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I agree that negative reviews attract a lot more scrutiny. I've also had negative reviews scrubbed.
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The Air has the 8th generation i5 which seems to be a solid upgrade in benchmarks https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-8250U-vs-Intel...
The classic book in this area is The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks. It was published in 1975, but is just as relevant today as ever.

Another great resource is The Architecture of Open Source Applications series. (Available for free online.) Each chapter has the author(s) of a major open source system go in to detail and history about their design decisions and philosophy. Very good for getting the feel about how maestros think about the large-scale organization of software.
It's not free for Apple and it's likely cutting into their margin, hence the theory that they priced it in.
The Mac Mini isn't a portable, so not at all?
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This exactly. People don't seem to grasp just how powerful Photoshop is, and just what kind of power you need to utilize it.
Sorry, I misspoke - will edit. Was talking about resistance to overfitting. Which largely comes from logistic regression's assumption of a linear decision boundary. It's true surprisingly often in classification tasks, and, when it's not, you can usually model it just fine with interaction variables.

With an ANN, your easiest defense against overfitting is to have great big heaping piles of training data. That's something that's hard to come by in many interesting situations.
Sounds like a Salesforce use case.
I've lived in San Francisco for a while, and it's impossible to socialize here without being confronted by polyamory and openly casual attitudes toward alternative lifestyles. The first time poly came up for me was a meetup at Twitter, of all places. After a couple years here it becomes a norm that everyone here has a kink and is pretty open about it. The people that go to burning man (I, too, am a burner) never fully decompress.

I say all this because I can totally see how someone normalizes to stuff the rest of the world would say isn't ok. I don't think DeVaul is a creep. I think he's lived in the SF cultural bubble too long. Whether he should lose his job for that, I don't know, but I'm one of those people who think intention is 80% of what matters in cases like this.

This is also why I think it's important that tech leadership expands beyond the bay. It's subtle (or maybe to some not so subtle) ways like this that highlight how people here think differently about what should be normal.
As a (semi casual) linux user but "kernel outsider" anyone want to break down all the acronyms used here?
It's sad how travel, to most people, is just seeing things.

No wonder so many HN comments are grandstanding about how they dislike or don't need travel: they aren't talking about meeting other people or experiencing other cultures. They're just talking about weekend travel packages where they're shuttled around to take some pictures.

How incredibly boring.

Your VR idea like saying you've been to Prague because you spent extensive time in Google Maps street view: I wouldn't even bother.
I work in development of scientific equipment. Jupyter is my lab notebook. I think that to make good use of Jupyter for this purpose, you have to be a good programmer and a good scientist. No tool will turn us into these things against our will.

With that said, Jupyter has greatly improved my ability to find my own mistakes, and to reproduce my own results later on.
Yup. A sales person I know refers to this as "creating dissatisfaction", and used this concept designing his sales pitches.
Because here in real reality, humans still need to consume actual food and fluids to survive. Strapping a headset on and pretending to drink a virtual good won't sustain you.
Didn't they also have a weird "Postgres can't suit our needs so we're switching to MySQL" argument?
Or Google Pixelbook, if you prefer Linux over Windows.
I think web browsers just end up being a convenient place to start a user interface that targets a bunch of different platforms. I am 100% on the emacs bandwagon myself, but it's hard to ignore the ubiquity of a browser.
The obvious benefit is not need a specific cable just for my iPhone. I am slowly getting more USB C cables over the last year - it would be nice if I could replace all my lightning cables, which are only used for my iPhone and iPad. It's a small benefit, but it would be nice.
> Maybe a shopping site that builds carts across various retailers and orders from the least expensive?

Sounds like pcpartpicker. Which is, of course, only relevant if you're trying to buy parts for a pc. Great service though (not affiliated in any way, just a happy user).
> Have we reached a point in society that an unverified accusation is all that is necessary for termination?

You're probably commenting the title (which says he was just accused) and not the article.

DeVaul admitted the events took place and apologized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

> In a statement, Mr. DeVaul apologized for an “error of judgment.” He said X decided not to hire Ms. Simpson before she went to Burning Man and that he did not realize she had not been informed.
Have a Mac Mini at home that's been running 24/7 since 2009. Truly worth every cent.
Then write a competitor to Photoshop that performs better, since doing so is not a big deal.
If not for the fact you need Apple hardware to develop iOS apps and that my older mac mini is excruciatingly slow with the newer macOS, I wouldn't even consider this.
So there for some reason seems to be a melding of the ideas of raising quality of life and eliminating inequality, which don't necessarily have to be the same thing. I do not think it is unreasonable that 100 years from today the lower middle class has access to everything the upper class of America has today (from a material perspective), while there may still exist an upper class that can do even more (travel to Jupiter or something? I dunno.) I'm aware this is not a new idea, just wanting to make sure we restate as much.

Separately, while I concede that some of these aspects may very well not scale, there isn't enough attention paid to the idea that some may scale better. First world countries tend to have lower brith rates than third world ones. Perhaps if we raised the quality of life enough across the globe, we'd actually level off the population demands dramatically as a result.

Similarly, while some people certainly do want cars, what most people actually want is to get from point A to point B. If we can get to a world of self driving cars, the grid lock problem may disappear and be replaced with a perfectly feasible alternative that's actually safer.

So yeah, I think its quite possible that not everyone will be able to do the same "set of things", but I don't see how that has any bearing in trying to make any particular thing more accessible to everyone. I assure you a new "thing" will pop up that will still be only accessible to a few. That's the way its been so far in history anyways, not sure what's special about now.
We started with Estimator because it’s the easiest to train and deploy with production infrastructure. Having a Keras model API is a good idea: it would make it easier to try AdaNet. Feel free to file a feature request on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/tensorflow/adanet.
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> I find this to be an odd aspect of certain political movements at the moment - unwilling to accept that the Universe _is_ actually a big competition, and either some people lose, or we all lose.

Life is competitive, yes, but it is not just that. You could reduce all of human history to competition, but obviously we put a great deal more meaning into it than that. Why give up now?
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> So for every 2 new Mac Users, there is one leaving.

The vast majority of this fluctuation could be down to Macs in the education and business leasing programs, rather than individual user-owners.

Specifically, schools are switching from Macs (in computer labs) and iOS devices (for students), to Chromebooks;

and some very large companies like IBM, who assign their employees Macs, are downsizing, and so returning/selling off those Macs.
I'd be open to expanding IP protection for smaller businesses. But something like WoW - it's a billion dollar product that has more than paid for itself over the years. Blizzard doesn't need the protection of IP. It's just rent-seeking at this point.

I'm not sure what moral justification there is for them to keep milking it, while preventing other people from effectively remixing their work - forever. I think of all the awesome things that could be done with WoW as a base if only Blizzard's profiteering wasn't the only relevant factor.
I'd like to be under the sea
In an octopus' garden in the shade
He'd let us in, knows where we've been
In his octopus' garden in the shade
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emacs? hmm
Surely getting iOS apps working on macOS (Marzipan) is laying some of this ground, they are having to adapt iOS UI widgets for it, what would it take to feed this back to iOS?
Data inflight at write time (power/hardware failures are more likely to corrupt the array, especially silently, which is the worst outcome).

How is that? RAID doesn't affect data persistence behavior in any meaningful way. FUA/SyncCache/etc are supported by RAID controllers same as the underlying disks in writeback enviroments, parity updates included. Put another way, if you FUA or flush the writeback cache, those operations won't complete in a properly implemented RAID environment until the data is persisted somewhere, even if that means passing FUA down to the underlying storage. Granted there are a number of ways to mess this up, RMW cycles in a controller that doesn't have some kind of persistent memory and flush on power restore. Anyway, none of this is any worse than what happens in any other WB cached storage technology.

Finally, all this fearmongering about loss on rebuild is also something that should be more fully explored in the context of the fact that decent RAID systems run background scrub operations on a regular basis. Those operations by themselves are going to "stress test" the array on a regular basis when its consistent and not degraded. I've actually got a fair amount of experience in this area, and I'm here to tell you that if you think this is a risk consider what happens to non-raided unscrubbed drives that have a lot of data silently bitrotting on the platters. That latter effect is nearly always the problem in RAID environments when someone starts a rebuild on drives/sectors that have been unread for extended periods of time. But, in the case of RAID, a properly implemented system won't fail a drive for a single read failure during a rebuild, instead reconstructing from the other drives and leaving the drive online long enough to complete the rebuild and then taking it offline.

Basically raid 1 setups don't actually fix any of these problems, except through the use of massive additional parity disks overhead. Overhead that can also be applied to other RAID algorithsm to much better effect. AKA a mirrored RAID 6 provides far more protection than a mirrored raid 0. Similar levels can be had with 6+6 in environments where that is possible, with trivial capacity overhead.
I've been wondering, is nearest neighbour really ML? No part of the logic is learned from the data. It feels just like a glorified lookup table, where the look up is fuzzy to some predefined definition of nearest.
> HD front facing camera

It amazes me that notebook makers still advertise a 720p camera as being a feature. Are we never going to get anything more than 720p for webcams? Am I the only one who wants 4k video conferencing?
On my phone it scrolls normally but the left and right of most images are cut off. Latest chrome.
> That's why it supports 4 times as much RAM

2× (64GB v. 32GB)

> Thunderbolt 3,

NUC also supports Thunderbolt 3

> and a 65 watt CPU

Well, okay, that one is right.
For the past few months, I've been trying to make it work (mostly because of the raid + snapshotting functionality), but I have ran into nothing but trouble.

Frequent hangs of my system (unrelated to the defrag process that runs daily, which also uses 100% CPU for minutes -- the best I have deduced it towards is either because of using raid+nvme, or because of high (>100GB) RAM)), Docker is very unstable using btrfs [2], etc etc.

I moved back to ext4 + mdraid just last week and couldn't be happier.

1 https://serverfault.com/questions/747366/btrfs-write-operati...

2 https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/34501
There's no "auction" , it's called competition. All the government has to do is increase tax in tourist services.
Yup. I've used tablet PCs since the Windows XP Tablet Edition days and magnetic pen docks have always been a big no-no. The pens fall off more when handling because you bump into them when repositioning and they're easier to forget or 'lose' because the docking area generally becomes the one place you don't put it. In short, it might be counter-intuitive, but you need to be slightly more engaged with the stylus's maintenance than most people think. Too cumbersome and it impedes productivity, but too 'intuitive' and it will be lost in a week. But, I'm sure Apple will be happy to sell you a replacement!

I've had a Surface Pro 3 since release and have had to replace the stylus battery twice, so I'm getting ~1.5 years per battery. I would much prefer the old hidey-hole stylus dock to Apple or MS's current stylus docking.
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heh three years ago all metal trash bins in Shenzhen China were changed to plastic ones, for similar reasons i suppose. It's ironic to see the change in Europe, from cheap plastic bins to fancy stainless ones in city centers, back to plastic ones.
The dreaded emacs lock-in: before you know it, you're browsing the web and editing your photos in emacs.
At work, most of our Linux installations are Red Hat and CentOS, so for me, Fedora is the ideal distribution for a cutting-edge Linux which is mostly compatible with our software platform. Besides that, I quite like Fedora.
I said this exact thing to a coworker less than 3 minutes ago!
Very well put. It seems to me that desktop performance has stagnated for the most part while mobile performance continues to make leaps and bounds, so people think they need to upgrade their phones and tablets much more often just like the early days of the PC. A 2008 MacBook is going to be a lot more useful than a 2008 iPhone in 2018.

Apple certainly markets their iPads as a competitor to the MacBook, so maybe they’re not looking to use custom silicon in the Macs but simply to phase out desktop computers when iOS and third party applications are ready to replace PCs for the most part.
Ah, no biggie. We'll just replace them with robuts.
The difference to the entry level MacBook Pro seems very minimal. The form factor is pretty much 100% identical - the Pro even is listed to be thinner overall on the tech specs (0.59" vs 0.61), even though the Air is slightly thinner at the front. So it seems like the difference is 100$ price, 100g weight, and a slightly slower CPU.
Have you been able to use the V100s' 16-bit tensor cores to speed up QCD at all?
The double tap has brought up the app switcher since iOS7. Maybe you're thinking of something else?
"...improving access to handwritten and typed documents that computers cannot accurately translate without human intervention..." Is this true?
That's optimistic. We'll probably try to eat them.
I had to look up "penal offense." The relevant definition seems to be "liable to punishment." Isn't that exactly what termination would be? If you terminate someone for a thing, I'd say that fits the bill as punishment for the thing.
What’s it like to program for it? Do you need to manage the distribution and utilization per node your self like a normal HPC farm? Or is it more like a single computer like a Cray?
I really like OmniGraffle. It's got a free trial, but the trial is short enough that I'd wait to start it until you can spend a little time kicking the tires.
Also, since this thread/reply has gotten popular and the topic is a passion of mine, I'm going to unashamedly hijack it to link to a few of my favorite, more accessible bands in case anyone reading is curious and wants to explore more.

These bands showcase most of what people like about death metal, are lyrically inoffensive (mostly) and with melodic structures that are accessible to newcomers to the genre. As such, they largely fall into the "melodic death metal" sub-subgenre. Yes, yes, I know I' get shit from people into more "real" death metal, but the point here is to provide an introduction. These particular samples even have largely intelligible growls.

Amon Amarth - Highly melodic, viking-themed metal. Good fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARnBgW5XgSo

Insomnium - Intense but more melancholic, really showcases the emotional range available within the genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZMWKCgvaDY

Dark Tranquillity - More modern sounding and philosophically themed, they are a personal favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKjzDU7V7es

Death - This is the band that started it all. Actually where Death Metal gets its name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbp60IX_jFQ
Addons are sandboxed. They can affect game interface (in a limited ways) and other addons, but not other software or files. And it's kind of hard to require further sandboxing, because that would limit addon power and one of the reasons people like WoW exactly because addon allow very deep interface customization.
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> What does "stable" mean?

They mean the entire keys descends evenly even if you press the key near the edge, see: https://youtu.be/afNHG3jyPU4?t=265
IMHO the idea of a goal is an attractive illusion.
But they aren't even small bezels. There are still rather large bezels all around the "edge to edge" screen.

This is just a blatant lie by Apple's marketing.
Of the altcoins that are actually functional, you'd have a harder time finding one that didn't have "users" around the world than one thar did.

Let's just use Litecoin as an example here, or even dogecoin for that matter. Are you seriously claiming those don't have global reach?
Sure they would. On average, you'd have to drink 13+ times per day, every day, for 80 years straight, to get killed by such tap water. There are plenty more things in life with worse risk profiles (e.g. cars, like 'unionpivo mentions).
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That program doesn’t cover the 2018 models.
Your strategy pretty much mirrors mine exactly. with a few exceptions. The grandparents got my son a Leap Pad, which we let him play a couple hours on weekends and they play iPad games when they're over the grandparent's when they visit once a week.

I've noticed the same things as you when my kids watch ads at the grandparent's. Their reactions show advertising to children for exactly what it is - taking advantage of young minds that cannot defend themselves.

We have a smart TV that has it's network access controlled by my router that limits their screen time. My daughter has a clam shell phone to call us in case of emergency but neither child will never have a smart phone as long as they're in my house.

I've plainly told the wife's family do not buy my kids any more technology without asking us first because it will end up in the garbage. I don't accept the opinion that these technologies are benign, especially from people like my wife's family who have never actually given the subject any serious or considered thought.
Back then Apple didn't have much experience with wireless charging. They also didn't have any place to "dock" the pencil to the iPad, even though other companies were using magnets. So that seemed like an explicit decision at the time to me.

I saw a video where artists were demoing the iPad Pro Photoshop. Most of them had experience with the Wacom stylus and criticized that the Apple Pencil was too slim and cramped their hand. The obvious solution would be to add a rubber grip--which wouldn't really work with this storage/charging solution.
>Problem is, the iPhone X family got rid of the chin... but have the dreaded notch, and not even the mostly acceptable teardrop everyone else standardized on.

You mean "copied with a tiny alteration".

>At least the iPad Pro adopted chinless and also notchless design. First time in years Apple has made a product that isn't weirdly ugly.

You probably didn't get the memo, but the "oh my god, it has a notch, oh noes, so ugly" thing some pundits tried to pull died in its birth, and not only competitors copied the notch, but the X itself became the best selling phone.

Even ignoring that, everybody pretty much praised the Apple Watch 4 as beautiful as well...
Thanks. AFAIR I installed everything related to Java; maybe I made a mistake somewhere. I also tried to fix the problem with "alternatives --config java".
Not css but html5. It allows you to have multiple submit buttons, each linked to a different action through the formaction attribute. So I have an "add item" button that submits all fields (of the whole document) to a "/foo/form/add_item" route and simply adds a row of empty inputs. All other fields are filled with the same values they were submitted with. I also have a submit button per row where each has an action with a route that includes the index of the item to be deleted. Likewise, all fields are submitted, the indicated row is omitted, and all other fields are rendered with the values they were submitted with.

I got the backend prepared to facilitate this. I just call a function with another function that manipulates a datatype representing the form. It parses the submitted data into that, passes it through my function argument, renders it, and responds with it.

In the example I gave, the HTML table holds the inputs for the row data, but initially I thought the items would need more fields than would be pleasant to work with in the table. What I was doing then was displaying a subset of the data in the table, hold the raw data of all items in hidden fields, and have a subform below the table for new items and item edition. This was somewhat more complicated, specially because of the way the backend framework I was using thought of forms. I had one HTML form that I wanted to treat like multiple, validating one or the other depending on what submit button was used. Getting that to work in Yesod was a little troublesome but I imagine it would have been easier (though less safe) in e.g. Rails.

Anyway, I think continuing that way would probably have also been doable, had I not switched to having the inputs in the HTML table for simplicity.
It's pretty common in Wild Kratts.
If anything, there's plenty of alternatives in laptop space. From Surfaces, Lenovos, Dells, Huaweis to bunch of other really good hardware that is only marginally different. Even the OSes have converged to the point where they differ in mostly in the keyboard shortcuts and types of annoyances you deal with.
"Hidey hole" means you have a bunch of wasted space in your device and encourages them to make the pen tiny, though. I much prefer the independent (and full sized) stylus. I rarely use the magnetic docking, though.

I fully agree about the pen falling off when bumped. I can't imaging Apple solved that since it seems like a fundamental side effect of the design.
I'm probably going to get crucified for this, but I wish they would have dropped the mic jack in return to a third TB3 port (so they would be accessible form either side of the computer).
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I'm sorry, but is the surgery professor's name really Kneebone?