msimpson

It's important to note:

> TileMill has shifted to an open open source contributor model and moved to its own organization, tilemill-project.

A shift which has come a year or so after the project was abandoned by Mapbox in favor of Mapbox Studio (the official, supported successor to TileMill).

TileMill alone is still useful for creating one's own raster tile set, as long as the application remains in working order.

However, last I checked it gave me tremendous issues running on Linux as many dependencies had become outdated.

Although, I haven't checked back in a while since I moved to Mapbox Studio.

Not one Johnny Mnemonic joke? I'm proud of you guys.

> ... they routinely have the best deals on CPU prices and often have incredible CPU & motherboard combo prices.

Agreed.

> The X299 is early in its lifecycle, of course, so I'd hope availability for a few years.

Same, here. I've seen ASRock Intel boards vanish from the market only a year after they debut.

It's disturbing. And moreover, it's detrimental to the lifetime of the board as driver and BIOS updates cease.

Hopefully this chipset and socket will last a bit longer.

It's how the mass of the International Prototype Kilogram and its copies have drifted over time:

http://www.bipm.org/en/bipm/mass/ipk/ (verifications tab)

I always get a kick out of this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Pr...

The MSI X299 RAIDER is the cheapest X299 board I can find at NewEgg and costs $219.99.

The GIGABYTE GA-AB350M-Gaming 3 is the cheapest Ryzen board I can find at NewEgg and costs only $94.99 by comparsion.

Therefore, there's an obvious savings of $124. Although, you can easily spend $189.99 or more on a higher-end Ryzen board given NewEgg's offerings.

So while there is a discrepancy, it's not massive.

If you're a gamer, then yes, the i7-7820X is precisely what you'd be considering in opposition to the 1800X.

I invoked the example of 3D rendering as it's the origin of most of these discussions among my co-workers.

Between the Intel Core i9-7900X and AMD Ryzen 7 1800X there is a $540 price difference.

But for that extra cost you get four more threads at a higher clock rate, twenty extra PCIE lanes, a 500 MHz higher turbo clock speed, and double the memory bandwidth.

Even with the lesser Intel Core i7-7820X you will get the same thread count but with a higher clock rate, four extra PCIE lanes, still a 500 MHz higher turbo clock speed, and double the memory bandwidth for only $140 more.

Now, of course, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X comes much closer to the i9-7900X price point.

However, you will sacrifice single core performance to gain twelve more threads at a lower clock rate. But, you will receive twenty more PCIE lanes, over twice as much L3 cache, and the same memory bandwidth as the i9-7900X.

So if your plan is to build a 3D render farm, the Threadripper seems quite appropriate.

Although, if you plan to build a workstation on which to model 3D assets and to perform preview renders--the Intel i9 series seems more apt.

> Studies are showing that more diverse teams have higher collective intelligence...

Yet the evidence provided for this claim regards preliminary findings of a singular study conducted six years ago.

> Is it a problem that of computer science degrees earned, only 28% are earned by women?

Again, the evidence provided for this claim is an article about an article about an infographic stating, "Among all students holding B.S. degrees in Computer Science...28% ARE WOMEN...though we recognize that this has decreased over the last 25 years, we are encouraged by the increases that are occurring." However, the source for these figures seems to emanate from this table:

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d12/tables/dt12_349.asp

Which illustrates, "Degrees in computer and information sciences conferred by degree-granting institutions, by level of degree and sex of student: 1970-71 through 2010-11." And shows that between 2010 and 2011 only 17% of bachelors degrees went to women while 28% of masters degrees went to women. So that contradicts the figure reported in the graphic as it seems they used the wrong degree type. Nevertheless, I was at least able to eventually source this figure even though it holds little bearing on discrimination.

> Or that the rate of women in computing has been steadily in decline since 1991?

I cannot even source this statistic and no evidence is provided. Although, it would seem to be contradictory given what's listed in the above report.

> Or that twice as many women quit the high tech industry as men?

Again, no evidence is provided for this conclusion. However, I do feel that I've previously read an article to this effect. Although, it was quite faulty in its conclusions and I believe I left a comment to that effect. So I cannot even speak to the veracity of this claim without doing a bunch more research.

> Assuming we can agree there is a problem...

Given what's above, we cannot.

> I’d say it’s something like this: the problem is, that the tech industry isn’t able to attract and retain enough women.

Well I'd say something like this: attempting to force equality over a volunteer workforce is unnecessary and meaningless. If women want to become a larger portion of the tech industry, they are free to get educated and work their way up just like everyone else. And if they encounter actual discrimination or harassment along the way, there are laws already in effect which can be readily enforced.

This is why we love Mark Hamill.

The late 2016 Razer Blade uses the i7-6700HQ which is specifically a Family 6, Model 94, Stepping 3 processor.

I wonder if a microcode update would solve some of the various issues I have in Windows.

> Nationalism is a Bad Thing in my view.

First of all, nationalism is not national sovereignty.

The former is a social construct which an individual embraces while the latter is a principal of law which a group embraces.

The former is hardly useful, but the latter is vital to all existing nations. No nation is going to willingly give up its right to self governance.

> I'm in favor of putting limits on concentrations of sovereignty.

So, essentially, you wish to live in a world without borders where one or more unions govern many places regardless of geographical separation?

Because that worked out so well in the past...

No, it's a loaded question. But if you want to play, let us discuss the health of Chinese peasant farmers before and after globalization as well.

Why are you trying to create a false dichotomy?

I'm against increased globalization because it erodes national sovereignty and undermines republican governments.

Unionization fails for many reasons. Even in the US, with all of our protective laws, Wal-Mart is and remains a union-busting force.

Also, I'm not implying this is the fault of local workers. It's simply a terrible mess at every angle.

> ...laws are lax because oligarchies in developing countries typically don't get harmed by dangerous working conditions.

This holds true even for developed nations. If a particular company or industry can skirt workers rights, environmental laws, etc. and bear the impact as merely a negative return, they will.

> The people with the power to enforce safe workplace laws have no external incentive...

Right, and the only force which affects such oligarchies is unionization. However, as gozur88 said above, feeding your family is more important than any potential health impacts. And when you're in a situation where thousands of others will gladly assume your position, regardless of the cost, there is no feasibly to unionized striking.

It's this lack of follow through which burns me in regard to these investigations.

> The two Chinese ransom notes differ substantially from other notes in content, format, and tone. Google Translate fails in both Chinese-English and English-Chinese tests, producing inaccurate results that suggests the Chinese text was likely not have been similarly generated by the English text.

Really? Did Flashpoint even compare English to Chinese samples from the many professional human-based translation services online or was Google Translate their sole source of testing?

> Perhaps most compelling, the Chinese note contains substantial content not present in any other version of the note, is lengthier, and differs slightly in format.

Hmm. That again suggests it may have been interpreted by a human. Although why immediately assume it's one of the authors? A human-based translation service could yield the same results...

There is a known issue regarding Raleway due to aliasing in Chrome, see:

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/74672/renderi...

I hear claims it has been fixed, but I still see the issue in Chromium 58 on Linux.

Here's one bug which seems to have been tracking the issue with no resolution as of yet:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152304

You can see in the final comment from November of 2015 that the issue was, and from my experience still is, massively affecting Raleway:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152304...

EDIT: I just checked and this issue no longer affects me in Chrome 59 on Windows. Although I still have the issue on Linux.

I wish people would stop using Raleway or implement a fix. This is what I see:

http://imgur.com/a/locAq

There are a myriad of options available to gain platform agnosticism and nowhere did I, or even the original commentator, state that Electron was the only viable path.

Ironically, you should read the comments from your own example as they descend into debate regarding these very options:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14453252

And what's really amusing is that you've now missed this point twice in a two day period.

While I agree that, "every tradesman has a right to choose his preferred tools and platforms to support," that attitude is hard kept if you're selling closed source software for a platform with only five percent market share.

You've expressed my exact sentiment. This really should be platform agnostic.

"So far ad revenue has helped to cover costs and to justify the time I spend on keeping the site and data up to date. That's been fine and dandy, but wouldn't it be great if you could help support the site and have an ad-free experience at the same time? This is where the Patreon comes in!"

I'm fine with seeing a couple banner ads, instead.

"Because this attribute is typically implemented using CSS, it’s also possible to override it using CSS. For instance, a rule that applies 'display: block' to all elements will cancel the effects of the hidden attribute. Authors therefore have to take care when writing their style sheets to make sure that the attribute is still styled as expected."

-- HTML 5.1 - W3C Recommendation, 1 November 2016

So, as you can see, this is by design.

If this attribute behaved only in the manner the author assumes it would be essentially useless.

Instead, we have an option to have it act as "display:none", "visibility:hidden", etc.

Also, it has accessibility benefits beyond "aria-hidden":

https://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2012/05/html5-accessibili...

> Git version control system to build Windows itself.

ZDNet ...

So, presently, this is what I've been able to gather:

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Xeon E5 2699 v5

32C/64T @ 2.30 GHz

L1 Instruction Cache: 32 KB x 32

L1 Data Cache: 32 KB x 32

L2 Cache: 256 KB x 32

L3 Cache: 46080 KB

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AMD EPYC

32C/64T @ 1.4 GHz

L1 Instruction Cache: 32 KB x 32

L1 Data Cache: 64 KB x 32

L2 Cache: 512 KB x 32

L3 Cache: TBA

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It's going to be interesting to see what the performance per dollar amounts to on both sides.

I'm guessing the Xeon will land somewhere around $4K. Although, I have no idea about the EPYC.

Right. I forgot NTFS is in fact case sensitive. Thanks.

While I know nothing of Rust, Diesel, or CrateDB, I do know that Windows uses a case-insensitive file system and this fix doesn't seem to take that into consideration. However, the author of the fix does note:

> I believe crates.io's namespace is case insensitive let me know if that's wrong

Someone should probably validate that.

The site uses its own framework, but the menu isn't responsive?