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Fab tech has improved at an astonishing rate. The Willamette core (Pentium 4) from 2000 fit 42 million transistors in 217mm². Eight years later, Silverthorne (Atom) fit two cores and 47 million transistors in 25mm². That's nine Atom CPUs in the same space as one Pentium 4.

Today's quad-core Haswell is made of 1.4 billion transistors crammed into 177mm². That's almost 8 million transistors per square millimeter.
>>through multiple non-residence ownership taxation

Can you clarify what you mean by this? It sounds like basically a "landlord tax."

>>reduction in the required number of parking spaces per residence unit

Certainly that would reduce costs in some cases, though it could be problematic in others. eg, many neighborhoods near me already have a shortage of parking (street parking is constantly full), and the zoning only calls for 1 spot per unit. Reducing that would just lead to more problems, and probably parking tickets for residents.

>>reduction in average square footage

That would certainly help, particularly in areas where the land is expensive.
I spend 10-16 hours in front a monitor too (work + come back home, watch movies etc.). After getting flux[0], I immediately noticed a marked difference in how much lesser my eyes were tired by the end of the day.

It takes a day or two to get used to the yellow tint that flux adds, but it makes the screen so much easier to look at. After using flux for a while, you'll be surprised how much a monitor not running flux hurts your eyes - it just feels jarringly bright.

[0] http://justgetflux.com/
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You've made it clear that you were just dumb and they will probably forgive you, just get in contact with a human or email a few people with your story and you should be fine.

https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html

"Apps must not have names or icons that appear confusingly similar to existing products, or to apps supplied with the device (such as Camera, Gallery or Messaging)." Seems pretty strait-forward, correct? You passed the initial screening because the developer has to go through extra steps to release to the public rather than just alpha/beta users. You skipped these steps on several apps and Google banned you, which they should have. They should also have a review process though in-case the user was just dumb, which happens a lot, I've been dumb thousands of times, it's just human nature.

Submitting an app to an App Store is not a simple process. I'm not sure why the author thought he could release 10 questionable apps to the public through a companies App Store without either using the Play stores Alpha/Beta features or ensuring that the app was polished and not misleading to the user.

What if anyone could release a malicious/misleading/fraudulent app to the public Play store with any companies icons and say, "We are just testing.", even with that phrase, the user doesn't know that you are not the company you are impersonating. Now imagine a new developer releasing 10 apps that had the same icons and functionality as other apps, that simply can't be allowed.

The author writes that he thought 30 malicious or misleading apps could be submitted before Google would take the extreme action of permanently banning his account, then he got mad when they banned him after only PUBLICLY RELEASING 3 apps that had likely been flagged and manually reviewed.

TL,DR: Either use the alpha/beta features in Google Play Developers area or make 100% sure that your app meets ALL of the guidelines and policies that they require. With over a million apps in the Google play store Google has to follow strict rules or it puts the user at risk, if they didn't then there would be over a million more junk/malicious/misleading apps on the App Stores, would that really be a good thing?
.doc will never be seen as a static format - there's too many copies of normal Word lying around all over the planet.
Hi, Jan here.

pdq, the last time I built this design, with more fully elaborated processors (control units + multiplier FUs) it took three hours and 16 GB physical RAM on a Core i7-4960HQ rMBP.
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Yep. Recall even that Eric Schmidt was on hand for the iPhone reveal in 2007 and went on stage to tout the device's integration with Google services.
I love that approach, I believe SmartThings uses Twilio as well.

Another potential approach is to do access control using Twilio (make an interface to add/remove authorized numbers via SMS) and store that in a DB on your server
The thing that makes me really insane about this approach is how mindless it ends up being. If you're going to abdicate all responsibility to some set of metrics, it's the opposite of thinking. The numbers become a capitalist lullaby that switches everybody's brains off.

If you're going to work strictly by the short-term numbers, you might as well be the bubonic plague. "Good news! We're up 32% in London! Quarterly bonuses for all the fleas, and gift cards for the rats at the all-hands!"
So... duh. You would need > 1.2 TB to fit all of ImageNet on the card :). Thanks for clarifying, and pardon my brain lapse! Also, thanks for putting this out there - if I get some time I may send some pull requests your way. Awesome stuff.
I'm away from campus now. I'll post if I remember. But for now, this is one of the investigator's website: http://camplab.psych.yale.edu/papers.html

He seems to have a pretty good track record of posting his papers there. This one isn't up yet (for one thing it isn't really fully published yet). Maybe you can check back later...

I know, it's super shitty. I have no idea what I'm going to do when I leave school.
I liked that line too. The worst place to be is in the nobody gives a shit category. I would rather people attack what I am doing than just not give a shit because at least than I have something to work with.
> His suitability for a leadership position is openly questioned by employees in light of his publicly espoused views. Nothing more, nothing less.

No, it's more than that: people are actively calling him to step down.
I don't see how firing someone for an opinion is comparable to firing someone for sexual orientation. Neither should be allowed, but they're fundamentally different things.
> Are my bitcoins on the card insured against loss or theft? Can I reverse the transaction if I get stiffed?

Depends. Are you using a service that provides it, and are you willing to pay for it?
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people (including myself) just need the feed. I personally preferred the clean approach because outside of Events, I never need the left navigation. Now it obnoxiously takes up a segment of the page and the main content in the center feels tight especially with the bigger typography.
You make me think of QWERTY keyboards and how they remain the most common format globally in spite of being intentionally designed to be inefficient.

Some people seem to believe in an "ideal world" and let that interfere with interacting with actual reality in a practical way. Things need to be backwards compatible with user experience to succeed. New designs sometimes simply are not that.
I recall this http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/210s3t/keep_digging...
I agree, it's a good mission statement for the site, but it can get lost in the general HN haze of Silicon Valley and web startups.

I work in a very different part of the country on very different things than the majority of HN as far as I can tell, but I do enjoy reading the comments and articles posted here. It bums me out when people are down on things that don't fit within that SV sphere.
Of course, you have to take into account advertising performance. I don't have any figures to back this up, but I haven't seen any to the contrary so I'm going to hypothesise that ads on a really nice site that people enjoy using are going to do better than on a site that's horrible and pisses people off. Plus, the former gives people more spare time to click ads and buy stuff. I don't think the 'more time viewing pages with ads on = more money' is the full story.
There isn't really any useful information in your reply here. Apples "Consumer only" market share is still less than 20% and if you include Ipads..... as a PC replacement their market share is still only around 15% (though that data is a year old apple only had about 25% growth last year which makes it a wash in the over all market so those numbers are still pretty truthy-ish)

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/14/2706292/apple-ipad-compute...

Part of the point of my post was to show how people assume statistics in their head without doing something as simple as a Google search. Saying that market share isn't a significant measure is silly because, well its a measure of how much of the market actually uses apple.

Which leads us back to the original point, the fact that you feel that the numbers must be significantly higher is only a representation of how apple has captured the minds and hearts of people around the world... Marketing
I think you're definitely right that a non-arbitrary number of people fit that description, but I think most are likely similar to me in that I downloaded Instagram because my friends were on Instagram - If Facebook had created a photo sharing/editing app this good directly into their news feed, I kind of assume it would have been a hit. Who knows though...
But they don't also process credit cards. I'm sure it'll be very convenient for developers to have everything under one service.
Interesting points. However, it's a bit hard to complain about it being slow (#3) considering the enormous complexity involved, no? I remember compiling things on a 486 (when I got into Linux) being pretty damn slow as well for anything substantial.

I don't mean to excuse the manufacturers, but at the same time they seem to be selling into a pretty small market and it's not clear to me that opening things up will magically lead to a big expansion in chip sales that will negate the competitive risk of being the first to open up. If you have time, I'd like to learn more about this since you seem to have a lot of experience with this technology.
You mean treatment. Treatment makes you feel better. A cure, uh, cures you of the problem.
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Nope, the military isn't as strong in Turkey as it used to be. Jailing a bunch of top generals will do that.
Looks great judging from the docs, anyone using this? Care to share any experience?
Or, that Nokia has Android app store.
Thanks for both of your comments. They remind me of something I recently learned from a General Assembly Front Row class - that there are passive and active approaches, both of which can be equally valuable, to solving every problem.

@jtfrench, you've outlined a passive approach for an individual to take in the sense that this is something you can do internally to adjust your expectations and envision your success.

@bane, you've outlined a proactive approach for an individual to take in the sense that this is a proactive tactic one can use to find jobs.

I believe if individuals both take these, and other, passive and active approaches they will best position themselves for success. At the same time, there is a third part of the equation - which is the role of others in someone's success. This begs the question: what are the passive and active approaches others in HR and in the community can take to mentor, prepare, and offer opportunities to diverse talent?

Ultimately, we all need to work together to proactively bring diverse talent on board, since as the article points out, "this casual discrimination has been bad for business."
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Who is this 'users' you talk about?
thanks. the OP is such a tease with all the missing details. long form ftw.
I actually did something similar to that for a bachelor party - there were 10 of us, combinations of iphones and androids. Rather than having everyone exchange phone numbers for a group SMS, I asked everyone to text their name to a twilio phone number. (XXX-XX-PARTY)

If the twilio number received a text from someone not in the db, it added it. If it was in the database, it would prefix any message they sent with their name: and send the text to everyone else in the db.

Worked out great. Cost me about $20 for the weekend though. :)
Somewhat tangential, but the open hardware laptop that bunny and xobs are designing has a built-in FPGA, so you aren't the only person who thinks it would be nifty to have one. Personally, I think it'd be lots of fun to hack with and would open up a lot of interesting projects (perhaps a port of the 2048 game to an FPGA??).

http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
Safety for the merchant. First off, funds don't need to be checked, there is not a card status or funds available, address is not necessary so all of those things are problems cards have that Bitcoin doesn't; they aren't relevant.

It is just as safe to accept a 0 confirmation transaction as it is to accept a credit card. In both cases, the transaction could be essentially reversed either by a double spend or by a charge-back. And frankly, a charge-back is far more likely than a double spend.

In both cases, the merchant is equally out. Bitcoin typically clears in less than an hour while cards don't clear for months. There is far more risk of a charge-back in months than there is of a double spend in the milliseconds it'd have to occur to be successful.

Cards offer more safety to the consumer of a fraudulent vendor of course, but that's the nature of cash and that's when you use escrow if it's big enough to worry you. However, fraudulent customers are far more common than fraudulent vendors; it's the vendors who need the most protection here and it's the vendors the current system disfavors.
This is so awesome! Question: (I haven't used servos much) Will this still allow the regular key functionality to work? Can you turn the servo manually or is it resistant?
> I work in a very different part of the country on very different things than the majority of HN as far as I can tell, but I do enjoy reading the comments and articles posted here. It bums me out when people are down on things that don't fit within that SV sphere.

Agreed. Hacker News doesn't always mean Silicon Valley News.
Pattern 5: use the iterator pattern that Go ships with, e.g. in sql.Rows: http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/#Rows.
Do you know if the process parallelizes well? If so, this seems like something that high-end temporary AWS instances could help quite a bit with.
So you're arguing my general argument is invalid because in the specific example I use, you claim the board is racist. You then go on to claim that social principles aren't interchangeable and public opinion would eventually obliterate them. My question is, if public opinion has always been and always will be anti-racist, how did so many racists get on the board of not just a single company, but the majority of companies in the 70's? Not to put too fine a point on it, but your belief that principles aren't "interchangeable" (I think you meant "changeable" or "subject to change"?) is provably wrong.
This might not be true of https traffic, since the intermediate servers that route to the destination may be compromised.

But it should be true of Tor, Freenet etc. right?
Would be really interesting to put a number on "users hate change".

Based on my own experience at a company where we actually researched this stuff, the number I would forward is 30%. Given an existing user base, on average 30% will hate any given change to their user experience, independent of whether the that experience is actually worse or better.
They're honestly not that hard to bang out, a quick custom query and at the very basic level a javascript SetInterval.

It's a bit like shell scripts or build scripts or starting to use a new source control system, once you've done one any more takes no more than an hour.

It's just that first one that takes a day.
You'll likely need to add some kind of method to turn off the servo when it is not actively in use. When a servo is powered, it resists being turned manually.
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I agree, but it still has a ways to go. They are embracing open-source more and more, but they need to spend time making it easy for open source developers to make their projects work well on windows. Usually with multi-platform development, vagrant is one of the best solutions out there, however the support for using Windows VMs with vagrant is horrific.

If anyone at Microsoft is reading this thread, please for the love of god spend some time on vagrant-windows, the WinRM gem and making it easy for us to make open-source projects available on windows. It's a nice gesture to make InternetExplorer VMs available for website testing, but if you can't easily automate the testing via tools like vagrant it's really only half a solution.
> I'm pretty sure that helping to remove a civil right from a group of people can be taken as discriminatory.

Sure, he holds views that some people should be discriminated against, and contributes to political causes advocating that. Lots of people hold those kind of views, and lots of people hold other objectionable views. My objection is to punishing him at work for that, and that alone.

I'm fine with Mozilla employees deciding that they're better off somewhere else, because they don't like their boss for any reason. That's their decision about who they associate with.

I think it's more of a problem when they decide he should be somewhere else because they don't like his opinions, or his political actions. I think that's discriminatory, and a large problem in a free society.
A most truthful argument. However I think that in relation to the OP its important to ask Cui Bono. This is most definitely to the benefit of apple and its shareholder, and so reflects less value to the overall population of technology users.

Assuming you don't want to get into the hocus pocus circular math of trying to figure out the value of how Apples profitability is driving competitive innovations in the greater share of the market(i.e. there would be no Microsoft surface tablet today without the ipad)
There some of us engineers go again, playing checkers for temporary baubles with those who play chess and for keeps and the deed of the land the game is played upon, never mind the milk and cow. If the most the fevered imaginations some engineers can come up with on an upside scenario of this wage-fixing affair is "thermonuclear bidding war for engineers", then this subset of engineers as a group don't believe the power of their own constructions, and deserve to lose control over what they make.

This period we live in today is where we are still building the nascent infrastructure of what is likely going to be looked upon as a seminal and epochal change in the species' economic (at least, if not other areas of human endeavor) development in the far (10+ generations) future. Another impactful change like this won't happen again for a long, long time; this is mass adoption of the printing press change, modern banking practices establishment type change. Entire Great Law of the Iroquois spans of time (seven generations) pass without these types of changes. We would likely need some development like perfecting self-sustaining fusion power or Drexlerian nanotech to arrive at such a pivotal moment again.

If you do not want to bemoan in late life regrets for not seizing this historical moment and for leaving it to non-technical people to seize it instead, then the wage-fixing should be a clear signal that what we build has far more significance than technical accomplishment in exchange for temporary compensation. There is vast wealth being constructed here, and lots of non-engineers are intent upon seizing control of it. Wage-fixing is a tool of such control, but not in the obvious manner. The subtext not explored sufficiently is the wage-fixing serves a larger purpose: wages high enough to keep employees satisfied to stay on (and the wage-fixing "encourages" them to stay in one place), but not quite high enough to cause too many of them to literally afford the opportunity to strike out on their own and capture a slice of the wealth being created by using their creative efforts to build their own piece of the emerging wealth. That to me is the more meaningful aspect of control about the wage-fixing. The mentality of the top leadership at these companies is decidedly not cornucopian-oriented in the time frames they operate in when thinking about employee compensation, so leaving and successfully building anything on your own is a straight zero sum loss to them (because time preference differ between the parties).

I don't need to be telling HN readers this as here lies gathered an immense pool of people breaking out and building their own piece of the future wealth horizon; that's preaching to the choir. But the wider technical audience needs to be informed about this battle for control over a future wealth source of humanity.
Its better than closing the options by limiting stuff to yourself when you seeing that users are not where you think they are.
I wonder how many people would have bet on GPUs in the late 90s. Even high-end 3d chipset were ousted quite brutally (3dlabs, evans & sutherlands) from the gpu market by small 'gaming' companies. And now they invade server side computations... quite funny.
1) FPGAs are not easy to develop for, and totally different from the skillset of a Photoshop developer. It is not as easy as dreaming up a design and pressing a button; if you are anywhere close to pushing the envelope it takes expertise & time.

2) GPUs, being purpose-built and mass-marketed, are both much cheaper and much faster. Think of the Ford Fiesta ST vs. a Jeep Wrangler. The Jeep is simple & more reconfigurable, yet is slower and more expensive- for exactly those reasons!

3) GPUs and CPUs compliment eachother well. The only gap is heavily parallel branching code- GPUs are bad at if-statements, CPUs are bad at heavily parallel. But a branch predictor is the key to if-statements, and branch predictors are hard.

FPGAs are fundamentally a prototyping tool. Can you think of examples of prototyping tools that eventually broke into the main market, replacing the incumbent product?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=pxX6r-xDgG4

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdXwthh-xLQ
Meanwhile another interesting read - http://jeffdechambeau.com/friending-fast-and-slow.html
It seems like we're going to run into the limits of that by the end of the decade or soon after though. I've made quite a few submissions about this but nobody ever seems to read them :) I really wonder whether we are making advances with parallelism and other technologies fast enough to offset the oncoming barriers to shrinkage and speed.

My naive best guess is that when CPUs stop getting much faster the next wave of innovation will be on bus speeds. But I'm not a chip guy so perhaps my view of the problem is overblown, but I'm very interested in learning more about this from others.
Maybe not in the next few years. But people who pay with cash because they aren't allowed to be in this country and don't want a bank account (some portion of the unbanked) might enjoy shopping in the digital world by using some "digital cash".
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ah, I see. Still extremely useful-- my roommates and I lose our keys all the time. Also love the idea of adding "groups" of cell numbers to the permission list.