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Nobody would run a Hackintosh unless they were enthusiastic about Apple's software and Apple in general. Otherwise, why put up with the trouble? I think that most of these people have a long history of buying things from Apple and really are customers. The issue here isn't piracy, but whether Apple is willing to listen to people who use non-Apple hardware. And since Apple's PCs aren't selling all that well, why refuse to consider input from people who love your stuff and can suggest slightly different approaches?

Even people who never bought anything from Apple before are customers by definition the moment they do buy something from Apple. If Apple is trying to make money, it doesn't seem smart to take a dogmatic stance that the money of new customers isn't worth having. Everyone is by definition a possible future customer.

Apple has a long history with tactics like gluing things shut, obfuscating software,
enforcing walled gardens, banning the GPL, and an unusual degree of legal aggression toward people trying to interoperate with their products. There seems to be a well-established groupthink among Apple and its fans that this is the only possible future for Apple.

But when Apple is more extreme on these tactics than almost any company that's still in the PC business, yet is not selling all that well, it really proves the viability of softer approaches. Apple can make money, depending on its execution maybe even a lot more money, by leaving this playbook behind. They could end Windows, taking all their existing fans, and adding new ones. But they can't do it until they can learn some humility from their epic steamrolling by the IBM PC clone market in the 80s and 90s. Apple swallowed their pride about PowerPC and started using the "Intel" from "Wintel" so why does it have to keep re-enacting the anticompetitive tactics from the dawn of the personal computer?

If Apple's products really are the best on merit, it shouldn't be necessary for Apple to lock everything down at a technical level or at a licensing level or to use the law aggressively against people who just want to interact with Apple products.
If half of all patents are known to be bogus then yeah, that'd be a fine deal.
I believe you are right about all of these legal issues, but a very human question remains. If a machine is driving, who decides who dies?

As shitty as the human race is much of the time, people in life or death situations regularly show a lack of self preservation when given the choice between saving themselves or someone else. Human history is littered with countless real, and imagined, heroes that gave their lives to help the species. How does this relate to self driving cars?

A real situation these cars will deal with is weighing the potential death of their occupant vs another person. Humans regularly swerve off the road to to avoid hitting pedestrians and animals. Sometimes they die doing this. If a machine goes on trial for killing a pedestrian rather than risk a 10% chance of death for its passenger, what do we do? A human in most situations would have risked their life to avoid certain death of another, but it's unethical (and nobody would buy) a machine that could willingly sacrifice its owner under any circumstances.

I believe this dilemma is un-solvable. This and similar situations will quickly result in laws that require a human to always be present, negating most of the advantages of automated driving
Disclaimer: If it wasn't clear from the username, this is a throwaway. I don't want to endanger my business by associating my rant with my >7 year old HN account :-(

There is a 0% chance that I would ever purchase a car from Apple with their self driving functionality in it.

We recently had issues with a whole bunch of rejections of our app for reasons that are not clearly defined in their guidelines (allegedly they were "new terms" [not documented]... they pointed me to official documents that didn't match what they were telling me). The functionality that they were rejecting our app for initially wasn't new, followed by several rejections for functionality that had been in the app for nearly 2 1/2 years and had approved numerous times over that span.

I've been waiting almost a month for a phone call that they promised me "within 3 business days" to discuss the App Review issues, and have yet to receive it.

While I think that Apple creates some great hardware, and their end user support is likely better than their B2B support (which is IMHO atrocious, unless you're buying more hardware from them), there is no chance I would put my life in the hands of their product or expect them to provide me with safe travel.
It is for electronic devices. Why someone would think they would do exactly the same model for a car division is very strange.
What about the many sites who legitimately exist only due to minimal ad revenue, and don't abuse ads, allow malware etc?

I'm all for supporting them. Its the sites that pose an actual threat or whose ad:content ration is something ridiculous like 2:3 that are the problem. Esp on mobile.
They don't have any reason to actually care. How does bad publicity hurt them?
"Better than three years ago" is a different measure of success than "better than humans"

Different tasks have different error tolerances. When an MI tool can get within the acceptable margin of error for certain tasks, then there is a possibility for the MI to take jobs.

As long as accuracy is critical to a classifier, in many cases it's better to pay for human eyeballs to look at the criteria.

We're talking about a huge spectrum of applications here. Most of us probably don't care that much about the difference between human and MI error rates about classifying images used in broad-scale advertising on the internet.

We do (or perhaps should) care very deeply about human vs. MI error rate in terms of granting or not-granting things like parole.
Wouldn't the commute home be a bit tough on a bike?
According to vocal Trump supporters, America doesn't need or want anything to do with my ethnicity anyways ;)
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Frankly, I'm not sure the "men and women should be treated equally" instruction is even possible if the data isn't processed in a way which specifically controls for the effects of gender (some of which may not be discernible from the raw inputs).

Sure, it's theoretically possible that an algorithm parsing text about medics' credentials that (e.g) positively weights male names and references to all-boys' schools and negatively weights female names and references to Girl Guides will be on average fair after an ad hoc re-ranking of all its candidates to take into account the instruction to treat male and female candidates equally. It's just unlikely to achieve this without completely reorganizing its underlying predictive model

[1]there's an interesting parallel to ongoing human arguments about how a machine should follow its "morality checks" should do this: does it ensure the subjects are "treated equally" in terms of achieving 50/50 gender ratio irrespective of the candidate pool (thus potentially skewing it massively in favour of the side with the weaker applicants), does it try to weight results so gender balance reflects historic norms (thus permanently entrenching the minority)? Or does it try to be "gender blind" by testing all its inputs for whether they're gender biased and normalising for or discarding those which are, which is basically learning everything again from scratch...
I think you're right about how the car should ideally respond, but I think most courts would find that aggressive or negligent driving that leads to an accident makes that driver responsible, even if another car makes an accidental breach of rules in response to the threat.
Metro train system here in Vancouver has no human pilots and has been operating for 31 years.
WikiLeaks quotes a 2005 NYTimes article in a tweet that tunnels exist that were financed by the CIA and fabricates idea that the exact tunnels involved in the recent strike were directly built by the CIA. Nothing coming from an actual leak WikiLeaks is releasing.
Although it wasn't that long ago when BART workers went on strike, replacement workers (former BART operators) stepped in to operate the trains, and then promptly ran over and killed two workers performing track maintenance.
Yup. I feel like I won a small prize at some point on a campus tour for knowing this fact.
Inebriated on that Apple kool-aid I see. I think 90% of the stuff me and my friends play on the Chromecast is initiated by the Netflix or YouTube app, where all I have to do is tap a button. You know what else is great? If we're chilling with multiple people, I don't exclude 80% of them from controlling or playing anything by having an Apple TV. Fancy that, the Chromecast is actually a simpeler, more useable product than what Apple created.
Agreed - that is part of my own distaste for them...
Not entirely sure, but my point was that the accelerating and sudden deacceleration was a dick move.
My main desktop is a hackintosh.

It took maybe an afternoon to build, and then a few more hours to get running. It's been running solid ever since.

Everything works (thunderbolt 3, usb 3, sound, airdrop, iMessage, handoff, etc) except you can't use apps that use SceneKit. So iBooks, Xcode instruments and SceneKit editor don't work. You can get them to work, by using Apple's drivers, but its a pita.

Some people claim the new nvidia pascal drivers work for SceneKit, but I've not upgraded to a 1080 yet so I can't confirm.

This is my build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gwV6qk
I'm going with learning to code.
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A hack is probably the least likely explanation for this.
Sounds more like good schools happen to be white schools in a lot of places. Doesn't seem like code to me.
Also known as "please tell us how you might try to make our system more open so we know where to close it off."
Barbie? That you?
Very weird...I wonder if this is some new scam?
Positive correlation between Competitive Programmer’s Handbook and software engineer interviews? Yes.
Positive correlation between being a strong competitive programmer and a strong software engineer? Doubtful.
I hate to say this but it's an example of language hype not matching actual usage. I love GRPC, it's beautiful, but the fact that native implementations are only available in unsexy "old" languages should say something about the state of software development.

I'm glad GRPC is available in Java, because that's what my company uses. I have a feeling this is the case with most devs. It's annoying that I can't use it in rust, but then again, it's newsworthy if a major company is using rust for anything.

I don't think it has anything to do with a language being functional or not, it's based on sheer popularity in the business world
> It would be entirely wrong, however, to use these inputs to infer anything whatsoever about the respective propensity of Blue and Green people to become doctors in an environment in which such a rule or idea of a rule had never existed.

That's fine but it isn't the goal of these algorithms. It isn't the reality that is useful for them to learn. It's a different problem to try to build some kind of "unbiased" ontology rather than just to learn about words. Feel free to research or create solutions to this other problem, it sounds interesting.
What is Architectural Refactoring?
Where has it been tried? It seems most people try and jump to their neighbors wallets.

Despite that, charity is still a huge factor for changing the world. The B&M Gates foundation is one of many organizations that sacrifices gains to try and make the world a better place for ideological reasons.

No dipping into someone else's pocket needed. The fact that a majority of people are willing to vote for more taxes is proof that this is either a) not needed because those people would donate because they think it's important, or b) the majority is just using the fact that they're the majorty as a reason it's ok to take from others.
Why is optimality necessary? (And optimality for whom?) I think all that is necessary is "the people who get bumped feel like they've been compensated fairly".

Unless people blow off the dollar-amount question or later have second thoughts, then people should feel like they've been compensated fairly because they literally told the airline what they believe would be fair compensation. If they provided a bad figure, then really, that's their fault.

If we want to "stick it to the airlines" a bit more and make it equal compensation, then sure, require them to pay all bumped passengers the max bid of anyone who they actually end up bumping. That's not a terrible burden on the airline and is an easy tweak.
> "There aren't many really big tech markets left"

I've heard this repeatedly over the years. There are ALWAYS new markets. You just have to look in the right places, or wait for new pareto frontiers to open up.
Couldn't agree more. I try not to think about it but if I'd have had the resources available to me back then that I have now, I would be orders of magnitude better.

I built my first computer about 17 years ago but dial up was still a thing and I was discouraged from spending time on it so I just did html in the 30 minutes per day I was allowed. If I'd have found a REPL back then, I probably wouldn't feel so inadequate when discussing concepts with my friends at the big 4! It'll work out fine, but later than planned; the spectre of unemployability will start looming in a decade or so, which certainly motivates me!
ECU's probably not honestly, but I was thinking about ABS/airbag controllers when I wrote that :).
Did they fall foul of having "A permanent place of abode" in New Zealand? It seems that the IRD will consider you a resident in NZ as long as you maintain a house there, regardless of how long you stay away.
I think it's a question of Uber's role in the transaction, and whether they're considered an "Agent" of the seller (the driver), or the transaction's principal.

I think this is a matter of accounting judgment.

I'm not an accountant, but I remember reading somewhere that pure agency transactions have different accounting treatment vs. "principal" transactions where the party in question assumes more risk and is not acting strictly as a representative of another party (the UberX driver).

[1] http://www.journalofaccountancy.com/news/2015/aug/fasb-propo...
Hold on, how do you let 80% of people to control Chromecast? If anything's it's not controllable by anyone by default because nobody happens to lug around a laptop with a pre-installed chrome extension. I haven't used Android for a while, but on my last Nexus phone Chromecast wasn't useful for anything other than Youtube.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/virus-the-game

Could be this one, though it is for Windows.

It basically turn a folder tree into a Decent clone. Complete with using media files stored in said folders within the game.
I wonder how ethical it may be to try and force humanity's idea of happiness in the universe...
You . . . argue that you wouldn't trust an apple car on the basis that they make good hardware, but you have a software dispute with apple?

I'm sure you are very frustrated, but this comment really doesn't make sense to me.

I would tend to think of an apple car as hardware, which you admit is good. And it's probably being driven by apple software, which is sometimes iffy and buggy and downright crappy. I can't imagine a world where your argument makes sense because 3rd party/app story complaints really have nothing to do with this.

It feels like a total non sequitur to me. I'm not going to flag you, but I am going to downvote.
It mattered more with spinning disks, you could basically pipeline disk reads with optimization passes.
The 3D graphics in that game are well beyond what most classic Amigas were capable of.
..when in comes the EU, who have successfully penalized and stared down Facebook, Intel, Apple and Microsoft. And which is either the biggest (until the Brits have officially left) or the third biggest economy in the world. You can't simply ignore them, even as a company of Google or Apple's size.
Any particular resources you'd recommend for getting good at white boarding?
I use mine every day for work.

If you build using Clover only, you can upgrade as soon as Nvidia releases new web drivers (for point updates) straight through the App Store.

The only issue is SceneKit based apps.
So true. There are always opportunities to create wealth because people never ever happy with what they have and someone else with free time can solve that problem. A company of Apple's size is well poised to make some real great strides in exceptional areas such as self driving cars.
"There aren't many really big tech markets left."

You know of course that this statement has been uttered for a couple thousand years.
For your first paragraph I agree, the Constitution does reinforce a 2-party system, but obviously the Republicans and Democrats didn't create the Constitution.

For your second paragraph, do you have examples of the "onerous requirements"? Because looking at the ballotpedia list[1] I don't see anything in there that is too onerous.

And again for your final paragraph, I agree that the system supports the lesser-of-two-evils way of thinking, but that isn't something instituted by Democrats or Republicans. It's built into the system at it's most fundamental level, the Constitution.

1: https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candi...
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Am I the only one who interpreted the title as breaking a contract with the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team?
I'd be wary of Wellington just because of the terrible climate and the earthquake risk. That place will likely become a complete disaster area some day.
Assuming there's a single humanity's idea of happiness in the first place.
Google and amazon won the market because they made a better product. Before google search was clumsy and slow, it was just bad. But people still went to search sites because where else are you going to go? Most other search sites (yahoo being a prime example of one that existed before google and still survives) decided not to try improving search (which was too hard) but rather to bolt on additional features, to make their web-site a "portal" by providing directories, other services, games, etc. Portal sites were all the rage in the late '90s. But then google came around and knocked it out of the park with a rethink of search. They took cutting edge CS and software engineering in the form of pagerank and map/reduce and married it to an equally cutting edge model for running web apps in the form of sharded multi-host metacomputers and then hosted it on a clean, fast loading page. The result was that google could produce better results faster and at lower ammortized systems cost than the competition, and the clean UI made the site more usable. Instead of taking 5 seconds per page to return a result that might have something worthwhile on like page 3 google returned a page full of high quality results in a fraction of a second. That's why they won. And it's how they made money too because they could provide more targeted and less intrusive ads (based on search terms) and they could make less money per ad while still making more money overall (because their cost per search was so low).

Amazon figured out how to marry a familiar and easy to use web-based store to a state of the art fulfillment pipeline, which is how they took over the market. Fulfillment is a non-trivial problem. Keeping track of what is where and how much is left, figuring out what to charge for shipping and handling, and figuring out where to keep stock and how to produce orders. A typical web-based shop will get to your order in one or two business days and be able to put it in the mail maybe that day or a day later. Amazon figured out how to optimize everything about their systems to be able to get your order in the mail within hours of you placing it. They've consistently been improving that process for years, and almost nobody can keep up with them. They can achieve same day delivery on a lot of common items in many metro areas, for example.

If Uber was as superior to the alternatives as Amazon or google was they wouldn't have any problems keeping marketshare. But they really aren't that much different than Lyft or other ride hailing apps. The core valueadd comes from being able to use a smartphone to set up your ride instead of having to place a call or having a cab be immediately visible to you. There's not enough that Uber brings to the table otherwise which would allow them to keep their business if they couldn't subsidize fares using VC money.
Wikileaks has a 100% (one hundred percent) truth record. I trust them more than any other news source in the world. The truth is ugly and people need to face it.
I live in Auckland. Agree with pretty much all your comments, I think you have a good handle on the environment.

One point to add - mentioned in other comments in the thread: the Auckland housing market is toxic.

No captial gains tax on property along with crowded population in Auckland means that this is the best investment available, hands down. The yield isn't in the rental market, but appreciation of 30-40% YOY has not been uncommon.

The major side effect of this that many people miss is that business investment has been stifled because property is a far safer bet. Auckland has a very weak startup/VC scene, and salaries have not increased in line with living costs.
This is one of the reasons I support the EFF.
Virtualization (e.g. https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM) can help a lot by reducing your dependence on specific parts. If you stick with an Intel CPU and a motherboard with an IOMMU and a well supported graphics card you're pretty likely to be okay. IOMMU support has gotten to be super common, even on lower end processors and motherboards.
You're not responding to the hypothetical scenario as I laid it out, though. I stipulated that, due to a mistake, they actually board more people than they have seats. Exceedingly rare? Yes. But so was the scenario that actually happened.

I do agree that the consideration of the 60-passenger flight in Kentucky would heighten things somewhat, but United itself wasn't directly responsible for the violence, the security team was. I doubt they had full context of what was going on beyond "we told this guy to leave and he won't; help us".
Can you legally tell children to kill themselves?
No one is ever going to use word vectors to figure out what genders are capable of what jobs.

Directly, no. Nobody is going to go 'ah, word2vec - a new tool with which to perpetuate patriarchal capitalism, mwuhahaha'...probably. People are weird that way.

But indirectly they certainly will. How about NPC character generators in MMORPGs? Or chatbots on social networks? Stock characters in auto-generated romance novels? The possibilities are endless.

No doubt you will these examples are ridiculous, because you seem like a rigorous scientifically minded person who would be careful not to use data in inappropriate contexts, and who would try to discount cultural or emotional factors in making strategic decisions. But you are only as good at this as your own self-awareness and willingness to acknowledge the existence of implicit bias.

And many people are quite different from you and more easily or willingly allow their judgment to be shaped by representational stereotypes. Marketing people aim to confirm their audience's worldview very closely so that consumers will be willing to identify with the commercial prompt when it arrives. Politicians and yellow journalists routinely abuse statistics to grab people's attention. And so on.

I urge you to think more about this, and in more imaginative fashion. People are often surprised by the unexpected applications of technology employed by others.