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I personally think the iMac has been an amazing all-in-one package. It's simplicity gives it an appeal that has made it a near-perfect tool for casual users who want to avoid the quirkiness of Windows. The iMac also scales up to heavy-hitting design work and I rarely see a lot of complaints until you get to render heavy applications or try to do multi-track and high resolution video editing and motion graphics, which it isn’t really designed to do. But it's an amazing screen and overall it's very capable and well rounded.

The current Mac Pro has some serious flaws though. The concept was neat, but it wasn't proven in the pro market. Video Production is becoming increasingly demanding as camera resolutions climb. Since the release of the Mac Pro, a lot of people started jumping ship and going to Windows.

Today, if you're buying a Mac Pro, it’s probably not because it's an amazing machine, but because you aren't ready to leave OS X (MacOS) yet. That’s is a hard pill to swallow after years of relying on the dependability of the Mac desktop. Maybe they’ll give it a refresh, but I don’t see the tower with PCI capabilities coming back.

As for the Mac Mini, the only thing that was good for was a small server or media center, at least to me. And they abandoned that a long time ago.
I am happy if Uber dies as long as that death comes because of other competitors doing a better job of helping us travel, faster cheaper and by making lesser impact on climate.

It will however be horrible if Uber dies because of government's protectionist (Trump like) regime trying to protect inefficient taxies.

Uber has helped us bring more fuel efficient vehicles as rides, helped us pool rides etc. making travel cheaper yet causing less pollution.
I think your question is really excellent. If you don't feel pressure to eek out the very last drop of marginal utilization, load shedding might not be for you. It may be quite a bit easier to just add 5% more CPU or sandbag your open-loop capacity plan.
Anaphora have been controversial in the common lisp community as long as I have been involved. I imagine the same is true of the scheme community.
I never even considered the possibility. We take ours down so rarely (months in between) that a couple seconds of failed requests are fine. I understand however there are circumstances where that may not be the case.
Oh, definitely true. Apple is always a higher price in general, just as a brand name. It's their intended marketing strategy.

Even within Apple's own product line though, compare what you get with the cylindrical desktop Mac Pro for the price, and stand it next to one of their own laptops.

Then stand the Mac Mini next to them. It's a lower price, but it's uncharismatic.

A game changer for the mac mini might be improved methods of environmental integration. Most of the time I think about better ways to hide it, out of sight, out of mind.

The only thing I want within immediate reach is a power button, and a wall switch (any variety of toggle) would be ideal. Hard wired. An actual button. I press button, it goes on. I press button, it goes off. Not an animated skeuomorphic 16 million color display depicting one. No wi-fi tether. No analytics. No GPS. No chipset. No thunderbolt. No USB. No IP address. No internet of things. Just a god damned switch. On/off. The end.
Better graphics card “Nvidia NVS 310” OR “Nvidia  Quadro 4000”?
I just want to buy a graphics card for my 3D programming (DirectX) which is better graphics card "Nvidia NVS 310" OR "NVIDIA Quadro 4000"?
Ah, you think technical design is governed by technical concerns.

It's fashion, like anything else.
I didn't down vote you, but I did ignore your original comment because it was hyperbolic (bringing up murder and pre-crime). It didn't have any direct bearing (or seem to) to its parent post or the article. If you (and you seem to be) are just genuinely curious about their opinion on pre-crime that's fair, but it didn't seem related, it really did feel like a hyperbolic non-sequitur.
Last year venture capitalists plowed a record $79 billion into startups at often unsustainable valuations
it's especially annoying when your company is selling expensive products to professionals, and then you get a new batch of executives who want to sell watered down cheap versions of the product to consumers who don't need it. they have some vision that you've only really succeeded once you are selling to the masses.
Thanks. The GP's comment "attach the string at, maybe, the equator of earth" is what confused me, thinking the string is attached to the earth, with the weight in orbit.
Earlier I was trying to find some other takes on their output and 1 article mentioned that the plant they are building it at is only running 1 shift, which puts it at 90,000 vehicles per year. It's a mixed line with the Chevrolet Sonic, which probably isn't super profitable. So they can flexibly shift production from the Sonic or they could expand production by an awful lot, but I guess to add a shift they would need much higher sales volume.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-gm-bolt-idUSKBN1300PM

GM has also recently announced that they are idling several plants in January because they aren't selling enough cars.

http://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2016/12...
Meh in Liverpool, UK our local cab firm Delta had an app out before Uber/Hailo were on the scene.

Features were pretty much on par with Uber.
Neat project.
Your comment got me thinking that to tackle driving in rough and ambiguous terrains, like snow-covered or muddy roads, they need better integration of vibration and bodily balance sensory signals into the autonomous driving system.

I wonder if the most advanced autonomous vehicles already have those sensors installed and how well the signals are integrated into the prediction and decision making processes.
I'm fine with no speeding laws. It's not the speeding part that hurts people and causes damage, it's the crashing part. We, as a culture, love to make these second order laws that outlaw not the harmful action but the risky "derivative" of the harmful action. Because some people might crash when they speed, we outlaw speeding. Because some people might hijack planes, we confiscate nail cutters and toothpaste. Because some people might commit mass-murder we outlaw scary looking guns.
Agreed, I have the exact same feeling for this case as well.

"We have so many amazing things in store that I am so excited about" <-- recycled and beaten to death CEO lingo. I mean, he might be telling the truth (I am not gonna argue what I don't know!) but the wording is just awful and comes off as corny and forced by your PR department.

Actions speak louder than words. The new MBPs are the most meh Apple laptops ever. The iPhone 7/Plus are the laziest iPhones ever made, too. Rehashes losing legacy ports and trying to impose new ones (although USB Type-C is the best decision they've made in the last several years; I think they should've went with the same port for the iPhone as well). And losing battery life. Damn.

I was never an active Apple user. I bought my first iPhone and Macbook at March 2016 (the 12" Macbook and the 6S Plus; I sold the iPhone only 4 months later but that's a separate topic). But I did consider Apple because part of the Windows ecosystem -- and the entire Android ecosystem -- are disappointing me a lot lately. I was really curious what will Apple bring with the iPhone 7/Plus and the new MBPs.

Severe disappointment followed. I'll give them until the next iPhone release. If they can't excite me, oh well, guess it's time to sift again through the trash yard that Android has become lately.
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Yeah, but slightly can be high. They had a bit of anti advertising here after 8.9x surge:

http://globalnews.ca/news/2430713/alberta-man-furious-over-1...

Ended up all over the news.

Not sure if Uber caps surge in Canada now.
I think users blame downvotes on disagreement, but in reality it's often badly formed written viewpoints lacking in value or OT.

I think that's often (but not always) the case. That said, I don't know how to convince those who think otherwise. One person's weakly argued comment might be someone else's disagreement. Compare with the Political Detox Week experiment: there was quite a bit of expressed disagreement as to what "politics" means. Or what constitutes civility. Or what's off-topic. It's not only whether the down votes are due to disagreement; it's also whether the commenter perceives the down-votes as such (which is the case of the example I provided).

Edit to add: There will always be some percentage of members who won't agree, and they're more likely to be vocal. I'm not sure how to measure when the optimum is reached (most users feel the system is working as expected).
Spend time: figure out what app, download it (possibly on data roaming), make a new account, use app once, be stuck wuth data breaches forever, and good luck figuring out which one is tracking you all the time and running your battery to the ground.

Uber is not an angel, but at least with one app we have a lot of people pointing out privacy violations. With two (say, Lyft in US cities), there's some choice. If Uber really fails and the taxis end up running the streets again, I don't see any real pressure to make good ride hail / pay apps.
Depends on the terms of the acquisition. From what I've read, they often favor founders and aren't great outcomes for investors. E.g., the windfall is often in the retention package to maximize for the acquirer who has the most leverage.
Not without Lithium-ion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densitie...
I'm confused. The CEO of Persado is quoted as saying "interest rates are low," while the article says that Metamarkets is paying 14% on a loan cut in Oct--for comparison, the Merrill Triple-C-Rated index ("extremely speculative" junk bonds) is under 12%. So while it's true that UST base rates are low, that doesn't seem to be a factor in this funding. Sounds like a story about a few banks goosing earnings with risky loans and company insiders/VCs getting more upside "if things work out" and far less of those pesky loses if they don't, very much like the speculative real estate development loans in the 80s that made for a big but very short party.
I suppose it depends on your investment goals, profile, etc. If you hold the general thesis that "the future" will see continued "progress", increased living standards & more consumers, then it's probably a good bet. If that timeline looks like, say, 50 years (no, I'm not convinced people invest on this kind of timeline, those profits may be too far out, but banks, ...maybe?), then a billion today may be a worldwide monopoly tomorrow. Maybe?
Thank you for posting this!

I've been cooking in one way or another since I was about 10 years old and this perspective has simply never occurred to me. And for the life of me I could never understand why people thought cooking was so difficult.

Suddenly a lot of that makes sense now :-)
Have you bothered searching the incidences of taxi drivers attacking their customers? No, you'll just take whatever is spoonfed to you from the media, I guess.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13211153
Is it possible for x86/x64 to approach the efficiency of ARM over time, or does the CISC vs RISC make that nearly impossible?

I read a while ago that Intel abandoned their mobile chips.
Being part Indian I'm well aware of the different ethnicities. That said, a more nuanced answer likely wouldn't have meant much to someone engaging in whataboutism
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Abandoned but atleast it still works. Can make a new phone number and I can still call US numbers abroad for free.
Is that before or after the government subsidy?
The per-watt numbers may sound great, but these are still apples and oranges energy sources. While there are some area where one can certainly replace the other (electrical grids etc) there are others (shipping) where the gap remains monumental. In terms of energy density (35ish MJ/L) and storage (a box) diesel fuels look to remain king for a while.

One downside of cheap solar might be a drop in crude prices, resulting in its more frivolous use. I'd hate to see improvements in shipping meant to conserve fuel, and thereby lower carbon emissions, be set aside once fuel becomes cheap again. We need to watch for this and, perhaps, get regs in place to ensure it is burnt as sparingly as possible.
The average human driver includes what? Babies? Blind people? Drunks?
I was making a lame joke in the vein of sites that advertise "secure transactions protected by Military Grade 256-bit SSL".
What this image doesn't show: Refactor safety.

When I can include my CSS as modules into my components (which, by the way, is still separated, only now it's completely isolated from demonic CSS side-effects), and when I can TEST my HTML (read that again: TEST my HTML, again, easily separatable meaningfully by utilizing a pure-function mechanism), and when I can use something like Flowtype to identify structures in my code DESPITE the type limitations of Javascript, and when I can do it performantly and brainlessly _EVEN IN_ the slapdash "platform" of The Browser (TM), yes, this is a _huge_ step forward. Don't blame the people who decided to do something about the shittiness of Tim Berners-Lee's overly-verbose and unmaintainable HyperText Markup Language for a solution that doesn't look as pretty as Python.
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imagine this without syntax highlighting.
> IMO, the endgame for Uber is not to raise prices; it is to reduce costs. They're betting the farm on driverless cars.

What special advantage does Uber have there, though? Many companies are working on driverless cars. When that reduces costs, it'll reduce costs for Uber's competitors too.
I've been lucky enough in the general case to either be in charge of system design or have very thoughtful coworkers who are well aware of the burden of technical debt.

Unfortunately I can't babysit every other team and have occasionally inherited some real abominations. Often times it has been worth spending the ~week in man hours to immediately rewrite them to avoid the constant time suck of maintaining spaghetti code down the line.

Often they are a kernel of simple functionality buried in thousands of lines of code smeared across a random assortment of files that can actually be replaced fairly simply once you've sussed out what they're actually supposed to be doing.
Having built an Alexa Skill (a very enjoyable experience) - I find Voice UI/UX to be a very interesting vector in computing with lots of potential to grow.

My colleagues and I built our skill for the elderly to use. We found it was easier for them to interact using their voice rather than a touchscreen.

I think as computers get better at understanding language and verbal communication, we will be able to use screens less - which is great.

I think it's kind of primitive to have to constantly look at a screen to do things - at the very least it makes sense to cut out screen time if and whenever it's possible.

Alexa is like a terminal that you can talk to. Give a simple command in a particular way, and it will reliably do it.

It's an exciting development that Alexa can now be applied outside of the Echo.
No, you'll just take whatever is spoonfed to you from the media, I guess.

Within this thread, your parent has at least provided some support for their position. If you're aware of evidence to support yours (e.g., information regarding taxi-driver attacks or counter to the info in the cnet article), that would be a worthwhile contribution. Dismissing out of hand the commenter as naïve isn't civil.
I think Andrej is arguing over and above the reasons you cite. Not only should you learn backprop because of the same reason you learn to do 2+2, but you should learn backprop ALSO because it's a leaky abstraction.

This is a non-trivial statement, because there are other things which are not leaky. For example, he's not arguing that deep learning practitioners should also learn assembly programming or go into how CUBLAS implements matrix multiplication. Although these things are nice to learn, you probably won't need them 99.9% of the times. Backprop knowledge, however, is much more crucial to design novel deep learning systems.
I use Jekyll for blogging. It's hosted by GitLab pages.

Writing a post with Markdown is fun since I don't need database to store it. Beside that, I also use Let's Encrypt for SSL.
The very premise of the article:

"With fewer companies getting funded these days, many startups are opting to borrow money instead. "

Leaves some serious financial issues.

Generally speaking - if you could raise debt, you wouldn't ever want to raise equity.

The whole point of raising equity surrounds the fact that there's too much risk for debt.

If you can get good terms on a deal, and are not too leveraged, then every VC should be wanting the company to have debt in lieu of equity. Why would anyone want to dilute if they don't have to?

What on earth are these startups using as collateral? Equipment? Receivables?

And given the likelihood of a startup going bust, why are banks even offering debt, at any price?

I can definitely understand a 'bridge loan' for some financial operation - or even holding off for better valuations ... or again, some kind of low-leverage on solid receivables for an SaaS or something ...

If someone has some experience with this, maybe they can chime in?
Earlier this year, the CEO said the top 30 cities earned > $1B in profits for Uber.
The "death of the desktop computers" is greatly exaggerated.

It's simply that a well-built future-proof PC can easily last you 5 years. I have the 2nd generation i7 and after 5 years of usage, I only added 16GB RAM and a better GPU (since I play demanding games). Might add 2x 512GB SSDs but I guess I'll just switch the motherboard and CPU in order to be able to use the NVMe models.

Anyway. The market might have platooed on the profit margins several years ago but that doesn't mean that the PC and gaming laptop branches aren't VERY much alive and kicking, and even gathering steam lately.
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You're missing the sysadmin angle of this entirely. Nginx has amazing tooling around load balancing, configuration mgmt, multiple languages, logging options, rewrite rules, rate limiting, file upload size tuning, HTTP tuning in general, the list goes on and on. What if your site needs to support multiple backends like a JVM app, a wsgi app, and an old crufty cgi app. You gonna write backends for all that shit too in Go?

Sorry but I'm not going to be writing ansible code that modifies structs inside of some program then compiles said program. No thank you that sounds like crazy town. Also other sysadmins and infrastructure engineers will actually know how things work and won't have to go reading the source code for some crazy Go app program at 2am that also is a webserver for some reason?

Separation of concerns, use it!!
While old school PHP might look like this it is not the same thing by far. The code in this screenshot is a stateful component and is supposed to encapsulate all the logic on how it should be displayed in one place.

It is close to a view in a MVC framework than true old-school spagetti code.

But unlike a view component in an MVC framework the stateful components can update themselves automatically when data changes much more elegantly than they could in older systems.

Granted some people write React and include business logic in their components but you're not really supposed to do it that way.
Was more offering a counterpoint for the OP than trying to get argumentative. :) I found his life fascinating, not least as it's very much one that would be too remarkable for the biopic!
"you should seriously be considering looking at your business fundamentals before you are trying to raise funding by other means."

+ They may not have a choice. A lot of things require working capital in one way or another.

"They will gladly step in with their attorneys and carve out any asset they can from your precious company." - thing is most startups have zero in the way of assets. So ... there's not a lot to collect upon. It's not like writing off a mortgage, wherein they can recoup 75% of the loan on foreclosure.

The whole premise of this article is upside-down ... why are startups with limited ability to collateralize even getting debt at any price?

I'll bet that this 'phenom' is happening for a variety of very specific reasons, and that 'debt' happens to be the common instrument, hence the basis for the article. If they broke it down into the various categories, we might get a better picture.
Juno is totally non-viable. Being "better for drivers" is not a competitive differentiator. 99% (including me) don't choose services based on which is "better for drivers."
To put it the other way around, why not care? In NYC Juno is no more expensive than Uber (in fact there's a promo rate on right now), so if I have the option, why wouldn't I choose the option that does best by the person driving me around in their car?

Even if I were entirely selfish it wouldn't be in my interests for them to be stressed and rushing to cram in as many jobs as they can.
There are also millions of wealthy people who go places (even not far from their homes) where there is no internet access. Remember that business is about filling the area under the demand curve. I'd say that "internet everywhere" is a massive opportunity.
Separation of concern or technology? A well structured React application is much easier to understand than something where you need to keep 3 files in your mind at once.
I will go with Nvidia NVS 310.
Agreed. Take the example of people hating XML and trying to reinvent everything good XML already had with JSON and JSON Schema. http://json-schema.org/
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Depends on how fast uber and investors see self driving tech will be ready, no?
As best I can see, Juno isn't trying to aggressively expand to multiple cities like Uber is. They don't need as much funding.
Solar doesn't compete with oil. It competes with natural gas, nuclear, and coal (any fuel with a marginal cost really, except oil, unless you're somewhere remote). And it is winning. [1] [2]

As more light vehicles move over to electric vehicles, we're going to need more clean energy. We should build every kWh of solar and wind generation we can.

> One downside of cheap solar might be a drop in crude prices, resulting in its more frivolous use. I'd hate to see improvements in shipping meant to conserve fuel, and thereby lower carbon emissions, be set aside once fuel become cheap again. We need to watch for this and, perhaps, get regs in place to ensure it is burnt as sparingly as possible.

Well, I mean, that's kinda the whole point of Tesla Motors, you see? Its an electric car, for sure. But its not a Leaf, its not a Bolt, its not an EV1. Its the best damn car you can get. Someone called Katy Perry's stage "The Tesla of tour stages" [3]. That's how you win against oil. We didn't run out of rocks when we left the stone age behind. We found something better.

[1] http://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Screenshot-2014-0...

[2] https://solarpowerrocks.com/infographics/solar-infographic-s...

[3] https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/444228348319784960 "Omg someone just called my stage the TESLA of tour stages... It was like, the coolest modern compliment ever."
Curious on your take; for a component, why do I need the virtual dom diffing?

If I'm working on a component level, it's already granular enough where I can easily understand the changes that need to be made and I can just update those DOM elements myself (e.g. Oh, I should add this class here and update my shopping cart total).

The DOM diffing for small components seems so... heavy handed. "Don't worry React, I got this.."