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Yep. I use the flock tool (comes with most Linux distros, I assume) for this:

flock -nx /var/run/myscript.lock /usr/bin/myscript

This will run the script while keeping a lock. If there is a lock, it will quit immediately.
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I'll stew on this for a bit. Thanks for the response and the encouragement to think further on the topic.
A lot of wait states in a CPU come from accessing memory outside of cache. If you make all the RAM in your system the same as cache, you'd get a huge leap.
So this is a way of dissipating heat more efficiently, such that chips can be apparently be stacked on top of each other -- does that really help all that much for consumer (and especially mobile) stuff?

Seems like you're still generating the same total amount of heat, that needs venting from the machine. And still consuming the same amount of power.

I'm sure there's some value here, but it's not going to arise from just stacking up the same chips we use today.
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I don't necessarily agree with this. I used to work at frog design and am now 100% independent (doing consulting/contract work). There are loads of companies from startups like Gowalla and Whaleshark to more established companies like Facebook and BazaarVoice. On top of that, there are some what I would consider "serious" startups with quality founders and funding, like Spacecraft and Mass Relevance.
Are you sure you're in the right place? If you believe making bigger levers for human minds is evil, this might not be the right community for you, since it's what most of us are trying to do on a daily basis.
Reality check: this is total bullshit.

A miracle glue will not solve power dissipation problems, not even if it were a perfect thermal conductor.
While I agree there's room for innovation of other, non-distribution aspects of the music industry, it is precisely distribution that is most obviously broken and thus prone to be tinkered with.

No DJs? Why, there's plenty, they just don't get typical "airtime" anymore. Countless music blogs exist for every genre and niche, not to mention the algorithmic streaming/recommendation services.

"Would you rather save the recording industry, the VC’s, the music technology startup companies or the musicians that provide the means for both those entities to actually exist?"

That's a loaded question, but its greatest fallacy is implying only one can survive. VCs will back whoever they think will bring them a profit and by their nature will seek disruption. Labels are supposed to be handling marketing on behalf of the artists, but mostly exploit them. And tech startups are at the mercy of the labels (and the market). I'd do without the labels and keep the rest. And this might be the greatest opportunity in the industry: the next gen label.
I assume Arc Lisp is no longer ASCII-only? I seem to remember that being a complaint when it came out.
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Or any US state. Are there any states that aren't mostly redneck once you get up/out-state? Vermont?
I'm going to have to agree with most others here. I live less than five hours from Austin, travel there for business occasionally and rarely get calls from companies in Austin interested in hiring me or if I know anyone they should hire.

On the flip side, I am rarely in the valley (a few times a year at best) and I get calls or emails almost weekly asking either if I am interested in a job or if I might know someone who is, most of these even offering sign on bonuses and bounties for hires.

Yet the CEO's of companies in Austin are trotting out to the valley to find the talent while everyday good programmers from surrounding states go to the valley because they don't see Austin as a viable alternative.

They have a top tier engineering program only hours away (Rice) which has basically become a funnel for Microsoft and Amazon in Seattle yet they want to focus their attention on the valley.

Go to schools like Georgia Tech, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, Illinois, UT. Alot of those kids are coming from the south or the midwest and they end up in the valley because they think that is the only place they can make it.

At the end of the day this really comes down to marketing, and when you spend your money marketing to developers that have already been sold on another city often you are too late, but if you hit them earlier like the valley has gotten so good at doing they are MUCH more likely to see Austin as a viable solution
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Sure there's value. The biggest obstacle to cranking up clock speed is heat dissipation. If we can get the heat away from the chip faster, we can increase the clock speed.
Yeah, that's an obvious one. Not sure how I overlooked that. Thanks.
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Probably not. Most modern ciphers have security bounds measured in solar systems worth of atom-sized supercomputers. Hardware-accelerated attacks on 1024 bit RSA keys (for which no real-world attacks are published) are predicated on custom silicon.

A massive, massive improvement in compute might hasten SHA-1's demise, but SHA-1 is already on life support today.

It is unlikely that even a huge unexpected leap in compute power would change the fundamentals of how things are encrypted today. Unless something like quantum pans out, you can expect us to still be using RSA (or more likely ECDSA and ECDH), AES (or something like one of the eSTREAM finalists), and HMAC-SHA3 for the foreseeable future.

The thing that will change what our crypto stack looks like will be a new discovery in cryptology, not a new way to build super-cheap, super-fast processors.
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Are you asking me to share my specific income? That's not gonna happen. Let's do some hypotheticals.

$140k in NYC (this is a common salary/comp)
$120k in Austin (this is a common salary/comp)

Nominal dollar amounts, yes, $20k is dollar for dollar, less. But now, factor in your taxes (NY State tax, Kings County, etc.) That $140k is now significantly less. Factor in cost of living being TWICE as much (literally, my rent per sq ft was more than twice what it was in Austin). You now are TAKING HOME less money.

So when I said net income, that's what I meant. If you're more concerned with a higher salary and less net income, then, well good luck to ya. I prefer to have more $$ in my pocket after it's all said and done.
So... the CPU will complete its work in nanoseconds... then go back to waiting milliseconds for I/O, right?
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Everything is automated, of course.

We can control the risk level any time. Running out of either currency has never happened since launch at least, because our reserves are huge now.
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This is really exciting. I don't see anything with this techology that would limit it to just CPU chips. I'd imagine it would work just as well in a GPU chip. That would make incredibly realistic simulation of graphics and physics possible.

It would obiviously revolutionize gaming completely, but most imporantly it would revolutize science. Imagine having the power of the whole Folding@Home network in your laptop! Imagine how much power the future Folding@Home projects and other similar projects will have.

I'm a diehard optimist, but a sudden 100-1000x increase in ordinary CPU speeds could have the possibility to save thousands (if not millions) of lives and advice science a hell of a lot!
This is reminiscent of Peter Norvig's Gettysburg Address Powerpoint presentation (http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/).
It's not just an issue of polysemy (that "file" means two different things in English), but that the structure itself may need to be different in different languages, because languages have different grammars, and different ways of dealing with objects/numbers/etc.

In the example I linked above, there's a whole mess of rules to capture if you want to handle singular/plural correctly in different languages, including those that distinguish more cases than singular and plural. It boils down to the fact that word-for-word translation doesn't work in all but the simplest cases: you can't translate "[a] [b] [c] [d]" by having 4 lookup tables for [a], [b], [c], and [d] and then plugging them into a template independently.
Not exactly. Oregon has rednecks as does upstate NY (I used to live there as well). The delta is the level of racism, bigotry and religious fundamentalism that plagues the state is significantly higher in Texas than other states. Hicks and bigots exist everywhere, but from my experience, Texas as a whole has more per capita than "coastal" states like Cali, Oregon or New York.
I like the way you phrased that - levers for the human mind.

Maybe when we talk about the fight against poverty and unemployment, we should talk about it in terms of the type of levers we are making. Like high-frequency trading is a lever that only very smart, very educated people can actually use. But all humans no matter their intelligence or education possess a flexibility that would let them be productive (beyond what can be achieved with automation), given the right levers.
I'm speculating wildly here, but I suspect a major benefit to going 3D like this will be improved chip layout -- no need to take a lengthy route around all the stuff in the middle just to get from the ALU to the L1 cache (for example), just go straight up.

Of course the article doesn't mention if it's possible to make (and align) vias through this special glue, but I would really hope so.
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And if the first photon was in some weird quantum state, where it can’t be said to have struck the atoms or not, the second photon will be both extra-delayed and not extra-delayed at the same time.

Maybe it's just me, but these always come out sounding massively hand-wavy and scare off a lot of people (or make you look like an idiot, depending on how much respect they have for physicists). I think the fix would be mostly a matter of coming up with terminology that doesn't fall flat on its ass, but still remains accessible, because, on the other hand, speaking of amplitude distributions would kind of alienate a lot of people.

Anyway, much more importantly - it's a clever little engineering trick to entangle the two photons. However, and I will say I have not researched the topic of quantum computing - doesn't operating them require interference between the different branches of the system at some point to get meaningful results? If so, you would need to get two or more branches to end up in exactly the same state, and nothing in the article mentions that the cesium atoms that have been altered will reset without outside influence.

Anyway, I put the conditional probability that I know everything about the system or quantum mechanics awfully close to 0, so it's more of a curiosity (how would you make it work?) instead of a genuine concern.
I just asked whether you got paid the same in NYC as you do in Austin which is a yes or no question...no details required. Regarding take home, even with taxes and higher CoL I've still been able to save and invest more money in NYC due to much higher salaries. All that said it is good to know $120K is a common salary in Austin, thanks for the info.
RAM can be placed in the stack, eliminating slow trips accross the frontside bus. The only remaining bottleneck should be hdd access.
Just because it is open doesn't mean the other browsers will, or should, implement it. NaCl will never see the light of day in other browsers even though it is entirely open-source.

Until NaCl, Dash, and whatever other stuff they decide to shove into Chrome, makes it into a standards body and is recommended by WHATWG & W3C, it is an attack on the Open Web.

Don't put stuff in a browser that isn't web standards compliant, I thought we already learned that lesson?
This is just proof that "interesting" is very subjective. :)
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The question I have is what would we do with processors that are 1000 times faster than now?

I remember buying my first computer and asking to upgrade to a 30mb hard-drive instead of 25mb. The sales guy said I would 'never fill 25mb'. He had no point of reference for how large graphic, files would be (this is pre-digital photography).

What new capabilities/industries will be enabled with even 1/10th of that power in a mobile device?
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It's not a miracle, it's science. And if they can back it up, it doesn't matter if you find it inconceivable.
When large advances in processing power become cost-effective and widespread, programming paradigms will change to take advantage of the fact. Cases in point: the Cell processor and modern PS3 games that really take advantage of it, CUDA on graphics cards and all the scientific computing that is starting to shift to it, and even multi-core and the renewed interest in multithreaded programming.
Thank you so much for posting this. I particularly liked the timeline showing what was going on in your life as you built Sifter.
I'm non-native English speaker and all my software is in English. Still I understand why developers/publishers want to default to my local language.

It all depends on your target demographic. If you are targeting young, geeky people then it's OK to have English around. But if you are targeting every joe sixpack and grandma, then it's probably smarter to present localized versions.

Optimum of course would be to query the underlying platform for locale information. That way everybody gets what they want almost always.

And while we are talking about localization, I need to point out that localization is much more than just translating the UI texts. It also includes stuff like date and number formats, correct units, and lots of other stuff. I'd even argue that those are more important than translations.
So if you make $140k in NYC, but only take home say $95k.

Or you make $120k, but take home $95k. Then it's about the same.

Now factor in cost of living. The $$ in your pocket is higher. If you more concerned with the nominal/gross dollar amount as opposed to net income, I feel you are looking at the wrong metric.
One trend that the author missed is that retailers are starting to use the Facebook Platform to enhance their own retail site. Companies like Amazon, Blue Nile, and Hallmark are using Facebook Connect to provide their customers with more personalized and social features. This approach makes the most sense since it allows retailers to focus their efforts on improving the experience of their own site, rather than investing time and money into a store that exists within the four walls of Facebook and fragments the online shopping experience.

My company Snapline (http://www.getsnapline.com) is helping retailers leverage their shoppers Facebook data to provide a better shopping experience on their retail site through features like personalized product recommendations and gift recommendations. I see these kinds of features becoming much more ubiquitous on retail sites in the next several years.
Or in other words, you're only going to get constant factor improvements in asymptotic run times with these chips.
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It's also because most people just want the comfort and stability of a job.
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This is a poorly written, sensationalistic article. Here's the original press release:

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35358.wss

Basically, this is about IBM and 3M starting a new research project. Whether it would work, how long it would take, at what cost - these are all open questions.
I can't speak for every situation and whether there was a finished script. I may be an idealist but, from a standpoint of morality, any business that abuses the power they have is severely lacking.

There are differences between Facebook and Friendster and I've always felt uncomfortable with the way Zuckerberg behaved in the early days of Facebook. I will argue that Zuckerberg's vision was greater that than just the Winklevoss' original idea.
This blog post completely misses the mark. This kind of thing should be downvoted into oblivion.

The blog post basically bashes NH, then accuses Apple of destroying Microsoft and says that Microsoft should team up with Android.

I've never seem such a huge chip on the shoulder...
"Because this is the first iPhone app I ever built, after taking a 6 week class on iPhone development in Atlanta".

You could have just said that, and people would have nodded and said "good on you". The rest of this post actually sapped your credibility.
You're welcome, but the reason I explained is the answer is yes AND no. Yes, because gross dollar amount is less but No because take home is much more.
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Looking at it only from a technology viewpoint is parochial. The non-tech view is that the whole app experience is fragmented. Apps that hardly talk to each other. Apps that need to be updated every few weeks if not more often if I want fixed bugs or newer available features. Apps that behave differently if I move to a device running on a different platform.

But then, that is only half the story. Apps that can use the power of deep access on front end, on top of a strong thing on the back end - those are the apps which are really making use of native story to build a more useful product than otherwise would have been possible.
"Personality" would probably be a more obvious word for it (although I guess "voice" is specifically personality expressed through product rather than through company actions).
If that was the point of the post that's what I would have written.
The article is not very technical, but I wanted to understand: Would this enable non-CPU core to be also glued?

I mean a single stack of say 12CPU layers, 12GPU layers, 8 memory layers, 2 Physics and so on... Could that be possible, then we are getting a really good overall throughput, or am I thinking wrong?
Yep.

I'm not a cryptographer, but generally when we get to the point where we can envision how a sudden reduction in compute cost could threaten an algorithm or construction, that's when people start freaking out. That's where we're at with SHA1, but I don't know what other building block is in the same position.
It's a sandwich. If the glue has zero thermal resistance, the silicon does not.

Science, my foot.
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I'm thinking of buying your book, but since it is from 2004 I was just wondering if there are any key findings or events that would have dramatically changed your viewpoint on certain of the issues you write about, so I could bear that in mind while reading.

Maybe are you planning to release an updated version in the near future?
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> Does this source have a distribution license? I get annoying every time I see a project on GH without a license, it ought to be compulsory.

Same here. In fact, right now the code is 'locked', since without a license the default copyright terms apply, which means nobody can fork it.
But considering Google already stole the name "Go" from another language, it's likely that they just don't care.
Oh. Why did you release buggy software then? I assumed the point of the post was the answer to the question posed in the title. Sorry.
"I was merely a web developer, not an iPhone developer"

Thinking that alone is a mistake -- there is nothing magical about iPhone developers, and ios programming can be learned quickly. If you're doing a startup, you can't believe anything other people are doing is impossible to master.

(that may very well be the case, but it always warrants investigation)
I think you just described 90% of the content on Mashable.
You can say the same about Las Vegas, or living & working in Vancouver,WA (NOT Vancouver, Canada) and shopping in Portland,OR (no state income tax and no sales tax) or living in Seattle,WA. And employers pay fairly close to SF wages in Seattle. The weather, of course, is constant drizzly rain with glorious summers 3-4 months of the year, and scorching dessert in LV.

And there is Miami, FL. Nice weather, no income tax. I don't know anything about the housing market there, or culture.

You can also work in the UAE/Dubai, with 0 income tax! The laws are a bit oppressive and slavery in all but name fuels all the construction work. Or Singapore, with something around 9/10% total income tax at typical SF engineer wages. If your american, you still have to pay taxes to uncle sam after ~$94k if you work in another country.
"I believe I was using the definition of value gleaned from the post above which pretty strongly linked value with getting paid for your work. Call it what you will, my point is that the economy is focused on producing something that people will pay money for. But current models are based on scarcity, which may be becoming obsolete."

Scarcity is still there. You can copy adobe photoshop, but you wouldn't be able to build it from scratch in your basement. This is the scarcity: the intelligence, creativity, and man-hours it takes to build it.

You can copy it easily for free now, but the industry will eventually change. Internet is getting faster and faster and eventually (because of the people that feel they deserve software for free), we will only have software services.

I am a developer and I don't create software applications anymore..only services. It's funny because if this wasn't the case, people could buy my apps for a flat-fee. Now they need to pay me money every month to use it.
Typical IBM: how make processors faster? just find a way to make them burn faster.

It's just turbo charge for processors.
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So what would that 140k NY Salary and 120k Austin Salary be in the Bay Area?
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Could be coincidence. The universe of possible scrips is limited and dependent on historical context. Now think about how many writers send their scripts to Hollywood. Of course there's going to be some overlap.

And this is not exclusive to the film industry in any way.
I'm sorry but I don't think judaism has anything to do with this at all. None of the things you are talking about has anything more to do with judaism than it does with christianity or any other religion.
On the plus side, destroying that set freed up that location for MythBusters to shoot approximately every other episode. And watching Adam and Jamie accidentally drive remote controlled cars into the Bay is much better than any fake freeway in a Matrix sequel.
It wasn't because I had just learned ios development. It was because we wanted to get feedback.
I'm a contractor who lives in rural New Jersey. Back in late winter this year, I picked up one little Wordpress gig for a startup down in Austin. It went well. Since April, approximately 95% of the money I've made has come from companies based in Austin TX. I just got pinged yesterday from a contact about a potential long term dev gig that's looking to train the hire into the CTO over the next 2 years.

I'd love to move there because I'm really into the food and the music scene down there, but my Michigander wife is not into the brutal heat. I'm not sure what my point is, except that in my personal experience, Austin is absolutely exploding right now. There are at least a couple incubators down there, ala YC. The culture is really cool. It's pricey compared to Sussex county NJ, but there's also stuff to do there, not like Sussex county NJ.

Cheers.
You could make that quip about any hardware improvement.
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