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I just don't think Apple is trying to cover the whole computer market anymore, and in fact really haven't done for the whole post-NEXT era. They do basic and pro desktops and a few basic and pro laptops and that's it.

There will always be some pros and some consumers that want or need something a bit different and for them there's Linux and Windows, and from Apple's point of view that's fine.

Apple are long past trying to occupy every ecological niche that computers can fill. The level of fit and finish they put into their products means they just don't have the bandwidth to cover all the market, or update every product on every cycle. The NUC us a great little device and Windows 10 is the least worst version for years, so go for it. Enjoy.
> Don't screach about McCarthy being wrong.

We've banned this account for repeatedly violating HN's civility rule.
Uh, I'd hope any large enough company in the USA (who's likely to have affected employees) sent out a similar message. They literally risk having personnel that was away on business travel get stuck outside the USA with nowhere to go.
I think this post itself a pretty good explainer as to why.

Customers aren't even aware of the lack of competitiveness.
- Islam is not a race, it's an ideology

- Go live in one of these European cities that have been turned into a refugee ghetto by their government, and come back and tell me that
You might want to see a doctor about that.
> perhaps you are unamerican?

Good grief. Incivility like this will get your account banned from Hacker News. Please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508058 and marked it off-topic.
5 Signs that your prosepct isn't interested
If you accept the premise (that the visa system has holes) then of course you would want to suspend immigration from high risk areas while those holes are addressed. Of course, I'm sure you don't agree with the premise. But you should at least acknowledge that if you did, that a suspension would be needed while revising the rules. To do otherwise would be transparently stupid, since it would basically advertise the vulnerability while leaving it open, giving people a timeline to exploit it.
Bitcoin Powerhouse Bitfury Initiates Global Blockchain Business Council in Davos
Science might save my daughter. Don’t kill it
Keep on waiting. Every single transaction method has been broken. If not the method itself, the environment in which it has been used.

Your personal experience is not a valid scientific reasoning. If it was: "I have not used more than maestro cards and my 4-digit pin in 4 years. I did not have a single fraudulent transcation for 4 years now. [...] Maybe we should just use this everywhere!"
I live in Central Europe. It is really hard from my perspective to understand all that mass hysteria in US, especially in California. Maybe overdosing leftist propaganda causes that hysteria.

Many products of Silicon Valley and Hollywood companies are simply blocked in China. Mainly to protect Chinese young companies. As far I known Google is completely blocked in China. Hollywood movies are also not freely distributed in China. And for some reason it is Trump accused of acting against free trade. What should be the right reaction for Chinese protectionism? More know-how transfer to the land of democracy?

And if you really care about Muslim countries then explain to me: why the PhD brain drain is so good for these countries?
Sam is just worried where it leads to as many have pointed out. No more cheap labor for tech companies. They actually have to hire americans and pay market rates.
That's different from saying he should be exiled from civil society.
r: term limits for legislators. California tried that. Turns out representatives without experience at drafting and passing legislation rely on lobbyists with the requisite experience, and the power shifts from nominally accountable representatives to unaccountable lobbyists.
> 1) 'Two factor auth is on, you have to answer two security questions to access your account!'

That's awful! By using the two-factor wording it's deliberately misleading people who don't know much about it.
I'm hardly a Trump fan, but the American people disagree with me. Insofar as democracy is legitimate (note: I do not believe in democracy), so is he.
I suspect the outrage has less to do with a rational analysis of polices and world events and more to do with virtue signaling and groupthink.
Ask HN: Sysadmin rejected for the second time at Amazon
I've been lurking Hacker News for a while but never commented neither have
Account. I always see this kind of post and I find them very helpful.
So here I go.

A little background about myself: 5 years of experience, under 30, studying a
CS degree while working full-time as DevOps for a Fortune 500 IT company.
(I don't think this matters but it's quite funny for me because it's a crappy
working place, sounds cool but nothing special).

Recently I visited Amazon Dublin for the second time, and I've been rejected
again. I was trying to get a position as Data Center Technician. I think
(even Amazon workers said it) that it is a basic role
(More info here https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/453660) but I find it very
interesting for me for different reasons.
My first job was something like it in a small data center few years ago but I
moved away from this path because in my country there are no good jobs at data
centers, mostly because there are in the big cool data centers around. So it
was a dead path. But now that I'm OK with traveling to other countries It's
something I want to reconsider

As the other time, they said that I am fully qualified for the position in
IT terms.
But I'm not the profile they are looking for and they can not say more.
That's freak me out! I want to improve my skills, not for getting a job,
but for feeling good and learning new things. I have some kind of
auto-guilty mode and I'm always blaming myself for not being a better
professional. And for the second time, five employees from a big tech
company say there is something they do not like about me!

I'm feeling a little lost right now. Why this secrecy?
If I'm qualified ... why can't I get the job? My current position does not
offer me any kind of challenge and responsibilities neither future expectations.
Any advice?

P.S: Sorry, I guess it's some kind of an open question.

EDIT: Fixing indentation
Don't post banners about the US refusing reentry to Green Card holders who are the spouses of American citizens, or who fought alongside our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, because that might dilute our protests against net neutrality?

After a period of 6-12 months outside the country, US Green Card holders lose their Green Cards.
See the Neutral Politics (https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics) thread on Reddit. They have a very strict moderation policy. All assertion must be backed up by appropriate citations.
> I had to teach myself programming now running a company which has required quit a lot of knowledge which is spread among technical/business/people.

I feel like I'm headed down a similar path myself. Do you have any recommendations for books relating to this? I'm certainly not asking for a huge curated list, but perhaps the top 5 you found most influential would be much appreciated. Thanks.
What can be worse than premature optimization? Premature generalization :-)

What is so special about efficiency? Efficiency is just one of the concerns the software development orgs are facing, together with cost, utility, usability, deployability, maintainability and so on. The tradeoff between these (and the ability to choose this tradeoff correctly early in the cycle) often defines the success of a project or an organization. Focusing on one while disregarding others can be lethal.

YMMV. Watch your controls.
You mean the way my VPN software needs to have a backdoor in it just so that the touchbar keeps working while I'm connected? ;-)
It can be brought down even faster with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Hyperbaric chambers are reasonably common, due to usage in both (SCUBA) diving related medicine and various therapies for wound care.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/non-...
Everyone should read this, and forward to their loved ones. This is very close to home (not literally) because it could happen to anyone, and is something that many people do not consider. Have up-to-date CO detectors, do not operate large appliances without considering their byproducts. Literally, the environment matters more than anything, and this acts as a grave reminder of this. Take care of the environment, especially the tiny one in your home, as it could save your life.
I really don't know what understand what 'negroes' and Russians have anything to do with it. I'm not an American, but you made my belief that nothing is going to change soon because American people are so polarized and and certain there are two works views. You're either blue or red and that's it.
When did yc became a shill for Democratic party?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508050, since it's no more a reply to the top comment than it is to the OP.
>racist

Explain how the EO is racist. Blocking a country is not racist. If the EO was "Persians are not allowed in" that'd be different.

And homophobe? A gay man spoke at the RNC to huge applause (even made a comment on how getting upset over transgender bathroom use is pointless).

These kind of careless accusations just make everyone ignore real charges of racism.
Leaving the house for a few hours a day would be sufficient to "reset" the COHb levels in the blood.
I think that most Americans, even many Trump voters, disagree with this specific action. The problem we have now is that the left and the press have declared every single thing Trump has done both before and after the election as the worst thing that has ever befallen our nation. The press has left both Trump and the country tone-deaf.

Donald Trump is a man extremely concerned with his popularity and public image. If the media were to present a balanced and fair portrayal of the positive (or non-negative) things he does, he would be able to gauge how unpopular actions like this ban are and would probably listen to the message. But the press simply cannot contain itself - CNN, for example, has turned into HuffPo with a cable channel.

In short, the universally negative coverage of every breath Trump takes has actually empowered him. Trump will do some good things, such as making it less punitive for large corporations like Apple to repatriate foreign cash and invest it here, and he will do some bad things, like this temporary travel ban. The media will treat it all negatively, which gives him carte blanche to ignore all forms of criticism and defeats the entire purpose of the free press.
I find this so ironic. The so-called "heartland" and their complaining about "liberal elites" on the coast are so incredibly wrong. Every election in modern history is decided, ultimately, by these people who let themselves believe that they're disadvantaged and being left out. It's the reverse that's true: they get more representation proportional to their population, they get to decide what the makeup of the majority of Congress looks like, and they're the swing states that decided presidential elections. Meanwhile, in other places like the South or the West and East coast, if you vote contrary to the large majority, you may as well not even bother.
> And for many who cast their vote in favor of these dubious causes, the present was materially bad enough for them, whether through unemployment, stagnating wages, or pay cuts, to take the chance.

That's largely a false narrative though. Trump's support was much stronger among wealthy whites in areas that were doing relatively better than most of the nation economically.
I see the parallel, but I don't think it's all that parallel. I'm in a similar situation right now with a motorcycle battery. My bike stopped working last Friday - 8 days and counting now. It took 2 days before I had time to go out and have a look at it. Then I had to come inside and look up a video to find the non-obvious location of the battery. I used a multimeter to check the charge on the battery, but I don't have a real tester to tell me the health of the battery. The multimeter seemed to be telling me it's fine. It took it to a local auto parts store to be sure, but the kid at the counter was even less sure than I was. So I took it into work the next day and walked to a motorcycle dealership to have it tested there. Yes, the battery is dead, no they don't have one...

There are several more episodes in this story (which hasn't ended yet), but the point is that this would have been a 30 minute job if I had a SHOP and TOOLS and LIGHTS and the ability to work on it uninterrupted for a little while. The fact that it's taken 8 days is almost entirely down to the fact that I live in an apartment building and my tools are in storage right now.

But the beauty of computers is that everything you need is contained on the device, and you can work from anywhere. If only more people would take advantage of it!
I counted 30 seconds of being stuck behind the unloading van with no way to pass without crossing double yellow. I didn't notice the autonomous green light turn off though. Possibly the algorithm is, if you're stuck then certain rules become flexible.

Worth mentioning, 30 seconds would feel like an eternity inside a car.
> On Jan. 12 D.C. police noticed four camera sites were not functioning properly and told OCTO. The technology office found two forms of ransomware in the four recording devices and launched a citywide sweep of the network where they found more infected sites, said Vemulapalli.

This is interesting, because it suggests (to me) that the systems were note specifically targeted because they were part of the CCTV system but were instead caught up in a broader wholesale ransomware attack on whatever system the attackers could get their hands on?

I'm not sure if an un-targeted attack is more or less concerning than a targeted attack. One could of course make a "they should take more care with purportedly critical systems" statement. But the un-targeted scenario implies that a targeted attack on the system could be much more devastating.
> Vietnam, MLK, Womens voting rights, gay rights, workplace safety, end of apartheid etc.

Exactly. What is the most recent one? It has been so long. Does this tactic even work. I am worried it doesn't.

> Occupy Wall Street lacked one clear thing: a defined goal.

I think Trump opposition is also in trouble for not having a clear goal unless the goal is "remove Trump because I wanted Hillary to win". It has to be like in this case "against extreme vetting from these 7 countries". Or against "building the wall". It has to be a clear message.
False equivalence. Clinton did not insist against all evidence that climate change is a Chinese hoax and the president is a foreign ineligible immigrant.
It sounds like you have legit personal reasons for strong feeling, but we can't let that translate into personal attacks on HN. That's the equivalent of setting our own neighborhood on fire. Please don't do it here, regardless of how wrong others may be.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13508560 and marked it off-topic.
I've always been wary of 3d printers and laser cutters because of indoor air pollution & VOCs. Though I didn't realize the amount they put out and the cumulative effects of CO as mentioned in the comments here.

My sense is that laser cutters should be required to come with CO detectors, and more generally we should be looking to add the appropriate chemical detectors to 3d printers and laser printers to warn of other chemical output issues. These home machines are often advertised for use in confined spaces (size is one way manufacturers compete), which is why I think it should be regulated - its not like someone took a commercial machine home with them. Laser cutters are a fairly large capital expense and bolting on a CO detector is very inexpensive (probably <1%), and it could integrate with the cutter's electronics to prevent usage if it exceeds a certain level.

Safety regulations are usually written in blood. Having two deaths with such a small # of these machines out there suggests there are probably others who have cumulative CO effects already. Very sad, my heart goes out to the friends and family of Roger & Valerie.
We can disagree on the historical lessons. I wonder, right now, which historical lesson you are referring to? If you mean Nazi Germany, my opinion is that there aren't actually that many parallels. Or do you mean cases when cultures were eradicated by invaders (real Collapse for some examples, or look at the history of the USA)? Or maybe the cases where Muslims took power, like the Iranian revolution?
Getting a CO detector seems like a simpler solution than keeping your window open forever.
What's a fax? ;-)

Seriously though, how do you know this?
> If "person who supports an abhorrent ideology" is a protected class in SV restaurant service law, I rescind my call to ban him from getting a table, and change it to "let him eat alone".

Political ideologies are legally protected against discrimination in California.

But even if they weren't, why judge someone by their beliefs? The only reason you would is if you think support for Trump is a moral defect, with no exceptions. In other words you're not against him because of his political beliefs, but because of your (not universal) beliefs about what is moral and what isn't.

> We all choose to associate or not with people based on their beliefs.

Disagree. Most people judge others on social status and personal character, neither of which have any link to political ideologies or personal beliefs.

> he is not welcome at my house and I won't work for him

That's a fine personal decision, but there's a huge leap between "I don't want to be involved with him" and "everybody else should ostracize him, or they are just as evil as him". The former is "live and let live", and the latter is "the world should bow to me".
Microplastics found in supermarket fish, shellfish
I'm disappointed I'm not a citizen and couldn't vote for Trump.

I wonder how opinion-widening it would be if a terrorist attack victim's family member came on here to respond to you. There are bigger things to consider other than minor inconveniences.
You know who really needs to take a fucking stand?

The low-level workers at these airports who are enforcing this bullshit ban. They need to grow some spines and start ignoring bad orders, no matter who they come from.

"I was just following orders" was never an acceptable excuse to do the wrong thing.
Yeah really -- I can't imagine you could die of CO2 poisoning without noticing in time to GTFO. I've sucked a lungful of CO2 and it was awful.
>No, the opposing side needs to learn some bipartisanship. The idea that a narrow election victory gives the right to steamroller a programme through is extremely dangerous. Give it a few months and the left will start talking about the second amendment solution.

The GOP won majorities in both houses of congress, along with winning the presidency. There's also no "almost" winning in American politics. The left was shot down pretty decisively and we really need to start thinking about why that is. Call me crazy, but I don't think we're going to win back more of those swing voters by advocating armed overthrow of the president they democratically elected.
Not sure where you get nearly half when less then a third of the population voted for Trump. Nearly half of the population didn't even bother to vote. Are you referring to his approval rating which is questionable with polls of 36% to 55%?

I'm also not calling a Trump voter a "bad person" just asking about the number of people in context to the discussion.
I'd respect some of these people (like SamA, and Zuckerberg, and others) much more if they were consistent in their views.
These millionaires/billionaires who supported Sec. of State Clinton during her election, fully knowing the loss of Muslim life her actions caused abroad, now virtue signaling about Trump -- I just don't know how to take them seriously.
Precisely: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/syrias-christians-stand-by-assad...

More detail here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/25/why-syrian-...
For the third time, that's different from being exiled from civil society.
Not a throwaway, just a coincidental new account. Your suspicion is obviously justified- I'll be on the lookout for posts about symbolic execution research to build credibility on.
> I think my counterpoint was stronger.

No, what I was saying was that your counterpoint isn't a counterpoint. A counterpoint would be: Google shouldn't show new kinds of things on the map (such as houses, small businesses, etc.).

The OP is talking about new kinds of things, while you're talking about the density of things. And the OP actually makes the same argument you're making a few paragraphs later:

> we’re also seeing the argument for map personalization: Not everyone uses transit, so there might be places—such as landmarks—that are more important to some people. And when it’s life-and-death, hospitals are the most important places in the world. But how often does the average person visit a hospital? Personalized maps are better at surfacing the most appropriate places for each person; but for the default map, something still has to be chosen… and that’s what we saw above.

Personalization is great, but something still has to be chosen for the default. That's why the default matters.
There are a lot of people who will happily accept a temporary suspension of immigration from countries full of ISIS fighters who are trying to exploit our immigration system based on the president's word that the various security services need 90 days to tighten things up. There are a lot of people in this group who also will go out and protest if literally anything more aggressive is done from here (and who also vehemently opposed the original proposal during the campaign.)

The slippery slope fallacy falls short.
Actually, I am advocating responsibility. That's why I used that word when I called out his hand waving with a variety of reasons. Moreover, when you say what they think is morally just and right it's pretty much the same.

At a certain point, you have to accept responsibility. Trump is your guy and he is doing your work.

I suppose you need to understand that y'all went way over the line with Trump and that we're not going to be nice about it.
Thanks for the reply, that clears things up!

> I'd be interested in hearing any info about potential slowdowns if you have them.

I figured if you have a central queue that everything needs to go through then you'd also be limited to a single read at a time. But if you can have multiple read-only secondaries then that's unlikely to be an issue.
> from their country of origin will now instead fly to Saudi Arabia

The fact that you believe subjects are allowed by flight origin rather than by a proof of nationality document like their passports shows a lot about your lack of understanding of the issue
That's also true for tarantulas. Their nervous system is fairly decentralized, but there's still a noticeable mass in their heads which is oddly shaped.
Hard to say, but Omega definitely care enough about their brand and reputation to have a good QA system and testing of products in place. Since testing that a CO monitor is working is very hard for a consumer, you rely a lot on trust in the brand.

If you can get a good, trusted brand for home CO monitors, I'd say go for it.

Apparently, Kidde is a trusted brand in fire alarms etc. in the US, so I think this one ($20) is probably equally trustworthy:

https://www.amazon.com/Kidde-Battery-Operated-Carbon-Monoxid...
In that case, replace the fan, put in a SSD and you're good to go!