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With regards to the Kin, I think Verizon shafted MS on that one. The device was good for it's time (something with photos and music targeted at teens that didn't have a full web connection), but Verizon forced you to buy a full $30/mo web plan to use those features (this was back when the web options were $30/mo unlimited plans or no web connection at all).

If there was a cheaper connection just for the Kin, it would've done reasonably well as a replacement for the Sidekick.
that's terrible. 10% is far too high
"but showing remorse is very much about convincing the court you won't do it again."-but you're all but admitting you did it once in order to say that you won't do it again.
I stand corrected, it seems the Literature nobel prize is very hard to guess correctly, they did find out last year's prize early but it was because of a leak.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/nobel-prize-in-literature-won-by...

"Betting on Modiano to win the Nobel surged in the last week, raising questions about a possible leak. David Williams of bookmaker Ladbrokes said Modiano's odds had shortened from 100-1 a few months ago to 10-1 before the announcement."

Edit: I still think a "Startup Stock Exchange" could be fun, maybe based on CrunchBase or something :)
I don't think post scarcity is a precondition of post poverty.

The more economically advanced nations need to reach income and worker/environmental protection parity with less economically advanced nations.

I'd prefer that be done by raising the level of the less advanced nations rather than lowering the level of the more advanced nations but that's a different discussion.
> my 2010 MacBook Pro has it, and I don't think it was the first

NVidia had unveiled Optimus (its graphics-switching solution) in February, but I don't know if there were laptops using it by April (when the 2010 MBP was releaased). Considering a bunch of optimus-based laptops were announced with Optimus itself, probably.
You're 100% right. There are some costs to the company to clean up after what happened.

However, I think people are correctly wondering why we live in a society where a more or less victimless crime will result in years in prison, while bankers loot and destroy the entire economy, ruining countless peoples lives, and not even one exective spends a minute in jail.

There exists a two-tiered system, and this is yet another illustration of what happens when you're in the lower tier. If bankers aren't going to jail, this guy definitely shouldn't be.
/b/ used to actively mock heterosexual guys who were weirded out by all the gay porn and general naked dudes on there. I think they've suffered a certain amount of cultural drift/rot over the last few years though.
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Sounds like Netflix needs to take a lesson from Valve and let its customers do the curation for them.
Why ancient Rome and not ancient Persia, an incredibly tolerant empire? Why not the Mali Empire under Mansa Musa? Is it because we feel most comfortable learning the history of people that are the most similar to us in geography and race?
I haven't seen any cases in which adding a global build flag to turn off bounds checks would actually improve performance. People overfocus on bounds checks because they're an easy thing to understand, but they're just one of many performance issues when creating a new language, and not a particularly interesting one at that since APIs, compiler optimizations, and branch predictors all conspire to drive their overhead down to near-zero (in my experience).
The reason you have your camera at home and your smartphone with you is because it is a smartphone. I'm not totally sure it has anything to do with the form factor.
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The first problem is called collision resistance. The second is called second pre-image resistance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Pr...
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> It's complicated for government or law enforcement, not for the person being questioned.

I think it's more complex for government, but still complex for the person being questioned. For instance, the chart notes that if you are granted immunity, you cannot leave a form blank or assert your right to remain silent in a blanket fashion.

A second way things are complicated in the Hiibel case, which requires you to speak to the police to say your name.

A third way is that suspects who assert their rights are sometimes treated worse by the police. The US has a storied history of police abuse, including torture (Jon Burge, for one). Occasionally, this is caught on video, and it sometimes seems that the reaction by the police is one of anger. Infuriating the police by asserting your rights may get you some non-judicial punishment, including "contempt-of-cop", in which the police assault you and then charge you with assault via, for instance, bleeding on their uniforms (Henry Davis). In unlucky cases, you may end up dead from "excited delirium", a disease almost exclusively suffered by those in police custody but out of range of video cameras.
It shows much fewer crises before and virtually zero during the Bretton woods. If you click to some of them, you will see that most of them happened when the exchange to gold/silver was limited and people believed there isn't enough precious metals to back all the money, or the gold or silver standard was actually abandoned by some country.
I wonder if the top will recharge from the base if I have been using it in tablet mode for a while, then put it back in laptop mode without plugging into external power?
How many previous removable keyboard computers even had 2 GPUs?

(The claim isn't that GPU switching had never been done, it's that they put one in each part of the device. Which is sort of less interesting than the switching, but it's neat that the power hungry one is attached to the bigger battery.)
>Hearthstone (by Blizzard) is a Unity game,

And I asked myself why Hearthstone stresses my system so much. Now it's clear.
It's something you pick up over time with experience. I've switched computers so many times over the last 20 years or so, I don't sweat a sudden loss. Happened just last year, dumped coffee all over my MacBook Pro, had a brand new MacBook Air the next day, didn't bother moving anything over except for one file I was working on that I hadn't yet synced up.

I was back up and running within a couple of hours.

There's this process that runs in my head whenever I work on my laptop. (as opposed to working on a coding project) I always keep in mind what the dependencies are, what it would take to replicate this if I lost it.
This one (linked from yours) is even more directly addressing the trickery involved:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/08/exposing-gr...
I don't see a one piece in their future, but I believe this does run vanilla Windows 10. And even they believe you'll run this as a one piece 80% of the time.
I don't think eugenics is really relevant with this discussion.
Are there any known sha-1 collisions yet? If not, and the cost is that cheap, I'm surprised.
I'm not actually clear what crime was committed. Divulging trade secrets or proprietary information is not a violation of the CFAA is it? Even so, how is divulging a (presumably expired) username and password any different than a security researcher releasing a PoC exploit? We don't (yet) prosecute researchers, even though they reasonably should know that their code could be used to exploit actual systems.
> If you make changes you must share the changes does not equal Plague Like.

You don't even have to share the changes with the unwashed masses, or even the original author, just the people you sell/give the resulting program/service too. Of course they are free to distribute the changes more freely, the license explicitly states it is a breach for you to try block that, but you don't have to.
> Well how much work can you expect a for-profit-company to do in order to release their software as open source?

A lot actually I expect them to make open source software and in all regards this has happened.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2914643/open-source-softwar...
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Evidence actually shows that direct cash transfers to the poor can be quite effective and lasting. Have a look at the research done by givedirectly, or this one: https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...
It's true, except for the part that it gets four hours. It should be more like 2-3h.
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There is no such thing as duly constituted authority when you are forcing people to do things against their will. There is only the ability to enforce your edict, and possibly also the ability to offer reasonable compensation to your victims.

The concept of authority is simply a synonym for overwhelming force in my ethical reasoning, wherein any reasonable person would flee it or surrender to it rather than openly resist it. So when you say duly constituted authority that just tells me that the teams of doctors have enough men with guns behind them that they don't have to bother with explaining their actions or chasing down stragglers.

In the situation under discussion, the cost of compensation would certainly be little more than pocket change, especially given that the victims may not have even noticed the intrusion, or even the more invasive prior compromises. And we don't know the actual cost of damages to the victims.

The grey-hats' failing was in not allocating resources for those things, however small they may be, before launching the program. Did they sit down and ask themselves, "What will we do for the people who don't think we're doing the right thing?" and "How will we fix anything we might screw up with this?" If not, they probably should have, but now that the deed is done, I won't get worked up over it.
I like the XPS line myself (especially since they are probably the best laptops you can buy pre-loaded with Linux), but as for pure Windows dev, I'll have to wait and see what the reviews are for the Surface Book. I think that could give the XPS line a run for their money.
I'd like that too. My current device is a Thinkpad Yoga that I love, but I've lost a lot of trust in Lenovo and don't think I would buy from them again. There really isn't anything out there other than a Macbook (running Windows in a VM or reformatted) that I can see myself getting.

I also wish they would release a smaller version of Windows for business use. I want my operating system to simply support the software I run. Cortana, live tiles, and most personalization functions decrease the value of Windows 10 for me. I'd get rid of all the Bing apps (Weather, Finance, Sports, News, Music, etc...) too. If you don't use them, it's just bloatware and I don't understand why they make it difficult to uninstall those applications.
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I'd really like to get one of these as my next laptop/mobile computing device.

However, with the Surface Pro 4 (and all previous iterations), it seems impossible to actually use on your lap. Granted, I haven't had an opportunity to try it, but the kickstand and attachable keyboard seem like they only work on an actual desk. I very rarely use my current laptop, a MacBook Air, on an actual desk.

The Surface Book easily solves that problem, but I've seen reports that the battery life is only about ~3 hours with the screen detached as a tablet. That's low enough to make me question the purchase. I've had to wait at an airport for over 3 hours before, and that means that my tablet would have went from 100% to 0% battery before even getting on the plane. Granted, the keyboard base has more batteries built into it, so the device would not be unusable in this scenario, but it would not be usable in its ideal form factor.

(This article, for what it's worth, claims 4 hours for the tablet and 8 hours for the bottom -- slightly more generous numbers.)

Edit/update: I forgot when writing this that the Surface Book's screen can be attached to the base backwards with the base folded back, thus getting the full ~12 hour battery life (plus the discrete GPU) at the cost of some extra bulk. Depending on just how bulky it is, that just might solve the problem for me.
I am reminded fondly of Life on Forbez.

I think it's a response to people feeling farther from nature than they ever have.
Thanks for the compliment! :)

I agree that Clojure and Clojurescript are superior languages than Javascript. In fact, I had my first contact with CSP through those languages.

I like the React wrappers more than React itself, but I prefer Quiescent than Reagent, because I can use the framework described in the post.
GPU switching is old, but not with the GPU in a separate location that can be physically detached....
Not the parent, but I think the reason is simply making your numbers look better. If you report the numbers this way, you look like you lost less money by writing off the disks as an asset instead of a marketing spend.
The lateness of the Kin is supposed to be one of the reasons Verizon did that, the market window had passed. It was also only a fraction of what was promised, heck, what Danger and T-Mobile delivered years earlier (as far as I know you're wrong about what it actually delivered at launch vs. what was promised).

Microsoft's database blunder with the Sidekick less than a year before the Kin's release (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss) also contributed, I'm sure, at that time few were willing to trust them with their data. It's a testament to how far Microsoft has come that that's apparently changed with Azure.

In this case, I view Verizon as replying in kind. Which is part of my point, when you treat your peers like s*, there are consequences.
From what i understand panic attacks are easily treated exactly because, as you say, the primary problem is that the person having the attack erroneously confuses the physical symptoms with something more serious. Through cognitive behavioral therapy they can learn to fix this, and as a result the panic attacks disappear (or at least the initial panic doesn't spiral into a full-blown attack). Similar approaches have also been successful in treating phobias and other issues.

For anyone interested in the topic (and CBT in general) I can highly recomment [What You Can Change and What You Can't - The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement](http://www.amazon.com/What-You-Change-Cant-Self-Improvement/...) by Martin Seligman.

As someone who has recently developed a bit of an obsession with mindfulness/zen/meditation, this book is a good example of the parallels between that and the field of psychology.
The $700 Asus Zenbook is probably the closest we'll get to that. MS isn't going to become a company that attacks its OEM's product lines on the regular. The Surface line is pretty unique and doesn't overlap OEM products, at least for the most part. There are some oddball Lenovos and ASUS's kinda sorta close to a Surface, but they weren't selling.
It's a fine line between "minimal and designery" and "understyled". I think this falls slightly to the wrong side.

Also, the icon thing encourages people to check the most number of boxes, even if they're not skilled there. This is reasonable and something lots of devs do, but it will hurt your appearance to people who hire. Everyone I've ever talked to about hiring developers has an opinion somewhere in the realm of "I'd rather see resumes with one or two languages that they're strong with, than have to spend time fishing out which of 20 languages they actually write every day"
Oh, it plays a huge role.
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The first question is in reference to your original statement of "find a new hobby". I'm using that to say that target shooting or hunting are hobbies. Whereas owning a gun for "safety" or "being cool" is not a hobby. And my speculation is that the latter group of gun owners is more of the problem.
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The thing is, MSFT really does need to attack the OEMs-get them to up their game, and (naively, perhaps?) to drastically reduce the number of products they offer.
Hi HN. This is my first app. We're a small company in the UK that makes rock climbing guidebooks.

The app works like a bookshelf of all our printed guidebooks, although not all of them have been converted to the app format yet. Currently the data available is mainly centred around the UK, where we're based, but there are some French and Spanish crags in there too.

The crags are available in bundles as in-app purchases (full books to follow), and pretty much every area has a sample bundle of crags so you can check it out without paying for anything.
I remember ThinkPad docking stations that could have a discrete GPU in the dock.
Most Journalists think that laws are for little people and that the end justifies the means - just look at News International and how hundreds of journalists have got off on a technicality.
There's a way to embed arbitrary garbage invisibly inside git commit objects. Just put your garbage after a NUL and nothing will display it as part of the commit message. Using that to generate two commit objects that collide is the most likely attack method.

Exploiting the result will involve some social engineering. Starting with getting one of the colliding objects accepted into the repo you want to attack.

At this point, it's cheaper to generate a SHA1 collision than it will be to fix git not to use SHA1. Which is deeply worrying.

Basic hygiene at this point probably includes only merging git commits from others that are gpg signed (as well as gpg signing as many commits yourself as you can without going mad at the password prompts). Unfortunately, tooling doesn't make this easy, and some things like git format-patch are actively unhelpful by not preserving gpg signatures.
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So why is it news to him?
> The unemployment numbers in the US comes to mind as such an example.

The unemployment numbers in the US are reported as such (ie: only reporting the number of people looking for jobs vs people employed) because they've been consistently reported like that since the late 1800s.

The "real" unemployment numbers are still taken from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics.

http://www.bls.gov/cps/

Every statistic you want is there.
No, there were previous objects that escaped earth's gravity (for example, there are rocks from Mars on Earth, and the opposite is also likely).
Check out the pictures in the article. Especially this one

http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE1LzEwLzA3L2U5L01pY3Jvc...

it has 3 people using Surface on their (gasp) lap!
I wouldn't claim that the car market is especially free either. You could replace car with "widget" if you'd like.
I guess you must think less of most game devs as pretty much all of them are on Windows? I suppose it's possible they feel the same way when they see someone on a platform with 2nd or 3rd class gpu support.
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I'd hope that at least the branches would be turned into cmovs.
When I was in university one of my favorite professors encouraged his students to browse through the tech transfer catalog every so often as a source of idea generation. I found it helps tremendously as a mental exercise to go through their technologies and brainstorm ways to commercialize.

One of the things about idea generation is that it is a muscle that needs exercise.

I'm glad to see the tech transfer program starting something new(ish).
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MUBI's curatorial approach stands in sharp contrast to major streaming services
like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon, which have amassed large libraries and deliver
personalized recommendations based on algorithms. MUBI's human-curated selection
takes a lot of that choice away, and Cakarel thinks viewers are better off
for it.

"Think about your own Netflix experience and how frustrating it is — how
long it takes you to find a film that you want to watch," says Cakarel.
"It doesn't work. It categorically doesn't work."

While I get what they're saying, I still wonder if it wouldn't be interesting to try out some personal recommendation algorithms/systems on their user ratings dataset. (After reviewing their T&C, I've actually crawled through their data (more like, their backend exposes neat API endpoints that are not part of any formal API (officially they don't have one)..) some time ago, and am still curious to just try out some stuff from scikit-learn.

Maybe someone has thought/done the same? When contacted, the MUBI team (IIRC) basically said they're not interested in that as of now.
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That article paints rich Americans as pretty awesome people. First they lift millions of Chinese out of poverty and reduce inequality by shipping jobs in China. Then they donate some of the profits to less valuable causes like reducing relative poverty in the US.

The author of that article is kind of clueless, though - US-style "poverty" is not remotely like Zimbabwe poverty.
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you can't eliminate all conflicts of interest all of the time. But why not try to commercialize existing NASA technologies? this is exactly the type of knowledge transfer that is good for society
No more gold? Wasn't there more gold in other places? Places the Romans didn't know about, but still places.

I'm not suggesting the Romans needed to venture westward and discover the Americas, but did they really have no other options?
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I use my Surface Pro 3 on my lap a fair amount. It's not the best, but it's functional if I'm in a seat at the airport, or a hotel lobby, or on the couch. I've also realized that a lot of the work that I do in those situations involves more reading than intensive typing, and I'll just switch to using it as a tablet.

I would say that "lapability" comes up with about the same frequency that "I need to use my laptop while standing and it's a pain" and "this laptop is getting really hot on my lap" have happened with previous laptops I've owned.
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For those two types of files I'd use S3, perhaps replicated somewhere for redundancy since they're that important.

But it looks like you've got a working solution already.

I develop in Ruby, and for some reason I have to set up a lot of Ruby environments, way more than I have to set up work machines. Rbenv, Sublime, iTerm2, Homebrew, Postgresapp, Bundler, done, ready to bundle then rake db:setup. I have a little checklist that I just run down, but honestly I really don't need it.
yes going "F^%k you Judge" whilst on trial is going on doesn't go down well in any country
how do you do that? Which people get to be in a position of power? Who decides?
Probably not, since that would have allowed someone to add GPL-only code to it which couldn't be distributed with the whole.

The video is very good and you can follow-up with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc