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First thing, Michael Arrington does not understand one thing about software engineering. I have slogged for 4 years in a startup for very little equity and I know for a fact that, sleeping in office and not taking shower for days - does not mean somehow you are creating more. For a lot of us, we had little social life outside office and staying in office meant, staying somewhere I belonged. Glued to computer screen, does not mean - I was creating more, I was probably just fixing mistakes that wouldn't have been made, if clarity of thought would have been applied.Heck to be entirely honest, sometimes I would spend entire night on #ruby-lang, adding little to actual product.

Michael Arrington, picks something jwz wrote in 1994 as an argument for - that is the only way to build software. Michael Arrington has not build anything himself. At best, he has an outsider perspective at least about actual act of writing code.

And if you read between the lines, jwz burned out pretty fast, so much so that - he no longer makes software, now as VC you choose whether you want to invest in a company whose founders burn out and leave the mess or you will invest in a company which is here for long term.

Here is the bottom line though - you will probably still work hard (occasionally), but not because Michael Arrington told you so, not because EA bosses are ready with a whip and probably because you love doing what you do and that is entirely different thing altogether.
HN would be much worse without the contributions of regulars like tptacek and potatolicious.
Actually, in the case of this specific error, reviewers are often shut down by editors who want to publish the finding. It happened to my friend's advisor recently: she called them out for it and the editor said it would be published anyway.
I would love to hear PG's comment / viewpoint on this whole issue.

I have done 3 startups so far (1 VC funded, 2 bootstrapped) and I work very hard because I love it BUT I never ever work at the expense of the time with my kids and anyone saying you have to give up your life to find success in the startup world is just misleading in a big way. There are tons of examples of highly successful people across many industries who have made a fortune without giving up their lives. And its wise to look beyond such myths which are made to seem like the "norm" sometimes.
One rule of thumb I've seen writers on Anandtech express several times is that any given microarchitecture can cover at most about one order of magnitude for power consumption. This leads to laptop/desktop-oriented microarchitectures that can scale at most from about 13W to 130W by tweaking clock speeds and voltage. More recently, the high end has dropped down to at most about 95W for non-server chips, but it still means you have to go back to the drawing board before you have a CPU that can work in tablets and smaller devices.

So far, Intel has shown that they aren't very good at simultaneously developing two parallel product lines of CPUs. Their tick/tock strategy of alternating process shrinks and microarchitecture updates has been working great for years, but Atom has clearly been neglected. Prior to that, they had the P4 NetBurst architecture and the P6-based Pentium Ms on the market at the same time, but NetBurst hit a wall and the company lost a lot of ground to the Athlon 64 before they could come up with a high-performance successor to the Pentium M.
Many a career has been started by folks well into their 50s and 60s... what you may lack in energy and agility then is made up by experience, insight, and skill. Try never thinking you have done the greatest thing you will ever do, that just cuts your opportunities short.
From the user login screen, select the classic desktop from the bar at the bottom. This works well on my machine with roughly the same spec.

EDIT: Come to think of it, I think I heard they'd removed this in Ubuntu 11.10. It's there on 11.04, at least.
agree with this in principle, but I ask because if the fees come down enough, you massively expand what they can be used to pay for. I.E. no business that sells real goods (with a cost of goods sold attached, as opposed to software) will ever accept a payment gateway that takes 30% - most companies dont even have 30% margins. But if I could walk in a store and buy a shirt using iTunes on my phone . . . .
Equity does not equal sense of ownership
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Agreed re: fees. Probably Google will get the plot first.
For the niche value of it. I love 500px.com. It is for the more "artsy" photos, and they encourage only posting your best, so that there isn't too much noise to sort though. Plus the interface is just gorgeous. I now spend more time there than Flickr. It has a strong international flavor too, which I like.

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It's all those things but at scale they are all a commodity; reducing the vig to ~Visa level means you can use your itunes like your visa/mastercard/amex, and think about that economy relative to apps?
I think in a lot of ways this is related to the relative overpowering of desktop computers for daily use. It's been true for years now that computers are highly overpowered for what they are typically used for.

Quad core machine with a million gigs of ram for email and a web browser?

Sure there are LOTS of good reasons for having legitimate CPU power, but a lot of times any random Ghz level processor is going to provide plenty of responsiveness for daily tasks. The only thing I can think of that people typically do that is processor intensive is HD playback, and that is easily accelerated nowadays.

It's not always about absolute performance, it's about "good enough" performance. If ARM is going to supply good enough performance with the additional benefits of being cheaper and more portable, then why NOT use it?

This isn't about ARM versus Intel. This is about having adequately powered portables.

Intel is losing the low-end CPU market. That much is true. But the low-end CPU market is the new middle-end CPU market. I think we are going to see an age where more and more people have "low-end" portables as their main computers. The barrier between low-end, middle-end, and high-end has shifted significantly I think. A few years ago, we all had uses for high-end computers. Nowadays, what would be considered high-end is a waste for most people.

Also, we can't forget the impact of the cloud on this. We don't need a lot of computing power locally now. For many of the types of applications that one would need high cpu for, the cloud potentially provides those solutions for us.

I, for one, don't see myself trading in my desktop at work anytime soon. But I do see myself using my laptop a lot more than my desktop at home. My couch is a lot more comfortable than my computer chair.
Also, RISC is the Next Big Thing! By the way, Thin Client computing is going to kill the desktop, C++ and C are dead, Microsoft is killing Win32, Microsoft is dead, etc, etc.

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I want a tablet that runs Linux, with a nice friendly multi-touch UI built upon StumpWM. I want it to be so user friendly that anyone can just pick it up and use it for email, web-browsing, etc.

Then, when I plug in a keyboard (or pair a bluetooth keyboard) it switches 'modes' and kicks off Emacs, so I can develop apps interactively.

I want it to integrate with GitHub (or any other Git repo) so that installing an app is just a 'git clone' under the hood.

As a developer, I want to be able to install an app via forking it in my personal repo, so that I can modify it as I wish, and issue pull requests.

I want the whole thing to be FOSS, from the BIOS up.

Above all, I want to be able to cross someone's palm with silver and get one of these delivered to me a few days later.

I want to be able to put down a deposit to pre-order one of these things.

Please?
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He didn't imply that. What he did imply is that he underestimated Arrington's level of fame. Merely saying "this guy" doesn't imply not knowing who he is.

As far as the nightclub thing...it could have been just a transaction from jwz's perspective.
> working 80 hour weeks grinding out a startup or 3 is still the most probable way of banking a decent retirement fund

Seems doubtful to me. Does anyone have statistics on how many non-founder VC funded engineers have made even $1 million off of equity? I'm going to guess it's less than 1:20,000 employees, a suckers bet. If you're willing to work hard you have a much better chance by starting your own boot-strapped non-pie-in-the-sky business that just sells something at a profit.
The only thing I use that causes the fans on my Core 2 Duo MacBook Air to kick in is Flash, so I would definitely consider a slower CPU.

Also, note that the savings/benefits can be in ways other than more battery life e.g. price, fanless & sealed cpu, etc.
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Presumably you still care about "performance per dollar" though, and we're approaching a time when "dollars per Watt" isn't negligible.
I totally agree - having no standards around common problems (like how to deal with tests once they get too big for a single tests.py) is extremely inconvenient.
Is it the best place? I question that.

Post this same message at a group of researchers, elementary school teachers, chefs, women, kids. I'd be curious how they would answer this question.

There is just so much out there by hackers, for hackers.

My 2 cents.
In this instance, identification of the individual VC responsible for this specific instance of The Lie is not important. Leaving him unnamed helps us abstract out the pattern to its most condensed brown residue, so we can recognize it on our feet should walk at night in the park, or frequent certain scene sites.

Also, it's not that jwz doesn't know the dude, it's that jwz just doesn't give a fuck.

[Edit:

Just asked jwz, turns out he really doesn't know the guy.

Increment jwz-man-crush

https://twitter.com/#!/jwz/status/141359337401626624 ]
I find it both amusing and telling that that is the only possibility you consider. Perhaps there was a manufacturing flaw in the battery, or it was damaged by dropping, yet 'blame the user' seems to be your knee-jerk reaction.
Yes, what you stated is not incorrect. The linked blog is not terribly clear on what has been done. Unfortunately what has been done is very subtle, so I can't really envisage a good blog article announcing this.
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So strange - I love the color scheme, so easy to read.

(The human eye is most sensitive, and has highest resolution in green.)
When you start applying real numbers to n, using O() doesn't make sense. When comparing the two in a slightly practical sense, the constant factor has to be taken into account.
So your point is, inappropriate stats are okay because science is hard???
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Yeah VC's have it easy, it's all hookers and cocaine for them...

His advice about "do what you like" is true in general but doesn't really account for the fact that you choose to work for a startup and you choose to accept VC money, with all the ups and downs attached to it. If you can't stand the heat - get out of the kitchen.
Thanks for the response - also to the other commentors, it`s not like I have not heard that stress induces other problems-diseases, it is just that it is something that I find very hard to prove that an illness can be directly attributed to stress, considering that many of us have stress in our daily lives.
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I actually surround myself in math all the time since I do a lot of game development. A poster above pointed to the math symbol list on wikipedia and I think "Great. I need to scour a daunting page to find the meaning of an obscure symbol?" It's pretty similar to reading a post in another language and I'm not sure it's worth my time considering by the time I figure that out I would have spent an hour decyphering the equations. Google translate for math, perhaps? I'd use it.
It's in 11.10 too, it's the gear right in the login box, as opposed to the bottom of the screen.

edit: I've become a fan of KDE recently, and I've been able to get it looking and working the best, so that's what it is for now.
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It would be interesting to have a follow up mechanism to indicate how many requested permissions were actually required by apps. I suspect it would end up around the 50% mark.
Actually, my statement about matrices of size 1.66x10^91 is misleading. As with Strassen this new bound is an asymptotic bound for the technique meaning that you technically need matrices of infinite size before you realise that complexity. Whilst you can take an algorithm such as Strassen and really work out how many steps it will take, it is less straightforward for the CW style algorithms how many steps it is going to take for a given matrix. So my comparison is very much an approximation just to give the flavour of how big the matrices likely have to be for this algorithm to make a difference.
Hey Saurik,

I'm saying that facebook's documentation of their particular implemenation of oauth is weak, and that this causes devs to proverbially thrown their hands in the air and say "well screw it! I'll just request offline_access (a long-lived token) and call it good!".

That's the frustration, that's the thing I'm "blaming" facebook for.

As far as a user's friends coming with their login. Yes, of course, and this is why I'm using facebook authentication. I just wish that facebook made it more obvious to people what they're giving me.
Are there I <3 JWZ shirts yet? :)
I'm sure a lot of people are interested in the implementation details of YaCy's privacy mechanisms. Does anyone know the default privacy settings? Are search words that are sent in any way protected? I found this page:
http://yacy-websuche.de/wiki/index.php/En:Privacy

But it's not that helpful. I'm currently looking at the source code: https://gitorious.org/yacy .
Just spending 30 seconds looking at it, think of it like the bit shifting solution to multiplication, do a related faster operation then correct.

You can reduce A^k to be a lot faster if you calculate A^2 then A^4 then A^8 .. A^N where N is 2^(Log(k)-1) (log base 2) then multiply A^N by A^(k-N) (which you can speedup using the same method if it is larger then 4)

That was a bit rough and quick, but the basic idea, is that doing (nxn)^k would likely be reduced to O(log(k)n^2.373) versus the more naive O(kn^2.373) which is a speedup of O(k/log(k)) (or it's inverse, I am not sure how it is best to represent the ratio) which is decent, I am sure there is a better solution out there.
A bit more context: Scott Aaronson called Ryan Williams' discovery "one of the best of the decade". He recently got hired as professor at Stanford, and his advisor was the legendary Manuel Blum, who teaches at CMU, where both his wife and son are also tenured CS professors.
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I used to work at Microsoft, and there was a few of these type of people you described. My personal feeling is that their up sides usually even out to their downsides. However, there is a chance it really is a good idea, you really can execute on the product vision, and he really can sell it.

The way I think you find out if he is valuable is not is simple (ha, I say this, but I have no experience actually trying this so I could be horribly wrong):

Tell him you will dedicate to X amount of hours to development over Y amounts of weekends to make a prototype. If he can take that prototype do something with it (investment, sell it as is or with little more work required, etc...) then you will join him as a real cofounder. I would suggest something in the range of 30 hours over 4 weekends but it may depend a lot on the idea.
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I really like this. It'd be great to see some Python tutorials though.
Why do you suppose that the government might want to watch you, if not to restrict your actions?
Seems like a lot of effort for an unknown gain - to me. It's about the same as reading a code block in Scala. It may or may not be useful to me but to figure that out I have to go off into a completely different world. I just wish the mathematical symbols weren't hiding so much meaning. Can I really guess what a backwards-E-equals-looking symbol is? Nope. I get it wrong every time.
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Been looking to just work on projects of any kind to learn different things. Spent a lunch time putting together a simple site to help people share private information that expire.

I understand its pretty basic and probably not too useful, but I think its better to work on something (anything) during down times to keep motivated.

Interested in how useful or lack thereof the HN community thinks of it and anything interesting I can add to it.

Thanks!
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I'm a little bit confused by your comment. Do you know something about the grandparent I don't or were you speaking figuratively as if you or the GP were an employee alongside John/Josh?

Edit: Wait I think I get what you're saying. I had just assumed the GP had no boss so it didn't make any sense.
This has happened to me before in full web pages where there is no clear visual indication of the end of the page. This and makes me question the scrollbar decision from a usability perspective - there is no direct visual signal of progress.
By definition, your pizza is very low-grade art. It doesn't have any symbolic significance, it affects only 1 of "senses, emotions, intellect". Otherwise, it fits.

Why does it have to be "art OR not art"? Can't it be a spectrum? Like love? Or beauty? Or any other subjective concept you can think of?
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> Isn't this more or less the case for any profits-go-to-owners business model?

Almost every industry out there manages to make good profits without their employees having to give up their lives.
What could possibly be more readable than the phosphorous CRT look? :p
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Thanks aorshan! I definitely thought about the TFLN concept, but I think the idea may be overdone and not widespread enough for a niche audience of 21st birthdays. Regarding #2, I'm considering the best options to integrate it.
Previous HN discussion (lots of comments) on another sensationalized story on this issue (including neglected links to less sensationalized accounts of the facts):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3279225
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Hello, I'm the author of this article. I do not have a degree in electrical or computer engineering. I'm merely stating the trends I've seen in the PC industry over the last few years.

I am, however, a Software Engineer. I know that most of the perceived lag on a modern desktop is not due to the CPU, but inefficient I/O to the hard disk or network. One must only look at the iPad 2 too see that's very possible to make a fast computer with beautiful 60 FPS animations and snappy applications using only an 800 MHZ dual core ARM CPU. Ironically, my iPad feels way faster than my Macbook Pro most of the time.

You don't need to be an expert in the microprocessor industry to know that the CPU performance race is over. It's all about power consumption now, and X86 fails miserably at lower power computing. Unless you know something I don't.
If you can't read that I wonder what you would have done back in the terminal days when you wouldn't have had an option. Everybody back then seemed to be able to read it with no problem. Maybe youngster's eyesight has become worse for some unexplained reason.
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I have been getting some similar suggestions like this and it appears that its a popular one. I'm definitely thinking about how to use bar/club locators and reviews. My only concern is whether or not I can attract enough users/visitors to sustain a profitable model. The customer acquisition cost may be too high for an ad model. Still considering it. Thanks md1515!
Hard to tell what you think 'cool' is. Unlikely, though for me it was cool, is ReactOS.

Its a full, from the ground up operating system that is meant to be binary compatible Windows XP.

I worked on it for 3 years, and I can tell you that even though the group of active developers is small, the people are great and there is a large of amount of people watching you (future users?). I thought it was cool because it is huge (code and complexity wise), there is a wide range of things to do, and it can teach you so much. I think I learned more working on this project for 3 years then I did from getting my degree at top university. Just remember, it will never bring you fame or fortune, what I learned took me to a job at Microsoft and now at a startup with a lot of traction.
see: quora, qwiki and I'm sure others. Constant fanning on a major tech site definitely can help.
What if it indexed your bookmarks. I'd find that very useful.
One thing that could work against them is their cost structure. Intel is used to throwing a thousand or so engineers on each design.

Exactly. It's also not obvious that the mobile chip market will pay a premium for Intel-calibre fabs. If it won't, then the question becomes whether a TSMC-made Atom is better than a TSMC-made ARM.

It's also fairly common to have custom hardware added to SoCs. Is Intel prepared to open up their processes to that sort of thing?

Unfortunately we can't scale the threshold voltage willy-nilly like in the past because leakage power increases for lower threshold voltages and is now a significant contributor to total power.

This one cuts both ways though. With leakage dominating active power, within a given node, the fabrication process will be relatively more important than microarchitecture, which is a point in Intel's favour.
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