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AMD's new Zen architecture implements SMT, similar to Intel's hyperthreading.

The contention about core count on the Bulldozer architecture seems spurious to me. At the time Bulldozer was being developed, multi-core systems were just being introduced to the consumer market. It was unclear what sort of architecture would be most performant. AMD made a (bad only in hindsight) bet that Bulldozer would be a viable architecture for general purpose compute loads. It turns out that combining 1 FPU with two integer pipelines is not as effective as an SMT architecture.

At the time Bulldozer was developed and released, what exactly constituted a core was still not precisely defined. It turns out that Intel's SMT architecture is much more effective, and thanks to market- and mind-share, people associate the definition of a core with Intel's specific implementation.

AMD's new development is on an SMT architecture known as Zen. Like all AMD news and marketing, it sounds exciting. Hopefully they execute well and it actually turns out to be exciting.
I "had a childhood" in the sense of going to high school. It damn near killed me, and quite possibly would have if I hadn't been fortunate enough to skip a year, or to do a few university-like courses. I look back on those wasted, miserable years and wish I'd had other options - or thought to seize them for myself.

Talk to your child, see what he actually likes. Make sure he knows that he always has a choice - years later my parents told me they thought about homeschooling but didn't think they knew enough to, and couldn't afford a tutor, but they never even mentioned these thoughts to me at the time.
I do agree. The concerns are legitimate. In fact, most prestigious schools are hesitant to admit students like this young man because they fear for their social development. (Take the case of Bobby Fischer, for instance.) However, I disagree with the presumption that rapid advancement must result in poor social skills. In fact, I have met people who are living evidence to the contrary.
The Winklevosses already had a substantial part of the project done, and it was more than a dating site. In fact, Zuckerberg copied the Winklevosses feature to connect people. In the absence of competition it seems likely that the Winklevosses product would have been successful. Zuckerberg admits they were well known on campus and would have promoted the site well. The key determining factor in the success of Facebook was not the quality of the software, or even its features, but that it was first social network introduced to the closed Harvard internal market.

http://newslines.org/mark-zuckerberg/?order=ASC
Great to see more data-driven approaches for optimising builds.

Erik has written a bit about his approaches in the past [1] and Graham [2] and I [3] are both currently trying different ways of visualising pains the teams have we are working in.

[1] http://erik.doernenburg.com/2009/11/making-build-pain-visibl...
[2] https://github.com/kuona/kuona
[3] https://github.com/cburgmer/buildviz
Evaluating Prosperity Beyond GDP
Your title is a little misleading, since you actually discuss three differences.
In the Islamic invasions of India in the middle ages, ghazni and Timur, used that verse, to "slay the idolaters" to slaughter hundreds of thousands of Hindus - even after Indian cities surrendered. In Delhi alone, Timur slaughtered a hundred thousand men. He threatened his own court poet to slaughter idolaters or face execution.

http://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/Jackson5/chapter09.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur
> The IRA was not bought down by miltiary operations.

Yes, but I would say that the hope of any "military" achievements by IRA (in the sense of aggravating so much violence as to make UK give away North Ireland) was lost as funding and arms dealing was more difficult and surveillance more effective. So it was good sense to stick to the Good Friday agreement.
Some people enjoy the race. Seems like you are implying his time could've been better spent "doing kid stuff."
I agree, Heartbleed is a big miss. Before reading the article, the two that came to mind were Y2K and Heartbleed. Notwithstanding all the recent security breeches (e.g., Ashley Madison, Sony) that could be attributed to "bugs".
If you're skeptical about pushing children towards their limits, here's another take by Derek Sivers:

https://sivers.org/kimo
What Spotify has going for it is the social graph -- people trade playlists via Spotify, and if all your playlists and your friend's playlists are in Spotify, it makes it harder to switch because of cost or Taylor Swift. It also has probably the most omnipresent music app (although annoyingly no app for Xbox One).
Why math? JHU prof on teaching, theory, and the value of math in a modern world
About the unix philosophy, and why I broke it – and
The US government doesn't buy launch insurance.
I felt the same way until I read the conclusion, "we want to point out that the security team at LastPass responded very quickly to all our reports and lot of the issues were fixed in just a couple days. It was very easy to communicate and work with them."

That is why I use LastPass. Because they aren't perfect, but they realize that their reputation for taking any vulnerability very seriously is the most important asset they have.

I have heard great things about KeePass so if you make that switch good on you.

Edit: Added "very seriously" above.
Thanks for pointing out this extension. I was looking fod a say to export my favorites.
Ask HN: Advice on unethical cofounder?
A few years ago, I left a prestigious PhD program to cofound a web startup as cofounder/CTO. Only two of us were all-in. I largely built our two products and did marketing, pitching, weekly A/B, user testing, etc. I was critical to our growth and VC raise.

I drained my savings to work there (we both agreed to a minimal stipend), believing I had about equal equity. However, I was misled. My cofounder held >80% of the company.

1) Nine months in, I discovered I was vesting only <0.4%/year. The "total shares" in my contract were misleadingly only a fraction of the total issued. I confronted my cofounder, who I had trusted with the legal. He promised to fix it but was insincere and just gave excuses (he idolized Zuckerberg). So, I quit after one year total.

2) Months later, he raised VC funding by saying I was just a hired contractor. When VCs saw 'CTO' on my website, my cofounder demanded that I remove it ... even though I was the CTO.

3) He then forgot to repurchase my shares, allowing my equity to vest. He demanded 3/4 of it back, trying to leave me <0.4% pre-funding. If I didn't agree to a very low valuation, I was told they would "tarnish [my] name in the entrepreneur community", framing me as a greedy undeserving contractor.

Feeling I had to stop them taking away my CTO title, equity, and reputation, I hired a lawyer on contingency and sued. However, by then they were almost bankrupt and were firesaled. My cofounder then started a new company.

I am concerned that he continues to badmouth me. In a postmortem, he falsely claims he was the sole founder. In a recent YouTube video, he falsely says I arbitrarily left and warns about "bad people".

On a VC's advice, I removed my affiliation entirely. But, this lends him credibility. I am proud of the successful products I built. I want to share why I left my PhD.

Should I put this on my resume? How can I respond, when he's been lying about me and my role for years? I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks!
I think that even if you expected them to become commonplace, you would realize what a momentous event in history the first landing would be.
Buy two and sew the other to your other arm. Problem solved, unless you lose your other arm that is...
Maybe his IQ is higher than an average person? That would be my guess.
His parents are amazing. If he's like most 15 year olds he won't realize that, but when he will it'll be quite a moment.

That took a lot of courage. Props.
Any Markdown editor worth its salt should have a permanent live preview without having to be pressing Contrl + P all the time.

The lack of good desktop Markdown editors used to haunt me, until I started building one my own and realized how poor the support for Markdown in C++ was.
Its purpose is mainly didactic for students or experienced developers who want to get started into x86 low-level programming.

And that's a noble idea. But this board has absolutely no I/O except for an LED. If you're going to teach embedded development, you really need to talk to some peripherals or understand how to manipulate on-chip registers. Modern SoCs work in a completely different manner than this board.

And, just to add a personal viewpoint, learning x86 low-level programming has very little value in the embedded systems market at this point in time.
I don't think Microsoft's Astoria even tried to map Android UI elements to native Windows widgets. In my experience, the look and feel is more like a Windows-styled theme for Android. (That sounds pretty bad, but actually Windows 10 Mobile has pretty much broken the tight Windows Phone 7/8 look&feel anyway, so it's not such a big deal for the bridged Android apps.)

They do map some of the Google Play services to their MS equivalents, and that's certainly a big can of worms on its own.
Magic engine detected Rails 4.2.5 app as nodejs...
We had a new teacher for maths in eighth grade. I remember how enthusiastic he was about set theory. He was so excited to talk about it and reminisced that the first time he saw set theory was in the second year of college.

Granted our stuff was just introductory stuff but I doubt I'd care the slightest between AND and OR and associate them with intersection and union if it wasn't for the teachers.

Now my professor in college who teaches operating systems? She could not be more of a downer. You go ask her a question and she says "I can't answer any questions off the top of my head. I am not a genius." Never has she ever said "let's see" or "let's try to figure this out". Her level of enthusiasm makes me wonder why she even teaches at all. She appears exhausted and sad.

To go a little off topic, I want a universal basic income (and universal free healthcare) so that people who don't like the jobs they do or would like to take a break can do so without worrying about money.

Well, I guess my point is school can be boring or interesting depending on the teachers around you. This seems rather obvious. My hypothesis is that teachers who want to teach are likely to be better teachers than those who are just there because they need money.
He is describing a discreet intraday cross. For traders who prefer to use them they already exist.
They would hardly have pooped in the open, would they? Not very private. Probably squatted down in a convenient crater where the moon-poop would be protected from radiation.
Part of it is the dream, that new startup type euphoria and adrenaline you get, despite previous failures it seems like anything is possible. The buyers get that too. I don't think more fine print would make a difference.

Now what might make a difference would be if Kickstarter had coaches that could coach the project teams up and then maybe give their own feedback. Perhaps less granular time lines unless they are coach assisted timelines.

There are some definite patterns, overly aggressive timelines to raise funds, underfunding, overly aggressive responses to over funding. When dates slip, the community of backers turns nasty pretty quickly, when things become challenging the communication drops which further increases the nastiness. If not a coach, perhaps a group of five independent consultants from that field could provide their opinions or something, there would be some challenges to keeping it fair.

It is insanely frustrating when you've given someone some money and you don't hear anything at all and the project is already 6 months to a year later than their initial projections, it doesn't seem that unusual on Kickstarter or indigogo
You missed one critical bug:

c) Most humans just won't "do it". As a child, student, teacher, and parent I've realized that most tasks really aren't that hard, and by far the greatest hindrance to expedient success is an irrational unwillingness to "just do it".
HTTP Live Streaming in JavaScript
The js_runtime is included because of the ubiquity of using tools like bower and gulp to compile assets, which require node.
The Space Doctor's Big Idea
Technically it is not the kernel, it is the hardware clock.

At some point any user space scheduler will switch to the kernel in an event demultiplexing syscall and potentially block there if no user space thread is runnable. By your definition any threading system which doesn't handle all IO purely in user-space can't claim to be user-space threads.
Let's try not to let terrorism enter _every_ conversation.
Nothing about unicode handling?
Well put, I frequently read stories like this and wonder if I could have done the same if I wasn't constantly being distracted by family arguments/being poor/being envious of other's situations or wasting so much time on video games. I feel regret almost every single day and constantly feel 1 or 2 years behind the curve. Even now I don't have a singular vision like this kid probably because I get so distracted by real life tasks.
I think a basic understanding of history, culture and how our society works is absolutely required. I think it is our responsibility to prevent at least the worst mistakes we did in the past and preserve at least the best achievements.

We have turned in circles in the past and will do it again if we do not get that we turned in circles.
Tangentially related, this basically makes the argument that some black holes (like low mass X-ray binaries) are actually societies that have managed to control matter near the planck scale, best read as hard sci-fi: http://accelerating.org/articles/Smart-2011-TranscensionHypo...
Can't wait for the part with "The lesser scotts"
A good reason why google play services exists is to stop things like this. Its a complex moving target that gets updated monthly. Sure, you can do this with apps that don't use play services, but a lot do, especially popular ones. MS would have a hard time keeping up with changes. Blackberry tried this and it didn't save the Blackberry product. They pretty much gave up recently and now have an excellent android phone on the market.

The real question is how many competitive app stores can we have at once? We're probably looking at some level of natural duopoly here. It took years for Android to get the attention it did and that's with it being a worldwide leader in sales. The market settled on a product that's perceived as premium (iOS) and the workhorse do-anything, install-anywhere, sell cheap, etc Android. A third app store and the developer time/cost commitments needed might not be feasible. MS should know a thing or two about how hard it is for outsiders to break natural monopolies.
I won't speculate on your motives, I'd just like to point out that the story you've related simply doesn't provide a counterpoint to the idea that rapid academic advancement might lead to developmental problems or result from undue pressure. All of the accomplishments you cite could be expected of a precocious student, and could go hand in hand with adjustment issues (and seem to have done so in your case as a college student).

I'm not claiming that the subject of this article should be expected to have such problems (see my other comments), only that your story doesn't serve its stated purpose.
The mention of ruby in the description is a typo. There isn't a ruby runtime available in the generic python engine, but you're free to fork the engine and add the ruby runtime. All engines are open-source.
It's a shame the list ends in 2004. I imagine the last decade's worth of software-related horror would be quite interesting
Mr. Smith does not deny climate change science, he is a skeptic, not the same. As a congressman, he is afforded the roles of his position to investigate corruption or suspicions of corruption, which in this case includes an agency using taxpayer dollars avoiding the release of information to a committee. The NOAA situation is one where the agency should openly share data with the committee and Mr. Smith would go away, by stonewalling, the agency does not help the cause of science or dissipate suspicion of obfuscating results.
You hand the company money, you get stuff for it.

And for most kickstarters, that's exactly how it works, and it's fine. You're paying for something that's basically done, and just needs the cash up front to pay for production.

It's only really in tech that there's a problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland
Isn't using the same basic string with only a few tweaks to it here and there easy to crack (especially if the delta is information related to the site it's for)? And doesn't it represent its own sort of "single point of failure"?
Unexpected Shapes – Cutting Mobius Strip [video]
Cool! But bugged me throughout that while only one die was found, it was called a 'dice' repeatedly.
Definitely look at Google Play Music. Large catalog and you can upload any song they don't already have. Plus you get ad-free YouTube now along with some added YouTube features on mobile
Absolutely. I had the extraordinary pleasure of picking up, on a whim, the novel The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. Unaware of his father's prestige and budding recognition as an author in his own right, I found the book itself to be a lucid and gripping read the entire way through.

Hate to sound like an advertisement, but I consider it to be the most fun I've had with a story in a long, long time.
They're dead. Why not just cut them open and check?
Who's to Blame for PC Culture
You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It
If I wasn't one myself, I would say that the human is the biggest bug of all.
I'm sorry, but given how much high quality software is written in Python 2, examples of high quality software written in Python 3 more easily would do a better job proving the central thesis of the article than pointing out design defects of Python 2 fixed in Python 3. Because at the end of the day, there are still plenty of design defects in Python 3 (or any other language) that a coder might trip over. I mean who is to say that new yield functionality of Python 3 wouldn't lead to hard to understand spaghetti code? Or the new way of handling Unicode isn't worse than the old way? Listing concrete projects that benefitted from being written in Python 3 rather than 2 would be much more convincing.
Moonlight can do it. YMMV

http://moonlight-stream.com/
I have a habit of jumping into a new hobby/collection every 6-12 months but never know where to start since most online resources cater towards those who already know what they're doing (specifically watches in my case). I started a website hoping to address that, but it's far from finished. If there are any sites that do this already I'd love to see them!
Just checking - you do understand that the person who submitted the link is not the person who wrote the article, right? Just thought I'd ask, because the wording of your comment seems to think otherwise.
Without leaving the armchair there actually is a simple fact that gravity-as-geometry explains more naturally than gravity-as-force, and that is the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass.
One recalls having a similar hope in Obama, as TFA has in Corbyn. One sees how that turned out.

The system has been exposed to good people before. The system knows what to do with those.
Disclaimer: I tried to get through the article, I really did, but there was just too much fluff.

My father had a stroke about two years ago that left him without much use of his left arm. Has anyone seen any success from this or other non-standard treatments? It's very discouraging being told by your doctor that the functionality is gone and you'll never get it back, no matter how hard you work.
Surveillance is a useful law enforcement tool.

Traditionally police would have to go to a judge and get a warrant to monitor someone. This was often rubber stamped but it at least gave a paper trail and the police had to have their ducks in a row (e.g. it would be easier to detect if a cop or spook was spying on their ex-wife/ex-husband, since no warrant, no paper trail).

What I don't understand is: Why is getting a warrant now seen as something that is optional/avoidable? Several Western countries (UK, US, and several other european ones) have passed laws designed so that warrants can be avoided in certain cases (and none of those cases are "immediate threat to life").

Mass surveillance is taking that to a whole different level: Now nobody needs a warrant for anyone. They're only limited by internal rules. And we already know that spooks often utilise this to spy on their friends/family/love interests.

So, no, my opinion hasn't changed. Police surveillance with a warrant from a judge is still ok. Targeted surveillance via spooks with a warrant is also ok. Untargeted surveillance and or no warrant remains unacceptable even after the Paris attacks.
Isis Anchalee removed from Facebook
I use Password Store -- uses git + gpg to store all of the passwords. It makes it really easy to maintain a synchronized password store across multiple devices including Android

http://www.passwordstore.org/
This is awesome. As someone who can't wait to graduate college so I can teach myself stuff through OCW (there's some irony there), I am glad it's available. It's a really great project.
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We (I work for Nanobox) listed all the languages we hope to support mainly as an invitation to collaborate. We admittedly do not specialize in all programming languages. Engines are open-source and those who do specialize are invited to create engines for each language. We'll even create the engine for you. We just need to know what the engine should look for and how the environment needs to be configured.
This video[0] on Youtube does a good job explaining the whole "video technology didn't exist" part that most people, myself included, don't realize.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGXTF6bs1IU
I think the OP means the single main difference is
"Python 3 makes it easier to develop high quality software." and gives three examples of this.
Up-voted for courageously (and beautifully) expressing a potentially unpopular opinion. Stay strong - it is hard not to feel guilty when other kids in kindergarten can seemingly write essays and do calculus, but in the end, it does not matter as much as it may appear to. And sometimes putting so much pressure may have unintended consequences. I know a few kids from affluent families in my town where their "early prodigies" are now college drop-outs.
Complaints about a language translate automatically to low-quality software the same way micro-optimizations automatically translate to fast software.

In the real world, software depends significantly more on the properties of a developer or a team. Building software is about people more than it's about tools.
Software development: do good manners matter? [Research preprint]
There is also a pretty fascinating story about the effort to save and restore the photo mapping of the moon from an abandoned McDonald's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_Image_Recovery_P...
Data Protection for Mobile Client-Server Architectures
Mystery of Mars’ Lost Atmosphere Solved at Last, Thanks to NASA’s MAVEN Mission
People who care about handling Unicode correctly have already made up their mind.

Many people don't, though. Many people run their Python scripts in cmd.exe.
Normal? No, but neither surprising.
4 Reasons Your Email Campaigns Need APIs
For me it was these two...

1. Calling the next( ) builtin instead of .next( ) method on an interator or generator.

2. .items( ) on a map in 3 is like .iteritems( ) in 2. Which means that nasty short cuts like map.keys( )[0] no longer work.

Oh yeah, and print( ) is a function :)