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From the looks of AMD, Moore's law hasn't just ended it's reversed: CPUs are getting worse every year.

I bought a Thuban Phenom II X4 and an hd5750 about five years ago. If I had known then that AMD would refuse ever again to sell me a CPU with IPC that good, I would have sprung for an X6. In other words AMD can't compete with it's own 5 year old products. An 1100T now sells for more on ebay than a new Vishera; apparently the market has decided that it's more valuable.

Anand's reviewers (Cutress and Garg) almost admit as much, saying "Kaveri is just another iteration of AMD’s APU line up that focuses purely on the integrated graphics side of things, while slowly improving the CPU side back to Thuban levels of performance."

It seems like Kaveri, and AMDs previous APUs in general, are perversely configured so that they don't make sense for any usage case.

--The marketing pushes desktop gaming, but it's worse than most low end GPUs (and old GPUs too).

--It's not an upgrade to my five year old desktop CPU. It's probably worse at lightly threaded performance then similarly priced intel products which are, curiously, not included in this review...

--Apparently most mobile Kaveri will have a 35 watt TDP. If it's turns out like mobile Richland, you'll be lucky to find one anyway. There are 1597 laptops on newegg right now, 9 have high end A10s, and they are all huge.

If they die shrunk Thuban, I would buy it. If they put more cores on Kaveri, I would buy that. If someone would put an A10 in a laptop that wasn't a huge, cheap, POS, I might even buy that. But so far they won't.

So who is this for?

Mobile might be appealing if we care more about gaming than work or battery life, but at this point it's not clear how available it will be. As a programmer, I like the idea of unified memory but that's not a selling point for customers. A friend of mine has a laptop with a recent APU, and she just figured out that it's too slow for minecraft. Telling her about hUMA did not make the sad face go away, true story.

The only place APUs looks good is for desktop gamers who don't have a desktop already, and can't afford better, even by a few measly bucks. I'm not even sure that they wouldn't be better off with a Haswell Pentium and and $50 GPU for the same price, but Anandtech won't tell us...

Did no one else notice that Anandtech's review is posted in the site's "AMD Center", and is "presented by AMD"? I call shenanigans. And people in this thread are calling Anandtech one of the best hardware sites on the the net... Now I'm depressed.
Yawn. Another slightly-too-low spec anachronistic touchbook. I really appreciate that Macbooks don't have touchscreens, because why would you need it on a laptop? The Asus transformer and the microsoft surface make some sense, sort of, because you can detach the keyboard and have a tablet, but these sony laptops that slide to reveal an unusable keyboard, and this lenovo junk that would run XP more usably than android, they are just crap.

tosuiba's ac100 droidbook was at least good looking and quirky.
Algo-Bot: code smarter not harder
Link to Reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1uqym6/as_a...
As an aside, it is H1N1 and has a broad mix of genetic material (human, pig, avian), obviously being transmitted human to human. It isn't generally called a swine flu. And I believe this year's flu shot is effective against this strain.

If a high casualty, large scale pandemic occurs (or when, as many virologists predict) it will dramatically reshape society. High density areas, large concentration workplaces, any pathogen friendly concentrations of people...society will change quickly. SARS had relatively low transmission and a small victim count, but it still caused significant way-we-work damage in the Toronto area.
It happens during the Finished messages. The OP covers the handshake about halfway down, and 72deluxe's Wikipedia link covers it nicely, too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#TLS_h...

In TLS 1.0 and 1.1, the Finished message is protected by HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA1. (RFC 2246, sections 5 and 7.4.9.) (By the way, while there are attacks against MD5 and SHA-1, there are no known attacks against HMAC-MD5 or HMAC-SHA1. Don't freak out.)

TLS 1.1 is the same as TLS 1.0. (RFC 4346, sections 5 and 7.4.9.)

For TLS 1.2, I am uncertain which algorithm is used. See RFC 5246, sections 5 and 7.4.9. It's either HMAC-SHA256 or the MAC defined by the chosen cipher suite, which would currently be one of HMAC-MD5, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA256 or HMAC-SHA384. (As long as your weakest cipher suite's MAC can't be broken in half a second, this doesn't help an attacker.)

Edit: Staring at RFC 5246 a bit longer, I am almost certain that TLS 1.2 will always use HMAC-SHA256. Future cipher suites may define a different algorithm, but no such cipher suites yet exist.

(Edits: This post was basically written one sentence at a time in a dozen different edits.)
9 Awesome Blogs For Startups And Entrepreneurs In 2014
TL;DR: The answer is Brams-Taylor's "Envy-free Cake Division Protocol" [1].

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~arielpro/mfai_papers/BT95.pdf
Steve Jobs' Doctor Wants to Teach You the Formula for Long Life
What's the downside to having a reused genesis block?
Thanks for sharing your experiences. I would urge you (from many years experience in a "previous life") to look for clients who understand the true value of what you offer. That's the only way the client will have "warm fuzzes" in the end and you'll have warm fuzzes plus a healthy business.

If at all possible, I would try and work in some sort of agile process, where the client is paying you by the hour but has absolute visibility into progress and choosing which features to prioritise. In many cases, they will enjoy the experience and insight dragging features around in a kanban board gives them.
Bitcoin block explorer
Resource about Bitcoin block. Information about Bitcoin network and a set of analytical tools for bitcoin block explorer.
I try, and for periods have succeeded, in tracking my diet and weight in detail, partly to support my exercise and partly because I'm prone to over-eating... The biggest challenge is that it needs to be extremely simple. A notebook sort-of works - it's easy to jot something down -, but with the caveat that taking the time to transfer notes and add up calories etc. to actually get any use of it is slow.

Smartphone works for me, but only with an app that is tailored to my workflow. Sensors that could capture lots of it semi-automatically would make a great deal of difference.
Sounds like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_pneumoniae, which isn't a flu or a cold in the common sense. I had it two years ago, with exactly the same symptoms as you. A flu vaccine probably wouldn't have helped you in this case.

Edit: Better link: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000082.htm
he means that the countries are so small (in area) - the size is comparable to a postage stamp (i.e. hyperbole)
There's a quite decent chance that www.dogecoin.com was briefly hacked and hosting malware, and either still is, or Websense hasn't updated since dogecoin.com stopped hosting malware.

Dogecoin is a joke ecurrency, and not even the funniest joke ecurrency. If you want to buy an altcoin, I think PPC is far more likely to make it through 2014 than most.
The only reply to the comment you replied to is yours. Hardly an endless debate. You could have scrolled down just one comment to skip it - now there is an entire screenful of meta debating which has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand, which personally I find far more tiresome.

I think it's a little bit silly to expect discussions about these revelations to occur without discussion of politics. The issue is intrinsically political, and many people are calling for political solutions to the problems. By saying "can we please take the politics elsewhere" you are actually shutting down a very important avenue of debate.
Ask HN: Invite to lobste.rs?
To get an account someone off the list needs to invite you, yet I don't think I know anyone there: https://lobste.rs/u/

Does anyone have an account on the site that would like to invite me?

My HN comment history should hopefully show that I am not an insane troll.
Chrome's renderer has always been extraordinarily ugly coming from Firefox. HTML Forms and font rendering specifically.
Economic Freedom is the freedom for you as an individual to follow your own path. It has nothing to do with individuals vs corporations. Regulations do not make you free.

How free are you to start up a company in any given field? To earn income doing a task of your choosing? To spend your income on items of your own choosing?

That is the essence of economic freedom.

In the details it shows that the USA is still very high in certain areas - like personal freedom in labor mobility - but is getting marked down for continued and excessive debt.

I think the list is somewhat imperfect (Hong Kong is no longer a country, despite it's commendable history of low taxation and personal freedoms, now lost to being a chinese micro-state).

The discussions around healthcare seem to muddy the waters - although it is a hot topic I don't think it really counts for much as most of the countries above the USA have much more regulated or state owned health care.
I have read articles lately when modeling crime like spreading disease it predicts the real world with remarkable accuracy.
My wife and I met on an online dating site. Mainly because we were chatting on the open forum about how weird everyone was, and how fed up with it we were.
I'm not sure about the timeline who released first, but there is popcorn chat app which allows to chat with people who are within one mile from you it was featured here a while back. The functionality seems to be the same less or more.
You have an MBA, can't you leverage that network? maybe some of your classmates has some insight, or maybe there's a university service that helps new companies (there is one at the university where I did mine).

I would definitely try to network as much as I could, go to startup events, meetups, demos, etc. though your product isn't at the demo stage.

I think pedalpete's advice is good as well.
I think the point there is not that fact that Ireland had a major economic crisis, but what the response to that crisis was. My memory on this is imperfect, but I recall all the banks getting nationalised and the losses being pinned on the taxpayer. That would demonstrate a loss of economic freedom in the way the index seems to weight it (lower public debt and lower taxes = higher economic freedom). So I don't see a particular problem there.

If Ireland had followed more of the Iceland model post-crisis (dissolve the entities, prosecute the execs, reneg on debt) then I think the results for Ireland would probably be different.
I'm weird enough to be interested in these kind of things, but the whole site is really .. just fluff. Ignoring that and focusing on the sparse details of the actual thing:

- High-End Android device

- Privacy features in the (custom) Android version

- "Secure communication builtin"

Again, I like the idea. But so far the details match CyanogenMod (with TextSecure for SMS, maybe XPrivacy on top)?
This maybe a bit off topic but,
why did Switzerland get the .ch domain instead of china.
China seems to have a lousy CN domain ,( which reminds me of cartoon network for reasons that are irrelevant here).
History of Rounded Corners
It’s not that curious: Switzerland through their history and neutrality policy have a reputation for being secure and unlikely to bow to foreign influence.
“Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Chamber
It's not just that they're small in size. They're small in almost everything.

Take regulation, one of the things that's considered a measurement. Yeah, the U.S. has lots of regulations about, say, oil and gas and coal extraction. Do either Hong Kong or Singapore even have to think about oil, gas, and coal extraction? The U.S. has farms and ranches that are bigger than a few of those countries. Do those countries need to think about food regulation the way the U.S. does? That sort of thing.

For the most part they're not even in the same universe economically.

And yes, it was a bit of deliberate hyperbole.
Probably because it's not directly technology related? And political.
That's a shame, I happen to like the use of sigils to denote pointer types, to my eyes it makes code a lot easier to read.

Out of curiosity why are they making the change? And will they add the `let x = box Thing` syntax or as an optional addition to the language or will it fully replace the old `let = ~Thing` syntax?
It has been like that before internet domains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
Tempo vs. Interval Training
A few weeks ago, my mom heard about Bitcoin on the news, gave me a call. She wanted to mine BTC. When I explained that mining would not be a viable process considering the inherent difficulty and the age and type of her computer, she was disappointed. I showed her how to buy Bitcoins, how to make an offline paper wallet, and she spent a little money and now holds one BTC.

Once Doge popped up, I called my mom and told her she could mine! I set up her machine, and for a while she was pulling in a few thousand a day. Even with growing difficulty she's mining a few hundred a day. She's excited, and she's learned an absolute ton about cryptocurrencies because of Doge. She thinks the meme is cute, and she's been tipping people on Reddit, and giving away Doge in "real life" as well.

Bitcoin feels unaccessible to people like my mom. Most of the discussions that happen in the various Bitcoin communities occurs at a technological level that limits the kinds of participants involved. Since there are 100 BILLION Doge, it will always be affordable, joke or not, and with the kind community developing around it, it allows people like my mom to get involved and to learn some interesting things that will most likely impact her future.

My mom will hold on to her 1 BTC, sure, but she's using her Doge. She bought a cool trilobite fossil on the dogemarket subreddit, and is thinking of putting up her hand knit scarves for sale.

When 60 year old folks who have never been interested in the intersections of technology and economy start using Reddit and mining and using cryptocurrency, there is something special happening.
I think it's just a (clever) part of their branding; Switzerland has long had an explicit policy of neutrality.

Not a super-reputable source, but succinct: http://www.wisegeek.org/why-is-switzerland-regarded-as-a-neu...

Official Swiss propaganda, but has more info: http://www.vbs.admin.ch/internet/vbs/en/home/documentation/p...
Writer of the top answer here. I haven't looked at the post in a while, it might be that the answer is slightly outdated. BREACH has been released after writing the answer and RC4 hasn't gotten anymore secure, but besides that I don't think it misses that much. Let me know or do suggested edits if there is anything you think should be added!
Interesting history lesson about the Egyptian's use of the duodecimal system.

I believe the last argument is understated: one big advantage of base 12 over base 10 is division by 3. This offers many ways of dividing a time interval into several sub-intervals of identical duration.

For base 60, this intensifies: as mentioned in the post, 60 is the smallest number divisible by 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. This gives tremendous flexibility for dividing a time interval.
Unfortunately, that seems not to be correct. If you read RFC4346 (TLS1.1) correctly, then you recognize that the ClientHello message is comprised of the following data:
- client_version
- random
- session_id
- cipher_suites
- compression_methods

There is no additional hashing involved.

Some of these issues are addressed in later versions. But. And there is always a big BUT: http://f0rki.at/static/slides/f0rki-downgrade-attacks-by-exa...
I will now not got through all the published informations or talks from BlackHat, CCC, and so on. ;o)
How difficult is it really to make a truly open source phone ? All it takes is one dedicated hardware company and a software company coming together.

Hackers have built some amazing hardware in past and we all know about how open source communities have built some of worlds best software. Google, Apple etc. are building devices where they act as gatekeepers and charge us for all nonsensical stuff.
If you make a website there are a gazillion ways to promote it but there is only one way to promote and app. Pay some advertiser and you are totally at mercy of Google or Apple.

Firefox has been doing the right thing so far but they seem to take too much time.
The real test for dogecoin is when the reward cuts in half next month, and then half again two months after that.

We'll see who is mining come May. If they still are, then it won.
Why do you want an invite? It seems to me that it's HN for people banned from HN.

I wanted an invite as well but it's comparatively quiet there. Don't see the point of an account there.
CH is Switzerland's ISO-3166 code. The full country name is Swiss Confederation (which is Confoederatio Helvetica in latin).
I have some friends who got married via an online dating site, but it was a paid one. I get that this problem plagues free sites like OKC or POF - is it also a problem on paid sites?
While usually a good heuristic, such comparisons do not apply when dealing with self-replicating phenomena, like viruses and bacteria. It might be 17 now, but without proper care it could easily get to 7k or 7M.
Mark Zuckerberg Talking About Risk
You could use p2p VoIP.
No, I realize that. I just don't understand what they are trying to gain by using .ch domain name. That people who are interested in privacy and security wouldn't notice that they are a Spanish company and proceed to think of them of a Swiss project? Seems pointless at best and misleading at worst.
> Netflix didn't spend billions building and maintaining the infrastructure, as well as acquiring all those customers.

Neither did the telecoms spend billions in developing movie streaming software, yet they benefited from all the content consumption.

> Telecoms got subsidies to build their infrastructure, but they never agreed to Net Neutrality. Is that fair?

Neither did they explicitly assert that they will be net-biased.
Awesome article, I thoroughly enjoyed it -- sent me on a tangent to learn more about Tracing JIT compilers, RPython (and eventually I started looking for python-interpreted lisp, haha).

blog posts that helps me understand my tools/ecosystem better (rather than just harp on some recent happening in SV, for example) is awesome.
If you can stand to have tiny tabs, set the compatibility mode for Chrome to disable high-DPI scaling and set the default zoom in the browser options to something like 175%. It's a trick that works with many apps.
sounds like a good opportunity for dating sites to do pre-moderation of inbound messages.
I am sure some of it can be caught with a relatively simple classifier (machine learning) and the rest can be handled with mechanical turk.

Another approach would be to have a karma system that over time will filter out the bad actors.
I think it stands for "Confederatio Helvetica", and is the official abbreviations (eg : on licence plates)
My solution would be:

For one coint toss, I get:

(previous winnings) x (1+f) if I win

(previous winnings) x (1-f) if I lose

Thus, w being the number of times I win, I get the total $$ we would have:

(1+f)^w x (1-f)^(1000-w)

But those cases are not equally likely, so we have to ponderate them with a normal law centered at 1000/2, variance at sqrt(1000/4):

(1/(sqrt(2xPi)xsqrt(250))) x exp(-(500-w)^2/500)

So, now we can take an f, calculate the number of w's that put us above 1B$, and sum up the ponderation for each case. Then find the right f that optimized the chance of being a billionaire. This chance is the solution.
Mozilla could take great strides towards this type of phone if they cared. Integrate tor, Whisper Systems RedPhone and SercureText, HTML tracking disabled, etc. I'm surprised their Firefox OS looks and works so much like every other phone out there.
Ask HN: How much will I get for selling this site?
The site makes a avg monthly google ad revenue of around 2k USD. The age is 4 years.
Google page ranking of 2
Alexa ranking avg 22k
Single page:

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/david-agus-rules-t...
NordVPN Double Anonymity VPN Amplifies Your Online Privacy
This is another awesome article on the topic: http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h...

More on the "technical" side (and it's a bit old), but it's still totally worth a read.
Analyses such as this suffer from an overly simplistic model that is wholly detached from actual business reality. One where every company collapses down to one single thing they do.

But that has never been the case for Google, or pretty much any company for that matter. This isn't "new", and Google has always been diverse.

Do people remember what Google's original "business model" was (meaning "how can we scramble to pay the bills on the technology we've built")? They sold search appliances for business: You could buy little rack mount units that would build a search corpus of your network and allow in house searching. The search engine was largely just a demonstration that Google knew search.

They grew from there. Over the years they've sold virtual machines, mail accounts, backup storage, computer cycles, smartphones, entertainment units, laptops, smart glasses, and eventually self-driving car technology and robotics. The Nexus line started as developer units, but it grew into a mainstream set of technologies that clearly Google wishes was much more successful and lucrative. Recall the ill-conceived Nexus Q.

Because they're a big, diverse company. They want to make money however they can. While the common sentiment on the Motorola purchase is always the "for patents" line, is it not possible that they wanted to start benefiting more financially from Android, getting directly in the business that Apple was make so much money in? Success or failure is irrelevant, Google's actions have spoken loudly that they want Motorola to succeed as a device maker, benefiting Google in the long run.

There is nothing new here. Company wants to leverage their strengths to make money. In the same way Apple has never been only a smartphone or computer hardware company -- they want to make a little coin on that app you purchase, the software you buy, the movies you watch, the music you listen to, the services you use, and even the ads they feed you. In the real world businesses tend to be like that.
Or 2 youtubes.
x = random.choice([1, "foo"])

this is given as an example of why Python could never be strongly typed.

Honest question: isn't this solved using Either in Haskell?
Openmoko did that before Android. Sadly, it had a very lukewarm response owing to a not-so-good hardware.
>those dozen or so countries even further down the list than the US do sorta seem like nice places to live

Precisely. I'm not sure topping the economic freedom charts is such a desirable goal for the average citizen.

Here in Hong Kong (#1 on the list) for example, I have the freedom to legally discriminate against employees based on age, appearance, religious beliefs and sexual orientation. I have the freedom to engage in anti-competitive mergers and monopolize the market. I have the freedom to pay peanuts, demand unpaid overtime, require a 6-day workweek, give one-week leave per year and not pay you for breaks. Freedom to run a toxic bus fleet and burn bunker fuel in my ship while anchored 24/7 1-mile from the center of town.

One can argue cause and effect, but I don't think it's coincidence that Hong Kong has the highest income inequality in the developed world[1] and one of the unhappiest populations[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...

[2] http://unsdsn.org/files/2013/09/WorldHappinessReport2013_onl...