skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also did this, missing out on 100mhz of base clock (3.4ghz vs 3.5ghz for the k).

TSX seemed like a once in a decade step forward, though as I understand it the restrictions with the cache size (and thus the amount of memory you can write to before the transaction gets too big) meant it wasn't very practical for much beyond optimistic lock acquisition.

For example, PyPy isn't planning on doing a TSX port even with their enthusiasm for transactional memory.

Also influencing my decision, I bought a 2600k a few years back, but never bothered overclocking it, which I guess was an admission that the excitement I found for hardware when I was a child was dead. I guess you either have the money, or the time, but rarely both.

It's disappointing that this microcode update isn't being done in such a way that you can re-enable it after agreeing to a disclaimer that it's not for production use. I'm not sure what the mechanism for this would look like, but given that Intel sold cards that unlocked Hyperthreading, I'm sure it's possible.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/18/intel-wants-to-charge-50-...

Edit: The article has been updated saying that it will be possible to enable TSX for development purposes on Haswell-EP at least.
Haskell ಠ_ಠ function
Mini-camera to scan crowds for potential suicide bombers
> I'd use something like that.

Me too. Sounds like a great side project for somebody.
Facebook's ADB Shell
Germany doesn't extradict it's citizen, it just turns a blind eye if they are kidnapped by the CIA.
I chatted with Wired about just this concept: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/facebook_bug/
I generally avoid signing NDAs simply to hear or see a pitch/concept/prototype/etc.

The real question is "what are you gaining and giving up?"

Most entrepreneurs that I talk to are filled with their own concepts and ideas (and the hard part is usually the execution). Thus, entrepreneurs will often avoid signing NDAs in order to preserve their legal purity in the event that they independently develop a similar product. This is, I believe, the reason why ycombinator and most other large investment firms will not sign NDAs.
Can you explain how power generated for electrolysis is more efficient than that used to directly charge electric vehicles?

Unless you're talking about converting natural gas or coal directly to hydrogen, which is just as asinine.
So castings made of (kinetic) sandturn out pretty well, actually
My test went into spam as well. As others have said, though, interesting concept.
Combustion engines (and cells) are for the most part less efficient than our least efficient power generation plants combined with the grid.
Carmack as well, I'd bet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Anna_Kang
OnePlus Uses A Sexist Contest To Sell Their New Phone
I'm a Zonian. I remember well October 1, 1979. That was the day that the Panama Canal Treaty started its implementation. That was the day the Canal Zone ceased to exist as a territory of the United States.

I lived near the Thatcher Ferry bridge and there was a false road leading to it in my neighborhood. Panamanian officials were driving around Balboa honking their horns in jubilation but got bottlenecked at the false road. A minor clusterfuck for them and we got some laughs from it. But it was a sad day for me and the other Zonian kids. The few laughs didn't assuage the sadness.

We all thought that Panama would never be able to run the canal without the U.S. We were certain that they'd eventually ask the Americans to run it again. These thoughts were part imperial arrogance and part rooted in reality. The Panamanian government couldn't even run the railroad that was given to them. But we were wrong and it's clear in retrospect that we (the United States) held back Panama's development. Not consciously or deliberately. Panama grew up when the U.S. finally left in December of 1999. The country is doing much better.

One of the ironies of America's involvement in the Canal Zone is that troubles with Panama really started over whether or not the Panamanian flag should be flown alongside the American flag at Balboa high school. Today, there is a single Panamanian flag flying there. Progress.

I miss the Canal Zone. I don't speak Spanish. Well, a little. I know cuss words and how to get around. We had our own schools, TV, police, stores, etc. It was an American colony and the luxury it provided Americans largely came from cheap labor from Panama. During the Canal Zone days the company (the Panama Canal Company) paid Panamanians to mow our lawns for us. Coming to the U.S. to live took some getting used to.
I feel that workers would be more productive as well if they receive natural light during the day. It would simply make them happier.
A somewhat related question on Quora "Which programming language is the most female friendly?":

https://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming/Which-programming...
You have enabled pg_stat_statements haven't you? It's what heroku are obviously using.
You're correct: having a large supply does not mean that you are in a network effect business.

Tostitos has a large supply. This is not without value! It is indeed the case that a customer in search of tortilla chips can reliably get Tostitos when they might not be able to reliably get a smaller brand of tortilla chips. Tostitos is a big business that can get their brand into more stores than smaller competitors, too.

But I assume that we all agree that Tostitos is not a network effect business.

People pretty routinely confuse the advantage of "being big" (and being somehow involved with computers) with a network effect. This is bad both from a pure terminology reason (ie: we don't need a new term for "being big and somehow involved with computers," while we do need a term for actual network effects), and also in terms of confusing people about the merits of a business -- to whit, we should not assume that the rides-for-hire business is naturally going to become a monopoly because of a "network effect" when there is no network effect. In contrast, we should assume that social networks are naturally going to become monopolies because of a network effect.

Rides-for-hire-hailed-with-a-smartphone is a few things. It's a threshold business -- you need a certain density of drivers in a service area in order to offer quality of service to your passengers. If a rival of Uber can't get a certain number of drivers, they can't provide good service. But whatever that magic number is, it's also actually bad for them to have MORE drivers than that, until their passenger demand also expands. Much of the business problem of rides-for-hire is, unlike a traditional network effect business, where it's "stay bigger than your rivals," matching driver levels to passenger levels. If your number of drivers is too low, your quality of service goes down. If your number of drivers is too high, your drivers don't earn enough to continue with you, stop bothering to log in, etc.
You're not old, just intolerant of different forms of art; this would have been art 50 years ago, too. It's actually a bit quaint and old fashioned.
I love mu as a mutt backend. The contact search is brilliant for address completion. However, it seems to lack thread reconstruction abilities like notmuch?

Notmuch, on the other hand, lacks contact search. This is a bit silly, given that both are frontends to xapian.
Robotic butler makes debut at Cupertino’s Aloft
The problem isn't caused by a UI-altering extension, but a simple theme:

> 2. Location bar is too big. (Only in Firefox 31 and newer.)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-2-the...

Looking at the version history of the theme, it looks like the author has been heroically trying to shield users from changes. I'd be pretty annoyed if I had written some addon in the distant past and were forced to make fixes because the Firefox devs broke something that should have been stable 20 versions ago. Firefox's main selling point (in my opinion) is its vast library of high-quality addons and themes. They should be doing everything possible to preserve backward-compatibility, not breaking large swaths of their library.
I'm surprised this isn't getting more press. Shaw in Alberta has been having problems all day, not sure if it is because of this but I would hazard a guess that it is.
Compelling story of life in a WWII concentration camp by someone who was there
As discussed on NANOG from a few months ago:

http://markmail.org/message/n32fmeb2dmtnbsff

I find the economics of the routing table to be fascinating. When someone announces a route, it makes use of a constrained (and often expensive, TCAM-based) resource on routers all over the world. More discussion:

http://markmail.org/message/6sunzqtffav5jmfb
I don't know, they kiss a lot of American ass in the article and it is essentially just trespassing. Sounds like they want to make sure they can come back to NYC with no hassle.
I like cat. Always a good start to a pipe chain for a quick look at a small data set.
Render Hell 1.0
I'm finally beginning to appreciate how my embarrassing behavior ends up trotted out regularly.
> By abstracting away that schlep for me...

> I just realised another way of phrasing what they're doing. Imagine how hard payments was before Stripe came along. These people are basically the Stripe for marine robotics

Hey, didn't you get the "schlep" and "Stripe" part from [0]? ;).

[0] - http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html
An Open Letter to CIOs
That's why I made the comment about marketers. A personal assistant is something you never knew you couldn't live without.
Use those how? Would you go into detail?
This kind of thing is an incredibly bad idea.

There is not even a captcha to reduce abuse by spammers; just punch in an e-mail address, and click "Send", wee!

I sent myself an e-mail, viewed it raw, and promptly updated my mail server configuration to drop SMTP connections from that same sender/host.

And say someone uses this for mailing an anonymous threat (bomb, death, ...); why would you want to expose yourself to any such trouble.
That's why there's a Pink Mustache on Lyft cars.
I think this is the latest specification update for at least some of the relevant processors:

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

It was last updated in June, so I guess it doesn't contain this latest erratum. Can't wait until it's updated... though I don't know if Intel is likely to disclose details.
Only in the movie. In the book it was an impeller.
Very true. Unfortunately, the support for viewport units is somewhat lacking. Some browsers still require javascript to "repaint" the elements after a manual window resize. It's only a matter of time though, when these JS patches won't be necessary...can't wait.
TCP != ethernet.
A TCP stack can run over serial and othe link layers (PPP, SLIP, etc).
PPP is absolutely doable on very small microcontrollers.
Standard response: Quick, deploy IPV6 and fix the problem!

OH WAIT, WE DIDNT FKIN THINK OF THIS IN OUR RUSH TO PUSH A BROKEN INCOMPLETE SOLUTION.
I love jq. I've always wondered, is there an equivalent for working with XML? Not that I prefer XML over JSON, just that I seem to deal with a lot of services still serving XML. Ugh.
They're both basically hoping to increase their margins while still providing substantive savings to their passengers. So, for a $20 ride, they basically want to charge each passenger about $12 (thus saving the passenger $8) and thus increase their net take from $20 to $24.

The complicating factor is that they're also trying to provide passengers an incentive to try out the service before it gets good, so they offer some discounts even for rides that they think they will not actually be able to find an additional passenger for.

It's a very cool innovation. I hope it works out. It remains to be seen if passengers want to deal with sharing a car in enough quantity to make the services work out. If it does work out, then rides-for-hire will, in this sub-space at least, become a genuine network effect business, and there will be one hell of a brawl.
Can someone name a successful, on-time project? You're setting the bar quite high, aren't you?
Good that you haven't caught on any actual argument I've provided, but a casual non-offensive joke.

Please continue traversing irrelevant nodes.
Heading: "Team Culturally Diverse"

Contents: Three white guys with no content about culture or diversity. Rather an odd thing to feature on the app's main page.
Sometimes it's accidental. If you downvote by accident, you can't reverse it.
Doing anything with everyday natural-language pretty much requires AI.
will soon add captha. Thanks for this great advice.
My world got a little smaller. Khot's advisor -- Sanjeev Arora -- was the guy who cemented my decision of where to go to school.
I know this is very meta, but the page is so cluttered... I would link to the Readability version but it redirects back to the article (previous complaints "you're stealing our visitors" caused that). So instead I can recommend this: https://readability.com/bookmarklets
Is this something more than the plugin that sends the IE8 user agent to gmail?

I hope so, that way it will work when google finally takes the IE8 trick away.

lol, no, this is the entire plugin, seriously, it took them far longer to make that webpage

if (host.indexOf("mail.google.com") == 0) {
var agent = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)";
httpChannel.setRequestHeader("User-Agent", agent, false);
}
I believe the correct approach is to share your tools and services freely in such a way as they can be configured and used from public computers (e.g. Apple Store, or a recently purchased craigslist laptop from an open wifi access point). The general idea is that you prepare your tools at your leisure, and then invoke and target in anonymity.
The downvotes are probably because you didn't explain why you think it's relevant, and therefore didn't actually contribute to the discussion.
The Nevanlinna Prize was also awarded. This is the award mathematicians give to theoretical computer scientists. This year the winner is Subhash Khot from NYU. His main result is the Unique Games Conjecture (UGC) and how it can be used to obtain hardness of approximation results for algorithmic problems. For example, it is used to show that MaxCut cannot be approximated better than a factor of 0.878.. unless UGC does not hold. Remarkably this exact approximation factor is achievable by the breakthrough SDP algorithm of Goemans and Williamson. It is not currently clear if UGC is true and the opinions of theoreticians are split.
Interesting idea. Compared to a submarine yes, but what this would more likely be up against, from the perspective of cost is a panga boat:

http://www.independent.com/news/2012/jul/26/13-people-arrest...

"The push out to sea is spurred by increased crackdowns on the border, and pangas loaded with multiple fuel barrels have been spotted as far north as San Francisco. The Los Angeles and Long Beach areas have seen a similar increase in incidents."

Lets see, to ship ~$6 million worth of pot paying someone a small fraction to drive a boat up the coast, plus a few thousand for a boat, I'm not seeing a reason why they'd want to make a drone sub to do this.
There is at least one thing Wolfram skimps over:

"So in principle one can imagine having a system that takes input and generates “interesting” theorems about it."

I can imagine having a spaceship that goes faster than light, too. It is more than slightly harder to actually build it.

Generating theorems is easy (it may even be possible to generate all theorems in order of increasing length of their proof and not get stuck into generating evermore longer proofs of theorems encountered earlier, but I am not sure of that)

However, we have only very faint ideas about what constitutes an interesting theorem (are theorems even dull or interesting independent of their known proofs? if one finds a new interesting proof for a theorem that previously only had a dull proof, I think the theorem can become less dull), and certainly do not know how to programmatically discriminate them from dull ones.
I'm reminded of an amusing encounter in Berlin. I went to meet a seemingly promising proto-startup, one associated with a prominent accelerator, at their well-known coworking space. I was interested in their CTO spot and had plenty of relevant experience. I could tell from the first handshake that my potential non-tech counterpart was not exactly amused by my lack of youth, which, as everyone knows, is crucial to CTO success. I was dressed the part - the standard-issue German uniform of polo shirt & jeans, nothing off-putting there. At some point not far into the meeting, he asked me what my GPA was. I kid you not. I graduated from a well-respected school, decades ago, have a long track record with startups, keep up to date on tech, but he emphatically wanted to know my GPA. I scratched my head and guessed, upon which he asked if that put me in the top 5% of graduates at the school. Color me mystified: not only did they not tell us that sort of thing upon graduation, I could not imagine why he would think it important. Not only did he think it important, he informed me, gesturing through the glass partition at the worker bees, "most of the people we hire are in the top 5% of their classes", and that was just something I should know. It seemed obvious that knowing one's GPA and class standing was a gating factor: it screened out both those who could not claim to be “elite”, but also those with enough age and experience for whom school performance had long ago become irrelevant.

I found it disturbing how much the Berlin startup community deifies SV, attempts to ape it, and maybe this encounter was just one facet of that. In general my impression was that Berlin companies seemed to be less inclined toward age discrimination than US ones, but I would be interested in hearing other opinions on that.

Edit: typo
I wrote an ebook about a non-technical topic I had experience with.

I spent 18 months doing all the things I was "supposed to do" to build traffic and sell copies of it - frequent blog posts, SEO (including some recommended grey-hat stuff), weekly "newsletter" e-mails, etc.

Before the Google ranking algo change (Penguin? Panda?), I had my best month ever - US$ 150 in gross income. After the change, I lost 90% of my traffic and didn't have the heart to continue.

Even without the traffic loss, the site was going nowhere, due to a bunch of other mistakes I made. The biggest problem was that the maximum lifetime value of a customer was less than US$ 25.
>Hilbert thought so too, but it is proveably not to be (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem), no matter how much money is thrown at it by how many bored billionaires.

Given that human beings do mathematics just fine, I think there might be some way to deal with this.
What an overblown event which I suppose makes it a success. The fact that the police force and DA went nuts about it is ridiculous. I hope there are no legal consequences.
It's a dumb saying. Let's say Bill Gates stopped making any more money tomorrow. How long would it take for you to catch up to his wealth?

Lithium-Ion battery energy density has about doubled in the last 25 years: http://futurist.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/03/11/batt.... Even if gas technology stops improving tomorrow, it'll take 100-200 years to catch up on the energy density front.
Thank you - dunno why I just needed that said out loud - I shall stop worrying about how to compete for or educate such people - thank you.

That just was the right words at the right time :-)

Cheers
This is a quite nice article and an interesting project.

Related: A coworker of mine wrote a 3d accelerator with FPGA that outperforms some of the early Voodoo -era 3d accelerators. It could do higher triangle counts at a higher resolution with multisample antialiasing. The demos he had looked quite spectacular.

He is a software engineer and he gave us a very nice demo and a very enlightening presentation on how writing software differs from writing FPGA code.

Unfortunately, since we work for a GPU company, it's unlikely that he'll ever release the work to the public. There's no way the company lawyers would allow that and releasing it without consulting them first could result in him losing his job :( Despite that he did it on his own time and did not use any company IP.
Interesting, I hadn't heard about that. I was expecting to see a corporate version of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%28game%29
I suspect it's just not something you find particularly interesting. Personally, I think other people's reaction will be the fascinating part. I could easily see a segment of the population being incensed at the notion of someone flying a US flag resembling a flag of surrender. (Note: I'm in Dallas, Texas at the moment, so I expect slightly stronger responses.)

Art's always legit to somebody, but even if this is just a goofy prank, it could take on a life of its own after, sorta post-factor legitimizing it. At the least, it could be a neat catalyst for a few flame wars.
Tips on finding a web developer job
Hi, I'm junior Web Developer. Admittedly, one of my weak suits is finding a job. I've only applied to job postings I've found on Hacker News and Craigslist. Besides talking to a recruiter, are there any other places I can look for a work?

Besides looking at monster.com or careerbuilder, which nobody uses anymore. What else am I missing here.
Almost never, for all the same reasons articulated by the other responders here. Mainly the "I don't want to paint myself into a corner in terms of what I can work on" or "I don't want to get sued by you when it just happens that the thing I'm already working on is too similar to your idea", etc.
Come on this is just an idea. spam and legal stuff later.
You are correct. Apologies if it appeared I was talking specifically about global warming, but the context was with regards to what the parent was addressing with "being green" and the environmentalist movement as a whole, so that was the main point I was trying to convey.

But in any case, global warming is an environmentalist issue, and the environmentalist ideology does have power -- whether or not the government has managed to take coherent action about it yet is not indicative of the significance of the issue within the nation, because like I said, it is not a simple issue to solve, and we are still doing more[0] than India and China to help it anyway. And like I said in my original comment, while there is obviously still much room for improvement, there's no need to undermine what we have done to fight it... we'd all be worse of if environmental progress completely stopped in the 60's. Still a shame that we haven't done more of course.

[0] actively regulating pollution is a form of action...
Here's some links from media outlets that have an actual history of representing the black population and other oppressed groups:

http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/08/what_to_read_about_fe...

http://therealnews.com/idirect.php?i=12236

http://truth-out.org/news/item/25533-how-the-mainstream-medi...

http://privacysos.org/node/1489

http://sinidentidades.tumblr.com/tagged/ferguson
In my experience it usually boils down to delusions of grandeur. Stakeholders often think THE WORLD is watching this upcoming release, so they can't possibly allow the team to ship without features X Y and Z ready.

In reality, for the vast majority of launches very people are watching, and even fewer care about your features or lack thereof (that's just not how early-adopters think about products, in my opinion).

If founders realized how little traffic / how few downloads they were going to get out of the gate, they'd ship much earlier; unfortunately everybody thinks their project is going to be a TechCrunch headline, and that's just not the case.
You're not old, it's just that nowdays "art" is defined as "anything that you can convince few people to call art", the more shocking and disgusting the better.

On the other hand, I think we should have much more "stupid juvenile pranks". Society is grumpy and boring nowdays.