skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of features of Intel CPUs can be explained by the fact that the Pentium Pro (and basically every Intel CPU after that until I believe Sandy Bridge), uses a basic architecture that supports reading only two input operands for each instruction in a single cycle. CMOV has to read the flags register, the source register, and the old value of the destination register.

See: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.arch/2013-....
A friend of mine had a very similar experience with this company and their C level team. Maybe some public feedback will help them reflect and improve.
Can't wait for that "aha" moment when everything starts making sense! Until now, It's been pretty much me and google. I'm very encouraged by the support from everyone on this site. Thanks you very much!
... or their Kimsufi section http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/kimsufi.xml !
The original version of DES was called Lucifer and used a 128 bit key. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(cipher)

The NSA choose the key size of DES since they were running the process (making DES 256 times weaker than a 64 bit key).
Since when is an advertisement "Hacker News"?

I stopped reading slashdot regularly when this started happening there...
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Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
It really depends on your application. If you're fault tolerant, then it's irrelevant. If even a single random error will throw everything down the drain, then you'll obviously want every precaution.

Most web applications don't need that kind of protection, simply because if the page load screws up, well, the user will just hit refresh and keep going.
It does on page six.
Investment bank ex-employee here. I'm pleasantly surprised that Hacker News front-page has finally landed an article on the history of modern macroeconomics whose author knows what he's talking about instead of masking their ignorance with popular voodoo buzzwords like "Ron Paul" and "Bitcoins".

Ironically but predictably, very few karma points are given. I'm happy to find this little gold nugget and the intellectual satisfaction that comes with reading it.
The website mentions Smart TVs, are only Google TVs supported or something like Samsung?
True, OVH is more expensive, (and their backend is downright primitive comapred to Hetzner's Robot UI), but that transatlantic latency just doesn't work for things like gaming servers. >300ms on a good day won't cut it for TF2.
Git: how to add commits before first (root) commit?
I've done ICPC for the past two years, and will probably get dragged into it this year (small CS program at my school). We don't practice, and usually end up in the top third regionally. Not great. But it's just not worth my time. I get enough algorithms in my coursework, I get enough stress and team action at my job at a startup, I don't care about trophies and the other prizes are weak...why bother?

I might be interested in, say, a 12-hour Rails contest to see who makes the best website in a day. That's actually building things--solving real problems. But that's of course not realistic for most CS students.
Mammouth is a small language that compiles into PHP
The Paperwhite has revitalized my love of reading, lost since childhood. Absolutely. I buy a couple of books a week now. I had the original Kindle 3G, but the Paperwhite is fantastic.
Can you give an example of a country in SE Asia where that sort of commerce is common? I'd have thought that people would opt to use one of the e-commerce platforms, since they provide payment and anti-fraud solutions.
Flag it (if you can, and you think it deserves it), and move on.
Yes, it's only illegal to discriminate against people age 40 or older.
Yes please make my macbook's battery last shorter this way without me wanting it to.
Hey right over here everyone!!!
This is called ageism.

If you write code and you are over 35, you are toast.
Yes even you the "above average coder"...done and done.

Now wait till that immigration bill passes, make 150k? GOOD ___ing BYE.
A big part of these products is the software. You would have to create desktop software to deliver this, and that is not cheap.
Intel has traditionally limited the number of inputs to a uop to 2, although in their more recent microarchitectures with macro-op fusion the fused uops can take 3 inputs. This is a tradeoff in the design of the frontend, since having fewer dependencies per uop simplifies the design and improves area, timing and power.
While I don't consider the notifications to be part of the authentication - I agree, yes, notifications are good.

We're doing something like that at my company as well (its not a bank or anything). If you log from other countries, have too many repeated failed (or even successful) attempts in a time period, etc. you get notified on a dashboard/you can optin for an email (or /and an email that forwards to your SMSes).

then you can decide if/when you want to see it and to notify security if you think there's a problem.
saves a lot of time for the sec team as well which only will manually check when the alerts reach a higher threshold.
The only way to fix email is to make encryption mandatory.
An Ancient Parchment Refuses To Give Up Its Secrets
One of the main threats that people have been worried about recently is global-scale passive attacks by the NSA. We know that they are gathering and retaining vast quantities of data; that they don't consider it illegal to simply gather and retain data without a warrant of any sort, and only actually look at it later once they have a warrant or have a 51% confidence that at least one of the parties in the communication is foreign.

For this threat, most active attacks are not particularly useful. They may capture encrypted data at a different point in transit than the one that originated it, making most side channel attacks difficult or impossible.

But a compromised RNG can be almost impossible to detect, and yet render almost any crypto system trivially breakable offline after the fact. The NSA has already once created a DRBG for which there could be a secret key that could determine the internal state of the generator with only 32 bytes of its output http://www.schneier.com/essay-198.html

I agree that being too wary of your hardware can lead you down a rabbit hole of paranoia, and that on the whole, we have much bigger problems to solve than hypothetical backdoored hardware random number generators (I have not seen any evidence that Intel has included a backdoor, merely people saying that because it's a black box we can't tell that they haven't). But since a good RNG is absolutely essential to so much crypto, and a compromised RNG would make it so easy for an adversary who passively monitors all communications and would like to have the option to decrypt them at their leave at a later date, I think that this is more worth worrying about than problems with the AES instructions.
Slightly more powerful than an "ambient" light. I can lie in my dark bedroom and read with it above my head and not feel eye strain, and not wake my partner.

Agreed, though - the conversion process can make or break things. Some publishers do an astounding job at tweaking, hyperlinking, and the like - others barely do more than you get from some freeware conversion tools.
I work with a few of them actually. I loved college but these guys were cutting their teeth on tech when I was cutting mine on beer pong. All of them are too smart to ever think about a job description like that.
Their behavior sounds terrible, but I'd expect any decent programmer to be able to write a linked list or prime number solver.
Oh man, that's embarrassing!

I should have checked the copywrite, Amazon shows the "publication date" as 2004. If I'm reading it right the intro and 1st chapter were added in 2004.
What if we gave them the benefit of the doubt, and they were posting "no more than 12 years" because they want someone who's seen what happens but not someone who is steeped in it? Someone who is familiar with the problems but hasn't dealt with it so long that they are still naively excited about trying to change it?

For example, if x guy has been doing TPS reports for 12 years,maybe they are figuring that he has already just adjusted to a gotta-do-my-TPS-reports mindset?

just giving some benefit of the doubt
Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
I saw a link here just the last few days (or perhaps Gizmodo, looking now) that showed vastly improved PDF conversion - will edit/share when I find it again.

Edit: PDF4Kindle: http://lifehacker.com/pdf4kindle-converts-pdf-files-to-nativ...
If you write code and you are over 35, you are toast.

In SV, maybe. Hopefully not so much elsewhere or I'm gonna have a hard time paying off my student loans...
systemd upstream flat out said they don't care about != Linux. That is highly unlikely to change.
> In Somalia, for instance, VOA serves as counterprogramming to outlets peddling anti-American or jihadist sentiment. "Somalis have three options for news," the source said, "word of mouth, Al-Shabaab or VOA Somalia."

Wow. Just wow.

As a Somali, living in Somaliland, I'm calling them out. That's a lie.

First of all, the BBC Somali broadcast is far more popular than the VOA. The VOA's Somali broadcast comes out an hour ahead of the BBC and people still wait for the BBC to hear the news.

Secondly, there are other sources of news than word of mouth and Al-Shabab, unless you consider local newspapers, internet news sites, radio station and T.V. stations either word of mouth or outlets of Al-Shabab news.

Makes me want to tell people to not listen to the VOA ever again.
The reason for this is that if you haven't been coding (just managing) for 12+ years...you probably are not "hands-on" enough for a company of our stage.

We have gotten a lot of very smart but "big company" people who had applied for this position.

Sorry for the confusion however, most of our team is actually MUCH holder than the typical start-up: 500friends.com/team. We may be a lot of things but are definitely not ageist.
You and I have different concepts of stock. I'd be amazed if 80% of what's required in practice isn't all boiling down to search & sort. They're baked into damn near everything, either explicitly or by indirect usage.

I don't really know or care which exact elaboration of quicksort that my database engine is using. I'd be unsurprised if there aren't a few that it chooses amongst at plan time. I just say ORDER BY and get on with the rest of my work.

Alternatively I could pull the unordered set and write my own sort. And I'd hope to be committed to an institution for the criminally wasteful for such an act.
Don't "need" a Linux VDI but I have to install Ruby and Rails somewhere. Linux (Mint) seemed like a logical choice. Most people recommend NOT installing to Windows. Like I said earlier, I'd be down with buying a separate box just for this purpose (and future projects) with Linux installed natively if you guys thought that would gain me an advantage. I have a Heroku account and might deploy there initially but also have a Bluehost account that I intend to use eventually.
nit: copyright. Very big difference.
If you were already making a salad why would I suggest you try a different salad?
Not an advertisement, but a price list full of technical information.
I've attracted over 50 million unique visitors to my sites using organic SEO over the past 10 years. I've always focused on the content and never tried to game the system. I never tried to do link building, etc.

I started out reading highrankings.com - they are a whitehat seo proponent. Just been following white hat all along and Google has rewarded me throughout.
Why I Still Choose Gentoo
it seems to have been removed (the 12 years part) btw.

i saw it earlier. perhaps it was a joke - agile manifesto was published 12 years ago? (an argument for this is that 12 years is a strange number to use otherwise).

[edit] and now there's a broken link on the front page saying that 26% of their team is older than 38. i hate to say it but (1) i told you so (2) do people lose their sense of humour with age? (3) i am 46 myself...
Pretty much the same, if you're a VAT registered business in the EEA.
Dropbox wants to replace your Hard Drive
"Maintaining portable code increases complexity

Since systemd is written in C, the canonical way to write portable code is by using conditional compilation, for example with ifdef statements. That makes the code harder to understand and reason about, but more importantly it blows up the test matrix."

Take a page from NetBSDs effort... http://www.netbsd.org/about/portability.html
Flipboard accuses Treemo’s new app Flowboard of infringing its trademark
Yup, it's one of the simplest distro with a BSD spirit. I know that package dependency handling is considered to go against the simplicity of Slackware, but I think one of the main reasons why Slackware is lagging in popularity is because of the lack of a package manager that handles dependency resolution like Gentoo's emerge or Arch's pacman.
Just read the title. Clearly ad.
I hate the fact you have to say that...it pisses me off to hear this. I was lucky I had minimal loans, and school was 1/2 the cost. If I can give a word of advice, spend less on car #1 and attack that loan, pay it off. Get to 0 debt.
This is a bad poll. I use TLS for all my imap and internal smtp, and prefer using tls for anyone externally, but don't enforce tls or do cert checking for external mail.

I use PGP infrequently, but for sensitive things; for anything routine and sensitive (passwords), OTR over XMPP chat is easier to set up with most people.

I guess in this poll that's "regularly encrypt most but not all of my email"?
I believe the person is saying that it is okay to asked linked lists questions, but you must also ask practical questions.

In your case, why not ask about linked lists, and then ask why in a CRUD app the models are ending up in a mixed up state when you add a second application server?
Brazil eyes Internet bill amid spying leaks
Thanks for this comment. It led me to read the entire website that you linked. On a page I found a link to The Man Who Planted Trees.

I was walking across the country recently on the Pacific Crest Trail, and I had to come off the trail because of an injury. I have been looking around listlessly at the world, and trying to figure out what to do.

This video has struck me in an interesting way. It shows someone who is true of heart can find happiness in profound ways. It has also helped me re-imagine art, as the man painted the landscape and changed the feeling of a region.

It is a beautiful example of the change a single person can make.

Earlier today, I was tempted to tweet "What would a present day John Muir look like?" -- Interestingly I found an answer by another avenue.
The problem is that 10 years ago, the cutting edge marketing companies did SEO. Now, _EVERY_ marketing company does SEO because it is a death sentence to say you don't.

That means there are plenty of agencies that do little more than Facebook+AdWords, pretty URLs, and the other usual suspects.
Help — My Product Manager Lost His Mojo
Yahoo Shuts Altavista Down in July
God forbid a college devote time and energy on an academic pursuit, instead of say, an athletic one (I know, off-topic, but just an analogy).

Personally, I've found many benefits to competing (or even practicing for) programming contests. Not least of which is personal enjoyment and mental exercise.
I'm so glad I posted this question... I had no idea this hotline existed. Already bookmarked. I'll definitely kick in a few bucks!
Inside look at the internal strife over Al Jazeera America
Most entities that have a large enough footprint to make this kind of a thing useful care a lot about speed and their users :) Why not just have a chrome extension that does good on all sites?
I didn't say nor suggest the "dumbing down." An effective communicator gets his/her point across - that's the definition. Trust me, if you can't create another example or analogy off of the material you are supposed to be teaching, then you actually don't know it as well as you think. Simple as that.
You can be fairly confident there some startups out there founding by 20 somethings, populated by 20 somethings, who think having someone over 30, or certainly over 40, on their team or even in their office would be akin to the plague. They would probably place them in the same camp as their parents.

I totally understand why coders like Agile, hey I like it because hacking code is the fun part :) Its also kind of a good fit for the app store era, where you throw something out there and see if its sticks before you actually develop most of it. Not entirely sure its actually a good way to develop nontrivial software.
Independent study credit is definitely worth looking into, if your college has such a possibility (most do).

However, as someone who supervises independent studies regularly, I can also say: independent studies are by far the classes most likely to result in the student just not doing anything at all, which to some extent shows why autodidacticism is not universal yet. In a traditional semester-long class with two-times-a-week meetings, it's very rare for a student to literally do nothing. Most will show up at least some of the time, and do at least some of the work. But it's easy to put off an independent study, because you have complete flexibility, and don't have to do anything this week if other things are more pressing. Then you end up 90% of the way through the semester realizing you haven't done anything.

Some very good stuff comes out of independent-study projects, but the variance is large, and it doesn't work for everyone. As a supervisor, they take a disproportionate amount of management effort, just trying to track students down and prod them into non-procrastination.
The Kinect is a depth camera. Nothing new there. PrimeSense had one that was a lot cheaper than existing ones, and Microsoft bought it. It was primarily the cost of the device that had PS in the running.

The skeletal tracking was totally Microsoft's stuff; in fact, it was an utter surprise to PrimeSense when it was announced (that was fun -- they had no idea what we were really doing with the camera until very late in the game).

So: PrimeSense: Depth camera.

Microsoft: EVERYTHING else (from the firmware and the drivers on up, including a /bunch/ of manufacturability stuff that PS had little experience in).
IBM's size wasn't enough to stop Microsoft's uprising. I doubt Microsoft's size is enough to stop the next Bill Gates.
Since a sufficient number of people decided it was worth upvoting this item.
Does psychiatry medicalise too many normal behaviours?
Yeah, what can I say? Times are strange, and fatalism leads one to take risks.
Not sure where to report this, but there doesn't seem to be a way to use 5.3 functions with 'use' variables.

Example:

$shared = 3;

function ($a) use (&$shared) {

echo "In function before assignment: shared: " .

$shared;

$shared = 5;

echo "In function after assignment: shared: " . $shared;

}

echo "After function: shared: " . $shared;
In response to 'What I learned in college'
Parent was in no way suggesting he/she was "too good to implement a linked list". The point being made was that being a logic problem solving performing monkey doesn't really say much about your practical abilities in real world apps.
It has been no longer than 3 months...
It's not even true in SV.
Not comparable to Cyanogenmod is an understatement.

According to their own site, Chevron is just a third-party implementation of the Android's "Unknown Sources" (i.e. sideloading) checkbox: http://chevronwp7.tumblr.com/post/1679668269/windows-phone-7...

Good for Microsoft for supporting for a while (and boo for changing their minds), but either way this doesn't get Windows Phone any brownie points vs Android.
Can you link your CLEP notes?
Before you edit much further:

We want someone who has less than 12 years of MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE. The reason is that if you haven't been coding for 12+ years...you probably are not "hands-on" enough

This arbitrary cutoff makes absolutely no sense. I'd like to see your quantification of skill drop off per year of management.

If what you are wanting is a hands-on technical manager, then you need to say so.

And it shouldn't matter if the person has been hands on for 5 years or 20.

But I feel I'm being a little too generous regarding your motives here.
Microsoft does have incredible R&D. If they did some serious culling of whatever bureaucratic cancer has infected the company, they could probably make some compelling B2C products. I bet their B2B products will sustain them for a while, though.
Rule 1 of kernel development: don't break userspace.
A great example of a web-friendly, interactive view of a scientific paper is the eLife Lens, example here: http://lens.elifesciences.org/#00380 . They announced the open source project back in June (blog post http://www.elifesciences.org/lens/). This is the direction that web-based paper views are moving toward, and some publishers (notably PLOS) already have quite nice interactive components.

PubMed, the government-run biomedical abstract database, also recently introduced its PubReader app for reading biomedical papers (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/about/pubreader/). But my money's on eLife here — NCBI is better known for its databases than its user interface design (to say the least).

It would be great to see some innovation here (some publishers have absolutely awful web-based journal article views). But as the main format for paper publishing and dissemination, I think the PDF won't be going away anytime soon.
Are you sure? I could not find any reliable source for this, only things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3898660

The same person claiming it then, also claimed that ECC RAM can be twice as expensive, which is far from typical -- it's quite common to see differences of less than 15%. Maybe he was confusing ECC with FB-DIMM?
Cargo cult interviewing at its best. It seems like they may be more experienced interviewing for jobs rather than properly interviewing candidates and building solid teams.
High-impact low frequency stuff is always hard to discuss, it always devolves into two camps accusing each other of exaggerating or understating the danger.

One of the more productive approaches you can take to sidestep all that is to look at mitigation strategies that help against other types of harm. So, sure, putting every long line in a Faraday cage is probably a waste of money. But it wouldn't be a bad idea to make sure there's some sort of ready supply of large transformers.

The major transformers aren't just costly, they have a long lead time, and there are a handful of unlikely events that can wipe a lot of them all at once. (And some more likely events that take them out a few at a time.)

One complicating factor is that for every 10 transformers, there are probably 9 designs, you pretty much design these things from scratch each time.

Some manufacturers can repurpose pre-owned transformers... it's not cheap, but it might be faster than building a new one from scratch. The biggest obstacle to that approach is just knowing what's out there to be repurposed.

NERC's trying to maintain a spare equipment database to help the industry figure that out, but it's voluntary, so it's not clear how comprehensive it will be.

I thought there was a mobile transformer supply being maintained by the industry too, but can't find reference to it at this time... maybe the spare equipment database is as far as they've gotten.

NY Times coverage of a quick transformer replacement drill last year:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/business/energy-environmen...

DOE paper on large power transformer replacement hurdles:
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/Large%20Power%20Transform...

NERC's outline for the spare equipment database:
http://www.nerc.com/docs/pc/sedtf/SEDTF_Report_Draft_PC_Meet...

If generators get knocked out, maybe get one of these Russian nuclear power stations to float by and hook up to the grid:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_floating_nuclear_power_...