skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Laptops don't either, it's highly probable the specs were locked down completely for more than 2 months, chances are the components were already purchased and shipped an in-house before Kaby Lake was available, chances are the components were already purchsed and shipped an in-house before Pascal was available. This makes the release date completely relevant, because there simply wasn't enough time to purchase, stock & manufacture using the new CPUs.

I don't know specifics about either Microsoft's or Apple's manufacturing & shipping processes, but I have worked on a product that shipped from Asia, and everything was done, completely done, two months before the product could hit the shelves. Moreover, that two months was the software deadline, the easiest thing to change. The hardware, materials, components, design, that was all done and locked a year before the product shipped.
Amazon does not need to ship world wide, they can pay DHL for most of the US and keep shipping in for example just NYC in house.
I believe I answered Leaflabs' ad here in March 2015. I was put through the interview process and still work here as a Member of Technical Staff.
Dear Microsoft (Slack)
> Many old houses at the village are derelict

Ooh, damn, that might require some time investment and manual labour! What is this, the 20th century? Dump this rotten crap!

> If an olive grove is not tended for 5-10 years, it becomes unusable and costly to fix.

Ooh, damn, that might require some time investment and manual labour! What is this, the 20th century? Get outta town.. ;D
Thank you but I just don't click them at all any more.
Zero Downtime Just Isn't Worth It
You clearly haven't tried neither elementary nor Linux in general. There are many legitimate reasons why you might want to use elementary just as well as there are many legitimate reasons why you might want to use macOS. You're condemning diversity? To each their own.
They state that STRONTIUM is likely APT28/Sofacy in linked PDF:

"STRONTIUM has been active since at least 2007. Whereas most modern untargeted malware is ultimately profit-oriented, STRONTIUM mainly seeks sensitive information. Its primary institutional targets have included government bodies, diplomatic institutions, and military forces and installations in NATO member states and certain Eastern European countries. Additional targets have included journalists, political advisors, and organizations associated with political activism in central Asia. STRONTIUM is Microsoft’s code name for this group, following its internal practice of assigning chemical element names to activity groups; other researchers have used code names such as APT28, Sednit, Sofacy, and Fancy Bear as labels for a group or groups that have displayed activity similar to the activity observed from STRONTIUM. The group’s persistent use of spear phishing tactics and access to previously undiscovered zero-day exploits have made it a highly resilient threat."

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/4/C/44CDEF0E-7924-4...
Thus to the original point: self reported data is questionable.
I've only ever gotten blanket spam from posting in "Who wants to be hired?"
> If you continue to put up a 'Photoshop' barrier, then you will never be able to consider any alternatives

It's an industry/education barrier more than anything else. Photoshop has been the standard for years because it generally works quite well and is supported on the two major desktop operating systems.

> assume Photoshop will never happen on Linux

Probably not, no money in it for Adobe. I've always said I'd happily pay for a commercial Linux OS developed by Adobe that ran Creative Suite.

> it may even already exist

It doesn't.

> the developers behind OS alternatives will never know what functionality you require if all the details you give are "Photoshop"

No offence but you're kind of talking about Photoshop like it's MS Paint. It's a ubiquitous, massively bloated, complicated piece of software (10 million LOC, roughly the same as the Linux kernel?) that can take years to master.
Industry-Funded Soda Studies Don't Recognize Obesity Risks
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None of them has the polish of a full working desktop stack like macOS.

Once upon a time, around 2000-2, I did some minor contributions to Gtkmm.
I've used Ubuntu for work development for some time now, and I would never consider it for home use. It just kind of sucks from a usability perspective. Lots of little things are just randomly broken or difficult compared to what I'm used to.
> Suppose you have a person sitting in a computer center in California controlling drones dropping bombs in Afghanistan. Is he a civilian or soldier?

They are a soldier, attacking an enemy. I genuinely don't understand how being further away makes that unclear.

Or any different from a soldier calling in an airstrike being further away than a soldier with a rifle being further away than a soldier with a sword.

> If not, does he become one when he goes home from his shift for the day?

They are an off duty soldier.

> What about all the computer programmers writing drone software making his job possible?

They are weapons manufacturers.
No, I didn't mean a trial version. I just suggested they should ask for a donation once people actually had the chance to find out if they'd consider donating worth it.
pets.com went out of business trying to ship 50lb bags of dog food for example with "free" shipping
Pretty sure, given the title and the goading, incredulous comments throughout, like "What's up with that?" and "Why?" and "I asked reps from both companies why they’d elected to go with older CPUs and GPUs when the new ones should have been able to slot into their devices with relative ease." and "In the case of Microsoft, it’s frustrating, because that old GPU is significantly slower than the Pascal GPUs available. The gorgeous Surface Studio appears hamstrung as a consequence."
Oh, thanks, that's some great news. I was reading through the (by definition, outdated) blog posts, and it was mentioned quite frequently that it was a visual studio only tool.

Now I need to look more into the opportunities for continuous integration with PVS-Studio in OSS projects. Maybe the Linux kernel itself, if that hasn't already been done already!
Ignitur
> the US government accuses Russia of hacking the DNC, either because they have some kind of proof (unlikely)

"two competing cybersecurity companies, Mandiant (part of FireEye) and Fidelis, confirmed CrowdStrike’s initial findings that Russian intelligence indeed hacked the DNC. The forensic evidence that links network breaches to known groups is solid... etc etc"

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-signs-point-to-russia-b...
Cross platform database walk-through using ASP.NET MVC and EF Core
How Long Before We Can Build 'Westworld' Host Robots for Real?
Yep, my current job is with a company I found via "who's hiring". (I'm in the UK, outside London, if it matters)
yeah, we're very much building on top now. There's still a few competing options for everything (and that's a good thing! You need SOME competition to ensure nothing stagnates), but we're mostly done redoing everything from scratch.

There's still a little churn in the framework and state management world, but the existing options are more than good enough for years to come and nothing drastically different is popping up into the spotlight anymore.
Plain wrong IMO.

Have been using Linux professionally and on my personal machines on and off for 15 years, sonce I was a student. A bit more work than Windows in some ways, less in others.

I came to Ubuntu back in 2005ish based on a tip from a then 50 year old electrical engineer who had fallen in love.

My bus driver this morning loves it (we sometimes talk while waiting).

So stop spreading this FUD.

And this comes from someone who has started liking Windows UX lately.
The companies may survive, departments may survive. They'll need time to recover, rebuild, find new confidence and morale.

But... in the short-term, once cuts start they don't stop.

It's always too little too late. The big cuts are indicative of how bad things already are, the small cuts are indicative of how bag things are yet to get (but it is coming down the line and aimed at you).

Once the axe starts swinging, be in control of your situation and look elsewhere. Don't wait to let the situation dictate to you.
I don't get it. What's off putting to you about this?
What's the cider vinegar for?
Hello. Author of the package here. I know it is not much but I would be gateful if the readers provided feedback.
When I was searching. I went through the listings and sent out a number of messages. Not bulk, but carefully looked at each company. Gauged my interest and figured out why I wanted to work there. Nary a response. I thought it was because I was a lurker, and didn't post before that point.
>I'd happily pay $100/y (year being, new versions/etc) for a stable and awesome UI/UX.

Good luck with that. The problem is that no one will make a UI/UX that's both awesome and stable. It's not like the resources aren't there: there's a ton of DEs for Linux, and they've been working on them for 20 years now. But the problem is they can't ever agree on anything, and they can't ever just leave well enough alone: every time they get something stable, they abandon it and make up something completely new and unstable. It's easily the 2nd biggest hindrance to Linux-on-the-desktop adoption (the biggest of course being application compatibility/inertia with Windows).

>but that's where the fun stops. Linux UIs tend to lag behind significantly.

That's the Linux community's fault. It's not the features that lag, either; KDE, feature-wise, has always been far ahead of the commercial UIs. For one simple example, I can't middle-click and vertically maximize a window on any other DE that I know of, but in KDE that's been a standard feature for at least 15 years. For another simple example, multiple desktops have been standard on Unix UIs for over 30 years, but never in Windows or Mac. The problem with Linux UIs isn't design, it's stability: everyone's constantly revamping stuff (Gnome3, KDE4, KDE5, etc.) and never spending any time fixing bugs. For instance, I have the Dvorak keyboard set on my LM17.3/KDE desktop, but several KDE apps don't respect that and go back to Qwerty. (To be fair, Windows is even worse: I have my work Win7 desktop set so I can switch between Qwerty and Dvorak, and the stupid thing is constantly switching back and forth randomly.)
that's basically me. i went from linux to osx ~9 years ago because it was pretty, worked out of the box and it was a *nix.

now i'm back to linux because i can't stand the decisions apple took. plus, it feels like osx (now macOS) is less and less table on every iteration. i had a BSOD while trying to plug my external monitor ffs.
Yep. Sent an email a couple months back from a WhoIsHiring thread. Got hired after about 7 rounds. By a company 15 mins away from my house. :)
>we cannot provide free or extremely inexpensive mental health care, or somehow get 340mil Americans not to behave like jackals and crass narcissists all the time, to actually treat each other with respect, dignity, and compassion

Not with that attitude you can't!

>I do not see how banning assault weapons is a "crap" solution.

Sometimes you can't address a problem with an easy band-aid, and pushing as hard as you can on the difficult part of the problem is the only effective option.
What are you on about? You can enable on-screen buttons while still having physical capacitive buttons.

http://m.imgur.com/u5hcJYQ

Many 3rd party custom ROMs have the feature, including CyanogenMod, the most widespread open-source build of AOSP.
Could you find a pricing info on Coverty, Klocwork, Parasoft, etc sites?
Because I know moxie comes here sometimes:

I can live with it being a Chrome app, but I'd really like it if I could use it to send messages to people who don't have Signal (like I can with the Android app). Signal mostly takes the path of being a drop-in replacement for my SMS app, so it seems a shame not to do the same here.
Because it isn't intuitive.
Moxie
"How much?"

"How much you got?"
A side project I'm working on, pretty much a notification center for your startup. Lemme know your thoughts.
Who determines this "nominal value"? Sounds like a great business opportunity if it's far removed from market value...
I would rather use BeOS
The vast majority of anything you'll ever need, even in absurdly complex scenarios, are built in.

If you need to do something really wild and weird, the plugin and loader architecture will let you do pretty much anything and hook into nearly everything.

We're dealing with a legacy environment here and we have a suite of plugins and loaders to handle non-standard module types, deal with files pulled from CDN at build time, deal with legacy Rails-style script imports, plugins to do all sort of bundle validation, splitting, transforming...really anything goes.
Yep. Got hired by a German startup as a senior software developer, worked there remotely 3 years and quit last year. Our tech team grew from 3 to 10ish, and I think most were hired through a "who's hiring" post.
Which announcement are they referring to?
No, but I have had some fantastic companies reach out to me, just not the right position for one reason or another. http://angel.co ended up having the right fit though which I discovered through some other comment on HN.
Do successful people change jobs more often?
Konsole does it too, just not by default.
I wish that they'd support secure contact sharing. And non-phone-number IDs.
Which is a tax on selling the property, not on merely owning it, and I believe it's the latter we're talking about here.
Do you really think HN readers are so gullible as to not realize this, and that you are the only one to catch on?
you cant really have a "choose what you pay" plan and be upset when (many) people pay 0.
The elephant in the room is that Elementary is infringing on Apple's copyright by imitating macOS design. Linux has great desktop environments (Unity, KDE, Gnome). Elementary's claim to fame is that it has good design (wink). If stealing others' GPL-licensed code is wrong, then so is this.
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Just hypothesizing.
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The Dell Precision's can be ordered with a built in 4k display...so I suspect that they can drive an external one two, but read the specs.

More relevantly, they can be ordered with Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu 14.04) [in the US] online in lieu of Windows. Though 16.04 is not yet officially supported, it runs pretty well except that the DualPoint is waiting on the distribution of a kernel patch for full support (Patch merged about a month ago)...There's some weirdness associated with the replacing the Synaptics driver by the kernel folks and the Dell dual point was a corner case for the folks at Alps. The year of the Linux Desktop is still next year.

Good luck.
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That's incorrect. Commercial avionics are written in C++ these days. Automotive systems are in C or C++. Ada never got any real use outside the US military, and even there it's dead.
The thesis "Bin Laden destroyed the 9/11 towers to bankrupt America" makes very little sense when you dig into it. It would mean Bin Laden planned to:

- destroy the twin towers so

- the U.S. would justify an invasion of Iraq and

- actually invade Iraq

- and occupy Iraq for a prolonged period of time (and not quickly pull out)

- so America would devote resources here

- thus bankrupting itself

Steps 2 and 3 (and possible 4) are huge leaps of faith. It's absurd to believe he planned all that out. It clearly fails Occam's Razor. Plus, it doesn't fit with the historical context of what he said and wrote at the time.
I'm not sure what the problem is. It's an interesting link to an interesting article about an interesting operating system.

Perhaps you don't find it interesting, but as a developer, I like it.
Really hard to fit the title correctly into 80 chars. Sorry if I mangled it.
Check the link. The MBP 15" is 4.02 pounds. 13" is 3.02 pounds. Also the dimensions are roughly the same

+-----------+------------------+--------------------+
| Dimension | MBP 15" | XPS 15" |
+-----------+------------------+--------------------+
| Height | 0.61" | 0.45-0.66" |
| Width | 13.75" | 14.06" |
| Depth | 9.48" | 9.27" |
| Weight | 4.02 lbs/1.83 kg | 4.50 lbs (2.04 kg) |
+-----------+------------------+--------------------+

And the battery life is 7 hours for the 84Whr model. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10116/the-dell-xps-15-9550-rev...

In another review it was 8 hours for playing video. Less than MBP at 10 hrs.
No longer really needed. Node 6.X and 7 support pretty much all of ES6 minus imports. Using require instead of import is a very small price to pay to get fast startup time. You can use everything else ES6.
Retailers have always been the first point of liability for products. In some jurisdictions it was hard to sue the manufacturer directly - after all, they're not the one you had a contract with.

Payment processors are another matter IMO, and should not be made into product police or underwriters.
I think this is one big problem with the OSS community: there is no concept of 'value'.

People complain about iOS' race to the bottom, but in the OSS community, I frel like this has been there for a long time. "You want to _charge me for it_ ?! Pffft!"

We may complain about macOS now with Sierra but for thr most part, macOS has been stable for a long time. I haven't seen a kernel panic in probably a decade. Not saying it's perfect, but there's a point you hit when people are paid to make things happen and macOS hit that point yeats ago.

I would argue Elementary provides a lot of value and should therefore weed out the complainers and worst of the bunch by charging. I would remove the 'pay what you want' and just charge $30 or $40.

We don't live in the Star Trek universe yet, so people still need money to live. I fully believe in and support companies, individuals, and groups that provide a good value for what they charge.

I _want_ those people making great things and doing it full time. Otherwise, you just get abandonware or crappy products where people don't fix bugs because they have a day job to deal with. That's the reality in my mind.
The thing is Webpack does all generally needed web building stuff out of the box and there are plugins and addition loaders. You can define needed behavior in a kind of way having no need dealing with Gulp mess. I used Gulp before, then switched to the Webpack and have already switched a few projects to the Webpack v2. Webpack is a gulp of fresh air, much convenient than Gulp or similar stuff using which you will have to write your own framework.
Yup, came to Smarkets (https://smarkets.com/) 3 years ago via hiring thread. Before that got to a number of interviews through earlier ones.

Some of our more recent engineers have come via the monthly thread too.
that's weird, here is a copy paste from my browser: https://github.com/NullVoxPopuli/rails_module_unification
This reminds me of the RBC debacle a few years ago, where they abused the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to replace capable, salaried Canadian IT workers with offshore services.

That stint hurt not just those workers but other companies that were trying to hire the best in the world, only for the feds to deny visas due to one bad apple spoiling the bunch.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/news/rbc-temporary-foreign-work...
i think you are certainly taking my comparison in some way i did not mean, because i see no misunderstanding...
It's funny how conspiracy theories take more evidence that they are wrong as evidence that the conspiracy is bigger than they thought. So now, it's a bunch of us intelligence agencies, the wall street journal, the democratic party, several unrelated it security companies, microsoft and google that are all trying to frame the russians?
It may be more or less, depending on how you count the, but what I'm really trying to figure out is whether the over engineering and the extra abstraction layers are justified in this case and in general.
My experience so far is the opposite - Microservices, orchestration etc hide the complexity but don't remove it, so if the shit hits the fan, you still have to look under the hood and with Microservices, probably under 10 different hoods or a hood under the hood of a hood :)
X was designed for multiple DPI from the start; it was the ‘Linux world’ who abandoned everything from the ‘Unix world’ that wasn't immediately relevant to cloning the Windows desktop.
someone did: evil-mode
Tesla obliged to pay $1.7B to Panasonic for gigafactory cells
archlinux has a wikipage on surface pro 3 https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_Surface_Pro_3
I may have skipped over the awesome UX. More of the stable and paid dev work.

I'll agree most UX on Linux isn't great. But GUI is such a pain in the ass that most people really don't want to work on it. Plus, plenty of Linux users aren't casual users and will accept or prefer function over form.

I myself am a heavy terminal user and pretty much limit my GUI use to the occasional image editor and the browser.
And I'm certain both companies called out here have those samples and have been testing with them. There is a reason they didn't ship with them yet.

Samples don't do anything for high volume manufacturing, and a couple of months simply isn't enough time. You have to remember that the release date for MS and Apple products means those laptops are on the shelf. To get to the shelf, they shipped from Asia, which alone takes weeks. Before that they were manufacturing and stocking, before that they were testing like crazy and hotfixing everything they found for a couple of months, and simultaneously purchasing and shipping the components to the manufacturer. It's easy to see that component lockdown has to happen several months before the product is on the shelves, which means there is literally zero chance Kaby Lake was even a choice.
yeah, having the working link open in a tab next to the 404, and I can't tell a difference between the URLs when I tab back and forth. :-\
There is a difference between "acheivable" and "culture". I should also probably add I'm thinking of London-Non-Finance which is admittedly smaller than London.
this is my comment on the other thread:

> 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?
This is the most pedantic thing I have seen in 2016.
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Also, I think Microsoft got burned by power management problems with Skylake in Intel's IGP drivers. I don't think they want to take the same chance with Kaby Lake.

The problem is Intel's execution, not Apple or Microsoft. The original retina Macbook Pro launched with Ivy Bridge less than two months after that chip came out. But Intel managed to launch that with a full suite of SKUs. With both Skylake, Intel released the chips in trickles, with ULV parts appearing in August 2015 and Iris Pro parts appearing in May 2016.