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People repeat that meme that SandyBridge doesn't need replaced so often. You say it 2 or 3 times by yourself.

While that's the prevailing opinion, I don't necessarily agree. I think it's SandyBridge owners trying to convince themselves more than anything else, but really it's just being swooped up in the groupthink.

Skylake is the first chip that makes a very strong case as an upgrade. You gain NVME support for your PCIE SSDs, DDR4 (which has shown an improvement over DDR3 in some benchmarks), roughly 20% IPC improvement (5% per gen give or take), DX12_1 feature level IGP, CPUs with 128MB L4 cache which absolutely destroys chips that didn't have this for gaming (Broadwell had it first and Skylake's is improved upon), vastly more power efficient and Thunderbolt3 support.

7 pretty good reasons off the top of my head.
You can dismiss each of these if you want, but this is all very attractive in reality.

The whole story is that SandyBridge is only competitive, in gaming, if you overclock to 4Ghz+. You still lose out on the other improvements though and any stock SB system compared to a stock SL system will look pretty sad once you factor in the platform updates.

If it's gaming you care about, take a look at the benchmarks of the 128MB L4 Broadwell chips compared to Devil's Canyon. Let alone SandyBridge. Both get crushed where it counts and Intel is just now getting Skylake 128MB L4 CPUs out the door. If you don't care about gaming, Skylake still crushes SB.
I am attempting right now to overtake people who have put out an ordinary MVP.

I am hoping to surprise them and leave them in the dust.
Is the improvement also applicable when uploading files from the s3 management console into an accelerated bucket?
I do think ambitious & driven Indians can do very well in a global market place. I think the stiff competition in resources have made the cream of India very competitive at a global level and we see things like Indian at Microsoft CEO position. But I dont buy your argument that Indians are outdoing the west yet(not saying it can't be done), but there have been more American CEO's in the fortune 500 than Indian CEOs.
What a lovely mini thread! Thanks for the quick laugh :)
What about all the civilians who no doubt contributed economically and indirectly to the Nazi regime simply by not opposing or fighting them?
I can't imagine anything more intellectually fulfilling than arguing from imagination about the one true way to love an imaginary being
China warns of foreign spies with 'Dangerous Love'
I believe that whoever is in charge of federal funding in R&D will have to be extremely smart and balanced in his views because R&D plays a great role in the economy and future of this country. The right approach is a balanced between fundamental and applied research. And it's not just balanced but which areas to invest money into.
...Cult of the King. Living in Thailand was a real eye-opener for me. Having to stand up for the King before movies, to stop in public places to honor the King when the loudspeaker played, and to watch what I said with regards to the King was a very jarring experience.
I would love to see this catch on all over the country. There always have been, and always will be trade offs that often do make rail travel (in the abstract) superior to commercial air. 75 year long story short, the implementation in the US is broken, and will never be fixed. This should be marketed, and envisioned as a competitor to rail and existing bus lines.

I also think they should research route combinations that have terrible or no commercial air options. There are hundreds of these. Think about flying between two tier 3-4 cites. Or places where people take road trips to popular destinations from tier 1 cites. For that matter you might do well with families.
Heck yeah. My mother in law does the Megabus shuffle twice a week because she's a trooper, but this would definitely be a wanted upgrade. Too bad the endpoint down south is Santa Monica and not LA proper, with many more options for the final leg.
A Song of Ice and Data
I don't understand this at all. In what world is there an infinite amount of hours I can work? Most people work 40 hours a week and if they work more don't get paid extra (barring overtime but do you work somewhere where you can just work 100 hours a week and put in 60 hours of overtime because you felt like it?).

Between weekends and just general downtime in week (I spend time watching netflix and browsing the internet and I read books in my commute) I have at least 30 hours free a week. If you're into stocks as much as I'm into wasting time entertaining myself then why not.
You're right. I made a bold statement without looking into the details. Looking at their yearly balance sheet, though, their yearly liabilities are going up. They've got quite a bit of debt.

A good 1/3 of their assets are in property plant and equipment value. That means that the fair market value of that stuff can tank if they don't keep up the pace of growth because what if they can't sell as much of their products anymore because of a shift to other technologies?

This is for sure a move because their revenue forecasts are grim in many areas they operate in.
If a third party is CC'ing Amy I would of course send her the unencrypted confidential information and think it's just an AI - they don't look at my data. What the hell.
Bitbucket actually has http://www.bitbucketcards.com/
btw, http://gitlo.co is cool for github issues
Seriously. Lots of students are a-holes and will pull any trick that maybe gets them a better grade, and professors can't just tolerate that. Source: I am a student, and I overhear things
Is this Heaven? or is this Hell?

I can't tell...
They went up once and the fed is signaling a lot of caution. The earlier analyst consensus was 4 hikes this year .. it is down to 2. The latest commentary I'm hearing says normal rates by 2019 .. which is psycho IMHO.
Ask HN: Which tool do you use for creating wireframes to be built in QlikView?
Do the power outlets work?

Better than even money even the ones near my Greyhound seat are busted whenever I travel.
Licensing and stewardship at the least. 7 years ago, back when Nokia's coffers were fat and they could afford to fund the original PySide, for some reason they could or would not just buy up Riverbank Computing. That's the (presumably commercially successful) business that develop PyQt and sell licenses and support contracts for it. Architecturally PySide has a few incremental technical advantages, the kind you only get with hindsight and cloning an existing project, but overall it looks and feels pretty much the same and was intended as a compatible work-alike of PyQt.

I've a feeling there is a lesser told story in here somewhere relating to Riverbank. No doubt they had been approached by Nokia back in the day, and possibly also more recently by the Qt Company.

edit: https://wiki.qt.io/PySide_FAQ:

> Initial research into Python bindings for Qt involved speaking with Riverbank Computing, the makers of PyQt. We had several discussions with them to see if it was possible to use PyQt to achieve our goals. Unfortunately, a common agreement could not be found , so in the end we decided to proceed with PySide.
You can thank Fed for that. I always wondered why Janet Yellen worries so much about stock markets. I mean isn't her duty to look at economy and make decisions instead all I see are ways to placate market by postponing things for ever.
> In the meanwhile: LLC incorporation. You'll almost certainly pick an LLC as a solo founder because the costs are lower

In New York this isn't true
You could just as easily go the other way and overlay distracting people in the room with a peaceful zen garden.
I once took SF -> NYC red-eyes every Sunday for four months in a lie-flat seat (and back home every Thursday). All my friends and fellow consultants pitied my tremendous commute, but truth told I loved it - it was the furthest to time travel I had ever come.

I hardly remember a single flight - a Dramamine, eye mask, and ear plugs allowed me to pass out before take off and wake up in Manhattan.

In sum, I'd absolutely take this - if I could board at 10th & Market around midnight and wake up in Santa Monica bright and early, I've wasted absolutely no waking hours (as opposed to at least 3.5 hours wasted end-to-end: Uber from home to SFO, security, taxiing, plane, taxiing, Uber from LAX to destination).

I, of course, can fall asleep just about anywhere - I can see how this would be somebody else's worst nightmare if they couldn't.
Hello everyone! Jason Scott at the Internet Archive. Today, the truck was found abandoned by the San Francisco Police Department, having driven at least once over the Golden Gate bridge during its time away, and is being returned to the Archive tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone for getting the word out - it meant a lot. Hopefully the truck didn't suffer too much for its time away and can be back to transporting data and hardware for the archive shortly.
It's a gimmick based on why you came to use the tool. My understanding is that it's goal is for team communication and all these alerts are simply distracting.

But maybe slack should position itself as an advanced alert management tool (which is what many seem to use it for).
Interruptions are sometimes time-savers for the interruptor but they're costly to the interuptee.

Some problems are important and merit an interruption, yes. But if you build a culture around instant communication, your worst people will drag down your best people.

The default should be digest mode (and god help me because my 50 year-old desk-neighbor said that to me 2 years ago and at the time I thought 'man this is an old human being').
I really do not get this hype around Slack.

Chat, group chat, video conferencing are nothing special. These applications are commodities and included with so many other apps. Eg. if you use Google Apps/Mail you get the fantastic Hangout for free, working on all devices.

Moreover, every time I login Slack it feels so crowded. If you want to change something you have to navigate through a forest of settings here and there.

Finally, chatting and being messaged is the best thing to get out of flow and to get ADD. Messaging is great, group messaging too but use it rather for important stuff.
There is quite a lot I could say about ROOT, ROOT files, CINT, but I won't.

There's better options. Don't use it unless you are in HEP.
I don't particularly care if its a bus or a self driving car, but without a doubt a lot of places where we fly for a quick trip we may decide to drive. I am more compelled by self driving cars with beds though as they will still solve all the annoying last mile problems, time independent/flexible, and be a bit more private.
Anchor's market penetration comes from their ability to get users, press, and search results. Katha may have the same idea, an equally good cross-platform app, and a year head start, but that doesn't mean anything if the team couldn't get the word out.

Most tech founders hate this, but your ability to market your business is considerably more important than your product at the beginning. You can build the most amazing app in the world but if you can't get people to hear about it your startup will fail. Conversely, you can build something very average, but if you can get it in front of millions you'll probably succeed.

All that said though, didn't AudioBoo do sound-based social media years before both of these apps? It was quite popular for a while.
How fun - their convnets have determined that Facebook is an incarnate deity.

https://www.facebook.com/images/fb_icon_325x325.png is classified as "cross", "no person", "Resurrection", "spirituality", "symbol", "religion", "god".

In all seriousness, I found this pretty interesting, as I've been toying with using RNNs to classify NSFW images on my icon conversion site. The biggest issue that I've run into is that "icons" are squarely in a different class that photographic images. For some reason the *NN networks that I've toyed with break down on classifying icons because they aren't able to easily correlate a stylistic interpretation with a real item. It kind of makes sense given how they work, but there's got to be a way to work around it...
Do you have IPv6 only devices you'd like to support?
If silicon valley put it's weight against a new investment boom in mass transportation (of any kind) it would do this country a world of good.
The US provided training, enormous air power, and weapons including land mines to the Lon Nol government.

It may be in the realm of conspiracy theory still, but some would contend that the CIA installed the Lon Nol government and helped oust Norodom Sihanouk as king. Sihanouk himself wrote a book called "My War with the CIA" and as I understand it (haven't read it) his position is that this happened in retaliation for Cambodia remaining neutral in the Vietnam war.

I'm not sure to what extent this is true, or whether or not Sihanouk quietly supported the VC, but Cambodia was absolutely devastated by US bombing and it can only be described as evil. As a personal anecdote, I recently met some Cambodian men who subsisted as children by salvaging unexploded American bombs.

Between 1965 and 1973, the U.S. dropped 2.7 million tons of explosives -- more than the Allies dropped in the entirety of World War II -- on Cambodia, whose population was then smaller than New York City's. Estimates of the number of people killed begin in the low hundreds of thousands and range up from there, but the truth is that no one has any idea.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/wha...
"at least in the U.S."
and you justify downvoting my thread.

When I said Google is the Internet, and you don't understand it, then I pity that you people have the ability to downvote comments on this site.

Not everyone in the world means literally, when I say GOogle is the Internet that means Google is so powerful a company that 90+% of search market is with them, yes doubleclick I am looking at you, gmail, youtube, android, chromebook, google books, self driving car, a robotic cheetah that runs 200 something km per hour. That is scary.

I am getting downvoted because the people who are downvoting don't understand what I am trying to say. yeah go ahead and downvote this and justify your actions. doesn't make the things I say less than the truth.

Every computer I see has google chrome and google as the default search engine, God knows they did a research I read which tells the gender of the person by the way the keep their phone in their hand, can't cite it here because I am short on time.

Google is scary. The kind of power they have, had it not been for the EU they would have been even more dangerous, thankfully and regretfully EU has authority only in the EU.
>> watch movies???

How do you expect that person with meager income to pay for the network bandwidth and usage bill?

>>Smartphones are really high-value!

This I agree wholeheartedly. At least for people like me, who enjoy reading books, smart-phones (with sites like project Gutenberg) provide such an utopia that I feel like living in heaven. Of course, I know that smart-phones don't solve all problems automatically, but from knowledge-seeker's PoV, smart-phones are of great value.

Also, I understand that not all people like to read, but that's a different thing to ponder upon.
It's not that it's novel. It's that it might work despite the nature of the economy. That's to say, buses were a not uncommon mode of inter-city travel up and till the late 50's after that cars dominated and left cheap buses (and passenger rail) behind.

So, most Americans of upper lower class and above more or less dismissed buses as only something really poor people, some students and geriatrics used.

Buses, in most people's minds had had their golden age, peak bus was behind us. So, in that atmosphere betting on buses is bold.

It's like someone betting on airlines in some poor region (it's bold but with the right circumstance, it might work).
You can setup a socks proxy pretty easily with ssh -D 1080 <your server name>, then set localhost:1080 as your socks proxy and run the test.
I generally like command line-esque chatbots. Then again I also like the command line and usually prefer it over a GUI. (I also think that emacs is the best UI ever so I'm perhaps not representative of the typical user.)

The problem with x.ai is that it attempts to replicate the annoying experience of dealing with someone's idiot secretary, not that it's text.
Or fumbling in the dark for the outlet and gambling that you don't feel something sticky. In my Megabus experiences anyways.
They were punished quite severely by Germany's reparations at the end of the war. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_reparations_for_World...
Ok, this thing is just Marketing to push Airtable. Once you liked the provided info you click on "Copy Base" and voila, Airtable gets a new user.

But I do think that Airtable looks nice. And I appreciate any new approaches to spreadsheets. This space lacks a bit of innovation and the advice seems to be not that bad.

Upvoted.
It's bad enough that my mother requires a death certificate within a certain amount of time. [1]

That said, I had a freak accident in grad school and had a professor who expected me to call into his class from pre-op! (i.e. There are some actual asshole professors!)

[1] Edited to add: She implemented this after the same student for the third time claimed a grandmother had died right before an exam!
The Curious Link Between Fly-By Anomaly and the “Impossible” EmDrive Thruster
Twitter-wise, even better is to respond from Slack to tweets in real time with this integration — https://sameroom.io/integrations/respond-to-twitter-from-sla... [0]

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It has. The twin bets are called Uber and driverless cars.

I know that's not what you meant, but that's absolutely what silicon valley had put its weight behind to solve that problem.
Blue is obviously superior because of its wider variety of uses. Blue is a much more popular color for cars than green. Blues are much more rare in nature than greens, because blues are harder to recreate due to their superior qualities.

Perhaps these intelligence adults aren't that intelligent after all. If you think you are so smart think that you and 50% of other people have figured it all out, and the 50% of other people are just idiots, then maybe you aren't that intelligent after all.
The high P/E is driven by interest rates being low.

One can argue the way to judge stocks value is not by P/E but by E/P relative to interest rates; that is whether their excess return relative to risk-free assets is justified by their risk.

Interest rates remain 5% below their long-term historical average, which can justify E/P going up significantly. Currently stocks offer a 3.5% return over some classes of t-bonds, well in line with historical norms.
Theranos Is Under Investigation for Fraud, Which Is Weird for a Private Company
If you don't have well controlled, repeatable experiments (a.k.a. the scientific method) are you actually doing science? I think we should come up with another word for these types of one-off studies.
I completely agree, I've just been using CentOS and RHEL 7.2 and the latest Ubuntu and I'm blown away at how quickly I can boot up.
If we want UBI, why not go full communalism or anarcho-collectivism?
One concern I've heard about React Native a few times is that the UX is not at par with real native apps. Does the React team understand why is so, and have a plan for fixing this?

Or is React Native consciously intended as a tradeoff between UX and development time?
I get it, you don’t like my choice of adjective.
You're comparing things across different levels. You have something at a macro level in one (jobs created across the economy) and at a micro level in the other (jobs destroyed at a single company). The economy as a whole might still net create jobs even with Intel laying off 11% of its workforce. Likewise, you can have the labor market across the economy shrinking while other companies are ramping up hiring. A single data point does not indicate a trend.
I hope I can one day have a self driving car show up at my doorstep in San Francisco on a Friday night, hop in, fall asleep, and wake up in Seattle, at a friend's doorstep, on the Saturday morning - and do the reverse to head back to work on Monday.

Even just sleeping in a car instructed to drive along the coast all night long would be delightful.
The Drug-Making Process Is Slow and Wasteful–This Machine Could Fix That
Because capitalism is a phenomenal economic tool?
Airbnb Is Not the Big Enemy of Labor. Uber Is
I think that the government would be better served to spend money researching fundamental science, that seems to me to be the great shortfall of industry.

Intel, Westinghouse, biotech in general, and Dow do a pretty good job on the applied piece IMHO.
The free market seems to work pretty well for people with money. The idea of UBI is to give everyone money so it works well for everyone. Is there evidence that these alternatives will do any better?
The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/imperialism

The second half of that is pretty spot on, and if I'm not mistaken some of the overseas bases did originate from the use of force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism

Currently, the Pax Americana is based on the military preponderance beyond challenge by any combination of powers and projection of power throughout the world's commons—neutral sea, air and space. This projection is coordinated by the Unified Command Plan which divides the world on regional branches controlled by a single command. Integrated with it are global network of military alliances (the Rio Pact, NATO, ANZUS and bilateral alliances with Japan and several other states) coordinated by Washington in a hub-and-spokes system and world-wide network of several hundreds of military bases and installations. Former Security Advisor, Zbignew Brzezinski, drew an expressive summary of the military foundation of Pax Americana shortly after the unipolar moment:

In contrast [to the earlier empires], the scope and pervasiveness of American global power today are unique. Not only does the United States control all the world's oceans, its military legions are firmly perched on the western and eastern extremities of Eurasia... American vassals and tributaries, some yearning to be embraced by even more formal ties to Washington, dot the entire Eurasian continent... American global supremacy is...buttered by an elaborate system of alliances and coalitions that literally span the globe.

Besides the military foundation, there are significant non-military international institutions backed by American financing and diplomacy (like the United Nations and WTO). The United States invested heavily in programs such as the Marshall Plan and in the reconstruction of Japan, economically cementing defense ties that owed increasingly to the establishment of the Iron Curtain/Eastern Bloc and the widening of the Cold War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Americana#Contemporary_pow...