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PNaCL doesn't "run directly on the CPU" any more than asm.js. They are both intermediate formats that must be compiled locally.
That's exactly what the Linux community needs: abstractions made for people who want to save time.
Reddit now lets you target multiple sub-reddits at $30/day/sub-reddit.
I don't know what the difference between running "directly on the CPU" and "compiling to some kind of native code" is. If you mean that the Web page delivers raw machine code to the browser, that describes NaCl, not PNaCl.

Regardless, it is incorrect that asm.js is first interpreted before being compiled. asm.js is compiled ahead of time exactly as PNaCl is.
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Except LLVM bitcode seems much more able to expose the cabilities of the underlying CPU compared to asm.js. I guess we'll just have to wait to see what the benchmarks say.
You can always put the idea on hold for a while, and find regular work until you decide to go back to it. The work you put into it so far isn't going anywhere.
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I read one article and skimmed the other under "Background reading" but I could not spot what the core philosophy or mechanic of how you are producing atomic and reliable upgrades.

I try to stay abreast of package systems which have the same or close feature set as nix. If you have a moment to explain the core mechanic or a reference it would be much appreciated.
This is not a fundamental limitation of asm.js. For example, there is already an extension introduced for compiled code that can be optionally used for improved performance: Math.imul. Similar extensions can be introduced later.
The $1B value seems very large, however, there's no question you can add advertising to it and make significant amounts of money. They know the demographics, they know the traffic volume, so they can estimate how much they can make.
To me, the most interesting thing about PNaCl is that it'll be the first real test of LLVM as a portable assembly bitcode, rather than just a compiler IR. There are arguments for why LLVM may not be such a good idea, but given the momentum it's been making, I can only see good things happening for LLVM if more people use it.
I want to. I am developing a survey progrmaming compiler. I am currently isolating the runtime (written in c++) and trying to compile to JavaScript using Emscripten. But PNaCl could be a another web delivery option
Ya I very much doubt that.
It just looks more people who barely do anything productive are on the Internet just using Youtube and Netflix. While the people who are developing say something like Youtube(or god forbid something more useful and complicated) are left to fend for themselves, because hey what do they matter.
So, is the true amount more or less?
How much of a subset of LLVM is it? Can other LLVM frontends target it easily (e.g. Rust or http://terralang.org/)?
Right but that's the wrong model. You're penalizing me for wanting to control my brand. What if I want to stack a whole bunch of small population subreddits?

Personally, I think it should be solely by impressions, irrespective of subreddit.
> PNaCl, which Google says we should pronounce as "pinnacle"

Or as I will call it, "P-salt".

As in, take it with a grain of salt that Google will support this technology 18-24 months from now after it fails to gain much traction.
I was once able to fix a failing motherboard by cutting out the "bulging top" capacitors and soldering new ones of the same spec on the parts of their legs that remained on the board.

That was after almost ruining it by attempting to actually unsolder the original caps from the board. Those things are soldered hard! I tried to apply too much force, slipped, and made a big scratch on the board with the soldering iron. Didn't go through the varnish though.
I can barely get my 'Hello World' program to work...
Because the designer who insisted on the flash banner wanted to use flash. :P
The second real test. Android Renderscript uses LLVM for portable bytecode already.
Rust could target it, but not as easily as you might think. LLVM IR is not portable (for example, here's some of the code necessary to get the calling conventions right in the LLVM IR for x86-64 [1]). The runtime and scheduler would have to be ported to the Pepper API if you wanted stuff like GC, I/O, and threads (which most Rust programs will want).

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/blob/master/src/librustc/mid...
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Thanks for speaking up! FWIW, you did most of the work for the migration and rebuild. I apologize for not naming you when most of this was your work. :-)
Well, to be honest, acdha did most of the work for this project. At the time I was stuck being yanked back and forth between several projects per day.
took me a while to figure out. nix-env -qa * | grep "package you are looking for"
nix-env -i "package"

need to add different channels if you are grabbing packages from places other than nix-pkgs.

I had a hard time, getting some haskell packages to work, because nixos symlinks all the binaries, and there was some encryption library dependency, hard coded in a cabal file, and it was a headache/ gave up.

Eelco also provides a pathelf utility for modifiying dynamic linker in elf files, I haven't used it.

I'm on ubuntu again but I can't remember why. Oh ya, I couldn't get Blackberry's SDK working on nixos. Anything that doesn't go through nix-pkgs, will take some work. I didn't get to the point where I was writing nix-expressions.
I know nothing about this company, so perhaps I have answered my own question, but...

How does a SQL-on-Hadoop solution, especially one of the first on the market, fail in this big data-obsessed investment climate?
Theoretically PNaCL code should be executing much faster than emscripten-generated Javascript. Of course we should do real benchmarks, YMMV and so on.
If you think this kind of technology compares to Google Reader, you are just confused. WebGL would be a better comparison.
I'm quite happy doing it with X/GLX--I'm only interested in chasing one kind of shiny at the moment.

(I reserve the right to eat my words and recant this misguided decision later.)
I totally agree with you. I could barely finish reading the article myself and you have put into words perfectly why it was subconsciously painful to read.

Good points about bad articles in general. =)
Whew. By volume, most of my big data work is in awk. I hope my secret remains safe.
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They can't fight it out on technical merits if nobody will adopt PNaCl due to some (real or perceived) Google lockin.
In 2006(ish?), I worked for a subcontractor doing hardware swaps on Dell machines, and these capacitors single handedly accounted for maybe half of all repairs that we had to do during the time (and that's against even trivial and common stuff like laptop keyboards breaking). It really doesn't surprise me that it cost Dell $400M+ to fix these systems - it had the sort of impact that could definitely destroy smaller companies outright.
The cost of a single salary is the equivalent of dozens of servers in many situations.
Well, you can search for reddits, but it's not very discoverable. I had to intentionally visit an invalid subreddit to find the link! Then key in your interests, your school/work, where you live etc...

http://www.reddit.com/subreddits/search?q=sdsdffgfgfg

From there, you'll quickly encounter other subreddits in comments (e.g. 'this should be in /r/penmanshipporn' or 'cross-post from /r/imaginarylandscapes') and in the sidebars and FAQs. Or friends might recommend them - that's how I found /r/cringepics and /r/TIFU.

Over time you curate a list of high-content subreddits and trim out the fat like /r/funny and /r/atheism (pretty much any defeault subreddit, not making a point with my examples). And suddenly reddit becomes useable and doesn't have 1,000 new posts a day!

Finally, you'll find that whenever you get a new interest, you'll look for a subreddit for it - and it's often a very useful resource. For example, /r/LearnJapanese has been amazing for me.
This particular interview is actually quite old (not that it isn't still incredibly fascinating). The Foundation series has been going on for a long while, and Kevin has created 30 interviews with outstanding people.

If you have some time to spare, each interview is worth a watch: http://foundation.bz/
Yes but I have yet to see an ATM anywhere that uses a chip reader slot, they all pull in the card in the same manner as a magstripe ATM (if they use the chip internally, I do not know).
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My fiancee came up with this idea looking at me and my co-founders sketching app UI's on a whiteboard. Now she needs to raise $6k usd to take it from a prototype to a real product. I'm using one and loving it!
They are also very active here in London - and are doing a pretty good job.

If Canada will finally stop sheeply following the US and Europe with introducing more and more Internet surveillance legislation and blockers, but is taking a stand to foster the industry by creating an infrastructural and legal framework (e.g. as Iceland tried a few years ago but they are in the middle of an Ocean) there will be caravans moving North to Vancouver / Montreal / Quebec City / Toronto and West from Europe.
The curious thing is that once a subreddit -does- get popular - that is, it hits 100K subscribers or so - you generally don't want to subscribe to it anymore. If it was specialised or niche, it becomes general; if it was highly moderated, the moderators will be struggling to keep the quality it once had; if it felt personal and intimate, it's now, well... not.
Groupon is no longer the same company it was 4 years ago; you might be biased by being anchored to a $20 IPO price, which you should actually blame on the investment "banksters"; thousands of merchants are grateful for the relationships they have with the company and continue to maintain those relationships; at least one YCombinator company has been purchased by Groupon. Calling it a "scummy greater fool play" is not appropriate in light of these facts.
Could you shed some light on the strange employment structure in your industry?

My impression is that unions in this industry are a combination of the bad (artificially restricting the supply of labor, to the benefit of union members, and the detriment of non members) and good (giving workers to power to maintain safety standards, and making sure that workers feel they can trust their fellow workers).

What limits communication? Is it the fact that a lot of the workers are temp workers, or is it unrelated?
> how do you transfer a country the size of the US from swiping to the chip and pin?

Well most of the rest of the world transferred without too many hitches, why would the US be any different?

I've seen a few chip readers in the US, but none of them have been active.
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I wonder about sampling bias. If Google has a preference towards MIT/Stanford with perfect SATs, then wouldn't the employees that don't meet that profile have to be a little bit more distinguished to begin with?
>It's a bit more than that. Tumblr will decline if they just view it as a turn-key solution.

Yes, because they can find the billion offered elsewhere, right?

I call BS. Tumblr would accept even if Yahoo wants to turn it into Zombo.com.
Much of the time, I actually prefer Apples to Apples for just that reason.
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>You are buying the potential for profit.

So, let me rephrase the question:

Isn't something really weird going on in the world when you can sell a company with almost no revenue (let alone profit) and no obvious business model in the horizon for $ 1.1B,

AND

no bloody potential for that kind of profit either, similar to endless other deals that got nowhere for the buyer, or is it just me?
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it is on the rumor that tumblr rejected $1.1 billion yahoo acquisition[1] for being too low . Just curious to know, how much tumblr really deserve ?
[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/17/tumblr-is-not-impressed/
The issue is that Hadoop, once you strip away the hype, is a terrible analytical database system. It was designed for a narrow analytic use case but has been sold far beyond its capability and no amount of wrapping or abstraction will make the reality of the underlying architecture go away.

Consequently, you have a crowded market of companies that try to differentiate by modding Hadoop to make it do things it really can't do well for fundamental computer science reasons. So it is both a highly competitive market and only marginal value is being added to the base Hadoop platform that customers can discern. VCs know this and are mostly done with the Hadoop portion of the Big Data market.

Most of the new growth is in non-Hadoop platforms with more capable architectures. It is a point of differentiation that they can handle many workloads (e.g. real-time) and many data models (e.g. geospatial) that Hadoop fundamentally cannot handle well.

It is the natural evolution of the hype cycle. Hadoop is being pushed back into the niche where it actually offers some value and other more capable platforms are starting to eat into the parts of the market for which it is poorly suited.
>If acquiring millions of users is so worthless, why don't we all have 100k+ monthly page views and fantastic engagement numbers?

What kind of bizarro logic is this?

For one, something being worthless doesn't mean it is also common. There are rare and difficult to attain things that are also worthless.

Second, we're discussing monetary worth here. That is, if you get something back for your 1.1 billion dollars.

A service giving you free money would also have 100k+ monthly page views and fantastic engagement numbers. But it would be worse than worthless.
Oh well, it's no surprise, really. Visual cortex is vast and depending on which areas/levels take part very different effects may be present.
iPhone-shaped paper notepads were C&D'd by Apple years ago. Is this produced under license from Apple? If not, isn't it awfully risky for anyone to contribute to the campaign when Apple could C&D you at any time?

http://ask.metafilter.com/165665/Is-there-anything-I-can-do-...
It probably is worth about that much, but it looks like they still have plans to grow it. When you don't really want to sell, it takes more than what it's actually worth to convince you to sell.
You can't patent a 3x5 rectangular piece of plastic. Worst case they have to remove the design from the front and make it a little less specific.
Everything is nicer than ember :p, but no seriously it's not that Polymer is nice, it's that _finally_ having something unified in the browsers will be nice. Web components will help truly modularize things and people can finally ditch jQuery plugins. I wouldn't use polyfills personally, I'll wait for the real deal but it's a start.
We seem to be making the same unrealistically broad generalizations over and over, never learning from our past.
Users != revenue. It still had users.
It's probably to spark interest among other suitors as well. $1.1B cash offer isn't "Too Low" as TC makes it out to be.
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Couldn't one mount a camera ontop of the Oculus Rift (just like with Meta) and stream the camera feed into the Rift + process the video stream to offer augmented reality?
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That's a good one, haven't heard of this before.
Personally i think apple relaxed a bit from what they've been doing 3 years a go and have other things to worry about.
Besides the design of WhitePad matches a number of other products on the market not only an iPhone.
pretty soon the hard-drive is just thrashing like crazy, essentially freezing the entire system, for minutes at a time

As a side note, this is why I never configure swap space in a server. If a server starts swapping, it's a fail. It should have enough RAM to do the tasks it's supposed to do, without ever running out of RAM. When it runs out of RAM, either the software has to be reconfigured to work within the available RAM, or the RAM has to be increased; or some tasks should be allocated to other servers.
That's basically what Craigslist does when it "ghosts" content. It tells you it published it, and you can even see it when you follow the direct link, but it doesn't appare on the listings. Eventually CL spammers started checking the actual listings.

I assume the same thing would happen with email; spammers would use a few of their own email addresses on the list to make sure the emails are actually being delivered. It would be a pain for a while for sure.
If Apple wanted to actually 'make money' from its developer program fees, it'd cost a lot more than $99 - even more than it cost before the Mac App Store. I realize that $99 may be a lot of money for people like you, so I appreciate that this might be difficult to grasp at first. Keep trying, I've got faith in you!
This is a move in the right direction:

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On NixOS, you do not need to be root to install software. In addition to the system-wide ‘profile’ (set of installed packages), all user have their own profile in which they can install packages. Nix allows multiple versions of a package to coexist, so different users can have different versions of the same package installed in their respective profiles. If two users install the same version of a package, only one copy will be built or downloaded, and Nix’s security model ensures that this is secure. Users cannot install setuid binaries.
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Requirement to be administrator to install software is the root of all evils in managing OS.

As far as keeping everything in a special location (/nix or whatever), this reminds me SCO OpenServer 5: they had all the files somewhere in /var; /bin, /sbin and everything else were just symlinks. It did not work all that well.
Nice code, I'll update the readme to be more realistic.
Only WebGL is a standard, whereas PNaCL is a Google only endeavor. If it doesn't catch up, they might abandon it just as they did anything else of theirs.

Whereas they cannot abandon WebGL if they want to have a standards compliant browser.
With the trade off that the code size is greatly increased and that the performance when falling back to pure JavaScript will be dog slow. If the performance of an application is only acceptable on the subset of browsers that implement asm.js then the portability advantage over PNaCL isn't worth that much.
Startup investor here. I do lots of video calls, practically all on Hangout. No founder has ever had an issue figuring it out. YMMV.
I'm rather skeptic. No real-life videos, only unrealistic concepts. The bold "there's nothing like this being build" statements and then they use off the shelf components.

Sounds like a great recipe for disappointment. They should have at least posted a real-life video (or a realistic rendition).
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This is incredibly useful. Thanks!
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Never read anything (except academic publications) about the field you know in deep, especially blogs and journals/magazines. Violation of this rule may lead to depression, misanthropy and lack of faith in humanity.

BTW, the author's POV on game theory:

Personally I’m not a big fan of game theory for two core reasons. First it limits your thinking to a frame of move-countermove when in real life things are a lot more dynamic and complex. In fact, in many cases you can build quite an advantage without worrying about what your opponents or competitors are doing. Second it utilizes a model of the “intelligent rational decision makers” which according to many studies in behavioral economics is incorrect. -- http://refactoredthinking.com/author/refactoredthinking/
WOW! You only have 2 assets (the screen image and the logo)...amazing! This inspires me to re-study CSS3's infinite animation! MAD PROPS!
Spot on on all counts.
Asm can't do nearly as much code optimizing as pnacl.
NaCL also supports pthreads.
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It honestly seems like it would be more effective to pay to astroturf reddit than to buy legitimate advertisements.
>refresh rate

In this age of nanotechnology I find it entirely ridiculous that manufacturers are cost cutting by multiplexing column and row transistors. LCDs are such awesome tech that you don't even need to have refresh rate. It might increase initial complexity but in the long run it will be worth it.
Most people do not think it through that way.

I suspect that not thinking it through that way is a precondition for truly believing in God for most people. That is to say, most people who start out believing in God and who attempt to think this through would give up their belief in God on the way - or, instinctively realizing that and being made uncomfortable by the thought, they would automatically shy away from the whole logic of it.

After all, explaining the world is not really what belief in God seems to be about. It seems to be more about some kind of warm fuzzy feeling that people get from it.
I would LOVE to see reddit offer a Pinterest style signup where it asks a few basic questions to figure out what communities you'd be specifically interested in, as well as saying something like "and by all means, search for your specific interests by name, odds are pretty good there's a subreddit for that"
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No. From his friends' improvised performance art piece, "How Not to Destroy Evidence," I'm guessing that Dzokhar deserves to have the book thrown at him.

It's just that it should be the book that's thrown at him. Legally. Ortiz has a history of trying to win at all costs, even if it would destroy the lives of harmless people.

I don't really care about Dzokhar. I worry about the continual erosion of civil rights. Used to be that being an American citizen meant something. It meant having the rights guaranteed by the 5th and 6th Amendments to the Constitution. If the Bill of Rights does not apply to Dzokhar, then it doesn't apply to anybody.
This seems like trouble if they're still paying for it though.
You knew Yahoo owns Flickr, right?

Flickr has much more power than Tumblr. And they just maintain it for 6 years with same design with ugly looking arrows that used to look nice like 10 years ago.

I don't think Yahoo has a good vibe. They just buy and kill. Flickr is the only one that could survive, which can't be considered as success.
The "no scripting zone" and "no more installer magic" background posts have some of the philosophy.

But really a lot of the atomic and reliable aspects are the result of integration with ZFS. When the user upgrades packages, we create a backup boot environment (clone of the root file system) and then update the packages. If anything goes wrong, the user can just reboot to the backup be.

When updating the system (that is, packages that require the kernel to be reloaded/system rebooted), we create a clone of the root file system (a boot environment) and update the clone. When the update finishes, the admin can then reboot the system at their leisure.

If you'd like to know more, I'll try to answer your questions. You can email me at $myusername at gmail dot com.