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I am not saying that you cannot get a decent X260, but notice how now in every Thinkpad thread there is a significant number of "me / my team had a number of thinkpads, we've had to go through N replacements during the last year", whereas a few years ago they were the poster boy for reliability. Thinkpads now have the engineering/manufacturing tolerance of a low to mid range consumer laptop, even though they are supposed to be professional equipment. This is unconscionable.

This is why I don't recommend something like the X260. You can't buy a premium laptop and "just hope" it will have none of the reported defects. We pay a premium with an expectation for reliability, not for a QA lottery.

Conversely it seems most complaints are for the X2xx and T4xx series, which is why I believe it has to do with manufacturing tolerance: maybe on 15" it's just good enough to not have any significant defect, and they kept the same M.O. for the more compact models, and there problems did pop up.

(The screen resolution has in fact been getting better for the latest two generations, but here again it is only to catch up to the competition. Remember when you could get a 15in Thinkpad with an IPS 2048x1536 display, long before the "retina" buzzword came to life? That was before Lenovo took over.)
If they ever release something that plays Smash Bros Melee with netplay, it will sell hundreds of thousands.
Money in the US only seems to go far when you look at consumer products. And of course housing is cheap as there is lots of cheap land. The problem for any highly automated society is that while consumer goods fall in price, services go the opposite direction.

This is were the big problem is in the US. Lawyers, doctors, dentists, university, medical care, medication, child care etc all those things are typically a lot more expensive in the US.

What does it matter if you can afford twice as many iPhones or flat screens in the US, if you are economically ruined once you get a serious disease like cancer or you can't afford to send your kids to a decent university?

I've contemplated the wealth difference between the US and my home country Norway many times, and I've always found it very hard to compare because you don't live the same way.

I could afford a bigger house and car in the US, given the price level of those things there. Yet concluding that I am richer is hard. American houses tend to be more cheaply built, with poorer insulation. So it is always an apple and pear comparison. I can buy more stuff in the US, but my money would not go as far when abroad. Stuff is more expensive in Norway, but salaries are also higher so you have more purchase power when you travel. And Norwegian spend more time enjoying vacations than Americans. So it depends on what you want. Do you want stuff or leisure?

Also how do you put a price on the feeling of safety and and stress free environment. You got an extensive welfare system that will be there for you if anything should happen to you or your family. In the US you never know. You don't have to worry about crime. I noticed an American policeman visiting Scandinavia to learn about various Scandinavian policing methods. The first odd statement I noticed him say was "people don't look over their shoulders here. It looks like they don't worry anything bad is going to happen."

If this is the way people live in the US, I got to say, thanks but no thanks.
In my case (at least this year), with major investment projects in progress, timelines demanded by customers with no tolerance for alternative dates (and those demands agreed upon by PMs and managers), I had no real opportunity to take days off without being held accountable for work expected of me during those days.

That said, I used my full two weeks to get out of the office from mid-December through the end of the year, and ended up working through part of it anyway due to more tight deadlines I was committed to without any significant input from me.

Had I not taken the days, they would have disappeared on January first without anything in exchange. In my case, it seems to just be a lose-lose.
How much risk, and how much reward? I don't have a problem with people who take risks being able to reap proportionate rewards, but when a Mars or Walton (or Trump) inheritor can pull in many millions per year with practically zero risk (or thought or effort) they are drawing capital out of the competitive free market into a world of pure rent. That makes them no different than the manor lords of old, and that's not the kind of economy or social structure I think we should have.
I would venture a guess that many people are back to work after the Christmas/new year holidays and hence, have less time to spend on HN.
Access to telecommunications data in civil proceedings
The European Council is the most powerful decision maker in the EU, and it decides by consensus except where treaties specifically provide otherwise. For a small country that's hell of a lot more power than the biases of Senate and electoral college representation.

Civil liberties between USA and EU are a toss: the First Amendment is strong in its scope, but on the other hand things like privacy are much better protected in most EU countries. American legislation doesn't do much to protect citizens against corporations.
> And given that the nearest natural source of helium is Jupiter, that is a little concerning.

Sun is closer and produces helium all the time, but less practical to harvest it from.
As already said, nearly all people in the org are former Gogs contributors, the owners have been elected by the other people who joined the effort, everybody who has contributed 4 pull requests can join the maintainers team of gitea, the owners will be elected every year by the community, EVERY scripting for the infrastructure and the website and so on its entirely published. The only thing that is a secret shared between the current owners are the secrets for the services like github tokens, github oauth or email credentials. Everything else is open, accessible by everybody.
I don't think the label of introvert or extrovert, no matter what the definition, can describe a human wholly. We all have tendencies. I think if you tend to be an introvert by your actions than you are an introvert. For those, who claim to be introverts and are extroverts, they may be more likely seeking attention and/or are types of performers than the typical introvert.

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Does anyone else think the timing is kinda funny? Today, at least in the US, is probably the slowest news day of the year. Great time to unload anything unfavorable :)
Seconding it with: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03017 Fully Character-Level Neural Machine Translation without Explicit Segmentation.

In general, RNNs are especially fit for discrete sequences. And their continuous representation is actually an advantage (so they can see that two words are similar or analogous). BTW: see my draft on word2vec: http://p.migdal.pl/2016/12/30/why-do-word2vec-analogies-work...
I'm also American and have no idea what you're talking about. American culture is very much so divided by class and even race.

Were you not watching this latest election cycle?
Talking to a human incurs 10% of fees when you're buying a house/flat.

I don't know anyone who wants to pay that fee.
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This is a service I've written to send push NWS severe weather alerts for iOS apps (for now). It also allows you to set a time of day to get a daily forecast powered by Dark Sky over push. I'll be launching it soon, but wanted to see what you all think or recommend!
Let's encrypt Node.js library removed from GitHub
> Thus the shortest way to get a working system is to stop being an hipster and use one of the major commercial platforms.

Being a hipster has very little to do with using Linux these days. Wanting a productive, customisable work environment has a lot, on the other hand.
This doesn't feel like the correct solution.
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Maybe it's such a large publisher that they need separate Nginx instances in front of each of the micro-services.
I am in Canada so I don't know how things work south the border. But I heard from a neighbour, and a postman confirmed, that if you stick a piece of paper in your mailbox saying "please don't put ads", they won't do it.
Venezuela has nothing to do with what we do in Europe. I am kind of tired of this kind of ignorance. Please educate yourself about the differences. And Europe is a lot of different countries with different systems. Switzerland is among the most capitalistic in Europe. Definitely not socialist as you imagine.

You imagine anything that doesn't sound brutal and exploitative must be a socialist dream?
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Yep that's exactly it. And I had the same thought of "this is the last straw" too that Paul's talking about there. I just got fed up with seeing everyone write like that, everywhere. Thanks for the link.
Many environmental toxins are estrogenic. This means that they cause tissues to swell and divide sort-of like human estrogens.

Some xenoestrogens are more toxic than others. Plant xeno-estrogens are more innocuous than industrial xenoestrogens.
It is an open source framework. They are free to patch the code.
> Did you finish the article? They're not literally suggesting that all capital income be redirected by the government, but instead suggesting that the government should build up a fund that owns capital assets.

To provide a UBI of say 12k for every adult in the country (as opposed to just a few hundred or thousand), such a fund would need to own a large part of all the corporations and housing stock in the country. Didn't work well for the countries that tried it in the past.
Yeah, though I imagine it would have to be a pretty weak gaming PC due to cooling issues.
Could be. And that's another way to run a startup.
Simpler yes, but the economic returns are less.

The driver is supply & demand. Lots of people can & want to find a proven product that sells and compete on quality or price. When they do this, it drives the price down, and it continues to drive the price down until each of these firms is making just barely above what they would taking a job commensurate with their skills.

The economic returns from startups come from them having a monopoly on their particular good or service when it turns out that people want it. If they do nothing, eventually competition will drive their returns down to nothing as well. But because they were working on a hard problem that most people thought was useless, they have a head start that they can use to build a lead that discourages competitors from entering the market. Nobody sane competes head-to-head with Google or Facebook, because they managed to get such a head start that you'll probably run out of money long before you can catch up to their offering.
The difference is that Britain still has factions clinging to the remnants of the Empire. Among Brexiteers, this was a common theme: "We should work with Commonwealth nations rather than continental Europe".

As far as WWII and Nazis -- that is precisely the reason why we have the EU, and shouldn't be brash in dismissing it. Nationalism in Europe ends up badly.
Even with a pump-fed engine you still need some minimum pressure at the turbopump inputs to keep the fuel flowing and burning smoothly.

variations in the density of fuel entering the combustion chamber lead to variations in thrust which can lead to pogo oscillations.
I'm interested in seeing what you can come up with in the intersection of Snapchat and programming. It seems like a pretty odd combo.
> Like a restaurant though, if they were bad at their job they wouldn't attract new clients.

In many places, the law is forcing you to go through an accredited agent to make a deal.
It seems ridiculous to have to say this, but this is not a civil and substantive comment. Please don't post like this on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We are aware of that issue, and hopefully we will find a proper solution to improve the load time for bigger repos.
From NJ, US - the reason Bernie's plans were seen as nuts by the mainstream media is because the US has an extremely conservative bent compared to many European countries. Our left-wing, I imagine, would be right-wing in Europe, and our right-wing would be decried as extreme-right fascists.

Anything that helps the average American is Communism, and we can't have that, can we?
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Right, which means that while it's renewable over geological timescales, it's more or less a fixed reserve in human timescales. Much like oil.
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You want an anatomy of a hoax? When Dickens Met Dostoyevsky.

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/when-dickens-met-do...
This may be a rational strategy. How much they're earning per hour only matters economically if they're paid by the hour, or have a chance to earn money in a second job, side business, etc.

Meanwhile, their top line salary is a starting point for calculating the bottom line, which is how quickly they can build up their own financial safety net for contingencies such as getting laid off, old, sick, raising kids, etc. Or, for starting their own business.

Granted, I'm probably guilty as charged. I keep tabs on my total wealth, as I inch towards retirement and my kids race towards college. Also, I haven't gone to the extreme of working 80 hours per week, as I've managed to maintain my career progress while guarding my work hours and living in a fairly pleasant -- dare I say more European-like -- city. I also have a second job and a side business.

Perhaps in Europe, having a mandatory safety net (health care, etc.) means that workers don't have to be as aggressive about building their own safety net, and tend to negotiate differently.
I have grown to love Jade/Pug templates, compiled with npm scripts. You can build your own site generator to convert pug templates with the simple command `pug --watch`.
> The reason that americans do not embrace these things is that, for the most part, the United States still has a very, very flat social hierarchy.

No, its because they bought the red scare and everything that was said about Socialism and then continued to parrot that bullshit since then, which then collided with the Protestant work ethic that poisoned peoples minds into equating work and pay with personal worth.

Worker protection laws are something evil that only dirty commies spout to bring good, hard working Americans down. If you were a good, hard working American you wouldn't need protection.
I took template from https://startbootstrap.com/template-overviews/creative/ but I think it's some of my best work design wise I've ever done. Meaning normally my websites look like Homer Simpson did them.
Since outside experts didn't provide critiques of the report, what makes this article better?

If you linked to an article that provided such things, I'd see your argument. But you linked to something that just regurgitated the press release, and said it was better than the press release. If outside experts didn't provide critiques, the fact that they could is meaningless.
None of the other countries Mexican drug trade supplies are even close to the size of the US in terms of the market. Europe and Asia have other (competing) providers. Also, the US legalizing drugs would have an effect on worldwide policy that say, Mexico or Brazil embracing legalization would not have.
I have a YubiKey myself and they're really convenient. There's a cryptoprocessor inside so the key doesn't have to leave the device. I think it's more secure than a regular computer connected to the internet.

After reading¹² about this subject, I believe a reasonable level of security and ease-of-use can be achieved through the following process:

1. Boot a live Linux distribution such as Tails on a computer disconnected from the Internet.

2. Create the OpenPGP master key.

3. Initialize the YubiKey with subkeys.

4. Store the master key offline using paperkey³ and a machine-readable code.

The YubiKey is secure and convenient enough for daily use; the subkeys can be easily revoked and the hardware reinitialized with new keys.

Master key operations such as key signing and changing expiration dates require loading the master key into the offline live operating system. Much more of a hassle but hopefully not as frequent as YubiKey use.

Printing the master key on quality paper ensures³ it will survive for a long time.

¹ http://security.stackexchange.com/a/51776/9252

² http://security.stackexchange.com/a/31598/9252

³ http://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/
Doesn't this sound problematic? It's almost a form of political correctness. Joe-6-Pack may demand (and receive) respect, but lives under the consequences of crippling income inequality and corporate welfare.
As well as what rhblake said, it's also always worth remembering a core aspect of all this: a lot of general authentication discussions are concerned with the extremely important issues of public scalability and ease-of-use, which is where things like the standard CA system come into play, but those don't necessarily need to apply for someone's own specific instance. So in this case:

>are there ways for me to know when my own browsing is truly private between myself and only the party at the other end, and not other curious or intrusive uninvited third parties?

Yes, you can use a side-channel. At that point it's just a tradeoff between how much effort you want to/can expend vs what value is at risk. At the simplest and easiest, this could just plain mean giving them a call (or message or even snail mail) and spending a few seconds having them verify what the certificate signature should be. Or for that matter talk to a few other people at geographically distinct locations and ask what they see. Combined with pinning (or manual trust/locking or whatever depending on your tool) merely knowing you've got the right cert and will be alerted if it changes may be all that's required and immensely raises the time/resource/expertise cost for any potential attacker. For more effort and a higher level of security, people can flat out physically exchange certs/keys (or even pure entropy) and bypass any 3rd party authentication involvement entirely. It's easy to make one's own entire CA architecture in fact, all the tools are freely available for all. It's the general sharing and trusting that is the stick wicket, but within the bounds of an existing trust relationship it's much more straightforward.

Obviously this is all more work then just going to a URL and seeing if it has a green lock, or CT or anything else, and because it's work each time it's unrealistic to expect the general population to do so in general. But if someone specifically needs communications to be "truly private between myself and only the party at the other end" then it's achievable by trading in more upfront setup work, and always has been. Much of the ongoing development and research and marketing efforts are about trying to raise the universal floor level, but everyone is free to exceed that if necessary.
Sure, plug a mobile app directly into your OBD-II, what could go wrong?
I'm not sure Einstein's theory says that, actually. The equations have solutions without any matter or electrical fields, yet where gravity twists itself into nontrivial shapes. It's more accurate to say that stuff can affect space and vice versa, not that space is defined by stuff.