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Get the 2015 MacBook Pro. You retain HDMI, SD card port, and normal USB ports. It's cheaper and the processor is so close to the new one that you won't notice the difference. If GPU performance is important, then I might consider the 2016 one. But then you still have to ask yourself if the price increase for the 2016 model is worth it over the 2015 model.

Wait a few years for USB-C to become a more widely used port. I can't imagine that Apple won't soon move the iPhone to USB-C (or they're waiting for wireless charging to get better).

I think that is why this story is getting so much press. People have been waiting for Apple to refresh Macs with something meaningful and all we got is a digital menu bar that could turn out to be a total gimmick (or developers never adopt it) and a substantial price increase from the previous generation. And on top of that, it just appears that Apple has no cohesive strategy for how Macs fit into the Apple ecosystem.

I have been using Macs since the 90s but this is the first time I'm thinking about switching to PC hardware and just running Linux. I have the 2015 model so I'll probably just wait for that to die and then switch.
When is the open source project to create self driving systems going to start? I feel very uncomfortable with private corporate AI driving me around and making decisions with my family's life in the balance. For me, I need to be able to see the code, change the code, change the weightings and priorities. I've been thinking about FOSS solutions to car computers a lot and it seems like it is really the only way to go if you care about freedom, security and privacy.
ok agreed USB-C is way forward,
what about..
-no usb typeB (iphone 7 cable)
-headphone jack mismatch (lightning to 3.5mm)
-no hdmi
-no sdCard Reader (dslr pic transfers.?)
they should sell a docking station as well., or wait for 802.11ad for wireless hdmi etc but wait no 7th gen intel processors as well. hmm Mac Pro should be called Mac TouchBar
The $21k is standard regulatory boilerplate and simply notes the maximum statutory rate.[1] If the NHTSA really wanted his company dead, they'd have already gone to a judge to get an injunction to shut him down.

Yes, regulatory capture exists, and incumbents often benefit from it. But I'm having trouble seeing how this particular case is a 'shake down' -- the NHTSA is simply asking him to follow the law, which he should be doing anyway.

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/03/01/2016-04...
It is clear that Apple is straying from its mission
Since the 90s, I've viewed Apple as the computer company that was breaking down the boundaries between humans and computers with capable technology. From the GUI to a Unix OS to the touchscreen; Apple was taking major steps to breaking down this boundary while the competition, Microsoft, was coming up with minor gimmicks with less reliable tech. Now it's the other way around!

The signs were showing, but I could not accept it until a worthy competitor appeared. The watershed moment came with COURAGE, but I reached the final stage of acceptance when Microsoft revealed the Surface Studio (and a host of other enticing gadgets) before Apple's pricey, dongle-loving, touch strip gimmick that is the MBP.

I'm feeling more and more confident in Satya's Microsoft. They're sticking through with the productizing of their research in multi-touch and 3D Augmented Reality. Their opening up of developer products (.NET is on GitHub and Edge was one of the first to fully support ES6) is bearing fruit. Now that Windows runs Ubuntu's userland, I don't have the lack of a Unix terminal to dissuade me from their OS.

Apple used to delight me with the smallest detail, but now they piss me off over the smallest fuck ups. Their gadgets now feel more like boundaries while Microsoft has been starting to break them down.
My problem is thus: I'm worried I won't like the new laptop and its going to decrease productivity.

I have a very small desire for change. I do like my existing mid-2014 15" MBP but I beat on them really hard so at almost 2 years old, it needs a replacement now.

I'm worried that I will basically end up in a position where I won't have anything that is a suitable replacement for this laptop when it breaks.

The lack of ANY USB ports is frustrating too. I have a hardware USB YubiKey Nano dongle that I leave permanently plugged into my computer for 2FA to various services. I don't want to loose the ability to do that (and I'm not even sure its physically possible to have something like that for USB-C -- its just too small)

I use vim for everything and thus obsessively use the esc key (yes, I know you can remap it, but I'll be fighting against 20+ years of muscle memory). Will the new virtual ESC key be enough? I hope so.

The lack of magsafe also really irks me. I used to destroy chargers like crazy before magsafe. Replacing magsafe with USB-C doesn't seem like a positive step to me.

I really want to love this computer, because I really don't see another option. I'm just worried that I won't and then I won't have any better options.
Yes, that is very much a thing and not at all uncommon.[1] Also, since you mentioned "tinfoil hat territory," I feel compelled to share this piece from MTV News about how many white conspiracies are history for black people.[2]

[1]: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/
[2]: http://www.mtv.com/news/2914420/white-conspiracy-black-histo...
They didn't do that on Thinkpads, though.
Wait, should I bring the point at which he said, during a national TV debate, that he would keep us in suspense about his decision to accept the outcome of the election? Then later state he would only accept it if he won? Maybe we should discuss the form on his website that says, “stop crooked Hillary from rigging this election.”?

How about his claims of voter fraud despite the fact that no evidence has been found?

>This is so blindly obvious to me and anyone else who's capable of a rational thought.

Ad hominen attack, but I suspect you support Trump.
FBI reviewing new emails in Clinton classified information probe
I'd say that the details still exist but they've been handled with a very powerful idea which is sane defaults triumphing over endless required specification. In most cases you still can reach the minutia, you just usually don't need to.

There's a difference between producing unambiguous behavior given a specific input and making it easy to create that input in the first place.

I'm with you along the lines of embedding defaults to reduce the boilerplate code needed to get a minimum working app, but there comes a point where this may end up requiring advanced coders to learn how to go deeper in order to override those defaults to get novel results. This could result in a language thats easy for a beginner to get started in but difficult for the intermediate to progress any further.
How much is "a lot"? This seems like a couple of engineer-days if it gets down into the dirty details, which isn't huge.

Ironically, if he hasn't done any such testing, the answers would be much easier to generate. "We haven't done any." Not that the NHTSA would take it well....
My point is that it is morally void, one candidate is doing it, the other isn't. That it's been done historically has absolutely zero relevance as to whether it is a moral thing to do (see literally any example of civil rights laws progressing over the past 300 years).
You missed the most obvious one: the test that determines "top" is crap.
What kind of battery life do you get on the W530 vs your 2013 MBP?
I hear Americans all the time telling themselves that they are bad at math. These are my friends and family. I tell people that I'm into math. >50% of the time the first thing someone says is "I'm bad at math."
I would have assumed that anyone serious about releasing this type of product would have made contact with the relevant government departments and worked with them along the way to ensure they meet the requirements.

Also, the documentation being asked for is something the company should be able to put together fairly easily because they ought to have asked and answered these questions along the way to building the product.
Lets assume I am an engineer that has decided I want to transition my career and devote my career to helping non-profits because I will be professionally happier. What could I do to demonstrate to you my commitment and interest in this new career path?

Maybe I could show how much I care about the cause, by volunteering at an event. Or helping out running a fundraiser.

I'd ask yourself the same question for engineering.

I think a good answer would be something like:
"I thought building cool web frontends was a really interesting problem, so I taught myself the basics (books, online courses, classes) and built (INSERT THING HERE) to build the kind of thing I would love to see in the world."
where can you get offered a Lifetime Employment Contract?
Well, that was still my first thought when I hit "without other sources of iron". One bottle per day of Soylent can't fix up the variation in the other 75% of your calories. I don't call Wheaties unhealthy for being low on protein, because balanced nutrition has to be calculated across a whole diet.

Having said that, it is alarming that Soylent can't possibly be a balanced replacement for everyone. A custom product would have been an interesting possibility for doing that.
An app to remember any longtime bet : I bet à dîner in a French restaurant than in 2020 the Russian team will have more golds medals than Usa . Then on august 2020 an email reminder is sent to the participant
> Go look at the reason.

Okay.

"Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. Prosecutors necessarily weigh a number of factors before bringing charges. There are obvious considerations, like the strength of the evidence, especially regarding intent. Responsible decisions also consider the context of a person’s actions, and how similar situations have been handled in the past.

In looking back at our investigations into mishandling or removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts. All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here."[1]

Potential violations of statues, without criminal intent ≠ "inarguably highly illegal things".

> Go Google the rest yourself, it's not hard to find and I'm not going to waste my time trying to convince someone who can't be convinced.

Okay! Lets see, sources in the first two pages of google results for "clinton voting machines": zerohedge, usapoliticstoday, thepoliticalinsider, conservativedailypost, breitbart, inforwars, wnd, libertywritersnews, quora (lol), snopes (for obvious reasons), proudcons, theconomiccollapseblog, counterpunch, thecommonsenseshow, thegatewaypundit, ajc. Not that the "MSM" is completely unbiased, but openly partisan publications don't really constitute news sources to my mind. If there were really such blatant attempts at election rigging going on, I have faith that an impartial journalist with integrity would be looking into it and/or an adjacent party would have sufficient incentive to blow the whistle. It would be huge news.

> My comments are targeted at people reading this who might not be aware of the bullshit going on.

Don't think you'll find too many of those on HN, but good luck fighting the good fight.

[1]https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-b...
I am with you, the low end one looks more appealing to me.
I'm struggling with this comment. The article is a conversation answering this very question. A lawyer thinks it does violate the Act, because the Act makes this form of "targeted advertising" illegal.

I might of course disagree with that assessment, but I would defer to a lawyer to make a case why it wouldn't be illegal.
No, their wording is too ambiguous to make that distinction, and your interpretation seems to be the less-likely one.
> wiki-like overlay

so just a nice rendering of comment? sounds like it might be possible with syntax highlighting and markdown-enabled comments
ISPs don't assign IP addresses to most IOT devices; routers do. So there's one credibility problem with this letter right from the beginning.
Congratulations, by waiting a year to implement self driving cars, through overly burdening government regulations, you just killed ten thousand people.

What about those people? The people who WILL die in car accidents next year unless we do something about it. Screw them, right?
Black cabs are always more expensive than callable taxis, that's the way it works in the UK. You're comparing limes to lemons. Similar, but different and differently priced.

There's different rules between the two, that's why the black cabs tried to get a ruling saying that booking an uber was like hailing a taxi rather than booking it.

Many other taxi companies in the UK now have apps too and are pretty much the same price as Uber as far as I can tell in all the trips I've taken in Nottingham.
Wow, can you let me know which Surface book and Linux distro? I like the look of the new Windows laptops too but figured they would never run Linux :)
Finding a paying client
Even better for the company, if they fire someone even just before the end of the year -- no bonus at all for them. If they were to pay them the equivalent of the bonus in extra salary installments throughout the year, most of that money would be gone.
I am not sure I follow - is the implication that some "creepy" person I met at a bar/cafe/etc. who knows only my first name will somehow exploit $RANDOM_IOT_DEVICE in my home? Even if you allow that they might be able to ID me accurately (say with a phone camera), they'd need to find my IP (which changes regularly, DHCP from my ISP), get through the firewall, and compromise the device. That isn't impossible, but it would make a better subplot for Mr. Robot than something I should spend time worrying about. 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.
Agreed.

But to be fair, its based on two things:

1) No one just gives money away, especially to the programmers over the "traders". So if a programmer gets $500,000 you can be fairly certain more than a few people really think the programmer is worth it.

2) It's the people version of "No one ever got fired for buying IBM". Someone else has already vouched for this person, based on the compensation they gave the programmer. So if he/she turns out to be a bad hire, hey, not our fault, Citadel thought they were worth it.
Nftables – A new packet classification framework
Who’s Behind the Dating Site That Accused Julian Assange of Pedophilia?
I think people severely overestimate how a Trump presidency would play out in terms of "shocking" the system. And in the meantime, a Trump administration could do plenty of damage that have ripple effects on society for decades to come. (See: Supreme Court nominees)
Yes! I wrote about this in a widely-discussed ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H totally-unread blog post back in 2014: https://www.brinckerhoff.org/blog/2014/12/12/the-why-button/
On the other hand, the Netherlands is almost entirely Dutch speaking.
I recently built https://coloradodev.com to solve this problem for myself. Specifically, I wanted a jobs list that excludes staffing agencies and recruiters.
I have an issue with Hotz, since failoverflow conf about them breaking the PS3 crypto, I think he oversell his ideas to the uneducated iphone crowd and medias. I understand his attitude in wishing to push things forward, his disdain about large corps, governments, but he fails to deliver calm and solid proofs; mostly diss.

Domains like medicine, roads,... life critical engineering makes me feel the hacker way, reckless plan (path of least resistance) is wrong.
I don't understand how you can recommend a Mac to anyone anymore.

As you point out, Apple changed, and users who were the mainstay of the company were abandoned. That's Apple's right. But what makes you think the users you are recommending the Mac to won't be the next class of users Apple will abandon? And especially with Apple's increasing focus on iOS, the entire Mac line is probably at risk.

If this were a Dell you were recommending, and Dell decided to quit the computer market, the person you recommended to would switch to an HP and largely have a similar experience. Not so much with Macs, where switching means leaving the ecosystem altogether.

At this point the only people I can recommend Macs to are those who are completely invested in OSX. If you're new to the Mac I will actively dissuade you, because you're putting a lot of money to enter an ecosystem whose future has not looked more uncertain in over a decade.
SUN was like that too, they averaged one campus per month in hires.
Will we see a "myspace" museum? That would be neat.

I think the digital form of the artifacts left over from social networks and the vast amounts of data retained is something we've not seen before and don't know how to catalog just yet.

This new historian job that can handle large amounts of unstructured data sounds perfect for a machine.
> Opportunistic as in piggyback on active WiFi connection and non-idle state.

That's a reasonable approach, but due to the synchronous requirement I guess the offload factor would be minimal. When I want to download something I might as well enable wifi and see if it's available locally. After I'm done there's really no incentive for me to keep seeding or even have wifi turned on.

> P2P networks like Bittorrent pride themselves on being available despite high churn, so this is right up their alley.

This really isn't applicable to opportunistic mobile use of IPFS, as you are unlikely to have a large enough local swarm to guarantee uptime or availability.
FBI probing new emails related to Clinton case
to summarize (and not included in the article)

so far: it's 3 emails, not from clinton, nor her email server, and from a device used by anthony weiner.
What's your use case? The way the blog post is written suggests that their method performs a decomposition of the timeseries into trend, seasonality, and error. They then create a confidence interval, that's probably based off moving smoothed mean and sd. The interface looks nice, but the math behind it is probably nothing special.

It's probably worth noting that the video and sample graphs show very smooth movement. I'd garner that many of the metrics you care about will not show this behavior in practice.
Yeah that project has been falling in and out of the store for over a year and a half.
Couldn't this be solved better by some form of web of trust (WoT)?

Say your car A trusts other cars B, C ... Y to varying degree in a WoT. It meets a brand new car Z that is not yet trusted by any cars A-Y. Car A receives a message from Z, to which it assigns 0 credence points, meaning this data is not taken into account in any decisions. If car A then makes an observation confirming the message, car A now trusts Z by +1 point, and lets other cars know this. (I'm unsure how to make aggregation/distribution of trust work smoothly, but I believe the random mixing of traffic patterns will work in the system's favor.)

So gradually car Z becomes trusted, up to some maximum, e.g. 100. The only worry then is a malicious actor who mostly sends true messages, but that's hard to distinguish from a car with a sometimes faulty sensor. Those problems could be handled the same way, namely aggressively penalising a car for sending incorrect data (e.g. by -30), such that it's quickly distrusted, together with a prominent warning in the failing car when it goes below 0 trust that it needs maintenance (after which trust would be reset to 0). Possibly also increased insurance premium if your car remains with a trust below 0.
it might be the cynic in me, but I have trouble myself thinking that a presidential candidate (especially one associated with the currently empowered party) is going to get the same scouring precision that the FBI gives to 'Mr or Ms. Random Bomber'.
There's nothing clickbait about it. No one knows how the cryptographic algorithm it invented works. It's very, very difficult, perhaps impossible, to reverse engineer neural networks. They also don't claim it's an advance for strong cryptography, it's just interesting experiment with NNs.
We never had the PE title.

In any case, a software engineer still has legal liability. Maybe someone who works on mission-critical systems can comment more specifically here. Maybe it's contract based vs standardized.
And all people on zero-hours contracts love that and all children who worked in factories were violently against being sent to school.
I have a 100% perfect safety record over probably hundreds of thousands of miles of driving a class B truck with my knees instead of my hands, using cruise control, on straight empty highways in Nevada, Idaho, and Utah, with perfect weather and good road conditions. There's nothing revolutionary about my ability to perfectly drive with my knees...I just very carefully selected the conditions where I was willing to do it.
Free Software network services and web apps that can be hosted locally
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An endless parade of drama and hyperbole...
I don't think it'll be "any day", from what I've heard online it's more likely to be Q1/Q2 2017.
I like Windows 10 and have been using it regularly for a few months with no problems at all. I recently used an old laptop which still had Windows 8 installed (maybe 8.1?) and that device was nearly unusable. What a disaster. Constraining the entire Desktop to an app may have been the worst decision I have ever seen in a tech product.
Yes, actually that is what you are doing. Natural selection is that simple. I think you are confused by the fact that sometimes the goals of "health" and "passing on genes" overlap. However "passing on genes" (or what ever the analogous "building block" is if you are using a genetic algo for something) is the only underlying "purpose" of evolution. There really isn't any more nuance required.. but go ahead, Im all ears..er eyes. If you don't want to write an essay just post up a link. Im curious if there is actually something out there leading you this way or if you are just "saying stuff".
For the record, I don't support Trump. I think it's highly likely he has sexually assaulted women in the past, I think he's tremendously unqualified to be president, his plan to lower corporate income tax is complete bullshit, and even if he hasn't explicitly said anything racist (I'm not informed enough to say either way) I think it's awful that he's cultivating racists around him unapologetically.

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.
To provide some clarity about Powell:

1. He used a personal, private email address--note a personal, private email server.

2. This was the norm to use a private address, yes. However, policies changed after Powell left and no longer permitted this kind of behavior.

3. Clinton and her staff blatantly ignored these policies and took it a step further by using her own personal, private email server.

4. Powell only used the email address to handle non-classified material. Clinton handled classified material on her email server.
Not only can usb-c replace HDMI, it now is a straight pin through to HDMI. No chips needed.

http://www.hdmi.org/manufacturer/HDMIAltModeUSBTypeC.aspx
Like creating a portfolio, right? Good idea, thanks!