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> I got mine for $650 with IPS 1080p (Zenbook UX305CA).

@franciscop - which distro are you running? I'm primarily a mac user but picked up a UX305FA about 8 months ago to start poking around with Linux.

I've had Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, OpenSUSE, Fedora 25 & 26, and most recently Ubuntu Studio.

In every case I have the same issues that end up turning me away - first and foremost is the screen. I hear it's a nice screen under Windows but no matter what I can't seem to get it to not strain my eyes. I've tried calibrating the screen, different resolutions, and Redshift but no matter what it ends up straining my eyes. Maybe my eyes are too used to Apples retina displays?

The other issue is the jumping cursor. No matter what I do, or how careful I am to keep my palm clear of the track pad, inevitably while typing the cursor jumps up to the top of the screen while I'm mid line. Drives me nuts.

Sorry, not trying to thread jack but seeing how you have a similar machine and seem to like it, I thought I'd throw it out there.

I really want to like this computer, over than those 2 issues it's a great little laptop.
I'd say everything in this list is good to know
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~tdw/files/cookbook-en.pdf
I recently bought a Subaru, and I agree. However, this is in no way at all related to "self driving cars" (which don't actually exist and therefore nobody knows how the insurance companies and general public will react to the liability/safety/skin-in-the-game issues).
We built our own CMS after realizing there is nothing out there. Our CMS has the email-based paywall system, plus manages all the opens and pre-subscriptions (i.e. you can subscribe to new newsletters before we launch them).

We just added a secret new feature: inside.com/alerts, which allows us to send news to people by SMS if they can't wait for the emails.

In terms of paid newsletters, there will be 2-3 in each of 1,000 vertical with over $100-250,000 in revenue each based on what I can see.
Indeed the world would be much better with privatized armies.Nothing like profit incentive for war.
The trouble with blowing a hole in the tube somewhere to re-pressurise is that whatever is inside the hole is hit by a wall of air travelling somewhere around the speed of sound. There are a LOT of problems with hyperloop not limited to someone walking up to the tube and shooting it with a .50 Desert Eagle, earthquakes, and the expansion and contraction of the tube as the sun rises and sets.

It's definitely the most unlikely of Elon Musk's plans.
_Driver_. That scene struck me mostly because it was the rare example of a director trying to make chase conventions work in a contemporary setting, rather than pretend cellphones, radios, cameras, and police helicopters don't exist.
What are the military hardware used for? Are our police fighting criminal syndicates?

I wonder how much crime is related to illicit drug markets, and how much "need" police would have for this kind of hardware if drugs were all legal.
I believe you're right

"Once the DID is received, BUP—depending on the mode, which is determined by various factors—either starts IBL processes from InitScript (in normal mode) or hangs in a loop, which it can exit only when it receives a message from the PMC, for example as a result of a request to restart or shut down the system."

But I am not sure if those are stopped:
"Secondly, it starts a whole string of processes; some of them are hard-coded (SYNCMAN, PM, VFS),"

Since the authors only mention that the InitScript/IBL Processes are not started, I assumed the hardcoded ones were started, but could be prevented from loading in the following way:
"2. In the CPD section of the FTPR, remove or damage all modules except those required by BUP for startup:"
If you're more into the social part of networking than newsletters and don't mind a bit of privacy, Snackis might be worth a look:

https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis
Integrations aren't just enterprise things, as well.

Consider if you wanted to build a Spotify competitor. Disregarding the partner management/sales/distribution side of thing, but sticking solely to the tech:

You have to be able to ingest content from all your partners. If a new song is supposed to go live exactly at midnight on a given day, you gotta be able to deliver that. Not just media, but also systems for ingesting, reviewing, and publishing the metadata, album art, etc.

You have to run on a lot of devices. You need a desktop or web app, an iOS app, an Android app, a bunch of living room apps, Chromecast support...

You have to be able to bill people. I'd suggest offloading as much of this as possible so you're not touching credit cards yourself, but then it's still integration work. And now you have paying customers so you're going to be expected to have good reliability and responsiveness to issues, and to build tooling for your customer support team.

Paying customers and inventory - even digital inventory - make things turn into a lot more work quickly.
Well, unless you try to use an HTML layout technique more modern than tables and spacer gifs.
Interesting! I was big on this stuff seven years ago, when I found a "Star Wars Force Training" toy [1] -- you put the brain wave sensor on, which passes a signal that sets the strength of a fan that's blowing upward on a ball in a tube, and therefore its height. So it makes a neat brain-ball-height link. Unfortunately, it was really unreliable -- only for brief periods could I (or anyone) consistently set the height.

I also bought the OCZ Neural Impulse Actuator that you could use as a PC peripheral and it could detect alpha/beta brains waves as well as tension and eye movement, but which I really only found reliable for the last two. (You control tension by "gritting your teeth".)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Science-Force-Trainer/dp/B0...
How is Bitcoin a pyramid scheme as opposed to USD?
Seriously?

>Computer speech recognition now has a greater accuracy than human speech recognition, but the types of use cases for talking to a computer are much less sensitive to error. Short snippets and phrases that are designed to get something done right now.

You just said that speech recognition doesn't work in general. In general is exactly where self-driving has to work. If we just needed self-driving trains, we'd have them already*

*We do have them, but strangely there isn't much demand since human train drivers appear to do an ok job most of the time.
I live in New England and the poster's description of DC traffic sounds like what I see all the time, from cities like Boston or even small towns like East Longmeadow.

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/east_longmead...
Quite: cigarettes, alcohol, bad driving, and cooking whilst drunk and passing out with the stove still on[1] kill way more people annually than BASE jumping and I don't see anybody banning them.

[1] I'm obviously not 100% sure about this last one but it seems likely.
This is really sad news not only for his family but those who work at Elemental. It certainly sounds like he not only built a great company with his team but also was a great person who contributed much to his community. We should all be so fortunate to have such an impact during our lifetime.
http://ncase.me/trust/ is a great explainer that explores that question. How do different strategies compare depending on number of repeat interactions, population diversity and noise.
I don't consider 3.e tenable at all. Anyone playing along with that know that they will go down in history as making a worse decision than Chamberlain.

Not only will giving in to demands allow NK to do it again, if they've actually done it once we have to assume they will have done it again or that some other state will because you can get away with it.

In other words: Choosing 3.e means saying "we will allow this to happen again at least once, if not from NK then someone else". Of all the impossible choices with NK, this is the impossiblest. It will cost more lives than the other options.

Is 3.c completely unacceptable to the world? I'm not so sure. "You would now be in a war with China"? No you wouldn't. China would also react to such a thing, and having a "buffer state" is not the same thing as having a sort of ally that is in a hot war of choice with super powers.

Or to put in other words: I Turkey blew up St Petersburg in order to extort Russia, do you think the US would be unconditional allies to Turkey?

After many decades of MAD theory it's on increasingly shaky grounds because we also know that a Russia-US war has environmental impact that just may kill all of humanity even if precision aimed at the enemy.

But this ain't MAD. Destroying a population centre is killing the hostage and asking for another one.

On the "nothing to lose": Of course they do. The leaders are omnipotent beings in their own absolute dictatorship. The proles are not in good shape, but they don't get to decide whom to attack. The deciders have literally everything to lose.

In the book "The Threatening Storm" the former CIA analyst essentially says "Saddam is under the impression that if you have nukes then you can do whatever you want. That ain't how it works, son. Saddam has no understanding of the last 50 years of deterrence theory".

Now, you don't have to agree with me or Pollack, but I think it's fair to say that his interpretation of the theory of deterrence is more likely to be predictive of US kinetic foreign policy actions.

Also the US is used to counting "megadeaths", but since this again isn't MAD, it's not American megadeaths.

I don't know which other option would be best, but I wouldn't visit Soul any time soon.

Edit:
This reminds me of the Moscow theatre hostage situation, where they demanded Russian military leave Chechnya. They could have as well asked for the Moon to be plucked from the heavens. If Russia had already been on their way out from their own choice, they almost would have had to go back in just as a precedence-setter. If you let your national security and military options be dictated to you, then you are not a superpower.
Can you elaborate on why you think Bitcoin is a 'pyramid scheme'?
Wow, you can hear the toxicity in that chain of command within the first 30 seconds of audio. Thanks for sharing.
A shameless plug, but if you like HN and email, my side-project, http://www.hackernewsletter.com/, might be worth a look. Rolling past 50k subscribers this month.
Can you elaborate?

Assuming for example the car is fitted with solid state lidar on the four corners and ESR on the four sides or even LIDAR.

What are your thoughts on crash prevention if the car has the same hardware as a a Waymo car?

(edit: to clarify, would you consider autosteering at the last minute safer than a human driver in that scenario?)
Most SV companies are based around regulatory circumvention?
Even in a professional setting?
Another issue, is that China and Seoul, and by extension the US, would be a lot more willing to step in and probably help with reunification or a regime change with open borders if it didn't also mean a massive financial effort/refugee crisis on the border.
I know some people like to hate on Joel but this article is as relevant as ever: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-...

There is almost no software priced between $1,000 and $50,000. Only big companies can afford to pay $50k+ for software and as a result they want a lot of hand-holding, support, and customization. Because they're spending so much they also want a lot of CYA assurances. Let's also be honest: they also want sales people to buy them lunches and send them bottles of scotch.

Selling to enterprises for $15,000 is a great way to go out of business: you won't be able to pay for enough staff to keep the sales pipeline flowing and you're too expensive for individuals and small businesses no matter how much value you deliver.
Recently I saw a guy in a cafe with a General Dynamics laptop. It looked ruggedized and a few years old; I don't know if it was an HAP system. He said he got if off of eBay.
If it wasn't against the law, I'd send him a few cases of Scotch.

By which I mean, I'd chip in to calm him down. I'll buy him a gently used Toyota, tomorrow, if it means he will settle down. I'm not even kidding. I'd even take him at his word. Hell, set up a PayPal account, and make it legal, and I'll send him money every month that he doesn't harass his neighbors. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

Hmm... We should crowdsource Un's Scotch fund. I'm only partially kidding.
That's not at all what I was saying.
Yes the US Navy hasn't had to face a competent naval opponent in decades. Their last major surface battle was a small strike against Iran in 1988, and those ill-equipped fanatics weren't exactly the varsity team.

Last time the US Navy was in that position was in 1941. They were complacent and convinced that they were the best at everything. The Japanese Navy gave them a rude awakening. Eventually the bureaucracy turned things around but it cost a lot of lives.
What Web-Scraping community can you recommend?
Super passionate about it. Soaked up several books. Curious about your favorite scrape-community, group, blog, website.

What can you recommend?
I already checked out black-hat-world and searched a lot on HN. Couldn't find any Twitter influencer.
> You think that solving the problem is the key performance metric, but the actual metric is how many people the manager manages.

Both metrics are wrong. "Solving the problem" might as well be translated as "how well the engineer engineers", and it's just as bad a metric as you might expect. You want to measure impact on the company bottom line, in the long and short term. It's just not easy to measure this metric, so we come up with a bunch of proxy metrics which we optimize for, each of which can easily lead to its special type of dysfunction.
Having watched my aunt die at the age of 52 of stage 4 lung cancer over a period of 9 months post-diagnosis I can absolutely and unwaveringly assert that I'd rather die from hitting the ground really hard. It's not even a question.
No, Dr Strangelove was based on "Red Alert".

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove#Fail_Safe
Do you really think eliminating standardised tests would improve the education system?
If the self-driving proponents were to say that human drivers would be banned, and all vehicles would therefore be self-driving I'd have more respect for their arguments. That said, you still need to account for things like pedestrians and snow. If we're talking about "self-driving on the I-5 when it isn't raining and there are no human drivers permitted" then yes I think we're probably close..
Where the online home service industry is failing
I hear this from a lot of people online, but my group, which isn't majority techies may prefer FB for sharing photots, but any planning or broadcasts announcements are always via email.
This but unironically.
what is a better alternative for code understandability ?
> All links are curated by hand from Hacker News.

My fear is that I have a different taste than you. How do you curate it?
Hopefully (perhaps?), there is a classified answer to that
Yes, queries are translated into Kafka Streams API.
In the client-server(cluster) mode each query will run on every instance of engine the same way kafka streams apps run on multiple instances.
Ask HN: Algorithm behind Windows thumbnail preview?
Hopefully it is not too offensive to the audience. Just aiming to satisfy my curiosity.

I was printing a Word document where I entered a picture with complex patterns. When hovering on the Word icon on the taskbar (windows 10), it shows a preview thumbnail. However -- whatever algorithm is used-- it compressed the image so that the preview showed a remarkably different image. I thought it was neat and wanted to figure out what's behind it, or at least some pointer. For no reason.

Since I'm not even sure where to start finding this out, I thought I'd ask. Is HN the right site for this? I guess I'll find out!
The Navy does quite a lot without making war. The logistics and organization required just to keep ships afloat and moving around the world requires a lot of sophistication to function properly. An aircraft carrier is a small city that needs to be fed, supplied, powered, etc. which isn't a trivial task.
Recently asked on the Kafka users mailing list https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/82692004eb2292e1240c339...
Also XMPP, but that's not gained a lot of traction. IRC also doesn't seem primed to burst back onto the scene.

(To be honest, the only thing I really like about slack over IRC is history. I wonder if that couldn't be processed in a more peer-to-peer manner over IRC?)
Japan is a huge part of this. Since the government approved btc as a currency, Peach Airlines has started taking bitcoin, huge chains of convenience stores like FamilyMart have been accepting payments in bitcoin, etc.

It's still a tiny portion of total commerce but an absolutely massive jump from previous bitcoin usage.
Your mention of humans guiding traffic reminds me of advice from my father many years ago: never assume that a human giving you direction when you're driving is giving you good information. Always evaluate whether what they're conveying to you may be either misunderstood (e.g. what does "wave" mean??) or just plain false. Hard for a human to do.
[Kim Jong Un] has said things that are horrific. And with me he’s not getting away with it. He got away with it for a long time, between him and his family. He’s not getting away with it. This is a whole new ballgame. He’s not going to be saying those things, and he’s certainly not going to be doing those things. - Trump, barely two weeks ago.

The hypothesis makes a lot of sense, because merely proving Trump's insincerity, and that nothing has actually changed policy wise, has intrinsic value. DPRK did such a missile test in 2009, to much deserved outcry, but there was no escalating response. But this is supposed to be a whole new ballgame.

So is it a new ballgame? Or was that insincere?
Pratt says, "Historically human beings have shown zero tolerance for injury or death caused by flaws in a machine"

Now imagine an autonomous car that had an accident rate one fifth the rate of human drivers. Would society really decide not to allow such a car on the road?
They also have the "e-power" platform, of which the Note version is supposed to be selling well, and a Juke version has been shown in concept form.

This is, basically, the Leaf setup but with a much smaller battery and a range extending generator. Currently you can't even plug it in, but it does give higher mpg and better driving experience around urban areas compared with an ICE car.
Iran's situation is fairly different than NK. NK enrages much more like a madman. Iran on the otherhand isn't starving, the leaders are much more rational, there are actual elections, and their attempt at nuclear weapons are generally defensive, although of course it's neighbors would sleep better if it didn't have nukes because that changes the balance of power in the region.

Us Iran relations are currently caught up because of the US alliance with Israel and Saudi Arabia who see Iran as the regional threat, otherwise there would not be such a focus on it. NK on the otherhand is a just a basket case that threatens it's neighbors to get handouts. I feel bad for NK's inhabitants, they are by far the biggest losers in all this.
At that point it's just a semantics debate. I mean if you include the ability to use shims, then they all support the same languages.

But I'd still rather run C# on Azure than anywhere else.
> There is absolutely no good reason why we should have to create email newsletters that require tables for layout.

One of my projects over the last couple months for FWD:Everyone has been stripping tables from commercial emails while keeping their content and trying to preserve a comparable layout while just using paragraph tags and other simple markup. It's an interesting challenge, given that tables can be recursively nested inside cells in all sorts of different combinations. You'd think that it wouldn't even be possible to do this and get the ordering of block elements right, but it actually seems to consistently work for tables with mostly text content.

In our case the reason we did this because we want to format emails in a consistent way to make them readable, and also it's easier to guarantee that our redaction tool is properly redacting content when we limit ourselves to a fixed subset of HTML.
Yes CLOS is superior particularly multimethods.

As for the JVM: https://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/

Sooo its not the JVM.

BTW AspectJ and JRebel will get you around methods and even inheritance changes but alas Java does not have multimethods or MOP. I mean CLOS is awesome but so is static analysis :)
If you want to send plain text, yes. There is a lot of variation among clients when it comes to formatting and layout however.

But then by those constraints you can also count HTTP or SSH or Telnet or any other protocol at that layer.
I hear people say this from time to time, but I think once you get to college and into the workforce you start to center your life around TXT and email.

I view each email address as an LTV of $10-50 and every phone number as 2x that. Owning emails and phone numbers is the great asset any startup can have -- but so many founders miss this!
I've ridden a boosted in NY and own two Chinese boards. I think the biggest problem with Boosted is that the vision they sold in their TED talk isn't very realistic. The main issues I have:

- they need bike lanes. You could ride in traffic like Casey but it's super dangerous. Sidewalks are ok but unpleasant (bumpy) and slow.

- they're heavy. Once you're at your destination, carrying around a 15lb weight is no fun.

After 3 years my observation is that e-boards are essentially bikes with different drawbacks, rather than a new category of transportation. In NYC the best places to ride a Boosted is in central park and the bike route that rings Manhattan. To get anywhere in the city you're basically carrying the thing.
I kinda view it as a feature that folks who lock themseles in as Facebook content sharecroppers don't engage in communication with the world outside their ML-insulated and monetized bubble. I'm not sure that constitutes "dying" though.
How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto
Let's say you give $50 to a kickstarter project, and in return you get some special benefit, say early access. If this was tokenized, as you follow the project, you could sell early access. If you thought it was less likely to happen, maybe you sell it for $40. If it was super exciting, and the founders capped how much early access there could ever be, maybe you sell at $60. This is the benefit that tokenization gives you. You don't get any say in the company, any stock, etc. - you get access to a product, and through the blockchain you can easily trade it securely and provably.

People who buy diamonds, physical diamonds, may be speculating on them. Others may actually like the diamond. For whatever reason, they bought the diamond, and now own it, and can resell it. It isn't illegal to buy something in the hope it goes up in value. People do that all the time with videogames, cars, whatever.

Now, let's say ownership of a diamond was moved to the the blockchain. Not only could you buy and transfer it easily, provably, securely - you could even buy 0.000000001 diamonds, or 100000 diamonds, just as easily.

In my opinion, all of this is objectively better than kickstarter.
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-y...

Coroutines with "color" are problematic.
You can run a ZNC bouncer for a quarter of the price of one Slack account.
C# has what you've described as well in the form of yield return.

It's largely the same thing to the compiler in that it needs to transform a method into a stack-less state machine. Whether or not the state machine is evaluated lazily on demand or concurrently is mostly irrelevant and just depends on the specific problem in question.
My Adventures in Going Viral (2016)
How can creative industries benefit from blockchain?
Suddenly?