skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but there's no reason you can't offer a non-monthly plan at the true operating cost * 1.(your markup). It might be slightly (or vastly) more expensive per request than the monthly plan, but guys like me would still buy 20 or 30, instead of having no revenue from us at all...
Describing the driver as crap seems a bit harsh when the problem appears to be that the driver doesn't open-up as much gpu functionality as the author hoped. Perhaps a better title for the article would be "Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Not As Open As I Would Like".
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No idea, but you could try it in a VM (it runs in VirtualBox and in VMWare as well) if you are really curious (and don't want to install it on bare hardware before it). There's beta still available http://windows.microsoft.com/is-IS/windows-8/download
I like the idea of Amazon grocery subscriptions but practically it just feels like the time you would need to spend managing the subscription and figuring out the optimal schedule is more than the time it takes to replenish the stocks every 4 months. Or dealing with stuff like Amazon directly selling citrus Listerine but not mint Listerine.

(Except cat litter, that is totally worth getting delivered from Amazon just to avoid carrying it.)
44 tweets and no one can see them...
It seems that you can buy the upgrade version through "Windows Upgrade Offer" right now, as some other users are reporting. I can confirm that I am able to download the upgrade assistant with my code, but I don't have access to the laptop I am upgrading right now, so I can't actually run it.
I dont think so, they seem to only be available within the platform and theyre not too comprehensive
The release version is available through TechNet subscriber downloads
XE is upfront about the fact that they have a spread, that's how they make their profit. Compared to banks XE takes a lower spread, though.

TransferWise quote: 1000 GBP -> 1236.93 EUR
XE quote: 1000 GBP -> 1223.99 EUR

Wells Fargo rate: 1000 USD -> 952.56 CAD
XE quote: 1000 USD -> 977.42 CAD

So XE beats the bank, but TransferWise (which only offers GBP<>EUR) beats XE.
For those wondering, it really is an official MS-owned website. http://www.whoismind.com/whois/windowsupgradeoffer.com.html It just has a terrible name.
Yeah.
My little pandaboard, if i'm not powering the USB ports at full bore, doesn't take more than ~7 watts while doing full 1080p video decode of a movie over the network.

The same on one of these ITX boards would take probably 25-30 watts, minimum.
Or perhaps the GPS numbers are not random but do contain 'information'? Perhaps totally unrelated to geolocation?
Why not just use the Zappos model?

Trying on shoes is pretty essential to whether or not you want to purchase them. Zappos figured a way around that problem. The only big difference is that many devices are more expensive than shoes.
It looks like you can only get it through the "upgrade offer" page.
Very nice and more interesting than the bar charts/graph that other twitter visualization tools give us. It would be really cool (and informative) if you could add a small word cloud when the cursor hovers over a city.

I did a similar non-interactive dataviz a while ago during the big student protests in Quebec this spring. I clustered (using LDA) the tweets talking about the protests and I mapped and identified them.

http://olihb.com/?p=199
(in French, though)
There's also a https://twitter.com/googuns_dev account - but 0 tweets
not yet, but good remark.
I will use history API to update the URL
interesting metadata:

<meta name="keywords" content="googun googun googun googun googun googun googun googun gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay seattle seattle seattle seattle hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot hot Tshirts t shirt t shirt t shirt t shirt t-shirt t-shirt t-shirt coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee">
The distinction I was trying to make is that they are building this product to satiate the needs of the already Apple-faithful, rather than trying to compete in the small tablet market. It's them realizing that small tablets are popular and saying "We have that too". The question is can they keep doing that with every new form-factor that comes out (wearable, Raspebbry Pi-style, embedded....)
It doesn't prevent you from using sudo if you've set NOPASSWD: for the appropriate commands in your sudoers file.
I couldn't agree more that these companies need to find better ways to monetize. Watching Zynga slow to a crawl at the same time they represent 14% of Facebook's revenues is proving we haven't found the best business model for social media yet.

My point, though, was that they're making the product worse. The lack of a creative business model to monetize a user base while keeping the quality of the product high is disheartening. These are some of the best minds in consumer internet - which doesn't give me high hopes for consumer internet.
I've been using Norbert's Gambit for a few years to avoid these hidden fees and I saved thousands. It's extremely easy to perform as well. Anybody converting money should look into it.

More information here: http://www.finiki.org/index.php?title=Norberts_Gambit
"Getting kids excited about programming today means that one day, you're more likely to have competent juniors. If you plan on being in the workforce eleven years from now, the fifth grader you talk to today is your new hire in the future."

Wait another 2-3 years, and you will be their new hire.:)

Seriously, I wouldn't think of them as 'juniors' or 'new hires', that will be only a very short temporary state. Think of them as your future colleagues, competitors, hacker friends, fellow tax payers.

Great article though!
The problem isn't SSH itself, but the tutorials out there tend to assume that you're using GNOME or KDE (or, more to the point, their automount systems). If you're not running either one, you're left trying to figure out how to deal with that problem.
Well, maybe it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.

But it's certainly thoughtless API design. The parameter sounds boolean (am I going to verify the SSL host or not?), and essentially it is, except that not verifying it for some reason takes two forms, and a true value turns out to specify one of them.

Whereas I doubt that the giftedness of the programmer has much to do with their reading the docs. A gifted programmer might assume that the API designer would do the same thing they would, which is to specify this with a boolean argument.
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Interesting. Any idea why they don't verify the billing address there? Seems like it would be no harder than doing it in the US.
A Practical Optional Type System for Clojure
1. Slovenia isn't some far off magical, difficult to reach, place. It is a first world EU member in the center of Europe.

2. Was there a point to this besides the author bragging how many places he visited?

Call me jaded, but I moved to Europe for a few years and traveled around, is something you can hear from a large portion of US college students.
I have a few Mali devices next up on the chopping block after I finish reversing the VideoCore IV

Hehe. Reversing a GPU is a lot of work. From my experience it usually involves zillions of commands, state bits that subtly change handling, and different instruction sets for different kinds of shaders and other sub-processors... (even figuring texture formats can be lots of work) I can't even imagine starting such a project again, though it was fun, wish I'd still have the time...

I wish you the best luck of course!
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I assume this is a temporary thing and that either MS or the game vendor will patch it soon enough.
XEtrade is even worse than the banks. The banks will pretend that there's no fee, but at least they will generally tell you the spread you'll be charged as long as you specifically ask for the spread.

XEtrade charges you a different spread for every transaction, and doesn't list it explicitly in their quote. You never know in advance what it's going to be. They're virtually always better than the bank rate, but you don't know that in advance.

If I can ever get my bank to offer me their commercial rate for currency trades I'll switch from XEtrade in a heartbeat.
It's ridiculous that to make more money than $7 - download charges from a book you need to go from $10 to $21. This is what Amazon wants -- it wants a bunch of books for less than $10, and it claims that it offers competitive royalties when in fact it doesn't.
There is never one exchange rate. The mid market price of a currency pair is just an average of the bid and offer prices. The bid price being what trader are willing to buy at and the offer price is what people are willing to sell at. The bid and the offer price should never be the same. If they were the same a trade should have happened.

So if the mid market for EUR/USD is 1.2993 the prices could be something like bid 1.2990 / offer 1.2996. So when you walk into a bank (if they are giving you the real bid offer) and try and convert USD to EUR you are selling so you will get 1.2990 USD per 1 EUR. And if you were trying to convert EUR to USD you would pay 1.2996 USD for each EUR.

There are also many othe factors that will increase costs in these transactions. Banks charge fees to other banks for each trade and they will also show different spreads to different banks based on credit risk and/or volume.
OK, but I'm not sure what you can point to that they're currently doing that's a reaction to that. The products you're seeing now (Windows 8, WP8, etc.) were all put into motion before WP7 was released.
Perhaps it is a botnet trying to locate all of its clients.

Each client has his/her own UUID(the tweet) and the geolocation is where the client is located.

It seems as though the googuns_staging was the trial, all fake/useless location and googun_prod(as the name suggests) is the actual "in-the-wild" run of locating all of its clients

Also interesting is at the moment there are many tweets ending in either a350000000 or baf200000000 but that may just be coincidence based on some counter thats incrementing
Well, when I hear about Actors I reach for my gun.

I knew a guy who chose Scala for a project so he could use Actors for concurrency.

The system never gave the same answers twice and wouldn't peg all the cores on a 4-way machine.

I spent two days trying to fix it, then I got wise and switched back to Java and got it working in 20 minutes with ExecutorService with (i) no race conditions, and (ii) nearly perfect scaling up to eight cores.
If the iPad 2 had the new connector and a good camera it might still make sense, but yeah -- why would anyone want one?

As for "people with eyesight problems" -- that's the majority of human beings!
Sidekiq is probably the best example of Celluloid in action.
I think that's a little unfair. RIM is at the end of a slow death. To paraphrase Hemingway -- RIM died slowly at first, then very quickly.
It seems that Phoronix is going to new depths here in sensationalizing titles.

They don't mention any reason why it would be crap as a driver. Reasons it'd be 'crap' is if it is much slower than the binary one, or buggy, or lacks features. But that's not the case is it?

Even if it is not as open as people would like, I suppose it does give some information (like the entry points) that can be useful in "full" reverse engineering...
The ablative heat shield used by the Spirit and Opportunity rovers was a blend of cork wood and silica spheres [1].

Also, the reentry vehicles for the Chinese FSW reconnaissance satellites used heat shields made from Oak.

[1] http://marsrover.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_edl_aeroshell.h...
CERT Issues Warning After Mathematician Discovers DKIM Flaw
That would be great! Thanks.
The creepiest Numbers Station of them all: UVB-76 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

Just listen to the buzzing sound clip... Sends chills down my spine. Then after years of 24/7/365 buzzing, a Russian voice reads a bizarre encoded message. Spooky.
May I say - Garbage. I include both the article (which saurik has pointed out) and the folks discussing it (people actually listen to podcasts of people taking about articles?)

iOS 6 ad tracking is anonymous (better than iOS 5 where the UUID could be discovered and used for tracking which is identifiable), EASY TO TURN OFF (contrary to the moronic opinion of the article) and logically organized (it's not PRIVACY related since your identity is never known).
I don't think subsidizing the surface to get volume would be a winning move either.

Selling heavily discounted surface tablets today would alienate and possibly kill their OEMs and set forward price expectations that would preclude future profitability.

Microsoft needs to establish a position for themselves that is profitable, otherwise they're burning their bridges behind them AND in front of them. It's hard to see whether Surface is going to succeed -- the reviews thus far are at best equivocal.
Apple Tax Strikes Again, iPad Mini Overpriced Versus Competition
could be written in a LESS ambiguous manner...

Oops.
www.technologyreview.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for the following names:
acquia-sites.com , victory.mittromney.com , secure.mittromney.com , www.mittromney.com , mittromney.com , m.mittromney.com , secure.gop.com , collab.net , www.collab.net , bentley.edu , www.bentley.edu , acuvue.ca , www.acuvue.ca , acuvue.com , www.acuvue.com , barnard.edu , www.barnard.edu , api.mittromney.com , www.babymed.com , secureforms.bentley.edu , www.housingwire.com , securefroms.bentley.edu , www.utsystem.edu , theoverflow.com , www.theoverflow.com , acuvueprofessional.com , www.acuvueprofessional.com , romneyvictory.com , www.romneyvictory.com , americascomebackteam.com , www.americascomebackteam.com , www.jnjvisioncare.com , jnjvisioncare.com , ssl.marketplace.org , veterancentral.com , www.mywell-being.com , www.givingcomfort.org , givingcomfort.org , www.givingcomfort.com , givingcomfort.com

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Definitely one of the stranger SSL issues I've had. MittRomney.com?
I like the concept but can't tell if the bugs on iPad is a bug or a feature...
Introducing Pocket for Mac
Sure, having dynamic multityping allows one to express things that one cannot express in a dynamically unityped language. But I think the original point stands - a language with static multityping and dynamic multityping (not all staticly typed languages provide the latter, and they certainly don't all make it easy) is more expressive than one with static unityping and dynamic multityping.
Not to mention that this is a major update unlike the minor addons that Apple use to justify an upgrade. I would live very happy with snow leopard, the only reason I upgrade is because Apple force us in order to keep developing on latest iOS devices.
This stuff this current administration is doing to systematically destruct personal freedoms makes Bush II administration look like child's play. Where is the promised repeal of the Patriot Act? Where is the promise of open government? Petitions are great and all, but I'd rather not have "state secrets" being used at a rate that makes the old USSR blush in embarrassment. Why are all American citizens suspect for terrorism, or it is just an excuse to gain an unprecedented level of control?

One thing is for sure; no matter how things go in November, our country is screwed.
ESRB Opens No-Cost Ratings Service for Digitally Distributed Games
No, it means the price is $229 each if you order at least 100. Without the quantity discount, it's $269 each.
Seems so. If we take literally f.e. 1773f27ba0000000, drop off the zeroes (see, most contains zeroes), it's an IP address.
One thing is clear: the government really hates gold.

Good enough for me.
Going to Mars is currently not a good use of resources. It's like spending billions to travel to the middle of the Sahara. Sure, there will be technologies invented as a side effect, but that will also be the case if we spend those resources on something that's also directly useful (like solving the energy problem, quantum computing, self sufficient robots, AI, etc.). Arguably, going to the moon wasn't a good use of resources either.
> Do we honestly need a "framework" to use the background-color and float properties?

No, that's why the framework appears to include a lot more than that.
Almost all serious engineering, scientific [..] and the majority of manufacturing are metric in the U.S.

This isn't true in my experience. Of course my experience certainly isn't comprehensive, but in my work I interact with a lot of US fields (environmental, manufacturing, civil & mechanical engineering, etc) and I almost never see metric units. The Federal Highway Administration tried to encourage state DOT's to go metric for design and engineering work back in the late 90's but they eventually gave up. If you ever worked on an American car, you still find a mix of metric and Imperial bolt sizes! About the only field where I found that metric units are used extensively is wind energy.

Heck, even my mechanical engineering PE exam used Imperial units exclusively (pounds force vs pounds-mass... sigh)

I imagine that your statement is probably most true for the military though.
Check out The Conet Project [1], a set of four CDs containing recorings of numbers stations. Downloadable/listenable via the Internet Archive [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conet_Project

[2] http://archive.org/details/ird059
You do are aware that on iOS you can tap the top bar and scroll back to the top with 1 tap? And on non-mobile, there is a scroll-to-the-top key that does the same thing…?
I'd start by looking at the extensions you've got installed. You seem to have a bunch (and also a custom skin?). 413 is a strange error code to be getting. I would try disabling all extensions and see if the problem goes away.

If that doesn't do it, try clearing cookies, as corrupt oversized cookies might cause this (or so some random forum claims).
If it's anything like the Windows 7 upgrade licences, since I was doing a clean install, wiping out the existing XP installtion, the way I got it installed was to install it once, then upgrade the existing installation.

I seem to recall this was even a Microsoft endorsed upgrade path.
I believe the example ("abc" + 123) given in the article is not 100% correct. Let's take C++ as a statically typed language and define a custom class MegaType. Then, in the whole program, we may use only variables of this single type. Any program can be trivially transformed to use just this single type. The piece of code would then look like MegaType("abc") + MegaType(123). When executed, it would behave exactly as a language with dynamic types. So, a dynamically typed language really is a specialization of statically typed language - you only need to define and use this one MegaType and implement all needed operators for this type (and they may of course work differently in runtime: "123" + 123 may result in 246 if you decide it should).
Ignore Windows 8 at Your Peril
I don't think so. Bulk pricing usually lists the per unit price. The quantity is denoted since you can get better pricing for larger quantity orders. For example, I may get a microcontroller for $4 when I order 10k, but you'd pay $25 if you just ordered one from DigiKey.
Win+I also brings the settings slide-out on the right, with the shutdown button at the bottom.
Great article. But expecting children to know what integers and especially floats are is ridiculous. Integers, maybe, like definitely in a higher grade level. But floats absolutely not. They are whole and decimal numbers!
Wladimir, I respect your view here - I agree with everything you write. My field of expertise is more ISA encodings, overall functional block architecture and decompilers. Once I hold the encodings, I point at the blob and say there is your source & specification. ie Binary blobs + ISA encodings = specification to me.
They seem to consider a score of 7.5 or 8 "average", much like the rest of gaming publications. Sad, really.
But you can't optimize large software that has to be maintained. Even if you could (because you have unlimited resources), you won't be getting a 50% improvement because you'll be spending a lot of the time on IO and task switching anyway.

And just to make sure: whatever improvement you get will be very costly. We're talking manual control of memory fences, NUMA memory allocation and placement, lock biasing and more. All stuff the JVM does a very good with little effort for the Java programmer.
Your link doesn't work, this one does: http://www.finiki.org/wiki/Norberts_Gambit

This might well be what someone like Travelwise is doing on the backend, especially if they have the volume to offset the commissions.
Cool. Unfortunately I need AUD and CAD, so I'm out of luck :)

I knew that XE made money on a spread of sorts, but I thought that it was more related to the fact that between the time they offer me a rate and the time it takes to do the transfers, they've been able to work the fluctuations to their advantage.

I guess I see it as different to the 'the rate we offer you is not the actual rate' type spread. I mean, it's different in that they offer me a 'spread-less rate' but they end up with the spread due to the time it takes to make the transactions.

Assuming I'm correct about my understanding of how XE makes money (and please correct me if I'm not) then out of curiosity, are both of these processes equally considered to be a spread, or is one a more 'traditional' example than the other? Hopefully that question makes sense!
Wanted a flying pony. Got a pony.

An open userspace means that I will be able to use the GPU as far into the future as I like. It means that if anything is screwed up on my ARM processor I can see it and fix it (or thank the person that beat me to it.) That's a good thing.

The code blob that is not open is what runs on the GPU. I'd love to have that too so that the OpenGL could possibly be extended beyond what the vendor chooses or it could be ditched as a GPU entirely and used as a big parallel DSP. BroadCom didn't give us that.

Some reasons I can think of:

• GPU litigation – If you don't have a pre-emptive patent arsenal, open sourcing your GPU code and design is like inviting your competitors' lawyers over for tea and depositions.

• Unbuildable – The toolchain to build the GPU code is likely a cobbled together mess of tools, many built to minimally functional in house standards.

• Undocumented – They probably have not spent the hundreds of thousands of dollars to properly document how the GPU works. What documentation exists is possibly not in English.

• Unsafe – It is possible that the GPU has HCF[1] opcodes or sequences, or at the very least hasn't been lightly proven not to. In particular, there could be thermal issues depending how you drive it.

• IP Ownership – Portions of their implementation could be licensed under terms that do not permit release.

EOM

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire
Unless you're forwarding your agent, in which case a separate key might be a good idea.
Does this offer a full ISO image to burn? Or is this an in-place upgrade type of a deal?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/upgrade-to-wind...

> Can I upgrade from a 32-bit version of Windows to a 64-bit version of Windows 8?

> Yes, but you can't do this using Upgrade Assistant. If your PC has a 64-bit capable processor (CPU) but is currently running a 32-bit version of Windows, you can install a 64-bit version of Windows 8, but you'll need to buy Windows 8 as a DVD.

I guess not, otherwise you'd be able to just burn a full version DVD and boot from that.
May be some kind of edge cache that has it's own certs for sites it mirrors?

Either that or a lazy developer reusing the ssl cert instead of generating a new one.
What's the difference between a commission and a profit made from bumping up (or down) the exchange rate they give you?
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