skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the blogpost, but it seems to focus on why OpenGL isn't good - not on measuring mindshare of OpenGL? Yes, perhaps Mantle and DirectX are better, and that might in theory lead to more mindshare. But the fact remains that OpenGL is standard on mobile and on the web, which should increase OpenGL's mindshare.

Yes, WebGL is disabled on iOS. It's disabled on OS X desktop too, for now. Hopefully that will change soon.

> JavaScript is slow as hell.

I wouldn't say that 67% of native speed is "slow as hell", and that's where things currently stand. Perhaps you have a specific workload in mind that happens to be slow - how did you measure?
He's referring to the difference between the D3D debug layer (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chuckw/archive/2012/11/30/direct3d-s...), which can be toggled on/off for debug/release builds (or even forced on in the driver), and OpenGL's near worthless glGetError() and debug output callback. Not only does D3D come with better debugging capabilities built directly into the API/driver its tools are vastly superior to OpenGL's - though with Valve's VOGL and NVIDIA's nSight that's beginning to change.
It would help to understand the results if it also gave a list of careers you should avoid, and a list of careers that are in the middle.
I ended my comment with a question - I'm more puzzled than anything. I assume I am missing something here, but I still don't know what.
Hell yes. Especially with shaders - there are some debuggers for HLSL but GLSL gets no love :-{
It's frustrating being very late 30's and still not having reached any major successes. All I really want is to be able to have my own single entrepreneur business. It shouldn't be so hard to find at least one idea that will support me and my family as a software engineer.

This guy is a CTO, so he's hit that milestone I guess. I'm still hungry.
Apotheker was a disaster -- everybody agrees about that -- but Hurd had serious problems too. He was all about cutting costs, with little product vision. He gutted R&D and fed, rather than pruning, the HP bureaucracy.

Meg Whitman is a vast, vast improvement over both of them.

(HP employee here.)
> Last I saw, there were over 1500 issues in the project's GitHub issue tracker.

A tiny fraction of which are marked blocking 1.0.

> I know, I know, I've heard the "let's break it now rather than later" argument from you guys before.

And that's invalid why, exactly?

> 2014 is nearly half over. I know that production-grade programming language implementations don't just happen over night. It takes a lot of effort, a lot of thorough testing, and many bug fixes to result in a truly stable release. All of that takes a lot of time.

Backwards incompatible language changes don't set us back in terms of the 4 years of compiler stability and bug fixes that have been going on. Believe it or not, you can change the way a keyword is spelled without affecting compiler stability.

Anyone who has used Rust for a long time knows that ICE's are far less common now than they used to be.
Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I'm not a designer. The design was actually one of the hardest thing to do since I haven't really been taught anything about it.
No, it changed the name to Laika.
Write an email and ask. People are generally decent and like to explain how they did something that impressed someone.
I'm able to lucid dream intentionally, even to the point that I can take a break, wake up to use the bathroom, and then return to the exact same point in the dream. It is a strange experience to be "conscious" inside a dream, and I have certainly had some interesting ones.

Contrary to what the article suggests, you can't really control the scenario you are in. It is more like being awake. You take conscious control of yourself and the brain makes the world react accordingly, but the actions of others are still beyond your ability to change.

But I also find it to be quite useful in a practical way. I've written some of my best music and developed some of my best business ideas or inventions during lucid dreams. The bonus being that I can remember everything after waking up, so retaining those ideas becomes much easier than it normally is. In fact, if I play or hear a guitar riff while inside a lucid dream, I'm able to pick up the guitar while awake and have retained noticeable "muscle memory" for the chords or progressions or runs, as if I've played them thousands of times.
It seems like it is getting cheaper. I get unlimited minutes, texting, and 300 mb of data for the same $40 I was paying 5 years ago, but I was also paying extra for minutes, texting, data, etc.
So, GNOME made two mistakes. First, they moved to logind as a hard dependency with no deprecation plan for users who must continue to rely on ConsoleKit in the near-term (basically a "fuck you" to !systemd users). Second, they added a hard dependency on a non-portable, backwards-incompatible service management framework (basically a "fuck you" to !Linux users).

I know "move fast and break things" is a popular maxim these days (particularly in web development), but it's also a great way of pissing off your users and making sure that none of them ever make the mistake of depending on you or trusting your software ever again.

There's a reason Linus enforces his "don't break userspace" policy--he understands perfectly well that if he breaks layers above him frequently, he'll find himself without a userbase, since the developers who build on top of Linux will jump ship. Even when he has to break userspace (such as with X mode-setting), he and the relevant parties coordinate a flag day to make the transition as painless as possible. That's the level of responsibility and maturity I expect from people who maintain the lower layers of the software I run.

Far be it from me to tell the GNOME and systemd developers how to manage their projects, but by the same token they should not expect me (or people like me) to take them seriously if they're not going to be responsible with the power they presume to wield over the ecosystem.
"Oh geez, no." was my thinking for most of those questions.
Not participating in holidays associated with the popular religions available does not mean the same thing as not being spiritual or religious.
Bitsavers.org Link (where there is even more cool stuff):

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univOfIllinoisUrbana/...
The blog states that if the Mantle specification is adopted by other manufacturers, particularly on mobile, then it will become the new cross platform standard and OpenGL will cease to be relevant. 67% of native speed is astronomically slow in the world of real-time games where improving per-frame performance by 3ms is considered a huge win. Getting all of your nice special effects and post-processing implemented while still running at a smooth 60fps is very difficult - especially on mobile.
It depends if they have the will and the staffing to do the kind of curation that's necessary. Or if they can develop an AI that will do it for them.
Agreed. I'm approaching this thinking that the exit points can be backbone providers and we could build simple software to enable users to pay for the bandwidth (to the exit) that they've utilized. Connectivity within the network would be free and we could even place peering points at the exit to reduce outbound bandwidth.

Then it just becomes a question of incentivizing users by consistently driving down costs (in theory) to promote density of nodes.
A resource for going from NAND to a running program (Tetris in this case): http://nand2tetris.org/
That's a shame, I wish I had known about this before I might have been able to put something together and present. The start-up I work with is heavily invested in developing mesh networking devices.
I certainly suffered under that monopoly (as did the entire industry) but couldn't the argument be made that market forces took care of it without government intervention?

I'm aware that there was an anti-trust judgement against them, but as far as I can tell it didn't deter them in any significant way.

It seems to me that they simply collapsed under their own hubris and the blowback from their decades of abusive practices, and as soon as they weakened the competition ate their lunch.
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Thanks this is incredibly helpful. Would you mind if I e-mailed you with some follow questions when I move forward with my prototype?
Another similar project is ORTS, which has been around for a decade: https://skatgame.net/mburo/orts/orts.html
Likewise for Java.
Url changed from [1], which points to this article.

1. http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/11/fcc-said-to-tweak-proposed-...
compared to gist.io, I like mkdown style better.

Can we have custom title too?
this gist[1] titled "Learning Haskell" but in mkdown[2] it just say "Gist 8739525" in it's title.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/8739525

[2]: http://www.mkdown.com/8739525
gist.io seems broken, just tried it ,doesnt work with my gists.

gist.io/3d0b9deab6f5969c354b
Thoughts from Toronto on teaching code to librarians
Tom Wheeler: "You say tomato, I say to-ma-to"

It's lipstick on a pig really. The whole premise of paying for faster content delivery needs to be shelved. Because we all know once the initial language is approved and the laws are changed, the door is open to push more legislation without requiring a vote as it can be under the guise of the existing legislation.

We need to keep the pressure up and oppose this at all costs. I want to see the likes of Mozilla, Google, Microsoft and others take this further and use their connections, their captive audiences and money to stop this. I'm really concerned this is actually going to happen and it's frightening. Because once the US does this, so too will other countries (like my own Australia) thanks to agreements like the TPP.
I frequently realize I am dreaming while I am dreaming. It's a bit of a tautology but I remember those dreams and can describe them in varying amounts of detail when I'm awake.

Last night I became aware I was in a dream in which I was in a Dunkin Donuts in a southern city with cobblestone streets and a large red brick church. Prairie Home Companion was on the radio in the Dunkies. They were having a tasting for a new line of estate coffees. Garrison Keillor was singing and monologueing about a substitute preacher from Netherlands. I rode around the center of the city on a green bicycle. The cobbles were unusually smooth. Traffic was light to moderate. I was able to turn around across several lanes of traffic to circle the central square of the city. While I was riding around I was thinking that the city was an invention, and I was certain I had never been in a city that looked like this. I thought, while dreaming, it was an imagined Charleston, although I have no idea if Charleston looked like my dream. I have never been to Charleston.

My lucid dreams are usually pleasant and refreshing.
Auctions are a superior solution to lotteries from an economic theoretical point of view. No point giving spectrum to a company that can't use it properly.
I really, really hope SNI takes off soon. Amazon just added SNI capability to their load balancers and it allows us to avoid spending $600/month in fees. Apparently, when you host a normal TLS connection on an ELB they have to provision an IP address for every endpoint in their network, which costs a lot of money. Using SNI allows them to use a single ELB endpoint for multiple domains, which saves us a ton of money. :)
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I have this impression that we (the programmers of the world) are burned out as a whole[1] - I know its actually just me perceiving the rest of the world not doing anything interesting, but still, I don't know to force my perception/emotional state out of this.

[1] And then very creative/full of energy, and back to burn out..
That's not really a great description of what's happening. The group in-front of the exit is moving vary slowly and everyone needs to accelerate before the exit. By limiting things to two lines people are moving faster as they approach the point of maximum contention so they don't need to accelerate as much. On top of this you add delays as people content left right or center at the exit.
I don't think parent is talking about other file types exactly, but rather that on github itself, you can have code blocks within your .md that get syntax highlighted. Which, for some people, is a pretty key feature of github markdown.

On yours, as in parent's example, the code blocks don't even get put in a `<pre>`, which would be the minimal 'right thing' if you're not going to do syntax highlighting.

(Of course, yes, syntax highlighting code blocks within .md is pretty much going to use the same logic as handling other file types, it's true).
What about different themes? URLs would be easy still:

mkdown.com/abc123?theme=light or mkdown.com/abc123/light
On my laptop display the map gets truncated to exclude the bottom half of the world, including where I live.
Imagine you could somehow import data in large volumes into dreams. How crazy would it be if you dream, but in your dream you read an entire novel and retained it all?
Here's a libertarian argument against government ownership of the airwaves: http://mises.org/journals/jls/20_2/20_2_2.pdf.

Essentially the idea is that the frequencies would be treated as private property, with the exact nature of this being worked out in the courts. There's precedent for this from 1926, before the US government officially took up ownership of the airwaves, in Tribune Co. v.
Oak Leaves Broadcasting Station.

"The Chicago Daily Tribune, calling itself WGN... broadcast entertainment as a means of marketing its publication. WGN filed a complaint in state court against another radio station, Oak Leaves, which had begun broadcasting in an adjacent wavelength. WGN claimed that it was necessary to maintain at least a 50-kilocycle separation between stations located within 100 miles of each other. They accused the Oak Leaves station of injuring their lawfully acquired business property.

Chancellor Francis S. Wilson decided the case in the tradition of property rights to common resources. His landmark decision, which established homesteading rights in “the ether,” found precedent in western water rights, among other established property traditions.

Wilson concluded the court was "compelled to recognize rights which have been acquired by reason of the outlay and expenditure of money and the investment of time. . . . We are of the further opinion that, under the circumstances in this case, priority of time creates a superiority in right."

The Congress responded to Oak Leaves instantly. After years of debate and delay on a radio law, both houses jumped to pass a December 1926 resolution stating that no private rights to ether would be recognized as valid, mandating that broadcasters immediately sign waivers relinquishing all rights, and disclaiming any vested interests."

*Edit: This ownership wouldn't necessarily extend to _entire spectrums_ as it does in the case of the government selling spectrum. In Tribune Co. v. Oak Leaves Broadcasting Station, for instance, WGN was granted the right to broadcast on a specific frequency within a certain area, which differs immensely from a company being able to 'buy' a series of frequencies from the government such that no other entity in the country may uses this spectrum.
I should have also mentioned that this is open sourced: https://github.com/jack7890/mkdown (just updated the landing page to reflect that).
When I turned 40, I was heard to say that had I known how great 40 was, I would have turned 40 ten years before. I felt I was at the top of my game: Training regularly, mentally sharp, marriage good, daughter good, career good. Awesome!

I'll be 49 later this year. My advice: Keep training, it is the best and most important thing. I stopped for a while (long story) and ended up with Old Man back problems (10 minutes to fall out of bed, 5 minutes to crawl to the toilet, peeing in the toilet a gymnastic accomplishment, not to mention getting back down...).

Second most important thing: Don't have a bullet list, just do shit. Do act in a play. Do learn an instrument. Do be in a movie. Heck, be in several movies (play many different characters, from hero to clown to psycho). Do abandon a successful 12 year solo career when offered a partnership in a small but growing firm (now I have 4 spouses, yay! And growing pains. Yay!).

Always say "yes, that would be cool", never be afraid 1.

1 Still working on that, haven't been bungee jumping yet. But my firm will have 10 or so employees in a few months, with almost as many subs, and I'm in 5 DVD/Netflix releases planned for 2014.

The 40s rock. The 50s are going to be awesome.
And I would be glad to pay double the amount to get access to the Apple source code
I prefer Mkdown's look, but I think a slightly wider text area would improve on it. It seems a little too narrow compared to gist.io.

Ordered lists seem to be missing by the way.
Love the concept and have been thinking there needs to be something out there for mobile devices for some time so quick, make an android app!
I essentially lost my career right before I turned 35 - it was the only job I had for more than a year, and I had it for a decade. It was an existential car crash. Here I am about to turn 37 and I'm back in school again, fighting off the constant fear in the back of my head that my entire life will amount to a tale told by an idiot, only without even sound or fury.

I've more or less given up on major success. I just kind of want to not live hand to mouth now. But you never know. The one thing i've learned not to do is fool myself into thinking I know what shape the future will take. Cynicism is a lot easier when you think you're immortal.
The government has sold the cellphone bands to private companies making your point moot.
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The seem to be working for me: http://www.mkdown.com/a712c1ee8c3bf8375720

Mind giving me a link to what you're looking at?
Not yet downloadable.

This is free. Okay, let's suppose you want to create an IC from scratch, we'll support that too and allow you to use our design ecosystem for free too.

Simply message me.
The economist Ronald Coase wrote a very interesting (and brief) history on the FCC, and makes a compelling argument for the use of auctions to grant rights to spectrums. While long, I think the article is well worth reading.

http://thesefragments.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/coase_fcc....
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Me too - I must say though, I've found myself being more and more interested in Psychology etc. as time has gone by. Diplomat also sounds interesting.

Still, I definitely identify with being a programmer who creates stuff that helps people!.
I'm not burnt out by programming, I'm burnt out by sitting on my butt for 16hrs a day and having a 1 dimensional life! Hit that gym, friends
I get the point about hedonism...

My fear is that I think the worst is ahead of me. I have been so blessed and when I see suffering around the world, I feel undeserving of the good luck. It seems everyone's life has suffering in them and their share of bad luck.

I have had challenges but I was able to overcome them. I guess I haven't come across yet of problems where I am helpless. I fear I haven't seen enough and its ahead..

There is also a part of instictive feel that tells me I only have maybe another 3-4 yrs left. For long time I have felt I won't see 45.
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RDS can be Postgres, but isn't always. You can choose from MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle and Postgres, but Postgres support is currently in beta [1].

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/
I think that remark makes the comment better. It's ridiculous to claim that a simple timer has relevance to creating a derivative work, and the implication of zealotry in anyone making that claim via EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is appropriate.
I learned to lucidly dream when I was 8 or 10 or so. I was having a recurring dream where I was being chased by a Big Bad Thing, something crocodile-esque that wanted to eat me. Of course I ran away, but in general you can't deliberately run away from something in a dream; the act of remembering that you are running away from an X itself keeps X around. I finally was able to "carry in" the knowledge that this must be my recurring dream, so after running away for a bit, I turned around and jumped in the crocodile's mouth.

I swear, a subconscious can be surprised at your dream actions. Perhaps someday we'll understand the neuroscience enough to explain that. But I'd swear there was a two to three second massive huh? what now? from my subconscious. Once again, I was faced with the crocodile, almost by some sort of default, and once again, I jumped in. After that, the dream just moved on.

I haven't had many nightmares since. Non-zero, but the incidence rate went way down.

If one is having troubles with "simple" nightmares, which is to say, bad dreams that are just bad for no apparent reason, as opposed to bad dreams which represent real traumas or real problems, lucid dreaming is certainly one good solution. Based on my personal experience I'd be a great deal less sanguine about lucid dreaming being able to deal with personal traumas... dreams are not logical, and if you're having a nightmare based on real things the "dream" may metaphorically laugh off your attempts to change it (i.e., if you lost your buddy because you had forgotten to pack more bullets in a war situation, you can dream that you brought more but the "enemy" may well just soak them up and keep coming), but I guess it can't hurt to try... based on reading around and even in comments on this thread, I've observed it's even more difficult than usual to generalize from personal experience to general "rules" of dreaming because it's probably pretty different for us all.
Yes, they can just increase end-user's prices. And that's what they should do if their costs are really larger than revenue, as they claim. (What I obviously doubt is true, because they didn't.)

Comcast is trying to block Netflix probably because people are stopping paying for cable TV, not because of costs. Thus thinking about costs and revenue will send you on the wrong avenue.
>So, a human is born, lives and dies and that's it?

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play pinochle on your snout.
In addition to what thwarted posted, Black Duck is a great resource for analysis of open source software as they have a database drawn from all over the place: http://www.blackducksoftware.com/resources/data

If you summarize for GPL/LGPL and what projects are compatible, it winds up being about 45% of projects GPL/LGPL and up to 87% or more of all open source projects are compatible with the license. I go over it in a handy chart here: http://johnhaller.com/useful-stuff/open-source-license-popul...

As thwarted said, it can be problematic looking at 'projects' as something like bootstrap on github, which is MIT licensed, has over 24,000 forks. Now, most of those are nonsense and have no changes (or at least nothing useful) but do you count that as 24,000 projects?
Recently suggested the FirefoxOS people attend https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=945047
Sure, why not? Is there any proof otherwise?
"At this age, I’m becoming aware of just how long and short 40 years is. Literally everything that has ever happened to me can fit into 40 years. If I do another 40, twice as much can happen in total."

One of the interesting things about aging is the realization how short life is. When I started considering the frame of mind that I had less life to live, than I had already lived, it made it easier to focus on the important stuff. I too was fortunate to find someone at a young age who was compatible with my quirks. And while many folks I have met eschew the notion of marriage and even family, I find that without my wife and kids I have a hard time contextualizing what, if anything, I've contributed in exchange for the raw materials I've consumed. That was not something I expected to feel when I started out.