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off topic, but I have been looking to get a new laptop and could use some opinions. My past laptop purchases have been pretty much a failure as I always opted for large 'desktop replacement' style laptops which in the end basically defeat the purpose of having a laptop in the first place.

This time, I want to make sure my laptop is portable and lasts a while on battery. I know tons of developers love the MBP but I am having a hard time reconciling the 1000ish dollar difference between equivalent windows based machines, along with the fact that I am not a big fan of apple and will be putting Linux on whatever machine I get regardless.

I guess my real question is, is there anyone out there who has tried both sides of the spectrum and can speak to whether any 'ultrabooks' can compare to the MBP in terms of screen quality, portability, and power. Or should I just bite the bullet and go for a MBP. My main use cases are standard development stuff. Relatively resource hungry Jet brains IDE, virtualization, etc.

Any opinions are appreciated.
This is why OAuth.io is open source, and you can choose to have a commercial license if you want to avoid GPL.
I have one list (top 80 or so) and the firehose (thousands). The list is for the people who I don't really want to miss, and the firehose is for dipping into now and then. Excessive verbosity belongs in the firehose.

I occasionally promote and demote, and as a private list nobody is the wiser. I assume others do this too.
Why is million miles driven a better way to model it than billion miles driven, for example? If you happen to choose that, there clearly isn't anywhere near enough data.

I'm honestly curious how one models this type of thing statistically, and I am not convinced enough of its obviousness to just accept numbers that someone throws around.
Is the article written by a guy that can't wait any longer for Apple to release a new macbook air? Seems like he's dying for it to come out.
Yes, good film. Reminded me of 12 Angry Men.
Why are the bad guys always white? And what do top hats have to do with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=p3Kl...
Given there are non-stimulant alternatives available at this point, one would hope they would be tried first with children.

Among other things, Ritalin and friends used to completely suppress my appetite, which while it may sound cool, is really "not great".
what is unethical is to work 20 hours a week when you are perfectly capable of 40, collect 40 hours worth of pay, and let people who work harder take up the slack. That is patently unfair to the ones who work the full week.

Fairness matters.
> Does this mean Find My iPhone can be circumvented with a DFU mode restore?

I am just speculating, but perhaps iOS 7 GM and later cannot be circumvented but the beta versions could be. This might be intentional - after all, it's beta code. The circumvention might be a plan B.
I really don't think retina is that big of a deal. I've owned a MBPr since they launched. But I also regularly use standard res screens, and I barely even notice the difference.
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I heard they wanted to extend the bart from the east bay down to SV but SV blocked it too keep out the riff raff, anyone know if theres truth to this or not?

I've always thought it was interesting how physical barriers like water, hills, bridges and trains play such a big role in separating different types of people in the bay area.
"As far as I remember it is definitely anti-noob."

If you are a noob, you probably shouldn't be delving directly into the SQLite documentation. You should be reading the documentation that explains the interface for your specific programming language. Python has sufficient documentation for SQLite.
I was working on a Twitter client that did something very much like this (partitioning people into different streams, etc.), but once I saw the way the wind was blowing (in terms of how Twitter didn't want third-party developers), I now only run it on my machine for my own use.
I found Wellbutrin worked very well for me.

Obviously, I'm not your doctor.
An Ordinary Man Tests the New $6,000 Vertu Phone
Gillette already make a lower-cost product for the Indian market; They have a range of double-edged razors and blades, which sell for less than the product being discussed. Gillette have little interest in competing on price with local brands.

The marketing effort by Gillette is to upsell Indian consumers from a generic double-edged razor to a proprietary cartridge system, opening the path for continual upselling to multi-blade cartridge systems as those consumers and their offspring enter the middle class.
Apollo 13 disproves this point. I was stuck wishing Gravity was either Apollo 13 or 2001 A Space Odyssey.

The sad part is, the technical points could have been fixed, they clearly had a lot of technical help. They just decided to ignore orbital mechanics completely and in fact I think that killed some of the tension. If you just have to line up, aim at the space station, and go, it's a lot less tense than if you actually have to figure out how to get there (see the incredible scene in Apollo 13 with the Jim Lovel siting out the window to get a re-entry trajectory).
"It's certainly doable."

I love these sorts of armchair tech pundit comments.
You are talking about Guaranteed Minimum Income, which is very much different from a Basic Income (more descriptively known as an Unconditional Basic Income, emphasis on "Unconditional").
Regulatory issues are legal issues. Why do people comply with regulations? To avoid the ire of the law.
I thought Mother's Little Helper was about speed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9Aa1V5oyo

But it's about Valium (diazepam) according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Little_Helper

I'd think Speed would have helped mothers more than Valium, but my mom used to say that she and her neighbors just had martinis instead, and a Valium's just a much stronger version of a martini. Ah- the 60's.
I don't think it's reasonable to compare the effects of street methamphetamine (which is most likely not pure and the dose is not regulated) with the effects of therapeutical doses of dextroamphetamine prescribed by a doctor.
The TPP is a multilateral trade agreement, all of which are negotiated in private by national representatives, then presented to their respective national governments for ratification. In the U.S. the TPP will require Congressional approval, which will be a very public and long process.

Basically: the stuff about "secrecy" is pure scaremongering. There's nothing special about the way TPP is being out together.
I understand the misfortunate situation revolving around this "issue", but shouldn't this of been seen miles away? I mean a beta version/GM version were running on the phone. A developer would know that beta/GM development release are mean't to expire, and for good reason.

Heck this even happened to me and it was my own fault. I knew that I needed to update to the public release of iOS7. This reminds of the kids who were buying developer accounts just to get the iOS7 betas, and walking into the apple store when their phone takes a dive.

Finally, a developer or a person who reads the TOS know that shit happens, and when it does, usually they know the instructions to recover from this.
The problem is that this creates an _enormous_ incentive to have kids. Is that something you really want to incentive? Pushing it back until they're legal adults removes this.

That said, if this wouldn't be enough for someone with kids to live on, that could be a problem. Its a tough problem to solve.
Interesting... earlier this year I was going to go for a 'Chicago Style' pizza in Moscow. Would have been around $42. Decided to go to Sbarros (closer). Initially ordered one of these "everything pizzas": $50. "nyet nyet nyet" I shouted. Got a more basic cheese/pepperoni deal for a mere... $19 I think (IIRC).

I understood I was getting 'western' luxuries in an expensive city, but it really drove home the concept of "cost of living" someplace moreso than abstract calculators. :)
You Should Learn to Program: Christian Genco
I have a 2011 air. If they can make an MBA with retina and good battery life, it's an instant buy for me.
I liked the idea of channels with colors and connecting components with it. Although it is primitive as it is, if it evolves it can be used as a great mock-up tool at the least. It is mistake to consider it for people who program for a living. Let's not shoot down ideas/concepts/proof of concepts.
Good.

Medicine in the form of antibiotics and inoculations against various dangerous diseases has brought us far, but it seems to be time to rethink some of the recent developments.

Maybe we can stop growing a monoculture of humans where the slightest deviation from the norm must be treated with some kind of drug.

I am from Europe (but live in the US) and I salute the folks there resisting this nonsense. (And for the record I am not saying there do not exist cases where treatment with such drugs would be indicated, just that the extend to which this is done in the US is not healthy).
The article:

> So how do we and that Ethiopian shaman differ? Very little, I reckon.
> Very little indeed. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if he makes fewer mistakes than we do.

The article clearly dumbs down (or misunderstands)the algortihm, insulting the audience's intelligence to make a feel-good claim about the arithmetic talent of "uncivilized" Ethiopians, and is accidentally racist in the process.
A similar technique worked for me. I had an IOmega Jaz drive, which accomodated 1GB cartridges. (The same company produced the better known Zip drive.)

The cartridges kept getting stuck, and any attempt to remove the drive seemed to completely destroy the hardware. After several replacements, I got fed up and asked for a refund. They weren't going for it. I finally called the CEO, and received a refund pretty quickly.

I suspect that it's cheaper to just refund a few bucks and make the irritant go away, rather than deal with it at that level.
Apple was also nice enough to allow the device to sync in the background while the requires authorization screen is up.
> Heck this even happened to me and it was my own fault.

You sound like the type of developer that would read the manual before asking for help.
Tmobile's "uncarrier" does exactly what you propose.
Why did you use a test operating system on your production device? The beta is for testing compatibility with apps you're developing, not for daily use.
At least for developers who basically do all their work in an OS it's not easy to switch between OSX and Windows, even if Windows machine is way better in spec you have to wait for Apple for better product. Simply because switching from Windows to Mac and vise versa doesn't worth it most of times.

Switching between Linux and Mac is easier but when you put Linux on those machines you lose a lot of battery life optimization and maybe even certain hardware!
Why not "drug it out of them"? If the disease is caused by a chemical imbalance, why not try to fix the chemical imbalance? Some people (myself included) are not functional without medication.
I am looking for someone to create a tutorial for Ruby on Rails that will be free for everyone to use for RubyRails.Com as part of my open source project OpenDomain. This will get exposure for the author plus I am willing to pay for original content for each video produced. Contact me HN AT RubyRails.Com
Maybe he buried his BitCoin wallet in the desert.
Yes. I had a work-issued Blackberry and while the constant connectivity was great, it was really only usable for email, and device itself sucked.
While it's interesting to know about the screen resolution in these new laptops, I notice that that's usually the only aspect of the display mentioned in this type of superficial article. Just as important is the color gamut, color accuracy, etc.
It has, because I'm referring to nearly 20 years worth of shaving across multiple cities and localities. So yes, it could be a reason.
handing over bitcoin keys maybe the only way they can learn which bitcoins are yours

Mmm, good point. Although considering bitcoin is a public network, they could have linked a certain address to you already, ala "follow the money"
Understanding the Servo Strategy
Why? Because you have to type in your Apple ID and password once you do the DFU restore?
16-Way Graphics Card Comparison On Open-Source Linux
My retina MacBook gets 2 additional hours of real world usage on Mavericks. Amazing update.
I just made the same mistake, restoring with DFU. It doesn't bypass the Find My iPhone lock though, you still need to do the activation, but it will let you activate.
5-7 hours is horrendous nowadays?
I don't know about you, but I find that any time I work for long stints of time, it is always in the same place, so tethering in to a power supply is no big deal.

Then consider that half the time I'm mobile, I'm doing something else too, so I just shut the lid and let it sleep...
Murphy ave. near the Caltrain station.
Create an Internet Radio FM Transmitter
One of the real fun uses of RaspberryPi is to use it as a FM transmitter. This can be done with very little effort, thanks to a tiny program developed by very creative bunch of folks in a few hours at the Code Club pihack. Using this program have created a very short and simple tutorial on how to create an Internet Radio FM Transmitter in my blog.

http://www.weedpi.com/how-to/create-an-internet-radio-fm-transmitter/

Enjoy!
Can someone with the haswell air comment on whether it gets hot under load?
Total information is not the same as informative labeling. Companies are not allowed to label the absence of irrelevant things for good reason--when a food is labeled as "X-free", X should in some way be something worth avoiding for some people (if you want a trans-fat-free / carb-free / gluten-free diet, etc.) This is what consumers expect when they see a label advertising the absence of something--that it is worth avoiding.

If you are allowed to put completely irrelevant or misleading labels, companies could "distinguish" their brands with other nonsense:

"Biotin free!"
"No added Niacin!"
"No synthetic Pyridoxine!"

Does any consumer realize that these are in fact not things you should be avoiding? Of course not, and they shouldn't have to. So if you start letting companies label food as GMO free, most people will be misled because they expect the labeling to be because of a scientific reason the food is worth avoiding--when there is of course absolutely no scientific basis to fear GMO foods.
We moved here 3 days ago from the UK, so some other random tips (more family oriented than single person)

1) In addition to Craigslist, Livelovely.com seems to be a great amalgamator site for finding houses.

2) Be careful when about booking a place without seeing it (we booked a 1 month Airbnb while we searched for places) There are lots of INSANE hills that are totally impossible with a stroller. Even driving up and down them was daunting.

3) Credit score seems to be important for everything. We had to put an additional $400 down on each phone because we didn't have credit.

4) Saying that - so far every landlord who we've spoken to has been open to some other kind of deal - normally an extra months rent as a deposit, or paying a month or 2 in advance.
Why was I downvoted? I am genuinely interested to know where to host data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6182989
What is this blog and why is it getting popular? The articles are very long and dense with no clear point.

"In some respects, there is nothing to be said; in other respects, there is much to be said" Please edit your blog posts to remove phrases like this which damage reading comprehension. Your opening sentence "Mathematical error has been rarely examined except as a possibility and motivating reason for research into formal methods" is long winded, vague, boring, and tells me nothing about what this post is about.

I think you can write much shorter, clearer articles that are not dense, rambling and inaccessible if you put some time into organization and structure and read your blog critically from a layman's perspective.
I frequently get well over 13 hours on a single charge with my year-old x230, and it's significantly faster than the average MBA (full voltage processor). I also have multiple batteries, so I can easily get a full 24-30 hours without needing a cord. Not sure what configuration you're looking at, but at the time it was significantly cheaper for comparable specs, as well.

The X230 is heavier/bulkier, but it has the MBA pretty beat in terms of surviving motorcycle accidents and general durability.

The MBA is great for going to the coffeeshop and not needing to find a table with an outlet, but I wouldn't take it anywhere you need to go long periods of time without power.

Edit: Also, I'm running Linux. I'm sure I would probably get better battery life running under windows, but c'est la vie.
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> when you wrote to disk, it was on disk.

So, if the drives didn't lie about a flush that problem is solved. But if it's on disk at time t, that's no guarantee that you can read it back at time t+1. The drives can physically fail. These "days of old" are before my time, but I really doubt they had magic disks that never physically degraded.
There seem to be two distinct issues here: the fact that these websites publish mugshots, and the fact that they solicit payment to remove the pictures and information.

The first issue is clear, at least to me: this is public information and they have a right to republish it, like it or not.

On the second issue, I don't understand why this is not extortion. Obviously this is because my understanding of what constitutes extortion is faulty. Can any lawyers here explain?
While this looks useful and interesting, the name is yet another example of how devs get such an iffy reputation. As mcmillion said, glad it's OSS so it can be forked.
>> be dev
>> does not know that it expires.
>> face palm.png
>> DFU the phone
Because apps on make on the side are a hobby. At work we have test devices, but for my home stuff i can't justify a second phone for test only.
> it seems like it should be totally illegal for them to do that.

In Australia, at least, it is.

It breaks one of the consumer guarantee[1] we're given by law (fit for purpose, as an advertised feature was removed), so you're entitled to a repair, replacement or refund. After some back-and-forth with my department store (who, understandably, didn't really understand what was going on) and Sony, I got mine refunded.

[1]: http://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees
What happens if you have a bunch of illegally-acquired gold stored away in an unknown location, but the government has good reason to believe that you posses it? Are you forced to reveal the location of the gold? What are the repercussions of not handing over that information?
If you use Windows you can choose from any hardware on the market, including Macs; if you use OS X, you are limited to only Apple-produced machines. Perhaps a reason to make the switch?
Agreed. The meaning of the concept "beta" has been devalued.
I can see a consistent worldview where the government cannot ask you to decrypt something as part of an _investigation_, per the Fifth Amendment, but once you're convicted, can compel you to surrender something protected by an encryption key (as part of a proceeds-of-crime rule or something, or as part of seizing assets).

If the feds took an encrypted wallet file and are preventing the accused from accessing it, but haven't decrypted it, whether it's "seized" seems somewhat a matter of semantics.

(IANAL and I have no idea whether this meshes with the actual legal state of things in the US.)
And heroin (with a few chemical bit twiddles) is used to treat pain after major surgeries and accidents. And methamphetamine (with a few chemical bit twiddles) is used to treat stuffy noses. Face it, almost all drugs can be misused...but that is not a reason for them to be banned.

After 8 years and 3 dropouts into my 4 year undergrad degree, I was finally diagnosed with ADHD. My pre-diagnosis GPA was 1.9, my post-diagnosis GPA was 3.9. I graduated less than two years later, and within 3 years I was earning a 6-figure income and providing for a wife and newborn child. I would likely be a divorced, homeless, deadbeat dad without Vyvanse (or its similarly Amphetamine-derived Adderall).

Don't take my life away from me, and don't take it away from anyone else, just because you have a fucking delusional conspiracy theory that a drug company is trying to addict kids to speed.
I don't have a hard release date, but I understand that the Haswell ThinkPads are dropping this month (October) and will have 1080p (and IPS!) as an option.

Per what I've read, higher end units may offer an Nvidia 720-whatever as an additional option, although for some reason not initially in the U.S. Otherwise, you get the Intel 4400 (?) integrated graphics processing.

I just picked up a used T430 after trying it out briefly and finding that I could indeed adapt to and live with Lenovo's newer.... "upscale chiklet" keyboard.

Be warned, though; I think they've made further changes to the trackpad that hit the ThinkPads with the 440 (T440, T440s) line.

So... might be worth seeing what drops. Also, rumors are Apple may announce/release the Haswell 13" MacBook Pro during their October announcement. If so, many opinions seem to be that it may hit a sweet spot.

P.S. I also read somewhere that the Haswell ThinkPads are expected to really be north of 10 hours of battery life. I don't know about when you hang the 1080p display on one, go up to the i7 processor, or -- of course -- run the optional 720 discrete graphics support.

Another thing that matters to me about the ThinkPads -- present at least with the T430 I mentioned. The palm rest is not "ginormous", and the front edge is curved/bevelled plastic rather than a sharp metal edge. For me, this makes an essential difference in typing/use comfort, especially when working on a work surface I can't adjust to optimal height. I can't stand having a ginormous palm rest with a sharp edge pressing against my wrists.
It's not about the work, it's about the people. People can take pride in doing things well despite it being boring or menial. Not everyone does shit for effort just because they don't like the task. I've done all kinds of work, from door to door sales to dishwasher to soldier to police officer to irrigating cotton to programming; everywhere I go I've met lazy bums who half ass everything and proud people who do good work regardless of the task, it's the people, not the job.
This was my experience as well. After 6 months on adderall I had already shown signs of addiction (dosage was needing an increase in order to maintain its effectiveness). I have been on the same dosage of Vyvanse for 4 years now, without any problems.
My friend, you're in the bubble.
+1 for livelovely. I used it to look for apartments and it was pretty nice. Much better than padmapper, imo.
Seeing that a luxury is something that is not a necessity, the statement "you can pretty easily get by without a car" demonstrates that it is a luxury to own a car.

In most of the US, it is a necessity to own a car, as you probably can't get to work without one.
For everyone saying "you should have read the release notes" - yes I agree. However, there are two things that made this very opaque and should have been better.

1) all sources indicate everywhere that the software is "up to date". I realize that as a developer I should be keeping better tabs on things but I usually trust things not to just lie to me. It's pretty opaque.

2) The error you get when the beta expires makes no mention of the fact that the beta expired. Without judicious twitter searches and a quick look on hacker news, I didn't know what the source of the error was and assumed something was wrong w/ apple's activation or that someone had compromised my account in some way.