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It depends whether the managers are technically competent and up to date.

If neither: then I'd recommend looking for another job as a matter of priority. Managers who get their knowledge from the teenage sons of their drinking buddies or from business magazines or, worse, IT sales people are like a manifestation of a Dilbert comic strip.

If former technical guys, but not up to date, then it demands whether they even listen to the developers' input or make decisions based upon their out of date knowledge and experience.

Finally, if both competent and up to date, then why haven't they been actively involved in the decision making up until now?
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This will appeal to any developer that wants to deploy machine learning models on macOS or iOS and get the most out of the hardware (Metal w/Core ML).

> The docs [1] also seem to imply they're using transfer learning from more robust models for their image classifier

I read that as a recommendation for the minimum number of training samples per label (e.g. 10 photos w/leopard tagged).

Apple's Turi Create [1] also also been getting some love these last few months to add support for exporting to Core ML.

[1] https://github.com/apple/turicreate
Heh, the United States of Github got invaded and occupied.

http://www.businessinsider.com/githubs-oval-office-2013-9
I just tested it on 512MB $49 Chinese Android 6.0 phone and it works. Not the fastest but perfectly usable.
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Is Instagram app crashing for anyone else?
Keeps crashing for me on Android (Nexus 6P)
>"Facebook acknowledged that some partners did store users’ data — including friends’ data — on their own servers"

Let's just let this statement stand on it's own for a moment.
The historical fact of how it got passed doesn't make it not silly or dangerous, though.
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The question is, how many devs did they have working those two weeks (and what resources did Apple provide to help them)?

I develop an OpenGL-based video engine for a live media playback application, which is very nearly as simple an application of OpenGL as you can expect to find in the real world, and there's no way I could expect to port it to Metal in a week or two singlehandedly. Like others have mentioned, it's a completely different paradigm, not just a matter of changing around some function calls.

That said, I welcome this change with open arms (and secure in the knowledge that legacy code will continue to work for the foreseeable future). OpenGL is a fragmented, brittle, spaghetti-inducing pile of global state. Rewriting in Metal isn't anywhere near as small a project as Apple claims, but I'm perversely looking forward to it -- I'll be very happy to have OpenGL in my rearview mirror.
And not strictly a replacement either, WebGL would not go away. The successor to WebGL is still so far away that there will probably be some versions after WebGL 2.0.
Relatively recent? There are developers in the workforce today who were born after the DMCA.

That's not recent anymore.
I presume you are implying that they have not kept their knowledge nor skills up to date. In which case I shudder to think of how their decisions fare in the current technical environment.

In some slow moving industries, legacy systems are milked for all they are worth. Investments in new hardware and technologies are generally kept to a minimum. And ... the IT staff are actively looking for new jobs.
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What exactly is the limit here that is reasonable? It's a limit on referendums; without the limit, voters would still have to approve any hike. If it is so against the public interest, why not let the public decide, by voting?
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That article is irrelevant with regard to cryptocurrencies as they are near-infinitely divisible. There could never be such a "famine".
After discontinuing AutoCAD for Mac in 1994 people begged for 18 years to get it back and now Apple says "eh, we didn't want that anyway."

I heard they have a WebAssembly/WebGL version now, betting that'll get wrapped up in a WebView and we can all pretend it's a native program still.

Speaking of WebGL, that's basically OpenGL ES 2.0, but I assume the implementation in WebKit is backed by Metal? What about other browsers like Firefox?
I haven't said anything about hitting rollout targets. That's a separate issue from changing the order of production. Regardless of when it happens, the base model is no longer being produced before the D/P models, which was what they promised was going to happen regardless of the ramp rate. It would have been reasonable for someone, like the person you were talking to, to expect Tesla to produce the trims in the order they promised to do so for over 2 years, rather than the order in which they purportedly offered the S/X. We should hope they're not replicating the Model S's rollout, in which the base model was never physically produced (they shipped a small number of software-limited batteries instead), and was removed from the configurator soon after it was introduced.
Arbitrary status codes from your webserver is extremely useful for testing your nginx or other reverse-proxy configuration. If your webserver is returning 500s, does nginx retry in an infinite loop? Not good!

Better: if a query causes your webserver to crash, does nginx crash ALL of them while retrying that bad query? :-)
Out of curiosity, what is your opinion on things like Operation Northwoods? [1] Operation Northwoods was a plan for US intelligence agencies to engage in terrorist activity against Americans, and then blame it on Cuba as a means of justifying war. It was formulated by our intelligence agencies and approved by the joint chiefs of staff. Literally the only reason this did not happen is because one person, JFK, chose not to sign off on it. Or perhaps what the FBI did to MLK? After spying on him and discovering his 'sexual deviancy' they posed as a black supporter and tried to blackmail and shame him into suicide. [2]

We don't tend to learn about these things until decades after they happen since they're heavily classified. And I imagine if Operation Northwoods went ahead, it's the sort of action that might have ended up with no paper trail at all. And so we can look back and say 'oh that was 50 years ago, we're so very different now.' Yet of course, after our secrets are revealed beyond doubt 50 years from now people will almost certainly be aghast at the things we are doing, yet will consider themselves beyond such a point since after all 'that was 50 years ago, we're so very different now.'

And to be clear here I am in no way implying anything one way or the other about Cheney. This is a more general question that I'm quite curious about. What I am stating is that our government, which is made up of individuals, has an extremely rich history of Machiavellian behavior, even when such behavior is extremely unethical. To think that the individuals within government are somehow all, independently, reasonably good people is not really logical. Though I suppose JFK, at least, we can be sure was probably a good person.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

[2] - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/fbis-suicide-letter-dr...
"Mediocre" is way too negative. The writer could also have used "pragmatic". I started working purely in C and there it was worth to deeply get into it. These days you have to know a much wider range of tools so it's hard to know them all in detail. Because of this I have learned to prefer simple code.

Personally I wouldn't mind having the times back when you had the time to become a complete C++ geek but these days are over for most of us.
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That link reminds me of when Bush said "This crusade - this war on terrorism - is going to take a while". If Bush described the war on terror as a crusade, I don't see how out there Hersh is when he says some officers see the war on terror as a crusade.

Also General Boykin is listed as the Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Malta on their web page ( http://www.theknightshospitallers.org/grand-chancellor.html ). The old crusader order. Boykin gave a speech in a church in October 2003 that seemed to cast the war as a holy war between Christianity and Islam.

This sentiment exists for some in the military and Hersh mentions it in speeches and interviews.
PowerShell is a pile of slightly incompatible versions, you end up with code targeting the oldest version you need (often version 2 for Windows 7).
With Apple's slow update cycle, the publishers would not have very much trouble. It's far easier to identify a browser by its capabilities and bugs than it is to add those capabilities and fix those bugs.
Constitutional limits like the Bill of Rights sound awesome to me.

As a Californian, all of our crazy constitutional limits on taxes are less awesome. After many years of unequal taxation, similar buildings in the same city pay wildly different amounts of tax, and the difference will only grow over time. People are less likely to move for a new job, businesses get less for selling commercial buildings because a tax benefit is lost when a building is sold. It's one of the worst aspects of California's direct democracy system.
...countdown to Apple acquiring GitLab??
Unless your name is Dr Gregory House, why would you want a domain in a TLD that is unrelated to what you doing or selling? I would guess that search engines as well as potential customers are going to be confused by such a decision.
I have kids and don't smack them. I don't really feel like I am lacking a tool in my arsenal of discipline. Usually time out, withholding things like TV or treats is enough.
business partner and I both have Surface related products. His #1 complaint against Windows10, is the Emoji support compared to macOS.
I don't think it's much of an incentive. According to Valve's hardware surveys roughly 3% of Steam's market is MacOS. Those type of numbers are similar across different distribution platforms that a Unity game dev will target. It'll be hard to nudge it away from low priority with that share.

https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
It could be a simple smart contract rather than an entire ICO/coin
Previous/ongoing discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17229397 (272 points/251 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17223926 (700 points/200 comments)
So you're saying Tesla should have produced the base model S40 even though almost no one ordered it, and it would have been a loss compared to giving people more expensive cars with a software limit?

OK then.
Freenet/Zeronet have updatable sites already, should be trivial to do with git commits, grab the latest signed update based on this name and key hash...

Overall though I think a federated system that also handles issues is better, something more akin to Fossil.
A possible approach to that is discussed in the article in the section under the heading "Was that actually decentralized?"
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If this is correct, it doesn’t seem very healthy.

While quite possibly statistically likely, it doesn’t seem very healthy to make these assumptions for the purposes of a joke.

Might have been better to just say “a friend” rather than “wife” which makes a number of assumptions...
As much as possible, yes.
When my friend got his first rollover event (after much tribulation) show a different image on a website in the 90s he was ecstatic. His wife said "so what? I see that all the time" _sigh_

I think the op's comment is the same kind of thing...
It is interesting but perhaps not surprising. They have gone from darling startups to consuming our lives and holding enormous power to influence, people have noticed and people care.

It might be surprising if you don't feel the same way though and aren't exposed to it. In the same way that I wouldn't have noticed the brexit movement had even a handful of followers when infact it was a huge portion of people.

The lesson I took from that was that I have a world view but it is only a tiny fraction of possible world views, and I will never know or understand most of them.

I do wonder what sort of politics it will influence though, as it stands I can't really imagine many outcomes. These are new problems in a unique political climate, I haven't been able to read it well for a while now.
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Experienced photographers (not me unfortunately) know lots of tricks to get people to look good. A popular one to hide double chins is to move your head forward by about a centimeter or two, but facing the camera so it can't see the angle of your neck.
But it seems like decentralization would be a mortal blow to privacy. If we struggle to get a monolithic Facebook to treat our data responsibly, how could we possibly convince 500 decentralized Facebook nodes? (And why isn't it trivial for the NSA or FSB to copy the world's data by standing up node #238 under an alias?)
True. And even besides your example of discontinuity, if they want more specificity, it could be theirs. They are free to specify as much as needed when they write the documents.
Your argument here is tautological. I'm not saying that one should never use that analytical model, just that there are other ways to do things.

Companies don't act on their own or have beliefs. Only the people that make them up do. The company does need to turn enough profit to sustain itself, but beyond that, it's in large part up to the people who make it up. One of the thorniest problems in investing, for example, is the principle-agent problem, where people act in their own interests.

In America, that's mainly thought about as CEOs and executives serving themselves, not investors. But that's a cultural thing. In Gemany, companies are much more focused on all sorts of stakeholders. That's also often true in America with small and medium businesses, especially ones that are family owned.

Companies are hopefully designed to do whatever the stakeholders want them to do. Sometimes that's serving somebody's rapacious greed. Sometimes it isn't.
Custom built PCs are a niche. The vast majority of people just want to buy a box that works.
The public beta is for iOS 11: https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/guide

iOS 12 is currently available only as a developer beta, for which you need to pay the yearly membership fee.
Don't feel bad about it, people parroting any mention of nazis as "godwining" (and almost always trying to use it as "you lose the arguement!!!", which wasnt even godwin's observation) are terribly short sighted.

If you refuse to even discuss the nazis and what they did, especially in directly applicable cases like this, how the hell can we ever hope to not repeat their mistakes.
Hi! I started this project in 2015, using Bitcoin and BitTorrent -- since then, I think Ethereum and IPFS have become better substrates for this sort of work.

And, I think it remains the case that the difficult part of decentralizing GitHub is not working out how to share repositories using p2p bandwidth, but instead working out how to use p2p for the social features of the site, like comments and pull requests.

Secure Scuttlebutt has some potential there, but as a gossip protocol it doesn't have a way for people you don't know/follow to e.g. send you a PR.
Great write-up! Hands-on, code included, concise. Thanks for posting.
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By the measure of the parent comment, and, I think globally. It's often best to accommodate an argument when you have more than one way to make your case. If someone believes that unemployment is on the rise, despite the facts that you (specifically) may have, let them win it - because they have seen the same facts and don't care.
Is there any good argument for this, other than people not liking taxes?

If there were an equal number of ballots on lowering as well as raising taxes, sure. But this is a ratchet that goes only one way.

I don’t think most normal adults in a functioning democracy oppose taxes per se. But it is the right and the duty even of every taxpayer-voter to ensure that the common purse is managed efficiently and for the good of the community, and that’s the heart of all of this. The question is “if you can’t spend what we’ve given you already responsibly, why should we give you more?”
That's a good story, but I wouldn't exactly call it ironic. Tom Preston turned down the Microsoft offer because he "wanted to work on something he truly loved", not because he was opposed to working at the company. And he succeeded, no matter who he sold Github to.
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Would it be correct to assume that swathes of old games will just stop working when 10.14 arrives? I'm not a MacOS user, but as a gamer that would frustrate the hell out of me.
No, but he's not immortal. He could get hit by a bus tomorrow. The median CEO in the Fortune 500 lasts only 5 years or so, and he's already in year 4.
I see people say this all the time, but how is this possible? Do you work from home? I only live a few miles from work and Uber would still way out-expense a car payment, gas, and insurance...and even then, my car is worth a few thousand at the end, at least.

Not that I've seriously pursued this angle but napkin math tells me it would either break even or cost more to Uber.
And it was Christianity that you can thank for the abolition movement.
Oh. sorry.

I meant, I found it much more responsive.
I thought they already have their own version control systems?
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Thank you!

I noticed that the app feels laggier on higher resolutions, probably because of the CSS animations.
I'll probably have to make a compromise between performance and good looking animations.

About the web player, can you please share some ideas about what I can do to improve the workflow?
There is already a way to open a saved playlist in the web player: Click `Open` in the upper left on the playlist page and you should see a `Web` button.

And as far as I know, the web player creates a Spotify Connect device, so if you have a tab open with the web player, you should see the device when you click the big play button on the bottom of the playlist page.

If you're talking about the blends, I admit I didn't think about that. But it shouldn't be hard to implement.
It's like BMW didn't get the memo that electric cars don't have to look like electric cars anymore.
> The first sentence explains that it is about how they are back on the defensive

> Facebook endured a new wave of criticism from lawmakers and regulators in the United States and Europe on Monday after disclosures that the social media giant had allowed dozens of hardware manufacturers access to its trove of personal user data.

I don't see any evidence of "defensive" action from fb. English is not my first language so maybe I'm misinterpreting being "on the defensive". If someone criticizes you are you automatically "on the defensive"?
We don't know how far they were from being profitable. But even unprofitability is not a big problem these days. E.g., Okta IPOed in the red with explicit plans to keep losing money for the foreseeable future.

Github was making over $200m/year, and was poised for strong growth in enterprises as they got with the times. I expect they could have gotten to GAAP profitability whenever they needed to. But they should have kept spending on growth to maximize market share.
"Apps built using OpenGL and OpenCL will continue to run in macOS 10.14, but these legacy technologies are deprecated in macOS 10.14."

Should be okay for now.
So the opinion of a 9 year old on the current American political climate is just as important as that of a 34 year old?

We all judge, constantly. You're judging people based on the fact that they judge on age, that's also judging on some arbitrary measure.
This is the one major reason I lost most of my desire to continue grad school (I was studying astrophysics). I chose physics specifically because I wanted to understand the universe. The way I thought of it was that I wanted to lift the hood of reality and see how things "really" worked. As a kid, I'd read a number of books on science and had heard of a quest for a Theory of Everything. I'd decided this was a quest I wanted to go on. I thought of it as the most worthy singular hidden treasure and I was willing to devote my life to digging for it.

But over the course of my undergrad, and hours debating with friends, and reading even more, I started to get an uneasy feeling. I decided to go to grad school, partly, because I still held on to the belief that there really was treasure at the end of that rainbow, and that we really could, if we were clever enough, "figure out" how things "really" worked. But, in grad school, it just continued to dawn on me how impossible it was for there to be only One True Theory. One way I thought about it was to regard physics as a program. Even if there were separate theories for different scales, or domains, it didn't matter, you could still regard the whole knowledge base as a single program and the scale and domain, along with physical observables, as inputs to the Physics Program. The output would be predictions for the state of the universe (or some subset, it didn't matter) at some later time, i.e., it would predict later observables' values.

The thing was, I had a hard time finding any logical justification for why there had to be only one program that could take in the known inputs and produce the known outputs. That is, there was no way to logically prove that there could not be multiple equivalent programs that could produce the same output given the same input. I.e., there was no way to logically justify the notion that there could only be One True Physics. That is, the treasure I believed I'd be digging for, didn't not exist, it was just that there was more than one treasure, and anyone could find their own.

This thought diminished some of the romance, so to speak, of the Quest for Truth, so I lost interest, for a time. Enough to stop taking grad school classes and just start working (coding). Maybe one day I'll create a program of my own.
In May 2018 in US (https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/):

Tesla doubled the sales of Model 3 from LAST MONTH, maintaining their position as US best selling fully electric car.

Second and third best selling fully electric car is Model S and Model X.

Fourth best selling fully electric car, Chevy Bolt, had the worst monthly sales, at less than 1/5th of Model 3 sales. Then there's Nissan Leaf and Fiat 500e.

"sucks at delivering" is apparently relative and Tesla is being measured by a stick from a different planet.
I like it, only issue I've found so far is Safari's private browsing (or Incognito) that is indistinguishable from normal browsing.

Under "normal" circumstances I wouldn't care, but I use it a lot for development with the same site, so I don't know which is what.
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> OTOH, anyone else think Microsoft has massively overpaid for Github? Feels like Satya's Nokia moment to me.

I don't think so. Of course it is an high risk investment for microsoft. But github is in a place like no other site nowadays. Just 1.5 million company customers make it quite valuable. And the fact that it is a standard in the open source world also means that more and more companies will use it in the future.
I read that as "who knows?"