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Well the "X" (Well technically E as in Broadwell-E, Haswell-E etc.) is part of their Extreme line it's meant for "enthusiasts" that really like dumping money on high end CPU's and overclocking the hell out of them this isn't a workhorse, at that price you can build a full dual socket Xeon for about the same price as the CPU (if indeed it will be 1500$, I'm betting on more like a 1000$ like their previous top of the line Extreme series).

Video Encoding isn't that well multi-threaded either as it's some what linearly dependent (you can't just encode random frames without having the previous frames/key frames done for references which means you can usually do 2-4 frames at the time so run off becomes and issue when you have more cores than frames to encode), 3D rendering is also a mixed bag depending on what type of raster and post processing you use you will get substantially different scaling between number of threads vs pure clock speeds.

In any case video encoding and 3D rendering (at least the ones that one will do on a desktop) will benefit much more from multiple high end GPU's than from an increase in CPU cores, the more or less conversion is that GPU numbers give almost 1 to 1 scaling where additional CPU's (cores) give you 0.3-0.5 on average in the best case scenarios (there are a few cases where CPU scales almost as well as GPU but they aren't that common).
It will become obvious, I think, in the following days. If they challenge the court order and fight vigorously to have it lifted, I am willing to believe that it is about the privacy. If they give in and say, "but we really didn't want to, they made us do it", I will consider their resistance more of a PR stunt.

That story, by the way, is really nice. ;-)
I'm not sure, it looks like it just disables the discrete GPU? If so, I've tried that - the problem is there's no other graphics to fall back on, Apple's proprietary EFI doesn't let non-OS X systems see that the integrated graphics are present at all (currently running only Windows 10 on it since I need Visual Studio). Maybe the patched Grub might be the start of a solution (could run Windows with a VM in Linux) but I'm not sure I'm that brave - last time I tried messing around with Apple's EFI for multi-booting it didn't end well :)
I think the whole point of a savings account is that it's not an investment. Thankfully.

Banks don't use deposits when lending out money. They create the loan amount out of thin air. There are regulations as to how much they can do that relative to their assets. Thankfully.
Well I did say net worth, not cash flow or credit or anything like that. But a sudden drop in the value of your primary residence can cause issues, including:

- Difficulty obtaining a loan if you wish to use the home as collateral (Second mortgage or HELOC)

- Inability to sell the house if you owe more than the home is worth

If you have no interest or need to move and have no need to use your home's equity to obtain capital, it's just a number in a spreadsheet and is largely unimportant.
This idea that laptops should be tinker able is just so weird to me. No laptop is really tinker able. The best you can do is replace RAM and HDD. Motherboards, battery modules, etc. are all proprietary in these things and usually anything beyond those three is non-trivial to replace.

Call me crazy but I'd rather just have a machine that's specced right out of the box, and with a battery module that I never need to replace.

My 2012 15" Retina MacBook is still going strong over 3.5 years later. Not only that but the machine has been a pleasure to use every day.

It's true there should be alternatives to Apple products out there that are similar build quality, but I have yet to find them. Some of my coworkers are hard line anti-Apple and their laptops are all really poorly made, IMHO.
> Who can prove that there was such a notice, long after the packaging is gone?

The notice does not matter. Patents cover not only manufacturing and sales, but also use of the invention. The patent owner does not need a contract with you, the patent law is enough.

If there exists a valid patent, and you don't have permission from the patent owner, then you technically are not allowed to use your widget regardless of what the packaging does or does not say or where you got it from.
Their security PDF says that the system has a chain of trust established, anchored at an immutable loader residing inside the chip, and each step verifies the digital signature of the next step against the hardcoded Apple CA certificate.
My grandfather worked at Bletchley park (used to play chess with Turing) and when he saw "The Imitation Game" he said it was nothing like working there. He said they were all much more respectful and wouldn't yell at each other like in the movie.
That's my understanding too. They got the basics, Turing worked on a more sophisticated problem derived from that.
What about the reform of the ß and the triple s ?

I have to say that for me as a foreigner with a not-so-good level of German (but who need to use it regularly), that reform was really confusing.

I mean, the triple s, I understand, but the ß, it was hard to know when to put one before, but I find it even harder now ! Also because there are a bunch of words I learned which changed orthography.

To be fair, I never learned the exact reasoning of the new reform, but I would have found more logical to just get rid of it altogether.
It's kind of funny that China is getting the only attention, when all countries around are occupying the islands: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Spratly_...
That doesn't sound all correct. Assuming the phone holds an encryption key that can read/write local data, a software update could simply command it to decrypt all data and save it as a copy.
>Bass, whose Hayman Capital Management LP has a multibillion-dollar bet that the yuan and Hong Kong dollar will fall, told clients in a letter that his firm estimates that China’s liquid foreign reserves are $2.2 trillion at most. That compares with the $3.23 trillion reported by the People’s Bank of China, the central bank, for the end of January.

>Bass said in his letter that some of China’s reserves already are tied up in institutions such as policy banks and one of its sovereign-wealth funds.

>“The view that China has years of reserves to burn through is misinformed,” Bass wrote. “China’s back is completely up against the wall today, which is one of the primary reasons why the government is hypersensitive to any comments regarding its reserve levels or a hard landing.”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/kyle-bass-warns-chinas-fore...
IIRC, the British only made the fact Enigma had been cracked public in the 1970s, and at that time it probably was not very convenient to give credit to a country that now was an "enemy" in the Cold War.
And if they do have to comply this time, it would be nice if Apple were very vocal about continuing to make it impossible to comply in the future with newer iPhones.
The headline is misleading. It should say a better laptop. A PC is not equal to a laptop. I was hoping for a in depth article about modern computer design, but instead found a rant about bad websites and lack of well engineered laptops.
Can someone fix the typo in the headline?
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Everyone live talked to feels the inverse. Perhaps its appeal is regional.
I want to like this machine, but it comes stock with 8GB of RAM and only a 256GB drive for the high end model with no options to upgrade (at least on Dell's site).
"Show HN" is for submissions that users can try out.

Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I'm not a native english speaker and that actually was just a typo.
Buyer beware: Indiegogo campaigns for hardware leave their supporters with very little recourse if the project fails to deliver. I've been burned by this one in the past.
We have a beach in Iceland that people go to take photos, and tourists get sucked out into the ocean all the time because they ignore the signs, tour guides, and common sense.

Just last week there was a lot of fuss in the news about how reckless the tourists are becoming, and then the very next day after the news hype, a tourist was sucked out into the sea and drowned.. and this happens despite there being lots of other people nearby.

It's gotten to the point that some tour guides have just stopped going there because people just don't listen to warnings or understand the danger.
Ok, if that part is updatable you have indeed a backdoor.

In theory it should be possible to make it fixed (which Apple doesn't seem to have done).
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Apple's official monitors double as docking stations, with USB/Firewire/Ethernet being carried over thunderbolt.

The most recent ones also half a decade old and still quite expensive, so I can't imagine buying one, but Apple would tell you that they do have a first-party docking station, complete with monitor built-in!
It's hard for me to have respect for an organization that was built by J. Edgar Hoover, a person who did not respect the law or American's rights.

The philosophy of corruption and oppression still echoes throughout the FBI. Even today, there are FBI agents that work for private interests. You can't reform a mafia, you must abolish it and start over.
If you google "nine-dash line", which violates UNCLOS, you'll understand why the ASEAN countries are upset and rightly so. China has visibly flexed their muscle in the region in recent years with building military bases, adding land to underwater islands so they can claim sea territory around them, and attacking fishing boats in disputed region. Some of this happen to dispute with Japan as well. With the economy not going well, I'm afraid this may be the Communist Party's strategy to diffuse tensions at home in order to hold on to power.
China builds their own interceptors so the availability of Russian stockpiles isn't relevant, they've both deployed and conducted real world tests on multiple interceptors beyond the initial 200 KM range that the system went into service with including having improved interceptors that can counter ballistic missiles and satellites[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Chinese_anti-satellite_mi...].
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I think you mean “gouging”, not “gauging”.
A year ago I almost ordered a pair of skis from 123mountain. They claimed to have them in stock when almost all other retailers did not. Fortunately I did some research before submitting the order and figured out they were likely scammers.
Why don't the investigators review video of Farook's work to see if they can make out the pattern of his phone pin?
How about if it was made with more recyclable material? Or if it was made using recycled material (not the same thing as the first) Phones generally are not recyclable.

I'd imagine there being a balance point of the volume of waste and the environmental effect.
That has nothing to do with S-400. The satellite interceptor was a modified ballistic missile.
I believe in God and goodness, hope and love.

I do not believe in supernatural forces compelling man to be evil. The idea that a judge believes in Satan is absurd and dangerous.

And no, it is a tragedy of modern civilization that our Presidents must believe in silly mythological stories.

Freedom to be run by stupid people?
I would expect my upgraded-with-science office to not need PowerPoint slides. Srlsy, should I take advice from someone who thinks PP on the web is a good idea?
No, because the touch-id is deactivated after 24h (or 48h, I'm not sure) of inactivity.
I would argue many of the mental health issues you describe in your post can be found in more traditional corporate environments as well when the mindset you bring as an employee to your job is one of extreme ownership and personal investment from the standpoint of time and effort.
Not after 48 hours, when you have to use the PIN.
It is, of course, possible; any iPhone can be forced to enter the restore mode or the DFU mode (don't remember which one) and be erased/reflashed via iTunes.

It won't get unlocked by that, because as soon as the new iOS takes over, it will detect the activation lock and require the Apple ID password to be provided. Also, going through iTunes erases all the data.

But presumably a custom DFU update can only replace the OS without replacing the data. The iPhone doesn't try to protect against valid updates, and will happily run anything signed by Apple; the locked/unlocked state is only about the encrypted user data on the device.
The article is pretty simple and not even really helpful for technical folks (since I'm sure most on HN are aware of the chrome task manager)

It does remind me of the serious issue with horrible Ad heavy sites and opens broader questions like are there other plugins/apps to ban cpu intensive sites? Even google getting involved with a ranking of how cpu intensive a site is might be interesting. In fact I was expecting the article to go down that path and was rather disappointed it was so simple.

I recently had to disable javascript on Wikia because the site had useful information but the Ad javascript code was horrific performance wise.
I think the question of the parent was if you could install Linux as you can with a normal PC (just by plugging an installation CD or USB drive), and the answer would be: "no you can't, unless you go through some hoops".

It's like installing Mac OSX on a PC, or Linux on a Mac: you can, but not easily and not in a way that is supported by the manufacturer.

You just have to scroll down in the link to see that there are several limitations that you wouldn't have with an OS that is supported natively.
Making a connection inherits risk. On a small scale, a bank loans money to people and then packages those investments into financial assets which it sells to investors who want to buy it. The mortgages HAVE to be packaged otherwise the investor wouldn't have incentive to buy it from the bank rather than directly lending. And the packaging itself has some level of risk since the actions of the buyers or sellers are unpredictable.

I'm not saying its a great thing, just that its the modern accepted role for big banks. If we take them away no one would be able to ACT on their global view of risk. You can have a global view but be too small to act rationally based on it. But that might not be a bad thing, its not like the current big banks are developing the right financial tools...
Man, this "bitter kid" and all the other comments you make are very sad. No ones more a ball of immature anger than yourself. PHP is indeed a "turd cake," it's always been. The facts are lost on business types like yourself, who think as long as it's built and it stands, you can go get 'em. Yeah true. But HN has actual passionate computer science people on it. So there's gonna be a reckoning. Can't really call an informed critic a bitter kid and get away with it.
"As a child, I was convinced that turning in meant missing out on illicit fun."
Hahahahaha.. Just wait till you have kids. What goes around, comes around. You're going to hoard sleep like it's the last cup of water in the Sahara. Since my first was born I remember sometimes with amazement that there was a time when I could just go to sleep anytime I wanted, but yet I chose to stay up late.. I must have been crazy.
You make a good point, but it implies that there are two core elements of banking; evaluating risk, and maturity transformation. Plainly, the big banks failed at having a 'global view of risk', to the point that governments bailed them out during the global financial crisis (GFC). What is different about the current situation? And why support a business that cannot honor its most basic function?

As for maturity transformation, perhaps there is a kind of 'paradox of thrift', where individually (or as a single large bank), size is of benefit, but global pools of financial assets and risk lead to crises, again evidenced empirically by the GFC. Perhaps having banks no bigger than, say, 1%-5% of global financial assets would be a useful middle ground.
Being realistic, ¿how many fewer iphones will apple sell if they remove the SE? ¿How many people will not buy an iphone if they are told that their info can be accessed with a judge's warrant? I'm guessing a 0.1% drop in sales?
Maximum battery life depends on the CPU being idle most of the time. Running an app that constantly uses the CPU will greatly shorten battery life. A web page constantly running code will make the browser constantly use the CPU.

So... great? All true, but why is this on HN? This is the sort of tip which belongs in a "...For Dummies" book.
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Building a desktop from parts is easier than some Lego sets these days. I think the only possibly tricky part is making sure you apply the thermal paste and install the heat-sink correctly. Everything else you just screw in, snap in, and plug in.
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Tell that to them, not me.

I am just recounting what happened in a corner office with 2 Morgan executives who make about $1 million a year.

This is what they claim.
No they do lend the proceeds of the deposits.

What the economists mean by "creating money" is that people treat deposits as cash, and therefore have the feeling they have cash when they have a positive balance on their bank account, where in reality all they have is an IOY from a bank. But their cash is not in the bank anymore.
Couple of points...

- There has been no economy that has been able to grow debt as fast as China has without accumulating a large amount of bad debt. This is just as true for the US in the 1920's, Japan in the 1980's, Greece, Spain, Iceland, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, etc.

- China has grown debt to GDP at a breathtaking pace.

- Savings and debt are opposite sides of the same coin. Once a loan goes bad the debtor's promise to provide economic value is broken. At this point somebody has to bear the loss through a reduction in future consumption, there is no free lunch.

- There are choices in how those costs are allocated. For example they can be through the bankruptcy courts, inflation, reduced interest in savings, taxes and reduced social services (by taking it on the government balance sheet) and external default.

- How those losses are allocated are politically sensitive. They can and often lead to revolution and war.

- Savy investors are aware of these trade offs and will attempt to position themselves to avoid losses.

- The central bank has its own balance sheet which aren't just numbers on that can be written off. A central bank which bought bad debt and then wrote it off would be insolvent and would require recapitalization itself.

- Giving money is the prerogative of government. A central bank who gives money in the guise of a loan would quickly find themselves in conflict with the government. That is why the US had both TARP and QE.

- Even if the government gave permission for the central bank to montetize the bad debt Savvy investors would know that monetization of bad debt would lead to inflation. Investors would respond by hoarding commodities, capital flight and leveraging assets (which is happening now). This is happening now (capital flight, accelerating debt growth, hoarding of gold)
This is awesome!

Have you productized these learnings in a a powertop-like tool for Linux?

Smartmontools are not intuitive enough for the layman to use in any meaningful way.. And backblaze
has really built some serious learning here that could be of use to everyone.
Secure Enclave is _not_ hardware; despite being isolated from the main OS and CPU, it is still software-based and accepts software updates signed by Apple.
No, I just have plenty of experience with Razer's accessories.
> The point I was trying to make is that Google and Facebook have direct access to all the data of their customers, and already provide access to government agencies. Contrary to Apple they don't safely store some data of their costumers safely on the device, which this case is about.

Your point is wrong regarding Google and smartphones if the smartphone is encrypted
As further detail, the way these things work is the following. The "training" consists of watching some powerpoints and listening to a voiceover reading the slide. You can't click "next slide" until the voiceover has finished. The voiceovers add up to 52 hours.

Typically the voiceovers are short, e.g. 60 seconds, to ensure that you are actually at your computer clicking "next" rather than just letting the voiceover run while you do something productive.

Once you've clicked "next" 52x60=3120 times you are then permitted to take the exam.

Zenefits "Macro" automated the clicking, allowing their people to simply learn the material and then take the exam.

tl;dr; The state of California says "you must learn this material very slowly" and Zenefits employees are fast learners.
By all accounts it was a modified HQ-9 interceptor which was piggybacked on a short/medium range ballistic missile (mostly because of the high inclination of the test satellite, which might mean it's quite likely to be potentially capable of reaching LEO VISINT satellites which pass over the interceptor on it's own).

Chinese source: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_49e4b637010007hi.html
I don't speak Chinese but it seems to translate rather well.
It's sounding like that's the problem. They left an opening for this sort of thing by allowing firmware updates to the secure enclave. That basically makes it a fight over whether the FBI can force Apple to use the required key to sign an update meeting the specifications the FBI directs.
I don't if this is available on Ubuntu, but recent versions of libinput are way nicer than the old synaptics touchpad driver.
A possible compromise would be to add a backdoor to the security module that would unlock the phone in exchange for a proof of work.

It would be relatively easy for the chip to offer a challenge and accept, say, a $100,000 proof of work to unlock the phone. This way, we prevent bulk surveillance but still allow the government to access high value targets' devices.
Got the T450s with an i7-5600U, 20GB RAM, 1TB SSD (bought from another vendor and swapped, much cheaper than the 500GB SSD from Lenovo).

Ubuntu 14.04 works like charm.

With an additional battery (the thick one), I can spend a whole day without electricity and the battery can be swapped without switching off the laptop.

It's so far the best ThinkPad that I had until now. I have the impression that at least with this one Lenovo improved a little bit the quality and usability.

The T440s was unusable - I sent it back after two days. The T430s was good, but flimsier and much heavier than the T450s.
Would setting this precedent to enable brute-forcing the PIN on a less secure model really be that dangerous, then? This isn't a request to circumvent encryption on all models. It would be worrying if the government were asking for a backdoor into the Secure Enclave feature to retrieve the encryption keys, but that's nowhere near what this request is actually detailing.

I still remain opposed to any kind of circumvention that reduces security, which this definitely does. Just questioning whether it's something to be so shocked about since it's not exactly far removed from the kind of requests that they have conformed to in the past.
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Ignore the love life, it's just a vehicle for the idea. Focus on the meaning.
If facebook doesn't want to delete his account, why don't you unfriend him?