skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just the Bay Area either. They coined the phrase "hard drive shucking", 'cause they were buying consumer external usb drives, then digging the drive out and thorwing away the enclosures.

That story is linked down near the end of the article:

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
American Airlines Sues Gogo Over Slow Inflight Wi-Fi
But with turbo it clocks at 3.6 GHz. Plus it has 16 cores.
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Yeah it took me a good few seconds to realize what the update for "this weird backwards C app" was when I first got the rebrand update.
Confirmation of the Superwave Theory in Seyfert Galaxy IRAS17020+4544
No, because you can immediately start creating power when the sun comes up and slowly store heat over the course of the day.
Unless Trump also goes independent. A Sanders vs. Clinton vs. Cruz/Rubio/whoever vs. Trump general election would be... interesting.
The Tweaktown article is a straight hit piece. I'm not really sure what the motivation would be. The writing is so sloppy and negative that it's hardly compelling.
Why? Most of the doctors I know are actually fairly reasonable. Consistently bad at business, but smart/interesting, and some of them are pro-science.
A judge can certainly throw you in jail for ignoring his order to pay, which amounts to much the same thing as throwing you in jail for not paying.
Thanks, great read! His words from 2007 still ring true today. It was also nice to see how some of the startups turned out.
Didn't Intel recently juice up their Skylake i7-6700K desktop cpus to 4GHz, though. More cores and more cache has certainly been on the frontiers of pushing the cpu. I'm wondering if they can't resume getting the clock speeds up, too.
Seems this would be counter-intuitive only in a vacuum; that is to say, were there no such thing as opportunity cost. Perhaps that's what you meant by "utility of money" not being linear. And, I agree with that point.

Where we differ is that I don't see how you are acknowledging that in only some cases. The degree may change, but not the underlying concept.
"128GB is now starting to become a limitation. With 16 cores that is only 8GB/ core."

This comment gave me pause, I feel like I'm falling out of pace with the evolution of commodity server systems. We've gone from being network (10/40gbe) and disk io (fixed with SSD, PCIe NVRAM and Fiberchannel) bound in the the near past to swing towards memory capacity bound?
PeachPy is great, thank you @Marat for this project.
Joking or not, it does seem like a lot of criticism of Citizens United/money-in-politics really does boil down to "voters are morons who will be swayed by easily-purchased propaganda".

But once you're ready to accept that, you have to recognize the uphill battle there and the need for far more fundamental reform, like sortition (randomly select people who can seriously focus on the election and take time to think about it).
Take a look at Germany for example every TV stations has to give an even amount of air time to every party running in an election.

You cant kill the bias but its possible to make it fairer on this side.
lel

yup.

back at it.
The UK has few rights for tenants, and those it does have are frequently ignored. If you stick up for your rights you will find yourself homeless.

I am not exaggerating, there is no register of landlords, there are a lot of bad amateur landlords who bought into cheap "buy to let" mortgages. Agents don't stick up for tenants.

Here in England I have lost deposit money because of blu-tacking a poster to a wall. (That was pre TPS but still).

It is a culture where it is stacked against the renter. You don't feel like it is your home. And in many cases it isn't, the problem isn't just about renting,it is also about house sharing.

Lots of what were two bed houses are now 2 separate 2 bed flats (Convert downstairs room and basement to bedrooms, squeeze in extra kitchenette upstairs). The quality of housing is decreasing to match demand.

And even where that hasn't happened you'll find multi - tenancy is common.
People already doing these exact things with Rust. Sheesh. Put down the pitchfork and take a look around for what you're yelling for first.
Came here to say the same thing. The name gave me a giggle. Lol.
There will be.

The point of Vulkan wasn't to change the OpenGL API to something else. It was to expose more of what the inner workings of a modern graphics card is, and to remove ambiguity introduced by higher level abstractions used by OpenGL. It is more of a direct translation of what can be done with a graphics driver.

This means that developers (engine writers) who want to can now get a lower level access to what the graphics card can do, and do so in a more deterministic fashion.

Everyone else will be able to use higher-level abstractions that will undoubtedly appear, and those probably be easier to use than OpenGL itself. Best of all, they'll be open source so anyone can dig in and tweak (or understand) something rather than forever depend on some obscure OpenGL behavior no one really understands.

There will be growing pains. The existing engine codebases are heavily based on OpenGL, as are helper libraries. That will need to change. Things won't just be faster overnight. But judging by what I read, in the long run it will be better for everyone involved.
Will check that out.
According to PV-magazine [1]:

This portion of the plant comes in around $6/watt, still bad but not as bad as the headline number for the whole project.

Also the 4th stage of the plant will be PV.

http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/morocco-inau...
Sure, lets look at the specific criticisms here:

1. They rip hard drives from external enclosures.

2. They have too much vibration in their pods.

3. They don't correct for temperature.

4. They worked the drives too hard.

The whole article reads like the excuses of someone with a vested interest in discrediting evidence of their favorite brand's poor performance. I don't think the take away from the data provided by Backblaze is "I can expect to get a failure rate of exactly 1.231971 if I buy brand X's hard drives." The end-user-useful conclusions are things like "HGST's drives are the best," and "6TB drives are less reliable than 4TB drives right now."

Sure, all of the factors listed in the criticism may play a role in the failure rates (except the external enclosure bit, since A. The majority of the "shucked" drives were 3TB, and B. They've outgrown that practice.) But they only have the weakest of justifications for believing that those factors vary systematically across the manufacturers. And indeed, even those factors did vary systematically we'd still get the right answer if we had made the more general conclusions. For example, if the vibrations in the seagate-only enclosures are greater than the vibrations in the HGST-only enclosures, that can only be because the HGST drives are better and vibrate less. Or alternatively, maybe the pods all vibrate the same, but HGST is better because it is more resistant to vibrations.
Derek is also extremely available to his colleagues at Google. He's always friendly when I ask questions, and very thoughtful. I feel lucky to work with him, however distantly! :)
Exactly... and users are even worse.
Tenants pay council tax, not landlords.

Except where classified as a HMO.
Maintaining one consistent front-end is obnoxious enough from my biased personal experience with the UI/design aspect of building a web app... but I agree that it's probably a weak point that they offer so many disparate options but they are probably just gathering data with what works/what doesn't. Just guessing. I would imagine that eventually we'll see some (more? I don't know if its happened already) closures of the individual Uber product lines
If an Uber driver arrives in a Model T Ford, then at least it will be distinctive I guess.
Isn't "turbo" in Intel's multi-core parlance the all-out speed a single core can achieve? If more than one core is maxed, they both run at a reduced "turbo" speed, dependent on how many more than one are maxed, right?
Please come out with reasonably priced e-ink monitors soon. It would really save our eyes and allow us to work outside. I swear there's a conspiracy against them. The only one I've been able to find is this and its almost $1000.
http://www.dasung.com.cn/
centos patch has been released at http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/updates/ Note: it's likely not propagated to all mirrors yet
Very large or small numbers are useful in combinatorics and number theory. It can also happen that they are needed for intermediate steps in an algorithm, even when the inputs and outputs are moderate (the same reason that 15 digits sometimes isn't enough even when you just want 3 digits of output). Granted, you can generally work around exponent range limitations using tricks (scaling values properly or introducing logarithms), but that can obviously be a hassle.
This is very similar to Hugo http://gohugo.io, my current website solution. The content organization is virtually identical. The approach of viewing a website as more than a blog is the same. Hugo also benefits from tons of themes, a large community and a ton of additional features.
> Enterprises don’t want to pay a different higher price, why would they.

If you can't convince an "enterprise" why they should pay more than a standard customer you're bad at sales. It's simple math.
Most of the Cloud Business Models Have Been Wrong
>Do some low level Rust programming and then do some low level C programming. It's hardly any safer, because it can't be safe at such a low level without a performance penalty. In the capitalist reality we live in, that is a cost no one will pay.

Wow, what a succinct way to let us know you don't know what you're talking about!
> It really is as clear cut as that.

Sentences like that are a huge red flag. It cannot be as clear cut as that. You can't ignore price levels when making that kind of blanket statement. Think of it as a reductio ad absurdum: if it's always better to buy, then it's still better to buy when buying costs 25x the annual rent, right? 50x? 100x? 1000x? 1000000x? People really do fall into thinking like this; it's exactly how bubbles happen.

Buying my current place would probably cost about the equivalent of 35 years' rent (before taking into account opportunity costs etc). That's longer than I expect to live. I could just about swing it, but my savings would be gone, I'd suddenly be stressed about losing my job etc. You might think it's still clear-cut, but it's far from obvious to me. If prices weren't completely ridiculous, sure, I'd probably go for it. But they are, and that matters.
Many Cloud startups have built their business models assuming that the cost of acquiring a customer can be recouped in a reasonable amount of time through recurring revenue. These calculations based on Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) and Long Term Value of the customers (LTV) have omitted a major factor in running a recurring revenue business – Customer Management Costs (CMC). As a result, a lot of the Cloud Startups are overvalued because investors incorrectly assume there will be little or no marginal cost to maintain recurring revenue from existing customers.
I wonder how this incubator compares to YC, in terms of seeding, operation, etc. I know the google incubator is more focused, or at least it claims to be.
Isn't CL a perfectly reasonable thing to interface with Vulcan? Given its power, and things like compile macros, it could be possible to generate versions of some functions (array-oriented ones, for example) that would run on the GPU using SPIR. Other interfaces AFAIK don't support passing code like this (CUDA likes pre-compiled code (can it receive source texts?), OpenCL AFAIK accepts source code but you have to generate text and the driver has to compile it again.).

(Note: I'm personally interested in this.)
Right. Let's give government the right to check on people, see where they live, where they sleep, for how long. Hell, let's throw "with whom" in there as well, why not, honest people have nothing to hide.

And if the secret police don't like something, they'll take over your property and put "an arbitrary person" in there. Brilliant.

mschuster91, I don't know if this is really acceptable in Germany, but I downvoted your post because I find the proposition in(s)ane and harmful.
I think that's more of a reaction to the "fixes" to disk IO still not being fast enough.

The more you can keep in memory, the better off you're going to be, even with the fastest SSDs in the world.
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I was not talking about littering, jaywalking, or traffic tickets. I was talking about the economic warfare that the American moneyed class is waging to the American working class; and one of which's fronts is illegal immigration.

It saddens me how blue collar Americans can get so incensed at "Juan, the wetback", but never stop one minute to think that the one who is screwing them both is "Johnny 'Honest J' Howell".
The article explains why:

What one will see, very quickly, is that the new SKUs generally offer
slightly lower clock speeds to maintain a 45w TDP. Maintaining this
figure while adding 50% to 100% more cores and cache is no small feat
and it makes sense that clock speeds suffer. We also see the TDP
figures rise to 65w in order to accommodate more cores and higher
clock speeds.

We introduced the Core * Base GHz and Thread * Base GHz figures just
to show how much of an improvement this is. The new chips represent
double the cores but up to about 62% more clock cycles in aggregate
over what we had as the previous fastest chip, the Intel Xeon D-1541.
We also now, in the same TDP figure, have 23% more raw compute.
Can't buy a small room? Says who? A house could be turned into a strata property. The hallways and bathrooms become common areas, and the bedrooms are free hold. :)
Holy shit I was about to write a comment to say - YES!!! absolutely. And then its you. Well, you are still right, and its still what I was thinking.
Certainly. Those lines could all lie in a plane, for instance -- that's very much a smooth surface.
Would it help if you think of it as a form of literature, rather than a means of devouring information by the most efficient means possible? It may still not be for you, and this may not be a good example of it, but it is a genre with purposes other than what you are assuming.
Yes. Likewise Jeb Bush has raised far more money than any other Republican candidate, mostly via super PACs, and look where that's gotten him. (See http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/electio...)
> Metal existed and shipped before Vulkan

As was noted, it didn't exist before Mantle and before AMD decided to open it. So Apple in fact knew about it all along. Again, you can't try to dismiss their lock-in attitude with the claim that they just needed something and had no alternatives. They simply made the lock-in choice.

> Multiple people have mentioned in this thread how engine vendors have abstracted all 3 competing technologies (Metal, DX12, "Vulkan") with minimal effort.

Indeed, since they share lot's of core ideas (all of them originate in Mantle). The question is not about why one can't abstract them, but why Apple and MS push their lock-in instead of collaborating. And you wouldn't like the answer.

>How is there any lock in here? How is it any different from Microsoft

Who said it's different? It's the same crooked practice. But I'm surprised you don't see the obvious lock-in issue here.
"Does somebody need <me>" isn't a good discussion topic. It's a job ad. On Hackernews job ads are submitted on the first day of the month in two discussion threads by https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

(I have nothing against one job ad. But companies tend to be aggressive submitting their ads and freelancers would start too if it becomes successful. There are many other websites and forums for job ads).
How to add phone number validation (in your ionic app)
Yah, I had to read elsewhere to figure out what happened. It's basically an account of what his actions were that led to his exile. A lot of the After has been written about elsewhere, except the parts related to the central government's behind the scenes actions.

After that evening, the hubbub died down. In the coming months, he talked politics with some students, some of whom eventually became leaders of the Tienanmen Square protests. He was never a planner, never a protester, nada. However, when he saw that the Chinese Government started cracking down hard, he realized he was going to be scapegoated for his essays a few months prior, and went into the US embassy. He had been declared the most wanted person even though he had little to do with the actual protests.
Ahh, thank you. My first reaction was "A surface of a cube is a square". I can define a square with way fewer than 27 lines.
Whose performance was so bad that porting the Lisp Machine software to a general purpose Alpha added multiple factors of performance increase.
"cripple a security encryption feature that erases data after too many unsuccessful unlocking attempts."

Basically a brute force attack.
Find what links any Wikipedia article to Kevin Bacon's article
Isn't 8 GB per core still reasonable? Especially if you can share indices and buffer caches across cores, for example. There must still be diminishing returns for caching.
I don't think a reverse query will tickle this bug, because this bug requires simultaneous A and AAAA lookups to be triggered whereas a reverse query uses a single PTR lookup.
But how do you do that where parties don't get to choose/appoint a candidate? Give equal access to candidates themselves? What's the cutoff? Signatures? Who pays for the canvassing to get signatures? Polling? Who pays for the robocalls and advertising?

So this works better during a general election rather than in primaries. I mean would we give all original 12 Republican candidates the same time allotment as the three Dem candidates, what if an IND had only one candidate?
>> I personally don't see a distinction between unions and corporations.

The only workers' rights you have were gained by unions in spite of corporate opposition
Hillary is the subject of an open investigation? News to me. Do you have a source?
Firebase + Firebase Hosting for the backend API. Filestack to upload csv files and or to S3.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I would argue that your point does still apply. Sanders converted to a Democrat to be available to their platform, but everyone who knows him knows he's not a Democrat. As such, the Democratic party doesn't get any of the fund-raising runoff that a party candidate usually generates.

It is that funding that gets used for other purposes, like securing the House, the Senate, etc., etc., and as such, regardless of his current registration, Sanders is a party outsider, and a victory for him is not as big a win for the party as a Hillary, Biden, Kerry or even Jim Webb win would be.
You've hamstring the type system at the interface, internally you still get all the benefits. In any case, a typical use-case for a shared library like this is embedded into other applications, which may not be written in Rust at all, and hence things like generics don't work anyway.

In fact, this is reflected in a common way to expose an interface in this manner: have a main Rust interface (i.e. with normal generics etc.), with thin C-compatible shims that do the right set-up (e.g. converting arguments) to call that code.

Also, I'm not exactly sure how you expect arbitrary cross-crate generics to work for a dynamically reloadable library: they're somewhat inherently incompatible (a downstream type can be inserted deeply into a library's code). I vaguely recall inklings of some approach for C++, beyond just explicitly instantiating specific template parameter combinations in the shared library, so if you know more about that, I'd love to here.
Kahneman and Tversky, Prospect Theory. Applies to investors, VCs, and ordinary people at the grocery store.
Less than 1 out of 3 California families can afford to purchase a home
Higher clock speeds are absolutely still possible, just not in CPUs with high numbers of cores. More cores = more heat, and dealing with heat is one of the biggest challenges when designing a CPU.

For servers, doing more things slightly slower is (usually) better than doing fewer things faster, so Intel usually puts core count over clock speed for their Xeon CPUs. For a desktop system that's unlikely to be doing more than 3 or 4 things at once, you can prioritize single core performance and higher clockspeeds.

It's also considerably more efficient to have more slower cores than fewer faster cores. Reducing power consumption and reducing heat is a win-win in a datacenter.
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Judge: Apple must help US hack San Bernardino killer's phone
Show HN: On empathy and pull requests
Correct. Assuming everything tracks over the long term with inflation (a historically accurate guess): mortgage payments stay nominally the same or shrink, rent goes up. This means that the cost of living goes down for owners while staying relatively the same for renters.

There is almost no long-term scenario where renting wins over buying in the long-term. It would require a magical multi-decade convergence of oracle-like investment ability and absolutely bizarre and sustained housing market that has no historic precedent anywhere in the world.
Senators vote to hold Backpage.com in contempt in online sex probe
> I don't know how, but presumably because there is now more GPL code out there than if it had been an open source license. THAT'S the assumption and the leap that I do not believe, based on the data at hand.

One example which disprove you believes and whatever data you refer to is the Objective-C compiler. NeXT wouldn't have released it as Open Source if gcc wouldn't be GPL licensed. Source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C

Further it sounds like you want to argue that the GPL is not a Open Source license. This is also wrong by all reliable sources, e.g. the Open Source Initiative: https://opensource.org/licenses
> "C" to OS

There's the solution! Replace C with "C", a garbage-collected version of C! The quotes mean it's safe!

/s
TRowePrice Security – Transfer 401k?
I haven't visited my old TRowePrice 401k account online in over a year. Today I logged in and was prompted with security questions which I answered incorrectly. They offered an online form which I filled out correctly but was rejected.

So I called their 800 # to get the security questions reset. They verified my address and birthday, possibly my SSN. Then they asked me if my username was "userabc" which I confirmed is true. Then they asked me whether I was at phone # 555-555-5555. I asked them to update the phone # which they did.

Then they reset my password. I attempted to logon but was prompted for the security questions again. So they unset the security questions. Then I was able to get in and was prompted for partial ssn, address and birthday for future verification purposes.

However, I'm worried now about keeping my old 401k with this company as I was able to get access without knowing anything other than information that anyone could easily get.

Now I think I should transfer this old 401k to Vanguard. Should I be concerned by this? Has anyone encountered this before with TRowePrice?
> Metal predates Vulcan by any measure.

See my answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11112078

This "Metal predates Vulkan" argument is getting old already since it's historically incorrect.

> It was released, what, 4 months after aMD announced mantle? That's not enough time to develop and deploy an entirely new API, from my memory Vulkan was more a response to Metal, DX12 and Mantle.

You remember it wrong. Again, see the link above.