skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not very hard to release the "most powerful Mac ever" when you haven't updated your top of the line for 4 years.
>This is Apple's answer to their negligence to the Pro market

No it isn't.

>The iMac was already supposed to be a Pro machine.

Not it wasn't. The iMac was always decidedly the consumer desktop. The pro machine actually had "Pro" in its name.
yes - E5 2667v4 is 2k. The equivalent monitor/panel is likely 2k, that's already 4k so it seems like a decent value.

http://ark.intel.com/products/92979/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-...

Edit: the one processor version of this processor is less than a grand. So that changes the math. Apple is likely making a good amount on each mac pro sold. As they should. I want them to keep making prosumor hardware.
Given the support for major gaming engines, Steam VR, and changes within Metal 2, is it wrong to be optimistic for Mac gaming?

If the takeaway from this WWDC could be potential gaming parity with Windows, that's a really big deal for me. Me being the segment of Pro users who need to work on a Mac and want to game natively on one, too.
Um, professionals? (scientists, graphic designers, architects, analysts). Custom PCs are generally a poor choice in institutional contexts because of high TCO (crappy drivers and nonexistent long-term support).

That said, it seems weird that there hasn't been a reasonable way to have an OS X machine in a data center since the Xserves.
Apple announces iOS 11 with over 10 new features
You mistyped "frying pan".
Is there evidence of fund returns non-correlated to the public markets? Big IPOs in down markets? I see a lot of dot-bomb kinds of things, and the latest IPOs have been taking full advantage of the froth in the public markets. It's hard to imagine Snapchat making a go of it without the current stock pricing being so lenient.
I definitely appreciated the Unicode example in this article. It's a nice, clear case where having more diversity (in this case, someone who regularly uses a non-ASCII language) on a team can increase value rapidly. Having someone around who says "hey, this system won't handle my name right, that's super annoying" can add value to the project for a few billion people.

Obviously team diversity isn't the only way to achieve that gain, but it's a good one that's often lacking.
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> Ideas like "let's get Donald Trump elected for the lulz" have real-world effects.

Do you have statistics to back that claim?
Anyone else able to pitch in on the JS performance claims? How honest is it?
Main Linux problems on the desktop
You can change the screen buffer size, font, and colors of Windows terminals. Right-click on the title bar, select "Properties...".
The Importance of IQ
I think people on both sides of this issue like to blabber a lot about human psychology and high falutin theories. At the end of the day, in any domain, you have to actually implement your ideas, and actually show that they work. A broken system that sometimes works is better than an ideal system that has never been shown to work.
Any idea about what nCU (New Compute Unit) is? Was listed as one of the new features of the iMac Pro.
Apple debuts iMac Pro with beefy specs, real ports, $5K starting price
Then why release anything now? Who is this for, if pros will wait for the "real" one and consumers already have one? Will the "stopgap" model be around/supported in two years?
Over the last 30 years I have worked for or with for profit corporations, government agencies and the type of non-profit government formed corporation being discussed here. In general I haven't found for profit corporations to be intrinsically more efficient than government agencies of the same scope of mission. In fact many have been less efficient than the government agencies I have worked with. And many of the least efficient places have been the government established non-profit corporations. Take a look at the USPS, Amtrak, FDIC, or PBGC for examples.
What's the point of writing your program in Rust if it's almost entirely wrapped in `unsafe{}`?

You'd be better off just writing a C program. It could even be clearer to a wider audience what exactly you're doing.
Not a Mac user but do they ever release a top-end product that was less powerful than last year's top-end product? If not hasn't ever top-end mac ever been the most powerful mac ever?
I hope they sell the dark peripherals separately.
"Prediction is difficult, especially about the future".

But this is what Apple said:

"These next-gen Mac Pros and pro displays “will not ship this year”. (I hope that means “next year”, but all Apple said was “not this year”.) In the meantime, Apple is today releasing meager speed-bump updates to the existing Mac Pros. The $2999 model goes from 4 Xeon CPU cores to 6, and from dual AMD G300 GPUs to dual G500 GPUs. The $3999 model goes from 6 CPU cores to 8, and from dual D500 GPUs to dual D800 D700 GPUs. Nothing else is changing, including the ports. No USB-C, no Thunderbolt 3 (and so no support for the LG UltraFine 5K display).

But more good news, too:

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

From the article I linked.
I think I can add that one as an option for another one link. What you think should be consider to pick that new single link?
> How well has democracy worked in Russia since that happened?

It's worked great for the oligarchs! I honestly think the Republican party sees that as the ideal outcome: create a strong kleptocratic class that can use their wealth to perpetuate Republican control.
How about we wait until we know more about it and their future Mac Pro plans before passing judgement, hm?
User Review: VC Firms
What is stopping you from agreeing to a loan and then paying it off in full a week later?
Yes, I think I can whip something up on that tonite.
> I'd just demand that we make 3+3=14, and I'll get exactly what I want, once we split the difference.

There's a lot of that happening...
"In addition to the new iMac Pro, Apple is working on a completely redesigned, next-generation Mac Pro architected for pro customers who need the highest-end, high-throughput system in a modular design, as well as a new high-end pro display."

See: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/06/imac-pro-most-powerfu...
I can't wait until Apple demos their own A-series based mac or macbook. I think apple could scale the ARM architecture to make it wide and Out-of-Order. They have the money, the cozy relationship with SoftBank (who owns ARM), and we all know they like to vertically integrate. They're even bringing graphics in house so why not roll your own graphics, cpu, etc?
The memes on this story tie the investigation together.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
Harvard pulls 10 acceptances for 'offensive' memes in group chat
Virtual Reality Finally Catches On–With Businesses
The last 2 Indian satellites launched on Ariane V fit on this new rocket (~3.2 metric tons), but, that's a medium-sized satellite. Ariane V usually launches pairs of satellites, one ~ 3mt and one ~ 6mt.

As for price, surfing the Internets I see Rs 350 to Rs400 crore as a price, which ~ $56-$64 million dollars. SpaceX's price for a "flight proven" GTO launch is supposedly $62 million less 10%, or about the same.
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How the Tech Industry Forgot What It Means to Disrupt
Still no OpenGL 4.5 support?
That is just confusing. There will be a modular Mac Pro that is totally different from this iMac Pro? That leaves me to wonder who exactly this iMac Pro is targeted at.
Considering it currently probably is HFS+, yes. Absolutely.
Cool little project , very similar to wttr.io
Seems like the article is incomplete. Another hour or two of investigation, actually proving a malware connection would have been really interesting.

TLDR: It's not a legitimate site, they're probably doing something silly, though not able to reproduce, and was able to find contact info on whois (assuming scammers don't know how to mask identities).
That's a feature of the graphics card, AMDs new Vega GPU architecture.
Siri gets voice translation and a more human voice
Anyone buying a $5000 rev 1 Apple product knows what's going to happen...
Apple adds a tracker blocker to desktop Safari
Who wants a 27" 5k monitor? Weird thing to try and price against, since you can get better monitors for less.
Free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. And from a legal perspective free speech just means the government can't punish you for protected speech. Individuals and entities are free to discriminate based on your protected speech all they want.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033717/
One of the slides says 18 core Xeon, which is the equivalent of the newly announced core i9. But they're also saying ECC memory, so they are in server chip land.
No there isn't. Mountain View is the exception. All of the other big Google offices in the US (New York City, Seattle, San Francisco) are in the heart of downtown cores with great transportation. I'm in the NYC office and have an entrance into the subway from inside the office that goes to the A, C, E, and L lines. The 1, 2, and 3 lines are a block away. We have three bike rooms and hundreds of daily bike commuters (me included). I don't know of anyone who drives to work, and why would you? That's crazy to do in Manhattan.
Metal VR and Valve support.
If you're on iOS 10.3, you've already been upgraded from HFS+ to APFS. I believe this was done for all iOS users without much notice.

https://arstechnica.com/apple/2017/01/ios-10-3-will-be-apple...

So to answer your question, maybe not so beastly.
How is it any different from the large cat naming theme?
What to Do with 150 Bad NiMH AA Hybrid/LSD Cells?
Agreed. Another computer I could never afford
"Safari also now blocks auto-playing videos and will use machine learning to identify trackers and segregate the cross-site trackers so advertisers won’t be able to easily track you across sites."

Finally, I feel a corporation is using ML to project me, rather than sell me.
> Who is this for, if pros will wait for the "real" one and consumers already have one?

It's for people who have a need/desire for "pro" components but also want a thin/portable form factor.
Wow.

May I put this into my Terrible Ideas in Lambda talk as a non-terrible idea?
Part of me believes that this can easily be used for money laundering or insider trading.

Anyone want to guess the legality of this? This is very far away from Twitch plays pokemon.
Once something is announced then criticism of it is fair game.
I'm unsure. I think this came before sha3 was defined so some parameters may have changed. But the core is essentially that.
This is where I am and I'm already doing VR dev and playing lots of VR stuff. If this is where Apple jumps in, then I'm super excited.
Never mind cooking in lead vessels, they used lead acetate as an artificial sweetener in their food. I've often wondered if this was something that contributed to their downfall.
obviously you don't run it at 5k. I'd run it in 1440P probably but since it's rendering at 5k and scaling down everything is terribly sharp.
The ISRO is pegging the price at Rs 400 Cr which is almost identical to a Falcon 9 at $62M at current exchange rates. Falcon 9 appears to win on price/payload, but ISRO is in the ballpark, impressive.
HEIF – High Efficiency Image File Format
I wish Roku would support iTunes.
That was the exact statement made about the Mac Pro when it was released in 2013. Look how well that went.
Intel has just priced it's 18-core i9-7900X at 2K.
The person I replied to. Was that unclear?
> There is no such thing as an objectively correct or incorrect world-view.

Of course there is. If I have the world-view that I am the most successful person in the world, yet 90% of people have not heard of me, then that world-view is false. If I have the world-view that climate change is just something made up the scientists to get more funding, then that world-view is false. If I have the world-view that some people are inferior because of their skin-colour, then that world view is scientifically false. As best as we can objectively measure, those world-views are false.

> Suppressing speech, and demonizing people for their views (no matter how "objectively wrong") does not solve any problem.

You are incorrect, and you mistake how facism works. Facism is not after the truth, facism is not after peace. The only peace that facism, and facists want, is peace through the absence of justice. The only goal of white supremacists, is to create a world in which PoC either no longer exist, or are subjugated. They will abuse any system and platform that you give them, to spread their philosophies and ensure more people join their cause. They continue to be a thriving community because the educated population have ignored them out of politeness. The sole goal of them is to further their philosophy. The only way we can stop that, is by depriving them of platforms from which to speak their hate.

Let us not forget the last time we tried to bargain with white supremacists. Several deals were forged, and as soon as the facists had got a firm position, they went back on the deals and moved into Poland, and meanwhile began exterminating parts of their populations that they deemed inferior. The only reason they were able to do that was because they were ignored and thus tolerated by the educated population.

If you think I am being paranoid, let us look at what the leader of the large political movement called the "alt-right" stated only a few years ago:

""""Instead of asking how we can make reparations for slavery, colonialism, and Apartheid or how we can equalize academic scores and incomes, we should instead be asking questions like, "Does human civilization actually need the Black race?" "Is Black genocide right?" and, if it is, "What would be the best and easiest way to dispose of them?" With starting points like this, wisdom is sure to flourish, enlightenment to dawn. """"[0].

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20120216183528/http:/www.alterna...
> Framing bigots as "political opponents" has some efficacy as a tactic too

How about framing political opponents as "bigots"?
Read reboot's last sentence again:

Then do the research and find out how much more you might earn if you pay $300K for your degree rather than $100K.

So the suggested alternative to a 300K college is a 100K college.
https://webkit.org/blog/7536/jsc-loves-es6/ :)
That's a project I have too. A few things I struggled with, would be curious to know how you solved them?

- backups. I plan on using it to go paperless and keep tax returns etc. I can't afford to lose that info, but I can't come up with a robust enough backup plan. How are you doing it?

- concurrency. 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?
Which is why it isn't aimed at "most people."
This is about the macOS update. High Sierra is the first macOS release with APFS as default
One of my bucket list items is to watch a space launch. Is there a calendar of space launches somewhere that I could plan to go see? Or would I have to research individual launches?
The US made a war against the "White Separatism" (Confederate States of America), in order to protect the US Constitution and citizen rights. Even in more recent times, e.g. in 1955 the US Constitution protected Rosa Parks against those same xenophobic supremacists that lost the American Civil War, and were using their regional power in order to impose ethnic totalitarianism. So think your argument twice, and think if you're really on the side of the "good ones", defending individual rights, or on the ethnic totalitarian side, defending "tradition" vs civil rights. Another example: the National Guard (US Army) forced the acceptance of black students, in order to ensure their rights, honoring the US Constitution, and the rule of law. In the same way, I hope the Spain Constitution will prevail, ensuring the rights of the citizens. For the long term, I wish some kind of United States of Europe, for even better civil rights protection, against disloyal regional administrations with a hidden ethnic/separatist agenda against the rule of law (e.g. like current French and German legislations, where disloyal/separatist regional governments are explicitly forbidden in their Constitutions).
Apple Gives the MacBook and MacBook Pros a Kaby Lake Refresh
Free Speech isn't "Consequence-Free Speech" and is a two way street. Sure, feel free to say/write the most despicable, racist thing imaginable. However, what is often forgotten is that there are consequences for everything that happens. As long as the government isn't restricting you from or putting you in jail or saying/writing it, the speech is free.
For the previous Mac Pro, Intel sold Apple a processor that had some but not all Xeon features enabled, presumably for significantly less than the full Xeon price.
you mean `curl wttr.in`?
What are the best coding bootcamps in 2017?
Potential OS-level workaround work Ryzen bug
High-end workstations from other manufacturers aren't "custom PCs" in any way, but still upgradable and serviceable. It's an interesting question if that is necessary or not, MacBooks don't come with really good support packages either and still are immensely popular with professional users. (It's certainly less important than it is with server systems)
The average person can reasonably afford to buy a plane ticket to travel across the US. Right now, the odds of them dying is really low. In fact, so low that driving to the airport puts them in more danger than flying across the country.

We can take that system and throw it out and see if we can change it with zero guarantee of success to save all of $5 or maybe $10 (Just a guess). I don't know about you, but I am happy with the current system and it's costs.
I'm sure there are still professionals who would prefer pre-packaged solutions. Sure, many prefer being able to continually upgrade and add to their setups as well.

Just a different kind of sub-market, I think.
I have used both a thick iMac and a thin one. I had to run the thick iMac's fans at full speed all the time or else my CPU would bottleneck.

The thin iMac had underpowered fans and constantly throttled.
> At $5000 the iMac Pro falls just short of a ~$2000 Hackintosh

A 5k Monitor alone costs around $800-1000 and does not compare in quality to Apple displays, 8 core xeon + motherboard are another 800$, it's already around $1600-1800 - and its not taking SSD and Video card and Ram into account...
Yes, I was just showing as an example of how seamlessly they were able to upgrade iOS devices to APFS.
I bought a suit from Goodwill for $50 in uni. Doesn't mean there isn't a market for more expensive suits.
>Also, I want that black keyboard!

is this satire?
You can now send your friends money inside iMessage
Each of these have great options up to and under $200: an ebook reader with technical ebooks, a certification, a quieter CPU fan (I'm about to spend $10 on one, current is jet engine), more RAM, an SSD, second monitor, webhosting/VPS ($200 can cover a domain, a shared cpanel, and a VPS) for personal projects, a netbook or tablet.
Off topic: can I just say how much I hate TechCrunch articles? Clearly poorly and hastily written, with grammar issues, calling HEVC a "container" format, and WTF is a "Thunderbolt 3 enclosure" when it comes to external graphics cards? Like I get it, first to market wins the ad clicks, but come on. Do we have to keep upvoting this crap on HN?
1st Private Space Station Will Become an Off-Earth Manufacturing Hub
I don't think this is for the average consumer.
Yes, it's true there's no LEED "decertification" process, but everything else the parent comment claimed or implied is false, including the implication here that "LEED decertificaiton" is a thing that's needed due to any sort of prevalent LEED fraud.
Modern Python Dictionaries: A confluence of a dozen great ideas (PyCon 2017)
The code from "Software Tools in Pascal" mostly just works in FreePascal, too. So it's pretty easy to jump in and work through the examples in the book.
Android Swipe Button
Apple Launches Metal 2 Developer Kit with VR Support
A Dell Precision 7000 will set you back US$3000 at a configuration similar to the iMac Pro. Add a good 27" 5K display, PCI-based SSD and you are close to US$ 6000 with a GPU that's a generation behind.

And it comes with Windows. Nobody deserves that.
Nothing goes hand in hand with the first. The first is a failed attempt at rationalizing away the fact that there will always be people that have vastly more influence over politics than others do, and that there is no such thing as equality in politics.

The second paragraph as far as I can tell boils down to "educate people" as the answer. Who should be doing the educating?
Buy a good mechanical keyboard
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14489714
Who would use non-ECC memory in a box designed for content creation?
In some circumstances

> the private sector's legendary efficiency advantage

is in fact:

the private sector's _mythical_ efficiency advantage
>Electron, a two-stage, carbon-composite rocket designed to deliver payloads weighing up to about 330 lbs into orbits some 310 miles above Earth.

For reference, the moon is 238,900 miles away.

I guess they want the MX-1E lander to fly itself from LEO to the moon. Interesting concept, hope it works out for them.
Fried GPUs in the Macbook Pro line is a running gag at this point. Many iMac models have shown overheating issues as well. And I'm sure they were all supposed to have "sufficient" heat dissipation :)

I'd give Apple the benefit of the doubt here, but not with my own money, and with an AppleCare.
Intel Lays Out the Challenges of Marketing VR
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14487788
Lots for ML, and their Accelerate framework is already second to none on the CPU. Meanwhile, Microsoft doesn't even bundle BLAS with their OS.
I entirely agree, it is infuriating. Also, I don't know if it's a technical or political issue but is there any good reason why the Amazon Prime app can't just 'cast' to my DVD player's Amazon Prime app in the same way YouTube manages to do to the DVD's YouTube app?
It's probably not that difficult to create a model that will adjust the prices to reclaim the loss later. Starting low likely generates more sales overall.
Here's an easy one: 20% of profitable returns, without the 2%. If you don't make the money, you don't get the money.
You do realise Xeons are a completely different range with different price points right?
Can anyone find where the proceeds of this go?
This is not a Mac Pro, it's an iMac pro...
MacBook Air finally gets its upgrade, but it's minor
People who edit 4k video and want room for toolbars?
Every white Apple keyboard I've owned has yellowed within months.

Meanwhile, my black MacBook Air keyboard looks nearly the exact same as it did when I bought it four years ago.

Like OP, I also thought that the black keyboard was long overdue.
From the Economist (http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2170347...):

Over the past couple of decades more than 50 countries, including Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, have privatised (or at least “commercialised”) their ATC services, . . .