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How many folks here still buy media (movies/TV) from Apple? I've never had an Apple TV, but I pretty much buy exclusively off of Amazon. Not only can I use the same iOS/Web app to view my purchased videos as the Amazon Prime streaming collection, but Amazon Prime is available on every other device I use, including smart Samsung TVs, PS4, and Android devices. Whereas the few things I've purchased off of the Apple store (sadly, classics like Aliens and Zoolander) are forever locked in the Apple ecosystem. I don't buy much music thanks to Spotify, but when I do I use Amazon Music as I suspect that will have more portability than iTunes will ever have.
Not sure why people are burying you, because that's 100% accurate.

8 core for $600. 10 core for $1k, 18 core for $2k. With 12, 14, and 16 core increments available in-between.

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Core-i9-Annou...
The parent comment asked what the benefits could be, since deaths seem low. I listed some potential benefits, written by someone who used to work in NYC air traffic control. The article says the FAA doesn't have the experience or expertise to manage an ATC upgrade.

I don't have a position on what would be the most effective way to get there. I am guessing more funding, either public or private, would lead to an improvement.
It is partly because of the poor design of DOS since you need to logout to set environment variables.
Art gallery receptionists. Studio executive receptionists, etc.
Imagine trying to do math without numbers. That's why visual mathematics sucks. Numbers are needed to count. We do it with our fingers when we're little, and we're limited to 10. Then we take off our socks to get to 20, but that's it.

Imagine trying to reason without words. That's why visual programming sucks. Words are the smallest units of abstraction that we can reason with. So when a visual programming language provides us with glyphs, we are already limited in our vocabulary and in what we can reason with. It becomes excruciating.

What we need is not a visual programming language, but more tools to visualize the programs that we have. Ultimately, all visuals need to fall back to literal code a parser can reason with, so there is no escaping code. In fact, there are already layers going down from the higher level languages that we use now. A practical graphical language would be one built on a higher level that adds a layer to the stack, and one which we can use or skip based on our problem at hand.

Also it is because graphics too easily limit abstractions that most graphical languages are best being domain specific. A WYSIWYG editor is for the web, the form designer in Delphi was for application layouts, and Scratch is for games.
I'm sure it didn't help Caligula. It seems a lot of crazy acting emperors could be linked to lead poisoning.

It makes me think what people 50-100 years will think about our diets. They put sugar in everything!
> How is this not another Trashcan Mac Pro?

In that it's not a Mac Pro at all. They have (uniquely) pre-announced a tower-style Mac Pro for "not this year"[0] back in April: https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives

[0] and given how precise their wording was, it's not necessarily 2018 either.
If there are any, it's still the investor's money

http://www.businessinsider.com/stockstream-twitch-amazon-sto...
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It'd be fine if it were actually consistent and they picked different locations. But 'High Sierra' is a region, 'Yosemite' is a park in that region and 'El Capitan' is a large rock in that park (side note...a large rock that was climbed without ropes this weekend...Alex Honnold is both insane and a huge inspiration). They've essentially made the last three releases about the same place. It's lazy and inconsistent. And it's not like there's a shortage of exquisite places in California. Big Sur, Shasta, Lassen, Mendocino, Lost Coast, San Simeon, Joshua Tree, Catalina, Monterrey Bay...just off the top of my head, I've named 9 better California places that they could have used for their releases.

It'd also be kinda funny for them to jab at Microsoft's advertising and have an OS X Mojave, since it would fit with their naming scheme.
iMac Pro, the most powerful Mac ever, arrives this December
No, I genuinely thought it looked nice! Although I can't use the Apple keyboards for extended periods of time these days anyway as I use an MS ergonomic keyboard - can't see Apple releasing one of those...
iOS11 now takes photos in HEIF instead of JPEG by default. I think that's why it's posted here.
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The creator, an Amazon engineer, did disallow trading AMZN, for a start
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> Video has never been DRM free

is what you said, which is far from the same comment as "the content distributors never distributed the video DRM free." If you meant something else, you might want to adjust that.

If something is incompatible, that is one issue, but if something is intentionally blocked from being compatible, that has moved to being an ethical problem. Those are two completely different scenarios.

If someone could modify their xbox to run ps4 games, I see no problem with that, and would take issue with someone actively trying to prevent them from doing that.
I liked reading the kernel code when I was an undergrad. At the very least it taught proper coding habits. (mainly to be consistent across my work. e.g. don't name a variable n_object in function and then nameObject in another) The book that helped understand the code was pretty good as well.
It sounds like the target audience for the new Mac Pro will be people who can afford to spend $10k on a quad-CPU machine.

I'm sure those people will be happy. But what I want is an upgradable / self-servicable machine that costs under $3k.

I hope Apple isn't about to miss the plot again.
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The pro machine actually had "Pro" in its name.

All "pro" means in Apple-marketing-speak is "deluxe" these days. You can clearly see it in the MBP where they have traded off features that professional users wanted, for thinness that noone in that market cares about. Make it 5mm thicker or even 10mm for 32 or 64G RAM and everyone would have been delighted.
Flat aluminum is not a heatsink, you need surface to shed heat, which is why heatsinks generally have fins and the like. Flat aluminum sheds heat better than plastic but it's not very good at it.
If this is $4,999, it leaves me to wonder what the Mac Pro will cost! If I was in the market for a machine like this, I'd be tempted to try and convince myself, but for my needs I can't see me moving away from a laptop again.
I don't think Republicans would mind busting a union but that is far from the primary motivation.
if one knew how much money these people make doing this stuff, one would be tempted to do it too. Folks made millions doing this because Facebook is slow to ban the domains
What benefits does this have over PNG, farbfeld, etc. ?
Yes, but the tutorial isn't suggesting the reader go do proofs. Instead he says these more advanced topics are unnecessary. I said: their necessity is not apparent until you try doing proofs; but then you see them everywhere like a man with a hammer sees nails.

Mind, his approach may well be the correct one for the context, but you're saying he's doing things my way, which he's not.
how is a mac pro not a pre-packaged solution? You choose from a few pre-configured setups if you wish.
But that LITERALLY is memorizing implementation details.

Here are the rules for JS, which I happen to know, because I use it often:

1. Javascript is always pass by value, but when a variable refers to an object (including arrays), the "value" is a reference to the object.

2. Changing the value of a variable never changes the underlying primitive or object, it just points the variable to a new primitive or object.

3. Changing a property of an object referenced by a variable does change the underlying object.

Those are not trivial "just infer it" details. That's highly language specific, and absolutely unrelated to the skills the test claims to be evaluating.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I think your last sentence is what caused me to misinterpret you. I agree with your comment up to "... being a good database.", but I think the point at which you need to know the internals of MySQL are irrelevant to whether you should use a database that is better for the problem you're trying to solve or not.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar was not an excellent piece of writing, but it was sort of necessary at the time. It has served its evangelical purpose well, to the point where it's no longer necessary. Open Source won the day, in no small part due to ESR. (I think it vital to give my enemies their due praise).

TAoUP is a good book on the Unix Philosophy, but it's worth noting that the ultimate expression of these ideas (Plan 9) was a failure, and the 'everything is a file' metaphor is arguably incorrect. I hope I didn't give the impression that it was not worth reading, especially in the sense that there are few other good sources for that information (even using Unix is not likely to teach you much about its whys and wherefores). I just think that it should be read in the proper context, and that recommendations should try to include that context.
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Apple adds indoor mapping and notification blocking to iOS 11
My understanding is that it's just talking about the pumps. 95% of the energy from the battery is turned into rotational energy by a motor in the pumps. This pushes the fuel into the reaction chamber of the rocket engine. Contrast this to a gas-generator cycle that uses some of the fuel/oxidizer to run the pumps. It's not perfect combustion (you don't want it to get too hot) turbines aren't perfectly efficient, etc. so you only get 50% of the energy out of the fuel that you use in the turbo pumps.

However, batteries are heavy. I'm hesitant to believe that electric pumps will scale well to larger rockets, but I would love to be proven wrong.
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Returns need to be better if there is more risk and less liquidity, right?

One possible fee structure would be a reasonable fixed amount to cover expenses including supporting portfolio companies (maybe 2% isn't crazy), and an incentive fee on returns above some reasonable hurdle or benchmark.

If the investments yield an 8% gross annual return, the VC who is not at risk is getting paid a rich 3.6%, the investor a paltry 4.4%. Maybe it should be e.g. 20% on the excess over 7.5%, 30% on the excess over 15%.

Then if the investments yield 8% gross, VC gets 2% and investor 6%, and if the investments yield 20%, VC gets 5% and investor gets 15% (if I did that right, would have been 6%/14% under 2/20, at some higher point crosses over and VC does better)
I am so happy I switched to Windows, ha! My 7048A supermicro is running double E5-2650 (2x 10 cores) with 1TB ram, quadro P4000 and it was around 5000$ (not counting displays, which I had).
I will adjust the text then if it comes across as such.
How important is using neutral alcohol?

I can buy 50% vodka fairly easily, but here the 96% neutral alcohol seems only to be available through specialist liquor stores, with inconvenient prices and delivery.
The talk slides are at:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3967849/compdict/_build/...
Wouldn't be a manned mission, but that's plenty enough for a small rover mission.
Yeah, I'd support throwing some cold water on the demand for a 'college lifestyle' too. You know what, I would also like to be young and have all of my bills paid for (by loans) and live in a small town with only other young, similarly situated people. Sure, it's cool and all, but does it benefit society at all? It's a monumentally stupid cultural norm that should be dissuaded as much as possible. As should the norm that people should go to college right after high school. Maybe that's good for some people, but it's a silly cultural norm too. I guess the problem lies in the fact that uneducated 18 year olds are pretty much useless otherwise, but maybe we could grow the idea of apprenticeship for white collar jobs more to fill that gap. In many ways, undergraduate education is the new high school degree, and post-graduate is more like what a bachelors used to be like. And that follows the pattern I'm advocating above, people are older and have some work experience.
https://streamhpc.com/blog/2016-12-15/amd-gets-machine-intel...

"AMD will be delivery HIP version of Caffe, Tensorflow, Torch7, MxNet, Theano, CNTK, Chainer, all supporting our new MIOpen – our new Deep Learning solver."
> So long as that exist, we must remember that this is the case and apply a counterbalancing principle.

You're still balancing the wrong thing. The people underrepresented in this industry are from particular socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. The people with those backgrounds are not racially balanced, but that does not make balancing on race a solution.

It's not necessarily the case that that there even is a solution. If a particular culture discourages its members from becoming computer scientists then the members of that culture will be underrepresented in computer science. You could make efforts to change their culture, but wasn't the different perspective supposed to be the original point?
Yep, lots of the current controllers are retiring right now, and even more have their 20 years and could retire before the mandatory retirement age of 56 if things change in a way that makes it not in their best interest to keep working.

I'm currently part of a hiring wave meant to replace those controllers. Around 1400 people are being hired in my bid alone. ATC has been my get-out-of-software plan, but depending how things shake out, if the compensation doesn't stay the same for newcomers, I expect I'll have to run back to software. I'm a little concerned that this new private entity will compensate the old timers to keep them on and keep the union on board, and throw newcomers under the bus for the sake of 'efficiency', which would keep things running short-term, and leave them with a sudden lack of talent in five or ten years. But I'm not an expert on how these things turn out, just highly cynical about a private corp's ability to think long-term.
There have been several studies over the years and the evidence is strong.

Crime rates seem to drop with 20 year lag after TEL phaseout in gasoline starts. Different countries banned TEL at different times and it's very hard to deny connection.
Thanks for catching that, not sure how I managed to screw that up.
You hear people say "Computers are all just 0's and 1's", which when you sit down at a modern computer interface is virtually meaningless. In an accurate, but still comprehensible way, 'Code' takes you from the AND's and XOR's and 0's and 1's to the experience you know from a modern computer interface. It is a brilliant book.
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If I view the source code to an operating system, and it looks like it was written by an amateur, I'm probably going to try to find a better option.

I would say his comment implied he went with Postgres. I generally think of MySQL, which, if memory serves, was started by people with little database knowledge, as not being as high quality as Postgres, which came directly out of another relational database project.
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It's a lot easier to get the money out of your investors than to beat it out of your competitors, haha.

Hedge funds are all the same at the end of the day.
A lot (almost all?) of the people who are currently running hackintoshes for content creation. Since that's what the original post was comparing this to.

Not a lot of Xeon Hackintoshes out there. Typically just i7s.
Optimism would be warranted if they announced Vulkan, OpenGL 4.5 and a commitment to update their product line with new internal GPUs more frequently and at reasonable prices. Thunderbolt 3 has less than half the bandwidth of PCI Express 3.0 x16 so that's a lame solution for GPU upgradability.
For one, it doesn't have a display included that is already proven to work precisely with the components that are packaged.
Privatizing something does not magically make it more efficient. The market tends to produce more efficient solutions than government because it tries many different approaches simultaneously, and they compete against each other. This probably won't work for air traffic control because it will be so regulated that innovation will be impossible (if innovation was even possible there in the first place). Furthermore, I doubt that the air traffic control market will be highly competitive - regulation will probably drive the market to cartel conditions.

In all likelihood this will result in a small price decrease coupled with degraded service.
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Wait, but Dell Precision 7000 is a laptop? you can't compare with a desktop. I just built a good gaming PC that can be overclocked including a GTX 1080 for just $2300 (monitor excluded).

I'm sure with $4700 more it's possible to get something still better than this new imac pro.. yet with a good cooling system and upgradable at any time.

edit: $2300 INCLUDING 15% taxes
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This is a problem I've had for ages when buying old hardware. Thank you, thank you, and thank you.
The civil rights movement itself exposed the need for specific legal protections for minorities, because leaving it all up to the "marketplace of ideas" only ensures that patterns of systemized oppression continue.

What happens when you don't restrict along protected grounds is that entire industries collude to exclude those classes of people. Mass hatred drowns out the whole marketplace.
on an 18 core machine
No it's not, in April they both talked about a modular Mac Pro which would ship "not this year" (the iMac Pro is slated to ship in December), and they did specifically refer to this iMac Pro:

> “great” new iMacs in the pipeline, slated for release “this year”, including configurations specifically targeted at large segments of the pro market.

https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
I didn't downvote you.. but is Intel really dropping prices? I put a i7 7700k in my pc several months ago (days after Intel released it... before AMDs announcement IIRC), and it's the same price today as it was then.
To me, this turns me off to the entire tech, no matter how stupid and kneejerk that sounds. If the biggest draw to get me using your technology (immutable contracts) is actually not true, then I'm less inclined to give it a shot outside of novelty value.
> due to their willingness to allow for higher rates of risk

You're making this sound more harmless than it is. I'd rather say "due to their willingness to reject and destroy all previously common-held ethical boundaries of science".
People who want a very cpu-capable Mac but don't care for the display in the iMac Pro?
It sends a message that boundary-free affluenza and bro culture aren't welcome at Harvard. You don't want to enable or embolden 4chan-like behavior from the next supposed batch of leaders.
Apple adding native support for eGPUs is huge.

(Can't believe Microsoft missed a beat and didn't add an official eGPU dock to their Surface line. A couple people I know passed on the Surface Studio because it isn't powerful enough despite loving the hardware otherwise)
Also, no Thunderbolt from AMD.
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The USA has rare earth mines in California. They got shut down because China supported mining as a strategic asset, meanwhile the EPA was pretty sadistic. Getting that going again is trivial. If we match the legal situation in China, we're back in business.

Another big source is fly ash, which we get from burning coal. This actually has a decently high concentration of the more urgently needed elements. The more coal we burn, the more fly ash we have. Burn more, and get rare earth elements as a bonus.

The amounts needed are tiny. The only trouble with importing from China is that China considers control of rare earth elements to be part of a strategy to dominate the world. China restricts exports, and threatens to restrict them more. This is of course a national security issue for every other country in the world.
Keep dreaming bud.

If you want upgradeability and self-serviceability, build it yourself.
That is one of the points they make in Living with Prozac. Americans expect people to be happy and positive, and if they aren't it is a problem to be fixed.
For those being blocked by the WSJ paywall, here's an alternative take from SCOTUS Blog: http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/06/justices-tackle-cellphone-...
It is still supported. What's more new versions are coming. Some people says it will be just like with Python 3 - a lot of people still using python 2.
In that the iMac displays are some of the best in the industry in a very competitive price (competitive displays cost nearly the same for the display alone).
I think Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a great example that being "faithful" is not entirely important. It was first a radio show, then a book, then a play, then a movie. Each iteration changes the story a bit, but keeps the core humor and ideas. So even when you know the story, each medium provides a different view on the same story.

After delving into the many iterations of Hitchhiker's, "faithfulness" is not as important to me. I see movie adaptations as a creative and different way to retell a story.
If Apple started to support natively this in Safari, which one would succeed: HEIF or WebP?
More likely to be the huge amount of plasticizers that have been making their way into our diet, imo.
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Thanks, it was unclear.
Or, you know, a legitimate preference. People like cool looking stuff. Welcome to earth.
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These VCs have some interesting data about that: http://blog.ttcp.com/the-inverse-correlation-between-venture...

I'm not sure I agree with them or their particularly analysis, but I'm very convinced they are different because the way I see it, VC and the public markets are completely different things. It's like the farm system for baseball teams. VC is investing in the upcoming prospects, and the VC is investing in the existing major leaguers. Sometimes you'll have a farm system full of A+++ prospects that pay off huge (Google, Facebook), and sometimes you won't (pick a 5 year period where there were no massive VC payouts). And obviously the returns on those prospects will only go to whatever team they happened to be on (which VC picked them), whereas public market returns can go to anybody. But they are different companies at different ages doing different things. Thus to me it would be quite surprising if their returns were all that correlated.

And at some sense "froth" is irrelevant. A VC doesn't have to sell their Facebook or Google stock when it IPOs, they can hold onto it as long as they like. They are basically investing for the chance to get that amazing stock at a huge discount by getting it at the "prospect" stage, and once it goes public they can ride the public market waves as well.
Further, to the degree that tip anchoring reduces tipping variance, the anchoring should actually make the system work better overall.
Impressive results, and an even more impressive writeup. Thanks for linking.
Yeah, if I had that kind of money stuffed between my couch, I'd totally buy it. I don't care that it's a ridiculous machine and that single thread performance with that 18-core monster won't be anything to write home about. I still want it, because it is awesome.