skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scaling to a 128 bit system is pretty hard on the layout level. On current designs, something like 95% of the surface is metal interconnects. Where there's metal you're limited in freedom to place transistors. So with 128-bit systems you're looking at 128-bit registers, address buses and data buses. Those take up a lot of real estate on the die and you can only go so far in narrowing them by using layers. 128-bit is a really really wide highway on a CPU.

That doesn't mean that 128-bit systems can't be built. What it does mean is that upgrading a current 64-bit CPU to a 128-bit CPU involves sacrifices. Current-gen 64-bit systems contain a lot of optimizations in silico (branch predictors, cache predictors, ...) and control structures and that's where the problem lies: each optimization (literally) taps into that wide highway and creates dead zones on the die that contain nothing more than metal. And everywhere you tap you create zones where layering can only be applied with reduced freedom.
Error establishing a database connection... that is all I get.
If one EU state offers you asylum, which shouldn't be too hard because your country is notoriously dangerous, then you can work anywhere in the EU. So you could get asylum from Italy or France, then move to Berlin when you have your papers, which takes several months during which you can't have a declared job (in France, they may make sure you don't work by sending you to a transit camp, which is basically a jail).

If you tell them you're an experimented software engineer, it may be much faster to get a work visa than asylum. Ask for this work visa to each embassy in Damascus.

Also, Morrocoan cities are growing like crazy. There may be some business to do there and they may give visas more easily.
Not according to Matt Cutts : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHtnfOgp65Q

"Cloaking is essentially serving different content to users than Googlebot".

I'm a user who cannot view Quora content that Googlebot has indexed even though it was a result Google said matched my query. This result is therefore unusable without modifying the URL or signing in. That is the definition of different content, HTML/CSS/JS or other semantics be damned, and a poor user experience. And that's something Google is allegedly trying to avoid.

The Matt Cutts video also talks about mobile user experiences. If I worked for Quora, I'd pay close attention as I cannot view the site at all without getting their mobile app even though, again, Google said "you should check out this Quora link for this query".

Edit: From the webmaster guidelines...

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353

•Using white text on a white background
•Locating text behind an image
•Using CSS to position text off-screen
•Setting the font size to 0
•Hiding a link by only linking one small character—for example,
a hyphen in the middle of a paragraph
`

When evaluating your site to see if it includes hidden text or links,
look for anything that's not easily viewable by visitors of your site.
Are any text or links there solely for search engines rather than
visitors?
I'm no expert. But your chances in Brittain are a lot higher i presume (no passport even required).

But you should check up on that first though :)
It sounds like Chris was talking about non-CS grads in the podcast though. It seems reasonable that they would be able to command $100k in the SF area, but I believe he was talking about front-end developers.

$100k seems like quite a lot for these folks.
I am no expert on asylum situations, but my impression is that the first country in the European zone that you enter is the one that decides which asylum rules you'll follow. You need to speak to a lawyer. Sorry I can't provide any more insight than this. Good luck.
So while there are a bunch of new Tor clients running, it would seem they're not doing much.

Huh, didn't notice that. Should have seen it from the network bandwidth graph. It's even more odd in some ways than the OP spike.

I've got a fairly good understanding of the mechanics of the Tor network having studied it down to the packet level, modified the source for academic experiments, etc. I can't think of any reason that would compromise anonymity where it would help to have a whole bunch of mostly idle OPs idling on the network.

Maybe a botnet C&C with low bandwidth staggered command orders, or maybe it's infrastructure building for something that hasn't been activated yet. Or of course the more mundane explanation that lots of people downloaded the clients after the recent publicity, and don't really use the browser bundles.
Yahoo's new logo spotted
As an asylum-seeker you are not allowed to work in Germany. You will be “stored” in a camp and are forced to stay there until you can move back to Syria. Better go to a Scandinavian country, where you will be treated as a human beeing.
German immigration lawyers who specialise in software developers. I can recommend them. http://www.vpmk.de/

Berlin is very welcoming to qualified software devs. Best of luck!
It seems to me that signatures are way past their useful shelf life. The world is not set up to verify them against anything. If you sign off on a package with a fake signature, you'll probably be fine - the computer will check the box as having a signature on file and close the delivery - and you won't be exposed to privacy breach like this.

More sinister: if somebody grabs your check book and starts writing bad checks, I doubt the bank will pay much attention to whatever they scribble on them and you'll have a real nuisance on your hands.
My challenges of using Google Keyword Planner
This doesn't surprise me. I think DHL is an absolute joke when it comes to security and validating identity.

For several months, DHL's debt collectors have been pursuing my company for unpaid import taxes because some fraudsters trivially used our (misspelled) company name on their account (without any true "ID theft" taking place). Despite mountains of proof to the contrary, the case continues and may be headed for court.

I'm so tempted to report this to the ICO because it seems like a violation of British data protection laws.
My old and unnoticed Ask PG:

Quickfix for expired "More": Ability to disable pagination

Expired "More" link is very annoying. Especially for browsing such threads as "Who is Hiring".

I understand you don't have a time, so quick fix (and quite useful actually) - have an option to show the thread without pagination.
You use the word asylum, which has a very specific meaning, but if you can find a skilled job, you might be able to migrate to another country through more conventional and less bureaucratic means. IANAL, but those are my 2 cents.
Understanding natural monopoly
Three reasons:

1- Scientific: Study of superheavy elements is related to the formation of elements in stars and ultimately to the origin of life.

2-Practical: Americium is a man made element which is used in
smoke detectors.

3-Nuclear energy: In theory once the island of stability is reached it should be possible to have smaller and more powerful mini nuclear-plants which could fit into a watch.
I would follow yk's advice: it is much easier to get a Visum when you are invited to work for a company. Is asking the startup for employment an option?
A flexible E Ink screen that could be in the 2014 Kindle
funny, I'm browsing with latest opera with some plugins (notably addblock plus and disconnect) and I can read everything without logging in and without adding the ?share=1

still not using that site though.

edit : my mistake. it seems that once you've used a ?share=1 link, that changes some cookies so after that you seem to always see everything
Yes, I agree. In the worst case you do not have time to follow any asylum or inmigration procedures.
Is going to Turkey from Syria safe? Maybe it makes sense to go to Iran first.
This is one of the best uses of Ask HN I've seen in a long time.

Best of luck.
He should know that better than us, we are further away from the war. Possibly even going to Iraq first would be an option.

However, now I am reminded that Syria has banned all males 18-42 from leaving the country. So, it isnt easy, you basically have to escape through smuggle-lines/unguarded border.

EDIT: If I may speculate, the safest option would be to get to the coast and take a ship to anywhere that isnt Syria.

Another EDIT: Try to go to the kurdish areas, they will probably let you go to Turkey or Iraq.
Have you tried the UN Refugee Agency?
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home
Creating a shell extension for Review Board in C#
I work at a berlin startup that is interested in the skillset that you posted. Send me a mail to irit.applebaum {at} gmail.com and ill try to help you.
Absolutely. ( This will serve as a reminder, that one should even be careful talking about crypto. ;)
How do you update that list? I'm familiar with a few of the lesser known accelerators on it and I'm aware of some pretty nice exits they've had, but their exit column is listed as $0 on your list.

This is probably complicated by the fact that many of the smaller acquisitions (<$100m) are for undisclosed sums. Not sure how you can ever account for that unless you make wild guesses.

Also it looks like companies which are very valuable but not formally exited yet (AirBNB, Dropbox etc.) aren't accounted for here... a column for "current portfolio valuation" might be more valuable. Again, if it were ever possible to put such a thing together accurately, which I doubt.
It depends from where you come from. For Syrian citizens visa is required for Brattain. In fact, for all European countries it is required.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Syrian_c...
In terms of b), one of the messages of the presentation was a shift away from focusing too much on perimeter defense (which would include phishing, probably), and making the inside of the network more resilient and costly to attack. It's a counter to the hard shell / soft inside situation which most networks are currently geared towards. In that sense, I don't think it was missed in the presentation, their entire strategy is to deal with what happens when (not if) the marketing guy gives out his password.
I think this is hard because it's not immediately obvious that direction is such an important concept in kinematics.
It's probably the most important thing to get across when teaching the subject, but you have to battle against prior knowledge:

Math students (that is, everyone) earlier learned that this sign-flipping strategy is ok and perhaps an encouraged shortcut when e.g. subtracting.

(see also that Khan Academy video - "first do the multiplication, then think about the sign")
In light of the recent leaks, there is a rising consensus that privacy protection should not be underestimated. If it is, then it is prone to put to use by a third party without taking any permission from the end-user, which is unethical. This is all the more important in the open-source world because many people use open-source products because of their ethical and 'open' paradigms. Proprietary code by their very nature bind us to their whims, but open-source is all about freedom.
Even if your hypothesis is true, ie even if most users don't take privacy very seriously today, I bet it is pretty soon going to change.
it is safe and easy, no visa required. but Israel is impossible as the countries are at war.
If you are getting your education from only one source of information, then you are doing it wrong. Khan academy is just one source out of many on the web. I personally find their videos to be pretty superficial in content, but a good starting point nevertheless. If you really want to learn something in depth, read from as many sources as you can until the picture is clear.
They actually officially communicated about this method:

Open any Quora URL. If you come across a Quora link
anywhere and you want to read it without being asked to
join Quora, you can add the text "?share=1" to the end
of the URL.

http://blog.quora.com/Making-Sharing-Better
RobotC: a C Programming Language for Educational Robotics
Mega game assets pack, pay with a tweet
My bank doesn’t do checks, but they check the signature on incoming (paper) mail with a signature of mine they have stored somewhere – I had to come in once specifically because my signature was different.

Similarly, when signing leases for flats, you usually need a copy of your passport/ID to prove that the signature is indeed yours.

Edit: Oh, and just pretending to be someone else is a lesser crime than pretending to be someone else and faking their signature, so requiring a signature might help as some sort of deterrent. (You can still do three circles for your signature, but doing three circles while impersonating someone else and giving the impression that said three circles are their signature is a crime on its own (in Germany (IANAL))).
We do use Core Text in Firefox on OS X, although not for all parts of text layout/rendering nowadays, AIUI. We're using Harfbuzz for some text shaping, so it's possible we're not using the particular Core Text APIs that hit this bug.
Sorry for your situation and I hope you stay safe!

If you smuggle yourself via the Turkish-Greek border then you are stuck in the wonderful country of Greece forever basically.
High unemployment, laws that are really unfriendly to asylum seekers (less than 2% acceptance rate) and the nazist party (facepalm..) has risen from obscurity to 5% in the latest elections, to 15% in the polls...
So less than ideal environment for a programmer :)

Too many people have gone that route and now are stuck here because of that Dublin 2 convention that will return asylum seekers to the country that they entered the EU in the first place...
So do whatever you can to avoid Greece as an entry country to EU. Try Sweden, you would love it except for the weather :)
Somebody call Bruce Willis.
Cons - surveillance
Pro - lots of people can pressure you into using it.
My cousin also fled Syria and came to Germany. It wasn't that hard, but the work situation is indeed very difficult for people with asylum status.

If you leave for Sweden make sure you will seek these places that have a lot of Syrians, like the mentioned Södertälje. It will be much easier there to get help in all occurring matters. God knows, it is hard enough to flee your home country, so you should pick the easiest and most frictionless option possible.
That would be nice... and remember, Carmack mentioned that he felt guilty about not doing "real work" when he was doing Haskell, but because there was Lisp on his iWhatever, he could play with Lisp when he couldn't get to his main computer to do "real work", so spent more time on Lisp.
Privacy is not dead
And startpage.com is located in the Netherlands and not in the USA like DuckDuckGo.
I can not trust USA services anymore.
DuckDuckGo is located in the Amazon Cloud and Amazon is the next target of the NSA.
This is a great library; I used it to build a Diffie-Hellman key exchange and symmetric encryption in an ASP.NET MVC4 app. The result is horribly insecure, but there is a situation where our product is installed under Http rather than Https that I solved.

If anyone is curious, it works just fine with BouncyCastle and RFC2989DeriveBytes (for PBKDF2).
That got me wondering as to how much stuff (hand luggage, trollies, food and drink, in-flight magazines...) an average flight carries!
It's a bit weird for a community college lecturer to be attacking the lectures from a Professor at Stanford, and then concluding that "MOOC's" are the problem.

What part of his critique doesn't apply to the real life Stanford courses taught by the same person?

Note that I'm quite happy to believe that famous people teaching at famous institutions are bad at teaching, for reasons he gets into in his final paragraphs.

I just don't see how that's a problem with MOOCs, except to the degree that people are choosing them based on prestige, and even then that's no different from the status quo.
So OOM killer as Chaos Monkey? Sounds like an intresting idea that should be implemented as a config setting.
The experience (specifically the careful choice of mediums + examples + presentation though which the concepts are conveyed) is pretty fantastic.
God says...

Virtual-Notary.Org hereby notes that on
Date: Friday August 30, 2013 07:26.35 EDT (UTC-0400)

a random drawing in the range [1, 100000], inclusive, based on
a hardware source of true randomness, yielded the following decision.

Random Value: 39640

God says...

abroad even to the entering in of Egypt; for he strengthened himself
exceedingly.

26:9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and
at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified
them.

26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for
he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains:
husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel:
for he loved husbandry.

26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to
war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of
Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah,
one of the king's captains.

26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men
of valour were two thousand and six hundred.

26:13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to
help the king against the enemy.

26:14 And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields,
and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast
stones.

26:15 And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be
on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones
withal.

And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till
he was strong.

26:16 But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his
destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went
into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
Clearly, Oracle is unbreakable.
>> Why not just wget them and host them locally

Because you might be using a CDN for performance and bandwidth benefits.

If you relying on a third party piece of code that you allow to change at any time, then it is very difficult to do any release testing to give you a known set of conditions your application should work under.
I think its clear the Prof is being slightly 'Darwinian' in his approach to teaching the class. But its a bit of a streatch to call this "degrading".

closed-book, closed-note, cumulative over all class material and will be scheduled at 9AM

Sounds like a real-world job interview, no?

I think the bar for "degrading" behaviour in academia should be set higher than something that would be everyday normal in "the real world".
Shut Up and Sit Down is awesome. Good call.

What is the business opportunity of an open M:TG API? I'm not sure I see the real potential there.
The summer holidays will be over soon.
3-4x game perf differences from CPU code autovectorization sounds way high? From what I've seen you'd be pretty lucky to average 3x speedups on isolated vector-friendly loops with hand rolled ASM, translating to much smaller whole app speedups.
I'm not comparing paper to interactive media.

I'd be happy with a regularly updated ebook, worksheets, Q&A stuff that I can do offline i.e. print it and sit in the garden/park for a bit with.

My main problem is that you can't consume video at your own rate, just the rate the author defines you should be consuming it, which in this case is "jumpy".

I've had the blessing of a good lecturer or two in the past. Salman is not one of them nor is anywhere near them.
Burner email
Well DHL at least are aware of the issue , via a twitter conversation https://twitter.com/DHLPaket/status/373388119175090176
Thanks looks interesting. You can't win when unicorns are involved unfortunately :(
Why not use the HTTP protocol switch thing that WebSocket uses?
The scope of this internal publishing system and the volumes contained in it, really is one of those details I wish would leak out. The open secret is 'the NSA has a LOT more UberMaths, PolyMaths, CryptoWizards, and sundry than any other organisation' ... the unanswered question is 'Just how much work do they do advancing the classified state of the art?'
Bar charts are always preferable to pie charts. But the video was about "reading pie charts", so this is perhaps the one occasion when using a pie chart can actually be justified.
From that enumeration none seems to apply. There is an image with blurred text, but no bad SEO practice to game a search engine bot.

You're right about the pages still appearing with high ranks on specific queries, but on the other hand I attribute it more to Google bombing than page relevance. At least I'm pretty sure Googlebot finds nothing to read on Quora, so the effect must be due to incoming links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb
I'm a Syrian hacker myself, and I can suggest you a better option. Go to Dubai, it is easy to get a visit visa first, if you are in damascus you can go through Beirut Airport as the path is still safe between the cities (got many friends coming through that route). then you can try to find a job in Dubai (should be easier as the economy is growing and since you speak the language), I myself know many startups and companies and will try to help you as well.

if you find a good job in Dubai you might give up the whole idea of moving to Europe as the standard of living is really high and the country is tax-free and amazing. but still you should be able to get a Schengen visit visa easily (especially if you work for a good company).
It's very cold in Sweden. May not sound important, but people with genes from warmer countries get all kind of medical problems from the cold weather - joints are especially vulnerable.

Also Sweden is the poor neighbor of Norway and Denmark ;-)
Rats. I read this post, and my Windows 8 install disc vanished.
Quantum crypto nearly ready to go mobile
Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Field Theory, Entanglement - in fifty seconds
Poignant question...

Which of the 2 possible breaches do you fear reprisal for more?
Springpad, Gazelle Generating Buzz with New Videos
This is true.

Ah ha! Much more detail here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6149/997.full

Seems that in some parts of the upper canyon, the ice configuration likely leads water away, but in the lower part, it controls the direction of water flow.
Wikipedia says:

>The volume of the Atlantic with its adjacent seas is 354,700,000 cubic kilometers

1 cubic kilometer is 1 000 000 000 000 liters, so 354,700,000 cubic kilometers is 354,700,000,000,000,000,000 l.

1 ton of water is 907 l water, and Fukushima leaks 450 tons a day, that's 408,150 l.

Divided and multiplied by 100 that's 1.3*10^(-13)%.

Keep in mind, as I said above, that this water itself is a dilution of radioactivity.
Is Quantum Cryptography Really Secure?
> if you really believe that you don’t have anything to hide, feel free to give me your passwords as a proof of concept.

I do not intend to use a privacy service from someone who claims it is easy (it isn't) while confusing privacy with authentication.

I may not wish to give up my password because I don't want actions to be taken in my name: this is irrelevant to privacy concerns.
Apple hoping to trade mark the term 'STARTUP'