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In all honesty, I don't think there is an issue with search, Google is a fantastic search engine, which almost every time I search provides me with the results I was looking for, regardless of if I want to find a picture of Spiderman looking angry, look up the php mail function or I forgot the link to one of the adwords campaigns I'm running.

Sure, they collect my personal information, but is that really such an issue? As an analytics certified person, I can say "so what?" It tells me where you searched from, what you searched for, etc, but the information isn't interlinked, it's presented in a random format, the only chance of anyone reliably tying that to you would be if you were they only person to ever search for that term.

I don't think that Google is really lacking anything, if anything it has too much. I go there to use the big, central search box, that's it, I'll quite happily switch the day I find a better search engine, by which I mean, one which provides me with more relevant results.
Actually the existence of shitty business apps is one of my points.

They improve the quality of those 'shitty' homegrown apps for their huge business customers (the cheese is that if you want to be seen in Metro you have to play ball) and then over time they get a cut of sales of all of these apps.

There is an economic impetus for creating a walled garden. Businesses aren't investing money here just for intrinsic benefits. Owning the market is powerful as you can control how other people get their money.
Oh, I meant I found it amusing that something as obscure as Mode 7 could be referred to "colloquially." I'm in no position to hold an opinion on the intricacies of SNES graphics modes.
You're absolutely right, I was using 'force' in the laypersons sense of the word, not the way an engineer would use it, I should have used power instead. I've updated the post to correct the error. Thank you!
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It's just misleading nonsense to call this a supercomputer, with or without the quotes around it.

I dug out this article from 2007 about building a 26 gigaflops "supercomputer" called the Microwulf Supercomputer which cost under $2500 [1].

And according to Intel [2], the Intel i5-650 processor can do 25.6 GFLOPs.

This is just the worst kind of kickstarter marketing.

1 - http://www.geekologie.com/2007/09/supercomputer-does-26-giga...

2 - http://download.intel.com/support/processors/corei5/sb/core_...
If you work with .net, the code contracts project[1] is halfway there: It's quite ugly and they made some design decisions I don't agree with (for the wrong reasons, i guess...), but it has had a tremendous impact on the quality of my code.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/contracts/
JPL doesn't have particularly brilliant programmers, but they do have methodical, conservative, reliable programmers who test even the simplest systems extensively.
some time ago i wanted to learn how to create a canvas games, so i started with http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/canvas/notearsgame/ and took it from there. now it's a little bit osmosis and asteroids, and it's unfinished and MIT. so please take it, fork it or just read the source. hope it's useful (and/or fun) for someone.
You are correct. The post has been updated.

As for vertical axis turbines, they are a very tempting way to spend a ton of money without ever shipping a viable product. Many very solidly engineered examples of this exist, none of which have stood the test of time. This is a real pity because I think that the Darrieus rotor is one of the most pleasing purely technical designs ever made by man.
Absolutely loving the 4MB jpeg on the homepage.

Seriously though, this sounds amazing :)
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This has got less floating point calculation power than a single mid-range Intel processor, let alone a high end GPU that people use for bitcoin mining.
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Exactly. Directly from the bill "Nothing in this
section shall be construed to mandate faculty use of any particular textbook or related materials."

Western civilization, calculus, algebra, 19th century American literature. Yeah, you are going to need the up-to-date 30th-Anniversary collector's edition with never-before-read author's commentary and over 15 pages of deleted problem sets.
Any details on who the employer was, what the position was, and what was requested?
Smart Stay is a Touchwiz feature that detects whether or not you are looking at the screen, and does not switch it off.

The NFC feature is pretty subjective. If one lives in a part of the world where other sectors have not made use of the technology, then it's quite useless in that case.

Similar example - 4G LTE is practically useless for most South Asian, African and South American countries. In fact, I'm fairly sure there are places in the west without 4G LTE connectivity as well.
Not only the "general/basic" vs. "specialized customized", but I presume patio11 is betting on the software coming out of a megacorp to be rubbish and hard to use, and rarely able to adapt to changes from customers.
Domain knowledge is money-printing sauce in so many industries.

I think the reason young hackers often dismiss domain experts is because they associate the idea of domain knowledge with old people who don't get tech. It's true that most old business people don't understand technology, but it's also true that most young hackers have no clue how to make money.

Now if you can combine domain knowledge with the ability to recognize the potential, and have a realistic vision for the novel application of technology, then you have gold. It might not be the most grandiose idea, but it's 3 or 4 orders of magnitude more reliable than trying to be the next Google or Facebook.
FB doesn't want real names and addresses so they can start sending out snailmail spam, they want them so that they can start user matching with advertising partners' CRM databases.
This little feature has allowed me to fill in the blanks after more than one drunken night out...

Found a new, partial name + a number in your phone the morning after? Use the "find friends" feature to find the rest of the details[^1] to get in touch without looking like so much of a fool[^2]. You didn't get everything, without making a friend request, but it was a starting point. Obviously it works both ways - people can find and get in touch with you as well (that may be a pro or con, depending on your outlook) - I probably owe my current relationship to this feature!

[^1]: This doesn't work for everyone, but the hit-rate in the 20's-mid 30 year-old's is pretty high in my experience.
[^2]: Not guaranteed!
To add to your list I like the PostgreSQL manuals. They always seem detailed and clear.

I find the Rails documentation awful lacking a lot of detail with an expectation that you read the source which in places is fairly hard to follow through several layers and even if you find the relevant part without good documentation you can't tell if it is a bug or intended behaviour in some cases.
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Anyone know if the code's online anywhere, thought I'd ask before d/ling the 300mb package. Always like having a bit of a nosey at someone else's code.
You made me nostalgic for my childhood.

It is important to note that for half of the glory days it was Macromedia Dreamweaver. Until FlashBuilder, we were told with straight faces to use the Adobe Flash Professional. Remember, FlashDevelop?

I think adobe figured it out maybe 2 years ago.
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No, sorry it's just there in the tar.gz. The bulk of it is images for the plasmacutter controller.

edit: ok, I've expanded the tar.gz in http://jacquesmattheij.com/windmill/

Reminder: this is very ugly code, a jumble of scripts (python and - gasp - php) and C to get the job done (which was not at all the focus, I wanted to get the windmill up).
Would be a radical departure from their current strategy of "make sure all the crappy old software works so our customers can continue to pay us money for new releases"
It's more similar to the Tilera64 chips and ye olde Transputer. Key difference is the reliance of the MIC on cache coherency across all cores.
This sounds quite ludicrous, if it was a request I would understand, but telling you to do this isn't the right way of going about it.

The underlying question here is - are you happy doing this? If your not happy doing this may be you should speak up. I personally wouldn't do it because the way I see it is, you're recommended or vouching for a product which you might not want to, and on top of that, your not even getting paid.

If your employer is really concerned about those numbers (When I'm sure he could be focusing on something else which adds more value), there's plenty of services that sell FB likes out there. Recommend that to him, or even better, resell it to him.
What if courses were required to show the total cost of the progam including the cost of mandatory textbooks?

That way, at least the students know the full price of what they're in for.
Mathematical habits which would be of use to non-mathematicians
At first glance it would seem only logical that the use of these textbooks be made mandatory. On the whole I agree, that this first step is necessary but insufficient, an that without teeth its effect will be much weaker.

However, imposing at the state level one particular textbook per subject matter would be foolish - imagine just 10% of the textbooks are badly done and you have 5 classes out of 50 that would be required to be taught with poor textbooks, which doesn't make much sense.

That doesn't mean that nothing can be done. These textbooks are open and allow other textbooks to be made from them, so what could be done is telling colleges today that they will be mandated to use cc textbooks in classes 2 years after these textbooks are first published. This creates an incentive for variations on the textbooks to be made, gives teachers time to test out the materials and modify it if need be, and ensures that when the mandate comes into force:
a) teachers can choose from different options of cc textbooks for each class
b) no class is taught with a badly written though mandated textbook
I've read masters of doom. Why does the Sweeny/CliffB partnership work, while Carmack and Romero failed?
The problem these things have for me is managing the hierarchy. My entry for "NSMutableArray", does that sit under "Data Structures", or "Objective-C" or "Cocoa"? I can see that I'd want to make my way to it from all three trains of thought.
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Yeah some of the sketches are a bit tough, but overall I like him. His twitter is ridiculous though, worth following for at least a week or so - you'll see what I mean.
Like a simple, HTML5 Osmos. Not sure how Asteroids comes in. When you pass a certain threshold, the bubbles get suddenly & aggressively larger; is it actually possible to win?
I like this game.
Took a while to figure out you could "eat" smaller bubbles to grow larger, was a lot more fun after that :)
Intel Clover Trail is Windows-only; nothing to do with drivers
Many computing problems can't be parallelised and in almost all there are dependencies and synchronisation issues that mean a single double speed CPU is almost always better than two normal ones. Exception might be that when a buggy programme gets locked in a tight loop it will only be able to take half the resources.

To use another car analogy. Counting clock speed is like counting the cars max RPM instead of actually measuring the performance. And then they have totalled the max RPM figures as if they have have 90,000RPM engine.
On a height of 600px the cursor up and down keys scroll the window.
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Thanks for providing your "source" -- when I wanted to write a boardgame in Python, I followed much the same method, adapting a tic-tac-toe game demo.
[space] spawns a small yellow killer bubble.
yes, it's possible, but very very hard.
I don't see anyone else mentioning this, but this is probably the rebranded version of this year's acquisition, Karma Science.
Interesting, but a laughably high funding goal. No chance they hit $750k.
Yes I probably should have added postgres. I like the fact that they keep the documentation nicely versioned as well. The quality is fantastic too.
I work in Ruby on Rails, and have a developer on my team who started way back in the punch card days.

His take is that it's harder now. We have better tools, but the things we're building are more complex. We're programming at higher levels of abstraction for broader code re-use.

We're also making lots of code libraries work together, coordinating application code and cacheing layers and multiple kinds of databases. We're writing client-side code that talks to our server-side APIs. And we've got a whole system of tests and a system of version control which, though they make our lives overall easier, are also part of the learning curve.

New day, different challenges.
A bro-grammer's perspective.
Great concept, very frustrating!
this and the fact that it's very very very hard to win is where the "unfinished" part (and the forking) comes in.
This game is rigged... all of a sudden this huge monstrosity comes out of nowhere from the left of the screen! It was pretty fun though.
The author is trying to blame Adobe for Macromedia's history.
Not everywhere, just everywhere where supply of people wanting to work in a particular industry far outstrips demand. The entertainment industries always had this (music, film, television, computer games) as well as politics (where you have a lot of unpaid interns) and also girls wanting to become flight attendants (Ryanair makes you pay for the training etc.)

In industries where skills are in demand, employers have the treat these skills carefully or lose them to someone else. This includes fast growing industries (Linux, web, mobile) and skills that are both hard and really unsexy to obtain.
Ah, that helps a lot. So instead of using your own mass as momentum a la Osmos, you use it as... space-mines =)

I see why you say it's a little bit of Asteroids, now. That sure puzzled me before.
That sounds like the best possible programmers out there.
I'm sure there'll be a special edition of Windows for those customers that will allow them to keep their homegrown apps. For only an extra $10000 per core.
Rather than wrapping around it might be fun to bounce off the edges of the game area.
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I'm interested to see who they partner up with on this. I'd be very open to the idea of using a service like this.
I don't see the value of this submission. An Osmos clone in HTML 5. Great.
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You can easily apply to get your British citizenship back. I suspect they'd automatically reissue it, unless you've committed a crime or something perhaps. Of course it'd never be guaranteed. Reading between the lines though, I think its more a formality to appease other countries. In any case I'm not tempted to try it and IANAL. :)
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Okay, step #1: go search the web for "web spidering" and "web crawling". Go read the relevant articles (and Wikipedia's, too; a good starting point IMHO). Step #2: update this question when you have a question that's answerable. See, entire books can be (and have been) written on the subjectS that you ask about (and that's even before getting started with the legal aspects).

As for question number 4: Impossible unless you have strong AI (see also: How Apple automatically collated their map data from three different sources and what they got as a result). You see, fully automated data collection from multiple source will introduce more errors than manual methods (which are slow, OTOH); automated collection and manual verification is necessary.
More likely they expect to get a large market share for free, from name recognition alone. Try convincing a 50-year-old who has owned nothing but Windows PCs for 25 years that a new Windows 8 (or 9) PC is not what they need.
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Damn it Jim I'm a doctor not a developer.
It appears that the yellow killer bubble circumference is proportional to your size, its takeoff vector is the same as your own, and its velocity is a slight multiple of your own.
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Looks like the trick is to use the yellow killer bubbles to control the aggressive bubbles before they eat everything & get too big to navigate around.
Wow, I wish I had the ability to whip up a 3D simulator of a wood lathe. Impressive work, Jacques!
I spent the first minute clicking around with the mouse until the attempt upon the arrow keys and finaly after the spacebar the asteriod aspect kicked in and a sence ahaaaa.

I shall play some more later, though the blobing of the asteroids/blobs could perhaps also merge colour palletes as well and in that also provide some subliminal education. Maybe even volumetricaly factor in the colour merging.

I might also add that it can be more fun to learn how to play the game than just reading a manual, so in that I like it even more.

Oh and the source, that there is how I'll learn coffeescript, thank you.
Really cool concept, but I don't like how when you get really big, bubbles the size of half the field appear, making the game unfinishable.
> It seems like Fireworks is the only decent true web design tool that Adobe has in the Creative Suite, but it has a sort of cult following, only the enlightened few drop Photoshop and pick it up instead.

YES!, Stop neglecting your only good web design product Adobe
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Why am I allowed to grow my own flowers? If I want to give some to my girlfriend, and I can simply pick them out of my garden, shouldn't the federal government be trying to stop me, so that millions of guys across America don't get the same idea? Isn't there a concern in D.C. that my actions could lead to a collapse of the entire floral industry?
Awesome game..shared with my friends ..we all loved it
I understand why this appeals to the HN crowd: it's a metaphor - the goal of the game is not to be the biggest around, but to survive the longest. Sometimes that means cutting loose and starting again - and just waiting for the biggest of the big to fall!
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Nice, needs a bit more complexity and slightly less frustration :-)
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Most of the heavy lifting there is done by the opengl libraries, it's mostly a matter of plugging in the coordinates of the voxels and setting up a viewport. Hardware acceleration does the rest :)
It's a game. It's fun. That's the value.
The 100 million user rule seems to eliminate any developer focused products like YUI, YQL, and Pipes.
I know it was a tongue in the cheek comment, but if you want to attack the "French", try to at least do it correctly.

It is "magnifique".
Sound brilliant with one small question "So, in addition to making the digital textbooks available to students free of cost, the legislation requires that print copies of textbooks will cost about $20. ". Small question about biasing for those students who have access to a device that can read the free open source version, for many a hardcopy is also more suitable. So to legaly control a price saying "about $20" does somewhat raise questions as to the definition of "about" as a fiscal term and more so. Who do you pay to print out your own copy? Becasue as it reads, if you print it out then you should be paying "about $20" for it and this is completely unclear.
Least to me it is.

Still motives are good and anything moving in the right common sence direction has to be applauded.
If you hold down left and right it gets very odd. It is reproducible.
I don't get why it has only 1GB of RAM to go with all those cores. Doesn't that drastically limit the potential applications?

It doesn't sound like they have compelling applications in mind -- they're kind of throwing it out there to see what people will do with it. But there are only a few things that needs so much computation and so little memory. Even a lot of scientific computing today is more like "big data" than "big compute".

Also, it seems obvious that you'll want to use more than one together, so some info about network connectivity would be useful.
If it's anything like Textmate then the robust snippet, scope and command system are what makes it special.
To improve the endgame, I would introduce power-ups, like a pill that when 'swallowed' temporarily turns player's balloon into a triangle that could puncture large balloons into many small ones. Multiplayer with larger field and obstacles could be fun too.
> skills that are both hard and really unsexy to obtain.

Perfect example: SAP consulting.
Maybe not if they allow indirect user counting. I'm sure that there are 100 million users that use websites that use YUI, for example.
I have searched on web and have created one solution, this is semi automated means I have to put some URLs and some parameters to it to get desired result.

Its worked for me up to some extent.
A startup spending their first three years without shipping a product ("shipping") would be more of a problem than something with Yahoo's stability making something over several years. The risk is much, much lower.