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So … that box is run by a volunteer sysadmin who doesn't charge you? … and doesn't mind getting up at 3am to replace a drive?

That server has perfectly reliable power and environmental setup so you never have prolonged downtime or a double disk failure?

You're okay losing everything if someone makes a mistake running that server since backups cost too much?

You have higher-level software which tells you when data on that RAID array is corrupted? Your free sysadmin periodically runs an audit to make sure that the data stored on disk is what you originally stored? That's what I was referring to with scrubbing: even with RAID corruption happens and most storage admins have stories about the time they found out it'd happened after the only good disk failed, been written to tape, etc. The best solution is to actively scan every copy and verify it against the stored hashes for what you originally stored, which also protects against cases where a bug or human error meant that e.g. your RAID array faithfully protected a truncated file because the original write failed and nobody noticed in time. S3 provides a strong guarantee that you will get back the original data you stored or an error but never a corrupt copy and that you can prevent storing a partial or corrupted upload. If you roll your own, you need to provide those same protections for the full stack or accept a higher level of risk and perhaps mitigate it in other ways (e.g. Git-style distributed full copies with integrity checks).

Again, I'm not saying that it's impossible to pay less than S3 but your response is a bingo card for the corners people cut until something breaks and they learn the hard way why raw storage costs less than a supported storage service. Doing this for real adds support cost for the OS, your software, security, monitoring, backups & other DR planning, etc. If you use S3, Google, etc. you get all of that built into a price which is known in advance, which is a significant draw for anyone who wants to spend their mental capacity on other issues.

Many places don't have enough storage demand for that overhead to pay off in less than years and startups in particular should be extremely careful about spending their limited staff time on commodity functions rather than something which furthers their actual business. If you're Dropbox, sure, invest in a capable storage team because that's a core function but if your business is different it's time to look long and close at whether it makes any sense to devote staff time to saving a few grand a year.
For more on how legibility (through naming, street grids, single-crop farms etc) acts a prerequisite for manipulation, check out Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes To Improve The Human Condition Have Failed.

https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-like-State-Certain-Condition/d...
Same here, looks great on Gnome/Wayland but the integrated graphics sometimes can't keep up on my XPS 13.To be fair it was the same on my old retina Macbook Pro (2013).

I know I lose battery because of the res, but it's pretty much worth it.
Well, I suppose everybody is going to have a different opinion. To me, it's more about avoiding excess, mostly to keep spending down.
I recommend the T460s instead to anyone considering the X1. Very similar form factor and specs but the RAM and SSD are not soldered on so it's much more future proof. I run mine with 20GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD and I don't think you can even get that in the X1. It also has a better set of connectors, including an Ethernet port. Linux runs very well in it but I assume the X1 is similar.
Cache size and clock speed. In Ultrabooks i[3,5,7] are all 2 core 4 thread differentiated by cache and clock.

You can get 4 core CPUs in larger laptops where the i5 is 4 core, 4 thread and i7 4/8. Similar to desktops.
Yes, but that's my point. If you have a lack of technical leadership, then you need a different set of developers and need to look at who you're hiring as developers, not whether you need more management of the group of developers. For the cost of a technical manager, you can add quite a bit of salary to each developer position in a small group.
Sadly accessibility development has many roadblock on its path:

- For-profit organizations have little incentives to develop accessible software or they have to make it prohibitively expensive
- Open Source development is usually "itch my scratch"-driven (as the author points out) and the pool of people who are both motivated by their own plight and able to develop solutions for them are very few.

I think this is the main reason why the best accessibility frameworks are made by companies that are already far away from their bottom line and can afford to do the work at their own expense.
The only way to get that type of information is to follow the user forums -- there's a lot of good info on reddit /r/thinkpad. I've been researching for more than a year before I settled on the configuration I picked up.
Yep, have a hobby, especially an inexpensive one, and you can bond with people of all economic strata based on that.

Mine is board games. I already have a ton, so I don't need people to have their own. We can meet at a public space, like a food court, not spend a dime, and all have a great time. We don't really care what everyone's economic status is, just how we interact with each other while playing the games.
If you like the X1 Carbon, but need more ram, the Toshiba Portege X30 is the only machine that has fully serviceable components at only 1,1kg of weight. I ordered mine with 32 GB of ram, loving it so far.
Out of curiosity, doesn't it seem a bit ironic that in your desire to distinguish yourself, you identify with an external cultural movement? Seems like if you really wanted to be different, you would focus on just being "you" and ignore what other people are doing.

Additionally, sophistication and coolness are subjective. Who are you trying to appear sophisticated and cool to?

I've found that I'm much happier being "me" and not caring what other people think. Ironically, people find this attitude pretty cool.
Ah yes, personal privacy is something we take extremely seriously and we will never sell you out to other companies. In my own personal life, I've also tried as best as I can to stay away from companies that do these sort of things. I feel extremely important that there is a trust between us and our customers.
Man, fantastic.

I should probably get into doing something like this in my free time instead of browsing reddit or tvtropes.
In Germany we have Informatik, which was treated as CS&SE long time.

Lately there are sprouting more and more SE degrees.

On the other hand we also have universities of applied science, where Informatik is often more like SE
My wife has been buying these lightly used jeans on eBay for $15, the ones with all the crap studded onto the pockets. She says they cost +$150 new. I joke she can probably wear them out and sell them again for much more. I keep telling my kids to buy jeans, cut and tear holes in them, through on some bleach, and sell them 2x what they paid for them.
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If comment threads have high upvotes but not the story, can the comment votes still push the story up on the main feed?
>The only users that are interested and can implement it themselves already use linux where accessibility works better than on windows or with JAWS.

Eh?

I worked with a blind programmer. He loves Linux, but had to stick to Windows because the accessibility for blind people on Linux was horrible compared to JAWS.
No people are not on to anything. This is basically the result of easy credit, and a culture of consumerism and individuality in the US. I'm like you, and I feel a lot comfortable maxing out my 401(k) and other investments rather than paying for a fancy car. I get that people feel nice to own a nice car, but perhaps its just me, but that happiness seems rather fleeting. I should say that I don't hold back spending for things that I deem necessary: regular oil change and fluid changes for my car, learning new skills, traveling etc. But an expensive car or fancy phone? Not so much.

I'm guessing there's a certain amount of insecurity regarding one's social status that plays into the hands of advertisements that target these people.

Also, I don't want to sound elitist or anything, but anecdotally the people who worship fancy cars and toys also don't seem to have a keen intellectual curiosity. i.e. they don't read very much, aren't involved in many things outside of work etc. basically they don't have a lot going on for them.
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Has anyone gotten OSX stable on this thing yet?
Same here. I've been surprised by how well it works.
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All of the laptops do that when they reach thermal limit. You can see that behaviour with Intel's power gadget.

(And yes, pattern appears on all MacBooks we have in the company, just at different points. The 2016 locks down the CPU when it reaches about 85 degress C. Even some new iMacs do the same due to inadequate cooling.)
I hope it's not delusional to note that, even if you're burning fossil fuels to power your EVs, at least you're not doing it in the middle of urban environments, mere feet from houses, businesses, and sidewalks.
Thanks! I too researched it, but did not find your sources. I appreciate the effort!
I harp on and on about this, but the looped cursive of the 19th and 20th centuries is horrible for legibility. Many of the common letterforms blur together, especially when written quickly. There were reasons for adopting it at the time, but it really shouldn't be taught anymore. Today we should be teaching cursive italic, for several reasons (legibility, ease of teaching).
> Let me ask you this: would it not be a good way to spend $30 more for a good Levi's, that fit well and last at least twice as long, besides looking very good?

No. Levis are made on the same factory as Old Navy. A few of their lines are completely the same. Old Navy jeans can be had for $15/each in a store or $10 at discounters.
If a neighborhood catered only to tourists and Airbnb visitors it would slowly turn into Times Square (NY) or Union Square (SF). This would not be a stationary equilibrium.
Not sure what you mean by FHD and 2k as they are essentially the same (2048x1080 vs 1920x1080). I assume you must mean 4k (or rather, UHD with 3840x2160) instead of 2k.
What about a different CPU governor to avoid throttling.
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Anyone who thinks the Google author's piece represents degradation of the workplace environment needs to put up a valid non-circular argument for why that is the case.

No one has. And no one will, because the piece is very polite, sincere, well-written, and reasonable.

Anyone can claim their feelings are hurt by someone speaking the truth as they see it. That doesn't mean you get to use that claim (true or not) to impose your will forcefully on others any time you want to.
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It is not, however, an excuse to dismiss politically correct ways of clearly communicating.
A core competency doesn't mean they are IT companies. Knowing how to use a computer is akin to literacy. That does not mean that being so efficient in Excel will make you Martin Shkreli (https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4df5il/martin_shkre...) Finance is much more than knowing how to use or even excel at any software or programming. Computer is an enabler in this case IMHO.
Questions?

1) How do I configure my system to power down when I hit the power switch? (Hint: w/out patching and building Gnome.) A corollary of this question, I suppose, is why does a system function depend on a desktop which requires a login?

2) How does one run a CLI command on login or resume from suspend? The real question is why do I have to execute a `synclient` command to configure tap to click, two finger scrolling and three finger tap to insert?

3) How do I adjust the width of the borders around windows? What I really need is wider grab areas because grabbing the edge/corner of a window with the default theme is nearly impossible. I'm not sure if that is a result of crappy drivers or hardware. I wind up choosing a theme by trial and error to find one with larger grab areas.

I like, in general, Gnome3 but issues like these really bug me. They make me wonder if I should just bite the bullet and switch to something else.
Let's not forget to mention a somewhat important detail: the T460 weights about 1.7 kg, while the X1 only weights about 1.1 kg. It's not a huge difference, but having a lightweight laptop is a big plus when carrying it around all day.
> Could you point me to a quote taken in context that does that? I just reread the document and fail to see where the manifesto questions an individuals capacity of doing a tech job. I'm honestly trying but fail to see the offense.

I'd second this. I've read it a few times and can't see the problem. To be explicit, I'm not saying there is no problem, I'm asking for help to see it.
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LOL. I don't throw this around much, but what a hipster:

"Replacing it with a turntable went even further. Do you have any idea how complicated it is to play music on those things? I didn’t. Playing a record usually involves removing the dust it easily collects, as well as cleaning the stylus (the part that comes in contact with the record). Records have 2 sides, each containing a little over 20 minutes worth of music, so you have to flip them. Some albums take up 2 or even 3 records.

I’m pretty sure I’ll never become addicted to that process. But its length is what’s great about it. The time it takes to setup prompts me to pause and enjoy the experience. Now ask yourself, when’s the last time you took a breath and enjoyed the music?"

Come on man, who are you trying to appease? It's not yourself.
Thanks for the kind words! I'm not an economist myself so I'm hoping others on HN might be able to correct any inaccuracies.
The i5 7300u allows for 16GB (from Lenovo's configuration site).
Virtualization support, for one example.

And some laptops do come with more cores — my 2014 Thinkpad has 4.
I learned Palmerian cursive back when that was what was taught in elementary schools, and used it for everything (exams, essays, note-taking, letter-writing) through college and graduate school. By the end of that time, my cursive had become completely illegible to anyone but myself.

I later re-taught myself to write an italic cursive, which frequently gets complimented when people see it.
The details are very important here. Would the proposed ban really affect researchers proving that anonymization schemes don't work, or would it just apply to attempts to reidentify real people in real user data?

It seems reasonable that a company be prohibited from actively trying to ascertain the identity of users who have tried to remain anonymous. The ease of doing it is rather irrelevant. I'm kind of tired of this tech culture meme, that something should be allowed because it is easy. How easy it is to do something is really irrelevant to how legal it should be. As an extreme example, killing a man is rather easy.

EDIT:

Here is the bit from the source document that the blog author is responding to:

>Create a new offence of intentionally or recklessly re-identifying individuals from anonymised or pseudonymised data. Offenders who knowingly handle or process such data will also be guilty of an offence. The maximum penalty would be an unlimited fine.

"intentionally or recklessly re-identifying individuals" seems to limit this to real user data, not researchers evaluating anonymization schemes. As with any law, it is important to see what the eventual proposed legislation looks like, but I don't think there's anything to worry about here for legitimate security research.
Last year I disabled TLS 1.0/1.1 on my personal server and encountered problems. Turns out Mono (Keepass2Android) and Qt (QBittorrent) libraries on Android for some reason had not enabled higher-than-TLS-1.0 support, although AFAIK they supported it at the time.

So yeah, I ended up reenabling TLS 1.0/1.1 on a system on which I had full control over the clients connecting to it. Given the difficulty and nature of current attacks, I figured the low risks to me personally weren't worth the inconvenience.

I commend the Debian project for making the push for this, but I wonder if the world is ready to be TLS 1.2+ only.
// Automation replaces men. This of course is nothing new. What is new is that now, unlike most earlier periods, the displaced men have nowhere to go. The farmers displaced by mechanization of the farms in the 20's could go to the cities and man the assembly lines. As for the work animals like the mule, they could just stop growing them. But automation displaces people, and you don't just stop growing people even when they have been made expendable by the system. Under Stalin the kulaks and all those who didn't go along with the collectivization of agriculture were just killed off. Even then, if they had been ready to go along, Stalin could have used them. But in the United States, with automation coming in when industry has already reached the point that it can supply consumer demand, the question of what to do with the surplus people who are the expendables of automation becomes more and more critical every day....

...As automation spreads, it will intensify the crises of capitalism and sharpen the conflicts among the various sections of the population, particularly between those working and those not working, those paying taxes and those not paying taxes. Out of this conflict will grow a counter-revolutionary movement made up of those from all social layers who resent the continued cost to them of maintaining these expendables but who are determined to maintain the system that creates and multiplies the number of expendables. This in turn will mobilize those who begin by recognizing the right of these displaced persons to live, and from there are forced to struggle for a society in which there are no displaced persons. //

James Boggs, _The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook_, 1962(!!)

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/amreboggs.html
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https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2017...
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2017...

Performance section: "The comparison of the two Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 devices shows that the Intel Core i5-7200U can keep up very well with the Intel Core i7-7500U during continuous load. The reason can be found quickly, since the temperature goal of the Core i7 is already reached after a few seconds, so that the performance has to be throttled considerably. Thus the advantage of the supposedly much faster processor drops to a minimum"
You'd still make for a great interview.
Why is that confusing? Has HN become so contrarian that a top comment agreeing with the author is suspect?
Why would you feel insecure if that were the case? Is it because of your technical understanding? People who lack it wouldn't feel that way.
Why didn't the FBI ask for an extradition to the UK? If the case was solid they should use the proper channel to deal with foreign (supposed) criminals.

When you use this strategy, you deprive the arrested of the right he would have in his country and you add the crazy cost to defend yourself in a US court. So it's possible that the case is not that solid or need some Parallel construction. It's pure speculation but it seems fishy to me.

I can understand the use of shenanigans to arrest previous dictators or very powerful crime lords as a last resort for Justice but here it seems very unfair.

I think we may see a drop of attendee to US conference and/or a drop in tourism.
I've been using an X1 (3rd gen with the 4K display) for about 2 years now I think, and it's a great laptop for Linux. A full charge will last around 8 hours, maybe 9 or 10 if you turn of Chromium and WiFi (this all depends a bit on what you end up doing).

My only complaint is that I had my display replaced 3 (or maybe already 4) times either due to dead pixels, or these white smudges on the screen (these appear to be caused by damage to the LCD). These smudges in particular keep popping up and aren't too uncommon amongst other users either. There's a new one since I last had my screen replaced, but it's fortunately only visible when looking down on the laptop from the top (even then it's hard to see).
Like I said: A may help B or B may help A, does not imply B requires A. Where A = software development; B = product management.

Yes, most startups don't formally define their spec. That's what I've said.

Managing the spec and ensuring product-market fit falls under the domain of a product manager.

So, that's great, you did software development and product management. You wore many hats... like most people do in startups. Doesn't negate the fact that you were a software engineer taking on additional responsibilities.

Trust me, when you work on a team with a clear separation between product management and software engineering and you have a great product manager... it is pure bliss. The only company I've ever felt that technical nirvana with was Google. My god they know what they're doing when it comes to software engineering and separation of responsibilities. At least the team I was on did.
How many wars has the government won lately?
I think there's hostility to the rich in general on the left. Not all people who work in tech are rich, but many of the, oh, top 10% of income earners, especially those someone else might come into contact with regularly, are in tech. And human nature to express more ire towards those you come into contact with regularly than those you never do.
I was torn between the T470 series and the X1 a few weeks back. I ended up getting the X1 and have been liking it so far. Got it with 16 GB RAM and the upgraded screen. Personally the screen was enough for me to chose the X1 over the T4xx series. Also the SSD is not soldered in and can be replaced, the RAM is indeed soldered in. Linux does run very well on it, didn't have any problems out of the box.

Edit: Although I wouldn't mind the T470 since one of my previous laptops was a T430 and I love the accessibility of that series.
I don't understand this line of reasoning. Are you saying that they are basically the same jeans with different branding? If that's the case, then yes I agree with your statement. But if they're just made in the same "factory"... well Tesla makes both Model S and Model 3 in the "same factory".
Pick a static site generator, pick/write/buy a "responsive" theme for it.

Done.
FWIW, American Baseball has a huge following in Korea and Japan, as well as most of South America. You probably could go and talk about the Red Sox or Yankees and have a conversation with someone about it.

>Same goes for things TV shows like Game of Thrones, everyone watches GoT.

Kinda like only Americans follow baseball?
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Have another way to explain it that you think is more appropriate?
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"Based on this price prediction method, we devise a simple strategy for trading Bitcoin. The strategy is able to nearly double the investment in less than 60 day period when run against real data trace."

From the paper "Bayesian regression and Bitcoin".

I think are more relevant question is: This is clearly not the case in the real world - so why does it appear to be like that?

But thanks for the links; I will enjoy reading through them.