skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems likely. I think Apple only got away with the shift to the Mac App store because the market for third-party Mac software is minuscule compared to that of Windows and includes a lot of smaller devs for whom relinquishing control of sales and distribution is as much a blessing as a liability.

On Windows big players like Valve are going to be less willing to play sharecropper.
It seems like a smart idea for another player step in and maybe build another NZ-AUS only cable.

I must admit, the pacific was seemed hugely ambitious and I was wondering if something would come in and derail it. I never thought that espionage reasons would be one.
I never even mentioned the CPU speed. I didn't say the hardware decoding was lacking (which it is, since it can't decode most of my BluRay rips in real time) I said it made an awful HTPC, which it does because the UI FPS is awful and whether or not your content will actually play depends on a bunch of technical factors I can't be bothered to keep track of.
On charity:

I see two reasons for these different approaches to charity: first, Americans distrust big organizations and third world governments; they fear that money they donate to global causes will trickle away in bureaucracies somewhere. Second, Germans intuitively don't feel much of a need to help local organizations or schools: "that's the government's job, that's what I pay taxes for."

I think the main driver for these different approaches is that the German state basically says "in the end we'll help you" while the US says "in the end you're on your own".

The German approach in my opinion does more to alleviate outcast-scale poverty. However, the quality of helping loses because:

a) those who would help mostly help people from other continents since they think that their countrymen are well off anyway

b) those who do help, are put there to help in form of public officers

But even with a strong social-net as in Germany there are still poor people. What happens when a)-people don't care and b)-people just follow orders is that our poors usually never get on their own feet and out of their dependency because their is no one telling them how to help themselves. That's what I mean with quality of helping.

And yes, this article seems very outdated, but to me the subject would still make a promising headline. One thing I observed is that both countries got less different over the years: If you look at the policies regarding the social-net, Europe has tried to become more american (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept) while the US has tried to become more european (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Health_Care_for_Amer...).
These kinds of things can be surprisingly subjective. An audio driver in this case shouldn't be doing much more than shoveling bytes into a device buffer.
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Ah yes of course. But if so, wouldn't they have issues interacting with the driver, since they have to be x64?
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PostgreSQL should really be using a radix sort for these data types, not a quick sort (however "optimized").
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Yea its been known for a long time that that was the case. The problem with modern climate change is the speed at which its changing. In the past plants and animals evolved to deal with changes as they appened over millions of years, and now they have to adapt in just a few decades which is impossible for most.
PostgreSQL is extensible enough that runtime specialisation would be best, I think. A JIT compiler, or a compiled type-safe multi-stage[1] programming language like MetaOCaml, would give the best performance.

[1] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~taha/MSP/
I would imagine all major gaming engine companies already have source code deals with the graphics card vendors, and vice versa. It's the kinda thing where everybody wants compatibility with each other and it wouldn't make sense not to share it.
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This submission's title (taken from the blog post) is more interesting.
At the same time you're executing fewer instructions, because 64b instruction set is a bit more powerful. There's a balance between many things here.
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To be fair...

"Interestingly, in the process of working with hardware vendors we also sped up the OpenGL implementation on Windows. Left 4 Dead 2 is now running at 303.4 FPS with that configuration."
> We have been doing some fairly close analysis and it comes down to a few additional microseconds overhead per batch in Direct3D which does not affect OpenGL on Windows. Now that we know the hardware is capable of more performance, we will go back and figure out how to mitigate this effect under Direct3D.

Why wouldn't they switch back to OpenGL on windows then ?

Besides the absolute numbers I wonder how the hardware is behaving regarding resource intensive applications games are. From personnal experience every laptops and computers I have owned had had their fans spinning much louder when running ut2004 (and other games) on linux than on windows. Whether because it's getting hotter for less computational power or because of more aggressive default fan settings in distros.
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I have to say that this is nothing short of a miracle. The OpenGL API is really hairy to implement at all, let alone making it fast. There's 20 years of accumulated legacy and design mistakes that the driver vendors need to care about. D3D, on the other hand has been re-designed on every iteration and backwards compatibility has been broken in every major release.

On the other hand, porting from D3D code, you don't touch the hairy parts of OpenGL at all because D3D is functionally quite close to the "clean parts" of GL. But there's still some software overhead to overcome. They might also be using a proprietary D3D-on-OpenGL layer, like the ones being used for some Mac ports of Windows games (edit: seems like they are not).

I hope that Steam, and gamers that use Mac and Linux in general, will push for bigger changes in OpenGL, both specs and implementations.

disclaimer: I write GPU drivers for living
Anyone know what the end product for something like this would cost?

Seems to me like this won't make it into popular use. At least not for a long time simply due to the cost of installation and upkeep.

I find that it is very rare that I find driving conditions so bad that it is a danger to drive. When I find visibility difficult I either slow down, take a safer road (easier to drive at 30 in low vis than 70) or I just stop driving.

The technology looks great. However, it will be difficult to justify the cost when the actual technology won't be in use 99% of time.
I'm quite sure they thought of this and will address it in some way.
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(Reposting the comment I had left on the other version of this article:)

PostgreSQL should really be using a radix sort for these data types, not a quick sort (however "optimized").
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In their one test app they observed FPS values of 315 on Linux, and 303.4 on Windows. This seems small enough that it's a stretch to call it "trouble" on Windows--probably wouldn't even notice it.
Innumeracy should be treated like Illiteracy.
> Why wouldn't they switch back to OpenGL on windows then ?

Because for many cards, the opengl drivers are awful. If you are only implementing one of DirectX and OpenGL on windows, there really is no contest. Of course, you could do both, but then you have another option to give users, and two very different codepaths to test.
I hate to sound trivial and to deviate from the conversation, but I would like to draw attention to Finland for a moment and say that the US government should follow suit (for the most part I agree that people in the US have learned to tolerate substandard quality when it comes to many technology services). In Finland, legislation dictates that it is the right of every citizen to have free access to at least a 1Mbps internet connection and by 2015 every household will have a 100Mbps connection. Food for thought: Perhaps if the US followed suit other mobile, banking (and network-reliant fields) would evolve accordingly?
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Something along those lines might be an improvement but then you have the issue of a parent company in the US not being able to assign those rights to a European based subsidiary to defend them there.

I think it's probably dealing with the wrong problem which is the need for more fundamental reform of IP law.
Pulling out processes/servers/cables is an ideal way to test what happens when you pull out processes/servers/cables. Especially when you want to see how it affects a system that is too large to realistically reproduce in a test rig (though presumably you would still want to run it in your scaled down test rig too).

Throttling CPU/disc/network is all well and fine and necessary too, but that's only one set of failure scenarios, and won't protect you against a whole range of failures related to systems just disappearing as they crash, or failing to restart, or any number of other concerns.
Bad faith? Why didn't he ask them to be more specific about why they wanted a meeting. It seems the problem was that he made an incorrect assumption.
Thanks for clearing things up.
I've noticed that quakelive runs noticeably faster on linux than on windows. strangely though this doesnt seem to be related to fps, but rather appears to stem from mouse latency (in other words the game just appears more responsive on linux) - has anyone made similar observations?
Great article! I was just planning on starting a fairly complex Web app with jquery, now i'm thinking I should give one of these js mvc frameworks a shot.
In terms of geology/geography, 50MYA is not long ago really - the land masses were broadly similar to those today, and the poles probably were too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paleogene-EoceneGlobal.jpg

So it's more that the climate was dramatically different over the entire globe, with more CO2, and a dramatically higher temperatures, with sub-tropical poles.
Here's my second Javascript draft. I intend to refactor it tomorrow so that the three if branches are unrolled into their own functions. Especially since some bizarre facet of Javascript's type coercion makes it impossible to do early returns inside the iterator function ([] << 1 somehow comes out as 1, not [1]).

https://github.com/austinyun/challenges/blob/master/array-it...

function increment_where_pure(array, match, n) {
var count;

function iterator(f, acc, item) {
// f is the function used to combine array arguments -- push || unshift
if (count === 0) {
f.call(acc, item);
} else {
if (item === match) { item += 1; }
f.call(acc, item);
count -= 1;
}
return acc;
}

if (n === 0) {
return _.map(array, function(item) {
return item === match ? item + 1 : item;
});
}

if (n > 0) {
count = n + 1;
return _.reduce(array, iterator.bind(null, Array.prototype.push), []);
}

if (n < 0) {
count = -n + 1;
return _.reduceRight(array, iterator.bind(null, Array.prototype.unshift), []);
}
}
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+1 for ETA.
Also - there is one thing more, that is unclear - I know, that you will not limit functionality of OS Passenger and it's still fully legit to use current version, but it would be great, if you could exclusively mark it somewhere, that this wouldn't be unclear. Or just create some kind of FAQ. You know - after all MANY people are using your software and once you've decided to start offering paid version, there are doubts about future etc
The way US politicians are funded, they do not give a shit about this hypothetical lone inventor. This is just a romantic ideal used by the pro-patent lobby to glamorise patents.
> Why wouldn't they switch back to OpenGL on windows then ?

Because no-one likes to program with OpenGL. Because of it's history, it is one of the hairiest APIs out there. Try to propose using OpenGL to a game developer and you'll be laughed at.

Many GPU vendors have been doing a bad job with OpenGL windows drivers and they have been really buggy, but the situation is improving.

I write OpenGL because I don't use Windows. I still hate it.
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Well, yeah! I'd done a tiny bit of VBA scripting for work, but this was first effort to do anything 'proper'.

The curve was pretty tough to start with (and I'm definitely nowhere near the top of it yet), but I kept my goals small and gave myself a lot of time to read books / websites / stack overflow.

One downside to this approach is that I'm still working with code I wrote a year ago, so my code base is pretty horrendous! Needless to say I won't be reusing much of this project...

Thanks very much!
The abundance of awful OpenGL drivers is one of the reasons given for the ANGLE project (http://code.google.com/p/angleproject/). I've often wondered what those cards are though? NVIDIA drivers at least always seemed to have solid OpenGL support.
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PC games players are speed junkies. If this all goes through, then I would not be surprised to see games players migrate to linux in droves.
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Valve are quite concerned about Microsoft's moves with the Windows 8 Store. Linux is a less risky bet than you might think.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/steams-newell-windows-...
Obviously the earth hasn't latched into a "permanent irreversible hotter state". The present climate and the fact that we even exist to talk about it demonstrates that. What exactly are you trying to say?

And the fact that the earth is cooler now than at some arbitrary time(s) in the past doesn't prove that such a state isn't possible either, only that it hasn't happened yet.

The earth was 5-10 degF warmer in the Middle Miocene, about 15-20 million years ago. Inferring from this that global temperatures are following a declining trend is extremely misleading.
Matt:

The site could use some friendlier error messages. :).

1 error prohibited this user from being saved: <-- this line here.

Password doesn't match confirmation

Could just be passwords dont match!
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Just signed up and tried it out. Firstly, great work. It really show plenty of promise. Secondly, some suggestions.

1) Would love to see the yes/no question template expand to become a multiple choice questions. Eg, which colour paper did I use today? blue, red or yellow.

2) Can you have an option to export the data out, especially for the questions with numerical data? This would be use for custom analysis or reports.

3) Is it possible us to specify some limits for the quantity questions? ie, I will only accept if the answers are between 5mins and 15mins.

4) What happens to the data that we entered?

Keep up the good work!.
Do you write old-and-busted OpenGL or new-hotness OpenGL? Seems fairly clean to me when you leave out all that legacy crack the CAD vendors can't seem to give up.
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Thanks, I'd not heard of that.
Very cool! How is this performance achieved? Which algorithm is used to propagate the distinctfd constraint?
It depends on what "allowed" means. The penalty for doing so exceeds that for many minor crimes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax#United_States
AMD (ATI) GPU drivers are the worst when it comes to OpenGL. id software is one of the few big companies that makes OpenGL games and they always run much slower on ATI cards (Doom 3 during the first few years of its release) or run with nearly game breaking glitches (Rage, textures that pop up 3 seconds too late on the screen)

John Carmack was seriously angry about ATI's drivers when the game "Rage" was released.
http://kotaku.com/5847761/why-was-the-pc-launch-of-rage-such...

"The driver issues at launch have been a real cluster !@#$, [...] When launch day came around and the wrong driver got released, half of our PC customers got a product that basically didn't work. The fact that the working driver has incompatibilities with other titles doesn't help either. Issues with older / lower end /exotic setups are to be expected on a PC release, but we were not happy with the experience on what should be prime platforms."

I unfortunately made the mistake to buy an AMD 5770 when I assembled my last desktop computer. This hateful GPU. If you even care one bit about either OpenGL or Linux, you are *ed with AMD.
The open source drivers for linux are too slow for anything that matters and the closed source drivers made by ATi are too buggy to be used at all, they couldn't even run Gnome 3 without so many glitches, for so many months without improvements to the drivers, that I felt true despair.

You want OpenGL or/and Linux, and you need performance ? Get a Nvidia. There's nothing but Nvidia that works well with either.
If you don't need performance, then simply get something that has an integrated intel chip.

I will never, ever think about buying anything from AMD again. Pure garbage. Their newer CPU line, the Bulldozer, is also garbage that runs slower than the older generation on many tasks.
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This seems like a step in the right direction. In the UK, as far as I'm aware, this is standard procedure in ANY legal case. The loser has to pay the legal fees of the winner. This can be a double-edged sword however. A big legal firm with lots of resources will mount legal fees that they alone can crush any small company.

This is one aspect that I see missing from this. The mere threat to sue over a patent can force a small company to settle or to even close-shop completely. Sure, if the small company wins, they'll get their legal fees back, but when would that be?? a good few months of time, energy, lack of sleep, and huge legal bills until the end of the process, and that's only IF they win.
Not apropos your post, but slightly relevant.

After having some involuntary contact with law, I found that I love to read laws and jurisdiction. I'm finishing my MsC in computer engineering and would love to try to pursue a career that would intersect technology and law. I've just found a LLM, a masters in Law, that doesn't requires a Law degree in the University of Edinburgh, they even have the possibility for distance learning. (http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/teaching/llm/llminnovationtechn...)

Can you tell me what should I expect to do with such degree? I was thinking something like paralegal work on technology related cases.

Besides that, what could I do to prepare myself before entering the LLM? I'm almost completely ignorant on most Law concepts/theory.

Thanks, and good luck for your startup. I had thought of something like that but for the government decrees, to increase state transparency.
> Do you write old-and-busted OpenGL or new-hotness OpenGL? Seems fairly clean to me when you leave out all that legacy crack the CAD vendors can't seem to give up.

I usually use the latest GL only. Today that would be GL 4.2 core profile. Or GLES2.

Sure the old fixed function pipeline and immediate mode are gone. But the API still sucks. Bind-to-modify semantics, using integers for handles, global state everywhere, etc. They are the big problems, for both, users and implementors.
Yeah. And one of anti-linux arguments for Windows fans is just getting killed - gemes do run on Linux. If this experiment will be a success for Valve, we only can wait for other game producers to follow their steps. And taking under consideration that not everybody is going to like Windows 8, this can be a beginning of revolution!
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According to what I've read, the current employment prospects for law school grads in the US are the worst they've ever been. Considering that law students as a whole were far stronger undergrads than their peers, a nearly 15% unemployment rate is pretty brutal.

http://chronicle.com/article/Unemployment-Among-Recent-Law/1...
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Episode 5 of Walking with Dinosaurs was dedicated to Antarctica. Their setting is another 50 million years earlier, as the title implies, but it may interest you nevertheless.
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> Figuring that out and making it easy to execute
> those tests is important in getting people to
> want to write them.

This is so incredibly important. Anyone on your team should be able to run the test suite from the command line by invoking a single command. The easier and the quicker a test suite runs, the more people will run it.

Also, spending a day to setup a CI server (Jenkins, circleci.com or similar) is a good use of your time. You want to have the CI run the test suite after every commit to your mainline branches in SCM.

Another key aspect to testing is generating clear and concise error output. One thing I find very frustrating is when a CI build fails, but it is not clear why. I find most CI systems are very good at listing all the passing tests, or when a few tests fail in the expected way. When tests fail hard (exceptions thrown, processing not start or not running) I find that I often need to go reading through build logs to find out what went wrong and why.
They're 'irritant avoiders', not 'speed junkies'. Once you get a framerate that's fluid, the drive to up speed even further is largely confined to a tight niche. Computers are generally fast enough now - I used to know a few overclockers back when it made a difference, now I don't know any.
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Why hasn't anyone succeeded at "Instagram for Video", yet?
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I have some utility for image processing algorithms but I am no expert in the field, nor do I have any desire to become one - I just have some ideas I want to implement.

The idea that I can write my algorithms in this language and target them at the CPU initially (to keep costs down while focusing purely on photo processing), then have it running on Amazon's EC2 GPU infrastructure later with no changes when I want to (and can afford to) expand into video processing is pretty awesome.

And all of that while having the code apparently run faster than hand tuning (which I have no interest in doing) would allow. Implementing a parallalizable hand-tuned algorithm does seem like it should be faster, but even if that were true I don't have the time or expertise for attempting that.
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A working back button would be nice (to get back to language selection).