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Ask HN: What is the best all-around laptop for a platform agnostic?
I'm a computer engineering student and currently split my time between my Windows desktop and 1st-gen Chromebook Pixel.

I use my desktop for CAD modeling (Solidworks), photo editing (Lightroom, Photoshop) and occasional gaming. I use my chromebook for web browsing in ChromeOS, and also run Debian with Crouton side-by-side for programming and CLI usage.

Overall I've been quite happy with the Chromebook, but it's starting to show it's age and I want something with more capability.

My priorities (roughly in order of importance):

* Battery life

* Future-proof specifications and performance

* Stability

* Ability to run all the programs I need (Solidworks especially)

* Native support for unix/linux CLI

I ask here because I know there is a diverse audience of developers and techies, and because I really don't have a definite preference of platform/operating system. I'd love to hear laptop recommendations of any sort, including "wait for xxx product to come out". Price is not an issue; I want to get the best possible product.

Currently considering:

* Chromebook Pixel 2015 LS

* Microsoft Surface Book

* Waiting for the next release of Apple MBP

What do you use, and why?
Yes! I did some work for then in the 80s and remember having to pay for really very bad coffee!
1. Why is Ensure unsuitable for long-term use? (It's available at every local supermarket and drugstore, nutritionally complete, and marketed as being suitable for exactly this purpose.)

2. If we're assuming that this is a meal replacement for when you don't want to eat traditional meals, does it matter if it's suitable for long-term use?
Never underestimate the collective self-delusion that can emerge in a situation like this. You have a wunderkind founder, the resident genius, who is telling everyone to believe and robotically dismissing critics--who is going to question her? You have insiders and investors who want to believe--keep your mouth shut! You have ex-employees who expressed doubt vilified. Mass willful suspension of disbelief seems much more likely.

To do something like secretly changing the procedure for the Safeway execs would require someone to openly address the elephant in the room in a culture where the elephant isn't to be discussed.

When are the insider stories about the culture going to start emerging?
Hell, my employer of 2500 people doesn't even offer free rot-gut coffee.
While rich/styled text would be useful in many situations, I'd rather strive for simplicity. With Unicode, plain text is already complicated as it is and the diversity in email client software means that plain-text is probably our best bet. As far as I know, most office emails are pretty much like text messages anyways. Also, it is possible to leave stylistic/visual cues in a plain-text email such as Important (: Not really sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing to write like this...

If we must track users, perhaps we can just give them a link they can visit?

What do you think about using attachments for documents where formatting is essential?
Well millions of Americans are made criminals by these types of laws. Estimated $10 billion a year are bet on Super Bowl and another $12 billion on NCAA tournament. But who cares, let's turn a blind eye to that. By driving it underground, the participants can't rely on rule of law to enforce contracts and it is instead is enforced by violence.

But who cares about that? Just as long as you can make a snide remark about an activity that may not affect you.
I would wager because, looking at that technology stack, most of it is commercial paid services? "We use EC2" just pushes the question to someone else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10543315
> You've never received data that needed to be displayed as a table?

Actually not that often. If the formatting is critical to the email, don't write it in an email. Send me a PDF.
Because they actually know how to implement fault tolerant scale on AWS. Most companies don't have simian army randomly wrecking infrastructure. Many companies/engineers think they can spin up a few (or few hundred) ec2 instances and think they have solved resiliency.

AWS is a tool, not a bullet made of silver.
The positive predictive value for the prostate-specific antigen test for prostate cancer is only 30%. This means that only 30% of people who test positive for elevated levels of prostate-specific antigen actually have prostate cancer. This is an intrinsic problem with testing for prostate-specific antigen not with Theranos' testing.
> I'd also like to be to search for items and have it tell me where I can get them.

If I recall correctly this feature was actually implemented for a short time. You could search for "milk" and see listings directly on the map with prices. I believe the reason it never took off was retail stores aren't actually interested in letting people comparison shop in this way, so they didn't let Google have the data. Also store inventory data is pretty terrible in general so you'd likely drive to a store and find that they were out of stock, or the item was slightly different, or the price was wrong, or whatever. That's just speculation, though.

You may not be able to search for products on the map anymore, but you can currently search for hotel prices: https://www.google.com/maps/search/hotels/ and soon gas prices http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2015/10/google-maps-makin...
Well, there may also be the "new ways to commit insider trading" way, depending on how that story turns out.
> That's one heck of a hard question!

Exactly. That's the problem. It's not just a question of deciding whether the data is random or has some particular property, but trying to answer the question of whether there is _any_ signal buried in the data -- and then deciding whether that signal is meaningful.

For the most part, unsupervised learning is more like data pre-processing than an alternative to hypothesis testing. General frequentist statistical techniques (including hypothesis testing, goodness of fit, etc.) are an integral part of evaluating the results of unsupervised learning.
When I first saw the twitter favourite feature, I'd assumed it was a "save this tweet to review later for your list of favourites" since that's how the term is used on other platforms. I quickly learned otherwise, but it is definitely simpler if they just stick to existing conventions.
Well if you did a quick google search, I guess I'll abandon my argument based on millions of years of human evolution.
Because if it was private land, reporters would not necessarily have the right to be there.
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Costco has 0-calorie flavored sparkling waters that I love

http://reviews.costco.com/2070/100115780/niagara-bottling-ll...

Lots of people absolutely hate the taste, so don't buy in bulk to start. I've never had a problem with artificial sweeteners, but apparently they taste bad to some people?
As you up the chain salaries are a multiple while stock options go up by orders of magnitude.
I'm actually disappointed the other twitter verbs don't have a slick anim like that now.
I feel you, if the world is moving towards Android updates, it won't be a great world.

One can design systems for usable and even pleasant continuous operations AND updatability though - even in an agile manner - eg. erlang and Ericsson.
Harvard Business Review's post mortem case study should be interesting as well.
Hang in there, mate. Love your work :-)
OTOH I'd die if all the snacks provided by the company were fruits and salads. Please give something salty or some pizza every now and then for those of us who prefer processed food :).
That seems to be a common reaction to this sort of knowledge. My guess is the mental model many people have for “microorganisms on you” is “icky parasites on you”, but the uncreepy reality is closer to just “you”.
I agree. It will likely be seen as a massive scam. Ideas are cheap. Technology is hard.
I bet the amount of traffic GMail handles would be considered a DoS if it was redirected to one of the smaller mail sites.
Thank you, they have a ice elevation map that was helpful.
Indeed the love has been returned. The Spring team have been wrapping and integrating a lot of Netflix OSS into Spring Cloud:

http://projects.spring.io/spring-cloud/

http://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-netflix/
While we're on the subject, there are a lot of interesting names in the Detroit area. There's a street called Livernois Avenue, which is pronounced Liver-Noise, and a town of Milan, that's pronounced MY-lan. I wonder if this is just the result of the melting pot.
If management feels they need to cut snacks, sodas, whatever, then they've lost confidence in the company's viability. Time to leave.
The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)
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How much of your net worth is tied up with FanDuel/DraftKings?
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Thanks for the tip to Buffer. They've published a blog post explaining their reasons that I've started reading:

https://open.buffer.com/raising-3-5m-funding-valuation-term-...

> So you might be wondering, why raise funding if everything is going so well and we’re in full control? Here are some of the reasons:

> 1. We’re removing pressure to sell, so we can go all in and keep building Buffer for the next 5-10 years. 2. Setting up a precedent for multiple regular liquidity events for investors and team members. 3. It’s a way to get partners on board who are excited about the unique way we’re running the company. 4. We want to add a little extra cushion to the bank to help us with any speed bumps that might arise [more details on each point in the article]

Their reasons make sense to me.
We were talking about saving time, not dieting. Actually this type of shake with some added protein powder is ideal for weight gain during strength training. Typically I couldn't finish such a big serving without some exercise to build up appetite.
The "best" way would be to have application logic to detect non-legitimate requests, and make an API call out of band to upstream networking gear to insert a null route for that IP (so as to drop the traffic at the edge before any real "work" takes place on it).

In a previous life, I ran physical datacenters, and while the gear wasn't terribly powerful then (we're still worried about running out of memory on core routers, hence why IP blocks don't get sliced up and piecemealed out with the exhaustion of IPv4 space), I'd expect newer hardware to be able to keep up.

The network can remain irrational longer than you can stay online.
I think it rather means that the search time was short enough that neither search tree got deep enough to form advantageous moves. (When I check the detailed output, it seems that the asm.js version visits at least 2x as many nodes as the un-optimized version, independent of Time-per-turn)
> The difference in social conditioning for girls is quite an interesting topic =)

It would be interesting to hear self-aware women speak about on this topic. From what I understand, generally speaking girls for whatever reason prefer (be they via social conditioning or instinctual preference or a combination of both) to play with dolls, as opposed to boys who play with trucks ... as the former, playing with dolls, is indicative of early development of social relationships (people manipulation, to put crudely) while the later, playing with trucks, is indicative of early development of object manipulation ... and this stems from the fact that men and women evolved to fulfill different instinctual roles (sperm is cheap, eggs are expensive).
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How is that simpler than Soylent which now comes ready-to-drink in a bottle?
As someone who has spent 15 years working in Microsoft Office all day, I'd rather they saved 35c on snacks than 45c on Office. I know which one would hit my productivity hardest ;-)
That would be sensible if SQL dialects usually offered a sane comparison that returns true/false reasonably for null comparisons. Since they don't, and = is the only available equality test, I'm going to stick to my original point that null comparison in SQL is dumb and wrong for 99% of use-cases and compiler warnings would be solving the wrong problem.
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I'm in the vocal minority along with John Gruber who is upset about the fact that 9 years of stars are now hearts: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/11/04/red-heart-proble...

But I will get over that, because Twitter is a very useful medium. This has nothing to with the success of Twitter as a business.

What I am interested in, is whether this is detectable from background noise of people using Twitter more because it is in the news. That is not the sort of thing that a TechCrunch puff piece is going to care about, and/or Twitter may have good reasons for not bothering to share the data. But I would like to know!
I have one of those Logitek wireless keyboard and mouse that use the same usb dongle. I never even considered asking the company for one, I just bought it after work and brought it in. Because it was cheap, I wanted that exact thing, and I wanted it now. If I asked, it either would have been non-standard and denied, or it would have taken them months to figure out how to buy one, and it would have been a toaster or a potted petunia.

I probably shouldn't have had to ask, but sometimes you have to ask yourself if the process is at all worth it.
This would suggest that one cannot draw a definite conclusion from the test result. Not that the test result itself should fluctuate wildly.
"fight blight" has a broad term. In my town they blighted the Ferrari dealer to make way for a mall. Because, well once a Ferrari dealer moves into a neighborhood its all crack houses and ruin from there on out. Also a bunch of tidy, well maintained little brick bungalows whose owners just wanted to die in the houses they lived in their whole life.
At Google's scale, all connections are symmetrical, and they send a lot of traffic than they receive. So they have a huge amount of incoming bandwidth available to absorb a volumetric attack. They also have a skilled traffic engineering team who can adjust routing or implement filtering at the edge of their network. And a skilled security team who can react to trickier attacks (bogus, but well formed requests).
Hey, since you mention being in Singapore, and poor employment options - I happen have a small, established, mainly online lifestyle business based in Singapore that I'm looking for a new partner / owner to work with as I've moved onto other things.

If you, or anyone else based in Singapore with some HN-type (web, entrepreneurial, etc) skills and interests wanted to discuss further, drop me an introductory email - kovanroad@gmail.com.
The dissemination of information is partially an aesthetic experience.
The issue is not how accurate the PSA test is for detecting prostate cancer, but that Theranos’ tests give wildly different results to everyone else’s FDA approved tests.
Actually, I'm betting your active column is actually 0 or 1 and not true or false because of the appallingly terrible state of Boolean types in most SQL dialects.

God dammit why do we use this? Oh right, because every attempt to "fix" it throws out the relational algebra baby with the sql bathwater.
I'm not even sure it's her fault or the fools who gave a 20 year old billions of dollars to startup a healthcare company. What could go wrong?
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San Francisco uses both paper ballots and single transferable voting (in its single-winner, instant runoff voting form). Indeed, I believe all jurisdictions in the United States that use STV also use paper ballots.

In San Francisco, voters vote on paper ballots, and the ballots are electronically scanned. This generates a digital representation of the rankings cast on all ballots, which can be fed into tabulation software. SF actually releases these rankings publicly as a text file for each contest. See here, for example:

http://www.sfelections.org/results/20151103/#english_detail
> >The former executives said Mr. Burd told them he had been reassured by Ms. Holmes. Mr. Burd continued to support the partnership with Theranos, according to the former Safeway executives.

How does she do it?

No, seriously. I mean, sometimes on my projects I get a really shitty result in the beginning... and I have to explain to my boss that it'll get better -- and I often fail (even though I'm really sure that the project will eventually be okay). How can Holmes reassure people of something that's clearly failing? What tricks is she using?
Why would Google want it to be easier for you to market via email than paying them for ads?
No doubt Henry Kissinger will pull some strings and get a closet full of orange turtlenecks delivered to her in the big house.
As a self confessed sugar addict, I wish my office didn't have free snacks. Or that they'd change them to something healthy.
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Assuming you have the infrastructure available to do so. (I personally don't use Soylent or similar products, but I can see the appeal in many situations)
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What command is it?
Several people seem to be saying that DDoS isn't one attack, which is correct, but not particularly relevant. Many times the attacks are simpler today, because there's little need for sophistication. Previously many attacks used to use some form of multiplier, either for the traffic itself or the resources targeted.

The reason the attacks are still viable is because little has happened to the Internet itself. We still have the same challenges we had 15 years ago. Some things are slowly getting better, but it's still fundamentally the same. Increase in overall bandwidth and vulnerabilities doesn't help either.
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edit: THANK YOU! That was the issue; I had to make a dummy oscillator. And, separately, there was a CSS issue which made the buttons black on black. Now it works on iOS.
I disagree that your simple shake provides the same nutritional benefits as a serving of Soylent, but to each their own.
How are the bricks secured to the roadway? There's no mention of any mortar. Could I just pick up the bricks and walk away with them?
Related story, 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10180818
Why there's so much brag about Netflix while they can't fix even simple bugs and UX issues? After all, it's one of the simplest apps there are. Whole stack could be handled by one guy.
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yes, this is pretty normal for brick driveways and patios also. It is a tight fit though, and not easy. Often a fine sand is brushed into the joints to fill the small gaps and make a tighter fit.
Thanks for the info. I may just do that then, or just go with a shorter trial period. Pretty sure I can use both of them at once with no issue.

I'd love to know who and why my parent comment was downvoted.. I hate that, you can't say anything on here without downvotes.
I agree it's the reality for a majority if not the super majority of jobs. I also think it could be the ideal of hourly wage labor: which is to say that the company wants nothing more than what they can motivate you to do with money, and that you want nothing more from the company than their money.

Looking back, I see I made my comment in the context of Silicon Valley behemoths and startups: companies that can both pretend to, and potentially change some fundamental way of doing things.

I think the difference in my mind between "creative" companies and normal ones is the "potential", achievements outside of a strictly defined expectations of contract, for both the business and the employee. Maybe a great insight, a new tool... anything that greatly benefits both the business and the employee, especially if the employee uses the product(s) and believes in the mission.

When you take away that potential (by saying employees are just cogs in a machine), you might take with it the creative spark that these hopeful companies ostensibly rely on. In my mind, that "potential" is the real joy of a job, which is my reason for the (slightly snarky) comment that "cog in the machine" is only acceptable "if the company requires joylessness to turn a profit". If I could, I would edit that post to be more clear/to take into account businesses which do not require any specialness.

At least for my central point, "the more dishonest, the worst the culture"... I believe that stands, especially in circumstances where a person is (somehow) manufacturing toilet paper and their supervisor is telling them they are (somehow) on their way to curing cancer.
Thats extreme.

Personally I'll just stick with Here.
> And now you have to achieve 50 hours of work in 30 hours.

Could this argument not be made about the 40hr week?
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Might be a little egotistical for me to say, but I do like it when my writing is appreciated.

Thanks!
More importantly, who's going to play her on the big screen?
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Does this implant somehow interact with the body differently than a bracelet or a watch? It did not look like it does (or would).

So how could something interact with the body? I could imagine the following: vibrations, spikes, heat. What else?

I believe that brain can easily pick up frequency modulated signals.
Well when someone is pinching pennies that badly - changing toilet paper of all things - it means that they've run out of other ideas to cut costs or increase revenue.
We cannot rule out the possibility that she is an exceptionally deft reassurer.

So that's what they're calling it these days...
Yes it's the vote tallying machine that needs to be electronic, not necessarily the ballot that the voter fills out.

But even then, it's harder to do ranked paper ballots. Presumably someone has to transcribe the numbers voters wrote on the ballot into a computer, which introduces room for mistakes and lots of work.
Except that you can't really carry additional weight (certainly not another person). Even a lightweight hose or line would mess up your flight if it was tethered. As for fires: burning buildings are masses of hot, moving air which wouldn't be navigable (the best you could do would be to land on an unaffected side of the building).

Even the Martin Jetpack (the only other nearly-commercial product in this market at the moment):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Jetpack

is only likely to be useful in a small number of "first responder" situations despite being dramatically more powerful.
I ditched gmail for fastmail two years ago and don't regret it for a second. I haven't noticed any disruption at all. Keep up the good work, guys.
Because if you don't care about a certain topic, nobody should care about it, right?

I hope you aren't being serious.

It's also ironic that you deride a moral argument for sports betting, considering that the only legitimate argument AGAINST sports betting (and gambling in general) is the moral one.
I'm confused. Why would anyone expect that an advertising company would actually have a clue what they want to do with robotics? I think the main idea with acquisitions in robotics space was to keep Andy around, and to create yet another PR bubble, much like with Glass or autonomous cars. But then Andy left and it turned out that shit's hard. Whoop dee do. Time to switch to some other distraction.
Yeah those guys are famous for their foresight.
My company gave me a Windows laptop with spinning rust inside. It's 2015, you can get big SSDs for $200 now.

Even without the productivity gains, it's just infuriating to try and do work when I have to wait for the computer.