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Apple "should" sell hardware people will buy, since they are a hardware company. I'm about to buy one of these laptops. It's fast enough for web coding, organizing photos, Darktable processing, and Inkscape. I'm mostly space constrained vs. CPU constrained. The standard-form-factor SSD in "101" model, and its replaceable RAM, means I'll be able to get 6-8 years out of it. I'm currently using a 2009 Macbook Pro that I upgraded to 8GB of RAM, when one of the original DIMMs died. That type of fixability isn't available in newer Apple gear.
Yes, it has happened to me. Usually it some niche field or something no one understands. Sometimes they just need good people that can work effectively. I happily accepted the job and had a great time there.

You can't determine much from a technical interview. It's best just to ask what they worked on before and explain the new job to them. If people are serious about the job and find it challenging they will stay.

Just think about it. Who would want to lie and get into a job where technical challenges are beyond them? Sure you get a nice salary for a while but then it becomes obvious you are not doing much, you are bored, or can't get up to speed.

The flipside is any firm that can't fire people fast probably has many more issues than just technical interviews/hiring people.

Hiring fast is good sign. Letting go of the appropriate people in a timely manner is also a good sign. Being stuck interviewing people over a span of 3-6 months for the perfect candidate shows indecisiveness or lack of leadership/teamwork. It also means they will spend 3-6 months to let go of that really horrible employee.

Having the team meet candidates means the boss needs signalling from his team to get some type of approval. This is usually a bad sign. I get the whole "cultural fit" concept but it begs the question, besides technical requirements what are you really trying to filter out...

I understand getting buy-in from the team but if your team doesn't respect your choices why are you in charge? Just leave everything to a group vote... There should be some mutual understanding that the current team will respect and work alongside the new employee. The new employee should also understand they need to get involved... If this is not happening you have a leadership problem...
> It runs Android 4.4.4, thus far I've not seen a valid reason for wanting something newer.

I have an Android 4.4 phone, and while it has worked acceptably for me right now as I am self-employed, if I were working for a company that required me to have access to sensitive customer data, having a phone that still received security updates would be a hard requirement.
Wow, you aren't kidding. After reading your comment I tried to recall Wind-Up Bird, and got the same sensation.
Piketty argues, from extensive historical data, that the hi growth of the 1950s-1970s was unusual, and low growth is the norm.

So we might want to look at another aspect, such as how wealth is distributed - the low growth rate tends to accentuate the accumulation of growth on capital, so those who inherited a lot of wealth capture even more of it over time, without having to do anything with that capital [ such as investing in startups, building next gen transport systems ]. Which means we most likely need a much more aggressive tax on uber-high incomes and uber-large inheritance wealth.

[ Im not saying don't look at wealth creation technologies such as - nanoscale 3d printing, VR-work-from-home, asteroid-mining etc. ]

Reading Piketty's Capital is a bit like waking up in the matrix after taking the red pill - the gradual torrent of facts hits you viscerally, because you really had no idea things were this extreme.

As preparation, I recommend watching this short vid on wealth distribution - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
iThings? iBad? Was this written by a 19 year old edgelord? Does he write Microsoft as "M$", too?
> Put another way - if you are not part of the invited group, and you submit an issue, but do so poorly, or without a clear Proof-of-Concept, and concise description, you can reasonably expect to hear no response from Apple, with no grounds to complain that they ignored you. But, at the same time, if you have a clear exploit, well documented, with impact and proof-of-concept, then their is still an avenue to submit it to Apple, but it's up to Apple to decide how they wish to prioritize.

Thanks, that does make a lot of sense.

My main exposure to bug bounty programs has been through the blog post of submitters, that don't give much insight to the resources/support that e.g. Apple would need to give.
Why would a researcher funded by government grants be more independent than a researcher at a think tank funded by a corporation?
I tend to either give "The Belgeriad" or "Mistborn" as a gift to people who want to get into Fantasy.

I think when Rothfuss releases his final Kingkiller Chronicle book it might be my new intro series :)
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I live in India and have never seen Pichai on a billboard. Any references to this phenomenon?
That seems like a pretty inaccurate job title then. Data Engineers are people working with data pipelines, storage, and schemas. They can lean towards more software engineering or towards analytics with dashboarding/machine learning but their primary responsibilities are the former.
Capital in the 21C - Thomas Piketty

Because it changes the way you see the world.
He makes sense within a certain discourse. Whether you think that whole discourse is bullshit, I think is what's at hand.
The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
Yeah not a thing over here in Australia which I find strange as being a UK expat the food over here is exemplary even at a cafe level!
Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages
Hmm. Such a progress bar would be really cool, but it would jump back and forth a lot.

Also, I have secret plans to use the progress-bar metaphor as an interface for accessing past game states. Imagine if you started playing Pacman, and the progress bar started filling up. Then you click in the middle of the filled-in bar to jump back to that place in time...
You’re Not Really Playing Pokémon GO in the Real World. Here’s Why:
Should we make it a policy not to link paywall urls ?
If Stallman's at war, then this attack is, to quote Terry Pratchett, "right down at the bottom end of the scale that things like the Charge of the Light Brigade are at the top of."
> Every 18 year old with a pocket full of graduation money next to her iPhone grabs a new Mac, and any Mac she grabs will perform a vast majority of the tasks she needs.

As a recent high school grad (Class of 2015), this resonates with me. A bunch of my classmates (Classes of 2014-16) bought Macbooks/MBA/MBP for college. For the vast majority of them, their Mac was a non-essential splurge. Their use cases corresponded with Chromebooks (available for < 1/2 the price of their purchased Mac) quite well.

A major reason why so many of my classmates bought Macs is because my high school handed out the lowest-end, 11" MBA to every student. We all got indoctrinated into the Mac world.
The following post is on https://www.experfy.com/blog/how-to-become-a-data-scientist-....

and the discussion of that post is available on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12243377.
Dtrace is a great tool to dive in and understand the internals of an operating system without being a systems programmer per se.
And they are cut off and break tested by 4 wheelers all the time. Lets crush all cars and make every person ride the bus?

Btw, cargo trains are very cute for big loads between huge industrial hubs. Which means according to your theory that most people and their job in every state can go fuck themselves. Also I suspect you'll be fine with your Amazon Prime taking 1-2 weeks to reach your door.
River-Horse, William Least-Heat Moon. It's a wonderful account of a classically idiosyncratic journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific, through the waterways of North America.

Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov. The pinnacle of the memoirist's art. I find it nearly uncreditable, Nabokov's facility with English, his 5th language.

Lyonesse, Jack Vance. Vance is the greatest stylist in 20th century American letters, and Lyonesse is probably his greatest achievement. Fantasy indebted to Celtic mythology, not Tolkien. Marvelous, poetic, pungent language in service of a wonderful story.
Metropolis Algorithm and Bayesian posterior sampling
I've given this as a gift several times -- "What Should I Do with My Life" by Po Bronson.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FBFMKC/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

Had a run-in with serious burn-out about 12 years ago and had considered leaving software entirely and starting a landscaping business. This book was inspirational in that it helped me figure out what I might LOVE doing, and then made me realize it was right under my nose the whole time. I just needed to get a new job that appreciated and challenged me
Can you give an example of a more general problem that you see React solving better? The example you gave earlier doesn't fully answer this.
Growth as a result of consumption is destructive....For example, measure growth by how people are becoming more educated."

You realize that consumption includes education, right?
I quite enjoy playing games on my laptop. I was worried the track pad would be terrible for fps games, but it's fine (though I always rebind right click since that doesn't work well on a Mac trackpad). Why buy a separate machine if the laptop works well?
One book that works well for techy parents who have kids is The Number Devil. It's fantastic read-with-your-kid-at-bedtime material.
"although, as a side note, we seem to have lost the direct connection between the two..."

or there is no direct connection between the two.
Also worth noting, Milton Friedman advocated that in lieu of other poverty programs, because it gets rid of bureaucracy, leaves an incentive to work, and is less parent-like than existing methods.

The EIC is on top of the programs Friedman wanted to replace.
Those are all great. I've also given Dune, the Forever War, and The Stars my Destination.
Why did you have to remind me about Kingkiller Chronicle :(

Also Brandon Sanderson's Way of Kings (fantasy and same author as Mistborn). The audio books are really good.
I've given out a few copies of Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them. So far, the recipients have done well after reading it. It really clued them into the hidden meaning behind common corporate-speak.

https://www.amazon.com/Corporate-Confidential-Secrets-Compan...
That's why you'll see greenhorns drivers doing stupid mistakes and barely being able of backing off a truck.

The problem is the CDL, and the "schools" not the business.
"Fast enough" creates a lowest common denominator which then becomes the standard to cater to. If technology companies (Apple in this case) made an effort to push technology along, then it'd raise the standard and user experiences would be richer due to allowing programmers to increase computational complexity of their software.
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Another way to get this point across is -

The overall growth rate is ~2%, but if you happen to be very wealthy, the growth rate you experience [ on capital ] is ~6% to ~10%.
This article shows a lot of the silliness in both a) writing compilers in C++ and b) re-creating well-worn compilers tools like parsers from scratch.

1. Their definition of values in the language (unfortunately called "Variables") is a product (class) over all possible types:

class Variable {
...
double numValue;
string strValue;
vector<Variable> tuple;
string action;
string varname;
Constants::Type type;
};

This means each value at runtime has a large memory footprint, as each instance of a value contains slots for all possible types even though only one will ever be filled. Sum types solve this problem.

2. The author intermixes parsing and code generation. This makes it difficult to implement any kind of optimizations, even for an interpreter. For example, in order to do function inlining in the author's language, you would have to manually inline calls in every single part of the code generator instead of having IR transformations as separate modules (see: LLVM). It also tightly couples the two pieces of the compiler, making it difficult to change parsing strategies without rewriting the code generator for instance.

3. It took the author nearly 5000 lines of C++ to write an interpreter for a simple Javascript-like scripting language. Some of this is due to the verbosity of C++, and some is due to the needless effort of reimplementing parsing from scratch. I implemented a similar language in <1k lines of Rust [1], and I'm sure that others could do even better in Haskell or OCaml. On top of that, the author's claimed benefit of extensibility requires writing large amounts of boilerplate.

[1] https://github.com/willcrichton/lia
Between my computers, my family's and friends' computers, and the dozen virtual machines I look after, I've got enough to worry about. The last thing I want is to be sysadmin of yet another freaking computer. A smartphone appliance? Yes please. Hell yes. Gimmie gimme.

Any actual computing I do requires a full sized keyboard and a reasonably large screen. For that I have a full sized desktop computer at home and a small laptop for travel. The only "work" I do on my smartphone is receive notifications.
Well, that's one of the the reasons I can't hate stallman. I'm an emacs user: I'd be talking out both sides of my mouth if I wished he didn't exist.

OTOH, gpsd...

For Rainer's sake, 1) Emacs might not have existed in the first place if it weren't for Stallman, and 2) I use GNU emacs more often then not.
I'm sorry, but as a resident of Hyde Park for more than a decade, your experience could not be more alien to me. I have not once wished for the burden and expense of owning a car. Indeed, living here has convinced me that the personal automobile has no place in an urban environment.

Hyde Park is very far from perfect, but its problems are entirely the fault of people with attitudes like yours. You could have bought an apartment close to the shops you'd like to frequent, or bought a bicycle (and now, bike share is a legitimate option). It takes 10-15 minutes to get downtown on Metra, but you probably couldn't be bothered to read a train schedule. And indeed, the problems with Metra—namely, long headways outside of peak hours and lack of fare reciprocity with CTA—would be eminently solvable by a consituency who values freedom from cars. Instead, we have people like you, who will exacerbate our issues by demanding more parking (and hence, necessarily, less density, less walkability, less transit, and less vibrancy). The assumption that everyone will drive engenders opposition to new development, particularly the type of mixed-use development that makes things easy for people on foot.

I'm always dismayed to see this kind of thinking on a site called Hacker News. A true "hacker" would look at the problems of urban living and try to unearth the real causes instead of falling back on the same old kludge everybody uses, buying a car. If you did, you would see that the kludge itself has become the dominant problem.

You feel entitled to easy access to the city, the sort of easy access that is currently offered to drivers and prohibited to anybody else. You're coming from a place of enormous privilege. Living without a car in Hyde Park is, despite your protestations, easy. Living, with or without a car, in most of the rest of the South Side is incredibly difficult. Many people on the South Side are too poor to own a car, or are driven into poverty by needing to own one to access their jobs. By choosing to drive, you are actively making life harder for the majority of South Siders, who would benefit greatly from better transit access and jobs and shops they can safely walk or bike to. Buying a car bought you a bit of convenience, but make no mistake: the system you have bought into immiserates, maims, and kills. We need to think beyond our own immediate comforts and decide to build a city that is safe and accessible for everybody.
JIRA Agile would cover most things you need, attractive if you are already tied into the Atlassian eco-system.

https://www.atlassian.com/agile/roadmaps
Because I keep a monitor on my desk as a primary when I'm home with my laptop on a stand to the side. If it's smaller than a 17 it's harder to use the laptop screen as a second monitor without blowing increasing the resolution enough that I can't fit anything useful on it.

Also, preference and I'm not a huge fan of being so loyal to one company that they dictate my preferences. Been s pretty loyal Apple customer for laptop, phone, wife's computer, parents and iMac for since about 2005-2006. Between things like reducing their product line, not updating machines, not letting me set my own DNS on my phone and making political statements via their software the luster has worn off quite a bit.
At scale, the value truckers provide is being a driver, not offer there trucks. Yes, there will be companies that provide logistics as a service, but it's hard to imagine a business based on a single robot.
A People's History of The United States by Howard Zinn. Given it at least 5 times.

All students should realize that history is written by the "winners" see US history from the perspective of the oppressed - Native Americans, slaves, women, the poor.
Yes, if you're homeless because you want to be that's your choice, I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise. What I'm saying is that it's dumb to assume most people are homeless because they made bad decisions. Rarely are people homeless by choice. Hence the whole "Fear of new and unknown scenarios should not be keeping people homeless." bit.

Edit: I admit, it is a bit unclear. I can see why you thought what you did.
You hadn't been around /g/ long enough then. Too much discussion about non-libre software/hardware. I believe he even responded to an email once calling it an "inane place devoid of any meaningful conversations". Or something along those lines...

Due to the "I should be able to do whatever I want with my computer" crowd being a large part of /g/ though, many people agree with what he says. The user should basically be treated as a god - and not be put under limitations to modify the code running on their computer.

It also helps he has a pretty strong track record of being right. Even if his being right isn't recognized until years after the fact.
The term "bubble wrap" looks like it is still trademarked[1], even though it's commonly used as a generic term. Hopefully this flies under Sealed Air's radar. I often wonder how far organizations will go to protect physical brands as the world rapidly digitizes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
> It looks like we've been growing at full speed ever since.

S&P 500 valuations after the crisis are out of touch with reality. Look here: http://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe/. The stock market is incredibly overpriced i.e. companies' earnings aren't growing as much as people and institutions are buying stocks, driving their prices up. The reason for the bull market is that with near zero interest rates, everyone is looking for an investment vehicle that offers better inflation-adjusted returns than cash and bonds, even if it means taking more risk.
Has anyone got any examples of this kind of design in C#?
> isn't that a sign of growing pains in science?

Could be that; or could be that scienticians are investigating the wrong questions altogether in these massively nonreplicable fields.

Face it: science needs to learn to (1) be open to criticism (2) become well-acquainted with the critique of science (as it's expected to be well acquainted with statistical methods now) and (3) help the from-outside-science "science studies" fields grow rather than nipping them in their bud for their still-infant understanding of the meat (rather than the processes) of science.

Much like no one should be allowed to go into research with the poor grasp of probability theory that "p-value imagineers" display, no one should go into research while imagining they're being inducted into a priesthood of objective thinking.

Maybe Derrida is a confidence trickster, but it's not him who's "stifling" science. If anything, the Neil deGrasse Tysons of the world are stifling open societal discussion of where fundamental physics is actually going (which is -- nowhere for about 40 years now) and what "scientific studies" as portrayed by daytime TV really mean.

Scientific idealism isn't doing society any favors and isn't doing science any favors. Maybe it's doing favors to cynical tenure-track professors who need to massively oversell the meaning and potential impact of their work, but that's neither here nor there: graft and rent-seeking are as old as humanity.
The only link that works is the last one:

http://www.itu.dk/courses/BPRD/E2009/fundamental-1967.pdf
> If computers replace doctors, and I get better care for cheaper, aren't I better off?

Doctors have a state-guaranteed monopoly that is created via lobbying. That is why, in many countries, doctors are extremely expensive -- even though most of the miracle of healing is done by medicine.

In the future it will probably be a doctor owning and "supervising" the machine. Patients use the machine (paying $XXX). A doctor will take 30 seconds to one minute to look at the results, sign it and your prescription and then charge you exactly the same as before.

The only way the general public will benefit is from more accurate prescriptions. But I sincerely doubt that the cost of a doctor's visit will be reduced significantly. But don't worry, the laws will the there for your own good.

PS: MYCIN was already developed in the 70ies, and showed higher accuracy than doctors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
Once some company rips your visual synth off, files patents protecting stuff you programmed, makes money off your work without giving you back nothing and sues you, you might understand why the baggage in GPL3 is necessary - it copes with the real world not with a world full of buddies cheering for each other.
Yeah, The cuckoo's egg would be the greatest price:enjoyment ratio, but then I bought Half-Life, Blud Shift, Opposing Force, Day of Defeat, Counterstrike, Riccochet, and TF Classic for $5. And I got the cuckoo's egg for $7...
I didn't get a paywall, and I'm not a subscriber.
Wow, that's weird -- I distinctly remember reading this in January and coming away feeling great about my 4-year-old MBP that still runs just fine. Totally stuffed the bad parts down the memory hole -- thanks for rightfully calling this out.
> Apple sells high-end computers.

Apparently not:

>Oculus won't support any Macs because the hardware isn't that good

Apple sells expensive computers. Customers are not buying cutting edge hardware, they're buying middling hardware that is designed to work with the specific operating system.
> I still need to read the rest of the Ender series, I read all of the Bean/Shadow story line but somehow never got around to the continuation of the Ender line.

They go in a very different direction. The Bean/Shadow books are still military fiction, and the Ender ones are... not. I do recommend reading them, but just don't go into them expecting anything similar.
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