skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main problem is that leakage current has started to become a problem[1]. Back in the day designers could just scale down features and rely on the reduced capacitance of the smaller areas to lower power usage enough to let them put in more logic. Unfortunately that only reduces active power, not leakage power. Transistors have started leaking more now that they're smaller. You can reduce leakage by lowering the voltage your processor operates at, but that also causes a reduction in the frequency that your transistors flip at because your logic voltage becomes smaller with respect to the transistor threshold voltage, meaning less current but unit of charge you have to move. Modern devices are also tending to run up against saturation velocity[2] now, limiting their switching speed still further.

You certainly could increase clock speed by increasing the voltage you put into a chip, and just accepting that you're going to have more leakage current and more wasted power. But we're already close to the edge of what chips can dissipate right now. You can try having less logic between clock latches, meaning you have a higher clock speed for your switching delay. However, this increases the ratio of latches to everything else so its a matter of diminishing returns. It also means that you've pushed your useful logic further apart, and now you have more line capacitance too. Finally, you can decrease the temperature of your silicon to substantially reduce the amount of leakage you get. This will let you raise the voltage safely, letting you attain faster switching speeds. The only problem is that this requires expensive cooling devices.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leakage_%28semiconductors%29
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_velocity
There is a difference between working 60-80 hour weeks all the time vs putting in a week of crunch time that happens rarely. Latter is oftentimes inevitable, whereas the former is a sign of poor time management IMHO.

There was nothing in my question about lying, It just seems that is very tough to emphasise your dislike of constant 60-80hr weeks and still be able to convey the fact that you wont shy away from a late night work when absolutely necessary.
Hong Kong is pretty much the same in those aspects, but larger population and more mountains. The government money for startups in Singapore has created an environment that is not entirely healthy or desirable in that there is little incentive to succeed or be that creative. Hong Kong has some government funding and space available, but tends to be in a matching funds arrangement.
> I wasn't running the current version of Firefox

Well here's your problem.
> but since I was young and smarter than him and gonna be really awesome early on in my life and and and and I ignored him.

I feel your pain... Among my favorite Mark Twain quotes:

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

Edit: Damn you Czarnian. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp

OK, I will henceforth attribute it to Abraham Lincoln.
It could also be referring to some of the comments that the tools are addictive.
Likewise. I side with the ACLU on Citizens United - i.e. that the Supreme Court decided it correctly.

You can rationally be displeased what you expect the outcome of the case to be (e.g. increased ability for corporate financing of election campaigns), but I don't think there's a coherent defense of the sections of BCRA that the court struck down.

ETA: The government argued that BCRA would allow them to ban, for example, a 500 page book that contained a single sentence endorsing a candidate (http://reason.com/archives/2010/06/29/will-elena-kagan-allow...). If you think SOPA is heavy-handed, just think what BCRA could have led to.
I did. I think 'cute' is a better term.

Rest assured this will get just as ignored as any other. Please call your rep.
I think you're reading it right on the plain Hello World benches, but the in the HAML and SASS benches node is already 2 to 4 times faster with no concurrency. I think this speaks a lot for the impressive speed of V8. HAML/SASS are originally Ruby libraries, and carry a few years of experience on their backs, unlike their javascript versions. These V8 numbers are even (far) more impressive: http://attractivechaos.github.com/plb

Disclaimer: I use Ruby and have no experience with Node.js.

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Let me guess: had he by any chance installed a metric buttload of extensions? And then not tried creating a new profile in order to isolate whatever was soaking up the CPU cycles? Because that's usually the cause of Firefox performance problems ...
Agree, hiring developers is going to currently be difficult, but I expect that this will steadily improve as demand grows. Coming here tends to be trivially easy, and there are a lot of things that being in either SF or NY would give a US focus to when there are a few other people globally that are potential customers.

Working in undeveloped markets tends to be both more difficult, but also can be much more rewarding.
On the other hand, you need an effective government to have rule of law. If your bureaucrats are too few in numbers to enforce the law, pretty soon you have people giving them arbitrary powers in the hope that that'll let them keep up with their work. The England of 1900 had an order of magnitude more bureaucrats per capita than Tsarist Russia, but I would certainly have preferred to live in England.
Let me be more specific: "Doesn't this bad faith on UMG's part have any bad consequences that aren't graciously bestowed by another large company?" I thought we were a nation of laws, not corporations? Is fraud only a business cost now?
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Mark Twain didn't say this. His father died when he was 13.

Not necessarily a bad sentiment, just not a Mark Twain thing.
Just to be clear, I was in no way trying to tie them to a brutal dictatorship. But I think it's important to understand the political structure of the country, not just the current economic/civil environment. For the political structure may help you determine what the civil/economic condition will be as things change, i.e. a change of leadership in an authoritarian regime will have more of an impact on economic and civil life than a change of leadership in a democracy (I don't know if this is true btw).
I'm one of the founders. For the FB group we try to keep it the immediate community active members. Send me a message on FB and let me know who you are.

One other problem we run into on FB is that people use random photos and user names so we have no idea who half of them are, even if we have met the people before.
I think you're spreading FUD really. Have a look at current UK petitions which have passed the 100k votes:

fuel prices - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/347 (small decrease implemented, plans for the future shared)

immigration - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/19658 (basic plans shared, recently implemented changes listed, already heard some people having visa issues, so something is happening)

summer riots - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/7337 (no direct actions, but response means pretty much "this is happening anyways", there's some more information about what the local authorities can do)

Hillsborough 1989 - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/2199 (accepted, disclosure will happen)

financial education - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/8903 (this one does look like a non-answer, but maybe they're really doing the reviews now)

private pensions - http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1535 (no response yet, only crossed the line recently)

While I'm not crazy about all the answers, there was some effect (or at least an explanation or a commitment to the original plan). They're quite far from "a more efficient way of shutting people up" the way it's presented in the comments here.
Stop talking about “social”
That mile-long list of complaints is what I'm after. Not to compel you to write a book about it (but if you did, I'd read it :-P), but what are some of those things?
And oddly enough, one of my favorite numbers is the Ω of
S=k*ln(Ω) fame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcanonical_ensemble
Was this only for employees ID internally?
Though I usually eat these sorts of stories up, this particular one seems like pretty thin evidence. It seems that he received about $50k/year from these industries, which as far as campaign contributions go, is not really a huge amount. I suspect it wouldn't by itself be enough to swing his vote if he wasn't already basically in favor; on really contentious issues when the campaign contributions start to become a real factor, they're measured in millions per year, not $50k--- for example, Chuck Schumer received $1.7 million from financial companies in 2009, according to a quick search (http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/01/big-finance-donation...).
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It is due to CPU cache issues, but not because the cache is full.

CPU caches are indexed on the low bits of the address. If you have two addresses with the same low-order bits, then those addresses will collide in the cache, even though the cache isn't full.

Large allocations (e.g. huge arrays) tend to get their own memory pages allocated - which means that the same offset in two different arrays ends up having the same low-order bits.
Let me say first that I didn't down vote you (I in fact up voted you even though I think your comment was missing the point).

That said your comment misses the point. The article's intention, as far as I can tell, is to point out just how far the Executive Branch has gone in denying U.S. citizens their rights (under both the current and previous administrations). So much so that the argument can easily be made for indefinitely detaining a very high profile White House adviser.

So the post's point was "People's rights are being suspended at the drop of a hat" and your response was "he has rights" which is nonsensical.
Asking the question that bluntly is out of line, imho.
Looking at the world and deciding where to go. Having no one that tells you what to do and nothing that holds you back from not doing it.

Wherever you go on the planet, there will be people seeing a human being in you. Welcoming you and making a son, a brother, a father, a lover, a friend out of you.

There will also be a government to remind you you don't belong.
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So a US offense contractor, then.
Also we have a hackerspace: http:www.dimsumlabs.com

I'm one of the founders for all of the above, in one role or another.
Microcanonical ensemble
Young entrepreneurs like this narrative because it gives them a sense of possible success over actually experienced individuals.

"Old" entrepreneurs (apparently, older than 25 years old), will find this stance unsettling, for a few reasons. One reason that stands out for me: What if I was under 25 when I started, but now "old" and still successfully running the same company?

The problem with this narrative is that it never bothers to ask what happens if you don't dump your company at valuation and leave rich, enjoying the high life.

Young entrepreneurs may see this outcome as more probable, "older" ones have passed this fantasy and are happy to go further than a "cut and run" approach.

Possibly two different conversations, but I don't really understand the mentality of building something great, getting a valuation and hoping to bail out to supposed utopia. How can you call yourself a passionate entrepreneur if your game plan is to run your startup like a lottery winning?
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face
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Oil companies have far worse profit margins than say Apple or Microsoft. They have good years and bad years but Exon regularly trades below 10 P/E where tech companies often trade above 20 because tech companies are far more capable of long term growth and far at the whim of classic inelastic supply demand curves. (In other words if oil when back to 30dollars a barrel people would buy more oil, but they would not do so quickly.)

As to iPad's many people buy tablets and never load a single app on them. Unlike consoles where the device is subsidized by the software sold apple treats it's app store as revenue neutral. They have income but they poor it back into iOS development, because long term the OS with the best software wins and they can still make fat margins on the devices themselves.
Did I miss something?

Here are some arbitrary numbers, I know they're fantasy but let's roll with it anyway. Now let's pare those down to something equally arbitrary but maybe more believable. Let's do some multiplication and.. end article.

No way are they going to pull a 1% CTR. Nor does this take into account any of the other variables.
Not just your experience: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/teens-health/CC00019

Your circadian rhythm changes in your teens, and too few schools are willing to work with this rather than against it. The results are sleep-deprived kids doing crap work in school and getting into car accidents like the one mentioned at the start of the HBR article.
So does point 1) mean that it takes too much energy to run a faster CPU, because power is always leaking away?

Also curious--are transistors small enough now that they can experience weird quantum effects?
Yes. But, it that a bad thing?

For example, I think if you'd have to explain how to change the string representation of some kind of object, saying "just define the 'str' method and then call it, like 'something.str()'" is simpler than "define a '__str__' method -- don't worry about all the underscores -- but then don't call it directly; instead of that, use the global 'str' function".

I don't know if that extra indirection (i.e. calling 'str', which, in turn, calls '__str__'; or 'next', that calls '__next__' in Python 3) adds more value than the simplicity of not having that extra indirection in the first place.
What's Mozilla's comment page?
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It often costs more energy to buy local food than to transport it 1/2 way around the world. Boats are amazingly efficient, trucks are not.
It's just incredibly sad when you see such people leave the country because of immigration issues. I have been reading their posts and can say this with confidence that Leo and Joel are just getting started with Buffer.
Why should they receive any money from lobbies? How's that good for our country and our democracy?
Funny, I just switched back to Firefox for development due to the prevalence of tab crashes in Chrome.
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I don't understand how omega can be be incompressible. Compression, from the information theory perspective, allows me to send the string

Digits #10000 to #100000 of the decimal representation of omega.

which any competent human could "decompress" into the corresponding digit sequence (inasmuch as it's computable)
I'm in the process right now. I didn't want to use Incanter since I don't like the kitchen sink reinvent R style, but there aren't any Clojure-esque matrix libraries around.

You, flatly, gain the language advantages of Clojure but have absolutely none of the Numpy/Matlab/R-like environments.
If you are doing business in China, then Beijing, Shanghai, or Shenzhen would be your best options. You really can't do a business for China from HK effectively, unless part of the business is connecting with the rest of the world in some way.

That being said, big differences are the ease in setting up a company and costs. Ease of getting visas and the general paperwork. Also, HK is much safer than any of the mainland cities. The big cities are probably about similar to New York in terms of safety, but Hong Kong is ridiculously safe in comparison. There are basically no areas that you really shouldn't go to, and the medical system is quite good and reliable vs. mainland.

Also, one nice feature, no corporate tax if the income is from outside of Hong Kong.
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Amusing application, but I'd like to see the version that finds Waldo on the page in which everyone is wearing striped shirts
This is the stuff HN is meant for.
FWIW, Erik's the GM of reddit, not just an admin.
Funding with experienced investors is not as common. We are seeing a big jump in investments over the last 6 months from investors that have started coming in and are really able to take their pick of deals. I think we will see more of this happen and continue to grow.

One thing that is lacking are founders of successful companies that are investing in new ones, but it takes time to grow the ecosystem.
What if your Rep is Polis?
Jobs biggest success came when he was over 45 and honestly, we are not talking here about stuff like break-thru cancer cure, new kind of alternative energy or similar.
We still use the same network stack (TCP, 1974), the same web markup language (HTML, 1990) and the same programming languages as our fathers (C++, 1979, PHP, 1995, SQL 1987).
In a couple hours. On a Sunday.
It's not off limits. However, if one does it without at all acknowledging the massive problem that feminism has been addressing then it looks a lot like a tactic to prevent any serious discussion of male privilege.

In the context of sexy females in comic books. Give me a fucking break.

Which is something feminists have had to deal with for more than a hundred years, so it's not surprising they react poorly to it.

If this is the topic feminism must now address, the war is over. It's time to pack up your shit and go home. Feminists are starting to look like Genghis Khan, riding around slaughtering everything. Especially when there are massive actual gender inequalities caused by feminism like the huge advantages that women have in the legal system, the fact that women are given preferential treatment in college admission and hiring processes, and the fact that women earn more money for equal work. Or for example, that female owned businesses are given price preferences, or that women now vastly outnumber men as college graduates, while dominating the education system that is failing men.

For all your bold talk of "both sides of the coin" I haven't seen you give the slightest hint that you even admit the problem or have considered its nature, let alone devoted any energy to solving things.

That's probably because I don't see this as a problem. It is pathetic. I have never read a comic book and have never been in a comic book store, but I see no fundamental difference between comic books and magazines for teenage girls. They are both full of fantasy-land bullshit designed to appeal to young people going through puberty.

What can I do to solve things? I don't know. Perhaps start fighting for men to be able to have financial abortions before a child is born. Or maybe make it a felony to commit paternity fraud. But probably just start calling feminists on their bullshit when they start pontificating.

If you feel there is a market for female-centric comic books, why not develop them, tap a huge market, make something women want, and get rich? If you won't do that, is it because we both know there is not a market for it?
This was discussed on an interview with a Harvard ethics professor on The Daily Show recently:

(Part 1 of 2) http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/exclu...

(Part 2 of 2) http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-december-13-2011/exclu...

Discussion of anonymity is in part 2 at 5m35s.

tl;dw:

A) Require that all donations are anonymous

B) Hold donations for a minimum delay

C) Distribute donations randomly over a period of time

D) Allow donators to revoke their donations secretly during the distribution delay

Apparently, this was tried with judges in Florida and no one donated anything. It worked _too_ well.
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There will also be a government to protect you from being mugged, killed and discarded in the street.
>Anyway, regarding my original point, I think that it's not reasonable to expect someone like YouTube to provide a tool that is easy to use to take down videos. I think this was developed out of some big idea to try to gain favour with the MAFIAA, and I'd be very surprised if YouTube was in fact required by any law to develop a tool that makes it convenient for rights holders to pull content.

I think I see where the misunderstanding came from here. I never meant to say that the DMCA explicitly said they have to provide a tool for ease of use, what I meant is that given the volume of requests they likely deal with the only economical option is to automate the process somehow. I don't agree with the decision, I don't know if I would make the same one, but given the volume and mandatory time-frame I don't think there are many other acceptable scenarios.

With regard to your anecdote, it sounds to me like the volume of take-down requests you deal with is manageable by a group of one or more people, I'm just saying I don't think throwing a group of people at the volume of requests YouTube gets would be enough to meet the safe-harbor time-frame and we both know they will do whatever it takes to get indemnity.
Bookstore fires back at Amazon over "Price Check" app - with a Chrome extension
The question asked in the article is, why does the presence of the text "json" in the Accept header change the output, unconditionally. If a more-preferred mime type is available, why does the json always dominate?

Although I don't want to dig up the details now, it's an EJB bug. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_JavaBean
I can't sign in either using FF7. Something must be up with the website.
I'm in Canada, and I've realized that SOPA would damage me too, since the domain would be removed from the DNS.
People here are suggesting calling their representatives, but which one should I call? Would they even bother listening to someone, who ate the end of the day, is not going affect their chance of reelection?
I'd still like to be able to do something since SOPA and Protect IP are quite horrible laws.
The trick is to be just be bitter enough that you won't let it happen again. But not so bitter that the situation doesn't have a chance to repeat itself, i.e. you are setup to really good things if you don't mess up.
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FWIW, you'd have to perform similar maintenance on a standard vacuum.

As well as, you know, vacuum with the damned thing.
This angers me. It angers me because people don't realize that most often, a politician gets donations from organizations that already know he agrees with their goals.

I worked for a politician from a Western State. He got tons of money from mining, gaming and defense contractors. He openly stated that without those three industries, his home state would barely exist. Those three employed a vast majority of his constituents and would thus would always have him in their corner.

Interestingly, he had a hard time raising money when running against an opponent who also agreed with the above points.
That would be /r/askscience. Thanks iPhone, helpful as always.
Bookstore takes on Amazon over Price Check app - with a Chrome extension
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