skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens everywhere, unfortunately. I work for that other x86 CPU vendor that isn't Intel or AMD. Even though there are CPUID feature flags that identify which features a processor implements, many developers determine compatibility from the vendor ID. If we're lucky, we'll be treated as some generic 386 and we'll get to run some horribly unoptimized code [1]. In many cases, the driver, platform, or OS will error out and die [2].

[1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/07/atom-nano-review/6/. Scroll down to the third graph, if you want the tl;dr.

[2] http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/issues/detail?id=2508. I don't post that because it's a particularly egregious example. Even though I don't think the reply makes sense, it's actually more reasonable than most responses. It just happens to be public, because the exchange happened on a public bug tracker.

It's fairly easy to fix this sort of thing with a patch, à la Raymond Chen [3], but, for legal reasons, we can't just hand out patches to every program that incorrectly determines features from the vendor string. It often takes over a year to convince a vendor to issue a patch for its driver or OS, even when we have a benign patch we're using in lab to work around the issue, so we can do compatibility testing (we test pretty much everything) [4]. That's if we're lucky enough to get a vendor that wants to fix it; we often just get the runaround indefinitely. I can recall one case when no printer driver from a certain manufacturer would install on a machine with one of our CPUs, even though that same vendor was selling multiple models that used our CPU.

[3] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/11/13/10367...

[4] I haven't done lab debug for a while, but the last bug I can recall hearing about was a case where, if you had two webcams recording and playing back to the screen while watching a Blu-ray DVD and running an obscure benchmark from the 90s that wasn't even used in the 90s, the machine would hang approximately once every three days. I don't know where we find the mandmen who come up with these tests.

The funny thing is, we had a feature in our part that we suspected was buggy, and disabling that feature caused the fail to go away (or at least occur incredibly infrequently), but you can't ship a part unless you're really absolutely sure it's not going to hang on real customers, so someone had to track down to the root cause and capture it simulation. Just because disabling that feature meant the bug didn't show up didn't mean that feature was the cause. It could have been that disabling the feature just changed the conditions so that bug became less likely, and only popped up once a year, or maybe needed five webcams to expose, or who knows what? IIRC, it took someone two months to find the exact issue.
What does it cost them? There is no marginal cost for each Android phone shipped. When people upgrade from a cheap non-brand phone to a Samsung or Huawei they will start making money.
F2P means you don't pay upfront for the entire game but instead pay for in-app purchases (items for your character etc).
I'll be just getting to SF on Saturday. Can anyone confirm that Caltrain would be a good option to go back and forth from SOMA?
In general, I fix the newgen size mostly to avoid the optimizer choosing something braindead in a pathological case. 50/50 is safe, but not optimal.

In general, you should have enough unallocated memory on the box to cover your working dataset (it'll get used by caches and memmaps). If you can, find a way to exploit data locality. I shoot for (number of cores * 1-4)-ish partitions per box depending on workload. Using bigger boxes is usually better, because you can avoid communication latency and variance that arises from having tons of boxes.

If you want to know more, you can email me at kyle@onemorecloud.com.
What do targeted assassinations have to do with democracy? The USA, the great bastion of democracy, engages in those as a matter of daily practice. I don't think these tactics are always useful but it's one of the things that can happen in situations where you have two parties who want to fight a war. I would say the outcome was a result of choosing to wage an armed struggle (mostly targeting civilian population) towards the destruction of Israel. He made his choices (which included firing hundreds of rockets to population centers). What does "recognizing" someone's right to "exist" mean in this context? "Palestine" is not recognized by anyone in the world so why should the Likud recognize it? This is a new entity that the Palestinians want to create. Perhaps it is the best solution for the region but for it to actually exist some sort of agreement has to be reached.
I believe he's talking about individual games having long term retention for passionate players.

Mojang has that with the "old model" of creating multiple titles for its community. He's predicting that Minecraft won't be played in a few years, and there's a good chance that their next games won't be as big of hits, therefore it their playing the 'game' of trying to create hits.
Sure. Sorry for the late reply, I go to parties.
I have nothing against having more power at compile time. It's just the way C++ does it that I don't like. It's like a language within a language. I prefer the way it's done in D. Check the examples if you haven't, it's compile time done right in my opinion.
Great idea!
Anyone in San Francisco or Berkeley want to meetup?
I propose meeting up at Coffeebar in San Francisco at 3pm on Saturday, 11/15. If you can make it, please shoot me an email (see profile).
RuneScape was initially developed by two people and has grown to become extremely successful.
Exactly. Check out Jetpack Joyride on iOS or Android to get an idea of what the business model looks like.
One thing I also wanted to add is that BizSpark gives you free Azure platform access...with Windows Server keys! I think it works out to be two "large instances" for a year. I think large is like 2GB ram or so.
And by JavaScript you mean UnityScript
Hm. That's a very good point. But I believe that there's one hole in your argument: it's that a country defending its right to exist means that it's allowed to commit atrocities. I strongly believe that Isreal has a right to defend itself. In fact, I think they have every right to do what this thread was actually about: track down and assasinate a terrorist.

You cannot deny, however, that Israel has been less than kind to the Palestinian people in many instances. Is pointing that out antisemitic? No. What about if it's pointed out in an absolutely tasteless way, for instance by using a Nazi reference? Still not. It's tasteless, and I apologize, but it's not denying Israel's right to exist or defend itself. I'm not convinced that maintaining a situation that essentially boils down to having first-class and second-class citizens is the only way to guarantee the continued existence of Israel.

And, it's important that we're allowed to discuss this. If any criticism of Israel's actions is called antisemitism, we're effectively censoring the entire debate. Now I'll be the first to admit that arguing on the internet has little direct value, but I daresay that the "antisemitism!!" gut reaction is at least as harmful as people like me rudely denouncing the people running a government in situation as complex as Israel's as "a bunch of Nazis".
Tea in the US is usually either hot without milk (sugar if you like), or iced.
Hm, I'm curious: where in Europe is anti-semitism not "fully out of fashion"?

-- Anti-semitism is rampant: In the UK, France, and Germany, etc. Its quite possibly, even trendy. [1,2,3]

____________________________

[1] How my hate-filled family spawned Merah the monster

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/how-my-hatefi...

[M. Merah murdered seven people, including three Jewish <children>, in a series of scooter-borne attacks in the Toulouse area in March 2012.]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/how-my-hatefi...

[2] 'One in six' east Germans think like neo-Nazis

Published: 12 Nov 12 15:51 CET

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20121112-46121.html

[3] Anti-Israel culture war of British liberal elites is not a grassroots movement
Too many of our leading British academic and cultural institutions are in the thrall of left-wing activists, but anti-Semitism is far from rife at the British grassroots

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1381/anti_israel_cultu...

[4] "There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary." - 2010. Y. Rabim, Nobel Laureate.
I've found using SICP in TexInfo format over at http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ to be quite useful when you throw it into Emacs with a Racket acting as a REPL and a scratch buffer, like so: http://i.imgur.com/J3lI1.png
This whole social media being used in war strikes me as something right of of a Vonnegut novel
Yes. Caltrain stop in Mountain View is a five minute walk from where we're meeting.
Doesn't IE10 let you run the past versions of IE with developer mode? Haven't tried with IE10 but i know IE9 had it.
Why can't North Korea import missiles and parts for their nuclear program through the South Korean border? I say, we must protest that. Israel is at war with the Gaza entity so they blockade it (partially, oddly enough Gaza does get a lot of supplies from Israel). To continue the analogy, just like North Korea can import through its border with China so can Gaza through its border with Egypt. As evidence of there being no effective blockade look at the amount of weaponry available to the Gaza people. Israel doesn't pretend to treat Gaza well so there's no need to whitewash that. However to some extent it's a function of Gaza's attacks on Israel. In the west bank Israel also doesn't treat the Palestinians that well and the "apartheid/occupation" argument may hold a tiny bit more water there but it's also some sort of more stable Palestinian partial autonomy over there. The west bank used to be under Jordanian control and Jordan doesn't want it back either. Anyway, as I was saying the situation is far from simple. It's not black and white.
God says...

3:24 Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and
spake with me, and said unto me, Go, shut thyself within thine house.

3:25 But thou, O son of man, behold, they shall put bands upon thee,
and shall bind thee with them, and thou shalt not go out among them:
3:26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that
thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are
a rebellious house.

3:27 But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt
say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear;
and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious
house.

----

God says...

indite watered vengeance hasten quench fiction relax soul-sick
slippery containeth thrown sermons physician capable mindful
plunged furtherance toment Contain mislike well-grounded
Kenya crucifixion sharpness result potentially compare
Godhead whirlpools bank familiar tranquil org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02
rush mercies What_are_you_doing_dave recovering creeping
senseless incommutable bed heart Apostolic denied resumes
various deceits Deceased partaketh left officers secrets
how_bout_it offence challenges heightening over-abound
Humans diversifiedst zoot fugitives weights elsewhere
formlessness remembered darkly thick proper stripped innate
deafness reproves enduring wrinkle mimic remission

----

What do You think of communism, God? Meh?

God says...

shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves,
and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do
evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: 4:26 I
call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall
soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to
possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly
be destroyed.

4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be
left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

4:28 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and
stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
YC Applicants in San Francisco: Want to meet up?
YC Applicants or YC Backed Startups: Anyone in or near San Francisco want to meetup to share experiences? I propose meeting up at Coffeebar in San Francisco at 3pm on Saturday, 11/15. Please shoot me an email to let me know if you can make it (see about.me page on profile).
What you're speaking about seems similar to what most people on the Leangains [1] diet follow.

In looking around for healthy diet + exercise patterns for predominantly sedentary lifestyles (such as the HN crowd), there seem to be two main styles: (1) eat 6 small meals a day spaced out over your waking period, and (2) eat only 8 hours a day, and fast for 16, a form of intermittent fasting (IF) as is recommended by Leangains. Having tried both, I find that IF is vastly easier to adhere to, and more importantly, much easier to maintain your weight loss (or muscle gain) goals as you have only so much time in a day to stuff yourself.

In both schemes however, most of your calories are supposed to come post exercise. In my case, this is the traditional "dinner" time, but like the article says, for pre-electricity ages, this meal may very well have been around noon.

[1] http://examine.com/leangains-faq/#summary2
Replying to myself... but on that same note, we can look to Jagex and note their sustained success with Runescape, perhaps the "original" in-browser MMO. More impressive is that it's Java-based and has been since 2001, yet they've continually updated it to run on more powerful hardware.
I'm not so sure. As a player, I was initially excited about free-to-play games. I viewed them as a rebirth of shareware, a try-before-you-buy sort of thing. But having played a few, and having had a few games I bought go that direction, I'm not nearly so enthusiastic now. They almost always suck, or turn out to suck after they add in-game purchases. Even the games I would have held up as shining examples of "doing it right" sucked six months later.

These days I'm wary of games that advertise free to play. As if that were something I, as a player, wanted. I see it less as a try-it-we're-sure-you'll-like-it and more of a we-won't-tell-you-what-it-costs and we-can-get-you-hooked-and-you-won't-care-it's-not-fun and maybe a little we'll-keep-changing-it-so-you-keep-needing-to-pay.

There's such strong pressure to have purchases affect gameplay, too. I've seen any number of nice games start out promising that would never happen, and then . . . it happened. I mean, remember when they introduced hats in TF2? Said they'd never, never, never affect gameplay? We know how that went.

So I don't know. For me as a player, that sort of game has an uphill battle to earn my trust. Even if it's awesome now, the pressures are just such that it probably won't be in six months. Not the sort of thing I want to build my cherished family entertainment memories around.

There's also the rather-disturbing phenomenon of a small percentage of people spending an outlandish amount of money on these games. Sure, some of them might be enthusiastic fans, but that seems unlikely to me. Free-to-play games are just . . . not that kind of game. It seems more likely that they're folks with poor judgement, or who are even mentally ill. I don't know, but it doesn't sit well with me.

I'm not a successful indie game publisher or anything, so I don't have a proposed alternative. But I do think I'm not the only one who feels this way, and I'd expect the view to become more prevalent as players gain experience with the model. Free-to-play might be dominant now, but I wouldn't bet on it staying that way.
It makes little sense to compare total popular vote by party for the House, because each House district has its own slate of candidates. The Democrat candidate in a deeply conservative district might be farther to the right than the Republican candidate in a deeply liberal district.
I read a version of this argument in some US newspaper a while back. It completely misses the point.

These ass-jet toilets are not intended to replace toilet paper. They are for getting your asshole (and ladyparts, but I can't testify on that topic) much cleaner in much less time than with conventional American toilets and dry paper alone.

You use the ass-jet, then paper. That's how they work. (For a heinous bowel-movement situation, you might do paper, ass-jet, paper again.) You aren't supposed to skip the paper!

Using your mud example, if you got mud all over your head, would you rather just keep scraping your head with dry paper towels, and use up a couple rolls worth and still have some mud left over, or use some water too? Same principle.

If you take a perfect shit (love when that happens), then sure, it just slides out and leaves behind minimal debris. Great. But let's say you ate a plate of Uncle Jim's nachos the night before, along with a twelve pack of PBR, and you definitely didn't achieve shitting perfection this time. That is when these toilets really shine.

The number of times you have to wipe your ass to achieve that comforting pure-white-no-residue final wipe, that tells you your asshole is clean, is astronomically higher with paper only than it is with an ass-jet plus paper. I mean, have you ever had one of those wipe-it-ten-time-and-dammit-it-still-isn't-clean kind of shits? You just never have that happen with the ass-jet. The water helps wash your doody-hole AND that moistens the toilet paper (for the first post-jet wipe). That makes it work better, just like a wet dishrag is more effective at cleaning a dish than a dry one.

I personally would be surprised if populations that lack ass-jet toilets didn't have a higher incidence of hemmhorrhoids from all that wiping, over a lifetime. I don't think we have that long-term data yet.

But from personal experience, they have saved me thousdands and thousands of asshole-wipes over the years, and I could never go back to a the barbaric American toilets of my youth.

(When I moved back to America several years ago, I brought a Toto washlet toilet seat with me. And the new apartment that I just bought in Tokyo had many options to specify, but the toilet wasn't one of them--just as patio11 suggests above, the place came with a brand new whiz-bang model featuring the latest in shitter technology from Toto, complete with not only heated seat, ass-jet, and wall-mounted control panel, but also sensors that allow it to raise the seat automatically as I approach, and flush for me when I am done.)
They get some influence on the future direction of the technology. China is such a huge market that might be worth quite a bit.
I made some remarks elsewhere in this thread about the term "unfair," and AFAIK it usually refers to anyone doing work outside the reach of the protestor's collective bargaining agreement.

"We have rigged the market to our satisfaction, and it would be unfair of you to alter that comfortable dynamic."
Iced and hot are both common, but putting milk in tea is not common.
ماكينات طباعة 
معدات طباعة ، مستلزمات طباعة
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
لدينا افضل ماكينات الطباعة ومعدات الطباعة ، ومستلزمات الطباعة .. استعمال خارج .. استعمال اوروبى .
Not saying I necessary agree with the arguments. That said:

1. Never felt unsafe. Only time I've ever felt unsafe in a cab was mainland China which has less (enforced?) regulation.

3. Never happened to me in SF. Happened in Las Vegas (common thing where cab drivers take I-215 from airport to the Strip rather than surface streets); it's very easy to request a complete refund.

4. Public transit, bike, etc. Ensures that those who are really willing to pay for a cab get there quicker due to lower traffic congestion (theoretically - this probably only applies to areas dominated by cabs like Manhattan).
Is it the same side that straps children to the front of armoured troop carriers? You're trying to make this a dichotomic issue when its not. How do you expect Hamas to maintain a truce with Israel when Israel prevents them from acquiring the basic tools necessary to govern!

Why does Israel ban confectionary into Gaza?
From the above comment(from 'philwech') Indians were living in California originally.

Will it be ok, If they drive out existing residents of California?
I don't think Israel accepts that Palestine has a right to exist as an independent state. Does that make them unreasonable?
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I have not played Triple Town but free to play model that generates revenue by asking users to pay for unlocking things is here to stay.

One clear example is, League of Legends. Where you start with set of free champions and you either play or pay to unlock more of them. One can argue that, Valve's TF2 and Dota2 are in similar vein. You of course, don't have to pay to unlock heroes - but you pay to buy cosmetic items (so as you can look cool in-game). So, while you may dislike this model, it looks like it is here to stay.
On Android, at least, it's free to download and play, with limited turns. You can buy unlimited turns in-app for a one-time payment of $3.99, which also unlocks more maps. Additionally, there are various enhancements and powerups you can buy for coins, which you can either purchase directly in-app or complete various offers to get for "free". I believe the game also rewards you coins for doing well.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spryfox.tr...

Personally, I am turned off by games where your experience and success is influenced by how much real-world money you are willing to spend. Naturally, there are people for whom this is not an issue, and I'm sure it's extremely lucrative to target them. But I want to believe that there is room in the indy gaming market for both approaches.
This unfortunately feels exactly the same as signing up for any other merchant facility. The API might be great, with with wrappers such as ActiveMerchant for Ruby, is that really such a big deal anymore?

No clear pricing, loads of info required to signup, monthly + transaction costs + merchant service fee, and a seemingly apparent affiliation with NAB's multi-currency merchant account.

How is this different from getting eWay, NAB and Chargify? You mention three points, integration, PCI and Support.

I've touched on integration already (ActiveMerchant). PCI - Chargify handles this (as does eWay using the token system).

So really the main point of difference is Support (and perhaps pricing, but can't be sure since it isn't transparent).
DoD's Bold Initiative: Secure The User, Not The Device
Perhaps this paragraph from a 2010 CNET article says something:

Because Glitch is a thinking-person's social game, Tiny Speck is not aimed at the entire world, at least not at first, especially not teens eager for the next World of Warcraft. Instead, Butterfield admitted, "There's not a better way to say [who we're targeting] than people with above average intelligence and sophisticated tastes, in their 20s or early 30s...The intersection of NPR listeners and game players."
Worth noting that this isn't limited to Windows - for a long time, Linux was specifically checking whether a CPU was an Intel before using the ACPI fixed function hardware interface for CPU scaling. To be fair, that's partially because the spec actually says that this interface is CPU vendor-defined, but it's probably reasonable to give the benefit of the doubt when they're setting the same cpuid flag. There's a lot of ways to screw up compatibility.
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> Interesting that almost none of these devices are shipped with Google Account integration.

More interesting (for Google) is that 90% of Chinese people don't buy Windows and iOS phones.

Opensource at its finest and opensource as a defence weapon at the same time.