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No, you refuse to put yourself in the shoes of someone breaking an unjust law and being persecuted for it. You may never agree with a drug dealer killing an informant, but the concept of killing your blackmailer is much broader.

The fact is that our law. (You and me. We paid for it.) Doesn't help us, and was used to hurt (blackmail) someone. You might not think the hit was "Fair" or in proportion but it was a consequence of our useless law - making someone defend themselves. As long as we have bad law we'll have its unintended consequences.

Silk Road was the best public-safety advancement in drugs in the last millennium. It was impossible for someone to stumble into unaware, it wasn't near a school, church, rehab clinic, etc. And our useless laws treated it like he was shoving crack cocaine into a toddler's mouth, and denied him the protection of the police.

And useless isn't just a term of dislike, it's that our drug laws don't increase safety for anyone, dealers, users, or bystanders.
I am not an expert but I don't think postpartum depression happens because people consider all rational possibilities and conclude that depression is the most logical option. It happens to them because of physical changes during and after pregnancy. It's not like they can just will away those physical changes, or rationalize their way out.

Kind of like how with other types of depression the sufferer can intellectually understand why there is no reason to feel the way they do - but they still do.
I'm pretty sure it is exactly just a user-hostile cash grab.
Venkman was built into the Mozilla Suite [1], and it was also made into an addon for Firefox [2] when Firefox was released.

DOMi was built into Firefox since November 2003 if you used the Windows installer's 'Custom' installation and selected the checkbox for inclusion [3], then in Firefox 3 it was removed and made available as an extension [4]. It was also included in the 'Custom' installation of the 'Complete' Mozilla/Seamonkey Suite [3].

But Prototype.js came out in 2005, jQuery in 2006. Ajax the term was coined in 2005 [5][6][7]. We don't talk about the dark days before then.

[1] http://www.hacksrus.com/~ginda/venkman/faq/venkman-faq.html
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/javascript-de...
[3] http://kb.mozillazine.org/DOM_Inspector
[4] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dom-inspector...
[5] http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/01/with_httpmap...
[6] http://adaptivepath.org/ideas/ajax-new-approach-web-applicat...
[7] http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2005/03/ajax_promise...
We tried NPM and found Yarn to be better
You can also install it from F-Droid:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=conversation...
Diesels are way more expensive to product than petrol engines. Europeans don't notice as much due to the heavy taxes placed on their vehicles. But taxes on cars are much less (and are not tied to CO2 emissions), so the costs of diesel variants are difficult to mask.

Bob Lutz, a former GM CEO, said once that a compact diesel would need to sticker for $5k more than a comparable petrol engine to be as profitable. A TDI Jetta starts at $24k in the US while a base Jetta is under $18k; and a base Chevy Cruze is $17k while a diesel version is almost $26k. So his statement appears to be accurate. (Yes, there are package differences, but those are largely needed to justify the costs differences).

Of course, not even European taxes can put diesel engines at price parity with petrols. Super-cheap cars like the Renault Twingo aren't even available with diesel engines in the UK.
On Hacker News, no. The Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
For formal meetings I use pen and paper. For some specific activities I do where I can't take notes during the activity I use a voice recorder to take notes immediately afterwords. If I'm sitting at my computer (like on a phone call) I use org-capture. If I'm out and about and I just need to jot something down I use the google inbox reminder on my phone. I did have a livescribe (a pen that records audio while writing, synchronized to the place in your paper notes), it was really neat, especially if I was both conducting a meeting and taking action items. The downside was it was a little awkward to tell people every time the meeting ran that you were recording it. But it did that job well. I have used One Note for a while, it's pretty neat but the lack of a clean way to archive notes like org mode has was really a show stopper for me. For me at least having a couple of different ways works best. The small hand held voice recorder is surprisingly handy. The pain is transcribing them although recently I simply copy the files to my computer and link to them in org-mode. For group meetings I also liked used to use a white board and the camera on my phone, although I don't have need for this myself anymore. I would really recommend not getting stuck on one technique for all situations, but use different things that work better in different situations. The key is having one system to put it all together, and for me at least that's org mode.
Heh I have recently upgraded to a SATA3 SSD in my 2012 MBP and was amazed at the speed. The NVMe ones seem insane.

Anything is better than the 5200rpm Toshiba drive my MacBook came with, that's for sure!!
https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

I could not find a reference to RPG's famous essay here, so I'm guessing it will be new to some folks.

Mind you, WiB can be taken as license to do worse, which is sometimes just worse. JS in ten days actually got worse in the next 20 as I had early adopters ask for sloppy == and so on, and I gave them what they wanted. My fault for caving, but also part of the gamble to start fast and grow quickly.

What people miss about the Web is the backward compatibility constraint, very real at almost any scale and reinforced by browser competition. As I RTed recently, "replace" is spelled "e x t e n d" on the Web. This is a lesson Dart and other well-heeled projects ignored, in spite of many (including inside Google) telling them so.

So WiB means get on first, worse enough that you are first, better enough over time that you don't get replaced. By that criterion, JS is a huge success. Haters even turn around thanks to the language evolving toward ever-better extended editions such as ES2015 and beyond. See http://node.green/.
I tried laverna some years ago (early development stage) but it was very unstable.

What about now ? It is reliable ?
I agree with what you've said but IMHO is a dishonest way of living. I'd rather be poor than a suck up.
wonder if there's a way to tease out what I believe versus what I think you want to hear.
Yes, that's one step farther into the darkness. We are not there yet in Brazil. You still need to pay for data, even if it's for 100MB a month, which would give you access to the open web. But, of course, the preference would be to browse Facebook and likes with no limits.
Agree but software-wise, macOS also begins to show bugs and be annoying. Not at all like Windows but with their lack of focus, I wouldn't be surprised to see Ubuntu or Win10 become better in 2,3 years
You won't find all the features in one machine, but the Dell XPS 9550 is also sold in a version without dedicated GPU.
> The Apple Watch is a fantastic execution

Compared to Android alternatives already on the market, it's nothing special. The other i-devices were distinctive, this one is an also-ran.
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I have noticed that as well. Mac users seem to feel the need to use them in public for some reason.
> wined3d still depends on legacy OpenGL 2 and many drivers do not expose some features necessary for d3d10/11 in legacy contexts.

Well that says it all, even if Apple had an up to date OpenGL driver, that wouldn't help.
What a cool idea! Observables are by far the most efficient way to handle asynchronicity within applications. I'll definitely be trying this out.
Of course, the cost is extra heap fragmentation.
It would be extremely hilarious if when google detects you're doing that, it locks you out of all of your google accounts.
heh, at the time the Italy we think of didn't really exist.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Italy_17...

This was how it looked as late as 1796...
I am puzzled about missing homebrew..
You said you are installing Xubuntu, which comes with an excellent package manager with less issued than a brew user is likely to run into.
So there is hope America finally switches to the metric system!
Either way, actually.
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Or "L" on a Volt/Bolt/Cadillac ELR shifter. Named "L" after "low gear" on most (semi-)automatic transmissions, but really just a different software curve applied to where in the throttle/brakes the regen occurs (ie, top of the accelerator pedal versus top of the brake pedal) and how strongly the regen applies (coast-favoring versus slow-down-favoring).

Adding a paddle "shifter" on the steering wheel to "drop to the low gear" is something borrowed from manual and semi-automatic sports cars, but an interesting new use here for signalling to the car to heavier regen break.
> Every bit of heat that leaves the system is lost efficiency.

Storing air underground absorbs heat, or at least results in less heat loss than storing it above ground.
1) They don't do that with the MBP from 2010. Not even if you bought the 3 year extended warranty. Worse, it can break again, at any time, because it is a hardware defect.
2) Only after extensive pressure did Apple start this project, and only for 2011 MBPs.
It was actually named after Pope Gregory XIII, who commissioned it and introduced it 1582[0]. You may be thinking of Gregorian chant, which did arise from the Gregorian Monks.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
(edit: typo caused me to credit the wrong Pope.)
J.P. Morgan was fined $13 billion, which is hardly a slap on the wrist. The biggest fines in corporate history have been in the US; take the big tobacco civil cases, for instance.
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I don't know how the Linux support is, but if you're looking for a 17" performance machine I've read good things about the Razer Blade Pro.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/20/13344566/razer-blade-pro-...

http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-pro

4K, 32 GB DDR4, dual PCIe SSDs, i7-6700HQ, GTX 1080 (a real desktop one apparently), SDXC reader, Thunderbolt 3, plus a full compliment of legacy ports.

Doesn't come cheap at $3,699, but you can save $10 if you sign up for their newsletter ;)
For every "<brand-x> has given me most trouble whereas <brand-y> has been reliable" example, there will be a "<brand-y> has given me most trouble whereas <brand-x> has been reliable" example.

I have a Black MacBook from 2009. Still working. The shell has developed a slight flex and the fan gets as loud as a blender but still perfectly serviceable.

The iPhone I bought in 2009 kept going until end of 2012, at which point I decided getting a new iPhone would be too expensive. After shying away from not buying an iPhone due to it being expensive and having tried everything from HTC devices, Nexus devices and even Lumia Windows Phones, finally back to iPhone. (Lumia was very nice though and quite like the Windows Phone experience)

The iPad 2 from 2012 is still not willing to give up. Keeps a good battery charge.

Recently I got a MacBook. It gets a lot of hate from a lot of people. But I will say it here... I LOVE that keyboard ! Works for me and I find it better than the MacBook Air. (This is again subjective)

It is not hard to see that I am an Apple Fan Boi and consume the Apple Kool Aid BUT I have had Lenovo, Thinkpad and HP Windows laptops from work. Lenovo with Windows Vista kept spinning it's fans even in Sleep Mode when I had left nothing running on it. HP blew it's mainboard. Thinkpad was the only one which kept going and I quite liked the tracking nipple on it.

I got a MacBook Pro (2014). Have not experienced any major hiccups. It runs pretty much everything that a developer needs.

I think Apple are going through the change and everybody is feeling the pain of change.

Things will be OK in a couple of years. I hope...

BUT Apple need to sort out issues with some of it's iOS apps. The Music app is Wonky. ! WhatsApp leaves the message text box hanging on screen if I force touch into WhatsApp from lock screen !!! And this is happening on a 6s.

Nothing is perfect and nothing is worst ever.
As a counterpoint for this fluff piece for Pluralsight (mentioned 29 times), I'd like to offer the following links with very good information by well respected people in the industry:

- https://www.corelan.be/index.php/2015/10/13/how-to-become-a-...

- https://tisiphone.net/2015/10/12/starting-an-infosec-career-...

- https://danielmiessler.com/blog/build-successful-infosec-car...
In the 1970s, the best high school teacher I had spent summers painting parking lots. The year after I graduated, he quit teaching to paint parking lots full time.

This was not a net win for society...
Thanks for asking, I've been thinking about this too although from a different viewpoint: I'm in the semi hardware industry so my questions are do I invest time & resources in RISC-V? Here are my conclusions so far:

* Eco-System Value
The contributors to the most recent RISC-V workshop [0] are an impressive list, there are sure to be lessons to be learned by all involved. R&D folks have a new, rich eco-system in which to explore new micro- and macro-level architecture optimization concepts. Vendors have, potentially, a head start on feeding new commercial interest. I rate this value five out-of five stars ()

Performance Value
Related to eco-system, and perhaps why you're seeing interest among cloud service providers, is that the industry workloads are changing. Intel, Qualcomm and others are certainly focused on this too, but perhaps RISC-V can be a game changer. In the same way that Tesla up-ended the automotive market by delivering new technology directly to consumers without the typical supply chain burden, Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Amazon (ie., hyperscalers) and perhaps Tesla too can find value in new SOC architectures which they directly design. I rate this currently at two out of five, for potential (...)

* Cost Savings Value
I hear your concerns about the overhead of IP licensing, but don't blame the vendors: you folks purchasing IP ask for unlimited indemnification and ECO's -- it's crazy. And of course a CPU does not an SOC make, you'll still need plenty of additional IP (even lowly USB cores!) to develop an SOC. Plus, while I'm sure the LLVM/GDB tooling is better than it used to be, if RISC-V becomes poplar the commercial tools will follow. One star (....)

IP Terms
The whisper in the industry for years has been that 'ARM/Intel glom critical design ideas from customers which they roll into future cores to sell to competitors.' Perhaps, rather than fighting this, RISC-V can allow all of us to embrace this type of collaboration? Hard to see it now, and I don't think Son-san should write-down his ARM acquisition costs just yet, but the "CPU is just another core" could push the industry forward. Intel becomes a compute-cloud provider. Qualcomm the IOT mesh provider. NVIDIA the AI services provider. And the rest of us focus on software differentiation! Three stars (*..)

Thanks for the chance to frame my thoughts on this. I think I'm motivated to stay more involved now.

[0] https://riscv.org/2016/12/5th-risc-v-workshop-proceedings/
> This week, my mother's crappy Windows computer died, and I bought her a Chromebook. It was great! I'm now seriously considering getting a Chromebook for myself for day-to-day web browsing and such, and retiring the MBP to music and photos only. If I can figure out how to run Vagrant on one

This is tricky, the vagrant part. Virtualization extensions aren't compiled for the chromeos kernel. You can do it, but it requires downloading the chromeos kernel source, configuring the modules to be compiled, recompiling and booting with that. This means substantially more work if you want to upgrade the software, since each upgrade means you have to repeat the kernel compilation step.

The development side of it is simpler though - you can load whatever you want on it once you put it into development mode.

tldr; it's possible, but not without some time and effort, and it may not be worth your time. When I need to vagrant on a chromebook, it starts and ends with SSH'ing to a linux machine that can run vagrant.
USA would still be on "freedom seconds", I bet... (Or if they had switched, Trump would have won the election by promising to bring back the 12-hour clock.)
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Hmmm...it's hard to do entire fields justice, but here's an attempt.

There are a couple of standard neurobiology textbooks, like Kandel, Jessel, and Schwartz's Principles of Neural Science, Purve et al.'s Neuroscience and Squire et al.'s Fundamental Neuroscience. These are huge books that cover a bit of everything, and you should know that they exist, but I wouldn't necessarily start there.

If you're specifically interested in computation, I would start with David Marr's Vision. It's quite old, but worth reading for the general approach he takes to problem-solving. He proposes attacking a problem along three lines: at the computational level ("what operations are performed?"), the algorithmic level ("how do we do those operations?"), and the implementation level ("how is the algorithm implemented").

From there, it depends on what you're interested in. At the single-cell level, Cristof Koch has a book called The Biophysics of Computation that "explains the repetoire of computational functions available to single neurons, showing how individual nerve cells can multiply, integrate, and delay synaptic input" (among other things). Michael London and Michael Häusser have a 2005 Annual Reviews in Neuroscience article about dendritic computation that hits on some similar themes (here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7712549_Dendritic_c... ), along with this short review (http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v3/n11s/full/nn1100_1171...) by Koch and Sergev, and a 2014 review by Brunel, Hakim, and Richardson (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438814...). Larry Abbott has also done interesting work in this space, as have Haim Sompolinsky and many others. Gordon Shepard and his colleagues maintain NEURON (a simulation package/platform) and a database of associated models (ModelDB) here: https://senselab.med.yale.edu/ if you want something to download and play with (they also do good original work themselves!)

Moving up a bit, the keywords for "weight adjustment" are something like synaptic plasticity, long-term potentiation/depression (LTP/LTD), and perhaps spike-timing dependent plasticity. The scholarpedia article on spike-timing dependant plasticity is pretty good (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Spike-timing_dependent_p... Scholarpedia is actually a pretty good resource for most of these topics. The intro books above will have pretty good treatments of this, though maybe not explicitly computational ones.

More to come, however I also just found this class from a bunch of heavy-hitters at NYU: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~rinzel/CMNSF07/ Those papers are a good place to start!
It's still a big jump between a "luggable" gaming/dev laptop that you can pack into a holdall if need be and a desktop that you can't realistically transport without a car.
Except there needs to be some BENEFITS on the other side. What you're saying is he should upgrade for the sake of upgrading, at great cost, to something that will do effectively the same thing except in a bass-ackwards fashion.

I'm not opposed on principle to a Macbook with a touchbar but I'm not buying, why? Because it has plus or minus the same specs as my current model which also connects to my monitors and everything else I use. Why would I impose that cost and pain on myself? Just to have the latest and greatest for the sake of it? Screw that, I'd rather be a luddite than a lemming.
There are cultures where the grandparents or other relatives mostly take care of the children while the mother works (some parts of China), and there are people who pay for nannies to take care of the children at night.
Oddly I found the kickstand on the Surface Pro irritating to work with because the device becomes impossible to use on your lap, as you need to put the Surface quite far up your leg, and then the kickstand is further along than the length of your leg (hanging over your knees). So it becomes impractical to use.

The OS has done quite well to optimise battery I thought - App Nap has been great. If I reboot my MBP into Windows (so same hardware, different OS), I get worse battery life.

Agree with the ports - the Surface Pro I use at work has 1 USB port so plug in a wired mouse and you can't plug in your USB key. Despite the love of wifi, ports are a great way to keep your device useful.
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NPM downloads and installs dependencies in a manner that can be inconsistent. Yarn is better about handling dependencies and is also faster.
> there is a sharp line between the Win32 programs and the metro apps.

Yeah, didn't mean that the experience is flawless, just that it's overall better (IMHO) than what you get on the iPad Pro.
Not really.

The Mac Pro, while insanely quiet for what's inside of it, can't handle high resolution video production and graphics work. The fans peg and heat blasts out the top but the GPUs overheat at 130+ degrees and introduce artifacts into the finished media.

So in the end, the design is flawed. Which is a huge problem now that almost every production camera is 4k or higher now.

Liquid cooling in a PC case is near silent. And the GPU options are more powerful and have the right tools to stay cool. Only you have to put up with Windows which means locking driver versions, scheduling maintenance windows to upgrade edit bays and render machines and working closely with vendors for SAN and 10GbE options so everything keeps working.
I mentored a retiree a few years ago who wanted to get back into web development after taking an early retirement. He was bright, eager to learn and recognized that at almost 60 he had soft skills that would be valuable when mixed with development skills. You're never too old.
Not as much if there's no real impact other than that it's going to be reset.

Watching Maker Clock count down from 1000 each year of the rest of my life would not be too stressful. I will grant that a clock that counted down from 50,000 or so to zero on my expected deathbed would not be as zen-like as the Maker Clock purports to be. Just calculating that number is zen-like, but a daily reminder would not be.

A warning: if you're stressed out by the idea of time running out, don't click this link. But I found this graphic description of the years, months, and weeks in a typical life to be surprising: http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
I don't typically think of a year or a week as lasting as long as it appears to in those images.
$2k buys a lot of applications
In my ideal world things like dentist visits would be completely asynchronous.

Until then, Maker Time will have to live in peaceful coexistence with the Gregorian Calendar.

Edit:

I think it's important to point out that not all cultures share the same sense of time. While my ideas here are heretical in America, or Germany, the spirit of what I am getting at would be very familiar to a Spaniard, an Italian or a Jamaican.

Here is an interesting article on it:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-different-cultures-unders...
Why? It's still designed to use the worst of the three possible strategies, which Mike tend to ignore. A modern GC is compacting, with mark&copy or copying, if you have enough memory. Mark&sweep is only good for small devices with not enough memory, or a FFI or bad ABI/VM. Walking the heap is always at least 10-100x slower than walking the stack.