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Fun fact, the cost of building a Shuttle orbiter from scratch was about $1.7 billion.

The cost of launching a Shuttle including the amortized development costs ended up being $1.5 billion per launch.
Another perspective is that the Falcon9 carries about as much kerosene as a 747.
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There are probably a lot of factors. I worked on CUDA code for around a year, and used to understand the landscape pretty well, but if I were to start a high-performance computing project today I'd probably take my lumps and go with OpenCL. There would be a lot of lumps.

Firstly, CUDA is just more mature; there is a very large and well-established set of libraries for a lot of common operations, there is a decent sized community, and Nvidia even produces specialized hardware (Tesla cards) designed just for CUDA.

Second, all that generic-ness of OpenCL doesn't come for free. With Nvidia, you're just working with one architecture; CUDA cards. Optimizing your kernels is much easier. OpenCL is just generically parallel, so you could have any sort of crazy heterogeneous high-performance computing environment you have to fiddle with (any number of CPU's with different chipsets and any number of GPU's with different chipsets).

I haven't used OpenCL myself, but almost purely anecdotally I have heard many people say that CUDA is often slightly faster[1] and the code is easier to write.

TL;DR: CUDA sacrifices flexibility for ease of development and performance gains. OpenCL wants to be everything for everyone, and comes with the typical burdens.

[1]: Maybe this is a result of OpenCL being more generic and so harder to optimize.
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agreed. i think this convenience is confusing. also would make it hard to explain that a two-dimensional complex vector contains two complex numbers, not one.
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There is a pricetag that comes with the software, which is definitely not in line with the typical javascript ideology, in my opinon.
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The thing about a "generic" iterator is that not all iterators have the same capabilities. So while you might not care about the difference between a bidirectional iterator and a random access iterator, there are people who do and algorithms that can be implemented much more efficiently with the right iterator capabilities.

There are examples of iterators that use type erasure, but they still incorporate the iterator category in the type.
okay, but if you campaign for the well being of women by appealing to notions of gender equality, you must ultimately equally believe in the well being of men.

whether you expend equal energy on both causes is up to you. it may say something about what you really believe though.
As long as people (mostly academia and research orgs) continue to publish their content exclusively in PDF form, then there will be a need to look at that content in a web browser.

I work at a university and it is amazing at how much content exists only as a PDF, even if it would be better suited as regular old HTML content. Trying to turn that ship around would also interfere with numerous business processes and entrenched ways of doing things.

I've tried to get people to stop with the PDF madness, but the admin who follows a publish process written down on a set of ten-year-old Post-It notes simply just does not get it.
This is an incredibly useful tool! I was trying to decide how the huge amount of logging was handled in the display when he mentioned using WebGL - a cool idea to this WebGL newbie. Then there is the ability to jump up and down the stack, even through callbacks. This feature alone would be worth 15 EUR because you don't have to set breakpoints in the browser's web inspector to see exactly what is called and how - you just run the program and then look up the traces!

I wonder how hard it would be to have the browser's native inspectors do the same thing?
Are you breastfeeding or just pumping milk? The act of breastfeeding typically soothes and knocks the baby right out.
It's this that reenforces dichotomies that perpetuates the issues of inequality ...
Actually, no irony at all here. The large contract that SpaceX (and Orbital Sciences) received were for shipping cargo to the space station -- cash-on-delivery. No delivery, no cash. This is profoundly different from the business-as-usual NASA contract which is: give a contractor a billion dollars. Contractor produces a bunch of powerpoint slides. Give the contractor another billion dollars. Contractor goes a further billion dollars over budget, and produces a bunch of powerpoint slides. Rinse & Repeat.

This is how NASA was able to spend over 30 years and $30B trying and failing to develop a new orbital vehicle, where SpaceX was able to do it for under $400M.
I agree. I am trying to get one of our parents (from either side) to come and stay with us for a couple of months. Thanks for the advice.
Two posts down: "As an employee for expedia.com, I can say that we support both Eclipse and IntelliJ and we currently have developers using both. Some developers have switched to IntelliJ and this bug was a contributing factor. I use and prefer IntelliJ for several reasons, and have been using it since before we knew about this issue."

200 out of millions hardly seems like news.
Visual Website Optimizer started as the easiest A/B testing tool (it still is!), but there's a lot of features now. From cross domain tracking (that requires 3rd party cookies) to geo-behavioral targeting with 15+ variables to heatmaps. It's actually becoming a very comprehensive analytics and optimisation platform. Here's the full feature list http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/feature-list.php

Not sure if I answered your question, but the gist of my response is that features add lines of code. There's frontend, backend, test cases, housekeeping scripts, monitoring, etc.
Businesses can't "want" anything.

But if we, for our analytical convenience, pretend they are people and therefore can want things, then yes, they can be sociopathic.
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I am actually getting quite tired of having Twitter, Facebook, and now G+ connected comments. I don't like giving out those permissions. At the same time, I'm getting tired of needing separate logins for Disqus, Livefyre, etc. I comment less than I used to - I'm tired of setting up logins and giving up privacy on every blog I visit.

Good on the developer, though...
To expound on the metaphor I put in this article about inheritance and my mother-in-law:

> If you try to illustrate behavior delegation in terms of the "blueprint" metaphor, you quickly see how it totally breaks down. There's no way that my home, lacking a guest bedroom, could simply refer to another house, or to the original blueprints, to provide a bedroom for my mother-in-law when she comes to visit.

OTOH, I can delegate my mother-in-law to go stay in a hotel room. Or, I can delegate my mother-in-law to stay on a neighbor's couch, but I can send along sheets and pillows for her to use.

In either case, I'm not mutating my own home (inheritance) to handle her visit, I'm relying on someone else to handle it. But it's still my mother-in-law who I send elsewhere, and in fact, I can make sure she takes some "context" (aka, pillows) with her when she does.

Again, metaphors are never perfect, but I just thought I'd complete the perspective to contrast inheritance vs. behavior delegation.
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It's as open source as it can, you can rebuilt from scratch and rebuilt a boot images with a new kernel if you wish (just clone https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/B2G and run ./config.sh keon). I just did that last week to add something we need for Firefox OS.
Thx. Tryhing a few of the options you mentioned. I totally know that we will laugh it off very soon. Hoping for that.
Avalon prices their hardware in bitcoins, so the higher the exchange rate the higher the price: http://launch.avalon-asics.com/.
My senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) is vehemently against this tax. Oregon doesn't have a sales tax so I'm not really sure why he's against this proposal so much. Maybe he thinks we already have a "level playing field" and OR has nothing to gain since we wouldn't collect anything?
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I didn't propose not paying it back. I asked what my options would be for deferring it so that I can pursue other options beyond my current job.
It's also extra weight to lift.
Another interesting side-point -- MATLAB supports imaginary numbers... unless of course you redefine i to be something else. Then it doesn't.
You're preaching to the choir. Looks like NEC funded this.

NVidia seems to be the preferred hardware for institutions/big companies. I'm not sure if this is because NVidia's architecture is better for supercomputers or if they're simply better at marketing to those types of customers

NVidia funds a lot of academics in my space, and I've found academia to be very anti-open source for those reasons, which amuses me greatly.

Case in point, Matlab. Why is this taught in a world with Python/Numpy/MatplotLib?
cough WebSQL cough

So many apps, HTML5 or native, could benefit from an offline sync story. That wheel doesn't need to be re-invented over and over again.

This reminds me a lot of WebSQL, which I've always been sad was killed.
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> Read about my prison sentence and my new project here

Tip: In the UK, operating a fund which hedges against criminal proceedings (colloquially, a 'bust fund') is a severe criminal offence in its own right.

Do reassure me that you've made very sure nobody where you are is likely to prosecute you a second time :)
I never suggested that someone should misrepresent or soften their position to avoid making someone feel bad. If you hate an article, I want to know that you hate it, and why. I'm only asking that everyone remember that they're speaking with other human beings.

Maybe a reasonable litmus test for the HN crowd is: if the article was instead a speech at a conference, would you go up to the speaker afterwards (or during Q&A) and say what you're going to say? If not, why?
I don't believe I missed the context of the article - I believe I tried to address that exact issue. The article - and the whole context surrounding the article - are discussing the issues of 'getting ahead' and work-life balance in a way that is very specific to women. They're certainly free to do this, but I believe they consigning themselves to a type of echo-chamber and missing out on incredibly useful philosophy on the subject by trying to constrain it to only women.

When I say that the situation is sad I'm referring to the loss to everyone involved by not realizing that the issue of work-life balance is a truly global issue, and by boxing it in with specifics (such as women only, tech worker only, etc), the debate is far shallower and loses out on a lot of important history.

.. but why?

The reason is that there should be no 'gender specificity' at all in the article. Including it is a mistake and detracts from the very important message and makes it difficult for male experts in the field to enter the discussion as well. It's a loss for everyone involved.
That doesn't make any sense. Are people who believe that gays can be equally good marriage partners and parents as straight people obliged to spend just as much energy on causes related to marriages among straight people? Does their focus on marriage issues for gay people mean that they somehow think that straight people aren't as suitable for marriage?
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Their general idea is very similar to svn vs. git. That use case has proven to be very effective. Im sure that you can find use cases that this is more difficult to apply (where row conflicts cannot be automatically merged) but there are also use cases where this idea works like a gem.
25. Just married. That's why I'm partial to Austin. We could do the distance thing for a while, no big deal. No kids.
newspacewatch.com is probably the best overall resource. spaceflightnow.com is decent for news of what's happening right now in space. Otherwise there isn't any single source for everything. It helps to run to wikipedia for any new thing you read about and then spend time poking around any other websites you run across.
No, no it doesn't. It's taken this long to ingrain in every single computer users brain how to do this. To change it now would be a nightmare.
Good answer, thanks.

I've been playing too much Kerbal Space Program, I assumed the first stage had already reached orbital velocity.
This is really perverse. Some of the best talent got sucked into making people click on ads and now this.
It would be easy enough to at least format them in HTML, they use such consistent ascii 'typesetting', it could easily be automated.

I mean, they are formatted in HTML now, but as a giant block of monospace text. They could use <hx>s for the headers, let the text flow with browser resize for small screens, heck use bootstrap for good readable web typesetting, etc.

I am not sure why the IETF isn't interested in better web typesetting for em.

At one point someone had a site that did that, I think it was advertised and discussed here on HN, but I forget what it was called, and I think it faded into non-supported obscurity (since it was obviously a labor of love, unpaid).
Agreed. Bought it after they started offering a second game for free. I know that the only thing I kept thinking of when playing it was "I wish this were SC4000".

Really I would have been happy as a clam with something like SC4000, with curved roads, mixed-use zoning and an enhanced transport system. Gladly would have paid $60 for it.

The new SimCity completely failed to capture the "perfect garden" feeling that the previous Sim Cities managed to capture. Growing a city was like growing a garden, zoning was planting seeds.

The new one is just some set of administration abstractions over a social simulation. It just doesn't feel like SimCity, it feels like some totally different game.
As late as at least 2010, source code wasn't required for Nature or NEJM. People could request it from you, but it wasn't required to actually be submitted up front.
And where would that be? I thought it was the U.S. which was backwards !! :) (and I live in Uruguay, South America).

That said, I'd love it if more of my apps worked offline with sync.
Fortunately, Mathematica makes that somewhat more difficult (and has a strong convention of inbuilt ./. user-defined variables in the form of upper/lowercase).
HEAD just returns the headers, not the content. So, it is a faster way to see if content has been updated. If it has, then the client can request the content with a GET.
Too bad the font rendering quality is a little subpar compard to the other pdf viewers.

Yellow is not an issue:
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Ah! I was wondering which way round it was supposed to be.
it makes a lot of sense, and i answered your question already,

> whether you expend equal energy on both causes is up to you.
"We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms."

The terrorists want my life; its the government that wants my freedom. I'll keep my freedom, thank you, and take my chances with my life. My chance of being injured by terrorism is infinitesimal compared to the very real chance of losing civil rights and privacy I value.

As Patrick Henry said: "Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!"
This is an amazing app, extremely underpriced for what it delivers! One thing I'd love to see is the ability to do profiling, so I can see exactly how much time was spent in each function invocation.
Is anyone surprised that this thread is dominated by men, whose only response is to complain that its unfair that this article addresses women only? Not only is the complaint crass, but it avoids discussing the article's thesis at all.

If we can't recognize that women face different and more pressure around the issue of work/children balance than men do, then sexism isn't dead yet.
If your new wife truly supports you, go for it. Encourage her to follow a similarly crazy dream. Live frugally until you build a solid base.

You are young with plenty of time to make "mistakes". I put that in quotes because its not really a mistake, but rather an experience with a little risk. You can always fall back on accounting, later.
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That's an awfully fine straw man you've got there. I see you knit him a sweater and everything!

Until the past couple of years, most of the tech community has conceded that linux on the desktop was not ready for primetime. Hell, even now, there isn't a consensus and most would not recommend it to those on "the outside."

I honestly don't know if the tech community has a non-proportional influence over those on the outside, but your statement is almost a non-sequitur.
I can't conceive of a way that 'reinterpreting' the constitution is going to give us more freedom. If he and his police force can't do their job of protecting the public, maybe they need to rethink their tactics instead of trying to force us to give up our rights to make their job easier. Is it even about making their jobs easier, though?
This is not a national sales tax. This is existing state sales tax being applied to an additional category of sales.

In the US much of the infrastructure -like roads and bridges- is ostensibly state funded so decreasing the federal deficit wouldn't necessarily have any effect.
If you're not trying to defend them, your language could use a little work. Apologies if English isn't your first.
Matlab seems like inertia/culture to me: it's the longtime de-facto standard in engineering. Since it's what everyone uses, it's got packages for everything, and papers will often come with prototype Matlab implementations. Roughly like the cultural position R holds in statistics. Matlab's hold on engineering is also bolstered by its widespread use in industry: students want to learn it, because it's what their future employers use, and professors / research scientists like to use it because it's what their industrial collaborators use.

In my area of CS (artificial intelligence) it seems considerably less popular. I don't really remember how to use it, since the last time I used it seriously was in some engineering (but not CS) courses in undergrad.
Bitcoin mining is essentially just "make-work" used to determine allocation, correct?
I need to look at Datomic.

Zumero could also be described as having similar characteristics as Git. It's like a DVCS, except for stuff that looks like rows and columns instead of stuff that looks like directories and files.

I'm sure that any decentralized database violates ACID in some way, but Zumero is pretty darn ACIDic. All the local CRUD operations are ACID. And the sync to the server is ACID, or highly corrosive at minimum. But yes, the two operations are separate.
at first I thought this was a humorous documentary about the sorts of dumb questions that novice interviewers use to make themselves look smart. But I fear after looking at it for a while that it's intended to be serious.

'falsy'...really? Unless you're interviewing for a language implementor, that's pretty ridiculous. That's an inside baseball question that bears no relation to actual ruby programming.
are there checks based on electricity consumption to detect cannabis growers in the usa (or elsewhere)? if so, how long before a miner is raided?
Don't take this in the wrong way, but if spend a lot of time thinking about how unfair things are when there is nothing you can do about it, its going to cause a lot of unnecessary stress in your life.

I think its better to acknowledge the limitations of life and do the best you can.
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The world we live in today is a tiny fraction as dangerous as the world the authors of the Constitution lived in. I'm not so naive as to believe that it is a perfect document or that any particular political group we have today has the "right" understanding of it, but please. Of all the possible reasons to attack it, this is by far the weakest.
Right, the question was why not use a conditional get, which either returns content if the thing has been modified, or a 304 Not Modified and no content if it hasn't -- this accomplishes the same thing as HEAD with only one request. Above, though, I wasn't sure why one or the other wasn't always used...

I looked it up, though. It looks like you have to have an ETag to do a conditional GET, so browsers use HEAD if the original response (the cached one) didn't include one.
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Here's the thing--I didn't even know, until your comment, what channel Archer was on because I watch it on Netflix. That's what HBO is looking out for.
It really doesn't, and this part is bullshit: "it may say something about what you really believe though."

If I'm a gay guy fighting for marriage equality, my lack of efforts to fight for marriage issues affecting straight people does not "say something about what [I] really believe" about whether gays and straights are equal.

It's an utterly bullshit argument. Women are pretty much the only group where people say "well if you believe men and women are equal, why don't you fight for mens' rights?" Nobody says that to gays fighting for marriage equality, or blacks fighting for racial equality. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say it harkens to sexist notions. Men are expected to watch out for #1, but women are expected to be motherly and crap and care about the welfare of everyone.
Actually not true, but I suspect if you've been researching this you've discovered that. NASA has of course researched vertical landing techniques from the beginning, both with manned missions (Apollo) and robotic. However, it was "on the list" prior to the great de-funding and generally sat in the 'to be looked at' drawer from then on.

The DC-X program, and others like it were spawned by private industry who were betting on a huge 'single stage to orbit' (or SSTO) model for satellite launches that would be needed for the Reagan 'Star Wars' missile defense program. They died when Star Wars died and NASA briefly assumed control of DC-X when its private backers pulled out but was stretched too thin to give it any real push.

That said, Elon and others will tell you that the current crop of rockets would not be possible without the work that NASA did and has shared. SpaceX also has benefited from computer systems that are 10,000X more powerful than the ones that NASA had available for their use, and materials that are 1/3 to 1/2 the weight and yet stronger than their NASA counterparts. Sensors that are 100x more sensitive and 1/1000th the cost. A six degree of freedom inertial unit was $125,000 in 1970 and resolved differences of .1G. A 9 degree of freedom unit from Sparkfun Electronics [1] is now $125, and reliably resolves 1/4096'th of a G. So I don't doubt that the same engineers at NASA could build what SpaceX is building today, today, but I assure you they didn't have the tools to build it back in the 70's or even in the 90's.

[1] https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10736
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