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The nvidia driver codebase is HUUUGE, much of it is valuable proprietary information, and much of it is third party. It would be extremely challenging for nvidia to open source it, from both legal and business perspectives.

I do hold out hope for nvidia gaining full xrandr and kms support at some point. The latest beta drivers have significantly increased xrandr support.
Personally, this is VERY exciting for me. The biggest challenge I have seen with traditional universities getting into "distance learning" is that they are very much focused on delivering a full "classroom" experience rather than tailoring the experience to the medium.

Example: many course videos are of a "live" class and are repeated for every semester regardless of the subject. Next to no re-use of course video is seen from semester to semester. The experience is very much one of time/place-shifting a class experience.

Also, the focus is almost NEVER on interactivity. As a distance student, you're VERY much dependent on your professors willingness to read and answer emails or post in forums.

I was very surprised that MITx had an IRC server set up for the EE class that were offering. I nearly fell out of my chair when I saw they had hundreds of people in the channel.

So, from my point of view, the biggest shift we are seeing is a willingness of the brick-and-mortar universities to consider working with a partner that is going to market their professors and university brand to a very wide audience and yet enough of an arms-length away that there is little risk to the "brand" if things go sour. The fact that there are NO for-credit courses is quite conspicuous and you should expect the universities to attempt to maintain an implicit separation between MOOCs (massive open online courses) and their traditional "residential" offerings.

That said, the writing is on the wall: the traditional model doesn't scale and financial pressure is going to push ALL schools towards this model in some fashion or they will simply become irrelevant. As I drive up and down I-95 in the Northeast, one of the things I've noticed is that there are a massive number of traditional schools advertising on billboards. This NEVER used to happen and most universities (IMHO) considered it a sign of desperation to advertise for students as opposed to recruiting.

What we are witnessing is a race developing. Think back to the early days of Yahoo/Altavista/Google. There are going to be some big winners and some also-rans in this fight. I'm betting on it.

Full Disclosure: I earned my bachelor's degree from Harvard via their Extension School and did the majority of my coursework online using their video delivery platform. I graduated in 2009 at 39 after a LONG absence from school to chase my fortune on the Internet. Best decision I ever made.
An Introduction to Identity and Access Management
It also often targets specific applications to steal credentials from. I know there have been badwares that harvest saved Steam account names and passwords (hopefully they're stored more securely now, but who knows?), and the same could be true for Dropbox email addresses.

The address book scenario or dropbox breach both seem more likely, but it's worth keeping in mind.
He was here in Zurich, Switzerland last week as well. Good event.
Offer HN: Free Tax Help From a Pro.
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I know how hard it is to get things done on a tight (nonexistent) budget. So, I wanted to keep my promise to the Hacker News community from a while back and offer my advice to anyone that might need it on anything tax or business related.

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Ps...Can we bring back the "Offer HN" pass it along attitude back? I missed how the community was really trying to help each other so openly...
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The payment is done via ajax over https - should probably make that more clear on the site
this chart basically includes a set of periodic curves, even though it looks nice but what does it tell you about prime numbers ? Intersected by only two curves 1 and itself ??? well, everyone knows this, no need to make a chart.
And we know, as well, that this so-called-argument is an ad hominem attack and a red herring.
I signed up for a Coursera class (just started today, actually), but this has been my line of thinking. I find value in attending classes in person, as being there and interacting adds to the learning experience. But an online class? Wouldn't a textbook be just as beneficial?

Anyway, I wanted to see what one was like. Since it's free of charge, no big deal if I don't care for it. But I'm curious.
here's a counterpart for Chrome if anyone's interested: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mpbpobfflnpcgagjij...

I just installed it, seems to work as expected. Shows the indicator on both Google and Twitter
I have lots of cronjobs that use the Moose type system to validate data before it gets inserted into either a MySQL row or an ElasticSearch document.

It's a really nice method and has caught a lot of errors in the data those jobs are slurping up before they've impacted production.

It also allows you to do very complex type checking that you wouldn't be able to do in the native type systems of most languages (e.g. with MooseX::Types::Structured), like checking not only whether something is a hash, but it can only have these keys, and each of those keys have to match some constraint.

Obviously you can write custom code to do all that, but offloading it to the type system is so much nicer, and makes it trivial to share those checks between different modules.

It also makes it easy to selectively disable checks, e.g. if you have a large blob of data you're inserting into permanent storage in a cronjob you might like to to extensive validation of it, but you might not want to incur that validation cost on every retrieval in the system that consumes that data.
Must TCP use IP?
Pithy in-jokes are probably not what people want here.
I suspect it was auto-killed. "Footwear" seems to be a magic word for the spam filter. If you turn on "showdead" and look at the "new" page, you'll sometimes see a lot of spam submissions about women's shoes that are auto-killed.

Just a suspicion, but one based on past observations.
To Open Source or Not to Open Source
Microsoft tweaks Skype to facilitate wiretapping
Any argument containing the word "intelligence" at all is hard to digest, because the idea is so totally vague as to be useless.

Unless you operationalize it as something measurable. Such as IQ.

There is no point talking about intelligence in the abstract unless you can actually say what you actually mean in such a way that 30 readers won't develop 30 completely different interpretations of what it is you are saying.

What is "actual intelligence"? And let's not, like Humpty Dumpty, say that words mean just what we choose them to mean.
And Google has a long history (years!) of making Opera appear as bad as possible. One of the classical things were that they had more sites that declined to work at all but worked with no problem in Opera if you force Opera to report itself as "Firefox."
It probably implies "yet another Firefox release (without many significant user-facing changes)..."

There seems to be a general grudge among somewhat technically-minded people against the entire phenomenon of new Firefox releases since Firefox switched to its frequent release model.
When they make those glucose batteries small enough I can see they'd be useful for this implant. I can't find the article with the output, but I'm thinking it was like 5 mW and those glasses only output 3, so seems like it's doable.

Very exciting stuff. Now for curing baldness and letting me regrow my teeth.
Where is the A/B testing data to support the claims of effectiveness?
1. Like modules which are temp. disabled for instance. You could argue of course that these modules should then not exist in the production branch. Also reference images, project notes etc.

2. I could do that but I'm trying to learn how to do it properly...as in I imagine there would be a better way for this. When the DB (hopefully )grows to a considerable size then I take it this approach is not feasible.

The project is ongoing and I lost track of the hours many years ago. 5K users! Ha - I wish :) I was thinking about my general project setup which is described in the initial question...I'm just wondering whether there would not be a more structure way to solve this problem.
Somehow I think I prefer the latter solution ;)
I think this is it. Flickr content is much more searchable via tags, Facebook not so much. The focus in Flickr is subject matter and actual photography, with Facebook it's more about people and experiences within networks. Many Facebook photos are uninteresting to people other than the friends of the originator.

Publishers regularly search Flickr for photos to license and use. I'm a point-and-click shooter, but out of the blue I received two messages asking to publish one of my photos (which I had tagged descriptively). I was paid, and I learned how to complete invoices and W-9s, and had the joy of seeing my photo published with credit in a food magazine no one reads (Whole Foods sold it briefly). Yahoo could better highlight Flickr's ability to connect publishers with casual photo-takers, by facilitating thorough tagging of photo contents and improving the search ability. Flickr's definitely a much larger and open body of content than Facebook for this purpose.
You just described the level of integration G+/Picasa has with my Android phone: every photo I take is automatically uploaded to a (private) folder on there.

For many of us, Flickr's appeal is that it's (self-)curated: you've picked your best stuff to upload. Features like "explore" reward this; popular content is highlighted, while those who just upload every photo they take tend to not get any attention at all. They've effectively trained the userbase to share good content (insofar as the userbase is capable of producing, anyway).

It's the reason a lot of Flickr users, particularly the ones who produce good content, are interested in 500px: quality counts.

That dynamic would change quickly if everyone were encouraged to dump everything they take onto Flickr. It would devalue the service for many of us: nobody wants to see fifteen different perspectives of the same "moss on a rock", taken in rapid succession, but that's what your contact stream would end up filled with. You can only remove people as contacts for so long, before you decide it's no longer worth the trouble and jump ship.

Flickr isn't Photobucket or Picasa, and that's a good thing.
This is freaking AWESOME.

Does anybody know what the most common type of blindness is?
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Exactly. I fully support the open research movement as it will drive competition, new business models and spread quality research, but the review process is probably a very challenging one to manage.

People will evenutally solve this problem parts at a time, but I wouldn't put a £1 per article price tag on it yet.
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I loved the official announcement of Chrome 20:

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2012/06/yet-another-chrome-releas...
Interview with Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman on taking console concept to reality
Daniel Willingham knows a lot about this subject (I took into to cognition with him a couple of years ago). Of course in the linked article he is just paraphrasing other people's work, but he does a lot of similar stuff himself especially on developmental neuroscience in learning and reasoning. It is very interesting to be taught by someone who knows a ton about learning and how to learn from the neurological point of view.
Without a consistent, objective definition, "intelligence" makes no sense. If you would like to dissociate IQ and intelligence, go ahead, but IQ is a metric that has correlations with many other factors (test performance, income, a whole slew of things really).
SocialCam's sale deflates social video sector
I know everyone here knows Rich Hickey from Clojure, but I'm a C/C++ programmer from the '90s and I primarily know him for "Hickey functors", which were the de facto standard way of doing object-oriented callbacks in C++.

Also, while I am sure they were for the time a near-optimal solution, they are f'ing gross, so "Hickey functor" is a bit of an epithet. "Oh well, better than Hickey functors" was a justification for a lot of Gang-of-four pattern goop in my C++ code.
I'm a convert, local food is over hyped.
No it's still up, guess Cloudflare decided to stop serving pages at one point :/.
The mental model I'm using here is that IQ is the result of something like (Genetic g) * diminishing_returns(nutrition). And that nutrition is something like K1*(social_factor) + K2 + noise(). So noise is going to result in smaller deviations when the social_factor is higher.

Before reading that website I would have expected that variations in the first term for nutrition would be small compared to the second term, so I wouldn't have necessarily expected this to show up between affluent and poor kids in the US. But between affluent kids in the US and kids from sub-Saharan Africa I certainly would have.

EDIT: In fact, I would have guessed the working-class/middle-class IQ differences were an order of magnitude lower.
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Can anyone suggest a good AMP (apache mysql php) server that runs on android?
Most people seem confused by Autodesk part of this headline. Am I the only one confused by the $60M?

Look at the traffic decline: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/socialcam.com

My understanding is that a bunch of people clicked on Socialcam when it showed up in their news feed and didn't know they were signing up - now it seems the numbers are starting to reflect that not many people actually use it.

Maybe I'm just crazy.
That can be a possibility. Is such cases is it possible for mods to bring it back again or one should repost it with different title?
Motorola Xoom doesn't copy Apple iPad, German court says
"It's standard" is a lie often told to employees to weaken their bargaining position. The only time I've seen and NDA was for a client that was insane. NDAs are not standard. Negotiate harder.
1. Move those into another repo? Delete them afterward?

2. Use a migration tool. South is one for example that works with Django, there are many others.
Making Friends As An Adult - It's all gotta do with perceived effort
Actually, being able to collaborate in real-time on a model would be quite useful.
The End of Limitless Data?
11 hrs of work today produces as much as 40 hrs in 1950
It's obvious, but I'll just say for the record - that's not open source, they just de-obfuscated the binaries. Which is a big deal, but still a far cry from having an open-source replacement.
Makes me wonder if it's the difference between a different language being compiled to minified Javascript vs. minified Javascript.
But still he deserve some recognition,

and

but when it comes to "getting things done", you should step back and congratulate him

My first words were "it's a great primer", followed with a suggestion for how to get the most from the work.

I'm not trying to downplay Wolfram's other work either, just pointing out that there are issues and grains of salt to take with this particular work.
I think it implies that if you're wealthy, you are able to fully meet your intellectual potential, thus the greater spread for wealthy children.
SendHub (YC W12) hits 1M text messages
Modernize the UI & build a non awful mobile experience.
Wrong. Just because you can build faster with a supposedly "better" tool, doesn't mean everyone else can. I know Python, I know Node.js, I know a bunch of other languages, but I don't know them better than PHP, and to be honest, my job doesn't pay me to learn a new language at the same scale as I know my current language, all because a group of people THINK that my language is crap, when in reality, to the end user, my language looks no different than theirs.

My mentality is to use whatever tool you feel comfortable with, and don't let someone else tell you to use something different because THEY can build faster.

Sure a nail gun is faster than a hammer, but if I have problems with an nail gun and can bang in nails faster with a hammer than a nail gun. I'm gonna use the hammer.
Not sure if this is true, but I heard recently that the best predictor of IQ is actually the gene that controls determines the size of your mom's vagina, because that is what mediates the risk of brain cell loss due to lack of oxygen at birth. Kind of a funny, but also quite telling about the state of genetics.
It tells you that prime numbers and periodic curves might be related more than you might have thought at first blush. I.e., if you can mathematically describe and analyze this set of periodic curves, then you have also described and can analyze the prime numbers.

As I mentioned, I don't know much about number theory, but I do know that it uses a lot of math that is counterintuitive at first blush. Perhaps this visualization gives us a clue as to why that is the case.
I don't know what point you're trying to make with the story about your friend. On one hand you're talking about your pro photographer friend, and then you're talking about people sharing photos on Facebook. They're entirely different use cases.

There are already "pro" photo hosting sites that blow the socks off of Flickr, Picassa, and Photobucket. I use SmugMug, but there are others. The top tier SmugMug account is $150 a year and out of the box lets you price and sell photos and prints and a bunch of other stuff.

Unless your friend sells directly to newspapers or magazines, I would expect she'd know of these "pro" sites. If she depends on photo hosting to make her living, I find it hard to believe she considers photo hosting an "afterthought."

On the other hand, when she's just taking some casual photos, why wouldn't she use PhotoBucket or FaceBook? There's a huge difference between, "look at these stunning photos I'm trying to sell" and "Here we are partying last night."
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That said, the writing is on the wall: the traditional model doesn't scale and financial pressure is going to push ALL schools towards this model in some fashion or they will simply become irrelevant.

I don't disagree there are all kinds of problems. But how does this initiative address any of the financial pressures? It does nothing to reduce the cost structure of universities; in fact it increases the cost structure by adding another thing their professors and administrators must do, not instead of but in addition to everything they currently do. And yet, it does not provide any new revenue streams to pay for that. At least, it doesn't unless there is a payment from Coursera to universities as part of this deal that hasn't been announced yet. My guess is that they're hoping to use it as an advertising loss-leader to attract students and prestige. But that would mean doubling down even more on the traditional high-tuition model, because that's what's going to ultimately subsidize the free courses.

Now if they charged for the online courses, I could see that making a difference in the financial picture. Maybe that's the longer-term plan, for-pay online courses with Coursera and the university splitting the proceeds. That would be closer to the Harvard Extension School model you mention.
I hadn't realised this before making it, but one interesting pattern is that the number in between twin primes is always abundant, if greater than 6.

It's reasonably simple to prove using the fact that every twin prime pair except (3, 5) is of the form (6n − 1, 6n + 1).
That's just the thing. Does anyone understand the primes, really?

We know a lot about number fields, multiplication and sieving... but the primes themselves (the "holes" left in the wake of the sieving process) are something of an epiphenomenon to all of this.
I took the "open source" to be sarcastic, not an actual comment on the licensing structure.
Kaspersky Lab and Seculert discovers a new virus targeting Iran
What state(s) are you licensed for ?
Try touching down some place strongly composite, like 720.
In part, yes.

New distribution channels don't appear that often and when they appear you should rush to be early and aggressive, as they decline in effectiveness over time, which limits competitors' ability to match you.

Of course a strong product and good retention are essential to keeping those users, but you are a video app and this opportunity were to present itself you would be crazy (stupid) not to jump on as quickly as humanly possible.
I don't know about their traffic but I would not be surprised if it had decined. Growth comes from paying attention to growth. But getting acquired, like raising money, is an immense drain on attention. In both cases it can put a startup in a dangerous pinch.
No Retina support :( There is a temporary fix for that, but it requires layers.acceleration to be disabled.
On the other hand, a lot of people automatically assume that tasks are hard, when they could be a lot easier. I make a point to try and periodically ask the business people in my startup to show me their workflow in our software. Occasionally they've concocted elaborate workarounds for something that could be made straightforward with a bit of code.

So it may be that "has all my photos" is more important than "is easy to use", but it's no excuse for Photobucket to not fix its issues. Because if you wait long enough, eventually ease of use will overcome "has all my photos". (Instagram)
The article is interesting enough (it never occurred to me to create a 'curved drop shadow' effect solely via CSS with transforms -- slick!), but it's very poorly named. It's not about designing a pricing table, it's about implementing a pricing table in HTML/CSS based on the author's design, with zero discussion of any of the factors that went into the design.
http://guardianproject.info/wiki/OSTN
Great quote from page 8 of the actual report:

"In particular, there is clear evidence that school affects intelligence."
Get the picture? Art in the brain of the beholder
But the title was much less descriptive.
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Seems like she's the exception to the rule. From various videos posted on YouTube of middle-aged and elderly people trying to navigate Windows 8, it seems like the transition won't be quite so smooth for everybody.

That said, my parents have been using (Ubuntu) Linux for the last 5 years without any problems at all. It's definitely reduced support calls from them (no more crashes or viruses). They're still using the same old PCs from when I first installed Ubuntu. When I visit them, I install a new LTS release, if it's available (one's released every 2 years), a process that takes about 30 minutes of my active attention.
Gangs Of Wasseypur Upcomming Hindi Movie - Based on Underworld Coal Mafia
Maps was great when she took over. Local was very important because the push was to get all businesses using Google Local (this is why they promoted it to the top of all search results, etc, and why they tried to buy Yelp).

Despite the obvious value to them, the product was and remains very poor.
It would be strange to assume uncritically that Nobel prizes were given out in a way which was completely unbiased. For example, it is at least highly plausible that there are biases on the basis of nationality, connections, school background and other things which have nothing to do with merit, ethnicity OR culture as such. So it seems strange to me to suggest that it must be some aspect of Jewishness that determines this difference.
Is Microsoft Metro Undesigned?