skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The $15 is actually the cost from the factory based on 100k units. (also on that page)

It is worth being clear rPi doesn't include several of those costs.. a case, power supply, packaging.. i'm not sure about shipping.. but anyway it sounds like this will be more expensive. I would still be very interested if it came close; this featuring considerably better cpu, gpu and ram.
> Intel's 65nm (Pentium M) can still beat similarly clocked (1.5 Ghz) ARMs at 28nm

You can only compare chips that have the same power consumption. A 1w chip against a 45w (or whatever) chip is not a comparison you can make.

Specifically, Intel now demonstrates a Penwell SoC with a Saltwell (Atom) core made on Intel's 32nm LP process and it benchmarks well against Cortex-A9 chips made on TSMC's 40nm process. I said that I guess that if Intel manufactured an ARM chip on Intel's 32nm LP process with the same die area and power consumption as their x86 chip, the ARM chip would be preferable. Like Anand said, We'll see how this SoC stacks up against multi-core Cortex-A15 chips on TSMC's 28nm process.

If Intel changes the priority and makes their Low Power process transform to the next node together with (instead of after) the high-performance process (currently one step ahead at 22nm), then they will be seriously ahead of whoever manufactures ARM chips (TSMC and others).

> The instructions that fault are the very rarely used ones

They complicate the decoders and take up space and I think take up latency (clocks) during decoding. This costs money even when these instructions are not used.

> Escaping ... so I'm not sure what on earth you're talking about

REX prefix: http://www.x86-64.org/documentation/assembly.html

> To say their CPUs are "lackluster CPU design", is pretty ridiculous

Their power efficient design is in-order and pretty crap. You should read what Linus Torvalds had to say about it. Yes, Conroe was awesome and Sandy Bridge is awesome, but that is not what we're talking about here.
Interesting, I recently worked on Project4Awesome, a community event on Youtube. Our site used a single MongoDB node on a relatively standard server and handled >100k pageviews in 24 hours with no caching. That being said, I've worked with Mongo before and know many of it's issues, so I knew what to expect.

Though, without meaning to criticize the author too much, increasing various ulimits should be standard on pretty much any database server, I would have thought?
You missed my point - why do you assume they will talk to us before we talk to them?

We have zero data on any kinds of odds for how long anyone else might exist, or if the amount of time we have had radio is considered short or long.
http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmarc.info%2F%3F...
Developed in four days, don't forget that part.
VIP factor currently is just:
how many followers does a user have : how many does he follow?

but this needs tweaking, since, if a person follows 10000 and has 10000000 followers, you are still a nobody, being followed by them. i guess i need to figure out a curve for that.

anyways, thanks for the kind words.
:) yeah exactly! i was wondering if I should add an option, to not include (or maybe hide) accounts who obviously show high auto-follow-back rates, i.e. a low score follower/following
I think you'll find that IANA (currently ICANN) refuses to put general purpose A, and AAAA records in the root. As far as I am aware only NS, "glue" A (and AAAA), and DNSSEC records are allowed in the root (aside from the records necessary for the root itself, i.e. SOA etc).

You should also note that email addresses that doesn't have a '.' in the host part are technically invalid, i.e. me@mytld is not a valid fully qualified email address.
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thanks guys for checking this out. i wanted to post this before going to lunch (european time), and now this. there's hundreds of people on the site right now, and i can't go to lunch, uugghg, internet!! :)

p.s. feedback is heavily welcome, i am happy to add a few things and maybe post the whole thing on github or something if anyone needs a quickndirty starter for twitter integration apps.
The government has seen SOPA, DMCA, PROTECT-IP, COICA, CEST, OPENA, ACTA and more. The anti-Internet groups are already giving government and corporations the power to control the Internet since 00s. I guess you could say that they are beyond tweaking the law in their favour, they're introducing laws in their favour.

If they won't stop demanding control of Internet, then we have to demand Internet Freedom bills. Those Internet Freedom bills are to replace SOPA in outlawing the opposite; outlawing attempts to seize domain names without judgement being passed.

Edit: The general aim of the bill is to make initial seizures illegal. It can be argued that it's hard to run off with the domain name during court case for example.
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As they wrote at the end of the article:

"But, JGit performs reasonably well; well enough that
we use internally at Google as a git server."

He is not advocating to never use Java. He is just pointing out some things that may or may not be important when choosing a language to write a program.
There is no time like now :)

Notice that my actions weren't diving into my own startup. Maybe I'll get there some day. Any action is better than no action, even if it is small and/or doesn't "succeed."

You have already told HN that you struggle with the same things I do. What is a next action that you could take?
I love these people who are voting me down cause I am giving positive feedback on HN. LOL!
It's unfortunate that Scala is fatally flawed because it was bound to the JVM. Having java interop is both a blessing and a curse. The sheer scale of the language implemented as a java library pretty crippled compile time.
It is hard to tell but it seems like he's talking about serving 1/3 of your daily traffic in a few minutes. When web servers fail, they tend to fall off a cliff.
> Every time you find one of those little gems your product owner brain goes all sparkly and happy, it jumps for joy and you see the future of the web unfolding in front of you.

That's the upside of the rollout process at Facebook, but the article completely ignores the downside which happens at the other end of an app lifecycle, when suddenly your app stops working because Facebook changed something, didn't document the change, and now you have no idea what went wrong or why and your users are screaming at the top of their lungs because they can't do what they used to be able to. That part of it doesn't make you sparkly and happy, let me tell you.

(In their defense, Facebook is getting better at documenting deprecations, but if you're at the bottom there's only one way to go...)
This is well known and has allready been done for clojure (cant remember where I saw it).

There are problems with this syntax when you combine it with macros. There is some work done to solve this but not much. For a (theoretical) lisp that works this way, see here: http://users.rcn.com/david-moon/PLOT/
Is this controlled by the color scheme itself? I'm running Solarized Dark, and the sidebar does have the same scheme as the editing window.
Do you have any advice on the MongoDB issues to be aware of in this kind of usage? I wonder if there is a checklist somewhere.
I thought MongoDB was webscale. hmmm. ;)
Sounds like Enders Game.
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would you say people would pay a dollar to see their top 50 followers? just curious...
> which would run on nearly any Unix-like system

Did you mean on nearly any Unix-like system which has the output of du in the same format as the one on your machine? I don't believe those can be treated as standard if you want any kind of portability.
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If you must black it out, black it out for the USAians. Some of us don't have members in Congress to write to.
So moving away from the future of web apps towards the dead-end of the closed and controlled Facebook-Internet. That looks scary to me.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3451152
Yeah, It's new to me on Windows.
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These reports are worse than useless. Any person with good understanding of computing knows that implementation plays a huge part in it. Why people wasting their time comparing speed of different programming languages while they should focus on different implementations. I guess the latter one is difficult so people all try to avoid it, and the first one is just so easy to do and everybody is doing it.
Given that his disclaimer reads:

DISCLAIMER
You are about to read a long story on how I got burnt with MongoDB and depressed with it. I am not blaming MongoDB, anyone using, advocating or developing it. I am blaming myself for this. MongoDB is a good tool. You can use it but just make sure it is what you need and it handles your requirements very well. This is not specific to MongoDB but applies to every tool we use.

I think it's a bit harsh for people to criticise either him or MongoDB too much.

At the end of the day, it was a big rush job, no time was allowed for testing for scaling, and it fell over.

My only real surprise is that it wasn't Apache that fell over first.
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threatening to move businesses outside the US

This should be investigated more by tech companies. Perhaps US policymakers will sit up and listen then
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Hey

I think you copied the wrong link ;)
The ## in front of __VA_ARGS__ is a gcc extension.
I had a serious case of RSI when I was putting together my University final year project and inserting screenshots into the documentation. Excessive mouse use cutting & pasting!

It was most painful when trying to get to sleep at night or when it was exposed to heat. Constant sharp tingling.

A long period of rest was the most effective. Ensuring your wrist isn't at funny angles, at any point during the day - esp if you still need to type daily. It's also a good idea to avoid resting on your elbow when bent as associated nerves are exposed..

I also had a swelling at the wrist joint that remained even after the tingling had gone. I found that this only went away when I started doing light punchbag work after several months of rest.

No lasting issues and I'm at a computer for 10+ hours a day.
I totally agree with you; I think it is barbaric to code without smart autocompletion.

I think to eventually get there, though, we need open-source solutions to get as good as JetBrains, Microsoft, and Apple. Otherwise you get Apple's great (for Obj-C only) CodeSense, but you have to use their horrible, auto-corrupting, fucking disgrace of an IDE. Or to get RubyMine's absolutely unparalleled Ruby code introspection and completion, you have to use their gut-wrenchingly horrible Java monstrosity.

When the indexing and completion are decoupled from the editing environment, that's the magic sauce that will make the open source solutions fork and flourish, and good completion will finally be like toilet paper and hot water.

That's why I am really happy with editors ilk ST2 which provide good infrastructure to make things like SublimeCodeIntel possible.

I'm 37, I program a lot, and my finger joints are wearing out. Typing every single fucking character of code is insane.
Whoever pays first. Or, more, maybe.
This rang very true with me. I'm willing to wager only a tiny percentage of HN users have communicated their opposition to SOPA/PIPA to their representatives. Something like providing links to appropriate resources would convert time usually spent browsing HN into time actually helping stop SOPA/PIPA.
It just sounds like a huge gamble. It would be quite lucky to get everything working by chance on the first try, without any bottlenecks in any part of the newly created config.
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All the points are valid but they are peculiar to Java, not to all managed high-level languages. C#/.NET, for example, have unsigned types, value-type arrays and structs, memory mapped files and specialized collections.

As an example, the C# port of Sqlite is sometimes faster than the C version on queries, although updates are slower, despite Sqlite is a highly optimized C library.

EDIT: link http://code.google.com/p/csharp-sqlite/wiki/Benchmarks
Actually, it also makes me want to get into another project in C again.
>Value-based pricing says, "how much it cost me to create the photo is irrelevant".

Almost, but not quite. In the case of a hobbyist, yes it's irrelevant. But for a business, the cost to create should set the minimum cost they'd be prepared to charge (or at least be expecting to charge - you may find yourself discounting it below cost if you've already made it and fail to sell).

I do mostly agree though, and it always amuses me when I see people complaining about eBooks that cost more than dead tree ones. If it's not worth more to you, then don't buy it.

>The moralism in these threads is an irrelevant sideshow.

Again, not quite. Morality doesn't, or shouldn't, come into play when determining the price. But it does when it comes to how a "buyer" reacts to a price they don't like in relation to goods that have no marginal cost to produce a new copy - e.g. digital photo, movie download. If you don't like the price that's been set, but it's not going to cost the creator anything for you to simply take a copy for free, do you have any moral issue with that?
I'd also appreciate the same checklist samarudge :)
Well, a similar request was suggested 757 days ago as feature request:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=996374

More than 2 years have been passed and not a single feedback or improvement has been made.
At one point, the author mentions children being taught to "read, write and cipher"; apparently "to cipher" in this context means "to calculate", and comes from and old sense of the word 'cipher' meaning 'Arabic numerals'.
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also, if anyone is curious, all UI is done by bootstrap (https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap), added some simple php for the twitter crunching (using twitteroauth) and that's it.
That fact stands out immensely. The Scala code and java code should be equal as the first can be written exactly like the second. Don't even see Clojure. Hate to see what times they get there.
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So since this seems like it would be dead simple to add, and the desire for it is clearly there among many users...

There must be some downside to adding it that I'm missing. Outside of some potential for people with domains to use it for humor, or for tracking in some way, I can't see much.

Anyone else got any idea why not?
Why do you link being based on JVM and long compile times?

Java is one of the fastest languages to compile (1000 files with ten megs worth of code would take something under 10 seconds), while C++ and Haskell are both very slow to compile even if they're not JVM based.
It's also worth pointing out that the C# port of SQlite omits using certain C mechanisms (like pointers) in favor of passing copies of byte arrays around. You'd expect this to make it slower, but in many cases, it doesn't! (C# supports pointers, but the port doesn't use them so that it'll work in limited environments like Silverlight)
Yes, HN should go dark AND should show a prominent message with suggestions about what the visitor can do to protest the law
I opened the site and the front page asks me to give my email w/o even telling me what it does. I came right back to HN to check on comments , so as mentioned by others , give us an intro , it will really help.
Ah, interesting to note it only has to be certified if it flies over 400 feet. That means lots of DIY and personal drones are still ok, for now. I see this changing in the future, because of a long list of potential criminal applications for UAV drones there will probably be a push towards stricter licensing.
Sorry, but your Ruby code will never the same speed as C code, even if it is the same implementation. We'd all like to believe all programming languages are equal, but that's not the case.
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Server:	8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: tm
Address: 193.223.78.213

Seems to be working for me.
Yes, you only need to provide source code to GPLed programmes to people you have given the software to.

If the company has the software available for public download, then if you download the software from their website, then you are entitled to the code.
It does have an A record:

% dig a tm

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> a tm.
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41011
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;tm.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
tm.	86366	IN	A	193.223.78.213

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.66.32#53(192.168.66.32)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 12 10:20:15 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 36

And also an open http server:

% nmap tm.
Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-01-12 10:24 BRST
Interesting ports on serv213.icb.co.uk (193.223.78.213):
Not shown: 997 filtered ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
80/tcp open http
113/tcp closed auth
443/tcp open https
Hey HN Do you know the "ui nui uni nuni" theory?
I saw this post:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/05/quickly-prioritize-your-tasks-by-urgency-and-importance/

and i built this tool:
http://www.ui-nui-uni-nuni.com/

Feedbacks please!
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Except Scala has no 'break' (that isn't a hack using exceptions), this makes imitating imperative style difficult and some syntaxical sugar should no doubt ensure that Scala will always be slower than Java.
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Great work! Always wanted something like this and wondered why Twitter didn't have an option to show you this kind of info. Nice idea.
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Hey, I'm part way through building a very similar project with a few extra paid for features!

Congrats on getting your site launched in such a short time!

It's an interesting aspect to analyse your own network.
I feel the same about using VS2010 without Resharper. It's barbaric and code quality suffers because cleaning requires manual work. This is why VS2010 Express is not an option.

I hope Jetbrains makes their own kick-ass C# coder-style environment. I don't care if it's Java and IntelliJ as the shell.

There are loads of things VS2010 does that I simply don't need, I just need Speed, Solutions, Projects, Building, Running, Debugging, Version Control and the things Resharper already does.

Cmon Jetbrains, you can do it!!! Please?
I completely agree with you. I tried it yesterday it is completely simple to use.

I definitely think that it is the right way to name it Jmpress.js, so he doesn't take any credit from the inventor.
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We did have a government that believed in censorship, surveillance, ID papers, biometric databases and so on. Guess what, we voted them out, and the first thing the new government did was scrap all that.
Intel Fortran vs gcc ???

How about Intel Fortran vs. Intel C ?
How about gcc C vs. gcc Fortran ?

Hyper-optimized compiler for Intel architecture beats compiler designed to be portable to many, many target architectures? Not very shocking.
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Cool, but one quibble: You need to make it obvious right up front that cookies must be enabled on your domain for this to work (not sure why this is needed, but...).

I block all cookies by default and got all the way to the end of the process only to discover nothing. Nothing! (Kudos for handling failure gracefully, at least the app didn't blow up, everything looked fine - but anti-kudos for not detecting that the process wasn't working.)

When I enabled cookies on fruji, ta-da, it worked fine. Turns out I'm not very important, sigh. :->
If you have 4 days to implement something important, the last thing you should do is pick a technology you have no experience with.
go for it, just make sure you let those pay who do this professionally, and those who are curious should have access to full functionality albeit a limited set of result rows maybe or something like it. i really hated all these twitter services who make me sign up do a bunch of things and then tell me to pay or not see any results. let us know when you go live :)
will do so in a second ... thanks!
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And here's the little mode-specific map I use:

cmap w!! w !sudo tee % >/dev/null
right?? i couldn't find this anywhere, despite a trillion twitter service out there. i built it for myself, to see some more details, but bootstrap is a great thing to make a little script look awesome in an instant, so i figured why not post it.
and jokers like me who put up a blog that is entirely based around the subdomain: http://fr.anc.is
"the only thing I had in my mind was MongoDB."

Well, when you approach it like that...
Yeah but that looks like caca now, doesn't it?
The specific way Scala is bound to the JVM (as a 8mb class library that needs to be loaded every time) is the reason it is slow to compile and by implication, slow-er startup.

I suppose we do need to take account of language features. C++ is a difficult language to parse, and with a bit of template magic, and heavy compiler optimizations that can be applied. Haskell has type inference and is statically typed, that has to cost it some what.

Scala has a 8mb JVM library to load, and also type inference. It gets a double whammy. However I'm willing to bet is the JVM is contributing a significant portion of startup time, with both JVM startup time, loading java libraries, then loading scala library. If the JVM wasn't part of the problem, then there is no need for people to create tools like fsc to speed up compile time.
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