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Yep, I've talked to the AMD engineers who wrote it -- bunch of very smart guys.

My startup (TidePowerd : http://www.tidepowerd.com) has a product called GPU .NET which JIT-compiles CIL (.NET bytecode) directly into GPU machine code; essentially, we've extended the .NET VM onto the GPU to make GPGPU coding as seamless as we possibly could.

We'll be releasing a new version next week with a much-improved API; if you're experimenting with GPGPU coding, please give it a try -- feedback is super-helpful in shaping the API into something that's both really powerful and really easy to pick up and start coding with.

Oh, and GPU .NET is written in F# -- which we don't support just yet for writing your GPU code, but we're hard at work to add that (likely around the end of November)!
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Van Halen = The greatest rock and roll band EVER.

Let me just say that Panama is the greatest stoner music of all time.

Also, Eddie Van Halen > Joe Satriani
I'm curious why you're serving the file over HTTPS in the first place?
destraynor, thanks for the presentation, a lot of good thinking there. Subtle differences between "verbs" and "nouns" of interfaces and cultures they create inside social networking services is one of the reasons that I don't believe in the idea of federated social networks, i.e. sharing superficially similar content "nouns" and "verbs" between social networks.

Waiting for the video of the talk!
Obama Signs Patent Overhaul Legislation
According to this article from 2006[1] the average out of pocket loss (to the consumer) from identity theft was around $400 and is often nothing.

While the fraud committed from identity theft is generally in the several thousands of dollars, this is almost entirely absorbed by businesses. In the United States the consumer liability for credit card theft is federally capped at $50 [2]. Most credit card companies just go ahead and make it $0 to sound good in advertisements. As a side note, it is criminally foolish to ever use a debit card in place of a credit card because the liability limits are higher and more strict to enforce [3].

So yes, even for most victims of identity theft, small claims would more than cover their potential damages. Not to mention the legal fees to prepare the case would dwarf all but the most disastrous losses. Most people would be far better to take Sony to small claims court for the $150 filing fee and get the maximum $4000 or whatever and be done with it.

[1] http://www.bbbonline.org/idtheft/safetyquiz.asp

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud#Cardholder_li...

[3] http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre04.shtm
If you want to stick with just Java, Eclipse can generate the boiler plate for delegation to an object in a couple of clicks.
This is an unjust law, period.
And he is testing us right now, I get it, I get it.
The correct answer is "This code looks ugly, and bad".
They may have started on that track, but then they started trying to argue with security professionals that this tactic is just as secure. And it's not. They cannot win that argument.
Woah! I have a couple friends who want to do board/card game development. Any tips for them? How did you break into it?

My thoughts:
--I have my domains registered with Namecheap.com and it works fine. Avoid GoDaddy, I've heard some nonspecific bad things about them.

--My hosting is off of webfaction, but I'm also using Django. Even though you're doing plain HTML, you should find a host that could support Ruby or Django

--Cheap is great and all, but you'll only be saving five bucks a month. For the hassle, just go with something in the normal market.
What?

Firstly, there are several improvements:

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/09/new-stable-release-of-chr...

Secondly, Firefox's new release is the same as Chrome's. Every six weeks, like clockwork. More releases, less big features in each release.
Ask HN: Best todo list?
What do you use for a todo list software / service? Not project management, just a todo list, but one that is full-featured. Specifically I want something that can:

1. Create hierarchical lists, so tasks with sub and subsub tasks.

2. Overlapping tags / categories for tasks.

3. Triggers for activating tasks. Simplest would be time-based. So a task would only show up on the todo list at a certain date, and perhaps only stay there for a date range. I also need tasks that are triggered based on other tasks. So task B only becomes active (i.e. shows up on the todo list) when task A is completed. Composite trigger rules with multiple conditions would be ideal.

4. A way to view only a subset of tasks, perhaps randomly chosen. So something like "task of the day", which would be randomly picked from a pool of tasks. Ideally one can have multiple pools, etc.

Anything like this exists? Anyone care to make it? ;-)
Well, he -can- read the stream at night. It's not like tweets disappear if you don't read them quick enough.
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You can keep scala among the contenders as well. Lift especially makes it easy to provide REST api's http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/liftweb/REST_Web_Services
I think being lean out of choice is substantially superior. If you're lean only out of necessity, then you're in deep trouble when necessity vanishes.

Even in a startup where you're lean by necessity, there are plenty of opportunities to be more efficient still. That's especially true when you're talking about long-term efficiencies. Being lean in a considered way means you're more able to avoid the sort of penny-wise, pound-foolish decisions that a low bank balance can encourage.
What if blog posts had several versions, from TL;DR to full post which would unfold as you scrolled the website.
So, there was someone who expected that x86 win32 apps will run on ARM? ^_^

So, that rumors about miserable average level of intelligence in US aren't just rumors? ^_^
I don't quiet agree with that. I believe "lean" definitely is a "state of mind" and the truly lean entrepreneurs are lean irrespective of constraints and I have seen this first hand on several occasions. I know more than a handful founders who have made their money with multiple exits and yet they are lean across the board in every way.
I love playing the original when I have a few minutes to kill. I just downloaded DZ2 and I haven't experienced any freeze or crash issues in the 10 minutes I've been playing it (non-jailbroken 4.3.5). Could the recent reviews be iOS 5 beta users?
IE does have a ballot in europe.
Why aren't they adding support for fat binaries (or something similar) like on MacOSX? So that developers can indeed release one single version of their app which runs on all the different architectures.
It might seem like an irrational affinity for a brand - but besides the exclusive titles, I actually enjoy the interface, the controller feels more natural to me than that of the leading competing systems, I like having a built in blue-ray player, and above all I like that I have been able to run custom code on each of my Playstation consoles. Things like backwards compatibility were huge for me as well (which is why I have the original 60gb PS3 with PS2 compatibility). There are various reasons that I have stuck with this line - and as far I'm concerned they are valid reasons because they are my opinion of the system and the line. I own a Wii, and I had an Xbox - bottom line is they are not my preferred systems.
Now that is the core issue here. Not that there is something wrong with "the system" or that law is "too complicated," but that this law is unjust.
> anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Even a lawyer would have to be superhuman to achieve that, unless we extent his being to include a law library and his colleagues.
Yeah, I feel a little bad about that (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3005079) since I wasn't responding to the author in particular but impersonally to the pattern in the comments. I have no idea of where the author falls on this spectrum; quite possibly he's resolved these issues better than I have. A blog post isn't nearly enough information to make any judgment. The cultural pattern, on the other hand - that I've been observing closely for years. In myself as much as in anybody!
Yeah, I simply didn't notice the results on the right. I think I probably subconsciously dismissed that area as ads and didn't pay attention to it. I wouldn't take that as any indication that you need to change it though. Knowing about it now, I like how it works.
Is Apple About To Hire Another World Famous iPhone Hacker?
> Would you give any other company this sort of slack you are now giving Apple? If so, why not?

I used to work for Microsoft. Although you'd have to dig back a couple years in my comment history, you'll find many posts where I defended Microsoft and explained some of the intricacies and complexities of building products for the customers that Microsoft really cares about.

I also used to work for Google, and somewhere in my comment history, I also defend the fact that Google isn't out to track your every move.

In retrospect, I shouldn't have chosen to defend only Apple in my original post. It weakened my argument because of the perception of being a fanboy. I think that all the same points apply to Microsoft and Xbox.

PC gamers shout about how consoles are trying to kill your freedom. You can't even use your own choice of team voice chat utility? OMG! OPPRESSIVE. But really, the locked down platform was easier and cheaper for Microsoft to develop than the wild west of PCs / Direct3D. I quit being a PC gamer, gave up some of my freedom to play mods, so that I'd have the freedom to install whatever new game came out without having to think about the specs of my PC.

Different value tradeoffs for different consumers, or even for the same consumers with different needs at different times! Different value tradeoffs for companies producing those products for those who make different value tradeoffs as consumers.
Maybe if there was a robot to program, I guess that would count.. now that would be a great opening move on part of the company! :D
Let's see.. you'd have to get the robot into the right position (maybe find it with sensors - what kind of wet paper bag are we talking about, the dark kind?) and control another part that's capable of ripping the bag. Depending on the size of the robot you'll have to move it around a lot to make a hole big enough for yourself. Of course, you can also have the applicant design a robot for that task.. uhm, I'll stop now.
Reminds me of something :)
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Great post and something that is necessary to make sure that the "lean movement" is not perceived as something brand new that was not known to any of us earlier. Eric and Steve have done a stellar stellar job of "teaching lean" and making it easy to understand. But lean has existed in product development, engineering, operations and other functional areas for a long time and the successful people have done these exact things for a long time. But it was never before as well defined and given a name - which Steve and Eric done so brilliantly.
I wish I could go back in time and give my 11-year-old self a book of puzzles like this. I loved these kinds of things when I was a kid.

Meanwhile, I'm proud to say that I got 15/15 at age 27 -- but I'm less proud to say that I had about 9 seconds to spare :)
But also note: Part of why Bernie Madoff lasted so long was that he arrived for an SEC investigation without a lawyer. Everyone in the room thought he had nothing to hide, so they didn't pursue him.

Whether we want to admit it or not: It's ingrained that you are inviting an investigator to hassle you further by invoking a right to counsel. (For the record: I think that sucks too.)
PlayBook is like the other tablets in the market except that it sucks. It is beyond me why did RIM relies so heavily on the operators for marketing and distribution. The PlayBook is a clear example how this arrangement has screwed up their product design
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Ask HN: How to get good at math if you are too bad with math
I am too bad at doing math, starting from algebra, trigonometry, calculus etc. I am a good programmer though, I can glue api's and do some pretty good programming. But I want to get knowledge and work on some advanced computer science topics. How can I improve my bad mathematics and get good at both math and CS? I have a full time job. So all i can do is study on my own. Please help
When members of congress lie when speaking to other members of congress, why aren't they held to this law?
Why would they? Only reason you would need emulation is for legacy apps, which Win8 will have none of from ARM.
How I manage my Hacker News addiction
Checking news sites can become addictive. Rather than refreshing Hacker News compulsively every thirty seconds, try using a tool to bundle up the stories and email them to you once a day. Then you can set aside a nice block of time to catch up on the news. I like using feedmyinbox.com (not affiliated).
+1 looking for an answer. I'm trying to shift my career into more back-end web dev or non-web software development, but I keep getting pulled towards html/css/jss.
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This reminds me of Twitter for iPad, rotated 90°. Interesting idea, though.
Do you meant that they can't use Array.shuffle() or Array.sort(<some built-in random function>)? Or that they don't get any external source of randomness, even a 0.0 - 1.0 float?
as you can see in the "product detail row", I'm still struggling with that one – good catch. Haven't developed anything cool yet for that particular problem. But it's on the list!
I'm not sure a high end range makes sense without sitting down with the client and spending time on creating an Agile product backlog. (With a product backlog then we can start getting a vague scope).

I've actually revised my standard "potential lead" email based on some of the conversations in this thread. I now make it explicit that (a) I can help put together an Agile product backlog, for those larger project, and (b) make my hourly rate for this project manager/product owner work very explicit (to filter out those that don't actually have money)
hmm.. isn't scala depends on java? so i really want to work on one platform dependance. But thanks, i will examine.
Apple Apparently Ditches Samsung for TSMC Chip Fabrication
I would start with number theory and getting very good at managing numbers in your head. I bought a book "how to calculate quickly" to help me with that. MOst algebra and calculus problems could be solved quite easily by running approximations in your head that solve the equation at hand. I learned this method from prof Feynman in his famous book "you must be joking Mr Feynman"
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The blog posts mention that the bugs are only kept private until most people are up to date, but some never seem to be made public. For example:

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2011/01/chrome-stab...

Some of the bugs (e.g. 66560) still give me a 403 (although some are accessible).
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I think most people encountering this problem are using iOS 4.
Actually just today one Finnish paper speculated (http://www.kauppalehti.fi/5/i/yritykset/yritysuutiset/?oid=2...) that they might soon take over Nokia with their market cap! Sounds pretty far-fetched though.
Part of our interview process is having the candidate code-review some really bad code. The only problem with it is that it is biased against students/recent graduates. I'd say close to 90% of student/recent grad candidates do pretty poorly on the code review question.
When Intel trumpeted the fact that ARM Windows 8 machines wouldn't run legacy apps, MS reps called it "inaccurate and misleading". From the article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/19/microsoft_contradict....
For example, if you lie to your employer on your time and attendance records and, unbeknownst to you, he submits your records, along with those of other employees, to the federal government pursuant to some regulatory duty, you could be criminally liable.

Is there anything in the law that makes the "pursuant to some regulatory duty" relevant here? For example, if you wrote something on Wikipedia that you knew was inaccurate, and years later a federal official read it and found it somehow relevant to his job, would you theoretically be breaking this law?
I don't think anyone's taking issue with the notion of personal responsibility, but rather, with your original phrasing -- in which you (perhaps in a tongue-in-cheek way?) implied that having children was a luxury akin to buying a sports car. One of those things is a hardwired, biological imperative of our species; the other is a fancy toy. Apples and oranges.
I remember this type of Schadenfreude during the tech collapse in 2000. People seemed to just love hearing about other people losing their jobs. This editorial certainly has undertones of wanting to accelerate the collapse of Yahoo.

Be careful what you wish for.
> Just one example without even leaving the software development world: If I'm a Ruby developer (I'm not) would you hire me to work on your trading system built in C++?

It depends on a) my assessment of your transferrable skills and b) your domain knowledge.

In fact, coding language skills are not the best indicator of whether a prospective employee is a good fit for a particular position.
Start menu search is still in there. (They even demoed it in the keynote) It's just less obvious to access when you're running Win8 as a laptop. Press the Windows key and start typing, no matter where you are.
Another great resource to get an MVP up and running is http://themeforest.net
The author is nominating himself for David Lee Roth status by comparing a startup to a rockstars.
Perhaps but I believe the trend of more and more wealth being concentrated in a smaller and smaller percentage of the population indicates that smaller is getting smaller and bigger is getting bigger.

The future for most may very well be as 1099's forever moving between projects but I don't think the vast majority of them will match the income of their corporate-working predecessors. The post corporate world will for most be due to corporations jettisoning expensive human resources in exchange for less expensive resources available elsewhere rather than being due to a populist rush to return to the age of the craftsman.
Anyone have a mirror or cache link?
Jeff Stewart has raised over $100m: Here's what he's learned [video]
How to compete with Banks for hiring tech talent
x86 apps on ARM is a distraction. The question is whether Win32 apps will run on ARM; MS has given conflicting information on this topic.

http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/16/windows-8-arm-tablets-leg...
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I'm surprised there wasn't a mention of the "Joel"-factor in this paragraph:

That’s it. Those are your chances to get news. Under no circumstances can you expect to be covered because you take a walk in the woods with potential employees... you’re not Mark Zuckerberg. (Unless you are, in which case, Hi Mark!) You’re not getting font changes on the home page covered, unless you used to work for Mark Zuckerberg.

In short, you only have two or at most three chances to got coverage unless there’s Mark Zuckerberg involvement.
With a fresh top level CEO, could Yahoo survive?
Of the 15 bugs there, 9 are open now. I'll poke someone more knowledgable and ask them to explain why the others have not been opened.

I could imagine that it's that the process for unlocking them is manual and easy to forget, or it could be that other instances of those bugs were uncovered so it still isn't safe to open them.
I remember seeing this talk some time ago - simply titled 'don't talk to the police'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Hmm, how would you use Javascript to preload content that is crawlable by search engines?
BTW, has anyone actually seen an extension using the experimental sidebar API in the wild?

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.sideba...

I've been waiting for a bookmarks sidebar (which I habitually use as a reading queue in other browsers).
In the future I would suggest adding a clause for late payments into your contract. The longer they wait to pay you the more they make on interest. The only incentive they have to pay you on time is to avoid being charged for it.

Assuming you don't want to burn bridges I'd play it this way. Invoice them for late payment and if they call you complaining tell them that it's automated by the invoicing software you use and you'll let it slide this time. That sends them the message that prompt payment matters. If they do it a second time screw em.
The most rational strategy for a US citizen is to treat an officer like the worst enemy, a sleazebag who will go out of their way to fuck said citizen over? There is something deeply wrong with this country.
I'm a bit confused. Did they invent their own language, or did they randomly assign names to places on a map?
Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress
my friend, they are being more and more picky
Do you actually mean this kind of bullshit is legally sound in the US? Whoah. IANAL, but in Europe most of the EULA clauses are considered invalid due to consumer protection code and this sort of thing definitely would fall in to that category.
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