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> Not much, at least, not much that benefits me as a customer.

Why would it matter to you, as a customer, what chip is inside your computer? As long as it can run your programs, why do you care?

See also: Microsoft and Windows on ARM
> they have a history of over-heating

Do you know of any laptop brand with products <$1k which never had an overheating problem?
Instead of fixing core problems exposed recently, ie, not letting a single person via the executive branch have direct control over important things like tariffs (this used to be something only congress had control over) people want to just blame the other party as a solution for everything.

Despite the fact the executive branch grew the fastest and exercised some of the greatest amount of power under the previous party, much like the previous guy before him who also set a record of executive power expansion, etc, helping set the stage for current volatility.

I seem to be one of the few people concerned by the fact such market volatility is even possible based on one man's decision making.

Although I should note there is a uniquely large disconnect from the things said by the current administration as opposed to the actual actions - and the subsequent media (and lesser extent market) reactions. I'm happy people are concerned about abuse of power but it's disheartening that it's been so weakly correlated to real world power use/expansion.
multiprocessing was designed to mirror the threading library... so the exceptions are specifically set up not to cross thread/process boundaries. But the same strategies to handle multithreaded exceptions and keyboardinterrupt should apply.

If you want the child processes to shutdown when the main process goes down, you should be able to just set .daemon = True on the process objects before you start them.

If you want exceptions in the children thread to propagate up to the main thread and then handle, looks like you'd just need to send the exception across a queue or something in multiproccessing. In the new futures library, your future (wrapping the process) has a return value property you can try to access. If the child process ran into an exception, that exception would be raised in the main process when you tried to access that return value.
Do you realize that "that stuff" is merely a binary packages system?
After a ten year battle I graduate a arts politics/business management degree this Friday. It's been a long battle but I'm stoked to have stuck to it! However disheartening the knowledge has been it's definitely worth it.
The analogy can be taken further: like uranium, data can be and has been weaponized in a narrow sense, and despite the toxicity and trouble still remains incredibly valuable.
I think Tim Cook is laughing out loud in his office now, how they just tricked Intel to lower their CPU prices. However I wonder how this insider info went out public, having direct impact on Intel shares.

Sorry but transiting from Intel doesn't make sense to me. It would burn huge pile of money for very low benefit.
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> but what I have heard it is basically Tinder but for gay men. Would Tinder be blackmail data? It's hook ups and relationships, dating, etc, no?

Absolutely when cross-referenced with information from OPM database. Employee with TS/SCI clearance working on a <military project X> hasn't reported reported his gay affairs (that his wife might not know about even). The Chinese find out, approach him and make him an offer "Look buddy, how 'bout we become friends. You just tell us what you know and we'll give you some money and most importantly keep quiet about your meeting with your secret partner on such and such dates or places?"
Bruce Schneier has been singing that tune for awhile now. Glad people are finally listening.

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2016/03/data_is_a_t...
"Fake news" is a symptom of consumer ignorance, and beneficial for facilitating monopolization.
> There would be complete shitstorm

Erm, Trump doesn't seem to care about the number of shitstorms he causes.

If anything, Trump (and his base) are HAPPY when they get shitstorms. "Drain the Swamp", "Snub the coastal elites", etc. etc. If Trump wanted to prevent shitstorms, maybe his Cabinet-level officials wouldn't leave every 3 or 4 months.

Trump doesn't care about Congress or laws. He just does whatever he can do. Sure, the courts smack him down sometimes, but the power of the Executive Order means he truly can hurt Amazon (to the detriment of greater America) if he really wanted to.

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There are PLENTY of powers Mr. Trump can do. The Justice Department can investigate Amazon for antitrust. So can the FCC. Heck, the FCC just got rid of net neutrality (due to Mr. Trump's most recent appointee). Demonstrating the power over the Internet that Mr. Trump wields.

USPS is just the most obvious way (IMO) that Mr. Trump can hurt amazon. And it seems to be the one that Mr. Trump's tweets are focusing on.
This is a poorly written article where "Linux" is used interchangeably with "Linux foundation." No doubt the understanding of the distinction by lawmakers is equally tenuous.

But perhaps we could skip the usual nerd round of "why don't other people get technology right" and speculate on the forms legislation/regulation is likely to take.
That's to be expected, of course. Linux maintainers care about the fact that it can run on just about anything. macOS maintainers only care about whether it runs on Macs.
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This is often a result of selection bias. There's always some event out there that could conceivably affect the stock price in some direction. When the price moves, your brain (and the news headlines) ties the price move to the event because humans don't like "Yeah, it was just random chance" as an explanation, but the actual reason the price moved was there were fewer or more buyers than sellers that day.

I've seen this happen in action when the S&P 500 might start the day with a big drop and the headlines are all "Markets drop on inflation fears" at 11 AM, and then they turn positive in the afternoon, and suddenly the headline changes to "Markets rebound on positive economic data". In actuality, neither the inflation fears nor the economic data was the cause of the market moves, but "Markets move randomly throughout the day", though true, is a terrible headline that won't get any clicks, and so no news outlet will ever run with it.
What parts of your workflow do you think are uniquely enhanced by not being on Mac?
I hope you don't watch movies or TV/shows or play sports
Yeah after 20 years smoking, I had minor (unrelated) surgery and had to stay at home for a couple weeks, so I just cold stopped smoking and that was that. I am curious too but I refrain from experimenting.
Only companies making profits have P/E ratios, Tesla is still losing money so its P/E doesn't dictate its share price, only its projected future growth/sales.

P/E ratios don't tell the whole story, e.g. AMZN has a high P/E ratio because they aim for low profitability by reinvesting in growth, similar to Netflix who's still taking on debt to build out its inventory.

When a companies growth and revenue has stagnated their P/E ratio then becomes a strong indicator for market value / share price.
It doesn't need to be a closed garden. Look at what Microsoft is doing with x86 emulation on ARM.
It's a lot easier to HODL your bitcoin when you don't have looming mortgage payments. When the economy gets rough, people are going to liquidate holdings in assets all across the board.

With Bitcoin having no real-world value aside from being an great token for a fully-anonymous game of greater fool, the prognosis is not great.

With other asset classes, there's some real-world value backing the minimum price (real estate has rent, stocks bring dividends, bonds guarantee interest payments, etc). With bitcoin, there's no real bottom for the value.

In this, it's actually similar to a lot of unicorn stocks. What's the real-world value of a business that's bleeding money like no tomorrow? The P/E ratio is negative!
An odd catch-22 of not investigating other possible solutions so they could get a legal precedent is that they couldn't tell anyone outright that's what they were doing. So someone trying to he helpful ended up ruining everything. No no good deed goes unpunished.
I don't think they'd attempt it unless they had something that would disrupt the market. Intel has been rusting on its laurels without credible competition, and if Apple manages to steal a march on them with a new technology, that would be the impetus to bring it in-house.
The effect of tech matters. It always has. We spent much of the middle of the 20th century working out the downsides of chemical technology, and the ever present risks from nuclear physics; digital tech can have its toxic waste spills and weaponisation like everything else.
The difficulty with this narrative is that's not where most of his votes came from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/0... Your explanation may be why those people voted for him, but it's not enough to explain why he won.
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Why game on a console if you can afford to do so on PC?
LiPo, Li-Ion (not the LiPo variety, LiPo is also Li-Ion) is also dangerous but much less so from my own personal experience.
Audio from what I know is best with have multiple high speed cores, rather than many lower speed cores. (I use my machines for audio)
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Hi, I have a question about the performance benchmarks section. The best performaing model from your benchmarks, ssd_mobilenet_v1, has a prediction time in seconds of 0.72 -- Is that the total runtime of the script? I'm wondering if I could achieve ~1 FPS running in realtime (basically looping as fast as possible against the camera input), or is there more overhead?
(edit -- made question more specific)
You shouldn't "sell" on this or any news, you should lower your buy/sell price, which you should always have pending.
It’s “good cop bad cop”. Trump is a skilled negotiator, he’s setting up a negotiation. Same with “trade war”. Same with North Korea.
How often does this happen? This is the first time I've ever heard of it, and apparently it's uncommon enough to make the news and subsequently the HN front page.

Not battery fires in general, like I've heard/seen enough Youtube videos about quadcopter LiPos, and the Samsung Note 7 or whatever it was, but laptop batteries specifically. There's enough space to build safety in, and they don't fly around at high speeds like quadcopters.

The owner of course gives the advice of always unplugging laptops when you're not there and stuff, but I'd say the same if it was my office which burned down (hindsight bias). It's beneficial for battery makers to be slim on safety margins because then you can squeeze more juice into it, but as far as I know there's still lots of safety features on modern Li-ion/LiPo batteries, and this seems like either a one-in-a-billion or a (factory) defect.
> I'm looking into my US parking lot right now - I see about 90% foreign cars, and a few US SUVs.

A lot of those “foreign” cars are made in America. Heck, America not only makes a lot of foreign-badged cars, it exports a lot of them.
The picture I was trying to paint, albeit not very well, was that there was no group that we could trust to decide which things people should be allowed to say, and which things they shouldn't be. (I didn't get the point across very well, so we ran in to a race condition after I decided to retract it. Sorry.)

If we think that Facebook should decide what's permissible, then that's US culture being the global nanny. If we let the local government decide what's permissible, then you better watch out because every single genocide in history has involved demonizing the victims as the real danger (so, their speech would be pointed at as "harmful" and banned, the perpetrators would be painted as organizing a just revolution). The worst genocides were conducted with state support, and wouldn't be stopped if local national governments were moderating Facebook. Forming a special panel to decide which groups deserve to get their message out seems like a very dangerous and poorly motivated concentration of power. I can't think of any other ways to decide which speech is dangerous and ban it, therefore I conclude we're stuck with not doing it.
Trump is bring the end of a system. Interesting to see how it will actually unfold.

Trade war with China will hurt both sides, with China on the loser side. But China will be resilient, after all the anti-west narrative never goes away and Trump only proves its correctness , when the propaganda machine rolls it will make China even more united, a divided US on the other hand, is not. Any negative impact will be written down by opposition as bullets for next election. Violent delights will have violent ends. Grab my popcorns, the show has just begins.
>As usual

Is that what usually happens? Really?
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I thought they meant that literally, and not as an analogy.

At my company, developers can't do production deployments for, I've been told, "SOX compliance".
1) it's all in the terms of service. Idk why anybody is surprised. They own everything you enter into the app anywhere full stop.

2) it's not going anywhere. Its the gay Facebook. It has monopolized the market of an already vulnerable demographic so they can do whatever they want and still charge an extraordinary amount (almost $20 per month??) and provide no customer service.

The app doesn't even function as advertised (at least on Android). Push notifications and read receipts have been broken for years. Btw if you restrict the permissions of the app they permanently change your status to offline.
Because in the astronomy part, we're assuming the GR is correct, and using it to watch astronomical events in a way we couldn't before.

For example, the detected neutron star merger tested that gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, since we were able to also detect the fast gamma ray burst from it. That's testing GR. But it also showed that such fast gamma ray bursts come from the merger of two neutron stars. That's not testing GR.
Bringing this back on track. If the market tanks before November, there is a higher chance of dissent against Trumpism, since he tied himself so much to the market, and in a very literal sense, is causing it to tank by policy and by embodying political risk.
It's less severe, but nicotine alone is carcinogenic.
I was just discussing this weekend the strength I was seeing in the ARM market. Looking at the Apple trend lately with the A9-A11 chips, being ARM based, and then the advances Qualcomm has made making workstations and servers based on ARM chips, this just seems like a no brainer. Build cheaper, more efficient chips, custom designed to work with your own ecosystem.

Finally, the ARM and NVIDIA deals could make large strides in the market of getting blockchain ready and making machines purpose built for dealing with the inevitable future of blockchain in everything.
1. Most parents fail the character test.
2. The world is unjust. You should fight it when it benefits you. I don't see the benefits here. Family is more important than money.
Wasn’t opel an “American” car last year? In the modern supply chain does the distinction even make sense?
I have the same problem on Ubuntu LTS distributions. Eg the ancient version of git in 16.04LTS.

You can fix that of course but homebrew does the same job on macOS.

Roll on 18.04LTS.
That's what I thought about Bush, but he checked out right when the crisis hit and let employment bottom out on Obama's watch. Then Trump was able to run on a pro-business campaign saying that Obama didn't create enough jobs. What we're seeing is possibly the bleeding edge of a downturn that may not hit for real for a year or two. It could easily hit the next administration and it will a hell of cleanup job since we haven't paid off our last recovery yet.
The part you omitted is how the long-term outlook currently priced into a lot of tech stocks (including AMZN) is far too optimistic and not accurately discounted relative to likelihood. Current prices aren't a function of rigorous analysis so much as pie-in-the-sky projections and too much capital floating around.
Most likely it doesn't help against trolls but strengthens their position in cross-licensing negotiations with other companies. When a company's portfolio includes many thousands of patents, due diligence to discover the important ones becomes impossible and it's then a numbers game.
Nice tiled floor, I guess that helps a bit with SLAM (just being jealous, great job!! :) )
People that think they don’t need 4K either haven’t seen a 4K display in person or have poor eyesight. It’s a leap like upgrading from HDD to SDD, in the display world.

Unless you just need your monitor for gaming. New gen temporal aliasing mostly makes up for the lack of pixels.
Those product registration cards/forms/preinstalled apps that you just throw away/uninstall when you get a new computer or other product are there for exactly that reason. If you register your hardware, and it gets recalled, you should be notified.