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It's not really a secret unfortunately:

New iPhone 7 Data Suggests Sales Slower Than iPhone 6S - http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2016/10/03/iphone-7-s...

[edit] You have actually more data here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/263401/global-apple-ipho...

If you compare 2016 Q4 to 2015 Q4, iPhone sales are retracting. Same for 2016 Q3 against 2015 Q3. I don't get what the debate is. It's public data.
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For someone who never played Fallout, what do you recommend playing first?

I've also read about "Restoration Project" mods and I am bit confused.
Not even close. Slack regularly screws up text, harfs on things, and does generally not-IRC things. Overall Slack's interface is terrible and does not seem to have been tested by anyone who has regularly used chat interfaces in the past.
Even with a properly functioning Macbook or iPhone, you can damage your ears if the volume is too high. In the EU, there are limits to how high you can turn up the volume in an attempt to prevent this.
I do sometimes wonder how much of this is made worse by keeping competing views in walled gardens. If you look at Twitter historically they've not been great at censorship.

Consequently it's easy for views you may hold abhorrent to end up in your feed, along with the typical OTT reactionary crap resulting from it being a poor medium for nuanced conversation (ie the 140 character limit).

This leads to calls on the garden maintainer to censor content, which then gets out of hand, resulting in people being banned rather than content being taken out via say, downvoting.

Having an open, distributed and federated approach means that it's harder to block content, but it's also harder for content you don't like to end up in your feed, and easier for you to censor it, rather than relying on a central authority to perform that task for you.
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Problem is that the camera is on top so if you rotate the phone and stand the phone on a surface, the camera is pointing in the wrong place.
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Has me thinking of the dangers of drinking vodka outdoors in Siberia, in the winter. Of course any ill effect of the vodka might be considered mercy, in such conditions.
Even modern large tractors, save articulating ones, have pretty much the same basic design. Granted, now you get a nice comfortable cab instead of a hunk of metal to sit on.
You're confusing the value of land vs the value of the structure itself.

The $1 million properties in the bay have structures on them that are worth maybe $150-200k tops, whereas the rest of the value is in land.

A high land:structure value ratio is not uncommon for the US coasts, in high demand areas (especially that have older houses, built in the 20s and 30s that will need significant renovations to be brought up to a safe living standard)

That's why it's outrageous. If you're considering paying 400k just for the structure, that means you already own a piece of land worth at least $800k where to put it. So we're talking about being a millionaire to be able to afford something like that. So let's be honest for a second and not pretend like you're not targeting the top 1-1.5% demographic here.

I noticed you're a founder for the company.

Construction is a perfectly competitive market. It shouldn't have economic profits, which means it should be paying your costs and salaries and that's it. I'm not sure what was the rationale for your getting into the business, but the modern prefabs are a dime a dozen and the thing they all get wrong is affordability. If you don't think I can go to another state and bring 4 construction workers to build the same type of structure for $200k, sourcing my own materials and paying them salary, you're just deluding yourself.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that companies like that go bankrupt by the dozens, because they all miscalculate the economics of the market.

But I do wish you good luck in your business.
So you'd rather them be impersonal and haughty?

Personally I have less respect for "detached" institutions nowadays. It removes them from the concerns of their users and attendees and creates an echo chamber. I love that you can directly petition companies with twitter and air grievances against them in public. It's high time companies act like they are run by and for humans and not just some black box of capital.

Also it's a dictionary - it's supposed to engage and work with language. And right now, twitter is where a lot of new usage of language is being fomented.
I could really use this seeing as... https://twitter.com/NickPoorman/status/737647940026634240
I think it's a question of professionalism and whether it interferes with their ability to achieve their primary mission. I think the fact that Merriam Webster is a descriptive dictionary, rather than a prescriptive one makes a difference here. A lot of words are being coined and redefined on social media, and you could argue that by demonstrating a proficiency at interacting on these mediums they are also making an argument for their competence.

I personally think it's fine. I care about the quality of the dictionary, not the quality of their marketing, but marketing plays an important role in making money. I assume they'd have a twitter account no matter what, and this is probably better marketing than whatever a "professional" account would look like. Since I doubt their irreverence will put off people a substantial number of people from buying dictionaries, I'd say their account is probably a good thing.

I mean, it's a dictionary. It's not like they have a substantial role in world politics or anything.
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> As I see it nobody is ever going to guess my pin because they would assume it was blacklisted.

Why wouldn't they? It's just a quick ten numbers to check. 4444 is going to be more common than any one other completely-random selection, like 8064, for the same reason that people choose "password" as a password.
You're right. I should have finished that thought with "compared to a standard 1-year cliff and 25% per year".

In any case, dragging relocation out over two years feels wrong to me given that relocation is binary. I suppose in effect they are using it as a way to attach strings to a signing bonus.
That is a very different situation than "New iPhone has been the worst selling one in relative numbers since the iPhone."
Pretty rich coming from the complainer-in-chief of JS, the guy who advises not employing people who don't happen to agree with his personal take on how JS should be written.
Even if at 400% volume the hardware shouldn't let through as much power as to blow the speakers. The waveform should be amplified and clipped to a safe value. The same applies to this Mac. If they know the sound chip can be tricked to send too much power, fix the sound chip or pick another one. If they didn't know, they didn't test their product.
> I've heard scary things about Poland.

Poland is fine, don't listen to the bullshit in mass media. That was just some noise of little importance to anything whatsoever, perpetuated because the party that lost last elections wasn't too happy about that fact.
So a few things to consider in regards to point 1:

* Your executable is going to be loaded as a whole page regardless of how large it is, on most platforms this means you'll need at least 4k of User VM.

* You'll need a page table, which has its own overhead. If someone was going to push back on the libc assertion I'd expect it here, a the PTEs for libc and and the VDSOs cannot be shared between processes (as far as I'm aware).

* I would expect it to in theory RUN faster assuming it was a small toy program like the example, this is because there is less work to be done even with shared pages.
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I don't know, but I'm definitely interested. I know nationalism is on a world wide tear.
It was the 1940's and nuclear material safety wasn't as critical an issue as it is now.
And it's a close-walled garden, not anything like what the internet elders envisaged. IRC is a protocol. Slack is a product. AFAIK, you can't spin up your own slack service and run your own private slack (happy to be corrected)
Programming/Tech: 9. I really enjoy working in the field. My dissatisfaction comes from

Employment: 5. I am in consulting...I don't think it is for me. My opinion is often ignored. I don't get to explore what I want, and am often considered "staff aug". I have nearly a decade in start-ups. I miss that.

I think my next gig will be a remote one - start-up or not. I was on a contract where I was able to work remote for a year. It was the best schedule for me. Being able to eat lunch with my family, start/finish early, no traffic. It was great.

Did I mention there was no traffic! :)
For me it is less about it being better at collaboration, and more that the popular alternatives are so bloody awful.

It is frustrating, because the popular choices all make better demos. But recovery is often so painful that you start living in fear of formatting mistakes.
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Your (good) headphones most likely have a hardware limiter that prevents them for blowing up (of course there are exceptions I know)
Well, all of these are standard perks in SV. So compared to them Amazon is a really bad place to work.
ISPs get hacked. I configured my phone and home network to route all traffic over a VPN through a server I set up in France last weekend. So when peoples browsing history gets leaked en masse, at least mine wont be amongst it.

Governments should be legislating in this area. They should be making it illegal for ISPs to
inspect/store this information. Not compulsory. Preaching to the choir I guess.
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> cloud ecosystem.

Apart from promoting the the App Store, has Apple done anything to promote or enhance it's cloud offerings? I don't recall hearing anything about iCloud in a very long time.

> voicemail consistently fails to load messages

AT&T? I've noticed this to be the case for AT&T users regardless of whether it's iOS or Android. Their visual voicemail is unreliable.

> or me fat-thumbing an interface

I routinely run into issues trying to use iOS on iPhone 5/SE test devices for work. The touch targets are so small I have cock my fingers at weird angles to be able to hit buttons. The App Store purchase buttons are some of the worst offenders. It's almost like Apple stopped testing their UI on small screens after the iPhone 6 came out.
No worries, I don't feel all that strongly about it, I do think it would be helpful to use the power of HN to encourage the NYT and others to offer free access to stories linked directly from HN.
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I've been curious to try a Gros Michel too. I read somewhere that they taste much more like artificial banana flavor than the Cavendish do, which dampens my enthusiasm.

Enjoy the Cavendish while you can, a new blight has evolved that is destroying them and spreading worldwide.
> That was just some noise of literally zero importance to aything whatsoever, perpetuated because the party that lost last elections wasn't too happy about that fact.

That seems eerily similar to what happened in the US.
That's arguably part of building the product. But I agree that it's very important and is one thing a lot of engineer-founders miss.
The problem is less the spurious DRAM accesses etc, as awful as they would be. The compiler problem is really a mix of 1) understanding enough about fixed-bound unit-stride loops to nonoverlapping memory (or transforming access to such) and 2) data layouts that prevent that. E.g. while there are well understood data layouts at each point of the compilation pipeline, it's hard in general for compilers to profitably shift from array of structs to struct of array layouts.

You are correct that, generally speaking, most STL heavy code would be hard to vectorize and unlikely to gain much advantage. (Plus there are the valarray misadventures). You will sometimes see clang and gcc vectorize std::vector if the code is simple enough, and they can assume strict aliasing. Intel's compiler has historically been less aggressive about assuming strict aliasing.

Various proposals are working through the standard committee to add explicit support for SIMD programming. E.g. if something like http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n418... were to be standardized we could write matrix multiply explicitly as:

using SomeVec = Vector<T>
for (size_t i=0; i<n; ++i) {
for (size_t j=0; k<n; j+=SomeVec::size()) {
SomeVec c_ij = A[i][0] * SomeVec(&B[0],j, Aligned);
for (size_t k = 1; k < n; ++k) {
c_ij += A[i][k] * SomeVec(&N[k][j], Aligned);
}
c_ij.store(&C[i][j], Aligned);
}
}

For my own work on vector languages and compilers I've had an easier time of it since they have been designed to enable simpler SIMD code generation.
I totally agree about combining notifications with the dashboard. I built up Godot2 [0] to solve this for myself. It can take any metric, including metadata, and stream to notifications via Slack, email, SMS, as well as the dash.

The incoming events have a spec, like Riemann, and is compatible with Graphite. Godot2 also has it's own mini query lang [1], which allows for easy selection of events for the dash, e.g.

service =~ 'health/machine/disk/%' and status = 'ok'

[0]: https://github.com/nextorigin/godot2-dash

[1]: https://github.com/nextorigin/riemann-query-parser
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So the proposal to ban abortions was just a lie?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/05/polish-governm...

What about the story that Poland is one of the few European countries that want access to encrypted communications?

https://www.euractiv.com/section/social-europe-jobs/news/fiv...
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Religion, when it conflicts with other people in society, is politics. Dawkings tries to actively change people's minds. It's political crusade. Not scientific one.

Politically influencing people is not scientific presentation. There is tension between representing facts and effect. If Dawkins wants to have maximum political effect, he must optimize his fact/demagoque ratio for maximum impact. It's probably enough for Dawkins to be just little more accurate and convincing on his critique than opposition to turn the minds of people and win arguments.

I have always understood that when Dawkins talks about religion, he is not representing scientific approach. It's not even his field of research. It's unfortunate if he is conveying the false impression of solid science. He uses valid scientific arguments, but his writings as a whole are not coherent scientific argument against religion.
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GrSecurity has more kernel-level protection features, I think. If I wanted to argue that OpenBSD is more secure than e.g. Ubuntu with GrSecurity, I'd focus on OpenBSD's hardening/security-conscious design throughout the system. (ETA:) GrSecurity gives you great anti-exploit technology, but having fewer total bugs also helps.

(E.g. OpenBSD has beautiful code, most of the base system pledge'd, ASLR/stack overflow protection/W^X/prices/auditing everywhere, doesn't stuff tons of complexity into everything, ...)
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I think there's a middle ground to be struck between making something harder to use and making a page that won't even load text without JavaScript, something I find more and more.
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Side note, the "open web" is probably one of the most misleading phrases of the last couple years. Because:

> if I wanted to make my own browser

muhahahaha (sorry). What I am trying to say, is that basically nobody can make a new browser from scratch today (not just a redecorated webkit). The only entities that can create or maintain browsers are megacorporations (Apple, MS, Google) or dedicated foundations (Mozilla).

Now, imagine a parallel universe where there is a standardized API for browser plugins which run in a sandbox (unlike NPAPI). Any startup can easily create bring new technologies to the web platform. You could put the plugins on the OS'es app store and vet them like regular apps if yuo like. Virtual reality, accessing a 3D printer, custom hardware, ... or just better network access and the ability to run a IMAP mail client, a terminal, or a bittorrent client in the browser (without a server).

I'd argue that the "open web" is actually one of the less open possible architectures, and limits what you can do. And the reason for this are business interests of Apple & co.: Why would you sell your app in the app store and give apple a 30% cut, if you could do everything a native app can in the browser? And I also bet some of the restrictions of the open web are benefitting the content industry - like restricting what formats you can use, the inability to use full networking (and to create a P2P "pirate itunes" without central server in the browser), the introduction of DRM in the browser (EME) and so on.
You know what I just realized? Apple could have made the power port simply be recessed a bit...that way you could either plug in a USB-C device or a cable like this and not wind up with a wart (that the laptop can still fall on and thus break the actual USB-C solder points)
Google assistant can do that. I asked it in Allo "what's my dog's name?" It then asked me what my dog's name was, and now can respond to that question whether I ask in Allo or through Google home.
A small micro or DSP processor can sit in the data path and solve this problem "in software, in hardware". It's unusual for software to be able to damage hardware for a consumer product.
Probably, but some initial solutions are worse than natural design, it is only a starting point. And of course it could be helpful for some kind of special situations.
Developers are but a small portion of "pro." Also, the stuff being taught to everybody and their grandparents would do fine on 10-year-old netbooks.
If you're dealing with a straw boss (someone who has lots of responsibility, but little authority), dealing with them in a negative way is pretty simple -- you undermine their position by making sure that bad news or news that marginalizes the straw boss gets to the authority figure before the "boss" can deliver it.

Micromanagers and other really nasty people to work for are usually compensating for their own lack of power or security by making your life as miserable as possible.

The existence of people like this is a red flag for the organization because it always leads to negative outcomes.
I can see your point, but this is one of the downsides to vertical integration.
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I ditched my rMBP in favor of a Dell M5510 Developer Edition because I was sick of my MBP pretty consistently freezing especially waking from sleep, or the sound drivers crashing, or my time machine backups becoming corrupted every other week. The build quality is 90% of the way there, as are a lot of smartphones like the One Plus 3 for half the price of an iPhone.
I disagree. Rather than coding for the benefit of someone who doesn't know the language very well - people should learn the language. If the company is hiring maintenance programmers who don't know what lambdas are - again, their problem.

I feel like we should have higher standards, and use the abstractions available to us grow the code towards the problem. Instead I see people writing long sprawling application that use the same low level library routines everywhere.

Maybe it's a quantity vs quality thing. And quantity is much harder to hire for, so my ideas lose out.
They proposed a ban and backed down on public pressure. That does not seeem anti democracy.
In Poland, the ruling party (Party of Law and Justice) is a right-wing, populist party, which has tried to nominate/replace judges and to some extent, control the media. EU is has voiced concerns, but Poland's democratic processes still work, as evidenced in the recent recall of controversial abortion bill.

A Similar, but perhaps further evolved situation is in Hungary, where right-wing populists have held the power for quite a long. But even in Hungrary the rulings party's power is not absolute, at the moment, and you don't get thrown into jail for having wrong opinions.
Same here. I've also bumped into various storage issues with docker. Really drove me mad a couple of times... And like parent stated, the Docker docs about these issues reminded me of the XFS faq. Which stated about data loss for unclean shutdown (powerloss, panic): "If you know it hurts don't do it". In the end docker is just not as robust as for example SmartOS / Triton with ZFS.
Poland is still as functioning a democracy as it was 15 years ago. They elected a party that's a bit on the extreme, so what, isn't that how it's supposed to work ? Does Trump's election means american democracy has "fallen appart" ?

Turkey is still democratic. Yes, the rule of law is taking massive hits, and yes, Erdogan really wants to be sultan and makes his way there, but so far he has always won in the election in the same way and rules people won with 15 years ago there. He didn't have a 50+% majority of votes to be PM but neither did the torries in the UK. It might go wrong if there are more actions against legislative political opponent.

Venezuela went from a pretend democracy where everyone massively voted for the popular charismatic dictator to a pretend democracy where everyone massively dislike the unpopular dictator, nothing fell apart because there was nothing to break there.

Russia is a valid case.
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A shortcut could be to force commercial endeavors to provide Open Hardware through regulation. Not going to happen overnight either, but talking up in policy discourse seems like a better option than talking up in a hut.
A sweeping generalization made even less true lately with emoji.
The actual content of those comments hasn't really been addressed by these quick fixes though.

Does this fix the other numerous and varied complaints about the Macbook Pro? Does it change the fact that they're not doing anything that's noteworthy in a positive way? Does it fix slumping iPhone sales?

Does it change the fact that more and more pro users are getting sick of the tyranny of Apple and moving away from them?

Nope.
Also, the problem with big chain restaurants with a thousand things on the menu is not reading the menu, it's that none of it is very good. Much rather eat at a small restaurant with 5 things on the menu that are all excellent.
Not directly, but my research group has used referenced masses and a former colleague works on the NIST watt balance.
But this ignores the other way of looking at it: if system A is slower, how come it managed to run more quickly?