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I am commenting as someone who uses both Linux, (at home) and a MBP, (at work) on a daily basis:

> And please, don't tell me Ubuntu or other linux flavors. They look good (and are good if you are programming on them) but the UX is still lacking a lot.

There certainly are some specific areas, like 4K support, which are still being worked on, (and is in fact worse on Windows), but other than that, I cannot see what macOS offers over a modern GNOME desktop, UX wise, can you offer specifics?

On my MBP, I always feel constrained, doing any heavier compilation slows it to a crawl and sends the temps to the very edge of what the CPU can handle, there's not even a point in having a CPU that can turbo up to 4GHz, since I never, ever, saw it happen under macOS, Finder is a joke, (Path Finder is good, but you can get there with built-in File Managers on Linux), Xcode is a joke of an IDE, stuff like syntax highlighting and autocompletion is randomly gone every couple of minutes etc.

My main problem with macOS and the hardware it runs on, is that even on a top quad-core model, you don't really feel like 'this thing has power to spare', the last thing I want to feel when working on a computer that costs over 2k.

> god forbid you have a problem (especially a hardware problem) and then try to debug it. Good luck searching online for a resolution.

I don't think that is really true anymore, places like the Arch wiki and forums are a sure way to get almost anything resolved. On the other hand, try having a hardware issue, (personally experienced WiFi drops, dead pixels and GPU glitches), on macOS, nobody even tries to resolve it themselves, you're told just ship it back to Apple.

> Never mind the confusion of the different flavors, packaging systems, and configurations

Not really a problem in practice, (but a very tired talking point), you just stick to your distro's 'ecosystem' and be done with it.

> Anyone figuring out the Linux/Laptop problem is re-inventing the Macbook Pro/OS X.

There are surely people doing just that, but I don't think that's the majority.

Linux with GNOME just 'clicks' better with my workflow, the system feels a lot snappier, the package manager is in charge of every update and systemd is powerful and easy to use, so I always have a very clear picture of the services running on my system and their health.

Additionally, my Linux laptop is aprox. 3x as powerful as the MBP for less money.
The only thing I really wish my Linux laptop had was the MBP's superior build quality, but things like the XPS line are catching up fast, so there's hope...
I've definitely struggled with getting a good bang for my performance buck on the macOS ecosystem for building a video editing or gaming rig. These days you can find a pre-made PC with 32gb RAM, GTX 1070, core i7 and more for $1400, but mac specs come nowhere close for that kind of price. Really don't want to move back to the Windows ecosystem but also paying over 2x for worse specs is silly.
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I find that hard to believe. Wikipedia says its HDI is 0.555, placing it at 146 of 188. Wikipedia also says that 6.3% of the adult population have HIV, while female genital mutilation has a prevalence of 27%. Also some women are seemingly attacked and sometimes killed for witchcraft.

I understand there are worse places in Afrika, but for me that makes Kenya a proper shithole.
AI in games is misunderstood as sophistication of reasoning. What makes AI in a game subjectively good is that it demonstrates a reasonable intent that the player can observe and anticipate. If you can see what the AI is going to do and thwart it, the AI is good. If it surprises you once and a while it is great. Surprise implies that you recognize what the AI is doing most of the time and sometimes it does something else that also makes sense.

AI is often at its best when it does something stupid that is understandable. For example, in Halo when you kill a bunch of the big guys, sometimes the little guys drop their guns and run away. This makes them very vulnerable, but it is fun. A smarter AI (one that would win more) would only pop out when you aren't facing them, or if cornered just shoot back very accurately from two points. But getting hit from behind isn't much fun, and getting shot at head on from two directions is also not much fun.

Good AI is usually a mix of good game design (and art) as well as good engineering.
That's actually a really interesting thought. I hadn't even considered that.

I don't currently have the time to find all of the analytics about pixel placement, but I would assume there were tens of thousands of users who aligned with some 'faction' and had more than 20 pixel placements in the entire 72 hours (I would say that is a large enough number to identify people who actively participated), which is by no means a minority of individuals who frequent reddit. Most of the subreddits I visit all had some plans to organize something on there, so there was a very diverse crowd that organized around it.

I draw my conclusion about politics based on the fact that it wouldn't have been very hard to get one of the larger political subreddits to get something on the board and maintain it for the weekend, yet that didn't happen.

I have filtered all political subreddits via RES, and it's surprising how little politics is discussed on reddit once you remove the epicenters.
Trump Signs Web Privacy Rollback That Democrats Say Is Anti-Consumer
Apple pushes the reset button on the Mac Pro
You are confusing companies that produce Open Source software (many of them are actually happy with the GPL) and those who want to consume Open Source, use it in closed products or services and give back little.
This is a bit tangential to the conversation, but relevant: I have an art degree. I was pushed into getting any degree. I'm a part of that same generation that was told to go to college at all costs, even if you don't know what you want to do with yourself. Fast forward 11 years, and I've just finally paid my student loans off.

Now I'm in this situation: I'm not doing a whole lot with art, and I'm trying to break into software development. Do I need a CS degree? Any opinions? I'm thinking about going back to school but the thought of possibly having more debt is not something I'm interested in. I'm having a hard time finding even junior level jobs that are interested in people without degrees. I'm a fairly competent programmer as-is, self taught.
If you can live in NYC/SF and still save 6 figures a year, I think your current job would already qualify as "high paying", depending on your lifestyle and expenses.
They're probably making way more than $10-20 on that thing - you can buy wifi capable dev boards for $10 out of China. If you're producing in bulk, you can probably build that even cheaper.

The marginal cost to make more units is dirt cheap, I'd be surprised if it's >$20 - the cost to develop the whole system in the first place is the hard part on the technical side of things. Then there's the business side which they just blew pretty bad. Giving the customer the hardware costs them almost nothing - write it off to make the customer happy. As long as you don't have to do that too much, it's perfectly sustainable.
>I would argue that if "western" society collapses, it's pretty much the end of humanity.

I think humanity would be just fine without "western" society.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/1_AD_to_...
I'm not really sure what you are arguing for or against or whose point you're addressing because the things you bring up are tangential to my original comment, which I still stand by and don't believe has been refuted.

"Last time I got a checking account, the process was a formality, and there were no eligibility requirements in excess of the documentation legally required to open an account and the (small) minimum deposit."

There were many eligibility requirements - you just happened to pass all of them.

Most underbanked/unbanked people don't have bank accounts because they do not meet those eligibility requirements.

- A small deposit to open an account is for many on the lower socioeconomic ladder not feasible.

- Others cannot pass a soft pull credit check

- Many cannot pass the ChexSystem verification because they have delinquent/unsettled accounts at other banks

- Some cannot procure a government ID or verify an address

- Others can't pass criminal background checks

I've seen it, and I've lived it, and I'm certain that they would much rather keep the 3-5% of their check that gets pocketed when they try to cash it outside the mainstream banking system, but they don't have any other options.
I like - and bought -Quiver, but I'm concerned with the lack of updates.

I'm a firm believer in not adding needless features just to stay busy. For example, I use DEVONThink, which has not really received any significant feature updates in a few years! I've also never felt 'bad' about the long period in which there was no development on Sublime Text.

But Quiver is far from 'good enough' for me. The popup-style search is nowhere close what I want, there's no keyboard shortcut to indent list items (at least not in Markdown mode), and there are tons of ways in which the app can and needs to be improved.

I bought it mostly because of its promise, and because the storage format is really nice. Furthermore, building a cross-platform Quiver (perhaps with Electron/React Native) with some specific DEVONThink-like features is high on my list of itches I've been meaning to scratch. But until I do so, or until active development on Quiver becomes evident, I can't help but feel slightly disappointed.

All that said I'm ultimately happy to have supported a developer who put out something nice with a great data format! Just being grumbly, I guess.
I'm building a stock option calculator for startup employees. It walks you through how to collect the information you need to know about the stock options you own, or have been offered, and figure out how much they would be worth in various scenarios.

http://www.optionvalue.io
Individuals of victimized groups need group sincerity before giving forgiveness
Colorado will make much more than that too, since when legalizing governments option for the lowest taxes possible in order for people to not return to the black market. Give it 5 years when the black market for weed disappears almost completely and full taxes are applied like they are to booze/cigarettes and could easily triple that amount in Colorado.
Incompatibility of copyleft licenses is indeed a PITA.

This being said, your examples are rather unfortunate because

1. to avoid this exact trouble, RMS&FSF designed the GPL as one copyleft to rule them all and encouraged all copyleft supporters to standardize on it

2. rumor has it that Sun execs and lawyers deliberately used incompatible license to keep ZFS and DTrace from Linux vendors competing with Solaris and in any case they probably could have used GPL instead.
This is a great question! It's not different - with Shoutem you can use the React Native same way you're used to doing it. However, there are some advantages to use Shoutem on top of React Native: http://shoutem.github.io/docs/extensions/tutorials/faq
Non-random structures in universal compression and the Fermi paradox
Have you investigated linkedin profile import feasibility yet? Their API is really restrictive and they're blocking most of the hosting provider IP ranges.

Ridiculous that they restrict access to user profiles even if with the explicit user permission (via OAuth).

Let me know if you find a solution :)
A Clojure template and libraries for developing server-side apps on Google App Engine.

The aim is to make developing apps on GAE with Clojure easier. It uses the Java SDK.

https://github.com/nickbauman/cljgae-template
Makes sense from a philosophical view, practically it's insignificant.

Besides, I thought only the Anniversary Update had CC? How would it get reinstalled?
I've been reading up on various eGPU enclosures. I'll probably do it the next time I get some side-gig money, but the hacky-ness of it makes me nervous. If Apple were to make an official one, it'd be a day-1 purchase for me. I could see this type of product possibly fitting into a new Mac Pro hardware line, but I'm probably just dreaming.
London and Paris both have metro systems which can carry you significantly further than a car significantly faster. In London there are not significant numbers of people driving to work compared with public transport.
Maybe it's great for Windows, but it's not great for working on Unix machines, which many of us do.

I'd be more open to Windows if trying to manage Unix boxes from it wasn't like trying to build a ship in a bottle. I always feel like I have one hand tied behind my back trying to do my job in Windows.

For simple web browsing and office work and such, it's fine.
no - i dont believe its too expensive. the devs are fairly responsive.

The thing is, it carries too much baggage. It took them many months to even put it on npm. Adding features takes a lot of effort.

Its 149$ for a year - its not at all bad and I love supporting them.

But there's space to innovate - look at Airtable. I would love to have a component that looks like Airtable frontend.
It may not be to your advantage to buy a home. Once you do, you're tied forever to the local economy. Ofttimes once many people move to an area and buy homes at artificially-inflated prices, the local economy tanks and everyone is stuck with their overpriced home. Look at the people in cities (in Montana, North Dakota, West Texas) caught up in the fracking boom - they're stuck with thousands of overpriced homes now.

If you rent, you can move easily to an area that is growing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=buying+a+home+is+not+worth+i...
Maybe we should do a HN meetup, Bloomington IN style :)

Or you can come on over to our hackerspace, Bloominglabs. We have open houses every Wednesday from 7-10P, no matter what day that falls on :)
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I share a similar life story so far.

As soon as I graduated I moved to NYC. I loved it, it was the most alive I've ever felt in my life. I lived there for 4 months and every day after work I walked around and marveled at a city so massive and stimulating that it didn't seem real. However, I was soon broke. Defeated, with credit cards maxed out, I got a plane ticket home with my last 300 bucks.

I lived in a midwestern suburb for about three years after that, close to home and bored out of my skull after living something like NYC.

When I built up some savings and experience I jumped again, this time for what I considered a happy medium between the two lifestyles, to Austin TX. So far so good here.

One day I will jump one last time to Silicon Valley, just to see what it's like. From there, having lived in all the places I really want to experience, I'll choose my final destination and settle down there.
Anarchist movements I can see, but I don't think trans/LGBT flags count as "political."

It's an identity, not a political statement. It'd be like calling christian crosses "political"
Interesting idea. I used to watch Berkeley webcast videos at 1.5x to shave off ~30 minutes from a 90 minute lecture. Any faster wouldn't be intelligible.
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The goal is solid, but I wonder how it might prevail. The flexibility to change at any time doesn't seem a priority for most people. Most people search for a satisfactory solution and stay with it until it's no longer bearable, or a competitor many times better appears. The same for most things in one's lifestyle.
To be fair, Michael Jordan spent a few years trying to rehabilitate the Hitler mustache in his Hanes ads. The problem is that Hitler's become so associated with it that it's now broadly known as the Hitler mustache (as opposed to the toothbrush mustache - thanks DanBC!), which makes it pretty hard to dissociate it with the man for most people.
How do you eat your chocolate bunny? Vast majority prefer to start with the ears
Ask HN: How does your company achieve equal pay?
Given today is being used as an opportunity to speak about equal pay for men and women in the work place, I figured I'd pose the question to HN to see how companies are approaching the wage gap.

What do you, or your company, do to guarantee wage parity between all genders?
I think that's an interesting conversation to have. I didn't know there were anarchist flags on there, could you link me to some of them, I'm curious to see.

As for the LGBT flags, I don't view those as political but rather as communities within reddit that together make up a large userbase who were committed to protecting each other's art and flags.
Upvoted for Mr.Robot's sample resume :D
Here's a timelapse of the entire event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnRCZK3KjUY

I found this whole thing to be incredibly fascinating. It's pretty amazing to see how everyone just sort of spontaneously banded together to create little works of art on the board which they could never have made on their own. Everytime I watch the timelapse I notice something new.

It's also interesting to note that because the impact of any individual user on the board was pretty limited (you could only place one pixel every 5 minutes, and even then there was no guarantee the first pixel you placed wouldn't be overwritten by someone else before you were even allowed to place another), every significant piece of artwork on there had tens or even hundreds of people involved in creating and maintaining it.

In addition to the various artworks on the board, there were also several major factions scattered throughout the board with their own goals. /r/TheBlueCorner dedicated themselves to filling the empty space in the bottom right corner of the board with blue pixels, while /r/theblackvoid formed to erase various artworks by replacing them with black tiles. If you pay attention you may also notice several other factions in the timelapse (the Rainbow Road, Draw Hearts, Erase the Place, and The Green Lattice were a few other notable ones).

Other interesting events to note include [the German invasion of France](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ParHJmq2aCs) (and resulting peaceful resolution), [The Void's (unsuccessful) attack on the OSU logo](https://i.imgur.com/Tpmvrcc.gif), and [several factions ganging up to attack the US flag](https://gfycat.com/InfamousShyEeve) while most of the US population was asleep. There's plenty of other stuff you might notice too if you look hard enough. (For example, can you find Waldo?)

[Here's what the canvas looked like when the event finally ended](https://i.imgur.com/ajWiAYi.png). Other interesting stuff to note include [this animated heatmap](https://i.imgur.com/a95XXDz.gifv) by /u/jampekka of activity on the canvas, and [this graphic](https://i.imgur.com/SEHaUSJ.png) by /u/alternateme highlighting all the white pixels which never got touched throughout the experiment.
> Integrates easily with Vue

IMO grids (and trees, etc.) only work well if they are framework-specific.

Here's a table that could evolve into an editable grid:

http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US/component/table
Maybe it would be appealing to some people, but in the context of the NBA I'm pretty sure the ad was talking about getting "behind the scenes" access to players and game highlights or something. For me that niche has already been filled by sites like reddit.com/r/nba (where, honestly, a lot of NBA news sites are poaching original content anyway). I don't need another app cluttering up my phone for that stuff.

I don't really care about what LeBron James has for lunch. And if I want to know what goes on behind the scenes in the NBA, I'm much more likely to watch a high quality professional production like the Toronto Raptor's "Open Gym" series that's freely available on YouTube.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I haven't been sold on what makes go90 worthwhile, and from the looks of it I'm not alone.
How do you even define fake?

That's a very good question, which is why I included it. I like one definition I saw circulating which revolved around "news items intended to deceive". I agree that is too hard to pin down to be useful.

How do you know it's not fake?

There's two way I could read this. The first is distinguishing newly emerging news stories for which the facts don't exist and the second is how to automatically check.

Both are valid questions. For the first, I don't know. For the second there is an entire field of computational fact checking, as well as a range of other features.
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Even if it's maybe not clear to you or to those you like to believe, it's still clear to the relevant scientists of the whole world.

"Total radiative forcing is positive, and has led to an uptake of energy by the climate system.
The largest contribution to total radiative forcing is caused by the increase in the atmospheric
concentration of CO2 since 1750 (see Figure SPM.5). {3.2, Box 3.1, 8.3, 8.5"

"Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident from the increasing greenhouse
gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing, observed warming, and
understanding of the climate system. {2–14}"

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_SPM_...

The politicians, lobbyists and the media aren't the same as the scientists.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14020225. Tangents are fine when they aren't generic (e.g. getting stuck in some kind of boilerplate argument) but this one took on a life of its own.
OWC (https://www.macsales.com) made it pretty painless to upgrade an iMac's hard drive to an SSD. They sell a lot of kit for various machines. Just saying.
The problem with light rail is that it doesn't go far enough. Whether your commune is 90 minutes on a commuter train to light rail or 90 minute in a car is moot. Light rail didn't fix the problem of absurd real estate costs in those cities.
Reflecting on my time in frontline support, 1st level folk have limited skills, limited resources in terms of time and tooling, and in particular tend to have pretty tight metrics applied to them. They pretty much have to escalate quickly, or they'll be yelled at, or worse.

Some of them flat out don't belong in Support. But poor management and poor metrics drive behavior in unhelpful directions, too.
I see a number of theory guys on the list. That's the thing that's interesting about Shannon's exclusion: for any given explanation, there's a counterexample on the list. I've never really known anyone involved very seriously in the ACM, those guys probably know why he was excluded.
There are a number of fees that can be attached to these cards that eat into the initial deposit.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/prepaid-cards...

Additional hypothesis: could be they also get the normal network fees waived for increasing foot traffic to the retail outlets?
We are talking research here there is nothing in my model that hinders anything all it does is realign psychology with were it belongs in a scientific context, otherwise we should still have alchemy too.
Also we should keep in mind that it is currently spring break for Fulton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties. Many families are out of town or have fewer activities to attend.
That's a strong claim that you could probably support with data with little effort, but as it stands, it's conjecture.

I do agree with your analysis, but it's a weak argument to incentive.
The new index definitions look nice:

from django.db import models

class Customer(models.Model):
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)

class Meta:
indexes = [
models.Index(fields=['last_name', 'first_name']),
models.Index(fields=['first_name'], name='first_name_idx'),
]

Also supports ordering (eg; `'-first_name'` for DESC) and `BrinIndex`/`GinIndex`.