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> As someone who spends a lot of time in that space I don't really see what this is solving, WebGL is good enough and anyone serious about performance/compute are going to drop down to native anyway.

As someone who also spends a lot of time in the GPU space, I really want something newer than WebGL. WebGL is not good enough.
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> Why? It seems like a great way to discourage people from consuming it unnecessarily while making sure no one actually suffers in dire poverty unnecessarily.

The problem is the entire principle only works because it's universal. Having lower or middle income people opt out of it would defeat the entire purpose of having it, and having upper income people opt out of it wouldn't save you very much money because they're not a large enough percentage of the population to make any real difference.
People try the weirdest things... take a look at "Something lighter."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-30/immigrati...
> Actually that's not correct. Vulkan was explicitly designed to be an efficient and high-performance API. As it stands, even as a newborn API, it's the BEST available for 3D rendering on all platforms that support it, unofficial or not.

Just because it was designed to be high-performance doesn't mean it automatically wins on platform support and implementation quality. Direct3D 12 is at the same level as Vulkan, and I see no reason for the trend of D3D being higher quality than GL to end with Vulkan.
Anchoring. It's a standard tactic in negotiation, and it's used everywhere from supermarkets (SALE! Frozen peas are normally $1.50 but they're now 99c!) to car yards ($35,599 drive away, but we can give it to you, you special customer you, for only $29,999 which is our actual target price!)
You misunderstood what I wrote: why would employers give feedback?
I've submitted this as the first GitHub issue regarding the charter.

https://github.com/gpuweb/admin/issues/1
>Programming is simple, so simple factory workers can do it.

Its simple when another programmer creates pre-packaged tools that are meant for pre-designed purposes. Even with that, its rarely done right. Its not ourselves that are special, but software is very, very complicated. All attempts to make it not complicated are designed for particular purposes that gradient to more specificity the easier they get. Creating software for others with a particular purpose without introducing the theory behind it all is expensive and difficult, and in many cases does not work.

Thats all assuming you need that many programmers (we don't). Programming is completely trended towards automation, much more so than robots. That automation requires a significantly high level of knowledge, and when known can create many more systems than any beginner can. Websites are only a very small part of software, and even that is trended heavily towards automated sites like Wix or SquareSpace.
The fight is between capital and labor. The problem is that most developers see themselves as potential capital - it's the "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" quip in another form. Nearly everyone on Hacker News seems to think they could be the next unicorn founder, if they wanted to.
Urbit will never be anything more than a crypto-fascist MMORPG.
This is a content free article, there is nothing specific to Trump in here. Any President could attempt to grab more power after a terrorist attack. Remember George W Brush after 9/11?

Trump is doing plenty of stuff that gives people reason to criticize his decisions. We don't need a hypothetical accusation of something he might or might not do in the future after an event that might or might not occur.
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Systemd's approach here is the kind of thinking that takes away 'on error resume next'.
That kind of analysis has been done and occasionally is done again in Sweden by proponents of 'local help' versus immigration. Unfortunately those who do this type of analysis are immediately stamped with a 'racist' stamp in Sweden - or, if 'racist' does not work because the author happens to be an immigrant him- or herself (e.g. Tino Sanandaji [1], an Iranian-Swedish economist who publishes on these subjects) terms like 'husblatte' (translates more or less to 'Uncle Tom') are used - and the research is deemed tainted by a large majority of politicians and media. This is unfortunate as it makes it close to impossible to base policy on objective information on these subjects. Cracks are starting to appear in the façade of 'correctness' but this process is slow and problematic.

Meanwhile a single fact should be enough to convince the naysayers: the fact that the expected extra costs (that is, above the already budgeted costs) for migration into Sweden [2 - Swedish] is double the total budget of UNHCR [3], the UN commission responsible for helping refugees all over the world. For that money Sweden took in about 163.000 people (refugees and economic migrants who pose as such). UNHCR is responsible for 60 million refugees. Part of the increased costs for migration into Sweden are taken from the budget for international help and co-operation so the effect is even stronger that way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_Sanandaji
[2] http://www.svt.se/nyheter/ekonomi/migrationen-kostar-mer-an-hela-forsvaret
[3] http://www.unhcr.org/partners/donors/558a639f9/contributions-unhcr-budget-year-2015-31-december-2015.html
Microsoft products are all over that graph
Do you know what a proposal is, by definition? Such things tend to go through a number of web standard committees and are often changed throughout the process. It's not like Apple can directly dictate web standards and expect everyone to fall in line.
They published an index on Github. It would likely be a more responsible way to access this versus hammering their API.

https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess
lol... only someone who enjoys punishment.
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There are ways for a sous vide machine to be obviously terrible, sure. But those early teething issues have long been solved by now. All the machines on the market nowadays aren't obviously terrible (except Joule not having on-device controls) and there's very little that differentiates them on a day to day use basis. As the tech becomes more mature, more and more of those factors are going to simply be assumed.

Also, 3 decades of SV experience has shown us that there isn't any complexity in practice to SV recipes. 99% of SV recipes are 2 numbers (temperature and time) and the other 1% is 3 numbers (cook temp, cook time and hold temp). There's no magic hyper complex SV recipe that we haven't discovered yet and not for lack of trying.
This is basically the same argument in general against basic income, prepended with "in the case of India, it won't work because... "

I don't know if basic income works, but that's why experiments in the field are required. None of the reasons you have pointed out seem to be apply only to India.
Urbit, intrinsically, is some obfuscated functional computing ideas put together in a mildly interesting way. In practice, however, it's used as a vehicle for Yarvin to get himself into events/conferences/conversations where he promulgates his views.
How is a scenario where the people is even more dependent of the government for subsistence a libertarian paradise?
There is a difference between "not officially supporting" Vulkan and completely preventing anyone from providing a Vulkan implementation for your platform. Microsoft allows competing APIs to be integrated into their platform at the driver level. Apple does not.
A quick google finds an Intel representative providing clarification: https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/developing-games-and...

So, they ARE planning full Vulkan support on Intel iGPUs.
If you own any substantial amount of Bitcoin you should really be using a hardware wallet these days to keep it safe from theft.

Ledger Nano s, Trezor, and KeepKey all stop this sort of attack.
> much like the Dining Philosopher's problem we're familiar with in Computer Science.

Worst attempt at an analogy I've seen.
> Though if I had to give a possible explanatation, maybe it's because people expect worse in a political debate?

There are very few people who are interested in actually moving something in politics who read the comments. It's also a very loaded question, because any flagging in politics sections usually gets a huge crowd yelling about "censorship".

>> but significant increase in negative behavior between 11 pm and 5 am

I'm sure it's pure coincidence that this roughly coincides with the work day in Eastern Europe.
England has a single-payer (the NHS) and a population of 53m people. So I guess the answer is England?
In my opinion, XSLT is a disappointing implementation of a great idea: a DSL for structurally transforming a data format, encoded in the same data format. I guess S-expressions fit the bill if you want to use a Lisp, but I wouldn’t mind having something similar for JSON.
So you say that React Native is not just to make life easier for developers, but then go on a rant ... that proves how React Native makes life easier for developers? Otherwise, it is a very big compromise, in regards to UX and performance. UX is not native - it reimplements basic concepts from each OS on its own in JS, which is neither good for UX (it doesn't look or feel right), and performance suffers due to bridge shenanigans, JS VM and shadow view hierarchy (aka shadow DOM).
Kubernetes of course https://coreos.com/blog/self-hosted-kubernetes.html
Consider this: there are advertisements in the subways that warn people against the psychological dangers of gambling.

Should those be illegal, given that they cause the casino to lose money?

Should Uber be illegal, given that they cause taxis to lose money?

I'm not talking about incentives here. Everyone will act according to their incentives. That's nature. The taxi industry will lobby against Uber. That's nature.

The justification for passing a law should not simply be to help a business stay in business.

Businesses should thrive based on a superior product, not because they threaten people with punishment for not doing things the way they want.
Codix.io has three goals:

#1: Establish a peer review and rating system for open source software. (You need a Github account to rate or comment)

Example:
Bob just got done using Androidplot in one of his Android projects. He had a pretty good experience with the library and wants to share his feedback with the community, so he adds a positive rating to Androidplot's page on Codix: http://codix.io/gh/repo/halfhp/androidplot

#2: Improve visibility for new open source projects by allowing devs to link their projects to the bigger name repos as alternative solutions.

Example:
Bob writes a new autolayout helper library in Swift for iOS. It's a great tool with some unique features but needs some serious help with visibility, so Bob goes to codix.io and links it to SnapKit: http://codix.io/gh/repo/SnapKit/SnapKit. Now whenever someone checks out SnapKit, Cartography or any other repo that's also linked to SnapKit on Codix, they'll see Bob's library as well.

#3: Make suggestions about which repo to use by way of comparison.

Example:
Bob want's to start using dependency injection in his Android app but which framework should he use? Here's how codix compares the available options: http://codix.io/cmp/Android%20Dependency%20Injection%20Libs
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Idk, all my code's results-driven. (And goal-oriented.)
Example of evergreen in action: https://evergreen.mongodb.com/
All the thermostats are good enough and all the circulation is good enough. these are both established, mature technologies that are available at commodified prices.

The non-food quality factors still allow for some degree of differentiation but they turn out to be not huge in practice. At the end of the day, price reigns supreme and it's a commodity market.
Common mistake on HN: the law is not logical.

The law says that if employers own the computers they provide to employees, then employers have broad latitude to monitor how those computers are used.

A different law says that only the recipient of a US Postal letter may open it. If you receive a personal letter at your office via US Postal Service, your employer cannot legally open it.

I'm not up to date on what the law says about FedEx or UPS.
Those are pretty subjective assertions. Do you have any evidence to back that up?
While Microsoft hasn't committed to supporting Vulkan first-party, every major Windows(and macOS) graphics vendor has a compliant Windows Vulkan driver which performs well, most vendors have two or three independent implementations. There are real applications being built today under the assumption that these drivers will continue to work.

Also, given that Windows versions other than ten still make up more than half of the PC market, Direct3D 12 is not even an option for most PCs, but Vulkan is.

So if we're being honest, it's not really "all three", but Apple vs. literally every other platform.

Obviously web applications can't simply be trusted not to crash an exposed driver, but "will result in a better API for the web." is exactly the opposite of what you would expect, given the history of high-level graphics APIs. Any layer of abstraction or heuristic other than those required for security reasons, will ultimately increase the number of implementation inconsistencies, that would be objectively worse.

Then consider just the shader language. It would be considerably easier and less error-prone to just support SPIR-V shader programs; but with this there will have to be even more levels of translation, even more places for things to go wrong, and a need to make completely new tooling to generate shader binaries.

Furthermore, driver bugs are a given, but Vulkan makes the skills to debug and report driver bugs portable across vendors and operating systems. If I'm an ISV and users are experiencing issues on Metal on OS X on an AMD card, I don't have layers, I largely don't know where to shim the library, and even if I could figure that out, why should I have to figure it out for every system?
You seem to have got my argument the wrong way round, I wasn't claiming that people who can optimise networking haven't read the kernel source code, and I said nothing to do with the skill or knowledge of Brendan Gregg. I simply dislike such polarising, over the top "everything is black or white" statements.
Anecdotally, JIRA and Confluence are a common pairing, along with Crowd for authentication. More recently I've seen HipChat come into the mix. But the others, I have not worked with.

Confluence has a really neat feature that I think is not very well known. You can add a database driver such as a JDBC driver and you can set up a data source with an alias.

Then inside Confluence's markup language, you can do SQL and get back a table, without any coding. But the really cool thing is that you can wrap that with JFreeChart and do any charts or graphs that you want. I've never seen an easier way to make a dashboard out of SQL. I suspect it interfaces with NoSQL as well but have not played with it.
Being incredibly pedantic here, but it's actually not. San Antonio almost entirely surrounds Windcrest, but Windcrest is a separate city. There are a few places like this in San Antonio. The city chose not to incorporate these areas.

I know this because I worked at Rackspace, and one of the larger means of income for the city of Windcrest is semi-bogus traffic tickets given to people coming and going from Rackspace headquarters.
> They use linux or OSX. But they don't know awk/sed/bash

Am I in the minority of developers then? I don't know awk and sed and I'm honestly not very interested in learning them. But bash I definitely agree with. I still use a cheatsheet to get the syntax right because it's weird as hell imo.
I know, but they could make a proposal based on what most people already agree on, instead of their own thing made for Metal.
But as the article outlines, the schemes that India needs to cut to fund it comprise half of India's annual budget - which means less spending on things India desperately lacks like infrastructure - and each recipient gets $113 per annum, which is a undoubtedly a real boon to some of them but really doesn't go that far towards accelerating growth in India. And the corrupt are not going to find it any harder to siphon funds from unworldly, unbanked and often illiterate people living (or better still, recently deceased) in remote villages than they are to siphon off funds spent in other ways. Unless and until India gets dumbphone-based banking, the sheer logistics of dispensing money to a billion people is pretty mindboggling.
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NASA team boldly going deep into virtual reality
Well... it seems clear that I have a lot to learn about Catholicism, and I'll gladly yield to your arguments. May I ask your opinion about the effect of Roman Catholicism -- whether it is a faithful and effective bearer of Christ's message of salvation?
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Does he actually promote his ideas at tech events?
> What made me change my mind about UBI was to realize that a) human desires are infinite, and there'll always be more work to be done and b) the more work is done by machines, the richer the population as a whole will be, as products and services automated tend to be cheaper.

I agree with this sentiment. Looking into the (very long term) future, it's interesting to look at a fictional post-scarcity society (Star Trek) (with a grain of salt - it's really the writer's imaginations and what you see in the movies/shows) and see what the impact would be. My key takeaways are:

* everyone still works, or studies, and the culture is that you still contribute to society rather than sit around and do nothing. This requires a significant culture change from our current society.

* They often visit colonies and planets that are decidedly not post-scarcity - they are often poor or middle-class colonies, with an agricultural bent. In theory this shouldn't be the case in a post-scarcity society, but it becomes apparent that there's still a cost (resources and time) associated with production and transport unless you want to be ruled by AI overlords.
...developed country?
Don't other oil rich countries (Saudi, Kuwait etc) have some form of basic income for their citizens?
I'd argue that Vulkan IS designed for adversarial input. It deliberately provides a layer mechanism within the driver for validation of function calls. It's trivial to create your own layers and they can be used to validate EVERY entry point into the Vulkan driver.
Unfortunately, as stated in that repo's readme: `Images are not included and are not part of the dataset.`

The repo doesn't include the images, which is understandable; however, the CSV file doesn't even include links to the images.
Heya if you are a racker looking for a job in the bay area please email me :) josh@gourneau.com Our company does neat biotech stuff
fun topic on it from ancient india:
http://www.ayurvedacollege.com/Ayurveda/shukra-dhatu-closer-...
An MMORPG in the same way 0x10c was a game?
Yes, for Apple... For the consumer? I don't think so.

As a consumer, the mobile device market is a walled garden. Are apps compatible between platforms? Do you have control over your hardware? Can you choose what software you run on your own device?
Support for Vulkan on Windows is pretty extensive - AMD and Nvidia are retroactively supporting their hardware back to 2012, and Intel back to 2015, all of them on Windows 7 and up.

Considering the lengthy turn-around time for these APIs (WebGL 2.0 took four years to get from a draft spec to enabled in some browsers by default), any Windows machine that couldn't run WebVulkan would be rather long in the tooth by the time the standard sees any real world use.
With the possible exception of Team Chat, Assembla has offered those features for a while now, and has recently added GitHub integration.

One question: Jira has a Kanban/Card-wall view. How do you see Trello "Project Management" as being different from that?
"Modern technology may be capable of reducing crew workload to historic lows"

It's stated as benefit, but is this the reason pilots get bored perhaps?
How about just implementing serviceworker first?
I should note that I'm not an expert on this subject.

According to the below, Airbus cockpit sidesticks have a red button on them. Pressing it disengages the autopilot if it's engaged, which is probably the more normal use. Pressing it when the autopilot is already disengaged engages sidestick priority for as long as it's held down. It latches if held continuously for 40 seconds.

http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/3455/why-is-the-...

If they were on the ceiling perhaps it could be difficult to hold the button down continuously for 40 seconds.
That's one of the first things I setup on my Android phones. You can see that I have notifications, but not their content.
A failed battery on a nicer RAID controller will usually cause its overall performance to drop quite a bit.

When a program writes bytes to the file system, those bytes aren't guaranteed to arrive on the underlying, permanent storage. They're cached for some variable amount of time in the memory of the host operating system.

In UNIX, calling fsync will force the OS to flush any outstanding writes to the underlying storage, which should mean they're safe. So far so good.

Nicer RAID controllers have a lot of high speed memory memory, and they are basically their own operating system. When they receive a write from the host OS, and their battery is good, they lie to the host OS and say that the write went through all the way to disk/SSD, even though it probably didn't. This has the effect of making the fsync call return a lot more quickly.

The bytes are still safe in this case because if there's a power loss of the whole server, there's enough battery power left to allow the controller to write through any data it lied about writing.

When the battery goes bad, by default the RAID controller will cease its lying about when the bytes it receives are written all the way through, which has the effect of slowing things down.

I can't say how lower IO performance caused the https problem in question without more details, but there are a lot of possible correlations.

NB: For brevity, I simplified a lot of how this stuff works, so some of what I said above isn't 100% accurate as stated.
I've said this before but one of the very cool things about programming is that it can easily be both.
One fascinating point is that one of the most heavily searched keywords by two orders of magnitude, and that favors the weekend is PHP.
Unless you have a really big monitor, like 40" or so, nothing compares to the real thing. I once saw a Rothko and my jaw dropped to the floor. The thing was so imposing, not only the theme was captivating but the sheer size of the picture made it look grandiose in every sense. The same goes for Pollock's artworks, some Picassos and so on.
It's a wonderful luxury to craft such a sufficiently vast work of nonsense that no one possessed of sufficient reason to craft an informed critique will ever feel it worthwhile to invest the time to do so...one can putter away indefinitely in such a self-crafted safe space
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