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can you give ANY other example besides this tired trope? Because I'm pretty sure you don't support free speech.
Apple still sells the 2015 pre USB C MacBooks new. If I had to buy a MacBook, that’s the one to get.
The 2015 MB Pro was damn decent. I bought my daughter a refurb 2012 Pro 13" with 16GB of RAM and yes, it is damn decent.

Not sure what the hell is wrong at Apple. My work machine is the 2017 MB Pro and its awful, I hate it.
> whether you can get useful experience of something passively.

depends on what you mean by passive.

Another way to figure this out in Sam's case isn't to look at his ability to pitch and physically play ball, but pick players and play money ball.

So the question that follows is then : Assuming one has the potential and skills to play money ball; is watching 10 years of startups enough to play?

PS. I also don't know Sam from Jack

cheers!
I bought a new 2015 model, although in my case the Touch Bar was the main reason -- I absolutely hated the new keyboard layout (lack of Esc, no physical function keys, arrow keys are now arranged in way where your fingers can't easily find the right keys without looking down).

Unfortunately, turns out they're no longer made with a discrete GPU -- they only have an Intel Iris integrated graphics chip now, no AMD Radeon. The discrete model was discontinued in 2016.

As a result, graphics performance is horrible. It's especially noticeably bad with the scaled Retina mode. I have to use the scaled mode on my external 4K display because otherwise the UI becomes so small the text is unreadable. That's when you realize that Apple's approach to resolution independence is pretty crappy. You'd think they could just run in 1:1 and just render text, buttons and so on a little larger, but that's not possible.
It would depend on where it's laid. If it's 100 miles of residential streets that's not that useful, but if it's 100 miles of major thoroughfares that means it's much easier to build it out across the city.
Well said, I would just note for clarity (re the initial quote) that "profits" include interest, so bonds for example are security.
That’s not exactly how it works.

Check out United States v. Baker for reliance on authority of a Government Official.

A good practical example is where Obama said his Justice Dept would not enforce Federal Laws on Marijuana in States where actors are complying with those State Laws. If the Federal Government preceded to crack down, U.S. v. Baker would provide a solid defense of good faith reliance on authority of a Givernment Official where the act is otherwise in clear violation of federal law.
I'm sorry but I don't know anything about that. The best way to reach us is hn@ycombinator.com. We don't see everything on the site.
It would consume significantly more battery than a touchpad, unless it is OLED which would be significantly more expensive than a touchpad.
Pressure cooker + liquid smoke. 9/10ths as good.

Disclaimer: I say this as a firm believer in the power of charcoal.
The Ford F-series trucks are the best selling vehicles in the US. People want trucks.
Last year I upgraded a 2011 and 2010 MBP to a new MB and MBP. The older laptops I had already maxed out RAM and replaced them with SSDs. The new laptops were worth the upgrade for boot time, wake from sleep, weight, and battery life. However, every criticism about the new laptops are true--even if you throw money at dongles, cables, and wireless replacements. What's ridiculous is I bought an Apple usb-c to hdmi cable and it has very large amounts of signal issues on both the MB and MBP. Thankfully a third-party usb-c to displayport doesn't have those issues. Lastly, since the RAM and HDD aren't upgradable I had to pay higher prices upfront instead of upgrading after the fact like I've been doing for over a decade. Unfortunately, this was also true when looking at similar Linux/PC laptops.

I think if I had a 2012 model I would have been able to wait longer for new laptops. Currently, I'm very likely dumping the MBP as soon as new ones come out with a better keyboard.

When I did my shopping last year I was prepared to get a Linux laptop if things looked comparable and the price was significantly cheaper (assuming the risk of unknown problems like battery or hardware longevity) and the prices were roughly the same with other compromises I wasn't prepared to make.
If I think that's likely to happen to me, why would I stay around to find out? In that situation I'm far more likely to apply for other jobs with my nice shiny job title while I've got it. Plus, with a mechanism like that, you'll see anyone with impostor syndrome (which would be... lots and lots of otherwise competent folk) making evacuation plans that really aren't needed.
>Apple needs to sell off Macintosh

My immediate thought was that Apple values control of its ecosystem and Mac hardware figures into this. So, it seems unlikely that they would sell it off.

That got me thinking "what business has Apple actually sold off in its modern era?" I can't think of one.
I have an Asus ZenBook running GNU/Linux that I am very happy with.
One thing I've said to acquirers in the past is: "You're a big company that can afford to dedicate a person full-time to this deal for months with no impact to your company's focus and bottom line. We're not. I'm excited about this opportunity, can we brainstorm how to limit the cost of exploring this? And perhaps how we could share the cost a bit more equally?"

When we get into brainstorming mode, two things I navigate towards are: time-boxing the exercise (setting and sticking to an condensed schedule) and earnest money from them after some amount of diligence or discussion.

If a suitor can't commit to getting to a handshake/LOI after X weeks, I wouldn't pursue it.

Unrelated advice: try to hack your own brain and your team into believing that the default result of this is "no deal, time wasted". Many/most deals fall through, which can feel pretty brutal if you get optimistic about it.
Not if you want to target the most profitable mobile platform....
Yes. I use old school Quicken. I manually enter transactions to categorize them (most are split -- so anything automatic based on retailer doesn't work well) and then I use automatic reconciliation against the banks' online stuff. I've been doing this since 2001 or so and it's been quite useful. YNAB seems interesting, but switching to a new platform would be... complicated.
Anyone who is concerned about being smart isn't operating on a level that I would consider "gifted".
The average Comcast customer paid something like $150/mo in 2017.

Replace that with a $100/mo. FTTH plan, plus Netflix and you're still saving money. And many people have Netflix + Comcast already.
The sad state will be when Apple eventually pushes a tremendous upgrade across their product line in 2019 or 2020 and instead of the powerful X86 CPUs we get even thinner laptops with ARM CPUs and a reset across the software ecosystem.

I think we're kind of the dinosaurs clinging to X86 not them and that's the most annoying part.
This is just the opening of a negotiating window, once we see the plan we can make those calculations. For example, Boring will likely have to rent the Block 37 station from the CTA, bringing in some money (but we have no idea how much yet).
Fraud is still a crime punishable by jail time. So, even after the FTC get's involved he can and should still be sent to prison.
> The primary use of ether in its purest abstraction (ie not packaged in an index fund), is in the form of gas to power the individual steps of the computer. It is no more a security than the gasoline in your car.

Yes, and the piece addresses that directly:

> But this also points the way to when a digital asset transaction may no longer represent a security offering. If the network on which the token or coin is to function is sufficiently decentralized – where purchasers would no longer reasonably expect a person or group to carry out essential managerial or entrepreneurial efforts – the assets may not represent an investment contract.

In other words, as long as Ethereum's promise is just that -- promise --, and the people buying ETH are expecting a return on their purchases from the efforts of the Ethereum developers, it is likely to be classified as a security. To the extent that ETH is used as "gas" to power a computation, and people buy it to use it for that purpose, ETH is no longer a security.

I think a fundamental confusion here is that the law, and in general regulatory enforcement bodies like the SEC, look at something like this by how it is actually used in practice, not by the mathematical properties, or the intent of the developers.

As an example, he points out that simply calling the thing you're selling a "token" instead of "an investment" when the network is not even up and running yet, does not fundamentally change the facts on the ground. People are buying your "token" because they want to see it be worth something in the future, and it's not up to them whether it increases in value. He's saying, sorry, that's a security.
just give us ARM/apple Ax processor macs already - a 8/16/32 core mac would run corners around any intel stuff..

especially as the thermal properties of intel turboboost is really horrible nowadays on macbook/laptop for dev usage.. (imagine maybe due to the meltdown/spectre slowdown..)
It's hyperbole, sure, but there is a kernel of truth (as is often the case)

It seems entirely plausible from where I sit that some of the technology companies with the highest average talent (for some hand-wavy) in engineering are spending a ton of that talent , and wealth, and time focusing on problems that don't have very compelling value in a broader societal sense. While at the same time some interesting and clearly important problems are severely under-resourced.

I suppose that's part of free-ish market capitalism's feature set - if above is right it should eventually re-balance but nothing says that has to happen in one generation, or even several.
Cause that's what we need: Shiny, slow computers! Sign me up for a bakers dozen.

I don't understand the fanboy defence of everything apple does, even the obviously stupid stuff. Upgrade the hardware is such a no brainer every hardware manufacturer does it nearly yearly. Except apple.
So first Mac is dead, because of iOS then we have iMac 5k .

Then macbook is dead, because of iOS, we have new macbooks.

Then mac pro is dead, because of iOS we have iMac Pro.

Is shouting "dead" the new password for upgrade request ?

I see an average of 1 update in less than a year with the only exception of mac mini. Why we need more often? I fail spectacularly to see the problem here.

Mac users buy computers that keep for years. My first iMac I kept for 7 year my second one is already on its 4 th year and still feel nowhere close to the need to upgrade and I do 3d graphics + coding.

I even live mostly in Windows 10 nowdays , mainly for coding reasons. Flies with no issues. I kinda like Win 10 actually.

Sad is exactly the opposite thing that I feel using my iMac. I feel sad with most pc monitors that I see around though.

Hell, the new OS brings native support for eGPUs , so I can even upgrade my iMac without forking money for an iMac Pro.

The new Metal which was already 10 times faster than the crap... sorry I meant.. OpenGL is reported to be 2 times as fast as the previous version.

Waiter... yes please may I have another plate of sadness soup... I really like it.
Upon learning of Pearl Harbor, even before FDR's address to Congress, Churchill realized that:

"So, we had won after all! …We had won the war. England would live; Britain would live; the Commonwealth of Nations and the Empire would live. How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care. . . . We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end. We might not even have to die as individuals. Hitler’s fate was sealed. Mussolini’s fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force."
Maybe you're hanging around the wrong boards.
I read through this post and spent the morning reading more about Composer.

I've been on the fence for a while, but I'm still not sure yet if this is right for me.

Most of the projects I work on have minimal dependncies & existing autoloading strategies. While I would like to have access to new dependencies via Composer it seems like I'll be forced to engage in heavy refactoring to update namespaces and will need to somehow package my existing code.

Curious if anyone here has firsthand experience adding Composer to an existing project that wasn't dependency heavy?
https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

New macbooks are not universally supported by Linux.
+lose/losing

I think they've lost many of them already aside from those who need to stay on MacOS because that or iOS is what they're writing for. Hence the tone of so many of these articles.

How long are the rest going to wait on disappointing refreshes that move in the wrong (or no) direction? It's too hard to be enthusiastic about the platform in the way you could around the time of 17" Macbooks.
It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg scenario in that you can't get past that 10% unless you really devote the energy to it, and you can't justify the energy when it seems to contribute so little to your revenue.

At one time Apple had a lot of passion for desktop and laptop computers. Today, they just seem to be nonchalantly kicking the metaphorical can down the road. You can't blame consumers for not going crazy for products that Apple isn't crazy about themselves.
The free list for lists seems to reuse more than just empty lists as you suggest.

> a = ['non','empty','list']
> id(a)
4363176072
> del a
> b = ['new', 'list']
> id(b)
4363176072
because increasingly more and more software demands better hardware. and... they should because otherwise someone else will take that share from them. and that could be sad for both apple and customers like me who like their macbooks (older models at least). as pointed out in the article, it's not about innovation anymore, just simple upgrades, with minimum effort.
There's no misunderstanding. This guy should be in jail. Parent poster didn't say the FTC should put him in jail.
>> a company's attention shouldn't be so limited as to essentially make them forget to collect this additional revenue.

For a publicly-traded company all that matters is stock price. One would assume that collecting revenues has a direct impact on that price, but we are not in so rational a world. Today it is all about growth potential rather than current revenues. Apple could be turning huge profits on laptops, but if they see that as a mature market then they will and must ignore it.

Given Apple's grip on users, they may even see laptops as a competitor to their iPhone business. Time on the macbook is time not on the iPhone. The intent may be to transition all macbook devotees away from lap/desktops altogether.
(backend of Victorops is in Scala)
Definitely not the lack of experience, there was plenty of in-house Scala experience. I'm not the author, but he has indeed written about his experiences with Scala on his personal blog: http://evrl.com/programming/scala/2017/04/04/scala-part-ii.h...
My Plex server is running on a 2009 era Dell Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz with 4 GB of RAM running Windows 10. It’s actually not slow and the 15 inch 1920x1200 display is one of the last great non 1080p non Retina displays.
We use Ledger CLI[1], and once I got over the learning curve I really liked it. We keep individual files for each card or account and have a set of scripts to tie them all together and give us the output we want. Toss it all in a self-hosted git repo and update every week or so. While I do wish we could make use of ofxclient and ledger-autosync (just isn't gonna happen with some of our accounts), the discipline of going through each line item is really valuable in tracking spending and kinda the State of the Household.

[1] - https://www.ledger-cli.org/
Apple's logical next step is to end their line of computers, create a locked down "developer pro ipad (jet black is extra)" that comes with a Swift development environment that can only build iOS apps, requires a $50 a month "subscription" to boot up, and can only connect to apple IP addresses. But it will have a beautiful aluminium case.
Bankrupting an elderly person can kill them.
So glad this post came along. I was just thinking the other day that I am truly in favor of Apple splitting with one part iPhone and the other Macs. I really think that will bring back innovation in Mac hardware.
Meltdown was caused by Intel not checking privileges correctly in a speculated context, choosing to defer such checks as long as possible. This allowed the worst and easiest to use exploit, making it possible to read from any mapped location in memory. Most other CPUs did things right even in speculated contexts.

(Intel wasn't quite alone in this, though -- at least one ARM core also had this issue.)
I'm not from PagerDuty, but I also moved to Elixir after some years working in a hybrid Ruby + Scala shop. I concur with the author's experience that writing clean and maintainable Scala code is hard. A few reasons:

* Haskell influence on the language, especially early on, encouraged the omission of dots and parentheses wherever possible. Just about every piece of sample code was written as an undifferentiated stream of tokens. There is a mental burden.

* Haskell influence on the community encourages category theory solutions to all problems. This harms interop with Java libraries, in addition to requiring a number of concepts that are safely ignored in many/most other languages.

* Scala's rich OO system (classes, interfaces, traits, singletons, case classes, implicits, etc) results in frequent design paralysis, not to mention taking a while to learn.

Elixir suffers from none of these problems, while retaining some of the things that made Scala a pleasure to use, notably the actor system of concurrency and the use of immutable data structures.
It was published on the SEC website,and even if it wasn’t, a good faith reliance on this government official as detailed in U.S. v. Baker seems to apply.
Whoa, never heard this view. I guess it makes sense to question it if you’ve never had it happen. As a former alcoholic, I can tell you it’s definitely real, although I guess maybe not for everyone. It happened to me almost every time I drank, but I drank hard and fast. Blackouts to me were just a fact of my drunkard life.

Watching a video of yourself tell an invented story to a group of friends and strangers will make anyone a believer of blackouts. My response to the video was:

“Holy shit that’s hilarious, I wish I was there to see it.”
The realization that narwhals are real was a Mandela Effect[0] moment for me.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/07/24/the-mandela-effect/
I've run into a few issues with the Early to Mid 2015 Macbook fans. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I've seen it across three machines.
FYI: This requires you to pay for access.
Is it possible to do something like this, but writing the actual GIF to the host's framebuffer (/dev/fb*)? Or are we getting into X11 territory?
We've reverted the title from “SEC Director of Corporation Finance: Ethereum is not a security” to that of the article. It's not up to submitters to make any interpretation of the content—Hacker News users can read just fine.
The story of California’s bizarre novelty architecture
Not ironic at all. It is a private school and isn't controlled by the state government.
> I'd take a MacBook Pro a pound heavier and several mm thicker in order to have more RAM.

So basically, an old unibody Macbook Pro could achieve that. Even though I left Mac, that unibody design is probably my favorite laptop form factor ever. It balanced size and functionality (and end user expandability) perfectly. The only time you needed a dongle was if you were going to hook it up to an HDMI/DVI/VGA monitor. Otherwise everything was self contained.
Are there ways we as citizens can push them to follow up on this?
No on both counts, I'd rather they just bought their keyboards from Lenovo.
[GoogleTechTalks] Google Production Environment
"the world" is vague. Governments certainly have taken over various worlds.
Maybe it's just laziness on my part, but I do tend to find that that Firefox running with 20-30 tabs, plus Docker plus a bunch of other apps (inc. Electron based ones...) eats up my 16GB of RAM quite easily.

I really could do with a laptop with 32GB of RAM.
They announced the HomePod and failed to ship by the holiday season 2017, and the wireless charging mat announced with the iPhone X still shows no signs of shipping.
Oh, markdown is great. I meant the things that are just different syntax for HTML.
Interesting. That sounds way faster and easier, I'll have to give that a try.
My impression about the Elixir/Erlang so far has been the same.

> Elixir comes with one of the nicest and most helpful communities around

Using Elixir, it's easy to write gorgeous code, with a language that for the most part is really minimalist, and you get to play with the great piece of software that OTP is without all the warts of Erlang (which is mostly the developer experience). The BEAM community is fantastic and really supportive (disclaimer: I'm a GSoC student working for them on making Elixir bindings for Barrel, a replicated document database).

Maybe we could think that it's best in terms of the character of the community if Elixir stays small, however Rust community seems a great example of something bigger to follow that hasn't evolved into a soulless graveyard of enterprise code scattered on the githubs and maven centrals of the world.

There has to be a way between hand-rolled craft parsers you write with a beard and an IPA in hand and another AbstractObservableContainer written by Dilbert that doesn't compromise the ecosystem or contort it in any funny way.
Are there professionals who use an iPad for the majority of their work beyond sending emails and interacting with web apps/their mobile clients?

I rarely see the people who bought in on the iPad revolution almost a decade ago use their iPad beyond light browsing and sending emails.

To me, it seems to have replaced the morning paper more than it has laptops.
It's been a while since I did the math, but IIRC this amounts to maybe half of the historical average rise since the end of the last ice age, where things were at times moving really, really fast. So not really that fast at all in the big picture. BTW, there's no particular reason to believe that this natural rise ever came to a complete halt either, AFAIK.
So is this the "lean startup" equivalent of a Show HN?

"I have this great idea. buy it here!"
oh really we haven't implemented anything, but now that we see a bunch of people tried to buy it...

I'm fine with the idea of running ideas past the community here, but this really feels like a bait and switch. It's not a new markup language. It's a new IDEA for a markup language.
It could be that Apple is planning to switch intel cpu to their own, which will take quite some time to finish, and they don't want to release an incremental upgrade before the new cpu.
Yes, I agree - I think their approach is perfectly practical.

A four-year-old laptop (2014) doesn't feel wildly different from a current one. An eight-year-old laptop (2010) is a somewhat different proposition: you're 64-bit if you're lucky, but even with a decent CPU you'll have a low-resolution screen and relatively little RAM. A twelve-year-old laptop (2006) will be painfully slow now.

The part I do find problematic is that the latest macOS is dropping support for machines that are otherwise very usable by this scale. Support back to mid-2012 sounds pretty good, except that mid-2012 Macs are still fine hardware.