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It's true we as a species don't need economic growth, but we could really use some scientific and technological growth to achieve the twin aims of a) maintaining our beautiful biosphere, and b) extending it beyond earth.

Unfortunately, the individual, market demand for these large-scale "products" is minuscule - which means that (modulo SpaceX) you only get political will behind them, which means academic research funded by government grants, which means a not-very-well-paid and overtly politicized existence for anyone wanting to "get out and push".

That said, I think there's a curious and under-served middle-ground in First-World countries, particularly in the US, which is to develop distributed, self-reliant, green (and inherently 'local') ways of living through technology. It helps with the biosphere goal, and plays to the "rugged individualism" meme that is still present, at least in a vestigial form. Maybe when people are running their own solar panels, hydroponic garden/air purifier, reusing waste water, there will be less interest in finance.
I'm just saying that we must be careful citing CSDM numbers because they represent a special situation. The CSDM have a lot of first generation immigrants, poor students, students with learning disabilities, etc. The middle class students are in good schools in the suburbs or in private schools.

The CSDM in Montreal has such a bad reputation that if you're not accepted in a specialized program (let say, international baccalaureate), you go to a private school if you can afford it (4k$/year). And don't let me start about union rules for new teachers...

On the other hand, if you're a special ed teacher, CSDM is hiring like crazy. Not so much for math, social science, french, English teachers though.
sometimes you realize that in formulating the question you've solved it for yourself anyway

This has happened to me countless times.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9076351
You are correct, and this is a pervasive problem. When I was a tutor, I learned to answer their questions not directly, but showing them how the material they already have can supply it. "Well, let's start with the index, <turns to back of book>, ok, let's read chapter four from the top, together ..."

So the same thing could be applied, "Lets go to your desk, let's look at the manual together, why don't we google together" etc.

The lesson to the student is, "I could do this faster myself", and they'll stop asking you unless they really need it.
Wow, such a long article and not a single mention of the word "security" in this DNS 2.0 proposal. Impressive.
"Virtually all fall for the "mark it down by 10%, then mark it up by 10%... same price!" fallacy."

That is a classic GCSE Foundation Maths exam question: and I have to say most of the teenagers I teach can explain why you won't get back to the same price!

I wasn't singling out teachers myself but the OA looks as if it was. There is an honest desire to improve things over the next 10 years in the UK and all main parties agree about the general policy if not the detail so I am slightly optimistic (but teachers have to be)
Why is the current standard of living the ideal? Why not 10 years ago, or 10 years into the future? How about 20? 30?
Students should collaborate in the classroom, not compete
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Somehow basic math like addition, mutliplication, fractions, mean, median, and mode, is in no way similar to tying square knots. Especially for future teachers.
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And none of those things comes in $10K+ enclosures. Things are different. People aren't going to throw away big chunks of gold... either Apple is going to do it or someone else is. Upthread idea that people will just be out $20K after 2-5 years is what's ridiculous here.
"he lives in the caves and wilderness of Utah"

- Which are wilderness regions because the entire population moved to cities.

"scavenges roadkill"

- Which exists because people built roads and people drive there.

"pulls food from dumpsters"

- Which exists because people built the dumpsters and throw food into it.

"sometimes fed by friends and strangers"

- No comments.

The headline should be: "The Man Who Quit Money But Depends On It".
That's mostly because people now lease them on multi-year contracts from their service providers.
The article described the author's experience of learning something, without actually communicating anything about what it was that she learned.
My macbook pro isn't that much thicker than an air.. though I wound up getting the 15" retina because I needed 16gb without waiting a few weeks for it... tried an 8gb/13" retina model, and returned it, needed the extra ram.
THATS'S CLEARLY 23 LINES
This opens up some incredibly interesting capabilities - some features that we struggled to provide to users because of the inefficiencies of serializing persistent data structures suddenly go away. This is very high on my list of things to play around with!
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I recently switched back & bought an early 80's model western electric telephone. Hopefully it will last another 30 years!
I'd love to see some examples of non-trivial apps written in pure JavaScript which:

a) has decent browser compatibility
b) is not a rat's nest of shims and polyfills
c) could be maintained by more than one person
Lenovo's response is not astonishingly in the least, its the expected behavior. They made a business decision to include adware in order to raise some extra revenue and then got caught. The default response is to underplay the importance of it, sweeping it under the rug and hope no legal action will happen.

A few months ago there was a HN story about a car manufacturer who had made the decision to use cheaper parts for the ignition. They had the critical internal reports from engineers, and when the deaths started to pile up they did the same thing as lenovo. Act clueless, downplay the issue, make a fix, and silently move on. So long it just customer outrage, it is perfectly fine to do borderline illegal things in order to raise some revenue.
In at Least 22 States, Your Student Debt Could Cost You Your Job
Review of Wake: a language aimed at testability, expressiveness, and typesafety
Building Building Blocks
Can we please drop the "rockstar" crap? You are writing code, not performing live in makeup and snorting lines off of adoring groupies. I don't care how great you think your Node module is, you are not the Jimi Hendrix of 2050.

And this kind of thinking affects your values. You are supposed to do a good solid job that results in something useful, not impress people with your riffs or your artistic vision. Nobody is impressed except you. Make the tests pass and fix shit when it blows up and GET OVER YOURSELF
Technically, average is ambiguous. Usually refers to mean, but also median and mode.
Just a small correction: It will be solid gold, not plated. Your point still remains in tact.
Totally agree. When the finance sector grows, demands for return interest on capital investment intensifies, acting as a gravity-well for capital away from development. Firms like Goldman make every investment require higher and higher returns at a greater and greater scale. Money chasing money. Casino economy. Instead of opening a new line of business, your profits must be funneled into paying back on that loan at higher and higher rate.
Sure, you may theoretically be able to keep an Apple Watch for 2 years, 5 years, or longer potentially... but Apple will be releasing a new one every year, too. And even though your watch is serviceable for 5 years, you'll be having FOMO after 1 or 2.
when Jobs returned to Apple, he gave a big speech about how market share never mattered to BMW, and that Apple should become the BMW of personal computers.

it did, and it went on to become much, much more. but its huge fame today is pushing the Mac away from being BMWs.

all of which makes me desperately wish there was a Lamborghini or Ferarri of personal computers. most people might only need a computer to look at Facebook, but if you're doing animation, making electronic music, and building web applications - all of which I am personally doing, often - then you absolutely need a great GUI and a Unix-like foundation.

if you're reading HN because you want to do a startup, please, give us the Lamborghini of personal computing. we will buy. Apple knows it, but they don't have time to care, because they're going to make so much more money selling digital watches to the people who drive actual Lamborghinis.
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Likewise. I spent 18 years there and hadn't known about Vanport. When I encountered racism I'd usually classified it as random, vestigial pieces of the past, or perhaps redneckery (while we're judging), and I do remember a few encounters with skinheads. But this paints a much more damning picture of institutional racism. The bit about the schools at the end paints a hopeful picture, though.
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No, not intentionally naive, but perhaps intentionally not cynical. I'd like to believe that a technology company, such as Microsoft, relies on a bit more than buy-in and advocacy. Perhaps the soundness of a product, for example.
Sure, but I pay ~$400 every couple of years for a phone. I also bought a Moto 360 for $175 (normal non-sale price $250). I may replace that in a year or two when the tech has improved enough to justify the update.

Either way, these are still mostly luxuries (I could get a passable smart phone for under $100 and any old watch for $30-50 or just not wear one) but it wouldn't be the first time a company put out a range of products so people of different budgets can become customers while still offering some high-end model for status seekers to shell out for and mortals to drool over.

I'm not interested in the Apple watches at the moment but it makes sense for them to sell a "mere mortal" version for $300-500 as they typically charge a bit more than competitors for their name and reputation for polish. If they sell a Rolex-grade version for rock stars and wealthy heirs then I guess it just adds to the status of the brand as a whole even if nobody normal would ever buy one.
I feel like the general response is that, "this is aimed at rich people, they are not sensitive to price, so it doesn't matter."
>For example, let's look at your checking account. A banker's not a middleman here

Yes, he is. He takes your money and lends it out to others, whom he charges for the privilege. That's how fractional reserve banking works.

Of course, these days since interest rates are zero, that's not really a profitable line of business. It's mostly used to upsell the more profitable products like mortgages or credit cards.
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It's just a student expressing outrage at his classmates ignorance of basic math. Especially future teachers.
“The news web is straight trash”
I believe it's implied the finance sector knows they're draining the high-skilled worker pool, meaning R&D-heavy businesses won't be able to find the employees they need to succeed. So businesses with collateral are a better bet.
In 30 years all our children may be doctors just so they can flip burgers

This is a point that is often lost in these discussions. We've worked hard in the West to make higher education a commodity, but we haven't considered the unintended consequences. One of those is that if every millenial kid has an advanced degree, what makes them special snowflakes and differentiates them from the hoi polloi? Grade inflation and degree inflation mean that there's less incentive to get an advanced degree since ROI keeps decreasing while at the same time tuition keeps rising.

I doubt our PhD-holding children will be flipping burgers, though—the robots will do that.
Business is much more lucrative than science. Not surprising.
Heh - I was assuming it would be hard to walk in solid gold shoes ;-)
That all sounds reasonable. But I have to believe it's completely wrong. Because it's the same sort of "reasonable" that says every level of technology is pretty much all you need. That is finally (decades later) pretty much true of desktop computers (but not displays). And it's getting there for laptops (excepting their displays and batteries). It's still years away for phones. And to think that the very first generation of of Apple watch is somehow going to get everything right to last for even one decade? I think that's preposterous.

The only way I can see them getting around this is by saying that for, say $500, we'll be able to take your watch in and swap out its guts entirely. It feels like that has to be true. (Yet, it also seems "chincy" to talk about popping things in and out. I guess we'll see.)
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Interesting! Can you share more about it?
You would take your watch to Apple and get it serviced. They'd buff it up, and swap out the S1 for an S2 and so on.
He hasn't missed this. On several episodes of his podcast he and his guests have pondered whether the watch may have some standardised internal bay with upgradable innards, to keep it up to date year-to-year.

Or just trade it in for the newest model, as the gold will be the most valuable (and reusable) part.
The private schools in QC are a bit better... at least in my experience. It's too bad, the public system is so broken.
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*If you don't check with a third party you have no way to know if you're doing things the best possible way. Or even the right way.

Wrong. How do you verify that the third party is correct?
Non paywall link:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Got, I had never heard that area called Albina before. Seems like the rebranding of Bushwick in NYC as East Williamsburg...
It's not that bad, especially in the downtown/PSU area. I know quite a few Chinese/Taiwanese immigrants and I believe they're doing just fine.
Forget cameras, I want the bionic eyes we were promised. I hope this gets us a step closer.
I was once told of a similar situation in a high school: AP classes were worth 6.0 in your GPA, while regular ones were worth 4.0. The valedictorian wound up being the person who realized this, took as many AP classes as possible, and as few regular classes as possible.

It is massively stupid and unfair -- but there is a part of me that sees that as preparation for real life, a great deal of which is run in stupid and unfair ways. While you'd like to change that, you also have to know how to respond to it when you can't change it.
> "America isn't the US".

Depends whom I'm talking to. When I talk to you and others like you, I'll be careful to note that unqualified "America" to you almost always means "the United States". It never meant that to me growing up, nor to a bunch of other people. However, due to the global influence of the US, most of the world considers "America" to be the "US".

It's not really about context or anything that could be called objective. It just means different things to different people. And because for me "America" has very emotional meanings (such as for example, Morelos' proclamation that "... so Americans may only be distinguished by vice or virtue"[1] or Luis Miguel's song "América"[2], or Las Águilas del América [3]), I will never personally accept the meaning of "US" for "America".

You may have other emotional attachments to the meaning of "America", so I will try to respect those when I use the word around you or others like you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimientos_de_la_Naci%C3%B3n

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3u7qU_09w

[3] note their logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Am%C3%A9rica
Not only here but in general "coolness" is one of the main factors for choosing tech in startups.

2008 - So did you rewrite your PHP apps in Ruby?

2012 - So did you rewrite your Ruby apps in Node?

2015 - So did you rewrite your Node apps in Go?
At least "Lenovo US" is owning up to it. https://twitter.com/lenovoUS/status/568578319681257472 Not sure how they're connected to the "Lenovo" that issued that statement.
The way the processing module is designed as a little encapsulated nugget-thing suggests that maybe this upgrade idea is more feasible with the watch than it would be for other devices.
Developing Mobile Applications with Apache Cordova
I have more trouble understanding what my daughters are saying than my son. My daughters are in Spanish Immersion programs while he's in Japanese. My oldest says that she's just used to using Spanish and that's why her English isn't more clearly enunciated.

My son does mumble at times but I've always thought it was when he was saying something he knew he wasn't supposed to.
In the NewYorker Article, Jony made it clear that they considered a round face, but realized quite quickly that one of the principal functions of the watch was to deal with lists, which work much better on a rectangle.
I consider that to be asking for feedback, not help.
However, it's good advice if we think about just being competent instead of being a smart deified rockstar.

If you are handed a spec and documentation for all the APIs you will need to use, and instead of reading or thinking about anything you just demand that I walk you through it one step at a time, all day, there is a plain old competence issue and it is wasting time.

Often it really is better for someone to just try to figure it out for a while, even if it takes them a lot longer. You don't learn with people telling you every single little detail.
The other difference is that Rolex doesn't sell a $200 watch. I can't think of any legitimate luxury brand in the world that successfully sells to the common man and the uber rich.

There's no $20,000 Rolls Royce. There's no $100 Prada bag. There's no $50,000 Ferrari. Any brand that dips too low into the mass market loses its cachet among the top tier of the market (i.e. BMW and Coach as two examples)

Apple Watch will not sell for $10,000. Gruber is being Gruber.
http://xkcd.com/33/
It's really annoying and reminds me of Windows where such issues were routine and rebooting was not a big deal. I moved to a Mac to get away from such issues, and largely have, except this one niggling issue.
Gruber's talked about that before on his podcast, so he hasn't missed it -- but I think you're right that it'd be good to address in print. I know I'd be hesitant to fork over even a "mere" $1000 for the stainless steel one if the expectation was that it'd be obsolete in a few years.

I can't imagine, however, that this hasn't come up within Apple already; if you're really going to sell a $10K smartwatch, this will have been talked about in planning meetings. I can imagine ways to make it serviceable; my own guess is that there will be a trade-in program for the steel and gold watches.
I don't think they are saying that luring skilled workers _leads_ to lending to easily collateralizable businesses. Just positing that those two separate statements are true.
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It is not astonishing that a company that would do this would also lie about it. They knew what they were doing.
Jony Ive was pretty clear about why they didn't go for a round face in his interview with The New Yorker:

> Ive later tested watchbands by wearing them outside the studio with other watches. The shape of the body, meanwhile, barely changed: a rectangle with rounded corners. “When a huge part of the function is lists”—of names, or appointments—“a circle doesn’t make any sense,” Ive said.
LinkedIn limiting number of searches for free profiles
> as long as I can virtualize efficiently with virtualbox or something

You can use VirtualBox on Linux, but QEMU with KVM is, in my experience, far more efficient, and a lot less buggy.
Did you try to sign up with Stripe instead? You could get instantly approved and start processing that level of volume without any blockers from them.
What If We Lost the Sky?
It's already adjusted for cost of living, the y axis is PPP.
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I'm currently reading The Wilderness Warrior, the biography of Theodore Roosevelt who was instrumental not only in setting aside the Grand Canyon as a national park but also in saving millions of acres of forest through the West from wanton development. In that time, it was possible for a politician to have that kind of far reaching impact. Leaving aside whether it was the right or wrong thing to do, it's interesting that now we're likely subject to financial interests in whether this gets done and possibly a court decision. I doubt that any of our elected leaders could have much effect over what will eventually happen here. I think that's probably a failing of our political system.
Without discounting the possibility that there may be some astroturfing, I think it's far more likely that you've run afoul of community expectations.

The HN guidelines specifically suggest you resist commenting on downvotes, and people take that seriously here. Editing your comment to add meta-commentary on votes will generally just get you more downvotes.

Additionally, your comments are fairly polarizing. You make statements about how something is obvious, but then provide nothing besides anecdotal evidence. If it's that obvious, real evidence should be easy to show, otherwise it's possibly not as clear as you think. You could possibly have avoided this problem by framing it as a question and leaving an opening for someone to provide a better answer. This also invites people who disagree, or have a different interpretation to engage in a useful way, rather than starting off in an antagonistic way. For example, stating something "absolutely and unequivocally" without evidence won't generally be seen useful to the discussion here.
So, like acronyms and abbreviations?
The Mac Pro is pretty much exactly that though. If you need a more specialized machine, you'll probably need to consider building your own machine in the first place with your specific needs.
To set up a new machine for a client I charge about $75 to:

Remove the pre-installed crap. (Using MCPR or NRT to remove bundled AV.)

Ensure MSE or Windows Defender is up and running.

Install the usual software - VLC, LibreOffice (or MS Office if they have bought it), Classic Start if Win 8 and wanted, Chrome with AdBlock (although may soon switch to uBlock), etc. Ninite does most of the heavy lifting on that.

Setup printer.

Set up local user accounts (after discussing Microsoft accounts.)

Transfer the user folder (and email if client-based, Thunderbird and Mozbackup usually does most of the work.)

Join the machine onto the broadband.

If necessary, go through the basics of Windows 8.1, web security, backups etc.

It's closer to $99 for businesses, but they usually have slightly more complex requirements.

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We used to make restore disks, but nowadays we generally don't bother as it's faster to clean install from a Windows install that already has the updates on it.

I may very well start clean-installing the machines instead. One irritating thing I've come across is that "8.1 with Bing" wouldn't install from a standard Windows 8.1 disk. That may scupper the clean-install plan for home users with cheap machines.
In my opinion that is worse. Most any clueful technocrat can tell you that injecting traffic into HTTPS sessions is a MITM attack. I am willing to bet that fact most certainly did make it to an executive level (certainly at the fishy company) and a choice was made to not care about that problem.

The road to poor security is paved with indifference.
The assumption I made is that our knowledge can never be perfect, thus it's unknown whether there is a purpose or God in our universe and thus we have to continuously improve our knowledge just in case that there is indeed a purpose or God (even though it doesn't look like it).
10 years from now Apple won't be a tech company, they will be an international luxury brand that creates products in many different areas. This is just the first step.