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It's wonderful how people make money from distractions which in turn enable others to exploit the increasingly unaware.

But truly it is scary.

I lose days just reading HN, Paul Graham, Rodgers and that's after closing 20 tabs of webcomics, hardware and software news etc.

I think the only way out is as PG said it, actively fighting it - shutdown your computer, close them tabs, work on a good old console only linux, destroy skynet ?

My take is that in the end, we're all animals, but our self-awareness enables us to manipulate ourselves into doing what we want ( a bit like some article about pavlovian start your computer, fire up git and all that - don't remember who or when) - i.e. by consciously addicting ourselves to what we want to be doing.

I should get into that a bit more though -- seeing how I still read HN etc.
Video File Format: MKV container file with VP8 video and FLAC or Vorbis audio (this standard is similar, but a little more permissive than WebM, and is optimized for use on fixed media rather than downloads).

It doesn't seem like they have strong arguments to create a new standard that is almost but not quite compatible with WebM. The inclusion of FLAC is not a strong argument, rather a bad idea, cf http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
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Fair use doesn't exist in EU. There are certain provisions of copying allowed for research and a few select reasons but its much more restrictive than the US.

So if they had used quotes from the article they could genuinely be in trouble.
I wouldn't have summarized better. That is exactly what I tried to show in the article.
My entire place is like an Ikea showroom. My only complaints are that the surfaces are not hard wearing,even on expensive items. I've taken to covering work surfaces with another layer of laminate or in the case of my desk, I had a custom cutting mat cut for it which is glued on with impact adhesive.
Nice effort reverse engineering the protocol but I would only use this for tinkering purposes since it spoofs being a mobile device. If WhatsApp changes the protocol a bit it just stops working. Furthermore I think the coding style is not very pythonic using globals and individual functions instead of just implementing a class, overwriting build in functions with custom variables (str in the isShort function in wa_functions.py, hex in the function after that) and doing other things in ways that could have been much easier (same function: isShort = lamda ustring: len(ustring) < 256)
A couple more gems: Douglas Crockford's JavaScript: The Good Parts and Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls.

By the way, I find it ironic and disappointing when O'Reilly's "nutshell" books run to 700 pages.
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Definitely hiring a good OM is a crucial move that lets the founder/manager focus on more important tasks than administrative stuff. However in case of 'hard' HR where up-to-date knowledge of legal, taxes, insurances etc. aspects is required, OM is not enough.
I woldn't buy a desk, chair or couch from Ikea cheapest options, but I have some bookcases, shelves and so on. I like them because they're hackable[0] and price is also a factor. I have great desk and couch but my other furniture in "office" changes all the time - I buy some Lack, Expedit and Capita and build stuff. Angled shelves, messed bookcase, stands from drawers ...

[0] - http://www.ikeahackers.net/
Do you need a security system for business?
"Stop making things more difficult in the long term just because some whiners are unwilling to learn the trivialities of a new syntax in the short."

The unwillingness of whiners is the number one reason for software to suck. Why does a C11 compiler still compile Ansi C? It is utter crap, and whiners are to blame.

edit: Conservativeness is the reason young developers don't learn C, why C# beat Java and why everyone will have to learn a new language every few years to keep on top of the curve.

If you see a flaw in a language you use, do you report it, contribute to a thread, or do you just learn to live with it?

(sorry I forgot to mention I had added 2 paragraphs)
If it was so easy.
I don't think (5) and (9) will work at all
you are certainly right with your scale, but i guess zobzu's point is, that your non-support costs (say: development) is mostly paid by your 9$ and 29$ customers (in absolute terms).

so you cannot just get rid of every customer but your high paying ones.
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> whoa: recursion has been supported since Fermi support was released in CUDA 3.0 (there's a stack pointer and a stack frame and everything). what's not supported until GK110 (Kepler 2) is GPU kernels launching/waiting on GPU kernels.

Oh, cool! This opens doors for applying GPGPU to a whole new class of algorithms. I clearly must update my GPU knowledge.

Global mem vs. texture mem is always the biggest choice. Sometimes it's worth thinking whether there's a potential win in caching texture/global memory fetch results in local memory. So there's still choices to be made, even though the hardware has become better and easier to program.
I can only talk for financial IT and I can tell you it's suffering. Budgets cut (or just not increasing) on any "interesting" projects, double dip recession (yawn) and the fact that a lot of companies are trying to hide their disastrous attempts at outsourcing / offshoring over the last 10 years (as in "Look how much money we've saved by not having local contractors now give me a bonus" and not "Holy Cow nothing gets done here anymore by that clueless consultancy I hope no one notices").

If you are doing great guns on your web dev consultancy then I am happy for you - keep it up - I'm jealous !
thanks for pointing that out, and for the suggestion re `max-width`, Will get on it...
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> well there are more types :) shared memory: which is reserved for the SM (a bunch of CUDA cores) so that cores in the same block (SM) can share data. pinned memory: you can disable OS paging in the RAM (since CUDA operates in the driver level)

I used different (OpenCL-like) terminology, but we're talking about the same things. Shared memory <=> local memory. Pinned memory <=> page locked dma buffers.
The NLA in the UK is doing exactly the same thing.

I can't believe the stupidity of this. Basically Newspapers are giving these 'companies' the right to extort money from anyone who links to their news website.

The high court has assured that individuals do not count and scraping from free services like
Google Alerts is ok.

However if you do it in work for a company bigger than 7 people you can be a legitimate target for litigation.

Well the loss of links is going to slap them down the rankings for news stories and their websites overall as anyone with links to their site will have to remove them. Shooting in foot with a shotgun comes to mind.

There is also a case under litigation in the UK and is still unresolved..

If you work for a newspaper make sure your editor understands that the end effect if this jokery continues is that your newspaper website (that you're spending a lot of money on) will plummet in the search engines as people rush in droves to remove links.

Link to the UK NLA debacle.
http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/7826-nla-v-meltwater-are-mil...
> Fair use doesn't exist in EU.

This matter is country-level, internal to Ireland. In Ireland, they have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing
See, for example, notes here http://www.poetryireland.ie/resources/copyright.html under ``Reproducing copyrighted material'', which mentions a citation of 5% of magazine article falls under Fair Dealing protection.

I don't know whether there's EU-wide fair use, but there seems to be in member countries. For example, in my home Poland, we have http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozwolony_użytek
A one day deadline is a common pressure tactic to force a quick agreement from someone. There doesn't have to be any actual deadline.
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I don't think the premise is absurd at all, and it need not paint a terrible picture of people.

There are often two camps when it comes to topics like this - the free-will proponents who posit that people's behaviors and choices are based on their own conscious, controllable volition. Then there are the contextualists, who would have us believe that people behave as the system dictates and can be held blameless for their failings.

The truth is, naturally, somewhere in between. We can suggest that people are negatively influenced by certain things without denying them free will and personal responsibility.

> "It's not your choice, it's not your life, it's none of your business."

Note that Mr. Mullenweg didn't suggest that systems be designed to actively curb this behavior. There are no Big Brother nor Nanny State overtones to this at all.

> "If people want to spend their time reading blogs and Twitter, who are you to say otherwise?"

Again, nobody has tabled that we should disallow people from reading blogs all day. Mr. Mullenweg seems to be feeling guilt that he's helped create something that may have a negative overall impact on many of its users.

Imagine if you've created the world's most addictive cigarette and completely cornered the market. People all around the world are lighting these things up by the packloads. You wouldn't feel any concern, or even guilt? Surely this is not as simple as "these people are adults, if they smoke like a chimney it's their own damn fault". That logic applies just as easily to crack cocaine or war, and represents the most extreme end of the "free will" argument.

> "and it applies just as well to all media as it does to Twitter or Facebook or Wordpress."

And it does. This is the nation that, after all, invented the TV dinner and the couch potato. In fact, TV's influence on society is a big can o' worms. If Mr. Mullenweg wants to feel better about his role in the creation of new media, he may want to take note that the Internet is the first thing in 50 years to get people off the damn couch and onto a far more interactive, more informative medium. The Internet has some serious information addiction problems that we're just scratching the surface of - but IMO it beats the pants off what it replaced.

Information addiction in general does not have me overly concerned about the future of society and the Internet. What does worry me is the growth of the personalized web - we are very, very rapidly sailing into a future where a person would never have to hear a single word of dissent to their own beliefs. This troubles me more than any other issue that faces the Internet today.
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When we launched Go we made a big deal about compilation time because we were trying to appeal to C++ programmers. In large C++ projects it is not unusual to wait tens of minutes or even hours for projects to build. Today, the largest Go projects take mere seconds to build.

It turns out that way more than the C++ set were interested in Go. Naturally, people familiar with environments where compilation speed is a non-issue were mystified by our enthusiasm for Go's low compilation times.
> Hmm so you just lost 100% of your business because of your unwillingness to negotiate over 5%.

Yeah, looking at these numbers alone it makes sense to always agree to reduction requests from a customer. Which is why it makes more sense to look at them in a broader context. How easy it is to replace the customer with someone comparable? How annoying are those crude tactic to the contractor in question, personally?
The model described in the post isn't really an econometric model, for a couple of reasons. First, the underlying theoretical model simply throws the kitchen sink on the RHS of the equation, with little to no economic motivation given for why the chosen independent variables were hypothesized to explain the variation in the dependent variable.

Secondly, only a tiny fraction of economists today actually use any statistical learning methods. Economists still don't do much prediction -- as in "predicting tomorrow, today", or even "predicting today, today" -- both of which differ from forecasting. On the other hand, microeconomic fields like game theory, labor and industrial organization often use models that are extremely rigorous in terms of the underlying economic theory, as well as with the econometric analysis, and interpretation of the results. (see: Microeconometrics)

So to the blog poster that just hired an econometrician: you didn't, you hired a statistician or computational learning fella, which from the sounds of it is working out great. So my apologies for being a stickler here, but the post didn't have any real economic theory behind it. Just some data and the results of computations on that data.
I support the student protestors. Not their violence, obviously, but I suppose violence is inevitable in these sorts of situations.

If the government cannot confront organized crime and its parasitic presence in its construction requisition system, it is basically engaging in selective budgetary restraint - which means it doesn't believe it "really" has to engage in budgetary restraint. Mind you, the budget problems are real - but attacking soft, weak targets means the gov't doesn't believe it.

It is easier to ask for sacrifice when you are seen as having tried to avoid it. That didn't happen. Now we see the inevitable outcome, and the media spin on it is shameful.

My personal belief is that Jean Charest's administration will be remembered akin to Nero's, except that JC's administration will actually deserve the dishonour.
I'll stop using Opera (currently my default browser) if facebook acquires it. Such is the level of trust I have over facebook.
Linking is an inherent part of the web, and publishing on the web means having links to your content. This is like asking somebody to pay for mentioning the name of your book in a reading list.

A few years ago, there was a similar case in Germany. IIRC, it got rejected by the judge for being totally stupid.
This is fantastic. I've always wanted to be able to see this, but the only way so far has been either if they allow comments, or if I see a discussion in the place I used to follow the link (eg. Twitter, HN, Reddit).

Is it all manual or is there some automated component?
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"... While I can put together a prototype on my own, I certainly can't build an entire IDE in any reasonable amount of time by myself. The more money we get, the larger the team I can put together to turn this thing into a reality. ..."

The lack of money didn't stop the Linux kernel or GNU.
Yes, it's unnecessary and distracting.
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> Can anyone explain how CUDA compares to OpenCL, both in terms of flexibility/power and openness?

When it comes to the basics, CUDA and OpenCL are pretty much identical to each other for most parts. There are subtle differences in the API.

When you go deeper, there are a few more differences which mostly come from the hardware. Programming two different devices with OpenCL can be very different if you want to write efficient code. The difference between programming for different pieces of hardware is much larger than the difference between the API's used.

As a single vendor effort, CUDA moves forwards faster and has support for more of the latest GPU features. But it only runs on hardware from that single vendor.
Hi there, author here, and thanks - that's all very valid feedback.

I totally accept the point on the first few "unit" tests being reliant on the database. I took the decision that testing behaviour, and thus introducing the Django ORM early on, would be better in terms of what the students are learning... I think that a discussion of how you could re-write those tests without using the database, perhaps in a later tutorial, would definitely be a good idea, and it could then take in some of the pros and cons of making things maximally granular...

I spend a bit of time later on discussing "testing philosophy", ie what to test and what not to test - I'd be interested in your feedback on that?

http://www.tdd-django-tutorial.com/tutorial/3/
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It stopped the gazillions of other attempts that failed to achieve critical mass.

Not a probability of success I'd be fine with if I wanted Python support in Light Table.
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So I've been using these tweaks for an hour and I have noticed a large perceivable speed increase.

Let's see what crashes over the next few weeks (Once I've forgotten that I've set these flags and end up swearing at my browser for a few hours)
> It was by far the item I loved most in my flat (even before my computer).

I left a marriage and a fully furnished house behind me, but my old couch is one of the things I regret the most, it was just perfect :) That, and the dish-washer, someone should write a poem or build a statue for the person who invented/perfected this wonderful piece of machinery.
It's slightly disingenuous to say "none of which was taxed" when each store and regional organization does pay taxes in the country they're located. The part that's not taxed are the royalty fees paid from each store (franchise system) to the parent corporation (which of course is still a massive amount).
I moves with expedit up to three times. I only disposed (sold) it, because it did not fit anymore with my colorchoices.

So I was able to sell a expedit after three moves.

The kitchen in our home is a pure IKEA Showroom. Even the 40mm realwood top. that did cost about 300 $. We would have paid 2000 - 2500 $, if we would have ordered that one at a kitchen store. The whole kitchen didn't cost that much. You can buy cheap at IKEA. But you can also buy good stuff there. It costs a little bit more, but most times it really lasts.

and: We had a problem once with missing parts. What do I say. A Problem? NO, went ti IKEA, told the service desk, what the issue was, left 5 minutes later with all parts and to vouchers for free coffee.
Ikea are absolutely brilliant. Some may have issues with their style or perceived quality however for price and flexibility they dominate.

Other companies are trying to mimic the flat pack business model. However the overall shopping environment, forcible furniture, warranties make them standout.

The sofa is just one example of adaptable furniture. One limitation though is their bed and mattress products. They have different dimensions (unique to ikea) and therefore you need an ikea mattress for a perfect fit.
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I recommend following @Tupp_Ed (Simon McGarr) on twitter as he's very involved in copyright issues in Ireland. He previously came to fame when the Irish Minister of State for Research and Innovation refused to participate in a debate on the Irish equivalent to SOPA unless Simon stepped down from the panel.
What makes you trust Opera any more already? They're already quite capable of logging every domain you visit, via the fraud prevention mechanism (Enabled by default). Whether Opera are recording this I don't know, but you can probably be quite certain that Facebook will, if they acquire it.
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Opera really could set any price they want. The browser itself is worth far more than some crap like instagram - and Facebook really need it quite badly. I'll be disappointed if they don't get at least $2bn for it. :p
Code authors are coming from PHP background, that's why.
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If you had carefully synchronised low intensity sound sources close to all detectors, you could certainly simulate a gunshot and choose where it was triangulated to by controlling the timing and intensity of the sounds emitted by your multiple sources. Such a simulation could certainly be used to trick the system into thinking that there are hundreds of simultaneous major gun fights going on - which would obviously inhibit the ability of the police to respond to a real one, with a lot less manpower than calling in so many fights.

However, it would probably be more effort than it would be worth, so it is probably more a sci-fi / crime plot than a scenario that is likely to come up often.
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I have never liked "I think". It only serves to muddy the message, make it weak and difficult to find.

Say what you believe, like you believe it. We already know it's your opinion, you're the one saying it. Saying "I think" just makes you look weak and like you don't believe your own words.

It's mostly just annoying, not a sign of humility. A sign of humility is talking in absolutes and changing them when new data is available.
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