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They mention above they went from Python to presumably C or something else closer to the metal. That probably explains a huge part of the speedup.
It means that we are sponsoring those tags on Stack Overflow, have a landing page there and that people at Mozilla actively monitor and take part in discussions marked with that tag.
Most non-tech people I know consider "building your own computer" to mean being able to plug together your main board, hard drive, graphic card etc. This is what this kit do.

> This is a nice raspberry pi starter kit. If it was marketed that way, it would be fine.

This is why techies suck at marketing, no people would get what this is about. Are you aware that most people have no idea what raspberry pi is? To most people, a "raspberry pi starter kit" would sound like a kit containing a cookbook with a few tools to get you started and prepare a raspberry pie.

This marketing is for kids and their non-tech parents. Kids can't obviously compile their kernel from scratch and build their own computer. But it challenges their curiosity, show them how to assemble a computer in a basic way, it makes them want to build stuff and gives them a fun introduction to programming and the command line. Not that bad.
It's fun. Javascript is really easy for people to noodle about with. Some of them are really impressive. Some of them are just fun.
A lot of information here, but it doesn't seem certain that this is a real slowdown -- at least with respect to the number of accelerators.

Truthfully, the slowdown in funding of "accelerated" startups could be down to other market factors (like the "crunch" that is widely touted) ... it'll be a few yrs until we can really see the effect here.
ParallelX has been an idea in the making for 2.5 years. Your skepticism is valid, and only as we continue developing, iterating, and working with customers will we convince you that we're serious.

This is the first time we'll be working full time, in the same city, if that matters for anything.
In that case, how much of your 18000x speedup is due to the GPU and how much of it is due to re-implementing the algorithm in a compiled language? Python->C/C++/etc is a 100x-1000x speedup right off the bat.

That's not a fair CPU/GPU comparison at all.
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Is there anyone who has used one of these who can comment on the amount of lag? The website makes a lot of claims about almost everything except lag. High accuracy (claimed) is nice and all, but it really throws you off if you're drawing a curve and what's showing up on the screen is precisely half a second behind your hand!

Low latency is crucial for a stylus. Absolutely crucial. It's what separates tools from toys.
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Hm, those two seem vastly more complicated, with extra C and ASM rather than just plain Go.
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> And there I though search results were supposed to be relavant [sic]

Google loses, if the ads aren't relevant. They KNOW that. More than you realize.

> The normal CTR is now about 0.2 or 0.3 percent? That kind of contradicts what you are saying.

What's the CTR on organic results? Telling us the CTR on ads by itself tells us exactly nothing.
I had a strange weird idea about all this, you might not be able to generate enough power to do mechanical stuff, but I wonder if you could power nano-robots and micro power bio-telemetry gadgets using this? The problem with magnetic fields is the area of the pickup coil of something the size of a blood cell is so small.

You couldn't do anything bulk physical, but you might safely generate enough power to do ultra low power telemetry. Like hold this piece of natural granite to activate the glucose monitor sensors in your hand's blood vessels walls or something.

Or using a really good switching power supply like design you could eat a banana, all of which are somewhat radioactive, and some sensor could very slowly charge up for an hour (or a day, or a week...) and then use all that power in a millisecond to squeak out your blood pressure to your phone.

Something good might yet come of this. Probably not this decade, maybe this century though.

If somebody at YC turns this into a startup I'll be impressed.
Totally, however a lot of our install base tend not to be as technical. The disparity between devs is getting massive.
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That's great to hear. I actually envision a situation where the allocation of the /48 would be per-customer or per-customer-per-datacenter. That way I could do things like firewall off hosts easily. For example I could tell my DB hosts to only allow incoming connections from my /48 and nothing else. Having no common prefix for all my droplets would make this harder where I would have to list all allowed hosts.

I definitely appreciate that DO is doing things the right way and that this isn't going to be a rollout of "well, this host on this router supports IPv6, but that load balancer upstream does not".
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The most interesting part was at the end when they talked about a proposal & vote to upgrade the payment network (and not even real-time like England's) which failed to pass. A later survey found that the prime reason was cannibalisation of existing revenue streams - aka wire transfers.

Having lived in the US, Ireland and Australia, I find the US banking system to be archaic compared to Ireland or Australia's. I can pay anyone up to around 1000 EUR/AUD in a few clicks. No fees or waiting days for money to show. It's brilliant!
Hands down, and orders of magnitude worse than any of those listed in the Quora article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Gorges_Dam
It's also difficult to claim that this reflects the current situation in Germany.

As best I can tell, Germany hasn't had any road border controls since 2007 (when Czech Rep & Poland implemented Schengen).
I did not realize this was a possibility. In either case, I am no longer a Linode user mostly because of the relative cost difference with DO.
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Fascinating. Is it possible to reduce the cpu utilization when idle?
Next generation P2P apps is one great addition. Though we've yet to see it in the wild, the theory is that you don't need to port forward any more (just make allowances in the Firewall). Will come with it's own set of security issues. Someone here probably knows a lot more about it that I do.
General options question: I was hired after the first round of funding and given x0,000 options along the way (three years in so far). We're just now closing our second round. I was curious about the valuation and number of options/shares issued so I could have a ballpark idea of the value of my options. When I asked at a company meeting, the founders hemmed and hawed about it and ultimately wouldn't say. The round hasn't closed yet. Are these numbers typically kept secret? Is there a reason whey they're tight-lipped? Our headcount is 20-30 and I'm just a developer.
Yeah this was the first channel I really stopped on and it was hilarious when I realised the bearded chap was mouthing along.
... a lot of googledygook
I understand how Google works. I think I even agree with some of your underlying points... but my complaint is that the headline of this post is just flat wrong. I see no evidence that Google lied or used adblock.
There's a lot of good information on this particular phenomenon in the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car". It's a bit dated by now, but still relevant in my opinion.

Car companies make a lot of their profits off of spare part sales for maintenance and repairs. Electric cars have far fewer moving parts, and are generally more reliable, so the traditional profit model breaks down somewhat.

Some have also speculated that the auto companies have historically resisted electric cars because they're in bed with the oil industry, but it's hard to really verify how true that is.

Finally, any corporation with a long established history will generally be resistant to big changes. See, for example, Kodak: it was obvious that the world was going digital, but we had this big established business that was good at making conventional film, and they didn't want to shift away from their strength. They dabbled in digital technologies, but never truly accepted the shift in technology. Of course, years later they went bankrupt, but it took a long time to reach that point, and meanwhile all the executives left with golden parachutes.
Pencil isn't designed to only work with Paper. Anyone who is interested in an SDK for Pencil...

I can't help it, this makes me think of joke engineering documentation for everyday items.
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Updated link: https://keybase.io/warp
Bottom line, except for Gallipi (BitPay CEO) no one in this hearing on either side understood bitcoin.

They could have replaced the word "Bitcoin" with the word "eGold" and had the same amount of substance.

Yesterday was different.
Right. The founders were there five years, then pushed out during the dotcom crash, then the company made a substantial “pivot” (in the same field, but the product being offered and created by the founders was gone, and new ones introduced).

Two years after the founders are gone, the company begins to make money again.

Then 11 years, the company is sold for a lot of money.

And the founders feel they are entitled to a large chunk of that, despite their non-involvement in operation of the company and their diluted ownership (unsurprising, but common with multiple rounds of financing that they were in favor of).

It’s worth noting that many of the founders claims have been dismissed as egregious, lacking in evidence and otherwise.
It's pretty crazy to think that so much of a brand awareness is actually from UGC...
By your logic, why shouldn't Americans worry much more about E. coli than NSA surveillance? What evidence do we have from Snowden (or elsewhere) that NSA surveillance has killed or even harmed anyone in the US?

You can feel "terrorized" that the NSA might use its powers for great evil, but to the average voter that probably seems less likely than one or a series of high casualty attacks by foreign nationals.

I don't want to get into an argument about how we're all deeply harmed whenever laws are violated, and especially when the powerful can violate them at will. Sure. But the mortality rate argument is a loser: The public and policy makers will never make these kinds of serious decisions based only on a death toll. If they did, we'd have banned passenger cars decades ago.
I've found it to be really helpful to keep a project work log when working alone. Mine are very verbose and help the most at the time of writing, since it keeps me on task and solidifies ideas.

My friend does the same thing, here's what he wrote about it recently:

http://blag.cammunism.org/blog/2013/11/14/programmers-log/
Ask HN: suggestions for managing internal software critiques/feedback?
I'm a Sales Engineer for a smallish (100ppl) SaaS platform. My team and I frequently find ourselves as the last final 'internal' evaluators on products that are ~90% finished and approaching MVP (usually just pointing out minor usability complaints and gripes).

I'm looking for some type of tool/app/process? that helps my team and I go through and provide these occasional critiques (screenshots, notes, suggestions, etc) as soon as we start getting early access to the new products. I need a way to store, organize, and share that feedback with Product Managers / QA / Dev.

Right now, I'm just cobbling up Google docs, screenshots from Skitch (need the arrows, annotations, etc), and then sharing it with the Product team and going over it one-by-one in meetings.

Does this type of tool exist anywhere? Or... does anyone else have suggestions on how to document and manage feedback from early internal beta testers? (I suppose this could also apply to external beta testers too)

Thanks!
Chrome still uses the old Win32 API (GDI) to display fonts, whereas IE and FF are now using DirectWrite.
To build the next generation of the Internet of course! :)

On a practical level, IPv6 is easier to administer since in a lot of ways it's more straightforward. For home use it's great since every device gets its own globally unique address (I can `ssh home.example.com` from any IPv6 enabled host).

Firewall rules become simpler if you have a common prefix vs lots of individual IPv4 addresses.

There are already lots of users who have IPv6 enabled: http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html: TL;DR: over 2% of Google's traffic is over IPv6. Running dual stack servers lets you reach more customers.

I guess to an extent asking what people use IPv6 for is similar to asking what people use IPv4 for. You don't normally use IP. You use applications that run on top of TCP/IP or UDP/IP. Having a public IP address makes writing and managing those applications easier.

Edit: Also IPv6 addresses are cheap. An additional IPv4 address will run you about $1/month with a lot of providers. A billion IPv6 addresses is one billionth of the minimum allocation you will get for free. So in the long run, the cheapest DO droplet might cost as little as $4 instead of $5 :).
2.5% of Google's traffic is over IPv6
Bitpay assumes the volatility risk for customers and merchants, and charges at most 1% for their cheapest platform, so none of this is really an issue - is it?
85,000 neo-nazis out of 145.5 million Russians are just 0.05% of the Russian Population.

Speeking of Xenophobia, So wanting to keep their country to themselves (like every nation and color of people try to) is racist? Would you say the same about the Japanese, Israelis, Kenyans, or Koreans? I ask this because I've noticed Europeans today are being held to extremely high standards while other races and nationalities are not. It's like there's a racist witch trial and whites are under the microscope while everyone else dances around to the same exact tune and escapes criticism.
They're the real sets/hosts, but not real broadcasts of those shows.
Exactly! (I'm trying to be optimistic here :P)
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"The lyrics to this song are like the anthem of Holden Caufield... a wry, disillusioned, antisocial, anticonsumption, post-war love song. Anyone who ever thought otherwise, is a turd who only loved this song because it was Top 40 and reminiscent of some lost High School dance, despite the fact that the song itself is completely anti-pop."

I sorta hate to break it to you but we knew all that back then. I don't think any other point of view was even considered.
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If you just want some correctives to the popular mythology of Tulipomania, you can start with _Famous First Bubbles_: quick read which demolishes a lot of the platitudes and simplifications, and covers the virus & other issues.
I don't believe a TLD can have a reputation (apart from that related to the government controlling it). That's exactly why I went for a cheep TLD. .com is a gold plated connector on a digital data cable (or whatever monster uses these days) IMO - raising the price for no reason at all. An average person shouldn't care.
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The advisory recommends the Nginx specific no response header (444) rather than the 403 forbidden header.
Or maybe the "questions police" is the reason the community is there and not in yet another weed-infested forum.

Disclosure: Card-carrying member of the "questions police".
Cool if you like writing with a log.
You're right, it isn't a perfectly fair comparison. However, even if we had coded it in C++, the run time difference would still have been significant.

We're just sharing our story at this point. Next, we'll be sharing our whitepaper and data. We rather start gathering feedback now, as opposed to after writing 100k LoC for the compiler.
Any advice on how to get PHP working after upgrading from Ubuntu default 1.1.19 to the latest from the http://nginx.org/en/linux_packages.html repo?

No errors thrown anywhere, but php5-fpm is dead in the water... Rolling back until I can find anything on how to fix this.
> Me asking my neighbor how to forecast something and saving what could be minutes to hours, despite interrupting a train of thought and setting them back a few seconds, definitely does add value.

Only if either A, your interruption costs them less time then it saves you, or B you believe your time is more valuable than theirs.

I think its a good idea to establish within a workplace, esp. an open seated workplace, a way of broadcasting the price of interrupting you. Sometimes this is informal with headphones as a sign, other times people make DND signs or lights, etc. Its just much easier when everyone has an office- you can shut your door.
it strikes me as very strange when folks - especially young, single founders with few living expenses - get upset when someone negotiates for higher compensation.

It shouldn't strike you as strange. You're expecting those young, single founders with few living expenses to empathize with people who aren't in their situation. What experience have they had that would allow them to do so?
Been there, done that too! Less than 2 weeks ago at that.
circumventing capital controls allowing people to vote with their feet and impoverish corrupt governments is not useless.
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1.) I'm using Prerender.io which targets bots and renders the page for them using PhantomJS - it's really neat! The only drawback is the response time will increase a bit for the bots, which may affect SEO.
In the last six months, I've gotten offers from four different startups in SF, each of which offered me a MUCH lower salary than what I make now with roughly the same equity. At least one of them got pissed off when I countered in the manner you suggested. Instead, they told me how dumb I was for not taking equity into account. Which of course I did, but when your equity is the same as the equity I already have, I don't really need to consider it, especially when, as other posters have pointed out, the EV of the equity is zero.

And you're right: their needs and my needs didn't match, so I declined. That's just business. Nothing personal. :)
That's from their Kickstarter page.
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I sort of thought that for a moment too. But then I realised that this was HN so they're likely actually selling some kind of technology that I'm too uncool to know about. So they're talking about "Pencil" and "Paper" not pencil and paper as I understand it. Of course with their super cool, new age design website, actually finding out what they're talking about requires watching a video or something. Simply stating what something is and how it fits with pre-existing things is far too uncool.
I don't know about you guys but I found this really motivational.
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It won't because there is next to zero benefit in doing so, while it would have a significant cost.
Besides, system programming and application programming are very different domains, that attract very different programmers. Just look at the date on the article, and do a quick search on this topic. You'll see that there is no follow-up.
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In my experience it's not a secret to employees, although are you sure they aren't just waiting for the deal to close? Leadership (at least responsible leadership) generally has to be very careful about what they tell people.

Number of shares is meaningless, you can take the number of shares and the FMV of each share (they have to give you that else you can't pay taxes) and get an idea of where you are. You can do the same pre and post financing.

I do not know if they have to tell you how many shares there are or how many have been allocated. If you exercise you may gain access to additional information as a share holder, but I don't know the specifics of how that works.

Options are fun and you should negotiate for them, but never compromise on cash. They can't take away cash, but they can effectively render your options worthless if they wish.
You're correct, regarding the 18,000x speedup. It's worth mentioning that Java isn't very fast either.
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Amazing!

I'd love to see a port of Out of this World to Javascript.
In case you're wondering, here's the company behind this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/02/cognitive_lands_lg_a...
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A particularly fine example of a bug journal (not exactly a debugging journal) is the one kept by Donald Knuth for his TeX typesetting system.

The list is at http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/generic/knuth/errata/errorl... the fairly long and very interesting paper he wrote about it ("The Errors of TeX") unfortunately doesn't seem to be freely available, but there's a very short informal article (also by Knuth) about it at http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb10-4/tb26knut.pdf.

He classifies all the errors he's ever found (or had found by others) into 15 categories. (Here "errors" includes "enhancements found to be a good idea", just as in many issue-tracking systems.) In the full "Errors" paper he has much to say about each category, including concrete examples and more philosophical ruminations.
I use DigitalOcean, my application is not very large but response time is important. 20 GB is more than enough for me, even 10 GB would be enough. Being it SSD, it runs the short lived disk-based tasks I give (compilation & copying moving files) very fast due to its SSD, compared to AWS and others. This is my usecase and I am happy with it.
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This is the only example of parallax scrolling I have ever liked.
Does anyone know a free alternative to Pix4D (the image stitching software)? I'd love to try this myself.
What's wrong with PHP? I wasn't aware that any more recent Nginx version broke it.
I think it's a pretty nice RPi starter kit. Speaker, wifi, keyboard, great! I just don't like the bullshit marketing they've put on it. The kids will probably enjoy snapping together the parts, but then you're done. Now it's a sealed-up Minecraft box.

A bigger focus on, say, a suite of kid-oriented programming tools would have been better.
Disclaimer: I'm not super versed on this kind of thing, so this is just what I understand.

It's my understanding that generally when you raise more funding, your shares are diluted. Let's say before there were 100,000 shares, and you had 500 of them. Well, now there are 120,000 shares and you still only have 500 of them, so instead of having options for 0.5% of the company, you have options for .4% of the company. They don't really want you to know that the equity you were promised up front is now worth less than it was before, so that's why they hemmed and hawed.
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