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I'm sort of sad they didn't use hetrogenous cores for these. 2 Steamroller threads with 4 Jaguar threads would be pretty interesting. Given that the game developers would know the core count they could just lock threads to the appropriate core, which they do anyways. Same shared memory space as normal unlike the Cell's PPUs, but you get throughput when you want it or relatively high singled threaded performance when you want that.
I'm real disappointed that these consoles are still fighting an arms race. I was hoping to these boxen would really take to the cloud and finally figure out streaming but I guess we're just not there yet.
I'm a serial SO self-answerer. I write really in depth, complicated questions for complicated problems, with code, data and testable cases - and by the time I've finished the question and posted it - I've figured out the solution - or I'll have it a few hours later.

I usually just leave the question/answer online so that others can benefit for it.
But that case is exactly what we're talking about: a single nginx making over 64K connections to a single backend server. You either need nginx to have multiple IPs or the backend to have multiple listening ports.
Sorry for the slowness and timeouts, everyone. I really underestimated the number of people who would want the file.

Here's a torrent:

https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/8159583
Competitor of hers maybe? Don't totally disagree but the implication at the end this woman may be engaging in tax irregularities? - that's unfounded and a bit slanderous.

Agree though - aff links are ads. You shouldn't say 'ad-free'.
Yes, that is the trade-off, but I think you'll definitely be able to find areas where you can use c to do some processing in the bottlenecks. If you find you don't have enough performance, it is an area to explore. My experience is with ruby and rubyinline, granted ruby isn't as fast as Pypy.
I highly doubt we're able to locate or date meteorites (which are really, really small, especially after they've passed through the atmosphere) with satellites. I suspect we haven't found meteorites in rainforests because we haven't been looking due to the difficulty.
I find most of the time I'm using sudo I don't want to type it before every command and so I use sudo -i which pretty much negates the benefit of logging anything other than to tell that I was sudo at some point.
I wonder what data source was used. I've confirmed a few strikes several miles from where they actually hit. (A Kendall County, TX strike appeared south of San Antonio, and a Louisville, KY strike appeared downtown while the actual strike occurred several miles from downtown.
We want to simplify, and gratify...can you help?
Is anyone familiar enough with this argument that they can lay down the premises? It is not clear what makes him think that the brain and, by extension, physics are not computable.
None of what you wrote is obvious to me. Partly this is because Microsoft is big enough that I find descriptions that treat Microsoft as a monolithic entity unconvincing. After all, they got Kinect to market quickly. SharePoint seemed to come out of nowhere to dominate its market, too. Thankfully, I've never had to deal with stack ranking, but I find it unlikely that it's the explanation behind Microsoft's various failures.
C# is up to about 25 of them, and it works well as long as you can resist the temptation to do silly things like

var var = 1;
var select = var.ToString();
var from = from c in @select select c.GetHashCode();

(The @ thing, which tells the compiler, "This is an identifier and not a keyword", can help quite a bit in a pinch.)
> The problem? The database itself had violated its own CHECK constraint on a previous commit, but was enforcing it on all subsequent commits, causing them to fail. Brilliant.

I've never heard of that, and unless you're using a really buggy, broken database, it should not be possible.

> P.s. This was a proprietary database, and when I reported the problem to the vendor

well there you go. I think in practice, a simple CHECK constraint like the one we'd do here (literally, comment_id > parent_comment_id) is pretty easy to put one's faith into.
I agree that someone has to break it someday, but that's similar to how someday I'll buy a house — that doesn't mean I'm ready today! They aren't making JavaScript live longer — that will happen regardless. There simply isn't the will among browser-makers to break it all at once, so all you're doing by breaking it is making something that no one can use because it's completely incompatible with everything on earth.

I feel like people are misunderstanding the challenge here. The challenge is absolutely not creating a proposed standard or creating a virtual machine. Those are relatively easy. The challenge is herding browser-makers to whatever solution you propose. The nice thing about asm.js is that it automatically works everywhere and it's easy for browser-makers to transition their existing products to it. Because it takes the path of least resistance, has a better chance of living up to the real challenge — gaining acceptance — than any other plan I've heard.

There are already lots of virtual machines out there. Throwing another one at the wall isn't going to suddenly bring us into a post-JavaScript world. It reminds me of the xkcd about standards:

[Situation: There are 14 competing standards.]

Guy: "14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases!"

[SOON:]

[Situation: There are 15 competing standards.]
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But I assumed that backend isn't connected to the client directly, it's connected to the proxy server, and the proxy server holds tcp connections to the clients, and of course can hold millions of them.
Maker's is a wheated bourbon, which makes it unusual. It probably earns some appreciation just for tasting a little different.
IBM really were messed up in 1979 weren't they? Skimping that badly on the default word processor is just insanity.
+1 on typed arrays. Anything that supports WebGL should also support them.
(A little bit off-topic, but I see that you're the person who wrote the Flask tutorial, just wanted to say thanks for writing it, I loved it: https://github.com/akaptur/MyFlaskTutorial ).
My bad - haven't actually played Diablo. (and I guess that's extra uncool points for me, but, yeah..)

Also, to clarify, I found this while browsing through http://gistflow.com (specific gist: http://gistflow.com/posts/201-diablo-js)
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Thank goodness it's back. I lost the my meaning of existence for the entire day. I don't know where my yesterday went. I'm ok now. :)
I don't think the non-linearity argument is too convincing. Certainly, I accept that you cannot simulate a specific brain/mind - that is, if you somehow knew the exact structure and inner workings of a specific mind that you could then run a simulation of that mind which returns the same outputs as the original mind. I can buy that our simulations of non-linear problems will not fully match 'reality' and cause divergence.

However, that doesn't mean we cannot run a model. Exactly what the model's output 'means'... well, that's a different question. To use his examples, our simulations of weather or the stock market do not produce the same output as the future. But their outputs (hopefully) represent actually realizable states of the world.

In other words, as long as our model gives us 'human enough' output, then I guess it's sufficient? I mean, it really comes down to 'why do you want to simulate the human brain'. If you want to be able to upload your brain, then that probably isn't good enough. But I can imagine for various other uses, it could be enough.

I do think Kurzweil is at best... wildly optimistic though.
Algol, Cobol, and Fortran are languages—but new languages are precisely what asm.js enables.
If we really need to simulate interactions at molecular level we're fracked. That kind of computational power is unimaginable.
The new, diluted stuff has been spotted on store shelves here in the US as well.
Ask HN: Interview questions for experienced programmers
I have 15 years of experience as a software developer. What kinds of interview questions are asked to experienced programmers at Silicon Valley startups and companies like Google, Apple etc ? Are they exactly the same as someone getting out of collage ?
>DRM is popular not because it makes the possible impossible (not even the least technical people at the studios think this), but because it makes copying more expensive.

Except that it doesn't. The user who downloads pick-your-favorite-DVD-ripper doesn't even have to know that it contains code to remove CSS, they just download it and it works.

At the same time, DRM is costing them money. If I go to the store and buy a shiny plastic disc for $30 and take it home and it doesn't play because my $2000 TV from two years ago doesn't have HDCP version whatever, I am not going to go straight out and buy another $2000 TV. I am just going to spend my money on something other than plastic discs that won't play on my TV until the time comes when I would have replaced it anyway. And two months after that happens, someone breaks the new DRM and they come out with new content that won't play on my new TV.

The net result of DRM is to make piracy more convenient relative to purchasing. As far as I can tell its continued existence has only two causes: The first is the DRM snake oil salesmen bamboozling people into thinking it isn't a net negative, and the second (which I imagine is the real reason) is that it allows major content producers to better control content distribution channels and thereby exclude, tax or penalize smaller competitors. But that doesn't require the DRM to be effective in any way, it only requires the DMCA and lawsuits against anyone who attempts to challenge them in the market for content distribution.
I'm not an accountant, but what The Brain Pickings is doing sounds like tax fraud to me, especially the non-profit bit.
Magnet link for the censored people:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:fd62cc1d79f595cbe1de6356fb13c2165994e469&dn=crackstation.txt.gz&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.publicbt.com%3A80&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.istole.it%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.ccc.de%3A80

BTW, the guy's website is being HN'ed at the moment, so I'd come back in a couple hours or so.
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Disclaimer: I haven't actually read Maslow's original work.

Looking at Maslow's pyramid, way more than 10% of it has to do with very abstract stuff. Given what the author has written, he almost by definition hasn't achieved "self-actualization" in the sense Maslow means. He almost by definition hasn't achieved 90% of the pyramid.

Only a small part of the pyramid has to do with food, shelter, clothing, and having people to socialize with.
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> Your statement stems from an attack by Musk.

No, my statement stems from reading his account, then comparing it to Musk's data.

> What makes you think that a journalist would be more biased than the CEO of a car companies with billions of dollars at stake?

Again, this sort of sleight of hand. I'm not defending Musk's bias here, Musk's bias doesn't in any way exonerate the other's, and nice try, if that was intentional. I'm purely attacking Broder's incompetence.

> Your stalwart defense of Musk belies your inability to think objectively.

So it's "objective" to not recognize Broder's bias in his inaccuracies, or at least to excuse it because, hey Musk was probably biased too!

...Okay! You're entitled to your position, man!

> It's a he-said-she-said

Yes, the rest of us are just avoiding the "he-said-she-said" quagmire. It is a quagmire, and the likely ROI is low. Really, the outcome of one car review isn't so important, but the issue brings up plenty of stuff which is. I'll tell you what: When Musk is the head of a national media outlet "of record," and he publishes the same sort of stuff, I'll hold his feet to the fire for shoddy journalism for his hasty comments and interpretation of data -- which he is guilty of. It's not a par-performance, objectively a bit of a PR cock-up, but still understandable from a CEO. Of course he's biased in favor of his product. The journalist is only human, but he's not only supposed to try to be objective as a part of his job, he's supposed to show some competence at it.

The disturbing part of this whole issue for me is the degree to which carelessness about empirical fact is seen as "okay." Elon Musk has a substantial public record which shows a notable degree of diligence towards getting facts right. Broder's article -- best I could say about it is: enh.
Your comment is quite possibly the biggest, most sensationalist jump in logic I have seen on this website. So, because she includes affiliate links in her website (which would have probably linked to Amazon or another seller anyway) she is on a downward spiral to an inevitable and shameful collapse of her readership akin to a truck driver abusing cocaine? What?

You say her story is sad. I'd say your view on life, thinking anyone who neglects to adhere to your strict standards of supplementing income is doing so out of bad faith and a loss of integrity, is the real sad story.
Oh god. Can we just stop following the law in something so obvious? What's fair and normal for 10000000 of years, has recently been changed by some writings on a paper.
And don't give me the 'you let this slip but where do you draw the line next time'.
Humanity has become so obsessed with these rules, guidelines, standards, that we've imprisoned ourselves for the sake of a few bucks.

In the end, there will be just one factory with a big tomato logo on it, from which all the worlds tomatoes will come.
No kidding. They missed the boat on almost every trend in the last decade.
>That’s because its most important features are the result of unpredictable, non-linear interactions amongst billions of cells, Nicolelis says.

Replace "cells" with "molecules" and "consciousness" with "fluid dynamics", and you can see what a vague, hand-waving argument this is.

>“You can’t predict whether the stock market will go up or down because you can’t compute it,” he says. “You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness.”

You can't predict the precise behavior of an analog amplifier, either, but you can still model it and produce a digital equivalent.
My girlfriend is a neuroscientist. Every time she sees something about them 'modeling the brain' she is visibly amused/unhappy. It might be possible, but our current understanding of the brain feels much further away.

The concept that we're going to hit some moore's law style thing in science that will propel us to just automatically understand things, which we can barely measure currently, just doesn't line up. Just the process to understand how a single thing functions on a single channel seems to take forever now, and most neuroscience labs aren't limited by the speed of their desktops...
Out of curiosity, what state are you in where motorized vehicles get exclusive access to the lane?
Anything that exposes the rampant hypocrisy of big media, I'm for in principle.

Also, reading through the first several child comments, I'm struck by the thought: A legitimate lawsuit (edit: or criminal prosecution, as the case may be) as parody. If that's what they're after (at least, in part), that's brilliant.

(Edit: That would be separate from the defense of parody directly described. As I read it, if this organization can copy TPB code for use in a site opposing TPB and contrary to TPB's moral sentiment, then examples of parody that do the same or similar things in other contexts should also be permissible/legal. And this circumstance would also potentially bolster current and/or proposed law that codifies this.)

Part of the longer term goal in all this is education. As people -- the public -- become more aware of and informed about how they are being screwed, pressure will build to correct, or at least improve, the underlying circumstances.

The ACTA protests, for example, did not happen in isolation.
An interesting point and I'd have to say yes if you consider the punishment to be based upon potential damages.
Random Javascript point and click game demo in alpha quality. Uses sprites ripped from Diablo 2. Other sprites from an unknown source. Not actually Diablo. Not anywhere close.

I thought it was really neat, I don't know what all your hate is about. I also like that the source code is friendly looking and you could show it to somebody new to coding to inspire them.
> Is that an issue for modern games / engines? I would think most people who drop down to assembly also have a C level fallback - and people have been porting games to x64 from x86 already?

Language doesn't matter so much as the API - you can write against DirectX for both the Xbox 360 and the PC, making appropriate changes. "Porting" to/from the [for example] PS3 is a much bigger ordeal.
Versus piss around with integration (any software engineer knows this is a time sink), breaking API changes, subscription management and billing, PATRIOT act data protection issues (what happens if PI data is in the request?) as we're in the UK, the risk that one day you disappear off the planet and finally actually throwing client confidential information by email.

It actually took 47 minutes looking at my work log and if I remember a lot of that was making the error page look nice.

It doesn't add up. sorry.

In the build vs buy debate the time versus money theory rarely applies.
There's no need for perfect repeatability when statistical analysis is good enough. After all, even if you have control down to the iron, the randomness in external interrupts and the effect of temperature on the hardware will cause some unpredictability.
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Linux wasn't designed, it evolved ;-)

I have a book on Linux which includes the v0.x? source code and a commentary. It's at my other office, so I can't grok the title nor author. It's styled like the classic John Lions books for Unix which of course was the inspiration for Linux.
That's a lot easier when you're not trying to improve edible seeds (soybeans, corn, etc.). Although as I understand it, Monsanto also developed techniques for making the seeds infertile, but got so much pubic backlash that they never deployed the technology. It seems to me that they're in a bit of a bind, where whatever they do will be perceived as "evil" (perhaps due to previous bad behavior on their part).
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This was an absolute lifesaver when I was thrown into the deep end writing a high-performance TCP server from scratch. I think it's so effective because it's "highly opinionated", which is to say, he points out "Foo does this, but don't use it because that's just silly" or "don't use bar, use baz instead because it handles qux more easily" and so on.
We do a lot of hiring from personal referrals, people we know professionally, and people whose code we've used in the past.
Please note that the "Closure Table solution involves storing all paths through the tree, not just those with a direct parent-child relationship."
Not sure why you were downvoted. Upvoted even though I don't particularly agree.

Having lived in Seattle for a couple of years, and knowing many Microsoft employees during that time, my outsider's view is that MS's consumer-side failures are largely geographical and cultural.

Redmond, or even Bellevue, is extremely isolated from Seattle, which in and of itself is not exactly deeply intertwined with the cultural centers of the US. Locals know this - Microsoft employees who move from Seattle across the lake to the east side often joke about nobody ever visiting them again (sometimes less-than-jokingly). It's also more or less a company town - Microsoft's presence is so overwhelming and absolute that a lot of the technological zeitgeist from the rest of the country never make it there. If you lived/worked there it's easy to believe Microsoft's ridiculously optimistic PR pieces - pieces that would be hilarious when read in any other environment.

This isn't even an urban/suburban argument (though it has shades of it), it's a "company town vs. diverse city" thing. Microsoft's geographical location gives its people tunnel vision and a grossly false picture of the technology sector.

The second part I've observed is a lack of internal honesty within Microsoft. Failure seems to be couched in safe corporate-speak to the point where it's greatly muted (maybe that's the intent). You cannot expect your work force to pivot and fight hard when they've been falsely told their giant failure was a minor hiccup. I saw this after the WinPhone launch - MS employees were still honestly bullish about its prospects even when the market as a whole had completely rejected it.

If MS wants to be nimble in the consumer space, it needs to set up shop in cities where their competitors play - you will not get an honest impression of how your products (or your competitors' products) are doing otherwise. They also need to have frequent, honest, no-holds-barred accountings of how they are doing. If a product was a flop, call it a flop.
The prison-worthy crime is not the vandalism but the illegal access to Burger King's accounts and website. It's not illegal for you to deface Burger King's wikipedia page, after all.
Not if you design it well and comment it properly...
Great, but it would be excellent if there were instructions.
I am a freelance Unity3D developer :) There is certainly a tool-focussed approach but even as an engineer, this can work quite well for you and help speed up the soft decisions. Personally, I like leveraging the editor in this kind of way but I know some people who refuse to touch it and do everything in code only. So yes, it's absolutely possible.
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Computability in this case is a theoretical term and doesn't really relate to levels of technology.

Whether or not all physical processes are computable in the sense that they can be simulated by a turing machine is an open question, although my impression is that most folk who care to express an opinion think that they can. There's a little bit more on the Wikipedia article on the Church-Turing-Deutsch principle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing%E2%80%93D...