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It's a reference to the Chinese cultural revolution. Use your internet machine for more details.
Mao's Hundred Flowers Campaign from the 1950s. Citizens actively encouraged to share their opinion on their regime in order to help improve their country and "let a hundred flowers bloom" with different schools of thought.

Many who expressed critical opinions ended up under investigation and in prison labour camps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
> he would try to take other people's food

Oh my God, please explain this.
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The main thing about trial periods in the US is that benefits and perks generally don't kick in until after. For instance, at my old job, people didn't start accumulating vacation days until they were 90 days in.

It's another one of those inventions that heavily favor the employer at the expense of the employee.
Hopefully Apple will at least support Thunderbolt 3s external GPU profile, so you can attach something like the Razer Core.
Or Firefox
Take a look at the evidence. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-23/leaked-dnc-emails-c...
nothing will be easily replaceable
Wait a minute, why does requests come with a cert bundle?
Don't you need -d as well (as in "ls -d /." or "ls -d /")?
Yes, that is the phrase I was looking for. :P
Agreed. He's become a megalomaniac; the exact kind of person he fought to stop. Which is really unfortunate, because I do think there is a need for a Wikileaks-type service, especially given the declining state of journalism.
I think with Thunderbolt 3 you can just plug an external GPU and you're ready to go.
But then the laptop will be half a millimeter thicker and you will see some screws on the bottom. The horror.

/s
A serious question :- In the context of this story, what is the difference between wikileaks offering money for information from a whistle blower and a media outlet offering money for a story (ie chequebook journalism)?
Glad to hear it won't have a tapered design. Not sure if it really needs to be thinner or lighter than the current rMBP but I'm fine as long as it keeps a keyboard that actually has some depth. Typing on the MBA and new MB is not a good experience.
Thank you Captain Obvious! ;) Developer-oriented machines (where beefy hardware, specialized requirements and ability to upgrade parts are still taken as granted, and loss of those is quite mourned) and generic consumer-grade machines are most certainly different markets. Although I'm not sure how MBPs are classified those days.

(E.g. ThinkPads used to have a fame of great programmers' laptops and now they became quite less of that... the very same could easily happen to MBPs as well.)
Thanks dalbin, short codes are resilient and independent from geopolitical addresses, both codes are created at the same time, for the sake of clarity is not show today in the Xaddress
This is a weak talking point. The DNC has in its charter that it must be neutral. What the RNC may have thought of Trump is irrelevant. Anyway, you really want to be playing moral limbo with the RNC right now? That is where the moral high ground is?

As others mentioned, there was coordination on talking points as well to discredit his campaign.
Wikileaks has always been political.
If someone leaked the rnc's emails, those would probably be out too.
Let's not forget Cablegate in 2010.

I walked around in Philadelphia talking with DNC protestors, during the DNC. Most of them were democrats, who were glad to have evidence of corruption and collusion between the DNC and Media. Most of the protesters I talked with, only had good things to say about wikileaks, and assange.

I think wikileaks knows what they are doing, and are gaining mindshare among the alternative left and right.
That doesn't change much, IMO. Sure, finding the exact book you need in a collection of several million can seem daunting, but after you've learnt the system, it takes about three minutes (most of which is walking time). And learning the system isn't hard either, at least in my library, it's a matter of minutes.

So as far as I can see, there is no real excuse except "I'm not used to books because they're not the Internet".
I've loved the MacBook Pros that I've had in the past. But Apple & I are heading in different directions. Their "Pro" devices are now consumer status symbols, not machines for getting work done.
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This is a weird one, but it seems the point isn't "Broken features aren't used" but rather "unused features don't get maintained and tend to break" and also the point of the article isn't broken features but "on whether to remove features, and which ones to remove"
The 2013 and 2014 macbook pro still had NVIDIA (fortunately! AMD has always given me trouble)
It is not. It was one of the design goals of the language to compile fast...

https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

So I am wondering too what this is all about.
This seems to me to be an obvious power play by google. Does no one else see how this is not against flash, but in favor of code which google can analyse and extract data from. When the analytics are in flash, google has no insight, but when forced into js they have full visibility into everything a developer does.
Thanks for the explanation. Most informative comment.
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Since they've switched to a Go compiler from the previous C one, compile times have been pretty terrible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Hedge

> The site was described by CNNMoney as offering a "deeply conspiratorial, anti-establishment and pessimistic view of the world." Financial journalists Felix Salmon and Justin Fox have characterized the site as conspiratorial. Fox described Ivandjiiski as "a wonderfully persistent investigative reporter" and credited him for successfully turning high-frequency trading "into a big political issue," but also termed most of the writing on the website as "half-baked hooey," albeit with some "truth to be gleaned from it." Tim Worstall described the site as a source of hysteria and occasionally misleading information.

> Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman describes Zero Hedge as a scaremongering outlet that promotes fears of hyperinflation and an "obviously ridiculous" form of "monetary permahawkery." Krugman notes that Bill McBride of Calculated Risk, an economics blog, has treated Zero Hedge with "appropriate contempt."

> Lokey, a former paid Zero Hedge writer who left the website in 2016 over disagreements in editorial direction, characterizes the site's political content as "disingenuous," summarizing its political stances as "Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry=dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft."

You'll excuse me wanting a slightly better source.
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It depends on the state. Most companies have a 'trial period' where the manager doesn't have to go through the full HR process to remove someone. It's pretty much a 'you're an employee, but not really an employee.'

Personally, I think it's pretty crappy as it means that the company has all the leverage if they make a bad hiring decision, the person is let go after already potentially leaving another job for this one.
Thanks king_magic, at least is a start, and because is Opensource it can evolve with the needs of the people.
My Nvidia card reports OpenCL 1.2 support: http://i.imgur.com/nzb7OL5.png

AFAIK their OpenCL debugging/profiling tools are still terrible compared to CUDA or AMDs OpenCL though.
I do love my MPB for dev work, but to be honest, anything with a unix-like userspace and a browser will do and I'd have no qualms switching to another ultra book if Apple starts shitting on the MBP (or switches them to ARM or something crazy like that).
Good point. I get as many credit card offers, as I do inquires on LinkedIn for jobs.
While I don't particularly like how gdb does this either, you can:

* "set print pretty on" , this makes structs readable

* "x/20b &var" to show a hex dump. But no ASCII, and you have to give it the count (e.g. 20 bytes..)
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Thanks!
Is it that or are they saying that because the original license was written before this new form of distribution existed, you don't have a license for it?

Either way, the music industry needs to die and then be reborn in several years when the existing players are all out of business.
Yes. There is indeed a RLink package https://reference.wolfram.com/language/RLink/guide/RLink.htm...
which can pass R commands to R from Mathematica and transfer the data.
Did you ever try to memoize a recursive function?

In this article, we show a real life application of the Y combinator: the memoization of a recursive function.
Pretty sure recently I read that this can't be enforced very easily (looking for source)
There's a flag for it, which didn't make a difference (edit - with the new 1.7 compiler it does, but it goes from half that speed to the same figure). Even with a perfect scaling, I'd be about 10x behind a post from 7 years ago.

Perhaps it's compiling a lot more lines than I think? Lots of bits of the standard library I should be including in the line count?
I think the graphs are considering your definition, with many countries in the North America.

In school sometimes it's taught that "America" has three divisions: north (3 countries), south and central America. Caribbean, for example, lies in a different tectonic plate, wouldn't be north America.
Duh. Nobody has power enough to determine the direction of what we'll see shipped aside from the top guys at Apple who (if "The Macbook" is any indication (and potential blue iPhone 7)) are less focused/understanding on product devlopment (a comment Steve made about Tim Cook) and more focused on business/profit margin.
It's great on smartphone, but useless on laptop.
PC laptops have had fingerprint scanners since forever.
> A serious question :- In the context of this story, what is the difference between wikileaks offering money for information from a whistle blower and a media outlet offering money for a story (ie chequebook journalism)?

I see it more like when the police offer a reward for "information leading to the capture of ...".

There's nothing inherently wrong with the media paying for information. It's the same as paying for hotels and plane tickets to get to and stay at where the story is.

The money issue becomes real when it flows in the other direction. Here's XYZ to run this pro-Clinton piece where XYZ could be something tangible like cash or intangible like future access for quotes/interviews.
it's pretty clear from interviews with Assange that Wikileaks is entirely ego driven, and always has been.
When his trial was happening rather than let Wikileaks distance itself from it, like other leaders like this would, he used it as a tool to argue his case to the public.
He has been releasing information out of spite rather than public good. An impartial organization like Wikileaks should exist, that whistleblowers can come to - it just really can't be run like this
Bit of a shame - the MBP is already pretty expensive, and it would be nice if that had more user replaceable parts (memory, drive mainly) precisely because they're "pro" machine (hence the P). Macbook and Airs - fine - consumer level - soldered, non-replaceable. But for the premium charged... making it easier for me to upgrade/swap my drive would be nice (it's not impossible, I know, but not as easy as it used to be).
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The authors get paid by the library, when they lend you a book (at least here in Denmark). So it is not the same.
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Do people even use function keys? The only shortcuts I've seen people use are Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. I think this is a step backward because it'll make it harder to touch-type and there's a possibility that the word processor can remove your volume controls.
What was the evidence of corruption? Everything that I read was essentially evidence that a political party had internal politics, and that they disfavored the guy that joined the party a year ago (and who promoted the possibility of primarying their sitting president a few years ago).
Ah ok, I get it.

When it comes to software, I don't get what complaints you might have about mobile / internet banking, as they are pretty good, in the UK at least. Maybe you are talking about the back-end of things and not consumer?

The rest of the complaints I think are symptoms of the industry itself (some of which tech companies like TransferWise ARE trying to disrupt). Don't know what tech companies can do about that but one can hope :)
Ahhhh... damn it. I got the version numbers screwed up.

NVidia supports 1.2. AMD supports 2.0. Same concept, but I got the numbers all jumbled up. I'll edit the above post for the correct numbers.

http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/OpenCL2-Drive...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29219307/opencl-2-0-on-nv...

(Hard to "prove a not", so I'll just leave the Stackoverflow page here)
We are open sourcing anything that makes sense to do and can be reused by others, like https://github.com/mapillary/OpenSfM, traffico.io/examples.html and are working on open sourcing the apps too. However, putting out the docker setup of the backend is more hassle than use to anyone.

disclaimer: I am part of the Mapillary team.
My current location is 5308 AFRAID ANUS. Might be best to exclude ANUS from the word list.
reminds me of http://what3words.com/
nVidia is way better than AMD at software: CUDA, DX11 drivers et cetera. For stuff that has much less room for software optimization, AMD tends to be very competitive: DX12, Vulkan, OpenCL.

But this time around Apple is writing their own software (Metal). So this time around it's not surprising that Apple doesn't want to pay more for superior software if it's not going to use the software. It sucks for CUDA users, but Apple doesn't care about you.
The thing I would get into if I were in my early 30s would be DevOps. No matter what you build, it should be going through a pipeline to the cloud. And more and more that pipeline is managed by developers.

This is called vertical integration, by the way. Instead of spending your time learning more and more about the arcane details of programming, you might be much better off learning more and more about how and why people ask for programs to be created -- and what happens to them after they're coded.
I wouldn't expect Apple to make it that easy given their history of extremely overpriced video cards and custom BIOSes for them. I would be shocked if an external GPU solution on Macs were supported and sold for less than $700 and Apple-approved GPUs go for less than 30% mark-ups from aftermarket retail pricing. So at that point I'd honestly expect an Apple GTX 1080 solution to cost well over $1500. For that price almost anyone would just buy a dedicated gaming machine and not bother with the Apple ecosystem that's hostile to PC gaming by default.
I use the media and volume controls, sometimes the brightness ones (when the mac decides to make the brightness lower than I'd like it to be).
I can be, since the time perspective is maintained and can be filtered out, see http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2016/03/21/mapillary-js-sli...
I don't know, the only component I could see myself needing replacing is the SSD, and I never end up doing it with any of my laptops.

Intel laptop line of CPUs only accept 16gb [1], so there's no reason to no max it out from the start if you need it, really.
The battery, unless you are confortable with buying chinese parts, you should only be buying a replacement for Apple, so I don't see the problem with having them replace it for you. Granted, this is easier having Apple stores close by.

And SSD hardly ever fail, compared to old HDDs at least, so unless you want to increase capacity, there in't much need to compared with before, and Apple gives you the option to buy the biggest SSD you can put in there from the beginning.

Edit: [1] I believe since Skylake, they support more than 16gb! I thought that was only with the new Xeons for laptops.
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What's the use case for the faster macbook air? lol
very cool. tried to see if it could make sense of islands and such, and the results are extremely convincing: https://i.imgur.com/LXNtZLH.png
As for Lisp on Illumos, which Lisp did you try?

Now before I get into the details, let me just state for the record that I've ported 200+ (if not more) freeware packages to Solaris, and I modify, compile and link a lot, so this was not my first "walk in the park"...

First I tried CMUCL. And after some patching, I got it to work. But only 32-bit. And it would core dump a lot. Because the GCC compiler at the time didn't support DWARF 2 (it seems to support it now, but I'd have to build GCC again), compiling with -g was basically worthless for debugging, so I ditched it, because I didn't feel like disassembling x86 assembler that day.

Then I tried CLISP, and that was a lost cause, it was so busted that it wouldn't even build. The last thing I tried was Steel Bank Common LISP, SBCL. Unfortunately, just like other LISP's, SBCL isn't self hosting, and it requires a working LISP to build itself. In my case, that would have been CMUCL, except that I abandoned that a while ago when it became clear that it would only work 32-bit and that it crashed. It's a shame, I really think that ANSI Common LISP is the future.

However, I am primarily a schemer, and if you're excited about lisp-1s, hygenic macros, tail calls, call/cc, and case sensitivity, you may want to look into scheme.

My understanding is that Scheme is not 100% LISP compatible, but even worse, that it runs as bytecode on a Java virtual machine. As soon as I see a language running on a virtual machine of any kind, I'm done. That won't enter my systems or my network. If I cannot compile it into straight machine code binary executable, that's it, it's out of the window, and never to return. Not on my watch! Is my finding correct, or is there a Scheme to ELF machine code binary executable compiler out there?

If none of the above run at their latest version, which I very much doubt, you could always try lx zones as a last resort.

I created an lx-branded zone for the first time a few days ago and was just absolutely speechless with regards to how everything just works. The Linux applications literally think they're running on Linux. The only things which gave it away as not being Linux was the completely made up kernel version and /native, containing native illumos binaries that would be in /usr/{bin,sbin} on illumos. It blew my mind.
Just more fodder for my mental reasoning for why Amazon is on my lengthy blacklist of companies I will never work for. It's kind of amazing to me how many companies in the tech sector have given up even the vestige of being about technology and how it benefits people in favor of being some of the most ruthless and sharky people in the business world.

There was a point in my life where I'd say I'd never again work in government, finance, or healthcare related companies, and now I actually find I'd rather do that because management politics is /less cutthroat/ and more reasonable in those industries than it is in tech. I hope maybe we'll see a real revival in the tech industry one of these days, but so many of the companies that have made it big have done it by stomping on the people who actually matter. Tech these days is all about big egos fueled by big dollars, but the numbers don't actually matter so things are irrational from the top all the way down.

At least in finance, the numbers are all that matter at the end of the day. At least in healthcare there's a semblance of care given to the patients. At least in government there's an understanding if not a fulfillment of the social contract. In tech all we have are douchebags with big wallets and bigger egos (Bezos, Ellison, et al) destroying the lives of their employees (and sometimes their customers) to enrich themselves at the expense of all others. It's completely pathological.
Like an external keyboard / screen so you won't get back problems due to unhealthy posture?
I doubt it. Unless the GNU team decided to add it, I don't think there's much incentive. Are there targets out there that gcc supports which aren't supported by LLVM? Probably not too many. Commercially, LLVM is much more attractive than GCC, so semiconductor companies which make CPUs/uCs/DSPs/GPUs/FPGAs/etc are probably more likely to create an LLVM backend than a gcc one.
Ingenious, but let me try to counter that with another step up in ad blocking:

Run the page in a sandbox, then classify the pixels as ad/non-ad with a neural net and only present the non-ads to the eyes of the user. It would also be possible to reflow the page to fit to a different screen size if the words are clearly identified by their containing rectangles. User interactions would be sent back and forth to the sandbox.

Of course, best would be to drop FB altogether. Being a member on FB, even an ad-blocking one, creates an incentive for other users to remain on FB as well.
except he is dead now.
Yes but shredded stuff is lost (for the most part). Digitizing is expensive. It's the typical "the truck is going there anyway so one more item is practically free" problem. If you're very liberal about declassifying stuff then it's cheap. Retroactively declassifying is expensive. The system to handle classified stuff (the truck) already exists so the marginal cost is little even if the system isn't cheap. The savings can't be realized until you figure out a way to get rid of what's already there (everything else on the truck) so just classifying by default is a local maximum.

Regardless, there's much lower hanging fruit when it comes to government inefficiently using $.
It is disappointing to see simple statements of facts down voted.
The context of the "interference" is that people affiliated with the Sanders campaign were accusing them of rigging the Nevada primary, which very obviously did not happen.

It's very reasonable for the DNC to work with the media to defend itself against nonsense allegations.
Current disucssion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12260921
Zero Hedge clearly has a pro-Russia bias just like CNN has a pro-US bias. Doesn't mean you should ignore everything CNN or zerohedge say. Every once in a while, cnn and zerohedge publish interesting stuff, just keep in mind their bias while reading them.
And enough ports to plug 2 things at once.
That is a bery good rason not to work there. Thank you.
>Sure, finding the exact book you need in a collection of several million can seem daunting

They don't know the exact book they need. That's where things go south. Any idiot can type the title into most library search systems now. The problem students have is when you ask something that requires them to figure out which books they should look in themselves.
thanks codev, added to the TODO!
Accidentally downvoted you on mobile, apologies.
Sorry, maybe my original comment was interpretable as a bit snarky. Totally agree with you.
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