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Heh, sure. But it was a demo for the original iPad, which is easily a quarter of the performance of current iOS devices.
>a time such that events that happen in sufficiently smaller time intervals probably need new physics to describe //

Physically¹ events happen instantaneously we just can't tell at which precise instant they happen. This is true even with quantised time.

- - -

¹ Perhaps that should say "in the mathematical model of the physical universe we base our science on".
> I am having trouble finding a good reason to light a fire in a school other than to light a Bunsen burner. shrug

For highschool students I think the usual 'good' reason is "Well we already have this bunsen burner going for this lab, we are bored, we have all of these extra wooden splints, and we are teenagers." There really is little to no harm that is going to come of that sort of situation so, although the rules clearly forbid it, any reasonable teacher is just going to ignore them or tell them to knock it off. Zero-tolerance attitudes benefit nobody.

> IED (perfectly fine name for what was made)

You have got to be kidding me. The only reason to call it that is to invoke an emotional reaction.
Be glad you're not in charge.

If the environment is critical, a global recession helps the environment by lowering consumption.

If the environment is important, I guess socialism is awful enough.

In fairness, I was a teenage Reagan Republican and used to mock Cuba. Compare it to Mexico, though. I can't tell you how wrong it is to compare the USA to Norway!

You don't even want to think about doing evolution!

God says...
the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the
foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
51:17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the
hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of
the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
51:18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath
brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all
the sons that she hath brought up.
51:19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for
thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by
whom shall I comfort thee? 51:20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at
the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of
the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

----

The whole focus for socialism is coveting, so it is evil. Poland was where Solidarity started.

----

The random passages are not prophetic. They get your attention, though. You should listen, but probably best thing is just to enjoy God's company. If God does fireworks, say "Oooo" "Ahhhh!" (What looks like time travel.)
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> 1. asm.js makes running C++ code that would render to OpenGL in the browser a possibility, and with relatively good performance. Kudos to Mozilla.

> 2. It runs on browsers that don't know about asm.js, but it's effectively an emulated machine, and it's slow.

Do you have benchmark numbers to support that? In my experience, asm.js code is quite fast even without special asm.js optimizations. It depends on the benchmark obviously, but look at

http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk/#/27

Many of those benchmarks are very fast in browsers without special asm.js optimizations.

All they need to do to be fast on asm.js code is to optimize typed array operations and basic math, and those are things browsers have been doing for a long time. Google even added a Mandreel benchmark to Octane for this reason.

Emscripten and Mandreel output, with or without asm.js, tends to be quite fast, generally faster than handwritten code. asm.js is often faster than that, because it's easier to optimize, even without special optimizations for it. Those special optimizations can help even more, but they are not necessary for it to run, nor are things "slow/emulated" without them.
This strikes me as one of those The Complete Encyclopedia of [insert ethnic group here] [insert category of noun we'd like to dismiss here] books you find from time to time on end caps that contain about 100 blank pages. It's almost clever -- it's trying so very hard to be clever -- but in the end it's just one easy joke that wasn't really worth the effort.
I absolutely am OK with students doing things on school grounds not sponsored by a teacher, not an actual experiment, and generally faffing about in the name of curiosity and learning.

Really? I mean, it would've been OK if she did this in the middle of a cafeteria during lunch? And, yes, much of chemistry is highly dangerous and that's the reason it is done in a lab with fume hoods and safety equipment.

MO, the only reason this student should be given a felony charge is if she was planning to perform a dangerous detonation with malicious intent to harm.

The reason why I asked for more information is because we don't really know whether or not this wasn't her intent. Was she being bullied and was going to do this to someone else? I have a hard time associating this with 'science' because the narrative seems so one-sided.
I would guess that what she was doing was causing the bottle to pop by doing a chemical reaction inside it that creates lots of gas as a by product of the chemical reaction, enough to cause a significant increase in pressure until the bottle pops.

This is actually something that kids did when I was in high school 10+ years ago (although never at school or during school hours). I don't think it is a good thing for kids to be doing, but I do think authorities are over reacting (pun intended), it is not a real explosion or bomb, just a bottle popping. However I do think someone could get hurt if they were right next to it when it pops.
Not everybody owns or wants a smartphone. Linode needs to extend this to some non-smartphone device, like YubiKey, or offer SMS codes, like Google Authenticator. This is a step in the right direction, but is ultimately disappointing for me.
Very impressive. As an FYI - You don't need to click on the screen; ASDW for movement and arrow keys for screen rotation works.
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China is far more capitalist than US! There's not a hint of communism left in modern china, it's just a different kind of democracy than US.
I rather like the related concept Feynman promoted, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe.
Barely is not a strong generalization, it leaves some wiggle room. E.g. checks used to be used a lot in Europe but have been replaced mostly by e-payment. Check usage peaked worldwide in the 90s, and is decreasing; the US just seems to be behind that trend a bit.

Checks were never used very much in most of east Asia. They have some use in India given its UK heritage.
She tried a fairly-safe experiment in an out-of-way place on school grounds. She's 16 years old, so old enough that she can do an experiment like this fairly safely, out of the way makes sense. What exactly did she do wrong? Was it her presumption that the school is a place for curiosity.
This is great idea.
After a quick look at the library, there does seem to be some Java libraries being used - like java.io.BufferedReader. But having a ClojureScript port is a great idea!
Back in the day you could just do "ps -x" and see every process running on the machine :)
We don't call the "fifth generation Baronet" anything because, frankly, virtually no one of any class in the US cares.
I think most the people who write these posts are clueless as to what burnout is. You can give people money, pats on the back, pizza parties but if you run them hard enough they will burn out.

I have been working without rest for a year on a project (http://www.stremor.com) that has had huge amounts of progress. It pays well enough, I like the people I work with, we have achieved great things, and we have gotten recognition. So by all these measures I should have no burn out.

I have been burned out several times. You can't do genius level work 40 hours a week for 52 weeks and not burn out. The Addiction to progress I have had me doing 80 and 100 hour weeks. I was burning my self out. Not because my needs weren't met, but because the brain just can't do that much work for that long.

I would sleep through an entire weekend after 2 weeks of 100 hours. But the addiction to progress and the excitement of the work meant that I didn't want to "go play".

What it really comes down to is people have limits. Those limits are additive. If you are at 40% of your financial stress limit, and 40% of your relationship stress limit, and 40% of your Micro-Manager driving you batty limit, then you are at 120% of your limits. And you can run for a while at over 100% but not indefinitely.

Even when all my Career, financial, physical, sexual, and other limits are at 5% if my Hours of intense concentration limit has been hit I will burn out. And so will employees.

The task of a good manager is to run an employee up to the point of the Mental limits and make sure all those other limits are at 5% so they can maximize the employee output. Every time you push the employee at 150% for 2 days, you need to let them recover at 75% for 4 days.

Burn out isn't a bad thing as long as you can refuel and keep going. It is about managing the sprints, and preventing the burn out from causing failures.
Dude. (sorry)

This is Unreal Engine, with physics, cloth simulation, particles, light & glare effects. It's not C++ on Native Client or a plugin, it's running in javascript. Just yesterday you couldn't draw a circle on a 2d canvas at 30fps.
I like the design, but was expecting a larger list and more filtering options.
The Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 is just an awesome keyboard.

I bought my first copy of this keyboard when my wrists started hurting about 5 years ago. It was the only keyboard in the store where my wrists didn't hurt just looking at the thing.

(I solved my wrist problem by going to the physical therapist - they recommended stretches for my particular injury. I also took the arms off my office chair, as my particular injury was caused by resting my elbows too long on the armrest. AND I switched to the MS 4000 AND I switched to Dvorak.)

I _thought_ the trick to many ergo keyboards was the split keyboard, so you can keep your wrists parallel to your forearms instead of having to bend your wrists out to get your fingers parallel to each other. But not sure how much of that is fact and how much of it is folklore.
Where I grew up local stores would not sell either dry ice or "the works" (the favored brand, apparently) to kids. The effect is the same, which you choose is probably just a matter of which is available.
China is not a tightly controlled nation. It is not democratic, but there is a lot of local diversity in how it is governed.

Fen probably wasn't eliminated due to inflation fears. For the same reason, they won't issue a bill larger than 100RMB even though it would be very useful.
Sociologists have already been studying that. This "class separation" has been going on forever in countries with huge income inequalities.

There are way too many examples of what this leads too. None of them good. :(
I agree that using selective receive helps in dealing with messages that arrive out of the order of a specific state transition. Akka gives users the ability to stash messages if they want to. On the JVM, a long-running actor-based application (which is one of the reasons for using actors in the first place) can struggle with it. It's one of the reasons the original Scala Actor library is no longer in use, though there are other important reasons - such as Akka's use of ActorRef, analogous to Erlang's PIDs, which mask the instance of an actor from those who wish to communicate with it, as well as it's physical location. As you scale actors across a cluster of machines, that becomes really useful.

That's great about assigning the fiber to a FJP. A dangerous task would be anything that could take down an actor, which can be worrisome depending on what state the actor is holding. There are varying kinds of such state, including that which can easily be retrieved again from an external source, that which is "scratch" data and inconsequential if lost, and that which cannot be recovered if lost. In actor-based applications, we want to encapsulate mutable state and use message-handling single-threaded interaction to prevent concurrency issues, right? If we're going to do something that could cause the actor to fail and risk losing data, we want to export that work along with the data needed to perform the task to another actor and let IT fail rather than risk the important one. There are ways to pass such data between incarnations of an actor on the JVM by carrying it with the Exception, but it's not free and you have to know when to use it.

So a dangerous task could be asking for data across an unreliable network or non-replicated source, it could be dividing by 0, anything that could cause typing errors (even in Erlang), you name it.
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Well - it is not likely you will need you public key on the non-web-accessible server. In this type of application the public key is needed in the place that encryption happens and the private key is needed where decryption happens. If the two are on the same machine it likely means you messed up.
It seems fixed now, I just saw a video that has hundreds of thumbs downs
I ran into this issue recently.

You can't create an authenticated S3 URL without an expiration date, and it doesn't accept an expiration date after 2038.
Fixed punishment is tied to the level of crime you are convicted of. There are many levels of "crime" that this could fall into. I don't think it has to be felony or nothing.
<=, strictly (but with probability -> 0).
In China, Chinese brands are considered inferior to western ones, even if everything is made here. They compete on price alone mostly.
> IED (perfectly fine name for what was made)

You have got to be kidding me. The only reason to call it that is to invoke an emotional reaction.

IED stands for "improvised explosive device". It might be emotional to you, however, it's exactly what was made. It's a device that is improvised from household materials with the entire point of exploding. It explodes via pressure but in no way does the IED label require it to be a brick of C4 detonated via a burner cell phone.
I actually just installed Firefox for that. Totally worth it.
Both wrists or just the dominant one?

I gave up on a mouse entirely and switched to a Wacom tablet full time. There's a learning curve for sure, but it basically cured my wrist discomfort. Plus you can have lots of fun in Photoshop. It did end my first person shooter hobby though.
Really? Success in just one area is plenty to keep me going. It's when you get success in no areas that you're in trouble, or when success in one area is balanced by a disaster elsewhere, etc.
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This is probably caused by running all the queries in their own goroutine (if you don't know what this is just think of it as a thread - but much cheaper).
This causes the queries to be handled in more or less random order.
We'll fix this for Round 5 ;-)
If you honestly thought that was a perfectly innocent term for what was made, with no emotional baggage, you would not have immediately, preemptively, defended your use of the term.

Call it what it was. It was a "works bomb".
So move it up 2 or 3 spots then...
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While generally that is true about asm.js, there is nothing stopping anyone from writing asm.js code by hand.

It is still just javascript and totally readable as such.

For example: https://gist.github.com/calvinmetcalf/5473022
People in Wisconsin are people I might meet. People in Chengdu are people I will never meet.
My pet hate is 'impact'. There was a perfectly usable word before: affect. No-one uses it anymore, because everything has to have IMPACT! Not enough toilet paper in the loo today? How will that impact employee morale? Different brand batteries in your wireless keyboard? What IMPACT will that have on performance?

But sadly the horse has bolted on that one, its jig is up, and gone the way of the dodo... literally.
It's probably a subset of the Unreal Engine.

And it only works in Firefox, and even then only very well in Firefox Nightly.

Those points aside, though, this is pretty amazing. I fully expect multiple engines to target HTML5 in the same way Unity/Unreal/etc were cross-compiling for the Flash runtime. It's just not quite there yet...

(And it's good that demos like this exist to put pressure on browsers to fully support them).
There are some things I will not buy if they're made in some countries, of which China is just one. There are other things that I don't care where in the world they were produced.

There's a definite relationship between the length of time I expect to own or use a product, the country's reputation for products of that type, and which of the two categories it falls in.
> I like people in Wisconsin, can't really relate to people in Chengdu, and then there is the whole militarily adverse repressive communist regime thing.

Think about the cute pandas.

> I'm happy to pay a little more

The problem is that its not just a "little more." I remember the 80s before China became a manufacturing powerhouse, and many things just got so much cheaper in the 90s.
I don't. So, yes.
Horrible? The recent bubble aside, I understand real estate has historically been quite stable. Any good portfolio is diversified, so I don't really see why they are horrible.

P.S. Many people who "invest" in real estate rent the property, which throws a tremendous wrench in comparisons of simple appreciation.
So I think you're assuming that I'm not a grade A student. I've done plenty well in school, maintaining a 4.0 until that dreaded A- came along and ruined me.

My point is simple, whether you like Grade A students or not, if you don't do anything important, you won't be important. People are what they do. Maaaaaybe I was a little harsh, but the point doesn't change.
How many of linode's subscribers do you think not own a smartphone? I mean, outside of your enclave?
Computer labs aren't so expensive. ~$3000 workstation, good for ~6 semesters, and multiple students per semester use one seat.
Sounds like nonsense to me.

Quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Exactly. I have always found that funny. Schools like Harvard, Stanford, MIT are often on on par with, if not somewhat cheaper (factoring in the "school brand-name"), than lower level schools. Stanford also pays for your education if your house-hold income is less than 100k.
Here's a similar story from 2011 about someone digging up the mud and junk from New York streets and panning for flecks of gold and gems:

http://jalopnik.com/5813630/man-mines-diamonds-from-new-york...
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I have to imagine the overlap between Linode customers and smart phone owners was so large (and the cost of implementation so low) that leaving out hardware authenticators makes sense for v1.
Yes. I'd restate my original argument but I'd seem more than usually repetitious :D
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Right, I think pretty much everyone will agree that the current system is broken and there are many things that could be done better, but... since we do know that IPv6 is a thing, and your solution would require the world-wide adoption that IPv6 is trying to get at, they would needlessly compete?

Unless I misunderstood your model
That's exactly the thought process behind my latest application. I was sick of writing/polishing the same authentication / payment processing functionality, so I made it into a service (that utilises itself no less).
Right. Burnout also happens with success.
NES might not be a good version for such a project, as most of the time would likely be devoted to working around bugs that start cropping up as you play far beyond the Level 29 "kill-screen." NES was never intended to be humanly playable beyond that point, so weird things start cropping up as you progress that can cause strange behavior or lock up the game.

It could still be possible, but you'd have one more thing to reverse engineer beside just the randomizer. The game does eventually loop back to Level 0 if you get through all the bugs in "the outlands," so I guess as long as you start your game there and are able to manipulate the RNG properly then it may be feasible. The RNG is a LFSR with 32,767 positions, and the selection method is also dependent on the previous piece dealt (starts empty) and number of pieces dealt since power-on (stored in a byte).

(EDIT: There are also ways to indefinitely prolong entry delay via pause cycling. Actually, scratch that, you could even just pause a bit at the end and wait for the proper frame, assuming the other variables are properly aligned. That almost seems a bit unfair though, heh.)

The 1988 Sega arcade version might also be good for such a project. What NES was to North America in terms of being an authoritative "classic" version, Sega Tetris was to Japan. It fills an array with 1000 pieces at the start of each game, so creating some sort of looping pattern would be very possible there.
“I was literally the only female in this classroom with 30 men,” says Needell. “They open their textbooks and there’s Lena, and all the men start giggling. You just feel like ‘Oh, my gosh, this woman is being materialized (in a textbook)…’

What does "being materialized" mean? (marginalized? objectified? material-girl-alized?)

What year was it that all the men started giggling at that particular picture of Lena?

In order to draw attention to the sexism inherent in the use of the picture, Needell and co-author Rachel Ward recently published a paper where they rejected the use of Lena.

How is it sexist to use that picture, which is g rated, of Lena? Is it sexist to note that even across species, one sex (not always the female) is often what humans, cross culturally, agree is "prettier"? If it's not, then why would it be sexist to use a picture of an attractive woman in a paper?

http://www.amazon.com/Survival-Prettiest-Science-Nancy-Etcof...

Would it be exploitative of the scientists that write these papers to use their writing talents and skills to draw their readers in? Or to create well designed graphs that clearly and quickly communicate their points and draw the eye?

I have no problem with the authors using a picture of Fabio. I am trying to understand the claim that using a picture of Lena is somehow sexist.

(In my day it was a male baboon with a penis on its face that was the classic image.)
This is why Chinese companies buy older American brands. GE and RCA come to mind.
Titles should not editorialize.
Extracurricular schoolyard pranks with toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil do not rise to the level of a felony charge in any sane jurisdiction.

Not in the USA and not on school grounds. The zero tolerance laws are enforced and have teeth. Just recently, an Eagle Scout and honor student was arrested and charged with a felony when he realized he left his hunting rifle in his car at school and did the right thing and called his parent to come pick it up[1].

[1] http://townhall.com/columnists/toddstarnes/2013/05/02/libert...
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