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> Definitely better than Github desktop

Not really a fair comparison: SourceTree targets professional devs while GitHub Desktop caters to making git + GitHub simple for beginners. I like the client personally, but it isn't a daily driver. Beyond absolute basics the feature set is totally different.
Could there be anymore ads on that page?
Apple Allegedly Partnering with Carl Zeiss for Augmented Reality Glasses
There's fundamentally one cause of enamel decay: acidity. Typically these acids are produced by bacteria in a person's mouth as a waste product. Over time these acids wear down the tooth and create cavities. But enamel can also be worn away by acidic foods and drinks like wine, coffee, and soda.

Different diets can change the flora of bacteria in a person's mouth, just as it changes the flora in a person's gut. The bacteria that produce a lot of acids generally consume simple carbohydrates, so diets rich in simple carbohydrates are correlated with the presence of cavities. Brushing and flossing prevents the simple carbohydrates from staying in the mouth for too long, which slows bacterial growth. A diet low in simple carbohydrates also inhibits bacterial growth. (It might be more accurate to say that the bacteria don't produce acids when consuming things other than simple carbohydrates --- I'm not sure.)

Mouth flora tends to be similar between members of a family. Parents pass their own flora on to their children, and over time the flora of spouses tends to become similar as well.

It's possible that your diet was conducive to good tooth health, or it's possible that you lucked out with your mouth flora, or both.

(I got a cavity a few years ago and ended up reading a bunch about tooth health. But I'm not a dentist, so there may be some inaccuracies or oversimplifications in my comment.)

Edit: I forgot to mention that some people naturally have more acidic saliva than others, which is also correlated with cavities. As far as I know, that's purely genetic.
I suspect they simply didn't divide by four as you have...
I am continually perplexed at how hardware designers end up with these kinds of "features" on external ports.

Remember direct DMA attacks on FireWire, etc.?

SMH.
They don't store full resolution images:
Square Image: 1080px in width by 1080px in height

Vertical Image: 1080px in width by 1350px in height

Horizontal Image: 1080px in width by 566px in height
Only if government did adjustments for living expenses for school teachers, police and firemen NIMBYs would get less sympathy.
Who cares

This is free

Go ahead and ban me
After a decade on MacBooks, I've just gone the same route as the author. Ubuntu on an X1 Carbon 4th gen.

After moving to 16.10, the only thing that doesn't work is the fingerprint reader.

I also buy the systems for most of the developers in my company (we do pfSense), and they're also going to be asked to consider the same solution on future upgrades.
I really like your landing page. Is that a theme you're using? Or custom?
It's only technically removed. The function row including the escape button was replaced with a touch screen that can and does display an escape button in the given context. It's still bad because the escape button is in a different place and doesn't always display at the right time. As a emacs user, escape is my meta key, I dislike it because it messes with my muscle memory.
Never. I always leave a deliberate bug or two to see if the reviewer is paying attention. ;)
This is great news. Now what do you have for my shitty gums?
We just had this discussion at work.. one of the recent reports stated over 2 million subscribers still pulling in ~600 million a year just from that (pales in comparison to ad revenue and past performance, but still... 2 million!). The average per-account income was something like $21/month.
>bashing of Marissa that will undoubtedly unfurl on this thread

Can we say something about the Tumblr acquisition?
We Shouldn't Wait for Medium
Also it's easier to nope a bad decision for OSS. Office politics makes it way difficult.
The proposed mechanism makes brigading harder (e.g. a voter is only weighted highly if they are adding useful information, such that increasing their weight improves predictive accuracy), but doesn't make it impossible.

In any case, it seems extreme to call existing systems "unworkable."
The fun thing is that it is probably a very useful feature for those who know how to use it. You can debug your BIOS this way for example.
You can download Fedora 25 which uses Wayland on Intel graphics.

With that said I haven't had any real issues with X itself in a long time. It is usually with the drivers in Mesa/Nvidia or the kernel with newer hardware which eventually gets fixed.
Google tried to mess with Youtube but mainly gave up after it was a massive disaster.
I had the same issue I live in Australia I bought a XPS 13 from dell (same laptop as developer edition) I had not choice but to have Windows 10 preinstalled. No idea why they made the OS choice region locked...
I find it difficult to believe that your livelihood depends solely on the specific combination of apps you mentioned. It doesn't even seem like you've actually tried any of these apps yet call them inferior? Inferior how? That's quite an elitist stance to portray without the specifics to back it up here.
Note that a few apps are still a bit weird with scaling factors. For example: Sublime Text, which scales the text correctly but not the tabs or side panel.
How to Setup SSH Public Key Authentication to Connect Remote System?
They don't need to be in a coalition at all, they just have to get enough support for each individual piece of legislation and vote on it's merits.
Result is exactly Haskell's Either, just with a different name.

> I had assumed that Rust would give me the same

They do. ADTs in Rust are very similar to languages like Haskell. The only major difference I can think of is everything is stored inline in the enums in Rust (they're what one might call "value types" in some languages) without any allocations required.
Yeah, I typically hear visible light referred to as, well, "visible light". It may depend on the whims of the particular textbooks and professors you learned from, but in my physics classes we always used "light" to refer to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and I only realized relatively late in life that some people don't use the terminology that way.
This is pretty tangential to the topic, but if anybody is looking to dual- or triple-boot without resorting to third-party EFI software, http://courses.cms.caltech.edu/cs171/materials/pdfs/How_to_D... offers the best guide to setting up such an environment using the Apple EFI.

I've successfully followed a modified version of this guide's steps to install Ubuntu to a bootable USB drive and am very satisfied with it.
Holy crap. What is wrong with these people?
gonzo, you may want to check out my comment here on the Lemur.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13362198
The J1 isn't comparable to the H1B – it's a 12 month visa which must be started within 12 months of graduation. There's also no suggestion of working in academia on a J1 – it's the "intern" visa. I'm on it now in San Francisco, with a view to getting a H1B.
The problem is that Yahoo was never a media company, either. They never had a lot of success in media, at least not past their early properties like Finance and Autos. They failed to do anything meaningful with video, or mobile, or flickr, or much of anything past their early success.

Yahoo tried to be a media company for years. They called themselves "the premier media company". They had two different CEOs pulled from the media world, Terry Semel and Ross Levinsohn. Levinsohn didn't really have much time, but Semel did. If Yahoo was a media company, they were unsuccessful at it.

I always wanted Yahoo to rebound. I worked there for a few years and my team seemed quite good. But there was always the problem that the company didn't quite seem to know what it was trying to do. It didn't have a real plan for winning back search nor for winning in media, and it didn't have deep enough pockets to dig indefinitely. What it had were initiatives like Livestand that failed to compete with apps like Flipboard and an ad network that never competed with AdSense despite Yahoo actually buying Overture.
As much as people have tried to make it otherwise, I've long been a believer in the "physical access = game over" line of thinking. Not letting anything untrusted into USB ports is one of the effective defenses against this.

In their concluding remarks, the researchers proposed a number of protective measures based on use of Intel's BootGuard feature and forbidding activation of the debugging interface.

Let's not scare ourselves too much, lest we end up in Stallman's debuggers-are-controlled-munitions dystopia. ( https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html )
I am only 30 years old and have shitty job, and half of my teeth are missing. Implants are my only hope so far. But compared to natural tooth, implants are so crude replacement. Fuck my life.
A window everybody Alt-Tabbed out of long ago yet still isn't closed.
For the most part all software/hardware combinations are pretty solid for a majority of users. Those that required very specific things - obviously not. Hell I'm a developer and switched to Chromebooks since I only need a browser and ssh. Everyone should always be out there looking at other stuff - chances are you can discover something new or even better than what you thought possible.
80% of the programming I do is the style you suggest. But ... software development has bifurcated into two skills, and we don't yet have the words to differentiate them.

- There's the technician skill, where you poke at your react elements and fiddle with CSS until it looks like the mockup the designers gave you. Every 20 minutes you need to trawl through stackoverflow to find the exact way to use flexbox to get the layout you want, or to work around a bug in safari. When you're done you do some refactoring and feel good about it and call it a day.

- And there's the engineering skill, where you scratch your head and read wikipedia & some academic papers until you know what search terms to use. And then you realise that really you want something like an invertible bloom filter, except there's some small % chance it will fail each time you query it so you need a fallback mechanism. Except then you realise that fallback mechanism will have O(n^2) - but if you use a slightly different data structure then it'll become O(nlogn + klogk). But that requires modifications to the bloom filter itself and a funky network protocol, so you write that.

If the only programming you do is the first type, thats fine. Thats where we all start. Thats the majority of work out there. 25 minute pomodoros are probably fine for that. I like pair programming, because I can stay focussed better with a friend. Sometimes I listen to excited music while I work.

But all the work I'm most proud of is the second type. I wrote a streaming incremental compiler for a 2d air pressure based language. I got 90% of the way to making an OT algorithm work for arbitrary JSON structures (including object move), only to realise that it absolutely needs conflict markers so I put it down for awhile. I wrote a nodejs server from scratch thats compatible with google's browserchannel protocol - basically reimplementing TCP in the process. I implemented a PEG parser - and I'm going to need a session like this to add the ability to pass realtime streaming text updates through the parser.

These sorts of things can't be reduced to 25 minute context increments. They just need too much mental state. Maybe once they're done they can be broken down into pieces that you could explain in 25 minute chunks. But figuring out that some particular abstraction is the right one requires fitting the entire system together in your head, so you can turn it around. And thats a spacing out in the shower followed by a day with a whiteboard kind of task.

I guess the way I see it is that large amounts of uninterrupted time doesn't simply make it easier to do hard engineering. It makes it possible. Is that what the book refers to as deep work? If so then I think pomodoros are an anathema to that.
Recurrent Neural Net Poetry – Commitment
Yahoo is more or less going to be folded into aol, actually.
Tbh that does not sound very good for a flagship model...
Kris Moore reports that TrueOS (previously PC-BSD) works on the X1 Carbon 4th gen except for resume.
Do you have a site for this 20 years ago claim? The first I've seen is one about 10 years ago, in the UK.
Allen's Interval Algebra
Plus I like to think of all light as being "visible" to some material or apparatus. Our eyes just happen to be tuned to a particular part of the spectrum. You don't even have to look very far to find other animals that can see wavelengths we can't, like ultraviolet. Radio antennas "see" radio waves, film emulsions and CCDs "see" X-rays, etc.

Also with radio we talk about different materials being "transparent" to one wavelength or another.
BluRay development had the advantage of leveraging on existing optical tech, such as DVDs. The leap wasn't really that monumental, most of the challenges had to do with laser technology.
> we're just gerrymandering to a different measure.

As long as we are using some objective measure rather than "how can we draw the lines to benefit ourselves.

Personally I think there should only be approximately straight lines throughout. I'm not exactly sure how you could enforce that with mathematical rules (and still get proportional coverage).

But some objective measure is better than none.
I'd be curious to see a list of devices which ship with this enabled. I imagine it's shorter than the article makes it sound.

I imagine DMA was a trade-off for speed. Security is about such trade-offs.
Except that they have recently done an about turn on their licensing, and what used to be a FREE product is now a charge for product.

No problems with paying for a product, but the way they went about the switch left a sour taste, so I went back to SourceTree.
This is a dangerous idea.

Let everyone in, and then watch housing prices shoot to infinity.

Let everyone in, and watch cities deteriorate into slums with the associated no-go areas and warlords.

Let everyone in, let them drive wages to zero. Let everyone starve.

This is what you're advocating?

> Previous generations of immigrants have made the US what it is.

Previous generations had a physical barrier in the form of transportation costs to the US. Today, we have airplanes and autos. Transportation costs are a fraction of what they were in the Ellis Island era.

Have you seen the housing situation in Rio? The food lines in Venezuela? The intense poverty in India? The pollution in China?

We don't have the technological or social controls to handle the affects of high population density that would be the result of accepting your Open Borders proposal.
I moved from OS X to Ubuntu running on Thinkpads as my main work machine around the Ubuntu 12.04 era... haven't looked back. I have an 11" Macbook Air as a backup/home machine and I think Canonical have closed the gap in terms of polish and stability. If you stick with well supported hardware (Thinkpad T and X series in my experience) you can't go wrong.
Elementary OS is a shallow, ugly, uninspired and lazy attempt to make money.

It's trying really hard to imitate Apple – they even have these "Human Interface Guidelines" somewhere that read like some sort of Apple parody. In reality it's a fake, thin veneer of a user interface bolted onto a generic Linux distribution. Apple software may have their own faults. I think most of the whining is just boredom, but iTunes for example is definitely not the pinnacle of UI. But the beauty of macOS has always been in getting some things exactly right with the competence and attention of a master craftsman/woman. I'd name text rendering as an example, or sleep.

Elementary OS is made by people who think wearing a turtleneck makes them Steve Jobs, but they just don't get that you also have to throw a prototype or two at your CXOs from time to time :)

I don't think Linux on the desktop will benefit from such cloning. Just look at Open Office: a UI that perpetually felt four years out of date that probably took five times as many hours of work as the google docs that actually made Office unnecessary.
What would you know about byobu :-)

Ctrl-ALT-F2 would take a miracle to work. Shift does as you describe, but the net effect is still nowhere what is intended.

Also note I am the same user. The functionality I want is how byobu behaves with screen. eg you can start 3 xterms, in each one run byobu. And each one can jump around as they see fit all sharing the same screen session. No work, no fuss and exactly sane.

The tmux behaviour baffles me. I can't understand why anyone would want all their viewers to change in sync. Short of a classroom demo environment, it really doesn't make sense as a default.

I'd be delighted if by default byobu did whatever was needed to make tmux behave usefully.
Physicists (even those who work in optics) routinely use light to mean anything on the EM spectrum, so I'm not sure where you're getting the "right" technical definition.
> On the base of what, though?

If they were only the first to be taken to the court for outrages fees.

> It's well known that the USCIS is mostly self sustained

They are part of DHS; therefore founded through DHS that is government founded.

> I believe the thought is that getting a visa/permanent residency is considered a privilege, not a right.

What does this have to do with losing or getting your GC stolen? As long as they can prove it costs around $450 to product a piece of plastic, they are fine in my book.
And Brother, and HP.
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Feds may let Playpen child porn suspect go to keep concealing their source code
If you're going to do it, I'd try to join the industry ASAP. It's a good time to get in, though entry charter jobs can be pretty brutal.
Yahoo Would Become ‘Altaba’ After Selling Its Internet Business
Its stupid to begin with, if you can't fill a skill, train somebody, the federal government does this for gigs that require security clearance. You never need to go outside the country for talent. The h1b program enables age discrimination, once you hit 40 you are pushed out for young immigrant labor, the position was occupied but they want to save money so out you go to poverty just when the IRS was counting on you hitting your peak earning power. Now people peak out at 28 in earning power with the extreme levels of age discrimination we see today.
> Yes, she wasn't able to keep the ship from sinking. But I do think she put in a good-faith effort.

yahoo was a sinking ship already but she illegally fired men because they were men and got rid of remote workers, is that really considered "good-faith effort"?

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-told-remote...
A lot of people find "alternatives" to the OS X apps, but they don't realize the difference is so huge it's not even funny. Alfred DOES NOT have an alternative on any platform. It's so good it's unbelievable, takes job of multiple programs I need to constantly use on Linux. Also DashDoc, etc. Also there is Terminator yes, but it's feature set is nowhere near of iTerm2, it's crazy what you can do with it and how convenient is it compared to any terminal emulators.
> "I worked hard than the Americans for 3 years !. They pretty well knew I was an indentured servant and paid me 79K/annum. All salary raises and promotions were going to a handful of lazy Americans who rolls into the office whenever they wish."

You seem to have a pretty aggressive attitude towards people whose country gave you job and paid much more than you were making in your home country. You also seem to have a measure of how hard someone works based on when they come to work, in tech it's who works smartest not hardest is the most valuable.

> "I am happy I broke out this modern slavery system"

Did Americans force you to come to states and work for them? It was your decision and you were always free to go and find something better in a different country if you wished.
In the parking lot near my house, there are a bunch of Toyota Priuses that park in one corner. We've started calling them Prii.
Surely your assertion can be tested with bots.
> We need to open our borders and let anyone who wants to come live and work in the US come here.

No, we don't. As well as the fact that there are genuine undesirables that should be denied entry, there are costs associated with level of immigration that need to be addressed.

There are, I think, clearly better ways of dealing with that than the particulars of our current system of categories and quotas, and the best would not, IMO, have hard limitd, but immigration with no controls is not a reasonable answer.
I think genetics have a part too. My grandmother was deported to Siberia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Lithu...) for 20 years where they have 200 grams of bread a day at best and never brushed her teeth in her life and never had a tooth filling or missing tooth before her retirement, and I have half my teeth missing and I am only 30 years old. Fuck my life.
C Closures as a Library
> Everyone should always be out there looking at other stuff - chances are you can discover something new or even better than what you thought possible

This is a great point. I bought Dell's first Ubuntu laptop offering back in '07 or '08, and am still thankful I did to this day, even though the machine has long since retired. Back then the MacBook Pro was a very solid offering, and a Linux laptop was almost a joke. But I still have Youtube video tutorials I recorded from that laptop, it was a great machine and your point is as true now as it was then. Try it out, don't just sit there ignorantly whinging, is my version. :-)
Don't miss the point that every morning when you open your laptop you will be proud of using a free Desktop.
Cool article.

Another things worth mentioning is that lots of professional photo & graphics people have been using the Adobe RGB color space for almost 20 years which is "wider" than sRGB.
Professor Beekums' Software Lessons
This is Linux laptop buying in a nutshell.

Used a nice little laptop for years in college. I kept fighting it on the headphone jack. It would not recognize when it was plugged in, or the sound did not work period. Hot keys would not work. Etc, etc. Besides that, everyone would always comment on what a nice little laptop it was as I ran it into the ground.

When it died I bounced from HP (horrible, came with AMD graphics that would overheat and AMD cut support for a month later, while still selling them) and then Dell (mostly horrible, but due to Sandy Bridge having horrible graphics support, the Dell had a short power cord, the USB shorted out)

Got System76 Lemur, it was like my old laptop, very small, very quiet, hardware switches for wifi, brightness & turning off screen so they would work. Ivy Bridge would freeze X if I closed and opened the lid enough, but that disappeared with the next version of Ubuntu. Similar issue with Skylake Lemur, went away when I used Manjaro with Mesa 13.

There is a small premium vs Dell or HP systems, but those are Dell and HP systems. You get what you pay for. Loud, poorly design pieces of crap (at least when I bought them). If you are willing to drop a grand and a half on a Macbook you would still save money on a System76.