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by jonstokes 9y ago
Why was the title edited on this? There is nothing wrong with the title assigned by ProPublica, and in fact it's far better than the one above. Submitters, please stop doing this.
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by jonstokes 9y ago
This article is from 2011.
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Slashdot was a major inspiration to us as we grew Ars Technica, not to mention a major source of critical traffic and growth in those early years. Hats off to Rob! I owe you, dude. We all do :-)
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by jonstokes 9y ago
The original title is less precise, but it's not even remotely inaccurate or even "vague" by any reasonable definition of the term. If you want to know about the future of Theano, that tells you about it. If a title is mislea
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Yes, this. The seemingly increasing HN practice of rewriting submission titles and headlines strikes me as the ultimate in IT support nerd "just move"-ism.
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Lol, I'm so sorry, this is unkind and very possibly inaccurate, but I read your "what department" question like this: "Where were you on the internal Harvard hierarchy that we both know is incredibly important to Harvard
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by jonstokes 9y ago
I was a graduate student at Harvard for five years (two Masters degrees), and the article is spot-on. Grade inflation was a big topic while I was there (some prof had written an editorial blaming it on affirmative action), and everything sh
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by jonstokes 9y ago
A friend told me that if you use the Ring then 7 days later all your files will be deleted.
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Well well... TIL If I thought we'd all still be here in 2038 I'd have something new to worry about :-/
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by jonstokes 9y ago
This page answers a question I was thinking about in the shower this morning: what is the latest date (as a UNIX timestamp) you can store in a regular postgres integer column, which has a max value of 2147483647 per the postgres docs. It tu
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Heh, I actually had the same thought. Then I had the following thought: "I relish the thought of one day talking to the SEC even less than I do talking to the IRS, and if this were successful I'd probably end up talking to both at
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by jonstokes 9y ago
It's not clear to me from this reply that you know very much about authors, advances, and the like. Maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, writing a book is an actual job for some people, and not a hobby, a passion project, a speculative endeav
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Heh, my guess all along has been that the crpytocurrency story right now is about capital flight from China and India (i.e. the recent cash ban there), and possibly from some other destabilized regions like MENA.
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by jonstokes 9y ago
I think the cryptocurrency story is real, just like the internet story was real in 1999, but these ICOs show that the market is getting way ahead of the tech, regulations, business models, etc. I have a longer rant about it, here: https:&#
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First man to die by electric chair died slower than Thomas Edison expected(washingtonpost.com)
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by jonstokes 9y ago
"“There can be no set price for a book,” he says. “It depends on the book, the person, and the author—when you put a price on something, you change the relationship between person and book. You say ‘this is 10 dinars, this is 20 dinars
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Oh for pete's sake, the die size cost for supporting the legacy x86 instructions is a fraction of a percent on a modern multicore CPU. This is because the translation hardware stays relatively fixed (in terms of size and complexity and
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Again, it has been over 20 years since ISA has mattered for performance in a head-to-head matchup between comparable CPUs. Moore's Law has thoroughly done away with it as a factor in performance. Relative code size (and cache/memo
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Nope, I'm not assuming that in the slightest. In fact, I'm assuming exactly what you're assuming -- some fraction of time way less than 50% spent running emulated code. I'm also coming to the same conclusion you are -- t
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by jonstokes 9y ago
I would try to engage with this but you don't seem to have even a basic grasp of sleep modes, background processes, idle power, power efficiency measurements, or pretty much anything that I wrote about in my comment. You haven't g
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Alright, I'll come out of retirement to hit this dead horse another lick. "if WinARM can run Wintel software but still offer lower prices, better battery life, lower weight, or similar, Intel's dominance of the laptop space i
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by jonstokes 9y ago
This is exactly right. Most major (and many regional and local) newspapers had an Everyman tech columnist. Mossberg just happened to be that guy for the WSJ. The other thing I maybe should've mentioned, though, was that Mossberg was a
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Mossberg did a lot of good work, but so did a lot of other columnists who didn't attain nearly the status he did. Mossberg mostly has one guy to thank for the unique place he occupied in the tech media scene: Steve Jobs. For whatever r
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Thanks for the heads-up and backstory. I didn't know this article had this kind of history here on HN.
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by jonstokes 9y ago
From the article: "A few students—all of them white guys, Wu remembers—would hang around to ask about the research and to probe for flaws in its design. Wu still didn’t believe in ESP, but she found herself defending the experiments to
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Heh, you've picked the one counter-example that I was going to toss in there, but didn't. Amazon built its cloud business during the lean times after the dotcom bust, when there wasn't a ton of money chasing risk in the tech
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Not what I said. I realize that it's asking a lot to click through to the underlying links (said without irony, since I rarely do that myself anymore :), but I'm talking just as much about the massive network of labs that was fund
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by jonstokes 9y ago
I don't think it does, though. "Innovation" isn't solely a function of the number of failed attempts, despite the fact that this particular way of looking at it has become trendy of late. Take a look at that last link, a
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by jonstokes 9y ago
Hate on this guy all you want, but there's a lot right with this article. I covered this same set of issues at Ars way back in the day: https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/07/7340/ https:&#x
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by jonstokes 9y ago
This may be the most Hacker News comment I've ever seen. There are some sectors of the magazine industry, maybe science isn't one of them, that are actually doing really well. I've been on three different junkets with outdoor

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