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Leakage power is actually very significant part of the total power usage [1] and one of the bigger reasons why Intel developed the tri-gate technology [2].

Active power is the one that's related to the frequency (P ~= CV^2f). Leakage power will "leak" even if the transistor is not switching.

1. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4215605/Leakage-powe...
2. http://realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT050511195446
My dad has hypertension. He has a weak digestion(Because of stress). His legs are weak. He wears glasses(Because he battled the glare from vehicles all this life). He also has bad moods all the time(Because of the frustration battling traffic all day).

Yet he doesn't give up. That's what it really boils down to. Diseases are a part of life. You have to learn to live beyond and with them. He was lucky that every time he got an opportunity he used it, which opened up more opportunities. And he worked on those opportunities.

And by the way, No one that truly got rich and sustained his riches for a long time ever did it without working hard. The fact that not every body can work hard. The fact that most consider hard work 'not worth it'. The fact that most don't work hard is what has what has given hardworking people edge throughout history. And makes them a minority.

But I agree, Hard work may not always lead to results. But it increases your chances of success.

I consider my dad a personal hero because he demonstrated what focus and true hard work can achieve over time. Had he settled down for mediocrity like everybody else, he would be nothing more than a cab driver to me.

EDIT: Common folks why would you downvote this? Is not giving up beyond all odds, so bad?
I just spent several hours today digging through Poor Charlie's Almanack trying to build a more complete understanding of his mental models. You always hear references to them, but I have yet to find a list of them in one place. Not unlike the Colonel's eleven herbs and spices. What great timing.
if all 7B people in the world used google, each one would be worth $27. If google only had 800M users like facebook, each one would be worth $237.

So maybe FB stock is actually undervalued if one thinks that Facebook provides an equal amount of value compared with Google.
Would it be ridiculous for someone who won a literal (rather than metaphorical) lottery to call lotteries a con? Because they are, whether you win one or not.
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Are there many data centers using IB? Yes. SMP was common in HPC before it came down-market, likewise NUMA. Commodity processors have many features - vector instructions, specilative execution, SMT - first found in HPC. Power and cooling design at places liks Google and Facebook is heavily HPC-influenced as well. Certainly some things go the other way - e.g. Linux - but usually today's server design looks like last year's HPC design.

I'm not quite sure it's valid to write off SPARC as an architectural dead end when the current fastest computer in the world uses it, and the next crop of US competitors for that crown are all based on the Cell/BlueGene lineage. GPUs are also more broadly applicable than you might think. Besides video and audio processing, they can be used for many crypto-related tasks (witness their popularity for Bitcoin mining), various kinds of math relevant to data storage (e.g erasure codes or hashes for dedup), and so on. Many of their architectural features are also being copied by more general-purpose processors as core counts increase, as well.

Yes, high-end HPC is too obsessed with LINPACK. Nonetheless, it remains a good place to look when trying to predict the future of commodity servers. Even if ARM does displace x86 instead, many features besides the ISA are likely to come from HPC. Perhaps more relevantly, either outcome is still very bad for Intel.
"And sure they are getting rich too. He is using them and they are using him. That's how it all works. But he would not exist without them and vice versa."

Your dad understands the "pecking order"and so do you. This is a good trait but not understood by everyone. You're lucky he has instilled this in you. Many people in this country don't understand this unfortunately and have a loser attitude.
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There is a big difference between PG and Arrington: PG states that you should be working for yourself. YC is set up to allow entrepreneurs to make money if they work hard and a big part of that is allowing a company to grow before being required to take VC money - allowing for a better valuation.

Sleeping under your desk with .05% equity? Probably a bad investment.

Sleeping under your desk for 45% equity? Well, roll the dice. At least you will get paid if it works.
Uploaded my favorite photo of our 12 week old daughter in the hopes that I could stuff it into the repo of some new project. When attempting to adjust the line width, Chrome went "Aw, Snap!"

Would love to see this again when all the kinks are worked out.
I was writing it mathematically as I thought you would appreciate how your intuitive grasp of what n-dimensions is described mathematically.

The terminology (gibberish) I used is nothing more than a convenient but very precise shorthand for communicating abstractions. The reason these particular abstractions are given special names by mathematicians is that they occur over and over again. There is a lot of conceptual leverage to be gained if you are able to see the same patterns in seemingly unrelated problems.

As Poincaré put it, "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things". I'd argue it's worth knowing some of those names.
Seeking Alpha had some good analysis on this earlier in the year. http://seekingalpha.com/article/245326-is-facebook-already-o...

TLDR: Facebook's value should probably be closer to 11 Billion rather than 100 billion.
That's a valid argument. The solution - making government more open. Including being open about what kind of information government does collect. Including creating another government agencies that oversee government agencies that collect information about citizens.

As usual there are budget constraints on that system, so even though government would not be limited legally too much about the amount of information it can collect, it still would be pretty limited by the budget, because it's expensive to maintain red tape and keep collected information secure.

In any case, legal system should mostly limit government in how much it can restrict citizens, not in how much information government can collect.
> Quad core machine with a million gigs of ram for email and a web browser?

I hear this sentiment a lot, and in general I agree, but the fact is the app with the largest RAM footprint on my laptop is Firefox. Given the proliferation of web-based apps, I don't see the complexity of web browsers going down. We can always use more power.
There's always the possibility that lwat is at work and jwz is blocked...
Me too. It doesn't look like Google discloses their worldwide user count. It's got to be over a billion.
Wow, that sounds like a really bad innovation for HBS; the other way in used to require 2-3 years of high-end consulting work, or 4+ years of normal work.

They're bigger than most business schools already (900 students in the class?). Why are they doing this?
Honestly, I don't think there's that much value in the data. Most of the big social gaming companies probably have most of that data anyway from scraping the social graph -- if money is in the data, they haven't been mining their data properly.
Does this implicitly mean that top investors or analysts don't expect Google+ to take any market share from Facebook within the next few years?
"But let's not pretend that there was zero luck involved"

What in his comment gives you the impression that he is claiming that luck did not play a role?
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Just create an empty Facebook account and use it to authenticate, problem solved.

Yes, it's against Facebook's TOS, which makes me feel even better whenever I authenticate with it.
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Most perceived lag on a modern desktop comes from excessive abstraction which results in poor coding practices.

This is worthless without actual numbers, which I doubt you have. Hardware people blame software, software people blame hardware, as it has always been, so mote it be, amen.
I have lived in Oakland for 8 years, dont drive a car, take public transit, walk, shop, and work here. Never been mugged. Perhaps the problem was with you and not the city. Anyways, with that attitude Im glad to hear you left. Dont come back.
Stross seems to make it work. In what world is he mainstream? I'm presuming you know that Stross was the one who wrote the blog post above.
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The technology is out there, believe me. Making it super user-friendly is another matter.

There is a better way to do social networks, I believe. But at present I can only demonstrate it with the command line. The user interface is just not there.

We all know Zuckerberg put a lot of effort into user interface. And he did a very good job with that. That is no coincidence.
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Greetings fellow HNers.

Was researching on startup scene in Singapore and found that though it's a highly convenient place to setup and run a business, the numbers (of startups) are still not that large.

Any comments/inputs/opinions on the trend? Do you see any reason why it has not become big yet?

Thanks.

Ref: http://startuplist.e27.sg/
That number is so large, it's hard for me to wrap my mind around it. For some reason I keep thinking about the fact that California plans to close 70 state parks in order to save $11 million. That is 0.045% of 24 billion.
You seem to be operating on the assumption that an ARM CPU can match an x86 CPU in performance clock-for-clock.

While this may be true, it is not necessarily. Just pull out your old 4GHz P4, and see how it stacks up against your modern 3GHz desktop.

The point being architecture has come a long way for x86, and even if they match frequency, ARM will not necessarily come out of the gate capable of matching that.
"Almost every industry out there manages to make good profits without their employees having to give up their lives."

Medicine and law being two exceptions.
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A cab driver has a leverage too. There are hours in a day(24 hour day) where he can bill his customers double and sometimes even three times. The reason a cab driver doesn't earn much is because he can't really scale his business linearly.

I get your point. And I definitely agree, we enjoy a position where we can use our 'time' non linearly to make money. I guess this is what you call leverage.

But how much 'time'? listen, unless I'm working on a new algorithm or something. These days I'm nothing more than a Henry Ford era factory guy. Eclipse does the auto complete for me. There are libraries and API's that have solved most of my problems. There are forums that have answers to questions I don't know. There are design patters that handle architecture use cases.

I don't write code. These days I assemble logical parameterizable templates from my brain, which translate to syntax on Eclipse, which again gets auto completed. We really are in drap and drop era.

Considering all this, winning is boiling down to productivity not intelligence.

I am helpless, the only way I can win as day to day programmer is to do more work in available time.
I don't live in Oakland, but glad there was someone with a dissenting opinion to counter this nasty diatribe.
The two are interlinked, though.
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Also 2012 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop. :)
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Like any other site's stats, that '800 million' is significantly inflated. As an anecdote, I know several people who have at least three accounts. It's disingenuous how companies rarely acknowledge that accounts do not have a 1:1 correspondence to individuals. I think that should be taken into account when speculating about revenue.
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Maybe I'm not reading it correctly, but it seems like a pretty simple issue to resolve by syncing outlook to gmail / google calendar along with an android phone... The current email host should be set to forward to gmail and outlook repointed to gmail as well. If the user wants access to email offline, they can just enable POP.

Syncing the calendar is even easier...

It seems like he's more interested in working with his preferred tool set than the best tool set for the job.
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How about any of mine?
http://github.com/dylanjs1030

I've got a range of different things there. Of them, I think Gun.io's LightWrite is a fairly practical project.
I've read upwards of 140 comments, and have yet to stumble on some kind of solution for those of us who fell into the "smart praise" category as children. Is there some way to flip the proverbial work-ethic switch in your mid-twenties (or later) or are we doomed to a life of self-doubt and avoiding anything remotely challenging that we're not already proficient in?
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Thank you for illustrating his point so beautifully.
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The distributed search model that YaCy uses would never work in a large scale enterprise. Security, safe harbor, etc are all difficult enough using a traditional, centralized approach. Trying to imagine this done in a distributed way across the enterprise is giving me a headache.

And the closest thing to open source, turnkey search is gluing together Apache SOLR and a web crawler. Lucid Imagination offers this (plus other features) as a commercial product, but it not open source to the best of my knowledge.
Agreed. But whatever value there is, it's in that data. And those gaming companies needed to scrape Facebook to get it.

There's more value to create for whoever manages to monetise the data. But will it be Facebook? Or will it be someone else? Doesn't seem like that will matter for an IPO. An IPO will benefit certain large investors regardless of what happens to the company long term. And they will cash out quick.
Warren Buffett has said “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable ‘moats’.” Where the castle is a metaphor for the business and the moat its competitive advantage against competitors. The wider the moat the better.

My definition of “smart work” is work that simultaneously earns income and widens the moat between you and your competitors by extending your skillset in areas of demand.

With every respect for your father’s impressive work-ethic, if you worked as hard as he did to become, say, an expert geophysicist specialising in deep-sea oil extraction, where do you think your income would be at the same point of your life with the same amount of work effort applied? That’s the difference between “hard” and “smart” work.
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Does this Community Edition toolkit include armcc, ARM's excellent (but expensive) optimizing compiler?

I don't understand why ARM charges thousands of dollars per seat for their compiler. gcc generates crappy ARM code. Doesn't ARM want all developers to be able to build fast ARM applications? Why doesn't ARM just contribute their compiler expertise to improving gcc rather than developing a complete toolchain?
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Once you implement this, there would be lots of privacy concerns. But when done by smaller company / non-commercial entities, the concerns might be lesser.
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Working smart is getting someone or something else to do your work for you. That's one definition, and in the case of VCs, it's how they work.

VCs don't invest in a company. They invest in a functioning system. They invest in individuals whom they trust to build and maintain a functioning system. The nature of the system is largely irrelevant to them, as long as it produces what they desire: money, prestige among peers, hope, relief from boredom, etc.

Understanding a system is essential to working smart, but even more essential is having the balls to exploit and manipulate the system - to add value to them system and to remove waste and inefficiency from the system. Functioning systems are often highly inert; they resist change. That's why I say you need balls to change it.

Your father sits in a cab all day driving people from point to point. He functions in a transportation system. But what did he do to exploit it? Maybe he didn't have the balls to exploit a system he understood. However, you can bet he hopes that, one day, you will.
You're confusing the end with the means.
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Is there a way they check the validity of every peer database ? What if I edit the index in my computer so that my website comes at top of the result for high competing terms (similar to google link bombing) ? And if I can lease 100s of computers, then I would be first on the result ...
it does sound like you want to be talked out of something you know is too good to be true. and you know the answer to that one.

on the other hand - get to know him more. meet in person - vet him out.
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Yes. Although they do hit a port now and then. So at least there's a chance to get off once in awhile. Also this reminds me of the cruise ships docked during the Vancouver Olympics. Many of the workers on the cruise ships were not allowed to touch land.
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I'm sure some people might find Arrington very convincing as well (especially when he's recycling old jwz material). That may be why jwz has chosen to speak out.
Ouch, there goes that idea. Though it might be worthwhile to buy into shares on the secondary market now and sell really soon before the IPO date once the initial offering value is officially announced and solidified. That should shoot secondary market shares up to match the public offering price right?
You are talking of a totally tangential point. The point of the debate is about people who don't cheat(that's the short form of exploiting the loop hole in the system).

VC's aren't exploiting the system. They bet their money on stuff which they can loose. How many of such bets turn out to be successful. You work hard on your one start up. Remember they are betting on many start up's at one time.

That risk deserves some reward. Eventually considering the research and decisions they need to take over time to stay alive. VC's need to work hard too.

When they make 100x more than you in an IPO, they are basically getting compensated only as much you because they lost money somewhere else.

They may get 100x more from your start up but remember they are loosing elsewhere. So in principle you both earn the same.
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For the future, it would be really cool if those courses would feature one preview lecture and a schedule to decide if one wants to get into it or not - now that it's getting so broad.
tl;dr: don't get played by Arrington.
Massive respect for jwz.org for disregarding popular opinion and dropping truth.
My dad's initial investment to afford a car was nothing. He drove some ones else's car before he got himself one.

My initial investment is college education and daily learnings.

In order to make money/profit you need to apply seed investment and then work over it in time. Either way you will end up working. Its the seed investment that makes the difference here.

In order to work in the petrochemical industry, you really need to account for what seed investment got you there. Once that is in place. Its back to your plain old hard work to grow from there.

It impossible to generate value without working for it.
I helped vet applications for 20 Under 20 and I'm serving as a mentor for the program, and based on my observations there's nothing cynical about it. As currently structured, the program isn't scalable, but they're just getting started. Let's see what they can do given a few years to get the ball rolling.
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I have been thinking allot about this lately.

ExpressionEngine is a good example. Completely template driven yet it is hugely popular.

modern mvc is overrated.