skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been using an XPS 13 9350 for around 6 months now, coming from an 13" 2015 MacBook Pro. I picked up a basic FHD core i5 model with 8GB of RAM on sale, replaced the WiFi chip with an Intel 8260NGW and replaced the 128GB SSD with a 256GB Samsung 950 Pro NVMe. All said and done, I spent less than $1,000.

Ubuntu 16.04: Pretty much works flawlessly as long as you have Intel WiFi- I had some issues with a flashing screen at first but they all seem to have been resolved using `apt-get upgrade`. Suspend/resume, audio controls, and brightness controls all work fine. I run docker images for pretty much everything and it's great to have native docker without a VM involved.

Physical Characteristics: It is very light and easy to use on the lap, on the couch, or in bed. It feels more like a MacBook Air than a MacBook Pro. Fans are on the bottom but they don't really spin up that much, even when I don't have anything under it.

Keyboard and Touchpad: Keyboard is fine. Touchpad is a lot smaller and more "clicky" than a MacBook Pro. The force touch on the MacBook Pro is way better (it's pretty much the gold standard of touchpads).

Screen: I have the FHD screen because I don't care about touch, and it is Matte (the QHD+ touchscreen is glossy). DPI scaling in Ubuntu 16.04 is hit or miss. In my experience, some apps, like Chrome, only respect DPI Scaling if it's in multiples of 0.5 Other apps, like Firefox only respect DPI scaling if it's an even number. JetBrains products do a good job of respecting DPI scaling though. I keep it at 1x DPI scaling, so everything looks pretty small at 1920x1080. If you go with the QHD+ touchscreen, native resolution is 3200x1800 so 2x DPI scaling will be an effective resolution of 1600x900, and it will look great. I think most apps should work fine at 2x DPI scaling.

Webcam: The webcam location really is stupid. I dislike video chatting on this computer so much I'd rather use my phone. I use Android and kind of miss iMessage and FaceTime from the mac (it's how I would talk to some Apple friends), but whatever.

Other Thoughts: Linux FTW. IMO, the last good release of OS X was 10.6.8. Everything after that either changed the scrolling direction or added some sort of bloat to the OS. I'd run 10.6.8 still if I could. Ubuntu 16.04 feels like getting your life back. It's super quick, you can use apt-get to install dev tools instead of hacking around with homebrew, you get the real version of `sed`, and you don't feel like Apple controls your life anymore. Gotta say it twice- native Docker support and no messing around with VMs anymore!

Take the leap of faith and get the XPS 13. Or a Lenovo with good linux support. Part of me wants to try out the big ass trackpad on the new MacBook Pro but none of me wants to go back to paying $2k every time I want to upgrade my laptop.
This thread might be as good as any to point out:

* There is an enormous quantity of culture locked into Facebook posts

* Since Facebook's graph API have been shut down, there exists no API-based way to export _other people's data_. You can get whatever you personally have posted to FB, but none of what _other people_ have posted.

* Individual posts might be scraped, and present in archive.org ,but people's / pages' indices are not available for non-logged-in users

* Social networks have a typical lifecycle of 5-10 years; and their shutdown can happen in a very short timeframe, see eg. geocities ; but imagine that without any accessible index, making full archiving impossible

* This implies, that if/when FB goes down, so will a major slice of Internet Culture circa 2008-2016

* If you have any suggestions, or partial solutions to this, please kindly post it to http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/37036/self-h... .
there is also something called Crofton formula which extends the logic of the needle hitting a line

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crofton_formula
Deleting random lines of code? That's like the bogosort of machine learning.
I have an XPS 15 9550 with the 1080 display. Its fine.

Honestly for me nothing compares to the experience of a Mac trackpad in macOS (gestures, tracking, palm rejection, etc). I got it a year ago and had to wait months for Linux support of the Skylake CPU to get mainlined. Battery life is much worse under Linux than Windows neither of which compare to macOS and the default Windows 10 install is garbage using Software raid even if you only have one drive.

The Windows 10 drivers and bios updates also took months to resolve. When I first received it it had loud fan noises when charging and buggy suspend and resume. Also I had intermittent blue screens until I did a fresh reinstall without the raid setup.

Sure its cheaper (I got mine for $1600) and some people may find the hardware equal to the MacBook (I wouldn't say so but it's a matter of taste I guess?) But, in no way does the set it and forget mentality apply.

Of course if you are thinking about running Linux as your daily this may not be a big factor for you to begin with.

Edit: I wonder if the people who have had good experiences with it have never owned a modern MacBook. I see some comments who match my experience directly for instance the comment that mentions no automatic brightness/keyboard backlight controls. Something you don't even think about until you try to switch away from the Mac.
Mixers often have limited anonymity sets, can sometimes be scams, are opt-in. We are seeing improvements in trustless mixers, but a fully anonymous currency is a very different beast.

zCash offers a level of anonymity beyond anything we have seen (Monero hasn't activated CT yet). Systems with similar properties as zCash ([see auditable eCash](http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~amnon/Papers/ST.crypto99.pdf)) have been discussed since the late 90's, today marks the first time to my knowledge one has been deployed in production. This is a big deal. I'll raise a glass to the zCash team.

tl;dr zCash is a very impressive cryptographic achievement.
FiveThirtyEight is extremely biased.
Perhaps I can be one data point for you. I install & service EMS systems(automated controls) for big box retail stores. This does not necessarily make me smart, just knowledgable of what can be done w/out a new SaaS mining my life. My home automation? A programmable Tstat(with adaptive controls disabled) & a couple photovalic night lights. Anything more for <10,000 sq ft is just trivial, IMO. Perhaps that just makes me lazy. What consumer level automation offers is sub-par potential designed to foster reliance on a SaaS provider, and most often making me & my life the product for sale is their best working achievement. No thanks.
Banks refuse to hire people on the basis that they don't charge enough? Sounds like bad logic coming from a financial institution.
Oh god, it's going to have to be on the structural reports.

"House is at risk from subsidence and there's Heartbleed in the heating system"
One of the most striking things about this report is the scale that GitHub has now reached: the whole incident apparently lasted only 10 minutes, but during that time 17 million requests were sent to their git proxy.

It's obviously unfortunate in this case, since even a relatively small and quickly fixed bug affecting a tiny proportion of requests still had serious consequences.

However, it's a remarkable achievement (if also a little terrifying for the software development industry from a single-point-of-failure perspective).
You've misread the thread. We're talking about the planet, not the fact we all get to live to 100.
Not blind, but interested!
Interesting choice of words!
Even if you literally have nothing valuable to hide, consider that a hacked device on your network could be used for malicious things like DDOS, hosting illegal content, proxies for other attacks, etc etc.
Both Clinton and her supporters have been rather obviously laying the groundwork to challenge the results if they lose with claims about Russia hacking election systems and conspiring to support Trump. (I'm still not sure how having a list of voters is meant to help Russia with this if casting fake votes is really that hard, but never mind - this election is post-truth anyway.) The real difference is there's no chance in hell she'd be stupid enough to admit that.
Once again, we are talking about the former Secretary of State and government emails. In that context, it is not reasonable for her to claim that she wouldn't have applied her intimate knowledge of the indicators of classified/confidential materials to the email in question. We won't agree on this, at least until after the election when perhaps many Clinton supporters like yourself will be free to acknowledge simple, unassailable facts about your candidate.
We aren't talking about the true population though. You can't use z-scores, not that it would make a huge difference.

FiveThirtyEight is extremely biased however, and greatly oversamples Democrats.
Older discussion, but from arstech: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12818002
Thank you for doing this before I had a chance to!
This feels much like laws that already exist around Attractive/Public Nuisances. A compromised device DDOSing is interfering with others' right to be able to access the internet. The users themselves would in turn have much more impetus to seek remedies, legal or otherwise, to get the devices fixed because they'd then be without the ability to use devices they paid for. In a lot of ways, doing this would put more pressure on the manufacturer, because they would have much less room to wriggle out of their responsibility to ensure their device is actually usable.
DNS-based key discovery has already been invented twice: PKA and OPENPGPKEY. Nobody is using it.
It has an obvious problem: DNS is not secure. There is DNSSEC, but it's practically undeployed on clients, therefore building on it doesn't make sense.

GPG recently added support for key discovery via HTTPS (Web Key Service, WKS). That goes in the right direction, because it takes the best deployed working authentication system - the web pki - and bootstraps from there.
Sooner or later they'll get around to integrating this into systemd.

/jk

...hopefully...
I'm surprised no one has linked to this already, but Ars: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/the-xps-13-de-dell-co... has a pretty thorough review.

If we're talking about MBP replacements, Purism also has an interesting one: https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-13, but they're much smaller than Dell.
Why do you think Windows is a tire fire and OSX is usable?

I used my first OSX machine ever earlier this year. I wanted to add some extra keyboard commands, so I had to download a 3rd party program that had to unlock accessibility controls and essentially take full control of the machine. That's absurd to me.

I also hit tons of external display problems. Things wouldn't connect or sync right, desktops not correctly moving to the right screens, no window snapping even though it's a high res screen, etc.

I hit way more beach balls/lags than I do with my modern Windows machines.

Windows 7 was solid, Windows 8 was a bit of a mess (as has been every 1st iteration of Windows [98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10]), but Win 10 is really enjoyable.

It's unfortunate that the BSODs caused largely by shitty drivers in Windows 98/XP has hounded the Windows ecosystem for over a decade, even though the driver verifier has fixed the vast majority of those.
Those were bad, but there are differences that matter:

The law has changed. Requirements were less strict back when email was new and exotic. We don't punish people for violating laws passed after the not-yet-crime is done; this would violate the constitution.

Bush and Powell were not under investigation, and thus didn't destroy evidence while under investigation.

Bush and Powell didn't have the issues with classified material, possibly excepting one disputed Powell email.
...which makes me wonder whether Trump has any "view" at all about foreign wars that kill thousands of civilians.

The fact that he never had to worry about such stuff doesn't bode well for his ability to handle such stuff.
Yah, and then consider the m3/m5/m7, x3/x5/x7, Pentium and celeron brands are all still available.

Its the same with the xeon line, where you really have to dig into the details to know what the difference is between a E5-46xx and a E7-48xx. Early on it seemed like intel was going to use E3=1 socket, E5=2 socket, E7>2 socket, but then they started bluring the lines. And then there are all the secondary features like extended availability of a SKU which isn't even broken down on the ARK matrix.

Then of course it changes every month or so when they add a couple new ones and remove a couple old ones. No wonder everyone is confused, half us here are computer geeks, and we need the internet to determine the difference between most of the part numbers. To average users, its complete crap. Worse, since so many of them are similar, you have to look at heaps of benchmarks to determine if some random i7 is actually faster than some random i5/whatever..

Basically, it seems to me that intel has far to many people in product segmentation/marketing and they could use some serious housecleaning. Do we really need 500 (probably worse that that) SKU's varying in one feature or another? They could rip out every other clock rate stepping and no one would really notice, heck they could rip out 1/2 the core count ones too.
Multivitamins are starting to get the stink-eye from medical science [1][2]

There's argument to be made for supplementing a known deficiency, but it seems as if you're better off eating it in food rather than a supplement.

[1]: http://annals.org/aim/article/1789253/enough-enough-stop-was...

[2]: http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/07/the-vitami...
Even if it wasn't non-technical people, it seems the pop culture of "hacker" attracts all the worst stereotypes of geeks. The really sharp ones don't seem interested in self-identifying as "hacker".
I hate this, federated systems feel so much better for controlling your own security, your own policy.. everything.

Third parties should be avoided imho, it's like nobody has ever suffered vendor lock-in these days.
I have xps 9550 FHD with 512GB SSD and 16GB RAM. I installed Ubuntu gnome 16.10. Everything worked out if the box. I even played steam games on Linux (like firewatch). I get around 6 hours of Rails and Ember development.

I think it's really good machine.
Give them an inch and they will take a mile.

Do not underestimate how much a system like that is abused and that is where the problem is with not allowing anonymous transactions.

As much as I'd like to stop terrorism and activities that really are immoral to society as a whole, you can't circumvent the security of the people who are good because it's proven those systems become abused in ways that it was not originally intended.
Googlability? (Like flattr, grindr, etc).
Depends entirely on perspective - for a student just getting into photography, buying a DSLR from Canon is pretty evenful and a significant portion of their income/savings.

For a young professional, buying a $35k car is probably just as eventful and significant to their savings/expenditure.
Trolling? Soylent -> Soylent green -> Movie where you grind up poor people and turn them into food -> Cannibalism -> Known vectors for prion diseases.
I'm typing this on a 2013 macbook. I use it everyday/allday. I also have a fully functioning Asus laptop from 2009. I'm reasonably confident my 2005 inspiron is still kicking. Those two laptops are still running on their original charger. I'm on my third macbook charger in 3 years. 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.

In regards to software, Windows XP support lasted 13 years. OSX comes out with a new version every year. Over the last few years, each is buggier than the last. Ever since Mavericks, I wait 6 months into each release for them to fix the load of bugs before I actually do the upgrade. El Capitan, especially, was just an all-around mess.

I love this computer, but I can still effortlessly criticize it in both hardware and software. They are simply not what's made the macbook stand out against a sea of black laptops.
Yes, mostly overkill and team learning curve. I just needed a simple, higher abstraction for storing API keys and secrets.

Integration with a CI bot is another consideration.
Of course the "internet of things" is kind of a joke right now. What with the lack of any sort of standardization it is unlikely that the owner will be able to usefully control things much less some remote attacker.

Unless the attacker doesn't want to use the IoT device for its usual purpose, but instead as, say, a vehicle for a DoS attack, or an attack path into other devices connected to the same home network.
If i'm using the F keys, it already is.
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Wow, lots of potential here. Will definitely reach out.
You don't know anything about their internal network.

TLS is not the only game in town.
Show HN: Authentileaks: find authentic emails from Wikileaks' Podesta leak
Haven't done it myself, but I would probably have a git post-receive hook trigger a service (jenkins?) to pull down and decrypt the secret repo and update vault
I actually do not care for the Algolia search functionality. The previous search worked far better.

Algolia has suggestion features built-in which cannot be disabled (synonyms? autocorrect?) which will return content that perhaps does not much what the user really wants if they want an exact search. This behavior is especially important to developers since our terminology does not match the English (the language of HN) vocabulary many times. Try searching for the product "logsene", which is simply an example. Quoting words, such as what Google uses, does not work all the time.
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Sure, but if you verbalized what they were saying "Here's our spokesperson, Mahatma Gandhi" and they say, brought out some actor dressed as the guy telling you how great the iPhone 7 is at the keynote, most people would probably find that in terrible taste.

The ones with civil rights leaders were particularly offensive. Yes, lining up for a new laptop is just like apartheid and the march on Selma. I mean honestly, how garish and impertinent can you get.
if you mean the generic backend(a place to store secrets), they do not last a fixed amount of time, they are there forever.. there is a TTL, but vault does not erase anything that outlives it's TTL. Locally we just touch the TTL whenever we access it, in case someday the TTL's are followed and secrets get erased.

TOKENS however do get killed at the end of their TTL. But you can renew tokens forever if you allow for that.
Alpha do not work very well. You still can install old 4.3 version, work better than new version under Win 10.

Skype need to be some kind of amazing mismanagement where with such simple product they keep losing quality. To compare Curse/Discord for games work and look way better.
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Wouldn't an effective countermeasure to this also be knowing what types of neighboring cell reads are vulnerable and forcing reads on those instead? Bonus points if the reads pull in to the cache data that is actually useful to sequential access.
"PCI-DSS requirements apply" isn't adequate in a literate program for the same reason that "must work correctly" isn't adequate. Explaining the relevant requirements in detail is a crucial goal.
Ironically (because of the Macbook announcement) if Microsoft had chosen to go with previous generation Intel processors, they probably could have avoided those firmware issues. Those are mostly ironed out now, no thanks to Intel.
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Surprise: Virtually all laptops are modelled after an Apple machine. The boxy black ones are PowerBook clones. Apple established the dedign language used by every laptop manufacturer since, in the early 90s: clamshell case, hinge at the rear, keyboard towards the back of the lower half with the trackpad front and center and all that wonderful blank space on either side usable as wrist rests.
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SG Operations member here.

We're extremely aware that this isn't ideal, and is more or less the first thing we're working on fixing. It's why we have this listed both under "Causes for Concern" and "Strategic Improvements". The order of those issues isn't done so by importance :)
The thing is, hardware is important but software is arguably more important because it's what you interact with every day (yes, you interact with the hardware too but not directly, besides the keyboard and touch pad). In that respect, I trust Apple more than either Microsoft or Google. I will not trust Google with any of my data unless it's necessary and Microsoft isn't so great in my eyes either due to their ad and data collection policies for the new Windows OS.

I think Macs are designed very well, even though I do question the decisions of the new MacBooks, and I would prefer to have a little bit more than 4 USB ports and thin laptop. I also really like Mac OS, even with it's thorns, because its design is much better than whatever version of Linux I would use (not a big fan of Ubuntu's Unity). Most likely, my next laptop purchase will be either a 2015 MacBook Pro or some nice non-Apple product with Ubuntu installed.
He raped his ex wife then did whatever else and ran a bunch of scams. She gave out what she believed to be classified data in a system she clearly understands. Yet even if neither understands their crimes are crimes they are responsible for them under US law. If you want to fix US law and/or the election system then arrest them both. Then something has to be fixed or the system has to run with no inaugurated president. The system functioning with no president is an even better reform in my book.
Ah. I haven't used Skype in a while, and was unaware of the new situation.
Nowadays, TB2 hubs are not cheap (200-300 EUR) and I don't expect TB3 to be cheap either. Just USB3 hub does not cut it, it will be a while until you will be able to connect displays using USB3.

Even today, I'm using two TB2 ports and one USB port (i.e. three ports on the computer) because: 1 x miniDP (no, most displays are not TB2 native and cannot daisy-chain with other TB devices), 1 x ethernet adapter (the Apple one cannot daisy-chain either), and USB hub for the rest.
I held a mere SECRET security clearance last summer (not even TOP SECRET, which is what Clinton has) and I had to go through weeks and weeks of training, aside from many friends and relatives being interviewed. The consequences of using personal devices to send even just OUO (Official Use Only ---- not even classified) information was pounded into our brains. We were told countless stories of people getting their clearances revoked and being fired for using personal USB drives, let alone servers.

No matter how you spin it, Hillary is either the most incompetent government official in the US, or she intentionally broke the law. I would bet more than 99% of individuals who hold clearances would agree with me.