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I'd really like to see extensive single-threaded benchmarks normalised over clock frequency. The two single thread benchmarks show a 2-3x factor improvement between the Haswell and the E6600, but that's a 2.4 GHz to 4.0 GHz leap in clock.

Power consumption aside, and given that the E6600 could be overclocked to ~4GHz in 2007, how far have we come in single-threaded perf?
I seem to remember the web of 1999 very differently: Java applets for navigation trees, stuff that requires ActiveX and only works in IE on Windows, HTML tables with background images in cells for layout, almost nobody used SSL, almost no server could max out a reasonably fast connection (if you were lucky enough to live/work where broadband was available). Barely any audio/video.

Yes, some things were better and easier then, but it wasn't all great.

In my opinion, most technological problems have been solved: Broadband is widely available, we have fairly good standards for HTML/CSS/JavaScript, reliance on plugins and stuff like ActiveX and Java is at an all time low. The question is now what we do with our newly-gained freedom – and as usual, this one is trickier than the technical stuff.
CS participation was the same or higher than math and physics, and now it's significantly lower.

Yes - and this contradicts belorn's theory.

My theory is very simple: more math less women, with other factors being secondary. Here is Scott Alexander doing some pretty good regressions (r=-0.82, p=0.0003):
http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/01/24/perceptions-of-required...

There is lots of evidence of innate ability playing a significant role in this. Here are some papers:

http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf http://itp.wceruw.org/Hyde%20Science%2008.pdf http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057475/pdf/nihm...

(Note that putting agreement with me into an abstract is career suicide, so you'll actually need to skip ahead to the data tables.)

My theory predicts % of women in academia in bio vs physics, % women in IT office work vs softer office work, % women in quant trading vs back office, and many more. Do you have any evidence at all which contradicts this?
Since I can't edit and forgot to say, should my company ever grow to the size where an office manager role is needed it will not be called Office Manager since you give some people the word Manager anywhere in their job title and they start planning to invade Poland.

Not sure what I would call it, Office Support Specialist or something suitably ambiguous I guess, the role is largely one of keeping the lights on, making sure the ISP is paid etc it's not a management role in the sense of dealing with staff etc.

Title inflation is a pernicious problem.
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We have launched our beta version in native and tested out. Now we are developing for all platforms and it is going to be for global market. Few people suggested ionic works good with angular JS. and i personally saw ionic and other hybrid platform app doesn't give feelings of native app. Please share your experience...
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Well should you find yourself in Birmingham UK you will be using the local taxi system - the Uber cars are also licenced private hire vehicles. You will see two stickers on the car. Best of luck.
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I'm currently using Cyanogenmod (on a Samsung Note 3) but have a problems where I really consider to switch back to the stock ROM:

- Battery life is reduced quite much, I spent quite some time finding the root cause with BatterBatteryStat, but in the end, it are just the core services which seem to use more power, there is no app in the background. With Cyanogenmod it discharges in the night for ca. 30% without doing anything and disable WLAN. When I still had the stock ROM I was out in the mountains for 5 days and could take almost 400 photos without recharging. SlimROM was much better in this regard, but they didn't had the PrivacyGuard and so far do not support the Note 3 on their newer ROMs.

- I tried to avoid Google Play, unfortunately a few apps depend on it (especially all the ones using Google Map). But my main problem is more that I've no idea how dangerous alternatives like Aptoide are. I accidentally downloaded some apps which were already fully unlocked, while only available for money on Google Play. I found a Java Program (http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon) to download apps through a Google Account on your PC and then transfer it onto your phone, but this is somewhat cumbersome.
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Why not replace it with drones? I thought the writing was on the wall for fighter jets and bombers and in 5-10 years they can operate autonomously just as well as your average pilot can fly them. Since there is no human in them, they can be smaller, fly faster and tolerate stronger G-forces. If a manned plane is shot down, the US public gets upset but if it is a drone, no one cares. Hell, even losing two dozen drones would hurt less than a single F-35.

You seem to know a lot about aviation so I wonder why you don't think drones are a viable replacement?
I think you mean "bigoted" rather than "malicious".
That would explain another incident recently, where a blog post about leaving a certain political party in Sweden was blocked, while a FB group with the name "legalize rape" was deemed appropriate.

Move fast and break things indeed.
What's actually happening is what should happen - people go quiet and look at the walls, or out of the window, or check their watch, or overly carefully clear their throat, and shuffle their feet slightly, embarrassed that somebody's actually come out with this clichéd lead balloon without having realised beforehand that it will simply fall flat and make them look a bit of a dick. But maybe if it's ignored for long enough, everybody can pretend it just didn't happen, or, failing that, the ground will open up and consume everybody that witnessed it, much to their shared relief.
That proves, that Mitsubishi is a terrorist organization.
There is no need to be bigoted to be malicious, and indeed you can be bigoted without taking malicious action.
which makes the quote "Medium gives so much care and attention to your content that almost anything on there automatically feels of value." more important, because I clicked the Medium link and was presented by exactly this dark pattern.
Given that many people have bots doing the exact same thing, I don't think you'd have any trouble. Hell, total load on reddit would decrease because people would use your service. I don't know why reddit didn't implement something like this themselves.
It wouldn't take very long to re-equip all their employees.

Some of the Lenovos are pretty robust, too; I don't know much about the low-end models, but some of the upper-ends are quite nice. If they had first-class Linux support I'd even consider getting one.
And this is why you (USians) cant have nice things like universal and _free_ healthcare/education. You were raised to believe you deserve more than your peers, its kind of sick.
Unfortunately for Lyft, it's a winner-takes-all market: “First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Second prize is a set of steak knives.”

At this point, with over $1 billion invested, the most viable opportunity left for Lyft investors is to pressure Uber or someone else into acquiring Lyft.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/12/accusations-fly-bet...
>That is a powerful theoretical concern that I shared when I first experimented with Go several years ago. In practice I have not found it to not be a problem.

People that didn't find it to be a problem (e.g. due to the kind of stuff they are working on) are not the ones concerned about its lack though.

It's like someone saying "I just do web development with Python, so I see no reason for NumPy to exist".
How far (in %) is your salary from the average for the position / industry / city you are in?
I like the way they have written the story without sounding overly accusing. I'm a hardcore coder and security guy, but beyond technical skills I don't really fit into typical IT environments and often plan to leave the business altogether and do something completely different.

There are a lot of men too who find the mono-culture in the industry hard and feel like outsiders. I'm not sure that's helpful to women feeling isolated; but we can hope the industry slowly recognises the problem and learns to attract a more diverse group of people with a more diverse set of skills that will enable a more diverse set of solutions.

Take the graphics in the presentation: in my last project, we struggled (and failed) to find anybody with both technical and artistic skills. People with artistic skills rarely show up for technical jobs it seems, and that's a pity.
Let's start with disallowing loading 3rd party resources of any kind. That was always a terrible idea.
>It's partially untrue, yes. There was an actual vote from all the active developers to remove Michael from leadership, and that included the infrastructure developers.

Then why did so many remain with the ffmpeg project instead of going with libav ?
Do you find Go imposing any special set of contraints? If anything is far less featureful and Algol-like than most of the other languages that have found a way to fit Generics.
You can do the same thing with a Digital Ocean droplet. Just make sure you add a swap file to increase the RAM to >=1 GB.
In other news, Japan spied on US government. Film at 11.
> he's about 10 games away from winning $6 mil (of which he'll keep $1m).

Why the $5M difference?
...because Windows is intolerably awful now, presumably getting worse every day.

Seriously. It's been downhill since Vista. Every upgrade since XP has been disruptive, and destroyed time-saving behaviors.
I don't agree with you on this one. Being a Pakistani myself and an avid gamer. I think gaming has had a very positive effect on my life and my career. It doesn't matter which part of the world or class you belong to. Sumail is himself an example of that for you, I am pretty sure he belongs to a middle class Pakistani family himself, so do I.

Game dev and console manufacturing is entirely non-related here too.

I think you and your US cousins live a different life because you yourself avoided the things that were common between you.
The Perlan Project website: http://www.perlanproject.org/.
>this is from 2013

And repeated ad nauseum.
Do you suggest that IBM was responsible for the vast majority of Thinkpad sales?

My hopes for great new laptops lie with some brand new crowdfunding efforts, fantastic as it may sound. Also, it would be a pity if Thinkpads would dies now, as they have just implemented dual batteries with hot swap in last two generations; IMO this is long overdue, but I haven't heard of a laptop manufacturer that did it.
I've been a sysadmin for over 15 years. For the last five years, I've been organizing (and more often than not, delivering) trainings in public and private venues.

Example of a public venue -- I rent a hotel conference room for 3 days and people fly in to take a class. Or I teach at a conference, usually a half-day or a quarter-day course. Occasionally full-day.

Example of a private venue -- a company flies me in to teach their staff whom they also fly in so we are all in one room. :)

I've taught CFEngine, vi, and Time Management for System Administrators (based on Tom Limoncelli's book)

I'd do 2-6 trainings a year.

I was doing this on the side, while holding down a regular full-time job.

Here's the pitch deck I put together last October when I was exploring getting funding to do this full time: http://www.verticalsysadmin.com/vsa.htm

However, I managed to fall into a 1 year CFEngine consulting project which keeps me almost too busy to train (plug -- I have a public CFEngine training coming up in Prague in October -- USD 5K for 6 days of training for one student -- https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cfengine-3-course-and-policy-wr...)

I'd love to offer more training -- specifically I want to be able to take in a computer user and turn out a sysadmin ("infrastructure engineer" or whatever the modern term is) -- my first step toward this was working with LOPSA (Professional Content Committee) to create a sysadmin reading list (http://www.sabok.org/)

I really enjoy training, I find it quite gratifying when students light up with new-found understanding.

People often tell my training is the best they've ever had, e.g.:

"Thank you for such a great class. Been to lots of technical training and you are the best instructor I've had. Beyond standard lecture/lab your examples and willingness to help is unmatched." -- Thomas Nicholson

I've been a regular employee pretty much all my career so working on my own business full-time is new to me. I find it exciting, creative, exhilarating, exhausting. I asked the founder of Pythian (quite successful DBA/sysadmin consultancy) how he grew his company, and what was the key to his success, and he said, a RIDICULOUS amount of HARD WORK. I am finding this to be very true.
You've only provided one clear definition of "power", namely "influences the behavior of others". This is simply a relation. It is not an ordering or a cardinality. Yet you then turn around and use "power" in an ordinal way ("power difference") and sometimes even a cardinal way.

The definition you give here almost does that, but how do I assign a number to "magnitude in the change of behavior"? You've not defined a "hegemonic group" either.

Anyway, since I can't quite understand your theory, maybe you can clearly state a hypothetical observation which would prove your theory incorrect. That's usually a good way to illustrate what a theory does and does not predict.

For example, to disprove my "more math less women" theory, you should find a broad category of similar careers, run linear regression on math content vs % female, and find a flat or upward sloping line. I.e., the same analysis as was done on Scott Alexander's post (see my link), but with the opposite result.
His most recent and probably more important work on the Nature of Order:

http://www.amazon.com/Nature-Order-Phenomenon-Environmental-...
> If this pans out it could spell the end of Thinkpads as high quality laptops that deliver premium performance while being very robust and sturdy.

I think that boat sailed a while ago. I'm writing this on one and it's the worst machine I've owned to date quality wise. Keys that spontaneously dis-integrate, wwan card that bricks itself (and replacements are not accepted by the BIOS because they're not 'authorized') and so on. Last laptop of this brand for me.

Maybe Asus or Acer has something half decent?
those damn teammates want a piece
Given the small amount of people that would use it (relative to the entire userbase), I don't think it would ever be on their roadmap. It would take many developer hours and constant maintenance, which wouldn't be worth it for them as a company. They have more important things to build and fix.
No, i'm saying that this will, directly and indirectly, impact the profits Lenovo sees, which will likely result in cost cutting decisions.
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At one time it was true for Hungarians, too.

Oh, no. Don't tell me this is going to be trending now.
> I see what research has found.

Care to cite it? What about the "Women are wonderful" effect [1]?

I'm not suggesting that women are uniformly privileged compared to men. But neither will I accept that they are uniformly underprivileged. Sexes are treated differently, sure, but IMO to speak about one sex being privileged over the other is to speak from ignorance or agenda.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%9CWomen_are_wonderful%E...
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Do you have the option to say "none"?
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I've seen probably 2-3 dozen HN redesigns through the years and this is probably my favorite (in terms of potential). The primary mistake most of the other redesigns made was that they tried to increase the whitespace to make it "prettier". The main issue was always that the information density became much higher, which led to unnecessary page scrolls to view the same information one can view today without a scroll.

A few critical words -

1) Without showing vote/flag/etc buttons, it is hard for me to imagine the usability of the design

2) The #1 issue at HN is "no support for mobile" - this does not address that

3) The #2 issue at HN is "nested comments". Your design does not seem to address this at all. For example, let's say that you don't like the first three comments on a big story (http://hacker-news.xyz/story/9983204). How many scrolls before you reach the 4th?

Overall I like it!
I didn't think the existence of such signs was a contested bit of history. I guess you can find apparently qualified people espousing all sorts of nonsense.
It's not as black and white as you put. Linus may be great at writing operating systems kernels, he may be better than you or I are at it but he wouldn't be as good at designing machine learning artificial intelligence algorithms, if we had to put him in the shoes of the developers at Google which run the world's largest search engine he wouldn't now be objectively the best, neither would the Google developers do to well if they had to maintain the Linux kernel. Same thing with Mozart, he is one of the best composers in his genre of music but there are other genres as well.
It is a team sport
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Ah, so 'they' are 10 games away. I get it now, thanks.
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One of the points of the fable as I understood it is that the badgers often aren't actually badgers, but all sorts of other individuals trying to mimic a badger.
Like most sports, the top make great money at the cost of tremendous time and possibly physical investments eg. surgery on their arm. Everyone else doesn't do so hot. The cutoff is drastic.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32996009
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it would also change the way furniture and house equipment are made to facilitate cleaning.
This was probably downvoted for sarcasm, but it brings to light the scary power governments have in naming entities they don't like..
>>>> it took about an hour of filling in .gov.uk forms online. I would recommend just doing it yourself.

Here is a good guide from a gov.uk site [1]

[1] https://www.gov.uk/limited-company-formation/overview
The virus reservoirs of Ebola are in monkeys and bats, humans die too fast to be a long term reservoir. Survivors are not contagious.

Anyway, "Who will pay the bill?" is a good question.
Read the friendly article: they're a team of five and they split the winnings equally, plus the manager also takes his cut.
It's not about "dominance in most areas of life" but rather in a team of developers or communities of developers.

Programming is still lucrative enough for most people that they chose this over the job they were originally trained for. That is one of the reasons (and not the only one) women want to be part of such groups, and there they are the minority.

Also my perception is not that development teams are necessarily "dominated" by nerds. It's a cliche which is often wrong.
Can someone this to me? It seems that mfikes (parent) comment, and klibertp's comment seem to contradict each other. Not to mention the examples that glenjamin highlighted.

I have heard similar comments in other places, in that it's not possible to package ClojureScript as a NPM module.

Is it because of the size of the module, or something else?
How was the tech environment in the portion of Italy you were in?
Love the reference... For those who haven't seen this, worth watching... "Coffee is for closers only."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9XW6P0tiVc
The last decent non-Apple laptops were the ones with 16:10 screen; since switching to 16:9 the whole industry refocused itself on making consumer grade products.
> playing games with such devotion only would lead one jobless or burden on the family

I agree - if Sumail was not so talented, if he was merely very good instead of world class - then his life decisions so far would seem like a bit of a waste, if the bloomberg article is accurate.

As things stand, he is in a position to make a fair bit of money over the next few years.

I am curious what pro-gamers will do when they retire from professional play. There's a tolerable article that suggests a few related pathways: moving into esports coaching/management, switching to poker, commentating [1].

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/2014/02/01/pro-gamers-story-get-big-burn...
and (most) of the top earning e-sports competitors average (around) the lowest salaries in the NBA. there is added complexity because most e-sports earnings are through competition and merit, their salaries are minimal.

so yes, this kid "got rich quick", just like Derek Jeter "got rich quick".
Not the retiring type: meet the people still working in their 70s, 80s and 90s
Indeed, the hardware on Lenovo's is reasonably good, but if you are an enterprise trying to move away from Windows, the hit-or-miss Linux support somewhat limits your options. From experience, running Linux ( RHEL / CentOS 6.x) on ThinkPads can be a frustrating experience, not sure if that is a limitation of drivers or of the ancient Gnome 2 desktop interface.
Nope, that's not really the same thing.
It's a shame people are associating the name StageFright with the vulnerabilities instead of the media framework itself because it's possibly the best named library I've ever seen ;-)
and MSG on the east coast!!
There are people denying the holocaust. An event for which plenty of historical evidence exists. People will believe what they want to believe.
Looks like someone changed the password to the demo account, credentials don't work at all. The site seems extremely slow, and the faux loading bar with every page navigation is actually annoying. Maybe it'd be okay if the site was fast.

There are also several grammatical errors.

On the "Offers for Hosts" page there is:

"With every server you can additinally monitor services like MySQL, DNS, FTP, SMTP, etc. completely free"

There are also a number of other curious grammar errors on that page.

Update: Also looks like the parent company provides proxies to ScrapeBox spammers via a separate website. Very dodgy. Wouldn't trust them monitoring any boxes of mine.
Anyone with a handy explanation of how you can glide on air so thin?
It's why I wrote this: "A Magna Carta For The Web" http://blog.higg.so/2015/07/31/a-magna-carta-for-the-web/
That's the web I want too, which is exactly the reason I re-worked my whole blog. The best way to ask for stuff like this is to show it.
Thank you for your criticism!
I'm reworking the site as we speak to scrape HN instad of using the API, to provide user authentication and voting, commenting, etc. That will also lead to an increase in performance.
Support for mobile will be added. Mobile version will not have nested comments, and instead varying shades of orange border and a number that indicates it's position in the thread.
About the nested comments, if you mean a toggle button next to every comment that will toggle the visibility of it's children, yes, I will implement that too.
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Jekyll and octopress out of the box with their 'standard' themes are still quite bloated.
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Perhaps you should avoid all forms of culture or sports then, because they rarely lead directly to jobs. Of course, as Sumali said himself, you only devote a large amount of time if you have talent and commitment to be at the top. But I find it as good practice of social interaction, coordination, fine motor control and overall strategy as any other sport. The largest difference is you don't exert much physical activity, which has upsides/downsides (less injuries but less exercising).