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> A deterrent how?

I don't get it. You're arguing both that using custom screws is some horrendous thing that Apple's doing to screw over customers, and that it's not even a deterrent at all because you can buy screwdrivers for it. You can't have it both ways.

> I sincerely doubt that Apple doesn't generate a profit with prices like that.

Why do you doubt that? Do you have any information about what the BOM is for the repair (and don't forget, replacing the screen also means replacing the Touch ID sensor too). Do you have any information about how long it takes for an Apple repair technician to actually perform the repair, and how much they get paid? Do you actually have any information at all as to what it costs Apple to perform repairs? Because it doesn't sound like you do.

That said, it's certainly possible that an individual out-of-warranty repair might cost more than strictly necessary, but if so this would presumably be to offset the cost of in-warranty repairs. I really have no idea if any individual Apple repair costs more than strictly necessary, but repairs as a whole are not something Apple does for a profit.

> These statements are, to me, identical.

Then you have an awfully rigid black & white view of the world, and there's not much more to discuss here.
On the iPad they have the ability to create virtual SIM's and you can select from a list of providers, including one-time payments to activate an account for X amount of data.

Apple could move to something like Google's Fi easily with the virtual sim capabilities...
It was a hypothetical example. I know nothing about warehouse automation (though I know it is not using pad-and-paper as I assumed any intelligent reader would understand I was making up a hypothetical world where warehouse automation didn't exist yet), but I know it's complex and I know that if a company with a lot of employees trains them in a complex system, the odds of them changing that system are very low.

And, as I said above: It's not a monopoly. But, it is a comfortable place to exist profitably without a lot of risk of losing your customers.

Also, you've wholly missed my point about complexity. Some problems are hard because of external, uncontrollable, unpredictable, complexity. Import/export is that kind of complexity. I'm talking about predictable complexity. Again, to come back to warehouse automation as an example, which you hate, but makes my point. A warehouse has a lot of moving parts (people, machines, inventory, shelves, whatever TF), but it is finite and is a mostly closed system. The inputs and outputs usually match up, and you can predict what's going to happen with ins/outs and all the people and things that make the things move in and out. It is complex because it is large and there are a lot of people involved and many of them would need to be trained to use any new system that automates it. It is not, however, chaotic, and involving many competing factions, like import/export.
Airlines have fired staff for eating a sandwich or drinking a coke taken from the plane e en if it was going to be thrown away. It's the same concept as most food outlets. They have no discretion yo give away free things to people who give them candy.
This gitBook is about front-end but it has great resources and gives you good direction about front-end.
https://www.gitbook.com/book/frontendmasters/front-end-handb...
I think "around the corner" is a little optimistic, but I totally get you and I think with more computer scientists joining the research in this area we will see tremendous advancement in the near future.
It affects Linux as well.
> that would help me be less awkward at social gatherings

And how do you think the people you are "talking" to feel when you're constantly occupied with your AR glasses? :)
We hear it over and over again and I understand the reluctance to address it (it can be scary to step out from the crowd) but when is an organization with clout, such as YC, going to take a stand on this issue? Until an organization has the desire and courage to step out from the crowd and fund ideas/startups, without regard to age but, on the strength of the idea and the team, then this issue will forever be in the news.

This would also be an opportunity to expand the pool of startups to fund and to analyze growth, ROI, etc. compared to the standard business practice of funding startups with young founders.

How can we say we care about people and on finding solutions for the problems facing people today when we shut the door on a large segment of society simply because they are over 40? i wonder how Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Sergey Brian, or Eric Schmidt feel about this topic if there was mandatory retirement at the age of 40 in tech. Would they think they still had something to offer? If the answer is they would, why is everyone ignoring this issue?
Societal loss of skill is well attested; Mycenaean fortresses were so impressive to the post-dark-age Greeks that they assumed the fortresses had been built by cyclopes rather than men. (Also, the Mycenaeans kept written records; their writing system was lost and the classical Greeks had to develop a new one.) And the Australians who colonised Tasmania soon lost most of the technology they'd brought with them.

Whether we today can understand how to build massive stone fortresses or make bows and arrows is a somewhat different question.
I know Amazon originally used only Sprint for the Kindle cellular connectivity; has that changed?
The ocaml compiler found a bug in Intel's Skylake/Kaby Lake. If they found one for Ryzen too, I haven't heard about it.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/06/msg00308.html
Internet of Bees device tracks hive health
Ask HN: What problem in your day to day business would you pay for a solution?
I'm having trouble finding problems to solve. So what are problems in your day to day business, that you would easily pay $200+ per month for an awesome solution.
It seems like you are completely missing the point. This has little to do with economic inequality. The issue is not that this guy had a random product and raised its price. If this had been a car or an iPhone, we could not have cared less if he had been "greedy" and selling it for $1M/piece. The issue is that this is medicine we're talking about. People don't view healthcare and medicine like they view ordinary services and products. Many people (perhaps not you) have a much higher threshold for what kind of practice is moral/ethical/acceptable in medicine. That's why even in the middle of a battlefield people think it is inhumane to prevent doctors from treating injured soldiers, the war be damned. There is more to humanity than money.
At least now you know who stole your house in UO.
Not managing people is good; it means that you're not a manager.
It might function as a proper phone, but it can't function as a proper smartphone, because you need a real screen for that.
It's probably even simpler - the conviction is the deliverable produced by a prosecutor, and the thing that moves their career forward. So they are incentivized to always go for the harshest possible punishment, in the same fashion that a company chooses profits over everything else.

The system isn't malicious, it's just not designed to counteract this sort of thing.
I have several frayed lighting cables but mag safe has not failed me even after 8 years of use. And it has served me many times.
Entangled pair quantum routers. Oh wait, that's 50 years away.
Amazon for example values market share above all else, re-investing all it's earnings back into infrastructure and expansion. Google/Android also valued market share. Apple valued profitability.

This has meant that Android has something like 2bn daily actives vs Apple's 700mn across devices. Apple's profits are mostly sitting in cash -- a pretty poor use of capital. And it's a lot of cash, some 250bn of it. It's ridiculous and the opposite of Amazon's strategy. Especially if Apple intends to move to services, it only makes sense to have more active subscribers.

Furthermore, hardware monetisation is upfront but services revenue is recurring (user lock-in, inertia to switch, better forecasting, etc).

Supposing Apple had 1.5bn active devices, their services revenue would be considerable higher than the current 7bn quarterly recurring. That would surpass hardware profits in the long run and Apple wouldn't sit on idle cash.

As the market starts to saturate, customer acquisition becomes costlier. A good example of this is AOL Internet when they were printing so many free Internet CDs (for giveaways) that they took up 70% of the world's CD production capacity. Their rationale was that acquiring customers would never be this cheap again (Microsoft and others were entering into broadband). So if they acquired the customers for cheap today, they could monetise them much more easily (the LTV was considerably favourable in terms of SAC).

It's hard to say what could have been. But what's certain is that Apple is less of a hardware company now and more of a services company as is clearly apparent now from their earnings reports.

At a time when Facebook, Amazon and Google are all vying for market share, Apple seems to take pride in hoarding cash through profits. You have to wonder if it's the right strategy.
It goes both ways though. You can use the intent of a law as a defense in court. It gives more power to judges to interpret things, which can be seen as a disadvantage. Overall I'd still rather have that - in the American legal system I feel like the law being a sword of damocles over my head, constantly waiting for me to inadvertently walk into a trap, while with a European civil law system I get the feeling that the system works for me as long as I don't have bad intents (i.e. as long as my inner moral matches that of the culture I'm in).
3D-printed fruit will help your real apples taste better
I think the HN-framed takeaway here is that the developer building the system could have used a timestamp + HMAC and prevented the issue, but chose not to for whatever reason. Maybe they wanted to be able to generate barcodes from the app itself while offline, maybe they were getting the data from the server anyway and just didn't know any better.
Yeah. It's ARKit. A thousand times over.

For some time I thought the convergence of modern computer vision (including server-side machine learning based object discrimination) and mobile cameras had the potential to create tech indistinguishable from magic. And with Pokemon Go there was a glimpse at the possible consumer demand for the right combination of user interface and compelling content or use case.

But now consider something like "Medical Mixed Reality" following an exponential law of growth into the coming decades. Imagine travelling virtually inside the human body to excise the moribund sections of a liver in vivo with the help of a robotic laser operating on a patient on another continent.

Multiply the potential across verticals. And across platforms like Microsoft HoloLens, Google Tango, MagicLeap and you begin to see how the future will be "mixed"!

Augmented Reality's A-ha Moment:

http://www.madewitharkit.com/post/163454867118/augmented-rea...
Sounds very uneventful... A few porting bugs and language differences but not a lot.

At least it sounds like a great way to learn about flexbox internals.
Sure, contracts and rules have their place, and are necessary in the absence of trust. But they do not substitute perfectly. A no-trust world of optimized rules and contracts will be lacking in important ways from a world with trust (to say it mildly).
> Frontpage though; you're brave admitting to using that!

FrontPage was a great educational tool, sure it produced crappy HTML, sure it was IE biased, but it made you learn, it was fast and came bundled in Office. Countless numbers of hobby web pages were build thanks to it.
Its like we have all collectively forgotten that the first release of a hardware or software project is just an expensive beta. I don't buy 1st gen microarches because i'm not interested in paying top dollar to be a tester. What I find odd, is that apparently both intel and AMD have also forgotten this, as Intel seems to be moving toward making their enterprise customers the beta testers, while AMD seems so desperate for marketshare as to have released zen as a volume product before releasing it as a high end one. Meaning that if they have to do a recall, they are both losing their entire margin, as well as having to replace a large number of devices.
It's amazing how hard it is to find a workable cellular SoC. Wifi? ESP8266s are $2-4 a pop and the Pi Zero W is $10 if you can actually find one. Bluetooth? An NRF51822 will only set you back $3-5, and it has a nice and simple Cortex-M0+ for the logic. And the ESP32 has wifi and bluetooth on the same module. GSM? It's being phased out worldwide so modules are being offloaded very cheaply, if your project doesn't need to be connected for long into the future.

But 3G/LTE? It's easier to find an HDMI receiver that'll process HDCP. Nevermind something hand-solderable...
Exactly. £10 per month (no contract) was probably the average spend then (for approx. 40mins calling and 300 SMS). Now I'm paying £60 per month for 2 years and it seems normal. An extra £10 per month to use your plan with up to 3 devices will be the norm in another couple of years.
Battery life. That's going to be the limitation.
I think it's obvious that you're bikeshedding minor parts of my comments. As I originally stated, the whole thing is a "silly nitpick" about something that I (quite honestly) only have a weak preference toward.

So, yes, I concede that my posts weren't composed with exquisite clarity, and they aren't devoid of opportunity for misunderstanding. You win.
Without even any mention of what the manufacturer can do to cover cost increases? You really think it can be so simple?
Taleb is disregarding the entire field of history because it is 'Anecdotal' as opposed to 'Statistical'. Since there are no 'statistics' from the period he is acting like he knows as much as one of top living scholars on Roman history. The written and archaeological record shows that auxiliaries were often stationed far from their home territories, but I guess that was all part of a 2000 year plot to make Britons accept immigrants.
A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch (2016)
WebGL is very similar to OpenGL ES. In general, having basic knowledge of OpenGL and the rendering pipeline is always a good thing. But that alone won't provide a lot of value to a company.

Start out with some tutorials and learn the basics, but keep in mind, that there are frameworks like three.js [1], which abstract away all the nitty-gritty details, like setting up a render context, initialize texture buffers or load 3d models from known formats. By using a framework you will save a lot of time and you can concentrate on the fun stuff.

But even three.js can be kind of low-level, because depending on what you want to achieve, you still need more 'boilerplate'. If you want to write a game, you need stuff like a ui framework within the render context, a physics engine, particle generators, pathfinding etc etc. If you need this, maybe take a look at Unity [2] or Unreal Engine [3], which provide said extensions and alot more. Those engines provide ways to build applications for different targets like direct3d, opengl or webgl, so you basically can cover browsers, pc's and mobile platforms with the same codebase which is truly awesome. But be prepared for a step learning curve (but it's fun!).

When you start working on stuff like this, you realize, that those frameworks and game engines are just tools. In the end, you need to combine those tools with some kind of domain knowledge, like art, game design, architecture, interface design or something similar to increase chances finding a job in such a sector.

It's alot to ask for, but you need to start somewhere. And if it doesn't work out, you maybe find a new cool hobby and gain programming and design experience on the way.

[1] https://threejs.org/
[2] https://unity3d.com
[3] https://www.unrealengine.com
Pretty funny if you ask me. They've had a long running and playful "feud" for a while now.
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Does windows provide an updater for apps..? I bet they don't on XP or 7, which are still highly used.

Also, I bet it's far easier to write an auto-updater than it is to figure out each OS's update method (building a deb,rpm,etc)
I never understood the problem with pentalobe screws. Yes the head is uncommon but it is trivial to get a screwdriver with the correct head. I came across several screws that were too small for the heads I had in my toolbox and never accused the assembler for using uncommon screws. Is there a patent on the pentalobe head so the screwdrivers are illegal?
Sourceforge is not dead, it's just sleeping.
I have google project fi cellular service, extra sim card for my 2nd device with no extra charge
Another javascript framework, of course.
ARKit what these guys are talking about isn't even that. Its just holding up your phone. This functionality has been around forever. From Worldlens, to Yelp to the Ikea app. I don't know why all of the sudden its considered "Around the corner"
I lost about that amount of weight in 7 months a couple of years ago (and kept it off), there was very little data driving, I just wrote down what I ate and ate the same thing 6 days a week, porridge made with water, cottage cheese and salad for lunch and chicken and veg/beef and veg for tea.

Came out to about 1450 calories a day which is a deficit of 1050.

1050 * 7 * 4 * 7/3500 comes to 58.8lbs, I lost 62lbs (I slightly increased my exercise rate), it was almost scary how accurate the 3500 calories to a pound thing was in my case.

It wasn't that hard at the time either, just required a clear goal and keeping at it.

I quite smoking on my 30th birthday (7 years and counting) by just stopping.

No messing with patches, therapy, my mum got ill from smoking related illness, I realised how stupid it was (or more correctly woke up and truly realised) my 30th was a few weeks later so I made a note and stopped cold turkey.

You can do pretty cool things when you draw a line and just go for it.

As for keeping the weight off, I just run a mental tally of what I've eaten and approximate calories, if I get close to 2500 I stop eating for the day, if I go slightly over I go under the next day, 1 day a week I eat whatever I want if I want it (rarely do, I've lost a lot of my cravings for junk over the last couple of years, it always leaves me feeling shitty the next day).
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Can you point to an official discussion / svn commit chain that demonstrates this?
I'd like a very large, performant-enough display for solely for editing in vi. Even that is still just a dream, as far as I can tell.
Not trying to criticise you, and if I get annoying, please tell me. Your statement is a judgement. Does that judgement come from you, or from somewhere else? I have friends who have chosen to pursue TV and games as their life's purpose. That sounds pretty geeky, but they are totally happy with their choice.

Again, from my point of view, it's totally fine if you feel that what you are currently doing is not what you want to be doing. But it makes one wonder, "What do you want to be doing". I don't mean, "What do you want to accomplish in the end" (or more to the point, "What do I want to have done"). I literally mean: "What do you want to do?" - like today.

Accomplishments sound awesome. It's tempting to think, "If I did something important, I'd feel satisfied". But it's my experience that people who do impressive things like this are not actually satisfied with the accomplishment. It's not the having, it's the doing that's important to them. As soon as one thing is "done", then it's useless and time to move on to something else.

Some people like to have goals -- targets to shoot for. But some people don't like goals. It's not a bad thing. I don't actually know where this saying comes from (I think it might be Buddhist), but it's pretty old: If you keep one eye on the goal, you only have one eye for the path. Especially if the terrain is rough, or you feel afraid, or uncertain, it's totally fine to concentrate on your path (IMHO). Following that path, you will certainly go somewhere, even if you don't know ahead of time where that somewhere is.

I hope that gives a different perspective, even if it's not helpful :-)
I am suprised applications of blockchain outside cryptocurrency is not higher on this list. For example:

* Election fraud and recounts can become a thing of the past
* Everything that requires a contract could become completely electronic (the mortgage industry alone is probably a multi-billion dollar opportunity)
Probably not an issue for them, Ocado sell pretty much only food so it'd be for boxes/bags mostly. It's not been deployed yet though. I think they're also testing gripper robots for picking up larger items like bottle packs.

Also books, unless they're shrink wrapped, have a tendency to open which I imagine would be a pain.
In 446 days I've made posts in 3 China-related threads, total. Including this one.
Your experience with VS and your desires for Rider reflect my own. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Visual Studio still a 32 bit application? That would definitely limit the utility of those 128GB.
Most cpu errata are. (Most of the rest are ignorable).
Switch to Neovim today
This didn't even cover the part of my rant from a couple days ago (heavy electric cars in areas deriving a lot of power from coal)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14877569
This may be facetious but in fact it's true.

JavaScript needs a fresh wave of tools and improvements in the JavaScript language.

This time the priority has to be zero configuration and simplicity.
Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)

GAN is a type of Deep Learning Network which can generate data after training.

Applications

- Text to image synthesis (Scripts to Movie ?) (https://github.com/reedscot/icml2016)

- Generation of Game Environments

- Image to Image conversion (https://github.com/junyanz/CycleGAN)

- 2d to 3d conversion

I think in future we will have highly creative deep learning systems, which will make ar/vr/movie/game creation faster and cheaper.
Go to Google Images, type in "European people history" and note the first ten results. That is what this is about.
>Perhaps that makes me a bad person.

Not bad, merely ignorant. You're celebrating the incarceration of someone you presumably know very little about, all while searching for "true" victims ("perhaps the public?") to fuel your indignation.
That's an extremely valid point. But there are documented cases of it being true.
You could have a conveyor system which would cover 5/6 directions without too much trouble, and it'd be fast enough for real-time capture. Or you could automate the most common purchases e.g. Amazon basics items, Kindles, electronics. They could even ask sellers to provide models or dimensions.
What is extreme similarity? Identity?