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In addition to what others have said (mainly, it would be specific to a particular version of the CPU, which is probably the biggest thing -- imagine if no x86 binary older than ~1 year could run on your chip), one more point:

The programmer doesn't necessarily have better knowledge than the CPU, because the programmer can't see or respond to runtime behavior. There are a lot of cases where behavior is input-data-dependent, or simply too complicated to reason about analytically a-priori. The big wins in computer architecture over the past two decades have all been in mechanisms that adapt dynamically in some way: dynamic instruction scheduling (out-of-order), branch prediction based on history/context, all sorts of fancy cache eviction/replacement heuristics, etc.

Itanium tried "VLIW + compiler smarts" and the takeaway, I think, was that it was just too hard to build good enough static analysis to beat a conventional out-of-order CPU.
Title could be updated to reflect that this only affects the Android app.
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I agree with you about the general opinion.
However I do believe it is relevant to your first question which was why Coca Cola does not promote on it more, I don't think you want to advertise on doing something people dislike or think it's bad (be it true or not it does not matter at all).

On the other hand I think most people know drinking Cola is not good for your health.
to me, the strongest argument for quantum weirdness (which isn't actually that weird once you appreicate that quantum laws don't actually allow you to break causality) in biology is photosynthesis. There is some pretty strong evidence- not completely agreed upon but still pretty strong- that coherence plays a role.
Docker is just a container and not a sandbox. There are no controls in the kernel to prevent something from leaving the container unless you enable restrictions outside of docker such as SELinux. There is a lot of development around SELinux+Docker right now.
The title is correct but the URL is misspelled. I assume they fixed the title after publishing so in that case the URL won't change. Clearly a typo in the original.
And the article says thus: It had become Johnston’s job to travel all over the U.S. to show off the Dash 80, as the 707 was code-named.
Exactly, we're being downvoted for stupid reasons.
I've always been interested in the "landing-page-no-product" way of validating an idea.

I'd like to see a follow-up to it were the product was made and those clients that signed up originally were still around for it.
I'd love to see a WebVulkan [0], as wrestling with WebGL's setup is really a slog to get it to work predictably in the way you want.

WebGL is making progress via extensions with Uniform Buffers, instanced geometry, etc., but as most people end up using e.g. Three.js, it seems like exposing a sane, more fine-grained API would help everyone.

[0] Knowing full-well that WebVulkan naturally won't magically solve any performance issues, and seems to be a very different beast https://twitter.com/Tojiro/status/628660898756825089
It's not about skill, it's about loyalty. These companies are losing money precisely because they hire great people and fail to keep them. If you ran a major company, would you like the perception that the job you offer is only meant to be a resume-padding stepping stone? What happens when those people leave and new ones have to be filtered from application pools, acquainted with your teams and business practices, trained to use your systems, and then you have to repeat the process in a year or two? What does that do for morale among the people who stay?
I ache for the old GTalk Android application too. Also very Unix, then Google had to go and be all walled-garden. I hate how I have to have three separate IM clients, each with its own half-baked implementation on at least one platform, just so I can talk to all my friends.

Too bad corporate interests are against openness. I really would have liked it if all services were interoperable with one another.
It depends on how the data is going to be used. If you want absolute time, save it as UTC or local with an offset. But if a user is going to think of "7pm my time" then you probably are going to need to save "7pm" and the user's timezone separately so that 7pm always shows as 7pm even after Daylight Savings changes or other timezone rule changes. Save the date and time relative to the context of a timezone (not offset).

There are a lot more timezones than there are offsets, and several timezones may have the same offset at a given point in time, but that may not be true every day of the year because they have different rules.

So the robust solution is to make all your datetimes "timezone" aware, not "offset" aware. And yes that means using the Olsen Data and yes that means more complications. But it's the only way to have accuracy for human-oriented datetimes.
The overlap between communitarian student protesters and Wall Street focused old money elite isn't zero but I find it very odd that you would paint them as a joint monolith. There are important tensions between those two cultures that you erase with such a claim.

(Also the timing is bizarre, the hippie image was already solidified in the summer of '68, but the old money came in increasing tides of the 80s 90s and 00s.)
Being 55 in Austin can be a real downer if you let it. I missed the last two bubbles thanks to being in the semiconductor business.

The good news: I avoided most of the insanity. A nest egg, a paid-off house (no mortgage for 6 years), my wife & dogs, my health, and the ability to occasionally travel for pleasure. We put away ~25% of our earnings every month. I go to the gym 4-5 times per week and sweat my ass off.

I've seen more than my share of layoffs so I spend every bleeping moment learning other technologies. I won't be able to call myself a full-stack dev or a data scientist, but I know enough to get the simple stuff done. It will keep me in coffee and banh mi sandwiches when I tell my employer to stuff it.

As for "work fast and break things" culture: I know that 90% of this is fueled by the media. Don't buy the hype. Just be a good human being and ensure that your salary > costs.

I'm rapidly approaching the day that I won't have to wake up and read YC's bullshit. I'll be on a mountainside with my dogs and my wife. Good effing riddance.
Has the phone been sleeping / screen off / locked for a long time? Probably "offline" or something else describes this better.

Is user actively using their phone? "online"

It's simple. IM clients have figured this out years ago.
It is true that to succeed the modern developer requires an enormous skillset. At the same time, everything is so accessible because of places like Github, IRC channels. There are a wealth of tutorials covering every topic imaginable, sites like StackOverflow giving you the opportunity to have your problems solved, and a community of developers who truly want to help fellow developers.

Because everything changes so fast in software, in the developer DNA must be built in the ability to master new concepts and apply them very quickly. You build a solid foundation and can apply it everywhere. Additionally, in software development, you reinforce the skills that are important because you use them. You learn as you go and must always be learning.

And for some perspective, think about how relatively easy it is to become a developer vs. getting a PhD.
I don't mind a Chrome App for a first iteration, but I completely mind when it's the excuse to neglect development on the desktop platform.

Another example could be Authy.
>Let's consult the Jargon File.

That's not the real jargon file. This is:

http://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html
I'd guess calc is executed after your timer ended and therefore doesn't register in your measurement.
The first thing I do when Netflix goes down is complain on Facebook. Facebook up, Netflix down? It's not the Internet that's broken.
Read more about the "science" in the Sugar movie and you may not be so quick to cite it:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...
From a health standpoint its like arguing the relative merits of 3 packs a day of smoking vs 3.1415 packs a day, "eh".

Also unit dosage for virtually all consumers is the unfortunately somewhat variable can.
best damn comment too. very encouraging to hear someone has been at it for this long. Only 13 or 14 years for me thus far.
So if society decides that redheads have no right to live, then they have no right to live, end of story?

This is a dangerous school of thought, authoritarian in spirit - the state as the source of ethics and the ultimate moral authority (Hegel's view).

The opposing concept is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law
"We" referred to US healthcare spending [1], and the party with the right incentive for this problem is the payers: Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance like Aetna, Blue Shield, United Healthcare, etc.

While the payers have the incentive to reduce readmissions (saves them money, leading to lower insurance premiums for you), they don't usually have the access to do so -- they're not the one seeing the patient or prescribing medicine.

The payers could, of course, try to change the way that THEY reimburse the hospital to align the incentives. For Medicare and Medicaid, that requires a law--which is why the Affordable Care Act is creating opportunities for new startups as it rolls out. For private insurance, I think they'd like to change reimbursement, but they have relatively little market power compared to healthcare providers:
http://rockhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Kocher-et-a...

[1] Completely different set of incentives (and thus problems) in other healthcare systems.
Works in modern bsdtar also, and as of a couple years ago they also added support for the "-a" flag to do the same thing when compressing.
I found a link for you, very interesting conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8104365
I've experienced this myself.

Sometimes what our competitors were doing was stupid, and we ate their lunch.

Sometimes what our competitors were doing was the only way to really run things, and we had to adapt to follow them.
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The convenience of being able to use several devices (laptop, tablet, phone) to seamlessly continue conversations is pretty much the main reason I like these services.

Pidgin and Adium do not support (transferrable) chat history and do not show messages when I'm offline, which is a huge usability hit. Especially when people talking on the other side expect that the messages are visible to you even if you're not immediately online.
I no longer work at Google, things could have changed, but there was a strong culture to use Google Docs for project requirements gathering and design documents. There were some internal templates you could copy if you didn't want to think of the headers yourself.

While it's great this is part of the culture, discoverability/versioning were still problems, i.e. had to be done yourself.
Downloaded the APK - won't let me create MMS when set to always send from my Google Voice, and when set to send from "Last number" group MMS is created with my actual #.

I'm praying that it's a server side flag and not a case of Google Apps Free users getting skewered somehow.
Nowadays, advertising is their business model and producing quality content is merely a means to an end.

The rule of thumb is pretty simple: If you're not paying them money then you couldn't possibly be their customer. You're probably actually their product.
Q1: Exercise, eat well, do cool things. This month, I will consult for several high-profile customers, act in a film, judge a BBQ competition, hang out with my offroading buddies, go offroading, visit friends and family, and possibly tinker with my Jeep.

Of course, it ain't all cool: I will also clean up cat shit stains in the basement (older cat having problems), deal with troublesome weeds in the backyard, pay way more than I want to to have the garage slab fixed, and get caught up on my accounting (I've been a bit slack this year).

Qs2&3: False dichotomies, poorly phrased questions. I will be 50 in just over a month. I live my life, not anyone else's.

I don't look at what others are doing and think "cool", I think about what I like doing, what I think is cool, and, provided that I can afford it financially, emotionally, intellectually, and physically, or that the loss/gain in any of those areas is acceptable, I do it.

End of story. You don't deal with getting older. You live. You keep living. You live the life you want to live. The dealing takes care of itself.
It may not be true of Google but I have witnessed it in the industry.
> passing the next pointer from one opcode to the next (e.g. perl5)

> using an opcode array (lua)

Would you perchance have a couple links explaining what those are? A quick search on my end didn't turn up anything useful.
Maybe it's a minimum viable promotion.
> The Google Drive API includes a special hidden folder that your app can use to store application data.

Again, that means a user cannot drop their files into a special app folder for processing. It does not facilitate the simple use case of creating an App to distribute purchase orders to vendors.
I think part of the reason for that contrast is that at least from my POV (being raised in poverty early on and only getting out of that that situation when my parents found work at Raytheon Beechcraft) is that poor people in the US will try to buy a the appearance of not being poor but never really save anything for things that really matter like healthcare and education. It's not that poor people can't save for it, but that it seems that US society puts an emphasis appearances rather than on the actual condition of one's economic standing. So, I've seen friends of mine (similarly poor or lower-middle-class) own nice clothes but have zip in terms of savings or things that could make their lives easier (ex. a well maintained car).

I want to emphasize that this isn't an attempt to convict people in those economic situations as bad, but that as a society we're really superficial in terms of taking care of poverty itself. Having a house, a car, and etc doesn't mean you can't be poor or have no economic safety net to even maintain that standard of living which my parents still don't (even at 57 years of age). What makes this worse is the fact that some people snub anyone that is perceptibly "poor". It's something that irks me because I've known very bright and capable people of the same economic standing as I started with getting rejected from job opportunities and even social occasions purely based on their economic standing. Then people wonder why poor people stay poor.
I'm 34 as well, and I'm amazed at some of the things my 20 year old self was able to solve (mostly math and physics related stuff). There's a belief (apparently not yet backed by research) that math skills degrade after 35, as this article discusses and tries to disprove:

http://www.massey.ac.nz/~rmclachl/overthehill.html

However, I don't think it's slowing me down, I'm still capable of learning and producing, and I've learned lots of stuff to "work smarter". I do believe I'm doing myself a disservice by not keeping in shape, and that might be part of my perception of having less energy (but not less enthusiasm).
My father was a mathematician. In graduate school, he didn't do quite as well as expected on his oral exams. As a result, afterward one of his committee members talked to him about possible career alternatives to mathematics. This professor told him "You could go into computing, but you wouldn't really be getting in on the ground floor." This was in the mid-1950s.
Ask HN: Pornhub ads (e.g, the one targeted Sam Altman at YC) is underrated?
Someone launch a Pornhub ads campaign to reach Sam Altman at YC last week. Read-> http://thenextweb.com/media/2015/08/07/turns-offs-include-investors/

Besides media attention, Pornhub ads was proved to be lucrative. Read this Eat24 blog post: http://blog.eat24hours.com/how-to-advertise-on-a-porn-website/

Is porn ads an underrated channel, or we just have to ignore it as a startup?
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Those that disagree with the quantum mind argument happen to be firm believers in the downvote button. :)
"I feel like company HR aren't there for you"

That's because HR literally exists to protect the company from you. You don't report serious issues to HR. You hire a lawyer.
A readmission is basically sending someone home early or failing to care properly for them on an out patient basis after they leave the hospital. Sending someone to the hospital twice when you could send them once is wasteful.
I CAN FINALLY GET MMS MESSAGES WITH MY GOOGLE VOICE NUMBER!

Sorry for the caps. But that's been mildly annoying for a long time, so its kind of exciting to finally have a complete messaging system on google voice.
I really worry about these people trying to free me from a high income career and telling me it's for my own good.
Portland, Denver, Nashville, Seattle (less so), even Boise are starting to take up that old mantel. I agree though, SF is now the gold rush town stultified by takes and not givers. Other commenters mention the Burn and that some SFers want the Burners gone, a mystery to a Bay Area native that left. I guess things really have changed there. The Burn was all about participation, not gawking, but recent Burns have seen that change into entertainment that you are not acting in as well as viewing. It seems that SF became the same as we see in the Castro. Oh well, I'll take my Rocky Mountains then.
So this strikes a cord, and I'll say I've done this, but for a different reason. We started an accelerator, and year 1 was horrible. Pivoted in year 2, at the end of year 2 we had changed our focus completely which I no longer desired to work in. I left as CTO while we were fundraising (after being bootstrapped the rest of the way) so that I could leave in clear conscious. I didn't want to spend 5-7 years, so I left before the money came in.
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Ask HN: Community or resources for eliciting product or company feedback
Earlier this month I participated in the Small Product Lab by Gumroad which challenged participants to take a product from inception to delivery in 10 days. It was an awesome and exhausting experience and the best part that I got out of it was a private Facebook group where you could seek feedback, poll others in similar places as you and overall just ask questions.

HackerNews is great for asking questions once and a while (especially when the questions are common to many people) but it's obviously not the best medium should one person have, say, 2 or 3 questions this week and another question a week later.

So what I'm wondering here is: is there a place (or places) where people who want to make products, are part of a start-up, etc where they can look for feedback on various things about their product and / or company? I think a forum may be a good format for these types of things but I haven't found any that seem to fit the bill.
Great point.

The question is, really, whether you enjoy the actual process of making the game. And the best way to figure that out is to make a game.
I'd suggest reading this article which is full of historical and technical detail and i enjoyed it very much: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-...

(The article doesn't touch Vulkan but the state of DirectX vs OpenGL)
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One thing I learned the hard way is that if you are on the right track, your competitors are probably barking up the same tree and are further along than you would think baes on what is public.

For instance there was a period of many years where both Google and Bing image search were embarrassingly bad and I was able to build something far better for a certain range of queries.

It took me a year to build out my system but in that year, Bing and Google both improved dramatically, so my demo comparing results with them was no longer impressive at all.
Well, Drexler has always, or at least with the publication of his Engines of Creation, used analogies like the nanomachines known as sperm and egg was an existence proof that at some level his style of nanotech was demonstrably possible (or something like this, not sure I've re-read it since it came out in the '80s).

His take on Smalley's "fat fingers" criticism was that it was a straw man, something he never proposed, and the ribosome proved that Smalley's general approach contradicted it.

This all should be in the context of Drexler's claim that the chemistry community co-opted the publicity he created with his expositions on his style of nanotech to get/keep almost all the funding it might attract, especially from them. Plenty of people, including at least some conventional chemists, also feared grey goo and other possible threats from Drexler style nanotech, no doubt including the macro ones, famously Bill Joy in the programming community, and are quite determined to suppress research in it. So without the right background, which I only started to get, it's hard to judge their claims of it being "impossible" or the like.
And this whole thing came full circle once Paul Graham stepped away. YCombinator was initially cool because it was a hack on the incubator/vc scene and a successful one. Now it seems more like an MBA-esque scheme replete with spreadsheets.
That clarifies things, thank you.
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"I fail to see any connection with engineers which can easily move between jobs, command decent salaries and benefits and are more than able to negotiate better conditons individually with their employers."

What about the illegally low wages (although still very livable) that were created by these companies colluding. That's one way for employees to fight back.
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Ah, thanks. Wasteful unless you are the hospital, indeed.
40 year olds are not the first generation. I'm 66, started writing FORTRAN on a CDC 3100 in 1965. 16K memory (that's 16,384), Punched cards, mag tape. Was a blast.
I would like to excuse for my incompetent/ignorant comment in advance, but wouldn't it be fairer to compare Vulkan with OpenGL 4.5 where indirect indexed draw calls are available? I also noticed that this demo avoids interactive animations (moving / reacting objects). In my experience with next-gen apis this results often in command dead-locks and inevitable queue-rollbacks.
Your comment sounds like it could have been written by someone who had never been to Burning Man. There's kind of an idealization at play in your comment, almost a "noble savage" thing. Ticket prices have increased $190 in the past 15 years. The $10-$20 yearly ticket price increase is pretty insignificant next to what people pay for costumes, art, etc. You're going to one of the least hospitable places on earth, bringing in all food and water, bringing a bunch of art and electronics, then setting it all on fire. It's never been a particularly inexpensive undertaking. I remember being a broke kid in a soma warehouse and having to sell my ticket for rent money and being really bummed. Now I program computers and have money to spend on art to bring to burning man. I'm still the same person.
> Static websites now on S3 (anyone recommend an S3 sync tool?)

s3cmd http://s3tools.org/s3cmd
FWIW, conversations originated from Pidgin do show up in chat history in the Hangouts interface. Or at least that's been my experience. I agree that sync in the other direction (to Pidgin), and support for offline messages, would be really useful.

I did see a reverse-engineered Hangouts client at some point; does anyone know if this works well enough?
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