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> it's better than a laptop

Can't say I agree with that. The mini is awfully fat, and most of that space is power supply, fan, and a rotating hard drive. (Seriously, Apple, don't you know it's 2016?) So I still need a bag to carry it. I'd much rather have an MBP than a Mini. (Also, a mini can't sleep unplugged.)
You're extremely naive.

The US and its individual states have a litany of laws on the books. There are so many that I can get sure every person breaks at least one law everyday, gay people in particular. It's sad but most laws do not get repealed.
Cross language marshaling of data and exceptions:

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize.new;
try {
$mech.get("xmas://perl6.org");
CATCH {
default {
say $_.perl;
}
}
}
They are not apples and oranges from the perspective of investors. Those people want to invest their money for the highest return. If solar gives a higher return than oil, then their money will go there.
Isn't it amazing what can happen when people discuss something rationally? :-)
Wow! Uber is quite the domino :-)
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> The Authoritative Argument is not very convincing

Neither is a straw man argument.

He wasn't making an argument from authority. He was essentially saying "because you are learning, not doing".
A few months ago I made a similar transition - to a Surface Pro 4. I'd been on Mac since 2009. Before that, Windows and Linux.

I think you sum it up well - there are some rough edges in the Windows world, but there also are in the Mac world. I find I hardly use my iPad now.
Whilst I agree, Mithril is also a very different beast - it includes a routing system, and full MVC - React is just a view component library.
Presumably in the case of a public terminal, you would have to trust that your keyboard inputs and screen outputs weren't being recorded. But then you also have to trust that the VM container wasn't being malicious too, which the VM itself wouldn't be able to protect against...
Let's say one of the person, in this state, describe his/her earlier soul incarnation as being in some other country which has a different first natural language. Can we talk to that person, in this state, in his/her old country first natural language, which he/she have never learned before?

Science is not just about performing some experiment and reaching some conclusions, but it is also about trying to figure out the implication of those conclusions and experimenting with those implications.
In my experience Dell has had bad quality control, so if you don't want to risk sending computers back and forth to get it fixed, I'd consider buying the Thinkpad instead.

Also note that the XPS 13 matte has a weird dynamic brightness that cannot be deactivated and has had multiple keyboard issues reported on reddit
Does “real” security matter?
Coincidentally, I have now just published an update which includes fixed Lua programs and refreshed boxplots.
@hacker_9

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Albeit, the human brain calculates roughly 10^16 to 10^18 synaptic operations per second. (Exascale Computation)

THIS DAY, artificial neural models calculate 10^14+ synaptic operations per second.

BY EXTENSION, artificial cognitive models have reduced larger number of cognitive tasks, as time diverged, in tandem with enhanced parallelism.

THUSLY, exascale artificial neural models are but likely by 2020. (Moore's Law)

It requires not Einsteinian intellect, such that one observes the prior sequence.

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By extension, artificial intelligence is enhancing exponentially, particularly on the order of Moore's Law.

Here are a sequence COGNITIVE fields/tasks, where sophisticated ARTIFICIAL NEURAL models EXCEED mankind:

1) Language translation (eg: Skype 50+ languages)

2) Legal-conflict-resolution (eg: 'Watson')

3) Self-driving (eg: 'OTTO-Self Driving' )

5) Disease diagnosis (eg: 'Watson')

6) Medicinal drug prescription (eg: 'Watson')

7) Visual Product Sorting (eg: 'Amazon Corrigon' )

8) Help Desk Assistance ('eg: Digital Genius)

9) Mechanical Cucumber Sorting (eg: 'Makoto's Cucumber Sorter')

10) Financial Analysis (eg: 'SigFig')

11) E-Discovery Law (eg: ' Social Science Research Network.')

12) Anesthesiology (eg: 'SedaSys')

13) Music composition (eg: 'Emily')

14) Go (eg: 'Alpha Go')

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_-wn8ghcoY

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
You really can’t. I can use any taxi company I want to get from A to B. I can’t use any chat app I want to talk to my cousin Alice or my brother Bob. I have to choose one that they’re already on. That’s the network effect.

In transportation, all these taxi companies are using the same roads; the same network. I don’t have to make sure AcmeRideShare has permission at both the pickup and drop off points.

And I can change my mind tomorrow and go with ABCRideShare if I have a coupon. I can’t just arbitrarily decide to use ICQ tomorrow to talk to my Facebook friends.
+1 on the Alton Brown recommendation from others.

A book that we've used a lot for ideas on cooking healthy and cheap meals is "Good and Cheap" by Leanne Brown. You can download the PDF for free from her site, or buy a hardcopy from several sites (I have no affiliation, just a happy buyer/reader/cook):

https://www.leannebrown.com/cookbooks/

It's based on trying to counter this very idea ... and has a lot of great ideas for what feels like "fancy" meals, but with pretty simple ingredients/instructions. Highly recommended if you are interested in expanding your kitchen repertoire (whether you're a cooking newbie or an experienced "foodie").
> The Uber model has no barrier to entry

If uber has no barrier to entry, neither does facebook.
Going off a tangent on this, (paid) fake reviews on the Chinese AppStore is so bad that the official ranking is saturated with random cash grab apps and games, and even publishers with a legitmate following has to pay for brushing if they want any exposure at all. Not a very healthy state of things to say at least.
Why react specifically? My general experience tells me that mixing presentation and logic ends badly, as well as the collective experience of the industry. We've been down this path with just about every GUI technology before but it seems we have to learn it again.
Management wise: He is probably trying to keep you where you are. You can't be sure, but he's not willing to give you a shot. Hence: he may not have the resources, doesn't want to bother, thinks you wont cut it at first or at all / etc.

Next: Congratulations. It's the drive that matters.Try to push your manager, if it works, good, stop reading here.

Okay, so: Where do you want to go? Whats your passion? Ignore what you know/dont know. What you want to do?

Lets assume you woke up one day after 10 hours of sleep, opened the windows, inhaled, and said to yourself: I love that I've become the best _________________ ever.

Having said this. Start doing it. Start your new project. It doesn't have to be commercial. Start doing what you love. Google stuff, boot your own Vulkan pipeline for that space invaders clone, write that C++ json parser to replace nlohmann/json or what have you. Just do it. Pour your passion into it.

Then:

Go for an interview; and tell them:

I have a great passion for this. I've worked as a support for so long, because I had to pay my bills, but look at what I'm capable of. I want this. This is where I want to proceed in life. It makes me happy, and I can do it. You seem to be a company that needs that skillet. So I'm here, ask me anything.

And that's how I'd start, if I were you. If passion is your dream, the stars will align to pillar you up. But, you have to decide, and start.

Best of luck, unknown stranger. May the math/algorithms and that C that you wrote (and for which I'm replying), keep your sails full.

And for all the gods sake, if you have the brains for discrete math and oop algos and stuff, try to do something that people shy away from and that will amaze them when they see it. Use AVX2 assembler inlines if you have to :)

May you have an amazing journey.
HN community seems to lean towards building a sustainable business

Do you mean relative to the startup scene / community in general? The general population? Other tech / startup online community? Or did you mean within HN itself where more people lean towards the sustainable business model?

I feel the exact opposite if we're talking relative to other segments of society. Most people I talk to don't know about the VC funding model.
401k's are a bad deal because employees are at the mercy of the stock market at the time of retirement. Pensions should be able to smooth out ups and downs of investments better than a private 401k.
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I've recently lost 35 pounds in the last 4 months. It was challenging, but I wanted it. I currently have 20 more pounds to lose. Here are some things that worked for me: Calorie counting. Weight loss is truly the most simple thing ever. All you have to do is eat less to lose weight. I also maintain a more active life by getting exercise daily in the form of walking or running. Since I've lost weight my mile time has improved by the minutes.
I don't travel frequently. When I do, install the app at home and then uninstall on return. So they can't track me when I am not using them. I understand it's not for everybody.
When Do Drive-By Documentation Contributors Start to Matter?
And operating in urban environments
Thanks for the tip. This has actually been a bit difficult for me to accomplish. Most of the engineers are tight for time finishing their sprints, so all "mentoring" and feedback is usually done asynchronously via Slack or code reviews.
>"Price matters the most but brand and quality of service is important as well."

Many drivers drive for both Lyft and Uber so what exactly is that brand? The app? I don't see a lot of brand to be loyal to.
I think the first clue might have been when they changed the company's name to remove the word "Computer."
I suppose connection to this or the SpaceX satellite system will be the new short-wave radio -- borderless and uncontrollable by governments.
Xf86-input-synaptics is not a Synaptics, Inc. driver
Another way to look at it would be that DMV managers make the equivalent of $100k at a private sector job, which isn't likely that far fetched.
First and foremost, simplicity. The code is shorter and more manageable.

I don't know if functional program is SIMPLE as much as it is CONCISE.

I didn't see the word monad, fold, or reduce anywhere in the article. Is a functional programming language used with side effects and all? There's no acknowledgment of scenarios where managing the state the functional way can be unnatural, and require an intellectual hop. Or, alternatively, that this game in particular lends itself more naturally to the functional paradigm.
It's not the same. If you only ever needed to chat with one person at a time, and it didn't matter who that person was, and there was nothing stopping you from downloading multiple apps just to see who's out there to chat with and picking the person who charges the least... well then WhatApp would be pretty easy to switch away from.
Mobile OSes are build with certain assumptions and building on top of those assumption something that contradicts those assumptions will lead to all sort of problems.

As of now, it seems only Ubuntu have the mobile version that is more suited for development work, unfortunately not many devices around the world.
For shame that the LA times doesn't know you don't like podcasts ;)
I would point out that as much as people complain about how well cabbies drive, they have way more hours behind the wheel than most people.

Quick calculation: Lets think about people who drive their whole lives, not city folks. Lets think about work hours driving as it's likely to be the most by quantity, and vacation or pleasure driving should be roughly equivalent.

30 minutes each average way 5 days a week starting at 16, so by 40 they've driven 5/7365 = 260hrs / year. 260 24 years = 6240 hours.

8 Hours a day, 5 days a week, with salaried level vacations is 2000 hours a year. Many drivers are likely to work way more than that. Anyway, 6240 / 2000 = 3.12 years. That means that if you started driving at 18, you'd have the same hours driving as a 40 year old.

This also means that by the gladwell definition of 10,000 hours, you don't become an expert driver till 54.5 years.

However a pro driver becomes and expert after 5 YEARS of driving.

This also means that only 22% (those over 55) of america is likely to be an expert driver. http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/demographic.html

If HN population is the same as americans (it's likely skewed older), then 78% of hacker news isn't a gladwellian "Expert".

So self driving cars don't need to be better than most people they need to be better than a group of people who are very likely to be experts.
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Bitter over 30 year-old? (I'm 43 btw so not trying to be ageist, just asking what seems like an obvious question)

It does look similar but it is night and day different beyond the superficial appearance. Are you actually trying to say that the in-browser experience in web apps from 15 years ago were in the same ballpark as even simple single page javascript apps from today? That is laughable. So something must be different right?? Derisive condescending comments like yours prevent the conversation from figuring out what the positive is and ultimately keep the conversation stuck in the all too common and boring whining about javascript which has infected HN.
People keep forgetting that Uber didn't have first mover advantage: Lyft did. UberX came after Lyft, but Uber beat Lyft in execution and strategy.
The issue is that general startups want cash to fuel their development where as HN people tend to want a "workable model" and then expanding using VC cash or debt.
That is generally the historic result in business. His assurance has told me just the opposite. I would have thought that Cook would know this.
Also, at the OS level, there are entire projects built around just understanding the dependencies in the Operating System and applying minimalism to try and get to a state of (relatively) simple, known dependencies.

One of my favorites is Rob Landley's Aboriginal Linux:

http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html

I highly recommend his blogs if you're interested.
The critique is in the title. There are good reasons presentation and logic are separated.
Inlining styles and lots of javascript looks pretty awful to me, but I don't mind binding actions directly to the UI elements they are associated with, so long as it is declarative (like anchor tags and forms do already)

Now, have I told you all about intercooler.js...
The company's name was "Apple Computer," for one thing, and not just "Apple."
Indeed!

Two additional/final thoughts:

- It really should be a ternary selector, not up/down + flag. You should only be able to select one of the three.

- Having both up and down contribute to undimming would actively discourage using disagree as "punishment". It would very likely change how "flag" is used, though the proper use of "flag" is unclear to me right now, as from what I can tell its effect is not visible until the comment is dead. It would clarify the effect between "down" and "flag".
That's long over. The Nissan Juke. I don't think it's possible for a car to look less appealing and still function.
I think the maintainer spent October 2015 re-writing PHP and HTML and CSS to make something that would be readable on a mobile phone.

(A couple of years nag-nag-nag from Google "Webmaster Tools" "Mobile Usability" page finally nudged me into action. Now mobile use on Saturdays has risen from 5% to above 30%).
Ah I see. Well, that's better I guess for Uber. People are more incentivized to use the service.
I've sat in my bosses a number of times, it IS plastic, yes, which is a ding, but it at least gives the passing appearance of being made of much better plastic than say, my 300.
Did you read the article? The pension was solvent before the benefits were increased, so not a pyramid scheme.
Amazon Launches Its First Cloud Data Center in Canada
> ...if you know Go and not NGINX...

This doesn't seem like a solid basis for making engineering decisions -- or any kind of decisions.
Really? I hear about it in every comments section and YouTube review
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"efforts made to slow this transition by Trump and others in his administration should be seen as a protectionist, nonsensical, and amoral top-down defense of the harmful fossil fuel industry."

As a solar panel owner, I want to know, is this a response to the tax credit going away or is there something else of which I am not aware? If solar is able to stand on its own, the tax credit would seem to have served its purpose. The discontinuity in the level of feasibility when it goes away will not be fun, but I thought that people expected that to happen when it eventually does go away.
My friend really likes his, though his biggest complaint keeping him off, is he wants a matching 5K display, so he can have dual displays off his iMac, which isn't an option, and apple killed their display line.

For me, the highest end mini is almost enough, as I really don't want a built in display at all... The mac pro is too overpriced (more than it was when last refreshed) and there's no new mac pro in sight... and to be honest, I really want a mid-range "Mac" (not pro, not mini), effectively i5-i7 iMac hardware without a built in display, hell build it off an itx platform board in a fancy case, then allow the pricing to rule itself out... I mean, keep the developers happy and making apps for their iOS devices... yeah, we'll build other stuff too, but really they need to figure out that a lot of actual software developers (the people that make the stuff that makes their platforms worthwhile) aren't happy with the options available.
Trump and His Advisors on Surveillance, Encryption, Cybersecurity
Ugh, I forgot about `creat`. Should be an easy fix though :)

Edit: done!

FWIW, I agree with the other comment - blacklists might not be the best solution here.
Could you elaborate on its impact on how you do development? One reason I still have a mac is because it's so developer friendly. Linux is very time-consuming to make things work with and is incompatible with various hardware. Also some mac software is great.
I think that says more about Facebook than it does about Uber. Not to derail the conversation but it's entirely possible that FB will be gone in ten years. They already have a demographic problem: far lower penetration among younger cohorts than in years past. And engagement metrics among new younger users show that they are using FB differently than older cohorts.

Thus, I think one could easily argue that FB could be supplanted very quickly by a new service that offers many of its features but is more attuned to the use cases of the younger generation. In Uber's case, the situation is much different because their only appeal (low fares) is unsustainable.
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Typically this makes it hard to test the logic.

Why?

You have your underlying data model, and any associated constraints and business logic built around that data. This can be tested using whatever tools you normally like to use.

Independent of that, you have how you want to render some or all of that data in some particular way, which is the part React handles. There are tools for testing this as well, though in practice I rarely use them as I don’t like to have any complicated logic at this level in my design anyway.

If you do need to do some non-trivial work to get from the underlying data to the processed data that is used for rendering — perhaps selecting the top five items from a set by some criteria, or combining some conditions to see whether a control should be enabled or disabled — you can build an intermediate layer that sits between the underlying raw data and the rendering logic. Again, this is a typical architecture for large-scale UIs that has nothing specifically to do with React, and again, the code can be tested with your preferred tools.

In short, contrary to the tweet, we aren’t actually writing code like that in real projects built using React.
>One downside of cheap solar might be a drop in crude prices, resulting in its more frivolous use. I'd hate to see improvements in shipping meant to conserve fuel, and thereby lower carbon emissions, be set aside once fuel becomes cheap again. We need to watch for this and, perhaps, get regs in place to ensure it is burnt as sparingly as possible.

There is R&D with deploying wind power to help reduce fuel costs on cargo vessels.

In some ways it makes a lot of sense: You have no loss in converting mechanical energy into electric charge, then back into mechanical energy, and also losses in transmission (as is the case with traditional wind - and there's a big difference in efficiency when you crunch the numbers). On vessels, it's just straight mechanical energy->mechanical energy, and energy density is also very high. It's a crude solution, but also elegant and clean solution[1].

Business needs incentives to move on these kinds of renewable technology opportunities that exist but are not exploited because the fruit hangs too high for the free-market alone to justify the cost for the charity of the environment. My own biased opinion is that one good solution might be a carbon tax, which could align private business incentives with optimal public outcomes.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/science/earth/cargo-ship-d...
The linked tweet is nothing but a troll and everyone fell for it. I seriously don't understand why people want to hate on js so hard where they just contrive trite and inaccurate one-liners like this.
Our company is sticking with our current stockpile of 2012-2014 Macbooks. They have a lot of life left in them anyway, but when it comes to an office, having to reinvest in new, HUGE displays, new cabling, new laptops? Apple needs to come up with something more compelling than a stupid bar.

And agree, at home, Windows 10's unix capabilities are amazing. Apple needs to dedicate some real resources to the Mac line and turn them back from being overpriced toys and back to useful tools.
More then 90% of that cash is overseas, and Apple is not going to bring it back to the US. (Maybe at some point they'll move engineering where the cash is so they can put more of it to use.)
I don't think anyone really wants the mac mini. What I want is a stackable, modular mac desktop. On top goes the core unit, with the CPU, Ram and integrated graphics. Below that, you can attach a graphics module if you want graphics, Storage modules, expansions etc. It's very possible with today's connectors and it feels like a very Apple thing to do. They don't seem to have an interest in really pushing desktops though.
Use minced beef, since it is entirely obviously when it has been made safe (it will turn brown). Always use a clean knife, cutting board and hands for meat and things that come from the ground.

Also experiment with roasting things in the oven because with a cooking thermometer that's pretty much fool proof in terms of safety.

Finally consider a slow cooker/Instapot. Cook things for 8 hours and everything is safe to eat if it ever will be.