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Maybe it's time for OpenGL 5.0 to start from scratch, and support only the latest x86, ARM and MIPS chips. It might be the only way to catch-up with DirectX, no? Right now I'm excited about OpenGL ES 3.0 for mobiles, and what will bring to the mobile market.
My target audience know what it means. Web devs.

For more general population-oriented sites, I have smiley faces and "JavaScript" and "Web browser".
Given that screens physically refresh at 60Hz these days, you definitely wouldn't notice it. High FPS numbers are useful as a guide to efficiency, not subjective experience.
Seems interesting but with a notable number of mistakes on the US, how much can I trust what is said about Germany? and how much has changed since he moved to the US?
Maybe the tap could be done covertly before commissioning.
Ask HN: Please help me with seo. 600k player statistics are not getting indexed.
Hi everyone,
I'm having problems with my site getting indexed. I thought a hackernews member might could help me.

My site's holding about 600k player statistics and almost none of them are getting indexed. I'm not exactly sure what the reason is. About a week ago google crawled and indexed 300k pages in about 2-3 days but a few days later they dropped everything again.

We have more content than our competitor and the players statistic page is also liked and shared by visitors a lot.

Our competitor is doing quite well, he got about 4.6m of his player statistics indexed.

Cleaning up the HTML a bit, using meta title and descriptions, properly redirecting old site structures to the right place (301) didn't help, google still doesn't bother about indexing the player statistics.

Although they're still crawling some of them but they choose not show them.

I thought it might be because of duplicate content so I moved the languages from the structure (e.g. /kr/ ) to a sub domain (e.g. kr.riot5.com).

I'm not quite sure if my site's under a penalty or if there's something wrong with my content.

I feel a bit overwhelmed of all the possible reasons that might cause google to stop indexing my page and why they once indexed a lot.

I would be really grateful if someone could help me finding the problem.

The site's at http://www.riot5.com/
Actually, the aspect ratio is because our eyes are side-by-side, so a longish, non-square screen is mimicking our eye-view.
An increased "clarity" or "spaciousness" of sound can be caused by anything from a slight increase in total gain (even as small as 0.5dB) to bypassing or enabling bass and treble controls, even if the controls are set to zero. Some sound chips also have "3D" effects which mix inverted and/or delayed copies of the left and right channels with each other, that can increase or decrease perceived spaciousness. Differences in power management approaches between the operating systems can increase or decrease electrical noise in the system (more noise means finer details are masked), and could also affect the accuracy of the sample rate clock, resulting in different amounts or types of sample jitter between OSes. There are other DAC parameters (i.e. DC bias -- some chips might be able to produce a balanced signal between -Vs and +Vs, but only if they have a negative supply; otherwise they have to fall back to 0V to Vs) that Linux may be programming differently.

The best way to identify any differences is to run the audio into a calibrated measurement device (at the very top end an Audio Precision box) and check the gain, frequency response, jitter, THD+N, etc.
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The aspect ratio / vertical video (PSA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA) point is a really good one, I like the idea of "preventing" vertical video through norming/squaring the aspect ratio
At least for values of X that are associated with Valve...
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.

In fairness to AMD, AIUI that is by design, with the intention to increase clock speeds and core counts to compensate. However, that line of thinking was the downfall of the Pentium 4.
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> disclaimer: I write GPU drivers for living

Is that a reason for us not to take you seriously? Feel free to disclose any connection you have with the subject but please don't disclaim responsibility for your comments. :)

Unless, of course, you want to..

(Sorry for the no-content post but I see this word used in every second thread these days and it's one of the things that might be driving me nuts.)
I'm sure plenty of firms would be interested in a candidate who has a good grasp of technical concepts so why not look to convert to become a lawyer by applying for training contracts with law firms? Many firms like candidates who have done a first degree and will fund you to do the conversion course. It's obviously a very competitive space but then due to the excess of law grads, so is the paralegal space.

Your course provider is best placed to advise on some good introductory texts to the subject you are studying. Some general introductory books along the lines of 'How to study law' may be of interest however.

Speaking as a lawyer, many of the legal concepts you will come across are relatively straightforward, it is the subsequent process of applying them to the facts where problems arise, but if you have a logical mind (which is likely to be the case coming from a computer engineering background) then you should be ok.
I really like the idea of onesec app: solves the pb that "I suck at taking video" (// Instagram: even if my pics are crap they could look good with filter). Still imho the best comparison is not "instagram" but Twitter. Onesec = twitter for video ie: only 1 second format (or 2 or 5s) videos not more. That'll make video less of a waste of time and more appealing to me.
Anyone care to chime in why portrait & square aspect ratios seem to work for photos but not for videos? I know the very first film formats were actually square for both moving & static images. Why did video quickly settle on 4:3 / 16:9 while photo explored the portrait, landscape & square formats? Is it really just because of the technical constraints (the device to 'play' the media) or is there a more fundamental, natural reason?
yeah, it goes in the same direction as other short duration formats. E.g.:
- 5s Movies: http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththegl...
- 15s Film Festival: http://www.15secondfilmfestival.com/
The potential benefits of being truthful in a exit interview largely accrue to those still at the company, the risks largely accrue to the person doing the interview.

Combine that with the fact that companies who have significant problems of the sort that make people want to leave rarely deal with them (if they were that sort of company they wouldn't have those issues in the first place), and on balance it simply makes no sense to offer anything other than a somewhat rose tinted version of the truth at most.

The world is a smaller place than most people think, people know people, word gets around, unofficial references are taken all the time ("hey, this guy worked at place X, I know someone there, I'll give him a call"). Never unnecessarily upset someone, anyone, without very good reason.

And whatever you do, never ever make the mistake of assuming that because you were right, that's how it will be seen (and told) by everyone.
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Incidentally, this is the same reason why sorting in C++ using std::sort is much faster than qsort[1]. Basically, std::sort, which is templated, lets the compiler do the same specialization and inlining that this article talks about.

[1] http://radiospiel.org/sorting-in-c-3-times-faster-than-c
Was expatriation a serious problem for the US? It seems a bit of a severe step to take for someone who is already wealthy.

Not to mention it raises the question - if someone renounces their citizenship, what right does the country have to tax them? Doesn't tax come with the right of representation?
And at the same time legal services are still horrifyingly expensive. This is partly because law students have unreasonable amounts of debt. Somehow there's too much supply keeping jobs scarce and too much demand keeping prices high.

There are a couple of factors behind this. One is the accreditation process law schools need to go through. It's backed by all of the major schools (because it protects their interests), but it's pretty expensive to get accredited.

Another point is the cultural position the legal profession has. The old cliche of money-grubbing soulless lawyers has died down somewhat - if you have a bad experience with a lawyer it will resurface, but most of the time when someone says they're a lawyer (at least for me) the immediate associations are professionalism and prestige. Add to that the fact that it's about the only "safe bet" career for graduates in the humanities and there's an obvious glut of labour.

I'm not sure what the solution is, but think I part of it has to be making starting up a new legal practice a more attractive and more approachable option.
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The dev kit isn't just an SDK - like console dev kits, it includes the hardware. Giving them away to anyone who says "yeah, I'll totally make software for that" doesn't sound like a brilliant business plan.
unfortunately tl;dr (which funnily enough is the reason why the ipv6 transition is going so slowly)
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You could try a re-inclusion request. State your mysterious problem and just frankly ask why and if there are any penalties or what you need to do to start ranking. However Google do take forever to do anything. And even if you are doing the right things already you may only see results in a matter of several weeks.

Re-inclusion requests here (pretty much your only way to ask Google anything easily, but responses aren't guaranteed) https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration?pli=...

Or try the Webmaster forums, where Google folk apparently post every once in a while, but it's mainly a clusterfuck of people hijacking your problem with their own questions, and solutions being unreliably crowdsourced.

Remember: Google moves in mysterious ways. We cannot understand their arcane techniques for we are not worthy.
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If I see another "Why I ..." article, I'm going to hire a lawyer and sue them.
It is/was a major topic in Germany when talking about the political party "Die Linke".
I need music when doing a tedious task at work, otherwise I get distracted too easily.
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You are on the right track. Couple points to round it off:
1. Dalton is questioning the dominant business model online & fired his first salvo via join.app.net.
2. As a vocal spokesman for a pro-user & pro-developer platform design, he's got to rally his forces. No wonder he is gunning for the big ones - the first indication was his response to Fred Wilson's post (http://daltoncaldwell.com/fred-wilson-is-wrong-about-free).
To make it "stick" I think you really have to block out a specific part of the schedule, if that's possible, like designating Thursdays for only 20%-project work (barring emergencies). Sort of like the way Richard Hamming blocked out a specific 10% of his schedule (past noon on Fridays) in which he refrained from working on his regular projects, and only discussed blue-skies research.
I like it. If it works then it should cut down on these stupid spectacles. If it does not work then it only would further the cry of "See? We need total reform!"
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Somewhat ironic that I found this through HN where I so often feel that the world is moving so much faster than I can possibly keep up. Some of the work produced and shown here is just superb, and so often I get the feeling of:

Everyone seems to be getting stuff done, except you.

I so often think that productivity, guilt and self-loathing go hand-in-hand. I've been wondering if entrepreneurs are particularly susceptible to to the dips and highs that come from these three things locking together, or if everyone feels that way?
Why exactly do you think this would solve the problem? In a world where most (all?) patents being used for trolling are trivial and/or ignores prior art already. Why won't trolls just repatent something with different wording after it expires? This is already common in pharmaceuticals where some drugs have been under monopoly for way over the normal 20 years but under "different" patents. This is only not too common in software, yet, because the industry is young.

So wouldn't reducing length just worsen the problem by shifting even more power into the hand of incumbents who can afford to refill "different" patents more often than startups? Trolls would just use newer crap patents anyway.
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A bit of a generalization there. For all of the players cranking away at Starcraft II, Quake III, and Counter Strike, you have plenty of "slow" players enjoying games like Skyrim, a gazillion indie games, etc.

Oh, and Farmville ;)
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Relevant TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
I figure because of the magazine format, which is portrait, and they need to show a "vertical" photo on the page. The old portrait paintings were also vertical as well, to show most of the human body.

Cinemas needed to be "landscape" because of space constraints.
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I feel guilty now. I've been reading HN for 2 hours.
It seems like a simple fix would help make this more secure in the real world: orientation- make it more difficult for a contact lens to work (now it has to be rotated in the correct angle) I can't think of a reason this would be hard to implement in software....
Actually, if I'm honest with myself, 3 hours.
The other part of making the "20% time" idea work I suppose is the ability of a company to rally behind what shows potential.
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It's relieving to hear that the TB one is technically superior, but I don't see how it is intended for the MBPr - it is a checkbox in the Apple's MBA order form as well, along with all the other TB adapters which are mutually exclusive.

And even if the USB adapter is dog-slow, it's all I'd need onsite with clients (email, Skype chat). I'm still not sure if I made the right choice in the long term :/
It still implies the Direct3D implementation stayed at 270fps. I wonder how Windows+OpenGL fared before the optimisations; presumably it was lower than 270 or OpenGL would have been the baseline.
Thanks for taking the complaint seriously :) I quite enjoyed the article but I have knee-jerk reactions when sites do this.
Not really. If they lose the case then in 90% of the cases it means the patent is worthless. So it would not make a big difference if they lost patents which anyway would be worthless.

This law just forces them to be more careful with creating a new company for every lawsuit. A slight increase in their cost of operations perhaps but nothing much beyond what they are currently doing.
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CS101 was great, taught by a CS prof so plenty of basic fundamentals peppered in on top of a mostly practical python course.
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...).

Countries in the EU have a mandate to bring down public debt and the easiest place to do that is the welfare system (depending on the economy, most voters think it's too generous in some cases). Since social welfare is so large in Europe there are many places you can "trim".

In the US this is not the case at all. The welfare system has gotten aggressively more meager since the 80s. The AHCAA also isn't about more benefits but cutting public expenditure on healthcare in the long run. It's ridiculously expensive to treat someone in the ER for an infection rather than them having regular doctor visits. The same for birth control, pap smears, and breast exams. Treating early saves the government money. Don't confuse this act with the European welfare system, it is absolutely about saving money for the govt, your health is side benefit.
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Oh, I don't know...

Maybe it has something to do with the Microsoft App Store and MS being the gatekeeper that decides if an app runs or not there. Oh, and by the way getting 30% cut of the price of the software, all software a la Apple.
If this helps your analysis... If I stop selecting text, I will start to play around with things on my desk. I am not overly caffeinated or full of sugar, and my legs are at rest. It just feels "natural" to be doing something with my hands all day. But this is just my own analysis.
Mine works just fine. :P
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I have to say, the more javascript (these days coffeescript) I write, the more I think an mvc structure on the client is usually a big mistake. Mvc means shared global state and putting your data behind an inflexible facade, neither of which is necessary or a good idea in ui programming.

What's the alternative? Components. Encapsulation. Modularity. It's nothing fancy. Just build small, composable functions and objects that manage their own data and subcomponents, and don't reach outside themselves. In this way you end up building up lots of mini mvcs, one on top of the other, to manage requirements with the approach and data structures most appropriate to each, rather than constantly trying to bend a monolithic global model and api into doing exactly what's needed.

You don't need a complex hierarchy of model classes for your data. Just use json. When you need to process or manipulate it, write a function. When you need to send or receive data from the server, $.ajax and handle the result on whichever tier needs it. Send and receive just the data you need in just the structure you need. No syncing or rails-like magic required.
"Many extension cords still come without a third hole for grounding in the US. When you plug things into electrical outlets, you'll often observe cute little sparks. That never happens in Germany."

So in Germany there is no concept of grounding? Why? Also, is there any scientific explanation behind no sparking in Gemany?
No, that's irrelevant.

The fovea centralis is round (i.e. an aspect ration of 1).

And if you tell me that you can (and do) move your eyes to expand that size - well you can move your eyes to expand your vertical field of view just as easily.

For photos and video it makes little difference what you see in peripheral vision.
My "moles" have been telling me it's dead. What it meant in practice during my tenure (which predated most of the corporate hell courtesy of the new CEO) was this: if you want to go noodle around with someone else's code, you have a built-in excuse... and a limiter.

That by itself was useful since you could go play around in other parts of the company and nobody could give you grief for it. Now it seems to have joined many other things which effectively are no more. The old reputation is hard to shake, and that's why you still see these PR pieces about how lovely it is to work there.

Of course, this only makes sense when the code depots are actually open to viewing or modification. When you start having more and more things closed off (how's that components thing going, anyway?), there are fewer opportunities to randomly hack on stuff. Also, if your manager hates you, forget it. It's seen as goofing off.
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I've actually been telling myself to make something like this to scratch an itch of mine for a long time. Congrats on beating me to it!

The way I envisioned it working was very similar to the way you implemented it. I'd like to make some recommendations though.

- Give the user options to start with pre-populated sections (health, learning, travel, whatever) or maybe even some generic pre-populated questions

- Instead of using a form to collect the daily report, what about a free form text field that auto-completes based on text in the questions?

The reason I say this is I imagine the way I would use this would be I have 20 or 30 long-term goals that I have but I don't want to be asked every day about all of them. I just want to type in what I did, and the "what I did" gets populated as I type. For new things that don't match an existing question, maybe they could get added to a list of "new questions" that they have to save.

Also, i'm assuming this is a feature that is coming, but ultimately I want to see which of my sections I've been avoiding and which i've been making progress on.

P.s, if you want a co-coder on this project, let me know!
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Initially, I was absolutely convinced that one second videos would be an incredibly stupid idea. Then I watched Cesar Kuriyama's video of one second videos of a year of his life and was blown away by the storytelling potential: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyx6O_WFJhU
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German history and resulting 'cough' freedom gets in the way here. Why not compare USA to Sweden, Holland of France :D
I'd have guessed it would've been at least twice that many.

I recently opened up an account for the sole purpose of being able to get into their API docs and haven't been back since. Am I a fake user?
I think the assumption that Moore's law, or even Koomey's law, is going to hold for another two decades is wildly optimistic. I would expect a taper off much sooner, perhaps even this decade.

The physics and the economics of smaller process nodes is becoming harder and harder, to the point where anything beyond 10nm or so looks extremely difficult.
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It was done for exactly one reason: To be different.

Whenever video and tv got a certain aspect ratio, film "one upped" it. Part of it was also the size of 35mm film, once they moved the audio track off of the central area it made it wider, so they used that area.

Basically, there is no fundamental reason for it. But these days people are used to it and think it was done because video somehow requires it.

Now that they make lots of money from selling home video they will probably not move too far from 16/9, but it wasn't always so.

It's the same with the poor FPS of film: It makes it look like a "film". Same for graininess. It's not better, people just associate it with movies.