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I found myself needing to buy a new Mac laptop around May/June, and getting a Pro model at that point time seemed like a waste of money when the update was around the corner. So I decided to get a maxed-out MacBook instead, with the best CPU and SSD options available.

I do have an iMac as well, but I've been traveling a lot in recent months, so the MacBook has become my main computer. It's simultaneously brilliant and incredibly frustrating...

The CPU is a Core m7 that does "TurboBoost" up to 3.1 GHz, but the base frequency is only 1.3 GHz. Because the computer doesn't have a fan, it throttles very rapidly. Encoding video is hopeless, as it can keep up the max speed for maybe half a second and then performance just collapses. Most other tasks are fine -- that burst of 3.1 GHz performance goes surprisingly far in practice.

The portability is incredible, and the dongles suck. The HDMI+USB adapter is ridiculously expensive and absolutely necessary; it's an ugly piece of plastic; worse, after just 4 months the HDMI port is already flaking out.

I'm probably going to get a new MacBook Pro to replace this pink little weirdo, but it has been an interesting experiment.
There is no serious Mac desktop except for the stunningly overpriced Mac Pro.

There is no serious Mac server, period.
I think you would be very surprised to see the insides of many periodicals focused on carpentry. Open source and information sharing wasn't invented by a bunch of programmers at Stanford in the 70s.
Please keep posting! Hacker News needs people like you. People who "Think Different" and challenge the status quo.
2016 MacBook Pro USB-C/Thunderbolt Survival Guide
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For me knowing that soon, once peripherals makers and also cable makers catch-up, I'll be able to use just one type of cable to connect to anything (and I'm assuming cable makers will stop doing sub-par ones and just stick to Thunderbolt 3 capable), is probably a huge win. No more USB/HDMI/MagSafe mix (with the different ports on the peripheral side to increase complexity).

After that, wireless.
This isn't a plugin. It also doesn't have the same privileges as the browser itself.
The problem is that people don't really exist as a "We, mankind"... we exist as various competing nations and other divided groups. It's laughable to think that what's good for "We, mankind" in the US is somehow good for "We, mankind" in North Africa, or China, or India.
With every increase in technology level, we have produced larger, and more complex assemblies of parts, in greater quantities.

High volume production of the plow was once an innovation, followed by production of steam engines, then trains, then cars, then aircraft, then spacecraft. At each turn, the simpler goods were produced in greater quantity, and more complex goods were created. A modern car has tens of thousands of components, an airplane has hundreds of thousands, and the most complex spacecraft have millions.

My current belief is that humans will soon be producing items with 100k components in the same volumes that we currently produce machines with 10k components. I cannot imagine what the first products with 10 million components will be.
Results look pretty nice. Congrats!
Also, as they put it themselves:

> We wanted to see if with 25 years of hindsight and a clean slate we could create something interesting and unique in the operating systems space.
-> I'm not very excited about China's nuclear power program, I don't have confidence that they aren't going to cut corners

Then hopefully you don't live in the UK, where China is developing new designs for reactors -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/15/china-to-buil...
I disagree completely. Sure, the change in feel is related to the accelerator, but it's the slowing down of the car that changes. In a gasoline car that would be referred to as "engine braking". Imagine if in your gas car, when the tank was full, it didn't engine brake. I can imagine people getting caught off guard when the car didn't slow down like they expect.

Muscle memory is very important, and having the car behave unexpectedly is bad.
We could make a new word for people who manage each other mutually, coexisteling in their operations without blind hierarchy...we could call it mumanagement
"Kirk and Raven" is the standard textbook in English. Gives and discusses the principal testimonia and fragments in the original Greek (or Latin) with English translations.

As it happens, there's a pdf of an early edition (1957) here: https://archive.org/stream/presocraticphilo033229mbp
The Inescapability of Uncertainty: AI, Uncertainty, and Why You Should Vote
This piece takes itself way too seriously. EDM is supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be done with friends. It's not artesnal "my band has less commercial success than yours" bullshit.
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Who cares about complexity if they're reliable?

Toyota and Ford hybrids have been successfully used by cab companies for quite some time now. The old Honda IMA setup was troublesome, but their new setup is great.

It's not like standard gas power trains are simple anymore either--turbocharging, direct injection, and dual clutch transmissions are common, even in affordable cars.
I"m launching my website this month. hopefully, this week, at least to some initial users.
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> And then the �WATCH came out.

Aaah, standards.
That makes sense. Is this a case of trading hardware dollars for SDN cents or does it bridge the gap? I have no idea about the economics of this space.
All "commodity" servers use Intel processors so Intel isn't really losing anything. Juniper is just sticking their toe in and trying to look cool. Cisco is probably trying to sabotage it from the inside.
my question: if this takes '200 hours and 1 gamer' then what are people at AAA game studios even doing?
I can't imagine why I haven't made the connection, but this is inherently a part of the primary thesis of the best book on starting a company I've come across, The E-Myth (https://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Most-Small-Businesses-About/dp... and perhaps also see it's followup, which I can't vouch for: https://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-Abo...), which says you should write down your processes as if you were going to franchise your company.
I'm not sure this is wrong, but I think it's worth recognizing the two major objections.

1. Capital ownership and opportunity: All of the careers you mention could absorb many more workers in terms of available tasks (something like teaching could easy grow 10x), but that doesn't justify a claim that they will. The farming transition was enabled by mass ownership of productivity gains - careers like entertainment expanded massively because lots of demand was newly available to support that supply. The Picketty school of thought argues that this isn't inevitable; it's possible that a few kids get one on one education, and a bunch of people starve because wealth concentration means there aren't enough buyers for their work.

More specifically, the rich won't buy arbitrary amounts of services because their time and desires are not unbounded. Even 1-on-1 teaching can only employ one teacher-hour per buyer-hour, and the returns on 'background support' don't really justify having 50 people make one lesson plan at living wages.

2. Capability: Take a look at all of the careers you outlined there. They're all skilled-service work, most of which requires having more of some trait than your customer. Teachers need knowledge, counselors need insight, care workers need knowledge or patience and emotional reserves. Crucially, a lot of this is relative - it's not enough for a teacher to know things, they have to have knowledge their customer doesn't have and does desire. Factory labor took some specialized knowledge, but the transition from "a strong back for working fields" to "a strong back for milling cotton" was far less extreme.

This is the sort of two-sided market that's hard to stumble in to. I'm not saying most people can't learn an employable social/service skill, but if you lose your factory job you can't just accept a low wage to work as a teacher. There are significant time and price barriers in that transition, and it's not clear that they'll be overcome without non-market intervention. Markets are wonderfully efficient, but they can certainly decide that it's not worth retraining someone instead of letting them starve.
Here's the emscripten-compiled wast2wasm (from wabt):
https://cdn.rawgit.com/WebAssembly/wabt/2baa1ecb0b36bea6268c...

It uses the code from here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/wabt/tree/master/demo
> I'll be able to use just one type of cable to connect to anything

If you're talking about USB 3, sorry to burst your bubble, but you won't. There are a lot of different varieties of USB 3 cables.

You're thinking of "connector", and yes, the USB 3 connector is now used for wildly different things. Cables are different even though they have the same connector.
Ah, yes, as if Linux is not enough as a community driven OS. Let's make other one! Where anyone can make crappy software and be offended if someone pointed it out!

I appreciate the idea of making a difference (I badly want to have and use an unproblematic OS), but making an OS out of the lack of another major alternatives is just... a waste of time!
Yeah, I also thought it's just clever linguistic invention.
Because I won't take on the responsibility of someone making twice as much as I do. ;)
> Seems like a minor point to me, really.

All the points raised here are minor and, mostly, subjective. Inability to comprehend this is the only reason such discussions are being repeated over and over again. It's utterly useless to discuss what syntax feels "natural" to whom - it's entirely dependent on what other languages (types of syntax, really) you already know.

There are some characteristics of syntax that we can discuss, for example, how large it is or what characters it tends to mainly use, but discussing these is apparently less fun than saying that something "feels illogical to me".
I am Russian, and I am a native speaker of bad Russian English. :) This is not it.

A Russian wouldn't use "Amerikanski" as a pejorative, we have "pindosy" for that. And we'd never use "SCOTUS", for variety of reasons.

This styling looks intentional to me, and doesn't seem to be Russian.
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I would really like to know specifics on your criticism of DOM. I've seen a lot of people complain about DOM over the years, but I've never heard anything specific.
I doubt anyone is going to miss you or care about your use case if you have no interest in stepping up.

You are demanding that people that no longer have an interest in something, work for free, for your benefit, while you contribute nothing.
But TFA isn't talking about 'the future', it's talking about the present. Why isn't there productive work for these people right now?
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Leases drive these numbers up. I get a new lease every 3 years and on paper it would look like a new car purchase every 3 years.
>periodicals focused on carpentry

Are those periodicals distributed for free ? ad free ? written and printed by carpenters ? Do they give free samples of furniture too ?

Your counter analogy just does not stand..
I read about this woman previously (may have been the same article) but I think this comment on reddit really summed up my feelings on it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ActLikeYouBelong/comments/4cb4yw/fooled_the_world_into_thinking_she_was_an_edm/d1h7aml/

The fools! For they could not begin to grasp the sheer magnitude of my plan! I toiled, sweat soaking my brow and streaming down my back as I mastered their craft. I studied long, perfecting their techniques, learning their tongue, adopting their ways until I could pass among them - pass as one of them!
Those cruel hours! Those long, arduous days and weeks! Those agonizing months as I trained, developing my art unto new heights until I was finally prepared to reveal the Machiavellian intrigue behind my scheme!...
...For as I played to the multitudinous crowd, bending them to my every whim with each note, raising them to ecstatic delight with each crescendo - entertaining them! - little did any of them know that while they had been having fun I had been loathing this the entire time!!! Muahahahahaaa!
Completely agree. I'm personally having a hard time switching from Ice because (a) I do all my own maintenance. And (b) even cars such as Fords can do 200k with little to no significant failures.
Sounds like Twitter a few years back. These companies are on the same track.
Your comment seems too hand-wavy for the parent commenter to take seriously.

First, they're partnered with Foxconn so it's very likely they're made in China.

Second, you can't just "do economies of scale" without a slightly pricier v1 of the product; hey're not going to be selling hundreds of thousands of them.

Third, many are more than willing to to pay over that amount for keyboard.

Just take a look at custom mechanical keyboards (Ergodox, Poker 3, k95 if you're looking at more mainstream ones) if you want a glimpse at the high-end keyboard market. I'm guessing that the "patented crisp, responsive key mechanism" are not mechanical switches, but people do (as do I) pay well over that for keyboards they're interested in.
Does Amazon run without backing up its data???

Agreed ... and not that I want to cast aspersions, but I can't help but noticing his space company will play no role in setting up an off planet backup except for maybe providing a rocket engine.
Totally agree, the transmission for the Prius is astounding. It is truly amazing that they replaced everything about past transmissions with a single planetary gear system and it works beautifully.
Well, ask yourself what could be the reason.

When you hear about post-PC and how the computer market is changing, THIS is exactly what it means. Traditional computers and laptops are going to become more expensive, sell in less quantities and be very, very focused on some specific needs.

For companies like Apple, Microsoft, Dell, etc... this will translate into much simpler product lines that will update less frequently.
"> God/creation doesn't solve any of the mysteries we still have left"

"But saying that, "Since we then cannot answer the question of where God came from, God must not exist" is not logical."

I see what you're saying, but I think GP may be arguing whether or not that is useful.

For example, what does it say about God beyond that God exists? You ask some good questions, in particular what is the purpose of our life. Does the existence of a prime mover help us decide this? I think we need something more.
It's like the kid who trips someone on the playground and goes "it was an accident, I swear!" Making it look like an actual accident defeats the point, you just want enough ambiguity that no one could prove in court (or the principal's office) that you're guilty.
I just find it amazing. Where's your post shitting all over Apple, the company you paid to get your PC and OS, and which dropped support for it in 2011, half a decade before Debian did?

FOSS is truly a thankless vocation.
The idea is that webasm won't have versions, it will have features that you query, which is the way javascript and in fact actual assembly language works today.
Yes, I think it makes 100% sense that you guys focus on a mobile keyboard for the step 1. And I think you guys made a very good start at it by using Apple design as a reference, using a reversible connection, and adding backlighting. From an ergonomics standpoint, Apple's keyboard is actually fairly good for a straight keyboard.

When you do get to step 2 tough, I think that 4% will prove to be underrated, because (a) RSI cases will only grow as the generations who grew up typing on computer keyboards gradually become a larger share, and (2) those making a living typing on a computer keyboard, insurance companies and employers who want to reduce costs are likely ready to spend hundreds for a healthy keyboard (I know I am).
Here's a new product category for Apple...
Give a digital paper solution, 13'' e-ink display plus pen running some sort of watchOS. They don't have to invent it, just start from the Sony DPT-S1.
Leather seats have the same padding below them as non-leather. It isn't a solid chunk of leather, just a leather outer layer.

So in answer to your question the fire hazard of both is identical and many MANY vehicles with non-leather seats have seat warmers (including mine).
I took a university course that was specifically about IBM midrange machines. The instructor had one on his desk. I remember that the whole architecture was based around virtual machines. One assignment involved downloading a 5250 emulator and logging into some IBM mainframe to leave a message. I even got a t-shirt for that.

Unfortunately, the instructor quit about a month into the course. Just one day, we came into the room and some higher up faculty were there instead. I don't know for sure what happened, but his Linked-in suggested that he was hired by the government of Egypt. (Mind you, this was 2009) It must have been very important.
Show HN: I'm building the one stop destination for resources for web development
Hey there,
I'm a self-taught web developer and I need your help in gathering resources that helped you learn from scratch or improve your web development knowledge. I think this is the best way because what worked for me maybe won't work for you, but when you have a lot of resources coming from different people with different learning styles, I think it's the best curation ever.

I intend to take all those resources and put them online on an website, so they will be accessible to as many people as possible. I made a google docs spreadsheet and put already a couple of resource types: from ebooks to online courses and from blogs to podcasts. Feel free to add other categories. The link is here -> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12TYwr_L9yigSK-640TYa62eqiOCJKV5gTUleqRPI8D8/edit#gid=0

So, what do you say? Would you like to help me out?
Thanks in advance for all of you who will take the time to share the resources that helped you.

Best, Alin R.
Would you post the article content here? It's behind a paywall.
It's not understandable that a company should have the right to limit what an employee does after-hours on his own hardware with his own IP.
This piece could be interchanged with any music genre. Rap / Hip Hop, Rock, Country... it would all read the same. There's plenty of examples across the board.
bi-endian ;)
> "Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."

Personally I believe that if you have something original and the idea gets "stolen", you should be proud of yourself. You've just done something good for the world[0]. What really matters for humanity is that something was done, not who did it, and especially not who did it first.

[0] - assuming the idea itself isn't evil.
So... basically become a DJ? This person didn't fool the world, since they were actually doing everything that goes into being a DJ. They just happened to have an insufferable attitude about it behind the scenes.
This is a good point, especially about getting over your own ego and fear of rejection. I've shared your post on my twitter. And, btw, if your looking to find others to share with on Twitter, try out http://www.find70.com/?t=ha It's the most advanced Twitter Profile Search.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12827691
He said "valley"
Who's going to sell hardware if not for the networking giants though? While hardware may be a declining business in terms of revenue it doesn't mean that there's no business either. After all, the big cloud providers will all have to source hardware from someone even if everyone goes whole hog into the OCP ecosystem with cheap, large scale vendors based primarily in low cost of business regions. Who's better equipped to handle economies of scale better than large companies in our world? Did I miss something about manufacturing trends being disrupted in the past 15 years?

If anything, these vendors would want some say on the SDN systems so that their hardware can better integrate with them and offer more compelling value than their competitors.
Playing around with the tool a bit, supersampling seems to work pretty well to avoid those artifacts. (Thanks to the speed of Fast Style Transfer, this is feasible.)

EDIT: There's a catch. The checkpointed models are calibrated for smaller images, so you'll get better styles with smaller images. Larger images tend to just have images repeated: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/793161755992002560
Regarding being systematically wrong, the rebuttal paper is essentially arguing that, by ignoring other cosmological measurements, the original study refuting acceleration is potentially falling prey to systematics. The other cosmological measurements that are typically used rely on completely different observing techniques and physical processes.

Baryon acoustic oscillations[0] (BAO) rely on there being a predicted characteristic length scale based on when the baryons and dark matter de-couple from each other. By measuring the large-scale distribution of galaxies you can measure this characteristic length.

The cosmic microwave background[1] (CMB) is looking at the redshifted thermal emission from the hot plasma which filled the Universe during its youth. The brightness fluctuations correspond to temperature fluctuations in the early Universe.

Both the BAO and CMB are sensitive to the energy content of the universe and the relative balance between baryonic matter, dark matter, and any dark energy. Examining the BAO signal as a function of time may provide constraints on the acceleration (if the characteristic length scale grows faster than expected from a non-accelerating universe, I believe). Additionally, the power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background is sensitive to the existence of dark energy[2, e.g., pg 24].

Because these three measurements (BAO, CMB, Type Ia supernovae) are looking at completely different things (characteristic separation between galaxies, temperature distribution of hot plasma when the universe was 380,000 years old, and apparent vs intrinsic brightness for a special class of supernovae) which can be linked back to cosmological model parameters, it is unlikely that the systematics of all three would conspire to provide a false signal of dark energy. So, using all three as simultaneous constraints makes it far less likely to be mislead by systematics inherent in a single one of those three datasets.

Another aspect of the rebuttal (which I don't really understand because I don't work on Type Ia supernovae) is that the N16 authors made an assumption for the luminosity-corrections of the Type Ia supernovae that could increase the derived luminosity; this would reduce any signal of acceleration. The authors of the rebuttal also argue that this is part of what resulted in the decreased significance found by N16.

So, from my understanding, the rebuttal is essentially arguing that N16 incorrectly computed the dark energy signal by using an incorrect correction to the Type Ia supernovae and by ignoring additional cosmological datasets.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon_acoustic_oscillations

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background

[2] http://www.quantumfieldtheory.info/cmb.pdf