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Hmm, actually TomsHardware had it running at 60hz with two HDMI cables, but the article points out the challenge is the display card. The spec on the ASUS glass is 8 mS pixels, you can only change a by refreshing the screen, if you are changing them every 8 mS you are refreshing the screen every 8 mS which is half of 16 mS or 120Hz. Typical 60Hz displays have 12mS pixel change times.

Now I'll certainly concede that running 30bits of color per pixel to a 3840 x 2160 screen at 120hz will require 3.7GBs of bandwidth but each display port can provide 2.16GBs [2] for a total of 4.32GBs across both panels.

It will be interesting once the "4K generation" of graphics card hits the street to see what this monitor can do.

[1] "Asus’ $3500 PQ321Q is one of the only 4K screens capable of 60 Hz. But in order to achieve that refresh rate, you’re forced to run either one DisplayPort or two HDMI cables between your PC and the monitor." -- http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pq321q-4k-gaming,3620.ht...

[2] "The DisplayPort connector can have 1, 2, or 4 differential data pairs (lanes) in a Main Link, each with a raw bit rate of 1.62, 2.7, or 5.4 Gbit/s per lane with self-clock running at 162, 270, or 540 MHz. Data is 8b/10b encoded where each 8 bits of information is encoded with a 10 bit symbol. So the effective data rates after decoding are 1.296, 2.16, and 4.32 Gbit/s per lane (or 80% of the total)." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort
I wonder how much more successful FPGAs would be if you could actually write your own compilers for them.

As of now, as far as I can tell, none of the major FPGA vendors actually document the actual format of their programming. You have to use a compiler from them to compile a netlist down to the raw bytecode that's actually sent to the FPGA to program it.

This means that there are many potential uses of an FPGA that you just can't do. For instance, you can't write a GLSL shader compiler that compiles down to an FPGA on the fly, or compile OpenCL to an FPGA, or add a language extension that compiles certain highly parallelizable statements in your language down to an FPGA.

It seems that FPGA manufacturers are missing out on an awful lot by not actually opening up their hardware to experimentation by third parties. Anyone know why exactly they act this way?
I was about to make a donation to the PAC of Concerned Good Patriots for Niceness and Helpfulness. Then I looked into the organization and discovered it was run by nonagenarian ss officers intent on converting welfare recipients into soylent-green. Imagine my astonishment!
Thanks for the measured response. I hadn't really considered the strain that status quo beliefs/narratives put on those with marginalized beliefs/narratives. I actually live with a number of kids who are into anarchism/radical politics, so I've gotten a lot of exposure to more radical narratives. It's really disorienting/fascinating to meet people whose world-views differ so thoroughly from the norm.

I guess I just figured that those with radical beliefs became kind of immune to mainstream views, having rejected them. But you bring up a good point; it can be taxing to be viewed as a fringe element when you feel like you're the one who's right. I can see that being really frustrating.

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure I agree with this:

> The thing you seem to be missing is that there are no “neutral” beliefs.

If one knows nothing about an issue (concerning some status quo behavior), it would be wise for them not to take an action on that issue without first learning more about it. But until they learn about the issue, would we really consider them to have a "positive" belief on the issue?

What about when they knew a few scattered facts but didn't necessarily have the whole picture? Again, we would not want them to take a stance. (Or, at least, I wouldn't.) Would that count as a "positive" action?

I'm not certain if inaction is necessarily endorsement. True, you are allowing something to happen... but you're allowing a lot of things to happen every day, things that perhaps should be changed or stopped but that you don't have the relevant knowledge of or the means to address.

Anyway, I'm generally with you on the NSA stuff... not feeling too comfortable with what they're doing. But radicalization and ideology kind of fascinate me (mostly from a philosophical perspective) so it's always interesting to explore these interactions (though they often devolve into flame wars, sadly).

EDIT: Perhaps you could claim one has a moral obligation to research and judge the impact of the social/economic system(s) they participate in. That feels like a separate (but related) discussion altogether.
Come on, you didn't know what was in the bill but were against it because someone on the internet said "it's bad"?
Seriously, 5 minutes on wikipedia is all it takes.
The wikipedia page says that it is the state health agencies that determine need. It doesn't say that the surrounding hospitals have to agree or give permission. Do you have a source on that?
The best you can do is read the info, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codebutler...
I know it works. See what I said. The problem is the technique completely ignores motivation and the value of good faith. It works for commodity trades or non-recurring business transactions. But if you pull this off against anybody for the long term, sooner or later it will come back to bite you. And it will be sooner. "Hey Joe, I saw this awesome trick on Suits yesterday, wanna try it on the new hire's salary discussion?" It's just not gonna work.
> Yamakasi is one of the Korean screen makers.

I'm aware. I was making a distinction between the 27" and 30" models, because I only have experience with the 27" model.

> The design of the case meant that the DVI plug, when inserted into the socket, would exert sufficient force on the socket to permanently damage it after a few months

And this is why I made that distinction. Here's what my DVI socket looks like: http://i.imgur.com/CHnrmrh.jpg

Absolutely no problems at all with respect to the shape of the case. It seems like the issue you're referring to is specific to the 30" models.
I haven't had health insurance for about 7 years now.

The only way I would ever get health insurance was if the fee for not complying was greater than the cost of paying for insurance.

Even then the worst they could do is take the fee out of my tax refund. The refund is far in the future... whereas right now I need money to pay bills, so why would I pay anything for insurance now? I'll just let them take my refund. I'm sure other part-timers will think similarly.
Jobs for Life? Not in New Tech.
Before piping to your shell, don't copy-paste from website to terminal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508225
Piping commands from the network may be a bad idea, but I pipe to my shell locally all the time. The idea is that you write a shell loop that prints a bunch of commands using `echo` and then once the commands look right, you pipe them to `sh -v`. It's great for the exact opposite reason piping from the network is awful: you can see what you're about to execute before you execute anything – I don't trust myself to write complicated shell loops without seeing what I'm about to run first.
Today HHS announced that Google, Oracle, Microsoft, and Red Hat will be helping fix HealthCare.gov. Now would be a good time for all four companies to issue press releases stating "We are very happy to lend our support to the Obama administration in exchange for their scaling back of domestic and corporate spying efforts."
that's too general. r/apple, r/iphone, r/software are starting points and a lot more specific. If you plan on developing an Android version, then r/Android, r/androidapps
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Hey guys created a website for hackers to find other hackers as mentors. I built it so I can advance my knowledge of NLP. Put your email in and I'll send you an invite.
Not exactly, what if the existing code/architecture has inherit security flaws in a high value Healthcare system? Something that competent workers won't just let exist to "finish" the job.
> When you factor in really needing to use monitor arms it probably doesn't make sense. But they look great.

I don't see any reason to use a monitor arm. Sure, the stand doesn't let you adjust the height, but you can just use some books or cardboard boxes to adjust that.
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Which is kind of my point. Unless you're distributing devices which the users can't get their own images out of, but someone else can, then your fundamentally decentralizing the power structure.

The government is bigger then you, it has more resources then you and its been able to monopolize surveillance more effectively then you. But the pushback against that is not what I would argue we'd expect - you don't try and eliminate surveillance, you democratize it.
It is more like checkers.

Limit the moves:

Profit is capped. Now profit can only grow through growth in a market that is, by law, fully saturated. That means mergers.

Once the field is winnowed down to a few players, government can cry 'monopoly' and regulate it until it is government run in all but name.
Does anyone remember that project that was downloading a script directly from the most recent devel in a repository, and in order to demonstrate how insecure that practice was, someone actually included an rm -rf /home/

The maintainer didn't check the commit and included it in develop, which consequently was downloaded and... ect.

I'm looking for it.
In Regulator's Sights
If you read my post carefully, you'll notice that I put “nothing” in quotation marks. You're close when you guess that I mean that “the effect doing nothing is to support the status quo, and morally equivalent to positive action supporting the the status quo,” but you have the direction of causation backwards. What I was trying to get at is that it's actually impossible to do “nothing”: you're always doing something, and if you're not, you're dead. The thing is, many actions which act to reproduce and maintain the status quo are ideologically defined as “nothing”: they're so normal that they're invisible.

I don't understand why you equate class struggle and global revolution with Bolshevism, or the implication that there's anything Orwellian about those things. That's completely disingenuous. There are several well known political traditions which advocate class struggle and global revolution but which at the same time have always fiercely been opposed to Bolshevism. Anarchist communism, left-wing communism, etc...
You can't delete /proc, it is a pseudo filesystem the kernel creates. They aren't really files. Deleting /dev is a real pita however
bro hug

Ya, you are right. There's no silver bullet to user acquisition i think. I do spend time writing on the site hoping to have some readers.
As far as I can tell, the AArch64-ness of these parts is only half of the (very exciting!) story ... the really interesting thing is that these are being manufactured on Intel's 14nm FinFET process. To date, I didn't think anyone was doing FPGAs on Intel's process except for Achronix, and they're relatively low-volume... so high-volume FPGAs (and with ARM cores, no less!) on a leading-edge Intel process is truly astounding.

These will be ghastly expensive parts, that much is for sure, but they have the potential to be really fast. I've always been a Xilinx user, but I will absolutely give credit where credit is due here: Altera seems to have pulled off something pretty remarkable. I'm excited to see what performance is like when these actually show up.
What bugs me is the exchange rate used.

$349 is not close to £299, more like £220, sure allow margin for flexability etc. But still £80 more however you look at it just a bit evil. Least the exchange rate on the 32GBversion is less evil, but still evil.
That's not really intended as a serious application though - but being able to boot over long distance HTTP links is a nice advantage for a lot applications. Plus you can use HTTPS with that.
That's adorable! Except the part where KittenDelivery tweeted some hairless kittens -- those are creepy. Anyway, my bot has (so far) always been unsuspended upon appeal, but sometimes it takes 3-12 hours or something.
As the author points out in the comments these are targeted for "high end" applications like crypto processors. I've got one of the Zedboards [1] and I really like the basic board, but damn if it isn't nearly impossible to set up with Xilinx tools. The Quartus tools from Altera are a bit better but they too have their quirks. I keep hoping pg will get a chance to fund a startup that is doing the HDL equivalent of PHP :-)

[1] http:://www.zedboard.org
I use this exact same system, although it sort of hurts to see my old phones get slowly crippled by my girlfriend. She is currently just bringing my old Galaxy Nexus to the end of its life.
Actually, I'm not sure the pixel density is higher on those... here is a 4096x2160 diagnostic monitor:

http://www.eizo.com/global/press/releases/htmls/RadiForceRX8...

and it is 36.4" diagonal.
We live in blessed times where the threshold for being evil has fallen so low.
Ok so we have a buggy website and this is going too be fixed by using outsourced engineers. Not exactly a solution and for all we know Oracle could send the same engineers that made mistakes in java, not impossible.

Just so long as the website does not start insisting upon a toolbar to be installed, then nobody will get any more upset pressing F5 repeatedly to check if the site is down. If anything this website is suffering a bit from what I call fashion denial of service, bit of a fotm.
>I don't see why we should be applauding him for not doing the assignment...

For the same reason he should be applauded for skipping school to work on his side projects: because breaking the rules to do something awesome is good. If he had done the stupid popsicle assignment, he'd still be in school working towards mediocrity. What's the point of that?

The only point of the popsicle assignment was to give students something non-threatening to cut their teeth on. It has absolutely zero value outside of that. Clearly, he didn't need coddling, so he took on a bigger challenge -- and succeeded. That's exactly the type of attitude we should applaud.
This keeps coming up on Hacker News, and while I'm sure the people on Hacker News know this is bad, they probably still do it anyways because it's never had an adverse effect for them.

Speaking for myself, this has never caused a problem for me, and I'll probably keep doing it because it's convenient and that convenience is more valuable weighed against the potential bad things that could happen. Most likely is the case that the package just doesn't execute. The probability that it ends up on rm or something destructive is probably very low, and if someone is actively trying to MITM you, they will find a way if you are smart enough not to run scripts from wget, most people aren't the target of this kind of very specific attack.

Like Apple's TouchID – it may not really be secure, but it's very convenient, and that will often be enough to make it mainstream.
wget -O - https://example.com/install.sh | vim

A work around I've been using for a while. I then :saveas and execute it myself once I verify it's not doing anything fishy.
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Although 3rd party developers eventually brought ICS (and Jelly Bean for that matter) to the Nexus One with a lot of hacking, there were good technical reasons why there was never an official release. ICS needed drastically more space on NAND than Gingerbread, as evidence by 3rd party ICS ROMs requiring you to repartition your NAND as well as mount /data on the SD card if you wanted to install more than two or three apps, which then led to greatly reduced I/O performance.
> If their duty is to board a boat and insure there is no contraband or whatever, I cannot imagine they're also given a blanket right to learn trade secrets and then be at their own discretion to disclose those.

No, exactly. If you're entering any private property and learn information that you wouldn't have been aware of, as a result of preforming your duty, you are not allowed to disclose it. That's my point. Any NDA should be entirely irrelevant.

If you you're cop and bust someone for possession of drugs, you're not allowed to, as a private citizen, go to that persons employer and recommend they fire the guy, either.

The only possible value I could see of an "NDA" is not as an NDA at all, but as a brief education on what things might be considered private -- that might not be obvious to someone not already familiar with data centres. In other words, an explanation and expansion on what might constitute privileged information, and so fall under the provisions for secrecy and privacy that the government employee is already subject to.
mailpile looks NICE! I'll have to keep checking on it.
why no template rendering?
Hi there, very insightful comment. Is there a way I could contact you in private?
The impression I got was that, correctly, melling suggested choosing your battles wisely.

You chose to put words in his/her mouth instead and be condescending.

Just for the record: that is not a good thing to do, and you should stop doing that.
BTW, the price it quoted me for the 32-inch screen is HK$41,899. According to Wolphram|Alpha, that works out to in $5403.92 USD.
> <i>Honestly, this is part of what I mean about learning to support a reasonable argument. It's not effective to construct examples to "support" a point you've already committed to.</i>
Point taken.

As I said, I am still reading and since the subject is close to me I tend to run into my own biases.

<i> > so are the humanities enforcing Orientalism, or actually combating it?</i>
I am not a Marxist who believes every odd thing is intentional. But I do believe that humanities aren't as critical to The System as they are portrayed to be. They are very well an integral part of The System. And The System is all about money which humanities don't bring any more - hence the decreasing interest. For example, science is about pursuit of pure knowledge, but then most of its funding comes from DARPA, isn't it? So, in a peaceful world, scientific pursuit WILL dwindle. That is just the fact. Whether intentional or consequential, or whether science wants to bring peace or not, those questions are beyond my understanding as of now. And I think they will remain conjectural even after my death.
It doesn't work if you aren't logged in and haven't set a default shipping address.

e.g. I see "We are not able to ship this item to your default shipping address."
You can write the tools you describe on top of any existing tool stack -- you'll just have to use the hardware description language as an IL. (Indeed, many tools already do this.)

You could write your own synthesis front-end and place-and-route back-end, but they're not like any compilers you've ever seen before. (A recent Coursera class [1] went into pretty good detail about how synthesis and place and route work.) I think that the unfamiliarity is probably why there are no Open Source toolchains for it.

For Virtex-II platform, Xilinx provided a tool to edit bitfiles, called JBits [2], but it seems to be well and truly dead[3].

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/vlsicad

[2] http://www.xilinx.com/labs/projects/jbits/

[3] http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Virtex-Family-FPGAs/Question-abo...
OK so you made some awesome optimized directives.. would you consider publishing them please?
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There's a really great tool called www.theresumator.com out there that is easy to use and works great. (I don't work for them, I work for SAP.)

As for AngelList, I've got a posting out there for a co-founder but not getting many hits but that's due to it being an equity thing with no pay.

You can definitely find people on there and they are fairly responsive.
Having to download & run all your code on the client. In general you don't want to send things you aren't going to use on the client.
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11, the forgotten prime.
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The 21st century is Australia's for the taking
Before every gets up in arms about this, consider the world in which we live first.

We live in a world where a foreign power invaded our soil, captured our capital and burnt it to the ground, and we did not suspend our Constitution to deal with the threat.

We live in a world where an internal faction, in rebellion, threatened to end our existence as a country, and we did not suspend our Constitution to deal with the threat*

We have increasingly abandoned that ideal in favor of "the Constitution is not a suicide pact", but we have faced existential threats before and survived them.

So I, personally, need a stronger argument than "there are threats out there".

* Lincoln did suspend habeas corpus, and legal scholars can argue over whether it was done in the proper form, but the Constitution does permit the suspension in times of rebellion.
I am specially interested at how your overriding scope's $watch method.
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[IANAL]

The bigger can of worms for employers in regard to employee health status is ADA. It often encourages sophisticated employers to avoid the concept of sick days altogether and just lump everything into one type of leave.
Counterpoint to the author: have you ever heard of anyone ever having anything catastrophic happen because of this, ever? Have you ever heard of anyone even having it fail with garbage?

I haven't.
Reform is needed all over the place... it's just dismaying to see so many public institutions simply ignoring morals in favor of exploiting the letter of the law to the fullest extent.
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What were your previous startups in? Consumer? Enterprise? Perhaps you can start writing about your failures to connect with more technical people.
That's a satire site, in case you didn't know.
I'm working on this problem, and I strongly agree that in the relatively near future, coding will be as wide spread (and about as easy) as using a spreadsheet is today, and has been for the last 35 years.

But it won't look like what we're calling "coding" today—even though it is. :)
Email me if you'd like to go over some ideas, I like such things. My address is in my profile. Cheers!