skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OTOH, the Atom is not that much slower than a C2D when you are not doing SSE operations.

It's exactly the opposite. Not counting multiplies, pshufb, and a few other instructions, SSE operations are mostly reasonably performant.

The real problems are that the Atom has:

1) no out of order execution, which results in an enormous performance penalty on all code.

2) very high penalties for many "transfers" between operations: for example, the result of an arithmetic op cannot be used for addressing for quite a few clocks. This penalty is humongous when dealing with pointers-to-pointers in managed code, lookup tables, and so forth.

3) a completely un-pipelined multiplication unit that takes 7 cycles, compared to the pipelined 3-cycle Core 2 unit.

4) an enormous number of instructions that were microcoded internally (and thus extraordinarily slow) in order to reduce TDP and chip size.

5) only two integer ALUs, which can only dual-issue in some specific cases.

Overall, a 1.6Ghz Atom is significantly slower than a 1.6Ghz Pentium 4. A Core 2 is at least twice as fast per clock per core as a Pentium 4. And a Core i7 is another 40-50% faster per clock per core...

If you want something that gets out significantly more performance per watt than a Core 2 or Core i7, look at the ARM Cortex A9.
Our transit system is very user-friendly because we have:
- small headways – during rush-hour, there's a train every 180 seconds
- good street network – widespread bus and streetcar network that are good for point to point, and also for feeding the subway network
- one fare, doesn't matter how far you go or how many modes you use (subway, streetcar, bus)
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1070979
I intentionally used it to avoid a similar riposte if I had said 'ogg', an even older and shittier container. I didn't know they had implemented a new one, but from what I can tell they took special care to recapitulate all the mistakes of the last one.
Unicode is one of the 7 great blunders? For realz?
evil wins.
Why Amazon won't launch its own tablet, but will use Apple's
48% of the vote is well above what would be required to control google, especially considering that google probably has a high fraction of individuals holding their shares who don't usually vote their proxies. I don't begrudge these guys their diversification at all, I doubt the market does much either.
I doubt they are losing majority vote. They probably have more shares than anyone else, still. Right?
It's a smart play to do it now when GOOG news is almost overwhelmingly positive (high earnings etc) so they can say "wealth diversification" and not have people question their motives. . .
Learn from my misery: Don't buy a nook.
you'll probably need google to search thru all your apps that have outnumbered your .coms to find what you need.
The danger in publishing your code is that it is easier for someone to "reproduce" your study by just taking my code and running it, and there is a danger in having the community rely on a small number of codes.

Having a small number of codes seems like an excellent situation. What you should have is large of tests and much test data to test the small number of codes.

Testing code in thorough manner is an important addition to looking at it.
"don't need to diversify their holdings to have a luxurious life".

Good point, but they do need to diversify to fund billions on the kind of change-the-world projects that they've expressed interest in in the past:

a) Alternative energy.

b) Genome / disease research & mapping.

c) etc.

The recent mega-philanthropy of gates / buffet / etc people @ the top realize that they have a chance to alter the course of human history in other ways that may require a ton of capitalization (vaccines, health, disease, geneome mapping, etc).
So using Flash/WMP/QT -plugin to playback video via <object>/<embed> -tags is OK but using native APIs to play <video> -tags is insecure and buggy. Riiight.
the market will probably like it :)
I would cash a few billions too, if I had the chance. It would allow me to do things like Bill & Melinda Gates do with their charity funds. Maybe Sergey Brin plans to eradicate malaria from the world and save millions of children each year? Maybe Page wants to use his billions to preserve precious rainforests by buying the land these forests are standing on? After they made this great company, maybe their ambition is to make great impact on the world, too.
The exact same people are trashing both, and it is in no way inconsistent.

Mozilla's obstinate asshattery around <video> is the biggest present obstacle to getting rid of Flash Video. It's entirely possible that the next IE will ship with full support, and then Mozilla will be the very last obstacle.
He did mention that there will be an official plugin so a project could continue using the old syntax.

Rails has done this before, where they pluginize features that they don't want to support anymore (see classic_pagination).
Or 'Easel', but iCanvas works much better than iEasel. ;)
They should care because the H264 patent expires in 2025. If we were looking at a few years then you might be right not to worry. It's odd that MPEG LA supporters are coming out of the woodwork on this issue, seemingly to prevent HTML5 from starting out on the right foot.
I am with PhaseWare, Inc. We are currently offering a free trial of our SaaS offering of customer support software, plus we have the same software for on-premise with several very helpful addons.
http://www.phaseware.com/test-drive

main Tracker page: http://www.phaseware.com/tracker
If the HR department of some company doesn't hire people who sue employers for an extreme example of non-payment, would you really want to work for such a company? Wouldn't this only hurt your chances with companies that have serious problems paying their contractors?

Not only did you explain your side of the story very reasonably, you did... win the suit. It's not some he said/she said deal, a court of law ruled you had been wronged.

If you want a gain: companies that don't pay their employees will self-select themselves out of trying to get free work from you.
GOOG 550.01 -32.97‎ (-5.66%‎) Jan 22 4:00pm ET

550(5x10^6) = 2.7x10^9

2(2.7x10^9) = 5.5x10^9

So Google's founders are divesting themselves of their company to the tune of $5.5 billion. I don't know how to understand this at all.

-edit-

In my excitement, I didn't catch that they already did the math in the article.
> Once you enter AppleWorld, you have no reason to leave.

Except of course if there is better stuff outside AppleWorld which there invariably is. This would only work if the residents of AppleWorld are so cut of from the rest of the world they are not aware of all the cool stuff outside. But then it starts to look more like a prison.
This is killer. Trees really are everywhere and the ability to display them in a console is a great one to have.
the H264 patent

"The" H.264 patent? I have, sadly enough, the MPEG-LA agreement here, and there have got to be 25 pages at least simply listing patent numbers, with expiry dates ranging from very soon to a long time from now.

MPEG LA supporters

So everyone who is against Mozilla's attempt to force crappy software on us using the excuse of patents is an "MPEG LA supporter"? Some of us simply don't care about patents, as hard as it might be to believe for some.
Yes I mean software freedom.
Well, free software (whether it is GNU/GPL or BSD-like) allow you to sell it.
But how could it remain free (as in freedom) if redistribution has strings attached?
mail.google.com in MobileSafari is better than the Mail app on the iPhone

I only have my gmail account set up in the native app to get push notifications via exchange integration.
Bingo. General X doesn't need to care (much) if the product works. He's not the one doing the bomb checking. Nor is it his own money he's spending. And if he gets a tidy 10% back, he can soon retire somewhere where there aren't bombs.

An aside: what is the psychology of someone who perpetrates something like this? Fraud is one thing, but fraud which can (and has) led to the deaths of hundreds of people? Does he actually believe his products work, or is he a psychopath?
2009/2010 OMOP Cup: Methods Competition
Nice. In fact App Sales Machine can already generate a CSV report. The problem then may be circumventing Google Account authorisation without making your data public.
yeah, technically I'm a CEO...but I don't think I'll be comfortable wearing that tag unless the company starts making 10+ mil a year, which is like 5 years away.

So I just go by founder.
This should be a case study for recruiting. Sounds like Barnes & Noble's hiring practices need a serious overhaul. Find some passionate people and they could turn around their business in no time.
Apparently not. They're currently down 5.6% from yesterday

http://www.google.com/finance?q=goog
"Mozilla wants to encourage Web authors to use Theora"

That seems to be working so well. Really they're just encouraging users to not use Firefox. The user chose to have those codecs on their system - either by installing and OS that comes with it, or installing the codec itself.

Let the user chose what codecs they want to support.
Wonder why they've decided to end up @ less than 50%?
[Yeah, didn't I share an office with you 15 years ago? :-) ]

But data can't always be reproduced - Shoemaker-Levy won't hit Jupiter again any time soon, and while big results will cause a rush for verification, the little steps are usually believed as is. Moreover astronomy is a special case where - let's face it - if we go down the wrong path for a decade or so, nobody's bleeding.

Take on the other hand the processing of climate data - if crap engineering (not malice) causes garbage to come out of the data, this is a problem for everybody. So I think the OP is right in that proper auditing of computer-processed science data should be possible, I was just pointing out that it's not as hard (technically) as people think to achieve.
It hadn't occurred to me before, but I refer to myself as a businessman in most contexts, and describe only my unproven activities as 'entrepreneurial'.
You're looking at the high-end of the market - he's using a GSM phone connected via a serial port as his SMS gateway.
Actually it's not that hard, I've done it before - once the account was set up (15 minutes) the SMS was integrated and tested in about an hour. He's certainly not opening his own SMS gateway with $500 so he's probably using a service where you get a 5 digit number that customers include in their texts (everyone has seen this I'm sure).
The companies that supply this tech usually have a very easily integrated API so hooking it up is no more complex that hooking up to something like Twitter, in fact usually much simpler. Speaking of which I'd just hook it up to Twitter and let them be the gateway, saves a bunch on SMS fees (which cost you incoming - although this might be different in Australia).

Advertising is a pretty easy hook up as well, depending on the service.

Take a look at glunote.com, it's something that I threw together over a rainy weekend (and it certainly looks like it). It's for taking notes using Twitter and is probably at least as complicated as what he's doing. I'm sure there are a lot more examples around.
I understand. But you could have a replay of the Unisys GIF situation except that it will last a very long time. Most developers and web services (vimeo, youtube, etc) are only thinking about how to improve their product in the short term. The best short term move is to choose H264. They're free to do what they want. So is Mozilla. Those same web services will screw themselves if they make Mozilla irrelevant. But again, short term thinking.
Ah I see. I must be thinking of something else. I know I've definitely played back h264 video using OSS software with no commercial hackery.
Meet the Maker of Apple's Other Tablet
And the weird side-effect is that you can now write it somewhat as SQL: User.select().from().where(), etc., which conceivably could help those new to the framework.

which kind of defeats (part of) the point of it being a sql abstraction layer, doesn't it? granted, most of activerecord's backends are for sql servers, but now adding a sql-like syntax to other generic (nosql?) backends seems kind of confusing.

personally i wish they'd just keep find() and all the old methods for compatibility. the new stuff is neat but i don't see the point in deprecating and then actually removing the old things that have been around for many years.
That's a great talk, but I sort of took away the opposite from it. Munger mentions checklists and algorithms a couple of times, but it's clear that what he is really talking about are heuristics ("I was using some rough algorithms that work pretty well in a great many complex systems").

The problem with checklists is that they don't allow the possibility that the checklist may be wrong. Heuristics are in this sense the opposite of algorithms. It's the reliance on algorithms that leads to the sort of false precision that Munger is complaining about:

When I talk about this false precision, this great hope for reliable, precise formulas, I am reminded of Arthur Laffer.... His trouble is his craving for false precision, which is not an adult way of dealing with his subject matter.
With great power comes responsibility. With a 59% interest, Larry and Sergey had absolute power over Google, and therefore absolute responsibility. Perhaps the move in China led some to believe that this is too much power. 52% enables the remaining shareholders to overrule Larry and Sergey's decisions -- in theory. In order for this to occur, virtually all the remaining shareholders would need to reach unanimous agreement against a decision made by Sergey and Larry -- highly improbable, but possible. Without absolute power, there is no absolute responsibility. Conveniently, this also aligns with a liquidation of billions of dollars.
It can with the new add-on thing (the wii motion plus or whatever it's called).
Probably because Arab's hate dogs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_animals#Dogs As has been mentioned else where in discussions of airport security bomb sniffing dogs are state of the art in explosives detection. So if they won't use dogs that probably leaves them few other choices.
"Mr McCormick told the BBC in a previous interview that "the theory behind dowsing and the theory behind how we actually detect explosives is very similar"."

That about sums it up...
Techies and Normals
Facebook's New Oregon Data Center
NICTA and WinLab have developed a management framework called OMF for specifying and running experiments on testbed networks. One of the main goals of the project is to improve reproducibility in networking research.

http://omf.mytestbed.net

(It is mainly written in Ruby)
Infographic: Moore's Law, Then and Then and Now-ish
They will have approximately 48% voting power, according to the SEC filing: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001193125100...
Android will be at the 2010 Game Developers Conference
Forbes 100 Best Companies to Work For (and what makes them the best)
It's a long video, here's the 20 questions.

1. What problem does this product solve?

2. How does it solve that problem?

3. How are the end user?

4. Who is your revenue-supplying customer?

5. Does the product solve a problem that end-users/revenue supplying customers actually have?

6. Are you sure it is a product and not just a "feature"?

7. Does your stuff easily fit into the way that people already work?

8. Are you too involved in HOW you are building your product rather than WHAT you are building?

9. Who are the potential partners? Who are the required partners?

10. What is the go-to-market strategy?

11. What is your sustainable competitive advantage?

12. Do you have a time-to-market/first mover advantage?

13. Can you be number 1 or number 2 in this space? Who is the competition?

14. Is there a team formed/identified with a record of successful ventures?

15. Is there a 'soul' of the team that knows where this product AND business is going for the next few years?

16. Is anyone on the team insane?

17. Are there product/technology/operations barriers to success?

18. Are there marketing/sales barriers to success?

19. Are there legal barriers to success?

20. Is there an exit strategy?
Why is it bullshit?
I never implied anything about you/

How using H.264 would be beneficial to free software and open standards?

This is really about how much you value your freedom. About at what point you will abandon your freedom for any other advantage, such as hardware support (proprietary drivers in the linux kernel for instance) or performance (h.264 vs theora in this case).
So this more about being willing to sacrifice a little bit of performance for your freedom than looking for best performances at all costs.
Theora is getting continuously improved and is catching up little by little. They may also be some other company releasing some other codecs under free software-friendly licenses, who knows? But in the mean time, what is more important to you (as a user, in general): performance or freedom?

So if you don't care about your freedom, it is understandable you wouldn't care less about theora vs h.264. If you would care a little bit more, you would be ready to compromise on some parts, and if you have a long beard, you wouldn't compromise at all.

And I am also wondering, if mozilla starts accepting patented or proprietary technologies, where would you draw the line? How would you ensure Mozilla's products remain free (as in freedom)
Eastern US Could Get 20% Electricity From Wind In 2024
Especially since that would bring them down to 48%. It's not like they're selling the majority of their shares.
Oakland handles all the container ships, SFO is in unincorporated San Mateo County, and the public transit is objectively bad - terrible compared to New York, Boston, or Chicago (and possible other cities I haven't been to).
Ahem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2qlHoxPioM#t=0m22s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKjV_bWnFCM#t=0m39s
"SMS to web gateway, process the data, update the database, connect database to website, make functional website."

..all but that last step are basically free with google app engine
Power corrupts, but it only corrupts those who think they deserve it.
It's sad hearing stories of companies being complete idiots towards customers like in this case. I can't believe that this still happening in this day and age.
Can't help but thinking the Amazon affiliate link to the Kindle is tacky and lame. It's hidden by a URL redirector, and only disclosed at the end (the second time it's used).

I also can't help but thinking that this is not a friendly warning to others, but simply one more attempt to finally get something out of B&N by causing a public fuss.

Call me Mr. Cynical.
I understand your sentiment but I think your criticism is a little off-base given this article concerns a startup that's charging for a service and appears to have the beginnings of a sales pipeline in place. No it's not going to be the next HyperMegaGlobal Corp but it's not an eyeballs-lead-to-profit "business" either.
Recent, similar article with discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1042545.
Of course--ffmpeg's decoder library, libavcodec, supports every format under the sun, including H.264.
I've never understood this impulse to try and divine a market's reaction to news from a 1-day timespan. Especially for move like this, where the effects in corporate governance might not be seen for some time, wouldn't the better indicator of how well-received it is be the stock price after 3, 6, 12 months? Aren't these just big fund managers making snap judgments and moving sums around for the biggest bang?
Exactly... a business plan focused on internationalization is more important now than ever.
What an amazing setup. What I'm wondering is whether something similar, in terms of automated jamming, could be made available to more people through software, perhaps a puredata program. That would be a really interesting project to work on.
If Apple really launches the iSlate in about a week, the days for the modBook might be numbered.
How would he takes payments without a bank account? http://fairsoftware.net gives me a 503 at the moment.
What is Dozenal Counting?
Share sales like this are planned far in advance so there are no accusations of insider trading.
Sure, but from a business perspective, those users in Asia may also be harder to monetize, depending on your market and business model. Even Google apparently had issues monetizing China, for instance, cyber-warfare and censorship aside. But you're right, web startups should definitely be looking more to Asia these days.
I read all of the comments here hoping to find this. Thank you.
Reuters: Expert finds vulnerabilities in Microsoft browser
Yep. It's a huge ugly mess. For an inkling of what's wrong, read these:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2643 (search for "unicode")

http://unicode.org/reports/tr36/
What if America’s Urban Economies Were National Ones?
Nice idealistic thoughts, but the board of directors controls a company. Share holders can't do much except for vote for whomever they put on the proxy.
The link says "buy a kindle". It's pretty obvious where the link goes. Why would you care if he gets commission on it?
Let's ignore the _trillions_ of dollars being made by ALL .coms and just focus on one of them: Amazon.

2008 revenues of $20BB.

To match that, Apple would need to sell $66BB worth of apps in one year. If the average price on the app store is $.25 (incl free), that would be 264 billion app downloads just to match the 2008 revenues of ONE dot-com.

There are no scenarios, no-matter how outlandish, in which the app store can overtake websites in $.
cool, all the best to you. The founder of crazy-profitable http://www.plentyoffish.com/ started the site to learn how to program.
my favorite Perl quote is from Stevey (of google fame):

Sometimes [Perl] fits just right, but when it misses, the best code a human could write looks like it was produced by an agitated baboon banging its feet on the keyboard for 20 minutes.
I bought a BeBook, which is a rebranded Hanlin. Why? Because it's an open platform: I run OpenInkpot on it, and I even could write my own software for it if I wanted to. It doesn't have wifi, but I don't miss it; I copy ebooks and texts on it using the USB cable. It displays flat plain text files fast and well. As for readability on portable electronic devices, nothing can beat an e-Ink display in the bright sun ;-)
One Of These Venture Firms Is Not Like The Other - WSJ
> Why not on Posterous or Flickr?

Sure, some people would want that. I'd use the setting on Facebook, maybe on Twitter too, but not on my Posterous.
But doesn't misery love company?
Amplifying C
Many musicians have complained that they don't see any revenue from the RIAA. The best place to investigate/learn about this IMHO is techdirt[1].

Unfortunately a lot of what happens within the RIAA is private to the RIAA so it's hard to know who is getting the money. Since many artist complain that they don't see any money from online sales it could be that the record label absorbs the money and that the RIAA is not at fault.

Given that the RIAA attend court with numerous lawyers I doubt they make that much money from the lawsuits they win (assuming the defendant doesn't have to pay legal fees of course).

1 - http://techdirt.com/
Frankly with the Niagra out there, this seems partially redundant. Then again, making I/O tasks, essentially a chain of closures, into reasonable threads is a pretty bad waste by itself...

Yup these atoms are essentially I/O processors, just running enough buffer cache management, filesystem, and driver code required to keep other components (network and disk) at high utilization.

The benefit for atoms here is the short latency. They have short pipelines (better for the little actual computation required for I/O driving), and there are presumably more cores available here than the equivalent Xeon system (reducing queuing delays).