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I'm unaware of the ability to drive a 4-monitor xorg desktop off of Intel graphics. The user in question here was attempting to do such a thing, which was supposed to be possible with the Nvidia cards. If his/her 'problem' was in purchasing Nvidia cards, then what would your recommendation be for creating such a setup be?
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"The fact that the ice core records do not seem full of methane spikes due to high-latitude sources makes it seem like the real world is not as sensitive as we were able to set the model up to be."

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/01/much-a...
OpenCL, CUDA
http://techland.time.com/2012/03/21/amazons-775-million-acqu...

Exactly what sort of robotics are you railing against? It seems to me that your arguments are essentially the old joke "We're wasting 50% of our money here; if only we knew which 50%". Or, "Things aren't useful, until they are".
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Who is "sandipt" and what is their connection to Nvidia? I don't see any flair or profile information (on the forum) to indicate that this is an actual staff member, or one with authority to comment on the motivations behind this change. I see no basis for all this speculation.
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If you are doing something that would make the NSA interested in you (and I would highly highly discourage that), you'd need to focus more on tradecraft. Get the laptop from a source that can't be traced to you, like a thrift store in a city where you don't live or normally frequent. Disguise yourself, pay in cash, and either make sure there are no security cameras or wait a good year before you do whatever you are going to do (nobody keeps camera data longer than that). When you do whatever you are doing, use a Live CD like tails. Disguise yourself. Wear gloves. Go to a city you don't live in or frequent regularly, and only use cash during the trip. Park a long distance from your wifi source where there are no cameras and walk to where you will access the wifi. Use a cantenna to hit an open wifi some distance away, preferably a public connection like a busy coffee shop. Do whatever you are going to do. Walk back to your car, drive to a nearby town, smash the laptop and dispose of in a dumpster. Drive home.
I'm curious, could you explain why this is impressive and why it may or may not be better than Q?
Except for the 5GB cap, it looks impressive. For me there is a much simpler alternative -> auto-backup to Google+ (available on iPhone/Android,iPad)

Pros: UNLIMITED, available on all devices, social sharing with circles and already fits many of our gmail workflow. No new app to learn and teach others. Not to mention, unlimited videos.

Cons: 2048px max size - but for capturing everyday photos how much larger do we need?

Loom Difference:
Looks like loom share a smaller local copy for instant offline access, Google+ can mimic this to a large extend due to caching (and with wifi ALL images are available)
It appears that the NSA has been able to target only Tor users that are using the Tor - Firefox bundle. So if you are using Chrome or some other browser - configured to use Tor, you would be safe from these exploits. Wouldn't most sophisticated hackers - or other high value targets most likely to be of interest to the NSA - be already doing that, rather than using the Firefox+Tor bundle?
And a huge damage to reputation as well
That may be true, but they are presumably already maintaining a bunch of #ifdef's for the Windows-only features.
There are plenty of ways to breakout of a VM. What if the VM has a filesystem that is readonly by the host?

Drive by download, cookie fs drop, etc. Attack the indexing server, file previews, etc.

You really want to run the VM on an external host like a raspberry pi and the VM should different than the host running Tor.

Tor should really be rewritten in a Coq proven Haskell program.
So how do you explain epidemics in the early years of cocaine users switching to crack (for a cheaper and more potent high) and everything around them becoming 10x worse as a result?
so, you're saying that anyone that wants reasonable 3D performance, 2+ displays, and GPGPU support can go fuck themselves? :/

don't get me wrong, open source is great. we need it now more than ever. but this is exactly the wrong sort of attitude to take.
I have been taking Melatonin for a while now. However, I do not take it daily. I usually take it to adjust sleep schedules after a poor pattern. Sunday night for example I would take it to fix my poor weekend sleeping schedule. I think it's great to FIX sleeping schedules, not necessarily to take daily.
I'd never replace awk.
The key to using melatonin is to stop every few days and see if you sleep through the night. If you don't keep going otherwise wait until you have two nights without proper sleep. I had major sleep problems but this system has worked great and I have not had to use melatonin in quite a while. Like everything, moderation is key.
I think your original conclusion, 2007 is correct.

What exactly does sourced vs dated even mean?

The document states "still investigating" for multiple issues. It doesn't take the NSA 6 years to investigate these things.

The questions are very basic, such as, browser/JS exploits, leftover cookies, and owning the majority of nodes. That is hardly top secret, all of these were things that were public concerns long ago.

The other alternative is they just don't care. They can still slurp down a good portion of the incoming and outgoing email traffic. If one of wikileak's origin stories are to be believed most Tor users have no idea how Tor works or what they are actually doing, including government operators (with the appropriate code name EPICFAIL on page 9.)

Going completely off topic, I had an idea earlier. Bitcoin right now is using something around 16,000 petaflops of processing. This shows that when proper incentives exist massive computational and network resources can be utilized in a distributed manner.

What if a protocol existed which forced user participation or required them to exchange a store of value to use it? For example, if a user acted as a node (relay not exit) they mined a currency (probably inflationary.) If a user did not act as a node, they had to pay a currency which would then be distributed to exit node operators. The currency could be bought and sold through exchanges rather than to a central commercial entity.

The end goal, besides having a lot more network bandwidth, would be to have so many relay and exit nodes running it would be economically impossible for a single entity to compromise a significant number of them.

Of course, easier said than done.
There's several good Clojure books. I'd start with Rich Hickey's video "Simple made Easy":

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

The "Joy of Clojure" is the best book on understanding the mid and high level constructs and design of Clojure (and FP). It's not a beginner book though - for that the books from the Pragmatic Programmers or Oreilly are excellent.
With no DRM, someone would almost certainly find a way to mirror the live stream and put their own ads with it, or charge people much less than the official source to view it. It's all just data, right? What stops you sending it on wherever you please?

The point of DRM is precisely to make sure that it does take time and effort to capture and redistribute video. So live events are actually a perfect example of where DRM is useful.
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You're banned mate.
I'm moving away too (er, have already moved). I have chosen RethinkDB and am very happy with it so far.

I think the most important thing to me is that the Rethink guys haven't lied about the database's capabilities and limitations.

10gen did. Both in their marketing and in their sales pitch to us when I worked at Aol. Never once did anybody mention a global write lock when we were talking to them about a write-heavy application.
Their argument was that weed charges gave them leverage on going up the ladder from the street-level dealers to higher-ups. Not sure if it was true but their opinion didn't play a factor in the ballot question vote.
Or in other words, Asimovian robots, minus everything that made them useful or interesting.

Humanoid body designs are actually bloody stupid for accomplishing anything other than emulating a human. What you really want is giant spiders.

I am actually not joking. Me and my biologist girlfriend have discussed the most practical shape for the unholy soldiers of a robot army. If you actually want to make use of robots, something like a spider is what you want: limbs to maintain balance and provide propulsion, some of which can also be swapped out to function as prehensile grabbers.

That kind of thing is already being done today by folks at DARPA, Boston Dynamics, blah blah blah. They're just very costly right now, and quite stupid to boot.

What you really want is intelligent giant spiders.
I think Tor recommends surfing from a dedicated virtual machine, IIRC, which is probably the safest way to surf, though something like Flash or Java can still probably report the actual host IP.
Don't get your hopes up. The rest of us grunts still get to spend an entire day in front of a whiteboard at Apple, at least as of about a year ago.
Heh, I wonder what places they work now.
If you meant something more specific than "addiction" maybe you should have said so. This is not just a pointless distinction, it gets at the very heart of the public health issues involved and should not be glossed over. Lives are not destroyed by addiction in general, as you yourself pointed out.
> Absolutely immoral. Drugs like cocaine, meth, heroin, etc, make you into an addict once you start taking them on a regular bases - and that happens quite easily.

BULLSHIT!

You've listened to and believed too much propaganda. It has been and is illegal to conduct studies on most of those drugs. So their actual effects are unknown. What scientific knowledge there is indicates addition rates are low ~20%. Not nearly a sure thing. btw nicotine and alcohol dependence probabilities are higher.

[My opinion] It is likely that probability has more to do with the individual user than the individual substance.

5min google:

http://www.jalc.edu/cbi/meth_conference/2012/pdfs/brain_acco...

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00952990.2013.7...
You could just as easily have blamed him for using the proprietary vs free (open-source) drivers, with the same effect (and he still gets better performance).

Seems like your distaste for a company/policy is running this comment.
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I don't feel any physiological dependence, as I go on and off it with no consequences that I can detect (other than becoming more prone to slip off my sleep schedule). Generally I only take melatonin daily when I'm adjusting to a new timezone/schedule or have lapsed by purposely staying up. Otherwise I use it maybe twice a week, and have gone months without any.

When I don't take it my sleeping time seems to be a function of sleep hygiene.. Your melatonin production cycles are probably most strongly controlled by zeitgeber factors, like the mentioned blue light wavelengths. My insomnia used to be as bad as yours and now it's fairly normal for me to fall asleep at 1am, even using the computer. Once you get in a pattern, it has some persistence to it.
The title is misleading. It should be "Lessons learned about web crawlers while crawling the web"
Do people really do much heavy lifting with OpenCL/CUDA using cards that they are also using to actually drive browsers? Seems to me like if you are doing serious work with that sort of thing, you probably have dedicated cards for that (if not straight up using Nvidia Tesla cards or similar).
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Why? The DRM blob has to do far less than Flash - it's not a whole runtime environment, it just decrypts a data stream and sends it to be rendered. There are very good reasons to think that that would be less slow, buggy and resource hungry. Though I agree that it would be no less closed.
What problem you are actually wanting to solve? I don't see why I would use a slower system. waiting can be very costly if the price is moving against you. you need quick traders to provide liquidity. which is what you will find if you get users onto such a system. the high volume traders won't like it. I think there is actually room to reinvent the worldwide exchange system.
That would seem like a bad idea because then the receivers address would have to be within the SR database
Github can definitely improve on this. For instance, if I want to edit a file like so:

https://github.com/takezoe/gitbucket/edit/master/README.md

you will see a 404 if you're not logged in with no information.
every sufficiently large company is to some extent a tech company.
It's not addictive. In fact I found myself not wanting to take it after a while because I had so much energy from getting good sleep, I wanted to stay up late doing stuff. (Even though I should, so I get to sleep at a decent hour.)

I recommended 1mg per 50lbs of body weight, and get the fast acting one, not the slow-dissolving one; those made me drowsy the next morning.

It is a little harder to snap to attention right after waking up, but I shake that off quickly; probably a sign I slept well.

It does affect everyone differently though. I haven't had any negative effects myself, other than with the slow-dissolving "long-lasting" pills (but some might need that to stay asleep).
How is this a limitation with Windows even? I'm sure Windows can have more than 3 displays, so why does Nvidia have this restriction on either platform?
True. I view the move to services as a way of monetizing the brand. Historically their HW and SW weren't always the best, but people knew you could call their support with a problem. Now they've found a way to get paid for the support as demand for their big iron shrank. They've done a lot of acquisitions too, but not wasteful ones. They still do share buybacks every year, which suggests they know their place as a shrinking company, so they invest profits in shrinking the amount of outstanding shares. You know something is up when Warren Buffett is investing in them. :-)

Compare this to other mature tech companies who blow away all the shareholder wealth once the growth stops.
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I think your reaction is mostly an emotional speculation based on your dislike of their technology. As you pointed out yourself, we do not know the financials, their adoption rate numbers or other relevant facts to make a sound judgement on the valuation.

I absolutely would buy the stock if I had insight into the relevant information and liked what I saw.
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> "Big Data" seems to be marketing speak for "you can dump all sorts of loosely structured data into this big bucket and our tools will help you find meaningful trends in it."

That's the description of a data warehouse.
congrats kevin, emmett and team! what's awesome about this is that not only is twitch revolutionizing how people consume video games, the people that make up twitch are also so passionate about what they do. it'll be really interesting to see how they ramp up monetization efforts as they've tried a variety of things (ads instream, sponsored links on the sidebar by kabam, subscription models for streams), but i'm confident they'll get it right.
Check OP's website for other hacks. Very comprehensive research(meta-analysis) on pretty much all nootropics and memory improving techniques.
Can one use something like Lynx with Tor? I doubt there are very many exploits for it.
This is exactly what I was going to say. Apple is a consumer product company while more tech big names are for prosumers(not quite accurate here, but I guess you can get what I mean). When we look at the market this way, the two big segments certainly have different needs. And I guess, if most prosumers here are more related to more or less engineering background, those come from information tech science background might have different needs as well. But compared with majority of the prosumer group, they are just niche. Please take market segmentation into account since information technology market is more accessible. And this is continuing. Consumers and prosumers are all every important in their own context. Hope this helps.
>copy and paste on iPhone, MMS messaging, multitasking

As I recall Apple tried to say things at the time that amounted to "you don't really need that." Every single iPhone user I knew at the time drank the Steve Jobs koolaid and talked about how yeah, they didn't need those features.
Is nobody slightly concerned that the date shown in the PDF file which sparked this commentary ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/oct/04/tor... ) shows the PDF as being created in 2007?

It looks like they had some trouble picking out users 5 years ago... lord only knows how easy it must be for them now.
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This is such random advice. What threats are you defending against here?

"Wear gloves": Why? Are you thinking someone will pierce the veil of all these other precautions but then be stymied when they find a smashed laptop with no fingerprints on it?

"Sir, we followed him for a year, watched him buy a laptop and use it in a park, but when we recovered the laptop from the dumpster, there were no fingerprints on it!"

"Curses, our plan is foiled!"
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There's been a lot of talk about iOS clients on HN lately. It's quite fragmented, with a lot of abandoned or inactive projects. I've built one that is the most advanced and up-to-date, and I'm considering open-sourcing it. Obviously this is a labor of love, as it's free, and there's not much to be made in such a small market anyway.

Since the site is still not optimized for mobile, I'd like to offer it up as the official Hacker News client, transferring iTunes (appsto.re/i6xC4GD) rights if needed, and let the community own it. What's your stance on this?
Congrats Emmett! Was really inspired to read about how you guys built up Twitch:
http://mixergy.com/emmett-shear-twitchtv-interview/

Totally agree with others that you're building up the next ESPN.
Ok. Time to change how the hype and good marketing drive mediocre products, with average people behind it, to silly valuations.

So here it comes. It is only a VALUE if WE say it is. So here is what I say.

I value

* Redis @ $4.5B
* Datomic @ $4.5B
* Riak @ $3.2B
* Hazelcast @ $3.0B
* HBase @ $2.5B
* Spanner @ $2.1B
* Neo4j @ $2.0B
* MongoDB @ N/A

Congratulations to MongoDB sales and marketing team (really!). It is a tough job to sell a trojan horse to masses.
Hey, at least you aren't taking ridiculous doses. I'm pretty cautious about such things so I prefer the research.
But you do have an undergrad thesis. And it's still worth saying what you work on.

I'm afraid I'm not aware of any tools for creating academic webpages, but you don't really need one. An academic webpage is really just an online CV. You should say what you interests are, talk about the projects you've worked on (and are working on), papers published (including thesis). Oh, and, of course, how to reach you. A single page should suffice. For my current one, I use WordPress because I want to have a blog, too. You can look at the remnants of my old academic page for structure: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~scschnei/ I used to have a h1 for About Me (where I listed interests), publications and projects.

How good it looks is secondary. It's just important to get that information up there, easy for people to find. You're actually approaching the time in grad school when industry internships are ideal: you'll be done with classes in a year or two, you've done a research paper or two, but you have a few more years before finishing your dissertation.

By the way, having even publications under submission by the second year of doing course work is great progress. Rejections happen. Where did you submit, by the way?
Oooops, my bad. Should have focused more on the balance aspect really.

I get what you mean by the internal pressure to work thing. You get anxious when you're not working, and that anxiety starts to nag on your psyche. I've gotten some good results with redefining work for myself, from "what breaks me" to "what compounds for results", but it isn't the perfect solution to the problem. Then, I subdivide mentally between work i should do and work I enjoy. The former category includes writing pieces of code I have to finish or studying for exams (I try to keep that kind of work relatively efficient and hard hitting), and the latter category includes things such as drawing or dancing, skills which are useful and relaxing at the same time.

Alas, it's what works for me.
I love the name! Congrats! :)
Maybe a late response to Linus :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36yNWw_07g
Why are all these Gwern.net posts showing up now?
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Eh, consumer banking sure, but most focus in banking is rarely around the small consumer, as most people with just checking accounts cost the bank money because of how little they interact with the bank financially -- They only become profitable with 1) a mortgage or lots of debt 2) a lot of money

I worked at one of the large banks on a commercial operations team (terrible job btw) -- the sheer amount of data surrounding transactions that came through our office alone was ridiculous and barely manageable.
I'm glad I have no reason be that anonymous. Sounds stressful. :)

Still, I completely agree with you.
"Proceed and Be Bold"

And the anti-correlation between those who chestbeat stuff like this and those who actually do it grows stronger...
Wish I would have had a few shares of this
Would this add to load times on client end? Anyone know what kinda of delay do tools like these, NewRelic etc. add on the users browsing experience?
There would be a lot of benefit to doing this, since one of the major complaints about Twitch service is ads that don't follow the rules and ignore volume controls. I don't believe they've solved this problem yet.

What would be really impressive is getting the same level of targeting they can currently offer with flash-based ads by encoding the ad into the stream as part of their CDN... Sounds like a fun problem!
Isn't the author comparing Google's approach to Apple's? Google has more market share than Apple in just about every software category, so if Google can iterate, than why can't Apple?

I think it has more to do with Apple's marketing. Every time they release even the most trivial improvement they tout it as being amazingly innovative. They also charge premium prices. This creates an expectation with their users that everything will be perfect from the beginning.
Thanks, Deyson.
If one were using git, why would one need to check out a directory?

I have no objection to people using the tools they prefer, but they should be honest with themselves. The barrier to using git while working in a particular directory lies in changing one's VCS habits, not in a deficiency in git.
Woz was probably ahead of it's time. I was just thinking about that today in the light of newer companies trying to create / conquer this space.
Harp server (direct link: http://harpjs.com) seems to be powering https://harp.io/ (paid service), didn't notice it mentioned in the article.
I don't believe that anyone thinks DRM effectively protects content, even the companies employing it.
Though enforcement is a gray area as long as it's a noncommercial release and is not a realistic substitute for purchasing the original copyrighted content. Even the RIAA never tried to sue DJs releasing free online mixes they made.
It doesn't seem to be hurting them at all actually. Mong, mongo/mongodb are not the same word it seems either. So whoever would make that cognitive connection would be wrong anyway.