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Indeed. ARM chips are not better made, they are better designed- at least in regards to low power. It's an architectural thing. This is very much like the old software rule; a good algorithm on slow hardware will often outperform a bad algorithm on fast hardware.
I don't know if it's patented, but TSMC is apparently working on deploying the technology (according to the NYTimes article linked above). So, there are definitely people who think that Intel doesn't have a monopoly on the design.

Plus, there's far from a consensus that this is the best design out there. It hasn't been proven in mass production yet. STMicroelectronics, a massive player in microcontrollers (which often go into applications with even tougher power constraints than mobile phones), is pushing Silicon on Insulator pretty for their next generations.
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Actually, I'm not truly conscious either. I think self-awareness is like love or a perfect circle, or a perfect line.. an idea that can never be achieved in reality.

PS. I am particularly half-conscious since I woke up five minutes ago :))
I'd call it git-er-done
The Alternate-Protocol HTTP response header indicates that a server supports SPDY. Then on the second request the client will use SPDY instead of HTTP.
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and get it through the standard process: http://www.ietf.org/about/standards-process.html
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Curious: how could $150k be mid six-figure? I can accept the roughly 500K or 300K meanings, but if someone told me mid six figure, and they meant roughly $150K, I'd feel like they deliberately mislead or lied about the salary. There's no way I can see a reasonable person expecting $150K when someone is referring to "mid six-figure".
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I find http://dribbble.com/ works much better to find freelance designers, although it's not even aimed directly at that.

It does go to show. With only 200 paying customers, they're making 20,000$/month!
"And by cowbell, I mean clickable-ness. Examining the results of our first round, and our research of what makes a photo clickable, we experimented with a new version. This one took our best performing ad (Ad B) from round 1, and zoomed in further to put more focus on the baby and the, ahem, clickable-ness."

Best part. Great article, much appreciated. Reminded me of the infamous "gray shirted girl":
http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2011/04/why-does-face...
The points he touches upon about things he will now never get to see has haunted me since a very early age personally. It was scary to think that the man who wrote these words which I have worried about for years has now passed away and won't get the opportunity to see what happens in 2061.

The final paragraph is the kicker and has my eyes watering up, I hope his family all the best and hopefully we'll see his two daughters do something just as great as Derek has done online!
What I'd give to have my side project generate 20k a month. Working in that direction, but still...
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So what would be a good offer? If they just run it for another two, three years without spending time on it and then close it down they'd probably make about 600,000$. So the offer should be minimum 500,000$, including perhaps some ongoing traffic/links from them?
I often wonder at the incredibly small size of these chips (22nm) if the have to worry about relativistic effects of electrons "jumping".
That's exactly what I said. But if the browser doesn't show any indication that it's secure, the problem doesn't exist. The way some browsers behave, there's a very strong implication that a website with a self-signed cert is more likely to result in your information being stolen than a website with no encryption. And that's not true.
I wonder how much of a decline in revenue it will have when its no longer owned/linked/shown on 37signals. I bet alot of the revenue comes from internal links and just being owned by 37s in the first place.
If you want Android to be relevant anywhere apart from the West, then start thinking about how we live day to day.

The point of Android is to sell search ads. So I don't think they want Android to be relevant anywhere but "the West". If you want to use Android and have it support your obscure legacy technology, bust out your IDE and start programming. If there is as much demand as you say, the money will flow right in.
but surely it is patented to a crazy extent, and therefore we won't be seeing it hit ARM stuff unless Intel lets it? so I doubt we will see orthogonal gains immediately from it.
The good stuff (discretely linked from the press release) is here: http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-2032 . In particular, this PDF has color drawings of the devices, and SEM pictures: http://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/22nm/pdfs/22nm-Detai...

It is as you said - instead of the gate controlling the flow in a shallow ditch (the old "2D" does have some depth ;-), they built up a pipe and the gate is the choke around it.

Well, that should help stem the pesky leakage current problems that plague the deep sub-micron technologies ...
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'Patent startup' is an oxymoron.
Interesting that Intel is seeking to fabricate ARM chips for Apple. I presume that Intel is pitching their best lithography process tech, i.e. 22nm. If Intel wrests Apples ARM CPU fabrication business away from Samsung - who competes with Apple on smartphones - then Intel would become a world leader in ARM CPU fabrication and pay ARM plenty of licensing fees!

Hardly the end of the world for ARM.
So let me get this straight -- Sortfolio pulls in $17-20k per month of (relatively) easy revenue, and they want to sell it? That tells me they must be making an absolute killing from their other products.

EDIT: And I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that I got my current job (I'm a web designer/developer) when my boss found me on Sortfolio, so I'm a little sad about this announcement.
Just to explain just how much this concept of missing out on the future has affected me, read here; http://gre.gs/post/958258554/time
I would argue that neither of those things are metrics to measure for a transistor, since they are affected by how its used. Properties of the transistor itself are what matter: size, drain and source capacitance, leakage current when off, drain-source voltage drop when on, and probably a dozen things I don't really know about.
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The only reason I can think of is it makes the UI/UX of the contacts browser more of a challenge. Currently the contacts are sent over as a JSON object for the auto-complete stuff. It probably also bogs down syncing (my Google contacts are synced with my computer and phone).

I guess it also could be an attempt at minimizing commercial usage (I wasn't spamming, I was just emailing my contacts!).
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The fact that I prefer a GUI for source control management (Tower for Git and Versions for SVN) probably marks me as a lightweight, but I've found them to be valuable for 2 reasons:

1. I write better commit messages when I use them because they spellcheck and it just _seems_ like I ought to use proper punctuation and capitalization.

2. Having a one keystroke / button diff from the previous version offers a good sanity check to myself and helps me catch stupid errors from being committed to source control.

That being said, I still usually end up using a mix of the GUI and command line for some of the other features.
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There are undeniably people who do what can only be realisticly described as "cramming" their ethics systems. I'm guilty of it myself on occasion (with regards to the GPL even!) and I'm sure that if you honestly look at yourself, you'll find you are too.

All this said, he's literally just saying that people who cram the GPL onto other people because it's more "ethical" are dickheads. As far as I can tell, he's not doing that himself, and he's not attempting to imply that the questioner was doing it either. Rather, he just isn't kidding himself, and recognizes that the reason the question is being asked is because there are certain "high profile" people who have made it a full time hobby to do such cramming. He wishes to make it clear that his reasons for using the GPL are purely pragmatic, not quasi-religious.

To be honest, at this point it really just seems like you are attempting to be contrarian.
Question: Why is the power cord so important? Can one not be made with cheap materials? I was waiting for a punch line but it didn't come.
He says ethics are completely relative and personal.

No. He did say ethics were personal but ethical relativism was not even hinted at. Those two ideas are not interchangeable.
Awesome! The current a transistor can put out is porportional to the width over the length and chip designers usually want wide transistors[1], but wide transistors take up space which causes more line capacitance. This innovation will let people put more, wider transistors in a given area which will both increase the current they're putting out and decrease the capacitance they're fighting against, leading to higher frequencies[2].

[1] Wider transistors also cause more capacitance for the other transistors that are driving them, but for most modern designs this is smaller than line capacitance.

[2] Having transistors closer together can also help overcome speed-of-light delay. This can be important in caches.

EDIT: Also, some stuff I didn't notice until reading the Anandtech article is that the thinness of the silicon will give you the same artificial limitation of the depletion region that SOI does, leading to the same accelerated inversion. Oh, and better isolation from the base too. I don't think that I can explain that succinctly for non-EEs so go read Wikipedia on MOSFETs if you're interested.
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If the browser (or even the URL that got the user there) even so much as shows the string "https", that is a form of positive feedback. The only responsible way for a browser to act is to give a strong negative feedback, to more than offset any potential positive feedback.
The risk would be once Intel is the world's source of ARM CPU's, suddenly ARM's biggest competitor has a chokehold on the market's access to their silicon.

It would basically come down to whether Intel chose to embrace ARM, or tried to use the new position to quietly strangle it.
The one thing he didn't mention is Thunderbolt, and I think that it completely changes the iMac. Without it, you basically had the choice between SSDs, which were fast, and hard drives, which actually had enough space to store your stuff. If you are a photographer or do video, an SSD isn't going to cut it. Now, you can have the internal SSD while using an external Thunderbolt drive (once they show up) for actual storage.

However, I'd still probably want to open it up and install the SSD myself. Apple's SSD is too expensive, all that's needed for OS + apps is 64 GB. $500 is way too much.
Ah, my bad (quick crunchbasing fail).

What's the draw for using CP on Linode? I'm completely happy with the Linode control panel experience.

AWS I don't have to worry about because I use DotCloud which handles all my network configuration and instance maintenance.
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That's not what they meant. They meant that instead of doubling Atom in performance every 18-24 months(have they even done that so far?), they'll try to double it every 12 months, just like the ARM chips are currently doing.

They can't switch the manufacturing process every year.
This hit me hard as well. I just wrote a post about choosing to spend time with my 4 month old daughter every morning instead of working full-time. (http://personalmba.com/building-a-business-that-supports-you...)

Derek's post reminded me why I don't spend more time building my business. Some things are worth more than money.
sometimes i feel like intel should space out their chips more. as a consumer i feel like i can't keep up.
Reflecting, this topic is mostly about exploring the nested structures in the USA. So good point.

Ok, 10 points.
Ask HN:  Can CAPTCHAs be replaced by indie game tutorials/ads?
Users would be required to understand an indie game and play a bit to demonstrate that understanding.

So instead of CAPTCHAs, we would have interactive advertising for indie games.
Just goes to show you what a good CPM will do for you. Google crushes Facebook in revenue even while Facebook crushes Google in impressions.
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Also see Path [1], a social network which takes an opposite approach and limits contacts to 50 people.

[1] http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/15/path-social-n...
That's exactly what I was thinking. I was hoping they would compare it to more subtly sexy mother pictures, just to see if the celebrity effect actually makes a bigger difference.
Talk about old news... hasn't Paul Allen's suit already been thrown out of court even?
Regarding your last option, I respectfully disagree that it's the best option. It is likely that an 'existing startup company' has already found it's co-founders, and a new hire will probably be coming on as an employee.

I think the risk/reward ratio are unfavorable for early EMPLOYEES in a vast majority of the cases.
I think this will mostly help increase the life expectancy of the Moore's Law by another 10 years or so. When we'll get to 11nm or whatever is the limit, we'll just start stacking layers of transistors on each other. That will only work until the chips become too thick, though.
> Having transistors closer together can also help overcome speed-of-light delay. This can be important in caches.

But in this case, while they take up less space, the distance is the same -- they're simply traveling up and over, rather than just over. Unless I'm missing something here.
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22nm is exciting to me for power consumption.

Imagine a computer that uses nearly 50% less power than even the current 32nm state-of-the-art.

But the problem is the support chipsets (north/southbridge) aren't keeping up?

ARM is going 28nm next year too.
No, he is being downvoted for calling people who disagree with the following logically incorrect: The sense of right and wrong is a general human trait, independent of race or culture. It can be altered by nurture, but it transcends it.

That sounds a lot like most theology I've heard, and I suspect that the HN crowd is not one that puts a whole lot of stock in theology.
I recently co-authored a book for a major tech publisher. They formatted it using -- I kid you not -- MS Word.

The late stages of the editing process (where I was working with the publisher's .doc files instead of just sending them text) were so painful that I vowed to learn Tex and/or LaTeX before helping my mother self-publish her upcoming quilting book.
Cache (since it seems to be down now): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Chrome (in some situations, I forget which) puts the "https" in red and strikes it through. The implied message: this is HTTPS, but it's broken or bad.

The important thing here is that a browser can do something like this without interrupting something that the user actually cares about with an annoying message. Annoying messages are bad.
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On the contrary, the page is a piece of internet history. As you can see from the domain, it was created by an academic in an early example of titlebait.

http://replay.web.archive.org/20001002213854/http://www.brit...

Its basically a reverse rickroll. "Britney Spears" was by far the most searched-for term on the internet for a long time.
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OS X has some great Git GUIs, and Linux has a few good ones, but there don't seem to be many polished ones for Windows? I use Git Extensions, but it feels a bit rough compared to TortoiseHg. Does anyone know how TortoiseGit is coming along?
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I would like to make an observation about the state of enterprise technology. There has been a buzzword making its rounds in executive offices lately about “focusing on core competencies”. This buzzword is usually code for outsourcing your development and IT.
Sabre Holdings, Inc., one of the largest suppliers of airline software outsourced the maintenance of their SET mainframe reservation system to EDS/HP several years ago to focus on “core competencies” and reduce costs. This is a multi hundred million dollar per year revenue stream. Today American Airlines has decided to replace their Sabre provided reservation system with a custom developed system that will be developed by none other than HP.
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JavaScript can be pretty overwhelming to newcomers. You mention scope, which is a good example of where CoffeeScript actually clarifies rather than hides the underlying semantics.

The most important thing to understand about scope in JS is that only functions create scope. This is very different from C and Java, and since JavaScript looks like C and Java, that difference is surprising (see e.g. http://www.adequatelygood.com/2010/2/JavaScript-Scoping-and-...). When you learn the same rule in CoffeeScript, it feels a lot simpler. And that understanding can carry over to JS.

Granted, the compiler is generating the `var` keyword for you, but the mapping is trivial. What's important is that scoped variables have the same behavior in both languages.
The interesting thing is that the least recognizable celebrity (Isla Fisher) ad performed the best. But examining the photos themselves, when combined with what we learned about the things people click on, it became more obvious why that was the case.

With more time and a bigger budget, we'd like to do further experiments to determine what other aspects mother (or even father) photos draw clicks.
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> opening two tabs and clicking forward and back

Or opening two browser windows and looking side by side - by design the page layouts are narrow to enable side by side comparisons (often I've reformated programs to 80 char width), it wasn't that I foresaw the emergence of small screen iPhone browsing ;-)

> suggesting noone would ever do the work to explain

When something seems peculiar I've pursued contributors for some text to explain what's going on with their program - so my thoughts about this are based on my experiences

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=threa...

> a blog post which does just that

As an example of something that's been done well, and done independently of the benchmarks game.

Anyone can make that kind of analysis and publish on their blog.

The benchmarks game is a starting point and a source of questions, rather than a definitive answer to every question.
This is just some pictures and a login form, you gotta be kidding me with all the points! I've posted interesting things on open-source software I've implemented, and barely got a couple of points. I'm jealous!
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I agree, this is a common and major misunderstanding. It shows up in some statements that question the conviction of atheists, such as "there are no atheists in fox holes". I remember curmudgeon-in-chief Christopher Hitchens wrote about a priest who said "at the end of your life, I'll be taking your confession" and saying he wondered why the priest thought this was such a good point.

Well, it is a good point if you think atheism is about honesty rather than reaching a conclusion based on reason and evidence. I've heard atheists admit that under the extreme pressure and terror of a fox hole or impending death bed, they probably wouldn't maintain the rationality and focus on evidence that guided their reasoning in a calmer, less terrifying situation.

To some religious believers, this is about honesty and arrogance, and when the chips are down, the humbling truth behind so-called atheism emerges. If you see it this way, it really isn't that hard to understand why they don't like atheists much - atheists appear smug and insincere. To some atheists, it's a sober, rational conclusion (maybe one they aren't especially happy to be reaching), the sort of reasoning that is least likely to happen in a fox hole or on a death bed. But it's really just a conclusion, not an attempt to insult people or "put down" their beliefs.
Definitely not. LinkedIn just has a different focus from Facebook, but it has thrived over the past few years, as Myspace wandered off into nowhere-land. Most anybody I interact with on a professional basis has a LinkedIn page, and I'd wonder about anyone who didn't, to be honest.
Even within a single culture, it varies widely. Just in the US, look at the opposing views toward capital punishment.
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Going to echo this sentiment, however unpopular it may be. Free solutions are great and make business a lot easier and/or cheaper to conduct. However, you get what you pay for.

Your mileage may vary, but I have found that many free solutions offer some of the worst support in the world. Even worse if you are trying to use their software in a way that they hadn't intended.
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Really? Is this because you do not like Disqus? Or is it because you are commenting more on websites like Hacker News instead of commenting on the original articles?

I have found myself much more interested in commenting on Hacker News than any of the articles I read here. The only exception I can think of is when I need to comment to the author of the article and it is obvious that they don't read Hacker News.

As for the popularity of Disqus, I see their commenting system everywhere today! And I have to admit, I think the world is a better place for it.
Anantech gives a gate-delay chart and explains that Ivy Bridge will be 18% faster at the standard voltage compared to Sandy Bridge. That might mean Ivy Bridge CPU parts at 4 GHz as compared with Sandy Bridge parts at currently at 3.4 GHz.
Jason & DHH, how about a inject of $10 million series A funding to propel sortfolio to be the twitter of directories?!
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It is totally overloaded, thanks for putting this here. So sad...
And the leader in high speed fiber broadband is... Lithuania
that's just investment....
Pi being another.
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