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So in your scenario, Intel stops making desktop, laptop and server chips completely. Doesnt replace them with ARM, but throws those businesses away and only gets any revenue from the existing mobile ARM market.

I dont think that's actualy what anyone is suggesting.
There's a very large difference between a Cortex-A7 in a Moto G and a Cortex-A57 or Cortex a72. The latter are about 3x faster.

Atom has barely increased its single-threaded performance from like 300 pts in Passmark to about 540 right now (in Pentiums, in PCs, which cost $160 a pop).

Intel is not competitive on price. That's why Atom didn't pan out in mobile. They tried to do it by heavily subsidizing its high-end mobile chips, which typically cost close to $50, to compete against a $15 mid-range Qualcomm chip. That's why some people were "impressed" by what an Asus Zenfone could do for instance, for its mid-range price overall.

And if Intel can't compete with Atom on price, then there's NO CHANCE it will ever compete with Core M in mobile. The only reason it even exists in so called "tablets" that go for $1000 right now, is because Microsoft failed to make a good case for ARM-based Windows machines with its poor app support. But that will always remain a niche.
Yeah, she is clearly not intelligent like most ruling politicians in Sweden right now.
There are many reasons that area is how it is, and the presence and legal status of marijuana isn't one of them.

The root cause of the situation in the downtown east side is the City of Vancouver's effort to help these poor addicts.

Vancouver has policies and programs to support addicts, while other cities in greater Vancouver don't. The result is a concentration of addicts from all over the place.

For example, there are medical services in place to help addicts such as methadone clinics and a safe injection site.

The methadone clinics are supposed to ensure the dose, which the provincial government pays for and the clinic profits from, is consumed by the patient. Instead it's often sold outside for cash which is then used to purchase heroin or crack.

The huge huddling masses you see on Hastings Street tend to be concentrated around these clinics. The area is perfectly safe, there's no need to fear assault or robbery. It's just stinky, dirty and unpleasant.
> engineering programs throw you in the deep end right at the beginning

I started as a EE. My diff EQ professor literally did the stunt "look to your left, look to your right, of the three of you, only one will pass my class." I was the only caucasian to pass, but I made a D, and rather than re-take the class I decided that EE wasn't for me.

There was only one way to ace that class, and that's to live inside it. I have a very good mind for math, but I was also interested in lots of other things: music, theater, philosophy, humanities, business, politics. The same semester I had made a D in Diff EQ I had also taken a Phil 101 (Logic) class which I aced. I was also a walk-on in a play that semester.

The dean of the engineering school called me to his office to tell me I wasn't the sort of student the EE program was looking for. I left and got an MIS degree, where I could develop as a much more rounded student.

Looking back some 30 years later, I realize now that the dean was literally telling me that they don't want well-rounded EE students. He was literally telling me, in spite of being in the top 1/3 of my class (math-wise) the very fact that I wasn't willing to forgo Logic and my theater activities to become a better calculus student made me a misfit. The whole point of making Diff EQ so amazingly difficult was specifically to weed out those who did anything but study Diff EQ.

So in the end, I made the right decision for myself and my career. And I've learned a healthy suspicion of companies that tend to exclusively hire ace engineering students.
And it's been done[1], successfully — but the signals need to be amplified before the receiving brain can detect them. Parapsychology research was answering a pressing need in the 1950s, and so it was pursued and funded. Now that we have ubiquitous resilient encrypted wireless broadband communication on the worldwide scale, and we're pretty sure the enemy forces cannot submit our soldiers using the power of concentration, the need is much less pressing. Recent advances in brain activity imaging with fMRI and the impetus to create computer-brain interfaces will lead to any advances in telepathy that can be had, and maybe discover new questions to study.

Out of all the futures that seemed possible at the beginning of the Cold War, ours is no less strange and awesome than one where telepathy were a mundane experience. Being skeptical about telepathy in the style of the great Sci Fi works of the latter half of the 20th century reflects the understanding that some ideas become reality, and some just peter out.

[1] http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-brain-to-brain-telepathy-com...
1 comment with "grit" doesn't indicate much.

It's still popular. 4 postings with that in the title in the last month: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=grit&sort=byDate&prefix&page=0... .
> First off, those "3W Core CPUs" are a scam and a dud. They will overheat and throttle.

Throttling has been a problem on high-end Androids for years now.

> Second, they cost WAYYYY more than a mobile chip.

That's the real issue – the margins in the mobile market are ridiculously slim, and there is no x86 monopoly Intel can abuse to lock in vendors and customers. So cheap ARMs it is.
Science is becoming a church, to the detriment of science itself.
Ludicrously so. I was talking to an Uber driver there who said the high cost of car ownership (namely the COE - Certificate of Entitlement) makes owning a car simply for the sake of Uber driving to be generally uneconomical. Especially as the COE cost is due to rise substantially.
This looks nice. Is there something similar for Python?
The software has been written by Bosch by Audi’s request. Bosch have even put a disclaimer that it might be illegal using it out of testing lab.
Since it exists in every culture that has ever been known to man, it's not actually possible to draw conclusions in the normal way, by comparing a culture with makeup to one without. You can make claims about what it would mean for a culture not to use makeup, but if you do you should realize that those claims are, in their entirety, just some random junk you made up.
Android Data Binding
Probably now Trump wants to build a wall at the border to Canada too.
The law regarding insulting foreign heads of states is an interesting one, as is the handling of it.

That law explicitly (and untypically) states that the executive has to decide that the district attorney may press charges, which was granted in this case.
The law is stated as "the executive needs to authorise prosecution", but due to how it's structured (executive reigning in to a matter of court) it's really more of a veto. (http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stg... - section 104a is about the veto)

Then there's the rule that when laws change, the sentence is capped at the "mildest" legal result for the defendant between opening the case and the final verdict (to paraphrase things _very_ roughly, details at https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/2.html, in english at http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stg...).

So what could happen:

1. The executive (through Merkel) allowed the use of the law in this instance.
At the same time, there's consensus within the executive and most of the legislative that the law should be repealed.

2. The jurisprudence opens the case, it drags on for a year. (or they decide not to take on the case, in which case everything stops here)

3. There's a verdict. Boehmermann can appeal several times, dragging this on for another 4 years or so.

4. At some point the law gets repealed.

5. The next time a court hears the case, they'll kick it out because there's no law and therefore there can be no prosecution.

An alternative reality might be:

1. The executive stopped prosecution under this law because they can.

2. We'd hear about how the German government stepped in on matters of jurisprudence every. single. time. that Germany complains about overreach and a lack of rule of law in Turkey (and probably elsewhere). A gift that keeps on giving.

Then there's also the more general defamation law (applicable to everybody and with no executive veto clause). Due to where the TV station is headquartered, the case is handled in Mainz. For those defamation cases, the Mainz district attorney has a rule that a mandatory mediation meeting must happen in person in Mainz, with no exceptions.

Not sure mediation is something Erdogan really wants to do for what is essentially a populist stunt.
> And if Intel can't compete with Atom on price, then there's NO CHANCE it will ever compete with Core M in mobile. The only reason it even exists in so called "tablets" that go for $1000 right now, is because Microsoft failed to make a good case for ARM-based Windows machines with its poor app support. But that will always remain a niche.

And outside the Surface those aren't selling well either.

(IMO rightfully so, the Venue 11 Pro is the worst device I've seen in years – hypothetical hardware dickwaving aside, even a $50 OEM Android tablet has better UX and usability than Windows 10 without mouse/keyboard.)
With my approach the AutoScaling group would always replace failed instances with the on-demand ones identical to those initially defined on the group's launch configuration.

All I do is I later attempt to replace them with whatever I can buy from the spot market.

On the other hand, the spot bidding implemented out of the box in AutoScaling will fail if you are outbid in all Availability Zones at the same time, since it doesn't fall back to on-demand instances. I've seen people often use a second on-demand AutoScaling group that would scale out when you get outbid on the spot one, but then you have a problem defining scaling policies so that they can scale nicely, and/or shifting the capacity between them. Someone had a nice talk at re:invent about how they do all that.
http://www.gp.org/ ?
Qualcomm did poorly last year, because of its failed Snapdragon 810 chip. It lost a ton of sales. Otherwise Qualcomm was and still is dominant in the mobile chip market with close to 50% market share.
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(And more seriously, from a reputable and regulated supplier)
Sega embraces legal console game modding with new Genesis PC emulation hub
Great point - in the USA, wealth doesn't "trickle down" it "leaks out"
... they trusted a polygraph more than the rest of the judicial process. That really doesn't say anything good about the 'normal' process, then.
I think this was on HackerNews before?
Why do government and public funds get spent supporting universities to train specialists to develop then patent important stuff ?
Really? Cause I just sourced appropriately rated threaded components from the internet and screwed them together with thread sealant from the auto shop. The hardest part was probably modding a minifridge to run on its back so I could fit my receiving tank in it for faster retrieval. The craziest mechanicals are probably inside the appion g5 refrigerant reclaimer and bargain basement vacuum pump I got off ebay.

In fact, if I think about it this was probably my first real project as a "maker", my design document was literally a single sheet of graph paper. Since then I've embarked on much more ambitious projects (frame-up electric bicycle, cnc plasma cutter, modular light up dance floor...) and I feel like my skills have probably increased many-fold over where I was at the time. If I were to build another one today I'd probably introduce considerably more complexity (electronically actuated valves with process automation for example, perhaps co2 as a solvent which would require cooling with liquid nitrogen). Shit, at the time I think my toolbag consisted of a screwdriver and an adjustable spanner.
I really hope that Uber goes under one day.
I can't see that being an option in the case of heroin or meth.

It makes sense to decriminalize users/addicts because they are the victims whom drug legislation is supposed to protect in the first place.

But to me it makes no sense to allow anyone to profit from a substance that causes this much harm.
I'm German and that's just a false statement.
Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy
Is there a thing that allows for Science Annonymous?
I had an temperature and humidity sensor that uses one wire to read and write data from and to it. It has libraries in both Arduino and raspberry pi. The raspberry pi one does much worse and reads data wrong all the times - and given the library was written by ladyada, which is generally high quality code. It is none to her fault - Linux doesn't guarantee the timings - the best that someone could do is to crank the priority to max to get the timings right but even then it is still iffy. Interesting to see, given the raspberry pi has a way higher clock compared to the Arduino.

Note the comment:

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_DHT/blob/master/...

# Note that sometimes you won't get a reading and
# the results will be null (because Linux can't
# guarantee the timing of calls to read the sensor).
# If this happens try again!
The World of Programming
The lawsuit against involving BSD back in the day was one thing, and another one is... spreading FUD. That's about the fact that BSD's haven't got traction. Of course, relatively to Linux its smaller, or, better say, less visible: Sony Play Station is FreeBSD, Netflix uses FreeBSD for content delivery servers, WhatsApp is FreeBSD, OSX is BSD user land and much, much more, simply less visible.
I long to return to those days when a car's panes where adjusted by means of a simple mechanical crank ... I despise this obsessive compulsive digitality.
It's not about who deserves something. It's about obligations.
USA (as society and as government) is obliged to care more about Americans' well-being than it is about all other people in the world's well-being. If this stops, you have no society, just government and a bad one at that. Trust somebody who lives in a "state" like that.
Apparently the optimal speed for driving between superchargers is 160km/h... so the problem are the Model S drivers, not the car itself.
But you still have a lot less predictability:

- DRAM refresh

- cache hits/misses
There's a large difference between being able to and choosing to save that much. I didn't say that it was the norm, but it's certainly possible if you have a near-median salary. Not doing so is a choice if you make a reasonably good salary, albeit an extremely common one that most people don't make consciously. It requires consciously tracking your spending, and being willing to forgo or at least cut back on some of the luxuries that have become much more common in the US and presumably Europe in the past 30 years (like eating out frequently). In return, you can get better financial security, even without an astronomical salary.
IIRC, StrongARM was about 5-10x faster than contemporary (non-DEC) ARM chips of the time, which topped out around 30-40MHz.

What made BASIC blisteringly quick on it was that the BASIC interpreter that Acorn had originally written for their ARM-based micros was small enough to fit into the instruction cache on the StrongARM. (According to Wikipedia, StrongARM was 16kb I + 16kb D cache, a Harvard Architecture; whereas the Acorn designed cpus only had a 4kb unified cache at the time.) BASIC programs (which were byte-coded) were enormously faster on the StrongARM.
Bitcoin is like a case study in how profit-seeking creates centralized systems:

Start with a system whose explicit goal is to create a decentralized, bottom-up P2P cash. End up with a system governed hamfistedly by a handful of developers and a few ASIC manufacturers and their obnoxious business partners.

Punch line: the best place to be a Bitcoin profiteer is in the libertarian bastion of the People's Republic of China.

SMH
Yes, but I actually did start a few weeks before the spot fleet was launched.

The problem with the spot fleet
1) it's kind of awkward to use
2) it has statically defined capacity so you can't scale it
3) it has a static bid price, so if at some point your are outbid on all the group's bids, you end up with no capacity
4) among other things it lacks integration with the ELB so you can't really use it for so many use cases.

My solution is simpler, better integrated with the rest of AWS and more resilient and once I iron out the bugs and get it production-ready, it should be a better choice.
I had a friend who had two African grey parrots, and two dogs named Ryder, and Cloe.

My friend lost her job, and basically became homeless. She had to give up her birds, but she managed to keep her dogs. She knew a guy out in west Marin whom offerd to take care of her birds until she got back on her feet.

Well she managed to get housing. It was a miracle. I didn't know just how bad things had gotten in her life, but she was luckey to get out of that horrid situation. Her saving grace was applying for section 8 housing 15 years ago. She never thought she would ever be homeless, but applied anyways.

Now she was gone from her birds for two long years. Out of the blue, she got a call from the county, and they told her she had an apartment. I moved her in, and went to get the two African grey parrots back.

I set up their big cage in the living room. They look around at their new surroundings. One of the dogs walked in, and one of the parrots said, "Hello Ryder." The next dog walk up to the cage. The same parrot said, "Hello Cloe." The parrot got the dogs names right. I was floored.
You can actually blame Intel, but also the OEMs and the consumers for those crappy specs.

Intel, because it charges so much for its chips, making it a big part of a laptop's BOM - like up to 40%. ARM chips are more like 10-15% of a phone's BOM.

OEMs for putting up with it. And consumers for always wanting the fastest (and more expensive) processor in a laptop at any given price, over virtually any other specification.

It's kind of how phones never seem to get more than 2 days of battery life, and bast majority only get 1 day. They value too much chip performance or big screens or high resolutions before they value battery life. There are $200-$250 phones out there with 6,000 mAh batteries and 720p screens, but they come from noname OEMs and most people aren't interested in them either.
These are not trips to Vegas with hookers and blow, but rather core human experiences

My wife and I had a Vegas wedding. Without any hookers or blow. A total of four other people at our wedding; they paid their own way there.

My wife and I used the money we saved on our wedding to help fund the purchase of a house (and all the crazy additional expenses that involves). We're still married 20 years later,

Contrast that with one gal who had a very elaborate wedding, at an expensive venue, with many guests, and who subsequently divorced within a year. What of the "core human experiences" of all the people who attended that misbegotten wedding?

Life comes down to choices. Few people are rich enough to be able to afford everything they may feel entitled to as part of the "middle class".

systemic problem of real incomes declining significantly, with major life costs (housing, education, medical, taxation) increasing dramatically

All that is very true. But it doesn't excuse foolish financial decisions about the events that people do have total control over.

the decline in real wages in the face of rising major life costs is a major contributor to the increasingly precarious position of many middle class families.

Yeah, that and the fact that many people can't grasp the simple concept of saving for a rainy day.
... Compiler.
I will reach out to you shortly and we'll work something out. :)

What exactly do you need to build that isn't already available?

A couple I can think of:

1) A community of people with diverse interests who can analyze articles across topics. (I can't summarize an article on a quantum physics theory for example)

2) I reasonable number of consumers who can bring down the cost/consumer.
As a teen, I always liked to read the Elektor magazine. They had a nice mix of beginner-friendly articles, plus more advanced ones to keep up the motivation.
TLS: Nuke It from Orbit
Thanks for the support, I'll email you right away :)
Are you thinking of this project instead?
http://richzhang.github.io/colorization/
This is such an FST based sequence search engine: http://78.189.139.203/demos/seqbul

Currently, only viral sequences are supported.
A good place to start is an Arduino [1], and connect a button, sensors, actuators to play with.

When you want to move more into networking, step up to the Raspberry Pi [2], which runs Linux and also includes digital GPIO pins.

[1] https://www.arduino.cc/

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/
If you don't want to use chrome or chromium to run one single app to have proper encryption on your desktop in addition to your mobile device - which doesn't need a browser at all, and as a result of that "aversion" would prefer your messages are kept in clear text on a server your aversion is not worth considering further.

Or I'm wrong, what's the aversion that is more important than having your messages stored in clear text by a third party?
EBay Enterprise merges with Innotrac to become ecommerce operations giant Radial
other than something like seL4, no one _knows_ what is really secure. however it would be hard to argue that a decade+ of container systems such as FreeBSD Jail and Solaris' functional equivalent (the precise name escapes me) don't have useful lessons "Linux can learn from".
Yes, it can indeed. I have three reasons for not doing it though.

The first is that nvm is nodejs specific and since I knew I wanted it to eventually work with multiple languages, nvm is out.

Second is that docker has a API I can work with (via Dockerode in this case), makes it easier to use/debug and such.

Third is the easy of isolation. It's basically what docker is about while nvm is more for just managing versions.

I still use nvm locally, when developing. But when I want to rapidly test in multiple versions, I use docker with autochecker.
Attitudes to Global Trade and TTIP in Germany and the United States [pdf]
This is a great idea, thanks for sharing. Now that I think about it, most of our early adopters (people who read a lot) would be present on desktop and for such users a community driven browser extension would be a great MVP.
shameless plug: portable JavaScript+C programming environment for esp8266/esp32/cc3200/RPi https://github.com/cesanta/smart.js. Supports over the air updates (OTA) both and rapid development and updating your device fleet.
Yes, the coffee shops do, and I'm not arguing that the residency-requirement wasn't (and isn't) a stupid idea. My point is that drug tourism isn't a net positive for the broader Dutch economy. Again, I'm not saying that that means it should be discouraged, but the GP seemed to imply that somehow more liberal drug laws elsewhere are a negative for the Netherlands - which it isn't.
Well I guess the ultimate test would be to put the whole contraption in space, turn it on and see if it moves. Then it would be undebatable, no?
the first version of Meraki were NetBSD -- same for Apple Airport devices. Junipers management plane has historically been FreeBSD (but that is unfortunately changing)
That's not true. As long as someone else writes the headline :)

You won't believe how a flaming Tesla proves their superior safety!
Funny you should say so, the origin of the idea behind autochecker, is actually CPAN's and CRAN's way of automatically test packages.
My wording was misleading. It was 2.5 million observations (time|metric at long|float).

Row size on disk was 80 * 1024 * 1024 / 2500000/3 = 100 bytes. This is without any indexes. Looks like row overhead is quite substantial in PostgreSQL.