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Saved You a Click. I quote:

> Why didn’t I get hired?

>> I don’t know why.
Attempt to disable and lock Intel Silicon Debug on boot
I continue to use Linux/GNU on servers and MBP for my notebook. Compared to Linux on a notebook a MacBook Pro :

- allows me to work for longer on the battery

- has a far better touchpad

- is almost instantly back on when I open the case

- WiFi connects to different A/Ps without any drama

I don't use Photoshop, MS Office, iLife / iWork apps - so having access to them is a non-issue for me. I have switched to an Android phone some time ago, so I no longer use iTunes either.
Lately Apple stories on HN all seem to have comment chains that are isomorphic to this exchange:

Guy 1: Jesus Christ what a red flag at Apple, should we be worried?

Guy 2: Apple makes a superbillion dollars therefore concern is impossible.

It's very weird to see over and over. It's like the way pro-life and pro-choice people talk past each other in their reasoning.
I don't think it really matters, humans can still innovate radical new art works anyway. That's all this stuff is based on, existing master works, it's just an augmentation.

Besides, a LOT of the music people listen to is already heavily computer generated.
"Externalities" is how economists describe those costs.

Realistically speaking, the barber shop could only really push people to park:

* On the street. And you know what? That's fine. If the street was built to have parking, and people are parking there, it's not a problem. It might be more of a PITA for the clients. If it's too much of a PITA, the business may suffer. But that's how markets work.

* In some other business' parking spots: that can easily be solved by other means, rather than having city-wide laws covering all barbers in the city, some of which may cater to hipsters riding fixies who do not need car parking, and others who have elderly patrons who will not tolerate being forced to walk more than they absolutely have to.

I'm not a "markets solve all the problems kind of guy" because externalities are real things. But I feel that our cities are way too regulated. Zoning didn't even exist in Bend until 1947. Some of the first zoning regulations didn't come about until the early 20th century in the rest of the US.

How would we react if there were a "planning commission" that dictated how much of each kind of restaurant (Vietnamese, Mexican, Burgers, etc..) at what kind of price point could exist in a city? Zoning should be to keep truly noxious things away from where people live, not to keep duplexes away from single family homes, or barber shops outside of residential areas.
There is no such country. You and the person you're responding too are bothe terrorist agitators.
And in all editions, there is a whitelist of IPs and Domains in kernel mode part of Win10.

From their PR only the LTSB edition (most expensive one), allows one to disable all phone-home "features" (even there opt-out, and if you miss one, your bad)

There is a reason Win7 goes still strong, and many are very carefully with recent patches of Win7 (which backport some phone-home features and degrade performance, like they did with WinXP3 in its last days).

I am waiting until MSFT board member and lead managers get fired over this case. In the early 2000s, US went after adware and spyware distributers. Nowadays MSFT is the biggest adware and spyware distributer, please go after them. They should split MSFT up in two companies.
As is common with popular education, the "101" classes tend to propagate outdated information and ideas. For some reason they think they need to teach things in historical order.

https://www.gesundheitsindustrie-bw.de/en/article/dossier/ep...
Are you sure that this is really the case and that it does send data even if any consumer experience program or error reporting to Microsoft is disabled?
A lot of academic “research” barely counts as research (2013)
Microsoft Issues Record Low Number of Patch Tuesday Bulletins
Every time they made a public presentation of it, further away from the IBM PC for your pocket it moved.

First it was that that Google was to be the only producer of endoskeletons, and that it would house custom chips. OK, that's on par with the IBM BIOS.

Then they started talking about how modules would only be available via their Play store, and tied to your Google account. They were not even sure if they would allow the resale of used modules.

Then they started talking about moving the mobile radio into the endo.

Then, right before official cancellation, they talked about a complete rethink where just a few small parts could be replaced.
Europe is pretty diverse, I guess :-)

> It's just that the USA has plenty of buildings designed for rentals, which is more about the American market than zoning (residential is residential).

How things are done in the US tends to favor larger developers who can come along and make a bunch of apartments in an area where that has been approved (which tends to be a fairly small portion of the city), rather than a more incremental development style where things slowly transition building by building. This is in large part because of zoning laws that make it difficult to get apartments in many places, so having the means to face the legal challenges is only something those with deeper pockets can handle, rather than a smaller developer who may only wish to develop a few buildings.
There are several package managers for Windows:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_package_manag...
The current list is
https://www.google.com/generate_204
http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/generate_204
http://www.google.com/gen_204

according to https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/blob/5b2...
> Did the upgradeable PC ever really work, or did the vast majority of PCs sold go to the dump with exactly the same configuration as sold?

IME, it never did. Except for techies, hardly anyone opened their computers. I remember seeing some system offered to corporate customers that lacked upgradability (except maybe memory). At first I objected - what a ripoff - but then I realized the truth.

My impression is that PCs got their start with hobbyists and were designed for them, with extra slots and bays, etc., and to this day the designs are still adjusting to the vast majority of end-users. I think the first office suites included relational database authoring tools for everyone - as if most office workers would just whip them up as needed, like word processing documents.

Apple has always seen it differently: You couldn't (can't?) open the cases without special tools.
Okay so a naive and stupid question, why do I use Dart? what does it replace? does it have any frameworks other than angular? can I use it with Vue.JS (since I have spent considerable time learning Vue)

I tried reading their website multiple times, each of the time I was left confused as to where the language fit
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me for the 10,000th time...
> the risk-reward is clearly easier for VCs who can hedge their bets across multiple startups and earn nice salaries regardless

That's only a small percentage of investors who have basically already won though. Right now there is a local startup accelerator for pretty much every city worldwide with more than 250k residents, plus at least one for every major college town (e.g. Madison or Ithaca). So there are easily 500+ total, maybe even a couple thousand at this point depending on what you count. The vast majority of those have made dozens of investments without even a single major exit.

Most of the folks drawing a salary are getting paid far less than you'd make as a decent developer, and many aren't even getting paid at all. The folks on 20-minute VC talking about how they got started after making a few million as hobby investors are about as representative of the average investor's experience as Mark Zuckerberg is of the average junior PHP developer's experience.
What is the command for only running the native linters?
The thing about the PC was that it was an accident of history.

Being made largely out of off the shelf parts, and coming from a company with a massive brand recognition in the business world, the PC was ripe for cloning.

The standardization only happened after the BIOS had been cloned, and the clones defended successfully in court.

As Project Ara moved forward, it became more and more clear that Google would have none of that clone business.
Many web browsers have predictive services built-in to the address bar. Some are even enabled by default. Google has undoubtedly seen .onion addresses submitted.
Pentagon successfully tests swarm of intelligent micro-drones [video]
I think the proper comparison would be with rocking up at a monastery and talking to some actual humans.

Cost? No idea.
If anybody's curious in looking further, the place appears to be Troitsk, Moscow.
Yes, there are externalities and also other ways markets fail; that's why I didn't use the term.

Maybe there aren't enough street parking spots for all the businesses, and then the market fails: No business wants to spend on on-site parking in order to free up parking for everyone else. The way to move forward is to come together and pass a law.

> Zoning didn't even exist in Bend until 1947. Some of the first zoning regulations didn't come about until the early 20th century in the rest of the US.

I'm not sure that means anything either way. Baseball didn't become desegregated until 1947 either. Is there something suspect about advances or changes in society that are recent? Did humans live better before 1947?

> I feel that our cities are way too regulated.

With due respect, this is too easy to say without evidence, is too general to have much application, and it has become cliche to say it about everything. In what ways are they too regulated, and in what ways not regulated enough? Do you have anything to back it up? How much regulation is just right?

> How would we react if there were a "planning commission" that dictated how much of each kind of restaurant (Vietnamese, Mexican, Burgers, etc..) at what kind of price point could exist in a city?

Vote them out of office? Appear at the planning commission meeting? Organize restaurant owners and talk to elected representatives? Democracy is a proven, effective tool. Case in point: I haven't heard of your hypothetical extreme scenario happening.
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It was the former.
I think for the case of the home router admin page (or really any admin page on your local network), the browser can easily detect that it's being served a page on the local net, and could provide a less scary warning that has some text that acknowledges that you're on your local net and that either ignoring the password form security warning (for http) or accepting the self-signed cert (for https) is probably ok. Whether they'll do this is another question...
I used to have one and felt the same way. Other than a laptop and a t-shirt you aren't getting much in there yet it's still a medium-sized bag. The most frustrating thing is that the mouth of the bag is smaller than the compartment, it's like working on a ship in a bottle.

Looks cool though.
Is that still a thing? My understanding was that https these days adds very little to the cost of hosting a site, given hardware accelerated crypto being more prevalent, and other niceties.
Can we flag and ban this MSFT shill accounts on HN? Their sock puppet accounts swamped over to HN around their DEV 2015 conference, doing PR for all new and great MSFT. It was all full of lies, and even VS Code comes will all these spyware. HN is about startups, and Silicon Valley, and investors and shady corporate things from a stoneage company don't fit quite well - who would use Windows and MSFT products with all those license costs for a startup anyway? Who would burn money for fun these days?
Been watching this founder for a few years after seeing her tell her first app's story at a gathering. I have to say at first i was very impressed by the hustle... and now am totally repulsed by it. Her first app failed because it was basically a pay-to-be-advertised-to situation which always go the same way: Sure people will try it in droves, until the money dries up.

While there's nothing wrong with trying and failing, there is such a thing as failing gracefully. As the app was melting down and things got desperate she took to playing the "oppressed female founder" card getting articles in HuffPost et al about how a creepy engineer asked her out after she interviewed him (screenshots of emails and everything). Was she really offended? Probably not. Will she do basically anything for attention? Seems like it. Not somebody for which I'd look forward to working.

Then when the thing finally failed and some company bought the corpse, of course it was a "successful acquisition" according to her rosy social media profiles. (Hey! Also featured in Huffington Post and Business Insider.)

Im fully aware I sound like a butthurt pedant, but I despise over-the-top, self-promotional, wall street, non-technical me-too-ism, and also blatent oppressed group card-playing and quota-fulfillment. The world should work more meritously and efficiently than this.
Sorry if that hurts some American self-respect, but what's the difference between this and the Chinese housing bubble that American media always complain about? Sure some details are different, but the basic layout is the same from what I can see: Politicians had about 20 years long time of incentives to grow without really building self sustaining cities. Now the current generation is at a point were it nearly doesn't know any more what to do. Seems quite similar, doesn't it?
A bit late to the game, but the consumer side risks of the subscription model got me a-thinking.

My main credit card offers a one time temporary credit card number for use when I want to buy something from a dodgy website. I log into the credit card company website, hit a couple of buttons, and generate a random CC number with an expiration date one month out.

This works great for a one time purchase, but rather badly for a subscription purchase. I guess what I would do is, when wanting to cancel the subscription is to change my billing credit card from my "real" credit card to one time credit card number with a short expiry date. The one time card number will be dead within 1 month after such a change.
It did, until it no longer did.

With DOS and Win9x one could effectively replace everything underfoot of the OS and it would hardly blink. Yes it would fall back to 640x480 and 16 colors, and demand you install some new drivers, but beyond that you could do just about anything and it would still boot.

Come NT and you would just be greeted with a error screen and a demand that you did a recovery (that would effectively roll back all patches etc).

And these days you have to phone Microsoft if you try anything like it more than a couple times because you tripped their DRM checks.

Yes, one could wander into a solid case of "my grandfathers axe". But the various layers were independent enough that they would come up in some kind of state that you could work with.

Sadly i fear that Linux is heading into the NT realm with the changes to the graphics sub-system that has come in recent years.

Where before higher modes were the realm of X, and things like 3D acceleration was yet another semi-independent layer, these days the kernel may well give you an error if you do not have the right GPU driver compiled in.
I have several backpacks, none really suited well for my job. I need to carry my laptop through security checkpoints every day. Wish I could find a pack that was minimal (few compartments, zippers, latches and other trimmings). Basically I would like a backpack that can hold a laptop and not much else.
I postponed a purchase of a fully loaded 13 inch model because of the lack of compelling enhancements (not sold on the bar) and these reports of battery life issues likely mean I will not make the purchase at all. At least 3 people I know are in the same boat and could have purchased at launch. While purely anecdotal and selection bias (all of us work in tech), but that's close to $10k in sales right there.

Best case, I'll skip this generation, but I'm strongly considering razer blade stealth + core.
A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning [pdf]
Depreciating it over 30 years is probably reasonable, but automatically counting replacement as an unfunded liability is way too conservative.

Heavily traffic roads will need replacing at least every 30 years. But in my college down, they had side streets made of brick that has lasted over 80 years.

Things like water mains and sewerage pipes have a lifetime of 100 years or more. A lot of the systems are now due up for replacement for the first time and it will cost a lot. But it won't have to be done again again in our lifetimes.
You also mention "insecure resources", wich I think is a big deal too. I'd imagine there'd be the oddA hard-coded http link to an image that serves an important purpose to an article... that suddenly going missing because a browser refuses to load it would be bad.

But I think you hit the nail on the head -- being the "newspaper of record" means you want to ensure that all your content displays like it did the day it was published.
Extreme density is overrated. See http://tinyvillages.org
Paper thin E-Ink watches from Sony
This article seems to focus overmuch on infrastructure maintenance costs. While those are certainly an important factor, most of the actual municipal bankruptcies in recent years were caused primarily by expensive union contracts and pension obligations. Declining populations and financial malfeasance were also factors in some cases.

Perhaps an explosion in infrastructure maintenance costs will cause a new wave of municipal bankruptcies within the next few years but so far it's just not happening.
"...so cut out some vices and divert that cash..." GOLD
This actually already happened, to the extent that it ever made a difference in the PC ecosystem.
The manufacturers of cheap phones in China use standardised modules: motherboard PCB, display with standardised connector, battery, "open mold" (a standard mold designed by a design contractor for the chipset vendor, open to many manufacturers).

This allows them to quickly assemble low-cost phones with components from a large number of manufacturers, driving down costs.

So the financial benefit that came from the open PC ecosystem has already been realised on cheap Android phones, the equivalent of the crappy PCs assembled from lowest bidder components of yesterday (Dell, Packard Bell, etc).
By enacting laws, you create a very rigid situation that's much more difficult to change than "there's not enough parking", which is something the neighborhood could adapt to without too much trouble.

When I was born, Bend was still a wood products industry town based around logging and the local mills. These days, it's trying to develop a high tech industry, and doing reasonably well at it for a small-ish town. Places need to adapt, and rigid zoning is probably detrimental to that adaptation. Markets take in everyone who lives, or wants to live in a place. Planning commissions, or even city councils, have just a few people with their own ideas of "how things should be".

In terms of how they're too regulated, sure:

http://marketurbanism.com/2016/09/06/shut-out-how-land-use-r...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/10/04/...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/business/how-anti-growth-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/10/why-c...

And Exhibit A: the market for housing in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is completely batshit crazy because of the refusal to build housing.
I have to say I have been baffled why Sam Altman is held in such high regard by YC and its community. He co-founded Loopt in the first batch of YC. It was sold years later for less than the money the investors had put into it. So it basically failed and lost money. Except for the co-founders, they walk away with a few million each. Nice pay for at best an average performance.

He then becomes CEO of YC. But YC is already a well established and successful outfit at that point so there is hardly any risk involved. The chief requirement is just to not screw up a good thing. So far he has managed to do that.

Along the way he makes many more millions because as a YC insider he gets to invest at the earliest stage for the best looking start-ups.

I have nothing against the man and I do not begrudge him his millions but lets stop thinking he is a genius. He is an average entrepreneur that has had an amazing slice of luck by being in on YC at its start and making the most of it. I'm sure he is a smart, hard working and a nice bloke. But he is not a genius.
> it's a brutally efficient market

I disagree. You're assuming that every startup gets funded. I think this is wrong. Just because there are lots of terrible startups that get funding, doesn't mean there aren't great startups that never get funded. I'm sure you're familiar with the story of how AirBnB wouldn't exist if it weren't for Y Combinator. Or how Y Combinator stopped operating out of Boston because DropBox couldn't get funded there.

I understand why VC is the way it is, and I think it's a big problem (unless you're Sequoia). Everybody is focused on derisking, which makes sense. But most take it too far, and look for external signalling and develop a herdlike mentality. There is absolutely an opportunity for investors to take on bigger risks with bigger upsides - that is part of Peter Thiel's strategy. And I think Marc Andreessen largely made a16z into what it is today by doing one thing extremely well - thinking for himself.

The rules for startup investing are very different for hardware than they are for software. And the world is looking for the next Apple. Who is going to fund it? I'll bet good money it's not Sequoia. I also bet Sequoia won't invest in the next big energy company, or the next big space company, or a company that wins a sizable market for self-driving cars. There are plenty of opportunities for a new VC to make money, you just need to think outside of the box.

Edit: Just wanted to add I think you make a lot of good points, but I think there is an opportunity for more great VCs to exist.
> the barbershops may be incentivized to push the parking costs onto others

You mean others who post "Parking for McDonald's only" on their spots and have a towing service visible?

There are problems that are not pragmatic for markets to solve without a bit of legal rigidity, but the whole "who will build the roads?" seems to stem from a lack of creativity and just overall contrarianism. "Who will build the interstate highway system" is a much more fair question, but I think cities would enjoy a nice efficiency boost from the decentralized, organic growth of a less bureaucratically-planned city (plus fewer budget problems).
Agreed. Apple's rebuttal does sound very fishy.

I'd love to hear how Consumer Report managed to get a nearly 20-hour battery life result in one of their tests, though.
"The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve" by G. Edward Griffin

"End the FED" by Ron Paul.
Really? I mean, if you have money and can make sure you're in specific areas of the city enjoying specific things, I can see it being great.

But a blanket statement like that about Chicago is very surprising given all of the negative things about its situation (unbelievable gun violence, for one).

Also I can never get over the hilariously bad 75-year lease of its parking meters where they got $1B up front in exchange for eschewing massive amounts of ongoing revenue (the lessees have made $650M+ in revenue in 6 years while sapping the populace dry). Now Chicago actually has to lose money and pay Abu Dhabi any time they want to shut down a street for maintenance or public festivals. Fantastic!
Convert missed calls into leads with Visual IVR system
They get it a very good discounts.

Salaries and buildings are expensive.