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i'm not sure where to start here...

actually this is exactly what everyone thought when this hardware was new 10 years ago... and even before that we were thinking about it. look at rendering demos from that time that leveraged the shader - this was the dumbass obvious thing that almost everyone did.

this is not physical simulation - not even close. the navier-stokes equations are still really quite difficult to do anything real-time with unless you make some serious compromises.

i will conceded that this is very loosely based on physical reality. but actually, you can do a lot, /lot/ better with clever hacks.

as an example of one of the much, much better solutions which approximate reality than this - the old school 2d 'water' effect created from feedback and a clever 3x3 convolution filter shaped as a ring with a hole in the middle, for instance is visually much more impressive and computationally simpler - and it actually is a solution to a discretised wave equation. render this old effect as greyscale into a buffer than use it as a height/displacement-map style texture - with this solution implementing real-time ripples and fluid like response to objects entering the liquid comes down to rendering the outline into that buffer and these kinds of waves simply fall out rather than requiring maintenance or trig calls...
Yes, you make a good point. I did get the market rate back then. The only problem here is that I had different expectations, and expected a more immediate turn around. I'm not sure if waiting a week is really sustainable as a purchasing platform, but I'm also sure as time goes by, that time will decrease.
Right, but what, exactly, is "pirating content"? And how far are we going to go to preven it? Because strictly speaking, the entire world wide web is based on copying content. Strictly, that's a whole lot of copyright infringement, a.k.a. "pirating". Sure, copyright isn't enforced a lot, but still, where's the line?

Very strictly enforcing current laws on copyright would (I think) prohibit a useful world wide web. Are you willing to go that far? If so, how do you propose we implement the enforcement without intruding massively on other, God Given Rights? If not, where and why are you going to draw the line? Because where you draw the line is going to be different than where the MPAA draws the line, and different from where I draw it (I think).
The problem is that a lot of the folks that might apply for that job are going to have their value calculations screwed up by "I got to work with the Penny Arcade guys!".

And in the long run, that probably wouldn't matter as much as getting paid properly--especially once the glamor wears off.

The point the author makes is that they are doing well enough that they could actually be paying better than market rates, and could have put up a job posting that would've avoided all this.

I agree with your summary, but again the problem is that it is very, very easy to trick people into doing things not in their self interest--and if not trick outright, to allow them to convince themselves something is a better deal than it is.

And we can all claim "Hey, they knew the terms when they signed up", but that doesn't excuse their being taken advantage of by people who don't have to do so.

People are dumb and don't always do smart things, and only sometimes does experience give them the perspective to admit that they were dumb--it's not unreasonable for the rest of us to try and warn them.
There's no reason why you can't run logrotate more than once a day. You can run a separate instance every 15 minutes if you like, with a separate configuration file that only rotates the short-lived logs.
Is that an honest question?

You realise that almost no-one gives a fuck about Snowden, right? Most people really just don't care.

The Guardian newspaper has (if we're generous) a circulation of 250,000 people.

The (untrustworthy) numbers of the MileyCyrusVEVO "Wrecking Ball" video are 352,117,848 views.
The scope of their audience is somewhat irrelevant. I'm not criticizing their comic here - other than a somewhat simple blog(ish) design, they just need to handle a lot of users to their semi-static site which is a solved problem. Maybe deal with a ton of users on their forum - once again a solved problem. Otherwise, like I said, most of it is office IT stuff for a handful of people working in an office.

I'm not sure how that is any more impressive than many other businesses that aren't known in the geek world.Their other endeavors (Child's Play, PAX) are more business and logistics and light on the IT. From what I've read most of that stuff is outsourced anyways so that PA can focus on the content and not the tedium.
I would actually contrast Fring, the bootstrapper, with Heisenberg, the VC-funded startup. It's clear in the fifth season that Fring had slow growth and scaled his operations gradually, while the newcomers just keep throwing money at the problems. They were agile, but they had very little runway, and they had to keep raising rounds (from Tuco, then Fring) to keep the lights on.
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Yes, I saw ~200,000 votes for Snowden when I voted earlier today, and now it's just 37,000. What's going on?! Is Time changing the numbers, or is NSA that petty and hacked them?
Buy a good piano, get a great teacher, and practice. A lot!
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TIME magazine jumped the shark a very long time ago. I remember a time when everyone was curious who would win and it was a really big honor. Today you're sharing the honor with the likes of Moot from 4Chan. I think I am going to go off and vote for Miley Cyrus.
> Eventual consistency,

...may be possible, but almost always requires domain-specific concurrency-level understanding in your datastore, and is almost always harder to work with than strong consistency.

Saying that transactions are 'rarely' needed boggles my mind. Working inside transactions (where feasible, which is in the large majority of situations) vastly simplifies data storage.
It's written right in that the condition must be expected to last 12 months or more.

Depending on case loads in your jurisdiction, it might take longer than that to apply and appeal your (likely) denial.

Maybe you're thinking of short-term disability insurance, which is a private service unavailable to those who can't afford it?

Edit because we're too deep in this thread: from ssa.gov

"Social Security has a strict definition of disability for children.

The child must have a physical or mental condition(s) that very seriously limits his or her activities; and
The condition(s) must have lasted, or be expected to last, at least 1 year or result in death."

Perhaps you were in a state-run program for minors with different eligibility requirements, I'm not sure.
It's difficult to predict what the future bread-and-butter markets will be.

Let's say that IT will account for 20% of a post-recovery economy. In that case replace my enumeration of a few markets by 'whatever makes up the other 80% of the market.'
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Is there a google chrome extension that allows me to modify the served javascript from the original page?
How is this any different than Zuckerberg creating FB so he can get all the chicks? Startups are not created solely for money. In fact, some might argue money is just a means to an end: more or better sex
Great bumper sticker in 2001 was "God, one more bubble, this time I'll SELL."

Some interesting analysis I read was take $10K during the period of 1995 - 2000, invest it in tech stocks, sell them when it hit $15K, and invest $10K again in stocks, sell when it hit $15K, rinse and repeat. When the bubble bursts you lose all of your $10K investment, but in the last bubble you had put aside $25K in 'profits.' The point of the analysis was that sticking to goals and running your investing based on those goals was more effective in a bubble than 'going long' (as I did btw) The other key was that you did not try to 'amplify' your risk by selling and then investing all of the money you had ($15K after the first round) because that left money at risk. The money you pulled out had to go somewhere that was really solid (like an FDIC insured savings account or CD).

Perhaps I'll get a chance to try that strategy this round.
The NSA reactions are superficially libertarian, but other than that, no, I don't see it.
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Then there is clink and msysgit and (not yet published) git integration, I am working on integrating some package manager. I will try to include any software that I find helpful.

No this is not coding project. This is a project to bring something usable and nice to people without having to read yet another "Check out my setup". It is like oh my zsh, or some kind of dev-kit.
just because people don't know what bitcoin is, doesn't mean they need to mislabel a payment processing center as a bank... are we going to start calling authorize.net a bank now too? no!
So you've been able to figure out the cause of this? Is there a site out there that explains the details? (Not that an inability to comment on YouTube is much of a hardship, but it's occasionally frustrating.)
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But it is still moving and evolving online :) it wasn't wrong then and it isn't wrong now. That doesn't mean it will be linear all the way.
I totally agree. Its like twitter with no character limit. And instead of celebrities and famous people, its intellectuals, academia and influential people in tech that you can follow. People hate on Google+ way too much without even really giving it a fair chance. Its very useful and flexible, it is what you make of it.
I'm calling BS on this.

Agree...headline needs to be qualified "sampled" employees. There is no way I would generalize a small number to the larger population of employees (as in, US population), given surely the uneven distribution of this type of "work" requirement in terms of geography, industry, and job-level (etc).
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What would be the benefit of "curation" of classifieds? I pretty much use Ebay with filter < 50 mi as a way of looking for locally sold goods now-a-days.
Total real time was under a week, since I did it on the side. I didn't keep track of the number of hours.
completely valid point (which i addressed in my comment), but also completely separate from your initial complaint of "why not make it usable?"?
don't be so doubtful. i started out down this path without google and the internet so its especially easy for me to see, but consider: do you even want to make this?

if you did i'd bet you'd find a way - google, wikipedia and free copies of gpu gems make it stupidly easy. the amount of understanding required to produce a demo like this is no more than is required to copy someone else's code or algorithm in any other discipline.

even without those, if you wanted to make this i bet you could come up with something pretty good on a first attempt. even now i bet that somewhere in there you have a pretty good idea of an approach - you might think its dumb, inefficient or must have a flaw in it - you might have no idea about what you need to feed the rendering pipeline - but i'd bet its pretty good - probably a lot better than you'd give it credit for.
This made me smile. Google News is so full of drivel and shock-value titles from all the major sources. It's good to see some news on the other side.
no way, cash and gold are real...

/sarcasm
I'm not sure that you two are in disagreement--they are saying that precisely because being an employee is different from being a founder, an employee needs to make sure that their interests are seen to.

(this is all said with respect to an engineering position)

In an early-stage startup, you are likely to be building the product and doing at least as much useful technical work as the tech cofounder from whom you are taking some of the burden.

Moreover, because you're in a small company, you probably don't get benefits, and you probably don't get good pay ("After the next round!"), and you probably don't get much gear, and so on and so forth. The options you're granted may well not pan out, and even if they do they probably will be diluted into something equal to a holiday bonus.

That being the case, it makes great sense to look after your own interests.

This equation, of course, changes once the company is large enough to actually take proper care of its employees and pay proper market rates.
Go Miley GO!

That Miley is in the lead is sad commentary indeed.

That Snowden is a known figure is even sadder.
This is the first I've heard the term "dark matter developer", but this type of developer definitely exists. There's probably equal numbers of those who are happy with their jobs as aren't, and who are brilliant as are mediocre. I imagine that the typical dark matter developer is more risk-averse than an "outgoing" developer (intentionally not using the term "regular" because outgoing developers are a vocal minority according to this hypothesis), simply by virtue of the tendency of developers in the startup scene to downplay risk.

I used to be one of these. I never aspired to move to the Valley, or to found a company. I eventually had an opportunity to try it and have never looked back, but the idea simply would never have occurred to me had I not been approached.
The Westboro Baptist Church.

It's a rather infamous church in Kansas (with a small membership - about 15 or so people, all related by marriage or direct heritage) whose members go about to various places across the country to protest "gayness" and other such things. They're most infamous for picketing at a homosexual soldier's funeral, among other things, carrying signs that say things like "GOD HATES FAGS" and telling people they're going to hell.

They've also apparently been barred by Canada and the UK from entry into their borders, and the more infamous Ku Klux Klan apparently also have a strong distaste for their behavior.

See also, for example, godhatesfags.com and godhatesamerica.com.

They're tolerated because the First Amendment explicitly permits their behavior, and they don't generally break laws. But they're almost universally reviled for their behavior and statements, and are considered a hate group by most rational people.
Agreed! We could all use a little more positivity in our lives.
Previous Hacker News discussion with several comments (I'm not sure what the duplicate detector missed here):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6800145
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Very good deliberate misrepresentation. I congratulate you.

"Charging money for a Miley Cyrus track" is "giving the producers of that content a livelihood". Strict copyright enforcement, especially for digital "intellectual property" is where the warping comes in, especially for very long (infinite?) copyright terms. Also, since the enforcement is done by the state, the cost of strict enforcement takes away from other things the state could do, the "Opportunity Cost", I believe.

Strict enforcement of copyright is going to involve a lot of stuff, beginning with prohibiting open source operating systems. Are you willing to accept that? Why should I be willing to accept that?
That is an awesome response to the original article.

The only data she can find (KDnuggets survey) indicates that both R and Python are growing in popularity, not one at the expense of the other. 61% use R and 39% Python.
Curious: what tshirt merchant API is this built on?
You are quite correct about stability but I didn't want to get into technical details. And indeed you bring up correctly that such numerical issues mustn’t be treated lightly. I don't do computer graphics and the matrices I deal with are well conditioned such that problems of stability that arise due to linear algebra routines are negligible. In my simulations, instability arises due to the wrong time-stepping scheme, which is a completely different issue.

And good recommendation by Strang. I believe he has some fantastic MIT OpenCourse lectures on numerical linear algebra as well.
I believe the outsourcing story is a bit better than it was in 2000. Better tools, better connectivity. It's entirely possibly that outsourcing could be antifragile.

Even if there is a downturn in outsourcing, so be it. Same happened in the US after the last bubble. Tons of folks who were drawn to the industry for pay, and have little depth in their skillset, flamed out and went back to careers they were better suited for. Those with more depth formed the basis of the current industry: soft business skills, multiple languages, those who loved the craft and learned on their own time.
My favorite technique for optimizing PNG files comes from Wikipedia's page on preparing images to be used in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Preparing_images_for_...
Miley Cyrus is currently winning, and probably will win. This isn't the NSA hacking Time or any other conspiracy. Miley Cyrus is more popular than Edward Snowden, and more people are likely to want Miley Cyrus to win than Edward Snowden.

This entire poll is, like any poll, a popularity contest. If you think Edward Snowden is more popular than Miley Cyrus, then you're far too isolated and need to leave the tech bubble to talk to some humans.
thats a fun idea.

Does anyone know if can you disable the exit full screen popup in chrome?
Comcast had been somewhat unstable for me since they rolled out IPV6 in my area. Before that 4 years of being rock solid.

On the bright side - dual stack indeed works, even though neither IPV4 nor IPV6 can keep ping going without dropping any packets for more then few minutes.
Seems like a low amount of protein, only 20%. Are there going to be different varieties of soylent for those who do more muscular activities?
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"Our first priority is to keep Americans safe from the threat of terrorism."

Maybe naively, but I would have imagined foreign policy reforms would be more effective, whilst eliminating the need for intrusive security.

Treating the symptom rather than the disease when the treatment is more harmful does not seem rational.
> [1] Gifts over 10k are taxable.

The annual exclusion is $14k per donor per recipient. So a married couple can give at least $84k per year to their three kids (total). But in practice, that's not the relevant limit. Amounts over $14k per donor per recipient per year count against the lifetime exemption, and are only taxed once that exemption is exceeded. Currently, that exemption is over $5 million.

Its true that tuition paid directly to schools is not taxable, independent of any annual or lifetime exemptions, but the high lifetime exemption virtually assures that nobody who isn't extremely rich will ever hit the gift tax even with direct cash gifts.
T-Mobile sells it as well around the same price (I bought one to have a Win8 developer phone). I know if you use 6 months of prepaid service with them, you can unlock it afterwards without issue.
I'm only coming from the perspective of a buyer and interested tinkerer.

* It's better to over-deliver than over-promise. Yes, your marketing materials were really shiny but the product didn't really live up to expectations

* After-sales support is so bloody important - don't disappear after you've shipped (MiiPC & Cubieboard I'm looking at you)

* Don't lie to me if you say your product is going to be open source or worse, "hacker friendly" (although this was a problem even before Kickstarter and Indiegogo)

* Tailor your communications to your market - the wonderful people over at Ninjablocks/Little Bird Eleectronics had some issues with writing copy that was aimed at general consumers where a lot of their market wanted real technical details

Of course, you'll have different issues to deal with if you're going the VC/startup route rather than the crowdfunding route.
Tell that to all the late 20s / early 30s engineers whom I've tried to recruit who have no savings.
Maybe they detected fraud
I'd argue that it's not a startup (maybe a charity or a hobby instead) if you're not trying to monetize.

Whether sex is the ultimate motivation behind human affairs is something I'll leave to the Freudian psychologists.
This is really fishy.
If it was 1999 NYT would be giving away its content for free.
Is TIME Person of the Year a festival of trolling now? There are some people on that list that have done some seemingly bad things.
My personal heuristic for reading is "if more comments than upvotes, don't bother". Such posts usually have a lot of repetitive, obvious comments -- typically bike-shedding, people trading anecdotes, etc.

Some specific examples might be questions that touch on child-rearing, or college experiences, or city-of-residence questions. Everyone knows next to nothing (sample size 1) but feels compelled to share. It's not information-dense enough to bother with.
Perhaps it's rather as the author believes in an objective reality, where there is one true valuation of a thing

Wait, are you proposing that this is actually the case? That all things have one true real value? That if the entire world likes pistachios but I don't, my perceived low value of pistachio is somehow objectively wrong and needs correction?

People value things differently. Whether its because of individual preference, or just different circumstances, the fundamental proposition of commerce is that people want different stuff.

If I have a banana tree and you have a goat, one banana is worth less to me than a cup of goat milk. Meanwhile, a cup of goat milk is worth less to you than a banana. We exchange and now we're both better off. This is the whole reason commerce works: because it's a non-zero game.

people perceive as "cachet" is actually BS and can be bad for them

I'm just flummoxed here that someone can just flatly declare that another's perceptions of their own preferences are bullshit. "No, dude, you really hate chocolate. Trust me. Yeah, that feeling of satisfaction you have right now. Not real. Don't smile like that. It's a fake smile! You hate it!"

How does that make sense?
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Or maybe they do. Do you think the millionaires made in 1998 and 1999 were freaked out in 2000? (Assuming they just deposited the money) What you can learn from a bubble: it comes, it bursts, and in the meanwhile, you can generate enough wealth that it's not an issue. Arguments about the effect of bubbles is a macroeconomic debate; decision to go for a big paycheck is a microeconomic one and only tangential.
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Thinking about signing up for a long distance endurance mountain bike race next year and am having a hard time finding a niche trainer. What do you all think about one-on-one personal trainers via the internet? Seems like there is something to be said about checking in with someone and being accountable to another person.
unfortunately, I don't believe it can be disabled. however, it does fade away after a few seconds.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17718400/how-to-disable-o...
All of Wikipedia can be installed to your desktop in just 30 hours
T-Mobile's prepaid plans are pretty wonderful, though.

If you have infinite money and need 50Mbps wireless access anywhere in the US, then of course you get Verizon. But if you just want a phone that works in major cities, then T-Mobile can't be beat. (I've used both, and I did love my unlimited data on Verizon through my employer. But T-mobile is half the cost and just as good for how I use my phone.)