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...you're responding to a point I didn't make. That comment is about the fallacy of psychology "testing everything on undergrads."

Please read what you respond to.
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If Apple were to switch from Intel, I'd probably have to (reluctantly) go back to a Windows laptop. I love my MacBook, but most of my money is still earned working with clients who use Windows environments. There's still some software that never made the jump to Mac either, for which I still have to use Parallels Desktop. The best bit of having a Mac is that I can run OS X, Windows & Linux all on the same box.

Of course, if Apple is also making their own x86 compatible chips, that's a different story. I don't need an Intel chip specifically, I just need something that runs Windows / x86 perfectly....
apple has been known in the last decade for picking the best hardware for the job. i don't see how ARM chips can compete with intel chips in terms of performace or performance per watt - unless you want a 4W macbook. (hint: you probably don't.) ARM competes very well in performance per dollar - but AMD does, too, and I don't see macs with AMD CPUs in them.

i can see a laptop-sized ARM-based product from apple, but it won't replace any of the macs, it'll be something completely new - let's call it a macpad.
I've being showing off some of the new advances firefox has being making around the office. These improvements are really starting to turn some heads!
Twenty-first century rule of thumb: If the single-tenant architecture is the thing that you build first, because it's less effort, you should probably never bother with multi-tenant, unless a truly compelling rationale appears. VPSes are cheap and they will keep getting cheaper.

Multi-tenant is such a pain. Your customers become coupled on so many axes: Security, performance, downtime, resource management, versions of software in production, retirement of obsolete hardware. Everything one customer does effects others; you can't touch one customer's setup without potentially affecting others; if you try and coordinate the customers via email or phone, deadlocks will happen and progress will grind to a halt.

I worked on a product that launched multi-tenant and swiftly pivoted to single-tenant; it saved our bacon. Before that the support team was working overtime issuing lame apologies: "Uh, sorry about your lost sales due to slow performance; your
neighbor has no idea how SQL works."
What would happen to the cost, battery life, and size of an A10-powered MacBook Air?

It would be worse in almost every aspect.

The cost wouldn't change much, and Apple wouldn't profit much more from the switch. The cited CPU cost is the suggested retail price. Apple's volume lets them negotiate huge discounts.

Battery life would go up a bit, but battery life is already pretty good on Apple laptops. My 2013 11" Air gets 8 hours easily, but can go as long as 12 or as short as 2 depending on screen brightness and CPU usage. Unless you're keeping the CPU busy, the screen is the biggest consumer of power. Cutting CPU power consumption in half would only increase battery life by 20-ish%.

The PowerPC to Intel transition worked for several reasons. Most importantly, Intel CPUs were much faster than PowerPC. In everyday usage, the fastest ARM chips are 10x slower than a quad-core Haswell. Moving to x86 also increased the features of Macs, allowing them to dual-boot Windows and efficiently virtualize other x86-based OSes. Switching to ARM would backtrack on both fronts. An ARM-based Apple laptop would have no boot camp, no Windows virtualization, and no efficient emulation of legacy applications.

CPUs are only a small part of why tablets have longer battery life than laptops. Tablets have no keyboard, trackpad, or hinge, so they can basically be a giant battery with a screen attached. The iPad has a bigger battery than the 11" MacBook Air, despite the Air weighing 50% more and taking up 30% more volume. (Edit: This has recently changed. The 11" Air has a 38 watt-hour battery. The iPad 3 and 4 had a 42 watt-hour battery, but the iPad Air has a 32 watt-hour battery. Still, it's even smaller than the earlier iPads, massing less than half the 11" Air.)

In short, it doesn't seem worthwhile to do all this work and sacrifice so much performance for some incremental increases in battery life and profit.
I can't help thinking losing Windows now would be really significant for them. More specifically losing Office - if Windows on ARM keeps flaking can they rely on a first class Office build for the foreseeable future on ARM? Their office stuff is probably awesome but it's not office and it seems that could hurt a lot.
It's an option, not sure about NodeXL, wikipedia is already available in structured form in Freebase and DBPedia, but understanding something so complex as a reputation is beyond current machine learning. Bringing the pragmatic background knowledge to sentiment analysis is going to be one of the differentiations. We got 65% easily with a lexicon, we got 75% with SVMs and gobs of training data, we've gone past that with hierarchical aspect models and technologies like word vectors, but the problem of making improvements gets exponentially harder. Before social networks can play a role in sentiment analysis likely we'll see breakthroughs in coreference and similar problems that will help eek out more signal from training data. We can certainly use the "hive mind" to assist in this problem, even something as simple as collaborative filtering can help.
1. False. The events in Eastern Ukraine have been planned by Russia a decade ago (ie there are photos of Russians waving flags of 'Donetsk Republic' in the mid 2000's).

Same with annexation of Crimea - Russia just used the opportunity to execute the plan. Even the execution started before Yanukovich left the country (such as movement of troops, etc).

2. It's not a civil war and the forces in Eastern ukraine are not 'pro-Russian'.

They are Russian forces (do lookup its leaders - Girkin, Bezler, Antyufeyev, etc). They are all Russian and are members of various branches of Russian government - FSB, GRU, etc.

Your points 2 & 3 i won't even address as they are 'not even wrong'. Any conflict can be described as 'playground for political forces' and 'bad state'. That's why it's a conflict.
Milgram's obedience study was tested on adult men, between ages 30-40 IIRC. There were 19 later experiments, you wouldn't call them replications because they weren't exactly the same, but they were all consistent, and they sampled diverse (for the 50's) populations.

If you didn't know that, and were assuming it was tested on undergrads exclusively, you should recognize that your assumption was wrong, and propagate that through your belief graph.
I guess I'm showing my age and/or wrestling fandom here, but you guys don't think of caning when you think of Singapore?

I've always thought "Oh, Singapore," next thought: "where they cane people."
I'm not a developer - but this is funny.
I'm not sure that's less true of attorneys. There's likely a statistical difference in typical depth and breadth, but you said "possible".
I think people don't really understand the dynamics of the situation:

> Without loans to pay back, she argues, lawyers won’t have to chase big paychecks or prestige with corporate clients and could instead work in nonprofit, environmental and community law.

It's easier to get a job with a big paycheck at firm representing corporate clients than it is to get work at a nonprofit, environmental organization, or community organization with a small paycheck. The idea that graduates are shunning this sort of work in order to pursue big paychecks to pay off their law school debt is totally detached from reality. Public service jobs paying $40-60k/year are insanely competitive, and attract the top candidates that could easily get a job at a large firm if they wanted one.

The basic problem is that these clients couldn't even afford a paralegal without donor funding, and that's a limited resource. There's a fundamental barrier at issue. For something to be affordable to the masses, it must be mass-produced. But legal services are by their nature individualized. Some inner city kid gets thrown in jail, some old lady gets kicked out of her apartment, some worker loses a hand because his employer cheaped out on safety equipment: what can you mass-produce to help these people?
Imagine your life with crippled, limited, silly AOL connectivity vs your life without connectivity at all.
Another negative in the same vein is that it would prevent fast emulation of Windows and many Linux/BSD distributions in something like VMWare.
"The aging x86 architecture is beset by layers of architectural silt accreted from a succession of additions to the instruction set... Because of this excess baggage, an x86 chip needs more transistors than its ARM-based equivalent"

I wish people would stop saying this. On the inside, x86 CPUs are basically RISC. There is a translation layer from the publicly facing instruction layer to the internal representation. The transistor and power budget for this translation layer is absolutely trivial.

Intel has an enormous amount of expertise in the actual manufacturing and design layers, as evidenced by the rate of improvement in their Atom CPUs (striking range of ARM, actually), integrated GPUs, and quasi-GPU compute cards. They are not in danger of "losing" in the long term in a performance or performance / watt race. The risk is they get disrupted due to all CPUs turning into a commodity in roughly the same way that RAM is a commodity.
I wouldn't say that converging operations is limited to social psychology. Virtually all memory research (cognitive, not neurological) is conducted in the same way. As various other areas get more neurological basis I think psychology will move away from it in favor of more precision measurement, but it's still valuable.
I wouldn't say zero sense. When I watched sin city, I could smell the yellow guy. It all depends on how the story is presented. The color scheme of sin city definitely has sensory effect beyond what you can see.
Gnus HTML and inline image support is from earlier than 2005.
I seem to be struggling with the maths in this

2 cust from 100 trials (each trial costing 4 USD) where the 100 trials came fron 400 clicks (PPc of 1 USD)

This implies we spent 400 + 400 USD to get two customers or a cost of acquisition of 400USD

The other card-required one seems to be

25 customers from 100 trials (cost if trial still presumably 4usd) 100 trials come from 400(?) clicks at 10USD

So that's 4400 to get 25 customers or 176 USD per customer (much closer to 200

I am not nit-picking for the same of it - just trying to follow what seems to be something deeply ingrained in saas owners psyches.

Edit:

Just in case it's obvious I want to say it has been a long day and I have a cold :-)
> The “Holy Grail” of true education is exemplified by the professor-doctoral student interaction

I have only known a few people who were at all enamored by the PhD process. Even those who had an overall positive experience speak quite poorly of most of their student-teacher relationships, which seem to range from adversarial to abusive. The best professors are heavily overworked and seem to have little time left for close student interactions. But then all of the people I've worked with who had PhDs left academia, so perhaps it is a case of selection bias.
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I don't disagree with you, but a paralegal working in criminal law for the past 20 years may not be up to snuff on probate or tax law.

I think the solution is to drastically scale back the number of newly minted JDs (there's a vast oversupply of lawyers) as well at the same time reduce law school to 2 years.
You do get more coverage with both though. I mean, we talk on HN all the time about how exams are flawed at measuring knowledge, and can be gamed. School is also flawed and does not guarantee learning, but with both school + exam you can have greater confidence in your candidates...
Based on Apple's pricing history, I don't think ARM based Macs would be cheaper, at least not by much.
If it developed a better treatment or prevention for depression, lives would be saved.

Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with taking said treatment, but I know that others may have different feelings about that. The ends don't justify the means is a very valid ethical opinion, how relatively extreme it is in this case depends on the size of the possible award vs. the trade-off, which takes professional knowledge to properly estimate.
However, it does work with the playbook of going ever closer to computing appliances from general-purpose computers.

In the beginning there was the motherboard and a CPU. Then, before homogenic PC era, we had dedicated chips that took care of certain operations. The SID chip in C-64. The blitter chip in Amiga. (Can't remember the name, I'm sorry.) Even the x87 math coprocessor in the 386/486 age!

With advent of PC and the megahertz wars, dedicated peripheral chips became less common - except in SoC environment. Where the x86 world went with raw processing power, embedded world had to find ways to fit specialised chips on the board.

My experience is mostly centred around crypto accelerators, but I know from very painful experience that all Maemo devices had on-board DSP units to handle some sound decoding, and pretty much all video processing. So the pendulum swings: CPU for everything, then peripheral devices for specific high-intensity jobs. Some of the most commonly used get integrated into CPU's, making entire classes of chips irrelevant ... until the next CPU-intensive thing comes up, and the main processor is again too slow.

Apple is banking on their ability to both predict and dictate the direction of near-future computing needs. I expect the A7/A10 boards to come up with all kinds of integrated support chips to handle the heavier loads.

As long as their predictions are correct, all is well. Any bets on what's the next CPU burner that will require a dedicated ASIC to preserve even the semblance of battery longevity?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8125039

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128687
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Well, theoretically aren't attorneys supposed to get that wide ranging exposure to different parts of the law in law school? Regardless of what they later practice, a newly minted JD will probably on average have a greater knowledge of more sectors of the law than any paralegal.
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I didn't even know Amazon sold marijuana.
What I loved about Gnus the most was that, by default, once you read a mail you would never see it again. You could, of course, search through read mail, or tick the mail so it would remain visible, but doing nothing was the equivalent of archiving on Gmail. Before Gmail came around, this was an amazing way to handle mail.

I quit using Gnus about the time I quit reading Usenet. Gnus is too much for just mail. And now Gmail is around, which is good enough for me.
From the article:

> Because of this excess baggage, an x86 chip needs more
> transistors than its ARM-based equivalent, and thus it
> consumes more power and must dissipate more heat.

This is true but it ignores the primary reality of "desktop class" processor design today: RAM is the bottleneck in a really major way and most of a desktop class CPU's transistors are dedicated to overcoming this.

In the ancient days, CPUs ran synchronously (or close to it) with main memory. Hasn't been that way for decades. CPU performance has ramped up so much more quickly than that of main memory that it's ridiculous.

And this is where most of your transistors are spent these days - finding ways to allow the CPU to do some useful work while it sits around waiting for main memory. Look at a modern i5 CPU die:

https://www.google.com/search?q=intel+core+i5

Things to note:
- Tons of L1/L2/L3 cache so we can keep things in fast memory. The transistors dedicated to cache dwarf those allocated to the actual processing cores, let alone the parts of those processing cores dedicated to those crufty ol' x86 instructions
- Lots of transistors dedicated to branch prediction and speculative execution so we can execute instructions before we've even waited around for the data those instructions depend upon to arrive from slow-ass main memory

Sure, mobile ARM chips are tiny and efficient! They run at 1-2GHZ while paired with fast RAM that's not that much slower than their CPUs. They don't need to devote gobs and gobs of transistors to speculative execution and branch prediction and cache.

But all that changes if you want to scale an ARM chip up to perform like a "desktop-class" Intel chip. You want to add cores and execution units? If you want to keep them fed with data and instructions you're going to need all that extra transistor-heavy baggage and guess what -- now you're just barely more efficient than Intel, and you can't match Intel's superior process technology that's been at least a transistor shrink or two ahead of the competition since the dawn of the semiconductor industry.

Eventually, yes, the ARM chip makers will solve this. RAM will get faster and processes will be enshrinkified. Just understand that transistor size and pokey RAM are the bottlenecks, not that nasty old x86 instruction set.
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Set up a development platform on your laptop MAMP, this will let you go crazy in web work without making yourself vulnerable to the outside world... well, at least till you upload.

Second an IDE or text editor you can live with - you will going to use this a LONG time (maybe for your whole development career!), that’s why Emacs and VI are so popular still, they don't change all that much. Having to switch IDEs/Editors after you’ve got into the groove will make your development stride stumble greatly. Beyond that it's up to your desires, some people live by sublime, I can't get over it not being able to print (really!?) Anyway, no one editor or IDE will please everyone, so dont be reluctant try out demos till you feel satisfied.

MAMP is really nice in that its interface lets you redefine web root on the fly which works if you got a bunch of similar projects.. Though sub directories are what most do otherwise (unless the platform is really specific about file placement in relation to web root)

So, for me I'm on Aptana (IDE; based off of Eclipse but PHP tuned) on Linux my web root on my dev system stays constant, and projects just get various subdirectories and different MySQL dbs. Working with lots of projects is one of those things ya gotta work through and learn, best tip - learn to do backups/restores.
What are we doing?

Creating a virtual marketplace for tech/business talent, much in the way the Bloomberg BAT [1] has created a virtual marketplace to connect individuals and firms in the finance world.

Create the marketplace and you're guaranteed both a share of the profits from market-related events (conferences, tuition fees) and an increased brand awareness. This will only work if you have a good reputation that will attract both sides of the market: the students (workers) and the firms (employers). MIT has a great reputation, therefore it can put out basically whatever content it wants, and it will profit.

Some more thoughts:

1. A $7,500/year corporate membership gets you:
"-Free postings of company events on the MITX website Events Calendar
-Free access to complete contact information of all members
-Free company listing in MITX's comprehensive searchable online membership directory..."

2. How much does it cost to record a class, create a couple of self-grading exercises, reuse old powerpoints and PDFS, and then throw the whole bundle up online, where it can be used and reused by millions of people? The cost/user is ridiculously small from MIT's standpoint. Creating in-depth, comprehensive OCW would raise costs substantially. Yes, the students would benefit, but why should MIT have vested interests in students who aren't directly enrolled in the college (besides the whole "education for the good of humanity" argument). MITx students probably won't provide any returns in the form of fame/alumni donations.

3. I don't think this will lower the "prestige once enjoyed by higher education". Going to Harvard summer camp while in high school really only signals the ability to pay for such a privilege. The institution doesn't suffer any loss of reputation and earns cash by licensing out its reputation. I believe it will be the same for MITx.

[1] http://about.bloomberginstitute.com/
Wow, I was just about to buy a Synology this coming week and now I have second thoughts. Now more than ever I'm certain that having only Drobo/Synology is not a good backup solution, but having a backup of the backup is equally important.
These arguments make no sense. Aside from anything else, the computing power of the Mac I'm currently using—quad 2.4GHz Ivy Bridge—is so far in excess of anything that is available in the ARM architecture that it's difficult to see this being the case at any point.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe

How far does Apple want to go? The rabbit hole is pretty much infinite. Do they want to make their own plastics and paints and metals? Do they want to mine the materials for all of the above? Do they want to make the mining machines for their mines? Etc, etc, etc.
There are people in the tech community doing this. One of the co-founders of LegalZoom apprenticed under their GC, and our CTO (at Judicata) is apprenticing under a member of our legal team.
I was really hoping to see someone have a different experience than me, so thank you ;). Not sure why the difference though, perhaps we have the speed around here but just not a decent price. I've heard more non-tech people complain about the data caps actually, especially families with children who watch kids shows on Netflix.
In PHP traits override methods which is something other than being a member object (though you can use traits to do that as well). http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php
Interesting. Did either clear their bar exam?
> it appears HN is now rate limiting me

New accounts are rate limited because of past abuses. We marked your account legit to turn that off.
Lawyers should have it, many paralegals will fail to, but you've not at all established that it's not possible for an autodidact paralegal to acquire similar depth and breadth.
I have a Qnap and they are pretty similar to Synology. Wonder if there is a similar attack against them.

Also curious if this was linked directly to the internet.
How do you think they accessed your NAS?
Kind of amusing to see the archaic term "wireless" start to recover its popularity around 1990.