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> They are simply not what's made the macbook stand out against a sea of black laptops

The major change in there is that the laptop and desktop market has matured enough that, indeed, this year MBP needs to compete with 2012 MBP and every other laptop.

Before those time, just re-releasing the same box with improved internals was enough to sell, hence an ocean of generic laptop where a brand like Apple could rise to the top with a level above polish and attention to details.

The market changed, not because Apple lost its mojo, but because you can't sell a laptop on its spec alone meaning only the Apple way is really profitable now. Apple/Jobs genius was doing it before, allowing them to reap enormous benefits for years.

This year I'm looking at the new MBP to replace my old 2007 MBP. I happen to be happy with the update (unlike many here on HN), but I would have had no problem buying last year model in case of disappointment. Even a refurb 2012 model like my main machine would have been perfectly fine.
I don't know if it was ever intended as a consumer facing name, but even without the "coma" puns, it's too wonky for customers, do you think?

Besides, isn't one comma 99k worth of room? It's marketing lingo aimed at the hubris of venture capitalists.
I'd say Stealth is more compatible with Macbook Air. The dual-core processor is really the only thing that stops me from picking one up.
Fair enough re: the older Teslas. As to the new ones, even if I never activate autopilot I'm still driving around in a massive autopilot data collection engine for Tesla Corp, which bugs me.
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We all are... at some extent.
Okay, should be working now. If you have any issues, feel free to comment them here: https://gist.github.com/Arinerron/0e99d69d70a778ca13a0087fa6...
Besides, you just have to hack only a single device to keep logging your current IP address.
While your experience is much more like the standard for handling classified material I don't know if it's comparable to what those in the leadership at the state department experienced given the findings in the OIG(1) report that came out earlier this year. They looked some twenty years of record retention policies at the state department and concluded.

"Longstanding, systemic weaknesses related to electronic records and communications have existed within the Office of the Secretary that go well beyond the tenure of any one Secretary of State."

"the Department generally and the Office of the Secretary in particular have been slow to recognize and to manage effectively the legal requirements and cybersecurity risks associated with electronic data communications, particularly as those risks pertain to its most senior leadership."

It seems likely that you and others in similar positions are under more scrutiny than those in leadership, at least that's what I get out of that report.

1: https://oig.state.gov/system/files/esp-16-03.pdf
OK, the palm rest and the pointing device, I'll give it to you, but saying that all laptops are Powerbook clones is a big stretch. The "notebook" firm factor originated from NEC UltraLite, released 3 years earlier.

http://old.chuma.org/ultralite/index.shtml

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_UltraLite
It is actually called Delta Debugging and was pioneered by Andreas Zeller (https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/dd/). His first paper on it ("Yesterday, my program worked. Today, it does not. Why?") used essentially the technique above to isolate the failure inducing change. Surprisingly, techniques like this work very well and doing better is sometimes very difficult especially for large programs. For instance, in theory, using "Concolic Execution" which combines symbolic execution, constraint solving, and concrete execution one can do better. However, such systems have their own limitations with respect to program complexity. See also the tremendous effectiveness of AFL (American Fuzzy Lop) http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/ . AFL uses a straight forward technique to mutate code. It doesn't use any fancy program analysis and has been able to find lots of bugs in real programs.
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A lot depends on the embassy. Some seem to have unofficial investment amounts that exceed this. IIRC, anecdotally, the London embassy has a minimum investment requirement of $200k for E-2 which may have risen since I last looked.
I thought the idea was interesting so here is a little PoC in Ruby:

require 'facets'
lines = Dir['**/*.rb', '**/*.py', '**/*.cpp'].map { |f| File.read(f).lines.map(&:chars) }.inject(&:+)
puts lines.sort_by(&:entropy).map(&:join).last(10).reverse

Using: http://www.rubydoc.info/github/rubyworks/facets/Array%3Aentr...
Guess it helps that apple does employ at least one blind engineer. [1]

[1]http://mashable.com/2016/07/10/apple-innovation-blind-engine...
One method would be bypassing intermediate sources like those at issue where the direct source (i.e., the FBI report) is available.
How so? (Just genuinely curious as I always here this) I have asked the Java developers at my job if they have this common mindset and they don't seem to agree. I don't work with Java that much so I'm just honestly curious.
I am afraid that most of them are not even given any option very soon. Try to find a TV without reflective screen these days. It is impossible as nobody is making them even where there is certainly a market for them.
Pretty much these facts would apply to any value-add collaboration platform that serves as middle-man between customer and whoever executes the task. Most of them screen their contractors and have preconditions, have ratings, many of them have provisions to shield both sides from dishonest players, many of them have incentives and rebates to attract customers, most of them handle complaints (of course they do, the customer paid money to them, who they'd complain to if something is wrong? Whoever got the money!), etc.

That means pretty much any added-value marketplace is now considered employer in UK, thus the whole model becomes infeasible.
> I have a box full of broken apple chargers from merely glancing at the cord. I think you're drastically overestimating the macbook's ability to stand out of the crowd in hardware.

having to buy a 70 dollar charger every year vs having to buy a new laptop every 18 months.

I'll stock up on chargers.
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If I hired someone to stand outside and cover up some share of the offerings on my store's billboard, clearly varying only by the perceived race of whoever was walking by, the discrimination here would be violently evident.

Regardless of specific laws and statutes this may violate, it's an affront to every part of the progress we've made as a species. In my country, South Africa, this tool seems to be literally against the constitutional principles (Chapter 2, ss 9, 3-4).

Regardless of moral or legal questions even, do we not need to query what the societal cost is of allowing corporations to be facile and duplicitous, automatically, at the scale of enterprises like Facebook?
Last year I bought a new Macbook Air that came with Yosemite, so after I got home and went through the setup process, I tried to update it to El Capitan through the app store. The laptop went to reboot... and didn't come back up. I thought it was completely bricked because pressing the power button did nothing: no LED light, no startup chime. Apple support guides said to hold down the power button for ten seconds and then re-press it, which at least made the laptop turn on and chime, but nothing happened beyond that. Booting into recovery mode didn't work, but luckily booting into internet recovery mode did. I had to reinstall Yosemite over the internet, create a USB image of El Capitan, then install from the USB.

Even after that, things never went smoothly. There was some sort of bug where I couldn't enter my Apple ID security answers in the OS dialog box. Like you, I had problems with external displays, especially with waking up a display when the laptop itself woke up. The very first time I tried to restore from a Time Machine backup I got errors. Problems with iTunes and Photos sync. Not to mention more or less subjective issues I had.

I had more problems with this laptop than I've had with any Windows machine.
According to Matthew Green, they tried for years to get this (or one of the earlier versions) into Bitcoin and Bitcoin weren't having it. Their options were to make an entirely new coin, with the problems you point out, or to let the crypto they had developed die.
> From a technical standpoint, Eve is a variant of Datalog

This is what I needed to understand what you're up to here, oddly enough.

From http://programming.witheve.com/deepdives/whateveis.html (which might not be up to date?).
US only unfortunately.
I was just saying if OP criticism about Google only caring about internal use was true Angular Dart would be the only ng2 supported by Google, not suggesting that's being developed for Google only, I'm actually a fan of both Dart and AngularDart so gj from me :)
It never left. In the US, the Constitution has an exception that allows slavery for people convicted of crimes. I recently learned this after watching the netflix documentary 13th. As a US citizen I felt a bit ignorant that I didn't know this. Would guess that most people don't. Very insightful film.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)

Here is the text of that amendment:
"ARTICLE XIII.
Section 1. Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime; whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction"

And globally, human trafficking is a huge problem. It is another term for modern day slavery. https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-hum...
Note that this is MX-MX routing of emails between email providers, which sort have has to allow plaintext in practice.

The question of user-level IMAP/POP/SMTP access is different, but I'd expect somewhere in the region of 95+%. Note that the IMAP specification prohibits authentication that sends passwords in the plaintext [1] (although I don't know if the various IMAP servers permit AUTHENTICATE PLAIN before STARTTLS--checking, Outlook doesn't, and the other servers I had access to aren't open on 143 anyways), which means IMAP in practice requires SSL.

[1] The alternative is to use schemes like CRAM-MD5 or SCRAM-SHA-1 which don't send the password in plaintext, although these have become quite rare in practice.
Fluoride collects in your pineal gland. There is no study (AFAIK) that says it harms the function of the pineal gland, but when I armchair-researched this a few years ago, it seemed no one is quite sure that it is benign.

The most significant benefit from brushing comes from the mechanical action, not from the toothpaste or any compound within. Personally, I use fluoridated toothpastes, but I can understand people who don't.

People like to point to scientific consensus as proof (by authority), but consensus changes with time: Trans fats are no longer good. Fats are no longer bad. Stomach ulcers are now caused by bacteria. Cholesterol intake no longer matters. Dinosaurs are no longer extinct (they are birds now), and had features. Patient zero did not bring HIV to the US.
I believe they're currently preparing on working on Vine, and, from what they wrote on Twitter just today (can't search for it right now, don't have a stable connection right now), they don't have any problems with the storage at the moment thanks to Archive.org.
This project is very opinionated, is my take on using Event Sourcing in a simple way after using and playing around with some of the other NodeJS projects out there. I would really like to get input from the community. There is an example in folder in the repository. Thank you!!!
Heh I understand your pain. One product we sell is a quick apply that can work on top of Taleo and other ATSs http://www.rolepoint.com/apply.html

We've also built and API middleware to abstract Taleo complexity in a simple and elegant REST API http://rolepoint.io/
And the people in power of the prizon-industrial complex have a big role in government. Guess not much has changed.
There already is automation for exactly this, it's the optimization step of any compiler. Sounds like OP's lacked an optimizer
What is the accepted way to send 64-bit values over JSON?
Except that they are not doing that. The new emails came from the Weiner investigation, not the CLinton server.
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Yep: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4625800/obama-rigged-election...
You do not know anything about the transaction. Not the amount, not the sender. Just that it happened.
I did not know about the switch-based co-routines, but they made me groan and giggle at the same time.

I try to come up with a real-world metaphor to describe this mixture of horror and delight to non-programmers, but I am not sure there is one.
Watch 13th on Netflix, slavery is still here in the US. The Constitution legalizes it for people convicted of crimes and there is a big business built around it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)
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The big loss is to musicians who use iOS for creating music. This involves several often expensive hardware boxes, such as quality audio interfaces and most modern synthesizers, none of which are USB-C compatible. So we are looking at much more expense than mere single dongle hell.
Unfortunately for your ego, that makes you risk adverse.
Best developer laptop is a Dell Precision 5510. Up to 32GB ram, thinner and lighter than a Macbook, SSD that does >1.5GB/sec, and has a docking station.
Sure but UPNP just opens up the outbound connection no?

A command and control connection for a botnet would still need an inbound NAT rule as would the ability to get the IoT device on the LAN in the first place compromise it right? Or am I missing something?
...and how many people still use their ISP's mail as opposed to the "big" providers?
You want to casually study myself while sleep-deprived? That sounds like a recipe for trustworthy results, I'm sure.

Of course I'm going to get more greasy after two days of not using soap. I don't see how that would verify anything that you are claiming.
Fair question. On macOS, you can enable VoiceOver by simply pressing Command+F5, and there's even a built-in tutorial. Windows has a built-in screen reader called Narrator, which you can enable with Windows+Enter, but I don't think anyone seriously uses that for their daily work yet. So to get the real experience on Windows, you'd have to head to http://www.nvaccess.org/ and install NVDA. But that's also pretty straightforward.
Did you mean haven't had a bonus of less than 500k/yr?
"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 just did this.

I currently use a second-from-last generation 11" Macbook air and it works perfectly and I expect it to last another 2-3 years.

However, I just purchased a refurbished latest-generation 11" macbook air, with maximum specs, to keep on reserve.

Now I can put off these decisions for 5 or more years.
Not at all. Good tools are very important, and we shouldn't stop working to make them better. What I disagree with is the idea that good enough tools can replace engineers without them becoming General AIs. Until we get to that point, there will be systems that need to be built that only professionals are qualified to work on. I'm not saying that we need licensing boards or any of that nonsense, just that nobody is going to merge poorly constructed code into an important project.
I never said I've never used them. I've used them and decided they were not useful for me based on those experiences. So no, in this case, I do in fact know.
If you love writing code, you're going to hate running a SaaS business
That seems a little extreme. The reason they do bonuses is because in a bad year they can pay you 0.5x and in a good year 1.5x. You still get an average of x per year, but in such a way that they don't go out of business. Finance companies tend to see much larger revenue swings than other industries.

My current employer gets over this hurdle by guaranteeing your bonus for 1-2 years, thus giving them time to build trust before the variable compensation gets going.
> Is this the one that forked off BitCoin due to differences centered around how it didn't make its investors/founders enough money

You must be thinking of something else. Matthew Green has said he would have much rather got this implemented in BitCoin.

ZCash forked off of BitCoin because BitCoin core wouldn't accept it. The proposed solution was a "side chain" to BitCoin. Side chains have been being talked about since around 2009, and that's all that is happened: talking. There is no code and no agreement on how they should work.

The fork happened when it became apparent that this would never make it into Bitcoin in any form.
any ideas on how this is similar to or differs from the prospects and structure of Darpa's explainable AI (XAI) contract?

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=1606a25...

curious about the inherent trade-off between predictive power/complexity in ML model and the accuracy of system explanation's inferred by these models
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> And it's far more likely that they'll specifically and intentionally defraud you by faking the performance metric, and reward themselves the bonus they "saved" by not paying you.

Surely this would result in extremely high turnover? High turnover employers is probably something you want to avoid anyway, so I don't see this changing the equation much.
blindism is blindist.

just because i can see you don't want my help? i somehow couldn't understand your plight? sight discrimination is real.

you're all idiots.
May be for first few days, but you should get used to the available buttons for apps you use right?
If you're going to piss people off by removing the headphone jack, you don't do it again by changing ports next year. You tear the bandage off in one go.
Doing XHR CORS with IE 8 and 9 is infuriating. At first you're tempted to think, ok I can just use XDomainRequest.

Well, XDomainRequest is extremely limited. You can only send text/plain content-types (no JSON). You can't specify custom request headers and the source page and server must be using the same scheme. Basically, XHR CORS on IE 8 and 9 are essentially not possible.
Fully agreed. That's why I consider descriptive identifiers a valuable hint.
Monero wasn't developed by a group of highly respected cryptographers and the privacy it offers is plausible deniability not zero knowledge.
FWIW i have it on good authority that Apple employs at least 4-5 blind developers on the accessibility team alone, possibly more elsewhere in the company.
It is definitely not MacWrite since it doesn't conform to the format:

http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/MacWrite

Looks like it is actually Word for Mac:

https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
The Internet Archive (and Stack Overflow) are way ahead of you here. SO is working directly with the Archive to publish anonymized database dumps.

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
That's my point. "the person did accept the job knowing $X, right?" is not a valid assumption.
The downside will be if the only interface the kernel exposes for it is some dbus thing because that's all systemd needs.
Sounds like you are talking about Identity Based Encryption (IBE)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID-based_encryption

There are mature, commercial products which use this to address the "PKI benefits without the overhead of managing PKI" problems. Read the wikipedia page for the gory details, but essentially, you get to use someone's email address functionally as a public key (as per traditional PKI email schemes) wihtout the recipient having to, a priori, create the pub/priv keypair. They can be derived statelessly on the fly.

For one example, See Hewlett Packard Enterprise - Data Security "SecurMail" product.

Full disclosure: I work on this product.

Here is some basic background information on how it works.

https://www.voltage.com/products/email-security/hpe-securema...

There is still a "trusted 3rd party" running the key generator (a deal-breaker for some threat models of privacy) but that generator entity doesn't have to be the ISP or email provider involved at either end.
Yes, this incarnation of Eve isn't what you would take to an end user and expect them to use it. We have a lot of ideas on this front, mentioned in milestone 3 of the roadmap on the post. If you take at look at some of our blog posts on incidentalcomplexity.com, you'll see some of our thinking.

The reason that we are releasing an Eve focused on developers is that we want something more immediately useful while we research what the right direction is for the UI.

But before we get there, we could definitely see some tooling for the current version. You could imagine a grid block that is embedded in the document, for instance.
Interesting seeing the name Robert Richtmeyer in there. He was a family friend and had some great recollections on Stan Ulam among many others, including Von Neumann (Richard Feynman and Enrico Fermi).
I partially agree, but:
1. Microsoft has a huge PR division and had at least some influence on this article.
2. The entire promotion from Microsoft is meant to be click-bait because they aren't providing any value I couldn't get already. There are already resale markets for used Macbook pros that provide the same pricing.
I think elite developers rate themselves 1-10 depending on which part of language are they using and pushing forward. And Scala brought this to the world of Java as well, no chance for a single person to understand it completely.
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It's Friday! Help me waste more of my time on games ;-)

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Could you elaborate on that?

Isn't the power of government based on how many it "governs" and how many ("governed", "voters", "taxpayers") it controls?
I wonder if the fact that it is IdeaPad not ThinkPad don't help here.
Agreed; I assume it would be more or less trivial to write an input filter so you can keep your old rules.
I haven't sold on there for a while, but it sounds much worse than it used to be. Can't you filter by number of positive reviews?
I think this varies. There are places in Wall Street that don't treat their devs that way. There are also places that pay in a range that Silicon Valley doesn't really compete with.

Sure, JP Morgan probably isn't in either of those categories.
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Unfortunately I went from trigger-happy to hesitant, and re-thinking my "Windows = Games, MacOS = Unix shell + Adobe" strategy. See, the problem is that Adobe is the 'killer app suite' that forces me to use one of the platforms. Linux is what runs on my NUC, cloud VPSes and places where stuff serves stuff. Now, I'm re-thinking that strategy.

I'm thinking about Linux as a primary workstation, using the dreaded Gnome UI on a regular basis. And fighting with driver issues. On the other hand, the Thinkpad Linux support talk has me very interested because it sounds solid.

I wonder how many people are investigating other options at this point in time. This is prime time for other vendors to continue to trounce Apple in market share (see the link in my message above for those skeptical about that claim).

I'm tempted to say, Apple doesn't know how to take the Macbook to the next level, which is what they're constantly trying to do.