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It's deeper than "OpenGL is hard." Right out of the gate, you are hit with the one-two punch of different texture compression formats being supported on different devices combined with a maximum APK size on Google's store. The only standard Android texture format with compression is ETC which doesn't support alpha. So right at square one, if you want to use compressed textures for maximum performance and resolution, you have to release 3 separate APK's with a different supports-OpenGL-texture tag in each manifest. One for DXT, one for PVRTC, and one for ATC. Or dynamically download megabytes of textures after detecting which GPU you are running on.

That's a sharp contrast with iOS's unified, simple developer story: all PVRTC without any maximum app size.
It would be nice to give some context here because from what I gather, most of those files (e.g. the CSV files) are given as part of the problem's description. They're Airbnb's property, and I don't know the terms of that "coding challenge" but it's possible that participation requires transferring copyrights to your work to Airbnb.
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If someone asks you to trade a significant part of your salary for equity, you're effectively investing in their company.

If someone asks you to invest in their company, approach it the same way as if they were asking you for cash - do your due diligence and ask lots of questions. I can't stress this enough - do your homework. Don't make assumptions that just because the founders are successful people that the company will be successful either.

Evaluate the same things a VC would look at - how does the founding team fit, what is the revenue model, burn rate, marketing strategy, who do they plan on staffing, what kind of investment do they have already, plans for raising another round etc. Don't be shy with these questions - the founders want you to trust them and be a part of the team and you have a right to know the answers.

Basically don't base your decision on a gut feeling and some ad hoc criteria, think like an investor before you invest.
Yes, more input fields could be added, but it might be decided that, for some obscure reason, they won't be. What might the company's interface designer having friend, who has tendency to become seemingly depressed at times, think at that point?

Other interesting questions include, but are not limited to the following. How was the decision explained to the employees? What kind of opinion did medical advisor for the company have?
Let's be fair here, This particular bug used an NPAPI installation to finally get full access, but there many other significant breaches of security previous to this, it seems that the final step, was likely one with the most potential vulnerabilities, with NPAPI just being the easiest to install the payload.
In some states, and especially in NY, a co-op can require approval of sales, or right of first refusal.
On one hand I think this is great because it will help research in that domain move forward (no pun intended), but I can't help but think of the very strong lobbying from Google that had to have been necessary for it.

"The California bill, which passed in a 37-0 vote"

A 37-0 vote for something that is far from being productized or even clearly defined (what defines "self-driving car" vs. other assistive technologies?) and has very serious and legitimate safety and legal (e.g. who's responsible of accidents?) concerns, is at the least surprising.
Especially since modern Intel processors are mostly RISC-like inside with a CISC decoding layer wrapped around it. The difference is academic as it all boils down to similar CPU-level code and seems more dependent on the internal design of the chip than the instruction set.
How many investors do you think were reading every amendment to the S-1 up to May 9? Not even considering how many did not read the S-1 to begin with.

The use of the Greenshoe tactic to make the price appear stable also seems to suggest they were targeting naive investors who would only be watching the share price after trading began, having no regard for who was buying them.

Please tell me I'm wrong.

As for Henry Blodget, while he may be biased in favor of sensationalism to garner pageviews, he seems to be in a unique position to comment on this sort of maneuvering to manipulate naive "web investors". He was once in the center of it, during the first Bubble. We cannot say the same for the WSJ's writers.

Please tell me I'm wrong.
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Wait, her husband was "married" to a guy for 10 years before they got married? How often does that happen?

"Before his marriage to Ms. Pao, Mr. Fletcher lived in the Dakota with Hobart V. Folkes Jr., his partner of more than 10 years, according to a New York Times article in 2004 on Mr. Fletcher’s philanthropy."
How does this relate to John Doerr's quote that "[The world’s greatest entrepreneurs] all seem to be white, male, nerds".

I'd love to be running discovery for this case. How likely is it that someone, once, wrote something really stupid in an e-mail between senior partners, regarding Pao's allegations?
That's not an equation.

I don't know the right word to use for Chrome's model yet, but unlike some people, I am very bullish on sandboxing.
Absolutely. Where do you put the mark between a self-driving car and a car that has a bunch of technology for assisted driving?
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You're entirely right, but Wondermedia/VIA actually have a moderately good history with their GPL source for ARM system-on-a-chips.

Although most end vendors of devices using the WM8xxx line of chips are GPL violators (direct-from-China business models where noone cares), Wondermedia themselves have been supplying GPL source via Harald Welte of Gpl-Violations (formerly also employed by VIA):

http://ftp.gpl-devices.org/pub/vendors/Wondermedia/

100% blob-free to my knowledge. Unfortunately they haven't released anything for the WM87xx series (apc.io) yet, but these devices are brand new so here's hoping.

If you're interested you can dig up some more details, and the follow from-scratch open kernel development efforts, at

http://groups.google.com/group/vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel/

(What I -really- hope they release is publicly available datasheets.)
I like it! Glad to see that innovation is alive and well in Argentina despite the current climate.

FWIW, my dad grew up a few blocks from the pin shown on the map.
yeah, thats the api access I mentioned. It looks phenomenal, but isn't 100% clear. A couple of practical examples would be suppppper helpful.

thanks again man
If scientists fill the seas with GM whales that are modified to withstand the rigours of the modern sea environment that would put Greenpeace in a real pickle, wouldn't it?
waited in the queue, went for a coffee, came back, 'your browsing time is up', and back in the queue again...
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/intel_gpu_top...

While running this page on Firefox on Ubuntu it showed:

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It's pretty simple - Anglophone North America is a left-wing polity and always has been, its deviant and extinct Confederate branch aside. You won't find a single leftist trope that isn't repeated over and over again in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. As Earl Browder put it, "Communism is 20th-century Americanism."

This is why we're all supposed to be all nuanced and shit when it comes to Communist atrocities, but when it's time for the Fascist atrocities everyone has to stand up and yell HITLER HITLER HITLER. Precisely like a five-year-old.

It's just a sort of national lookin' after #1. We naturally ignore the sins closest to us and focus on those of others. Left is "self" and right is "other." Otherwise, we would need to express genuine collective guilt rather than dime-a-dozen collective contempt.
What on earth will they use? Whatever windows mobile variant exists now?
We also have to think of the tax that will be applied. You got out to eat and order a $7.95 burger/fries and a $1.50 soda[1]... most people already know that it'll be more than $10. It is not so hard to do the math. Since tax around here is in the 8.5-9.5% range, most of the time it can be safe to just double the tax on the receipt to get roughly 17-19% tip... round up if you want to show extra thanks... down if not. Many places will also print on the receipt the various percentages of tip so you don't even really have to do much at all but some multi-digit addition. So unless one has a hard time with "carry the 1" the math isn't that bad. I tend to over tip so I can get my grand total to a nice round number. And it is not uncommon for me to add an extra buck or two if my kids have made a huge mess of the place.

[1]But don't get me started on the extortion of $1.50 for a fountain drink.
Then in fall 2011 at the Googleplex, my first question was "I'm XYZ and I worked on Google+. That's all you need to know about me. Why am I interviewing you?"

Out of curiosity, did the interviewer ever explain this odd introduction, or what he/she was trying to get at?
Well, it's overblown now, but there are definitely unconditional apple fans.
Nvidia does run any fabs, yet is successful.

AMD didn't invent x86, yet is successful.

ARM isn't compatible with x86, yet is successful.

There are more...
I agree with your comment entirely (esp. the PC/ARM bit.)

Also, the WM8750 is an ARM11 not a Cortex A8 or better, so it's a good bit slower than most phones running ICS. I don't think its GPU credentials are cutting edge either.

So in terms of raw hardware specs it'll come in alongside the flagship phones released with Android 1.6 and 2.1. ICS may not be a good candidate even if/when the development is done.

(Which is insane given that it's still objectively powerful hardware, but even more powerful hardware breeds equivalently consuming software.)
Language of choices appart, maybe it's because:

"I've encountered no occasion where I'd implement CS classics like linked lists and binary trees. My understanding goes as far as sort of vaguely recognising them."
Thank you. Looks like I'm not the first to ask. Doubt I'll be the first to get an answer.

Wrt the last post, I'll note my openbsd laptop can complete that challenge before many other machines have made it past post, so all hope is not lost.

And we had wysiwyg HTML editors eons ago. The switch to online markdown editors was a trade off, but it's not like the secrets of the ancients were lost when the library of parc was burned to the ground.
I wonder how much this industry could be or already is locked down by patents? Anybody know? The cynical part of me worries that, if this isn't bogged down by obstructionists, then most of the economic advantage will be captured by Google or some other big monopoly.

I believe that, if this works out, it will be a huge technological improvement that will dramatically improve the quality of life of a lot of people. Imagine all the people who can't drive right now because they are disabled, for example. Many of those people who live in suburban or rural areas are just stuck inside a lot of the time. Having a car that can park itself somewhere away from where its passengers are dropped off is another big advantage. Or maybe it won't be much of a net benefit to average people because they'll have to fork over tons of money to have an automated vehicle.
It was a truly awesome machine. When I left college (which had a B6700) and went to work on Honeywell and IBM machines it was like taking a long sad walk back to the dark ages.

One small example: the job control language (WFL) was an Algol variant which was great to program and Turing complete. Compare to IBM's appalling "JCL".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language

Array bounds checking with useful source level error messages (versus S0C4 abends and a core dump on IBM), writing multi-processor apps in Algol or COBOL was easy (versus close to rocket scientist level on an IBM requring for example that you code in assembler). Flags to distinguish code from data so data would not get executed etc etc.
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the cheapest HDMI monitor is still expensive

Everyone has different levels for what "expensive" means. You can get new HDMI monitors for well under $150, and new DVI monitors for well under $100, and DVI<->HDMI adaptors are under $10.
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There's a variant on the hellban where you hide them but show their posts to other hellbanned people to them means they might get counter-flamed and think they're still posting for real.
This is stupid. The real thing is happening right now, but it doesn't look futuristic enough.

What we need in space now is infrastructure. Unsexy, boxy, gantried infrastructure.

Why can't I get HD video from the moon without pointing a 20m dish there?
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(for those of us who are under the legal drinking age and dislike coffee)
I wonder how much wifi/wireless would add to the cost?
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I love your work on sprockets, and this project is an excellent example of how to use it. I currently develop Backbone apps using the Ruby static site generator middleman which uses regular sprockets. So I have to namespace my app, but would rather use commonJS. Thanks for the awesome codebase!
Horace's "interviews" are him asking 45 minute questions and interrupting the respondent's answer.
The earth-changing idea is that we are all connected electronically by a few degrees. A lot of companies have tried this but Facebook has come the furthest.
They gave me a few days notice, it was enough time. The only weird thing was that they were surprised when I asked what the presentation should be on - in their minds, of course everyone already a presentation prepared of their PhD thesis. As (perhaps) the only candidate without a PhD (I don't know why they flew me out either...), I was not familiar with their standard rules of the game.
All three of these companies have the finances to buy large volumes at low cost and to market their products to the right people.

Whatever happened to Transmeta?
Maybe a win for FB but certainly not for employees who would be on a share vestment plan that's locked to a price that would be (I imagine) higher than $31 - does anyone know the specifics of the employee share plans and the amount of the company that was floated?
No, we don't administer IQ tests or anything. The point is that investors main interest is in finding good companies that will possibly be the next Google/Facebook/Dropbox.
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Wow! You have eagle vision. I grew up in Argentina but we are based in Silicon Valley.
That's not iOS's story, it's Imagination Technologies' story. The story from Apple will change the moment they ship a device on someone else's GPU. If this is something you expect to rely on, you're in the position of someone writing Altivec code in 2005.

But yes: texture compression formats and hardware support are a terrible, terrible mess. Happily I believe the early patents on S3TC are set to expire soon.
Alongside the obvious comparisons to Raspberry Pi, it's worth looking at Allwinner A10 based devices like the Mele A1000:
http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000...

Same price bracket, faster Cortex A8 based processor, and (most importantly) marketed as "hackable" with available source & tech docs, and a community working on porting other OSes to it.

Even if you don't want to hack on it yourself, this means you're more likely to find interesting uses and software updates for it down the line.

IMHO these are the aspects VIA should be aiming to compete on as well, so it's not stuck with a crummy vendorware version of Android.
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I can understand her confussion, it gets dark by 11AM in the U.K. By noon, one tries to stay indoors, safe from rain and soccer-hooligans.
I bought an Android set-top-box, the Flexiview FV-1, ($120ish, 1Ghz Cortex A8) at the end of last year and got Debian running on it.

http://projectgus.com/tag/fv-1/

I haven't run one 24/7 for more than a week or two though, so I don't really know how good it would be as a server.
I've done it. They'll put it on CDs or DVDs for you if you want, or work something else out if its more convenient. I've even hard cartloads of documents printed out for me. You have to pay for the printing, which gets expensive, but they'll do it. They have to.
You might just be a disturbed director of a lifesized puppet theater with access to a mini jcb and thoughts of taking contemporary seaside entertainment to the next level of historical accuracy. In which case Steve wont have had a lot of creative input and you might want to take 2%.
It wouldn't be difficult to find out. You can FOIA all the recent FOIAs.
The more conspiratorial side of me likes to think that school is a prison camp used by vested interests to teach American citizens from a young age that they have no rights and to stymie any sort of real intellectual development by providing large globs of homework and projects.

But some people require more than the standard to weigh them down. Like in Harrison Bergerson.[0] And the only reason that they don't force extra work to match is that citizens would recognize the inherent unfairness and be offended that their children weren't thought worthy of extra work. So instead they paint it as a way to make your application look better to colleges. (Think hi-cap.)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

Disclosure: I am in high school.
You looked up the definition of the wrong word:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/artificer?s=t

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificer
Honestly, the overall process reminds me of what I do some days trying to automate processes which were not designed to be automated. I know what I want to do, I just have to figure out how, step by small step, using things not in the way they were intended to be used.
30C in such an arid climate is actually quite nice - as long as you have enough water with you. But you never feel sweaty, water from your body just immediately dries away.
Bad link try this: http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/

Other than that, its an interesting box too although it looks like it is harder to get one's hands on it.
We'll have to grab coffee with some great Android Devs then. ;)
From what I've seen in ai-class.com and cs373 on udacity: The cars are completely autonomous. The only reason there's a human in the driver's seat is legislation because it's mandatory that there is a person in the driver's seat.

But, the cars are already at the stage where you can feel safe just reading a book while sitting in there. They work in normal San Francisco traffic without any intervention at any time by the human.

They even plan their own routes and can change them when something strange happens on the road so they're forced to take a detour. They even wait for pedestrians crossing streets, follow all traffic rules and so on.

It's really quite amazing when you think that just 8 years ago the DARPA challenge wasn't finished by a single car that entered the race. (and that was without traffic, just a desert with roads)
Gruber knew what was coming and said nothing.

Benjamin was hit broadside and made an honorable statement.

That's all we need to know.
afaict, precompiled java still requires the jvm.
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I just divide by 10 then double.
a thoughtful approach to testing - thanks for advocating for infrequent messaging and a polished product!
The market reality doesn't align with your personal observation, all producers have their high end smartphone, but a simple review of revenue reveals the bulk purchases are cheaper smart phones. Just because your personal view may see a large number of expensive android devices doesn't reflect the reality of the population. The figures however do show us what is going on, the android sale is the 'cheap/low end' phone.

Samsung have a 29.1% marketshare of smart phones by volume. (IDC)
Apple has a 24.2% marketshare of smart phone by volume. (IDC)
The others don't crack 10% each.

Samsung won't reveal revenue for Android, for reasons that will become obvious shortly, but they do reveal their entire mobile division has 17B revenue.
This division shipped 144.4M mobile phones, 42M of those were smart phones, a figure slightly lower than that belong to Android. We can be lenient and pretend that the bulk of the 17B revenue were from pricier Android devices, even though this would be fallacious.

Apple's iPhone business (not iPod/iPad) has revenue of 23B, already exceeding Samsung's entire mobile business.

Samsung lead Android sales commanding ~40% of the Android market share.

Meaning that the largest seller of Android smartphones, who sells more smartphones than any other producer including Apple is making 75% the amount of revenue of Apple, on not just their Android business, but their total mobile division where Android makes up a fraction of it. This can only mean one thing. The average selling price of those Android devices is well below 75% of the average iPhone sale. (Rather likely far lower when you consider that the 17B figure comprises of all of Samsung's sales.)
I don't follow. What does "these cases were successful and others were not" have to do with the discussion. AMD wasn't around when x86 was developed, Nvidia wasn't the first 3D graphics company and ARM wasn't the first low power micro-processor development company. In all cases, just as with web startups, they executed better than most or all of the rest, so they lived on. They didn't miraculously over night have the finances to "buy large volumes".
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If you're actually 10x faster (2x is not enough), people will give you the money.
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I understand why left-wing violence, lawlesness, etc are tolerated or encouraged - I'm asking why you think corresponding with Kaczynski does not bring the same scorn upon a person as corresponding with Rudolph would. Is it because people don't understand Kaczynski's intentions/thoughts (indeed, as reading the comments on this post would easily demonstrate)? Is it because they fundamentally agree with him, regardless of his contempt for liberals? After all, destruction of technology / industry has traditionally been a left-wing project in the U.S.
It doesn't, valuation has little to do with amount raised.
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The public was not that excited about space in the 60s either.

http://si.academia.edu/RogerLaunius/Papers/93299/_Public_Opi...
I'm personally unfamiliar with the languages you mention in the first paragraph. Would you mind linking to some information about them?
This has been a known issue for a long time. See PG's responses in this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756

Additional threads about the same topic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3623268

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2760187