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@panino, thirdsun makes great points and he hits it square on that the point of the issue is the screen. You have to ask yourself what are you buying for $1200 today that you couldn't have bought 3 years ago? To be honest I wouldn't even buy a new one if I was you; I'd go buy a used one about 2 years old. I've actually been doing this the last 5 years, because there is no reason to buy premium new prices when you are almost literally getting the same product with small tweaks over the last 5 years.

Aside from the screen though I'd read some of the others below. There is a great long-form from another user and I followed up on my initial comment with further detail; I don't mind repeating myself, but others may not take kindly to me adding in blocks of largely replicated answers.

Firstly if you are broadly familiar with their product line then you'd know that the Macbook doesn't remotely replace the Air.

As a regular user off the Air and those around me; all of whom use Airs except for like 2 people who need the Pro's big GPU haven't upgraded for four big reasons.

1. The screen resolution and quality. 2. Removal of the magnetic locking port and other port related issues that are well noted 3. Not enough RAM 4. Price 4b. If they use the Butterfly keyboard on the Air then that would become an issue as well.

Magnetic power port: This is huge and how ironic that MS launched a magnetic 'super' port for their Surface equipment and Mac moved away. I haven't had a Mac hit the floor in 10 years for the very reason this port exists

Mac Airs were more expensive when they initially launched, but afterwards they moderated for much of their time int he $1200-$1500 USD range. This is way way less than what's on offer from a Macbook.

Lastly, regarding the Macbook itself, the screen size is too small. This is a toy for a more niche use case. The Air is a mobile warriors tool box; it's got ports, longevity and it's just about impossible to break. What people don't often even realize is that the the triangular shape of the Air is a critical structural feature that makes typing easier than most others and also makes it impervious to nearly any reasonable drop. I've got so many dings, gouges and scars from it's heavy usage that I'm always amazed.

I genuinely would buy a brand new Air if it was 13", Retina which is so standard now, under $1500 and had 8GB of RAM. This is a completely reasonable expectation. What I would ask for is different. If I could ask I'd want a 14" screen, Retina, option of 8-16GB of RAM and a magnetic port. Two of those things you are know aren't going to happen, but I dream of day when the magnetic port comes back to me; life was much less stressful never having to worry about a $1000 devices safety.

Won't upgrade a single Apple product in my house until we get a resolution on MacBook Air. We are already evaluating leaving Apple products due to their complacency and won't be upgrading until we see movement on pricing and product development regarding the MacBooks. It's a sad state of affairs when you are waiting 3 years to update and you can't because your vendor of choice refuses to update your product category.

Hopefully they sort things out before we commit to a switch in early 2019. We aren't the only ones either we've had friends leave already and some are either waiting on us to blaze a path forward or are already planning to leave the platform.

I think Apple needs to seriously consider the long-term impact to their business of losing their major platform advocates; from artists, to developers, to technology savvy people that have a dramatic affect on the spending habits of others. Myself alone have easily and directly impacted about $50k worth of consumer spending, not a lot I know, but I'm also confident I'm not alone and this is a trend that is going the wrong direction.

Just thought I'd share where I'm at and those in my circle.

Also of you are imminently switching or have switched I'd love to know what you switched too and why.

Aren't they using molten salt for this? I think I heard about molten salt being used in a few cases for energy storage. Too bad I can't recall the details. Have you heard about this?

With Waze, the ubiquity of Google Maps, improvements in city traffic data and AI tech, I'm genuinely surprised Google still uses 1km as a measurement form versus prioritizing time in minutes.

In my urban driving experience I rarely consider distance over other factors, such as time and/or comfort of the drive.

In my city I will often make alternative choices not based on distance, but on the amount of effort I need to put into the ride itself. Right now I'm just waiting for my lady and when she gets in the car I'm not taking the fastest route at all, but the most leisurely route to our brunch.

Am I alone in feeling these are two different yet valid (more than just me) forms of user experience?

In a world at that scale that much debt held by one single entity is massive. Activist investors have taken over large companies on such a small amount.

I'd be careful undervaluing the influence that a single debt holder of that size could have. Plus you are further assuming that that's the totality of their influence and it's likely 2-3* that if you include influence.

I'd definitely be wary if I was going to war (trade is the new war) with another nation.

Nico I ha estado major issues and they were the original reason for switching from Windows. I'd love you feedback on them.

1. Apple doesn't slow down due to not being rebooted. I rarely reboot for this reason; basically only for system updates.

2. Suspend I believe is the service? I just close the lid, open, login and keep working. This last time I used Windows wasn't possible. From crashing applications and the direct loss of data due to that crash to not waking and needing me to reboot the whole system.

3. My entire experience with Windows aside from the need to frequently reboot is that it always slows down from the first day of purchase until the day I lose my mind over the speed of it's activity and go buy a new one... This slow down is the slower more incideous one that progresses over months until nothing not even a reboot nurses enough out of it to make it performant anymore.

These are literally the three issues that cause me to be terrified of switching. When Apple did the 'it just works' commercials I switched, because I didn't want to be so involved in the OS. I wanted to just use it and do my things, which aren't nearly as intensive as some others ex. I just do front end work minus the crazy designer apps that require huge RAM and expensive Graphics Cards.

If these 3 things are no longer issues on Windows then I'd really consider it because they are the only reason I'm with Apple at this time. Since Jobs died they've gotten even worse at servicing their MacOS base that it's crazy to be using their product at this point, since they clearly don't give a shit about us.

Lastly I used to use Linux back in the day, but left it because the lips stick (GUI) doesn't abstract away enough of the day to day tasks and I refuse to be a 'programmer' when I just doing regular stuff like writing emails, productivity tools and looking at photos. I'd totally be game if losing a file on download wasn't still a distinct possibility along with the anxiety of not knowing if an app was installed right or full removed; an issue I have with Windows too btw, but not with MacOS.

I don't believe this is true. Feels like confirmation bias a bit. Lots of companies or people make money on their open source software. Vue.js, Red Hat, etc. That's just the top of mind and I'm sure there are more.

It looks like lots because you count each failure as confirming your bias, but if you correlate that against over 80% of small businesses failing then it's not a valid assumption unless you have data showing they fail at a higher rate.

Don't get me wrong this is a shitty situation for sure, but it's always sad when an entrepreneur of any stripe fails.

As an aside I think it's a more valuable conversation in general to look at the business models available to someone approaching this model of development and for us to make suggestions on how he could have built a successful product in this way and succeeded. My thoughts as a total outsider on this issue are going to be more general, but since it's my suggestion to do this I'll start.

1. I believe that when someone creates software in a broad usage category then consulting and especially training must be central to any business goals if you wish for similar projects to succeed. 2. Support contracts for large orgs are also very important because companies need security whether software is free or not. Without support contracts it's likely you won't get the kind of benefactors that are required to be financially sustainable. 3. Marketplaces seem to be in vogue as are extensions. These often work well for one very simple reason; people are paying either directly or indirectly (via their marketing of their extension) to promote your product/service. Nothing says win like others promoting your stuff for you. 4. Build a currated network of developers and promote them. Talk about them to others. Helping them is helping yourself. The more people or orgs investing in your marketplace developers the more stickiness a product will have. 5. Talk about the product everywhere. Conferences. Even start a conference around your vertical. Invite your dev circle to speak at the events. If nothing else it'll boost their careers.

Anyway that's my off the back of the napkin 'just saying' for today. I hope it helps someone who's interested in following this gentleman to Foss joy and success.

:)

There are far more people aligned against him, so it's easy for him to feel defensive. I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if there was something bad going on with their finances, but I'd ALSO easily believe that there are actors very very actively working against him and Tesla. Google and Apple can grow without restraint because until they were massive they didn't affect anyone, Tesla from day 1 flew against the grain and is upsetting hundreds of thousands of jobs from corporations to unions. His company matters if it succeeds and anyone with common sense can easily imagine a mole.

We don't want them to re-offend, but we won't give them meaningful work either. Terrible cycle

Reliable? How does one measure that from a recent graduate during an interview? What people get rejected for is astounding to me.

I used Linux a long time ago and issues I had were not the large cases described here, but little things that wear down my soul like: - where did the program get installed? - how to I uninstall the program? - where is x file(s) - what is the command for this? - why do I need a command? - i updated the OS and it won't reboot. Now what? - I updated it and now it won't connect to the printer. Now what?

The issues were boundless. While Mac isn't what it used to be, it's still awesome for so many little things that I no longer even care to think about and for that reason I'm not inclined to switch. I don't even like using Windows at all anymore and it's not an issue of preference, the do of my caring regarding preference are behind me. Now it's just a simple issue of general irritation and performance at work.

Just my two cents as an older dev.

I buy MB Airs and my current is a 2013 and I hate touching other keyboards now. Frustration mounts almost immediately with how clunky and odd they are. I'm so happy that I am sad, because I've maxed it out so bad that my Dr Clear is constantly showing 90%+ memory usage and so I know for sure I need to upgrade. I don't want to upgrade!! So while my pain is slightly different, I totally get how you MBP users feel when they screw with your experience. It sucks!

Simply put this research at this stage proves nothing, however it could indicate an area requiring further analysis, but that's about it.

"Correlation does not imply causation" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_cause_and_consequen...

It's really easy to see that lots of reasons that aren't directly due to the program could have caused the changes. It could have been as simple as an expectation change amongst the parents, upon joining the program; how their children will perform better and therefore they did or it could have been the parents in the neighborhood most engaged in their children having a better life and when the opportunity to join the program became available they joined.

Stuff like this is notoriously difficult to prove, but I'm hopeful and glad to see research is being done.

Legally (I believe) they can't delete an account, they can only hide it or deactivate it. There are rules around the data that go beyond Facebook. Think about it. Someone's told the cops I've been using threats using my Facebook account and I hear that and request the service be deleted. Poof it's all gone. Somehow I don't think that's allowed or does anyone think I'm not making a valid and likely assumption here?

Then sure they delete YOUR data, but all the inferencial data such as which sites you clicked like on, which sites you signed into with Facebook, the type of commentary or information you share you made/shared isn't yours and the knowledge gained also isn't the users it's Facebook's so that'll all be there. So sure they won't have your face or name, but they'll know everything else about you that makes you you.

Anyway most people don't even know that Facebook owns Instagram or WhatsApp, so no matter what they say unless they are tech savvy they have up at most an account on Facebook, but not it's subsidiaries (I believe).

What's the cheapest domains to buy and hold? I'm not into investing just building crazy stuff and putting it out there for giggles. So I'm open to any domain that's wins out as the cheapest.

What's GDPR?

As an evolving self-taught I think it's too early for me to speak confidently on this topic, however I will add my two sense for what it's worth. Additional background; I'm the local Admin for a Free Code Camp (FCC) group so I meet lots of aspiring self-taughts btw.

1. Many many self-taughts (ST?) aren't joining coding for passion, they are joining because they want to change careers and think coding is easy. They think this (IMO) because it's famous for hiring non-graduates.

2. They then proceed to join groups like FCC in massive surges that closely correlates what's happening in the job market; which doesn't fuel me with confidence in their conviction to become a ST dev. It's kind of like joining the gym Jan 1; if you wanted to be healthy why wait until your NYE resolution. So like a gym 90% of those that join then go silent in our group nearly immediately.

3. I'd say about 1-4% of those who join even complete FCC and of those I genuinely believe they've all found success. Ironically FCC draws in a ton of weak links because it's free, but also because it's free very very few of us ever finish and get a certificate.

If I had a chance to hire an ST that was junior I'd definitely be curious about their story. Their story will tell you so much about the 'man' they are:

- Did they go balls deep and pay $15k+ and give up sleep and life for 3+ months? What did they do afterwards? What did they do before?

- Did they chip away at FCC for 1-2 years building out a portfolio, FINISHING at least the FE certificate?

You see where I'm going here? In my life I've never met someone who did truly well without an internal desire to get it done and that can't be taught. The real advantage of an ST can be their resilience and determination to do what is needed to succeed and if you ignore that amazing skill/asset just because he's without a paper then it's definitely a mistake.

So while I'm not advocating for STs over Grads, I am saying they can be very special and valuable assets that are worth taking a long look at when you get their resume.

You'll see more of me soon; I'm quiting my job May 1 to focus on finishing my skills to a commercial standard, which I've waited two years to do; I'm finally near the finish line and I can't be more excited to be going full time on my passion.

This was written on my phone; so apologies if I'm vague, impolite or grammatically a fail. It's hard when you're trying to work and quickly add two cents of value on a topic you love.

Can data that is supplied with an intention to be publicly accessible i.e. public domain be restricted. If the public was asked, "When you supplied your picture, your name, and then created a public URL to become fully searchable, was your intention that that information was to be restricted or was your intention that this was information you publicized about yourself to make it possible for potential employers to find you?". Answer, "Yes, it was 100% my intention to become searchable so that employers would be able to seek me out". Conversation is over.

LinkedIn creates an implied covenant with public consent (mostly) to then publish and make discoverable their professional profiles.

While LinkedIn 100% should have the right to stop others from embedding without permission since it's possible to claim the data structure and presentation is proprietary to them, this should never extend to the actual data itself, since this was willing gifted by the actual owners (Joe public) into public domain.

I think an argument could be made that LinkedIn is being burdened with a degree of data mining that affects their business and therefore should be able to charge a minimal fee e.g. an API firehose to acquire the data in bulk from providers in an raw data stream.

That seems reasonable depending on the charges associated with that offer, this would be the correct compromise, since their data structure is all that actually separates their service from say About.me or any other site of that type. All of which don't disallow scraping; as long as it doesn't present as a DOS attack (of course).

Anyway my comments are as a marketer and not a programmer or lawyer, but personally I'm very interested to see this case resolved in a manner that doesn't suit LinkedIn in the slightest.

I just use duckduckgo. I've tried it for years and it just wasn't good enough and then about a month ago I got fed up with Google's data mining again and tried it for like the 5th trial period and I haven't switched back. If you haven't tried duckduckgo for over a year then I suggest you give it a trial again.

I'm running a custom theme to remove the Google search bar from my Android phone, installed Firefox Quantum and set up a Mozilla account, so now everything is gone from Google except my Gmail and that will happen next along with Dropbox too.

If you want Google to be a better organization then you have to vote with your feet. Do that and your voice will eventually mean something, but until then Google won't listen.

I bought a bunch of put options on the cheap, so I'm betting on reckoning next year, but not a bankruptcy.

Based on their valuation being too high for where they are, I'm guessing they'll do a share offering to get cash. This could cause they're shares to tumble and I'll make 400-1200% or not. I'm ok with writing off such a small bet, but wow what a fun ride it'll be to see how this all turns out.

Engineering at this level would require a somewhat intelligent engineering team and so I'm assuming this is their starting point and that they are expecting to significantly lower the weight.

Having the engine there if these weaknesses are managed effectively would be quite disruptive to the industry. Maybe they won't make it work, but they obviously think they can.

From what I remember when Uber did it, it usually involved some degree of theft or the breaking of someone's TOS or both and in this instance this seems like just good old fashioned competitive research.

That's too bad because I was game for that as well. If it was included in a perk, then I'd love much closer to buying than I am now.

This is an awesome article. I'm really thankful that it was shared here on HN.

Actually no, he's not talking about Thorium reactors, he's talking about Breeder Reactors I believe, which will allow the fuel to be recycled over and over until it's virtually exhausted of all it's radioactivity.

I think that's what he is talking about. I studied this 30 years ago in primary school, so I might be off, but that's what I remember.

It's actually quite cool what other reactors are capable of and the amount of fuel we waste with existing commercialized types of which were designed to produce weapons grade plutonium as a by product, so efficiency wasn't valued over the byproduct of plutonium.

Anyway I think nuclear is interesting.

I don't think commercial structures typically keep their cladding beyond 10 years, unless it's a warehouse, so I'd imagine if it's anything other than. A warehouse they'd be happy to just have it reliably last 10 years then whatever from that point forward.

Also depending on who's involved and the business vertical, plus tax and policy structure, there could be a cottage industry around skinning warehouses I'd imagine, even if it needed to be re-skinned ever 10 years, but I agree that anything less than 10 years isn't sturdy enough for many applications beyond super niche.

Agreed!

Could they have come back to us faster, yes, but an honest, well thought through apology with all these details included is a really strong response and I'm not going to complain.

We can always complain about why not this or that, but it seems we are never satisfied even when we get what we want.

That's funny, because I don't see the logic there beyond it sounding superficially like a savvy decision to cut costs and leverage the community, however the role shouldn't really be a single person in the modern era, but an advocate collating voices and ensuring the editors and writers are informed by an opposing (or descenting) voice within their ranks or you risk a form of 'group think', which I believe probably had more to do with the Guardian's error than anything else.

Bingo! Some one with big enough balls to say the actually and undesirable reality of homelessness on the streets. The richer the city the greater the homelessness, because the homeless like every animal in the world (us included) goes where life is the easiest. And rich cities, have richer populations that then donate more money to homeless people.

In my hometown there are people that quite there jobs to panhandle, because they make more money doing it. It's not common, but it happens and it shows that it's not a simple issue.

FYI mental illness is also common in the homeless population and for them I'm very much in favor of looking at any solution that'll help them have the success they desire in their lives. *Just saying.