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Well, the CPU/RAM/HDD systems do last a very long time. It's the GPU that needs periodic upgrading. Robert Space Industries for instance will be leveraging the Cryengine 3 with nearly 10 times as many polygons as with the average 3D FPS. Also, Microsoft keeps adding rendering features to the latest OS's which require hardware updates on the GPU level. I guess what I'm saying is: Nvidia will continue to be a sound stock to add to your portfolio.
> Not sure why estebank's comment was downvoted

I gave an upvote. I suspect others downvoted the comment because it spoke well of Resolver One, which is competing in the same space as DataNitro (a YC company).
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Microsoft caused the confusion by not adding a tutorial. I suggested it during windows 8 developer preview but they ignored it.

Their current tutorial still doesn't cut it but it's a step in the right direction.
I wrote this as reply in the blog, but asking you - is this fixed in 8.1: "Most confusing to me, was mouse-wheeling up and down the Weather app, which in turn did left<->right scrolling, but if it ever hovered over a listview with more elements to display it overtook the left<->right scrolling and started up<->down scrolling... This really felt weird... Very very very wrong!"
This reminds me of a piece I wrote a couple years ago: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/desktop-pcs-arent-g... , which makes a similar point. Both articles are less screechy and less likely to get readers than screaming headlines about OMG DEATH!!!
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I think a big part of the problem with AI is you are trying to map a digital model onto an analog system. There was a story on HN last year, I can't seem to find, that used a genetic algorithm on analog circuits to evolve optimal pattern matching for certain images. The results were good but when they went to build another one it didn't work right because of unmeasured EM feedback and subtle differences between individual circuits meaning every circuit would have to run its own evolution, negating most of the usefulness of the project. Maybe an analog model would be more appropriate.
Yeah. The last major thing for PCs in the past couple years were probably SSDs.
I built a dev/gaming machine back in early 2010. It's stout, but not a ridiculously expensive (~$1,000) behemoth. The only thing I've done since then is toss some more RAM in so I could have two sets of triple channel DDR3 instead of one. I can still run just about any modern AAA game at the highest settings.

The only time I felt like I've needed an upgrade is while playing Planetside 2, which is/was very CPU bound for my setup. However, when it was initially released, Planetside 2 ran like a three-legged dog even on some higher end rigs. It's much better after a few rounds of optimizations by the developers, with more scheduled for the next month or two.

I dual boot Linux boot on the same machine for my day job, 5 days a week all year. For this purpose it has actually been getting faster with time as the environment I run matures and gets optimized.

As good as it is now, I remember struggling to keep up with a two year old machine in 2003.
That looks pretty interesting. I'll have to show my dad this stuff - he's a cartographer that specializes in Adobe Illustrator and makes large print maps. He's been looking at easy ways to transition to the web while maintaining high visual customization.
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>So pedestrians in New York City are able to J-walk, ignore walk signals, weave around moving cars, buses, and trucks

J-walking is illegal in NYC as far as I know.
Looks pretty shit on latest Android Chrome too: http://imgur.com/PGQaM6n
C++ library is not something that is supposed to be very useful, it's something that is supposed to be available. I, for one, never used that library in my 15 years of professional programming.

Even though the library is covered by the same standard as the language it's not a part of the language and, in practice, is not even available all the time.
I personally find those wonderful in prototyping but it's rare that I control both ends of a JSON pipeline so it's important for me to write custom schema.

One thing I've found really useful is generating ADTs which have structure that's driven by the exact format to make the TH derive a correct To/FromJSON instance and then exporting it abstractly and having lots of Lenses which specify a more Haskell-friendly access pattern.
We are working on the UI for exposing it to OSS. The issue is right now we are not doing GitHub OAuth for OSS repos, so we can't know who should be able to configure the settings for t a repo. This is something we're addressing.

In the mean time, if you email hello@codeclimate.com we can configure it manually for your OSS repo.
Mainly we don't need new ones because the 3 year old one is still doing the job. That wasn't the case a decade ago - your 3 year old PC was seriously out of date and couldn't run most games released that year and probably not install the latest OS release. This rapid progress has flattened out considerably. Now people upgrade to get nice features such as retina displays or SSD drives, but that's optional (so you don't do it if you don't have spare money laying around) and the benefit is much smaller than going from a 90 MHz Pentium to a 450 MHz Pentium III.
There really is no such thing as "fully thought out" here w.r.t what the customers will actually do with it. If you look again at the article, they went through this kind of progression:

- Best guess at a starting price model

- Revisited price model after poor test performance. Did research, revamped model based on research

- Revisited price model after poor test performance. Simplified plan to match the philosophy of business. Performance greatly improved

It's about testing the ideas, not keeping them in your head. What you think works and what actually works are often counterintuitively different.
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> You know, leaving your current program and starting up a new program is horrible for maintaining flow

I don't "leave" my current program to open a new one. I can have more than one program open at the same time. Many (most?) programs do not open in full screen.
Your argument about grouping is valid.

Solution, search for your most used programs, right click and pin to start screen or taskbar.
So Good Old Fashioned AI[1] is the new hot underdog AI thing now? I seriously don't understand the praise of Hostadter in the article and in the comments here, and the criticism of the mainstream AI research, especially it is very hard to find any precise details of what he does and what are the outcomes.

There have been attempts to understand intelligence with intelligence (logic, symbols, reasoning etc.) for 30 years, to not much effect, now AI and machine learning are advancing quite steadily, so why the snark? All evidence suggests that the way the brain itself learns things is statistical and probabilistic in nature. There are also new disciplines now, like Probabilistic Graphical Models, which are free of some of the traditional downsides of purely statistical methods, in that they can be interpreted and that human-understandable knowledge can be extracted from them. This is something that really seems promising, and to some extent is an union of the old and new approaches, despite the claims of a big division, but it is hard to see much premise in purely symbolic methods invented merely by some guy somewhere thinking very hard.

I for one am very happy that people seek inspiration in the way human brain works, that's what science is, if you just come up with things without consulting the real world it's not science, it's philosophy, the one discipline that has yet to produce a single result.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOFAI
I've never gained anything beyond mountains of spam from IT recruiters from LinkedIn.

Does anyone (here or anywhere) gain anything from LinkedIn?
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There seems to be some confusion here. Covering an Apple product announcement isn't "tech news" its the the "tech news" equivalent of People Magazine. You can't look at their coverage and say its stealing coverage away from "real tech news" any more then People Magazine steals eyeballs from the Financial Times.
I'm someone who's happy you put the proofs in there.

As soon as I read "has no designated leader" I stopped reading and skimmed through to make sure safety and liveness proofs were in there somewhere before I spent any significant time reading the rest.

This feels like it's probably a nice advancement over S-Paxos and I'm looking forward to getting through it -- thanks for making it accessible.

Also, this is awesome: "Copyright is held by the Owner/Author(s)"
I recommend 'BBS - the Documentary' by Jason Scott, episode #8. It should be available on YouTube. It is about the SEA vs. PKWARE controversy.
Does this guy not get how journalism is structured? The senior reporter handles the big stories. The lesser reporters handle the tech releases. It's a bit muddled in the modern digital world but not as much as this guy would like to have you believe. Got pages to fill and there is too much news for a single person. Look back at any major story. The explosive headline/story about the JFK assassination or 911 was followed a few sections in by home and gardens, and entertainment. I've seen many more NSA stories since the Snowden story broke than apple stories both here, other tech blogs, and general news sites I follow.
Well whatever the case, they get coverage because they know it will get attention and interest from people. They write whats gonna be read. Either thats people reading how bad the new Apple products are or how new and innovative they are.
Congratulations!

I just released my first app on the Windows 8 App Store the other day, but went about it a little differently. I decided to build the absolute simplest app I could think of – the kind of app that really could be completed in 48 hours.

The goal of this app was to get something into the store. Even if I don’t get any downloads, this app served its purpose for me. Now, I have the whole infrastructure in place for my future apps. I have a checklist of what I need to do. My accounts are all set up. I’ve seen some of the potential bumps in the submission process. Having successfully been through the process once, I don’t have that in my mind as some huge hurdle, which could demotivate me from even starting another app.

Now it’s time to focus on building something that solves a problem that people are willing to pay for.
Cool! I have been looking for an article like this. Thank you for sharing.
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> The performance of a PC from five years ago is probably adequate for web browsing and office tasks. For anything more demanding, the advances in power consumption, execution efficiency and process node are huge leaps from five years ago.

Anecdotally, my machine is approaching four years old and I can still run just about every new game on the highest settings. At just under $1,000 at the time, this isn't a luxury yacht type rig, either.
Just making sure I didn't miss anything, thanks!
I still use my 5 year old desktop (upgraded twice) for development. I like to open box and upgrade it myself , if I want to do similar on laptop I think twice . Freedom to upgrade it yourself is a bliss.
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Was this written in javascript directly, or compiled to javascript from another language?
Right, that's what it means to say that the market is dying. But if you need to feel clever, feel clever.
Well, before I open an account, can you please explain how this is better than using jslint?
~$1,000 sounds quite cheap for a gaming machine which can still run any modern game at highest settings. I remember I built mine at about the same time (2010) for $2500, top notch video card, fastest cpu, lots of ram, but its 2013 now and I can not say that it runs any modern game at highest settings.
Love seeing your posts, but would appreciate when I see 'em here, especially when posted by a founder, some mention of your YCombinator Summer 2012 status and backing.
Good point, well made.

Personally, I upgrade incrementally, and I still use my PC on a regular basis. The machine I have now is a hodge-podge of parts from different ERAs. I have an Intel Q6600 but DDR3 RAM, and a modern, quite beefy graphics card that I bought when it was in the upper-echelons in early 2013. It runs most modern games pretty well. I have an SSD for most software but also three big HDDs, one of which I've had since my first build in 2004.
Google is trialing it for a few carefully selected cases. But even in those cases:

- It's not a 100% bet that searchers are looking for the company website. Some will still want stock prices or wikipedia or travel sites or whatnot. For these cases this is a banner funeling more traffic to the company website with a forceful "more pixels" approach.

- If the company starts to hit the media for something (especially something bad), this helps them do it.

Anyway, I think this 'alternative to DNS' argument is kind of circular. If everyone is looking for the companies' homepage Google's paid & organic "sitelinks" (triggered by exactly these cases) take up most of the screen real estate. The company website already gets most of the traffic. Some people still want a wikipedia link or whatnot. These banners are designed too suck up a few more of the undecided and presumably perform some branding function (especially if only a few big companies are allowed to have these).

BTW, I think it's google's right to sell banners. It's their damn website. There's the same conflict/impartiality issue interest when any info/media business is selling ad space. But I also think this is part of an evolving ethos. The initial ethos was small text ads instead of big flashy screen real estate. Those ads needed to get clicks with an attractive message. They were available to small business just as they were available to meg-corps, pay for what you eat style. These banners are screen real estate auctions available exclusively to big boys. Adwords shooed away the 'internet entrepreneur' types. Over the years natural search has (as part of anti spam campaigns) been burying smaller businesses. Adwords focuses much less on SMEs these days too.

As I said, I'm not calling foul. Their website. Advertising is legal. I'm just calling duck.
Well, "modify" could mean to just add !#/usr/bin/python2 to the top, right?
Looking at the Code Climate page it has taken me a while to figure out what Code Climate actually is, and I'm still not terribly sure.

It's also given me the thought that a site where people can sign up to submit code for review and have their code reviewed by someone, which might work well for single developers or very small teams.
I agree this article doesn't sound like a hit piece. If you want to read one that does, this short statement from Arc's developer is a good read: http://www.esva.net/~thom/philkatz.html
CPUs have not gotten significantly faster in the last couple years, especially at the high end.

Back in Q1 2010 I got an Intel Core i7 980X which benchmarked at 8911 according to http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7+X+980+...

Now in Q2 2013 (3 years later) the very top of the line processor available, an Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2, is only twice as fast at 16164: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2690+v...

It used to be that things got faster at a much faster rate. And until this new E5-2690 v2 was released, the fastest CPU was only 14000 or so, which is less than 2x as fast.
*startups and investors :) Unless you're finding investors in investors, inception style.
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Thinkpad T60 purchased (refurb!) in 2007. Still a rock solid machine. It does get a little warm though..
The upgrade to SSD was glorious. Like 386 to pentium. Watching my machine boot that fast made me grin for months.
I'd be curious to see if anyone is/admits using nootropics and, if so, what has worked for them. Ive tried L-Theanine and Huperzine A myself. I'm not daring enough to try anything more serious.

Huperzine A did have a noticeable effect on memory.
Ditto. I believe it's a combination of the small text width and the low contrast gray on white. Perhaps this looks great on retina displays but not my 1280x800 display.

http://imgur.com/dzdi7nF
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Agree , even for development you can compile almost all programs light or heavy on a powerful machine built 3 years ago.
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the article is falling under fallacy of assuming the wrong sample. Of course the author wouldn't buy new PC because he can upgrade his old one. Heck, almost any tech-savvy people can in fact upgrade or build one from the scratch. If not, chances are that you know at least one person who can help you and after the first time, it just gets easier.

the PC market isn't dead, it is slowly receding and it won't stop. It's because of the new alternatives, and assuming finite budge, when you get one of the alternatives, which cost roughly around a consumer-level laptop, you don't have enough for another PC that you don't need.

The article to me seems extremely narrow in both its oversight and scope. People don't care about processing power not because it's a marketing gimmick, but because they don't care. People who do care are the ones who know enough to care, and they will always be minority.
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I'm typing this on a PC where I did the same thing as the author. Over the past 10 years, I've swapped out a part every two years or so to keep it running the latest and greatest. But the CPU is five years old and still running fine. I'm planning to donate it to a non-profit to replace a computer that's almost 10 years old and also still running fine.

There was a time when you felt like a new PC was obsolete the second you took it out of the box. But that was because we were just scratching the surface of what we could do with new hardware. We're now at a point where it's hard to find consumer and business applications for all the spare hardware that you can afford.

Mobile adoption has been so quick because everyone is buying devices for the first time (tablets), or there is an incentivized two-year replacement cycle (phones). But I'm still using an original iPad that works just fine, and a 3 year old cell phone with no reason to upgrade. Eventually, I think we'll start to see the same leveling off in mobile as well.
Not sure on this issue. Email phoebe@livrada.com and she can help you out and get it fixed. I bought the books but I don't run the e-delivery side.
It doesn't actually need to store it to log in again. The next time your phone connects to linkedin's proxy, it will provide the password again. Yes, this is basically the same as omnipresent, but not quite. If the servers are confiscated/stolen in a powered down state, the passwords aren't there to recover. You can immediately limit your exposure by not using the service. There are no backup tapes to accidentally go missing.

Also, while rare, the client could theoretically be using something like kerberos to authenticate, even over tls. The password exchange is secret, but the data contents would not be. I don't think the iphone supports kerberos, though.

(All this is not proof that they aren't your storing password, just that it's feasible for linkedin to merely pass it through. And possible, though not probable, for them to never even see the password.)
A promise made by Marissa Mayer, who, as most of us know, works elsewhere now. Sure, the promise was arguably on behalf of the company, but "under her watch" is also arguably implied.
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Thanks for the kind words :) Glad you're digging the series!
I'm noticing the same as well with my retina actually.

The power drain differences are significant enough for me to swap back to safari.

I was getting ~7 hoursish (hard to tell I tend to compile/browse/etc) before and now it looks more like 5. Which is disappointing to be honest. Though using non "best for retina" seems to kick in the discreet gpu more often now.
> There's a persistent notification that never goes away, even after you tell Android not to allow notifications from the app (no idea how they did that, never seen another app do that)

This is actually a bug in Android 4.3 and nothing malicious on Blackberry's part. While fixing a bug that allowed apps to start foreground services without a notification icon, Android 4.3 inadvertently broke user disabling notifications for foreground services.
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the idiom "do everything [one] can to..." clearly means both "try to" and "want to".

Indeed, even if you get rid of the hyperbolic "everything [one] can to", you're left with just "do", which is a superset of "try to" (although not "want to").
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I don't know which conclusion I had about this was more useful:

1) I don't need to buy a new PC every two years anymore
2) Someone should make a tablet with slots so it can be upgraded like a PC
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Thanks! Somebody finally said it! (or at least this is the first blog post I read about it)

If any, what is dead is the software need for the Moore's law
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I only see the ad when I search directly for "Southwest Airlines". For example, search for "Southwest check in". Southwest Airlines is the number one result, but there's no ad on the page: https://www.google.com/#q=southwest+check+in
"For what" is the obvious question. Web development with a remote testing environment, office applications, email, web browsing - sure, a Core 2 Duo is more than good enough if your software environment is kept in order. Audio / video / photoshop, gaming, developing software that does math, data analysis - you can never get fast enough.

The limiting factor is if your computer's feedback loop is tighter than your brain's perception loop. If you can type a letter and the letter appears, your computer is fast enough for word processing. But, if you can run a data analysis job and it's done before you release the "enter" key, it just means you should really be doing better analyses over more data. Certain use cases grow like goldfish to the limits of their environment.
The problem is that "tech journalists" tend to actually be business journalists. They aren't investigative journalists looking to uncover the workings and untrue assumptions of society increasingly dependent on tech. Most of them do just want to cover new companies & new products & other business news. Many of them invest in those very companies or have spouses in that business community. Yes it is a problem the way tech covers Apple compared to the way tech covers NSA. But what it reveals is that tech journalists aren't the type of journalists we need (definitely not journalists in the 4th branch of government sense) and that investigative journalists need to learn more about tech.
For many of the most common business and consumer applications (web browsing, using MS Office), adding a more powerful computer just doesn't do that much for you. Power users will upgrade their old machines, but most users will just keep using them.
What ever the bill-payer wants.