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I had 16GB in my Hackintosh 3 years ago. I noticed that 8GB seem to be enough for more of the things I do, even with some big apps such as XCode and Final Cut Pro X in simultaneous use. I think my next Macbook will only have 8GB.
Apple tends to charge a huge premium on extra RAM and SSD space anyway.
Same with cheap cherry G83s for me.

I widlarize mine though :)
Startups are like diets
Do not look into razor with remaining eye?
Am I the only one who doesn't see much difference between your version and his?
I don't agree, their demonstration video is enough without further domain experience to see that it is at a minimum ineffective at what it claims. If it was really supposed to be able to give you the smoothest shave ever, they would at least have a video without the participant flinching every time they burned themselves with the hot wire.
I am questioning why he felt the need use the service when he knew that the parking tickets were legitimate.
It's incredible that 61 airlines flew over that area during those days. That day alone, 160 airplanes flew over East Ukraine before MH17 was hit. Even if it's safe to fly at 10k height, what happens if you have problems with your plane, like a failing engine? Next time I fly I'm going to check over which countries we fly.
> This is an issue that has apparently been fixed as well.

Well, they fixed it by just not including a removable battery (and it's lid).
Especially today, now that most programmers aren't hobbyists who found a job matching their skills but people who explicitly learned to code because there's shitloads of money in the industry.
Apple has a guide at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201191
Yep, and Relay/GraphQL do this so that would be a place to look at how it'd be done.
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>> What he actually said is as near the definition of corporate speak as possible.

No, it's really not.

Only on HN. <eyeroll>
Yes, the 27" model has a panel and slots for upgrading RAM.
I've been running the same 13" MBP for five years. Dual-core processor has been fine for me doing programming, photo editing in Adobe Lightroom, and music production with Avid Pro Tools.

I had a 15" Powerbook before that. I went with 13" to make it more portable, and have been happy with that decision. But I also kind of miss the larger screen. I hook it up to a 27" display at home though, so no big deal.

For your intended purposes, I think you'd be fine either way. Pick your favorite size. :-)
You can't take apart the iMac, but the 27" model does have user-accessible RAM.

Funnily enough, it's probably easier to replace the RAM in one of those Mac than any other consumer PC. https://youtu.be/1nQp_Yb8YW0?t=55
Personally I don't worry about potential terrorism when I fly, but if I did then I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be worried by staying in a hotel outside airport security... why would that be more of a target than a hotel in a city center?
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Exactly my use case too! Blender is unusable without. In case you'd not seen there's a cool iOS app which replicates Blender's keypad functions - great when you're on a Macbook or similar: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/blender-keypad/id430784289?m...
From the title, I expected an article on how ever-extending copyrights are denying the public the right to enjoy out-of-print works.
One of the most productive comments on this thread. Thanks. ;-)
Mktmpio: Temporary databases that start instantly
If you have a problem with out of date documentation, I think you might have a problem with the development team rather than the documentation.

If you don't think the documentation is useful, please get rid of it. But blaming UML for your documentation problems is like blaming English for forcing you to rewrite comments that no longer make sense.

My sense is that people associate bad processes and bad teams with the tools that they were using. Crappy tools exist, and people have had some pretty dumb ideas about how to use UML, but is useful as a way to express aspects of your design that may lend themselves to a more object-oriented approach. This is something for which no other widespread diagramming language exists.

Whether you're using an iterative or waterfall approach, at some point it is necessary to provide some context for your software units, like explaining how they are associated or what their areas of responsibility are. That's all the documentation does.
Speaking of clickbait titles, I'm reminded of Betteridge's law of headlines [0]: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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I think if Apple put real graphics cards in the 21" models people would buy them instead of the 27" models, which is bad from Apple's perspective.

Having said that, Intel graphics should be able to adequately display 4K at this point. My MBP from 2013 can drive close to that (2560x1600 internal+1080p external) without a hitch.
> Say every child gets their connectome mapped when they start school to get placed in the best type of learning environment for them (auditory, visual etc.).

There is no reason whatsoever to do this. Aside from the issue that 'multiple intelligences' has not held up and has been abandoned, if you want to measure their intelligence, it's unlikely that brain scans will anytime in the foreseeable future outperform simply giving a child a 10-minute pencil-and-paper IQ test (and highly unlikely that scans will ever be cheaper or easier than a regular IQ test).
Hugged to death.

https://archive.is/cMWCQ
If you are a single guy doing the Founder grind in SF, u should Not have a place
This doesn't always mean that insiders are dumping stock because they know the company is doomed. Sometimes yes, but when you have a company like Twitter where a pretty significant percentage of compensation is in stock options and RSUs, then you're going to have lots of insiders selling in batches, so they can actually use that compensation to get things like houses and cars and diversified investment portfolios.
A replacement might as well be Twitter. So what you're saying is... nothing.
So pretty much no change from what new organizations were originally saying at the time. This incident took place one month after my son was born and I remember having a tough time sleeping that night thinking about all of the people, particularly young children on the flight.

Before this I did not realize that the airline you choose is so important. Many airlines including British Airways which I usually use had been avoiding all of Ukraine airspace for months before this happened, however sadly they were in the minority.
WRT the TWA flight center at Kennedy, this coming weekend is the last chance for the general public to see it before redevelopment, via Open House NY!

http://www.ohny.org/
I think a pretty overwhelming majority of math research funding comes from the fact that math departments are service departments for engineering, physics, etc.

The NSF spends a total of just under 250 million per year on math research. The DoD and DoE also have around 100 million each. Some mathematicians estimate [1] about 30k mathematicians in the US, which at a conservative salary of 50k per year (!) is already 1.5 billion.

In other words, either gov't agencies would have to roughly triple their funding (just for math), or about a third of mathematicians would lose their jobs. These are, of course, very rough estimates.

[1]: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/5485/how-many-mathematicia...
I really like the fact that they used 4096x2304 instead of 3840x2160 as the screen resolution for the 21.5" retina iMac.
Let's hope this new resolution catches on quickly.
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Agile Is the New Waterfall
Even if your layoffs were 100% based on refocusing on certain areas, surely you'd (often) still want to keep the best employees you have in areas you no longer care about over the worst employees you have in areas you still care about, if you have to get rid of someone.
Maybe feedback through a hidden shock collar of sorts?
SQL is missing from their list. A solid understanding of its capabilities is important. Developers should know when to use it and when not to.
Well, you'd get my money for a ray-bending materials research problem that will eventually turn out to be easy to integrate on an organic substrate, opening the way for silicon-on-organic optoelectronic devices.

But in all seriousness, there are different types of research, no? Some research leads to new technology and some is verification, repeatability and just plain knowledge discovery.

There might be some way of rigging up the system so that people who fund potentially patent creating research could get a cut of the royalties.

And the reproducibility area would be great for a large number of people especially if such things are kept track of ("This particular study has only been done once"). If we can get people to trust repeated studies more than not repeated that site will help better clarify emergent research trends/topics.
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The author's main conclusion is that economists "need to collect, check, and accumulate facts from which more accurate inferences can then be drawn. Without the immutable hard platform of objective facts on which we
can build an accurate narrative of the crisis
that stands the test of time, there’s little hope
for scientific progress as the waves of public
opinion toss our perspective in one direction
or another."

I don't need a degree from Harvard and Yale, nor do I need to be a professor at MIT to tell you that.

If I were an expert in Professor Lo's position, I would probably make a greater attempt to present my expert view of the events and my expert recommendations based off of the 22 texts that I have just read on the subject, rather than just saying that we should collect more data on everything so that this won't happen again in the future.
I once read that Python, like Pascal, was intended to be a "teaching language".

Is this true?
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The US doesn't recognizes the ICC either.
Countries do not like to surrender sovereignty to international bodies, the ICC only works when you have a big enough military to pluck your indited targets by force.

If push comes to shove I can't see any nation openly surrender any of their citizens to an international court which is why while the ICC is a great idea in general it's more or less a sham.

It's easy to prosecute people from the Balkans or Africa when you have the US or NATO forces doing the dirty work for you, it gets some what harder when you have to deal with nations that have actual power.
This scumbag Ed Magedson, the owner of RipoffReport, is abusing the law in order to run a massive extortion scheme. You do have freedom of speech; you do not have the right to libel others and attempt to extort them. You sound almost like you are associated with this site, as I cannot imagine that anyone else would defend it.
Airport hotels typically have pretty good soundproofing. I've never had an issue with noise even staying at hotels that are literally connected to the terminals.
I anticipate lot of bluster. The perpetrators perhaps being named but ultimately nothing happening. A lot of nations do not recognise courts higher than their own sovereignty so will not extradite. Especially if they deem the charge to be politically motivated. Right or wrong. Russia will contest this report, and any other.

Basically someone messed up with a borrowed bit of heavy kit and a tragedy ensued. There will be no justice for them or their families. Poor bastards, can only hope the report is accurate and any suffering was brief.
That's a hilarious write-up. The OpenSSL anecdote? Less so. Another dark tale in the history of software "maintenance" and the C language.
I think laser hair removal is fundamentally different from what they were selling. I understand they are cutting the hair, not destroying the follicle.
Adam Curtis has a great piece about this - Vladislav Surkov and his "nonlinear warfare" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM
The particular benchmark seems bullshit, too. For postgres they seem to intentionally use the less performant json column type instead of jsonb.

Not that I can verify it, because the code in the linked public "No magic, no tricks – check the code and make your own tests!" repository doesn't match the published results and doesn't even work at all with postgres…

EDIT: Okay, they pushed a new version containing the Postgres data now. They ARE using the cripplingly slow json columns, not jsonb columns recommended by the documentation.
hashtag NotAllProgrammers? But I agree, the most fun I had in a job was working on embedded controllers and FPGA's.
s/Deep Learning/Parametric Omniscience

I hear there's at least one stealth mode startup in SV working on it...
> The problem is not that there is an endless supply of deeply disturbed young men who are willing to contemplate horrific acts. It’s worse. It’s that young men no longer need to be deeply disturbed to contemplate horrific acts.

Contemplate, maybe. But to actually carry them out, they most definitely do need to be disturbed.
the take away is, do not fly over areas of conflict. why the international community allowed it, let alone individual airlines did not take their own action, is beyond me.

On second thought, I wonder if an airline can elect to not fly on certain corridors because they declare a risk?
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I would say the moon landing garnered public attention that had much different incentives than other industries, like nanotech. The moon landing was not just about advancing technology, but also overshadowing Russia's first entry into space with Sputnik, and showing our superiority.

Even so, getting to the moon was not something that public attention and funding just 'made happen'. Luckily, it happened to coincide with the invention of microchips and computer power shrinking down enough to fit in the nose of a shuttle. All of this required incremental progress that wasn't always in the limelight. Sure, the actual moon landing phase was, but not everything leading up to it.

Also, I would say Tesla is very much in the spotlight and making progress because of it, as one example.
Creator of mktmpio here. If anyone has any feedback I'd love to hear it!
Their prototype reminds me of concept car designs that look great but don't have enough internal space for an engine. You'd maybe fit a AAA battery in the handle but I haven't even seen a torch that works without more juice.

Also, I was kind of suspicious when I noticed that more than half of the team have beards.
I once attended a wedding reception in a nice airport hotel. It was one of the nicer ones I attended, you could not hear the airport at all from the reception hall (which was, admittedly, in the basement), and valet parking was included if you stayed the night (I drove up, there was no direct flight so it did not make sense to fly, especially with the wedding proper being off-site).

I suppose that highlights the issue versus a wedding: many people want to attend the ceremony, too, and depending on your preferences that might not be doable at the hotel, at which point transport is required (though it could be a rented bus).
Letters and manuscripts have, besides their obvious historical and aesthetic value, a pretty clear economic value. The first example the author cites is a single letter which went for over $500--not a fortune, but when applied to a whole mass of documents, not unreasonable to call a treasure. And again, that's besides their cultural value.

You might never have seen them, but you could very well have seen information from them. Personal letters are the primary texts which historians and literary critics draw from, the sources from which we build up an understanding of the past. Their loss means more than a few random pages being scattered to the wind--it means we've lost a bit of knowledge of our own history.
Most places don't show you as a criminal, they show you got arrested.
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I've worked with plenty of people who liked the Magic Mouse. I don't think it's a matter of missing the trees for the forest, I think you're just not who Apple worries about when they update the Magic Mouse. They typically make design decisions with an appreciation that not everyone will like it.
The AA version of events is extensively debunked here (last paragraph): http://listverse.com/2015/09/07/10-outrageous-ways-russian-m...

In short, AA asserted that the BUK missile was fired from Ukrainian-controlled Zaroschchenske. However, locals have reportedly never seen a BUK there, and Zaroschchenske was under rebel control at that time. Their report also contained manipulated footage from the Russian MoD.
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It is by far the easiest! It is a very thoughtful design, nothing like your average PC where upgrading the RAM is the same experience as it was 20 years ago.
The BBC have had several incidents which included internal investigations regarding reporting bias, and it pretty much managed to squash them all including a government report about BBC reporting bias on middle eastern issues.

There isn't an unbiased new source, even the wire has its own biases, but claiming that the BBC doesn't drive a political agenda is dishonest.
> I prefer to work on actual problems such that solving them will provide value, though.

I think you're living in a fantasy world. It's not enough that you solve a problem. You actually have to bring it to the world. Mochizuki claims to have solved the ABC conjecture, but isn't doing anything to promote his work, leaving the rest of the mathematics world to pick up his slack. Tell me what you're working on is that important, that the rest of the world will seek you out if you fail to promote it.

I work for a cosmetics marketing company. We design and market three different lines of cosmetics and skincare. I do their website backend. Our products are really good, and attractively priced compared to our competition. We are not producing a Web 2.0 Social Media glorified ad server, but it's not a shitty product, but it does need effective marketing.

My contribution is to enable their marketing efforts. Me putting in 3x the effort isn't going to help their bottom line a whit, and it might even hurt it by lowering the stability of their platform.
I wonder if this will be the apple mouse I finally like. Probably not, though! As much as I like their keyboards, their mice are terrible. I do like the trackpad, though.

Edit: I just realized they now do not offer a keyboard with a numpad. Crap.
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I am working on a startup idea for a website that will have multiple profiles with a possibility to buy and sell stuff. Think something between a dating site, babycenter-type of community, and Amazon.:)
I need a feedback from the tech world on where to start looking for a software and/or software developers who will be interested/willing to work on such a project.
Thank you!
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A charge for a single days use is around two minutes though. Takes longer to fetch spare batteries and change them.
Depending on your destination, you will find out that you'll fly over Pakistani tribal regions, Iraq or other unstable areas. Or the Gobi desert or the Arctic ocean. Places where you would not wish to land.

There was nothing particularly strange about flying over Ukrainian airspace, because you don't really expect civilian planes to be shot down, even by rogue militias that are in power in some areas. The very fact that dozens of airlines had been doing that safely all the time that the conflict was there shows that many pilots and airlines did not think there was much risk.

The tragedy here was that there was someone with a BUK system there, and probably that someone was drunk and decided to give a lesson to those blasted Ukrainian fascists. I expect it will be futile to try to get the responsible to a court, because any small fish are already in shallow graves somewhere, to protect the big fish.
The airport hotel I mentioned in another comment was almost eerie-quiet inside, and it was attached directly to a concourse. I expected when I woke up that they'd only started flights for the day or something since I hadn't heard anything (and had the blackout curtains closed) and was stunned to realize it was 10am.
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Why do you really like that? 3840x2160 is exactly double 1920x1080, which is a useful property.
Just to be a pedant, the JSONB format as I understand is marginally slower at inserts and orders of magnitude faster at everything else...
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Team,

We're cutting 336 people from our workforce. Sorry for that. We'll offer each person a generous exit package and help finding a new job.

Jack
In fairness, most people have very little idea of basic physics, and this project has something in common with the sort of extremely dubious projects even investment professionals throw their weight behind: a founder with credible-sounding paper credentials.
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The problem area was very small in size you would be at most a 150+/- km from an airport in a safe area
> On second thought, I wonder if an airline can elect to not fly on certain corridors because they declare a risk?

Of course they can. But it could be that alternative corridors also have their risks, or may have a significantly longer flight time.
Team,

we thought we would grow very fast and we hired accordingly. Turns out we didn't grow that fast so now we're firing accordingly.

Please don't be mad at us! If things work out as we hope they will with Moments and all the rest, we may want to hire you back in the future because you folks are not so shoddy after all.

Cheers
Thanks. You don't have an email in your profile though. The one in the email field is just for HN itself to contact you, you have to put it in the `about` field for other people to see it.

EDIT: my email is in my profile, so hit me up if you dont want to expose yours.
There's some hope on the medium term from SPIR-V but there are a lot of risks for getting this in near future. To make for an inviting GPGPU code generation in target in near future, they have to nail all of a) good platform coverage in quick schedule, b) uniformly good enough implementation quality and reliability for large non-graphics codes and c) sufficient feature set uniformity for portable code generation. And even then it will take years for languages to appear, win in userbase over competitors, and mature.
Yeah, it appears from the graph like maybe 1-2% - I assume these are people who won big (lottery, stock options, startup, very very wealthy families).

I don't see why it's a question?
There seems to be a large disconnect in this thread between what is actually corporate speak and avoiding being blunt and insensitive
Distance from a cell tower might be a good metric.
It's removed all the fairly meaningless corporate buzzwords like:

roadmap
structural change
nimbler
streamlined
impactful

And many more.
A friend's house caught fire because of a short in their rooftop solar panels.
My brother and my niece will be on the second leg of their journey to South Africa in a few hours. Continuing on from London. They will overfly a couple of areas of conflict.

I dunno how else they could go, though.
The full report is http://cdn.onderzoeksraad.nl/documents/report-mh17-crash-en....

Which parts are missing according to you?
How important is metaprogramming to Python? Frankly, in my 16+ years as Python developer, I have never seen anything that can be remotely described as metaprogramming in Python, except in academic code and experimental GitHub projects.