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Which version? I've got XPS 13 9350 and it's been a constant pain. Boot time is very slow [0], bluetooth connectivity is weak, I've got constant graphic glitches when on battery. Latest update of the video driver introduced annoying coil noise, I had to downgrade. Actually I have two XPS 13s at home and both of them have some issues.

I'm also using Dell Thunderbold Dock TB15 and it drops video output and USB connections after 3h (because of heat) [1].

Of course I've got everything updated.

I had an excellent experience with XPS 12 years ago but this 9350 is constantly driving me crazy. I would certainly not recommend it.

[0]: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/...

[1]: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/p/...
Well properly understanding why certain number systems work (fractions, negative numbers) requires some understanding of set theory, and the great mathematicians of the past struggled with a lot of these concepts we take for granted (negative numbers, complex numbers). It's unrealistic to expect high school teachers to understand these foundations.
Ubuntu Core 16 Release Candidate 2 (with Pi and more)
That's basically admitting a lot of tech companies have the same mentality as snake oil salesmen.
That's like saying I'm lazy because I prefer sometimes doing a dance class over just running on the treadmill.

There's more than one way to do things. That said, drills are important. You do have to practice at some point. But if it's the -only- thing that's used, as it is in some classes I've taken, it's boring and harder to retain the information. And in my personal experience, I've seen that sticking with -only- that method can sometimes be counterproductive. It's avoiding the depth of understanding needed for actually applying the math.
To me, it's not slower, performance almost exactly matches the blocking version. I'm on i7 Macbook Pro and Chrome.
Uber drivers should get holiday pay and minimum wage, tribunal rules
I'd be happy if they just released it DRMfree on GOG or something. It existed long before tying your game to Steam's API was ever a thing. I'd buy it again, especially if it was the original version (before they killed LAN multiplayer).

I mean, have we really learned nothing from tying our multiplayer to GameSpy?

Open source would be best, but I'm sure they want to re-release it on every DRM cloud platform to pop up for the next 20 years. Also, legal, etc.
All of a sudden, microsoft's surface studio demo makes a ton of sense.
Bitter Tasters (those of us that actually taste Phenylthiocarbamide unlike the rest of you lucky bastards) are destined to grow old, i guess..
In response to your last comment, you should check out https://github.com/icodeforlove/task.js. It will do that and much more.
That's not how you should think about this.

It's 2.8 seconds of unresponsiveness vs. 0 seconds of unresponsiveness.
Humans stink at reading.
Means nothing because it doesn't differentiate positive engagement from negative. Trump is so widely hated and mocked around the net that I'm not at all surprised he has a very high level of engagement.
In my experience web workers aren't noticeably slower than regular JS (apart from the cost of copying any shared memory back and forth).

They're slower in this demo (for some people but not others), but microbenchmarks in JS are very hard to to do right, and I don't think the author here was trying to make an accurate ubenchmark.
I wonder if MS finds a way to port open source Linux apps in Windows 10.
You can't comment like this on Hacker News, and we ban accounts that do so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Doesn't matter to me. If they did that to 'consumers' I don't trust them even if I am a 'professional'. Ethics are not selectively applied.

The arguement that they would never be stupid enough to do that to big corporate customers doesn't help me because I am not a big corporate customer.
AMD reveals Radeon Pro 400 series GPU specs, as used in new MacBook Pro
What to look for in a technical co-founder
Clevo reseller?
If you're in a rollover you won't have great control over your arms in the first place, so if your windows are open there's a good chance they'll be going out the window at some point. If you watch professional drivers in accidents, they attempt to cross their arms across their chest to keep them from flopping around.
NNs/ANNs/DNNs/xNNs have already[0] been framed as easily fooled.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.1897.pdf
After Chernobyl, Soviet architects built a new ideal city on humanist principles
Here is the key section of the Uber judgement: https://twitter.com/TorstenBell/status/792001675674394624/ph...
Renaissance dilletant
If you'd like an individual take on secrecy and inventions from a bootstrap / one-guy perspective, I wrote an informal essay discussing a lot of the questions and concepts you touch upon:

https://medium.com/@6StringMerc/why-i-keep-secrets-as-a-wann...
>And anyone pointing to a specific version will still see that rather than the new one.

That's an IPFS Hash tho, not IPNS. Differences matter.

>I think that's a bit strong.

Over time your IPNS could very well become your identity, linked everywhere in the net.

>IPNS doesn't give you the ability to edit content.

That is correct, but you can point at arbitrary content.

It's basically the equivalent to controlling the DNS A entry to a website, they can't modify the content and it's available under the same IP but they can still do a shitload of bad stuff because few people bother to actually link IP addresses.
Well I think it's an interesting meta-question.

Humans are good at figuring out why something works then creating a higher level abstraction that can be applied in lots of different situations. This saves us time because we don't have to re-derive the rules or constants each time we encounter a similar problem. We figure out "why" something works so that we can understand when to apply our abstraction to other problems that might or might not be similar in a meaningful way.

For a fast enough computer, there is little reason for it to develop any kind of high-level abstraction. It can re-derive the optimal solution whenever it needs it and the benefit is that it might be able to avoid local maxima that we would get stuck on because it doesn't try to apply an abstraction that only partially fits.

So when we look at something like this and say "we can't know why the computer did it this way" it almost doesn't make sense. The computer did what it did because it figured out that was the best solution - it doesn't understand the concept of "why".
I'll have that as well, usually with a soylent. An apple and nuts just doesn't leave you feeling very full for long.
XPS 13 seems to refer to a pretty large number of completely different computers manufactured by dell (some of which of some pretty serious issues).
^[ is the keyboard escape sequence for ESC, I even prefer using it on keyboards with ESC keys since it's less of a reach. It's really nice for vim and evil-mode.
"Most people are not touch-typists"

Is this still really true? I thought that touch-typing is pretty much a mandatory educational requirement in large parts of the developed world, including the United States.
It's a little of both. It's a simple fact that the pound has plummeted against the dollar. You can claim that has nothing to do with Brexit, but it would be quite a coincidence.

Not that I'm complaining really. I'm a UK citizen but I work remotely for an American company and get paid in dollars. My income has actually increased by a nice amount because of Brexit. I get more pounds for my dollars than I used to.

That's not going to help me buy a new Macbook though, because Apple have raised prices to compensate.
Ubiquitous Language and the Joy of Naming
I bought a refurbished MacBook Pro over 6 years ago now. It was in perfect condition. My 2010 model is still going strong. When I bought it they had upgraded for free the RAM to 8GB and gave me the 7200 RPM drive as a nice surprise.
In my opinion, no. We can't even completely understand all of the chemical reactions (the Maillard reaction) involved in making toast at this point.

Sure, we do have a fair bit of nutrition knowledge right now, of course, and not everything natural is good for you, of course. However, current popular "natural food" at this point has been vetted through centuries of sampling and cross breeding. At this point I would consider it "more reliable" than processed MRPs (soylent powder is made of natural ingredients too but has been very heavily processed to get where it is) for that reason alone.

MRPs are okay every now and then, sure. Personally I would bet against using them all the time. Even in the bodybuilding community where whey protein supplements are popular, the consensus seems to be its much better to get your protein from a chicken breast if possible.
Come on, you might not like this, but calling it a "frivolous toy" is condescending at best.

As a developer, i'm extremely jealous. I've actually made something somewhat similar[0] with a physical keyboard because the idea of a set of keys that I can have do useful stuff is such a nice idea.

I would love it if not only was that set of buttons on my laptop, but that it was programmable and customizable per application (half of the keys on that keyboard only work in my IDE)

It might not be for you, but it's not useless.

[0]http://i.imgur.com/jQ72mEA.jpg Cut me some slack on the button functions themselves, I actually don't use a lot of them and want to re-do the layout for a while to get rid of them, but just haven't gotten around to doing it.
The "Sick man of Europe" in 1970s --and most famously-- was the UK, not Germany (which didn't happen until the 1990s and was attributed to re-unification, not any particular issues with manufacturing)

The original "sick man" was the Ottoman Empire, but pretty everyone has been hit with the title at one point.
I touch type around 90 WPM and never took a class on it. After years of video gaming my "home row" is resting my left hand on WASD and my right hand takes care of everything right of RFV. And like you said, ergonomic keyboards are basically unusable to me.
I do live in the "western world" if you term the Americas that.
My country isn't going to waste resources to hunt me down to get a couple dollars worth in taxes and they certainly aren't sending me to prison either ;)
I am surprised that most of these posts tend to gather recommendation for dell, and very few people mention the spectre which to me seems great and is on my shortlist of laptops to get when my old macbook finally kicks the can

How are you finding it in linux? does everything work well?

[edit] my perception of the x360 was based on the older models, after reading this[1] on the stylus issues on the newer ones I am starting to wonder now

[1]http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Video-Display-and-Touc...
The SBB Ticket machines already sell pre-paid phone top-ups and Paysafecards (cards that can be used for payment in some online shops). So this is really just adding another vendor (SweePay) to this platform.
I didn't really get into math until calculus, personally. There was this moment of realization that calc starts to describe the real world, opening up the ability to do all kinds of useful and interesting things. I ate up calc 1-3 and differential equations, even though I have no real use for them today. OTOH, my brain apparently just is not equipped to deal with proofs, either in mathematics or comp sci theory. They were always an enormous struggle for me.
I should've done the same. After 8 months of having it it still has a lot of very weird issues. I hoped Dell would somehow fix it with a firmware update but nope... everything is still the same.
New MacBook Pro Is Not a Laptop for Developers Anymore
You're right but there's also truth to what you quoted. I switched to Windows 10 earlier this year and before doing so I had concerns about privacy issues, malware, and the half-baked UI. The following three solutions somewhat addressed the privacy and malware concerns:

* https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

* https://www.malwarebytes.com/antimalware/

* https://www.glasswire.com/

I use Wox [1] as an Alfred replacement so most of my interactions with applications is via that. Other than that most of my time is spent in tiled browser windows, editors or IDEs, and terminals so I could really be using any OS. I wouldn't say it's perfect but using OS X and then Arch involved different compromises.

[1] https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/
That may be just a fig-leaf to plaster over 'we couldn't do it'. It's one thing to release software, it's quite another thing to release this software and have it tested, audited and certified safe and that's definitely part of the process of delivering software that is critical to the well being of the users and the other people you're sharing the road with.

And that second part is part-and-parcel of wanting to operate in this space.
Yes. In fact many systems unpack jars to a temporary directory first for this reason.

edit: I should add that this really only matters for large numbers and sizes of jars.
I do touch type. I do use the F keys with my IDE. I do not touch type the F keys.
By default, the function keys on MacBooks are bound to alternate functions; the F1/F2 keys adjust the brightness, F11/F12 volume, etc. You have to hold down the `fn` key to actually press F1, F2, etc. This makes them a bit less convenient than on Windows laptops.
It's a stupid anecdote to point out the fact that differences in cultural attitudes can explain and somewhat justify test scores. I'm not even American, and I never claimed that the anecdote is true.
Same here. 7000ms vs 5500ms. Chrome 54.
Personally, I dislike it. I have been a Cygwin user for a few years and I desperately want to like LSFW, but I just can't. I find the customization options of Cygwin to be much more and I can get things like Tmux working on it without any issues.

I also have a ton of docker compatibility issues when trying to work with containers, ultimately I just wrote a power shell script to get my docker-compose environment up and running and go from there.

As far as I know, you also can't run nginx on port 80 which makes it challenging for web development (i'm sure I can run things on different ports, but who wants to do that).

I think it's promoting, but not quite ready to replace my MacBook & Linux partitions yet.
If your arm is hanging outside the window and the vehicle is actively rolling, you're likely going to lose that arm.

Otherwise, based on all the other logic described, the decision to roll the windows up probably takes into account if there's an obstruction (just like auto-up windows do).
>One of the biggest flaws of the tech industry is the belief that being a tech expert is enough to disrupt other industries in which they don't have any expertise.

Here's an article elaborating on this sentiment : https://read.reddy.today/read/5/new-entrepreneurs-are-no-lon...
Classic government. Self-driving technology should benchmarked against how good people are at driving (and how often they kill and injure people), as opposed to being proven intrinsically safe like a car part.
Maybe they're realizing that growth doesn't always translate into profitability. See twitter for example
What laptop are you using, if you don't mind my asking? Is there somewhere where someone has explicitly listed out the laptops that are most compatible with most Linux distros?
Are you a troll?
Thinkpad is sort of a separate company within Lenovo. That's why Lenovo says "we have headquarters in Beijing, China and Morrisville, North Carolina, U.S."
That's something we disagree on then, in my humble opinion, on the web it is unacceptable to make users wait longer then necessary. And it's not a small, 1 or 2 percent difference. And certainly not longer then 1 second.

And why is the example then not setup with core/worker distribution so it actually does as you write 'potentially' work faster?

Nice i can still use my browser while i wait longer for the stuff i _want_ to see. But what is the use? I want to see that data/page i click the link or button for, nothing else.

Or please elaborate why it is in _your opinion_ unacceptable to lock a browser but get the data on screen faster?
This would not necessarily dictate the times worked, just the amount.

On site like Upwork it is common practice to have people work 10h/week to start so that work product can be evaluated before spending a tonne with a given contractor, or just to be able to keep up and interact at a reasonable pace.

That's not really a legal argument, but it is some precedent that controlling the amount of hours worked is not the same as controlling exactly when they are worked.
This is actually the fourth article in the series, and the first that really touched on anything that was "women are about kids and relationships" stereotype. The last question in the first article was about sexism in the workplace and how people could improve it.
We have two ears and one mouth ! That's what my brother used to tell me when I talked too much..
Visiting Auschwitz
Yes, and we don't accept "hygiene is hard!" as an excuse when they violate health codes.
Thanks. It's pretty nasty to generate. Lots of commands do horrible thinks when run with "--help" or "-h".

Running it for ~8000 commands cause about 100 "something went wrong system messages", a few hundred random file to be generated, the desktop manager to crash completely a few times and the speakers on my desktop to start buzzing occasionally.
I do not think he is, actually I find him refreshing even though I am a bit more Pro-Modi than him.
agreed, the 7000 series machines, while not having the pretty factor of the XPS are much better professional machines. Thinkpads and Latitudes are basically all that is left of that machine class. I could be biased against the EliteBook tho
I don't see why the current title is incorrect. Not everything in the world happens in the US.
But that has a social impact. You might be chuckling to yourself over how much NI you're not paying, but if you are injured the NHS will still treat you, and the money has to come from somewhere.
If you don't need retina and you want a 15" screen, I'd hunt down a 2012 15" MBP with a 1680x1050 screen. It's the last generation where you could make upgrades with commodity parts. You can even pull out the optical and stick in a second sata drive (but it will kill your battery). The i7 quad cores on those models still hold their own today.
Ubuntu is built into Windows 10
Looking closer, I'm pretty sure that the non-TouchBar model is just the previous model.

It has the 4th gen processors where the TouchBar models have 6th gen processors. The non-TouchBar model also still has the "smaller" touchpad and the same ports & layout as the previous models. The body itself even has the same finish as the older model. So yeah, I'm pretty sure it's just the previous model.
Elizabeth Yin of 500 Startups on How to Pitch Your Seed-Stage Startup
Nothing you're saying is incorrect, but the underlying problem is that Uber drivers provide a needed service with a market and are not being compensated properly, and this goes for a lot of the gig economy. We can argue all day about this but I don't think it's unreasonable for people who provide a service that people want to demand in exchange a livable wage for their work, regardless of what the work happens to be.

There's been a trend in our society the last 30 years or so that paints a picture of everyone who does manual labor for a living as being a lesser person, and it's damaging us. Yes, automation will save us from a lot of our current burdens but we're not there yet, and until we are we still need people to unclog our drains, pave our streets and maintain the sewers. It's not glamorous and not skilled but it is desperately needed, and we can't just say "well low wages come with shitty jobs" and walk away like not having garbagemen is an option.
There's gotta be something else, no way one letter makes you scrap a product like this, I fail to believe it
> Funding comes from local property taxes so rich neighborhood get more money, poor ones get less.

I used to think so too, but I don't think that is exactly the case. School districts usually span many neighborhoods, rich and poor. Within school districts, there are school zones (school boundaries), or mappings of residential addresses to assigned schools. While it's true that richer neighborhoods tend to have better schools, the property tax money is collected centrally at school district level, and then distributed across schools, both rich and poor. I haven't seen evidence that districts distribute more money to schools in richer neighborhoods.

If anyone is more knowledgeable on this, I would love to learn more.
The price of the Macbook Pro has risen in every country. This is an Apple price rise, not a UK exchange rate rise.

I'm not sure what else there is to say? You are completely ignoring facts in front of you, and choosing single numbers that fit your pre-defined Brexit narrative. Reasoned debate with you is not possible. Sorry.
Thanks for reaching out; will do if I encounter a case. I don't run Chrome daily, and my personal experience with Firefox is good, including with "big webapps" like Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence), but I often read the comment that "big pages/webapps" are faster on Chrome than Firefox.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12794971 for examples of such talk, but it's rarely precise enough to file a bug :/
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12815948
I never seen something like before. It's very good way of measuring subjectively perceived risk. I am definitely using.
The VR view of the real estate looks a lot better than the smog fill reality.
The future of PCs and Macs is expensive
I'm a Bitcoin fan boy but this sounds crazy.
A Fresh Look at TLS 1.3
But then it got sucked in to TVTropes, and the world is saved.
The groff format which is the basis for man pages is pretty unpleasant compared to it's modern equivalents, I suspect that's half the problem.
And the price rose in every other country too.

It's baffling how people are unable to grasp this.
Breaking news: price of British pound drops by 20%
Yeah, windows laptops have always been shit (considering MS never made hardware early on, until recently), MS has done some blunders in past as well (remember Vista and Win8).

But it does learn from its mistake, the new Surface line-up is epic.
http://mashable.com/2016/10/27/microsoft-better-apple

I have been using a Windows laptop for over 5 years (Yeah a Lenovo!) and have went thru the whole upgrade from Windows 7 --> Windows 10.1 Anniversary update (for free), and to much shame of mine, my b!@#ch of a laptop still doesn't cry considering a boot up time of 6 seconds!

Yet I needed a dedicated Unix environment and although Bash is available natively now on Windows, it's not going to be stable soon enough for me (6 months from now maybe, Creators Update is coming in Jan' 2017). So, a week ago I did buy the MBP retina 13" Early 2015, and trust me I am not disappointed, after last night's #AppleEvent.

I might be biased but coming down to your query:
> Are Lenovos worth considering post-superfish-gate?

HELL YES!

"based on my personal experience".
For me its the OS and the apps. I used Linux for years on the desktop, and I loved it, but back then I had time to fiddle with PulseAudio and Nvidia drivers and this and that. Now I'm too busy and when I'm not I really can't be arsed with that sort of thing.

MacOS gets me an environment that requires very little fiddling plus a Unix-y command line environment. I like the hardware too.

I haven't regularly used Windows for a decade and I don't see myself ever going back — so it's the Mac for me.