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There are a lot of professions. Coders are over-represented on HN, compared to what are often called "creative professionals", who do graphic design, video production, photography, etc. Quite a lot of those workflows involve using sliders to set values by eye.

The Touch Bar is going to be great for those folks. And the new screen is better as well, displaying a wider gamut of colors than previous Macs.

Because Macs have gotten so popular with developers, it is easy to fool ourselves into thinking that developers are what saved Apple. But it was actually creative professionals who were one of the customer "pillars" that Jobs built off of when he came back. Developers flocking to the Mac is a fairly recent development.
How did you find these papers? Did you know about them before finding this post? If so, do you remember how you discovered them?
I don't own one, but it was one of the first things I tried when I was able to test a friend's, and it worked exactly as I described.
While understanding the state of a project is important for potential adopters, might I suggest filing a GitHub issue in lieu of this comment as something that might actually have a positive outcome?
Yes, that would be better than I was when sleepy making it a net safety gain when driving home late.

As an added bonus I can turn it on in a traffic jam and relax as that's stressful but not fast enough to be dangerous.
Yeah, but Apple was never about choice and if the Touchbar was optional it would never find meaningful adoption. I still believe Touchbar can be very useful in the future.
Do not "plead" anything. Do not mention the fifth amendment. There are rules there which neither of us knows.

Request a lawyer. That's it. Say nothing else.
Poorly done reproductions of wood work make my skin crawl. You touch a railing or some mounding and realize it's mdf that's coated in some plastic.

Just knowing all the skill that went into making the old features out of wood has been lost is sad/ disappointing.
I think comparing is inevitable.. going through a lot of this now personally and sometimes i wonder how much a factor is the size of the pond you swim in.
Surely cost is part of the reason.
>Unsurprisingly, the Church doesn't like this version of the story and Borges' fictional theologian dies in anonymity.

A diversion: Judas is the representation of one of the great dividers in Christianity. To forgive Judas is to deny free will. One of the things that one could take away from the gospels is that choices were made a consequences occurred. If it hadn't been Judas it would have been Peter, and so on. Judas was not acting as an agent.

Catholics believe in free will and they believe in punishment (penance, purgatory, etc.). Luther, and many protestant sects, do not believe in free will as such. Either is there is no free will, or if there is, forgiveness more or less wipes it out.

The reason I mention this is that I can really see the influence of protestant thinking in Western society. The tendency to look at all actors as part of a larger "system" rather than individuals with agency that may or may not deserve punishment or reward based strictly on their merit. I find that interesting given this discussion. There's acknowledgment of dealing with individual choices, but as part of creating an optimal systemic outcome.

EDIT: This is also one of the reasons studying literature is an important effort. It gives us something of a window into a cultural world view. Here I'm reminded of the Iliad. Our tendency today is to admire Hector, but the Greeks would not have. He was part of a city and that city had sinned. There are no individuals. Fatalism is strong in Greek literature. It doesn't matter how good or bad a person you are.
A few questions:

* How long will it take for "Deleware" to melt?

* Is ocean ice this large called an iceberg?

* Does is get an official name, like IIS Wilmington (international ice station, capital of Deleware)?

* Have large ice sheets in the past forced/caused changes in human behavior, such as altering shipping lanes, in the same way planes fly around a storm?
So "give less qualified people jobs because of arbitrary characteristics and people who look like them will become qualified" rather than "hire the most qualified person regardless of any arbitrary characteristics, and people will try to be the most qualified."

> At the moment computer science is often considered a bad bet for women (for example) because they see so few women in the industry that they know it will be an uphill battle to pay off their very expensive degree.

Nonsense. Things like your comment show that as long as you can pass the bar of "not unqualified" you're more likely to get a job if you're a woman, or a person of color, or whatever random immutable attribute someone is trying to pump up.

I work with a bunch of white and Indian dudes. I'd love for the pool of my colleagues to be more diverse. But I'd rather work with 100% qualified Indian men than a group of less qualified people who perfectly match the gender and racial makeup of the US.
Re WSL in Cmder/ConEmu: it's not so simple as that. In fact, it's a terrible mess. If you try to use the straightforward bash.exe, you will quickly run into things that are unsupported, e.g. arrow keys (fixed in Insider builds), home/end keys (fixed in Insider builds) Ctrl+Space (not fixed). If you try to use MinGW/Cygwin and ssh from there, you may run into random crashes when launching programs after using it for some time, such as less or emacs (old bug in MinGW and Cygwin). There is also something called "wslbridge", which also failed for me, but I can't remember why.

In the end, the only thing that does everything I want reliably is embedding a special build of mintty into ConEmu/Cmder. https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

Here is the ConEmu task that I use: %LOCALAPPDATA%\wsltty\bin\mintty.exe --wsl -o Locale=C -o Charset=UTF-8 /bin/wslbridge -t /bin/bash -l

It does have the caveat that you can't use many ConEmu's keyboard shortcuts, but there is a workaround that allows you to pass WinKey+Key shortcuts through, and I'm learning to live with that.
Why is the longest method size 13 lines? That to me is an indication that functions are actually not doing enough themselves, and rely heavily on delegation to other functions (e.g. far too many functions are simply a few lines consisting of calls to other functions, possibly far-removed from the context, with little or no logic "built-in" to the function itself). Usually when I see that sort of thing it's because the functions were designed for unit-testability instead of utility in a programming project.
I'm not sure there is a great way to really measure this type of data. Granted I don't think Alexa is a good point to argue if something is top 3 or top 5. It at leasts provides some sort of indication of overall measurement error. We can probably say it is at least in the top 10 which is probably meaningful enough for the discussion at hand.
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Bags are pervasive. Limiting them city by city, county by county could make trouble for a lot of people. Heck, having local sales tax is already an enormous pain for online sales or mail-order.
As someone who's former significant other was a Teacher, you'd be shocked at how frequent legitimate physical and sexual abuse is in the lower income areas...

Especially visible to those who have suffered it before... You can see it - Mandatory reporters can make a huge difference.
Second hand smoke harms people. A lot of household violence is fueled by alcohol. Then of course we are all affected by cost of treatment of smokers/alcoholics/people harmed in sporting incidents. Don't know how the numbers compare to driving, but the point is that the author of the article maybe shouldn't authoritatively say what "we" need or don't need.
It seems a pretty format can be subjective depending on personal preference and code complexity. I'm surprised that there aren't and formatted that are customizable in that you break down the format of a function into a few sections and give the user options on how they would best prefer the format to look. (At least there's not a formatter like that which I'm aware of)
This is a huge difference between Windows and Mac. MacOS doesn't use Fn keys for shortcuts half as much as windows.

When I'm on Windows I touch type Fn keys all the time. Almost never do that on the Mac.
You can easily add the play/pause button into the touchbar in the keyboard preferences: http://i.imgur.com/WMizuQD.jpg
What progress can I make on my startup before outsourcing it or finding a CTO?
Hello guys,
As I believe the era of the napkin pitch is bypassed. Today, most talented technical people are hard to convince to join you in building your startup idea, unless you have enough data and evidence of its success, in other words traction.
As a non-technical founder, I'm working currently on my tech startup idea. In fact, I didn't even try looking for a CTO co-founder as I believe there still much work to do from my side as I've built nothing yet, which makes me not entitled to try convince a developer to join me. On the other hand, I'm also thinking of outsourcing the MVP dev to a dev shop but before that, I'm trying to figure out what kind of progress I can make before taking that step.
Therefore, would love to get your feedback on this.

Q: What kind of progress and milestones can an idea-stage founder achieve before outsourcing to invest in the dev (financial risk) or having enough data to convince a CTO?

Thanks,
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We will gain a new appreciation for the value of human decision making.

A pretty big chunk of automobile collisions are directly attributable to poor human decision making.

For example, nearly 1/3 of fatal collisions in the US involve a driver with a BAC of 0.08 or higher.
"Particle" is used at all scales, most usually subatomic, but also microscopic and macroscopic. A car can be viewed as a particle, so I'm not sure it's so wrong to label a group a molecules as "particles".

Also, the author was only referring to particles when trying to explain the concept of thermal radiation where he is actually speaking of subatomic particles, not of molecules.
Apple fanboy after reading a handful of negative blog posts about Windows: "Good bye Microsoft. You are losing all your customers to Apple now. Ballmer sucks. Windows 10 sucks. Everything sucks. Apple is going to rule the world."

Apple fanboy after reading a new blog post on how developers with a huge followership give up their MBP, which are ranking in the top of HN every day since the announcement in Oct 2016: "These developers are only a minority. There's definitely no trend here whatsoever. 100%. Trust me. It's based on my opinion."
Under the hood ChaCha is a 128 bit -> 512 bit hash function with a 128 bit key, running in CTR mode to get a stream cipher.

It is most assuredly NOT a block cipher under the hood.
The truth is, it's a lottery. And the only fix is something very non-standard; Greater government interference in family life, or removal of liberal reproduction rights.

Until we accept something like that, the best we can do is try to reduce the 'cultural' aspects of bad-parenting, but that's all.

> these attitudes and priorities have nothing to do with race

they correlate with race - sometimes. It's the ambiguous nature of 'culture'.

But privilege appears to me to refer specifically to opportunity. "decision privilege" seems contradictory in that respect; especially with things like "getting pregnant at a young age" and "having children outside marriage" - I think these are actually "behavioral privilege" (living in a culture/environment that values/encourages certain behavior), which does not fit the usual narratives and semantics around the word 'privilege', one of which is, change can only come from within the community, and resistance to change is not imposed from outside.
> Based on just "3GHz core i7", a chip could either be painfully out of date or current top of the line.

This has always bothered me too. I suspect that the ambiguity is intentional on the part of Intel and/or Apple marketing (though I'm not savvy enough to know why exactly).
Water in the form of a solid takes up less spaces than as a liquid so not sure I agree... Plus there is a large part of this that is above sea level currently so that part is not current being displaced.
We do. The entire Flow test suite passes when pretty-printing and re-parsing and comparing ASTs.

There are a very few subtle bugs like the one you mentioned above. As noted in the readme, this is a beta. It's certainly more than an attempt.
Yes, it was pretty nice, they covered it even though it was likely my fault and I didn't have coverage for that, only took them an hour or so on a busy day, but they had to order in the part which took a few days, if I recall. A side effect is that I don't have my serial number printed on the case anymore, a tech wrote it on the inside of the case for future techs to find.
1. Would you have paid me if it was let's say $20,000, with you having a debt yourself ?
2. This experiment was for people might have seen this and said, "Ha, that's a petty sum, let's help him out". (Validated from the 8-10 connections I made through the experiment)
+1 to this. I've found this is incredibly helpful in other facets of life - for me, I like to know what I was thinking roughly last january
In fact I remembered it.

But it is hardly a backlash. The users complained at the time, most of them simply didn't have a iPhone. It is more likely people saying, I won't buy a iPhone because of A/B/C.

While the new MacBook gets complains from its EXISTING user base, who feel that Apple is taking features that are useful to them away and making the product worse.

There is big difference between not giving what your user want and stripping what they are happy with.
Not in my testing—if I touched around the left side without any part of my finger touching esc, it didn't register. And even when it did, the lack of any kind of feedback (Haptic feedback would be so nice here) makes it disconcerting at best.
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Look into hempcrete; great insulative properties. Probably not the best for loading bearing, but it's being developed.
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From the blog post you linked three comments up or so:

> Big “C” means all nodes see the same data at the same time. Being big-C consistent is a prerequisite to preventing double-spends, and therefore storing tokens of value. There are many models of consistency; we mean “consistent” in the same way that the CAP theorem does, except a little bit more loosely (for pragmatism). Little “c” means strong eventual consistency, such that when data gets merged there are no conflicts, but not consistent enough to prevent double spends.

> there are various ways to handle key distribution, of course

Right. Having the public keys advances the discussion precisely nothing, because public key auth is pretty much a given if we're talking about the servers identifying themselves.

What tells us if we have a decentralised system with no central authority is: who's the gatekeeper? Who controls key distribution, and which keys are accepted into the pool?
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At 100% the test might be invalid but I don't think your percentages are correct. I'm sure it's environment specific but I run my new 2016 Macbook Pro w/ Touchbar at about 60% brightness most of the time. At 30%, in office LED lighting, it's way to dark. At 60% it's still darker than a Monoprice gaming monitor that sits right next to it.
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Getting over this hump in thinking is hard though - I was crippled for years by "CREATION MUST BE PERFECT". It's only recently I've managed to adjust to thinking "all of this is good practice" and dumping almost everything I make out to the public.
>Bags are pervasive.

So are wages, another thing state legislatures have started pre-empting local governments on.

>Heck, having local sales tax is already an enormous pain for online sales or mail-order.

I don't really see why "business is hard" warrants destroying local self-government, particularly in such a blatantly unprincipled way as to center power on offices held by a particular political party.
Personally speaking: Relying too much on 3rd parties (especially from companies like Google that have a history of removing systems) can break things. Design your systems to be resilient and standalone as much as possible.
Really? I was under the impression that even across the generations there still isn't much of a speed up.
I really wish these advice givers would understand the difference between being down because things are not going well and having depression, which is a disease.

Things are good for me from an objective perspective (money, career, family, health), but I'm miserable and not in a good place. My brain is broken and only certain treatments help. A DJ class isn't fixing me.

I really think these people are confusing burn-out with depression. These are actually two very different things that require different solutions. I wish we were more open talking about burn-out and dissatisfaction instead of just ramping everything up to "I suffer from depression! Halp!" You don't. Once shit gets good for you again, you'll be Mr. Happy. I won't be.

I feel like there's a stigma against discussing burn-out because it really can be seen as a personal failure. You worked too hard for stupid reasons, you believe your dishonest boss or work culture or coworkers, you had unrealistic expectations, you tried too hard for something that was impossible, or you simply failed and its entirely your fault, etc. It seems more ego-pleasing to just jump to talking about depression and kinda sorta equating your situation with people who suffer from major depression, which ultimately is ego-pleasing but the wrong way to go about things. If a DJ class 'fixed' your depression, you didn't have depression, you had burn-out/situational depression, which has nothing in common with clinical depression.

That said, I don't want to trivialize situation depression/burn-out. Why do we only see post-burn-out articles but rarely see burn-out prevention articles? I spend about 20% of my work day considering whether that path I'm taking on this project or interaction violates my own anti-burnout strategies (do the least work possible from a reasonable perspective, do not create drama, let foolish things slide unless they personally affect me, very carefully pick battles, mentally clock out at 5, realize its just a job and that I work to live not the other way around, etc).

Also the above is written from someone with a depressed perspective, so take that as you will.
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I'm actually very excited by your "attempt". Looking forward to where it goes!
I can fully understand that - I occasionally wind up asking other people to tell me to do specific small things and it can help a lot with just getting through the day.
Why not? Store all your data on the cloud - access it from the computer in the uber. Lots of people who commute to offices will have the same idea as you and uber will account for that.
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IMHO this is likely to be moot anyway. One of the takeaways I got from CES this year is that Galaxy Gear and Vive have won the VR race. There were zero Rift demos. This is looking like a fight over who is going to own the IP for HD-DVD.
Perhaps a bit out of the left field, but one suggestion would be to make sketchnotes [1] of some useful idea that you would like to share. For example, a summary of a book or article you read. Do it on paper, snap a picture and post it online. That way you create something which is meaningful to you, but you can also share it and it might help others too. Also, this is the kind of creation where you usually do not have to compare with others.

The obvious con of course is that it can be really time consuming.

[1] http://rohdesign.com/sketchnotes/
AFAIK, Go doesn't use libc.

Anyway, it is still a problem if you encounter a bug in any dependencie: you have to recompile every application using it.
Fascinating from the perspective of someone who lives just outside of Washington DC, where marijuana has essentially been legalized. My friends who smoke tell me that, while it's illegal to sell weed, it's not illegal to give it away. So there are now shops that sell old newspapers for $50 each, but you get a free bag of high-grade weed along with it. It will be interesting to see the effects this has on other crimes and illegal drug use in a few years of study.

Having toured Amsterdam on a business trip, I was surprised that, even with the easy access to weed and prostitution, taxi drivers would not take me to certain historical sites in the city because they were too dangerous. The "safe" section of the city was fairly small, with the rest of it overrun with harder drugs and crime. With more American states legalizing and decriminalizing, we'll soon get to compare with the Dutch experiment.
Is there a comparable list for buying altcoin in the US, such as ETH? I know Coinbase allows you to make ETH purchases (I've bought some there), but I'd be interested in other means. I'm not trying to dodge taxes, it's just that Coinbase seems kind of creepy now given how much the government is probing them. (I don't suppose the alternatives are any better / less sketchy?)
I've heard of local PD paying for tips/information on things like petty crimes and misdemeanors (though, maybe not parking). I have no proof of such a thing, but I can't see why they would not do it if circumstances allow.

> If I witness a hit-and-run

IANAL, but I suspect that's the important distinction. You witnessed something, you didn't search for it. Just like these Best Buy technicians witnessed the illegal/contraband items.
If you steer towards areas that don't have a "right" answer it might be easier. I used making a set of shelves out of planks of wood last weekend to manage my mood. They're not going to be the best shelves in the world; there's no "right way" to build shelves. They're not even going to be the best shelves I can make. In fact, as a physical artefact, they're kinda shoddy.

It really doesn't matter: making them got me into a flow state, I got a ton of carpentry practice out of them, and as a handy side-effect I NOW HAVE A NEW SET OF SHELVES. Woo.

(Also I need to buy a finishing saw. Oh no, more tools, whatever shall I do.)
Yeah, but there's the Stripe kind you can sort of rely on to be there, and then there's the kind that is basically guaranteed to go away.
It's closed source?
Even something as small as removing the matte screen option from MacBook Pros was a major shitstorm.

Apple is used to getting blowback; it is not unusual, and it is sometimes warranted. When it is, later models address the complaints.

I mean, just compare the initial reaction to the very first MacBook Air, to how people feel about that model line now.

It is way too early to know how the new MacBook is going to do. It's way too early to know if the Touch Bar is better UI than function keys.
I use my laptop for work and private 10-12 hours a day and am a developer myself, i just don't develop mobile apps, mostly backend services with python/go/php so i actually hardly connect my phone to the Laptop.

Sorry i actually did not reread your original comment when replying and was assuming this was about the Macbook Pro... If you only have one port there is indeed only the usb-c hub solution which can be annoying.
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The creative process isn't novel. There isn't even the capability of any layer masking in most mobile apps, including Instagram, compared to pre-existing more robust tools on desktop (and other mobile apps), severely limiting the 'technical interestingness' to begin with.