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> Just think about all layers of abstraction present in current computing platforms, and how much computation really happens when you type 2+2 in a Python console.

That's not a limitation of von Neumann architecture. That's a consequence of us using the vast and cheap computational resources available to us to make things easy.
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vzw actually is a different company, which is partly owned by vz. Fba/fgte are practically separate companies too. I worked for fba (former bell Atlantic) for years and can attest, it's no place for capable doers. It's unbelievable how many layers of dysfunctional middle management are in there, supported only by the fact that vz owns so much legacy infrastructure.
I really wish that Apple would release a pci card for hackintoshes, so you could just do a direct install... said PCI card would be for the sole purpose of qualifying as a licensed, but unsupported mac clone.

Have a limited number of supported chipsets, and if people want to do their own beyond that, so be it.

I'd happily pay $200-300 to be able to run macOS on generic hardware... My home desktop (windows 10) is far more powerful than any mini, I don't like the iMac's use of an integrated display, and the Mac pro is just too overpriced.

Having to do a manual upgrade cycle about once a year or so, and limited support for new hardware really removes a lot of the appeal. Apple makes a lot of money on their other hardware, which requires OSX to develop for... and I don't know how many people are buying their desktop/laptop gear. Not sure if they could do a better job than their last generation of sanctioned clones though. But a hardware tether device pci or usb for legit clones would go a long way, even if a minimal thing.

Hackintosh legitimacy would make me, and a lot of others very happy.
Even if you have trouble with audio, you can typically use firewire or USB audio interfaces with no issues. If you're doing semi-pro or professional audio production, chances are you want to use a USB audio interface anyway...
Because many recruiters are basically salespeople, and sales is most effective when done in person or on the phone.
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Here's why I wouldn't: who wrote the drivers that let you run that OSX on that PC? Were the drivers audited? How do you know you're not root kitted from the start? If I have money, I'll have a Mac. If I don't, there's Fedora.
The app is only available to Nexus devices. If you try to load that page on a non-Nexus phone, the page will show an error indicating that it is "not compatible" with your device.
I have a ThinkPad T420 specifically picked for its OS X compatibility. It started its life as a cheap machine for me to mess with iOS but ended up being my primary device... Oops.

Also I actually updated it to El Capitan before, the only thing that broke was my screen color profile getting reset.
Ellwood isn't a city, title seems misleading. The closest city is Goleta, CA. (I work at UCSB)
Because it's a servant, not a master.

It's perfectly possible to have an automaton that's good at predicting needs and inferring outcomes without assuming that it can set independent goals of its own without being prompted.

One is driven by external stimuli in a deterministic way, which makes it a computer like any other.

The other is internally directed - which edges into questions of sentience, free-will, and independent mentation, and is unknown territory for CS.

Siri and Viv are already heading in the former direction. Siri has some nice canned responses which can create a fun illusion of a personality, but not many developers - and even fewer NLP designers - are going to tell you Siri is independently goal seeking.
It's not so much of a problem with LXSS on the horizon, but I really wanted to have both Adobe software and a Unix terminal.

Although now I'm just spoiled by small behaviors of OS X that I really like.
Except that it looks like an ordinary person could crack the case with a screwdriver they actually have.
Introduce Shelly to Lenny:

http://reddit.com/r/itslenny/
> Every time I get a call from a number I don't recognize I do this ridiculous dance where I try to Google the number (usually on my phone) before the ringing stops.

Well that's just silly. If you don't recognise the number, don't answer it.

If it's someone you know, and it's important, they'll leave a message and you can call them back. If it's someone you don't know, and they leave a nuisance message, block them.
You don't, I've been using Truedialer happily. Now, on the iOS side, it's a different story since Apple doesn't allow third party dialer apps yet
Someone: And here, ladies and gents, is HN Treeified.

Audience: But that's just a stick?

Someone: Exactly.
Lots of companies assume exactly this.
I wouldn't mind seeing something much closer to a semi-generic micro-atx based "Macintosh" with standard components, aside from a simple license device attached inside, maybe in a pci slot or internal usb header. The Mac Pro is just too much cost for the value, and the mini isn't enough performance.
How my Apple Watch's heart rate monitoring saved my life
I was under the impression due to cost and poor sales, they actually had alternate arrangements to build the NeXT products after a while. It was a nice video and launch story though.
This brings back a whole raft of pleasant memories. I devoured issues of Popular Electronics while in high school in the early 70s. It was one of the reasons I decided to be an EE. I randomly clicked a couple issues from 1969 to 1973 and was amazed to actually remember a number of the articles, 45+ years after first reading them. I'm looking forward to a more in-depth review.
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What is in this for Apple? I'm not sure they care about $200-300.
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>"Sand Hill began as two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs creating an online business involving the valuation of private startup companies in the region along the lines of a fantasy sports league. But Gerrit Hall and Elaine Ou changed their business model multiple times, and earlier this year Sand Hill evolved to invite web users to use real money to buy and sell contracts referencing pre-IPO companies and their value.

Sand Hill sought people to fund accounts using dollars or bitcoins. Hall and Ou did not ask users about their financial holdings or limit the offering to users with any specific amount of assets. In fact, they wrote on the Sand Hill website: “We accept everybody regardless of accreditation status.” Hall and Ou intended to pay users who profited from their contracts. "

Interesting. Hadn't heard of this. Here's the SEC link:
https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-123.html
Absolutely. I install every maintenance point release(10.0.x) through the App Store and it works fine. The only ones that I download the full manual install for are full version(10.x.0) release. Not necessarily because I believe it will screw up because of the hardware, but because of software conflicts.
Yeah,
My first 'mac' was a clone machine in the mid 90s. A "Tower Power Pro" by the now defunct "power computing". They were better made and slightly cheaper than macs at the time (Not cheap though). Ran MacOS officially. Very reliable machine and pretty fast machine (for the time). Kept it for a while, upgrading ram, drives and the processor.

Specs here: (I don't think the prices listed where right though)

http://www.everymac.com/systems/powercc/powertower_pro/power...
But why? It's just not that hard to make a Hackintosh, and you can buy support from a non Apple company. There are YouTube videos about thrashing the price/performance you can get from Apple with an awesome Hackintosh.

Also, think about it, the cost of developing the PCI card you mention would be more than the cost of developing a model of Mac hardware. You couldn't price such a device competitively.
Tips fedora

Lol, these suggestions are ridiculous, could you possibly be more out of touch with the billions of other people that surround you
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.truecaller...
Why do you think you deserve any of the gains?
You mean like option-clicking on the scroll bar?
A lot of the realtek chipsets used in motherboards either aren't, or are poorly supported... there are many USB devices that are supported though. That's about my only experience there... same goes for wifi/bluetooth and ethernet adapters.
> I don't like the iMac's use of an integrated display ...

I thought the same thing back when I was Mac shopping some time ago. And I'm not saying that this should convince you or anyone else, but, now that I have one of those large Mac displays, I like it a lot. It raised my productivity.

But, yes, I do agree with your general theme about overpriced macs which don't offer enough flexibility in the available configurations and so on.
It's just a funny title for someone bitching about a particular model of Power Mac.

The mid-90s was a terrible time for Apple machines. The first few generations of PowerPC machines were awful, especially with the "OS" (if you can call classic MacOS one, with its lack of memory protection, crappy memory allocation in general, cooperative multitasking, etc.) being a mix of native PowerPC and emulated 68k code. I remember having to help administrate an office full of System 7 running machines that would crash (and by crash I mean whole system freeze up) if you tried to run FileMaker and Netscape at the same time.

And they were expensive machines. And their internals really not that great.
We have both clearly broken the civility rule and I apologize for my part in it, but if someone chooses to identify themselves I don't see how it's uncivil to address them by name. Indeed, I see it done fairly regularly here on HN.
There's one exception this rule regarding creativity and misery: philosophy.

Here's my reasoning: if you're doing philosophy and you saw "a way out of the circumstances" making you unhappy (philosophical circumstances) you would be able to become a political theorist or a religious figure.

The misery is mandatory if you plan on being truly (i.e. purely) introspective and avoid being compromised by the hope of external circumstances being favorable, it seems.
I have this checklist:

* If it's a withheld/private number, I don't answer.

* If it's a number I don't recognise, I don't answer.

* If it's a number I recognise from work/a client, I don't answer.

* If it's a number I recognise from a friend, I don't answer.

* If it's a number I recognise from a direct relative, I don't answer.

* If it's a number I recognise from a very direct relative and I've been called several times in the last minutes, I start pondering if I should pick it up or not. I usually do not, but ymmv
My kids as babies has all sorts of reason to refuse my wife's milk for all sorts of reasons, not that we could ever be certain what it was but it seemed somedays they didn't like what she ate that day, if it was pumped and stored and reheated the temperature wasn't precisely right, etc.

But yeah, in the end when that's all that's on the menu... hunger takes over :-)
Honestly. The callers are breaking the social etiquette by making unsolicited calls, however if we pick up we feel obliged to be polite. Fuck that, hang up on their face.
Exactly. This pains me all the time. I would love to take a 25% salary cut for a 25% reduction in working hours.
Having an integrated monitor raised your productivity more than a regular monitor of the same size would have?
it would be totally generic hardware... a simple PCI, or USB dongle device internally would only be for a license checker in the OS.

The point would be so that you can get supported third party platforms, and run software updates with less fear of bricking your install.
Ha! Good point.

The 17 1/2 sided appeositetrongic screwdriver which was designed specifically for foiling safe deposit box thieves in Upper Volta was not required to disassemble the thing.
Have you tried the app TrueCaller? It basically does what you are doing manually except searching a crowdsourced database of numbers.

I'm not affiliated with them in any way; I just find it useful.
It's mainly for a licensed user... to get more people running OSX.. more OSX users, more people buying mac laptops... main reason it might be better to only offer a PCIe card, that way it can't be used for mac laptops.
This is actually really neat! Would love to play with this some time. My only gripe is that I don't like Ruby. Would you consider adding support for other languages in the Dangerfile in the future?
> I'm pretty sure I'm a 90% case,

I think you're in a profound bubble if you don't imagine Murdoch has vastly more control over public discourse than Google.
Yeah it's a pet peeve of mine when people call any feature a "basic" one.

How is this basic? At a minimum it requires a database of spam numbers, a way to automatically add new ones, probably some way to deprecate numbers that are no longer spammy, a UI, and I'm sure some legal work to ensure they won't break any laws.
I'm currently doing 2 days a week on a contract. It's a fixed monthly rate contract.

When summer is over I'll likely move to 3 or 4 days a week (my choice). It's a sacrifice in money, not to mention the work is for a non-profit open source project. But it's relaxing.
> Well that's just silly. If you don't recognise the number, don't answer it.

I've never understood people doing this. Why not just answer the phone? It takes 1 second to realize its spam, and you hang up, without risking ignoring your friend or a new doctor's office, and without touching voicemail. I don't like getting these calls either, but 90% of the damage is interrupting what I'm doing, getting out the phone, and looking at the screen.

I can only imagine that for some people there is some sort of visceral unpleasantness with hanging up on telemarketers or something and they'd rather ignore the call.
Wake me when they divest themselves of their hats.
It gets trickier when you have children, especially school aged.
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Hi there, co-founder of Equidate here, happy to answer any questions you have.

We're well aware of Sandhill Exchange — they were akin to a prediction market — we're a market where employees and investors who own shares are able to get liquidity, and accredited investors are able to invest.

We've worked with our primary outside counsel, Lowenstein Sandler (an internationally-prominent securities law firm), to ensure our compliance with all regulation. As the article mentions, we've discussed Equidate with regulators since 2014, and this past January FINRA approved our purchase of a broker-dealer.

Finally, we've gone above and beyond to make sure our customers are protected. We have an exclusive underwriting agreement and insurance policy with Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance company, to protect our investors from fraud.

It's very rare for a startup our size to have a full-time Chief Legal Officer & Chief Compliance Officer, and it's a testament to our efforts to get this right.
PayPal works fine. I'm US-based
There is at least 3 to 4 years of fp hype. I don't think the hype is still hype. Who think ls it is something new is a laggard in the hype sense.
From the HN guidelines:

> Be civil.

Despite potentially being correct, I think the downvotes are merited, and not coming from pointing out an instance of groupthink, but coming because the comment was not civil. (This was my personal reason for downvoting him.) The comment is worded to attack and deprecate those people it targets — this was not necessary in order to make the point about groupthink.
Ok. That's a valid point.

It's just that I'm the kind of consumer who never would've sprung for such a large monitor without being forced to. I know this kind of sounds lame, but, in my case, it's like "Apple knew best." They made me buy that honkin' monitor and it's worked out well in my case.

I don't know if that sort of thinking would apply to many other people.
> sj only critiqued things that he genuinely felt needed to be changed

Which included incredibly detailed nuances like pixel-level critiques of icons and UIs, which is literally what the author defines as "your 2 cents".

> demonstrably the worst manager one could have so I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from him

Except how to build one of the most valuable companies in the world? Seems like a fair criterion for good management.
You're missing the point. If they did that, then Apple would still be stuck with the cost of supporting a much larger range of hardware -- so right there, a big competitive advantage they have over Windows disappears. They probably couldn't charge enough to make it worth their while, otherwise, they would probably have done so already.
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LSM trees are ideal for posting lists, because every time you add a new document, you need to touch potentially hundreds of different lists. LSM trees are able to batch all of these writes together. That's why Google originally developed BigTable, AFAIK.
Why do people think it's cool to quote people such as Machiavelli, a guy whose name is literally one of the dark triad personalities?

nerds, man.
Did you ask for that number or was it random?
TLDR: Outsourcing development is more expensive than doing it yourself if you have better skills...

In the end, there's still some differences, real-time chat has different needs than other types of applications. Scaling chat applications beyond a few million users has it's own complexity... FB spends a LOT of money to scale it's infrastructure. Twitter had a lot of hard growing up in a similar space.

As a hobby endeavor for a free app, it's bound to be harder still. It's a mixed blessing. Maybe time to get a corporate sponsor for the app.
> Chomsky is brilliant, no doubt, and critically showed the world how much latent structure there is in language. However, he is IMHO pretty wrong in thinking that this latent structure can't be learned (e.g. inferring a probabilistic context-free grammar).

Presumably you have a critique of his poverty of stimulus argument and not merely a blanket dismissal?
I completely agree. This is a checklist for someone who isn't directly responsible for anybody.

Of course if you have children, you'd be paranoid at any number-what if it's school? A teacher? The hospital? That's hairy stuff.
The entire field of ecology has a fairly strong anti-GMO stance which you'll find baked into textbooks. See Odum & Barrett (2009)

https://www.worldcat.org/title/fundamentals-of-ecology/oclc/...

There's an entire chapter on the topic of GMO.

Dismissing objections as antiintellectual is simply false.
I like dumb young people who try new things out for me.

They run head first into walls, hurt themselves, go bankrupt, and later I can adopt the technology once it's all good and settled.
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Ah, hotel Wi-Fi... maybe it's not as good as the one at home because... "in theory" you don't need it as much?

Like, if you are a family on vacation @ beautiful Aruba, maybe management thinks that you will spend time on the beach, or golfing, or in spa or using any other of their 60+ carefully tended-to amenities?

Perhaps they can't imagine the whole family sitting in their hotel room for 14 hours a day with 4 iDevices spread across Netflix/Youtube/Twitch, everyone complaining that they can't get more than 720p.

Lol, who knows.
Bathroom - 1 room

Parent bedroom - 1 room

Kitchen - 1 room

Living room - 1 room

Kid bedroom - 1 room

.....

Sounds lovely, for 500k USD...
I had your blog post in mind, actually. It crystalises a few similar thoughts of mine.

Interesting how other principles of chemistry seem to be generally systemic. Ilya Prigogine would be another instance.
My comments were controversial, but they were certainly not instantly uncivil. That's quite an uncharitable reading, given my history on this site. However I clearly did let the conversation go on too long . That was pointless and wrong. Apologies for that.
Windows still isn't fully posix compatible though is it? (re: lxss)
CLion plugin for Unreal Engine that actually works
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>The existing technology really blows, and Apple can make a significant contribution.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Apple is starting out at 0 with no real competence in this area, the least of which is interaction with regulatory bodies tasked with consumer protection.
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FakeSMC, the only driver you truly need, is short and easy to build yourself after a look over.

If you're determined to avoid other third party drivers, you can be sure to use only natively supported networking and sound devices.

That only leaves the Clover bootloader, and it's certainly true that this hasn't had an audit/is large enough that performing one would be quite a project. However, it's fully open source and receives quite a bit of interest from across the hackintosh community.

Hackintosh users are also rather small in number and mostly technically knowledgeable; there are far larger and easier userbases to target rootkits at.

Therefore, although I understand your concerns, I am not worried at all about the security of my hackintosh.

>Fedora

Desktop Linux (any variety) is in no way comparable to the usability of OS X. I say this as someone who ran desktop Linux exclusively for years.
To use the example in the article: fridges used to kill people when the refrigerant leaked out. There were fifteen deaths in Chicago in 1929[1,2], so it adds up over multiple years in multiple cities.

The article is (smugly) passing judgement on yesterday's acceptance of technology, forgetting that we are looking though the lens of 80 years of development and safety improvements.

[1] https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XuMuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA76#v=...

[2] http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/53488057
Does anyone know more on how this works? The original post references that "Caller ID must be enabled".

Is this feature going to send all my incoming phone call numbers to Google - to compare it against a list of "known/suspected spammers"?

Will this only work in the United States or will it work internationally?
Who owns the rest of it? I know Vodafone used to, but VZ bought their share out a couple years ago.

Totally agreed on BA/GTE. I used to contract on the GTE side of the house, and I saw how little it mattered whether you were good or bad at your job. All reports I hear from the new Frontier sound like it's even worse now.
Howso?

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

https://venugvgk.wordpress.com/2016/06/17/paul-grahams-disag...
iOS 10 brings functionality similar to this. [0]

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/relea...

> CallKit. CallKit also introduces app extensions that enable call blocking and caller identification. You can create an app extension that can associate a phone number with a name or tell the system when a number should be blocked.
Will this include unsolicited google adwords calls?
It's beyond silly, it's downright stupid: Google bought GrandCentral years ago and it had this feature.
At this point, some government worker benefits would be welcome. BC Teachers have been losing wages to inflation for the past decade and a half. (The raises are lower than the cost of living increases.)
That was my first thought. If I had the resources, I'd built up that subreddit. Youtube videos. HN posts. Some trading libraries on Github. Some forums. Promotional deals to start out.

Previously there were other pyramid schemes, penny stocks, FX trading forums and so on. As those went out of fashion there is a new cohort of young people with great imagination who think they can beat the stock market. Some surely see a great potential there ready to exploit. They'd be silly not to.

Or to put it more obviously when everyone goes digging for goal, don't follow them, but start selling shovels. Then maybe take some profits and put some ads out in the saloons with stories about awesome finds of massive amounts of gold.