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If it's not fixable in microcode, then yeah, I'd say it's pretty bad. Makes it useless as a cloud machine, if anyone can cause a DOS and take out every other VM on a host.

For a personal machine, it's probably not terrible if you are using linux or something else where you can compile everything yourself. But running binaries built by someone else would be a crapshoot. I wonder how many games (of the Windows, AAA variety) use these multiply instructions?

There's also not a lot of detail in the article—like if the data has to be specific or just the combination of instructions is enough to crash it.
There was a shipping container home on Grand Designs (what a show!) that looked absolutely breathtaking: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/24/1411571780563_wps_...

I think a bit of sprucing up (with wood and a sound paint-job) would go a long way to remove that whiff of trailer park that I get from your landing page.
A few years ago we shipped a fab shop complete with a plasma cnc from Texas to a farm in rural Kenya, the whole process was surprisingly easy and I discovered that farm life is way more fun with a plasma cnc!
How does that work, ad your main component, a shipping container, doesn't really scale much?
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How do you figure that se means lower end? It's the only model with that size screen; I'd think that's the determinant for a lot of people.
NixOps looks great. I'm glad to see there's work in that direction -- turn-key deployment is something that Docker, at least in theory, can do well.
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Or just buy the sofa from IKEA :)
Awesome. Don't hesitate to reach out if you ever need anything.
Yeah but that's a protocol issue. Single graybeard devs aren't going to be paid to fix that. The people who run ntp are going to push out a new protocol way before 2038.

Even if there are issues, more than likely they'll be able to handle it internally. OO programming isn't going anywhere and modern languages and concepts are easier to work with than piles of undocumented COBOL from Y2K. They won't be calling you with help to change date fields. That's trivial stuff.
man, that paper looks cool but i don't have enough of a neuroscience background to interpret the abstract
I recently launched fman [1] here as well. Maybe you'd like to check it out.

[1]: https://fman.io
Pubs are like that (they might carry 3-4 beers), but lots of times I drink stuff I don't like because I don't like any of the particular brands.

Choice is good, sometimes. :-)
No 2016 beagleboard implementation will be running BigCo's finances and be irreplaceable in 2038. Lets be realistic here.

Those 70s and 80s programmers were working on mainframes with multi-decade depreciation. We work on servers and projects with 3-5 year deprecation when we aren't working on evergreen cloud configurations. Not to mention we've already standardized on 64-bit systems, outside of mobile, which is soon following and has typically a 2 year depreciation anyway.
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Wikipedia says 292 Billion years forward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
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Nothing about driver compatibility :( it's a long and painful process to figure out if the computer you want will even work with the software you want to use.

Of course I'm sure it's better if you use the blessed OS and version pair, but I've never found a reason to use windows before....
In Unix v1 (1971) it actually did not even track the year. The time system call was documented as "get time of year", and returned "the time since 00:00:00, Jan. 1, 1971, measured in sixtieths of a second" (https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/pdfs/man22.pdf). The operator had to set the time on each boot, and there was no option to set a year. The PDP-7 hardware could increment a counter every 1/60 second but only while it was powered on. Later the time was changed to whole seconds and redefined to be the time since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 GMT (now UTC), but was kept 32 bits.
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What about NTP epoch which has 2036 problem?
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At thousands of units per month, we're probably off of shipping containers and onto something lighter and cheaper:)
Intel had serious problems as well, let's not forget: the Pentium fp bug and the F00F bug (though those are more than a decade old at this point)
Personal attacks will get your account banned from Hacker News. Please don't do this again, regardless of how wrong someone is or how bad some comments are.

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When I was at Cambridge I heard about people retaking the year, although if I understood correctly, those people are identified ahead of time, and don't actually sit the exam.
So would an article explaining the basics of say dynamic programming be of interest? Are there "page" limits. For example, would a tutorial article that is about 20-30 pages in a traditional paper format be okay?
It seems as if there are people who like mesh chairs and people who like cloth/foam chairs. Personally I still love my 10+ year old Aeron but I've also known quite a few folks who don't really care for them.
AMD already has a fix, it requires a BIOS update for the motherboard. They have not given details, but some experts think the fix is merely an increase in the power delivered to that part of the chip. Their conclusion stems from teh fact that the FMA3 bug disappeared when the chip was over-clocked because the over-clocking required increasing the voltage to the chip. So the BIOS update probably adjust the voltages up a bit.

http://www.fudzilla.com/news/processors/43166-amd-confirms-r...
It can also be adapted for macOS, if you're interested :)
>> the mere presence of diversity policies, diversity training, and diversity awards cause white people to be less likely to believe racial discrimination exists and cause men to be less likely to believe gender

This isn't really what the studies demonstrate.

It's unclear in the first study whether participants were male only, so I assume it was mixed gender:

>> Participants in one study read a New York Times article published as a class action lawsuit for gender discrimination against pharmaceutical giant Novartis went to trial [...] Those that read the sentence about theWorking Mother accolade were less likely to believe that the female employees had a valid case against Novartis, even though the rest of the article remained the same.

In the second study, only white people are tested and there's no analysis of other groups:

>> In one version, white people read either a diversity statement, or a mission statement, for a fictional company [...] Participants who had read the diversity statement were less likely to believe that discrimination had occurred and rated the Black employee more negatively

These both present evidence that people have biases. There's no evidence to suggest that white people or men are more likely to be affected by these biases than other groups. This is not to say that tech doesn't have a diversity problem or that biases aren't real, but I don't think any groups are magically immune to bias.
Well, thems WASN'T the breaks with Apple for a long time, and they did quite well.

The person you replied to was trying to make the argument that a vendor can sell more product if they make the hierarchy of quality more clear to the consumer. Saying 'things are imperfect, as a consumer you just have to deal with it' doesn't really address his argument.
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I would have to disagree. Yes, much of what they do as far as finding houses can be done online these days, but there are many edge cases where a (good) realtor can save you.

When I first purchased a home my credit history was.. interesting. The value the realtor provided was putting me in touch with the right grants, forms, etc and ways to build and fix my credit. They helped me not get scammed with a high interest or ARM loan. Their knowledge helped me. Also she steered me away from a couple houses due to inspection concerns that would have cost me time.

Fast forward to now my credit is awesome, the homes I can afford are in a far different category and my last home purchase was fairly routine, so my realtor didn't do as much but I still value their knowledge and experience because you won't need it until you need it.
FMA3 (fused multiply add) instructions are very common for any kind of audio processing (e.g. filters), not only for their speed but also their precision properties. Depending on how a game was compiled, these instructions would be all over the place.

But if this specific sequence is every run, that's another question, of course.
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Wordpress probably accounts for most of Mysql's popularity.
Ah "Direct primary care" meaning someone who is not intent on fleecing you at every possible opportunity?

Seems like a "business opportunity" that was missed until recently (mildly ironic statement)

Edit: I actually like the idea and hopefully it will help people priced out of health plans
> Your notice of insecure password and/or log-in automatically appearing on the log-in for my website, Oil and Gas International, is not wanted and was put there without our permission

Just wait until he finds out that firefox is blitting pixels to the display buffer! Who invited them anyways?
12 angry men.
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The first retina was actually the 3, which I have. I think the only upgrade in the 4 though was a switch to lightning. (Maybe some spec boosts)
Honestly, not really.
Most of the cases that get brought are resolved fairly quickly, from what i can see.

In particular, the ones actually between employee and employer, employees tend to lose except when it is very clear cut. IE if employer's interpretation of their R&D, etc, is not crazy, they tend to win.

So if employee's has idea for juicing oranges, and works for skateboarding company, employee's probably gonna win.

If employee has idea for juicing oranges, and works for blender company looking into other things, employee's gonna lose, even if employee didn't know about it, etc.

But there's also a lot of cases out there that are just proxy wars between companies where a claim about IP ownership gets tacked on.
These don't usually make for useful caselaw.
Here's an idea. Go talk to these guys when you're starting your company. These guys are seeing all the failures, so they should have a decent grasp of what NOT to do.

Discounting for the fact that they're only seeing failures.
The gear image of the YC logo is rather amusing. Those gears wouldn't move an inch in that configuration.
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"We are shocked that the CIA has the ability to use the command that we left in our firmware for them..."
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Actually Yan, I remember you signing up for fman's closed alpha! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery I guess :)
Y2K didn't cause any serious blips on the stock market, so 2038 will probably pass without many even noticing.
I'm not a kid or a grandparent, and I love my iPad for reading and taking notes -- it's also great when traveling. A number of the artists at work who used to be cintiq freaks are now using iPads with Apple pencils and seem to love it.
At which point we'll all still be too distracted by deciding which JavaScript build system to use.
Being too thick (at least while on my phone) to link to an earlier HN comment, I'll take my chances reposting an anecdote from the previous time I saw the sofa problem surface on HN:

>(...) or out of the room, since someone already got in there so of course it must come out.

-Not necessarily; while a student, I looked after the apartment of a friend of mine, who was overseas. When he moved there, we were _just_ able to eke his sofa around the last corner from the stairwell and through the door to his apartment. Just. After much cursing and several failed attempts.
So, what does a good (cough) friend do while the owner is overseas? Get some hardwood mouldings/trimmings/whatever you call those long, thin pieces of wood typically put where wall transitions to ceiling or floor and nail them to the exterior doorframes, making both door openings perhaps 3/8" or so narrower, paint them in the color of the doorframe, sit back and wait.
Then, years later, as he is about to leave town, moving company comes along and everything runs smoothly until one item remains. The sofa. Obviously, it got in - so it'll (as obviously) come out.
Only it doesn't.
We (everybody except the owner and the moving guys were in on the joke) managed to keep a straight face for several minutes.
The moving guys even laughed as they (eventually) left, mollified by a bottle filled with a Scottish export product which we'd kept on hand to ensure no feelings were hurt afterwards.
Having measured file system performance on Windows, what action can you take based on the results?
> Among many, many others. Neither is Go an hammer, nor is everything a nail. For the use cases Go was designed for, I am yet to use a language as pleasant to work with as Go.

You need to learn more languages (and really learn them).
As someone looking to purchase, thank you for this tidbit.
Oh, some of it does come down to almost begging. It shouldn't, because funding discovery is important. People doing long hours of hard work for the common good shouldn't have to beg for funding. Then again, we shouldn't have to beg for school lunches or housing for military vets either but look at social media right now.
Many places treat these types of dwellings as mobile homes, and there is probably no form of development that is more widely banned than mobile home parks.

Even putting one of these on your own lot as an accessory structure is going to be very difficult in much of the country.

These rules are all legally codified class discrimination, and is very much largely about middle class single family homeowners keeping out what they call "undesirables".

In their worldview, "undesirables" can include anything from a mixed use building with commercial on first floor and an apartment on top, to turning a single family home into a duplex, but there is nothing more detested by these folks than mobile home parks.

It's an American caste system and it leads to unnecessary high housing prices. Very broadly, America doesn't want to invest in fixing social problems and there is a big focus on just moving the problem to other areas. The counter-productive part of this is that high housing costs drain resources from families and that induced poverty state leads to the social problems that are trying to be hidden in the first place.

Zoning is in need of serious reform, it is possible to go up against it and it is possible to win. I have, but it wasn't easy, and you really need public opinion on your side.

Market positioning can make the difference, and there is opportunity for things to change due to the bad economic position many towns find themselves in. Many places simply can't afford their snobbery anymore.

The rebranding happening with the tiny home movement has a chance at breaking through this and I hope that it does.

I would love to develop a piece of land with a group of affordable small houses but it's a total non starter in my area.
What does everyone think about Homie and how they try to tackle this with a flat fee?

https://www.homie.com
Possible business, rentable laptops.
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how come it took so long to "launch"? I recall seeing you working on this in 2015?
Same, I'll be 55. My son will be 23. Either our generation fixes it, or his generation will have to fix it in their first jobs out of college (sorry kids!)
Normally, if you use archive (.a) files, then any .o files within them that are not needed, are thrown away.

But that is at .o file granularity. There's no per-symbol dead code elimination.

And if you provide a list of .o files (no .a files) then it doesn't throw away anything at all.
> Canadian living in Canada, but with some income the IRS says is American income…

So in that case, I'm curious what the penalty is for not paying. Presumably the IRS doesn't have the power to garnish wages from Canadian banks…
Interesting gh-pages approach!

Yes, that make sense. An orphan branch is a nice way to bring in the disparate history of a separate repo that you've decided to merge into your main repo.
That's easy, just snip the blue neurons. Or was it the red ones? No, definitely blue. (Snips red neuron.)
Basically I think that as long as the conversation is interspersed / mixed enough that I can't easily understand what people are talking about, then I think it's not thought disruptive, and even beneficial in that case - I agree when people are talking loud / clear enough that you are basically a third listener in their conversation that it can be less than ideal.
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I have mine specifically for LiquidText[1] to read papers and textbooks.

[1] http://liquidtext.net/
if you are running public facing servers off a vm in your kitchen and also use the host os to access a corporate VPN you're going to have a bad time
If this was actually about a security risk, they would be doing this on all airlines, not just airlines originating from Muslim majority countries. If you take Royal Jordanian to a European hub, then hop on a US carrier, you'll be able to take your gear on board. So this does exactly what to mitigate a security risk?

It does however force business travelers to rethink flying Emirates, Etihad, etc and fly United, etc instead. I'll be interested to see if these airlines sue.
Dogs are engineered for maximum adorableness and sympathy, after all. I don't think it's that surprising that the animal we made specifically to be the best companion possible is a better companion than a random untrained person.
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When you sort by date it automatically groups them by today, yesterday, last week, etc. which is fine, but then within those grouping they are not sorted by date/time
There doesn't appear to be any date on the site to indicate when it was written or updated.
You're a dev+lawyer with large company experience -- if you were writing a federal law on employee IP assignment, what would it look like?
$350 over 16 days is about $22 a day. What am I exactly missing about these profits?
There is no one with academic credentials in programming language theory in a position of power with Go. This is a fact.
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Yep, that's really a very good non-BS interpretation that does not harm common sense in any way.

In related murder news, murder suspect detained indefinitely until he shows hidden body to the police. They don't want him to tell them where is the body, they just want him to drive them there so they can dig it up.
Thanks! I'm not sure why you were down voted; maybe the down voter could publicly dispute your statement instead.
Building the CLI and the backend that powers it was a lot of fun. I want to write up a technical post on how it works, but the gist of it is:

* Node.js CLI that builds deployable zips
* AWS Lambda behind the scenes running the code
* A very "RPC-like" interface that calls into the exported schema
* It interops automatically with 750+ apps via our workflow editor

Previously you could do similar things via our browser based GUI - but surprise surprise - engineers don't really like working in the browser! :-P
Seems like a good opportunity for a small business. I think you could do this with angel investors seeking small returns, you don't even have to wait for sponsors.
I put you in a room with an encrypted drive and no password, and you will eventually be able to open the drive.

That you acquire the password in the process of opening it is immaterial.
I loved the synthetic gradients idea when it came out, but the deafening silence in the following months has been a letdown. I was hoping synthetic gradients would be great for parallelizing models on multiple GPUs or improving RNNs.
C# has had value types for a long time. The conclusions the C# developers came to were that the tradeoffs are indeed the same as in previous languages.

For some reason people keep wanting to deny the generational hypothesis, in the hopes of not having to implement a generational GC. Frankly, this is wishful thinking. The generational hypothesis has been borne out again and again and again, in all kinds of different scenarios.
No, that is not fake news. The title of the book is loaded but the facts you cited are unbiased.

There is a big difference between this and saying that Rockefeller advocated genocide, or that there's something wrong with the US and China having trade relations.

I don't think it's any secret or part of a conspiracy that Rockefeller worked to establish economic ties with China. It was part of his job. Bankers, hate them or love them, are part of the economy.
>there was the thrill of discovery, in a rather low-level sort of way

Same here, but whenever I embark on a new project today I remind myself of this mantra: "Do not reinvent the wheel" Someone out there has probably already solved your problem, so why not speed up the process and use the fruit of their brain power as a tool to speed up your process? Carpenters or mechanics do not invent a new type of hammer or drill every time they embark on a new project. Why should we?
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They missed an opportunity to call it PGBartender
Right, but at a high level, I'm answering why there might be money in consulting on this later.

There will be Fortune 500 companies that have old ntp clients running somewhere in 2038...pretty much guaranteed. They'll also have apps with 32 time_t structures running as well, database columns that overflow, etc. Or maybe they won't, but aren't sure. You sell them a service that audits all of those things, scripts that look for troublesome stuff using source code greps, network sniffing for old protocols, static analysis, simplistic parsing of ldd, etc. And, a prepackaged methodology, spreadsheets, PowerPoint to socialize the effort, and so on.

It was the same for Y2K. Fixes for many things were available well ahead of time. Companies had no methodology or tools to ensure that the fixes were in place.
Yes, it is an ABI break.

But if you took code that was compiled with each version, the binary data that they will produce/consume for dates between the epoch and 2038 is bit for bit identical.
Yeah we're still using file folders, office chairs, and some mugs from a .com I worked at that went bust in 2000 :-)
I'm not sure black cabs would automatically be under the VAT threshold. It is currently £83k, so in a 6 day working week that is £270 per day. Not an unachievable sum for a London black cab.
Haswell and early Broadwell had a bug in its transactional memory extensions so serious that the microcode "fix" simply permanently disabled the instructions.

CPU errata like this aren't uncommon.
I've found the frosted glass blur slows safari down significantly. There is an option to disable the frosted glass look in settings > general > accessibility > increase contrast > reduce transparency. My iPad Mini 2 runs much faster with this enabled.

Edit:

This only applies to the 4th generation iPad and up. Apparently the frosted glass look was never enabled for the third gen iPad.
Private Spaces not supported :(
Is OCaml a big thing at Facebook? Its interesting to see a language with less hype get new projects like this.
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