skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, but the Snapdragon has 1MB of Cache, while the Xeon has 20MB of Cache. Furthermore, the Xeon actually has a multi-socket connector... so two Xeons can talk to each other at a rate of 25.6 GB/s through QPI (QuickPath Interconnect).

So my bet on memory is that Xeon wins that too.

On the multi-processor communications issue... I doubt that the Snapdragon would have PCIe connections... let alone a high-bandwidth low-latency connection like the Xeon's QPI.

There's a reason why supercomputers stick with Intel or AMD. They've got the processor power, the performance per watts, and I/O girth to communicate to other processors. A small embedded chip (like Snapdragon), just doesn't have the features to make a supercomputer out of.
But that's for them to decide. You as the candidate have one directive, and an interrupt.

If you want the job, do whatever it is you think you will impress the employer, unless whatever that would take convinces you you don't want the job.
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Some of these criticisms are utterly stupid:

> * Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.

Without a mention of how much work these people do on terrorism, it's meaningless. Homeland security is a cross-cutting concern. So Excelon in Illinois might have a program in place to harden their nuclear power plants against potential terrorist attack. Should they be counted as part of this "hidden world" "growing beyond control?"

> * An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.

There are a ton of reasons to have top-secret security clearances that have nothing to do with counterterrorism or intelligence gathering. Anyone doing sensitive military research, for example, will often have a top secret clearance.

> * Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and waste. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S. cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks.

Again, homeland security is a cross-cutting concern.

> * Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year - a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.

50,000 intelligence reports in a year is 136 per day, in a country of 300 million people.
> It used to be that employers trained less skilled individuals and there was more incentive to stay with employers for a long time. Now there is very little loyalty between employees or employers. I think this is a significant part of the problem.

Uh, I dono about the whole staying long time thing, but employers do train, or at least hire unqualified people they expect to grow into the position.

Especially low-budget web startups... yeah, they talk about "rockstar ninja" this and that, but who do you think they actually get, when they are paying below market rates?

I mean, I'm not criticizing; some people really respond to "non-monetary compensation" - and that's what the rockstar ninja bullshit is.

I hire from the same pool, really; but I'm all apologetic about paying you shit. Who would you rather work for? me, saying "Hey, sorry I'm paying you shit. but hey, the last guy who had the job got a really good job with $realcompany after two years." - or some startup, that says you are an awesome best in the world rockstar ninja, and you aren't getting much money, but you have equity in this startup that will change the world!"

I mean, it's really the same thing, just framed in different ways. And most people? they like the rockstar ninja framing.
If you're on a system where the write times are several orders of magnitude larger than the read times, then I'd say those qualify as unsortable. Or at least unintelligently sortable.
This page: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_spdy_module.html says that the module is experimental. Is that accurate, or have they just not updated it once nginx stable was released?
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Nike "Boston Massacre" shirts
Maybe. If.

If he said exactly that. And, if he meant exactly that. And, If there's no other context. And if...

But, Phil seems to be unsynched with himself. On one hand he accuses Mr. Sherman of literally not understanding margins. On the other hand he clearly implies that Mr. Sherman deliberately avoided talk of margins/profits in a company meeting because he was a "master marketer" who "led a management meeting that focused on an awesome feel good marketing plan."

So, by that, he is clearly indicating that he thought Mr. Sherman understood margins well. So well that he was deft enough to avoid speaking of them; instead using his "master marketer" skills to somehow mislead management and divert their attention away from margins.

Completely contradicts the notion that he didn't know what margins were.

And why on earth is Phil speculating about one side of phone conversations that he overheard? That's not his place (as a controller), and it's amateurish at best.

There are some "interesting" statements being thrown around in the article. They seem to be gossipy, reckless and, at best, inconsistent.
Speaking only for myself, I want a few different things out of a service like this.

For one, I want an article fingerprinting technology. One that can tell that multiple different sites are talking about the same original post, and not really saying anything that is materially different. Maybe they all just cut-n-paste (which something like Churnalism would hopefully address), but I also want to catch the sites that add a little unique content to an article, but not enough to make a real difference. Link analysis would have to be factored into this, based on the full expanded URLs -- Sometimes there are new articles that come out with additional information on a topic that has previously been discussed, and I wouldn't want to miss those.

Second, once you have the fingerprint for each article from each site, you need a fuzzy way to compare them for uniqueness -- I want to do a "sort -u" on all news articles, based on the fingerprint.

Third, I need a way to tweak the scores and settings, so that articles from a high quality site like Ars Technica gets rated better than a lower-quality site. Of course, a certain amount of automation can be used here to generate default scores and settings, but I may have a different idea of exactly what scores and settings I want to use as compared to someone else.

I do like the idea of taking input from sites like HN as an additional variable for the positive or negative weighting of a news story (or a particular news site), if the article in question is one that has recently been discussed there.

Of course, you also need the concept of pluggable modules, so that when the next new thing comes out (like Churnalism), it can be quickly and easily added to the mix.

I don't suppose this sounds remotely familiar to anyone? I've got a bunch of feeds that I watch, but there's a lot of duplication and I would dearly love to be able to filter out that chaff while still allowing through the occasional unique article from those sites that usually just jump on the bandwagon long after the horses have escaped the barn.

Thanks!
TV 3.0: The YouTube Age
How is the scrolling broken?
There are other P2P networks that can give you files based on a hash of their content, for example ED2K and Kademlia. I think even Gnutella supports hash-based retrieval.

BitTorrent clients now have distributed hash tables accessible; it would be nice if magnet URLs could just point to a hash of the file, instead of to a specific torrent.

Bonus: Even ED2K links point to a tree of hashes, so you can verify the data while it is being downloaded.
OK, I'm sold.
Also I forgot: the aforementioned company also was a physical goods company. Warehouses full of stuff, etc. There was an intense pressure to get rid of the inventory as quickly as possible (inventory turns) because most of the items were subject to "spoilage" or obsolescence.

Yes, negative margins are bad, but they're a whole lot better than not selling the item at all (recovery). Inventory isn't as liquid as cash, and you can't use the excess inventory to pay salaries. There can be a real view of needing to liquidate just to get some cash to buy more inventory.

If you're not careful, however, you can easily get into the mindset "we'll take a loss on this batch, but we'll make it up next time" - and next time is no different.

Although folks are claiming the CEO didn't understand basic math I wonder if the problem was much more complex and nuanced. Haven't we all pulled an all-nighter to get a project "done" even though we knew that it would be buggy, and it would've been better to get good rest and merely admit to missing a deadline? I'm not excusing his alleged behavior, just suggesting that folks here might empathize a bit more.
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Apple Store assets are currently broken
In terms of the article posted yesterday[1], you want to pay them as little as possible. Keep them hungry instead of fat and happy.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5589867
How do you even file taxes without preparing a balance sheet? Even if you're accruing a loss (especially if you're accruing a loss), you file taxes.
MtGox explanation of recent events related to DDoS
>>>> And when the police come by and ask you if you made the picks, you lie

Right here you're screwed, regardless of the rest. Making false statement to a government agent is a crime of itself, regardless what this statement is about. You could say "I'm not talking to you" or "Fifth amendment, to the rescue!" but if you lie, they can knit a nice prison sentence out of it.
What about diversity of extra-curriculars? I don't know how it breaks down, but maybe they felt they had enough Asians (or anybody) who play the piano. Maybe you got in because they didn't have that many people who swam as an extra-curricular.
I've came to the same conclusion, and I figure that if I (well we) don't start making cool practical things then no one ever will.

Of course, you do know that the Arc language is racket code right? The site you are on is using racket ;)
Related: "Unknown or expired link."
vimcasts.org and usevim.com are great resources.
That only makes sense unless you take into account how people are living in Singapore. 5 people to an apartment is not an exception there. Couples that don't have the money and have to share the SAME ROOM with other people is not rare. Just imagine building a future with someone you care about, or having a child, or just even finding someone at all in that environment.

I for one would consider it a very positive trait of a city to NOT be like Singapore. I do not want to live like that, and when prices hit a certain level you have no choice left.

"most immigrants are not unskilled, minimum wage workers" - I can only respond with "visit Brussels". They have a very positive trait - they're much more likely to start a business (though almost always either an eatery or a food store). Enough is enough though. After a certain amount of stores - everything just starts to fail, and everyone moves to welfare. And yes, a small amount of immigrants is definitely enriching. The way it is happening in Brussels it brings zero diversity (there's only 99% morrocan, 99% turkish, 99% dutch 99% french quarters with zero interaction between them - aside from crime. Kids go to separate schools, and in the few cases they do go to similar schools - they still don't interact - everyone knows why but it's politically incorrect - it's violence-enforced racism by a particular non-white religious group, although ethnicity also plays). The way it is now, immigration in Brussels is nothing but a massive drag on a city that just can't take it. I heard about one study claiming that the average economic benefit for the EU of one immigrant is about MINUS 10k euros per year. I think that's probably pretty accurate.
How to make hard things easy
Oh my god. What clown couldn't get personally rich with that setup?
The term African-American is just out-and-out silly. I've seen American media refer to a black British model who worked in France as 'African-American' - despite her being neither African nor American. Born in England, but labelled American because of her skin. Isn't that an own-goal?
Why does ethnicity play a role in the USA in 2013? Is someone born here to parents who came from Asia considered "Asian"? Because he/she looks Asian? And what if he/she is 4th generation in the USA and looks Asian, is that considered Asian?

This is baffling.
Rethinking Inbound Tax Planning for Latin American Moving to the U.S.
Coincidentally, I just discovered today that you can also do a forward-delete on a Mac laptop keyboard by hitting Fn+Delete. Very useful for e.g. sending a ⌘⌦ (Ctrl-Alt-Del) to a VirtualBox VM.
That's not what "big hit" means. The name for that is "highly profitable".
We do live in America, so your actual ethnicity matters, but not as much as what people think you are on first glance (i.e. police, interviewers, etc).

Race is something that affects people's lives in the real world, beyond boxes on applications. This argument is becoming a little academic.
You're right, some of the criticisms don't make much sense.

But we're going to hear a lot more like this now we know that intelligence was aware of the alleged boston bomber at least a year ago.
I wonder how many items a large newspaper publishes in a typical year? Probably a lot; some of them are short and trivial, not everyone reads everything, they focus on topics that are interesting to them. Seems like the same might apply to intelligence reports.

Edit: To answer my own question, it looks like in the past 365 days the New York Times published over 200,000 articles

http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/*/365days/artic...

If you include blog posts as well it is over 400,000 so by comparison 50k doesn't seem outrageous.
It depends on the context. When combined with other subjective pronouns to form the subject of a verb, "I" is correct (as in "You and I are commenting on this topic"). However, when combined with other objective pronouns to form the object of a verb/preposition, you should use "me" (as in "Others are commenting on this topic along with you and me").[1]

[1] http://oxforddictionaries.com/us/words/i-or-me
I started a doc to document startup leadership best practices
Bing.com is down?
When I go to Bing.com I get what google.com tells me is a bing screen of death. The page is simple text reading:

Ref A: b48b18a249b14025a4edad3719d979b9 Ref B: 6060C8B95F62AEE561B06D46620D5CDD Ref C: Wed Apr 24 20:19:56 2013 PST
> I remember when Amazon.com paid workers in a Seattle high rise to call mom-and-pop book stores in search of a $8 out of print book that had been ordered on the website.

I don't think that one is absurd. Sure, if their business model involves significant selling of cheap out-of-print books, that's not going to fly, but it's my understanding (would be thrilled if any industry insiders reaffirmed or corrected) that overwhelming majority of book sales aren't out-of-print books, and knowing Amazon'll do that kind of thing was good advertising. Like a loss-leader.
Works fine for me here in CA.
But they always say that kind of stuff afterwards. How is this time any different?
Thank you for that. I really appreciate the insight. I think in my mental "simulation" of this type of business I anticipated most of the issues you mention, but I'm sure there are tons of other details you've run into on a daily basis.

Playing around with Thumbtack it's really cool how the taxonomy is sort of intelligent and fluid so if you type in SEO you will get digital marketers or if you misspell "babysighting" you still get babysitters in your area. And then the quote request forms are customized for each and every service type. I'm sure this alone involved a TON of work and experimentation.
Some busses have been running on this kind of wiring in cities for ages.
There is Acme for Plan9 [1] and it has inspired a few other editors. I don't use them myself because they don't have syntax highlighting.

[1]: demo at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M
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Anecdotally, Computer Engineering degrees have a bad rep with HR and hiring managers. The degrees seem to cover too little EE to do hardware work and too little CS to do software work.

I agree about the crisis in training and mentorship. A lot of people who seem like weak candidates are really just lacking in experience and direction.
ARM does have promise though, its just not in Snapdragons. As noted, the primary issue in Supercomputers is bandwidth (so that the processors can talk to each other).

Calxeda for example has spent a lot of time trying to solve this interconnect issue. Each Calxeda card is composed of 4 CPUs. Every CPU has 8 10Gb (aka: 1GB) ethernet links, 2 8xPCI connections and more.

Its a relatively young project, but they're moving towards the right direction. There are rumors that Facebook is deploying a Calxeda server.
I've experienced many self-proclaimed agile teams and lean startups. While there are many approaches for development and business functions, there are few to none for organizations and team management.

I have no grounds to say that I know the best practices, but I wanted to start the conversation with this document and see where the community takes it!
There is a shortage of technical specialists in computer programming. It seems that companies are reluctant to train local workers. Startups like to show growth by listing jobs, but they only want "rock stars" so the positions sit unfilled. This saves on labor costs and signals a growing business. It gives an artificial view of the job market however.
Agree with this 100%. This and Veronica Mars are totally changing the dynamic of how indies are funded. Studios are fuming right now.
Is that because the job market is so tight, or because they're not paying enough for the level of talent they want, relative to alternatives like Wall Street and other major tech companies?

Microsoft used to be able to pay market (for tech) but get all-stars because of their name and the perceived quality of their stock. Now that they don't have that kind of brand, those same people are going to places like Google, Apple, Facebook or [insert hot startup] instead.
This issue is pretty close to my heart because I'm a high school senior this year. I'm also Asian, play an instrument, have perfect SAT scores, and applied for a STEM major (well, half STEM).

I was also rejected/waitlisted from every one of my top choices.

To be honest, I'm not really sure now to respond to this article. From the point of view of a student applying to college, these "discriminations" exist pretty universally, and not just to Asians. The notion that race, gender, wealth, etc play a role in college decisions is very widespread among my classmates and peers at other schools. I don't view it as particularly bad, though, even if these colleges will never publicly admit such a thing.

College is not a completely merit based system. I think that we all like to believe that it is, but colleges also have duties outside of admitting the best students. They have to keep their alumni happy, somehow obtain outside funding, keep its population diverse enough (this is ambiguous and controversial, but I think it's a legitimate concern). Most importantly, a college also has the duty to improve society, and that's where a system like Affirmative Action comes into play. It's not perfect, but it does allow for a great deal of social mobility where society would otherwise resemble something like plutocracy. After all these considerations, there's only a fraction of each year's class that they have for purely "merit" based acceptances. And at the level that these elite colleges are at, it's almost impossible to differentiate between candidates. So this small group of accepted students is essentially random (or I like to tell myself).

There was a quote by a Yale admissions officer who lamented that he could've filled 3 identical classes with students on the waitlist.

Perhaps I'm naive, but I think that one of the benefits of our society, especially in the entrepreneurial community, is that success is ultimately the result of hard work and talent. College is not the end-all and certainly not the determinant of your future.
I thought it was short for "This [is something I think people should pay attention to]."
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This Is the Set-Top Box Amazon Should Make
Isn't this Emacs? I love Emacs but it's not exactly an IDE out of the box--and it took me a while to figure out that it's pretty much a DIY IDE. The (relatively) recent addition of a built-in package manager goes a long way in making it easier to set up IDE-like functionality though.
Yes but students pay for going to Stanford they're not paid to go. For this program to replace college someone has to pay for the fellowships. Hence not scalable. Money flows to student in one and away from student on other, no?
I'll put it to you this way: I'm of Western European descent, England and Germany. Still, no way do I want
the US Federal Government to flood US STEM classes with
students from England and Germany. This view is not racism.

Here is one thing it really is: The US is getting badly
hurt in the world economy. The real unemployment rate is
ballpark 20%. The US is creating boom times in several
other countries.

Well, one way for the US to help itself is for the US to
continue to have a great college and university system and, then, keep those educations for US citizens. That is,
US citizens are paying for those institutions and, thus, should be able to 'keep' the 'intellectual property' and
other advantages inside the US. So, it is now strongly
in the interest of US citizens to move not to let any
foreign students in US colleges or universities.

It is in the interest of US tax payers to pay to
educate the US but not the world that wants to
compete with the US economy.
It's hard enough to find qualified devs out of the pool of folks with CS degrees, which often fail to prepare students for the workplace. CE is possibly at a disadvantage because in covering two disciplines, it doesn't serve either particularly well; there aren't as many jobs where that kind of mixed software/hardware expertise is crucial. It's kind of a jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none problem, at least in terms of perception.
It's not so much switching to something qualitatively better than to something with a somewhat different style.

For example, Apache is chock full of modules with a certain richness to them, they do everything and everything you could possibly think of, with a verbose configuration that usually comes filled with "defaults" by the maintainer, and plenty of options to choose between processes and threads; Nginx is "lean and mean", strictly event-based and minimalistic in almost every way, is usually compiled to include just what you need (and still feels un-monolithic despite modules being statically compiled), comes with sensible defaults and is usually bundled with almost no config.

Some rough analogues: Nginx is to Apache what (Varnish, Postfix, Go, Git) is to (Squid, Exim, C++, Subversion).
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"Someone's physicality (Let's move on from just thinking about sports only) can/does have relevance to someone's aptitude for CS, or, their ability to do well."

citation needed.