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I appreciate the enthusiasm, but I feel like this product is being stretched in too many different directions and the price feels the punishment.

$700 is a lot to ask upfront for a lot of users compared to other tablets and the purpose, the extended screen for technical documents, manga, etc, is too high to justify, especially given that many documents do have dynamic display based on the screen resolution used.

Particularly, the whiteboard function feels like it's pulling in the wrong direction for the intended purpose of eInk, and the visual lag between pen movement and the on-screen drawing is pretty noticable. I am not an artist by any means, but when using shared whiteboard apps online with m+k, I have enough trouble with relatively simple diagrams.

It just seems to me that a lot of times eReaders are meant to occupy an appliance like state and that a lot of portability is lost with this device, or could be replicated with minor inconvenience on other devices.

Best of luck to them, but I do wonder if it's just too niche of an item or too early given the costs of production.
Yep, you are correct. I do spend a lot of time around computers. Right now is partially because I'm working on my thesis, and sometimes it's depressing the amount of time I spend in front the screen.
Yes, you're probably right, Stratechery which usualy does good work estimated this at 15%, but europmonitor - which this kind of thing is their job, estimate is at 5%.
I can't quite understand the appeal of Bangkok for westerners (compared to the rest of Thailand).

It's a hot, overcrowded, dirty city populated by people who don't really want to be there (Thais who come from other provinces just for work), or who only want to be there to be seen by all the people who don't want to be there (the irony of deathly-white hi-so girls shopping in a mall with a name that translates to "Brown people" is lost on most people)

If you're remote anyway, there are much nicer, cheaper places to be in this country.

As a westerner, there are other benefits to being outside Bangkok. The next time I do a 90-day-report (the smart mans alternative to a trip through immigration every 3 months) I fully expect to be in and out of the local Immigration office in less time than it takes to buy/brew a cup of coffee. By comparison the Bangkok offices are constantly overcrowded. For most things, if you're not in the queue by lunch time, forget about getting served that day.
This isn't hacker news
Programming a modern Xeon x86 does count. Modernising your software for a haswell/skylake server Xeon (ISA was made public) also modernises it for the new Xeon Phi. You have a nearly identical ISA and programming model. In other words, modernising your code to scale well on a 16C/2P Xeon system is essentially dipping your toe for a full blown KNL Xeon Phi.

PS. For pricing, take into account that the new generation Xeon Phi's are bootable, you do not need a host CPU babysit like Tesla's case.
No that's not the primary cause. See article.
That's the company line, sure.
AllegroGraph is a great example. I wrote a book (actually 2 books, with Java and Common Lisp editions) using AllegroGraph. A free PDFs of both editions are available on the book page on my website.
Just yesterday I finished "Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams" by Resnick who builds heavily upon Papert's work.

Mindstorms is on my backlog.

I have fond recollections about my first contact with Turtles. It didn't shape me or anything like that, but I'd like to take Logo out again and play with it.

Is there a recommended modernish Logo (running on Windows), or should I simply go to Processing?
Norway Plans World's First Submerged Floating Bridges
As I understand it, everyone could choose nominees (assuming you can hold your nose and join one of the two major US parties), so this isn't really interesting news? The only sad bit from my point of view is the number of disenfranchised felons.
"Go to definition" is the first choice you get when you right-click a word.
> I got this comment that "this plugin set is worth nothing" (because of the first sentence)

Goodness gracious no, "worth noting" means "probably valuable or useful to think about or remember" (in this case in the sense of talking about an other edition/refactoring engine which might be better/more powerful for a very specific set of languages rather than in the general case).

Not "[the subject] is worth nothing".

In this case "that's a cool tool, though if you're specifically using Scala or Java Sublime-Ensime provides even more features".
Agreed, but the AI industry is mostly built on the hype that computers will some day be at the mental capacity of a human. I think there's a lot of merit in what's been developed (image processing, language processing, handwriting and voice recognition, etc. are all pretty awesome), but at the end of the day we're no closer to the Promised Land of general intelligence. At the moment, it looks to me like the AI industry is growing much faster than the knowledge/technical developments in said field, which is quite simply a waste of manpower that could probably be better applied in other fields.
You can shape yourself to fit a problem or you can shape a problem to fit you. Wisdom is knowing when to do which.
Getting better at programming without coding
>The deal with Didi Chuxing comes just days after China agreed to provide a legal framework for taxi-ordering apps. Both Uber and Didi have welcomed the decision, having previously operated in a legal grey area in the country. While the apps are widely popular, they have undermined business for normal taxis and have been met with protests by cab drivers. The new rules will take effect on 1 November and will, among other things, forbid such platforms to operate below cost.

http://www.bbc.com/news/36938812
If only a clunky name was the worst problem with some software (even closed source) we have to deal with.
>A code to unlock the missile had to be dialed into six thumbwheels of 16 numbers each

Could it be they were using a hexadecimal based system?
The more, more, more does seem to wind up with fewer people.

I'm skeptical of the unaffordable housing arguments, though. People only talk about a handful of cities. At least in the US, there's plenty of cheap places to live. They just aren't trendy.
Ask HN: Has HN lost its tech startup community vibe?
Sure there's plenty of traffic and discussion but it occurred to me that a long time ago it felt like a place where the tech startup community gather and chat and share. Now I wonder if maybe it just feels like another Reddit forum / tech news channel with comments.

Do you think the early magic is lost? If yes, then what do you think has changed?
I do think men (at least in my generation; I'm 42) are expected to bury their emotions. Emotions are viewed as weakness. I think this is dangerous, and I've witnessed men such as my dad suffer through their problems in silence. It might be viewed as stoic, but I don't think it is healthy for the mind or a way to find happiness.
It sounds like a good idea in a vacuum. However I'm a bit worried that this might be in direct violation of some studies from psychology that basically say "as soon as you get money for something you do as a passion project you will stop doing it once the money stream ceases". Can't find the paper right now but the famous one involved kids painting things iirc.

I feel like there needs to be a very good integration plan for the time once the funding ends (which I think is lacking).
You can manually edit the APT-sources to point to the new release and then let it perform a dist-upgrade, which is, as far as I understand it, the same as Ubuntu or Fedora do automatically.

The Linux Mint devs just don't think that's a good way of handling upgrades, so they don't have a button for it. You can read their reasoning here in section E : https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
That's a bit of a silly complaint – capitalisation in loads of projects is something that lots of people are uncertain about (and, let's be honest, not really that important). Despite having used Mongo for ages, I could not tell you off the top of my head if it's usually rendered as MongoDB, Mongodb, mongodb or something else; that lack of knowledge has no impact on my knowledge of the technology.
"Give peace a chance."
The future of web scraping is now. How to build an API for any webpage
Really? I will claim you will not meet many engineers who know more about Tcl than I do, and I can't remember whether it's TCL or Tcl. The absence of that knowledge has not impeded me from editing the Tcl interpreter itself.

I am not convinced such pedantic measure of spelling is an accurate predictor of knowledge, to me it sounds more like elitism.
one other reason is that postgresql.org forum comes straight from 1984
Social Security: Time's Up – The Pain Must Begin Now
Thought the same thing, it would have to be no?
CSGO and the previous games were also my crack and those of my friends. But it's clear now that it's morphed into something that I would rather not be a part of. The betting website shenangians from the past month were a symptom of deeper problem with that game and its community.

You'll definitely find something that would make better use of that time you had filled with CSGO, whether it's a game or not.
The poll number timeline of the 2 parties: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/ge...
> "It went to a national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was awakened on 9 November 1979, to be told that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the combined U.S.–Canada military command–was reporting a Soviet missile attack. Just before Brzezinski was about to call President Carter, the NORAD warning turned out to be a false alarm. It was one of those moments in Cold War history when top officials believed they were facing the ultimate threat. The apparent cause? The routine testing of an overworked computer system." [1]

Compounded with the thirty-four nuclear missile officers "texting answers to each other on a monthly proficiency exam" in 2014 [2] or the silo whose blast doors were left open while one crew member slept and the other awaited food deliver in 2013 [3], I'm don't see how that claim can continue being held.

[1] http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/nukevault/ebb371/

[2] http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/15/22317264-34-nucle...

[3] http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/23/us/air-force-nuclear-silo-door... "derelict in his duties in that he left the blast door open in order to receive a food delivery from the onsite chef"
Considering both nominees have the highest disapproval rates I would say your statement is almost certainly incorrect.

If anything, these 9% are representing a fundamental flaw in our first past the post system.
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The article doesn't open with "girl empowerment", it is contrasting two recent (at the time) events involving females and males to segue into the general spirit of how the author thinks males and females were perceived in society as of 2000, which is when the article was written.

Therefore, interpreting it as zero sum is simplistic and probably incorrect.
I hear what you're saying, but new features are a KPI that can be measured, especially by people who aren't experts in the software at hand. Maintenance is much more difficult to measure (and is why maintenance heroes are so often unsung).
Don't wait for boredom before you check. For me, it's declaring something as priority for the day that otherwise wouldn't have made the cut at all. If I don't get to something, I put a line through it and write down what I did instead.

For this week, the list has
Code Complete - Chapter 4
Brain Bugs - Chapter 2
Don't Make Me Think (reread)
Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Chapter 1 + 2,
Economist + Web presence
(read economist, write/email/etc deliberate internet stuff)

For the most part, this stuff happens after the kiddo is in bed, but before I sit down to watch something with the Mrs, or tuck into fiction/games/etc. Everyone's schedule is different, but everyone has some time they could be spending a bit more carefully.

Meant to get to Chapter 4 of Code Complete last week, but we wound up with a kid free weekend (thanks Grandma), so I took the Mrs. to dinner instead, and we followed up with GOG (1954).

Easy to burn out quickly if you're switched on and going at it all the time. Just as easy to let all of the extras fall off the edge while you're floating through seasons of whatever HBO's current thing is. There's not a line where activities are either relaxing or productive, it's a grey area, for sure. Need to find the right balance.
I really hope China adopts some kind of anti-trust regulation sometime soon. This trend of all competitors merging until only one monopolist is left standing, can't be good for their consumers, nor the economy.
Customizing Websites with Tampermonkey Userscripts
> It is very useful to embed any arbitrary language, as XML processors can preserve the content they do not understand without processing it. My XSLT stylesheet would have no issue with SVG embedded in XHTML, just as your web browser most likely ignores everything about the SVG linked above it can not understand.

Sure, but you can ignore extra attributes in JSON or hypothetical XML-without-namespacing too. I feel like there's an excluded middle here: either the content of a given tag has to be, say, SVG, in which case the validation schema for the outer document could just say (in a structured way) "the content of this tag must be a valid SVG document according to the SVG schema", or the content is some opaque arbitrary XML document, in which case there's no meaningful validation to be done.

Even when working with something like XHTML-with-embedded-SVG, I found myself wishing there was a way to strip the namespaces, run my xpath queries / xslt transformations on the stripped version, and then put the namespaces back; I think I'd've got my actual business tasks done a lot quicker that way.
It should; my fault. There's no way how to update it unless it gets moderator's attention.
That commute is a huge time sink, and it's costing you a huge amount of money as well. If you found a way to cut it down, you'd have more time for other things. You could cook yourself nice meals (or at any rate you can practice cooking nice meals, it actually takes some skill), or spend more time with other people, or both at the same time.

Even if you still feel that playing games is shameful (and it's no more shameful than any other type of entertainment), you'll be a lot better off.

Approaching it from the other side, perhaps your choice of games could be improved. You don't really say what games you play, but you can always find a less mindless thing to play. I recommend Factorio, it's amazing (http://www.factorio.com/).
tl;dr Apple shipped curl without HTTP/2 support on their macOS, and the author of curl can do nothing about it.
TFS Gradle build task now also supports PMD analysis
You may call it Postgres: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ProjectName
I think that's because it's currently trending (in the "Most Popular" section) on The Atlantic website. I'm not sure why.
I don't understand the problem. This is exactly what statistics addresses. Is that 9% a good enough random sample of the entire population, or not? If not, then what is the error 5%, 10%? Actually 9% is a really good sample.
The real issue is "You have to change your language to change the temperature units". There's no correlation between those. That is one broken scope/widget if the author is correct.
That only works when you actually have variance in the fingerprints greater than OS/platform based.

If I spin up 10 new Windows 10 machines install Chrome on them I would get the same fingerprints, oddly enough they would be identical to the fingerprints I'm getting on my own machine since I don't have any plugins installed (I do have multiple extensions).

The only real change in the fingerprint I've seen so far from my own internal testing is the screen resolution, and WebGL fingerprint (Intel/NVIDIA seem to produce a pretty identical one, AMD differs a bit).

However the main point i was trying to get across is that while trying to minimize your fingerprint or exposure you create your own unique fingerprint in the process.

For example using adblockers these addons can easily leak not only which adblocker you are using but which lists / filters you have enabled, if you are a non-English native and you are using a localized list that exposes a lot of information.

Addons / extensions that block things like HTML5 Canvas also leave a fingerprint - you run a modern browser by all accounts but don't support Canvas? whelp you are upto something!

Same goes with WebGL and many other plugins/vectors.

The problem here is that content delivery relies on the browser being interrogatable for certain information, if that information is not correct then the content will not be displayed properly (which on it's own can be detected), we want to move on from Flash, we want to move one from addons and plugins into more native stuff but this came at a cost of platforms being more unique and diverse which allows you to generate a more unique fingerprint.
Creating a browser that generates random fingerprints also won't really help, unless everyone uses it you would again stand out of the crowd even more.

That said however without specific targeted exploitation I have not yet seen a tool nor I managed to make one that creates a good fingerprint that can be easily used to identify a browser rather than just classify it and the platform it's running on.
How to choose the right Apple Mac to create iPhone and iPad apps
Beware of functional programming in java
Autopilot prevents serious injury or death of a pedestrian in NY
The New World of Microservices Development Platforms
It's a little gimmicky, but if its a joke or a humourous method of promoting yourselves there isn't anything properly offensive about it. As long as are actually working on a decent project, I'd say go for it, it's funny.
Lisbon

- Sunny most of the year

- Small EU capital but lots to do, beautiful cities countrywide

- Walkable

- Almost all young people speak fluent English

- Cheap (though this is slowly changing)

- Very multicultural (if you know where to look)

- I rent a big room w/ an amazing view of the city and my total monthly bills are under $600 (includes going out several times per week).
Is 5 and 14 related. Does your local area have terrible water? If your local water is okay I don't really understand the benefit of bottled water only.
>Mysql eats and corrupts data by design.

I'd like to have a source on that, would help shutdown a lot of MySQL discussions if true.
The last trains on line 2 are really fast as they skip most stops. Also really noisy as the trains are going well above their usual speed.
I find Pacific Rim to be an interesting achievement in "setting development". While the story is simple, the universe is well developed.

While there are some stupid stuff in there ("my robot is immune to an EMP because it's all analog") most of the "cool dumb stuff" has an in-universe explanation on why it has to be that way ("we need big punching robots because we must intercept the monsters before they reach the shore and spilling the least of it's poisonous blood possible").
You wouldn't want to work with me, then. I've used lua for years, and couldn't care less about capitalization. What I do care about is the code.
Pattern matching is the feature i enjoy most in functional languages. It's simple to use and comes with great value.
One night with clojure makes a scala guy humble
I only switch if that SaaS allows me to quit and export my data in a format so i could host it myself using opensource alternatives. For piece of mind.

I pay for the easy setup/managing and most importantly for the easy upgrading/securing. Especially the latter.
The IRS sees it that way too.. Just because you consider them employees doesn't make them employees.
Uber/Didi are a nonbrainer in second tier cities and below.
Greece, Dodecanneso.

Why? maybe the best sailing area in the med (we live aboard a 11mt old/cheap sailing boat), cheap, easy, great weather, great & cheap internet (mobile) everywhere. Winter not aboard anymore (electricity is getting too expensive), so maybe will join some of you in wintertime
How do Sublime users feel about Atom (https://atom.io/) as a replacement?

I switched from Sublime 2 to Atom earlier this year and haven't really looked back. I admit, though, that my customization needs in the environment have been minimal. I've written a couple of editing short-cuts for Elixir source, but that's it.

I'm curious to learn what features in Sublime merit purchasing it over Atom or another free text editor.
or you can use a materialized view
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/rules-materia...
That is the mood affiliation of the post - it is in fact the only position on infrastructure that is within the overton window.

But I'm citing the graphs, not the mood affiliation. The graphs show a large increase in spending on transit/water infrastructure and a large increase in costs.

There is also relatively flat per-capita government investment in structures (a broader category which includes buildings/similar things, and is not the typical power/transit/water cited by the parent).
> or a solution to long travel times.

This is a bit of a non-issue. Expecting to be able to travel anywhere within a matter of a few dozen hours is a recent phenomenon.
And this just one category of risk.

I visited a Soviet silo near Pervomaisk in Ukraine a few years ago. The guide, who had been a subcommander in the final crew, enthusiastically demonstrated how the Soviet standard (flagpole) that stood between the two luxuriously shock-absorbed command chairs could be used to turn both keys from one station - the slotted design in the top of it allows you to simply hook on and push. It was intended as an unofficial but official but unofficial failsafe, so a sole survivor could launch.

Their design was generally very different to US missile complexes - they usually had the command complex in a silo rather than a separate bunker, as they essentially put upended submarines on shock absorbers in them then concreted over the silo cap. Clever leveraging of existing R&D, and means you're just digging silos, and no complex structure.

Also, the Satan missile is a scary, and surprisingly huge, thing.
I don't particularly see this as a bad thing, since they'll be able to add more Supercharger stations for the future.
"People laughed at Seymour Papert in the sixties when he talked about children using computers as instruments for learning and for enhancing creativity." - I'm glad he continued his work. My most fond memory of when I first saw a computer.. and it was running logo. I was amazed by all those keys! I would definitely not be here today if it were not for this gentleman. I got into trouble in school for throwing away the provided instructions and started to hack that turtle into writing my name the moment I realized I could control it. I never looked back from that day, I was 8 years old. RIP Seymour.
A huge respect for PostgreSQL team on (always) being so transparent about their shortcomings and giving credits where its due (InnoDB). Posts like these makes me more confident on PostgreSQL as a product.

Also I'd like to take this moment and address those people, who will start rubbing this "Uber switched to MySQL from PostgreSQL" argument without considering that not every app is "Uber". You can't simply take their use case and start throwing stuff against PostgreSQL.
Presumably it'll lead to more drunks on the streets/busses. Stockholm is bad enough in that regard.
Why is it incorrect?

According to the statistic, 73 million did not vote in the primaries this year and about 88 million eligible adults do not vote at all. Add to that 103 million that are not eligible for voting. So if I'm not mistaken, only 18.5% voted in the primaries.

You mention they have the highest disapproval rates, but how is disapproval expressed if not by voting?