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4G enabled iPad mini + Panic's Prompt.app for iOS. It wasn't a regular thing, just resolving some access issues (on servers) for colleagues (at an all remote agency).

Having said that, I've also used a Thai 4G sim to tether (and allow colleagues to tether) for data while in Melbourne and while in California.
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You feel cheated that you understand debt enough not to be taken advantage of? Seems like a silly thing to be upset about.

Perhaps we also shouldn't rescue someone who falls into an open man-hole, because it isn't fair to those of us who know to watch where we're walking?
You really helped me understand the concept of dark matter in a new way. I appreciate that, thanks! Specifically: hot/cold dark matter and rest mass.
I honestly don't know why this is downvoted, I pretty much agree with everything here. The current situation is pretty much a result of politics and policies, not technical issues which can't be solved.
By 'most societies' you probably mean undeveloped countries.

This problem doesn't really exist in other first world countries.
I put his conversion kit in my X61t and it is whoa-Nelly bright and the colors are spectacular. I recall that it also costs a fifth what a genuine ThinkPad CCFL backlight module costs.
But then the colleges will also learn their lesson and stop admitting such people. Also the institutions that finance them will learn to stop lending money for useless majors.

I'm all for personal responsibility, but isn't it too much to ask for teenagers to be able to resist propaganda from all sides that insists they must go to college and follow their dreams?

Students are not the problem, they are just doing what they are told. We just need colleges and banks and governments to stop telling them to be financial idiots.
Looks like it's only going to be on Netflix originals at the moment. But at least it's a step in the right direction! Wonder how long you can keep the content for after download?
Hard to say when his only argument is "is in fact high grade nonsense". He's missing the big picture though: performance matters but not completely, it's not two way binding that makes two way binding bad, its developers using two way binding that makes it bad.

I also think it's ignorant to say it's fashionable to avoid two way binding, I've seen teams greatly benefit from avoiding it, teams with less experienced devs and devs who I've previously seen write terrible code. Maybe now two way binding would be easier for them, though I don't know; I'm unlikely to suggest they 180 on tech that has made them much more successful.
Best security is to have an isolated environment in company office, and desktop fits in that case. I think you're talking about different position than developer.
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Agreed.

1) The universities obtained massive loans to build fancy new buildings and that cost is simply being passed on to students.

2) The ease to obtain educational loans prevents universities from having any sort of revenue constraints.

Constraints breed innovation. If there are no constraints, the universities have no incentive to reduce costs.
Sink those svensk ships.
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I can tell you two reasons why it's not always the best choice.

1. They're not currently employed which means they would enter into poverty with no exit strategy for that.

2. They have children which means without relatives on both sides of the relationship willing to help with the transition to separation (and possibly divorce if they're married) it's going to be hard to do this. It also means going into poverty in some cases whether or not the person has a job since caring for the material needs of children is an added burden. And if the spouse was also abusing them that means leaving them in their care isn't an option either.

Simply put, it's not easy when it comes to leaving one bad situation. Whether it's an abusive employer or an abusive spouse.
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My prediction is that if there is going to be a next Mac Pro, it will have 12 ports: All USB-C/thunderbolt only in the usb-c form factor. No power plug (and thus self limiting the power draw to what usb-c can provide).

The power button will be removed in favour of a touch strip.
Re the hack. It was a while back, but was troubling. However, they're willing to sign HIPAA Business Associate Agreements, which for my company's purpose mitigates those concerns... they're willing to be on the hook for host & physical security.

Re the DDoS. As a mitigating factor, the DDoS was rather intense. It actually took their upstream provider offline. They supposedly have mitigated it with redundant connections and orders of magnitude more bandwidth at the two hardest-hit locations (Atlanta & Newark).

That said, time will tell. I love pretty much everything about their service (hardware, interface, bandwidth, cost), but I've got a business to run... if there's more extended downtime, I'm gonna have to move, though I won't like it.

Digital Ocean and Vultr were the two I was looking at, though don't really know much about the popular opinion of Vultr.
They probably aren't storing the videos as you are traditionally thinking about them - you don't get to download a video file which you can play anywhere.

Most likely what they've done is stored the video chunks locally and then the Netflix app is "streaming" these chunks from the local storage rather than the netflix servers. If you looked through the folder that holds these chunks, you'd probably just see a bunch of randomly named 100mb files. That's all the DRM they need, you have no ability to consume these files without the Netflix app.
I'll keep that in mind for my next reunion.
Divorced, alcoholic and at times suicidal, he had tried almost all the accepted treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder: psychotherapy, group therapy and nearly a dozen different medications.

Once again I have to advocate for EMDR, which is not mentioned here at all. There are very few accepted treatments. Most drugs will only treat symptoms, not the underlying condition.
I used to work as a diesel mechanic.

Trades are great, but we, as a society, are not really prepared to deal with them. It's easy for someone working a comfortable desk job to say "those kids should go into the trades" without realizing the following things:

1. Trade jobs often involve non trivial amounts of physical risk.

2. Trade jobs rarely allow you to work until normal retirement age (65 or even 70). I never met a diesel mechanic over the age of 50, and precious few in their 40s.

3. Despite all that, they don't pay as much as your desk job.

If you're going to sit a kid down and give them the option between a physically demanding, difficult trade job or a climate controlled, higher paying desk job, what do you think they are going to choose, realistic or not?
You can still buy the older years' models. 2014 was a good year for Mac laptops.
> People writing software need to take responsibility for how the software is used

There is an old joke that it's almost impossible to get someone to understand a problem that would result in a threat to their livliehood.

I don't think people need to "take responsibility" I think organisations need to be made to take responsibility.

In the UK when you purchase a physical good from the retailer the warranty for that good is between you and the retailer, the retailer then has to deal with problems up the line from suppliers, it's not perfect but it's workable.

I think software should be the same, I think if I pay Foo for a system then Foo should be responsible for the system even if it's made of parts from Bar, Fizz and Buzz, if Foo has an issue with Fizz they need to take it up with Fizz.

There is so much crap software out there in every field and the acceleration towards a world run on software continues.
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"Apple has proven they are no longer interested in making a computer for the high-end professional"

[citation needed]

"Is updated I/O and the opportunity to buy a third-party 5K display enough to sell us on a future Mac Pro?"

I dunno, is a tiny change in sheetmetal design and slight interior tweaks enough to sell people on [future model of some car]?

Articles like this would be vastly improved if they updated their premise from "APPLE IZ ABANDONING PROOOOOOZZ" to "Apple isn't making the gear we're hoping for, here's our alternative pick and a summary of how it better meets our needs".
Link for anyone else who doesn't know what EMDR means: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_a...
I always write the editors of whatever magazine published an article with the tone you described and complain about it.

Authors do the world a tremendous disservice delegitimizing chemicals that have the potential to treat heretofore untreatable conditions.
I have gotten some good Chinese filament LED bulbs from eBay, but it is very hit or miss. I did not analyze them for the quality of the output beyond "it looks good to me". The total cost is lower than CREE and other brands even if I consider that I had to throw away half of them due to a poorly manufactured batch that had an audible electric whine and failures of the higher output models after a month or two.

If you are willing to buy multiple times what you need to make up for the quality issues, you can get a decent deal with the cheap Chinese ones. The ones that whined and the ones that did not whine had a fabric covering the wires at the base of the bulbs. If I had some way of knowing which eBay merchants were selling those, I would get a much better deal.

By the way, Nichia is a Japanese company.
> Needless to say, i never heard about this book while serving in the USMC as a Sergeant.

Nor did I, but why we be told about a book that questions the purpose of everything we were being asked to do?

Also, Semper Fi devil!
Ask HN: Making an all-in-one startup kit, tell me what you think?
Hi guys,

I've been using a level-based system I created to teach Lean Startup in small steps and based on feedback have been exploring making it into a DIY kit.

What do you think of the concept? Why would you or wouldn't you use something like this?

Does the site clearly tell you what the box does?

www.idealevels.com
I am not advocating, only describing. I think his argument is a problem because it can easily be undermined by specious arguments such as I have outlined. Hence the need to believe in the moral judgement of leaders not to be drawn in by such.
I really think they decided the desktop is dead. They're assuming developers are using MBPs.
Virtualbox.
what actually is hapi.js?

it looks like a http/web framework for server-side js?

> A rich framework for building applications and services

is really nonsense.
from the example's it really looks like a http framework for server-side js but it's really unclear from the description.
Likely nowhere yet, seeing as Svelte is four days old (give or take a few hours).
> The software, created by Texas-based Tyler Technologies, costs about $5m (£4m) and is set to gradually replace a decades-old e-filing system that looks like something a hacker would use in a Hollywood movie.

> Tyler Technologies acknowledged in a statement that the upgrade process had been “challenging” - but said poor training was to blame for bad inputting of data and integration with third-party applications that often introduce glitches into the system.

Even as someone who spends the majority of the day at the command prompt, I agree we should always be attentive to user-interface issues. But I've been less than optimistic that people will have the wisdom to know that a new "modern" interface automatically means it's more sophisticated/elegant, or that it's more attuned to the needs of human users.

In particular, it's been alarming to see a rise in unnecessary use of AJAX (nevermind Angular) in government applications. I'm not anti-JS, it's just that client-end development seems to have far more moving parts of the kind that don't get well-tested by workers in a bureaucracy. Especially when that work has been farmed out.

edit: as an example of how government can do modern web-dev/UX well, I can think of no better (at least at the U.S. federal level) example than the CFPB: https://cfpb.github.io/
Maybe I'm missing something, but how is that different to something like rr[0]?

[0]: http://rr-project.org/
School that I went to also has been on a building spree for the past 20 years. I'm sure a lot of the spending is necessary, but seeing things like mega-gyms and amphitheaters being built with student tuition is ridiculous.

The irony is no one will ever be able to afford a gym membership as nice as the gym they had in college because they're too loaded with debt from said college.
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Cool, right?
Huh? Just updated the app, doesnt work - no downloads ready. Not even the Netflix shows they promote in the blogpost. Im on android 5.1.1.
Hopefully theyll get it together, nice feature.
Golang is cross-platform unlike C#, doesn't have a large start-up time like Java or C#, is more mature than Rust and higher level than C/C++. A large part of its popularity was that it was picked up by the python and ruby community, many of whom highly dislike Java, C# and C.
I won't copy my entire comment, but right here I lay out the math on why student loan forgiveness goes largely to those getting very expensive terminal professional degrees. Do you consider those going into medical school to be irresponsible people?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13070754
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I've heard this a lot but do you have a citation for this? I'm actually open to believing this but I want a link.
Isn't an iMac sufficient to develop software for an iPhone?
Netflix Launches Downloads for Offline Viewing on Smartphones, Tablets
They do not have any obligation to share profit.
Jim Harbaugh makes even more.

But Big 10 football (and basketball) runs at a profit for the schools, it's the big salaries at smaller sports programs that don't make financial sense.
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It's probably not a coincidence that this is coming out at the same time as AT&T is zero-rating their own streaming service.
thanks!

What we find is deeply concerning. Citizens in a number of supposedly
consolidated democracies in North America and Western Europe
have not only grown more critical of their political leaders. Rather, they
have also become more cynical about the value of democracy as a political
system, less hopeful that anything they do might influence public
policy, and more willing to express support for authoritarian alternatives.
The crisis of democratic legitimacy extends across a much wider
set of indicators than previously appreciated.
How much importance do citizens of developed countries ascribe to
living in a democracy? Among older generations, the devotion to democracy
is about as fervent and widespread as one might expect: In
the United States, for example, people born during the interwar period
consider democratic governance an almost sacred value. When asked
to rate on a scale of 1 to 10 how “essential” it is for them “to live in a
democracy,” 72 percent of those born before World War II check “10,”
the highest value. So do 55 percent of the same cohort in the Netherlands.
But, as Figure 1 shows, the millennial generation (those born since 1980) has grown much more indifferent. Only one in three Dutch
millennials accords maximal importance to living in a democracy; in the
United States, that number is slightly lower, around 30 percent.1
The decline in support for democracy is not just a story of the young
being more critical than the old; it is, in the language of survey research,
owed to a “cohort” effect rather than an “age” effect. Back in 1995,
for example, only 16 percent of Americans born in the 1970s (then in
their late teens or early twenties) believed that democracy was a “bad”
political system for their country. Twenty years later, the number of “antidemocrats”
in this same generational cohort had increased by around
4 percentage points, to 20 percent. The next cohort—comprising those
born in the 1980s—is even more antidemocratic: In 2011, 24 percent of
U.S. millennials (then in their late teens or early twenties) considered
democracy to be a “bad” or “very bad” way of running the country.
Although this trend was somewhat more moderate in Europe, it was
nonetheless significant: In 2011, 13 percent of European youth (aged
16 to 24) expressed such a view, up from 8 percent among the same age
group in the mid-1990s (see Figure 2).

this is kind of shocking.
the window of mastering an accent closes once you hit your late teens. After that your brain cannot hear the correct pronunciation and merely maps it to closest sounding sound in you mental library. Once you can't hear it, you can't speak it. It is much easier and useful to learn the "flow" of the language than trying to make new sounds .

People always use colin Farrell as an example of adults who mastered an accent but forget that his native language is phonetically close to the language he is supposedly mastering.
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That is not "all the DRM they need". Files split up into "randomly named 100mb chunks" does not make them safe from would-be pirates with a penchant for reverse engineering.
> However, this must be a co-operative process. A project’s success is contingent on both parties  -  the jurisdiction and the software provider - working co-operatively together.

> “We have reiterated our commitment to this approach to Alameda and continue to make ourselves available to them.”

Marketing speech for, "They don't even know how to ask us how bad we've fucked them."

Just look at their company page, I think it's clear whats going on here. California administration is not capable of spending money wisely and Texas firms are not capable of not ripping off someone who is dependent on them. It's almost like a company build on internships can't really deliver a product, only a hole where their product should be, then when you fall in it, there they are on the lip of the hole saying here's a shovel, dig yourself out.

It's a match made in capitalism-heaven.
For anyone who missed it, it seems like you can only download and view offline copies of videos in the Netflix app for Android and iOS¹. (Whatever the form of the DRM is that they’re using, it’s a definite that the Netflix app decodes it when you do playback).

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¹ — https://help.netflix.com/en/node/54816
> Davis Bacon is still on the books and massively drives up the cost of many projects.

Currently, is it discriminatory? It seems to me like a min. wage for work concept.

I don't see anything here about "getting the job done".
Hey, that sounds pretty great! Thanks!
You actually see an example of just that in this video! They built the panels as an extra roof above the rooftop, giving a shaded area for some gardening.
The sad truth is that some kids don't have parents. The fact that they need to take out a loan at all suggests that their parents (if they have any) may not be very experienced at making much money themselves.

Loan forgiveness should not be restricted to teens. I know many adults that could be similarly mislead.

And absolutely it is a minority, which is why student loan forgiveness is workable. Trust me, the banks will still make money, just not as much.
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A lot of news coming out of India is hype.

I promise you that at night we burn 50% ash - lignite coal to compensate for downticks in solar and upticks in consumption.

For the next few years we'll be opening a new coal plant each month.

To give you an idea of how far we are behind as an energy grid.

The US & China each Produce about 4000 Terawatt Hours Per a Year.

India is somewhere in the ~1500 Terawatt hours per a year.

To make up the difference we're going to burn a ton of coal, the worst kind of coal.
Some private firms in the income-based repayment space:

- Vemo Education (vemo.com)

- LEIF (joinleif.com)

- Purdue, Washington U (...)
Netflix Now Allows You to Download Programming for Offline Viewing
>That's all the DRM they need, you have no ability to consume these files without the Netflix app.

This is like saying that .doc files are as good as DRM'd, since who's going to open one in anything but Word?

I get what you're saying but it's a security through obscurity argument - if this takes off, of course someone can figure out the encoding and transcode straight from those files.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's a limitation of your "old" Android version. Not saying that's definitely the case, but wouldn't be surprised.
It's to perpetuate the myth of 'rugged individualism', one of the founding legends of the US. Those middle men making all the money have a vested interest that people follow this belief. It's related to the believe where everybody views themselves as 'temporarily embarrassed millionaires', which explains why they are willing to take on so much debt to study, and why they accept the trickle up.
> self-preserving bureaucracy

When academia is run as a business and subsidies are drastically cut, you need to devote resources into acquiring new customers, which means competing with other universities who are doing the same thing. Hence the rapid increases in campus amenities and business administration positions that never existed 30 years ago.

> campus beautification projects like replacing the flowers every month

Out of all things to complain about, flowers on campus are on the low end of the totem pole. Let them plant flowers, I say! I enjoy them.
The article touches on this, but income based repayment benefits students who graduate with medical, law or other professional degrees the most. Entering into the workforce at a relatively low rate, then having some loans forgiven before their pay goes up a great deal.
My SO is a resident at a non-profit in an east coast city. I'm not "kidding myself".

I made no claim that non-profit hospitals aren't enormous businesses so I'm not sure what your link is proving. Though to me that link does actually make the point that we should have more non-profit hospitals, imo.

2 more points:

1) You are grossly over exaggerated the compensation of doctors after residency in non-profit hospitals. Of course they do make more than the median income but it is no where near 10x.

2) I think you should consider what the benefit of a) having non-profit hospitals and b) loan forgiveness programs for doctors at non-profit hospitals is.
Die-hard Mac Pro user here. I have one "ashtray" at home and one at work. Prefer wired ethernet, wired RAID storage and wired big monitors plus all the ports I need (albeit not super accessible with the new design). I can't imagine how I would do without my desktop computer, I suppose I would need to get an iMac or Mac Mini, but those also seem to be languishing in some small corner cupboard of Cupertino...

I continue to be genuinely enamored with Final Cut Pro, Motion, Logic Pro, Aperture, AirPort Express, Time Capsule, Cinema Display, XServe and the spinny wheel iPod.

Since we're not going back to this golden Apple era anytime soon, it's going to be harder and more stressful to work out how I might achieve the same level of comfort with my technology when it needs replaced. Having to replace my Mac Pro will be one of the harder decisions I have to make.