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A mainstream media article about quantum computer that starts with a reference to D-Ware can be safely ignored.

Quantum computers (the real kind) are still impractical. People are still working hard to make them bigger, but this still gets harder and harder as the computer size increase. And people still don't know if that's an inherent difficulty of the problem, of if some breakthrough will suddenly make quantum computers easy to make.

Or, in other words, there's no visible change for people that is not closely following the area.
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"TV viewers between the ages of 18 and 31 are signing up for cable in ever decreasing numbers"

The rationalization in the article was strange nonsense, but combined with long term economic trends

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/07/29/more-millennials-l...

If "grandpa" had a factory job paying $50/hr and "dad" got $25/hr in a cubicle and the kid living at home gets a couple bucks an hour as a bartender, you can express the staggering increase in the cost of cable in hours of labor per month. So in grandpa's generation, he only had to work an afternoon to pay for cable, but his grandkids would basically have to put in an entire part time work week to pay for cable, and I'm sure they'd rather eat or pay the rent..
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One factor to blame is infant mortality -- people want many kids because they don't know how many are going to survive. As soon as most kids survive, people want to have 2.
Semi off-topic, but might helps others as well: What should an experienced OO dev read to better understand how dynamic FP languages, like Clojure, alleviate the aforementioned cons of OO in the architecture of large-scale agile projects? In other words: I know from experience what's the downside of OO, but I don't know how dynamic FP languages would help without sacrificing the benefits of OO?
Ive been running ModDB.com proudly now for 13 years and I believe the simple answer to be, some people enjoy playing others enjoy creating. Their achievements are amazing and modders have pushed gaming so far forward in the last 15+ years
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No questions, just want to say as a clojure/emacs fan this is right up my alley, and you really blew me away.

Actually, I do have a question: do you have a blog or thought dump I can read?
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To clarify, are you talking about an app that does not have any real-time data?

The part about knowing when the connection has dropped is actually really interesting...
Just be glad it isn't under a "Zero Tolerance" policy. My son's friend got suspended for a year and had to attend alternative school in 6th grade. He brought an air soft gun to school to play at his friends house.
Are any other non-Americans here as genuinely shocked as I am by the idea of paying $175 a month for TV?
My point was that they would be saving lives by allowing driverless cars, since humans are more dangerous behind the wheel. And, because they can censor twitter (as an abbreviation for controlling propaganda) they can get away with it in a way the US could not.
The Clojure community is very big on testing, but not all of it is automated (eg testing on the REPL). Automated testing is popular too though, to the point where Clojure has a number of testing libraries (clojure.test, test.check, test.generative, expectations, speclj, midje).
> I have no idea what quantum blahblah really means and want to know if this is a real breakthrough or just a news story.

This should help: http://news.mit.edu/2015/3q-scott-aaronson-google-quantum-co...
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They need to go back to being quite clear about what are ads and what aren't.
Yes, it's possible, I said it was "really hard", not impossible. If you go to extraordinary means you can find a way to watch the games. You can usually find a Chinese streaming site with 1000 pop-up ads for any game you're interested in as well.

I'm guessing NFL GamePass doesn't include pre-game or post-game shows, I'm guessing it doesn't include NFL Network shows, or Sportscenter or any of the other places where you can watch people talk about sports. This is as big a part of being a sports fan as the games themselves.
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Thanks for the write-up! Juxt seems like a cool bunch - I'm not London-based (Berlin) but would not hesitate one minute given the chance to join them.
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"Yet Cirque, as a corporate enterprise, is very different from Disney or MGM. Because it is a circus, the viability of its business is rooted in the willingness of a core group of performers to risk their lives on a daily basis."
A competent repair shop will do what they've done since the late 90s and pull the HDD from the computer, hook it up to a second computer and scan it. Not much is "undetectable" when you do that.
The problem is with the tool he's using. It doesn't seem to show the "idle" time when calling the OpenGL method. He's very likely hitting a CPU/GPU stall while the data is uploaded to VRAM.

As mentioned by Scott in the comments section of the article, the solution is usually like this (D3D12 has removed dynamic resources for example [0]) :

So this means if you glBufferSubData into the same
address between every drawcall, the opengl driver is
forced to execute the command then sync before copying
the new data over the old data, which is really slow.

What you are meant to do instead is create a buffer
with glBufferData that is large enough to hold at least
one frame worth of uniforms. Then use glBufferSubData
with a **different offset** for each drawcall’s uniforms,
so they end up next to each other in GPU memory. Treat
it as a circular buffer.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dn8...
>Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology showed that women who were offered cows, goats and intensive training in the Indian state of West Bengal not only did not fall back into indigent poverty but kept climbing out of it.

Lets not minimize the effect of "intensive training".
Education is just as important as the goats.
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In 20years we will have AMD128 and some ASICs for personal usage, Google will have something what will be 100M faster than quantum computer, it will be 100M * 100M faster than quantum computer. It will contain more computing power than rest of the world together. Every next generation of computers will be produces in shorter time than the last one, and will be more powerful than the last one. Cost of producing next generation computer will be cheaper then producing ASICs for us. Are bitcoin miners the more popular ASIC?

>Very likely universities

I don't mean no one else won't have or rent any, sure they will, there are a lot projects that will need it, we people won't have any. I think I presented my opinion too negatively :<
I find it pretty trash for discovery and things like playlists. I have 368 artists of stuff and it's quite unwieldly. Looking at Koel now.
Yeah, I think it's more accurate to say that both Baidu and Google got their lists of departments from the same source: academic machine learning.
>Django is adding websockets support using the $150K grant from Mozilla. Rails is adding websockets support in the next version with ActionCable.

Note the future tense. By which time Rapidoid might or might not have them as well.

>Your websockets "challenge" is not based on facts.

No challenge at all. Just plain old reality. Most successful frameworks don't support websockets at the moment, and are still widely used.

The fact that Node and some Java frameworks do (as does Python with Tornado and co) doesn't change that fact. Note also how I never said there don't exist frameworks that DO support websockets, so I don't get why you mention these to me.
I think the over-confident people are not necessarily more sure of their abilities, but rather, less afraid of being wrong or making a mistake. Mistakes are just shrugged off, whereas for the under-confident, mistakes can be crippling and cause further under-confidence.

Having a culture where it's ok to fail is very important for the under-confident to progress. Knowing that a wrong outcome is little more than an opportunity for learning can be incredibly empowering.
Yes!
$175 seems like an absurd cost, and I bet it's full of advertising too.

It seems especially strange when I think about what other things I could get for 175$.
Herd immunity. If 90% of cars are super predictable autonomous vehicles, the 10% remaining will be very safe.

Unless they're teenagers. God help us.
Is anyone aware of a tool that will allow me to search through my browsing history? I'm constantly reading things, forgetting where I read them, and then wanting to remember what it was I reading yesterday, the day before, or earlier.
I live in an out of market area, so I can get the games, and for a single team subscription, NBA is $120 for a full season, and $200 for every team. NHL is something like $110 (?) for a single team, $130 for every team, MLB is something like $160 for every team. This gives you 82, 84, 162 games respectively multiplied by the number of teams, for a total of just under $500 USD for the most expensive options. This is a lot of money, but comes out to just under $42 bucks a month. The league that can go screw right off is NFL with their $360 something streaming package from DirecTV for 16 games, especially when there's things like Monday Night Football that broadcast half your team's games nationally and black you out. I don't watch soccer so I have no idea how much their packages cost.
Agree whole heartedly.

I was asking this thinking of open(<file>,O_DIRECT|O_RDONLY);
that bypasses buffer cache and read directly from the disk that atleast solves buffer cache i guess. The disk cache is another thing ie if we disable it we are good at the cost of performance.

I was pointing that tests can do these kind of things.
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> ... I had to change and decided to jump into the startup world.

You don't have to choose one of them. I was in a similar position about 6 years ago, software + security background and passion for startups which led me to start my own company (https://www.netsparker.com/), we're building a tool to automate web app security and advancing the automated scanning in web apps, it's really fun stuff if you are into security.

Security industry is great for startups and new comers, another option is obviously working for a security startup, there are tons of them.
That's exactly what it is. The obvious nail for websockets is real-time data. I'm curious to know if there are other nails.
Except that Netflix is constantly adding/removing content. Movies become available and then stop being available.

This is one of the major reasons Netflix is hitting "Original Content" so hard.

They can take away South Park (or whatever it is NBCU owns) but they can't take away Orange is the New Black or other Netflix Exclusives.

The real problem then becomes what happens when Amazon Prime has exclusives. HBO GO has exclusives. Netflix has exclusives. Hulu has exclusives. etc. Now, to legally watch all the popular shows, you have to pay 3, 4, 5, etc companies $~10 a month on top of your internet bill.

à la carte that everyone has always said they wanted (Why should I pay for sports when I don't watch them? Or Holy TV? or spanish channels?)
I'd say this is true is most cases. In the US, generic drugs only need to be 80% to 125% bio-equivalent (AUC, peak concentration, etc). For most drugs that's fine.

However, there have been a few that have gotten recalled because they weren't bioequivalent. Wellbutrin is a great example. It took the FDA a couple years to finally force the manufacturer to redo the tests and fix the problem.
Probably off topic, but: Do you have access to install node.js and access to the internet (to do the npm thing) where you'd like to run this kind of app (I'm assuming you keep your data in some kind of secure environment without outside internet access)?

Who has the clearance to install a runtime, npm, a bunch of dependencies (who knows what), for an SQL tool?

Maybe I just work some where that is more strict than most places? Or do people install this on their corporate machine (assuming they have admin rights??) and access the internal SQL server from there?
Did you also run into the problem of playing .ogg's in Firefox when sending the file content via sinatra?

Searching a solution for that for my own sinatra-based html5 webplayer (https://github.com/onli/music-streamer, not even close technically and from the UI) since a long time.
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An impending arms race between quants on Wall Street could also provide a colossal impetus for driving QC innovation:

Quantum Computers Entice Wall Street Vowing Higher Returns:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-09/quantum-su...
Oh hey, thanks for that bit of info. I somehow missed the new multi-room "groups" feature and that's something I've been waiting for.

I've only got a single CC Audio at the moment (and one of the original video ones) but I was waiting for them to add this feature before buying more. I've actually wanted this feature since the original CC came out and when they announced the CC Audio I was worried that it would take forever to add the multi-cast capabilities.

Now instead of investing hundreds in a Sonos system I can grab a few $35 receivers and turn every set of random powered PC speakers and shelf system/boom box with an aux-input into an endpoint for audio. And if I want better sound I can always pick up a nicer set of powered speakers and do the same but as cheap as PC speakers can be (I often see them for $5-10 at Goodwill) it's got the potential to add audio to any room for very little cost.
Why is this not an illegal lottery?

The definition of a lottery is pretty simple: a scheme involving consideration (such as an entry fee), chance (like a random selection), and a prize.

http://deadspin.com/complaint-ironman-ran-an-illegal-lottery...
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Spotify does that already too - right click a song and "Start Song Radio". This will automatically pick songs that are similar.

I know it seems like this is what you want, but for me I've never been satisfied with this simplistic approach to discovery. Taste is very complex, and for me saying to someone "I really love xylophone" and them recommending me a lounge jazz tune with xylophone will always fall flat. What most people don't realise is why they love certain instruments or tempos or genres etc. It's usually down to how they were introduced to these, which defines their archetypal music using these instruments for example. It's all contextual.

My context for liking xylophone goes something like this "I love xylophone, because in the late 90s I listened to a lot of Beastie Boys 'Hello Nasty' which has some really nice pieces of music with some great xylophone in them. Then hearing some Mulatu Astatke recently got me interested in xyolophone and ethio jazz in general, combined with a really cute reaction my girlfriend had to one of his songs."

The best recommendation engine I've seen is Spotify Weekly. It's really very good, but make sure you get in there and save a lot of artists and albums you like first
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Spotify is: a library, a streaming service, and a web/desktop player. This is: a streaming service and a web player. You have to provide your own library, which I think goes hand in hand with self-hosted.
What are the benefits of OO? I normally think of encapsulation, but this isn't that big of a deal in Clojure (or many other functional languages) as you normally can't mutate objects anyway.
I've been on some websites that have had the unwanted software warnings, only to find the site admins posting on the forums saying that the site is safe. They even give instructions on how to turn off the unwanted software warnings in Chrome (which in turn turns off /all/ of Chrome's red security pages).

I think it would be more helpful if the warning page at least described what Google detected. As it stands, if people can be socially engineered into turning off warnings because they don't believe them, then it's failed as a security product to a certain degree.
I don't, but if I am in doubt, I can replace the disk. The alternative is worse - I have to replace the whole system. It is fascinating to watch such subtle abuses of language ploddingly erode our free(ish) societies from the inside out, when secure is obviously "newspeak" for centralized. Even technologically-literate people are clearly willing to buy the logic that "well, you might get an STD by having sex... therefore, let this small group of condom manufactures move in and have sex with your wife, in your place, for your protection."

We can't outsource confidence. It doesn't help improve my self-esteem to watch someone else live my life, and it doesn't work to fight "the terrorists" to let someone else make me safe (for some definition of "safe", that I can seemingly no longer contribute to) - but that all seems to be beside the point. :(
There are also millions of us who would rather fly Heathrow over other local airports and support the expansion. This isn't all astroturfed support you know.
A bubble how? Are they saying that the value of the broadcasting rights are artificially inflated? Or the value of the sport in general (licensing, merchandising, ticket costs, etc)?
Just some random advice from the internet:

Pricing at $1.00/month means that new customers + retained customers - non-collections = 200, $10.00/month means 20, $100.00/month means 2, and $2400/year means just one.

It's harder to acquire 200 customers than 20. It's harder to retain them. It's more work to process their payments and more costly due to per transaction fees. The channels that are used to reach such customers have to be lower cost and generally that equates with noisy -- think of app discovery for $1.00 apps in the appstores -- and $1.00 services are always directly competing with free.

I was going to say "web hosting/email", but then I realized that I wouldn't really trust a $1.00/month web hosting or email provider because at that price it doesn't suggest a sustainable business, and if it goes under after eighteen months, the pain isn't going to be worth the cost savings.

Pricing is signaling.

Good luck.
No, but The Pirate Bay does.
When I lived in NL I rarely had to pay anything to the USG. The problem was in creating the 70+ page document that the IRS required every year. For that I had to hire someone and pay them close to 1000eu every year.

The problem for US citizens in developed countries WRT to the US taxes is not the taxes themselves. Rather it is the burden of complying with the law, and the cost of finding competent tax preparers knowledgeable in both US tax law, and local tax law.

Everyone's circumstances are different. So there is no single/repeatable method for resolution.
That's not under Google's control, it's under the OEM's or (in the US) the carrier. A phone bought directly from Google (the Nexus line, Google Play edition, etc) doesn't have crapware of any kind unless you extend the definition to any app you don't personally use.
There's a level of annoyingness I'll tolerate from ads; small text ads or images are fine, autoplaying sound or anything that slows down my computer when I load the page is not.
I think you don't need to be, because it seems arstechnica is misrepresenting the proposed change.

This kind of sensationalist activism is all too common, but my understanding is similar to blowski's above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10730178

not about photographing, but about publishing, particularly in commercial purpose, pictures of actual works of art.
Oh god, I really hate the cinema ads. I've already paid for the damn thing! Obviously I didn't pay enough, or I wouldn't be seeing ads, but it's still frustrating. I guess it was either ads or a price increase. Those are easy to block, though, just arrive 8 minutes late.
I don't see any negative aspects of exposing the same REST API through WebSockets internally. Public API (if exists) doesn't need to change, private API loses the redundant transfer of headers and cookies.
> some day

Yes, but not tomorrow. Tomorrow, we can deploy a technology that will decrease deaths but not to zero.
I really like Cinemax, HBO, and Showtime original series. How do I cord cut without having to subscribe to these premium channels?
Ditto here.

Ended up banging head against the wall for nearly a month, submitting review request after review request only to discover that the damn request submission form in WMT console was broken and was failing silently. Fucking hell. If you take on responsibility of (mis)labeling other people work as dangerous crapware, you should probably test the hell out of false positive submission mechanism, shouldn't you? If it weren't for another person discovering and sharing this on WMT Google group, god knows we might've been still wondering why G is so damn incompetent.

To add to the insult, a formal promoted "answer" from a resident "expert" of the WMT group was to the tune of "let me google that for you, you imbecile". So, it was a fascinating experience all around.

The lack of clear way of communicating with Google directly on this sort of matter was absolutely infuriating.
I agree. This is like producing a clone of the Google homepage with another logo, and sleeker textbox, and saying "This is a Google clone!"
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Please allow for the possibility that the word "secure" is no more than an attempt by a company (Microsoft) to leverage your fears and co-opt your natural pursuit of safety in order to help make a consumer-restricting technology appear to be a feature. Would you have as much faith in the technology under a different name? Perhaps: MicrosoftBoot (implying it could only boot a Microsoft OS, or the specific version of Windows your PC came with)?

(In a sense, dropping TLS is the correct response... In the sense, of not using the limited set of services. The corresponding response here is to not buy PCs with SecureBoot present in any imposing way, which may mean boycotting "modern" computers that are no longer general, user-controlled, devices if, in the future, they all are locked to Microsoft out of the box.)
HBO NOW is great for Apple devices. I'm not sure if Cinemax and Showtime offer an equivalent but they should be soon if cable isn't paying them a big amount to stay exclusive.
Not only could ad injectors not work, they probably wouldn't have been installed in the first place because the ad blocker would block any links to them. Not sure if that was your point; if so, I agree.
My understanding: The D-Wave machine isn't general quantum computing, but hardware supporting one specific algorithm: quantum annealing. Quantum annealing is similar to Simulated annealing, and if you compare the D-Wave machine to simulated annealing implemented on normal, non specialized, hardware, the D-Wave is 100,000,000 times faster.

In principal, even if the hardware only supports one algorithm, this could tell us something about whether quantum computers are really better than normal computers. Unfortunately the D-Wave machine/algorithm is still not much better than simply simulating a quantum machine in normal hardware (Quantum Monte Carlo) and worse than the conventional algorithm by Alex Selby.

It's interesting, but it still doesn't shed much light on the important questions.