skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In order for Intel to be a successful business, they need to sell to every level of the processor market. They need a chip at the 700MHz tier, a chip at the 3.5GHz tier, and dozens of tiers in between. It's expected. It's necessary.

It is absolutely infeasible for them to design and manufacture individual chips at every one of those tiers. They cannot set aside entire factories and supply lines for every level of consumer need. If they were to do so, the price of 700MHz chip would start at $300+, and only go up from there. That's the nature of the economy of CPU design and manufacturing.

Now, instead of doing that, they only design four or five chips, each at the top end of their respective tier, and build into each of those chips a means of "hobbling" them to fill the dozens of tiers in between. This allows them to spread the total cost of the chip across several segments of the market, particularly into those segments that would otherwise be unable to afford to purchase a chip at all.

This does not mean they put additional effort into hobbling those chips, it means they saved a great deal of effort by not explicitly designing and manufacturing a chip that would otherwise fill that specific niche.

What you're asking for is that they only offer chips that include features X, Y, and Z. Those chips cost $600, and there are no other options, because it would not be cost-effective for them to design a chip that only included features X and Y.
Or, in reality, they are NOT subsidizing the cheaper seats... they simply mean that the cheap seats generate 10% profit, and the more expensive seats generate 110% profit. No subsidizing necessary. There's a big difference between subsidies, and product classification. In subsidizing, something is being sold at less than actual cost, in classification, some products make more money.
True. What I meant was a document that exposes all functionality of the network resource using hypermedia. I did not think that all responses had follow HATEOAS.) Some response should be OK returning partial data or limited functionality as long as something discoverable is explicit and comprehensive.
How to Collect a Customer's Contact Info - Without Pissing Them Off
I was with ThePlanet for many years before the merger with SoftLayer. Up to that point they were very reasonably priced and offered great service. After the merge the prices nearly doubled and when re-negotiating my contract they basically gave me the impression I'm not a worthy customer due to the prices I was used to. They're after enterprise clients now and this acquisition just furthers that goal. As a small business owner I'm happy to be out and won't be returning to this company again.
There's a trojan app for that.
So, spammers then.
Android app functions as digital trashcan, can even retrieve discarded videos
If it's anything like San Francisco, once word spreads that a gaming company is shuttering, there's pretty much a "land grab" from the other local companies for talent.
It's called base load, a rather important concept in scaling to demand, much the same as the power industry.
For everyone else reading, you should look here:

ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/83R/billtext/html/senate_bills/SB01600_SB01699/SB01659I.htm
ftp://ftp.legis.state.tx.us/bills/83R/billtext/html/house_bills/HB03300_HB03399/HB03351I.htm

The above are linked from here:

http://www.teslamotors.com/advocacy_texas

I believe the issue bob13579 is bringing up (in the least helpful and most aggravating way possible) is that these bills effectively single out Tesla. Read the amendment in section 1. I think it means that the exclusion would only apply to electric- or battery-only car manufacturers doing business in Texas on or before 3/1/2013. This is surely only Tesla.

My opinion is that the existing law should not exist. But it does, and (again, my opinion) if this bill had 'done the right thing' and tried to remove the protection for all dealers, it would have received even less consideration.

Is this protectionism something that can be tested for constitutionality in the courts? Has it been already? It seems like the sort of thing that ought to get litigated.
Only the former. If it wasn't for government ads and Autotrader (owned by the parent group) it would have folded long ago.
A real gift for all fans of puzzle games Da Vinci 2: Renaissance..
Oh look, another badly written, anecdotal piece on NDEs. Without sources.
While we're dispelling SSL myths, let me add the reminder that SSL does encrypt the URL and querystring and HTTP headers. It doesn't look like it in browsers because they still show the URL cleartext onscreen, but over the wire all of that is indeed inside the encryption envelope. Only the destination IP address isn't encrypted.
That's assuming, of course, that Virginia is at all representative of the US as a whole. The median execution rate by state is about 1 per million residents since 1976. Texas's, while not the highest, is almost 1 per 50,000 residents. Its not the worst, but its still something of an outlier.

The worst, incidentally, is Oklahoma, at about 1 per 40,000 residents.
I've tried Raspbmc and ran into all kinds of weird problems. As a result I installed Raspbian, added XBMC myself and have been happy ever since.
I was surprised to hear 3000 people were making those Zynga games. Doing what exactly? Pls I'm genuinely curious.

These social games seems so lame to me that I can't think of any reason why someone will even think of building a public company on top of it. You simply cannot meet investors' quarterly demand when your success is built on being "flavour of the month" business model.

I don't have anything wrong against Zynga or its founder and so I don't wish them failure but this should have come as a common sense that they should have stayed private and stayed lean (both in taking VC funding and the number of employees)
> When it becomes commerce, that's when the government steps in.

You call yourself a 'libertarian'?
You'd be surprised at how many startups are hiring in NYC: http://nytm.org/made-in-nyc
Because social programs get their money from coercion

Language matters, and the verb 'coercion' in this context, to me, is actually repugnent.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion):

"Coercion /koʊˈɜrʃən/ is the practice of forcing another party to act in an involuntary manner (whether through action or inaction) by use of threats or intimidation or some other form of pressure or force,"

I don't see taxes (and I pay a fairly significant share) as our evil government squeezing out our hard earned cash by threatening, or intimidating us.

Quite the opposite: taxes are our entrance fees to a civilized society, to a working infrastructure, to good and fair education and to umpteen other things that make up a society.

You may argue how the public money is spent and how much of it should go into social programs and how deeply the state should get involved. Interesstingly, more equal societies, like the Nordics, seem to provide generally a higher quality of life for their citizens.

You can see taxes as a necessary evil, or hate them, but defining taxation as coercion is pretty loaded and rather close to Orwellian newspeak.
Don't forget Leaders!

In Manager -> Leader in the HR context and then the Leader -> Champion in the project management context.
It's pretty trivial to work your way into the community. Botherders and most small-time blackhats are incredibly gullible and egocentric.

Here is some forum history: http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/showthread.php?t=177743
Imagine you honestly believe in intelligent design. You probably know most people believe the opposite, so when you encounter poll designed by people you don't know you assume they believe evolution theory is true...

That's a poor example that demonstrates your own ignorance about the USA as a whole.

In the USA more people believe in creationism (God created everything 6000 years ago) than intelligent design. And far more people believe in intelligent design than evolution.

See http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-huma... for the numbers. It is worth noting that belief in evolution is within a factor of two of belief that Obama is a Muslim (about 20%) and belief that Elvis is still alive (around 7%).
> That's media types. I was referring to content-type, the HTTP header. You obviously need to support some media type, otherwise how would you represent a resource? But you don't need to support the Content-Type header to have HATEOAS.

If you are doing a REST architecture with a protocol other than HTTP, sure.

But since the Content-Type header is the mechanism by which HTTP communicates media types, and since in-band, rather than out-of-band, communication of resource locations and media types is essential to HATEOAS, the Content-Type header is a pretty important mechanism in HATEOAS when using HTTP.
Hmm, up till now I though Go wasn't anything special, but now I'm certain I will check it out.
Buy land on Moon?
This word "because" isn't as easy to use as you think.

You seem to be very sure of the exact reason why something happened. But it doesn't work that way in the real world.

Virtually every country on earth had reductions in infant mortality over the years. Only one of them had a box. Clearly the main driver of the improvement is something else.

So you might want to talk about the tiny differences, those things that improved one country more than another. Maybe the box? But see, you've lost all your certainty now, and you can't use the word "because", since you don't really know what improved things - after all the main improvement came from somewhere else entirely.

3rd try: Let's pick something in each country, and declare that thing the "cause" of the improvement! In Finland: A box. In Sweden? Something else.

This is what you did - you have no idea what really did it, you are just picking basically random things.
I wonder if they could get around the "no test drives" rule by opening a "Tesla Car Rental" chain, where you can rent a Tesla for a day. This way they are neither selling nor testing cars, but people who are interested would be able to try it out.
Thus the problem with framing the discussion around patent "trolls" rather than patents themselves.
Why Amazon just splurged on Dora, SpongeBob, and Blue
Nice, go Denver!

I kinda wonder if that's mostly Boulder though, seems like most of the startup action is in Boulder (TechStars is there, of course).
If they were to do it from scratch? Sure!

But once the system is in place, it isn't in their interests to rock the boat.
Seems like Google and Amazon may not be interested in capturing the entire cloud market? I get the feeling that they offer these services to offset the cost of their data centers/operations.
As far as I remember Paxo is no dummy, so this looks like a superficial fluff piece to fill time on a slow news day.

What would have been more insightful would be for them to talk about the commodification of the self and how various aspects of personal life are, or will be with the aid of new technology, increasingly commercialised and turned into some kind of property in a manner which they weren't previously. So for example I doubt that whatever companies are selling AR systems in future will be able to resist the temptation to "harvest" and sell personality or health metrics to any other organisations which might want to buy.
It still does not make it an OS API, it is the C runtime library which is quite different even if bundled with the OS.
The Right to Believe
Tesla's ~$1.8BN on Product VS Ford's $16BN on Marketing
Wow. I thought Zynga just shut down its other studios to focus on mobile. Now they shut down one of their mobile studios?
That's quite weird. It would be really awesome if you could open your developer console when this happens (cmd + alt + j) and then copy what it says and send it to bugs@skycraft.io :)
It's not even twitter bootstrap anymore, just bootstrap.
I never understood this acquisition in the first place. I was surprised to learn that OMGPOP actually did produce more than one game[1], but I had previously only heard of Draw Something, which my wife and her facebook chums had already grown bored of by the time Zynga came knocking last year.

Forgive my naivety, but don't these things have to get past a board of shareholders with a public company like Zynga? This isn't just a hindsight-is-20/20 kind of thing; IIRC the general consensus at the time was that it was a risky, ill-advised acquisition for a potential one-hit-wonder company.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_on_Omgpop
Texas has been a magnet for data centers for years.
And whilst we're still here... SNI and SSL.

Thanks to Internet Explorer, and the early versions of the stock browser on Android, you will need a unique IPv4 address for your SSL endpoint.

You cannot safely serve multiple SSL sites on the same IP.✝

Basically: The hostname is also encrypted, so the SSL requests on some browsers require a unique IPv4 address. Your provider will give you one if you say the magic word "SSL" to them.

✝There are ways for most browsers, but not for IE and early Android browsers. Thankfully mobile device churn will cure us of the Android issue, but the affected IE versions will take longer to die.
I want to know what kind of thought process goes on company/individual's mind when they decide to do an acquisition like this, for $200M, which doesn't make enough money to justify it.

You would think when you are throwing around that kind of money, they would do some rudimentary research?

How much money was omgpop making at the time of the acquisition?
So do some parts of the US. Ethnic subgroups of the US with similar ethnicity to Singapore also rank quite well.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...
Probably not on demand. Some would have already been looking. Some people never stop scanning the employment horizon either because the bore easily, as a safety net, or in case something higher paid wafts past. Others will have found something during their notice periods. Some of the best may even have been head-hunted by people who know (or know of) them or their work and not had to look at all.
Obama moves to curb software patent lawsuits
Now bootstrap is important, yesterday it was the 360 grid, tomorrow it'll be another hype bandwagon.

First, Bootstrap did not standardize anything. It's a biased perspective to think so : most websites and most developpers don't even know about bootstrap. And those who know about it do not necessarily agree with it (per exemple I hate their JS coding style.)

Second, the myth about "changing your design without touching HTML". Sure, there're some cases where it's possible, but by experience it won't happen. Never. Sadly (or not), a redesign is always coupled with some HTML changes. Bootstrap does not change anything.

So, I think Bootstrap is far less important than, say, Wordpress was. It's a cool tool, useful for a "design dumb" like me to pull a quick demo without a true designer, but in the end it makes boring websites with boring code. It's also a overhyped tool, which won't survive (along with the whole stupid OOCSS thing.)
How Brilliant Computer Scientists Solved The Bermuda Triangle Mystery
I bet all the execs got well paid for their terrible efforts though and they will slide into new positions of power regardless of their merit. We need to take our industry back from the leeches. The near-sighted execs with nothing but paper accolades and networks of cronies.
Perhaps a comment on the original article rather than this response article, but by "beating Wall Street", you're not just beating Goldman et al., you're (for a large part) beating the pension funds that hard working citizens put their savings in. Sure, you have the right to play Robin Hood, but the author has to realize it is not just mindless corporations he is taking money from.
They don't necessarily even need to make a phone call. Once I heard the news I sent emails to about 10 lead/senior developers.
Wut? This is, umm, complete and totally false. Where do people come up with this crap?
I always thought Goo could be a name that sticks.
What are the pros and cons of a phase-based development process?
That's one of the most mixed metaphors of all time. Congratulations.
Right, why even bother trying to make change in the first place?
> Intel can afford to do this simply because they don't face enough competition.

The fact that there will soon be more ARM chips deployed for daily use in the world than Intel ones (if not already) stands in pretty stark contrast to this statement.
I am curious too, they can't fix a game in 6 days when it breaks.....
The games they deliver are full of bugs and inconveniences (ie. game with quests; each new quests is automatically accepted, and there is a limited amount of quests that can be open, and you cant cancel quests)

This is not an entertainment company.
Start your own company then and set an example instead of criticizing others.

Edit: Thanks for all the upvotes/support. To those who see this as legitimate criticism, really? The OP elaborated on nothing - no constructive criticisms were made. Instead, it just sounds like pure anger and naïveté on my end, alluding to all entrepreneurs trying to make it/who have made it as "leeches" and "near-sighted execs" that have "networks of cronies." Stay classy.
Hacking has existed since before the internet was invented. In general you want to do a lot of reading on TCP/IP, operating systems and programming languages. There are literally tons of whitepapers about security.

Blackhat communities are either very private or full of script kiddies.

You can follow subs like this to learn more http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/
Let's turn that around 180 degrees - without statistical controls how can you decide that a box did it?

You have no idea, you just like the box so you declare "the box is the king". It sounds good - the box has something to do with babies after all, so let's assign all the improvement to the box.

Sounds ridiculous doesn't it?

If you want to say "I have no idea whatsoever what caused the improvement", then I'll grant you your statistical rebuttal. But if you want to say "The box did it", then your statistical rebuttal is disingenuous.
I think it'll also prove useful for companies wanting to make acquisitions or poach employees, journalists, and as sales leads when companies reach different growth stages and require new/more tools and services.

The mailing list will be worth something too.
I appreciate the correction. It only felt like 100 days straight. That's what I get trying to go from memory.
I just dropped out of school a week ago. I prefer doing things. I'd find myself dozing off in class learning material that hasn't been altered since the 90's, taught by a guy who can just barely scrape some English together that was born in China, raised in India, studied in Glasgow, and lived in Russia. That, combined with the absolute lack of spirit of every single student in my program, the lack of females, the lack of care.

I'd find myself coming home, ditching all of this pointless schoolwork and working on my own projects every day, all day for hours upon hours.

About your second paragraph, I was the same. Tried to do everything perfectly. Worked out to get that body, cared about looks, falsely socialized under the pretense of "networking", went to gatherings, ceremonies, parties, get togethers, did all of my school work and more. Studied, made friends with profs, offered extra help. The whole 9 yards a perfect student would take... None of that truly mattered. In the end, what did I develop, what did I do? Nothing. What should I have done? Sat down and immersed myself.

Realizing that I just wasted 3 years of my life in combination with releasing the burden of that previous life along with all of its strings.... is the most liberating feeling on earth.

I don't believe school is a good system for us entrepreneurs, or even CS majors and engineers in general to be honest. The way I see developers, is we are the trades workers of the internet world. I see jobs such as database management, development, server administrations, as the "trades" of the internet.

You don't need school to learn unless you are extremely passionate about your curriculum, your school, your program, and have a final goal you want to attain. The majority of students I've dealt with have no idea what they want to do, are only in school to get "a job", and are generally miserable.

I've run into so many grades in such specialized programs that really don't know anything. They know a bit, but not remotely enough to be a good candidate for any specialized task.

tl;dr - School kills passion and time. You're much better off studying yourself and immersing yourself in something you absolutely love. Sorry if this was a bit ranty but it felt good to type.
Replay attacks are always gonna be possible unless you use a one time token or signature, thems the break's..., unless you wish to get into the something you have and something you know model.
How can you do a use once token making concurrent requests without a strong authentication mechanism client side such as issuing private keys to clients....and all the PKI admin overhead.
I think its safe to say, that a restful api should be stateless, and bottlenecks such as session state are not necessary.
Here comes another bubble (music video)
That's only true in a language with type inference and type aliases.

In Java, generics make your code completely unreadable, as content is buried in boilerplate.
Map<Converter<Comment,Post>,ReadyState<CommentEnum> ops;
for (Entry<Converter<Comment,Post>,ReadyState<CommentEnum> e: ops.entrySet()) { ...

In Go, generics would be an unqualified win for the author/reader. No one disputes that. The only dispute is over the compiler and runtime costs.
There's also many other companies not on that list too. If you're a smart engineer in NYC who wants a new job, if you really want to, you could totally play offer letter Pokemon on a pretty short time scale. ("Gotta collect em all!")

Psa: if you're a smart engineer in NYC and you're not being paid market rate, please get a new job now, your equity has a median value of zero anyways. The lowest I've seen a smart junior engineer take at a non startup was 90k, and that depressed salary is sortah compensated by the mentoring learning opportunities at that organization.
Best Practices for Scraping/Data Mining and interpreting?
Would be interested in hearing various ways people scrape content from sites, mainly in real time ie: social media sites, etc.

Of equal interest would be data mining methods and ways to sort and interpret mined or scraped data from real-time sources.

Any examples, articles, and instructionals are welcomed!
One side effect of Bootstrap (from having some experience with it) is that I can almost instantly tell which site is using bootstrap.

I am not sure if its a good thing if more sites starts to look very similar or have similar design elements.
All your arguments divolve into this one statement: I know its awful, but we need to do the right thing.

The world does not work that way. You can not put off inventing transport just because you have not invented teleportation yet. Things work in small steps.
The Time For A Stateless Global Reserve Currency Is Fast Approaching
It's old, but I never came across it before. Truly funny.
Raw memory, pointers, flat buffers exist in almost every systems program language, even strong typed ones.

My point was that what many developers think what are C features for systems programming, are in fact language extensions that most vendors happen to implement.

In this regard, the language is no better than any other that also requires extensions for the same purposes.
That developer who opted out is looking like a genius right now.
Surveillance malware targets 350 high profile victims in 40 countries
Criticism is extremely important for any cos. and its executives. Criticism can potentially save any Zynga from sliding away to nothingness ...
White House Task Force on High-Tech Patent Issues
It's almost as if you replied to the wrong comment.