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The trouble at Apple is one of culture and timing. The ideals of Apple and the timing of their thinking is in many ways out of sync with the rest of the world.

This was the same that happened to Microsoft when their lets just create machines with a million different providers and slap our OS on top were surpassed by Apple when Steve Jobs came back. The advantages of Apples vertical integration allowed them to push for radical new hardware design aesthetics when that was craved the most. On top of that a completely different way of pushing product in sync with the OS which allowed them to avoid the issues of backwards compatibility which MS struggled with. Today though in many ways the Apple aesthetic have been commoditized and were it haven't Apple just haven't spent enough time improving (looking at you OSX and Mac)

I frankly don't think there is much to do about it for the simple reason that it would require Apple to change it's culture from being a secretive one to being more open. This is where Google have many advantages as it's much more in sync with where the world and technology is heading (Cloud, Deep Learning, web). I don't think Steve would have been able to save Apple either although I think he would have done things a little better.

I am a big fan of apples products and own only that but I can see a future, if things doesn't change were I would easily use ex. Android phone.
What's the cost to deport 11.1 million people? And is it more expensive to deport them then to assimilate them into the workforce on a permanent basis?

Remember, the fertility rate drops when women are educated and their children don't die; this would suggest state funded education and the continuation of low income healthcare for children is the financially superior option to mass deportations.
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Wouldn't journalistic ethics have been to not be so sensationalist to begin with?
This is the most embarrassing part. They're saying "We can keep things secret to avoid being humiliated" like it's for our benefit.
I got the impression that he has quite a chip on his shoulder regarding race. I think maybe it's a good thing some people are like this, but maybe not.
True, but of course the choice was up to Steve Jobs, not Apple. Also, how the hell would you hire "person like Steve" anyway?
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For both Go and Rust, it's not supposed to be exception handling. But both languages have acquired proper unwinding, so people can and do use it that way. The original idea in Go was that if you caught a panic, the program was in a bad state, and all you should do is report the problem and maybe restart the program. Like "longjmp" in C. Now, people are doing recovery without re-launching the program. That's effectively exception handling.
At this point, absolutely no one who uses a MBP on a daily basis will believe this propaganda.

Just stop already.
Blaming the user isn't helpful.

I've had more problems with Apple cables than any other brand - and Apple tends to make their cables sleeker looking. Coincidence? I doubt it.

At least they've improved from the Wallstreet-era Powerbook G3 chargers, though. I think I went through 3 of those circa 1998. Of course, those machines, and the early G4 Powerbooks, had bigger issues than just that. Dark times in Macland.

(As an aside, how people talk about their device history is a good litmus test of the length of their experience with Apple hardware, thanks to the Intel switch laptop name change.)
I feel like Apple are one of the few large SV companies that are producing products for their users.

For everyone else the user is a resource that they're selling to advertisers.

They've shown they're willing to stand up for user rights. For this reason alone I hope they continue to be successful.
And wouldn't journalistic ethics have not littered this very article with dozens of references to "Russian hackers" — evidence of whose existence is still completely absent? Twenty-four hours from now, essentially no one who has read this article will remember anything but the incessantly repeated notion that there are dangerous Russian hackers out to compromise US national security in some way, and that we need to be vigilant.
The obvious question: How relevant this is given that the experiment is done only for unemployed?
It's like hitting someone very hard on the head and then apologizing. The damage is already done - 90% of the people who read the headlines won't notice the retraction.

So preventing false headlines should have far greater priority than apologies/retractions - which are 90% useless. No, it is not all good now! Even the very continued mentioning of "Russian hackers" achieves a goal, very subtly. Just having that term out is enough.

Given how much more advanced other countries are, I can't believe all the stuff the Russians suddenly are supposed to be capable of. To me it seems that the real "hackers" (of public opinion) are located in places very different from Moscow or Leningrad, much farther West.
> automate 40% or more of jobs in the next ten years

No scheme on earth could automate 40% of jobs in a decade.

> what actually is the alternative

As a proportion of total U.S. jobs, farming declined steadily 5% per decade from 1800 to 1970.

Imagine telling a youth in 1900 that in his lifetime, 35% of the nation's jobs would disappear. People will have nothing to do!!
Also the case in game development. Players make great patients, but bad doctors.
I'm not sure you've modeled my thought process all that well; it's certainly a novel experience to be labeled "optimistic".

If a patient had actually died because her physician couldn't access WebMD for an hour during the fundraiser, that fact wouldn't have been omitted from the indictment. Actually it would have been a typical-bullshit element of a typical-bullshit homicide charge. Internet interruptions occur regularly, and they very rarely have fatal consequences even in hospitals. If they did, hospitals would have more redundancy. Lots of people seem eager to criticize Gottesfeld for not somehow foreseeing this unlikely thing that didn't actually happen except in their own imagination.

That's revealing. We expect private individuals to act with perfection, so that no unintended consequence, however unlikely, could ever be imagined. Yet giant wealthy firms with lots of lawyers can run roughshod over innocent children, being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process, and they must simply be endured. How could the hospital know this handicapped girl wasn't simply imagining her symptoms? Actually lots of people at the hospital knew what was happening; nurses were quitting over it. Actually providing appropriate care for sick people is basically the reason that hospitals exist. Yet at every turn we give the giant abusive bureaucracy the benefit of the doubt.

In this case as in every case, DoJ stood ever ready to serve the interests of the wealthy, powerful, and well-connected. With gag orders, even complaining about abuse was grounds for more abuse! Policing a big urban hospital is not a good DoJ career move. Crushing little people who speak truth to power, even if only for an hour during a fundraiser: that's what really gets a federal prosecutor's juices flowing. We've seen enough from DoJ to expect this behavior, but don't imagine for a second it's justified by anything but their own craven self-interest.

[EDIT:] Rather pointless googling I'm afraid. It's not as though the interests of the wealthy and powerful are never found in opposition. By all means, though, keep trying to change the subject from your silly spurious movie-plot medical-procedures-dependent-on-constant-Facebook-access theory. I'm not sure that something as braindead as "CVS is just like this tortured handicapped girl" is any better though...
And Ford could have asked: "Do you prefer it faster or that it's a horse?"
- "I already have a horse."
- "OK, I'll make something that goes faster."
This is in line with recent game theory studies. In iterated prisoner's dilemma, the introduction of kindness wipes out always-defect strategies in the long run, and is competitive with tit-for-tat.
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Yes.

In the absence of the most right path, they've taken the least wrong path by amending their article, appending an editor's note, and now apologizing in a subsequent article.
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> My suspicion is that Apple / Tim Cook knows something BIG

That's what everyone has been hoping for years. That's why I was hung up to the last keynote, up to the last second, hoping for Tim Cook to say "One more thing", and launch a new product line. And the one more thing was, no kidding, Lady Gaga. And everyone is now despairing that there is anything to wait for.

At least we have the emoji bar on the keyboard now.
I don't know what NYC you're referring to but the one I live in has huge problems with asshats blocking intersections and I've never once seen the NYPD pick up anyone for it (or any other traffic violation).

Of course why anyone drives in Manhattan is beyond me.
This is a very clever analysis. Thanks for that, it makes a lot of sense.

It also explains why it's shifted from being a computer company that makes gadgets (Jobs) is now becoming a gadget company that happens to make some computers as well (Cook).

In all this, the gates are wide open for Microsoft to score some good points here towards devs.
As I write this my MBP is plugged in to a power cord with about two inches of bare wire just below the connector. This cord is only ~4 years old and it has had exposed wires for several years now. I can't see how my use is unusually hard on it. Definitely no doors, desks, or pets. It pretty much just sat in my room and I used it.
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Same here, and I used to think people were being careless... until I started working remotely from places like coffee shops where I had to bring my charger every day. Turns out the thinner MagSafe cable will fray after a while if you unpack and pack it on a daily basis. I bet it's due to winding the cord around the brick. I use the little legs you can flip out (they've been removed on the new charger). The last few months the cable has frayed in two places. Easy fixable with electrical tape, although I wish there was a way to pack the thing without straining it.

I have never had an entire Apple charger stop working, though.
I looked at Syncany, but it looks like the project is dead:

> The core team of Syncany is on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time. Feel free to do with the code what the license allows and encourages, but please don't expect any maintenance. The team thanks everyone who has contributed to Syncany in one way or another.

rclone doesn't really have the features i'm looking for.

I have however found Duplicati: http://www.duplicati.com, which looks like it might serve my needs.
> Now its just incremental phone updates.

And the software side of those updates is bad.

Apple hardware is probably better than ever. The mechanical engineering and precision involved blows away anyone else in consumer electronics. The new MacBooks and iPhones are truly works of art compared to the cheap injection-molded stuff everyone else is pumping out.

But the software just keeps getting worse and worse.

My iPhone (and those belonging to my friend and family with iPhones) regularly has strange graphics glitches and Springboard crashes. MacOS is a clusterf*ck with tons of poorly-implemented useless "features" and UI glitches.

My suspicion is that Apple is hitting a level of software complexity where the development and maintenance costs of correct code are too high. I believe writing correct software has a super-linear cost; if you have N components in your code, you can expect something like O(N^2) cross-component interactions in your code, because any given piece of existing code is likely to interact with some portion of new code. I suspect Apple will have to change their software engineering practices if they hope to go back to a good level of quality and usability with a reasonable temporal and financial engineering budget.
Out of interest are you the standard 240V or in the USA with the 110V chargers? Also, again just out of interest - are you in an especially humid or hot climate? I'm just trying to think of any 'extremes' that may cause consistent failures like this if the user isn't mistreating the product.
Why not just patch the cable with some electrical tape? Buying an entire charger just because the cable is fraying seems excessive.
Regardless of whether the WaPo operated with a story in mind, they did operate with sources:

> The investigation by officials began Friday, when the Vermont utility reported its alert to federal authorities, some of whom told The Washington Post that code associated with the Russian hackers had been discovered within the system of an unnamed Vermont utility.

> A senior DHS official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive security matter, defended the report.

> “We know the Russians are a highly capable adversary who conduct technical operations in a manner intended to blend into legitimate traffic,” the official said. The indicators of compromise contained in the report, he said, “are indicative of that. That’s why it’s so important for net defenders to leverage the recommended mitigations contained in the [report], implement best practices, and analyze their logs for traffic emanating from those IPs, because the Russians are going to try and hide evidence of their intrusion and presence in the network.”

You may not like the quality or the presentation of the sources as more weighty than they turned out to be, but they are sources.
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It's not propaganda, it's my experience (and actually the guy sitting next to me at work as well, although he said his girlfriend has gone through a MacBook charger and her current one although working is looking tired but not broken yet).
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If I had to complain about something it's that I find Israelis to be relatively clique-ish, the postal service sucks, and the light rail isn't finished yet. OK, so there are no utopias.

Tel Aviv is a greatly underpublicized and underrated gem of a city, probably due to politics, which is sad because politics/the conflict has virtually no effect on day-to-day life here, and because it's difficult to get a work visa if you aren't Jewish, but that's slowly changing since the army and academia are only producing about half the amount of qualified/credentialed/experienced labor the tech sector needs every year and it's now impacting the growth of what's now the most important sector of the economy, and both are already relatively huge compared to other Western countries, so it's not like the government could expand the military or academia further in order to get more labor, and it's starting to warm to the idea of allowing more non-Jewish immigration to compensate.
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As others have said aleady, the table at the end (https://imgur.com/VZAFXWi) is a pretty good summary on its own.

This was a fairly limited study in that it only looked at a couple of simple ways of doing things, but I do think it's a good analysis to read. There's still a lot more actual number-crunching in it than you'll find in the average Internet discussion.

I've also come across a fairly thorough rebuttal to the whole thing in a blog post here, which might be interesting supplementary reading: http://www.oursystem.info/2011/11/gmi-response-to-treasurys-...
I enjoyed your analog analogies.
See my response to belovedeagle.
Note that other media outlets still are running with this story, e.g. an uncorrected version remains in the BBC News US/Canada "top headlines:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38479179
No way Jose, they are absolving themselves of jumping the gun by invoking "officials" that deny the dumbass thing they said in the first place.
I agree with pretty much everything people say about Atom. But I tolerate those flaws because of how easy it is to get my environment configured for a bunch of languages. Finding working, decent plugins for sublime felt frustrating at times, and never quite obvious.
I've done python-on-spark (and a very tiny bit of scala-on-spark). The scala stuff wasn't bad, but the python stuff was more fun. What do you think about pyspark? :)
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13292607, but this article appears to add new information, so probably doesn't count as a dupe.
Apple should absolutely be investing big into future product categories, as they have done in the past.

However, with revenue and profit levels where they are, it's baffling to see them seem to devote less resources in an absolute sense (not just a proportional one) to existing money-makers. Mac laptops are big sellers. iPhones are big sellers. Yet the refreshes get more and more basic, and the software quality seems to be sliding downward. Could they really not fix this without sacrificing future investment? They did it in the past when they had less money to play with, after all...
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> The average cost per student in public school is $10,615 per year alone

That number surprises me. If you think that the loaded labour rate of a teacher is probably $100K, that gives you a teacher to student ratio of 1:10. Since the ratio is more like 1:30 or 1:40, that means that 65-75% of the cost of education is something other than teachers' salaries.

I've got to think that's an indication that something is very, very wrong. Even accounting for the depreciation of the building and its contents, I wonder if quite a lot of money is being spent on something other than education...
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I can definitely see if it was jammed into a bag or wound tightly (got to be a pretty fine line there!) how it could happen, similar to how if I jam my IEM earbuds into my bag all the time I'd break one in no time I'm sure. But at least the larger chargers have those neat L shaped hooks that are supposed to encourage the correct diameter twist - I would have thought that'd be the saviour? Usually when I've heard of it or seen it it's at the MagSafe end and it's clear that the cord has been pulled backwards away from the laptop regularly - which to me is still a design flaw if that's how users are using them they should be altered. Having said all that - the amount of HP and co laptops I've seen with bent charger pins or squealing caps in their power packs is unreal and they're often more expensive than an Apple charger depending on the wattage.
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Sources that are "anonymous" for no good reason might as well be fictional. The only reason for the source to be anonymous is because they were blatantly lying, which they were.
No, because the parent poster also mentioned deep learning, which is number crunching.
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It moves past being just your experience when you add in the bit about "I always assume when I hear of people with this problem that they're disrespecting their hardware by jamming it in doors / desks or perhaps have pets that chew on them."

It's fine to say you don't have issues, but if six other people are saying they have issues, and know people with issues, it's rude to write them all off like that.

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EDIT: replacing the paraphrased quote to try to avoid unfairly representing the original statement and remove my read of its intent. I had paraphrased it down to ""I assume the people having issues are responsible for those issues" which dropped the bit about perhaps having pets or similar and so put everything on the disrespecting the hardware part.
>Fitness in a world of more than a few is entirely dependent on symbiotic, cohesive, gentile (in the French sense, though Christ is an inordinately germane example of kindness too) behavior.

There are at least 2 levels of fitness/survival - an individual inside its group/society and a group/society among other groups/societies. While the "symbiotic, cohesive, gentile" may do well inside its own society, would the society consisting of only such individuals do well when pitted against another society? Or would having some amount of the non-"symbiotic, cohesive, gentile" individuals in the mix help the survival of that society?
A lot? At least looking at the evolution of the smartphones in those years.
Indeed, if you have the money - you can buy racing speed horses and in many countries it's still legal to ride them on the road while abiding standard road rules and avoiding highways. (The term 'Enterprise Horse' came to mind and I had a giggle)