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You are right I shouldn't lump all generations together as "Larrabee". I didn't realize the definitive specs of Knights Landing came out (2 months ago?). KL does improve a lot over KC, and now almost matches current GPUs:

KC: 8 GFLOPS/W at the device level (Xeon Phi 7120: 2440 GFLOPS at 300 W).

KL: 28 GFLOPS/W at the device level (Xeon Phi 7290: 6912 GFLOPS at 245 W).

Compare this to 32-47 GFLOPS/W at the device level for current-generation AMD and Nvidia GPUs.

(All my numbers are SP GFLOPS.)
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Ah, you mean randomart:

http://superuser.com/questions/22535/what-is-randomart-produ...
What if your "customer" is malicious? Just because they're authenticated doesn't mean they won't try anything nefarious.

If your app is marketed as directly interacting with a database using SQL language, then I can see why this would make sense. But in that case, you should definitely make sure that every customer interacts with an isolated database from a non-root user. That way they can fuck up the data all they want, but it will only be their data.
They've had external GPU solutions here and there in the past, not quite sure why it didn't catch on more. You get the mobility of a laptop, and then when you're home docked in, you can get the GPU processing power in a separate form factor.
TAO is composed of much more than hackers, and hackers are in other groups besides TAO. No, I don't have link-able sources.
Ruby is too forgiving, has multiple syntaxes for the same thing, and lets people do really obscure shit in a large codebase (monkey patching, hidden imports, etc). In short: it enables developer laziness.

I've found Ruby code the hardest to debug over the years. Also, I think the web development community is waking up to the value of type safety.

I will use Ruby for the occasional script because I like its backtick syntax for invoking other commands, but that's it.
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Right now it seems like the only game he can play, whether or not he actually wants it.
Cynical rant ahead.

I have given up hope about any meaningful change when it comes to climate change. Earth overshoot day, when humanity has used up all of earth's resources for this year and is borrowing from the future, comes earlier every year. Yet any politician that strives for zero growth is discarded as irrational and stupid.

So what do they do? In my home country all the heavy industries has moved to cheaper countries, so now they get to brag that our CO2e emissions have gone down, when the truth is we just exported them.

No one will ever take any political decision that will lead to a big decline in what we perceive as quality of life. Instead, there are investments that will boost some sort of fantasy climate change reducing tech that will give more people jobs so that they can consume even more...
Does this tech sense to someone?

For example, while I'm playing one youtube video, they would download the next one.

smh.
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I think emoji would be hard to compare. A lot of very similar little faces. Is that a wink or a blink or a frown?

An example of urbit's rendering of a 128-bit number into textual form is "racmus-mollen-fallyt-linpex--watres-sibbur-modlux-rinmex". While it might be gibberish, it's gibberish that even a screen-reader program could take a swing at, and humans can easily read.
Great read, not just for people from Silicon Valley. It's good to put things into perspective.

It also reminds me of an article [1] about John Carmack and his choice of Dallas. To quote,

> “A lot of people, especially from California, say, ‘Texas? Why the hell are you in Texas?’ But I am generally happy to wave the flag and say, ‘No, I am not here under duress.’ I actually like it here. And we appreciate the sense of the Southern hospitality. You don’t get the sense that everyone needs to be coddled and taken care of. You get the sense of gumption.”

I have since fell in love with that word, "gumption". It's something you don't see in companies where people are being treated as kids and catered to with little superficial perks. But it's what get shit done.

I hope tech "visionaries" don't decide to adopt it and make it a new buzzword, however.

[1] http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-ceo/2015/september/v..., discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10136565
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>> If you hadn't already lost faith in the U.S. election system years ago, then you've got your head in the sand.

The only check on this is the separation of powers, and even then, career politicians, special interests, and tons of money have way too much influence. Add in the fact that the press were supposed to be the check on government and now they're firmly in bed with the political parties. All you get is the incredibly slanted, biased, and spun stories to influence you so all you get is their viewpoint. I can't imagine how I would see the world if I only read the New York Times and only watched MSNBC.

If some of the fringe third parties would all come together and find a common platform, it would certainly replace my faith in the current system.
React is better at enabling planning and architecture; that's part of its job. That was explicitly not part of jQuery's job. jQuery was a tool to be used as part of a larger strategy. Lots of people chose to ignore that part of their code, and paid the price.

I like JSX quite a bit as well; IMO creating an artificial separation between presentation and behavior is not a useful way to think about web apps.

Separating data from presentation and behavior is fine, and is a long-standing GUI tradition.
A lot of the setups are so blatant though, that I think they are in it for the live fast, die young attitude. Make a shit ton of money, go crazy for a few years, get caught, do your time, repeat.
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At this point this is INSANE that GnuPG still defaults to short IDs...
It has to be a visualization in which changing a few pixels make it look significantly different. Otherwise we can still make a 'low distance' brute force attack.
See my above example from urbit. They are something a screen reader would clearly read differently for different values, if not comprehensibly.
Are natural language interfaces for databases commonly used in the industry? Sorry if that sounds hostile, I'm simply curious about the state of a field which doesn't seem very prevalent outside of academia.
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I thought you'd post this one https://xkcd.com/1168/
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> And there is no way to obtain a list of parser functions and extension tags (the latter of which look like HTML tags, but parse differently).

FWIW, every sane extensions reports its existence to [[Special:Version]] which at least includes a list of extension tags at the bottom but you'd need to implement all of them in an alternative parser.
If instead of -t you pipe the output of the manpages into groff which is responsible for the file type, formatting, etc there is a font-family flag.
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People in the IC often "jump ship" to private contractors. Be it for better pay, hours, or whatever. I don't find it hard to believe that Snowden would go to a private contractor. No conspiracy there.
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>Go 1.7 is released

The is is redundant which may be why it doesn't scan well for you.

GO 1.7 released

Works much better, no?
No. You know, this is important stuff. I'm going to say something serious.

I worked on Wallstreet for 5 years and this is the exact same attitude reserved for Goldman Sachs types, and that pervades Wallstreet in general.

But do you know how most people get into GS? Because GS says, "I like the school on your resume and the friends you keep."

But do you know how most people get to go to that school and make those friends? Their parents. Their parents move to Westchester, living next to other well-to-dos, and then send their kids off to exclusive colleges and grad, very often on the basis of letters of recommendation from neighbors.

Yes, many of these students will be smart and well educated. But they have almost without exception bought into and willing, consciously or not, to perpetuate the system that provided them their privileged place in our society.

This the polar opposite of what Silicone Valley was supposed to be. But it's not turning out that way. Sadly.
The word "parenting" was coined in the 1950s.

Prior to modern times, groups of people (maybe related, maybe just neighbours) shared childrearing responsibilities. It's unlikely anybody was a dedicated caregiver in the same sense as modern parenting.
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No it doesn't.

To use an analogy this is like someone saying the "US Army" in reference to infantrymen specifically and then someone, such as yourself, coming along throwing their hands up and saying "The US Army is composed of much more than just 'infantrymen,' this comment shows willful ignorance of that fact."

We can all read the Wikipedia article on the TAO[0]. You aren't fooling anyone by acting like you know more than is publically available, and trying to correct someone who provably worked for the NSA seems at best arrogant, at worst ridiculous.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations
The DNC is made of politicians and their buddies. You really can't expect more than government-grade decisions.
The #1 thing I want from a chatting/calling app is the ability to have a synchronized conversation on my phone and my desktop. Facebook and google handle this really well. When I'm at my computer, i dont want to pick up my phone. when im on the move, i dont want to miss messages.

The #2 thing I want is to be able to pick the app I use. I like pidgin, i want to use pidgin. I hate having to open gmail to use certain hangouts features. This tends to go hand in hand with the "I'll call you on X" thing. I dont care where people are calling me from/at if receiving it is centralized.
Exactly. If Cory's so concerned about this, making your own phone has never been easier.
Article says "IOC !== DI".

Actually that is wrong.

IOC = Composition Root + DI + Lifetime Management

Be wary of any IOC Container that supports a global static function like GetInstance<T>(...) As this is not IOC or DI. This is Service Location - a totally different pattern. IOC Containers that support that often have confused semantics all over the place.
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Sure but that's not just being lazy, its also a learned habit. There's a great deal of blog posts (like most writing in general) that is 5% information and 95% fluff. Sometimes you want the art, sometimes (esp. the engineering mindset) you just want the information. Skipping to comments frequently yields this, often with bonus comments like "I'm an actual expert and that post is very innaccurate".
That's a hard subject to discuss, but the delivery comes over as rather flaccid.
No it would be used for cases like sending you the CSS and JS for the page, before the browser has actually started to parse the HTML.

It simply means you can reduce the latency of fetching resources which are referred to within the document.

It wouldn't really make sense to use this for something like YouTube videos - that's more application level rather than the HTTP level.
To me, the potential risk might be sufficient to warrant paying an attorney and/or an accountant. Or maybe not enough that it isn't worth just the risk of running afoul of local tax authorities. Or it's worth paying the VAT and worrying about code instead of tax optimizing.

Good luck.
Uhm, her center of gravity and power-to-weight ratio is also significantly different than yours.
Something kind of similar goes on in the produce aisle with bags of apples vs individual apples.

Bags of apples have a very high percent mass loss when peeled and rotted parts cut off and served into apple pies or apple sauce or canned into brandied apples and are very small making a huge amount of labor to peel like ten mini apples per pound.

Individual apples are large and about can select externally flawless apples, and the surface area to volume scaling means for a given amount of finished product your compost pile will have maybe half the compost. Also the labor demand is immensely lower, it takes just as long to peel a baby apple from a bag that smaller than a baseball as it goes to peel a freakishly large individual apple thats bigger than a softball.

Solely on price per pound, bags of apples are mystifyingly cheaper than individual apples per pound, but in terms of final product and factoring in the labor annoyance of prep time, individual apples are often a much better deal.

I suppose much as there are people shocked that I find applesauce making and brandied apple canning fun and recreational and stress reducing, there probably exist people who are shocked that everyone doesn't find apple peeling and coring to be meditative and chill. For people who enjoy spending hours peeling tiny little apples, a 5 pound bag of little apples must be pure joy to them.
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See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12294193
Seems like it would a be a fun multidisciplinary place to work, but wouldn't wanna jump through all the hoops and tend to weight any quest for "secret" knowledge with such that the limit approaches zero.
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Why do people insist on calling the US a democracy ?

It is a Constitutional Republic with the only democratic process being the representatives you elect .... represent you ... sometimes... if they feel like it.... unless they have been bribe^H^H^H^H lobbied to do otherwise.
If you've read any science fiction in the last ten years you've probably touched a book he's written an introduction to.
It's only debt if you are paying for it going forward.

The thought should be "things would be easier going forward if we'd done X".

If it does the job and doesn't create issues then you just purchased it without taking on debt. This is easier if it is isolated/loosely coupled.

There's no point going back to improve it unless it saves you time/money in the future. If you make a better one to get the 'best experience' you are throwing away time and money for a slightly better mousetrap.
Regarding the SSH randomart, it's enabled by adding `VisualHostKey=yes` to your ssh config or adding the flag `-o VisualHostKey=yes` on the command line. It was announced with OpenSSH 5.1 (http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2008-Jul...) and there's also a paper on it (http://www.dirk-loss.de/sshvis/drunken_bishop.pdf). You can find the code/comments in `key.c` under `key_fingerprint_randomart()`. (http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/key...)
It's just as likely he was operating on direct orders from the president himself because he feared the power of the NSA and needed the public against it!

That's the thing about conspiracies, when there is no proof or reasonable cause you're free to just make up whatever you want.
Can you recommend a good stats book?
Would the CIA willingly do so much damage to the US? Surely there are other ways to sabotage the NSA instead of doing something as high profile as leaking NSA documents to the public. Besides, I think leaking classified documents of other intelligence agencies is something no agency does, because an escalation of this sort would be disastrous for both agencies involved.
>Because we know it's not causal.

How do we know that?
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I've steered more to composing grammars by using tools like Regexp::Grammars - https://metacpan.org/pod/Regexp::Grammars

The real sweet spot I've found is parse in Rebol / Red - http://blog.hostilefork.com/why-rebol-red-parse-cool/ | http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-15.html
Cool! Embed that in my water bottle bottom please.
That sounds nice and all, but most static files have caching done on them, so it seems like this tech may (currently) be a solution in search of a real problem.
That reminds me of the pistachios WITH shells Vs. pistachios without shells. A bag without the shells is way more expensive per pound, but from what I've read it ends up being a bit cheaper per nut because those shells weigh something. Plus those things are just hard to get out of the darn shells sometimes.
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Last thing CIA would do is reveal them. All leverage is lost. They would instead hold them hostage.
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And the shells harbor mold. I'm allergic to pistachios, but apparently its the mold that is the real problem.
From the article:
Customers can thank Boston Market—which opened its first store in 1985 in Newton, Mass., under the name Boston Chicken—for the modern rotisserie chicken industry.

This was a surprise to me. In Italy "Rotisserie chicken" have been a common urban offering since at least the '60s, probably even before. No idea about other parts of Europe or the rest of the world, but I distinctly remember small stores displaying roasted chickens since my childhood.

The only recent innovation is that you can now find these in larger supermarkets and that most of the stores are now managed as some franchise.
gcc, clang, Open Watcom, many more.
More accurately, complaining about left-wing political correctness has won the Right votes for decades, while even Hillary Clinton has done the odd bit of racist dog-whistling.

> It is perhaps the most powerful meme that has ever been invented.

"Heretic", "heathen", "infidel", "unpatriotic", "traitor", "communist", "un-American"...

Religious and nationalist political correctness is so pervasive it's hard to even recognize it as a form of PC.
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This. I frequently find myself skimming over HN comments on a submission before reading the article, because it provides a hint at whether reading the submission is actually worth my time.
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I believe miniLock also does that. Any reason why miniLock can't be used as an alternative to PGP? (for email/file encryption)

https://minilock.io/
I just don't understand why Apple seems to prefer AMD. Bad experience with Nvidia's drivers in the old Core Two Duo MBPs? Does AMD have a better track record?
Which is great if you're the person in charge of distributing it, but if the person in charge keeps giving out the "slightly broken" version, everyone will keep fixing it.

Or, and I'm not sure if this is worse, a few people will fix it in slightly different ways, and start distributing those, leading to a weird ecosystem of competing Dockerfiles none of which are quite correct.
My grocer's bag of apples is not 50% waste per pound. Its often the same apples in a bag. Volume discount. I suppose that just means they're all too expensive...
Yes, it always depends...

NVIDIA's huge blob is probably a case where they re-invented lots of wheels in order to share the same driver between different OSes. For something as complicated as a modern GPU driver, this could well make sense from an engineering point of view (legal objections notwithstanding).

On the other hand, 10 years ago there were various out-of-tree Linux WLAN drivers, and each of them contained a full independently developed 802.11 stack, perhaps one shared across drivers for multiple OSes by the same vendor - surely having this much duplication of generic infrastructure that dwarfs the actual model-specific part of the drivers is quite pointless.

IMHO only GPUs have an inherent complexity that is high enough that one could think about alternatives to just using the shared infrastructure that's already in Linux. But even in this area you see companies like AMD moving towards a Linux-specific kernel driver approach with their new "amdgpu" driver.
>But what about people who aren't average users and do know how to look after their machines properly?

Callous as this may sound, what about them? As technical professionals, you know as well as I do that we have to design for the worst or average case, not the best case. Put another way, wearing a seatbelt is mandated by law, no matter how good a driver one is.

And don't get me wrong; I find the additional restrictions on consumer versions of Windows 10 to be tremendously irritating too. But that doesn't change anything.
This is a very good article, and I can certainly relate to the points made about legacy code. The problem I had was to be able to quantify the fact that productivity of the programming team was going downhill (legacy code, little to no tests) and be able to make a case to management. I felt like the canari in the coal mine.

Another key revelation from this article was that there are 'Makers' and 'Menders' ... At heart I think I am a maker, but sometimes need to be a mender by necessity and this has a huge impact on my 'happiness' levels.
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Where can it go wrong? Just about anywhere, through malice or ignorance.

If you provide the users with restricted DB access privileges, maybe.
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Has he really done that much damage? People are more afraid of the NSA than ever. One could argue that's exactly what they wanted.
Pirating anything is not statistically common. Loss figures have always been completely fictitious and DRM has always been a hammer in search of a nail.
I posted about this in a different thread with a different throwaway, because I had suspicions that Snowden knew about the whole EG auction thing anyways. The writing has been on the walls.

This is why there is so much hype over what appears at a first glance to be an obvious scam, because there is a lot of potential for civilians to learn a lot about how state-sponsored hacking actually operates. It's very different from how it's portrayed in the movies, and you really wouldn't be any wiser from not having been tainted by the movies anyways just due to the ridiculous amount of stealth involved in day-to-day operations.

If rumors are to be believed, then it means that EG can't possibly be crazy enough to make such a (relatively) rudimentary mistake like leaving behind binaries to tools that they KNOW only they have access to. These binaries don't seem like such a big deal, but the real situation is this: these binaries are the ONE thing that can tie all the dots together about all the different attacks that have happened. IRATEMONK, Stuxnet, Flame, etc. All these crazy "unprecedented" hacks that have just popped up out of nowhere could potentially be linked together with these binaries that may or may not exist. On top of that, with enough analysis, it's possible to even identify different programmers just from their stylometry, even through code, so if these binaries are detailed enough there could be the potential for correlation of the author(s).

That auction is really interesting.
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Basic HTML Gmail (yes, the one that loads the entire page again for almost any action) is so much faster than AJAXified Gmail (let alone Inbox) that it's worth a couple missing features to use it instead, IMO.

Which is incredibly stupid since maybe the biggest original selling point of AJAX was "it's faster because you don't have to reload the whole page".

And of course the memory use is way, way lower. Especially than Inbox, which is a resource hog.

IMO most google products have been getting steadily worse since ~2008/09. Including things like Youtube.