skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid the machine you'd get would be a furnace or a torch... AFAIK power that you'd need to dissipate is linear on frequency, so unless we will discover technology to radically lower the voltage used in CPUs or some other parameter, dissipating 100x heat would be kind of a big problem for such CPU.
While this sounds good in powerpoint, it doesn't work out so well in practice...especially when they had a beloved platform in WinMo and dumped it for Windows Phone.

And what about leveraging their superior position in the console market? Why not try to move into gaming tablets, then gaming phones?
Why not! This post is about moderating a very large and very complex forum, which can be interesting to anyone who participates in forums, or anyone interested in social software and online communities.

I'll attempt to explain some of the jargon.

The part about "proud to call ourselves /v/irgins and /k/ommandos" refers to the nicknames that people on various boards (topic-specific forums within 4chan) have invented to call themselves, as a kind of in-joke. For example, "/v/" is shorthand for the video games board (because its URL is http://boards.4chan.org/v/), so people on the board extend that and call themselves "/v/irgins" (because that's much more amusing than "/v/ideogamers").

When he says "sage is now invisible", "sage" means the feature that lets you write a comment that doesn't bump that thread to the top of the board. People use "sage" in order to write comments like "this post is terrible" without promoting that post. See http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sage or http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sage for more explanation.

"/q/ will be retired and replaced" - this was a board that moot had set up for talking about 4chan itself (asking him questions, providing feedback, etc).

"Post timers" prevent you from writing tons of comments in rapid sequence, which is usually spammy/abusive behavior.
> It has not much to do with lottery, manly with risk and reward and statistics.

A lottery is risk, reward, and statistics.
IBM homepage history in screen shots
The ban list (http://www.4chan.org/bans) is hilarious.

A highlight (besides all the "ponies outside of /mlp/" ones):

"I cant get banned, im 17 and my birthday is tomorrow. Suck it m00t." -- Ban, 90 days, "Underage User"
The GM has been available for over a week now.
This is true, but it's missing the point. A modern CPU gets probably 50% more work out of a median clock cycle and runs 33% faster for single threaded (turbo) workloads. So it's twice as fast. And sure, there are four of them on the die.

But back up another decade to 1992, where a top of the line PC was a 50MHz 486 with well under half the IPC of the linked Northwood running 60x slower.

For those of us who remember the 80's and 90's, it's a very different world we live in.
Ask HN: How do you build your startup before growing a team?
The typical approach is two co-founders (ideally both technical). What do you do when you need more help and can't afford to hire someone?

The limiting factor to growing our product seems to be how much work we can get done in a day. Is this normal? To be clear, we haven't "launched" and are working on the first iteration.
I'd definitely willing to have a look. Is there somewhere I can get a demo?
TX too.
This

Plus, policies are not made by a generation but politicians and social and economic circumstances. There's never been a meeting of whatever generation to decide policy, that happens elsewhere. The narrative is in the "not even wrong" category.
Exactly. Any place that has high quality of life + young life will have high rents naturally.
This is a bad argument. They are affected by microseconds and kilobytes, in proportions insignificant compared to the memory usage and parsing time already required.

As you're the article author, if you're even remotely interested in being taken seriously (because right now there's less-than-no reason to) it behooves you to actually demonstrate a perf or memory delta that anybody would notice in the first place.
Can someone explain how the sage thing works as a downvote? I'm aware of 4chan, its style and run a forum (with anonymous posting too) myself, but I'm not familiar with any karma/scoring 4chan might have. Keen to stay aware of options to keep my forum on track.
What gets me is the smell of delicious food being eaten by my coworkers...I have to stick to plain food in small quantities to keep from getting fat again, and I get jealous...
I never read the book but apparently it was a favorite of JFK's and he was instrumental in getting the movie made. That explains how something so politically edgy could have come out of Hollywood in 1962—it had the President vouching for it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/movies/film-a-co-productio... <-- Contains Spoilers
I also live in Australia and use Whatsapp all the time. Skype is way too heavyweight. Facebook ... I do not trust facebook at all, and do not wish to tie up my messaging capabilities with them.

> Also, everyone I know wouldn't pay for a communications protocol, no matter how good it is.

Dude, it's a dollar. One dollar. That's your contribution to the infrastructure that is handling 27 billion messages a day.

Was your phone free? Are your phone calls and SMS free? Is anything else in life free? I don't get it.
That's true. The last time I made that mistake was many years ago with goatse. I also laerned to check links that might be cleverly disguised. Would that they were all as innocent as rick rolls. If I really want to be safe, I open a link up and only look at it with my peripheral vision. It works surprisingly well to classify something as bad without actually taking it all in.
Why is the idiom of offering it for free (100% that is) and then look out for supporting the development? How can you honestly do both?
Instead, place it for 14 day trial, offer the entire thing cheaper by 99% (leave 1% fan club away), and support both the causes sufficiently.
John MacCain's Response in Pravda
Great, it's a "brand new product" which carries along wiht it "brand new broken parts."

I spent a chunk of time this evening trying to get a long-term dedicated BlackBerry user's new Q10 to sync with her Exchange account using ActiveSync. She's the only BB user (and the owner) of her small company, and she has horrible email habits - her inbox makes me cry.

After trying a variety of things and confirming that the phone was establishing a connection (folder list present, able to send messages, no messages ever downloaded), we escalated to the carrier, then on to BlackBerry, then to 2nd-tier, where we found out about a part of the ActiveSync standard that limits requests to 200 items. Turns out that MS didn't enforce that until newer versions/updates of Exchange, so BlackBerry's developers have this but have provided no estimate for a fix (presumably they ignored this in the past since it wasn't enforced). The person we spoke with didn't disagree when I said "so this is probably a 10.2 item?"

The options: BES perhaps? "Have you considered using IMAP?" The user is thinking about whether to trim her inbox to less than 200 items for an initial sync, but I have my doubts about that and in any case she has more than 200 contacts and wants those synced as well. Personally, I think she's going to be returning the device before the end of the week instead and looking at the (few) Android phones with physical keyboards, her killer feature.
There are quite a few people who want to work on games, true. But I am not so sure the pool of talented engineers that are very good at the tasks game development poses is much larger than anywhere else in industry.

On the other hand, I don't think a very large portion of game development teams are engineers anymore. Not only are the tools much better, there is much more focus on other things like art, sound, marketing, design, etc...
Don't forget to talk like a pirate
Eh, I just got bitten by a Python framework which could only do about 400 rps of "Hello World" on my laptop. Pure python could be pushed to 14000 with gevent and 4 processes, while a pure Java servlet easily got 100krps, async java around 140krps, haskell 200k with 4 workers. Out of the box Java servlet was better than fastcgi nginx. So I don't see what your'e getting at.
You are surely correct.

The proportion of people with access to a computer in 1984 was much lower than it is today as well.

Far more kids can get to a browser and to some kind of editor.

That gives you a javascript development environment.

In addition you have access to the internet that provides you will endless tutorials and places to ask questions.
Marketing has been a larger cost than development for quite some time now in the world of AAA video games.
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Then you should work in an office. Different strokes for different folks. I only object to the bullshit people sometimes throw out that just because they personally are a better team player in an office, they assume everyone else also must be.
Too bad for all the people that worked hard to deliver BB's products. I wish them best of luck, hopefully they'll find something better.
x86 & x86-64 cores still create heat like incandescent lightbulbs.
>> Spray them with water or vegetable oil.

And what happens when the Prez, PM or Pope is at a rally and 10+ UAVs at the size of small birds start buzzing around? Remember, they are people around, even the sniper has to worry about what his bullet will hit next.
No he didn't #LOL
To get out of my contract with T-Mobile: I'm suing
Jeez, calm down.
Arduino - http://arduino.cc/ and its many derivatives, and more recently Raspberry Pi - http://www.raspberrypi.org/ are going to create the same effect as the Commodore 6.

Cheap enough for curious kids to buy themselves, very easy to use, both with a strong connection to the real world.

In addition, as well as a stand-alone internet connected device, the Raspberry Pi makes a cheap Linux desktop computer.
Do you already use Salesforce.com for other sales-related activities? What system your sales people use? Is there a central repository for customer information? If yes, then I will suggest consider using the same system.

Do your SE enter or keep information somewhere else too?

As a SE, I can only say that don't force them to enter same information multiple times in different systems for different purposes. Nothing bugs me more than wasting my time entering same information multiple times and spending time on admin tasks, instead of spending more time focusing on customer.
Try earmuffs?
They must no doubt, given the specs on those systems.

eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_specificatio...

A whopping 512mb of RAM to run GTA 5

I picked up my 360 in the launch month, and it's still running eight years later. Have to give them credit for that as I've put a lot of miles on the system.
Ah, LinkedIn. That bastion of class and good practices.
I don't care about people who do less for the same money in my company. I do care about people who do less for the same money in my company while loudly preventing others from doing their work and generally bullshitting around in a very obnoxious way.
Yes, this is typical. The usual approach (besides working harder, which has limits) is to scale down your initial offering until it's something that a couple guys can do in 3-6 months. Failing that, scale down your initial idea into a prototype or demo that can be done in 3-6 months and that's impressive enough to get investors to give you money to hire a team and expand it.

This puts a sharp limit on the size of problems that can be attacked by a startup. That's just the way the world works. The trick to building a giant company is to build a small company in a market that will grow alongside the company, so that you can gain an initial toehold and then secure additional resources afterwards.
Hi Chris, do you still keep up with your good friend DAVE!? :)
Go to K-Mart and program the demo machine; POKE 1, PEEK(1) AND 4.
Kinetic energy might be enough to do some serious harm. Or imagine putting a knife in front and via!

But they'll probably buy larger drones, take out some parts /weight and replace it with c4.
iOS 7 Safari & New Web Platform Features
I think the author's point about how computers used to come with programming manuals is a good one. The spirit is different. The computer environments now are, in my opinion, better for learning programming. More languages are installed by default or easily available and the Internet is much better for learning than the books I remember using. But this kind of assumption that people would be buying a computer in order to mess around with Basic or Hypercard no longer seems to be the rule.

I was actually kind of impressed with the Sugar environment when I tried it out with my nephews. They spent a lot more time experimenting with the thing than I even expected. Something was different about that system. It encouraged exploration in a way that their normal YouTube and video game habits didn't. Maybe it was just the nature of the applications.
There's no such thing as "its own devices" for a country with no surviving government. All the various countries conquered by the Axis during World War II were occupied by various Allied powers with the intention of reestablishing them as independent countries. Poland and Czechoslovakia, to name two, were occupied solely by the Soviets and was set up as Soviet-controlled puppet states. Japan. to name another, was occupied solely by the United States and was reformed into a fairly pro-Western democratic country, complete with baseball.

Some countries were split into occupation zones between the Western allies and the Soviets. Germany was one. There were four occupation zones: British, American, French, and Soviet. The intention was for a new German government to be formed that would govern all four zones, but negotiations broke down and the Soviet occupied zone formed one government (German Democratic Republic, known as East Germany) and the Western occupied zones formed another (Federal Republic of Germany). This state of affairs continued until the fall of communism, when the East Germans more or less decided to join the Federal Republic giving us today's Germany.

Korea was a similar case. There was no Korean government--it was a Japanese possession since 1910--so, with the intent of punishing Japan and giving the Korean people self-determination, it was temporarily occupied by the Allies until they could set up a democratic government. It was partitioned between the Soviets and the Americans, who, as in Germany, formed opposing governments. And then the North invaded the South--and that's where the war began.
Isn't Chinese the most-read language on the planet?
Honestly, society's gender roles are a result of our biology and not just dogmatic stereotyping. The truth is that women are biologically more interested in social occupations. It comes down to the way humans evolved and the attributes which make a good mother. Men are biologically more interested in thing based occupations which is why there are so many men in science and technology.

Note the behavioral effects of autism which is known to be the result of an extreme male brain (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12039606). The ratio of women born with autism is 1 to every 4 men. By simply measuring traits that indicate the levels of testosterone during gestation they can even accurately predict SAT scores (http://www.livescience.com/7290-finger-length-predicts-sat-p...). There was an interesting Norwegian documentary which covered this topic pretty well (http://youtu.be/AZoRihmI1Ug).
Killer app: why do anonymous Q&A networks keep leading to suicides?
Economics 101. When a job has a halo effect, people will crowd into it until they bid down salary and working conditions to the point where they would be better off working at McDonald's.
Yes, we already use salesforce.com, but the SEs don't have access to it--too expensive.

I've worked as an SE as well, and I'm definitely not looking to add to the team's workload. Right now they're filling out a weekly spreadsheet and sending it to me, which sucks for them and for me. I'm looking for some way to make it easier for them to enter their time and for me to look at the data across multiple weeks, either by account or by SE.
Mozilla does the same thing for Firefox extensions but the experience is much worse thanks to volunteer reviewers. This is of course not consistent and your extension can get rejected based on whatever obscure reason they might have: I once got hate as I used spin.js instead of a GIF loader animation. Believe me, Opera has it good.
If we can't make the clock speed faster what about massively increasing the size of the on chip cache? I think they call them like l2 and l3 or something. If I had 1gb of cache then maybe my whole program could run without doing much main memory access. That would be fast right?
The verge has a good write up on what happen to BB (rise and fall) if anyone is interested.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/21/2789676/rim-blackberry-mik...
Things have changed around here in the last two years.
Bingo. Andy Gavin's blog about developing Crash Bandicoot covers some of the issues of developing for consoles.
Shit, I even got an insurance (car, I think) offer co-branded from my IEEE membership. I've not renewed.
So you should be happy with the work the Gates Foundation is doing. It's good to see different technologists tacking a similar problem from different ends of the spectrum.
North Korea's fate was decided by the Soviets just as much as South Korea's was by the US. There were even Soviet pilots flying in the North Korean air force in the Korean War. The Soviets didn't have the ironclad control over North Korea that they had over Eastern Europe, but they certainly weren't any less involved than the US was in the South.
I don't know if you are being facetious or not, but I think all religious teachings for children count as brainwashing.
It was a whole bunch of nations, united.
> Specifically the book argued that the capable in society should be artificially restricted to bring them down to the same level as the less capable.

The book (or more accurately, Vonnegut) argued exactly the opposite. Burgeron is the protagonist, so we empathize with his worldview against the dystopian future. Reading further to other works by the same author, it's a recurring theme (e.g.: Slaughterhouse Five).
don't worry moot, it's of above-average relevance compared to recent months' activity.
Only if you have never used iOS7. When you use it is distinctive and nothing at all like Android. It is exactly as has been promoted: a new OS that you still know how to use.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought "good for Opera."

Obfuscated code is for competitions, not functional software. This is not 1978; the space savings from single-character variable names is not significant. (Or if it is, your code is way too heavy to be running in a browser extension.)
Isn't "fuck" a better pattern to measure this? However, funny project :D
Depends what country you're from.
Why don't people live in Oakland and commute?

Google Maps gives a < 1 hour each way commute (BART or bike + ferry), which I don't think is horrible. Is Google Maps just super optimistic?
I worked in an open office situation once with a co-worker across from me who listened to sports talk radio all day - no headphones. I literally can't imagine a more distracting work environment.
zBase – A high-performance, elastic, distributed key-value store
Oh, absolutely. If it works for you, that's awesome. Didn't mean to imply otherwise.
There are probably about 50 profitable AAA game studios in the whole world. These pay quite well[1]. But there are just few hundred engineers working in all of them. The rest of the industry is either a new studio building up its team while working on low profit titles or an old studio circling the drain. These cannot pay well. People work there either to get experience and advance into one of AAA teams or are hoping their own studio will become a AAA itself.

[1]http://gamerant.com/activision-lawsuit-infinity-ward-salarie...
I think you answered your own question. If you're saving babies or firing a moonshot, yes work is number one.

Otherwise work is a priority, but not the only priority and maybe not the top priority. I love building things my customers love, but that's not the only thing I love. I expect to share some of who I am and learn some about my coworkers during the 9 to 5. The ability for my coworkers and I to click, on multiple levels, is important. It helps both for building rapport among teammates to solve business issues and as compensation in the form of a positive work environment.

And while I expect many intense work environments are much more focused, I also know some of the most intense environments still have small talk, sometimes intentionally thrown in to diffuse that intensity. It helps people view each other holistically as actual people, not just tools to solve problems or obstacles to overcome.
The MIG-25 is rated at Mach 2.8 GHz, but can be overclocked to 3.2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mig-25
It's on the 'raw data' page, not on the post itself.
I think Microsoft has a better chance of creating a more sustainable ecosystem, especially when it comes to having a seamless personal and enterprise experience. I'm talking 3-5 years down the line here.

Meanwhile, I'd be more worried if I were Apple. It will be hard for them to keep-up with the innovation. Especially since there is a flood of new OSes coming like Ubuntu, Tizen, Firefox and more flexible HW platforms.
Cracked Windows - Microsoft warns of critical flaw
I see comments like this a lot on HN, and I think the difference is exaggerated. Yes, engineers make more outside of the game industry, but if you look at average salaries for engineers it's not that much lower. That $84K number includes, artists, designers, QA and producers. The average salary in the US for game industry software engineers was $91K in 2013 (http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=10567).

According to sources that come up in Google (bureau of labor, indeed, glassdoor, salary.com) the average nation wide software engineer salary is close to that plus or minus $5K.

On HN it feels like nation wide game industry numbers are being compared to the salaries of the best engineers at the most successful Silicon Valley\SF tech companies. When you compare against top tier companies we're looking at a $20K+ jump. But if you start comparing against top tier game developers like Valve, Riot or Naughty Dog you get comparable results.

I know that salary surveys are understandably taken with a grain of salt on HN, but I feel like it's a better yardstick than the "common wisdom" that gets thrown around.
Cool. Back then there still were articles about a new faster desktop CPU! Today, whenever there's news about a CPU, it's about some other low power mobile whatever thing that is not faster. Yawn.
I was indeed aware.
The overwhelming majority of revenue comes in the first weeks of a game launch. For a major franchise like this, you safely know what minimum dollar amount you'll make. Invest in market for hopes of a big hit.

Sure, ROI is tough. But think about the wrong decision to not market and sales flops in the first 2-3 weeks. You can't make up that lost revenue from launch.
It's also great for testing clusters on a single VM. I've been using it for playing around with different mongodb configurations. Being able to instantly start, stop, and fork server images is pretty amazing. Also very nice being able to replay commands from the cache, so downloading and building a bunch of packages only has to work once. It doesn't do anything that you couldn't do with virtual machines or ec2 images, it's just so much faster and lighter weight it's kind of like the difference between having to compile your code after every change and having live reload. Much better for your productivity.
Thanks. It's still not clear to me what kind of moderation system is in place (if any). But it's OK :-)
Coming from the games industry, people who work on games work on them for the love of making games, not the money.