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Once again, thanks so much for that. Genuinely great work and we're so glad to have it.
I think "speed" here is "flops", not "hertz".
The issue with css is it conflates two very separate concerns - one of styling, and one of layout. Sure, both are presentation related, but they are differently related.

CSS used to work well for styling, and is terrible for layout. I hope flexbox is the silver bullet - it seems to be tho, so my fingers are crossed.
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> Resistor hack turns a Nvidia GTX690 into a Quadro K5000 or Tesla K10

No it doesn't. This was discussed earlier in the thread you link to. This hack triggers a bug in the display driver, which allows you to work around a silly limitation in the Linux driver.

You can do the same with a software hack in the kernel that spoofs the PCI vendor:device identifiers. And the driver bug is probably fixed so it won't work any more. Hopefully the silly monitor count limitation (not present on Windows drivers with same GPU) is lifted as well so this hack isn't needed any more.

This resistor hack does not change the GPU clocks or enable units that have been fused off. It does not turn a gaming gpu into a pro gpu.
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i think opening in a new tab for an external link is completely reasonable (i don't care about GA tracking, but if that was one of the reasons, its also a reasonable reason).

Unless your computer is too slow to handle many tabs, having more tabs is almost always better!
A quarter of a billion dollars spent to shave 6 milliseconds off the transit time.

Price of front running.
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It is? Personally, I'll take the more expensive airline ticket if it means my airline's safety standards aren't weighed against profit margins.

Unfortunately "The Market" optimizes for profit, which is almost never in my (and the consumers') best interest.
Has Windows improved it's audio latency yet? It's been a while since I did any audio programming for windows, but when I did, the 3rd party ASIO driver system was required to get acceptable latencies. That's not going to work on RT.
In fact, that is exactly what happens in most startups due to the lack of experience on the part of the founders.

Mature companies have already made those mistakes. Startups in the early growth phase are often some of the worst places to work until they figure out how to operate at scale.

You would be surprised how many young companies fall straight into old school corporate habits as soon as they grow past 20 employees.
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I'm sorry, but are they calling MS innovative for reinventing the peripheral? Only this time for tablets!
Flagged for...well, come on.

(as it were)
This is how life insurance companies operate on a daily basis. OP had a pretty shitty deal but he should count his lucky stars that he didn't have to interact with actuaries, who would have multiplied the same problems ten-fold.
What is the biggest difference between a gaming gpu and a professional gpu? Warranty and support. This also accounts for a big slice of the price difference.

There are also other differences such as error correcting memory in pro gpus, different clocks, etc. Some units that are not essential for gaming performance have been fused off in gaming gpus so that the chips can run faster and hotter.

It's funny how you never hear anyone complain about the fact that Intel's i3, i5 and i7 models are almost the same chip but there's a huge price (and perf) difference. Intel's latest product line has 22 chips of the same design, and they definitely don't have 22 semiconductor production lines.

> I wasn't aware that there was a difference at all. Haven't there been cases of changing a single resistor to switch the card's mode?

This was debunked in an earlier HN discussion, all the resistor hack does is spoof the PCI vendor:device identifier. The fused off parts won't come back up. It won't turn a gaming gpu into a pro gpu, it only triggers a bug in the driver that allows multiple displays (what a silly limitation).
I think you're on to something there with regards to the performance. Schneier was making some noise towards the end of the competition that none of the entries really improved on speed. ( https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/09/sha-3_will_be... ) Contrary to to article, hashing is used a lot, and there are a few areas where performance will be an issue for sometime (mobile space, and high-density virtualized environments) It may be that the key space was indeed deemed excessive, and of little added benefit compared to the rewards gained in greater speed.

As another mentioned further down, no one is simply going around busting up 256bit keys, and when it finally happens, it will be with a computational paradigm that will require a defense built to an entirely different set of requirements: out of the scope of this competition.
>If you're selling a product (game, book, series, otherwise) and feel it can stand on its own merits then offer a fair price for the complete item with no strings and I'll most likely purchase it.

Yes. But please don't make it as an in-app-purchase. Why? Well, I maybe want to set up a new phone as brand new without going through a backup. And then, I would like to get the entire app I bought back on my phone. And I would be out of luck if by chance that app is no longer offered in the app store. I might still have the app on my computer that I can sync with my phone. But in order for the in app purchase to work, I am pretty sure the app would still need to be in the app store as well.

So, give me all the content directly in the app so I am in control of everything. IAP purchases are still a red flag for me. Even if it comes as an "unlock all" button. I may put too much emphasis on this, but I really don't want to be in a situation where I payed good money for IAPs only to find that some years don the line, I am unable to reclaim them because either the app doesn't exist anymore or the developer left he app store altogether.
How much of a "market" was there in XCMDs? As in, were they commonly exchanged or reused in any sort of open-source way, or were they written in-house? I know we're talking about Myst specifically, but I wonder if there's any community parallel to what we see with libraries & APIs now.

Although I'm just flipping over rocks looking for similarities, it's a blast to see when and how certain structures have been tried-out.

Holy Smokes.. the more I read about Hypercard, the more I realize that Myst was quite a huge hack!

The XCMD part is clutch. I'm curious what that community looked like, and how that code was exchanged. Beyond disks, did anyone ever host anything that looked like a repo on the early Net?
Ehh is this really the sort of thing Hacker News is coming to? Like we know there is a way of committing at certain times to form images (There's a script for it) and this just makes a penis like its not really innovative or interesting.
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I am working on quite a tedious project right now. It involves 10 years old, quite extensive, Visual Basic 6 programs. No source control was used. In our company it is practice to hire interns for 3-month periods to work on production software. A mix of programming styles can be found in this project. Some functions return 0 when they fail. Others return 1. Or -1. Or False. Or "False". I love it!
I have the same process... but stop at Netflix; all the other (legal) solutions are either too complex or too expensive (not to mention, I'm not in the US, so subscribing to US-based Amazon Prime would be of little value).
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Anything I need to pay attention to when migrate my code from iOS6 to iOS7?
> But I thought pro chips actually tended to be clocked a bit lower than gaming chips. There's no 'ignoring QC' there if you trick the board, quite the opposite.

Yes, the pro gpus have different clocks, ECC memory and there may be other differences in the board as well.
I'm not a front-end guy, hell, I'm barely even a developer these days. This could be the best thing for CSS ever and I wouldn't be able to recognize it, so I'm not dissing the authors.

But I have to ask: isn't any "solution" that requires IE 11+ practically useless to the point of being fictional for at least the next decade?
What about the flip side - did Elop stand to gain more or less if Nokia had succeeded during his tenure?
I noticed this with Evernote.

I am still on my iPhone4 with iOS6 and now, everytime I try and sync my phone with iTunes I get the pop up notice that Evernote will not be synced as it requires a new OS version.

I have 100 apps on my phone and that one is the only one that does this. Why on earth did the developers require iOS7 as minimum? What is wrong with supporting iOS6 seeing as iOS7 is still in its "1.0" and not even 4 weeks old?

I get that they wanted to include iOS7 as early as possible. Hell, every app basically did. But Evernote is the only one of my apps that now apparently refuses to work with anything <iOS7.

I guess I was lucky that I still had it on my phone cause otherwise, I would be left without the ability to install it now.
> there will always be the possibility [...] unless you mathematically prove

When people say "X is possible", they mean "X has a non-negligible chance of happening in practice", and is therefore worth worrying about.

They do NOT mean "Prob(X) > 0". You're already on the wrong track if you're talking about mathematical proofs of "possibility" in engineering.
To be fair few IDEs support advanced functionality (like refactoring) with C++, due to the monstrosity that it is and the amount of UB.

Visual Studio + ReSharper is awesome for C#, IntelliJ is awesome for Java. For C++ you're pretty much screwed.
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"Dogfighting" has subtly changed its meaning along the years. What it's always meant, however is situational awareness of the pilot enabling maneuver to tactically advantageous positions to prosecute successful attacks. I don't think that's ever going to go away, whether or not pilots are sitting in the cockpit or if the weapons are guns, missiles, or lasers and particle beams.
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Can you not do the same with the stop watch? Or is the idea that as soon as you touch is starts, to reduce lag?

If so that is quite clever...
It's time to take into account the dates on the Android app average rating
I'm confused about the mayday feature - is it free, and is it included on the $139 device? I can easily see my parents burning through $139 in tech support over a single weekend, just to get things setup. I can also see lonely people calling just to see someone and talk, and presenting fake issues that they need help with. Finally, I can see mayday leading to the sort of technological illiteracy that you see in a household when one person is responsible for all IT support - the other person winds up barely able to log into their own accounts because someone else always solves their problems for them.
Yeah, it's not too great due to relying on the JVM for rendering. I use Liberation Mono with it and it looks pretty good (even with anti-aliasing set to off). Everything else, not so much.

The top image[1] at the Slant programming font rank list[2] was a screenshot I took of Liberation Mono when using Intellij on Windows, just to give an example. I miss having bitmap fonts (which Eclipse does allow), but Liberation looks close enough to my favorite bitmap font (Dina), that I don't mind anymore.

[1] http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3066/pythono.jpg (anti-aliasing was set to off when that was taken; italics suffer, but it's tolerable to me)

[2] http://www.slant.co/topics/67/viewpoints/26/~what-are-the-be...
It's a concentrator cell, so it's designed to be used with reflectors or lenses to increase the sunlight capture area.

A rough rule of thumb is that you get 1kW/m^2 of raw sunlight, so to get reasonable powers (in the MW+ range) out of a solar installation without needing an enormous solar cell budget, you need cheap concentrators of some sort.
If you want a free clone then Inconsolata is pretty good (and open source, hence improvable): http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
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You're right but I doubt that this is targeted at users who know what MIDI or OSC is.

If you're a professional there are a lot of better, established and thanks to Midi more configurable/hackable options available. However this might be popular among casual "musicians".
heh true, but what about if you were going to use a neural network to do some sort of pattern recognition? You dont know how its done, but the computer does! :D
Consider avoiding DreamHack as it's CEO is a left-wing nut who is using his money to further his own political agenda.

Dreamhack's CEO, Robert Ohlén, threatens to put the business at risk as he says he will move the company out of country if voters don't vote as he wishes. This political agenda is not in the best interest of the share holders.

Source: https://www.flashback.org/t2150982 (use google translate to read)
BioShock is so stylized that it's hard to compare to Riven's attempt at photorealism. But the big difference with prerendered, even 15 years old prerendered, is the lighting. You can't get this kind of light quality in a modern realtime 3d game:

http://myst-aventure.com/gallery2/d/6020-1/Maglev.jpg
I also find forcing a new window/tab annoying and it makes sense not to when you're targeting a technical audience. However, I've just as often heard complaints from less-technical users who don't reflexively cmd/ctrl-click on links and for whom opening new windows in tabs is a feature, so even though forcing a new window can be annoying it's often a decision made to improve UX.
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Kotlin is supported as well.
Look at the linked URL:

.../2409what-heck-going-nist%E2%80%99s-encryption-standard-sha-3
it just takes time :)

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Correct. Information cannot travel FTL or causality would be mutable.
lol, so what were those software engineers being paid for!?
Commenting to save this for myself (fellow consultant) -- thanks for the detailed list. :)
Where nowadays you might put a 2kW installation on your roof (using 14%-ish efficient cells as are currently available), you'd be able to fit a 7kW installation in the same space, start putting 2kW installations on houses with much smaller available roof area, or start using solar effectively in much more overcast areas.

2kW is a usable approximation for the total power usage of an "average" house.
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True, but you can still access files on the device even with a complex passcode using the SSH ramdisk tool.
Same here, for the same reason. One of the reasons I stopped paying for cable TV was the utter overabundance of ads. Hulu wants me to give them money so they can make me watch ads? Yeah, no. One more benefit the torrent sites have over the legit item, apparently.
i suppose there aren't very many software engineering fields (and most of them really are just computerized extensions of physical engineering).

That's why i call it software development, and i m a software developer.
It's actually not as bad as you think. IE updates are now being released as critical so they're being included in OS updates.

That means that most IE users will be upgrading to the latest IE of whatever OS they're using. So when Window XP is officially abandoned (scheduled for spring 2014), it won't be long until most IE users are on the latest version.
Same here. These thin-lined icons also slow me down.
Really? Maybe because some people still remember how things used to be in the good old days when people themselves were a little more caution about privacy on the internet.

Heck, even youtube was like that:
http://i.imgur.com/H0VCNde.jpg

And now you are supposed to use your real name. Yeah, that reduces the stupid comments. But it also reduces every other type of comment that isn't on the "This is nice" or "I like this video" kind of null comments.

Even if you are okay with just these types of comments, would you want your network to see that you commented like that on My little Pony videos? Or anything else that isn't illegal or shady but basically just embarrassing.

I myself would not want a google search for my name to produce my comment history I left on youtube videos. But that's just me.
It really surprises me how in the middle of Microsoft massive failures, you can still find a couple of good ideas here and there, proving that some fresh blood is still pumping inside that company.
I wonder what it feels like. Does it feel great like "i'm the one that keeps this company innovating", or bad like "damn, if only I were working at apple or google, i would be among other people like me, and management wouldn't destroy my ideas with their crappy execution" ?
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From what I've toyed around with, Twisted and Tornado with PyPy have comparable speeds to Node.JS, too.
> The alternative is to hijack the click event, wait for say 100ms, and then load the new page via JavaScript, but that also break the open in a new tab functionality.

How does it break the open in new tab functionality? You can detect if the user was Cmd/Ctrl-clicking, or using the middle mouse button. I've done this on many sites and it works fine.
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Imagine the pressure to reach a 4-5x IRR on that.

It would seem conspicous outlay could be competitive to signal a defensible business model where such outlay doesn't actually return itself but deters competition.
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I've always regarded these piracy statistics with great suspicion, regardless of the point the person pushing them is trying to make (even then, usually any comments made about piracy statistics are by media industry types banging on about how they're close to bankruptcy or similar).

I assume they're doing something like connecting to a random swarm and counting IPs, problem is that makes a number of faulty assumptions:

* 1 IP = 1 person
* Person on the swarm is necessarily there to download
* Person on the swarm is necessarily downloading something they don't have a license for
* Person on the swarm is necessarily consuming the media they're downloading (some people just like to collect)
* Public trackers are the only means of pirating via torrent
* Other mediums are completely ignored (IRC/Usenet/HTTP sites/EDonkey/DC++/etc etc etc etc)
TechEmpower run some really interesting benchmarks www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
JVM frameworks are indeed performing really well
That's a good point. I suppose I could try to detect if the click was accompanied by a CTRL/CMD keypress and open in a new tab accordingly.

Still, the 100ms delay isn't ideal, and the open in a new tab paradigm greatly simplifies things.
No. Will write my resignation letter tomorrow.
I agree and don't like to be forced to open external links in the same tab. I've actually written a tampermonkey script to override the default behavior of HN and SO for this reason.

But I hesitate to make this comment as this debate can approach the intensity of the "vim/emacs" debate in its religious fervor.
Swedish politics is by and large irrelevant here.

Robert Ohlén's political stance has little to do with this story.
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FTA: We don’t have a bad average rating (3.98 with almost 2.900 ratings), but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t reflect the quality of the last version we launched.

Really? The whole thesis of this article is that app ratings are broken because you have a 4 out of 5?
Seems like common sense to me? If I want to know if an application is any good, I look at the ratings and if it has a lot of good ratings, I look at the latest comments to make sure that the lower ratings are for older versions.

Surely it'd be a bit more convenient for Google to take versions of apps into account, and additionally devices, too, if they can (a lot of times an app will be okay for most devices, but users of a certain device, different from my own, might have troubles), but it's -- in my experience -- not too much of a hassle.
The iOS app store weights by version, I'm not sure which is preferable.
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That's what the Back button is for.

Less-technical users don't need to know how to cmd/ctrl-click on links because even less-technical users know how to use the Back button. If they don't want to use the Back button and instead want to open links in new tabs, there are multiple mechanisms available to them (whether they know about them or not).

The reverse is not true: if you don't want to open a link in a new tab, but that behavior is being forced on you, there is no way to avoid it.

Regardless of the motive, this behavior is not a UX improvement.
now you have two problems... (because the NN will probably fail at the most inopportune moment and you have no idea to fix either the NN or your actual project)
A VM that can be precisely described in 200 words?
Does that include the IO subsystem?
I have my doubts that it's possible to describe a full set of IO operations that any modern VM needs in so few words, just because of the wealth of features that you usually need (file system access, sockets (TCP and UDP), pipes, IPC, ...)
just glanced over it, because im terribly busy, check out gnome-do.
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Yes they can, but on those videos, you have to be aware of what you're commenting on.

Those free energy, perpetual motion, water powered car etc... etc... videos aren't scientific. They're religious in nature and when you challenge their beliefs, they will respond in kind as if you've questioned a miracle.

But really, I don't think it's a good idea to stop uploaders from pruning their own video comments. That could have other repercussions so, let them censor logic all they want.

The solution to these videos popping up is to make videos of your own explaining in detail why they can't work. Call them "The truth behind free energy" or the like. Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson are already famous and they will have an audience. If you cultivate your own, you can properly make a stance.

Fight fire with fire, as they say.
>Your business plan for the Google Books-alike is pretty much what Google did. They scanned in-copyright books as well as public domain ones and offered to become a storefront for them, if you recall (it didn't turn out so well, alas, I would far rather it had).

The publishers might have responded differently if the creator wasn't Google.

"Google" Books is an existential threat to them. Somebody "not google" books is less so.
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where are these figures from? seems incredible for installation to be substantially more than the panels in my rxperience. unless 'installation' is including the price of other fixed components (batteries and inverter).

Also 1/3 size does not mean 1/3 installation costs. lots of the underlying figures don't change (truck call out, overhead, installation of other elements, cost of permits, electrical wiring, etc).
i dont think the problem lies with the consultant tho - how could he have figured out the actual business problem, if no body bothered to tell him? He was hired to do a particular task, and that task was pre-determined by some "stakeholders" who dont actually know what they want.