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It's a neat, but very niche, piece of technology. It's not dominant, in any sense of the word. It might be in the future, but it's not a sure thing. The fact that you can find hardware that supports it isn't interesting to me. It'll be interesting when I can be just as sure that a machine will have a TB3 port as I can currently be that it'll have a USB-A port.

One of the things I actually dislike about it: a port can be USB-C without being TB3. That's going to be fun with the plain USB-C port in my laptop.
We don't really know what it is for a human to "think" of something. Introspection of what we think it is does not lead us to understand what it is to think of something. I think our needs often limits our understanding of what things are. For instance, our need to satisfy hunger means we are mostly considering apple in terms of utility to do that. Science lets us view apples in a much more detailed way, it's chemical make up, it's biology, etc. We often don't have that all in mind when we think of an apple however. But a computer, potentially could have a much more pervasive view of an apple. It may conceptualize things in ways we can't. I think that might be more interesting. That it will understand the world in a way we don't ( which may include the subset of how humans understand things )

However, we are struggling at the first steps of doing this and still unsure of whether it's even computable.
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Honestly that seems like par for the course for the area of town the Twitter HQ is in
No doubt part of it is how these companies are funded. There's so much private money, and nobody knows what to do with it so it gets tossed at these hobby projects, and by some miracle one of them turns into a unicorn.

But there are other differences now too. You can't simply ridicule anything anymore. Back in 2000 we could point to a company trying to sell designer kitty litter on the Internet and laugh at how stupid it was and how greedy and full of hubris the founders were. Now, everyone's trying to "change the world" and empower everyone and "enable the sharing economy" and, well you can't criticize that without sounding like a big meanie. There are a lot of web sites out there that are simply never going to be businesses. They have their runway to burn through, and once it's done, they'll be blogging about Their Amazing Journey as they get acqui-hired. But when you point this out, you're just being negative--you're a jealous wantrepreneur.

Maybe this is an old-timer's "get off my lawn" rant, but I preferred it when it was OK to poke fun at things that you knew were ridiculous.
Are these openings are for full time job or for intership?
If you want to buy a laptop that almost certain to work out of the gates yes the OPs question is perfectly valid. Can you take anylap top and get it to work? Of course, its just a matter of how much time you want to invest, vs investing that time in actually developing. Both is time spent well, however only 1 will make you money.
I do not say it is duplicate Ask HN for exact same reason you have mentioned: Those past posts are old.

I just pasted a quick-search url here so that folks can get some useful tips and info from those past posts. As an FYI. :)
I like that you can view people's salaries. It gives us a rare look at how much people make. I can only say that I wish all salary data was public, like it is in some European countries.
That is getting to be a major annoyance.
Of course, Gauss's law. :)
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Compilers and Tooling.

The GNAT frontend always felt like second-class in gcc, and the "real GNAT" was incredibly expensive.
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Another cool thing in Ada world: SPARK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language)
This is my next laptop. Spec'd well, reasonably priced, good size.... Wish it bad a longer battery but it will be docked most the time clams-shelled to my external monitors.
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Does this mean Tesla is hiring or firing?
If he's making four times his base pay as a janitor, 1x of that is base pay, and 3x is overtime. If that 3x is time and a half, he's working 2x his normal hours on top of his normal hours.

Is this guy working 120 hours a week? Has to be more that time and a half overtime, 120 hours is not doable over a year.
Just like GEZ.
Laptops are extremely subjective, so it's an awkward question.

If your primary concern is Linux support, then look to the places where you can buy Linux laptops:

- https://system76.com

- https://puri.sm/

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

- others??

For me, the primary metrics are: excellent keyboard, touchpad WITH buttons (limited options nowadays), portable size/weight. It sounds like you're more concerned with performance, so you probably need to be in the 14"+ category.
Algolia's default search is by popularity. Getting a search sorted by date is literally one click: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=best%20linux%20laptop&sort=byD...

This question (or variations on it) has been asked several times in the past few days.
Some are, and some are paid with government contracts.
$15k per year (or $208/person/month) for CRM/Chat/Phone seems high, unless they mean unlimited Salesforce.com license for each user and some add-one... (which for 6-person team seems an excessive choice.)
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If he were working at a private organization, I'd say "good for him" - but since he's working for an essential public agency that receives significant tax funding then it's a little less equitable when the janitor earning $40K/year at a small office in SOMA is paying taxes and BART fares to help pay someone in his same position 5 times higher salary.

That doesn't mean that the employee is to blame, this is purely a problem with BART management -- instead of paying one person 4X normal salary for a job (even if he's working 100 hours/week, that's still "only" 2.5 times a single worker), they should have hired 4 workers for that job, or if it's transient work that doesn't need a full time worker, then hire a contractor(s).
> I would like to find (or create) a service where we can talk about the real dirt at companies.

I'd be waiting for the wikileaks dumps of that service, followed by firings. Data wants to be naked and exposed.
Anandtech run a periodical series of articles of the best laptops available at present:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9798/best-laptops

as long as you run a modern distro, and they are intel throughout, it should be relatively painless. Of course you have to do a little more background checking once you settle on a machine you intend to buy, much like the Lenovo Yoga 910/710 explicitly disabling ahci disk access and hence requiring a time sink (on your part) in order to get that resolved.

I intend to grab either an XPS, a Precision or a Lenovo t560. The x1 carbon is a very nice machine that most of my buddies (Linux people) gravitate too, but I purchased one which appeared to have a CPU fault and would start exhibiting visual artifacts (and instability) at 50 degrees Celsius, which does not require much of a workload. Pegging the fan helped to a limited extent, but chrome finds ways to skirt that.

I personally avoid discrete GPUs; Intel is good enough, I like running gnome on wayland (today) and having card switching work correctly is both a time sink and a maintenance burden best reserved for the devouted
This is a hit-piece designed to get people to vote against the BART bond measure, nothing more.

As the BART spokesperson pointed out: he is just signing up for shifts no one else wants. Does it matter who works those hours? It costs a bit more due to overtime pay but it doesn't factor into his benefits. The higher pay is also taxed higher so the ultimate cost isn't +50%/+100% for 50/50+ hours worked.
I mean, I'm looking through the permissions now and don't see anything that's not arguably needed to make it work:

- Calendar (it can set up reminders in group chats and calendar)

- Camera/Microphone (to take pictures and videos to put in group chat)

- Contacts (to get a list of contacts! Also see SMS capability below)

- Location (you can send your location in a chat)

- SMS (it can act as an SMS client as well as FB chat)

- Storage (store received pics/videos, and access existing pics/videos)

- Telephone (to detect when you get an incoming call so it can handle any active activities (think if you're already on a video call)).

And as others have noted, you can disable most of these if you don't want them on recent Android versions.
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It's one time setup, I believe it's better to not limit youself in laptop choices for developers since it's your main tool, a tool that makes money for you. I'm for example would not be comfortable working on daily basis using heavy/creaky/noisy laptop which has a bad keyboard, bad screen, etc.
I've got a 4th Gen Thinkpad X1 Carbon with Debian Testing. No issues.
That's hardly a disappointment. A plumber who takes 4 days to fix my problem is a worse plumber than one who takes an hour. I can't imagine paying the first guy more.
Does management decide who gets the overtime at BART? Or is the union packing the end of his career with overtime so he walks away with a massive pension?
I agree. If you want things to be fast on a current Intel machine, keeping the code and data in cache means you can do ten times as much work before you have to do the next memory access.

There's also the issue of additional latency from tertiary caches, like the disk, when you are under memory pressure.
This is the fallacy of the broken window, and not the entire story. After the mistake in Bangladesh, the activists learned from their mistakes, and the next country got rid of sweatshops, plus provided education and stipends for the children so that they didn't have to go into those poor situations.

This isn't about forcing those jobs to go away. This is about keeping companies from exploiting these workers. The workers that People Delight are exploiting don't get the benefits tech firms bandy about so freely, can't unionize, don't get the opportunities to advance. There is money to be made there without exploiting, but things don't get better unless you criticize the people doing the exploiting.
Is there a university degree restriction on visas for experienced developers?
To prevent Mirai you have to convince the least competent security camera owners running their corner supermarket or whatever to spend the money and effort. The people who are self-selected technologically illiterate cheapskates because they bought the cheapest Chinese IP security camera.

Yeah, you can always make this argument. "If only there had been sufficiently advanced and non-buggy firewall rules in place in firewalls optimally placed in the topology, looked after by competent networking staff"

It just doesn't work in most environments because you don't have firewall experts on staff and you have no incentives to spend money and effort on firewalls.

(And even for professional firewall wranglers it's hard in normal semi-chaotic IT organisations, you don't intrinsically get any assurance things are set up tightly, or that it remains so after network configuration changes, and you keep breaking working systems, you just get feedback for angry users that you've inconvenienced and you never get feedback from successfully defending against attacks. etc etc. And at the end of the day for the same money you could have gotten better security improvement by spending man hours (and hours lost by impeding your users) elsewhere, in line with end-to-end thinking.)
Clickbait with nasty popup adverts that are hard to get rid of.

This has already bern debunked long ago. Google just filters out the libellous suggestions which they do for everyone.
Incredible mismanagement on the side of BART for allowing this to happen. I'm certain they could find all the funding they need for upgrades by cutting the waste.
Acorns is not firing people, but has already lost ~15 top performers due to poor executive leadership
Unfortunately it still feels cheaper to purchase a Windows laptop, and simply scrape Windows off its boot.

I object to being gouged for opting to run a certain system. The amount of invested time required to get modern Linux up on a non-psychotic (psycho like the Yoga 910) is a solid investment to the required baseline of competence required to be a Linux dev.
Did I read that right? C++ Frontend, Python Backend?
As a current Apple user with similar needs, I've been looking into alternatives myself. The Lenovo ThinkPad P50 [1] is looking great. Can be configured with a Xeon quad-core CPU, up to 64GB of ECC (!) RAM, 2 x 1TB PCIe-NVMe SSD and an NVIDIA Quadro M2000M (performance similar to a GTX 960M or 950M [2]). I've been considering to get a Xeon/64GB non-ECC RAM/512GB PCIe-NVMe SSD/Quadro M2000M configuration myself for around $2,600 (before taxes), which is much cheaper than Apple's offerings.

The Dell Inspiron 7510 can be specced similarly [3] and looks also interesting but apparently throttles the GPU under load [4], which is a huge no-go for me (I had a laptop that throttled under load at some point and it was a pain).

[1] http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/p-series/p50/

[2] http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-Quadro-M2000M.151581.0.h...

[3] http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/precision-m7510-workstatio...

[4] http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Precision-7510-4K-IGZO-Mob...
One option I've found for basic designs is to run a competition on Freelancer (I think Fiverr and others do this too). If you put a reasonable guaranteed payment you'll get a bunch of entries and see the quality people quickly. Also you'll get more variety to chose from.

The added benefit is this gives you a stable of better designers you can reach-out to directly for other jobs later.
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It's not a niche anymore, Intel 7th gen has native Thunderbolt 3, so no extra chips needed, that should expand its popularity. Actually any modern laptop already comes with a TB3 ports (see Dell/HP/Apple stuff).

> a port can be USB-C without being TB3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12824538
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>I have no idea how Bernie still supports her. She literally cheated against him to get the nomination.

Everyone has a price.
OK, hyperbola aside, stumbling, as in finding the tools still there, and yes, what you said is one of the many possible examples certain people are pushing. Looking at the addresses of all those command and control servers, however, it literally could have been anyone else from any country in the world, regardless of who they were attacking. What are the chances the one with the bad clean-up job is the one found by Russian govt specifically. Esp since they were targeting routers, presumably any response team/curious admin, or one of the million scaning haxors could have either followed the crumbs, or simply stumbled upon the doors left open at the cc end.

Or there's this hypothesis: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/hints-suggest-an-ins...

Which makes a hell of a lot more sense than assuming any of the aforementioned (not least any of the smaller subset of said unlikely scenarios leading to PUTIN).
I didn't see where the original poster said "simple."

I have a laptop with similar specs and it's definitely taxed when running big monolithic projects and (particularly) their big test suites.

Also, when buying a laptop, most people like to buy something that can last at least a few years into the future...
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Pretty neat implementation!

Is there any way to monetize a similar independent project like this? I understand it can help ML tasks with disambiguation but that's even farther out of my expertise. I ask because I did very similar work for my CS PhD dissertation in 2013. Basically covering their 2nd aim, but with fewer scoring methods and a viz component.

It would be cool to dust off my old code and try it on this data set either way...
It would be convenient if the UI would give feedback like that on the submission page. Maybe some kind of plugin API or JavaScript tool? Same with dupes. Not prevent you from posting, but just maybe asking Are you sure? Or Have you seen this previous post?
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Bart is consistently disgusting and a majority of their janitors make over $100k?

This is what happens in a government subsidized monopoly.
The sentense about GMail using XHR before Googe Suggest is wrong. GMail and Google Maps used iFrames, but not XHR in the first few years, and started to use XHR only in 2006+.
I suspect you're confusing intelligence with rationality.
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Everything I say is off-putting to someone. I'm inclined say your comment is off-putting, but I'm actually fine with letting people feel what they feel without leveraging emotional obligations at, or demanding hedging-rituals or pointless niceties from each other.

Though this criticism is really just a difference of culture: the ability to separate the useful truths from pleasant feelings is a high virtue where I come from.
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So your response is:

1. Some inconvenient Swiss immigrants aren't immigrants.

and

2. Read this article from 2012 and ignore the last 4 years of Japanese GDP. (http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/gdp)

Care to try again?
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Not sure what else mavelikara was expecting :)
Launch an XTerm and you can see how awful terminals can truly be.
> We don't really know what it is for a human to "think" of something. Introspection of what we think it is does not lead us to understand what it is to think of something.

This doesn't seem right. Introspection might not give us all the answers, but it's a critical (and probably the single most important) aspect of understanding how we think. Entire branches philosophy deal specifically with this and have done so for thousands of years.

I personally found Descartes' thoughts particularly interesting in this regard. Also, here's a pretty good overview on introspection in contemporary philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/introspection/
Shopstyle in SF just laid off 20 staffers between dev and product.
Finer control?. Synced behavior is easier to understand and organize logically. You have the option to write it like a book and execute things "concurrently" (considering its really single threaded in JS).
It's really odd to see a direct request for all of them, usually it'd just be the most recent.
What about the Austin office?
Its already hit the news, friend. Unfortunately Wells Fargo continues to trudge on.
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Another philosophy I've always had: always writing for one system means you end up making platform-specific assumptions, even in higher-level languages. For example, concatenating file paths with / by doing "{}/{}/{}".format(var1,var2,var3) rather than using os.path.join(var1,var2,var3) and letting the system handle it.

Developing on one platform and deploying on another means you find more little incompatibilities, and can expose a lot of bugs that failed silently or did the wrong thing on one OS but broke visibly on another OS.
I know that parts of the original design team for YANG are old lisp-fans, but I can't recall the option of developing a lisp-based DSL ever being evaluated. I would personally suggest that the fit would not be very good, since YANG is fundamentally a modeling language that "models the hierarchical organization of data as a tree in which each node has a name, and either a value or a set of child nodes." (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7950#section-4.1).

But I happen to personally think that a datalog- or lisp-based policy language for YANG-modelled data sources would be a very interesting concept.