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I haven't been able to find out what the battery life is with 32 Gb, but the T460 is 40% thicker than the 13" MBP due to battery, it doesn't have a Retina display and it has a slower intel graphics.

I don't think there is a conspiracy here. Intel couldn't deliver the processor to be low power and use 32Gb, Apple prioritised size. I'm not happy, but I'll wait to the next version for the price drop and 32Gb.

The big mistake was raising the price. That is shitty.
I had a profile lurking at Upwork.com, and while the platform itself is "race to the bottom", there are quality clients and good freelancers there too. I have been on both hiring and freelancing end of the table.

I ended up working for 2 years for same client full-time. Best job I ever had, and 100% remote.

So my advice, create yourself a good profile at upwork.com and who knows what may happen. In my case, client found me, I was not looking for anything serious in there.
They caught a lot of flak when they first introduced it. Not only did they introduce this, but they also shamed the people who did not pay

http://m.slashdot.org/story/213469
So if it's thin enough for you, it's thin enough for everyone?! Really? People fail to understand that there are pro users with different needs...
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Thanks for the list! The Massive Attack album is one I already love, so I'll check out the others.
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Those appear to be laptops preloaded with Windows with an option to ship without an OS. The benefit of ordering from System76 is that the hardware all just works with Linux.
It looks interesting, would it requires doing some math or to display data?

I would like to know a little bit more. I'm from Oxford and heard about you.
The wording could have been better.

My stronger point in the reply should be my hunch that many of the inheritances may not be profitable enough to pay the inheritance tax. There should be an article that dives into those rejected inheritances and figure out what exactly was not accepted.
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Nelson Mandela cofounded and chaired the ANC's paramilitary wing. He might have proved to be a superb statesman and the ANC might have had no practical alternative to violent action, but he definitely belongs more in that company than Gandhi's. If anything it's Adams, who has always denied direct involvement with the IRA even if those claims aren't widely believed, that might have cause for complaint at not being considered merely a politician.
Is that not what Red Hat is? I thought that's what the Red Hat license provided?
It's not an "emergency" tax.
I agree, been using mint linux (Debian based, borrows some "just works" stuff from Ubuntu) plus the Cinnamon Desktop, is a dream, on high end hardware or not. I will concede though, most people coming from iOS/Mac will want something tailored and curated for them, even though *nix offers unlimited possibilities in customization and software.
Wayland, the solution where not only does every toolkit have a different and often incomplete approach to HiDPI, they now all have their own implementations of window titlebars and widgets too?
It doesn't work for GUI apps yet.
Why do hundreds of pregnant women die every year in the US, but significantly less die in Singapore, Greece, Canada, Ireland, etc? This shouldn't be a thing, and we shouldn't be this far behind other countries on this, its not an impossible problem to halve or even cut into a quarter that death rate. This isn't even discussing complications of pregnancy or infant mortality, both of which we are not doing amazing at.
Any info or tips on how to start remote working if you're not a "web guy"?

I'm more of a scientist / engineer, i.e. I work on somewhere in between writing numerical methods, simulation, control, and gluing them to more useful interfaces. I don't do UI, but I can handle it; I certainly don't do web front- or back-ends, but I know something about databases; I like statistics, but I'm not a machine learning expert, although I know how to set up and use TensorFlow; I enjoy working on low-level code, embedded and real-time systems, audio, signal processing and control and robotics. At the same time I'm willing to sacrifice some of the "hands on" stuff I like to do (working with mechanical systems) and be more of a software guy if it means I can travel and work remotely. However, short of starting my own consultancy, which I'm not sure I want to do (I have no idea about business), I don't know how to get it going. I feel forever doomed to haunt the lab/office, because I have no idea how to find freelance contracts for this sort of thing.
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Never worked anywhere that large (or prestigious) but agreed, I'm not sure how you could work somewhere and not know who the CEO is.
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FWIW I've heard the same thing through the grapevine. I'm not in the games industry myself, so appropriate amounts of salt required.
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Which adapters do you need to carry?

I would love a 32G or 64G machine too, but did you see what Phil Schiller said about the 32G issue? It sounded like it wasn't a matter of a little bit more power, it was a LOT more. We really don't know how much more. Apple does know. If the new design was two inches thick people would be complaining about that.

Personally I'm expecting that no matter what the vendor. desktops will always be more powerful than laptops, and some people will always complain that the gap is too large.

For your VMs it might help that the new SSDs are reportedly quite fast in this generation.
I don't know which attack the Signal guys had in mind, but usually how this works is that the server serves a file with a unique ID to a person, sees that it gets requested, then serves the same thing again in a subsequent request to a suspect, sees that it's not requested, and treats that as evidence that the two accounts are actually the same person.

It's obviously easier when you can correlate this with a single account, but that's the gist of the attack.
I didn't say that. They could make the 32GB version thicker.
Well, yes and no. I think the replies to you sufficiently expand upon why fragmentation is a concern for SSDs, but I want to add one more: caching.

Sequential access is faster even on random access devices because the hardware itself can cooperate to predict what-is-next, and prepare the data. Read-ahead caching is common in enterprise devices and software (see: SQL products) and CPUs, SSDs, and RAM can all participate, but only if the next locations are well-known.

There are translation layers between virtual memory mappings and RAM or storage devices, sure, but to look at two examples in detail:

1. CPUs have instructions for retrieving the next bytes, and cache lines are often 8-16 words (32-64 bytes) in modern processors. The optimization of putting data sequentially is significant enough that it's a common optimization for game developers, for which the latency of repeated cache misses can blow the CPU budget on a frame. (One source: http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html)

2. For solid state disks, the SSD writes in large page-sized increments, and though I understand it's possible to read smaller chunks, if the SSD has RAM on-board (common) why not read the whole page into a LRU cache? Moreover, as SSDs themselves have a virtual mapping between LBAs and the actual data locations, why not retrieve the next LBA too? Reads aren't destructive, SSDs are implemented as essentially RAID devices over multiple flash chips for which multiple reads incurs only a small additional cost, so now sequential reads are automatically cached and the SSD improves performance over random LBA access.

An interesting note: even before SSDs became the standard, Microsoft changed the defragmentation algorithm to ignore chunks larger than 64MiB. I can't say for sure they chose an "empirical best" option, but apparently even for spinning disk, that provided a large enough runway to get most of the benefits of sequential access. For SSDs, that size is almost certainly smaller - I would guess between 512KiB and 2MiB - but still relevant for performance.
Hey there HN, thanks for taking a look at my site!

I made ProjectEthos.co for two purposes:

- to try to encourage people to share information about environmentally (and socially) responsible companies.

- to call out those that aren't.

When I want to do research on a brand, I have all these questions like "What does this company's supply chain look like?" and "Are they using sustainable manufacturing techniques?". But as a consumer, I never know where to find this kind of information.

So I made ProjectEthos.co as a platform where people could do just that: share links about companies/products. You can also follow products and discussions to get a personalized feed :D

Thoughts and feedback are welcome! This is the first full-stack app I've released to the public, so it's likely to have some rough edges...
Google's behavior seems strange:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/31/13481502/windows-vulnerab...

"Google went public just 10 days after reporting the bug to Microsoft, before a patch could be coded and deployed. The result is that, while Google has already deployed a fix to protect Chrome users, Windows itself is still vulnerable — and now, everybody knows it."
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ah sorry I missed this one. can you please let me know what do I need to add? I thought I have covered almost all topics and parts in order to be able to build a documentation.

In other words, what you expect to see there?
Why slack is worried?
the cool kids are already moving to observables anyway :)
4.4 _pounds_ for xps 15 vs the macbook's 4.02 pounds (15" version). (and if you want a smaller battery for portability on the xps 15, you can get one at 3.9 pounds)

Looks like the article author was either blinded by fandom or intentionally misleading.

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ (choose 15")
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-15-9550-la...
I went through this once. It sucks.

The company used to lay off groups of people every other Friday or so. A friend lost a job every time. Everyone knew the company was going to shut down and we were just waiting it out. It was during the dot.com bubble burst, so it wasn't like there were millions of new jobs to jump to. I finally got my Friday meeting after something like 6 rounds.
Went to Crete a few years ago and was surprised by the number of (what seemed residential) buildings with unfinished roof/terrace, but otherwise being used and perfectly normal. You could see the concrete pillars with the steel bars coming out on top.

Imagine it is some kind of way to dodge taxation since it is still considered unfinished?

Have also read Michael Lewis' "Boomerang", which also has a lot of similar anecdotes about Greece (and Iceland, Ireland, etc).
It's worth noting that the Etherum project will switch over to proof of stake at some point in the future, possibly within the next two years.
When I buy a product in a physical store the price of getting the product there is included. I don't pay the product + the shipping fee. It should be the same on the web.
Honestly I like the switch to USB-C. For me it's the price hike with year old processors, 16GB max for RAM, and that Touch Bar. And I only complain because this is supposed to be their 'Pro' version, while I see this is more focused toward general consumers.
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Some of you Mac guys are a weird bunch IMO:

Talk more than others about usability - happily gloss over all kinds of weirdness[0] in your expensive setups.[1]

Happily pays quite a lot for your Macs - "regret every cent" after donating peanuts for the development of a Linux distro.

Just saying.

Edit: downvotes welcome! I cannot buy anything for my Internet points here in Western Europe.

A textual description of my wrongdoings would be even more awesome!

Edit2: you don't need to upvote me! Instead just tell me what I did wrong!

[0]: Yes, there is. If you cannot spot it I won't recommend you for any lead UX role.

[1]: Not saying it is bad or not worth the price though. Just expensive (given that you have to have a Mac to run it legally) and far from perfect.
You are correct, I was not accounting for VAT, I guess as the US price does _not_ include sales tax. Thanks!
You think 3 pounds + 16 GBs and as thin as possible is a much more common set of requirements than 4 pounds + 32 GBs and still really thin?
"Don't you fret millenials, soon they will move on to whoever's next and you will be forgotten."

"they" will be the millennial's blaming generation Z.
I was really disappointing with how the elementary guys handled that whole situation.. really turned me off to their distribution.
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> ... you can perform deadly assault with pencil, bow or a brick.

I'm not saying we shouldn't ban certain guns, but I don't think people realize that if someone is hellbent on killing, they'll use a hatchet or a machete if they can't get a gun. We'll have fewer deaths, but much, much nastier ones.
> The Windows terminal is utter garbage, and I've not found a decent one

I install http://cmder.net/ on every Windows machine. Makes my life more pleasant
It's a nice operating system but someone needs to port a decent text editor.
This. They tried to shame people for downloading without paying, Foss community shamed them for that because they don't pay anything for the parts they get from Ubuntu, Debian, gnu, Linux etc.
Also, I personally get nervous when asked to buy a crap hardware+drivers combo on the promise that the drivers will be fixed later and the hardware's full power will be released... what guarantee do I have that there won't be a fundamental hardware issue that drivers can't hack around?

I've got a machine that has a wireless card with the draft version of the wireless N standard, and presumably some promise that updates could fix it when the real thing came out. The real thing came out, and the card's N support has never worked. Fortunately there's a somewhat-deeply-buried setting for both Linux and Windows that lets you turn it off entirely and have the card degrade into a perfectly-functional b/g card, because once real N networks came out it tries really hard to connect to them. And it almost works. You can get about a megabyte or so over the N network before the connection somehow fails. Then another couple hundred kilobytes about 10 seconds later, and so on. Terrible.

How much more concerned about that I would be if I intended to ship a few million such units out. The "fixed drivers in the future" promise isn't that reliable.
It's really hard to say these days. Often it's lower, of course, sometimes it's higher.
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At some point Apple had three line of MacBooks (Pro, regular and Air). That seemed to make perfect sense. People who want light, long battery life go for Air, people who want processing power go for Pro.

The strange thing is that Apple killed processing power in favour of more Air like features. That doesn't seem to make much sense in a 15" laptop.
They don't... my take is it's just a fiction made up by someone trying to promote a distro.
Ask HN: What are some excellent product roadmaps?
Do you know of exemplary, real-life product roadmaps? I am primarily after those of end-user software products but anything else may qualify as well.

In this context "good" refers to structure and presentation and not to content.

Ideally they should have both a "marketing" (external-facing) and an "implementation" (internal-facing) side - perhaps even explicitly related to each other.
I would rather have what we got than nothing. You would rather have nothing. I still don't understand your argument.
And you can count on it forking shortly thereafter. Just like: NXT, Ripple, Stellar, Peercoin, and all other PoS chains before it
Well it's apparently already ok to charge me 50% more because I'm young, male, and unmarried. At least you can do something about your spelling and grammar if you try.
> I don't see how WebAssembly helps much - it primarily reduces the load time and download size with the binary encoding

This is the slowness I'm talking about. I should have been more clear. I did not mean slow frame rate, I meant abysmally slow loading times. The frame rate is actually fine, its just the loading time that makes it a non starter.

If you have a mobile game in Unity, you've already done the optimization to make it run at a good framerate in webGL on lower end hardware.
Not trying to be pedantic or a dick, but you should refer to that language as assembly, not assembler. It is a non trivial difference as assembly refers to the language and assembler refers to the software written to parse assembly commands into machine code (binary strings defined in the given machine's instruction set that are meaningful to the processor).

Otherwise it's similar to referring to the language C as Compiler, which is just silly :)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1176138/assembly-vs-assem...

Also, to your point, agreed. It took several years before we could actually fly high level, compiled languages in space, the first being HAL/S on the Shuttle (completed in 1975).

https://www.cs.toronto.edu/XPL/hal.html

Cheers
Come on, you don't go to a mall with a pencil, a brick or a bow and kill 50+ people. The point of assault weapons ownership laws is to introduce friction, so getting a weapon that can go through kevlar is hard, and if you get caught, hell rains upon you.

The line must be set at some point, and of course people are going to tip toe around it, but that's not the point. And don't go Switzerland, if everybody in the US had proper training in how to use and (more important) store their weapons, and the government had an exhaustive control of every shell... Well, it would be different.
You seem to think that those options are exclusive when in fact gif memes are a blatant example of how they aren't.

The original creator of (say) a video expresses something, a remixer expresses something when they cut it into a gif, and you're expressing something when you send someone the gif in a conversation. The thing that's expressed is almost necessarily different, and each step involves creative choices.
Here's a company in Sweden that sells Clevo laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed: http://www.ggsdata.se/index-en.php
I honestly don't know if this comment is serious. My girlfriend won't use Signal because it doesn't let her send stickers.

This is only a first step in the right direction.
I also can't stand the lack of plugin support on Safari. Is uBlock origin or similar available on that platform yet?
I wouldn't argue in favor of Goldman Sachs ,we can all agree on the shady stuff they've done. The real corruption came from our former prime minister Costas Simitis who tricked EU and Maastricht Treaty. Those complex financial deals created by Sachs would be meaningless if our politicians weren't corrupted . Compare Greece to Estonia , a former Soviet nation with really poor economy, yet they managed to meet the Maastricht rules trying for years without "cheating".
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I fail to see how the benefits outweigh the added complexity and lack of trust.

Optical scan is the only above mentioned method that can be verified by laypeople.

Also, although a tedious process, paper voting has worked for quite some time. Centuries?

Chain of custody will always be a problem, whether it be source code to a compile runtime, or paper ballots.

However, the potential for abuse seems less likely for a more manual process.

A voter signs in to vote, so we know how many voters to reconcile to the same number of ballots. If we have more ballots cast than signed in votes, we have a problem.

Additionally, ballots are serialized, though not associated with any particular individual. So we know what ballots were used and unused. If we find multiple ballots with the same serial number, we know there is a problem, too.

Voting should not rely on a blackbox algorithm. The majority of the voting public can count pieces of paper, but can they understand and verify code running on a device?

Who cares if it saves time, particularly at the cost of transparency and trust?

My question to you is, what problem did electronic voting solve (as implemented in the US), that needed solving?
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Hi Morley,

I apologize for the late reply. I sent over some responses to your questions and happy to answer any other ones you might have!
I would honestly refrain from telling people you were fired in that case, and simply state you were laid off. I would then begin to infer that something fishy was going on internally and that you're probably better off not being involved with the company anymore.

It really sounds to me like management didn't know how to deal with the situation and a "performance review" was simply their scapegoat, and not the reality of why they let you go. I wouldn't be surprised if you were performing at a high level and they were just trying to cut the team down to the originals. These things happen all the time. Good luck to you!
>> ... and awesome UI/UX.

> Is that not what Red Hat is? I thought that's what the Red Hat license provided?

I won't say anything bad about Red Hat, but calling the UX awesome isn't something I would do based on my experience. Then again, they might have changed but I haven't heard anybody mentioning it.

(This used to be Canonicals niche before they picked up the assumption that Mac-like == Good ; )
no proof that would not make it so that peoples' future is not ruined. they all depend on not pissing off the wrong people in order to get the money they are owed. reality is that no one within crytek trusts the management since they have lied for several months about what is going on.

i heard that a sister studio in bulgaria no longer has management because of the disconnection in the company.
> Maybe this is why so many of us have so much trouble emulating Amazon's model and making any money. It's because it's really expensive and it's also why Amazon's had trouble making money on merchandising sales. It’s a very expensive model and it’s not less expensive than the store-based model.

Amazon's savings come from it's lack of stores. Retail storefronts are expensive in terms of staff, cleaning/managing, rent, utilities, taxes. A warehouse in rural Indiana has a lower operating cost and can far more efficiently prepare items for customers on a per-worker, per-rent-dollar, per-utility-bill-dollar basis. And at scale, you only have to have a small margin to succeed.
No. Gpl has no such thing. But you'll have to provide the source code with your software, so I'll just modify the source to give myself infinite trial.

_that's why it won't work_
Why would such a service hold leak worthy data?
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