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What you're describing is actually a longstanding way of working, called a dock. Docks are fantastic when you don't have a proper desktop computer - drop your laptop in, and have all that nice desktop hardware.

But, besides having a singular environment, a dock isn't so useful when you have an actual desktop computer. Especially these days when laptops top out at half the RAM and cores as a baseline desktop.

When my laptop is functioning as a laptop, I still want connectivity. Both routine (SD/USB drives, headphones, HSM if I ever find a good Free one), and all the useful ports for ad-hoc situations (eg wired ethernet). Some of these do go away with time (eg RS-232), but prematurely deprecating still-popular ports and pretending that dongles are a decent solution for portable connectivity is ridiculous.
The project is built from drupal, the same CMS is used for whitehouse.gov. It seems drupal is seeing a pretty good up take for these types of websites.
Yea I totally agree with you here. If he hadn't said he was selling this product and branded it so, he most definitely would have some interesting arguments under most of these regulations and verbiage in the letter. What happens if I install a little motor that controls my own pedals and steering wheel? What if I blogged about it? What if I tried to sell it? I think there were a lot of poor decisions made by hotz
Are you sure that they didn't get similar letters? If Tesla or others got a letter like this they wouldn't have publicized it, they would've just actually answered it. There's no way in my mind that Tesla didn't talk to regulators about their stuff at all.
I'm fairly sure he was attempting to agree with the OPs problem.
> It seems much more likely IoT devices will be exploited by scripts, running over ranges of IPs, and their "creepy" owners will be thousands of miles away from my home.

It seems much more likely that it's not an either/or proposition.

Does it seem that unreasonable that someone can go from name to email to spearfishing attempts to ip to firewall exploit to home security camera/refrigerator/every out-of-date piece-of-garbage IoThing in your house if they're specifically trying to get you? That was pretty much each of the 100 stories behind the Fappening. You think a rival startup wouldn't go through the effort, or a creepy neighbor? Isn't that the entire concept behing RATting (minus the easy way in provided by the IoT)?

You think it won't be turned into a 1-click app with notifications after each stage is passed?
Not quite:

> the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said that emails had surfaced in an unrelated case, and that they “appear to be pertinent to the investigation.”

> Mr. Comey said the F.B.I. was taking steps to “determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.” He said he did not know how long it would take to review the emails, or whether the new information was significant.

They are relevant to the investigation almost by definition, but they may not be criminal or significant.

That the FBI is admitting to their existence so prematurely is interesting -- is Comey trying to avoid the accusations of politicization by being up-front that they found something, even before he can really describe what it is? His letter refers to previous testimony that the case was closed and he seems to not want to be caught "lying" now -- but if it truly was closed and truly was just re-opened, it wasn't a lie. Is he getting ahead of presumed leaks from the FBI that would have started rumors that he was suppressing/spinning something?

Funny that he's been called a Clinton shill, yet throws Trump a bone days before the election -- "Hey everyone, we found more stuff! We'll let you know if it's bad as soon as we can. Feel free to speculate and grandstand in the meantime." Or is it fishy that the resumed investigation might conveniently stall until after the election?
http://www.whsv.com/content/news/Voter-fraud-investigation-i...
It's perfectly possible to arrest them, it just may be harder to track them down... or easier, the blockchain does sometimes reveal a lot and unless the attacker is fairly clever they may easily compromise their identity (ie: depositing to an exchange account tied to their name and verified).

If they're smart and ran the exploit via Tor -> VPN (as to not get caught by automatic Tor filters) and then took the coins through a few mixers and onto a russian exchange, they could then sweep them back into a wallet in near-complete safety.

Laundering bitcoins is challenging and risky due to the nature of the ledger - all transactions since mining must be known for all time - if you were to look at something like Monero or ZCash, things get a lot easier and you get cryptographically unbreakable anonymity rather than socially and legally difficult-to-break complexity.
It is a crime to willingly and knowingly violate regulations in a position where you have legally sworn to abide by said regulations.
or she used his to avoid subpoena / foia etc
How's linux support in the XPS 15?
>>>If you do buy a Thinkpad, I recommend reformatting the machine and doing a stock Windows install.

that should be done with all computers no matter who you buy it from
You're not supposed to unless you're on a secure network, i.e. SIPRnet, etc.
Ah true!

Or it usually relies on an inflated (and slightly cultish) sense of self importance to have a job candidate do a "dog and pony show" for a job opening.

"Company X is hiring hackers". I'll pass.
Absolutely irrelevant and ridiculous comparison. On what basis did you come up with those numbers? 10% of the world's money supply?? Why??

Let's do something more reasonable, which least is approximately in the order of magnitude. The BTC market cap is ~$10bil. 1% of that is 100 million dollars. Which means that if Zcash ever becomes more valuable than the phenomenon that was bitcoin, you have a 100 million dollar stake for the founders. A pretty penny, but still a far cry from your ridiculous half a trillion.
Can you name any of these "toxins"?
> That's an obvious part of a government's duty to keep it's citizens safe.

Which article of the Constitution is that? I don't seem to recall it.
Same goes for NVMe vs. SATA 256 GB SSD, or the 13" 1280x720 TN panel LCD on an 8 year old laptop versus a 13" 4K IPS display today.
Well, I rather think it does, I have no reason to download another app unless I know it's going to be a lot cheaper. Otherwise I'm just going to stick with the thing that's easy and already setup.
1TB of RAM is exactly the kind of visionary move I would have expected Apple to make

edit: words
Classification can be a marker, but it's ALSO a process where lots of different parts of government who often disagree debate back and forth whether something gets classified. And once they decided, those designations continue to change.
Sure. It's a simple tool but the concept could be augmented toward something like the scenario you described.

https://gist.github.com/jasonmoo/06691c8fea09b62aa35235fc93e...
Find a non-profit and talk with them about building an app for them. If they don't want to pay for it fine. Just build and make sure you can put it on your resume.
Thanks, I think that, while I still have a Macbook that will last a couple of years, I'll install a Linux installation in dual boot so that I can start to understand where I'm headed...
I meant it more in the sense of bribery to get the regulators to squeeze the little guys as they always do. Big companies love regulation because it kills their competition and lets them progress at their glacial and expensive pace.
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Yes because Lenovo is the only major vendor to install spyware, break ssl, or any other things.

Dell has never done that... ohh wait

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/superfish-20-now-dell-...
I have used old and new Thinkpad keyboards and in my view the new one is far superior.
We had that at my previous job, fortunately for some reasons the slave was delayed by like 10min, it saved us from a very very serious problem, especially when you do backups every 6h.
They did, but this is the top of the line option. The price for that one remained the same.
If the endeavor is selling a product for use in a highly regulated industry where the failure case is death, then of course you have to work with regulatory agencies. It's not like the automotive industry is a mysterious minefield hidden in uncharted territory.

If he couldn't answer these very basic questions 2 months away from shipping these things, WTF is he even doing. If he hadn't proactively initiated communications with NHTSA long before now, WTF is he even doing. These are all excruciatingly, painfully obvious things to do, and the fact that it never occurred to him to do them brings into question his judgement about pretty much everything, from technical issues to basic life choices. At this point I don't think I'd trust this guy to mow my lawn, much less develop autonomous vehicle software. His reaction to all of this and how he deals with adversity is just as revealing about his competence as everything he's done so far.
That's certainly not provable, though - she's said she did it so that she could use the device of her choice (Blackberry), not to hide from FOIA. Not sure how easy it would be to establish intent, there.
The fine was up to $21k per day subject to a maximum of $105k
Michigan State University hacked, personal information leaked online
I'm sorry, but I can't disagree with you more. I see no ambiguity in there. In fact, he never even uses the word "design" in the original post.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3046297
This is why I'm probably going to opt for a maxed out 2015 Macbook Pro. Yes, I know I'm paying for "old" hardware but I don't use VMs or compile anything heavy so it should last me a while. After selling my current one it should come out to about $1000 so not too bad.

I'm just too invested in macOS in terms of apps, comfortableness, muscle memory, etc. I actually really like it as well.
No, this isn't that hard. You could design two lines of products and satisfy almost everyone: MacBook and MacBook Pro.

The MacBook line would be optimized for mobility, for pros and college students who need a real computer (not an iToy) with them all the time to do serious work of a general businessy nature: organize projects into folders, use apps like a browser, Keynote, Excel, Word, lightweight photo apps, media viewing, a good text/code editor, a terminal, etc. Lots of reading and writing work, software dev on the road, email, checking flight status, giving presentations (in the office, in class), etc. It would be designed to have battery life extended significantly via 3rd-party USB-C batteries, so you would have the mobility of a light machine with the option of significantly extending battery life when you needed it. Lightweight, mobile, untethered, pro work.

The MacBook Pro line would be optimized for computer power that was still portable: NVidia GPU, lots of RAM, lots of internal storage, big screen (17" version available again), serious battery life, no connector shortage. The words "thinner" would never be uttered. Instead: "more powerful". By allowing it to be a little thicker and heavier (not huge, maybe 50% thicker than a 2015 MacBook Pro), you could use less compact, previous gen RAM and SSD, thereby getting much more for the same price. It wouldn't actually be very thick and heavy except relative to the lightweight line; it would just be optimized for how much of a serious computer you could deliver without making it too large, rather than the current "how thin can we make it without rendering it useless?" This machine would often be used docked to large monitors as a full-powered desktop but could be taken on the road (these things wouldn't be any larger than every laptop used on the road a few years ago.) Photoshop, 3D graphics rendering, serious gaming, video editing, serious software dev docked to large, desktop screens that could be continued on an airplane, number crunching AI and big(ish) data without having to offload to a server farm, having 100 tabs open in Chrome while editing 4K video, having a full library of books and 100 videos on the internal drive for use when traveling, etc.

These two lines could share most design and mfg yet satisfy pros of all sorts without needing much of an increase in number of models made.
It's really not a different form of working, we've had irregular gig-like work for a long time. That's rather why the "worker" status exists as distinct from "employee". Just because you throw in an app or tech doesn't make it any different.
What are you doing that you would even notice? Honest question. I can't recall a single instance where my 2012 rMBP slowed down due to its age. I mainly code, open tons of browser tabs, and listen to Spotify. Once I got a laptop with built-in SSD, everything just seemed to run at the speed of thought. That has not changed in four years or three operating systems.
Then add Dell to the list as well. What is your point?
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I see. Thanks for explaining your position.
About devs I'm not sure, but I use it a lot at work for simulations (optimised for CUDA) and some Deep Learning and the Nvidia card is a must.
Seems like a matter of time before someone does the same thing, but without the bullshit "we keep 10% of everything".
Could you not automate that too? Have another stage of evolution where you just randomly delete statements from the 'code' and the fitness function is that the performance doesn't get worse.

This should eventually reduce the 'code' to it's minimal state, removing any unnecessary parts.
People tend to forget that many of the most effective public transit systems were originally built out by private companies and then acquired by governments after the private company went bankrupt. A good chunk of the public transit systems on the East Coast at least are the result of the railroad boom & bust at the turn of the 20th century. Transportation at scale, is not all that profitable in the long run. Yet people still depend on it. That's why government is involved in the first place.

It's probably not a bad pattern - let private companies innovate and rapidly build up the new networks and then have public administrators step in when the private sector fails to turn a profit.

Reading a related article, about "super commuters" who use the Megabus to commute to NYC from Philadelphia ( http://www.villagevoice.com/news/meet-phillys-super-commuter... ) - it's another example of a private company filling in a gap in public transit infrastructure, albeit less high-tech. Might lead to improvements of the Amtrak Northeast Corridor at some point, or dedicated BRT lanes on I-95, who knows. Either way it's a private business demonstrating increased demand, and the public sector will eventually catch up.
HTTP is insecure and yet here are a bunch of classified documents:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/04/us/document-cy...

My point being: sometimes information is simultaneously publicly available and highly classified.
If you go with Dell, go with either Developer Edition or Windows Signature Edition. I too had an issue with my Dell XPS 9343 (128GB/8GB/"4K" Touch) and a Dell rep came to my house and fixed it. I have two of these now, one for work (FHD) and one for personal (Touch).
The US government is not the only government.
This is pretty outdated now Lenovo has released a bios update for the laptop in question.
Serious question: if that is illegal, isn't it the sender of the email that committed the crime, not the receiver? I'm assuming the email address wasn't something official like hillary@state.gov, I'm guessing it was something like hillary@clintonpersonalsite.com. I'm probably wrong, but I'd like a clear explanation why.
Thanks. Not sure how notifications work here, but I replied to your comment as a reply to Grue below this, so check the page.
> I'm just too invested in macOS in terms of apps, comfortableness, muscle memory, etc. I actually really like it as well.

I never thought I'd compare new Apple hardware versus Thinkpads to a presidential election, but here we are.
I disagree completely with this. I _want_ to believe I live in a country where not only laws are applied but common sense too.

Do I believe Hillary acted with malicious intent? I don't. I do believe she broke the law.

The reality I believe in is that if it were me somehow in this situation, there would be no common-sense applied, just the letter of the law. No judge would look at my past and see someone making a mistake, or try to get to know me to better understand me. Just gitmo.
I don't think the machine is out yet, which probably explains the lack of reviews.
> Despite all this, I am fucking sick and tired at the outright lies, slander, and disingenuous arguments against Trump. There is plenty to attack him on without all the bullshit. And I'm sick of the Hillary reality distortion that is, from what I can tell, the absolute epitome of everything wrong with politics today.

What is so confusing here? Trump has stated repeatedly that if he loses the election was rigged. He was not joking, he was dead serious. He repeated the claim multiple times. He even refused the settle the issue during the third debate.

That statement alone is a disqualifying event for any politician.

Looking at your other posts I don't believe you about voting third party, you're an obvious Trump supporter. Why lie about it?
To get that certification, do they test you first, or do they wait for you to screw up and then take it away from you??
Now when happens when I unplug the keyboard and plug it into something else?
App£e. or Appl€. Ideally you could use the $ symbol but there's no s in Apple. Sure, you can just throw in whatever character you want, but !nevets doesn't make a lot of sense.

what you're shooting for here is a pun. You want something that looks like a regular character, so @pple is kind of cute, but there are two obvious problems. One, it kind of looks like a direct message to pple, which falls apart. &pple isn't bad, but & doesn't have the association with money, so you don't get the pun.

There are a bunch of currency symbols you can use, there's a list here [1]. Check it out ₩₦€v€t$, then all of your currency puns will be money.

[1] http://www.xe.com/symbols.php
Or he is just doing his job and not worrying about who is going to be president? I don't know that much about him but I would like to think its possible for some people to be non partisan.
Blender has a surprisingly good general-purpose video editor built in.
Not everyone's, but certainly high value targets would have more of their email stored long-term than say, yours.

Legality of the NSA accessing the US SoS' emails aside, I'm sure some intelligence officials somewhere would love to have that trove to dig through to get maximum traction in any back room discussions. Which is why it was probably not a good idea (I don't mean "illegal", mind you, just not what I call a "good idea") for the Clintons to host any of their email, including their private emails, on what is basically a home server supported by what appears to have been a very small technical staff.
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Trouble with this is, if you have a lot of drop-down menus that is a tremendous amount of additional code, actions have to be added, or added with abstractions, this new thing has to be managed in the global store etc. the end result being that your app is just slower because all this info has to pass through the dispatcher :/. Also can't see how rewinding simple isolated UI effects could help in debugging.

I've noticed that when programmers are introduced to a new technique there is a tendency to apply it everywhere. I had this experience when first learning recursion, it was all I used for a while, until I realized that was silly and now only use it where appropriate. This is true for OOP, functional programming, strictly adhering to even esoteric details of REST, etc.

I've found programming to be a lot like cooking. I really liked garlic, so when I first started cooking I would routinely add a couple extra cloves, until I discovered there very much was the possibility of too much garlic. This is true for each ingredient, you try stuff out and as your experience as a chef grows, you start to be able to suss out the right amount of each ingredient added at the right time.

Programmers are essentially virtual craftsmen, you have a set of tools and you try to build something effective with the tools you have. If you adhere to a principle so fiercely, the pieces of the puzzle often don't quite fit. You end up with a circle or square where something more acorn shaped would be most appropriate.

Anyhoo, don't take my word for it: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Ralph Waldo Emerson or "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" - Obi-wan.
Kind of like interviewing at Google: "oh, you're a 9 in C++? let me introduce you to your interviewers for the day: Hans Boehm, Chandler Carruth, Richard Smith, and Jeffrey Yasskin. We were lucky to get them; they're off to the ISO C++ standards committee meeting tomorrow"
Thinkpads definitely get over-recommended on the internet, but I have been really pleased with my X220. I bought a corporate refurb on ebay a year ago for about $200. It has sailed along since then. Any problems I have I am confident I can repair and parts are cheap and plentiful. At one point I replaced the DC jack and WiFI card in an hour or two with a screwdriver and a youtube video (total cost: $25). It runs linux flawlessly with plenty of horsepower despite the 2012 era CPU. RAM is easily upgradeable and it has a 2nd drive bay.

If you are comfortable with putting together your own PC (which I suspect most of the HN audience is), you will get way more mileage out of it than buying a newish chromebook for a similar price. I've heard rumors of a "thinkpad classic" machine in the same form factor with an upgraded CPU, USB 3.0, and high res screen, which I would love.
Just get a Razer Blade. It's the same weight and form factor as a MBP, but black and with a real GPU.

Run Windows 10 if you just want to get work done, or Debian or something if you need metal Linux (as opposed to VMs)
That's pretty presumptive. The last FBI investigation into her emails went a year and found nothing. Given that she's been running for president the last decade or two and republicans will pounce on her over any little misstep, do you really think she'd intentionally do something that could ruin her chances of winning or staying president? Remember that intention is important in law...
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A change in a recent build lets you see which particular OS process is using the CPU instead of previously all being combined into one.

I know this is not exactly what you are looking for but it's a step in the right direction.
If bribery was an option would VW have gone to such lengths to hide true emissions rather than slipping someone a backhander?
But I do, sunshine. Do you?
This one was advertised as for developers/coders/engineers/designers, but I'm in a second-tier (for developers) Canadian city.

Many talented tech folks move to first-tier Canadian cities, or to first tier U.S. cities, which are zeroth tier by Canadian standards, if they aren't tied down.
It sounds like the Linux on Win 10 stuff is just a native Windows version of bash and the GNU toolkit. Plus it has apt, so you can apt-get packages.

Now, how many packages are available, I don't know. But I am hoping I can just open up a terminal window and cd / grep / cat / vi / git / etc
I am not from the US, but they surely have some legislation that makes building and selling killing machines, without at least some government controlled safety checks, illegal.