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> BTW, have you heard that the next Haswell processors can get only 5% performance improvement?

Bollocks - using the new gather AVX instructions, I've seen close to a 40% increase over IB on some floating-point code I've hand-written with intrinsics.

Existing C++ code is around 13-16% faster thanks to better cache bandwidth and a huge L4 cache. Turn on FMA (fused multiply–add) optimisation and that goes to ~20% faster.
But no worse than what large companies and the US gov't routinely do.
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When I was video blogging it reduced a 1h daily process to a 5m one, so depending on how you value time. In my case, my alternative was to pay a PA £15/h, so there was some [small] money attached.

I had socialcam on my phone post to YouTube. ifttt picked up new youtube videos and posted them as wordpress posts. Feedburner then picked up the RSS item and tweeted it.

So making a 5m video ended up taking exactly 5m and everything else was cobbled together as a chain of services.
This is a really good model of product resurrection. Now lets what yahoo do more of the same thing.
Exactly. And even once the patent is granted, prior art can be re-examined in the courtroom when a lawsuit is brought. I'm not an expert or anything, but I wouldn't expect this patent to stand up in court.
The closed stores tend to be old, which means their original power requirements were based on what today would be grossly inefficient, and they are in locations with high levels of utility infrastructure and declining demand due to both the closure of other buildings and the increasing efficiency of those that remain.

Retail is actually fairly intensive from a power perspective, lighting levels are high to show off goods. The capacity of cooling systems is also high compared to office uses because the design case is a mob of shoppers [edit: think August afternoon during the tax free back to school weekend]. Unlike lighting, people generate a lot of latent heat, and unlike office workers they are moving. Also unlike office workers, feeling a little hot means they will take their business elsewhere.

Now, that's not to say that the infrastructure of a retail space is going to compare to a heavy industrial use, such as a steel mill or juice plant. But those aren't what Sears owns. And in any event, industrial sites don't offer the opportunity for redevelopment of the parking lot with smaller boxes as a means of diversifying the underlying asset. The sites aren't bad, the way in which they are developed is.
Does anyone have some insight to what is going on in the Z monad bit? It looks like an Either monad with a bunch of error states instead of just the one.
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Furthermore, explicit SIMD code (for example, using SSE functions) is not portable. The comparison here was portable C/C++ to portable asm.js.
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If your local supermarket has Fage get the "Total Classic". Basically stay away from anything that says 0% or 2%. If you have a Trader Joes nearby their Greek yougurt is good as well. I like granola in mine. I have also put craisins in it. Or add your own fruit at home. My faves are raspberries and strawberries.
But isn't suing to enforce his patent rights also an expensive legal battle that he would need to somehow fund?
I don't see how this threat could be seen as effective.
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I'm not sure what you're saying? When I look up the history and etymology of the word gay, I don't see anything of the sort. It was quite a gradual change not the fault of any single small community.
Only common thread is both target young audiences
I don't know much about JSONP except it allows cross-domain JSON data access. To learn more than I know, check out this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2067472/what-is-jsonp-all...
We learned the same lessons with the chat function Babblr. Structuring the code/files is highly affective.
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I've never understood this fixation on the nationality of people killed in drone strikes. I get jurisdiction issues (blowing people up on American soil is pretty iffy, since we could just arrest the guys anyways), but the Bill of Rights isn't prepended by "only citizens get these rights". Inversely, I get that the gov't should "try" to protect their citizens, if you've reached the point to where you want to blow up some guys with million dollar missiles, they must be in some serious business, and you must not have that many alternatives. A blue passport shouldn't give them a free pass on that.
I did the no bribe thing once. I wanted a certificate and the officer wouldn't give me one. Went to the bmc office almost every week for 3 months. Gandhiji would have got me the certificate on the very first day.
Yeah, I just didn't want to acquire all of the technical debt of starting a new project in 2.7 when 3 has been out for 5 years now and 2 is effectively in support mode. All new standard library enhancements will be in 3 and I can't imagine people will start many new packages that are 2.x only.

I haven't done much Python web development before, but I have a fair amount of experience with PHP and Ruby, so I found stitching together something useful with Bottle and a number of other packages was pretty low-friction other than porting a half-dozen different packages to Python 3. Unfortunately looking at flask it seemed the work to port it along with jinja2 and werkzeug was too much of a barrier to entry.
Let's see if he even manages to sue the tech giants, let alone what the judge rulings will be like when the patent owner is an individual instead of a tech giant.
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HN becomes a bag full of stupid when fetishizing Kim Dotclown.
But then, he isn't any better for it, either. This is patent trolling, plain and simple - I don't see why people are rallying around him in this.
Once you get past the splash page on the fwd.us web site, the heading is "The Need for Comprehensive Immigration Reform".

What else is that supposed to mean, spin not withstanding? (although it might not be so much "fire Americans" as "lower salaries for existing employees")
I love Dan Pink's wisdom, and absolutely believe in the motivators of autonomy, mastery and purpose, especially for software developers, but I would say that, in this context, the phrase "work harder" is not specific enough.

If you worked for a company and you knew you'd be rewarded for producing some software on the side, you would likely play around with some ideas and put in more of your time. You also might work more efficiently.

You would not be a more productive employee by being better at code or faster simply because more money was offered to you. But you might make a conscious effort and decision to spend more time on your work and less time with inefficient uses of your time.

The studies are useful and accurate, to a degree, but they are, ultimately, somewhat contrived. "Solve a puzzle faster and we'll give you $2" is very different from "any software you build on top of your maintenance work will be rewarded with a percentage cut of sales."

(Slightly off topic...) I'd also say that "autonomy" is an interesting one for me personally. I like having lots of freedom in choosing technology and the process I go through to sort through programming problems and learn new things, but at the same time, I struggle with unclear objectives and goals, ambiguous deadlines and of course, insufficient domain knowledge about a project. I want autonomy of choice, but not freedom to wander the wilderness of a client project, especially when there are so many new things to learn and achieve. So autonomy, yes, but guidance and clarity are helpful in achieving mastery.
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Absolutely no music while reading or programming. I find it impossible to concentrate unless there is complete quietness.
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But you wouldn't use Paint. The Windows Photo View and Explorer actually do a more than adequate job. Windows Media Player too does a reasonable job of playing video. Netflix, YouTube and Google Play Movies don't solve the problem of plying my videos. The Mac, modern desktop Linux distos and Windows support the functionality that the OP and you crave out of the box - as do most tables, including the iPad. I just don't see where Chrome OS fits in.
That doesn't mean it's illegal. He's just trying to right a wrong.
“I never sued them. I believe in sharing knowledge & ideas for the good of society. But I might sue them now cause of what the U.S. did to me".

So in other words, you believe in the "good of society", but now that you have legal fees, screw society?
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Uhm, I'm for changing patent law and I'm also for patents being abused as much as possible. The latter is linked to the former. People are never going to change patent law unless it hurts them.

I don't want people not to do it - some people are always going to do it and the longer it goes on the greater the damage - I want it not to be doable, have a decisive engagement, so to speak, and have the problem put to bed for a while.
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Why? Do you favor extortion?
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In Switzerland and the Netherlands we use the milk whey to create a soft drink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivella

Afaik, it was indeed invented in order to find a use for this by-product.

It tastes "a bit weird, but pretty good" (that's also their slogan, and it's quite accurate IMO :) )
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In case anyone else has this problem: I had to disable AdBlock for it to recognise mouse clicks/movement.
The smart threat would be to put the patent up for auction. The fear of the trolls getting the patent would bring the big guys to the table.
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People forget just how amazingly tight the credit markets were at that time. Extremely tight.

To keep it short, the bailouts of both the auto sector and the banks were bad, but probably the least bad of a bunch of very worse options. The moral hazard problems with both of them are significant. (It's personally good to fail at the same time as everyone else, because you get bailed out, while we really want systems where failures are independent.)
You wouldn't use Paint to view pictures on vanilla Windows. You'd use apps far better suited (and already set as default).

I think you still have a point in your comment though.
You were making it sound as though this were some niche thing that only happened in my particular social group. I was simply showing that this isn't the case. It's not as though there's likely to be peer-reviewed studies on this, but here's some more links, if you'd like:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Noobs%20vs.%2...

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Noob

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20060823
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"We are excited to be the first multinational organization to make public cloud services available in China, and encourage customers to sign up for the free trial at http://www.windowsazure.cn starting June 6."

Yes! I've been begging Windows Azure to deploy a datacenter in mainland China for a long time due to the unpredictable nature of the "Great Firewall of China".
Had trouble getting your last paragraph right, double negative makes it harder to read. Agreed with what you said though, he knows there is no trial possible over it.
On the other hand, this sort of high-profile strong arming could be helpful in changing opinions about software patents. Someone using software patents to blackmail companies into pouring money into a case against the US govt might be exactly what we need to change the opinions of some congresspeople...
I could see a company or investor group buying this patent from him at $50M+. It's worth more even at a penny per authentication.
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> retail POS generates a large amount of transactional data, and you need low latency for database syncing and credit card/loyalty card transactions.

I've always been curious about what sort of infrastructure the average big-box retail store actually needs. My local Walmart can't have anything but a wireless uplink, unless they actually installed 5+ miles of fiber or something when they built the store.
IE was amazing at the time, far better than Netscape 4.
Oh right, Stripe. I was thinking of the payment processing service, and somehow looked at this page and was able to keep cognitive dissonance that that and this POS tool was the same.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, of course tabs belong above the address bar (I think recent browsers get this right).

Even better though is putting the tab bar on the right where it doesn’t eat precious vertical space.
Chrome 27: Faster, but voice recognition isn't ready yet
Tomorrow:

Google buys SEARS, register as a new G4 provider.
The mere fact that the instructor has a schedule put up and sticks to it makes it better than any lab session I had.

Oh, and it's not just something I alone experienced, so writing it off as a "random sample" makes no sense. This is /the/ situation with most colleges here. Which is kinda the entire point of the article.
Having just built a hobby Angular.js app, it's cool to see that it fits large aims. For personal use, I found it incredibly refreshing to use, even as bizarrely different as it was to anything else I've tried. Not in a bad way, but in the sense that it was more convention than I was used to (outside of Rails)

I would add that the Yeoman build manager is an absolute delight to structuring and managing your project. It was so slick that when making my first Angular app, I also ended up learning CoffeeScript to kill two birds at once...Yeoman made this otherwise prickly situation as smooth as possible.

And I also would agree that directives are Angular's killer feature...and unfortunately for me at the time, one of the hardest to grok because of their magic. Anyone writing an Angular tutorial would do a great service to emphasize the power and use cases for directives.
Is there any reason why they couldn't do some sort of deal with the likes of Solar City? Sears has rooftop space, Solar City has the guys to install panels. They've done deals with other big companies in the past to cover their rooftops with panels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity#Commercial_solar
>I would never suspect apple or oracle of attempting to erode the patent system by bringing absurd lawsuits, but it certainly sounds like the sort of thing that kim dotcom might do.

What about Apple patenting the rectangular electronic device(see here: http://www.google.com/patents/USD504889) and suing Samsung for $2.5 billion dollars with the majority of the claim for producing rectangular phones/tablets (see here: http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/08/03/apple-vs-samsung-who-...)
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If people would actually read what he writes on twitter instead of the sensationalist blog posts derived only from those tweets, they would get a much more nuanced picture.
Thank god. That was a heart breaking affair. I just hope she is able to progress through the rest of her life now.
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"No" is the new "yes"
> It's simply distributing the source of the pollution.

"The solution to pollution is dilution."!
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I created this tool because I am sick of the state of Windows world that we got into. These days its almost impossible to download free software from the internet and not being offered toolbars and other products.
As numerous HN posts for last year shown, folks here too get annoyed by toolbars and all the practices currently widespread on "download" websites. Whenever I visit my family, I have to constantly clean up junk from their PCs as they are not careful when installing stuff on Windows.

Hopefully Toolbar Blocker will help users keep the computers cleaner - it effortlessly prevents installation of toolbars (kind of like antivirus for toolbars). I am not sure about business model for this yet. Obviously I don't want to bundle anything, and I don't think people will want to pay for such a software.

Your comments would be very appreciated!

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At the end of the article:

“Want to buy the worldwide license to my two-factor-authentication patent? (13 countries incl. US & China) Email: twitter@kim.com,” he concludes.

edit: I may be wrong, is buying "the worldwide license" different from buying the patent?
Also, potentially being on TechCrunch or <insert news source> everyday may be more effective marketing, recruiting, culture building than money in the bank.
It would indeed be irrational to care that much about the drinks per se. Certainly it wouldn't occur to me to think badly of a company that just never considered providing them in the first place.

But if a company had been providing them and stops for petty reasons, that's a red light, not because of the drinks, but because of the petty reasons. It can very well be an early warning of incompetent and irresponsible management.
I will put in a word about medicine. Government run medical colleges are good because they have a lot of patients. Private medical colleges for the most part are in the business of selling seats to the highest bidder.

Recently, the central govt proposed a single nationwide entrance test to curb the seat selling. Private colleges filed a case against it and won.(search for NEET exams)
Some other group who buys the patent from him, paying his bills and then some, would sue to enforce the patent rights.
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#1 is only partly true. California proved most pollution can be stopped by the car's factory-provided emission controls before the driver ever enters the vehicle. The car maker has a great macro effect in reducing pollution. This is hugely important to Los Angeles, which is located in a bowl and has suffered from a considerable number of smog-related deaths and health costs.

#2 is incorrect. They did not mandate fuel efficient cars to reduce consumption. They mandated a certain percentage of zero and near zero emission cars. As an electric vehicle owner, I can reassure you that this does not automatically result in more miles traveled.
Other than the F3, nope. There's not a lot out there (supposed to be an android one coming soon though).

http://www.eink.com/customer_showcase_cell_phones.html

You'd think there'd be more considering how ideal it is for outdoor visibility and battery longevity.
The team said at I/O that they're trying to hit 1.0 sometime this summer.
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you absolutely should look at the videos on egghead.io about directives. they are a must read as they go very deep into the subject while keeping things extremely easy to understand.
There's really no where to move the power, in this case.

The building itself could use it, and if there was excess the neighboring buildings could use it.
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Maybe for the same reason the masses rally around companies and gov'ts that do it.
Living in Texas and recently having bought a somewhat nice car, hail is a big concern for me. I have several recipes that monitor the weather.gov feeds of the counties in my area for the word 'hail' -- if it catches instances of that word, it'll send me a SMS.

Example feed: http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwaatmget.php?x=TXZ103&y=0
Sponsored training programs that have multiple companies supporting them sound like a good idea.
Nation's power grid under constant cyberattack, but Congress lax
Basically JSONP is used by API providers, so that theirs API might be called by JavaScript running in browser. Until CORS[1] got supported by current browsers, JSONP was used to get some JSON from an API located on different domain (well it of course can be used today for browsers that don't support CORS)
The code snipped you linked just wraps standard JSON response making it an executable script that when included on the page calls the supplied callback's name passing the JSON.

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
I used to have a lot of trouble switching between side projects and not really getting anything done - so I thought I would share what I do now to improve that. As always, I'm happy to answer any questions!
This guy is such a clown, and I am really tired of internet people lionizing him because they think copyright infringement is super-cool and patents are super-dumb, or whatever.
On this project we are saddled with Maven, you are right. I am gonna add a section on build.
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Differently, did you know that readability is not always good for all types of content? If an article requires some thought and concentration then less readability is preferable - see this video of Adam Alter on something he calls 'disfluency' - http://edge.org/video/disfluency
Hesitant to comment on this post, but:

"Instead of selling floor space, they could subdivide the space like the "storage building" units. The customers could pay for a rack, and they would need a key to access it."

Many DCs offer quarter racks that are under lock and key. You just bring your hardware and get your carrier neutral drop.
http://networkengineering.stackexchange.com/ is relatively new. I think it only went beta a couple of weeks ago. It's nice to see people already using it to share knowledge.
I've used the site (drag and drop) and the Mac app. The site works as it should, it even starts uploading files before hitting submit, which speeds up the process. On the other hand the Mac app needs a big update, and by big I mean start from scratch. The app feels slow, packed with restrictions and errors, but I guess it was designed for the previous Flickr version.
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"they just released the beta and are upgrading the entire game in the next month or so."
Damn, this should work, we do support Firefox 21 ! It's probably a regression in the demo itself and not the engine. We'll fix it asap, thanks for the tip !
I agree on this. Angular is awesome for organizing large JS, and making re-useable components. Directives are a killer feature, along with DI (to facilitate testing) and 2-way binding (to eliminate all the boilerplate glue you'd have to write with something like Backbone). The team I'm on recently set up a fantastic Grunt build that incorporates Jade, Stylus, Angular, Google Closure Compiler along with testing infrastructure that works with CI/Jenkins using Mocha, Phantom, Sinon, Chai. It makes developing web apps fun again.

Right now, we don't pull in any other libraries aside from Angular. We've found we don't need jQuery anymore, and are able to build up re-useable widgets with directives and use them across projects.
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Everytime I read an Angular postmortem I'm intrigued that I never see memory issues being raised.

In a recent rewrite of one of our applications into Angular we had huge issues with it consuming memory. I think our use case is quite distinct, we have a telephony component that needs to stay loaded so single page app really does mean single page app for us, but even so I would expect to see memory mentioned every now and then.
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The court is usually in Eastern Texas. Expect the unexpected there.