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> pro level products into thin clients

I guess Apple is skating to where the puck is going to be. I have a MBP and any serious computation is done on either EC2 or the cluster downstairs (a fairly sizable cluster).

I do think that they optimized for thinness to much in the new MBPs. If I were buying I'd buy an older MBP for the other other ports (SD card is going away but I don't know about the rest).
Yes but my main point is that the primary gain was on the land due to govt policy. These people are typically amateurs who basically paint a wall. Unskilled labour plus a few $K in materials == not much. Yet the gains are significant.
To me it sounds weird that something like the right to sue would not be a fundamental right similar to free speech but something you can legally give up. It's even worse when combined with shrink-wrap agreements such as terms of use which is kind of analogous to "by entering this establishment you agree to the following terms of service".
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The title is inflammatory. This article is based entirely on how he feels from a 30 second commercial and his experience with ITT Tech. It has nothing to do with his Udacity experience.

Unlike ITT Tech or any other for-profit universities, you can do a majority of the Udacity curriculum for free. e.g For the VR Nanodegree (shown in the video), you can signup for the courses for free [1] and evaluate it whether the format/quality works for you. And like any other content provider, some courses might not be good as others.

I am currently doing Udacity's Machine Learning Nanodegree [2] and also did the first AI class from Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig. Part of the Nanodegree involves doing courses from Georgia Tech's Masters in Computer Science curriculum.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/vr-software-development--ud10...
[2] https://www.udacity.com/uconnect/intensive
Ask HN: Are there public documents about AWS VPC architecture?
I am interested in things like the underlying network plumbing (is it vxlan), safe guards to prevent packets from going to wrong VPCs, corner case cases that doesn't work well with VPC etc.
"I don't really have an answer why it's okay to do something like look away from ads, but it's not okay to block them"

Payment for services provided. If you dont look at the ads, everyone still gets paid. If you block them, then the people making something you like dont get paid.
Should newspapers also be held liable if the owners of the houses being advertised on classified ads discriminated?

Uber is a service that abstracts the drivers. AirBnB is a marketplace where the seller is clearly identified, sets their own prices and policies, has their own reputation, etc. They are very much not alike.

(This is not a endorsement of their arbitration policies, mind you)
WebAssembly doesn't make native integration any easier than JS. Neither defines the exact way so called non-web embeddings actually are defined and both can support it. I honestly have no idea the relevance of WebAssembly in this discussion. Could you provide an illustrative example?

Edit: I should clarify that for certain types of apps WebAssembly might be relevant but the discussion seemed to be out UI layer and I don't understand how WebAssembly fills a gap that a native API in JS could also provide along with the same challenges.
1m/s * 1 year = 31,556.926 kilometers considering the earth has gravity I don't think you could really go much lower than that unless it was really close to missing us in the first place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet) is is a little smaller than that and estimated at 9 x 10^20 kg. So call it 10^21kg.

KE = 1/2 m * v^2 (mass in kg, v in m/s = joule) but a bomb is not 100% efficient call it 50%. So, 1/2 * 10^21 * 1^2 /50% = 10^21 joule.

Largest bomb ever detonated is = ~2.1×10^17 J so ~5,000 of them is kind of an ultra optimistic estimate. Not that we actually have 5,000 of them. Worse each of those weigh ~60,000 lb so we now need build rocks, and even build the infrastructure to build the rockets to get 300,000,000 kg out there not just LEO.

At a rough ballpark 1/2 the worlds GDP for 8 years is not going to get you there. Worse that 50% was crazy optimistic.
Did you read my comment? Get a data plan before you travel and you'll be slow internet proof.
>My main complaint is that it's difficult to determine camera state.

Agreed. I gave one to a friend as a Christmas present a few years back and this was her big complaint. Mounted on a helmet (for whitewater paddling in her case), she was never sure whether she was turning it on or off.

In general the whole UI was just pretty awful in my experience. I get that it's hard but this strays pretty close to the "You only had to do one thing" meme. (Well, the rugged case, but that's not rocket science.) Their main innovation looks more like great marketing and community building to me.
I don't like the San Francisco-only bend. Your title is "Smart Career Bot for Developers," it doesn't mention anything about how location-specific it is (same with the name of this HN thread). Not everyone can relocate and there are plenty of hyper-growth startups worth promotion that are not in SV (Boston, New York, Austin, LA come to mind).
Again, you must recognize that the other side will and does say the exact same thing.
To _you_ the GOP seems broken. To millions of other people the GOP is fine. To millions of others the Democratic party is broken.

If you can't recognize faults in both _you_ are the problem. Nothing in politics--especially subjective issues like this--are black and white.
I came up with a voting strategy that I call single issue tactical voting. The idea is that you pick what you think is the single most underrated issue, and announce you will either vote for your major candidate, or third party, depending on whether the major candidate agrees to support your issue. This works around Arrow's impossibility theorem and doesn't require any changes to the voting system. The goal is not to change the outcome of the election (if everyone is rational the outcome will be the same), but to influence the candidate's specific policies.

I was partly inspired by this application of game theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coWgbmlvRTU

I've been meaning to do a full writeup but hesitant in the current election climate... :)
It's easy to marginalize other people's problems when you don't have them.

Even in an urban area with transit, most US cities have forced desegregation which means kids are scattered all over and economies built around cars. I could take public transit to work (30-40 minutes vs 10 in a car), but have to travel to the other side of the city to get to my kids school (15m by car, 60 by transit). Oh and even in an urban area, the nearest supermarket is a 20 minute walk.

My relatives in Europe walk 5 blocks to school, have decent local shopping options, etc.

Using a car in the US isn't that expensive, but offers a dramatic level of flexibility and freedom. I'm not limited to working in my city's central business district or forced to miss most of my kids school events.
"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
— Sir Francis Bacon
Isn't it more so it is readable inside a phone display to an ssh session as well as a fat 4K screen? That's my reason at least. Can always scale up something, but line breaks I didn't make myself make me want to commit unspeakable atrocities in the name of a demonic deity taking the earthly form of a little girl. Or, you know, angry.
If only I bought shares of tech purchases I've made. I buy very few tech gadgets, but the few I buy always seem to have a great share price trajectory...
> inability to plan ahead, lower intelligence, delinquency, violence, financial irresponsibility

These are not traits of (all) sociopaths. A highly functional sociopath could be defined as:

"People with sociopath traits that also happen to have a very high intelligence quotient. They are likely to be highly successful in the field they endeavor (politics, business, etc.). They plan very meticulously and the presence of sociopathic traits like lack of empathy, lack of remorse, deceptiveness, shallow emotions, etc. makes it very difficult for "normal" people to compete with them."
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Read carefully what I wrote, and I don't think you will disagree with it. Some Republicans oppose gay marriage, but so did most Democrats a few years ago, including the president and the current Democratic candidate. Any movement is a change in position.

On the other hand, there are Republicans who've fought for gay rights for a while, see for example: http://bangordailynews.com/2012/05/10/opinion/the-untold-sto...

The libertarian wing of the Republican party has favored gay rights for a long time, even if they didn't openly fight in favor of them.

If you want to see a switch like this happen again, watch marijuana legalization. Right now, most politicians oppose it, but as soon as enough polls come out showing you can win an election based on that issue, both parties will come out in favor of it more-or-less, almost immediately.
Mars is just the first step. The more environments we habitate (ceres, europa, titan, venus etc), the less the probability that they would all be affected by a disaster.
They probably confused l/100km with km/l. 8l/100km is quite a common fuel consumption figure (~30mpg).

I don't know how they didn't notice this though, because most people have a general idea of how often they fill their car and how much it costs.
I've always been under the impression that the two party system exists in an equilibrium and it naturally goes to about a 50/50 split. Both parties are fighting for support so if one party gets more than 50% of the vote there is a huge incentive to shift your positions to get back to equilibrium. Imagine if there were policies that would get Republicans reliably 70% of the vote, in this situation Democrats would want to adopt very similar policies and restore the balance. I think you'll see this happen with gay marriage in the next decade or so where both parties are for it.
I spend a good deal of time on various MOOC platforms as a learner and observer. In my opinion (no association with anyone), I think Udacity is a scam!

There are way too many courses I have come across, which are there only to grab the money. There is no quality control there.

In my opinion, Edx, Coursera, Khan Academy, are a better deal.
> It even dervies the name from PolarSSL (Polar Bear

I thought it was a play on 'bare' - e.g. only the basic features needed.
> Soviets/Russians did not kill the native population of the republics on massive scale

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

> did not have "sits only for white" in the public transit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

> native languages had equal representation with Russian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification
I've been living in West LA since 2008. It's certainly exploded recently in terms of startups as Google, Snapchat, Riot Games and SpaceX have expanded their presences.

The West LA area has always had a strong tech presence from the gaming, advertising, and defense industries though, going back many decades.
'On Wednesday, when I e-mailed Papas about criticism of arbitration, he replied, “Our policies are similar to most companies and we’ve found that arbitration is an effective way to resolve many issues.” Then Papas made another striking point: that “guests also retain the ability to take action against hosts.” In other words, Airbnb’s customers can sue homeowners for discrimination, even while they’re barred from suing Airbnb itself.'

Surprised by that encouragement from Airbnb, this a scary prospect for homeowners using the platform. Even untrue allegations would sink you in legal costs, with Airbnb washing their hands of all of it.
I completely appreciate that “writing hardware” is a totally different problem to writing software, and that hardware comes with its own set of quirks and challenges. I'm just saying that I don't think the CPU is fundamentally different than other abstractions in the stack.

C obviously isn't a good fit for a hardware language — it's designed for software! That doesn't mean that there doesn't exist similarly abstract ways of writing hardware though (that express the inherent parallelism, etc.). It is likely that these “higher level languages for hardware” would result in less efficient hardware solutions, but that's always a trade-off that is made through abstractions. Writing a program in properly scheduled assembly code is going to be a lot more efficient than writing the same program in C.

The difference with hardware in terms of language abstractions is not that it behaves differently to software. We could easily define a programming language that expresses parallelism in a way that would map nicely to hardware. The problem, from my perspective at least (please correct me if you think I'm wrong) is that hardware needs to be extremely efficient — particularly because it cannot be easily changed. As a result, hardware languages don't tend to be particularly abstract. But this doesn't mean that hardware languages couldn't be more abstract!
Because you'll get lost in a whole discussion of discrimination, if it's Airbnb's responsibility to prevent, if homeowners have the right to discriminate. If Airbnb is even legal, etc, etc, etc.

(For example look at some of the comments in this thread that are talking about discrimination, when the topic is ostensibly arbitration. It should be two separate discussions.)

Either talk about it in a Vacuum (without any particular company), or at least pick a case that is more "pure", i.e. unequivocally the company's responsibility.
The First Amendment only applies against the governments; if some non-government person tells you to 'shut up', it is not a First Amendment issue.
"Most people effortlessly recognize those digits as 504192."

I initially recognized that as 504/92 based on the slant. Character recognition can be surprisingly context sensitive.
> I really wish Apple would add a password-manager extension point to iOS.

They kinda have in 2 ways - as of iOS 9 or 10 your app can utilize login credentials from your web domain name if certain requirements are met, and there's touchID for instant login after the first authentication.
I'm sure there's something substantial (due to the ~10MM in funding)

Heh.. Right.
> The user should set their browser to a default that they like

If this was actually a decent part of a browser's configuration UI, it might have caught on (or... still might). Give people tools to manage this easily, and they may choose to do it - the 'reader mode' in some browsers shows some people want to get at content regardless of fonts, and giving them easier and more 'up-front' ways of managing this would bring the issue front and center.

Why did we end up with legislation about cookies? I think, in part, it's because it was essentially black magic for years, hidden in layers of nested "advanced" menus, instead of a button right in the damn menu bar saying "clear cookies".

"Why doesn't anyone use personal certificates?!" (I hear from tech colleagues now and then) - because the UI/management for it is horribly useless for 99% of people.

Same with this font stuff. Put "font choice" front and center, as part of browser setup - don't hide it behind layers of "accessibility" stuff. Give people some standard themes they can switch between easily - high contrast, B&W, etc - and have it be something that's a button press away (harder to do on mobile, I'd think).
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The counter-argument to your point, that politicians would say if they were honest, is that most voter positions have no basis in reality, and make no sense.

So they would say, as politicians, that they have no choice but to pretend they believe the nonsense.
The author highlights why Airbnb is the right company to use to talk about it.

> Often arbitration clauses are invoked in cases where consumers feel they have been financially slighted—seeing charges on their phone bills for services they never wanted, for instance—but the Times investigation found arbitrations used in more serious cases of medical malpractice, theft, hate crimes, and discrimination. The Airbnb situation highlights how far the practice extends.

Other companies (like car dealers) have used arbitration for smaller scoped purposes, but Airbnb is essentially opting out of the 14th amendment.
Too much rage in this article.

Just a random guy who found out about apt and python. Not worth reading.
Kind of shocking that the tea startup is the first result... after waiting for like 10 seconds for 20 entries to load.

Hmm, let me check this tea thing out... 10 clicks later... $1499! Yikes! Uh, it doesn't even come with an emoji touchbar, 4 usb-c ports, or anything.
Wish you could favorite a post or soemthing. I feel that you pointed out some good points for marketing.
AFAIK only videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd5hsL-JNY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qln2u1Vr2E
Agreed - predicting that the Cubs would win the world series isn't impressive - the majority of SI writers [4/7] did that at the beginning of the season: http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/03/31/playoff-picks-awards-picks-...

Correctly predicting who would advance in the post season is mostly luck.
Really no; connectivity is horrible in many places throughout the world. You don't have to venture far from most cities to experience bad or dropped connections. All over the planet. Exactly why I always fall back to apps which are written with bad connectivity in mind. Forget the web there for now; it's horrible in those locations.
Hi Madhu, thats a great initiative indeed! And it exactly hits my frustration of not being able to do anything about this US election while I think it also concerns people outside the US :D.
AirBnB is the perfect company to use to talk about it. In general, racial discrimination in rentals is a historic problem. If AirBnB wants to be the platform for "rentals of the future" they are going to have to be responsible for the degree to which they enable discrimination.
Completely off topic, but I follow your blog about redis for quite some time,and thanks to HN, I just discovered that you're from ~Catania, I was there few months ago and I plan to come back, when I do I would absolutely love to pay you a beer (or a coffee if you prefer that :))
Hm, so it's a Russian-Republican FBI-CIA conspiracy against Hillary? Even though 2 weeks ago Comey was praised by the Democrats for not indicting HRC.

They sure are all out to get her it seems.
Might make more sense for a boutique tea shop than personal use. see: espresso machines, starbuck's drip coffee maker.

Edit: it makes a single cup at a time. I was incorrect.
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From the top of my head, polyvinylpyrrolidone, lactic acid, bentonite and gypsum are on the permitted list. For beers brewed with top fermenting yeast, sugars and artificial sweeteners are permitted as well (I think they do need to be listed, though).

Note that all of these are used by brewers intentionally, not just as a side-effect. They are used to clarify or to make water more suitable for brewing.
> Assad wants ISIS to linger around since the focus would be on it rather than him,

This is absolutely bullshit propaganda trying to tie Assad to ISIS.

The Syrian Armed Forces have been the most effective fighting force against ISIS and it's creation has been infinitely problematic for it - from the capture of key oil fields, the capture of Hasaka and Der Zor (and key Air Force fields), to the ideological turn against the Shia/Baathist government based in Alawite territory.

I don't know where you heard this, but you should carefully check that source.

> Sunni militias (freedom fighters according to US kind of like 80s afghanistan)

I don't know if you know how ironic that is...

> Turks do not wants Kurds to be powerful and are interested in marginalizing them in Northern Syria

Definitely.

> Kurds want to fight ISIS with help of US and score brownie points for Kurdistan.

Mostly they are just interested in obtaining autonomous Kurdish zones, like Kojave in Northern Syria. We have not gotten the Kurds to invade further South. Their involvement in Iraq has been similarly in land near Kurdish territory.

> Sunni militias do not have much problem with ISIS want to fight the Alawite regime and make Syria Sunni Again

More than that many have made core alliances with them, with the FSA rebuking the US labeling of ISIS a terrorist organization.

> To say the least its a giant clusterfuck and US is willingly in bed with Al Qaeda ( wannabes like Al-Nusra front)

Amen. Though Nusra is hardly a 'wannabe'...
Every piece of available information can be used to track users. Why not just give the option to disable it? I can see valid use cases for a site knowing your battery % (e.g. having a "low power mode" on your site).
You can disable custom fonts in most browsers. I've had them disabled for years in firefox. My only complaint is that occasionally some sites use custom fonts as icons (why!?) for buttons. (microsoft in particular loves this)
A little bit of well-design AI would be huge in this space. Imagine you import your raw footage and a rough cut with typical shot selections for your content and pacing is already arranged for you...just tweak from there.
The price issue can be mitigated in a number of ways:

1 - Buy used. You can get a lot of great modules in great condition used.

2 - Build your own, either from kits or (if you have the skills) from scratch. There are tons of kits out there, and you can make some pretty unusual and interesting modules with them. Plus, making your own helps you to understand them better, and help you to repair them yourself if they break.

3 - Limit your appetite for modules. You don't necessarily need a 4 voice modular synth, with 4 copies of every module. Try limiting yourself to one voice, or even to just a few modules that perform a small number of functions. That can still be really useful.

4 - (Related to 3): Combine your modular synth with an integrated hardware synth or even soft-synths. That way you can get the best of both worlds, and the non-modular synths can make up for what you're missing in your modular, again letting you limit your modular to just those functions that you need, thereby reducing the price of your modular.

5 - Buy from the less expensive module manufacturers like Doepfer. Their modules are often a fraction of the price of many other manufacturers.
The New Iphone 7 with iP67 water-resistance rating will negatively affect GoPro sales. People will likely bring their iPhone to the beach/lake if they trust it doesn't get damaged by an accidental water splash.