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I've had a lot of PC and Mac laptops, my first one being a Powerbook around 1994. But the --only one-- that ever died catastrophically was an Early 2011 Macbook Pro. Its problems are legion on the Apple support boards, and Apple wouldn't admit that the problems existed.

It wasn't until after I bought a new replacement laptop that Apple finally acknowledged the issues and started a repair program. I wasn't able to just walk into my Apple store to get it fixed (I live in a major metro), so I ended up going to a local authorized dealer instead.

It was basically the last straw for me. I'm happily on Windows. I don't miss the OSX Terminal because I've got CMDer, and just about everything else I was using on Mac for work is either available for Windows or has a decent equivalent. Windows is not the wasteland it was when I switched back to Mac a decade ago.
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Hi - I have a 30000 mAh battery that outputs via a USB port. I need a magsaf2 2 connector on the other end of USB connector.

Any ideas on where to get a cable such as this so I can have backup power on VERY long flights and hiking trips to help avoid running out of power.

Custom cable creation is an option but I don't know where to start.
No one is stopping 'in theory', but may be because there's no IDE close enough to Visual Studio for making something close enough to Visual Studio stopping people? ;)
The term "closure" is used in Rust for that syntax, regardless of whether it actually closes over its environment. You need some term for the syntax, and closure is used even if it doesn't necessarily close over anything; because much of the time, you do use it because you want it to close over its environment.

And, you can pass a pointer to a function just fine:

fn call_twice<F>(f: F) where F: Fn() {
f();
f();
}

fn hello() {
println!("Hello");
}

fn main() {
call_twice(|| println!("Hi!"));
call_twice(hello);
let x = 5;
call_twice(|| println!("{}", x));
}

And all of this optimizes down just fine; if the environment being closed over is empty, it will just be an anonymous function with no extra overhead. Heck, if you try it out yourself on the playpen in release mode, and take a look at the asm, all of these just get inlined right into main: http://is.gd/p9Kd9y
Advertisers don't care (or measure, really) non-ad-viewing users when deciding where to run these campaigns. So you're already not counted.
Not really, IMHO you're the one mixing them up. Take Noam Chomsky, he self-identifies as anarchist too, but I think you would have a hard time not to call him anti-capitalist.

I understand anti-capitalism as a criticism of the current economic system (or at least aspects of it), so it's independent to anarchism, just like it is, say, independent to Christianity.
You can check Thalmic Labs (https://www.thalmic.com/careers) maybe. They make the Myo Armband.
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Odd how working for exposure is decried when business owners want designers or devs to do it, but grand when we want publishers to do it.
Ah. Thanks. I last tried this around Rust 1.0. Closures were still in flux back then.
I've lived in Baltimore for a decade and I like it more every year. It's really quite fantastic. There is crime in every city.
If I was dying to read a Wired article I could just google it. I'm sure there'll be a cached copy somewhere. If that were to fail then I'd just drive a headless browser to the url, or even a bot, and pull the content out. Thankfully, I'm not that desperate to do either. Wired doesn't have as much leverage as they think they do. And frankly, for a technology flagship as they used to be, I'd expect them to work with the community, not against it. Find a bulletproof way to serve malware-free ads and serve them from your domain and I'd gladly whitelist your site. Otherwise I'm not risking it.
Is there a good open source "Little Snitch" alternative?
Because you hardly write that way in C.
/s? Because Sam has done an incredible job.
Why would you ever want to do distributed locking when you can do MVCC via eg vector clocks, possibly with cryptographic signatures?

If you want to acquire some shared resource, then elect an owner for that resource.
Wired doesn't know any of that stuff about you. Facebook and Google might which is why they have strong privacy policies and opt out procedures.
Because lambdas are sometimes referred to as closures even where they don't close over anything. Other expressions generally aren't.
I'm giving a workaround, not defending crap engineering.
Yup that's me.

https://lwn.net/Articles/662140/ is where this also was written up.
There is always one parked in Union Sq station near where that cop on the segway parks. Also labelled EPA.
Firefox on Android is supposed support MSE (for MP4/H.264, but not WebM/VP9). For example, YouTube MSE works in Firefox. Is it broken for you? That JW Player page is out of date. It also says MSE doesn't work on Firefox desktop. :)
China has been my new frontier, though I must confess it too is becoming a lot less frontier-like these days. Corners of Burma, India, South America, Indonesia and the Philippines. Papua New Guinea.
Threads that are about that seem like a good place. As you know, anyone can start a thread.
Thanks for looking, and I agree with your assessment. I'm no designer, and only a novice developer. I have a friend who is helping me address weaknesses by designing UI/UX for eventual package as iOs app. I checked your guide; that may be helpful as well. Your feedback /help is appreciated. Will fix.
Now, you will find lots of people that claim scheme is the best programming language. I myself am torn between the caml family of languages and scheme.

Most serious stuff I write in Scheme, and when I got parsack (parsec for Racket) I now no longer have any reason to leave.
Noam Chomsky doesn't speak for all anarchists. Anarchism comes in different forms.

> I understand anti-capitalism as a criticism of the current economic system (or at least aspects of it), so it's independent to anarchism, just like it is, say, independent to Christianity.

That's exactly my point (that it's independent). In case of Stallman, he isn't anti-capitalist per se, but he is definitely an anarchist.
They're being picked out because you see people do that all the time (i.e., calling an anonymous function a "closure"), while I don't recall ever seeing someone referring to a random expression as a closure.

I'm not overly fond of calling anonymous functions "lambdas", for that matter. Sure, several languages use the term lambda, but many do not. More specifically, "anonymous function" is much more descriptive than "lambda".
How do you propose to do this?
Either one of two things: a) like normal employees now, VCs insist founders vest over 4 years, so what he has vested he keeps, or b) the board says he was fired 'for cause' and can claw back ALL his equity (many but not all contracts have such provisions)
Blumix is late to the game and has to put it mildly road to do https://status.ng.bluemix.net/
I was just being flippant. It was not a real criticism.
Do you want to start a tit-for-tat war? Publishers could redirect ads using their sites as a proxy.
>> I've replaced a battery once on my 2012 MacBook Pro

If you've got the unibody (2012 was the last year), it's got an end-user replaceable battery. You can buy a third party battery from Amazon, MacSales etc and swap it pretty easily.

The experience is not quite so convenient with newer models.
I don't disagree that it's super easy to get a license and should be done regardless – but, geez, why is that a requirement? What's so special about selling health insurance that you should go to jail for up to 10 years if you're not licensed in it?

I'm curious because there must be something obvious I'm missing.
I may offer an opinion different from other responses you receive...

If you're not unhappy where you are--adequate salary, good living conditions--then take things slowly...

Land the next job before leaving your current one, and only if it represents a step up in responsibility and seems interesting, or otherwise improves your "life"...

Look at the headlines on the worldwide economic situation just now...yes, things are a bit uncertain...do your homework before making a jump...

And don't undervalue having a job when things are uncertain...just think about the alternative...
Maybe it has something to do with this:

> Cyclone is no longer supported; the core research project has finished and the developers have moved on to other things. (Several of Cyclone's ideas have made their way into Rust.) Cyclone's code can be made to work with some effort, but it will not build out of the box on modern (64 bit) platforms).
Direct link: https://security.google.com/settings/security/secureaccount

The androidpolice article adds nothing (although I guess they get some credit for calling attention to it).
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I'll still always remember Haloid back in 2007, the best Halo + Metroid mashup video ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-mR79GErU (re-uploaded on YouTube, it was originally on GameTrailers)

It was created by the late Monty Oum (creator of RWBY and art director for RvB) and apparently it's still the most watched video GameTrailers ever had [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJC5Ct9vXMM
How could Facebook give everyone unfettered access? Wouldn't that involve paying for everyone's data plan?
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Me too. deafcalculus AT gmail
I don't really understand this point of view. Is C not (very) verbose? Even if it's just because of the manual memory management.
From the earlier post about unlicensed deals in Washington state:

> Washington law is particularly severe when it comes to the unlicensed sale of insurance. Under the law, anyone who knowingly sells, solicits, or negotiates insurance without the proper state license can be punished with a prison sentence of up to 10 years, as well as a civil penalty of up to $25,000 for each violation.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/williamalden/80-of-zenefits-deals-in...
I find the code of highly parallel systems much more elegant and easy to read.

Personally, I find it easier to write highly parallel code than parallel-up-to-a-certain-point code that involves locks likes mutexes and/or semaphores. Highly parallel code just takes a little bit of extra planning and thinking up-front but it saves lots of time and stress down the line.
> The scarcity is in some sense enforced and artificial

The problem is, you can mount the very same argument even in the case of normal property rights. At the beginnings of capitalism, the scarcity was in fact enforced by means of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure.

IMHO, most libertarians are used to idea normal property and take it for "natural", but not so in the "intellectual" world of ideas. It is partly because they benefit from intellectual world not yet completely owned by rich people. But I think people outside computing (unless they are distinctly leftist) are unfortunately lot more content with the idea of "intellectual property".

In my view, there is always a balance between "property rights" and other needs of society - availability of resources to the needy and the general public, innovation and growth.
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Nope, zookeeper nodes have ids that always increment and can be used for fencing, compare-and-set and more...
technically Sacks could be under the hook also for non-compliance...
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What does peering have to do with anything? 512kbs is 512kbs, no matter how far (within reason) you are from Google.
"Hypergrowth addict" sounds like a self-description you'd hear on Silicon Valley...
$52 is way too much for a medium that occasionally publishes something good. OK, that’s just my opinion and it’s highly subjective. But I used to love Wired back in the days when Internet was booming. Nowadays they’re just too irrelevant. All that aside, I’d love a pay-per-article scheme. Give me a summary of the article and if I like it I can pay for it. Sounds much more reasonable than asking me to pay for everything.
Now, for work I sometimes have to do some quite data-intensive calculations. Having a desktop computer running POWER8 would make this a hell of a lot faster, considering you can actually max out most intel chips just doing a regular dvd rip.
They are asking, please stop using our content without giving something back. We need something from you to continue. Here are two options. Payment, or ads that we'll try and keep ok.

The response is, we'll weaponize and win.

Or excuses about how I don't contribute anything but might bring in someone who does, so how dare you. You are going to fail.

These are not evidence based arguments. It's not to hard to block Ad Block users.

Other media companies have survived with paywalls AND ads.

And even if it doesn't work out, Wired can pull back and at least say they tried.

It's the self righteous behaviour about it that's immoral. The glee at that they might fail. This can be read both above and below the lines.
Good news I love Sublime it's so fast and slick - I haven't used Atom because consensus seems to be that it's not as fast with multiple large files open.
Why is everyone obsessed about open source, yes nice to have but at the end of the day this is just a (very sharp) tool - what's your priority tinkering with your tools or getting the job done? 70$ is peanuts, speed and productivity gains way outweigh this.
ST is multi-talented, brilliant for SQL, runs huge Postgres queries directly and lightning fast with full feed back ( error messages line numbers etc) even multi million row result sets don't phase it , any other editor would just gind to a spluttering halt.
>On an average day, more than 20 percent of the traffic to WIRED.com comes from a reader who is blocking our ads

Only 20% is pretty low for a tech-savvy audience. I'm surprised as I assumed ad blockers were more wide spread amongst us "computer people".
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Wireshark or even tcpdump will get you most of the way there, I think.
I was reminded of a quote saying this kind of question (scheme or caml) is discussing brand of waters while lost in a desert dying of thirst. Although PHP post 5.5 matured enormously, I'm still rooting for a scheme.
Thanks for the feedback. The project readme.md has been updated to show that a command does not need to have a single dash or contain any dashes. A command can start with any character as long as it is not one of the reserved !?#:
> how's atom doing these days?

Fairly well, IMO. The editor itself has caught up with Sublime for at least everything I care about, the community is very active, and they release updates pretty regularly.

Unfortunately, although performance has gotten noticeably better, it's still way behind Sublime. Opening a new editor window takes about three seconds on my MacBook Air, vs. less than a second for Sublime. I find myself opening new windows pretty often as part of my workflow, so I really, really hope they can cut that down. Also, Atom still struggles with large (>2MB) files, but I don't work with those often enough for it to be a big deal.
Top 3 links are all about execs stepping down, now a 4th one? I'm wondering how all of these step downs will affect the tech sector in the stock market tomorrow especially with the recent downturns in the stock market already.
Sure, often an order of magnitude less. After years of mugging attempts, beatings outside my apartment and random murders in seemingly safe neighborhoods, I think I can live with a slightly less vibrant art scene. I hope things work out for you--just remember to keep an eye out.
Thank you for the comment.
For a quick and general purpose introduction on Causality, the Epilogue of a former book of Pearl is great : "The Art and Science of Cause and Effect" http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/causality2-epilogue.pdf
A microframework is a framework whose API has a low surface area. It's not especially feature rich, but is conceptually lightweight and lets you get moving quickly.

A microservice is a small service that performs a well defined job with limited scope, and (generally) which runs as its own OS process - not depending on something like a j2ee application server.

These are pretty standard industry terms these days.

I won't make any definitive claim about what the OP really means. But this does seem to be a microframework for writing microservices.
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Incorrect. I've spoken directly to the engineers and read through a lot of the material. The Rubidium clocks have a lot of error and drift for such a high precision application and have to regularly be updated. Daily or sometimes more frequently.
Twitter planning 'regular and consistent action' to curb harassment and abuse
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Brandon Jones! I always loved this blooper reel of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bei_xzstrtU
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It looks like a move in that direction for sure and I think that's great. I personally don't believe that blockchain is the "only way" to make this idea happen of course. I think that there is an opportunity now for companies to "preempt" the wide adoption of blockchain tech on the web by offering a service that provides the same flexibility as blockchain tipping, but with a more frictionless user experience. I personally believe the key to doing this effectively will be

1. support for micro transaction amounts (The PPC business already think in terms of clicks that are worth a few cents on the dollar, and I think ultimately the consumer will think like this as well). In other words I think tipping needs to feel non-material to the consumer, but a dollar.. that's almost enough to buy a domestic draft beer.

2. support for truly global payment (tipping) and global remittance with reliable, flexible, always on time payouts.

It would need to embrace blockchain as a payout method because this is the only way to offer truely global remittance capability right now. In other words there's no way to get around blockchain completely so it's better to support it.

One way this could work would be for the platform to issue it's own alt-coin which rides on the back of the platform's reputation. Bloggers in diverse foreign locales where it's difficult or time consuming to receive bank wires could exchange these alt-coins to whatever they need to arrive at local currency. The consumer in priveldged markets would be sheilded, so to speak from thinking in terms of blockchain units because the platform would make it easy for them to tip and be paid in dollar amounts using the standard payment methodologies such as bank wires, ACH, and debit/credit cards. This reduces the amount of friction experienced by the average consumer in the most developed markets while at the same time enabling participation by people in the under-developed markets. In this way the platform could be thought to support a form of "graceful degradation" from a frictionless mobile/web consumer experience at one end to the complexies of blockchain / currency exchange at the other end.

3. Privacy protection

4. Fairness. The fact that you have your brand reputation tied to the platform why it's worth hosting not because of direct revenue. In other words No Squeeze.

5. A no-hassle embeddable tipping badge that any webmaster can easily leverage

6. No demanding of identity documents or tax id numbers while witholding payout. It should be the responsibility of the webmaster who is being tipped to comply with his local laws and tax regulations.

I think that if the ball is dropped in any of these areas then some variation of blockchain will ultimately win.
Likehood or probability makes sense only in models where one knows with maximum certainty that he have captured all/every relevant variables, its weights and has all kinds of possible events in a distribution. Otherwise the whole model is mere a story. An illusion. Failure to capture reality adequately is where so-called "black swans" are coming from.

This is meaning behind the "correlation is not causation" meme. There is nothing wrong with Bayesian reasoning, except when it is applyed to an inadequate dataset, which is almost always the case.

Would you like to elaborate about "somewhat wrong", with quotations from Principles of Mathematics, for example?
Wired, and it's multi-billionare owners can stuff it.

Wired has been on a long stead decline ever since it was first sold in the late 90s. Now they've gotten to the point where they do so little good journalism that just blacklisting them (to save myself the bother of running into their adblock block) will be as painless as cancelling my subscription was after their part in exposing Manning.
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I thought you were joking with the three exclamation marks so I then bothered to read the article.

You weren't joking.

I think this must be prank.
Surely.
I wonder how often a story about a woman in the industry shows up on the front page of HN.
Exactly. Wait, you mean this isn't how values work? :|

"Effective immediately, this company’s values are: ..."
None of those redesigns have made it to business accounts yet.

Tarsnap got the latest updated interface a few months ago. Maybe they're rolling it out to non-US businesses first?
Maybe, but I haven't found anything as polished as Little Snitch. The level of control is amazingly high. I really don't use it to the full extent with profiles and the like. I set up some basic rules and let it work for awhile, then I pick and choose what to allow/disallow permanently... like a King :P

It's one of the first things I install on my Macs. Worth every penny.
Fixed buffet-style fee would be difficult. Per-page micropayments, however, could be accomplished with some form of blockchain (probably not Bitcoin though, it's collapsing under its own weight as it is), perhaps with an extra layer of anonymization to get rid of tracking. The problem with micropayments is greed: publishers think their content is worth vastly more than it really is.

If I knew how to do buffet-style scheme for this without involving things like carrier billing and DNS tracking, I'd be working on my own startup RFN. This could undo the likes of Google and FB and make the web a much better, and much more private place.
It's not just you. I've been an Apple fan for a long time, but the only Apple app I regularly use is Keynote. For everything else I use alternatives, and that has never been any different.

With the occasional exception, Apple has never been very good at application software.
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(Why are there no screenshots on the landing page? Why are the screenshots hidden away on other pages hosted on imgur with links you have to click to view them? Basic marketing 101 ;) )
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Thanks for your feedback, really appreciate it.
GitHub fixes 102 flaws, pays out $95k under bug bounty program
What use is that? If you never sell them then you cannot spend the money. The goal is to get cash money into the client's pocket without them having to pay taxes.
It should be per-read, not per-week, but then it can't cost $1 a piece, more like few cents => we are back to micropayments, which proves to be a very hard nut to crack.
I also read HN.