skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" has anyone seen a failed CPU piece which has failed during normal operation?"

Several. But I'm lucky in that I worked for NetApp for 5 years which have several million NetApp filers in the field that were all calling home when they had issues, and Google which has a very large number of CPUs all around the planet doing their bidding. With visibility into a population like that you see faults that are once in a billion happen about once a month :-).

Two general kinds of failures though, the more common one is a system machine check (the internal logic detected the fault condition and put the CPU into the machine check state) which happens when 3 or more bits go sideways in the various RAM inside the mesh of execution units. Nominally ECC protected it can detect but not correct multi-bit errors. Power it off, power it on, and restart from a known condition and it's good as new.

The more rare occurrence is that something in the CPU fails which results in the CPU not coming out of RESET even, or immediately going into a machine check state. When you find those Intel often wants you to send it back to them so they can do failure analysis on it. The most common root cause analysis for those is some moderate electrostatic damage which took a while to finally finish the process of failing.

Some of the more interesting papers at the ISSCC are sometimes on lifetime expectancy of small geometry transistors. They are a lot more susceptible to damage and disruption due to cosmic rays and other environmental agents.
Godwin alert
http://moz.com/community/q/trailing-slash-at-end-of-url

Here is my understanding about trailing frontslashes.
I am going to check in with my employer, and then make it happen. I have given them some money in the past, but I know they are in it for the long haul and are always a quick search away to help me find something long gone.

As far as I am concerned, they are great examples of what the ethos of the internet should be about.
Just did a quick google search, mostly because I would think being a data engineer for Dr. Dre, even if you got laid off soon after, would be hilarious to have on the resume. The first reference I found was this August 2013 story:

> Beats Music is also hiring to fill 13 positions, indicating that much work remains to be done if this music service is going to launch by the end of the year, as expected. The company is looking for everything from iOS and Android developers to visual designers and an ingesting specialist (the person at any music service who’s responsible from grabbing music from artists and labels and putting it into the system). In addition, it wants to hire a “data engineer,” a “data scientist” to focus on machine learning, and a “senior software engineer – recommendations,” indicating that some degree of machine recommendations will be built into the system.

Here's their current job listings:

Billing Software Engineer San Francisco
Data Engineer San Francisco
Data Engineer, Ingestion - Warehousing San Francisco
Full Stack Web Developer San Francisco
iOS Developer San Francisco
Project Manager San Francisco
Senior Android Developer San Francisco
Senior Data Pipeline Engineer San Francisco
Senior Software Engineer San Francisco
Senior Systems Engineer San Francisco
Senior Windows Developer San Francisco

PRODUCT

Data Analyst San Francisco
Senior Product Manager San Francisco
gensim is awesome, it abstracts very complex algorithms into extremely simple function calls. The models.HdpModel class is very powerful.
It's December. Once done chopping down the trees, it's time to take the axes over the product/staff list in prep for Q1. Kids and start-ups don't get it. Most post-startup companies, especially those in the tumult of M&A by equity better be looking good to the people calling the dance.

Beatport likely doesn't experience a mad rush in the end of year, so they have a decent idea what the revenue/EBITDA is going to look like. 6 devs in SF and some in Denver could easily make that $1M loss on $12M revenue into break even or better... and fast.
Just How Roaring Was 1920s New York?
The only mention of Pig I see seems to suggest it could be used as an alternative to Go for the purposes of the paper, not that Pig is a version of Go.

The list below has both the Google name and the name of related external tools... ...Go [Pig] Go is an open-source general-purpose computer language that makes it easier to do parallel data processing.
Sure, go ahead. My email is in my profile.
http://hackaday.com/2013/10/22/usb-implementers-forum-says-n... - This should be a good artical
Ballpark: Small business, less than 20 employees, and less than 5 years old, and started with unconventional debt (not bank loans). Bonus points to "startup" credentials when software development or new, emerging technologies are involved.

20 50K salaries multiplied by 5 years is five million dollars in labor, never mind the overhead. If you've burned through that much cash and you're still in business after five years, congratulations. Unicorns aside, it doesn't matter if you're in the red or in the black. You are an established business, and not some fledgling twinkle in an investor's eyes.
On the business front, the crowdsourced hospitality site has been experiencing a rough patch lately.

Hence, a salacious story about how their members are hooking up right and left.
"Looks like your IPv6 is leaking"

That's how they define having full Internet access. In other news, your computer is broadcasting an IP address !!!

Private Internet Access is one of the few VPN providers to acknowledge the existence of IPv6, but it's sad that their reaction is to block the protocol and call it a "leak protection" feature, rather than provide actual dual-stack service.
Personally, I thought it was an interesting discussion and was happy to see it on here.
It is like the ultimate yo dawg recursive meme
I used to think Project Gutenberg was one of the most important projects on the internet, then Wikipedia. But the amount of value I'm getting out of Archive.org increases every day. Some examples:

1) I'm a fan of old-time radio because it can be more entertaining than books on tape or the radio for long car or bus rides. Archive.org has an unbelievable collection, literally months of well produced radio plays, including some great classic sci-fi like "X minus 1". https://archive.org/details/XMinus1_A

https://archive.org/details/oldtimeradio

2) On top of hosting a copy of all of Project Gutenberg (almost 40k books), they have numerous other libraries including an awesome collection of scanned Magazines. I'm into old computers and sci-fi, so their OMNI archive (https://archive.org/details/omni-magazine) and an unbelievable collection of old computer magazines (https://archive.org/details/computermagazines) fit the bill. (There's also a pretty big library of classic computer books).

3) It's backed up with an extensive collection of old computer software. https://archive.org/details/software

4) An awesome video archive with everything from archived old computer shows like the computer chronicles https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles to a few thousand old movies, many of which are still worth watching https://archive.org/details/feature_films including "Plan 9 from outer space" https://archive.org/details/Plan9FromOuterSpace_811 and even the impressive (if incomplete) Chrontendo https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22chrontendo...

Though I wish it was a bit better organized, browsing around archive.org, and hitting upon pockets full of awesome like the 5 above remind me of being a kid and going to the central library for the day and browsing the periodical and reference sections and coming across all sorts of great stuff. I haven't been this excited to use the internet in a long time and in many ways it seems like Archive.org fulfills much of the promise of the internet as a repository of all human knowledge.

Sorry if this sounds like a commercial, but it really is that great of a resource.
Well you'll have to fill out a form before paying, so the choices are really fill out a form + pay vs. fill out a form
My immediate reaction is to ask how this reliability characteristic of CPUs affects critical software applications? Certainly some space missions and medical devices out in the field must have surpassed the MTBF mark for the given CPU deployment.
Reform Government Surveillance
Drug trade and cartel membership is a way of survival for many in Mexico.

Blaming welfare for the social ills that come with poverty and the lack of opportunity and resources is quite the leap in logic.

Given your demonstrated inability to process reality, why should I consider your opinions to hold any esteem?
xkcd: Every Major's Terrible
Build your own GameBoy with the DIY Gamer kit
Very good, agree with most of it, especially by leading by example ("modelling others behavior ") and all others.
I'm amazed linum is not more popular in that list (~10% usage).. I definitely thought more people used linum than say something like winner.

Interesting.

Obviously, this type of data submission should be tied into something like package.el, though it is fraught with error.
Cyanite: cassandra backed carbon daemon and metric web service for graphite
Follow step 3 of the 12 factor app methodology, le duh!

http://12factor.net

If you're building apps for public clouds, you really should be following most of those steps conceptually.
Which company doesn't belong?
“Reports about government surveillance have shown there is a real need for greater disclosure and new limits on how governments collect information. The US government should take this opportunity to lead this reform effort and make things right.”
—Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Facebook
Is this officially supported by the companies listed on the page? I dont see references to/from the page to the official blogs/announcement.
This is a good start. Hopefully some telecom and ISP companies sign-up. They've been exceptionally quiet regarding recent leaks despite being a greater threat to privacy than most of these consumer web services.
This has to be the first article I've seen where they actually excluded Apple from the title

edit: Not sure why Apple is included at the bottom but seems to be the only company there that isn't listed in the top set of logos. Not sure if that has any significance or is an oversight or..
Good god, they can't even get their open graph tags right. Tried to share this on facebook: http://i.imgur.com/HDtqrcS.png
That's what I'm confused about. The bottom of the page has

"© 2013. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners".

I guess this is just one person aggregating the information together?
NSA surveillance: tech companies demand sweeping changes to US laws
I thought Facebook had CIA backing?
Running Common Lisp on the iPhone
Any idea why Mozilla is not in that list ? Is it because it's all from for-profit organizations this time ?
I find it interesting how the concept of countries and nationalities seems to becoming less important. Now (as opposed to a hundred years ago) we communicate with people in foreign countries on a daily basis - even countries whose governments have hostile relationships with.

This is definitely a CYA (cover your ass) maneuver designed to mitigate the political hit these companies are taking. At the same time, these companies are acting like countries. They've formed an alliance and they're attempting to make a treaty with the governments that they happen to fall into. It will be interesting to watch the societal change as the importance of countries and nationalities decreases over the next hundred years.
Today's Google Doodle Celebrates Grace Hopper's 107th Birthday
About bloody time, is my immediate reaction. And Diane Feinstein should resign in shame. But I'd be more impressed with MS, Google, Apple et al if they had told the NSA initially to go Cheney themselves.
Maybe this one? I got it when I was a kid, and it's still right there on my shelf:

http://www.amazon.com/Spacecraft-2000-2100-A-D-Authority-Han...
Yes. The press release is here: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tech-company-coaliti...
Thanks for posting this. The code is easy to follow which is always a notable accomplishment. It's also a really good example of github usage including opening of issues, commenting on them, and closing them. And a pretty nice wiki as well.
So I have an old copy of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks here.

10.2 was tcsh, 10.3 was tcsh for user shells and /bin/sh for scripts.

I think 10.4 was the zsh experiment, then 10.5+ bash. We'll see how long bash lasts being a gpl shell.
This is getting ridiculous. The ad empires built on stalking every single breath of every single human want to take governments to task on the topic of stalking. What about cleaning up your own house first?

1. Limiting Corporations’ Authority to Collect Users’ Information

Corporations should codify sensible limitations on their ability to collect and disclose user data that balance their need for the data in limited circumstances, users’ reasonable privacy interests, and the impact on trust in the Internet. In addition, corporations should limit surveillance to specific, known users for lawful purposes, and should not undertake bulk data collection of Internet communications.

2
Oversight
and Accountability

Corporations seeking to collect or compel the production of information should do so under a clear legal framework in which corporations are subject to strong checks and balances. Reviewing courts should be independent and include an adversarial process, and corporations should allow important rulings of law to be made public in a timely manner so that the courts are accountable to an informed citizenry.

3
Transparency About Corporations collecting practices

Transparency is essential to a debate over corporations’ surveillance powers and the scope of programs that are administered under those powers. Corporations should publish the number and nature of collected user information.

4
Respecting the Free Flow of Information

The ability of data to flow or be accessed across borders is essential to a robust 21st century global economy. Corporations should not collect user information in other countries with the intent of circumventing the local laws that limit user data collection.
Im very interested what advantages this has over gitignore?
See also Eric Lengyel's take on this which he calls the Transvoxel Algorithm:

http://www.terathon.com/voxels/
Elsevier Continues Its Efforts To Stifle The Sharing Of Knowledge
Battery Friendly Instant Messaging Apps for iOS
I thought transient-mark-mode was enabled by default in recent releases?

iswitchb-mode seems to do some of what ido-mode (which I've never tried) does.
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...

I like and use RequestPolicy on a daily baiss, but unfortunately the version on AMO hasn't been updated for some time now. There are a number of long-standing issues (like clicking links in the view source view,) including one that allows bypassing the whitelist entirely [0].

>this one has better granularity (you can specify the type of content [...]

Mmm, RequestPolicy's meant to allow or deny cross-domain communications full stop. It doesn't care too much about what happens once it's allowed.

The granularity offered in HTTP switchboard is better suited to dealing with cross-domain "annoyances" than RequestPolicy.

>[...]for each (sub)domain).

Not quite the same, but RequestPolicy allows you to use the effective TLD, full domain, or scheme + full domain + port for your rules (it's under preferences.) By default it uses the effective TLD.

[0] http://blog.saynotolinux.com/2013/11/bypassing-requestpolicy...
Unfortunately, this only works if you want to keep parts of your repository private temporarily, never merging them into master, and not if you want to keep certain files or folders private permanently (when dealing with private API keys and the like).
How about instead of asking the government to make this problem go away, as if it could, you offer products that thwart surveillance?

I'll write you a check to cover the value of those "One weird trick to lose belly fat" ads.
It seems peculiar that Apple is a signatory:

> Sincerely,

> AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo

and their logo appears in the listing @ the end of the page, but their logo isn't in the beginning of the page, and they don't provide a quote from their CEO nor legal counsel, per the other signing companies.

Last-minute change of heart, lukewarm support...?
RG/A and TechStars Announce the 10 Startups in Connected Devices Accelerator
On Internet you have the choice of which service to use, that's the key difference. You don't want Google ? Use DuckDuckGo. You don't want Microsoft ? Use Linux systems. And so on.

The issue with the government is that you are tracked by default, on your mobile phone and on your online activity. You cannot opt out.
Anything totally unrelated to computers, math and hacking! Food, clothing, printed books, sporting goods ... Really, seriously, us hard-core geeks have all the geeky stuff we need and want!
Among other things, this is the tipping point for how Snowden will be viewed.

If all these powerful companies agree, in an unprecedented show of unanimity, that this is an important problem, then Snowden is ipso facto a hero for bringing it to our attention.

The curious thing is, I feel the linkage works in the other direction too. If Snowden had been caught and was now having his brains scrambled by solitary confinement in some secret prison, these companies would have been at least slightly more reluctant to issue such a statement, because it would have seemed to be espousing the cause of someone people were hearing described on the news as a criminal.

Snowden made his disclosures much more effective by escaping.
Anyone with definite proof it's real?
Sorry, I should have mentioned I meant HAMMER under DragonFly, in the sense I can either run a virtualized storage VM or use it on a standalone server. Yes, I don't think there is a working port for Linux.
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4 Traps to Avoid in Business Plans for Startup Tech Companies
What right do you have to build wealth off the exploitation of others?
> we are focused on keeping user’s data secure

ARGH! Close to a trillion dollars of net corporate value, and they can't afford a decent grammarian when they write an open letter to the President?!

(Hint: It should be "users'".)
This. We can make as many comparisons as we want but at the end of the day, if I don't like the way Facebook is doing their business I can just delete my account. I can't just delete my Social Security Number if I'm opposed to the US's continued investment into the war on drugs as well as its military strikes overseas. Nor can I really retaliate to a country on earth where I don't have to be afraid of the government tracking me. You really can't opt out.
Suppose we have a human-written program that's N-bits long. It takes an input, and generates an infinite output by performing some hashing of the input. We run it on an M-bit input to get some output, then stop it manually.

Now suppose we have an input and the output made by this program. But we don't have the program. Suppose we want to discover by brute force what the program was.

The brute-force algorithm will create every possible program up to N bits long, and run each one until either a difference in outputs is found, or it found the correct output, or too much time has passed.

How do you come up with the order-notation for this brute-force algorithm?
Uh, I would like corporate and governmental accountability.
Bin Laden did, which was probably why he was so difficult to track down. My understanding of the situation (correct me if I'm wrong) was that the rest of Al Qaeda and their affiliates were not as careful with their security. He might never be caught using an internet connection or cell phone, but it wouldn't necessarily matter if 90% of his organization did.

Nuances would matter quite a bit, too. Bin Laden stopped using his satellite phone after he suspected that the NSA could listen. But what about the satellite phone made it insecure? The fact that uses satellites? Would a cell phone be susceptible? GSM? CDMA? Only Motorolas? Are land lines secure? What if they're encrypted? What encryption schemes are secure? I don't have the documents off hand, either (sorry), but from what I've heard their overall security was pretty lousy - I remember reading that they were doing things like rolling their own encryption.
I wondered about that as well. Last-minute inclusion seems most likely explanation, but very odd.

If you have ever worked on something like this, you will know that merely getting these companies to agree to have their logos on the same page is a feat. They are listed in alphabetical order, and I imagine there was MUCH discussion about their relative sizes. But it can't be that Apple is disputing their logo size, since it's included at the bottom.
I like this free online version, which shows side-by-side original with corresponding English translation (derived from Lionel Giles work in 1910). The Chinese version shows characters with tooltip-style dictionary entries. Very useful if you are trying to learn the language.

http://www.yellowbridge.com/onlinelit/artofwar.php
The one area where I wonder about this is Children's hospitals. There's been some stories in Seattle because most of the Washington Health Exchange plans excluded Seattle Children's, which may be a problem for families given that Seattle Children's provides services that other hospitals in the area can't and/or don't.

At least one insurance company in the area has responded by electing to cover unique services provided by Seattle Children's, so that's at least a middle ground.
At least in my experience, linum makes Emacs 24 unusably slow to respond to typing. I haven't fully isolated this to "linum" vs "linum and XXX together", but when linum-mode is enabled, Emacs is noticeably sluggish.
Not once does the name "Edward Snowden" appear anywhere on the web-page or open letter!

These companies are simply grand-standing to further their own ambition.

They don't care what happens to Snowden, they deny even his very existence.
How is KitKat Version Useful for Android App Developers?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/dec13/12-08co...
Overrated - particularly in regard to the reqs for Microsoft CEO. Sandberg doesn't have a track record of growing new products. Facebook's new product dev efforts thus far have been either non-existent or woeful.

What about DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman? Four years at the helm of another highly diversified, high tech Fortune 500. Grew their kevlar division from nothing to a multi-billion dollar business.
DIY - Tetris On A PIC Microcontroller
The site just went live at 9:00 PM PST, so that's what FB had cached from the placeholder site beforehand. G+ had the same problem. Mostly this demonstrates a need to be able force a recrawl when generating the thumbnail.
You're not alone. But I feel the only way we can make progress is to actually break the cycle, as hard as that may seem.
I agree, virtual worlds, offshore workers, telepresence and many other new technologies are creating a new global culture that is already beginning to clash with the concepts of countries and governments.

Perhaps a starting point may be the rise of global political parties that can work together across multiple countries?
Why are there so many cleaning startups?