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Intel's roadmap is worthless, since they only seem to actually produce a given Xeon PHI SKU for about two years. Nobody -- and I mean nobody -- is happy with Intel's complete lack of availability for hardware replacements as the MIC addons fail. I can only hope the self-booting Knights Landing product is ... stabler.

I am aware of about fifteen different sites that are enacting significant architecture changes as the 5110 supplies dry up and the 7120s are clearly next.

It does not matter which product is technically superior when one of them is literally unsupportable.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13002196 and marked it off-topic.
Depends on what makes you happy, though. If you focus on the satisfaction of crossing a dreaded task off the list after you've been avoiding it for a few days, that can make the task an attractive choice.
That's why Go is so popular. It's the tooling and user experience that matters.
> I'm sure with a lot of dedication any amateur can already collect enough unique sounds and and snippets from prominent people to fake sentences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX1YVzdnpEc
Presumably even on good old X86 Xeon you cared about performance and figured out how to vectorize your code, so there's no change there.
The vast majority of student loans around 90% IIRC are directly from the federal government, not banks.
Do you really believe that seeing a picture of two buses on Facebook changed the candidate someone voted for?
Eh, AMD has been doing that and custom cores as their bread and butter, seeing as they design the chips that power all the >$100 consoles from Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, they have a good market niche that provides them with a decent market to keep the company viable.

I'm not sure of cracking a new market space would be a good idea either, just like how they aren't trying to go toe to toe with Allwinner offering H3 SOCs for $1ea with a quadcore and H.265 hardware decoding, it might not make sense to get into a 3 way war with Intel, Nvidia, etc.

Retaking or getting into another market with a single vendor or none presently would likely be more profitable, just as VIA did with their point of sale motherboards with crypto accelerators and tons of serial ports.

AMD only has so much money and talent, getting into a pissing contest is not something they are looking to do. Intel can piss harder and longer than them (just look at the contra-revenue they did with the HP Stream 7 and the $50 Walmart android tablet, Intel charged the manufacturer for the chip $X and paid them $X+Y for using said chip to compete with ARM).
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So send them to college elsewhere? in Canada? Europe?
The issue is that children are actively solicited by these adults to make these "harmless" videos specifically for indulging their sexual fetishes.
Fair enough. Hopefully nobody was confused. I was trying to meet the grandparent poster halfway. His comment was “[...] Don't try to imagine 4D space. You can't. If you think you can imagine a 4D hypersphere [...]”
I believe the comment is intended to point out to HN readers that this algorithm was central to the game, and since the game made a large amount of money, then this algorithm served (at least in part) as a basis for Notch's monetary rewards. I do not believe the comment was meant to suggest that this one algorithm by itself made money, as certainly any reasonable reader would understand that it is the whole game that made money. It is unlikely that the commenter was suggesting that you could, for example, sell a Perlin noise function for a billion dollars, or even generate any revenue directly from the noise function itself, absent a compelling game around it.

The commenter was, I believe (and I say this without having any inside information as to his or her thought process) employing a technique in which the full range of details surrounding an event are ignored in favor of one aspect (here, the Perlin noise function) on which we want to focus.
So, you're saying that a layman will trust scientists saying "When you run really fast, your watch runs slow," however, the same person will not trust scientists saying "When you have an extra blanket over you, you feel warmer."

May I assume you are that layman? What a remarkable mind you possess.
Reading papers is so crucial. It is a great way to get ideas and apply them. I was able to set up some really good tree based forecasting models based on a PhD dissertation I had read once.
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Wouldn't Red or Orange be a better colour? Also, what Karma do I need to see colours? :(
I'm speaking from my experience of losing access to my YouTube account (same username as I have on this forum) due to having used my gmail address to sign up. Google later started linking everything to plus and somehow my gmail account spawned a new YouTube profile that clobbered my old one.

I spent many, many hours over many years trying to get access to my old account again and never did. Email is pretty sticky, so I'm stuck relying on Google for it, but after this experience I'm overwhelmingly unlikely to ever rely on Google for another service I care about.

I've also had some significant technical issues with other Google services where there is no support (e.g. the talk plugin for Firefox simply won't install and the troubleshooting page suggests using Chrome), but losing my YouTube account is something I'll never forget.

Every experience I've ever had with Amazon's customer service has been fantastic. I wouldn't want to be one of their suppliers but as a customer, they're great.
Have you tried '--format'?
Huh? AMD is too important to Intel to let them fail, if AMD ever went broke, Intel would give them money just so they didn't have to deal with every country going at them for anti-trust law violations.
You're right on the money. In fact, I'd argue that almost no one is smart enough (or wise enough) to only borrow what they really need. I went to college when I was 30. I thought I was smart. I knew that new graduates typically make, maybe, $40K. Yet, I signed up for the full boat...taking every last cent they'd loan me. Consequently, my wife and I are now $250K in debt--and have just bachelor's degrees (plus incomplete master's degrees). Sigh. So much for being so smart.

Basically, I've come to the conclusion that college is not for all. We would be wise to get behind technical schools, and community colleges, and save the university for those pursuing subjects like medicine, science, math, law, etc. At a minimum we should change the paradigm of college--from being an "experience" (parties, socializing, sports), to academics. Getting rid of school sponsored sports would vastly change the perception of college. Plus, we should make it harder to graduate. Require a 3.0, and have controls in place to ensure grades don't inflate to enable everyone to achieve the new minimum. Basically, college should be 100% for learning. Sure, you'll still have friends, go to the occasional party, but on the whole you're only there to learn and do things you couldn't learn or do elsewhere. Right now it's almost day care for 20-somethings. This would also necessitate dropping easy programs and majors. Not that there isn't a place for the arts, but is a four year degree in English or Art History really a good idea?

But yeah, I've noticed the same thing: the more we incentivize people to go to college by way of grants and loans, the more expensive it gets. When was college cheapest? When there was virtually no aid/loans available to anyone, and a much smaller percentage of people went to college.
I have enjoyed making tech podcast especially for the 20-30 minute commute. They are fun and informative with a kick of inspiration and have been a side project to help me network with cool people in the tech space. So far I have had on the show Grammy & Emmy award winning talent, space experts, angel investors, Billionaires, AI, AR and VR leaders and a few new YC founders to boot.

Tomorrow's Tech - https://soundcloud.com/user-925097294
For huge sites - perhaps. But do you do that for your own site ? For small business sites ?
pg wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226
Use the Fast Mail mobile app for a week, then tell me this again.
Agreed. I think that changing the high schools would be the best way to go about this, instead of finding ways of paying massive amounts to colleges.
I think you are mistaken in thinking this is a temporary reset.

I believe that there exist giant but difficult to see cycles in our social world which occur on the order of every 50 or 100 years.

Around 1973 wage growth halted for 60-80% of workers in the West. As you can imagine, economic cycles and social cycles are linked, even if they are not the same and one lags the other.

The next generation after the millennials is not progressive, it is much further to the right than the right of the present. To cut a long story short I believe that the phenomenon we see in Israel with the young people there is going to spread to Europe and America.

My tentative guess is that this left/right divide we talk of, is actually tens of thousands of years old and is buried into our source code, our DNA.

It would make sense, would it not, since 'being wrong' politically usually meant death for whoever didn't turn out to be our ancestors.

It follows that 'changing our perspective' or 'education' is not going to work, that is thinking on the software level when the bug/feature is coming out of the hardware.

To give you a quick run down of what I think is on the cards.

- Root and branch purge (ex-STEM) of the universities for monetary and ideological reasons (looks like starting in Japan).

- Gen Z becomes the most right wing in living memory.

- Social programs go bankrupt. No Pensions. End of social democracy.

- Transnational nationalism becomes a thing.

- The middle class lose their jobs thanks to sustained cuts (dying tax base) and technology. Silicon Valley gets flak.

- Interest rates rocket upwards. Student loan debt and mortgage debt becomes unsustainable.

- Conflict breaks out in Europe.

- Surveillance and robotics technology bring us all kinds of new goodies.

The good news, as I see it, is similar to the 20th century. Depending on where you lived it was either a utopia or a dystopia. It was either the best of, or the worst of worlds depending on place and time. France on the eve of the Revolution, Germany before the crash, these were the most advanced societies of the time.

I suspect this all looks strongly like a step backwards but a glance at history suggests this is preferable to the alternative of a long slow stagnation. I suspect retrenchment is a necessary feature of our system.
> All I can say is that momentum conservation is Lorentz invariant in my system

If by "my system" you mean your hypothetical theory where energy is not conserved but 3-momentum is, I strongly suspect you have not done the math. See below.

> The conserved quantity is not invariant, and conserved quantities do not need to buslye Lorentz invariant, and fact almost always are not. If this confuses you, sorry, but I cannot follow your reasoning anymore.

I understand what you are saying here, but it does not refute what I was saying. You are saying that, for example, in standard relativity, energy is conserved--in a given frame, it stays the same through any series of events--but it is not frame invariant; changing frames changes the energy. I agree with that.

What I am saying is something different: in your hypothetical relativistic theory in which energy is not conserved, then 3-momentum cannot be conserved in any frame other than one particular one (which in my example was the center of mass frame). I am not saying the numerical value of the 3-momentum has to be the same in all frames. I am saying that in all frames but one, the numerical value of the 3-momentum, as evaluated in that frame, is different after an inelastic collision than before, i.e., 3-momentum is not conserved in that frame.

Here is the math backing up that assertion. Suppose 3-momentum is conserved in the center of mass frame. In that frame the 3-momentum is zero. We assume that our system consists of just two billiard balls, each with the same rest mass m. Before the collision, one ball has speed v and the other has speed -v (we can restrict ourselves to one spatial direction). After the collision, one ball has speed w and the other has speed -w, where w < v (because the collision is inelastic). So 3-momentum is zero before and after the collision in this frame, and energy is not conserved--it is smaller after the collision.

Now transform to any other frame. Call the relative velocity of the Lorentz transformation u. Then, in this frame, the speeds of the two balls before the collision are (I am using units where c = 1)

v+' = (u + v)/(1 + uv)

v-' = (u - v)/(1 - uv)

and the speeds after the collision are

w+' = (u + w)/(1 + uw)

w-' = (u - w)/(1 - uw)

Now we evaluate the 3-momentum in this frame. Before the collision, it is

m ( v+'/sqrt(1 - (v+')^2) + v-'/sqrt(1 - (v-')^2) )

After the collision, it is

m ( w+'/sqrt(1 - (w+')^2) + w-'/sqrt(1 - (w-')^2) )

Substituting and straightforward algebra simplifies these to

before = 2mu/sqrt[(1-u^2)(1-v^2)]

after = 2mu/sqrt[(1-u^2)(1-w^2)]

These are obviously not equal, hence 3-momentum is not conserved in this frame. (In standard relativity, where energy is conserved, 3-momentum would be conserved as well; as I mentioned before, the simplest way for that to happen would be for the two billiard balls to heat up, increasing their rest mass. More complicated ways would involve other particles, or the billiard balls emitting radiation, or something like that.)
The original research article [0] provides more insight into the actual issue at hand. Specifically, it enables the execution of arbitrary commands.

[0] http://blog.anubisnetworks.com/blog/ragentek-android-ota-upd...
Similar setup. Didn't get into it for backup but it could serve as that. Add a rifle to the mix for lots of reasons.

Edit: digital backup I'm less concerned. Have lost stuff and survived just fine. Most of my digital trail is ephemeral and not worth as much to me personally as I thought it was. Pretty much only some writings and many of my photos matter. It's really only about augmenting my memory. Plus NSA backups.
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Character devices are a fertile ground for cool projects in my opinion. They're not very hard to make (typically just a kernel module, no booting a custom kernel), most unix tools interact with them naturally because they're just files, and they can do many interesting things within the kernel. One of my recent projects (after system calls) was to create a "chat server" in the kernel with a character device. Good references are Robert Love's Linux Kernel Development, 3rd edition, and the Linux Kernel Module Development Guide.
Nvidia has taken over a newer segment, cars, and they have a stronghold in the HPC market due to the sheer number of academic compute clusters that have based their setups on Nvidia hardware.

Intel has forced Nvidia out of the mobile and lowend/midrange desktop space, eliminating what used to be their bread and butter, so this pivot by Nvidia to markets where they either control the whole stack with their custom ARM cores, or where Intel can't lock them out by getting rid of PCIE lanes like on laptops/desktops (AMD would get subbed in cause PCIE lanes are all that matter) has definitely put them in a stronger position, justifying that valuation.
The identified affected devices are listed in the provided CERT article. [0] There are similar devices affected by this issue and the ADUPS spyware, potentially a cross-section of BLU devices.

[0] https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/624539
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Deitel&Deitel make some amazing books as far as I'm concerned. They were my source material through college and a very enjoyable introduction to C, C++, and Java.
I wander what kernel developers thinking about migrating toward C11.
Attend a demo party.
No one is denyng that, but like every other trading mall in china, times are changing. Yiwu gets the brunt of it because it got so much business, but the traders from the Middle East and Africa have cut back.

Next thing you'll tell me that the Canton Fair is still going strong, which it isn't.
The author is themselves handing out incredibly rash and potentiality harmful advice.

The author answers this objection [0] on the Reddit thread [1] about his "Code I'm Still Ashamed Of" post:

devmastery[S] 15 points 4 days ago

I hear you. To clarify...

What actually happened is that she spoke to her doctor about being uncomfortable with the way the medicine was making her feel and he was able to recommend a more traditional medication that had been on the market much longer and did not end up having the same effect. Her transition was medically supervised. And she's doing great.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5d56fo/the_cod...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5d56fo/the_cod...
Is that what they use in Metal Gear Rising to simulate the texture in the inside of objects?
I'm about to start the process, but I'm having a hard time picking a province. Any pointers? I don't speak French, I would like a somewhat temperate climate, and affordable rent.
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The console business has razor-thin margins, there's not enough money being made there to sustain a company the size of AMD. Where that business might save them is if say Microsoft decided to buy them out to secure their supply of chips for the Xbox. The fact that it would force Sony to look elsewhere for their next-gen console wouldn't hurt I'm sure.
Are you sure about that? Bayh-Dole covers inventions arising from extramural funding (i.e., the NIH provides a grant to people who are employed elsewhere).

I'm not sure how it applies here, where ~80% of the authors appear to be directly employed by some of the NIH's Institutes.
> "Show me a union that functions like a "guild" where it polices it's membership extremely well, and people strive to be skillful enough to join"

Pro sports players' unions.

It makes sense -- owners must act as a collective unit in order to ensure competitive balance and some degree of economic stability. A sports league where one team can afford to buy all of the best players from other teams is going to lose fans very fast. With owners acting collectively, players act collectively as a counterbalance. They make sure that they get a reasonable share of the overall income, and that it's distributed in a way that pays top performers more but also pays well enough at the bottom to keep the league an attractive place for marginal players.
I expect that we would continuously be an intelligent race that performs observations and does science the entire time, even as we evolve to unrecognizable forms, so, we'd just "think about it" as it's happening.

There's no analogy with dreaming.
My point was you have to start something to solve an actual problem, not to replicate success in another category. It's really a subtle difference because the result may look similar: like you said, Uber is like an AirBnb for cars. But the difference is the founder didn't start out thinking "How do I take an AirBnb idea and apply it in another fast growing industry?"

In my opinion this never never ends up performing better than the original idea because of exactly the question the guy asks: ".. another fast growing industry?" AirBnb started when there was 0 market for something like AirBnB, Uber started when there was 0 market for something like Uber. That's why they are where they are now. If it was so obvious, it would have been already tackled by other large companies that are looking to expand their business and AirBnb and Uber wouldn't have a chance.
Or rather, it's why almost every popular tool is popular. Take Rails for instance. It's just that Go competes with C and boy howdy does the comparison look good to anyone who can make the switch.
typo: "is certainly necessarily" -> "isn't necessarily?
I don't disagree with your comment, but wouldn't you agree that the last thirty years have introduced an unprecedented technology environment for tracking ROI on advertising? It seems clear that a lack of incentives, not abilities, is what keeps this racket afloat. For that reason, I'm not so certain that it will be allowed to continue forever. Once advertisers get a taste of real ROI metrics, they'll drop the hand-waving platforms overnight. Biggest market opportunity of our age?
The reality is that providing tuition free loans does cost the government -- whatever the opportunity cost of using that money now was. Though you could argue that the externalities of having an educated population outweigh the opportunity cost.
Keep in mind there's no reason not to be hugely skeptical of the 'EM drive' right now.
As an electrical engineer (focusing on signal processing), Matlab appears to me to be the overwhelmingly dominant tool in my discipline for prototyping algorithms and performing analyses. Recently, though, there has been a resurgence of interest in Python (with SciPy, NumPy, and Jupyter). I'm not sure if it outstrips IDL in popularity yet, let alone Matlab.

For me, personally, I use Octave at home when prototyping algorithms because I'm cheap and haven't paid the ~$1k for a Matlab license.

In my experience for real-time implementation, neither Matlab nor Python are considered efficient enough, even after using something like the Matlab compiler or Python's psyco or equivalent. Again, in my experience, C is by far the most popular choice.

With regard to learning Octave and/or Matlab, I'd say people learn it because of inertia and that they're well-tuned for numerical analyses. I say this even though Python's my favorite general-purpose language. I still prefer Matlab/Octave over it for crunching data because, to me, they seem better designed for that purpose.
Thanks for the TLDR!
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Well, I was looking at that page too, but didn't bother to quote what it's called because the term doesn't say anything useful.
I'm using Arq (https://www.arqbackup.com/) with Google Cloud Storage. Arq is a stand alone backup program that supports a bunch of different storage providers. From their site:

> Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive accounts, or your SFTP server or NAS.

It encrypts locally so I don't have to worry about the backup company reading my files.

I have 3 backups configured. One for "Documents" which backs up everyday. Another for Photos (which are stored locally on an external HD) and another for Music (which apparently everyone but me doesn't own music anymore and just uses Spotify) both of which I run manually once in a while. If I ever get a desktop again I'll make those automated.

I deleted my entire hard drive by accident 5 months ago so since that time I also started using Time Machine to an external drive. It starts nagging me every 10 days to plug it in.

Also use Google Photo's free service not as backup but just as access to my photos. Earlier this year I uploaded all 130k photos at their "free" resolution

I don't backup work. Work does that. Most of it is in git. Same with personal projects. It's all on github.
Yes, and lose access to the IR sensor and gestures (probably)
great. You can bring your 250k+ usd income earnings, buy up real estate here and make it even more unaffordable for us canadians to own property and live here.