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World’s Fastest Super Computer Entirely Made in China
China has built the world’s fastest supercomputer using locally made microchips, a survey said Monday, the first time the country has taken the top spot without using US technology.

The Sunway TaihuLight machine is twice as fast as the previous number one, which was built in China with chips from US firm Intel, the Top500 survey of supercomputers said on its website www.top500.org.

China also has more top-ranked supercomputers than the US for the first time since the survey began, with 167 compared to 165.

Located at China’s national supercomputer centre in the eastern city of Wuxi, the Sunway TaihuLight will be used for climate modelling and life science research.

Its performance ends “speculation that China would have to rely on Western technology to compete effectively in the upper echelons of supercomputing,” the survey’s website said.

The supercomputers on the Top500 list, which is produced twice a year, are rated based on speed in a benchmark test by experts from Germany and the US.

Of the top ten fastest computers, two are in China, with four in the US, the ranking said. Others are in Japan, Germany, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia.

China has poured money into big-ticket science and technology projects as it seeks to become a high-tech leader.

It plans to open the world’s largest radio telescope in southeastern China this year, state-media reported.

http://exclusives.com.ng/worlds-fastest-super-computer-entirely-made-in-china/

But despite some gains the country’s scientific output still lags behind, and its universities generally fare poorly in global rankings.
It started as a joke. There is now serious organising work going on to put together a party.
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As d_t_w indicates: no, it doesn't require it. At the moment, they have to look within the party. Chances are some sacrificial goat will be 'volunteered' that has as task to conclude that things are unworkable and call an election.

That will take time. Give it a few weeks or months, and chances are someone will think he can spin it as "doing a dirty job, but it is best for the country, and somebody has to do it" and get away with it.
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What I was saying is that OpenStack is so expensive in terms of complexity that it often even pays to do custom development to avoid using it.
I thoroughly enjoy the Totally MAD collection as a tool for looking back at recent history. To me it's always a shockingly funny reminder of how little things change despite how different things seem.

Another magazine with the same truth at its core is The Realist, which happens to be archived online. It makes me uncomfortable how issues from 5 decades ago remain as relevant today as when written.

http://www.ep.tc/realist/
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Just some thoughts about SO:

* The android section is terrible. The questions are a mixture of people not knowing how to write java code at all mixed with questions of people getting hindered by the terrible SDK. (I develop software in Java for 10+ years and Android still gets me sometimes.)

This situation would be better if it wasn't so easy to shoot yourself in the foot with the android-SDK, but nothing we can do about that now.

* Sometimes I have in-depth question about libraries which, if I follow the support-instructions, often go like this:

1. Ask in the chat (ugh, why chat?): I almost never do that, because I need archivable asynchronous communication not chat.

2. Ask on the mailing-list if there is one. This goes well in some projects.

3. Open a github-issue. In overwhelmed projects like react-native, you get immediately forwarded to SO.

4. Ask on SO where nobody answers because nobody knows the technical details.

So… The maintainers of projects like react-native often get spammed with general coding questions of newcomers, which leaves no time for in-depth questions.

Another problem is that, especially in Android, many answers are not actual solutions but crude workarounds that work in specific cases and might even break more stuff in the future. But: "Hey it compiles!".

frustrated
Uh, well except the attacker managed to target Lastpass' 2FA...

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/lastpass-phishing-attacks,news-2...
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Just a few notes:

I like the cleanliness of Lisp, but I have always found it hard to read. That's one reason for Spry to have a bit more syntactic elements than Lisp.

Spry supports both prefix and keyword style function calls, although as a Smalltalker by heart I favour keyword style.

Finally, Spry is still an evolving experiment. Next up is the OO model which I hope will be interesting.
I think people love, in addition to the aesthetics, the unpretentiousness of his projects. Even the art journalism scene seems to respect the pure aesthetic nature of the projects and to hold off their usual bullshitting.

I think this kind of art could also be made to work at a smaller scale; a lot of urban environments would benefit from providing public space for temporary projects instead of permanent installations.
I often wish there was a site like SO with a great community around building task-oriented code-first samples to replace shoddy project documentation. Often with SO the accepted answer is too specific, outdated or not descriptive enough but its existence locks out better responses. I would prefer a canonical, up-to-date wiki answer than strict authorship most of the time. I've taken a few stabs at building a solution to this problem but I think finding the right mix is super important.
It's not just general glassblowing skill; it's the intersection of that skill with knowledge of the sets of uses to which it will be put, and the techniques specific to creating forms that are not just bongs and statues.
At least in sf, landlords do incredibly well for themselves...
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Another butthurt guardian bad loser thinking that people voted "wrong".
Perhaps nobody actually needs university glass blowers, and the administration made the correct choice? Many of the components that needed to be hand made in the 1960s, can be found scientific catalogs.
given that they have to craft a design for an apparatus based in part on a knowledge of chemistry so they understand the experiment, thermodynamics, as well as material science, etc, I wouldn't be surprised if it's more complex then knifemaking.
There are other options like the subreddit model, where the users define and moderate the divisions themselves.
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That depends how far down people care enough to try to organise, and at what level it is possible to viably create a new entity.

This is the cost of democracy - either you find compromises, or you will have to deal with people wanting to break away.
I like to reboot servers after upgrading / installing software so that everything I changed recently is fresh in my head. Otherwise, it could be 6-12 mos before a reboot is required and if something doesn't come up right, you may well not remember what has changed since the last working reboot...
It's very dangerous to assume the UK will get the same sort of deal as Norway. Norway has some unique cultural and exononomic attributes that are very different from the UK.

Whilst it is in the interest of the EU to have a trade agreement with UK, the UK does not have a strong negotiating position.

Why would EU member states do anything to help a country that is destabilising the entire EU project.
Are new classes of craftsmanship/skill coming into existence as fast as the old ones are dying off?

I wouldn't be surprised if there are surgeons today that would look superhuman a few decades ago. I also suspect athletes are getting better, and everything about movie making except the stories.
"Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face-to-face conversation" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Britain is quite unlikely to keep their rebate if they go this route, so they'll end up spending more on the EU than they currently do.
Any social engineers reading this? :)
Not true. They're both readable, but trying to do anything more interesting becomes painful, and this is where having a common tool for the job helps.

It's like regexps - imagine if there were 30-40 different implementations instead of 2 or 3.
ok great, you dont like how he uses one word. Another meta comment which adds nothing
Whats more interesting is every other overflow doesn't work at all ( Except the original 3, perhaps mathematics and specialised server fault ones like Ubuntu )

It's just not replicate-able outside of the world of computers.

And it not because these other fields don't have solid answers, it just seems it's to hard to get consensus on what they are.

There is a best way to cook an egg, it's not subjective, but fked if cooking overflow can work it out.
I'm sure it's a joke to most, but it's gone beyond that to some, and people are organising. It may not go anywhere, but it won't just go away either.
Dublin has a population of 530k/1.1M/1.8M for city/urban/metro. Having a thousand apartments off the market is irrelevant at that scale. It's is not a "large portion". Or even close.
There are no information whatsoever on what your payment options are.
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Better example is how does the free market build the Sydney Opera House? Or a decent healthcare system?
From the point of view of person who uses SO just to find solution, incorrect answers are the biggest problem. It seems that "you don't know what you don't know" does not compute with many people involved in answering SO.

But that kinda make sense: at the beginning, SO was great because answers for noob questions where hard to find. At this point, there are so many other resources to get these noob questions answered or they are already answered. Now, people start asking hard stuff - but engineers (I intentionally do not say developers) who know answers on these questions are not interested in answering.
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It's the youth who voted against it that will bear the burden for longer. I am yet to hear a well reasoned argument for leaving the EU and what desirable consequences it may bring.
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I like the part where the probe went through the Star Gate.
Stack Overflow needs to be front-ended by an AI which tries to find an existing answer to the question. There are sites which have keyword systems to do this, but it's time to move beyond that and have something with minimal intelligence.
It's getting pretty bad, and AFAIK, no they don't. You'll find a place with a Google salary I'm sure, but it won't be cheap. Feel free to contact me if you want some advice.
I'd be very cautious in assuming this. I suspect that Germany and France in particular are going to try to figure out how to make sure the UK gets a deal that will make other countries think twice from leaving again. That's assuming that this actually happens, of course. David Cameron showed that, at the end of the day, he wasn't actually willing to invoke Article 50, and even Boris Johnson seems to be waffling now.

And even if the UK does get the same deal as Norway, that means they'll have to abide by EU policies and regulations, but they won't get a vote in the matter - that's not going to be very palatable to the UK.
I don't have a problem with separate Stack Exchange sites for topics that are fairly separate, but I do have an issue with the sheer number of computing-related sites - the difference between StackOverflow and Programmers.SE, for example, is a bit arbitrary.
I knew Google and Virgin allows employees to nap during the work time, if preferred. They have "Sleeping Pods". Here are few:

http://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/google-uber-and-other-companies...

https://www.virgin.com/entrepreneur/are-sleeping-pods-about-...
> It's not a miscarriage of democracy to ignore the referendum result.

How is a referendum different from a direct instance of democracy. I really want to know.

I don't like democracy, so don't get confused about my political orientation. That's not the problem here.

> The point of democracy is to elect representatives

That is Republicanism.

> that can think about solutions and their consequences better than the average person.

That is epistocracy. Sometimes it is known as the original purpose of the aristocracy before that got a bad rep for a century or two after the last time Europe went into a complete meltdown during the Revolution.

Definitions aside I believe you are horribly underestimating the probability of violence breaking out if this referendum result is ignored. It is close to 100%. CFAR says when you're a 100% sure that you're actually only correct 66% of the time.

Taking that as a given, this means you have a 66% chance of riots and worse. The working class are not going to lie down on this one. For them this will be the straw that broke the camel's back. I know them personally and assure you this will be seen as nothing less than a complete betrayal by elites. For them it means there is no hope left.

Well known pragmatist President Snow would be agog at what I'm seeing expressed on HN, what seems sensible to many people here is suicidal.
In france it's already since 2014 ( the ugly fruit bowl) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-2693000/Forge...
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Among those who voted for leaving there must be someone able to articulate a valid and reasonable justification for that vote. I'm genuinely curious to hear that.
napjobs.io RFLAMO.. Me too, waiting ;)
You are probably right. The bulk can be bought cheaply. The challenge lies in how to get the special cases covered. The capability for the special cases used to be covered by master craftsmen at the top of a pyramid who leveraged the infrastructure and also educational system of a large workshop. The bulk is gone. The local cross subsidy is gone. And now the local capability is dying off.

In theory modern CAD etc. can help to design. In theory money saved on the bulk can be used to order in a specialized shop.

But it is a difference having a master locally advising mechanically challenged chemistry Ph.D. on the same science team vs.a paid consultant remotely playing for another financial team. And I doubt the saved money will be available for the Ph.D. students.
That's a pretty broad statement that doesn't take into account any of the pecularities of the local property market. First of all, ownership is quite high. Secondly, it's about proportion of available rental properties, not absolute numbers or proportion of population. Thirdly, if there's already a severe shortage, even absolute numbers matter.
I think your anecdote is good. Knowing the formula for Bayes theorem isn't necessary, and I've never needed to try to do the math in my head or anything. But understanding probability theory, and having an intuitive feel for what probability is, is really important.
It requires precisely what services such as Cedexis provide.

You visit a website that uses one or more CDNs for its big resources, and uses Cedexis to choose CDN node. When you first visit, Cedexis instructs your browser to retrieve small resources from some/all CDN nodes. Based on timings and throughput, it then chooses a CDN node to use for big resources.

If Cedexis does its job well and obtains the right data for Cedexis' purposes, then the passive observer also gets optimally usable data.
This project is not too pretentious. Some of his previous ones have been on a monumental scale.
Clicking one of the sign-up buttons brings up a Stripe form.
Maybe to you, not to me. And I have doubts about the highness of his ethical standards.
Sorry, I had no idea where this word came from (or was spelled!). I should have just said "ripped off". In the states, the word has completely lost its original context (and more so in China).
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On the other hand the market for both traditional and western style Japanese knives is exploding.

And there is growing market for premium knives made from tamahagane and using traditional sword making techniques.

The case with Wilfried Fehrekampf and blaupließten - he was the last to know the traditional German grind (not the axes that Wusthof repurposes as knives lately) - but he found apprentices and the new Herder 1922 are terrific.

There will always be market for the traditional.
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I dread the fact that I don't have my old meter-high stack of MAD magazines to pass on to my kids, nor the Heavy Metal or Metal Hurlant stack either. (Three continent moves later, these items are now just faint memories in the wind..)

The "Few Gigs of PDF's" Archive is just not the same.

Until I get their iPads' wired up to the sun, there just won't be the same degree of reliability and functionality.

When reminded of MAD's demise, I can't help but feel we're really losing something by turning off the paper-publishing switch.

Does anyone have a stack of old comic books they want to get rid of? I'll pay shipping, wherever you are.
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I used to spend quite a bit of time on SO and OnStartups.

I haven't contributed to any of their sites since the ridiculous deletion of OnStartups due to the opinion of one moderator (If I remember correctly, which is vague now). I don't care that I lost half my rep. Some people had put really lengthy, researched, answers and a valuable resource was just rm'd.

There's far too many silos. Sure separate maths from games from Java. You have a tech question, is it webmaster, server fault, super user, or what? Seems like there's a very slim chance of getting it right first time. Sometimes it's the remit of several but none seem to want it. Or get marked as duplicate when it's fundamentally different to the marked duplicate.

Some of the subjective questions have attracted the best, or most useful, answers. Even when they've survived years they still sometimes get deleted.

Stack Exchange isn't worth the effort any more.
Sisal is one of the true pioneers of high-level parallel programming. It was roughly contemporary with (slightly preceded) NESL[0], another data-parallel language. Sisal was probably simpler and more pragmatic. I'm not sure why none of these languages ever left the confines of academia. I have tried NESL, and it was probably the most natural parallel programming experience I've seen. Perhaps performance was sub-par in practice?

A modern "spiritual successor" (if you squint a bit) of Sisal is Single Assignment C (SAC), which despite its name, is a pure functional language. SAC is also undeservedly obscure, although that is possibly a result of the compiler being closed source.

[0]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html
[1]: http://www.sac-home.org/
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Excellent feedback, thanks! (I'm Justin's co-founder) Would you expect to see credit card logos beneath the buttons? A powered by Stripe badge?
Not a Brit, but for one, it means Britian can control influx of immigrants and refugees. I'm sure that played into many people's votes.
I'm on windows. I use clang. I use Visual Studio. No RMS software. You shouldn't assume everything.
Interesting. In this case, I think all the produce is grown in Beijing or hebei, not sure why they think they need to package it.
> part on a knowledge of chemistry so they understand the experiment, thermodynamics, as well as material science, etc,

By coincidence proper heat treatment requires all of those too :) Depending on how deep you want to plunge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid_schizophrenia
I have a feeling that while Ctrl+V is prohibited, maybe Shift+Insert isn't...
Look for the "webroot" mode of the official client (or one of the other lightweight clients).

Example: https://gist.github.com/cecilemuller/a26737699a7e70a7093d4dc...
It's quite optimistic to think UK will become a EEA member like Norway. The EU is pissed at the UK right now and will not make it easy for them.
Putting them on github would be really cool.
Swiss universities and businesses can also apply to many EU funding.
900 bits/hour. Slow, but if you're after some crypto keys, useful.
Data is semantically defined by the processes using/interpreting it. Not by the data itself. So Rich Hickey is right and Alan Kay is wrong.
I would even call it an integral way of participating in society - controlled by a corporation that acts in the interest of it's shareholders. That is my main gripe with it.

I have missed out in a lot of things by not "being used" (in the spirit of the discussion) by facebook, buy I still think you have to be a special kind of crazy to use it.
> Getting 27 nations to agree to let you back into the club when you've already told them to fuck off? That's not a trivial task.

Let's get the time scales correct here. Few people think that the European Union is something you hop into and out of occasionally. It's closer to a long contractual obligation.

So that's on the order of decades, perhaps centuries. In the future things will look very different. The EU might not exist. It might be superseded. It might decline. It might become a United States of Europe. Let us not be predicting the future this far out!

> Similarly, when one leader of Leave is not happy about the win, and another leader admits a primary promise of the campaign was a lie less than half a day after the victory, doesn't that strike you as an unstable result that should be double-checked?

That is the nitpicking of the establishment media at work, whom have a motive to jinx the results.

> the one world-class industry England does have flees the country due to the instability (I am told that the finance industry provides 34% of the UK's GDP - that's not an applecart that you want to particularly upset, even if you hate those arses in the City)

Things are not as the FT and Bloomberg make them seem.

Financial capital is becoming much less important in the world than it used to be. It is less effective at getting results. You see that even in Silicon Valley where companies are going public later and later, and soon enough they won't even go public but remain private forever. This is a cyclical phrase that occurs between finance and production.

Is it eggs or apples in one basket-cart ? ;-)
Free movement of workers is a prerequisite for access to the single market.

The refugee situation is unlikely to change from the current status quo. Britain is already hosting fewer refugees than almost any other country in central or southern Europe.
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There are going to be a lot of unhappy Leave voters if that happens, though. The main thrust of the Leave campaign seemed to be about immigration and controlling our borders.
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And the bodies of the people that did not get their treatment (or got the wrong one, because their neurologist was overworked, tired of burning the midnight oil) pile up.

Free market is good only when you have both elastic supply and demand.
Indeed. It would be nice though, if people, having realized that a particular tool isn't useful for their particular goals, could still acknowledge that it could be useful in other situations, instead of blaming the tool itself.
Just curious about what you refer to as "excessive punctuation"? You mean blocks []?

There are no statement separators (!) in Spry and the grammar is very, very minimalistic. You could argue in some ways Spry is "a Lisp without parenthesis", and although I like indentation (Nim uses it) for scoping I also find Smalltalk VERY readable.

Also, it's not yet apparent but the syntax/grammar of Spry (and homoiconicity) makes it very suitable for DSL construction, very much similar to Rebol/Red.
13 years is a very slow lag time. For comparison, the general public has only been aware of the internet for about 20 years.
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