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TO;DR Dresden Codak fan creation, unofficial but possibly with a few laughs.
So when is Unigine going to launch a cross-platform OpenGL ES 2.0/3.0 benchmark for Android and iOS? They seem to have it for everything else except mobile.
The origins of the Internet in Europe - Google Cultural Institute
I love marketing my own applications. Sadly, it results in more emails, phone calls and other "work" that add stress because the product is not finished. I really need a developer but they want more than I pay myself!

Tell me what you think?
http://goo.gl/PkUWP
I first heard of it as red hot cock.
Jonathan Ive's Tribute to Steve Jobs
Excellent work! Thanks also for responsible behavior on the pending flaws.
Anybody else notice the three tents they have one of the grass covered roofs?

Easter egg or nice place to catch a nap?
www.sunpower.com/library/pdf/publications/Doc0064.pdf says 92%, and higher is possible with more cost.

I really don't see how extracting energy from a charged particle beam can be compared to a linear alternator. The math is quite different. For example, you only extract energy from the front part of the beam, while in a linear alternator it slows down the entire piece of metal.

This causes a problem because when you extract energy from the particles you slow them down. These are charged, so they will repel the particles coming in from behind. The better you are at extracting energy, the more the charged particles get in the way.

The http://lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com page that you linked to, with the Sankey diagram, does itself a disservice by giving numbers accurate in some cases to 3 significant digits when the error bars are so high, or even unknown. An excess of detail, not based on experimental values, happens to be characteristic of the free energy/perpetual motion machine crowd.

BTW, I misread that chart. It puts net energy at 24.7 kJ and losses at 42kJ, which means that 5 MW electrical production will generate 8.5 MW of heat. It'll need three times as much cooling as I thought it would. The predicted overall efficiency is about the same as other power plants.
Thanks! I didn't know that a CSS px wasn't the same as a screen pixel.
Next, someone should put that in LaTeX to automatically fix it rather than just detect it. (Or some sort of HTML/JS plugin, since using LaTeX again is somewhat disconnected from my immediate life goals).
Are you on the same page when it comes to finding ways to bring in revenue?
One workaround: Use 'zap colors' bookmarklet found at https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html.
I got this link from some other HN comments.
If you were to read the equivalent javascript as a one liner it would be hard to read too. Probably more so. Really, all you are pointing out is that you can write shitty code in any language. No language protects you.

If you write beautiful javascript, you will write beautiful coffeescript and it will be 20-60% smaller. Reading less lines is less reading, this helps me.
As a rule of thumb, if you feel that the correct answer depends on these details, ask questions to pin it down. Or, even better, just pick what you think is the most relevant for the company that you're interviewing at and (briefly) say what you're using as working assumptions.
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Yeah using pt works too. The problem is that everyone uses 12px in their CSS rather than 12pt.
There is/was a bug pre iOS 6 where if you set a custom zoom level, some content may be chopped off when you change orientation. Naturally people wanted to stop this happening, so they disabled zooming. Unfortunately this effected every mobile platform.
Yup, it just didn't make it into the first release. Will definitely be in a future release.
Bravo! Very nice smoothing on the angel statue closeup.

Framerate was a bit low but maybe that's just me (Mid 2010 MBP 15").

Keep at it!
Sorry, but this is a joke.

The internet was indeed invented in Europe, but you have to acknowledge the inventors, not some unrelated causes.

normally ted nelson is cited as most important cause. the early inventions were http and www in geneve, cern and in parallel hyper media browsing (htp and integrated browsers) at the tu graz.
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/skimming-threatens-debit-card-... says fraud "in 1% of transactions".

I don't know whether those transactions tend to be larger or smaller than average. I'd assume the detection systems are quite good, and crooks start with small charges (gas stations and shoes are what I hear are test spots they use). So they may be pretty close to average sized transactions.
Is this really a problem? In how many texts does this occur? It seems quite unlikely. Show me a book where this has happened.
It is quite obvious when someone is trying to record you with a mobile phone or normal camera as well as it just being plain inconvenient.

Something like Google Glass's eye-level form factor is made to be as convenient, discrete and available as possible.
Currently RethinkDB has official drivers for three languages, Python, JavaScript, and Ruby. I hope you understand why it would be difficult for us to support many more than this. Eventually we're counting on support for 3rd party drivers from the community. In fact, there are already a few early community drivers from some intrepid contributors including for Haskell and Go.

We've had lots of requests for more drivers and lots of offers to build them, but we've asked our volunteers to hold off while we revamp the driver interface to make it significantly easier to build drivers for RethinkDB. Having written the first JS driver myself and the new version I can attest to the much greater ease of doing so with the new API.

The next release (1.4) due very soon will include these changes and a driver development kit to support 3rd party efforts. After that I'm sure you'll see a PHP driver emerge very quickly.
I get that, but the way people talked about it, I though it was something really horrible. And it turns out it is just a little different. I have used some way more strange stuff in this life of mine.
I see it all the time on my Kindle at least (I don't read paper books anymore, due to nerve damage in my wrists). That said, I actually quite enjoy seeing 'rivers' in text, for whatever odd reason.
Chromium has this feature as well.

I do miss Firefox's ability to set a different font for pages written in different languages though, if only for viewing silly SJIS art...
Might be a good idea, pre-purchase your speeding ticket before you go speeding today.
Not sure, I'm trying to replicate it but I'm having a tough time with OSX's network stack. I can't siege or ab very well. The Haskell server tends to stay under 6Mb on my machine though. I'll keep stressing it.

http://imgur.com/b89bxST
There's a Chrome extension that does something like that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcf...
The discovery of successful attacks is starting to have a serious drum-like cadence...
The claims about U.S. employment testing are completely wrong. This is how it works: there is an unconstitutional insurgency (called an antidiscrimination agency) that counts the number of negros on your staff, and if you come up short, they steal from you to prove how badass their homies are.

They generally leave high-tech alone. Firstly because high-tech will hire a pitch black Indian teenager with an outlandish accent if he can code. Secondly because there are not enough negro programmers from the projects to fill a bus.

In the unlikely event they do come after you for IQ testing, you what the large companies do: keep right on IQ testing, and appoint a director of racial sensitivity. His job is to use "sensitivity" and "nuance" to balance out the staff's "intangible factors". That's Newspeak for running the negro quota and making sure the quotees are selected for a pleasant personality and any sort of useful talent whatsoever.
I have a long-winded blog post about this very subject awaiting some polish.

I've done my fair share of interviews. I still don't like them. I've narrowed it down to basically two things:

1. There is a lot of highly subjective, mystical advice about what "works," in a technical interview and what doesn't. Big problems, small problems, trivia, puzzles, white-boards, no white-boards... hardly any of it is thoroughly studied and built on solid theory. It's all conjecture and personal bias.

2. How the candidate is feeling and where their head is at on the day of the interview matters. I can go on about cache alignments, bus errors, segmentation faults, C++'s lack of order in evaluating function arguments, why template class declarations must exist in the same compilation unit as the definition, why CLOS is amazing and the computation model of recursion is brilliant (or at least why I think so). Yet on a bad day I can (and have) botched perfectly trivial, benign problems.

However at the end of the day you need some sort of process. I just think that the current practices are not good enough. It seems to me that companies are probably turning away perfectly fine candidates without realizing it. There's pros and cons to every approach I suppose. But I still think trivial problems are dumb.
The point they are trying to make is that Otlet and La Fontaine had a vision for something that is much like the modern internet.

"Otlet and La Fontaine aimed to preserve peace by assembling knowledge and making it accessible to the entire world."

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

The books over television sketch from 1920 is pretty cool, and some of the stuff they were thinking up is much like linked data / semantic web.
Having the frame change every second frame would mean that the screen would be changing the picture only half the time, while it normally is always changing the color of some pixel.

Not sure that this is not just a pure win.
The memory bandwith is perfectly normal for GPUs, though. And the CPU will mostly suffer from the GDDR5, because it has much higher latencies.
+1. Previously on HN: http://contrastrebellion.com/
Because the opposite hurts their own eyes.
> Given that both MS and Sony are using AMD cores paired with GDDR5 memory controllers

They are not. MS is using DDR3 at 256 bits * 2100MHz for 68GB/s bandwidth.
I noticed that if I zoom in, then there is no margin defined on the sides. This makes it quite hard to read both when zoomed in, or it's in a small browser window. Defining a minimum margin would fix this.
You are unlikely to see many books where this has happened, because professionals try to make sure that it doesn't, and fiddle with things if it does.
This is a misquote in the NW title; the original Vanity Fair article states "The new campus, which the company is calling Bay View, consists of nine roughly similar structures, most of which will be four stories high, and all of which are shaped like rectangles that have been bent in the middle."
I moved to Seattle from Minneapolis in 2003, and had never seen Sriracha before coming out here. Maybe I just ate at the wrong Vietnamese restaurants, or maybe it's been introduced in the last decade.
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> This should have been caught before it was an emergency, through standard processes such as integration and unit testing.

Things always go wrong in the development cycle. Problems happen. Conflicts between individuals occur. I was giving an example. Are you asserting these issues don't arise in the workplace? Or that my example is of a rare situation in software development?

> If your coworkers and managers are angry during an outage, or asking anything other than "what can I do to help", they're not helping.

People sometimes do unhelpful things. Sometimes people even make emotional decisions about what to say to others. Are you aware of the fallibility of man?

> Those coworkers need to be instructed in proper workplace behavior.

They likely will be. Have you met engineers? A lot of them could use some workplace etiquette training! Until then, you need to do your job - you can't just go home because it's stressing you out. This is something that happens in every single workplace. If you can't handle it, you aren't a very valuable employee.

> This strategy is how you prevent most failures, and make the ones that happen manageable. Your strategy is how you create failures, and then make them worse for everyone involved when they happen.

This, and the rambling before it, is completely off-topic. I have no idea why you're rambling on and on about software development practices when the issue I'm addressing is that social stress always exists at work. If you feel my examples are unsatisfactory, but don't have any issue with my core argument, then you aren't being helpful. If you have an issue with my core argument, please address it instead of nitpicking my examples.
I've been seeing these all my life and for some reason never thought to ask if anyone else noticed them. I never found them particularly distracting and didn't know they were a sign of bad typography. Still, cool to see an article about them.
I don't think that would have been well received. Locals would have decried that SF gov 'gives in' to big corp at the expense of the local population (i.e. not creating jobs many locals could fill and that land that could be used for affordable housing was being bid up by big corp) and probably would have added that not many from the Bayview would have benefitted directly. That's SF politics. People want the clean baby without the bathwater.

Lowes+HomeDepot (HD started but bailed and Lowes took over) went thru some idiotic approval process to build their Bayshore location --about 12 or more years after Goodman Lumber closed its doors.
Ask HN: Is this a good idea to get users?
I have posted before about my start-up on HN and got great feedback. In short it combines YouTube with a Google Earth interface.

I have created "mock accounts" for YouTube channels, such as National Geographic and New York Times, and embedded their respective YouTube videos to their account.

See: http://www.ommageo.com/profile_page_anotherppl.php?id=GxQq499JO2 (@NatGeo)

http://www.ommageo.com/profile_page_anotherppl.php?id=iXom8DlR91 (@NYTimes)

I plan of embedding more videos, maybe 20-25 per profile. Thereafter, I plan on contacting said companies. I hope that the additional views from my start-up convince said companies to take over the account and continue to embedding their own YouTube videos.

After viewing the respective profile pages and video samples do you believe this is: 1. In general a good idea to get existing media companies to use my start-up? 2. Why or why not? 3. What would you do different?

www.ommageo.com will work with Windows and Mac OS only.

*Just to prevent any potential discussion off topic, I am not concerned about making profiles in the names of these big companies and embedding their YouTube videos to the same. It is with the sole purpose of transferring said profile to the same company with the option of deletion if they so choose.
The land the buildings are being built on are leased from NASA.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2008/08_51AR....

The bayview land is here: http://goo.gl/maps/PY8UD

(Source: http://laserfiche.mountainview.gov/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=5...)
msgpack.org probably shouldn't be promoting it as a "perfect replacement", when valid messages which have no JSON equivalent have already been seen in practice. At best it's a superset, and if none of the implementations can confine you to a JSON-compatible subset (no byte strings, no int64, no non-string keys) which assures interop, that's a problem.

Mostly I wish people would agree on a schema and use ASN.1 PER, rather than choosing from the ever-growing list of binary type-length-value formats which put a redundant copy of the schema on the wire in every message (making them neither small nor readable). I've never had occasion to do anything useful with a message whose format wasn't already known when I wrote the code.
Kinect is successful and an interesting product, but they've had a hard time producing genuinely interesting or high quality Kinect games, either first or third party. The ones that are successful tend to actually make rather minimal use of the technology, or use it in odd ways. For a couple examples, IIRC Dance Central isn't able to use the actual skeletal tracking technology, and Double Fine's Kinect games likewise take a different approach that doesn't use the skeletal tracking. Most of the games shipping labelled as 'Better with Kinect' use it as a glorified microphone, which is kind of depressing. At this point there is also a general consensus that the Kinect camera's accuracy is too low for many serious game uses and that the field of view hampers its use in many homes. In their defense, it's rumored that they have addressed this with the next revision of the hardware.

My point is more regarding things like the dashboard updates - the XBox 360 dashboard slowly turned into a glorified billboard covered in ads that has incidental features tacked onto it. They've had consistent performance problems with their system software that have never really been addressed (though thankfully they've made slight improvements here and there) - at this point people who have to interact with it on a regular basis, like journalists, are barely able to contain their hatred for the user interface.
I agree that the hiring situation in our industry is less than ideal. The irony is that, for all of the data we use and tools we make for others, our hiring practices often rely on few tools, limited data, and lots of gut feelings about what is important.

Take the process of advertising a position and moving candidates through the hiring process - the tools there are almost universally crappy and haven't made a lot of progress in the last decade.

Also, as far as I can tell, very few companies attempt to record any kind of data about how candidates are hired and how they subsequently performed on the job (even tracking job performance is a tough problem) - and it certainly doesn't exist industry-wide.

There is a ton of money in this area - why hasn't there been much progress? Is it because it is an unsexy problem, or is it because it is genuinely impossible?
I think the problem with that analysis is that it ignores the gzip compression / decompression time. Also, that file is so uniform that it probably presents a best-case for gzip compression.
I think the trend in the US is clearly going the wrong direction on many issues, but there still isn't a single other country which is better than the US on enough things to make expatriation a good choice for most people. It's slightly different if you have personal ties to another country already, or if you value certain freedoms more than others, but I think overall for entrepreneurial US people, the US is still the best place overall.

Probably the most principled reason to leave would be over US national security/global operations. If I were an absolute pacifist (which I definitely am not), I'd have a hard time remaining in the US, although it would be a case of whether it's more moral to stay and try to change the system vs. go somewhere else with less military spending or involvement.

Taxes, business environment, education, etc. are all issues, but the US has advantages and disadvantages vs. most other countries, so there's no clear choice. Leaving for a few years is quite reasonable, but renouncing citizenship, probably not.

It would be different if the US were self-contained and didn't essentially control the security and regulatory situation globally. Leaving the US actually increases your chances of being spied on by the US or attacked with a drone.
If it takes that much effort to gin up example code I think the point has been made.
This is too funny, do I work with you? You forgot the part about when 'Bob' brings his kids into the office when anybody complains.
The free worker is allocated the same amount of resources as paid ones, so that shouldn't be the problem. It definitely sounds like there must have been an issue somewhere if you experienced that kind of performance difference.

I don't think it was related to the page weight (unless you're on a very slow connection), nor the platform for that matter. I hope we were able to figure out a solution or give you advice on how to resolve it :-)
Nonsense.

There is nothing compelling about WebGL except that it is interactive.

If I wanted a non-interactive scene that repeats, I could do it in anything and upload it as a video on youtube.

Dynamic interactive 3d is the exciting thing about webGL and it is the the thing missing from this demo, so I too, am disappoint.
Dude, it's called customer development. I'm going to talk to potential users of the service who voluntarily shared their contact info at the end of a survey.

Why all the weird hostility and accusations? Is crowdfunding not a thing worth exploring in your mind?
> I think your view, while warranted, is very web programming centric

FWIW, I do very little "web work" (by which I assume you mean front-end?). Instead it is mostly api endpoints for mobile and server-to-server backend messaging. Lots of http transport stuff. If I were doing rpc, I would either not (and use a restful or type-2 api), or use something like protobuf or thrift.

Msgpack just doesn't seem, to me, as a really great fit for anything in particular.
Thats good. So we don't need anonymous to crack your system.. :)
> A really good technological solution to this problem hasn't been found (AFAIK), but I don't see that it would be too hard to build some algorithm to rank articles according to author prestige,

You're hand-waving away one the driving forces not only of the publishing industry, but much of the whole economy. Signals, filters, and branding account for the existence of everything from Louis Vuitton to hiring practices based on school prestige to Asian parents that push their kids to get into MIT. Signaling makes the world go around and you hand-wave it away by saying it shouldn't be hard to replace the branding with "some algorithm."
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Ask HN: Will Markdown Ever Go Mainstream?
I seriously can't imagine Markdown ever getting any mainstream popularity.

I would expect that most everyday Internet users, if they were asked to try out both Markdown and a WYSIWYG editor, would prefer the WYSIWYG hands down.

Even being a coder myself, I tried to get into Markdown to write articles for my WordPress site, but ended up returning to the visual TinyMCE editor. I just found it more convenient.

Markdown's popularity is due to 'geek appeal', not ease of use. The masses won't appreciate it the way coders do.
Or his non-science-fiction speculations on such matters in The Transparent Society. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Transparent_Society)
Same here. Did you tend to notice them out the corner of hour eye more than straight-on?
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Show HN: Gatos, conCATenative functions for python
You're joking, right? If not, then you're trying to generalize one line of shitty code and one mistake of a tired programmer to the whole language - and I don't believe you'd want to do that!
Since I was having trouble understanding what the impressive part is here (low polys, (apparently) static lighting, and bump mapping at smooth frame rates have been WebGL tech demos for a while), so I found some more context:

Uningine's news entry: http://unigine.com/news/2013/02/20/crypt-in-browser

A video of the demo they're running: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azKNaRD221M

Obviously they haven't implemented / turned off the bells and whistles. Which conflicts a bit with the news entry, which says "with all visual effects". Does anyone know how much they have implemented? I'm interested, but more information seems hard to find.