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Cloud is great when you have variable usage. These machines are probably driven near 100% all the time. In that scenario, they are probably more cost-effective than cloud infrastructure.
Apple Pencil is more durable than you’d think. Normal jostling while it’s charging doesn’t really affect it. With regards to USB C, I think they’re trying it out on the new iPads because these are ostensibly their “pro” iOS devices, so it makes sense to put higher-throughput ports on them first.
There is a good song of a German singer / songwriter Funny van Dannen - "Menschenverachtende Untergrundmusik" (inhuman ? underground-music) which says basically the same thing.

A German grindcore Band sang a cover version of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCYZdIna_s4

Google tranlate tranlates a part of the song to something like this:

And because I'm always so peaceful, I need a bit of war to compensate

and that's why I like listening alone to

inhuman underground music,

inhuman underground music.
FWIW, I meant gross revenue... minutes was just a flippant guess.
I don't really think he can do that. If he does, it'll be precedent to limit executive powers. Which honestly I'm down for
Why is the 12 inch MacBook still in the line-up? The only benefit is that it offers an i7 processor at the top-end - beyond that, I can't see any benefit. Why not just unify the two lines?
I also was really hoping the new iPhones would finally make the switch to USB-C; it's ridiculous for them to continue putting Lightning ports on anything at this point, considering how they've gone all-in on USB-C on their Macbooks (and now iPad Pros).

Hopefully next year's models will finally make the switch!
> There’s a lot of reading material out there. For the basics, I still recommend that students purchase K&R. People say good things about C Programming: A Modern Approach; I’ve only skimmed it.

This early quote filled me with dread. The article fulfilled that dread. IMHO K&R was a classic book but C has changed far too much for that to be of service to students, who would have to unlearn as much as they learn.

Then the author, a college teacher, offhandedly mentions another outdated book as if to recommend it but admits no firsthand knowledge of it. A serious programming student taking these recommendations has just spent a hundred bucks or so and a great deal of precious study time on material that will derail them from their studies with no benefit at all.
From the keynote, Cook claimed the new A12X Bionic[1] is faster than 92% of portable PCs[2] (in English, laptops, Surfaces) sold in the past year, including some i7 models.

- 8 core CPU (4 low and 4 high power cores)

- 7 core GPU

- HEVC encoding/decoding

- Neural Engine (they haven't made any comparisons to the A12 sans X neural engine, so at this point I think it's the same)

- Audio DSP, Storage controller, Image Signal Processor, Apple performance controller, Depth Engine, &c.

[1] http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-october-30-2018-more-in-t...

[2] http://live.arstechnica.com/apples-october-30-2018-more-in-t...
I think most people would do 4 before 3 and even 2.

Most erlangers would not use HiPE in production.
In contrast - my USB hubs, external USB drives, and CD reader are all USB A. My phone is Lightning. My spare chargers are two flavors of magsafe.

The cords I've begun to accumulate to work with a USB C computer have varying capabilities, to the point where I can't safely interchange them for fear of blowing past their tolerances accidentally.

I'm not so keen on this change.
Wouldn't that be the Mac Mini?
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Because memory management is an area where C++ over-simplifies and assumes one size fits all. In the C++ worldview, memory allocation is a black box, and no two apps would ever have any desire to use different memory allocation strategies. For many apps, that's fine, but for the type of apps where C shines, memory allocation isn't just a magic black box.

"As simple as possible, but no simpler."
I should have taken more time to write the comment. I copy/pasted the text "Amazon has altered or removed reviews" from the report the tool provided when I copied the URL from the Amazon Product Page and ran it to check the reviews.
Did they really expect gaming to take off by not including a controller?
Shared source ranges from actual free software to software that you aren't allowed to modify or redistribute, and it's only used by Microsoft.

I don't think it's a good idea to expand the meaning to cover software that isn't Microsoft's.
Short term pain for long term pain.
What's this missing besides the 'select' button: https://steelseries.com/gaming-controllers/nimbus
Countries That Consume More or Less Electricity Than Bitcoin Mining in Late 2018
What do you think of traveling to experience other parts of the world that you can incorporate into your part of the world?
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It’s much smaller than the previous generation, but yes, it’s kind of a marketing conceit.
It is impressive but an overkill imho, going into desktops’ territory. I would have bought a refreshed iPad mini instead.
Before finger print scanners I couldn’t be bothered entering a passphrase every time. It was an important security feature.
Or more accurately, destruction is slower in developed countries, largely because there's so little left to destroy. It is pretty hard to deforest Scotland any more than it already is.
Cool, so people are calling for it, good to know.
I wish they made an iPhone SE as a miniature form of this iPad.

square-ish edges (easier to hold), better & larger LCD displays within the same body size, and powerful internals.

The new iphones are just too big for one-handed use. you want to type the name of the website on top bar of mobile Safari - bring the next hand out or drop your phone....
I was about to buy 3x 12TB Toshiba for Deep Learning datasets; now I need to reconsider... Does anyone know what are the current reliability stats for >10TB drives? My old 6x 4TB HGST in NAS are running without a single problem for the past 3 years...
I struggle with this every time I travel! I think that part of the... guilt? ... can be assuaged by intent. As in, you are there to learn and absorb a culture and broaden your horizons, as opposed to being there for the entertainment of seeing crazy things and getting the Instagram shot. But maybe that's just a pretense I make up for myself.
Wow you guys made a drawing tablet
RHEL 7.6 has been released
Oh please. It's a link at the very bottom of the page. Amazon is forcing customers to be proactive to make sure their purchases qualify as donations. It can't be "baked into the website" as purchases from Smile don't payout for affiliate links. We do, however, remind you every once in a while once you start using the regular website.

It wouldn't matter what they did there would be hard core naysayers finding issues with it.
I never trust any site that says it wants to eliminate hate and harassment. I've seen this time and time again on forums, social media, BBSes back in the day, etc. It always devolves into French Revolution-style groupthink and the elimination of any person who expresses or supports a contrarian viewpoint.

No thanks, micro.blog. I'm looking for an IPFS-style, uncensorable free speech platform.
> old solution was very... odd and seemed pretty dangerous

The old solution, isn't as bad as the media portrayed it.

First, it comes with a socket to socket piece, so if you are charging at home, it's absolutely no problem.

Second, you are only doing that in "emergency" cases where you need it, but forget to charge at home.

No complaints here.
It probably won't though I have been screwed a couple times when my USB power brick tried to charge itself off my phone because I hadn't pushed the button to switch the port from drawing power to delivering power.

Is there some sort of protocol in USB-C for two devices with batteries to negotiate which should charge the other. Though I imagine the iPad could just refuse to deliver the high power states/not have the circuitry.
Here's the thing - it's not the hardware. iPad can be hugely powerful and it won't get good games until those games start paying revenue. As long as 4,99$ is the standard price for a game, you can't expect studios to just port the games for potential loss. Especially since iPad with its 799$+ price tag isn't really an affordable device in comparison to game consoles.

Compare this with Nintendo Switch - it's significantly less powerful than a few modern iPad generations. But it's also more affordable and Nintendo deliberately keeps the full-price game culture alive. Because of that, they have actual game library to offer to customers.
If you look at the number. It's clear that historically the US has done just as much if not more damage to the environment as China has.

Case in point: cumulative greenhouse gas emission

http://www.climatechangenews.com/files/2015/06/Historic-emis...

On a per capita basis, China is doing less harm to the environment than those in the US.
Question: If we sell an education math app that is a free download but limits the numbers (say 1 to 5) but has an in-app purchase to get the full range, is that acceptable?
It really is shockingly good. Despite the slightly mundane title, it's interesting and understandable all the way throught. Highly recommended.
Will Red Hat's acquisition hurt fedora?
Swiping all the way down the screen to unlock with FaceID is going to be a big burden on the Ipad Pro. Less of a burden on the iPhone series for obvious reasons but really? Why not let people swipe up anywhere on the screen to unlock FaceID.
Many of these justifications are easily ended by just not killing any animals.
Ive heard that its bad marketing to say things are bettER.

BrightER, biggER, fastER.

This is what I've seen Apple resort to over the last few years.

This is very concerning for a luxury product manufacturer. However my reluctance to declare Apple 'myspace' is that there is a gigantic amount of resources and effort to change from the Apple ecosystem. A user likely wont gamble that a 400 dollar Android is going to be better than an iphone. They wont try something new. A switch from myspace to facebook was basically free.

I've gotten to try both as I purchased one phone, and got the other for work. HN downvotes anything anti-apple, but I was surprised when things 'didnt just work'. Having to hit the play button a few times on my podcast screen, siri needing voice recognition was nothing like google, and a strange bug using apple maps causing my phone to reboot.

That said, I can see their death being from a lack of reason to upgrade. Users deciding their phone/tablet is good enough and they'd rather spend 1,000 USD on other things.

Since I havent experienced it, what is the appeal of Apple in 2018 and beyond?

EDIT: lol never change HN whales, never change
Maxing out the CPU (comes w/ 256GB SSD & 8GB RAM) is $1300USD. Bumping to 16GB RAM totals out to $1500USD; bumping to 64GB RAM totals up to $2700USD.
You are right about the prices. Expecting a $60 AAA console game for $5 is not going to happen. Free to play AAA games where you end up spending $1000 to do everything means players end up hating the game and paying for fewer games. The alternative is games with truly massive player bases like Minecraft or Fortnite, which isn't scalable either.
It's interesting the mention the Xbox, when it's obvious they want to compete with Nintendo.

Apple is quickly realizing that they missed a major market opportunity by not designing snap on controllers that convert iPads into Nintendo Switches. Touch works only for a subset of games, but a first-party controller would have absolutely destroyed the market.
I really like something that Marshall Mathers (Eminem) said at one point, something along the lines of people's inability to distinguish the fiction in his lyrics from the fiction of, for example, horror movies.

He'd actually said something neat, that he feels there must be something more sacred about music for people to freak out to that extent. There's something ineffably interesting about that.
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"The new Liquid Retina display goes from edge to edge"

I've never owned an iPad, perhaps I'm missing something here. How does the above statement reconcile with the pictures I see on the page where there's clearly a black bezel?

Do they just mean there's not an area at the bottom with a physical button?
> the operating system itself limits the ability to produce anything more than trivial content or development.

I think that touch UI has constraints that are tough to overcome, but I strongly disagree that the operating system is a limit.

Apple keeps exposing different ways to integrate apps, create workflows, even work with files directly.

And of course the problem with this debate always includes fundamental mismatches over what type of content you're interested in, or what you consider "trivial", but Photoshop isn't for trivial content.
Hahaha. Its nice HN will give a voice to Neo-Luddism even if its content borders on trolling
Anyone remember when IBM was really keen on Linux around fifteen years ago? If they'd only followed through they would have had their own flavour and business to run into the ground.
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Any idea why the processor is only 1.5? I have a 2011 Model with 1.8ghz
Merzbow frequently utilizes fetish and BDSM imagery / concepts and from the article perspective (although about death metal, it is similarly seen as "extreme music") I find that part of the article's conclusions interesting, in that for some there may be an endorphin release postulated sounds similar to what might be happening in the BDSM concept known as "sub space" (or occurring in other ways for other people, for example, "runner's high" is from what I understand a similar endorphin release).

As far as the top level comment goes though... maybe I'm misinterpreting the comment because this is summary level material, but yeah, that's an odd assertion to me. Death metal is a niche genre in a style of music that has some significant semi-mainstream elements (metal as a whole). Death metal is similar to other sort-of-tangentially related concepts like say horror media (there is a nice semi-mainstream side and also a lot of fringe horror movie / media styles that have fewer but sometimes more dedicated fans). Many horror movies for instance are flat out iconic at this point (ranging from the original Universal monsters to some of the films of Hitchcock to certain films like, say, Halloween, Jaws, or the Shining). On rare occasions, they are both quite popular and they even win an Academy Award (eg The Silence of the Lambs).

In music, the main thing I will say is that there are metal bands with often violent lyrics and imagery that are more popular (Slayer comes to mind), and non-metal bands with violent imagery that also are popular. Certainly if that violent imagery is slightly modified to a bit more theatrical, the band might even become mainstream (I'm thinking Alice Cooper as an example). The "sonic assault" of death metal in some ways wasn't new -- hardcore punk was an influence for the speed (although hardcore punk is quite a bit less technical) and there's certainly a couple relatively well known bands there in that genre that dabbled in (usually more theatrical but still macabre) horror. (The Damned and The Misfits are two fairly big names in the genre, not "mainstream" but big enough that some people will know of them, and there's plenty of other lesser known "horror punks" around...).

So to me that statement ("why are people interested in xyz that seems to induce a negative emotion when in everyday life we tend to avoid situations that will induce a negative emotion") is weird in this context, because this is not a niche question whatsoever overall. The answer to the above question is probably not best answered by looking at the psychology of an obscure genre and more best answered to ask why (in the Silence of the Lambs example) a movie that pushes "negative emotions" of this sort is (at present) #23 on IMDB's top movies of all time.
> Because memory management is an area where C++ over-simplifies and assumes one size fits all.

And the fact is that it does. In the rare case that it doesn't then C++ also accomosdates those requirements if developers are willing to put in the same sort of effort that goes into implementing data structures by hand.
There's a point in the press conference where the presenter went "And you can scroll the UI as fast as you want, and it doesn't lag! We have 8 cores in our CPU!" (or something: not literal transcription) and the entire audience clapped.

That's about as serious an indictment of the competence of the software development industry as I can imagine.

Edit: to clarify: the line is "It's a real PSD... it's over 3 gigs, it's a 157 layers, 12000x12000 pixels, and I'm zooming through it at lightning speed, with no lag". While she's doing this she's scrolling the layer list, which is why I was confused in my earlier statement.

Note, btw: when she's zooming, it's not loading the higher resolution in "real time". It takes a second or so for the higher resolution to pop in. So when she's saying "zooming through it at lightning speed", what she's saying is "the UI doesn't hang when I zoom, and the higher resolution pops in quick enough". This should not be an applause line for a device of this power in 2018.
The issue is that Lua treats functions as "first-class," meaning that they are stored in variables like other data. This is how named functions are created within the language, and function syntax is sugar for initializing a variable and stuffing a function into it.

This works with API functions also, which is why this works.
I think it speaks to people's desire for a quick and easy to set up basic GUI creator with an editor that allows inline code editing, and no need to deal explicitly with the client server interaction.

I myself, as someone who likes to create really solid and maintainable tools, have fallen into the notebook trap and written things like "change the month in cell 22 then execute cells 1 through 3 and 20 through 27 to update the report".

The notebook format was great for prototyping what was really a small app. You don't really have those problems when you're just generating a document.
Ubuntu already put Fedora on life support so at this point if it dies, it certainly won't be because of IBM.
I mean I've got 2 AT keyboards and 3 PS/2 mice in my drawer. Why can't I plug these into the latest MacBook pro? It's a travesty.
I'm curious, what CI tool(s) do you run on it?
Interesting: https://support.apple.com/kb/TA34386?locale=en_US

Published in Feb 2012 - I guess that was the last migration date of their KB documents? I was surprised they've kept this page still around.
None of those things have anything to do with the discussion though, which is developing nations torching natural ecosystems. Neither my beef nor my car is in any way a factor in this. Also, your comparison is disingenuous. A pound of beef or chicken contains far more calories and protein than a pound of any vegetable. And grass fed beef actually requires less energy to produce than vegetables.
The controllers like the Steelseries Nimbus follow the Made for iPhone spec, which is why they're limited.
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It's a bit strange, but I don't see why anyone would choose the 12" Macbook over the new Air:

https://www.apple.com/mac/compare/results/?product1=macbook&...

The Air has more ports, Thunderbolt, a larger screen, a lower price, a faster CPU/GPU, a better battery and some modern touches.
I don't work at one of the named companies, but do work at a company with RSU-heavy compensation that is currently down some 25%. It seems that many of my coworkers are considering now that our compensation is cut, but that we are getting cheap grants now. Our grants are sized as a percentage of our base salary divided by the current price. Today's stock grants will be worth just as much as past ones but they will have the advantage of higher growth potential with market gains.
Not only that. At some point I disconnected mine from the room charger and the second one almost drained my battery. My laptop charged my colleague's
Being a theme park is existential terror for any historical city.
The fixed-width bezel makes it look great. I like it.

I don't know why the pencil didn't come with magnetic attachment from the get go, it seems like such a simple change that makes a big difference.

The cynic in me thinks that it was deliberately withheld in v1 so that a big deal about its addition could be made in v2.
Does anyone know if the iPad pro will support a mouse via USB-C or Bluetooth?
I still have the 2011 Mac Mini powering my house... and services. We were seriously hoping this might be useful - but it fails to meet our needs.

My company buys Kingdels on Amazon, and adds HD and RAM. Same box literally ends up costing 50% of the price (CAD) compared to the equivalent Mac Mini I just tricked out on the Apple site. Given that we have no Mac specific needs (but need a Unix), I'm just sad.
Certain categories of items are ripe with them, fake Sandisk SD cards have been a problem for years, for example.
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> You could implement a fair system giving everyone the equal opportunity to access (e.g. a tourist destination), even if not everyone gains access (via some sort of lottery).

A lottery is inherently inefficient (someone who really wants to go somewhere gets the same chance as someone who only barely marginally cares) and likely to lead to a black market.

> There's also enough places and opportunities on the planet that not everyone will want to do everything, certainly not all at once. So you could implement cap and trade.

That's a better idea, and seems like what some of these places are already implementing (the article mentions Easter Island; Nepal does something similar for Mt Everest).
Humanitarianism or other altruism doesn’t have to pay off at all. That is not a measure by which to evaluate it.
I agree, but I gotta give it to them that it works great with javascript disabled. Becomes a normal, vertical-scroll website. Better that with javascript in my opinion.
Fedora has been around a long time, so I'm not sure why you think it added mind share. Ubuntu and Arch laser focused on certain audiences and Fedora really couldn't find a home between the two.
I don't see an audio jack in the specs. Am I right to assume the ipad is switching to dongles too?
I'm not following you. Lisp can do it with just two sort of syntactic atoms: symbol and parenthesis. To me, it seems like lisp is an order of magnitude more elegant than C++ where you need to hack-in every additional feature by (1) standardizing a syntax after making sure it doesn't break anything (this takes years of committee meeting and convincing tons of angry people with opinions) (2) handling that special syntax in lexer+parser+static analyzer+code generator; whereas in lisp every new feature would be part of the program itself, so essentially you just need to implement some parts of static analyzer and code generator.
No USB ports? How is that even workable?
Sure, but it has the horrible butterfly keyboard--with those crammed up arrows I hate so much--and all ports are gone.

Also, how do we kniw they'll stay without releasing another one for another 5 years?

As a MacBook Air user for years, I'm glad I jumped ship a year ago.