skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interesting point, and I can kind of see the outline of some vaguely political reasoning here. Let us clarify that we are talking about realtime rendering for games. Of course, rendering in general has been done in all sorts of different ways, and it's pretty straightforward to demonstrate a raytracer that progressively enhances is rendering over time.

The point is, this isn't a direction that cutting edge games programming has gone in, because getting more detail into the game has always been a higher priority than having a steady predictable framerate- And to make a further point, practically speaking, painter's/z-buffer algorithm is easier to optimise than some other rendering algorithms. Though, the others are not impossible, just not fruit that is quite as low hanging.
...and UK.
Also, even if you only had one physical floppy drive, it would still respond to A: and B:, albeit as split personalities. What I mean is that you could stick your programs disk in there and type A:EDITOR.EXE to run some editing program, and then go to save your document and type B:MYDOC.TXT as the filename, and DOS would know that you wanted to write this file to a different floppy, so it would day, "Insert disk for drive B and press enter", prompting you to swap the floppies. Then, when the editor program needed to access some of its files again, it would try to access, say, A:LIBRARY.OVL, and DOS would know that meant it was time to prompt the user to swap disks again.
Same here. Pingdom let me know one of my sites was down roughly 20 minutes before DO added their notification to the status page. Unfortunately, it appears all of my DO instances are in the NY1 facility. Bad on me.
The only thing in Gainesville is students and the ecosystem to serve them. Oh, and trees.
Devil's advocate:

Jobs: "Instead of a conventional linear power supply, Holt built one _like_those_used_in_oscilloscopes_."

TFA: "It turns out that Apple's power supply was not revolutionary"

Indeed. If we believe Jobs, it was used in oscilloscopes before.

Jobs probably exaggerated/boasted/lied when he spoke of "ripping off", but this article isn't 100% honest with the facts, either.
"New bubble forming" - LOL. Yes, there will be volatility, but the long term trend is UP.
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Yeah Downtown Atlanta has a huge expressway that unfortunately wraps around Downtown and then slices through Midtown (and shows up in plenty of photos).

All the neighborhoods surrounding Downtown/Midtown have a pretty good canopy. Wikipedia has a mention/sources here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta#Tree_canopy
I would kill to earn £20/hr when I was a student in London (finished last year, now at a full time job)
Novell Netware 2.15 came on 49 360k floppies. I remember generating individualized network clients based on the chipset of your network interface card with SHGEN-1 and SHGEN-2. To this day I have no idea why the last disk it asked for was SHGEN-2 and then it said, "Your shell is now on SHGEN-1."
You might be interested in the articles Carmack[1] and Michael Abrash[2] have written about VR.

[1] http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2013/02/22/latency-mitigation-...

[2] http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/latency-the-sine-qua-n...
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I see what looks like a Hebrew letter nun. It's a private use character, so there's no real guarantee about what it will look like. I'll refrain from making a sarcastic comment about the Apple-centric world-view of Apple users!

http://www.nikcub.com/posts/unicode-uf8ff-aka-the-apple-logo...
My first PC didn't have a C: drive.

It had two 5.25" diskettes to load the systems.
I know WordPress dotcom uses Amazon S3 storage for images, so my blog isn't showing any due to this outage.

Amazon apparently also uses its own S3 for images because right now at Amazon none of the product images are showing.
Have you installed Alfred[1]? (or Quicksilver[2]).

I find I use these (Alfred now, formerly Quicksilver) to open the right finder window first time, eliminating the need for most uses of the controls on the windows.

(also, once you install one of these you'll never need to open the /Applications directory again.)

[1] http://www.alfredapp.com/
[2] http://www.blacktree.com/
Yes raldi, you seem to be really interested and probably believe the Google line. I searched for "sofas" and all I got was ads, ads, ads, ads, ads and then way below some results from companies that advertise on Google. Ads are for sofas but advertisers have an agenda and that's not always best for the users.

Is that best for the user or for Google's pockets? I searched on DDG and got one ad.
Loading okay here from the UK. I'm getting a feeling from these threads here that there's some serious routing trouble going down rather than service outages as such.
There are probably many reasons; this post on bitcointalk lists most of them: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=313806.msg3367122#ms... (I know this forum is pretty bad in general, but I like that specific post.)
I've used floppy disks and tape recorders, but I'm a bit embarrassed that I never used punch cards.
Confirmed, down in NL
While this may be a huge improvement in computer power/space occupied compared to today's classical computers, since nature tends to "compute" stuff so much more efficiently than our PC's, it still feels like a pretty transitional phase to me versus quantum computers.

We need to learn how to compute at the sub-atomic level with mind-blowing efficiency (trillions of trillions more operations for insignificant power consumption). Once we learn how to do that, we'll be the masters of our galaxy, or potentially even the universe.
I guess it's not only about the amount of taxes, but also what you get out of them. Recently I was considering moving from Germany to California, and decided it's not worth it money wise. Yes, the nominal salary is a bit better, and nominal taxes are a bit lower in the USA, but what would I get for it? Here, I get full health insurance included in my taxes, retirements contribution also. In addition, I get 4k€/year in child support, free quality education all the way through the university, subsidized education for grown ups and only 60€/month full day child care. If I were to go to USA, I guess my complete taxes would be used for harassing other countries, and I'd still have to pay a lot more for things that here I get for "free".
A couple of routers in Europe are down as well.
It just like talking about programming on punch card to Generation Y
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Contrary to Tumblr, Toogles works from Amsterdam, NL.
That's in theory. In practice the shock that ending that will cause will end any hope the US has of paying back it's debt, or even the interest on it, immediately. So it will cause an immediate default and destroy the economy that promised to pay it back in one fell swoop. There's no way out of that situation that doesn't involve reneging on repayment. Either directly (any sovereign nation, like the US, can simply legislate it's debt away like Greece -partially- did, and counterintuitively investors have no choice and will immediately reinvest, again, like Greece demonstrated)

So the US, like every other nation on this planet (barring a few, but only a few exceptions), has zero hope of ever paying back it's debt. So it won't.

That doesn't mean the illusion can't last a few more decades or even a century or two (though only a few states managed to make it last even a single century, the most famous being the Roman republic).

The reason that everybody's happy with this state of affairs is that it allows, at this moment, an economy that's factors larger than it would otherwise be.

This situation came to be as an "accident" (that has happened hundreds of times before in history), and there simply is no conceivable way out. Anybody who can rattle the boat risks losing big, even if it's monetary interests are protected, so the situation keeps existing until someone really, really goes too far.

Apres nous, le deluge. (google this sentence)
And I would add that switching power supply tech has been around for decades (hello, desktop PC tower cases!). It just wasn't used as often in consumer devices because they were more complex (more parts, trickier to design) and
there simply weren't many consumer devices around that required so much power _and_ portability.

I would argue laptops were the killer app as far as switchers are concerned. Once they showed up and got popular, designers newly had reasons to design switchers more often.
What leads you to believe so ?
they can be both a pro and a con, so much drama and control attached to latinas. source: personal experience.
I've used Uptime Robot for a year now and it's awesome.
Very nice indeed. Just a bit of a pity that they don't support HTTPS :(
I'm a very happy user of SizeUp[0]. I did pay $13 or so, but money well spent. Functionally, I wonder if amethyst is the same or better. It's definitely nice to have this free option.

[0]: http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/
Ryanair site goes full screen on search
Is it just me or does the Ryanair website www.ryanair.com go to presentation mode on a mac when you carry out a booking. They are constantly trying to ensnare the user!!! They also have a hotels popup each time you search and the booking process is riddled with traps.
That's insignificant - there are always routers down, and the 24 hour traffic index is stable.
Gearing myself towards a data science career, it strikes me as a particularly odd way of presenting growth in the field. A lot of these articles seem to suggest that the field has been recently "discovered", when it's more a case of the technology supporting more advanced analysis. "Data science" existed before all of this hype, and I think it's a misnomer to suggest that that wasn't the case. There's definitely a greater spotlight on data science now, but I don't think that's any real reflection of how business intelligence and data analytics were done before the mega-hype kicked in.
Really? Some quick searching around shows a similar amount of spending per capita.
Satoshi does not need CV :)
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Did you mean: "Xerox PARC mouse" ?
The really annoying thing about SCO Unix is that it didn't use BIOS so trying to install it on a system with an unsupported floppy disk drive controller would invariably have it unable to find the floppy disk after booting the first one, and if the video card was not supported, the screen would just go black after booting off the first disk.

Oh those were the days.
negative news could be good PR sometimes.
Level3 has been having a lot of intermittent outages recently..
It actually already does support this, as well as twitter and push notifications to iOS via Boxcar.

Just click 'Add Alert Contact'. Also seems pretty granular about which monitors report to what contact.
There isn't any significant hardware-wise difference in most SMPSs between today and say 20 years ago. The main cause for essentially every wall wart being SMPS is simple economies of scale and globalisation:
* Difference between power supplies for different countries amounts mostly to plug shape, you don't need different transformers for 110 and 230V.
* The whole power supply is smaller and lighter, so it's cheaper to ship it around the world
* SMPS is simplest way to meet requirements on cos phi, efficiency and idle power in some jurisdictions.

In end when you are designing product that does not have any special requirements on power quality (like precision instruments) or customer expectation that it should be big and mostly empty (home AV stuff) it is simply cheapest to order SMPS wall-warts from China in bulk.
Right in time for a massive outage.
Looks like a patchwork of all of the wrapbootstrap themes. Love it.
Capitalists trapped in the follies of the system?
It seems to support HTTPs.. There's an option for it.
Only if every problem were as inconsequential as this one is.
If you maintain some inventory at coinbase, you can effectively buy and sell instantly.

If you trade rarely, then buys and sells are effectively instant too, you just don't see the results of your trade for 10 days.

I believe that for verified/tier 2 customers, coinbase offers faster turnaround.
Indeed - as I said "I think it's fair to say he knows what he's doing".
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The upper bound on how many coins he's mined is roughly 1 million (the best estimates I'm aware of come from https://bitslog.wordpress.com ). So you can just interpret the current exchange rate of X as X million. On http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/currency/USD.html I see Bitstamp at $169 right now (MtGox, as pointed out here, is not a useful benchmark anymore), so that's $169m in bitcoins.

(modulo all the usual reasons it's less than $169m: the estimate should be an upper bound and so the real amount lower, he may have lost his bitcoins, you can't cash out that much without crashing the price, he'd have to pay taxes on such an enormous amount, etc etc)
Where do you see the HTTPS option?
Let me put in a word for ShiftIt.

https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt
Crunchbang Linux is facing a DDOS on its repo servers
True, Pascal's main problem was that ISO Extended Pascal arrived too late and Turbo Pascal was a PC only thing.

I only moved into C land (actually C++), when I started developing to UNIX was well.

I still remember when after my first Xenix session, I asked my teacher about using Turbo Pascal and being disappointed for it not being available.

> C, while it still lacked a standard, had everything you needed out of the box, and the direction for a standard was clear.

Except modules, namespaces and being unsafe by default.
Parts of WPB are very nice, particularly along the intracoastal. Going to high school in downtown WPB was a phenonenal decision.
Wow. What would happen if one of those floppies were damaged or unreadable? Would the whole process be a waste of time?
It can't be both? The declining rate of bitcoin generation certainly has ponzi-like properties. It seems like the primary motivation to mine is assuming that the value will go up as mining becomes more difficult.
So was I - about 10 years ago. Registered the domain name, started working on the code and then realized there were 100 people doing it already. I mean, seriously, the code to do this is trivial to write.

So I mothballed it for a couple months and then got an unsolicited offer from a guy in Israel to buy the domain for $1,000. Easiest $990 I ever made.
Big difference between Miami and the Keys is you probably have to evacuate every time there's a hurricane warning. Besides I always thought of the Overseas Highway through all of the Keys as a death trap. If the oncoming traffic swerves into your lane, you have no where to go but water. It used to be way worse before it was rebuilt too.

Suburban Miami wasn't bad at least... I certainly don't remember any gunshots growing up there. Now if you lived near Overtown, West Perrine, Goulds, etc. then yeah, you had to deal with gunshots. Same with every major city though.
The glenra law of conservation of worry - loving it
When I added a new check it says HTTP(s), then I just added the https:// for the domain I was checking. Works fine.
an organization bound by contract

Bound by contract to whom? Who would enforce that contract, and in what jurisdiction?
Yes. I am old enough to have seen DIY 8bit computer kits on hardware stores.

My first computer was a Timex 2068, using a tape recorder with counter!

The dream of every kid was to have a double deck tape recorder.
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How quaint.

I still use floppy disks. I have a synthesizer (korg triton studio) which uses them for backups from its internal hard disk. I never managed to get sysex to work properly with my MIDI adapter so floppy disks are actually pretty convenient for backing up songs and patches to my PC for later archiving.

In the new year, it will be replaced with a CF reader and IDE/SCSI bridge (as I have most of the bits lying around) though as it's more convenient and the internal disk is 11 years old which scares me.
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>I block the robots that are there to find copyrighted images because these ones exist to give me nothing but trouble.

I've never heard of these bots before. Where did you hear about them, and how do you block them?
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them. (Ecclesiastes 1:9-11)
It's probably not just Baidu, but it definitely has something to do with chinese.

See this:
http://bitcoinity.org/markets/btcchina/CNY
(click 6 months and compare to USD) - the Chinese Yen volume was off the charts recently, and during the past day was approx. 40% of the USD's volume.
It seems as if Chinese began buying into Bitcoin.
Maybe NSA filter overload?
I am only 27! Why is this happening?!
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By that time you won't need to sell. Besides, are you seriously gonna risk your money like that? Switching back to a currency system that can be frozen/confiscated, inflated, etc.?
Just signed up. Very nice interface, and it supports https for free!
Yes entirely. This frequently happened.

For me, I managed to stuff up a debian disk resulting in a reinstall on my PC failing. I didn't have enough disk space to dual boot. I had to walk to a friend's house 3 miles away and redownload it over a 28.8k dialup, then walk home and start again.

I did a windows NT install from floppy once and that was even more tetchy.
What it comes down to is whether you think the increased growth from perpetually easy credit is worth the malinvestment and economic bubbles that come with it.
Yeah, I'm the author of that post and I elected not to change the link after I changed the title. I love the irony of me originally making a date math error in the title when the bug was about date math :)
More Features Kill More Startups Than Lack of Money
Odd use of a pie chart for a web site devoted to data science, since pie chart portions usually add up to 100%. It would have made sense if they had shown the categories as highest degree earned, instead of degree(s) earned.
i am using it from last 6 months, nice service :)
My thinking is along the same lines. They're tacitly accepting it now, not because they accept it, but because they think it might collapse on its own. When they realize that it's not going to go away, I'm almost certain that the government will step in somehow and try to put the kibosh on bitcoin. How long that will be is anyone's guess.
Only if you are comparing to standard Pascal.

Turbo Pascal had all the capabilities of C as well. I can produce a one to one table, if you wish.

Additionally after version 5.5, it also had support for OO.
Not to mention the PC was born in Boca (IBM's initial PC 5150 and later).
In 2008 I got to play with an old oscilloscope/i486 hybrid beast with dual 5.25 inch floppy drives still in use at my physics lab. You could save the measurements to B while running the code off A. AFAIK it is still in use.
If that ever happens, our homes are gonna be visited by flying drones. But you don't need that to happen for Bitcoin to make you rich. It could very well just stay as a high value, scarce commodity. A few whales buying in can make it happen.
More readable.

Now we can discuss tab vs spaces.
Why live in amerika when we have asia?
Yes, you're right. I blame the power of two mistake that I made on a lack of sleep ;-)
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This is subtle egotism/bragging, imo. Show us your landing page and let your product speak for itself.
Or, from Kipling:

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of man /

There are only four things certain since Social Progress began /

That the dog returns to his vomit, and the sow returns to her mire /

And the burnt fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the fire
So? Is Gold a ponzi scheme too? I don't see a problem with the declining rate of generation because you can divide Bitcoin up to some pretty small fractions. You have to really wrap your head around deflation, you know. It's a beautiful and healthy thing, it's just that we've been told it's not.
My experience was that buying Bitcoins from other exchanges is usually much more expensive than Mt.Gox. I'm not sure about selling, though.
what about videogame designer or "solar panel consultant" ?
Neither did I. (I am OP)
I disagree on the point of ergonomics. In terms of convenience, two buttons are nice. But the single-button pro mouse never gave me any wrist pain, which was unusual for the time.
That logic has a flaw: for every 'distance 19' arrangement you find that way, there may be more than one 'distance 20' arrangement one can reach from it in one move.

For example, you have two parents, but that does not imply that, combined, you and all your siblings have more parents than there are in that group of siblings.
Dan! We should meet, I'm going to email you now.
This seems to solve it:

IE11 -> Tools -> Compatibility View Settings.
Remove check on "Use Microsoft Compatibility lists".
If you disable the IE compatibility list it should work fine.
while true; do echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n\r\n" | nc example.com 80 ; done
Glossy screens are just a matter of preference and your typical environment. There's no denying that as long as you're in a low glare setting, colors look better on a glossy screen. The question is just whether that's the kind of environment you usually work in.
Ed, I still owe you a meal! What are you up to this weekend?
I didn't realize the inside of a proton was so complicated. we usually just say "2 top quarks, 1 bottom quark", etc.

And yet QCD is much more complicated than this... we never go back and reconcile it with the simplified version we saw in high school science class.
My first computer came with no drives, the tape drive was an optional accessory. Loading programs from tape instead of typing them into the basic was loads better. When I got my first PC I had a 3.5" (on B) and a 5.25" (on A) and a bunch of my friends kept coming over to have me copy their 5.25" disks to 3.5" disks and I was the cool kid on the block for a few months.
Haha it has been pretty OK lately (last 2 years). It used to be REALLY rainy during summer, but I feel like it rained 20-30 days this year!
As for the miners, yes, they pursue their own self interest, of course. But what they are really doing is helping the network process transactions. So it's very similar to how Adam Smith described businessmen in a free market: they don't need to believe in higher ideals or something, they can be greedy and such, but they inevitably will do good.
what is a level 3?