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Author here. CloudFlare's DNS was measurably, and consistently, faster than almost every provider we tested. So I can concur with you in that regards. It was ultimately faster than Route 53 and Google Cloud (the path we ended up going).

However, when our relationship with CloudFlare ended and we moved to Fastly, one of the reasons we did so was unreliable lag with DNS updates at CloudFlare. Sometimes it would take minutes or hours for DNS changes to be affected in their system, and they could never provide a satisfactory reason why.
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I'm with you that they should be slightly worried, and I've long disliked MacBooks in favor of commodity+Linux, but surely the market share of iOS will keep developers at the table.

It sucks, but I don't blame manufacturers for pulling back from laptops, the money and market aren't what they used to be. The good news is that it looks like the laptop divisions of most companies are becoming more enamore with "developer" editions and ultra books as developers are increasingly a noteworthy share of the marketplace. Can Apple really be blamed for pulling back a bit from a retrenching market?
The fact that Visa/MC allows Coinbase (and others) to make bitcoin purchases as a purchase and not a cash advance weighs heavily on the "bitcoin is not a currency" debate. I wholeheartedly agree. And no, bitcoin is not dead. It's just not a currency.
I believe that we eventually will have a reliable and cheap way of making durable houses, maybe 3D printing. There are machines capable of doing so now, its just a matter of refining and provide them with enough availability

The main issues I see are:

Construction is a low skill labor intensive source of jobs, so unions and government don't want to cut it. And a more efficient way of building will probably mean less people working.

Most people loves being showing off, a huge house is the best way of showing how much money and power you have. Why print this wall when you could buy some expensive material?
Maybe you should try dogelang (dg). That's all the Haskell syntax goodness with the Python typesystem :D
Even though the Esc key is indented, the empty space on the left still functions as Esc, meaning that the key is quite wide in practice.
> Package managers...

But bash on Windows includes apt. It's all of Ubuntu running on the Windows NT kernel instead of the Linux kernel...

> WMs...

Windows has one of the best window managers around and you can make it do pretty much anything you want.

> ...understandable filesystem hierarchy...

Done. And it's actually simpler than any Unix filesystem that I've seen. Obviously millions of users and devs use the Windows filesystem to great success. What parts of the Windows fileystem are you having trouble understanding?

Imagine a filesystem where you don't spread one single application's files around to 10 different locations which differ based on the target distro...that's Windows.
Fold over the screen.
It's convenient if you want to shoot a sitcom.
>The American system is more about representing the preferences of communities than directly those of individuals.

And by "communities" we mean "lines drawn on the maps decades to centuries ago". For example, New York City has one municipality with five boroughs, while the Boston metro area splits its urban core into five different municipalities (even though people in each commute to all the others). And the Bay Area in California? Well, let's not talk about the idiocies imposed by municipal boundaries in the Bay Area...

Like the Atherton Caltrain chauvinism...
That helps, but I find that a Lisp-2 like Common Lisp (I.e. A language with different namespace for variables and functions) is a more intuitive programming environment than languages with a single namespace.
Actually, this was not his last point. The last point was commented out (if you read the page's source, you'll find this after the 70 characters per line comment).

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Here's my opinion:

The fixed resolution has fixed dimensions, not a fixed ratio. Meaning if you view the content on a different screen setting, the content will not change to preserve readability. It's different than the 70 characters per line because you still have 70 characters per line on a bigger screen. The eye not having to travel horizontally is the point because the travel can be irritating at any character size.. That's why code is limited to 70-80 characters per line.

However, this is a problem on mobile: on a big screen, the 70 character is a good thing because you still have a good chunk of text vertically and are able to read with ease. On mobile, on the other hand, your reading speed is way faster than 80characters * number of lines displayed on a mobile screen.. So you spend your time scrolling frantically to keep up with how fast your eyes are reading.

On a laptop, HN is too small but even having it zoomed at 150%, I still have a lot of leeway to read fast. On mobile, the layout is a bit better but every thread seems to go on like forever because the amount of scrolling is just insane.

70 characters per line was because horizontal eye scanning has a higher cost than vertical scanning. But a muscular action of the hand has a higher cost than both, which you're paying on mobile. Imagine reading a book in which each page has only 5 lines and you have to turn the page every couple of seconds. It's just way too tiring.
Plumbing... It's highly unlikely that plumbing will be outsourced to robots any time soon. The same goes for electrician work for the most part too. For the most part, pretty much any traditional builder trade craft will be around for a while.

Beyond this, I don't think good DJs are really going anywhere... I really prefer a good DJ's matching of music together over Pandora and the like. I don't think the algorithms will ever really match people in that respect...
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I'm in pretty big 'luck' as well: my screen is starting to show the delamination issue ('staingate') as well. Coupled with that I'm also having excessive coil whine under load (even hearable when I'm chilling in bed downloading a torrent). What I'm wondering is: this is an 'early 2015' model. Its early 2017 now. Do they still have the 2015 model screens and logic boards in stock or will they just give me a free 2016 model?

One great thing is I have Applecare on this one so I won't have to pay a penny for sure..
I too am sad that there are people who have to spend a large portion of their day working for minimum wage and on inefficient public transportation.

We're all different, born into different situations, in different geographical areas, with different brains, different athletic abilities (or not), and different opportunities in life. Some people are able to make a better life for themselves than the one they were born into and others squander their initial advantages and end up on skid row.

I expect people to realize their current economic situation, whatever the reason, and have kids only when they can afford to support them. Having sex may be mandatory, but having kids isn't. The easiest way to make a difficult economic situation worse is to have a kid.
>Then we offer all the northern border states to Canada.

Living in New England, there are actually a fair number of people here who dream of applying to join Canada or the EU if we could get free of the rest of the USA.
> touch interfaces suck. Always

Not true for everything.

Phones? Touch is brilliant

Tablet? Touch is amazing

Working with children on large all in one's with touch designed software - Works like a charm they don't get mouse and keyboard

Some touch sucks yes but not always
And now that I think about it a bit more, perhaps the real answer is just for the reply box to appear inline on the discussion page when you click reply.

It'd be interesting to user-test putting the reply box either directly under the replied-to comment or after the other replies. The latter is more indicative of where the reply is likely to end up, and would make it easier to notice when one's own reply is duplicative.
[I am not a lawyer]

The primary reason to form a C-corp is to facilitate outside investment by a particular class of outside investors. That class of investors includes traditional venture capital. There are few situations where forming a C-corp would provide advantages over an LLC: both are closely held, but an LLC is more flexible in terms of structuring controlling interests and payouts. That's why they are more popular.

My advice is to pay an attorney familiar with SAAS businesses for advice.

Good luck.
I think 'standing up to power' is something that is justified under extreme circumstances, but we're talking about copyright laws in a democracy here, not about saving people's life in a dictatorship.

You may not like the existing copyright laws or the justice system. And I fully understand it, as I don't like parts of them either. But that doesn't give you the right to break the law. A society where people break laws just because they disagree with them simply can't work.
It appears that Google is seeing 16% ipv6 traffic at the moment, it was 10% a year ago, and 5% the year before that; so not quite on the Ogive climb.

Mind you on a country by country basis Belgium has cleared 50% with Greece clearing 30%.

Heartening to see Zimbabwe pass 7%, an anomaly for the whole of Africa, does anyone know whats going on there?
Egypt is second with 0.50%.

The map isn't set up for the Caribbean, although if you check the json used for the website Trinidad comes is at 12%. An egregious omission .

https://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/ipv6/statistics/data/worl...

Perhaps I need to start a fantasy ipv6 migrarion website...
Generational wealth is, itself, a form of privilege, but his account references other aspects of privilege besides generational wealth, including, explicitly, qualifications not being discounted because of Whiteness.

So, I don't see how you can both accept the account as given and say it's merely an issue of generational wealth.
Considering the speed with which that attack can happen and that the macros can background the entire processing immediately (opens cmd, creates bat, executes bat, minimizes cmd), you only have to turn your back for a few seconds and an attacker can get into your system.

Imagine, you are sitting at your desk in the county clerk office and a citizen comes to see you about something. You turn your chair around for a few seconds to get a file and they insert the drive into the back of your computer and remove it before you turn back around. Do you honestly think that anyone beyond a security export or a spook would think they could be compromised that fast?
True. But i'd contend that the side arguing for changing the status quo has a higher burden of persuasion. This seems especially true given (a) the degree to which even a well-managed Brexit would have unpredictable economic implications, and (b) the way that that a racist minority managed to conflate their cause with a potentially more reasonable one.
Isn't the original TeX literate?
> everybody who knew him found him to be a genuinely nice and caring person...

That is a demonstrably false statement, as you admit. No one is loved by everyone. No one is hated by everyone. No one is "evil", and no one is a "saint".

This ridiculous habit some people have of putting people in two boxes (good, bad) is just so stupid. People do good things, and do bad things. Everyone does some amount of good, and some amount of bad. People aren't good or evil.
The code is up:

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/commit/1e67c90e2cac...

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/tree/master/tensorf...

The corresponding documentation hasn't been pushed yet; I'll post a link when it is up.

Note that XLA is work in progress --- we're releasing the code early because we want to get the community involved. The GPU backend is in good shape, and improving by the day. We haven't had as much time to devote to the CPU backend, and it only has limited support for parallelism. Contributions welcome!
Mandatory reporters aren't conducting searches.

Also, no warrant would be required to perform a search when requested by the citizen, right? "Please, officer, look in my trunk!"

No, of course not. (Actually, I believe that accepted doctrine has changed since "99 Problems" was written and a locked trunk is no longer safe from warrentless search.)
The problem is, that "negative effect/activity" is not an objective thing.

To me, drinking(alcohol) is a pointless activity, with literally no upside. It costs money, doesn't feel good, I don't see the social aspect of it, and the danger it poses to people is well documented - it's a "negative" for society in my book. But, at the same time, I am fully happy to acknowledge that there are people who enjoy it, who like to party, and I would never say that drinking should be banned.

I know a few people who treat driving like I treat drinking - they see it as boring, without any benefit, with negative consequences well documented and they clearly think that society would be better off without it. They think that the day that manual drivers are banned can't come soon enough.

As mentioned above - we are not robots. Not everyone enjoys the same things. And that's great.
I'm on a Windows machine, so maybe it's different, but I definitely touch type on the function keys.

The ones I use daily are F1 for help, F2 for next bookmark, F3 for search, F5 for run, etc...

Volume up and down are Fn+F10 and Fn+F11. Browser if Fn-F1, email is Fn-F2, and so on.

At one point Lenovo had a machine with a touch bar like Apple has now and I believe it was widely panned by users.
Best Buy may not be subject to this particular statute. Do you have a reason to believe they are?
Just buy from a company which specializes in building laptops for Linux, they chose those components for which there are free software drivers already available so it never will be a problem.

1. http://system76.com/
2. http://tuxedocomputers.com/
3. https://www.entroware.com/

and so on ...

This way you're not only helping yourself but also invest into companies which make sure stuff is working on Linux, as they grow all the other OEMs will see the potential and adapt (hopefully).
Class descriptions are not only put into diagrams, they're interactive controls. Ten years ago, the model-driven development trends focused on making more and more of the code driveable by UI representations and code. People tried to model code using UML or UML-like representations, with two-way links. Tooling inferred models from existing code.

For more current approaches, see "Code Maps" in the VS 2015 release notes here - https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2015-...

Doing proper control flow is done less often for the reasons I explained. Profilers do it better. See e.g. the Call Graph in AQTime: https://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/43205/ - it lets you drill through the callers and callees of each function as seen in practice. This means it can see through polymorphism, reflection, dynamic loading, function pointers - all the things that make static analysis infeasible.
For Apple the TouchBar model is selling well. So I predict by the end of the year all MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks are TouchBar only. No option for physical function key model. And they will kill MacBook Air
I like it too. It'll be the same as with anything thought. You'll have the vocal group (which may be a minority) which is usually the dissatisfied group. There's now been a few of these stories on HN that are all the same, and they feed the people who dislike Apple and simply want to see repetitious negative stories.

I've found it quite funny though to see the "The year of Linux desktop". ;) It's also interesting when people link to stories about Apple from previous product releases with very comparable comments. Nothing much changes, it seems.
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Similar to Iran trying to maintain a fleet of F-14s.
The mixture of sarcasm and dead seriousness of this essay is perfect. Also, this whole thing is bonkers. It makes Trump's presidency look like that of a strong man dictator from a third-world country. Cronyism everywhere.
There's an old game called "the sims" where perhaps tongue in cheek the criteria for how much your Sim loved the house it lived in was the McMansion criteria of the linked articles, nothing matches nothing balances no 90 degree corners no flat surfaces proportions are very weird.

Ironically the house being awful results as a side effect in being very expensive to build, so from a conspicuous consumption standpoint its simultaneously hard to avoid noticing none of the windows match at the same time as its noticed clearly no one got a Federal style bulk discount on those windows, or the floor plan and roof line being, well, insane, was likely very expensive to build. You might have to live in an ugly house, but everyone will know you have money. Oh the fed dropped interest rates again so we have an extra $100K to spend, well, if you already have five dormers why not seven and toss in some columns on the side door entrance?
>All you need is a majority within a party that gets half the vote: 50% of 50% is 25%. This is why the Republican party has been taken over by an extremist who's unpopular with large chunks of his own party.

The plurality primary system actually makes it much worse than that. The total percentage of the registered voter population who nominated Trump, IIRC, was about 4.5%. It was 4.6% for Clinton, too.

Lots of other people voted in the primaries, but voted for losing candidates. So it actually turns out you need 4.5% of the total voting population to support you to get a major-party ballot line, at which point you'll basically receive 25% in the general election on "ham sandwich" grounds in your party's regional bases. Then you can concentrate on competing your way up to a majority vote in the general (or for Presidential races, the Electoral College).
Though I might agree with your general conclusion, saying that the reactions you do see on reddit and HN "don't have any basis in reality" by using your, significantly smaller, closed circle of people with whom you interacted as comparison sounds wrong.

You have the experience of your personal circle and the experience of reading online critiques and comments - they both suffer from the same "go with the flow" disadvantages, yet the second one is possibly much larger, diverse and informed.
> The economic definition of a public good is something that cannot be effectively owned.

While I am aware the definition of a public good, your definition is not appropriate because flood control systems, lighthouses, and street lighting can be owned.

The problem the root comment touches is excessive use and for all of the above examples that are scarce (fresh air, common language, flood control systems, lighthouses, street lighting) there can be excessive use to the detriment of others and it can be avoided if these items are private property.

For others (the non-scarce - knowledge, language) you cannot take away the rights for others to use it. So there is no real sense in claiming it a public good because there is really nothing.

Finally, official statistics and national security depend too much on the definition to say to which category the belong.
You disagreed with me but I think your argument is solid and people are voting you down without much reason.

iOS not only has better touch but (due to tight restrictions on background processing APIs ) way better interactive latency than MacOS, where a rogue process can still mean trying to fire up Activity Monitor. MacOS / NeXTSTEP might have a bunch of bitrot, iOS is newer, smaller and more likely cleaner. A version of xcode that works on iOS and more laptop-like devices could be a sign up OS X being on the way out.
how is Yahoo News not considered successful? Sure its a lot of AP aggregation, but most importantly, people were clicking it.
Why would it be dead? There are needs it services better than any other current product, with no serious replacement in sight (except for alternative cryptocurrencies).

And at least the black market use case of bitcoin is really hard to replace with a better product. Not because Bitcoin is so great, but because it's politically and legally hard to develop a good product that works in a black market environment.
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The answer regarding Zimbabwe is Liquid Telecom:

http://www.techzim.co.zw/2016/10/zimbabwe-leads-africa-ipv6-...

http://ipv6-test.com/stats/country/ZW
Reads to me that,

You did not simply went to an apple store and tried it before you bought it? You could have saved yourself a purchase & return and the internet a review of which there are already uncountable amounts.

Also you write you build enterprise grade products, but you cannot find alternative tools for covering that last 5 percent? Reads a bit strange. You can come up with clever solutions for enterprise stuff, but you can't properly get tools on linux to do what you need to do?

Soldered-in-everything.. vs "I wish Apple made enterprise SSD controllers for my database servers—who needs RAM when disk I/O is so fast?!" make up your mind please.
You could just ignore them? A fanatic is just that.
Can this be used together with Python for Go? (Grumpy: https://github.com/google/grumpy)
> Many folks in a position to observe children are required to report signs of abuse. Are they 'agents of the government'?

Even if those people were on-duty officers, it's not a search if the evidence is in "plain view."
OK, sure. What else do you suggest I buy?

When the best available product is no longer available, I don't think the "just don't buy it" approach is really a good response.

(Full disclosure, I think the new MPB looks pretty decent, but for those who don't like it there's often no good alternative now.)
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It depends on your definition of currency. If you define it as a medium of exchange then for sure Bitcoin is a currency. I can buy stuff with it.
What's the rationale behind offering the 13" pro the option of not getting the touch bar, but not offering that option on the 15"? I want to buy a 15" but I do not want that silly touchbar