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This is my sentiment too. I'm excited by the possibilities of 3D printing, but at the moment all of my friends who've purchased printers are using them to create shoddy little trinkets. The kind of printers that could produce practical items are outside the budget of the average early adopter.

Of course, it's a matter of time before tech advancement fixes this problem, but today there's little reason to buy one of these machines if all you are planning to do is actually print useful stuff, rather than experiment with 3D printers as a hobby.
If companies stop doing research then the research can be done by universities or similar institutes.
Dynamic Compilation (Graal tutorial, demos and benchmarks)
A plausible tl;dr of the post could be: "Dreaming up high level instruction sets is useless because today's CPU's spend most of their time waiting for memory access (accept for rare applications doing lots of math on a small amount of data ... e.g. bitcoin mining)
I start to like this guy.

But he is wrong - apple's strong side have always been hardware. They have never so far managed to be the TOP in software, but once they enter hardware category - the premium segment is theirs. And at least a minor part of their success is due to the quality of their hardware and not only to branding, marketing and reality distortion fields.

So apple making a car - it means it will be very well build machine.
Which site? (if you can tell it of course)
How is that legal in the European Economic Area?
I find myself cynically wondering, if such a site becomes bothersome to those placing tracking cookies (and the site mentions articles in Wired), how long it would take before they would disable adding them for destinations known to be revealing it?

I guess it could be automated in a small way too, such that if the cookie was detected as being returned to the browser then the site gets flagged and it won't get it again.

Alternatively, only add the cookie when requesting pages from partner sites known to be tracking it.
GEMA is a collection society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights. Equivalent to BMI / ASCAP. They have nothing to do with films.

They certainly do not buy rights for anything at all. They represent copyright holders and collect fees and distribute them.
More likely they'll come up with a rhetorical workaround that makes perfect sense to judges, patent attorneys, and poorly-informed juries from the Australian equivalent of East Texas.

With software patents, for instance, there may be no way to claim ownership of Algorithm X in a given jurisdiction's patent system, but there's probably no obstacle to claiming "A machine that executes Algorithm X." The problem then becomes tractable: just write the claims in such a manner that they cover all practical implementations of such a machine, present or future.

It will now be the job of the company's patent counsel to come up with a similar artifice to claim ownership of any conceivable test or diagnostic process that involves specific BRCA genes. I'm sure they'll pull it off, somehow.

Failing that, the company's lobbyists will simply ensure that the next regional or global trade agreement mandates that each ratifying nation implement gene patents.
Benchmarks are at the end of part 2: https://youtu.be/U_QpToYLsO0?t=58m26s
This reminds me of that comment attributed to Bill Gates: "64k memory ought to be enough for everybody"

The trend is very clear: solar and wind are dropping in prices. It's now only a matter of when, not if.
Real estate might be expensive because interest rates are so low.
You forgot the Direct3D vs OpenGL shenanigans that they were still trying as early as Vista. The fact that no open technology is ever good enough for Microsoft, the fact that whenever they took anything that could be remotely interoperable with anybody else, they applied embrace-extend-extinguish. The name "Office Open XML" which is just so close to sounding like "Open Office XML" and fool people into thinking it will have some interoperability with Open Office. The way they start new APIs and technologies and then abandon them when they stop being the latest and greatest (MFC, Silverlight). The way they push their own proprietary solution to everything.
It's good to see a rational decision with regards to science coming out of Australia. Aussies have been getting too much bad rap due to the Abbot government.
In the corporate world, the powerful profit motive often seduces weak-minded managers into making decisions that ignore legal and ethical concerns. Strict regulation and law enforcement is the only corrective we have.
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OK, driver looks to left, system tracks head and reports a left lane change is likely. Reasonable enough. If you attempt a left turn without looking first, alarm?

It seems an interesting experimental setup for studying driver behavior. As a product, though? This is a startup.
You know. I can live with that, even if it's true.

You know what I cannot live with? My genes being owned by somebody else.
What do you mean by design frameworks? Tools such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch?
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I think this press [1] release of the institut curie gives a lot of information. other press release can be find here [2].

[1] http://www.institut-curie.org/sites/default/files/myriad-gen...
[2] http://www.institut-curie.org/press-release/by-type/377
Same here. If there was a lack of sites on the Internet I would do without comments, of course. But as there are plenty of news sites for any given region/topic, I'm just stopping using those that don't allow comments.

I think the interaction provided by comments is one of the strongest advantages of news and blogs with respect to traditional media and removing it is a step backwards.

Relying on solutions like Twitter for the comments isn't the same thing. Apart from the 140-character limit that I've never liked, tweets are ephemeral and are soon lost in the information sea, apart from depending on a third party that could decide to delete them or restrict access when they like. I prefer the comments to reside with the news, where they belong.
Because many publishers found that visitors wont wait the few extra seconds it takes to load the content on the server. They need to see something loading in their browser or they abandon the content.
Suggest to just ask various distributions nicely if they could package xdg-app. Especially the ones that you target and/or use frequently. I quite like the idea behind xdg-app and I've packaged xdg-app for Mageia Cauldron (think Fedora rawhide). As I did that only yesterday I don't know if it works. But next stable release of Mageia will have it.

http://pkgs.org/search/xdg-app

Apparently only available on Fedora, openSUSE and Mageia at the moment.
The scrolling feels unchanged for me, but the top shortcut doesn't work.

In general though, why sites feel the need to change / reimplement scrolling is beyond me. Every reimplementation is worse than the native behaviour.
> I wonder why vowels ever evolved.

Is Chinese missing vowels?

Usually complexity increases because it confers some kind of evolutionary advantage.
How normal (not wealthy and/or Californian) Americans deal with mercury in their home:

1) Ignore it, or sweep it into a dustpan and throw it out if it really bothers them.

2) Enjoy not having a $50,000 bill.

3) Almost certainly live into their 80s anyway.
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This looks like something I could do at iso1600 with my old APS-C camera, but then I'd need to do it wide open which would severly limit the DOF. With a modern full frame one could probably pull this off with iso 12800 and just stop down accordingly, without seeing much more noise. I agree it's still impressive to even push the modern FF to it's limits to match though (but comparison needs to be done at full resolution, not at screen res)
Excellent point, I never understood that either, with developers being happy that their supercomputing buzzsaw can generate a couple of 100K of text in about a second.

OTOH...it turns out that so-called "static" content actually also requires quite a bit of processing. Apache (or whichever server you are using) is not exactly doing nothing. And it also turns out that this sort of processing is I/O heavy, which isn't exactly the fastest path on the machine, even if all the caching done by various entities (more processing) tries and mostly succeeds in making sure very little I/O actually takes place.

Add to that that moving data around nowadays is generally much more expensive than doing computation on it (several instructions per clock-cyle, multi-Gigahertz clocks, so well over a hundred clocks per main memory access, and millions per I/O, even with an SSD).

In short: if we re-examine our assumptions in light of a changing environment, might a well-optimized "dynamic" stack not be faster than a "static" one? (Compare: VoltDB...). And of course you could then cache the results in memory as well.
Well, right from the top of the page: "The NASA patent portfolio is available to benefit US citizens."

True, it doesn't seem explicitly say anywhere that only US companies can apply. But even if was the case, would this really target the technology benefits exclusively at US citizens? To do so might only be directing the commercial benefits to US corporations, who are only a sub-set of US taxpayers.

Would it not be better to share in the hope that this brings a net benefit to the people of the US?

After all, if you look outwards beyond your borders, I'm sure you will find some other non-US tech, paid for by others, available to benefit you.
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Exactly.

Though in the "a company or other organisation" situation IIRC your internal users count in the same way so far as the GPL is concerned so you should make the code available to them on request if you don't already and they are free to redistribute under the terms of the GPL. Another important caveat is the "upon request" part: you don't have to release the source to anyone unless explicitly requested so you don't have to release it automatically upon releasing a binary.

Of course if you just use the results for your own needs/entertainment there is no requirement to release anything at all.
You can't forgive a corporation. Corporations aren't people, they have no conscience, no morals and no ethics. The entire concept of forgiving them, or being angry at them or whatever doesn't make sense. It's like forgiving a lion for eating your brother and thinking it won't eat you. It's a lion. It will eat you when it gets hungry. That is its nature.
I wonder that nobody mentioned view definition reusability which is totally lacking with storyboard UIs and one of the primary reasons why we also moved from using storyboards to doing everything in code with ComponentKit.

Just think about a table view cell. There is no clean way if you want to use the same custom cell layout in two different view controllers. Your only options are copy/paste or hacking around that with XIBs and additional code. Guess what, having half of your UI in code and half of it in a storyboard doesn't make maintenance easier in the long run.

This, and other problems, is perfectly solved by ComponentKit.
If you take a look at the source[0], you'll notice they roll their own viewport renderer, presumably as a way for them to do their "tracking pixels". I imagine this might be what causes the difference in behavior? If anyone more knowledgeable could jump in, that would be cool.

[0] https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/src/viewpo...
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What are those bars of darkness on xray view[0]? I suspect it's an artifact of stitching photos together rather than a real phenomenon, but I'm curious about the real answer.

[0] - http://imgur.com/a/63tJD
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> We'll break even in terms of costs within 4 years.

That means a loan of up to 25% interest could have financed the solar panels. Are interest rates higher than that for your parents?

> The increase in productivity is massive. I no longer have to deal with heat when I go home.
> Now imagine this happening for billions of people living in tropical climates

For what it's worth, the GDP per capita of Singapore used to track the introduction of air conditioning. Not sure what's cause and what's effect, or coincidence.
I appreciate their optimistic counterpoint, but some of the challenges Zappos have created for themselves -- how do you exactly keep "earning badges" a fair and representatives measure of an employee's worth? -- will be difficult and challenging to overcome.

Hsieh is asking a lot of his employees. I hope it ends up being worth the confusion and anxiety being generated for the entire workforce there.
A little clunky on Android Chrome, but it works okay.
This sounds very strange. Could you add a bit more detail. Which service crashed? Same service that caused the unmount? Any log messages?
What exactly is the benchmark? Is it, say, pure CPU-bound maths? Because a lot of the work between 1979 and today has been about getting the right numbers to the CPU faster, not (just) for the CPU to actually do the math on the numbers.

One of the biggest leaps in general computing performance in recent years have been the general availability of SSDs. SSDs makes you computer significantly faster, but not by changing anything about the CPU.
Occam's Razor is an aphorism; it does not prove anything one way or the other. Dogmatic adherence to it is no different than dogmatic adherence to religion.

Besides that, it is debatable how to apply it to the question of origins. To some, it is a simpler explanation that an intelligent entity created the universe and life, rather than to think that it happened randomly.

The heavy downvoting of the GP, which was a well-written, thoughtful comment, demonstrates a close-mindedness and refusal to engage with (or even consider) ideas which one disagrees with--a mindset which religious people are typically accused of having. The irony is not lost on all of us.
Not bad idea of using Scratch type of visual programming (?), for 3d part creation. Is it created to be used by children?

Although, I think OpenSCAD[0] is better (even to be used by children).

[0] http://www.openscad.org
Quite a bold decision there! Ultimately this will fail, of course, because the vast majority of sites that attempt to make money will need third-party scripts in some form.

I don't think it will necessarily fail, if AMP has a good ad story.

I think some publishers realize that ad blocking is taking off in an accelerated pace since iOS 9. If they have to choose between a universe between no ad revenue (because ad blocking) and more behaved and subtle advertising, they will choose the latter.

Given that AMP is pushed by Google, it's pretty obvious that they did think about ads:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-googles-amp-project-means-f...
I'm tremendously not keen on this, but am willing to be persuaded otherwise.

I don't want to have to build my sites using Google's AMP framework and their custom elements just to get good SEO.

I don't want to cache my content in Google's network so they can 1) track everything my users are doing without any indication on the front end and b) start serving ads from the cache and make every ad blocker stop working overnight.

This looks like Trojans bearing gifts in my (maybe paranoid) mind.
This whole discussion would suggest that it wasn't a FUD, but a genuine concern. And still is.
I hate it when pages suddenly change their scroll position, it makes reading the site painful. So any project that aims to fix this gets my approval!

One more pet peeve of mine: websites with giant non-scrolling banners at the top of the page. Thanks for wasting my screen space just so you can show your stupid website logo. As well as the pixel wastage, half the sites can't even make their banner stay still, it wobbles slightly as you scroll and it tries to reposition itself. Or, it breaks page scrolling - page up/page down will skip content hidden under the banner.

And while I'm moaning about the web of today: Also annoying are the sites that hide/shrink the banner as you scroll down the page, but make it pop back up as soon as you scroll upwards. If you accidentally move slightly too far down a page, you shift back up a row or two to catch a missing line of text, only to find a banner popping up and obscuring the bit that you specifically tried to view. Argh!
Reddit has no idea how their front page works
Other than video, what does this database offer above the BBC's "The Listening Project", which has hundreds of conversations from all points of the UK, and has been used before for linguistic research?
Though, that formula for prestige has been in place for at least the last century in European and American universities.
That's a lot of supposing for a class of developers who write for platforms without an OS, where you must set up your VM tables yourself and program the GPU manually.
Why not just run Windows in a VM (or Linux in a VM) and be happy?
That's dated 2008?
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“Having a lot of say in design, and keeping secret an intentional violation of government regulations from your entire international company are two pretty different things.“

But the difference between intentional benchmark optimization (which the whole industry is doing) and illegal certification manipulation is a rather subtle one. The former would a perfect front for the latter and the intersection of all employees who sufficiently understand the legal situation and those who sufficiently understand the engine could theoretically even be the empty set. (in which case blame would default to those high enough in the org-chart to have members of both groups under them)
You're quoting a troll as reference for "anyone with a clue". Further, you're referencing that the systemd Debian maintainer quit on the harassment in the systemd discussion because he wanted systemd _in Debian_.

Linus called out on some behaviour. That is not him saying that people should stop developing. It's him saying stop this behaviour.
I think it died.
Suppose you want to support strings and have a string comparison instruction. You might think that "it's done in the hardware", so it's blindingly fast. It isn't, because the hardware still has to access memory, one word per cycle. A superscalar/VLIW assembly loop would run just as quickly; the only thing you'd save is a few bytes for instruction encoding.

Actually if you've actually looked at things like SSE memory copying/comparison routines, it's not "a few bytes", it's more like a factor of 100x+. REP MOVSB is 2 bytes; a SSE memcpy, highly unrolled - incidentally, also a bad idea for modern CPUs - is easily a few hundred. I've seen ones over a kilobyte(!) The former is essentially the same speed as the latter, but makes for significantly less instruction cache utilisation, which is increasingly important today.

You see, RISC happened for a reason.

When memory bandwidth was not the bottleneck, it was a good idea. Now, not so much. Even ARMs which are considered "RISC" are growing into uop-decoding decoupled OoO machines like x86, and adding more instructions with each new generation. I like to mention this article, where the "purest" RISC, MIPS, turns out to be the least power-efficient:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188396-the-final-isa-show...

I'd say that CPUs are certainly getting more high-level and CISCy, but not in the same way as their original proponents imagined. If you don't think so, try beating POPCNT, CRC32, AESENC, etc. with a sequence of simpler instructions...
It's about as illegal as violating a TOS.

...which in the US, due to the joy that is the CFAA, is pretty illegal and could result in jail time.

https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act_%...

https://www.eff.org/cases/united-states-v-drew
Exactly, so MIT has clearly been ...

Oh, wait, you mean you were implying that Tsinghua University was gaming the rankings ...

MIT students, in my experience, have been overrated for years.
> I try my best to avoid those sites now -- they don't want you to engage.

In my humble experience, some sites with comment sections also don't want you to engage if you're not on their side. And I think that's more problematic, especially on news sites, because you could get the impression that the comment section was representative of the readers.

Just as an anecdotal example, a couple months ago, I tried engaging in a discussion in the comment section at welt.de, online outlet of one of Germany's largest newspapers.

My comments were all short, on-topic, and never personal. I provided some sources but generally a different point-of-view than the (until then few) other comments, all right-wing barroom clichés, even celebrations of refugees drowning.

None of my comments was cleared, while very vile and unfounded comments continued to pour in.

I tested for a while and experinced the same behaviour on almost all newspaper websites. (On some others, I was immediately attacked personally for my opinion, and that is with moderation in place.)

I since blocked disqus and never looked back. Twitter has been a good alternative for me so far.
> It's easy to forget that html isn't the end product, the end result is lit pixels on some screen (usually). If we send json then that needs to be converted to html and that html needs to be layout and rendered. If we send html we just skip the first step. Displaying a web page isn't "free" for the client just because it's html.

JSON->HTML rendering may be only one step, but by not skipping it, we're making hundred thousands computers redo the computation that could be done once on a server. This has some electricity cost aggregated over all users, which we externalize to society because of a fad. You can't really skip the HTML->pixels step because of data size issues, but there's little excuse for client-side rendering of static content.
I'd like to see more examples. It seems clear that there's lots of low hanging fruit with respect to engineering solutions for medical devices, surgical tools, procedures, etc. This was one cool application, but there must be other student teams from this program?
That's how all those rankings are done. Some of them are even "worse" in that they only include english language publications, and result with US and UK taking pretty much every spot in the top 50, claiming the rest of europe is terrible.

(I'm not saying that US/UK do or don't have the best universities, I'm saying that system of ranking is terrible for so many reasons)
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Pedantically, it's not a meme, it's an image quote.
He is not claiming one or the other is gaming it, he is saying this is a terrible set of metrics to rank universities with
That's why it's most interesting as a concept and not a product. I'd really like my next iPhone (the iPhone 8S if if past shopping behaviour is any indication) to have 3-4 lenses and sensors, if it meant it could be more sensitive in low light or use different focal lengths in good light, and still not be bigger than my current iPhone is. So this company should just make a showcase product, and then wait to be bought by sony/apple/samsung.