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I recently got myself a GPD Pocket, which is a great little laptop with many of the same ethos as Apples' MacBook product line .. unibody, great screen.

Interesting keyboard. (Takes some getting used to.)

Well, I blew away Windows and put Ubuntu Studio on it and its now my main goto computer - replacing the very expensive MacBook Pro I typically use.

I think that there is really no need to go the Hackintosh route, except for "access to MacOS software" (fair enough), if all one wants is a nicely-designed, comfortable, convenient machine. The GPD Pocket + Ubuntu Studio experience has been just as friendly as it ever was on MacBook, and I think that if the next iteration of the Pocket gets a bit bigger, with a nicer keyboard .. then it'll be goodbye MacBook addiction, hello "switched to Linux on GPD Pocket2" ...

Seriously, the only draw for me is the resilience of the hardware. Apples competition need only produce a unibody MacBook-like experience, hardware-wise, and distros' like Ubuntu Studio can handle the rest.
I'm more concerned with, when you discount the studies that have been shown to be poor, does the overall system 1/system 2 model become weaker? I think it does, a bit, but he takes pains to point out that it is just a shorthand and not a real thing, so we should already be skeptical of taking it too far? How about the thinking vs remembering selves? I think that holds up ok.

We're early in our understanding of human behavior. Many of our ideas are wrong. Everything is hard to test. But though the book has flaws and should be evaluated again (would love to see it rewritten), I still think there is usefulness in the models he suggested. And in behavioral economics in general. I think we're far away from having enough replicated studies to be really "sure" of anything, especially with this crisis, but moving in a reasonable direction.
The UP2715K can also be had at reasonable prices now that many people are upgrading from MacBooks with Thunderbolt/DisplayPort to USB-C. Mine was 500€ second-hand, love it! (No idea if it actually works with a Hackintosh, though)
I liked this article because it relates to any form of development.

The next time a client says "that doesn't seem too hard, can you just add it to the app?", I'm sure you can think of a laundry list of things that need to happen to implement it.
Are you hiring in India at present, then? I'd be glad to be a part of a similarly talented team :)
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Many of us like our screens and computers to be separate, and like having expandability in the latter.
I’m not saying it’s moral. Obviously I would prefer my government to not do this sort of thing. But I am saying that the motivations are understandable with historical context and that the legitimacy of a government’s decisions go deeper than just a binary good or bad judgment; and that all governments face these sorts of decisions at some point. For instance, any time the USA intervenes militarily or economically elsewhere, it is an unavoidable calculation that some (potentially large) number of innocent people on those countries will suffer or die. To ignore the obvious example of all of America’s armed conflicts since WWII, embargoes on North Korea, for example, have likely lead to a huge amount of suffering and death in that country, but our governments have deemed it worth it to some extent. How do we make decisions in these cases?
Isn't Adidas building automated factories in the US and Germany to produce close to designers and customers?
The author is doing video editing work. The point of the 5k screen is to have a 4k video displayed at 1:1 pixel and controls displayed alongside it. I.e. the author may be part of that small subset of people that actually want 5k in order to do their job.
It doesn't have to be a law - just a line in a dress manual, or 'advice' given to personnel. Next to the rules on haircuts and fingernail length.
Yeah, I’m not saying it’s an excuse, nor that it’s moral, just that it’s understandable and that there is a value in trying to understand.
I don’t think it should be banned even though I agree with yo that the WSJ editorial is wrong more often than not. I feel this way because it is (inexplicably) widely read. Far better to know what a lot of people hear and believe than to live in a bubble.

My criteria are all about size and reach. For example I wold consider a flat earth discussion (99% parody, 1% wtf I assume) a waste of HN attention bandwidth.
Their is a wide range of thermal efficiency but something ~30% to 64% is possible. We can also use the heat directly in some applications making it useful number on it's own.

Unfortunately making those pellets is fairly expensive an you only get 8$ or less worth of energy from them. Which is why the economics of this idea is simply terrible and the only value is for validation of H-bomb simulations.
I disagree on the WSL part. As someone who has been trying (in earnest!) to do the macOS -> Windows switch, I have to say WSL has been a letdown. Files you create don't get proper permissions. That requires fixing, every time, if your workflow involves moving files from WSL to a deployment target. This is only one of the issues I encountered.

At this point, if you're wanting to use WSL for something like Chef development, you're better off having a full Linux VM on your Windows machine, or just sticking with macOS (in spite of it's apparent decline in quality).
Updates are very stable, especially now that there's Clover which mimics Apple's EFI much closely, but it's always an odd bet that some component of the OS won't change its behaviour
and rely on something surprising, notably App Store, Messages or FaceTime breaking every now and then because they changed how hardware authentication works.

The fact that things are hardly documented except in forms of either step-by-step blind-handholding recipes or unscientific "hey I pushed this and pulled that and it works now!" forum posts doesn't help.
[e-commerce] How to download and track prices from any website
Hi. This is my blog. It looks like crap but I think it has some value.

I've spent a lot of time finding the solution for this task and most of them were too expensive for me.

So if anyone wants to track prices on a budget here's my guide:

http://www.guerrillahub.com/track-competitor-prices-comprehensive-guide/
Thermal issues, they're not designed for 100% CPU usage for long periods. They may throttle and not catch fire, but they're also noisy at 100% CPU because they have a laptop cooling system. Please don't tell me about the redesigned cooling system on the new iMac Pro unless it's been proven to remain silent while, for example, building Qt from source.

Lack of storage. For my use case at least, which involves a lot of VMs and large source trees. Please don't suggest external storage boxes.

Shit video card for taking gaming breaks ;) Or the monitor is too big for the video card, I'm not sure. Please don't suggest a separate gaming PC, considering how much Macs cost they'd better play games well.
Oh, wait, so Google competing with OTA is resulting in lower margins for intermediaries and aggregators, and higher margins for those actually providing the services: the hotels?

And the Editorial Board of the WSJ publishes this advertorial shamelessly promoting OTAs?

"Online travel agencies like Expedia, Priceline and Travelocity have replaced brick-and-mortar agents by offering consumers more choice and convenience at a lower price."

"OTA websites let travelers sift through hotel offers based on price, brand, location, amenities and guest rating, among other search filters"
People are trained by Hollywood to envision AI as robots. When presented an actual AI algorithm/model they see it as boring math, totaly unlike C-3PO, or Terminator, or whatever your favourite movie robot is.
An "expensive" hash function like scrypt provides both the user and the attacker the same slowdown/cost multiplier.

A longer secret key makes the users cost multiplier linearly increase, while the attackers exponentially increases.

Most people dramatically underestimate the dramatic scaling of the word exponential. It's the kind of "if I have 2048 bits then trying every key takes longer than the age of the universe" type slowdown.

Hence:

* Use long secrets (ie. not human-rememberable passwords)

* Use cheap hash functions.

* Don't use scrypt. It's made for passwords (short keys), which really shouldn't exist in 2018.
I had enough electronic classes on my enginnering degree to understand hardware all the way down to designing our own little CPUs.

I don't see what overclocking teaches about how gates work.
Are hackers the last bastion between us little people and the totalitarian state envisioned by the British people?

Because it seems that we've got a lot of work to do. How people are okay with their taxes paying for things like JTRIG is really dis-heartening ..
Simple-majority democracy is used by many animals
C++17 constexpr everything, or as much as the compiler can
A circuit that helps the brain record memories of new locations
Don't use Hackintosh unless there's something you really, really can't do on Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora, you're just creating a very annoying stick for your back.
If FDA is a major barrier to bringing drugs to market, is it possible set up trial in other countries with less regulation as well as trial cost? I would imagine that for stuff such as cancer there should be significant demand for trying out drugs that are still on trial - especially in other countries because they don't even get to participate normally.
For comparison, after reinstalling MacOS High Sierra on a (supported) MacMini6,2 Server that has been bought with two SSDs in RAID, I have been unable to get the OS to load again. I had to resort to breaking my filesystem in two (/ and /Users) and fiddling around with fstab and who knows what else just to get a working machine. Apple Support has been anything but. They just don’t care anymore.
> I do not recommend using a hackintosh if it pays your bills. It will eventually break and there might not be a fix.

Or do it like me, I have a hackintosh but also a genuine macbook pro - which i need anyway because a desktop hackintosh isn't portable. If the hackintosh acts up, I have the laptop to keep me in business while i figure out a solution.
Did you read the article? It states that the women selling sex in this case are victims of trafficking.
The problem with fusion was that until recently it was extremely expensive to build experimental facilities with necessary parameters for meaningful progress. Nobody was ready for that.

What happens recently is that due to technological improvement (powerful superconductive magnets, better simulations and faster controls) it is now possible to test things at regimes close to positive energy output on much smaller scales. So these days one can do useful investigation with 1e7 in funds, not 1e9. This is the reason for all various fusion startups.

Now, it does not mean that we are going to have fusion soon, but at least it is now only 20 years from any moment, not 40.
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You can build any computer yourself, no need to try to hack OS X to run on it.

That is not what the UX is all about.
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For me the biggest drawback of hackintosh is its os. Installing it for fun is ok but keeping it on your pc for any extended period of time is pure masochism for me.

My gf has mac book pro with osx high sierra installed. Connecting it to any kind of network drive is purgatory and a continous one as you can transition between afp, smb and nfs protocols and each one has its own unique set of bugs dating back a decade or more still present in latest version of os.
That is a nice hack thanks! Though it is not really portable to all OS, and AFAIU not working if you ssh to a remote host ! It may give a potential way to work partially around that limitation. I feel like an actual push/pop solution would be better.
Remembering the name of my spotify playlists is currently my bug bear.

It's very convenient to be wandering around and control music. It quickly becomes more frustrating if you have to go back to the laptop.
Good start! Would love to see more...
Finance Ministry of Russia plans draft law on regulating cryptocurrencies
I had a Nexus 5 a couple of years ago that could do that and I am sure there have been phones way before that with induction charging.
Even though it's nearly 2018 everything except the machines I ssh into is protected by passwords. I would like it very much if the passwords weren't stored with unsalted md5.
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> The breakage rate for distrusting all Symantec certificates is significantly higher than 0.1%, but there is just one vendor that needs to fix things.

No. Every website that uses a Symantec cert (that was issued before 2017-12-01) needs to renew their cert early to move to their new root.
I found this talk really fascinating, I'd never heard of 'Electrical impedance tomography' before and thought the implementation this lady created looks really cool!
Ending 2017 with a bang - finishing a hacky, homemade SaaS project
> Now if you're a programmer doing native code, I'd still recommend doing a hackintosh; Apple has no hardware for you, so you might as well roll your own. For desktops, that is. Also get an apple made macbook pro for portability. Maybe the one without the emoji keyboard though.

There's one more use case that infuriates me: CI. Are we supposed to buy outdated and underpowered Mac Minis, outdated and overpriced Mac Pros, stuff clamshell'd MBPs into racks, or horizontally slide in iMac Pros even?

The fact that we collectively have to hack hypervisors to merely flick a flag and be able to operate a snapshottable macOS on server-class, rackable hardware at non-trivial scales is just beyond ridiculous. That license requirement is inane.
Life Cycle of an Ethereum Transaction
The same reason any other scam works: Somebody along the chain has exploitable greed, so that they believe something "too good to be true."

The real question is why it would be in temporary decline this year.
Yes, but you could let a load balancer handle that for you, and you might not need as many computers to handle the requests if it didn't take 250ms to start.
Maybe old browser versions should be archived as container images with all the necessary shared libraries. Then the only interface that might break them is the kernel interface, and we know Linus' stance on breaking userspace.
His last comment about demoting it to Windows only is very telling. All the hackintosh issues go away the moment you switch to Windows or Linux. He's really complaining about how hard it is to try to do a hard thing. Hackintosh is, as the name suggests, a hack. Not a commercial alternative
So? Use a properly salted sha256. Don’t use scrypt.
Seems like you're making a lot of assumptions about programmers who write native code.
This was the idea behind Diaspora - https://diasporafoundation.org

Unsurprisingly, it is not used by “normal” non-techy people.
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No one has figured out how automation can save a flight in the air if the automation fails. Remote control and communication can also fail. Ground based trains or vehicles can just stop on the ground.
Strongest is the one with biggest estimated capacity to do harm to others.

Adult does the estimating.
Since I use a beautiful 5K Dell display every day, I also thought it was a bit overblown. Maybe it doesn't work with his AMD setup, but it is definitely supported on nVidia. It is a bit complicated by 5K requiring DisplayPort MultiStream.

I would still be buying Mac Pro computers regularly except that they haven't released a proper one for 7 years.
You’re missing the point. Clearly this is proof Star Trek and nearly all scifi have had it right: evolution always produces a hominid form with 2 legs/arms as dominant life forms. /s
Yes, this from 2016
What about virtual hackintosh?

My use case is building multiplatform apps with xamarin, and so I need a machine running osx somewhere for the apple build, and to verify performance on an actual ios device.

I had a 2016 mbp but spilled wine on it, so now I've only got my shoddy older macbook that limps along at best. I do, however, have a 2017 NUC with plenty of storage and ram, but that's my main dev box so I'd rather keep it linux...
It has been long time since von Neumann architecture doesn't represent any modern hardware, so the knowledge how individual gates/transistors work is not as applicable.

However understanding memory latency, cache hierarchy, sleep states, PCI lanes, core layout&temperatures, etc is actually very useful when your concern is performance.
How some startups are trying to work around net neutrality repeal
Consider that agile is an absolutely minimalistic team process structure compared to what came before it. Maybe there are better methods now. But you have to have SOME kind of system in place, the baseline isnt $0 + no planning needed.

So, when you say that it spends money, wastes time and so on, what process structure do you compare it to?
He made a previous post about why he was switching from his official Apple devices to a Hackintosh. The TLDR is that Apple didn't make any computers at that time that could keep up with his 4K video production workflow (the iMac Pro wasn't released yet and his iMac 5K wasn't able to provide realtime performance).

https://martinhering.me/post/168710691680/rx-vega-64-hackint...
Not at all, I'm describing my use case.

And to add another example, a friend of mine is working on a 5K iMac (non pro) on a normal-ish desktop application. He has to use external storage for testing, because the application has to manage large document libraries that don't fit on his internal SSD. Also, he's always mentioning that the iMac gets noisy when he's doing a build.
I understand what you are trying to say. Yes. This is a sort of a dark age for all science related. A few well supported islands in an ocean of hostile politics
Since most of the energy output of boron fusion is in fast-moving charged particles, you aren't necessarily restricted to a thermal cycle. Focus fusion, for example, gets a pulse of alphas in a tight beam, which they can just aim through a coil for electricity. Tri Alpha also has plans for direct conversion, but I don't know how theirs works.
Bitcoin was a "first iteration" of digital currency. It has shown some problems. It started by allowing you to send money fast and cheap to other parties. That advantage is gone for Bitcoin. Transaction costs are huge now, and it can take hours for a transaction to get confirmations.

But there are many other digital currencies that try to solve those and other problems. Even currencies that implement the Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain, where no "Mining" is required for the network to function, and therefore no large energy requirements and no cost for transactions.

We are still at the beginning of the technology.
You can buy 1u Mac mini server racks explicitly for this purpose. But yes, the specs of the mini are a joke.
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And yet in result, this market is justifying that the exact same task (verifying a block every 10 min) needs orders of magnitude more energy today than it did in the past, even though the result is exactly the same. This is practically an energy hog.

I'd argue that bitcoin is also an energy hog in theory:
Why do people believe there is money to be made in mining? Because bitcoin's core mechanisms ensure that money is to be made, as long as bitcoin is worth enough (which it currently is).

So the bitcoin protocol does three things:

1) Encourage people to mine by offering block rewards and tx fees.
2) Ensure that new miners don't actually add any useful capacity to the network.
3) Require that old miners do at least as much work as new miners if they want to keep their income.

If you take those together, the bitcoin protocol encourages a race to spend more energy to archieve the same thing.

> They will be wrong sometimes, and right sometimes, and equilibrium will be reached intermittently.

There is an equilibrium of energy costs in bitcoin, obviously. However no one knows how the bitcoin/USD price will develop, so I don't see how that implies any cap for energy costa in USD. And even that is just an aporoximation for the actual energy costs in raw materials. One that can be very skewed as the posts further down in the thread explain.
> There is no other professional industry in the world, where candidates with 6+ years of professional success are asked to sit a god damned test every time they apply for a job.

But is it because it is hard to fake knowledge in other industries or is it because it is easy to find out programmer is faking?

If there's so many programmers who can't do fizbuz, are there as many managers, doctors, lawyers, etc who can't do basic stuff despite perfect CV?
Recommend a rain gauge with API (and wifi)
Since our village is placed in a valley I would like to implement a warning system about heavy rain. I want to connect monitoring system, sms gateway and a gauge. Could you recommend a rain gauge with API and ideally with wi-fi interface? I found Netatmo but it seems quite expensive. Is there any other for reasonable price? Or should I wire something via Arduino? e.g. http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Rain-Gauge-Calibration/
> some of the potential it has in next few years

To be honest we've been told about the potential for VR for the past 3 or 4 years at least and I still can't see any killer app to justify the investment. Yeah, it's fun for cockpit games and simulations in general, but... there's not many games "made for VR" that are really interesting. Maybe business applications will be more appealing in the end?
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Sure, I guess I can't really dispute any of that, but I'm not sure I buy that what you've written has any kind of strong consensus backing it.

Anyway, I do agree with your larger point. I'd stay away from this language for a variety of reasons.
If you're testing a Chef run, you probably don't want to use MacOS because your target deployment OS is likely some Linux variant.

You are right about file permissions, it's the one downside I've noticed but luckily it's a non-issue. You can just chmod your files and folders in your deploy scripts/recipes/playbooks. This is a good practice anyways and I would do that in any case.

Also in any case, if I were testing deploy scripts I would always do that in a VM or staging server even if I ran Linux natively, because you wouldn't want to corrupt your development box with project specific deploy infrastructure.

Oh yeah, the permissions also don't bother you in development. For example I can just cd into my development files (which are outside of WSL) and run VSCode on it without sudo or any tricks, and it all just works. They are accessible from within WSL too without using sudo (even tho they are owned by root:root according to WSL while I'm logged in as my user).
There is always time. Though I admit that with the baby now I have to get more creative. But they do have to sleep at some point don't they? :P
Such layoffs have occurred in the past as well, this is nothing new.

Can you point out similar scams which have been running for 30 years where revenue kept on increasing in billions
Everyone in this comment thread seems to hate the glass walls. Why does WeWork use them everywhere if they are so unliked?
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The same goes for many other icons. Like rss, wifi, and shutdown icon.

It makes sense, because once an icon becomes popular reinventing it with another design makes people confused.