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While I certainly wouldn't turn away multi-core performance improvements, the onus isn't entirely on Intel. A large portion of the software market still makes no or very poor use of multiple cores. Cranking that performance up for many apps that won't use it really isn't a selling point to the general market. It would be a boon for specialized workflows, certainly not denying that, but it's not nearly as attention grabbing or experience improving as solid integrated graphics are. Just a few years ago integrated graphics were garbage, and now they're reasonably formidable for most tasks, even some light gaming.
Ticketmaster has been horrible since forever. Having no real competition, Ticketmaster has zero motivation to treat customers decently. They're kind of like taxis before Uber.
>... the Intel Core i7 4790K, which was launched in 2014 and is 3 generations old and is nothing more than an overclocked Intel Core i7 4770K which is from 2013

The 4770k didn't support VT-d, whereas the 4790k did. The 7700k has a much faster bus speed, and supports up to 64 GB of DDR4 memory.

I know these are small changes, but they make a difference. For instance, I have a 4790K because I wanted IOMMU (VT-d). I wanted an ITX build, but I went with micro-atx because I needed 4 dimms of ram to reach 32 GB. With a 7700k I could have an ITX build with IOMMU and 32 GB of ram.

Here's the ARK comparison: https://ark.intel.com/compare/75123,80807,97129

I don't know if the 7700k actually supports VT-d, but I would guess it does. I wouldn't actually buy one until I knew it supported VT-d though.
This.

I grew up in a Huge mega city with sprawling art scene etc and went to college in Rural NY. Initially I(and everyone I knew) was afraid of the people, A.K.A. mingling with the Rednecks. Within a few weeks I had learned more than years in big city had taught me. Much like talking to mechanics in Cuba, when you don't have the parts or the people to fix it you figure out fun and funky ways to keep things alive. That and despite being an Immigrant/different/exactly who Rednecks were supposed to hate, all I ever found from everyone(all the way to their grandparents) was kindness.
Have you ever tried to get a ticket for something popular with TM?
There's good news here: the Kernel Self Protection Project is a team of Linux devs who have been successfully upstreaming good, compatible ideas from grsecurity.

https://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pr...

https://lwn.net/Articles/698827/ (note the admission in the comments by all sides that KSPP is essentially about upstreaming all the upstreamable ideas in grsecurity, to bypass the sort of yelling that you see in those comments)

The trouble is that the incompatible ideas run contrary to Linux's philosophy of compatibility / "don't break userspace" being the highest virtue, but that at least isn't about personalities, just differing design goals.
Having lived in NYC all of my life, it was hard to imagine places where I could consider living. After visiting, Paris, London, Seattle all seem viable though they would seem like lateral moves at best in terms of culture and quality of life so I stay here.

That said, I don't like the trend of gentrification, classism, disparity, and the overall sterilization of the city so I would certainly go somewhere with some remaining personality that doesn't consist of the finding the latest "hidden gem" restaurant.

I would really love to find a place that is safe, near a beach with clear water that I can swim in daily. I crave it. But I can't uproot my family. I have young children and depend on my family for help with caring for them. Moving would mean separating them from the people who love them and are invested in their lives and that would seem like a selfish move.

So I stay here.
That's a good point, I'll try these too!

However there are developer meetups almost every day in Paris, but I don't see any for business people or marketers.
Thats to stop DOS attacks by putting all seats in a shopping cart and having the next guy who logs in see no seats available. You need to hold them somehow as it takes a couple minutes for most people to pull out their credit card and fill out the form, so you use a timer. If they don't finish, the seat gets listed as open again. I don't think its a sales tactic at all, but certainly can be made to look more urgent than it needs to be to.

Back when I was a teen we had to get up at 6am to buy tickets for popular shows and go wait outside our local reseller, which was usually a department store in the mall and join the long line of people ahead of us. I much prefer the web based system.

Also its worth mentioning that TM is only as evil as venues allow them to be. A lot of the fees and charges are kickbacks to the venue. That's why there's no competition. Venues say, "Look we're getting an extra $7 per ticket with TM, can you beat that?" They're not interested in less fees as these fees are free money for them.
Dell and Lenovo at least offer ECC on their top-of-the-line mobile workstations. Mobile Xeons too.
Well said. It's a shame TM has a monopoly when it comes to the larger events in my country.
Is that really what it means? I was unsure about it because nobody would be that scummy. But then I have no previous experience with Ticketmaster.
If you can remember the days when applications like Lotus 123 had menus at the bottom of the screen, and if you can imagine a macro scripting language in such an application, designed so that the menu structure directly defined the statements available in the language (e.g. file open standard-view "c:\whatever.vw"), and if you can imagine writing database manipulation routines in such a language (so that you must at all times be mindful of which view is in the foreground and what the currently selected record is, i.e. which record the user would be looking at if this task was being carried out by an actual user rather than a macro script), and if you can imagine a manufacturing company who implemented their own MRP system atop such software, then you have the beginnings of an idea of what I'll be spending 2017 maintaining, and then hopefully decommissioning.

Here's a mention of the software in question from the UK's Unix User Group newsletter in 1995:
https://www.ukuug.org/newsletter/linux-newsletter/linux@uk13...
Ticketmaster has exclusive contracts with venues and usually owns the venues outright, so it doesn't matter where the money goes, it's all back into their coffers.

http://www.livenationentertainment.com
That insurance scam is only reason #8382 not to use Ticketmaster.

Of course there is one reason to use Ticketmaster: you often don't get a choice anymore. The Venue box office is a joke, and Ticketmaster has an exclusive agreement for the rest so it's either them or pay even more to a scalper.

This is why I go to barely any shows anymore. The ones I do go to are at the one local venue that doesn't use Ticketmaster (Wolftrap).

It is a testament to our weak antitrust laws that Ticketmaster has been able to gouge the public for decades with no repercussions whatsoever.
Ticketmaster recently lost a class action suit, but managed to be allowed to pay the customers it unfairly charged not in money, but in coupons for Ticketmaster.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/7370600/ticketmas...
I've heard the same rumor from an engineer at eventbrite; that would be an odd rumor to spread about a competitor.
>> a few people sharing knowledge they've acquired
I also failed to see much of new knowledge in this article.

it is not very clear from the article how these people managed to achieve such high profits. Because of a big demand for organic food? And due to their proximity to a large metro area?

As of the technology they are using, it is not that special... my parents used to have an extensive vegetable garden (as a consequence of living through a very hungry period of the USSR collapse). When I was still living with them, about 20 years ago, they already had these technologies: walk-behind tractors, vegetable pairings, composting, hand tools. They could feed 4-5 ppl family but that was it. I remember it required A LOT of manual work non-stop all year around. We, their grown-up kids, were highly suggesting them to stop brother and simply go to the local market and buy the food there. Pretty much the same price, much less labor.

I want to say people left farming for a reason and it looks like now the new generation either does not know or forgot how hard it is to grow food.
The entrepreneur is just a hacker/scientist/free thinker who deals with a few extra constraints.

Just like an artist is a free thinker who deals with a few less constraints.
I guess perf being a "gaming" thing on HN suggests that many developers aren't using AOT-compiled languages. More perf is still desirable if you compile Rust programs or large C++ programs. For the latter, it's not just CPU but storage perf matters, too, due to file system-heavy compilation unit and textual include model.
Sounds like a solvable problem, but the solution depends on your location / interests / social life. If you want to use meetups for prospecting, then you just need to find the right meetups. This is why it's important to specialize. By specializing, you can focus on one target market of clients. In your case, your target market might be "founders of small SaaS shops with profitable product but poorly optimized conversion funnels." So you'll need to go to as many meetups as possible until you find which meetups have the most potential clients for you. Once you know the "right" meetups, you just need to focus on attending them consistently, giving presentations when you can, and always selling yourself.
They're also the worst company I've ever had a phone screen with.

I remember being told it was with a member of the technical team, and it was a technical recruiter who asked me questions straight off of a paper that made no sense

I hate having to use their service but they seem to be the best worst to use when it comes to selection.

They screwed me a bit too when I bought a pair of pricey US Open tickets ($800+ total) and wanted to sell them through their site. Apparently the combo I had purchased was not "resellable" but no where was that found on their site or terms.

I really hope a company "disruptes" them, as much as I hate that word, because as far as their service goes it's absolutely horrid.
I take cold showers pretty regularly. Living in Colorado, my tap water is very cold, since it mainly comes from reservoirs filled with snow-melt runoff.

The question though is can this impact abdominal fat or not.
I wouldn't mind if they didn't give any better single-threaded CPU performance at all, if they gave more PCI Express lanes to run more GPUs and storage.

72 PCIe lanes can run 4 GPUs at x16, and an NVMe SSD at x8. I just built a server where half my GPUs have twice the bandwidth of the others.
The US you describe doesn't exist. Military is acceptable work, peace corps, that's only something rich people who don't need to do real work do. Your coasts are pretty small too because outside of a few major cities, the highest calling you can answer in the US is killing brown people for your country, yes, even in New England.

Hell, I'm looked down at by my in-laws because IT isn't 'real work.'

Choose to try to learn how to play an instrument, or some other artistic endeavor and the first thing everyone will ask you is 'how do you plan to make money with that?' You'll get a lot of 'that's nice dear, but how do you intend to live.' You will be met with nothing but condescension because you are not perusing work. Stick with not working and you'll be 'that weirdo down the street.'

> ready to settle down

And work like an adult because you're not an adult and worthy of being treated like one until you work.
Yep. I hate most ticketing practices but the countdown is reasonable.
Even if that were true, that fee is definitely not going to the performers. The venue could definitely be getting a kickback, but that's usually owned by the same parent company anyway.
How would you propose not doing this for any purchase of a specific product like a seat in a theater which must be held for the customer while they are making the purchase? Would you prefer they don't hold it for you and at the end of the process you get a message "Your seat has been sold to someone else."?

Ticketmaster sucks but not because they hold your seat for you while you place your order.
In the side and because a friend is in need, I would be using Basic (Alpha Micro's Basic actually).
Indeed, look at their filings:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1335258/000119312512...

LOL:
"Competition in the live entertainment industry is intense. We believe that we compete primarily on the basis of our ability to deliver quality music products, sell tickets and provide enhanced fan and artist experiences. We believe that our primary strengths include:

[...]

• ticketing software and services;

[...]
"
Being an effective monopoly means you don't need to care about customer service.
Not a huge Ticketmaster fan, but I actually don't have much of a problem with this as they have a complicated problem: allocate demand of a often scarce good (event tickets) in a way that's fair to non automated buyers. By placing a hold on the stock for a few minutes (rather than allocating at final checkout), it gives humans a fair chance to check out as their ability to secure the stock isn't based on how quickly they check out. Showing the time left to purchase is transparent to the buyer and eliminates confusion.
Hmm...sure puts all the criticism Apple got for not waiting for Kaby Lake for its MacBook Pros into perspective.

We are in an effective post-Moore's law world, and have been for a couple of years. Yes, we can still put more transistors on the chip, but we are pretty much done with single core performance, at least until some really big breakthrough.

On the other hand, as another poster pointed out, we really don't need all that much more performance, as most of the performance of current chips isn't actually put to good use, but instead squandered[1]. (My 1991 NeXT Cube with 25 MHz '40 was pretty much as good for word processing as anything I can get now, and you could easily go back further).

Most of the things that go into squandering CPU don't parallelize well, so removing the bloat is actually starting to become cheaper again than trying to combat it with more silicon. And no, I am not just saying that to promote my upcoming book[2], I've actually been saying the same thing since before I started writing it.

Interesting times.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/spendin...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/MACOS-PERFORMANCE-TUNING-Developers-L...
It'll get there. It's a new technology and developers are still figuring out best practices as well as getting the hang of how to build quality experiences that will resonate with users. This process is further burdened by the fact that there's currently a bit of fragmentation among device capabilities (positional tracking, motion controls, "room scale") that heavily impact potential game design decisions. Not only that, but VR also has a slightly higher barrier to entry because 2d asset design is not an option (the relative simplicity of 2d game design has been a huge boon to the indi game community on every platform) as well as the fact that upfront hardware purchases are pretty much a must because it's impossible to emulate sophisticated VR features like motion controls etc.
Performance is tolerable, not "good enough". Booting to desktop could be faster, rendering websites is too slow sometimes, and most applications still don't start instantaneously. The problem is not raw performance – it's that too many developers don't really give a shit about their user's experience as long as they can save even a couple of minutes of their oh so precious time. Computers got more powerful? Great, that means we can use an even slower dynamic programming language and add another layer of abstraction on top of our framework!

Faster CPUs won't change that, same as in the last 20 years.
ITT: Never heard of Perl
While I'm hesitant to start an argument with you, the issue is not that simple. There are "natural right" strands of thought which would deny existence of a right to work, or similar ones ("2nd generation human rights"). But other schools of thought, possibly most, would affirm their existence.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (which the US voted for, while the USSR, Saudi Arabia and others abstained) does contain the rights to work, leisure, education, among others.

And the European Court of Human Rights, and other legal institutions, make these rights enforceable, too.

So, just saying "there is no such right" falls short.
I wondered how many he broke myself and could not found any laws prohibiting of transportation of ancient bones. I assume this included skulls.
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It's a paper exercise by the Treasury, which is an institution that advises the NZ government on economic and financial policy.
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Lazarus did huge improvements in last 5 years, just MacOS version needs more love.

I keep spending tons of time fighting problems, even with mainstream libraries like sqlite.

Still the best tool for multiplatform desktop apps development.
I understand the psychology here, but it seems pretty irrational. Even after every modifier Ticketmaster applies, tickets to major events are underpriced, as evidenced by the fact that things like the Japandroids show this person bought tickets for almost certainly sold out, and by the fact that the secondary market for tickets clears.

I too would rather get one simple straightforward price, rather than the pointlessly itemized breakdown Ticketmaster provides. But that's just because I want to read and click less to make my purchase.
At least there is no wait, the website just stops responding for 5 minutes then comes back with "all tickets sold (to scalpers)".
I think their biggest mistake was trying to follow Microsoft into .Net instead of taking over the native desktop development niche. A native Delphi 8 with some VB6 import tools would have done wonders for them.
...except you can't import your existing bookmarks/placemarks.

HERE Maps looks like an interesting app but, with no way to import the hundreds of places I've saved over the years in other GPS apps and things like Google Earth, it's a non-starter for me. I just can't fathom why so many app designers still think that no-one is ever going to want to bring their existing data to the new app [or take their data from that app to elsewhere].

Maps.me[1] is the only Android navigation app I've found that actually allows easy import & export of your data [in KML/KMZ] format. It's not perfect by a long chalk, but it does get a million 'Brownie Points' just for that.

[1] https://maps.me/en/home
Nobody understands the (Ruby) GIL (2013)
Well that's a sensible explanation for events that sell out quickly. They shouldn't be trying to "upsell by default" on the smae page however.
Perl makes it easy to write line noise, and only possible to write legible code. That possibility also goes mostly out the window as soon as you use the real strength of the language (regex).
Are people doing online banking using Tor?
3) is underestimated. A typical shipping container is 40 feet long, so I think they ship a 32' not a 24' one. Also, 4' centers are necessary in most parts of the world: 6' will collapse under snow load in half the US. That's $600, not $400. The benches shown are at least another $400. Finally, the most expensive part of a greenhouse is the endwall and the plastic; probably +$500, making it $1500.

(I am a small farmer with a side job in tech.)
... and yet, despite that, the doco for the BSDs is often better quality than the Linux doco. It hasn't actually turned out in practice that the larger community results in the better doco.
So far the criticism seems convincing and grounded in reality. You don't have to be a farmer to evaluate the comments regarding the overly high price for whats inside the container, absence of tractor. I would also trust the comments of the people who claim to have farming experience. Is there something you particularly disagree with?
Reviews for textbooks (which these are) are always underwhelming due to the uneven quality of CS classes and students.
I can't point to tangible evidence, but I did work in the touring industry for a number of years. In venues that TM doesn't own, the exorbitant fees are not being driven by the venues, nor do they or the artists see any appreciable cut of those fees.

Edit: clarification
Kind of weird that they use a 40 foot container in most of their illustrations when it clearly states that they will be developing a 20 foot version first.
Certainly not all of them, but in certain areas it's quite possible that refugees have been mixing with local population, or even forming new tribes. New research data all indicates that there were some, for that time, huge cities (100+K population) in Amazon basin. It makes sense to presume that when epidemics started at least part of the population managed to escape into surrounding jungle, leaving those cities empty, similar how in Europe many cities have been completely deserted in the time of plague. Obviously, we know so little about this that it's all just a speculation.
The false choice between basic and applied research
An independent, well funded, public broadcaster.

I think Australia's ABC is a step in the right direction, but I would like to see more transparency.

News organisations should not need to be popular. They need to be able to tell us the hard truths. Journalists need to be given the time and the resources to do thier job.
Make Your Mac Book a Touch Screen, with AirBar
As somewhat of an antidote to the tale here, but probably worse than useless to a chap from Seattle, when I discovered this website[0] it restored my faith in humanity. I only discovered it after a similar experience on Ticketmaster and reached out to try and get some gig tickets a few years back. Scarlet Mist saved the day, even if it is a truly abysmal example of a website.

edit: oh yeah, and news is[1] that Ticketmaster / Livenation supplies tickets directly to touts/scalpers whatever they call them in your locality, so yes they truly are a horrible company.

[0] http://www.scarletmist.com/

[1] http://www.musicweek.com/live/read/reports-suggest-italian-g...
"My legal understanding of ecommerce could be better..."

There is your problem.

Vote Trump he will fix it.
> To put it bluntly, a huge proportion of messages will not be understood at all and there is little we can do about it. What we can do is anticipate user frustration and alleviate the situation by offering a little help and managing expectations.

I get the impression that a lot of people have found this to be the case with chatbots these days.

Chatbots can be great for certain situations - when an app needs to initiate the interaction, for example. However, any UI that routinely causes users significant frustration seems pretty problematic. It has to let you do something so awesome and special that you're willing to put up with all that frustration - e.g. a buggy screen sharing app is often still better than no screen sharing app. Is there a compelling enough benefit for chat UIs? Maybe if all you have is text messaging and can't install apps or browse the web?

I'm inclined to think that not trying to be too smart and instead just going with more of a command line interface rather than an "intelligent" agent might be better for users. Have people developing chatbots found that to be the case?