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Yes, it worked well in a lot of levels, but the bulk of the soundtrack was "inspired" by Slayer, Pantera, Metallica, etc. tracks. There are web pages (or were when I last looked it up) that show a level-by-level comparison of the Doom soundtrack and a particular metal track that it basically ripped off.

It probably wouldn't work now. There was a certain zeitgeist in the early 90's where all that stuff went together better than it does now, and you can't turn back time. I just don't remember many FPS games being as fun as Doom and Doom II.
Not specifically Ubuntu, but O'Reilly's Linux Pocket Guide is really useful for your basic bash commands. I've found it to be really useful.
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AMD Radeon HD 6990 already has over 1 TFLOPS performance double-precision, and there's no problem buying it, Intel is too late.
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NFC offers two big opportunities. The first is NFC as hardware, which is what Tagstand is doing. I agree that this is a fairly straightforward business.

The second, and arguably much larger, opportunity is the software component, which we haven't really seen yet. There's a whole world of programs and services that can be built around this hardware once it's in use.
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Did I miss something?
Heh. Article is nearly incoherent:

> If you're building a new system and want to future-proof it, the Knights Ferry chip uses a double PCI Express slot. Chrysos said the systems are also likely to run alongside a few Xeon processors.
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Really? There's still such a thing as an "FPS fan"? That's sort of like being a fan of black Model-T's, isn't it?
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Doesn't it cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $100K to $200K for a non-US resident to move to the US to start a company?
x86 instruction set. GPUs are a pain to program and port applications to.

If I recall correctly, this is somewhat of a spinoff of the larrabee chip - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)

You can see in the wikipedia page the benefits of Larrabee over traditional GPUs. I believe the new chip was designed to be even more flexible and similar to modern processors.
and also some notable young ones like Joe Hewitt,Jeff Verkoeyen,Peter Steinberger,Mugunth Kumar!
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The instructor emphasized the performance benefit of Octave's optimized matrix operations. Did you use Colt's matrix operations, or were you able to match the performance of vectorized Octave code with non-vectorized Clojure code?
That doesn't mean they all are or that somehow they were worse before the breakdown of federalism.

But, yes, they are bad. Which is why cities and counties should be free to leave for a different state or start their own.

That's actually how it works in Switzerland with their cantons.

Choice is what we need. Monopolies where the customers can't leave are very unresponsive. Government doesn't need to be as bad as it is.
This sounds like an advertisement to come panning for gold in 1854, years after the gold rush had begun. I think the iTunes app store story is practically over by this point. The app store is long-since saturated with useless gimmicky fart apps, and Apple's force grip on the development process will stifle innovation which is already spilling back into the web via HTML5 and WebGL.
Yes there is no problem buying it, but have you ever tried programming in OpenCL? Complexity aside, GPGPU hits a big bottleneck when dealing with large datasets. There just isn't enough memory available on the GPU, and transfers to and from the device are costly.
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Can someone explain what this wi-fi mapping means? What are its implications?
I'm cynical on government too but don't you think that if enough people contact them somehow and theres a clear majority view that somehow the official get the message and that sways them just a bit? Am I still being too naive or is it really truly nothing but money money money that gets them to do anything?
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It might sound absurd to you and me, but it really isn't from his point of view once you consider the majority of the audience who is listening to him.

For better or for worse, most people are conditioned against destructive action [i.e. violence] used to disrupt the established order of a society. By painting the ongoing protest action with the potential of turning ugly, he is able to start turning overall public opinion against the movement.
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At least Google offers an opt-out option. As far as I know neither Apple nor Skyhook do.
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"Wow?" This is actually disappointingly low raw TFLOPS performance.

Intel's Knights Ferry GPGPU ASIC is not yet available, but already outperformed by 2-year-old chips from AMD and Nvidia who have both been selling GPU ASICs breaking the 1 TFLOPS barrier (single precision) for over two years now. The AMD Radeon HD 5870 and HD 6970 both reach 2.7 TFLOPS, and AMD makes a dual-ASIC PCIe card HD 6990 reaching 5.1 TFLOPS. Nvidia's mid-level GTX 275 (1.01 TFLOPS) was released in April 2009.

In fact, Knights Ferry evolved from the Larrabee GPU project, which disappointed Intel so much in terms of performance that they decided to forgo the GPU market (as it was clearly not going to be competitive), and to remain focused only on the GPGPU market by evolving Knights Ferry from Larrabee.

The one strong advantage of Knights Ferry is not performance, but x86 compatibility, as it would theoretically make it easy to port programs to. Although one would still have to rewrite the app to use the LRBni instruction set (512-bit regs) to fully exploit the computing performance... or else one would be limited to a quarter of its potential with SSE (128-bit regs.)

Another relative advantage of Knights Ferry is that each of the 50+ cores will probably be able to execute 50 unique instructions every clock cycle, making it very flexible. (Compared to, say, the HD 6970 which has 384 "cores" or VLIW units only able to execute 24 unique instructions: the ASIC is organized in 24 SIMD engines of 16 VLIW units each, the 16 VLIW units in each SIMD engine execute the same instruction in 16 different thread contexts, for a total of 384 threads.)

Edit: my bad, it looks like Intel claims 1 TFLOPS in double precision, which would put it up to the level of upcoming AMD chips (HD 7970 rumored to provide 4.1 SP TFLOPS or 1.0 DP TFLOPS in early 2012.)
That is what is powering the geolocation service for Firefox and Chrome.
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I've enjoyed the UT games that I've played, actually, exactly because of the lack of bullshit. The single player mode seems to be identical to the multiplayer mode, except with bots instead of other players, which is fine.
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Does anyone have a reason for why this wifi mapping invades my privacy?

I just can't see what makes it so wrong, I mean I am not ecstatic about my router mac and general area being tied together but is it easy for someone to find where I am based on what wifi I am connected to through a browser?

The only time I see it being a problem is if you have malware and they are able to target you by location but depending on what malware you are infected with it might be just as easy for the malware users to look somewhere else for location.

Maybe I am just being dense.
I believe verbatim mode turns off personalization, and it looks like it turns off localization as part of that. So the query [yoga] shows local places to do yoga for me, but in verbatim mode I don't see that.
Generates a mapping of geolocation -> SSID of access points. Used as a fingerprinting method to locate users in the real world, very useful when you're working with mobile or ubiquitous computing.
but machine learning isn't promising the world. So far ML has a good track record thus I believe we are safe.
Exactly. It seems as if the OP just wanted to score some karma points with the sensationalist headline and ridiculous article header graphic. If you don't want your broadcasted SSID to be potentially indexed by Google, or by me as I walk by, then don't broadcast it. Simple.
You don't have to broadcast an SSID (the human-readible name for the access point) for Google's system to pick it up. I'm pretty sure (based on some packet sniffing I've done on the Android Google Maps app suite) that Google's grabbing the BSSID, the MAC-address-like thing that uniquely identifies a Wifi wireless device.

Even if you turn off SSID broadcast, your router will still send out broadcasts of some sort.
That's because they have no intention of ever doing so. It's a model, and is good for things that models are good for. That's very clear from the article.
No, as I wrote, you can run WordPress locally (ie on your own workstation, local server, whatever) and have it send to S3.

I gave the WPEngine link just to prove people are doing it with WordPress and it's not a pipedream.
Google is mapping publicly broadcast wifi access points to provide location services to augment GPS (faster locks for example) or when GPS is unavailable due to location or device. It's a very useful service - if you use a smartphone with mapping software, you likely benefit from this on a daily basis without realizing it.

Apple does the same thing, although they collect it from user's iphones and ipads:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/04/27Apple-Q-A-on-Locat...

One of the original companies that did this was skyhook and they also use vehicles driving around:
http://www.skyhookwireless.com/howitworks/

Google is actually going above and beyond normal industry privacy protections by offering a reasonably simple opt-out. They are recommending that others in the industry do the same. Calling instead for an opt-in system effectively destroys this whole service's effectiveness for everyone.
While I didn't look at how he did it, if I were to write something to do this, I would first locate each slice of the image. This could be accomplished using a rudimentary edge detection algorithm ( ie starting from the left, compare each column of pixels with the next, any large differences of course means an edge ). After that I might assign a weighted value to each edge of a slice, and then sort based upon those values.
I imagine that there will be some people with too much money on their hands who will now attempt to own a model of their own skeleton - just because.
Would turning off the beacon hide the AP from Google mapping? Are there any details how they detect APs exactly?
There was a vulnerability in dd-wrt a few months back, allowing anyone to get your router's mac addy -- then presumably they can lookup your MAC using a service such as this or skyhook to get your EXACT location (not just an IP address approximation) Here's the HN coverage of that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2044371
This is shit.

I heard something similar from Joel Spolsky not that long ago.

It's like a George Wallace speech. The old guard, giving speeches targeted at the "do nothing class", urging them to help suppress a revolution.
I'm doing the course as well and have been wanting to become more familiar with Clojure. I'd be very interested to see your implementations of the algorithms in a functional style. After the course is finished, I hope you consider putting up a blog or repo with the solutions.
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I'll ask about the halo query. In the mean time, it looks like [halo -halo.2 -halo.3] does what you want.

Do you see a gear symbol in the top of main google.com and the results page? I think that's where Advanced Search is now.
We're doing it for Glossi so hopefully other people follow. It's much easier to do this when you're a smaller company though.

We have an explanatory blog post too for whoever cares to read: http://blog.glos.si/post/12868376174/american-censorship-day
You are correct. I worked for a conservative congressman and he knew his constituents and what they wanted for the most part. It's not hard if your state leans hard to either side of the spectrum. And in his defense, if he took every call and letter into account, he would never have time to do anything else. But at the same time, what about those that have a differing opinion from the majority and have a good point to be made? Shouldn't everyone's opinion be heard? And what about states whose constituents are closer to the center? It's a difficult situation to say the least.
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This is what I liked about the original method that Google used back in the 90s. It was always an exact text match for all words. At some point that changed, and to this day I still forget to use + to force the old behavior.
The person who wrote the article this link goes to doesn't seem to understand what Google's Wifi AP database is for. He seems to think it's going to be some searchable database instead of just used for device positioning. It would have been better to just post the link to the Google blog post instead of this misinformed blog.
Exiting a company as soon as you can after a talent acquisition to go on and become an entrepreneur again is very very very common. Most recently I can think of Arrington, Levchin, Nguyen.

I would even guess that the majority of founders who are acquired by Google, Yahoo etc. leave in the first 12 months.

It is either to get the first run on the board, or to give a startup that would otherwise fail a graceful exit - but these people are entrepreneurs and do not fit into large companies.

Sean Parker should be asking what is Facebook doing to attract these types of people, not bitch about these people not wanting to join and blaming free-market funding, of all things.
A large part of it is learn as you go, but if you can learn the programs you will be using such as vim or nano/pico and bash and how linux works (for you specifically how ubuntu/debian do things) it can help a lot.

As for specifics there is a lot of good stuff in here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/

If you come from windows avoid using X and GUIs as that really shouldn't be needed in a server environment.
I launched a search engine that does exactly this just over a week ago, you can see it here: http://symbolhound.com/

I freaked out when I saw this headline and thought it meant google had finally decided to implement this feature a week after my launch.
I believe there is also an appendix providing details.
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It's x86, a normal Intel CPU. It can even run Linux. Drastically different from what a GPU is
Interesting, along the lines of what http://republicwireless.com is trying to do?
Thanks for the query recommendation. Curious why the other didn't work, I feel it (or similar ones) have worked as I might expect in the past.

>Do you see a gear symbol in the top of main google.com and the results page? I think that's where Advanced Search is now.

Seems Android action-bar-esque almost, but yes, thanks.
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The AMD 6990 has ~1.37TF double precision, but uses 2 GPU chips to do it, where this chip is that perf level.

It is difficult to get good performance out of the GPUs for a very wide range of highly parallel programs. Effectively, you are programming a part that is trying to give you mainly a graphics part, since that is where the volume is, with enough compute compromises to try to grow that market. MIC is designed to be a compute processor from the get go. How about this for a difference: it can boot linux all on its own! You can ssh into it and run programs. You can even run 'reverse offload' programs that call out to code on the CPU! Trying doing any of that with a GPU.

BTW, this MIC chip has a large number of cores (50+), these are real cores, and they're not doing the GPU marketing trick of counting SIMD lanes as "cores". You could multiply 50+ * 16 to get the equivalent number of GPU "cores". Each core is cache coherent, with a decent memory hierarchy designed for compute. There's no graphics tax on here.

I have much more expectation that Intel can leverage their massive process advantage to keep MIC ahead on compute performance each generation. It'll be a relief to have compute parts rather than repurposed GPUs.
While not ideal, some people have been able to run mac os on other operating systems using virtualization.
I think that doing well in Math and Physics is quite different.
You are absolutely right, an opt-in system would destroy the whole location-by-wifi-ssid service for everyone.

...but that doesn't create leverage or a good reason for having such a poor and inelegant opt-out. This is an "ends justifies the means" argument, which is in itself Machiavellian.

From a different perspective, there are other ways Google could handle an opt-out list - such as letting people add their SSID/Mac Address to a central opt-out registry they maintain.

This would be trivial to implement, but I would suggest that Google have intentionally created a high-friction solution of "-nomap" to your SSID simply to make it as difficult and unpalatable as possible. And that really stinks.
Given the population numbers presented above it does imply that individual Android users spend considerably less. There is a huge pool of them so the income is similar, but paying customers are harder to find in that huge pool of users. This means that Android devs may encounter the "app store roulette" phenomenon in spades; those apps that have a viable customer acquisition strategy will do well and the long-tail of Android devs will gain far less.
I get "Understanding COM Event Handling" at #1, but agree that it's not ideal. Some words like COM or IT have dual meanings where sometimes you want to treat them like stopwords and sometimes you don't.
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Are there any papers you could point to that could provide more details on this project?
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I know for a fact that many offices explicitly log responses received from constituents based on phone calls/letters they receive. If the phone is ringing off the hook or the office gets inundated with letters, this will undoubtedly make one of the more senior staffers take notice and he should report it up the chain of command.

Obviously its all relative but if enough letters/phone calls get placed, the message will be received.

Furthermore, the co-sponsers on both the House and Senate bills are bi-partisan in nature so this is an issue that is obviously not as black and white as your typical party lines type vote. Hopefully this might cause legislators to take a serious look at the issues being raised and actually give some attention to popular opinion if in fact enough people like us make a fuss.
I think it's probably a game at this point for Aaron. Anyone who actually wanted to achieve the desired outcome would act in just about the complete opposite way.
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No wonder you lost all your money. some people like you "hope" while successful people make things happen. Don't blame the system for your failures just because you're not good enough.
The free storage was probably a marketing ploy.
This is a real-time conservative garbage collector designed specifically for computer music with a mechanism to simulate worst case. The overview also contains even weirder acronyms such as SATBCUCOWIVM.

I was inspired to post this after reading http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3241093 (Optimization Tricks used by the Lockless Memory Allocator)
Where does it tell me how to write in Pandoc? Hard not to dismiss outright.
Okay, I found the sample data. Lots of stuff like phone numbers: +XXX YYY ZZZZ. Lots of multiple plus searches, like +++++aaaa. Lots of people using + instead of space: aaa+bbb+ccc. Lots of searches with every word having a plus in front of each word: +aaa +bbb +ccc +ddd +eee. Some people surrounding words with plus: aaa +bbb+ ccc. Those were the first things that popped up in a quick glance.
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So it doesn't run the general x64 system architecture? Then how is this different from GPGPU? I thought NVIDIA broke a teraflop on a dual slot a while back (dunno if it was single GPU.) Slot based coprocessors have always been a very niche kind of thing.

Basically, if I can't hook it up to my SSD array and also my GPU, then it's not a "real" computer -- like the reporter was talking about a laptop. And if I can't rent it by the hour from Amazon, then it's not really a good investment (Amazon already has GPU instances.)

Or, you know, maybe this time it will work, when every time before, a co-processor platform has failed...
Oh god, here we go again. Why doesn't Google (or a large portion of HN for that matter) ever learn? Privacy has a different meaning outside the US, and in many places, especially Europe, is strongly protected.

Just because the information is public doesn't mean you have the right to collect it and use it any way you see fit, and it certainly doesn't mean it isn't in invasion of privacy.

Given the issues in the past, this is just a big fuck you to Europe (and clearly deliberate, since it is explicitly cross posted in their European Public Policy Blog).

You can disagree with values and laws in other countries, but you don't just piss all over them like that and expect to still be able to do business there unhindered unless you have a serious attitude problem. Google is rapidly becoming the corporate embodiment of the "Ugly American".
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That's 1 developer. doesn't prove your point.