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I'd love to run MacOS on excellent non-Apple laptop hardware.

I have the max-spec new 13" Touch Bar MBP, and it's a terrible laptop. The keyboard is so loud I have been banned from using it in the bedroom at night - a practice I have been doing for the entirety of my marriage. The TouchBar is so useless at night and for development work (where I extensively use ESC and F-keys) that I literally have to put another keyboard on top of the laptop.

So, please, give me MacOS running on a similar-spec non-Apple laptop with a proper, quiet keyboard and I will thank you form the bottom of my heart (and my bedroom).

I will say that the Track Pad on the latest MBP is really very nice.
> The best time to plant a tree was yesterday. I can personally forgive them, but we need to hold these players accountable in the future. If marketing moves is what incentives them, we need to make it impossible to move us without extended action.

I feel like I hear that line on a daily basis but it doesn't factor in reality.

To stretch the metaphor further (for illustration), if the lot where you'll be planting the tree is being bulldozed today, yesterday is the worst day to plant a tree.
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I wish phone makers and network operators would advance the state of the art with audio quality on voice calls. Now that phone calls are data and rarely leave IP networks, it seems like a good time to work on higher fidelity voice calls.
As a wise man was once rumored to say, "In the Start Up World, be nimble and never miss a bandwagon that fits in your vertical."
Why should anyone ask President Obama why he left them out in 2011? The list was a list of countries that wouldn't or couldn't provide the enhanced background data we requested. People on those listed countries were scrutinized more, absent extra information from their home countries.
I don't understand why it's even controversial to call this a Muslim ban. It's a ban on people from Muslim majority countries, except for religious minorities in those countries.
They have a lot of pokers in the civil liberty fire, and I really do wish them success in all of them. However as you (and probably many others here) are now supporters you'll start receiving the newsletter which outlines your local chapters focus, recent successes, and new battles. You can make a decision to continue supporting the organization or switch to something you believe personally is more important.
As those papers are hosted on vixra.org, how credible is the content? Has somebody with deeper knowledge on the subject had a look into it?
I'm pretty happy with it overall, especially with the current discount. (I do not have the connection issues mentioned in the article)

Worst case for super-high-bandwidth devices you can connect directly to the laptop. (I do not have a external drive bottlenecked by the 5 Gbps limit yet, but may get an external SSD soon / eGPU once that is viable)

> AFAIK the LG 5k is the only panel offering 87W power output, right?

Currently, that is the case. The LG 4k only has 60W output.
But the thing people complain most isn't because they want to delete everything but because they need docker rm, xargs and complex bash foo to delete the containers and images they don't need.

For example I want to delete all old and all untagged versions of an image. I want to delete all stopped containers that use a specific image, or that were created more than two weeks ago. I want to delete all images starting with test.

Nuke everything? Not so much and to be honest this would be the easiest even with xargs and docker rm.
It is literally just a cron entry that runs

> mutt -s "Today is `date "+%A, %B %d"` - How did your day go?" myemail@gmail.com < /home/phreeza/dailymessage.txt

where dailymessage.txt is just some prompt.
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I'm the case of Sia at least you will have the ability to whitelist and/or blacklist hosts on the network. Which makes it really easy to control which countries do or don't end up with your data.
Seconded. The slightly better option, if you can get away with it, is working it into a project at work (rather than a side project) so you can devote a few of your fresh-brained 9-5 hours to it each week and not feel too guilty.
> they should be disrupting the people who need their minds changed

No. You continue to fail to understand MLK's theory of protest. If you have read his Letter From a Birmingham Jail, you give no sign of it.

If the people being disrupted are already active in a movement to change things, they will not mind the protest. But if they are merely people who say "I agree with you in the goal you seek" without active support, then they are the very moderates that MLK was addressing here: "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate [...]".
> doesn’t want to organize a cash withdrawal

You're not the first to mention this, but this is completely foreign to me. I'd love to get off of cash, but there are just so many places in Europe that are cash-only. The Netherlands is bad, but Germany is even worse. Lots of bakeries, fries stores, stands, etc. are cash-only; in restaurants big groups split and settle the bill with cash; and settling stuff between friends is often cash as well (though this is more and more bank transfer / wire transfer / whatever it's called to IBAN within SEPA).

You're serious that "organizing a cash withdrawal" is 1) something you need to do in the first place and 2) it's a hassle or something? I also read about having a separate PIN for cash withdrawals (I had no idea a card could have two PINs).
My guess is that in their study, other demography didn't show up in the results.

Now why is that would be interesting.
This isn't a product per-say, but an accomplishment in the "finish a project, no matter how small" category. Our house is heated by a combination of wood stove and electric blowers and the inside temperature varies quite a lot. I was curious about the nature of those variations, so I built a mechanism to record and report on them. My plan is gather a year's worth of data and see if any interesting patterns emerge.

I also used this opportunity to apply some ES6 for the first time - lambda syntax, interpolation, and Promises.

Future work includes downloading local outside temperature data (e.g. for NWS or NOAA) and charting it as a comparison.
> dominated by US products

I'm in the US and most of the product I use were not manufactured here.

Globalism is better for countries sucking on the US's teet but it is bleeding the US dry. The US can't compete against other countries that have no environmental or wage regulations.

Its like every other country feels entitled to the US's resources or something.
There are at least four stakeholders in this situation:

1. The American company that wants to save money

2. The Middleman (e.g. Wipro etc) that wants to make money on the wage arbitrage

3. The foreign worker on the H1B

4. The American citizen that doesn't want to be replaced by the foreign worker

I'm all for cutting out (2) and making it easier for the foreign worker (provided they have the skills) to become an American and not beholden to (2). However, I don't like the American companies saving money on the backs of American employees losing their jobs. How to balance everything is the tough question.
I used the word 'mainly' because I understand that HN has always had some political conversation in the background. I have personally learned about immigration issues, digital privacy, etc. etc. on HN. Those are valuable things to understand, and I enjoyed reading about them.

Now, it is clear that YC leadership has taken a highly liberal stand. I won't make a judgement on liberal or republican, but it feels more and more extreme. When an organization leans either direction too hard, it loses its purity. YC is becoming the liberal version of the Koche Brothers. HN is reflecting that in YC's movement.

I'm sure that Sam Altman and the rest of your team feel that it is worth it, but in my opinion, overt political support by an organization feels like a losing long-term strategy.

I guess we will see
Even better. My point was only that I will never use something that doesn't require an alphanumeric password. Anything added on top of that like two-factor just sweetens the pot.
One of those is the direct result of an executive order. There is a clear path to fighting it.

They both are causes people care about.
So RocketInternet but with products instead of websites?
From the analyses i've read, it's inferred from this part of Yates' statement.

She called out her role as different to explain why she doesn't agree with the OLC that it's legal.

My role is different from that of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), which, through administrations of both parties, has reviewed Executive Orders for form and legality before they are issued. OLC’s review is limited to the narrow question of whether, in OLC’s view, a proposed Executive Order is lawful on its face and properly drafted.
The clause about Master's exemption. What does that mean?
The thing is diesel was pushed because of its low CO2 emissions and lower cost at the pump. Of course the German government wants to protect German auto companies now, but EU laws are comparatively lax on NOx emissions in part because the focus used to be entirely on CO2 emissions.
> What's the best way of scp'ing from a remote server connection to local machine, if the local machine isn't externally accessible (e.g. isn't running SSH)?

If by "not externally accessible" you mean the local machine is not running an SSH server, but has an SSH client available and the machine is connected to the network, and the remote machine is running an SSH server, then:

$ scp remoteuser@remotehost:remotepath/remotefile localfile
> sugggests a new programming paradigm, which it is not

No, you're just dismissing it without understanding it first. Which seems super common on this forum.
Yate's letter of resignation specificall mentions that the OLC vetted the EO as legal when considered on it's own.
> The obvious solution is to add full-text indexing by page content. And maybe even store pages for offline use.

I built something that did exactly this, over ten years ago! I was a much less capable developer then, and it never worked as well as I wanted, so it was never truly finished.

Today this would be even harder, with the prevalence of web pages that are actually _heavily_ dynamic apps. Navigation to a new "page" is a much fuzzier concept now. What gets indexed? How do I generally know what content is/is not addressable by URL?

> And filtering open tabs by a keyword.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...

"Add % to search for matches in your currently open tabs."
Well, sort of. Obama was president when the list was created, but it was forced through by a Republican-majority Congress.

http://www.snopes.com/trump-immigration-order-obama/
seems like the meaning is shifting from "non-sacrificial action taken solely to signify virtue" with "any action taken in the name of virtues I don't embrace"
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Maybe there's a Submarine campaign in effect, marketing that demographic towards a particular market or product?

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I'd rather ask Congress, since they were the ones who wrote the list.

http://www.snopes.com/trump-immigration-order-obama/
With a stated intent to ban Muslims. Donald Trump and his advisors have gone on record for months stating that their intent is to ban Muslims. Many of his staff have asked publicly if there was a legal way to ban Muslims, and stated that they were seeking a way. This is well-documented in the US mainstream press, with video evidence of Mr. Trump and Mr. Giuliani stating this in their own words.

The rationale given for banning these Muslim majority countries by Mr. Trump included 9/11. Not a single 9/11 attacker came from these countries. Claiming a material connection is a lie. They claim Obama is responsible for picking them – yet he never banned an entire country in a fit of collective punishment, merely ordered additional monitoring and procedures. Last weekend, valid green cards were cancelled without a documented or individualized reason. This is a vast difference in policy.

People resent Mr. Trump because he lies. He repeatedly lies to Americans. He presents suspect reasoning, misrepresents documented facts, and then claims he didn't in the presence of video evidence. That is a far more critical flaw than any policy error could bring.
Generally, http://nomadlist.com is a good source for this question.

Personally, for 4 I'd recommend Spain (Barcelona specifically) as a remote working location. Reasonably cheap cost of living, but European and not too cheap, so you still have fairly good common infrastructure, easily available fast internet etc. Plus there's loads of other expats, amazing weather & food, and Spanish is a useful, fun and relatively easy language to learn (as opposed to, say, Thai). And the Spanish lifestyle fits with the relaxed remote working lifestyle fantastically.
> it's relatively low cost to implement

Running Docker in production takes a huge amount of effort to get right and is not easily done.
When you say "Where was the outpouring of funding when black people were being gunned down by cops" - what exactly do you imply by asking that question? That the parties involved are morally compromised such that they should not fund the ACLU and hire immigrants?
In my experience in Houston/Austin Uber is a superior product.

Uber pick up times 15-30 minutes.
Taxi pick up times 30 minutes - 6 hours(bad neighborhoods)

Never dealt with a rude Uber driver.
Routinely dealt with rude Taxi drivers(usually not to me but to my wife)

I'm not friends with anyone who was sexually harassed or assaulted in an Uber but plenty of them were sexually harassed/assaulted by Taxi drivers.
No more disturbing than the right doing the same thing ala Fox News for the last... decade plus?

Many on the right are convinced Trump just did something with his immigration order to actually protect us, despite jihadists, political science experts, and even members of the Republican party saying otherwise. That it was a dangerous move, even. Nevermind that the largest terror sponsoring state out there right now in Saudi Arabia isn't on the list.

This is pandering to the hardcore for easy political gain. If it was a real effort, SA would be on there. But he knows he can't make that work.

Both sides are playing the same game. When it's not their team in the WH, the other side is vile and reprehensible and in gross violation of the Constitution!

Believing anything that comes from either side is foolish and irresponsible.
The list was for increased border scrutiny and travel restrictions, created by a republican congress and passed as a string attached to a much larger bill. It was not an outright ban. And especially not a ban whose appeal priority would go to christians.

Bannon is a genius. The fact that he can co-opt partisans in the deflection of criticism with facile ideas like "Obama did it" is terrifying.
That link says that VW agreed to pay $2.8 billion in fines for defrauding 590,000 car owners and cheating on emissions tests. $2.8 billion/590K vehicles < $5K/vehicle.

That's a good start on fines. Now make them reimburse 590K owners. Let's see... A Jetta has an MSRP of >$20K. So, how about reimbursing $5K-$10K of every diesel vehicle that was fraudulently sold? Or, force VW to buy them all back at original MSRP. Then they could resell them for whatever they could get for them.

Would you pay $10K for a 2 year old cheater Jetta?

Edit: removed typo
I get what you're saying, but late is better than never.
I don't donate to the ACLU because I believe in the civil rights for all people, outside the womb, and inside. Is there a similar organization I can donate to?
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I'm avoiding wading into these debates on HN but wanted to thank you for articulating something that has been bugging me as well. This is a point that I wish more people on the internet would stop to consider.
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It's just a Telegram bot, it's not "based on" Telegram's source code (which is what I assumed when reading your comment before opening the page). That's like saying Facebook is based on PHP and saying "that's a major red flag!"
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Should the US block immigration from France?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2015_Paris_attacks
Well something about history and being doomed to repeat it...

But to your question, I don't think it's ever presented to the camp counselors that way initially. I'm sure there's a certain percentage that are maniacs and true believers that are itching to be the camp hall monitors, but I'd wager that's about 10% or less.

I'm sure it all starts with morally defensible, likely very reasonable ideas of personal security or welfare. "I'm keeping my family safe!". Before it slowly starts devolving, and you find yourself rationalizing or being an apologist for the higher ups decisions. And then before long, you're the one pulling the trigger, or kicking someone into the chamber.

I"m sure that's simplifying it by about 1000x, but I'm sure there's some truth there.

Fear of the outsider and self preservation are strong motivators...

How we fight that is probably a better question.
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This looks really interesting. The idea of splitting the accumulator from the data seems a clear win. Would love to see evidence confirming it works.
>Shouldn't be an obstacle. This is already exactly how normal, hailable, regulated taxis work

Except normal hail-able taxis are driven by professional drivers with background checks and large insurance policies. There's no guarantee the person who picks you up with this app will even be a licensed driver. A lot of the value in Uber is that they take care of these things, not just the app side of things.
> I get the feeling conservatives may not feel welcome at YC.

What we are seeing over the last week and what is expected to be coming from the Trump administration in the near future have little to do with liberal vs. conservative. I know many conservatives who are outright horrified by what they are seeing.
Haha. Actually, RocketInternet is for startups/websites like the age old knockoff's for products. This is nothing new, but he must be good at marketing.
"But the shit ton of semantically meaningless divs that are sprinkled around the structure to provide hooks for CSS declarations in the 'usual' style of doing layouts is somehow better?"

No, it's not, as I thought I made plainly clear in my comment. HTML5 introduced a smorgasbord of new tags to avoid that.

You're right that a lot of modern web development fashion is silly, but there are alternatives besides just sticking to tables for everything.
I see your point but isn't easy to understand that the reason tech companies and YC try to help the ACLU is because charity begins at home? Preventing engineers from working at these companies because of their national origin affects them more than police violence against black people. There surely are other causes more worthy of support outside the US that he did not mention.
What's this I hear from the GamerGate folks about you being a woman bureaucrat, a broad who is the worst type of mean, nasty and petty, hiding your vindictiveness behind a facade of professional-sounding language (they do say Logo is just Lisp without parens), and also a snot nosed hectoring undergrad? You've been an inspiration to us all, and the computer industry need more nasty women like you!

I heard an alternative fact that Kent Pitman develop a New Implementation of Lisp in which NIL equals T, which inspired many other popular languages like PHP and JavaScript to adopt alternative definitions of equality, based on the insight that all objects are equal, but some objects are more equal than others.

And speaking of bright 12-year-olds, I heard that David Vinayak Wallace was the youngest kid to ever have his own office at the MIT-AI Lab, and as a small brown child he once schooled Jerry Pournelle for free [1]:

Date: Sunday, 2 January 1983, 22:48-EST
From: David Vinayak Wallace
Subject: The changing face of Micro-computing...

Date: 31 December 1982 04:00-EST
From: Jerry E. Pournelle

(I re-ordered some of your statements)

The notion that "It's too late for the parents" is
goofy. Bill and Sibyl Grieb have packed classes at everywoman's
Village on using computers; they teach CP/M and customization
and all that.

Patience: it took far longer for the "average citizen"
to learn enough mechanics to be able to be comfortable using
cars than it is taking for people to get used to computers.

I think this example shows why it IS too late. You can always find a
few exceptions to the rule; these exceptions are a tiny (>.5%) part
of the actual computer user. I doesn't take mechanical knowledge to
drive a car, it takes mechanical knowledge to modify or repair an
automobile. most people (me included) would rather buy a vanilla
car and just have it work all the time. I change the oil (more than
most people do), but have a mechanic do the real work.

The problem with adult learners are the ones I had: no one seems
to know how to explain things in English. You have to learn a
lot more than you really need to in order to be able to do much
of anything. Some of us, though, are trying to change that, and
a few of us are not only doing something about it, but getting
paid to.

The High Priest mentality in which one accepts whatever a highly
paid computer technician tells you, is dying away in industry
already, and the micro world ain't going to let it get a foot
hold...

I'm biased, but I don't think this will really work. You can't
discuss complex concepts without the proper language. I agree that
there is a bit of High Priest mentality and that there is no good
effort to teach the JARGON, but every "normal language" explanation
of anything having to do with computers comes out muddled,
long-winded, and ultimately, unclear..

Some of us even do it for free.

david

[1] https://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~cwm/NetStuff/Human-Nets/Volume6....
That XKCD comic with only part of the background removed before it was pasted on the shirt mockup in the header seems odd.
What? This is a giant [citation needed]
Why did you leave out saudi Arabia? nearly 100% muslim, home to over 50% of the terrorist who have attcked the US.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
I'm not sure that's so true any more. See: calls to sever ties with Peter Thiel on every political thread on HN right now.
Cultural conservatives are authoritarian. They argue for restricted social liberty.
Would something like a Stress Cube even be eligible for a patent? I don't see the technological novelty to be honest. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how patents work.
I think you have no idea what you are talking about. Trump stopped immigration for 90 days. Dual citizenship, green card, no matter.

This is not a stop on issuing Visas, this renders existing Visas invalid. It's a travel ban.
"This is awesome, good luck!" or something similarly supportive should be the bulk of comments in here. Cynicism for something like this, especially given the time we're in, is not helpful.
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I think their reasoning on 2nd amendment work is sound. The NRA and affiliates have ~4x the ACLU's budget to spend on that one single issue, and they have shown themselves to be ruthlessly effective on that front.
What, you think companies are going to hire non-Americans for a higher price just for the fun of it?
I appreciate the ACLU. They make it easy for me to vote. Every election I go through the voting booklet to see how the ACLU recommends I vote on candidates and issues, then I vote the opposite.