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I had a dell XPS laptop for work a long time ago, and it was one of those desktop replacement models with a desktop GPU. I was extremely unlucky and it happened to have a doomed GPU model - bumpgate, I think - so it would typically fail after a few months.

Dell came to my workplace during work hours, on a day's notice, 6 different times, to replace the GPU for free because it was under warranty.

I've had some bad experiences with Dell in the years since (their monitors have absolutely horrible firmware now so I can't recommend buying them anymore) but their warranty service was great then and is still pretty great now. Cross-ship RMA for things like monitors is a great perk.
What's the point of generating a price plot without a y axis?
Isn’t that a good thing? You don’t want to be able to export keys from a HSM.
London under threat of 'sinking' as global warming makes sea levels rise
We can find somebody, easy, who doesn't drink like a fish and harass women

No you can't. No judge the Republicans nominate will not be the target of some accusation by some woman at this point. If "the bar" is that no Democrat female accuses the nominee of something then then Supreme Court will be ...

... Maybe a woman judge would fill the bill?

Ah, now I get it.

Yes that's right. Make it impossible for a man to be a judge by insisting that any and all claims must be believed no matter how ancient, vague or implausible, to ensure that the court ends up packed with women.

If America continues down this path it will end very, very badly for women. We could easily end up returning to a time where women are disbelieved by default when they make an accusation of something. The Kavanaugh case has to be one of the clearest cases I can see of a frivolous politically motivated complaint (which is very likely false). Accusations of sexual assault are not tools to try and tilt the composition of courts.
It's not that the concept is a failure. It's that Rethink, the company, is a failure. Universal Robotics in Denmark is doing something very similar, but they have over 25,000 installed robots and distributors in 50 countries. They also have a robot arm that is a nice piece of mechanical engineering, and retains its precision over a very large number of cycles.

The coming thing is robots as a service, paid by the hour. Hirebotics offers that. They own the robots. They set them up. They fix them. You pay them for each hour of use, like an employee.

Vision for robots today works well for semi-structured situations. If you know what the parts look like, and can see the parts and target location reasonably well, you can probably get a vision system to guide a robot arm to put things where they're supposed to go. The fixturing no longer has to be so rigid that a robot can do the job blind. The systems that do this are often just convolving a stored image of the target against a camera image of the area that contains the target. This is 1970s technology, but we have enough cheap compute power now to make it work fast.
hello, are you looking to hire new grads as well?
At this point can’t you ship it to Apple ?
I think the main issue here is the availability of repairs, if my sony ps4 breaks down, I most likely won't take it to sony as they will take 3 weeks to send it back. I'll prolly take it to an individual shop and get it done within a day.

Also the other downside e.g for iphones is that apple is not selling genuine screens... you broke your screen on your $1500 iphone? cause thats how much it costs in the EU... you will get a knockoff screen if you want to get it done in a day, if you want you can wait 4-5 weeks for them to get back to you, unless you live in london, paris, berlin etc.
Isn't the whole point of the T2 chip to prevent these kinds of attacks?

The T2 starts the boot process and verifies the integrity of the system (including OS) and you can't flash the T2 without a digital signature from Apple.

Unless someone finds a serious flaw in the system, or one of Apple's signing keys is leaked, I don't see how you'd circumvent it.
What does it feel like? A lot like hearing a song on the radio and singing along with it. Most people can relate to that, even if some are better than others.

It feels very natural with your voice because you've been making sounds with your vocal cords for your whole life, so it is second nature. I think the main reason a musical instrument feels less natural isn't that it's a unique and different category of thinking. It's just that you have way less practice.

If you can work things out slowly and you have any amount of intuitive feel for it, I'd say you probably just need more practice. Though ear training ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_training ) can be really helpful. You can get software to drill you on intervals. And some people find it helpful to remember the sound of intervals by famous songs they occur in ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_recognition#Reference... ).

For me, it has been a gradual process. At first it was nearly all trial and error. Then I could pick out 1 note in a lot fewer tries than random chance. Then I could play little segments of melodies once I had figured out the keys. Then I could play the whole melody in near real time. Now finally after gradually getting more comfortable over the years, I can guess chord progressions reasonably well. All these things came months or years apart depending on how big of a jump it was and how much I practiced.

Incidentally, I am an amateur pianist, and I have virtually no natural talent. When I started, I could not play anything at all by ear. If I can do it, anybody can.
Go have a look at an Apple ][+ -- expandability, hackability and an open architecture were all attractive selling points.
That sounds a lot like a human problem, not a tool problem.
I personally like the philosophy of making a tool that does one thing and does it well. I keep getting back to Sublime because of how fast it starts and how well it handles very large files. Features like this should have a significant impact on both those advantages.

I'm totally fine with this being just a plug-in and it does indeed offer a great advantage to the community overall.
The Big Picture is non-commutative
I hope they do too. I don't know who Bosworth is or if he's implementing officially decided policy here, but I hope he is.

It's been incredibly unhealthy for tech firms to cowtow to every whim of their most extreme employees. I spent years at Google and it was astonishing sometimes the ludicrous crybaby behaviour some engineers could get away with. When it was just complaints about the food or reskinning a product it was not that dangerous. Now it's become a tool of all out political warfare, it's well past time these employees are told to get a grip or leave. Facebook won't suffer for it, it'll benefit - yes they may have a marginally smaller workforce, but which would they prefer? A slightly lower number of A/B experiments on their new dating product or whatever the marginal recent increase in headcount is working on? Or a happier and healthier internal atmosphere for all?
I've always had an interest in invented languages and spent some time lurking the conlang/worldlang/auxlang communities. They are a very eccentric and confrontational bunch of people, to put it mildly

The most interesting auxlang project I ever came across was Unish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unish), mainly because it is the only one I know of created at a university by trained linguists. It's word selection was highly methodical (http://www.unish.net/introduce/e_unish_Word.jsp) unlike most invented languages which are based on the personal tastes of the inventor.

Check out the book In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent for a fun and interesting look at the whole topic.
Ok so wipe the customers keys in the T2 chip and/or disable id instead of disabling the whole device. Remember when Apple would disable your phone if you swapped the home button with a (iirc) Error 51 message and how they had to walk that back after enough backlash?

I’m all for privacy, but there are ways to offering both privacy and repairability.

> If you don't want that feature you can buy one of their other machines -- or someone else's.

But this information is only coming to light after the products have been put into the market. Apple don’t share this information before you purchase their stuff. What percentage of people who purchase their products know beforehand that the only people who will be a Lee to repair their laptop is Apple or who Apple deem fit?
Walmart Is Using Autonomous Robots to Clean Its Floors
The code is only hard if you can't release it safely.
hello, I was unable to submit my application on the site. The button to submit seems to be unresponsive
I don't normally give salty replies on HN but I have to say no. This is incorrect.

> Issue is that they are lacking on employees for what they want to do.

That is not the problem. The problem is many of us do not accept the world in which everything, down to the hardware we touch is just licensed to us.

Some of us live to hack, crack and diy. We are jealous of the right to repair, tinker and transform.
FWIW, Windows does care about the T2 chip:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3290415/apple-mac/the-...

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208330
should've been more explicit - deleted that part accidentally in an early edit, but yeah, that's what I would've expected, an 'import from' at the beginning
Rooftop solar, low demand, sends W.A. prices negative four times in a week
My personal theory is this is a ploy to get people to believe Trump's anti-china narrative meant to distract from the Russia narrative.
Dell XPS laptops have user-upgradable RAM and SSDs.
It is not a “lifestyle choice”, it was, until recently, the only source of decent developer-oriented hardware with UNIX-like OS, where everything works out of the box. Now there are other options, but they are just as expensive. Good hardware costs money.

Now though they are becoming less and less developer-friendly. I already replaced my desktop — it used to be Mac Pro, now it is a custom Linux box. There are not that many alternatives to Macbooks, but if Apple will continue this kind of politics, I’ll change my laptop as well. And price has nothing to do with that.
Their whole "privacy" campaign recently is precisely to drum up business. Everyone is parroting how Apple is so focused on privacy when they forget that they work closely with the FBI.
Remember the whole thing about iMessage keeping encryption keys stored on apple servers? iPhones have a mics, a camera, and access to all your personal data. Calling apple strong on privacy is like calling lions strong on vegetarianism.
How are there 23 countries in North America?
It doesn't say in the article but do they factor in that it is a redistribution? Wind is waste solar energy as airflow. So once you extract the energy and use it you re-inject the heat elsewhere.

At the moment that is offset by reducing a carbon power plant, but if wind is used to cover power expansion then dont you just end up moving the wind to the heat islands over cities (say)?
Blockchain Definition Is Sought in the New Congressional Bill
Right. The classic is an email account is compromised, a forward to rule is added, and nobody ever notices. It’s a false sense of security if preventing persistence is the goal. Usually instantaneous access is going to be the most disastrous effect anyway.
I have a new MacBook Pro and I love it, but I also bricked it on the first day, doing nothing more than the standard security precaution of not trusting the installed software. I rebooted into recovery, wiped the drive, and hit install... and whelp, it turned out Apple didn’t provide compatible net boot recovery images until weeks after launch. Had to do a store return and live with the uncertainty of what I was running.
DreamLeague Season 10 – First Minor of the Season
I am literally waiting for the Pixelbook 2 to replace my MacBook Pro (Touchbar) as it's been rotting away with failing speakers and keyboard getting progressively worse over time. This is my 3rd with a decade long history of using the devices. However, repairs are just too inaccessible. I don't have the luxury to wait a month for a third party authorized repair shop to do its magic so I can continue working. My best experience was with the 2011 model which I upgraded myself. Everything after was just a worse experience.
What D-Wave is building is not what most other people mean when they say Quantum Computer.

What they build is as far as my lay understanding is something that is much more limited than a "normal" quantum computer. That's why you can't compare qubits from D-Wave with other QC technology.

What D-Wave has is technically called an adiabatic quantum computer and they've yet to show that you can do anything useful with it.
A "creative index" is another term for a "fund."
Lenovo thinkpads have a security chip also.

These so-called security chips give me mixed feelings.

They might improve the security of the average consumer, but they also create more barriers for anyone that wants to tinker with their setup.
For someone not blinded by unwavering loyalty you sure do love being locked in to a single vendor.

> Don’t tell me that I can get this all with Linux and a Dell. You know I can’t.

That's a feature, in every category of electronoic life I have multiple companies competing to provide me with nearly everything I want.

> For my “loyalty” to be considered “unwavering” there would have to be a legitimate alternative that does just what Apple does, but lets me repair my own [incredibly powerful, thin, built-like-a-slab-of-rock, trivial to keep up-to-date] laptop. That laptop would have to seamlessly sync my phone and watch, there would have to be superb Bluetooth in-ear wireless headphones available for this ecosystem ... it goes on and on.

That whole paragraph sounds like an ad.
Learning Phoenix coming from Rails background
JavaScript lets you code however you want. It gives you a million ways to do everything. This can definitely be confusing, slow, and overwhelming.

However, if you choose a paradigm and stick to it JavaScript can be great. I've been using it as a forgiving functional programming language and it's amazing. Cleaner code than python, easier to reason about (thanks to pure functions + immutability, which you could also do in python or many other languages to be fair) and a very robust ecosystem for web development.
In case anyone asks: XMonad
That is precisely the point.
I think it's just that everyone realised that powerful people can be browbeaten into compliance with almost trivial levels of complaining if it's phrased right. All you have to do is say, "I'm a woman and this is hurtful" (as this article says explicitly is happening in Facebook) and executives, politicians, academics, regulators etc all immediately fall into line. Telling a woman to toughen up is culturally impossible which means all sorts of people have realised they can grab the driving seat of powerful organisations without actually climbing to the top. All the power, none of the responsibility - who can resist such an offer?

So we get this cascade of ludicrous complaints, like the senior police officer in the UK who was suspended for saying "our behaviour must be whiter than white" because using a common idiom for 'not corrupt' is now racist. There's no logic to it, but the ability to anonymously exercise power over a huge organisation at will is irresistable to too many.

This will end only when strong leaders start firing people who try to claim offence at trivial things. The pendulum will eventually swing back - it has to, organisations that don't let it swing will be destroyed by the constant infighting over power.
Caribbean and Central America.
Because, other than these restrictions, macOS is _that good_. Or was.

I moved to Fedora on my desktop since then, but I do miss macOS often.
In an appearance this morning on Bloomberg Television, reporter Jordan Robertson made further claims about the supposed discovery of malicious chips, saying, “In Apple’s case, our understanding is it was a random spot check of some problematic servers that led to this detection.”
As we have previously informed Bloomberg, this is completely untrue. Apple has never found malicious chips in our servers.
Finally, in response to questions we have received from other news organisations since Businessweek published its story, we are not under any kind of gag order or other confidentiality obligations.

It can’t get much clearer than that. The whole story is quite weird. I don’t know who should be believed but I’ve never read any such vehement denial. If Apple is lying they risk quite a bit of credibility here
The best "API language" is the one constructed to work with the app's data model. SQL constructs are relational - fine for rails, django, or salesforce apps which map screen to table (or table join).

Wouldn't work for facebook, google knowledge graph, or the larger enterprise app vendors today. Theirs is typed graph.
There's a saying along the lines of, the purpose of a tool is determined by how its users use it. For instance, security dialogs are often useless because users blindly click through. Is this a human problem? Yes, absolutely. Does that mean we can blame users for not using the dialog properly? No, it doesn't. We're trying other approaches now that encourage better behaviors from users.

All that is to say, a human problem is fundamentally a tool problem.
WHY CASTRO AND NKRUMAH REJECTED DemoCRACY
By reading the Solid website I was wondering if it was not basically what OpenID tried to offers 10 years ago? https://openid.net/what-is-openid/

> OpenID allows you to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites, without needing to create new passwords.

> You may choose to associate information with your OpenID that can be shared with the websites you visit, such as a name or email address. With OpenID, you control how much of that information is shared with the websites you visit.

Is Solid having the NIH syndrome?
> This figure implies that meeting current U.S. electricity needs [entirely from wind alone] would require wind farms to cover fully 12 percent of the U.S. land area

This seems like an almighty straw man, without even beginning to point out that a wind turbine doesn't preclude other land usage.
My p51 has upgradable storage, an extra slot for more m2 storage and I can double the ram.

The obvious tradeoff is that it is heavier and thicker than similar machines. Also the power brick is gigantic.
That just means it's ideal for your projects, and maybe even most projects. That doesn't mean it's ideal for all projects though.

To use an obvious analogy, PHP is the most popular web backend language and it's ideal for my project, so you should be using it on your project regardless of what your project is...

Very few people would agree with that.
> Actually, Dickens made a bit of a habit of stuffing his dead pets. When his cat Bob died, for exam­ple, he had one of his paws made into a letter opener.

Being a guy with a couple of aging cats, this actually had me stroking my figurative beard. I wonder if this letter opener paw had one shiny, sharpened, metal claw as I'm led to imagine it? Sounds pretty cool, something any reasonably awesome family would keep as a cherished heirloom.

(And how did I overlook such a great name for a cat)
European Parliament Approves 30% Netflix Content Quota
I had a 2013 Samsung ATIV Book and when the keys began to fail, I attempted to replace the keyboard. This is something that took < 5min on my 2008 HP laptop but was now impossible, because Samsung decided to glue and mold the keyboard onto the actual case.

So this isn't a problem limited to Apple, apparently most manufacturers decided that devices need to be as unfixable as possible.
It's an artefact of the tool having too many features.
> No you can't. No judge the Republicans nominate will not be the target of some accusation by some woman at this point

Gorsuch faced no such accusations.
I see current AI to be like donkeys, and the middling AI you speak of as chimps. There's a reason we domesticated donkeys and not chimps.

The autopilot feature of Teslas is a lot like a donkey. It mostly handles itself but is stupid and needs a lot of monitoring. Using autopilot feels a lot like sitting on a cart and pulling the ropes on the donkey every once in a while.
I manage developers and coordinate work across teams. Can't stand JIRA.

I'm not expecting much. For one this is a space that many engineers sneer at ("product/sales/marketing/not-engineering" is beneath them) and don't really want to work in. Another thing is that many of the individuals responsible for deciding on project management tools are not qualified to do so but think they are and won't apply effort to doing a proper job of evaluating options.
This Slate Star Codex post has more substance for its non-existent philosophical language than all of Loglan/lojban. It is a controversial statement but I’ll stand by it:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/06/raikoth-laws-language-a...

There is a lot of very interesting things that could be done with a human language that had a precise function mapping 1:1 utterances to semantics, which syntactically required specifying source of knowledge and uncertainty, and supported strongly typed noun phrase constructions.

Unfortunately that’s not loglan. The only thing loglan rigorously defines was the syntax and morphology, which ironically is basically a solved problem for natural languages today. Context is all you need to parse a sentence as well as a human, or better, and rigorously defining context was explicitly excluded from the scope of loglan/lojban :(
A robot is basically a programmable jig. If a robot is floppy like a human, and needs a traditional jig for precision work, then the jig is inflexible and you might as well just build a single-purpose machine to do that thing.
numpy is considered a low-level backbone of data science on Python; re-writing it would be equivalent to re-writing the "print" function.

OP is probably referring to somebody importing a high-level class that does something complex (auto-differentiation etc.)
Can anyone elaborate on the possibly clean alternative not mentioned in the: Tidal Power

I know the work has still to be done by something so it will affect something else somehow, but what is it?

The speed of the moon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power
You do not give up any right when you look both ways before crossing the street. Which other situations you can suggest?
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Well, that's a lot of robocalls. I get maybe 5-6 calls each week. I ignore all of those calls, though. I know those calls are robocalls, since I almost never expect a call on my landline nowadays. I have just read an article that might be useful for you and also for anyone who get multiple calls like this at http://www.whycall.me/news/consumer-wins-massive-229500-robo.... Hope this helps.
...they do? Why?
An i9 macbook pro is 3100 with Applecare and tax its 3800. If you don't buy the Applecare they can charge you whatever they like to fix it because you wont be able to take it elsewhere. Have fun when a new battery costs you $250.

Regarding the XPS with 6 cores, 16GB ram, 512 ssd it still comes in closer to 2K you could bank the extra 1800 and use part of it to have it fixed if you dropped it.

The surface laptop 2 seems to start at around 1K doesn't appear to be the in the same ballpark although with integrated graphics, a lesser display, and lesser processor it also doesn't look to be in the same class.