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This sounds EXACTLY how my impression is after about 2 weeks of non-primary machine use.

!00% agree with the keyboard, I even made a joke about it to my visiting parents yesterday (received no laughs). After working for a few hours on my new machine, jumping back to my old machine definitely feels greasy.

98% agree with touchbar, I wish there was a way to edit the default touchbar view (escape and mini functions). I'd love to have the mini functions maximized so I can have the old hot keys one less click away, but its a minor gripe.

100% agree with speed -- it's been awesome. No worries at all. I don't have as much on my new machine yet but it seems to not get bogged down at all where my last-gen rMPB gets all hot and bothered rather quickly. It also doesn't seem to run as hot, I don't think I've heard a fan kick in yet (it is the winter ;D). I used to run my neural-styles on my last-gen rMBP as it would max at like 60GB (thanks swap!) where my 32GB linux box would tap out at... ~31.5GB. I am dying to run an apple to apple to penquin RNN death match here soon, but... yanno... people need gifts.

RAM -- 16GB is fine, it runs swap off an SSD, life could be A LOT worse. I am not sure how big swap can get but my last machine was touching 60GB under max loads of the RNN.

Touchpad -- it's HUGE and it's AWESOME! I don't have to do that lil finger-shifty maneuver to drag all the way across the screen now. I don't have any palming issues either. It's AMAZING!

Battery -- I saw some weirdness when I first got it, like being stuck at 80% for 3 hours. But it seems to have gotten enough data now to make better calcs on the power remaining. It feels like it lasts a lot longer than my old machine while doing generally the same work (usually local GAE instances, pycharm, chrome, webstorm, bundler watchers, the usual).

Ports -- I got one dongle and have only needed to use it once to test mousewheel events on a standard mouse. It worked great and everything else I plan to upgrade to USB-C and reading the instructions (it's really not THAT confusing guys...)

I am super pumped about my new upgrade and I definitely DID buy this myself (though it's a business write-off I suppose). I was waiting for the next MBP for a new lappy and had plenty of time to make a choice and every other laptop I got my hands on simply didn't have the same build quality or level of standard that this does. I also am not a fan for ultra-do-anything coffee-breath Windows and Linux support is always more trouble than it's worth at times (personally, macOS is my favorite unix-like os flavor by far).
My frustration is more with the reaction to celebrity deaths where people use the death as a means to focus attention on themselves, and how a lot of people seem to think that a magic cosmic switch will turn off on December 31 and they'll stop happening.
> If a computer were able to do Clifford multiplication in a single process

What do you mean by "in a single process"?
I had a similar experience. Two identical looking cables but one was mini display port, the other Thunderbolt. An old Mac Pro could be used as an external display with one cable but not the other.
The intentions behind the first paragraph of the article are undoubtedly good, but it reads a lot like "Boo hoo, I can't engage in small talk with this pleb because I'm too educated for him.".
Behind the scenes tour of Zwift HQ
I haven't upgrade to Sierra but have started having Safari issues after the last El Capitan update. Same you're having - peg out the CPU and bring the computer to a standstill. Once I even had to power off the machine to get things back under control. I've never had to do this before in my 11 years of running MacBooks. I'm getting really concerned with Apple's overall quality. Their competitive advantage has always been they control the entire computing experience from the software to the hardware and they're starting to blow it. I hope they make adjustments before this gets out of hand.
To put this in clearer terms, there's a huge difference between building a model ship on your desk, and building a model ship in a bottle on your desk.

Putting a well-instrumented usable UI together is hard enough without scope creep including doing a UI that's also useable on a phone.
The pythonic (i.e. right) way to write this is:

x = [i * 10 for i in [1, 2, 3]]
The author has an overly narrow view of what constitutes division of labor. Division labor doesn't mean that can't switch tasks or that you can only do a task you were specifically born with the special ability for. Indeed, any system of division of labor has to operate with the sort of adaptability she describes in ants.
awk doesn't have string interpolation, though.

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"Avoid programming languages starting with the letter P except Prolog"
A lot of that funding comes from the federal government. Basically anything involving roads has to come from Washington because roads are so damn expensive to build and maintain.

You'd probably have better luck as a senator.
"But where are all the customer's yachts?"
Seems like holiday sale put Steam completely down
The "r" will very likely be dropped going forward, since the last remaining non-Retina MBP is now no longer produced.
Ahah, nice troll. But I still prefer to both those options the way I do it : I just shop on store's website and ask for delivery. This allows me to have shopping lists that I can use as templates, I can shop any hour of the day and take time to compare products.

Granted, this is especially a good fit for me because I work from home and can receive deliveries any time.
Safeway/Albertson's isn't owned by Kroger FWIW.
This bunch of software is just a godsend for us other hackathon organizers. We used Gavel last time when we went over 1k participants and we really liked how the software worked.

My friend also wrote a script to automate getting data from Devpost (A platform for hackathon submissions)[0] so it would ease the workflow.[1]

[0]https://devpost.com

[1]https://github.com/lappalj4/excelify
There already is: https://github.com/lukewagner/polyfill-prototype-1
What does the _ do in Scala? I've not used Scala, and it wasn't terribly clear from context unless you mean they use _ exactly as javascript uses => (which would seem really weird to me so I'm assuming its different, apologies if that is asinine).
I think this is a myth that gets propogated online without any citations. Giger's "Necronom IV" painting from 1976[0] was the inspiration of the xenomorph in "Alien". Is there any evidence this painting was in turn inspired by deep undersea creatures?

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/H.R._Giger_-_...
Leptin
More like quartered, from what I've read, i.e., reduced by 3/4.

Those gaming laptops which use full-power desktop RAM also weigh 8-10 lb and they STILL have terrible battery life. They are effectively unusable without being plugged in.
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Overflow, memory randomization, and other related topics are sprinkled around the document, but yes, there's not a specific section.
It depends on which Walmarts you shop at. They often have people checking receipts at the doors but you can just walk past them.
"I disagree. It sets up the commenter as a martyr, and indicates they are commenting from an adversarial position."

But why should I, as a responder or moderator, care?

Imagine a comment with 10 statements, 9 are great points but 10th is logical fallacy (in our case, appeal to emotion). Should such comment be downvoted? I think NO, because each comment should be evaluated based on its merits, not its flaws.

"Taking care to limit language that short-circuits reflection is important to constructive, positive discussion."

If you, in the above example, just downvote without commenting, how can the author figure out what he did wrong? It's like a punishment without an explanation - a stupid, medieval idea.
No, it wouldn't. And no, the slightly smaller battery was not "arbitrary". And thirdly, no, it's not that LPDDR isn't available; it's that this generation of Intel CPUs usable in a laptop don't support the current generation of LPDDR yet.

In other words, it's Intel's fault, not Apple's, as posted above.
This would be an ideal opportunity for the other 3 of the big 4 domestic telcos to come out, if they can, and expressly say that they do not have a similar operation. The optimist in me hopes they will, the realist in me acknowledges that they all have programs that provide warrantless access to this information.
+1 for reminding me of the flash editor and keyframe animations!
Hi dperfect,

I'm one of the co-creators of Wick. We're in the process of getting those finished! We'll be tweeting / posting about all of our major updates if you're interested.
One second!

In real terms, does it really count?

A few months back, a friend of mine was so happy when she got on a scale and found that she's lost one pound. One pound!
my previous computer was an HP Elitebook with SSD and 32g ram, and it was a piece of crap compared to my 2015 MBP. Hot, loud, super heavy, no battery life, inelegant.
Formal philosophy is pretty rigorous. Life philosophy not so much. It is a tool to understand the human context, that is why I listed Minsky. Life is not ambiguous, it simply is. The harder you try to interpret it to fit a narrative rattling around in your brain the more confused it may seem IMO. Understanding what can be reasoned about (Kant), and what "feelings" are is important to attempt. We are stuck with a certain mode of existence via evolution. I dunno, I think giving into this surface level crusing of this deep currents never lets you even glimpse a deeper intuition about being human and what we can know.
Yes because the deplyment of the code is the hard stage. rolls eyes

How long would it take to write -- scientists are going through this stage right now and it's taking about 50 years so far. You think a paperclip factory is going to be quicker? Nope. And any smart AI that is being used to design a better AI will take years and will be front page news (assuming non-military) just like any other tech company (funding, profit, getting good hires)

This assumption that the factory is smart in secret and buys more servers in secret and creates code somewhere in secret is just so wrong. It will be dog or dolphin smart at some point and will ask for things, it'll communicate with us.
The problem is that broadly the disagreements are so shallow.

People bounce off a word choice or something in the first paragraph then either stop reading or skim.... then post about it.
How are stories like that of Brendan Dassey consistent with this statement?
You aren't doing your homework here. Top spec on a MBP is not only a 2 TB SSD, four times what you are citing here; it's also a MUCH faster SSD than you can get on that HP at any price. The HP would get trounced in every benchmark available. It also has a markedly inferior display.

Apples and oranges.
I believe the aim was not to repatriate cash, but to help tackle corruption in India, which is endemic, and often takes the form of literally under-the-table cash payments to public and local officials, policemen, and the like. By eliminating high-value cash it means these illegal transactions become less practical: illegal participants must either use larger amounts of less-valuable currency (passing bricks of notes isn't exactly subtle) or use foreign currency (harder to launder). The hope is that people would find it easier just to keep things above-board because all transactions become electronic, logged, and auditable.

Though I'm sure some enterprising folks will find way to electronically launder bribe money somehow - I expect a lot of people to suddenly inherit money from long-lost foreign relatives.
I don't see it either, but I guess people can justify whatever they want to justify.
This is no different than Facebook ads/news feed adapting to your interests and only showing what you like in the hope of maximizing total engagement and retention.

We all know that Google/Facebook/Bing build a little bubble for you and customize results and ads based on your behaviour.
Do any MacBook Pro users like the ability to charge their machines with an external battery?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-22/traditional-2-20-fe...

It's unusual to pay the sticker price.
I think it is more a case that ports are USB-C, as Thunderbolt 3 can be used via their alternate mode (thanks to Intel).

Thing is that displayport over thunderbolt used half the bandwidth of thunderbolt to carry displayport signals (raw, not coded on top of thunderbolt). This similarly to how you can use USB-C alternate mode to carry displayport. Thus using thunderbolt over USB-C alternate to carry displayport is superfluous to the extreme.
As I've discussed in some of my comments in the past, the only morally principled way to deal with this is simply to say "No." and accept the consequences. It may suck, it may derail plans, or even alter the course of your life. But at the end, thousands of people saying "No." is the only way to stop this.

The US isn't the first country to do this and it won't be the last. It's a sadly hypocritical state of affairs, but not surprising given the way things have gone recently. I travel all over the world, and I will adamantly refuse to give any information about myself which isn't contained already on my passport. The entire point of a passport is to provide the relevant information to determine whether or not to admit me across a border. If that is not sufficient, then I suppose you'll have to deport me and deal with any PR fallout for doing so (if any).
I think for a short name, "creation suite" is fine, but a short description on the page would be handy. The demo does help, certainly.

Looks interesting, anyway, I'll have to check it out to for playing with.
HOW ABOUT A NICE GAME OF CHESS?
I think what the author is trying to get at here is that there is no control system. There is no central brain coordinating things. Each individual ant brain evolved to do different things based on the signals it receives from others. Useful behaviours that lead to a higher fitness tend to survive and progress to future generations of ants.

When you look at the human analogy, the queen doesn't have all the resources and food she could ever need. In human society, we prise those people at the top who convince others to give them resources. Human societies are not equal. They never have been. In fact, equality is a completely human social construct that we must actively and consciously pursue:

http://khanism.org/society/created-equal/
Brexit, Trump, Syria, ...

Even before we approach Bowie it's been pretty dreadful.
I guess you mean the API discussed here: http://sethnielson.blogspot.nl/2008/12/repost-playing-around... (Badly formatted and code is missing)
I did not say that the a machine intelligence mustn't share motivational complexity a la humans. I said that a SAI need not share such complexity. Those are two very different statements.

And to understand how/why a machine intelligence could arise without being substantially similar to a human intelligence and sharing similar motivations, well, I suggest you read the book or similar articles. In short, just because humans are the most sophisticated intelligences of which we yet know, it would be a very callous and unsubstantiated leap to believe that a machine intelligence is likely to share similar traits with humankind's intelligence. If this is unclear to you, I recommend you learn about how computer programs currently work, and how they're likely to improve to the point of becoming superintelligent.

By the way, there are many types of SAI, for example an SAI who's superintelligent portion relates to speed, or strategy, or a few other types.
Isn't that the same argument that so many companies used to hang on to IE6 for so long? There were a ton of in-house applications built on ActiveX and IE6 quirks and porting to something newer wasn't worth the cost.

Eventually, don't you think that you will start using a more modern version of Python?
Not true. Just go listen to the Wrongful Conviction podcast: http://www.revolverpodcasts.com/shows/wrongful-conviction-wi.... People have been convicted of crimes because they confessed, even when the hard evidence points to the contrary.
Out of curiosity, what do you think the horrible ideas are?
Mind Blown
This is why I could just never work in the legal system, at least not with cases like this. My own conclusion from this is that we have no idea what happened and whether or not either of them were actually guilty. Finding DNA doesn't mean much. It means they had some sort of sexual contact, but the question of whether that contact was consensual is still reduced entirely to testimony.
If you sell 5% of Twitter, you won't see much of an action compared to Bitcoin!
Absolutely no evidence for your "theory", which is the same old "planned obsolescence" canard we hear over and over about Apple. Always without evidence, and it always looks silly 3-4 years down the road when, lo and behold, all the machines in question are still working very nicely.

Also, once the market catches up to USB-C, which will take 12-18 months, you'll no longer need those adapters.

Lastly, it's just silly and inaccurate to call the iPhone "disposable", when in fact it leads the industry in terms of how long the product lasts, how long the OS is supported for older hardware, etc. By a wide margin.
For music along similar lines, check out Wes Montgomery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU3OwXyL5R8
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Why aren't hedge funds compensated based on some sort of alpha, the difference from a benchmark? One of the common memes of investing over the last few decades is that no one can reliably beat the market. It's very easy to use an index fund to track the market at very low cost. If I invest in an actively managed fund I want them to be compensated for doing better than I could have done myself.

There are a few advantages to this, in my eyes:

1. They only get compensated for their value, not the rising of the economy. It's terrible for the investor to have an economy that's going bonkers and the hedge fund that's taking 20% of that while not providing their own value. You could easily be doing worse after fees.
2. It incentivises managers to figure out ways to avoid losses. If the market drops 10% in a year, but the fund only drops 5%, treat it similarly to a profit of 5% because that's the value the hedge fund provided.

Looking at any investment gains in isolation is outdated. Investing is easier than ever for the layperson. We need to start looking at the opportunity costs.
>HTTPS keeps your ISP, your wifi hotspot, a dodgy router, or anything else from injecting ads and tracking information into your pages

I suspect this is the main reason Google is so gung-ho about "https everywhere". Because of the popularity of GA, adsense, Double Click, and Google local caches at every ISP...they already have near global tracking. Closing the ISP MITM hole ensures that nobody else does.

Of course, "https everywhere" is good for other reasons, so not complaining...
The weight of one person varies around 1kg each day depending of several factors. One measurement of one pound less doesn't necessarily mean any weight loss. She could have even gained some (minor) weight.
It's interesting that you see just about every permutation of shopping and delivery options out there.

You have online shopping and delivery as you mention. I'd do this more myself if there were a service I liked where I live.

One of the local chains around here started up a "To Go" service recently. You shop online and pick up. I assume the market here is people who can easily drive but may not be very mobile or have young kids that just make it a hassle to do the picking themselves. (My anecdotal observation is this service isn't being used much.)

And this case is pretty much what a lot of markets in cities have been doing forever. (Often smaller markets but I believe Whole Foods does this in some locations as well.)
Either way, your friends will be annoyed..
How much effort should consumers put into protecting their credit card numbers?
The frustration with the neverending 2 vs. 3 transition pushed me to looking at Elixir more deeply and now I am very happy. Of course it is not yet possible to completely avoid Python, but new things are Elixir only for me.

Of course I pray every night to Eris that such a fiasko will never happen to Elixir.
Need 5 seconds for at least one week.

One day is too short, I regularly have to look at the metrics from yesterday to debug an issue that we noticed today and they're worthless because they've been averaged.
Apple has never gone with an open standard when a proprietary closed standard would do.

False. USB 1.
>If you can plug it in, it will work:

Not if there aren't drivers written for your OS it won't. Unless you are the type of person who can roll your own drivers.
They removed it for the announced reason; at least at the moment, it's not accurate. It would be infuriating to display an indicator that is completely unreliable.
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RNN writes poetry: Native Stars
Remember the truck driver with a ~1.4 rating? She said she was a ~4.6 when she was young. That made me think that the technology had been around for awhile and that technology had stagnated.
would've liked if he had gone more in depth into colour theory and applying it to modern app design.
Sounds like a healthy portion to me in comparison to other major software upgrades. The original expectation was about 5 years before the shift started. Seems like we're mildly behind the expected schedule.

After it was released, it'd be only the early adopters for a couple years, then the major libraries would follow a few years after. After 5ish years, the big libraries were ported and the second wave of early adopters could shift over. Now we'll start seeing major enterprises make the move over the next few years. Facebook already made the change, but they're tech-forward.

How many people use old versions of RHEL? Of Windows?
That isn't what I claimed.
Doesn't matter if your just installing Linux on it
At least in the technical would I suppose it's a lot. For example your GPS could be off by miles because of 1 second.
It's a commendable initiative but the real value of AI is in its data. I think about data as memories. The algorithm learns from its memories and creates a map of abstract concepts and behaviors which it uses to make plans to maximize some goal.

Currently in the name of free services the big tech Co's collect petabytes of data about us and learn from it. The data is owned by them.
Isn't it simpler though to just use static HTML + optional Javascript (like we used to in the 2000's eg. progressive enhancement years)? I mean why use M-V-whatever for content-driven sites at all?
I agree. I wasn't thinking about finding a constant time algorithm, though - more of finding an analog circuit that would mimic the behavior. After all, proteins don't actually fold by following an algorithm; they fold by responding to physical forces.
When I started my journey I imagined a program was like a building and I always wanted to build hidden rooms so only I knew how to get there :-) So in my early years I was solving problems that were important for me - how do I ask user for password, how do I hide output when user is typing password, how do I store password so it's not possible to see it (at least easily) - all silly stuff but it was a lot of fun :-)

What does that mean to you? Rather than `to learn coding` I would rephrase it to `learn to solve your problems` - and pick the best tool for the job. Of course `the best tool for the job` will come from your experience, and most likely it will be different depending on circumstances.

So it boils down to you finding funny problems to solve - almost like being on a secret mission :-)
Major steam outage
so Apple, Google all pay full taxes in Cali? all profits booked into HQ?

wow, they're awesome.