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This is an odd sentiment to hear on HN.

We are usually technical people, surely we can see past "spec" as the only differentiator of two laptops.

Apple are priced like a high-end business quality laptop. (except upgrades are a higher mark-up) if you compare laptops based on the quality of their build Apple laptops are quite competitive.[0]

That's before you factor in little things that don't seem to make it to business line laptops even like protection against USBKiller[1] and getting BIOS firmware updates 8 years after buying a laptop.[2]

It's disingenuous to compare an Apple Macbook with an Acer Aspire on things like specification without taking into account all the little things.

If you haven't noticed, spec selling has thoroughly destroyed the bottom end of the laptop market, it's super difficult today to get a decent quality laptop because manufacturers are just throwing out devices with high spec and corner cuts everywhere else.

I say this, as a person attempting to buy a Dell Precision 5520. I'm not an apple fanboy, but I appreciate quality. It's not a fashion label.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/Gjnr0sw.png

[1] http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/71174...

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201518
If you are 100% confident that you won't have an accident, you're deluding yourself.

So? That's something humans tend to do, and anyone trying to sell self-driving cars will have to account for it.
Unfortunately, "going mainstream" usually seems to involve selecting and running with only the worst parts of any approach. :-P
Swift 3 code will be able to be used alongside Swift 4 code, in the future, but that's not to say that Swift 4 won't contain any breaking changes (it will).
It's entirely legitimate that the division of authority between a state gov't and smaller entities be different from that between states and the Federal gov't. These are not the same thing. For instance, I think that municipal broadband is a great idea, but I also respect that states have the authority to stop cities and towns from doing it, so long as that is allowed by the state and federal constitution.

It's possible to not want the same policy when it would be executed in a vastly (intrastate/interstate) different context.

Also, "Business is hard, let's destroy freedom and build a one-party state!" is an obnoxiously reductive non-sequitur, disrespectful of arguments made upthread, and not really deserving of a civilized response. HN rhetoric at its finest.
> I haven't the slightest idea where you're getting the "brain inflammation" thing from

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=inflammation+depression
Large and close is respect to the light-crossing time and the accuracy with which you want to timestamp an event. If you care about years, 1 light year is already a large distance.
American-Dutch person here. This article misses a few key points.

1) Dutch softdrug laws are heavily influenced by other/bigger EU countries like France and Italy that don't like their citizens visiting NL and using, or bringing back drugs. Hence the closings of coffee shops in border areas.

2) Closing of window prostitution in Amsterdam is a completely different issue than closing of coffeeshops. There might be a moral argument for both, but in my cynical mind most of the windows being shutdown have more to do with snapping up key real estate in the middle of the city than anything else. Some people claim it is about cleaning up the criminality, but I think it's just connected people getting better access to good real estate.

3) There might be a real estate angle to the closing of coffeeshops as well, but I'm not as familiar with it to really say. Amsterdam, like other major cities, has started to see an influx in foreign capital buying up homes for investment purposes. It's rather disgusting and has lead to rises in home prices in the city.
Don't worry about it and get your jollies off with whatever synonym you feel like at the time.
Welp... there goes the last of the innovators I admired/followed at Apple.

Edit: perhaps the problem is that you assume I'm just tossing gasoline on the ever-loved and popular rag-on-Apple fire. I have been an active clang/llvm user for 6 years, I have written numerous clang plugins over the years, and I am an active swift developer. Every device I own is made by Apple and has been since 2004. I am genuinely puzzled why this comment is so unpopular (at least, considerably more so than goofy unfounded speculations about what Chris will do next—see above).
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If you do a clustering analysis on a large sample of DNA data you will get different clusters corresponding to the usual definitions of races or ethnicities, depending on the number of clusters you choose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_clustering
The problem is that long-term sadness and depression feel very similar and they can be difficult to distinguish. Sometimes you can feel sad about some situation in your life and not even realize it. Or feel sad about something but you're suppressing it because of social pressure. These can look like depression.

Take a really hard look to find things that are making you sad. Especially things you're telling yourself that you're not sad about. If you find it, fix it like GP says. If you don't find it, pursue depression treatments such as the post.
Ugh.

"social_links": [
{
"type": "facebook",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/XXXX"
}
]

Who needs this information? Why do they even provide it?
Yeah, I still have a Nehalem at work and it's nuts how much slower it is than my Haswell at home (which is getting a little old itself).
I'm not sure whether if he experienced a true depression but this article doesn't give any answers.
Plus, it can be pretty harmful for those who don't have any 'loved ones'. I'm a depressed student who don't have any friends nor family to talk with. This article make me think I don't have any chances.
Anyway, it could help some.
1. Is there any evidence that multiple teachers are better? If so, I'd love citations.

2. Is there evidence that situation-specific meditations are useful?

3. How much are the teachers paid, if at all?

4. What's the criteria for one being a "top mindfulness teacher"?
I don't disagree that sugar babies are prostitutes but to equate a $5000 entry fee sugar baby to a $200 backpage escort to a $25000 drink girl is disingenuous.

The legal circumstances surrounding these exchanges, as well as the women that get involved in these are wildly different. Calling a rose a rose is fine, but that doesn't justify disregarding nuances between subspecies.
Ubers and transport trucks can do fixed routes, so that should be relatively easy to automate.
Changing a testing approach in my opinion is fine, but should result in the retroactive re-testing of previous models used in any in-article benchmark comparisons.
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This is why I have no problem walking through wormholes, but will never set foot in a teleporter.
Do you mean mixing 3 and 4 will work only if kept in separate source files?
You could DIY -- https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-and-MacBook-Pro-Uni...
Well, Waymo's car drove a legally blind man as the only passenger: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/bli...

So it seems like they're pretty close to L4.
Digital Lockpicking: Why Your Front Door Shouldn't Be on the Internet
I've never seen any that actually specify it as an amenity. I think it's assumed that buildings will have that these days.

In searing for how they're actually sold, I've seen mostly "Phone Entry System" and "Phone Access System", but I felt like that was super generic without context.
Hopefully, it'll be improved a lot by the next person responsible
So what would be the best way to estimate OS market share? Stopping short from including household OS usage in worldwide census?
>>>What does it mean for "race" to be a "biological reality"?

to quote my own post - well documented taxonomic differences between human races.
Is anybody doing this for investing? Couldn't you use social media to track when people join or leave a company and determine whether the company is healthy based on the quality of the employees it employs using their estimated net worth, market value of their house, where their kids go to school, etc.?
I am arguing against ignoring the fundamental principle about one-way flow of information DNA->RNA->protein which makes life sustainable.

Anything which contradicts with this principle is plainly nonsense - a product of unconstrained imagination.

BTW, any changes which could be propagated through the mother's body, the way some deceases do, would not get into the DNA. This is another fundamental principle which contributes to sustainability of life - it is about isolation and washing out of pathogens.
I'll quote myself from a previous comment regarding epigenetics.

Epigenetics. It's the make-file for your genetic source code. Certain conditions can cause certain parts of your genetic code to be uncommented or commented-out. There are actually a number of different kinds of comments (histone modifications [1]) - each set of marks particular to a different compiler, in different contexts. And these comments/marks are copied with some fidelity to daughter-cells/children along with a high-fidelty copy of the underlying genetic code itself.

So the genes themselves are not being heritably altered, rather the recipe for which gene is where, when can be subtly changed. But again, the same mechanisms that permit the change in expression of those genes during a lifetime can be subsequently changed in the next just as easily.

In this way you can store the code for some trait or capability over many generations without having it always be running. It can manifest itself in individual organisms as having very different phenotypes even with the same underlying code.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone_code
The entire comment was patronizing. "Nice attempt" minimizes the effort involved and implies the author is a novice. "but currently wrong" categorizes the entire project as a failure because of a single bug. The followup "From my own experience writing a formatter" really drives the whole thing home.
And aliens could come from space and take over our planet. What's your point?
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I agree, after living there for a while I couldn't really see the sense in allowing people to consume or sell something that was produced illegally.

Anyway, it's as shame to see things going backwards in Netherlands ;(
If Apple were smart about it, they'd make a 17" pro developer edition as their blessed dev machine. Make it thicker, larger trackpad (with support for wacom-style pens), better battery life, lots of RAM, second/third SSD, and a couple other ports in addition to USB-C.
Link to more details (original source material):

https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=14936

There was some kind of browser check that took a long time the first time I went to access this link which is why I didn't submit this as the actual post.
Yeah 'italianate' seems to describe the presence of individual design elements more than full blown motifs. But I think that's a typical concession in 'affordable homes'.

I too reccommend the McAlesters' Field Guide. Her 850 page successor text (w/ styles after 1940) is on my short list of 'to buy' books.
Agreed, but a haiku requires some notion of syllables. Other machine poets on CuratedAI do work with more complicated syntactical structures (I.e. http://curatedai.com/poetry/three-haikus-in-honor-of-haruki-... , http://curatedai.com/poetry/mildly-concerned-the-woman-next-... ), though my personal bias is more free form, a la e e cummings.
> It's their business how they tax entities that are actually located within their borders. It's not their business to tax entities that are located outside those borders, even in other states, and merely ship into the locality.

They are taxing entities located within their borders: the customers pay the tax, not the company. Sure, in theory you could require all the purchasers to keep track of all their purchases and remit the tax at tax time. Right.

It's hardly unreasonable that the person handling the cash and who already has to keep track of all the transactions should aggregate and manage these taxes.

I'm surprised that a CC provider hasn't offered to take care of all this for small providers.
This is what I saw when I clicked "Request Free Invite": http://imgur.com/bG03Adn
But ultimately, it also means you can share perfectly. I don't need to own a hammer if I can get one exactly when I need it.
NVIDIA actually talks about this in their last series of talks. The car when planning the drive makes a determination of whether or not it expects driver assist and how much. Of course a drunk person could just check off the sure, I can drive for those sections and then pass out anyway.
yeah, just tell the autonomous 4000 pound missile that stopping is a low priority.

i fear much of the enthusiasm behind self-driving cars is from people who understand neither driving, nor computer software, very well.
I have been struggling for 10 years and honestly have no answer for this. So if someone honestly could share some insight, I would be greatly appreciated. I can't rely on weed for temporary happiness most of my life.
This is what I find so silly. Companies have all this information about you that is actually relevant to their customer support. They could get so much out of making e.g. the phone support system talk to their account system.
“Side Hustle” as a Sign of the Apocalypse
BTW, the Josh who wrote this (Josh Levine), also wrote The Island Trading system (which ran on DOS I believe). Pretty brilliant guy; he was a subject of a very good book (IMO) called Dark Pools. Not sure if he's still doing this or not, but of your name is Josh xyz, he'll delegate xyz.josh.com to you (if not already reserved).
Ehh, I agree the Vive is way better when it comes to tracking technology, but Vive and Oculus are basically at parity otherwise with Oculus having the upper-hand when it comes to ergonomics and design of the headset and controllers.

Oculus is far from dead in the water and is definitely very valuable, especially with their lead in the performance software space with Asynchronous Timewarp/Spacewarp. They'll lag behind Vive in global sales for a while because FB doesn't have a foothold in Asia yet, but Vive vs Oculus is definitely an active competition.
>> I found them useless for high-end dishwashers (both Mieles they recommended worked poorly)

That seems to apply to all of their highly rated dishwashers -- when you read the CR user comments, most of them got a lot of horrible user ratings.

I don't know if it's the dishwasher segment, but it seems like dishwashers in general have gone downhill.

I was also going to buy a higher end dishwasher but it was so hard to choose because of the negative user comments that I ended up getting a lower priced one that got decent reliability ratings. I didn't want to get a Bosch or Miele after reading the user reviews on CR.

Having said all of that, if you've been using dishwashers since the 80s, it turns out your old habits can result in bad washes. I was used to scraping my dishes clean, but according to my research, you actually need your dishes to be soiled enough so the newer detergent pods can clean them properly. I was lucky I found that out or I'd be getting inconsistent wash results.
We moved entirely to Android.

Apple has lost the plot and their greed and control issues and outdated product features and lack of innovation make it just a terrible platform to try to get excited about as a developer.
You're getting it right. The problem with terms like "buzzer", IMO, is that they're super generic and very regional. But I suppose it might be more generally understandable than what I've got, I guess I should try it on a few people.
Volvo is testing self-driving cars with real families
No, not particularly. It's already floating, so it will just drift away for the most part. Some smaller bits will probably fall off and produce some spectacular waves. By smaller bits, I mean stuff up to a cubic kilometer, so I wouldn't want to be standing next to it when it happens.

This is all much further south than cruise ships normally go though.
No need to downvote, the title has been fixed. Thanks.
One in Three Tech Workers Is Underpaid
I just heard a radio piece about how basically all humans had Hollywood smiles (where the teeth lined up perfectly) until the Industrial Revolution, when our jaws began to shrink and there was no longer enough room for all the teeth. I didn't get to hear the part where they discussed/hypothesized whether the changes were due to diet or environment or something else.
That's a huge simplification of the famine. The root causes of the famine are generally attributable to rental law in Ireland and the disincentives it created towards farmers investing in land and/or farms scaled to the right size for economies of scale.
There's a few exchange archetypes for sugar babies:

1) Girl immediately exchanges sex for goods/cash (rarest)

2) Girl makes a sexual exchange after a courting period (most common)

3) Guy isn't interested in sex but a female companion for emotional support

4) Girl is pretending like she does #2 but actually drops off after courting period

5) Girl is actually doing #2 but the guy is too creepy

There is an element of consent involved because of the delay and indirect aspect of monetary exchange. Many sugar babies will question what differs them from traditional girlfriends other than that they are clear about how the relationship progresses.
Marissa Mayer to step down from Yahoo
Probably not.

I used a cartoonish model to starkly illustrate the possibility of the effect.

That doesn't mean I think reality would have such stark effects. It doesn't mean I think I've proved the effect occurs in reality.
Dear Apple, Web Developers and Designers Are Not Customers?
A recent quote from Apple

"We learned that when testing battery life on Mac notebooks, Consumer Reports uses a hidden Safari setting for developing web sites which turns off the browser cache. This is not a setting used by customers and does not reflect real-world usage."

Seems like Apple forgot that Developers and Designers
do buy Mac Laptops.
Cool stuff. I found it especially interesting how they removed 30% of writes with new logic to compose some timelines of events in other timelines. It's a thought provoking optimization that calls to mind graph partitioning.

For example you have 10 people in your organization with various permissions on repos. Some people (CTO let's say) can see every repo while others might only be able to see some repos. Or you might have consultants or open source projects which non-employees contribute to. Then you construct a graph where each node is an contributor that is connected to other contributors by the permissions they have on repos (or are the repos the nodes and the contributor permissions the connections?). Finally you run a graph partitioning algorithm where the number of partitions is the number of unique timelines you have to write for an organization. Thinking about an organization with closer to 500 contributors I can see how this could reduce the number of timelines by 30%.
Lesser HTTPS for non-browsers
Techstars and 500 Startups Outpace Y Combinator in Series A Graduates
Realizing that you are feeling depressed and that you don't have to feel that way is the first step. Eventually you learn to recognize it and analyze the underlying cause. For me it's usually just something physiological that's been thrown off. Eating, sleeping, etc. However, coding is always a sure fire way to clear the mind. I've found that I am always happy when caught up in coding something.
For solving a) I recommend Localbitcoins.com. I've used it a couple of times without issues.
No, you are not. You have an illusion of control over your vehicle, and while you may have a measure of operability, the actual control of your vehicle is depending on the correct functioning of the software and hardware that manages the various controls in your car (gas pedal, steering wheel, brakes, etc), and the efficacy of your operation of the vehicle is entirely dependent on the driving conditions, including other drivers, weather, wildlife, etc.

In fairness, your operation of the vehicle has a substantial impact on the outcome of operating the vehicle, the the decision loop that your brain implements while driving is largely incapable of effectively processing and executing on the volume of information and variables that are in play in the circumstances that lead to high speed collisions.

Anecdotally you might feel in control, but it is probably worth noting that most people, drunk or sober, tired on fully awake, fully alert or texting, felt like they were in control when they were suddenly the cause of, or involved in a collision.
I like this idea. It also helps immigrants with integration into their new society, instead of forming pockets of foreigners.
ISPs Pushing for Elimination of New FCC Broadband Privacy Rules
Ah yes, you appear to be correct. As of now she's going to Verizon with the sale. Personally I can't imagine her lasting very long there but I suppose you never know.
Thanks for clarifying that, you're right, I just assumed the "editing" the article mentioned was referring to a site feature.
Extortionists Wipe Thousands of MongoDB Databases, Victims Who Pay Get Stiffed
Hi, I’m Tim Brady, one of the partners at YC that works closely with Simple Habit. We funded Simple Habit because Yunha is a great founder. She is resourceful, energetic and has created a product that solves a problem she understands well. Happy to answer any questions as well.
> Small business can't always just write a check to solve their problems. My buddy just charged the standard state tax for instance, when selling books online, then at tax time he figured out how much he'd undercharged in taxes and paid it himself. Done that way its definitely a 'small business tax'.

Well if your buddy doesn't understand how to manage his bandwidth or AWS costs, or doesn't know to switch off the heater when leaving for home and runs up a huge bill, you don't call it a 'small business tax'.

I get it: there are a lot of things to keep track of running a business, and the fewer you have to deal with the better. I just don't understand why taxes are somehow magically terrible while setting up your web site or payment processing is somehow legit.
I don't really see why the price charged makes a difference. Either you're having sex for money or you aren't. Everything else is just cosmetics.

Again, I completely understand that the distinction is EVERYTHING for these girls, because they truly don't think of themselves as prostitutes. But that's simply their self-deception.
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