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Firefox Nightly is indeed much better CPU-wise, keeping 60fps with around 80% single core usage at most.

However, it still has poor graphics, with low quality textures, low/nonexisting anistropic filtering and no AA or bad AA.

Also just noticed that stuff like bracers that should be rounded (using GL 4 hardware tessellation) is not and has visible polygonal edges.

Not really a great showing as a demo.
yes actually, I'd think about donating except that what would the US gov think of people donating money to a bomber? we all might get a check in our files for supporting terrorism... :(
History-less american barbarians! :)

Sweden started this craze: actually Norway exported their garbage there:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/10/28/163823839/swe...

Or see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4702319
Sounds like a very cool idea - I look forward to reading about the trip along the way!
I just deleted and rewrote this to be clearer, before posting.

Companies want the best candidate for a job. Recruiters want a candidate that looks good enough for the job. That's the company's complaint, that the goals aren't aligned.

Similarly, a prospective employee wants a job they are good enough for, but recruiters want a prospective employee that looks good enough for the job. Candidates who are good enough, but who don't look good enough, are lost.

Those are basically the two big problems in recruiting. Of course the very idea of recruiting has it's own issues.
Honestly, the best way to make a difference with local government is either to make a credible threat of suit or just make their lives miserable for a few weeks (by publishing their email addresses and phone numbers and sicking the internet on them).

I had a few altercations with my high school administrators. The first involved a student petition, the second involved formal letters from attorneys. Guess which one had more effect.

Edit: nevertheless, I have signed the petition in question.
Advances in technology have eliminated or drastically changed many of the jobs these people have, and there is no end in sight. As a result, there is no economic opportunity for many of them. In modern society, that leaves few options. While many suicides can be attributed to mental illness or depression, an increasing number of them fall within the definition of "rational suicide".

Fewer people can now serve the needs of far more people than ever before possible. For example, we are rapidly approaching the day when humans will no longer be involved in many forms of construction, and most of those jobs won't be replaced in any other field. Millions of manual labor jobs worldwide can be replaced by a relatively small number of engineers in a single location working to automate those tasks. As our world catapults toward this reality, unemployment and the resulting suicide rate can only increase.
Yes, and many of them went broke living above their means for so long. When the recession hit, they wouldn't adjust their lifestyles because 'they deserve' and subsequently lost most or at least half their wealth after all those years of working late and 'postponing' family life. You speak brutal truth, my friend.
As if Chinese made goods are not perceived as inferior. Claims are just claims after all.
The problem wasn't in passwords being stolen. CC information was allegedly leaked.
> I guess my point is that it seems disingenuous to point out "you can write that bit in C" as a way to mitigate performance problems with Ruby, when in practice it's so costly compared to available alternatives

I don't think its costly compared to available alternatives; I think its generally an efficient alternative for the type of bottleneck that is actually related to implementation language efficieny. I think, for most typical web apps, the bottlenecks are only rarely of that type, so that's generally not where the effort is going to be spent, but for the ones that do have bottlenecks of that type, its quite appropriate a way of solving it.

> throw more hardware, write manually optimized Ruby, switch to a faster language/runtime

If writing manually optimized Ruby is an effective and cheaper solution, you aren't experiencing the class of bottlenecks that are related to implementation language efficiency. Switching languages or runtimes for a component is a proper subset of the work of switching languages or runtimes for a project, so the latter isn't going to be less costly than the former (it may, if language-related bottlenecks are pervasive, or if you have non-performance interests in the alternative language, have a bigger net payoff and be more cost effective, but it won't be less costly, and its inherently riskier to do all at once, since component-wise transition gives you a faster cycle time in terms of realizing value even if you end up doing a full replacement in the end.)

> And if you have a complex application that utilizes many of Ruby's idioms to deal with the complexity, it's extremely unlikely that you can simply replace parts of it with C libraries without reorganizing in such a way to increase complexity.

I disagree. Anything you can do in Ruby you can do in API-equivalent C that can still call out to the exact same Ruby code for the functions that aren't being moved into C, so there is no reason at all for the kind of reorganization you suggest, particularly if you are building with loosely-coupled components in the first place.

If you are building a complex app and its all tightly coupled, you've got a big maintainability nightmare no matter what language you're using, and that has nothing to do with Ruby.
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The word you're looking for is ahistorical.
In the interest of balance, I'd like to point out that Ms. Wilmot was almost certainly intending to make an explosive (A weak one, but one nonetheless). Ie, this was not simply a science experiment gone wrong and she was not just "practicing chemistry". And intentionally creating an explosive on school grounds definitely merits punishment.

That said, felony charges are clearly ludicrous (The set of actions a teenager could commit, barring actual malice, that merit a felony charge is in my mind vanishingly small).
I have a library that does this for simulator apps in iOS: http://github.com/orta/chairs/ - but as you say, undocumented , unofficial & hacky
Sounds like an interesting marketing effort but from a cost perspective this doesn't seem like the most practical thing to do. Between gas, rental expense, extra hotel nights, and most importantly time this will cost far more than 3 round trip flights (northeast, southwest, TX) and a few days with a rental in each area.
If that's what you imagine, you might be surprised to hear that cassettes are making a resurgence lately:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/featur...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/12/us/politics/the-techniques...
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8 since the i7 is four physical cores with hyper-threading.
Maybe they are doing some kind of A/B testing, for going on an only possitive feedback.
I think most people would consider a college educated person earning a low six-figure income to be upper middle class.
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if you're behind a reverse proxy (or load balancer, etc.) one should normally have [firewall] rules to ensure that only these proxy hosts can even connect to your httpd.

you also can configure your edge proxies to ignore X-Forwarded-For, or at least move it to another untrusted header if you want to preserve its contents.

there's an nginx module (has to be compiled in) that lets you whitelist hosts which can send X-Forwarded-For, and turns that into the actual remote address provided to your upstreams.

http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpRealipModule | http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_realip_module.html
Excellently put, the solution in the short term is counseling and creating a culture in which down-time, leisure and enjoyment of life is prized more than "putting in your hours."

The purpose of automation is to make our lives easier. We have to think that a bum living on the street is not a drain on society, in a lot of ways he is doing more "work" just to keep himself alive than the average wage-slave. We need to stop thinking that "work" is somehow the goal of a person's life and transition to "enjoyment" being the goal.
Apparently one of the projects listed, Packery, is licensed under the MIT license for open source projects, and under an expensive commercial license for commercial projects. This makes my brain hurt. Isn't the whole point of the MIT license that it can be sublicensed without restriction? Then what's to stop someone from sublicensing the free version to themselves for commercial use?

http://packery.metafizzy.co/license.html
I'm from the UK, and I think here class has nothing to do with money. It has something to do with education, but more to do with background, especially family background, culture, taste, leisure activities and so on.

It also has a lot to do with our system of peerage and nobility. I don't think you're truly upper class unless you are elevated to the peerage or in some other way decorated.

In the UK you can be destitute but upper class, and a millionaire but still working class.
Thanks for double-checking. The 'a' looks very different on the Windows 7 sample!
I'm referring to generic Introduction to Engineering courses. The ones that focus on topics around engineering; things like presenting, interviewing, etc.

(Classes that use books like Studying Engineering: A Roadmap to a Rewarding Career - ISBN 0964696924)
Agreed. I've heard good things for a while, but I was very impressed when I played it last week for the first time.

Also (this is why I was tempted to post about it on HN), it's very heavy on number crunching and has a nice CS feel to it. Placing your cities is, I think, an instance of minimum spanning trees. Thought MST has a lot of applications, interestingly the first algorithm for finding them was invented in 1926 for "efficient electrical coverage of Moravia." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bor%C5%AFvka%27s_algorithm
If you're interested in a cloud service that does the CI work for you (mobile specific) check out cisimple https://www.cisimple.com

Full disclosure, I'm one of the founders.
So merely asking how effective they are is "cynicism," got it.

Most of those victories can be chalked up to "post hoc ergo propter hoc."
Aw yea that was so cool! It slowed down my box to a dying crawl and then asked to store a bunch of data on my local machine! Nice!
Maybe you think "very easily", but I searched around for 10 minutes unable to find the numerical information required. I had concluded it didn't exist in tabulated form, so thanks for confirming I was wrong - although I'm still not sure if this is accessible via natural links.

Here's a particularly unhelpful FAQ, which says the data is "displayed on our web pages" http://www.manchester.gov.uk/faqs/faq/19013/what_can_i_do_if...

What I find bad about that - is that I know my way around a website, and I couldn't find the required information. I found it with ease on other council website suggested in the comments (Lambeth, Gateshead, Birmingham: all 2-3 links deep)

If we want people to look for information on the web rather than blocking council call centres: this website is not the right way.
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Uh, go read the wiki if you don't know what self-victimization is, or why contemporary feminists are (correctly) accused of it, or how it presents itself in this rah rah look what the girl did against all odds and oppression of men account of her hackathon win or in Rachel Sklar's quote:

“This is a terrific story, and proof that young girls are an untapped resource of innovation,” said Change The Ratio co-founder Rachel Sklar, when we told her the news. “More and more role models in the space are showing girls like Jennie (who is now one herself!) that this is a place for them, and for their talents. And now organizations like Girls Who Code are providing the infrastructure to get there. The floodgates have opened — the ratio is changing.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_playing

Victim playing (also known as playing the victim or self-victimization) is the fabrication of victimhood for a variety of reasons such as to justify abuse of others, to manipulate others, a coping strategy or attention seeking.

And if it still isn't clear to you, have someone read to you what others, including women, have written in this thread. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5636111

In all these threads, and around the web, and in meatspace too, many women, from all sorts of backgrounds repeat the same messages, and contemporary feminists dismiss them or worse, call them chill girls and queen bees. http://freethoughtblogs.com/almostdiamonds/2012/09/10/a-note...

This sort of contemptuous, dismissive, insulting, ignore them, pat-them-on-the-head-and-tell-them-to-stfu behavior is what passes for state of the art contemporary feminist argument. And better, it's is deeply reflective of the sort of patriarchal argument that contemporary feminists claim to be against but actively work to implement for themselves.

http://phawrongula.wikia.com/wiki/Witch_of_the_Week

See also https://www.google.com/search?q=wikipedia+american+women+nov... and ask yourself, if you favor scholarships, contests, special projects for American Women Novelists, but presumably not for American Men Novelists, why shouldn't American Women Novelists be cloistered into a pink ghetto category? The sponsors of such projects are saying women are lesser creatures that cannot be expected to compete with men and need special protection, special incentives, special prizes, and special attention.

I reject this thinking and am saddened people think women cannot compete on an equal footing with other humans.
Good points, Hosh.

From that wired article "But none before has felt as free to call bullshit on conventional wisdom" Bingo - I had a conversation the other day with someone explaining an interaction I had with a 'non-connected' neighbor and how that neighbor only knows what they've learned from those people immediately around them and what TV tells them. And that there is a divide between them and those who are connected. All I can think when talking to them is 'bullshit' since the facts are readily available.*

* I suspect this is a good thing but I also think there will be a partial boomerang with those who have access to 'all the collective knowledge of the world' looking for true 'wisdom of the elders' for lack of a better way to state it. Especially those looking to cut through the noise and all the fucking notifications.
So, is every post from this site going to be submitted to HN? I already have an RSS reader.
You have a user, I love this.
Sounds a lot like a caste system
"Knowingly" seems to be the key word here: if you surveyed most Americans (or consumers elsewhere, for that matter) on how many of them know the country of origin for most brands, the results would be very hit or miss. I don't think too many people realize or remember that Samsung is Korean, nor that Nokia is Finnish. And to a concrete example of a Chinese company, I think hardly anyone knows Lenovo's origins.

The article even points out as much: in many cases, the Chinese brands go out of their way to do nothing that would reveal themselves to be Chinese brands. And by the time the brand is successful in a country, I'd suspect that brand's origin will matter very little.
Allegedly? They admitted it was.
in my case i still have dislikes in my videos, but i'm subscribed to videos with very low viewcounts anyways (a week-old video will only get 200-800 views in most of the videos in my subs)
The police report* says it was Assistant State Attorney Tammy Glotfelty that initially came up with the two felony charges.

* http://www.scribd.com/doc/138927259/Wilmot-Arrest
Agreed, it seems like some kind of punishment should be in order. Like detention.

The fact that the school principal has come to her defense suggests that people who were actually there didn't feel threatened.
That's... painting with a rather broad brush.
No, not at all. I was just surprised how off target this ad was, especially on location since the context is click to call for installation.
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/contoured.htm

I personally know 2 people who had their wrist pains go away after they started using this keyboard.
So they should die because they gave too much to their spouses and children?
> Is that a common scenario? I am mostly moving single pieces of information rather than entire blocks of text like you're proposing.

You most likely have the information as a single block especially if copying it from somewhere else. And it is certainly far easier if the user has to do one copy and paste versus once per field.

In this particular case they have a user sitting there so the answer doesn't have to be perfect every time - they just have to make sure that if the heuristics mess up that it can be corrected (eg let the user drag and drop elements into the right arrangement/field names).

> Or which is an address Vs. job title?

The former is likely to occur in a geocoding database and the latter isn't.

close.io focusses on sales so that immediately narrows down the likely possibilities for contact information. I'd be pretty sure naive code would have an 80% success rate, and analytics plus ongoing development would ensure ever improving success rates.
Looks like the xeon is about $50 more than the equivalent i5/7. It was worse before, when I bought my most recent motherboard.
Well written article.

One of the things I found amazing about learning assembly was that in x86 asm it is relatively trivial to check for overflow (after an operation has happened) by checking if the overflow flag [1] is set.

Although this doesn't help with detecting if overflow will occur from an operation, it can be used to detect when it has occurred and assist recovery.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overflow_flag
Perhaps steer clear of questioning whether he was correct to guess your meaning when following it with a line that confirms you were indeed being cynical. Not saying you are wrong to be cynical, but you are (as am I).
SV transplant here. Grew up in suburban Chicago, now live in SF. Being surrounded by rich people all day is nice -- low crime, good water-cooler conversations with well-traveled, worldly, people, but there's a dark side: I'm having a harder and harder time relating to my family back in IL as time goes on.

In time, I imagine sociologists will study the affects of such insular communities on empathy, happiness, and many other dimensions of the human experience.
> Feeling uncomfortable about being a woman in technology is a symptom of a male-oriented culture, not a cause. To say otherwise is to perpetuate the culture that makes women uncomfortable in the first place!

I was following and agreeing with what you said until that point.

Any group being a minority to an other dominated majority will feel some uncomfortable. Anyone who has studied a course and been the sole guy with 30 female students will tell the same story. Female students in Sweden dominate all university subjects except engineering. Should we blame a female-oriented culture in universities on that, or look for other causes? What solutions to this problem should schools do, and what type of behavior changes should females do so male students are less intimidated to study subject manners which aren't engineering?

Trying to simplify gender inequality will only lead down the road of more inequality and problems. Instead of trying to state things as fact regarding which group/subgroup is to blame, or what comments is chasing women out of technology, maybe we should start by testing some of the hypothesis first?

Simple testable question: will a technology forum with no reported issues of sexist language have more female participants than the average? Will female teachnologists flock to such places as Stackoverflow and Wikipedia which has a very monitored and managed policy against any from of personal attacks. However, both also has below average of female participators, so the question is then why. Answer that, or find a testable test case with a control group and create data that shows the problem in the technology community. Only by that method can we go forward.
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Would you mind sharing details ( process wise) of what they did to validate that it was a legitimate request from the account holder?
> > I really want to avoid gun control debate,

> [gun control debate]

That wasn't very nice.
If you are dependent on a paycheck from an employer to pay your bills (either as a regular employee or a contractor), and your annual pay isn't enough that you could, in principle, invest the surplus above the median income over your expected career and be able to live indefinitely at near-median income off the proceeds of that investment as passive recipient (IOW, if you work for a living and aren't something like a top-rank pro athlete or someone with similar pay), its probably safe to say that you are at best upper-middle class.

The upper class are the people that live comfortably off of capital (or have the resources where they could do so, in principle, even if instead they choose to consume their seed corn and don't.) They are the people that, if they have jobs, have no need to have fear of losing them, not because its easy to find another one (as might be the case for many elite workers), but because they don't really need the first one.
The cheeky mods have changed the title, so your comment no longer makes any sense.
People pay lip service to wanting to buy locally made, but they don't vote with the only thing that matters, the willingness to pay more. As long as consumers demand the absolute lowest price, regardless of the exploitation required to achieve it, things will be made in poorer countries with an impoverished workforce.
I'm a little tired of seeing all these posts about what burnout is, and how to prevent it, written by people who doesn't have any experience in clinical psychology.

"Burnout is caused by working and failing". "Prevent burnout by clicking this list of TODO items". Please don't approach these complicated issues from a "this is a trend" angle.

I'm pretty sure there are other, better, and way more complicated reasons why you can feel miserable at your job. Burnout can be linked to a medical illness, malnutrition, depression, etc, etc...
> I like people in Wisconsin, can't really relate to people in Chengdu,

?? They're just people.
It describes the device she built [0], its effects, and the social context of other teenagers doing the same thing. I think it highly relevant.

[0] Confirmed in a police report, http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2013/05/florida_schoo... (update: actual report is http://www.scribd.com/doc/138927259/Wilmot-Arrest)
I don't think he thinks of cynicism as a bad thing (and I don't either).

It's hard to prove causation in any of these.
This is a travesty, I am very sad to hear about this.
I think its safe to say the entire metal community mourns this tragic loss.
The definition of social classes differ between Europe and the US; and there's also far less consensus on the US definition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_upper_class