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Lately I've been more focused on getting the features running and less on performance, so I haven't completely explored the impact of using these structures.

I'd be interested to hear more about what you're doing. Do you have any links you could share?
Then we're both weirdos. These results (both OP and child thread's) look extremely helpful, both to someone looking to eat some sushi nearby or wondering what sushi is exactly. Local places, definitions, pictures, how-to videos, all kinds of stuff someone searching for "sushi" might want. I really don't understand the complaint. Is it that Google no longer returns a page of text links indexed solely by pagerank?
He's still a moderator there and still hasn't reinstated ManWithoutModem as one. Apparently a large chunk of the Advice Animals moderation team also quit over it.
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Better yet, they could do keyword matching based on popular topics, especially those which get confined to recurring "general" threads by moderator fiat. Data on keyword-to-ad matches could be collected automatically. The server would analyze thread content immediately before serving it, find the most frequently used words or phrases, generate a cookie to be included in ad clicks, and correlate whatever feedback the ad vendor provides with all of the above. If the vendor is 4chan itself, this could all happen in real time so long as they had the CPU cycles available.
This isn't entirely true. As of OpenGL 4.3 (latest spec), OpenGL adds compute shaders as well. Their primary usage is to make interopt with the graphics pipeline less painful than it would be with OpenCL, but in theory you could use OpenGL (or DX11 on Windows) compute shaders for non-graphics tasks, and they'd have roughly the same capabilities as CUDA or OpenCL.
Maybe Firefox simply holds longer on to cached stuff if the system has still free memory? Unless it fails to release it when needed, I would see this as a plus.
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I imagine it'll be easier eventually to simply move the head to an android body.
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Here's an article from back in 2009 that rings a bell:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8147534.stm

Basically, the shared ground of the local electrical infrastructure of any given building may act as an antenna, and allow attackers to detect EM keystroke signals that can be detected on the power plug.

They demonstrated it working over
distances of 1, 5, 10 and 15m from a
target, far enough to suggest it could
work in a hotel or office.

I think this is the doc from presentation:

http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/BARISANI/BHU...

Sounds like the technique is similar for fax machines.
"that kid is disrupting the focus of his 8 neighbors"

Whatever else Catholic churches may get wrong, apparently all of the "modern" ones I've ever been inside figured out the "crying room" technology a long time ago. Setting up a "sound diode" isn't all that difficult with modern technology. If whats really important is forcing future factory workers to line up in alphabetical order in row/column format, then flexibility might not work.
If someone tried that here in Brazil everyone would get a zero.

Specially, because they link someone posted about Richard Feynman is still very true, most students here don't know jack shit beside what they memorized, the genius wannabes quickly get stomped when they say crap and others laugh at them.

Schools here are best teach you how to be conforming to social expectations... at best.

Also I like to point out that the reason I did not failed at tests, was not the school, it was that being curious as I am, most tests ended asking stuff I already had learned somewhere else (usually reading a book), I still have as hobby read random books, encyclopedias, science sites... And I had that hobby before wikipedia existed (in my bedroom there was 5 different enciclopedias, including one focused on history and ancient religion, and another on botany, zoology and chemistry, also I have all the books that my dad read during when he was getting his civil engineering degree)
... and it doesn't work - http://i.imgur.com/fURqtTc.png

Presumably, because of blocked referrers.

Damn. I was so looking forward to using small-sized Whitney as a body font, because it looks amazing.
Unfortunately I learned EE as an apprentice with no books but I've heard High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic [1] is good.

Understanding why high speed is more like RF and analog electronics has a lot to do with impedance, which is the "resistance" of a material to a change in current at a specific frequency. Ohm's law is impedance at 0hz (DC current) but it gets a lot more complicated when you have a 133 Mhz bus because now the signal is changing fast enough that a lot of interesting effects start to pop up. For example, the capacitance of the PCB has a significant effect on rise times, your trace lengths have to be within 1/20th of the wavelength of the signal of each other or the bits might arrive at different times, you have to start worrying about other Mhz+ noise from the power supply based solely on the location of traces (hence you have to place filter/bypass caps more carefully), you have to worry about mismatched impedances (the "resistance" @ 133 mhz is different between the trace and a pin or something) or else you'll have a lot of energy "reflected" back at the signal source, adding interference patterns, etc. You never really see any of this in hobbyist electronics unless you have a really long cable for Khz signals or are trying to use something like SPI at 100Mhz. Once you start dealing with high end ARM chips, DSPs, DDR2-3, PCI[e], gigabit ethernet, HDMI, these traces become very prevalent.

However the beauty of digital is that you don't really have to understand all of the analog that goes behind it. There are a lot of simple engineering rules that make it very difficult to mess up a high speed digital design (at least in my experience). If you have a tool like Altium, managing all the impedances, trace widths and lengths, differential pairs becomes a cake walk. If you know what an error looks like in an oscilloscope (whether its a rise time problem, reflection problem, etc) then you'll find it easy to work in the field. Then there's actual RF engineering, which is a whole other story (digital signals are rarely more than the mW range, RF engineering also goes beyond that into W-KW-MW range).

[1] http://www.amazon.com/High-Speed-Digital-Design-Handbook/dp/...
The issue is much more complex. It appears in the latest live production version. if any of you are part of Google chrome team we can show you.
Stop saying French parties : it's only Jean-Luc Mélanchon and he's always doing things like that just to buzz.
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We've got a cool office and a fantastic team here in central Berlin and are building an international team, so we'll help with the German bureaucracy, residency status etc. for anyone who'd like to join us from abroad.

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We have a great homeschool group that provides a lot of high quality social time combined with sports and other activities. We also participate in a co-op that is a lot of fun and provides some variety. The oldest is in a leadership program that has benefited him greatly.

We are very loose curriculum wise and follow a self-education approach[1] loosely. The Robinson Curriculum is awesome, and I highly recommend it.

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"The Head of Professor Dowell" vs. reality ;)
Per (0) I don't think "don't decode until you scroll" is done yet. This issue alone makes Firefox annoying for use on image boards and "infiniscroll"-style galleries like Facebook's.

Also, "discard images when you scroll them offscreen" was disabled in (1) because it broke sites with lots of images (like Pinterest and Tumblr Archives, according to the bug).

These two issues alone make Firefox pretty painful for a lot of common use cases on real-world machines (like my old web browsing machine with only 2GB of RAM).

(0): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847223
(1): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872235
Most will elicit mild chuckles.

My favorite was their alternative definition of MVP: "A theory developed by Industrial Revolution manufacturing tycoons, which posits that a business that fails to make its product profitable within 90 days of release should scrap it and start producing whiskey, cigarettes, or shoes instead."
This is true of course, Google doesn't make any money on organic search, nobody does, so it gets the short shrift.

At Blekko we built a search engine (crawler, extractor, ranker, fetcher, the whole stack) and let people know exactly how we rank things, for users who created an account and logged in they could turn off everything except organic results. We have been moderately successful (we were the first to use a 'masked results' option [1] to show how much better our results were than Google's in contested searches) but there isn't enough outrage about that yet to build a business yet.

Most of our business (people who pay us money) comes from folks who either want to figure out how to game Google's results, or want some organic results to create a 'search like experience' much as Google does. When you think about it with only 7% of the page dedicated to organic results that is like 2 or maybe 3 actual search results and the rest of the page is a carefully crafted advertising vehicle. Sort of like a free 'newspaper' which has one article of editorial content and the rest are all ads. You can serve that market quite effectively with a relatively small index (a couple of billion URLs).

If you look at Google's financial performance over the years you can see how this evolution has affected their bottom line. Today you see it in declining revenue per click sorts of things. It feels to me as it did when banner ads went from this massive cash cow into something less useful.

One thing is true though, the world is changing yet again.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/21/be-the-mark-in-blekkos-3-en...
This is a dev board. It's not built to be fast, but to give people a way to experiment with the architecture.

Their roadmap is for 64 core chips next, an they're hoping to scale that to thousands of cores per chip over the next few years.
Exactly my point. I was talking about Mozilla diverting resources from FF Desktop to FF OS. As a result, their desktop browser has fallen behind "modern browsers" like IE and Chrome. It's lacking key features like multi-process and auto-updating.
Depends on their belief in how my they've learned from him that we haven't independently figured out, normally you don't do that to make the counterintelligence game harder, e.g. does the US know all the methods he used to get his data? Plus if they want any future "defectors", as we called them in the bad old days, to come to them they've got to appear to treat him well.
I believe he said that his _son_ felt that home-schooling had the positive effect on his job.

I'm sure that people can do the same thing coming out of public school, but I think we can agree that many people coming out of public school (especially nerdy ones) do NOT feel empowered, or like leaders. Everyone's experiences are different, but I know that my self-esteem in high school was terrible, and didn't pick up until I was in college.
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I use mine as an always-on home print server. I might come up with another good use case for it later, but I'm good for now.
It looks like they tried to land a patch which would discard images that were outside of the viewport, but it broke so they backed it out of FF 22 ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=872235 ). Then, there's https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=847223 where all downloaded images are decoded and live forever regardless of if they are shown.
I fear not; you need a passport to buy an international plane ticket.
Apple's Power Over Design, in 4 Words
> having a large buffer between them and germany

You sound like you're stuck in 1982. The biggest geo-political headache for Putin is not maintaining a useless "buffer" with Western Europe, but the growing Chinese influence in the East. Look at the map: the soon-to-be superpower shares a fairly huge border with Russia with precedents of isolated clashes in the 60s. And there are no buffers to "dominate".

Germany, on the other hand, sends their ex-chancellors to work for Russian natural gas giants:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Gazprom
These French leaders are being extremely naïve in making such demands, probably the reason why they are all running minority parties.

France is a very close ally of the US with much more than just extradition treaty ties. If Snowden set foot on French territory, he would be sent back to the US in a matter of days.
I suspect Putin's ego is a bit too big to be defied on a technicality. I think that will be a problem.
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A 'visual' Backend-as-a-Service platform.
I think an AMD Temash has similar performance, power, and price and it supports OpenCL.
"First, historically mass education of the type we now employ is only about a century old, and designed to produce factory workers..."

Or else until about 100 years ago there was no economic benefit to educating the great mass of humanity, and industrialization created a type of work for which literacy and numeracy helped.

"Learning to handle monotonous boredom and obey orders was of primary importance to a factory worker."

The education of the children--sons, mostly--of the well off always involved a lot of monotonous boredom. Orders were enforced with a stick.

But indeed kindergarten was a half day in my day. The extension of schooling to younger ages is at least partly a result of the need for day care, with more and more mothers in the work force.

"Teachers know this doesn't work, but schools are obsessed with testing and metrics to the determinant of real education."

Quite so.
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One benefit of this is avoiding many sources of cancer, since there would be a whole lot less cell-machinery to go wrong. To me, this seems like the most obvious (though drastic) means of life-extension.
On a Mac with current Chrome (Version 27.0.1453.116) hitting your sample dev URL, I don't get any errors at all...
SteveBallmer#: A language whose only symbol is "developers".
This is pretty pie-in-the-sky stuff. Having studied spinal cord anatomy a bit, it seems to me that "full use" of the donor body is absolutely not an option. Cord cross sections are similar on a gross level but when you get down to specific pathways and such, there's huge variation. And you can't just rely on natural mending processes and neural plasticity to make up the difference.

I'm not saying we'll never have something like this, but the "cut the cord and put it on top of the other cord" method described here seems massively, massively naive, like pre-enlightenment level medicine.
What makes this different from typekit? It's quite a bit more expensive ($99 for 250,000 pageviews on cloud.typography vs $49 for 500,000 on typekit) and I'm wondering what extras it provides.
Hasn't it been shown that the body, especially the gastrointestinal system, has a huge effect on cognitive function? I wonder if a procedure like this is possible without dramatically changing the personality of the subject.
What would we do with all the spare android heads then? :P
Russia has been playing the Great Game in its sleep since Peter The Great. This country is always changing and always staying the same.

So while the ideology of the high command may change you always have very strong central government which is chasing Russian interests with great zeal.
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I agree, Windows 8 is the snappiest mobile OS I have come across. Got my parents the Nokia Lumia 521 (for $120 @ Walmart - an absolute steal) and they love it. Big tiles, information right on the screen, offline maps, easy to use etc.

However there are still some downsides you need to be aware of if you planning on getting one:

[1] Windows is highly paranoid about security (Irony), no application can access the call logs, messages or even basic settings such as brightness etc. So don't expect to find apps that customize your phone to your liking.

[2] Apps - Saw your friend using that awesome Starbucks app and want it? Nope you won't find it on the store like many many others. To make it worse, Google is hellbent on never creating apps for Windows Phone. Luckily there are better or acceptable alternatives for most of their core products.

[3] Phones - Not many choices. If you want a solid phone stick with the Nokia brand. The exclusive apps will itself win you over.
A GPU will always beat this for tasks with many data streams and few instruction streams. This is for workloads with many instruction streams, which GPU's do really badly on.

And it doesn't much for electricity costs to be important - electricity already makes up a substantial percentage of hosting costs for colocation.
Yours is an interesting comment, but none of it is responsive to the submitted article's concern about differences between boys and girls in school. I have actually lived in another country, and I am aware by direct observation that that country has BOTH higher academic achievement by school pupils than the United States and pervasive recess periods during the school day when young children get outdoors and exercise. I think that United States school officials need to stop believing legends about what goes on in other countries and actually

a) OBSERVE what the school day looks like in other countries,

http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Schools-David-Perkins/dp/0028740...

b) analyze textbooks and teaching practices that produce superior results

http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematic...

c) take careful note of classroom practices that respect learners and help learners learn deeply and not just superficially,

http://timssvideo.com/timss-video-study

and

d) systematically train teachers in effective teaching techniques.

http://teachlikeachampion.com/

Boys and girls, all over the world, are exposed to many different kinds of school schedules and school practices, and it is the basic procedure of educational science to carefully observe the different combinations of home, societal, and school influences on children and try to figure out what helps learners have the best results.
Fantastic troll. Can we get "Friday" Fridays featuring Rebecca Black too?
I don't think that's a good solution. Not all code is open source, and I might want to write 1 post about different projects (for example: I created a WP, Android and iOS for the same thing).
People keep saying this but I don't get it. Why should he be willing to face trial, exactly? What's so bad about running when you're sure you'll be punished for doing what you think is right?
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They provided a boilerplate version of the ad and I gave them the 4chan-appropriate keywords to use with it. They've always been great to work with re: advertising.