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Houses in the country side are super abundant because so many young people moved to cities. But this article talks about housing Tokyo, where demand has been very strong over the last 20 years. They kept prices low by letting developers build lots of housing, densely. A lot of the housing policy is set by the central government and is more insulated from NIMBY complaints. Also, it's much more common for housing to be prefabbed in factories and assembled on site.
Researched this for many hours last year before upgrading to the 2018 MBP and the answer is...no.

I was super worried about the upgrade after all the complaining about this latest gen hardware. To be honest, the 2018 is still the best machine I've ever had. My theory is that most people posturing here as if they're going to switch to a ThinkPad or other windows machine don't remember how much using windows and non-apple hardware sucks. I remember quite vividly as I recently switched from a Thinkpad to the Apple ecosystem just a few years ago.

Now if you have the time to fool around with Linux, more power to you, but now that I have kids I've realized spending countless hours fiddling around with drivers and trying to find alternative software was never a good use of my time.

My anecdotal experience: Touch Bar mostly useless but also harmless, the 3rd gen keyboard isn't as bad as people say, USB-C is awesome (buying a replacement USB-C cable for my old external HDD actually gave me better speeds even though the new cable is longer), and I don't miss MagSafe now that I can plug into either side of the machine. Oh, and the audio quality is now good enough for watching movies in bed with the wife w/o an external speaker.
A visualization of what happened is here [0]. The problem when you explode an object in LE orbit is that you decelerate some bits of it -- which causes those bits to fall lower and reenter the atmosphere -- but you accelerate other bits, which causes them to move into a higher orbit.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-space-junk-india-destro...
I miss the escape key as well, here’s one way I addressed it: using BTT I added another button to the Touch Bar. This was a second escape key, placed right next to the original. Now the first two inches from the left are one big escape key, making it easier to touch-type.
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This is not the only example. I never ceases to amaze me that Google dropped XMPP because of non-mobile-friendliness and it was proven wrong by a single developer (see: Conversations.im).

It seems in a lot of cases Google just want to go on an easy route of creating fake "standards" (AMP) instead of long way of working with broader community for common good.

Maybe that's just me but the Google I remember back when Android was announced and the company it has become now it's like two totally different entities.
I just came across this and it sums up what many of us think about Apple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3iXEMtmITw

I wish they did better for us customers.
Those are fine goals, but fine goals aren't enough to prevent HN from burning itself down. Indeed, they're potent fuel for that, if people don't care about the purpose of this site or take care to protect it from becoming like the rest of the flaming internet. It's my job to prevent the latter from happening, even though I'm sure I agree with your goals.

The loss of a community on the internet where people gather for intellectual curiosity would make the world a little more dystopian too. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site to heart?
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So did Firefox have to ask permission from google? Or do they just do it without asking? Sorry I don’t know much about this.
Fake Invoice Fraud isn't a legal category, but fraud is.

It's currently possible, legally, for Getty to license public domain images as long as they don't make a false written representation that the images are their own. If Getty grants some usage permissions on paper to public domain works, that may constitute legal nonsense, but it's not fraud. Note it could be argued that such a license, or the purchase arrangements alongside it, contain false implied representations constituting fraud, but it'll be next to impossible to pin them on that without targeted legislation or existing judicial precedent (which I don't think currently exists).

The thing is, people sign contracts and purchase licenses every day that contain non-enforceable legal nonsense (like a non-compete clause on an employment contract in California). It's very hard to legally define legal nonsense, thus it's likely impossible to stamp out altogether. The best we can do is outlaw specific types of legal nonsense, like licenses granting permissions on public domain works.
Isn't the limiting factor the max battery size that is allowed to be brought on an airplane? Nobody wants a laptop that can't come on the plane with them.
When you hit the spacebar twice, the OS inserts a period. That's what you're seeing with the parent comment.
They discontinue stuff even if it makes money because it's a blip compared to ad revenue.

Someone looks at a product like Chromecast Audio and decides it's not really helping ads so there's no point in spending money on maintenance for it, especially with the previously mentioned stuff that Google's corporate culture does not reward sustaining/maintenance/support work.

If a money-losing product is have a positive effect on ads somehow it probably gets to live.
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> What they seem to be doing right now is buying asynchronous start-ups and shutting them down.

There's a plan!
I keep forgetting that they killed the ESC-key. Wow. What I never got is: Yea, add a touch-bar if you want, Apple, but why not stick it above the F-keys row? It's standardized for decades, programs actually use it. Why remove the F-keys for it? It's not like on a MBP there isn't enough space for both.
I was playing around with different versions and at one point uninstalled 2 and 3 in an attempt to fix something funky I was seeing. Apparently that was a bad idea, as removing Python also removed the Ubuntu desktop, so when I rebooted I was greeted with the command line and had to reinstall the Ubuntu desktop to get things back up and running.

Maybe to some people that makes sense, but to me that's the equivalent of uninstalling a version of .NET in Windows and then being greeted with a command line version of Windows on your next reboot.
I would struggle to believe Microsoft is selling data of its OneNote users.
How would have that worked? If you do not sign every single file per user, there is no real way to get something secure if you do not controle the whole processing pipeline.
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Get a used or refurb'd mbp without touchbar - what do you really need 6 cores for

also fyi you can map caps lock to esc so that resolves your esc issue at the least

I'm holding onto my 2015 for dear life but it's still going very strong, i imagine i can keep using it a few more years at least
"It just works"*

* As long as Steve is around. I really wonder how much longer Tim Cook is going to be at the helm? Him and Ballmer should be golfing buddies by this point.
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"Access to the video is very limited and subject to strict protocols for use in investigations. And the audio recording capacity isn’t live because the City has no use for it."

This is a good and instructive example of statements that contain no information.

If access to the video were liberal and careless, it would be described as "very limited and subject to strict protocols". If, on the contrary, access to the video was very limited and subject to strict protocols ...

You get the idea. Zero weight should be given to assurances that would be given out regardless of the actual state of affairs.

A good heuristic is to ignore these communications and concentrate only on actions, but in this case where there may not be concrete evidence of misbehavior, we need to rely on a different heuristic: potential risks and worst case outcomes.
According to posts I've read here on HN, Keep is a one-developer, 10%-time project. I've no doubt it will be killed whenever Google feels like it (or when its developer gets a new job). They'll probably dump its data into Docs, like they did with Notebook (remember that?).

I'm still using it, because it works quite well (better than Evernote!), but I don't expect anything I store in it to be very permanent.
I can't speak for the person you're responding to, but it doesn't seem like much of a mystery why non-techies don't know about the specific details of why they can't save a streamed movie to watch it offline, or in a non-approved open source video player. That glib attitude of captive audiences is exactly what DRM vendors prey upon. They know exactly how much they can get away with at this point.
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> Apple keep insisting that only a “small number of customers have problems” with the MacBook keyboards. That’s bollocks. This is a huge issue, it’s getting worse not better, and Apple is missing the forest for the trees.

No, Apple knows exactly how bad it is. They always[0] say "a small number of ..." for every[0] issue they have. They're just stubborn. They'll fix a few as they are brought in and they'll continue iterating on this design and letting new buyers beta test it.

[0] Never use a definitive.
Hi! I am the co-founder of FYI and author of the blog post. We are not an Evernote competitor. In fact we integrate with it and many other document apps.
That would depend on the topic of the article.
I believe the battery capacity is limited by restrictions on the size of batteries that you are allowed to take on flights.
Certainly they can. What's forcing you to publish in nature? Just like... don't. If someone down the line is judging you based on what journal your work ended up in and not the quality of the work... well you probably don't want to work with them anyway
Maybe I interpret it wrong, but here is a tricky point: You have to apply for government's permission to do a legal on-street protest.

ref: http://www.npc.gov.cn/wxzl/gongbao/1989-10/31/content_148121... (Chapter 2 Article 7, Chinese)
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Get one with a garage, and turn the garage into an office.

Typical Northern California architecture, which includes a garage that most people don't park their car in, provides a lot of spaces to start projects in. It's better to start a project in a garage than in a spare bedroom or basement, because if your project starts taking off you can have customers and employees there without awkwardness.

It only works if the climate is good enough to work in a sheltered but unheated space year round.
Same here. I'm going to keep my 2013 Model as long as I possibly can, because I've heard too many horror stories about the newer models.
I'm unfortunately even more conflicted than that. I can't answer the question "If someone wants to take my crummy code and commercialize it, am I okay with that?"

If it's a kid in his basement with an amazing idea, absolutely. I'll watch them ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ from my couch and feel nothing but pride.

If it's Google or Amazon... maybe still yes, but less so? It'd depend on my subjective perception of the net benefits to societal innovation, which is 1) more wishy-washy-subjective than I'm comfortable with, and 2) seems like it would make for a really bad license: "MIT-Unless-I-Dont-Like-You"
$117k for a family of 4 qualifies you for Section 8 housing in much of the Bay Area.
I wonder if you could fight DRM content in Japan. Last week there was a story on HN about a few people being prosecuted for spreading a virus which was actually just a javascript trick. DRM seems like it would fall under the same category.
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The irony of this potential drug is that we currently aren’t smart enough to know any better. This potential drug plays mind games with you before you take it.
> the removal of the escape key (I'm a vim user))

As am I. It finally made me move ESC to Caps Lock and it's actually way better IMO.

Agree with all of your other points though.
You should read up on some history. The most intelligent people ( newton, einstein, etc ) were far from being delightful people with delightful dispositions and far from being happy.

Just from the other day, "A study of ethicists finds they’re no more ethical than the rest of us".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529374

I think people are simply people, no matter how smart or educated they are. Prone to jealousy, pettiness and subject to all of human pitfalls. Of course the smarter and more educated you are, the more damage you can cause.
Dell XPS with Ubuntu has been getting stellar reviews
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And Netflix.
And Lenovo laptops run Linux great. In fact, Linux runs on most laptops from all brands, just got to do a tiny bit of research to avoid the few laptops that do have parts that don't work.

I've got an AMD Ryzen powered Acer with Ubuntu, it runs better than when it had Windows on it.
Slightly related since this one is a bit borderline, there should be a community/slack for people experimenting with automation/ml-driven passive income projects. I think it's time.
I don't mind any of those problems and I map my escape to caps lock.

I moved from Linux to a Mac for work a while ago, and I can't stand how terrible the dock and window system is.

* Alt-tab is useless. It has no way to choose a particular window without raising all the windows of the same application in the current workplace.

* What's worse, it will move workflows if there's no window open in this one.

* There's no way to say "open this application" to the dock without right clicking. Clicking an icon is a bet on whether it will open a new window, raise all the windows of the application over whatever you are doing, or move workspaces for no particular reason.

The whole system seems to be done for a one-window-per-application workflow which doesn't exist in 2019. My usual workspace has a Vim window, a terminal, and several Firefox windows open; it's impossible to move comfortably between windows without using Mission Control each time. Windows 95 had better window navigation than MacOS Mojave.
I'm sorry I'm jumping into a political argument, I'll try my best to stay on point.

From what I read about West Virginia, those communities were collapsing anyway, and what Obama administration did, is to try and support government programs for the former coal miners to learn new trades and get some financial support.

https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?stor...

Not that it is possible to retain any of the coal jobs because they've been automated and the remaining ones are being rapidly automated.

At this point there are more jobs in solar than there are in coal industry.

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/2/7/14533618...

Based on this information, in my opinion this is not even realpolitik, its lying -- as in, knowing facts and then misrepresenting and misleading people; because of any number of reasons -- be that coal lobby, or what 'feels right' for the average voter rather then what happens in reality, and I don't know how to deal with that myself because this realization makes me feel anger.
Are you in academia?

Not trying to be snarky here -- genuinely want to know your perspective. As an outsider, everything I know about it leads me to believe that academia is so competitive that you really can't afford to just "not publish in top journals" and be picky about who you work with/what offers you take.
Its way worse than Apple admits. Its impossible to believe that they don't actually have a grasp on the scope of the problem; just because they're not coming out in a press release and saying "yeah failure rates are above 30%, we fukd up, sorry team"
That is not at all my claim. My claim is that doing this may not grow the economy as a whole. Someone making median income or (especially) less may well benefit; I do not claim that they won't.
That is an actual objective at Google. Supporting key results would be things like performing a certain number of audits, conducting pen tests, code reviews, etc.
> ... not having grown up in the US of A, but I don't think I could ever pull off such a disingenuous enterprise.

Regardless of where we draw the line for "disingenuous," You can't seriously be suggested that only people in the US come up with such schemes. A recent thread (yesterday) on Another Site (I'm sure you've read it - the site, but not the thread) that indicated to me visiting places around the world is a fine way to get fleeced by individuals (locals, not Americans) with disingenuous schemes.
Not keen on the coil whine and Mad WiFi. Put me off the XPS 13.
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Zero Clause BSD is the closest that is generally approved.

https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD
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Thanks for the link. Looking at the pictures, I probably wouldn't follow it, and I spent last summer in NYC.

The algorithm seems to have a preference for HDR pictures of cityscapes? And then the captions are all very generic / spammy sounding.

It doesn't seem interesting. I don't have anything against following algorithmic content, but it should at least tell me something cool about the picture that I didn't know, etc.
Ok? That’s a strong argument in favor, isn’t it?
How is the trackpad? Been eyeballing the Extreme but I'm wary of the performance of the trackpad in comparison to the MBP.
I agree it’s garbage, but wanted to add what kind of helped me. I removed all of the default buttons/siri until there were only the volume and brightness, then I put some space between the two. That helped enough to work 60-70% of the time without looking.
Having both near me, the 2018 feels much thinner/lighter than the 2014.

But guess what? It doesn't really matter. I'd still pick the 2014 chassis if it was specced the same as the 2018.
I use my own personally modified version of brave. Why did my above comment get downvoted ?
Given the reports from Twitter, WSJ, etc. that the 2018 keyboard isn't much better than the 2016 and 2017, in your shoes, I would return the MBP.

I was ready for an upgrade from my 2013 MBP, so I went with a Dell XPS 15. Really no complaints about it, although it is heavy/large for lugging around to a quick coffee shop jaunt. I picked up a refurb Surface Pro i5 for those, which I am just now getting around to setting up.

The XPS 15 trackpad is slightly worse than my 2013 MacBook's, but I use it mainly as a desktop replacement (it literally replaced a Skylake i7 Hackintosh I was using as my desktop.) Everything else works well.

I have WSL set up on Windows 10, which is really, really neat. It's a full Ubuntu instance in a window, without the overhead of a standard virtual machine. I had an entire LAMP development set up on it in under an hour (and most of that time was just waiting for it to run updates.)

I mainly use the Adobe suite, a web browser, and now that I'm writing software again, a LAMP stack. The XPS 15 is a perfect fit for this. I did turn automatic updates off when I first got the computer, so it prompts me to run the "seasonal" updates, not unlike macOS. Everything else was super easy to get used to.
Strongly agreed. Exposure to a History & Philosophy of Software course might reduce the amount of wheel reinvention that plagues our industry.
The iOS app is my favorite timekiller. It doesn't hide the clock, it starts up really fast (no splash screen), it has no ads, it uses only 3.7MB storage, and it's free.
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I didn't know it existed and it wasn't for lack of trying. I landed in the forum a few times which didn't help. Bing or Google a simple query where you would expect the official Kodi website or Wiki to show in the results. For example: "How to stream Netflix on Kodi".
It's also true of other colors that aren't red green or blue. They are 'faked' by mixing.
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fyi ifort 17.0.3

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Count me as another "stop being so dismissive of these lawsuits, there's a plausible claim here" voice. Claiming some kind of ownership right in public domain images, and hence implicitly or explicitly representing to people that if they use those images without paying they can get sued, seems like straightforward fraud.

It's no different than if I set up a toll booth on a public sidewalk, with a big official-looking sign saying "I own this sidewalk, and you have to pay me a dollar to walk down it." People who reasonably believe my misrepresentations as to my ownership of the sidewalk and give me money have at least pretty plausible good old-fashioned fraud claims.

The argument of the linked article, transposed to the sidewalk toll booth context, seems to roughly be "Getty didn't put up a sign saying they OWNED the sidewalk, they put up a sign saying 'License for sale to this sidewalk which we have the rights to sell licenses to' and the silly plaintiffs shouldn't have read it like a normal person to be a claim of ownership; instead they'd should have read it in the unnatural way that Getty wanted to trick them into not reading it as." Or, in tort lawyer language, as the claim that their reliance on Getty's claim of ownership wasn't justified. Well, this sounds like a jury question to me.
> Despite the many improvements, Apple is actually dropping the price on its flagship 15" MacBook Pro by $400

I choked on my beer
I think he buries the lede that step number one in this endeavor is to entirely unethical. Yes, it turns out that if you take content from others without asking to build a social media following, and then promise to post positive reviews of restaurants to those followers, you can get free meals.
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