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Most of the performance in processors in the last decade has come from increasing complexity. Compare the single thread performance of the fastest P4 processor to a recent i7.

More complexed manufacturing process (smaller), more complex instruction (AVX2, crypto), more complex branch prediction, more complex micro/macro op decoding, more complex bus (QuickPath), the list goes on.

The memory barrier semantics on x86(_64) are the strictest of all the arch. This is at the expense of expense of complexity (cache synch protocols). Compare that to the other archs where the semantics presented to software a more complex.

In my mind the chip designers have handled a lot of complexity on their end to simplify it on the software designers. If you go far enough down the rabbit hole (drivers, high performance) you might have to deal with some of the complexity.
"Cancer researchers are welcoming but eagerly awaiting more details on Vice President Joe Biden’s newly announced plan to lead “a moonshot” to cure cancer."

They announced an announcement.
How is self-inflicted pain considered revenge? She caused her own stress by taking money she didn't deserve and is now reaping what she sowed since she knew it didn't work.
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I'm inclined to agree with you and the implicit assumption of good faith. However, FB's trend information is an instance of real power and susceptible to the sort of hiding of capabilities and intentions that implies. It's fair for people to ask for verification though of course no one is required to provide it.
I wonder what kind of release process this guy has as the dev version always lags behind stable - https://www.sublimetext.com/3dev
Some Lisps? Almost all Common Lisps compile to native machine code. Which is why CL programs tend to run orders of magnitude faster than e.g. Python programs. (But they're still typically slower than C because of runtime memory allocation and typetag checking.)
I hardly doubt this money is for real investment most probably just to please to government, this 1B is eventually will be distributed among citizens without a job. Also the big cities became super crowded as being extremly urbanized. In some days traffic jams starts at 3 and between 5-7 everything is just stuck. It might be also a way how goverment try to slightly reduce these issues.
Theranos general counsel Heather King told the Journal last year that Mr. Balwani’s instructions were consistent with the company’s “alternative assessment procedures,” which it said it adopted because it believes its unique technology has no peer group and could be thrown off by the preservatives used in proficiency-testing samples.

It's really Theranoax.
Especially if the SSDs from iPads / tablets are included.

Although there's a big difference from eMMC crap and (even a low-cost budget) SATA3 SSD.
Apple could have chosen to throw money at any of a number of Chinese companies, but they chose Didi. I think it serves more than one strategic purpose, and hints at their intentions with project Titan.
Apple didn't do this because they are building a "self driving car" that they are going to sell.

Apple wants to get ibooks and movies selling in china again, it is vital to apples car strategy. This move will give them some leverage with china in getting those markets back to being active.

If you know anything about Tim Cook, you know that he is master of the supply chain. I don't think that someone like that is going to jump into apple building its own car.

So if apple isn't going to build a car, what ARE they doing with all these people on the pay roll who have worked with cars.

Its simple, apple wants to own the dashboard of the car, were not talking about "carplay" were talking about the WHOLE dashboard. Once you own the dashboard, your hooked into location, and destination (apple owns a mapping solution) they can leave it to vendors of vehicles to do the "self driving" compontent.

Why would any automaker want apple in the dashboard? Why would apple want the dashboard? Its simple, entertainment! Apple with the beats acquisition owns something that looks like radio, and music has always been there with iTunes. There is no reason you can't rent movies and books into the back seat as well.
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Her stock options are tied to whatever the Theranos board decides, and she has full board control. So she can make her options tied to whatever she wants.

No, I don't know her net worth for certain, but it isn't a stretch to say that she comes from wealth. It's a lot easier to get wealthy people to give you a ton of money if you're also wealthy.
I know of one large group that switched (from Timen[1]) to Heideltime[2] because of multi-language support.

One day someone will build a neural net model to do this rather than hand written rules.

[1] https://github.com/leondz/timen

[2] https://github.com/HeidelTime/heideltime
i agree, the lack of mature debate in public this topic is something concerning. I think it comes down to our own ability to deny that the issue is actually real and pressing. Like a smoker, we act on impulse, then try to defend our logic.
I'm having trouble following the jump from proxies for love to the practices of Buddhist monks. Monks don't own anything (except for their robes and alms bowl) and don't prepare their own food (and don't do many other things) in order to avoid attachments, which as we know is one of the fundamental causes of suffering and an obstacle to achieving enlightenment.
I LOLed so hard at "The thing was at first I couldn’t find one start-up I wanted to devote the next year or so of my life to building."

Hint: startup is more like 7-10y+ unless you're just playing at it, or it fails. If you go into it expecting it to be a year, it probably will be.
Though æ is used in English, too.
> Years ago Facebook Messenger was actually built into Firefox. I remember using it myself, but have no idea what's become of that effort since then.

Yes, I remember. Another example of CADT-style development.

> Users demanding Netflix support is literally the reason why Mozilla was strongarmed into adding support for EME, despite trying to hold out against it for so long.

EME is about more than just Netflix, though, and I was referring to site-specific support, just like the Pocket support only works with Pocket. As I wrote on the mozilla-governance list, what should have been done instead is to define and implement a save-for-later API (which could be built-in to the Firefox Places/bookmarks/etc API), which Pocket could then add support for on its end, and then users could choose to sync with a save-for-later API provider.

> Click in the search box, type a query, and at the bottom of the suggestions dropdown you'll see that Amazon is one of the search engines supported out-of-the-box. I actually use this fairly regularly.

Yes, I know how the search engines work, thanks; I've been using Firefox since at least Phoenix 0.6. Again, that is not the same thing. The search engine API is a standard that is used by many web sites to let their site-specific engines get added to the list. In contrast, the Pocket support only works with Pocket. An analogy would be if Mozilla added an Amazon-only sidebar that integrated Amazon.com logins and shopping lists and order status, etc. They aren't doing that, so they shouldn't have done it with Pocket, either.

> This why I find it extremely unlikely that someone "cut a deal", because Mozilla would want people to know that they're succeeding at the task of finding alternate revenue streams.

Now that is an interesting point, and thanks for sharing that. However, I'm still skeptical, because, again, we still have not heard an actual explanation for why Pocket was added, other than vague "it helps people save stuff, and people want to save stuff [even though they could already do that]."

There must have been some kind of inside deal. If not, what other explanation is there? Mozilla added Pocket support suddenly, without any community input, going against established Mozilla policy regarding features being in addons. Mozilla has shown a pattern of removing features and leaving the community to reimplement them in addons, yet here it does the opposite, and for a proprietary service! And it has ignored repeated requests for an explanation of the real reason.

So some kind of secret, inside deal is the only answer I can see. If it wasn't for money, it must have been for something. If you are in fact right that they would want people to know about a deal for money, then what does that suggest? Why would it need to be kept secret? What is going on here?

Whatever the real story, the way they are handling it undermines trust.
It's worth pointing out here that reusing a static keypair with Let's Encrypt is currently more or less straight-forward using acme-tiny.

https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny

Edit: Looks like https://github.com/lukas2511/letsencrypt.sh is capable of doing the same, as pointed out in another comment.
Where is the scepticism about corruptible data due to biased sponsorship?

2011's Climategate should give pause to your hysterical mindset.

Have all of your social circle implement the changes and monitor the data for a few decades to guage the effectiveness of your proposal.
By reading the comments, I had the feeling (maybe I am wrong, my apologies if I am) that most don't get the gist of the argument here.

If you are already in the mindset of the Western Philosophical tradition, I have to concur that this article seems silly, as many have already pointed out. However, for those of us that while studying philosophy don't live on Europe or North America (the Anglo-European Philosophical Studies perspective mentioned on the article) and who already feel like second class citizens of the philosophical world, the article is spot-on.

Living in South America and studying philosophy (I am a graduate student in Brazil), the whole notion that the only true philosophical tradition is the Eurocentric one has other and more profound meanings and implications (even though, as I believe, most are unintentional side-effects of history). It is as if the old view of 'we enlightened [Christian] Europeans' vs. 'you poor wretched uneducated savages' comes back to haunts us once again (this is just a rough sketch just to give an idea — things are far more complex than this, obviously). That being said, the authors' point, from this perspective, seems much more valid — and even liberating.
Depends what you define as "success". Probably my wording was not the best. Our business is extremely successful, but in different ways that most people define success.

We don't have a huge monetary success and no one is going to buy our company for multiple millions, but we have a lot of freedom, cool people and pretty fun adventures together without having to worry about financials either as long as don't start driving Lamborghinis ;-)

That said, the financials need to be good to support the lifestyle part. But if you live smart (not wasting money on a lot of things you probably don't need anyway) you get pretty far.
Didi is a private company already worth billions. This isn't money to the government at all. So I don't see how it will be distributed to the unemployed.

If they want to please the government they'd just pay more local tax.
Your views show how dangerous and misguided moral relativism is, when criminals shouldn't be punished by their own guilt and stress for crimes they committed on their own volition.

Poor Elizabeth Holmes, are you suggesting we should let her off the hook because she too suffered from "affluenza"?
My numbers are just fine. $20K a year is a typical PhD scholarship amount. In most western countries scholarships are tax free, and PhD students that need more usually do some teaching or RA work. Facilities: The University that received the money. Materials: A computer.
I don't work in this field but here is answer to your question:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162
I use acme-tiny[0] and it was pretty simple to setup. The letsencryptclient requires running as root and quite a few dependencies if I remember correctly.

I have acme-tiny run with its own private user privilages monthly in a cron job and it's pretty slick. Only has access to the account key and writing to the http challenges and cert directories, no private key access.

[0] https://github.com/diafygi/acme-tiny
Edit: clarification
But they're never going to agree to that, because then it would be trivial to dump the decrypted stream to a file. Right?
The blanket statement applies to humans in general, holidays, business trips, not specific cases like rescue and safety. But, even those cases could be argued when looking at the cost overall vs the cost to individuals.
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It's an interesting idea in theory but how do you ensure that money is well spent? It reminds me of the Australian government's "free insulation" scheme where a lot of money was poured into an industry very quickly. Result: wasted money, fraud, deaths from undertrained contractors, and the devastation of the existing stable industry.

Your PhD scholarship idea would see similar issues, including unforeseen bottlenecks which would starve out existing worthy research -- not just in this field but others too.

I think Ellison is right to be very particular about where he spends his money.
Lenin was an ardent atheist and materialist who believed in the power of human perception. This is arguably far more of a proper burial for him than a traditional Christian burial would be.
I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with inversion and has a lot more to do with appeasing the Chinese government with a capital investment.

http://www.eweek.com/mobile/apples-tim-cook-heading-to-china...

Tim Cook meets with Chinese government to smooth over relations and then immediately Apple announces a capital investment in China, what a major coincidence!
> Have all of your social circle implement the changes and monitor the data for a few decades to guage the effectiveness of your proposal.

So you are saying, wait twenty years to see if we are wrong?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

-- Richard Feynman
"Yo"[1] hardware.

[1] - https://www.justyo.co/
You could literally throw a dart at a map of the Yucatan/Northern Central America and it would land on an "Ancient Mayan city". I grew up there, and our house was built on top of Maya ruins, we'd find hundreds of ruins in the surrounding mountains. We used to dig up full ceramic bowls and a ton of obsidian in the garden.

The hype around this kid is amazing.
Every single one could be working on figuring out how to extend his quantity/quality of life

This made it sound like he would be hiring PhDs. If he gave a scholarship to 100,000 PhDs, very few of them would end up working on anything related to extending Larry Ellison's life.
If anyone is ever blocked, you are doing it wrong. When performed on git branches, you can easily branch off you current feature branch, keep going and rebase to master when the original branch has been merged. Continuous integration is with you all the time and helps the reviewer by annotating the diff with code coverage, cyclomatic complexity and other metrics. A good review culture emphasizes design feedback over low level issues. In addition, plenty of positive feedback is as important as finding issues.
Spot on. That's the whole point. The closest thing I've seen to this in something even near a mainstream language is REBOL/RED projects. They're sending whole apps that fit on floppies using DSL-based methods while majority are rendering web pages & doing basic libraries in mere megabytes. (!?) Keeps growing and how could we possibly handle it?

Good to see some work in a different direction.
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Careful now, that's humor, and we frown upon that around these parts. D:
Quite rarely, however. Especially in American english (British English still uses it for some spellings, like "encyclopædia").
This is pretty much old hat. Duotrope[1] is one of the larger market listings. There was a big huff after they turned to a subscription model, which led to the creation or expansion of The Grinder[2].

At Aliterate[3] we've seen about 25% of our inbound submissions coming from each of The Grinder and Ralan[4]. The balance is some mix of Duotrope and smaller players.

[1] https://duotrope.com/

[2] http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/

[3] https://www.aliterate.org

[4] http://ralan.com/
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Per-word is usually a rough yardstick that's invoked when trying to figure out the flat rate for pieces of various sizes. It lets publications quote 500x for shortish pieces of about 500 words; 1,200x for mid-sized pieces of about 1,200 words, and so on.

I've never known a publication to count the words exactly, once the story is delivered. A finished piece of 970 words or 1,050 words will get paid the standard rate for 1,000 words, without any adjustments.
> No diacritics

An understandably naïve view of things whose errancy could easily be corrected through your coöperative perusal of The New Yorker.
Thanks for the feedback. I'd love to add Angel.co but it doesn't look like you can use their API to get info about jobs from other startups.
I suspect the Titan codename is a trick and they're actually working on single-occupant vehicles.

HMD and transport are the obvious markets to tackle.
How do you get jobs if you're not networked? I'm getting recruiter emails, but not nearly the volume I'm seeing from people here.
Thanks. I appreciate it. You know, sometimes I develop envy when I read news about the financial success of other startups, but then when I take a break from work to go kitesurfing or for a yoga class in the middle of the day I feel pretty happy and proud of what we have achieved :-)

> How many hours per day do you expect your employees to work?

We don't expect any fixed number of hours. As long as stuff gets done and no-one suffers we're pretty cool about it. It does require discipline in planning by everyone though. Taking a day or two of spontaneously usually also isn't a problem.

> Second, can you talk about the tools you use to manage the company?

- Slack (we just recently moved over from HipChat as we couldn't deal with constant connectivity issues any more)

- Asana (best investment ever)

- Google Apps (Gmail, GDocs, tons of spreadsheets, calendar, etc.)

- Trello

- Harvest (for tracking of hours, invoicing, etc.)

> Have you ever fired anyone?

Yes we have. We have a very special culture with a lot of freedom and flexibility, but that also requires high responsibility. We hire mostly on gut feeling and are pretty good at that. But honestly, you only know after you've worked with people for a couple of months. And while some might be technically excellent, there are those that are no team players, can't communicate well when it's needed or don't have a sense of accountability. Basically these people need supervision, and the way we work we don't have supervision and also don't want it.
What's amazing is the variance, even within one publication. Businessweek, for example, pays anywhere from $0.08 to $1.75 per word, which I assume depends on a writer's fame, relationships and maybe even writing skills. ;) Other key considerations, which this site can't really address, are who has a budget for freelancers, and when do they have that budget? Many publications have a yearly budget and by late fall, that budget is gone.
They tried that in India, India told them to buzz off.
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There are over 20,000 Universities in the world, with lots of potentially amazing dark horse PhD hopefuls that are passed over every year due to lack of funding. I think a decent argument can be made that the black swan that could give Larry an extra 15 years of sailboat time is more likely to be in that group than in a single institution endowed with $200M.
> Why? Why can't we have as many custom TLD's as we want? Or why can't my blog just end with .helloworld if I decide to do so?

You can do whatever you want, but the internet runs on consensus and if consensus devolves into everyone doing whatever they want then DNS doesn't add anything beyond just using raw IP addresses.
It's a button. Let's not use the same word, i. e. 'powerful', reserved for THE button.

I also think it's quite ugly. I could imagine some repurposed giant old fire alarm for, say, code deploys. But not something that's reminicent of made in china ±10 years ago.
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I, just for a second, almost opened Google Maps. I feel shame.
MIT biology courses teaches very fine distributed systems theory.)
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The coordinates you posted point to the sea off the coast of Cote d'Ivoire...

The actual coordinates are these:
17.9447247, -90.1666302

And by the way, I also noticed that no news outlet seems to even bother to post the coordinates.
I would have said postdocs if that's what I meant. I see very focused industry sponsored PhD scholarships all the time. I don't see why this would be any different.
Facebook in many ways want to have and benefit from fake accounts and fake engagement.

They're not really selling advertising, they're selling KPIs. Facebook is the best platform because they deliver the best KPIs and so get a larger proportion of ad spend.

Think about this: Company spends $X on digital branding campaign, then to make sure they can justify it to bosses etc. they spend $Y to get the views to go with the spend. Did customers benefit from or like the campaign? That's besides the point. Companies essentially pay people to watch their videos (AutoPlay in their FB feed).
Is it possible to create 2-letter TLD's instead of .mycoolbutreallystupidtld or just plain .bullshit TLD's?

There are plenty of unused 2-letter TLD combos around, why bother with .blahblah ?
I was shocked to see $0.08 for Businessweek, but read the additional details -- that was a kill fee. I'm actually not sure why they included it.
Seriously! $685k in, $9.5m out? Best investment value ever? Use the profit to rinse and repeat? There must be more to it than that...?
She said the following a while back:

"I think that the minute that you have a backup plan, you've admitted that you're not going to succeed."

I bet she wishes she had a backup plan now...

http://www.inc.com/deborah-petersen/elizabeth-holmes-avoid-b...
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Like Roman stuff in the Middle East. It's interesting when something pops up that's particularly well preserved, but that they were here is not a particular surprise.
Emacs and vim are classified as text editors, and Sublime is a small fraction of what Emacs and vim are.
I'm moving soon into iot stuff ( especially api communication, protection etc) I'm really looking forward to it :)
Suppose researchers looking at 7-zip were lazier getting their CVEs than those looking at Winrar, Winzip, Info-zip, zlib, bzip2, and other commonly used compression packages. ;-)

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-787/...
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-787/...
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/p...
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-816/...
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1198...
There's already too many PhDs for academia and Industry to absorb. You'd need to create VC funding as well.