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> with a non-gov entity we also get the benefit of optimal resource allocation

I can only assume that you have never worked for a large corporation.

Not to mention that the phrase 'optimal resource allocation' is ambiguous in the extreme; what function are you minimizing?
I dislike these absolutist arguments. It ignores any sort of context or nuance and generally shuts down discussion. In general, I understand and sympathize with your line of reasoning, and championing of free speech. However, I think you are going too far.

Absolutist argument? Where do you get that? Who's being absolutist? What evidence do you have that I don't have "a line?" Do you have any evidence that I support people yelling "fire" in a theater? Please provide your evidence, as I do take an absolute stand against people putting words and positions onto others on HN with no evidence.

It ignores any sort of context or nuance and generally shuts down discussion.

So are you basically saying it's okay to engage in partisan thought and speech policing of political viewpoints of graduating high school seniors by trolling through their social media?

Consider HN: we have down votes, comment flagging, and moderators. That is very much the policing of speech. Would you consider this oppression?

No. I don't get instantly excluded for voicing an opinion. Instead I get feedback. There's the difference. Is there a real flow of information? Is there a real marketplace of ideas? Or is it, "put up or shut up?" That's the difference.
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Sorry, the Precision 7000 is the "Fixed workstation".

You'll probably can get something with higher performance, but it'll probably also take up more space, generate more heat and make more noise. It'll also demand more time to select the components and assemble it. If you enjoy doing it, OK. If you don't, your time is more expensive than the difference.

I selected a Dell because I want a single phone number to call when something goes wrong.
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It's a strange stop gap: something extremely overpriced that you can't upgrade later on. Not everyone can fully max out their machines from the start. If they replicate this release with the upcoming Mac Pro (which is likely), it'll be time for me to begin leaving the Apple ecosystem. Windows is far from ideal but with their unix shell and virtualization, it'll be 'good enough'.
No one runs a Mac because they just want powerful hardware.
Thanks, those were the models I was thinking about as well. Double-sided seems like a necessity, and a relatively fast scan seems important, but the only other thing I know I care about is durability.

I hadn't thought about using WiFi --> FTP. That's a pretty handy feature. I run Linux, and there is a lot of great hardware that is barely functional on Linux, especially from the likes of Brother.

I've thought about bringing paper to a staples to scan, or paying a scanning service to scan everything. The benefit of the latter is that they'll preserve your filing system and name your files for you. We went paperless at work, and they can be pretty expensive per document unless you have a ton of paper for them to scan.
Thanks, ElectronConf
The founder of Jupiter broadcasting famous for his pro-linux family of podcasts continues to rave about the Apple platform and the performance of his 2016 macbook and final cut pro. That's saying something. I imagine it'd only get better while on a desktop system like the iMac.
The problem is the market only cares about companies that have the potential to be the next Tesla, Facebook, amazon, etc., so unless you're in a this very special and exclusive niche, exiting is very hard. It's not like in the 90's when all tech sectors did well...now it's just social networking, apps, Tesla, and Uber. A very lopsided, winner-take-all market.
> But what I want is an upgradable / self-servicable machine that costs under $3k.

Yeah that's never going to happen. The Pro iMac starts at $5k. When the Mac Pro does come out it will at least start at that as well, if not higher.
After SICP and a little study of functional programming, I started learning about design patterns, and my immediate reaction was, “What’s all the fuss about? I mean ... c’mon ... how else would you solve that problem?”

It took me a while to understand that, if you’ve been raised on Java or C, these things are not obvious at all.
No, as long as they aren't purposefully trying to block. Incompatibility is an entirely different issue than DRM.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

It's been years since Apple has made anything that was upgradable/self-serviceable at any price point. To expect that to change now is just unproductive wishful thinking. Either find an alternative or figure out which of Apple's products comes closest to meeting your needs.
Next year's Mac Pro is up to 18 months away, they made this because that's a long time to leave developer communities discussing Windows and Linux alternatives.
Sure, let's do that. Leaving aside all questions of whether or not this falls within Harvard's disciplinary remit - we'll assume that it does - I would have these students begin their academic careers at the school on disciplinary probation, which I gather is contemplated within its policies on maintaining an acceptable standard of conduct among students. Disciplinary probation, from what I've been able to find in a cursory examination of Harvard's public website, also provides formal grounds for more decisive action should the unacceptable conduct persist.

That seems to me a reasonable middle ground between on the one hand doing nothing, which I agree would be a highly questionable decision even from the purely cynical perspective that anyone accepted to Harvard may reasonably be expected not to violate the eleventh commandment in such damnfool fashion and if they don't already know that then they better get on learning - and, on the other hand, rescinding these prospective students' acceptance, with the concomitant potentially very significant impairment of their lifelong prospects, on the basis of they posted some tasteless images to a private Facebook group.
I would guess that it's for people that want something more powerful before the new Mac Pro comes out. I don't think it's supposed to be out until 2018. Maybe they will be releasing it next year at WWDC.
I recently did the same (albeit for $10k). Even after agreeing on everything, they kept asking "are you sure you don't want to finance just part of it? We can give you a really good rate!"

All I could do was patiently ask them "why would I do this? Is it not still more of a cost to me, even if a small one?" They acted really confused and upset but I understood that this was simply a sales tactic to make me feel as if I was making some sort of mistake by not paying some small amount of interest in addition to the cost of the car.

I eventually got a bit irritated as it was making things take a lot longer than they needed to. I just told them, "look, we already negotiated a price and I have the check written out right here. I have no need to finance a $10k car right now and I would like to just finish the sale."

They weren't quite as friendly after that but hey...it's an adversarial relationship and I'd been perfectly cordial up until that point. I was already paying $10k for a car they likely got for half as much as a trade-in anyway.
I've experimented a bit and landed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everclear_(alcohol) for most of my neutral spirit bitters. But I've also had success with lower proof vodkas. The more "earthy" bitters especially its hard to tell the difference. Some of the more herbal or lighter bitters you can sort of tell.

There are also bitters recipes that use whiskeys that are quite good as well.
Being hired to do a job and being funded are two very different things.
Unless Apple Pay works for p2p with Android devices, Venmo and others will be just fine. Android has a major share of the market, and heterogeneous p2p cash transfers will be needed.
Nothing wrong with pretty. The problem with Apple these days seems to be that they compromise extensibility for prettiness.
No, this wasn't missed. Daring Fireball already talked about this 2 months ago:

https://daringfireball.net/2017/04/the_mac_pro_lives
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How so? The iMac has always been the all-in-one device with laptopish internals. A bigscreen Macbook Pro basically.

That makes the targeting simple: People who want the power of a *pro series device but don't care much about the upgradeability beyond storage and memory.
Apple is launching an iOS “ARKit” for augmented reality apps
Sounds great.

I think most of the Safari updates are as well in it's webkit js engine.

Although I'm really still confused why does Apple bounds their Safari browser with it's OS updates.

I will be very, very happy if I can receive up-to-date battery-savvy browser, without having to wait for a full-blown conference.
iOS 11 will bring big updates to Siri, iMessages, Apple Pay, and more
"MAKING PHOTOS SMALLER WITHOUT QUALITY LOSS"

proceeds to explain how they set JPEG quality to 80-85%
SeaMonkey's pretty good -- it's Firefox oriented towards developers. I almost feel like it's a bit faster than Firefox proper, even though I'd expect it to be slower from extra developer tools; regardless, it can run all the same plugins, and it's a good choice of browser for software-related jobs.
What do you mean by distribution-free? Because there's still all of the Bayesian forms of machine learning, and even withing neural networks a lot of work is based around distributions (see generative NNs like variational autoencoder).
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A Thunderbolt 3 enclosure for External GPUs is exactly what it sounds like: A GPU that sits external to your computer, and connects to it via Thunderbolt 3.

It's hardly TC's fault you don't know what that is. Just Google it.
Yep, but you'll probably never see them. I never see them but I always see them on my mum's Facebook whenever I'm home. My guess is there's two main factors:

1) Abusing Facebook targeting to proxy for 'non-technical' in some way.

2) Presumably if you click Facebook ads you get more similar ones, for some criteria. So if you got them you wouldn't click, and they'd disappear.

Facebook are terrible at policing this - I'd guess >50% of the stuff they're paid to show my mum is a blatant scam - if somebody spent 10 seconds looking at each ad I've seen there before accepting it they'd spot all of them. I've basically tried to show my mum how to identify something that will take her outside of the app (not that easy on the Android app) and told her never to click any of them.

I'm surprised this isn't talked about very often, but they're clearly only being shown to the people who won't recognise them for what they are.
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Apple introduces the new iPad Pro
Thunderbolt 3 enclosure for eGPU sounds like a PCIe slot in a box that you connect with TB3.
The Dell Precision brand and 3000/5000/7000 series numbers are used for both laptops and desktops.
Please take care not to inject inflammation like this—the threads never improve as a result.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What that's what progressive means... where do you select that, is that something you select in say GIMP?

>Progressive JPEG images load from more blurry to less blurry. The progressive option can easily be enabled in Pillow

What is Pillow, Python... hmm... so loading a small version spread out to full size with blur, then in the background loading full size copy to replace blurred small image, that is not progressive loading...?

If I was looking into progressive loading... and implemented a CDN... can this still work? Is it python specific? I use PHP for scripting... maybe an excuse to actually build something with Go rather than the hello world examples. (assuming you can use Go)

Edit: also is progressive loading something that happens once or does a script have to do that every time the photo is pulled?

What is this a support forum? haha calm down kid
I guess it would have been more accurate to say that they're slashing prices on their upcoming multicore i9 line:

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Core-i9-Annou...

$599 for an 8 core processor, for instance. Last model, the i7-6900K, would have been over $1k.
Apple releasing ARKit for iOS
> To me Powershell is OK but if you go in expecting it to behave like bash you will be in for a lot of pain.

Completely agree. PowerShell is an object pipeline, which means that its axioms are different than a text pipeline. If you come in trying to treat it like a text pipeline, you're not going to find the tools you expect.

> The most annoying issue I have run into - try to delete a node_modules folder with powershell. It's painful.

I was curious, so I just did the following in PowerShell v5:

* Create a new, empty directory.

* Retrieve NPM modules (`npm install browserify gulp`).

* Ran `rm .\node_modules -Recurse`.

* Directory is gone.

What has your experience been?
Yes, I have Xeons in my WS. The reason why many people ended up buying Xeons for the desktop is core count -- i7 had 6, then 8 cores until recently, so a 10-18 core workstation could only be built with Xeons. The other difference is ECC, which most of the people don't necessarily want (let's not talk about whether they need it or not).

If a developer/pro/etc. need 18 cores, most of the time they'll be OK with a top-end i7 -- I think. Therefore it is fair to compare Xeons with i7s, they're not the same but yes, they have overlapping target audience when it comes to desktops.
Then why should anyone buy this one?
Well, being prolific OR a genius would be fine by me.

In the absence of either I do think it's valuable to try more things in parallel to see what works, and not get put off by 'failures' (experience you gained just after you needed it), or not being 'perfect' (since there rarely is such a thing, objectively).
for all we know at this point the new intel lines are rebranded xeons (plus a few consumer features), the hastily put together response to AMD seems to suggest this.
You're right about that, I installed 6 fans on the computer case alone and it can be noisy at times, but I'm happy with what I'm getting and I can upgrade later.

This is for desktop, for laptops I might still go with apple however.
> "WTF is a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure"

come on now
>This is Apple's answer to their negligence to the Pro market, and it's hugely disappointing.

Of course it is. It's always damned if they do, damned if they don't.

>The iMac was already supposed to be a Pro machine. And then they "New Coke"'d it by making it too thin and susceptible to overheating. Performance suffered and now they're compensating with this machine.

Actually it was never supposed to be a Pro machine, all the way back to the very star (Bondi blue / flower power personal machines, the ones with the flexible neck, etc.).

It's just that at some point it got so powerful, and the pro line was neglected, so it was used as a pro machine too (and was good enough for most use cases, e.g. graphic designers).

>The iMac was already supposed to be a Pro machine. And then they "New Coke"'d it by making it too thin and susceptible to overheating. Performance suffered and now they're compensating with this machine.

Performance never suffered with the iMac line. It's the most consistently updated line of computers Apple has. The Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, Mini and Air were neglected for years, but not the iMac.

And this is not a response to "the iMac's use as a pro suffered because of its thinness". It's a response to "we fucked up the Mac Pro and we're throwing a bone to the Pro market, until 2018 will bring a redesigned Mac Pro".

>At $5000 the iMac Pro falls just short of a ~$2000 Hackintosh.

Well, this is not a Hackintosh. This is the real thing. Even a sole 27" inch 5K screen like it has would take you back $2K in itself.
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None of this is "news", just another re-hashing of "yet another explanation of how VC works, because VC's will never admit their mode plainly". Here ya go:

https://blog.wealthfront.com/venture-capital-economics/

https://blog.wealthfront.com/venture-capital-economics-part-...

https://medium.com/startup-grind/technology-due-diligence-or...

EDIT: Just re-read, makes sense why this is "news"... "I recently had a meeting...talking about the macro view of venture capital and how it doesn’t actually make sense....It took me a while to understand what this really means."
Really? I get tons of "files.wordpress.com/obviousspamblog/exact-search-term-you-entered.pdf" garbage PDFs that are just 80 pages of the same text with "CLICK HERE FOR MANUAL ----->>> totallynotmalware.biz.mx.cc.info.site/bulwarkmulgrove".
Another nice gravity based one: http://www.heindl-energy.com/gravity-storage/idea-function.h...

A piston of rock carved out of the land. For now just a concept though.
It runs on a 8 years old home server, and when I scan multiple pages documents, the ocr slows down to a crawl. Have you run into this?

OCR is going to be CPU bound, so the solution seems obvious.
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Apple products are more expensive, but you know the saying: if you're not paying, you are the product.
Stop gap. There are some pros who need a very powerful machine, but Apple won't have the Mac Pro ready this year (see the link someone else posted to Daring Fireball).
I made a start on that once with http://wry.me/~darius/hacks/howtodothingswithdocs.tar.gz -- it runs literate programs in Scheme on the server. Ancient Python code.
If you bothered just navigating the site you would have found this page with a table (table II):

https://nokiatech.github.io/heif/technical.html
Apple announces new machine learning API to make mobile AI faster
Does it block content?
Because it's Xeons which is a different line.
How about having directors nominated by those who actually pay the bills, the passengers?
Hrm.. Folks here keep acting like this means Apple still doesn't get the Pro market (or that there is still a pro market).. This really seems to me to be a "what can we get out sooner" product released as a stopgap to next year's preannounced new Mac Pro. I suppose it's still valid to fault them for the reality of their product line and for having gotten themselves into this position in the first place, but I think it's pretty clear that this is not Apple's actual attempt to fully pent-up demand for a good traditional workstation from Apple.
What do you see these companies competing for?
I like the idea of government established nonprofits in theory, but as an additional option rather than the only choice. The idea is that they serve as a guard against excessive profiteering by private sector organizations. Municipal broadband networks are a good example of this in practice.
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Your Solidity contracts can run on Ethereum Classic, which you can be confident won't be forked since its users tend to believe in the principle of the immutability of the code.
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Your model is not considering risk; the time value of bitcoin is risk-free positive, whereas any other instrument (in fiat) is either low risk break even, after inflation, or risk positive.

Assuming people are rational actors, they would spend as little as possible and hoard the rest.

So then we need to ask: "how is holding bitcoin different than investing in a similar mutual fund".

Holding bitcoin decreases the money supply driving up value artificially, whereas investing in a mutual fund increases the money supply available for investment and drives economic growth.
The market for this is enterprise users.
Apple introduces a redesigned 10.5-inch iPad Pro
Great, thanks. Will read it.
How are the VCs going to keep the doors open?

If you take away the 2% return, you've basically said that only super rich people that can afford not getting paid for 5-10 years should be VCs. Do you think that all the best investors in the world are super rich people?

Also, when to take that 20% is an issue. Perhaps a VC that is strapped for cash would push a company to exit sooner, or sell the stock right after the IPO, so they could take some of their profits off the table and thus get some working capital. However maybe they'd get a better return for both themselves and their investors by waiting another 5 years. Sequoia has very famously said that they've gotten more returns from their companies post-IPO --> now than they have from initial investment --> IPO. If you believe in the long term prospects of a company you essentially want to never sell the stock.

I'm not suggesting there isn't an alternative, but I'd like to see it. The LPs who continually agree to this fee structure aren't idiots.
PNG is a lossless format, it's pretty much pointless for photos. IDK about farbfelt but it seems like a TIFF competitor more than anything else.

This is an (significant) improvement over JPEG.
> Python and Lisp coder here. At first look, Lisp is ugly to look at.

Maybe for you; Lisp was great for me to look at from the moment I laid eyes on it.

Beauty is very subjective; but the technical advantages or disadvantages of a syntax aren't.

Some years prior to becoming a Lisp programmer, I had one tiny interaction with Lisp that wasn't terribly good. It was this: some CLOS example code in a book on OOP by Grady Booch. I was trying to follow the syntax and it seemed to have weird repetition in it. That was arising from the defclass syntax for declaring accessors and initforms, like this (foo :initarg :foo) and (bar :accessor bar) type stuff. I was boggled by all the repetitions: why do we have foo and :foo, and so on. I had no clue about Lisp keyword symbols at that time.

I didn't hate the syntax, and it seemed less verbose than C++, for sure. The parentheses in it seemed perfectly fine. It was just boggling a little bit: more so than something like (let ((x 2) (y 3)) (+ x y)), or (loop for x below 10 summing x).
It doesn't look like there's any payout, nor a requirement to buy in to play. I don't see a way for any laundering to happen.

As for insider trading, it's a collective voting game. I don't see a way to increase the value of one's vote, so I can't imagine it ever falling afoul of insider trading.
Between major networks, BGP.

Inside the major network to your cable headend or similar: OSPF or IS-IS or something else - in the largest ISPs, a combination of iBGP to get things to right area and then OSPF, IS-IS or EIGRP in medium areas.

Inside your house: almost always static routes, no protocol for exchanging reachability info.
Watching those demos I got the feeling that what we are seeing here is a "last-minute" salvage from something quite a lot more ambitious. (Like AR glasses hardware.)
The amount of people who will sideload apps on to their TVs is tiny, to the point of being negligible. When your mom wants to watch Prime Video, are you going to teach her how to sideload or just let her buy the Apple TV she already wants?