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This is the sort of reason I stopped buying Apple products.

Whilst they use ground-breaking advanced engineering, thermal design and materials and all that marketing garb, I feel merely like the pilot of an experimental aircraft about to tumble out of the sky at any moment.

The last three Apple computers I bought ended up being returned on warranty and the replacement sold due to electrical, thermal, software and quality issues. Fortunately we're covered here in the UK for 6 years with a small argument but none of the machines lasted more than 12 months in normal "at home" usage.

Now that's not exclusive to Apple but I don't expect to have these issues on a premium product. £183/month for a computer over its usable lifetime is a lot of money.

On the side I fix Apple kit for people. I recently replaced the screen on a 2008 MBP which had failed. It was a joy to do. I can't help anyone with a Retina MBP onwards though; warranty return only. That's a big red flag for buying any recent kit.

Second hand plastic ThinkPads now. Not had any problems for a couple of years and to replace the entire unit is less than a 2010 MBP screen and they're easy to replace bits in. #00 Philips and a swiss army knife and you're sorted.
> pre-WWII Teletype machines

O.O

Where do you get stuff like that? eBay? Yard & garage sales?
Could you share the numbers after you finally close it? The number of subscribers, sales, expensed, profit, traffic, conversion... I'm interested by such stats.
Yes, and those exclude many people some of who have protected characteristics.
Hi I did ask the following:

> thoroc ‏@touristtam 12h12 hours ago
> @ID_AA_Carmack what guided your choice of Racket vs Rust and Go? > Just curious. :)
Same experience. We noticed that things were not going well for our daughter, Maggie, too. I told her many times "Look, if you don't feel right about this, we can go on bottles". 6 days she endured, Maggie needing to be latched pretty much every minute. The midwives encouraged her to continue, despite clear signs recent history was repeating itself.

Regardless of anything else,6 days without sleep in any form is dangerous and encouraging that behaviour could really tear families apart. Even though it's disgraceful, with this type of pressure, it's no wonder we see shaken-baby syndrome.

It's been said that the NHS is wrongly focused on curative medicine as opposed to preventative medicine. If there was ever a case for it, I'm sure this would be one.
I can't comment on the numbers because I'm not familiar with the economics of those countries, but I have a few thoughts:

1) "Human capital" sounds really icky. Think of a new buzzword.

2) "Lifetime income" again gives off a bit of an indentured servitude vibe. I haven't done market research (although going by that writeup, neither have you), but I suspect people would be much more amenable to a larger percentage (10-25%) with an expiration date (say 10 years).
The article author carries the same kind of exuberance I saw in people who discovered programming in the 1980s.

I also read his amusing presentation on OpenBSD here. I don't really program in pure C anymore, but I liked learning about strlcat and strlcpy, among other things [1].

It's amazing that a self-described programming newbie gets his changes committed into a high-stakes-security distro like OpenBSD. My conjecture is that this must say something about the OpenBSD developer community culture.

Has anyone reading this commited to both Linux and OpenBSD? It looks to me like the OpenBSD crowd is a lot friendlier, at least judging by some relatively recent comments from Linux developers [2] (funny, but ouch.)

[1] http://www.nycbug.org/event/10343/bcallah-nycbugjan2014.pdf

[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/6/495
Same goes for chargers. Find a story about a fire from a battery charger and 9 times out of 10 you'll find it's a *fire.
React is not a terrible idea
UI is not UX
Warren Buffet Annual Letter 2015
Hi there, doing fine :) It's exactly what I felt had changed, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one (and you have definite hands-on experience with HM!)

I hope your next business also thrives (it's not like HM was a bad thing I guess, and it was definitely top-notch quality.)
Maybe put those in the final issue :)
Pretty sure that first MGMT album clips all over the place. And yeah I agree.

That first SOAD album is an impressive piece of mastering though.
Fenix FL? I only find an HL 50?
FlashQ Q20: A Handy Flash Reinvented
Sometimes Perl can be a beauty:

sub sum_of_squared_pairs {
reduce { $a + $b } map { $_ * $_ } grep { $_ % 2 == 0 } @_
}

sub schwartzian_transform {
map { $_->[0] }
sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } # use numeric comparison
map { [$_, length $_] } # calculate the length of the string
@_
}
Neglected Machine Learning Ideas
Came here to write the same thing, my son was born 6 weeks early, hormonally my wife was not ready to breast feed at all, and we had a hugely painful, and for my wife embarrassing experience sitting hour after hour in the hospital with breast pumps and formula bottles trying to get enough, and the right balance of breast milk and formula into my son. The hospital were adamant that we kept at it, and now some four months in, I think my son has only had to be fed with ~20 bottles, total. Mostly when we're travelling or my wife and I are exhausted, I think it's a natural and important part of raising a child, but not everyone can do it, we were lucky, and we need more tolerance of personal choice or circumstance without being judgemental.

Of course until becoming a parent, I had my strong and largely invalid opinions (i.e breast feeding in public is inappropriate, etc) I'm happy to say I've got past those short sighted and ill conceived views and won't judge anyone for anything they do for their child, probably there's a damned good reason why they're doing it, lack of sleep, exhaustion, and a baby crying are pretty powerful motivators to step outside of one's own personal comfort zone.

Other hot topics (especially as a Brit living in Germany, seeing the cultural differences) are sharing a bed with an infant, bathing with them, skin-on-skin contact, etc, etc.
Google: "We prefer not to use our services internally."

Microsoft: follows the hype "Hey, we are cool to! We do open source, HTML - you name it!"

Everyone Else: herd mentality.
> e.g. Racket doesn't have `inc`, `dec` or `nil`

I'm assuming those are trivial to add?
Ask HN: SublimeText vs. WebStorm
Which one are you using? Why IDE or editor for web development (node)? Would you recommend any other IDEs, like Visual Studio for example?
as far as we know, it could be written in emacs org mode.
The Economist was a bit less convinced:

http://www.economist.com/news/business/21645746-warren-buffe...
I have an XPS 13 from 2012 that I run Fedora on. I sometimes wish for a larger/newer/faster laptop (even though I do most of my serious work at a desktop with 2x27" 1440p monitors).. I wish to be more comfortable when working in various places. I'm seriously eyeballing this one, because I love the feel of these contraptions. Aluminum upper, carbon fiber lower, shark dick interior..
If they could only do it for the ads also.

The sole reason I started using adblock, was when I lived in Istanbul for couple of months, their ads were out of hands. Imagine having to control the volume, every time ad plays, in playlists or in front of videos.
currently everything is in plaintext so having to do a man-in-the-middle to read what's going on is already an improvement.
There's "public, anyone can hear it and forget it a little later", and then there is "public, collected, stored, analyzed beyond anyone's wildest imagination". These are two different concepts; the latter is not understood at all; it would be nice if the former could exist in some form, so there you have this attempt to push back on "monitoring".
It's not clipping, it's just compressed at infinitely high compression ratio, and infinitesimally short attack and release.... ;-)
Cool resource, thanks a lot!

Two suggestions from me:

a) Some kind of explanation (hover text?) for different options. To understand what all the options for the power switches meant I had to look at a few lights from each category.

b) allow different sites for prices (amazon from different countries might be an easy start?)
The upvotes and downvotes on this post has been a true roller coaster. EDIT: someone is fast on the vote-trigger; hello, friend. ;)
Looking into the 2011 Dale/Krueger study, the "significant" boost for minorities wasn't gigantic and had caveats.

For the attended-in-1976 minority cohort, they found a 6.7% higher income in 2007 for those choosing a more selective – but falling to 1.6% (said by the authors to be "indistinguishable from zero") if the selectivity-outlier historically-black colleges were excluded. For the entered-in-1989 minority cohort, the income boost in 2007 was higher – 12-14%, and survived the exclusion of historically-black colleges. (One way to interpret that might be: the income boost becomes smaller the longer you're out of college.)

Perhaps most interesting: if a student's parents had an average of 12-years education (~high school), selective-attendance gave a 5.2% income boost. But if parents had an average of 16-years (~college), selective attendance gave no income benefits.

But none of these boosts among less-privileged subgroups are very large. The paper also mentions some reasons its estimates of the benefits of selectivity (even where negligible) could be too high, including:

* if selective schools are more generous with financial aid – you and the NPR article both suggest this is the case
* if students with high unobserved earning potential are more likely to attend selective schools – seems likely to me, when a student is confident they have the skills, ambitions, or personal contacts to earn a lot post-graduation

So sure, include the Dale/Krueger subgroup estimates in the pitch that selective colleges make. But many low-income students might hear, "you'll get roughly a 5-14% income boost"… and still pass, picking less-selective colleges that match their other academic/community/career/family/friend priorities.

I get why the elite universities want more low-income enrollees: it's a key part of their self-image of outreach & uplift, helps justify their immense costs to others, and immunizes them against other criticisms. But for the low-income students themselves, even given a more-than-zero benefit shown by Dale/Krueger, it's not a slam-dunk decision. When such students choose elsewhere, they may be expressing their own smarts and self-knowledge.
>> In some cases, the pressure to breastfeed can do more harm than good. If the parent is feeling stressed, as it can be an extremely intense and also painful experience, the bonding process can suffer. More importantly, some mothers just cannot produce enough milk.

This mirrors what happened to us in an NHS hospital in the UK. As a result, my daughter's blood sugar dropped dangerously low as we were encourage to persist in breast feeding for far longer than we should have.

She's also on the gifted and talented programme at her school now, so I don't think Formula did her any harm.
Oh, I remember that. I think I did it by moving the Pokemon to the PC.
Being called out on your stupid choices is a good thing.

Now this is Linus pointing it out so it's going to be rude and funny at the same time.

Does that really make it less friendly of a crowd?

Personally I think not but you might feel like it is if you don't know the people involved that well.
The estimates were not adjusted for parental IQ: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAXhyklUkAEZ-PD.jpg

Also, the correlation was just 0.42: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CAXofbqUgAE33iR.png:large
The point of signalling is to prove fitness - the peacock can afford to carry around a huge tail because he is fit enough. Women walking on high heels PROVE physical fitness. The point is to create a signal that is hard to fake.

Putting money into a down payment for a house doesn't signal commitment or financial strength. You would have had to pay for housing anyway. Throwing away x times your monthly salary shows commitment and financial strength.
In the US, Congress passed the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act in 2010 and the FCC began enforcement in 2012.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Advertisement_Loudn...
I agree with your point about embedding.

The game solves the geodesic equation using the instrinsic geometry of the torus in 2D space without reference to any embedding. It is in this sense that one might call the physics "correct"

The motion is then mapped into either a 2D or 3D representation and I agree this has a strong effect on how things look.

I'll need to think about the four space example.

What is the metric for a mathematically abstract flat torus?
I think the average viewer is a teenager with their headphones (Beats, maybe?) plugged into their cellphone.

Even the cheapest headphones make halving the dynamic range obvious on typical top of the charts pop tracks.
The Place of women in Islam
"More importantly, some mothers just cannot produce enough milk" - Is there any anecdotal evidence to prove this. One lactation consultant told us that this claim is totally false. According to her, all women who give birth can and will produce enough breast milk and she had the evidence to prove that.
Cortisol- a harmone that get released in response to stress
Down payments and savings don't prove commitment. The point of signalling is to prove things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory

If you change your spouse, your savings account remains the same. The ring you paid for is gone.
But Netscape ran cross-platform, without which the WWW would have devolved into a Windows-only niche product. And that would have meant the only tablets today would be running Windows.
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Show HN: New IDE and GUI for R language
'Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold and you should seek that from everyone you can but particularly you're friends. Usually your friends know what's wrong but they don't want to tell you because they don't want to hurt you. They say 'Oh I want to encourage my friend so I'm not going to tell him what I think is wrong with this product.' It doesn't mean you friends are right, but very often they are right. And you at least want to listen very carefully to what they say and to everyone. You're looking for, basically you should take the approach that you're wrong. That you the entrepreneur are wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bo-RA0sGLU
When Vista is dead? My mother-in-law is still on XP.
Can recursive neural tensor networks learn logical reasoning? [pdf]
Inspired by this I have uploaded some sample piano notes (.ogg) for fellow hackers to use for their piano apps!

See https://github.com/mcapodici/pianosounds
DiGiTS is is a webapp for training deep learning models
For anyone who checks comments first, I believe this is a better link.

http://blogs.windows.com/bloggingwindows/2015/03/17/windows-...

Article linked to is a very brief summary that links to the above.
That sounds like a situation that a lot of developers find themselves in. Do you have any recommendations for people in similar situations?

How did you end up getting your next job?

I was in that situation once and the main reason that I was able to make the next move was because I was working on a side project which gave me the experience.
Piano Sounds for Your App
Problems like this are the reasons why i will only buy Apple notebooks after they get a spec-refresh (upgraded CPU etc., but same technology). I am not willing to be the beta-tester for a $1500++ notebook.
A website is a marketing operation. BerkshireHathaway don't really need to do marketing because they're more a legal entity for the purpose of organising things efficiently rather than a business with customers.
If she wants to buy her own jewellery with her own money, that'd be similar to myself buying scam coffee. Unfortunately, that's not what is being proposed (heh).
Related to the sibling comment here on the CALM act - who thinks up these names? Is there a committee in some basement somewhere that gets told the gist of each act, and has to think up a suitable acronym for them?
I understand where you are coming from, but stand back for a minute and contemplate how ridiculous this sounds:

> don't be surprised if rubbing tap water on your glossy screen screws it up.

I used tap water to remove e-cigarette refill fluid (an oily substance) that I spilled on a non-Apple glossy screen, using a dirty rag. Unsurprisingly the screen is still absolutely perfect and handled the highly corrosive water just fine.

Apple's bullshit is getting to you.
How does that help an issue like this?
That idea of "easier to secure" led me to this scoring system. http://deliberate-software.com/programming-language-safety-a...

I'd love to see Rust shown too.
Wow, that's very interesting work. I'd love to see a write-up -- not just with respect to breastfeeding, but generally on your findings.
We are a SaaS startup using exclusively Azure. Minus the complete lack of a data warehousing/OLAP service, it's great!
A simple guide for creating Debian Packages
EU data protection laws are a useful model.

An organisation should only collectthe information it needs to; it should not keep that information longer than it needs; it should be transparent about the information it gathers and the reason for doing so.

In this case a company is searching public information (reasonable) but using education databases to get contact info for the student (not reasonable). This is unreasonable because they should be using things like warrants to get addresses -- something with judicial oversight. The student's personal contact information should be protected from this kind of trawling.
Ask HN: Why no standards for IDE shortcuts?
Am i the only one who switches between Eclipse, IntelliJ, Atom, Brackets, Sublime, NetBeans ... constantly and curses the fact that all IDEs have different shortcuts for the same function. Did no one yet think about some "ISO IDE-1 Shortcuts" cause i bet its time for that?!
My retina 15" laptop has this plenty. It is clearly markings from the touchpad and the keyboard (and then something along the sides). So it has nothing to do with the way the screen is cleaned.
How to Develop Apple Watch Apps
I read this letter.

> The fact is that I gave Berkshire stock to the sellers of Dexter rather than cash, and the shares I used for the purchase are now worth about $5.7 billion. As a financial disaster, this one deserves a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Two comments about this:
I don't think Buffet has a good concept of financial disaster. Having or not having an extra $5b today makes little difference to the scale of Buffet's and Berkshire Hathaway's wealth. This does not materially change their financial position and cannot have precipitated a crisis situation.

Does Buffet really begrudge the fact that somebody else got rich from a fair deal? Perhaps I am misreading this section, but I feel very disappointed by this.
Yes, having a child changes you fundamentally. The difference in me has been dramatic. Despite all the stress, I am overall far more emotionally stable. I'm more industrious. There's no stress like having next to no sleep and having a screaming baby who needs you. Most things that work throw at you are nothing.

The most important thing is that it teaches you what is and isn't important in life, or at least it did for me. I used to panic when a server or website died at work. For me, now, it's nothing. Of course, it's still urgent and I fix but it actually gets done faster as I'm not stressing about it. The most important thing for me is having healthy and happy children. Work is now a means to that end.

I consider myself successful at this moment in time because my baby is happy, nothing else. Even doctors, whilst she was unwell, noted how happy she was. Her nursery notes how incredibly fast she is developmentally, both mentally and physically. That's all in spite of being bottle fed the majority of her life.

Skin on skin is beautiful. If you want to feel less stressed and find an unexpected inner peace, do skin-on-skin. It's known oxytocin is realised with skin contact, regardless. Doing so with your baby, knowing he or she is so totally dependent on you to live, makes for a profound experience.
It interests me that the conclusion of these studies is almost always presented as breastfeeding increasing IQ (or conveying health benefits or whatever). Surely, breastfeeding is the norm, and this headline should be "Bottle feeding linked to lower IQ"?
Right... but humans have a much richer way of signaling than most animals. My point is that some humans will find ways to signal commitment without sinking three months of their salary into a worthless rock. Signalling theory is an explanation for observed behavior, not a guarantee that such behavior will persist if the organisms in question develop alternative strategies.

I like to think humans are pretty good at developing alternative strategies.

Besides, if you get divorced, you don't get your down payment back anyway.
The restriction was reformulated to something like "you can't allow dynamic code loading over the net" or something. So as long as the app ships with the example snippets it runs and otherwise works only with user input, it should be politically correct.

Edit: reference: http://seattleclouds.com/ticketfiles/8665/ios_program_standa... 3.3.2 "An Application may not download or install executable code. Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded." So in fact the Lisp app is also forbidden (but of course Apple is free to selectively enforce)
> "the financial cost of procuring a certificate"

Doesn't the government have a few of its own CAs installed in every browser? Can't they procure their own certificates for free?
Dark market Evolution Marketplace was a scam, $12M USD in Bitcoin stolen
I think the tradition is that a man should invest a certain amount of resources. And the point is to not buy/get anything useful. A pile of money for a diamond ring is some resources.

But there are alternatives:

This guy made a wirelessly powered led illuminated ring:
http://www.kokes.net/projectlonghaul/projectlonghaul.htm

This guy forged a ring out of meteorite metal:
http://io9.com/5907849/this-guy-hand-forged-his-own-wedding-...

Those are both, I would say, much larger investments than $2000 to $5000 dollars in money.
JPA Database Schema Generation
> Preferred Network Offload

Looks like you found the bug, thanks: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/your-android-device-te...

So it's a bug after all.
Semi-related: Has anyone else noticed how HD channels have their volume levels set higher than non-HD? This is quite noticeable on the BSKYB service in the UK. I wondered if it applied for other suppliers.
I've had the exact same thing on a flat screen CRT monitor from 1998 :P This is most definitely a result of cleaning the screen with some detergent that damages the anti-reflective coating, you can achieve the same effect on literally any screen, and someone is trying to make it look like only MacBooks have this problem.