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I would like to point out that their research seems lacking.

The industry is not "moving to one big GPU".

The industry has already moved to 4, 6, or 8 "big" GPUs per station/node.
Not quite. You still (in my experience) need to go through obscure web-forms to avoid having gmail/hotmail black list your domain. And even then gmail is way too aggressive with its spam labeling. I've seen replies to an email thread be marked as spam by gmail when the sender is in the recipient's address book.

Gmail considers anything beyond big corporate email providers as second class participants - and so does the other big providers.
You can claim that it's very stable but the ecosystem (support, tooling, community, etc) is simply not there yet to make .NET core one of the most attractive techs in the market right now.
Yeah, I realize how shortsighted I was. Perhaps adding a caching middleware along with what I learned fom you guys would be a good exercise (and follow up post).
For me it was just too much work to keep it up to date. But then I don't have the big power requirements, but really need/want a separate monitor. These days I probably could get away with a Mini.
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FOSS != GPL.

Saying the linux foundation is "[n]ot a Friend of Desktop Linux, the GPL, or Openness" because they published a piece that is negative about the GPL is sensationalist and absurd.

There's a legitimate debate to be had about copyleft vs. less restrictive licenses, but articles like this aren't helping matters for GPL - all they do is strengthen the image of copyleft advocates as being extremists who are detached from reality.
Sounds a bit like Space Station 13.
I wish there was more discussion of the core reason for Climate change - our massive population explosion.

The world population has doubled in the last 30 years.

Instead, we argue over the symptoms, spend billions on things that won't make any difference, rather than understanding the cause.
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Banks and credit unions generally use Chexsystems, which is for banking history not the credit score from the three companies you'd usually think of.
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As soon as you understood something, it does not seem complex anymore. But before you understood it, it was a mystery. So what is it that you now think is obvious but where others (in particular, your former self) struggle with?
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Great. Now they need to reintroduce a MBP with top of the line specs and without the stupid touchbar.

Snark aside, I have a mid 2010 mac pro at home that is still going strong (due to upgrades, SSD, more RAM.) However, I would like to get a new GPU for the machine, but I'm not about to spend $500 on a better, but ancient GPU that's compatible with a 7 year old machine. I've been wondering what my upgrade path would be. No way in hell I'm buying a trashcan mac without any upgradability. And I'm certainly not going to buy a MBP with the touchbar (I need a real escape key) and under powered specs.

I'm really hoping this is true, otherwise in the next year or two I'm going to be seriously considering building a PC like I used to and deal with Windows 10. The rest of my family uses apple and it makes support for their devices easier being on the same platform, but I need better performance for photo editing and audio production.
We already have "aimbots" for rocket and mortar defense.
"I don't think that strongly conservative southern voters would be thumbing through a Nature publication in their free time like a liberal intellectual might."

That sort of tribalism is the root of the problem.
I'm not convinced GDP is what we want per se. It's a secondary indicator of what we want, but it's also possible to boost GDP by inflating asset, debt, and investment bubbles, and otherwise moving money around un-productively or even counter-productively. This is particularly true in the short term.

What we want is productivity, development, and innovation. Those are primary things that like "good science" in the academic case are not easily distilled into simple measures that can be set as targets.
Transaction costs (both the explicit "we take a percentage" kind, and the hidden ones like the risk of being ripped off) are pretty significant, so no, not really.
GPL doesn't "taint" codebases. It is deliberately applied to code by the people who write it, knowing what it is. It's not an inferior version of a BSD license. It's a different license.

If you don't want your hard work to be swallowed up into some company which profits from it, doesn't make its changes available and ultimately develops a competitor that the original cannot legally use improvements from, a BSD license won't help you with that. If you don't care, then there are any number of choices.

Other licenses you mention are also complex and haven't been tested. Licenses in general, not just GPL, are harder than people think. When it comes to lawyers, you get what you pay for.

It's revealing at the end that you say "no one wants their hard work to become a derivative of a smaller project they pull in." The size of the project doesn't give it special entitlements. Why are you pulling in someone else's code if you don't intend to respect the license set by the person who wrote that code? That sense of entitlement to exploit other people's work without reciprocation (because you're bigger?) is the problem creators use the GPL to address.

If you want to build a community that isn't based on the crumbs that some company (like Nintendo) allows to fall, and you don't want that to be subverted by free riders who use your code to compete with you without letting you use theirs, GPL is a better choice.

But if and only if it is your code, it is your choice what license you use. Note that in the real world, people are constantly attacking GPL and harassing people who apply GPL to their own work, but the other way is not happening. We should respect the licenses applied by creators to what they create.
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My wife is from a small town in Mexico where there has been a recent surge in violence and kidnappings. Her family is there and we go visit once a year or so as we can. Last time I was there there was a couple of moments that made realize I was just waiting for something terrible to happen. I worry I (as the American) am painting a target on my wife's family. Every time they call unexpectedly I fear for the worst. Right now, I'm not sure if we will go this year.
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Just a quick update, because I forgot this in the original post: we are looking for employees that are able to work onsite with us, in Frankfurt am Main. At least for 3 days/week.
Reasonable assumption to make for someone named Gabe?
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Also my main take-away. You could think people are misinformed, and scientists speaking up louder could help, but I think ignorance might be an excuse people use to explain their inaction, otherwise you have to recognize that although climate change worries you, you prefer to keep it at the back of your head because it complicates your daily life too much.
Tl;dr Theatrical announcement of minor spec bump followed by undescribed future replacement product in the next 18 months, for a widely disliked and stale product makes front page of hn.
Dubai. Yes, not actually in Africa, but much closer to the area and relatively stable. Also, there's plenty of activity going on in the Middle East that would justify this (I think).
A side channel of an extremely low bandwidth... 5-10 bits / hour?
Probably want that in-line, as a clickable link:

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids.html#What1
I don't know about Basecamp but Gitlab's salaries are about 60% of my current base for SF, and go down for less expensive locations that I have already considered living in. These locations cost about 66% of my current situation (I commute into the City from about a 30 minutes train ride). I'd have to move to a place that resembles a rube filled backwater by comparison for break-even.
For me it was the finding that mathematics is quite arbitrary. There is no deeper meaning in using functions, sets or logic, it just seems to work. These still are just models of the world for us.
Me. I don't even have an account on it.
When you start getting into Hackintoshes or running non-OSX operating systems on Macs (aside from Windows and Boot Camp), things can get iffy in some situations. That list is pretty nasty, though I'm fairly surprised someone got the damned Touch Bar working for Linux.

But if there's one good thing at play, it's that there's a fairly active community that tries to tackle these problems.
Sure, but it will lead to a solution where only top programmers at highest positions get visas? I mean, I can see the logic why some people would want it that way, but surely, there's value to be provided in hiring someone at a junior position and growing them from there?
"That kind of work is degrading even for the engineers who don't get any raises, are overworked and have very few benefits. But this is how things are."
My sister recently completed a coding boot-camp in NYC but had to go back to India to work as a software developer at a startup for $12,000 / year. She would LOVE to be 'degraded' by a 65k-70k job.
From the hot, sweaty dreams of most developers. If Apple adds a decent discrete graphics chip to their pro line, I believe Dell, etc sales in this segment will crater and a lot of developers will just stop using windows. Thats really bad in the long term for MS and Dell, etc becaues those users are not coming back and are the ppl that others ask about what laptop to buy.

For some reason, the big laptop manufacturers refuse to make this laptop. Smaller ones can't afford the chip volumes to make them.

The closest thing I've found is the MSI gs73 with the nvidia 1050ti. The issue: they put a regular mechanical drive is instead of more battery, which gives it a mere 2.5hours of battery. :<
There is also currently a bug where you can't connect to an amazon echo via bluetooth [0]. I suspect it is a bluez issue or pulseaudio, as it happens across distros, but it does make me feel quite sad that it is this difficult.

Reminds me of how much of a pain printers could be and scanners can still be..

[0] https://askubuntu.com/questions/871630/cant-send-audio-to-am...
> I don't roll my eyes at people who tell me carrots are healthier than potato chips, even though I don't really understand nutrition or digestion. There's nothing wrong with trusting experts.

Nutrition is a specially bad example. There are plenty of studies that are overhyped and make crazy claims about why some food is good or bad for you, but the are not reproducible, have a small sample number, barely reach p=0.05 using p hacking. And a few weeks later you can read a equally bad study with the opposing conclusions.

For example "I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here's How." http://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-choco... It's a bad study made on purpose, but the problem is that many studies have the same bad methodologies. Are eggs good for you? The food pyramid?

Nutrition is a good example of a field were you have a very complex system and you can´t make very controlled experiments, so it's very difficult to make reliable measurements.
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I really shouldn't be discussing these sort of things on the internet, because I know we're never going to reach any kind of consensus. But...

Can you please provide some references to peer-reviewed research that show terrorism is fueled by immigration? Also, what kind of interventions are you talking about? Please be more specific, and remember to cite your sources.

Your answer to people being oppressed and persecuted seems to be that it's not a problem, as long as it's not happening in your country. Or maybe just that it's not a problem to you, as long as it's not happening in your country. Is that correct? If I'm not correct, then please explain again how nationalism is going to solve these issues?
Not to say that individual engineers can make large impacts at that scale, cause hell a million for a do change seems large. That being said, you were on a team of 3 that drove 100 million in revenue, so you didn't have that large an impact as a single engineer, and your other example was something that was assumed based on 8 year old data, and the impact didn't exist when actual measurements were taken.

I'm still having a hard time believing that a single person created 100 million in value for Google for a product that isn't currently being sold. It seems more like a result of a price war for self driving car talent as companies are scrambling to try and take the whole self driving car market before anyone else
The "debate" means "a formal discussion on a particular matter in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward and which usually ends with a vote."

If 95% of the scientists of the whole world agree the global warming exists and is human caused, that "formal discussion" is really over since 1990. Since then there was no debate if. You can read the results of that discussion in the IPCC reports, the last summary here:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_SPM_...

If you mean that the politicians would like to "debate" between themselves "what to do about it," they sure do. But they shouldn't be allowed to doubt all scientists of the world. It's criminally irresponsible, considering the potential dangers.

It's also extremely simple in basic principles: without naturally occurring greenhouse gases, Earth's average temperature would be near 0°F (or -18°C) instead of the much warmer 59°F (15°C). More greenhouse gases, the higher the temperature on the surface. The same way you cover yourself with the blanket, under the blanket it's warmer, not because you produce more heat but because more warmth stays under the blanket. It's that simple, as simple as wearing the coat not to freeze in the winter, and unbelievable that somebody can be manipulated to doubt it.

P.S. Surveys of scientists' views on climate change (to answer the question to this post):

https://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-scientific-conse...

But they are of course less important than the IPCC which is official, worldwide and in the agreement since 1990.
I wouldn't mind a slightly smaller cheese grater truth be had. It's a heavy beast of a machine and takes up a fair bit of space. Although it doesn't really move much and I don't notice it too much sitting next to me. Top specs and upgradability are my top feature requests.
> So while one could argue that they are "protective" because they protect the rights of future users, one could also argue they are "restrictive" because they remove the right to add restrictions - which is, itself, a right!

While true from a local perspective (how many actions can you perform over this snapshot of the code), you're missing the systemic point of view.

Every time someone adds an additional constraint over their released copy of the project, they're killing off every possible action that downstream users would have made starting from it.

Imagine for a minute that Webkit had been licensed as BSD or MIT rather than with the protective LGPL, and Apple had released Safari with a fully proprietary relicense. In that case, neither Chrome would exist nor any of the other modern non-Firefox, non-Trident browsers (which depend on the cleanup performed by Apple over KHTML). The share-alike clauses of the LGPL guaranteed that Apple didn't have the option to restrict use of the software, creating a whole world of possibilities for anyone starting from their improved version, that wouldn't exist otherwise.

I'm not saying that a project under a share-alike license will always have more actions available overall; it depends on how the project is adopted by their community of users. But counting only the restrictions imposed on any particular snapshot of the software misses the forest for the trees.
I lived in Tequisquiapan for a few years which is pretty close!

Didn't expect to find someone on HN living in El Bajío. :)
If ARC is a concern, I wasn't sure how they will work on Android whereas SCADE.io use Swift to compile native app to Android and iOS is more production ready with Swift built on LLVM and Clang.
Maybe I've been lucky but implementing DKIM, DMARC and SSL SMTP support seems to have been enough to make gmail happy (I even get the small "lock" icon in gmail inboxes as a bonus).

I've used one of the many blacklist check websites to test my domain and only ended up with two false positives which I've rectified through their web forms.

It was mostly smooth sailing from there.

Note that this is using a dedicated server as a host, a while ago I tried the same thing from my home ADSL (with a static IP) and that was a pain since those "home" addresses are generally blacklisted by default since people tend to assume that emails from those addresses are sent by compromised computers.

Nowadays I know many ISPs even block port 25 by default so that's not even an option anymore.
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As a conservative, I can tell you that left-leaning politicians will not be effective at combatting climate change so long as they are up against a right wing obstruction machine.

(For the record, I am stuck between supporting crooks and hacks who claim to be conservative, and supporting liberals, and so I'm backing liberals for the duration.)
I know them, but those startup names are hardly household names even in Sweden.
I don't understand the minus points here. Did I piss a bunch of people off?

I genuinely loved OPs comment here (gave it an upvote). So instead of saying "woman" here If I just "assumed" he is a man and said congratulations "man" or "bro" would I get plus points?
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I don't think anybody disputes that the GPL is viral and restrictive. The debate is about whether or not that's a bad thing.
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That is it, and the ability to use the data to start offering sharing options with either discounts or priority pick up to make people ride share when capacity is full will be a massive change ("we're seeing high demand; you can wait 10 minutes for a vehicle to yourself, or a ride share can pick you up in 5 minutes"). There are plenty of times where I know it will take time to get a car because of demand, and would happily share if it meant I'd get picked up sooner.

Smoothing that out, so that you come to expect a car to be available very rapidly no matter what, with only minor inconveniences, may not end private car ownership but certainly will make a lot more people opt for alternatives - I know for myself (I don't own a car) the occasional lack of predictability in how soon I'll get picked up is the one aggravation that occasionally make me want one.
Same I was a huge mac fan, switched during the TiBook era a good 14 years ago used them throughout my professional career (designer, 3D, animation, creative tech) but after waiting and waiting for a pro refresh with Nvidia I bit the bullet and built a PC in December.

I would have been willing to spend several thousand £ on a Mac Pro that met my needs, ended up having my needs met by a PC with a GTX 1080 that cost less than the baseline iMac and within 15 minutes of 3D rendering using CUDA and Octane render I asked myself why I didn't do this years ago and my wallet thanks me.

Now I don't really see the point in going back to Apple, feels like they've only just decided to care about pro users again and this was probably a decision that came out of a meeting where it was 50/50 if the line was killed or rebooted.
I'll second that.

I've had very good luck with my conversion on my old MBP so far. I have a late 2009 kicking around the house, basically a web browsing computer or backup machine if I leave my newer model in the office, etc.

Since I couldn't get the latest macOS on it I figured I'd just wipe it and install a Linux distro- all told I was maybe an hour into the process and had Ubuntu 16.10 running like a champ. The built in Ethernet was a life saver because I had to replace the WiFi drivers and there were a few power settings I tweaked.

A few weeks post install I've tweaked touchpad settings and various other things, except for the WiFi, it worked nearly straight out of the gate, and it was certainly functional immediately post-install.

Known limitations that affect me are pretty much limited to Thunderbolt hotswap (you've got to boot with the TB hardware plugged in), lid close/sleep is pretty finicky (I feel like this has always been the case with every Linux laptop I've ever run), and the iSight drivers for the built in web cam have some issues therefor preventing some smart screen dimming functionality. If I actually took the time to patch the drivers this sounds like it's resolvable but I really just don't care.

Battery life is tough to gauge because it's so old and I didn't benchmark it pre-Linux but I'm getting about 2-2.5 hours out of it while writing code. Obviously not great, but I doubt I was getting that much more w/ OS X. This machine was my daily workhorse for a couple of years, it's got plenty of cycles on the battery. With auto screen dimming or GPU optimizations, this could likely get improved.

Really, the only thing I'm finding now is that I'm not a huge fan of the default Ubuntu 16.10 desktop and I'll probably start hopping distros since it's been a while since I was running a Linux desktop as a main OS.

I would say that from a completely subjective standpoint it feels every bit as snappy in standard use as OS X did and it will likely keep this machine quite useful for as long as it holds together.
you mean No Man's Sky? turns out it kinda sucks
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How about: that the contribution by humans is unclear, that we may be able to resolve issues that do arise and/or that adaptation is a viable solution?
Politicians don't like evidence. Look what happened to David Nutt in the UK.
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It's always Madagascar. Always.
I'd note that the Linux foundation is in charge of more then just Linux, and some of the other projects (i.e. Node.js or RethinkDB) use permissive licenses.
Modular so you can upgrade it only with Apple parts?
really cool stuff!

PS: damned, I had already starred it on gh :D