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You should be careful on the memory bandwidth. The more recent xeons (2011v3, ddr4 2133) are rated 68 GB/s per socket. That is 136GB/s in a dual socket.

But, what I really came here to say, is that POWER8 has nearly twice the single thread memory bandwidth available. From some of my tests a single thread can access ~40GB/sec of bandwidth vs the intel at ~20GB/sec. But this doesn't translate into clear cut wins even on codes which at first pass appear to be bandwidth limited. Mostly because the processor cores themselves are about 1/2 the speed in tight loopy code (think nbench) running out of cache.

So, in our in house benchmarks the POWER ran anywhere from 75% as fast to roughly as fast. Only on a few tests did it actually manage to best the E5 xeon we were testing it against, and then never by more than 150%.

Plus, the dynamic thread controls are cool, but beyond 4 threads/core I could never actually improve performance, and beyond 2x it was major diminishing returns.
I'd buy a new DX if it had:
1. a higher res screen
2. a glow screen
3. the screen saver was my last page read

but if they make it a touch screen and take the buttons away, no, I'll stick with the old DX.
So you can do what, download a movie in 5 seconds rather than 10? Nothing on pricing, nothing on bandwidth caps, and I'd expect it comes with Comcast's traditional customer "service". No thanks.
> Maybe he does have a better grasp on a few areas in life than you or I do.

Then why can't he phrase them precisely, giving real moral guidance instead of pious-sounding virtue-ethical platitudes?

Anyone want to check if David Brooks has signed up for anything like that "Giving What We Can Pledge"? $50 says he hasn't.

(For the record, I haven't signed the pledge, but I do try to donate 10% of gross income.)
This can detect an explicit lane change, but can't tell where you turned; if you make a right turn, it can't tell which lane you turned into. It would probably work on expressways with moderate traffic, where lane changes are usually made explicitly, one lane at a time.

You can do car navigation entirely from gyros, accelerometers, and wheel rotation counts, without GPS, if you have even moderately accurate map data. Etak had that working in 1985. I still have one of their original gyros.
I developed the site entirely. To be clear: The site is essentially the interface to the business. I won't say I developed it "myself," since I was in a team with non-technical people who knew what functions they wanted from the site. However I was the only technical person involved.

Now we have more developers, for which I am very thankful. Unfortunately, way too much knowledge is locked up in me, and I never have time to commit that knowledge to bits, paper, or oral history.

Believe me, buses and beer trucks have been discussed as possible ends to my consulting gig. It is my fondest hope that this business has key-man insurance on me. I'd be pleased to know that they have such insurance, but less interested in knowing how much the policy is for!
I have no idea who Brooks is, and liked the essay. It has excellent expressions like: "a moral vocabulary", "It is easy to slip into a self-satisfied moral mediocrity. You grade yourself on a forgiving curve"
and "reason and compassion are not strong enough to consistently defeat selfishness, pride and self-deception. We all need redemptive assistance from outside." These resonate as true for me.
> Comcast will begin rolling out the service next month in Atlanta, and plans to bring it to its other markets over time.

So it doesn't crush anything - it's not even out yet. And Comcast has to stop using data caps, before boasting with 2 gigabit plans. They are filthy hypocrites if they claim that 2 gigabits are possible, why capping their own users for monthly traffic.

On the bright side, without Google Fiber you'd never see Comcast even talking about anything like 2 gigabit plans. So thanks Google Fiber for giving them a kick.
I may have misstated, then.. I meant that by default, you wouldn't get any notifications unless you chose to, and if you did, you could turn them off at any time.
I don't necessarily disagree. I think that there's a likelihood that Von Neuman probes are a possible thing. But are they inevitable? Perhaps they are unlikely. What if the technology required to create reliable VNPs was only in the grasp of singularity civilizations due to the (perhaps) strong AI requirements?

There's this line, I think, where a civilization would look at the divergence that would happen over interstellar distances and realize that they weren't propagating themselves, but at worst, creating more rivals and existential threats for themselves.

It's easy enough for someone to make the right decision and turn all notions of intergalactic conquest into lived-out virtual reality fever dreams.
There is no content. It's moralistic-sounding waffle that doesn't even manage the genuine moralizing of, "The Bible prohibits so-and-so" or "You should do more for the Third World".
Perhaps you haven't met a real sociopath before? There are alot of them, they are always nice to you and use your positive feeling for them against you. They typically go into management.

I have never seen a sociopath go the asshole route: they aren't going to do something so socially stupid, it doesn't serve their goals at all. I see people on HN a lot confusing low social IQ (what assholes have) for high social IQ (sociopaths); it is just very wrong.
> You'll have a lot of free time in college, at least in the beginning, to explore your own interests.

The gap year would be far better suited for this than multitasking passions and school time.
It could have been true at the time of the post though. You can't tell from the post, but the article was put up on Dec. 15, 2014 so writing occurred before then (I have his blog in my rss reader). The Bookerly font, from my short searching, was released that same month on limited devices and was not pushed out to the Voyage until January (time of your linked post).
Disagree but commit. Idiots.
Lovely bet on 2 vs 1 gbps: the usual consumer won't have 10GbE to take advantage of the extra speed.
Isn't that how Steam streaming is supposed to work out of the box?
yeah, well, it's covering your entire body.
Agreed. Also "twice" isn't really impressive in most technology. If it was an order of magnitude then "crush" might be more appropriate to use here.
Um, while someone might build a celluloid-only movie theater, I don't think it's going to be Tarantino. Celluloid is a high explosive, which is why it was abandoned in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and Tarantino has shown no signs of being suicidal.
That's funny, because the reason why Microsoft decided to skip from Windows 8 to Windows 10 is because there's too much software out there that tests that the version of Windows starts with "9" and interprets this as they are currently running Windows 95 or 98.

Some things never change.
Not sure if one should favour 4 years in theory or 4 years in relevant work, for a programming position. For research, yes absolutely as it is straight carryover.
Two key points:

1) no comment on cost (personally I don't need 2x as fast if it is 10x the price)
2) it it isn't actually available anywhere yet

In other words, hold onto your butts.
For all the great things going on in open source software, truly open source data isn't all that common. I love playing around with third party APIs as much as anyone but as software developers we need to be extra careful that we are not building on sand. Just the thought of being cut off limits lots of interesting ideas and side projects for me. In some ways I want to build a platform just to get 100% access to some really fun data thrown off from the platform in which to build fun things on top of.
For Comcast which has the worst ISP reputation it can be impressive. As long as they'll actually roll it out everywhere for prices below $100.
Why would Amazon want to help you fall asleep while reading a book. More awake time, more books read, more $$$ :)

Mostly a tongue-in-cheek comment but somewhere deep in the halls of Amazon I bet that discussion was had...
While I agree with you, it's probably wise to consider his point independent of his opinions on other issues.
I thought dark energy is something that doesn't interact with ordinary matter.
You can't go through life thinking "I am expendable"

Take an introductory astronomy class. You'll find you don't have a choice.
How does it compare to Steam In-Home Streaming? Can you use it over a (sufficiently fast) network?
Click bait with misleading headline. A better headline would be "Comcast plans to roll out personal broadband service at a higher fraction of current business plans."

>"Comcast's new Internet service absolutely crushes Google's offering, with speeds twice as fast."
It won't be symmetric like Fiber, so it's going to be (at best) 2x download and probably 1/x upload. This speed also only appears to be coming to Atlanta in the near future.

>"For those who don't live in Atlanta, Comcast plans to offer 1Gbps plans to almost all of its Internet subscribers in 2016."
This is bigger news, though it's still quite far away and not only will this not "crush" Fiber, where available, but will be strictly worse since it isn't symmetric, features Comcast customer service, and will surely cost many times what Fiber does.
If you need to take time, do. If you don't need to, don't. That's the most I can say on that matter. I didn't go to school in the traditional sense, so whatever makes sense for you makes sense.

What made the year off sort of a zero sum was that I had roughly enough cash to last roughly a year, but at about the halfway point I started looking for areas that I wanted to relocate to and worked on securing employment there. The stress of re-entering the workforce undid some of the decompression from leaving the corporate world in the first place.

It was a great period for figuring out just what I wanted to do and what really mattered in life. If I had to do it again, I'd have more FU money, or at least have a more solid income stream that wasn't wholly dependent on me being at an office for ~8 hours a day.

Lessons were learned, some easy, some hard. Plans are in action so that history won't repeat itself so closely next time I decide I need some time off.
Seriously, I live three hours away from Atlanta and have a 300GB cap. Fills quickly with multiple people in the same household. And don't even start on the misc charges I've had. I was just charged for a tv set top box that was delivered to my house a few days ago, never asked for it!

I applaud Fiber for forcing the competition to change. But this is far from any reason for me to consider comcast if alternatives are available.
zer0rest, if you can read this, you are hellbanned.
Write a trivial app in both. Use your own judgment to determine the best tool for the job. It is entirely possible that the best tool will be neither of these!

The website in question is written in Ruby on Rails. Since v1.0 (and Ruby 1.8). And it is now on current Rails (and Ruby!). Rails is a moving target, to put it mildly.

If I had to render an opinion, I'd say I love Ruby. Rails I tolerate. Some parts of Rails are great; others are tedious. By its own admission, Rails is opinionated software. You may or may not share its opinions.
> prepare a founder to turn down several million dollars of extra runway to try for the big exit.

Every huckster thinks he can pull off the big pump-n-dump. Most don't.

> the business model was effectively a shakedown,

Sure sounds like it. Protection rackets only work if you can beat people up and burn their stuff, and GetSatisfaction failed to do either. Too bad, so sad.
This is an interesting point. I guess it's due to the performance as well as the ease. I have used prefix trie for autocomplete, but even then i was using hashtables internally.

I also use alot of javascript, and there it is natural to use sparse arrays, which wind up being hashtables. iterating over these can be an issue though, so i have found that combining the hashtable with a linked list results in the best performance.
"at off, idle and full power states are less"

Xeons consume less power even when off...? Am I not parsing this sentence correctly?
It looks like a video projected on a transparent screen, similar to the variant of Pepper's Ghost used in several concerts recently.
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I might not mind if Valve just made all the games available this way. No download, no waiting: a button in the Steam client starts streaming the game immediately.
The largest desal plant I am aware of is in Saudi Arabia and produces about 830 acre-feet of water a day. Irrigation Central Valley averages 110,000 acre-feet a day, although there are significant seasonal differences. Let's (generously) pretend that you somehow had space in coastal California (not exactly something we have a lot of here, and certainly not cheaply) to build ~60 desalination plants, each double the size of the largest plant in existence. Let's completely ignore the multiple gigawatts of additional power you'd need to run these things. Let's pretend that you somehow convinced the Coastal Commission, EPA, DFG, Fish and Wildlife Service, and all the other relevant entities that intake and discharge from several dozen huge new desal plants dotting the coastline would not significantly impact the marine environment. (Ha.) Assuming all that were true, you would still need to pump roughly 40 million acre feet of water a year from the coast, towards the foothills, in the complete opposite direction which nature intended.

Never. Going. To. Happen.

Sorry to rain on your parade, but this blind, frequently uninformed faith that Technology will save us from anything and everything just gets annoying after a while.
Thanks, that book seems to be the layman's version of this 1993 collection of papers from Lewis, http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/ResourcesNearEarthS...
I agree with you whole heartedly. I would say that what medicine and biotechnology need their own apps and web technologies. Imagine if the next Uber or Instagram clone could instead be a patient facing app that integrates personal medical, genetic, fitness and dietary data with epidemiological trends to improve patient-doctor interactions for diagnoses and treatment? Or if biotech firms adopted the same open source ethos that many tech giants have embraced to contribute to a software development ecosystem that fuels innovation in the personalized medicine space?

Unfortunately bioinformatics-in-practice tends to be about 10 years behind the rest of the tech sector, and the only thing that the giants of biotech share with their tech sector counterparts is a love for IP. Still, an inflow of ambitious tech talent into the biotech and biomedical space could hack the industry open. Then again, there's also regulatory capture.
If they really have diverged that much, the effort to merge them (if even possible from an architectural point of view) gets you a lot of maintenance on both sides.

(Not to talk of the personal issues that obviously exist)
I'm against uploading any type of sensitive information to an unknown website.
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People tend to stick to convention, and when they move to something that uses another convention, they tend to apply the convention of the former to the latter due to familiarity and because the former Just Works™. Then they'll meet friction, then blame the thing for being terrible, not knowing that they are approaching it wrong.

Then they flame on everyone using the latter.
I've come to the illumos ecosystem about three years ago. First for SmartOS and ZFS. Now i know more about the great tech if offers like zones, dtrace and so on and use it nearly on all our servers.

I know others are joining the community as well as hanging around on irc shows. It definitly is a smaller community than linux or the BSDs but it is growing.

Also a lot of interesting systems development is happening (lx-branded zones, overlay networking, ...) in illumos and it is the upstream of openzfs.

Besides SmartOS a more classical server distribution to consider would be OmniOS [1].
For a storage appliance one might want nexentastor.

Distributions of illumos are more purpose-built than linux distributions. They differentiate more by use-case than by package management. Yet they all consume and contribute to illumos and what might look fragemented is not much of an issue for the community itself.

[1] http://omnios.omniti.com
S6 is derivative of daemontools. Without daemontools, S6 wouldn't exist. Daemontools created the svscan /service run/down log/run dichotomy.

That's all. These are all from a lineage, direct or indirect, of an incredible piece of software engineering (daemontools).
How does Splashtop compare to a vanilla VNC remoting?
Page is unreadable on Mac Chrome. Content comes up and then turns into a plain title page with no additional content. Page does not scroll or respond to clicks anywhere.
This is just your subconscious mind at work.

I read this back in jr high and still one of my goto techniques when trying to solve a problem.

This book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Power-Your-Subconscious-Mind/dp/16...
Some spiritual stuff in it, but if you're not into that, read it for the way your brain/subconscious works. great read and in fact one of the examples in there is telling yourself you NEED to wake up at a certain time and then waking up right at that moment.
Is there a recursive model that explains why later investors have senior preferences?
Chassis power consumption with system(s) off:

Xeon: 0W

OpenPOWER: 11W

HP Moonshot (Avoton): 121W

HP Moonshot (ARM): 218W

This is mostly due to chassis specifics, though.
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Internet: jeunes et seniors font des dons, mais différemment
Regarding dick size, it may be educational to note the differences between Steve Jobs and Jack Tramiel.
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If you mean how measurements of the iphone sensor are close to the real values, we did not test it and we do not have any equipment to perform such tests. For our purposes it's accurate enough.
it's possible that as robots become more commonplace homes would be constructed with robotic/remote repair in mind, I hope that's the case anyways, plumbers and electricians are expensive.

Kind of like how mass produced products have structural/design compromises to allow for easier manufacturing. We'll then reminisce about the olden days when you didn't need amazon prime to replace the waste decomposition module every few weeks.
It's probably good to not put too much of a gap between them, independent of order. :)
I've read through that study before when I was reading about fonts for dyslexics a long time ago. The study didn't come to any conclusion and even states itself that the same size was too small and further studies needed to be done. Specifically, some major points where the study needs to be more robust are:

1. font comparisons
2. age range (university students were tested, but these fonts will most likely have the greatest effect on younger people who have not learned to adapt to being dyslexic)
3. languages

Overall, there isn't evidence either way. But there is one thing that the studies consistently find, that the majority of dyslexics, both anecdotally and from the participant pool, have a favorable opinion of the font compared to normal ones. For that reason alone, I think it would be wise for Amazon to include such a font on the Kindle.
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the processor cores themselves are about 1/2 the speed in tight loopy code (think nbench) running out of cache.

I wonder where the bottleneck is there, since on paper the POWER8 specs beat Haswell: it's a 10-issue core, 224-entry reorder buffer vs. a 4-issue core with 192-entry reorder buffer for Haswell. But if it takes several POWER instructions to do the work of one x86 instruction, or icache bandwidth is insufficient, the advantage goes the other way.
Highly improbable to be the case. Microsoft damaged XP compatibility with Vista; that they would care about software built for 95-98 in 2015 seems unlikely by comparison. It's also just a product name. Programmers will check the kernel version, not the "friendly" consumer-facing string.

I realize this information has been circulated around, but unless this has been confirmed by Microsoft please don't claim facts without evidence.
Based on ... what?
I think Power 8 and the ARM are still on older Gen node. Xeon is on 22nm, with the latest Xeon on 14nm Broadwell.

So Intel wins on Fabs Tech. And this will not change for another 5 years.
Can I use this explanation when Canadians ask me why I left the states? do I need to pay royalties?
"Their Firephone is so terrible they literally can’t give it away"

Okay, fair enough -- it was a disastrous product.

"and the existence of the Amazon Echo strains all reason."

Wait, what? How do you extend your hatred for typesetting and buttons on the Kindle to a product that has neither? At this point, you are just being presumptuous.
Our purpose is to make a library that could be used by any driver without additional equipment, therefore we work only with the sensors available in a phone. Accelerometer and gyroscope installed in it are not precise enough to track position of car. Wheel rotation can't be measured of course by a phone.
I have every reason to think the deleted post you are responding to was misguided, wrong, and largely nonsense. That said, I really think it's absurd to be so flippant about concerns over pesticides. We do not at all have clarity and overwhelming evidence that pesticides on food are just no problem and can be ignored as an issue.
If you want to get ahead, instead of thinking you need to out-compete your rivals, I would instead focus on ways to make someone's life significantly better, then figure out how to do it for 10 people, then 1000....see where I'm going with this?

This is a profound failure of imagination. The problem the GP is decrying is the late capitalist devaluation of humanity, and your solution is to suck it up and find a business model.
Thanks for your input. I have yet to directly compare the two systems for the code I'm working on (weather prediction), something I'm looking forward to. Since the dynamical processes are heavily memory bandwidth bound (stencil codes) I assumed that Power8 should beat Xeon handily, but I'll have to see I guess.
Or plan for it and make hay while the sun shines and try to diversify who you depend on? I mean Zynaga may still be flailing around but it's also still valued at over $2bn.
For anyone that's interested, I've made an open source Android app to watch the button.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nebulights...

https://github.com/babramovitch/TheButton
That salad sounds great. I usually have salad dry. For my whole life, I've always hated how people cover perfectly fine vegetables with gross sweet or excessively oily dressings. Ugh.

Incidentally, I really like Soylent 1.4 (the only I've tried), and I tried Garden of Life's Raw Meal and couldn't stand it. I've tried their Raw Fit protien supplement though and enjoy that. I might try other options too. I like Soylent though actually. I hope it ends up taking a direction that truly cares about sustainability, health, and ethics in their sourcing of things. I have the impression that Garden of Life is a little more conscientious, but I dunno.
Is anybody working on a ketogenic (i.e., zero-carb) version of this?