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I replaced my work laptop (MBP 15") with a System76 GalagoPro. I wanted the Galago for my personal machine, but stuff like the trackpad just didn't work half as well. I bought a Macbook Air for my personal machine, and will end up getting a Linux desktop for my home office.
Game renderers do sample time too, for per-object motion blur[1] and sometimes full-scene blur or AA. To push the idea further, research has been done around 'frameless' renderers, where you never render a complete frame but sample ~randomly at successive times and accumulate into the frame(sic)buffer. At low resolution it feels weird but very natural, computed persistence of vision : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycSpSSt-yVs . I love how even at low res, you get valuable perception.

[1] some renderers even take advantage of that to increase performance since you get a more human oriented feel by rendering less precisely.
You need at least 8GB to avoid pageouts while running Yosemite. Well, you can get away with running Safari all by itself in 4GB without getting too many pageouts, but that's about it.

Verified by observing vm_stat values on my 4GB 'Air and my wife's 8GB 'Air.
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I could not disagree more.

Great developers know their limits and when it's appropriate to choose third party tools and when to roll their own.

Chances are, if you think it's time to roll your own, you just think you're better than you are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
Pewdiepie has an unfair advantage because of his 32M YouTube followers
Discussion about the YouTube video: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8793773 (5 points, 1 hour ago, 0 comments)

Discussion about the googleblog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8793575 (77 points, 1 hour ago, 26 comments)
The fact that it ends with the boy kneeling, sobbing over the melted remains of his magical snowman friend explains a lot about why Britons are so cynical I think.
> original promise of the industrial revolution was that it would help us be more efficient

On what do you base this? Keynes belived this but nobody said 'Hallo everybody, we are now doing a programm called Industrial revolution and we hope that in 200 years everybody will work less', the Industrial Revolution happend because people were seeking to make themself richer and then do with there money whatever they did.

> The problem is that the oligarchs realized they could "force" people to work the same hours and all the extra efficiency in the form of profit trickled up.

Thats just socialist bullshit. Any measure of human well beeing has improved at the same time the world population has increased a gigantic amount. That is a unbelivable achivment.

> So I would say don't be so quick to dismiss the lifestyle of a hunter/gatherer society. Of course the modern world can't sustain such a thing and thats the beauty of agriculture, but as a person who grew up hunting, it's nice to get a big kill and have enough food to eat off for a couple of weeks.

Huting today is not the same. I would advice that you go read actual descriptions of these societys befor you compare it with yourself huting.

There are intresting reports by american living with native americans for example. Or court officels from china going into the steppe.

These people did not hunt once and then lived on it for weeks. If you killed a buffelo it would have to substain a hole clan of people and it would be carved up with little saving in days. There would also be tons of work making the other parts usable.

> Not to mention that a more time-free society has more time to spend educating itself in more nuanced views, a reason I think the enlightenment is in danger because everyone's too busy to even learn these days.

What???? There is more education then ever befor! Again, once you read accounts of actual trible societys you will see that they had no time in education beyond what they needed to live. A steppe mongol would train hourse of shooting the bow and learing when it was safe to cross a frozen river, but he did not sit around in the style of greeks and figure out the universe.
Fulfilling work could actually be the best way to live your life.

Why not?
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I'm glad that I've blatantly ignored all the frameworks that have come and gone over the years. I still know what these frameworks are and their capabilities.

Frameworks like polymer are nice because they will eventually will fade out. I think that was the idea with TypeScript as well, but I think MS deviated.

What we should encourage are unopinionated but comprehensive libraries that simplify tasks just as the author mentioned.
Absolutely, yes.

I like the idea of System76, but I find the quality of the chassis they use to be abysmal. I considered installing Linux on Mac hardware, but the hoops you need to jump through to install it and the challenges with drivers on recent hardware were a turn-off.

That left me with my year-old Lenovo T440p, which I currently run Ubuntu on. It's not as nice as Macbook hardware, though. I don't care for the trackpad or the keyboard layout (though the action is great), and the backlight bleed on the screen is really disappointing. But it met my needs of a 14" laptop with a 4-core i7, 1080p display, and discrete graphics chip, and I'm completely satisfied with the performance. I'd love to see another high-end manufacturer out there.
Touch-typists don't need to look at the screen while typing.

More clock time is spent reading than typing.

E-ink is much less stressful on eyes.
This is an interesting, if fairly, Marxist, view. I wonder though if there is much thought given to the restructuring and unification of the ruling classes which happened during the Reformation in much of Europe (where instead of a hodge-podge of independent cities, lords, royalty, and church men often both cooperating and at odds, one ended up with a supremacy developing in the hands of factory owners, coupled with a very sympathetic and now highly developed absolute monarchy). In other words, one thing that made Capitalism quite a bit worse than Feudalism (Marx being blind to this fact) was that power was far more consolidated in the former, and so the lower classes had fewer options in navigating the power relationships.

What is the alternative to this sort of inequality? I would argue that open source begins to show a way, insofar as effectively the worker as individual owns the means of production (owns, meaning here, "has the right to utilize or direct utilization of"). This sort of commons development has been shown successful in many other areas, including manufacturing (google "Emilia-Romagna Manufacturing").

It isn't Capitalism if everyone is a Capitalist (i.e. has the capital to start his or her own business).
> This is anti-intellectualism: "architecture is hard, so let the smart people at Google handle it."

No, it's "I want to get my job done, get paid and go home".

Believe me, I am anything but anti-intellectual! I love thinking about software and how to make things better. I studied Computer Science and love applying theory to practice. But 90% of the time, the correct answer is "use third party libraries or frameworks", not "roll my own".

In the current project I'm working on, I made the decision to use ReactJS instead of building our own frontend library from scratch. The project is almost ready to ship and has been very successful. New people to the project are saying "React was the right choice."

If I had tried to build our own frontend architecture from scratch we'd never have hit our deadlines.
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I consider every startup idea to have value. Although it is easy to get an approximation of how well an idea will work, one will never know unless he or she tries. The most oft cited example of this is AirBnB, [1] but one example most people haven't heard of is Washboard [2]; they charged $27 for $20 in quarters to help people pay at the laundromat. Did they get customers? ..yes, actually. I think the final count was 11 or so.

Just goes to show you, any idea can succeed... to a degree, at least.

Happy holidays to you, too.

[1]: at first, people said "you want to rent your house out to a stranger? What!?" but then apparently many realized that it was relatively safe to do so.

[2]: http://valleywag.gawker.com/real-startup-that-mails-you-quar...
I have a MBP and an old F20 T61 beater, and both are great. Ubuntu 14 is great, too, and I sporadically run that in places but we all have our preferences and I like the EL-family of distros more.

Windows 7 is perfectly fine, too. They even seem to be rescuing 8 post-Nadella.

Really, the thing is a web browser and a shell. Anything with a physical keyboard is better than a phone or a tablet.

Either of them run VMWare or VirtualBox just fine, so I can run any OS I like, regardless. Generally I got with the MBP for that reason, because the build quality is good enough of the licensing PITA that Mac makes for virtualizing OS X.
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They're probably not going to put huge amounts of work into marketing your product and selling it to their customers until their customers are coming to them saying "I want to buy angelohuang's thing. What do you recommend?", at which point they will recommend "We can certainly do that for you!" and then they'll call you and ask for a discount.

I have, unfortunately, a few dozen experiences of this general type, against one pro-active sale from a reseller.

n.b. My answer for "What is your discount?" is "Nothing for now, but I'm happy to award you a discount retroactive to the first dollar after you hit $100k in volume." This has never blocked a sale from happening because they're not making sales for you, they're inserting themselves into sales that their customer / your end-user has already decided will happen.
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This is the chromebook. Maybe it's not 100% there just yet, but in a couple years it might be. In any case, HTML + CSS + JS is the UI of the future, and your OS will be irrelevant by then.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/XU...

I'm not sure if it's still actively developed though.
Are you joking? Of course I would. But "better" and "amazing" are pretty ambiguous words. And, well, for that matter, I'm already using Linux laptop, not produced by Apple. There are some decent ones. Thinkpad T440s is pretty good, for instance, although I like metal cases indeed.

And one thing to remember is that one advantage of MacBooks as they come isn't the hardware itself, but that OS is well optimized for that particular hardware: if you're installing Linux on your MacBook battery lifetime becomes quite shorter. Wouldn't it be nice to optimize Linux that way? Yeah, it would, but I personally don't know how we can do that.
I would worry that the bundling bundling would be along lines I don't like. I currently use a System76 laptop, but wind up ripping out much of the default setup. That said, I'd certainly look at it.
How to avoid problems with single line if statements
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To defend the privatization on consequentialist grounds, one doesn't have to believe it won't lead to entrenched corruption; just that it'll lead to less corruption that the public system.
>> "For the ones who don't have it available in their country (like me) are left with no other option :("

Come on. Your option is to wait. From the site: "we do hope to see the release of The Interview across the globe"
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As if to prove my point, snazzy arguments made without reference to the customer's well-being!

Why must a prospective Uber customer be forced to pay specifically for "the knowledge" (an insane, financially risky, multi-year investment in human capital) to have access to cars running a variable fare business model? How do they benefit from having their choices restricted like this? But with Uber, the case of "unsuspecting user gets ripped off" is a lot harder to make.

I mean sure, when it comes to privileging a set of drivers with the power to take street hails you have a good excuse about protecting random tourists from ostentatious fraud. But requiring that all variable-fare hails have the Knowledge? Seriously? That's incumbent-protection and nothing else.
this is awesome Kevin - what do you plan on building on it other than messaging?
That's fair. 'Better' is complex.

Perhaps 'closer to reality' is a better statement. Reality doesn't render at 24fps.
The NK hack was probably just a big PR stunt.
But your 13 year old may not understand the possible real-world effects of their hacking. They could just be playing and made a mistake.
I'm not a big fan of single line if statements. They seem to cause bugs more often than necessary.
Growth of productivity with increased working hours is a good point. Another reason for working more is that work is more fun now than ever.
Can it be that description of 24 fps as "dreamy" is subjective? Because usually my dreams don't have such effect. I like plays and 48 fps Hobbit.

May be it's like in the days of monochrome media black-and-white dreams were a norm, but today they are exception.
there is much more to a hire than just technical ability (eg., personality fit, overqualified, will they stick around, etc.)
I posted an article about a guaranteed basic income a bit more than a year ago,[1] and my posting of the article was prompted by noticing that other Hacker News participants had commented about such policies before, followed by my reading some articles that summarized Charles Murray's book about a guaranteed basic income. Ideologically, Murray would probably be even more in favor of no government welfare payments at all (but ask him directly for his current view), but when he wrote his book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State,[2] Murray's basic argument was that governments are already spending billions and billions of dollars derived from taxpayers for means-tested welfare programs or other income transfer programs that are more complicated administratively than a guaranteed basic income, and a nationwide guaranteed basic income covers everyone at less administrative expense.

Murray's book goes into detail about how much a program of guaranteed income for everyone would cost in the United States, and suggests some probable effects that would have on everyone's everyday behavior. I read the book a year or two after it was published.

Murray's own summary of his argument[3] and reviews of his book[4] may inform the discussion here. Big public policy proposals are not easy to discuss, but the big public policy proposal of a guaranteed basic income for all is a response to existing policy of supposedly targeted social welfare programs that are just about equally expensive in the benefits they provide, but much more costly to administer.

As a matter of personal opinion, I am still thinking about whether or not a basic income guarantee is a good idea, but I definitely want to figure out if spending no more in total for social welfare by directly transferring cash to all citizens would simplify administration of welfare programs and allow more individual choice about how to use the money.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6309882

[2] http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0844742236

[3] http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc242a.pdf

[4] http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/poverty/in-ou...

http://www.conallboyle.com/BasicIncomeNewEcon/MurrayReview.p...

http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/region_focu...

http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=296
Thanks, I've never been trolled here before.
Me too:

http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/24/7423421/sony-the-intervie...
Another problem with the GPS component is that it's extremely sensitive to antenna coupling, and might not work if entirely submerged in (what is essentially) water.
Selling swag via crowdfunding is cool, but I’m surprised not more people are doing equity crowdfunding (or at least it's not as well publicized).

Given how much PR is done around big fundraising events, you would think that tech news sites would be all over any potentially hot startup closing a decent round on AngelList or FundersClub.
I'd love to see something along the lines of the chromebook pixel, but with more memory and a larger ssd. I have one running crouton, but because of those two limitations I don't use it as often.
Yeah, nobody likes the new trackpad. I think dissatisfaction in corporate accounts will lead to changes there. (edit: ps, thanks for SQLAlchemy!)
The timeline doesn't support this novel historical theory. Wild was executed in 1725, and the McDaniels were convicted in 1756. Metropolitan police forces weren't set up until the 1820s and 1830s. Did the theory you heard have any explanation for the 100-year gap between the scourge of "private security" (pretending for the sake of discussion that the thief-takers were in any sense similar to that) and creation of the police?

One might be tempted to comment on the irony of your chiding "Libertarians" [NB: TFA is of unionist if not Marxist perspective] for their poor history, if one were not distracted by the implication that "entrenched corruption" is a rarity in the current regime.
> There are a lot of jobs that have very obviously been automated though.

I think you have not understood my argument. My argument is that this happens ALL THE TIME. Do yourself a favor and go back and read the discussion going on 150 years ago. Its the same thing you are saying now.

Blablabl the basket makers are unemployed because of plastic bags. The barrelmaker because of plastic barrels and so on and so on.

The point is that this happens constantly and the market is the exact tool to deal with this. People get insentivised to move into the next best thing humans can still do. This has lead to more and more investment in human capital and it has been a good thing.

Capitalism is the best if you want to give people as much freedom and choices as possible, it is also the best if you want to get BILLIONS of people out of poverty and since there are still BILLIONS of people in poverty turing away from it to some sort of 'lets just leave everything as it is' policy is simply madness.

> I mean if you're literally burning food and employing people in jobs that aren't that useful, maybe the whole "growth" thing has stopped making sense.

Thats that terrible thing. It is done to please special intrest groupes and has nothing todo with acutal markets. I would suggest reading about the politcal economy of farm subsidisment and protectionsim.

Its a terrible thing and helps make us all poorer, and it worse because it makes it harder for BILLIONS of people to move out of poverty.
I like the Yoga 14 for a decently priced 14 inch laptop. Though it doesn't come with an SSD, which is an effing joke.
In action movies, they often use an even faster shutter to reduce motion blur. The choppy motion makes hits look faster and harder. Lately I've noticed they'll even drop several frames from the middle of a punch to make it look harder.
No.

There's more to it than the hardware and the OS.

I've got ancient thinkpads (great machines), an old desktop, and an iPad Air1. I use a fair amount of linux here and there. I'm not wed to any platform for surfing, editing, writing, email, etc. I help support and maintain a lot of friends' machines that are Apple, and 100% of my interactions with the hardware and/or company have been successful, and relatively painless. Sometimes, even delightful. As a 40 year veteran of computers (back to punch cards), it's the best i've seen.

Still, hate it or not, Apple integration across a spectrum of devices is a big factor. I think only Google comes close, and they have some drawbacks.

So no... i would not consider a linux box to save a few bux. it's not what you pay, it's what it costs.

final note... linux updates too frequently for my tastes...an artifact of its dispersed development.
So you're saying that, when protestors have no police to fight, they don't fight with the police?
Sorry to derail: but does anyone have any experience with the Y series of lenovo laptops?

I have an X201 that I got used and it's started dying on me sporadically (fan kicks up to it's highest speed for ~5sec then shuts off) whenever I try to compile anything.
That just requires one level of indirection, which is easily done through a lut of some kind, either in hardware or software.
What? We have been doing it for 200 years, faster then ever befor in history. If anything the change has been slower in the last years.
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The biggest overall concerns is that these gains seem to be the benefits of systems that are unraveling.

1. The effective constraint of the short term self interests of nation states via various international norms against armed conflict, internal repression and crimes against humanity.

2. The fossil fuel economy.

The plausible replacements for these systems seem much less stable at the current moment.
You know, we found WMDs after the attack. They were just the wrong ones.

President George W Bush led the US into war in Iraq on the back of assertions that Saddam Hussein had recently-built weapons of mass destruction, supplies that had only increased in the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks.

Yet all the chemical weapons found by soldiers were manufactured before 1991, the Times reported. They consisted largely of 155-millimeter artillery shells or 122-millimeter rockets – not designed for mass destruction, and produced in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war.

According to the Times, the reports were embarrassing for the Pentagon because, in five of the six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been “designed in the US, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/iraqs-hidde...
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I agree with this but I think it is more complicated than people "wanting to believe CGI is better than it is", it is more like some sort of innate suspension of disbelief we all have as long as what we are seeing is as good or better than what we've seen before.

I lived through the entire CGI revolution in movies from the early days of Tron and the "Genesis effect" sequence of Star Trek II to now. The way the CGI in all the movies in between looks to me now is very different than it looked to me when first viewed and as a graphics nerd I was always interested and up to date on the technology was done. I don't believe my brain "wanted" to believe CGI was better than it was then, I just had no context for how it would look when it was done even better and as the goalposts moved what came before looked increasingly bad in comparison.
Gosh yeah. I use Linux as my primary OS now on a cheap-ish laptop (student), and even with the low-DPI screen, so-so keyboard and odd hardware compatibility issues, I love it. I'd pay quite a bit for some high quality hardware.
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go watch Interstellar. first movie where it was really, really hard to spot the transitions to CGI.

also, you'd be surprised how much CGI now is being used in TV series. the showreels are on vimeo, some amazing work.

example, game of thrones, season 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK73bCuJXc8
That app looks awesome, nice job Kevin. Also, I talk with my parents in France every day, so I totally get what you are saying.
Somehow, Seth Rogen fits so well in all this! They must be working on a movie (with him) as we speak.
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Just this morning a black guy was shot and killed. Before the video survelliance was shown, a gas station was broken into and looted. Protestors are complaining the video footage is either edited or they claim they see things that are (and are not) there.
Would be interested in a simple L-system Javascript example.