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IBM has solid documentation of more of the Power8 details here: http://www.setphaserstostun.org/power8/POWER8_UM_external_22...

Going only by specs, it seems that in many other cases each Power8 core has about 2-4x the resources of a Haswell core:

64KB vs 32KB L1D
512KB vs 64KB L2
8MB vs 2.5MB L3
16 vs 10(?) outstanding L1 requests
8 vs 4 instructions issued per cycle
2 vs 1 stores per cycle (or 4 vs 2 loads if no stores)
3 vs 4/5 cycle L1 latency for 64-bit data
5 vs 6/7 cycle L1 latency for vector data
2048 vs 512 TLB entries (integrated with huge pages)

Specs that aren't higher than Haswell are usually the same --- skimming, I haven't found any that are lower. This makes me think that a 4xSMT or 8xSMT Power8 core will probably be about equivalent to a 2xSMT (hyperthreaded) Haswell core. Dedicated core operation (non-hyperthreaded) will vary more based on workload, but likely be 1x to 2x in favor of Power8.
But these are guesses based on written specs -- I'm eager to see more real benchmarks.
Patenting it doesn't necessarily mean they won't let other people use it. It could, for example, be for protection against Apple patenting it themselves and not letting anyone use it.
Only a few hundred emails a day? How do you get any work done?! I get a few dozen and it's a huge distraction.
Lovely description. Now I know what Inbox is. Can wait to get my hands on it!
AFAIK Apple does not license MagSafe for any amount of money.
Oh, I realize things have grown. And I am in no way saying that I am unhappy with gmail. Just that I can't really remember what drew me to it. Spam filtering isn't something I remember it being much better at. (Well, it was better than other free options, but I had a paid email back then.)

The rest was really just permission to not use folders. Did they even have labels at the outset? I recall there was a big cry over not having hierarchies of data. Maybe it was just labels were simpler... Honestly, I've stopped using labels, even.

I do think it made it apparent that archiving was more than plenty for most people. (And they eventually caved and added deletion.) Anything else you could just search for. Though, again, I don't recall them being that much better at search than other options at the time.

All of that is to say that I don't feel google revolutionized email so much as the just implemented the subset that people actually needed. And made it free for lots of storage so that you no longer had to perform any maintenance. (Seriously, I was paying for email that had a scant 100 megs at the time.)
>> "The fact that you had to configure and maintain 119 filters is the indication that email is broken IMO."

Maybe it's not broken, maybe it's just being used by people in a way it wasn't meant to be. I bet a lot of people's email 'conversations' would work better in a chat app (i.e. they don't need an easily searchable record and they aren't typing long messages).
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>It's been $19/yr for over a year now vs. the $25 one time cost to get into the Play Store. Also free for students and MSDN members.

In fact, Microsoft recently removed the annual fee altogether. The developer subscription is now a one-time charge of $19 [0], which lets you publish apps to both the Windows and Windows Phone stores.

[0]: http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/09/17/new-dev-cen...
FTDI's major advantage is that their WHQL'd drivers are already installed with Windows. That's why people build chips to the same API.
I have struggled (yes, struggled) with psychopathic traits for most of my life. Maybe I can provide some insight.

It's hard for psychopaths work together because they don't see the value of people beyond being a means to an end. If you want an example: I would have no mental qualms with killing my friends or family if there were a tangible benefit and no repercussions. Thankfully for everyone, there are repercussions, and there should be.

The problem is that a psychopath will screw you over when it's advantageous for them to do so; history, bonds, an even what most people would consider "morality" don't really factor in. Everything is just a reasoned calculation.

Two psychopaths working together would require some sort of framework keeping the two from screwing each other over when the opportunity arises. In practice that's really hard to accomplish

As for how you can identify a psychopath. If you could readily identify me as a psychopath you see how that would be a problem in my relationships. Nonetheless I'm certain I have brushed up against one or two. Although I liked them as people, we never clicked because were obsessed with our own domains. I appreciated how no-nonsense they were about the world and didn't let emotions affect their judgements, but I also had no interest in their schemes (though I did respect them) when I had my own schemes to worry about.

If I ever marry, I don't think it will be with another psychopath.
Animats, your idea is great and it's something we considered a lot when we were thinking about the connector. We almost went and did it. However there were a couple of problems with that patents (as a side note - my co-founder is actually a former patent troll, so we dug quite deeply into the patents). Our priority was to not infringe on any of Apple's patents, so we were as thorough as possible with our research.

Here are the main patents around the MagSafe:
http://www.google.com/patents/US7645143
http://www.google.com/patents/US7901216
http://www.google.com/patents/US8087939
http://www.google.com/patents/US8177560
http://www.google.com/patents/US7311526 (the key patent)

Here are the main claims (apart from the one you mentioned):
(a) A first connector comprising:
a first plurality of electrical contacts, the first plurality of electrical contacts to mate with a second plurality of electrical contacts when the first connector couples to a second connector, wherein the first plurality of electrical contacts consisting of a central contact to convey a signal, two contacts to convey a power supply, one contact on each side of the central contact, and two contacts to provide a return path, one contact on each side of the central contact, wherein when the first connector couples to the second connector, the first and second plurality of electrical contacts define a corresponding plurality of electrical paths; and
a magnetic element, the magnetic element to mate with a plurality of magnets in the second connector that are proximally located and arranged in opposing polarities with respect to each other so that when the first connector is brought in close proximity to the second connector, magnetic field lines travel through the magnetic element of the first connector from one of the plurality of magnets in the second connector to another one of the plurality of magnets in the second connector.

(b - part of it)
a plurality of movable first contacts to make electrically conductive paths with a plurality of second contacts in a second connector when the first connector is mated with the second connector, each of the movable first contacts biased by one of a plurality of first springs;

The biggest problem is with the claim that speaks about a magnetic field from multiple magnets (4 are present on computer side) traveling through a magnetic element (ie. metal) on the connector side, which the patent states creates a stronger attraction. We thought it would be possible to place metal bits on the connector side in such a way that the magnetic field would only be passing through one element - thus creating less of a magnetic attraction but being a different invention. Unfortunately, at this point it becomes a matter of proving wether or not that's what's actually happening (this was our biggest worry as burden of proof would be on us).

There were another 2 - 4 other claims that also made it hard to improve upon (also not infringe on any of their patents) and create our own connector - not to mention the design patents.

I was actually thinking of writing a blog post about this issue, it was extremely interesting to look into all of this.
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I may be an odd one, but I use email for personal things. If messaging a group of people, there's inevitably someone who refuses to get Facebook or doesn't have a smartphone or never checks their texts or something. At the same time, everybody has an email address that's checked at least daily (at university, and email's how anything course-related is communicated).

By emailing, it removes the cognitive step of working out how to contact someone - it just works. Yes, I'll use text or Facebook for certain things with certain people, but email is something that just works with everyone.
It shares the critical element of diffuse responsibility. Everyone can half-reasonably shrug their shoulders and say, "Well it isn't MY fault".

If a Sony product happens to have a fake FTDI chip in it, this is FTDI's way of incentivizing Sony (via angry customers) to manage their supply chain, because as you say there's an incentive even for Sony to cut costs where they can- perhaps by turning a blind eye when they get some suspicious batches of chips for a great price, and claiming ignorance later...

Everyone, in demanding the lowest price no matter what (all the way up the supply chain) bears part of the blame.

We are of course witnessing a visceral response on the part of HN voters reacting to my comment, who are exemplifying why this is a hard problem to tackle. It isn't MY responsibility!
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The Microchip part needs an external crystal or ceramic resonator for a time reference. The FTDI part doesn't need any external parts beyond bypass caps.
FYI: double checkmarks means your message was successfully delivered to their phone [0], not that they necessarily read your message.

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Those numbers have some noise within. If you read this literally they did the right thing. Why would you be releasing on a competing OS if yours have a bigger market share? By the time when they decided to ditch symbian it was already late and they needed to differentiate themselves.
How on earth could you find it challenging to find a successful psychopath? Have you never heard of Goldman Sachs?

Or what about the guy who ran Sunbeam into the ground? He is actively a self-avowed psychopath obsessed with predatory behavior.
One worrisome trend that the author didn't really consider is that YA fiction isn't just for young adults anymore. Countless adults are reading it instead of anything else.
I tried to order a mouse once. The only choice was a $10 el cheapo. I put in a request for it. Denied because I didn't spend enough. So I added a keyboard and a couple other things to meet the minimum spend. Denied again. I've had to resort to buying office supplies for myself because the company is so cheap. I have to support my 5+ year old company owned macbook (replaced failed hard drive and upgraded ram out of my pocket) or else forfeit it for a crappy windows box.
Hey - I'm one of the founders, maybe I can comment on this. You're completely right, first sale doctrine is something that would be applicable in a case like this (at least to my knowledge), but a users rights can be restricted by the EULA (End-user license agreement) and Terms of Use and Conditions when purchasing from a store.

The actual adaptor we planned to use didn't have any EULA restrictions that would have prevented us from going forward, however we at the last minute found out that the places we were purchasing these from did have Terms of Use restrictions that weren't favourable to us.

Though our situation was more of a grey area than a black and white one, we decided that the cons outweighed the pros. After all, our legal budget is a little lower than that of Apple :)
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers is more like the "C: A Reference Manual" (Harbison / Steele) rather than K&R.

To me, "The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript" by the same author is the equivalent of K&R. Just don't be misled by the title, it covers the functional aspects of JavaScript as good as any other book and does not push for object-oriented programming as the one true way at all.
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Yep as soon as someone announces they are leaving the vultures come in. We are actually not even "approved" to have an external monitor based on my title.
Isn't the WHQL process supposed to vet for malware like this?
The real world is a lot like cyberpunk except instead of exciting it's frustrating.
If you were designing based on consequences, would covering basic expenses for rare blood donors result in so many people signing up with infectious diseases that it exceeds the deaths from the Rube Goldberg scheme described in OP which limps along with just a few rare blood donors?
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Not sure how much value my data point is worth to you, but yes, I use email for personal communication. I also use most of the RTC/IM methods as well, but email is the best communication tool because it allows for a wide variety of content (text/images/attachments) while being cross platform. Any device with even the slowest internet access and either an email client or a web browser can be a terminal for someone to communicate.
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They should make it clear if its a defensive patent.
FWIW, Digits exposes your phone number to the app:

> A successful Digits account creation will return a stable userID to attach or match with your user record, and an oAuth token for the device. A verified phone number is also returned for convenience, but the user’s number may change at any time and should not be used for authentication.

Also, I understand this might be an edge case, but I don't always have the ability to receive SMS. This can happen in places without cell service (but with WiFi). More importantly, it can happen when traveling abroad and using a data-only SIM, which is especially bad if you get asked to re-login due to the location change.
This is all quite confusing. I decided to try it out: so I downloaded Fabric.app (OSX), and signed up for a trial account. Somehow I was put in a pre-existing group when I signed up, with 8 other members whose email address I didn't recognize. Then, when I fired up Fabric.app, it goes into the menu bar and sits there. Does nothing. Asks me to select an XCode project (only lists my existing XCode projects) and doesn't really go further until I login. That's very unfriendly so I decided to quit until I learn more about it - oh, there's no quit option in the menu. Seems like Fabric.app has installed itself and wants to sit there .. forever .. doing .. something? I see no need for that in an developer platform, so 'kill `pidof Fabric`' it is, for me .. until I at least RTFM and find out what all the fuss is about.

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"Launch Beta" is taking very long, HN effect?

Still, don't hide the CTA in a small button at top. It needs to be at least visible at the bottom.
Fully agree with this. Boomerang has really been the only way my inbox has remained exclusively actionable items that are not blocked by waiting for people to reply.

I haven't seen Inbox yet, but it sounds like the "snooze" feature might solve this problem for many people.
WHAT?! I was using it for over 2 years under that assumption! Thanks
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Apparently he thinks the definition of psychopath is akin to 'nonconformist'? I don't know, but I found his comment very strange just as you did... Nothing he described has any relationship to psychopathy.
I wrote a lot of the backend/API at Openfolio. We put together a blog post with a little bit about our stack, and challenges if anyone is interested: http://code.openfolio.com/post/96462395197/openfolios-stack
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Would Dunbar's number be lower in higher-context cultures?

It seems "obvious" that application of laws will always be lower-context than the culture those laws are being applied in. Thoughts? Counterexamples?

Teams tend to become more effective over time, as they get more used to working together. How much of this is due to moving towards higher-context interactions and less-structured / more polychronic time?
This isn't a misconfiguration issue, or that Linux bug that bricked certain SCSI devices. No, they are explicitly asking the counterfeit chip to rewrite its USB PID to 0, which renders it unusable.

That's intentional and clearly malicious.
I don't remember this being the case. I remember it being better than other free options. But not compared to paid ones.
What are the hurdles to allowing Inbox for Google Apps users?
They may not be WHQL certified, per Wikipedia:

> A company can choose to sign their own drivers rather than go through the WHQL testing process. These drivers would not qualify for the "Certified for Windows" logos, but they would install on 64-bit versions of Windows and install without a warning message on 32-bit versions of Windows Vista or Windows 7. However, it will not install without a warning message on Windows XP.

If they are, I don't know enough about how rigorous Microsoft's certification process is now to comment. It used to be just looking for things that would cause kernel instability but it seems the standards have increase a lot since its exception.
If crap books are pulling kids that wouldn't have been literate into reading, that's good. If crap books are crowding out quality, and causing kids to read garbage when 20 years ago they would have read something that wasn't wish fulfillment populated by stereotypes, that's bad.

I think that the internet is good because more people are reading because of it. I don't know that young adult trash is attracting people who would have instead read good things if it weren't for massive marketing budgets aimed at children. If it is, it's contributing to making (US) society stupider and less competitive.
I have a younger sister who gives me her books to read. I have read nearly all of the Percy Jackson series and I find them enjoyable.

Also, consider that since 1984, the percent of 13-year-olds who are weekly readers went down from 70% to 53%, and the percent of 17-year-olds who are weekly readers went from 64% to 40%, and the percent of 17-year-olds who never or hardly ever read tripled during this period, from 9% to 27% - source http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanshapiro/2014/05/13/kids-do...

Why are we even slightly worried that a kid is reading a fun story about Greek mythology?
The point of restoring stolen goods to their original owner is to undo the damage to that owner. It's not to punish someone who innocently and unknowingly came into possession of the goods at a later stage. The latter person losing out is necessary in that case only because justice can't be done entirely to both parties at the same time (unless the intermediary responsible for the theft is found and forced to compensate everyone who lost out).

In this case, screwing the innocent purchaser of a chip that is a knock-off is entirely unwarranted. It's hard to see how it wouldn't be a breach of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 in my country (England), which would seem to make impairing the operation of the component a criminal offence here.

Edit 1: Clarify wording/citation.

Edit 2: If I'm looking at the right company web site, these guys are actually headquartered in Scotland. I'm not sure whether the exact same law applies in their jurisdiction.
My response was tongue-in-cheek because the original supposition that someone should become/becomes a psychopath while finding success with a startup is so ludicrous.

You've made a number of unsupported suppositions about my intentions, how frightful!

I forgot where I was though, when I posted that bit of dry humor. Self-important "founders" or at least "founder wannabes" is super serious guys!!!!
This isn't about damage from a lack of precautionary measures. It's about damage due to the drivers doing something completely irrelevant to ordinary use- code that has no reason to be in the driver in the first place.
> However I would not expect it to then give a clear linear link

No, that's also consistent with healthy user bias: drinking soda and healthy attitudes/habits are not binary variables, they both seem like they would be relatively continuous (you can drink 1 can of soda a day, or 2, or 3, or 4, or 5, or anywhere in between for that matter; and you can be very concerned and conscientious about your life, or concerned, or somewhat concerned, or a little concerned), and so you would expect dose-response relationships. There's no less reason to expect linearity from soda/health than soda/telomeres.

(If it was as easy as all that to refute healthy user bias and other confounds, they wouldn't be such a big deal...)
I'm curious, do you think this applies to you as well, or are you somehow confident that you own no counterfeit hardware?
I've read the whole page and I genuinely can't tell what this product is. Is it like PhoneGap - develop once, deploy to multiple targets?
I read the original link, and watched the video on that page, and had pretty much the same reaction as the parent commenter. If this service is perfectly clear to you, then please elaborate for the rest of us.

It appears to be sorting and arranging various bits of data. The examples shown include messages, and a flight reservation. What all kinds of data bits DO integrate? Does this read my email (or replace it)? Does this read (or replace) the news feeds of my social networking accounts? Where did it get that flight itinerary? Why is everyone in this video talking a selfie every two seconds, is Inbox sharing or managing photos for you?

I think this supposed to be an improved version of Google Keep, perhaps with some hooks into Gmail and your phone's camera. But all I have to go by is a few paragraph of fluff, and a 60-second video of young people staring down at their phones. Feel free to fill in the blanks, if you picked up some more solid information that we're missing.
That's still an improvement over countless adults not reading at all.

People that was going to read the good stuff anyways will find their ways there eventually.
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It seems to me more like an infrastructure use tax, which seem to work fine. Don't you pay usage-based taxes for the public roads (via gasoline taxes)?

Now I guess the next question is, are the pipes in Hungary publicly owned.
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from the site is is just gmail with the ability to accept/snooze calendar events.

also the spam inbox (what they are trying to label as offers or something on gmail) is not part of the priority inbox.

besides that, and all the smiling happy people in the Ad, all i could grasp is that they added lots and lots of white space around each message to compensate for the humongous size of that phone screen.
Everything except the booster/wild-cards/etc...

Unless THOSE people are kept in separate leader boards.

.99 for add free version would be much appreciated.
As a consumer I have no way to know if the FTDI in my device is real. It really isn't my fault.

This is FTDI's way of incentivizing companies using consumers, like I said in my original comment, and it sucks.
It will be interesting to see how companies like Boxer 'pivot' in response to this. I started using Boxer a little while ago specifically to deal with the email-becomes-todo-item issue which Gmail generally lacked. Not sure I'd have any reason to continue to use it if I could score an invite to Inbox (hint hint).