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I wish I could upvote this (and your other comments) 100 times. Amazing high quality machines will keep the design and dev community on Mac for years to come, churning out the apps that help to make the iPhone ecosystem work.

Bleeding power users to alternative systems creates vulnerability.

These arguments would be the same for Microsoft circa 2007. Why should Microsoft care if the designers, developers, and tastemakers hate their products? They've got so much lock-in that people will be forced to use their stuff forever. Wheee, we're invincible. We all know how this turned out.

I'm running up against low memory issues on my 16gb MBP lately. I absolutely cannot responsibly update my Apple product right now because of the 16gb limitation on the MBP. It does matter!

I'm getting ready to bite the bullet and go back to Linux desktop.
Windows is not Free Software, and this entire discussion is about Microsoft's decisions that ignore the wishes of the actual owner of the computer.

Microsoft is forcing changes onto other people's property. If this was a physical product you bought, the manufacturer forcing changes onto your property would be considered vandalism. Of course, apologists will try to shift the blame to the victim - the users lacking technical training - by pointing to dark patterns in the setup or "EULA".

Microsoft isn't the worst offender re: platform freedom, but calling windows "free" ignores decades of bad behavior, the current moves to lock down Windows while adding spyware and other miss-features, and the simple fact that proprietary software outside your control is by definition "not free".
I'm honestly curious, what is it that you find infuriating with Unity? I hear this often, but never specific reasons. I'm perfectly OK with Unity, and I'm a tiling WM kinda guy (so it's far from ideal, but still perfectly usable). The few times I've tried to use Gnome 3, on the other hand, I just couldn't figure it out.
Looks great! Now if only there was one for Mathematica…
Every Starbucks barista (who's worked at Starbucks for some number of months) receives a free Spotify subscription, for example.
> Every decent news story amounts to bribery?

George Orwell's "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations" is the best filter to apply in these situations.
The lack of opportunity in rural America is disheartening to say the least. I feel the election of Trump is a direct reflection of the lack of empathy people have from cities have for rural America.

I grew up in New Hampshire in a very rural town with a population of 4,000. Rural life sat well with some of my peers, but I loved tech and quickly left through college enabled by my parents ability to point me in the right direction, which many of my peers didn't have. The difference in opportunity I saw in the cities versus New Hampshire was staggering, not even comparable. I've enjoyed my life as I've explored more of America and ended up in the Bay, but every time I go back to New Hampshire there is always a tally of people I knew who died to Heroin. That or one of my friends succumbing to their addictions again. I know these people extremely well and I can confidently say the only difference between me and them was opportunities to enable my mind and parenting. It's disgusting honestly.

Now I would love to solve this problem, but the lack of empathy I've seen in the cities for these people is the worst piece of this puzzle. People in cities have the privilege of wealth and the ability to direct America in a way rural America doesn't. The issues they face in rural America are completely ignored. While they cite that the popular vote strongly favored Hilary, they forget why the electoral college was created. To help rural America from being completely ignored while the cities with denser populations sway the votes towards their issues.

I encourage everyone to go talk to a person in a rural county that is provided cheap heroin through foreign drug smuggling groups that don't have any opportunities. Empathize with their problems. Do I think transgender deserve equal rights? Absolutely. But go to a town ravaged by heroin and lack of financial growth and bring up transgender bathrooms to them. They will be baffled by your lack of knowledge of how their lives operate.
Ask HN: Any interest in data loss prevention(DLP) app for Slack?
Would anyone be interested in a DLP app for Slack that monitors messages in realtime for sensitive info like credit cards, social security numbers, etc.? I've built a crude prototype that can do so and delete the culprit messages.
I think your point is valid too. It seems that a lot more people today, given the current political climate in a lot of countries, plus the widening gap between the upper and lower classes of society, are beginning to realise that quite a sizeable percentage of the population is only one or two paychecks away from being homeless.

Perhaps there is an awakening along the lines of "There but for the grace of [insert deity here] go I..."
Here in Australia, Vodafone (a mobile carrier) have been bundling Spotify Premium with their contracts, for example: https://www.whistleout.com.au/MobilePhones/News/Vodafone-rev...

Interestingly Apple did a similar thing with Telstra (the largest, formerly state owned carrier), with a year free on 1 year contracts.

That has now become more of a free trial sort of deal though: https://www.telstra.com.au/applemusic
Related discussion from several years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5264405
There is some related material in the written lore of Buddhism. Interestingly and perhaps tellingly the material is largely phrased on classifying the motivations and appropriate responses to questions in general, rather than the explicit act of decision-making: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/index-subject.html#questions

There are questions that should be answered categorically [straightforwardly yes, no, this, that]. There are questions that should be answered with an analytical (qualified) answer [defining or redefining the terms]. There are questions that should be answered with a counter-question. There are questions that should be put aside. These are the four ways of answering questions.
"Our own customer service team is composed of CEOs, co-founders, CTOs, developers, and of course, customer experience gurus."

Good for you! But your typical company doesn't have that depth and breadth of human resources available for customer service.
I don't pay for Linux.... So I'm the product? How is that working?
Switch to Linux. Problem solved ;)
We're doing some qualification of Windows Server 2016, which we use to run some business logic [insert history here]. Imagine my surprise when I found some Cortana-related processes running on one of the test boxes.

Cortana. On an OS that's supposed to be a server. I can tell that I'm going to have a ton of fun locking this stupid thing down. Also, seeing a process named "NetworkSpy" got fun, fast; whoever named that thing sure knew how to get my attention.

I like the core Windows OS; it's a nice kernel. But there's a lot of crap on top of it, and their testing is getting worse. Ask me about Remote Desktop regressions... well, don't. It's the weekend and I want to forget.
I usually quote like this:

> “Are you going to be paid for writing this story?” a Scottish player asked me. “Because I am losing three days’ wages to be here so that I can get screwed by you."

The leading > and italics make it clear that it's quoted and it avoids making the reader scroll horizontally. Not perfect but it's about the best you can do here, AFAIK.
FCM is a standalone service, it's just branded with Firebase instead of Google like before.
What share to give the first employee?
Hey there, we are disrupting the unfair higher education application process with our Google of “University Searches” our natural language generation engine. We are ramen profitable and we have employees but they are salaried without any stake in the company. We are looking to take on our first technical employee but we are not sure how to do it. About what share in the company should we offer him? And should he receive an industry standard salary on top of that? Perhaps there is some ratio?
Hardly is it that static content is the way to go when you're working with any sort of dynamic data. If you're just making blog posts, Airship most likely isn't for you.

An offline app would cause a number of its own problems in that regard, because now you're actually having to design a backend that interface with your webserver and puts the content to it. What happens when you have multiple editors? You're now pulling information from a central resource, which is going to be over the internet, whether its on a different server or not.

Not to mention, by having it 'offline', you can't have mobile apps to edit content on your site.

Static definetely has advantages, but when scaled and working with data its not that simple.
The relationship between urban and rural regions is also interesting.

From 1910 to 1990, rural population grew from 50m to 61m, bobbling about a bit in the process. Call it a 124% growth.

In the same period, urban populations grew from 42m to 187m, a 445% increase.

Among other things, this means that there's been a persistent shift of political power from people to land, effectively, via the Electoral College. Given the strongly conservative tendencies of rural populations, this helps explain the voting and electoral patterns of the past several decades.

Having spent my share of time in and travelling through many of these regions, the social welfare patterns are fairly easy to understand. The region has visibly sagged over the past 30 years.

https://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/files/table...
Ah, like how babel was able to compete with typescript despite typescript being funded by Microsoft and babel by community efforts
Author of ‘Sapiens’ on how meditation made him a better historian
Not to mention the legacy of waste dumped into the atmosphere, including airborne radioactive waste from coal burning.
Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Decision Making, Habits [audio]
The person who found the Cloudflare bug in the first place is a Google employee.
Because I don't always have internet access. Besides my MacBook Pro is perfectly good as a code editor and in many cases quicker than when you have to put up with network latency.
That lack of empathy runs both ways.

There are also cities which offer little by way of opportunity and have their own problems with crime and addiction. Density means that, political will and money offered, treatment may be slightly more effective. It can still be an awfully bleak world.
Which actual security benefits do you get from blocking ICMP? Is that really worth it, considering that you break Path MTU Discovery, rendering your servers unusable for some people?
Is this suicide attempts included I wonder? Cities definitely have more help groups and "watch" groups. Chances of survival are also more around cities if someone spots you can calls emergency services. (Someone noticing their loved one/roommate attempting something and calling the doctors for example: someone I knew had their stomach pumped under 20 mins of them taking pills and survived).

I think opioid addiction is a symptom and not the cause. Maybe disappearance of rural environment where one grew up contributes to not being able to cope even more.

Slightly offtopic but:
http://www.davidsongifted.org/Search-Database/entry/A10554
Could it be related to the rising income disparity?
Yeah, it's is highly unlikely there will be no one that you can buy a similar service from in future, if Spotify goes away.
Maybe because they have family and friends there, and miss them terribly after suffering through hell in war?

This need to be home could be further strengthened by something like PTSD or other psychological trauma that might severely impair one's ability to take care of one's self, and the need for help from one's family, which is likely back home.
One caveat: all your custom enabled/disabled hosts disappear after "update" command.
Real computer experts do not use Microsoft products !
1% of the total US population, but what percentage of rural America, and (more to the point), what percentage of the suicides in rural America?
Surely AAAA these days :-)
Upcall seems like a good idea.
Because I still don't see the value add.

Everything they offer is already something that SublimeText+Plugins offers. Except I have more control over SublimeText and its Plugins and the configuration of those plugins.

I'd actually love for someone to explain why they use an online code editor, for those that do. The only feature I could feasibly see is collab coding and that sounds like a nightmare and not a benefit.
Vue.js is not alone. Weex has already support Vue.js. Developers now can use Vue.js to write mobile apps.

[1] http://weex.apache.org
[2] https://github.com/alibaba/weex/releases/tag/v0.10.0
Absolutely. The cities have their own issues, but I don't know anyone in rural America that can't empathize with not having opportunity and being poor.

Now when I talk to people in the city, I've heard so many things such as 'Can we all agree that America is disenfranchised by the electoral college?' or 'Isn't it crazy how trump supporters care about the borders so much?'. Where do you think the cheap heroin that is killing my friends is coming from? And the most frustrating part is I have to sit there completely silent while I think about my best friend who has died and come back to life multiple times from heroin. Why? Because I'll be labeled a trump supporter and potentially lose business. Even though my point has nothing to do with Trump at all and I'm only thinking about my friends.

I can't think of a single scenario where brining up people in cities that have no opportunity is unacceptable. If anything it's the opposite, and people in rural America know it can get much more violent in the cities. They respect that fact.
I am curious why you decided to launch on Sat late night. Is there some data backing what is a good time to launch.
Confirmed in 1999 in the US and apparently known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

It is apparently not confirmed in other cultures, where interpersonal relationships are traditionally conceived of differently.

Corresponding advice from http://highexistence.com/dunning-kruger-effect/: Be confident in the areas that you suck at.
Or more likely you don't see those kinds of creatures because there has been no reason for evolution to select for all those abilities in one species. It's good enough to have one of them.

But that says nothing as to whether genetic engineering could produce such creatures.
My health system in Oregon is offering online consultation with medical professionals. I haven't used it yet but it seems more than email and it seems person to person, not person to medical journal article.
What the heck? I found cheap ones on Amazon designed for the Baofeng ham radios. Surely Shenzhen has figured it out.
It's true, but I wonder how many of these "suicides" were with pills, or of people addicted to pills. It's not a shock that the places that were hardest hit by opioid addiction, then hardest hit by ham-handed attempts to curb the flood of said addiction, are racking up high numbers of suicides.
Point is, you'll have to pay again. I prefer to pay once, and then have it in my collection.
If your raw SNR is low, then you're boned no matter what.
'breeder' reactors are scientifically accurate, but scary PR.

Call them "Waste Reduction Reactors" (which is also true). The general theory that I recall reading was that it was desirable to continue processing the material within a reactor. The reactors are so radioactive that proliferation is a suicide on site mission, and the outputs are a mix of isotopes that either decay /quickly/ (half lives on the order of decades) or REALLY SLOWLY (thus not very radioactive).

That's the waste reduction part; it's 'waste' in the most literal sense of us not having extracted the energy.
Here in the Philippines the major providers bundle Spotify with data plans. Also, a family subscription here is a fraction of what it was back home in the US (~P159 vs ~$10+)
>I think opioid addiction is a symptom and not the cause.

If the Rat Park study's conclusions [1] can be extended to humans, all addictions are symptoms of a deeper cause: Your life sucks.

From what I've read, there's a feeling that the fundamental way of life that many of these people grew up with is really being threatened. Combine that with a complete lack of ability to support your family, and a sense that tons of people in cities (which are an anathema to their value structure) are getting ahead while they fall behind... Yeah, their lives suck, and they see no way out.

Sorry to be depressing here. Hillary actually had some policies that could have helped, and still more if she'd had a friendly Congress to pass supporting legislation. Trump, on the other hand, wants to help people through an application of trickle-down economics ... sigh ...

[1] https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_everything_you_think_y...
I got 99 problems but Spotify ain't one! because I live outside their small map. I don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.

Edit: just joking, I am actually irritated I can't check out the Discover Weekly playlist, whenever it comes out in discussion. I just checked, my country is still not on their list.
NOPD Investigates Triple Homicide on Brutus Street
Digital Startups – Weekly News Roundup 19th March
Wow, this is great.
These things changed quickly though. Drivers that were an issue three years ago will now often just work.
I can't begin to say how profound I found your comment. thank you. I live in the SF bay area but I am acutely aware of how separate and different inland CA is to the wealthy coastal areas. I can't begin to imagine what the rest of the US experience is in these bizarre times. There is such a strong societal bifurcation going on right now and more importantly such damage being done to confidence levels it is hard to imagine what society in non affluent areas will look like in a few years time...
It's all connected. I don't know many of the people that have been hit hard by heroin that didn't touch pills as well. It's a n issue with multiple fronts including pharma and heroin. But more importantly than any of this in my opinion is what pushes them all to continuously do drugs. Lack of opportunity. My home town friends are landscapers, farmers, movers, people that mow your lawns, etc. How can they move from that to adapting to this new society and what's America's plan to help these people?
"People in the cities" (who tend to be strongly left-leaning) literally want to give money to the less well-off people in rural areas to help support them. It's the right-leaning candidates who are opposed to wealth redistribution.

Who is missing empathy for whom? From my perspective, the fiscal conservatives from the rural areas have relatively less empathy than vice versa.
You can just as easily replace "rural America" with "black America" and make the same exact point. Lack of empathy goes both ways.
I think he's pointing out for example that you can discover a new song you love in spotify, add it to your playlist, have that sync with your phone automatically or if you login at work whether using the pc app or website it'll be there for you as well. Pretty much add to playlist once, play anywhere.

I'm not sure what would be involved to be able to access my music through a web browser at multiple locations that syncronises with multiple devices every time I add a song to a playlist but I don't think 'effortless' would describe it.

That's one way music availability on spotify is better, the other thing is that I honestly don't even remember what music discovery was like before spotify, I think it was mostly youtube videos...
> Anecdotally, discover weekly is a tremendous hit.

Would be nice to try, but it is restricted for me.
I'm a little confused - pointing out that drug problems exist, and people are hurting, in rural places will get you branded something negative?

I'm from a relatively rural area, yet I do not feel uncomfortable talking about my experience growing up and what I know of where I spent my formative years.
www is the relic of the early Internet. Really no point in it today.
In my experience CAD/CAM users are experienced in their speciality, e.g. architecture, mechanical engineering, etc, but often are not very computer literate. It's not due to a lack of intelligence, but they have better things to do than to become IT specialists as well.

People in these fields, generally start out in larger firms and thus are only familiar with Windows as good corporate staffers. Those that go freelance or join startups, tend to continue using what they are already familiar with.

The CAD/CAM software vendors are motivated to go after enterprise licenses, thus there little incentive to support anything but the most widely used operating system.
It's striking to me that you blame border security for your friend's death. Can you explain that further? It seems like the deeper issue here is lack of resources for drug rehab, and still deeper is the lack of economic opportunity that leads to drug use in the first place.
Wow, I thought this was not possible but indeed this is true. Nigeria has population of 182.20 million! Wow.
I switched from Google Play Music to Spotify specifically because of Discover Weekly and the curated playlists that spotify hosts. I pretty much only listen to music from one of those two.

Conversely, the "daily mix" playlists seem to be utter crap for me.
"they forget why the electoral college was created. To help rural America from being completely ignored while the cities with denser populations sway the votes towards their issues"

The Electoral College is rigged the way it is because otherwise the slave states would not have joined the union. That is the only reason. There were more voting white men in the north and more non-voting slaves in the south. The delegates to the constitutional convention from the south new that the north would outnumber them in direct elections so they invented the electoral college system. It should have been scrapped after the civil war.
Warming happened. It didn't happen where it was initially predicted. What are you claiming happened in terms of net atmospheric + ocean warmth?

Here's US GDP, percent change from previous year, 1930 - 2016:
https://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/files/table...

Wikipedia states that:

The financial crisis of 2007–2008, also known as the global financial crisis and the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Given that Wikipedia is not in fact a primary source, that's backed with a primary source. Oh, I'm sorry, four:

ReferencesEdit

"Two top economists agree 2009 worst financial crisis since great depression; risks increase if right steps are not taken". Reuters. 27 February 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2015.

Eigner, Peter; Umlauft, Thomas S. (2015-07-01). "The Great Depression(s) of 1929–1933 and 2007–2009? Parallels, Differences and Policy Lessons". MTA-ELTE Crisis History
Working Paper No. 2: Hungarian Academy of Science. SSRN 2612243Freely accessible.

Eichengreen; O'Rourke. "A tale of two depressions: What do the new data tell us?". VoxEU.org. Retrieved 2016-02-22.

Temin, Peter (2010-01-01). "The Great Recession and the Great Depression". National Bureau of Economic Research.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%...

Your graphs are utter non sequiturs here, and fail to make any coherent argument, let alone support it.
The root cause seems to be lack of education and drug abuse epidemic.