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I agree on the touchpads, but I like Thinkpad screens. Give me a nice 1080p matte finish any day over the ultra-glossy high resolution screens that make everything tiny, burn through battery, and look terrible in bright sunlight.

With the extended battery and bay battery (no slice battery) I was seeing over 14 hours of real world wireless usage (inc. fullscreen video) on my 14" Thinkpad. The Thinkpad is a workhorse, not a toy.
You're right, the default LCD are abysmal, although Lenovo tried to improve the situation a bit. Many models have IPS options. Also many thinkpad heads have moderate or more modding skills and swapping parts is very common.

Beside, keyboard aren't everything, these laptops are sturdy. Most laptops are flimsy and fail early. I own lots of 2005-2009 models that are impeccable.

Finally, 2nd hand Thinkpads are cheap, You can find a decent one for as much as a raspberrypi2 kit.
Please don't take HN threads in generic flamewar directions.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987484 and marked it off-topic.
I recently put Windows 10 on a now six-year-old laptop with i3 in it. It's surprisingly snappy, definitely more pleasant to use than the Windows 7 that was on it. This is not usually what happens when you put the latest Windows on hardware old enough to have shipped with Windows three major versions back. Apple better watch itself, Microsoft seems to be caring a lot more about the little things.

(This message is just about the OS; yes, yes, privacy etc., and there's still yet more stuff yet to fix up like battery life, etc. I only game in Windows so honestly I don't much worry about it. I'm just saying, it's much slicker than I've ever seen Windows be even on new hardware, let alone 6-year-old hardware.)
Graduating from a top 20 school increases the probability that you'll even get to take that "corporate exam". Recruiters use them as filters.
And when does the Developer edition with Ubuntu come out? Anyone know? Been waiting for a Skylake, 4k screen, and 16GB RAM.
Yes, the traditional courses do teach you that as well - to some extent - but the point is it's important to see how different fields do it. I think my classes in algorithms are as useful to my research in physics as my classes in physics are to my research in algorithms.
It's the nature of the beast that corporations exploit their staff. Or something.

If you have extreme situations like this, something is badly wrong, but removing all unions isn't the solution. Instead, add more: convince people to join a more moderate union.
I didn't say I cared if it's available. If this is an exciting idea to someone else then I hope it works out for them.

Back when CableCARD was a new idea, I was excited. It was the right time for such a thing to exist, but it never took off. Missed opportunity. But I think the opportunity is lost now and we'd be better served moving on to a new model, something that builds off the streaming boxes we have now (though the UX needs a lot of work, and possibly a new paradigm nobody's thought of)
I agree with the majority of your points.

I'd just say that 80% of the US population lives in urban areas (from the census information I found), which are likely to be served by larger public service departments with more unelected middle management. They may choose to side with the lowest ranks of police, but it's not as bad as a simple "my direct boss didn't pay me enough, let's all vote him or her out."

That said, the prosecutor-capture (especially since that's a route for aspiring politicians) and state-supported-zombie points are well made.

But as a somewhat pro-union point, remember that public employees aren't bonused anywhere near private sector employees. At least for teachers, which I'm most familiar with. The idea that one could be in the Top 10% of performers for your job and be making less than others simply because of seniority is... strange.
I would guess that they're remaining unpublished for leverage.

I would also guess that personal information about FOP members is in the unpublished data.

This is just idle speculation on my part.
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In iOS 9, there currently seem to be 45 methods whose selector alone is longer than 140 characters. But how many of those are actually supposed to be used is another question ;)
I am currently finishing up writing a step-by-step tutorial on this very topic. Please check it out and, if you have a question about any piece of it, write a comment and I'd be happy to help.

https://amfarrell.com/saltstack-from-scratch/

Also let me know if any of the integration tests for any of the tests fail on your setup.
"the trackpad and keyboard were still not as good as the ones on the MBP"

did you touch a Surface Book?
There's still no trackpad in the PC world that is remotely close to Apple's old trackpads—and Apple just upgraded theirs again.
Nobody liked my joke :(
Science wants to be open
Admittedly, I've not used it for any significant period of time. But I do base a lot of language learning on the ease of use of its syntax for newcomers. Having to force my way through a significant project with it, just to potentially enjoy it, keeps it at the bottom of the interest list.
In case of Japan, PCs with pre-installed MS Office is a lot more common. For instance, listing on Bic Camera[0] I do see a lot of them noting that it is pre-installed.

[0]: http://www.biccamera.com/bc/disp/CSfDispListPage_001.jsp?dis...
I really wish Dell could comprehend just how much ill will and outright damage they cause to their brand with all the useless trashware they put on their systems. McAfee?? Really? That, and that horrible webcam they put in there. It's just screams "I'm a low quality piece of junk" far louder than any positives can make up for.
Grammar (in English) is a tiny subset of human knowledge. Being bad at just one thing hardly makes you dumb. However, consistent grammatical errors during a speech will definitely project the appearance of stupidity...
That's a pretty bold unsubstantiated claim you're making there.
Why is that "proper"? The Surface doesn't come close to the portability of the MacBook.

The proper comparison is to Apple's mainstream models.
Yeah, that's pure arrogance! Time to reconsider GitLab or Bitbucket!
That's different. In a game you can explore and experiment. Your defn of puzzle is very restrictive.
Exactly this. I've actually never met a person who has used a lisp to build software and complained about parens. I have the feeling parens are like functional language syntax, just something foreign which seems annoying or pointless until you actually start using the tools for a significant time and learn the benefits that arise from what initially seemed strange and alien.
I view upgradability as a plus, i can buy the lowest end and do it myself.
Agreed. And you know, since they're not available anymore, we can start looking at what's actually available.
Silly project of unhealthy mind.

Seems the author has put together random available libs implementations and "branded" them. That's all.

Which implementations were used?
Which versions?
What are the changes done to them?
Which backdoors were added? :)

It's like this: http://img.tyt.by/n/it/0e/a/91202j.jpg
to all the downvoters - you prefer being shot?
You're assuming people have perfect foresight into their risks moving to such an area - they don't. Your also ignoring that sometimes the pollution moves to where people already live. The reasonable choice is to work towards advancing standards for everyone worldwide. Sometimes the advances will come organically delivered by free markets, and sometimes they'll have to be regulatory (closing down externalities ignored/un-priced by markets). The choice certainly isn't free trade or dire poverty in the long run.
Fugly and distracting!
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Spoiler Alert?
What type of places are you going that a surface book doesnt fit into but a macbook does? Are the openings really that small?
It really seems like Dell is trying as hard as it can to not really present any kind of danger to Apple.
Google boasts its VR success just ahead of Facebook's quarterly report
Think twice before clicking this link. A bunch of non-crazy newspapers have reported that merely reading about privacy tools (tails & tor) will make you a link in the NSA surveillance graph.
With Facebook set to report its progress to Wall Street, Google presented its own state of virtual reality in a blog post yesterday, crowing about the success of its virtual reality viewer, Google Cardboard. Google made a strong case that it has delivered virtual reality to the world.

And, reading between the lines, Google very obviously implied, "while the world awaits Facebook's Oculus Rift to ship."
Just another third party app you need to make MacOs behave like a normal operating system

Normal is relative. Having used OS X for a long time, I assure you it is quite normal to me.
Seriously. I posted a short review about how I liked the game (with some minor reservations) and immediately got, like, 3 downvotes.

Gamers these days are children.
So I worked exclusively in the statically typed (and imperative / OO) world for the first 10 years of my professional career. Several years ago I decided to learn functional programming. I started with Scheme and moved to Clojure. I really enjoy Clojure; it's a real joy coding in it using Emacs with paredit (or smartparens).

I wrote a REST API using Clojure; the code also has to interact with a Postgres database. This is for a side project, but it's not a trivial code base. I definitely miss Java/Eclipse style refactoring (right-click, rename, and EVERYTHING is properly updated). Can't do that in Clojure. Also, I find that I have to write more unit tests with Clojure in order to make up for the fact the compiler can't help me. Not that I wouldn't write tests in Java; but I find I have to write more in Clojure to keep the codebase manageable.

So again, for me, I use unit testing to make up for the fact I don't have the compiler helping me as much.
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Idiomatic Clojure tends to have fewer parenthesis than Java.
Babylonian mathematicians figured out forerunner of calculus
"turning off" might be accomplished by something like breaking or unplugging the mic, or hiding it in the glove box (as was listed in the article). You are giving the officers unrestricted access to these vehicles for large segments of time; there's basically no way to physically prevent them from messing with the equipment, especially if there are no consequences for doing so.
> I didn't downvote you, so fuck off.

This isn't allowed in HN comments. Please be civil, regardless of how wrong anybody else is.
At a company I was at a while ago we used/abused ATS _very_ heavily - apart from the pain of a comparatively obscure tool, it was great.

It took us some digging and work to get configured exactly right, especially since we were using it fairly nonstandard - as a caching forward proxy to external data sources.

Good stuff.
Agreed a little schizo sounding but needs to be investigated.
I found this on the second page a half hour ago....where is it now?
I have heard a lot of similar stories from credible people. Is there no department that people can complain to? It seems there is no interest in making sure that cops and prosecutors do a good job. You would think that somewhere up the chain people would be horrified by this lack of ethics.

I guess this bad attitude trickles down from DC.
> The difference isn't easy to describe, but one such difference would be that a single extra stone can change a Go position value much more than a single pixel changes an image classification.

A CNN can still distinguish extremely subtle differences of various animal breeds, exceeding human performance in such tasks. Why was that advance not a warning sign? The rotational-translational invariance prior of the convolutional neural network probably helps because, by default, local changes of the patterns can massively change the output value without the need to train that subtle change for all translations. Also, AlphaGo does a tree search all the way to the games end, which can probably easily detect such dramatic changes of single extra stones. Reality is likely much too unconstrained to to able to efficiently simulate such things.
the name is similar and confusing but it does something totally different
That's not how the puzzles in The Witness work. At least not in my experience with the game so far.
Support was terrible last May when I bought the laptop. Now everything works except the hidpi issues. But that's not laptop problem.

Overall the only problems I face is with
- GTK2 apps, they look awkward. Eg. very small icons
- Spotify, Steam, Skype will look very small

However the biggest turnoff is that whenever I connect to external display (1080p), I have to apply a weird command with scaling and panning options. This results in blurred look, a bit lag and fan spinning hard. I wish there was some option to do selective font scaling based the screen.
Don't want a closed shop? Don't sign a contract that closes the shop. Lots of businesses sign sole source contracts.
I had the X1 carbon 3rd gen and I have the XPS 13 9350 right now, I don't see a lot of differences in the keyboard. Why do you like the ThinkPad one better?
It's purposefully exactly as bold and unsubstantiated as the claim vice makes.

Ah, crap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... says 18-21.5 million. I was way off. :(
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What incentive do cops have to join a union that won't insulate them from public accountability, especially given the (real) threat of false complaints from disgruntled criminals?
They stopped calling me years ago.

The caller went through his spiel and asked if I'd like to make a $100 donation. I politely informed him that I would not. He tried again at $50. I declined and again for $20.

He said something along the lines of if I can't afford a larger donation, anything would help. I explained to him that I had the money. $100 isn't the problem. I was unwilling to donate money to the FOP.

He laughed, told me that he understood and we wished each other a good day as the call ended.

They haven't called me back since.
FYI, Bootcamp improves graphics performance by 1.5-2x.
I doubt Falcon Heavy could throw enough mass to make it work. Dragon is just a poor vehicle to send to the moon. It should work for landing a few tons on Mars though (one way).
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I don't much like his policies, but I always had a big question mark in my mind when it came to Bush's raw intelligence. He spoke like a man who didn't know how to speak in public, not like someone who was ignorant or addled. There was a peculiar absent-mindedness to his gaffes ("misunderestimate", "is our children learning") and so forth but it had a more "way out of his element" feel rather than coming from a place of stupidity. I doubt I'd be able to do much better in front of a large and frequently very hostile audience.

Part of my problem with American politics is that so few know how to think clearly about the actors involved. I guve Bush considerable benefit of the doubt when it comes to mental capability but I don't agree with him. And I dislike Obama for his failure to uphold the values he got elected on, not (as many feebleminded urbane Democrat voters suppose) because of his skin color.
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Some modifications would be needed to let this run really unattended.
Yet it would be fun seeing one of the infamous "# curl http:// install.coolstuff.io | bash" install processes :)
I view memorization as a shortcut that allows one to operate on higher level concepts with ease. Much like abstraction mechanisms in programming.
> Most (but not all) people who have used lisp for significant projects find that they either like the parens or are simply neutral about them.

There's a substantial selection bias there in that people who have strongly negative feelings about parens have plenty of opportunities in the field to work with languages without them, so the only people likely to put up with them on significant projects are ones who feel positively, neutrally, or perhaps only weakly negatively about the feature from the start.

That said, I do think the complaints about that particular feature are overblown, much the way those about Python's particular whitespace handling are.
Lisp syntax is awesome. It is unfortunate that some people have trouble getting used to it. I wish we could all live in parentheses paradise.
The Cursive IntelliJ IDE for Clojure does allow you to rename everything in this manner (even keywords used across your codebase). Others may as well, not sure.
I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of working code in the "crippled" language you're referring to.

And dangling pointers result in use-after-free, which frequently results in remote code execution vulnerabilities. Do you have a practical alternative to eliminating those RCE vulnerabilities, or should we accept them?

To be clear, your position is an intellectually coherent one to take. But we should be clear about its implications.
I'm not so sure it's the OS. The new Pixel has even better battery life than the latest Macbooks, in a similar form factor, and it's all Linux underneath the hood. IMO it's more of a commitment to tweaking whatever OS you have, not necessarily to writing the whole thing.
True, I should have mentioned that and have added. Pretty much everything is spoilery in threads about the game, though. What I described is fairly early and basic, though, not some big revelation. Go try the game if you haven't!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvJ4bwnAHnE
Definitely going to look into a couple of these.
If you're disciplined yes, but there are some situations in which you can't save the game, such as whiled a vehicle is moving through an atmosphere (such as while flying a plane or landing a capsule) or while firing engines. It can't save while the current vehicle is experiencing acceleration other than gravity. So you can get stuck In the game during such activities for a little while.
> In practicality how difficult/easy is it to build cross-runtime libraries and how much reuse can you get out of clojure libs b/c of its hosted status?

It depends on what you're trying to do, and whether the platforms help.

Doing something 'pure' like math or datastructures: trivial. Writing a common interface to two different host libraries (e.g. DateTime in JVM & Browser): manageable.
Doing something 'host-y', like graphics, with no host libraries in common: very hard.

Basically, Clojure doesn't get in the way of cross-platform concerns, but it might still be a difficult problem.
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> an entity that has the motivation to save every penny

That sounds like what's happened/happening in many European governments with austerity policies.
Wow, back in the day I loved Atlantis the lost tales [0], this definitely has that feel. I would have bought it already if I had more than just Linux at my disposal...

With the Steambox/machine now in production I thought the divide windows/Linux was shrinking rapidly. I'm not at all a gamer though.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYlzsZcuVkY
Lots of people here are pretty certain the "key" to a "successful education" are parents.

But one successful teacher's view is this:
"...Like all the teachers I talked to in Washington, Mr. Taylor laments the lack of parental involvement. “On back-to-school night, if you have 28 or 30 kids in your class, you’re lucky to see six or seven parents,” he says. But when I ask him how that affects his teaching, he says, “Actually, it doesn’t. I make it my business to call the parents—and not just for bad things..."

h/t u/jseliger, who linked to a helpful article at the Atlantic, where I'm quoting this from.
Really though, it's better to think that Lisp has no syntax, and that really you're writing your code directly in the parse tree that other languages compile-to. The parens are simply to define the boundaries of the trees.

And besides, with proper indentation, it becomes easy to read and easier on the eyes.
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The 1080p IPS screen on my T450s is a blurry piece of crap with awful backlight bleed in comparison to the screen on my rMBP. I can at least control my room lighting to avoid glare--I can't do anything about the low-resolution hazy text on the 1080p matte screen. For a workhorse machine--I stare at text all day--that clarity is priceless.
Notice that OpenSSL did 768-bit DHE minimum first then 1024-bit DHE minimum only now, unlike NSS for example. I think the new version of Firefox was released about two weeks before Oracle released their Java 6/7 fixes for paid customers.
During the revolution, no one had an accurate map of Paris.

This is what made the barricade such an effective tool. People could throw up a few barricades and quite effectively defend a neighbourhood.

When the army showed up they had to channel through narrow unfamiliar streets.

If the tide turned against the people, they often managed to escape through a little known back alley.

The "Grande Boulevards" may look majestic, but they are also military roads. They make it easier to move troops within the city.
It may be a hindrance for new-comers who use notepad(or some other editor that has no knowledge of LISP).

For everyone else, what parenthesis are you talking about?
I don't even see them.
Any consoles? It's on PS4 too, and while I haven't checked I'd guess it's on Xbox One.
Good thing we have this command called "history" for a reason
> Why is Apple the only one that can build a 15" retina laptop with 9-10 hours of battery life?

The XPS 15 has better than a Retina display:

- Reina: 2880-by-1800 resolution at 220 pixels per inch.

- 4K: 3840-by-2160 resolution at 282 pixels per inch (60% more pixels).

So you're comparing apples and oranges (minor pun intended). It is unsurprising that a display which literally has more work to do will consume more battery in the process.
> But I do base a lot of language learning on the ease of use of its syntax for newcomers.

From what I've observed of learners, people without lots of programming background seem to have no more problem with parens in lisps (in the broad sense -- mostly, I've seen this with Scheme and Racket) than with syntax features of various Algol-family (C, etc.) languages.

People with extensive experience in programming that is mostly restricted to Algol-family languages seem to be the people who are most put-off by lisps and their parens.

Which is to say, there are different kinds of newcomers.
> random available libs

What libs are these specifically?
Desk.com has been up and down almost two days
I think most people would pass on cable if given the option, but I don't see them letting go of their stranglehold on the major sports in the US anytime soon. I guess if you aren't a sports fan it's probably not a big deal.
Congratulations on shipping, and good luck :) .

Let's hope it helps people, and if it turns a profit, better still :)
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Don't forget that a lot of this is often driven by the brand managers who want to grow their budgets. If it turns out that they can't spend $1m on "45-50 y/o women in Florida" in a quarter, then their budget will get trimmed appropriately, reducing their stature and sway in the organization. The fraud problem in digital advertising is a hard cycle to break when there's people on the brand-side helping encourage it.
Thanks, yes it's great insight. I thought Mailchimp already provides open tracking?

Interesting. So essentially, you're using your Google Docs as a makeshift CRM, monitor it using Zapier and then fire off an email with Mandrill?