skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chances of hitting a jet are remote, the balloon would have to loiter at the right altitude for that chance to increase appreciably. Most will go higher, pop and then fall.

The barrage balloons of WW-II had to be anchored very carefully to avoid having them go into the stratosphere. As the balloon expands (which it does when it goes higher) it will become more buoyant, not less so there is a positive feedback loop in there which usually ends in destruction unless you take precautions. Such anchoring requires very long cables, which makes them a bad choice to defend against jets.

So, the risks are non-zero and if one were to get sucked into a jet engine (especially the payload portion) the mayhem would be considerable, but they are so small that a 'notice to airmen' suffices unless you're operating very close to an airfield when you launch.

What is interesting about this incident is how far the balloon came down from where it was launched, it must have travelled for a long time, maybe even circumnavigated the globe more than once before landing.
Spaniard here. I'll comment in a while, my stereotypical way of life won't let me do it just now, because.. yknow.
I think we already have words for these people. Criminal and suspect cover the general case. To get more specific we have vandal, thief, industrial spy, stalker, fraudster, and so on. I guess there are some newish crimes - virus wrangler and DDoS participant? They're so different it's hard to make an umbrella term for them.
SpriteKit and SceneKit is targeting casual games. Metal is an API that is close to GPU and is meant to replace OpenGL for console level games.
> But yes, OpenCL with its basic C API is way behind what CUDA offers in terms of language support.

strange, language support is really the only thing that CUDA doesn't have over OpenCL. there are C++ (and python, Java, various others) bindings for host code, at least. if you're looking to use device intrinsics in your kernel code (at the cost of portability) then blame nvidia for not exposing it (and for their lack of support for OpenCL in general).

> Maybe SPIR will fix it, but it remains to be seen if anyone on HPC will care.

yes, there are people doing HPC that care.
It's more like everyone applies some sort of implicit linear transformation to the scheduled times, so that everyone is late by approximately the same amount.
Firstly, burying my head in the sand implies that I would want it to go away. I don't really mind how much we snoop on terrorist hotbed countries, to be completely honest?

Secondly, yes the press has been gagged for some time but it was still Snowden that leaked it all in the first place. I don't think you have a point here.

My taxes fund things like this and it pisses me off, slightly, that some American has effectively limited the "return on investment" we are now going to get from it.
Apple states 9h for a contemporary 13" MBP. Mine (two weeks old) runs for 4h max, if I do any serious work on it. If I switch Wifi off an dim the screen, I can get 6-7h out of it.

The machine is dual boot as I'm using it to develop software that targets both OS X & Linux.
I run a Gentoo with all kernel- and other power saving features enabled, on a 2nd partition.

The time I get out of the battery on OS X vs Gentoo is pretty much the same.

What I do is "surf" (FF, mostly text/reading docs, flash blocked etc.) and code (I do a build roughly every 5-10mins that will probably touch 10 sources max).

Build environment matches except for compiler being used (gcc 4.1 on Linux, latest LLVM gcc frontend from XCode on OS X but I would think this is minor).

Bottom line for me: Linux is on par with OS X in terms of time you get out of a MBP, in my case specifically.

Caveat: I dunno ofc, how true this is, generally, if one ran something like a pre-configured Ubuntu kernel.
How exactly will it help? Employers are not stupid, they will pay the same money eventually, destroying the perks.
All sorts - read the cited wikipedia articles for starters - the most important being that it's a small finite number that grants exceptional packing efficiency in the Leech lattice, which is then the basis for the CFT tie-in.

Apart from anything else, this sort of thing is just beautiful mathematically.
I love capitalism, I hate socialism.
There are two pages to this article. The link to page 2 in my opinion is not obvious.

Here is the link to the article on one page "printer friendly"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/Print/2014/06/03/revealed_beyon...
Both. The APIs and style sure are issues.

But there are plenty of language constructs which exist only in Objective-C.
> So why in Norway they vote extreme right?

They/we don't. The "Progress Party", which is the furthest right party represented in parliament, got 16.3%. Down from 22.9%. They're for the most part to the left of the Republican Party. That they were invited into a coalition government for the first time was shocking to us, as it means it's the closest we've gotten to "American conditions" - a traditional slur in Norway, as most people, including a substantial majority still, do not want most of what the Progress Party wants.

You'll note that despite getting into a coalition with the conservative party (which got 26.8%, up from 17.2%), they have been unable to get through more than a few token tax cuts. Why? Because the centre-point in parliament is to the left of either one of them. They have to lean on the Liberal Party (Venstre), which is social-liberalists that'd fit in roughly on the left of the Democratic Party, or the Christian Democrats, which are social-conservative centrists, to get a slight majority.

Similarly, they've gotten through a few minor token changes to immigration policies, but have to give up on most of their policies because no other party in parliament agree with them on immigration.

About 50% of parliament is made up of the social democrat Labour Party, the Socialist Left party, and the slightly left of centre Centre Party who ruled for the preceding 8 years.

Norwegian "tradition" is that right wing governments sits for less than one period, up to almost two. No right wing government has survived a second election.
I'd quit. I'm a specialist and will easily find another job.
Sometimes you need to do a little bit of investigation of your own to see what the real story is and, with Sky News, that is definitely highly advised.

Turns out that the producer has a track record of trying to get 'damages' for this. Here is one incident starring the same Roddy character:

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/disciplines/direct-marketing/...

You might not like it but the convention is to have the newsletter sign up box checked. It has been that way for almost two decades now. It is not as if this Roddy character is some blind 83 year old woman terrified by John Lewis newsletters, he specifically created an account on the John Lewis website to specifically get the newsletter specifically so he could take them to court and get damages.

It is actually relatively hard to sign up to the John Lewis newsletter, you need to create an account as they don't have a 'subscribe' box on their homepage. Furthermore, creating an account is something you would only do if you were making a purchase or specifically wanting to subscribe to their newsletter.

I think that the Roddy character is the scam artist here and I despise his ilk, not only has he sold his soul to work for the evil Murdoch empire he is also a troll.
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Balloons are launched all the time, Google's balloons are no different than the many many weather balloons, etc everyday. Their regulations are pretty easy [1] to find and follow. Basically, you call them, let them know when and where it's going up, when and where it's going down, and they'll put out a notice that pilots look at letting them know that there's a balloon out there they should look out for. If it gets loose, you call them again, say where you think it's going, etc, and they'll update the notifications accordingly. Stuff like this has been handled for a very long time.

[1] http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/part101.html
On the one side, yes; on the other, I doubt people will look at your phone in case of emergency. That is, at the moment - I guess it's quite possible this feature will change that. But that's a generation thing. Still best to have one of those medical bracelets with your blood type and allergies and the like.
> There's a limit to how much performance a general purpose graphics abstraction can enable.

that remains to be seen, especially given how similar all the GPUs are today.

if it weren't for the longs peak shambles, we might not need Mantle/Metal.
Well, me neither. :) Although it looks a little bit suspicious in the text. But what's the relation between 'not throwing crucial design principles out of the window this time' (by not creating opaque, contrived and state-hiding system because tradition seems to approve it) and 'Live Coding' (where people see process of writing code in real-time as a part of artistic performance)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833935
That's a meaningless statement without defining which form of capitalism and which form of socialism you are referring to.

I'm a marxist, and I hate many forms of socialism. Karl Marx hated many forms of socialism. He even devoted a chapter of the Communist Manifesto to ripping apart forms of socialism he didn't like.
Sun should simply have hired some mac people and done it themselves. Entrusting the success of your entire company ( they changed their ticker symbol to JAVA!) to a 3rd party vendor's whims was and is silly.
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> The only place where this is likely true is for their Intel graphics drivers

false. i cannot cite a source for this, but i know they have direct access to current nvidia and AMD driver source trees, which they themselves extend/modify.
Glide is not remotely relevant to anything anymore, and hasn't been for years. Besides, NV have much more recent experience with their own APIs, in form of CUDA and Cg.

I like the general trend indicated by this and Mantle and DX12, but the return to full-on platform fragmentation is a bit depressing.
So there are lots of facts here. And the facts are connected together at various points. And I like to hear about interesting connections. But it seems to me that unless you have looked at these things in depth (and I have not for the most part) that you would have only a vague idea of what is being talked about here.

But as I said, since I like connections, I am interested in moving beyond vagaries. In particular I am wondering about this connection to quantum gravity, and I have a few questions to this effect.

If this is about symmetries in a field theory then what is the field in this case? If I see a representation of a permutation group or a special orthogonal group factoring out of operations in a field theory I have some intuition about what this is. So what about this Monster group and what, if anything does this have to do with quantum gravity? Is it a gravity thing? Is it a quantum thing. Both?
Good luck compiling Objective-C on Windows :)
That's sad to hear - Pikhal and Tikhal are fascinating works, and reading them I got the sense that he was a very kind, patient and curious person.
Same here.

All you have to do is get over named parameters, square bracket message passing, and overall verbosity, and you know enough to read/understand Objective-C code.

If you can get past those three differences, Objective-C is remarkably similar to Java and other OOP languages.

Personally, I love the verbosity. The code pretty much just explains itself.

Swift is a welcomed change though. I'm very optimistic and excited about the future of iOS going forward.
I'm curious. Do you actively shut your
eyes and ears to avoid the other comments
and reference links, or is it unconscious?
The failure in that view is that you didn't plan for imprecision and uncertainty when you built the schedule. This is inefficient because it doesn't allow the meeting to be flexible, ending before its deadline or alternatively, extending way beyond the scheduled time.

The attitude of "leaves the room in the middle, before the business is finished" may certainly be a problem. Being a Spaniard, I see the inherent value in Figure 4.5 "Spanish schedules: In theory, in reality". A day schedule would be seen as poor and aseptic without the "meets in bar" at the end. For us, those differences between what's scheduled and the actual sequence of events is where life happens. It's no wonder that the novel "Momo"'s setting was placed in Italy. [1]

Also, in the multi-active culture, the other person shouldn't be there waiting, idle, twiddling their thumbs; they're surely have plenty of other things that can take care of in the meantime. (In the modern world they could be conducting other businesses by phone or with their laptops, but those are still Western-thinking tools; other options could be to socialize with the people at the building, reading a book or merely enjoying the scenery or getting lost in their thoughts. When was the last time you planned for that?)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_%28novel%29

edit: grammar
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Everything is relative ...

Over the years, HN slowly replaced proggit for me. The are subs on reddit I really like such as r/lisp or r/politics. And those two sections have much improved over the time, in my opinion at least.

But there are sections in reddit I find hard to accept up to the point that I feel ashamed visiting the site. And sometimes when I browse through some of the top level threads, I'm not sure if someone copy-pasted the discussion straight from youtube.

HN on the other hand has fostered a very civilized discussion culture, particularity in the last 2 years. Good job guys.
Please note that in communistic states people worked regularly over 8 hours long after 8-hours work week was legislated in the USA. My point is that system evolution via democratic process is much better than bloody revolution that left-wing quite often has on its mouth.
So where are those Fortran and C++ compilers for OpenCL kernel code?
Funny you should mention that. In a way PG has quit. He's passed the mantle to dang who is doing an exemplary job of moderating the forum now. Paul's last post is more than 2 months old. And he did write that essay:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7493856
I was implying that a feature that is known to be in Lisp but not in most of the other languages. Such as Read–eval–print loop.
The cloud part is that if you handoff between a document in Pages in iOS to a document in Pages in OS X, the document itself can just be opened via iCloud rather than sending it directly. Only the user's current state (scroll and cursor position) needs to be sent directly.
That, and we don't plan for anything immediately after the meeting. ;-)
Finish your painting and let us know your thoughts.
"Nowadays we know that total productivity is higher if you have 8 hour work days,"

We know? Surely on a planet with 7 billion people, some of them can maintain their work efficiency for more than 8 hours. What about the Steve Jobs and John Carmack's of the world? I don't see them being 9-5 people.
I had dinner with him once at a conference; he was amazing. When asked about the safety of self-testing novel substances (he of course starts at insanely low doses, but still), he said that he's learned to identify the signs of grand mal seizures, and if he feels one coming on, he simply sticks himself with a couple hundred miligrams of phenobarbital, straps himself in, and goes for a ride. Then he gets back to work.
Hi, thank you for your time and your excellent feedback.

I agree with you on all points. I laughed when you said Ron Burgundy was condescending - I had not considered that. But again you are probably right.

The pop-over you mentioned at the end only appears if its hard coded into the link. I did this to the link as I believe new users will rather have more rather than less information on their first visit.

I will continue working on improving the site.
Most common I can think of is when I want to read a web page on something bigger than my iPhone. Currently I have to email myself a link, and I lose my scroll position.
>Analytics is orthogonal to that

Not when it's included in the editor as a default[0]. If we want to strictly compare editors then we should talk about Codemirror instead of LightTable. This point is really moot. I've used both Atom and LightTable and while I'm not going to argue about the pros and cons of either (I ditched Atom for various reasons), even just thinking about putting some Google web tracking device as an opt-out (instead of opt-in) really makes me abhor Atom.

You can disagree with me and you can prefer Atom over LightTable, it's all good, however downvoting because you don't like simple statements that are true won't make them any less true.

[0]https://atom.io/faq
Because the police should be busy catching criminals instead of trying to trick innocent people into criminal acts when they are not doing any.
> OpenGL 5 will happen in the next two years (and GLES 4) and it will take the wind out of all these alt-language sails.

2 years? in two years time nvidia will have their next line of GPUs out (pascal), intel will have launched knights landing (the many core xeon), and the next version of OS X will be released. 2 years is a long time, and it will already be behind the curve from it's announcement. khronos have a history of stagnation and disappointment.

> I can't see Khronos making the same fuck up twice, as they did with Longs Peak.

i think you may be mis-under-estimating khronos..
See my extended reply above, it gives a hint of what you're missing.
What? A quick google tells me that ritz-carlton, intercontinental and other luxury hotels like kempinski all provide free wifi. I seriously doubt other luxurious hotels would charge you for wifi.
Hm, do you have any link? Sounds like judge ruling out of his jurisdiction[1]. If the servers are in Germany, Switzerland or France good luck getting USA judge rulings implemented, especially if the other party (e.g. Germany/France) is not willing to cooperate. On the other hand, maybe there's some sort of agreement between the EU and the US we don't know about. Cloud services are becoming an increased pain, decentralized/encrypted data is the future apparently.

[1] Like when the US government wanted to indict Assange with charges of treason, regardless of the minor issue that he was not a 'USA' citizen, so... Treason according to whom?!
If you've got that much money lying ready, why aren't you already hiring a lawyer to address this with whatever passes for a competition authority in the US?
I used identify in the outward sense, not the inward. I.e. in a tag-line on twitter one wouldn't have "A rails developer in Mombasa," if they were really in Antwerp.
Economists have long accepted that individuals and society have vary different short term costs and bennifits for the same activity. Abstractly it's the basis for having governments in the first place. But that's a long way from saying laws directly account for all known externality's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
It's again the same boilerplate-code to create something simple as a tableview. I don't understand why they had to 'invent' a new programming language for that.
> Maybe it's my Western bias speaking

It is. Northwestern even.

> a greater tolerance for jerks

Actually, one might very well argue that you are the jerk, in your own example. Come on, what's one hour? Just do something else while waiting for the person to arrive.
I'm less interested in performance boosts than in improved driver stability/consistency from a simpler driver model.
TSA agents aren't bad, they're "just following orders." Okay not a quote from the article, but it seems to be his attitude. Actually his attitude is worse, that they are somehow the victims.

But despite the fact I haven't seen an article about TSA handlers in recent memory, I like people who are willing to blame the people responsible for doing bad things. So I guess I will like HN better without that dude.
> I'll still be around as a user, but less frequently than when I felt I had to check the site every hour or so to make sure nothing had broken.

Splitting hairs here, but I consider that more of a "I'll no longer be the moderator of HN" type of quitting, which is not a very reversible decision. I was hinting at the fact that he might also quit as a user, considering his two month post hiatus. (Personally I'm hoping he's just taking a well-deserved vacation from HN, rather than leaving it completely).
> So can the guy with the shovel.

I was going to suggest a guy with a 50ct lighter and a jerrycan of gas, who is probably a more imminent threat to forests than the bulldozer operator.
A project manager onced asked my team for an opt-in checkbox that, once checked, would disappear and never be shown again. Thankfully, we managed to talk him out of it.
I was at a start-up in the late 90s that refused to use the term everyone else used in their press releases, and they used "cracker" instead, and then the business withered up and turned into a zombie.

Sometimes you need to accept your losses and move on.
The biggest road bump for 48+ core SoC will be parallel programming. Because in truth nobody is (or at least doesn't want too). If you happened to be an early adopter of the SPARC T5 Niagra you likely noticed most of your utils ran very slowly.

I just remember generating SSL keys at a speed that my pentium would laugh at, because SSL didn't supporting threading itself out to all 512 cores.
>EU law requires opt-in. Having opt-out is not lawful.

And that's all there is to it. There is no room for confusion here guys.
I guess "language support" was referring to the restrictions within the kernel language. And CUDA is better there - they support templates, you can typecheck a CUDA kernel call. With OpenCL you have to jump through hoops to get that. While some projects have managed to do it, it could be better still.

What bugs me about OpenCL is the intentional vagueness of the specification that gives every implementer the freedom to do whatever they want with the result that performance portability is often difficult to achieve.
microsoft.com. My bank's website (Halifax). I think Yahoo and Livejournal, though I can't get either to work in the wayback machine to be sure. The content is fairly front and center now, where the 2008 trend was very "boxes in boxes" with lots of rounded corners to show you could. I'm actually struggling to remember what was big in 2008 - I remember Amazon and Ebay kept to a 2003-style design.
If they do (theoretically speaking) can you prove it?
In most (all?) Scandinavian countries, time off is not a luxury. It is a right, awarded to every working man and woman, guarded by law and regulations.
And yet most white people in South Africa only have a South African passport and are not citizens of any other country. How does that not make them African?
I was curious when I saw a tests folders, but it was just auto-generated files with no actual tests. =(
Nice to see an appearance for Threes - the developers deserve a bit of recognition after 2048 went crazy, and Threes is a really nice user experience.
That's a bad idea if "optional" is a number, a boolean or a string.
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Downvoting because of irrelevance is reasonable IMHO.
Show HN: Uncluttered – Simple shared status bar messages for OS X
Over the past couple weekends I created a fun little desktop app + server called Uncluttered. Its only job is share simple (and short) messages to people's status bar in OSX. I've been using it to leave myself reminders ("Pay bills"), but can easily see this being used for teams that want to share small pieces of data ("799 sign ups!").

Check it out here: http://uncluttered.re-cycledair.com/
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