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Let's hope next iPhone came with a wireless EarPods
And not a with lighting (I need it for my MacBook )
Isn't Wang kind of a common name in... somewhere? China, I guess? (The founder of Wang computers was of Chinese descent, IIRC...)
They are selling cars at loss because of large capital investments in the future. If you look at R&D department of BMW, it won't be profitable, but it has rest of the established business of BMW to support it. Tesla now is a large R&D department, which waits for rest of the company to grow up.
> Looks like a Mac.
> Feels like a Mac.

Agreed. Sign me up, sincerely, Stevie Wonder.
Flirting can be inappropriate for the workplace irrespective of whether it is sexist and sexist remarks can be inappropriate for the workplace irrespective of whether the remarks are flirting.

My advice is to avoid behaving as if the workplace were a singles bar and to avoid behaving as if the workplace were...well whatever sort of place sexist behavior might be deemed appropriate.

Good luck.
Totally agree powered peripherals are an awesome improvement, but why sacrifice the universal standard at the same time? Both can co-exist, no?
WARNING - This will get taken down as it's already happened with OpenMac, a mac clone for $399 using MAC OS on their own hardware flavor.]

link: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2536592/apple-mac/miami...
Vista was a deployment issue. At its release, the bulk of affordable consumer laptops had 1-2GB RAM, underpowered IGPs, and barely-beyond-32-bit dual core processors-- real "made for XP" systems.

Vista required hardware acceleration for its desktop compositing, a minimum of 2GB RAM, and amd64 to avoid PAE. It ran very well on on systems with quadcore CPUs, discrete GPUs, and 4+GB RAM.

The Linux DE Revolution hadn't started and I was still gnashing my teeth over the GNOME 3 transition when Vista came out, so I gave it a try. I still say it had better compatibility for foreign and older software than any of the later Windows.
I've been using a set of Bluetooth noise cancelling headphones for the last 9 months or so at work. I really like it but I've also Using multiple devices can be a little annoying at first, but the method I've worked out is that my Bluetooth radio on my phone is almost always turned off. It seems to have a FILO sort of pairing system, where the newest device paired is most likely to connect.

It sounds like the issue you're having with pairing is device specific, as my headphones are paired to 5 different devices with no problems.

That said a less technical user trying to pair the headphones with multiple devices may have a hard time understanding which device is connected.
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A female friend of mine had such a bf. We figured it would be fun to put a location randomizer on her phone and pretend not to know anything about her daily foreign trips. His spyware certainly didn't give him a whole lot of confidence but he was at the same time loathe to confess he knew where he thought she'd been.
No mention of the trackpad on that page (unless I missed it) and for me that's one of the best things about Mac hardware. Anytime I jump on another laptop the trackpad is shockingly bad. Scrolling/zooming/gestures work so smoothly and accurately on the Mac hardware.
Unfortunately, that is not what the majority of users want, because otherwise Apple would have made it like that.

Say "Think different", but give everybody the same product, that is how things work at Apple.
From my PoV : Pull the plug and wait to see if someone yell. If noone yell... then noone need to know.

If someone yell, be sure to put your own contact proeminently everywhere. So that your management do not know. And just roll it back
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"HacBook Elite ships with everything needed to start running the latest version of OS X. Once installed, OS X cold boots in 15 seconds and boots from sleep in 1 second."

Looks like don't actually ship it with OS X. If that's the case, then perhaps Apple can't shut them down. Although, considering that APple hasn't sold hard copies of its OS in some time, how difficult would it be to get a new copy of OS X to install?
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Does anyone know what exact HP EliteBook model they plan to use for this offer?
Which would make the phone either way taller or way fatter
I spent nearly a year as a contractor (for Ericsson) in Stockholm.

I found it difficult to rent a flat, and I got the impression that this was fairly common. Be prepared to hunt through adverts, and respond as soon as you can after its published. If you leave it much more than a day, you'll probably get ignored. My Swedish colleagues told me that even if there's a phone number on the advert, don't ring it, email instead. And reply in Swedish - have someone translate your reply for you. But be prepared for lots of frustration when house-hunting.

In general, language wasn't an issue - although I knew no Swedish, everyone spoke excellent English. Not just work colleagues, but coffee-shop waiters, supermarket clerks, bar staff, pretty much everyone I met.

Financially, there were few surprises. Housing was expensive, just like any other major city. Alcohol's a little pricier (taxes), and you can only buy it in a chain of government-run shops, which have limited opening hours…you can't just pop to the supermarket for a bottle of wine. As for the rest: coffee, eating out, groceries, were all on a par with western Europe prices.

Speaking of coffee, the culture of Fika is a great Swedish institution, and should be spread worldwide :-)

I love extremes of weather, so a very snowy winter and a gloriously hot summer were great for me, YMMV.

I ended up coming back to the UK, but some of my contracting colleagues from other parts of Europe decided to stay. They've since settled down in Stockholm, and easily found another project at the end of the contract.

Ericsson's taken a fairly hefty hit this year, and are planning another round of significant layoffs, which may have a short-term impact on the tech market around Stockholm.
> the property of having independent sub-computations is called concurrency.

Nope. If I have two n-dimensional vectors, and want to compute their sum, there's no concurrency whatsoever: there's just n independent computations (each scalar sum). A pure parallelism problem.

(Well, there is a concurrency problem at a lower level of abstraction, if you want to schedule these computations over less than n processors. That's because the processors are shared resources that require temporary exclusive access to be used.)

References:

(0) https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/parallelism...

(1) https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/parallelism...
It hasn't yet become counterproductive. And there is not a point at which becoming more aware of what everyone else is doing becomes counterproductive.
I bought a pair of Bluetooth headphones the other day. Was really excited to have a slick new headset to replace my $3 earbuds & mic combo that I'm using on my PS4.

Turns out PS4 doesn't support Bluetooth. Just the 3.5mm jack.

Oh well, I guess I can use them at work. I whipped em out, paired em up to the Bluetooth on my laptop, and they paired up fine.

Unfortunately, they didn't show up in the list of default devices for sound output or microphone input.

An hour of googling, a new set of driver downloads, re-pairing, this time WITH the extra settings under the advanced menu checked off...

Still don't work. I can't afford to burn any more time on this. 3.5mm at the office it is.

Maybe they work on my phone (Android) ... They do.

It's actually really nice to have no wires between me and my music while at the gym. No worries about the phone call g out of my pocket while doing decline bench press, no annoyance about the phone getting in the way during a deadlift or clean & press (because it can sit on the floor!)

They were about 2 - 3 time more expensive than my regular headphones. Are annoying to charge, and only work in 1/3 of the places I need headphones.

But for the gym, they're not horrible.

Oh! And they're too damned loud with no volume control. I have my phone volume set to 1 and these things are still louder than I'd like.

Anyways, that's a long way of saying I tend towards agreeing with the article.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the explicit purpose of intelligence agencies to gather intelligence about foreign countries (allied or otherwise) to further the national interest? I don't really see how this is a creep of power (as opposed to, say, counter-terror activities, where an agency that previously only surveilled foreign powers may now monitor its own citizens).
The trackpad is one two things I miss after testing a macbook for a week. The other thing is battery life.
Had to look this up as it isn’t my core competency. According to current knowledge our sun is too small for a supernova explosion. It might become a red giant (5 to 6 billion years) and then a white dwarf.
Then it's the 8460p which you can find for 100-200$ on ebay.
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It's standard to pair with NFC today. Just tap your headphones on your phone and they're paired.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Aqr4fskGxA
Somehow, it seems to me that these topics are in constant flux, and something 'radical and latest' is discovered quite often which makes you scamper to upgrade. (I guess if one is a web front end developer, this feels like home.) I also dislike reading pop-health and taking life advice from so called experts in general, so I stopped reading these topics many years back. I follow a simple healthy balanced diet, which is more common sense than carefully scientifically crafted, remain stress free as much as possible, do moderate exercise regularly (not bodybuilding etc) and get enough sleep. Every now and then I look up some nutritional information but that's it. As they say, don't fix it if it ain't broke.

As for learning about health issues like diseases etc, I usually read reputable sources like mayo clinic or www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov or www.nhs.uk. One of these is bound to answer my queries.
The real mechanism of resistance is in how it inhibits cell wall synthesis. Plus there are general mechanisms such as drug efflux and prevention of drug entry into the cell.

See, it must be specific enough to not kill our cells, otherwise it is worthless.
Are you using a distro from 2010? Because I believe most of the major Linux distros include LIbreOffice as part of the default install.
I suspect you're a Google search, a magnet link, and a blank DVDR away...
Offer HN: free logo redesign for open source projects – Part II
Was overwhelmed with the response the last time we offered this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12372118)

And had decided to work on a few projects, check out the results here: https://medium.com/@fairpixelsco/making-open-source-look-beautiful-60130f3c9456#.mnz45nvgw

Decided to do it again and help make open source look more beautiful
So here's what to do:

1. Pitch your open source project in the comments and add a URL to your website/github

2. The most upvoted project by this community, 48hours from posting this, wins the free logo design service.

3. Make sure we can contact you by having an email address on your website or your profile
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Discrimination base on race, creed, gender, sexual preference, age, country of origin, etc.
I don't think that creating a fake cert is a problem for the NSA.
1 is the multiplicative identity, i.e. x * 1 = x, hence we can always leave out a "* 1" factor without changing things.

A different factor, like 2, is more arbitrary, since "* 2" can't be left out without changing the value.

You can make the claim that a "* 1" factor is lurking in there, but even from that perspective it's less arbitrary than "* 2", since we could claim that "* 2" also has a "* 1" lurking in it, and so on :)
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If you can justify setting your phone budget at a dollar, then your life is structured in such a way that any phone would deliver at most one dollar's worth of value to you and, in this respect, you are highly unusual.

If, on the other hand, there are 100,000 companies who all think that adding a insert-your-favorite-kind-of-specialist-here will enable their company to generate $X additional revenue per year, where X is an above-average income that many people would love to earn, but they can't find anyone to do the job for $X, it makes sense to broadcast throughout society the message that this kind of special skill may be worth obtaining.
If u know biochemistry is clear dat healthy diet is anything but fried foods(plugs arteries with oxidated fats, other cancerous toxics from high tempreratres of oil) and refined carbs(spikes insulin, which is not healthy).

Outside that there is personal staff like obviously if u not tolera lactose or gluten avoid that.
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Yes, indeed!
This is a great instance of the general pattern that optimization of size (a.k.a. compression) is closely related to artificial intelligence and understanding data.

Because the better your program understands the data, the better it can predict expectations, and compression essentially means that you store the difference between your expectation and the actual data.

This is why often developing a more compact notation also leads to a better understanding of the problem.
Is this groundhog day? :)

The same page was linked last week with very similar comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12384050

I do agree with the sentiment that they can't get away with this for long.

I've got a similar Elitebook myself, though a i5 Ivy Bridge with 16GB RAM, and it is a nice machine albeit chunky and heavy.

I also run OS X on it, and it copes very well for a machine that cost ~£200 refurbed - I do sometimes find myself wanting a proper MacBook, but I really find it difficult to justify the cost of them, even used.
I am from Brazil, so maybe this doesn't apply to the US...

But I am seeing a major problem with pay.

For example, I never got a legal job (as in, registered employee of a company following Brazil's laws correctly) since graduating in 2009, this is expected during the heavy economy depression periods, but during the "boom" of 7% of GDP growth, I actually was invited to some interviews, and had to refuse to even attempt them, despite being "good jobs"

The reason, is that many of the jobs that were offered, the pay was lower than my student loan repayments, I just couldn't accept those jobs. Back then, I went with higher paying stuff, that weren't exactly legal job. (for example being an de-facto employee, but getting paid as if I was freelancer, in Brazil this is illegal).

Then, when the economy tanked again recently, I decided to outright not work in many situations, because most of the work available were in places with cost of living so high, that I would literally lose money, I would have to pay to work (for example: not working at my parents house, would make my debt increase by "x" every month, while working in São Paulo, would make my debt increase by "3x" every month, despite now having a source of income).

For example I see lots of people claiming that the population is lazy, because they don't want to be cashiers or street sweepers... Since I desperately need money, I would accept those jobs, if they actually gave profit! Right now the pay is so low, that my costs regarding transportation, food (instead of eating the stuff I grow on my yard and cook myself) and health (for example sitting the entire day as cashier is very unhealthy overall) would be higher than the tiny salary that those jobs pay.

And then there is the "time loss", when even when the job is actually profitable, the time you lose doing it is too much compared to the benefits, for example currently most young people don't start families, here in Brazil birth rates are already below replacement rate, specially if you ignore immigrants (then birth rate is close to the one of a developed country), so usually people need money only to themselves, not their family, so suppose a guy can do some oddjobs and save 500 USD per month, and use most of his time having fun, training, taking care of his mental and physical health, and so on... or he can work 60 hours/week, and after all his costs, save 1000 USD per month... would those extra 500 USD be worth 60 hours/week when he doesn't have mouths to feed? I think that probably not.
Yep, sometimes my trackpad would get stuck or glitchy so I enabled an option that let me use the keyboard instead. (It lets you move in 9 directions, centered around the 'I' key) There are also other useful options like one that lets you zoom in with ctrl+scroll which helped me tons of times to examine individual pixels or magnify small text.
So who was expecting that the State would be honest?
> It's amazing how well mosh can keep connections alive through network outages

It doesn't. It uses udp, there is no connection to keep alive.

> And it doesn't require me to reconnect when I enable/disable my work VPN.

That's why this works.
Hmm this could lose them a large chunk of the audiophile/music lovers market (though they may be losing that anyway). A lot of top quality headphones don't have removable wires and carrying an adapter is a pain. Why choose Apple anymore when you've brilliant music phones like the HTC 10, LG V10 and vivo xplay 5 kicking around.
Bluetooth is not the answer to our problems, because in my experience:

1. Streaming BT from Linux to a BT headset/speaker is a pita to set up

2. If you have 2 BT devices the same (mini-speakers for example) they have the same name/ID and BT can only attempt pairing one at a time, so a time consuming hit-or-miss lesson in patience is what this becomes.

3. Bluetooth devices need batteries. Ordinary speakers do not.

The rumors that Apple will use lightning connectors will result in a lot of phones with the connector stuck in the port because it broke off. Those things are flimsy and break easily.
I personally quite like JuiceSSH. Mosh support being one of the reasons :) It's great for the odd scenario when something is down and I need to a quick fix over 3G.
> and in the following years did biological, civil and automotive engineering.

I would guess that most of what those fields have in common are their quantitative/mathematical nature. Would he have been just as fit for these roles with a degree in Math or Physics?
Of course there is. They want to shove iTunes DRM down your throat. They can't do that with standard headphone jacks. But with their own solution, nothing is stopping them from allowing only headphones with built-in DRM.
In my opinion, asking for "removing unused features" is one of the consequences of full rewrites. Also, a reason for having to maintain "dual systems" for years. It is not infrequent having "dual systems" and having to deprecate the "new", just because after e.g. 10 years you can not get rid of the old, or even worse: the "new" performing worse than the old (e.g. old simple centralized system working much faster on new hardware vs "new" pseudo decentralized mess that can not scale as good because inter-node communication overhead).

BTW, every time I read Martin Fowler quoted in a post as full rewrite justification for the "faith jump", I get scared.

I don't know why the poster didn't implemented the new API, using it for the new features, and eventually, rewrite old API commands (one by one, not all at once) calling the new API, so in the end, new API would remain, and old API would be just some wrapped calls to the new API.
You do realize that the skilled trades are physically demanding, and usually by the 40s or 50s as a tradesman you are either in management or counting the years till union retirement, or you're probably on disability from the injuries years of working in them can cause?

I mean, you do Hvac or electrical work, you're not doing it in a comfy ac office. You're working in summer heat for long shifts, lifting 100 pound boxes of tile. Not like the average 40 year old is going to be able to be an undersea welder, or will have the stamina to work as a welder on the shop floor.
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Hi. For sure It could be done using Java, Go, or another language with a better runtime. The purpose of this article is to encourage Ruby developers to go ahead and try Elixir as an alternative because it's being the cutting edge for this community. So, a short answer could be yes, Go, Java or Elixir whatever, but all software rewrites depend on which team is involved and their expertise, etc.

Cheers,

Emerson
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Spying is the cheapest way to maximise national prosperity?

How so?
True. I always feel like we are at the point where we shouldn't think about which APIs to add to our browsers, but about which APIs to remove. Browser vendors frequently deprecate SSL versions and ciphers, and in the same vein, we should sacrifice at least some backwards compatibility for more privacy.
> Einstein found that the constant distance was the square root of x^2+y^2+z^2 – ct^2, where c is the speed of light

Units don't match - ct^2 is in m*s, not m^2.
I believe the reason is so they can make them thinner.
Really? Are GitHub gists actual git repositories? Why no one says a line about it? What is the repo URL?
That's a whole other very interesting industry. You're right, in a way. I too find the effectiveness of the semiconductor industry exceptionally fascinating.

But it should be noted that most IC designs don't have 100% yield, especially at the cutting edge process nodes. Depending on where the defects are, dies are either thrown out or "binned" (e.g. if a high-end CPU has bad transistors in a section of the cache, that section of the cache is disabled and the CPU can carry on its life as a Celeron).

If you really want to melt your brain a little bit with scale, think about RAM. Every bit in a stick of RAM has n transistors (1 <= n <= 4, depending on the design), plus a capacitor. For an 8GB stick of RAM, you're looking at possibly 32 billion transistors and 8 billion transistors! Even just the fact that we squeeze that many of anything into the space we do is incredible! And then for good measure, we change the signals going to it 1-2 billion times/sec!
I think you might be right. I usually think of theories in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_(mathematical_logic)

And similar epistomological variants.

But a bit of googling suggests that a distinction is made between a generally accepted and well tested theory, and one that's in the early stages and not well tested (which is termed a hypothesis as you note).

In any case, this is just disputing definitions, rather than testable propositions about the underlying reality.
Not to mention wired headphones work even if there are 200 people in the room with the same headphones.

200 is a large number, even a number as low as 10 in your immediate vicinity causes trouble. Use your microwave oven? Too bad.

(Owner of wonderful wireless qc35's - still use wires)
ssh'ing through the jumphost when the VPN on it wasn't working properly was a use-case for me. Agent forwarding is fine, as long as you use it judiciously.
Does it also inhibit cell wall synthesis of non-bacteria cells? If yes, it's toxic to us. If no, bacteria cell walls could evolve to be more like non-bacteria cell walls in order to avoid this. Two links from the Wikipedia article on Teixobactin about this: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41850/... http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30657486 (Actually, Teixobactin only works on gram-positive bacteria, not on gram-negative ones which have an extra membrane.)
For those asking: it is a HP EliteBook 8470p, released in mid-2012
It's a bit like saying that the explicit purpose of hitmen is to murder people for money.

Doesn't make it right.
I had one of those HP Elitebooks. The trackpad is really really bad.