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> especially when the community has little or no skill at building NG Internet HPC systems

I would argue that the community of people who actually have the skills to take advantage of the interconnects in a classic HPC system is vanishingly small, and in consequence we've overbuilt them on an epic scale.

Allow me to vent. I had the good fortune to have a login on a "petascale" HPC system, and access to an allocation of hours.

The /scratch filesystem would fail weekly, which killed everybody's jobs. If you had a big run going when /scratch failed, you lost everything. Scratch failed so much because the models that were being used often did wildly inappropriate amounts of file IO --- debugging print statements, detailed intermediate calculations, excessively verbose output --- that worked all right in development but when run in parallel brought the filesystem to its knees.

Furthermore, the login nodes were almost unusably slow because of all the Python and Perl post-processing scripts running on them. This isn't even a matter of users being cheap with their hours --- post-processing would have been a tiny fraction of their allocations. Instead, it's that many of them gave no thought at all to how the post-processing might be structured and run through the batch scheduler, and saw no downside to abusing the login nodes for that purpose.

In conclusion, I can attest to at least one HPC system that was badly mismatched to its users' needs and level of sophistication, despite allocations of hours being awarded only to a small number of researchers from across the country through a highly competitive process. Building these things serves national and institutional pride far more than any utilitarian interest.
In the US, do you own any of your air space
The logo looks kinda like a hairy butt.
Wow. Bald face stealing of rooms.me.
I forced my Windows 10 update yesterday morning, and it was a breeze!
I'm curious, did you put together an algorithm and\or program which actually did this automated actor replacement or did you just patent the idea? No judgement either way, "don't hate the player..." and all that :)

edit: looking at your bio it seems pretty likely that you had properly implemented it!
I think there's a whole industry being ignored here - "Are you sure you want to post this to Facebook? Your typing is all over the place." or "Maybe we'll just delay sending that text message for a few hours to make sure future you really thinks it's a good idea."
Honestly, who gives a shit? Just let the web move forward the way it has since forever.
Who owns the air space above your house? Above 500 feet it's the FAA. "Private landowners retain their right to exclusive use of the airspace for the reasonable enjoyment of their property up to 500 feet above their lands."

Do you really own the lower 500 feet?

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4386758506001/kentucky-man-arrest...

That man's case is pending.
What advantage does this provide over LTE ground stations?
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>> Discouraging people from exploring ideas and building things 'because its patented' is fundamentally wrong.

Who's discouraging? Being aware that it's highly patented doesn't mean you shouldn't play around with it, it just means that you probably shouldn't be trying to make money off of someone else's work.
Do you mind if I ask you an OT question? How do you spend time on HN making these long, seemingly well researched comments and still get time to do all the other productive things you do?
Let's hope this is not just bluster :(
>>There's an important qualifier: loser pays reasonable costs of prevailing party,

I remember a comment a while back on HN or somewhere which suggested an approximate solution to this : the loser must pay the costs equal to its or the winners fees- whichever is lower.
You're describing an exceptionally poorly built and used system. That said, it's not inconsistent with what I've seen as well.

My claim is that the design of classic interconnects is a big waste of money, because only a few codes need it, yet the cost dominates (>50%) of the cluster. I've learned, from years of studying Google's papers, that there are better ways to build code that communicates, and those mechanisms are much easier to teach to scientists and computer scientists than MPI.
What's unproductive is forcing people to tap dance around their true feelings on a subject for fear of hurting someone else's feelings. As a grown adult, I'd much rather have someone use offensive language but be honest than spend so much effort trying not to offend anyone that we all have to guess at what they really want.
That's very different; Iceland's total debt was tiny (compared) as it is a very small island (Iceland's debt was perhaps 1/12 the size of the debt held by Lehman Brothers). Very annoying if you had money stored in Iceland, but otherwise not a huge problem.

The US letting its banks fail would possibly have brought down the entire economy, leading to a far, far more severe crisis. That's what the parent is speculating about.
By "witnesses," do you mean other cops? Other cops that surely have no potential conflicts of interest? The "witnesses" that claim the officer was "run over" are at least a level, if not two, removed from the person who put such a thing in writing.

Here's the police report. Excuse the Gawker links, they are the first result on Google images:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--aE5jr2zd...

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_4cLZnsk...
I don't fully understand your question. If you're asking whether this client will work with memsql, then the answer is No. Unless, memsql uses mysql protocol to talk to clients.

Mycli uses MySQL adapter called PyMySQL to connect to MySQL instances. I don't think it'll work with memsql.

If you're talking about writing a similar client for memsql, then yes it is possible to do that as long as there is a Python adapter for it.
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"higher socio-economic status" - might be outside US but aren't the mobile subsidized in US. There was discussion in reddit about an article about Moto on how its going to change the way mobiles are purchased. One of the top commented reply was about people not willing to buy $400+ mobiles.
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You could try using Ghostery (https://www.ghostery.com/en/.) For me the page loads slower than most, but not problematically so.
One of the largest challenges in building an exascale cluster is communication. Computing power increases at a higher rate than memory throughput does, and memory throughput increases faster than communication infrastructure advances.

Many argue that an exascale computer can only be cost efficient if the communication capabilities scale highly sublinearly with the computation done in the subsystems [1]. In particular, you can't move the data, and new algorithms are needed that can deal with data that is arbitrarily distributed. This is quite challenging and unfortunately the theoretical computer science community seems to have decided that distributed memory algorithms have been covered since the 90s and are not worth their time. Yet they ignore the progress that has been made in other models of computation since, and many algorithmic improvements of the last decades are not applicable. It is high time to develop communication-efficient algorithms for the basic "toolbox".

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't just throw MapReduce at an Exascale machine and expect it to perform well. Instead, you need an environment that is rich in primitives that have been implemented in a communication-efficient way. It's faster and cheaper to spend a little more effort on local communication if that allows for reduced communication volume (and/or the number of connections that need to be established!).

The issue I have with the MapReduce approach is that it doesn't particularly care about data locality. Thus it is very hard to achieve communication volume sublinear in the input size, which is absolutely deadly in an exascale setting.

I also understand the frustration with MPI, it is a very low-level API focused on data movement. It can be rather frustrating to use, but there do exist tools to make it more fun (Boost.MPI with C++11/14 is an excellent example). That said, with a well-engineered set of algorithmic tools, ideally you wouldn't need to use low-level MPI calls at all. However, MPI still remains a useful tool to implement these things.

Exascale computing requires us to rethink a lot of things.

[1] http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2013/SBorkar_IPDPS_May_2013.pdf Shekhar Borkar (Intel), Keynote presentation at the 2013 IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
You're assuming the goal is to build the fastest supercomputer in the world. I think the goal is probably closer to "get the computing resources we need at the lowest cost".
Write in any language you want; that's irrelevant to the nature of the computations being done here.

By codes they mean -- at the minimum -- pretty much anything that requires frequent communication between any or all nodes as a necessary part of computation. (For example, simulations across a large 3D space, where the changing states of particles on node A directly impacts the states of particles on adjacent nodes.)
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Guillaume, I do not think you are autistic, I think you are probably an ISTP. Rodney Mullen, also an ISTP, thinks he is autistic. No - that's just normal human variability. There's no use in unnecessarily psychopathologizing yourself.
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Industrial systems that have been in production for a long time. E.g. part of the systems that control the Dutch railways.
Can you expand on that a bit more? Sounds interesting.
Balls, which is what Facebook will have him by for ripping off Rooms.
I'd like to see the same speed measurements done for mobile. A 64-bit Linux desktop isn't representative of the #1 use case for SQLite as a mobile database replacement for Core Data.
Easiest solution is just to get rid of the States (governments) that are the source of these wars and death. AI Weapons, Nuclear or gunpowder is nothing in comparison to one biological weapon gone haywire. Or a Monsanto GMO crop that decided to mutate and completely destroy our planet.

Hopefully the State (with their oligarchy of multinational corporations will die out.) I believe and hope this will eventually happen. The internet is creating a global village. Once the fear-mongering and "us against them" mentality propagandized by states are gone, there will be no more use for governments. Money will become crypto-currency instead of being controlled by central economic planners, security will become AI security and defense systems and will be managed by competing security/robotics startups, and as automation and renewable energy/consumables take over, scarcity will be minimized. The future could surely be quite wonderful if we start working together and embracing our differences instead of the hate that is filling our world.
In iTunes you can right click on a podcast episode and select "Create MP3 Version". It then creates an mp3 and adds it to your music library.
The automated face replacement patents begin in the late 70's. By '05 the process had to be entire in-motion actor replacement to be patentable. To some degree, I'd say patents force people to work in uncharted areas.
At the same time, demand for coffee is growing rapidly, especially since more traditionally tea-drinking nations are making the switch to coffee.[1] Maybe if coffee prices increase significantly we'll see more milk-tea places opening up and Starbucks incorporating more of its Teavana products at its stores.

[1] http://time.com/3711436/global-coffee-increase/
Some quotes from their CEO:

>The sites are still growing like crazy.

>The company itself has passed 200 employees worldwide, with big plush offices in Denver, New York, and London, and dozens of amazing people who work from the comfort of their own homes. (By the way, if 200 people seems like a lot, keep in mind that more than half of them are working on Stack Overflow Careers).

>We could just slow down our insane hiring pace and get profitable right now, but it would mean foregoing some of the investments that let us help more developers.

Which implies they are making a few bob from careers etc if they could slow hiring and be profitable with 200 employees.
They fight the regulations that eat into their profits and back those that help them. During that same time in 90's, they fought for stronger regulations on credit unions and still do. The also push against the alternative, local currencies because it's less money in their control. Their best ones, though, are in court where they push for low security of ACH and for liability to be on consumer when banks screw up.

Fighting entrenched bankers is one of the hardest uphill battles one can get into. Not so smart.
The problem is that even IF it did do this, it wouldn't help publishers. In fact it would probably hurt publishers because ad performance would take a hit. This would lower ad pay rates and possibly even sell-through.
People need to stop using "net neutrality" whenever the idea of paying for something on the Internet comes up.
Your 'Contact' link at the bottom of the page is incomplete I think.

Cool concept, btw. :) How are you going about promoting this?
Why should it not be similar faster on mobile?
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I guess it depends on how 'core' is defined. A single core of an Intel CPU can work on 2 threads at a time, the power 8 can work on 8.

I assume that when most people think of 'single core' performance, they really mean 'single thread'. I think Intel's CPUs win out there, based on your linked benchmarks.
Thank you for mentioning the case of previously ubiquitous government forms. I am too young to remember them and did not factor them into my analysis. Point well-made and taken.
Different instruction set. The release notification isn't very clear about what optimizations took place. It is quite possible that it will not be the same result on a different architecture.
What would it take for you to be persuaded that some police officers are racist?

What would it take for you to accept that "institutional racism" is a thing, and that police departments are probably institutionally racist?

Or let's ignore the race stuff. Let's just talk about use of force.

What would it take to persuade you that police probably need training in human interaction and de-escalation? Or that police officers often use too much force?

Even if this guy was criminal, did he deserve to be shot in the head?
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Ublock Origin I already use but I hadn't heard of umatrix, that looks like a very handy tool, thanks!
But newspaper carried ads as well. It is where i live.
Who is your IT outsourcing firm working for?
Forget trying to report technical faults to the BBC, every road leads to obfuscation, misdirection and frustration. They don't provide support for anything or anyone. This includes TV License payers. They even discontinued what little real time interaction they had with viewers when they abandoned the iPlayer forums a few years back.

Even if you do manage to report "something", it takes them weeks to respond, if at all.

I rarely consume BBC products and services these days, and after the Scottish Independence referendum I no longer trust them as a competent news source. They're a bit of a running joke to many folks in Scotland, especially news and affairs output from Pacific Quay (BBC Scotland) [0][1].

0: http://www.bbc.scotlandshire.co.uk/

1: http://newsnet.scot/citizen/
Relevant change log entry:

> Miscellaneous micro-optimizations result in 22.3% more work for the same number of CPU cycles relative to the previous release. SQLite now runs twice as fast as version 3.8.0 and three times as fast as version 3.3.9. (Measured using cachegrind on the speedtest1.c workload on Ubuntu 14.04 x64 with gcc 4.8.2 and -Os. Your performance may vary.)
Incorrect. GS and worthy oversight would have nipped most of this in the bud. Just look at what these banks had on their balance sheets at the time, and it would make anyone with a modicum of banking background recoil in horror.

I'm not trying to sound ageist, but judging from the comments on this thread, it appears as if this generation has not learned from 2008 and is bound to repeat the same mistakes. I went through this before with the S&L crisis, one that was largely the fault of lax oversight. We didn't have another blowup until 2008; I guess that was long enough for everyone to forget the early 80's.

Guess it's time to start buying Swiss Francs.
Any instances of Clarkson making offensive comments about white people?

Also, when all the presenters are white, it's a little hard to take this "we make fun of everyone" line seriously. If a white British person makes fun of white British people, that's obviously a different dynamic to a white British person making fun of people lower down the social pecking order.

Oh, and then outside the show, there's the times Clarkson has explicitly advocated racism:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9247835/J...
or ad+tracker blockers
Fully implemented, but expensive to use. It's modern visual effects technology, automated. Also, not a single algorithm or program, but a media pipeline of over a dozen custom programs, plus integration with the major VFX software packages.
Ask HN: I feel that my submissions are severely underrated. What to do?
During the last 90 days I submitted 4 stories. None gathered even a single point, although they were moderately successful on Reddit. My submissions happened at a good time, had descriptive titles and similar submissions gathered significant more traction. Maybe not all of them are prefect for the HN audience but they were all high quality and the result was as surprising as disappointing. Am I doing something wrong besides not making my friends vote?

Fore reference: Here are the submissions:

- Yesterday: Show HN about a font comparison tool I wrote. Was on r/programming front page for almost an entire day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9957472

- A webGL visualization of a diffusion process. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9605938

- An article (IPython Notebook) about generating a gauss-distributed number range. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9499845

- An article (IPython Notebook) about the 2D Ising model and a program I wrote about to solve it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9546872
The grandeur is very real; I'm not sure what of that comes with ADHD and what just comes with the territory of running a startup.

One day you're taking over the world, one day you're totally fucked. I've actually been tracking my mood at the beginning, middle, and end of each day along with our metrics and any other thing that could sway my moods.

My conclusion is that my mood swings are completely, 100% irrational. I try to temper them on both sides. When I feel like we're taking over the world, it's a good time to talk to investors/do sales stuff. When I'm completely depressed, it's a good time to focus on all of the things that are broken with the product.

I don't know if that's ideal, but I think it's working? Who knows.
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That is conflating adoption rate with the total active users. It's unsurprising that a demographic group that is late to adopt new technology would become the fastest growing one once growth everywhere else has stopped. That doesn't prove that the remaining holdouts aren't largely represented by older people who don't need to use the internet.
It's especially unfortunate because decaf coffee is usually gross.
>> A research compound doesn't need to be 100% pure. It's not meant for human use.

Then why does it come in pill form? And why do they only sell it to researchers - including those doing clinical trials?
very clean and clear presentation a couple questions:

- I noticed you had a pretty simple sales pipe flow ( New, Lead, Op and Close ) which is nice but do you plan on extending it or allowing customization?
- Do you think you will embed a MEDDIC methodology into the flow ?
- Mobile app / API ?
...How is this moving anything forward? It's not novel or innovative at all.
No, I did not.

By the way, I was shocked the first time I saw what the full picture looked like... 8-)
He never said it shouldn't, just that he would be interested in seeing the numbers. I would be too since they would be more relevant to my use case.
Looks really great! I think you should highlight better that it support fuzzy search, as I had to dig deep into Docs->Auto completion to find it (was about to suggest it to you).

Good luck with it!
Ask HN: Are JavaScript developers divided into 'fron-end devs' and 'true devs'?
Recently I have read the discussion in twitter between overlords of JavaScript about if they have to give examples of how to work with their complex tools in ES5 rather than in ES6, because ES5 is only for 'front-end devs' but not for 'true devs'.

So, I wander, is there such a deep division in JavaScript community ?
Is there a way to have it bundled into a single file which I can scp to remote systems and need not worry about dependencies?
Solid technique, but I was going for a different voice, sort of a dramatic pause and a winking 'aha! - but what about the market? Ever think of that?'
Can we please stop calling things "embarrassingly parallel". Just what the hell is embarrassing about highly parallelizable algorithms?
Autohotkey is a crazy dense macroing tool; I originally thought it was just move the mouse and type, but it can do so, so much more- interface with spreadsheets, web browsers, heck, there's even a tiling window manager out there that's programmed in ahk script. (bug.n)
Wow! That is creepy and impressive at the same time.
Iceland did a combination of things. They put dirty politicians in jail, got better ones in office, seized the banking system, re-focused it on stable growth rather than greed, and knocked out fraudulent debts with laws. The U.S. could've done quite a bit of that. We could've even pitted Wall St's geniuses against each other by talking the companies and then offering financial incentives to those that help ensure bailout dollars only go to right place.

And so on and so forth. Instead, here's hundreds of billions, don't tell us what you do with it, and criminal immunity. Some kind of "democracy" the U.S. is these days...
I've wanted an app like this for a long time. But the wholesale literal copy-pasting of the design just sucks and makes me sad.
Also:

* People who have been on a team long enough to learn how things should work but lack the skills to really do the coding.

I phone screened a guy fairly recent who had a very long background (~20 years) in a pretty security-conscious field. He did very well in open-ended design discussions and was able to explain his prior work very well. He couldn't code trivial binary tree operations, though. I can only assume that someone else on his team is carrying most of the coding burden. This guy might be great at a PM-type job (or not, I don't interview for those jobs), but not as a dev.
Perhaps possible for HN to parse the title/og:title meta data on a page and force that as the title of HN submissions?
In what way does copying another site's design and HTML "move the web forward?"

If anything, doing that holds the web back.
Most of this is to be expected, but the parts that are ridiculous is that your encryption key is backed up to OneDrive and:

"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to protect our customers or enforce the terms governing the use of the services."