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I assume everyone understands a large portion of mass survellience boomed under Bush after 9/11 starting with FISA [0] and continuing under Bush......and will continue to grow under every future president considering there is very little push against it except a minority of people who value their privacy (my opinion), blaming either side is a bit silly.

I am a millenial and I consistently observe many of my peers who do not work in IT having the attitude "I have nothing to hide they can collect whatever they want on me" an attitude spawning from Zuckerberg pointing out people will not care about their privacy in the future[1]...turns out he is mostly right

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance...

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6966628/Faceb...

EDIT: typos...on phone
Considering 99.99% of silicom valley uses macs as their primary development machines, they've pretty much monopolized the first goal.
Fantastically dramatic assessment! I'm curious just what aspects of the pre-iPhone Apple were preferable?
What do you need a Pro for that you can't do on a 15" MacBook or iMac? Serious video editing and 3D graphics. That's about it. For 95% of us the portables get the job done.
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I love reading commentary along with code, especially from the original authors. It's dated by now, but Beautiful Code[1] was a fun read. I really appreciated the chapter on the implementation of Subversion.

1: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596510046.do
"The desktop is very strategic for us. It’s unique compared to the notebook because you can pack a lot more performance in a desktop — the largest screens, the most memory and storage, a greater variety of I/O, and fastest performance."

So desktop is high end, MBP commodity?
As has been pointed in some of the other subthreads, another reason to run nginx in front of Go/Python/Ruby is that running on 80 or 443 needs root access. From a deep security perspective, it's better to run your app as a dedicated user with only the necessary privileges.

Also, assuming that any static assets are served, probably a good idea to leverage sendfile.
Uber will long outlast Juno, Juno won't be able to finding funding long enough and will go under
Whoa there that's very different business. In oil there are huge barriers to entry and big costs to ramp down and ramp back up production.

If Uber ever tries to raise prices too high competitors wil swarm into the market.
Works for me. Mine started out giving me F but I switched it to C no problems.
There is a whole world outside Silicon Valley that does amazing, world changing things and buying stats show Apple doesn't own them.
What drugs were the Nazis on, anyway?
Upgradeability also includes things like the hard drive and card expansion slots. Those both let you extend the useful life of a computer a bit.
No! You absolutely should not ever rinse raw chicken. It doesn't do anything except cross contaminate your entire kitchen!! There is really no reason to and very good reasons not to.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/homehygiene/Pages/washing-chicken...

http://drexel.edu/dontwashyourchicken/
Not drives too?
The bigger the pile of money the bigger the payday for lawyers.
I don't think "only ruin remains" is a fair statement to say about Apple, when the causes you're lamenting are the saving grace that got them to be a $300B+ company from effectively the brink of death.
Your second point is critically important and often not well considered. I once worked on a system where the base where the base exception class logged to the filesystem upon instantiation, which meant a catastrophic response to a full disk.
The latest rev pushed me to a PC for the first time in like 15 years. It's partly because I didn't love the new Macbook Pro, but also cause hey..change is fun sometimes.

I'm very happy with my new Surface Book. I never thought I'd like the touchscreen as much as I do. I LOVE being able to go to tablet mode for calls and stuff where I sort of want to just wander around. The pen has completely changed how I do flow-charting and wire-framing.

The new Linux subsystem thing is a god-send. It was completely seamless for me to transition from the Mac to Windows pretty much solely because there wasn't really a transition. All our provisioning and development scripts just worked.

It's been fun to do a bit of gaming on it too :)

The touchpad is really the only thing that I think compares poorly. Apple really nails that whole experience. After a few weeks I'm getting better with it, but it's still painful compared to the precision and certainty I had on my Macbook Pro.

I'm sure I'll be back on a Macbook someday (cause hey, change is fun) but no regrets right now.
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In comparison to specific lines/cars that are at similar price/market it's true.

Model s is outselling BMW 7 series sedans and
Model s is outselling mercedes S-class sedans.

It's definately not a blanket statement, the volumes of mentioned lines are low
The sociopathic entities we call governments are far more powerful and do far more damage than those we call companies. MacDonalds has yet to bomb anyone that I am aware of, and I can't recall Google using force to prevent someone leaving a country, or Amazon water-boarding people it has captured through overseas kidnapping.
Why not hard drives?
This solution provides no forward secrecy and doesn't use TLS, as stated.

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Openvpn24ManPage

Search the page for '--secret'.

Frankly I would have expected better from FastMail.

(And I'll resist the urge to hate on OpenVPN, although I could do so all night)
Steve Jobs had a very different idea of what changing the world meant and who was doing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GMQhOm-Dqo
Costco does it at their gas pumps. Almost all shell stations auth between $85-$100. As does Pilot and Flying J travel plazas on the interstate.
>>The network effect for Uber is really local - at the city level. An "Uber, but only in Austin" service can easily compete with a national-level Uber

Not really. Uber customers only pay 41% of the cost of their rides. The rest is subsidized by Uber's investors. This is what allows them to compete with (read: severely undercut) taxi companies.

Local ridesharing won't have this massive advantage.
I've programmed mostly-functional stuff for a while in a bunch of languages and I have been working on a large performance-intensive (massively multiplayer, VR, and mobile!) Unity codebase for the past year.

My conclusion is that functional programming is still a good idea to the extent that you can do it. Specifically, you should still minimize and encapsulate mutable state, and you should write pure functions when possible. However, the infrastructure doesn't exist to do functional programming efficiently in a lot of ways. Examples:

- Most of the .NET standard library functions over sequences (i.e. LINQ) incur substantial time overhead and do a lot of heap allocation. Writing and using generators, same story.

- Anonymous functions incur heap allocations and overhead which does not seem to ever be optimized out in Unity's Mono runtime.

- .NET's standard library data structures are mutable.

- Most of Unity's API and the libraries people write for it are not functional.

I don't think you would be wise to try to fight these facts and paper over everything with functional abstractions, or you will die of a thousand small performance cuts.
In the old PowerMac you could switch out the CPU. I seem to remember a clone that you could put a dual processor card in also.
the whole desktop line is in serious need of a refresh. at least some new Mac Mini units. it's been over two years now. I bought the mid-range Mac Mini, and it's identical to what's in the Store today.
That whole line needs more RAM, newer CPUs, and SSD across the board. :|
Off the top of my head I can think of a couple:

1) OSX was a viable operating system that was first class in the Apple ecosystem.

2) Laptops and desktops that were actually better than the competition including models geared toward power users.
> in production as we speak

Really?! Got a link? I thought the ISA was still in flux, isn't it a bit early to be making hardware?
Yeah, I couldn't remember the curb weight off the top of my head, but I did remember the 5k gross. It still describes a very sturdy, solid one and a half ton truck with a one ton capacity frame and suspension...powered by a 80-90 hp gas (or 52 hp!!) diesel motor. :-)

Had there been the Oettinger flat-six available in US-market transporters from the beginning, perhaps the minivan market would've turned out a little different....
>> The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it.

At first I was thinking it's ridiculous to consider someone as well part of the problem if they observe a problem and do nothing. But doing something could be as simple as calling the police.
The VC firm is:

NIN Ventures
Silicon Valley Office:
Hero City at Draper University 55 E. 3rd Ave.
San Mateo, CA 94401
(312) 953 0930
contact@nin.vc

Gurbaksh Chahal is listed as being on the Board of Advisors:

https://nin.vc/team.php
So I've shipped a few small games with clojure and unity. GC does come up, but it's very easy to optimize your tight update functions with Unity's profiler.

As for finding answers, the clojure CLR interop is pretty similar to JVM. I spend most my time looking at the Unity scripting docs.
Is there any data on the lucid dreaming aspect of NeuroOn?

What percentage of people have lucid dreaming using it? Are those people experienced lucid dreamer already? Just this aspect alone is enough to gain my interest.

Also how is it for side sleepers? Ever since my motorcycle accident I can only sleep on my side.
History of Programming Languages (HOPL Conferences)
https://www.amazon.com/Language-Complexity-Game-Artificial-I... argues that humans deciphering speech is NP-hard.. so.. good luck.
No, they are profitable. In fact AWS is wildly profitable.
Amazon had a structural advantage built into their more efficient online operations vs. a traditional brick and mortar store.

Regarding your point about probability of creating a monopoly:

"Brishen Rogers, an associate professor at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law who has studied Uber’s effects on the taxi market, said traditional cab companies are clearly threatened by newer competitors, and he expects many more will go out of business as a result.

[Many] lenders, including Citibank, expressed concerns about the effects that “nontraditional ride-sharing companies” would have on the city’s traditional medallion-based business model.
"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/san-franciscos-biggest-taxi-oper...
I hope these devices don't become common in homes. It would be very hard to explain or even decline a friend's or a colleague's invitation to their home, "just because" I don't like our conversations being recorded by these devices.
"In the end." They're still riding high from iTunes and iPhone. I'm personally a fan of Apple, but who knows where this ship ends up.
As a follow-on to the above comment, in AI there is something called expert systems, which is just a set of IF-THEN rules which emulate the reasoning of a human expert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
Learning/inferencing/adaptation not included or required.
>running on 80 or 443 needs root access

Not necessarily:

setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep' your_go_binary
./your_go_binary
OK, if they are so committed, where is OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan support? Why is Safari so behind that it's now called "the new IE"? Talk is cheap, let them actually do something.
Would it be fair to call it a Hail Mary if a technology that isn't ready for the mass market is a potential savior for a company losing $2 billion per year?
I'm not sure, but any implementation needs to be accepted by the vast majority of miners for it to work.
OK, how about "The advancement of the arts, from year to year, taxes our credulity and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end." -- Patent Office Commissioner, Henry Ellsworth to Congress in 1843.

My point was that this impression is human nature and thus suspect.
Maybe you should
The GC upgrade is going to happen when they upgrade Mono, and the Mono upgrade is definitely going to happen, although I don't know if it's going to be before Unity 6. (Source: Unity people have suggested this to me.)
> despite it being cheaper by any back of the envelope calculation for society as a whole.

How is it 'cheaper' to manufacture extra yellow cars and have them drive around aimlessly searching the streets for fares vs. hitching a ride with my neighbour who drives for Uber part-time with the personal car he'd have bought anyways?
So there are only about 100 non-mac development machines in total in the Silicon Valley?
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Oracle is the steward of SPARC, who knows what might happen to it. RISC-V is controlled by a non-profit industry consortium.
And why is nginx safer?
“young workers prefer steady employment to higher pay”
The taxi company I used to drive for has embraced the "ride share" model to allow people to use their own cars. They now also lease plain cars that drivers can use with any of the various phone apps.

They also updated their own phone app to provide all the functionality of the upstarts, but with local staff to deal with problems.

Edit: http://www.taxiwars.org/electronic-taxi-dispatch-v1.0/
conversely uber is much cheaper in uk and sydney, compared to taxis. Much more convenient, and no competitors.
Uber autonomous doesn't have to be better than the best human drivers in all conditions. They only have to be much better than the average human driver in all conditions. This isn't a very high threshold to meet.
They did it! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12891826
What I really want is for my state (SSD, RAM, maybe the CPU, but probably not the GPU) to be easily detachable from my human interface devices (keyboard, mouse, display). I want to be able to use a desktop in one place, then unplug a small unit which contains the aforementioned state (i.e. the equivalent of a sleeping laptop but with no keyboard or display), carry that someplace else, plug it in to a different set of HID devices, and pick up exactly where I left off. And, of course, one possible set of HID devices would be something like a present-day laptop so that I can continue working while en-route. But there is no reason why the business end of a computer needs to be in the same enclosure as the HID, and a lot of reasons why it should not be.

I can do much of this now with a USB3 SSD, but the problem is that there is no way to "sleep" such a configuration. To change locations I need to shut down in one place and reboot in another.
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> I really wanted to say swift is headache and not a good language for Server development.

Followed by a long description about how the ecosystem is young, and not mature enough for server production dev. I don't see how it justify that the language is not good for Server development (it may or may not be, I don't know, but I don't see any point about this in your comment).
Thanks, right now every game tick I check a sort of register to see if any keys have been pressed, held, or released and then immediately call the associated functions to implement the controls. If I'm interpreting what you said correctly and I understood the Naughty Dog presentation correctly (I did see that one!) I guess I should instead add those function calls to a queue and then call them at my convenience?

That makes sense to me, I could split up the queue and send it to different threads to be worked on or perhaps delay doing things in the queue if a frame was taking too long.
I wonder if a problem is maintaining a commitment to the Mac when the computer market is no longer committed to desktop / laptop computers in general. It seems that the world has kinda topped out on what they (we?) need, which is some kind of modestly functioning computer with a keyboard for "work," and a phone for everything else.
>I still don't get it why so many people, probably you included, have trouble understanding this very simple (and well documented in the recent history) truth.

I think the problem is you're conflating a recognition that software needs to get done and shipped with the surrender of good craft. Good craft _necessarily includes_ a recognition that your purpose of an employee is not to write beautiful software, and then to move on to make something good within reasonable time constraints anyway. Not perfect, not without warts or things to improve, but good.

When your chain of command knows you understand your job is to serve the company and not to indulge in impractical engineering excesses, they'll trust you much more and be more willing to give you the freedom you need to do something well. Balking any time they ask for a timeline is not the way to establish this.
It'd be interesting if Apple resurrected the old fan-less Cube design/concept for the desktops:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G4_Cube

The time is right now especially given the age and non-expandability of the Mac Pro.
You could have used those $10m to save hundreds or thousands of lives. It doesn't make any sense to hypothetically spend $10m extra dollars to save a single life.
Do you support non-macOS operating systems?
They will drive slower (than humans that insist second by second to arrive faster).
I have an top end XPS 15 and XPS 13 for personal use and a top end Macbook for work.

The Dell XPS's have some weird Linux issues with the headphones and touchpad using Ubuntu 16.10 which probably will get straightened out at some point as more people use them.

Its irritating but other than that I love them.

Bout 5ish hours battery on both on Ubuntu.
But you can already upgrade your hard drives through the USB interface. Nowadays that's plenty fast enough even for external SSDs. You don't really need SATA any more.
This is exactly what I want. Well articulated.
Yes, but you'll have to build from source right now. We don't have the resources to maintain multiple platform builds right now.

(Sorry about that, I know it's a pain!)
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It can lead to war, absolutely. Will we be wise enough to avoid it? I certainly hope so.
Perhaps the distinction would be between things that are "fundamentally a heuristic with some math behind it" versus things are "mostly theoretically settled with some corner cases you have to worry about"

And neural networks using backpropagation to minimize an error function are definitely the former while the "go to" techniques of mathematics are generally the latter.

I think this is generally acknowledged, in fact.

Sooo it seems logical that students of these modern machine learning techniques should be impelled to "get their hands dirty" with the numericals processes involved since this will add to the data they use to drive the intuitions which allow them to avoid the multiple pitfalls of neural networks.
But they weren't on the brink of death before the iPhone. They were doing very well, selling lots of Macs, and had already rebounded.
Your right... and drive.

I actually upgraded my mid 2010 iMac to a 512GB solid state disk. Made soooooo much of a difference. Literally went from almost unuseable to back to my daily workhorse. I can't remember how much time from power-on to login screen was with the original drive, but ballpark a handful of minutes. Now with the new SSD it takes less than 10 seconds.
I do this with a vertical docked MBP. I mostly am on my own display/keyboard, but when i need to go somewhere i can just sleep it and go.
I'd expect that as soon as those with power to change the law are negatively affected by poorly written laws, those laws would soon be changed.

Most certainly - to exclude those in power from being affected by poorly written laws. See the US Congress, and it's choice to not enforce things like insider trading rules, equal opportunity and ADA compliance on itself.
It's not just Los Angeles that does this. It might sound a little biased, but a lot of these stings are ridiculous. They're framed as a public safety issue, but the reality is they're a revenue generator.

Dallas, TX does the same thing. If you operate an Uber in the city, you're required to go through the expensive city permit process, and if ou get caught w/o the required sticker and plastic card issued by the city, the fine is like $650. No other cities in the DFW metroplex require such a permit, but Dallas has found a nice little revenue stream. They also require a permit for emergency vehicle operators (private services - city employees are exempt) as well. One that is redundant since the State of Texas, and my employer have already performed the background checks that the City of Dallas claims they're doing. Even if I have my emergency vehicle operator permit (which used to be $17 for 3 years and is now $64/year.. up from $40/yr a year ago) I would still have to go and get one as a "for hire operator" if I wanted to drive for Uber.

They claim it's about safety, but the truth is, it's a cash cow.
Thanks! I've not much personal experience of pre-iPhone Apple. I'm curious about why OSX is no longer viable.
What I take away from this is that they've devoted so little resource to Mac internally that people in the know are asking inconvenient questions, hence the need for this article. You don't hear him assuring people about the iphone.
I have tried several different routers and firmwares.

The #1 thing that made accessing the Internet faster was implementing domain level blocking of the top ad and tracking servers at the router level (e.g. doubleclick.net)

OpenDNS/Cisco let's you set this up domain level blocking in about 10 minutes that also covers iOS devices, if you don't want to tinker with openWRT.

Previously OpenDNS would monetize by "hijacking" mistyped domains, but they switched to a friendlier free consumer/paid enterprise model.
I recommend going vegan. Cheap an effective. Thug Kitchen is really good starting cookbook if you can ignore the language. Also you need to be okay with spending time on food preparation.

I'm a reformed meat eater.
Algorithms perhaps. Not necessarily known them all off hand, but at least knowing the existence of a variety of them so you know when to use them.

Of course this can be done with self study as well.
Nowhere in the article is it even implied that "mass surveillance wasn't such a good idea". The author mostly seems bemused that despite a large number of video (and other data) recording systems being available, no one in the local police department was interested in seriously pursuing the case.
They don't have swift in there yet, and it doesn't look like it supports a three way compare, but... http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/c-3/scala
The runway is finite. They have about ~5B in cash on hand and are losing ~3B per year. They are putting on the spending brakes somewhat but revenue will have to take off for their valuation to make sense.

They've already said no more dilution, so that limits new sources of financing. Tick-tock.
Hence Private Arbitration/Investor-state dispute settlement.
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> Since when do hackers bleat about obeying laws and regulations?

Bleat? People would give Uber a pass if they actually created new and innovative technology.

Right now they're much more of a financial services (attracting VC funds) and DC lobbying firm than a technologically innovative company. They have a few (albeit NP complete) interesting technological problems. The rest is mostly legal and finance.

Why wouldn't people complain about companies who try to muscle in with money and lobbying featuring products that are not noticeably superior at all?