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> for one primary reason: the transcendental math cache

If this is the primary reason then it implies that those benchmarks primarily measure performance of transcendental operations with repetitive arguments and thus nothing interesting.

Why do you even bother include them in this case?

> Sunspider is a poor benchmark to use to talk about JS engines

If you think it is a poor benchmark why do you use it or remind outside world of its existence?

In my opinion SunSpider is indeed a poor benchmark in general to talk about any kind of adaptive JIT (which includes JVM). That is why I never use it for anything.
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It is called text_body because there is also an html_body.

http://tomekwojcik.github.io/envelopes/api/envelope.html
Because the Article I, Section 8 says that Congress has the power to:

"To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;"
Why would the government bother attacking the protocol? I am sure the NSA has the necessary resources, but there would be no point. Failing to pay taxes is jail time. Failing to pay fees as an exchange means your business is shuttered, and continuing after that means jail time. Maybe other countries will be more lenient but US Bitcoin users will be in trouble.

It is also very likely that any taxes or fees associated with Bitcoin will have to be paid in dollars. If there are no legal avenues for exchanging Bitcoin for dollars then it would be illegal to do business in Bitcoin at all. You may personally skirt the law on that, but your local supermarket will not, and neither will your apartment complex, your auto dealership, or any of the dozens of other businesses you deal with in your daily life.
I thought his is one of the reasons they have backup keys which you can use when your phone is not reachable. I haven't actually tested the new system though.
The author of this piece doesn't seem to know much about Amazon's product offerings. Prime is free 2 day shipping along with some free video streaming. Fresh is the Grocery delivery service.
Who makes Seattle? We Make Seattle.
Got it. Sorry, I misinterpreted your comment.
I think the digestive track adapts to what you eat. If you eat only this for a while you may have issues digesting other things down the road. At least this is my anecdotal experience with eating the same damn thing as a student.
GC pauses are not the only issue. Image loading often introduces longer pauses than GC, and input latency is a huge problem too. I've written a benchmark that exposes these responsiveness issues: http://google.github.io/latency-benchmark
My personal experience, some years ago I was doing some working for a government agency which needed to send dome emails to users, we found that at midday we were receiving approx. 75% of all answers to the email campaign.
Which kind of service are you promoting? Do you have age-segments?
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"tell me when it's going to rain tommorrow"

Would the service tell you what time it would be raining/not raining the next day?

Or would it alert you the first day that the weather told it that it would be raining the day after?
>I can spend and exchange my foreign currency in the US, correct?

Yes, but as I understand it, foreign currency within the US is still regulated.
Prime is a subscription you pay in exchange for free shipping from Amazon, and Express is a subscription you pay in exchange for free shipping from Instacart. Offering such a subscription had a positive impact on revenue-per-customer for Amazon, and Instacart may benefit from the same. The author seems to have made a fine analogy to me, and the fact that Amazon also has a separate grocery delivery service is completely tangential to his point.
> There were many private currencies in the 19th century that the government never claimed power over.

The fact that Congress chooses, for a time, not to exercise a power within the scope of its enumerated powers in Art. I does not in any way change the fact that it is an enumerated power.

> This move with regard to Bitcoin is merely Bank.Gov trying to protect its monopoly on the issuing of currency.

No, this is about punishing fraud in selling investments, not about issuing currency.
I dug a bit and found that some kind of cross-licensing deal is included: WaPo Labs gets a 5-year content license, in return for 10% of any profits. However it sounds like they're planning to move towards doing more general tech-for-media stuff rather than WaPo-tied stuff.

Source: 2nd-to-last question from http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/08/don-graham-on-the-sale-of-t...
The article is not great.

Basically, the guy who ran Bitcoin Savings and Trust decided as part of his defense to argue that he couldn't be prosecuted under federal securities law because what he was doing didn't meet the definition of "securities", since -- and this was the defendant's argument -- Bitcoin isn't money.

The judge basically took a look at this, said "it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck", and ruled that for purposes of this prosecution under securities law, yes, Bitcoin is money and Bitcoin investments are securities.
statuspage.io might have a great product (I'm not a customer), and I can see the value in some of the things they offer (like the ability to pull in data from third party monitoring services), but if operating a useful status page is a "tangible pain point" worth paying $79/month plus for, Silicon Valley is in trouble.

I appreciate that companies don't want to build everything, nor should they, but pushing every piece of non-core functionality onto a SaaS is just insane. The worrisome thing for many but not all of the SaaS startups primarily targeting other startups is that when the next downturn arrives, the number of companies eager to spend hundreds/thousands of dollars a month on a portfolio of SaaS services for just about every function will likely decrease substantially.
This may sound a little counter-intuitive, but failed startups are great! Going through the process of failing is one of the most valuable learning experiences, and employers recognize that. Be honest when discussing it. Talk about the mistakes you made, what you learned, and how it's made you a better engineer.
I'm scared of it.

Well let me qualify that. I wouldn't trust my health to eating primarily an engineered food solution as he is doing. In the grand scheme of things it's a lot less scary than the majority of "food" that you see for sale everywhere in the developed world. At least he is trying to create a healthy food rather than something that addicts people and maximizes margins. So I think it's better than the status quo, far less scary than Coca Cola for instance.

But the part that scares me is the idea that a healthy diet can be engineered. As far as I've seen, our understanding of diet and human metabolism is in the dark ages. I wouldn't trust a nutritionist to engineer a diet any more than I would trust a medieval "doctor" to cure me by bloodletting.

So what insight does that provide about me?
Somehow I just can't see this working out well for him, but if it does, it says something about the rule of law in Russia.
The key point is "claimed power over". Had those currencies become significant and used in interstate commerce the government may well have started enforcing their power to regulate it.

Any medium of exchange can theoretically be used as currency (e.g. cartons of cigarettes in prison, or cans of chewing tobacco on a submerged submarine on its third month of patrol).

Whether the government pays attention to it or not will depend on whether that type of currency starts to act as coinage or as a medium of interstate commerce, but just because the government doesn't deign to notice cowrie shells being used for trade doesn't mean they don't have the power to regulate it.
On one hand, I really really want Soylent to be successful; it would solve so many problems if we had a ubiquitous, cheap, and above all else effective meal replacement option.

On the other hand, I can't shake the feeling that it's not going to. Even reading this article, my suspicions flared up a few times (I thought invoking McDonalds was strange, and most of his points about nutrition and consumption seemed off-base.) Maybe it's years and years of pseudoscience taking its toll on me, I dunno.

At the very least, I'm interested to see where things are headed.
The use case people are talking about such as a jealous partner/spouse, or coworker, or only has access to a computer for about 30 seconds while your in the bathroom, does not have enough time to search through all of your gmail or accounts, nor would they want to change your password since then clearly you would know. What they would want to do is see your password, and then later on when there alone they could login to your account on their own computer and casually browse your accounts without your knowledge. Yes Gmail in tiny letters in the footer says if your logged in at two locations but once again this is in regards to non technical users like your parents.
Indeed. Military applications that require the type of precision in orientation measurements and derivatives that are being discussed here use high-rate precision Inertial Navigation Systems. INS measurements are made in a coordinate system fixed to the platform. All geometry calculations happen in this coordinate system. GPS and other sensors are used to translate positions in the platform coordinate system back to a "real world" system like lat-lon or ECEF.

This is actually a problem I have been thinking about a fair bit for the Rift. I'm not sure what the best way is to solve it in this package size. I'm thinking a first pass will need some sort of off-board reference.
I've had the chance to try an oculus dev kit at work and it is VERY impressive. It's so immersive that the only problem I can see with it are with people who suffer from motion sickness. I can also see pixels if I pay attention but that should be fixed in the 1080p version.

If you don't want to do any dev on it, I recommend you wait until there is a killer app that comes out to get one (so far there's half life 2, portal, etc.). By that time, the 1080p version will probably be out.

I plan to do some dev so I will be ordering one for personal use soon. It's some really awesome tech.
Do you mean the redistributable Marvell wifi firmware? That permission came through pretty quickly, unrelated to Theo deRaadt's weird flame. It just took time, but still happened before production of the laptop started. As I recall, there was never any disagreement between Marvell and OLPC about whether it ought to happen.

(I was working at OLPC at the time.)
>GPS isn't anywhere near accurate enough for that

For what? I remind you that we're talking about a Wikipedia filter. Wikipedia entries are so coarse grained with respect to position that you don't even need GPS-level accuracy. (Not to mention it can correct itself with the help of the built-in maps, e.g assume you walk in the sidewalk and not 4 meters across inside the buildings etc).

"That place is the Brooklyn Bridge, that thing down the road is the Katz delicatessen, further down is CBGB, stuff like that".

Where's the need for "more than a few meters accuracy"? If it can show me info of the nearby stuff (5-10-20 meters away) on my Glasses, it's perfectly good.

It doesn't have to super-impose it when I look at the specific building (that would be stupid anyway, cause it would necessitate me to keep looking straight at the building to see the info).
I'm a big fan of bacon.js. Is there any way you can abstract over values over time, or asynchronously? This was always my big problem with knockout.
He already won the first case, so it already worked to some degree.
Thats a nice example showing that mnemonics need not be logical to have value (if you asked people to order the numbers on a clock face, I think the vast majority would have them as 3, 6, 9, 12)
Tell me when...

* my website is down for >n minutes
* my car needs (an oil change, new tires, etc.)
* my credit card balance is within $x of $n
* Justin Verlander is starting, 12 hours in advance
* my softball game is rained out (and notify my entire team)
* we've only got enough coffee grounds left for 2 pots
* my (bus, train, flight) is running >5min late
With big data and more (albeit gradual) open sourcing of academic papers, won't this become more common?
First off you have to understand that contracts are just information and don't apply to you. The state has created a legal 'person' with your birth certificate, but as long as you avoid creating joinder you are not bound to this admiralty law and are free from the sea of commerce.
Well the government itself issues money that's worth something simply because they think it is, so considering bitcoin as "money" is at least not inconsistent with what the government is already doing in this sphere. :)
Read the decision. The defendant in the case tried to argue "Bitcoin isn't money, so Bitcoin investments aren't securities". The judge ruled "it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck" and said that the prosecution under securities law can go forward.

It's also not saying Bitcoin is official legal tender, just that for purposes of investment and securities law, it's a form of "money" and fraud involving Bitcoin investments can be prosecuted under existing securities law.
Sorry, that's dumb. If it's really a question of "pragmatism", then in a practical sense there is no distinction between this device and, say, the HTC One which uses the same GPU and is subject to the same restrictions.

Yet I can go to www.cyanogenmod.com and pull and build a tree for the One and boot it, with access to the source code for virtually all of the system (sans things like the GPU blob in question).

That you would argue this is no more open than iOS or Windows is weird, and sounds more like a stand on vain principle and not "pragmatism".

Is it bad? Yes. Is it equally bad? Hell no.
I think you've misconstrued my point as I'm generally in agreement with you.
I think blue is considered an appetite suppressant isn't it?
I am praying for the emergence of a graphics vendor who can design decent hardware and have a liberal open source policy.
Yeah jpeg decoding is a big one, but I think it's less to do with raw performance and more to do with the fact that there aren't any hooks to help you control the user experience around it (i.e. there is no way to determine if you're done decoding unless you write the decoder yourself and draw to canvas, which increases your latency by a lot).

IIRC I think dropped frames from jpeg decoding is less of an issue in today's webkit, but I'm not sure. I seem to remember there being workarounds like adding a no-op CSS animation or iframe to coax the browser to do it off of the UI thread.

That's a nice demo you have there, btw, I'll have to check it out more.
They are not claiming regulating authority over a currency. They are not saying it can't be exchanged or that they control its production. They are saying you can't say "It's Bitcoin, so I didn't cheat anyone out of anything."

You can't defraud someone in any currency in the US. Or launder money or perform illegal activities. I can't mug a tourist and take the money out of their wallet and then claim that because I didn't steal any US currency I'm not a thief.
Much appreciated :-)
> They don't understand that marriage is in the United States. That conceptualization of "togetherness" as a couple doesn't exist in their minds.

Can you explain what these sentences mean in clearer language?

If you're saying what I think you're saying, then I think you may have it precisely backwards. Those individuals are the only credible experts on the particularities of their relationship, which has little, if anything, to do with the United States; from their perspective, it's the current legal status quo that lacks validity. (nb: there aren't actually "United States marriage laws" - the recent attempt to assert federal influence over the legal definition of marriage was ruled unconstitutional.)

Politics is about "ought", not "is", and understanding the nuances of established policy isn't a necessary precondition for proposing replacing it with some other policy.
As a society we work together because as a group we're stronger then individually. Its true for animals, and its true for us

I completely agree. What I need to be able to enjoy food more is not better food, but that nearly 1 billion people aren't undernourished [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation ]. However, I don't see that sentiment shared a lot. The world in large part seems to operate in slightly different principles.

When the industrial revolution happened, a debate kind of started.

Very extreme exploitation started, and many people had to struggle and even risk their lives to change that from utter callousness to calculated and physically healthier exploitation. Now, corporate profits keep soaring, but they are accumulate in fewer and fewer hands, and today 40% of US workers earn less than 1968 minimum wage [ http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-05/40-us-workers-now-e... ].

If capitalism became more humane because people applied pressure, why would it become even more humane when there is nobody left to apply any kind of pressure? Why is basic income a more likely outcome than, say, mass sterilization? Make me believe, I really want to. I could use some optimism but I'm all out.
Why would blue be good ?

Instinctively, we're not really attracted to blue food because no natural food is blue.

There is a few counter examples like the blue Gatorade, but it's 100% liquid, I can't think of any soup-texture food that is blue.
>If I could just find someone who made a Hacker News digest, with the 10 best items from Hacker News, that would be a really good Slashdot.

Ahem: http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

Only problem is the lag in receiving it, if you care a great deal about participating in the comments.
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Not sure why there are complaints about it only working when the phone is online, since you can generate a backup code offline and use that. Your phone does not need internet access once you have set it up.
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> The US government claiming power over the currency its banking corporation issues is one thing. I don't know why people just accept, without question, the claim that the government has regulating authority over a currency that it doesn't issue.

This case isn't about regulating authority over currency. Its about whether the fact that an investment was sold for bitcoins isntead of a fiat currency takes that investment out of the scope of the definition of "securities" subject to various provisions of the Exchange Act relating to securities fraud.
Is anyone here intentionally trying to solve problem that is not worth solving?

You might just be surprised by that... I find this happens a lot in business, where they will do custom ground up development something that could be an extension to their existing ERP solution, or other off the shelf solutions already do better.
> None the less, there WILL be a growing population of people who we've taken away their capability to work for a living. So when we offer a basic income, its not us graciously giving them a gift of our hard work. Its giving them the lives they are owed because of the decisions we have collectively made a hundred years ago.

I'm personally strongly in favour of basic income, but the two biggest arguments people give me are "How will we pay for it" and "why should we give money to people too lazy to work". Your final comment is how I defuse those, though I word it slightly differently.

I say something along the following: "Computers and machines have obsoleted old jobs, and we as a society haven't found new ones for all these people yet. So, I don't know how much you know about history, but when you take a bunch of people, take away their money, and let them be bored all day... bad things happen. Don't think of it as a gift. Think of it as a tax that prevents revolution."

I may have a little bit of a penchant for melodrama
$5000/mo won't pay salary for one mid-grade programmer in flyover country. The important thing isn't the current value, it's the rate of growth (and the increase in the rate of growth).
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I talked about the Commerce clause, and Coinage, not currency, as IIRC the Constitution didn't speak to paper money per se.
Mehta, in a call with TechCrunch, stated that simply tacking on new cities to his company’s service doesn’t, in a sense, prove much; that’s just hiring.

I think the whole idea behind geographic expansion is that it proves more people are willing to pay for service X or Y than just those living in the Bay Area, who are perhaps the most amenable cross-section of the country for a service like this.

(Not advocating expansion for expansion's sake -- I think Instacart is making a wise choice -- but saying "It's just hiring" is disingenuous.)
Intel provides FOSS graphics drivers [1]. I'm not sure though whether they do mobile graphics cards with free software drivers, too.

[1] https://01.org/linuxgraphics/
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Thank you for having "developer at artsy.net" in your bio as I would have found this continued questioning odd otherwise.

The gallery cancelled the order claiming both pieces are out of stock. A direct email to the gallery said the pieces were in stock. Typically gallery scam nonsense.

And literally while I was typing this, Amazon called me, totally unprompted.

So there's your verdict. Art galleries still suck, Amazon is still awesome, and it's still virtually impossible to make a significant purchase on the internet in 2013.
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Blueberries.
Would you be willing to collaborate a SES mailer wrapper for this similar project? https://github.com/lucuma/MailShake
Napkin math is saying that you'd only have to purchase thirteen orders a year (13 * 7.99 = roughly 104) at above $35 each to recoup your investment. Even for someone living alone, that's very easy to do.
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Hi, I work for a Fortune 10 company and my Emerging Technology team is going down to Austin in October to host an internal "Startup Day" event. In short, we find interesting tech startups with new products or services that we think our company could use and then we give them each 10 minutes in front of a global IT audience to make their pitch. After they pitch, we then host a lunch where they can make contacts with IT leaders and execs.

Because we're hosting this one Austin, I really want to focus on Austin-area startups, but we could use some help getting some leads.

Sorry, I'm not sure I'm allowed to reveal the name of my company in this forum, but if you're clever you'll figure it out anyway. Either way, if you have or know of an Austin area startup with a product that a large global corporation may be interested in, please contact me.

I've been a member of HN for a while under an alias, but I'm being myself for this post. I hope this doesn't break any rules for solicitation -- I'm not selling anything! I just thought the HN community would be a good way to reach some startups that could benefit from this free event.

Thanks!
> Had those currencies become significant and used in interstate commerce

They were. The government's reaction to the popularity of the Bechtler coins was to open two mints in North Carolina, not to "regulate" Bechtler's coins.
Politics is about "ought", not "is", and policy is entirely about the interaction of people with divergent interests. Your point of view make it seem like there's some objective context for politics in the first place, but there isn't: the entire context in which politics takes place, the substance that defines it, and the objects it pursues are created by people and their interests. Having an interest is having an opinion.