skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay I've done some thinking/browsing and I've come up with an approximate way to figure out (edit: relative) Moore's law progress without relying on official transistor count by Intel:

1 - Take this Haswell image (Intel claim: 2.6 billion in 355 mm2):

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/8426/HSW-E%20Die%20Mapping%...

(source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8426/the-intel-haswell-e-cpu-r...)

2 - Take this Prescott 2M image (Intel claim: 169 million in 135 mm2):

http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/cpu/intel/pentium4/6xx/p...

(source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/1621/3)

3 - Process these images: remove extra text and resize one so that the ratio of the areas of the two dies is 355 to 135.

4 - Extract one core from Haswell (e.g., top left one)

5 - Remove the per-core cache (e.g., top left square in the top left core)

6 - Estimate the area of the resulting core.

7 - For Prescott, remove the visible left side (which is L2 cache)

8 - Remove about 30% from the top, likely overhead of the Netburst architecture (not present in the Haswell core) (you might disagree with this step in which case, you can do the calculation without removing it as well)

9 - Estimate the area of this.

10 - The number in step 6 (area-6) should be smaller than in step 9 (area-9) and would represent the true shrinkage over 4 technology nodes.

11 - area-9 divided by area-6 is the percentage of transistor-count-increase over 4 nodes.

This wouldn't give absolute numbers and won't corroborate Intel's quotes for either Haswell or Prescott. But it will give the ratio which can be compared with the claim of going from 90nm to 22nm, i.e., 4 generations, over 8 years.

According to which the percentage in step 11 should be 2^4 = 16 = 1600% (My guess: it would be way less than 1600%) even ignoring the fact that the time difference between two articles is 9.5 years instead of 8.

(P.S.: I don't have time atm but I'll try to do this myself)
Maybe it's a generational or geographical thing within our country? Because I'm also Australian and I've never heard "lush" used in conversation around me, with this meaning.

Although this thread has just explained a line from a song by a US artist that I've heard where "lush" is used in this context and it now makes more sense to me.
L-Theanine also seems to improve the effect of caffeine in me; the caffeine makes me alert, but the theanine with it feels like my focus can't be broken unless I want it to.
I think his show is great and gives a lot of insight into cats. His approach doesn't sound scientific, but on the other hand he isn't over-intellectualizing behavior.
Good questions! The stumbler reports Wi-Fi and cell tower locations and an optional nickname. The location data is stored anonymously. The nickname and just the number of reported networks is stored separately, solely for display on the leaderboard [1] or other gamification in the future.

The IP addresses are just a fact of life of web server logging. They are not stored in the location or leaderboard databases.

[1] https://location.services.mozilla.com/leaders
No, the people who use meteor for big projects are those that started using it when they started it as a small project.

Because if you started a small project in something else, it is not easy to change it to Metero later.

What he said was quite clear.
I just wish that I could make more coffee at a time with it, but I understand why I can't.

It's astounding how smooth aeropress coffee is, though.
Interesting question: what is the lifetime value of a person who uses a search engine to a company like Google?

Looks like about $180 per year at the moment:

http://www.digitalstrategyconsulting.com/intelligence/2014/0...
No, they don't.

There is an option to upload an encrypted version of your private key, but you can simply choose not to.
It's not that they've been sitting in a hangar for decades so much as that we've gotten a lot better at building engines. Presumably modern designs have a lot lower catastrophic fault probability.
I will, thank you dools!
WhatsApp’s First Half Of 2014 Revenue
> By reducing citizens' control over the economy and businesses, and by reducing their bargaining power

I agree these are bad things, but they are not the outcome of a free market. The so-called "free market" coerces people into engaging in transactions they would not choose to engage in voluntarily; that is the opposite of a free market. (Perhaps you recognize this and that's why you put "free market" in quotes.)

> Climate change is putting the world at stake.

This statement illustrates part of the problem: we don't all agree on which problems are "putting the world at stake". I don't think climate change is one of them; you do. We can't agree on what actions to take if we can't agree on what we're trying to accomplish.

One possible way out is to redefine the goal: instead of "stop climate change", for example, make the goal "stop burning oil and coal". That goal I can agree with, because I have other reasons to support it that don't involve climate change. Of course, then we get to argue (maybe) about whether nuclear reactors are part of how we reach the goal.

> I like the author's questions but don't at all agree with his solution of ending modern 'industrial' society; things weren't so great before it

I completely agree.
What is meteor's revenue model?

What am I missing...
I once watched three engineers take Modafinil for an all-nighter. It was their first time taking it.

By about midnight none of the engineers felt any different. One of them decided it wasn't doing anything and went to bed. The other two decided to keep hacking until they got tired.

Come morning the two guys who kept hacking were still hacking. The third guy said he slept soundly. The two guys who kept working said that, while the Modafinil never made them feel different, neither were they particularly sleepy. Exhausted, yes, but not sleepy.

The guy who decided to go to sleep used Modafinil after that and it worked as advertised. He just needed to realize that it wasn't going to make him feel stimulated.

I know that at least one paper shows efficacy dependent on certain alleles. But AFAIK none say that it doesn't work at all. And the majority of people have the alleles where Modafinil works well.

Compared with OD-ing on caffeine or other stimulants, I'd say Modafinil is the better choice. There's no substitute for sleep, and unlike normal stimulants you can usually deliberately go to sleep even after taking a full dose of Modafinl. Which means you can use your time more efficiently during a marathon and still get some proper rest.
> resume's
> Desalination is particularly nasty, destroying huge amounts of land

How does desalinating seawater destroy huge amounts of land?
> In my ideal world, your app registers that it needs a “pick weapon #2” button, and a “walk backward” button. Then I can configure my keyboard firmware and/or the low levels of my operating system keyboard handling code to map whatever button I want to those semantic actions.

Then the OS / Firmware is dealing with questions like, "What button fires the secondary dorsal thrusters". Does it make sense to handle that kind of question so far from the site where the semantic knowledge is present? No.

Likewise, a web server doesn't provide application-level semantic information in its replies, only protocol-level semantic information. One application might think 301 means "update the bookmark" and 502 means "try again later", but another application might think 502 means "try another server" or that 404 might mean "delete a local file" or "display an error message to the user".

Likewise, a game is prepared to deal with buttons, not semantics. The number and layout of buttons is closely tied with design decisions. A FPS gives you WASD, plus QERF for common actions, ZXC for less common actions, 1234 for menus / weapon selections. The design of the game from top to bottom is affected by this. You swap in a controller for a keyboard, and you'll decide to change how weapon selection is presented: maybe spokes around a center so you can use a joystick instead of items in a row corresponding to numeric buttons. You add auto-aim to compensate for the inaccuracy inherent in gamepad joysticks, but the vehicle sections become easier. You might even redesign minigames (Mass Effect has a completely different hacking minigame for console and PC versions).

Or look at web browsers. As soon as you hook a touch interface to the web browser you might want to pop up an on-screen keyboard in response to touch events, but you need to move the viewpoint so that you can see what you're typing.

Input is inherently messy, and you can't pull semantics out of applications because you'll just make the user experience worse.

ON THE OTHER HAND...

> The problem is that there is no level at which I can direct a particular button on my keyboard to always mean “move left by one word”...

This is available through use of common UI toolkits. I believe on OS X, you can bind a button to mean "move left by one word" in all applications which use the Cocoa toolkit (which is the vast majority of all applications on OS X). The way this works is there are some global preferences which specifies a key binding for "moveWordLeft:". The key event, when it is not handled by other handlers, then gets translated to a "moveWordLeft:" method call by NSResponder. The method for configuring these key bindings is relatively obscure, suffice it to say that you can press option+left arrow in almost any application to move left one word, and you can configure the key binding (i.e., choose a different key) across applications on a per-user basis.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...:
He is a billionaire.
I need my 2 minutes back.
This is it. We will always need tools that do the things that what we designate "PCs" — computers with monitors, keyboard, mice, and peripherals — do best today. In absolute numbers, the sales volume of such devices may even continue to rise in the long run. But they will probably look more and more like our mobile devices, or they will be replaced by grown-up tablets.
Indeed: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/command-prompt-improveme...
New social network: yutongo with newsfeed and followers
Windows has had a solution for conflicting library dependencies since Windows 98: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly
I think it was in this video with Jcal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMqgiXLjvRs . Not sure at what point in the video, but PG definitely gives up lots of great success tips, so worth watching it all.

As far as the black swans, I could be wrong on this, but my understanding is that YC has maybe 10 partners all giving a grade on the apps coming in (apparently started this after they missed SendGrid). Im not sure if the 1400 alums initially flag or what, but even with the 10 partners grading, their odds of finding black swans get worse because black swans don't look like winners to most people - they are essentially counter intuitive, crazy ideas that don't appeal to the majority in the beginning (or maybe the founders are not Stanford drop outs or ex Googlers, which further sways the majority to give higher grade to what is more obvious. Thus pushing down more potential black swans below the interview cut off line.

So the more partners you have grading a particular startup, the more partners you have trying to cover their asses and not fuck up. So the safer choices will get more interviews - and safe choices don't usually result in black swans.

Not sure if I'm making sense here, but maybe the proof is in the pudding in that some of their biggest wins are Dropbox, Reddit, and Airbnb...all relatively early in YC batches when there were fewer partners making choices.
may i ask why not applying to yc in 2009 was such a big regret? was it because it was less competitive back then, and you think things might have turned out differently? just curious. TIA!
My teammate and I compete to see not how much code we can write, but who can have the highest sum of lines deleted in all commits. Any old hack can write a lot of code, but to remove code while still adding functionality (or at least, not removing it) is the sign of a good developer, imho.
I was merely providing examples everyone is familiar with.

What software do you run on your Windows servers? And, how does it get updated?
Of course they will need to do those things. We also still need to process credit card transactions, and we still use mainframes to do it, and IBM still makes a tidy income selling and servicing them. But I don't think anyone would consider us to be living in the era of the mainframe. The point isn't that the old stuff goes away, but that they lose their positions as the center of gravity.
> if I can't look at the source (all the way down) of your product and build it myself, it's not going to make the cut as a "secure" system

Other have already linked to https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware3.html and if your biggest concern is verifying it, then what could be simpler than detecting radioactive decay events?
How I Won the Lottery [Darius Kazemi XOXO Talk]
Windows 10 command prompt will indeed let you resize the window. It will even re-flow the text already written, i.e. a long string written that flowed across several lines will also flow back into one line, once the window gets wide enough.
The planet is doomed. Stop trying.
Sorry, penguin lovers — if you thought that 2015, in the heinous wake of Windows 8, would finally be the year of desktop Linux, you were sadly mistaken.

If you’ve ever ventured into the dark and mysterious land of Linutopia, where Ubutologists and Debianites reign, ...

Wow what a snarky article! I guess Extremetech does not like Linux at all...
Learning SQL by stopping nuclear annihilation
The article brings up a good point. It's a good way of making us feel responsible when in fact we make little impact.

For example, the 15 largest freighters create more pollution as every single car in the world. If this is the case why aren't we trying to fix pollution on these 15 ships instead of all this nonsense with fixing individual cars? Eliminating the pollution from these industrial ships by 10% is akin to taking millions of cars off the road. Yet all we talk about is car pooling, proudest and Teslas, etc.

http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-15-biggest-ships-create-mo...
What are the politics and economics of the plunging price of oil?
A little bit OOT, i need to connect to my VPN in US to be able to see the post. It is always redirect to my country's TLD (www.shopify.co.id), in which there is no related link (http://www.shopify.co.id/technology/15646068-rebuilding-the-...)
I am not necessarily convinced, but kudos for an imaginative, interesting, passionate contribution to the debate. With lots of nicely constructed details.
Faking It: A Visual History of 150 Years of Image Manipulation Before Photoshop
"just fine" isn't perfectly true. The bionic interface they somehow "wash" from GPL headers to BSD headers is questionable.
Tornado requires asynchronous I/O. Almost all of the existing I/O was done synchronously. Yeah.
Not too surprising considering their audience are tweakers who want to get the last possible FPS out of their crazy PC gaming rigs.
'it just means you didn't put enough time into the application'

isn't this logically absurd?
Ello, Diaspora: Why alternative social networks can’t win
Well, sure. But in a sane modern architecture that simple editor would be implemented in a userspace app (the terminal emulator would be an obvious candidate) and speak a sane protocol instead of the ioctl madness we have with termios.

But it doesn't and it won't, so we all deal with it. But it remains crazy.
I have not received any response from YC yet. should we wait or contact YC for application status?
Inside Tinder
the phrase was translated by King James as "kick against the pricks" [1]
src: http://www.gotquestions.org/kick-against-the-pricks.html
Yea, I think just sheer growth. PG mentions growth and Sam taking over at about minute 3 or 4 in the video above. So who knows.
I think youtube itself is trying to do this. I don't think you can compete with that. Even if you gained traction, wouldn't they just block your ip addresses and prevent you from embedding video?
True, but that's not necessarily a zero-sum decision. Use that money for subsidies or handouts, it's certainly wasted and hihgly inflationary. Use it to build a port or some similar infrastructure, and it generates significant real (rather than just nominal) economic activity.
Not all dependencies are libraries, e.g. a module requires the [version of] the program it is a module for.
Linux repositories conflates package management and (library/ABI) dependency management.

Windows already has locally deployed assemblies and central side-by-side (SxS) assemblies that can accommodate multiple versions of the same assembly, complete with major/minor versioning, redirection etc. Windows Installer supports reference counting and automatic uninstalling for the centrally deployed assemblies.

This new OneGet package manager is for solving the availability and automatic updating of packages. But Windows is not going to need separate repositories for each incremental update of Windows and the ABI.
Conventional laptops are getting lighter and last a lot longer on a charge.

Fair enough. You pay for the extra power, though; you can buy two iPad Air 2 for the price of the cheapest 13-inch Macbook Air.
I think the exact opposite is true. In order to make real climate change progress we'll have to have a all the major nations on board for real cuts to C02 usage. That includes telling China, India, and Brazil that they must use a fraction of the C0/2 per capita that western nations use.

On the other hand, a single rouge nation could engage in geoengineering. Some even claim a rouge billionaire could do it.
Samara is in european part of Russia.
Siberia starts from Novosibirsk, it's about 2k miles to East from Samara.
Google working on pill that searches for illnesses
"15 largest ships in the world emit as much nitrogen oxide and sulphur oxide as the world’s 760 million cars."

First step is countries ban the vessels from coming anywhere near land. I guess that keeps pollution out of sight, out of mind. Next step.... I don't know. But I'm hopeful soon enough the powerplant will be significantly greener. In the short term you can get 1 order of magnitude from regulation. In the long term it's new technology.
The fact that the Chocolatey repository will be compatible is very convenient, it looks like MS is listening to the user community, well done.
Glad to hear it was unmanned!
No, it's a full-stack framework, using Node.js on the server and sending down a client app bundle containing all HTML templates and JS. The client and server then communicate exclusively with JSON through a purpose-invented pubsub WebSockets/SockJS protocol they call DDP. The client has a simulated MongoDB database and thus much of the API is isomorphic, so the client will simulate the server's code while it awaits the actual server response. Client changes to the data are immediately effected in the browser DB, while the change is authorized on the server, synced to other server instances with MongoDB oplog, and then pushed down to all clients subscribed to that data. The templating engine is then reactively informed of the data change, and the DOM is updated at the lowest level possible such as modifying an individual text node.
no - this is not applicable to Windows, since there is not a widespread practice of system installed libraries. Windows packages are far more similar to something like 0-install (http://0install.net/).

If there are two software packages which depend on different version of a third party package, then the usual practice is that either the third party DLLs are included in the package or both the versions are specifically installed.

I think this is the way that OSX works as well - it is only Linux that works with centralized dependencies, which is what needs a very sophisticated dependency management solution.
"We're building dramatically better ways for people to share information..."

reaction: cool!

"...starting with video ratings"

reaction: meh
I take it you haven't used PowerShell much ...
By the accounting of the article, I'm a wonderful person. I've cut back all my consumption to virtually the bare minimum, vastly below the poverty level in the US. For example I recently purchased a flight from NY to Delhi. By the accounting of the article, the only waste I produced was the (now discarded) boarding pass.

The only waste and pollution that was produced by the evil Air India corporation. And if I (and sufficiently many other consumers) were to cut back on consumption, it would have virtually no effect - those evil folks at Air India would continue burning jet fuel and polluting.

Spot the flaw? I paid Air India to pollute on my behalf. If I (+ 50% of a planeload of people) did not pay them they would not have wasted money polluting.

There are many specific cases where this is not true, agricultural water consumption being one of the most egregious. These are (economically, not politically) low hanging fruit and should be fixed. But if the article wants to argue that huge fractions of pollution fall into this category, it needs to do a lot more quantitative work.
I hold EU in very high regards, so far they have not betrayed humanitarian values. China is a concealed demon, however bad you might think US is, China is a hell of a lot more and the reason is simple China is NOT a democracy. So far the actions of both the countries align with this statement.

Also I know and agree that my data be collected by US/EU, I wasn't asked when sharing my info to China.
search for Microsoft SMS and SCCM - this is actually like a package manager + Puppet/Chef rolled into one.

Very expensive though and not good usability - but is far more sophisticated (with P2P downloading, tree structure repositories, etc.)
Why All Employees Must Learn to Code
In a first, Delhi Police uses drones to patrol violence-hit Trilokpuri
"Likewise, a game is prepared to deal with buttons, not semantics. The number and layout of buttons is closely tied with design decisions. A FPS gives you WASD, plus QERF for common actions, ZXC for less common actions, 1234 for menus / weapon selections."

Except on my keyboard layout an FPS should be giving me QSDZ, for the same pattern of movement keys, because I'm French and use AZERTY. Or AOE, because I use Dvorak; ARSW because Colemak...

Not really, but you take my point...

And of course, most games let you redefine your keys anyway, probably largely for this reason. I'm not sure how much this undermines your other points.
You just made your "python 2/3" syndrome. This will most probably kill AngularJS.
You have always been able to resize the cmd window, not sure what you mean here.
Snap webcam photos whenever your app crashes
Exactly. Unfortunately for those employees, their mortgages, student loans, and credit cards are all based on nominal amounts so suddenly they're earning less to service the same amount of debt.
It's also strange that he didn't use scraping since he knew it in the first place (Although I acknowledge that for some people time saved > money) and had to use it later anyway.
I dont know why you have been downvoted. You have a valid question. If monopoly or oligopoly is the situation all markets gravitate towards if left unchecked by regulation, then these situation are not failures but expected outcomes of capitalism. Why are these outcomes not considered effects of the invisible hand?
Julian Melchiorri on the first synthetic biological leaf [video]
I have always thought of complementing Youtube rather than competing with them.

Youtube is platform and a really good one... allowing the rise of new age content... brining content democratization/revolution...

whereas Joday has curated content from Youtube(for now) and other sources... organized for easy access by channels etc. and further more personalize it according to user taste...

It would be really sad if youtube decides to blocks video embedding as majority of youtube videos are watched by embedding.