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I highly doubt it. Having multiple hardware architectures in a datacenter is very costly. One gets better prices buying more items from the same supplier. It's a lot easier to maintain replacement parts/units for 1 architecture. Developing, testing, fire fixing bugs on multiple architectures is slower.
Pretty useful for twitter. I'll give it a try.
Yeah, that's the perspective of the client.

The perspective of the service provider is that it's a marketing feature to sell. The trade off being that the service starts to be "risk managed" more and more.

I personally haven't seen better services due to SLAs, but I do know I'm not the center of the universe.
So it is not a good idea to put an affiliate banner on a normal page, hence perhaps why I have not gotten a single sale. Affiliates just require a different strategy?
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That's wrong, the inner VMs run faster.
EDIT: Looking at the suggestions, I'm willing to spend ~ 700 I guess, cause I'll be keeping it for a while. More suggestions welcome!
To be fair, the agreement with my parents is that I should maximize my educational value. If that means taking a poorly paid research position instead of a better paid internship, they are happy to foot the bill. As far as working during the academic school year, I TA for classes (and get paid) but the primary goal isn't to pay for anything significant but to learn. I feel extremely fortunate to have the wealth to pursue my ambitions under my own willpower without worrying about expenses. Now, I have been doing paid summer internships since I was 15 or so, so I do pretty much pay my expenses during the school year.

Also, $100k per year is not rich, it's upper-middle class. I'm not sure where they got that from.
families making 1M+ probably aren't sitting around responding to polls
but when you have thousands of machines of each type, perhaps those economies of scale level out a bit
To manage it ... in your account settings, there's a "noprocrast" option. Just set those values to how many minutes on, how many minutes off, and you'll get locked out so you can get your other work done. If it's interesting, I'm building a noprocrast for the entire internet ... there's a link in my profile. But for HN, your best bet right now are those noprocrast settings.
Warning about closing the tab seems excessive.
You can see an example of this using the sweet happyworm player here:
http://www.isound.com
Google would argue with you.

They roll a heterogenous server setup intentionally to minimize impact from hardware faults, bugs, etc. You build your software at a high level where the hardware under is abstracted away.
I agree, but "stuck in a dream" doesn't explain the events of the movie.

My theory is that Moll knows (from the level where she jumps) that Cobb knows hows to do inception. She gets back to reality and tell people. The film portrays this knowledge being "extracted" from him -- perhaps, in part, to get him to finally jump.
YC companies getting featured on TechCrunch is the only reason TechCrunch doesn't get blacklisted on news.yc like Valleywag.
I understand finely why your criticism might be a valid point, however, when all comments take the same shade that your criticism does, we start looking for the trees and miss the forest.

If you can build something for $100, yet the same thing they used costed $250,000 to build, ok let us even say for good measure it costed $25,000 and the rest was inflated, compared to $100 it must be a well awesome product, way superior than what you could build, ten times, 25 times, and if we are to trust the actual figure, 250 times better than what you could built.

The point of the article is most probably that it is the latest technology anyway. I mean, it is fine to look out for these flaws, but something much grater happened there, they actually discovered something. If all we get from comments is flaws flaws and the opposite down voted, then this community simply is not working.
since it's Google (Google!) who got it wrong.

Amen!

This is just wrong on so many levels.

I also find it funny how nobody seems to be concerned about giving their mail password to them.
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Now my nexus is almost as useful as my old e61i.

Too bad I can't download a real keyboard
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This is, in my eyes, really part of a larger trend. Python for example has WSGI (which I think kicked things off), and I believe Perl has PSGI/Plack.

http://wsgi.org/wsgi/

http://plackperl.org/

The commonalities seem to be (1) a library-agnostic specification, (2) a simple dictionary-based data structures, (3) pluggable and self-contained "middleware", and (4) massive adoption as people run away from the exploding burning horror of the ever-multiplying HTTP servers being written nowadays. Even large frameworks that existed before these specs get grandfathered in, like the effort to put Django on WSGI or Ruby on Rails on Rack.
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I've never seen anyone mention a real python or ruby here. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but I think it's a safe assumption just to assume that the typist was lazy.
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Will the sound files be back? I'm getting a 'file not found'.
"Emulation has been scientifically proven to be the most powerful learning device known to man."

Has this really been proven? I notice I learn best when trying to reproduce examples, but I didn't know this was a "thing." Is this just hyperbole, or does anyone have a citation?
I still see the post and the site referenced.
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For sure... Atom is one of Intel's most backward products, which has received the smallest investment out of nearly all of their CPU lines. They have the capability to scale it much much higher, if there's a market for it.
My thought was that they want enough separate cores to handle a case where 1 core is handling 1 user's page load.

So for a midsized datacenter with say 200 racks, each ARM based rack could have 320 cores in it, giving 64K cores.

Since a FB page may take 200ms to load (or some other load time internal to FB response time targets), such a setup could handle 64K * 5 (i.e. 5 users per second at 200ms/page) or 320K simultaneous users per second; figuring 30 seconds of viewing time per user, this gives you almost 10 million users' worth of capacity.

(all numbers back of the envelope, hypothetical)
Yeah, I pretty much called this one.
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What was the likelihood they'd say "no, our game is no fun to flirt with/on dates?"
Ask HN: I Am Tired of this now, Can I be deleted?
Please? That includes all the posts I have made and al the submissions and all else?
Should Facebook be worried about this competition?
A few things:

1) The intro video is amateurish and uncompelling -- nobody wants to see a deck poorly animated with black bars on the side.

2) The web design needs some work. I'd recommend hiring someone with more modern sensibilities/tastes to redesign the front page. There are little things: the first signup button isn't centered, the bottom one is way too small and laid out wrong.

3) "Wait, does Facebook do that?" Answer this question, clearly.

4) Show your product. I should be able to see it, get a taste of it without signing up for it (this matters more in the beginning/without network effects which is where you're at).

5) What are your USPs? What is Facebook not doing? The major two problems are context collapse, which you're addressing, and privacy. Think about addressing that as well. That was the major reason for the fundraising success of Diaspora. Their home page is closer to how a landing page should look in 2010 as well: http://www.joindiaspora.com/
Yeah, most successful affiliate marketers seem to do it as their main thing--- they build entire sites with the sole purpose of pulling in visitors who'll click through and buy something via the affiliate link. It seems much more difficult to use them as a way to make money from a normal site, although I've had modest success with relevant Amazon links (Amazon is nice because you get commission if someone clicks through and buys anything within 24 hours, not necessarily the product you linked).
This one jammed for months: (Chinese text with video)

http://news.qq.com/a/20100605/001157.htm
Ask HN: How to launch e-book?
I have an e-book ready and good to go - is there anything I need to know before I try selling it?

Is it acceptable to sell an e-book via paypal? If not, what other service should I use to accept payment?

Are there any legal concerns to be aware of? Am I allowed to just put up a site and accept payment for an e-book?

Has anyone successfully written and sold an e-book? Any advice?

Thanks for any insight!
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Readers of a peer-reviewed article are, I think, willing to stipulate that the authors of the article are using adequate equipment. Probably most of the researchers of submitted articles which the reviewers criticize or reject use the same equipment.

The price of the equipment is not a factor in the credibility of the work. It does not make it more or less credible or flawed in any way. It is unusual to see the price of the lab equipment mentioned - that's all.
Why would the question need context? It is not asking of a specific instance, as in, was it reasonable that such a thing happened at such a time, but generally.

That is, do you think that reason reigns supreme from your practical experience of life.
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It will also stay very similar. The outline of life in the 1970s vs 2010 is still fairly similar.

That's the entire point of this (sub)thread. Making predictions of the next 40 years based on the last 40 is likely to lead you astray. A whole bunch of things are coming to a head. Coming revolutions in biotech alone are likely to seriously shake things up, IMO.
With no technique or skill, your passion means nothing. Passion is the content, and technique and skill is the delivery vector.

As for breaking the "rules", the theory goes you have to master the rules to break them. Expressed in a more technical way, once you know the rules, you know when and were it's ok to break them, and you can also adhere to most of the rules while only breaking one or two.
From what I understand (and this is heresy) google waits a couple of microseconds and lets a page generate content before it crawls it.

That being said, if you follow google's rules as specified here - http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started... , it will crawl your ajax pages, no problem.

Finally, please be a little civil. Thanks.
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I was a student (now graduated). And I was not alone in lacking needed resources. I had numerous friends in other departments who complained of lacking needed journal articles.
While the math isn't glaringly erroneous, the assumptions used are.

For one thing, it's looking at nearly risk-free rates of return while assuming a long-term horizon. (30 year treasuries are paying 3.65% now.) Sure it's easy to point out during the worst financial crisis of the last 70+ years that the S&P has fared poorly over the last decade. However even now, in a time of relative disaster, over the last 50 years (the timeline we're looking at if we're retiring at 30 and dieing at 80) it's returned about 8.5%. (That's using this chart http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/charts/chartdl.aspx?sym... and a little math). Average since the Great Depression is more like 10%. While many people now believe it will be lower going forward even the worst skeptics are talkinng more like 7-8%. I don't know that I buy it because, as the old joke goes, economists have predicted 9 out of the last 5 recessions, but even if so that's a vastly different picture than 4%, and excludes the fact that there are many investments with higher ROIs to be found readily if you're either willing to do more work or accept more risk.

That's not to mention, FU money doesn't have to mean a jet-setting lifestyle. It just means enough to do what you want. One could live very happily in most of America spending $100k/yr, including their home. That's actually quite a bit when you consider that you're not paying income taxes, just capital gains. It's like making $150k, or 3x the national average. With $4m this is achievable even at money market rates.
I think this makes sense in a couple of situations. First, for stuff that is fairly simple and where not having page loads is highly desirable, such as a music playing app like his example. Second, for stuff that is complex but you have a team of engineers and computer scientists as well as a suite of tools that make dealing with that complexity much more manageable, as in Gmail.

In most other situations though, where you have applications that are not simple, do not have some requirement that really benefits from not reloading pages (e.g. are not playing audio), you are not Google, the additional complexity this approach carries with it is really not worth it.
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Disclaimer: I work on a key/value store, so take my opinion with a grain of salt even though I'll stay clear from self-promotion, yadda yadda.

Without distribution a key/value store is a hash table. To have any value added it's going to need to be a distributed key/value store. Distributed key/value stores, however, run just as well on commodity hardware. Problem is very few companies work at a scale at which per machine efficiency, power or other cost savings are going to matter; that's a very small market and one that's difficult to sell to.

On the other hand, a customized Linux distribution with a nice UI for deploying key/value stores would be a good idea.
hopefully not, this functionality has crippled some good communities I have been a part of.

1. It destroys any historical data, not just yours, but everyone who ever replied in the context of anything you submitted / commented on.

2. When things are impermanent, people dont feel as much responsibility when they post, its much easier to post a snarky or cruel reply when you know you can just absolve yourself of responsibility down the line.
So here in Australia we use plain old paper and pencil ballots (it is the same in every state - it's Federal). How does electronic security compare to pencil on (anonymous) paper ? I am sure paper fraud happens - as would manual counting (it is manual but overseen of course). Is it perhaps that with electronic both the scale can be increased and the chance of detection decreased?
Actually, I preferred the other version. I've tried Protector IV and didn't really liked it.
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The fact that grants and scholarship are nearly identical across the range (~$6k) is somewhat surprising. I guess fewer grants/scholarships are need-based than I thought?
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Is it not the case in the US that representatives of each party supervise the counting of the ballots? Pretty sure that's how it works locally; though elections are state-governed so I guess there could be some variation.

Having representatives of each party overseeing the process should serve to keep any monkey business in check. Though when people are involved, there's always a chance for corruption.
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Depends how good of a deal they can offer you. Saving 20% on a fleet of x86 servers is great but over the long term the supplier isn't going to be paying your electricity bills.
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Rubbish, I am confused, what on earth happened - follow up to "I Am Tired of this now, Can I be deleted?"
Ask HN: Do you ever downvote negative comments to your submissions?
ASK HN: Do you ever downvote negative comments to your submissions?
on the slashdot comments they were saying that the jam has lasted 9 days but it doesn't take that long to get through it. Rather there has been enough new traffic to sustain the event for 9 days.
We were not reading a peer reviewed article.
Some people in my lab worked on laundry manipulation, and it's surprisingly hard. My personal guess is that it's the lack of touch sensors. You can fold socks with your eyes closed pretty quickly, but if you had to do it with visual clues alone (e.g. by using a pair of those Gopher tools http://www.amazon.com/Seen-Gopher-Pick-Retrieving-Tool/dp/B0... ) it would take you significantly longer.
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Don;t ask that. Etiquette is last century in hacker news land.
>From your family's standpoint, the pay you received was probably immaterial compared to value of the experience.

You seem to be laboring under the misapprehension that I have any sort of access to my parents' money. My bank account contains only what I've earned (and been given over the years at e.g. my bar mitzvah, though most of that was depleted by paying for a year of college, and that's only because of a roughly 450% return over 7 years...my dad managed my "portfolio" very well for me, which is a benefit I will admit a lot of people don't have).

>What if you had received two internship offers one summer: (1) A boring but well-paid position, and (2) a really exciting/enriching opportunity that didn't even pay enough to cover your living expenses? Would your family have forced you into #1, or would you have been subsidized for #2?

The situation didn't come up, so it's hard to say. I studied something with practical and relatively lucrative applications (CS) rather than stuff like classics (actually, now that I mention it a good undergrad friend of mine had a full ride scholarship because of her family's financial situation, and she majored in classics). If it had come up, well, I'm sure there's a point at which making an extra $1-2k on the summer wouldn't be worth the experiential opportunity cost, but I primarily worked to make money, and would have balked at an internship that didn't even pay my living expenses. Believe me, the educational benefit of grading 400 proofs every week, half of them written by symbolic systems sophomores, suffers from very steep diminishing returns.
RC servos meet all of those requirements, wouldn't you agree?
I don't think it's just the web space. Maybe academia's different, but over the past 10 years, a lot of infrastructure we used to use Solaris/Sparc for (and miscellaneous other more exotic things) has all been transitioned to a mix of Linux/x86 and Windows Server/x86--- email servers, compute clusters, payroll, course registration, pretty much everything.
My back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that a hardware-based key value store (custom chips driving DRAM plus ethernet interfaces in a 1RU chassis), would use so much less power than an average x86 server that you could charge a great price thanks to the TCO / power savings.
Expressway?? the photo in that piece shows a one lane road with pedestrians walking along the sides.
If you just hit 'Calculate Score' on the default 'Enter text ...' phrase, you score 65.08 / 100.
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it was made "dead", either through lots of flagging (very likely) or a moderator.

either way, I am pretty sure you cannot delete your account history, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628701 is why I think its a terrible idea.

If you want to not be on the site, change your password, delete you bookmark, just dont visit the url again.
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You can't let people look up their vote or their employers, spouse, etc, could force them to vote for preferred candidates. Ron Rivest has a system to make it verifiable and deniable (Three ballot system). There are others.
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Grants are usually need based, but scholarships usually aren’t, since many are granted based on some kind of extracurricular achievement or social legacy related to the student.

For every United Negro College Fund scholarship out there, there’s a Daughters of the Confederacy scholarship or some such, to pick a particularly extreme example. From my (and maybe my sister’s) research while I attended college, this sort of funding is very prone to political back-and-forth and cultural “reactance.”
The "close button on the left" crowd, for instance, is thrilled.
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Can we all agree to call it js instead of javascript?
The name "javascript" has bugged me since 1995. Now that it has been well established as a real language (and not some flaky browser toy that was hoped would go away) it deserves a name with less pathetic baggage[1]. Can we all agree to call it "js" instead of "javascript"? js is a pretty nice name.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History
It's faster when you are trying to skip .svn directories, and certainly easier on the fingers.
That was already fixed by the time Facebook came around. Hotmail was offering addresses that weren't tied to your uni or employer in 1996.
Songwriting carries a band a long way. Ozzy is still coming out with well written, catchy metal songs, which is rarer today than it was 20 years ago.

One of my favorite bands is Maiden, mainly for the fact that their songs have the ability to capture the energy of their lyrics. Which is exactly what Ozzy has when singing Iron Man, Crazy Train, Bark at the Moon and even with his modern stuff.

Of modern bands I'm hard pressed to find bands that adequately capture the energy of their lyrics just right. I really only have Coheed and Cambria who can nail so many different musical styles with the right energy for their lyrics.
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because perhaps I should say if you had such understanding then you would have the liberty to suggest a better system.

Ask, and Ye Shall Receive

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/534
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I was a bit scared about what she'd consider the "top 5"

She didn't rate them as "top 5". She got sent 5 unlabeled samples by the OP and was asked to assess their quality.