skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correct, see http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40545.pdf . You'll note that even for the lowest quintile this is a decline of over 50%. It would be higher if you just looked at constant consumption, but we don't do that, because our societal consensus is that poor Americans in 2014 do and should treat as standard what Americans in 1960 treated as luxury, including most relevantly, having other people cook for them.

This is because, and I know this statement is controversial, America is radically wealthier at all levels in 2014 compared to 1974.
I don't understand your comment. "Doesn't design and doesn't fab" describes every ARM licensee. Also, this chip isn't going anywhere near phones or tablets. Did you look at the specifications?
It's hot because the tablet and smartphone market exploded, creating a demand for high performance, low-power cores that could be flexibly integrated into SoC's with other parts. With that new market came volume, and in the processor market, volume is important. The reason x86 overtook RISC architectures is that the high volume of x86 chips generated revenues that allowed for massive capital investment in x86 designs. The tablet and phone market is driving a similar process for ARM chips. Right now, there are at least three very well-funded lines of ARM micro architectures: Qualcomm's, Apple's, and ARM's. It's been a long time since a non-x86 platform got that kind of investment.
Don't reinvent solutions to common problems if solving the problem is the goal.

Do reinvent solutions to common problems if learning more about the problem space is the goal.
>Personally I believe Mexico and the US should be equals in whatever future association they make. I see nothing wrong with saying the US should equally be a part of Mexico. It is just easier to imagine the opposite because the US is bigger.

What are you trying to say? Mexico and the United states are very different countries with distinct cultures and ethnicities. Ukraine and Russia are both Slavic nations with very similar cultures, traditions, languages, and histories, and I mean in many ways they are indistinguishable. Now, this doesn't mean I'm saying "Ukraine doesn't exist, or is a part of Russia"; I could equally be saying Russia doesn't exist and is a part of Ukraine.

>Close relationships? Sure. Visa-free entry? Sure. Trade agreement? Sure. Exclusive one way relationship and political meddling in another country's dealings? No way.

I disagree how? I don't think that Ukraine should be assimilated into Russia, or that Russian should be taught in Ukrainian schools even. I just think that the ties between Russia and Ukraine should be preserved, especially because so many people have roots in both countries.
There are three metrics getting thrown around:

* Performance per dollar operating cost (performance per watt is closest to this)

* Performance per dollar capital expenditure (important for desktop systems, where operating costs are low)

* Performance per dollar TCO (sum of the above two)

The third one is the important one.
In Firefox, you can roll back through your history for several days of links, and search the link text. Does your browser keep a history?
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I made a mistake with the forum. It is actually some guys website about working remotely with a forum attached to it.

Here is the forum link:

http://www.workingnomad.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=4
This is based on what we're using at FastMail for our web interface, but simplified and made a bit more generic based on our experiences over the past year.

Our plan is to port our web interface across to this over time.
is it subject to ITAR?
Printing money isn't a tax on wealth, it's a tax on dollar denominated wealth. If I have a $5 million dollar home and a $20 million dollar stock portfolio, and the dollar falls 2% tonight, tomorrow I probably have a (roughly) $5.1 million dollar home and $20.4 million dollar stock portfolio.

That said, I'm not convinced it's a terrible idea. What it would likely do is get businesses to stop sitting on cash reserves... if they do that by increasing production, that might lead good places. If they do it by fleeing into other assets, we'll just see the dollar crater. Increased demand expressed by those whose increase from the money they've been handed is less than their loss from inflation might mean that increasing production is the better move for them. I'm not sure I'd want to bet on it, though. Printing a portion of what is handed out (particularly in down times) seems less crazy.
First, it's a form of redistribution of wealth: assuming it's used with a progressive system of taxation.

I completely agree that we can't know how it will turn out in the long term (but why not try it and scrape it if it doesn't?), but the idea is that individuals could use the income to retrain when forced out of work, and to be able to provide an environment for their kids that give their them at least a chance at upwards mobility.

Again, I don't think it will lead to perfect equality. Nor is it a magic bullet: one pet-peeve is that everyone seems to be concerned with income, but less so with wealth per-se. Some people have proposed a tax on land itself but not improvements to land: I am not trained in economics so I can't speak to its efficacy (perhaps it's an outmoded idea today), but from a moral standpoint such a tax (with perhaps a "homestead exemption" for one's primary residence up to a certain value) seems a lot more fair than an income or property tax (which also taxes improvements to property that benefit the community).
The dumbest thing I've ever done in my career was to start a "founders don't take salary" company after earning a windfall from the sale of the last company I'd been at. Most companies fail. That company was no exception. The personal cost was spectacular.

Most HN'ers seem to be in their mid-20s. Something you'll learn when you cross 30 is that time is more valuable than money. You'll never get the years you spend chasing a doomed idea back. If forgoing a salary seems to be a make-break issue for your idea, pick a better idea.
I think reusing the Opteron name is really not a good idea, since now there'll be x86 Opterons and ARM Opterons. Maybe Apteron would've been a better choice...
Advice question - how far into the linear algebra should I go? I'm currently working my way through a book - and it's not too bad, but I really don't want to invest more than I really need. Any suggestions?
The other ARM licensees have a hook: Qualcomm integrates with its LTE base bands, Apple builds a phone around it, etc. The phone/tablet angle is important because the high volumes in those markets help justify big design teams at Qualcomm and Apple.
Almost certainly, unless they are not operating from within the US: http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/offdocs/itar/p121.htm#C-IV
Mistakes programmers make when putting their blog on HN: not anticipating the traffic and sending 500s our way.
QE carries the implicit promise that they will eventually stop it and destroy some of the money. This keeps a lid on inflation. Start printing money without that implicit promise and away we go with the inflation.
This. She worked to accommodate your dream, have the decency to to swallow your pride for a bit.
Funny how the Gilded Age, a pejorative term BTW, gets a bad rap because a few people got extremely rich. It was actually one on the most economically successful periods in US history. As pointed out by Wikipedia real wages were up 60% in 30 years despite a doubling in population including around 8 million very poor new immigrants.

For comparison we have had around 5% real wage growth over the past 40 years and are having difficulty absorbing a similar number of poor immigrants despite being almost 10 time more populous.

To paraphrase Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to be UNABLE to repeat it."
Hah, I like "pay it for voting"
They got that Mac Pro spot, as well; half the price of the base model is from the GFX cards.
Yep, pretty creepy. But thanks for the tip!
What if you end up in hospital or have a power cut?
I think you are taking these arguments too literally. The issue isn't inequality in itself, it is the degree to which inequality exists. Wealth inequality in the US is at all time highs. Part of this is due to globalization and technology, but a good part of it is also attributable to record low tax rates and business friendly government policy. Meanwhile, tuition at the public university I attended has increased by 400% in the past 10 years.

I don't think anyone cares about rich people driving fancy cars. They can spend their money how they like. Additionally, I don't think we will ever get rid of poverty entirely. The implicit agreement that we have reached as a society is that as long as the government ensures equal opportunity and social mobility, we will tolerate a certain degree of wealth inequality. Unfortunately, that inequality is so extreme that it is negatively impacting opportunity and mobility.
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when in US the ITAR still applies AFAIK - getting any access to or knowledge transfer from ITAR project to non-US person, etc... Looks like starting from 1K plegde - invitation to test fire the engine - may run afoul of it.
Maximizing density and still keeping everything within operating temperatures is one of the toughest parts of data center operations. Not to mention the cost of generating all that waste heat. Many tasks are not CPU bounded, so the ARM is plenty good for them.
What evidence is there that performance per watt is actually better on ARM when dealing with server processors?
You can. I had to do this because my GitHub username (like my HN one) is just my name ("rob") and I was getting notifications from people using @rob in their comments/replies instead of the person's actual GitHub username. :)
This is really cool.

I would love to see more details about how the engines are 3d printed, and the plans for the designs. Will these engine designs be open sourced?

Also, the rewards are a little difficult to parse. A list format would probably be easier to read, rather than one sentence with each reward concatenated to the rest with 'and'. I think having the 'all previous rewards plus ...' is a better format as well, but that is more personal preference.

[EDIT]

Further, there is no break down of how the money will be used. It seems like 'give us money and we'll do cool things with it' but without any clarification of how much money is really needed to do those cool things.

[EDIT2]

There is a pretty amazing blog over at Rocket Moonlighting [0] that contains a lot of details around 3d printed rocket engines. Well worth a look.

[0] http://rocketmoonlighting.blogspot.co.nz/
Just trying this out now. So far I quite like they way they make it super easy to stub out ideas for blog posts. I just stubbed out 15 post I want to write and can now go back in and finish them when I have time.
What random bits on my drive? Oh those, those are left over from testing to see if truecrypt volumes are distinguishable from random data.
Yes, that is my understanding. I believe that unless they are entirely non-US based, this would be subject to ITAR.
Why is slate doing this? Shouldn't we be teaching every point of view the students are going to encounter objectively instead of censoring "unwanted things"?
Goonswarm six or so years ago would raise 20-30k a year from donations to pay for colo and bandwidth. All hardware was donated from corporate IT takeouts.
And clock speed can't be compared across (micro)architectures either - remember the days of NetBurst P4s?

As far as I know, x86 (P6-based) is still king in IPC.
I have a feeling history is going to repeat itself. Statements like "AMD believes that it will be the leader of this ARM Server market" reminds me of the DRAM boom-and-bust from 2006-2009. The new (old) hot technology froths the market into a frenzy and semiconductor fabs start rushing to get a slice of the action.

Does Qimonda ring a bell to anyone?
Unfortunately once you start doing that it loses its appeal because its foundation has been ripped out from beneath it.

First you start with basic civic duties. Then there are the things that are a bit more problematic in principle but'd still have a broad base of support--denying it to murderers and pedophiles and then all of a sudden anyone who's been convicted of a felony. Then, whoah, anyone who's committed a misdemeanor, and then you've got to start pre-emptively giving drug tests to anyone who might want to claim it. And then you add in ideas like "well, if you're disabled or a civil servant you should get more" and "obviously if you're a billionaire you shouldn't get any," and then if you make seven figures, then six, then five. And then "well, people shouldn't be spending money on Obamaphones, let's make it so that only food and housing can be purchased with it." And then only certain kinds of food and certain kinds of housing, TBD by policymakers and the helpful white papers that corporations specializing in those areas are happy to provide for free.

And then at the end of it all you end up with the deeply broken welfare system we have now, one that encourages dependency, dehumanizes recipients, and incentivizes against work, while simultaneously throwing away huge gobs of social value through administrative costs and corruption.
This has been happening for a long time, and resulted in the Pastafarian movement: venganza.org
This reminds of a joke.

Guy: "So, how much do you smoke"
Girl: "I smoke a pack a day"
Guy: "If you smoke a pack a day, that is 365 packs a day, 3650 over 10 years, and at $20 a pack that is $73,000. if you do that for 30 years, that is $219,000. Just think, if you didn't smoke, you could afford a ferrari"
Girl: "Do you smoke?"
Guy: "No"
Girl: "Oh, so where is your ferrari?"
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Wow.

Talk about showing one's true colors.
Why is slate doing this?

Views. That's about it.
Google cache here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Oq8_jkw...
Yeah, this is obviously a very highly ambitious project, but I think that it is the right sort of ambitious. Even if their ultimate plans don't come to fruition, it should be very interesting to see what they accomplish. This is the sort of project where the journey is as exciting as the goal.

I'm a little surprised to see that they are going with pumped LOX instead of pressure-fed. With engines that small I would have expected the extra hardware to be a poor tradeoff.
No, because anybody who believes in creationism is a completely backward person and incapable of rational, critical thought. Even on the off-chance they somehow come up with something that makes sense on another topic, anything they say is suspect.

So, no, we shouldn't be teaching every point of view, because that'd be stupid.

Similarly, I've flagged this article, because it's just another "ho ho ho look how superior we are to those backwards Southerners yes...."
I would stick with no classes being "fat". Breaking up fat classes into many smaller classes leads to code being really easy to understand, test, and develop. I tend to stick with the Single-Responsibility-Principle and classes do not become unmanageable. Some people argue that many small classes leads to complex code, but I have not found that to be true in any case I have come across.
> Your ISP and law enforcement know what IP addresses are using Tor.

Does anyone have a reasonable estimate on what per cent of Tor entry nodes are known to ISP's, law enforcement, and the NSA?
Thanks for the clarification, I did not realize the two were different.

> Schemes that do taper off create steep marginal disincentives to work

There is no reason the marginal disincentives need to be steep. You could otherwise make the same argument about progressive income taxes. Those don't seem to disincentivize people from making more money, neither does guaranteed minimum income need to.
Fat models are slightly better than having that crud in your views, but they're still an antipattern. Models should describe the relationships between entities in your business, not be the junk drawer for stuff that doesn't go anywhere else.

Fat models are already a code smell, but passing the request object to your model should really set off alarm bells. You've now made it extremely messy to use your models outside of a web context, making it impossible to unit test them, and pretty much wiped out the purpose of the controller as an encapsulation layer.

Domain-driven design (DDD) provides a lot of patterns that help to keep from either having model code in your views, or these types of junk drawer models.

Basically, DDD as it applies to MVC webapps is: If it's a complex query of some sort, create a query repository that returns model objects rather than a "fat" static method on the model itself. If it's a business transaction, create logic objects that encapsulate the biz logic, and service objects that applies the logic to the models. The controller serves as the broker between requests, services, and entities. You end up with much more testable and reusable code this way.
Poverty is a relative term. The article mentions that people compare their lives not to kings of the past, but to riches of the present.
I agree it could be a point of confusion, but anyone buying an Opteron would probably be looking at the CPU specs anyways.
No, that's not the point. The point is that lowering the tax rates on top earners changes the behavior of those top earners. I am not convinced that's true. If I can pay a team of accountants $1 million / year to hide $100 million, then whether it is taxed at 25% or 40%, I'm still as big a fool (or patriot) to hand over 24 million I don't have to as 39.
Wealth/property/capital can definitely exist without a government promise to perform violence on violators.
I don't know if most people find it more interesting or not. I do think there's value in both interests.

I also don't think that arguments against premature optimization are a dismissive attitude toward performance. Avoiding premature optimization is about picking your battles. In an ideal world, you could optimize everything.

But optimized code takes longer to write, and longer to maintain, and in this subideal world, we have limited time to spend on code. The point of avoiding premature optimization isn't to excuse low performance code. It's to give you time to optimize the code that makes the biggest difference.
ARM designs the "IP core" of the processor but doesn't fab anything themselves. AMD brings their own SOC design and fab process.
Pretty sure that happened when Yahoo! paid 990 million for the new Geocities
Thanks for the suggestion; I'll probably end up implementing this in my I2C driver. The temporary GPIO switch won't hurt; at that point, the I2C host should probably get a reset too just to un-confuse it (at least I can generate THAT in pure software).
It is true that any strong symmetric encryption generates data that it is indistinguishable from random for any (efficiently computable) statistical test, but these tests are extremely weak and don't prove anything.

All but the last two only look at distribution of the bytes, meaning that the string "\0\1\2...\255" repeated many times would give the same values, but it doesn't look random at all. The Monte Carlo computation of Pi also ignores the order (sums are commutative).

The serial correlation coefficient only looks at the correlation between the sequence and itself shifted by one, ignoring higher-distance correlations, so it almost as easy to produce very regular sequences that have give very small coefficients.
How about "Opterarm"? :-)
It's a relief that AMD has a performance/watt alternative to bulldozer. I sure hope they can keep being a business so I have someone to buy hardware from that doesn't fuse off features to screw us out of a %65 margin.

Either way, I'm hoping ARM64 will trickle up from iThingies to the desktop so I can buy a CPU with Virtual MMIO without paying an extra hundred bucks.
At least they made the good decision of avoiding a domain name containing a hidden sexual innuendo.
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At this point, hardware crypto engines are a "must have" feature for many purchasers. Their desire for performance outweighs concerns about malicious actors backdooring the crypto engine.

And if the crypto engine is compromised, how little/great of a leap is it to believe there is microcode to backdoor a general OS or crypto library?
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A high school in Pensacola, FL, where my girlfriend studied years ago, got sued by the ACLU for forcing students to pray. Teachers defended the practice, arguing that prayer was acceptable because nearly all the students were Christian.

I wonder how those teachers' perspectives will change over time, as America's ethnic and religious demographics change. If a predominantly Muslim public school requires students to pray, will the teachers in Pensacola start citing constitutional concerns?
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It'd still be redistributive even with a flat income tax (though not a head tax).
Good comment, though I think there's an obvious distinction in that systems can/could be Unix-derived without necessarily surfacing any of the traditional tools/philosophy to application developers or users.

The figure of 50 years in the OP's question is a bit silly. That far out is wild speculation for anyone!
What's a "futurist"?
Oh, nice. iirc, I tried it when online editing first appeared on Github, and it was a bit finicky about rebuilding the page afterwards. Good to hear it works now.

I used prose.io for a while, but ran into a few cases where the preview didn't match what Github generated. It looks like there's a whole new interface since the last time I used Prose, so perhaps that's not an issue anymore. It supports image uploads now, too.
Well, as someone that quite likes the idea of things like social security and universal health care, I wholeheartedly agree that it's wrong to falsely deflate one's salary in an effort to avoid paying into FICA. But I guess it has never been argued to me that beyond the reasonable salary, it should be one's responsibility to pay excess profits as salary rather than distributions. I can't really find a good reason to hang my hat on. I think the entire reason S Corps exist are to encourage small businesses since we otherwise take on a lot of risk, no? Too bad that threads get polluted right when discussions get interesting. :-)
Teachers defended the practice, arguing that prayer was acceptable because nearly all the students were Christian

And this is a clear illustration of why you should never put minority rights up for majority vote.
> do we have any other tv connected devices running android currently?

Logitech Revue, Netgear NeoTV, Asus CUBE, Vizio Co-Star, Hisense Pulse, Sony Internet Player and some LG smart TVs. They run Google TV, which is basically Android 3.2 with a custom launcher. It's pretty meh really; the market has a limited selection compared to phones/tablets and keyboard navigation of Android is cumbersome. The only reason I keep my box around is because it does HDMI-CEC and exposes an API, so I can integrate it into my voice-controlled home automation setup ("turn on the TV and launch netflix").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_TV
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AMD is fabless, so what they bring is an SOC design. But what can they offer in an SOC other companies can't? I guess Hypertransport?
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Basic income with a head tax is an amusing exercise in meaninglessly shuffling bills around.

(... amusing to consider, probably not participate in.)
That makes you actually a massive dick.
The article precisely says you should not pass the request to the models.
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