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That could happen with Intel's optane SSDs but I don't think it is necessary. The latency between the CPU and GPU is not measured in any sort of human perceivable time, so it doesn't matter unless the GPU is making millions of cpu memory accesses, and that isn't how games or GPUs work for obvious reasons.

The bandwidth is also not a problem, the entire memory of a 16GB GPU can be filled in under a second.
The stuff announced last week is mainly of interest to developers, not end users. Most of what was in the keynote was for end users.

That said, I'd be surprised if they couldn't fit last week's stuff into the Platforms State of the Union (later today), which is basically the developer-oriented keynote.
top bracket of corp tax rate is 35%. And taking less money from a corp one year is not 'tay payer paying for it'. The federal government will take less money from msft, that is not the tax payer paying for 35% of the purchase price.
"The GPLv3 has clauses in it that opens up a new load of legal questions for Apple that they'd rather avoid."

I'm curious why you think it opens up legal questions, etc. They've pretty definitively stated they just don't want to use it.
There are no vague or mysterious questions they are waiting to get answers to or anything like that.
Exactly. For developers, Platforms State of the Union is usually the one you want to watch. The WWDC Keynote is always more of a consumer facing side of things nowadays. Platforms State of the Union is always more of a low level behind-the-scene features.

Here's the WWDC 2015 video in case anyone is interested: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/102/
> use android mobile devices as that's the most sensible choice

That is a highly subjective statement at best.
Unfortunately.
ok, i get that it seems annoying, but why would it entail poor company performance?
iOS already shows stuff like message previews on the lock screen, with the option to hide their contents. I don't see any reason to believe they won't have a similar option here.
Huh? "self selected to be above average in determination and smarts" is a far cry from "We're smarter than everybody else".
Yes, the Hand-off mechanism works without iCloud involvement or even using your active internet connection. I just tried by disabling Wifi on my Mac and opening up message to continue on a semi written message from my iPhone.

Now, there could always be a iCloud fallback that says if there is internet, just use it. Perks of using non-free software is that it will almost always non-verifiable.
You are IMO making the same mistake Searle made in his "Chinese Room" argument.

Your digestive system is a tool for you to get rid of garbage your system does not need, your neurons are tools for allowing you to ultimately think, your legs are tools for allowing you to move around.

It's the entire system thats relevant here. Not any of the individual subparts.

And we are not talking about what it can or can't do but it's potential.

You brush this off as a humans will always find a way... which is what I am objecting to.

Whether you spend 2 or 20 years writing automated logic systems for a professor is unimportant.
out of interest, what are the OpenGL bugs?
Mapping between processed and original unstructured text data
Wait for the Platforms State of the Union video, it will be probably available in few hours on Apple's developers website [1]. It's basically another keynote, but more developer oriented.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/

Edit: mayoff beat me to it :)
Guaranteed this is insider trading if its a small time investor.. I've traded plenty of options, and no small time guy would buy more than $135k at 160 strike when closing price was 131 and the price of the stock for the past few months went as low as $100 -- and a time window of 2 months until the option expires?? Extremely risky trade.. very very likely you would lose all of that $135k.. the most common thing with options that close in like 2-3 months is that the stock just stays close to the same value, so you wait a little while and the stock doesn't go anywhere up or down, so you just have to sell your options at a loss.. but as that window of time closes to a few weeks and you are way out of the money like 160 vs. 131, then your ability to sell that option gets worse and worse until finally you sell it at like a 75% loss. The 175 strike option is even more ridiculous.. 175 on 131... man.. extremely extremely speculative... unless those traders have a history of making really risky bets like that, then they are almost assuredly in the know of what was going to happen. My bet is that they either live near Microsoft or Linked in locations (Seattle or SV).. Also the reason they placed the bid in the last 5 minutes of trading is that there are various auto-traders out there that chase this kind of action.. if they see really unusual buying of out of money options (extremely risky), then they buy a little too thinking that somebody must know something and they profit also.. so if they bought these in the last 5 minutes of trading, then its possible the algorithm might not pick up on the trend so it reduces the number of people jumping in blindly into the trade.. so they make the spike smaller, but also isolate themselves.. extremely risky.. so I think somebody is giving that money back that they made....
The sad thing is I still really do like Reddit for the little communities, especially the ones around programming languages and technology. r/cpp, r/python, r/c_programming, etc. I have them all in those "meta" reddit groups or whatever they're called, and when I log in I actually get a rather nice list of discussions and links. In years passed it seemed the "bad" part of Reddit was just a little growth on the "good" whole, but now it seems to be the reverse... It's strange having a nice discussion on r/cpp on the same site which is so full of racism and bigotry at the top level.
It doesn't mean that everything has to be done like this, only that it would be an available feature. Even then you could touch memory to make sure it is available.
Hmm, what does "to be fair" mean in this context? That it's ok because other people did a shitty move as well?
How to use machine learning to debug outages 10x faster
That class of announcements, if any, will be in the 'developer State of the Union' address this afternoon, not in the press event you just saw.
Yeah, nothing says major like 10 minutes on text effects and 5 minutes of an exec playing her ipod for a room of people.
Would you send the same people after the job they did last time?
I have no problem with multiculturalism and all that, but some of the recent overcorrections against racism and prejudice are getting pretty ridiculous. The Rotherham scandal also comes to mind.

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

>The inquiry's initial report, published on 26 August 2014, condemned the failure of the authorities in Rotherham to act effectively against the abuse and even, in some cases, to acknowledge that it was taking place.

>Members of the British-Pakistani Muslim community condemned both the sexual abuse and the fact that it had been covered up for fear of "giving oxygen" to racism.

It's ironic, because I would bet that cover up gave far more "oxygen" to racism in the long run than investigating and reporting on it like they would any other crime.
I'm not sure there are enough beginner materials.

I've lamented in the past (here even, maybe) that the first computing devices many people get are primarily designed around consumption. Some types of content creation (particularly visual and audio, more limited textual), are very well enabled by these tablet interfaces, but that's not been the primary focus.

But programming them has long been difficult and required an external device. Many of my peers' young children are first given an iPad or similar device, not access to a Tandy 1000, Apple II, Commodore or similar computer that had a BASIC interpreter baked in. To an extent the fault (on iOS) is squarely on Apple's shoulders, as for a long time they explicitly made interpreters and such verboten on iOS. This is a nice turnaround on their part, and a potentially good tool to get programming into the hands of kids.
Over 1500 Swift Packages in the IBM Swift Package Catalog
I still don't understand why smartwatches need their own OS and power hungry processor...

Why not make it an accessory for a smartphone that simply displays everything from it and inputs to it, using its processing power mostly?

At least then they would last a bit longer...
It seems pretty likely now, with the addition of unlocking via the Apple Watch and using an iPhone to authenticate web payments on a Mac, that Apple will be adding a fingerprint sensor to a future MacBook.
Humans can hear up to 28khz when paying close attention. "CD Quality" is slightly below the threshold of hearing, at a point where most people don't notice the difference or care to notice the difference.

It's also somewhat poorly-defined, because "CD quality" can mean lousy mid-range performance when rounding 24-bit to 16-bit, or high frequency hiss when noise-shaping 24-bit to 16-bit.

So "CD quality audio" is quite a degradation when you listen in a 100% quiet room with expensive speakers and your full attention.
The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Pioneers to Reinvent the Web
That's true, but supersonic planes also travel higher (Concorde -> 18 km, XB-70 -> 22 km). The real problem is that L/D decreases at supersonic speeds. For example, the XB-70 had a L/D of about 7, while the 707 had a L/D over 18...
That's a fake sort of internalization because you can't really establish a fair compensation.

For example, if I have a recording studio under the flight path, do I get more compensation in order to add sound-proofing?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/preserving-sile... describes "a Natural Sounds Program .. with the aim of protecting and promoting the appreciation of park soundscapes."

> In Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, which have a major naval air station to the west and a large military air training space to the east, park officials take military commanders on a five-day "Wilderness Orientation Overflight Pack Trip" to demonstrate the effects of military jet noise on visitor experience in the parks. Before the program started in the mid-1990s, rangers reported as many as 100 prohibited "low flier" incidents involving military jets every year. Now the number of planes flying less than 3000 feet above the ground surface is a fourth to a fifth of that. Complaints are taken seriously, especially when, as has happened more than once, they're radioed in by irate military commanders riding on jet-spooked pack horses on narrow mountain trails. In that context, human cursing is generally regarded as a natural sound.

How do you charge for that?
That hasn't been my experience in the Episcopal Church. We're pretty liberal and don't do a lot of telling people what to do. People may come for the doctrine, but they stay for the ceremony and the fellowship.

That's my perception of church-based community. The doctrine is really just an excuse to get together and form community bonds. By your analogy, I think it's more like switching to, say, track and field, not gathering in an empty football stadium--a very different sport, but still a reason to get together and cheer. I'm not sure how that can be translated to the secular world, but it seems like there should be a way.

(I think a lot of modern atheists don't realize that liberal Christians exist. The awful fundamentalists dominate the news cycle so much. Most of us are happy to mind our own business, do charity work in the community, etc., but none of that makes headlines.)
Show HN: TCP/UDP over sound
Did you also say that about PG's article 12 years ago? http://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
street lights do a good job of providing that feeling

But there isn't significant evidence that they provide that reality. Changing the perception is very much an uphill battle.
iOS devices brought in revenue in Q1 2016 of around 58B, vs 7B for macOS - even iPad sales alone are greater than macOS devices. You can expect this focus on iOS to continue, or even accelerate, as they focus on making more money from all those iOS devices (like driving adoption of iCloud, Apple Music and other monthly subscriptions).

http://www.statista.com/statistics/382136/quarterly-segments...
Oh, by the time they start to assemble physical parts they of course know exactly the performance figures, but that is pretty close to the end of the design process. Only after the design process you know these and I don't know how much of that is being done now.
I agree that it is nice to have a list of companies - it's nicer to try to find a remote job by company, rather than what jobs are open now and seem to be remote.
I came here to specifically make a comment about costa rica! I love CR even with its lack of street addresses. How do you typically receive packages?
> I agree with your critique about the community attitude

Please link to concrete examples of this. I'm genuinely interested in calling people out on such rudeness. The Haskell community has traditionally been modest and very welcoming and I'd like to keep it that way.
I'd pay real money for something like this that had an open API so you could build your own widgets or hack it to do other things.

Double bonus if it had say 3 buttons on it (or d-pad and two buttons for generic navigation).
No, smartwatches will never be the new smartphone as some claim.

I kinda hope Apple is investing in VR/HUD/AR/glasses, 'cause that's where the real future is...
Here is the main problem: Who likes LinkedIn?

Sure, we can debate its usefulness, how popular it is outside of IT, etc. But I think across the board, no one LIKES LinkedIn.
So effectively, it's only one step better than installing Cygwin on a Windows machine?

Can someone please remind me again why the MacBook is such a preffered machine for software development? For years I've been told, "You get a shell!", and "It's UNIX under the covers", etc.

Except that the shell userspace is antiquated, and the UNIX flavor is BSD rather than Linux. Meaning that I'm just as out-of-sync with my target server as if I were on a Windows machine, I still have to run Docker through a VM layer, etc.

Don't get me wrong, the hardware is excellant. But the software is even more locked-down and less customizable than the MS world... and just skipping the middle man and installing Linux directly is a 10x better developer experience than both.
Perhaps, but while programming may be only 20% of CS, learning it probably takes up 80% of a student's time. Reducing that additional cognitive load during the first couple semesters could allow them to focus on other CS fundamentals and improve overall comprehension over the course of their degree.
That argument doesn't work because learning any programming language well takes time and effort.
Ah, good idea! I'll add that tonight.
> What's a benefit of having an external tool for that compared to something built in?

Because 1/ building full specification power into the language may make it unnecessarily complex, and 2/ software verification and PL design often progress at different paces, so it's better to have them orthogonal. I

It is unclear how such a language should work, and certainly whether anyone has come up with a decent idea yet. For example, the general dependent type approach used by Coq and Agda (and Idris and ATS) doesn't seem to work well so far for software development. So, perhaps theoretically the two may one day be combined, but we don't know how to do it just yet. You can call it an open research question.
I'm not a Haskell programmer, but I wish more languages had Newtypes.

Most of the time I'm too lazy (or consider it too much boilerplate) to wrap strings in classes. But on more than one occasion I've spent too much time tracking down a bug because I passed the wrong string to the wrong argument in a method.
They typically leave the keynote to high level features, or really big developer-focused features.

However, you're in luck; looks like Apple is introducing a new file system:

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedule/#/details/701
I disagree, it's a very valid assumption to make given that mobile data quotas are increasing and metered broadband connections are most likely going to be a thing of the past.

Edit: Also, Apples targets the premium segment of the market. Who are less likely to have such limitations.
Only reason I use OSX is that's what I was issued at work.

I don't own an iOS device, never have, and don't see myself ever getting one in the future.

All of my personal mobile devices are Android, and all my desktops/laptops are Windows.
I just love this stuff! Storage minded for 20 years... all other tech aside, storage is what gets me up until sunrise researching... if 2017 sees this kind of tech, I'll be smitten :-D
The Firefox issue is interesting – all UI interactions appear to have about a 500ms delay before the synthesizer output is affected. I can't figure out if it's an issue with WebAudio in Firefox, or a Flocking issue, or something on my end.
I actually had a tehcodez.stackexchange proposal on Area51 (for funny / informal questions, not fitting SO itself)

Was shot down rather soon, of course (not without upvotes, though) :)
Not really. The whole progressive web apps movement is based on the assumption that poor/expensive connectivity is here to stay for a long time.
I travel about once a month to the US and back to Canada... the security lineup can take up to an hour sometimes leaving SFO. So if I don't want to have a chance to miss my flight, I have to arrive 2 hours early really.
Mine says "os ex". (10.11.5)
I recommend this book. Just an excerpt of the notes I took:

Ineffective practice is usually just repetition, expecting improvement without focusing on correcting problems

Purposeful Practice
- has well-defined, specific goals
- Is focused (giving practice your full attention)
- Involves feedback (success or failure)
- Requires getting out of one’s comfort zone (is not easy, pushing barriers)

Harnessing Adaptability
- Practice and training can actually change the brain
- London taxi drivers that master the standard training develop larger hippocampus
- Regular training leads to changes in the parts of the brain that are challenged by the training
- Younger brains are more adaptable than adult brains, training can have larger effects
- Development in one area may come at the price of regression in another
- Trained abilities fade after lack of use

Mental Representations
- Blindfold chess illustrates the importance of pattern memory
- Experienced chess players can remember chess positions from a real game, but are not skilled at remembering random arrangements of pieces - they remember patterns, familiar arrangements of several pieces
- Short-term memory can be extended by referring to familiar patterns or chunks
- Much of deliberate practice involves developing ever more efficient mental representations for the activity under practice
- Familiar patterns are internalized so that they can be automatically recognized and fluidly give rise to the appropriate actions
- Knowledge of a domain has to be organized and accessible in a way that can be used in expert performance
- Planning separates novice performance from expert performance
- Experts tend to have detailed planning processes that can be refined
- Experts have higher quality mental representations that help guide them in performance, and can help provide them with feedback to adjust their practice
- Physical activities are mental too
Right. What happens when you call 911 and they send the ambulance to "gravy.sun.request" instead of "gravy.sun.requests" or whatever?

The odds of such a similar name being located in the same city are low, so they'd probably notice the discrepancy, but there's still a lot of room for error in communicating the words, since they're not normalizing singular/plural or tenses.
They should just use http://what2numbers.org/
I appreciate that -- unfortunately I am focusing mostly on the Eastern US for family reasons and I doubt SF would work out for me. Glad to hear there are some good Scala companies out there though.
Scary they didn't talk about Xcode at all
It's always easy to say that things are inspired from a different company or product, but always keep in mind that these features don't always come ready before a year or two of work. First person to announce it working and integrated gets the merit, but a lot of time, the same things are being worked on in parallel in different places :)
To me, most of the arguments against this move sound as if they have their backs against the wall. Well, you don't, you are not forced to buy it and that will send the message that it's a stupid move. But if we keep moaning about it and purchase the device, it'll be a sign of acceptance.

This leads me to another rant, take a look at the iPhone 6s or the Galaxy S7 Active, does a user really need a more powerful device? Especially since the use cases are 75% browsing the web and watching videos.
This sort of thing is exactly what Bluetooth Low Energy is for.
It's my understanding that the Augur project solves this issue by decentralizing the reporting.

That is, individuals vote for which outcome is correct in proportion to their balance of 'reputation'. If an individual votes for the correct outcome (as determined by the majority of votes), they gain reputation, otherwise they lose it.

Reputation is valuable because it entitles voters to a share of the platform fees. Therefore there is a strong incentive to play fair in order to grow the platform and the value of one's reputation (similar to miners in Bitcoin).

https://augur.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/208857885-For-Re...
I know. Very familiar with CLI. I spwnd 80% of time on my MacBook in iTerm. :)

I was pretty disappointed by this WWDC. Any info on next XCode version?
It's been a while since the Macbook air and pros have been refreshed (no Skylake!), that's why people were thinking it might happen here.
At the same time it makes the news a bit more entertaining: keychain.limbs.youth
He wouldn't have refused them, but these would have been filler items or unannounced tweaks that people just discover as they use the product.

I'm not surprised we're seeing diminishing returns on smart phone UX though...
I fail to see how when for all intents and purposes when they are men who adopt the social construct of femininity how their legal status is in any way poorly indicated. Intersex people are still sexually dimorphic. Genitalia is one of a number of ways that someone's sex is determined. Viewing them as the sole way is a mistake, sure there are things like AIS, but even in the case of intersex people, their genitalia and secondary sexual characteristics typically develop in a normal fashion.

Co-option does typically detract from their struggles. By using intersex people as a tool to push a political agenda you detract from the serious issues that surround their legal and medical troubles.

You can't pretend that the actions you take while pursuing a political agenda don't have positive or negative consequences. When equality in the case that you're advocating for comes at the cost of the groups you're purporting to help, or the groups that you use as part of your political narrative, then something is probably wrong.
Amazon Global will deliver most things right to my door now and it's surprisingly inexpensive shipping + customs taxes (in some categories). Hard part is finding stuff that ships directly, they have a checkbox to filter for international shipping but it's not completely accurate. Shipping time is 2 - 3 weeks minimum.

For everything else and stuff Amazon doesn't ship I use Aerocasillas or a PO box at the post office. Aerocasillas are pricey but they do their job and fast, something arriving at their address in Miami on Monday is usually available to pickup by Friday. The post office recently didn't tell us about a package my sister sent until after they'd sent it back lol.