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Many (most?) laptop vendors do this including Lenovo, HP, and Dell just as ones that turned up mentions with a quick search. I've been told that it's done because at least in theory they whitelist the cards that they've done emissions certification testing with and that they can't sell equipment that they haven't done that testing on - it may not be true, but it seems a pretty niche thing to try to do hardware lock-in on.

One important factor in this is how large is the whitelist? If the manufacturer offers that model with 3-4 different cards as options, you know they'll all be supported. On the other hand for cheaper laptops (like a ThinkPad Edge I once had to deal with) that are non-customizable the whitelist may only have the one card model it was released with.

For Lenovo models at least you can dig through their technical documentation and get a listing of part numbers that should be compatible.
> notably a lack of UI refinement

That's a common misconception. Blender's UI is extremely simple and innovative.
>They are a huge player with many expensive software suits. But they are not very innovative.

In architecture and construction they are by far the leader in Building Information Modeling, so i think it depends on what you put in the spotlight.
I guess iOS is more geared towards devs who have been building desktop apps while Android seems to be more approachable if you come from building web apps. There are corners in Android where “persistent state” seems to become a problem, even affecting UI. I'm sure one could expand the discussion, but let this suffice.
Reuters: German spy agency says ISIS sending fighters disguised as refugees
Ask HN: What's the best minimal CSS framework?
Hello HN,
I'm a backend programmer and it's been quite some time since I worked with anything frontend related. I'm not bootstrapping a quick project, kind of prototype to "throw" out there and see what is the feedback. Meaning that I know very little about CSS and I don't really want to spend days trying to learn how to properly use complex fancy tools.

I'm looking for a basic grid system (possible responsive), a few buttons, forms, and so on - the usual stuff CSS frameworks are done for.

Bootstrap and Foundation would be my default choice but they cause a bit of a overhead. Is there any minimal framework out there that would speed up the process? Maybe based on bootstrap or foundation, just simpler.

Thanks in advance
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It's kidnapping under Mexican law, but I can't think of a US law that would ban it.
"People" are also sloppy about how they use the term "cloud", yet the world goes on with that concept in hand applying it to everything in site, often times in irritating ways. "Blockchain" is now a thing people can hold in their hand as a way to visualize the concept of a nearly immutable data store. That idea of storing something in an immutable way represents a shift in the way we can think about system's design. Calling it a "Merkle DAG" isn't going to kick off that insight any better than using "blockchain", but remembering what it really is and drawing the distinction with the right people can be immensely useful when trying to implement the insight.
Whys that? Year round awesome weather not good enough?
The electric scalpel
Energy always takes a massive hit when oil is low.
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Can a US citizen explain what seems to me tobe a dissonance

Americans will, unsurprisingly, pay lip service to the American ideals of democracy because that's what they were taught. The two disconnects I see are: do they actually believe in them? And can the identify a compromise of the ideas as such? Not always, and infrequently.

People are exceptionally good at ignoring ingnorable things that they don't want to deal with, the "someone else's problem" phenomenon.

Political groups that don't frequently recommit to American ideals mean that the political trends sway away from them. Add in some "this time it is different" type of rationalization, and boneheaded "America could never possibly X" attitude that makes them think the groundwork for X is always and forever unambiguously benign.

So different political groups have different levels of commitment to different American ideals. Someone can believe in gun rights as important to maintain like all the other rights that strengthen our democracy. Or they could just like guns and find out the political groups they're already predisposed to disagree with want to take them away. Their commitment to American ideals is repackaged into hatred of the other party -- and as long as this hypothetical person got to keep their gun and a few other pet political issues, they'd welcome a dictator.
Is it really sexual harassment? can you even harass code? I think that most people enjoy doing "bounds" testing of code. Did the program Cortana to say something witty when x happens? Dumb article and clickbait-y title. BOO CNN
This article reminded me of Peter Watts' dystopian view of the future in "Echopraxia", and how close we are to enter this brave new world.
A lot of biotech has been taking a beating so far this year. It's been brutal for the short-term.
Well, as some who doesn't can you enlighten me?
>The American government conducted a major intelligence offensive against China, with targets including the Chinese government and networking company Huawei, according to documents from former NSA worker Edward Snowden that have been viewed by SPIEGEL and the New York Times

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-spied-on-chine...

>Research by SPIEGEL reporters in Berlin and Washington, talks with intelligence officials and the evaluation of internal documents of the US' National Security Agency and other information, most of which comes from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, lead to the conclusion that the US diplomatic mission in the German capital has not merely been promoting German-American friendship. On the contrary, it is a nest of espionage. From the roof of the embassy, a special unit of the CIA and NSA can apparently monitor a large part of cellphone communication in the government quarter. And there is evidence that agents based at Pariser Platz recently targeted the cellphone that Merkel uses the most.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-...

Well, I suppose it's in China's and Germany's interests, but doing things like that that benefit another country at the expense of your own is generally called treason.
Then don't smoke it. Scrambled eggs are a nice way of consuming cannabis and are what I had in mind when I wrote that no, cannabis is not harmful - because it in itself most definitely isn't.
I think a better question is what problems they haven't faced.
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I've spent the last couple years working on a very interesting project using ultra-capacitors for energy storage. We are storing 33kWh of energy in ultra capacitors, charging and discharging with a very short period (seconds) for peak-demand shaving. It really is an exciting time for energy storage technology. I think we are going to see a lot of cool innovation in the next few years, even just finding new uses for existing technologies.
Or, worse, you have a Really Damn Good Year, but I ding you at your performance review. Even though you were the best you've ever been, and better than your peers, you weren't quite as good as I was hoping you to be, so ... sorry, no raise this year.
Some additional problems with the "extradition to the US" angle:

* It's not his original argument. His original argument was that the Swedish prosecutor was biased against all men, and that sexual assault charges are a "political issue" in Sweden, so his case can't fairly be heard there.

* It doesn't make any sense legally, because Sweden's extradition treaty with the US specifically forbids extradition for espionage or political offenses, the UK treaty doesn't, and if he's rendered to Sweden for trial proceedings, both the UK and Sweden would have to authorize an extradition to the US --- but if the US decides to have him extradited from the UK, only the UK needs to agree.

Assange's case was heard before the Chief Magistrate in the UK, who rendered a detailed decision based on significant amounts of witness testimony (which uncovered an instance of Assange's lawyer overtly attempting to deceive the court by claiming Swedish prosecutors had never sought to question Assange despite documented evidence to the contrary), and again before the UK High Court (which again produced a detailed decision against him), and finally before the UK Supreme Court, which again decided against him.

I'll also note that the UN WGAD opinion contains factual errors. For instance, it claims that Assange was under "house arrest" before fleeing to the Ecuadorian embassy. He was not: as an extradition target, he was subject to monitoring and a curfew, but was otherwise allowed to leave his house at will.

It appears as if the UN WGAD opinion is really about litigating the decisions of the Swedish prosecutors, which doesn't seem like a legitimate application of the Arbitrary Detention process.
Interesting, though the C middleman isn't necessary if you can describe to Rust's FFI that mxArray is an opaque struct (I imagine the other regular functions in the MEX API are cakewalk for an FFI worth it's weight).

A while ago I wrote a mexFunction purely in Cython, and it was wondeful because Python was immediately available to work with (instead of C). The problem was that the numerical libraries on which NumPy builds often shared symbol names with MATLAB (such as svd, or hdf5) that differ in implementation resulting segfaults or corrupted data.
Personally I'm sure, but that's not how VC funds work. You raise a fund with the understanding it will be invested in new ventures.
Russians and Chinese are a major contributor, and they're not so affected by SV cycles.
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> People deride the "iOS style" features of El Capitan but first, what specifically are you referring to besides Launcher?

So much hideousness.

Like breaking Save As... with a clunky autosave set up.

Like a badly thought-out full screen mode that couldn't even cope with an external monitor being connected (this being something that worked on the 512k Mac).

Like automatically terminating background apps, and purging resources within apps (so that Safari would reload all your background tabs randomly).

Like App Sandboxing which is so restrictive as to rule out an entire class of applications from the piss-poor Mac App Store, and to continually fill the Console with Apple's own system services getting dinged for sandbox violations.

Like discoveryd.

Like abstracting away the filesytem, so that you hit "Move" on an document and get a crippled filepicker appearing from the title bar.

Have they actually added anything good since 10.6? Some window management has improved a bit. Startup is immensely better. iMessage is getting there (though iChat AV was still better at group video chat than anything since, including Hangouts). You mention AirDrop, but that's a mess (and the awful Chooser was still a better way of finding other Macs to connect to than the Finder is today).
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That might be even worse news for Adobe, though. It's hard to find reliable information about how successful their SaaS model has been, but the most plausible arguments/data I've seen would suggest they have very roughly half as many CC subscribers by now as they sold full copies of the main CS6 suites. IIRC the figures did not take into account sales of individual CS product licences, nor allow for existing customers who had say CS5 or CS5.5 and had chosen not to upgrade to CS6.

If that is anything close to accurate -- and I stress the "if", because the data is probably at least third-hand here -- then Adobe would have lost more than half of their previous customer base in the transition, and still not regained them several years later. If a significant proportion of those they have gained are ex-pirates, that's an even stronger suggestion that their own permanently licensed products prior to CC might still be their biggest competition.

The situation with pirates seems less relevant for most of Autodesk's products, as their market is much more likely to be professionals than hobbyists anyway. But the implications of earlier permanent offerings potentially representing ongoing competition for their new subscription-only model even several years later would be just as unpleasant as they are for Adobe. Anecdotally, one of my companies has some big name Autodesk software for use with a specific part of what we do, and we've just decided that we'll make do with the existing systems and not buy any more or any updates if they're only going to rent new versions to us and won't let us buy any more copies of the existing version we already use. If significant numbers of larger businesses that already have spare capacity in their volume licensing deals decide to take a similar approach, that definitely won't be good news for Autodesk's new strategy, but I guess time will tell.
Awesome. I could find an episode about "tiger-repellent rock" just by searching for "tiger".
For the non-MATLABers, a mex function is just a small shared library which exports a single function 'mexFunction'. It's dynamically loaded by MATLAB when called in the MATLAB language.
Much cooler than expected. So I assume this is fairly trivial to adapt to any other set of subtitled videos?
Would the situation have turned out differently if users gave LinkedIn money in recognition of the referrals LinkedIn facilitated?

People like to hate linkedIn for being exploitative, while happily advancing their careers/businesses without paying LinkedIn for building the network infrastructure.
My speculation is that without any comparable competitors, there's nothing to force LinkedIn to change the negative aspects of their service. If there were two competing services, we would see users gravitating towards the service they prefer and the other service desperately trying to correct itself. For example, when Yahoo introduced suggested searches, Google noticed and picked up the feature too. Alternatively, when IE6 was king, they let it stagnate and look at what happened.

So from that standpoint, I hope that LinkedIn doesn't fail, but rather a competing service nurtures an environment where LinkedIn has to compete. Then hopefully we can see improvements towards what users really want.
My experiences are very different.

Many Linux services have a concept of reloading. If the config file changes you can send the running program a signal and it will re read the config. This is very useful for production systems.

Tableau (9 at least) has no such concept.

Change the email address it reports to? Restart tableau.

Change the location of the SSL certificates? Restart tableau.

Want to apply an update for tableau? Uninstall your current version and install the new one. Oh and until recently when you downloaded the installer for tableau server the file name didn't actually contain the version number.

This product was not designed with ops in mind at all.

Edit: I forgot, I've actually had a tableau server fill itself up with logs. Tableau has logs in many different locations outside of windows event viewer and doesn't include log rotation facilities for all if them.
> I think it's a bit extreme to cheer for hackers to take down a big company just because they send you a few emails.

It really just isn't the emails, it's rather that they're one of the biggest pioneers of dark patterns: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfa...

I'm extremely conflicted about all of this. I want the open web to thrive, but I'm beginning to realize that in a free and open internet parasites who partake in these such practices are rewarded all too well.
"It is as harmful as tobacco (or might even more)."

Wrong. The two plants are nothing alike. If you really want to have a discussion, do some research first, otherwise don't complain about getting downvoted.
Nobody mentioned Erlang so far.

My biggest disappointment with "Scientist" is that it basically provides service which Erlang code has for free - hot code reloading. For decades now. Along with other cool features like great support for parallel execution, hierarchical monitoring and so on.

Article mentions some early user raves about this tool in context of "it allows me do refactoring!"

Of course it would help, but there are languages that either have all this cool stuff for decades (Erlang), or can allow you to do heavy refatoring without asking for help from "interesting" tools like this "Scientist" (Haskell).
Their PR is unfortunately low quality and low on facts, though critical thinking would also try to look at the "why".

The futur or "solar roads" is clearly not highways and express lanes. It's slow speed, commercial areas - as badly presented by Colas.

For the context, land use in Europe is so different than in the US. Suburbs don't crawl as much and space is more of a premium.

Thinking at a really local level, for a new retail space like this: https://goo.gl/maps/BRkQ5qNyaQU2 - the fields around the center are either here to stay or would be built on.

About 80% of this commercial space is parking lots. It's wasted space. Why not use it to produce power? Why use additional fertile or constructible terrain to add solar tiles?

Since 2015, businesses in France also have to build either gardens or solar panels on their rooftops (new constructions and redevelopments). So that's turning 90% of space used into something productive or "user-friendly". Again why not do it?

The pricing of those solar tiles is interesting: 6 euros per max watt produced on location. Cheap enough - and you get free power for parking users.

It's also great PR for solar to get inserted in people's lives at such locations.
With such rose colored glasses you should become a real estate agent. Always a good time to buy!
This is an extremely frustrating thread to follow. We have some people who have run a Tableau server with no issues, and now two people who are effectively saying "oh, it's awful but I have no interest in telling you why".
This can be non-portable because the mex header will expand certain function calls to specific implementations depending on the mex options you use. I seem to recall e.g. mxGetM expanded to mxGetM700 in one version.
What a nightmare - millions of fridges DDoSing nuclear power stations...
nightly -- they want a 10gbit link dedicated to the box for refreshing content
LinkedIn is the only mainstream service I've completely shitcanned in a Gmail filter.
MSI did that. I tried to sub out a RealTek card with a good athenos. That was a bit frustrating and turned me off from buying from MSI.
The answer is actually quite simple. Julian Assange has not been charged with rape in Sweden.

He has never been charged with a crime anywhere, yet he was put in solitary confinement, then held under house arrest for a very long time, then he asked for and was granted asylum by Ecuador because of a grand jury investigation against him in the US (and reports of a sealed indictment).

Asylum is an international law which is binding on all parties. Moreover the UK has consistently denied Assange's right to leave the embassy without arrest for medical treatment, and the conditions inside the embassy are not fit for detainment.

Assange is forced to either give up his asylum or his human rights, both of which are inalienable. The UN could not possibly have reached any other conclusion in the matter. International law is binding.

One might also consider three additional facts. Firstly, one of the complainants in Sweden said she had not been raped by Assange and that the police railroaded her. The other has said that she did not want to accuse Assange of anything. Note also that various women's groups have sided with Assange. Knowing the facts on record, they do not believe he committed a crime. Secondly, the case against Assange was closed and he was allowed to leave Sweden. It was reopened later, it is alleged, by a different prosecutor after political interference. Finally, under current UK law, Assange would not be extradited to Sweden because the prosecutor is not judicially independent in Sweden and no charges have been laid. In other words, he would not be subject to arrest and extradition under current law.

I doubt that those three facts played any part in the UN decision which was about his arbitrary detainment and various other violations of international law by the UK and Sweden, not about the case in Sweden itself.
People think Steve was arrogant, but this guy takes the cake. Steve would always thank the whole team and everyone involved when a product was introduced. I believe at Pixar (couldn’t find a reference) that he pushed for everyone at the company to be in the movie credits, right down to the janitorial staff. This guy is all about taking credit for the work of a very small number of people and comparing himself to Steve. Plus, this is just poorly researched and frankly just lame, for lack of a better word. Some snippets:

- I’ll call him Steve (Everyone called him Steve. Employees still refer to execs by their first name)

- "I worked with Steve Jobs" can mean, "I saw him in the elevator once when I was at a meeting at Apple" …… I actually worked with the guy, and I'm realizing that perhaps I worked with him more closely than almost anyone (Who cares? Where are the stories about working with him? You should have more stories than anyone)

- I was employee #40 (No one cares. Employee #1765 could change the world more than you)

- We called it Interpersonal Computing, but nobody paid attention until 5 years later when the WWW became more mainstream. (We were so ahead of the curve that what we worked on wasn’t even given a name. WWW? I was around then and I don’t remember many people calling it that)

- We were done ahead of schedule, as it turned out (No you weren’t. No one who works in software, especially a 1.0 product, believes you)

- I think it was October or November of 1998 (Try using the WWW to look it up. It was October and it was actually 1999)

So far, that covers 2/3rds of the article. Still no mention of what it’s like to work with Steve.

- What he was passionate about was, I think, quite simple: he liked to build products. I do, too. This we had in common. (Incredible, it’s like you were soulmates)

- So I think that in some very real sense, I had a better understanding of Steve and how he worked, and what motivated him, than almost anyone in the world. (You should really write an article about what Steve was like to work with. With lots of stories since you were so close to him.)

- It sounds kind of self-serving to say this, but he and I were a lot alike in that way, and in that process. (The whole article is self-serving. It’s far more about you than Steve. That’s right, even I call him Steve from outside the secret cabal you were part of.)

So, in summary, Glenn Reid is amazing, almost Steve-like, and what it was like to work with Steve consisted going into rooms with whiteboards and throwing out ideas and debating the details of a product.

Arrogant engineers don’t make great products. Oh, you didn’t mention your engineering team. And the team that made the hardware. Or you EPM that kept you on schedule so you could ship early or something. What about people that wrote the low-level software your app depended on? Did you write everything from the kernel on up to iMovie? You have very little in common with Steve other than you were in the same room with him a lot and apparently have no actual stories to tell.
True, I conflated tvOS with OS X here, but it's still software by Apple.