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Prion disease has a case-fatality rate of 100%. That's not an estimate or approximation and it's not rounded up. They are also untreatable.

There are only five well studied prion diseases (because of their rarity). Two are exclusively heritable: fatal-familial insomnia and Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome. One, Kuru, is transmitted via cannibalism.

The incubation times are extremely long. Some estimates for Kuru go up to 20-50 years.

The most prevalent form of prion disease in humans is new variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (nvCJD) or Human Mad Cow which has a lag of about 10 years based on CDC data. It is transmitted by eating tainted beef products. Let me stress that this is extremely rare: there have been 3 confirmed cases in the United States.

It is extremely unlikely that Soylent is a vector for prion disease, especially since it's been vegan since version 1.2 and never contained beef as an ingredient. Even if it somehow contained tainted beef, given that it's been available for less than 3 years, it's extremely unlikely that any cases of nvCJD (of which there have only a few in the last decade) or any other cases of prion disease were caused by Soylent.

There is good reason to question the safety of Soylent given its record but "prion disease rumors circulating on Twitter" are utterly ridiculous.
Connecting an iPhone 7 to the new macbook pro requires a $19 Adapter. This is beyond a joke now Apple!
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Back when Steve Jobs was around, there used to be so much talk about how well and tightly he controlled the media. Guaranteeing he would have many positive stories out there on the day of launch. People would also talk about the Reality Distortion Field. And Gruber would right some well-logicked defense of criticism.

Where is the positive PR army? I did not see one single positive story about the recent announcements, following a short Google search!
The onsite reviewer from the verge says its pretty much the same. Maybe a lil more travel but they feel the same.

So i guess that version 2 thing is just pure marketing to avoid people raging
Altera + Intel? I get it, Altera was a 17B dollar deal, but come on. Intel buying AMD would be more cause for concern about monopolies, and that would be a far smaller deal.
None of the article's points is relevant.

1. Function keys were a convenience. You can map ESC to other physical keys.

2. 16GB RAM and processor are fine, if you're still able to fit your processing in that configuration. Otherwise you're probably using a laptop as a terminal to a computing cluster (AWS/cloud/etc), which have more computing power and memory than an Apple warehouse.

3. Who cares what people on Twitter are saying.

The MacBook Pro was never meant to be a developer's machine. Any developer with half a brain knows there are more configurable and cheaper laptops out there. MBP is mostly for conspicuous consumption.
Apple built a new MacBook Pro keyboard without the Touch Bar for the low-end 13" version, so they theoretically could put that on their higher-end versions too. Maybe they should make the Touch Bar a no-cost CTO option for all MacBook Pro versions.
What bizarre alternate reality am I living in where a Dell is being considered an alternative to Apple hardware? Even crazier: I feel the same way.
Why Apple doesn't offer swappable RAM any more, the disks in a weird format instead of SATA, glued batteries, ... is all about one thing: making more money.

See, I have a Fall 2011 MBP. Its battery still sports 3-4h usage, and it's rare that I max out the 16GB RAM. I have virtually no reason to upgrade.

Now, with one of the new(ish) MBPs: Want to upgrade the RAM because you thought "oh, 8GB will be sufficient"? Straight outta luck. Want to upgrade the disk because 512GB SSD isn't big enough? Straight outta luck (because it's likely to be expensive as hell compared to an ordinary mass market Samsung 850 SSD). Want to replace the battery in 4 years? Quite likely going to be impossible. Anything broken (scratched/smashed screen, broken touchpad, worn out keyboard)? Have fun spending $$$$ in the Apple Store because it's a PITA to replace anything.

Except for the disk, if you want to upgrade anything you MUST shell out serious amounts of cash for a new mac.

That you'll need to part with even more cash in order to use basic interfaces (Ethernet, SD cards, Firewire to just name a few) sucks even more - and dongles are far more likely to just break, e.g. if your laptop gets fallen from your desk by a playful cat...
So wait for Apple to remove the Caps Lock key in the next generation.
I am no expert in Chinese transportation laws and regulations. But I wouldn't say it's a lax environment there - it's more ad hoc to be more accurate as I've seen regulation coming out from time to time in response to events.

On the other hand, Shenzhen is the world capital of electronic / hardware components sourcing, manufacturing & production. Geohot's trip to Shenzhen may or maynot be an indication of his intention of releasing comma one in China but rather an expected visit to check up his product manufacturing.

Also, perhaps Cruise have already been dealing with government agencies and perhaps in compliance of regulatory requirements so that we don't hear about same trouble for Cruise.
Yes. I do use ESC that to exit insert mode. Sorry for any confusion.

I was expecting commands to be anything you did after the typing in colon.
> Does Tim Cook use an iPad Pro exclusively?

The answer is almost certainly yes. I've noticed this trend for a while now -- all the execs at all the big tech companies are moving to an iPad only experience, since it does email and web and that's all they need.
See here for details on the amount: http://e2visalawyer.net/substantial_investment.htm

It starts at $50k.
True but he said he planned to release the product by end of year... surely he at least had drafts of this information. The letter even said estimates were OK.
Definitely. But if the Japanese usage is as a proper noun, you can translate it and still use it as such. We do this with native words all the time - lower-case agile vs capital Agile, for instance. The question isn't whether or not we should proper-noun-ify things as much as whether or not we are served by doing so with a foreign word -- the meaning of which isn't immediately clear to an uninitiated audience.
Probably "industrial" low-end pentiums, for projects where reliability is needed but even a Xeon E3 would be overkill.

The thing is that it is considered that ECC in RAM is not needed for consumer electronics, but that's utterly insane.
Fully redrawable touch keyboard exists. It's in the iPad.
I use a MBP[1] at my day job and Linux on my personal machines.[2] I am a developer at a digital design agency so my priorities may not line up with those of other developers, but MBPs rock for what I do because:

1) Photoshop (the designers use Photoshop, so this largely rules out using Linux boxes)

2) Extremely colour-accurate display out of the box (PC displays have always been a bit of a crapshoot on this count in my experience)

3) Being Unix

3a) A real command line (admittedly I haven't tried the Ubuntu-on-Windows thing)

4) I'm not paying for it!

Speaking only for me, switching between using two platforms has really not a problem for me - I do it every day. When I first went into this job I was worried that a Mac was going to be a very difficult transition to make, but it turned out to be straightforward - just needed a little muscle-memory retraining :)

[1] Never really sure if this should be "an" or "a"...

[2] Written from my 2006 Thinkpad of Death :)

(edited: linebreaks)
Afaik they don't have people signing waivers, so I imagine they must have gone through a lot of regulatory hurdles? They definitely talk about people needing to be attentive in ways, but I don't personally know the extent of it. "Tesla autopilot liability /waivers" didn't come up any relevant stuff.
My suspicion is that any time someone's analysis of a situation requires them to say "$GROUP is just bad at their jobs," that analysis is biased at flawed at the deepest levels.
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> Do I think Hotz has a viable product? Yes. (A comment over at Jalopnik linked to a Tweet where an actual human rider / journalist experienced the Hotz vehicle and was quite impressed)

Journalists being shown demos in controlled circumstances are a notoriously unreliable source of information about the viability of a product.
I actually think that a minimally extended v4, with no changes other than a different version number and 64-bit addresses, would have gone a long way towards increasing adoption. Having IPv6 as an entirely new protocol has lead to all kinds of misery. And I'm not even talking about application layer stuff, I'm talking about OSes and hardware.

Hardware vendors hate it, because it is another protocol they have to deal with, which doubles ASIC testing matrixes. And don't even get me started on how evil extension headers are from a hardware point of view. The only good thing about the new V6 proto from a hardware perspective is the elimination of the header checksum (which was trivial anyway). This lead to hardware vendors delaying support for V6.

V6 is miserable in OSes because everything has to be done twice because you have two stacks (see my other post here regarding the PMTU locking issue in FreeBSD), and changes are applied unequally. Even if you want to say that FreeBSD sucks, pretty much every innovation has some to V6 later than V4 on every OS I can think of. From simple things like TSO and checksum offload to RSS. There are examples of this on Linux, OSX and Windows.

I've always said that if I had a time machine, rather than shooting Hilter or John Wilkes Booth, I'd concentrate on trying to make the ethernet header 16 bytes and trying to argue for an IPv5 that was just an extended v4 without all this added complexity.
> While Apple had intended to build nice hardware and a stable OS, the Unix-y nature of the OS that that helped capture the hearts of developers was never exposed in an intentional way.

No, it was pretty intentional. Apple has a history of appealing to power users for a few years, then kicking them in the nuts. First, they did it to professional artists. Then they did it to professional video editors. Now they're doing it to software developers. It's just our turn, I guess.
With the touch bar, you could now have buttons (virtual, of course) with those labels and functions.
yes this is something I'd like to know too. Maybe check here:

http://play.witheve.com/#/examples/http.eve
It wasn't an accident. Steve cared about the Mac much more than Tim does. Steve, also, understood the value for IT professionals to have an operating system that is based on Unix and offers modern commercial software, such as Photoshop et al. It's best described by this ad:

http://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/apple_unix_ad-s-jpg....
I think Apple should have followed one of the important mantras in the startup space: Talk to your users. Everyone who owns an MacBook most likely has an apple account with an email. They could have conducted customer development surveys to get a better idea of what features users like the most or use the most.
Relevant article[0] with same critique of Tim Cook (!= visionary product CEO) and what that means for Apple

[0] https://steveblank.com/2016/10/24/why-tim-cook-is-steve-ball...
Hopefully his example is shown to every engineering class along side the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse example.

He is truly an example of an irresponsible engineer and a great lesson to learn from.
I'd also point out that the term "nutritionist" doesn't even mean anything is most jurisdictions

As someone who is living with someone becoming an accredited "Nutritionist" I can assure you this is not the case. There is an extreme amount of scientific research and cellular biology that is studied. This may not be the case for all nutritionist courses, but to dismiss an entire field because of one case is extremely ignorant.

BUT.. this is Hacker News where coders go to confirm each other's biases about the world at large and remind each other how much knowledge you can have by sitting behind your work desk.
Be the change you wish to see in the world. I'm apolitical.
IRC? Is there more to this?...
that's a bit ironic considering one of the things that made Dell successful was their manufacturing logistics :) But yeah, I think that's one of Dell's problems, it feels like an enterprise behemoth without a soul nor a good brand. It's kinda natural for the sector they normally operate it, but still
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Remember, this is the same investors who couldn't be arsed to check Pokemon Go's ownership before they overhyped (and subsequently crashed) Nintendo's stock.

Market valuation does not indicate anything about the inner workings of a company, nor about its long-term prospects.
> What they did do:

Not really surprised by any of it except number 3.
> If you look at the value and price for US visa, probably price is the highest in history

$500,000? most of which can be an investment you get back later? Nah not the highest, pretty much on par with other countries that sell residency and citizenship

The value is also pretty much on par, IMO, with European programs.
Can you please report your findings if you haven't already?

https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net
Apple users these days must be masochist to keep coming back for more year after year.

It used to be a joke... http://www.theonion.com/video/apple-introduces-revolutionary...
Actually I cab think of many Enterprise uses for this... most users in an enterprise just want to build small apps which manipulate shared data
I think people waited a long time for a refresh of that product line and now that it didn't pan out, they're frustrated because they don't know what their next computer will be or if there even is one they'll like as much as what they have now.

People don't suddenly need a new computer right now just because these were announced, but will all these laptops from 2012 last until 2020 when the next refresh might happen?
> Isn't this just a puff piece for hacker-rank?

As far as I can see it is. This seems to be suggesting that they are replacing the traditional route of hiring from tier 1 universities. This is how they filled graduate jobs. They still do this, to more or less the same extent, but that's only a smallish proportion of overall hires.

For experienced hires, most of the devs come from other financial institutions.
Their stat of 10% new hires is misleading. That's 10% churn per bank not 10% added to the industry as a whole.

All the banks are looking for more avenues for finding developers. Although they usually prefer people with relevant experience, they are relatively hard to come by and are expensive.

Bringing people in from other fields has been going on for a while. What JPM are doing in Delaware doesn't look a million miles away from what they did in Glasgow 15 or so years ago but on a much larger scale. There they largely recruited from utilities companies if I recall correctly.

So yes, the banks are looking outside finance more than they did in the past but it's really not a novel thing at all.
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Lack of more RAM.
> Why does Apple get a pass?

Do you remember trackpads before Apple got them right?
Sure, but now he left from China. It's our lost not his.
> Why not hire someone to deal with them for you?

It's either taking a long time in order to be in compliance / certified or very costly or both.

Hotz mentioned a 2016 end of year shipping date, it's impossible to do that if they have to "dealing with regulators and lawyers".
> HP or Dell find a backbone, and starts pitching supporting and building a perfect Linux laptop to devs

Dell has been selling a beautiful developer Linux laptop for a while,
http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/xps-13-linux
When Tim Cook was asked about the Mac after the iPhone event awhile back, he said something like “stay tuned”. Well, unfortunately, post-Mac-event, I am still “staying tuned” because I can’t believe that this is what they meant. How can there be nothing else in the pipeline?

A new Pro computer and Pro presentation should look something like:

- Sensible flexibility: while some “forward-looking” port like USB-C is expected, there should also be at least one present-day port. No “dongles by default” in a Pro.

- Top-line option with significantly higher maximum memory than other available machines, fastest processor options, and even “unnecessary” extras like 16-core or whatever crazy stuff is available.

- The entire presentation should focus on the damned Mac. I don’t care about your Watch or your TV because I can look those stats up. I counted, after HALF AN HOUR he started to mention the Mac. Come on.

- Every demo should focus on PRO features. I don’t want to see a single consumer item. Show me the crazy performance comparisons of years past. Take the latest, greatest apps and make them scream on stage.

- The web site for a Pro computer should be free of animations, with a big fat “Tech Specs” button in large print at the top that links to an ordinary white paper and some performance comparison tables. (The Mac Pro web site has always failed me; took forever to figure out what the thing could even do.)
Musk is a good CEO because he his passionate about what he does. I'm not convinced he is that passionate about computers / gadgets.
Just thinking how awesome that would be for sequencing software, photoshop, 3D rendering software etc! I'm pretty excited about the Touch Bar, new screen and battery life...
Did he delete all of his tweets? Just found his verified account and it's empty.
How can you know it's a sucker deal without knowing the numbers? $80k + a $10k bonus is bad, sure. But $50k + a $500k bonus is great even if you only get it once every 3-4 years (and as other comments point out the bonuses happen more often than not and are significant figures even relative to yearly compensation).
It must be the time for Cryptography + Machine Learning. I had an O'Reilly Security 2016 talk "Machine Learning to Improve Random Number Generators" accepted this June 2016:

http://conferences.oreilly.com/security/network-data-securit...

EDIT: I thought the reference was relevant but please do critique/comment if you feel I've broken some convention.
Is this the one that forked off BitCoin due to differences centered around how it didn't make its investors/founders enough money?

From the last thread they pointed out:
"Zcash's monetary base will be the same as Bitcoin's — 21 million Zcash currency units (ZEC, or ⓩ) will be mined over time. 10% of that reward will be distributed to the stakeholders in the Zcash Company — founders, investors, employees, and advisors. We call this the “Founders Reward”."

It's nice to have a currency with more security and privacy features in mind but I would be extremely wary of compromises like this for that achievement.
Right, but teeth are natural and a mortar and pestle are not /s
I haven't. I based my prediction on the assumption Apple engineers are not stupid. For what I observe, it's quite the opposite.

The bar's function varies according to the application being used. It should be trivial to make, say, iTerm, which is immensely popular (I use it myself) have Esc and function keys available by default.

I imagine Cathode (http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/), another favorite of mine, will have beautiful function keys.

> because they can just get the other Pro without it.

Plus, it's cheaper.
The first sentence is setting the scene, not confirming the hypothesis. If things being "known" by cultural history was sufficient, we wouldn't need to do science. In reality, a good proportion of "known" things are wrong or the very minimum more subtle than expected.

It is also "known" that being physically cold causes colds (Mediterraneans are especially paranoid about this in my experience). The majority of studies show this to be either untrue or borderline.

I do agree that there is clear potential for chopping food to affect it's nutritional value. I would expect chopping alone to be of minimal impact in most cases if no other evidence was available. Elaborate processing is rather different.
Fascinating stuff. Kudos to Mercedes-Benz for pushing the envelope and making driving safer.
That would require a legal definition of tcp traffic as federal mail. AFAIK there's no such definition.

(I agree with you, for what it's worth... I just don't see a path by which it's possible under current law)
There is a strong path dependency to how Apple is able to pull in record amount of profits. The fact is that any institution with considerable resources will be able to coast for a long time.

Mediocrity can easily sustain Apple on Wall Street for the next 10 years.
There are plenty of professionals buying Mac who are not the same customer type as most of the professionals here. They can't touch type. Arguably they have always been Apple's core market.

For ones saying they don't care about professionals, it's likely to remain a strong, well-designed and productive machine. Maybe a few will leave the walled garden due to this, but I think as many or more will appreciate it.
If I get something semi usable, I'll probably post it on "show hn". I have a twitter, but I stopped actively using it a while ago[1]. If you're interested, I'll try to post updates there when I have something to update on. My public email is in my hn profile as well.

I do a lot of running and I always hear birds in the forest, but I rarely see them. Given that it's pretty hard to figure out a bird by its song without knowing it ahead of time, I started to wonder if there was a way to match their calls against known samples. As an indirect result of working on the project, I've gotten better at personally identifying their calls, but would still rather automate it through an application, because that's more fun :)

Still very much in a prototype stage and I work on it in spurts in between my day job and other hobby projects. I've been more focused on if I can accurately analyze and match a couple common species to the area, but I should probably step back and see if the typical cell phone microphone can even pick up bird calls from a range of a couple 100 feet. I'm not as worried about that I guess, since it's for a niche audience and I'd find a way to use it myself even if it didn't work quite so well on a phone.

[1] https://twitter.com/yarlyyyy
I'm wondering if the lack of a 32gb option is due to battery life marketing constraints. Double the RAM is going to have a higher power draw during operation as well as standby.
From my experience, when people vomit after eating it comes up pretty recognizable.
They didn't ask him to prove it is safer than human drivers. They essentially asked him for documentation showing it does not actively make the car less safe.
Yes, they basically bought up the entire market on those Xeons, and that 2008 line was THE Mac Pro to buy into. I'm still using it today, zero issues! Except of course the whole Apple no longer supporting it with their Sierra OS. There were articles on it comparing sourcing yourself, and you really couldn't just throw together a workstation grade PC like this for that price.

$3000 got you 2 x 2.8ghz Quad core Xeons, up to 64GB of FB-DIMM ECC, 4 x drive bays + 2 x CD bays.

There isn't much this thing still can't handle, it's just being phased out, and eventually it won't turn on one day.
Seen a thread every day about ZCash. They're doing something right, marketing-wise.
I feel $21,000 fine per day sounds pretty like "we want to shut you down". He never presented comma.ai as an autopilot but as a very smart line assist and adaptive cruise control.