skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all the process shrinks, and packing more bits per cell, NAND flash is getting to the point where its characteristics are closer to DRAM than traditional magnetic storage; like hard drives the data will stay there for a while when they're powered off, but like DRAM, it's not going to be there forever. However, unlike DRAM and more like hard drives, they wear out.

For enterprise cache-like applications this makes sense, but with DRAM prices not that far off (only a few times), I wonder if battery-backed DRAM might actually offer better value (and theoretically could be far higher performing) than having to replace worn-out SSDs periodically.
NextTechRevolution.org
Encryption doesn't matter, all they need to do is traffic shape everything that's not "web" (by that I mean strictly 80 or 443) and they can effectively kill any peer-to-peer thing that netflix could possibly come up with, while still maintaining an illusion of good service for 99.9% of the rest of their customers' traffic. It would deprioritize bittorrent too, so two birds with one stone as far as Comcast goes.

Let's face it: almost everything an average internet user does, measured by number of packets, is on 80 or 443 (except bittorrent, but comcast very likely already deprioritizes that.) Maybe a sprinkling of email traffic here and there for the few who don't use a web mail provider. I'd actually be quite shocked if Comcast didn't have traffic shaping in place that deprioritized non-web traffic. It would make smart business sense.

Which means the only way Netflix could do P2P is to put peers behind port 443, which can only work for one connection per peer. (And good luck teaching all netflix subscribers how to get NAT working on their routers.) Or they'd have to do a nat busting service, which wouldn't be peer to peer any more, and would open them right back up to Comcast's throttling.

At the end of the day, if nobody's forcing Comcast to stay neutral, they can deprioritize whatever traffic they want. Who's going to stop them? What are you going to do, sign up for a competing ISP?
Frida 1.4.0: Interactive reverse-engineering on Android, iOS and desktop
The problem in this case is caused solely by Samsung. Also, the author pointed out cases after cases of Samsung unethical practices besides Apple. The author sole 'bias', in this case, is that he left out all Samsung's shenanigans in Asia. It's not just in U.S. and Europe where Samsung has been caught and fined, again and again, but in China's and Taiwan's smartphone market as well. In those cases, Samsung's 'tactics', and actually being forced to pay a fine, makes the Apple case look tame. You can not argue that it is bias when an author presents established court decisions after decisions. In this case, Apple is clearly the victim. Samsung has a rich history of being assholes, and it's good to see U.S. media finally pointing out the company for what the sick, unethical, greedy, and corrupt company it is, the the assholes who own and operate the entity.
There's also that pesky bugaboo about being permitted to own a genuinely accurate printer, and whether or not you'd use it to counterfeit money.
At times I do wonder if some people on this site have had their humour glands surgically removed or whether some British phrases just don't travel well. Clearly you don't do 'understatement' in your neck of the internets.

By way of an automotive analogy, if someone asked who Lewis Hamilton is, then you could eulogize about how much of a living legend he is, ramble on about his many victories, mention how he is Britain's wealthiest sportsman and so on and so forth.

However, (and particularly to someone who really doesn't know who Lewis Hamilton is), then you could quite reasonably say 'apparently he does a little bit of driving'. That would not be a slight or an insult directed at Lewis Hamilton or the person you are talking to. You could also say that Lewis Hamilton has 'made a bob or two from it'. That would not be 'misrepresentative language' in the pejorative sense, just pure understatement, that is all.

Anyway, who is this 'next sequioa capital' you speak of? Weird how they don't use a capital letter for the word 'capital', but I digress. Do you honestly think that Andreessen gives a damn about being bigger than them?
Either this article or the guy's speech perhaps both are pretty lame. No supporting facts are presented as to why he thinks the 7nm generation will be the last frontier. He just basically states the obvious that if there is no profit motive or the technology isn't there then it won't happen. No kidding.

The whole article reads like an appeal to authority.

Are there any factual reasons to believe this time is actually different than the past 35 years?
Until we get human level AI that's going to be impossible. But decent translation of "normal" writing is certainly possible and "good enough".
That's part of the curiosity / discovery point, here, isn't it? We'll find out exactly what they're capable of learning.

I like to think of it like the direction we've seen with video-game systems for humans. We started with hand-held controls, with buttons, and we even still use that now. But it's only relatively recently that we've started using motion-sensing interfaces like the Kinect and Wii. And a big part of making that work is having so much information available to us about how video-game system / human interaction works. It helps us have a better idea of what might be possible.

I think it's important to not underestimate the capabilities of other animals -- just because they don't have language and it often appears that we're much smarter than them, doesn't mean they don't have something valuable to show us. Communicating with other species and the potential to understand how other species process/understand the world is a fascinating possibility.
Naming is the same as Statamic Bloodhound plugin. Are those 2 projects related or just coincidence?
Thats pretty slick. I've been wanting SSH key/Keychain integration since I made the switch to the Mac.
Clock Speed is not relevant. In that "decade" our single thread performance has increased a fair amount, but we now have an additional 4-8 CPUs in the same amount of space.

An Ivybridge will very handily beat a Northwood based system even in single threaded performance.
Because articles like this (and maybe even code golf) might spark an interesting discussion.
Going forward, no, but they did in the past and others will step in to fill those shoes. I hear ASUS makes some good stuff currently.
Hunter S. Thompson was also from Louisville where the derby is held.

And was once jailed for rape in Louisville.
Though I appreciate the idea of 'storing bandwidth' by just sending lots of qubits ahead of time, that ignores the extra communication overhead needed of tracking them: When Bob receives a qubit from Alice, he needs to know which of his qubits it's paired with. That implies that Alice needs to send not just her qubit, but also some kind of identifier that will allow Bob to match up the received qubit to its proper Bell pair. That identifier, and any protocol overhead needed to keep these identifiers in sync between bob and alice, will consume bandwidth, and reduce the 2x gain.
This is step 0. Like before HN, talking to the hairstylists is the way to go. In fact, you should be maybe talking to 5-10 hairstylists a day. Seriously. Buy coffee, drinks, maybe lunch and chat them up.
Do you live in Scarborough?
I fully confess to being almost ignorant on this topic. I am only conjecturing.

I'm curious though to know how often aircraft go above 62,000 feet. While the F-15 reached over 100,000 ft., the same page lists a service ceiling of 65,000 feet. And while the SR-71 easily flew at higher altitudes, it stopped flying before the affected computer system started running.

I can easily think of other problems; perhaps there was a problem with the U-2's transponder, or perhaps it's a combination of altitude and speed, ... or I'm sure you can conjecture scenarios as well as I.
If you cannot write code with immutability, then don't try to blame the programming language you are writing has no functional programming feature.
OpenJDK and HashMap .... Safely Teaching an Old Dog New (Off-Heap) Tricks
I understand your point, but it's very "glass half-full/half-empty".

Conversely, acid doesn't "eat away" at anything, it's that things happily dissolve themselves into acid.

The problem is the same, regardless of the language used to describe it.
How would it be different than this:

http://echonest.com/
yeah, Thank you !
Unfortunate coincidence. I've been on a "projects starting with letter B" streak[1] and Bloodhound is search related. Also I like dogs.

[1]: http://bitemyapp.com/projects.html
Wow. The site seems very active. Now I see why SE is launching the non-english version of some of their sites.
BSNL Website Hacked by Pakistani Hacker
> Quality of implementation is everything

And you can't patent "quality of implementation."
> After 10 years he retired recently with mansions and cars and no worries

Having no worries(at least financially) 'after' busting my ass for 10years is definitely a good career plan.
I'd like a cofounder - presumable someone w/ Android/Iphone skills to help flesh out a POS system for food trucks. I've already got a few trucks interested in the product concept @ A price point of $39/month/truck. I'm a web dev, - mostly Laravel/PHP -- not sure if the best option would be to build this in a cross platform tool like Phonegap, or straight out native, -- or as a Mobile optimized website.

If interested reach me at: patrickwcurl AT gmail
Simple jQuery CSS selectboxes and dropdowns
Hi, just wanted to announce my first open source project. Maybe some of you will find it useful!

Best!
Just installed this and it works like a charm. It adds some nice polish to using SSH in my day-to-day!
2.0 TDI BLB Engine is made to fail at ~200K no matter what you do, from oil pump to head micro fractures.

crankshaft sprocket after 200K
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_m_33vQTtsxM/SyuSlFIeSXI/AAAAAAAAG9o/rt...
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_m_33vQTtsxM/SyuSn5YALLI/AAAAAAAAG9s/ul...
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_m_33vQTtsxM/SyuSp1yUs4I/AAAAAAAAG9w/mO...

VW answer: this part is not serviceable, whole crankshaft needs to be replaced :D Why is it made out of putty while smaller sprocket (the one taking more force) is still 'working'?
"Less alkaline" is the same as saying "more acid" as you move in a specific direction along the scale.

Srsly can't believe you tried to make that point
It has everything--except for an ex employee to "open source" a sexual harassment and hostile workplace scandal on social media [1].

1. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/04/22/the-githu...
Apple is the largest laptop/desktop manufacturer.
Comcast knows what addresses are theirs. They could easily apply traffic shaping on intra-network traffic. Allow enough that some games and things like Skype would work OK but any decent bandwidth application could be throttled.
This reminded me of the "rivers of white" effect in typesetting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography)
Its Not Just About Obama
Wired also covered this

http://www.wired.com/2012/10/ff-why-products-fail/all/
Does anyone have a list of good web fonts you can use together? I like all of these principles and their examples but sometimes I just need a reference to pick out a stack and apply it to my site. Something like "The Big Book of Font Combinations" but for web that shows a breakdown of font stacks supported by which devices or something. Thoughts?
Wrap in Time (OpenBSD 5.5 Release Song)
I'm well aware of the current limitations of battery technology. Nanotechnology processes are poised to destroy the existing best energy densities. [1]

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanobatteries
Yes, agreed Vico is quite excellent.
"It nobody was competing with Apple, the iPhone would be worse than it is today"

This is an irrelevant straw-man. Knocks offs aren't the only way to compete. Arguably if Samsung truly created something original, there would be far more pressure on Apple to improve. Indeed Samsung's real effect in piggybacking on Apple's work has been to stifle the other Android franchisees such as Motorola and HTC whose products were in many ways better.
This is pretty cool, and having notifications when the agent is used is really a good security bonus. So I'm pretty sad that I can't have this (requires Apple binary) AND a decently recent version of OpenSSH:

$ /usr/local/bin/ssh -V
OpenSSH_6.6p1, OpenSSL 1.0.1g 7 Apr 2014

$ /usr/bin/ssh -V
OpenSSH_6.2p2, OSSLShim 0.9.8r 8 Dec 2011

BUT, please think twice, thrice before installing a ssh-agent binary compiled by a stranger. You're hiring that binary to really hold your keys. You have to be really sure you can trust it.
The reason why index funds are better is because they're generally managed by a very simple computer algorithm which means very very low fees compared to actively managed funds. If you look over the lifetime of someone's 401k it's really shocking how much is eaten up in fees. Also, over long periods of time you're generally not going to beat the market.

What you pointed out about the DJIA having lots of fluctuation, particularly during crashes, is why it's important to keep investing a little every paycheck. That way when stocks are low you're buying more shares. It's a sale!
Google Easter Egg: May the fourth be with you
All machine translation is based on professional sentence-by-sentence translations.
mmm ultra orthodox, gotta love them

http://youtu.be/Bx2LgeGFW4A?t=33m44s
Can this be used to enforce a temporal limit on data? That is, if the check is for time to be within 24 hours of now will it purge older than 24 hours data as time progresses? My gut tells me no, but my gut is often wrong when it comes to databases.
If you're going to invest in index funds (and you should), don't pick the S&P 500. Why invest in 500 stocks when you could use the vanguard total market index instead, and invest in essentially the entire US market, with a management fee of 0.05% per year? Also, there's no need to take on unnecessary risk by concentrating investments in the US. Better to put a good portion in a broad ex-US fund as well. Vanguard has a good option there too, of course, but there are certainly others as well.

Also, if like me you're outside of the US, these all come in ETFs that can be bought anywhere and have similarly low fees.
Worth calling out: if your money isn't tax sheltered (IRA or 401k) then an index fund will be worse than buying those individual stocks.

That's because with individual stocks you can sell the losers from time to time, buy a similar replacement (ex: Coke for Pepsi) to avoid the wash rule, and harvest a bunch of capital losses to offset future gains.

Proper tax management is a HUGE part of this and is almost always overlooked in these kinds of articles.
1250 is very interesting. Think of all the modern day cultures that the Mongol Empire encompassed at the time. Just visually impressive to watch it grow in the years leading up to the peak.

Also, anyone else get an urge to play Civilization after playing with this map for a while?
Indeed, investing in just the S&P 500 would be an example of poor diversification: you'd limit yourself to US large cap stocks. By recommending the S&P 500, Warren Buffet is saying, implicitly, that he believes in US large caps to the extent that he does not even want to diversify.
My favorite is the "Online Forums" section of the Whole Foods Code of Conduct:

http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/sites/default/files/media/Gl...

The anti-astroturfing restrictions are good, but the approval requirements are ridiculous.
Wouldn't you just be able to pair it in a FIFO order?
Thats a cop out. Its synonymous with 'yes they suck, but we will charge arm and a leg for them so some enterprise sucker is bound to bite'.

They also have VERY limited writes/sector count (brobably in the hundreds) before they will start to fail, this has been handled by another PR statement "The drive is aimed at read-intensive applications"
Looks like I missed that one. Thanks.
Do you have a source at all for that? I've found multiple articles saying Lenovo overtook HP for that title around July 2013 but nothing naming Apple. According to [0] Apple weren't in the top six at that point.

I did find articles from early 2012 calling Apple the biggest but that was of course based on iPads almost entirely. For example [1] has some figures from then, 5.2 million macs to over 10 million units each from HP, Lenovo and Dell.

[0] http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_23637017/hewlett-packard-loses...

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/24/apple_now_largest_...
This is a great "classic HN" post. Does anyone know of an archive of these sorts of "how I solved problem X"?
Still not convinced. I'll take tmux and a non-gui vim any day of the week.
Even at the consumer level: go purchase a new Samsung TV and read their data-mining TOS.
yes there are a few COBOL 'jobs' scattered throughout the country, but that really doesnt matter. a person can stick with learning one language and hoping it remains relevant for their 40-50 year career, but outliers do not make a rule. theres lots of people doing really well playing the lottery.

making a web page today in 'html' is NOTHING like it was 5 years ago, let alone 10. you're simplifying it way too much.

if you were a web designer, and just stuck with what you taught yourself back in 2005, you would be out of a job. you constantly have to learn new libraries, new languages because no software operates on an island. yes, every field must adapt and add changes, but none so much as like with tech.

all of this is COMPLETELY irreverent anyways. IF you want to be a programmer, and not look ahead to your future to find out what you will need to grow into, BY ALL MEANS. And if you think people will still find your skills valuable even though you don't plan on updating them constantly, good luck.

the point is, if you read the article and dont want to gamble with your future, a programmer is a dead end job in the sense that if you are not moving into some sort of managerial position, there is no where to go.
Or, I am a user who clicks the first link no matter what so long as it doesn't look like the link to say "I didn't request this"
Intel has been working on voxel, light-based vertical interconnects for nearly a decade.

I recall when I was there in '99 talking with people about stacking cores. Then a few years later some friends there were doing 64 core research in ~2003-4-ish...

I'm sure they have evolved the voxels since then.
How exactly is an editor for stuff on your repos supposed to do its job otherwise?
What do you think permanently changes electro-mechanically during this mythical "break in"?

The mass of coil and diaphragm? Can't.

The compliance of the surround? Won't.

The resistance, inductance or capacitance of the coil? Can't.

The shape or size of the chamber? Can't.

The magnet strength? Won't.

The coil/magnet coupling? Can't.

The relative placement of interacting parts? Won't.

The stiffness of the diaphragm? Won't.

I think that about covers all the possibilities. It is far more likely that the listener's perception changes due to expectation. Far, far more likely.
Nice game, very addictive.

As a fellow developer I wrote a quick article on your game (http://www.uppskattat.se/articles/hide-n-stab). I hope you'll get some visitors.

You should think of having some domain, I think most non-IT people are suspicious against ip-addresses. Hit me up if you want me to add some credits for you or if you change the hostname to something else.
Hold on to your wallet: Doug Henwood on the Bitcoin scam
Doesn't that assume that you have enough money to properly diversify without the transaction costs being too much as a percentage? If you are going to buy 500 stocks to get the same diversity, then at $10 per trade fee, that's a lot of money. Seems like for most people, there would be a tax management/diversity trade off.

I would think that a combination of individual stocks and index funds would probably be good for most people.
if I understand you correctly, this type of thing is implemented by partitioning by hour in a day and then having a janitor process drop tables that are older than 24 hours.
Who are these people, who are incapable of writing product code or tests, or catching up on documentation writing, or stepping back to think about design, or just reading some of the code to learn it better?
Worlds Greatest Pathological Language: TECO (2006)
if your money isn't tax sheltered (IRA or 401k) then an index fund will be worse than buying those individual stocks.

... as long as you're handling sufficiently large amounts of money that you don't lose the difference on trade commissions. Rebalancing my ETF portfolio costs me $60 (6 ETFs, $10/trade), but rebalancing a portfolio consisting of the 2000 individual stocks and bonds in those ETFs would be insane.
I've worked for CSDN for 3 years, and have a few friends working for Github. The way of they made things are totally different.

:+1: for follow an organization
It is partly true. That's why CSDN tried to adopt a different strategy other than Github.
Quality and quantity of original open source projects in China are not good enough. As the 1st step, CSDN is trying to foster the culture. To have the IT giants, like Tencent onboard, is definitely helpful to attract more engineers to play some parts in the game.
Bear starts with a B.
If you know what to do is key. Unfortunately, most businesses cannot properly utilize a decent programmer, never mind a good one.

The average mid-size company is a monument to bureaucracy, ruled by mediocrity and incompetence.
OP here: very true. We're not done with performance measurement and benchmarking until we fully account for taxes, and for all fees as well. My grand vision is a system that does that effortlessly for every individual investor. But that's a tall order, considering the data that's needed. We'll get there. But it's probably a long way off. One step at a time.
Apple is not the biggest manufacturer, it's the most profitable but it is not the biggest one by far.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/01/09/apples-domestic-ma...
The Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention
you can also patch and compile https://github.com/devinteske/apple/commit/296d954851dbba238...

Or if you're on linux https://github.com/gdestuynder/openssh-portable/commit/bb0e9...

Or if you use gnupg https://github.com/gdestuynder/gnupg-agent-notification/comm...

Or if you use Windows and Putty https://github.com/gdestuynder/putty-pagent-notification (binary https://github.com/gdestuynder/putty-pagent-notification/rel...)

that's all i found
It even has a quote from Matz:

"GitCafe is amazing!"
Visualizing CrunchBase Data with D3.js
How much of "the tasks we're doing" are repetetive? Someone in the 4TB SSD discussion said MicroSD cards at the moment could fit 50TB of storage in a standard laptop hard drive form factor - if anyone would pay for it.

If transistors became free, how much could they be used for not-computation/storage? How much would your cheaper "(but not faster)" video card be able to get a speed boost by having terabytes of pre-computed things in cache?

e.g. the difference between brute force password cracking and rainbow tables, or basic arithmetic and log tables.
No, they're not. They're the most profitable, not the same as the biggest.

HP/Lenovo have the top two spots, they're selling tens of millions per quarter. Apple barely breaks 5 million.

Apple doesn't have great business nor governmental support, which eliminates them from being considered at thousands of companies.
What changed with Mavericks? I recall seamless ssh-agent support for years in OS X. Similar to how Gnome and Unity have also done this for years.

This article is another example of how nifty launchd is.
radiation poses problems, but it has been since found that the radiation hardening measures taken on past IBM chips have been largely overkill for the application.

one can get near the same performance for much cheaper by using consumer electronics with redundant systems and a voting mechanism between systems.