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Thanks for sharing your perspective on PTSD and mindfulness, I share your feelings on negativity, at times I can find it perversely 'attractive' yet I know it's effect will be disruptive to my mental well-being. It helps to practise a regular news blackout, as while being conscious of world events and culture is a certainly a positive, the day to day news feed seems a divisive and dis-empowering font of dubious value.
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Going by my personal experience with my kid, I think the best tool at the moment is a Raspberry Pi + Minecraft Pi + Python. Python and Minecraft Pi edition are both included by default in Raspbian and there are several free resources, such as https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/getting-started-with-mi...

It is an extremely rick environment..
Your answer doesn't help Tbh.
You could as well say "we use something" and it would have given the same information.
And then there is this as well... Looks like the EPA has to ask for permission to talk to anyone now.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/25/511572169/...
His view of the world is very skewed. I wouldn't take him as an authority.
How often do this microcontrollers fail at HW level? You buy always from the same provider? Which one? (If you can share it, no problem otherwise)
I had the same reaction to the title. Luckily I read the article anyway and learned something. Nearly every company violates this research with nearly every hire - trying for some ideal, or "fit"=identical-to-previous-hires rather than a very disparate mix of hires. Titles are generally more trite than their articles of course, else why even write the article.
I get follows from obvious bots (bio: "click here for 5000 follows") very regularly on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Instagram almost always removes the account, Facebook has always responded the account "doesn't violate the rules", and Twitter I'm not sure about, but I always block and report that garbage.
I was a Macintosh user since 1985, one of the die-hard faithful who stuck around all the way through Apple's late-'90s doldrums, but I haven't bought a Mac in years and at this point it's hard to imagine why I'd ever feel like paying that premium again. Not that there's anything wrong with them - Apple still makes very nice computers. The simple fact is that computers in general crossed my "good enough" threshold en masse, roughly six or eight years ago, and I just don't care much about the differences anymore. Any machine will meet my needs, as long as it has an SSD and at least 4G of RAM. In this world, why would I pay $1800 for a Macbook Pro when any random $300 Thinkpad will do the job?

We're riding out the top end of the S-curve here. That's okay; the market is mature. I expect that Apple can continue to do their high-margin BMW/Mercedes thing for years to come. I just don't happen to need (or even particularly desire) a luxury computer.
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They can ask for anything. If you say yes, though, the only thing binding you is your own sense of obligation to keep your word. The promise to not look elsewhere is not legally enforceable (at least in many states; IANAL and I don't know whether it is not enforceable in all states).
Can we put aside the partisan attacks and have a rational discussion here on Hacker News?

In that spirit, I think you're wrong about inherited wealth, gold, and women who "let you do it" being unavailable to black Americans.

A small number of people of both races have access to these things.
The underlying image is still a rectangle, it is just being manipulated with css to make it more stylistically appealing.
One advantage of using CSS to make an otherwise rectangular (really, square) image appear circular is that the underlying images won't become obsolete if the visual design changes to shift away from circular images.

Another is that commonly used lossy image codecs perform poorly on sharp transitions, and block-based compressors perform especially poor on rounded corners, and often, with transparency.
Azure no, O365 yes. They are doing some funky accounting.
The move is not described very well in the article. It's not really a countermove per se (because the time to impact is maybe 2 or 3/10ths of a second), but something that the wrestler decided to do before the match began. Before the initial charge, the two are crouched a few feet apart from each other, and instead of charging forward, one wrestler jumps to the side rather than engage the opponent.

I can't immediately think of any corollaries in other sports, but it'd be a bit like a baseball batter jumping into the middle of the plate in order to get hit so that he can 'win' against the pitcher.
Anecdotally I've seen a huge uptick in spam/bots following my main account on Twitter since the beginning of the year. Probably 50%+ of my new followers have been accounts with no profile picture, no tweets, and close to zero followers.
- messages being posted only from Windows phones

The smoking gun. What real person still has one of those.

Disclaimer: I owned a Nokia Lumia 920 for > 2 years.
Yes, but since everyone is super-polarized these days and only listens to "news" outlets pushing narratives they already agree with, that means no one hears it who needs to. It's very hard to get a story to get widespread attention.
It wouldn't surprise me if RS-232 will still be around long after USB falls out of use.

Does anyone know the reasons why USB was not made backward compatible with RS-232? It would only take a very short negotiation to determine if both endpoints support USB.
Any cable plugged into phone reduces usability. Phones are wireless for a reason.
Agreed, in that every loan I ever saw had a fixed Libor offset. Disagree, in that Libor was fixed at closing, instead it was most often used as a floating rate. So, you had a floating Libor + a fixed offset. In regards to manipulating Libor to move downwards would have only hurt the bottom line of my firm.
Thanks for making the location of "remote" a first class option. I tried it out and it worked well. Not sure of all your sources but I've found though that from certain ones (like Indeed) the word "remote" will sometimes have a different context (i.e. .net remoting), or have an inverse context (i.e. "no remote or telecommuting").
Yeah the problem is the "creatives use Macs" thing was really a holdover from when Macs actually were better than PCs at 'creative stuff'. A lot of creative software used to only run on Macs. Today everything runs everywhere and there's really no real reason for creatives to prefer Macs. Maybe the colour correction is better on Macs? I bet it works fine on Windows too really though.

The truth is Apple didn't give up on creatives; Microsoft just caught up.
A fake account on social media (as far as I have seen) can be things like alter-egos. There was a subculture on Facebook of making fake 'emo' accounts. They used to clog up my suggested friends list.
I like the term "monoracial".

In your view, how granular is that? That is - if someone is half Italian and half Swedish - are they monoracial?
Is this the keyboard: http://www.asus.com/zenbook/_img/home/computer02.jpg ?

I'm not OP, but I'm personally wanting one like this: https://senk9.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/thinkpad-x230-keyb...
Presumably the more traffic the P2P stuff serves, the more value it brings you (in saved CDN costs), and of course Peer5 would like to be paid as much as possible of that. Being paid by the same measure the thing you are replacing is commonly billed by seems sensible.
They are two sides of the same coin - the only difference is which side you're standing on. Same way that the patriots who started the American Revolution would've been labeled terrorists had they failed.

From the POV of the government itself though, the primary imperative - stronger than one policy prescription - is continued existence. And to ensure continued existence, a government needs to let through change that, if repressed, would bring down the government, while also preventing change so radical and so permanent that it destroys the government on its own.
If x is a 32-bit int, then there are only ~4bil possible values to consider. If any of them not ruled out already would lead to an uninitialized read, issue a warning.
Completely true, and deliciously ironic
In Europe, you're more likely to die of lung cancer than terrorist attack. It's a load of crap that you'll meet anyone in your life who will genuinely try to end your life. Sure, you might be unlikely, but you also might win the lottery.

With respect to culture.... I don't know what to say to that. It strikes me as very xenophobic and more than a little naive. The way to get your culture to remain is by showing others what is to celebrate about it, not by forbidding them from living around you. It's not like any culture can exist long unchanged while children have access to the internet anyway.
San Francisco average software engineer salary: $139,036
New York average: $124,691

More here, including adjusted averages based on cost of living: https://hired.com/blog/candidates/where-engineer-salaries-pa...
The only surprising detail here is the small number mentioned (350K).

Twitter fake accounts are expected to be counted in MMs.
That's true, but there isn't enough value in macOS for me to justify buying old hardware, especially moving forward.
Worse, they are using it while trying to place back doors in it.
I would imagine that it's possible that some of the people reading these comments might already know a lot more detail about Twitter/Facebook bots than this story goes into.

Although you fine folks might remember me from a few other projects, I'm currently a Graphics Editor at The New York Times. We're actively curious and interested in pursuing lines of inquiry about this sort of behavior, and if any HN'ers have any interesting leads or tips, I'd encourage you to get in touch. You can reach me at my username @nytimes.com, or email me and I'll send you my Signal number.
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Usually the people who cannot write good code love to write comments because they somehow feel it makes the code better. But they cannot write good comments either. Then everything is horrible. Code is really complex and hard to understand and the comments just make it worse. They might be out of sync or just erroneous.

I'm witnessing this currently with the code base I'm maintaining.
And still, they cannot compete with AWS in terms of "completeness of vision" how Gartner puts it. And that is totally justified.
As a mostly C++/.NET dev since over a decade, I've tried to embrace the "modern web" a bit more, but as soon as I did... Web development in 2016 feels comparatively _insane_ to a dev used to structured .NET full stack development in a big IDE made for the purpose, on a platform with slow incremental improvements over the years with a vision and coherence from a single company.

It's like assembling a castle from bricks of lego where each brick changes shape every 6 months. Jesus. I feel burnt out before I barely begin! And when I've settled on something, it's about the toolchain and distribution models. "Is it Webpack or Gulp or Browserify and what is a docker image anyway or should I just use Meteor..."

There _are_ options for people like me. Angular 2, EmberJS, big hunking frameworks like those. But then the problem instead becomes that it's hard to grow your web apps organically. The startup... You have to build a huge garden of Eden surrounding it, and only then can you ship your "Hello world". So exhausting before I've barely got started. Besides, what do these big frameworks even _do_ for me behind the curtains? I don't understand the underpinnings. I just have to trust the docs and that they don't change.

So then I tell myself "oh f all that" and build a fun Web API in Python and Flask. And hack raw HTML and CSS in a text editor. The minimalist, pretty code and lack of 100 MB's of dependencies is too alluring. I feel like I'm forced to give up. How in the world will I have enough spare time and energy after full time job days to get even just average experience in the main JS frameworks of today and keep up with "what you have to know in 2017/18/19"? I also feel like the JS world suffers a lot from not settling down, from experience hugely underestimated. It takes time to mature, and create a high quality, broad ecosystem and community. I sometimes think of the waste from the community being this fragmented, keeping to reinvent the wheel.
"Fake" implies deception: it's fake because it counterfeits or forges something else that is real.

An anonymous or pseudonymous Twitter account run by a human, in the way that a human is expected to use a Twitter account, is not a fake account: it's real, just pseudonymous. A bot account that's clearly a bot, like @big_ben_clock or @choochoobot, isn't a fake account either: it doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is.

From the article: "These accounts did not act like the bots other researchers had found but were clearly not being run by humans."

One thing a network of fake accounts could be doing is inflating follower counts. A follow from a pseudonymous account that corresponds to an actual human isn't fake. Even a constant factor or constant term from a small number of humans with multiple accounts isn't particularly deceptive. But thousands or millions of follows from accounts run by a handful of humans is deceptive.

Another thing a fake account could be doing is spreading propaganda by creating the impression that many people agree with a political opinion, when these "people" are just canned responses, or humans assisted by automation (but capable of making human replies across large numbers of accounts).
The Dell Alienware is so much better value. Amazing keyboard, run any game you like, super fast. I don't care about Win10 either way. It unlocks with facial recognition. It weighs more than my car (but I leave it on my desk 99% of the time)

I just couldn't justify buying an Apple, as much as I wanted one.

[edit] how the hell do I keep getting down voted for voicing my opinion? Lol. Nope. You're opinion is wrong, lose a point!
As others have said..

Code doesn't depend on variable/function names either. Yet you don't argue they fall out of sync, you simply update them. And this should be done for comments, too.
I get your analogy, but the great thing about landlines is you can selectively forward unwanted callers to anything you feel like. Social media websites don't tend to have anything like that.
Microsoft didn't ditch "metro".. its just UWP.. they were sued because metro was apparently copyrighted. UWP is good.. wish devs would embrace it but to be honest, the dev community is up the asses of iOS so deep they can't see the forrest form the trees.. Windows 10 has 400million + users and growing and Xbox One has 25 million devices... come on devs.. write some (good) apps please!

C# is actually kind of fun too
IBM has SoftLayer, which is fairly decent.

Oracles/SAP are really not comparable.
Spam was a serious and growing problem before the major providers got serious about filtering. For now I just report clickbait feeds as spam and hope for the best.
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> it doesn't hold for a definition of 'satisfied' that aligns with 'I consider it done/enough'.

Which is literally what satisfied means (Latin satis "enough")
Enterprises generally don't upgrade anything unless someone convinces them it's necessary. They don't want to follow the bleeding edge of tech, they want to follow the most stable/secure tech with the largest pools of talented workers. Hence the popularity of Java and .NET at the enterprise level.

Picking up .NET core would make a great start to transitioning to a Microsoft-based skill set. That's generally the way those skills are gained - by starting with the latest available to the platform and working backwards as necessary. I started down the path with .NET 4.5 and don't think I've had but a small handful of opportunities to utilize the features in it because most of the servers I work with have .NET 4 as the latest version.
> The Protestant work ethic is centered on the notion that work is a holy vocation

The Protestant work ethic emerged from the Calvinist doctrine of predestination (who is saved and damned is decided by God in advance) and the belief that accumulating material wealth was a sign of having been chosen by God for salvation.

> when people choose to believe the all-pervasive Western media, movie, and music refrain that success is measured by material wealth

And yet the US is one of the least materialistic countries in the developed world:

https://www.ipsos-na.com/news-polls/pressrelease.aspx?id=635...
Valium is a benzodiazepine (not an opiate) but don't let that fool you. I've met several people struggling with addiction that swear benzo withdrawal can be as bad or worse than opiates.
I really like developing on my 13" pro from a couple years ago. I like it significantly more than my higher spec 15" pro from work. The light weight and small form factor are key, and obviously I can plug it into a monitor or two when I'm actually at my desk.

I hope Apple thinks of someone like me when deciding the specs of the next super light Macbook. Keep the low entry point for students, and offer a premium build for developers and others who can justify it.

If they don't nail it, I'm open to other OSs, but I do care about aesthetics which Apple used to have a monopoly on.
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I was skeptical at first but now really like it.

* Can quickly ("analog-y") adjust brightness and volume. Similar to a volume dial in a car vs. up/down volume buttons. In 2 seconds you can dial it in.

* YouTube videos (in Safari) have the playback controls in the touchbar, not in the interface. You can watch a fullscreen video and scrub through / jump around while keeping your real estate

* TouchID is really nice with 1Password

* I can see things like Pomodoro timers, etc. being useful in the touchbar. I haven't looked at extensions yet.

* Things like the print dialog have a big, colorful button. It immediately stands out and highlights the most common action from where you are in the program. "I don't need to hunt around to adjust margins, paper handing, I just want to print."

* The escape key has a larger hit target than is shown so you can still use vim effectively.

Overall, for developer tools, I'm willing to invest in even marginal gains if it makes my life better. We use these machines hours every day, for years.
No, the White House didn’t Photoshop an image of the president’s hand
It is the government of your country that appoints their member for the Commission. If they appoint shitty ones blame them.

For example the current Finnish representative is Jyrki Katainen who is the previous prime minister and his party (Kokoomus) is still a member in the ruling coalition. Even though he probably isn't the most liked person anymore (his prime minister era didn't go that well) he is still well liked within his own party and they probably traded some minister seat for getting him into the Commission. Shit is politics like always but I wouldn't go as far as say that the EU is undemocratic.

Also the ability to speak English isn't that important in EU level. All the big EU institutions are in Luxembourg or Brussels which pretty much makes French and German the main languages. Still there is plenty of translators available when needed.

If Germany wants to keep sending Günther Oettinger as their Commissioner then the only people you can blame are Merkel and her party. Again democracy. If it matters to you make it a point in your elections. I know most people don't as in my experience most people don't have a clue how the EU works. Many of my friends think the Commissioners are just appointed by some elite instead of being each country sending their own just like the head of state is in the Council. Still you can't call a system undemocratic just because people choose not to engage in the process.
MIT scratch and kudu. Kids love it. I teach from 12 years old up to 18. Primary school kids will enjoy Scratch. Things like animated greetings cards, tamagotchi, flappy bird....
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For PeerCDN checkout [1].

What differentiates our solution from previous P2P services like BTDNA, Pando is the underlying technology stack - WebRTC, that eliminates the number 1 barrier - user needed to download and install a plugin. From the research we've done by talking with all of those previous solution was that was their number 1 barrier.

Our goal is to improve video user experience, and enable the full transition of TV to the web.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13501923
Update: I was really looking more from a user perspective. Does using a circular shape appeal more to users verse a square shape?
Speaking as a sysadmin, definitely ansible. (Yes, it's over 3 years old, but it certainly blew up in the past 3 years.)
I work for one of those three. The amount of $1-$10 million contracts that come through for "enterprise cloud" software and services is amazing. For the division I work in, our usage is increasing upwards of 10% month over month. Maybe even faster, actually.
This still doesn't change the fact Google is a terrible company to do business with unless you have exponential spend year over year. The comment above about low touch is spot on.
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We've been hearing this for decades...
I found it interesting that a Member of parliament on twitter had hundreds of obvious bot followers. I presumed he was buying 'popularity'. Maybe more sinister. Lots of them very recent
I find every extra inch past "13 feels clunkier and clunkier to me.

Being able to carry around a smaller bag is nice too.
A lot of corporate computers have at least an additional CA authority on each computer that they use... if you're using a corporate computer, it's really easy for them to MITM any request, just relaying requests to the public resource, then proxying and using their CA signed cert in the proxy.

From there, everything can be tracked.
http://socialpuncher.com/top-100/how-many-primitive-bots-fol...

Percent of 1 level bots is 59,33%.

The total number of unique level 1 bots is 310,537,272.

Almost 60% of Twitter Top-100 audience is a cheap poor-quality imitation.
This already exists. If you're on desktop then double-click the map, or use your scroll-wheel.
You can put a 16GB chip in that 460 to max it out for $150. In the days of DDR2 it cost $800 to max out a laptop with 8GB
Sweeping statement from somebody whose been doing this for 35+ years. Learn core technologies. Not things built from those core technologies. Ya, you'll still have to learn the secondary stuff, but at least you have a really good idea what will NOT be around in 10 years.
Just wanted to add an opinion you don't see as much here, as a non-developer. It's not just developers who are pretty upset about the new Macbook, myself and my fiance were both in the market, and my fiance used a MBP through college. She pretty much fought me on the new MBP until she tried it in store, and promptly was against it. She's going with a Surfacebook and I'll probably go with the new Dell XPS 15 with the 4k screen.

It's not just developers that are a bit... confused by the new direction.