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> We're basically hitting the limits of thinness at this point right?

And for what? A razor thin laptop with just one port seems to be really pushing towards one extreme side of the function/form continuum. I thought giving up ethernet was bad enough with the Retina Macbooks.

It's very pretty, but it seems more like a toy than a serious computer. Maybe that's what Apple wants, but that's never something I would have said about the last few years of Macbook Airs.
Law schools are in a death spiral. Maybe now they’ll finally change
This won't work well when using an air to do presentations and you can't switch between a monitor and power....

The slightly cynical me tends to think the thunderbolt port was great and on every mac. now new adapters...
You could compare it to an iPad, which has only a single lightning port.
> Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?

It's important, but it's also expensive. Unbelievably so. What I see happening is ambitious kids going here to gain marketable skills, and figure out what they like doing, and then using those skills to pay their way through college with a much better idea of what they want to do. That way you don't have to be saddled with a crapload of debt.
1.2Ghz processor seems like a dealbreaker for professional applications (Coding, Video editing) but for applications the Air was used before it actually seems okay.
I just hope the passthrough is up near the part that plugs into the laptop, or it's going to be awfully inconvenient for a lot of different kinds of peripherals.
US Work visas? No...unfortunately. There is not only a cap on it, but the demand is way much more than the cap can handle (also thanks partially to companies like Infosys which abuse the system).
Am I understanding correctly, that the new macbook air only has 1 USB/charging/video port? ONE SINGLE PORT?

That's pretty terrible, it instantly turned me off :(
> the Federal Communications Commission voted to replace the open Internet with Obamanet.

I realize this is in the opinion section, but use of this absurd, childish, and politically-loaded terminology doesn't belong in _any_ section of a legitimate news source.

Reasonable people can oppose this reclassification, but reasonable people will argue it without sounding like Ted Cruz.

I've always treated the WJS as a very conservative, but very respectable media source, but with them throwing this sort of rhetoric out there, even in an editorial, I may have to reconsider that view.
I am bit disappointed. Dell has similar sized laptop, with bigger display, smaller bezel and higher resolution.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/xps-13-9343-laptop/pd
With that battery life, I don't suspect I'll ever be charging it while using it - I'll only ever charge it while I'm asleep.
I've not read those docs (sorry) but what if I want to run DisplayPort for my monitor and simultaneously plug in an external USB drive? Can a single line switch between protocols?
One only port...Data Vs Power??..I hope they thought it through..
> Reception would be distinctly negative if something as crucial as health research were closed source

I don't know about that. HealthKit is essentially closed and no one seems to mind, and it's all about the data ultimately anyway. Maybe it's a regulatory thing? Regardless, it's nice to see.
However, it is what was said about the first generation of Macbook Airs. Second generation of that got more ports.

Wonder if history will repeat itself here.
That's not an uncommon practice. I believe there was a non-Retina Macbook Pro in the product line for quite a while after the introduction of the Retina Macbook Pro.
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In the old days, HP had a high standard of quality. More recently, almost coinciding with the introduction of inkjet printers, HP quality standards have slipped to a new dismal low. I'm not surprised to hear of fires.
No (standard) USB port. Weird. I wonder if it'll ship with a USB cable?

To be honest, the one USB device that I use the most is my mouse, and I suppose Apple expects me to get a wireless one, and that is fine. But what about stuff like USB drives? I am not looking forward to not being able to just give somebody a file on a USB drive because they forgot their OTG cable.
Salary is the wrong metric!

For example, I don't want to see a job below 125K but a job is posted at 115K and they subsidize X where X is important to me personally....then that can change everything.

It's obviously a much tougher situation to define all those little things, perhaps they should be valuing the total compensation package and not salary?

There are jobs with certain benefits where either the same or less salary could still be compelling to someone.
Well. 25% heavier.

Edit: which is not to say that the new MacBook is better; I'm just saying there are tradeoffs here. They both look pretty good to me.
Good point. Currently I am working on parsing a 5.5 million line STEP file. I've learned more about memory usage and high level overhead in the last week then I had in the previous 10 years of .Net dev.
Yes, I can't see an electronic watch being an heirloom.
No, a wide-ranging formal liberal education is not that important. We're in an era of specialization and autodidactism. I've learned far, far more myself with the internet than I ever did in my useless, overpriced English and History classes in university.
Yes you can. IIRC you can run USB3.x-speed devices and one alt-mode over a single line.
I think there is a useful distinction between a fault/error and an exploit. A fault is a break from the "desired" or "expected" semantics of a system, while an exploit is an algorithm to predictably utilize a fault (or faults) to access unexpected behaviours in that system. I.e., a buffer overflow is a fault in a program (breaking the expectation that a buffer's contents will remain within a certain bound), while an exploit targeting that overflow will likely allow running arbitrary code in a program not designed to do so.

So, I'd put it, the memory error can be leveraged in an exploit.
It is simply not true that anyone who speaks a dialect can easily switch to a more standard pronunciation. To take your particular example, the idea of a born-and-bred cockney speaker suddenly switching to Received Pronunciation is just laughable to any British person. If you won't believe this coming from me, a British person, then I'm not sure how much further we can take this conversation.

>I am talking about people in their own country with dialects, you're talking about people in other countries speaking differently from the country where their language originated in.

I don't see why national boundaries are particularly significant here. Intranational dialectal variation can be as large as international variation. If your point is that it's not reasonable to expect a Cuban to put on a Mexican accent, then I'd point out that it's equally unreasonable to expect someone from the East End to speak like the Queen. In both cases, even if the person happened to be able to do a good impression of the accent in question, they'd feel as though they were doing an impression rather than having a normal conversation.

In general, there is no conspiracy here. If people want to communicate with you, and feel able to speak in a more standard dialect to help with this, then they will. If they don't, it's because they can't.
Apple's role here is often to be more opinionated, or braver, than others. They were the first to adopt USB, first to stop shipping floppy drives, first to ditch optical drives, first to make high-DPI ('retina') displays a standard feature... they are willing to be the one who goes out there and says 'we all know this is where things are going - so let's quit pussy-footing around and just do it'.

This new MacBook announcement was just item after item of taking things to the next logical step, and it's setting a new bar which every other laptop manufacturer out there will now have to meet.
Will vimperator currently accept commands over a socket?
There was an older paper discussing using various methods of fault injection (heat, voltage changes, etc) to attack Java smart cards, essentially destroying the type system guarantees and thus opening up an attack surface: "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Guide to Fault Attacks", https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/100.pdf
Hours less than the current Air.
I do no such thing. Please read more closely. For the sake of clarity, let me explain this in other form.

1) Anti-vaccine movement = public health problem = dangerous.

2) Anti-vaccine movement comes from declining levels of trust in authorities.

3) Tricking your users into installing crapware = abusing them = making them trust your company less.

4) Being lied to and abused like that by pretty much every company all the time, in all sectors = people lose the general level of trust in organizations.

5) from 1), 2) and 4), lack of trust leads to actual danger.

6) from 3), by abusing your users you're contributing to actual danger.

"Contributing" doesn't mean you're fully responsible for the outcome - it means you're as responsible as your contribution is. It's a tragedy-of-commons thing.
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Or watched a Parliament meeting?
Right, I was trying to throw it out. Production value is surprisingly low in value when it comes to education. My children have learned more from scrap paper laying around the house than they have from books, at this point. (They are young, so not yet in the target of these efforts.)

Basically, my assertion would be that no amount of production value will make up for experimentation done by the student.
- recruiters don't screen well enough technically or personality wise
- resumes/profiles suck for determining coding ability. Sparsely filled github accounts and pet projects are far better indicators

We are the same team behind https://remoteinterview.io. We encourage employers to screen on the basis of technical skills instead of resumes.

- recruiters tend to lie about everything (candidate availability, salary requirements, etc)

We are planning to implement rating system for employers by candidates.

- companies are cagey about salary. I'd rather know up front rather than waste everyone's time.

That's what TryCatch.cc is trying to solve.

- lack of exposure to the team during the hiring process. Since I'll be spending more time with them than my family I want them to be people I like rather than neckbeards that aren't personable.

Very valid point. It should be solved.
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They messed up the resolution. No more "4x the resolution" as "retina" anymore for Apple devices, it seems. It's the end of that, as we've seen with the new iPhones.

So now developers will have to target those resolutions exactly as they are. No more "elegant scaling" and whatnot.
One good solution I've seen to this is a hybrid approach. QA was their own team, but sent a representative to each other team. That meant QA engineers had two scrums each morning -- one for the team they were assigned to, and one for QA as a whole. It worked very well. QA had their own processes that other teams didn't need to worry about, but QA also understood the needs of all other teams.
Not all issues are equal. Porn, in particular, has a lot of history of abuse of its participants and objectification of a large class of people.

Rap music is a genre. If you said "rap music that talks about running around murdering police officers", despite the fact that no police officers were murdered in the making of that song, it would probably also be offensive.
Presumably accessory manufacturers will create peripherals that allow video out + power at the same time?
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This means that the process of removing identifying information is mostly automatic. But a person then reviews and removes anything identifiable and then the candidate himself approves the profile before we add it to our public list.
> I'm glad apple picked this up after so many others pushed it forward :)

To be fair, Apple had a lot of people on the USB-C standards... 'committee', second only to Intel.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/6/7505187/apple-macbook-2015-...
That is one of the reasons Elon Musk is such a great businessman :)
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Well, it never really took off outside the Mac world. This may be an improvement. I look at my Mac Mini that currently has power, Thunderbolt display, 3 disks, USB hub with 30-pin and Lightning, and DVD, though, and wonder WTF they are thinking about 1 port. IF the daisy chaining works and I can still charge my iPad, it could be really nice.
How does it choose what jobs I am "eligble" for? In the past 5 years I've done design, user experience, customer support, qa, devops, and programming.

Most recruiters want someone who has done one and only one thing for the entirety of their career, regardless of whether that's a sound strategy or not- do you rank higher for employees who have done the same thing for years or is it strictly a position-avialable:pay-requested rank?
To be fair, it's at least a single standard dongle hell. And now with USB-C you can have thunderbolt-style docks that give you a near-universal docking experience (ie: DVI/HDMI/dozens of USB ports/DVD drive/power) with a single cable when you're at your desk.
I care about these things specifically because the IRS doesn't tax it. I save about 6k per year because my startup feeds me 5 lunches/3 dinners per week and pays for my public transportation. That's probably ~8k pre-tax dollars.
I don't believe people actually want "new and trendy". It just happens that nobody is giving them what they need, so they have no choice but to find the new "hot" thing. Because social networks are so disconnected and fragmented at the moment, it only makes sense for people to use social networks that others use, and that's why we see trends.

Most consumers are satisfied with "the Internet", and as far as I know, not many are looking for alternatives. Most people use Google, they don't change their search engine every few months. People in the US speak English, and I don't see many people learn other languages based on trends.

In a world of apps, where people can't think in any other way, sure the gimmicky app is going to win. They know that they will never find what they need, why not having fun doing so? With a slightly different mindsets, one in which you realize that there's no point in having so many apps, you think differently and your values change. People will find diversity in content, not containers.

Are all businesses writing their own crappy internal management systems because it's trendy? Are banks spending millions to build a crappy banking system that's more or less a clone of any other bank's for fun? Are the millions of different "User" classes programmed by people who thought theirs was better/cooler?

Society has taught people to think wrong. Instead of thinking about what they need, they go straight to thinking about how they need it. Then, once they're offered a solution that does exactly what they need, they reject it because it doesn't match the solution they imagined. And we're talking about people that can't think of a solution themselves, and can only pick examples from their past. We're in a world where people ask "I want to buy an iPad from Amazon.com" instead of asking "I want an iPad", or better "I want to browse the web and watch movies in my bed".

That said, I would still like to understand why you believe that people want toys and trendy. Is it a symptom of something else, or are these features intrinsically valuable to them?
In Rust, programmers are also "essentially free to do what they want", you just need to explicitly declare the parts of your code where you know better than the type system. The pertinent difference is Rust is memory-safe by default, and forces you to opt-in to unsafety and undefined behavior so that those pieces of code in particular can be more closely audited.
Almost by definition this will happen for a lot of content. Especially if you get a lot of control over where your money goes. The only cheap content would be the content that everyone wants. Which is largely the content everyone claims not to want.
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No wireless?
Not sure how USB is a factor in that. Plenty of old-style chargers have had issues (including fire hazards) over the years as well.
I followed the link hoping I could point out how wrong you are. Nope, that's a pretty beautiful laptop. Thin, light, great screen, etc...

In the end, you can look at the 12 inch MacBook as being a new notebook for people who care about running Mac OS/don't want to switch to Windows. It's a big deal because the Dell isn't an option most people want to consider :)
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We are missing that guy, we have talked about outright hiring that role several times. Currently Hung and I kind of split that role, while the other guys bring stuff to the table from time to time. We have done some outsourcing projects but again, there is a desire in the group to have some ownership or at least belonging to something more permanent than a 6 month to 1.5 year gig.
> The research[1]

says that billboards help sell stuff. So do online ads. Unfortunately there's no RL ad block for those of us who don't like ugly.

> I'd argue these[2] are anything but.

I'll take nature or architecture, thanks.
Socket.IO on iOS
Actually, you don't even need the msi, unless that is the only mode you have for installation. Can use the java package with a /s switch and then use the deployment.properties file with custom configs in the link below to disable many features for java.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/j...
>Or are attention spans so short and/or the agency so completely removed from the rule of law that we're going to let them get away with their crimes? If we're not even going to bother with the trial - acknowledging that we won't even bother trying to maintain the rule of law - then I guess that's sufficient proof that we have lost our republic, as we let it be replaced with feudalism.

No, there will never be accountability for any of the gross abuses of the constitution, people's rights (including all those in the USA) and foreign "captives" physical and mental wellbeing highlighted in the NSA and CIA revelations.

Let's not kid ourselves. Representative democracy has shown itself to be a charade, particularly in the USA where you've two very similar entities who have billions pumped into them at election time to ensure no other entities have a shot at power, and then once elected those two very similar entities spend their time serving and protecting those that pumped in those billions.

The worst thing about it that I can't see any way out of it for the American people. The system is now so thoroughly stacked against them that any attempt at radical change - whether it's passive through the political system or more active through protests or at worst a revolution - will be very rapidly quashed. As a European I absolutely loathe that this very same, corrupted, abusive entity - the US Government - is reaching its tentacles into our governing and is now vying for power here via the TTIP and similar.
I understood the litigation risk. In an integrated system it's always someone else's fault (DRAM, BIOS, CPU, laptop vendor). IMHO the last integrator (the one selling you the goods) is always the culprit.

Why would they fear hardware manufacturers' litigation more than software vendors' ? Especially at such a big company like Google ?
Also made out of plastic, and just as expensive with less SSD storage.
This is a joke referring to how Slashdot made fun of the iPod when it came out: http://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ip...
> It's very pretty, but it seems more like a toy than a serious computer.

I really must disagree. I do Infrastructure by day (not just AWS, but physical colo as well), and quite a bit of microcontroller/CNC/robotics on the side/as a hobby. Nothing in the new Macbook stops me from doing this. I'll just move to using Bluetooth for my interfaces when I can, and when I can't, serial interfaces over USB-C.
USB connector was not simply designed for 10 amps or how much they push through it.
I have two thunderbolt displays daisy chained into the single thunderbolt port on my 2013 MacBook Air. Each display is basically also a dock, with other peripheral ports in the back. It works very well because as I understand it thunderbolt is 10gbps transfer.

Does USB-C work the same way?
I find this inspiring. I love when I see someone doing something very poorly but obviously having success with it. (The twitter-bots, not the research)

It's time for a new side project.
The way those people view Africa is a huge middle finger to the people who live in this continent.
Well there's me done with Safari for another 6 months.
Ask HN: A potential investor in my startup asked me to sign an NDA. Should I?
On HN there is plenty of posts suggesting startuppers not to ask investors to sign NDAs...
but what to do when the other thing happens, when is actually the investor who is asking you to sign a "mutual" NDA?

# background:
- We've previously developed a prototype of a web technology which has attracted the attention of an investor

- In a meeting with the investor they have informed us of a market opportunity, a specific niche, where our product could be adapted

- Parts of the conversation had sensible information and they anticipated that we would have to sign an NDA, however, once they told us the information, there wasn't (almost) anything that isn't already public information. What they are putting on the table is a good intro to the specific niche: basically they have the client whom would buy our product

- we've analysed the market and the requirements and presented them with the final ideas of the project to develop, some where based on our technology, some where other business opportunities that the investor hadn't thought of and that we could build.

- now, once the presentation is done, they are asking to sign a "mutual" NDA (which "seems" mild enough), in order to keep talking about the rest of the project.

# My concerns:
1- there's many things about the investor that make it an undesirable partner (some parts are good, but most are bad)

2- Because the market opportunity is real, very very big, and largely untapped, we maybe still want to pursue it, and we still would like to honour the "introduction" to the opportunity done by the potential investor

3- We are afraid that this NDA could be wrongly leveraged in the future, if we end up pursuing and reaching this market.

Here's a pastebin of the generic mutual NDA
http://pastebin.com/e2ZUU5qj

Any suggestions? I'm only afraid that this could be a liability for future developments of our product if it somehow overlaps the market opportunity they introduced us to.
thanks
I think that it targets a lot of students. Most people want to carry around something that is light, I think this targets a lot of college students. In all of my business classes that I am currently in more than 90% of the class uses Mac's, they bring their chargers with them to class so they are set.
That's weird... doesn't Chrome come with a custom build of Flash already? So if you download flash, you download Chrome, which in turn downloads flash?
Including Apple chargers, so it's really nothing new.
Isn't it only dongle hell for a few years? Theoretically monitors, printers, hard drives, etc will all have USB-C connectors as well at some point.