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> Since the Constitution expressly places the approval of judges into the hands of the senate....

> [...] if the voters had chosen Hilary there is a very good chance she would have nominated a more leftist judge than Obama had.

Under your logic, they could have just waited for a Republican to become president before they voted to confirm any judges. Granted, that would have been an even bigger gamble (what if they lose the majority in the Senate in the meantime?), and even more justices could die or retire in the meantime.

How many seats need to be open before you would say the Senate must confirm someone? (1? 2? 5? 9?) How long are they allowed to wait? (6 months? a year? 4 years? 8 years?) . How dysfunctional could our government become before your logic implies the need to act?
It's going to be interesting to see non-state actors get their hands on a railgun. Possibly handed by a state actor, of course.
But do partisan issues exist orthogonally to race? In other words, is government and politics race-blind?
The UI changes are rarely better, and often much worse. They just shuffle things around, and add annoying glitz.

Cars are getting pretty bad, too. Especially with the transition to inscrutable icons. Apparently words like "On", "Defrost", "Fuel", etc., are unhip and so 20th century.
It's kind of shame that being fast has become a super-premium feature that people are willing $360 USD a year for, especially considering how powerful the hardware of today is.
Interesting, makes me want to see a chart with the pros and cons of both. There's gotta be a reason they chose to go this route.
I wonder how durable these will be in combat

Seems vulnerable to damage during a battle. A couple stray bullets or shrapnel hitting those power cables would put it out of commission unless it was heavily armored.

where as they would just ping off an old-timey cannon harmlessly.
"shoot satellites out of orbit", not "into orbit"
Interesting move. Looking forwards to seeing what he decides to do outside of work with Apple.
I would ask everyone to pause a minute before posting and ask if the comment adds substance to the discussion. If you have support for your argument, include it. If you use numbers, please back them up.
Apple names Sabih Khan SVP of Operations
No steam references entropy or distribution of the molecules in the air. Concentrated water molecules visible as myst produced from hot water is steam. The water molecules evenly dispersed in the air is humidity.
old-timey cannons need a lot of systems to slew/aim/etc. And without these systems, they are useless.
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Developing countries use a good deal of mobile banking. Anecdotally mobile payments make up as much as 50% of all transactions. I am typing this on mobile so can't really post links. Search Mpesa and Ecocash for more information. Card processing machines are also becoming pretty common and it is easy to transfer money from you mobile banking account to a card.
You don’t remotely need to hit escape velocity. If your aim is good enough you just need to lift your projectile high enough - the satellite brings plenty of relative velocity.
You are describing a coilgun.
Yep. They had already been giving him tremendous leeway to work on side projects outside Apple for several years, they certainly would have allowed him to establish a formal studio for this side-business stuff if that's all it was. Clearly this is about no loner seeing eye-to-eye on his decisions in the expanded c-suite role that encompassed UI design etc.
I bet you $100 that’s wrong
"The website you are trying to access has been identified as a security risk; access has been disallowed by [corporate information security team]"
Except a lot of people don't like Google having persistent cookies that track your web usage. Why should giving up that data be a prerequisite for accessing a website?
Serious? What version of OS X is it running, and how much do you want?
Legal grey area.

> But if you are making a copy so that you may use a copyrighted product in case the original is stolen, damaged or destroyed, your conduct may fall within the doctrine of fair use. https://info.legalzoom.com/copyright-law-making-personal-cop...
Nope, does not work on HN. But thank you!
> Do you work well with passion without attachment towards results.

I assume by "results" you mean recompense or renown, since you mention doing work "well". I only mention it because to me "results" are what I use to define whether my work was done well, and aren't what I think of when considering whether it was materially beneficial for me.
Tried it out. Love it.
Trust your gut in these situations, and dont let anyone else tell you that you are being irrational.
Not really. That’s in Canada. And the Sikh population is highly integrated and successful in the Canadian system. I believe 3 cabinet members in the current Canadian government are Sikh.

That’s very different from the status of the Sikh population in the US, so I’m not sure how it adds any context to this article.
But he can work for the competition now as well.
given a fixed budget we're probably better off buying 2 diesel buses rather than a single electric bus.

I think the situation is a little more complicated than that. Electricity is a much cheaper fuel than diesel, and maintenance costs are lower for electric vehicles too, so in the long term electric buses may end up saving more money than they cost.

Add to that the fact that interest rates are very low right now, and it may even turn out that financing the electric buses and charging systems could allow cities to save money from day one, though I haven't crunched any numbers so this is admittedly just speculation on my part.
This is mistaken, Apple sells devices and the software comes with; it’s a key selling point. Yes they expanded their services sector, because product is getting hard to push — but it will always be the core business.
Thanks, but my 2013 machine is still chugging along well. I replaced the screen a few months back and it still feels great.
This sounds like: If you can afford a mainframe and people to manage it, you get an experienced team of people who can manage mainframes well. Not that I disagree, but... this is about how money can give you sophisticated environments, not about mainframes. All of those points can be replicated with a distributed system of classic consumer hardware.
The new Macbook Air actually has TouchID without the touch bar.

I actually mind the touch bar, because I like having actual keys for brightness adjusment, keyboard backlight, and volume.
DRM caused this problem, and if you want to convince me that the solution is more advanced DRM that somehow fails open when the company that built it goes out of business, you'll need a stronger argument than "it's probably necessary for a lot of products that obviously would not have been created had 100% of the customers decided not to pay."

Abolishing copyright wouldn't eliminate all creative works. It would eliminate a lot of the funding, but there would still be plenty of people willing to create things for free and other creators working on a patronage or cross-subsidisation model. It's not obvious to me that the world would be a worse place under these conditions. I'm prepared to give up the certainty of the next Marvel movie being produced if it means giving everyone free access to all the other creative works that have already been published.
As a person with knowledge of machining and who is rather technical, the "grater" design is honestly pretty appealing to me- I wish the New Pro's had filters, but that design looks cool.

It does, at least, look better than the last PC I built.
Not the one in Mount Pleasant!
Most diffing algorithms used by code review apps support an ignore whitespace mode.

For example with Github https://github.blog/2018-05-01-ignore-white-space-in-code-re...
'Western' meaning the usual aggressors, the “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing alliance of the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
I am interested in how authors actually work, and the annotated version gives some insight into how he works. You can get an idea of how he works by reading this interview with him [1]. I also got some of this from another interview I cannot find at the moment, but basically he writes in Emacs, just a plain text file, but with some markup conventions that let him distinguish between the text itself and various comments to himself about the text.

The interview I linked to includes a screenshot of Children in the Sky whilst he was writing it. The character of the draft you see there is much like I remember this annotated edition of A Fire Upon the Deep was - in other words, it was really the text of the book itself but including all of the notes to himself that he put in to help himself correlate bits of the story that should be correlated, help him make sure that the first time various things are introduced he actually introduces them properly, includes feedback from his early readers, etc.

I would not actually read the annotated version when I wanted to read the book, but would read it to see his thought process at various points, how he decided to do things, etc.

[1] http://www.norwescon.org/archives/norwescon33/vingeinterview...
This is an interesting hypothesis. It is reminiscent of Steve Jobs' insistence on his carved wood Apple /// design (which the motherboard didn't fit into) or that the original Macintosh must not have a fan (because computers with fans were junk.)

Both designs contributed to reliability problems (multiple boards/ribbon cable/flexing/loose DRAM chips on the Apple ///, failed analog boards on the Mac.)
> Hopefully this signals the end of the designers tyranny at Apple.

Wait, how do you know it doesn't mean...

- all toasters will be as thin as a slice of bread

- refrigerators will now open and close like a laptop

- washers and dryers will now be wireless (compatibility dongles for water and lint will be available)
> The USB-C to HDMI is the worst adapter I've ever seen.

Just curious why? I use mine almost every day and have never had issues.

It's not an Apple-branded one though, it's "Cable Matters"... but if anything Apple adapters tend to be higher quality than third-party ones?

(I also use a Cable Matters SD adapter more than once a week to transfer video and it's been working flawlessly for over a year too.)
This is one of the concepts I like the most personally. The plan was to remove discrimination as the emphasis is on an egalitarian society. It also ensures women don't change their surnames after marriage (if they are practicing Sikhs). The religion is pretty egalitarian in that respect, and there is no role the women can't take up in the religion. Since most of the Sikhs are Punjabis, and Punjabi society still isn't quite feminist, you don't get to see this as much in practice as you should. As in, I don't know of a female Head Granthi in major Gurdwaras. For context, a Granthi is a reader of the religious text, employed by the Gurdwara for daily services. Anyone can read the book though, just to be clear. Some people might use the word priest for Granthi, but that's incorrect because Sikhism doesn't have priests or bishops, as everyone is equal, and positions of power that wield influence aren't supposed to be present, as Sikhism doesn't believe special titles like priests or bishops bestow any special capabilities. I do hope that as the Punjabi society progresses (or we see more people from other ethnicities taking up these roles), we'll see more involvement of women in such roles, as the egalitarian bit and no degradation of women is something I've always liked quite a bit personally.
Ironically, the gdpr also attempts to protect you from "accidental data destruction" (what folks would usually call data loss in storage, though the gdpr uses the expression for 'lost a USB drive the somebody else can find'). This means that if nothing else, gdpr makes it legitimate business interest (compliance) to have IMMUTABLE backups.
Or maybe he just got bored. It's been 20 years.
Many IDEs can automatically insert the type of a variable when developing. This seems preferable: have one person do this one action once, rather than every person reading the code in the future having to do work to decode the type.
"50 years ago the alternative was carpet bombing"

No, it was snipers or specialist teams if it was about taking out one person or a small group with minimal collateral damage. Carpet bombing was for taking out unknown opponents in a specific area with no concern for collateral damage. They could switch off stuff like drones and guided missiles to get more precision using the trained specialists. This is exactly what Richard Marcinko of SEAL 6 wanted after watching SIGINT and technical solutions screw up missions for so long that the human soldiers then had to salvage.
I have a hard time believing that people who experience war are happier on average than those that don't. People who have trained in suffering and deprivation might overcome it in despite such experience, but I would not bet on the average.
Nothing much. The biggest consumer could be tampermonkey but the last script I was using has been disabled for a while. I am using multiple profiles though, which could be a problem. My non primary provide gets reaped more than the primary. I'll try cutting down the number of cores it can use and see if that does anything.
What spec?
I appreciate your comments in this thread. But could you please stop baiting people on this point? If there's one thing I've learned from running HN it's that the generalizations about the community that people come up with are invariably wrong. They're overgeneralized from a small sample of what the generalizer happened to notice—and since we're far more likely to notice what rubs us the wrong way, the results always have have sharp edges. In other words, people remember most the things they most dislike, then tar the whole with it. To borrow your phrase, the actual TLDR is less interesting.
What exactly is his job? Is he a designer who says - this is how our product should look like? Or does he actually engineer the product deciding which component should be smaller, etc?
My favorite personal Google Maps whoops is when I was looking for a Chipotle in Mountain View around 2009ish, and Google Maps directed me... onto Google's own campus. (Sadly, I didn't try to go to the cafeteria and demand a burrito.)
Using web components with a headless CMS
I think they really needed a transition design for 3-4 years that included USB-C but still had the "legacy" ports—in quotes because when they announced the C-only model I hadn't even seen a USB-C port or cable in real life yet.

USB-A is nowhere near being on the way out yet. Especially when their own damn mobile devices still come with A cables. We're way into their attempt to push everything to USB-C but I went to Target to grab one for my work laptop (to be able to charge an iPhone or iPad from it) and the C cables that are anything other than C-to-A (for some android phones) are 100% Apple branded. Everything's still A and Micro-USB. A whole wall of that. USB-C? Only in a tiny Apple section. Flash drives? Mostly still A. Everything, really. Having only C continues to suck, and it looks like it will for a while. Apple's switch to C doesn't even seem to have changed things that much—everyone seems to just still do A and assume the poor Macbook users will plug in a hub or use an adapter.
That doesn't really answer how you can fail to parse a formulation and still draw a conclusion regarding it's logical validity.
Interestingly, I find I'm the other way. Reading for pleasure, I want a physical book. Anything where I'm flipping back and forth, I prefer an e-book, so I can quickly make bookmarks and have a clickable table of contents/index.
Can this transfer between languages? Say, I speak an English sentence, and we can clone my voice to Chinese.

Apologies if this is in the paper, I’m on my phone so it’s difficult for me to peruse.
Sure, I'd love to work on mainframe. How's the pay?

finds job board posting $60-$80 USD

> we need someone to replace multiple existing mainframe systems...

Doh. Well. Somebody tell the author, someone's out for their job!
One place where I've found inference to be absolutely essential is some of the more complex asynchronous Rust code. There are probably a handful of issues at play here, but the end result is that often it is very hard to even know the exact type of a value. Sometimes, even if I have a feeling of what it is, the exact type incantation is hard or impossible to come up with. But if I just want to use a value where it matches an appropriate trait, I don't actually care about the exact type.
This link should give you some clues, is one of the worst reviewed products on Apple.com https://www.apple.com/shop/reviews/MJ1K2AM/A/usb-c-digital-a...
I think he has been independently wealthy for a very long time. Money is probably not the issue.
Agreed, better to use an IDE to insert the full type of a variable automatically so the code is readable in any environment afterwards.

Inferred types feels like an invention for people who don’t like IDEs, that somehow forces everyone _else_ to use an IDE.
One factor to consider especially in a country like Zimbabwe where most transactions are done through mobile phones is that electronic transactions are now a cash cow. Traceable and taxable. 2c for every dollar transferred in Zim goes to the government for transactions above 10 dollars. The government is not going to let someone steal their lunch.
Airplay 2 works great if the place you're presenting in supports it, but most places don't upgrade their equipment that often.
USB-C is good, when Thunderbolt is integrated. I'm fine with getting rid of everything else. I have a cheapo HDMI adapter that works great.

But putting the ports millimeters apart on the side of a computer that offers at least nine inches of space is idiotic: https://i.imgur.com/0HGp7O0.jpg

The new keyboard is insufferable; you might as well just go to a membrane keyboard at this point. The deletion of a dozen keys for the sake of the emoji bar is embarrassing, especially on a "pro" computer. Now programmers are supposed to step through code with a featureless strip that goes to sleep every few seconds? The crowning offense is not even OFFERING the option of real keys, when the "consumer" Air has them.

The big trackpad is a mistake because the heels of your hands are in contact with it all the time, necessitating who knows how much spurious-touch-rejection logic that simply fails occasionally and sends your cursor to some other part of the screen or document... or your hand simply executes an unintended click or right-click.

Another baffling failure: Why doesn't the Pencil work on those giant touchpads? Now THAT would be useful!
Should edit title to add “in us-east-1”. Other regions are unimpacted.
FWIW, Andreessen Horowitz is an investor in Superhuman. :)
I keep seeing this, and I've got one and disagree.

I quite like the new keyboard feel, I can type damned fast on it. The touchbar implementation in IntelliJ is nice, touch ID is great to login, I travel quite a bit so having something powerful but super light is a huge boon.

It's probably not for everyone, but it felt like an upgrade over the 2015 model I was using before ... and sure, they jumped the gun on USB-C but I've since upgraded to a monitor that has a USB-C input and that's just a single cable to both charge the device and to output video ... which is damn near magic.
Maybe it's my lack of exposure to older iOS devices, but I haven't had any problems with it since getting my first iPhone last year.
(my) Lesson Learned: don't use spark.
> Every subreddit or Youtube channel or whatever online community I’ve been a part of has had to deal with people abusing DMCA takedown notices

Are you sure you've seen DMCA abuse on YouTube? They have their own system for handling alleged copyright violation that has little to do with the DMCA takedown procedure, and almost all complaints I've seen about abuse on Google have been due to that system.
Wait, are there really people who think the flat design trend is "pretty" ?
> built into the Internet

Uh...what? How do you define this?
I'd like them to keep all the turns within the next 10 min of driving without stoplight waits on the display at all times.

Little in GPS navigation is worse than not knowing which lane the phone wants me to be in on a freeway exit that has 5 lanes at the first light and traffic jams for the next 4 lights next to the freeway because civic planners just haven't been able to get the flow moving away from the injection site fast enough.
I suspect that's about international markets. Everyone knows the fuel distributor, or the window heating icon. Not everyone understands "Fuel". (Or did you want to say "Gas" ;) )

Also do you want to get into a car rented in Europe and find the texts to read (for example) "Włącz", "Rozmrażanie", "Paliwo"?
twilio is too expensive . You should try https://textita.com
I still can't use Firefox: Pinch-to-zoom support
I tried to switch to FireFox again due to "Google Guilt" and hopes of increasing battery life on my MacBook, but I've ended up just having both Chrome and FireFox open.

I can't pinch to zoom. I turn off scaling on my Macbook Pro so I can have as much screen real estate as possible, but when I read text and want to look at images Chrome's perfect pinch to zoom has become second nature. I've tried an extension in FireFox to support, but it doesn't work on half the web pages I visit (including hackernews) and literally breaks the other half, or lags for several seconds before zooming. It surprises me that FireFox doesn't natively support a basic feature supported by every other major browser.

My other issues are just lack of support for Chromecast and good Picture-in-Picture support.
Agree. I still use teamspeak as the primary voice chat with my main friend group. I use Discord for centralized access to different text channel groups.
As long as JavaScript is enabled in the browser, there will always be some clever way to use it for fingerprinting, even if you effectively have to use side channels to get information like installed fonts. There's no avoiding it.
Upvoted immediately.
Not sure how you got that from that link. There's a whole section on different religious associations. It points out that it's a religious requirement for Sikhs - observant baptised Sikhs are required to wear a turban.
His point is that the term "computer language" lured people into anthropomorphizing the process of creating software. In his mind, writing a book called "The Education of a Computer" is a result of falling into that trap.

It isn't the writing of the book he thinks she was lured into. It was the error in thinking that (he believed) the book contained.

(Note: I've included a lot of stuff like "he believed" and "his point" to emphasize that I don't really buy his thesis. I'm not in his corner when it comes to the idea he's presenting, but I don't see anything wrong with the words he used to present it.)
>It should not be an acceptable practice to just insert a CD and indiscriminately install software onto a production machine. Mainframe systems have well-documented and enforced change management procedures that need to be followed before any software is installed into a production environment.

This applies to pretty much any production environment. Why would you have to work on a mainframe to understand this.

As a side note I just realized I’ve never physically touched any sever I’ve worked on professionally.