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Surface science (shittonium on silicon 111) has been promising to explain catalysis for 40 years now... it's still important to do, makes the chips run faster, but it's usually not considered real foundational.
n00b here.
Can someone explain to me how this works. I imagine a good developer is fairly expensive, so letting them do something unrelated to there job must be pretty expensive. How does this make business sense?
> What about the other 70% chance?

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/pancreatic-canc...

> We don’t know what causes most pancreatic cancers. But there are some factors that may increase your risk of developing it.

[...]

> About 7 out of 10 cases (70%) of chronic pancreatitis are due to long term heavy drinking. Chronic pancreatitis is a known risk factor for cancer of the pancreas.

> Some research suggests there may be a link between heavy drinkers and risk of pancreatic cancer.

> The risk is higher in people who drink 3 or more alcoholic drinks a day compared to those who drink less than 1 alcoholic drink a day.

[...]

> The links between diet and pancreatic cancer are unclear.

> A study showed that pancreatic cancer risk was higher in men who ate 120g red meat a day compared to those who ate no red meat.

> Some studies show an increase in risk with large amounts of saturated fat in your diet.

> A diet high in folate may reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer, but different studies have shown conflicting results. Folate is found in leafy, green vegetables.
Interesting that you see a difference. Who do you think the democratically elected are? "Wealthy ..."
It looks like this is putting 4 8 cores chips on the same package to scale up the cores counts, etc.

What are some of the technical limit to if AMD to 2, 4, 8x this approach?

Only power/heat? IO should not be hard since pins on MCM should be able to scale out easily, right?
Linux looks like shit with any tab width besides 8. Simple example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/livepat...

Notice there are a couple examples in that code where multiline method calls are meant to line up, and if tabs are not set to 8 they don't line up.
(replying to my own comment) Just looked up the issue related to audio encoding [1]

There are "audiophiles" out there who claim they can discern the difference between a 96-kHz (sampling frequency) encoded audio vs 48 or 44.1 kHz encoded, which is a mathematical impossibility, given a source with 20 kHz max analog, let alone a biological one. But then some prefer 192 kHz over 96 kHz!!!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/3ixkjt
My skepticism is not for Bitcoin itself, but blockchain in general. And not blockchain by itself, but actually the marketing hype that blockchain based startups are putting out.

Blockchain is a cool algorithm that can be useful if the situation calls for it. Ethereum is a cool idea that I'm skeptical of, but hey, that's why they're doing it and I'm not. I have my own ongoing bets. But I'm seeing much more of the marketing department using "blockchain" as a catchphrase to turn heads. Specifically the heads that don't actually understand what blockchains are.
None of that disagrees with my point, I don't think.

>>I think most companies implementing one would have screwed it up (see: RIM).

Little keyboards were a dead end (I think I remember reading contemporaneous articles noting the fundamental problem of "little keyboard -> little screen" and the little screen being just too small. The real issue wasn't the little keyboard per se, it was the little screen). I think Apple had the advantage in creating software keyboards, because they had the ability to tightly coordinate the hardware and software development. They also the capital to take the risk.

I suppose RIM also did hardware and software, but their software was less sophisticated than Apple's.

>>I find it plausible that, absent Apple's existence, we'd be using clunky GUIs on desktop computers and even clunkier GUIs with physical keyboards on smartphones.

Wasn't that sort of my point? My point was that only Apple was positioned to do the iPhone in the mid-2000s.
If we applied the same laws around not profiting off of violent crimes to white collar crime AND extended that to company stakeholders as well, investors would make executives knock off that sort of behavior real quick.
You might want to consider a deep collaboration tool (specifically built for asynchronous communication) like TMail21 (https://tmail21.com) . Deep Collaboration makes Deep Work possible.

For more on Deep Work, you can check out Cal Newport's book by the same name. (http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/ ). It's a great read and definitely makes one rethink productivity.
More general issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funarg_problem
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I was thinking something along the lines that hashing proofs aren't very rigorous. I mean, it all looks pretty good, and I have no idea how to break this stuff (not my department), but some weird topology guy could wake up one day and discover that hashes aren't as good as they looked.
In the long run, this will be cheaper than the cost of 2 Uber Pools (<$15 per Bounce).
In the short term, we can keep prices between $15-30 within a "zone."

We have a plan to drive the cost down even further with a different model that we'll roll out eventually as well...
Yeah, I'd agree that it's out of control. But fiscally dangerous might not be enough. Can help the problem by not jailing petty crime.
I think the correlation is between advertising spend and retail price.
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Even if the protocol is mathematically sound, there is no way to verify that it's implemented faithfully by closed source software such as WhatsApp.

Telegram protocol is open and has an open source reference client. While not as good as having both the server and the client open source, at least it allows independent verification that the protocol is being implemented faithfully.
The stuff that made Snapchat fun i.e Filters, Stories are becoming native to the platform e.g through ARKit and being copied aggressively by Zucker Zucker. I feel sorry for them, even though they were a pioneer into to leverage the smartphone's camera. Irrelevant but maybe relevant point, is us college guys mostly use it to chat with girls or just to be sure girls we wanna fuxk look good.
That would be resistance against a physical device, the comb. The only chance for lice-survival is to be full grown and still be smaller than a hair.
Yeah, the only way to use this privately would be to run it on your own server.

Pushing some sort of self-hosted enterprise version or even appliance might be a good idea.
For those of us like me who don't know what NRSC-5 is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_Radio
I don't think that's an issue because I would presume you write your existing records with an absolute timestamp (unix time) rather than a relative one? Am I missing something?
Why paint a portrait when you can paint a house?
I think its the platform that should give that option to the user be it android, iOS or what have you. You cannot trust individual apps developers and marketers to actually mean "Turn Off Tracking" even though the label next to the button says exactly that.

On Android turning off GPS is right there in the drop down menu. On iOS they would prefer for you to always have it on and hence the option is buried deep in the system settings, which is not as easily accessible as it is in Android.
See issues like https://engineering.instagram.com/dismissing-python-garbage-...

If you have to turn off a crucial language feature to increase performance, I'm not sure whether a language is considered "scalable".
Well, some of them - the popular ones, or ones with friends with money - get help. It's kind of like high school, but some of the losers die!
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Wouldn't survivor bias explain who BigCo X can be found using whatever questionable choice they originally made, but not explain why lots of BigCos have changed their practices.

This might explain Facebook and PHP, but it doesn't explain the stuff mentioned in the previous comment.
The differences between the 7601, 7551 and 7501 stuck out at me as interesting. The 7601 is at least $1300 more expensive for 200MHz more clock and 10W/25W (???) more TDP. Is that an artificial distinction, or do such high-TDP chips have a worse yield?
Booth babes will always be a thing. We are all slaves to the god of biomechanics.
Kottke's one of the very few blogs I've been reading for what seems like forever. He's still doing good work. Recently he's been trying membership, which I've not seen on a site like his anywhere else.
Don't be obtuse, it's not because of multithreading.

They move to static typed because their team is 100+ developers none of which knows the entire code base - and static typing helps lower the bugs possible.
The Linux codebase uses tabs, and presumably they have this rule about using spaces for alignment. I've seen tons of committed code that doesn't follow this rule, though, and hence Linux source looks like shit on anything besides 8 tab-width.
If the Zen 2 / Rome series brings down the power/heat a bit, that will probably be around the time I'm seriously considering another upgrade... my i7-4790 desktop has been really good to me for a couple years, but within another 2, may be looking around again. Though, the consumer variant will also be up for consideration.

Nice to see AMD competing again, knew they would get some ground in the server space looking at the Zen benchmarks on the consumer CPUs.
That seems silly. There are far more Java devs out there than Go devs.

Also, I would assume Uber probably has hiring problems in general at this point.
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Are you suggesting that invasion of privacy become a criminal offense? Effectively, that's what happened here, and even though its Uber, its individuals who did it. Your neighbor could do it to you as well. This seems like a slippery slope of criminalizing far too much.

For example, maybe Nick Denton should have gone to jail for invasion of privacy against Hulk Hogan? I don't agree with that either.
Should those things be measured in a study called "No correlation between headphone frequency response and retail price"?
> The 2-socket... is superior in every single aspect to the 4-socket...

Except density :) If both Intel and AMD do this, then I guess data centre admins do see the increase in density as worth the extra cost.

Does this increase in density have yet more additional cost implications in terms of cooling?
> pass the private health records within the company and defame that woman

Where did you get that impression the closet I could find in the article was

>speculating that Plaintiff had made up the brutal rape in collusion with a rival of Uber in India to undermine Uber's business

I'm no fan of uber but the allegations made by the plaintiff do not even amount to your description of them
Where do you get the idea that HN is full of "white" people?

Your sound like you see yourself as a non-racist, but you probably don't realize that you are actually being racist yourself by making these comments.
Previous submissions:

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14562331 (was flagged)

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14563285

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14562862

Other sources:

1. The New York Times: Uber Is Sued by Woman Who Was Raped by One of Its Drivers in India from https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/technology/uber-india-rap...

2. Bloomberg: Uber Accused of `Rape Denialism' by Victim of India Assault from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/uber-sued...

3. CNBC: Rape victim files new lawsuit against Uber from http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/15/rape-victim-files-new-lawsuit...

Edited to correct formatting.
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I'm curious, are you being snarky? Are you taking issue that a manager is at the switch and sweating some details, or are you just noting that this article was written about a trivial amount of government waste?

I can't tell if you're being snarky or not because you wrote so little. My finger was hovering over the downvote button, but I decided to give you the benefit of the doubt.
> Why are we talking about Fourier series?

Because all real systems are bandlimited.
If you have limited physical space, I can see taking the premium in cost for things like storage or CPU power. Larger data centres also have the capital to spend to squeeze out the cost of those components.
It comes down to binning of the same chip for AMD and there are people out there willing to pay the 100% extra for a 10% improvement.
We could focus on putting DIFFERENT people in prison, though. We could prioritize crimes that treats human beings as chattel for personal gain, or by the number of people an action harmed.
If convicted a person will have a criminal record which can destroy them professionally.
Centralized burning is more efficient.
Yeah but it's good that Jobs who has a kind of god-like status these days could be a complete f*ing idiot (which would be his own words) by being against things like the iPod for Windows.
Supposedly the big innovation of the Zen platform is its interconnect tech managing to scale performance nearly linearly with more chips. Or so AMD claims.
Rarely did bring a title such a broad smile to my face. And it turned in roaring laughter when going through the page.

Absolute brilliant :)
Define 'linuxey'.

For most people, the realization of the year of the linux desktop would involve it hiding anything traditionally linuxey away from the user.
You might want to consider using port knocking[1] to make your ssh server even less susceptible to attack.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking
I really love the Wemos D1 mini. It fits in a standard breadboard with space for a row of pins on each side. It's only $4 plus shipping from Wemos:

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/D1-mini-Mini-NodeMc...

For anyone thinking about trying ESP8266 programming, it's a great way to start. For my one-of projects, I just put a whole D1 mini in and don't worry about trying to optimize it to less components (why bother at $4/board?). Just order at least a handful as shipping is slow.
There's going to be a hit to I/O when one of those modules needs to access RAM that's on a different module's controller. The new bus seems to be really fast though, so I'm not sure how many you get have before it's a real problem.
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First time upvoting anything on here. Well written.
So they can have names like i7 6459K Extreme Edition?
Its telling that you don't see a difference.

And An-Caps never seem to understand why nobody takes them seriously.
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If you can't wake up in the morning, you probably won't accomplish much.
No. The teaching ability is a completely different dimension, orthogonal to other skills/knowledge you have.
The marketing might seem silly, but you want to hit the people who actually build your data centres with the awe aspect. They're the ones who make the recommendations when CTOs want to expand, and even if they think the name is stupid, it's something they remember when building those cost to performance charts/spreadsheets for expansions.
In job interviews I always zone in on the most complicated thing someone has worked on and then ask them to explain it to me. Often a thesis or a project or a large system or something low level to do with OS features etc...

It is amazing how rarely people can get it across to me in basic terms. In fact even the idea of breaking it down into non technical concepts seems to be surprising and alien to many people.

I really admire those who can.
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The problem I find with this outlook is that it takes technical terms being jargon at face value. If you can't fall back on progress in language which allows you to express more complex ideas, you're not going to reach the same depth of understanding in simpler words without it taking a lot longer anyways - with most of your time spent reestablishing what you just threw out the window.

If you rehash it in smaller words, just by information density alone, aren't you guaranteed to be losing some detail?
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Can't "terrorist groups or criminal organizations" already be "punished for the planning of 277 crimes"?

Is it not already against the law to plan crimes?
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This is generally true but I will add one wrinkle.

And there are three kinds of explanation:

1. visual

2. mathematical

3. linguistic

So sometimes, you understand something visually, or mathematically, but you are forced to put it into verbal terms (say, over a text only channel, or voice), and then you may seem not to be able to explain it even though you understand it.
To your implied question about Linux on a Chromebook - you can skip all that Crouton stuff if you flash a special bios. I've got Ubuntu Server with Xmonad on mine as a daily driver and it's been a smooth experience.
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The bottom of the article mentions a supposed leak of a 2018 server chip with 48 cores. I wonder if that's just an MCM with 6 chips, made feasible by the smaller die size and reduced thermals?
I assume by "128Gb", you meant 128GB. 128Gb of RAM is only 16GB, which can be found even in regular consumer PCs.

Edit: To be a little clearer, lower case "b" is the unit for a bit. Upper case "B" represents a byte.
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The ledger does not have to balance. If the probability of you repaying me is reduced I have no choice under accounting standards but to mark down the value of the loan on my books. You still owe me the money, but the asset on my balance sheet is a function of likelihood you'll go bankrupt.
That article isn't the same. They stopped paying their mortgage because that was a requirement for the TARP loan modification program. They didn't get the modification and as a double whammy fell even further behind on payments.

My issue is with banks, landlords, and utilities where you send payment and they act like you didn't. Then threaten you with all types of legalese. This happens all the time for long term, rent-controlled, and rent-stabilised tenants. The landlord is trying to find any reason to throw you out. I've spoken with housing advocates and legal aid on this. If the owner starts acting up, i.e. not cashing checks while simultaneously sending you eviction notices, document everything. Spend the extra dollars to send a certified letter and keep the receipts.
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Explaining a concept doesn't need to be done with complex technical terms. Analogies are sufficient.

Executing on a concept using complex technology requires complex technical terms.
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If there's a reason for it, I would have to guess the marketing team assumes that since many millennials are now in the position to make corporate buying decisions, the combined irony and nostalgia will entice them to look more deeply into the new server architecture? Personally, I could care less what the name is, and I'm sure the majority that will be buying these feel the same as I do. Performance and price is all that counts, and AMD has come out with something pretty remarkable in that respect. It's exciting to see Intel actually being caught with their pants down for once.
Without source code that seems like all smoke and mirrors to me.

I'd love it if they released it, and I'd start buying their stuff immediately. But until they put their money where there mouth is... meh
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So great to read personal stories about many of the insanely hard-working & talented engineers who made the iphone and ipod. Their stories sadly are often lost or left out.
Or to quote PG's Write Like You Talk[0]:

And in my experience, the harder the subject, the more informally experts speak. Partly, I think, because they have less to prove, and partly because the harder the ideas you're talking about, the less you can afford to let language get in the way.

Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas.

[0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/talk.html
Ok. Amazon's market cap first reached $20B in mid-2007. At that time they had about $475M in net profit on revenue of about $15B.

Snapchat's total revenue for 2016 was $405M, with net loss of $514M.

The two are not even remotely comparable in terms of financial soundness.
I think it should be based on a percentage of your income (with a set minimum, otherwise you're also just giving the poor a free pass), apparently Finland does this with speeding tickets.
Some more information (I posted this yesterday but it didn't get much traction). I'm personally really happy about this project, because something about proprietary technology being used for general radio broadcasts rubs me the wrong way. I really wish we would have adopted a system like DRM (digital radio mondiale, not digital rights management) instead of the deceivingly named HD Radio.

http://www.rtl-sdr.com/decoding-and-listening-to-hd-radio-nr...
I fail all interviews when I explain complex things in simple terms. Must be some correlation here.
You might compare the $9 figure with $1 for digispark clones, or $2-3 for nano clones.

That said, I basically agree.
Good points. Purist recording methods are almost unused in popular music; they're for classical or solo instruments only. There are few rational musical situations where an acoustic guitar is as loud as a drum kit, but we hear it all the time on records. Likewise, sounds aren't panned hard left or hard right, we don't record in giant churches, etc. Not to mention multiple overdubs by the same performer...

I don't really care if a recording is accurate. I care if it's enjoyable.

When I think of "the feeling of being there", I don't think of the feeling of being in the room with the musicians. I think of the feeling of what you're doing when you experience that music - where does it take you? I'll never be able to separate Pink Floyd's The Wall from making out with the girlfriend who introduced me to Pink Floyd, for example. Music has strong sense-memory, almost as strong as smell. That's what I want to engage - I want to make music you remember.
Pretty much a blatant rip-off of: http://livingcivil.com/disturbing-craigslist-ad-for-renting-...
> If you rehash it in smaller words, just by information density alone, aren't you guaranteed to be losing some detail?

Of course, but when explaining something to another person, one should strive to optimize for being understood, not for the highest information density.
If only there was a study which explained this... or maybe an "internet search engine" where you could find references.

I'll summarize for the lazy: taking everything else into account, men get 63% longer sentences for the same crime than women do.

If you look at crimes: http://law.jrank.org/pages/1250/Gender-Crime-Differences-bet...

About 80% are committed by men.

But 93% of inmates are men: https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gende...

There are any number of explanations for this. The most honest and rational explanations don't involve making men "bad" and women "good".
Feynman also said:

"Hell, if I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize." [1]

Showing a limitation of the maxim or Feynman's hubris?

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman
I agree, but wouldn't there be legal/licensing issues with this implementation?
Violating HIPAA and PII when your a company carries steep penalties; why not against individuals as well?
Ask HN: Designer Critique and Feedback?
For all the non-designers out there,

Is there a paid service or forum where one could post their site / web app and get critique from designers along with suggested improvements to the look / UI?