skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get why people are now angry at Intel. Both Intel and AMD have disabled stuff from their lower end for a long time. And now that Intel allows you to actually recover those features (which would be disabled in any case), they are the bad guys? I just don't follow that logic. Should Intel only make $1000 high end chips?

edit: I just want to add that if the unlocking happens via microcode update then you have practically zero chance of cracking it without at least copyright infringement.

And I don't know about the rest of you guys but I'd be bit nervous about applying a microcode update from unoffical sources.
Intel and AMD sell chips with some bad cache or faulty cores. What they do is disable the faulty components and sell it a lesser specced CPU. When manufacturing ramps up and kinks are worked out they might have to disable working parts to be produce those lesser specced (and cheaper) CPUs. All they're doing now is including a switch that customers can pay to flip, enabling those disabled components.

The only difference after this announcement is that people who may not have known about this practice now know about it, and Intel is giving people a "switch" to turn these parts on.
"disable" "upgrade"

It's semantics. It's all in how you frame it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_effect_(psychology)
Please feel free to contact me if there's anything I can shed light on regarding your kids and ASD :)

Thank you for your kind offer. My "kids" are 20 and 23 and are doing quite well. I've given plenty of advice myself over the years to other folks with kids like mine. :-)
The funny thing is that nobody will benefit from that. The site is down, so honest people who were willing to spend a few bucks on their favorite games will now have to look for them on The Pirate Bay.
Sorry I missed it. I've been working as programmer since 2003 in my 20s.
About jumping tech I'm not really jumping around either. I really like both Java and .NET development. I've led numerous java server side projects. I could safely assume I'm above average in my java skillset.
I think the part that people have trouble with is the idea of not having control over their own hardware. Not that I agree with this, but the reasoning is something like: if you buy a physical device, you own it, and should be able to do anything you want with it, including using its full capabilities.

The conflicting moral intuitions here are about ownership of an object vs. payment in exchange for a set of benefits. In terms of the latter, this is clearly a case where everyone wins, but that doesn’t prevent it from seeming “wrong” in terms of the former.

This is really quite similar to the “wrongness” people feel about, say, region-locked DVDs.
That policy probably exists to stop people from lying about their accident history. It's really hard for an insurance company to distinguish between "I didn't have car insurance in 2002" and "I had car insurance in 2002 and got into a major accident I don't want you to know about".
Great line from the article: Git is the new resume. In my corporate day job, I've lost count of how many times we've brought in dev candidates who claim to be passionate about coding, but have absolutely no code, projects or even screenshots to point to.

I know there could be many reasons for this, but developers who take advantage of this advice will have a _huge_ advantage over their peers.
This would be the most stupid PR move ever. "Hey guys, let's bring the entire site down to get some buzz." No, I don't think I'm buying that.
An eye for an eye is not about torturing, maiming or murdering anyone. It's a metaphor. Taking down their website for a few hours, is fairly close to harmless.

I agree that they shouldn't be doing this. If they really want an eye for an eye they should sue them to oblivion. That I think would be quite appropriate.
Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
A lot of people seem to boost the web navigation experience through browser extensions/plugins. So, what do you use, and why do you use it?
You're probably right, but saying that stubbornness can be good is my tactic for dealing with people who think I'm stubborn. It moves the conversation from what they think of me personally to whether I'm right or wrong.

In regards to what other people accuse you of, it's usually them projecting. In other words, the person who accused you of being an egomaniac could be avoiding fears that they themselves are being an egomaniac. Or the person who calls you a liar may secretly be afraid that they're not trustworthy.

Regardless, I've found experience to be the best teacher. I've learned not to be shy when it comes time to say "I told you so". It sucks, but you leave people the option to continue to underestimate you if you don't.
Good for you. I admire people who take responsibility that way. Our "health care system" (more properly termed "disease management industry") is so stacked against this that it requires genuine struggle. It's not surprising that you would be accused of lying, either; that's cognitive dissonance 101. Not ideal, but still a good trade.
This is nonsense. Intel are trialling this on some low-end CPUs. They're not trying to aim this at the people who read Hacker News and always want the latest shiny tech.

Anyway, Intel aren't making CPUs for the love of it. They're doing it to make money for their shareholders. This isn't immoral or unfair. Paying for technology is like paying for anything, if you're pricing based on your costs then you're doing it wrong. You set your prices to maximise profit, not to meet someone's preconceived notion of 'fair'.
I can see good reasons for Facebook to build a phone, and would bet even money that that's what they're doing right now. However...

Media: "Facebook is making a phone!?"

FB: "No, absolutely not. Definitely not."

Media: "Well, that's exactly what you would say if you were making a secret phone!"

FB: "..."

I think Facebook is likely at least considering making a phone, and mocking something up in its skunkworks. I don't know that it would be very good, though. Only time, or lovely leaks to Palo Alto bars, will tell!
The price of goods does not reflect the costs, it reflects the demand. It only reflects the costs in a highly competitive, low-barrier to entry market.

Think about how you make your money. Are you paid based on the cost of your services or the demand? Which would you prefer?
Maybe Gödel, Escher, Bach instead of Ulysses?

We have a Wii hooked up but my 3 and 5 year old only use it to stream cartoons on Netflix.
Blindsight have been working on this for some time. Blindsight was co-founded by, Mark Nitzberg, friend and ex-colleague of Paul Graham, they worked together at Viaweb.

http://blindsight.com/
> if you buy a physical device, you own it, and should be able to do anything you want with it, including using its full capabilities.

Previously there was no official way to enable disabled cache or cores, though some motherboards provided such functionality. Now there is an official way but you have to pay for it. Intel is giving you more control over the hardware they sell you. I guess we could debate whether or not it's fair to charge for that capability, but considering that till now the general consensus is that low-end CPUs are ridiculously cheap for the given performance I don't feel like there's much to debate. 2 years after buying a low-end CPU you can pay $50 and unlock some extra cache or cores for even more performance, instead of upgrading to a new CPU (and possibly motherboard and RAM). Sounds like a win to me.
I thought this thing was her attempt to do so.
Well thats why i am saying that.About having these memcache running in the internal linode network
> Your credit card failed processing and Zipcar kept your service up and prompted you to update the card. That seems like a great way to go.

How about threatening to send it to a collections agency? Was that a great way to go too?

I work at a company that offers a subscription service. If someone failed to re-bill and we threatened to send them to collections, most of our customers would react to such a threat in one of two ways.

1. Immediately cancel their account.

2. Quickly cancel their account, but after one of our re-billing attempts had gone through, in which case they would also demand a refund (if we are lucky) or would complain to their credit card company and we'd end up with a chargeback. Enough of the later and the banks get annoyed.

We've found in fact that a lot of people who have stopped using our service forget that they are on automatic billing. We successfully charge them, and then they cancel. We give them a full refund if they cancel reasonably soon after the renewal.
I can't say what's normal in Houston, as I've only lived and worked in Los Angeles. Out here a developer with Java or .NET experience like you describe would easily start at $85k base at the companies I've worked for over the last 4 years. There would also be signing and annual bonuses and if you're good, significant raises each year.

Am I starting to wonder if I get ripped off for staying here and not asking for a big raise

I have always been baffled by this one. Usually at big companies there is a rule set by corporate that raises can only be 3-5% max in most cases. So even if you're good, the max you can expect on top of $70k is $3500 for your loyalty. If instead you had jumped to another company, you could have boosted your salary to $80 or $85k. And after you left, they would likely pay your replacement the same amount. So why don't companies just offer their loyal employees the higher salary (even if it exceeds the 3-5% threshold)?

The answer is, they do, but only if you threaten to leave. That's what I've done every year for the last 5 years. I never stop the job search, even once I land the job, and when I find a better job offer at the 1 year mark, I bring it to my current employer. Sometimes they offer to match the salary or offer better benefits, and I stay, other times I go with the other job that pays more or offers better benefits (sometimes the new job matches the counteroffer from my current employer).

In this way, I have increased my salary by an average of 19% per year since 2005, gone from no bonus to a very generous bonus package, increased vacation to 3 weeks, and negotiated telecommuting every Friday.
Google Voice returns to the iTunes App Store
She's got quite an entitlement issue going on there, doesn't she?

Apple owes her nothing, least of all helping her get a good grade, just like Jobs says. Her 'problem' has nothing at all to do with Apple, no matter what she thinks.

The fact that she ends with the tidbit that the first 5-10 voicemails in the PR department's box is very telling.
Adblock - After using it for a while, it becomes impossible to NOT use it, and still retain focus. Every page contains something that is fighting for your attention when it's not in use.

Firebug - Incredible client-side development tool.

Show anchors - Reveals anchors (<a> tag) in the page, making it easy to make more precise links into pages.

Tamper data - Makes it possible to modify browser requests before submitting them to the server. Great addition to Firebug as a development tool.
I think people called me egomaniacal in part because I am a woman. I strongly suspect I would be considered more humble if I were male. They call me a liar because they find my claims threatening. If I am right, then their doctor is wrong and that has ugly, uncomfortable implications when your life (or your child's life) is on the line.
In my family, the rule was no video games at all Sunday night through Thursday night. A little draconian perhaps, but it solved this problem.
on heroku they offer highly priced memcache.They offer 5mb for free,thats enough for me to think there is a usecase (at the time of my thoughts..)
Aggregators: the good ones vs. the looters
New Drugs Stir Debate on Rules of Clinical Trials
He only says "places like slashdot". Though in my experience there are plenty of smart geeks and "hackers" who haven't even heard of sites like HN or Reddit. It always surprises me, but sites like HN certainly seem to primarily attract the progressive "eye on the ball" types who are into trying out new sites. The traffic to some of the older, staid, more conservative sites indicates there's still a hardcore of people enjoying them.
NoScript, possibly the best thing about FF.

Firebug, pretty handy.

Tamper Data, for viewing HTTP headers and tampering with them.

ShowIP, shows the current website's IP.

leetkey, great for text transformations, various encoders/decoders.

Screengrab, for taking screenshots.

Scrapbook Plus, for archiving pages (can also do some light crawling with it)

Mozilla Archive Format, also for archiving pages.

Delicious Bookmarks, for bookmarks.

AppTab, to make tabs sticky.

OptimizeGoogle, to make Google searching better.

UnPlug, for downloading embedded content.

DownThemAll, for downloading things.

HTTPS-Everywhere, redirects to HTTPS versions of certain websites.

ErrorZilla Plus, makes error pages more useful.

Those are the best ones, I use various other extensions depending on what I'm doing. I have a few addons deactivated at any given time.
I'm guessing that your written communication ability may be hurting you, career-wise and (thus) salary-wise.

This stuff matters, even for geeks: communication is one of the big differences between being a cypher and a superstar.
Getting press for your website, application, or service
My only disagreement with Jobs on this issue would be him replying in the first place.
Those games aren't a patch on Facebook's monthly user usage in minutes - which is apparently more than Google's now.
It zooms just fine on Safari on the Mac.
> Not being able to torture, maim or murder someone is a good thing.

Apologies for being totally misleading in my earlier post, because I agree with you. It was the best philosophy of retaliation until "turn the other cheek" came along, which I much prefer.

> Just because someone else did something wrong doesn't give you a license to do the same.

Morally, it doesn't. Legally, sometimes (self-defense and all that). Probably not this time.
He quoted an entire, extremely racist essay to support his point. That way he let somebody else argue in his stead, without getting his hands dirty. Example:

"Blacks are keenly interested in their own racial characteristics."

"Blacks break down the intimacy that can be achieved in the classroom"

"One point on which all blacks agree is that everything is “racis’.”"

"Anyone who teaches blacks soon learns that they have a completely different view of government from whites."

"Blacks are extraordinarily quick to take offense."

"But the real black is not on television..."

There's no way you can take these statements and say they are anything but flat-out racist. It's one thing to say "This is my experience in a certain school with black students" and it's another thing entirely to say "Blacks are." If the author is telling the truth, then he mentions many "facts" of his experience.

However, he doesn't settle for merely reporting it as his experience. He skewers those facts - with intent - into de-personalized blanket statements.

Which are clearly and irrefutably racist:

"Racism is the belief that race is a primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Him allowing that there might be a few "specially sensitive blacks" doesn't excuse him from racism.

Now, again, the author of the "essay" in question quoted this other author more than at length -- he quoted him in full. While he studiously did not MENTION the entire essay length piece embedded in his blog post, he clearly condones it. There's no way around it: racist, of the highest degree.
Anyone seriously interested in this line of enquiry might find my summary of "Getting What You Came For," one of the most popular "getting a PhD" guides, interesting: http://peterc.org/pedia/getting-what-you-came-for/
If its on your resume, its usually fair game for expert/advanced level detailed questions (that's the rationale among most big companies). So be prepared for that if you put it on there
I was a bit disappointed by the interview. It's very short, shallow and the selection of questions is very predictable. There is a much better interview with Peter Norvig in Coders at Work. http://www.codersatwork.com/peter-norvig.html
Furthermore, contrary to popular belief, if you sign a contract and put down a deposit for something, that doesn't give you the right to walk away from the full purchase in exchange for forfeiting your deposit.

This was discovered the hard way by people putting down deposits for to-be-built houses, who thought they could simply walk away from the full purchase if the value of the house fell between the time they put down the deposit and the time the completion was due.
I'm finding it hard to feel bad for the RIAA.
And Google about the Nexus One.
"However intel effectively takes advantage of those of us..."

Since there is no monopoly, you have the right to choose to buy an Intel product or a competitor. You have the choice. It's your money; therefore, it's your power. It's not correct to say that Intel is taking advantage of you. The people of Bhopal are victims; you are not a victim.

"Paying for technology, should in effect, be paying for the research and development of the people who put their efforts into it."

Stated in another way, you believe that the prices of things should reflect the cost to produce those things. So your real complaint is not with Intel, it's with how the economy works.
I'm a huge Vinge fan, but I was really underwhelmed by Rainbow's End. (Was it aimed at the YA market and I didn't notice?) Hope CotS is better.
Surprise no one is calling out TC on their BS, yet again.

Lets face it, TC is a tech tabloid and HN's fascination with TC (majority story makes FP) is akin to teenager's fascination with celebrity gossip magazine.

No substance, nothing insightful, just pure unadulterated BS. And HN is all over it, every-time.
It's a cop-out depending on your epistemological standpoint. I'm typically an empiricist so I appreciate the sentiment, but I recognize that other viewpoints of what truth and knowledge are could have merit.

I'm not a big reader on philosophy and epistemology but merely the smorgasbord of "theories of truth" presented at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth is enough for me to shy away from asserting that "where the truth exists it is singular." I sympathize with and have held the same position, but I've seen enough to cast doubt upon my gut feelings on the matter.
its a great book, but the jist of it is wake early, spend time doing what you really want to, learn when you can.

trying to figure myself at the moment exactly what a VA could do for me. can't open my work email to them until I am self employed so just trying to figure whatever they could streamline for me.

my other time saver tip is instapaper and instantly for android. read the blogs I love when I have the time.
There is good and ugly with zipcar. I have my share to say about the ugly.
They increased their fare when gas price went up, but didn't lower it when the prices dropped significantly. http://blog.cyberion.net/2008/12/zipcar-please-lower-your-pr...

Besides, a Marketing Executive noticed this post above and dropped me a line saying he would get back to me the next day at the latest (I thought, yeah, cool a 2.0 company or whatever. My expectations were lower, I just wanted to vent out publicly about zipcar not listening). I never heard of him again.

In short? I'm not surprised one bit about their poor customer practice.
Now, the title is just mean: I assumed they are making a movie now!

But, oh well, the fact that Vinge uses Emacs is interesting although not surprising given he was a CS teacher.
How a Facebook "phone" can be easier than iPhone
Oh that makes me immensely happy to read! It's always a good feeling when other 20-somethings with ASD are doing well :)
What is bad Parenting?
Work on your health. Having physical energy and mental clarity is rooted in physical well being and both of them add to productivity.

Read books like "The 7 habits of highly effective people".

Good luck.
Ohio black school students punished disproportionately? Maybe they should be.
In a recent report published by the Childrens Defense Fund-Ohio, it notes that ‘nearly half of all disciplinary actions in Ohio public schools involve black students, who make up 17 percent of the student population’. Many of the disciplinary actions were centered on anti-social and disruptive behaviors.

Unfortunately for the black students, their unwillingness to conform to the traditional societal norms of general respects and blind consideration for the rights others will cause them to possibly lag behind in social development. And possibly more important no one will give a damn about it at all. Black students, just like most low income school kids don’t seem to understand that, no one cares if they pass or fail in school. Most Americans are preoccupied with their own concerns of life and they have little time for much else.

Question; ‘Could adolescent students with behavior problems experience academic success in virtual schools?’
Perhaps Pareto efficiency is an underlying cause for this response. Treating the chip as a fait accompli, boosting the cache doesn't hurt Intel and it benefits the consumer. In a world where white cotton tee shirts can sell for hundreds of dollars, option (a) satisfies more notions of "fairness".

"An economic system that is not Pareto efficient implies that a certain change in allocation of goods (for example) may result in some individuals being made "better off" with no individual being made worse off, and therefore can be made more Pareto efficient through a Pareto improvement."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency
just tried the exploit on my slicehost box and it successfully root it!
My favorite quote on this matter is from Gandhi: "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
> Intel is selling you more control over the hardware they sell you
I think in the above post I already clearly acknowledged this was not solely against intel. Although this article was titled with such notation. What irks me as a consumer is the idea that companies set pricing along no guidelines besides making profit. Most companies were started because of a love or interest in something. However inevitably at some point nearly all companies lose sight of their love for a product and fall in love with money. I would be willing to wager that intel once built the best processor they could for the best pricepoint they could. This article simply states that these companies lose track of those ideas at some point. Again, I did not say this was new, or that several companies were not involved in these processes. As an opinion I simply do not think it is right. Are we all not entitled to an opinion?
I'm pretty sure Mark Suster would like to have a word with you... ;)
But Intel is already also selling higher end models with those features enabled, at a higher price point of course.