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>> I want to be excited by a good non-Apple laptop. But they're all just so terribly designed. They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy, have grills and screw holes and uneven surfaces and stickers everywhere.

Is this really a serious reason to buy a laptop, or not, the design? You buy a computer because of its performance, not its appearance- which is something completely subjective in the first place.

I agree about the toughness requirement, but, like others said below the X1 Carbon is called "Carbon" as in "carbon fiber", which it's made of (although the fourth gen model has a lid that's a mix of carbon fiber and plastic).

I've stepped on my second gen. Carbon a good few times and I've dropped my fourth gen on its lid from a coffee table, and they're both hale and hearty.
Bridge choke points, mountain ranges and other small body of water crossings is where electric flying cars / taxis will shine. It would be very useful in cities such as Seattle, SF or NYC. It would also be useful for places like Victoria-Vancouver or Victoria-Seattle. You either take an inconvenient ferry for ~3 hours or you could take an on demand air taxi for 30m.
X240/X250: dock, Ethernet, VGA, SD, optionally smartcard and mobile modem. No dongles required. In X260 they replaced VGA with HDMI, but everything else is still there.

The X62 looks nice though :D
Gas requires fuel and exhaust pipes, and is only efficient at some engine sizes. Electric, you can hang anywhere on the airframe, at many sizes. It's quiet, requires for urban VTOL. Distributed propulsion also lets you run props out of phase for noise canceling.
I have 5+ pairs of headphones. One for home, one for the office, one for the gym, and then a couple of spares for when I lose any of the main 3. I have the iPhone 7 and I end up carrying the dongle around in my jeans pocket when I am able to remember it. I'm certainly not paying $10 a pop for spare dongles when most of my headphones didn't even cost that much.

Getting rid of the headphone jack is by far the dumbest move I have seen on the iPhone in a long time.
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You're moving the goal posts.

There were 3 million Wallachians in Hungary (15-20% of the total population) at the time and barely a handful of Wallachian nobles in Hungary. Meanwhile in Wallachia and Moldova Tatars, Bulgarians were just a handful, most likely less than 1%. Cumans and Pechenegs were long assimilated in 1800-1900.

My point is that the previous poster was right: magyarization was the downfall of the multiethnic Hungarian state. Hungarian nationalism couldn't accept that >50% of the population in the Kingdom of Hungary wasn't actually Hungarian, they tried to forcefully assimilate groups which had no problems with Hungarian rule as long as they were left alone. The assimilation attempt backfired.

Trianon was a political action with a solid social backing.
The highest the actual summary reaches is "But also, despite those inadequacies, the possibility of a new force-producing effect cannot be irrefutably ruled out."
One reason pension plans are perpetually out of money is that they are allowed to assume that they will make around 6-8% a year from investments, rather than funding based on a riskless instrument like a T-Bond, which only gets you 2-3% a year. This means most pensions are funded only about half if what they should be.

You might think this sounds reasonable, because historically equity markets do return something like 6-8% a year over the very long term, but the pension benefit is fixed and riskless in the sense that the city must always pay it out, so the investment should also be similarly risk free.

Otherwise, if investments fail to perform, then taxpayers are always left holding the bag, as we see every time a market downturn occurs. Heads I win, tails you lose...
I shouldn't get upset or angry that they get paid well above the market value of their labour? And that as taxpayers and future taxpayers, my children and I are on the hook to pay for this?
Yes. You can sum rotor areas to add up to same as one big rotor.
I think of low-cost airlines like that. Once I got on one with a terrible hangover in Slovakia and woke up in Italy an hour later, I don't even remember taking off. :)
Live video will be bigger on instagram than would be on facebook, snapchat or periscope. It is way more easy, fast and better looking than any other app that do live video IMO.

They only need to make a better discovery option than the "Follow someone".
I never hear anyone mention the Razer Blade's and yet they seem to be the best looking and spec'd non-Apple notebooks by far.

They are almost too good to be true. What's the catch?

Have you had any issues running Linux on them?
this is Russian interference in a US election

Although the media and many in politics are saying this, it's plainly false. There is no serious claim that the Russians interfered in our election.

The claims are that the Russians interfered in a presidential campaign. There's a huge difference between the process of campaigning, versus the election process of casting and counting votes.

Sowing this confusion is useful on at least two levels. Most obviously, it serves to undermine the legitimacy of the incoming President. But it's also useful in setting stage for future debate about campaign finance laws. It's important in that debate to keep separate the ideas of election - which the government must protect to ensure its faithfulness to the voters - versus the idea of campaigning, which the government may never interfere with, which is the primary purpose of the First Amendment.
A friend told me about their time in a New York finance company, where people showed up to the office on Saturday and watched TV on their computer because even if there wasn't any work to do you had to be seen putting the time in.
> People are becoming more educated about personal finance and are recognizing how much active management fees eat into their returns.

Do you have a source that supports what this implies?
I don't understand that. Since I can't educate myself on everything required to make an informed decision on whether the paper is true or not, I decide to just trust someone else's opinion. I pick people to trust based on various criteria (how well they've cited their sources, how much other trustworthy people trust them, etc) and then just blindly believe whatever they say.

What else can I do?
It's not the altos themselves.

The better hedge funds are full of PhDs because it takes that level of education to avoid the Dunning Krueger effect, and in this market niche, DK can bankrupt you fast.
That's fine. I still think it will. It's not like I don't have 10,000 other ways to spend my time and money while I wait.
Plus one to talking to your colleagues. At my work, we started peer reviews that are anonymous. You request feedback from a pool of people. Those who give feedback talk on areas of strength and areas that need development. My imposter syndrome declined immensely after seeing some of the strengths listed from my peers with whome I work every day. I could agree with the areas of growth needed and it gave me focus for professional goals.
The Summary: "this most recent report is a significant improvement, but has many shortcomings. Questionable subjective techniques are used to infer the “thrust” from the data. Other likely influences are not quantified. But also, despite those inadequacies, the possibility of a new force-producing effect cannot be irrefutably ruled out. This is intriguing, but still falling short of defensible evidence."
You could also easily make the argument that the murder rate is up due to increased weapons sales.

It's all about the policy you want to sell. You're seeking to silence legitimate criticism. I'm seeking to reduce the likelihood someone will do something irrational with a loaded weapon.

If you're interested in facts, there's only one side supported by evidence [0] but hey, don't let that deter your campaign. Keep championing the destruction of black bodies.

0. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/
The trackpad is off center (to the left), what's up with that?
>The DNC rigged the primary for one candidate.

Clearly there were people within the DNC who preferred clinton, but in what sense did they rig the vote?

See: http://electionado.com/canvas/1478880826459
So it was just spearfishing, the poor man's hacking technique.

The techniques that NSA and MI6 use are far more advanced. Taking advantage of the networking equipment and injecting traffic.
It is not unusual for a physics experiment to produce a weird result, and it turns out to be experimental error.
Clearly there are exceptions (military, capital punishment, police with guns, etc).
It's custom. I explored a Redis fork months ago, prior to the ability for modules. https://github.com/tidwall/redis-gis

I then tried to make a module but redis modules do not support hooking into the pubsub tooling, so Tile38 live geofencing and webhooks were not possible.
You're thinking too narrowly.

- Solve traffic

- Live in Santa Cruz, commute to SF

- Buy a mansion in Modesto, commute to Palo Alto

- The views!

These will be VTOL, electric, autonomous air taxis, not road-drivable cars.
I'm not being obtuse but I'm not sure how he's driving us towards a "post-privacy" world. If he was doing that wouldn't the default Facebook privacy settings be 'Public' and WhatsApp messages not be encrypted?
if I were to make a bet, I'd say that they don't implement the whole JavaScript and that there is some sort of a static type system which either rejects some programs where types can't be inferred or causes performance to fall of the cliff where types can't be inferred.

so essentially it's likely "JavaScript-like compiler" rather than "JavaScript compiler"... similar to how Crystal is Ruby-like but not really Ruby.
Do you have advice for how a programmer can learn to become a marketer?
This is probably the argument horse carriage operators made when mass produced cars were just coming into being.
Ubuntu 16.04 installed and runs without a hitch on a 4th gen (this announcement is of the 5th gen), with the exception of the LTE (needed to install a few libraries from 16.10), and the fingerprint scanner (which is apparently at the complete mercy of the hardware manufacturer Synaptics, no ETA there afaict). One thing to be aware of, though, is that support for Hidpi screens isn't quite as good as on OS X, so sometimes you're greeted by tiny text. Steam is a notable example of an app that doesn't scale properly.

It looks like they included a different LTE chipset this time, though, so maybe compatibility is better there.
It's not backed by Redis. It's fully standalone. I wish I could have made a redis module back when I started the project, but I'm plenty happy how Tile38 has matured.
Love the Thinkpad hardware. Hate Windows 10.

If something like the current generation Thinkpad hardware (T or X series) could run OSX, it would be what the Macbook Pro used to be... Remember the first generation Intel macbook pro in 2006 which had a full complement of ports? Everything relevant and needed except RS232.
3D music visualizer in a progressive web app
Are you familiar with Smeed's Law? I think that it will also apply to flying cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smeed's_law
> Is this really a serious reason to buy a laptop, or not, the design?

Yes.

> You buy a computer because of its performance, not its appearance

For a desktop/workstation maybe, and even that is debatable (I would not buy a desktop computer with plexiglas panels and LEDs all over).

For a laptop though, the design is part of the function and has an impact on it. Design is part and parcel of a laptop's usability and usage, and impacts its effective lifespan (you can get mileage out of a laptop while it's falling to pieces but that's not an enjoyable experience).

And of course a laptop is not stashed away in a corner of the desk (or under it hidden from you), it's usually right in front of your face and right under your fingers, liking how it looks is a pretty good idea.

> which is something completely subjective in the first place.

That just means the design you want is different from the design I want. Maybe you like the Surface Book and I don't (I do, but bear with me).
They have different goals such as enjoying power and raping young girls. Do you really think that other autocrats and oligarchs get to do things like rape with impunity? Maybe some of them. You are projecting your own tastes and ideas onto people with orders of magnitude more power and money than you will ever have.
My experience with linux power management has been alright, or at least better than my expectations. I have an asus laptop that gets f*-all battery life under windows (either 8 or 10, though it seems to be worse now) but I can usually get at least 90 minutes more out of it under linux. It took some tweaking to get to that point, and I have no macbooks to compare it to, but I think the situation isn't as grim as I see a lot of people say it is.
In general I am trying to avoid snark, but your comment brings to mind this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTlMLeEHjw8
"the Pixel is a joke compared to the iPhone 6s in my opinion"
That's a very unusual opinion. Most reviews I've seen contradict this. Hell, you could compare the 6p with the 6s and the iPhone would win (in my opinion) but it wouldn't blow it out of the water. I haven't had hands on with the Pixel yet so I'll reserve my personal judgement but I have owned the 6s, the 6p, and the iPhone 7 (daily driver). Furthermore, it made be different in your use case but most iPhone users have all sorts of Google apps making the ecosystem argument irrelevant.
I'm always happy to be surprised, but if you can statically compile standards-compliant JS and make it as fast as a dynamic compiler with profiling then you will be profoundly surprising the entire programming language community and up-ending most of what we know about how to optimise dynamic languages.

But then many people pooh-pooh'd me in a similar way when I said I could make Ruby 10x faster which was my project for the last few years, so best of luck to you!
"Integer between 0 and n-1 inclusive" is the type of valid indices for an n element array. The trouble is most languages don't have type systems that allow expressing that.
I have been working remotely for 7 years now and I honestly don't get that vibe. The opposite.... Xmas is a time to dread some terrible jolly meeting.

I have a friend I meet for beer on a Thursday every 3 weeks, Family and the Missus occupy the rest, and the sliver of time I have remaining goes to personal dev / gaming.

I don't recall ever caring about being lonesome, so I don't think I got used to it as such.

Everyone is different for sure, but I too would never go back to working in an office!
I am not a pilot, but have talked extensively with them and we have some planes in the family. MUCH better to autorotate land a helicopter than to glide land a plane, for a myriad of reasons. Autorotating heli landings result in a bit of a rougher bump upon landing, but otherwise are no big deal. Crash landing a plane is obviously different and results in destroying the aircraft and, likely, people inside.
The "them" in this sentence is the farmers not the drugs: the quote is arguing for giving the farmers a path to a legal livelihood. Similarly the parent is arguing for legal alternatives to poaching as desperate, starving people will always care about feeding their families more than an arbitrary law.
No better Ruby framework than Rails. We both agree there!
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A computer's capability for imitating a human doesn't take away the value of human-made art. If anything, it's another medium. Otherwise you're arguing that people don't care about understanding the human condition, which I don't think will be a valid claim anytime soon. AI can definitely take over the production of decorative objects though, of course.
FLIR One thermal camera for my phone. I think it'll be sensitive enough and have sufficient resolution to usefully capture the subtle thermal signals of the leaks and lack of insulation around the doors, windows, and in the walls of my old house.
Great! I'll use this. Glad to know .Net Core runs well on Linux.
Then why did he go work for Stripe? Is Strip paying him better than 30k/week?
I watched it live.

Really wanted to listen to the next talk afterwards but I couldn't,
because my mind went full rollercoaster about thought processes in my brain and I couldn't concentrate :)

This talk was awesome.
If you are a project fi account holder, you can get an additional data sim cards (up to 9) to put in devices like iPad, other tablets, or in this case the laptop. It will be linked to your main account and share the data budget of your main phone, at the same rate of $10/GB.
> I use a Surface Book as my main computer

I've heard that it's fantastic hardware but had lots of software and driver teething problem, what's your experience with that?
For me it has nothing to do with appearance - it has to do with feel.

My job provides me with an HP Ultrabook. When I type on it, the plastic near the trackpad creaks. If I bought it retail it's something like $1400. And it creaks.

If I'm spending $1400 on a piece of technology I expect to have for 3-5 years, and I'm going to be hauling it between locations (on-call schedule) I really need to feel like "Yeah, this won't get broken if I accidentally put something a little heavy on top of it (e.g. in my bag)".

It's partially a performance story, but I rather pay an extra $100-200 for a solid chassis that makes me think the motherboard won't bend when I put pressure from my wrists on it.
Are there any Thinkpads for sale now that don't come with trash-tier displays?

I've been doing research, looking to replace this Macbook some time in the new year, and it looks like the new T470 is keeping the abysmal displays of the T460.
from the live IG videos I've seen it looks exactly like Periscope. As the broadcaster is the experience better?
+1 travel as the crow flies from Oakland to Mountain View in a fraction of the time. Pagether
Why then don't people write in Java for performance? HotSpot has this runtime information. It runs OK (GCCish) for code that gets past the JIT threshold and dog slow otherwise. Hell, Java 9 is offering AOT.

JITs have been around for 30+ years and they're umm OK. As in not magical.
Errr.... T530 had titanium cover and endoskeleton chassis. My friend routinely walks over his while it's powered on, as a demonstration. How is it possibly an example of a "plastic, flimsy, bendy" laptop?

Yes it has screw holes and grills... it's a working-person's laptop :). The new ones don't, because they're becoming more like apple - which means I cannot as easily replace battery, hard drive, memory, etc as I do on the older Thinkpads.
I got a toaster with a button to add a bit more toasting time. It's pretty neat and removes the guesswork from trying to get the toast just right.
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"Not much to run into up there :)"

Birds, hills, turbulence.
However, the JIT compilation process itself is expensive, as is the interpretation and tracing. Since JIT-optimisation happens at run-time, often sub-optimal but fast optimisations are chosen (e.g. linear scan register alloc instead of graph-colouring).

Indeed the performance benefits of JITing have been difficult to measure: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.00602
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It is not that simple.

I for example have Thyrodid disease, and every single doctor I went, including "free" ones (paid with public money) and the most expensive ones (I tried paying a famous expensive guy that help celebrities), all of them failed on me a lot, to the point I am mostly self-treating, I go to the medic only as a "ritual" of sorts, but I read my own blood tests, and decide my own medication.

I tried with many of them, presenting research I found about it, and they all said it was bullshit, that researchers know nothing about medicine, that only experience matters, and so on...

Some told me that the wrong blood test numbers they use, are correct because the laboratory says so, and they just do what the lab says.

After hearing this multiple times, I decided to take my blood test papers, and read them carefully, and found they do quote their source for the numbers! It is there, written where the numbers came from.

Yet, when I went to read the source... the research paper I was trying to show the medics were there! So, the medics claim to follow the guidelines and the lab values, that in turn cite a bunch of research, yet the medics insist in using outdated values, and claiming the research is bullshit.

To be honest, I don't even understand what is going on, I met so many medics like that, that now I mostly refuse to go to medics and fix my health in the way I can, I now assume that medics are literally evil, since they intentionally lie to me, or are intentionally negligent and ignore the guidelines they claim to follow.

The few medics I trust, sometimes I go to them even when what I need from them is completely unrelated to their field (one medic that greatly helped me with my thyroid, was specialized in eye diseases, another one that helped me with vitamin D deficit, was an medic specialized in arthritis, and I don't even have arthrists, I went to that medic out of desperation after hearing good things about her...)
Or instead of eliminating Pensions, start actually collecting the money properly. I work at for a government pension plan (in Canada). We make more money every year than is paid out, and are more than covered for future years at this point.
Seems like Zuck is trying to get ready for that political future....

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/08/mark-zuck...
Wouldn't the answer to this question depend on which pipes you're talking about? Are you arguing that Flint is the only place where lead had a cause?
Yeah, I was an aerospace engineer at a helicopter company for eight years. They practiced autorotation landings (full engine shut off) every day, outside my office. They were non-events.
> The views!

Obviously, these will be blocked by swarms of flying cars.
+1. Fliers can solve commute hell. Every building has roof, which can be used as a pad for fliers, which will solve problem with parking.

Nuclear batteries can provide enough electricity for flier for years. We just need to develop safer nuclear batteries (LENR type?), which, in turn, requires better understanding of nuclear physics, which, in turn, requires to shoot some «shut-up and calculate» guys.
Super exciting.

How does it compare to EncloseJS and nexe (which grab V8's unoptimized compiled machine code)?

What does it target (ES3 CP, ES 5, ES 6)?

Does it require/support async server-side apps?

Does it have http, http/2 or other IP protocols?

Can it compile regexpes to native code like V8?
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Hordes of HN readers will continue searching for 'passive income' which basically doesn't exist.

People of HN: sell your dev skills for money and invest the money in assets that appreciate!
I read some of the comments, many saying that $17,000/mo. isn't a lot of money, but don't forget that Creative Tim is based in Romania.

Salaries in Romania aren't as good as in the States.

I'm currently based in Italy and a programmer can make as little as 1,200/mo. (salaries in Italy are much higher than in Romania, possibly 100-200% more). I make more than that freelancing, but I don't think 17,000/mo. is bad, both in general and for a company based in Romania.