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I wouldn't call myself a truck driver but I drive enough on highways to feel the problem.

Highway driving takes its toll on the driver. You're usually on a single lane, maintain distance from car before and follow speed limit.

Just lane following and adaptive cruise control and make this journey a lot less tiring.
USB, and now USB-C. Also dropping things like RS232, parallel, floppy drives, cd/dvd drives, VGA ports.
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The first two are essentially use-cases for one of the existing Cordova/PhoneGap Bluetooth modules.
Good question (apart from the scare quotes!).

I run a software consultancy based in the UK. I work with a variety of subcontractors, most of whom are based in Europe. The outcome of Brexit might potentially have a significant impact on my way of working with Europeans; I don't think it will, but keeping abreast of that (developing) situation is fairly important to me.

I'm going to Venice on Wednesday. If there had been riots following the outcome of the constitutional referendum, I wouldn't be going to Venice on Wednesday.
Ha, well just wait for 2017
How come Intel can do this, but ATi/AMD can't?
Posts like this is why I read HN. Thanks a lot! :)
I'd be curious to see the real numbers:

Again, Microsoft refuses to provide numbers but vaguely claims “our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever.”

If you go from 5 trade ins to 7, you can site your best year ever. It doesn't mean you've made a dent. I can see that people are disappointed in the new MacBook, but there are very few I know that would just say "screw it, I'm switching platforms." Admittedly, my friends are mostly designers and developers, so it's a biased sample, but I'm a little skeptical about the numbers.
Well, in the US, the USDA promoted grains as the base of the food pyramid[1]. But this turned out to be at the behest of grain industries.

Whole grains are much better for you than white or processed breads, but they should still only be a small part of your diet, not the base.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_USDA_nutrition_guid...
I think some civil servants realised this. That's not the same as the entire government realising it. It's certainly not the same as specific Prime Ministers understanding it.

There are maps from the early 1950s - pre H-Bomb - which show large areas of the UK reduced to radioactive desert after a relatively small attack.

Unloading tens or hundreds of larger weapons on the UK would do very little to increase its survival prospects.

From that POV, Threads is terrifying but optimistic. It's not clear anyone at all would survive a full exchange. Spending a few years in a bunker would simply delay the inevitable.
How I wish I could spend all day filled with programming and continuing my language learning. Instead I'm doing first year EE at university and it's hard to find time to sit back and not worry that I should be working right now.
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Are you not easier emulating x86 then trying to reimplement the entire linux syscall table in javascript?

Then you can run anything that works on ia32 unmodified -- gcc, linux, X, firefox.. Whaytever...

Someone already did it:
http://bellard.org/jslinux/tech.html
I do the same thing; specific model of Levi jeans and grey Mossimo shirts I buy in bulk. It really is liberating.
13.5" is great for portability - my surface book is small enough to slip into a satchel in a way that a larger laptop wouldn't, and light enough to do that with. Before I got it I used to have two laptops (an 11" ultrabook for travel and an 18" gaming laptop), but the surface book replaces both - powerful enough to game on but small enough to transport. I used to be a big fan of the big screens, but you adjust quickly, and the resolution is high which is the main thing; I could keep a screen plugged into my surface dock if I wanted to use a bigger screen at home, though so far I haven't felt the need.
In a crowded space, there may not be such a spot.

Accidents are always possible, Magsafe was a great innovation, and now Apple are going to abandon it while presumably sitting on the patent? Not that that's stopped Microsoft copying it for the Surface.
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Still using jQuery these days?
I don't know man. I just did a crappy google search and found that horse breeding as a hobby allows a certain amount of deductions[1]. OH, but undersuit that sounds more like a business. Dude, the IRS considers many factors when deciding if your activity is a business or a hobby.

Most cities subsidize casual sports with public fields and courts.

We have a moral opposition to drugs, not a moral opposition to hobbies.

[1] https://www.hrblock.com/get-answers/taxes/income/hobby-loss-...
As you can read there, these maps come from "Heart, F., McKenzie, A., McQuillian, J., and Walden, D., ARPANET Completion Report". This text can be obtained from http://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf

EDIT: For a less deep link go to http://walden-family.com/bbn/
that's like 0.2% of their cumulative net worths.
Well, sure, we could design one - but could we design one that would survive itself?

For example, consider the problem of gerrymandering. When one political party takes control over another, they may look at their gerrymandered districts and cry out "Unfair! We need to fix this!" But how do you incentivize them so that they don't just redraw the boundaries in their favor this time?
I agree with you. I use a surface pro 3 as my daily driver but I have two 23" monitors I plug it into. I can only use the 13" screen for movie watching and reading.
Compared to a super-volcano, even the worst nuclear winter is brief and pleasant.
Then that leaves China in charge and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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It's definitely reminiscent of Apple's marketing language, calling everything the best ever. Which isn't technically wrong, but still.
I think Goodhart's Law is in effect here.

As a management metric, I would find this concerning - perverse incentives and false positives all over the place. But as a personal observation, I'm going to take it to heart.

This (like most other metrics) seems most useful from a starting point of "while doing my daily work and seeking to write good code, I will apply this". That doesn't make a good tool for deciding who's talented, but I'm still going to remember it.
the surface studio looks great. i'd love them to come up with an IDE that takes advantage of touch.

my proposal is: the basic structure of code is represented visually via an AST, i.e the folders,files,classes,method and public variables and public variables and constants. and they could tie in tests and have test show up within that space.
"most of its cash cow (iPhone) is due to Mac"

Almost certainly untrue. Most iphone users are still Windows PC users. Yes the developer community is important to the iOS app lead, but most of that is due to the self selecting group of people who purchase iphones - people willing to pay for things.
These PR pieces are getting funnier each day.

Do people really want to switch from a rock-solid, sandboxed Unix to an inferior OS like Windows? Did people already forget the crazy days of regedit, zero app sandboxing, inconsistent installers, anti-viruses etc?

I wish more people jumped ship to Linux instead of the Apple/Windows duopoly, but if wishes were horses...
The EPA might want a word, which is presumably why they've got to go.
George Best:

> I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
The thing that I find confusing is that a lot of people call the new Macbook Pro "future proof" because it is all-in on USB-C.

And while I get most people can survive with 16GB today, limiting RAM isn't future proofing for people who plan on owning a Macbook Pro for five years. Over time, new revisions of operating systems and software tend to require more RAM, not less.
Because he LIKEs it. Sorry, today is Monday.
Well played sir. And thank you.
I am very amused that a 6 hours long battery life can can be so important. My laptop don't even have this battery life in sleep mode and when powered on, it must be something like 50 minutes.

Do you run in the street with the thing in your hands or drive your car with the laptop on?
You would legislate that website operators are not allowed to obfuscate their javascript by removing all the variable names as well? That would either be a dystopian nightmare or utterly useless.
Don't most people do this? Especially the kind of people here on Hacker News? I have like 10 plaid shirts, and 4 pairs of dark blue jeans and every day i pick one of each and wear it. The big advantage of my system is that I don't look like a weirdo because I wear an identical outfit every day.
I've been using vimwiki for years - it's been an absolute life-saver - but had no idea it now supported markdown. Any one know of a tool to convert vimwiki syntax to markdown or can i just use markdown in new files and keep vimwiki in the old files?
Sounds like a lot of unnecessary overhead, running an extra kernel and an extra layer of interpreter, with code/semantics that don't match well to the lower (JS) interpreter. Sure, it's the best (=only) way to run existing binaries, but why not make use of the fact that source code is available for many applications?
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He tries to be special, whereas in reality he is just lucky. That's about it.
I don't think the claim falls apart on inspection - the fake FBI suicide story was shared 2.5 times more on Facebook than the fake Atlanta shooting story. Do you have any examples of liberal fake news that were as popular as conservative fake news?

FBI suicide, 569k: https://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://denverguardian.com/201...

Atlanta shooting, 222k: https://graph.facebook.com/?id=http://baltimoregazette.com/a...
Absolutely. A lot of people are fixated on the (IMO many decades out) "Johnny Cab" whereas there are potentially significant safety and driving comfort gains just from autonomy with, say, a 1 minute handoff time for limited access highway driving. And that seems much more achievable over the next decade or so.

(And even the sort of features you can buy today in luxury cars are pretty nice from what I see.)
I believe it. I just abandoned Apple after years of loyalty. I looked hard at Surfaces and after considering them for a while I decided they weren't ready to be my main dev machine, so I went with a Thinkpad. But Microsoft is doing great stuff with its hardware lately.
Yeah, Chrome ships with 12 search engines that you can pick from the settings menu (in the US version at least), and you can add custom ones too.
> The term "bias" has a real, well-defined meaning in statistics, and both of these terms imply incorrect decisions are being systematically made.

Bias is not a word that was invented by statisticians[1], it's a word that statisticians adopted. It's just as legitimate to say that when a machine learning technique is trained with biased input that it produces biased output as it is to say that some particular machine learning method produces biased output from unbiased input. Either way, it's perfectly fine to say that the use of that technique results in bias even if that bias is in an aspect of the output that the algorithm wasn't selected to optimize.

It seems that what you're arguing is that the algorithm shouldn't be blamed in these cases, but in addition, you're declaring that there's no such thing as prejudice or bias, and implying that what the algorithms are doing is pulling some (uncomfortable for gatekeepers) platonic truth out of the ether (without any acknowledgement of the possibility of biased input.) Or more simply, you're using this article as an excuse to push a favorite "race realist" agenda which you use to justify a purist libertarianism (and which I agree it requires.)

[1] http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=bias
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> In The Thread: Windows users thinking improved windows performance somehow equates to improved linux driver quality.

Well, as far as I understood, that's exactly what the entire discussion is about: their HAL that would allow them to reuse large parts of their well optimized and tested Windows code and integrating that into the kernel.
It's more indirect than that: the apps exist because of Mac using developers. Without the developers having access to Xcode/Swift/etc the quality and number of apps would decline in favor of android.
I think the point of the Mad Max plot was not that you couldn't extract oil from other sources, but that the damage had already been done to the economy and society so it was past the tipping point and already on to pure chaos.

By the way, we exploit oil sands which are about as heavy as you get. The stuff is basically asphalt.
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>the single most popular laptop on the planet

Based on... what metric? I'm assuming you've got another metric beyond revenue, volume, and market share you're basing this on. Because by all measurable aspects, they're definitely not #1. If you're claiming one specific model of laptop like a 13" pro with a certain configuration, I've never seen Apple break down by model so I'd be interested to see your numbers.
Cookies have several security features built in and if all you're storing is a session identifier they are generally better than a JWT from a size perspective.

This does a better job that I'm going to try for in a HN comment: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2016/06/13/stop-using-jwt-fo...
Thanks! I'll give that a shot.
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I can't believe anyone using macOS for their professional workflow would consider switching to Windows 10 despite all the criticism leveled at Apple's hardware (most of which I think is totally justified).

I use Windows professionally (for .NET development) and I think Windows 10 is still light-years behind, with an unstable, jarring OS experience full of bugs and niggles and unloved and underdeveloped touch interface. I would love the opportunity to move to macOS and iOS professionally. Fonts and UI rendering look awful on Windows compared to macOS, there is just no comparison.
Microsoft is known for playing catch-up, so this is their best catch-up ever.
This are actually good news. If worrying can make you sick then worrying less can make you more healthy. Stop worrying today! Everything will be fine!
Agreed. I hadn't been a fan of Moto for quite a while, partly thanks to their association with the obnoxious "DROOOIIIIID" phones they manufactured for Verizon. Overall they just hadn't been impressing me at all.

But when I broke my Nexus 5 I needed a replacement. The Nexus 6 was a bit larger than I was interested in buying and at $650 it cost a bit more than I wanted to pay for a device I was not really too keen on.

Enter the Moto X (2014 version) which was essentially a smaller version of the Nexus 6 for around $450. OS was all-but-stock Android and updates seemed to be almost as fast as Nexus devices thanks to Moto Mobile's Google ownership. Picked one up and it was one of the better phones I've owned. A little while later, I picked up a Moto360 on sale for $125 because I had some "play money" and the itch for a new gadget to play with.

The phone was great but over time updates slowed as Google sold them off. Then my watch started crapping out due to a defect and I had to deal with the new Lenovo-owned support team.

Dealing with that support department was miserable. Google has a bad rep in this department but it's nothing compared to the "new" Moto. It took me months to set up an RMA and get the issue resolved as their website constantly crapped out or failed to work properly while setting up the RMA. Their support techs were either unavailable or unable to offer assistance.

After that phone, their later offerings got rid of the near-stock at a good price that made the Moto X so attractive and as things went on, they continued to move toward mediocrity.

This time around, I bit the bullet and paid "iphone money" for a Pixel. So far, other than the bland design it's been an excellent device. And while I would've loved a return to the almost-flagship-for-half-the-cost of the Nexus 4 and 5, in the end, I found that I'd rather pay an extra $200 for something I use daily for 2+ years rather than suffer the delayed updates and poor support.
How are they due to Mac? They outsell macs by an order of magnitude and most of the non developers I know with iPhones dont have macs.

If the implication is that developers will stop writing apps for iPhones, that's highly unlikely because money is still in vogue.
Well, the argument that Windows sucks for development environment is true only if you use programs like rbenv, nvm or other stuff that is built on GitHub. Even then most of them work on Windows. I've moved from Linux to Windows (battery life issues, video tearing and lots of maintainance for my extremely custom setup) around 7 months ago and mostly use Python, DotNET Core, NodeJS and MySQL and Postgres. I also run and deploy my Ghost blog from Windows. The only things I initially missed was bash, which is now available. Even 256 colour support for the terminal is here in Insider releases.

I use VSCode as an IDE (with the vim plugin). Yes there are some issues if you want to run Ruby or Perl (package (gem or perl packages) management) but otherwise its good.
Sorry, but... Fuck This. I went to my Dr last week because of acute and chronic pain in the testes, ensuing insomnia, etc. He pulled the psychosomatic card and suggested I was manifesting my own problems. I politely argued to no avail, then politely and permanently dismissed him as my doctor. Two days later I visited the ER, where it was confirmed that it certainly wasn't psychosomatic. It may be difficult to understand, but someone who is truly suffering and seeks help only to be told "it's in your head", can very well be the victim of an external psychological disorder, not anxiety. For how many years were innocent and otherwise perfectly healthy people persecuted, neglected, or ridiculed when they complained of stomach pain, i.e. an ulcer? Until Barry Marshall[1] came along and deliberately infected himself with H Pylori to successfully prove the actual cause of most ulcers, probably far too long. I advise that when pointing this self-righteous etiological finger at others, do so cautiously. I know I didn't quit distance running, my job, and adopt a life of sleeplessness to secretly spite myself and binge on artificial misery.

- Irritated patient

1. http://discovermagazine.com/2010/mar/07-dr-drank-broth-gave-...
For me it was Zen, which I heard is in some ways quite similar to Stoicism. A good start is Alan Watts' "The Way of Zen":

https://www.amazon.com/Way-Zen-Alan-W-Watts/dp/0375705104
It is well suited as a monitor, too, low input lag.

I've been torn among all the options, but I think I'm going to pull the trigger on this one today.

If you're weighing different options I highly recommend rtings.com for reviews. They rate every tv/monitor on the same rubric and it is pretty in-depth, so if you care about a certain aspect (i.e. use as a monitor, or contrast or motion blur, etc), it is very easy to compare.

http://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/ku6300
I took delivery of my 13 inch Touchbar MBP last week and after a weekend and 2 full work days with it, I have to say that I've not been this happy with a new Mac in since my first one.

I've owned a Mac Mini (just after intel launch), iMac, MacBook (White), 15 inch MBP, 11 inch Air and most recently 2 years with a 13 inch air so I got a good stable to compare to.

This laptop feels incredible, it's plenty powerful enough for what I do (Sketch/Photoshop, HTML/CSS, PHP/MAMP, Swift, C for embedded microcontroller work, large spreadsheets for forecasting) and while I've not put the battery through its paces I can't remember the last time I ran my Air's battery down to less than 50%.

The screen is amazing (even compared to my wife's 2015 retina MPB), the overall finish is great, I really don't mind the keyboard although I type on a Magic Keyboard so it's not that different really.

The touchbar is new, novel and not all that useful right now but given it's not tied down to an App store I'm looking forward to what people make for it. Touch id is a big plus as well.

The USB C future is going to be very nice, sadly that future is not right now. Plugging my laptop into a screen for power, USB and video will be very convenient but right now it's damned awkward but that's the early adopter price I guess. Apple won't back down on USB and I'm glad someone is willing to force this through as it's time to settle on the one connection that can do it all.

You can plug in an iPhone, you need to buy a USB C to lightning cable or dongle. People complain about the price of the cable but if you've got a £1,750 computer and a £700 phone then £20 really isn't that much.

Just my 2 cents
I don't agree with this. The vast majority of govts around the world are facilitating inequality. In the last decade how many amazingly intelligent people who could have furthered the whole world have missed out? We'll never know, but I bet it's a lot. Most heads of govt are megalomaniacs.

I agree we have a drive to improve but our current system is a long way from efficient by design.
When the parent argues that "Apple hasn't always picked winners" he already conceded that Apple has picked winners.
A 40% decline in licenses is not "very small". It's enormous.

Likewise China realized it couldn't double down on coal indefinitely, they had to back off. When your pollution becomes so bad planes can't take off you have to re-think your strategy.

China used coal because it was cost-effective, but now the costs of coal are too high to sustain its use. They're just going where the money is, and right now that's solar.

China itself doesn't have a lot of fossil fuels other than oil so naturally they're interested in something that makes them energy independent. Energy is, after all, power.
Liz Parrish had some cutting edge genetic therapy done to increase her telomeres.

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That's what I got from it, but how would the Oceans disappear? Where would all that water go?
This is really interesting, thank you.

It's one of the only clear-metric breakdowns that actually makes sense in light of my programming experiences. I'm hesitant about the idea of using it as a management tool (easy to game, and high commit count or even 'high impact' isn't proof of quality). And, as some other people noted, it's quite role-specific - a performance engineer's commit count won't be comparable to a line engineer.

But as a personal insight, or a mentoring tip? This seems excellent. I know I want to write good code, I'm not going to game my personal metrics, so a clear guideline like "break up code more" is a great thing to have.
So it's basically a suite of tools for writing a wiki?

Does it have its own build/rendering engine, or can I use one I already know (Pandoc)?
Because as part of the plot, it is explained that those were specifically burnt for years (if I remember correctly, because religion was what started the war or something)?

Movie's still not great, but there are reasons they don't find Bibles :)
True, but seeing that trend upwards allows Microsoft to put more dollars towards developing Surface.

I don't know if Microsoft has reached parity with Apple with professional development machines, but it does look like they've set themselves up to be a contender for next generations.

With increased internal funding, they may actually achieve that goal.