skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intel -E platforms share more with Intel's Xenon for servers than they do their consumer chips. The Broadwell-E based on the Broadwell platform so always lags behind the consumer release of the platform.

This chip isn't designed for consumer workloads, so you wouldn't see much improvement if it was in your iMac, but is a nice improvement over the previous Haswell -E platform.

While it may seem on the surface that compared to the non-E version they just added a couple more cores. But the changes go deeper, for example the Broadwell-E i7-6850K has almost doubled the amount of cache, doubled the max memory to 128 GB. But more significantly, for some workloads they doubled the number of memory controllers from 2 to 4 and increased the number of on chip PCIe lanes from 16 to 40. This increase in memory bandwidth and PCIe lanes allows for the creation of monster multiGPU data processing computers.

Here is a comparision between your iMac's CPU and the new Broadwell-E i7-6850K. As you can see it is really an Apple and Oranges comparison: http://ark.intel.com/compare/94188,88195
That's $3.00 :)
> I don't get people's need to constantly bring up Thiel's support for Trump, as though it singularly defines him and everything else he does.

It's an ad hominem fallacy: Thiel supports Trump, ergo his assistance to Hulk Hogan is foolish.
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Next step, China's social credit score.
Oops, shouldn't have said that. Guess I can't get a security clearance anymore.
That's $3.00
Really wish this was illegal or SSL didn't have such a gaping vulnerability.
ARM Releases Cortex A73 Alongside MALI-G71 GPU – Diggle.Tech
Thanks - makes much more sense. I haven't had my coffee yet. According to the Dept. of Energy that'd be about 7 gallons. (http://energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-915-march-7-2016-averag...) Not sure what typical passenger car engine efficiency was in those days, though.
> A lot of people, developers especially, don't perform well under pressure (stress reduces cognitive ability).

A lot of places value people who work well under pressure. (A bad push taking down all the server's I'd stressful)
Air Quality Index (almost everyone I know uses this, but I'm in a more polluted part of the world).

Some internal company ones giving quick KPI/dashboarding. I think this market is under-served by corporate apps in general. If a process is critical to an organisation no matter it's size, a widget can be a great tool for monitoring it.

When a real-time statistic is sufficiently important I prefer a widget to needing to load (or even develop) a dedicated app. I can then go through unified web-based (responsive) interface to take any action needed.
There is infinite resolution, just not infinite space.
It's very easy to correlate UUID-stamped page load with no matching ad load on the backend, no script/flash support needed. If you have the most basic cookie support its even easier to correlate multiple ad blocks across numerous page loads, across sites.
Exactly. 2 hours to roll your own mail server here. 3 hours to roll your own cloud logging server. It can add up fast!

(And I don't think my point really changes if it is 20, 40, 80, or 160 total hours).
Talkies are just a fad anyway ;-)
It is unfortunately out of my usual rounds. Supposedly the late owner of Idle Time Books in Adams-Morgan was known to give a hard time to buyers in search of books he didn't care for--The Bridges of Madison County is the example I think I recall.
Yes, to keep normies from diluting my freak culture.
"Error establishing a database connection."
Your data is a form of currency. Spend it however you wish.
There's actually a ticket up currently to do exactly that, integrate uBlock on the default Tor install.

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17569
Do you have concrete examples? Maybe this is getting too complex to use abstracts for.
@grenoire "There is infinite resolution, just not infinite space."

Now you're getting philosophical! :)
There is no gaping vulnerability.

The user will be presented with a certificate error (or denied outright, depending on the browser). If the user decides to add an exception, only then will a handshake succeed and the MITM be possible (in this particular scenario).
That looks pretty good, but it's not what I was asking for.

I meant voxel art in the way of 2D art that is not inspired in the limitations of resolution or color palettes. Think of scanned drawings, "HD" video games or most DeviantArt stuff. These works are made of 2D pixels, but the 2D pixels are small enough to not be individually visible.
Bitter Lake [1] connects the Saudi windfall with the rise of global bankers as a power. Showdown at Doha [2] looks into the growing discomfort of US with rise of Iran and the subsequent strategic deal with SA which has lead us directly to the current mess. The role of the Brits (always busy busy in the shadows) is well worth looking into.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Lake_%28film%29

[2]: http://masoudbehnoud.com/weblog/s2.pdf
In all likelihood it's just trying to show you the Arqiva page.
> I also don't care what's under the hood of my car.

Well, if you're a Mac user then presumably the hood of your car is welded shut.
Browsers won't support plugins for long (extensions yes, but those are as open as websites).

Still, even a binary can be reverse engineered; you see it all the time.
in ST3 beta, one issue i faced was large files that changed frequently, like a log file. ST3 would neither keep the uncharged version, nor just append changes, but load the entire file from scratch and show me loading bar every time the file changed.

Notepad++ handled that surprisingly well. pretty much the only time i had to use another text editor besides ST
I was kid and, reading Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero, etc. I used to imagine how would it be to be a hacker living in the future in Tokyo.

Well, now is the future, I live in Tokyo and my work involves "hacking virtual realities" and "artificial intelligences"... And I must say that it is quite less exciting than what I thought.
At least you weren't drinking the Kool-Aid.
20 habits of truly brilliant presenters [infographic]
Nope: https://www.google.com/search?q=xeon+script (#2 result)
> When computers get fast enough and have enough memory, you could have voxels at higher resolutions

I thought they were fast enough and with enough memory for this, at least with static scenes in the style of this portfolio. Do you know of any art created this way?
>>> a cost of about 1.5$ / hour for a 3 year plan

That's about 1.000$ a month

>>> But they have three database servers, so we are probably talking about around a thousand requests per second overall.

Not that I disagree with the overall tone of your post, but you don't really need to spend that money to serve requests at this rate and latency. MySQL is good enough for this. With HandlerSocket [1], even more so.

[1] https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.5/performance/h...
Do you define human intelligence as the only real intelligence, then? Or are you talking about some super-early primitive predecessor of a brain? (I'm sorry, I have no idea whether the latter has only evolved once.)
Being someone who has never used D3.js, every time I see a story about D3 I think of Blizzard's Diablo 3 title. My thought on this headline was "Hey, that's cool... Someone wrote a hack that allows you to scroll around D3 maps!" I was thoroughly disappointed. :(
JavaScript Engine and Performance Comparison (V8, Charkra, Chakra Core)
Judging exclusively by the number of videos I see with captions, I imagine this statistic was at least intuitively known if not specifically.
"A pair of tattooed Marines go back in time to stop him..."

Hmmm, I usually don't like it when time travel is incorporated into stories.
Have you ever tried (and succeeded) in signing a sqlclr dll?

I wasn't able to accomplish it and neither could this guy:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7032872/what-are-specific...

And if your answer is RTFM then you've probably not used SQL Server before, or were fortunate to have always work on a perfectly configured instance, because a lot of things (say, debugging) often don't work on a brand new install on a brand new windows box.

There are tons of things like this where people have been crying for help from Microsoft for years, but the SQL Server team clearly does not give one fuck about their users problems.
Thanks for the links. I've added Bitter Lake to my watchlist.
*Just type the title into google and click on it to read the article.

Anyway, the article talks about how this company didn't take VC money, but took money from Indie.vc (backed by traditional VC money).

And then describes the economics which is almost identical to the economics of taking money from a VC firm.

The big difference is the apparent lack of pressure, but that pressure is internal. Its not like the VC forces you to spend money a certain way.

To put it another way, if the advantage of indie.vc is that they don't pressure you, its a difference in management style, not a difference in deal structure.
The stock prices of Facebook and Google seem to indicate that a lot of people don't agree with your prediction that advertising is on its way out...

But it's not about adverts controlling people, but the same infrastructure that serves adverts is also very effective for surveillance.
stuck*

That is a great metric btw. I usually do this at the end of the day on the ride back home from work when my dad and I discuss things we read that day
Just like pixel art, voxel art looks great in a parallel projection where all voxels have the same visual size. But in a perspective projection, when some voxels are much closer to the camera than others, the limitations become insurmountable. It's similar to early FPS games like Doom, where enemy sprites would become very pixelated up close. The wakeup call for me was unlocking first person mode in Fez and slowly realizing that it doesn't look too good, even though the same scene would look amazing in side view.

I think the closest 3D analog to pixel art is not voxel art, but low poly art with low resolution textures. Something like this: http://orig03.deviantart.net/c602/f/2012/065/8/f/lowpoly_nak... is a restricted aesthetic in its own right, and looks great in a variety of views, but would be very hard or impossible to do with voxels. It's a shame that few people are pursuing that direction nowadays, everyone is jumping on the voxel bandwagon.
I think it is. I would bet money that Facebook employs or consults at least one psychologist to help them design their app for maximum addiction. An example from a few weeks ago is how "trending" stories are handpicked by humans.
I also enjoy using Olga Botvinnik's prettyplotlib: github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib
If you configure your server to use TLS resumption and False Start there should only be one extra roundtrip, which can make a significant difference.

https://istlsfastyet.com
Re: beacons, why hasn't someone created a service that beacons to all the beacons on a single call to the server?
Startup Nervana joins Google in building hardware tailored for neural networks
> WE can cherry-pick some of the most successful Indians from India

Indian here, I believe its combination of couple of factors. US gets the cream of India but Indian parents drill into their kids heads that you have to get good grades or else you will fail in life.
At the MIT EmTech Digital conference, startup Nervana announced plans to design and build a custom ASIC processor for neural networks and machine learning applications that the company’s CEO, Naveen Rao, claims will run 10 times faster than graphic processor units (GPU).
> Change the configuration language from XML to JSON and you'll suddenly have space for 10 spellcheckers.

Change it from JSON to YAML or canonical s-expressions and you'll have room for even more …
I remember a bunch of friends being upset about this. Apparently it's an outrage that your friends can do this, and perfectly fine that facebook probably does it all the time.
A Social Media Content Strategy That Boosted Visits by 230%
Stepping Up the Security Model 1: A modular approach to transaction signing
I'll wait for the trade but this has me pretty excited. As an aside I am always surprised there's so few "cyberpunk" comic books. Would be the perfect medium and the typical reader is probably rather comic book friendly. I'll gladly take recommendations I believe the only thing that comes close in my collection is Transmetropolitan.
[I don't know much about the Japanese market, there was a bit more the last time I checked but overall still not that much]
GateSentry: An Opensource Web Filtering Suite for the Raspberry Pi
The Night I Met Einstein
Pitest – mutation testing in Java
It's not technically voxels but look-into/follow-wikipedias-see-also-links-for Zbrush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZBrush
Thank you for correction, it is indeed called "Deep Work".
"The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" by Nicholas Carr might be of interest to you. And, well, to almost everyone here - your symptoms probably already appeared in one way or another to anyone who's reading this.

Personally, while I consider myself pretty disciplined, I feel deeply frustrated (almost angry at myself) whenever I'm actually trying to focus on something and feel the need to also do/see/check/read something else. Not exactly a facebook feed, but I've come to Hacker News while reading. I don't know what's the most commonly accepted definition of addiction, but this certainly feels like it.

http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp...
Physicists Put Schrödinger's Cat in Two Death-Boxes at Once
I have better things to do than spend a few months of PTO interviewing with multiple companies. This won't fly with me, and I doubt it will fly with many people that are currently employed.
Tigers seized from controversial Thai Buddhist temple
Recode is owned by Vox but while fur has been flying on this Gawker-Thiel deal I did some google searching and found a list of websites with names like

nydlnews
worldwidenewsbulletin
journalismworldnews
24mainstreet
redhoticenews

Those I just made up but they were all of a kind: vaguely resembling the names of existing newspapers online or seemingly news/journalist related because buzzwords.

Doubtless some of them are quite real but ...

I found all these websites had the same basic story on the Thiel-Champerty concept with a reference called 'Tip of the Iceberg' in each one (originally this was the latimes).

I suspect that this is a form of astroturfing and that all these websites are owned by the same entity.

If you do a search for this string: "thiel champerty tip of the iceberg" you'll see exactly what I mean.

Even if this isn't intentional astroturfing, it means this motley collection of websites are stealing from the original latimes story that used that phrase. I don't think this is just syndication that newspapers do with each other. I think as you said with Recode they're just taking everything outright.
Surviving an “Eternal September”: How NoSleep Managed a Surge of Newcomers [pdf]
The correct thing to do in this case (if you are worried about security) is to allow the MITM SSL handshake and use a secure VPN for your Internet access. Third parties with the certificate keys would only be able to see encrypted traffic between you and the VPN provider.
This might surprise you, but very few people even look under the hoods of their cars. This even includes non-Mac users.
Not what you were replying to, but SSL does provide for MITM outside of the options offered in your response. I.e. https://mitmproxy.org
It's not free but I believe that Qubicle [http://www.minddesk.com/] is the "goto" voxel editor.

I'm the coder of Smith and Winston [http://www.indiedb.com/games/smith-winston] and we've found Qubicle to be the best by far.
I think I recall this being implemented back in the AIM days. A "psychic" plugin for Pidgin or something like that.
anectodical refference...

What it really mean to be poor in germany ?

The consumer debt is on a rise since 2013 - but the overall-consumer-debt is with 225,000,000,000 Euro really 12,000,000,000 Euro "far" away from the highs of the creditboom at the beginning of the milenium:

But: 12,000,000,000 Euros...a 12 with 9 zeros mumbles spread over 42 Million Households.. that's 285,72€ !

...per household [confused]
> Just recently there was a HN story about a great add-on for Emacs that would find the definition of a symbol. That's been in VS for a decade or two but open source editors apparently don't have it.

ctags has existed since 1979, which is almost 40 years ago. The thing you read about implements a different way to find definitions.
There's a tor gateway and a version with two vms
I think some CT systems produce this kind of image. There are also laser point cloud scanner systems that have been used for archaeology, and various attempts at reconstructing 3D from two or more cameras. And the Microsoft Hololens demo of free sculpting in AR.

Raytracing also lets you produce a 2D raster image of a 3D scene with arbitary-resolution surfaces in it, although that still relies on geometric scene descriptions.

Otherwise, it's a bit of a problem to produce; too many voxels to hand-place.
I've never been able to enjoy reading a comic, other than short three panel or single page comics that you might see in a newspaper (like Herman or Far Side).

There's something about the switch from reading the words to examining the art work that is a little jarring. They just don't flow for me and so I never get into them. Is this something that others have felt? Do you get over it after reading comics for a while?
Music listening and cognitive abilities in 10- and 11-year-olds: The Blur effect [pdf]
What if I we start by writing an unambiguous specification and I walk you through the proof?

The pomposity of this post is ridiculous. I can't stand the, "I don't have time for you," type of thinking. It suggests that the author assumes they are smarter than the person they are interviewing. It elides the underlying complexities of every persons' lived experience and inner world. Does the author not realize that people are not dumb actors in their narrative? People are generally intelligent, creative, and highly adaptable.

All this post does is show how trivial some people treat the interview process. The real lesson here is that if you can learn to ask how high to jump when ordered to you can get anywhere.
I dislike that the whole page, including the updates, do not contain any dates...
Proprietary programs have a limit to their hackability and extensibility which is enforced by law.
How does this work (economically)? Based on this subthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11804689 it seems that the mechanism is:

HTTPS site can't load resources over HTTP (due to security) -> only those advertisers who support HTTPS can place bids for HTTPS-only sites (and not all do) -> the smaller number of bids results in lower ad revenue

However, as also noted there, the advertisers who do support HTTPS should preferentially bid for impressions on HTTPS-only sites, since the price per view (or per click etc), is lower. Importantly, they should continue doing this (raising the price of adverts on HTTPS-only pages, due to the increased demand), until the price per click etc. is the same for HTTPS-only and "normal" sites. Why does this not happen?

i) The simple model above is overly simplistic, and I don't actually understand the situation,

ii) The marginal costs of serving HTTPS ads and HTTP ads are not the same (though why would that be — the server overhead for HTTPS is marginal) or the the revenue from HTTPS vs. HTTP ads is lower (but again, why?),

iii) The time-frame is too short(?),

iv) Advertisers are turning down free money (highly unlikely).
> require is relative to script file instead of execution

cd "$(dirname "$0")"

can solve that
It is not necessarily about truncation. IIRC the problem was that rename doesn't (didn't?) act as a full barrier on ext4 and the metadata write that updates the name from the old file to the new file can be committed to disk before the updates to the new file. This means that after a crash the new name might point to a corrupted file.

The barrier behavior wasn't explicitly mandated by POSIX, but it is an intuitive release consistency-like model which was implicitly expected by most programmers.

edit: spurious words and parens.
Scripts like these can be easily circumvented as browsing habits are not random. Using machine learning or statistical methods, you can filter out the randomness. People can be identified by the unique set of websites they use pretty reliably. (see https://svs.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/publications/2013/2013...) The only way to anonymize yourself using fake traffic is not to generate random traffic but to specifically engineer requests which bring you closer to the global average. How to do this is still an open research question.
You're totally right. I was confusing the stated problem with a common associated problem: whether a string is a permutation of a palindrome.
Related to this is Concurrency Kit [0], which is BSD-licensed, written in C, and provides concurrency primitives and data structures.

[0] http://concurrencykit.org/
Some feedback: consider adding a "Pricing" link to the menu, this is one of the first pages I look at when evaluating SaaS products. I know the price is visible after clicking at "Buy now" button, but "Pricing" link may be more informative for customers that haven't decided yet.
The lost women of Enlightenment science
The Erlangelist
I assume the 'poor' solution you meant was the sort and count solution. You're totally right. I was confusing the stated problem with a common associated problem: whether a string is a permutation of a palindrome.
You can see from their reported figures that their U.S. treasury holdings are far too low for a sensible national portfolio. It's a pretty glaring hole, and you know that the money is going somewhere off the balance sheets.

The question has always been how much U.S. debt exactly the Saudi's hold. This is an interesting historical anecdote, but it doesn't provide any information about the size of the debt, other than "much larger" than official figures, which isn't terribly informative.

At this point, Saudi Arabia needs the United States more than the United States needs Saudi Arabia. The OPEC cartel is broken, Saudi Arabia is running a massive deficit, both China and Europe have economies mired in the aftershocks of 2008 which cannot absorb the additional supply, and the United States is energy independent.

If the Saudis are even willing to suggest selling off their dollar-denominated debts, they must be either unfathomably arrogant or extremely desperate. My read is the latter.

They really must want to keep those documents secret. There is no way that a country gobbling up it's meager monetary reserves could afford the hit to the value of those assets as they unwound them, even if they sold them off very slowly and predictably.

Something potentially very bad for world security is in those documents. Something that would force us into confrontation with the Saudis. Something that could cause a run on the dollar.

There must be some extremely senior officials involved in that report. Whoever they are, they're senior enough that they can't be made to disappear quietly into the night.

If those pages do contain information specifically identifying financiers of 9/11, the United States might be war-weary, but you can bet that a massive majority of Americans would demand their heads on pikes. As much as I support the public's right to know, that's a very nightmarish scenario.
Global illumination adds lots of charm to most of the works there. I personally like the minimalist 3d style and global illumination of some sort makes even single cube alive.

I think that simple 3d models with GI effectively make programmer's art that look minimal, but not necessarily cheap.