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I don't mean to disparage your sources, but if everyone in engineering at the two biggest desktop CPU designers thinks pipelines are too deep in current designs, we should be seeing a big change. I understand bureaucracy well enough, but I think if everyone at AMD knew how to magically improve their current design, they would have done it by now. At this point, marketing wouldn't hold them back from assuming a dominant position technically, especially not in the server space.

I've probably gotten in past my depth at this point, but it seems like the bigger complaint is memory latency and bandwidth. My understanding was that this was part of the move to on-die memory controllers and increasing levels of L2 and L3 cache.
ok what about how long do you think it would take to ramp up to where I could make a decent living doing it? Do you have to go back to school or should I just jump into a jr development position?
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I don't even see a big deal about requiring a call, as long as the call itself goes smoothly and they don't give you the runaround or use bullying tactics to talk you out of it. They offer refunds if you contact them... that on its own doesn't sound shady or like a bad practice in any way. I'm not sure why the author feels entitled to an automated refund process--the biggest impression I get from the post and chat log are that he just really doesn't like talking to people on the phone.
"As a JavaScript veteran you know that you have to use new Date() instead of Date() because the second one returns a string for some reason"

Uhhhhh...
Generally you're already there on the command line, a few keystrokes away from the desired result.

Also people are lazy.
You need to test the version of the code you are going to publish, and unless you are publishing every time you commit, you don't need to test each commit.

I use git add -p whenever I've made too many changes between commits. I like for my commits to be of a single topic if possible.

If I use git add -p to break up a commit into 10 separate chunks, and find out something is broken, it's not hard to find the commit that caused the issue (if the commits are topical and not mixed).
GM builds the automatic transmissions for many BMWs. Clearly some Germans think that GM knows what they're doing.
Does the Internet need a new 'hang-out'?
It seems to me that the operating system is designed with the keyboard/cover combination in mind, and the operating system --- especially the upcoming Pro version --- has more of the capabilities of a desktop computer than are offered by iOS. (I'm frankly tempted by the device, but I don't see a huge argument for it over a laptop for my most common uses.) In short, it's not so much the device as its software that makes the difference.
The only problem here is, IP addresses are such a small space (4 billion addresses) that it's so easy to brute-force the entire database that I don't see it offering any protection. If the data is stolen it will be cracked in no time, and if the data is subpoenaed that cost will likely be ruled as insufficiently "onerous". Even IPv6 doesn't save you, since the space is sparsely populated.

No, with IP logging it's all-or-nothing. You might as well store them as uint32/uint128.
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Although in the US, having a wife with a good fulltime job would ameliorate the unavailability of affordable healthcare for founders.
Explain why the frequency of processors stalled at 3.x Ghz?
That's the danger that you get when your main product lives of someone else's main product. I'm the author of InstaDesk, an Instagram client for the Mac, and I've also always assumed that this day would come. This will probably affect me too, but not as hard as web.stagram and the like, since I'm offering several "pro" features that will probably never make it to the Instagram website. My next release will allow the users to use "comment reply" templates, see which comments they've already replied to, download images for specific tags, etc, and much more. All more suited to people who use Instagram to connect to huge audiences (people with several thousand followers, etc).
In the worst case, I'll need to raise prices to account for a smaller niche market. But let's see, it may also result in more Instagram users since it will be easier now to "experience" the network.

I also hope they finally allow user registration on the web. Currently, users can only register from within the iPhone or Android app, which makes it difficult for people to just register in order to follow a couple of friends.

But yeah, since I've kinda expected this to happen at some point, I've been busy in the past months to work on two separate products, that are slowly nearing completion.
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To be fair - you end up having to make statements like that a lot in this industry. Like it or not, there have been some very large, high profile failures lately (Solyndra being one of the more prominent, but certainly not the first or last). There is a stigma developing regarding "clean / green tech" that we continually have to fight because of these failures, both in terms of the general industry, but even more so if you have any connection to public money, and often even if you don't.
I guess being at the back you could have an airbag style system that propels the reactor into the sky like an ejector seat if there's a crash. Just don't drive in any tunnels or under bridges..
Prismatic is my favourite iOS/web app, I miss it since I bought a Galaxy S3.

I also wanted to try out http://getmaid.com/

Also a taxi service app in Toronto is iOS only.

Whats your point? Are you saying companies don't almost always release iOS apps before Android?
Oh I agree fragmentation within an OS is TERRIBLE. I dont however equate that with multiple OS's. I hope we continue to have at least 3 if not 4 or 5 healthy players in the smartphone mobile space.
I was expecting this to link to Kickstarted, not some blog.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/qfolabs/mimixtm-tilt-to-...
Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia was absolutely opposed to SOPA. He also thinks that evolution is a lie and that all legislation must be evaluated for biblical compliance [1]. He sits on the House Science and Technology committee.

That alone demonstrates why single-issue voting is a terrible idea.
The MSRs use molten salts in the sense of ionic compounds, not in the sense of NaCl. They're talking about uranium flouride or liquid flouride thorium.
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Besides the physical limits, for practical reasons clock speed shouldn't be the only thing one tries to optimize and a faster clockspeed doesn't imply a faster processor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megahertz_myth More to the point, I wouldn't be surprised if there's already an Intel processor on the market with overall better performance than this new thing while having less cores and/or GHz.
Spring Data - MongoDB's ORM provides a nice way of doing this.
He won't have had a chance to do any damage yet

What makes you think that?
No, you cannot. If you do it, your UTC time difference might be one or more seconds off. And this is not what you want, if you need to rely upon that quantity.

Only one Coordinated Universal Time exists: it is the UTC standard.
ECMA-262 is the specification of a scripting language, with tons of interesting features but with a very poor understanding of what UTC is.

UTC is based on TAI. Whenever we need to compute time differences of UTC times, we need to account for leap seconds implementing TAI. Implementations are available in a number of languages and very easy to port:
- C http://cr.yp.to/libtai.html
- Haskell http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/time/1.4/doc/htm...
- Erlang https://github.com/secyoure/taider

Full disclosure: author of the Erlang TAI library here.
This was the case around the turn of the millenium, back when you had Pentium 4s that had over 30 stages in their pipelines. But those weren't really as good as AMD's less pipelined Athalon chips, and eventually Intel shifted from it's Pentium 4 lineage to the much more reasonable architecture derived from the Pentium 3, through the Pentium M, and then the Core architecture. These had around 15 pipeline stages, and despite their slower clocks the Core processors could out-preform the Pentium 4s. So the changes that you're saying could never happen did happen, and nearly a decade ago.
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I wanted to share this little fiddle because i was amazed by how good any device i can throw at this renders this.

No JS frameworks required, just a couple of lines of css. :target and :not() are very powerful and -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch solves the problems that iScroll solves with just one line!
It's fine for people who administer their whole stack themselves, but companies like Red Hat don't seem to be on board yet (their website only mentions embedded applications as far as I can see). Compiling open source software against a platform is the easy part; most places don't want to deploy their own build of Apache. Intel has also spent considerable resources contributing patches and optimizing compilers for their platform. If AMD wants to move large clients off x64, they can't just say 'Well, look, Perl compiles'. They need consulting shops onboard, they need large, well-tested repositories of Linux packages.
A lack of high earnings by no means implies a lack of genius or a lack of success.

Mozart drank himself to death by age 30 and was hounded by creditors. Socrates, Nicola Tesla, Oscar Wilde and many other great minds died penniless.
if everyone in engineering at the two biggest desktop CPU designers thinks pipelines are too deep in current designs, we should be seeing a big change

No, not necessarily. If one company puts out a lower clocked product with equivalent performance but lower power, the other company will be able to crush them in marketing and sales. No system integrator wants to try and sell a 1GHz product to the public. No one wants to convince retailer marketers that a system clocked at half the speed of their competitors is actually just as fast.

Take a look at laptop ads and ask yourself why they mention clock speed at all. That number isn't really comparable across different product lines or generations within the same product line. But people use it as a proxy for performance, so the ads keep including it.

The graveyards are full of companies that put out better technology products than their competitors.
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If I was in your shoes, I'd become your own technical recruiter, pick a far-flung college town or city with a good CS program, and try to relo a crackerjack Python dev out of a batch of a dozen you contact. Fly yourself out to Podunk City to seal the deal.

Only so many devs come out of bay area schools, and only so many devs relocate out to SF before they have guaranteed employment. There's a lot of pent-up supply of $100k-grade talent pulling in $40k in flyover country.

You're going to find and keep those people far easier (and cheaper!) than barking up the same trees (recruiters and H1B) that your contemporaries are.
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What a crazy wheelbase. I can't even imagine what it would be like to drive a car where the front wheels are behind the driver.
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Alternative incantation using Homebrew openssl: https://gist.github.com/4007524
The problem with making government into "Google" style is upward mobility. One hand we want to cut down government size, make it simpler, but on high upward mobility = expansion. You can increase salary but the person will remain as secretary for the next 10 years? It's just boring.
unfortunately, you can't play "global thermonuclear war"

That's probably a team thing though.
I think both parties are at fault here. Ryan's first query was fine. It was a total mistake to 1) Send another message (please wait for more than a "few minutes" before getting frustrated and sending another message), and 2) Be completely rude.

At the same time, Allan (CEO) should have maintained, like drsim said, a professional, objective tone. Sure, he probably got a kick out of sarcastically tearing down Ryan, but ultimately it did nothing for either party and only burned a bridge that otherwise could have been salvaged.

I don't think it's too late for Ryan to apologize for the misunderstanding.
Such division is a symptom of the status quo. Change the people and you introduce more noise into the system and divisions break down.
Apologies, apparently Internet irony once again flew by undetected, my post was to highlight that to be in the top 0.1% is hardly that rare or unusual
As Tim minchin says, even if you're 1 in a million, there's still 7,000 of you
I highly doubt the availability of water ever was of any concern when designing the submarine reactor. It is a closed system.
I sometimes see commas on YouTube's views count, seriously. I think it depends on your location.
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I may have to update my alias then
Good question. We measure these using "precision" (of the users that users Sift flags, which percentage are actually fraudsters?) and "recall" (what percentage of fraudsters on the site does Sift flag?). We can get 90% precision or 90% recall, although not currently both at the same time, and it's the customers choice as to which to optimize for. We can just adjust a threshold to tune our system to their needs.

Companies that have high transaction amounts often use the machine learning system to detect likely fraudsters, but then have a human review each one and make the final decision to approve/deny. We have a visualization "widget" that shows the reviewers which signals made a particular user look suspicious. The advantage of using machine learning is then that you: a) catch fraudsters you wouldn't have noticed otherwise, b) don't have to review every single transaction, just the subset that are most suspicious, c) make it faster for your staff to review transactions since the visualization tools will help point them at what to look at.

Does that make sense?
I'm guessin it was done purely to make it look more futuristic, since the reactor itself wouldn't really affect the design very much.
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Is it time to short AAPL? They've lost some value recently, and the growth proposition doesn't seem to be where it has been. I could see them stay where they are, even with an earnings miss or two, however they are very much a stock traded on public perception.
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Thanks for the reply, Danielle.

We are indeed a battery-based system for now, though we aren't necessarily tied to that technology long term. We've focused on building a strength is in flexibility and ability to distribute storage wherever its needed. It's always exciting to see new methods of storage being developed, as I agree with you about the economics of storage. I'm not quite convinced that batteries are an antiquated option just yet (or aren't feasible financially or environmentally, long term, especially as R&D continues to move there as well), but I'm just a lowly software engineer - I'll leave it for the rest of our team to worry about those problems :)

Congratulations on your successes thus far, and good luck for what the future holds!
I really like the image drag and drop in the markdown editor!
You mean this?
"2004 Honorary Doctoral Recipient Computer Science, M.S. 1971"

Seems fairly clear that "Honorary" refers to a Doctorate degree, not to his Masters
True, like Charmaine Yoest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/magazine/charmaine-yoests-...;

And when the interviewer pointed out there was a 60-80% drop in the abortion rate (compared to the nat'l average) among women in St. Louis who received free contraception for three years, Yoest refused to discuss it, calling it a "red herring."

These activists can say "life begins at conception" til they're blue in the face, but every major medical organization defines pregnancy as the implantation of the fertilized egg in the uterus. Why do we need more unwanted children in this country when it's so preventable?
I prefer to emulate the prevailing standard of my server side language when it comes to indentation, so when I'm working with PHP in the back end it's 4 space when I'm working with Ruby it's 2.
I was under the impression that Doozer was ditched by Heroku, keep in mind this was through the grapevine and therefore; it's speculation.
There are some good things here, but on a systems level there are huge oversights that are absolute showstoppers on production systems. Maybe there is a level of Mongo proficiency above MongoDB Master? I hope so.

1) Make sure to permanently increase the hard and soft limits for Linux open files and user processes for the MongoDB/Mongo user. If not, MongoDB will segfault under load and when that happens, the automatic recovery process works incredibly slowly. It's a bit tricky to get this right, depending on your level of sysadmin knowledge. 10gen doesn't emphasize or explain the issue very well in their docs: "Set file descriptor limit and user process limit to 4k+ (see etc/limits and ulimit)" That probably makes sense to just about 0.1% of the people setting up MongoDB: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Production+Notes#Product...

2) Make sure to disable NUMA. This 10gen documentation note is a great example of clear documentation: "Linux, NUMA and MongoDB tend not to work well together ... Problems will manifest in strange ways, such as massive slow downs for periods of time or high system cpu time." Massive slowdowns and mysteriously pegged cpu usage on production database systems are definitely 'strange'. I would probably choose stronger and more precise language, but 10gen clearly knows what they're doing: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/NUMA

tl;dr If you have problems with MongoDB, you aren't using it right. Read the documentation more carefully, and then when that doesn't work, hire an expert.
That doesn't make sense. Everybody knows that the number of views a post has is an integer, it doesn't really cause that much of a confusion for anyone. Most europeans are used to it.

What they should do is display the right separating symbol depending on the user's location.
I don't feel like loosely targeted PayPerAction ads will do all that well. From a publishers perspective it will almost definitely do worse than AdSense just based on the PPA component. For advertisers this might be nice, but why would they use this when publishers using other PPA platforms like CJ, CB, or LS can build custom tailored websites and landing pages per ad to convert users.
That's an excellent point, though it's always interesting to me just how much many energy companies try to market to consumers, despite the optimal markets :)
I disagree with you on your point on efficiency. California has had a ton of success implementing efficiency programs, and these efforts are starting to be copied by other states.

My guess is that your perception of failure is largely driven by the McMansion trend of the 90's/early 00's. While these large, suburban homes definitely consume more energy than their smaller counterparts, if it wasn't for strict codes and standards and minimum efficiency requirements for appliances, our energy situation would look much worse.
The truth is. Some customers require 10x the support that others do and you only get paid the same amount. When you're a growing startup, those 10x'ers can suck up all your time and distract you from building a better product. Unfortunately it sounds like you were going to be a 10x'er for them and they were a bit blunt about suggesting you don't use the service.
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Need to add a no-wrap to the login link guys:

http://i.imgur.com/8QLDO.png
Seconded on the food recommendations, and I'd also recommend Oren's Hummus: http://www.yelp.com/biz/orens-hummus-shop-palo-alto .
Should have used bitcoin :X
What misunderstanding?
It's interesting how the Instagram profile pages look kinda like facebook's. The cover photo, the layout and the way everything is arranged.
What annoys you about moving that media library to another computer?
Or just use gitx (or git-cola on Linux, or git gui if there's nothing better) and get a much better visual reference and easy of use. Not everything needs to be done from the command line.
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That was my first thought as well. They're also the only ones without hooves. What does that make us?
While i haven't read the chat transcript all i can say in response to the don't-want-to-call thing is:

Not everyone is as good in spoken english as he is in written, most probably for everyone with english not being their mother-tongue as me.

As i can only speak for myself: I wouldn't be comfortable taking a call as much as i would be writing a response...
> A third of women in the US end up having an abortion at some point in their lives.

Really?

I had no idea it was anywhere near this high. Do you have any source to back that up?

The closest thing I could find was this:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

Though this site is about as biased as you can be so it's probably not the best source.
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Actually I would think that instruction decoding is one of the few things you can reuse... that pipeline stage is typically not the performance limiter, and the instruction set only makes small changes each generation. When I was a chip designer that block usually got assigned to the least experienced team :)
That comparison is fanciful! Germany has the rule of law and its liberty (or lack thereof) is nothing like China's.
Wow this is really elegant. Kudos!
Yep, I managed to miss a few things; I'll add these shortly.
This is a perfect troll.

Post something mildly interesting or controversial from wikipedia. Mind you does not have to be new or newsworthy.

People click on it and fall into the wikipedia loop, reading about related topics clicking around wikipedia semi-aimlessly.

Wastes a ton of time and kills a man-month or so of productivity (or more at HN scale). No good comes of it except people feel entertained.
On the other hand, would a massively heavy nuclear reactor sitting behind the passengers be good in a front-end collision? It would probably take a lot of work to prevent it from continuing to go forward.
Your comment is why speaking truth to power is so hard. Don't say you're "fatigued" from hearing him. If he's right that this is a pernicious and dangerous trend from Google, then he should never stop shouting it.

Assume that Gabriel is 100% sincere and explain why his concerns are unwarranted. Personally, I find the "it's only .3%" of searches argument fatuous. That's the current rate. You can be sure Google is trying to "improve" that number. It's not clear to me what the consequences for this sort of search segmentation down the line are, but it definitely worries me. Confirmation bias is already a gigantic drag on human progress. I don't need the chief intellectual discovery engine of the world reinforcing it!
Do you realize that a lot of things like this are introduced as riders to other bills rather than put into bills of their own? For example, there have been 67 pieces of legislation in the current congresss alone that sought to change the rules on abortion, often as a peripheral to the bill's primary purpose: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/subjects/abortion/5897

Well, you might say, people shouldn't legislate that way. But they do. And even if you don't follow every bill, it should be obvious to even a casual political observer that the 112th Congress has been especially contentious in this regard.