skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me shove 60 of these into 4U, 10gbit to each blade, redundant switches in the chassis itself with multiple 40gbit uplinks, and give each blade m.2 slots instead of 2.5" drive slots, and let me shove 64gb of memory into each blade.

If AMD can't get a vendor to build these this year, I don't see a future for AMD.

Yes, and I'm aware this is probably 6000w peak into 4U.

Edit: You can downvote me all you want, but this is what Intel is already planning on rolling out through Dell and HP in the 2015 time frame. This much has already been reported on links that hit HN's front page.
I'll broadcast my opinions on your questions:

1) AAPL is arguably the most important company, full stop -- not just in tech. With the highest market cap in the USA, and a substantial share of mobile phones using both its hardware and software, it is the top dog.

2)
I'll take the other side of that bet without hesitation. Google makes headlines because it does a bunch of cool shit, but it still makes its money on advertising. (Something like 65% of its revenue comes from google.com search: http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html)

I think the fact that Facebook has been leveraging its expensive stock to aggressively counteract (i.e. buy) potential rivals makes me somewhat confident that it will be relevant in 6 years. The fact that they are investing in potential big future winners like Oculus VR increases my confidence. At the very least it's cool shit, and that puts them in the headlines :)

3)
Who knows what future crazy tech breakthroughs will occur. There are unknown unknowns, and they will change the world and make the pioneers wealthy. Google embraces that possibility and continues to strive for more breakthroughs. If none of them succeed, at least they have their 50 Billion dollars of yearly revenue from advertising sales to fall back on...
CLI in Ruby, ok.
I'm not a Windows computer right now, but I believe you can't execute Node globals without the .cmd, am I wrong? If you have lessc in your PATH can you just do lessc (as this article does) or must you do lessc.cmd?
You may be thinking "who cares I don't live in Mexico" but here is a relevant poem by Martin Niemöller.

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me."

This is relevant since citizens from all over the world must be involved with laws that affect the internet and if we don't care about other countries it may cause a domino effect until it reaches yours. We are all citizens of the Internet.
That's more the fault of the site itself for not using title tags properly, but, yeah I do agree that a full URL option would be ideal.
I will liken the use of "pre-mortem" to the usage of "synergy". Seeing that the founder is a "grow-hacker" such word coining fits the bill.
good thoughts but I think a much better version of this is the Dangers Strengths Opportunities exercise (e.g. http://robdkelly.com/blog/getting-things-done/dos-exercise/)

The danger part is effectively the same with the added bonus of being able to convert all Dangers into Opportunities. Once you do that, you've gotten the entire team to agree that, to achieve success, all they need to do is accomplish the Opportunities.
Doh! That was supposed to say "Whoot!" but my phone autocorrected it and I didn't notice until after the edit timer was up.

But to clarify, I'm happy DDG is incorporation this feature :)
I received this after applying for the internships for YC companies, so yeah, in a way, everyone that applied certainly did give YC and all their alumni their email address, seeing as that was part of the application.
Quite true, the one ISA advantage that ARM has it's that it's much easier to decode. That does make a difference, but it's not a huge factor. On the other hand x86 tends to be a bit more compact but not as much as you might think.

ISA doesn't make a huge difference here, but Intel currently has a pretty big lead in both process and architecture. Either because of superior research, the ability to impose more constraints than a merchant silicon house can, or both Intel has been reaching new process nodes sooner and getting better performance on them than their competitors.

And Intel currently has a big architecture advantage too. Owning the whole PC market gives you the money to hire a lot of good engineers. It might be that there's a second disadvantage to x86 in that it's complicated enough that you need more engineering to get an equivalent architecture. I say this because IBM has managed to keep parity despite the fact that, IIRC, they're able to invest less engineering. Power 7 had higher single threaded performance than anything Intel had when it came out, and it looks like Power 8 is doing a similar leapfrog. If you look at SPEC int_rate and divide by the number of threads you'll find that Intel comes out a factor of 3 better today and 2 when Power 7 came out, but that's due to IBM having 4 threads per core to Intel's 2.

In theory there isn't anything preventing an ARM-64 chip from having performance as good as an x86 or POWER chip, but in practice Intel and IBM have a lot of experience in designing high performance chips but ARM doesn't. AMD sort of does, but they haven't been executing well at the high end recently and these will be their first ARM cores.

*http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/cpu2006.html
Philip Welsh’s analog life hampers search for his killer
I respect your business perspective about slow growth early on, but.. It's fucking virtual reality! I don't think there's any doubt that developers would be flocking to this with or without the acquisition.
You can make it look like this: https://i.imgur.com/jMucQvl.png

I‘m not entirely satisfied with startpage either though. What we really need is a local search proxy that goes via Google/Bing however you like, e.g. 1) using clearnet without cookies and cleaning up links (Google, Startpage, Bing) 2) via Tor automatically falling back if you get captcha (with option to do the captcha if you don’t like results) 3) Like 1) except via some VPN/Proxy

The results from each source (or multiple) could be normalized and the local app can offer any kind of interface you like.

I’ll write it at some point, but if anyone wants to steal that idea — please do.
> The critical property of the above workflow is that the output of the cryptographic hash function (SHA-256 in this case) is completely different every time we modify the input: the hash value of the previous attempt does not tell us anything about what the hash value of the next attempt when we increment our counter - i.e. its a non-deterministic algorithm.

It's a fully-deterministic algorithm. It would be quite useless if it were not. I believe what the author is trying to say is that it's not predictable.
A blazer over a hoodie over a dress shirt?

Apparently I don't have enough money to pull that off.
Please, show me the bribery and corruption that's creating these political hurdles. Otherwise, that's a strong accusation to be making without proof. If we're talking about good old fashioned lobbying, however, then the fact is that the internet companies have more than enough money to overwhelm the cable companies' lobbying efforts. Lobbyists are up for the highest bidder, after all. Yes, small companies can't afford it, but anyone with the money to realistically build the infrastructure in the first place can. Certainly, the companies with the most at stake (Google, Facebook, Netflix) can. It makes no sense to invoke money and lobbying while ignoring the fact of who has the deepest pockets in this game. Remember, Google is more profitable than Comcast and TWV combined, and has double the profit margin. Facebook's profits are about 2/3 as much as TWC.

The regulatory hurdles that Google is demanding relief from are (largely) not the result of lobbying. They're the result of the dysfunction of municipal politics. Right now, NYC's mayor is attacking Verizon because poor people can't afford FIOS (at $75/month). He's hired a civil rights lawyer to get into the issue. Is it any wonder companies aren't interested in building fiber? Is this the result of lobbying (or corruption and bribes) or predictable political forces?

At bottom, none of the screeds on this subject address the simple fact: the internet companies aren't rushing to build fiber, or lobbying to get permission to build fiber, or publicly demanding deregulation so they can build fiber. They're trying to get Comcast, Verizon, etc, to build fiber. To this day, Google positions Google Fiber as an effort to shame the ISPs, not a worthwhile business venture standing alone. What does that tell you about the monetary incentives at play?
In Sweden as soon as you're in a residential area or out in the countryside, unmarked priority-to-the-right crossings are the norm. And if cars from all directions in a crossing arrive at once, you end up with an ambiguous 4-way stop situation.

In the countryside you'll often see this warning sign to remind you that "just because your road is bigger and faster than the one you're about to cross doesn't mean you have priority" http://www.transportstyrelsen.se/Vagmarken/Varningsmarken/A2...
Would not it be better to latinize Arabic, as the Taiwanese and Phillipines have done with their languages. For computer input a LTR language built around a relatively small alphabet is simply superior.
These sorts of exaggerations are common, unfortunately. Try finding good information on the effects of occasional smoking and you'll find a lot of stuff saying, "You cannot smoke occasionally; it is impossible. And, anyway, it is as bad as smoking a pack a day, even if you could manage it, so do not attempt it!"

Similarly, non-intravenous-drug-using high-school kids having only vaginal intercourse are scared into thinking they have an equal chance of getting HIV as any other group. Nobody wants to appear to be condoning risky behavior so they lie to strengthen their point.
Polio’s Return After Near Eradication Prompts a Global Health Warning
The researchers contend that a premortem is more effective than risk analysis:

> Although many project teams engage in prelaunch risk
> analysis, the premortem’s prospective hindsight approach
> offers benefits that other methods don’t. Indeed, the
> premortem doesn’t just help teams to identify potential
> problems early on. It also reduces the kind of
> damn-the-torpedoes attitude often assumed by people
> who are overinvested in a project. Moreover, in
> describing weaknesses that no one else has mentioned,
> team members feel valued for their intelligence and
> experience, and others learn from them.

http://hbr.org/2007/09/performing-a-project-premortem/ar/1
Ask HN: Anyone has rejected job offer from Google,Facebook,Apple,Amazon?Why?
I am wondering what could be possible reasons to reject job offers from these tech giants ? Anyone did so ? Why did you reject the offer ?
The Skip
It's not so crazy when you consider a huge portion of peering agreements took place over IRC.
That's crazy.

I'm so confused as to how an invalid level value would generate a level with all sorts of bizarre, invalid combinations... yet still be completely playable, without crashing or anything.
God, this is obnoxious, why do you need to desperately try to draw attention of the freaking VCs? They will come to you and beg on a doorstep for a precious minute of your time if you have a working business. Talk to users and iterate on your product, don't waste your time listening to god damn inspirational talks and schmoozing with investors.
Maybe I misspoke, but are the Motorola Droid X and Moto X the same phone? If they are you may be mistaken per my experience (I cannot uninstall Swype, so I assume it was pre-installed) and per the wiki

On June 16, 2010, Swype opened a public beta for the Android operating system.[20] The Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Galaxy S II, Samsung Galaxy Note, Motorola Droid X, Motorola i1, and Motorola Droid 2 Android-based smartphones come with Swype pre-installed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swype
Language Used in Discussion about Net Neutrality and Peering
>There's a very real danger of businesses clamouring to deliver cheap, quick experiences using iBeacon technology without putting much thought behind them.

There's no way this won't turn into the ow-my-balls of advertising.
It also seems to affect the light spectrum available to the camera. Or the saturation curve on photoshop. Fascinating.
Ok, so you know that "facebook" is part of the original hash. Not following how you can also derive "mypassword" from it. If you have a good strong master password, rainbow tables won't be able to crack the hash.
The Mezzo Programming language
I use it primarily as a prototyping and blogging platform. With a little tweaking, Pelican can convert IPython to static HTML. It makes a really great way to create and share blog content, especially because I am basically looking at the final product while writing. Hosting with Github is also a breeze, and gives me automatic version control for all content. Anyone interested can check it out here [1]

It is also has a built-in presentation display - can be very handy for sharing your analysis/code with other folks.

IPython is definitely not an IDE for me - I usually prototype my code as a gist, then either import or copy depending on what type of code I am writing. Working purely in IPython tends to lead me toward spaghetti code, but being more disciplined would probably make it work well.

[1] http://kastnerkyle.github.io/
Sure, AMD had to price them so that they were competitive. From a consumer standpoint there were good potential reasons to buy them. From AMD's perspective, those were big chunks of silicon being sold for far less money than what Intel was able to charge for something that cost as much to manufacture. I doubt they made back their development expenses on them, though thankfully AMD had a lot of other products that worked out better.
I have nearly 30 years of professional experience and my intuition is pretty reliable. If HHVM wasn't what runs the largest PHP app in the world, things would have been much different. Hack brings many language people that Zend for one reason or another didn't not deliver all these years.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakeg...

I just wish there was a central place that would let me do this per ap for all permisions.
Go + Embedded programming
Internet Citizens: Defend Net Neutrality
A bit off-topic but I'm just wondering what this type of writing is? Is this a white paper? I really like the format they use and was wondering how I could write something like this.
Any chance we can 'import os'?
I never really understood why net neutrality mattered until watching this. A nice, clear explanation.
Python 3 is a different story! As you mention below outliers, let's not use them, please! GNU/Linux OS does not depend on PHP like it depends on Python.
The Github repo: https://github.com/kidoman/embd
A good way to do this is with VTL software (there's a free one for Linux), and make each external USB disk a separate virtual tape.
How common is it to need to load a new map, as apposed to downloading the map once then caching it for future use?
OP here.

Thanks everyone for the encouragement and kind words. Just the fact that I got to vent my issues and have some people listen and care has been great.
Racism as a social crime is an abstract concept and there are no objective criteria by which to determine if a thought is "racist" or not.

I prefer to judge individual actions based on their consequences and/or likely consequences, without forfeiting my right to formulate an opinion due to a popular media outlet applying an abstract negative label. In the context of news media, calling something "racist" is more about trying to forcibly project a view onto the audience than anything else.
In fairness, their new slogan is "move fast with stable infra," and an API that's down 100% of the time is certainly stable...
Scala is a Subtle Beast
You just do it, and keep your mouth shut.
I didn't look too closely, but I'm assuming one side is the smoker and the other is the non-smoker. Knowing that I don't smoke, and how my own physique compares to these photos, I'm forced to conclude that smoking will cure my acne, flatten my abs, and give me a nice tan. I'm going to go out and buy a pack right now!
No you can't. With 51% hashing power you can exclude/remove transactions at will, and nothing more. You cannot forge transactions.
I don't think that's true. Sustainability makes for a better ecosystem. If you're driving towards breaking even and delivering value instead of profitability then it's a different kind of mentality. It's just that it's not the current status quo.
I'm not arguing that people should be OK with "being oppressed". People are free to engage in responsible social and political action to effect the changes they want. One can disagree civilly and continue his/her social activism. I'm arguing that people should accept not everyone agrees with them, and not try to get those people fired/destroyed for their disagreement.
I found the starting point here "http://docs.racket-lang.org/algol60/index.html".
This is my current idea. How do I start marketing efforts though, once I have a MVP?
I'll look into this. Thanks.
Keybase begins building secure messenger service
World's easiest introduction to Machine Learning
This looks like a standard LaTeX article class document.
That link is for reporting abusive content, not reporting bugs.
In wish EFF would be more impartial in its language and let then facts speak for themselves. They can make there case by spreading factual information and requesting an activist response. I don't trust anyone who tells me how I should feel.
Valve could buy the Vatican if they wanted.
Clearly I think this sort of jibe should be discouraged.
> It seems like Level3 is ready and willing to go.

To go where? Not to their checkbook.

First they mention in the article how "usually" networks agree to upgrade parts of their network to handle additional interconnects, and don't pay service fees to each other.

Then they mention saturated ports, not giving any indication as to whether they have even attempted to expand capacity on their side.

We are also left to believe that this nonspecific, non-detailed post is not only completely genuine, but that it leaves out no details. Giving Level3 the benefit of the doubt, and not going based on my own enterprise peering experiences where Level3 consistently showed the worst reliability and performance, it's clear they're only showing you a small slice of the work involved to agree on peering and put in place the upgrades necessary, on both sides.

> An open letter after giving into their demands?

An open letter after actually spending their share of what they need to invest in the upgrade. Which, it appears, they have not.

> Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?

No... Where did you read that?

> If they do it after giving into Comcast the lookie loos will be all the more ready and willing to pull "compromises" out of their ass that don't solve anything but making them happy with themselves.

....You really don't know the meaning of the word compromise? One of them has to meet the other half way. Ideally both of them would do this at the same time, but in the bizarre reality of this business, both of them are being children, neither wanting to move first, it would seem from this writing. Too bad this is just one tiny public PR stunt and probably not the whole story.

Also, what it would solve is the issue at hand, and it would make everyone - both providers, consumers and customers - happy. If you can't see that, perhaps you have the same narrow-minded political pessimism that's causing this mess to begin with.

This whole letter is thinly-veiled fodder for consumers to bitch at their ISPs with. Even the comparisons, like the ones at the end about industry satisfaction, are just meant to feed into the stereotype of the evil broadband provider. The comparison is ridiculous, because broadband providers are held accountable for every network and server fuckup on the entire internet, as well as the general faults of an aging physical network that spans a giant continent.
Is it normal to use .co domains for non Colombian websites?
Yep - JSX solves many of those complaints. (My post was more of a reaction to the 'templates are bad' tone than React itself). I'm not a fan of JSX as a templating language, but it's good enough.

I still feel that React encourages a style of development that pushes small snippets of HTML rather than full-page templates. Depending on your development style and the type of application your building, this may or may not be desirable. (If you're building something that's inherently component based, then it's good. If you're building something that's not, then it just adds boilerplate).

I'm working on a pretty large Angular project at the moment - it's been utterly fantastic, although it does have its warts. (Primarily around maintaining state ). React.JS claims to solve many of these issues, although I'm not entirely sure it solves them in the right way. (I'd prefer to aim for a more FRP approach personally).
Not me.

Oh, right, but I'm just a small developer.
Neat interview, good job!
You're right, but this round developers are also considering how much 1) people are spending on each platform, 2) how fragmented each platform is

If people are spending 80% of software sales on a platform with 15% of the market, with 5% of the support costs (due to lack of fragmentation) it's still a compelling platform for developers.

I haven't looked up the exact numbers, I'm just saying that there are some combinations which are pretty compelling as a developer and actually make a platform more relevant even if it has a small percentage of the market's install base.

Lastly, the market is growing rapidly - Apple still has the highest customer satisfaction which means people are more loyal to the brand.
x86 is unlikely to go away any time soon. I could see a world where ARM was more prevalent for consumer devices, but that's only a fraction of computing power. Servers are going to be x86 for a while, there's just too much of a power differential there. And high end workstations and gaming systems, including gaming consoles, are going to be x86 for years and years.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with Intel's x86 SoC stuff in the near future. They have the capability to be competitive with ARM, and some mobile devices (like smartphones) are already x86 based.
You can get by just fine with a client that stores the root hash of each block and part/all of the blocks where it sent or received money, ignoring all other blocks. You won't be able to fully verify old transactions but you'll be able send and receive.

Whether someone has coded such a client I don't know, but it's not a difficult problem, and does not require a server.
Now that's an interesting mashup.