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So if those boards have the same performance of an i5 cpu (25GigaFlops) can they be clustered together to reach a higher amount, say would 10 of them produce 450 GigaFlops?
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I wonder if they'll use the existing CC-BY textbooks produced by OpenStax (or others) for some of these courses? http://openstaxcollege.org/
"Current evidence points to" then...
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Sorry, but you can't do any serious computation with 1GB of RAM; do it 149$ but with 4GB minimum.
The media has certainly quoted Melbourne as being a potential place:
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/apple-co-founder-s...
If you're willing to veer off from C# there's a great framework in Python called Scrapy [0], it's fast and easy to pick up. You could crawl and save the results in your database with Scrapy, and get them back with your C# backend.

[0] http://scrapy.org/
At last! In the past we had to recompile FreeBSD TCP stack on nginx frontend to change some constants like hardcorded first SYN timeout.
How does your logic apply if the don't have a Facebook account?

What if your prospective employee asked you to sign a NDA with regards to any personal information he may or may not reveal, before the interview started. How would you view them then?

Reason I ask is there be companies that will find away around law's and will ask you to sign a NDA during the interview stages and this is accepted in general. Does focus the aspect of what happens at work stays at work and what happens at home stays at home, somewhat.
Speaking as a professor, I'd be furious if some legislator told me exactly which textbook to use. I'm concerned about book prices, certainly, but mandating a specific text would immediately shut down the few attempts at innovation in textbooks or curriculum that do exist.

If the new books are of comparable quality to the current market leaders in a given discipline (and especially if we eventually get some competition between free texts), then all that will be necessary will be an education campaign to make sure faculty know what's available. We do care about this stuff! (Or at least, a lot of us do.)
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Those who say, "Search Sucks", are bloggers who need you to read something they wrote. You're not likely to get one to show up here to tell you what's up. It's because they're just using that headline for what it is - bait that will top HN and drive traffic. They will make a few good points and let the readers have it out in the comments.

The truth is that Google and lots of other search engines can search the web pretty well. I can't actually think of a good example where I couldn't find what I was looking for (and isn't that the point?). Maybe occasionally you'll fail to find something really specific, but I think it reasonable to assume that if Google can't find it, it probably isn't there. Or it just isn't good enough to be linked to from elsewhere. And sites like that probably aren't worth a solution.
GPUs have been the only real cost effective way to mine bitcoins for a while now.
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Have you written about it? I never get tired of hearing about (metaphorical) death marches and blood-baths in different industries.
Maybe this isn't the best article, but this is definitely a conversation worth having.

I'm sure this would not come as a surprise to any of us here. Most of the technical people here do things that make these sorts of things possible. I agree with the Author that we have not seen anything yet.

There are lots of things behind closed doors that are only going to make this worse. I'm not sure though that this will just cause lower prices. It could potentially completely reshape our economy. I believe that a large swath of people could find their jobs disappear over the next 10-15 years, and this could have crushing implications to our economy. If people do not have money to spend at the bottom of the economy, a large portion of our GDP would disappear virtually overnight on nation timescales.

Here is a quick back of the envelope:

Given that 44% percent of the GDP went to wages and salaries and that nearly 1/4 of workers make less than $10 dollars an hour. There are roughly 36,685,750 people in low wage jobs. They make 5% of the share of GDP, or 12% of the wage pool. Many of these jobs will be eliminated. There are lots of higher wage jobs that might be automated away as well that I'm not even going to make an attempt to calculate the impact.

While this might mean record corporate profits in the short term, eventually 25% of the workforce could be without jobs. People in these low wage jobs tend to always spend their whole paycheck, so there is a lot of economic activity that is going to be eliminated, and we will have to spend record amounts on assistance when it happens.

We are really headed into another phase of our society like the industrial revolution, however this time the revolution is on performance enhancing drugs.

It will be interesting how it plays out.

While it is a bit dystopian, if you haven't read Manna by Marshall Brain I would suggest you google it. While it is fiction, it is definitely gives you some things to think about.
It is a compute device. I presume the use would be any scenario where you want a very fast, very concurrent, calculation engine but one that doesn't depend on an extremely large data set.

One random example I can think of would be cracking encryption and or hashes (without the use of rainbow tables or similar).

Your entire comment essentially seems to be "I don't think a usage scenario exists, because I cannot think of any, so why didn't they make it a 'large data' device instead of a compute device?!" which seems more a limitation on yourself than the device its self.
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I can switch to any platform, provided that would be best one. I will check this framework and try to create a demo application so that i can get better idea.
There are many companies that use web crawling. Are they using Pyton or something other ?
Yep, it is, see Jared Morgenstern's recent post regarding Facebook Gifts:

"[...] We looked so hard that we found a company called Karma who quite literally dreamt about social gifting. Lee Linden and Ben Lewis, their vision, and their team, impressed us so much that we acquired their company, and four months later, we're ready to unveil what they've been working on."
That's pretty cool! Good job.
tldr if you want to know why this article is different than the others that have been on HN: Intel is making this chip Windows-only because they expect Windows8 non-RT on tablets with this chip to fail. And they want it to fail because the chip is too big to sell cheaply.
Google disables AdSense account of user for sharing free book via torrent
Part 1 (yesterday) discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4579932
Some sites will say you can't scrape. They'll say so in their TOS if that's the case. If you absolutely need that info, there are ways to not look like a spider. One way is to use a browser driver (pretty heavy option so I would just not use those sites for now). I can't remember the name of the browser drivers available, but that's one possibility. I doubt they'll have libraries for your languages though.

I would definitely recommend python for web scraping. There are a ton of tutorials out there. I believe there are even a few from Google which are pretty good.
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Can NDA overrule the law? For example, can burglar who broke into your house force you to sign NDA so you don't report this case to the police? IANAL, but probably law doesn't work that way; burglary is still a crime regardless of NDAs, and asking for Facebook password at the interview is a violation of law too, no matter what any kind of contract says.
This reminded me of an article from TheDailyWTF: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/FrontAhead-Design.aspx
While I agree that 16x800 Mhz is more accurate than 13 Ghz; I wouldn't say they got the terminology "wrong."

A lot of companies are using the combined totals to tell how fast/big/etc something is. It isn't even a recent development either.

Just for one example, if you go to Dell's store right now you'll find computers with 8 GB of RAM; but what they fail to tell you is that that is 2x4 GB sticks rather than 1x8 GB stick. So it is actually the "total" RAM in the machine.

Now you might argue that for technical reasons there is a difference between how RAM and CPU-cores are exposed to the underlying software, but that within its self is only true in some infrastructural designs, but not true in others (e.g. Sometimes two cores pretend to be one, sometimes a single core pretends to be two).
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120822005093/en/Adap...
I made something similar with the Khan Academy CS tools a while back: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/subpixel-survival/996062559
And some care about the kickbacks from forcing students to buy $150 textbooks that cannot be bought used because there's a new "edition" every year that shuffles the practice problems.

That's what needs to be prevented in some way.
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I keep looking at this comment and wondering who "the right people" are. Do you mean buying outside talent, by aqui-hiring? Or dumping a million dollars on random developers within the company?
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They should automate it. Add a registry of stuff we want, have people set up automatic deductions when (good) friends hit their birthdays/anniversaries, add up the amount of cash and buy whatever it can afford, send thank-you letter to each person, and a "pleasure" email back. And a "we must get together soon" discussion, also automated.

Much as it's nice receiving the smallest personal message from someone you haven't spoken to, I am a touch jaded at how automatic birthday reminders are. Can you tell? :)
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I'd suggest a series of deadlines for rising use: 10% of textbooks should be open by date X, 20% by date Y, etc.

This would give time for early-adopting professors to try things out, for the textbook creators to iterate, and those who don't like the books to create their own if they prefer.
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It's very prevalent in architecture.
I like this model. Basically if it is not funded no risk for the consumer. If it is funded the company can provide volume discount without having to give up equity via a VC. Basically you cut out the middleman (the VC or bank).
>here doesn't seem to be anything that openness would have provided him.

you are clearly not familiar with the history of minecraft, they have a long history, especially in the begging of pushing out features very rapidly, along with the bugfixes that inevitably come with rapid development, not to mention their recent weekly development builds anyone can run.

this kind of very rapid development/response was a big factor in the "viral" nature of minecraft, users could get excited about new features that might be comming tomorrow

How much of this would have been possible, while waiting for months for apple/etc approval?

not to mention the huge modding community that has grown up around minecraft, with virtually every multiplier server and most single player clients being heavily customized and modded.

That would be completely impossible under an iOS style system.
Thanks for your suggestions. I will try python for my further efforts.
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Looks interesting. I know that this, in the grand scheme of the project, is a minor thing - but I think that the site could do with some more polish. Looks a bit 2005!
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I'm sure it does, but if I'm working on a new developer product how do I make the case that it's the next YUI? I think these sort of line-in-the-sand rules lead to people erring on the side of not doing anything.
That seems like a very sensible approach too. I think we agree that the main idea for implementation is a kind of progressive approach, and I'm sure there's plenty of experimentation on the topic to draw from and come up with a smart and efficient plan.
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As also covered here http://www.powerpage.org/2012/09/27/apple-files-patent-for-i... and here http://www.pt-news.org/apple-inc-aapl-patent-shows-inductive...
Yeah, the $20-to-print requirement will get tricky. Imagine a biology textbook with detailed color pictures. Do you have to remove some because color printing is expensive? Is it acceptable if you can print a text-only version of the book for $20 and look at the pictures online? Is it acceptable to sell a supplementary illustrations book?

The real win here is for students to be able to download the whole book for free. In principle, your entire textbook budget for college could be the price of an e-book reader.
IANAL But an NDA sounds like a contract to me and contracts signed under duress usually aren't enforceable.
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http://www.songkick.com/devblog/2012/09/27/songkicks-first-engineering-open-house/

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My guess is that if state-funded open source CC-BY textbooks are known to exist, substantial social and administrative pressure can be brought to bear on anyone who does not use them. Fine if you don't think it's good enough, but you'd better be able to justify it.

Also, once they exist, if they're CC, then they can be updated to include whatever "innovations" come along in other texts.
The way things went with flash after the macromedia acquisition was part of what got me into using haxe.
Very nice! Do you plan to add some scores somehow? I imagine just on time would be boring, so growing and shrinking should grant you credits somehow.
All I heard was: "Kids these days!" - a phrase that is doomed to repeat itself for ever.
I dont really know why I should care that some, to me random, person, doesn't regard himself a programmer. There really is no valuable information for anyone who doesnt know that person in that post. So why post it? Who would be interested?
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Kind of off topic but is there any major performance difference between 8x1 and 2x4 RAMs?
I have trained in swimming for a big part of my youth, not competition but skills. When practicing swimming under water all teachers were certain to warn us to not push too far. If you are reaching your limits there is a small window where you don't feel anything anymore, which you can possibly ignore by a feeling of "I can do this", which makes you euphoric as well. Combined with lack of oxygen the euphoria will actually put your life at risk while your down there being happy...
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I do not think that is correct: http://law.onecle.com/texas/labor/21.051.00.html

Though of course you should still avoid asking questions about someone's protected status!
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Ask HN: does Apple have any R&D center?
I always wondered if Apple has any kind of research and development center. Microsoft and Google have both big research departments where they work on programming languages, development tools, operating systems, usability, probably on hardware too. You can see them on conferences among representatives of universities.

What does it look like if we talk about Apple? I am sure they spend much time on design and usability. But acutally I have never heard of people that created OS X, iOS or those who are responsible for Objective C and related tools. I tried to google that but I did not find any interesting information. I do not now anybody who worked at Apple either.
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To be honest, I too used the same toolset as you for a long time, but since Office 2007, it's just not been worth it for me. I have to share a lot of documents and information with people who don't understand the UNIX tools so it's not practical.
broker/makler fees in Berlin are usually paid by the owner as far as I have found. this may change now that demand is so much higher than supply. it certainly wasn't like this 5 years ago.
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It was pretty shocking in the States too -- google around for the coverage. It just wasn't always specifically illegal.
There can be. In particular in some scenarios the 2x4 GB set might be faster, here is why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_memory_architectu...
There are GPUs that can do a teraflop, so yes, 26 gigaflops is terribly unimpressive. There are some areas that can't be easily handled by a GPU, but those are mainly bandwidth-limited, which wouldn't be improved by this architecture.

The defining feature of this proposal is their 70 gigaflops/watt number, which is impressive. But that doesn't make it a suitable target for hobbyists. Hobbyists who want to play with supercomputing for cheap should just use their existing video card.
more significantly, the major NY brokerages have managed to keep a real MLS from forming. every other US market has multiple listing service, but in the city its been killed and any attempts (like VOW) have been effectively squashed. this is for sales. rentals are small change in comparison.
I think any hostility you see is due to his comment of "I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along.". He'd never be dumb enough to do this so why say it, and why stir the pot with everyone who thinks Minecraft really really might not run on Windows 8?
Actually it can. If you have 16 people to move and 1 car that seats 4 it will take 4 round trips. 4 cars will do it in 1 one way trip.

People = threads and cars = cores.
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Ask HN: Successful launch without networking?
Is it possible?

I find the idea of going to these monthly meets and things like them a bit tedious. Is it still possible to have a successful (financially at least) launch without doing the networking?
Gizmodo's Apple coverage has been quite tasteless for some time now. Not much value in this article.
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The game is fun but is there any way to change the "units" of the change direction keys? Right now they seem to add up, i.e. two up strokes means speed increases by two points, but a more conventional manner would be better IMO. i.e. one up arrow moves ball in up direction. Like driving cars in games.
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It was mentioned on every SNES review back in the day, so at the time it was common knowledge among gamers and enthusiasts.
One of the bills establishes a committee to select the courses, so presumably it will be a little while.
Yeah, FlashDevelop was (and still is) ace! I think Adobe were beginning to figure it when they started to let you do AS3 only projects in FlexBuilder, whenever that was, maybe a little longer than 2 years ago. FlashBuilder is a brilliant IDE IMO, there's certainly not equivalent in the JS world yet.
I upvote to get this discussed even if I think the article .. lacking

* the 30% the 'stores' charge needs to be given a lot more scrutiny

* you can go do other ways e.g. PayPal, Moneybookers (credit cards etc). And the big fish Minecraft went that root when it started small

Ludum Dare October challenge is:

Finish a game — Take it to market — Earn $1

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2012/09/27/announcing-october...
What exactly do you think their level of visible concern would tell you about them? An employer conducting jokey personality tests would be a huge red flag for me.
This is an old, very interesting project (its part of a larger project). However, it has issues with alignment of tables if escape codes have been used for coloring or attribute setting of text. There are some hacks to fix that but none are very good.

I use escape codes a lot in projects that display tabular data on terminals (to highlight important info for example) so this was a major issue with me.
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From the book author's blog it seems more that his account was flagged because he linked to his book on The Pirate Bay and Demonoid.
WebRTC has a data channel proposal which would allow you to do P2P data communication:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jesup-rtcweb-data-protocol-...
yeah i totally agree. i was referencing IE as a whole when i linked to that; figured IE9 would hold the majority of that at this point, but you're right and that's not the case at all.

i forgot Microsoft didn't release it for XP (which i believe still holds somewhere north of 40% desktop os share), so i can see why that wouldn't be the case.
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Something needs to be done about the end game. Currently skill doesn't make a difference. It relies on the perfect storm of you absorbing a chain of increasingly large bubbles. In 6 attempts this didn't happen as I was surrounded by huge bubbles. 4 times I was reduced to like 4 pixels and had to work my way back up again.

Perhaps a bigger playing area. Make it full screen? Then have more bubbles of varying sizes. This would make it more difficult to get bigger and make the game longer as a result.

It would also be cool if a specific color bounced bubbles off it and couldn't be absorbed. The faster you go into it the faster you bounce off. This would make it a bit more difficult to navigate.
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There have been videos of leaked Warcraft Adventures game walkthrough published relatively recently, if you are talking about it. I reckon that the guy who published this refused to give/sell his copy of the leaked beta.

http://www.youtube.com/user/0manbiker0

Humor, gameplay and main character reminded me of another great adventure, full throttle.
Quelle horreur, my mother will be mortified.

(I know I am)
They are specific about their open source intentions.

Open Source: The Parallella platform will be based on free open source development tools and libraries. All board design files will be provided as open source once the Parallella boards are released.

So we won't be able to fabricate our own derivative silicon. But we will have all open source drivers and tools. We won't have chips full of DSPs that we can't use, or GPUs that work a little bit through some driver that the silicon vendor had to get to MVP for a single version of Linux and can abandon in a year. Sounds good to me.