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Anandtech, as usual, has a good article:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11227/intel-launches-optane-me...

> The Optane Memory products are squeezing into a relatively small niche for limited budgets that require a lot of storage and want the benefit of solid state performance without paying the full price of a boot SSD. Intel notes that Optane Memory caching can be used in front of hybrid drives and SATA SSDs, but the performance benefit will be smaller and these configurations are not expected to be common or cost effective.

It doesn't sound that fast. Looks to be "slower" (throughput-wise) then modern NVMe drives (i.e. Evo 960 and obviously smaller) and clearly trying to bridge a price gap. Is the upside that it can act as an additional cache level without OS support? I remember the first time I used Intel Rapid Storage Tech (aka RST) ... it was also the last time as it's was convoluted with minimal (or no?) upside on Linux.

As an "enthusiast" I'm assuming that my Linux desktop with plenty of RAM + NVMe backed lvmcache will perform better.

I also assume that my laptop with reasonable RAM (because DDR (self)refresh sucks enough power to annoy me) + high performance NVMe drive also won't benefit.

Is this just marketing fluff?
A roadmap for meeting Paris emissions reductions goals
Having done both classical Rails apps and React, I still disagree that the classical way is somehow superior. You still have to do the same amount of work — wire up models, routes and such.

There are annoyances — occasionally we have to wrestle with NPM (though now that we use Yarn, the problems are generally gone), low-quality third-party libs, browser compatibility issues, etc. But it's just exchanging one set of problems for another. The React world isn't any worse than the Rails world there.

I get that some people get JavaScript fatigue and don't understand/are able to keep up with the new technologies. For those of us who are comfortable with the React way of doing things, it's fantastic. I have no difficulties reasoning about the code, nor with correctly organizing code into separate files (you don't always need "10 different files"; you have a choice!). React + WebPack + NPM modules beats the old way by a mile; I couldn't be happier. I have things to complain about, to be sure, but they're less about frameworks and more about the challenges that arise in a browser-based environment. Again, a different set of problems.

> Actually, nothing fills me with more dread in a SPA than when I click a button or something and nothing happens.

Something is definitely wrong here. This is not a problem I've ever had.
It's not obvious to me that expenditures on drugs should be a fixed % of one's income. It certainly seems like the % rises as people get richer.
If forgers can infiltrate 2.5% to 3% of the market, there's no reason for them to stop at such modest levels. Why not try for 30%?

We also don't know anything about the volume of forged coins withdrawn from the market each month. If detection at pubs, grocery stores, etc. is poor, then fake coins enter the market at will and are detected only when merchants present their cash to banks. That's annoying for everyone, and it's possible to come up with scenarios in which each year sees 2x or even 5x the introduction of fake coins, with many of them staying in circulation for only a few months but causing damages anyway.

In either of these scenarios, clamping down now on forgery is economically prudent, even if the 100 > 45 comparison doesn't reveal the true cost.
Thanks! It is on my todo list now!
I think this is Intel's 3D Xpoint memory finally coming to market. It's supposed to be faster and more reliable than ssd
It's not reactionless. It's essentially a "gravitational wave rocket".
I was involved in the recording and production for a top 40 producer, and can confirm that there was autotune on every single vocal track that left the studio.

Here are a few that I was in the room when the artist was recording, and can confirm pitch correction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=450p7goxZqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uPvX2te0I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0oyglKjbFQ
I won't say too much, but practicing some of the lesseons taught by Jesus just might help a person.

Not through divine intervention, but in a subtler way.

The right girl/boy sees you have ethics/morality. She takes a second look.

The potential business partner feels they could trust you like a family member, and decides it's you who he/she wants to invest in.

And yes--I know people can take advantage of you to.

Treating people with compassion, and honesty shouldn't be looked as a liability.

I know too many people whom are financially well off, but just misserable. They have no real friends. Their kids use them. And they never figure out why. They are always blaming someone, or something for their missery, or loneliness.

An acquaintance of mine spent pretty much every waking hour trying to get ahead of the "competition". He treated people as tools to get ahead in life. He could quote Sun Sue, and Carnige's book. He tried to cover his selfish ways, but they were still glaring obvious. He wanted the model girlfriend. He delayed the simple things in life. He thought it would all work out when his current company became successful.

He went into a doctor's office in January of this year, with heartburn. He died a few weeks later of esophegial cancer.
I don't think they can get around it that easily because both the patent protections and the FDA approval are based on the "active ingredient" and delivery method and thus they cannot easily introduce a new variant without going to a lot of expense.
keysniffer v1.5: Linux kernel module to log pressed keys in debugfs
They're a long way from realizing the full potential of the technology. Right now they're hugely limited by the interconnect. Also, if they reach some of the goals they've been talking about, it might need differently-designed operating systems to really work.
The idea that you can point to even one or two "whys" is patently ridiculous. The goal is easy to state: how do you set drug prices at the level that optimally balances consumer welfare (benefit realized minus money spent)? Simply setting prices as low as possible is of course not the answer--a big part of maximizing the benefit realized involves creating adequate incentives for drug companies to create new medicines. But there are a dizzying array of factors that make it hard to even understand what that optimal price should be:

1) The potential free rider effect is huge. Drug companies would not invest billions into creating new drugs if after six months on the market they could be duplicated by a competitor and sold for a far lower price.

2) To avoid (1), we give drug companies a patent. But in the process, we make it much harder to use market mechanisms to regulate drug pricing, since patents inherently give drug companies monopoly power.

3) Moreover, in most of the developed world, we want to make a certain level of medical care accessible to everyone. That results in systems like Medicare, the U.K. NHS, etc. That too stymies market mechanisms, except in the other direction. Single-buyer markets are monopsonies, and unchecked result in driving prices below efficient level. (That is likely what has happened in Europe, and is the reason why Medicare is prohibited from negotiating drug prices.)

4) The pharmaceutical market is international, and thus rich in arbitrage opportunities for national governments. So long as the American market is willing to foot the R&D bill, other countries have enormous incentives to drive prices local below the efficient level for their own citizens.

5) Conceptions of morality also complicate things. We ordinarily accept the idea that companies are permitted to charge based on the value they create for their customers. We accept Apple charging $2,400 for a Macbook Pro and understand that people only buy it because they think they will get more than $2,400 of utility from it. What's the value to the customer of HIV anti-retrovirals? How much would you pay to extend your life by decades? Almost certainly more than what those drugs cost. There is an impulse to try and say "well, it's okay for Apple to charge based on value created, but not drug companies." That impulse is surely well-intentioned, but is counter-productive. It has the effect of driving talent and capital out of areas that have the greatest positive impact on humanity.
Exactly. I'm a big believer in capitalism. But capitalism requires competition, transparent markets, and allowing corporations to fail. What Republicans tend to prefer are monopolies, opaque markets, and corporate welfare. That's not capitalism.
My city is grid based, but downtown is rotated 45 degrees from the cardinal directions. This leaves me constantly confused and confounded while downtown, not least because the transition streets from downtown to the rest of the city are all at crazy angles (that is, unlike anything where I grew up).

As you say, this isn't a language feature. For me the concepts of N,E,W,S and the easy visualization matters more than my language. I picture a map, but not the words on the map.
Pointing out things that are wrong is fine. If you're incapable of doing that without being rude or condescending then code reviews aren't going to be the only place your lack of social graces hinders you.
>or that women are intrinsically unable to perform in tech.

The more accurate version of this is "women find less value in tech." It deserves more consideration than it gets. There are differences that aren't just cultural between genders, and its something that should be taken into account when forming a judgement on these issues.
Petition: Make Wall Street's Fearless Girl Permanent
At first I thought this was some Euro-related prank.
I like the show lots of action well done martial arts. I won't spoil it for anyone reading this but the show has taken quite a few twists already.
> I'm dreading the day I can no longer understand Jessica Jones fully without also watching three ancillary shows and one unified ensamble show beforehand.

Heh this! When I started watching Agents of Shield, whether intended or not, I found the first season somewhat hard to penetrate. I ended up having to hit up Wikipedia, get my head around the Marvel Universe timeline and then watch relevant movies so I could slot in where AoS picks up its part of the Marvel Universe story.

I'm pretty sure all this is a dream come true for Marvel fans, but you can get too much of a good thing, and I now have Marvel-fatigue.
From experience, the lighter weight makes the coins harder to tell apart. The old coins had three denominations: 1kr (~$0.10), medium sized, thin, silver; 5 kr (~$0.5), big, thin, silver; and 10 kr, small, thick, golden. Their big size (compared to Euro coins) make them comfortable in the hands and trivial to count the right amount.

By comparison, the new, smaller coins are much harder to grasp and the new denomination (2kr) is hard to tell apart from the new (1kr). The new notes are similarly hard to tell apart, as they all i) have the same height, and ii) use similar (pastel) colors.

"Never attribute to malice what you can blame on stupidity", but it almost feels like they are making the new cash hard to use on purpose.
Yeah, but, this displayed the article that I wanted to read, then redirected me to a queue system, now i'll eventually go back to the actual page. Its causing more work for the system. The ticketmaster queues block a heavyweight process (ticket search), not simple page displays.

This is the equivalent of ticketmaster not letting you see pages with lists of upcoming performances without waiting in a queue.
> You're confusing two different things. When NICE decides not to fund something they have clear evidence that it is worse than current treatment, not just that it is more expensive than current treatment.

No, I'm not confusing two different things, and I'm glad you picked cancer as an example.

Even if NICE has approved a treatment as "cost-effective", that doesn't mean that any specific patient will actually be eligible to receive it. For cancer treatments, there is a separate panel which reviews individual cases and provides the options available to that patient. It is not done on the aggregate; it's determined on the individual level. And, to make matters worse, if the patient decides to deviate sufficiently from the treatment plan (perhaps by delaying chemotherapy, or seeking treatment abroad first), those options can be rescinded, at which point the patient is required to pay out-of-pocket on the private market.

> It's incorrect to say that NICE has a profit motive. They very clearly - and this is the point of transparency - don't.

Every agency in every country, public or private, has a profit motive, and the DH is no exception. Transparency doesn't eliminate the profit motive; it just provides visibility into both the inputs and the outputs.
"Death to all jews" -crooked-v 3/27/17
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The man who quit heroin and became a fruit juice millionaire
Probably was done so people wouldn't mistake its purpose and use it as a cooking pot, or something.
Yeah, no kidding, nobody has a policy to do that. But there are several factors, including:

1. Women tend to negotiate less aggressively

2. Women who negotiate aggressively tend to be perceived worse than men doing the exact same thing

3. Implicit bias affects the amount of money an employer sees fit to offer in the first place

As to what to do, here some ideas:

* Massachusetts' law barring employers from asking about previous salaries as part of negotiations seems like a good idea

* More transparency about salaries would help

* Maybe a "Costco auto club" model, where the price is set up-front with no haggling, would be a good idea. Reddit tried to do this but it was kind of tied up with all the other issues they had. Not 100% sure on this one.
I was so happy when I found that setting. Was so frustrating before.

I'd imagine the default is meant to function more like iOS
my wife had similar concerns, she took a few negotiation classes and is doing fine now.

there is that..

then there are managers and engineers who tell ppl to 'f off' or to 'gtfo' .. and thats deemed acceptable by culture - that needs to be dealt with.
Reaction to 2nd video: It is like a kitchen, and a panty, with a sous-chef which is like a conveyor belt. I mean if this runs ruby and also uses knife, how fast could this really be. ;)
Interesting comment from Anandtech [0]

> Keep in mind that consumer NVMe SSDs that boast throughput of 2GB/s or more generally do not reach their peak at low queue depth. Optane is supposed to be able to drive 1200MB/s read throughput at low queue depth (not sure why they listed QD4), so there is potential for some performance improvement here. Most consumer workloads never get out of low queue depth territory, so this could have some small real world benefit. Write throughput, however, is critically low.

> More importantly, these Optane drive are gear more towards lowering latency than transferring large files. Where HDDs access the data on the order of 10s of mS and SSDs access data on the order of 1mS (give or take), Optane should be able to access data on the order of 1s - 10s of uS. Where Optane will be useful is high numbers of small file accesses (DLLs, library files, etc.).

> That all said, I'd just as soon leave all the extra complications, compatibility issues, and inconsistencies on the table and get that 2 GB/s sdd that you mentioned until Intel figures out how to make these more compatible and easier to use without requiring a "golden setup". I don't want to buy a new W10, Kaby Lake, 200 series based system just to use one of these. My current W7/W10/Ubuntu, Skylake, 100 series system should work just fine for a good while yet.

[0] http://www.anandtech.com/comments/11227/intel-launches-optan...
Oh yeah, Rod Chapman and others at Praxis did amazing work. It's probably the single, most-practical tools in engineered software since abstract, state machines for specification or Cleanroom for building. Their error rate was so low.

The traditional problem, though, was that some tools were good for specifying full correctness of high-level models while others were good for verifying properties of code itself. They rarely did both well. Still true with SPARK. Before DeepSpec, I was already pushing for mixing them up a lot with different tools on different components with some sort of unified logic. You might find it interesting that one of those was with SPARK and the successful Event-B method. I'll give you a paper show how hard it is to use Event-B by itself down to low-level code followed by how a combo improves things.

http://eb2all.loria.fr/html_files/files/landingsystem.pdf

http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst/article/view/785/782

One last thing before I head out is that the landing system paper is great for illustrating difficulty of correctness. It shows a small number of straight-forward requirements and design specs. Then, verification conditions are derived down to the low level code that must all be maintained true for total correctness. As in, it makes explicit all the stuff a developer must get right in their head to correctly solve this simple problem. I find it's a nice reality check for people even if they don't know the notation on intrinsic complexity of software & how that affects verification. Especially why you want to use simpler, automated methods than hope to test your way out of that level of complexity w/ corner cases. ;)
Easy: Write your backend as an API, and let the UI be a thin client that talks to it.

You can write your backend in Rails (or Sinatra, which we've used a lot) and use the same workflows to wire up models and so forth.

I wouldn't want to write database stuff in JavaScript. The frameworks are all terrible. Nobody has managed to replicate the ActiveRecord story for Node.js.

Except for legacy stuff (which use Ruby + Sinatra), we write our backends in Go. But that might not be your cup of tea.
No. Your post is completely off base.

No one said anything about removing code reviews. They said remove the culture of aggressive and mean code reviews.

No one said to remove the opportunity to express one's love of geeky things or organic conversation during happy hour. They said to tone that down, and be more inclusive, so other members of the team can express their love of things they like.

Meritocracy is a red herring. We do not have objective measurements for what is good work and what is not good work, or what work is better than others. At the end of the day, a person, with all their biases, is going to be choosing who is better. And quite often, that doesn't have much to do with the work at all.

"Maybe women in tech are less common than men in tech not because of some fundamental unfairness, but because fewer women want to be in tech."

And likely, fewer women want to be in tech because of the sexist attitudes, and this attitude of dismissal and "it's not a problem; if you were really 'passionate', you'd get over it".
Promises and/or async/await from day 0 would've helped a lot of people not code themselves into "callback hell".

But I really think the features that people consider bad have much more to do with the syntax: Lack of block scoping, lack of const, parseInt("072") === 58, eval, existence of the new() operator [0], semicolon insertion, function hoisting, == vs. ===, with statement.

[0] causes inexperienced devs to think JS is object-oriented when it is not
True rage is having a machine reject your money for overpriced parking while you stand under one of those anti-loitering alarms.
>Discourage your work 'culture' from being built around aggressive tech code reviews/debates/arguments/chat where young males love to beat their chest

I get what you're saying but at the same time... code reviews and conversations not debates/arguments are important regardless of gender. You're saying you want to built a tech org without that being a central idea to the way men and women on the team should work?
Come on, you know as well as I do that there's a large chunk of (mostly male, frequently young) who LOVE to point out how wrong someone it to show how wrong someone else is. Whether it's aggressive or just passive aggressive there alternative ways to be polite and not off-putting to those less aggressive.
Much of the software at that level of detection is still research grade. What is usable for industry is either used in automation (eg Finding curled noodles at a straight noodle factory) or used in tech centric companies. Combine that with the government being a decade behind when its trying and I suspect that humans look at every scan.
> At work, I use a single monitor with Windows 10 to avoid a few bugs and annoyances, such as one monitor not returning when unlocking the desktop, or having to rearrange all my windows onto the multiple screens when docking the laptop, or sometimes just when returning from a break.

I use Windows 7 and Windows 10 laptops that I dock with 2x 1080p monitors at home and the office. Both laptops remember the 4 displays uniquely and arrange things accordingly.
Intel’s first Optane SSD for regular PCs is a small but super-fast cache
Marketing budgets pay for themselves. Why else would you market something?
For Some Reason, Samsung Might Sell Refurbished Versions of Its Exploding Phones
A correction is more informative than just a bare statement that something is wrong...
Apple's 11th annual Supplier Responsibility progress report released
If only men predominantly "haggle well", is it possible that the ideal wage negotiation is modeled around an alpha male? It feels like rewarding productivity and giving equality in wage could be easily tied together, and benefit nearly everyone.
Here's an existence proof that congresspeople pay attention to calls from their constituents: https://twitter.com/RepJudyChu/status/845044275427659776.

What's perhaps striking is the low number of total calls regarding AHCA (439 support, 6 against) compared to the total population of her district (~700k). Unless I'm misinterpreting, this seems like pretty strong evidence that a call to your representative can have a massively disproportionate impact?
To anyone interested in getting PrEP in the UK, you can buy it from £39/month upwards without a prescription from a number of online pharmacies. Do your own research, as with taking any medication.