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One instruction set computers (OISC) are more than a joke, I suppose, but I didn't dig far into theoretical computer science and can't say, what's important about them.

They're for highly parallel programable SIMD number crunching. The OISC would allow for easily fabricating a whole heaping bunch of ALUs.
"Do not let your employees accumulate a lot of leave"

Err.. Are you proposing forcing employees to take vacation against their will?
OK well all I urge is that you continue in your current configuration until you never need to work another day in your life. THEN do the company thing.

You will regret it beyond all understanding if you take this incredible position you are in and within five years turn it into a financial disaster back to square one.

Frankly you are undervaluing what you have achieved and underestimating how hard the task is to tenfold that.

In ten years of continuing in your current configuration it sound like you could take home more than $1,000,000 per year AFTER TAX. A "company" can easily run for ten years and not have yielded that much money either through revenue or acquisition.
Except, traditionally, it's publishers who have screwed artists.
That kind of comparison to American history could as easily imply a civil war is the next step to consolidate the EU. It sounds ridiculous, but it's also hard to imagine a peaceful federal unification of Europe.
Perhaps, portability?
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Seemingly common sensical notions can be wrong. The hope is that empirical study is less so.
The first part of this seems to well describe the problem.

Then it looks like it goes in to a sales pitch for 'solutions' to that problem?
"Common sense is not so common." --Voltaire
What No One Is Telling You About Zuckerberg Donating 99% of His Fortune
I own both a 801 device (LG G3) and a 810 (Sony Z4). The 801 runs way hotter than 810 with frequent throttling. There are times I have to stop playing a game because my fingers are burning! At XDA you will even find hardware mods for cooling the CPU. :)

Unfortunately this is the only way for Android team to enforce good practices to most manufacturers. If not, you would still see new devices coming out without usable encryption support. The older handsets will still be protected by Play Services as long as they stay mostly in Play Store and don't install random apks from the net.

Yes, planned obsolescence is an issue, especially for countries or groups with lower income. On the other hand phones get such an abuse through daily use that few of them last for 3 or more years.
If a CA 'lies' we shouldn't trust anything they've ever said anymore. That's why they should be de-listed.
Wow, thanks, that's a fascinating paper! Direct link to pdf: [1].

So it turns out that if a transistor is kept on continuously its threshold voltage gradually increases (Negative-Bias Temperature-Instability (NBTI)), increasing the switching delay. This attack targets transistors along the critical path, increasing the path's delay until it exceeds the allowed tolerance (guardband). Turning the transistor off "heals" it; as a workaround they suggest periodically executing certain nop instructions to ensure critical path transistors spend at least 0.05% of their time turned off. They perform simulations using models of 45nm high-k PMOS transistors to produce their results. A good quote about processor reliability:

Guardbanding is the current industrial practice to cope with transistor aging and
voltage droops [Agarwal et al. 2007]. It entails slowing down the clock frequency (i.e.,
adding timing margin during design) based on the worst degradation the transistors
might experience during their lifetime. The guardbands ensure that enough current
passes through the processor to keep it above the threshold voltage and in turn ensure
that the processor functionality is intact for an average period of 5 to 7 years [Tiwari
and Torrellas 2008]. However, inserting wide guardbands degrades performance and
increases energy consumption. Hence, processor design companies usually have small
guardbands, typically 10% [Agarwal et al. 2007]. However, the MAGIC-based attack
can deteriorate the critical path by 11% and cause erroneous results in 1 month.

This also explains why overclocking a CPU may be a bad idea, although they also show that random instructions don't come close to the worst case ageing.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Naghmeh_Karimi/publicat...
It's well deserved

http://observer.com/2012/07/woo-boy-singularity-us-vivek-wad...
I agree with that notion completely, but I think one can overdo it and get lost in pedantry and bureaucracy. Imagine you would program your software and do a benchmark test on every single line. That is what it feels like.
But these attributes are true of all states. There is no unclaimed land on earth that new states can claim, so state formation necessarily destroys existing states. It's impossible to form new states without force, just as much today as it was in 1776. This doesn't make new states bad.
> Back in the bad old days of Linux, you could easily damage your monitor with the wrong xorg.conf settings

You could also damage a floppy drive making it read/write, for many times, few sectors outer the common limits. Being there, done that.

But after so many discussions on online forums that it was impossible to cause physical damage using software (other than overwriting firmwares), I gave up and kept this (and the asm code) deep inside my heart.

And bringing it up still gives me chills that those discussions will return right now...
Interesting point :-) I can share my experience on this one.

Not so long time ago I used to make this observation - company's management was asking their employees to take holiday before financial year end. This was not against their will though ;-) they simply could not take their time off before year end because there was always a fire to be fought.

Having said that - I am now taking my first holiday since May last year. And again - too many fires to fight :-) I opposed taking holiday because the company wasn't in good shape to afford my time off. It's in very much better shape now and we all can take some time off at last. And again - having said all of that - there was no such message pushed down to my team, they were always taking their time off when they felt like taking it.
Ask HN: Is gravity a renewable energy source
Is gravity an infinitely renewable resource (source of energy) or, if a company harnessed it, would it be catastrophic over the long term, affecting Earth's rotation or orbit. Another way to put this: can gravity be used up ?
https://www.epa.gov/state-and-local-transportation/vehicle-e...

Your point is correct as to the Clean Air Act. But, e.g. One state can't threaten economic sanctions against another state if pollution from one drifts into the other, undermining that state's higher standards.

Another example is GMO labeling requirements. These are being challenged as violating the dormant commerce clause by placing an undue burden on interstate commerce.
The question really boils down to: will people be buying goods from Chinese companies or US companies. If the former, then manufacturing will likely be in China. If the US, then it doesn't make sense to outsource automated labor to China just to ship it all back to the US while simultaneously risking IP theft. Chinese consumers will likely buy Chinese made goods or foreign luxury brands. In the US people are more likely to buy US branded goods.
In the case of ACM, we don't even have those costs. The conferences and reviewing is entirely community managed. The answer is: it's taxpayer and company funded, in an indirect way, by researchers contributing their time to do it. There are no paid editorial staff. These days, there's increasingly less paper involved, which eliminates the paper printing part of it as well. (those folks were paid, full time printers - but acm typically outsourced it to a printing firm anyway).

Very little remaining justification for copyright assignment to publishers.
Another argument is that using the publishing houses as a gateway is possibly harmful to science. IE, publishers and the peer review process mostly enforce the current orthodoxy and indirectly limit the areas of research that get funded. If the journal won't publish your research good luck getting anyone to fund it.
which sony isn't…
> A tool for metal stamping that costs me 5KUSD in China was quoted to me for 55KUSD in the East Bay. And, the 5K cost gets refunded to me after 40K pieces are bought...

Mechanical engineering in the US DRIVES ME CRAZY.

For electrical, China is 1/2 to 1/3 the cost. They also horribly screw up 1 in 3 that you have to redo completely. This is fine if you have the time. Otherwise, you go domestic.

Everything associated with electrical in the US understands that they are competing on turnaround, high-margin, high-value, and customer service. Yes, they're more expensive than China, but not unreasonably so.

The mechanical stuff is just totally out to lunch in the US. My gut feel is that mechanical shops in the US are in two categories: 1) competent, and running at 100% capacity or 2) incompetent, and running at almost 0% capacity. This is a recipe for frustration. You either can't get time ot can't get knowledge.

Consequently, all of the good electrical manufacturers I know have mechanical on site too (CNC milling, lathe, and probably injection molder). Even if it sits idle 95% of the time, that ONE time they need it NOW, it just paid for itself.
Maybe we can bundle a bunch of shitty vulnerabilities into a CDO and call them good vulnerabilities.
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wow, that's great. I really like the before-task/after-task concept, which makes that a more complete workflow.
When you wrote "If they make statements about people that to a normal person's understanding are not clear parody, they can still be sued" were you primarily talking about the UK system?

I see that you write 'defences', instead of the American 'defenses', so I think the answer is "yes."

The Slate article was talking about a case in the US system (and the HN readership is US-centric), so I think it's fair to expect that comments which refer to some other jurisdiction would mention that change.

I ask that you make this context shift more explicit in the future.

Here's a more complete analysis of what a First Amendment defense might look in the US system in regards to Tom Cruise being called gay: http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hilden/20051206.html .

One of the more philosophical points in that essay applies to British law. The Defamation Act 2013 requires serious harm to the reputation of the claimant. Do you, as a lawyer, wish to defend the belief that it's harmful to call someone gay when they are not gay?

Reading about that new(ish) law, it seems the updated line should be "I'll sue you in Belfast."
Why would someone use this when NW.js (formerly node-webkit) has essentially complete and native-from-using-Chromium (instead of libchromiumcontent) non-"polyfill" support for Chrome apps, and they consider it a supported platform feature as opposed to some third-party tack on (which isn't even trying to be fully compatible; as, in the README, this developer says he is refusing to implement chrome.socket to spec simply because he feels the API is "kinda crap")?
> Music piracy could be argued to be obtaining a luxury item for free

Another way of looking at this is that music belongs to our culture, and access to it should be free.
We already installed RocketChat and test drived it in the our server room. It is really so many bugs and it looks very unstable. We are not understand that Why RocketChat has many bugs(upload attachment, video plug-in, etc..)

So far, we ranked #1 is Mattermost and other is Julip.
science papers should be free to the public, at least the money should go to the researchers, not publishers.
Your last two points are huge.
Oh. Right. I happen to work on a different Docker network, which 'chunks' the address space so containers on the same machine are very likely to have contiguous addresses. Hadn't occurred to me theirs doesn't do that.
The conversion of kinetic to potential and back to kinetic energy is a form of energy storage, but not creation.

Harnessing gravity could occur in the form of the "slingshot" orbits, where a spacecraft steals a small amount of the stored orbital energy of the moon or planet from it's parent plant or sun, but due to the relative masses and speeds the impact is real, but practically negligible - steal too much energy from the orbiting body and and there will be a noticeable impact to the orbit.
For background, Google is deprecating Chrome apps (desktop apps made with web tech) for non-Chrome OS platforms.

Chrome Web Store listings will be gone in a year; they'll stop working another six months after that.

http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.htm...
The greatest mystery in economics are things like this price difference. Why does one cost $5k and the other cost $55k? Some economics PHD should go and research into this and figure out why there's such a huge price difference. It would be interesting if they would go beyond the usual "just so stories" and simple answers and chase the numbers as far down as they can.
I'll take a shot, as a non-scientist:The only way I can think of, is if you could destroy or convert gravitons into another form of energy.
According to the paper linked in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12373015), apparently the high-k dielectric nodes used at 45nm and below show ~5x times worse NBTI ageing than non-high-k 45nm PMOS gates, which decides the tolerances that are selected to provide X years of life.

(IANAEE)
There is a trick that seems idiotic but if you have a mechanical hand brake you can stop the wheel from free spinning. I'm not sure how well it would work for a front wheel, maybe you could hold the brake slightly while on the throttle. Again, seems ass backwards but if you think about what you're doing you're basically "locking" the open diff.
Not really. Creating an algorithm for recovering the jumps and the intent of the various MOV patterns would be no more work than it was to write this. Particularly easier because one has access to the obfuscator's code, but I don't think it would be a major hurdle even without the source code.
If you can actually pick up on this, it's a good early warning sign. If you don't already have your two weeks in by the time they take away the coffee maker, you've probably already stayed too long.
>Microsoft sells to OEMs, not to end-users

Microsoft relies on copyright for that.
> perhaps require renewal half way through to prove the work is still economical, etc.

This reminds me of one of the copyright reform ideas I've seen that has a tremendously practical approach to the power of the Mouse: an initial 20- or 40-year term, with an indefinite number of renewals of the same length allowed, but each renewal requiring filing with the Library of Congress and a substantial fee.
It's common policy for a company to require employees to take their leave beyond a certain accumulation.

It's good for the financial health of the company but importantly it's good for the employees to be rested.

It should be reasonable of course, but yes it makes alot of sense to have a company policy that you can't let leave accumulate beyond a certain amount.
I hope this is backed up in case Elbakyan isn't able to run it anymore. Sounds like a case for IPFS, though I don't know if it is up to it yet. Maybe she should just pass around some HD's.
> if he left, long-term we would probably need 3-4 people to take over his work.

I hope you're paying him really well.
You should get about the same results using a bundler. Perhaps the lodash.throttle package is for reducing `npm install` time or reducing bloat if you check in your node modules?
I'm sorry I took this long to come back here, but I decided to take some time to calm down and think about things before writing any replies or follow ups.

I'm immensely grateful for everyone's support here! :) I probably don't know any of you and yet it feels amazing that so many people care.

I've figured that my work environment is the biggest issue in my life right now. The interview experience was just the trigger to my reaction. But I've realized that I work in an environment where there's as much of a daily dick swinging contest as in those interviews, so I didn't just feel inadequate for failing an interview, I feel inadequate daily when I let the nerd lording get to me.

I see two options: either quit or try to be stronger where I am right now. I decided to give the second option a try before quitting. For the past few days I've been more vocal and trying to stand my ground a little more. It's going to be hard, but I want to give this a shot.

And to everyone who recommended that I get professional help: yes, this is past due. Working on it!
"I'll get kicked off the private tracker with all the good stuff if my seed ratio drops too low."
Might be a G3 thing, that device/GPU is really under powered for the display resolution (1440 x 2560) it needs to render.
The newer Jeeps actually have both! It's an improvement over AWD and they call it "Active Drive".

It engages/disengages the center differential (4WD) as needed automatically, but can also transfer power to be greater in the front or rear as desired - with presets for 60/40 and 40/60 rear/front power. (Sport mode, Mud/Snow)

It's also got traction control w/ ABS, and it uses the brake locking differential technique on each axle as the article describes in advanced AWD systems.

Of course they have different variations, one of which also has locking differentials on top of everything else.

It's amazing to drive. It's all fully automatic too.
Ask HN: What is your favorite book?
Inspired by the recent post, where the most mentioned books on HN got listed, I'd like to know what your favorite books are.

What book sticked with you for the longest time?

What book made a lasting impact on the way you view the world?

What is your favorite fiction book?
Great post...And boom!

This is a great guide for anyone interested: http://www.retrofixes.com/2013/10/how-to-clean-whiten-yellow...
Everyone's focusing on the technology involved, but that's kind of pointless because AWD isn't a technical term. It's a term to distinguish an on-road car with four driven wheels from an all-terrain car, because when the first WRXes and such came out, people saw 4WD and thought that meant they could be used to go bush bashing.
This is a bit of a tangent, but you guys seem like the right crowd. Logo has been on my mind the past few days, as I'm rapidly approaching my 20th "codeversary" (ie. 20 years since my very first programming lesson, in what I believe was Berkeley Logo). To mark the occasion, I've been trying to figure out what a Logo tribute tattoo might look like - the "turtle" is the obvious thing that comes to mind, but in the version of Logo I learned on, the "turtle" was just a triangle. I'm trying to come up with an image that's aesthetically pleasing, doesn't actually include any code, and is recognizable as Logo. So maybe the "turtle" drawing something, but what? (No idea whether I'll actually muster the courage to get this inked on my body, but it's a fun thought exercise either way.) Any ideas?
The US declared independence in 1776 and had the unification civil war in 1861. The political process is very gradual and even if a divisive issue such as slavery would pop-up in the EU then I doubt it would escalate into civil war.
The EU has a lot of scar tissue related to wars.

If you consider that the US took 4 generations to unify and you consider that present-day it is hard to imagine a peaceful unification then you should also consider that the way you think about things is dramatically different then the way your grandchildrens' children will perceive things.

For example, currently a large part of the EU population speaks english as second language but it's hard to imagine that majority of voting-age EU population to not speak english as second language in 80 years from now.

Speaking a single language will probably clear the biggest hurdle for effective political union.
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If an app requires a minimum SDK version of 24, this change means they cannot rely on an available OpenGL ES 3.1 or Vulkan implementation, which is contrary to the official documentation.

So "most apps" will "perform fine" unless they rely on CTS guarantees. If they want to fix the inevitable crashes on third-party ROMs, they will need to perform the same API-level checks that apps needed to perform pre-Nougat. Which is the definition of "fragmentation".
The only caveat, of course, is that if you unlock the bootloader on at least the Z3 and up, you lose a bunch of "protected" functionality, including what makes the camera on these devices great. It's for this reason that my Z5c is, and will likely remain, forever locked.

I used a root exploit to obtain permanent root on my old Z3c, but it felt kinda pointless since I couldn't install CM without unlocking the bootloader. (Yes, locked root made it possible to back up the DRM partition, but running CM without the DRM partition intact and the bootloader unlocked meant living with sub-optimal camera performance, so that was a non-starter for me too.)

So yes, Sony's devices are "easy to develop for", if you don't mind living with crippled hardware features (permanently, in the case of the Z5) once you unlock the device.
You see the same thing in the US at consulting companies. I've met many 'dynasty' families at consulting companies where the parents worked, children currently work, and their grandchildren intern at.
Hmm... for example, the scheme of solar or tidal energy to move water uphill, then grab hydroelectricity? is an example of storing gravity? is that a valid characterization?

And yes, you immediately got the worry; that accessing gravity would at scale over a few hundred years, be a danger.
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I wonder if one could get ARC Welder apps to run with this. Ideas?
The answer in this case is indeed simple: cost of living. It's really about 10x difference.
Obviously, if learning to spell works, whether complex or not, something else could be learned instead. I assume you don't mean spelling would be an exception, but I don't think that's relevant to the made argument.
Exactly. Research articles are produced with public money, and scientists do not profit financially from their sale, in fact both scientists and the public want scientific articles to be as widely circulated as possible.

It then seems completely backwards to use intellectual property to limit "unauthorized" redistribution of articles, in the hope that this would help the "authorized" publisher to circulate the articles...
Put at least $500,000 together and wait for SpaceX to develop the MCT.

You have practically zero chance of being an astronaut with NASA because the cost of launch with something like SLS will make sending more than a handful of the best of the best unaffordable.
My Nexus 5x will do it. No touch inputs, but does render.
>genetics
>has better DNA

It's a bit racist, isn't it?
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This distinction isn't really understood in the UK either, at least not as far as I've ever seen. If your car drives all 4 wheels, it has 4 wheel drive - no, seriously! - and you just have to know what its limitations might be. AWD vs 4WD seems to be one of those distinctions that Americans have, like drink vs beverage, that British English lacks completely.
Took me awhile to understand what you mean. I calculated inflation in Canada to be $27 today from $17 in 1990 (which was about what I paid then). Of course I pay $10-13 per album now.
> Taxes are still the main driver here

Should always keep that in mind when formulating tax policy.