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> >basically using graphics rendering pipeline to do GPGPU without need for OpenCL / CUDA

> It would be really cool to see a project that would make that easier to do in JS more generally. Basically a similar idea to Parakeet or Numba, but with GLSL as a target.

The problem with doing this on WebGL (which is essentially GLES2) is that the internal precision of the pipeline is not required to be a full 32 bit float. There are 10 bit integers and 20 bit floating point numbers and all sorts of funny number formats in the hardware. When most scientific/numeric computation is done in 64 bit double precision, going to less than 32 bits is a problem.

Of course it still could be done in WebGL, the problem is that running it on different hardware would yield different results. If this is acceptable (e.g. image processing where bit-accurate results are not required), then why not.
Show HN: TankDB - An open source object oriented Sqlite wrapper for iOS
Understandable that it came off that way, genuinely not intended as that.

It's bloody hard to express something sincerely on the internet without sounding like you're just being sarcastic.
Ninja Assasinn XD
Dan Geer - Trends in Cyber Security
If you're looking for something to build a landing page with, you should check out http://www.unbounce.com

(Note Unbounce is my employer.)
Why Twitter HTML outut looks ugly
get out of my head!
Why not try turning the attack into a compliment and make the attacker love, that's what alpha males do. :) If you need to say fuckk, your original point wasn't strong enough and you needed to reinforce it.

Saying fuck normally should be used to create rapport with someone and allowing him to use the word too.

Welp, quite some deep psycho analysis shit here.^^
It is primarily aimed at beginners and projects that need basic local storage that is easy to setup.
Or maybe senior pilots screw young pilots and airlines:
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
realtime means your algorithm is guaranteed within a certain window of time, even accounting for delays talking to memory, caches, etc. If it's okay to "drop frames" it is referred to as "soft real time", otherwise it is referred to as "hard real time".

Soft example: Video decoding.

Hard example: Mars rover.
Sounds like a pretty efficient tool of persuasion. Genius.
Have you ever seen him talk?

I love this video where he is debunking a lot of which is holy on HN - at BubbleConf 2012 "Peddling Luck":
https://vimeo.com/53494258
And why not so?
There is an atom feed:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="blog.golang.org - Atom Feed" href="http://blog.golang.org/feed.atom"/>
A hacker's journey: from cook to chef (14)
Helping out, Motherfucker - Are you doing it? <3
The thing that bothers me about PNaCl is the potential for Chrome to become silo'ed and for Google to start pushing it's own ecosystem over the web

No need to wait. ChromeOS and Netflix proves they are already doing this.
> I wonder if it was all handwritten. Esp. functions like invertMatrix or premultiplyMatrix. Or what he used to generate the code.

Yes, it probably is hand written. Or more likely, copied from some well known resource such as MESA.

Computer graphics deals extensively with 4x4 matrices, so there are hand written implementations of elementary operations such as matrix inverse, all unrolled and precomputed so that there's no loops or anything. (NOTE: this isn't really basic loop unrolling, these are not simple loops to begin with).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1148309/inverting-a-4x4-m...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2624422/efficient-4x4-mat...
So, this made the first page even with the word 'NSA' in it. Let's see what happens when it reaches 40 comments.
Twitter Bootstrap is the best CSS framework but you mean rather a website with a default theme. There are a lot of themes and templates of Twitter Bootstrap that don't look like Bootstrap, for example on wrapbootstrap.com.
> 192gb of ram with 8 RAID10 512gb SSDs probably masks performance issues

I would hope so.
A small player could manipulate volume by buying their own bitcoins and selling their own bitcoins. There's no reason why you couldn't shuffle your own bitcoins around forever...
I would prefer only answering #2 generally (probably 99%) there is a mindset that solely exist to rob us by our time & energy spent for peanuts or not at all (in your case). Remember money could not buy happiness but no-money surely buys depression, choice is yours! Be Safe.
The conventional wisdom (in scientific computing) that you seldom need to compute an inverse of a matrix does not apply to computer graphics. 4x4 matrix inverse is one of the most useful functions in computer graphics and is used a lot.

It is most often used as a hand rolled 4x4 matrix inversion function, not a generic NxN matrix inversion.
Since I almost never post to HN this must be the story to do so:

I have used rethinkDB in production since may (and obviously in dev - about since v 1.1). It's kick ass. The things you immediately fall in love with is the awesome admin dashboard, data explorer, and of course the very beautiful query language.

Full disclosure: I am not employed by RethinkDB, I am just a fanboy and user :)

Thanks again Rethink!
I can see two potential twists in your argument that people using tech companies create new social norms, which seems fairly reasoned on the face of it.

Firstly, there is a question akin to informed consent. People do use these services and voluntarily give up a lot of privacy, but is that an informed decision, or is it because they don't understand the significance of what they are doing? Although many people share much information with organisations like Facebook and Google, there have been significant popular backlashes against a number of changes they have made, particularly those that have resulted in information being disclosed to people that the users who supplied it didn't expect.

To extend your bathroom window analogy, there is an argument here akin to sharing certain normally private behaviour with your doctor. This is something you do by choice, in your own interests, and with a clear understanding that the information is sensitive and not to be disclosed to anyone else or used for any other purpose. This is fundamental to medical ethics, and in many places it is protected explicitly by law, so doctors can't be pressured to disclose that kind of sensitive information, even by the police. Lawyers themselves are of course familiar with a similar argument, again establishing attorney-client privilege or the equivalent as a matter of universal professional ethics and protected by force of law.

Secondly, modern technologies like computers and the Internet are part of a very young and fast-evolving industry that is changing our normal expectations in many aspects of life. In many contexts, the overall effect is positive, but there can be serious negative consequences in some cases. I think it would be unwise for the courts to attempt to reinterpret major constitutional or human rights laws based only on the fact that this week X out of Y people were happy to share something with a specific web site. It takes longer than that for social norms to develop, and as always the law should reflect our ethics rather than try to dictate how things should be.

I do think privacy is going to be a big issue over perhaps the next decade or so, as we collectively work through the implications of modern technologies and decide what is acceptable behaviour and what isn't. I also think you're right that dedicated laws are going to be needed, rather than merely trying to adapt laws written for a time before the kinds of implications we are now seeing and starting to understand. I wonder whether this won't be a generational issue, as digital natives who consider things like being on-line and having mobile devices to be basic and universal facilities start to assert their independence, while the political dinosaurs who clearly don't understand even the basics of how this technology works and its implications are replaced by the generation in between who are perhaps both more open-minded on these subjects and less willing to trust the government by default.
Disinformation is key to success. By actively participating in denying his identity people will become even more skeptical leading to more confusion.
We have a setup that is fairly similar to yours (large Rails 3.2.15 app, Passenger, New Relic) and we recently experienced the same as you did - just in the opposite direction!

What happened is that average response time fell from 415ms to 255ms and across the board everything was faster. This Friday I upgraded ruby on our servers from 1.9.3-p327 to 1.9.3-p448 and that triggered the speedup.

Ruby was installed using rbenv/ruby-build and my guess is that the new version was compiled using compiler optimization flags whereas the old one for some reason was not.

Might be worth investigating :-)
Strava v3 API
I started working on a project with a friend to use NFC in phones to start on this problem.

We where working on using NFC to auto lock and unlock your PC when you phone was on your desk hear a receiver. The idea originated from using the NFC to by pass the RFID door scanner so we didn't need our toggles to get into the office. Deciding we could get in troupe pissing around trying to bypass the security system we ended up working backwards to something easier... being the lock/unlock thing.

Unfortunately we stopped working on it when my friend went broke and his priorities changed (i.e. silly hobby projects don't pay the bills).

Would love to pick it up again some time in the future, we had lots of awesome discussions and ideas with this field. We where just investigating a braclet RFID to add to the system as a two factor authentication, so you needed more than just the phone do it. But thats roughly where we got up to.
Yeah pretty much why I've settled on working for "the man."

Stable paycheck for my family might not compare to the ups (and downs) of running my own, but having gone through a bankruptcy (parents) before, I have no desire to go through it again.
I guess that means you think non-consensual sex is perfectly fine!

If there is one thing anyone else reading along should take away from this discussion, it is that you wrote the above. It perfectly sums up the intellectual rigor of the arguments you've made here. And yes, that statement means I am done wrasslin' with a pig.
I have often thought about writing an app such as this for my own use. Especially now, given Xcode 5, which stupidly FORCES you to have all those unnecessary "team provisioning" profiles, which can't be disabled.

Alas, this is not quite there. I should be able to sort by pressing the column titles, and I should be able to delete profiles from the list. If you're going to charge actual money for this, it's the very least you can do.
I haven't seen any evidence, just speculation.

It may be a controversial case due to the nature of the crime but I don't think it's a conspiracy.
Then compare it with compilers for dynamic languages like Lisp, Scheme, Dylan, Smalltalk...
This reminds me of a link I found while browsing Woz's tweets several months ago. https://twitter.com/stevewoz/status/364464427736633344

It was a video about a possible attempted 'setup' of someone named Luke Rudkowski who runs an investigative/dissenter/truthseeker blog.

Someone claiming to be a whistleblower had emailed Rudkowski's personal account from an anonymous Tor address supposedly having information that might interest him but attached were graphic images of CP. He was overseas at the time so if he had happened to get detained in customs while reentering the US and had his browser cache searched he'd be in some serious shit. Apparently he'd been detained in the past and had his computer searched.

A nefarious organization could use this method and tip off customs or local law enforcement to discredit a 'radicalizer.' Very scary stuff.
I would. Especially if it was a non-corrupt country like Sweden where these kind of things are treated according to law.
Are you using IE6?
Source control is an interesting analogy. In the same vein, when a user syncs their version with the main branch, there will be hundreds of thousands of changes to review. It'll be pretty harrowing for anyone to figure out what to keep / reject. Just something to consider.

Anyway, thanks for the food for thought as well as your suggestion. I added donation links for archive.org and wikipedia tonight.
>Pretty sure I am the opposite of everyone here.

Quite the contrary. This is the norm -- most startups fail, and a lot of them fail horribly (and with personal defaults).

Keep fighting.
That's a bit over the top. Virtually the only sites with an EV certificate are financial institutions. If that was your standard, you wouldn't be comfortable shopping with Amazon or Wal-Mart.
Christmas is ruined
Why he calls Satoshi Nakamoto "infamous"? Did he mean "famous" or actually thinks Satoshi Nakamoto is evil?
There are lots of dynamic languages with native compilers around, offering speeds that beat Ruby's canonical implementation.

Are you aware that Hotspot, Sun/Oracle's JIT compiler was actually developed for a Smalltalk dialect, Self?
Votes made from an article's direct link (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6799854) don't count towards its rank and too many of them will set of the voting ring detector (this is why it's a bad idea to link directly to a HN submission from your blog or from Twitter/Facebook). This is probably what happened here.
There was a good talk by Charles Nutter at Baruco this year about JRuby. It looks to be pretty much there, and from the benchmarks performance looks a lot better than MRI.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZEAwWLwmfQ
So shared memory is a terrible idea and C/C++ programmer "fetish", until JS has it and then then you "actually really like it"?
Well, who cares about LI, that part was a afterthought, but his desire to show people these particular words is the trolling
The greater violation of liberty is preventing many entities from using an idea rather than a single entity losing the opportunity to profit from an idea.

Especially because a fire inventor being deprived of profit is not what is happening. What is happening is someone uses a broken system to register their idea of cooking rabbits after watching other people cook different animals. He is then given exclusive rights to cook rabbits, and he goes directly to extort shells and shiny rocks from the guy two caves down who has been cooking and trading rabbits for years now.

If we cannot have patents without "scan-to-email" extortionists we should not have patents. Creating an incentive to do no B2C business because it is more profitable to sue other companies for using obvious ideas is contrary to the intended purpose of the patent system anyway. Either get patent examiners that can do it properly, make it dirt cheap to challenge a patent, or shut it all down.
Again, rewriting history. I attacked Mark only after he refused to fix his book, despite my offer of help, and told me to go fuck myself. He'd also attacked many other people in an exactly similar way before I did. I mean, c'mon, all I did was replicate this post Mark did:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070418001022/http://diveintomar...

I didn't see you calling Mark a cock after he wrote that. And, let's not forget that when Mark did take his gear off the internet I was sympathetic and told people to not "kick a man when he's down", something I'm damn sure he wouldn't do for me.

So if you're bringing out Mark Pilgrim as your shining example of people I "bullied" you pretty much picked about the worst example ever. Mark was a dick who shit on quite a few people in his day and deserved a little bit in return. Thinking that he was some choirboy that I beat up is a very naive way to view the world, but that's what I expect from someone who builds up mythical opinions of people they've never met.

Anyway, closing this tab now. I've sent out about 60 emails helping people find work and will be looking at about 10 resumes tomorrow in the time it took you to write these little comments. You rock dude!
Dear Sprint: FUCK OFF
The world would be such a wonderful place if the location didn't matter... I mean, remove that prefix "if you're at place X" and suddenly all those propositions become much more valuable.
Do you think that jihadis will trust a press release from NSA? "Oh, The Great Devil (US) says you're browsing kinky pictures, so we're not gonna trust you anymore and we're gonna take whoever The Great Devil recommends us instead"
I think it's also funny that some people are under the delusion that sites like this and reddit, are actually controlled by the 'voters', and that everyone has the same power.

They're not. They're controlled by editors who will place items where they want to.

For me, the worst part of hacker news is the silent banning if you are critical of any YC funded startup. Censorship is ugly, but it happens routinely.
I think it's important to note that this paper was a research paid by the Citi foundation, which belongs to Citi Group, a financial services corporation formed following the merger of banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate Travelers Group.
The RRT
Remember the unfortunately named us congressman Anthony Weiner?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner_sexting_scandal...

Ever wonder if maybe he didn't accidentally post that dick pic to his political twitter feed? That maybe someone else who knew he had another private twitter account which he used to perv out with women online was responsible for putting that pic out on the public twitter feed?

Weiner lost his congressional seat in the fallout and his replacement, Robert Turner, is a republican. The first republican to hold that seat in roughly 80 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_9th_congressional...
Yeah, it seems Xcode has regressed with respect to provisioning profiles from version 4 to 5.

Great point re: sorting and deleting. I've added support for both to a new build that is now in Apple's hands. Hopefully users will get it in a few days' time.

Is there anything else I could add? It's difficult to extract critical feedback from those closest to me. :)
You're not supposed to think the CIA does much. They're the actual spy agency; the whole "just a star on the wall at Langley" thing is CIA; you don't hear about their victories, and if you do, it's a failure of some kind. Stuxnet, for instance, was almost certainly CIA.

If Bitcoin is a targeted strike against China somehow (not completely impossible), then the CIA is the likeliest candidate. Otherwise, of the USGov national agencies, the NSA is most likely.

The FBI doesn't really get anything out of it. The only reason I can think of for the FBI to do it is for paying off informants anonymously. (And as I've pointed out before, if anyone's an expert on money laundering, it's the FBI.)
Zed shaw for president.
Question is why founders unable to raise money??? Today it is extremely easy to attract VC/angel money!

If founders are unwilling to accept new money because of greed, valuation too low, contingencies, etc... then yes maybe it is a fair gamble to work for equity... Like if you knew your startup had 99% chance of being acquired in 3 month at 5x over today's valuation, then equity pay makes sense.

However, it does not seem like the case here. Highly likely that all VC/angels had passed,.. hence, follow the money and look for an exit.

To make it easier to decide: ask founders to explain why they cannot raise money. If they bring low valuation as an excuse, ask to show termsheets and make judgement upon that. If they cannot provide this proof - run.
It sounds fun and the kind of postings I'm looking for. If I'm going to waste half of my life in a company I want to be in one where everyone is dedicated.
I like the comment on the bottom of the last sheet shown. "Please turn on".
>Hey, 17 year old kids, and people who have been out of work for years need jobs too, you know.

Yes, so let's take advantage of them... And if the market comes to that point that we can expect them to work for food, let's do that too... (while we're making tons of money from our business).

>And it looks to me (and apparently, to you) like the penny-arcade folks are being pretty clear about what they want.

Transparency is not a virtue in itself. Charles Manson was pretty clear about what he wanted too.
Good question. As I said elsewhere in the thread, the ability to sort and/or delete have been added to 1.1 and is waiting for Apple's review.

In terms of what it does that the iPCU doesn't, it displays team identifiers, entitlements and provisioned devices that iPCU doesn't recognise. It also supports Mac (desktop) provisioning profiles. 1.2 will also list certificates bundled with the profile.
You said that you can go for two months without the pay. Is the Owner and PM in the same position ?

If yes then you can talk to them about the sweat equity. It will give dignity to both the parties. In any case you fail. It will not give harsh feeling to anyone.
Guerrilla is not a type of person, it's a type of war. A "little war" to be exact. The person fighting in a guerrilla is a guerrilla soldier or a guerrilla fighter. Also, it's pronounced geriya (with a hard g and a rolling r), not gorilla.
CSS filters work in IE11??
I know I have seen such a project on github once, but for the life of me I can't find it right now.
The OpenBSD Foundation now accepts bitcoin
What you described is true when applied to the creative positions. The ad is not for one of those. It's for the "IT guy"'s role. I imagine this gets you as much leverage in the entertainment industry as it got the guy who serviced Michael Bay's laptop. If you've spent any time in that industry you knew it yourself.
Everyone should remember how the FBI tried to blackmail Martin Luther King.

http://studentactivism.net/2012/01/15/the-fbis-attempt-to-bl...
The interesting thing is that when I was being loud and focusing on driving traffic to my blog to showing off my shiny new things, I was probably producing my worst and most unimaginative work.

Now, as a 'dark matter' engineer, I don't have the time to write technical blog material nor do anything that would classify me as a 'matter' engineer. The great tragedy is that I'm producing my best work with real world impact.
> A true anarchist would live in the wild and survive on leaves, branches, sticks and stones.

I think this image of anarchists was partly intentionally created by governments. Anarchists, at least those who endorse free market enterprise, believe in rules. However, they see government as an ultimate monopoly that issues rules and enforces them with unchallengeable force. If you agree with me that monopolies are not good for consumers, then it only takes a little step further to see that government is indeed a monopoly. Why does it have to say who can marry whom, who can smoke what and who can buy what? The alternative isn't living in the woods. The alternative is having a polylegal system and private protection agencies. You choose an agency and a package of rules you like and start paying. If you dislike the services - you unsubscribe and stop paying, you don't wait for the next election. Moving to a different country cannot be considered a true alternative, since it's usually complicated, expensive and you still are forced (not asked) to pay, like it or not.

> None of these companies operate in a vacuum. They stand on society's shoulders and have to operate within acceptable legal boundaries which stem from ethical standards.

Society doesn't equal government.

> Also, from an operational view, if bad companies mess up, taxpayers end up footing the bill.

That's because you have taxpayers and government can bail out companies which are in bed with it. If you didn't have taxes, people would simply let a bad actor fail and be replaced by a better one.
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