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It's not 1998 anymore. While I agree that design is not key to the success, I believe that when people see site with bad (like 1998-bad bad) design, they automatically distrust it.

I also don't think that what they are doing is 'extreme budgeting'. It seems like pretty reasonable thing that everybody does where I live.
or the low-end server space or Apple getting grumpy...
Even though I consider US public schools borderline child abuse for holding kids back to keep up with the slowest kids, and for excessive to meaningless praise, I don't think reading the rest of the article and discovering that the kids did in fact overcome the challenges will make me feel it's EVER OK to dump a kid into a situation like that.

Kids are resilient. If it doesn't kill them, it can make them stronger. That doesn't mean that I believe it's OK to torture them in order to make them stronger. The ends don't justify the means.

It frankly ISN'T the competitiveness that troubles me. Not in the slightest. It's dropping the kids into a school where they can't understand ANYTHING, nor can they be understood, that strikes me as cruel and unusual. It's one thing to do that to someone who WANTS it. Kids have very little control over their lives, though, and forcing that on a kid (except when there is really no choice) is just wrong.

Especially since the PREMISE is wrong: Kids simply don't learn foreign languages faster and easier than adults. They learn them at a deeper level (different brain structures), so that they can eventually learn to speak a language as a native, but it takes as long or longer than an adult learning the same language for them to become proficient.
I think it's more that the "mainstream" computing has moved on from desktops to laptops.

Instead of targeting the latest and greatest design at 130W/90W TDP desktop parts and downsizing it to a laptop, they've turned it around and is starting to target 35W TDP as their main platform, then upping the power to turn it into a desktop part.

Since power consumption and heat dissipation is becoming an issue also at their top-of-the-line server market, it probably makes much more sense to design things that way. My guess is that high density server design at this point has more in common with laptop-esque power and heat constraints than those of, say, high-end workstations.
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I think Microsoft has vision, it's just more in terms of the customer via one product (Windows). Their vision is to own the market and do what is needed to get there. It does help that they have some amazing people working there. It would help more if they could trim the turf-protecting management down.
Whoops, didn't see that before. I frequent HN so I guess there may be a few people who are of the same mind as me and missed out on it the first time around - thanks for pointing out the previous comments.
Another excellent answer, thanks. I'd love to talk a little more but you don't have a twitter handle or your email in your profile :(
Maybe there is place for an YC startup doing X-hackers news?

Cross-advertisements could get seed users, for bootstrapping the new X variants. (Starting with the present Hacker News, then going to CellHacker News, etc.)

I guess lots of the code is already there.
Cool stuff here. My comment is not on the app itself, it's on how it's being marketed. My initial impression was that this was some Google-affiliated 10% project or something based on the branding on the page, then I noticed the owner in previous comments say different.

The person who made this, if even for purely altruistic purposes, should be leveraging the eyeballs into some lifetime value, whether it's Twitter followers, awareness of who created it, clickthroughs to a blog, etc. It saddens me - as a marketer - to see a cool project like this essentially exist in the wild without an author's signature.
I wonder if using a zset with the expiration timestamps as score and user id wouldn't work for this scenario?
This is a good point. In WW I there was an AA shell that went off inside a German airship, and the ship was able to land safely. They really are quite resistant to damage.
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I see that you are based in London. I'm guessing that's why your rates are much higher than the Elance crowd. There you'll find lots of sysadmins in India/Russia with rates from $5-10/hour. There's no way you or I could (or would want to) compete with that (I'm based in Los Angeles, US). I wouldn't doubt their expertise just because of the low rate...it's just that the cost of living is much lower there. That said, wherever you find someone, you would want to do a certain amount of vetting before you give them access to your server and network, and once you invest the time finding someone, you want to keep them around more than a few hours.
I've been doing the same, it's been really helpful. My wife has been very patient with me through this. Any day I get up before I feel like I'm ready, my sharpness and work endurance is substantially worse.
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The comments are highly disturbing. I don't know how old these people are but the fanboyism is rampant. Of course, you would expect it, given it's Google+ and the only reason to use it is to dislike Facebook.

I don't like either company. To me, both Facebook and Google+ and all social media is a waste of time. Instead of being a productive citizen, people are wasting their lives looking at the lives of others. It's pretty sad if you ask me.

But the worst part about it is the crony fabboyism in the article. The other part is that the comparison to yahoo is not apt. Yahoos problem is that it doesn't have enough market share. Facebooks problem is turning market share into profit. They're hardly the same. The vision argument seems like an excuse for not understanding the actual problems of the products or services.
The evolution of technology has certainly been interesting. I remember a lecturer once told me that everything old is new again. Basically we go in cycles.

We started with mainframes, then mini-computers and then micro-computers (PCs/Macs). What happened in the last 10 years? Through the "cloud" we basically went back to large computers and timesharing again.

Another turning point in the last 10 years is that basically any PC made since 2000 will probably be sufficient for what most normal users want. We get increasingly powerful CPUs that most people just don't need.

This is part of the reason for the move to lower power consumption. A smaller form factor and lighter computer is something most people care about. Having 6 cores instead of 4 just isn't.

Many pundits have predicted that Web applications will take over. 5-10 years ago there was a reasonable basis for this opinion. Computers would get increasingly powerful and that headroom would make the otherwise horribly inefficient Javascript medium (compared to the compiled languages like C/C++ or even the bytecode languages like Java/C#) dominant as the inefficiencies become irrelevant.

The rise of native apps on mobile is another example of this cycle. Part of this is that native apps have access to libraries that Web pages simply don't but part of it really is performance and the fact that performance once again matters.

Personally I find the manufacturing of chips at 22nm to be simply amazing. When I started paying attention to this stuff IIRC the 386/486 were done on 500nm+ lithography.

I do wonder what the future holds because that number just can't physically get much smaller (with current lithographic techniques).

It's amazing how much power a small chip can get now. I have one of the latest Macbook Airs and it can decode 10 video streams without the fan coming on. A friend has the Core 2 Duo MBA (last year's) and his machine is dying under the same load.
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"Nobody seems sure why so much data has the Benford distribution. " : Have a look at http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/benfords-law-zipfs-... (cited in the previous discussion on HN) for an excellent exposition of the theory, and an explanation of the 'power' of the Benford Law.
It's not just ARM. Power and cooling costs in server rooms and data centers is a huge consideration, and Intel has to respond to the needs of those customers as well.
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Honestly, I'm failing to see how G+ is a "creature of vision". Sure, it has a couple new and unique features - circles, chat, etc. But most of it is a direct copy of Facebook! Profile and feed are two examples where Facebook has innovated to establish itself as a strong identity provider, and G+ blatantly copied those features.

I'm not blaming Google for doing that. In fact, were I in their position I would be doing the exact same thing. But it's silly to claim that Facebook doesn't innovate. I'm not sure if people are just so used to ideas like the News Feed that they don't see it, but a couple years ago Facebook created that feature and it led to an explosion of social communication on their site.

It's also worth pointing out that Facebook's mission statement is "to make the world more open and connected". If you look at their products from that perspective, I think they start more like "Win!" and less like "Fail!"
I think the author goes wrong here: "I think we can all agree that tech companies can be slotted into the following [4] categories"

This opinion does not reflect reality - it seeks to take a messy multidimensional spectrum and collapse it into a nice tidy bundle that can provide a self-satisfying mental model and throw off look-at-me-I'm-so-wise sound-bites.

This is the failure of punditry, and this is why reading this article (and parsing out its underlying assumptions) is not worth your time.
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The US airships were overly susceptible to bad weather because they were based on a wartime German design in which airworthiness had been sacrificed for altitude.

From here: http://sped2work.tripod.com/zeppelins.html

"Unknown to the French and American engineers at the time the height climbers were made from thinner gauge material and, except for the machine guns, stripped of armaments and even one engine. They did not realize they were being specially built in response to mounting losses and were super risky to fly, being very much on the edge of sound structural rigidity. The Americans copied the L-49 almost exactly not knowing how close the Germans had pushed the boundaries of minimal structures and a major reason she, the Shenandoah, broke up in bad weather."
I think Intel realized at the end of Netburst era that pushing 150+W of power through small piece of silicon is not trivial anymore. So to have better performance they were forced to improve perf/watt, and that is exactly what they have done since.
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Just a note, but imho video decoding these days is not very good benchmark on performance, as it is usually handled by somewhat specialized hardware decoder instead the general purpose CPU (even if they both are integrated on the same physical chip).
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Bummer that it requires a headband. Has anyone had success with Wakemate?

http://wakemate.com
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In 2000 MS killed their consumer-oriented OS: Windows 95/98/Millenium and focused on a more business-facing product, based on Windows NT.

It looks like they are now introducing a for-consumer version again, this time probably with a really consumer-friendly setup, where there should be not too much for the end user to worry about (and change).
I meant that with modafinil, I can feel well rested and alert without nine hours of sleep per day; At least for a few days
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Very true, and I learned this early on: your job, no matter how much you like it, will never hug you back.
Remember also how they were burned, so to speak, by their Netburst Pentium 4 etc. "marchitecture"; power consumption can be crippling when you push up the speeds and the article comments on both in one sentence, "Ivy Bridge (IVB) is the first chip to use Intel's 22nm tri-gate transistors, which will help scale frequency and reduce power consumption."

I for one am very happy with the Sandy Bridge CPU speeds and price/preformance.
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You are wasting money on a designer. Contract the design work and hire a system admin with broader skills.
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I have done this with Twisted and have yet to see any problems.

In your requirements.txt, add "Twisted". In your procfile, try something like:

web: bin/python ./twistd -n web --port=$PORT --wsgi fully.qualified.app.name
It's his kid -- not yours. It's his choice -- not yours. Sit down and go neglect your loved ones elsewhere.
I don't think the issue at hand is that fraud detections are unsophisticated. The issue at hand is that the fraud detections are in cahoot with the fraud themselves. For example: Enron, Worldcom and Accenture (past) Greece, Italy, Spain and Goldman Sachs, Fitch, Moody, S&P (present) Chinese local banks, Chinese companies and SEC (future)

The problem with hackers is that they always try to find mathematical solutions to moral problems. What the world needs right now is a moral solution. A beheading for those that have fouled.

Unfortunately, the hackers, the workers - ones that actually have the power to demand changes - are willingly allowing themselves to be exploited by those that lie, and not demanding any moral judgements. They're not interested in changing the politics, they claim. They just want to keep producing interesting things, they exclaim. They don't realize they're the ones keeping the lie going. They're the ones propping up this decrepit shell of a society.

Until one day the shell collapses on their kids, anyways.
This is a pretty awful and rude way of introducing a startup to people. No mention about the company, nothing about yourself - just dropping names and an URL to a landing page.
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I don't think you want to "rent a sysadmin" (that sounds real low brow to me). Instead look for a contact sysadmin but first make a list of the tasks you want to hand off. If it's a logical grouping you may find that a managed host can take care of you (like SliceHost or DreamHost). If not, then use that as a job posting a la 'Seeking Linux Contractor' and screen carefully. Your best candidate will likely have a couple long term clients they take care of a little room for a new one.
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Absolutely not, as "j" is down.. ;-)

But in seriousness, although I agree about the importance of configurability, I still find that things like "j is down" and "dd deletes the current line" are an important, integral part of the vi-philosophy.

Placing the most common tasks behind the easiest key-bindings for maximum efficiency and ergonomy is the idea that got me to try out vim in the first place.

I like that someone (Bill Joy and Bram Molenaar) has solved the most common issues in editor-usage in a great way leaving me to configure only some special cases.
I'm gonna be annoying but if they hadn't put this 5 year old music I might have stayed longer on the page and tried to solve those puzzles. Yeah I could have turned off the volume.
Without any context about the nature of the start up, the product line and business, this advice is simply nonsense.
Sounds like you're proving my point for me. If this guy started working 30 years ago doing COBOL at IBM, he's smart enough, but this is just all he knows, this is how his colleagues and peers were, they worked and went home. That's the culture he was steeped in. Internet kids forget that there is a huge world of computing outside of websites. All this guy needs is to be shown that there's another way. But as far as he knows, he's doing everything right, and can't understand why he can't get a job, while everyone's complaining they can't hire. You think a H1B will be any better than him?
Also, plan on a long term relationship. "Rent" sounds like you'll toss the sysadmin away and when new work pops up you'll just fetch another one. Don't do that. Establish a relationship as you may grow into needing a lot of work done.
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As a very early adopter (probably in the first 100) and author of DiabloMiner, and forum admin... I have exactly no idea what this is supposed to prove.

The only metric that seems to be valid is "are new people using Bitcion?" The answer is yes, thus Bitcoin is still here.
I hope that once we have quad core 2.5 Ghz Cortex A15 chips (probably next year), ARM will also start focusing on lowering power consumption after that, or at least split the product line in 2: one that continues to double up the performance every year, while maintaining the same TDP, like they do now, and one where they maintain the performance, but cut the power consumption in half every year.

That kind of performance should be more than enough for smartphones, and probably even tablets, though I could see how we might need more on clamshells. But by having a product line that focuses on lowering power consumption every year, while maintaining the performance will also ensure Intel will never catch-up with them in chips with extremely low energy consumption, and in the same time our smartphones will start lasting more and more.
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Looks like the aerial camera operator stuck his gum in the wrong place. Har har.

Or perhaps the home owner was sunbathing and asked Google to obfuscate for the good of mankind.
Should be faster now, I've pushed up the number of concurrent users it can handle.

How's Chrome freaking out ? - I'm using Chrome myself and even when it's been slow Chrome hasn't had any problems[1].

[1] There is one weird bug with Chrome that makes it go really slow when doing a Google oauth occasionally, I haven't managed to track it down yet, but it's something at the packet level as with tcpdump I can see Firefox getting a response a lot faster than chrome. Possibly something to do with the headers Chrome sends making Google respond more slowly.
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It was on the front page for most of the European afternoon, but it dropped off at about 8am pacific time, so I'm guessing west coast American HNers probably wouldn't have seen it.

There's probably a whole bunch of links on HN that people miss because they weren't awake in the time period that the link was on the front page.
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TBH I thought Facebook was innovating like hell, rebuilding itself into a communication platform instead of a social network.

From what I've seen working on a major news site they are destroying Google in referral traffic. Seems to me they know what they are doing, and its no accident they are in the number one place.

He's totally correct about them copying Google+ features, but thats just reaction to a threat, all companies do this when a competitor comes alone. Its nothing more than an attempt to undervalue.

He's also wrong about the noise controls on Facebook. They work well, they monitor interest to those who follow you, and if theres interest the post gets promoted. If its not getting promoted, chances are that it didn't get initial traction.

Plus the audiences are completely different, I don't have a single tech orientated thing on Facebook. Just music, the arts, TV shows, stuff I do to relax and have fun.

I don't expect to see Scoble articles on my Facebook, I expect to see them in my special curated RSS feeds which I read when I work. Maybe I'm weird not wanting to mix pleasure and work, but I kind of think it would be the norm.

Google+ is in a heavy nose dive, except for a few demagogue like figures, and a very tech orientated control prone to idolisation of said people. I haven't noticed an inch of innovation on it at all, so this guys entire article seems like an agenda push, rather than actual analysis or reporting. I've never followed this guy before, but he's definitely devalued my opinion of him and gone onto "talk with a grain of salt" list for that piece.

I guess this guy is his little attention bubble and blind to fact that Google+ is a joke to everyone else, is being lampooned very hard on other social websites. This one from Reddit had me laughing the other day http://i.imgur.com/XNkyT.png
The lead professor (John Ousterhout) has extensive experience in the industry. The project also involves a number of industrial collaborators (e.g. Jeff Dean from Google).

The 3.6 us you cited is only the network latency. Ousterhout and his team are working on 5us RPC calls. Why is this hard? If the program context switches three times, it will miss the 5us threshold.
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How about know and intuit? They aren't mutually exclusive.

I think this article is about learning about both the art and the science of database design.
As someone who've taught before (I was a TA at Berkeley during grad school). It's awesome to monitor the classroom and see if what you are saying even makes sense to the class or not. Kudos!
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We commonly encounter users who believe that searching on
two fields can be facilitated by creating two separate
indexes on those fields. This example should give you some
intuition about why this just isn’t possible.

Not really, as the example only allows a search on ingredient, since it explicitly says the name is not known at all, and hence could never be used for search.

Now let's say we know two things about the unknown recipe: it contains chicken and it's from the Italian kitchen.

Given these two indexes:

Chicken
1, 15, 582, 1032

Italian
3, 15, 16, 82, 1032, 6821

I could definitely use both to speed up my search by looking only at pages that occur in both indexes (in this case, 15 and 1032). This can be done in O(# of indexes * index length) time if both indexes are in sorted order.
The problem is not only operational, but also a technical one:

Nodes in the cluster need to communicate with each other and with other systems, like databases, message queues, monitoring servers, etc.

You can aggregate data per node, so the less servers in the front-end cluster you have, the less load on the back-end servers.

There is also financial problem: many organizations can afford 50 servers. But not many can afford 1000 servers.
The nature of HotOS is to encourage visionary ideas. They have an SOSP paper: http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/ramcloud-reco...
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funny, i've got the opposite (but same) problem. I'm an computer engineer, but interested in molecular biology and genetics
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You are confused; traits and behaviours are not too complex to be explained by genes. 20,000 protein-coding genes do indeed code for all the complexities of our bodies, since they can be combined in an essentially unlimited number of ways.

All epigenetics does is determine which genes are turned on at which particular times and at what levels, i.e. it is simply another mechanism relating to the regulation of the protein-coding genes (which itself has been well-understood for decades).

'Epigenetics' is simply a fashionable term that plays well on grant applications. It's not unimportant, but neither is it revolutionary.
Nope, I'm waiting for the page to refresh on its own. My username stays in the upper right corner the whole time.

I "logged out" between viewing this comment and replying to it.

It's also broken for me on OSX Safari. I don't understand how I can be the only one with this problem on multiple browsers.