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This tangentially relates to something I was thinking about yesterday.

Does anyone have a sense of how difficult it would be to create a service that scans your gmail spam folder and categorizes the contents into 'definitely spam' and 'maybe spam'? I'm probably somewhat of an edge case, but I get over 100 spam emails per day in my spam folder. Almost none make it through to my inbox. However, every month, one or two legitimate emails land in spam. Usually these are there for an obvious reason - "cold call" emails from advertisers and that kind of thing, but still stuff that I want to see, and obviously (to a human) not on the same level as penis enlargement garbage or whatever. (Although occasionally there are real head-scratchers, like I thread where I've already replied to someone twice, and then their third message goes to spam. I guess gmail's filters only operate on the current message and don't look at history.)

Anyway, I get enough false positives that I need to scan through the thousands of spam messages I get each month to try to find them, which is obviously a huge waste of time. If something could go through there, identify the least spammy fraction, and label them, it would save me a ton of time. It would be lovely if gmail offered this themselves, since they already have the spam score for each message. But barring that it seems conceivable that you could do it with a browser add-on, perhaps using a neural network. Still seems kind of like reinventing the wheel though, since you'd basically be building a reverse spam filter. So I'm wondering if there's an easier way...
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That's the thing really, it's not a short story at all. It's a web comic with over 10000 pages, a good amount of which are even flash and youtube animations and even flash games. It's totally worth delving in. :)
> The claim that the new macbook will have issues with day to day performance is insane.
> I run a browser [...]

Building a single config & platform - with no other significant processes running - will cause OOM crashes on 12GB CI boxes with swap files enabled, when 4-5x 4GB linker process spin up in parallel when building my projects. This is my bread and butter, and it's still way too slow for my tastes on a 16GB box that isn't swapping excessively, which is the new MBP's maximum "give Apple all my money" spec.

Your day to day works on it? Great. Mine hasn't for around a year at least, nevermind next year's. I could theoretically use it as a dedicated docs machine, or as a dumb terminal to an actually decent machine... or I could buy a quad-core laptop with twice the RAM - throw in an extra 4K monitor for good measure - and still end up paying less than a MBP configured with half the cores and down 0.6Ghz in speed.

> It's not just a about specs, especially in a laptop. Versatility, weight, battery, ease of use.

MBP's max specs aren't enough to handle my workload. MBP's 8GB models may not even handle Chrome, if the people bellow are to be believed. That's not "versatile". Weight is just another spec - 33% (~1.5lbs) lighter than the laptop I'm comparing against is nice, but not "who cares about any of the other spec" nice. Battery? More specs! Battery wattage just went down, as pointed out in the post you're replying to. Ease of use - finally something squishy and subjective! ...I'll prefer the numpad over the touch bar. Perhaps, on that front, I'm a weirdo.

But hey, if it works for your specific case, and you like 'em, enjoy!
> The 16GB limit just does not work in this model

Most likely he's been getting by with workarounds (not running everything simultaneously) and expected the new model to be more capable.
Around here it seems they always are:

Just now goverment is about to be thrown because (at least from my somewhat biased understanding) they insist that any extra income from climate taxes on fuel are distributed back to the population in the form of tax breaks or cheaper train tickets :-/
What do you mean 2015? He's still releasing new stuff and forums are still exploding over it. :D

Most recently he posted a part of the epilogue on snapchat and archived it here: http://mspfanventures.com/?s=17075&p=1
In terms of Xserve, I think it made sense to drop it. If you're buying a server, nearly all applications make more sense using Linux and commodity hardware. The exception are desktop based (GUI) applications which Mac Pro targets. There really is no viable market for a Mac Server.
You mean a $900 billion CO2 nightmare?
This is exactly what should be expected from the Pro model. Not to mention that cloud requires connectivity, and the purpose of a laptop is mobility. I would prefer to be able to work entirely offline, and even when I have an internet connection it may not meet the bandwidth and/or latency requirements to make efficient progress with cloud servers.
I think his thinking was muddled. Smart people can explain things clearly: Paul McCartney, Richard Sherman, Feynman, Hawking, Bill Gates, et al.
So where is the International Stoicist Front fighting today against the evil in the world and the suppression of the poor? Oh, they aren't. They are working for international cooperations in a middle management position.

Why is meditation and Stoicism so hyped these days?
I've had several british friends tell me that if they pass cars in America like they do back home (say, within a foot with both cars traveling at 25-30mph), American drivers will go ballistic at them and can't believe at "how dangerous they are driving". The difference is that they have much better training and know that they can pass safely.
No, I didn't mean FHE, because FHE does not meet the criteria given in the post, namely that it must happen as quickly as possible and cannot rely on the liveness of the client. The OP practically rules out schemes that involve looping in the client.
> I'm sure they've focus grouped this to death.

Apple? Focus-grouping?
The world is on the verge of disastrous climate change. This fact is well established. Why exactly are we supposed to rejoice at the news of more fossil fuel reserves?
Earlier this year I was at a day long car control clinic hosted by a BMW CCA chapter (they do a lot to promote driving proficiency and safety).

A comment that one of the instructors made will stay with me forever: "In the states they teach you how to operate a car but they don't teach you how to drive".
Do they charge faster, or just reach capacity sooner?
I love cul-de-sacs with open ends for pedestrians. I'm glad to hear they're starting to get more love.
Whatever you're using it for, clearly it's the 1%. Expecting Apple to completely gimp the macbook for the average pro user (dev, photoshop, video editing) to satisfy your computing needs is unreasonable. They can't cover all use cases, but they can cover most.

For your use case I recommend buying a spec'd up PC, such as a gaming laptop or desktop replacement laptop.
Well, if you want it to be tough and durable I think the first think you need to do is choose a different material than plywood :)
Volvo takes the position for their 2017 that they cannot demand that the driver take over. The car can ask, but must be prepared to pull over and stop if the driver doesn't push the "Manual Drive" button.

Here's the first of 100 self-driving cars Volvo will put in customer hands in 2017.[1] This shows close-ups of all the sensors - high radar and camera behind the windscreen, low LIDAR and camera in the nose, and side and down-looking cameras on the door mirrors. No high-mounted LIDAR, though. These vehicles are intended for self-driving in all weather conditions in Gothenburg, Sweden.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcSeRE-XEY
"I imagine it asking you who you are in a heavy Slavic accent before firing its many weapons into your fleeing body."

I find this ... part of a paragraph, highly unnecessary continuation of the previous sentence! And I {object (to this! it = Slavic}; my accent is (fine; (fuck you too = _Writer_; ... i ment...; ...; Nevermind! [:Reader])!

Yeah... fuck your wars, I aint hating Americans for that, and I ain't "pulling out a gun" { missing word -> due to rising _(<<anger-ining>>)_ feelings or something...; Fuck you = _Reader_??!$!$> $T@$ @$) ) )!# _ }; fuck fuck fuck you!...

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edit for typo since I can't edit the post:

* caveat that it's not enough information to let you make any concrete predictions

Other afterthought:
The pilot wave model is definitely not directly compatible with relativity, since it purports to have a function 'defined everywhere' at once, and the concept of 'everywhere at a moment in time' doesn't work in relativity. There are apparently methods of working around this, and they're apparently very complicated.
If there was a way to cut the burning of fossil fuels dramatically that didn't involve taxing it, or being too heavy handed dictating what to put on the markets, I'd be happy to see it put into action. In fact, I'd prefer it, because tax revenue from environmental damage gives government a perverse incentive to allow companies to continue with environmental damage.

Until then, the money coming in from taxation is going to be used somewhere, and it seems a shame to use it somewhere that doesn't benefit anyone.
Is it because if the crew could choose the flag order, they could have it spell something unfortunate?
maybe, but you have to start with a better definition of spam. Currently, you're describing it as "something that you wouldn't want to read" where even a fellow human might not hit the mark 100% of the time.

Machine learning requires large data sets and training, and mushy targets like your inbox are tricky because it's hard to tell a computer what its score was on a given attempt- even with human scoring.
I run my neural networks in EC2, or on my desktop at home that has a GTX 1080.

If you consider a whole Linux VM, webpack (also an instance of Node in the background), and gulp to be light use, then yes I think you're in the vocal minority of people who have some extreme expectations for a portable computer.
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I'm thinking more a McKinley / Mark Hannah hybrid. And Pence is certainly no Roosevelt.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley
To clarify, I'm not expecting something to identify the exact messages I'd want to read. But if it could take the 3000 messages in my spam folder, and separate out 500 "probably spam" from 2500 "definitely spam", it would cut my manual spam-scanning time down significantly.
Can you name a city where it's normal for public transit commuters to get seats at all (unless they live an hour+ ride out of the city, where the train starts), let alone comfortable ones? I'm skeptical that there is such a thing as efficient and comfortable public transport. In my experience only underutilized public transport is comfortable, and public transport is only underutilized if it's slower than driving.

The trend in most systems is towards inward-facing seats along the sides for the very lucky few, a huge mass of standees in the middle (the denser the better until additional passengers physically can't make it on), and width of seats/separation between seated passengers makes basic economy on a budget airline feel positively luxurious.

Off-peak errands and entertainment on public transport can be fine, but not commuting. How anyone can find physical contact with strangers in a cramped, enclosed space less stressful than driving is way beyond me.
Smaller batteries charge faster by reaching full capacity sooner. So if you jam a large battery into a computer, you'll get more battery life, and most components will not be optimized to be as power efficient. This means charging to X % of battery life will take longer than on a smaller battery but more power efficient machine.
Every single time. Yes. Nothing will crush the source of power for oppressive governments faster than if we conserve our resources and drain theirs.

But you fail to mention that we have an oppressive government gearing up in the US too. So perhaps it's best if they help us drain ours.
Plywood is extremely strong...I'm not a furniture engineer but I'd wager there's no way a person would be heavy enough to break the seat portion of this hypothetical chair if you used 3/4" plywood
Exactly. With enough spam, legitimate requests end up hidden behind a large volume of spam.
Can't help but mention this great video where an enthusiast woodworking engineer makes a parallel between tools in the real world and tools in computing:

https://youtu.be/ShEez0JkOFw
Thanks. I think something in the lines of if the project gets delayed (in case of freelancing) or client is not 'happy' with the deliverables.

In terms of the side project, it's a jobs listing website that I am curating from various feeds from monster etc. Would there be anything in that space I need to 'worry about'? Not doing anything illegal, but I've seen lot of Patent trolls and frivilous law suits, so it scares me.

How much $ amount should I try to get for?
Get back to me when you have to work on a Java/Oracle project. Oracle XE idling uses 1GB of RAM. The average Java process uses around 1GB (Eclipse, Tomcat, Gradle). Add a browser and a VM and I have to start stopping processes whenever I need to do something else otherwise I start swapping.
Oil doesn't have the same use cases as electricity. Until we have electric planes, ships, heavy trucks, farm equipment and freight trains, there is still a big place for oil in transportation.

Also, until we get some good energy storage solutions, we are just going to run into the same problems of too much electricity during the middle of the day and not enough in the evening.
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You might be vastly underestimating how much land oil extraction uses. It depends on how they'll be extracting this shale oil from this particular shale oil field, which I don't know. In some cases, it is massively land intensive; it is akin to strip mining in that vast tracts of land are dug up. In other cases, it is just massively water intensive, as they pump a water and chemical blend at high temperature underground and then pump it back out to pull the shale slurry out with it.

Shale oil is a very different process than traditional oil wells, and much riskier to water reservoir resources in the region.
I initially thought it didn't look good when looking at the amount absorbed yearly per tree, but then was surprised by some estimates on how many trees you can fit per unit area. A more accurate estimate needs to be done though, different numbers I found put the final range at about an order of magnitude.

Also, most farming and stable forests are mostly carbon neutral. This would require continual seeding, harvesting and sequestration of the cellulose. Maybe it will be a good thing though that cellulose+lignins are so hard to breakdown.
Other manufacturers don't make computers as good. If they did, you'd have bought one of theirs by now instead of complaining about Apple's offerings.

Part of the reason why they make bad computers is they cave and make design decisions based on what random users ask. Users who potentially have no knowledge or experience in system design.

As the famous quote goes, if you ask people what they want, they'd tell you a faster horse.
I'm not sure if it's a moral obligation, but you certainly do have some kind of imperative to share those precious records with the world. A simple gallery site that let people contact you for reproduction rights? A publisher? Submission to Archive.org... Keep us posted if you do?
Because said instillment has been done to give the industries and outlet for their products. that we should always be wanting something new, something "better" (as defined by the industries, not you or me). Turn on a TV, radio, read a magazine, newspaper, or even web sites, and we get carped bombed by this message.
With all due respect but this is ridiculous. I guess you forgot the irony tags. Most (now famous) stoicists where governors or in high ranks. As such they were utmost conservative. Stoicism is the art of being governable despite of you thinking it all sucks.
I am not convinced, if you can fly a reactor : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_NB-36H then I feel it unlikely that it weighs 1000 tons.
Sure. But didn't the Volvo CEO push "Level 4 only"?

They certainly are saying they'll only release a Level 4 vehicle - the Tesla is still expecting a human to take over.
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Sounds like a great idea.

Let me go have a look at powerful up to date Mac desktops that I can purchase.

Oh.

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Apologies for the snark. I think a lot of the backlash towards the new MBP is being caused by the uncertainty Apple has injected into its desktop line. Even if Apple wants to update their desktops, but for various reasons (e.g. Intel) cannot do so until next year, a simple statement saying that Apple will be updating the desktops soon would have quelled a lot of the concerns.

The "surprise" factor worked for Pros when Apple was updating its devices in a consistent and regular manner. Since they haven't been doing the same with their Pro Macs, they are being highly irresponsible by not giving their Pro users more insight into their future roadmaps.
It's true that infix multiply is new, but infix multiply if I'm not mistaken is not a breaking change.
I finished college a long time ago and I worked for quite a few companies - not many of them with budget problems - and most of them gave employees laptops. Also I know of only a handful of people having desktops at home and the vast majority have them for gaming cause desktops can fit & power "real" graphics cards.
Why did you suddenly start posting like this?
You believe in popular AGW theory. Not everyone does. Not everyone takes it as fact that global warming is what folks say it is. There's enough spin and inconsistency in the scientific community that not even they agree on it. Let's assume for sake of discussion that warming is happening. Okay. I'll do my best to live responsibly. Am I going to buy in to all the Chicken Little melodrama? Nope.

Also, I thinking there's enough good momentum towards use of alt energy resources, that we're going the right direction.
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Some of them definitely are. Like sellers of carbon credits, or multiple "green energy" projects relying solely or mainly on government (read: taxpayer financed) investment, or proponents of climate taxes, or even companies like Tesla who makes hundreds of millions per year selling "green car credits" to other car companies. There's a lot of money in the game by now, even if most regular folks don't get any of it.
Good for them. Leave it there
You mean, like less you know, less real life experience you have - more voting weight you get? Brilliant idea, that's what is missing in our politics - more immaturity, childishness and inexperience!
Alright, it's time to make a confession: my "laptop" is actually just a desktop. It's plugged in 90% of the time and the other 10% is composed of 9% of time spent under 2 hours away from the plug and the last 1% is sitting in an airplane pretending I can get work done.

Does this sound familiar for anyone else?

Give me the 32GB memory and an extra few mm of thickness. I'll just keep it plugged in and not notice the difference.
If home internet was fast enough to power a turnkey server with software to provide similar capability to what we get from Google and Facebook today then, yes, it would free information.
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How draining Saudi Arabia resources have worked so far?
You need a deterministic way to explain to the machine how to score itself, which is the problem. If a precise win condition exists without human intervention, then the software can iterate on itself.
I do find myself wondering how accurate that book was regarding feudal Japan...
Eh, it shouldn't take much effort.
Put Arch (or something similar), use openbox or LXDE for a reasonably useful GUI and you have an image that takes ..maybe.. 100 megs when idle.

You do not have to do this from scratch each time, just clone the disk, or even better have a script that generates these images modulo some parameters.
When considering insurance, one usually tries to estimate the cost of an event multiplied by the likelihood of an event. The insurance company needs to charge slightly more as a premium, but if it's not too much more, that's a good purchase. It's a good idea for individuals to trade a small amount of expected value for a big reduction in variance.

The odds of a nearby star exploding are fairly easy to calculate, as far as I know. I could inquire from a few astronomer friends if you'd like. It's probably on Wikipedia, too. The cost of avoiding a star explosion... I guess Elon Musk is working on it.

The US spends about $600 billion annually on defense. Investing a few billion in reducing the risk of catastrophic climate change sounds quite reasonable, since trillions of dollars are at stake. Heck, even the "non-catastrophic" result of only a couple feet of sea level rise would swallow hundreds of billions of dollars of land value.

I'm not sure what rhetoric needs to be tuned down, since I have already read much of the literature from "minority researchers". I guess not the recent stuff, as I've gotten tired of it. As far as I can tell, the effort spent silencing scientists is mostly the exertion of fossil fuel companies. Who stands to profit from restrictions on fossil fuel consumption? I guess some renewable energy companies do, but few others in the short term. I have a hard time understanding the theory of a vast left-wing conspiracy to get us all to... what? Where's the motivation? It clearly is an ineffective technique to gain political power. Much more plausible is the idea of a few businesses trying to spread uncertainty. We saw that before, with cigarettes.

When you say, "listening to" do you mean believing the analysis of? It's funny you seem to hold PhDs in such high esteem. Almost everyone I know has a doctorate. Well, about half of them. And many of those in "hard science" or specifically environmental studies. I respect them, of course (since they're my friends), but I also think about their claims critically. Many of them need some coaching with statistics and non-linear dynamics, but hey, we can't all be experts on everything.
You made a comment on HACKER news to "discuss" how scientific community doesn't agree on AGW?
Bullys or gorillas, same diff?
Pro tip:

stop cuddling everybody

If you have poor infrastructure, no
crosswalks with lights, no separated bike lanes, cars that run red lights then sure, go ahead, go fix that

If some idiot jaywalks on a main road with proper safety infrastructure and gets himself killed, it's his problem
A fair risk they will just plan to do it themselves, then forget about it or rather postpone it because they can't find return address or something and then lose everything.

I do that kind of thing for friends but not for everyone.
James Stockdale[1] credited stoicism with giving him strength to endure 7 years of captivity in Vietnam.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stockdale
To be technical, that'd be the second group if it was phrased as "people who like feeling that others are in control", using the word "in" instead of "under".