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What are you missing in Lenovo laptops? I've been using the Yoga 2 Pro for years and am happy with it. It's a great trade-off between size, weight, performance and comfort, and I'm actually happier with it than with the MBPs i've worked with so far.

Now that it's aged I've been looking for a replacement and skimmed through lots of laptops. Even now, the Yoga 910 seems to be closest to what I want and I'll probably buy this one.

Edit: I just saw you updated your comment - maybe the difference is that I prefer smaller screen sizes in favor of portability.
The Independent paints a different picture, where making the year 11 days longer (for the same "annual" pay) is a primary motivation: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-ar...
Could you explain why you think solar is bad long investment?
I tend to be skeptical of claims that bilingualism improves any mental skill. The studies often fail to control for confounding variables correctly. See this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/02/the-battl...
Underrated comment, I would be very interested in a study on this.
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That's just a different representation of the day of the year. Basically (365 - dayoftheyear) * 3.
The small payments ranged between 17 cents and $1. But how the payment calculations were described, based on weirdly complicated raffle entry odds for gift certificates or with different questions randomly worth 25 cents or 50 cents or whatever with various probabilities.

Frankly, I doubt most participants understood the payments guidance about what amount correct answers would earn them.

This could imply just putting a paragraph of confusing words with dollar signs mixed in before asking questions might also diminish political partisan bias in responses.
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> You'd also have to shun dentist appointments.

Or maybe consider going to the dentist, the physician and the priest all on the same day, and treat it as an event?

Sounds like a pretty pleasant way to live to me.
Per the linked article, if their claims are to be trusted, the barrier overhead is only 4%, which is amazingly low. Low enough that it's inconsequential for any application actually needing low pause times, if the claims are correct, which I unfortunately do not know.

Funnny, I remember years ago reading one of the patents the GC is probably based on, and thinking the entire thing was brilliant.
Aah, they were doing it for the last 10 years or so. People who are serious into botting have software that basicaly runs the browser in a vm.

The level of programming skill in the "industrial scale botting" community is high. Top tier botters can easily get into +$100k club if they were doing whitehat stuff.
Why air? If you are using solar to compress the air...why not take it a step further. Use the underground storage you propose to store hydrogen. Solar energy drives electrolysis, leaving you with hydrogen and oxygen, both of which can be safely stored and have vastly greater energy potential(when burned) than the stored energy of air.

I love your idea of using solar to build a store of energy, but you could refine the idea a bit and really do something fun. Having a large quantity of oxygen(liquify it!) could be a boon to the backyard rocket engine enthusiasts :)
They only have to do the very minimum to recover from detection. The incentive is for them to keep the largest possible bag of tricks ready to deploy every time they get a dip in revenue due to fraud detection to milk the fraud. Besides, most of the countermeasure takes the form of javascript to be executed by the client, since the fraudsters control the client, they can alter the operating environment of the fraud detection as needed.
I don't understand ad networks enough to grasp how fraudulent ad inventory works, but as this article shows - you can make a killing exploiting it..

As is stands, is there any sort of compliance measure (or regulatory body) to monitor/prevent ad fraud in these networks?
I never really used CDE, but XFCE just turned out to be my speed.
You're logic is correct, but it's not the great teacher part that is in question. The part that is always in question is about whether or not he is really God.

Take that same analogy and replace "great teacher" with "great person". If Jesus told people that he is God, and convinced them to put their trust in him, but he happens to be wrong about being God (regardless of whether that's an intentional lie or an honest delusion), then it really isn't fair to say that he's a "great person". It would be more accurate to characterize his morality in leading people astray similar to the likes of Hitler and L. Ron Hubbard.
> In my ideal world things like dentist visits would be completely asynchronous

How does this look from the perspective of a dentist?
I know, I have a two-year-old boy. I'm just saying he can get more of a break than a regular person that doesn't have nannies and whatnot.

I haven't had two hours to myself since the day my kid was born, so the idea of having 100 hours to do a fun project like automating my house is completely out of the realm of possibility for me.
Those two types of organisms you talk about actually have names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidifugous and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidicolous
> The concentrations of reactants and products in an equilibrium mixture are determined by the analytical concentrations of the reagents (A and B or C and D) and the equilibrium constant, K. The magnitude of the equilibrium constant depends on the Gibbs free energy change for the reaction.[2] So, when the free energy change is large (more than about 30 kJ mol−1), then the equilibrium constant is large (log K > 3) and the concentrations of the reactants at equilibrium are very small. Such a reaction is sometimes considered to be an irreversible reaction, although in reality small amounts of the reactants are still expected to be present in the reacting system. A truly irreversible chemical reaction is usually achieved when one of the products exits the reacting system, for example, as does carbon dioxide (volatile) in the reaction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_reaction

Assuming you do not outright lose some reactants from the system, the reverse reaction is still occurring. However, because the reaction constant is so small, the resulting product is highly probable to essentially immediately undergo the forward reaction. However, it will still be present in some equilibrium - just an incredibly low one, in the ratio of the reaction rate coefficients. You'll have 10^14 times as much of the forward reaction, or whatever.
Any idea for side projects?
Ask HN: Mentioning apps I've written using scraped data during job interviews?
I've a football app I've built over the past ~4 years that utilises data from a variety of sources, all "illegally" obtained. Football data is impossible to obtain as a student any other way..

The backend parts and client itself are my best work, and as I'm going into my first interviews here soon I'd really like to show it off as a portfolio piece. Some of the features I'm most proud of recreating are completely tied to the content, live player heatmaps for example so it's hard to piece it out into more appropriate contexts.

I'll be interviewing for iOS positions at more hack friendly, startup-y, smaller places if that makes sense, only one traditional company. Going to play it by ear while I'm in there obviously, but I'm wondering if maybe I'm worrying too much ahead of time? Is this more common than I think?
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Your lifestyle might change because you have a baby, but (within the scope of this research) pregnancy does not have an effect on the male brain.
You made my day :D
The biotech firm was to demonstrate options already taken. He already tried the "right way" to monetize his intelligence.

And then, as the high school teacher, he has already tried "plan B", which is good enough for most people that fail to succeed in the only moonshot they can afford to take in their lifetimes, but it turns out that the healthcare in "plan B" really sucks.

Those aren't just already explored options. They're the control group for Walter's scientific experiment.

His hypothesis is that "There is nothing wrong with me. I'm a genius worth millions of dollars, and It's other people that have been holding me back." And the experiment designed to falsify the hypothesis is to just discard all of society's laws and morality and just get the money by any means necessary.

The strawman argument of the show is that unfairness in society trickles down and becomes crime. Walter never would have become Heisenberg if his business partners hadn't screwed him out of his share of the company.
> > What I am referring to, is thinking that it is good to not know anything about the alternatives available to you and still make a decision.

> I think you can know enough about an alternative to decide whether or not its appropriate without conquering its learning curve.

Yeah, but that's not the same thing as using your level of knowledge as the deciding factor.
Hah, reputation doesn't age the same way. It's like wine.
You can go long and de-risk the volatility via derivatives.
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Most people I know in the Python universe bought Macs because for the past 5-6 years other PC makers would have hundreds of models and one or two decent ones... and those are usually special order or "business" computers you can't just run out and buy. OS wasn't the issue. Actually, MacOS is a PITA compared to Linux if you are developing for Linux... file locations are different, commands are different enough and GNU gettext makes autocomplete in the terminal work much better (i.e. tab completion for command parameters and other such magic).

When you buy a Mac, it's the same thing if you get it from Apple or at any retailer.

I ended up on Mac because Dell delayed an XPS-13 three times. I had to go to PyCon, so we ended up buying a MacBook Pro the day before I left. I've got two laptops since then, and both have been Macs because I can just go get one... they are all good computers.
Show HN: Phoenicia – Open source game teaches children to read without a teacher
Whoops, typo on my part. Thanks.
But if there's no payout then there's no incentive to say don't know. Whereas if there is a payout then the optimal strategy is clearly "dont know", assuming equal payouts for correct and dont know. Why would you take the risk of being wrong?
If humans only died from unnatural causes
There are languages whose execution model inherently produce large amounts of short-lived objects as sideffect of execution of some code with no explicit allocations, Smalltalk and Scheme with call/cc are probably best examples with Python being comparable, albeit for different reasons.

On the other hand, very often it's convenient to just return some freshly allocated object out of function invocation (non-obvious, but trivial example: string), which is why the generational hypothesis tends to hold for almost any language.
I'd be interesting to know to what degree Go's aggressive stack-based allocation/escaping makes this hypothesis less strong than other languages.

For example, Java a few generations ago was very poor at escaping heap allocation to the stack and so much the opposite skewing towards heap allocation over stack allocation, so I'm sure the JVMs of this era were an extremely good fit for the generational hypothesis.
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please recalibrate your irony detector. Thank you.
You do. It was standard in Netscape & IE 2.
First thing I used, about 30 seconds into viewing my first webpage ever.
I get what you are saying.

1. Time should decrease to indicate the importance of it.

2. One should sync with attention span rather than something arbitrary like hour.

The idea is that, the number should not be so large (like min) that it becomes a spam. It should not be so low either that you lose track of time. Sync-ing is expensive.

I like this clock: (D, W, M, Y) measures 3hr chunck left in the (Day, Week, Month, Year).

> In my ideal world things like dentist visits would be completely asynchronous.

For stuff like this there is no need to keep track of time at all. Just set a reminder.
Sure, technically correct is the best kind of correct I suppose.

But if the reaction is the least bit reversible (and most are) then the reverse reaction is still proceeding even though the forward reaction is stronger. It's just doing so at an incredibly low rate, and the products are likely to be immediately converted by the forward reaction.

You are looking at averages and claiming they hold for every single event in a stochastic simulation. Taking the example of entropy - it's not impossible that entropy decreases in a system, it's just less likely than it increasing. On a stochastic level, entropy decreases all the time, it's just that on average it increases more than it decreases.

Reactions work the same way. You're not actually making chemicals react as a singular act, you're creating a forward reaction that occurs more rapidly than the reverse reaction.

If we had a hypothetical chemical Maxwell's Demon - you could "bottle" up the tiny bits of those outputs from the reverse reaction before they underwent the forward reaction again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_demon
The actual problem for me (audio engineer/music production) isn't so much the new machine itself, it's that after /years/ of stagnation, at a much-hyped keynote titled "Hello Again", referencing the original Mac launch, it's the only machine we got, and it's not much better than the machine that came before it.

Essentially what this signaled to me, and a lot of other people, is that Apple has lost sight of the distinction between its Pro models and its consumer stuff. The touchbar is an interesting innovation, sure, but it's better served, at least at first, as a gimmick for their consumer devices. There were a lot of design decisions that add a lot of cost for people in a lot of Creative Professional segments, including Audio and Video production, without really adding that much functionality. Sure you can use the touchbar as a scrub-wheel in ProTools-- if Avid gets around to coding it in. But even that isn't worth the $400 price bump, when most Audio guys have their own DAW controllers already. That now need adaptors.

Furthermore, if you want a dedicated OS X desktop machine for your studio, what are your options? You can pay through the nose for a Mac Pro that has a couple thousand dollars worth of (now outdated) graphics cards that you don't need, along with an extra grand for a rackmounting solution that will convert your thunderbolt ports to PCI for your HDX/Dante/whatever setup, or you can buy a Mac Mini (which is itself direly in need of a refresh) and be severely limited by your RAM. And spend an extra grand to install your HDX card.

So I suppose to answer your question, the rage is less about what the new rMBP isn't doing for people, and more about what wasn't released alongside it.
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His point is that fundamental physics and information theory limit how good a wireless link can be. So wired links will always perform better and therefore high-end audio engineering will run cables forever.
Stone is the big one where the UK 'beats' the USA.

Never heard that one used in America.

Though our pints are different sizes too.
> You might not have noticed, but OPEC is dead.

Are you sure? OPEC's November 30th deal moved world oil prices drastically in every direction. For a dead entity, they sure seem to exert change upon the living.

PS: I'd love for OPEC to die also, but I think they are very much alive, albeit less relevant than 20 years ago.
Works with some slight modifications under Python3 on windows in the default-cmd as well, but not flicker-free sadly.

I added colorama [0] for ANSI translation, used a new function to get the terminal size cross-plattform [1] and using Python 3 required a) print-functions and b) explicit integer division for values derived from WIDTH/HEIGHT, since the behaviour of / on ints changed)

[0] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/shutil.html#shutil.get_ter...
It isn't sexist to study sexual dimorphism. It would be sexist to have a conclusion about the sexes and then cherrypick evidence to support it- but finding evidence and then drawing a conclusion is in no way sexist.
I switched to firefox dev tools a year ago (through the dev edition of firefox) and I absolutely love them, but the source map support has been really inconsistent. Sometimes it works, but almost always it doesn't :(
> Fix the battery issue. They really need to fix that from a hardware perspective. Also, the OS needs to be optimized to preserve battery. The burden can't be fully on hardware.

They actually have been doing this for the past few years—for instance, when you ask the OS for a timer, the timer you get will be ±10% of what you requested so that a bunch of timers can go off all at once. This way the CPU can sleep, wake up, take care of all of them, and then go back to sleep. (You can say 'no really it needs to be exactly this time', but most of the time you don't need that). Other things as well, but that's the one that's stuck in my brain.
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If someone asks me my opinion about something I'm much more likely to say what I know they want to hear if they offer to pay me to say that, and I'm less likely to debate with them instead.

If they aren't paying me, I'm more likely to say what I really think.
>Honestly, I thought Firebug merged with Firefox a long time ago, since they both did what I needed, in almost identical ways.

Me too. I seem to recall that back when the Firefox inspector and friends first launched they stated that it would be able to do everything that Firebug did, and that the people who had been working on Firebug were going to join Mozilla to work on Firefox instead. I switched from Firebug to the builtin tools soon after it was released.

Speaking of the builtin tools, I found an old announcement about the Page Inspector 3D View [1] which I recently wondered what happened to since it disappeared not long after it was introduced. Apparently it's available as an addon instead now so you can still have it [2] [3].

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/03/13/firefox-adds-new-de...

[2]: https://blog.mozilla.org/tilt/#availableasanaddon

[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tilt/
FB does not require phone numbers so you are just decorating with data that most users do not provide to FB. Not the same thing.

Not saying FB could not join the tables given how much data they have, but it is not nearly as simple as this.
Detected; I reject that it's relevant to the discussion, and I'm disappointed it's the top comment. Lifestyle changes aren't relevant to the research presented in the study. What would be relevant is contrary evidence of hormonal changes in males after their spouses undergo pregnancy, or structural alterations in the brain. Of course each parent is impacted by literally taking care of an infant, but what does that have to do with one gender experiencing grey matter reductions?
Windows usually feels ugly if you have a bad monitor (which is pretty much 99.9% of the monitors available in the market today).

I've recently bought an Asus Rog Swift monitor and I couldn't be happier with Windows.

https://www.amazon.com/27-inch-Monitor-PG278Q-Response-Displ...

UI itself is just a matter of preference and I don't mind Windows 10 UI, you can hide most of the things you find ugly.
Honestly I think the communal upset at the new MBP (personified by sensationalist headlines like the one here) are just blown way out of proportion. Am I floored by the new tech and software that Apple is pouring into their computer hardware? Nope (still 16 GB of RAM???). It is still the best option out there? Absolutely. Not trashing everything else out there, there is plenty to love. But the MBP still takes the cake. Here's the biggest reason why: workflow.

I have honestly never once seen a professional Windows or Linux (please gods don't think I am ragging on either) run so many programs as the professional Mac user. By 'professional' I mean people working in a professional, tech-oriented profession. I am used to keeping a dozen programs running, all the time. No matter what. Because why not? Photo editing software, Docker machines, 8 terminals/interactive programming environments, prototype ML training pipelines, local servers, MS products, various text editors and IDEs, Matlab, Mathematica, 100 Chrome tabs, some dev Safari pages, mail programs, Remote Desktop sessions, virtual machines, and whatever else I might need. Seriously. Who does that? My Windows coworkers all still have 1 to 2 things open at once, and routinely shut down their computers overnight. The startup to any task is about 100x longer than me and my always-ready MBP running coworkers. I can't remember the last time I actually turned my computer off. I also notice that my coworkers with MBPs get about 2 years more usable time out of them. Plus, my virtual machines run Windows specific software (STK, SDT, etc) faster and with less fuss than any of my coworkers' laptops.

The MBP hardware and software could be better, but the combo seems to make second nature the levels of productivity and multitasking that other users don't even know to dream of. My point isn't that the maximum capability is necessarily higher on the MBP, but that the median is leagues higher than on other machines. For that reason I don't see myself switching anytime soon.

Background: I am an Aerospace Engineer (becoming a full-on software developer), professional photographer, and generally demanding computer user.
It's not my first time here. I can't say I'd stay here long term but it's good for focusing for a few months with high quality of life and good balance.
> They instead drift up the sides of the computer, making the screen closer than the touchpad.

Isn't that uncomfortable?
The only wm I loved and stuck with on Linux was Windowmaker. Your comment is why - NeXTStep was awesome and missed..
I thought this was going to be about actual garbage collection and municipal infrastructure.

That's what I get for being non-tech and browsing HN!
Yeah but you paid the money, reliability, and weight penalties for a touchscreen for no reason.
The parent article is about 99% fluff, but for people interested in Philosophy of Science, John D. Norton (from the article) has a treasure trove of interesting stuff.

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120702103247/http://www.p...

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/*/http://www.pitt.edu/~jdno...

Unfortunately our universities are big failure when it comes to properly maintaining and archiving their websites. I guess the librarians have not been involved when it comes to matters of IT. Anyway, you have to search for his stuff on archive.org. For thought experiments, check out things like:

Thought Experiment Anti-Thought Experiment Pairs

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120703003926/http://www.p...

and his papers on Maxwell's demon:

https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20140309110028/http://www.p...

http://www2.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/ExorcistXIV/Exorcist1....

http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/papers/ExorcistXIV/Exorcist2.p...
Counterpoint: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/rati...

This paper argues that voting for social reasons ("this result will benefit society") is sensible even in large elections. The value depends on the percent turnout, but not on population size.
Yeah, I used to piss in a jug next to my computer and I'm married with a kid now. Though I suppose if I was passionate about it and stuck to my guns with something like that I wouldn't be.
I agree the kickstand is horrible. I bought an aftermarket case (manvex) which makes it much easier to use on non-flat surfaces. I think there's other brands with similar things.