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Yes it would. Along similar lines, I don't know Haskell and have no time to learn it now and so dislike all Haskell stories. But that's a lesser problem than marriage stories (which, incidentally, I actually liked). Let me explain why with an example: The kind of people who like Haskell are much more likely to like Python or Hadoop - things that I am very interested in. So there is a very likely payoff to tolerating Haskell stories. I doubt there is a similarly strong correlation between people interested in stories on marriage and python or hadoop.

If 3 of the top 5 stories on HN were about marriage, childrearing and politics (all topics relevant to many hackers) for a significant amount of time, a Joe random with no interest in hacking and lots of interest in 1 or more of the above who just happened to drop by would be very likely to stay and contribute more stories of the same nature and none about hacking. Soon HN will be very little about Hacking.

All of this ignores active killing by moderators but we really don't want to get to a stage where moderators have to kill stories with any regularity. Self regulation is the best kind.
You'd think that for something as vital as an electricity grid the companies would be using hardened systems with encrypted communication links.
The problem with Yahoo Answers is that they got the incentives all wrong. People found they could get more points with a bunch of bad answers than a few good ones.

Google Answers was awesome for answer quality, if you were willing to pay. Unfortunately, they no longer exist. I haven't found anything that fills the void they left.
Yeah, Google Answers was great. I still miss it.
As counterpoints, first consider that blame for the current situation and the proper next steps are two separate issues. The myopic (to put it gently) decisions made by "Wall street" most certainly are the single largest contributing factor to the urgency and depth of this crisis.

Second, I think it's rather difficult to pin much blame on regulators. The two levers used that have made this so particularly awful, CDOs and CDSs, were almost entirely over-the-counter, unregulated affairs, and the extent of our economy's exposure was and still is cloaked behind regulatory loopholes that allow these firms to keep it at least partly off their books.

Funny, the language you use (financiers, corporatist, monopolists) makes me think of Lenin's "Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism." Saw it in a bookstore and flipped through, but I decided it would be too cynical for me to buy it.
What language is your compiler written in? Most languages have an off the shelf implementation of map / map-reduce or similar these days, which would seem well-suited to compiler tasks and greatly simplifies parallelizing jobs. We use map and map-reduce patterns in C++ heavily which is quite nice since if you've got that relatively small core of code thread safe you can mostly ignore thread safety in the major portions.

You also can often speed up I/O that way since you can saturate both your I/O and CPU bandwidth, rather than alternating between waiting on them.

I also take it that you're not compiling to individual object files since usually compilation since usual compile parallelization is based on farming out single object file compilations to multiple machines or processes.

I wrote some small portions of "icecream" which is used for compilation parallelization by the guys at SUSE and there it would actually transmit over the network a full chroot environment so that even different Linux installs working on compatible architectures (later cross-compiler support was added as well) could execute the compiler jobs of rather different OSes.
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I'm glad you proved yourself wrong. This seems to be a community that accepts its niche and is open to questioning content quality.
And as I've been ranty about such in the last day, that's actually a pretty big deal. It's not just that it means that there are more articles to ignore, it also means that:

- We're missing other news about startups and hacking in the precious space that is the front page.

- People that come here for startups and hacker news begin to question the worth in coming here.

So, I'll repeat the two-pronged battle cry: flag inappropriate stuff, head to the "new" section at least once a day and vote up stuff on hacking and startups.
No, the problem is having incentives at all!

The only viable option is for it to be a part of a larger self-policed community, with no 'points' that count for anything: http://ask.metafilter.com
The rules about what's on topic explicitly say that articles don't have to be about hacking. They just have to be interesting to the intellectually curious. An article on any topic could be if it was sufficiently insightful. This one seems pretty insightful. Not overwhelmingly so, but it's certainly not a junk article.
This is one of the few blogs that I actually keep up with on a regular basis. I used to work at this hospital as an RA before I left in 2007.

Over the past few weeks, the CEO has been holding meetings with his employees openly about their financial constraints and layoffs. If you go back a few posts, you will see that many employees even leave comments on the blog about the topic.

One idea he presented to his employees was to 'protect' the lower wage earners. While, from a budget standpoint, it is straight-forward to layoff a higher wage earner, he presented the overall idea to his employees in such a way, that everyone rallied around the idea. Employees willingly gave up certain benefits in order to reduce layoffs across the hospital.
Previously discussed:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516215
Anyone who's jailbroken their iPhone and played around with NES.app (from which you could create almost this exact screenshot, instead of having to make a mock-up), knows that game-pad emulation on the touchscreen can be a little iffy. We're used to being able to lightly rest our finger on one button and then "lever" over to another; touch sensors destroy this intuitive response by reading both buttons as depressed.
pg said

" This one seems pretty insightful. Not overwhelmingly so, but it's certainly not a junk article."

fair enough. differing perceptions and all that. I think (note: I think) it was a trashy article, not worth my time I spent in reading it (which is my working definition of "junk") and I don't want to see such articles on the front page so I did my part by (a) flagging it (b) explaining my thought process.

It is upto the rest of the HN community to confirm or reject my perception. And I am completely fine with that. I can always start reading from teh second article from the top :-)

PS: I noticed that the article disappeared from the front page("Dead" ed) and then came back a few minutes later. How does that happen? Just curious.
This is a follow-up article on a previously discussed item. I posted it, as I found the follow-up interesting, and thought others might also.
PlinkPlonk says "My heartfelt wish is that these junk articles don't make the front page of HN. So what's next on HN? raising children? "

This is not a junk article. And yes, articles about raising kids were published here and I do not remember any one questioning if it was hacker news. ( http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html). This is intellectually interesting and useful. If hacker news wants to be a community where human beings take part rather than some large drone feeding me with 'programming' news this article stays.

For that matter this article has more insight than many articles about 'ruby' on this site, I cringe when articles get in just because it had the word 'programming' in it. There are many programming articles that were a pure waste of time, did not embody what hackers are about. Hacker is an attitude and not just programming. Hacker is the quality in programming and not just the programming. Just dealing with programming is not an automatic pass to be hacker news (some sites are actually banned!), and by the same account just that something does not contain the word programming does not mean its not hacker news.

Guess what, we are programmers and proud ones. But I personally value my relationships more than my programming abilities (And my girl friend will never say to me: if you love me stop programming!, she loves me too. Its a nice arrangement. :P).

The fear or the question "If we let this article where will this stop?" reminds me of people who ask: If we let gay people marry, then where will this stop ? If you felt pity for such people who did not have a good appreciation for dynamic nature of all things nature, then think a bit more. "Where will this stop?"is not reason enough and is not an automatic pass to raise the objection "this is not hacker news"

There is room here for more insight. Further I said this some 2 years back on this site: I will say it again. Dont have a very narrow view of what you are. Don't define yourself and put your self in such a tiny box "I am a hacker because I think ruby is not a gem". I feel kinship to the person who designs good buildings and the one who designs a good meal which is also cheap. In such a meal I see a succinct program which also is very efficient in terms of memory.

There are insights to be obtained from all of them for programming itself. Further only if you expand your world view and talk about problems people face on a daily basis can you obtain insights into peoples problems that need solutions. And guess what you will suddenly find a new business instead of hacking together your one millionth web based todolist with email and sms feature.

EDIT: adding link to the earlier comment that I refer to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31799 which was made looong back.
So he didn't fix the compile speed but he fixed the speed of everything else. I know every second I have to sit and wait for my hard drive to catch up is a second I'm spacing out instead of working. As a developer I just want to get my idea out and code. Anything that can be done to make that faster makes me a happier coder.
Liability. Teachers always need to be able to tell students they could have gone to the lab. Otherwise software problems/failures because a real issue for each class.
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Side-track: The Romans used IIII for 4, not IV, etc. which was introduced by early printers (not dot-matrixes ;-) to save space, so the original system was more additive.

Looked at in this light, you can see more easily how humanity progressed from tallying, to counting on fingers -- use fingers to tally up to four, take the thumb to represent five -- to the abacus and Roman numerals.
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I guess you shouldn't always trust your assumptions, but did he really think compilation might be I/O bound?
By admitting students randomly rather than on perceived skill.
Unfortunately it may take years to figure out what kind of person someone else is, and they may not want to wait until you figure it out. In the end, it's always a gamble based on partial information.
Ditto, I use both and I much prefer Ubuntu's look to Vista's.
Didn't we have an article about how children should be praised for working hard and not for being smart? I personally thought that was a great article too.

I appreciate having articles about hacking relationships and parenthood on HN.
You make good points, but you misunderstand, I wasn't claiming they were the answer.
One downside to CUDA is its massively powerful for single FP precision, but double FP precision performance is less than 1/10 of single FP performance.

When precision is needed CUDA is much less useful, say you're running 10^10 simulations then with single FP precision you will only have a result accurate to 5 significant figures.
Agreed. Instead of getting rid of the lab altogether just remove a few desktops and leave the rest of the setup in place for the laptops. Though from what it sounds like it's not the computer itself that's the major cost in the lab, it's all the support that goes into it.
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WTF? I say "Not only Google, but pretty much any other large co has crappy customer service. Let's compete on good customer service!".

Was your reply supposed to be an objection of some sort that I missed? What are you disagreeing with? Yeah, and what's up with 17 people who upmodded it?!
That list is somewhat incomplete and out of date (at least in the case of searchmash and lively). Wikipedia seems to have a more complete list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
> Desmond Lachman, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

If there is a lesson to be learnt in the last 30 years of the American experience with economics, it is to keep the American Enterprise Institute and anyone associated with it as far away from policy-making as possible.

http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/02/debt-to-gdp-since-the-...

These people have zero credibility on anything debt-related until they repudiate their party's economic policies under Reagan and Bush II, both periods when it should not have been necessary for the US to radically increase its debt burden. The sudden concern of these people for US debt levels is entirely transparent, and entirely hypocritical. Lest we forget they were also a major proponent of social security reform (translation: Republican-championed efforts to invest Social Security funds directly in the stock market in ways that would generate private management fees).

Good thing that didn't happen. As controversial as bailing out the banks are, it would be worse if the Democrats now had to bail out people who just blew everyone's retirement savings too.
OK one use of this is to check for your copyrighted photos obv.

But will people pay for such a service?

There are just so many companies starting with seemingly no way to make money.
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I am very seriously trying to get my head around all of this, so as to position myself properly. Short bonds, long gold, etc. for the impending inflation and our battle with it. Like the author, I also share a deep unease with this level of spending.

However, in reading this piece, I felt it was overdone. I've been paying attention, and I haven't noted many of the things that the author notes. Paulson and Geitner and Bernanke"at sea", for instance. I haven't seen evidence of that, except for Geitner's "we plan to have a plan soon" speech, but he's since rectified that. I also haven't seen evidence of Wall Street being overly influential in Washington, but instead, Washington is now overly influential on Wall Street. I just feel he stretched a little far on this article, with a definite goal to scare anybody that hadn't been paying attention.
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If only shuffling money couldn't make a profit.
I am not trying to be condescending, I am pointing out that Jeff is rehashing arguments that I've seen over the last 10 years, and doesn't really bring anything new to the table. A lot got tried during the first dot com boom, and didn't work, including various versions of the bounty idea.

Maybe I'll try and flesh out some of the details... between that article and the other one, I wrote a lot yesterday.

And in terms of "feeling dirty", how do you think I and other open source people feel about having the words "fuck you" put into our mouths?
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Most modern high-end offline rasterizers aren't forward renderers, or deferred renders, _or_ ray tracing. No, they are typically radiosity renderers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosity

Put simply is that ray-tracing is a per-screen pixel ray which is quite good at glossy surfaces with predictable lighting and plastic appearance. Radiosity, on the other hand, simulates actual light photons/waves. It is slower and more computational intensive, but it produces far more realistic results. In particular, it is good at lighting/shadowing, and is more directly applicable to rendering non-plastic surfaces, including sub-surface scattering (like flesh or hair).

All that said, REAL modern renderers, are wacky hybrid of every technique :-P
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I have not misstated what the IMF does, I have not pegged the IMF to a defined success rate nor have I ignored or somehow covered up involvement of IMF staff. I know that you could interpret that I might have meant that, but I did not exactly say that.

Overly aggressive or pointed responses on discussion boards do count as trolling in my book. Regarding these quick cut-and-paste responses of yours: I could write a simple program that extracts a sentence with a high density of technical words, then puts a forward arrow before it, trails it with a linefeed and then inserts a random response, such as "you're babbling" or "you're wrong", or just states the opposite of the statement (that's more difficult). How about a coherent response using the English language?

I don't need to point out how exactly different aggregations of power have any useful similarity, since we are still in research mode here. My central point remains valid (we need all the input we can get), and actually so does yours, which was about questioning the track record of the IMF.
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It definitely is awesome. Just tweeted the founder of this Toronto-based startup for some comments from her in this discussion.
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* the new notification 'bubbles' in the top right hand corner look good

* coming out of hibernate/suspend mode reconnects me to my wifi connection (never seemed to work in the past)
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Your comment brakes the rules, the article is within their bounds.

Of course it is not worth anyone's time to read your bitching about this article's relevance, especially considering someone or another posts your same urgent insight on every tenth article that reaches the front page. I really wish you all would stop.
It's not quite 960 cores. There are 960 main ALUs across the system, but they're 8-way per item you'd maybe call a core (the stream multiprocessor) and run the same program instruction per clock. There are multiple partitions to execution on top of that, too: 3 cores share a memory space, 10 to a chip, each chip with access to board memory, three chips in the complete Tesla system.

Those 960 ALUs are just the main FP32 and INT32 hardware, too. There are others (FP32 MUL and special function units, and an FP64 ALU too, per core).
I'm weary of hearing how market success is demonstrative of genuine value. Parrot Secrets may be a valuable resource -- we don't know -- but a snake oil salesman can also be quite successful, and his success does not validate his product.

This is where Cringely's article falls over. The Parrot Secret's book is comprised entirely of information collated by a 'ghostwriter' from purchased books. Is the information accurate? Are pet owners causing their pet's unnecessary duress or training them poorly due to faulty information? The site claims that the author is a 12 year parrot 'lover' -- as a potential purchaser, you may use this information to determine the likely veracity the information.

Unfortunately for the purchaser, "12 year parrot lover" is a lie.
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" I noticed that the article disappeared from the front page("Dead" ed) and then came back a few minutes later. How does that happen? Just curious."
The article was killed because enough people with high enough karma to flag, flagged it and it probably came back to life because pg judged the article to be interesting
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