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No, they wouldn't.

Look at the current state of Mackintoshes. People are having kernel panics and struggling to keep their machines running with current software. OS X moves pretty fast, possibly faster than Linux, and Apple builds it to support Mac hardware.... the teams who are porting hackintosh code have to support a lot more hardware variety and they have less resources than, say, linux.

Running mackintoshes in production makes no sense.

And I challenge the claim that you would save money.

Looking just at off the shelf costs of low end hardware does not tell you the TCO of serious machines that need to be running all the time.

To get comparable hardware quality to Apple products you have to spend more, generally, when going with "commodity" hardware.

The idea that Apple is expensive is a myth, born of two things-- people perpetuating it since 1980 (yes, 35 years this myth has been spread), with the vested interest of rationalizing their dislike of Apple... and the fact that Apple doesn't compete at the very low end.

In production, TCO is much more about reliability and other things than initial hardware cost.
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I agree. People talk about "professional help" like it's categorically a good thing. Unfortunately, that's not always the case.

It is incredibly important to understand that many inpatient facilities are profoundly hostile environments for some patients, despite claims of a "therapeutic milieu" (which is somehow exactly the same for both depressive and manic disorders; sure, of course that's credible /s). Based on my experiences at the only two such facilities in my metro area, I would be very, very, very hesitant to ever admit to suicidal ideation in the future. The idea of going back to such a place is enough to make me consider the risk of "going it alone", even knowing that doing so could be a fatal mistake. Comparisons to imprisonment are not exaggerations: it absolutely did feel like punishment, like I had no rights, like the staff merely treated me as a "problem" rather than as a patient or client. Some of the "professionals" were not worthy of the term, particularly the "clinical social worker" types (some of whom expressed, with complete confidence, deeply weird and absolutist "theories" of mental illness that correspond to no credible theory that I've read about in reputable literature).

(punchline: my depression was almost certainly caused by a chronic physiological disorder, one which neither facility screened for; most of the "treatment" I received was probably exacerbating my condition instead of improving it)

I guess if I had to make this venting "practical" I would say this: if you ever have a close friend or family member in an inpatient facility, and they tell you that they really, really need to leave because it's a bad place, believe them. No one else will.
1. That's certainly a possibility, and one that we won't really have hard numbers on for some time to come. However, the fan is about a $60 part, so provided that we don't have coordinated, catastrophic failures and that they live for at least a year, we're doing alright. Do note that Apple specifically says that the Mac Pro may be operated on its side. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201379

2. True, but 1U per server is not bad density by any stretch. For my app servers, they effectively occupy 0.5U; database and storage effectively occupy 1U. So this puts the Mac Pros on par with the larger server class. Were we to deploy renderers in conventional server chassis, a similar system would occupy at least an effective 1U if not a full 2U.

What Apple does internally is, of course, shrouded in mystery. I know some people there, and we talk to people when we can, but they just aren't the kind of company that is going to tell you how they make the sausage.

From what I've heard and my sense from speaking with them over the years, they do not use OS X in production. They used to use Darwin and Solaris, and now almost exclusively use Linux (presumably Solaris is still around to run Oracle). They did used to use Xserves internally, but even at their scale it isn't worth building them just for their own use.
Supply and demand. There is a lot of demand. There may not be (there almost certainly isn't) enough senior devs to go around. By nature people need to hire junior devs.
Could this help Jython to interface with Numpy ? The JyNI project is otherwise constrained to do some pretty serious gymnastics...
I imagine to appease anyone with doubt to the benefits of basic income some sort of "basic work credits" type system would need to be in place for anyone without a normal job to contribute something noteworthy back to society.

The matter of what is acceptable as "basic work" may already be in place as court ordered community services, peace corps, or local public works projects. Maybe even a new variation of non-profit organization [1] that has specific structural rules for "basic work" credits?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501%28c%29_organization
Denmark hopes to boost its economy by eliminating cash
Profiling, advertising, avenues to offer their owner services or partners services.
we came very close to resorting to a jerry-rigged version of this using loadbalancer healthchecks that probed jmx for oldgen size.
I don't blame them for where I am. I blame them for "I am" and being a roadblock to me getting to "I am not".
By law it is mapped to an APR which is disclosed to the customer, but there are typically no late fees or other (typical) penalties.
Suicide is the ultimate form of flight. It's running away from life itself. To a depressed person suicide isn't self-harm, it's a way to stop the pain.

That's what makes it so dangerous. Because in reality it IS self harm, it's just that suicidal people can't truly understand that. And it's also true that it's an escape, and the pain stops when you're dead. The value system is distorted such that the loss of all positive feelings isn't weighed properly. Especially since depressed people tend to have far fewer positive feelings, and have a confirmation bias to be unable to remember those feelings existing.
The Wheel of Lunch
Rogaway on IPSEC, 1995
Does anyone have a picture of the storyboard?
The economic reasoning for voting Labour today
I hope they at least catch up to Intel, we need good healthy competition to keep things interesting in the x86 CPU market.
How Much Testing Is Too Much?
Ask HN: Good JavaScript single page applications to learn from
I'm trying to get better at writing and understanding single page applications and want that knowledge to be framework agnostic. I've found an interesting book on it but no concrete implementation [2]

I've been searching GitHub and blog posts for any open source actual single page applications (not frameworks, generators, etc..) and have come up with some good resources but nothing that exactly fits my need.

There is a backbone example [1] but that's only a ToDo list. Pretty much all of the stuff I work on is more complex than that (I'm just a jr dev but the example is so contained), so these examples don't give me a good way of checking my work and understanding.

I understand people use ToDo as their demo because it allows for easy cross-comparison but for digging in it really doesn't help much. One object, tracking its few properties, and keeping a list will be maintainable and extensible just because of how small the codebase is.

So if anyone knows of some medium sized to large SPAs on GitHub that would be great. If there aren't any, if anyone wants to collaborate and build one together along with a series of blog posts or text files we throw in the directories along with our reasoning I'm down.

[1] https://github.com/thomasdavis/backbonetutorials
[2] http://singlepageappbook.com/
There are two scenarios: Someone whose FICO score indicates more risk than Affirm's algorithm, and someone whose FICO score indicates less risk than Affirm's algorithm.

Affirm chooses a rate based on its algorithm's prediction, and I believe worst case just offers standard FICO-based rates... because it has a slightly different business model, it has no incentive to ding customers with a $15 fee if they pay the third payment three days late.
Why pay 5-10X as much to host on AWS? It's not for free.

Hosts have a really nice markup, compared to hosting yourself. Hosts make a lot of sense for small companies who can benefit from the aggregated demand and capital costs being spread over many clients.... but not when you're at the level of building your own datacenter, or even using a full rack.

It's funny how since 1980 people have been talking negatively about Apple as "vendor lock in". For most of that time it was advocating vendor lockin to windows.

The thing is when you build your system on an OS or hardware choice you're making "vendor lockin" to that platform. Build on Linux and you're locked into just Linux, unless you port.

There is little risk being "locked in" to the largest most successful company in the world. Plus the costs being dramatically lower given the rabidly higher performance of Apple's technology for this particular service more than covers the cost (in fact I think one Mac Pro probably replaces 4 or 5 Linux boxes doing this.)

If you think Optimized OpenGL shaders would do this, you're not understanding what it is that they are doing. You're just assuming it's a trivial problem, it is not.

Owning your hardware makes a great deal of sense when you are operating at scale.
"The average Nobel Prize medal is 175g"

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/watson-...

(That's about $7000 worth.)
> providing you can show you are actively seeking and able to work (i.e. applying for jobs, attending interviews). Your past work history doesn't factor into it.

Past history doesn't matter, but what about the kind of work you want to do in the future?

The criteria you listed seem to be optimized for people who are looking for full-time employment. Would you qualify if you were an independent contractor who is temporarily out of clients?

According to Wikipedia [1], the UK JSA often requires beneficiaries to call or visit a specific number of companies each week, and not refuse a reasonable job offer. How does that work for an independent contractor who wants to continue being independent? Do you have to prove that you tried to sell your services to a specific number of potential clients each week? Or do you give up and just get a traditional job? If it's the latter, then the system is deliberately putting independent contractors at a disadvantage.

I'm not saying this is necessarily bad -- after all, beggars can't be choosers -- but it does dampen the original article's enthusiasm about project-based employment being the norm of the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jobseeker%27s_Allowance#Jobsee...
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Just like workers in sweatshops and factories in countries like Indonesia and China have a choice to not work for a few dollars per day in dangerous conditions producing textiles for your $200 sneakers and smartphone components for your $1000 iPhone or Android device? The people working in those deplorable conditions are doing so voluntarily, right? Just like the homeless guy digging through the trash on Market St in San Francisco has the choice to not be homeless even though his area is being gentrified and even people on six figure salaries cannot afford to live in a lot of areas of San Francisco. I cannot get on-board with the view that everyone has a choice.
It's been a long time since I was last excited what AMD has to offer. Hopefully this puts AMD back on the map, the x86 market needs a second strong contender. I might choose AMD for that reason alone, if they get within 20% ballpark of Intel IPC. Especially Skylake comparable AVX-512 performance would be good.

I also hope they'll put some more effort in Catalyst drivers. Had pretty horrible experience under Ubuntu 15.04 recently...
It's just kitchen sink AI applied to as much data as possible, and two plays: 1) a trustworthy lender that doesn't short-term maximize, and 2) in some cases a better rate due to the AI's data-driven prediction.
That's circular reasoning. We have voted-in wealth distribution mechanisms today that have worked well enough to prevent the poor for voting for more.

But it is exactly as you said, recent changes in campaign financing policy and PAC funding has made it easier for the wealthy to preserve their position.
(Google Cloud Support here)

The across-the-board guidance to go to StackOverflow is not working, and we get that. It's not just that system administration questions get downvoted on StackOverflow (which I think is the parent's point) but that StackExchange isn't good for general discussion.

We (support) are trying to be much more clear that free support is not "StackOverflow or nothing." We recently updated our "community" support page at https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/3466163 to lay out all of the community support options in one place.

Bottom line: everything listed on that page has Googlers actively participating. This includes groups, StackExchange, and issue trackers. There's room for plenty of improvement, the intent is not to ignore you.
They also restricted the clues compared to what they would normally have - no audio/video Daily Doubles. I think there might have been some other restrictions, but I don't recall the exact rules. I think they didn't allow any of the "special" categories they sometimes have.

They also did some other tricks, like giving Watson a parsed ASCII stream of the clue, rather than making it see the screen and parse it out. I think it also got an electronic feed of the "you can buzz in now signal" rather than making it parse out the same light the contestants see.
> And when Jennings went up against IBM’s Watson in a special competition, the computer’s biggest advantage was not its knowledge base but rather an optimized buzzer timing

So the computer's most effective weapon against Jennings was a 555 timer? That's cute.
It reminds me of Balloon 1.0, which I can't find anymore on the web.
It may not be exactly what you want but codepen has some really cool and some really advanced JS projects:

http://codepen.io/
The Bible.

Escape From Reason (Francis Schaeffer). Why modern thought is the way it is.

An Infamous Army (Georgette Heyer). Regency romance combined with a fabulous account of the Battle of Waterloo.

The C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie). So clearly written that I picked up C over a long weekend - without a compiler to try it out on! The only thing I didn't understand was argc and argv.
Is it me, or does it seem that the only two development styles people talk about is Strict Waterfall, or Agile, where the latter covers practically everything else?

What development approach does, say, the CPython development use? If it's "agile", when did it become agile? Did the introduction of written Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) make it less agile?
Passenger can see the vehicle when choosing a ride in Sidecar. What the original comment was implying is that Sidecar is less picky on its vehicle requirements.
Probably one of the most popular reposts on HN, if you search this title.
I am afraid of saying almost anything about this, for fear that it will be taken wrong.

We all have a LOT of "life decisions" to make between the ages of 18 and 35 (or so), and I think most people make many bad ones. In a country where 2/3 of the population is overweight-to-obese, you can't very well look around yourself and say: "These folks are making a lot of really good decisions!" or "I'd like to hire all of you! You look like awesome, dynamic people with lots of gumption and sass!"

Eating really crappy food, and in great quantities for many years, makes you look and feel sluggish. Drinking booze every night after work, often in great quantities for many years, makes you look and feel crappy after a while. Letting yourself get gradually more complacent about your marriage, work, sex life, body fitness, personal habits and all the rest of it makes you look boring and feel bored.

I'm not saying that age-ism isn't a thing. People love to throw -ism's at each other, it's one of the eternal human flaws. But I think that some (perhaps many) people who cry "age-ism!" are not being completely honest with themselves. Most folks seem to let a lot of the air out of their tires as they get older, tend to get stuck in a lot of bad habits, and it shows on their faces, in their bodies, in their attitudes, in their energy levels, and in their eyes. You can't blame an employer for noticing.
Peter parker was just your average day Pholcidae spider, until one fateful day when he was exposed to experimental carbon nano-tubes. Now he must decide, will he use his new found super web powers for good, or for personal gain?
Might want to change title of this submission. It's correct, and article is interesting, but title reads a little like link-bait to me.
Memory usage isn't that big of a concern anymore, not when phones ship with 1 or more GB of memory regularly.

And that doesn't answer my question: I'm okay with gzip also being allowed, but the whole entire reason we allow multiple compressors is so the web browser and the web server can negotiate what features are supported.

Low memory HTTP clients, yes, can continue to use gzip. But the rest of us, why are we not using LZ4? I mean, hell, there is no reason why HTTP 1.0 and 1.1 clients can't also support LZ4 as well: they just have to negotiate for the feature.
How does this compare to indoors location startup from 15 years back (or so?), Ekahau? http://www.ekahau.com/
I wake and stay awake for an hour or 2 in the middle of my sleep (what you probably mean by segmented sleep) in the winter when the nights are long. (I usually read on the web or maybe do some light programming. I try to avoid heavy programming because too much mental effort tends to make it hard to get back to sleep.) When the nights get shorter, it becomes more likely that on a night picked at random that my sleep will occur in one contiguous block.

Most nights I sleep in a room much darker than most bedrooms because I blocked the window with opaque materials (Dennyfoil and aluminum-foil tape). That is relevant because the accounts of segmented sleep that I have seen or heard postulate that it is light pollution or in other words the invention of the light bulb that caused most people to stop waking in the middle of their sleep. Before I covered the windows with the opaque material, I probably slept right through the night even during the winter months. (I say "probably" because I'm not sure because it was about 18 years ago when I covered the window.)

I sleep one or two nights a week in a room (at my girlfriend's place) with only ordinary blinds and consequently with much more light coming in through the windows, and I am just as likely to wake for an hour or (more typically) two there than I am in my much darker bedroom, which leads me to believe that it is mostly habit that decides whether there will be period of awakeness in the middle of any particular night. So for example, a person who is in the habit of sleeping through the night should not expect to shift immediately to a "segmented" pattern of sleep on his or her first night in a very dark room.

I should add that after the sun goes down, I usually employ measures (namely Flux.app and System Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts > Accessibility > Invert colors, a.k.a., shift-option-command-8) to minimize my exposure to artificial light that might interfere with my sleep.
It'll be REAL f'in expensive in EC2, that's for sure.
I saw this a few months ago, and it never gets any less insane (in a good way) to watch. Just following Atwood's Law, I suppose.
I have a micro EC2 instance I do my development on. I just the repo on my mac, put the folder into sublime and I'm ready to go. There's just something about having Redis, Postgres, Nginx, gunicorn, flask, etc. running on my mac that I don't like.

If you don't want to pay $5/month for an EC2 instance, just run everything in a docker container.
While I like the improvements to regular taxi service that the competition has brought, I don't like Uber. They're just shady all around.

The "We're not a taxi service, we just sell software" is a load of crap.

How many apps take a piece of the gross? Purchase a license? Ok. A monthly fee for ongoing service? Sure. A chunk of all the money made from using it? I don't think so.
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Sustainable Mobility [pdf]
Because you can't counterfeit gold.

The US Dollar, on the other hand, has been counterfeited by the federal government to the point where it has lost %99.99999999 of its value. Making it a depreciating asset. Historically, gold and silver have maintained their value.

Read what an economist has to say about it: http://mises.org/money.asp
LINK! You just can't say that and not provide a link to the catalog for us!
That's interesting, because I have had the opposite experience. The one time I used Uber instead of Lyft in NYC, I got a driver who was most probably a rapist. Whenever we passed a bar or any drunk girls, he would start telling me how he wanted to take advantage of them. Then he started insulting me for some reason.

It was a strange experience, but clearly, the Uber driver pool is merging with the taxi driver pool. And it's bringing the bad elements you'd expect from a typical cabbie.
THANK YOU! Also, Dec 1 2014, this has been out a while then
There are so many assumptions to unpack in this comment.

1) Some people think that free enterprise is the socially optimal way to allocate resources. Many people don't. I think free enterprise allocates resources in a financially optimal way - sometimes that lines up with socially optimal and sometimes it does not.

2) I think it's a bad assumption to think that anything smaller than the consumer goods market or the public stock market is "not a real market". There are hundreds of VC firms and thousands of startups. It's a much bigger market than most B2B products, it's probably as (in?)efficient as the job market.

3) Given the way public companies are plowing their profits into share buybacks rather than investment, I generally hold private companies in higher esteem than the average public company at the moment.
Show HN: 'p' – a simple but powerful Pomodoro tracker in pure Shell
Jeez, this post is brimming with strawmen. (Why am I even bothering...)

> Why pay 5-10X as much to host on AWS?

Nobody said anything about AWS...

> Hosts make a lot of sense for small companies

Sure, nobody is disputing their choice of colocating themselves.

> OS or hardware choice you're making "vendor lockin" to that platform

It is abundantly clear that the vendor lock-in refers to single sourcing your hardware. That problem is nonexistent on Windows, Linux, BSD, etc.

> I think one Mac Pro probably replaces 4 or 5 Linux boxes

Oh come on, now you're just talking crazy... see other posts in this thread for a cost/performance comparison.

> you're not understanding what it is that they are doing

On the contrary, I think I understand better than you. Do you perform a lot of image processing work on various platforms (including OSX and Linux)? I do.
Didn't know that. Thanks. I'll check out this model, or a newer one. Still using a flip phone but it's about time, since pretty much everyone now talks through whatsapp in my country.
There's a big difference between the two.

Gold's price (in a free market, which unfortunately we don't have anymore) is an agreement of market forces-- supply and demand.

The Dollar's price comes from government use of force to make people use it. (this includes internationally.)

If you'd like to get an opinion from a good economist check out: http://mises.org/money.asp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7712824
I used this book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781782161820.do when learning AngularJS. It's by no means perfect, but it covers doing a lot of things in Angular and building a full SPA in the process. As far as good open-source examples, I'm not sure, but I'll be keeping an eye on this.