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This looks incredible and I want nVidia to succeed because it's actually been a long time without any game-changing (no pun intended, honest) improvements (evolutionary or revolutionary) in the gaming and graphics market.

That said, I read the article and yet remain confused as to where exactly the G-sync module integrates with the monitor. From what I understand, it the G-sync hardware/firmware will run on a packet level, analyzing in realtime the incoming feed of DisplayPort packets and deciding how much of what goes where and when. Very neat.

The most important question, I believe, is what monitors can this be used with? The text makes it clear that users will be able to mod their own ASUS VG248QE monitors to add on the G-sync card, but that's a very, very specific make and model. Is this technology going to require hardware manufacturers to cooperate with nVidia, or will their cooperation simply make things nicer/easier?

Also, some of us have (in business environments) $1k+ S-IPS 30"+ monitors — the quality of these monitors is way above that of consumer models like the VG248QE and others. If there is no way to generically mod monitors without onboard DSPs, I could see that hindering adoption.
This project sucks, because there is no proper examples that actually tell me how i can make predictions.
Worth mentioning Orcid.org. Solves broadly the same problem. No need to get profit involved.
Well, I think it is a lot more fun to win at 1:10 than it is at 1:1.2 so my utility function is definitely higher in the first case.
You're a better person than I, Stratoscope.
Adding an "e" was the best thing Twitter ever did.
Finally there was security guard posted today for Banksy's art
Those weren't my best examples of pages that might contain ads. They were my last two Google searches. If was I looking for ads, I'd probably search of acai berry or something similar. However, I had understood the original complain to be that you're assaulted with Google ads on all searches, not just the ones where you're intentionally looking for ads.

I guess the main place where I was unfair to the parent was his comment that not recognizing his comment that:

>There is no longer a big push for 'finding things on the web' which was the appeal of early search engines, now the bulk of the web use search as their portal to a giant reference library and product catalog.

I do use it as a reference library, but almost never as a product catalog. I imagine that, if I used Google to search for things to buy, there would be far more ads, but that forms a negligible part of my internet usage.
only when I'm alone
A huge amount of FinalTerm's functionality is already provided by the "bash-completion" package for all major OSes (including MacPorts). It probably even goes further, as I can tab-complete remote directory paths in an `scp` command.
Did a micro-architecture directed-study in highschool covering the MIPS architecture, MIPS assembly execution, implementation of many fundamental components such as latches, MUX's, ALU's etc, pipelines, caches, and many other topics of how machines execute programs.

To this day, I wind up drilling through several layers of abstraction and run-times naturally simply by having intuition that there is no other way for data to get from point A to point B without it being expressed in registers, atomic instructions, and abstractions that can be built on top of them. I use it to understand theoretical explanations of Turing machines, automatons, fastest implementations of algorithms, buffer overflow exploits, language implementations, data models, OS's, threads, processes, memory addressing, intrinsics, tail-recursion optimizations, JIT's, GC's, objects, C++ vtables...it goes on. Probably anything I will ever study always seems capable of mapping back to a problem space where Jump-and-load has to exist and cache coherency completely breaks down when playing with threads that compete for writes without locks.

The course was entirely optional. I was done about half-way through the semester and continued reading the course textbook until I had at least brushed across every part of it. Compared to other subjects of fundamental happenings, such as boot loaders in Linux, studying micro-architecture completely blows open the doors to your long-term capability to problem solve in any space in computing without the slightest question of what happens in the end.

In programming communities, as the original knowledge becomes boiled down into maxims and the maxims get repeated without the original discussion, people start parroting the whole argument against early-optimization or complaining about how scripting languages have no type-safety or how impure functions have side-effects and don't have reliable return values. It's very convenient to build your knowledge on the fulcrum of every community teeter-totter, the sheet-metal of every bike-shed, the fundamental logic from which all abstractions are born and all abstractions can be decomposed. Micro-architecture is the axiom space of programming. If you understand micro-architecture, it will give you a path of understanding into anything you will ever encounter in programming.

I had studied a lot of anecdotal micro-architecture when following the AMD Intel competitive race when it was at its hottest and reading tons of articles on overclocking and pondering how north-bridges and south-bridges might work, but taking the course basically paved the way for everything else I've done in computing since, much more-so than the C++ intro and OOP classes I took. Languages seem to have no foundation without some micro-architecture experience. You think that there might be some magical way to do X that you simply can't see through the abstractions. After studying micro-architecture, the magic is gone. Everything magic after that is how you abstract those ideas on top of each other.
One technique is to hold other information along with the session cookie, such as the client IP.

This isn't perfect, because there will be false positives that log people out fairly often, but it would make session hijacking significantly harder.
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But unless you read every article that hits the front page, titles are important.

Titles are how I decide which articles to read, and often the original title doesn't explain why the article should/might be considered interesting by the HN audience.
You're right about input. But I doubt a touchscreen will ever suffice for a lot of professional work.

For graphics and CAD work, I need the precision of a mouse cursor. My laptop's trackpad works great, and my mouse works even better. My fingertip on a screen, by contrast, will always feel clumsy in comparison. Fingers are just too fat. The only way they become not too fat is with a gigantic screen. But then that's not really a tablet. And gigantic screens can be ergonomically bad, because they force you to bend your neck looking at them.

Likewise, for serious typing, I need the tactile response of a keyboard. Touch-typing on a touchscreen is frustrating.

Of course, there's no reason you can't attach a mouse and keyboard to a tablet. But then you basically have a laptop that doesn't fold closed. It's hard to consider that a uniquely tablet-esque experience.
I did not know that! Thanks, I'll look.
I think it's your comment that's a tribute to a tribute :)
That's a good point. I've had a similar problem with submissions from google.com, which may be official google stuff or may be comment from Groups or G+ (though I think this might have been fixed by showing more of the URL, haven't checked lately).
This is the first I have seen of academia.edu. Everyone I know are on researchgate.net. First comment was about orcid.org, another site I just found out about. Talk about market saturation and social network fragmentation!
It's actually a lot worse if your site is large since crawlers will make even more requests crawling a large site.

If I see that a crawler is sending me any traffic at all, I will accept that, but if the amount of traffic is zero, I put them in robots.txt and in the IP block list. Although I try hard to make sure my images are all clean creative common images, I block the robots that are there to find copyrighted images because these ones exist to give me nothing but trouble.
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my feeble mind does not understand "See who votes like who in congress". there is no explanation of the site other than those few words.
Optimus wouldn't have a reason to exist if say Nvidia made their "mid-range" dedicated notebook GPU's to clock at 200 Mhz for "normal use", and then go to 600+ Mhz in games, or other high-end apps.

Of course, perhaps the company that led to the making of Optimus in the first place is Intel, because they started bundling their GPU's and then charging OEM's more for the standalone CPU than from the bundle - and eventually OEM's were like "why not just get both Intel's GPU, and a higher-end Nvidia one?"

If you ask me, I think Intel's move should've been declared anti-competitive from the beginning. There's no way the bundle cost Intel less than the CPU, but they priced it that way because they had a monopoly, and could force OEM's to just accept the deal "or buy the more expensive CPU if they don't like it", which was obviously a non-option option.
That's enough for me to use identicons for little sites I make going forward.
How can you enjoy something you're not conscious of? What you likely enjoy is the 5-30 minutes as you're falling asleep, and the 5-60 minutes as you're waking up.

If we could get the actual sleeping time to 1 minute, but keep the rest the same, surely that would be strictly better in terms of human utility.
Creating Production like environments
Mesh - MongoDB Extended Shell
mesh (MongoDB Extended Shell) is a javascript file that extends the mongo shell. It includes some useful libraries, as well as new functions for dealing with Mongo collections and queries.
flickr did OK

Unwillingness to shell out for the correct spelling does seem to be a negative indicator, though many companies did that once success looked likely.
Which other top tech companies offer this? (If any)
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I strongly, strongly disagree. You can approach programming as a craft, and immerse yield in tools, techniques, concepts and so on. Or you can approach it as a means to an end, which is creating an app, website, service, etc, and just look for the shortest path to get results. You don't have any basis for saying one approach is more valid than the other.
Try their main site http://prediction.io/ . It has videos and other write ups. Its still not thorough, guess you might have to install and play around with it to get a better understanding.
I can't explain the first 80% of it but the last bit:

io/prediction/evaluations/itemsim/topkitems/

Is the folder structure required by the package definition.

EDIT: mostly it seems to be the result of the project being constructed as dozens of separate modules each with it's own build process...yikes...
Will these work with other GPU's? How hard is it to replicate by the competitors? And will all displays have to support 10 different GPU makers for this feature, if there's no standard set?
I think semantic disputes in Internet discussions are slowly starting to overtake Godwin's law in terms of likelihood.
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In 1985, you might have said the same about pocket computers, if I'd called them that. But in 2013, the stereotype of the human staring down at their smartphone is near universal.
We solve this problem in Clown Jam by essentially just being audience for each other. It's open to anyone who wants to come practice but no one is a "civilian" and there are reasonable person ground rules about posting pictures and video.
Awesome. You should feel no shame.
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And of course IBM's having to get a waiver because of what happened that one time they sold a ton of adding machines to the Nazis...
> If we had infinite attention to spend on moderation, we could read every article and decide whether each user-created title was better than the original title. But we don't. Moderating HN is no one's full time job.

If there is no time to read, then don't moderate?
One of the problems with for-profit is that the company is likely to sell its community out if they think that'll make them more money. See: Elsevier buying Mendeley and the backlash from that: http://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/blog/201...

This Onion talk put it really well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=w8c_...
After some googling, I found this description here[1].
It sounds like a straightforward pub-sub server (similar to redis pub/sub?).

[1]: http://www.activestate.com/blog/2013/01/building-paas-ruby
Me too. I know I'm in the minority with this, but I much prefer to do business (repeatedly) with a firm that isn't employing bullshit tactics. It would be interesting to see a study that reflects the whole cost-per-customer, since resorting to such pricing tricks means you're inevitably attracting consumers who are extremely price driven and who may be harder to upsell or retain.
But a disallow all robots.txt will kill your sites traffic - its not going to work like you think it is.
2007, you know that then he revise him opinion about the ruby/rails.
Some language are better than others. I've work with php for some years. PHP suffers for some serious design. The are A LOT of articles on the internet.
Is so easy to start with php that even a non programming guy will succeed! The same for java/ruby/python/go. When you start is easy and fun. But when you have to use your brain, when you have to do some stuff that are than CRUD then is complicated. And is so fuckin' easy to screw up in php. OMG!
btw, facebook is using php not because is cool, but because of legacy code.
I think you misunderstood. It's obvious when there is editorializing. However without clicking through, there is no way to know if it's the article's actual title doing it, or the submitter, because you don't know if it was changed. Unless all submissions use the actual title (or none I suppose).
This is incredibly impressive. Here I was feeling good about what I got done today, then I saw this.
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Presumably you could set a minimum interval - an hour, or a day. This would make sure that big updates are noticed, without putting undue stress on the server.
Very, very fragmented. I'm building something that is in some ways competing with Academia.edu, and I didn't even discover them until I was deep into the market research. But maybe I'm just a crappy researcher :)
You forgot pirate.
No, that won't work. Nothing you do client-side will help.

OnLive Client <-all input is transmitted-> OnLive Servers <-filter out Enter-> Deus Ex instance in a VM.

The enter key is filtered out on their servers. Unless you hack into their servers and change that, there is nothing you can do on the client-side. That's what makes you completely helpless.
Yeah, if you're a startup and doing something unproven, you're not going to throw money at domain squatters on day 1.
I don't know what Philip did or did not think of.

I think you are misunderstanding the nature of my complaint however. This isn't an issue of somebody using a tool that I don't prefer.. use Vim, or use Emacs, or use Nano for all I care. You want to use gnome-terminal? I can't stand it, but be my guest.

This is me saying that Philip has a good idea but has implemented it in a way that does not play nicely with existing tools. He knows this obviously, since he (or maybe other Finalterm authors, I haven't really been paying attention to that) have pointed that out himself. What I am pointing out that this incompatibility is unnecessary and unfortunate.

The crux of my complaint is that he has ideas that I would like to use, but solely because he has implemented them in an unorthodox way, there is simply no way that I can incorporate this into my workflow.

I'm not going to not say this simply because he may have also thought of this and disagrees with me. HN should not be an echo chamber of praise.
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British supermarkets have plenty of products priced at round pounds, or £x.50. This is particularly the case with BOGOF deals, e.g. two packets of cheese might cost £3 whereas individually they may cost £1.89 each. Why is this?

There are two reasons. The round price is an honest price, nobody has tried to fiddle the price to look less than it is by putting the 99 in there. Secondly, for those shopping to a budget, e.g. not planning to spend more than £20, then it is a lot easier to add up round figures than lots of £x.99's.

The one that I don't understand is £x.95. Why would a retailer want to put (say) a thousand items through the till at £x.95 when they might as well be £x.99? 1000 * 4p is £40. That might not seem a lot of money, however, at minimum wage(!), that is enough for some extra pair of hands on a busy Saturday.

With online retail a lot of websites charge round figures for delivery and services such as gift wrapping. I can see the sense in that, however, it would be good to see an A/B test from a major retailer to see if getting that wrong means more customers bailing out at checkout.
> Also, some of us have (in business environments) $1k+ S-IPS 30"+ monitors — the quality of these monitors is way above that of consumer models like the VG248QE and others. If there is no way to generically mod monitors without onboard DSPs, I could see that hindering adoption.

I think Nvidia is targeting hardcore gamers first and foremost. Most gamers are not gaming at 2560x1600/1440. Some are, but most aren't.

The most popular monitors by pro gamers right now (Twitch/eSport players and enthusiasts) are 120/144hz 1ms monitors, such as the ASUS VG248QE. Color reproduction isn't as important to pro gamers as smoothness/framerates.

Also hardcore/pro players are dumping lots of money on the most expensive computer rigs, often upgrading to the latest and greatest every generation. They are a very important marketing group for Nvidia.
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It doesn't have to be that way. We started Path of Exile with a low budget, no following, no connections.

When we wanted to announce we phoned up journalists, made appointments. We flew to the US, we went to PAX (with no booth) and tried to approach journalists cold to give a demo on a laptop in the corner.

We got a bunch of small articles, and bugger all web traffic. I think on announcement day we got articles on most of the major internet gaming news sites, but we still only got like 7000 visits to our website. This was in 2010.

But we kept on going. We kept on banging the drum. We kept making announcements. We kept making trips to America to talk to journalists in person. We kept grinding up the popularity and by the time we were ready to go in to open beta in January this year, we were a notable enough thing that on that day we got a million visits.

It wasn't an instant success. We didn't spend money beyond travel expenses. We didn't have prior connections. It was just a cold, hard slog from nothing to something.
It's based on how similar someone is to someone else and some people have closer matches than others. Fictitious Example where your listing top 5:

Adam and Bob are a 80% match.
Bob and Ted are a 90% match.
Adam has 1 match better than 75%, but Bob has 5 matches better than 85%.

Thus Adam links to Bob as his #1, but Bob does not link to Adam in his top 5.
That's why A/B testing is always a good idea. Try it both ways and see which converts better.
I can't see how this is a "radical new idea". It's a good idea and very valuable if executed correctly, but taking an existing, proved model (aka facebook) and tweaking it to work for academics is not new and hardly radical.
I'm not hating on the idea, I love more tools for academia, but the title is hyperbole.
I'm sorry for this thread. Can I borrow your phone?
For anyone excited about this, check out http://www.blurbusters.com/. It's a blog dedicated to everything-refresh-rate.
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And an 'i': http://web.archive.org/web/20060802094251/http://www.twttr.c...
It would be interesting to experiment with scraping the <title> tag of the linked webpage. This is what Quora does for links in questions, answers, and comments.

I love the way that HN shows the top domain of the linked site. Very elegant, and something that Quora (arguably) should implement.
severely cool.

-bowerbird
Ah yes, the 8-step method conducted in accordance with the Doctrine for Submarine Interior Communications Manual (w/ Change 1). Fun times, especially if you were the phone talker.
Do you have any evidence for that?

She works at a private institution, and she lists no grants on her CV.
Interesting. I believe that PostgreSQL hasn't moved quickly enough.

After all these years they still don't have a clear and coherent clustering or sharing story.
I use a laptop and carry it between work and home, occasionally signing in to a VPN. My IP address changes several times a day.
It has 4.8 million users--about a quarter of the 17 million academics and graduate students worldwide

Looks like they're hitting critical mass. I love the idea that this is liberating and making easily discoverable the world's academic papers that our taxes are paying for.

I'm also delighted that Khosla Ventures are giving this room to breathe. "Khosla does appear to be increasingly open to investing in startups that have a social mission and a business model. This is often referred to as 'impact investing'"
But sometimes you want to just "open" a file. The fact that your computer may choose to save it is an implementation detail. In fact, most systems don't actually 'save' it in many senses of the word. Instead they write it to the file system in a way that indicates that it may be removed at any time without notifying the user. In fact, on Linux (I can't speak to any other OS), it is common for these temporary files never to actually be saved to the disk. Instead they are loaded into a RAM based file-system (tmpfs), usually found at "/dev/shm"
Homelessness isn't a problem, it's an industry solution to leverage from labour.
> Unfortunately it's totally unusable for Vim users...

How so?
Only one normal, but the maps and shopping that take up most of the space are still organic results, and probably more useful than the 'normal' ones.
Stopping using cable/satellite TV is on my TODO list for years. However, I happen to like watching a bunch of TV shows (my active show list on next-episode.net is 25 names, 10 of which are running or will be in close future - so I watch about 1 episode per day and 2 on the weekends usually). I also never watch live TV - I get my news from better sources. As far as I can see, right now there's only one viable alternative for me to cable/satellite subscription - the Pirate Bay. As I am not fond of it for both legal reasons and reasons of convenience (it can be automated, but the time I'd spend doing it would be considerable and I want to spend it on other things). I'd be happy to have a service that given me access (immediate or ~week delay, I don't watch most of the shows same day) to the 10 shows I watch and I'd be completely willing to pay them the same ~$50/month I pay to my TV company (and they don't need to supply me with expensive equipment for free!). Netflix choice is abysmal, and so are Hulu Plus and others. Buying those individually on something like iTunes would cost me about 5x-10x and probably lock me up in a horrible world of incompatible format and DRM hassles. So, my choice is either say "screw the law" and go all-in for Pirate Bay, or pay the cable/satellite. I hope somebody will give me another choice, because, frankly, every cable/satellite company I was with sucked in its own unique way. But I just don't see any (legal ones) right now.