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I have no doubt they can deliver (the engineering samples do work) but the target audience is small and until there are multiple working applications. The concept, general purpose parallel computing, is the way forward. So if you like to learn and tinker, this is one of the few if not only way to get access a development board at a very low cost.
Backing them does not cost you anything if the pledge is not successful. If you want to have access to a cheap development board then back them. I do.
I didn't. If you are selecting people because they have the best skills then it's not cronyism.
While the price is reasonable, if you'll try to install this in a VM, you'll need to install an older Windows first and start the Windows 8 installation from this older version ...
Does that actually mean "No thank you"? I can't quite work out whether you have had a good experience or bad experience..
It made HN first page not so long ago :)
Proving, yet again, that any form of "DRM" or "Copyright" hurts more creators than it helps.
7 hours ago everyone was asleep. Now everyone is at work looking for something to distract them.
Health care is a bad example. It's a multiple edge case, and a uniquely terrible choice for market solutions. The time when a patient can best make a market decision is the time it's probably too late.

I don't see why a resource being "life-critical" should make something not work for market solutions. Food and housing are already market allocated, and you'll have a hard time finding an economist who wants to centrally plan those things.

"But the poor have poor access to food and housing." I'm not too worried about this as enough water is a lot cheaper, even at a market price. Anyway, it's not like we don't already allocate water when and where it is scarce--just in an unfair, inefficient, and broken way. And it's not like anyone wants to deregulate the pipes to your faucet. And it's not like it's free to use that faucet.
Signed in.

I hope this will displace both Twitter and email. Specially Twitter.

140 chars only work for little birds. And I don't trust Varys anymore.
However if I read their block diagrams correctly you can't use the FPGA and the Epiphany at the same time ( e.g. they use the FPGA to interface with the Epihpany Core ). Still if they give easy access to reprogram the FPGA they not only made an awesome Parallel computer, but also the only platform I know of to easily get into FPGA hacking.

The FPGA is the most under reported part of this project.
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I don't understand why you continously want to pitch Go as a C replacement.

In my experience the domains in which C is the most appropriate choice does not work well with GC's, and even overhead like that coming from automatic boundary checking is an unwelcome performance impact.

What exactly are the areas of C use in which you expect Go to replace it?
If you are interested in a take on this topic that is based on data, check out Noam Wasserman at BoS 2009 (his talk at BoS 2012 was very similar)

http://businessofsoftware.org/2009/05/professor-noam-wasserm...

He has been collecting data on start-ups and then looking at survival lengths and outcomes. He wrote a book on the topic

http://www.amazon.com/Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Foundat...
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I've been testing this for the past week or so - used it for a couple of client presentations and it's absolutely fantastic.
The thing is that the way it's allocated now is ... well, it's awful. Or at the very least: completely accidental.

He holds up the Ruhr as a good example. It isn't; it just means that the input into allocations is purely political. Democracy has notorious failure modes too.

Here in Australia, for example, we have been having an unending fight over the waters of the Murray-Darling basin since before Federation.

How do you balance between providing drinking water to Adelaide, a city of 1.2 million people; and the production of food in the vast irrigated projects upstream?

Right now: through god awful bunfights. It simply doesn't work.

There's been attempts to introduce a market in water rights, but it's hampered by the fact that a person holding rights in South Australia simply has no way to stop someone in Victoria taking that water out of contention.

The dispute only exists because the water isn't fully private property.
Not going bankrupt is just a proxy that (in the absence of actual names and numbers) allows us to reason about their habits. It doesn't mean that they only still enough not to go bankrupt :-)

And then there is scale. There is only one western country where money is on a comparable scale.
We didn't focus on the FPGA because the project was more about parallel programming methods, but it's an open platform so the adventurous ones can hack and modify it freely.
If you are throwing away the ability to have visually formatted source text, all the teeth gnashing over the name of the new, properly standardized and beautifully implemented format becomes completely ridiculous. Nice looking source text is pretty much the core principle of markdown.

Which I suppose is the source of Gruber's apparent obstinance, if someone wants to make changes that exchange his design principles for other design principles (I don't think he cares much about naive users), why should he hand them the name of his project?

(to clarify, "apparent obstinance" is me doing a poor job of keeping sarcasm out of my post, I don't have a problem with Gruber insisting that the markdown name is his)
You'll need System Builder edition for that.
I have an app in the Windows Store. The author of the post is complaining, but he should read the manual before submitting his app. Excluding CurrentAppSimulator is documented in docs a thousand times. Stop whining, fix your crashing app and don't submit it until its working. Why would they want your crashing buggy app on the day of launch?
Hey guys,

I've been looking at effective ways to chat with other founders during the day and stumbled across JabbR, which has been working out extremely well. I've participated in #startups on Freenode before, but was never a huge fan of IRC.

If you'd like a place to hang out online during the day and chat with other founders, try this out. If we continue to get participating I think we could grow this into a nice little community.

Here's the direct link to the chat:

http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/founders
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How much do you pay at startups big and small?

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Are arbitrary and ridiculous restrictions on language unique to humans?
I really don't think it is a smart move to enable automatic upgrades on a pirated copy of Windows ...
There won't be many.

Look at every major city in the world.

They are all reliant on a reliable, major water source.

Notice how many cities exist on rivers or near lakes? Not a coincidence.

There's other things that predict growth -- suitability for trade and the presence of a hinterland -- but water is the best predictor.
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I really don't get why people continue to bang their heads against the wall that is Microsoft. We have plenty of better options, why them?
We already know that people in rich countries are prepared to pay for water at a rate dozens of times over the current tap price.
You can't make any useful comparisons between "water" and "healthcare" outside of saying "people generally want as much as they can consume with minimal cost".

If you can point me to a faucet that I can use to fill a jug with a few gallons of "healthcare" then you can make more detailed comparison but not until then.
It's a carry-over from long before I started using the Internet (1995?), and I've heard was an artifact of typesetting.
You want to start a company. Now what?
So, what exactly is it that you're missing from net/http and Gorilla?
I've recently been thinking about the motives for people writing these kinds of articles. A year ago I would have found this a weird question because when the actions of blogging and sharing are so culturally ingrained it's very difficult to step outside and ask "Why?". Now I find it instructive to do so. Sincerely and unrhetorically: "Why did you write this?"

My belief at the moment is that such articles are validation-seeking. The writer draws strength from committing their plans to a socially-viewable document and subjecting it to discussion. Most of the likely responses to posting the piece online (including no responses) can, with a little squinting, be interpreted as positive reinforcement for the individual's system, hence the incentive to share.
Another possibility, making water artificially expensive and so monetarily valuable creates incentive to corner the market on water, water contracts, water derivatives and other games, pricing the little guy out of the market for water.

Making water artificially expensive and valuable provides incentive for people to regulate and otherwise restrict innovation in water use and reclamation. Bad for business if people can just suck water out of the ground.

Coming soon -- region codes for water.
Is that really a "thought" though, or is it just a feeling/intuition/primordial emotional concept up until the point that it can be congealed into words?
I agree few economists want to outright central-plan housing, but I believe many are skeptical of the degree of financialization it's ended up with: mortgage-backed securities in their various forms are looked suspiciously on by a significant proportion of economists (though perhaps a minority?), and some argue that they contribute to volatility in housing markets and severity of cyclical crises.

Though here in Denmark there is actually a significant degree of central planning of housing, via a strong state role in the overall urban-planning framework, and laws that encourage owner-occupation and cooperatives, while discouraging absentee real-estate investment. There are constant debates over it, but going to a fully liberalized market approach doesn't seem too popular.
By your argument, C++ is controlled by Bell Labs.
That book actually has a good discussion on advanced pricing techniques, including taking competitor prices into account. They even outlined techniques for selecting the most efficient bundle of features for a given price -- right up to labs built to perfectly resemble a supermarket.
a) Go is open source

b) Not sure why you've included Microsoft in your list. The C# specification has an ECMA and ISO standard.(ECMA-334 and ISO/IEC 23270:2006)
In the Kickstarter updates there is a link to a paper about using the FPGA to both interface to a digital radio front end and the Epiphany, so I assume that the Epiphany logic doesn't consume the whole FPGA and that they make source available for you to extend.
At this point it's not about the amount of apps they have in the store. It's about the quality of apps in the store. If they have 2 million apps an 1.9 million are horrible it will make Microsoft look cheap and generic. If they have 1000 apps that are awesome it will make them seem solid, legit and tactful.

This guy should be able to clean out his own code base and make it up to par with the app stores expectation. They have pretty clear guidelines and he's not meeting them.
If it were a good C replacement I'd be able to expose an ABI for other language bindings, so that I could write libraries that could be used in many different languages. There is no way to do this in Go.

If it were a good C replacement, it would have dynamically linkable libraries so that I could write an extensible server that could be extended with external modules (a la Apache).

If it were a good C replacement I'd have direct access to memory so that I could write device drivers.
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Off the top of my head:

* Links with parentheses often break

* Intra-word underscores have to be escaped

* Links are backwards (text,link instead of link,text like HTML anchors)

* Link syntax is pretty arbitrary (why braces and brackets?)

* Single line breaks are swallowed unless you append two spaces to the line. (How is this a "natural" formatting?)

* Footnotes with asterisks turn into bullet lists

Most or all of these are resolved by various implementations, but that's just another reason to hate Markdown: the inconsistencies between implementations.
The #1 seller of mortgage backed securities were, by far, the government through the GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The #1 money losers on the resulting disaster were--again--the GSEs to the tune of several hundred billion dollars. By contrast, the private market bailouts are actually above water.

Mortgage backed securities are not a very good example of free market distortions.

Edit: I noticed you've added something about the housing ownership structure in Denmark. I think this is not very relevant to the discussion, but I also think it would be nice in the US if the law were more encouraging to the sort of ownership structures you described. I also think that kind of thing would still be rare because US citizens are a lot more mobile than Europeans and happen to like it that way.
This is the same reason why the idea that you can't bequeath your iTunes purchases on death seems like lunacy to most people.

Purchased goods are purchased goods, and the idea that something is licensed with restrictions seems ridiculous to most people unless it's something upfront like a subscription that you are paying monthly fees to access.
I'd like to see them succeed. The sweet spot I would love to use for this technology would be portable SDR, just like one of their app notes states. It's a pain dragging a powerful laptop into the field just to do some rote signal processing for an radio.
Actually I think he does give a shit, he just feels that things could be a lot worse than they are and tinkering isn't necessarily going to improve things. Given how widely used it is there is some merit to this argument.

From a comment on Twitter yesterday in response to someone, it doesn't seem that Gruber is particularly interested in engaging with this (though I may be wrong). If that is the case I suspect we'll see a forking of the project and we'll get to see whether a committee will do better.

It may well do - Jeff has a good track record at getting things done and is well respected and well liked - but personally I wouldn't put my mortgage on it because as well intentioned as these things are we all know how design by committee usually turns out.
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Neat idea. It'd be nice if you could see how many other people were viewing the presentation and perhaps even chat with them.
The FPGA is indeed doing the glue logic to the Epiphany, but that's only one of its functions; there's plenty of space left for other jobs, one of which is HDMI output. They do plan easy access to reprogram the FPGA, but since Xilinx synthesis tools are only available on x86, you'll also need a PC to make new FPGA configurations.
How would one go about taking a project with a large corpus of non-standard markdown (e.g. Github, Reddit) and converting it to any standardized form, assuming that a standard is chosen that is not 100% backwards-compatible with all existing markdown flavors?

I don't think such a thing is feasible. I also don't think it's feasible for any proposed standard to simply look at the largest users and say "okay, we'll accept the idiosyncratic extensions of all of these differing flavors in an unambiguous way."

So assuming this pushes forward, there are (to my mind) two possible outcomes:

1) A backwards-incompatible standard emerges. No existing project adopts it, but new projects do. It gains legitimacy only once Github, Reddit, et al fade into obscurity.

2) A backwards-compatible standard emerges. Every large existing project adopts it, but the standard is so full of cruft and TIMTOWTDI that in ten years it gets usurped entirely by a challenger that emphasizes simplicity.
That's true, but you only have to do it once.
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I don't think you need packages that are suffixes with -dbg, unless you need debug symbols.
I'm glad you feel that way. Those of us with jobs and families snicker at college students who claim to be "so busy". Life is good at this time; do your studies and use those massive amounts of free time to socialize and create new things.
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Its on sale for $39.99. Just checked the Apple store and Mountain Lion is $19.99. Way to go MS.
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Mortgage-backed securities were put in place to fix the last problem with the mortgage market. Which was caused by the fix put in place to fix the problem before that.

EDIT probably too late to fix the downvotes, but Regulation Q limited the interest rate that banks could pay out. After banks had lent out their money, they couldn't raise any more, especially if interest rates were high, as happened more than once. But if they could sell off their loans to the GSE, they could get more capital back, and lend it out some more.

Of course, this led to problems. But if we don't understand the psychology that led to securitization as being the natural solution to the previous column, how do you know you are being any wiser about suggesting what is going to replace securitization?

(I simplify a bit, because securitization also allows banks to diversify geographically.)
The OP doesn't mention expected client count, but the number of concurrent connections is a crucial factor that these tests overlook.

I'm currently doing some Socket.io stress testing, and it's clear that XHR-polling is significantly harder on the CPU for the reasons you've mentioned. This detail is lost in the noise for single-client tests, but it will become increasingly relevant as more clients connect.
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Was. It didn't see wide adoption until we had many compilers. I will ignore the standard, since the compilers did.
Is there anywhere where water itself is fully private property? I'm just curious how that works when it comes to a river.

[NB Not being snarky - I genuinely want to know how it works to "own" water in something like a river which by its very nature doesn't stay in one place]
Very nice. I did something similar as well a couple of weeks ago but didn't publish it. Good job!
My biggest concern with 4G is that it will move people from using static line ISP connections to using mobile connections for everything.

The problem with this is that mobile providers seem to be a lot more invasive when it comes to blocking content, leaking personal data and imposing restrictions on the use of the data service.
A fun sample to the contrary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Illinois
Yeah, it is like Google has multiple personalities sometimes.
i agree with most of your points but not all.
Sure tablets are a compromise, but the pc/tablet/mobile hardware market is moving MUCH faster than the console market. Current gen consoles have been around since 2005/6, a time when even the iphone didnt exist and things like Free to play or digital distribution were a non-issue.

Today all of that has changed dramatically and the console makers reacted to it, but only very slowly and in general they are limited to adapt to these new markets.
The PC, tablets, mobile phones however have done a massive step in the same timeframe. Measured by todays standards, mobile gaming didnt exist in 2005, today its the biggest growth market in gaming there is.
Even though tablets are still much less powerful than a current gen console, many of todays top notch games on tablets dont look too far off of console games...

Of course touch controls are limited and games need to be tailored to those, but in the end its an issue about which market is more attractive to developers. Mobile and Free to play certainly has alot less risk than pay-upfront triple-A titles with millions of budget.

That being said i still see a good future for consoles as entertainment devices in the living room, in fact an Apple-TV like device with powerful hardware and Apps (including tripe-A free to play games) could be a massive hit!
Until industries lobby government for subsidies, either individual or for the entire commodity (look at corn) so they can buy water at the "market" price and sell the resulting products below what should have been the market price.
What uses would something like this have? What types of tasks are processor intensive?

Video encoding, speech/face recognition? Computation that normally a GPU would do?

I bought a 16/core but I'm not sure what I'll use it for other than to run Linux.

I really hope that someone develops a distributed computing client (for Folding/Boinc) that would run on this and take advantage of it. Than I would buy a 64/core
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Let me assure you, storage has gotten cheap but not that cheap. ;)

You've omitted the labor cost to assemble, debug and maintain your McGyver-Device. That's easily another $2500/mo (amortized).

Secondly you don't really want to store 80T on the cheapest components you can possibly get without a lot of testing and planning. This $22 PSU, trust me, it will come back to haunt you.

Thirdly, "decent redundancy" starts at factor 2.5, not 1.25.

And finally: If you want to put this stuff online and have people actually download it then you'll soon notice that redundancy is not only needed for availability but also for performance.

A reasonable ballpark figure for low-end networked storage nowadays is $0.05/GB per month (it gets much cheaper above 500T). Thus hosting those 80T should cost roughly $4000/mo, give or take a few.
What's the difference between "feeling/intuition/primordial emotional concept" and thought for those who aren't dualists?
It wasn't my comparison, it was rayiner's. I was just trying to make sense of it.