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For the record, phone numbers and SMS are a security vulnerability. Current recommended best practice once a U2F token and authentiator app are setup is to remove the phone number from the account (which may not be an option for many services).

https://techsolidarity.org/resources/security_key_faq.htm

there are at least three reasons why you should avoid using text messages for two-factor authentication.

· Your phone number can be easily hijacked by someone who calls the phone company and pretends to be you.

· The text message can be viewed or redirected while en route to your phone.

· Many phones are configured to display text messages on the lock screen.

If text messages are the only way to add two-factor authentication to your account, they are better than nothing. But if you can use an alternative method, like an authenticator app or a security key, use that instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14106578

> tptacek: The real answer for "why not SMS" is "because both teenagers and intelligence services can get a phone number redirected; your phone number is not your phone."
Yep, and gold, and oil, and any other store of value has been discovered. Early adopters either took risks or got very lucky.
A great deal of the land managed by the US Forest Service was clear cut before it became national forest.

In Michigan we have a few little pockets of real old growth forest and national forests the size of a small country.
Correction: they're not ARM, but a different RISC architecture.
This is an impressive feat of engineering to get all that hardware into a that kind of a package, but man, I bet there are a lot of pros who'd have preferred an aluminum box that they could open up. No fixability / no upgradability is the price we pay for laptops, but does it really have to be the price for desktops? I'd think that swapping a video card or adding a drive or two is the sort of thing that one might do over the lifespan of this thing.

I guess after this machine is obsolete, there's a "screen mode" where these things can be used as a monitor and the 18 Xeon cores are powered down?
With laptops, such as the Air, based on the great sales figures, consumers are willing to forego being able to repair versus having something compact. It also probably helps apple in the warranty department if their manufacturing quality is so high that people opening it up themselves causes more problems than the product is expected to have by itself.

I used to repair my laptop and desktop, but nowadays I'd rather just go to the Apple store and have it swapped out and not waste time for parts. The share of the market that wants repair-ability is probably just not high enough to care about, at least for Apple.

Edit: if this is for business or professionals, then I don't understand why they would make something like this either though. I assume their highly paid staff has market data and whatnot, but I share your opinion that it's ridiculous if this is supposed to be for business use.
> the fraction of the code that just changed.

I.e. all of the code that changed, which is a fraction of the total codebase.
Used to sleep for 8 hours, now its down to 7. Less sleep definitely affects productivity, but i can stretch couple of days with very less sleep (<5 hours), after that I hit a block and see a drastic decrease in productivity if I don't get a good night sleep.

Are you are feeling low productivity, and blaming lack of sleep? There is a chance it could be something else as well.. pls seek help if needed.
Maybe for graphics professionals who don’t like Windows and can’t get the software they need on Linux. Otherwise, especially for devs, it would just make so much more sense to build a PC for the upgradability if nothing else. Being able to drop in a new card or CPU as desired is a pretty big perk, although I find it somewhat strange to be describing it that way, as it used to be a given.
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I neither need nor can afford one, and as other have commented, for a "professional" an all-in-one computer is rather impractical. I'd much rather have a simple box where I can replace individual components, or the monitor, if it breaks.

That being said, I'm interested in the new magic keyboard: wide, and in space grey. Would look pretty nice with my hackintosh :-P
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Less and 7 hours kills my productivity. It's can be a real problem, and I know that a lot of people on here use Modafinil to deal with it.
I'm not amazed. This processor will inevitable throttle, I don't believe that they could cool it to allow for constant boosting. Graphics looks like trash: it's a consumer video card (no ECC, bad double precision speed) inferior to Nvidia. And of course everything glued together will render this PC obsolete in few years without any upgrade path.

I hope they'll build a proper Mac Pro.
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>Seeing the history of updates to the Mac Mini and Mac Pro why would anyone trust Apple with a high end desktop computer?

Because they don't buy for the next 20 years, but for their actual current needs. If anything happens and the line stops, I can always go find another solution then and there, as opposed to now.

Besides, this is like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. There were several cases for concern (e.g. when the MacPro wasn't updated properly for 3 years).

The day of the release of a new Pro machine is the exact opposite of that.
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True enough, but what does this matter if you are looking to buy today?
Yeah but today it’s awesome. In five years they will have something else even more awesome. I think the problem is they still sell something that was considered awesome from five years ago.
Redash creator here.

Just to make sure someone doesn't get the wrong impressions from your comment:
Redash is 99% open source (and I'm going to close this gap this month[1]), mature and actively maintained. The friendliness is subjective, but we're not trying to please everyone :-)

[1] Sometimes it's easier to prototype new things in the SaaS version, but everything reaches open source eventually. There is practically one feature that wasn't open sourced until now, and I'm going to add it to the open source version now.
6 to 7 hours during the week, on weekends mostly 7..8, rarely up to 10 hours. In my teens and twenties I had a hard time getting up early, but this gets better with age ;)

PS: productivity is only affected if I only get 3..4 hrs sleep for 2 or 3 days. I'm basically useless then. The more important decision was to get up early and not working late, this reduced 'latent burnout' symptoms dramatically.
OJ goes great with my meals.
The other crux is that it is a Radeon GPU and not a Nvidia GPU, so you cannot (effectively) use any Deep Learning library that targets CUDA/cuDNN.
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YANAL. However if you believe that to be the case, and while it has the stench of possibility I have to keep in mind that you are The Daily Stormer, then you should thank Cloudflare.
No mention of the word upgrade anywhere. A pro computer needs to be re-configurable after purchase.
Around 8.5 hours (lights off to alarm ringing).

Productivity is a bit complex to relate in a direct way (I can be "productive" also with less sleep), but I know for sure that this is the amount I need to be 100% of my potential.

Interestingly, I estimate that doing sports (which I do heavily) accounts for 30 to 60 minutes of my sleep - in other words, if I didn't do sports, I could sleep such amount less and be equally "productive", although obviously, my body would slowly decay.
Light vibration would be more appropriate. Together with custom ringtones for different contacts you'd be able to passively receive coded messages.
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You're right, with a steak I'd much prefer a strawberry milkshake.

Certainly not wine.
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Is there something new here?

(I ask because it was announced months ago and isn’t due out for a few more months.)

Looks great though. It’s a little overpowered for the stuff I do, where the demanding things are distributed systems which don’t make sense to host on a workstation, even in simulation. But I sure wouldn’t mind one.
In Darktable, applying styles to the light table `Export` module is a way of sending 'prints' to a standard subdirectory structure. Bash scripts calling darktable-cli might be another possibility for automating a similar process at higher volumes.

Having used both Dartable and Rawtherapee, part of the reason I primarily use Darktable is that it seems to better facilitate working through a few hundred images in a few hours...a use case that not everyone has and that some people might reasonably not ever wish to have but one that I deal with based on the type of subjects I sometimes shoot.
Yes, I imagine you'd run afoul of the DMCA or similar if you started trying to make money from such a thing.
Hacker News is a really nice example when learning a new technology. It's simple enough that you spend very little time explaining the domain but complex enough that you can demonstrate how to deal with some of the more thorny issues that the technology is designed to address.

https://www.howtographql.com/ is a very comprehensive tutorial demonstrating how to use GraphQL with different frontend (Vue, Ember, React) and backend (js, java, elixir, python, ruby, graphcool) technologies.

The end result is not as feature-complete as this entry though as the main focus is on learning the technologies.
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You seems to be wrong about weeks, in the first 4 years of bitcoin the creation rate was constant and half of total bitcoin supply was created.
> then just a matter of fighting the Xilinx/Altera/Lattice tools until then give you a bitstream

Haha! So true :-)
I have to give some credit to Altera tho because after sort of step learning curve you can start generating "IP Cores" with QSys and Tcl scripts to stop clicking on the same icons all day long!
We can make it a new US English idiom!
Alcohol and chocolate are something that I will never understand putting together.
>For example the macbook airs have non standard ssd that is not replaceable, so when the disk dies, whole notebook is done...

Or you can go and get either a warranty extension (before it runs out) or an aftermarket SSD, like millions (including me) have done.
LastPass has an authenticator that can backup your keys too now.
Wow, you're right, and the Posix page indicates the same thing. I believe it used to work properly in Unix / SunOS / HP-UX / AUX (IBM) / Solaris.
It doesn’t, this is one of the major criticisms of the gold standard.

Bitcoin could never be gold even if it wanted to. Making gold proper hard currency is easy, just merge two neutron stars and you’ll have a finite amount to drill up. That’s nothing like having to compute some hash where you simply set up the rules of creation. Gold cannot be distributed or forked via github, it’s simply a fundamentally flawed comparison.

There’s people who think it’s just fine and dandy to have multiple currencies making the rounds in the economy. The problem is that it’s just a horrible user experience in the end. It reminds me of those anarchists who believe we should all govern in free assemblies and have those dull daily meetings. Aint nobody got time for that, few months and you’ll have people paying some guy to go get into arguments with some other guy and to make their decisions for them. Sounds familiar doesn’t it.

You’re not going to get farmers, clowns and housewives to check the daily fluctuations between the dozen or so cryptocs-du-jour and decide which one to invest in, hedge against or transfer to. Well, unless you spend the majority of your time thinking about that stuff and getting paid to do so. You could make a decent buck doing just that... hmmm, if only we had something resembling it.

Keep it simple, brains like simple. Don’t make me think. If you make my computer think, at least have tractable math without a gazillion variables.
A court order to stop a vote, to me, is appalling. It should be ignored. A vote is just a protest, it is purely symbolic until it's implemented. Voting should never be illegal, even if implementing the law voted on would be illegal.

Marijuana is illegal in many places in the US. It's illegal at the federal level, and even if it's legal in some states, the federal government can still arrest you for having marijuana. But we constantly have votes to try to legalize it at the local or state level, knowing that it's still illegal at the national level.

Having that vote is not illegal, even if following through with the results of the vote is illegal. Courts are not infallible and their orders are not always the best course of action.

Almost every declaration of independence throughout history has been considered illegal. They were reckless. They were against the rule of law. They still happened.

Regardless, a vote is a peaceful action. Responding to that peaceful action with violence is what is reckless and against the rule of law.

I guess there are still some freedoms we take for granted in the US that other countries have not yet granted themselves.
Any tips on prying people away from Excel, and into something like metabase/Tableau/whatever?

That seems to be one of the biggest hurdles I think I'm going to have to figure out, rather than the technical side.
No wireless, less space than a Nomad too.
It's at about 460 watts TDP just for the CPU and GPU alone in top configuration, assuming standard clocks and volts. Apple will have to live with throttling, or find top-binned parts that can be undervolted and downclocked while remaining stable.

I am not an optimist. Full size chassis need some pretty serious cooling for these parts, and I see none of that with the Pro.
Many activity trackers will provide stats about how much you sleep, and how you compare with the rest of the population. I appreciate your question is about HN readers rather than fitness nerds, but there might be an overlap.
Iirc the can had some thermal issues with anything more that it’s current specs. Apple says a redesigned Pro is in the works.
During the week? 6 hours. Weekends are closer to 8. My time in the Army destroyed my ability to sleep in :(
Maybe it only worked well because you never encountered a file consisting of one very long line? Back then most somewhat human-readable data formats where line-based. Lines also where the de-facto standard work unit for stream processing so that there was an implicit understanding that a large file without newlines would not be processable as text even if all parts of that line were human readable. This only changed once XML went big which made most newlines a convenience that is frequently omitted in machine to machine communication, a paradigm shift that almost all younger formats followed. Now those m2m versions of optionally linebroken data occasionally hit our editors and make the limitations of lines as the basic unit of text editors painfully noticeable.

That being said, I have often seen otherwise reliable editors choke on very long lines, so your former self would still be in good company, even two decades later.
I think a deeper question to ask is whether the monetary
controls of which you speak are designed to serve the masses
or to maintain current power and wealth distribution?

Consider how all the major cryptocoin supplies have been minted and distributed. Anyone with established wealth has had disproportionately easier access to take over these cryptocoin networks due to the supplies being produced in quantity early on and at low computational/energy/capital costs.

Assuming the existing network is not made obsolete, and if there is any on-going demand then later users will need to sacrifice disproportionately excessive trade into the network as the early adopters simply horde the majority of the supply.
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> perhaps with some state provider digital signature or whatever.

Yes he did. In Denmark it is called "NemID" [1], and is a state issued 2 factor identification system for online interaction with banks and official services.

Obviously Apple can't rely on this system for all their users, but in theory they could make it work for Danish users.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NemID
not gotcha trick puzzle questions.

In what world is testing if a number is even or odd a gotcha trick puzzle question?
It's the correct way to state what they mean to state ('not even Mark Zuckerberg knows what Facebook is' rephrased as a question). But certainly not an elegant or easy-to-read headline - I choked on it too. Reminds me of that old copy-pasta: 'Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like?'
Pretty much.

I've tried cheap wines and a few stupidly expensive wines and I really disliked each one. It's just not a pleasant taste to me.

Same with champagne. Even expensive champagne is unpleasant.

The concept of wine or alcohol in general going well with certain foods is alien to me too. If I am eating and drinking alcohol at the same time, that warm fuzzy feeling in the head that you get from the alcohol makes my meal much less appealing to me, like it kills my appetite.

Alcohol and food is a case of one or the other to me. Never at the same time.
Why is this considered news? It was announced at WWDC in June, no?
I see the privacy potential of cryptocurrency the same the privacy potential of the internet: for the average person it will be a disaster.
Yeah, this seems like kind of an odd compromise, for people who want the power of a high-end machine, but the convenience of an all-in-one and are willing to give up upgradability for it?

Also, the 'real' new Mac Pro is supposed to be announced soonish--at this point it would seem to make more sense to wait and see what that offers before committing to this anyway.

(Though I suppose if you are in a corporate environment where buying is driven by accountants who replace everything as soon as the thing outlives its depreciation schedule--or even have everything on leases, like we do here--maybe the fact that it will someday be relatively obsolete doesn't matter).
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By focusing on the muscle tenseness. Meditation, massage, hot water. And sometimes just some ibuprofen to break the "it hurts, so tense up, which causes it to hurt" cycle.

They're not perfect, but I'm mindful of the state of those muscles now, and can typically head off (or deal with) the tenseness.
> I'm saying this because no matter what Apple say, their focus is undoubtedly on what makes them the most money: iPhones.

I've never understood that argument. If iMacs make profit - any profit at all - why can't they just put up a shack next to their main building UFO and have a subdivision crank out iMacs? It's a question of having or not having "a few additional millions".

Also, a large part of their iOS business is tied to macs - you need a mac for development, and they don't want that platform to become so bad to hurt iOS development.
> It would take chapters for me to do a proper comparison and show you how truly bad Thunderbird is by comparison.

I would read that :)
The 'sensationalism' is not at the technical detail, but TFL being opaque about their motives.

TFL's intention to "dynamically trade advertising space" is far more interesting though.
Once that's in place it doesn't matter if TFL track you or not - Facebook and Google will just repurpose their existing technology, making things a step closer to the advertising in minority report.

This will likely result in a strong pressure to reduce the friction of everyone using the wifi - expect the 'paywall' to drop.
There is supposed to be a more standard desktop system coming 2018 or early 2019, I think.
The iMac Pro is basically a stopgap until the new Mac Pro's arrive next year.

They actually acknowledged they messed up with the 'dustbin' Mac Pro and it's lack of upgradability, which is a first. (https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/4/15175994/apple-mac-pro-fai...). They are working on a completely new Mac Pro to address the issues actual pro's have, but that's going to take a while. The iMac Pro is just here to fill the gap.
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i was hoping for nvidia :(
But no macOS - despite a few warts and declining quality, still the best desktop operating system available.
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>This is an impressive feat of engineering to get all that hardware into a that kind of a package, but man, I bet there are a lot of pros who'd have preferred an aluminum box that they could open up.

They have already announced that is coming later on in 2018.
I have the "cloud to butt" extension[1] installed, which led me to initially assume the article was about running phones as part of a cloud service, either for compute or testing. It was therefore quite a surprise for me when I actually clicked through to the article...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-plus...
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Well if I ever wanted to ask do I really need to know advanced data structures this answers that question. Really interesting article.
I am talking about models that have ssd as chips soldered to the motherboard. You cant buy aftermarket replacement for that.
On 2: No it cannot, but traditional banks are attacked all the time. That didn't stop us from online banking. The role a bank could play is in secure and easy cryptocurrency.

It's similar to keeping stacks of cash at home. It's possible, but maybe mor secure if 3rd party does it. At this point none of the 3rd party exchanges are really reliable.
Easily - unless you main priority is only the price and you’re not bothered by / interested in ’smart’ functionality or apps, the camera, build quality and OS are excellent, also it’s worth noting that the iPhone’s security and privacy design is generally significantly better not to mention your phone will not only still work after several years - it’ll still get fast, regular security updates.
But you can't do that with the latest MacBooks, which have their SSDs soldered directly onto the logic boards. And you can't do that with memory for any Apple notebook from the last several years for the same reason.

My 7 year old MacBook Pro is running okay thanks to some memory and storage upgrades. I would not be able to get the same life extension with one of the new models, which makes me hesitate to get a new Mac.
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> Wine tastes good, and it tastes good with other things, but in no way more special than say, other fruit juices or beverages.

Well, other than the fact that, on top of its own particular taste characteristics, it's also a vehicle for a substance with is both a recreational drug and flavor enhancer, which certainly has an effect on experience when it is consumed that has nothing to do with social pretense.

But ignoring that is a pretty big oversight.
The Jelly is $100, the iPhone SE is $350.

You can also pretty easily resell the iPhone after two years to recapture at least a third of the MSRP.