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There's the Asus UX305 or UX303 and the Dell XPS 13, both 2015 versions, both configurable at different price ranges from around $700 or $800, up to around $1700. The former is a bit slicker, the latter is a bit more powerful (although the infinity screen is pretty slick, too).

I can't get over some of the Windows trackpads though, I've happily used Windows desktops for 15 years, the hardware on Windows laptops is alright value, but I still choose Macbooks for the trackpad and increasingly the OS (and the resale value has always been great, too. Selling a 4 year old Macbook for 40% of the price means I look at a $1500 MBP as if it costs me $900, at which point using it for 4 years costs me less than $19 a month. Not something I mind paying). And it seems like MS covered exactly that with a great trackpad for once and attention to the drivers (although I've yet to test it, it looks promising). I hope like Google's Nexus series, it sets some minimum benchmark standards for vendors. iirc I tried the Asus UX305 with my gf a few months ago and the trackpad... just ugh. It's surprising how big of a deal this is to be, usually I'm a pretty compromising person who doesn't fret the small stuff but the feel to the touch, responsiveness etc on the trackpads have become a major stumbling block for me for Windows laptops.
Very nice! An independent but very useful way to speed up image batches, as log as you're working in batches and not one at a time:

parallel jpegtran ::: *.jpg

Combine it with these SIMD improvements, and your batch will be done before you hit enter.
Maybe I'm just disregarding a lot of patent law, but wouldn't it be a better plan to just have all NASA patents open to anyone?

Sort of like the Tesla model with patents. i.e. Let's build a docking mechanism that all private companies will use as well because engineers have poured many hours into it and let's not re-invent the wheel. This provides a better outcome for both the governmental agency and private companies.

In the end, NASA's money is the public's money, sure it doesn't come directly from a private company all the time, but it will come from the individuals who make up that private company.

This will keep NASA innovating things that may have no commercial value, but also allow for more partnerships among private companies and NASA.
Seattle is not for young people. The dude pool is 2:1 in a market where beer is regularly 6.50 a pint.
Yes - and given that I'm trying to be more disciplined about doing my development work in Docker instances it might actually be the direction I'm headed in anyway.

It's difficult to test drive that idea, though. VirtualBox on my Macbook to Windows, SSHing to another VirtualBox for development? Hmm.
There is an "About MUBI" link on the top left. A popup with a cleverly disguised slideshow will open, telling you about the price of 4,99€ per month.
Wow this reads like a commercial for the surface book. It's so superlative in all its adjectives.
Where does it explain what Click is? No explanation on the front page, and first FAQ is "Is Click experimental software?"
Numbers don't lie. We lie as we try to make sense of the numbers and format them for display. At least when you have actual numbers underneath someone else can look and try to confirm or refute the prior presentation,or look for an entirely new meaning. Anecdote and popular sentiment to not allow this.

It's not that having numbers means they can't be massaged to tell a specific story, but at least there's more than blind luck that goes into whether the conclusion makes sense.
> I swear I've seen a similar project like a decade ago, somewhere.

Probably "Flo Control"[0]. There was a system to get a silhouette of the cat's head to identify whether it was carrying anything.

0. https://web.archive.org/web/20081014091109/http://www.quantu...
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There was a system that apparently determines gunfire origin from triangulation reliably in cities too. Both combined sounds like power data (no pun intended).
Microsoft is as hip and alive as Google is. Google is a boring info-utility to most people. The Xbox is absolutely more cool than anything Google has in their pocket, including Android and self driving car experiments.
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That would be the HP Spectre X360:

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/HP-Spect...
Exactly. If commercialization is done in way that does not distract from the principles of the research, it is great. But to achieve that, the incentives must be right. With Startup NASA, what is the incentive for NASA to keep doing moonshot-like projects, when they can make bank by investing only in profitable-in-the-near-future research? If the incentive is there, I am glad startup NASA exists. If not, I fear that Startup NASA will turn NASA into just another lab that has lost its focus.
> the Bank shifted the IPL from the original $1.02 (at 1985 PPP) to $1.08 (at 1993 PPP), which, given inflation, was lower in real terms.

I don't understand this, and they don't explain. What is PPP, if not "real terms"? Plus I hate it when somebody makes a claim like this without actually showing the numbers, or creating a graph - it makes the claim less plausible than what they are complaining about.

Otherwise the article has valid points, mostly about watering down goals, and the lack of real progress in poverty reduction.

Note also that the OP is about the poverty rate, not about poverty being in decline, which is in fact increasing all too quickly.
I agree, too. Unfortunately, high quality construction costs money, and most people buy on price. That's why those crappy vendors have more than 90% of the market.

Asus is trying a couple of machined-aluminium Windows Transformer Books with Chi branding. They are very well made. Heard of them? Think they're outselling plastic $199 HP Streams?
I work for a medium sized tech company and the surfaces are absolutely ubiquitous, 1:1 with Mac books easily. People who have them absolutely adore them. I'm considering getting a surface book when the lease on my rmbpro is up.
One is vandalism, the other is arson, destruction of property, and probably a bunch of additional crimes. They should be handled differently because they're different crimes.

The point is that two people who vandalize should be treated equally even if one vandalizes a poor person's house and the other vandalizes a rich person's house. The exact dollar amount of the vandalism shouldn't matter because either way we've all agreed by way of the law that vandalism is wrong.
People are commenting that this is a great flowchart, and I'd agree that it has some great information, but... what kind of awful flow chart has multiple outputs with the SAME value from them?

I mean, really, do

No Fifth Amendment protection against ANYONE ELSE using your words against you

and

If you say it to a friend, your boss, a cab driver, or on social media, your words are FAIR GAME

really need two separate boxes?
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haha, no doubt. "It's outrageous that we don't have some kind of investigative government agency that collects this sort of intelligence for the public good" -FBI Director.
> Try checking how much space the Bing apps take up

Space is one concern. The other is that these things tend to be taking up cycles in the background. So there is some power consumption and bandwidth use. Plus, none of them are bug-free and so there are security concerns as well (not to mention the privacy issues).

> giving up the touch-screen, tablet and high-end pen functionality that you would get with a Surface Pro

If those functions were useful to me, I would be happy with a Surface Pro or Book. I have a Thinkpad Yoga that can do all that stuff and I've never actually used any of it other than to try it.

> it seems a little inconsistent to worry about the space taken up by Bing apps while contemplating a solution that requires two whole operating systems

The difference is that I have no interest in running any of those applications whereas if I had Mac OS available, there are Mac applications I would run (I'm a big fan of the Omni Group's software). No matter what machine I have, I'll be running Linux in a VM anyway, so that VM overhead is acceptable.
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Yes, but what about the people in charge of those people? Once they see that some research is more profitable than others, what's stopping them from going to NASA people and demanding more profitable research? At what point does NASA lose its focus in its mission?

I'm all in favor of Startup NASA. I'm merely asking for things to be done in a way that doesn't mess with what's being done right already.
Try looking for some business with Google, and then a Yellow Pages search engine (like the Canadian one: yellowpages.ca).

Dig through reams of spam, irrelevant references, review sites with misleading info, and non-local results? or scroll through nothing but business names and links?

No contest.

Just to find the opening hours of some business can be a hassle with a search engine.
Nope, once you have requested a lawyer to be present they cannot question you until you get one (or they get one for you). Of course they never actually go get a lawyer because it's expensive and any lawyer will just instruct you not to answer any questions anyways.
It makes sense, but I gotta say that I don't even take them into my home anymore—they go straight into the dumpster.
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Let me see if I can channel the mindset. The basic premise is that the better nature of humanity is expressed when everyone works together through grand institutions rather than when they succumb to their tribal, factional, or selfish individualism.

If you believe that premise--and it's a very common mindset among do-gooder government types like FBI or U.S. Attorneys, then encryption is bad because it facilitates subversive tribes or factions pursuing their own ends independent of the mainstream of society. But lack of police transparency is also bad because it undermines the public's faith in their institutions, which cripples the effectiveness of those institutions.
Please describe some neat things you'd like to do.
Agreed. I missed making my point.

My point was that when you're considering what technology/hosting/cloud provider to use, you are balancing a variety of factors and very few people should weigh "can be attacked legally by the US govt" with weight of 1.0 and all other factors with weight 0.0.

Some businesses will weigh the US risk as 0.1; others at 0.001 and even those that weigh it at 0.1 might be better off choosing a provider with a higher risk of that in exchange for a richer catalog of building block services.
And intentional. After watching The Wire, I can't help but feel like the series never ended and that I now live in it. Check out Toronto, white police chief that supports carding people (mostly black) gets replaced by new black police chief who maintains the policy. Now the new mayor that replaced the crack addict is playing police chief.
All will be confirmed once some trials wrap up:
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Do you speak badly of Apple and Google whenever possible though? Forget about tech corporations - do you speak out against other non-tech corporations as much as Microsoft or is your hatred especially reserved for them? What kind of computer hardware do you run?

Typically, if someone hates Microsoft, they love either Apple or Google. That's been my experience at least.
The problem with "wealth inequality" complaints is "poor" has an absolute brick-wall bottom value ($0/yr), but there is no upper limit (short of $WorldGDP/yr). This isn't a zero-sum game, so the fact that one person is financially far above others doesn't necessarily mean things must be worse for others.
I believe that system is called ShotSpotter. There are a couple drawbacks (coverage isn't perfect), and I've heard someone claim that it is nearing nanny-state levels of surveillance. I don't think the microphones are clear enough to get much more than a blur of noise, but I'm not sure.
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If it was his building, he should just put up a "Reserved for Steve Jobs" sign in one of the normal parking spots, not take one of the spots that are legally required to be reserved for handicapped people.
This opens up my mind to a lot of possibilities. Some poignant conversation starters for your local lunch group:

- What kind of investment returns did the stock of those bankrupted yellow pages make and at what cycles?

- What does it really take to kill an old technology?

- Is there a way to compete with established dying tech companies at their own game, or is it purely by trying to advance their users to your new tech?

- What does this say about transitional companies that possibly offer both the old AND the new techs, like the yellow pages that offer online versions? Are they going to move forward or are they just delaying their deaths a bit?

- What kind of talent is needed to sustain these kinds of businesses? It's going to look very different from the talent that grows new business, but I can't deny that they're both forms of talent.

Lots of food for thought.
Because as much as it is true that funding influences how some projects get started in academia, professors do get tenure. And they can and do things which would be totally offensive to a corporate parent. There is a totally different kind of publication coming out of even the old research labs and an academic institution, much less a modern corporation. A typical research lab does not need to worry about a bottom line - which a company (like YC) is obligated to care about.
The answer to your question is probably "Yes".
Note that this is discussing 'extreme poverty', which is distinct from 'poverty'.
Right, but local businesses want things like more parking on commercial streets, or lower property taxes. The things the police unions want are far more dangerous. Local businesses do not carry guns and are not charged with "keeping the peace".
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GraphQL is an ORM for REST APIs.

If accurate, this might be the key take-away from this discussion.
that's a completely fair and valid perspective. i just want to make sure that generic "goods" aren't what we think are going to cure the ailments of those who are dealing with poverty. additionally, poverty can also be a symptom of systematic class/social warfare (though not always). in these countries that we're hoping free trade can infuse with goods, we need to make sure that we've addressed the ruling structures such that these goods are permitted for appropriate use.
the whole teach-a-man-to-fish thing is a nice saying that really helps with things outside of the jurisdiction of macroeconomics. at its core, it makes more sense to me to interpret it from the one lending aid than the one being aided. in other words, it's advice given to the teacher to seek systematic justice and fairness and not simply engage in simple, punctiliar acts of mercy.
however, neither of these should exist in a vacuum. act with mercy and work toward justice. the hard part about this is that there needs to be more of an emphasis on understanding and contextualizing justice within any given culture. "fishing" in guyana may look very different than "fishing" in guinea which may look very different than "fishing" in the philippines.
I used to use mubi back in the Auteurs days but it was frustrating that the selection was so much smaller in the UK than the US (I recall it being around 10% of the films; anything that had had a mainstream cinema release was missing). They still seem to have that restriction, but they've taken the 'show me what's available in my area' filter away.

I can understand why they'd do that, but it feels a bit off being asked to sign up for a service where the films advertised on the front page aren't available.
Your point about the semi-arbitrary nature of the poverty line is good, but the figure is already inflation-adjusted. There is a general confusion on HN when it comes to real vs. nominal statistics. [1]

I find it's generally safe to assume that most of the well-respected development organizations are made up of smart people that know what they are doing and will not overlook something so fundamental as inflation, even if they do use statistics to advance their agendas from time to time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10335838
Hold on, I can translate.

"Because Aaron Swartz was treated badly, any time a `hacker` appears in court, they will be treated badly because $insert_tinfoil_here."
Yes, exactly. The numbers I would like to see measured would be:

- percent of people who can afford 2,500 calories of food and 60 grams of animal protein a day (where afford has some standard definition, such as can pay for the consumption using less than half of their income).

- percent of people who have access to clean water

- percent of people with indoor plumbing

- percent of people with access to electricity in the home.

- percent of people who can access and afford 500MB of internet data a month

It is impossible to know what "$2 a day" actually means. The number gets adjusted for purchasing power, but there is an infinite amount of room in that calculation for governments to fudge the data. Many people in the third world can afford a cell phone, but not afford enough protein in their diet, does that mean they are richer or poorer than someone one hundred years ago without a cell phone but who can afford meat? There is no objective way to answer that question. Since I do not know all the subjective decisions made in doing the purchasing power adjustment, the ultimate number tells me nothing.
However, the iPad Pro runs smartphone/tablet level software, whereas the Surface Pro runs full-strength desktop software.

It depends what you need, of course, but they're not interchangeable for most pro users....
Yes. If someone is qualified and wants to do that we would be interested in hiring them in London or San Francisco.
>"Extreme poverty" is caused when capitalism invades an area,

I take it you haven't read any pre-industrial-revolution history books lately?
agreed, often you don't even need to massage too. If you collect some data without other data, you can almost logically derive an argument that wouldn't even be reasonable had other data been collected that puts it in perspective. So not only can you lie with data, complete data of a narrow query will lie to you even when you don't want it to.
life's not fair ... but expecting someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps when they have no boots is cruel and denies the advantage that "you" (the teacher) most likely started with a pair of boots, at least.
Why do you say it's misleadingly called a stress test? Regardless of motives it is effectively stressing the bitcoin network AFAIK.
hping3 is way, way better, as it not only allows to send those, but also shows you the replies.
This is why we have products like Vagrant & Docker. A lot has changed since 2006.
All this stuff happened in the Win16 days, Win32 pertains to NT, and for the consumer market, Win 95 and on (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_API). Win 95 was released in late August 95, by which time all these competitors had fallen by the wayside.
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No, that's not like f/1.2 on a full-frame camera. But you have to consider the sensor size, and thus multiply by the crop factor. Most photographers know this about focal length (50mm on full-frame becomes a 100mm lens on micro four thirds), but it seems people forget that the same goes for aperture. f/1.2 on a full-frame becomes a f/2.4 on m43, so you'll need an even bigger (smaller number) aperture to have the same effect on a smaller sensor.

I'm guessing these sensors are way smaller than m43 even, so that f/1.2 won't produce anything near the stunning bokeh it would on a full-frame camera.
One radical solution woudl be to merge all the little police departments into a single state police and have federal standards for reporting, training, fire arm handling.
Two comments: You could make the same point about nobility, all the way back to the rulers of the first cities. And hunter-gatherers too live in dire poverty when the hunting and gathering fails, as it does some years. Fewer than 10% of years?
If you have a lawyer present, they will advise you on what to say.
I had to solve this problem when I built a new high-end desktop aimed at gaming a while back.

As it happens, Windows 10 is actually pretty great from a basic UX point of view. In many ways I find it better than OS X now in this regard, which I didn't think I'd ever say.

But the lack of Unix underpinnings was a big loss. My solution was to run Debian in Virtualbox. I set it up with xfce as the default window manager, since it tends to run really well in a VM. But in truth I almost always use xmonad, which runs even better in a VM. For me at least, this has been a nearly perfect solution.

I imagine the same would work on a Surface Book.
For my class, I've put together as many resources I could find (at least, in a few days of research), including every direct-downloadable dataset from the various crowdsourcing efforts and official places and investigative projects:

http://2015.padjo.org/briefs/tracking-police-involved-homici...

Counting police-officer-involved homicides is difficult -- but not more difficult than all the other things the FBI tries to count. That said, even if there were an official count, it's still very important that news orgs and independent groups also do their own count. Classifying these incidents gets significantly more difficult when you get into the details...but that's a problem common to every time we try to classify complicated information into a datapoint.
The important bit here is not that the IV is different, but that you can also inject arbitrary differences into the IV. This gives the attacker more freedom than in the usual case, where differences only go into the message.
Well, in one interpretation yes, but saying that another entity collecting the data "benefits nobody" is really disingenuous.