Why... why would I lie? What could I possibly have to gain from lying about this? I only have HN karma to lose, which I don't have much to begin with.
You can, before simply defending AMD, research and see for yourself that required BIOS updates are indeed an issue.
I tried it with an MSI Tomahawk, and an Asus B350 Prime.
Had a Ryzen-5-1600 and a Ryzen-7-1700, as well as a pair of DDR4-2133, and DDR4-3000 modules each, and tried every combination, and was never able to post.
Switched to Intel CPU and Asus Intel-supporting MB with the same DDR4-3000 RAM and POST'd on the first try. I'm saying that to 'prove' that the other components were fine.
I'm glad that it worked out for you, and I wish it had gone smooth for me too.
I recently tried to go the AMD/Ryzen route. I like an underdog comeback story as much as the next guy.
But be warned: Motherboards that "support" Ryzen do not in fact support Ryzen out of the box. You have to update the BIOS to support Ryzen. How do you POST without a CPU you ask? Who knows? Magic, possibly.
I still don't understand how AMD expects their customers to have more than one CPU (and possibly DDR4-2133 sticks) to be able to POST and update the BIOS.
I returned everything AMD and went back to safe, good ole Intel. Worked on first try. I'm never getting sucked into AMD hype again.
Also, when I went back to return the AMD components to Fry's, the manager said they were aware/used to getting Ryzen returns because of this.
I thought it was funny, kudos to him. I thought it might even motivate someone else to start their own private list. Public things are rarely easy to regulate for quality.
Boxfish, twitter, YouTube, Siri, and now with Ray Kurzweil @ Google... thinkers are converging on doing to every other form of content what Google did for structured documents.
The NLP trend is going to be amusing to watch at least (Siri, Summly), and whether its time has come in the next 5 years or not I'm not certain. But I know Ray Kurzweil knows this technology is inevitable.
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As for BoxFish, I think this is a good example of a neatly executed, well funded startup with experienced founders and a solid space. No drama, no demo day, no immediate fires to put out, cool $3m in the bank, Deutsche Telekom AG subsidiary negotiating their deals for them, and "Yahoo just bought a kids startup for 17m" - the topic is hotter than others.
This is the type of startup I for one daydream of having stock of or working at. Has high potential to be worth $mmms or $bn in the future - you know, that all depends and what not. But the makings are clearly there. Excellent work guys! Congratulations.
Short term: wants a meeting, and this should probably do the trick. Long term: doesn't want get killed, prefers to partner with Twitter and sustain a lesser profit margin for a longer period of time.
I say a slow clap is in order here, no matter what his true intentions are, only if for being so focused on what he wants from Twitter Inc.
You're right, I actually have it installed too, I should've just done that and moved on. This particular blog with the patterned/hypnotic background really hurt my eyes in the morning, and I guess I was cranky enough to take it as an insult :)
Didn't read your rant since it was impossible for my human eyes. I may bill (!) you for the temporary loss of productivity. Your BG and color scheme are horrible, I would rather blend and drink my left foot than read your blog again.
The arguments above are more about HN as a community (and how it self-regulates/self-analyzes, its values) than your achievement. The fact that you've completed this game is still amazing to us all, that remains unchanged whether you were 14, 24 or 34. My only hope is that you get to focus from your age and keep building on your talent. Great job.
I agree, but I don't think it will be necessary to pay radically more.
I was actually happy to see they did $57m losses on $250m revenues; even happier when I saw that a large sum of the loss was the new staff.
Worry not, because, in my opinion; Spotify is here to stay and is solving a problem that is certainly worth solving.
Its the combination of several factors:
A previous commenter stated that Spotify is not only competing for iTunes' money, but with piracy too. I agree; they're converting a client that was worth $0.00 over their lifetime (as well as those who 'pirated and then purchased', etc) into paying the artist per listen. That's absolutely radical.
The $20m increase in staffing is a direct product of this vision. The new staff is hard at work at making Spotify available on as many platforms, as beautifully as possible, with as many artists and in as many countries as possible.
The price, whether it be $9.99 or $12.45, won't be the problem, pricing can be fixed later with more data.
The only danger Spotify faces is the resistance it is facing in 'the rest of the world', where there may be entrenched local media companies with distribution rights, or local music/label representatives may be weary of the payment model. That would limit their scale, and Spotify needs scale to work.
... thank god for the $100m Sean Parker found for Spotify, and for the X billions more he can sway for it as well. I'd bet on Spotify today more than ever, it may be a long bet, but we haven't seen such a successful contender in this category since iTunes.
Spotify is an A+ example of what every other startup with 1/100th of the business plan or cojones is trying to do: Spotify is aiming to become a billion dollar company, and I congratulate them for that.
The music industry is worth spending tens, hundreds, even thousands of millions to fix/disrupt/change/make better.
... Wikileaks, anyone?
I think the model Mr. Schmidt is advocating has been tried, and destroyed in front of our eyes by multiple collaborating governments (sweden, america, england) and corporations (paypal, visa, et al.), in the last 24 months. Perhaps Google would have a better shot at defending itself.
The article seems more written out of shock, the absurdity of his travel experience, rather than an actual long-term plan to disrupt the cartels by injecting (pun? maybe) technology into the problem. The onus at this point is on the governments, which have bigger pockets and more methods of organizing large groups of people, compared to the individual citizens involved who are as Mr. Schmidt himself puts it, 'overwhelmed by crime'. We can't simply treat this specific problem as if it appeared yesterday, it has a history and evolution of its own. Certain methods have been tried, there have been many scandals, people revealed to be 'on the take', thousands of innocent bystanders have been slaughtered. This isn't day #1, and that affects public reaction.
Something else to keep in mind is that this isn't Occupy Wall Street either, you're not just going to get slapped with a loitering ticket and walk it off, there's a very real x% chance that your wife or kids could be targeted (that means 'killed and (maybe) raped'), which isn't a risk you can expect anyone to stand up against out of their own will and the promise of anonymous packets tracked by a unique ID suggested by a guy who got off of a private jet.
For an article that refers to data-based decisions, what was the purpose of white on black retina-burning colors for this blog?
Is 'visitor should exit halfway through the article' a goal? :)
I was going to agree with VonLipwig until I read this. This may hold some truth to it - even if the world doesn't know HN (thankfully, I keep it on the DL myself) and even if all of HN's readers/contributors are fully aware of SOPA, showing solidarity may have some impact.
On the other hand, I think the GoDaddy exodus did more in a week than months full of discussions; 'big guy' corporations seem to really notice when we use our wallets to speak.
Based on that example, whom does HN control with its wallet?
Off the top of my head I think we could sway: AWS, Linode, Rackspace, Heroku and the likes -- are any of those supporters to begin with?
I'd believe it if every online community hadn't already fantasized, written, prepared wikis, appointed Financial Ministers and plotted to buy the Principality of Sealand at one point or another for this same goal. Thanks for the chuckle though, it was nice to daydream about visa-less US entrepreneurship.
I'm not sure if you're sarcastic or not - anyway, perhaps the reading speed could be changed after signing up. First reading speed value is calculated with average reading speed, 150wpm seems safe (wikipedia based ballparking here).
I really like the idea, how about a quick way to 'calculate ~ reading speed' feature? display a random paragraph, click start and start reading, timer stops in 15 seconds and you click on the word you last read, extrapolate from there.