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With modern 13 and 14 inch laptops, bezels really matter.

The point of these is to be portable, smaller bezels lead to a lot more portable laptop. It is the reason I'd pass on this laptop.

We do need a decent macbook-like linux laptop. One that has a solid chassis, looks good, is portable and has a decent keyboard. Currently. the dell XPS line is probably the closest match. Otherwise, lenovo thinkpads, though lenovo does not have the best track record.

Personally I chose a lenovo because I got a good deal, ad the keyboard is quite good. But more choice would've been great.
I'm sorry :( 1) I didn't expect to be sold out 2) I want to provide paying users with an awesome experience but need to be able to focus my resources to do that. I promise more licenses will be made available soon.
UNIX and C are symbiotic, regardless of whatever runs on top, only POSIX and C are common to any UNIX.

Windows roots are on VMS, not UNIX. There is hardly anything UNIX related on its architecture, regarding kernel design.
> hiring someone else to do it is more expensive than in-house.

Except you're gonna need between 10 and 100 people to recreate the service in-house, not just one.

Trying to re-do something from scratch in-house is always more expensive than just buying the product.
Snap already has an SF office.
Cool, sounds like it worked out for you about the way I would expect. I suppose it may depend some on your team, I have heard some people say it is just 20% extra work.
Overwatch definitely feels like it's learned from most of TF2's problems, like huge interchangeable player lists (matches are limited to 6v6), characters being impossible to recognize over time (every skin keeps the same outline and visual signifiers), endless stalemates (ultimate abilities can drastically change the flow of play for a few seconds), etc.
Thematically, Persona 4 was just so, so perfect (for me). I loved the spooky noir-ish town setting. Really looking forward to Persona 5 - it looks amazing - but from previews haven't quite got my head around the theme yet.
How to Make Your SaaS Startup Stand Out in a Saturated Market
That sounds more like mandatory training (like school) more than mandatory service. You were useful useful​ soldiers at the end of the conscription period, when many of you volunteered to stay on
I wish Symbolics had a better run.

The Windows registry/powershell approach has the niceness of passing pieces of data instead of one big blob of text that has to be re-parsed at every step, but with the drawback of verbosity and fussy static typing.

Being able to directly pass s-expressions between between programs without the format/parse/typing hokey-pokey of Unix and Windows would be nice.
I'm considering purism for my next purchase. Wonder what the word is from its current users?
That will do nothing.

What you want to do is delete your account after logging into the UBER website. That is permanent, but it does allow you enter a reason why you are deleting the account. In this case, I suppose thousands of people entered "Susan Fowler" as the reason.

It sends a message. Whether the company is destined to become a shadow of itself before it understands the message is another question.
Snapchat has Memories... /s
As an hobbyist blogger, I can perfectly empathise with why the author wrote that. People love to crap all over a blogger who dares to post his thoughts on a private blog, without first subjecting it to PhD-thesis-level scrutiny. This really gets on my nerves for the same reasons that engineers get pissed off when they decide to open source a pet project and suddenly start getting "URGENT ASAP" feature requests from entitled users.

The author is taking the time to post his thoughts on a private blog. If you're not happy with the level of rigor, then don't read it, don't share it, and don't believe it. But no, the author has no responsibility to provide you with a comprehensive list of citations and references.
I spent years before understanding how shorthands like e10s or i18n (InternationalizatioN) worked, and it was only when I heard about Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) that I understood …
Ideally a simplified subset of YAML;
the full specification suffers from feature creep and has actual bugs.
If you have those same developers willing to allocate time and their resources - sure, go for it. With most eastern european countries it's important to have them dedicated to things. Your costs will be lower, your production will be higher (ymmv) and if funding is not a problem you should definitely try that out. Remember they are all "mercenaries". You will learn a lot just being in another culture. Most friendships you create there will last you a lifetime. YMMV though, as with anything.
Ask HN: Where to learn about HIPAA compliance?
Software developer here. I have been working on HIPAA-compliant software for a while for a small company. I have a good grasp on the technical side (encryption, audit trails, access control, etc) but I can't find any resources to help me understand the "processes" required by HIPAA.

I have bought a highly-rated book on understanding HIPAA, but have been disappointed in how vaguely it covers the topic.

How does a developer learn and understand concrete HIPAA compliance without working in an already-compliant organization? Can anyone recommend online courses (paid or free) that break it down from square 1?

It'd be nice to have this knowledge for my resume, but I don't know where to even begin learning.
Ummm... yes?

> Accusation put forth against Cosby and Trump

How does the pussy tape prove the rape accusations?
Firefox can autofill password fields if you choose to remember them yeah. There is a platform bug filed for making these container specific or choosing not to auto populate when they were saved in a container.

The test pilot experiment is really to help us to figure out how people are using containers.
Don't tell me, tell the Android spell checker. That was it's suggestion. :-)
Even just looking at the picture, that is shown after opening the page: No, this is not going to be a macbook killer :) It might be a macbook substitute for you, if you do not care about or fail to acknowledge the difference in design execution, that is very apparent to others (i.e. me) even at first glance.

I assume the author knows that though. I also assume, he knows a thing or two about click bait :)
I have no problem with them charging for their software, but it's kind of lame that you have to download and run it before they even tell you it requires buying a license...
Agreed about build quality. Our small office ordered a couple models in 2014-ish, to evaluate them.

Lifted the LCD to find it had some much flex, it felt like tagboard. Plastic housings were incredibly flimsy feeling. Those 10" netbooks that were popular for a while never felt as cheap.

We kept them as emergency backups and used one as a server, tucked in the server closet for a bit, but otherwise stuck with Dell.

Who knows, maybe the aluminum one will remove those problems.
[ex-Googler, used to work on search, this issue came up repeatedly during my tenure then].

The storage cost was prohibitive. Search engines rely on a data structure known as an inverted index; it's basically a list, for each token, of every document that contains the token, and for a context-aware search engine like Google it usually contains the position within the document of the token as well. Single-character punctuation marks like periods, commas, parentheses, dashes etc. appear in literally every sentence. That means that the inverted index for periods or commas would have to contain an entry for literally every single sentence on the web.

There's a similar problem for common words like 'a', 'the', prepositions, etc, but these are usually already solved by stopwording.

That's why this announcement only covers groups of punctuation with 2-3 characters. These don't appear in ordinary text, and so you can generate posting lists for them that are reasonably-sized. (I suspect that the economics of the index have changed as well, making storage costs cheaper, but this work happened after I left and so I don't know details.)
I have written now a quite many comments on this subject in various subthreads on this post, I'll try to summarize my position here ...

I'd rather say that the word "slavery" has been used for certain forms of involuntary servitude with often many common characteristics. (Worker has no rights to leave, no other political and social rights of the free citizen such as right to vote if it exists, and for all intents and purposes is considered a property of their owner.) Usually it has been distinctive cultural and often also a legal institution, separate from other duties and forms of involuntary work.

This form of is generally agreed to be an evil thing (actually outright irredeemable horror in the US context that often dominates English-language boards such as this), so of course everybody likes to call any form of involuntary work they don't like slavery.

The topic of ancient Greece and Rome have already been raised, the revolutionary France likewise. (I think it's still notable to reiterate that conscription has been prominently around with these both ur-examples of modern Western concept of citizenship.)

However, let us have a more modern example: consider hypothetical case where prisoner serving a term is required to clean up their room once per week. Out of blue this sounds reasonable. Is this slavery? After all, the prison administration could hire a professional cleaner to do it.

As a slightly more realistic example, the Western concept of prison has often included working as a form of rehabilitation right from the beginning. Sometimes the "rehabilitation" part has been genuine, sometimes not; sometimes the work has been simply a meaningless punishment: sometimes goods are produced and sold; sometimes the prisoner receives a token pay, sometimes not.

It's easy to imagine a problematic version where calling that kind of working "slavery" does not seem misplaced, but it is also possible to imagine scenarios where it does. And in any case, one is drawing a comparison to a more ancient institution.

In some regards there are similarities, but on the other hand, it's also misses some critical points and is at best a very uncharitable choice of word.

Same goes for conscription, especially in a liberal modern democracy where the draft is fairly egalitarian (contrast against the quite arbitrary press gang method of the British Navy of the wooden ships and iron men age), is temporary, citizens generally are allowed to emigrate out of the country during peacetime, can vote in any elections that happen when they are serving, and the work they perform is fairly unusual and exceptional service (compared to regular peacetime job) for the society in an exceptional situation. Would a compulsory EMT training for everybody and then a requirement to use those skills if possible in a sudden situation that warrants their use also be slavery?
Windows did that, and look at the mess that got them into. Eventually they had to introduce UAC, essentially a simplified Unix-style permissions system.
Amazon’s S3 Outage Reveals Internet Chokepoints – Review and Mitigation
Every communication channel has its flaws. CLI is fast and that's why it is a favorite. It is also noisy. If you have to worry about a fat finger, you are using the wrong communication channel or could afford to be a bit more verbose within that channel. That's why rm has safety nets.
A better argument against (some) government regulations is that some of them were bought by industry to exclude competition, and were never meant to benefit consumers at all.
Yes. Probably you need some of both approaches (construction regulation/redesign within X feet of freeways + tailpipe standards). I think the emissions are more important, because it's the root cause, and the article has the emphasis the other way around.
aah system 76. I hope they have improved recently with their customer service but I had a horrible experience with them back in 2013 when they had to replace a keyboard (the CEO actually sent an email explaining how shitty their keyboard was) and when I asked for a refund, they simply refused. NO refunds. I had to literally open the laptop myself and install the new keyboard.

I am not one of those types who asks for refunds on anything. This was genuinely a defective laptop with a faulty keyboard (turns out that is how they were shipping it back then to everyone) and their answer was to replace with the new one (after the CEO sent a bulk email to every customer) . Why should I have to go through that hassle ? This was the first time I almost thought of doing a chargeback but didn't.
https://github.com/awslabs/aws-serverless-express
It seems unlikely that the GPS receiver is hardwired directly to the clock display in the dashboard. There's probably some code running somewhere in the middle. So it should be easy enough to make the leap second correction there, and to keep it up to date through routine updates.
Instagram's new stories feature seems popular and is more pleasant to use than Snapchat.
Such evidence does tend to support panspermia hypotheses, but I don't think it helps much to support arguments about the tolerances of conditions required for the origin of life.

Life itself is effectively "a chemical soup that maintains homeostasis to keep its reactions going." Once you have something that can do that, you'd somewhat expect to find versions of it in all sorts of insane places—a bit like how you'd expect to find humans in all sorts of insane places, given that we can invent things like spacesuits.

But getting from basic replicators to (homeostatic) life is the hard part, because those replicators don't have the "defences" life has against the environment. If it gets too hot or cold, they die; if it gets too dry or saline or acidic or nitrogenous or anoxic, they die; they probably even die if they get too much visible-range sunlight.

A large mass of replicators—presuming they have RNA and mutational asexual evolution already—could eventually be winnowed into a group that has adapted into a homeostasis "feature." But you would need to start with "a large mass" of them—and it's questionable where you'd get that, given that it's unlikely for any single one to survive. (Maybe they developed biofilm-production early on. Maybe they had viroids. Maybe they were just really, really prolific. But "they just managed" is pretty unlikely.)
Sorry you had a bad experience :/ I can somehow see why and I guess I should make it clearer. There's a "Buy" link in the navigation and on the separate download page [1] it says that a license is required.

[1]: https://fman.io/download
our society evolved from a tribal system based on scarcity,backward beliefs, and limited knowledge. While it still somehow works it will not survive a head-on collision with abundance, education, increased longevity and automation.

These communities that fail, do so mostly because in life most of the things we try fail. Just like with startups we will have some "unicorn" societies created, but first we have to fail. fail often and fail fast.

Unfortunately our civilization is not conductive to experimentation when it comes to society and culture. While we think we're tolerant and progressive, in reality we all are very conservative and intolerant, even if only subconsciously.
I know all that, but if reposts or not reading articles was deserving of censorship, there'd be quite a lot of [flagged] placeholders around here.
Search what? File names? File contents? Users? Machines?
This whole article is a bunch of strawman arguments. It points out historical mistakes by unix developers, but those mistakes aren't inherent to or a result of the Unix Philosophy:
(1) Write programs that do one thing and do it well.
(2) Write programs to work together.
(3) Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.
> Thinking about it, my initial thought "part of the asteroid didn't get that hot" can't be right...

I'm not sure about objects large enough to explode on impact, but smaller objects heat up and ablate, thus removing the heat, leaving the remaining object maybe not that hot. Probably tons of variables, including what the meteor is made of, the shape of it, angle of impact, etc...
at the risk of sounding harsh, do you have any savings? how much experience under your belt, presumably if 3 days a week contracting is not enough to feed you and keep the lights on then you are probably just starting out.

build up a pile of cash until you are self sufficient for 2-3 months, then go ahead and innovate/learn what you want.

for now , no point in you quitting today only to come back in 2 weeks looking for the same "low-end" jobs.

Do it properly, it takes more than just learning how to create a "to-do" app with X/Y framework to get a good paying job in the field.
Your concern is valid and it's not lost on manufacturers. I am familiar with one manufacturer whose vehicles will have a bus level firewall in some new vehicles released later this year. Of course, eventually all vehicles will have it. Vehicle development cycles are usually multiple years so it takes time to roll this stuff out.

You might say an internet connected head unit should just be disconnected from the vehicle bus, and there's some merit to that. But, customers want to be able to control the volume from their steering wheel or the head unit should control the subwoofer amp in the back of the vehicle, or change vehicle settings from the head unit display... so the head unit needs to be on the bus to do all of these things.

The goal is to limit what the head unit has access to on the bus. For example, there's no reason the PCM (powertrain control module) should be allowed to receive anything other than high level configuration information from the head unit (switching between standard and sport mode driving profiles for example).
What's the best way to have the OnStar, Car-net, etc hardware removed from the vehicle? I don't want my car connected to the fucking internet. I'm tempted to just pry out the hardware myself, but am curious if the dealer or mechanics will do it for you.
Thanks for being inspired by us and for helping to make the CE/EE convention more popular. I have no doubt you'll continue to ship many new features as part of CE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OalIW1yL-k

(Specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OalIW1yL-k#t=3m but it's worth watching the whole clip (or even the whole movie) if you haven't seen it before. It's from Terry Gilliam's "Brazil".)
Is it the texture? Texture seems to be a significant component of taste. What I might perceive as "juicy/tangy" in a tomato (positively), someone else might experience as "slimy/acidic" (negatively).

Expectation matters a lot, as well. Have you ever, perhaps while half-asleep, drank orange juice thinking it was milk, or vice versa? That first half-second is weird...
You're gonna get a lot of game suggestions in response to this comment.

Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies is entirely in 3D but it manages to look a lot like the 2D art style of the previous games.
Yes, obviously I am not arguing "We should never make changes because everything we do now is for a reason and so we should keep doing it the same way"

I am just trying to point out that it takes a LOT of context to understand why things are the way they are. We often look at the superficial features of something, and immediately think we can do better.

We should change things, but we need to be extra vigilant in understanding WHY we are doing things the way they are before we change them, and have a plan for how to deal with all of the things the current method already does.
Literally have never heard Rustaceans defend poor design choices like that before.
I spent time in the fulfillment centers, writing software for them. I definitely didn't see that sort of thing. There's no need- the software tracked everything they did. Low performer would be found and retained or 'promoted to customer' without the need for anyone to 'rat out'.

Plus, managing humans in a 'rat out' system would be incredibly inefficient. Now you need lots of employees just to listen to the ratting!
It's funny, because I find the app thoroughly confusing to use and understand. I initially blamed myself for being dumb or not giving it enough of a chance, but when I asked a few of my friends who do use it, they kind of just shrug their shoulders and can't really explain how it works either.
Being part of an offshore development team and a consultant I can tell you that clients mostly find us/me through networking and referrals. Mutual acquaintances, word of mouth and weirdly LinkedIn gave us most work.

But, as solomatov said previously, best way to do it is via a middleman. The middle man is from the offshore country and has most likely been in the US for a couple of years and has created a wide network of potential clients. These were by far our best clients. I know at least 4,5 eastern european consultancies that started this way.
- Massachusetts Bay Colony & the Plymouth Colony were originally founded as religious communities; they ended up taking over almost the entire world.
thanks, I was really lost skimming the article, fishing for the mystery
This is interesting because the sliminess of okra bothers me, but of tomatoes, not at all
This is it for me too - I really don't like sliced raw tomato, especially cold, due to the texture.
Can you elaborate on the state?
(I never used SnapChat, but I am on Android.)
> We see flaws in things, but don't realize the story behind them.

Also known as Chesterton's Fence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
As much as I want to root for the linux underdog, the giant bezels and reported 3 hour battery life make this DOA (for me)
There are quite a few good games on iOS these days. The main problem with iOS for gaming is the lack of physical buttons, but some games make up for that with good touch controls.

Here are a few multi-platform games I've been playing on iOS lately that have worked very well:

* Severed

* The World Ends With You: Solo Remix

* Final Fantasy 9

* Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
Climber who survived an avalanche
Not directly, but maybe that was running around in the back of my mind while I responded to it.
Is it more like listening to music made with a Stratocaster or Les Paul? Lots of great ideas have been applied to guitars too, but lost of people still use the old ones.
lol yeah according to preteens on reddit
This makes it sound like a texture aversion.

What you experience as "slimy boogers," I experience as "juicy tanginess"