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> Memory isn't just slow because they went for capacity
> not performance (except vacuously), it's slow because
> of the laws of physics.

Yes. The farther away RAM is from the CPU code, the more stuff needs to happen before it can get into those precious, precious registers. Even if data from main memory didn't have to travel over a bus/switch/etc between the DIMM and the CPU, it's not physically possible (in any practical sense) to have main memory running at anything close to the speed of the CPU once we're talking about multi-GHZ CPUs. DIMMs and the CPU are running on separate clocks, you have the sheer distance and the speed of electrons through the metal to consider, etc.

> There's a reason why the iPhone and iPad only have two
> cores - it's not worth their while adding more but does
> add lots of cost and complexity.

Yes! There's a reason why the A7 in my iPhone 5S blows away the quad-core ARM chip in my 2012 Nexus 7. That reason is because "adding more dumb cores" is not the answer to anything, aside from marketing goals.
The unified control group hierarchy in Linux kernel 3.16
The juggling was extremely impressive and having to juggle for like a hour during the demo session was amazing.
What job is there that coding isn't a means to an end?
(the uncreatively-named "r8" through "r15".)

I'd much rather have numbered registers that can be used for anything than named registers that have usage limitations.
My dad has worked on pacemakers, defibrillators, left ventricular assist pumps, all kinds of implantables. In this industry they regularly mark up their manufacturing costs 10x-20x because it takes minimum 5-10 years to get something through the FDA. Even if your design is 100% perfect the first time (which they never are).

So a $5mm R&D project turns into a $50mm slog through approval and then you get to sell, what a few tends of thousands of units? Let's just say that you could somehow magically sell 50k units. That means you've got to charge $10k per unit just to cover the engineering & approval and stuff and that's before a DIME of profit. So a pacemaker costs $20k not because it's got $15k of raw materials inside of it but because the FDA says that it has to get approved and approval isn't cheap.

I'm sure drugs are the same way. It might cost only a few dollars to actually manufacture the ingredients in a pill but the R&D necessary to know WHAT ingredients might have cost $100mm. So even if you sell a million of them they've got to cost $100 each before you take anything else into account.

I am not suggesting that it would be OK for the government to basically just take the patents. But it also wouldn't surprise me if they did.
Some East European villages also have outhouses and don't have this problem. They don't have porcelain toilets, just a wooden floor with a hole in it. Interestingly the structures are usually not concrete, or stone, often just a _deep_ enough hole in the ground (my uncle dug down to 12 feet or so), wooden walls and some slanted roof. They have good ventilation, made from wood, with large opening on the top under the roof. Some people are cheap enough to use crumpled up newspapers instead of toilet paper but still beats using ones' hand. And there is usually a small water container and soap nearby to wash hands. Also they are not build next to the house, but usually as far away as possible (far end of the garden or yard, yes going in the winter or rain sucks).

Maybe deeper holes won't work in India because of the soil and rain and it is a quite a bit more humid and hotter there. But looking at that structure the have in the article, I can see how someone would just not want to go there when it is 100 degrees outside and high humidity.
If you're upset about the OpenSSL screwup, you're mad at the OpenSSL project for telling the Debian maintainer that commenting out some code would be OK.

Your beef is with ulf@openssl.org, not the Debian project.

http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=114652287210110&w=2
Rural india is much different than urban india.

Even in wester nations, many rural areas don't have sewer systems, they have septic tanks.
No, BBDB doesn't maintain separate lists of "real contacts" and "seen addresses". On the other hand, contact creation is cheap, and can be totally automated to happen behind the scenes, without your involvement, so the effect can be similar.
Please stop being personally rude in your arguments on Hacker News.
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I suspect that aside was written tongue-in-cheek.
Australia solved this. It's called the PBS.

Basically, an independent board of experts does a cost-benefit analysis on new drugs (note - they don't call it cost-benefit, but whatever).

If the drugs are "worth it", then the Australian government massively subsidises them. If they aren't "worth it", then people can still get them, but they cost more. Insurance companies rarely pay for them. Patients can pay for them, but they'll usually find an alternative.

Pharma companies then set their prices to a reasonable level.

Effectively, you have a monopoly buyer (the government) and a monopoly seller (the patent holder). This is, in theory, far superior to the situation where there's a monopoly seller and a huge number of buyers.

Of course, the US is doing God's work, by overpaying for drugs. This effectively subsidises drug research, and allows all the more socialist countries to freeload.
Get over it, it was fine. I love when people start by saying "no offense" for now on just say "offense".

Disclosure: No interest in either of companies or own any stock. Disclosures like this are for jackasses like the comment above by morgante.
Besides being machine-parsable (ie. not Turing-complete), what advantages does this have over Lilypond? It seems like they have very similar goals: Lilypond aims to be a professional typesetting system, where the focus on this looks more like interchange so they seem to pose it like MIDI-with-extra-presentation-commands?
Not surprising. Even in places with running water and electricity the toilets can be horrible. The reason the toilet cleaning people are shunned is because they are not given the right tools and protection.

When we clean a toilet in the US we have plastic gloves, toilet bowl cleaning solution, disposable cleaning pad and/or a brush meant for cleaning toilets. Often a worker cleaning that in India doesn't have that. Hence only the lowly person does the cleaning and is looked as doing something icky.

Giving toilet and bathroom cleaners a uniform and the proper tools and protections might be a good places to spend money to ensure better toilets.
This is my total pop psych opinion after visiting lots of Indian toilets and talking with different people about why toilets in India are so bad.
Hacking Facebook or Hotmail:  Is it possible?
There are so many "false prophets" when I google anything relating to this. How can I find a true professional that guarantees results?
WARNING: If you are an Indian, do not read the comments on that article.
Agreed. In the fields with which I am familiar, professors rarely supervise much more than that number of graduate students over an entire career.

But, in case of the aforementioned professor, she seemed to deplore having that many students, and it was her remark about the number of advisees that prompted the comment from the graduate school dean.
Intel is failing to deliver their existing roadmap on time. Is this because they just haven't 'decided' to play hardball?
Yes, that is true in the typical HackerNews geek libertarian sense. Sure. But this is only the case in a small number of genius autodidacts, perhaps like yourself (minus the statistical knowledge gap). Think of the actual education as a more thorough exam and preparation, even if it is not "sufficient" as some have indicated.
Thats not what he asking. He is asking how caste system relates to toilet issue.
Is this similar to http://gochat.us/ ?
> But in America’s health care financing system, people tend to change commercial insurance whenever they change jobs, lose Medicaid coverage when financial circumstances change, or leave the commercial market altogether when they become eligible for Medicare at age 65. That means one company will be stuck footing the big bill, and another will probably reap the benefits of a healthy liver 20 years later.

>“If it is cost-effective from a societal standpoint, it is not necessarily going to be cost-effective from a health plan standpoint,”

/sigh. Can we have a public option for health insurance already, please?

We have a pharma company not playing by the normal, "gentlemen's rules of the game" that backload costs. Instead, they've got a great cure and are going with the "fuck you, pay me" model. Which, fine, more power to them. I really have no trouble with it. However, unfortunately, it doesn't play well with our current racket of employer-based health insurance.
I understand that some may view this as violating the "ethical code". But when you really think about tinder or these other popular dating apps, is there no violation there where the intent is generally sexually driven and where communication is not a neccesity?
me1010 beat me to it, I didn't know that HN keeps people from posting too often. It imposes a timeout! I know now! Anyway, here's my post, same cost info as he has. But I also had a discussion of power in various areas:

Portland Oregon metro area. Unfortunately for pricing the utility is Portland General Electric. Some places in the area have "people's utility districts", i.e. publicly owned. Those get preferential pricing from the govt, i.e. Bonneville Power. And the price per kWH is of course variable like in most communities (e.g. because of lifeline pricing).

Overall I'm paying about $0.12 per kWH. There are 24x30x12 hours in a year = 8640 hours. Therefore a kilowatt costs $1037 per year. Approximately.

I'm relatively happy, all things considered. It would suck to live in the People's Republic of California. My understanding is that peak pricing in some communities there could be 3x or more than what I'm paying.
Most likely it would be faster, as the Forth primitive words are implemented in hardware. The single-cycle words are: +, -, 2*, 2/, dup, not, @, !, >r, drop, r>, rot, -rot, swap, nip, tuck, over, =. Un/conditional jumps and calling a word take 2 cycles. Naturally, though, this only makes sense if you already have an FPGA in your design.
Looks interesting (I really like the colour you've chosen as well), but does it require Facebook (as it seems to from the landing page info)? If so,I'll be avoiding this unfortunately.
The social network where people own their own profile advertising space
where is this?
Reprogramming cells by computer
Do people realize that windows aren't made of adamantium?

If someone really wants to come in, they can easily do so.
> So yeah, given a choice of a hot, smelly, dirty box or a quiet place behind a tree, I'd pick the tree almost every time.

Amen. That's this "story" in a nutshell.

> ....Is there some intersection of requirements and desires that might make everybody happy?

These are excellent questions, but I think no one is asking them. Agencies like UNICEF are busy funding ridiculous and patronizing campaigns like this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_peUxE_BKcU). As a result, the Government is running hell for leather trying to get some toilets built, and "educating" people to use them, instead of asking "What problems do you have?".

Hopefully, some of the solutions I suggested, or alternatives, might strike some of the planning officials. Otherwise this is going to be a largely symbolic and useless gesture.
Any reason you're trying to do this in usermode instead of using the existing framework for pluggable congestion control already present in the kernel?

Changing your algorithm is already as simple as echoing into a /proc file.
Did they file a bug for gcc and clang?
I know of a couple single founders who made it into YC. Some of them are very successful. Try to bring your business to a point where it doesn't matter whether you get into YC or not, and you should be ok.
What seems more likely to me is a hybrid ARM / x86 machine that switches dynamically between processors, kind of like how some macs can switch dynamically between their integrated and discrete GPUs.
Wow! This is really neat, I tried to find images that I didn't think it could process, the results are interesting.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Blown_up_...

["piranha", "fish", "food", "water", "gold", "dish", "crab", "kitchen", "glass", "silver"]

https://www.flippers.com/images/See-SHFA1_Caps&Mods-PCB.JPG

["panel", "retro", "wine", "background", "design", "old", "tool", "letter", "art", "robot"]

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11_lpi_trvrsmap.gif

["background", "metal", "water", "man", "wall", "old", "abstract", "paper", "hand", "paint"]
Probably be cheaper in the long run for the U.S. government to pay all $90B (according to your figure) for all drug research, end drug patents, and non-exclusively license the resulting drug research at a nominal fee to manufacturers.
I wouldn't classify it as intentional nor a "bug"; probably it's more of an oversight, as it's mentioned in the article that AMD's CPUs don't have this issue. Intel should definitely be made aware of this.

We can only speculate, but it's likely that Intel has the same handling for a lot two-operand instructions. Common instructions like add, sub take two operands both of which are inputs. So Intel probably shoved popcnt into the same category to keep the processor design simple.

On the other hand, MOV doesn't read both operands either.
http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
I second that! Nolo has some wonderful resources available, both online and in print. If you wanna thumb through the book mentioned above there's usually a copy laying around your local Barnes and Nobles. I'd recommend reading it even if you plan on using a service later on. It's great info to have, and a very accessible read.

Only sidenote, in California the Secretary of State's rules, timelines and fees change all the time. Always double check anything you read on the SOS website http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/be/
This article points to multiple causes: 1) cultural/social issues about where the proper place to defecate is 2) lack of education about germ theory and various fecal pathogens etc. 3) problems with bureaucracy converting money into action 4) lack of emphasis on the issue versus other issues 5) difficulty impacting the huge # of people living in India (problems of scale). These all seem pretty valid to me. I'm sure there are other causes as well and I'd like to learn more... what would you add?
FTA:

>Only dalits, the lowest Hindu caste, should be exposed to excrement in a closed space, “or city-dwellers who don’t have space to go in the open,” said Sunita, who uses one name, as she washed clothes next to the concrete latrine. “Feces don’t belong under the same roof as where we eat and sleep.”
Your argument is correct, but you seem to place quite a lot of trust in Census numbers. As someone who has seen some of the actual Census surveys out in the country, that is rather amusing. Making population numbers up, or roughly estimating them is quite common.

Now your structures argument makes sense, so I'm guessing this is more like 600-700 people (most Indian families live in large joint households, so 6 people a house is not uncommon).
Did you look up what the pharmaceutical industry profit margin is? About 20-30%. Based on that information I'm assuming your OK with the situation now?
Aha. The storage decisions I make will have to be a bit different given that I'm paying around $0.31 per kWH.

Thanks for that.
The reason for it, i.e. the reason you believe this, is likely confirmation bias I think. There are poor-quality restrooms in Japan, but whether they are 'public' or 'private' has little to do with it. You can go to a city office, or a police station, and it's even odds what you'll find. Likewise, you can go to a shopping center, and also find examples of both, and I will say that personally some of the worst restrooms I've seen in Japan have been in older shopping malls. Train stations will run the gamut, which doesn't give much evidence either way, regardless of whether you consider those public or private. Parks tend to be lower quality, but there are exceptions.

Instead, what you'll find is that it tends to depend on the age of the building. There are seem to be very few examples of low-quality restrooms built in Japan in the last 10-15 years, regardless of who paid for the building.
If you have a hard drive plugged into your router, they can perform the same crypto-lock attack being discussed here. They can also use your router to launch attacks against the rest of your hardware.
Just western media? I myself am quite ignorant of media from other places in the world. In your experience is there a type of media that is more truthful in the way it describes situations?

From my perspective, the emphasis isn't on the details of the description. Rather, the core of the article is really an account of the problem of sanitation. India has so many people that I just glossed over the number of people in the village. Thus this possible discrepancy didn't bother me.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=input+fonts+for+code#!/story/forev...
I'm sure, but in case anyone at a CPU design company gets any bright ideas and decides to start naming everything... ;-)
Here's one for you.

http://jfxr.frozenfractal.com/#%7B%22_version%22%3A1%2C%22_name%22%3A%22Powerup%2016%22%2C%22_locked%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22sampleRate%22%3A44100%2C%22attack%22%3A0%2C%22sustain%22%3A0.29%2C%22sustainPunch%22%3A0%2C%22decay%22%3A1.58%2C%22tremoloDepth%22%3A0%2C%22tremoloFrequency%22%3A1%2C%22frequency%22%3A700%2C%22frequencySweep%22%3A0%2C%22frequencyDeltaSweep%22%3A0%2C%22repeatFrequency%22%3A0%2C%22frequencyJump1Onset%22%3A0%2C%22frequencyJump1Amount%22%3A0%2C%22frequencyJump2Onset%22%3A0%2C%22frequencyJump2Amount%22%3A0%2C%22harmonics%22%3A5%2C%22harmonicsFalloff%22%3A0.06%2C%22waveform%22%3A%22sine%22%2C%22interpolateNoise%22%3Atrue%2C%22vibratoDepth%22%3A6%2C%22vibratoFrequency%22%3A1%2C%22squareDuty%22%3A100%2C%22squareDutySweep%22%3A0%2C%22flangerOffset%22%3A33%2C%22flangerOffsetSweep%22%3A-2%2C%22bitCrush%22%3A16%2C%22bitCrushSweep%22%3A0%2C%22lowPassCutoff%22%3A10100%2C%22lowPassCutoffSweep%22%3A0%2C%22highPassCutoff%22%3A0%2C%22highPassCutoffSweep%22%3A0%2C%22compression%22%3A1%2C%22normalization%22%3Atrue%2C%22amplification%22%3A100%7D

Fiddle with the "frequency" slider to make it more or less high-pitched.
Then you ban those apps. Any app developer that's worth paying attention to will do it.
>Todays normal users are taking way too much (bad) photos and selfies nobody will be interested in in 10 months, much less in 10 or 100 years. Some pictures might be worth posting to Flickr or Facebook, but they don't have enough longtime importance to make physical prints from them.

Who gets to decide what should be saved? Who gets to decide historical worth? My guess would be archaeologists and historians, and how do you know what will be interesting or useful to them 100s of years in the future?
I read this advice previously on HN, and it worked for a while. Then Google changed something, and it stopped working. I don't know, maybe I was screwing up. Or maybe it's just easier for Google to roll ads ahead of the video when it's in Flash. Or maybe Google wants me to download Chrome, which has a built in Flash player. Not gonna do that until it supports NoScript. YMMV, obviously.
I began typing a response but after some thought, I realize that the answer to your dilemma is complicated by the fact that you may seek 2 positive outcomes rather than 1 for your problem. Here's a potential solution:

"Work-Productive" Saturday

computer/coding related and results in a viable product

+ full-time involvement by other participating individuals

= hackathon/co-founder meetup for projects (perhaps non-profit ones would circumvent IP/competitive issues?)

"Personal-Productive" Sunday

not drinking/pub related

+ can result in friendships/relationships

= any activity that you truly enjoy/want to try out that is NOT computer-related and NOT solitary by default (e.g. going to the gym to lift weights, while is a great activity, may not be recommended for this purpose because it's hard to chat people up when they are concentrating on their new max reps. Whereas a team sport that requires communication may be more amenable.)
>In Singapore, the fear of rapid libel suits with proportional damage would have kept the press from publishing without verifying facts.

In Singapore a Herman Cain wouldn't exist in the first place and would probably be sued into oblivion for libel himself. He wouldn't get a radio show either.

I've not yet heard of anybody successfully suing the PAP or anybody within it for libel either.
Try to pivot, I started a small business landscaping, not because I felt my coding skills were not going to see me through but because I also felt unproductive on weekends and lacked social interactions, fresh air and exercise. I found from the experience I've learned a great deal about dealing with people, budgeting, forecasting, contract management, negotiating, the list really does go on. Not all of that is immediately beneficial to my 9/5 job but things like dealing with failure, problem solving on the fly, thinking lean about solutions so I can get something for the client in a day, two max! I only have a weekend to produce. It's been great!
I took (and thanks to how great the course materials were, nearly aced) the first MITx course, 6.002x (circuits). Each lecture sequence had computer-graded exercises, and they had an online schematic editor and circuit simulator that was integrated into some of the homework and tests.

I thought that was an adequate use of digital technology to enhance learning, and I learned significantly more than I did from my failed attempts at taking introductory electronics in a live lecture setting. The ability to pause, rewind, and speed up the lectures was priceless.

Have subsequent MITx and edX courses been less impressive?
i've always thought the datascope team was awesome. textract makes them even awesomer.
As someone that's married right now and has no free time, I wouldn't suggest anyone to spend their weekends "looking for a wife". That's insane.
I suppose similarly related to this, when I was keeping track of synchronization between two cooperative simulation threads running at different frequencies, I had a 64-bit signed integer: chip A would add chip_B_frequency * chip_A_cycles_executed; and chip B would subtract chip_A_frequency * chip_B_cycles_executed. If the value was >=0, chip A was ahead and would switch to B; and if the value was <0, chip B was ahead and would switch to A.

I ended up getting a noticeable speed boost just by using sync += (uint32_t)clocks * (uint64_t)frequency; ... just a simple 32-bit x 64-bit multiply was quite a bit faster than a 64-bit x 64-bit multiply. (One had to be 64-bit to prevent the multiplication from overflowing, as one value was in the MHz range and the other could be up to ~2000 or so.)

I've observed this on both AMD and Intel amd64 CPUs. Not sure how that'd hold up on other CPUs. As always though, profile your code first, and only consider these types of tricks in hot code areas.
Looks amazing. Thank you for really caring about what you design. I may be buying one of these sometime soon.
or you could use ifttt..never used xapier, but i'm imagining it could do that too..