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I have a Macbook Pro 2014 (new; i5-4 / 8GB / SSD) and a Thinkpad X220 (refurbished; i5-2 / 16GB / SSD).

Clearly the chicklet keyboard of the MBP is the best of this kind, I ever used. The oldschool keyboard of the TP (it is the last without this chicklets) is the best keyboard I ever typed on.

The touchpad of the TP is disgusting. I deactivated it minutes after first boot and haven't enabled it again. The Touchpad of the MBP is the best touchpad I ever used. The multitouch gestures work flawlessly, I never hit it while typing and it is big enough to use two hands (preferred for some actions).

So it's a comparrison of apples and pears ;-)

The Mac is better for grapical stuff and everything visual. It's OS & Hardware are optimized for that. It's Design is overrated as it is pretty but doesn't provide more aesthetic value to me than the good old TP, but this is very subjective and many may disagree with me in this point.

The TP is better for Linux / Dev / Coding. The keyboard has enough keys to comfortably control everything without a mouse. If you need a pointer, use the red knub. Once learned you can nearly "beam" the pointer to where it shall be.

Don't want to miss one of them, I love both <3
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Encryption does not prevent you from doing that, just everyone else.

Of course, with non-free software and walled gardens, that might involve some amount of reverse engineering, injecting a CA certificate in a trust store so you can run a MitM proxy, or do something to bypass key pins, but that's never really stopped anyone from finding out what an application is sending on the wire.

You acknowledge that there is a certain amount of traffic that ought to be encrypted, so you really need a solution for all applications either way.
Living in any modern society means taking on some duties and obligations for the benefit of the society. This will bother you for five minutes in France before clicking 'submit' and getting on with your (hopefully long lasting) life. You would wish dealing with taxes was as easy that.

Besides, what are you going to do with your body? It'll be gone sooner or later.
Cryptocurrencies log all transactions in a world-readable log. Their only privacy is pseudonymity, which is very easily breached. And it's quite a hassle to acquire without going through an exchange which logs all your personal information for AML anyway.
>Here I’ll offer three reasons why 2016’s AI hype will begin to unravel in 2017.

>3. Liability: So you're Too Smart To Fail?

Seems like there is some missing text?
> People have also quickly forgotten the organ theft scandals of the last 40 years where hospitals stole organs from bodies for research and profit.

Which they wouldn't have done if there was a ready supply of donated organs, instead of a critical shortage.
(It sounds like you have Dropbox installed on the actual server. If that is the case, disregard...)

Dropbox is doing away with allowing you to publicly share docs, so now/soon one can't use Dropbox for hosting static websites anymore.
Why wouldn't you want to donate your organs though? And especially: Why wouldn't the family want to donate the organs of their relative?
So it wasn't really "opt-out" nor "opt-in" if the default case was that you had to consult relatives.
Kasparov seems to be of a different opinion[0], telling that machine + computer combination is still more powerful

[0] https://youtu.be/fiyBJeNBIIA?t=1h27m36s
With Apple's hardware in the shitter, I'm hoping we see a rise of Linux-specific notebooks for developers! The _only_ reason I've stayed with OSX is because it's the _only_ mainstream and commercially supported desktop UNIX.

crossing my fingers for 2017... 10g ethernet, sd reader, USB3, USB-C, Thunderbolt, and a fricken headphone jack would be spectacular! It doesn't have to be super thin, just a manageable weight and functional form!
This is a paraphrase of a semi-well-known quote from a respected business professor named Warren Bennis, about the "factory of the future" - who knows whether he coined it or adapted it from a common joke though. Here's his version of the quote, which I like a bit more:

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
Its an emotional subject. Doesn't it boil down to "I'm uneasy about thinking about what happens to my body after I'm dead" versus "Don't let living people die". One is, in my opinion, a much stronger argument.
I would love the same, but the the possibility of a sudden-onset life-threatening health issue and lack of proximity to a high-quality medical facility makes this a non-starter for me.
> I own my computing devices and I should be able to control the traffic they create.

And then, you are advocating for MITM them, instead of plainly controlling what traffic they create.

If you really want to control them, you should be advocating for open source and the end of DRM.
Today, I was dealing with foreign currency conversion and was confused about a few things, but to get an answer, I'd have to open Reddit, find the right community, click self-post and ask what I wanted, then wait for an answer. A service that did this for me would be cool but it would annoy/'ruin' Reddit, so I think a better idea is what I've outlined below.

I've never used Mechanical Turk but from what I hear, each action pays out pennies. I think the world is connected enough to where a person should be able to ask a question and get an immediate answer, no matter the subject. People would surely pay for that, in my opinion.

It could work with some sort of verification process where answering gets you the most money but the person confirming an answer gets paid too, albeit a smaller amount. An answer with 5-10 confirmations gets sent to the user, depending on the difficulty of the question. There could be a ranking system where harder questions cost more money to be answered.

Imagine you're visiting a city and want to ask the hive "what's a good hipster cafe?" or, a problem I recently had, construction workers were making lots of noise early in the morning and I wanted to know if that's legal to disturb the peace that early. Big companies want this kind of task to be handled by AI but I'd much prefer a human element to it (like Ask HN/Quora, only on steroids).
Seems fairly clear that this is a Django issue, not a Bitbucket issue. Maybe change this link to point to the equivalent Django bug: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/16870.
> Stolen

Sorry, you mean some critical organs used to save others lives after you die?

Or where you planning to use that lovely healthy heart after you die, when a patient in the next room is dying because they cant find a suitable transplant.
The government already has a say in what happens to one's corpse after death. There are rules and regulations, and procedures to deal with the corpse in the lack of other instructions or interventions.

If someone keels over and dies on the streets in Paris, the body doesn't just get left there to rot.

If there are arrangements in place, or if the next of kin get involved then those determine what happens to the corpse. Otherwise, it's the "default" option. I assume that's cremation, but I've not checked.

It takes a sensible default for organ donation too, and it takes explicit action to change the default. In the lack of explicit instructions otherwise from the deceased, they do the sensible default with regards to organ donation.
The Sonny Bono act gave Disney 20 more years. I am guessing that in the second half of 2017 we will see some grumblings of yet another extension of copyright (or at least some kind of reform where copyright can be renewed eternally).
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One of my old employers has a monolithic Rails app for their backed, and that includes the company's corporate website. Kind of crazy to think that the marketing people and the application developers are both making commits to the same code base. Awesome, but also crazy.
Being able to replace the battery on the go gives you more batterylife than a single cramed one.
consider that "sure it has spyware installed" also includes "not sure if it has _other, 'unknown-unknown'_ spyware installed". it's strictly worse.
There's better working conditions in tech, you can get paid more, when you know how to code monetization options open up since it's a lot easier to make money and less risky with a website/store/service than it is making your own physical product, webdev now is also pretty much software development depending on the type of work you do, my engineering background couples very well with program design and also helps out a lot when connecting to physical systems.
This is definitely a hold over from the IBM Thinkpad days. I used this service once to replace the CD-ROM module for my old Thinkpad 760LD. Fun times!
> My career has been shaped by my belief that I'm more likely to make an impact on protecting the environment in the private sector than in the public or non-profit sectors

Why does the author believe this? They run a farm-to-table delivery partnership company now, but they've been involved in the public sector in the past [1].

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/yushahu
I'd pick some city in Veneto or Friuli-Venezia Giulia regions for remoting for the exact same reasons you mentioned.

I was actually offered an on-site dev job around there once but had to turn it down due to economic reasons and other commitments back home.
South Goa.
Summer in Winter
Beaches
Low Traffic
Afternoon siestas
+1
Thinkpad+Fedora user here... things have never been better.

I'd also try out an XPS-13 if I could afford it; but my $300 second-hand x230 works like a charm for now.
> Hiding money in foreign real-estate deprives the local economy of tax coffers as these folks won't actually live there and won't contribute to the tax base in the form of federal, local and state taxes.

They have to pay property taxes at least. And since they're not living there they don't use any of the taxpayer funded services either. Sounds like a net gain for the local resident taxpayer.
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Already live there: Los Angeles. Why?

* Booming tech scene, with a healthy startup/VC ecosystem.

* Best weather + location (benefits of sun + proximity to the ocean are well-documented, e.g. http://www.livescience.com/37819-health-benefits-living-near...).

It's no surprise that people from SF and NY are flocking here ;)
I believe the OP was objecting to the notion that FACTA requires US citizens residing abroad to go to great lengths to document their foreign income, to prove that they aren't doing anything nefarious.

Note that this is different than what US citizens residing in the states need to do, for a number of reasons, and is relatively new: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Complian...
My biggest concern is that having marijuana legalized will divert the cartels attention towards other illegal activities less prone to getting legalized, such as sex trafficking.

I don't want to live in a country where the state is incapable of controlling the cartels...
London. Dunno - I kind of like it here. It's quite an international melting point. I hope brexit doesn't muck things up too much.
>It's a game in the same sense that life itself is a game.

Life isn't a game.
Yeah, should be https.www.cio.gov .

It's too bad the www.www.extra-www.org people are gone; they could have teamed up for a new proposal.
Yeah, that's one of the issues I avoid by directly hosting the files, instead of using them as a web host. I'd use Neocities if I didn't have my own server. (My server is just my old gaming PC, on my home internet.)
Progressing from Intermediate to Serious Python and planning to build some side project to reflect the skills learned. Looking into MongoDB, AWS, ML, Bots.
You had to consult relatives and ask them: "do you know if the deceased was opposed to this"? This meant the way to opt out was to tell your relatives. It has been the case for 40 years. [1]

There were posters in most hospital waiting rooms telling people to do this (which I found creepy as I found myself there a few months ago, waiting for news on whether a relative would live or die, by the way). See [2] for an example.

Now the only way to opt out is to send snail mail (!) to be added to a nationwide file. It should become possible to do it over the Internet someday.

Fun fact - we have a pin card that has been designed to store that information since 2006, but the feature has never been made accessible to the public. [3]

[1] (fr) http://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2016/12/22/don-d...

[2] (fr) http://fr.slideshare.net/amfe/guide-du-don-dorganes-2015-de-...

[3] (fr) https://www.agence-biomedecine.fr/Carte-Vitale-2-et-don-d-or...
I know Ruby, and was recently a business "can't write my own plug-ins" person. If you have a plug-in need that would be handy for you, feel free to ping me. For fun, I'll craft you a demo that incorporates what you'd need to know to write that plug-in yourself, with source code and a how-to Youtube video!
This would render the whole point moot. Why have a default in the first place if you always require an affirmative choice, either from the person or from the family?
> Hacker News could probably be considered industry related

Depends on your industry. Anecdotally, I have had some difficulty justifying getting HN (as well as a bunch of other sites like StackOverflow) unblocked when working IT in the public sector a few years back.
I took those statements to be suggesting that you should be aware and implement your own security. What do you need the https access for, and why is it irresponsible to separate the database concerns from the security concerns?

I don't know, but it might be extra responsible of the Redis devs to suggest they shouldn't implement your security for you, and they should stick strictly to databases.

I'm not currently using Redis, but I would like to, and I've looked at it several times recently. Initially, I had nearly the same reaction as you, but now I think I interpret it differently.

I'd assume that you have to wrap any scalable or public Redis access in an API, you will never expose the DB directly, so https would only be used for dev work and for transport between the DB and the API layer. Both of those I would normally implement security around myself, and for API transport it is unlikely to matter when I have the API host and the DB host inside the same network.

I would think that removing Redis from the security equation probably makes a security audit easier and not harder, since you would configure dev access over ssh & share existing keys, reducing the number of entry/failure points. Same for the API transport, if necessary.
I don't see cache and history as too important, incognito mode will help with those. But there are other forms of monitoring - e.g. antivirus gets to look at all your browsing and potentially log it.

> shoehorn a plausibly deniable proxy or VPN

This I think is a bad idea, because it greatly increases the severity of getting caught. It serves as evidence that you knew what you were doing was not allowed and took steps to hide it. The whole idea of "taking steps to hide" activity at work is fundamentally doomed, because taking steps to frustrate the enforcement of a policy is itself against policy. Especially if you're in a legal environment with few employment rights.
True, though reimplementing those is child's play compared to TLS.
> Why be anonymous in such an article? You aren't leaking state secrets. I'd like this 'veteran' to explain to me why recent algorithmic advances like the DNC or recurrent entity networks are not "more subtlety about the data".

I think the issue is that these are small incremental improvements, whereas the current AI media discourse is making out like we are approaching the singularity at breakneck speed. The fact is that right now today there are relatively few domains where AI is really making a big impact in industry, and it just isn't clear how fast it's going to catch up in others (apart from self-driving cars which seem to be getting quite close).
As the OP suggested to wait for a few months for the new XPS 13 I thought this was about "touchscreen" vs "touchscreen + 360° hinge".
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>because normal yellow cabs don't operate in Harlem, for reasons I still don't understand

Can it be because of any racial reason? (This is a non-rhetorical question. I'm honestly curious to know.)
Yes, even Joel doesn't recommend it anymore... https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/09/rip-citydesk/
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That's a different issue. Some people are religious or superstitious, and I guess there are religions against organ donation.
> Are not our bodies our own?

In most developed-world societies, definitely not. There are extensive restrictions on suicide, volunteering for cannibalism, disposal of bodies, etc.
So, other's needs trump my desires?
Then look at this case which cites it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Jin-Woo_Kim

The indictment is here:
https://fas.org/sgp/jud/kim/082411-order.pdf

"Kim had a reason to believe that this information could be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of a foreign nation"

There was a TS picture of NK on there. Huma Abadeen had access to her device (someone who was born in the USA, but raised in Saudi Arabia) as evidenced by signatures on some emails "from" Hillary. And even if there wasn't that, they should have the ability to prosecute her for all of the false statements made during the investigation (which would be under a completely different statute).

For all the worry about foreign powers influencing the USA, it's undeniable that she and Colin Powell schemed in such a way that jeopardized OPSEC. That will remain an issue as long as people can get away with it.
I suggest you do some research about the organ retention scandals in the UK and Ireland and how it affected grieving families. It's horrifying and would make any rational person seriosuly question opt-out organ donation given the unethical behaviour of hospitals for decades.

"According to Colgan, babies' bodies were filled with sand, so they would be the correct weight when loved ones held them for the last time. Pituitary glands of thousands of children (and some adults) were sold to pharmaceutical companies unbeknownst to their families."[1]

[1] http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/the-scandal-of...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal
I'm sure we can find a better cite than this, but for starters:

http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/17/globally-speaking-american...

(It's easy to find cites for the claim that the US is abnormally tax-compliant, but not so easy to find tables like the one that article creates).
Why not? You can't punch me. You can't take my stuff. You can't build a roof over my property.
I like the way you format commands using semicolons at the beginning. I might start doing this too when writing online.
So, an English corrolary for a similarly named fictitious zone in Hawaii might be?

Flamablish Fields
It's worth checking out PlayCanvas for the asset pipeline. Texture compression is supported directly in the editor. https://blog.playcanvas.com/webgl-texture-compression-made-e...
I'm rather surprised that an idealised system isn't simply time-reversible, given the trouble physicists had in developing entropy to explain the arrow of time in the first place.

Edit: ah, you've explained below that the model includes a non-reversible term of friction which is applied at the time of contact.