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Wow! You are a flying unicorn angel of light! Thank you so much :) ... HN is such a great community
Well I have my own beliefs of course, and they might taint my rationality in accepting such statements. Still it's good to be vigilant, it might be true that Asians on average perform better at certain tests at a certain age, this might not at all mean they were born more intelligent and might only correlate with their upbringing and the expectancies of the world around them.

Also, I think universities have the job to yield brilliant researchers, inventors and engineers. I don't think any racial prejudice would be a very fundamental way of working towards that goal, so I'd rather they not do it, even if it means whites would rarely be accepted.

Of course, that whole problem might be caused by their entry exams not being a very good way of selecting for their goal, but that's me as a hopeful white person :p
Because each set of numbers measures a different set of things. Singapore and Luxembourg may have a larger per capita GDP than the U.S. or China, but the absolute size of their economies is far too small to allow them similar amounts of military or diplomatic influence compared to the larger countries. Likewise, a small country where everyone earns a lot of money is more attractive a market for a company selling luxury goods than a country where the total GDP is thinly spread across a large but destitute population.
Why doesnt Google instead introduce
1) rich text editing in gmail app?
2) better cut / copy / paste in all its apps on android?
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There are no x10 developers, but there are certainly 1/10 ones
and by football, we mean soccer =)
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> So, it's not entirely clear if China is really the biggest economy, or just by using an accounting trick called PPP GDP.

There is no objective way of measuring the size of an economy.

Imagine some hyper-simplified economies where the only asset produced is computers.

Economy A sells 1000 Apple IIs* per year at $3k each. That means it has a nominal GDP of $3m.

Economy B sells 1000 Retina Macbook Airs at $1k each, for a nominal GDP of $1m.

Which is a bigger economy? Nominal GDP says Economy A is bigger: more dollars traded hands. PPP GDP says Economy B is bigger, since Retina Macbook Airs are much more than 3x better than Apple IIs, so the value being produced is greater. But of course this also means we have to define PPP, which is extremely challenging in the context of any modern economy.

It gets even crazier:

Economy C, the government pays workers $5m total to dig unwanted ditches. Nobody gets a computer.

In terms of nominal GDP, Economy C is bigger than Economies A and B.
Or maybe we should stop moving the goalposts because this article isn't about anything per-capita and isn't titled "Chinese quality of life tops the US". It's about total economic might.
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20 videos already. Great work. 17/20.
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Money is created via debt, but the economy expands when people create things of value.
Government surveillance would be a good slider. Commonwealth countries are notoriously short on protections for things like that.
Coca cola could fit the bill
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What do dictators like to eat?
I'd rather hope that no lawsuit for a word as ambiguous as "Messenger" would ever make it past the laugh test...

...but I'm regularly disappointed.
>The irony is that the US has been running up debt for decades upon decades. The US economy is equivalent to someone that has an unlimited credit line, who pays absolutely nothing while continuing to spend lavishly.

There is no sensible equivalence or even comparison to be made at all since insolvency is impossible for the US government. Government debt is simply a different thing to consumer debt. Period.

>GDP, PPP, etc are metrics which have a high signal-to-noise ratio

Ironic that you should say this since GDP, PPP, inflation and the rate of government spending are all far more relevant than the overall level of government debt.
Imagine if git, svn, cvs all installed their own "checkout", "clone", "commit", etc. executables. It would become chaos if you had more than one installed. I prefer when various software suites keep their executables in their own namespace, if only for sake of future-proofing, to prevent naming conflicts.

There are always symlinks and/or shell aliases if you want to override that locally.
What do they want to achieve? You certainly can find one woodchopper who is 10 times as productive as one other woodchopper. But what does this say about woodchoppers?
tl;dr: Russian law enforcement required GitHub to block certain content in Russia. GitHub has complied and put up a list of the blocked URLs in this repo.

From a short look at the linked/blocked documents, all of them are suicide instructions written in Russian.
Programming shops are full of both 3x and -0.5x programmers. Many 3x programmers end up looking after a group of say four -0.5x programmers, and so after cleaning up after them they themselves come out looking like mere mortal 1x programmers (because 3 + 4 x -0.5 == 1 ).
Is it just me or do these companies tend towards having a single massive hit, growing too quickly on the hype and then getting into trouble? Rovio, King, Zynga...

Wasn't Angry Birds Rovio's 54th game or something like that? Suggests that it's almost impossible to predict/curate a huge hit game...

I was really tempted to short KING when they floated.
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>Sure, maybe a Chinese middle-class person can buy more Beijing Frappucinos than a middle-class person in Minneapolis,

No, this isn't what's being said as the number we're talking about isn't per capita.

I guess you could read it as approx 4.3 (1.3bn / 300m) middle class Chinese people, between them, can buy more Beijing Frappucinos than a single middle-class person in Minneapolis ...

(of course this still isn't true as GDP is still only a crude proxy for individual income, it really measures the total of a particular subset of all _transactions_ in the economy).
OK. I am not a doctor (just a PhD biochemistry)

I think that currently with these treatments complete remission is luck of the draw. Although many of these treatments (trastuzumab, cetuximab) were designed to block a growth factor from signalling on the cancer, what they ALSO seem to do is to recruit the immune system to the cancer and basically paint the cancer with a giant target.

Now, there is basically a competititon here; is your immune system powerful enough to kill the cancers painted by the antibodies faster than the cancer can adapt (usually by short-circuiting the growth signal). This sounds hokey, but for patients on these class of antibodies (ADCCs "antibody-directed, cell-mediated cytotoxicity"), I'd say it's important to keep a positive attitude, eliminate stress from one's life, and other things that strengthen the immune system. Unfortunately there are a lot of chemotherapeutics which are coadministered with these antibodies that throw a wrench into the immune system, as does radiation, etc.

As for the future, I think that there are some sneaky tricks that we can do to make ADCC drugs more powerful. Right now there is actually batch-to-batch variation in the power of these drugs, again going back to the 'luck of the draw'.

I also see some potential for ADC ("antibody-drug conjugate", not to be confused with ADCC) as well, this is attaching a warhead to an antibody and just directly killing the cells, although I think the ADCs that are being designed are not potent enough. But that is another story.

Finally, there will be a class of general chemotherapeutics that don't touch the immune system (I work on one through my nonprofit, there is one in Phase III - SJG-136) which I think will make for a nice 'sweeper' system to clean up any cells that have snuck out of whatever the antibody target is.

In short: I see a future where ADCCs are combined with ADCs and next-generation chemotherapeutics.

The other big challenge is that it's kind of very expensive to make antibody drugs. I think there are clever ways of bringing the cost down, and I might be working on that too.
Speed will also depend on length of the task. If you use 1 hour long simple task, you will have less variance. Significant results could show only with 1-week task or longer.
As does OpenVz for its templates (for it's running containers it uses a directory in the host filesystem)
Their health index seems... unreliable.

http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/topics/health/
>It gets even crazier:
>
>Economy C, the government pays workers $5m total to dig unwanted ditches. Nobody gets a computer.

Because GDP is not nor was it ever meant to be a measure of how great your country is. It is simply a measure of the total volume of transactions (which correlates to wealth but is far from being the same thing).
> Depending on the field, it could be as much as 40x

The best dentist I've met easily was 40x better than the worst. But what does this tell us about dentists?
Basically, all forms of measuring GDP are 'accounting tricks' to some extent, or to be more charitable they are estimates based on necessarily incomplete data. For example, by its nature the informal sector can't be precisely measured, but its contribution to total economic output can't be ignored.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_sector
I suspect that all this 10x buzz is coming from the overstretched, sleep-deprived people who accidentally managed to come to work once or twice well-rested and realised: "omg! I'm 10x compared to my usual self!".
Google's email app on iOS currently suffers the worst of two worlds:

i) no rich text editing

ii) it keeps the format of pasted text

This means you can't bold headings, and you can't unbold a sentence that you paste in.

The work-around -- compose messages in a different app to cut and paste in -- is sub optimal.
False. The economy expands when the volume of transactions increases.

The GDP hero is a chain-smoking terminal cancer patient going through an expensive divorce whose car is totaled in a 20-car pileup, while munching on fast-take-out-food and chatting on a cell phone. All add to GDP growth. The GDP villain is non-smoking, eats home-cooked wholesome meals and cycles to work.
"Rovio still plans to release an animated Angry Birds film in 2016"

I really fail to see what they are trying to do with this. That game has hardly any "story" behind it and the characters are not really that interesting. I know they're trying to push a brand but all this random stuff they're making around it comes across as bland.
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Why does the "10x programmer" myth live on? Because all supporters assume that they are one of the '10x' - or at least aspiring to be one of those. It's a self-energizing myth.
Thanks GitHub. I can turn off FrootVPN now.
I've been hearing from friends who have worked close at Rovio that the real talent has been fleeing from there for some time now already, and they have been attracting people who are attracted to money, which is never a good sign for sustaining business, as the creativity might be killed in the process.

Not sure if this true, would love to hear some more insight into this from insiders or people who know more.

Might the same kind of hubris that Nokia had when they become #1 and they just couldn't innovate anymore as the diversion between the paycheck of the leaders and the normal workers became too big, and the thought process was "Were number one, why try harder, our product is best!". The same thing can be seen with Rovio, pushing the same shit down throats of people in new packages.

Seems this model of creating success is not just working in the long run, maybe we should be thinking about building sustainable businesses and not just rewarding those running the company in a huge way, creating feeling of envy, hate and other stuff that can be also seen in the whole 99% vs 1% thing going on.
Certainly Nominal GDP is a measure of the volume of transactions.

However, PPP-adjusted GDP is intended to be a measure of national income in real terms, or put another way, the amount of value actually produced. Which is how people often intuitively think of GDP.
In Economy C, the workers who've been paid by the govt can then purchase 5000 Retina Macbook Airs at $1k each, the govt receives sales tax, apple employees get paid and pay income tax, and apple employees then spend their remaining money buying more Macbook Airs (going by your simpification that the only asset produced is computers) ... net GDP is then some way over $10m and everybody has a computer and is employed either producing computers or digging ditches

I would suggest that hyper-simplified economies are probably not a good model for anything ...
How is this still a question? Why do we keep circle-jerking these debates around under 5% of a code's total cost (ergo "profitability")?

The initial programming is a tiny fraction compared to the amount of technical debt poor code introduces and good code prevents.

Most programmers have seen 100 lines of code that, if they'd been written differently a few years ago, would have saved millions.

So yes, 10x programmer is a thing. So is 100x. So is 1,000x. And in microsoft's case ...could've been 64,000,000x. lol @ win kernel.
> Australia being a great place to live - they don't have a slider for "Deadly animals"

Australia has poisonous snakes and America has grizzly bears -- only New Zealand can claim no deadly animals.
> A career in academia would just require even more proving my worthiness.

I do not think the industry will accept you without you regularly proving your worthiness. Of course, a PhD is something special so I understand anybody would not want that, but not for the reasons given in the article. Same for crazy ideas and being educated. I believe someone could have given roughly the same reasons for "Leaving X" because she's tired of doing the things that X requires. At least we learn about what doing a PhD entitles you to do, but as others have pointed out, this is quite a rude awakening.
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> in the case of Docker is just one process.

That is not true. It can be just one process. It does not have to be.

> So its just a better Operating System process

No. That's just a tiny bit of what Docker provides, and even that part of what Docker provides is largely "packaging" of cgroups functionality. That was largely there with tools like LXC

The real value Docker provides is a means of building and managing images, and mediating things like capabilities and port mapping in a user friendly way

> won't Linus just reimplement(conform) all of these projects and move them into the kernel anyways?

Not a chance. There's no reason why these things needs to be done in kernel space. Some features that they may want, such as improvement to filesystem overlay support, or low level "plumbing" to make overlay networks more efficient, could end up in the kernel if someone comes up with something good, but there'd still be plenty to do for the userspace tools.
Do you have a decent power supply? Does your building get a lot of surges? My SSDs have been rock solid.
They said they were going to be the next Disney. Maybe they are trying to follow that path with just this one big hit product, and failing to see that it's not really the same time as when Disney managed to build their brands.
It just doesn't have too many selling points for an enterprise app today. I have looked at it many times but it doesn't offer enough for me to start persuading people to switch. Terse ML-based syntax, lack of ReSharper and C# moving towards the functional side all make F# a less attractive choice. And I don't care about type-providers and all that other jazz they are adding lately too much. I tried to be excited about units of measure, but there isn't even a way to annotate third-party libraries (no, I am not going to rewrite e.g. third-party physics libraries from scratch)!
It always surprises me when layoffs are this large. I would have thought the business would slowly scale down to keep up with business cessation. Guess it would be more awkward to fire people one by one for redundancy purposes.
>It's not at all about real global power, it's about domestic economic capacity. As soon as China tries to start exerting it's economic muscle abroad, it has to compete on international terms which means adjusting costs to take advantage of domestic costs doesn't matter anymore.

The entire reason the GDP and PPP GDP is so out of whack in China is because it intentionally suppresses the value of its currency to subsidize its exports.

>For example, does China's GDP at PPP 'equality' with the US mean it can fford as many nuclear submarines as the US, as many aircraft carriers? As many advanced state of the art stealth bombers, fighters, tanks, spy satelites and naval bases? No, it doesn't

Yes it does because all of these things require domestic manufacturing capacity. It's doubly true for military hardware in fact - just as the US doesn't want its submarine parts made in China (especially chips), China doesn't want its submarine parts made in the US.

>As soon as China starts investing in, developing or buying international standard technology

China is becoming international standard technology. Its mercantilist strategy has paid off since it has become the manufacturing hub of the world.

>Even in the case of 'soft power' such as financial support and investment in other countries, that has to be done in foreign currency.

Only if the foreign country doesn't want your currency. China just started buying $400 billion in gas from Russia in RMB though, so...
Yeah I'm really starting to get annoyed with this.

The most painful part is thinking back to when I signed up for my Google Voice number. The promise seemed so great. A single number that Google would control and allow me to forward to any phone. At the time I thought Google were the guys who get it, the guys I'd want to have controlling my number for years to come. And they'd let me text using my browser too!! A hugely useful feature.

And YET here we are. hangouts is the most dysfunctional chat experience I've ever seen. It's like a normal chat client crossed with Bonzi Buddy. But I have to use it to get GV texts on my browser.

I think the saddest part is that my number hasn't actually changed once since I got GV.

:(
Do you want to test the productivity of programmers with FizzBuzz or writing an OS from scratch?

The distribution of productivity amongst engineers is probably going to vary depending on the complexity of the task.

Some tasks I would expect the top performers to be far better than 10x at.

And not all top performers are equally suited to each task.

Additionally this idea of measuring productivity purely by problem solving ability is nonsense as engineers are hired also based on their ability to write maintainable code and to work as a team, etc.
That actually doesn't seem unreasonable to prohibit...
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep Total_LBAs_Written

Please do not depend on ID 241 - it may vary with manufacturer [1]

[1] http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisit...
A thread with some of the people most directly involved, including OpenBSD's founder, on how the fork happened is as relevant to the subject at hand as it gets. Not sure why you view it as gossip. It also directly answers your question on how the two groups will help each other i.e. not much at all.
Reminds me of thepiratebay legal threats section: http://thepiratebay.se/legal
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depth of exprinace is a factor eg yesterday I wrote a feature extraction tool in 2/3 of a day (including geting up to speed with python) to strip out the usable body copy for a large uk website.

I could do this so quickly becase I had 3 years previously spent several days experimenting with new scientist's archive and allready knew what library would work.
Generators are factories of programmable lazy lists. You can give up "programmable" if you e.g. use for-of on them. But if you don't, they're no longer just in the "data structure" category.

I agree with the gist of the article though. Programmable lazy lists don't do anything special to solve the async problem unless they're programmed to.
All other things equal, german cars are going to cost as much in China as they do in the USA because China gets no discount because of it's weak currency, in fact when buying abroad it works against them. They still need to pay the germans just as much hard cash as americans do.

The advantage PPP gives poorer countries is that goods that depend on domestic labour, which is very cheap, get to be equally cheap. Any goods or services that don't depend on that cheap pool of domestic labour don't get that benefit. German labour in Germany isn't cheaper to buy in China than it is to buy in the USA, so PPP is irrelevant.

As an aside, German cars are actualy vastly more expensive (up to 2x or 3x for high end models) to buy in China than in most countries due to severe import taxes, but the base cost of buying the car from Germany to ship to China would be about the same.

[Re. Some BMWs made in China - in which case they're not really German cars]
If only! But international free speech is a non-issue...
This made me think about how Arthur's been passing around some cs107 challenges that he found online.

Here's one of them: http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs107/assign2.html

The advice page suggests the student hours spent on this project is:

* < 5 hours 5%
* 5-10 hours 14%
* 10-15 hours 19%
* 15-20 hours 38%
* 20-25 hours 14%
* more than 25 9%

Pierre did a solution in 1hr 30m; I was just under an hour.

I wonder how people do here?
This attitude is exactly what made me leave. I've spent more than seven years at university, three of them paid to do research, and then I get told 'you're not really part of the club yet, you're just a student'.
Fresh look, but a little edgier than common user submissions. If anything the browsing needs to be lightweight. Would be cool to have more community centered features like annotations / narrative showcases / etc.... With a site like this - it could even be from crowd sourced design suggestions.
Um, $5 million to dig a ditch still means no value produced even if it was PPP adjusted.
Example of "suicide instructions" (translated by @goruha):

1. Burn when entering the Earth's atmosphere Quaternary: probably open a few minutes.
Availability: problematic - it is necessary to go into Earth orbit.
Trustworthy: Trustworthy as much as you can do it.
Notes: Exit into open space in low Earth orbit. Then turn down enough to get into the Atmosphere. You will witness of exiting view!
Once you find 10x woodchoppers exist you study the differences between them and 1x woodchoppers.

Do they use different swing of the ax? Do they chop different wood? Are their axes sharper or heavier or have longer handles?

You then take those things and give them to the 1x woodchoppers and see if it makes any difference.
No. It wouldn't. The point of Streetview isn't to be an independent business. The point is to support other Google businesses.

At the end of the day, it's all about being the go-to places for local information so you can sell local ads.
> In Economy C, the workers who've been paid by the govt can then purchase 5000 Retina Macbook Airs at $1k each

You are assuming transaction costs of 0 for international trade. If transaction costs for international trade are zero, then yes, of course the PPP adjustment would be a non-op. In the real world that we live in, equivalent goods often have very different prices in different countries.