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Some observations about the generic NDA at the pastebin link --- I'm a lawyer, but not your lawyer, so don't rely on this as a substitute for legal advice; YMMV:

Section 1: The exclusion of information independently developed by the receiving party from the definition of confidential information can be tricky. A receiving party that wants to rely on that exclusion must gamble that a judge or jury will believe that the receiving party really did independently develop the information. That's not always a given.

Section 1: The list of exclusions at the end is missing another common exclusion, namely "disclosed to a third party by the disclosing party without confidentiality obligations comparable to those of this Agreement."

Section 2: The receiving party's right to disclose to third parties is really broad, much broader than some people would be comfortable with.

Section 2: If the receiving party discloses confidential information to a third party, and the third party misuses it, then the receiving party is liable for that misuse, even if the receiving party was innocent.

Section 3: This clause contains a "best efforts" requirement, which is vague and therefore potentially dangerous. (Self-cite: See the notes linked at http://www.commondraft.org/#BestEffortsDefn.)

Section 5: Be sure you're comfortable with the time periods for protected disclosure (two years) and protection of the disclosed confidential information (seven years).

Section 6: The return-or-destruction requirement can be a pain; technically it requires purging of emails, backups, etc. Consider a carve-out such as that in http://www.commondraft.org/#ConfInfoReturnRqmt: "Specimens of Confidential Information need not be returned or destroyed to the extent that they are not reasonably capable of being readily located and segregated without undue burden or expense — for example, Confidential Information contained in email correspondence or electronic back-up systems."

Section 10: Any litigation must be in the specified location; that could make things expensive for the party not in that location.

Further general information and commentary (another self-cite): http://www.oncontracts.com/confidential-information/
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Less legalese, I'm here to write code, not interpret law. That's why I prefer the MIT license.
In fact, you could probably have a USB-C-to-MagSafe-to-USB-C adapter. Knock your laptop and the cable comes loose, with the adapter left plugged into the port.
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And which is a lovely little machine (I'm typing on one now) but severely lacking in vertical pixels.
> Even if there is a machine that approaches the performance and specs of a Mac, the thing Apple fans don't have to worry about is which machine to get because even the worst Apple device is miles ahead of the non Apple alternatives.

I love my retina MBP but that statement is pretty biased. There are plenty of PCs more powerful than any mac, often for less money. Even Windows 10 isn't so bad, i think that OSX Yosemite is pretty flawed as well.
Apple is still superior when it comes to the whole package, most importantly trackpad, battery life and overall experience, but if you don't fall exactly into Apples demographic you are pretty much out of luck.
I'm guessing you're using the Air? I've had the Air with the Display Port to HDMI dongle and now have the Pro with HDMI built in, neither had issues with outputting HDMI sound. Just plug it in, and make sure the audio output is set to the TV in the Sound settings in System Preferences.

Never tried that second part, but the multi monitor support in the last couple releases of MacOS have been amazing.
Even for mini display port these have a chip inside that actually does the VGA modulation. It's not a big deal.
Thinking about building a similar system. I saw that cymetica post today and did the comparisons and dug deeper to find that Google or Yahoo finance do an extremely bad job at finding public companies. Going with the data, how about you?
It may sound horribly depressing, but it rings true to my own experiences. That said, I think it also depends on what you consider to be "learning."

Most engineering jobs require a lot of horizontal learning: develop enough knowledge of a topic to do something useful for the company then move on. While academic learning revolves around developing depth in a particular subject.

If you'd like to learn enough about a topic to contribute something truly new to the field, 99.9% of engineering jobs will not satisfy you.
Yeah same here. I've been through 3 MBP's and never had a problem with any of the MagSafe chargers.
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Strong adhesives are often a good way to defeat magnets. (I've used this principle, but not in the specific context of removing magnetic crud from inside a magsafe plug.) A properly designed magsafe power plug would have a way of either easily replacing the plug or removing/defeating the magnet.
I feel silly defending apple, but if it really does have a 8 hour battery life and your workflow doesn't directly involve peripherals - what would you need to lug around?
Same here: all quotes I got are 70% to 110% more expensive than my current carrier, while excluding uninsured motorist coverage. Doesn't seem like a good selection of participating carriers.
Not to be a dick here but I think you're in a minority. I dont think many users are going to run into this issue.
Only 128GB of storage? Just not enough.
Hi! Id just like to clarify a few things:

a) I have never actually introduced myself as a Thiel Fellow because I didn't want to immediately be associated with the stereotypes that come along with the title. It's not on my resume nor my LinkedIn.

b) I completed my application the night it was due. I told the foundation & mentors it was rushed. They noticed this too because my responses were pretty incomplete.

c) I had full intentions, and still do, of becoming an entrepreneur and working on my own startup. However, I don't think now is the time. I thought I had all the skills I needed, but I realize that I have a lot more to learn. In a few years, I'll be much better equipped. I also need time to come up with something I'm really passionate about. There are lots of successful startups that solve first world problems, but I don't think I can dedicate the rest of my life to one.
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Type-C works with USB-PD. USB-PD can negotiate up to 100W of power delivery via 20V@5A. Increasing the amperage over 5A makes the connection more dangerous and increases the cabling requirements. If your smart phone or tablet implement USB-PD and can handle 100W of power then it could charge at 20V@5A VERY quickly.
Lots of stuff broken on other pages as well. The problem is that the meta tag identifies charset=ISO-8859-1, when it really should be Windows-1252.
Thanks for that... I miss that sound, lots of memories.
> one day she will realize academia is the only place that true learning happens.

I'd love to hear you defend that statement.
Looks like I had it backwards. It's the other items that pass through the USB C port.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multip...

I wish the power adapter itself would also have the passthrough.
I wrote once a license crawler for VersionEye which recognises the most common licenses in README files on GitHub. But I didn't crawl whole GitHub! Only projects which are submitted in package managers and did not provide a license info on the package manager. I'm using it for example to complete license infos about RubyGem projects without a license on RubyGems.
It does have a camera, but it is located just below the screen. Your hands will be in front of it when you type use the camera.
PLEASE stop using the advertisement "like AirBnB for x". I swear all of the YC companies are using it now.
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Beyond being more efficient, they need to have a shift in thinking as to what constitutes a quality SW development process. Example: as of right now, they still think that a waterfall process is the only process that is "correct".
I actually agree with both you and the person you are replying to.

You can learn in both academia and industry, but you learn completely different things. In industry, you typically learn more about business and current "trends" in technology, whereas in school you improve your fundamentals and have the opportunity to learn more hard skills, like machine learning, programming languages, etc.

I'd argue there is a lot more opportunity to learn in school than industry though, if only because you can go at your own rate in school so if you wanted to learn about current technology in school you could easily do so on your own. Still, I think a lot of it really boils down to having responsibilities that you are getting paid for vs not being paid but having the freedom to do what you want.

I certainly have learned a lot since leaving school, but the majority of it has not been due to being in industry but learned on my own time.
I always felt the Atrix and this sort of modular design was the future. Google killed it heavily with their cloud-synced devices push, and Sundar Pichai killing Android's laptop development project. I love the idea of Project Ara, but with Google taking it from Motorola, I fear it's going to be locked down into proprietary services like Google does with all their products.

If they can get things like processing power to be modular, so you can have your apps and data on your phone, but be able to plug in and use desktop power when plugged into a larger station, that'd be when that sort of solution would really take off. I want everything on my phone, but for that phone to access desktop level UI and processing capability when I'm at my desk.
I also like just being able to grab my laptop and flick the connector off really quick.
I'm glad this thread found its way here today. I was just Google-ing for something like this, just a few days ago. Thanks HN community :) Time for me to choose who to fork...
BSD* and MIT are easier to read than Apache license, and compatible with all GPL licenses.

Apache 1.x license is incompatible with GPL.

Apache 2.0 license is a free software license and is compatible with GPLv3+, but not with GPLv2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_License#GPL_compatibilit...

GPLv2 incompatibility hurts many open source projects, also in the Linux area (Android code is Apache, Linux GPLv2). The Mozilla Public License and the related CDDL are problematic as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribu... (ZFS and DTrace cannot be included in Linux source)
Well, day+night is 24hours, so I'm not really sure if you think they defined it as longer or shorter.
If his manuscripts were labeled "not fit to be published" then why are the Univ. of Sussex and Indiana Univ. going out of their way to publish Newton's work in Alchemy. Wouldn't this be against his wishes.
Exactly this. I love being able to use a plug that is near a well traveled area and have no worries about my computer if people trip over it.
NetBSD 7 (very soon now) is going to be really nice. There are a huge number of improvements that add up to a really nice system.
Grinding is okay and sometimes necessary for a startup, but it was during this time that I realized I was not passionate about ours. ...

I tried convincing myself that "changing people’s behavior and making delivery the default way to get food" was a mission important to me. That revelation along with the fact that my learning had slowed meant that it was time to quit.

If that's really your feeling, you should be in college. Any job is like this.
The notion that Apple is "miles ahead" seems cute to me as I read these comments on my hybrid touchscreen which runs a full general purpose OS on a battery that lasts me well over 10 hours and still fits in my pocket. It's so nice to be able to run full Chrome with Adblock and other extensions on a touch device which also allows me to write a quick VBA function in Excel, run reports using legacy native business tools or spin up a small Linux VM.

Apple simply doesn't offer a device that can compete with this, so not only are they not miles ahead, I can't even see them in my rear-view.
For those who didn't hear it, there was applause when the 18 hour battery life was "announced" ; D But I guess that's mostly relief because there were some rumors that it could be as bad as 2.5 hours (which is in line with the linked page's report of 3 hours on a call).
I mean first to make it an explicit part of their product strategy that the only peripheral connection standard they would support was USB. Now, to be fair, Apple had been in a ghetto of their own making for peripherals with their DIN serial ports and ADB keyboards, but the iMac's total switch to USB happened when PC makers were still mixing USB with parallel and serial ports (and I still have PS/2 and 9-pin DIN ports on most of my windows machines). I don't think it's controversial to say Apple were the first to make a 'legacy-free' computer with the iMac.
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Their branding has become very confusing. In particular when some people are still buying the old Macbook Pro because they prefer it over the latest one, so really one of the highest end laptops they sell is "last years" model of the MBP.
Neat tidbit, Type-C connectors also support analog audio mode. In this mode it can do stereo audio out, mic in, and 5V@500mA power in. Obviously the chipset would have to support this, but the connector spec allows it in any case.
Look at the historical precedent and the people that have contributed the most to human knowledge. There is no shortage of examples. Even Google would not have been possible without academics. If you want to argue the opposite side then we can agree on definitions and you can bring up examples of industry leaders that have contributed in some significant way to human knowledge.
I encourage you to look at the ISC license. Same thing, but shorter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
Well doing everything at once is not necessary, I don't suppose it will take long, but its always good to test as you go.
> In Mavericks, for example, they disabled syncing of notes/calendar/address book through the cable with iTunes.

They eventually released an update that re-enabled it, and it still works in Yosemite.
>> One of the things about us is that money is equally split among the team. None of us take a cut off the top.

That's interesting. So, there is actually no money to grow the business? I.e. profit that can be reinvested for growth? This might actually be the root cause of your problem (although it's difficult to tell).
It also weighs almost twice as much.
It's 0.94" wider, 0.14" deeper and 0.08" higher. Huge?

For that you get another inch on your screen and 73% more pixels (3200x1800).
memtest86 has this feature in beta, and it's already generating some heat.

I would be personally more interested in this test on memtest86+ though.
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The only down shot is the acceleration of an ion engine is god awful. But seems the best way to go if you don't care about time needed to get going (and slow down).
No it's really not. We have students in debt because they MAJOR in areas where they end up with no marketable skills.

Taking a history class, a philosophy class, and a sociology class along with some economics and science helps you solve problems with people as well as the world around you.

When I was in my 20s and taking those classes I found it a waste of time. Now that I'm older I'm thankful for them.

Can you get well-rounded on your own? Depends. If you only read what people in your bubble tell you to, maybe not so much. Having someone else curate things for you to read, reflect on, discuss, and do has great value in my opinion.
I'd think the opposite since his peripherals are fixed: type C is the logical extension of the thunderbolt display, with a single cable end to plug in when you reach your desk with your laptop.

I'm in a somewhat similar situation, when I reach home I plug in power, network, external display and USB devices, but these things don't move with me, they're fixed desk accessories. I've got a separate set of them at work.
There are various external battery packs that can charge laptops. I've been looking at them, but haven't decided on buying one yet.
Think about it. Eighty dollars just to get less than you had before (with the 11-inch Air). And you're already paying the Apple tax, plus that ugly adapter defeats the purpose of the whole making-it-pretty thing. All in the pursuit of a few millimeters.
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> To detect what license, if any, a project is licensed under, we used an open source Ruby gem called Licensee to compare the repository's LICENSE file to a short list of known licenses

They should also look in COPYING, which is the conventional place to declare that a project is licensed under the GPL. The GPL percentage would likely get a boost if they did this.
I think there are plenty of iOS users that can appreciate week long battery, always on clock face and visibility in strong sun light.

I doubt that sales numbers will be close, but I think there is plenty of room for pebble.
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I don't think bet365 does the kind of volumes a popular betting exchange would, but I do agree they are probably the kinds of traffic volume that can benefit from Erlang.
That's an interesting effect. If it were just the apps that were previously for "pro-am" work (iMovie et al), I'd get it, but—what happened with Pages and Numbers? I used them years ago, I use them now, and they honestly don't seem like they've changed much.
I have been doing something a bit related to this. I've been approaching programming as teaching. As I read books, I try to write code to accompany them. If they have exercises, I write code that will solve them. It certainly takes me to different challenges, things I don't normally face when writing typical applications. I especially enjoy doing this with completely non-computer-related textbooks, such as physics or chemistry books. In teaching the computer how to do these things, I most definitely benefit in understanding the tasks better myself.

Of course, when I do this I face some common hurdles. For instance, parsing whatever representation is used (equations or chemical formulas or whatever). In an 'interactive book' situation, I could see approaching an exercises section with a proper parser made available, so the 'reader' could easily manipulate the important portions of the problem. Other things come up too, such as using clumps of data. Whether a list of atomic masses of a mole of an elements atoms or proportional relationships between various factors, those things ought also to be made available in easy-to-use data structures.

I could see the IPython Notebook environment growing in this direction easily. People are already starting to use it as a platform for putting together entire books with a great deal of interactivity built in. You execute the code as you 'read' and see what it does step by step. In my opinion it should replace any scientific papers presenting any sort of data analysis as soon as possible. For whole-book projects, though, the platform needs some work. And the creators are aware of this and intending to fix issues and add features to support this. Read through their Issues page on Github sometime and you'll see authors really pushing the bounds of what the Notebook format can do and developers responding.
I don't honestly know whether the new MacBook is something that I'd want -- but I do know that for my purposes my late-2013 MacBook Pro kicks your MBP's butt. It's lighter, much faster, has a much better screen, and I don't really care much about the fact that I can't replace the battery. I'm still regularly getting eight hours offline.

And realistically, when I'm traveling with my laptop it's rare that I'm plugging anything into it besides a power cable. When it's "docked" it has the power cable, a Thunderbolt cable, and an audio out cable because I'm kind of a nerd and want to use my own speakers. That's all I need: the external hard drive and (non-wifi) printer hang off the monitor's built-in hub, as does external Ethernet. What would I lose with this new weirdo laptop? I'd plug one less cable in docked.

"But if you're traveling with it you'd need to bring a hub with you!" Well, if I was traveling and I expected to need to plug in USB stuff on the road, yes. But it's very clear that they're treating that as an edge case, making the assumption that many users can go almost entirely wireless, or will be able to in short order. And they're probably right. Maybe it'll be "daft" for you, but Apple has a history of doing daft things that more often than not drag the industry forward. (And keep pundits employed.)
As a guy with small children, the loss of MagSafe is actually a huge downgrade for me. The number of times MagSafe has saved my laptop and/or power cable from damage after a child blitzed through the living room and tripped over the power cable is not insignificant.
Is this a good ripost to the hand wringing articles bemoaning the end of technology development; a breakthrough technology taking man's instruments and machines to a place that they couldn't previously have got to?

This explains a lot of the recent interest in LEO for telecoms I guess, I should imagine that the control that this gives you coupled with the longevity would enable you to do a lot more for a lot less than is currently the case.
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"However, we continued our attempts at possibly making our product work but by mid-February, we realized that we were grinding through our days. Grinding is okay and sometimes necessary for a startup, but it was during this time that I realized I was not passionate about ours."

Five months in, grinding is pretty much the job. Everybody’s passion wanes when faced with (potentially) years of hard work. It’s legit to decide you don’t want that for yourself, but it’s sad to see someone abandon a viable funded business.

As an aside, I dislike the criticism “doing a startup for the sake of a startup.” It implies that someone needs a special calling, and provides an easy out in the absence of one. “Starting a business thinking it looks easy,” might be closer to the truth.
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