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As long as design teams only focus on their one little portion of the chip, without any overarching goal of global optimization, we're leaving a ton of performance on the table

Parameters like register file size are not determined in design (except where simple physics dictates). That's an architecture problem, which is constrained by the quality of simulation capabilities (which you did mention).

Another interesting thought- the design of a CPU starts many years before it hits shelves. So to accurately model performance (to make good decisions), architects must simulate a CPU running the code of five years in the future! There are some things that stay constant- tight loops, high level branches... but what about multithreading, for example? How multithreaded will the software of 2019 be?
That $100 is only low for highly developed wealthy areas.

Square feet of livable housing is cheaper than that in most of the country.

Undeveloped land probably mostly sells for less than $0.10 a square foot (that's still high at $4000 an acre). But that's partly because large sales of relatively isolated land will dominate the acreage transferred.
I'm of the opinion that the singularity has been here for a while. There have been self-modifying, self-improving biorobots terraforming the Earth to augment themselves physically and mentally since before my grandparents were born.
Isn't it entirely possible that the situation with TPW exacerbated the situation with the Engineer and the toxic workplace environment? At least in Julie's eyes, since she received the brunt of TPWs inappropriateness?

I'm sure that if I was under that kind of stress from one of the Founder's of the company I was working for, it would most likely contribute to me seeing other encounters as something that it wasn't...
So, choose to have a dedicated vehicle then.

But don't be surprised when the majority of people refuse to pay 100% of the price for a vehicle they only use 3% of the time.
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That is the OP's main point, except turned around. He was measuring progress by results, not by effort expended, and saying that it takes exponential effort to reach linear results.
No. Jon is busy.

Have you ever worked in a place where you're trying to work on something and other staff members keep coming up to you and asking "how much longer?" "are you almost done?". Being in the position Jon is, he can just shut out the world and focus.

I'd love to be able to do that.

Just give him time and space.
Independent auditor hired by the company being audited, instead of hyping her record, they should have provided evidence of it. I'm not saying the auditor wasn't independent, just that I don't trust the claim coming from the company that paid for it and is presenting the view.
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I agree; and we've been doing that. But the article was about "why aren't CPU's getting any faster?" CPUs aren't really getting much faster and haven't for a while; we've just got access to a lot more of them at a lower cost than ever, so the collective "we" still get the benefit of that.
Most people would be satisfied with their hobbies, I think. I know I wouldn't do anything I didn't like anymore.
> I would like to simply argue that scientific progress is in fact linear

I stopped reading right there. The model that the author is looking for to express his ideas is "logistic growth", or "S curves".
I've been "owned" by three different cable companies in the last 3 years. In the same house. The worst part is, the big fish who "owns" me now hasn't bothered to upgrade fish #2's infrastructure to match their own. So I now have the worst of both worlds - famously crappy support, with poor selection. Thank Buddha for Satellite.
If you're a reasonably intelligent person subject to real wrongdoing of this nature, would it not behoove you to collect evidence that will support your allegations of misconduct when you finally make your claim public? The fact that there really is not one piece of evidence she's been able to produce leads me to believe that claims of sexual misconduct are anything more than imagined.

I've been in a situation where I was reasonably certain that I observed fiduciary misconduct. At the time I basically had three choices:

(1) stay at the company and ignore it
(2) stay at the company and collect irrefutable evidence and expose the wrongdoing; or
(3) ignore it and leave the company because it was not my problem to deal with and would be more damaging to my career to do something about it.

There was never a 4th option: "expose the wrongdoing with no concrete evidence". I didn't have enough to substantiate any allegations. It's entirely possible that I could have even been mistaken about what actually happened since my relationship with the person in question was rocky and I might have been projecting my negative perceptions of that person onto a novel situation. Without collecting concrete evidence to prove my allegations, I couldn't even be certain of what happened, much less certain that exposing the wrongdoing without evidence would be fruitful.

The burden of proof was the responsibility of the accuser, and in this instance the accuser has failed to substantiate claims made.
Lack of polymorphism isn't even close to the most common objection to Golang. The most common objection is the lack of generics, which make it tricky to write reusable container libraries.

Golang comes pretty close to flat-out rejecting object orientation. It's only barely more object-friendly than C is. If you're the kind of programmer that wants to model a problem domain or build code with the Smalltalky feel that Gang of Four patterns give Java and C++, you will also hate Golang.

Generics might happen in the future (the more Golang I write, the less excited I am at the prospect), but a richer object model seems very unlikely. If you want to hang your argument on polymorphism rather than generics (I applied the principle of charity and assumed that's what you meant), the argument gets less valid, not more.
It is of course possible that the investigation might not have been able to identify a, possibly subtle, dysfunction at the core of a company's culture with a few days of work...

Regardless; by definition all Julie-Ann can comment on is her own experience and it's very much possible for her to have experienced gender-based harassment, even multiple times, yet it not being systemic to GitHub.
In the C# language we refer to this as the 'Color Color problem'. You have some enum or type Color and then a member of an object which you, quite obviously, want to name 'Color'. It's so annoying for the programmer to work around this that we define special exceptions in naming rules so the programmer can do what they want.
Most people? What kind of evidence do you have for that? Do you mean 'most people in the world' or 'most people who cared at the start' or 'most people I am friends with' or 'most people that I think are reasonable enough to care about anyway'?
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I agree with the author's thesis, that many designers design for aesthetics and not for usability, but I couldn't help but think that he did with this article exactly what he was shunning as useless, which is to address the design of Wikipedia to gain prominence, and all this without even the effort of opening Photoshop... the irony is terrific.
It's laid out by the browser. You should blame the browser -- not the data it tries to display -- for its bad UX.
Agreed, and I wish there would be fines and enforcement. Though for half of those you can frequently argue that the biker is avoiding more-common dangers to themselves, like having to squeeze between parked and moving cars where there isn't enough room to do so safely.

In the vast majority of America, including the vast majority of cities, biking is ludicrously poorly supported and heavily favors killing bicyclists over losing a lane. Not that this is any surprise, but it is what it is.
Not exactly. I am saying that public opinion does not benefit unless the law's involved. If discrimination is not condemned clearly and if the perpetrators can hide behind press releases and teary eyed blog posts, nobody benefits.
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Another alternative is authbind[0], which doesn't have the same drawbacks (i.e. you can use it with scripts, and still set LD_LIBRARY_PATH).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authbind
That's okay, I've seen people with PhDs confuse them before, it's a common mistake, and currying gets you partial application "for free". Good article nevertheless!
As an aside, although I completely agree with you, for an alternative fictional perspective I can recommend Neal Stephenson's Anathem - there is one particular section about the mind modelling the universe that I am completely entranced by (and as a bit of background I worked for years as an AI researcher working on systems modelling).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem
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Very much this. This report doesn't discredit's Horvath's perspective of sexism, it in fact supports it. The reality that there isn't sexism in general isn't in-congruent with that. The report also speaks of github's HR failures (that a founder (indirectly) was able to harass her repeatedly because of her gender), which Horvath explained as being a big reason for her view of sexism at the company.
Exactly. If readers of his blog have also been ingesting huge quantities of omega3 and consuming sticks of butter before going to bed, they deserve to know the details of Seth's "collapse." His grieving family is entitled to some privacy but Seth, after all, chose to make his (potentially dangerous) self-experiments public. He may have inadvertently caused great harm.

Did his diet mess with Swartz's brain? Possibly. I doubt it, though. Being harassed by the DOJ was more than enough to drive anyone to suicide.
0 day exploit kills 300 in a pileup on the freeway...
I initially wanted to charge takeaways £20 a year to list their menus. No-one was interested. Over the entire life of the site I've probably had five people list a menu. I walked the streets of London and Manchester collecting menus, scanning them in and typing in all the details. It was shit. I then sent a personalised letter to each takeaway with a thumbnail of their menu asking them to register on the site and get a free promoted listing. Not one person did.

At some point I'll write a blog post about this. I still have virtually zero engagement with takeaway owners.
I don't find this comment pedantic. It's a crucial distinction.

I think that this case demands a lot of suspension of judgement since absolute judgements one way or the other are so damning/redeeming to opposite sides of the dispute, and since the allegations are so difficult to demonstrate or disprove. I think that it's most likely that neither absolute judgement of wrongdoing is perfectly explanatory of the situation.

So, for me, it's best to assume that both sides genuinely feel that they are not in the wrong, and that the facts are not as clear as either side supposes. It's deeply unsatisfying, and if one party or the other truly is malicious and completely to blame, then it's unfair. But I think that it's the most fair conclusion that can be drawn with the information available.
> I think Golang's namespacing is a high point of the language.

Really?!? Available in modular languages since Mesa days (mid 70's).
The model assumes that researchers can predict the impact and effort of their discoveries. If that's the case, then of course progress slows down as earlier researchers pick the low-hanging tasty fruit.

But if we really knew what the research would show, we wouldn't have to do the research.

A smaller point is that it's not really true that progress in algorithms is slowing down. According to a study a couple years ago, in the time it took hardware to improve by a factor of 1000, algorithms improved by a factor of 43,000, for a total speedup of 43 million.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/software-progress-b...
This metaphorically reeks of being the sort of result that in six months will be quietly retracted. But at least there's a mechanism proposed that isn't utterly ludicrous...

(See expansion below, which describes why this triggers my BS meter. YMMV, but it's not just "reflexive".)
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HAHAHA. The first thing a French founder does is learn English so they can start finding funding.

If only the french treated Startups with the same respect they treated their Football/Soccer clubs...

"You CAN be 'rich', but only if you are a professional football player. They're the only one's who actually deserve to keep the money they make."
Your government maybe. What about North Korea's government?
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Because both an employee and employer can make whatever claims their want and claims from both sides should be viewed as suspect absent evidence and witnesses. This becomes a gender issue when other people support that claim. Until evidence or a credible witness corroborate the claims, it's a disagreement between an employee and employer. We have zero evidence to support anything more than that at this point. To claim otherwise respects neither science nor due process.
Proposal: I have the cash and reasonable business/tech experience, but not the bandwidth to run a "full-time side project" ( does that term make sense to anyone other than me? ). Would consider putting up capital to fund purchase and an initial operating budget if a willing and capable partner presents himself or herself to operate the site. I would take a "board of directors" - type role ( periodic advice and oversight, but not involved day to day ). You would be the CEO. If you'd be interested in something like this, shoot me a message and we'll talk.
Furthermore, assuming that one is unable to predict which VC will be most helpful, the valuation that VCs place on your business would be a natural indicator for how much potential they see in the company. Therefore it might just be smart to take the highest valuation, assuming there are no red flags.
It's interesting to note that much of the gain in automobile safety over the past 50 years has been offset by an increase in miles driven due to increased sprawl [1].

It seems like this sort of intersection, while possibly being safer, would encourage even more sprawl due to its scale, and pedestrian-unfriendliness.

[1] http://www.planetizen.com/node/68200
"GitHub is committed to building a safe environment for female employees and all women in our community"

Why can't this be stated as: GitHub is committed to building a safe environment for ALL employees and all PEOPLE in our community.
This seems to open-source a large part of urbanairship's core value-add?

Anyone with experience of either care to comment?
If its that easy to "switch" customer bases why can't I just choose an upstream provider and force providers to compete on service?
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Pop doesn't have any example code yet so I created a video tutorial to help folks get started (with source code): http://tapity.com/tutorial-getting-started-with-pop/
Hi,

Thanks for inquiring, but this hackernews title is very misleading. We take customer satisfaction very seriously at DigitalOcean. It wasn't one complaint, but 76, and it wasn't immediate, but 4 days with no responses that led to action being taken.

Of those, about 50 of them were done on the 25th, for which we received no response.

If we do not receive a response for 50+ abuse complaints we unfortunately have to take action, which was done in this case.

Hopefully that clears this issue up.

Thanks,
Moisey
Cofounder DigitalOcean
Agreed about the eye. They are great for looking at whatever you point them at, which for drivers in my area is usually their iPhone. I'd be surprised if humans were terribly good at perceiving a meter-high object that appeared in their lane at a distance of 50m, because their occuli are occupied perceiving other things. I'm sure a self-driving car that had an unblinking human eye would be a fantastic instrument.

Anyway the LIDAR is not the only instrument you can put in an autonomous vehicle, right? You can have optical cameras, stereo cameras, infrared, whatever.
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On dry surfaces, a professional driver is able to do Threshold Braking, which in non-ABS cars maximizes stopping power by taking braking just up to the limit before the tires start sliding. On cars with ABS, the intent is to minimize the rate at which the ABS pump activates in order to maximize stopping power (pulse ... pulse ... pulse vs. pulse.pulse.pulse)

ABS has an advantage over regular systems in that the computer is able to control braking effort on a per-wheel basis. Something a human with only one pedal to push can't do. IIRC, the best ABS systems are able to cycle at about 10Hz.

Something I vaguely recall reading about is that in a panic stop on ice, the heat from the sliding friction will melt a very small bit of ice under the contact patch, turning it into a hydroplaning situation. I need to see if I can find that reference again...
Thank you! Makes you wonder what the minimum viable product version of DNA supporting 'life as we recognize it' was like... Maybe CG or TA only?
If you're careful to use NULL only in pointer expressions, it can be used to indicate that a pointer is being tested, as opposed to any other sort of integer or boolean flag. You can justify it on grounds similar to Hungarian notation, giving the reader some contextual information that might otherwise require a look at a declaration somewhere else.

Code should be written for the benefit of humans, not compilers.
This makes me wonder, just look at their app store searching. I think the consensus there is it's pretty awful right?
Your math is two digits off. Using Grace Hopper's "one nanosecond is one foot", one cycle at 10 GHz is 1/10 of a foot or 3 cm. That's 30,000 microns not 300.

But yes, the speed of light limitation on signal propagation is a major factor in our current limit of 3 to 4 GHz chips.
This is great and all, but it's something that happened in the past and was settled, so I'm not sure how relevant it was in this case in particular. I think you're blurring a past mistake (this should have raised flags from the beginning) with the current events.
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You forget that small little phase where it was e-Mail for a spell.
> If I sell someone else my paper delivery route, is that an indictment of American capitalism?

It is if your customers don't have the option to switch to another paper.
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Edit: Ok, since most people who commented don't agree that it was a bad title, we changed it back.
> you'll notice that even now, the fastest intel chips come in at the 3.1-3.2 Ghz range

while this nitpick does not change the overall argument, Intels high-end has hovered in 3.5-3.7 GHz area for some time now, with "turbo" hitting 4 GHz.
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> However reading the release, the gender of the injured party seems to be independent and unrelated to the injustices which relate instead to the apparently inappropriate behaviour of TPW's spouse and her unsanctioned involvement in the company.

Reading GitHub's statements on the investigation, it seems the independent investigator they hired found no evidence that sexism at GitHub. The investigator did find issues with TPW's general professional behavior which is why he resigned.

> Sexism is a highly incendiary issue in this community. How did a case which apparently was not about sexism come to be so closely related to it?

I think you answered your own question there.

> Is the report from Github incorrect or was sexism used to market this to the watching population?

That is what we call a false dichotomy. I do not see how you have narrowed it down to those two choices, and it honestly seems like a veiled accusation.
"The privacy concerns and having Google collect yet more data about the universe? Not so much."

Why? As far as I'm aware, they haven't been snooping into people's private data. Nor have they been explicitly selling it to any third party. And the haven't been abusing the data we have given them.

Now, don't get me wrong, they have most certainly been monetizing that data. But that's a different story.

Are you simply just scared of what Google will store/infer about you?
Does it matter?

If enough people really care Github is not going to be able to hire people and they are going to loose customers.

Do you have any evidence of the opposite? Why so pedantic?
15% of the population say they'd use my service. Is that enough?
I put out a survey on google survey's and found that 15%-20% of people would use my site once a week. It's not a Saas. If freemium type site. Is that enough to move forward?
It's going to be really interesting to see what intersections look like once we no longer allow human drivers behind the wheel. We can only hope this will happen during our lifetime.
I've also asked on Quora :)
http://www.quora.com/Why-are-apps-still-stored-in-iTunes
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So the important part is that only a few are harassed and not most? Please.
Please do expand on your thought there. What makes it likely this will be retracted?

The experimental set-up seems fairly sound. They controlled for the obvious factors that could influence the outcome. It is somewhat consistent with what we know in other areas - yes, pain is felt less under increased stress, and yes, the presence of other males is a stressor.

The interesting part is that it's an inter-species stressor. But then again, testosterone as a male hormone is shared across a lot of species - it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that scent markers might be similar too.

So, what makes your BS sensor go off? (I ask in all seriousness. I'm always interested in calibrating my sensor, and it didn't go off for this).
what if there are some other "flash boys" like agents/security firms selling some heartbleed-like bug info to some, while delaying such info to some?
Can someone explain to me how this doesn't violate the Sherman Act (I'm being serious)?

Comcast is actively engaging in trust behavior with another company in order to obtain a desirable merger ruling with the FCC. How is that not anti-competitive?
If we extend that line of reasoning then if you're raped but can't prove it you should stay silent because making it public without hard evidence is just not an option.
> autonomous vehicles are going to be standard, sooner or later.

It's hard to disagree, but I think it will be closer to later than sooner. At least decades, I'd guess.
> in a free market, the customer is supposed to select the supplier, not the other way around

Which free market philosopher expressed this sentiment exactly? None that I'm aware of. Free markets involve free choice of both customers and suppliers. Customers may chose to leave the supplier based on this move, and are absolutely within their right to do so. Customers might even be able to argue their way out of locked contracts.

The idea that free markets should be sort of one-sided, consumer owns supplier, is just silly in my view.
"This happened before" isn't relevant?