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After Apple launched the MBP's back in October, I moved to Linux for all my development work (web included). If you're not reliant on Adobe as much anymore, it's an easy transition.

I installed Gimp for basic photo editing (cropping, basic toning), and it's really not too bad once you get used to it. I have a long history with Adobe products too.
To be extremely blunt, yet honest, poverty harms a lot of Americans but its not going to harm my socioeconomic group very much. Ditto heroin, meth... Its an admission of the death of class mobility. Most people will never be economically mobile enough to hang with me and it would be virtually impossible with my social support net to fall into extreme poverty. It could happen. Due to lack of social mobility its very unlikely however.

You can either model the effects of climate change as a parallel argument or merely a cloaked poverty argument. A parallel argument is Hurricane Katrina only hurt people on the south coast but the entire country saw Americans being hurt. The cloaked poverty argument is me and my descendants are in a socioeconomic group that was mildly inconvenienced by the hurricane whereas poor people, and we'll never be members of that group, literally died on TV. Either way Hurricane Katrina is a great example of people being harmed in the USA that could never in a geographic or socioeconomic sense hurt me and my family, or frankly anyone I work with or hang out with.
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> In my experience with some conservatives, it seems that they believe global warming is happening but they are skeptical of how effective left-leaning politicians can be in combating climate change.

Interesting, I was under the impression that most conservatives were climate change deniers (or at least mild deniers as in it may be real but not a big deal).

That being said, a conservative friend of mine argues that what we need to solve environmental issues (and GW in particular) is more growth, more production and consumption. In his opinion, a side effect of this will be more investment in research and eventually new solutions to the environmental problems (as it has happened many times in history, for instance, think of horses being a nuisance in NYC). I would call that a serious leap of faith, but at least there's some logic in the reasoning!!
Does it matter what weapon the murder/suicide was committed with?

Yes, fewer guns mean fewer gun deaths -- but does it mean fewer deaths in general?

If fewer people own Honda Civics, then fewer people will die in Honda Civic accidents. But that dip in Honda Civic deaths would likely be absorbed into deaths by all other car models, such that the overall death rate remains the same.
When you use the word restrictive without any other context to describe copyleft licenses, as you just have, it only serves to intentionally make the license look bad/unappealing, which is disingenuous at best. It's only restrictive in the sense that it restricts others from profiting off the hard work of the author without having to contribute anything back in return. For the author, the word restrictive is about the last thing I'd call it.

All I hear when I see people describing copyleft licenses as restrictive or viral is self-entitled whining that people can't do what they want with other people's work.

Edit: To be clear, I think the parent made their point in good faith and this is not meant as an attack on them.
Interesting, and I mostly agree. My only point of disagreement is that, as a 40-something, I've no interest in multiplayer games. I don't want to play with random strangers (especially not with teenagers who are sure to beat me and trash talk me in the process), and most of my friends are busy with their families, and coordinating a time where everyone can (and wants!) to play a game such as L4D or Overwatch or Insurgency or whatever is very difficult.

Therefore, I've always enjoyed single-player games more. I fully agree that I do not want the AI to beat me every time; that's just frustrating. I want to be entertained with a good challenge that I can ultimately defeat. Surely there is an interesting game design challenge in this field?
You are bound mostly when you distribute GPL covered works or derivative works. The licence is a-priori unconcerned whether such derivative work involve IPC or dynamic linking or anything else. There is no trivial relationship between the technical kind of SW interaction and if it constitutes a derivative work or not. Sometimes projects clarify their interpretation, e.g. Linux telling (with much reason!) that merely using standard syscalls does not per-se constitute a derivative work - (and note that this is a quite stronger form of interaction than most IPC, however this does not intrinsically prevents some IPC usages to be considered as derivative, maybe especially if such IPC are added after the fact in a vain attempt to circumvent the GPL with a meaningless technical trick)
My brother has one - it's quite a nice machine and the touch bar is way cooler than I thought it would be (whether it will be really useful is probably yet to be seen over the long term).

He's mostly using it for video editing (4K/5K) and it screams along in Final Cut Pro X.
I understand the consumer market for, say pre-built Dell desktops with an i3 you get your mom for surfing the web.

What graphics professional isn't assembling their own rig though? $3k is a LOT of money to spend on a desktop.

I'm old enough to remember dedicated SGI workstations, and a decade ago I felt OSX had some advantages in graphics, I can't think of any of those that exist today, at least to justify such a huge markup on parts I could buy myself.

I'm generally curious, I feel like I'm missing out, people that would consider paying $3k for a computer made out of easily-obtained components, why is it worth it to you?
Maybe they'll update aperture (one can only hope for good, not so expensive photo editing software that allows one to put pictures into folders and projects...)
How is it that everyone (82% Nationally) seems to agree that the most critical step forward (Funding Research in Renewable Energy) is a good thing BUT we spend all of our time arguing about whether or not global warming is happening??

This reminds me of a failing, early-stage start up. Rather than just getting to the grind and finding a way to make money, it is so easy to just spend time dreaming and argue about the way forward and spending your time ignoring complaining customers while I'm sitting around pondering how to change the world.
You basically don't know what you're talking about, factually speaking, along a wide range of fact dimensions.
...You're not going to like the results.

Edit: A glance at said results is making my point fairly well. It would appear that when you try to make money blocking only some ads, people... don't like that in their ad "blocker". When that blocker is a bloated CPU/Memory hog compared to the competitor which doesn't show you ads...

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You can see how this is going right? Maybe your strategy would have worked 5 or 10 years ago, before malware, loud ads, endless tracking and other miserable practices burned us all so thoroughly out on ads. When those practices had us by all by the balls, "This is unfair!" "This will end badly!" was roundly ignored.

Now that people have options, suddenly it's, "We're all in this together guys! Lets be cool about this."
I don't know much about the situation at all but a sieve should be gravity fed (with an expectation of a reasonable throughput), RO is pumped under additional pressure AFAIK.
I've been building hacks (as the community calls them) since 2010.

If you get a golden build and get it working it's almost like a real mac. It's possible to get everything working 100% but it's time consuming and even in the best case scenario macOS updates will probably be a pain.

Another aspect to consider is noise. If you come from the Mac world you are probably spoiled by low noise or silent computers. PCs are very noisy and you will probably have spend time in research and money in expensive silent parts to solve this.

Finally, a common problem with hackintoshes is wifi. I've tried everything, believe me. If you intend on using Wifi your best bet is buying the same chip Apple uses with an adapter. Many manufacturers offer their Wifi drivers for macOS but those are usually finicky or outdated.

This is expensive, but it's IMO the best choice:
http://www.osxwifi.com/apple-broadcom-bcm94360cd-802-11-a-b-...
MIT, BSD, etc are good for libraries and modules. But you basically give away your rights, and your users rights, and make it possible for others to steal your program/project and user-base, and make it proprietary. The GPL protects you from that.
Not my favorite, but an underrated one: The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster.

Forster is better known for writing period romances like A Room with a View. The Machine Stops, written in 1909, deals with issues of isolation and alienation that come with advances in communication technology, and it sort of kind of predicts the internet.
I expect getting that many requests would be a bigger challenge than serving them.
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> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13977554
There's literally a sh*t ton of assumptions, and caveats to the comparison you're referring to: https://www.teslacost.com/model

Also, the "winner" of his comparison was a RAV4 EV (by about $20K) The Tesla finish mid-pack (behind the Ody)
There's also something to be said about a salary. A good salary isn't something to scoff at. If someone paid me a lot of money, and the product and underlying technologies were interesting, and I didn't have any business ideas myself at the time, I would feel odd not having any enthusiasm about the job.
South Africa has good and stable fiber links. It would be the natural choice.
They could go the desktop CPU route, although that's likely not an option for Apple since that would require them to either use extreme throttling or beef up the cooling (meaning louder fans and probably a thicker case)
Expensive cities are where the jobs are. The grand majority of companies want their employees to work in their offices.

I really think the "developers can work anywhere" adage is way overstated. We're still tied to location like anyone else.
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>> an organization loosing all of it's real world power

Could you elaborate on that ?
Your next smartphone is not going to be a revolution
Or just sell a copy of the OS, and write a few drivers.
Funny, window switching is my favorite feature of Gnome 3.

I use alt-tab to change application, alt-` to change windows of the application. Quite easy to navigate IMO. It never occurred to me to use the arrow keys inside of the window switcher.

The one thing I do miss is a good tiling layout. There's a few plugins out there but not one I found actually works.
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Is it really that concerning? What's the worst case scenario here? If the worst thing that can happen is you get served audio that you weren't expecting then I don't really see the big deal. I'm not immediately aware of any way that someone might use this as an attack vector, but then I'm not really a security guy..
Just because psychology doesn't tell us about how the brain functions doesn't mean it isn't useful. Learning about how humans behave in practice is arguably more useful.

And yes tons of psych studies are flawed but the reason we have the replication crisis is that we can actually run sufficiently large well-controlled studies that we have some confidence in the results, and when we run those we do learn important things like "that previous study was totally wrong". A lot of things like our knowledge of heuristics and biases (not the scientific ones mentioned earlier but cognitive ones) and our solid psychometric measures have come from psych studies.

I do agree with you that we basically shouldn't believe the majority of psych studies, especially if they are in the news. However, the crappy studies help guide where we bother to do the large studies, and provide fodder for the meta-analyses. That's what we learn from.
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Or maybe we disagree with using those particular terms, because of their negative connotations, even though we agree that the effect that they describe exist.
Turing Award is the highest IT award (hence "the Nobel Prize of computing") given for a lifetime's work. If some junior scientists would do something as groundbreaking, I'm sure they will receive this award too (after some time maybe; web wasn't invented yesterday either).
Nice! Looks really polished!

One thing I'm wondering about... if this is React based, do you reassign and recalculate the whole grid upon every change? Because the grid is probably a component, and has the table as props. I could imagine that is inefficient... Not to even speak of then rendering the whole component and sending it through DOM reconciliation every time a key is pressed.

Well, OTOH I guess it doesn't matter for small tables. The demo feels really snappy!
Emissions per GDP is a bit of a weird metric

It seems that way. But considering that so much of the emissions are produced in the course of producing goods, it makes sense to tie the emissions to the production. In the extreme case, where a single nation produces all goods consumed by the world, we'd expect the large portion of global emissions to come from that one nation, and the emissions of the rest of the world to be very significantly lower.

Obviously this isn't perfect. Other activities than production produce emissions - notably transportation. But I believe that those dollars are captured in the GDP total.

I think we then get down to "which people are profligate consumers", and I'm not sure how to factor that in.
The GPL is a political statement, i.e. a matter of opinion and choice. Moreover, it didn't kill anybody so far, so it's not exactly questionable on that side. Therefore, it can't be good or bad. The question is simply does one agree with it or not...
Is there a spec?

They talk about modules and I am curious about their syntax (if any). If we are to support a new multi-platform ecosystem, we should make sure it is built on a stable foundation.

For example, I really like scala, but I can't convince myself to try scala-js due to the unsoundness of the platform. Some scala libraries work, some libraries compile but won't work as expected and some libraries need porting. And you don't really know which is which.

https://www.scala-js.org/doc/semantics.html
Idealism is not going to get you very far in the marketplace. Accepting reality as it is and your place and power within that reality is key to both not feeling continuously frustrated and actually achieving some measurable change.

You are essentially trying to ignore the fact that the Berne convention exists and that it (and not ideals) govern the position of rights holders. TBL is a pragmatist, first and foremost, that is why we have the WWW, not because he is an idealist who has forsaken his idealism.

As such, his benefits to society are such that few people can claim to have changed the course of history to such an extent, if you wish to argue that DRM is not a 'fact of life' then you are out of touch with life.

Major rights holders 'making more money that [sic] ever' is not automatic, they require our cooperation and consent.

And that consent and cooperation are ours to withdraw.

Any other changes are political and likely an uphill battle.
Mac OS already runs on lots of different hardware. Just look at the list of compatible hardware for building a Hackintosh. Graphics cards aside, there's a lot of compatible components.
And? If FreeBSD had a more restrictive license, the developers of those products would have simply chosen another similar project, or used proprietary software.
Yes, it is against the consumers. But why do the big companies have it? It certainly costs them a lot in legal fees to have all that fine print. Most of the time it is just CYA for them because they have been burned by lawsuits (some stupid, some not, all costly). As long as the US has a sue-happy culture, then we will see lots of fine print.
I'm old enough to remember the reviews of HL2 which marveled at the same kind of AI. I distinctly remember my experience first playing, when enemy AI ducked behind a crate, and radioed for help. At the time this was amazing, as most enemy AI in other games would blindly run into your stream of virtual bullets - let alone radio for backup.
BSD projects sometimes do complain about their code getting put into GPLed code (usually Linux).

It's bizarre. They'd rather have their code locked up into someone else's codebase than having it always free in someone else's codebase.
I'm using their product. Let me tell my story.

I have an old garage door opener -- ancient Craftsman. It doesn't even have a secure RF opener; no rollover codes or faux-crypto. My wife lost her garage door opener remote. I looked for replacements and couldn't find any that were less than $40 new or $30 used. Ridiculous.

I have an outdoor keypad on the garage, which is detached. It doesn't work very well in the extreme cold because the 9V battery gives out. This solves a unique problem for me: I do not want to buy a new garage door opener. Mine was recently rebuilt with new gears and should be good to go for years. Further, would be a few hundred dollars without labor, and I don't want to do the labor myself. I've done it before; not worth my time. Now, Garadget exists. I got mine for $69. Now I have infinite remotes as long as my wifi works (It's on my IoT VLAN which only can do outbound 80 and 443).

So, Garadget solved a unique problem for me in 5 minutes of work and saved me money. Hilarious that a device this advanced is cheaper than a simple RF remote, but that's supply and demand in action.

Now is this a security concern for me? No. If someone wants to break into my garage they can eBay some garage door keys and just disengage the garage door from the opener via the keyhole on the front of every modern garage door. Or pick it I guess? Or they could get a kids toy and reprogram it to brute force all the garage doors in the neighborhood. https://youtu.be/iSSRaIU9_Vc

tl;dr while this is the Internet of Silly Things, this is not a security concern for me. If someone hacks the company servers and starts opening and closing my garage door I'll just unplug it or remotely block it from my network.
10 is the death rate, 5 the homicide.

All you've done is the old trick of twisting data until it supports what you desperately want to be true because you like owning a gun. Remember, there are far more ways that the data shows you're wrong than support you.

Like climate change deniers, the only scientists that support lesser gun laws are the ones that the NRA pay for. Your congress even defunded independent research as the "wrong" result for the lobbyists kept coming out, more gun control, much less death.
Yep. What a silly thing for them to say as long as the Touch Bar exists.

But seriously, Apple has a history much closer to the opposite of that. Never admit fault. If something really isn't working, pretend that it is right up until a replacement is launched. Just like PowerPC to Intel. Just like the Mac Pro until today. Just like the Apple Watch and Touch Bar (admittedly these last two are a little more speculative on my part, but I think it'll happen).
Really well written. Thank you. I've definitely been the neurotic. Good learning experience. And I've seen some of the other two groups in other people.
Yep. I'll spend 8-16 bucks a month on lottery tickets. It's what I use spare cash left in my wallet for. It's not going to break the bank and I'm likely not going to win, but it's a nice pipe dream and where I live a decent amount of the money goes to the environment.
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http://weareadaptive.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Applicat...
I don't think that the rarity of starvation in modern times is due to central banks, but instead due to advances in farming that allows a very small percentage of people to produce enough food for everyone.

Physicians don't think they can manage and control the billions of cells in our bodies; we still don't understand how all of our cells even work. Physicians apply tested practices to individual people and hope that it addresses whatever medical problem is being observed. They understand that treatments are not one-size-fits-all and that mistakes can kill people. They also understand that our bodies self regulate and they are only trying to address a specific imbalance in their specific patient, not something that applies to an entire population.

Central banks think they can turn a couple of knobs (currency supply and interest rates) and control an entire economy made up of millions of people. Using the physician example, that's like thinking that the only two treatments needed for any medical condition are adjustments to our blood level and body temperature.

Monetary policy is a newer invention in the history of human civilization and even then, it wasn't always applied so universally. Monetary policy can only exist with central banks.
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Ask HN: Biggest annoyance when traveling?
What's your biggest pet peeve when you're traveling outside of your home country and just checked into the hotel?

Examples:
- No wifi

- Poor internet connectivity

- Expensive roaming rates

- Difficult to get local currency

- Expensive FX rates on credit card

- Poor concierge service

- Not sure where to go at night

- Not sure what to eat

- etc.
Overall suicides significantly reduce as suicide is easier to do on impulse with a gun.