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> Apple doesn't have anything for power users or developers right now.

I'm a power user and a developer and I find the 2016 MBPs to be the best laptops around. My only misgiving was the hefty price. The only "dongle" I needed was a single USB/USB-C adapter but I really don't have to use it most of the time; everything I have — phone, tablet, portable hard disk — works wirelessly.

The battery time (I think you mistyped "life time") estimation was dumb, never accurate or consistent, and people don't mind the lack of it on billions of other mobile devices anyway.

The battery issues with the 2016 MBPs were found to be on the software side and have since then been resolved, and they have been reported to go for 18! hours on a single charge. Certainly lasts me a whole day and then some of non-continuous use.

Re: the LG shielding mishap, you're blaming Apple for a completely different company's product, okay.

> still doesn't serve my demographic

Which demographic and what do you require?

> touch typing hostile emoji keyboard?

What?
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Yes, your feedback is definitely appreciated, and I regret that we didn't act fast enough to retain your business. I will use it as a teaching exercise with the rest of the team for what we could do better on next time.

The unfortunate reality this time around is that we got overwhelmed and had to focus on doing work that had the most impact to the largest number of customers. That meant that more personalized approaches to customer retention kind of slipped through the cracks. This can't happen again, and I'm adamant that it won't.

I see image processing services as an important area for innovation and growth on the web over the next several years. It doesn't mean that imgix has to get the business of every site on the Internet, but fundamentally I believe that anyone who cares about how their content is presented should use a service like imgix. Doing image manipulations by hand, or serving non-optimal formats or sizes to browsers is going to be viewed as serving your site without using a CDN: it just isn't the state of the art anymore, and the benefits are worth it.

I welcome competition from other companies who run competing services, or build-it-yourself solutions like thumbor, because that means we really were on to something: the market is real and these services provide real value to customers. I want imgix to be at the front of the pack, and that means doing the hard work every day to make sure we're there.
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The "intellectual humility doesn't get grants" and "loses elections" comments lead me to believe that people aren't understanding the concept of intellectual humility as presented in this article.

It does not mean that you give the outward appearance of being humble in any way.

It is defined in the article as "an awareness that one’s beliefs may be wrong" and "intellectually humble people can have strong beliefs, but recognize their fallibility and are willing to be proven wrong on matters large and small."

This was tested with a study in which "participants read essays arguing for and against religion, and were then asked about each author’s personality", and evidence that "people who displayed intellectual humility also did a better job evaluating the quality of evidence."

There is a distinction between an individual's internal mental processes (as tested in this study) and the way they present themselves externally. Being outwardly assertive and confident absolutely wins elections and grants, but this is not at odds with an ability to internally re-evaluate one's beliefs.

I particularly enjoy this quote from the article, as it reveals that the authors may have missed a subtlety:

“If you’re sitting around a table at a meeting and the boss is very low in intellectual humility, he or she isn’t going to listen to other people’s suggestions,” Leary said. “Yet we know that good leadership requires broadness of perspective and taking as many perspectives into account as possible.”

I absolutely agree that good leadership requires broadness of perspective, but this does not imply that every suggestion should get an audience at meetings -- capable leaders often have a much broader range of experience than their reports, and dismiss suggestions not out of arrogance or closed-mindedness, but simply because they have already evaluated and discounted that path, and have elected not to spend their limited time bringing everyone else up to speed. (Which can have its own issues, but that's a digression.)
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This is the beautiful aspect of this project: now the easiest path for a new project is to use the "official design", No need to argue about it.
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It's much better to link to the web page instead of the image http://imgur.com/tMHaSqx because it has a little more information, in particular a link to the makers of the system so if someone is interested it's easier to get more information.

Also, the guidelines ask to use the original title and not editorialize it. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> One idea is that intestinal worms - which dampen immune reactions - could be more common and this may help protect the heart.

In case you are interested in this point, then have a look at helminthic therapy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helminthic_therapy).
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Additionally to that my eyes are burning from those colors.
It existed in AS3 too. Wasn't widely known to my knowledge though.
I anticipated that argument, but I wouldn't have considered ASR an AI task even before it was first attempted.
I stopped using it because the bikes are heavy, poorly maintained, and the last dozen rides I spent a good 5-10 minutes just trying to get the rack lock at the destination to accept the bike.
Change is fine. But it also impresses upon me the value of open source technologies.
How about a link to alternativeto.net? You may lose a user, but you will direct them somewhere legal.
The split here is between people who start it as a console application and those who start it as a GUI app. The former group start and stop it often, with separate instances running in each terminal. The latter don't, using emacs' server mode to get extremely fast "start up" times. The latter way is better, but if you really have to edit files on remote servers a lot then you might have to take the former approach. Yes you could learn to use tramp effectively also.
You sound like a lot of fun.
We do run an anycast CDN network, but there's a lot of limitations on BGP routing compared to CDN based traffic direction.

We can only route BGP requests to hardware we control, whereas we can add PoPs in all the major cloud providers on our DNS based network. We can then use tools like Cedexis or DYNs internet intelligence to identify where the different cloud providers have the best networking and peering agreements and piggy back on that + their DDoS mitigation. This means we get a combination of all the best AWS/Google Cloud/Rackspace/DO, etc, etc has to offer in that aspect.

On the DNS based traffic director we can also do very quick traffic decisions (20s TTL, instant changes) whereas on our BGP routed anycast IP we have to be more conservative and force 10 minute intervals between any up/down changes for a PoP.
Despite what seems like a comical waste of space, this does have 4 systems per 4U chassis, which averages out to 1U per system.

(Though I'd also suspect the actual guts of a Mac Pro could pack much more densely than 1U each in a blade-style form factor.)
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Confirmation bias because we know most about IgE reactions, so tend to expect all other evidence to conform to that form of reaction - but reality is much more complex. Temporal (lag) characteristics fall under that.

There's no requirement of prior similar errors with confirmation bias - the bias exists as an expectation and if fulfilled either by ignoring, downplaying or discarding other evidence.

The particular bias, that IgE reactions exhaust the category of genuine allergy reactions is very strong - some allergists who don't read much still have it! It's certainly confirmation bias, together with recency. But we know that's false now, it's recent but well established medicine. We know mast cells do a lot more, now.

MCAS = Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
MCAD (Mast Cell Activation Disorder) = MCAS or mastocytosis

Great links here:
http://strengthflexibilityhealtheds.com/2016/02/04/diagnosin...

http://www.mastattack.org/2014/10/mcad-general-information-p...

http://evilmastcells.com/

http://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(14)02927-3/full...

Dr. Anne Maitland’s presentation on Allergies & Mast Cell Activation Syndrome in EDS Patients. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktFdr-9rpIM&feature=youtu.be

https://mastcellblog.wordpress.com/mastcellguide/
I have more problems avoiding pedestrians with their phones an inch from their face walking blindly into the bike lane, a crosswalk, or zig-zagging on shared paths.
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This could be solved by a new record, of course, but how many years exactly would that take? So many companies would have to jump on board.

Thinking a record like `DELEGATE <comma delimited list of record types> <priority> <name server>` or _something_.
Would you trust anything done by someone who throws up a splash page, "Don't use your phone to look at my site..." in 2017? Really?
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Sure they may pay, and that's believable—but I stand by my statement that it won't make much money.
There is a setup step that involves the other person, I set it up a while ago so can't remember exactly what was involved I'm afraid.
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Hey, that even works in the console (ctl-alt-F[1-6]). I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Delightfully.
I asked coworkers about this. Apparently a lot of older apartment buildings have no indoor parking for anything, even bikes. Carrying your bike up 2-3 stories on the stairs to your unit is super unpleasant. Locking up outside guarantees theft.

BART->bike connections are also a thing. It can be pretty hard (and not allowed) to take your own bike on BART when it's packed.
That would be actually super useful. JSX became for me the best part after writing React applications for quite a while. Performance-wise not using React is actually faster ^^ (If you take care of the dirty updating work of course)

6 years ago I wrote a proof of concept to replace a large Rails application in pure JS using prototypes and constructing the html from strings. The latter turned out to be the most messy part so I stopped that and rather refactored the legacy Rails code to do something useful.

Could be really great for super lightweight JS apps!
If you're already in orbit around something (Earth, Sun, etc.) then it's pretty expensive and hard to crash into the thing you're orbiting, but if you're trying to go from one body to another there's lots of ways you could drive straight into the thing by accident.

A minor miscalculation on a slingshot approach sends you straight into the planet instead. That we hit Mars with the lander by accident should demonstrate it's not only possible, it's actually not that hard.
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Hello! I'm Derek, one of the PipelineDB co-founders. The way using PipelineDB feels to users has always been a principal consideration to us and how we make design decisions, so a psychological benefit isn't a second-class citizen in our minds. With so many different tools to choose from nowadays, any friction at all (technical or non-technical) can be a showstopper. We've always strived to make PipelineDB as easy to use as possible, and the extension refactor is the grand finale of that continual effort as we approach 1.0.

Thank you for your input, and we hope you you'll find great success with PipelineDB in the future!
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pxl is another nice option

https://github.com/ichinaski/pxl
I had the same problem, and came to this solution:

Could you park near work, and bike the rest of the way? Some 5, 10, 02 20 minutes?
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> An official website of the United States government Here's how you know...

> This site is also protected by an SSL certificate that's been signed by the U.S. government...

Oh really?

DST Root CA X3
- Let's Encrypt Authority X3
- standards.usa.gov

Kudos for using Let's Encrypt though!
I do mean to compare the lag re toxins and the lag re infections, because these response systems are complex and not severed from one another (both are mediated by mast cells); our system often has to react to foreign particles with a general defense, since it can't clearly distinguish in every case (or immediately) whether it's encountering a toxin or invader, or bacteria vs virus. No doubt errors are made both ways.

Celiac reactions also often have that 3-day lag, btw, very understandable because Celiac is a unique white-cell mediated autoimmune disease.
Hmm, you're implying that everyone that bought a new iMac appreciates the thinness and bought it because of that?

Or perhaps they bought them because they had no other choice when choosing a reasonably fast desktop machine compatible with their software?

Seriously, the argument "oh, this feature must be popular because the whole machine is popular" really doesn't hold water in complex machines like computers, phones or cars.
Can't this notion pretty much be summed with the Bertrand Russell quote, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt"?
https://github.com/jeaye/value-category-cheatsheet/blob/mast...

You bet. :)
The article also states that they were unable to find any meaningful differences between poilitical ideologies and intellectual humility, yet they go on to state

> "They were also less likely to criticize that politician for “flip-flopping.” There was less variability among Democrats: Democrats, whether intellectually arrogant or humble, were generally less likely to criticize a politician for changing his mind."

Completely refuting that point only a few paragraphs later. I think that this study, like all social science research, must be taken with an extreme grain of salt.
I think you're vastly overestimating the number of VMware backed browsers as well as the money to be made in a botnet. As well as the effort in actually setting all this up and maintaining opsec.

I'm also not convinced a VMware escape is something people get killed over. The leaked "Hacking Team" data shows exploits aren't worth that much more on the market (iOS being a big exception).
If you give up, yes your screwed. Don't give up if you want this career to work.

Some times things can be discouraging in this industry, so look at this as training for in the future when you have to get through a discouraging or trying time.
> I’m going to beat around the bush and not mention the artist’s name that was the source of inspiration because I’ve found articles online claiming he does not want his name referenced in personal projects, so I’ll respect their wishes.

I find this really weird. His art is public, on display at public places and he wishes not to be mentioned in public discussion?

Here is the guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Close
From what I've heard, I'm questioning the scientific validity of their results.
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Has anyone here tried running OS X under Parallels Desktop on Linux?

http://download.parallels.com/desktop/v4/wl/docs/en/Parallel...
> He doesn't know how to talk to security.

Is that a course in high school?

> The primary purpose of security questioning is to establish that you are a safe, non-violent, legal traveler.

It failed, miserably, see linked article.

> Of course, security agents can't ask you this directly, so they ask this through proxy questions. Varnull did not understand this, and when asked the proxy questions, he gave vague answers and did not address the primary purpose.

That is your interpretation. Mine is that he was exactly who he said he was: someone going about their legitimate private business and who - reluctantly - had to interface with the authorities.

> When the questions became personal, Varnull became defensive and talked back (the exact opposite of what he should do).

What should he do then? Grovel and stick his head up their asses? They're off base, they make all kinds of assumptions without verification and on top of that spend so much time on this one utterly benign traveler that a whole bunch of baddies could have slipped through elsewhere.

Here's a thought for you:

Take 10 guys like the OP, use them to tie up the resources of the authorities, then take 1 guy that is white, middle aged with a plan and some basic gear making it through the resulting melee. After all, if they are so easily distracted that's actually a security hole.

> All that really matters here is the discussion with the explosives agent.

Yes, who was using equipment that produces false positives regularly and who is well aware of all the ways in which it can create false positives.

> 1) waive him on or 2) send him through tertiary screening. The interaction for the whole day was decided in this conversation.

Nice they let him know. Instead he got several hours of 'you'll be out of here in a few minutes'.

> I honestly believe Varnull gave very bad answers here. Answering "I don't know" is a very bad answer.

Are you suggesting that he make stuff up? Do you realize that lying is a federal offense in this situation?

> if he established that he was a safe and secure traveler, the security agent would have waived him on and he would have avoided the whole ordeal.

Guess what, he was. So the process failed.

> One of the answers he gave was so bad it made me cringe.

>“Well, I haven’t touched any explosives, but if I don’t even know what chemical we’re talking about, I don’t know how to figure out why the tests are picking it up.”

It's an honest answer, as honest as he could have possibly been. Or is it illegal for a citizen to have some basic knowledge of chemistry? Any highschool student here would be able to understand the basics of what is happening at this screening. Or would you prefer we all pretend to be dumb sheep instead?

> After he said this, I'm completely unsurprised he got held up in tertiary screening.

Good for you. Me, I'd rather the authorities spend their time more productive than on harassing perfectly safe travelers on their petty little power trips.
Most law enforcement actions are predicated on circumstantial evidence.

We already provide such information, which is completely legal.

For instance, if there's a pipe bomb, police track down the list of people who've bought ingredients from the bomb (from retailers, cell phone companies) and other sources of information to narrow down the list of probable suspects.

The Boston bombers were caught by such techniques. I don't see why this is any different.
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To me the most surprising thing: do people really not know the difference between a Hindu and a Muslim?

They are the 2nd and 3rd largest religious groups in the world.
Out of all the bike systems I've used, the best has been Youbike in Taipei. They have stations everywhere, they clearly out thought into common commute routes, it's highly affordable (first 20 minutes free so I actually rarely paid), broken bikes get picked up within 24hrs. The bikes are well designed and not horrifically heavy like other systems I've used. They even have a lock embedded so you can lock up at a restaurant or whatever if there's no station nearby. Wait times were low and they had trucks that would drive a bunch of bikes from high drop off low pickup locations to high pickup low drop off locations during rush hour.

And it works. Everyone seems to be using it. Usually you get to a station and 80% of the bikes are gone because of how popular they are. I can only imagine what that's doing for the traffic and environment in Taipei, not to mention the citywide health.
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I appreciate the feedback. These architecture choices are something that I think about a lot, but for now I'm satisfied that we chose the right path based on our requirements at the time.

It is annoying that Apple has let the current Mac Pro rot on the vine to a large extent. This is something that certainly gives me pause and will be factored in to the future direction of our rendering pipeline. There may not be much of a future for image rendering on Macs at imgix, but we have to factor in all the variables when deciding on our future roadmap.

The difference between a v2 and v3 CPU definitely isn't double performance, by the way. An E5-2697v2 (the top-of-line Mac Pro CPU) is a 970 on SPECintrate, and an E5-2697v3 is a 1240 on SPECintrate (we track other measurements, but that's the quickest comparison I found). So it's better for sure, but it's also 15W higher draw and has 2 more cores to help grow those numbers. Per-core performance on SPECint is only 60 vs 64.

That said, in a perfect world I would love to use v3 or v4 Xeons on our image rendering hosts. It just wouldn't be a night-and-day kind of difference that's worth throwing our existing pipeline out over. Have to be careful not to toss the baby with the bathwater here.

The real performance issue for us this time around was adding machines to overcome certain scalability constraints, and optimizing certain code paths that were prohibitively expensive.
You can always construct this kind of argument, and they almost always turn out to be wrong when investigated, but in the meantime have toxic side effects. That's why we have to be strict about this.

Most of us are orders of magnitude too quick to interpret our own cognitive bias as abuse by others (e.g. X seems obvious to me so anyone arguing ~X must be a shill). This places the threshold for useless, nasty arguments ('you're a shill. no, you're the shill') dangerously low. Combine that with the evil catnip power of meta and you get a strain of offtopicness that's especially malignant.
This is problematic. Who gets to say it's worth billions? Private appraisals are notoriously inaccurate and can be easily biased.

Who should they disclose this information to? Shareholders can negotiate this right when they make their investment, just as founders can. Why should someone who isn't an owner have access to private information about someone elses business?

Lets say you and a friend develop an innovative new startup (let's call it "Instawham"). Some friends join you and very quickly you become successful enough to have a bunch of customers and strong VC funding, but you are still a small company with a few dozen employees. You are a forward thinking CEO so you share information about the business with all of your employees, but caution them it's all proprietary and that sharing with competitors could hurt the business, so you are confident they won't share.

A big company, say Facebook, offers to buy you for a few billion dollars. But besides not wanting to work for Zuckerberg, you think they are just trying to get access to your financials and business plans to compete with you and will pull the offer as soon as you disclose. So you say no.

Now TechCrunch approaches you, and reminds you that by the newly passed "saycheese law" any multibillion dollar valued startup must release it's financials, shareholder lists, risk assessments, etc. They demand all of that information so they can publish it and sue you when you decline. Your lawyer tells you because of "saycheese law" you will lose, so you turn it over and Facebook launches their competitor soon after the TechCrunch article.
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