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Long gone are the days I am able to spend hours setting up the perfect Desktop themes and window decor for my Fluxbox/xmonad WM on gentoo... Please Ubuntu team, give us an out of the box user interface that looks professional and not so damn cheap... It's a simple thing that has always bothered me. It is so damn ugly. Right out of the box I want a clean, beautiful, theme that I enjoy using and that looks as if it wasn't conceptualized in MS Paint. I ask for a minimalist/clean desktop theme I don't want to change immediately after I see it. I want quality, the kind macOS seems to pull off - professional work! Not like you grabbed GTK1 icons and slapped them on various applications. I am no artist, but I can recognize an eye sore when I see one! And for christ sakes please make it run as if it was actually tested once or twice... Such a vain request but christ.. Just give me a pretty Desktop and a nice terminal window with great decor so I feel like I am on an Operating System in 2017! I mean that ugly fcking purple... JUST STOP THAT! ends petty rant of ignorance
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If they were really committed to the pro market, they'd just release a new Mac based on the cheese grater Mac Pro from 2012.

Instead they have to spend 2 years making it beautiful. Some kind of unique design. As if the reason I want a high end desktop is so it can look good.

By all means, go work on something spectacularly beautiful. Take all the time you want. While you're doing that, how about a basic tower with some fast chips, fast graphics, a boatload of memory and a some ports and a big fan. You know, a computer as opposed to a fashion statement.

What a bunch of buffoons.
With fair regularity I notice something that, if I shift my perspective just a tiny bit outside the one I've been encouraged to use, reminds me that we kind-of live in a horrible 80s sci-fi dystopia, just with a sleeker aesthetic and way fewer(!) rebels/"hackers" living the free life and fighting The Man.

This time I didn't even need to shift my perspective.
This is PR triage, its good they are doing it, but why in earth did it take them so long. Apple made a wrong turn when they tried to be a lifestyle company first and technology company second, hopefully they get it turned around. I still think Tim Cook is out in 2.5 years.
Not a defense, but I am guessing they are waiting for the next set of Xeon processors on Intel's roadmap. I understand Intel has announced 2018 Q1 for a group of processors.
Metal and OpenCL frankly feel like something Microsoft would do. Advertise a custom whiz bang API and then quietly drop it after 3-5 years due to churn in middle management fiefdoms.
no #$@%^$ way - i have people i love more than life itself depending on me (which includes _being_ there). cleared my mortgage and can treat it as a sabbatical? sure, why not.
There are, I'm certain, many people impersonating Donald Trump on Twitter -- after all, his account goes out of its way to specify that he's the real Donald Trump.

The same is certain to be true for high-ranking members of his administration. The same is true for, I'm sure, quite a lot of members of Congress. My list of fake Supreme Court justices on Twitter unfortunately is down to just the fake Scalia who tweets from beyond the grave, since the other former members apparently went inactive or dropped off the service.

And it's not just the current government, either -- there's a Richard Nixon impersonator on Twitter who's been known to do some pretty biting commentary on current affairs.

And many of those accounts "spread political propaganda", if by that you mean "express and advocate for views contrary to those of the actual people the accounts impersonate".

Would you advocate that they all be rounded up for their vicious, heinous, nation-threatening crimes? Also, when did expressing a political opinion become a federal crime?
Yes, anytime. I have done that when 20, 26. Now I gain strength, experience, and maturity from a beautiful wife, a wonderful son. We are expecting our next son soon in 6 months. My parents come and stay with us too. It's a big family for me. And, I will risk my job and start a company, because my family and my work are totally different things for me. I can afford to fail in one and try again, and again. I will prefer not to fail in another and instead draw strength from it. In more tactical terms, as an individual, you will have to become better at planning, prioritizing and ignoring it non-essential things when you are 35 and have a family.
You make a good point, and can appreciate the strategy if this was the case.
I heard a video from Vivek Wadhwa that empirical studies show that majority of entrepreneurs are above 35. I cannot find that video but here is an article that can put your question in perspective. It is old but I'm biased to think that empirical studies won't be any different now (likely more supportive).

[The Truth About Entrepreneurs: Twice As Many Are Over 50 As Are Under 25 | PBS NewsHour](http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/the-truth-about-entrepre...)
"Joining an autonomous hunter gatherer society obviously isn't possible now, because they doesn't exist."

Yes, they do, even now. Of course, they're so inconsequential on the world stage that you don't hear about them much, but yes, they exist.

Now, you have the problem that they probably won't accept you, and will probably eventually try to kill you if you seriously set up next to them and start truly doing the hunt-gather routine.

But then, that's the authentic hunter-gatherer experience too.

(I don't believe the garbage about how peaceful they supposedly were. It is logistically ludicrous.)
True, but there are some kinds of data that people are still uncomfortable sending to Google. Medical data is considered especially private, and aggregation of medical data is a huge obstacle to improving treatment using ML. I think this could be really huge in that space.
I meant : you 'THINK' you have a brilliant idea and you 'THINK' you have the capability to execute it. But why do you say they would quit very quickly when they are so confident ? Can you elaborate ?
You mean users like Leslie Jones? https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/440339119239991296
https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/564664734268411906
https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/755218642674020352

You're right, not handing over user info of somebody who opposes the president is a lot like not banning users who actively post racist, hateful bullshit.
True enough, but so what? Who among us will claim that monetary success is not based on circumstance? Certainly not me.
I know quite a few people who started companies successfully that were far older than 35. The idea that entrepreneurship is only for the youth is a Silicon Valley fantasy.

Save up a financial cushion and go for it, at any age.
From the same site that reckons MH17 was shot down by the Donetsk Peoples' Republic?

Probability of Russian trolling: >80%
There is no moral courage in defending people who advocate for destruction of others' liberties or lives. Why should others suffer existential anxiety so you can feel good about your inclusive attitude to speech while doing nothing to uphold their safety?
I would say the simple answer is yes, of course I would risk my day job to start a company after 35 if I had a brilliant idea and capability to execute. I did in fact.

The follow up questions are, what are the real risks?

Some people seem to be making an assumption that there is more risk as you get older. Risk isn't so cut and dry. Certainly you may have more risk as it pertains to your family. By the time I was 35 I was married with kids and a mortgage. Certainly there is more risk of changing your retirement. By the time I was 35 I had more money going towards retirement as well as retirement funds collected. By starting a business I was significantly risking those things.

Some people also make the assumption that young founders make better founders. By the time I was 35 I had worked for many companies and corporations, large and small. I had learned quite a number of business rules for myself and I had come up with a set of rules and patterns that worked in business. At 25 I did not have those experiences or that knowledge at all. I thought I did, of course, but I did not.

Over all I felt it was much less risky at 35+ to start a business and leave the day to day. But that was for me. I also found no problem at all jumping back into a day job if a business didn't work out. So it hardly seems like a risk at all.
Is there any good paper on Consistency Models across different Network Partitions types?
Family is just one of the reasons. What about the fact that you already have a strong network built inside the company, you've a respectable position within it, and outside on your own, you could just end up being a nobody. Doesn't those things factor in ?
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Job? Yes. Career? No.

Starting a business can be great for your career!
Considering it's the fastest selling MacbookPro ever I'm not sure this article makes sense.
Hahahahaha

Me.
Interesting response video from Martin Shkreli, who is mostly known for his EpiPen scandal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HROHxpDE6Dw
You're right about Shared Workers not being needed for this, but just to continue going off on a tangent...

I think a polyfill would be pretty difficult. First you have to make sure only one tab starts a Web Worker. Maybe that's not impossible, but it's tricky. And then the real difficulty... when the tab that spawned the Web Worker closes while another tab is open, you'd need to spawn another Web Worker in that tab and copy the state of the first Web Worker to the second Web Worker before the first one is destroyed by the browser. Not sure if that's possible.
Obvious design flaws:

1. it's really ugly

2. can't glide if the power fails
That's an interesting article. Thanks for sharing !
Efficiency? Not sure how one measures fairness.
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You can't blame Tim Cook for that. In my eyes, Apple started being a lifestyle company with the release of the original iMac. I remember how much people complained about the lack of upgradability and the lack of a floppy drive. Deja vu...

I think the transition was complete with the release of the iPod and iTunes and the way they advertised it.
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Your right of free speech ends at the point where it reduces my safety. We do not have unlimited rights of speech, and for good reason. To paraphrase Justice robert Jackson, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
This is false. She directed her followers to attack him, not the other way around.
US was openly funding and training rebels as early as 2013:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-cr...

And the US had been covertly funding the opposition for at least 5 years before the war erupted:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2011/0418/...
Not only that, but I think that Apple is feeling the Pro user backlash and are really trying hard to say "sorry, but there is something awesome in the pipeline" where the pipeline is a few months old at most.

It takes a while to get a product to market and this would seem to answer most of the criticism the pro market has had with the mac pro so far, the macbook pro is a different beast.
> I suspect most people who actually want a Mac Pro don't care if it's ultra compact or a mid-tower that sits on the floor.

I think you're making the oversimplification they raise in the article about grouping all of the different pro users archetypes into the idea of "the pro user". (Some) developers might not care, but other pro types especially that make heavy use of peripherals certainly do.
Good grief, what a bunch of self-serving piffle.
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This is a video of a pattern recognition engine I've been working on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHNdIuBJHTo&feature=youtu.be

It is able to learn new patterns even if there is a lot of noise. Currently because of the lack of computer power it is only able to learn very simple patterns. With enough computer power I think I could use video to train it.

About the architecture: The pattern recognition engine is a hierarchy of nodes. Each node is responsible for a small field of view, similar to a neuron. Because the input image can be broken up into smaller pieces for processing it is very easy to process it in parallel with multiple computers, which should make it quite fast. Unfortunately I do not have the resources to build a cluster of computers to test the speed so right now this part is just a theory.

I was going to submit this as part of my application to y-combinator but unfortunately I did not complete this prototype on time. I may try to apply for the next one or even do a kickstarter if I can drive enough interest.

Please let me know what you guys think.
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The idea that someone can both equate this situation and Milo's AND do so while mocking someone else's point as not good is stunning to me.
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It's getting so ridiculous, and I'm sad it's leaking over to Hacker News. People have become so delusional from their outrage over Trump's election.
Is it possible to do client side? I'd rather download the db and match it locally than ship my genome to them.
So it's Google Wave for machine learning?
You already have e. coli in your gut, adding some with a diagnostic feature is not changing your biome any more than eating a yogurt.
Yea this is sort of a relic of the initial VM architecture we landed originally in Ember 2.10. That architecture was more like Clojure e.g. read -> compile -> execute. So the nested arrays are seen as sub expressions. You are correct this can be linearized.
No it isn't. Hate speech proposes reducing freedoms for other people on the basis of their essential characteristics rather than their opinions.
How about the one whom he was banned for "harassing"?

https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/463074782205190144 https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/440339119239991296 https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/504060745026637825 https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/169001733417213952
https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/755218642674020352
Wouldn't the Streisand Effect require that the government asked twitter to shut the account down, rather than just reveal the identity? What suppression is happening here (beyond wild speculation)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence
I thought it was impersonating a federal agent in the line of duty that was a crime, ie it would not be a crime to claim that you work for the USCIS at a party, but it would be a crime to claim you work for the USCIS and demand to see someone's green card.
To the contrary: neither is directly involved. Neither the US nor Russia have troops on the ground in Syria.
Personally, I feel the most undervalued skill to being a successful entrepreneur is being comfortable with a low personal burn rate. If you can navigate that, starting a company at 35 is actually an ideal time, since you have savings, potentially a significant other to support and provide health insurance, and business contacts.
In a decade? Lol. This is being used today, right now, in many different forms. Trust me on that. Especially in the security field. The idea that Google just magically discovered this is cray cray. That being said, their contributions are hugely welcomed.
Remember Stagefright? What ever happened to that? The bloggers promised us all an impending Android security armageddon (and you didn't even have to be on the same WiFi network as this one requires). According to Google's SafetyNet, that gathers telemetry from over 1.5 billion devices, not 1 occurrence of Stagefright has ever been seen in the wild. Think about that for a second.

It turns out developing an exploit, chaining it with other exploits to get around the Android security mitigations and then trying to make it work on devices running different OEM builds of Android was more difficult then people originally thought.

Moral of the story? Next time you hear horror stories about how susceptible your device is to an exploit just remember Stagefright and what a dud that turned out to be.
Oh, so Milo was given due process in a court of law? Why don't people mention that detail?
I didn't study before interviewing at Google, nor Microsoft, nor anywhere else I've ever worked. The whole idea is foreign, so I'm struggling to understand where this expectation is coming from.
Other than the appearance, a great deal of the design goes into cooling and noise reduction. Many Macs can do quite a bit without spinning up a fan, and the more powerful machines usually have more complicated mechanisms to make this possible.

Yes, it's easier to do all of this with a bigger footprint, but Apple has a hard time pleasing people with the Mac Pro regardless of which direction they go, and at this point I don't think they would win over many fans by pushing out a standard tower.
It's an example of Apple's designers having more power/authority/influence over their engineers.

Apple's earlier iphone & ipod cables are a more common example of this. They broke regularly because they were built to a design spec, not an engineering spec.
Important to note that applications and processes follow a trajectory from stationary workstation to portable over time. The applications and processes that you can afford to run on your portable today are the ones that you could afford to run on your stationary workstation before.

When new laptops come out, the software people run on them is often the software that they previously could not run on laptops.

If they cut off the flow of new desktop applications, there will be nothing impressive to run on the laptops on launch day.
Right. Free Syrian Army has fixed-wing aircraft.
What makes you think Metal has been dropped?
That's quite anecdotal. It might be true and work for you. I'd then ask if it's the general rule that maintainers being helpful to people who have more to learn is causing lots of problems. I doubt it given the huge ecosystems with beneficial results that came from software catering to such people.

Now, it might be quite different for those focusing on extra-high quality, reliability, or security. These seem to take a certain minimum amount of skill or determination. People being too nice might bring in people that are purely a drag. You and I both seem to be in that boat a bit. So far, the best path has been filtering out the chaff plus inviting skilled people or mentoring those with aptitude plus desire to learn. I'm sure I could learn more on people side to increase my effectiveness quite a bit. Like you, though, I need a certain baseline to be effective at the levels of success I want with the kinds of people that follow my work. Even if I was nice, the others would tell them off just to prevent damage from being done. Maybe nicely and with tips but the effect is still the same.

The problem when it affects communities with higher focus on narrow tech or high quality is worth further research by people interested in this stuff.
There's also a small screen in the Mini just in front of the steering wheel that displays speed, gas warnings, etc. I exclusively use that.
>but I do not understand why releasing a high-specification desktop computer requires a year or more of design and planning.

You are VASTLY underestimating the planning/engineering/marketing/design/fabrication/logistics/etc. that a multi-billion dollar company undertakes to bring a new product to market, especially one whose brand is built (in large part) on design. Just rolling out something we've seen before isn't going to happen and even then it's not something that could happen quickly.

It's really just that simple.
Google is building a google cloud, that is they try to use the hardware of other people, instead of other people using Googles hardware.
I implore you to respond to drakonandor's comment. Please just address it and help me understand how their point isn't valid instead of going silent, because I don't want to believe that people are actually willing to face blatant hypocrisy and simply shut their minds and mouths because it challenges their worldview.
I've always been curious about this. I don't have a mortgage yet, but people always refer to it as a hindrance. But what confuses me is that rent doesn't pay itself either. Why is a mortgage more of a hindrance than rent?
The first iPod even.

"It doesn't even have a memory card."
Laugh out loud. This was the premise of what we were doing 24/7 last year. I really really doubt we were the only ones doing this. Anytime you have highly valuable data that you can't share specifically but want to share the aggregated ML results of, this is how you do it.
I think the problem is that aside from a handful, they are not known. It's like saying you're only going to copy the parts of a program where bit errors are known to cause problems.
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> I think you're making the oversimplification they raise in the article about grouping all of the different pro users archetypes into the idea of "the pro user". (Some) developers might not care, but other pro types especially that make heavy use of peripherals certainly do.

Be that as it may, the fact remains they could satisfy a contingent of the Mac Pro consumers in very short order if they delivered a traditional mid-tower case with modern-day commodity hardware components. Basically a Hackintosh that sits in an unremarkable but cleanly-designed case with internal components that Apple stands behind with tested drivers.

A mid-tower Mac Pro is not some daring untested platform. It's what they had prior to 2013.

If a segment wants a Mac Pro Mini, then maybe that is something to sink a year or more into.

Flipped around, the unnecessary grouping they are doing is insisting that all Mac Pro consumers wait equally long for features that are (apparently) time-consuming to design and engineer. Yet we know from evidence directly in front of us that a segment of "pros" would immediately purchase a refreshed cheese-grater Mac Pro.
Not surprising given the reputation of Daring Fireball to be an Apple fan boy.
As a Syrian-American who voted for Clinton, I am incredibly happy that Trump has shown resolve where Obama failed to.
This may not directly cause the downfall of the abominable Assad regime, but at least it will make Assad think twice before using chemical weapons again. Hopefully, it will be followed by safe zones and arming the Free Syrian Army.
Yeah it's pointless to even use that methodology when the psychoactivity of LSD is already well documented, and the effects are self-evident to the user. It might be appropriate in a microdosing trial or something but not in one where an active dose is being administered.