to thank him for all his excellent work.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby
[2]: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena
i know, right... it's like nagasaki is barely making anything!

na...ga.. naga.... na gonna be fixing the economy that way!
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Over one whole month, so that's more like 61 hours per week. Which, judging by the rest of the comments in this thread, isn't unexpected for a Japanese white collar worker.
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Better camera, better screen, faster, waterproof, more ram, Taptic Engine, nicer finish options, more durable home button, and on and on. It's a better phone in almost every measurable way.
It would be great if they made ! more discoverable. For instance, it could tell you the ! code needed to limit searches to the engine that produced each "niche" blue link and gray box at the top of the screen (the one that inlines amazon product thumbnails/prices, wikipedia article synopses, stack overflow answers.", etc)
I use them all the time. It's a great way to separate responsibilities.
For context, from the article: "Takahashi had clocked about 105 hours of overtime in the month leading up to her death, authorities found."

Japan has a 40 hour work week and a max of overtime a person can volunteer for. In a month this limit is an additional 45 hours. An employee can agree to more overtime but the source refers to some labor safeguards that are supposed to kick in: https://www.jetro.go.jp/en/invest/setting_up/laws/section4/p...

So in essence, she worked more than double the allowed overtime (around 65 hours per week total work time).
As discussed in other threads, he would have to go through the entire code base and determine licensing of all code he was using, talk to investors about being allowed to release, and strip out any confidential information. I honestly wouldn't hassle with it if my company just went belly-up, but it would be nice if it happened :)

I did find out about Git notes through this thread, which seems interesting.
"Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That's about one in nine people on earth." [0]

that's more people than were alive globally in 1700 [1]. looks like the last 300 years have been a complete catastrophe with respect to hunger.

[0] https://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats

[1] https://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpo...
Because Facebook actively encourages people to post more than what is necessary, or even a good idea. It's to Facebook's advantage that most people don't understand the depth of data being collected or the possible consequences of oversharing, so they do everything in their power short of outright deception to get people to post more.

Of course, not 100% of the blame lies directly with Facebook since they're not actively holding guns to people's heads forcing them to use the service, but I see it as more akin to predatory lending where the business profits by exploiting their customers.
They move to the cities and find jobs there. Then they buy produce.
> HN is an echo chamber with a multitude of groups yelling at one time

That's not a bad description, at least of one segment of the spectrum.
There did seem to be a little bit of PR about it... Cluj positioning itself as a very startup-friendly city, a documentary about all he evil hackers in Râmnicu Vâlcea IIRC, though it does seem a bit random.

Any idea how it compares to neighboring Hungary?

In Budapest there's anecdotally a lot of software talent and a fairly visible coworking/hipster-hacking/startup scene, but I still see Tata bringing people in from India to work.

And in Berlin there are people from all over the world toiling in the Salt Mines of Samwer, I would assume a lot of them from the former Eastern Bloc.
And yet Apple market cap (618b) is almost as high as MSFT and IBM combined (641b)
>"The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer"

I think typically when people say that they mean within their own country, not globally. And in some Western countries if we look at the very recent trend (last 10-20 years) I think they have somewhat of a point. The poor are mostly stagnant while the rich are getting much richer and those in the middle are generally getting poorer. The proverb may be technically incorrect, but the sentiment behind it may not be all that far off.
Enforced image sizing to make pictures "glanceable" while also being the only thing on the screen, preventing overwhelm.

Making it easy to positively reinforce your friends' content creation.

Fine-grained filtering of content that's relevant to you.
The thing about excitement is that it dies off. What motivated you a few days/weeks ago now is just not worth the effort or time that you'd rather invest doing something more worthwhile.
I do completely understand her kids' reaction. I was able to reach their mom in a way that they couldn't, because I was an extremely over-qualified taxi driver.

Addictions are rather hard; society's efforts to punish addiction makes them harder still.
User base I think is the value here.
Right, but that's not due to what the chain wanted to do, but due to liability. Allow people to waive liability claims for past-due food, and this problem mostly goes away.

I remember working in a produce warehouse, and due to some clever particularities of our non-profit status, we were allowed to give away surplus produce to employees with no liability. I don't think we ever threw out anything except old bananas; it all got taken home.
When I was in elementary school around 15 years ago and we covered nutrition, I remembered being very confused one year when our teacher was outright and honest about the ACTUAL literature on healthy eating, and then taught us the completely contradictory food pyramid after because she was required to.