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Counterpoint, I think they look great! They're boxy but keep a rectangular profile. They keyboard feels smooth with just enough resistance and plenty of tactile feedback. The matte black isn't showy but it gets out of your way during use.

They're plastic but personally, and in my office, we've actually found them to be more durable and easier to repair. Sure, they're different aesthetics but they both look and feel solid.

They're basically 'no-frills' laptops made by people with very different ideas about what the frills are.
As my highly degreed spouse often declares, what is a PhD for if not to credential a professional dilettante?
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Just like Trump with the alleged sexual assaults right? No one brings those up....
precisely.
You didn't solve the OPs problem, you just moved it around.

In his case, his algo said X, and his code did Y.. very easy to see the mistake.

In your case, lets add a comment

// Note: PCI-DSS requirements apply below

Now 3 years later, the law changes and the requirements do not apply. So you are at the same situation. Code does X, comments say Y. Which is right?

Not a very easy to keep comments and code in sync
As with many investigations. See, for example, the 9/11 investigation: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/25/911-fbi...
Hence "within the industry". They were ubiquitous across every single studio. I think the only other computer I saw was a Sun Microsystems server in a repro house that ran the film output.
I've been using a Dell XPS 15 as my daily work machine for the last few months and I can say I've had all of those problems. The machine has really loud coil whine even after contacting Dell and having them replace the motherboard and other various internal components (I think they practically replaced the entire laptop at this point). The trackpad is definitely not great and I used an external mouse to do any serious work. I had the touchscreen variant and while the resolution was great I never once used the touchscreen. Overall it feels like a product owner at Dell wanted to match the MacBook Pro's specs but forgot to think about how all the parts fit together. For example, both laptops have backlit keyboards, but only the MacBook Pro can automatically adjust the backlight to ambient light (if the Dell can do this, I've never seen it work).
You're being misled by the misleading marketing name, too. This isn't the Bourne Again shell at all. It's a "personality" subsystem that lets one run Linux binaries directly on top of the Windows NT kernel. One of those binaries may well be the Bourne Again shell, but that is largely irrelevant. The Bourne Again shell binary comes from Canonical (or from RedHat if, say, you choose to experiment with running Fedora on the Windows Subsystem for Linux).

The part that comes from Microsoft is the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and of course the Windows NT kernel beneath it (and the Win32 subsystem alongside it). Unless something has changed recently, that is not open source.
Not yet. For (b), we gave some advantage to Eve by (1) running two steps of training Eve for every step of training A&B; and (2) running multiple independent retrains of Eve from scratch after freezing the Alice & Bob networks. Not quite the same as increasing the capacity of the network, but similar. As you noted - we mostly stuck to the regime in which a solution could be found in theory (or trivially by a human), to explore whether or not the adversarial formulation of the NNs could get anywhere near it.

Many next steps indeed.
Not true. Lots of accidents happen in "good" conditions because humans suck at driving.

The way you compare, is you give a self driving car to a person, and compare actually usage for that person, and see if owning a self driving car increases or reduces accidents for that person.

Being perfect only half the time is still revolutionary.
I'm guessing that Stripe (or coinbase) has figured out that the cost of the ten-minute option is far less than the 0.8% processing fee they charge.
I wish it were possible to buy a Tesla without any autopilot features except basic cruise control, because I know how damnably difficult the edge cases are for a self-driving car, and I'm perfectly capable of driving a car manually, thank you very much. Tesla's cars are so good I'd almost be willing to pay more for one without autopilot.

Almost.
He could return the unused funds still.
> Ha ha. You have be kidding.

It's not ok to comment like this here.

Several of your recent posts have crossed the line into incivility. Addressing people as "buddy", telling them about the "fetish of [their] ideology", etc.: all this is patronizing and rude. Please don't do any more of it on Hacker News.

If you're going to engage in difficult topics, you have a responsibility to do so with extra respect, not less.
I agree the function keys are not a good interface.

It remains to be seen if the touch bar is an improvement.
Please review the HN guidelines. The requirement for "what to post" do not require something pertain directly to startups or tech.
Not quite. Regulatory capture doesn't mean you like the big companies, it means you like the industry you regulate. So if you regulate coal mines, you probably think coal mines are good, whether they're large or small. If you're a highway regulator, it probably means you think highways are pretty awesome, but that doesn't mean you think only Detroit muscle cars should be allowed on the highway.
Easy - they ran the numbers and saw the engineering benefits for keeping a simpler chipset that only supported 16GB outweighed the value of a few people getting pissed off that there's no 32GB option.

Frankly, if I need more than 16GB of RAM, I'm going to want to develop on a box in a datacenter somewhere, not my laptop.
Stick to your specialty and scratch the programming itch as a hobby. If you get good at that hobby, see if you really want to be a professional dev and look for a job. If you get nothing you like start your own thing (your experience with startups might be handy here). I would wait at least a year to see if this is just an infatuation or deeper love. And while you are learning, pay special focus to algo and design, a bit more than knowing nifty things with popular frameworks in the language of your choice.
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Our entire society seems to be based on Office Space and Idiocracy
Another really cool use case will be sending your car to drive around the block for an hour or go back to your house and park, while you are going out to places. Beats paying the $10 to park for an hour.
Something bad happened to Dell corporate laptop design after 2008. Up until then, every Latitude D4xx or D6xx that I had used was rock-solid and easy to maintain and upgrade. Solid magnesium-alloy chassis and case nearly indestructible.

Around 2010 they started segmenting their product line much more and design quality fell through the floor. We briefly had some 'small business' Vostro laptops with sharp edges that hurt when you typed, and Latitude E<something> on which you couldn't open the lid without holding the base.

The old Latitude Ds just kept working...

Recently, possibly as a result of the share buy-back, it sounds like they've found their feet again and I'm willing to give the XPS or Precision a try.
Also, maybe paging to a super fast SSD is good enough to justify not having more memory.
> Some of regulation of ride-sharing seems to be done out of a spirit of bitterness that they aren't "following the rules", and it doesn't seem to be in benefit of anyone.

Some rules are in place for a reason. The US is sadly awful when it comes to workers rights. It's why Uber can get away with this garbage. It's why "right to work" and "at will employment" laws exist. It's why IT workers are overtime exempt. It's why "union" is a dirty word in many circles.

Skirting employment law isn't being DISRUPTIVE! It's just being a scummy business.
Yes, I've seen that interview, where Gingrinch accused Kelley of being fascinated with sex and then attempted to use Bill Clinton's indiscretions as some sort of way to discredit Hillary. This is after he talked to his exwife about divorce while she was recovering from cancer and then later has an affair. At that point, it was clear the interview served no useful purpose.

Additionally, all major media publications have come out in support of Trump for the simple fact he has, in no way shape or form, demonstrated any leadership capabilities. He tweeted at 3 am for days following the first campaign about the Miss USA issue. How does demonstrate a steady hand and patience?
Actual thing that will happen, if you're lucky: Dev changes the code to fix a bug, tests it, modifies it etc., finally gets it done. Deletes loving paragraphs of now obsolete text and writes in a one-liner description ("handle gravity effects")

Actual thing that will happen, if you're not lucky: Same as above, but they don't delete the obsolete paragraphs.
> She has Obama, using tax payer money, campaigning for her - while not illegal, is pretty morally bankrupt in my opinion.

This is not actually true. While he is forced to only use Airforce One when flying he is required by law to reimburse all costs related to campaigning for anyone. Typically though the president never pays for this and, instead, the candidate they are campaigning for foots the bill.

Every single president in the history of our democracy has done this. Every single one of them.
If they're randomly finding Clinton related e-mails on Weiner's devices that are relevant to their investigation, seems like they weren't trying that hard in the first place.
I only looked at 2.. but honestly, that looked like the kind of code I got delivered from offshore teams. 3 lines of comments saying what a for loop will do, then 1 line to do the for loop. I would -1 most of that on a code review, and ask for comments that just describe what the code is doing to be removed.
The syntax reminds me of a language I played with many years ago called REBOL. Even some of the terminology is the same, like a "block".
This milestone is very much about making a programming environment, so you're right, that's still code. Though to address this strawman, compare that to what you would write in Java or even Python. Some of the best comments we've gotten is when we've shown people eve code and told them to ignore the symbols, just read the words. Their eyes really open up and they tell us pretty exactly what the block is doing. No, it's not all the way there, but that's a big step forward.

In any case, check out our followup on what Eve is and isnt [1] - we're under no delusion that this is the end user story... yet :)

[1]: http://programming.witheve.com/deepdives/whateveis.html
Maybe compilers shouldn't have stupid extensions that make it possible to crash/hang the compiler?
I wrote the script in question and actually used a simple shannon entropy value. (http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/868/calculatin...). It worked well enough help rule out several problem spaces.
The question is there really anything to "disrupt" and is the market worth it for a startup?

I live on a horse farm and as a result, need to buy hay. Our main "hay guy" is a farmer and his son who lives about 1/2 hour away, has great prices and charges a low fee (usually: sometimes he doesn't bother charging) for delivery. There are online hay markets, and Craigslist.

They don't bother with any of that. They just ask us to tell other horse owners about them so they have a market. When I drop by to pickup some hay, they are almost never there: I leave cash in the mailbox. If I don't have exact change and I overpay by $5, he gives it to me the next time.

There are many, many, many people who are perfectly happy doing business like this. They like their work, make enough money at it (going by the shiny new tractors!), and have no desire to get online or grow their business.

I have more anecdotes about other similar people I've dealt with just this week alone, but you get my point: many of these markets aren't remotely large enough to interest a VC and the participants only want to do business face to face.
I can sort of understand this sentiment, which is why I would instead encourage people to support https://minifree.org. Same hardware, but you know the software is under your control.

Want everything Lenovo laptops have to offer, but with software you the user can read and control? I don't have one myself, but I've heard good things, and X200s are not so old as to be unusable, especially with Linux.
But you can't flag down an Uber car on the street either.
Well, I think this sounds quite good, in fact it sounds so good that it is probably not true. And reading to the page, I stumble over the sentence

> An IDE like Medium, not Vim

Thing is, vim is not complicated because of some misplaced elitism, vim is complicated because it helps with complicated problems. (I am a zealot for the church of Emacs, when I say something "nice" about vim, it is because honesty or pointy objects force me.)

Unfortunately it goes downhill from there, it is nice that there is a way to visualize memory in five lines of code, but what about the memory of the following three processes (and the one thread in red and the others in some other color?) In my experience, there is a trade off between the power of a language and the impressiveness of the examples. (A better example would probably be the twitter api, does that mean I need to beg the core developers to talk to the next "slack for dogs" api?)

Then there is the "zoom" feature, I have not the slightest idea what that is supposed to mean. (Actually I have, I just don't think that this side of a strong AI coworker it is possible to hide information in any useful way. (Hiding information is just the inverse of zoom.)

And to top it of, there is a link to the demo and the first thing I notice is, scrolling is broken. (Arch, Firefox, NoScript with in this case all JS sources allowed) Well, the first thing a IDE should allow me to do is to display text in the most reliable way possible, even if that means more than one page. (Plus it is in a browser, which may or may not be only for demonstration purposes, but at the very least the browser uses the right mouse button to display browsery options not IDE options.)

After having fired up chromium, there the IDE works and it actually works kind of well. To keep with the overall negative tone of the comment, almost as good as Jupyter. The first thing I notice, is that one can switch code blocks on and off, but the output depends non linearly on the set of switched on code blocks. For this one would likely need some kind of toggles for sets of code blocks if it should be usable at all. (So to switch on extra test cases, or to test only one part of the program, etc.)

In conclusion, it is a nice project and I wish the devs all the best. Hopefully one of these days someone manages to get literate programming to work. But I think that there are quite a few things which make me doupt that this is, what makes literate programming work in the end.
That's exactly the problem. Twitter is a serious place in fact if it wasn't for shared professional interests twitter would have died out earlier on. It was once people realized they could connect with people they shared interest with that it started to gain traction.

But the problem is that people don't spend time on twitter and twitter doesn't encourage people to spend time there. Instead they push people off twitter to somewhere else which means they spend less time on the platform and more time on others platforms.

This is opposite of Facebook where you debate the articles on the actual platform.
Obama called it rigged in 2008.
The only thing that really bums me out about the new MacBook Pro not having regular ol' USB ports is that I'll need a dongle for my Yubikey. That sucks, but not enough for me to really give an actual shit.
> If I had to be in a wreck, it would be in an S class. Hands down.

Most "car guys" you talk to would say the exact same thing. The luxury flagships are super-interesting from a technology standpoint. You can look at them and see what new features will be coming to Camry's and Taurus's in the next decade or so.
I've had recruiters tell me that many hedge funds have a cut off of $500,000/year bonus for looking for programmers, ie they won't interview programmers who haven't had a bonus of more than $500,000 in a year as they feel it provides one of the better hiring signals.

Sounds as ridiculous as Hollywood casting.

Seems like this would create a "Moneyball"-style opportunity for a hedge fund to actually invest in tech management, hire more objectively, and build a development team that's composed of talent that works well together rather than a random cast of prima donnas who won't get out bed for less than $1MM.
It's pretty much all about the nerdy reference.
There are obvious technical contributions: completely anonymous transactions, which hasn't been done before.
That doesn't really answer the question. You don't need first-hand experience to know that government red tape is onerous. It was flatly predictable that the NHTSA -- the government agency concerned with roadway safety -- would make such inquiries. So why didn't Comma work with the NHTSA and get their blessing before announcing a release date?

I mean yeah, it sucks that the government is so darn picky about things, but that's not an excuse to just skip the process. They should have hired someone like you from the start to ensure that their ducks were in a row when they were ready to release.
I think uber going under would lead to a bunch of other competitors entering the market and (hopefully) following the law a little better.
Tesla probably has a dozen people whose sole job is to interact with NHTSA.
The hidden, deadly cost of working with low-value clients
I have a tool I'm working on that is specifically geared towards assisting the transcription of printed books to braille for The Clovernook Center for the Blind [1] built on top of Atom as an extension.

A super-rudimentary basic version will be something I finish when I've the time in the coming months. I was hoping to get some interested from the blind community and get ideas for further OSS work involving that general space (editors).
It's a bit more than that. Function names are precisely encapsulation of the intent of the function. And unlike comments, function names are not subject to rot.

Also addresses are not like names. As with names in general, a name can refer to more than one object. (Consider modules, for example.)
You also need DNS64 which basically adds DNS NAT on top of the IP NAT making it an even worse hack (also breaks DNSSEC if you care about that). NAT64 may be a valid option for large, complex networks but on a smaller scale simply add v6 on top of the NAT setup you already have.
I appreciate the larger point, but the iron example seems pretty unfair.

Soylent is designed to be nutritionally complete as a sole food, or 'neutral' as part of a larger diet. That is, drinking a bottle of Soylent will reduce all of your remaining nutrition needs by the same proportion.

The result is that the balance of a diet hinges on the non-Soylent parts. If the man with too much iron and the woman with too little maintained the same (relative) diet without Soylent, they would still be unhealthy. More broadly, you can't say that a food is inherently unhealthy just because it doesn't fit into a specific slot in your diet. (You could say it's generally unhealthy for having bad nutritional balance, but that's not the case with Soylent.)

The more reasonable criticism here is of Soylent as whole-diet replacement. That's something that Soylent actually can't do, because specific nutrition needs don't vary in lockstep. If one person needs more calcium, and another needs more magnesium, Soylent can't possibly provide like a more flexible diet could.

So I agree that Soylent could have built out a more personalized (or customizable) product, with better results for many users. But I don't think it's fair to appeal to imbalances elsewhere in a diet and demand that Soylent resolve them.
"This technology can do for cooperation what the Internet did for communication two decades ago."

Huh? Why? How? It's an altcoin with more anonymity than Bitcoin. That's nice, but no big deal.

I went to hear Tromer's talk on the theory behind Zcash at Stanford last Wednesday.[1] There were a lot of very strong claims and a lot of hand-waving. I'm not an expert in that area, but the claims were awfully strong and the presentation didn't back them up sufficiently. Here's his key paper.[2] He claims, at least, to have developed a new way to generate cryptographically strong hash functions. See section 1.1 of that paper. That's a hard problem. Of the existing crypto-grade hash functions, Snefru, MD2 (128-bit), MD4, MD5, RIPEMD, HAVAL-128, and SHA-0 have all been broken, and SHA-1 is looking weak. Solving that problem alone would be a noteworthy achievement. So where's Tromer's proposed hash function, evaluated by the crypto community?

On the financial front, the insiders take a 20% rakeoff of new Zcash coins for the first four years. That's a huge cut for a financial product. The investors include Roger Ver, the convicted felon who publicly said Mt. Gox was sound. What could possibly go wrong?

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/
[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/580.pdf
People and businesses in countries like Venezuela, where the native currency is volatile and under strict government control, use cryptocurrencies. They're more stable (not as stable as USD/EUR though) and easier to transact (particularly cross-currency).
Eh, I dunno. A ton of things have turned up in the Podesta emails (as well as the FBI docs) that are seriously damaging. And then it turned out there are DKIM signatures, which are valid, which rebut the claims of 'tampering' some had floated.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/33821
"But if the objective is to connect emails-Benghazi and conflate the two in voters’ minds (which consultants feel is an imperative here), I’m not sure we know whether we can credibly do that"

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/31077#efmAABABT
Subject: Fwd: POTUS on HRC emails
we need to clean this up - he has emails from her - they do not say
state.gov

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/23327
Reluctant to go there. Makes it seem like she consciously went to the home server for security reasons which would fall apart under scrutiny.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9545
Think we should hold emails to and from potus? That's the heart of his exec privilege. We could get them to ask for that. They may not care, but I seems like they will.

https://vault.fbi.gov/hillary-r.-clinton/hillary-r.-clinton-...
"[Redacted] indicated he had been contacted by [Kennedy], Undersecretary of State, who had asked his assistance in altering the e-mail's classification in exchange for a 'quid pro quo,'"
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/12803

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/24353#efmAAMABc...
Note: Sources include Western intelligence, US intelligence and sources in the region.
(Sounds like classified info...)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6185
Someone here just got a tip that the State Department may be planning to release her Benghazi emails tomorrow or Monday.
(Leaking info...)

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22335
Finally, just for humor value, it looks like Podesta got might have gotten hacked by using p@ssw0rd as his password.
Led by a16z [1], and I think the partner is Chris Dixon.

[1]: https://medium.com/@cdixon/comma-ai-e62eea5fa8d2
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