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Hands up who would happily trade 5mm extra thickness for 32G, 8 cores and a bigger battery? For me its a no-brainer... And I'll wager for anyone else who wants a workhorse not a fashion accessory...
I use a reddit app for X hours per day, works perfectly fine.
> Much to the frequent lament of Scalia, the supreme law of the land is no more and no less than what a majority of the Supreme Court chooses to believe at that particular time.

Unfortunately that's true (and Justice Scalia was complicit in that: when he was right, he was typically really right, but when he was wrong he was rally wrong); that's why I've always respected Justice Thomas, who really does seem to attempt to consider what the Constitution actually says, requires and is silent on.

The one saving grace is that the Supreme Court is not, despite what folks think, a super-legislature: it only has the power to rule in specific cases. There's nothing which prevents litigants bringing a similar case as one already decided, and the Court is free to ignore a previous, erroneous ruling. So there is some little hope that with the right justices it might ignore bad precedent.
Funny i often think the same as to why i was left out and had a pretty low self esteem younger.
I'm a heavy Spotify user and my Intel 330 SSD just died catastrophically and I am just about to install a brand new Samsung Evo today. This is definitely concerning, especially the lack of communication from Spotify on the matter.
I hit this on windows 8. So, there might might be a workaround, but it's still an issue for most users.
Well, yes, you could go for 3000V and 1amp I guess, but I wouldn't want to stand anywhere close that cable ;-)
Not really...

\usepackage{tabulary} gives me the X column type

\usepackage{multirow} does what the name says

\usepackage{longtable} is the most useful one

\usepackage{booktabs} adds -toprule-, -midrule-, -bottomrule-

\usepackage{threeparttable} adds titles and notes to tables

\usepackage{threeparttablex} extends -threeparttable- to work with -longtable

\usepackage{siunitx} allows decimal alignment

\usepackage{array} some table column types require arraybackslash

\usepackage{varwidth} helps in setting a max column type

\usepackage{ragged2e} because \raggedright used in table footnotes would otherwise break hyphenation

\usepackage{afterpage} defers typesetting of the longtable environment to the top of the next page

\usepackage{etoolbox} helps to write monospace numbers in tables

And then I add all the newcommands, and end up with pretty tables but very fragile wrt changes in the latex environment
>Incremental innovation - fixing things that are broken.

Yes and no. Yes in that it is incremental in a way. No in that all of Apple's "revolutionary innovations" have been of this sort, not that I am saying the Touch Bar is necessarily of that scope.

> The developer experience for iOS developers has always been horrible

Do you think there might be a point in making it less horrible?
Wow, had no idea. How did Google score that protocol?
This is an interesting piece, but it feels like there's a major gap in it: what's NOAA's story?

The government does silly things, yes, but this isn't a bridge to nowhere. It's an ongoing investment backed by scientists and politicians alike. It's already seen repeated commercial failures, so that can't be an unexpected result.

So is this mostly about investigating new technology, instead of starting companies? Is it about driving down tech prices until companies are profitable? Is the long game to push China on environmental regulations and have something ready when US markets become more desirable?

Basically, I'm suspicious of an article that implies everyone involved is setting money on fire for fun, or because they love environmental disasters. We don't even get to see NOAA's nominal justification here, much less a deeper analysis.
"But Amazon’s requirements for success are much lower than Apple’s and its tolerance for failure (Amazon Fire phone anyone?) are higher."

Can someone explain why Apple has less tolerance to failure? It would seem like they're in the perfect place for failures -- it's not going to torch the company, and they have stable revenue to offset any failures. This seemed like it was more of a company culture thing, but maybe there are strong reasons why Apple couldn't tolerate some failures in the name of searching / growing?
I know in my case I wanted one instantly but my MBP wasn't stolen until several years later so I didn't buy an Air right at launch. Wasn't because of ports or anything.
If the think the events in the story "the last question" could happen then that might not be true.
I don't know that I "regret" anything. I do sometimes wonder what life would have been like if I had made different choices but most of it is just "the grass is always greener on the other side."

I wonder if I should have went into a different career path instead of currently being an adjunct professor. If I would have went in a totally different path I could be making more money now but I don't know if I would be happier.

I wonder what would have happened if I had taken one high school teaching job instead of the one I did take that I hated so much that I quit after one semester. Of course I could have hated that job too and it would have required moving so I would have been much worse off if I wanted to quit it.

I'm also 40+ and single, never married so of course I wonder what would have happened if I had asked out woman X instead of being hung up on woman Y. But then I could be divorced and a parent or something (I don't want kids).

So no real regrets. Things could always be worse on the other side!
That's interesting.

I got a surface book several months ago, and it's kept me on windows. I was one more shitty laptop away from jumping ship to a macbook pro and linux desktop, but the surface showed me that a windows laptop doesn't need to be trash. They finally nailed the hardware, and while it had a rocky start (the first month or so was pretty iffy with bluescreens and I did have to return one due to the latch not working right) it's been smooth sailing ever since.

Pretty much all of my complaints about it have to do with windows the OS at this point (the most annoying one being that sleep is still absolute trash compared to macos. I was fucking floored when i closed a macbook once, left it on my desk unplugged for 2 weeks, and when I opened the screen it was right back where i left it within a second with like 40% battery left. Not booting up, not an image of what it was before while it started, literally right where I left it.)
Wow, nice. Chrome only, I assume.
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I agree completely, you articulated that way better than I could.
Ha! That's a good point, though.

> The MBP also lacks the chip the AirPods need to work smoothly.

Could you elaborate a bit?
I don't think the main takeaway is about writing by hand. A word processor is fine too. What's important here is the act of "active writing" vs "passive writing".

Franklin's method forces you to create writing (instead of just ingesting it) and then gives you specific feedback on whether you succeeded or failed (through comparison to the original).

The dissect-chunking-integrate-feedback model works everywhere, and what fascinates me is that Franklin figured it out through his own experiments.
'Server Error in '/' Application.

Resource ID : 1. The request limit for the database is 30 and has been reached. See 'http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=267637' for assistance.'

that says it all :) Are you running you site from Surface Book?
It's getting the notification that's the issue. This has happened to be me and I've just blocked the company, but it's still not a good experience. I think having a notification only sent once per post (even if liked and then unliked) could resolve this kind of issue.
As a happy android user, generally disliking the iPhone, I am not part of the Apple ecosystem really. However, Windows 10 is such a total dumpster fire - privacy nightmare, usability nightmare, unprompted upgrades without the ability to opt out, and so on... I can't bear to use a windows 10 laptop. I do in fact have one. It cost $2000 and the trackpad is basically unusably bad. So... I will with some reluctance upgrade to another macbook, simply because the alternative is truly horrifying.
When this comes up a lot of my time is spent trying to tell this to people. Why don't I have a Dell XPS? It's faster and has more memory and bla bla.

The computer is a useful tool only when it has an OS. What you run on it is as important as the hardware itself. The combination of Hardware and OS is what makes the tool what it is, and comparing them each separately doesn't make any sense in my opinion.

And that is where Apple wins for me currently. I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and Windows just doesn't have that unix base that I'm comfortable with. Sure I can get a terminal on it, but it feels like a program I'm running, not actually being in control of the machine.

Linux is my real fallback option, but then I don't get paid to worry about wether my local backups are working OK, or why my laptop won't sleep or wether my GPU is working etc.

I don't think Apple is going in the direction that will benefit a lot of developers, but they've got a long way to fall before they become a second choice for me.
The transition from daylight saving time to standard time leads to depressions
I got all warm and fuzzy from this idea: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CwC8SNvW8AQgeWN.png:large

Basically, using the touch bar as a context-sensitive test runner. I'm spread across too many different editors and environments it's terribly annoying to try to find a set of keybindings that work in all of them.
Basically the company gets bigger when they add Level 3 to it so they can issue additional shares without diluting their current outstanding shares.

Think of it more as converting your Level 3 stock into Century Link stock.
I wouldn't regret that. Your career is your own responsibility and nobody else's. It's unlikely your past employers would have tried to retain you if you told them you were unhappy or disgruntled--at least I've never seen it happen. I've found through many jobs: if you think leaving is the right decision, it is.
You can be happy to be using a keyboard layout where that is an option. As far as I can see, I cannot type ^[ on a German QWERTZ because [ is AltGr+8. AltGr apparently takes precedence over Ctrl, so Ctrl+AltGr+8 still produces "[".
There seems to be a lot of frustration about Apple not being able to finish negotiations with the US broadcast networks for some form of video streaming service.

This looks like Cringely's solution to the problem: just own the content at the source of creation and then the downwind problems will sort themselves out in Apple's favor.

My idea? Apple should purchase Dish Network/EchoStar and merge their satellite and Sling systems into the Apple ecosystem.

(You also get to own a fleet of deployed geosync satellites. That could be cool for other applications down the line).
How could bees come up with anything as complex as a dance language? (1997)
I can think of one instance. After Apple released the 3rd gen iPod Shuffle (gumstick) with no buttons they said at the release of the 4th gen iPod Shuffle event: "But users clearly like the buttons". So then the next gen had buttons just like the 2nd gen.
In the reddit thread they say they took a screenshot of Google Maps and used that to lay out the roads.

There is a mod to import OSM data though, I guess it isn't heavily maintained:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=41606...
Putting aside the ports discussion, the stagnant performance of the Macbook Pro is just kind of where the market's at - Apple uses Intel chips and Intel slammed up against Moore's Law quite a few years ago. Looking at current ThinkPad offerings, it looks like I can get a $4,000 7.5-pound luggable with a mobile Xeon CPU (Thinkpad P70) but I'm not sure how much extra performance that buys me.

The lack of 32GB options on Macbook Pros is definitely frustrating, though.
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Silly as this is, I've often thought about digitally recording smells for re-emission. For the consumer it probably isn't very useful, but having been knee-deep in the theatre world in my college years, I longed for the opportunity to contribute "smell design" to productions. Smell is often described as the sense most strongly tied to emotional response, and so using it as a tool to evoke emotion in the theater would be really interesting!
I wrote term mode but long ago stopped maintaining it. So other people have made hacks on top of my hacks ...

One of my goals was to unify shell-mode (and related "comint" modes) with a proper terminal emulator, but had a hard time getting traction for this. So people added horrible hacks like color support to shell-mode, instead of improving term-mode. I mentioned this unification goal recently (see bug#22785 "comint/shell modes should be merged with term mode"), but people still don't get it.

These days I'm back to working on terminal emulators, but using Web technologies (DOM, JavaScript, CSS). It's pretty cool, IMNSHO. Please check out DomTerm (http://domterm.org).
I assume it is built into Chrome and is just a redirect.
One has to consider the total cost of ownership for the average user as well. Most of the people who come to HN probably know how to avoid or clean up malware on a Windows machine, but your average computer user doesn't. Macs are the perfect mix of usability and obscurity that keep them relatively stable in the hands of the less internet savvy.

Case in point, my landlords have an old AMD64 (single core, 2.4 GHz, I think) system with 1 gig of RAM, running Vista. For the past five years, they've called me at least four times per year to come out to their house and clean up browser extensions and unwanted software that piggybacked on other program's installers. I don't charge them since I consider it a favor, but each time they pay me at least $50.

So that cheapo computer cost them $1000 over the past five years. They could've spent less than that, up front, and got a middle of the road refurbished Mac and likely would've never (or rarely) had to call me at all. I've suggested this or a flavor of Linux too, but they're afraid of change. Instead, they recently bought a little Dell netbook running Windows 10 for $270, and I expect the calls will keep coming.
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Hello HN, I come to you with a question. I seem to have hit a roadblock in my career. I'm currently in the top salary range for a senior software developer in my region, and unless I do something, I'm looking at being an engineer for the forseeable future.

That is not something I want, as I want to move away from being an employee, and more towards an executive or owner role. I'm looking to hear about the experiences about people who made that transition. I've been learning a lot about business and finance, and I've moved away from large corporations (where developers are a commodity) to smaller one with more responsibility, but I'd like to hear what other people did, thanks.
A.I. predicts widespread legalization of Marijuana
The project supports for interaction to smartfox server 2x, 1.2.2 released
Because they also control the browser, only works in chrome
My Lenovo, which cost >$800 and had a $120 SSD upgrade from 2007 still runs just fine. What alternative evidence is there that macs last longer other than fanatical circle jerking?

Do those upgrades listed include labor at apple care? The numbers don't even add up.

Not to mention, unless there have been some large strides in macOS lately, older apple products seem to lag pretty hard when you upgrade to the current OS and basically stop working if you don't. Windows 10 runs great on old PCs and many apps still function all the way back to Windows Vista.
It's likely that a serious mistake by the candidate leads the company to end the interview process. Why then should I, as the candidate, not apply the same standard to them?
> and tapping on the ‘others’ link in a reply, revealing an additional pop up pane with the participants

They love popups enormously and made this antipattern popular over whole web. First their Bootstrap which has popups became popular and then everyone started to see popups as standard web feature. Now lots of websites have complex UIs inside popups (usually with its own forward/back navigation) and nested popups. Popups are used to "fix" scrolling amnesia — instead of following link, content is opened in popup (infinite scroll is also highly popularized by twitter).
You can use https://freedom.to/, https://selfcontrolapp.com/, or /etc/hosts to block reddit when you want to work.

You can also listen to Lord of the Rings on audiobook[1] to occupy your mind while you wait. You're probably familiar with the storyline, so you don't have to worry about missing something important when you aren't paying attention to it. Trying to make that time productive is going to lead you to feel frazzled as you keep context-switching.

[1] http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Classics/The-Fellowship-of-the-R...
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I very much regret not working hard in school in order to spend the rest of my life doing something more intellectually stimulating. I also regret not reading more in my 20s and 30s.

I very much do not regret getting married and having kids, and I also do not regret consistently prioritizing my family over the artificial daily panics of software development projects.
I haven't tried Apricity, but I have tried Antergos, and you just described Antergos.
Have you tried Uber in Bali?
For a second I thought this was a new OS, then I realised it was Yet Another Ubuntu Derivative and I tuned out.

Also, that fact they're trying rather hard to get you to pay for it seems a little...icky. Yeah, I know, just click custom amount and enter 0 but still...
I'm the main author of this page (I took the "official" release notes and rewrote/extended them massively).

Feel free to ask questions!

(Please note that 2.12 hasn't been released yet.)
I currently use a Vostro 17" beast (7lbs) as I really don't care about thinness or lightness at all, I'm a 200lb 6ft bloke so carrying it around/resting it on my knee isn't an issue.

This trend towards thin/light everything at the expense of upgrade-ability and repair-ability confuses me but I'm not the target demographic.
I'm not sure that I get your point. Is there anything about using an IDE that keeps you from learning a build system?

Although I do think it is unfortunately that a lot of CS courses pay little attention to build tools.
You are only looking at CPU, though. What about memory, and why does Apple not care about a "Pro" having more than 16GB RAM?
For those who have not tried it, OpenSfM is an amazing tool. Can't wait to play with dense reconstructions. Congrats mapillary team, I know this has been a long time coming!
I totally agree. Even if it's harmless data, they need to let users opt-out while explaining what the data is and why it's being used.
I honestly don't know what everyone is complaining about WRT the Dell XPS line. I have a refurbished Dell XPS 13 (Skylake) -- NON-Developer Edition even -- and I'm very happy running Arch Linux without any headaches. It's a great laptop with excellent battery life and performance. I don't experience coil-whine at all. (Although, I've heard the rumor that the coil whine is a bigger deal on the XPS 15.)

Naturally, the Arch Linux community has an extremely helpful wiki to help you get set up:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(2016)
I'd be interested in such a solution, also in regard to the input from another commenter to make this work with nginx.

If you have a concrete idea and eventually a project on GitHub, feel free to contact me! Would like to contribute
No, people in real life delude themselves and others about how good they are.
The R9 M370X was based on the Cape Verde architecture, released in 2012. http://videocardz.com/55641/radeon-r9-m370x-confirmed-to-uti...
Not sure exactly how they'll do it.

The $10B in cash is the $25/share * # of LVLT shares. CTL has to come up with that. It looks like they have $10B in lending ready to go from MS and BAML.

For the stock, CTL can do a lot of things but just need to come up with the shares at the agreed upon conversion factor. Likely, CTL will issue new shares. Current CTL shareholders will hope that the dilutive effects will be offset by the accretive gains from owning a smaller chunk of a bigger company. Alternatively, CTL could use cash on hand (or from asset sales), treasury stock, and more to purchase shares to then hand over. I don't know CTL's plans.
Sounds to me like Apple needs to get married for a few years. That'll fix its problem right quick.

Give it long enough, and it'll even be admitting to making big mistakes with Windows 10 telemetry data reporting.
I would be willing to bet that within a decade you HAPPILY buy a phone without a headphone jack, whether that be an Android or iPhone. They're not going backwards because they think they're right, not because they think they're wrong but don't want to admit it.

And the reason they aren't cutting prices is likely because they're more profitable with prices as they are, not because they're afraid of admitting a mistake.
That I like:
"Server Error in '/' Application.

Resource ID : 1. The request limit for the database is 30 and has been reached. See 'http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=267637' for assistance.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Resource ID : 1. The request limit for the database is 30 and has been reached. See 'http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=267637' for assistance."

Website owners should really consider to reassess their application architecture.
One example would be multiplying large matrices together. A common algorithm used is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassen_algorithm with a big-O complexity of around O(n^2.8074). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppersmith%E2%80%93Winograd_a... has a complexity of around O(n^2.375477), but the constant factors are so large it is currently never better to use it over the Strassen algorithm.
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I being a sophomore student have no clue about how developers and software engineers remember and execute that many things. I don't do that much of coding though i understand a bit. I read tech threads all over the internet and there are many around me who does the same.
If you have any suggestion or advice to enhance coding and execution skills gradually what it will be?
> One side imposing their will at the point of a gun only creates further ill will.

Oh you mean like the slavedrivers did for centuries?
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I am a MacBook Pro fan as well and will upgrade my model next year. I think the new version is great and I like the new touch bar, but since Apple made some big changes I expect there will be some issues as well which should be fixed in the first revision. Apple often has issues these days when making major changes to their devices.

I bought my current 15" MacBook Pro early 2015 and it still performs most excellent, so I should be fine for another year.

P.S.: My 15" MBP only has an integrated GPU, which is fine for minor gaming like League of Legends or World of Warcraft.
They did that while keeping it thin and light though, which is the entire reason for the Macbook Air to exist - or at least, it was, until the even thinner revised Macbook turned up. Which will, I'm pretty sure, gain a second USB C port just as soon as they figure out how to fit it in.