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> I fought with him over stores as did virtually everyone on the board of Apple, and it turned out he was right.

He actually goes into depth about why Apple stores were necessary in a talk he did at MIT in 1992 [0][1]. Was it that he was not nearly as articulate in person with his team, as he was in this video?

EDIT:
Luckily, the transcript is available. The money quote is:

" ... current distribution channels for the computer industry over the last several years have lost their ability to create demand. They can fulfill demand, but they can't create it. If a new product comes out, you're lucky if you can find somebody at the computer store that even knows how to demo it. So the more innovative the product is, the more revolutionary it is and not just an incremental improvement, the more you're stuck [in getting people to try learn about it enough to try it out]."

Here's a fuller quote:

There are some things I can't talk about here. In addition to that, if you look at how we sell our computers right now, we have a sales force in the US of about 130 professionals in the field out selling NeXT computers. They spend 90% of their time selling NeXTSTEP software, and then 10% of their time selling the hardware.

In other words, if they can get the customer to buy into NeXTSTEP, then they're going to sell the hardware, because right now we have the only hardware it runs on. So they are out there selling NeXTSTEP right now. And this is what is required to launch a new innovative product. The current distribution channels for the computer industry over the last several years have lost their ability to create demand.

They can fulfill demand, but they can't create it. If a new product comes out, you're lucky if you can find somebody at the computer store that even knows how to demo it. So the more innovative the product is, the more revolutionary it is and not just an incremental improvement, the more you're stuck. Because the existing channel is only fulfilling demand. Matter of fact, it's getting so bad, that it's getting wiped out, because there are more efficient channels to fulfill demand, like the telephone and Federal Express. So we're seeing the channel become condensed on its way to I think just telebusiness.

So how does one bring innovation to the marketplace? We believe the only way we know how to do it right now is with the direct sales force, out there in front of customers showing them the products in the environment of their own problems, and discussing how those problems can be mated with these solutions.

[0] https://infinitehistory.mit.edu/video/steve-jobs-next-comput...

[1] https://youtu.be/Gk-9Fd2mEnI
Install pyenv and add a .python-version file to your project. pipenv will use it the pyenv installed python, and prompt to install it via pyenv if it's missing
Is your markdown to Word reversible? If so, accept all changes, convert back to Markdown and run git diff. I guess you're losing comments though.
It's because back then, if I remember correctly, new revisions of Macintoshes with PowerPC processors had CPU speed increments like, 80, 90, 100mhz, and meanwhile the Pentium was going 100, 200, 300, 400... (at least that's how it felt being a mac user...)

Also, I believe around that time the deal between IBM and Motorola was ending and they had already decided not to continue development of the PowerPC.
Why not? There are plenty of “features” that Android has that has caused vulnerabilities due to Googles not thinking through how the features need to be implemented.

A simple one is why is there even a permission to let an app read and write all contents on an SD card instead of only allowing apps to read files that a user specifically chooses from a file picker? Or worse case read and write from your photo library or music library.
I have an extremely different impression of her campaign. If you look, not at the words on the platform, but at her campaign, it seemed very clear to me that she didn't care about working class people in flyover country. And I thought that was very strange, because that used to be the Democratic Party's core constituency.

I can't at the moment point you to documentation to back up my impression, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't alone in reaching that conclusion...
Stuff cancer, $400B/yr would actually let us address some of the climate change issues that we should have dealt with a decade ago.
Wouldn't rock from Earth end up on Mars the same way that Martian rocks fall on Earth? If so, then contamination may have already happened in both directions.
Exactly, this command is for converting a file system and not an image or a single file.
It’s weird how our great^5 grandchildren will only find treasures in our dumps, but the cities will still be full of ancient stuff.
Compiling isn't homogeneous IMO. Lots of branches, lots of waiting of RAM, lots of corner cases. Lots of ways to get those hyperthreads working in parallel.

Compression would be closer to homogeneous. But something REALLY homogeneous is like, Prime95. You're only hitting SSE and/or AVX instructions over-and-over again. All threads try to only use AVX instructions, so hyperthreading doesn't help too much.
We've asked you many times not to post unsubstantively here, so we've banned the account.
Fake videos of real people – and how to spot them
My experience getting burned by Parse was when the platform was up, it was a flaming pile of shit. Erratic errors, inconsistent downtime, terrible support. The only good thing was the shutdown, IIRC they offered phenomenal support thanks to having the resources of Facebook - 1 year notice, open source software to ease the transition, etc.
What happened to these executives?
The state of consumer blockchain
> As an entrepreneur/self-employed person who 100% does not have any special relationships in government and relies almost solely on referrals, it is very frustrating to see people "create" wealth because they have special relationships with government officials.

So you "create wealth" based on your special relationships to other people (who end up helping you by giving referrals and other assistance) and believe that is ok, but you don't find it acceptable when others do the same? The only difference, it would seem, is that the other people have deeper relationships to people in government than you.
I got one of the first PowerPC computers in a lab full of high end spare no expense PCs and it cranked. If your experience was otherwise, I suspect you were running software under emulation so the fact it was “no better” was a borderline miracle. The second gen PowerPC macs were “the fastest 680x0 boxes ever shipped” (an Apple engineer boasted to me at WWDC and he wasn’t wrong)

The PowerPC allowed Apple to overtake the Pentium and gave it boasting rights until the failure of the G5.
> genetic data starts being resold

Or hacked.
As much as Intel has.

The issue with Spectre is that it is a new "buffer overflow". You can't "fix" a buffer overflow through hardware alone. You need software + hardware... and at best, you only get mitigations.

And within the next few months, some researcher is going to come up with a new Spectre-based attack that current mitigations won't work on. Its a bit annoying. Just sit tight and stay up to date on Spectre, its a moving target.
It seems crazy to me that there's no way to produce unbiased numbers in an arbitrary range without rejection sampling and a loop. Is there a proof of this?
I've been saying this for years. This is such an amazing news.

I know there's lot of skeptics but just gonna put this out there in 2018. Our solar system has intelligent beings greater than our civilization. There has to be if water can be easily found so close to Earth. I don't know what they do but the theory is they are mining for resources. Pretty sure they would wipe out Earth if they wanted to but they choose not to? What do they want!!!?
There are two aspects here: engineering and economic.

Our engineering view is that we want startup to be as fast as possible, which is a surprisingly nuanced problem with lots of moving parts that need to collectively do something smart, even before you get to the startup time of your own code. This will show a lot of improvement as we go, but right now it's early days.

The economic question is about trading off the risk of hitting a slow start vs the cost of maintaining idle instances. It is impossible for Knative's contributors to solve that problem with a black box solution. What we can do is to provide you with some knobs and dials to express your preferences.

Edit: I didn't answer this question --

> interesting...by floor and ceiling is that like the minimum and maximum threshold for latency?

Not for now, this would be bounds on what scale the autoscaler can choose. Latency is an example of an output setpoint that an autoscaler could attempt to control, as opposed to a process input. We have in mind to make autoscaling somewhat pluggable because different people want to target different signals.
What's the alternative--people stop developing Istanbul, Rome, etc entirely? I can't say I'm entirely unsympathetic to a population that wants development over marginally better understanding of places that already experience high levels of excavation and historical tourism.
>> hyperthreading does not really work so well on sustained, homogenuous workloads

> what would distinguish this description from, say, compression and compiling?

The real difference is between integer and floating point workloads.

Integer workloads typically have lots of branch mis-predicts and cache misses which cause pipeline stalls. Any time you've got pipeline stalls, hyper-threading will be great.

Floating Point workloads typically are just huge amounts of number crunching with very simple access patterns. There are few branches and memory accesses typically have a consistent stride and so are pre-fetch friendly. Typically, this kind of workload is memory bandwidth limited because your CPU can run full bore without any bubbles in the pipeline. Hyper-threading isn't much use in this case: if any functional units are going unused, it's only because the CPU can't vacuum data up fast enough. This is one of the big reasons GPUs are so popular for doing FP workloads: they have a ton of functional units and they are paired with very high speed on-board memory.

In the grandparent's defense, floating point workloads tend to be sustained and homogenous. They are, however, not the only kind of sustained, homogenous workloads, as you so accurately point out.
It’s sad that you can no longer get your genetic health info in Europe from 23andMe, but does this mean GSK will only have access to American info?
Freedom of speech is constrained regarding financial market manipulation. I don't know of any laws this specific individual might be breaking by criticizing a third-party they are market-bet against, but in the general category of such law: there's all kinds of things I could say about my employer that would be considered insider trading and put me at risk of fines or jail time, my frozen peaches be damned. ;)
I am planning to move my stocks from ETRADE to Vanguard.

Vanguard's user agreement says this:

Data security is, of course, a top priority. To mitigate computer virus attacks and other acts of cyberterrorism, We have implemented controls monitored by a dedicated team of information security specialists. We also maintain a network of redundant systems, off-site data storage, and off-site tape vaults to ensure that all source data are recoverable in a disaster.
Yes! I don't understand why it has taken so long. The benefit for protecting root accounts and scenarios where federation is not applicable is significant.

I find the usability to be a particular drag during local development.
Depends what the cookies were used for. But even if we assume all cookies require consent, the answer seems simple: don’t set any cookies.

There is no functional reason for a content-only website to require cookies.
I can save you the time: divide by 2000 to get very close.

There's 2080 work hours in a year (52 weeks, 40 hours per week).

So technically you should divide by 2080, but dividing by 2000 is a lot faster in your head (drop three zeroes, and halve).
In Amsterdam as well

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2018/07/17/amsterdam-museu...
Poetry looks nice - that dev has authored some other really nice looking libs.

After skimming the docs and tinkering with poetry a bit, I'm not sure what my workflow with it would be for containerized python apps, though - where you generally don't want virtual environments at all. Pipenv handles that case pretty well.

I might reach for it though if I were developing open-source libraries that would be distributed on pypi
> When Chladni showed the technique in Paris, Napoleon set a prize for the best mathematical explanation. Sophie Germain's answer, although rejected due to flaws, was the only entry with the correct approach.

Science and Mathematics visibly take time and effort not a contest and some goodwill.
Doesn't that viewpoint ignore real-world yields and binning?
I find it interesting that the article (referring to the original article [1], not the economist's which is mostly just some sort of political piece) considered unproductive rent seeking mostly in forms of corrupt relationships between government and industry. Quoting that article,

"Baumol was worried, however, by a very different sort of entrepreneur: the “unproductive” ones, who exploit special relationships with the government to construct regulatory moats, secure public spending for their own benefit, or bend specific rules to their will, in the process stifling competition to create advantage for their firms. Economists call this rent-seeking behavior."

However, should rent seeking behavior in traditional business to consumer (or business to business) relationships be excluded? Take for instance the explosion in software being sold as a service even when such things make very little practical sense. The 'cloud' certainly has some uses, but companies are trying to shoehorn it into absolutely everything and no small part of the motivation there is to justify charging an going rent for usage of software that's not fundamentally changing.

The same is, in a way, even increasingly true of entertainment. Ever larger number of games are designed around attempts to coerce players into engaging in ongoing purchases after buying the game, often to no end as in the case of buying consumable items or currency of various sorts. In the end it seems identical as the idea is to artificially increase revenue through the seeking of rent instead of the creation of new products.

[1] - https://hbr.org/2017/06/is-america-encouraging-the-wrong-kin...
My wife and I really want to move to Toronto one day. I interviewed at a tech startup and got an offer for ~$60k CAD plus some equity. It was a good amount of equity, and they were pretty small. Their product and mission was really awesome, and I think I would have had a good time working there. But I wasn't going to move for that kind of money. That's 2.5 times less than an "entry-level" tech salary in SF ($120k USD.)
It is not getting punted, but is being worked on.

The trouble being actually indexing the contents of any given module and trouble with template instantiation.
All the Largest US Trading Partners Put Higher Tariffs on the US Than Vice Versa
I know HN is not one for jokes, but colonizing 'Europa' seems like a hilarious irony in name.
Look at it this way. If we don't make it into space for long-term living, mankind will very likely be extinguished. The disagreement is only about how pressing the issue is but we might just as well start now before it's too late. Look at the rate of species extinction on earth.[1]

[1] https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_...
>they don't support open protocols including SMTP

>they could easily siphon off plaintext at the SMTP level

This doesn't make any sense.
How do you find Fastmail lines up as far as implementing complete standards?
> There's no other reasonable interpretation of a vote for Leave.

I wonder how many of the people who voted Leave thought that was true.

Now, you can say that it doesn't matter, because they had opportunity to inform themselves before the vote. It's not like the rules around Article 50 have changed since the vote. But still, I wonder how many of the Leave votes really meant "Leave, even if it's a hard Brexit". (I can't prove any of this, of course...)
Trump tweets anger at FCC after Pai blocks Sinclair/Tribune merger
Important supporting institutions. GUI looks like a lot of overlap with Citavi.

https://www.citavi.com/en

Major differences seem to include cloud based Zotero's advantages for sharing, collaborating, and Citavi's better fine-grained document quote/cite tools.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Citavi-...
Hi! I'm one of the authors. We'd be happy to answer any questions. :)
Swedish Student Blocks Afghan’s Deportation by Refusing to Sit Down on Flight
An oncologist wishing more money was spent on cancer? In other news, water is wet.

First of all, the optimal place for me to spend my money is not necessarily the optimal place for someone else to spend theirs. We can't know for sure, of course, but who were would have preferred Elon Musk start a cancer research firm instead of SpaceX? Secondly, there is no universal "cancer" that we can fight. There are hundreds of different types, just as distinct as different diseases. You could turn pancreatic cancer into a chronic condition tomorrow and no make any progress at all toward curing oropharyngeal cancer.

There's a great exchange in the West Wing episode "Galileo" about just this type of narrow minded viewpoint.

Sam Seaborn: There are a lot of hungry people in the world, Mal, and none of them are hungry because we went to the moon. None of them are colder and certainly none of them are dumber because we went to the moon.

Mallory O'Brian: And we went to the moon. Do we really have to go to Mars?

SS: Yes.

MO: Why?

SS: Because it's next. Because we came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what's next.

No to mention the fact that all the cancer drugs in the world will not save us from an asteroid. If we don't get people living and populating on other planets, the human species is doomed.
After dabbling a bit in C++ after college, then purposely avoiding it for about twenty years, I'm getting back into it for work. I'd say my favorite books for coming up to speed were C++ Common Knowledge, Effective C++ (3rd edition), and Effective Modern C++, more or less in that order. Discovering Modern C++, which I haven't finished yet, has not been as enjoyable.

I wouldn't get too hung up on skipping straight to "modern" C++. Yes, C++11 is a game changer, but the vast majority of what you'll find in the classic recommendations is still worth knowing. Things like type deduction, smart pointers, and move semantics won't be hard to pick up once you've got the basics. Although I haven't read it, Accelerated C++ sounds like a good fit for your situation.
We just don't do that.
> the loss of meaning of a word spoken one too many times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
OK. You tell your mom that, after she's gotten cancer, asshole. How did her lifestyle cause her cancer in her ovaries (another inflammation caused cancer), I wonder?

While you're chastising your mom for her lifestyle, the rest of us will be looking/hoping for a cure.

You should know that even you will experience increased and chronic inflammation as you age, no matter how much better than your mom, your lifestyle is. Increased chronic inflammation and aging are linked and we're still trying to understand why.
It's unrealistic to expect any leader to know everything, understand everything, or even to consider every idea with rational equanimity.

The factor that comes through all these Steve Jobs stories is his incredibly strong drive to move forward. He didn't wait or equivocate... if he thought something was wrong, or he should hear from someone on a topic, he personally and immediately went after the very best information or person he could get. In my short career, it is striking how rare that seems, even among senior managers.

And if you think about it... those same traits are what you see demonstrated by the author in the linked story. He was worried that his company was headed in the wrong direction, so he personally and immediately went after the best solution he could think of: secretly calling the CEO of Intel!

The secret to reading these "Steve Jobs leadership" stories is that Jobs is usually not the only leader in the story.
Bitcoin Now Accepted on StartEngine
I don't know if it will help you, but I find it helpful to consider the sheer number of flights that occur without incident. Worldwide, there are roughly 100000 commercial flights per day. That's a little more than 1 per second. While it may not feel mundane to a traveler for whom flying is a fairly rare occurrence, air travel is absolutely mundane from a global perspective. I think that can be a helpful perspective to remember.

(Citation: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.DPRT?end=2017&st...)
To inject virtual input using standard linux filesystem protocols and mirror the screen to my Vive HMD so I can stay connected to friends and family during time spent in VR, but that's impossible without rooting, and my phone is not rootable, so screw me I guess
What does saving for short-term mean? Spending quickly?
Spits drink

Are you serious? Canada has a point-based system that requires you have some actual real skills and an education. I wish we had an immigration system like that in the US. Here, you can just sneak across the border or claim asylum citing vague claims of "persecution" and you'll have an entire political party fighting on your behalf to keep you in the country at all costs.

If it were truly that easy to immigrate to Canada people would have actually made good on their "if Trump wins I'm moving to Canada" threats.
True - it was probably a stretch to include it alongside the VC analogy, but CERN's also delivering projects with unsure outcomes a la most investments [0]. If they turned the LHC on for example and found precisely nothing of note, it'd have been a failed investment, but was certainly worth the punt.

I think one of the issues with space exploration for people is that it just feels so pointless and intangible - its perception so locked into the realms of sci fi that the act of trying feels more of an indulgent nod to starship fantasies and "space race" dick-waving than to realistic scientific progress.

[0] money the "whatabout" brigade say should go to cancer research, which too, is also an investment with unsure outcomes (and which usually helpfully ignore things like CERN's impact on cancer research with second order applications of other discoveries...)
Music is also very easy to remember.
The weather in Toronto is god awful compared to San Francisco. Honestly, it's bad compared to almost any US city. I get why Vancouver is so expensive, but never understood Toronto's prices.
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