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The thing is, CISC vs. RISC seems to be an ideological debate more than anything else. The only reason I suggested designing a RISC CPU is because a) ARM has made RISC for servers sexy again, and b) Intel already tried a CISC chip with Itanium, and another would scare vendors pretty badly.

The big difficulty I see is designing an instruction set, architecture and compiler which can show serious performance gains for workloads that matter. Making it easy for developers to come over from x64 while juicing the performance per clock would be a big win.

P.S. I'm not a CPU expert by any means. My understanding is that x86_64 has a big legacy overhead from implementing backwards compatibility with x86, and a goal of Itanium was to reduce the amount of the die dedicated to backwards compatibility. If anyone wants to correct me, feel free.
Fantastic! Love this app!
If anyone is interested, the "refresh" branch of Obtvse implemented this "live preview while editing split screen" that he mocked up.

https://github.com/natew/obtvse/tree/refresh

http://cl.ly/image/0m3d3k230b47
Been watching this develop for a while. Congrats
Very true. Most people don't seem to be able to visualize how a tablet, or possibly any piece of technology, will fit into their lives until they have one and use it. I would guess that showing how these tablets, or any piece of new technology, fits into the prospective users lives should be a goal of advertising campaigns, but that doesn't always seem to be the case especially in the case of the Surface. The commercials I've seen have not demonstrated how a Surface fits into my life at all, unless I dance a lot. But to be fair, a lot of iPad ads don't do it either.
You make some very valid points. Thanks.
Intel's new datacenter SSD has proprietary controller, 40% lower prices
This is unfortunate, but quite common. If you accept credit cards online, you're at risk. The specific kind of fraudulent behavior you see will depend on several factors (the nature of your business; whether you enable transfer from users to just yourself, or whether you push money from one user to another.)

Credit card companies will, some time later, probably notice the fraud. At that point, you'll get a chargeback: you'll have to pay back the money you charged in addition to a fixed penalty per fraudulent charge (usually $15.) Especially if you're enabling a marketplace, like gittip does, these fees can be devastating. Regardless, if chargebacks become too common, your merchant account may be suspended.

I've written some about my company's experiences with fraud, if it's of interest:

http://davepeck.org/2011/11/17/fraudsters-gonna-fraud/

http://davepeck.org/2011/12/01/dealing-with-credit-card-frau...
I think it's irresponsible to say "don't vote for this incumbent because he/she supported SOPA" without offering any explanation on the alternative candidates' positions on SOPA. It seems probable that some portion of the opponents might also support SOPA-like legislature.
That's a bit of a generalization. Some anecdotal evidence... years ago when I was but a youngin', I didn't get along at my company, got burned out and eventually curled up in a corner and slept/played games. Needless to say I got on the PIP (performance improvement plan). Then I got laid off eventually. I was immature. My manager sucked, but so did I for not realizing this and taking action.

These days, I am simply more mature, and I regret my past somewhat, but at least I am good at learning in general. If you don't regret your past, you aren't growing, everyone does. Now, after life has kicked me around, I know people well, I know how not to be a condescending jackass, and be pleasant, and get things done, and communicate to my manager honestly vs being passive aggressive etc. And I have that same inner drive to figure things out. I'm still the same person, I just don't bullshit around, I keep my mouth shut, impress people with my actions, then lo and behold, when they come to find out more info about me, I tell them, but before that, I remain an enigma. When I came to my group, some underestimated me, I didn't lash out like when I was younger, I just shut up and fixed their bugs.

I do think, as you allude to, certain people just have that knowing, they have it in them, but for whatever reason, maturity, bad manager, etc., they don't rise to the top. I think though, if you are mature, you will realize your manager is crappy right away and address that. Part of being a star performer, to me, is not just tech. ability, but non-technical ability.
as an entrepreneur getting my MBA, i can certainly see what this guy is referring to. it's pretty obvious an MBA is not imperative for your success, however, in general, more education is generally a good thing, especially if an individual is intellectually curious. for me an MBA is a way to get broad business skills without having to actually work in the non startup world. the "mba mindset" is what he is referring to...if you keep your startup down to earth personality while doing an MBA, youll be fine. if you start acting like your investment banker/consultant classmates, then youre in trouble.
The seemingly commonplace idea that popular american liberals are somehow less evil than the GOP is dangerous poison.

What does this statement have to do with the topic being discussed?

Other than just being the usual political flamebait that people always feel compelled to sling around when discussing policitics, of course.
Except I can buy DYN's service for a domain registered anywhere. This is being packaged as an upsell of domain registration. I compare to both, but since it requires me to choose them as a registrar to use, I focus primarily on the registrar component.
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What a fantastic time to live in, where we can describe 128 billion things with the adjective "only", and sniff derisively at them.
You can't make a blog-software without comments. Well, you can try, but it wouldn't be a blog anymore. Letting the most important thing blogs achieve, enabling user-comments, get in the hand of proprietary external companies is totally absurd and a huge loss.

That being said, I like the idea of a focussed blogging software. Probably because I sometimes contribute to one: Serendipity (http://www.s9y.org). And there are so many different blogengines ones out there, including Wordpress-forks, and of course some of them focus on being a blog-software instead of a cms. Heck, like so many even I wrote a blog-software for myself, based on Sinatra, cached and with spamfilter and using browserid, which is already probably quite useable (https://github.com/onli/dsnblog, though the description paints the image of something more, till now it is only an almost complete blog).
this is simply awesome, not only cause of the great visualization of data but because the interactions to model your scenarios blew me away. Really need to learn this D3 stuff ASAP.
Makes sense to me. I updated the source with the unlicense.
Greatist.com is one of the fastest growing health and fitness sites on the web (from 0 to 1M+ uniques a month in less than a year) so yes, people "buy" this stuff.

Their site has a sense of personality and clearly people like it. You don't have to like it or give them money, but realize that many people do not hold your opinion on the site.
Then those of us that consider living somewhere with basic human rights important have exactly two (2) options:

- Take up arms in violent revolution to restore due process,

- or, -

- Flee the country and take one's productive energies and output to a place that has the rule of law.

I abhor violence in all nonconsensual forms. This summer will be five years since I left job, family, friends, native language, and significant other behind in what was easily the most difficult and taxing decision I have ever made in my life.

There are no other reasonable options now but to flee. To remain and to contribute in light of these facts is to support and enable this course of events. Don't be evil.
This is the same B.S. that happened with the Xbox 360 hard drives.

In 2006 Microsoft sold a 20GB hard drive for $120 (which could have bought at least a non-branded 100 GB hard drive)

When you used it with the 360, the hard drive would only report 14 GB because 6GB were used for the OS.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911593

FYI Apple's operating system takes up 1GB, so this is relevant because a 32GB Surface has a much usable storage as a 16GB iPad (source: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-surface-storage-siz...)
We don't, obviously. And in most cases positions on bills like this are a function of geography more than politics -- if a bill is desired by local lobbyists the local representatives are going to support it. This is the problem with single-issue voting in a two party system; it simply doesn't work the way you want it to except in very limited ways:

SOPA died because its proponents wanted to avoid the controversy that was growing over it and dropped it, seeing litle upside. That is the way single-issue politics works in the US system. And the system worked, and the bill isn't law. Trying to prolong the fight at the ballot box does nothing more than make you enemies among the supporters of basically every other single-issue subject in american politics.

A really important related point is that not all issues are like this. A vote at the ballot box isn't going to do anything about SOPA or follow-on bills, but it is likely to have effects on future tax and health care policy, court appointments (hint: which party's judicial appointments are most friendly to heavy-handed internet regulation?), and (in the executive branch) the choice to engage in wars of aggression.

Don't fool yourself into being a single-issue voter. This isn't a parliamentary system.
Yes, sorry. I'm severely dyslexic. There's a limit to mechanical spelling help.

I meant the particles that are more like Han Solo and less like Darth Maul.
At least vote 3rd party for people who would like to do that. If enough people do that, they might at least want to consider some of those policies for the next elections. Real change has to start somewhere.
I know humor is frowned upon here, but it makes me think of the following: http://i.imgur.com/Rcu0C.jpg
andrey, just wanted to say thanks for this comprehensive answer. it seems like you speak from a lot of experience and while it's scary to read through what you have had to do to survive, it all makes a lot of sense and helps me in picking my battles a bit.

again, thanks for this, i am going through it later again, just responding to over 60 other e-mails with help and support, just fascinating to see this. if one thing, we can hopefully make it clear that betting on someone's platform will provide tremendous opportunity but also introduce a considerable uncertainty if it takes off.
Congrats to a transplanted Maritimer and the LightSail team!
This too will sound silly, but we don't even know if that would happen or could happen with Dolphins and Whales, because they've really just never been given the chance. It'd be like someone invading a new land they discovered, and just killing anyone in their way, without waiting to see if these people would indeed like to participate in their 'society'. But actually, on top of that, even if the dolphins could say they'd participate in this required society - why would it be deemed appropriate for the humans to make the rules here?
Yes, but it's so simple I don't really think you're enlightening criminal minds here.
I recommend http://getkirby.com/ (Not affiliated, but a fan.)

It's worth the $39, but you can try it on a non-public site before you buy. It's incredibly simple, powered by plain text markdown files, easy to extend, and there is a "Panel" plugin that gives a very basic backend. Very little setup since it runs on PHP and without a true database. You can also connect it with Dropbox if you have the server permissions, to make editing files even easier.
> There is no chance any animal/fish is going to survive the brunt of us 9 billion in next fifty years

I'll take that bet.
Real facts and actions are better than a theory that another one might do it, too. You need to take that into consideration, too, but at the end of the day one actually voted for SOPA, and another hasn't (at least yet). To me the option is clear.
This MBA or no MBA talk is getting old. I expect more from you, HN. Move on.
Responsive Design vs Mobile-Targeted Website Layouts
Where, may I ask, did you flee to?
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What made sense about the Ghost write screen was that it embraced Markdown. It showed what things would look like as you wrote them. I don't think the screenshot of the new WordPress dashboard addresses that.
Probably doing so qualifies them for a different OEM pricing tier.
Yes, it should, because I might want the video to play immediately after it buffers, or I might want it to just buffer and press play in a few minutes.

Having a play and a pause button which to push to indicate the current state of the video while it buffers is very useful.

Also, to the parent, a button should display its action, so a "play" button will play and a "pause" button will pause. Except when the interface is designed by a web designer.
American politics has always been about voting for the guy/party who hasn't fucked you over yet, even if they're just as likely to as the first guy. That's why we see the house majority, senate majority, and presidency change hands between the "two" parties so often.
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There are so many disparaging generalities and stereotyping presented here. The anti-intellectualism and programmer hate is on full display. An important question is why is this socially acceptable in 2012. We get it. you are afraid of smart people in charge.
Well at least they come right out with it and explain exactly why the free space is what it is.
The Cloud made of Penguins: Open source goes 'industrial scale'
The set partition problem and drawing the Presidential election
I read up on money laundering, and changed the blog post to talk about "stolen money" instead. Thanks.
Then Google should definitely take it up to FTC. This is a case where the company is clearly hurting the consumers by first removing the option they loved before, and then giving them a much poorer product instead, with no choice of getting the alternative back.
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This was my first attempt at quickly banging out a little tutorial-ish post yesterday. Backbone.Marionette has made building client-side applications unbelievably easy.
Shouldn't this be doable with simple library wrapping console framebuffer, that you Linux guys have and I suffer lack of on FreeBSD? (I can be very wrong - I'm just a bit jealous, not jealous enough to dive into fb implementation :))
Why do they have to participate in our society in order to be protected from torture/murder/slavery/etc? The point of this article is that they have their own society and should not be made our playthings.

I'm also not sure why they would need to agree to some kind of treaty with humans just to be spared our cruelty. There's no evidence they mean us harm, we have the ability to protect ourselves if they did, let's just leave them alone.
Deflecting Asteroids with Laser Ablation (2002)
Just wanted to +1 on this - this is a fairly severe offence in the UK
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I don't think Itanium was CISC, they call it "EPIC" (explicitly parallel instruction computing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicitly_parallel_instruction...). The basic idea of this was to move logic about what could be parallelized from the CPU to the compiler, but this turned out not to work so well. In Donald Knuth's words, "The Itanium approach...was supposed to be so terrific—until it turned out that the wished-for compilers were basically impossible to write."
Maybe it won't need cooling.
Hypotheses on Amazon Glacier Architecture
Inversion of Control, The UI Thread and Backbone.JS Views
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There are clearly lots of people who are done with a working device the moment it gets slight cosmetic damage, or when the newer flavor of the device appears on the market.

It seems strange to me, but it looks like 'personal mobile computers' have a requirement for "device freshness" that is much closer to the shelf life of sliced bread than it is to that of a comparably-priced television.

If this is at all the case, Apple would seem to be headed for $4,000 per share.
A few things bug me with the site design

- The header background at the top of the page seems strange, not exactly sure what it is (wood logs?). It makes the white text harder to read and doesn't seem consistent with the feel of the rest of the site.

- The vertical whitespace between the different elements on the site seems off. Different heights and smaller towards the top, with a lot more whitespace between elements further down on the page.
Awesome! Fingers crossed for a 2014 ship date!
I think this article might have made more sense during the primaries. I'm not happy with Feinstein supporting SOPA, but I'm not going to vote for her conservative opponent who probably also would have supported SOPA.
Thanks for the tip- that was pretty entertaining. Love the design and attention to detail...up arrow repeats last command. It's a refreshing departure from typical info sites and aimed well at the target.
I think it will cannibalise sales of the higher margin iPad, but that ceding the medium form factor market to 7" Android devices would be a bigger long term risk.

In this sense I agree with the analysis that Apple needed to introduce a lower cost medium form factor tablet for strategic reasons. I just expect them to do so in two phases, in exactly the same way that they have with previous devices. That is, introduce the new device at it's premium price point this year, and then move the year old device down to a lower introductory price point the year after.

In other words I agree with the argument that the introductory iPad Mini should be under $300. I just think that next year is when that should happen and jumping the gun would be a panicky amateur move that Apple would be idiots to make.

Long term iPad margins will be lower than they have been up to now, but that's inevitable one way or another and Apple are doing a great job managing the transition.
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I recommend you watch the actual talk: http://ineteconomics.org/blog/inet/conversation-economy-stig...

They don't really disagree, although it may appear so in the talk. The only major disagreement is about QE, not the size or character of fiscal stimulus.

I think you should pay attention to both Stiglitz and Krugman because they are very insightful 'hackers' in Economics in every good sense of the word.

Both are theorists, that try to explain real world phenomena with simple, often in their own words 'silly' models. Both don't shy away from math and are mindful of the empiric research being done by others, without sacrificing substance.

The results of their work are that we are able to explain very accurately anomalies in international trade and errors in traditional welfare analysis (Krugman's increasing returns models of agglomerations and Stiglitz's externalities, respectively). They should really be given Nobels at least two times - they are definitely not one-hit wonders and Krugman's work on exchange rate volatility, currency crises and liquidity traps are extremely relevant today.

Both are very outspoken in their criticism of the powerful of the day and the orthodoxies of 'think-tank economists' and thus often dismissed by them as 'leftists'.

Even if you don't agree with them you should watch their talks and columns.
To see the hacker ethic in Krugman's work check out this piece:
http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/howiwork.html

Specifically about government spending and the article:

* Stiglitz and Krugman both assert in the talk that they prefer the spending to be on infrastructure and education. So the article is being very dishonest. Even in the infamous "Space Aliens invasion" remark Krugman recommended building "things like high-speed rail"

* Actually the US has austerity in the state and municipal level, so there isn't actually "additional dollars of federal spending". Also mentioned in the talk, and many other places by these two.

* There is wide agreement about positive multipliers in the crisis since around 2011. The proposition that they may have been negative has been shot down by studies in 2010 and has very little basis in theory. Economists like Alesina who were austerity hawks before that have back-pedalled somewhat and the IMF has admitted that austerity deepens recessions.

* Krugman and the Romers have written quite a lot why this depression is very much like the one in the thirties.
Really?

Recovery tools on a TABLET?

What's the size of iPad firmware again? Around 1GB apparently

How much is the crud that Windows accumulated all this time?

I'm beginning to think all the 16-bit pieces of windows are still there (I mean, the part that compiled)

Talk about a monolithic mess
It says the next event is in Portland, OR at 03:00 on 11/5 however it is currently 09:00 on 11/5 there. Assuming it's the local time zone, the event should be an old event. There aren't any time zones that would fit either, must be a bug.
Who's going to like a divorce lawyer on Facebook?
"git add -i" is my favorite command to start the interactive mode to add multiple files to staging at once.
Sociologists DO get boring when designing experiments, don't they?
“high-speed link would make New Zealand an attractive location for data centers”

Why would anyone want to host in a data center with such high latency?
So I need to keep my computer at home turned on all the time?

That sounds expensive. I just submitted an article related to the topic of data center power consumption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744488

Would be nice to have links pushed to the "cloud" and have the home computer pull the info when it starts up.

Even better, you should find a way to somehow use Firefox Sync via javascript so that you don't have to maintain the server. [Ditto the same thing for Chrome Sync]
October 2011 marked the tenth anniversary of the USA PATRIOT Act going into law.

If change from within worked, it would have accomplished measurable effect within the first decade. Voting in the USA, on the federal level, is now demonstrably meaningless.

How many decades will you live there, having liberty only at the mercy and willingness of your government and its large corporations, entertaining this poisonous delusion?

The ratchet only works in one direction.
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Hi!

I've been building this app over the course of the last year or so, and we've finally gotten it polished and cleaned up to the point where we feel pretty good about it.

The goal of this app is to replace the lists that people keep of all the places they want to go, movies they've had friends mention, and books they want to read. Our goal is to try and make those lists a lot more actionable so people will actually do these things instead of just writing them down.

Would love any feedback!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/onmylist/id561225528?ls=1&mt=8
How are you so awesome? Also, this is really great news. I am glad to see that you've gotten such great investors!
Then it's a good thing Class 10 MicroSD cards are under $1/gig?