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I use mine the same way I use a windows computer at work; Chrome for the world is on the web now, including office applications. I also install a SSH client and VNC/rdesktop. That's about it.

My main development system is a very beefy virtual image on a vmware cluster, more capable than any laptop I could buy. I VNC into it over a vpn, doesn't matter much if my VNC host is mac/android/chromeos...

Asking what I'd do if the network is down is kinda like asking what I'd do without electricity or water. Locally the odds of failure are about the same, and I'd simply fix it or move where it works.
Well, I agree in principle, but fact is, I've never worked for an organization that didn't have its share of stupid rules. 'Stupid' is subjective as well, so I think it's a bit of a losing battle to up sticks every time you encounter an organizational habit you don't like. Sure, there'll be a tipping point, but I think it's fundamental to the nature of organizations that they can't please all people all the time.
Shel Silverstein
Isn't cheese from raw milk also banned in the US? Think this was a topic then EU and US discussed a free-trade deal.

Raw milk products are certainly not as safe as pasteurised products but many people are willing to take the risk to enjoy the product.
If the ITC finds that manufacturers were harmed and allows some sort of benefit for them to compensate, surely their share price would increase?
A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript
Basically, why commit? This person eats their food oddly, that person seems to have a sweaty forehead, etc.

In the age of Tinder, why bother getting invested in anyone? The next is just a swipe away (unless you're male, then good luck).
When people think of "urban planning" their minds often jump immediately to large-scale infrastructure changes or totally designed cities built from the ground up, but it's exactly these sorts of little things that are actually the most important.

Yielding to pedestrians, like you said, is an element of infrastructure, and it's cheap as hell to change attitudes about it.

Parking is absurd. Planning codes have mandated numbers of parking spaces for businesses, so if you want to develop land your only option is to turn it into a strip mall. LA is an asphalt hellscape precisely because of this, parking requirements have made it so there is over 4.2 square meters of asphalt PER PERSON, just for parking alone.

I only own a bike but live with a partner who has a car and I know it would be difficult to go completely without in my city (~300,000 pop.) I, like many people my age, am planning on moving to a larger more urban city that will have more public transportation and bike infrastructure, but I recognize that this isn't really the answer. Comparatively poor American millennials and gen-Z's that continue condensing populations into urban centers leaves even less incentive for long term change in mid-sized towns.
Now compare the possibilities of any decent OS versus what basically amounts to a browser... any OS can run a browser, why buy a machine that makes you use a browser exclusively and ties you to Google services for everything?
I am a total steer into the skid guy. I like your anecdote but this plays out a LOT differently sometimes. The issue is when 2 "embrace the chaos" people are in the equation. Then in your scenario you as an unafiliated third party get dragged into some serious shit
The ragged glory of Russia’s forgotten circus culture
Wow, the 2015 Pixel LS still go for >1000$ on ebay!

Nice to hear that it's possible to run Linux - I have a budget Acer C720p Chromebook and it's a real nuisance to set it up with Linux. Bodhi Linux is great, but once the internal battery runs out, the device is bricked and has to be reflashed with ChromeOS.
But yet, >20% of US stocks are owned by foreigners..
and I would wager these are majority institutional investors..

http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/investing/foreign-investors-...

besides, most average people who invest - US and foreign alike - buy mutual funds and have no idea what is in their portfolio..

but go ahead with your logical fallacy self - you are certainly making a stronger case for the americans being the dumb ones..
Very good article in your opinion.
Ha! I love that hammer analogy. I'm definitely stealing that!
Headphones in a car is generally a bad idea, as you wouldn't hear car horns, sirens, and other important audible signals that might prove critical.
> The scary thing is that if you are tested positive I believe you would end up in jail for a month before getting deported, even if you consumed legal drugs in your country (ie cannabis)

This would probably happen in many countries. If I were to smoke cannabis legally and this showed up in a drug test in the US (e.g. stopped while driving) you could also be arrested as a foreigner. With many drugs the effects are not as clear as with alcohol, a test can show up positive even though effects are long gone.
you're espousing the benefits of autocratic control. I am describing the trade-off.
Sure, maybe China isn't dragging people off to gulags today but the point is that autocratic control means they can if they want to.
>> but I really wish it could have done so without turning environmental damage into a contest and using unsubstantiated superlatives.

Are you familiar with "The Guardian"?

Everything is the worst, or (rarely) the best there. It's not exactly a tabloid, but it is becoming more and more of a sensationalist leftie/left-liberal opinion vehicle.

They've spent a lot of time on the "Merkel is a saint" angle lately, because of her actions on refugee flows a couple of years ago, and because they have considered her most righteous when held up against the hubris and failings of the UK (most particularly concerning "Brexit").

So now it's time to demonise her...
This is so true.

That's why here in Germany we have a separate term for that: "barrierefrei", which means "free of barriers". It is the politically correct variant of the other popular word "behindertengerecht" which merely means "suitable for disabled people".

Many people here think that "barrierefrei" is just about political correctness for its own sake. But the term "barrierefrei" emphases a completely different way of thinking about this issue: It is about removing barriers for everyone, with disabled people being the most important target group, but by far not the only one.
Uber Faces Widespread Asia Bribery Allegations
> Fix this stuff for disabled people, and other people get to benefit. Sidewalks are for everyone.

This is something that bears repeating. Accessibility means making things accessible for everyone, not just people with disabilities. It's much easier to push a heavy dolly up a ramp, than it is to pull it up lips, steps, etc. Self opening doors are a god send when carrying packages.
Can anyone recommend a good supplement? There seem to be so many choices and compounds.
Experience building my first react-native app ( a web developer )
They have a competitive edge on diesel technology against other car makers. Look at the WEC championships to see how effective Audi's diesel development was there, racing technology almost always translates somehow to street technology for consumers.

On that playing field only Toyota came close to beat the German diesels so it's not only a sunken cost fallacy, they have an advantage on diesel technology that makes it understandable (from a business perspective) on them pushing for it.
Video games have been around for far longer than these teens.
Show HN: Redux-star, redux middleware for easy-to-read, async action creators
In most countries, private health insurance is tax deductible.
" because millions of people view Bitcoin as a good place to park their money over fiat currency."

This would be very unwise.

BTC is highly volatile, and could go to 0 tomorrow.

It could could be made useless by the stroke of the pen someone in any big government.

Nobody keeps most of their assets in cash.

Stocks, Bonds, real estate, a basket of commodities, a basket of currencies - or even a decent long-term-interest savings account ... are all considerably better than BTC as stores of value if you don't like fiat.

When considering the 'risk premium' - BTC is a speculative instrument only. Not a currency, and definitely not a store of value.
Wow. What a joke of a ruling.

“Every four years, we suffer through the celebration of democracy (and national nightmare) that is a presidential election,” Brown wrote in her opinion. “And, in the end, one person is selected to occupy our nation’s highest office. But in every hard-fought presidential election there are losers. And, with quadrennial regularity, those losers turn to the courts.”

They turn to the courts because they're systematically excluded from the debate stage.
Ask HN: What is your (team's) Git workflow?
Curious about your personal and team git workflows. How large is your team and what does your workflow from initial feature request possible code reviews to deployment? I recently ran across this article which seems to work well for me, but not sure how it will scale to my full team (about 30 devs). https://dev.to/andrew565/how-to-git-well
Would love to hear about your git workflows or any articles that you have found helpful in your git flow. Thanks!
Moore's law is about improvements in cost-benefits that occur at a steady rate, and CPUs have not simply been shrinking transistors, but adding instructions, reorganizing the architectures, moving motherboard components on-die, etc.

PV panels have had certain types of regular process improvements. My understanding is that they try to add layers that use more of the energy of the light spectrum.

Conversion efficiency improvements are responsible for more of the cost-benefit improvements than taylorist improvements via economies of scale. And those improvements have been occurring at a remarkably steady rate for five decades.
Using a thin layer of bash to feed the output of a command into a short Python script is an excellent use of shell in my opinion.
How to Fight ‘Fake News’
Does this support dynamic moving lights? That's the 'wow' moment that's going to feel like a move to next generation graphics - when all/most lights are fully dynamic and contribute to GI.
Yeah - I bought one for taking out of the country and on a two week family vacation (which included some stretches of camping) so that I could manage things remotely while I was gone. It's not my Macbook Pro. But it worked really well for light-duty tasks. The biggest annoyance was that I can't run my password manager on it, so I was hand-copying long strings of hard-to-type garbage from my phone fairly frequently.

I wondered if I'd switch over to it. I haven't. I like larger laptops, I prefer the MBP keyboard, and I generally need to be able to run more stuff locally. But I'm glad I have it, I use it around the house when my mac is plugged into a monitor in my office, and I'll definitely use it for all future international travel.

(Asus Chromebook Flip, FWIW.)
AMD EPYC 7351P Single Socket CPU Linux Benchmarks and Review
It is pricey - but that's kinda the point. The value of the Pixel brand is equally about what it supplies the ecosystem with. Having a Chromebook that is high-end with all the new bells and whistles - and very well designed hardware brings attention to Chromebooks as a whole.

It signals that Chromebooks aren't just cheap devices for students - but that they can be performance devices as well. Luxury items even.

People see this good looking device - and if they don't like the price, may be interested in other Chromebooks. I wouldn't be surprised if the Samsung flip and C302CA get a surge of popularity because of this.
Not true, they could easily leave their commitments to the remaining Eurozone members to pick up.
I've always wanted to see a comparison of the costs of improved sidewalk infrastructure versus better wheelchairs. Intuitively, the problem of building a wheelchair that can smoothly traverse a curb seems tremendously cheaper then installing and maintaining sidewalk ramps everywhere.
Two five qubit device architectures are compared in this article.

http://m.pnas.org/content/114/13/3305.full

Supposedly ~17 qubit devices are on the way. None has demonstrated quantum supremacy, practical or not.
A combined AR/VR headset would be amazing for this. I would love AR for a workspace, I can do my work and interact with my team, and then switch to VR to do something more complex.
Yeah, that's one of my most anticipated features from this release, to be honest. And ARKit :)
Well, if you are required to prepare your own tax returns through an accountant then he will most certainly, itemize deduction, you'll be asking him to get your tax bill down a bit. Power of incentive is nothing to be questioned.
But if there ever a place to be correct in what you say both factually and mathematically and then not be ridiculed for it, it's here. I support the parent argument.
Let's face it, security is a tough, technical challenge. The friendly slide decks with clip art of people shaking hands and "consultants" that make us feel good can only get you so far.
A thermometer senses temperature, much like the human skin does. But we would not consider it conscious because it is a reactionary device.

Of course at some point along our development of machine intelligence that may change. At some point in the past all life was reactionary, then as it evolved that changed. My take on it is the first consciousness in life occurred when creatures started making predictions on when they would eat something or get eaten and act before it occurred.
Maybe the GP reads the word 'sentiment' as the root of 'sentimental' and interprets it as only referring to good sentiment, a synonym for rose-colored glasses?
>70% of prisoners are there for non-violent offences.

Free Bernie Madoff!
I do that too, but more because I enjoy sleeping. I usually feel quite groggy when I wake from a nap.
The Best Health Care System in the World: Which One Would You Pick?
The Pirate Bay uses you as a Bitcoin miner
I haven’t ventured into the more rural towns in Idaho I suspect they must be more similar to your town in Oregon.

Rural poverty is a nontrivial issue in Idaho, especially when it comes to healthcare.
[Nitpicking alert] The giant squid have the fastest axons to try to coordinate their giant body. They use some tricks to make the transmission faster, so I'm not sure if you can use this speed inside a brain successfully.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_giant_axon the speed is 25m/s, so in a minute you the signal could travel 1500m ~= 1mile.
Ask HN: Why we need Gigaband networks?
Apart from Bing, are they good with English results as well?
"Investments that don't pay dividends are essentially pyramid schemes"

No. 'Dividends' do not matter.

The cash going into the companies bank account belongs to the shareholders, and it's reflect in the stock price.

When a company gives out $1 in dividends, it's valuation goes down by $1.

Technically, dividends don't matter.

In reality it's a little different, and dividends mean certain things, mostly about the companies ability to generate returns with that cash than you, the investor.

And FYI - there can be 'unlimited growth' - as long as there is innovation, and 'stuff keeps getting better' - we will see growth.
As a native southerner I find it highly annoying when folks come in from elsewhere to complain about things that are very new to them. The lack of sidewalks amongst other things is something that we/I have always dealt with, know how to get around it, and we just handle it. I'd rather see infrastructure dollars go to fix the abysmal traffic here (also caused by the major influx of folks coming to Atlanta for the jobs). Let's fix the real problems first, then accommodate our new residents with their comparatively petty wants.

Now I'm bitter.

EDIT: clarification
> It's a empathy exercise, not a question? You implicitly asked, "who would this statement about bank accounts be helpful for?", and I suggest that you try to think of someone.

The question I asked you was a literal question, not an empathy exercise. By all means suggest a way that anyone might be helped by this apparently-unevidenced smear.

It may comfort people to read things that support their worldview, but I don't agree that it helps them.

[Edit: changed questions to question as I only asked one]
I don't trust car manufacturers to implement anything more complex than a Bluetooth module that has only power and analog audio integration. I don't want all this stuff. I love my old land cruiser because it's well designed in almost all aspects, which cannot be said for any infotainment system.
That's what was wrong with the first solution. The bridge was crossed just when it should have been.
Mother nature does not want sidewalks to exist. A smooth, even surface is not something that exists naturally, it requires us to constantly evaluate, design, and repair. You can fix a sidewalk one year, then winter happens and the ground up-heaves and shifts the concrete, and it'll be another 5 years before you can circle back to do maintenance. Or someone plants a tree in their yard and over time the roots grow under the pavement. And as you already identified, you can't depend on people to maintain the sidewalks in front of their property.

We will never have perfect sidewalks, it's a noble goal, but it's pie-in-the-sky thinking to want perfect sidewalks. Instead, we should be building better accessibility devices, ones that can navigate tough terrain. Why are the wheels on mobility devices so damn small? Can they be made to be swappable so you can put on the outdoor wheels when you're travelling, and indoor ones when you want something smooth and quiet?
We'll just have to hold our own shindig, with educational flash cards and nature documentaries.
My knee jerk reaction was "Fuck him."

The reality is, he needs help. No one who is "normal" would do such things. Abnormal (usually) doesn't just happen. That is, there is something somewhere that drives these symptom to the surface. If there's a pattern, it's likely there's a reason(s) for that pattern.
Then go get a $30,000 powered wheelchair and ride around for a month. See what you think can be improved in the wheelchair to correct for its flaws.
This is sort of implemented in various forms.

For a VM, RE: code rearrangement, you're effectively describing dynamic DCE if I understand you correctly, CLR does this (and lots more)[2].

At the low-level programmer level, there's nothing stopping a (weakly) static language like C from adopting that behavior[3] at runtime [i.e. with a completely bit-for-bit identical, statically linked executable which].

At the compiler level, you've got the seminal Turing Award by Ken Thompson that does it at compiler level[4].

At the processor level, you heuristically have branch prediction as a critical part of any pipeline. (I think modern Intel processors as of the Haswell era assign each control flow point a total of 4 bits which just LSL/LSR to count the branch taken/not taken. (Don't quote me on that)).

RE: Smalltalk - for me, the power of the platform's mutability was revealed when I started using Cincom. When I was using GNU implementations ~10 years ago, they felt like toys at the time (though I hear things have largely improved). If you've ever used Ruby, a simple analogy would be the whole "you can (ab)use the hell out of things like #Method_Missing to create your own DSLs". This lends of a lot of flexibility to the language (at the expense of performance, typing guarantees). In a Smalltalk environment, you get that sort of extensibility + static typing guarantees + the dynamic ability to recover from faults in a fashion you want.

Imagine an environment[5] that has that structured instrinsically + the performance of being able to use all them fancy XMM/YMM registers for numerical analysis + a ring0 SoftICE type debugger. Turtles all the way down, baby.

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[1] See ISL-TAGE of CBP3 and other, more modern reportings from "Championship Branch Prediction" if it's still being run).

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/8874314 Here's how it's done with the CLR. The JVM is crazy good so I'd imagine the analogue exists there as well.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code

[4] http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack

[5] Use some micro-kernel OS architecture so process $foo won't alter $critical-driver-talking-to-SATA-devices or modifying malloc. I'd probably co-opt QNXs Neutrino designs since it's tried and true. Plus that sort of architecture has the design benefit of intrinsically safe high-availability integrated into the network stack.
I can only speak for my own decision-making process, but I like to pay for my email so that I have greater confidence that the provider will still be in business 10 years from now, and more confidence that my data is my own.

Really like Fastmail.
As operators update grid for renewables, transmission remains key constraint
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>Aetna for example has seen a 400% jump in their stock prices in the last 5 years.

In all honesty, what would you expect? The ACA forced millions of people who didn't have health insurance to buy health insurance, and investors responded accordingly by buying the shares of companies who benefited from an influx of new customers.
Blood testing via sound waves may replace some tissue biopsies
>switch to the low level dual of this problem [...] reinforcement learning.

But that is itself a theory about the problem of consciousness! So why not do both? There's no obvious short cut through the confusion, but discoveries in one field may guide questions in the other. In general I think it helps to have one's feet on the ground as well as one's head in the stars (for instance Newton ground his own lenses).
BCH might be Bitcoin's only hope. The upcoming Segwit2x fork (Segregated Witness + 2x block size increase) would have been fine 2 years ago. If it succeeds now I'm afraid all of Bitcoin will suffer and only Ethereum will benefit. While I love all the developments happening on Ethereum, it's not the censorship proof money that I was promised.
It's kind of a non question if there are 0 insurers willing to offer such a contract.

And given the healthcare policy landscape, there are 0 insurers willing to offer such a contract.
> A camcorder is the only instrument that can produce a series of still frames that look identical to what a human observer saw in the same spot.

This is not exactly true and shows a misunderstanding of cinema technique.

(Not least is that human vision is foveal and includes a huge amount of interpolation, while cameras take images with a fixed depth-of-field)

> throw out our physics simulations

If the thing to be produced is to be useful and general, it will be an optical physics simulation.
It wasn't dumb for her. Merkel's job is to act in the interest of the people who elected her. And that's exactly what she did. It's unfortunate that this set back efforts to reduce emissions. But her move was smart and without it she probably wouldn't be in power anymore.
I don't think the US has any obligations on the part of the client for those situations. Banks would have AML (Anti Money Laundering) rules that would require confirming or reporting certain transactions but as an individual you wouldn't have to file any papers yourself.

There is a separate provision[1] that requires the reporting of foreign accounts but I think it's specific to bank and financial accounts. I don't think direct ownership of real estate in a foreign country is required to be reported (as opposed to ownership through a REIT).

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
I tried switching to DDG a few years ago, but I found myself using !ge more often than not, so I wasn't really sure what the point of using DDG was. For my needs, DDG's results are pretty mediocre. Which is a shame, becuase I'd rather support them over Google.