skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chinese don't use 青qing(blue/green) in daily speech, only 蓝lan(blue) and 绿lu(green). The crossover where blue becomes green is different with Chinese than English-speakers, though.

If I see a Chinese wearing what I call "aqua-green" clothing, I often ask them "What color sweater are you wearing, blue or green?" They always answer "blue".
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It's an open letter: he want's others reading it to know who he is, and why his opinion should matter.
That's too much and not enough at the same time. We really need a decent summary.
Makes me glad I don't live in the US anymore.
> What is more likely is that there is an underlying reason for the PR people and others to believe it.

You're making the same mistake that the PR guy made (Obviously women don't play games, therefore it's an understandable mistake). Stop doing that, would be a really good start.
What about the change in money brought in due to research done (aka the main revenue generator for academic institutions)?

Also, do you have a source for the 80% growth?
10 to 20 years from now people will wonder just how in the hell programmers' knees aged so quickly, until realizing that half the people standing in attempt to get healthier were simply locking their knees, weighting from side to side through the 8-hour workday.

Not that I'm against standing– I do so myself to draft as it is much easier on my neck and back after many hours– but there will likely be consequences which easily negate the health benefits that come purely from standing vs. sitting.
This is an interesting privacy question, and symptomatic of the larger issues that are facing us as technology continues to ease information-gathering. A hard moral, not to mention legal and technical, problem if there ever was one.

> The letter requests that Apple and Google notify the communities they plan to map in advance and automatically blur the photos of individuals

Doesn't Google already do the latter half of this?
Interesting. Others have tried digital loyalty cards (Punchd and Swipely come to mind), but I think Square is going to have two advantages: 1) customer adoption of digital loyalty cards will rise right alongside customer adoption of digital wallets, since they are integrated; 2) vendor adoption/promotion of digital loyalty cards will rise right alongside vendor adoption of 'digitized' payment systems, since they are integrated.
I learned my lesson years ago and have stuck with Intel for my last four laptops. I haven't had any compatibility issues or manual configuration necessary since then.
Do you honestly believe that you can teach a person with no programming knowledge Ruby/Rails in 8 weeks? Having strong HTML/CSS skills and basic JS/Ruby/Rails, I don't see this as a realistic goal, and could leave some people disappointed for the amount of money spent. Thoughts?
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Since when to U.S. citizens need a government authorization to buy a computer?
Or they could stop pretending an iPhone is some sort of weaponizable supercomputer.
I would recommend you seriously consider re-wording the "reactionary rather than anticipatory" sentence on your blog. (The number of confused/questioning comments here on HN about the use of those terms suggests I'm not the only one. :) )

The sentence in your post above explains your intention much more clearly:

"There are more than enough other things to worry about going into your first talk that it's really comforting to talk about your past experiences than try to prepare a new project or a 'what-if' for an arbitrary conference date."

As I understand it, what you're wanting to convey is that it's better to choose a topic where you can talk about "what I've done" rather than "what I hope to do". The "reactionary"/"anticipatory" terms don't clearly convey that intention and seem to me to be incorrect terms to use.

(I don't have a specific suggestion for replacement terms--"retrospective" is one option but has a slightly negative connotation.)

Aside from that, thanks for sharing your experiences. :)
That quote has been denied by Wikileaks, and apparently also by two Spiegel journalists. [1]

The Guardian and David Leigh in particular do seem to have issues with Assange. Personally I wouldn't automatically believe something to be true just because it was in The Guardian.

[1]
"Gives Julian Assange no right to reply libelous statements such as "Afghan informers deserve to die". Nick Davies was not present at the conversation described, and John Goertz and Holger Stark from Der Spiegel can attest that they have no notes or recollection of Julian Assange saying this and would have recalled if he had claimed such a position."
http://www.wikileaks.org/Guardian-s-WikiLeaks-Secrets-and.ht...
I used to be an advocate of the standing desk. I bought an adjustable-height Fredrik workstation from Ikea, tried multiple heights to find the most comfortable, and stuck with it for six months.

It didn't work.

Even after months of practice, I found it harder to concentrate while standing and doing it any longer than a few hours would invariably result in back pain. I found myself turning to "sitting tasks" like movies and books frequently just to get a break, and it greatly impaired my productivity. It wasn't easy to admit that I had put such a huge amount of effort into a failed experiment, but that's what it was. I'm writing not to discourage people who might benefit from a standing desk from trying it, but to give people who have nagging doubts about their decision a chance to back out without feeling like an idiot. Eliezer Yudkowsky said once, "'Oops!' is the sound rationalists make when they level up."

For what it's worth, I'm 25, male, 6'0", and 130 lbs. I don't exercise regularly, but I live in an urban area in a third-story walk-up, and I don't drive. If you're thinking I gave up because I'm abnormally out of shape, I'm not.
Long live mgl/sgl! The mention about hardware dedupe/filtering was more a hat tip to culling sub pixel triangles and early culling of obscured primitives that seems to happen on many chips these days :)
Greplin does have a browser extension for Chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bjclhonkhgkidmlkgh...

I had it for a while, but I just found I forgot to use it and went directly to searching the services instead.
His tone may be sophomoric, but your world view seems overly naive.

Having a civil conversation is good. But results are the objective, not the form of discourse.

In other words, I'd take a crude, blunt emotional reaction, if it were in fact useful, over eloquent pontification that doesn't result in anything.

Furthermore, the irony is that Nvidia is taking a practical approach, whereas it is Linus that is being idealistic, much like your own position.
>"No extra work for keyboard is required. "

If you're using your laptop keyboard and screen, you probably don't have things in the optimum position (hands too high, monitor too low).
No, I don't think I've ever seen any official support for customizing themes. There is the Hot Dog theme for SO (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/34939/1288) that you might be able to use as a starting point for a custom user theme.
Selling something to someone in a shop who can speak in a language other than english and who was born somewhere else doesn't qualify as suspicion of violating an export restriction, unless you have such appallingly lousy pattern recognition that you really shouldn't be working in a shop in the first place, or in extreme cases, even be allowed out without supervision just in case you get run over while talking to a tree because you thought it was the local dentist as the leaves were the same shade of green as his favourite hat.

[edit] also, ipads, while shiny, are not of the same export class as 'nucular wessels'. I think this might be that pattern recognition problem we've been talking about. Have you been remembering to take your pills at the right time?
Just so we're clear, we got away from things like jQuery's approach to Javascript to get clumsy JS off of a DOM basis. We built a "back-front-end", as I lovingly refer to it, to keep objects more... well, object-y.

Then we turn around and use that framework to clumsily tie back together presentation and logic. Wonderful.

Templates aren't a hack. They are they method to create extensible objects in the presentation layer. Backbone UI users seems to be forgetting Backbone's original intent.
Nobody I know is capable of standing for an entire workday. A drafting stool is absolutely required, and it's often the trickiest part of the configuration; for men taller than six feet, it's very difficult to find an inexpensive drafting stool that is sufficiently tall to match the height of your desk.

[1] e.g., http://www.amazon.com/Boss-Drafting-Stool-Foot-Black/dp/B001...
They're also arguably a success for those who are interested in building off the platform. While Google certainly counts, I suspect this goes beyond them.

As far as the hardware goes, I suspect it's going to be a very low-margin market. Razors to the blades.

This doesn't make it unsuccessful. At all.
It's stupider than that.

As a european company want to launch our satellite on a Chinese rocket. It will leave here sealed in an environmental shroud and go up on their rocket without ever leaving our sight. But because it contains made in USA components = denied export of restricted technology.

Ok so we will design and build the satellite in China allowing them full access to all the technology and giving them a leg up in the production of this kind of payload = no problem.

And Chinasat 6B is now happily broadcasting crap to the people of china
"NSA back-door"

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U.S. citizen here. The storage site is on hold (not scrapped) only because of fear-mongering folks like yourself. There is no technological reason to fear the rail shipment of nuclear waste. It is not difficult to engineer enclosures that will withstand the most energetic possible train wreck. And obviously they are well shielded for radiation.
For mine, I knocked together one out of plywood (3' x 6') and 2x4's for supports and shelving (basically a pair of framed out stands 20"Wx30"Lx42"H)for about $50. Then added a nice anti-fatigue mat from Amazon, and picked up a nice Drafting chair, so I can easily go from standing to sitting (and tend to change position every half hour or so).

Best part is that I was able to precisely size it for my home office, and have it at exactly the right height. Took a bit of getting used to, but it's one of the best investments I've made. Only issue now is that my window AC unit only keeps my feet cold, since the desktop is a few inches higher than the AC unit..
The thing that particularly bothers me about this post:

> People defend this decision by saying that they "had" to do it, because the fixed function pipeline is terribly inefficient on modern GPUs or some such nonsense. These people don't know what they're talking about, because the contour of the API has absolutely fuck-all to do with what goes over the wire.

As far as I can tell from what he's written, all he's done is forcibly enact the same inefficiencies that the paradigm shift away from immediate-mode rendering was intended to eliminate. The contour of the API in this case has a great deal to do with what goes over the wire: most critically, correctly-designed OpenGL ES programs will not retransmit static geometry to the GPU every single frame.
> In my experience, backwards compatible APIs and languages are what makes development a pain going forward

That's the exact opposite of my experience! Libraries that are constantly changing their APIs produce the vast majority of my work.
Is standing long hours really healthier than sitting? (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_complications_of_stan...)

Personally, I feel both sitting and standing for long hours are uncomfortable and prefer walking. But a walking desk is hard to find for $22. I was able to build one for $80 using a used treadmill from Craigslist, free pallet boards made into a keyboard stand, and an old bookshelf to support the monitor.
If you can and want to, would you mind elaborating on your acquaintance? I'm intrigued on what did he do and how he got caught :-)
You said "In my opinion, government is as efficient as the private sector." Directly refuting you is not a strawman.
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IMO (and for me at least), switching between sitting and standing is the key - I picked up a drafting chair from Staples just for that purpose. So now I do about 75%/25% standing/sitting, and switch positions pretty frequently.
This was done on a much larger scale (without primes) as a lottery game in Sweden called "Limbo" or "LUPI" (lowest unique positive integer). Several game theorists have analyzed the data with some interesting results:

http://swopec.hhs.se/hastef/abs/hastef0671.htm

Calculating the equillibrium strategy for rational actors is difficult because each player doesn't know how many other players there are. In the paper above, game theorists calculate it and show that the distributions seen in the lottery match up fairly well to a rational strategy.
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Absolutely. That's why I mentioned that it was a casual question. Since everyone presumably has similar hue thresholds regardless of language, I was wondering if language would effect their answer, according to whatever definitions of "color" and "sameness" they themselves use.

In English, if you casually ask the color of the sky or the color you would use for water on a map, most people will simply say "blue" even though they could probably detect hue difference if presented printed samples of the two. Accordingly, I think most English speakers would say Yes if casually asked whether the sky is the same color as water on a map. But is that the same response and reasoning you would get if you asked a speaker of a language that doesn't distinguish between blue and green whether the sky and leaves are the same color?
All rendering is in some capacity incremental. Sometimes you keep that (incrementally constructed) list of vertices around, of course.

If you look at the old immediate mode API, fundamentally, you're just passing in some floats that it copies into a buffer. This is not an expensive thing to do. It's not free, sure, but CPUs aren't bad at it. It's just some overhead compared to if you were to hand an entire buffer (in a known format) full of floats to the GPU at once. Some extra function calls, etc. If your app is only drawing a few thousand vertices, the overhead difference here is trivial... and if your app is drawing a million vertices, you won't be using immediate mode anyway.
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She said she was buying it for her Iranian friend - that's enough to reasonably suspect.

ps. The state dept doesn't do reasonable - check the small print you need to agree to before downloading something as potentially lethal as a Dell mouse driver.
The constitution also guarantees the right to bear arms to "the people" - how do you suggest we enforce that one across borders?

The US law only applies to the US. Same as in any other country.
Just some numbers, based on my hardware:

Lion OS X install on disk: 7GB

iOS 5.0.1 install: 1.7GB

My MacBook's RAM: 8GB

iPod Touch: 512KB

MB's disk size: 100GB

iPod Touch: 8GB

So: Maybe they removed 80% of the API in general because the iPhone/iPod touch is only 10-20% of a normal computer? Something had to go.
first, not only.
Yup . Dead man walking, er, talking.
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I agree that standing all day is not much better than sitting all day. But for someone not ready to jump to a walking desk, alternating sitting and standing would be a step up at least. Also, sitting on an exercise ball for periods of time can be relieving to those who sit in the same chair all day.
In this case:

Woman: (Speaks Farsi)

Apple: Excuse me, but which language were you speaking?

Woman: "Farsi, I'm from Iran." (Direct quote)

Huh, it is pretty ambiguous where she is from.
Apologies in advance for the off-topic comment. But in looking for more information on this story, I read http://hamptonroads.com/2012/06/amid-uproar-uva-moves-replac... the Virginian Pilot. Which is not the item.

The item is: I have never in my life read such civilized and respectful comments from blog or newspaper readers who clearly disagree with each other on an important issue. My goodness! Is this a regular feature of Southern U.S. life?
These days its more a factor of 2 than an order of magnitude. At least for 3D processing, the open source driver is actually faster on 2D.
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Sorry, should have been more clear. What I really meant was having things like the score, number of answers, etc, in nice big numbers next to the question.
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Most of these were invented because of the threat of war not the war itself. The best example is the Space Race between the US and USSR. There was no war, however the threat of the nuclear war pushed the technology forward tremendously.

Threat of war is better than war as it doesn't destroy your population and economic base.
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Has the community tried to buy the info to at least cover nVidia's cost of compiling and releasing documentation?
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MightyText is a "SMS remote control" for your Android phone. It gives you a browser-interface from which you can send/receive SMS.

It's critical to realize that you are interacting with the MightyText webapp over the internet, it runs on their servers. When your phone receives a SMS it will upload it to their servers so it shows up in the web-interface.

When you write a SMS in their web-interface then your phone will later pick it up (by polling their servers) and send it out via your phone's GSM.

Notice something?

Right, all your SMS conversations now run through their servers. Also, if their servers get compromised then the new owner will gain significant control over your phone; at the least they will be able to send SMS in your name. This is a disaster waiting to happen.

If you're looking for a better implementation of this concept (convenient web-interface to send/receive SMS) then look for "EasySMS" in the android market.

EasySMS runs a webserver directly on your phone, which you connect to with your browser. It's your own local MightyText. No middleman involved, no need to upload all your SMS to remote servers, no need to give a third party remote-control over your phone.
Getting up to move around every 20 minutes will quickly turn a 5-person office into a mess. Now imagine a space shared by 50 or 100 people. This is completely unrealistic.
Ask HN: Well Designed Personal Websites?
I was wondering what personal websites (such as blogs, profile pages, etc.) that fellow hackers thought were particularly well done, such as design, layout, or ease of navigation.

I understand that this is a fairly open-ended question, but I just wanted to see what the community thinks are very well done. An example of what I think is a well designed website is Rands In Repose (http://randsinrepose.com/) due to its clean layout and readability.

EDIT: Just to be clear, any personal website is up for discussion, but if they had a software development or entrepreneurial lean, that would be even better.
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We tip our hat right back! It happens to be pixel-perfect for us in this context, and it's a large part of why we draw so efficiently. Oh, and I still have a working m3D-based system that plays SGL games under DOS!
> And OpenGL ES only existed for 5 years before someone came along as was pissed off enough to do it!

Eh, he's hardly the first guy to do this. Appendix D of my copy of Graphics Shaders: Theory and Practice contains a simple reimplementation of Immediate Mode on top of VBOs for people with a burning desire to prototype their code as if it were 1998 again.

And in reality, in most modern OpenGL (non-ES) implementations, the actual hardware-backed bits basically look like the OpenGL ES API, and all of the legacy cruft is implemented in exactly the same kind of software shim.
This reminds me of the game "clomp" (which I may or may not have invented+) but I used to play with my brother on car rides. Here are the rules:

1) Pick any integer. Your partner picks an integer without knowing yours. The first person to think of a number says "clomp". They are locked in. The other person can say their number any time after "clomp". Honor system. No cheating.

2) If your number is less then your opponent, but not one less, then add your number to your score.

3) If your number is one more than your opponent, then add your number and your opponents number together and add it to your score.

4) Otherwise no score.

5) First to 21 or more wins.

+I may have stolen this from Martin Gardner, I honestly don't remember if I came up with it or I read it. My brother came up with the name "clomp".
Didn't AMD release a ton of documentation for their GPUs specifically so that the open source radeon drivers could become a realistic option when using their GPUs?

Nobody I know with an AMD GPU uses the propriety fglrx drivers.
What about a horse-mounted desk?
We didn't do much of this at all. We "knew of" some of our competitors by name and some of what they did but we didn't bother digging in, etc. I think (and this is purely an opinion) that when you become focused on your competitors or more aware, you end up being influenced whether you believe it or not. It leads to a lot of overlaps and copycat issues (see big companies competing).

By not concerning with that and concerning with building your product the exact way you'd use it to solve for your exact pain points and those of your early adopters, great things can come out of that that are sometimes planned and sometimes spontaneous.