skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unixy machine with decent drivers, but also great resolution displays, the only unix that supports such resolution properly, and best touchpad in laptop period.

At least those are my reasons. I'd rather have something else, because I don't agree with Apple on many points (like their walled garden) but there are no alternatives.
Just look at any left-wing art manifesto, there's plenty of those. Here's a famous one from 1917 Russia:

https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/mayakovsky/1...
-reified generics: From what I've seen, the Ceylon guys have done a good job of implementing this and they make flow-sensitive typing possible. Without out, the benefits of union types don't fully materialize. See http://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/04/19/observable/

- problem of null: Ceylon uses union types to union between the class in question (ex String) and Null, which is a type separate from Object. Therefore, the typesystem enforces this. And yes, Ceylon has the exists operator, which means you can do if (exists stringOrNull) to instanceof/cast at the same time.

- elegant APIs - With regard to file I/O: https://modules.ceylon-lang.org/modules/ceylon.io/1.1.0/doc

- language spec - Ceylon's is much more detailed: http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.1/spec/html_single/
Nailed it. I love Go, but all of the things listed in this article (and more) make me bash my head against the wall more often than I'd like to admit. That said, there are some fantastic things about Go that aren't listed in the article (I feel like gofmt changed my life).

Don't let this article discourage you from investigating Go as a tool to use!
Well, communist or not, it achieved these objectives.
Easy: in a market economy, your salary depends solely on how much a developer like you can be had for, not on anything else.

So if you're a unique, highly sought-after expert, the country doesn't make much of a difference directly, because people like you a generally hard to find.

But for a pre-senior level, there's a lot of people available, so the amount the client is willing to pay is determined by how much other people like you (from a place like yours) are willing to work for, which obviously depends on the country.

And then there's the selection bias. If the reason you got found is because the client has been looking for developers in your country, chances are that the client is looking to save money and isn't willing to pay much. Those clients who are willing to pay more generally look in different places.

And finally, a US-based client working with a US-based contractor is protected by US laws, unlike when working with a contractor from a developing country with a less reliable judicial system.
Assuming they resolve his Applecare issue, the cost is zero. At my Apple store, they offered to ship the laptop back to my house directly as an option. Yes, it does indeed take at least three days for any repair on any Apple laptop. If his business depends on your laptop so much, he should have a backup machine to work on for a couple of days or set one up before taking it into the shop.

Finally, how can one possibly think these machines are 'pro' quality? They are obviously aimed at and targeted at consumers. Just because it's called pro, doesn't mean it's intended for professionals. Apple stopped catering to professionals a long time ago, and even things like the Macbook Pro are obviously aimed at the end consumer. That's how they can get away with having pretty much all custom, unserviceable parts. Don't get me wrong, they're amazing laptops, but they're just not 'pro'.
A-list investors back Convoy's plan to streamline freight operations
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A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.
An open source software license is the wrong place to include what's current law in one or more jurisdictions. As I said, it's the job of a particular court to decide if a license is valid in some specific place. An open source software license is meant for the whole world and therefore should only include the intentions of the author without an encoding of current laws. The software is likely to exist longer than some law that was encoded into a license text. I'm sorry you took my text to mean I'm suggesting a license can void laws. On the contrary I was suggesting it cannot, but English isn't my first language, and I may have failed to be clear.

Again, what about the illegality of using a BSD/MIT licensed piece of software if you require GPL/Apache style liability?
I like Kotlin too but in fairness this is a Ceylon thread ;)

From what I can see, Ceylon has a blend of strengths that should make it appeal to a certain segment of the market. On one hand, it's a fresh start and has a lot of the cleanness and terseness that I like from Kotlin. On the other, Gavin is clearly very much into type systems and type theory, and Ceylon has a more complex/powerful type system than Kotlin does.

I'll admit that I'm not totally sure whether the additional complexity is worth it, but I'm very open to being persuaded.

So it seems to me like Ceylon should appeal to people who currently like Scala or Haskell and push the type systems to the limit, but really want something without historical baggage like XML literals and other oddities. And I'm sure there are plenty of programmers like that.

The real question will be interop costs. Kotlin doesn't have any and that's the main reason people can consider it in existing projects, or introduction inside large corporations. Ceylon takes a more Scala-like approach where it has its own standard library, its own collections, etc.
The primary driver to me switching from Mac to Windows was the lack of serviceability in newer models. That and the fact that my 2011 MBP bricked (famous heat issues that Apple pretended didn't exist until after I bought a replacement laptop).

I loved, loved, loved the 15" unibody Macbook Pro design. It allowed me to upgrade to better components (RAM, SSDs) as prices came down. The only thing I felt was missing from my 2011 MBP was USB 3. Once the shift was made to thinner bodies and soldered-on RAM, the writing was on the wall for me.

Personally, after using OSX on Intel for a decade, I found that moving to Windows 8.1 and now 10 was not nearly as jarring as I thought it would be. Windows isn't the XP I remembered using. I actually like using Windows. The one thing I really like is touchscreens on Windows PCs. Of course, depending on your preferences (and/or biases), going to Windows may not be for you.
I think this is the answer, the Apple Store rep made a mistake. From the comments on the page:

BLUESHIRTER
MAY 5, 2014 AT 3:44 AM
Sadly, the guy you spoke to was very wrong. There are 2 part numbers for the same part depending on why it is being replaced. If the top case is damaged, or failed out of warranty, it’s 399. If it is a failed (out of warranty) or consumed battery, it is as stated above, $199, and 24 hours to replace. For validating your AppleCare, drop the machine for repair, go home, call AppleCare, email a copy of your receipt/proof of purchase, by the time you pick up the repair, you are golden. This is done nearly daily at every store in the country.
Hopefully IBM can fix the weather data industry. It seems ridiculously broken right now that if I want to get a "prediction" of how much it's going to rain next week there are a million free sources, but if I want to see how much it actually rained in the past week then I need to pay thousands of dollars or else figure out how to parse a bunch of obscure and undocumented formats.
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"Efforts could be made"? Which passive-voice efforts do you mean, specifically? Apple has designed their battery to be made up of several curved units that take up all available airspace in the case, and those have to be secured in place somehow, so that they don't rattle around like cheap PCs. Screws are not a realistic solution here because of obvious strictures from the design. A simple one-piece replaceable battery design is simply no longer feasible in this form factor.

So if you think it'd be trivial to make this more repairable, you need to say precisely how.
When you deal primarily with people whose primary roles and careers have been driven entirely by Taylorist managerial principles (fundamentally, the belief that managers are the ones that know best and most efficient instruments to allocate workers and efforts instead of relying upon workers themselves) then you're somewhat forced to deal with the language of contracts where people are interchangeable with the term and it's a reality you have to just deal with if you do business with them. It's treating all your workers like you're playing Starcraft rather than trying to manage an elite Navy Seals team where each person is fully capable of independent actions and thoughts. Rather, most large companies are used to rather low quality labor and I might dare to say that some companies prefer their "go do something" labor as fairly narrow while their managers are showered with praise and glory constantly for the work of those they're managing.

It's hard for a lot of people on here to imagine dealing with 100k+ other coworkers but at a point you oftentimes have to abstract away what makes people human to work in most large corporations. I'm not advocating that this is correct, but much like slavery and flat world theory, I hope this becomes outdated and struck out as both completely ineffective from a business standpoint as well as unconscionable.
I tried on iphone 5 with ios 7.1.1.
Does it matter performance ?
ES performs well, but we don't use it as a primary data source, and I would advise heavily against using it as one.

Things are getting better with the new transaction log, but it's still extremely prone to falling over and to getting consistency issues, and some of the built-in automation can bite you in the ass. Recently we had a node — fortunately an expendable testing box — run out of disk space. ES stopped working, which is fine, but when we restarted it, several of the shards were corrupt, and there was no way to get it working again without dropping the index and recreating it.

In another instance, we started getting client downtime because ES had suddenly detected low disk space on one node (its "high watermark" setting is extremely conservative and not based on a statistical regression of when it's going to run out), and had started relocating shards. When it was done, one of the shards were stuck in "RELOCATING" but marked as done; only restarting ES fixed that issue. When we freed up some disk space, it gave us more downtime when it decided to move the shards back. In theory, ES was behaving correctly, but the automation behaviour that kicked in was unnecessary and not desirable in that use case.

ES has lots of good parts, but it also has a surprising number of bad parts — ugly stuff you just won't find in Postgres, for example.
"For profit" vs "non profit" describes the ownership structure of the organization, not what happens on its financial statements. If a for profit school makes a profit, it has the option of paying out a dividend to its shareholders. If Harvard makes a profit, that profit must remaining within Harvard; there are no shareholders that the profit could be distributed to.
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Oh man, this would have made my life troubleshooting a font layout issue in LibreOffice one hell of a lot easier :-(
Safari serves a very important role of showing users how decidedly inadequate web experience is compared to native.
It is about the battery controller learning how much charge the battery can still hold. Therefore it needs a completely empty battery and an uninterrupted full charge.

Also on the built-in batteries I found that it helps to get a more accurate battery estimate and improve the "battery health" rating.
I hope they'll redo some of the documentation with this upcoming release. Every time I read it, I am amazed by how comprehensive it is but still manages to miss some very important points.

Like the fact that on the main page, the link to the online editor is not under the "Try it out" section. The explore action from that section is also misleading.

Or a clean hello world, with a real project structure documented

Or the way collections are documented. Basically, you have section 6 from the tour of ceylon: Streams, sequences and tuples. But it's not obvious what is the big difference between streams and sequences and the fact that sequences borrow the array notation while being immutable doesn't help either. Even when you go to the List api, which is the interface any Java developer will look for,you can't find the mutable collections, because they live in another module.
It is interesting that in Europe, buying a car means going to the factory-franchised dealer, order and wait several months to get your car. The only car I bought new took 6 months to be delivered and that car model had existed for over 2 year before I ordered it, so it was not a new or recently refreshed car.

When you buy a show-room car, or an in-stock car (km 0 car), you expect a significant discount (10 -> 20% off) over the discount you generally expect (i.e. not much nowadays except maybe free metal paint or free alloy wheels upgrade)

There are few generalist dealer that do multi-brand dealer where you buy in stock car. The interest to go to those dealers is that they indeed have the car in stock and generally with a good discount over the factory-direct sales, or provide configuration that are not available in your country[1].

[1] Factories provide different pack and dependencies between options is different EU countries. For example, a car I was looking at requires luxury electric seats in order to install 360 camera in Belgium. It is available as a standalone option in Spain on most trims, but is restricted to the most expensive trim in the UK. The EU is weird like that.
Some fences need to remain. Take barbers/hairdressers, for instance. It turns out that a barbershop can be a great place for spreading head lice. You want your barber/hairdresser to be trained to prevent that. That's part of what their licensing is about.

So, are there any aspects of being a car dealer that are worthwhile fences? Offhand, I can't think of any, but that doesn't mean there are none.
A project lead at one of my former workplaces would buy a beer around lunch and keep it on his desk, drinking slowly for the next few hours. His code was always good, he was an exceptional developer, his conduct was amicable and never once did he shirk his duties.

Your outburst on the other hand, would have seen you thrown out for hate speech.

You're not making a good case for prohibition.
Which edition of XPS 13 was that? The silver one or the thin bezel one?

I was told that the new one is pretty good, but it doesn't sound like that. That's sad, because if Apple replaces rMBP with some new MacBook-like nonsense, there won't be any reasonable laptop at all.
Way better than the built in app store search, however I can't see the titles of the apps only the search terms.
I just released this for some work I'm doing with Code for San Francisco, and it definitely needs some battle-testing/feedback. Hit me up if you have any questions :) Cheers!
> Some charter schools is a response to the problem of amongst other issues, a way too strong teachers union and it's inability to develop contemporary learning environments for children.

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What are some things that Charter schools allow teachers to do (to develop a contemporary learning environment) that teachers' unions prevent in public schools? (and not other factors like budget constraints, etc.)
The Big Bang Is Hard Science. It Is Also a Creation Story
Yeah I'm sure it's occurred across the spectrum and throughout history.
You should try other outsourcing destinations. Large timezone differences are indeed a hurdle, and culture differences is always underestimated. Add to that the general ineptitude of managing projects in large companies, and you have a recipe for disaster.

In Western Europe, the most compatible culture and therefore easiest place to start, is Eastern Europe and Russia. If you are in the US, I'd personally just outsource to US companies in the midwest. Some of my western European clients are actually doing this now, as for example NC hourly rates are lower than Moscow rates.

Managing projects where you have big cultural differences require many years of experience in that particular area. Even then, it requires a much higher project management effort.

If management of a project with a local team take on average 10% of total project time, a project with developers in a markedly different work culture will easily take 20-30% of time spend.
This is why your brain craves fear
Journalists have some problems that tend to be somewhat peculiar to their jobs. Some examples:

* A mix of heterogeneous and often internally inconsistent data.

* A lot of data that is categorical, free text or otherwise non-numerical.

* A need to be robust that is not always accompanied by the time necessary to become an expert programmer.

I'm sure some other folks have these problems too, though I can't think of any other industry where folks would touch as diverse a range of data as we do.

If works for other niches, great! But I'm a journalist and I had journalism problems in mind when I built it. I can't speak to the needs of folks in science, finance or what have you.
For profit schools have shareholders/members who are privately entitled to the equity that accumulates. They generally will have to pay some form of taxes (income, capital gains, etc.) on that leftover. Non-profit institutions like Harvard have received a federal exemption from most US taxes, provided that they continue to pursue their stated purpose and jump through some hoops. No individuals are legally entitled to Harvard's endowment.
It would be nice if they added a per app power usage tracking feature like they have on iOS to isolate such culprits. But yes, Chrome is the worst in battery and CPU usage.
tangential questions: why did you pause your career? Did you regret pausing it? were you easily able to get back in?
Formally, no. I have had it beta tested by friends and family, and that is not something that has been mentioned.

I do have sympathy with your view on the desktop version. It originates from the mobile version (which was written first) which has infinite scroll rather than pagination, so I think it is more pertinent to keep the search term and the number of results on screen as the user scrolls down.

I possibly should just remove it from the desktop version.
Wanna to help fix the problem? Just start building applications that honor protocols like Open Publish and encouraging artists to publish on public-access platforms.

The existing infrastructure of contracts and payments are not working for authors wishing to engage in the commercial application of intellectual property.

It's time for a change!

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish

https://github.com/blockai/openpublish-state-engine

https://www.berklee.edu/news/fair_music_report
Battery of my mid-2012 Mac Air died (12% capacity) after 550 cycles, they usually just swap the batteries for free, but I bought my computer while living abroad, so no luck.

After some thoughts, I just bought replacement battery, two custom screwdrivers and changed the batter by myself (+ upgraded the hard drive) in about 15 minutes. Replacement battery cost around 150 USD here in EU and it is very easy to do.
My master's work was in the context of debugging. I spent a great deal of time reading descriptions of ancient debugging systems - most far in advance of the capabilities of the present day. The height of the art was reached in the early 90s - sophisticated logic structures over your program state were being held over your program state to automatically trigger actions - reverse debuggers were done back in the '70s as I recall; I believe the last major advance was done by an Italian chap in '92. Even SLIME and Common Lisp were quite well passed up by these capabilities. Most of those advances took place in the Lisp and Prolog world. I infer that this was due to the symbolic execution capabilities which the Fortran/Algol families have disavowed.

So it's always nice seeing advances in the industrial art come out, but a little wistful, knowing what once was.
Please see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Cuba
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea
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Radio Ghosts Have Haunted the Airwaves for Nearly a Century
This probably was the start of writing ruby. I'd recommend you guys watch this video of someone writing bad ruby in contrast. https://www.livecoding.tv/video/rails-refactoring/
I suspect what you are seeing are the titles - but the nature of Apple's search encourages App developers to stuff their titles with keywords.
If you wanted easily serviceable battery you would buy business line DELL or HP, but you didnt. You wanted a powerful slim status symbol.

What a whining entitled brat :/ If there was no warning about battery degradation you can be sure he would be making blog posts about losing his work because laptop didnt last whole photo editing session.
Well no, it's mainly the fault of Congress and procurement rules which require going with the lowest bidder. And it also is the fault of the companies that do this.
Someone committed criminal fraud. You don't accidentally put a defeat device like this into a car.
The shipping industry is ripe for innovation all over, and of course it's been driven by innovation for decades, at least since the 1950s when the shipping container was invented.

The trucking industry will absolutely see several new billion-dollar companies emerge in the near future. If I were investing in a startup, though, I'd want it to be run by founders with a background in trucking, shipping, and/or logistics.

If the only experience either founder has is one of them working a summer job at his uncle's company delivering office supplies, I'd be a bit wary. Between Lewis & Goodale, they've run a game studio, a natural-language processing startup, and had various software development roles.

You could argue that Uber broke into a blue-collar market without any experience, but they had the general public as customers, The trucking industry is a very insular place, they're going to need to get a co-founder who comes from the world they're trying to break into.
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"Alright, the title is quite bold, I admit it. I’ll tell you more: I love bold titles, they are all about attention."

In other words, click-bait. Oh, you think I use the term lightly? For an article that boils down to "things about Go that aren't particularly wrong, but I don't like", the author concludes with "I hate the language: it’s absolute crap". Really? Because when you throw the kitchen sink into your imports "just in case", it won't compile? (I pick on this particular example because dragging along imports you're not even using just strikes me as sloppy, hence coloring my view of the author.)

It's one thing to state, "I would have done this differently for these reasons", but to call the whole bundle "absolute crap" just reeks of some n00b who learned a single dynamic language, switched to Go, and had a hard time figuring out why his crap code wouldn't compile.
The simple truth is that people who outsource development to firms in developing nations are trying to get more than they're willing to pay for, which has never worked - ever.
Thinking only of the environmental impact, I'd expect any new car regardless of energy source to be far worse than a used car.

Given the increased prices in the used car market (arising in part due to better durability and quality), I think I might be able to make an interesting argument for incentives towards purchasing used cars as being better for the environment than incentives for purchasing brand-new electric cars.