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RCA Pro10 Edition II tablet/keyboard combo, with DroidEdit.

https://rcaav.com/tablets/android/pro10-edition-ii/

Until I can afford a new laptop.
Of course it would. But, it's not programmed to care about what you meant to say. It will gladly do what it was mis-programmed to do instead. You can already see this kind of trait in humans, where instinct is mis-aligned with intended result. Such as procreation for fun + birth control.
It needs to be pointed out more often that law enforcement still has all of the physical access methods that they've had for the past 200 years. If the government wants to break into your home or office, they can and will do so. No "technological advance" from Silicon Valley has made this type of investigation more difficult. This means that all of the investigative methods that were available 200 years ago are available now.

The government is demanding new powers: the power to search our communications. Perhaps the ability to conduct such searches will make their jobs easier, but keeping them from having this power does not make their jobs more difficult than the 200 year baseline. We are only asking them to do the same legwork that they've always done: look for suspicious behavior, track the purchase of dangerous materials, react to disasters and attacks when they happen, etc.
MacBook Pro, mid-2009, 17" 8GB. Original 100GB SSD + 120GB SSD in slot on the side. Replaced the battery a few months ago. Still runs great. I think the DVD drive died from lack of use (and dust).
We can, but should we?
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> What are we going to train such a learner with, if we ourselves don't fully know the rules of the domain, as you point out?

This does not make any sense if you assume general intelligence. A physicist who makes a discovery also was not trained to know about this new law or rule beforehand (how could he?).
The Seven Lessons of Marissa Mayer's Loss of Command at Yahoo
Thinkpad T430: i5-3320M @ 2.60GHz, 8GB RAM, 256GB Samsung SSD + some nondescript 32GB mSATA SSD I picked up from work. I'm usually running Debian Unstable, but I distro hop pretty regularly. It "just works" for whatever I feel like doing at any given time. I even spent a while running 9front (with working wifi!) as my daily driver OS. I'm not a huge fan of the chiclet keys, but I've a Model M for use at my desk, and I can deal with them while I'm on the go.
Here some practical applications for drones: https://img.readitlater.com/i/cloudtweaks.com/wp-content/upl...
>> Best computer I've ever owned.

I can definitely say the same thing.

Regarding battery life, I am extremely impressed with the amount of use I can get out of it when using just OS X with no VMs running processes. ITunes is a battery hog, but most other uses will give me 6 hours at least, now 2+ years later.
HP Elitebook 8460p: i5 2.5 GHz, 16GB ram, 512GB ssd - bought refurbished for 500$ - best deal ever.
Oh dear, I don't think such aggressive patronising comments deserve responses.
Mid 2014 rMBP. 8GB RAM.
It's super quiet, has an awesome trackpad, keys feel a little short-travel, battery does pretty well, the screen makes text so much easier to read, and the only time the fans are audible is when I'm playing games.
MacBook Pro 13 (2012 - 8gb of ram, ssd) but I replaced OSX with Ubuntu.
Its on page 16 when they are showing how to download multiple urls concurrently - which is cool. In Firefox Ctrl-F "leak" works for me.
http://www.gopl.io/ch1.pdf
Do you feel guilty when you break your promise against your cat?

If some unforeseen event occurred and I had to abandon my cat, thereby breaking my promise that I would take care of her, I would definitely feel guilty about it.

Of course, a cat is not conscious.

Either this is a nonstandard definition of "conscious", or you haven't met many cats.
> What you've enumerated are attacks of convenience against a cryptographic implementation

That is how you break into vaults, fyi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_4HQMS-pk
> I would love to see Yahoo get into this market. Get cell phone bills to under $10-$20 a month? It just seems like something they could do?

Either you'd have to build a nationwide network (think at least tens of billions in capital expenditure upfront) or rent from existing providers (so they can essentially undercut you at any time or pull the rug from under you). Neither is easy.

I wish this was possible as well but the barriers for a newcomer are pretty bad. :(
A better offer letter
Look at the brands that focus on quality/software vs. releasing new models every 3 months.

In my experience Pepwave/Unifi/Microtik are good prosumer brands.

For more consumer-y stuff, it might be worth it to have a look at the Apple/OnHub routers too.

You can also pick up enterprise gear on eBay at pretty good prices, brands such as Cisco/HP/Aerohive/Ruckus etc., but configuring/updating might be a pain.
That sounds like a very unpopular use case, at least for me. I want to follow what my friends are doing so I follow them on Facebook. But I don't want to know exclusively what apps they downloaded, similar to how I don't want to know what clothes or gadgets they bought.
In the past I've used Dell Latitude E54xx. It's essentially the same as a Latitude T series (size, specs, and price). And fairly equalivant to a 13" MacBook Pro.

I loved that machine.

Now at work I'm stuck with a Latitude W series. While certainly powerful, it barely qualifies as portable. I hate it.

I'm considering getting a 13" MacBook Pro, for myself, whenever they announce an upgraded model this year.

I wrote a bit about it here: http://josephdaigle.me/2015/12/03/search-for-ultimate-dev-la...
Past: Lenovo R61e
Worked beautifully and it still runs perfectly with Ubuntu. Its about 10 years old now.
Only downside was the display which had their anti-glare thing and it was a bit dull.

Current: MBP 2012
Works fine. Upgraded to SSD and 16GB ram.
DVD player stoppped working.
Trackpad needs adjustment and/or replacement.
I run OSX and virtualize everything else.
Would buy a MBP as next machine if I can upgrade (none of that soldered on parts).
MacBook Air. Top of the line in mid-2012. But anything remotely computationally intensive is either on my beast work laptop MacBook Pro or in a cloud-based cluster.

It's pretty badass to type one shell script name that spins you up an supercomputer for a couple of hours.
The real problem is that the App Store favors some business plans (like free games that use a Skinner box mentality to get you to make lots of in-app purchases) and disallows others, like apps that charge for major version upgrades.
How much does this thing cost?
I use a 13" Retina MBP for work. But I recently got a Surface Pro 4 for personal project and I'm falling more in love with it every day. Being able to pull the keyboard off the laptop, flip it vertical, and read on the couch is a big plus.
I am looking for something that can connect to 40-50 inch 4k TV as monitor via HDMI 2.0. I can't get any solid info if any laptop has a true HDMI 2.0 port that works well in this setup.

Can anyone suggest a good laptop / setup for this?
Yeah, but why would it want to? I can perfectly infer the values of an earthworm, but I don't dedicate all my resources to making worms happy.
Ke Jie's gonna be next.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/national/AlphaGo-cant-beat-me-s...

"Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind's CEO, has expressed the willingness to pick Ke as AlphaGo's next target."
4.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...
Dell Precision mobile workstation.
How to Brianwash a Communist
The language is officially called Go and often referenced as Golang.

Go should be rebranded Golang (while keeping the go command) in my opinion: the language is still fairly young and has been developed to be the C for the 21st century but "Go" is nearly as bad regarding SEO as "C".

There is still time to change the name before Go becomes the programming language taught to people who start programming (and are googling a lot to learn more about it). I would also love to see this transformation so that I can finally know if the new trendiest article on HN is about AI or Golang!
Top tip. If you are going to write an article about how Microsoft has blackmailed Linux twice in a week, try to include solid information about how Microsoft has blackmailed Linux twice in a week, within the first three paragraphs.
We do in fact have more leisure time: https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/j.... And that doesn't count reading Facebook at work.
Google plays go (learnt yesterday), develops self driving cars and robots. And it still cant understand which piece of text on simple website is the header. Without SEO. Right?
I have the previous gen xps 13 9350 in matte 1080p and it's great. I don't want higher res or touch. Plus lower power. I do wish I had 16GB in it, but that wasn't an option.
But then you have an extra hop.
>On the app store, my app is sold alongside apps from major corporations. ... I just need to find a niche that's worth 100.000€ a year,

Fyi, the author seemed to be talking about the iOS App Store (phones/tablets) and not the Mac App Store (desktop software.)

In any case, are you talking about your PostgreSQL apps at eggerapps.at earning €100k? If so, that's awesome. To clarify, are you getting most/all of that €100k from the Mac App Store as opposed to sales outside that channel? 30% is a lot of commission to give to Apple and I'm surprised that a typical customer would discover that type of db app in the Mac App store as opposed to a google search or forum recommendation linking to your website. From there, they could download it directly without that Apple middleman.
I don't think this is a problem, I expect to wrap my HTTP calls inside of promise factories anyways. Promises solve the issue of callback piramids, there's no issue with a single rogue, well contained callback.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015)

Got a work machine to upgrade from my 2011 13" MacBook Pro, and the extra screen space really helps with multitasking, but it sure is a lot heavier than the 13".
I believe the issue was the expectation that you would present the evidence first and then the conclusions, hence the use of the word 'before'.

Admittedly, I'm not sure that's a reasonable expectation, but you're responding to "I expected X before Y" with "you're rude because X was right after Y" which, well, yes it was, but that probably wasn't the point :)
Asus Zenbook with Ubuntu on it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SGS7ZH4?psc=1&redirect=t...

Pros: Cheap, Effective, runs Linux without an issue [ I'm a fan of full disk encryption ], and reliable

Cons: Keyboard is a little small, Trackpad is slightly more annoying than others I've used
Like others have mentioned, RAII-style stuff doesn't work so well with a GC language.

Go does provide a "defer" statement, which cause a function call to execute when the current function returns. This makes it easy to visually co-locate resource acquisition and release, as well as ensuring the release code runs regardless of how the function is exited.

It looks like this:

f := os.Open("someFile")
defer f.Close() // will run when current function exits

It's easy and works well (IMO).
Well-written, worth the read.
Macbook Pro 15" - 2.6 GHz i7, 16 GB Ram, 500GB SSD
Oh, I agree with that. It could be a benefit on top of what they have. A Dom0/hypervisor solution from them could actually be safer given they have tools for mathematically verifying both driver interactions and low-level system code. SLAM has been applied to drivers for years now. HyperV was verified with their VCC toolkit. So, they'd be a stronger than average foundation.

The best route for isolation, though, is to apply one of the industry separation kernels or virtualization schemes from CompSci that leave more untrusted. Good news is that I found a great document that describes MILS in detail plus some prior work and terms:

http://www.euromils.eu/downloads/2014-EURO-MILS-MILS-Archite...

GenodeOS is OSS built similar to MILS from European CompSci:

http://genode.org/documentation/general-overview/index
HP ProBook 6470b. Upgraded to 8GB (should've upped to 16) and will add ssd soon. Very good for the price.
MacBook Pro 2008 with Manjaro Linux.
AlphaGo learned the game from humans by looking at recorded games. It's not suprising that its style mimicks its master's.
Intuitively, a calculator is not superhuman.
A person who could do mental arithmetic as well as a calculator? That would seem to be superhuman.
If you find out that they were using a calculator under the table the whole time, they're not superhuman any more.

So I think the word "superhuman" must imply a fair competition, in the sense that the participants are competing using comparable approaches. For some definition of comparable.
IBM and Yahoo are sinking ships; becoming unionized to get job security there is the equivalent of lashing yourself to their mast, when you should just get in a lifeboat.
And an issue with this question is that the government that's currently posing it stands to gain by softening the damage to privacy. I don't like that it has a horse in this race.
Resulted in a Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS-185) which was later designated obsolete and withdrawn, marking the end of the battle.

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips185/fips185.pdf
Dell XPS 13 (2013) - i7, 8GB, 256GB running Fedora. It's been fantastic. The runtime recently went off a cliff to 2-3 hours though so I bought and fitted a new battery - it took all of 5 minutes and it now lasts 6-7 hours on a single charge again.

Cost ~£750 from Dell's refurb store and can easily see it lasting anther 3 years. Bargain!
I just switched at work to this. Safari is really snappy.
It actually started out meaning `JSON Object'. (Arrays came later. :-)
The issue with basic income is in the long-term. When more and more generations of people start to depend on it (I've seen it with welfare in my hometown), it becomes a crutch and will stifle their future success.

Eventually, there won't be enough people giving back into the system and the whole thing will collapse. Before this happens, taxes will continue to be raised in people in lower income brackets.

The politicians love it though. It creates an instant voter base. Why would a person, receiving free money, vote for someone that will take it away?

Because of things like this, I wish we had laws in place that all voters had to at least 1) work some sort of job (it doesn't matter what it is) and 2) proof they paid income taxes.
I'm a little skeptical about this product having had experience with some of these WiFi plug devices and as echoed by others, the price of this device is much higher than it should be.

I've been using Ankuoo and Maginon devices quite a bit at home -- they run around $25, are easy to setup, conveniently communicate information to Chinese owned domains (ok, that bit bugs me, but I've blocked the communication) and they are a script away from this product.

If this is based on the Marvell Chipset that so many of these devices are based on, I wonder how frequently it'll reset the router not because WiFi went out but because the device dropped off the network due its own problems. I've had some very spotty results with a device that I had plugged into the same power strip as my router and a large number of other devices. Despite being 4 feet from the router, it continually dropped off the network until I moved it to a wall outlet far away from the power strip (I'm guessing interference from the myriad of moderately high wattage equipment I had plugged in but I'm no EE).

Something like this could be made on-the-cheap with a CHIP and a relay ($10 for the CHIP $5-10 for the relay, $~1-5 for USB power) and a little bit of scripting. Personally, I've wanted a feature like this since my router and cable modem are not easy to get to when I (rarely) need to cycle them. I purchased a 4-port relay and plan to pair it with a Banana Pro, wire it to Ethernet, set it up on WiFi and coupled with software running on my OpenWRT router, have it decide which to cycle in the event of an outage. Even with that complex of a build, I'm looking at $55.00 including power (which doesn't count much for me since I've got a USB block with an available port that I plan to use).
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=kivikakk.ee
India? I would suggest doing some research on the topic at hand lol.

They pretty much blackmailed RIM into handing over encryption keys.
I don't know what you are arguing here. A gun is a physical item, as is ammunition. You can stop somebody, search them, and find out if they have a gun and/or ammunition. You cannot do any such thing with encryption, as it is not a physical entity. Whether your gun is a regular gun, 3d printed or made of candy cane does not change the fact that it is a physical item. I don't care where it comes from or how you built it, as a physical item, it still follows a very different logic than virtual entities.
Sounds a little like what the villains always say in the movies....
I've never heard you say it, but I have a model that will do what you are describing here.
HN doesn't treat posts as dupes when a story hasn't had significant attention yet. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

This is because we want good stories to have multiple chances at making the front page. The current story is a great example. In fact, we invited tdurden to repost it, as we sometimes do when we notice an article that we think the community might find interesting, but which fell through the cracks.

We're working on a better duplicate handling system that will reduce the number of reposts in the story stream, but getting it right is surprisingly subtle, and we'd rather take longer than get it wrong.
Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch Mid 2014 - 2.6GHz i5 - 8GB DDR3 - 250GB SSD

This is my 3rd Macbook. I had a 2009 MBP, a 2012 MBP and now the mid 2014 retina. They're by far the best laptops I've ever owned. My only regret with my current laptop is I didn't max out the RAM when I bought it alongside the SSD.

When I'm at my desk it's plugged into a LG 34UM67 34'' 21:9 ultraWide monitor and I use a magic keyboard and magic trackpad 2.
I don't think you can order Dell laptops with the 24-hour repair warranty, but there's plenty of companies which sell them with said warranty - they buy hundreds(thousands more likely) of them as a businesses and then you can buy them directly as a customer, 24-hour repair warranty included. Every single one of my Dell laptops was purchased like that, I once had the Dell technician replacing the whole motherboard on my XPS 13 on my living room table.
> Maybe I'm failing to fully understand the article

It's techrights.org. Any failure is on their part, not yours, since it is crackpot conspiracy site that blames Microsoft for everything that they don't like.

They blamed Microsoft for the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, accused Bill Gates of purposefully spreading polio in Africa as part of his plan of genocide against brown people to pave the way for the west to re-colonize Africa, and have said that the governments of France and Britain are directly under the control of Microsoft.

If they ever actually get anything right it is an accident, and even then they will find some way to phrase it that is borderline incoherent.

Most of the time their sources are just earlier articles of their own, and if you then go read those and check their sources, you usually just find more techrights.org links. This can go on for several levels. When you do find an offsite link finally it often does not claim what they cited it before.

It should be on the list of domains that are banned from HN, since on those rare occasions when they say something that is not wrong there is always a massively better source that could have been submitted.
At the moment, the concern with encryption seems to be encrypted communication rather than encryption as a means of securing personal data.

Eventually, though, as technology advances allow smaller groups of people to inflict larger amounts of damage with fewer specialized resources, how do you imagine that society could be kept secure without surveillance (or something even more invasive)? It seems clear to me that the side arguing for unlimited encryption in communications will ultimately be on the wrong side of the issue, even if backdooring the iPhone isn't a good idea.
Thinkpad T540p, 120gb ssd, 16gb ram, 2880x1620, extended battery
Replaced touchpad with newest version. (disabled touchpad, only using trackpad)
Fedora 23

Next one will be Thinkpad P... (in a few years)
> How do you expect jo to know where the 1 came from to change its interpretation?

It was merely an observation. Of course, one can simply negate the value before passing it to jo.

jo looked as though it was for use in the shell though, so I was curious as to the design decision here.
Surface pro 3 running ubuntu 15.

* Power management and wifi are usable if you can live with needing a couple of tries to unlock and having to 'connect to hidden' to get wifi working. Battery life seems to be the same awake and asleep (not in a good way).

* Keyboard is 10% too small for adult hands.

* touchpad is constantly moving cursor while I type

* touchscreen support spotty, no touchpad scrolling

* typecover keyboard is unusable without a perfectly flat table (i.e. tough luck on trains, airplanes, your lap, or uneven tables)

* high-glare coating on the glass screen was a design mistake by MS, but on the bright side I can see people coming up from behind me. A normal solution to glare is to tilt the inwards of vertical, but the kickstand makes that impossible.
What about when via #2, the government covertly works its way up to obtaining the 3rd party's key? With a 3-party system you now have targets for the biggest party to go after. If the US gov gets BigTechSoft's key, then the whole scheme fails. The NSA (gov) has been found doing exactly that already. Back to single point of trust/failure.
This is probably one of the most concise and easy to follow articles I've read on this subject. Thanks for the great post!
It's possible, but it's a different business model. For a complex multi-tier application, it wouldn't just be an executable; it would be a set of machines that all need to be on the same version, configured correctly with appropriate firewall rules etc. Who would manage it? Would it reach out and grab updates, or would the you reach in and upgrade it remotely? Would IT want to get involved? Are you responsible for training them? For fixing things when they mess it up? There's loads of pain in this direction. It's best avoided if the application is in any way complex, and particularly if it has a rapid upgrade cycle (we roll out upgrades every 2 to 4 weeks or so).
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there is an obvious problem with this assertion, as I'm sure you know: the govt can get a warrant to wire your phone line, or your appartement. but if your unlawful activity is being done online, this is useless. so it is not really new powers they are asking for, but the possibility to do online what they've always been able to do offline.

i'm not saying they should be able to get unfeathered access to your device, but let's be real here.
Nice insight. Seems like there's a pattern here, in which high public visibility creates expectations which push a company out of its optimal mode of operation.
Where did I say I wanted the government to criminalize gun ownership to prevent suicide? I didn't. I specifically said I don't have an opinion on the matter. I just said we shouldn't focus on murders being the biggest problem because they aren't, suicide is.