skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The hugely popular download service uTorrent is still taking heat after announcing it would no longer freight downloads with software that slows the user's computer for the parent company's bitcoin-mining purposes -- a practice most users weren't aware of and hadn't agreed to. The software, known as Epic Scale, hijacks a user's computing and memory power in order for uTorrent owner BitTorrent Inc. to generate computing power to mine for bitcoin."
http://www.ibtimes.com/slow-computer-utorrent-epic-scale-bit...
Unless you need Java Secure Sockets Extension to work - see smacktls.com.
My goto codebase to reference java is https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch
If I am driving near my home, it will likely be to a business that I decided to patronize before I even left home. Those in-town billboards are thus only good for subconscious name recognition. I'm not going to hire an ambulance-chaser lawyer unless I need one, but if I do, there are two in particular that saturate the local ads around here, including the billboards. If you're in that sort of business, you really do need to put your name on every space you can buy.

On the highway, most of the billboard ads are for businesses positioned near the highway.

I don't think highway billboards and in-town billboards are realistically in the same advertising market, even if they have similar form factors.

Clever and eye-grabbing is strictly for in-town boards. The same people will see this message multiple times, perhaps even twice a day.

Highway billboards have to be simple and informative, and highly relevant to travelers. People may only see these once, ever.

When I'm on the highway, I won't even look at billboards unless one of the following applies:

- need food
- need gas
- need a toilet

And those functions are increasingly being replaced by GPS navigators with preloaded points of interest and by smartphones' interactive map applications.
Say what you will about the logic behind a single port for everything (as far as I know this is the first computer to do this so there's nothing to compare it to), this Air is a pretty drastic change from what we're all used to when it comes to laptops. We're basically hitting the limits of thinness at this point right?
There were "artist renderings" of this thing that leaked a while back. They were pretty much 100% on the money, the big thing being the USB-C port.
I think his issue may be more that it's hard to be certain of this difference because it's relatively small and there are many other factors at play. He also doesn't say how many times he ran this test, but assuming he does sufficient test runs then I'd agree a 300-600ms difference is worth it.
> The problem I feel with Mozilla is that they mistook why they were successful. They attributed the success of Firefox to the openness of the browser and the company and have doubled-down on that.

I think you've mistaken the purpose of Mozilla: the purpose of Mozilla is not to have a successful company independent of openness, it is to promote "openness, innovation, and opportunity on the Web".

Mozilla isn't a for-profit company (well, the Foundation isn't, and the Corporation is wholly owned by, and exists to further the purposes of, the Foundation.)
I'm glad apple picked this up after so many others pushed it forward :)

But 1 port is sad, because now you have to choose between a lot of things (charging, using hdmi, whatever)
Whether or not offense makes for defense depends somewhat on the actor. For some, deterrence does work.

For the rest, we have the basic problem that defense is much harder than offense. Also, the US seems to be far more vulnerable than most.

Those aside, offensive capabilities are needed. It's just a question of balancing them against defensive capabilities. I know firsthand that significant effort is going into defense, it just doesn't get the press that offensive capabilities do.
Is this the end of Thunderbolt as well?
From the keynote, it's my understanding that Apple doesn't have access to any of your health data. It seems that your data is ultimately stored with whatever organisation is doing the study. They also emphasised that you, yourself, have access to your own data too–which is as it should be.
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I think my situation might not quite fit this survey, and I'm wondering if it's common enough to skew the results.

I interned at a company the summer before my senior year, and they gave me a full-time offer at the end. That meant I only considered companies that I would prefer over my internship company. I liked that company quite a bit, so I ended up only applying to 2 others, and got 1 offer, 1 rejection.

Had I not had that internship-turned-offer, I'm sure I would have applied to many more, and since the bar for the company would have been lower, I think my overall offer rate could have possibly been higher.
Comment by moeburn on http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/epic-scale-and-utorre...
"Your investigation neglected to point out the fact that the choice to install Epic Scale only appears about 25% of the time, but installs 100% of the time. Try going through the installation process a few times, I guarantee you that you will find it doesn't always ask you."
you are doing that "I support you, but you are so wrong".

I sure am.

What is the problem with that? People who have been victimized sometimes say things that are incorrect. Pretending that everything someone who has been victimized says is factually correct and credible seems is totally counter-productive, makes all rational dialog impossible and ultimately allows the strongest to impose their version of events since it produces a situation where no one cares about the facts of a situation.
Yes, but it was Elon that did the shifting, and you that (unintentionally, I'm sure) took it too far. All Elon was trying to communicate was that centralization of production of cheaply replicable goods allows higher quality. If that applies to theater, explain that concept with reference to theater. If it doesn't apply to theater, throw it out for another metaphor.
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Simple: http://mvgen.com/remix/

Put in any link from youtube as a video, and any link from youtube or soundcloud in as audio and Remix combines them together.

Example output Seven Dwarves -vs- MIMS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgLjHb5fiLs&feature=youtube_gdata
Before I threw it away a few years ago, I hooked it back up and listened to it. Yeah, it was bad. But good for the time. I figure a $40 Walmart player from today would sound better than it did. Wikipedia says it's because Sony only put one DAC in there to save cost, and routed the left/right channel through it alternately. So one channel was always slightly lagging behind the other.

I still have some of the CDs from the mid-80s. Pink Floyd The Wall sounds like they just dumped the album tracks on it, RIAA curve and all. Dire Straits Brothers in Arms still sounds pretty good - there's a reason it won two Grammys. Bought the MoFi remaster last year of it.
>It's not about outrage politics.

You are literally equating a toolbar with parents not vaccinating their children. I think you've lost a basic sense of perspective here.
Except you can't uncheck them...
> Simple sugar is really more poisonous and addictive than some of the banned drugs

This is ridiculous. Marathoners, mountain climbers, and other endurance athletes survive on simple sugars during their activities, mainly in the form of maltodextrin energy gels. Maltodextrin is classified as "complex," but it's metabolized so quickly it might as well be simple. That's why it's used in sports.
Thunderbolt runs over USB-C, as well as DisplayPort. USB 3.1 features re-configurable lines that can negotiate almost any protocol. [1] [2]

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8558/displayport-alternate-mod...

[2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/8539/usb-power-delivery-v20-an...
I bought one two weeks ago that has two SODIMM slots.
Well, at least the MacBook does include an esc key. I was a bit worried for all the Vi users during the rumor mockup speculation.
Are there things here where Apple is significantly further ahead than the competition? Innovating on keyboards, trackpad, battery life, power usage and form factor - there just seem to be innovating simultaneously on more levels than the competition.

Another thing - that vibrating trackpad gizmo feels like a couple of innovations away from true touch feedback on an iPhone? Any thoughts?
Apparently "everywhere in the world" consists entirely of San Francisco, Paris, and maybe Palo Alto ;)

Cool idea regardless; just needs a more diverse assortment of job offers.
I am beginning to think cutting the cord (cable) and all these services out there being available might end up costing more for the little content I actually want.

Hopefully the dust will settle and prices stabilize, lower.
Maybe stop using Grunt?
When I'm trying to sign up:

Error: failed to find request token in session at Strategy.OAuthStrategy.authenticate (/app/node_modules/passport-linkedin/node_modules/passport-oauth/lib/passport-oauth/strategies/oauth.js:124:54) at Strategy.authenticate (/app/node_modules/passport-linkedin/lib/passport-linkedin/strategy.js:118:40) at attempt (/app/node_modules/passport/lib/middleware/authenticate.js:337:16) at authenticate (/app/node_modules/passport/lib/middleware/authenticate.js:338:7) at /app/linkedin.js:84:15 at callbacks (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:164:37) at param (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:138:11) at pass (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:145:5) at nextRoute (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:100:7) at callbacks (/app/node_modules/express/lib/router/index.js:167:11)
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I'd hate to have to worry that I'll cut myself on my laptop.

Is there anyone that's super-excited about a thinner Air? My preference is always for greater battery life. I'm curious if there are people that wish their already thin laptop were even thinner, and if so, why?
I don't know about you guys , but i feel that US visas and UK work permits are becoming easier to get through these days ... i remember 10 years ago switching jobs in london that would sponsor me was a pain! now it's quite easy.
Do you agree?
At a guess to avoid labeling laptop manufacturers and getting sued if it turns out that something else was at fault? The DRAM itself might be the culprit (probably is), laptops of a certain brand might come with RAM from different manufacturers.
Heh, that's an interesting discussion - management never has any thoughts about giving pay raises, you have to ask for it, sometimes brutally.

Developers should learn a bit about marketing, have a couple of valuable things on GitHub, have a blog, have an up to date LinkedIn, etc... then you end up being contacted by recruiters, which is cool for an ego boost and as a safety net. It's then much easier to go in and say "Hey Bob, I'm producing twice the value you expect for this salary, work conditions have changed, so I want a significant pay raise".

And sometimes you have to threaten with resignation, which doesn't really work in big companies, because there you have the "cog in the machine" mentality, with developers often being the bottom of the food-chain. But in smaller companies or when working as a consultant or in general when the "stock holders" have good visibility in the value that you bring, it's a very effective tactic.

It's also very healthy getting a pay raise especially when the stress levels are going through the roof, as it keeps you sane, because what's worse than being stressed about deadlines is being stressed while you're not being payed enough, i.e. compensation is a hygienic issue and when working in unhygienic conditions, there's nowhere to go but down. But you know, fortunately we live in times in which the supply and demand ratio is favoring us :-)
This seems absurd. Taxes and passports are apples and oranges. It's just a convenient thing to take away from people.
I wonder how literal the parent was being. He seems to be walking the line. I think from the parents point of view he 'gets' what the original post was going after. Its just more... busting out the oscilloscope graphs to prove transparency at sub human audible levels while at the same time picking components because you can 'hear' the difference is a contradiction. Basic fundamental point is from a pure amplification of signal without distortion standpoint there are components that can get you there for a lot less effort today.
And as much as I love the idea of thinness, I'm in the awkward state of shopping for a small laptop that is everything except thin. I want a keyboard with depth/action to the keypresses! It's becoming extremely hard to find. I'm not convinced that I'll love the typing experience on this Air; I've been very disappointed by recent Dell and Lenovo (yoga) keyboards.

I don't mind a bit of thickness as long as it's small in the other dimensions, and light as anything.
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I think DevOps is a bit of a fad anyway, because a huge chunk of the problems people are solving will soon be solved by off-the-shelf standard cloud solutions. It makes no sense for everyone to be writing their own deployment/configuration Chef and Docker setups when they can just use increasingly powerful and flexible PaaS options like AppEngine/Heroku.
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hmmmm weird. Can you give it another try. I just tried and it works. Will check logs after traffic reduces :)
Seriously? Couldn't they have put _two_ ports in it so you can plug something in while it's being charged without lugging around a usb hub?
I'd prefer a thicker laptop with better battery life myself. I ended up buying a batterybox to extend the life of my current device when I'm mobile. I suppose that being thinner and dying sooner gives us the option to just throw-and-go without much weight if you don't require a long period of computing.
I get 130ms on Windows 8.1, Core Duo 2.53 GHz with jdk1.8.0_40. And 120ms If I disable the JIT.

With a normal hard disk.

Maybe it does take a few ms more than Lua or Python, but hardly anything significant.
You get diminishing returns on "innovation" when working inside an existing paradigm. Companies are rarely significantly further ahead of their competitors unless they invent or popularize a new class of product.
I'm a dev who learned everything by experience. I'm in my 20's and have been doing this for ~20 years, so I have a bit of experience with both the new and the old world.

My take is that the code quality of whats allowed to be in production has gotten worse, that's it. It's an effect of an abundance of RAM and virtualization. The abundance of ram lets you just trash it and do things in a horribly inefficient way. Sure the extra memory can help with time memory trade off if you have something that doesnt need to scale a great deal, but processing things inline will still be faster. Developers have forgotten how to handle streams. Usually forcing a dev to learn a highly functional language that's immutable can fix these issues (it must involve a large dataset, where you know they will tax out the memory, and then code review to help).

I mention virtualization because a common pattern I've seen is to write poor code, and just put more boxes behind the load balancer when things start failing because the technical debt is so high it's an impossible mountain to climb. This obviously isn't the right approach and will leave your devops guys worn out chasing your everyday distributed systems problems that happen because it wasn't built right for distribution and the dev has never read the fallacies of distributed computing.

And while you're fixing this technical debt a team of competent engineers builds a competing product and trumps you hard (second mover advantage).

Maybe people paid a bit more attention when things cost 10x as much as they do now and every answer (both bad and good, and you can't tell the difference) wasn't a stackoverflow search away.....
> We live in a hierarchically exploitative society, which contributes to the global collapse of trust.

Indeed. And I think people sometimes don't realize that this trust on society-level is literally the one thing that separates us from being savages. Not our technology, not our military, not the scientific advances, not the democracy, but bonds of trust are what keeps civilization from falling apart.

> I'm sure if it were somehow possible and legal to bundle some kind of mind-control adware into a vaccine that forces you to buy the sponsor's brands, someone would be doing it.

Then it would be detected, someone would get fired, company would pay some huge fines to FDA of WHO or whomever, at best maybe regulations would also be updated, and then everything would be business as usual. Everything, except the trust people just lost - because seeing the corruption everywhere, what possible reason would they have to believe that the new regulations will be effective at preventing such event from happening again?
Can Etsy keep its folksy brand and make shareholders money?
I love my Surface Pro 3, thank you very much :-)
>to drum up more support for killing people an ocean away

To drum up more support for pumping billions or trillions of dollars borrowed from America's descendants into the pockets of the US elite via the military industrial complex.

Don't like it? You're welcome to protest but make sure you do it in the designated "free speech zone" over there, well away from those you're holding the protest against.

Oh and while you're doing it we'll increase the attention we give your NSA profile, everything you look at online, your emails, everyone you've ever interacted with in a trackable way and more. Can't have you radicals trying to upset the system the elite rely on, after all.
Well ofcourse there ARE benefits to them, but I would just like to see you present it to them as awesomely as you presented to us devs
How long did you test it? The tests they did ran fairly long, possibly you'd have to run this for days to really be able to state that a particular machine/ram combination is not vulnerable.
I have some wiggle room on my dev jobs so I'm offering $X-$X+20 for someone with $Y-$Y+5 yrs of experience. I'm perfectly open to an increase and I work with a recruiter whom I trust, so I usually ask him if I'm low or high and he's honest with me. So much of success in things coming from not working with scumbags.
The combo of thinner/lighter/no fan is pretty awesome in my opinion. These aren't for peopled doing hardcore computing, they're for people doing hardcore commuting really.
NetBSD development is going gangbusters lately.

-current is getting a ton of attention w/ accelerated graphics (very nice) and dtrace is getting lots of love, and small device support (like Pi2) is constantly advancing. And still the same extremely solid-feeling, sensible OS you've always known and loved.

I started using NetBSD about 11 years ago, and am constantly amazed with the experience. Looked to move to Linux and other BSDs, but can't bring myself to leave Net. If you haven't already started using it, now is a _great_ time to begin.
Who is the marketing guy among your team? It seems like you need a "CEO" who knows how to talk and bring projects in. Plus it seems like you are good fit for taking on outsourcing projects.
I really hope that all the gadget will just be stackable...
It had to start with the doctors, so it didn't start moving till the research led there.

Police are very risk-averse. Even if they see drug policy ruining lives, they will assume those drugs are very dangerous and have no benefits unless they have it on very good authority otherwise and doctors are the only people with the authority on that subject to really convince police.

Also, police are one of the few groups with the authority to convince politicians, who are generally very suspicious of doctors who want to try and legalise drugs.
I am not too happy about that. HP already has USB charger for laptop, and it had bunch of problems, including fire hazard. That was just ARM chromebook, not sure how it will on 'full' mac.

EDIT: there are physical limitations how electric current is transferred. USB contacts do not have good shape and will probably deteriorate more quickly.
The thing about Apple's lineup is that they offer both main lines: the MacBook Pro caters to users who want thin with great battery life, while the Air caters to those who prefer a lighter laptop while still maintaining good battery life.
I will guarantee you that their charger will have a port on it to pass through. Still awkward, but I can't imagine that they'd force users to choose between data and power on that one port.
That's what I love about my Thinkpad X200s. It is small, it is light, and it isn't absurdly thin so it can have that classic Thinkpad keyboard. Unfortunately, Lenovo is moving into the super-thin form factor and they've lost my trust entirely since Superfish so I don't know where I'll be able to get this kind of laptop again.
Noticed the changed the headline?

The Air still exists and is NOT replaced by this. I believe it's staying because it's non-retina, but I may be wrong.

Either way, they seem to have made a call a bit too early when posting this.
I cut the cord and use a roku 3. Works great with Netflix, Hulu, and Plex, which handles pretty much everything I want.

I like the choice that roku gives me, and doesn't tie me to any specific media store.
>equating a toolbar with parents not vaccinating their children

If you think that's what TeMPOraL is saying, I think you need to read more closely. There's more nuance than you give credit for.
Tried again, works now :)
What's interesting to me as well is that they don't seem to have announced any sort of dock or usb hub or even really mentioned what the charging brick looks like right? That seems like a really important thing to cover when announcing you have 1 port for all peripherals now.
I believe (someone correct me if this is wrong?) that you can in principle daisy chain a USB-C connector for both data and power?
I think he means that they might as well be included in the salary, unless there's a tax or bulk buying discount.
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It just means we're going to stay stuck in dongle hell.

When I'm on the road the minimalism of a Mac is nice, but at my desk, hooked up to everything I really need for heavy work, my desktop is a cluster-f of cables and adapters and wires.
I see it differently. I personally don't do well when somebody told me to solve a problem (regardless of the difficulty) in an hour or so while that person is around. I want to think quietly in my head or write down stuff where I need to (on a notebook or even type up quickly in the IDE/notepad app). I also want to look up the existing tools and stuff that I could use so that I can build something the right way. Even for a small coding problem like sorting, I want to run it in my head or write it down on paper lone to test it. That's why the current way of interviewing is so much trouble for me. I could solve most of the problems that are given in the modern day tech interviews IF I am alone given an hour without having to speak it out loud.

Better option would be that they give me a small, independent project to work on for a few days and once I finish it, I talk about how I approach and solve the problem with the interviewer via phone/skype/gchat. That would have actually been the best way to test a candidate's ability.
Popular, but an anti-pattern. People start including production configuration as a module inside the build.

The Right Way (TM) is loading from env vars.