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This, again, doesn't really mean anything. Nvidia did the 2D only nv driver for the same reasons - to make their GPUs usable out of the box on Linux. Now instead they are doing documenation that someday will help do the same but using nouveau driver and the community's efforts.

The key areas where the documentation will be needed and have impact - power management and clocking, 3D stuff etc. - Nvidia isn't promising anything on that. If they hired a bunch of OSS developers and promised to release all docs eventually like AMD that would be news.

So no Nvidia - I am still not buying anything you sell.
I read that same quote and come up with the exact opposite of your conclusion. Note "especially in combination", which doesn't make any sense if the author thinks those two things always go together.
This article is pure hn catnip and I doubt much meaningful discussion will emerge here at all.

That being said: The author is setting up a straw man (with an opening analogy to the Nazis to boot!). Nobody thinks Chelsea Manning would have been wrong to continue to fight against or expose a variety of military abuses. Or for Snowden to write his Congressman about NSA abuses. Or for Swartz to campaign for changes to government funded research publication.

People like David Brooks are not succumbing to the banality of evil when calling out Snowden or Manning for behaving recklessly. They're arguing that the flaws in our system are not so pernicious as to justify, say, Manning's indiscriminate data dump or Snowden's theft.
What good is a "Transparency Report" if it included that number? How would that change anything for those who care about the privacy of their data held in Dropbox?
hardly fucking surprising.

I don't get why so many seemingly intelligent people think Google/Facebook/LinkedIn/etc's whole approach of "get a heap of users, then mine the shit out of their personal data for profit" is OK.
I haven't been to any conferences, but I am employed to write for Windows and Mac OSX. Happily, on a Mac with a Windows VM. In the UK too!

But I think you are correct that the majority of development work is in the MS world for business. At least that is the case if you look for work - everything is .NET
There is nothing wrong with making money. Like I said, this is fine and everybody can understand it. Why should I apologise?

I am simply arguing the MBA programs teach a certain mindset. Just like being a doctor, an engineer or an arts person are different mindsets. The difference is the guy with the MBA brings value by identifying and taking every opportunity to make money, while an engineer's focus is to build things. An MBA is typically held accountable for missing opportunities like that. And I would be really happy to read what's your take on how an MBA brings value.
I don't know. I think it's important to know about:

"Today we filed a legal brief asking the court to confirm that we have the right to report the number of national security requests we receive, if any. You can check out our brief here: Dropbox FISC Brief. We'll keep you updated about any developments."

Maybe you don't find that information important, but I do.

huhtenberg's point is simply that he doesn't agree with the classification of the page. That is contains too much information, and cannot include other information.
Spanish here (living outside).

I've work for the government and their lawyers, in companies based on pirated software (from MS, from Adobe, etc).

Can we please start fighting piracy there ?

Then we should follow fighting piracy in the power positions.

We have a lot of that, and trust me, even on public evidence of the crime, they don't go a single year to jail.

Maybe when all that is clean, we should think on how we can waste our jails better...
Really? Cause it looks to me like USA is doing exactly whatever the fuck it wants.

In the end a lot of this is done behind the scenes, EU spirit may be OK, but the signing is done by people and people can be threatened, bribed etc.
That's a bit simplified. More details about this story can be found in the very entertaining book "Masters of Doom" (about John Carmack and John Romero).
I don't see why nVidia can't release a semi open-source driver. For previous generations they can open up everything while the latest generation would come with an pre-compiled blob that can be disabled with a simple compile flag for the purists.

This will allow them to play nice with the kernel, support previous products while taking bug reports and patches, and help game engine designers target 90% of nVidia's user base without signing an NDA.
I should have said "acceptable risk" not "no risk".
> becomes irreplaceable and can not get promoted.

if a company does this, the employee should threaten to quit. Either they end up really quitting (good riddance - its probably a bad place!), or they realize your value, and pay you extra. No need for "promotion" (to another role/job).

I don't get why pay grade is tied to promotion.
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The most humorous thing I've seen about iMessage is how it's automatically opt in, with no opt-out should you lose your device or switch to a new (Android) phone.

Our head of IT switched from iPhone and got a new Android phone. Suddenly he found that none of this Apple-using friends were messaging him anymore.

Actually they were, but Apple re-routed their SMSes through iMessage to a dead Apple-account. Without telling anyone about it.

Until he discovered what happened (due to a very angry and ignored-feeling Apple-using wife), he just assumed SMS was broken on Android.

iMessage really shows Apple at its core: So utterly self-centered that it's unable to comprehend that it even needs a interoperability story with the rest of the world.
> fully operational by 2065

That's with a late-2020s start, presumably to avoid having to make any decisions within anyone's political lifetime.

I view Hyperloop as an extremely optimistic, naive and totally unproven idea. Wake me when someone actually implements it. Preferably Mr Musk - if the idea's such a winner he should have no trouble at all raising the necessary capital.

Meanwhile, Japan has been building its shinkansen network for 40 years this year, a long term project the likes of which we can not even conceive of in western politics, to our very great loss.
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Yes, this is bad, as everybody has a right to a fair trial.

However, I think it is _far_ worse that it is EVER, in any way, shape or form, deemed acceptable that innocent bystanders get killed in order to get rid of a single individual, no matter how horrible their acts may have been.

It is frankly appalling that people get all upset about the fact that the target in question was a US citizen, and blatantly ignore the addition that "at least five other civilians" were killed in the same attack.
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tbh, qualitative research like this has no predictive power. It's just a (few) case studies. The variables that are in these case studies cannot be controlled for, nor tested and/or predicted. All it gives is some example anecdotes. Unfortunately, a lot of social science research end up like this, because of the complexity of the problem. Thus, i wouldn't cite peopleware as research, but as anecdotal examples, or case studies.
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It is pretty disingenuous of you to claim that you can't get support, patches or bug fixes for any Linux distro from 2007. You can easily get those things. Just not for free. Just pay from the money you saved by not buying Windows Vista, and attribute some of this to the cost of not upgrading your operating system for six years.
> We have the internet

About that... say some of us did set up a usable and scalable direct democracy mechanism on the Internet. Say we get the massive user-base this deserves for some currently existing nation. Imagine for some random piece of psuedolegislation, we got some law passed in said system such that it succeeds with an unprecedented turnout and majority lead. At what point does that stop being just a petition but the actual law.
A near impossible feat, but when military turnout reaches a certain percentage, I think at some point we have something going.

More realistically, why not create the software and infrastructure and start pitching this to some cities, counties, maybe even states/provinces to start doing this? It could at least be informative and entertaining.

More practicalaly, the biggest issue I see is in the security of it. How could identity be handled? Integrity? etc, etc. #trust

I say, let's get started anyway. We'll probably want to have some failure under our belt anyway by the time there's a real demand (assuming I'm psychic ;)

I think my point is, it's up to us. We are the people.
I completely forgot about WinG. I think I remember a test it ran when installing to find the fastest way to blit bitmaps. A tiled curvy red line that would flip tile directions back and forth.
Also, it looks like they're trying their best:

[Update - 9/23/2013] – Today we filed a legal brief asking the court to confirm that we have the right to report the number of national security requests we receive, if any. You can check out our brief here: Dropbox FISC Brief. We'll keep you updated about any developments.
OR.... he's biased into thinking RIM can "pull through" because of his existing close relationship with the company.
You're mistaken. Most of these companies are raising >500K, this is not seed money. Seed is typically less than 100K. There are at least 10 companies that come from YC, which means they already got their seed round. You can't do seed twice by definition.
Check out the base directory:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/open-gpu-doc/DCB/1/

That Thumbs.db pretty much says it all :)
I wasn't speaking to that, it is of your interest as a parent to 'invest' into your child, be it time, knowledge etc... (honestly I never come here to read the articles, I touch the headline and gauge the article by its comments, so I 'maybe' offbase when declaring what I think.)

Regardless, you know as well as me - once you walk down that path no one knows it better then yourself.
I'm gonna need a lot more convincing than "Thing A happens every 11 years, B also happens every 11 years, so they must be connected, by err... quantu... ummm electro.... nah, hmmm... ah! Dark matter"
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This is an excellent book. It's not just about Carmack and Romero (although it focuses on them) but also about id Software as a company, from its inception through to a few months before Quake III came out, if I remember correctly. A very insightful read.
The submitted article includes one section that begins, "Ever heard of the data-to-ink ratio? If so, skip this." But please don't skip that. That is an excellent visual illustration of how to remove "chartjunk" (Tufte's term) from a data graphic, vividly showing how much a chart can be improved by being simplified.

Cute captioned photos are a dime a dozen, especially since websites for producing them for free popped up to feed some people's Facebook walls. Don't bother. Use a diagram when it really illustrates something, and write clearly the rest of the time. One of the strengths of the discussion on Hacker News is paragraphs of actual thoughtful text.
It might be a failure of the teacher - some concepts are difficult to grasp for some people due to the way their brains think. Some people think in different shapes, different methods. If the method your brain happens to like is the one that is being taught, then you might do reasonably well, by pure chance. If your brain's method didn't fit with the method being taught, you might not learn so well, and thus struggle.

This is evident even with something as simple as counting numbers - see this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=UMk... , and that's just the concept of counting.
You shouldn't have to train your staff not to burn down the building they are working in...
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> a) it's a proposal

In English: The US has expressed its threats again.
Is the website down? I got nothing.
Ahem, there are no less than three examples in the wikipedia page you're trying to cite that back me up:

and cases where the circumstances were held to show no larceny:
R. v. Wood (1848) 3 Cox C. C. 277 (banknote found on open land)
R. v. Dixon (1855) 7 Cox C. C. 35, 25 L. J. M. C. 39 (lost note without mark)
R. v. Shea (1856) 7 Cox C. C. 147; R. v. Christopher (1858) Bell C. C. 27, 169 E. R. 1153 (unmarked notes and purse found in public place)

I used a $50 bill (which is implied to be unmarked) purposefully.
I hate to be the one to bring this up, but the contrast between your body font color (and even heading font) and background is downright horrible. It could also be how the font is being rendered, it looks thin and broken up.

For example the "t's" and "r's" and "l's" in the following sidebar text are almost invisible: "The data that makes your business tick is never more convincing than when it's put in context inside a story"
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Last I checked, none of those were America.
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You have to be very careful here about the argument that you're making.

If you're effectively saying that any individual has free reign to do whatever they desire with trade secrets, sensitive diplomatic information, and whatnot because of a moral injury they may feel the system is giving them, then you've effectively destroyed any form of organized human activity that involves trust or secrets.

Here's why: people get morally offended at all kinds of bullshit. It's totally dependent on the individual as to what pushes their buttons.

So yes, good people in bad systems do really bad things. Lots of Nazis were working boring jobs as part of the system that exterminated millions of people. But as a society we generally do not hold these people accountable for such actions. After WWII most of those folks kept right on working boring jobs, this time rebuilding the country instead of operating concentration camps.

Whether or not those people are supposed to feel guilt or revulsion at their own actions is a moral question -- a question between each of them and their own standard of what the universe expects of them. Confusing personal decisions with public ones is a good way to muddle your thinking.
It looks terrible (like your picture) to me.
I'm on Gentoo Linux using Firefox 22.0.
No, because even if that were true you need to look at motivations and intent.
If you actually cared about your data being taken care of in this instance you should probably be running an IDS-esque or similar to notice and stop that form f attack in a blanket fashion (these certainly exist for SQLi attacks, names escape me in this moment).

When using a proprietary, paid for web service or app you can blame the service provider.

When hosting OSS code on your own server, exactly this is what the NO WARRANTY section in the license is about, thus making it fully your responsibility to go over the code or to accept that bugs and security vulnerabilities happen.

Edit:

To all those talking about the skill level of the individual - if you are using a proprietary service, you can easily point the finger at the service provider. In the case of OSS code, the license is there to remind you that you are taking responsibility for being competent enough to use the code yourself.

If your house was broken into because the lock was shoddily installed by a locksmith, you might have some legal recourse (though, IIRC, you may be required to validate & disclaim the install) but if you were to install the lock yourself, you have nobody to blame.
There could be two explanations - one is that the engineer who "foresaw" the future requirement just got lucky. The other possible explanation is that they really had a black art in deciding what's needed, and what's not. And black art takes time, and experience, as well as some level of intuition (some might say its heuristic - but heuristic is just shortcuts for lots of gathered experience).
You're falling for the assumption they want you to make.

They've phrased their document to suggest they have 1-1000 requests without actually saying it. For all we know they could have served thousands of requests last year but are using this as an excuse not to show that.
I'm fine with them releasing the source after the chip is out (why would I need the driver before the chip is out?!) - just not 3 years later, like they're basically doing with Tegra 2 drivers now.
After the "Linus flipping off Nvidia" thing, one of the Nvidia people asked what they could do better on a linux mailing list. Matthew Garrett responded, "Move your 3D driver to userspace and use nouveau for command submission." [1] I thought that would be a marked improvement over the status quo; keeping the proprietary stuff out of kernel-space would make things so much easier.

I hadn't seen any possibly-relevant follow-ups until now though. Here's hoping!

[1] http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-2012-dis...
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That is a nice idea, however Oculus is not consumer ready yet.
Rank voting didn't help in Australia where the media is compromised.
Yet another example of when full, public, and anonymous disclosure should be employed.
is Torvalds earning 900k/year? i dont know, but i have doubts that he is.

But using salary is a wrong metric, because a 100x programmer would be founding their own company, and the value they gain is sometimes worth way more than 100x the average salary had they remained a salaried employee.
On the surface, this has technical reasons, but actually it is more about control of the platform. They are especially killing all plugins that allow fully featured, networked applications - Java, Flash, Silverlight/.NET.

This is similar to what Apple did with iOS - they couldn't outright ban the internet, but they made it impossible to circumvent the app store. You can't write a HTML game that uses graphics as advanced as a native app, and you can't write a web app that accesses arbitrary (non-cooperating) network resources. You have to go through the app store, Apple get's their 30% share. You can't write guerrilla apps that aggregate data from non-cooperating sites, or that do e.g. P2P file sharing - if what you're doing is illegal (or not wanted by Apple) in US jurisdiction, they have you're address, and you're in trouble. You can't even write a runtime or a tweaked browser to circumvent all this, as they explicitly forbid it.

The reasons why Google is pushing a similar strategy are a bit hazy. But it's clear that rich clients are a threat to Google's business model. Google profits most if everything happens in the web.

This is part of a larger war on general-purpose computing. Just look at the Metro apps in Windows 8/RT, the fact that OS X by default now only runs signed applications, or ChromeOS.
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Certainly if a person is not willing to have his assumptions challenged, then the "hang out" test will tend to attract and replicate more of the same. But it's still an important question for reducing conflict and confusion in hard-working teams who will be spending a lot of time together.

The "hang out" test (or "Sunday test" or "airport test") has its imperfections, certainly. I'm wondering, what would be a better assessment of cultural fit?
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Can startups stop thinking that giving me some meager equity of a company that would be lucky to have a 10 million exit is worth paying me some -XYZ% of my market value? Especially when there's so many companies fishing in the limited talent sea?

It might also be a Boston thing, but I've seen some companies in the startup scene here trying to offer like 60K for senior-level Python developers and such....
Here is a link to the blog post with announcement explaining why it was created: http://blog.makerland.org/post/62144777669/makernews
Holy shit really? Yeah it's followgen...I've e-mailed the owner and revoked his access to our twitter account.
I believe the article mentions that the iPhone is a relatively poor surface to obtain fingerprints from because there's an extremely high chance they would already be smudged.
>Nobody thinks Chelsea Manning would have been wrong to continue to fight against or expose a variety of military abuses. Or for Snowden to write his Congressman about NSA abuses.

I'm pretty sure that there's plenty of people inside the system who think that they would have been wrong to do that.

But more importantly, does anyone honestly believe that they would have actually achieved anything by doing this? They've both gone as public as they can with the revalations, but I don't see either the military or congress actively trying to address the issues that these leaks have highlighted. Do you have any reason to believe they would have taken them more seriously if the information had been raised to them secretly?
With Adblock it didn't even load the CSSs. And I might say, reading it in the default font over a white page improved the readability a lot.
Maybe they should apply their own recomendations and reduce "CSS junk" on their site. ;)
Zed Shaw should be on the entrepreneur list.
anyone can buy a suit.

not anyone can complete a 4 year degree from MIT; employers know this, and use it as a signal to show intelligence.
On the ageism question, 18 is the general age where we welcome people into American society as adults -- not just voting but also army service and criminal liability. I'm not opposed to moving the voting age earlier but it should be in conjunction with those other responsibilities.

You're kind of begging the question on the other two -- you've assumed your hypotheses, making it hard to disentangle. For example, you're assuming Americans haven't confronted the fact that war kills lots of people -- I don't know that's clearly the case. You're right on the cliff of using the word "sheeple."

One thing I will question -- are populist governments (which you seem to desire) really a solution to the issues of authoritarianism and repression? A movement that seems to have contempt for as many people as the populist movement does seems like it could easily degenerate into its own tyranny and purging.
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Was this your first introduction to NeoGAF or other gaming boards? It's pretty depressing isn't it?

It's the primary reason I stopped frequenting video game communities.. Which is a shame because I've been a gamer all my life, and I wish there was a vibrant (and large) community for intelligent discussion like Hacker News but that was game focused.. I'm sure there is somewhere, but I haven't found it..