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I have one, it replaced my laptop when the Surface Pro 4 came out.

Upside - the kickstand is awesome, the microSD reader is in a good spot, the battery life is ok, the speakers are ok, the USB3 is in a good spot.

The downside. That keyboard is the worst. You are 100% right. I've typed many thousands of words on it now, and while it's comfortable, it's only good on a desk or desk-type surface. Try it on a lap, and it's basically worthless (like the kickstand).

The pen is trash. The pen stopped working, was replaced, stopped working, was replaced, stopped again (and has been clipped to my desk since). The touchscreen goes out regularly. The wifi is crappy, constantly bouncing. The bandwidth to the microSD is terrible (it's a USB device internally, and slow). The power adapter is a good idea, but I have no idea what they were thinking. If it's cable up, it heats up at the point where it bends. If it's cable-down, it bends super sharply at the desk and heats up there. The light is always white, so no charging feedback. The USB port on the power adapter can't charge anything, including a phone, while the surface is on. Otherwise it keeps dropping out and shows 'plugged in, battery' back and forth every few seconds.

So yeah - spare me another POS like this.
The issue isn't a single tool. It is when you have a lot of them, and it all starts adding up.

> These are dev dependencies. If they are making it to your server, memory isn't the issue.

Yet you above suggested deploying them somewhere else. Which is exactly what I do because otherwise my laptop is constrained by the heap of bloated tools I depend on.
I was surprised to find an unholy mix of Debian 5 & 6 running on powerpc when I enabled SSH access to my Western Digital MyBook Live Drives:

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Western+Digital+My+Book+Live...

I don't know if they're still using powerpc on more modern iterations of these devices ...
This is really sad. I was really hoping the Talos would get funded:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/raptor-computing-systems/talos-s...

..but it looks pretty far from its goal. :( Still it's the best alternative architecture that's free of binary blobs, that isn't ARM. If we do see open ppc hardware, this will mean one less potential OS we can use.

EDIT: it looks like they're just dropping older 32-bit PPC per the other comments. So, this doesn't seem as big a deal really.
By eliminating the headphone jack didn't they just create another revenue source? My understanding is that they get paid a per unit licensing fee by anyone who creates/sells an adapter. I was under the impression this was the reason they removed the jack.
Why?

What if Google had just stuck to search? Would your life be better?
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That's exactly my goal! I'm very much interested in supporting people who speak minority dialects. I don't feel that technology should be pushing Mandarin on people.
Is there support for GoLang to WebAssembly?

Or will it be more of a GopherJS to WebAssembly?

Thanks
There are nascent plans from the Rust project to retrofit Spidermonkey's WASM compiler (called Cretonne, and which is apparently already written in Rust) to serve as a general-purpose compiler backend: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/possible-alternative-compi...
How Vine Overlooked the People of Color Who Made It Amazing
Sadly, this comment would be in good company over at https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/top/
> I drive about 800km per month and I'd pay $10/mo in electricity to do that in a Bolt, versus $150/mo in gasoline for my current car.

I don't get those figures at all... 800km (500 miles) is approx two-three recharges on the Bolt or about one tank of gas (depending on vehicle). Ignoring how incredibly cheap you are claiming electricity is ($5/full charge), there's nowhere on earth where a full tank of gas costs $150 (or even two full tanks).

Something went badly wrong when you came up with these figures.
And if you don't want children?
Which is essentially burning money. It's funny because the people who usually can't afford a new car, will think they can afford it when leasing, while in the end they spend the exact same amount of money (even more since the leasing corp usually wants to make money too).
As analogies go, try to go for the spirit of the comparison, not the specifics.

Imagine what the market for appliances would look like if we had to accommodate for different outlets. Imagine if your kitchen aid stand mixer you bought for 600 dollars wasn't compatible with the apartment complex you wanted to move into. Or your iron, or your tv, or your charger for your laptop, or your hair dryer.
ppc64el isn't supported on legacy Motorola PowerPC CPUs or IBM POWER7 or lower, so a large swath of 64-bit PowerPC is also unsupported (POWER7, G5, etc.): https://wiki.debian.org/ppc64el

For comparison, Ubuntu discontinued official support for this platform in 2007 (!), although an "unofficial" community port lives on.
Well done! We built something similar at my company for the same purposes. This functionality is powerful for any team that wants easier data access for casual SQL users.
>>People don't take thousand mile road trips every day

Yes they do. Everyday thousands of tourist drive from BFE to Orlando, it's one of the reasons stretch of I-4 along the attractions is the deadliest in the US (too many tourist that all drive differently).

It may not be common in your region of the world, but it is extremely common in other regions.
Why is spending money on a new car better than $1000 on new tires? That's about three months worth of payments vs years of payments on a car.
The port covered both 32 and 64 bit chips. The specific 64 bit little endian support (ie, your old iBook) was broken out into the ppc64el in either Squeeze or Jessie.
Hey, I don't know who you are, but thanks for posting about my input method here! Most of my referrals are coming from here.

Edit: Hacker News is now complaining that I'm commenting "too fast" and won't let me leave new comments. Feel free to leave comments on my Wordpress blog.

Someone upthread said they couldn't figure out how to type the 金 radical. It's just the 金 key. 钱 is just "金戋". Couldn't be easier. Make sure you have simplified mode (简体) selected at the top of the page since that's a simplified character.
It looks like I barely went over the free tier. My lambda bill in September (when I did all this processing) was 4 cents.
You might have just happened to pick an amazingly well-aging car. My friend has a 2006 Mazda3 as well and it runs incredibly well, and it still looks like new cars. It's one of those cars you never feel like you need to upgrade from.
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“Long gone are the days when you thought your insurance—even if you were paying higher premiums—was going to cover you very well,” > http://www.wsj.com/articles/employers-shift-higher-health-ca...
Yes. WebAssembly like asm.js is intended for porting C/C++ apps to the web.

That said compiled languages should work if compilers add support for generating WebAssembly.
This is not true.

It's far more used than you think.

I just had to use some of Nuance's new voice recognition technology - the entire thing except for the voice libraries are in Node.

I think it's a trend, not a fad.

It's not magic, and there are drawbacks ... but Node isn't going anywhere, it's here for a while.

JS is a natural fit for the web and with Typescript now it's made advances.
Yes, you're right. This can allow to avoid JS in browser altogether one day.

As a hardcore JavaScript developer I welcome this tech for a couple reasons. For one thing, it's undeniably a significant step forward for Web Platform as a whole. For another, now people can struggle with the peculiarities of the said Web Platform with their own languages. The legitimate grievances associated with JS over the years were due to the browser APIs and first of all DOM, which wasn't designed for JS to begin with and later just accumulated problems for the sake of backwards compatibility.
Apple PPC[64] devices were all big endian. Little-endian mode (ppc64le) was introduced on POWER8 circa 2013.
> Those who venture farther afield will find that the charging network is the one arena where Chevrolet is still handily outscored by Tesla.

Can't the same charging stations be used for different brands of cars? Seems wasteful if each manufacturer has to build their own network.
asm.js is a strict subset of JS, designed to be valid JS for preexisting browser engines while at the same time containing what's effectively a lot of primitive types hinting for an optimized engine.

For a simple example...

i = i|0;

This is valid JS, but a JS engine designed to use asm.js optimizations can look at the bitwise OR with 0 before the script even runs and realize that i must be an integer in that block of code, so it can use more-efficient integer operations instead of float ones.
I went digging for the paper that was the source for your first case, which I believe is "The Future of Arctic Sea Ice", finally published in 2012 [0].

Looking online for other media reports I found this [1], which includes the choice quote from the original paper (which you can find here [2]):

"Given the estimated trend and the volume estimate for October–November of 2007 at less than 9,000 km3 (Kwok et al. 2009), one can project that at this rate it would take only 9 more years or until 2016 ± 3 years to reach a nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer. Regardless of high uncertainty associated with such an estimate, it does provide a lower bound of the time range for projections of seasonal sea ice cover."

As expected, the paper describes a central estimate, an interval describing the uncertainty, and then provides further hedging ("nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in summer", and the whole second sentence). I must further emphasise that the paper, and Peter Wadhams, were saying that the Arctic ice would be melted during summer, rather than year-round - I don't feel that the phrase "Arctic sea ice may be completely melted as soon as 2015" captures that important distinction.

That serious consequences are found to be possible by some predictive model, is something worth paying attention to. Both you and tjic seem to by trying to imply that climate research has produced a range of models that are wildly inconsistent with reality, but that simply isn't the case (and certainly isn't here - yet).

If you have an interest in the subject then read the literature and understand the nuance of the claims being made. The are often large uncertainties involved, both because of difficult dynamics and poor observational coverage, and no-one in the field I have ever met has ever said otherwise.

[0] http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-0...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/d...

[2] http://www.oc.nps.edu/NAME/Maslowski%20et%20al.%202012%20EPS...

edit: I meant to say, I'm afraid I don't have time to look at the second case.
Its not linux, but NetBSD still has its macppc port. And Gentoo.
E-Book about data analysis – Practical Data Dictionary [pdf]
I haven't really looked into the implementation, but won't this be yet another possible way for getting out of the V8 sandbox and be able to execute code and thus be able to exploit? I recall exploits using typed arrays for code execution before, because they can contain raw assembly in a very low-level style (e.g a plain char array in C++)...
Yeah, agreed. I hate slate phones. I actually like having a real keyboard, though swipe is ok as a stop-gap. The slate would only work if voice recognition was flawless and sub vocal (so that people don't hear me on the train, for example)
Apple makes hundreds of billions from iPhone sales. They make probably tens of millions from cables.

Suggesting they'd knowingly sabotage #1 for #2 is absurd.
Used to agree with you. Then my Merc GL550 needed a nav update. For only $450 I got a "self installable" DVD that needed a trip to the dealer, only to find out it was still years behind. Bring on the iPhone 7.
Here's a Node package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wasm
I think you're confusing asm.js with wasm. wasm is not JavaScript.
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I thought for a while, before Trump came on the scene that, of the developed countries, it would likely be the US that would fall for an authoritarian just because they have never dealt with one and are complacent about it happening there. As if the US doesn't have its share of sociopaths. If anything capitalistic individualistic societies breed them even more.
With regard to what specifically? I think it's a great book, it touches on several subjects so you might have to ask more specifically.
The chip itself is ambidextrous or whatever the word is.
Not the person to whom you're replying, but I've looked at multiple cars with factory heated, non-leather seats, so I would assume so.
WASM isn't related to JavaScript in any way. Maybe you were thinking of asm.js?

You cannot access the browser APIs from WASM so there is no tight coupling with the browser environment. I think non-browser use could make definately sense.
The Challenge of Computer Mathematics [pdf]
Yes. Mozilla Persona was explicitly designed with the intent of having auth as a feature in every browser.
WordPress Product Demo with Docker (Saas)
Actually, the cost of the fuel itself is slightly cheaper in the UK because they've got a lower delivery cost (smaller country, shorter pipelines & tanker truck routes). The difference is, of course, taxes.

There are proposals in the US to change how states collect tax from cars if electric vehicles gain widespread adoption. Currently the highway trust fund gets most of it's money from the motor-fuels tax and that will dry up. Mileage-based taxation is being looked at, where your odometer reading would be collected via the OBD-II port.
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Remember this is GM's third generation EV, so they have a lot of experience, but not the volume of Telsa (yet).
The first generation lead battery was almost mythological- loved by their customers but hated by GM. GM was probably losing a fortune on each leased.
When you do share it try not to get discouraged if no one looks at it, is dismissive of it or even becomes inflammatory of you sharing your own creation.

Kind of like an extension of the quote:
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."
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That seems to be the case.
>You don't have to take everything literally, do you?

>Paid astroturfers is a known fact.

I'm so confused. Are you arguing he wasn't serious about there being astroturfers? or that he was being serious and it's true?
Intel's chips, not Apple, behind Thunderbolt 3 and RAM issues in new MBP
I Fooled the World into Thinking I Was a Successful EDM DJ–For an Art Project
We've updated the title from “Debian drops support for PowerPC”, which breaks the guidelines by being editorialized.
Hey Apple acts like they don't care about competition but they do. So I really think all of this is good. I find it impossible to believe Tim Cook himself hasn't read these posts.
I wish the nav was simply easier to update. In fact, I wish the entertainment system was an Android offshoot with GPS and wifi built in. Shouldn't be so proprietary.
This will be an unpopular opinion, but I think it's too early to push full BEV cars. I think the perfect car now is the plugin hybrid and this is what the industry should be pushing across all types (SUV/CUV, small car, mid-size, etc.) Reasons are:

* Supercharger can charge at 1.2kWh per minute. (90kWh/75minutes). That means a 10kWh battery can be charged in about 8 minutes which is comparable to a typical gas station time.

* Many plugin hybrids have about a 10kWh battery that gets about 25-30 mile EV range.

* The battery in one Tesla (90 kWh) could be used to build 9 plugin hybrid cars. Since the battery is so much smaller, the additional car price is also much less.

* Big improvement for the environment. The US likes SUVs. And many car trips are short distance (getting groceries, going to school, etc.) If these can be covered by the battery, then the impact of the low-mpg SUV is much reduced.

* Ironically, it would allow a business opportunity for gas stations. Imagine a EV quick charge cable right next to the gas pump. Fill the up the gas tank and quick charge the 10kWh battery at the same time.

* It would be a good fit for those without garages (such as apartments). The EV part of the car is simply a nice to have. The charging is quick enough to do it at those charging stations at supermarkets, workplaces, etc. But it's ok if they can't find any empty EV parking spots, the gas engine will get them home.
What ? Even in Germany with it's high fuel prices i will get 800km with 50-70 EUR of fuel. Charging that 60kWh battery would be around 16 EUR worth of electricity here but only results in half the range. So still cheaper, but nowhere near your numbers.
Probably not, but how are you handling theming?
I was just thinking about this the other day. Cool!
OpenBSD does too
My old Highlander had a DVD that provided the map data and stayed loaded all the time for that reason.

Each year was a new one for a couple hundred bucks. I bought mine, but given that it's a DVD, out of curiosity I checked if it was possible to pirate them and I only found one possibility in some Russian guy's home directory Apache index. Toyota Highlander dealer navigation DVDs weren't that hot of a commodity when I looked, rather surprisingly.
In two years, you're going to be swapping out your micro-USB cables while I'm using a lightning cable I bought before USB-C was even released. What's your point?
No (credible) volunteers to manage the port, it seems: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org/...
It's a 'Good Thing' until you lose 4 hours worth of work because of an unprompted and unstoppable update. There are very much indeed unprompted upgrades. There's also all of the reverted settings and re-installed applications. I don't want or need 'People' and 'Weather' and 'Xbox' and all the rest. Please leave them off, thank you very much.
I agree. It's interesting to see some countries start experimenting with a base income for all residents, though I think if this becomes widespread we'll simply see the base cost of living increase to that number.

I hope we can put more energy into coming up with a valid long-term solution.
> New York Times

Is this just a New Yorker-ism? If they're referring to NYT, I've never seen it formatted that way.
I've also linked this in a sibling comment to yours, but this post from the Rust project developers talks about a few of the potential upsides to a general-purpose compiler backend derived from the WASM initiative: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/possible-alternative-compi...

TL;DR: compilers written for the JIT use case are designed to minimize latency (compilation times) while still producing above-average code, so having such an alternative backend would be a boon for regular users of compilers with heavyweight backends (e.g. LLVM, which produces excellent code but at the cost of very large compilation times, even in unoptimized builds). Additionally, a compiler built to process WASM is more security-aware than your typical compiler, and thus won't include optimizations that attempt to exploit undefined behavior (thus losing out on potential optimizing opportunities, but hopefully producing code that's a bit more bulletproof).
I came across Franklin's method years go while reading "Talent is Overrated" and modified his strategy by coupling Anki, a digital SRS—spaced repetition system—with books and articles by my favorite authors. It goes like this: read a sentence, rewrite it in my own words on one side of the "card", copy down the original sentence on the other side of the card. Practice. Rinse and repeat.
I agree 100% that it's a lottery, my father was an entrepreneur nearly his entire working life, and simply by a) keeping at it, b) never getting in too far that it bankrupted him or put him in jail like the fathers of some of my schoolmates, he managed to become a multimillionaire. Of course, he had intelligence, talent, skill and increasing experience, plus the help of my mother who's no slouch at any of those, but the key thing was not giving up, and to a certain extent banking the proceeds of the successful ventures.

Ah, yeah, one other key was his ability to know when to sell out, and an ability to sell such companies; as a matter of fact, he made more than a little money on commissions in helping to sell other people's companies, exiting when you have a small to medium sized company without any unicorn like characteristics can be quite a trick. Arranging for some steady sources of income from commercial real estate also helped in terms of riding out the harder times, as well as paying off the family home as soon as was possible.
well they often have more than 5 and their teams are often terrible.
> On November 8th, instead of not voting, maybe be stopping the vote all together?

My idiot buzzer went off at the start, but by this time it had melted the resin casing. There's nothing of value in that blog post, not even analysis or interesting ideas.
Sounds like your complaint is half against Android Auto (and Android in general).

I wonder if it would be cost effective for you to simply have another dedicated device and data line if you get a Bolt? Reusing an older device ($0) + $10/mo data sounds better for even 5 years of service (10125) = $600 vs. $2000 for nav system.
This is not machine assembly. Its bytecode, everything still lives in the browser sandbox.
The big news here is coordinated announcements from multiple browsers:

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/10/31/webassembly-b...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/10/webassembly-browser-previe...

http://v8project.blogspot.com/2016/10/webassembly-browser-pr...

[edited to make links clickable]
I've read that some posit that the switch to a subscription model in part effected the decline of yellow journalism. The subscription customer's purchase decision is potentially less driven by in-the-moment attention-grabbing and more by characteristics like informativeness and accuracy.
The way that for the last couple generations the touchpad hasn't actually "clicked", and been simulated by haptic feedback. That same feeling on the Esc/Cancel/etc. virtual button would alleviate most of my personal concerns.

I'm surprised they didn't include it given how much they've been pushing it on iOS, as well as on the touchpad of Macs.
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We have had similar dislocations in the past; while they were painful transitions, people took on different jobs. Up until the late 1800s, the vast majority of Americans were farmers, who were dislocated as farm productivity rose; some of them suffered, but almost all of their children found new and more prosperous careers. There is no reason to believe this time is different.
i'm talking about paying a premium for a team that works well together and has been doing so for years. That's worth gold.
Dude...get a Dell:

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-lapt...

On another note, System76 has great hardware support...but outsources their hardware to Clevo:

https://system76.com/

I have owned both. Battery life on the Dell, even with the 4K touchscreen shocked me (in a good way).

Both come with Ubuntu pre-installed.
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