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Help HN: Dear Apple, why do you sell products in India?
This March I bought a MacBook Pro (MD101HN/A), and without any doubt, I can say that it was the happiest day of my life.

Last week I noticed some performance issues, and suddenly my MacBook stopped booting. I tried safebooting, nvram reset, disk repair using disk utility, and finally I realized that my Macinotosh HD gave up on me.

I thought, so what, I got my MacBook covered under Apple 1 Year Warranty. What I didn't know a week ago was that, it was going to be a nightmare.

I live in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Even though it's a small town, but I checked up on Apple website, and Apple has listed a service center in Jodhpur. I tried to contact on the given number, but it said that number is invalid.

I still didn't gave up, I tried to contact on the service hotline number provided by Apple in India, but they never pick up the phone.

Finally, I checked my MacBook Packaging, to see if I can find any email id they provided, I was happy to see that they did (indisales_support@group.apple.com), they also provided a telephone number.

I was shocked, when I came to know that it was an Invalid email id. On top of that the phone number they provided was not correct (the man who received the phone said to contact on another number).

I am helpless here in India, I don't know what to do, as Apple Service is total chaos here, there is no man responsible to contact for Apple Service in India.

I quoted above that "I bought a MacBook Pro (MD101HN/A), and without any doubt, I can say that it was the happiest day of my life". But today, as of this moment, I feel totally opposite.

If there is an Apple Employee reading this post, I want to know why is Apple even selling products in India, if they cant even provide after sales support.

I don't know where else to ask for help so, dear fellow hackers, I can't afford to lose my MacBook Pro, just because I am in India. Help Me.
> It's not as if the USA has ever coerced an innocent person into giving up their livelihood without benefit of due process (http://lavabit.com).

Is this an arguing tactic or do you really believe that?

They didn't coerce him, he did the equivalent of resigning in protest. They might be the reason why he did it, but they did not actually make him do it.

> Beyond that, I'm not sure why they commented on this at all, considering they have zero credibility on the matter. It just makes them look worse...if that is really possible.

They are trying to backpedal, they realize people are unhappy at this whole business and are trying to walk it back without looking weak. You should be happy about them saying this, since it's at least a start.
Do you think, on average, peoples' diets are higher quality than his "normal meal?"

I'm a bit pessimistic, so I think that his diet is probably not far off from the average American's diet, probably a lot better. That's a depressing idea in itself, but does lend credence to the idea that a simple, cheap alternative would be beneficial to people who are too busy/stupid/ignorant/poor to solve the problem for themselves.
It doesn't seem to work in Chrome. Work's in Safari though.
I figured it out, if anybody else cares: http://socialprintstudio.com/
Cutting caffeine probably caused the big changes in heart rate.
>Not a huge deal.

Wouldn't cutting your key search space roughly in half reduce your cracking time greatly, though?

According to Wolfram, for a 12 character password:

password type | total number | example
digits 0 through 9 | ~~ 2^40~~1 trillion | 287088364476
case-insensitive alphabetic | ~~ 2^56~~95.43 quadrillion | ycwcgndabspw
case-insensitive alphanumeric | ~~ 2^62~~4.738×10^18 | okcm5tfe8odr
case-sensitive alphabetic | ~~ 2^68~~3.909×10^20 | SgilPtNTKmuQ
case-sensitive alphanumeric | ~~ 2^71~~3.226×10^21 | xhWuSN5HBETz
printable ASCII characters | ~~ 2^79~~4.759×10^23 | [i{}I"2Bz9sN

The difference comes out to be 6.7 bits of entropy for a 12 chraracter, case sensitive and case insensitive alphanumeric with symbols. 81.38 vs 88.08. (Note that this "bits of entropy" number is mostly beyond my comprehension.. could anyone elaborate a bit? I'd assume more==better)
I'm saying I think technology will turn us into Eloi from te time machine. Or the borg.
> However, the Internet.org team does not plan to tackle some thorny infrastructure issues that are huge barriers in the developing world, particularly the long-distance transmission of data to far-flung places.

The only way this initiative will therefore accomplish access to the Internet to people without it seems to be in increasing the profit margin to the local telco. How? Through vertical integration. What does that mean? Get free Facebook with your phone. What's so bad about that? Goodbye, net neutrality in developing countries.

I'm leaving the morality judgment for others, and it's far from straightforward that this is a bad thing. But I'm rather more inspired by Google's Loon as actually having a positive impact on the developing world than this here thing.

Basically, 3G, 4G, the lot, is no good for large amounts of data. The percentage of mobile traffic of total traffic is actually dropping here in Australia - mobile data is being thrashed by fixed line services. Fixed line is growing 50% while mobile data would 10% every 6 months. And Loon acts more like a fixed line service than mobile data.
I believe the parent's point wasn't the accuracy of the information you'd be receiving, but just the exercise of evaluating conflicting viewpoints and coming out more enlightened as a result of it. Believe it or not, being able to apply that anywhere (as opposed to just thinking you can) is a skill, and skills need practice. It's an important part of thinking critically, and it can easily be lacking in a lot of very smart people.

EDIT: It wasn't my intention to offend if that was the reason behind the downvotes. It wasn't about anybody specifically, I was just trying to elaborate on a slippery slope issue that seems to be common among smart people.
Freedom of speech and association are fundamental human rights. No government may interfere therewith.

However, that "negative right" does not segue into a "positive right" to compel others to facilitate speech and association any more than making taxpayers buy you paper, ink, and bus/train/air fare.
Thanks Jason! I'm one of the cofounders.

There seems to be a bit of confusion around our pricing in the comments below, so let me clear it up: we charge an average of $5,000 per visa application. The real fees range from sub-$2k for simple transfers all the way to above $10k for some green c cards. For simplicity, we (and the press) sometimes abbreviate this to "$5k per visa".

So far, customers haven't had a problem paying a slight premium to use us; what they pay out in cash they more than make back in time saved and employee happiness, and that's why some even told us we're cheap!
Even the veggie burrito bol is in the 800 range for calories, and based on how employees heap stuff on, much more than that. It's really two meals' worth of food. Even the highest quality starch and fat filled meal is still a starch and fat filled meal.

The health hysteria over aspartame hasn't really been fully debunked, there are still countless conflicting studies about the effects of aspartame, one of the more recent ones finding the metabolic effects of artificial sweetener to be the same as an actual HFCS-sweetened soda.

Soda may or may not be bad for you, but it's certainly empty calories. He shows a picture of Diet Coke but mentions Vanilla Coke throughout. Your parent comment is on the mark.
Thank you for the feed back, my previous submissions got zero response, I wanted to catch an eye.
2/3rds of the world does not have internet. It's easy for us to forget that. It's a serious issue, and Facebook is well-positioned to tackle it.
Wow they all suck except for Senic & CoreOS.
I didn't propose a solution. I asked a question: Whose problem is it to solve? The user's? Apple's? HN's?

Apple certainly took it upon themselves to cause the problem. What's your proposed solution?
I absolutely love videos in the background. Brings the page to life. If it doesn't lag my computer I'm ok with it.

Anyone have any links to any good tutorials to embed background videos like this?
"I'd rather fly $500 return to Tokyo, because some rich guy upfront is paying $4000 for a flat bed"

NB: I'm 40 and didn't have these issues when I was younger/fitter/elasticker.

I pay $10k+ for a flat bed to Asia because I find that I can be off the plane and ready for a meeting the next business day, with no need to take an extra day or two on either end. Little seats that don't recline all the way are a recipe for back pain, neck pain, or just general low-grade misery, as if air travel isn't annoying enough. It's not really about "rich" (although I'm glad I have the option) but more about productivity and not losing time. The same thing happened with Saturday stay-overs on round trips (I don't know if they still do this) or one-way tickets being as or more expensive than round trips, because business customers often prefer to be home on weekends.

All that said, I generally book business and upgrade myself to first, so I'm not feeling the full $10-15k pressure myself. Also, I only book international first on vacations, when it's miles/points anyway, for which the spendy fares help out a lot.

Plus, I really don't want to fight with 500 people over two toilets. That gets more important when you get old. :-)
The rough-draft how: https://www.facebook.com/isconnectivityahumanright/isconnect...
The scripture quoted in the article is Jeremiah 10:23. History verifies the truthfulness of that scripture. Government by man has not brought a better world, even when rulers have had high ideals and the best of intentions. Instead, "man has dominated man to his injury." -(Ecclesiastes 8:9)
Can you name 2 or 3 (1?) that are marketed for 15-20 meals per week? Ensure Complete (but not any other versions of Ensure) is sorta close but marketed as a supplement.
Google seems to be conspicuously absent.

It's terrible to be cynical, but can't help feeling like this is just a reaction to project loon. Basically a banding together of companies who might see Loon as a threat, to offer some kind of alternative that they are in control of instead of Google.

However unlike Loon, reading the entire page I can't see anything solid they will actually do - develop better compression algorithms? Introduce "business models"? That's it? It sounds suspiciously weak.
Goldman Sachs programming error results in flood of erroneous trades
If you mean a wingsuit that can let you fly all the way to the ground at a speed low enough to land and survive -- then no one ever will. A wing that's big enough to have those low speeds will tear off your arms.

Popular Science had an article in 2003 examining wingsuits and the futile effort towards using them to land without a parachute, and they had a great diagram illustrating the problem: http://web.archive.org/web/20030623234930/http://www.popsci....
tldr; Facebook need new markets to enter to keep growing at expected investor's rate.
Fast Web servers. There is absolutely nothing there that I could use to make, say, a fast database server.
> There are a few that are complete diet replacements, mostly used for medical purposes, but the fact that they're designed for patients who can't eat means that there is a lot of room for improvement given Soylent's different target market.

There's no difference. The point is that those are expensive because getting a concoction of nutrients that doesn't damage you in the long term is hard.
Doing a triangle fill algebra is what separates a hard working programmer like myself or Carmack from the rest... and doing a compiler :-)

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Adam/Gr/GrPrimatives.html#l1129
Except that it is not a false choice at all. Amazon delivers by their promised delivery date. I have ordered items with my prime membership that took two days for it to ship, and yet it still arrived on time (arrived the same day it shipped, via a same day carrier). A super saver shipping promise is 5-7 business days. If it takes 5 business days to ship, then your package is getting a second-day ship method. From the several hundreds of packages I have received from Amazon, both before and after my prime membership, only 1 has ever arrived after it was promised to arrive...and it was the carrier's fault.
"On the other hand, JPEG may not be as well suited for line drawings and other textual or iconic graphics, where the sharp contrasts between adjacent pixels can cause noticeable artifacts. Such images may be better saved in a lossless graphics format such as TIFF, GIF, PNG, or a raw image format. The JPEG standard actually includes a lossless coding mode, but that mode is not supported in most products."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jpeg
IMHO solving the Facebook walled garden would be one of the most interesting startups to create today.

I've spent several months studying how to create tools that get around walled gardens (unfortunately they aren't mine and I can't open source them) but this is definitely a problem I wouldn't mind working on next. There are ways to get your information out of Facebook that would be extremely hard for them to counter, but it's a fulltime job to create something robust enough and maintaining it in the face of changes Facebook makes.
Given the complete lack of security on the internet, it would seem that we want to extend this lack of security to everyone in the world. Hurrah!

Now can we fix the problems before we ship it?
I think the part where he said the poor kid "would be forced to sit on a spike," may have not been a serious proposal. Extrapolate from that what you will.
Yes, but that's not an option for personal email.
I didn't even try scrolling. I watched the video and then closed the page because I didn't know that there was some other action to take next. They should put a call to action at the end.
Again, my first paragraph is:
> I'm all for people having the freedom to eat whatever they want and I really like the quantified self aspect of seeing how diet affects how they feel and metrics of health, but I have to say the author grossly does not understand the medical tests he had done and misinterprets the data. I'm not going to comment on the drink, but rather on his misunderstanding of medicine.

I'm not trying to refute what he says about how he feels, whether that saves him money, or his mental ability - those aren't my areas of expertise. I do know a little about medical tests, and I think it's valid to point out that he clearly does not and how the results he reports are either incorrect or irrelevant. I'm just suggesting you shouldn't consider his medical tests in deciding how good this product is.

I have no horse in this race, but I'll tell you if this racetrack is not standard regulation. Self experimentation might be useful, but only if you understand the metrics you measure and whether it's stochastic noise or meaningful results.
The iPhone SMS sending bar does the same thing.
Could you explain what you mean by full-blown coroutines?
Thanks!
Yep, this is not the stuff I'm good at. Correct.
Soylent is quickly becoming a great case study on marketing and human behavior. These guys have definitely hit on something people want. However, I do not have confidence that this team can deliver on Soylent's promises.

There are many other reasons to be skeptical of Soylent, even from a cursory read on Wikipedia, the website, and Kickstarter page. First, the diet has caused Rob Rhinehart anemia, tachylcardia, arrhythmia, and joint pain from taking Soylent (from Wikipedia, Economist article). While the formula has changed since, do you trust a diet that only months ago caused the creator serious health ailments? Secondly, even if Rob Rhinehart has no nutrition background, and neither does anyone else on the Soylent team. I would expect someone on the team that knows something about nutrition. Looking on the website the Soylent team includes no mention of a nutritionist or dietician or foods manufacturing expert; key people in developing a new meal replacement product. Thirdly, anything to do with creating a new, stand alone meal replacement product requires someone know about the foods business or operations or something along those lines. It is not clear that their current team understands how far you can go with marketing claims, how to test medical claims, nutrient interactions, etc.

This is not the first time people have been skeptical of Soylent, and certainly not the last. There are so many red flags from just a quick search and gut checking against their claims that I would definitely not recommend it to anyone I know, let alone trying it out myself.
I love git on the command line but you definitely need to expose this to people, as it's a really sexy UI with all the animations and all. I almost wish I could see this representation alongside traditional git add/commit/push/pulls
This is the canonical right answer for most SaaS products.

In addition, if you were to hypothetically announce today that prices are increasing after September 1st for new customers but that anyone with an account created before September 1st is grandfathered in on the old pricing, you'll get a nice spike in account creation in the next 10 days or so.
Cool. Won't replace Tower though, for me at least.
I think it's better to ask the opposite question:

Does anyone have the right to deny a person connectivity?

Or more generally:

Does anyone have the right to deny a person access to knowledge?

And I continue by thinking about the question:

Does a government have the right to limit anyone's freedom without a fair and open judicial process?
Edopter: Oh Hai New Users
One interesting point: you mention acceleration. The battery-only acceleration on the plugin prius is actually pretty acceptable. I recently rented a regular prius and my habit of accelerating as fast as I can without busting out of "eco" mode meant I was just crawling embarrassingly slowly, whereas in the plugin, you tend to outrun most average drivers if you do that.
As a side note, the postscreen(8) man page [1] says that "this service was introduced with Postfix version 2.8.". Also RHEL 6 comes with postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.i686.

[1] http://www.postfix.org/postscreen.8.html
Portraits taken in front of a leaf blower
Yes, GP said: "Just because something similar has been tried before doesn't mean the basics are wrong." In this case the basis is very wrong.
I don't know why people downvoted you, but it's true that you need testing to explore these things. Unfortunately, it's one of those things where you can't just prove the absence of something (in this case: danger).

I found the preceding comment equally odd:

> We can nonetheless have a strong presumption that the body does best on whole foods.

Not really. The commenter even said it himself: "we don't know what we don't know about food". We can acknowledge that 'whole foods' are adequately sustainable for humans, but extrapolating any additional meaning from their traditional role is baseless without further study. Thus, saying that 'adequate' == 'best' is making a huge leap of logic in an area that we haven't even figured out enough to begin optimizing it yet.

I don't support soylent, and I don't believe any other MRPs are fully adequate either, but that doesn't mean we should throw out the baby with the bathwater here...
It was an oft-quoted meme in the 80s and 90s (and possibly earlier) that all the seats on flights from the continental US to Hawai'i were reward travel.
A detailed plan by Zuckerberg: https://www.facebook.com/isconnectivityahumanright/isconnect...
>>I don't remember this ever happening.

Then it clearly must have not happened.
Weird that it doesn't work in Chrome... Surprising that wouldn't bother to test drive it in Chrome.
Imagine that there was a drug that reduced your renal function by 25% in two weeks.[1]

People will see in this what they want to see. This is why case reports are evidence of the lowest grade. This is more a curio than it is evidence, and there is nothing wrong with writing a blog post about a curio.

1 = I think the creatinine bump is quite likely due to stochastic fluctuation, but if for discussion's sake we attribute all positive changes to Soylent, we should do the same for the negative ones.
If we can't sue the NSA, can we sue this provider directly. Looks like there is more than enough info publicly available to hold them accountable and they can't invoke the state secrets defense. Everyone whose data crosses those cables is a potential plaintiff.
The problem I find is that graphical trees don't scale. They turn into a splayed out mess that is difficult to skim visually.

Personally, I'd far rather see a textual dump, with nesting denoted by indentation.
Ask: Name & URL of showHN that turned Animted Gifs into HTML Video
A few days ago someone posted a Show HN where they shrunk animated gifs down to a movie file or something that it was much smaller than the .gif file. Does anyone have a link to that? I searched for hours and could not find it.
Can you name 2 or 3 (1?) that are marketed for 15-21 meals per week?

I don't think anyone is expecting to replace all 21 meals per week with Soylent (including the creator, who specifically said that his regular meals have become more delightful).

For me, the aspects that resonate are: 1) weight management, 2) ease and time savings, 3) cost savings & 4) increased alertness & energy.

If you have any suggestions on what I should consider until Soylent is ready, I'm all ears.
Wouldn't my time be better spend taking on a second job as, say, a programmer (which I am good at) instead of becoming a mediocre craftsman?
Some good background if people aren't aware of it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights
Above average in quality? He was taking in nearly twice the daily recommended intake of sodium [1] and nearly all of his self reported vitamin/mineral intake was about 1/3 of the daily recommended levels.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/Features/dsSodium/
> RSA researcher Limor Kessem said she had not seen the wire payment switch attacks in the wild, but the company had received reports of the attacks from customers.

Ouch, even worse than expected. They didn't even detect it happening after the fact.
No. People need food, clothing, shelter, a job to survive. On the other hand, humanity has done just fine without the Internet or computers for most of its history.

Now, if Facebook is willing to pay the cost of providing every single human being with an Internet connection, they should be allowed to. But if they are implicitly suggesting every state in the world should make it easier for them to increase their user base by making it a top priority to provide everyone with Internet access (because "connectivity is a human right", right?), then someone ought to wake them up from their daydreaming.
We need a war on authoritarianism
What might have been: Visiting Mars and Venus with Apollo-era hardware