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Stross' comparison between Cray 1 performance and that of a modern smartphone seems off. He says: "A regular ARM-powered smartphone, such as an iPhone 4S, is some 12-13 orders of magnitude more powerful as a computing device than a late 1970s-vintage Cray 1 supercomputer."

A Cray 1 could peak at about 250 MFLOPs/s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1), and a modern smart phone like the Galaxy Nexus peaks at about 9.6 GFLOPs/s (using ARM Neon instructions on both cores). That's less than two orders of magnitude difference.

Floating-point power efficiency seems to have improved by about 6-7 orders of magnitude in that time though, which is very nice :)
That's not true, there are lots of extension cords with smaller sockets for Europlugs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug ) that don't have the ground pins.

However, I've never seen those on a wall socket, so I guess building codes say those must be full Schuko sockets ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuko ).
The majority of edible animals are not big game (by nature of the food pyramid), and a even a decent chunk of big game are not predators of humans. Plus, it's easy to overwhelm them if you have more than one person.

I've never hunted before, but I can't imagine at all that it's a fair fight. Humans have been known to trap them, net them, flank them, shoot them at a distance, lure them, corner them, smoke them out etc. etc.

None of which requires a whiteboard, drafting paper or a calculator.

Are you really going to argue that any human with any semblance of intelligence (and I don't mean deep thought here) would have to risk mauling to hunt for subsistence?
HN has a orange background as inline HTML..

so actually this software it's just to extract color palette from CSS files
Most vendors simply convert their USD prices to BTC during the day so anyone who uses them gets ~10USD out of them for the time being.
Honest question: discussing finance with most people can be a little awkward ("Man he earns so much more than I do, I feel so ashamed of myself"), so is it a good idea to display actual dollar values?

Also, I love aspen.
I did indeed lose those. It leaves your /usr/local intact, but removes your /usr/<everything else>.

Just re-installed them, all is well again.
Are you looking for mostly americans or an international user base?
It's very difficult for languages to "escape the lab" as it's often put. I'd say the biggest factors are:

- Developers are often reluctant to learn new tools.

- Project managers are reluctant to use new languages, seeing a small community as a risk.

- Academic projects have different priorities than industry. Implementations done by academic teams often need substantial work before they meet industry needs.

This boils down to visible necessity. Without that, it's difficult for a language to reach critical mass. But the visibility part is tricky, because it's really a marketing problem, not a technical one. Sometimes organizations are blind to their own pain or even are attached to it, believing it's necessary (ORM comes to mind). Sometimes a language spreads because someone less risk adverse has very visible success, creating a pressure to copy their choice (37signals and Ruby for example).

But language research is still worthwhile even if it withers after publishing. The ideas propagate, and often end up as features/libraries in more broadly accepted languages (erlang probably inspired akka for example).
I sort of regard people who enjoy watching the news the same as the people who enjoy watching horror films.

What is the matter with you people?
Seems like an irrelevant point. 89a didn't say "UIs designed in Photoshop are awful", after all. But a tool can be bad for a job, even if it is technically possible to do good work with that tool.

That said, I think that Photoshop does have a few core features that designers really like for web design, and then a ton of features that get in the way for that particular use case. So basing a web design tool on those features of PS that are good for web design seems like a reasonable strategy.
In this case, it isn't. Sharing would remove their competitive edge.
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Fact is, meeting new people is hard. Airtime forces you to connect with Facebook, so anyone you meet knows exactly who you are. Which makes using Airtime hard. At least Chatroulette introduced a fun element by letting users stay anonymous.

In order to use Airtime you have to willingly introduce yourself and strike up conversation multiple times per hour. For many people, this is their worst nightmare. Quite frankly I'm happy interacting with my existing friend group (via real life or virtual means) as well as meeting a new acquaintance every now and then. I don't need to meet hundreds of new people every week to satisfy my social needs.
I find that passes, as long as I've slept well, drunk enough (water) and am otherwise feeling fine.

I often go all day without eating while I work, and contrary to the OP and more in line with several of the other posters here I do find myself more productive, able to concentrate and focus, and feeling more energetic (I know it's counter-intuitive).

However the slightest inkling that I'm feeling worse for it, or that my productivity is beginning to slip, I'm feeling unusually tired - I'll simply eat. I'm not entirely sure losing much weight would be good for me (I don't have much to lose) and I'm not trying to take things to extremes. I just side with folk who agree that 3+ regular meals a day is not necessarily the only healthy way to do things.

Note well that this is all simply my own experience, and I'm certain people differ. I do this because I'm happy, comfortable and feel better for doing so - if you try it and don't, perhaps it isn't for you. I know I wouldn't do it if that were the case.
You can do the same in 5 minutes with Twitter Bootstrap or Foundation.
Haven't seen anywhere yet.. The implementation is dead easy. where are all the cool kids?
Autism "treatments" are different: they are not being chosen and administered by the patient themselves. The ethics of doing something to someone else is vastly different than the ethics of doing something to yourself.

I would argue that the negative results do exactly what the blogger would like them to do: preventing other people from wasting their time on useless or possibly-harmful things. More than that, they do it while involving patients in the process, making it more likely that even the kooky patients will listen.

Actually, I think it would be great to see some data on the reliability of double-blind clinical trials and self-reports. Clinical trials certainly have their own problems.
Beautifully written, I agree 100%
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> It's what works best for fat-loss, because that way you keep down the blood sugar spikes after every meal.

That's a hypothesis that afaik no study was able to support (e.g. http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/truth-about-6-meals-day-w... about some studies. I don't have more references right now, but in the past I was looking for a study that supports it, and only found negatives)

> instead, you can also keep to foods which don't spike sugar levels much in general.

Google "bulletproof diet". I think you'll like it.
As long as its crypto primitives remain secure (SHA-256, Elliptic Curve crypto, RIPEMD), if the Bitcoin economy continues to grow 5x, 10x, 20x, etc, then its value should increase 5x, 10x, 20x, etc, because there is a fixed number of coins available.

Both of these assumptions are likely. So I would say, yes, this exchange rate should last (of course there will be some bumps on the road, bubbles, crashes, etc).
As I am also a cable quitter, I really wanted to check it out. But it didn't work on Safari iOS 5.1.1. Could you take a look at it? Thanks!
as a boss, the 'respect' and 'above' thing kinda bother me. I mean, it /is/ my company, but on the other hand, if I didn't think you were good at something, I wouldn't be spending my money on you. (I mean, sometimes an employee who is very good at one thing starts telling me how to run something that I don't think they know very much about, and that can be irritating, but eh.) If you are a boss and you are hiring non-interns that aren't better than you in their areas of expertiece, you are incompitent.

I mean, I'm not a very good boss; I think of most of my relationships the way you think of contractors. which is wrong for most people, but personally? I get really uncomfortable with this idea that I'm "above" an employee.

On the other hand, I think this actively contributes to me being a bad boss. A whole lot of people really like the idea that the company is a family or something, rather than it just being a mutually benficial relationship. I mean, if you are part of the company, and I own the company.... that has some (i think) disturbing implications. If it's just a mutually benifical relationship, on the other hand? that seems much less disturbing to me. But many people are more comfortable with the former. (and yes, many of those people like to see the company as more of a co-op where everyone has ownership, and that's another area where I'm a bad boss. I'm not any better at pretending that other people own what is mine than I am at pretending to own other people. I have enough experience with real co-ops and communes to want to avoid that sort of thing.)
Well, give me the 500k payout, I'll gladly take that hard street.

It's absurd to act as if it's pocket change. Upon receiving that kind of money, you just leave the valley and move elsewhere doing the work you want to do, living off the interests.

Well, unless all you want to do is working for somebody else on the valley :)
SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU EVEN SAYING?

Who are you to make a claim as to if it will last or if it won't or how valuable bitcoins are.

>This won't last

We have no evidence to the contrary, and in fact, bitcoin being a deflationary currency by definition means it will likely increase in value and, what's more, if you look at the trend it has been increasing in value. If you were to use a single shred of logic then your conclusion would be "it might or might not last", but that's hardly a useful post.

>is a bitcoin at least as valuable as 10 USD for people who use BTC?

Well, since people are RIGHT NOW paying over 10 dollars for a bitcoin that indicates that yes, yes it is.

Seriously, this comment says nothing, provides no useful information, and is also probably wrong. It's one of the worse comments I've seen in my life. Please please please delete your account. Please don't buy a renewal for your internet connection. Please never interact with me, or anyone with an appreciable amount of intelligence, again.
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Great article and looks like an interesting product. However I don't see any pricing info and also I can't click on the most popular articles listed at the bottom of the blog.
Excellent, glad to here it, thanks.
"No amount of anonymous feedback is going to fix a poor relationship with your boss"

If a relationship has become truly broken, it's unlikely our system is going to fix it. In that case, you might be right that the person should seek employment elsewhere.

But there are many scenarios by which the relationship can be improved by anonymous feedback. Keep in mind that a lot of the feedback managers tell us they get are based on feedback about systems, tools used, company policies and the like.

We've built (and are building) a follow-up mechanism to try and ensure good feedback doesn't go ignored and that the downvoting you speak of is actually transparent in the system.

If you try our service, you'll see that the feedback is in fact both ways. Managers can reply, ask follow-up questions, mark the issue as resolved and so on. Likewise, the employee can reply and do the same.

Not everyone wants to leave or feels they can leave (in this economy). They want a mechanism to try and fix something without fear of retribution. That's what we're trying to provide.
Your old OpenGL books would have been worthless, as they can only have talked about the fixed pipeline which has been deprecated (thank god).
That could quite possibly be it, as I don't always unmount my fileservers when I leave home. I'll make sure to do that from now on, and might just write a script to handle it. Thanks.

I wonder if this same issue would crop up with the Amazon Cloud Drive.... It's not much more than a CIFS/NFS mount.
Did you have much trouble convincing your friends to move to Path? I think that's the biggest headache for anyone wanting to move away.
AppData gets their fb data from publicly available app data from the Facebook API. Based on the FB apps I've worked on, their numbers are just rounded a bit, but are pretty much the same as what a developer would see using Facebook Insights.
I think he's saying after 2-3 weeks of intermittent fasting, not fasting for 2-3 weeks at a time intermittently.

Anecdote alert, but I started doing alternate day fasting after I read the study, then 22 hour a day fasts after I read that people were having results with that. Went from 235 to 185 in 2 years (6' tall, fairly large build.) I'm not strict, and I go off it whenever I'm bored or severely tempted.

I count any drink other than water as a snack, and watch the bread, potatoes, and cornstuffs when I am eating. Who knew it could be this easy? I hadn't really been an overeater for years, I just had never had time to starve.
I am using 5.1.7 and it works fine. Do you have flash blocker or JavaScript disabled?
The other problem is that it takes your time. The service may be free monetarily but it is extremely expensive to use.
This totally blew me off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYMRpiRSSaw

What is their target group? Billionaires?
Tell me what this app can do not how awesome you are.

Funny thing is they do the same mistake on their homepage.
I have no f* clue what they do only that i have to login with my facebook account to see anything.
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People are asking for mobile app.
In America I don't need to travel at all to hear many different languages, experience different cultures, etc. They're all in walking distance in any major city. European mono-cultures need to make nationalistic distinctions, the American multi-culture doesn't.
> The problem is that people aren't used to accessing their fat stores for energy.

It is my hypothesis that most modern fat stores are not actually energy stores, but rather "toxin" jails (I use "toxin" in the sense of: a substance that the body does not want, possibly because it is harmful, and that takes non-trivial time/effort to metabolize and/or get rid of; think of e.g. mercury).

Which would explain why they aren't being used: In many cases, the body doesn't have a chance to get rid of them because bad stuff keeps coming in.

(You may laugh, but it is not inherently less plausible -- or less supported -- than the idea that fat stores are used exclusively as energy stores).
That's exactly how it should grow - in relation to the growth of the economy. But I worry all these posts about the latest Bitcoin price will push it again on the speculation train.
Thanks for the tip on the most popular articles bug, we'll get that fixed. (Edit: Fixed, typo in a WP template.)

Pricing for Appboy is coming soon. For now, you can sign up for an account for free and poke around. When pricing goes in, we'll be offering a free tier for small developers and otherwise be charging based on number of users.
This makes me wonder.. how many of the http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders have had a company/technology acquired? Would be an interesting stat.
This game is beautiful. How long did it take you to make?
>We have no evidence to the contrary

except the previous mega-crash.

>bitcoin being a deflationary

uh, no, it's not yet. Masses of new bitcoins are being created every day. That is inflationary (and much more so than USD).

@greg_bt: it matters little how you frame it, but the supply of bitcoins is increasing. It will gradually reduce and stop, all of which is predetermined, yes. Today it is inflationary (IIRC its about 15%/y currently, but don't hold me to that), eventually it will be deflationary.
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* You can probe a device using undocumented protocol in a matter of hours, not days

* You feel comfortable with electrical hardware, both analog and digital

✰ You are familiar with feedback control, Matlab. Not required, but a huge advantage.

What is your favorite programming language? Why?
ASCII text, please.

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I think the monospace will worth the wait. But the current fonts already hit a sweet spot, UI development for mobile apps. They will look amazing on the retina screens of iOS devices.
> DirectX is a very good option for games. OpenGL on the other hand is a more generic 3D API

I don't know about that any more. I have heard that for about a decade, but with the massive changes that have been made to OpenGL, I don't see why that should still be true, if it even was true in the first place.
If you look at this data over the max range (http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25zv) then it looks a lot like the Gartner Hype cycle (http://bit.ly/N1XCnb). I wonder if Bitcoin is past the trough of disillusionment and ready for a serious explosion?
The thing I don't get is why they thought Chatroulette was more than just a fad. Anyone could see that Chatroulette was a flavor of the month kind of thing that faded out right away.

Did they really think that taking Chatroulette and making it a super invasive fb app to minimize the amount of penises was the next big idea?
How do elephants trumpet? At last, scientists figure it out.
Heroku announces support for 17 new Postgres extensions
I really don't get Bitcoin.

What is the point in a currency that ranges from $2 USD to $12 USD in a year ?
> despite thrice-weekly lifting sessions, I lose a LOT of muscle

My experience is like the GPs (I only lose muscle if I don't exercise while fasting).

Do you have "nontrivial" muscles? My experience is that I don't lose muscles I use (If I don't jog, I _do_ lose leg muscles; if I'm not boxing or swimming, I _do_ lose arm muscles; but if I do both, and balanced exercises like crunches, squats, etc - I don't seem to lose anything).
Looks like a ton of fun, love the 8 bit graphic concept
What a lame post. Anyone who judges a consumer web product within just weeks of its release doesn't have half a clue. 99.9% of new product releases are not like the iPhone.

Airtime may very well not become hugely popular (I wouldn't bet on it personally) but they raised $33,000,000(!) That's enough to last quite a few product iterations.
> Another con is 'seriously bad breath'

Goes away after a few days. And probably good for you - it means your body is finally getting rid of some stuff it should have gotten rid of before and didn't.
Just wanting to hear from Airtime users to see if the dropoff in traffic has been significant enough to downgrade the value of the service to them. I remember there were a bunch of people who really liked Airtime when it first came out. I just want to know if they're still using it or not.

Because sometimes the press can over-dramatize things... ie., maybe traffic has dropped but the quality of experience is still very high and there's a group of people who love it. Or sometimes the press gets it right... ie., airtime really is in trouble.
Damnit I remember when they were less than $1 and thinking to myself "this will never take off". If I had invested $100, I could have sold today for $1K.
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Totally agree... site specific TFA apps is already starting to get a big silly. Battle.net, Google, my Bank... three is already starting to be a pain to manage and install.
So why do all those architects who can't meet the budget constraint get hired again and again?

Of course it's the style.
It seems that people enjoy making a quick buck
It's possible Apple and Microsoft are pursuing the same goal.

But I don't think Apple has that in mind. iOS devices are jailed. OS X devices are relatively open.

When Microsoft announced UEFI Secure Boot, the first articles were about desktops. A "surprise" announcement later about ARM devices being locked and not unlockable should be the proof of what Microsoft wants.

When Apple introduced locked software on the iPod Nano, it was ostensibly to prevent clone makers. Apple can of course always betray their user base, but they haven't done it yet. Cut them some slack.
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Cool. Thanks man.
Thanks, I placed a sell order at $13.99
Re: Aspen ... thank you. :-)

I'm told in Finland everyone's income is public.

http://re-iq.blogspot.com/2006/08/transparency-in-cold-light...

Surely opinions differ on whether that's good or bad. If you think it's bad then Gittip is probably not for you. :-)
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I'll say this, facebook is dying. But the new king is not G+, no. Demographically speaking, FB users like gossip, while G+ users like quality. Mom will never go to G+ and I will never go to FB.

So, there is a need for a new facebook and G+ is not the answer. I dare to say something like pinterest, with a river of short messages and pictures, but highly visual, will replace FB.

No ads, no apps, no likes, no stupidity in the name of profits, no privacy whoring.

That's the new facebook.
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What languages win for data mining and analysis?
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Commission-free electronic transactions with anyone in the world?
Stats for Cybercrime 'Threats' Just As Bogus As Hollywood's 'Loss' Claims
I love this, though I know I am an old retired gamer when I have no interest to use this myself
I actually liked the ad. It was clearly a parody of excessive wealth, and seemed somewhat in the same vein as the famed Old Spice commercials.

Of course, it tells me almost nothing about the product, but it does certainly peak your interest. Not necessarily enough to get over the FB integration, but it's something.

Sometimes I wonder if people dislike the service itself, or just the founder behind it. Given Sean Parker's famed brazen personality, I'm sure there will be more than a little schadenfreude in SV if this venture goes belly up.
I don't know, the current macbook air can drive 2 large external displays.
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Most consumer web products don't have multimillion dollar launches with celebrities and tons of press or six figures to spend on a viral video. If these guys paid for all that attention and still lose users it's a story worth telling