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"There is encouraging evidence that SIMD will enable a whole new class of application domains and high-performance libraries in JavaScript."

Anyone take a guess what those might be (honest question)?

In the past SIMD has been the primary way to accelerate audio and graphics related compute tasks, but with WebGL and shaders, JS users already have a very powerful vector processing unit at their fingertips.
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A colocation center is a type of data center where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other firms—and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers—with a minimum of cost and complexity.

Colocation by no means indicates you have multiple servers that need housing nowadays.
Not that it helps now, but within 12 months the article will be available here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24910347

NIH-funded researchers are required to deposit pre-proof manuscripts (text and images without final journal formatting) in the PubMed repository within 12 months. Often, this is facilitated by journals themselves as a checkbox in the submission system. (They provide this service in large part so that they can wait as long as possible to submit to PubMed)
Considering the architecture of Node.JS is not suited to compute-heavy tasks, I wonder what kind of code are you willing to optimize in Node.JS with SIMD?
Chrome and Firefox both have that.
Its not speed I'm bothered about. KDE is more or less very smooth at that. Its the resources it takes! The CPU is always nearly being utilized on a small-medium scale, and nearly 700mb is taken away at boot-time and gathers upto 2gb upon usage. That's too high, at least I think so.

Would KDE actually require so much for all the features it gives or can that actually come down?
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Canonical never contributed much to KDE. Yes, a few bits here and there but overall mostly negligible.

Blue Systems OTOH is a big KDE contributor. Things like KDE Search improved a lot thanks to Blue's involvement.
As for Kubuntu: It appears to me that mostly the same people are involved with it. The only KDE thing mostly specific to Kubuntu is Muon (and that's being ported to Debian as we speak). Everything else by Blue Systems is AFAIK cross-distro.

The Kubuntu guys already announced that Canonical's own display server Mir is not an option. Therefore it remains to be seen how feasible Kubuntu remains with Canonical pushing a Wayland competitor.
Thanks for the article, I've seen that term floating around and never knew how to get started. I've been itching to get into the server hosting business as a side thing ever since renting my own KVM VPS.

I was blown away by the fact that I can sit there and watch it reboot over screen sharing from my iPad. I treat it as a cloud desktop (runs the latest vanilla Ubuntu) and so of course it was easy to get apache and PHP and Ruby and a whole web server environment up. I do all my work on it, as well as my play. I use Plex to stream myself media, and OwnCloud and other tools to replace Dropbox and even deploy sites.

I want to sell people on the idea that it's easy to have a cloud desktop you can access from anywhere, that can also be a web server (not selling web servers that can also have a desktop). I want to sell people on the Idea that with freely available software, we can each have a private cloud with just our data.

I'm not quite sure how to get started, and I'm not trying to make a killing with profit, I just don't see people trying to make it simpler for the average Joe to have a cloud desktop and not need to pay to use shared cloud services which then become huge targets for data breaches.
> Yeah, because ext4 never cleans up the dentry table after it's been made.

Why is that? It doesn't seem to make much sense.
Which is a shame. Apple should bring back Windows Safari.
Bear in mind that someone will always take jobs that are lower-paid, they might just not be as visible, as they're not going to be appearing on company blogs or writing about their work as much.

I knew two talented developers, one front-end one back-end web development, who were both on £13,000 a year. They are now on more, but it really wouldn't surprise me to learn that there are more like them.
This must be a response to the protests today. I guess adding this is a way of saying Uber is not exactly like a Black Taxi and distinguish the two as different
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I wrote something similar a while back, but it only requires an hourly cronjob to run a bunch of Python scripts in an arbitrary file structure: https://github.com/nlindblad/ocarina

I use it extensively myself for scraping various sites/APIs.
I bet your voice is better heard over at the VDG forum on kde.org ;-)
The consultant's addendum to this is to sit and listen contemplatively when someone learned is speaking, determine through the general response of the room whether this person has broad support / likely knows what they're talking about, and then show supportive body language and speak out in agreement as if you already knew.

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Easy way to install them both?
Can you remove a feature easily?
It's a safe assumption for essentially all biomedical research, but specifically, the senior author's website:

http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/Labs/Ghetti/PWT/index.cfm?Sect...
From the linked article (OK, press release):

It will, however, run (...) on the platforms that support SIMD. This includes both the client platforms (...) as well as servers that run JavaScript, for example through the Node.js V8 engine.

...and:

A major part of the SIMD.JS API implementation has already landed in Firefox Nightly and our full implementation of the SIMD API for Intel Architecture has been submitted to Chromium for review.

...and:

Google, Intel, and Mozilla are working on a TC39 ECMAScript proposal to include this JavaScript SIMD API in the future ES7 version of the JavaScript standard.

So, yes, there's definitely an intention there to put it into V8/Node.js/ES7 (guess, it will be in this exact order).
I don't use KDE anymore (switched to XMonad a few years ago), but I still use Dolphin for its DAV/SMB capabilities, and occasionally gwenview. But why do you think KDE is "losing ground"?

And Konsole is pretty good, but doesn't handle resizing well in XMonad, so it's urxvt for me.
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Picasso was skilled at drawing as a child, and he started formal art education at age 10. But maybe you mean he wasn't that impressive at drawing perspective and architecture?

Childhood drawings by Picasso:
http://drawingatduke.blogspot.no/2012/02/drawings-of-pablo-p...
I was just wondering why I couldn't hop on Feedly.

I feel sort of bad that this is what makes me finally self host my RSS reader, since it's totally out of their control, but I've been planning on jumping ship for a while, it's just been low priority for me. Goread has been tempting me though, so I guess I'll check it out.
complex physics engines, games, etc. come to mind. not everything parallel is doable in shaders/opencl.
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I wrote a simple Chrome extension, Instant Music, and released in Korea last week. After I posted about in one of popular Facebook pages it started to go viral and it reached 100,000 requests/day just after the couple of days I had first released it. People's reponses were absolutely fantastic which I had not anticipated at all. I would like to introduce it to more users in other countries than Korea now to see if they find it useful too. What should be my first step? Thank you.
> $1.8M pesos (over $40K USD).

The confusing dollar sign.
What are the advantages of doing this over just paying for computing power on AWS or some other cloud service? Feels like it would be a very small niche at this point.
I can't see a type of datacenter it doesn't apply to. You pay for transit, power draw, and to a lesser extent rack units. If you get a rack or a half rack with your expected power draw and want to spill past that they'll be charging you extra because that's space they can't sell to someone else. Some datacenters also provide cages, so your hardware is physically separated from other people. That'll cost extra too.

The only thing I didn't see a mention of is DC power, whereas your out of the box power supplies on most OEM equipment is for AC. Most of the server supplies nowadays should be able to handle 240V, 208V, and 120V with AC on the same unit, when you go DC you want to consider buying a separate AC power supply for setting up the server in your office (unless you drop ship it to the colo).

Make sure you get a very efficient power supply too, because while you can get the most efficient or power miserly server on the planet, an inefficient power supply will increase the draw significantly. You also want to right-size the power supply, because drawing too little power lowers the efficiency (there's an efficiency curve available for most PSUs that are rated).
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"Leaved" and "loose" are both misused in the text as written.
No, the U.S. government understands the situation isn't symmetric. It spends $700 billion a year ensuring asymmetry.
Thank you for posting the link to the play store. The verge article I read earlier had no link which is very frustrating when reading something like his on a mobile device.
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UberTAXI
You Are...Currently a taxi driver certified and licensed by the city. Your Vehicle Is...A commercial taxi vehicle.

So, yes. Existing taxi drivers can.
I love this article. It is well written and it even has a date. Thanks :)
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Except on systems without good GPUs.
I quite liked this article about the issue.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gb...

> The shocking thing about these DDoS-for-hire services is that — as I’ve reported in several previous stories — a majority of them are run by young kids who apparently can think of no better way to prove how cool and “leet” they are than by wantonly knocking Web sites offline and by launching hugely disruptive assaults. Case in point: My site appears to have been attacked this week by a 15-year-old boy from Illinois who calls himself “Mr. Booter Master” online.
I bet they are aiming the iPhone market.

Makes sense when you consider Swiftkey user base on android and how some iPhone users can become jealous of such a nice keyboard.

As Apple opened the iPhone to this market, the strongest brand on Android may have a easier start.
How will this run on AMD chips?
As a non Uber customer, why would I use this over Hailo? And why would Uber customers opt for a more expensive taxi when the same application has a cheaper option?

When I use black cabs here in London, I'd much rather use an established and local product from a company with less questionable ethics. That's Hailo.
You can on plan9, you can even send it over serial if you like
Cost: https://blog.serverdensity.com/saving-500k-per-month-buying-...
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Yes, but human being seem to struggle with the concept, regularly assuming that a decreasing percentage necessarily implies a decreasing absolute number as well.

If they aim is to communicate a true representation of reality then you need to take that into account.
which is much more expensive than UberX. Black cabs in London are just ripoff. I love Uber and I hope it will continue to disrupt it with UberX and low prices, not support Black Cabs.
i think AWS is good, when you're not sure if you will use all resources of your servers or need scalability. If you know your growth rate, what type of resources are used, etc. it will be cheaper to have servers in a datacenter instead of using AWS. Many companies, upon growing, starting to rent a space in datacenter or even build their own.
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There will always be people who want to get some easy money and have the brains for that. Instead of playing the cat and mouse game we better take care that our networks are protected from, at least, small to mid-range DDoS attacks. The alternative is potential oppression from the governments - "you fear the bad guys, OK, then we will take some more freedoms from you and improve our surveillance to catch them".
But they're still using those gaudy start menu icons that looked gaudy 5 years ago.
Anyone experimented with this yet? I'd like to know how this is resolved when the architecture doesn't support Intel's SIMD approach, they map the objects pretty close to the instructions (SIMD.float32x4.sub and the likes).

I'm trying to figure out what happens when you port this to ARM NEON, and how you catch it with architectures that don't support NEON (they often lack them in Marvell and Allwinner).
I just wish I could remove their branded button from keyboard.
Ah yes true, I remember when registering for social security that there were two options, but the more expensive one didn't seem worthwhile (at the time at least)

Yes I meant freelancers are rare in IT, which makes finding projects harder.

But in general it seems to be considered less safe, for example it makes renting a flat more difficult if you tell you are autonomo (even though I'd earn maybe half of my current salary if I had a permanent position). It is my impression that most freelancer only work that way because they can't find a permanent position (unless they work in a profession that is independent by nature, like accountants etc)
Ack - thanks for pointing that out. Corrected!
Have you checked out https://www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/ which is a careers fair in Old Street, London?
For a minute there I thought I was gettin' gold.
Exact same hardware. Difference is software only.
Nobody is suggesting that things are bad because they're old. They're saying that HFS+ model older design practices that aren't relevant for modern file system designs and expectations. And what's more, you're kind of disproving your point with those examples:

* FAT32 is frequently criticised for being crap and the FAT32 variants that fix many of it's short comings are often stuck behind Ms patents. In short, FAT32 is a terrible file system that needs to die more urgently than HFS+.

* ext2 isn't really used for anything other than a direct replacement for FAT32. It's not really a practical fs for modern systems and shouldn't really be used on one.

* NTFS isn't a static file system. It's like saying ext is decades old when ext4 is practically a whole other file system to ext2 (while still offering some degree of backwards compatibility). NTFS is similar in the way how it has incremental versions. However even then, NTFS does still have it's critics and, as you mentioned yourself, MS have tried to replace it on a few occasions.

XFS is really the only example you've come up with that works in your context. It's also one of the few file systems I don't have any personal experience with so I couldn't answer how it's managed to keep up with the pace of technology.
There's no reason you can't punish criminals like this and still have a free, democratic, and open society.
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Yes, people get jailed for DDoS attacks, at least in the UK. For example, two attackers were jailed for 5 years in 2013 for an extortion attempt and DDoS attack against an online casino: http://www.cnmeonline.com/news/ddos-playground-bully-blackma...
I wish they had a semi-transparent theme.
I suspect the latest smartphone SoCs would be as powerful as a Chromebook.
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Thanks. Demand must be tremendous because that site doesn't respond either.
And no mention of ipv6 at all. at the very least it gives you much easier management of private networks (yay real ip addresses) and there is more and more traffic coming over it (think mobile phones and etc.)
I think Apple has been clear that much of the underlying mechanics of Swift remain tightly coupled with the ObjC runtime, which makes sense if you think that Swift code must interoperate with all the existing Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks and third-party code written in Objective-C (thus also allowing Apple to hedge its bet in case Swift tanks with developers).

What's _really_ going to be interesting going forward is whether Apple introduces new features in the runtime that are only available to Swift code, or whether it starts making change to the runtime that favour Swift over Objective-C—and that's probably going to tell us when the latter is to be considered a legacy language.
Pairing blackmail + DDoS is a guaranteed way to get the big guns to investigate.
Every time I have gotten an Uber in London the car has been a Toyota Prius, I don't know if that particular car is still congestion charge exempt but even if it isn't what's to stop minicabs all starting to drive vehicles which are exempt?
The original posting on their blog: http://blog.feedly.com/2014/06/11/denial-of-service-attack/

> We are working in parallel with other victims of the same group and with law enforcement.

Last.fm is also experiencing "network difficulties" for a few days now, I'm curious if they are also on the same group.

[0] http://status.last.fm/
They've been doing this in DC for several years. It seems to work, more or less. I think there are more cabs on Hailo if that's what you want. Some cab drivers are extremely anti-Uber.
AWS comes with a ton of added functionality that may not be relevant to you, especially if you've no need to scale or deploy machines in seconds. That comes at a cost.

It's a shallow orange vs. apples comparison, but look at the price of colocating 1/3 rack at Hetzner (119EUR). If you already own the hardware, have no need to use any advanced AWS feature, have the skills to manage it, etc.. sometimes it make sense.

For personal and/or SMB needs, it usually not worth the trouble (specially regarding skills to maintain it).

So you're right, it's becoming more and more a niche.
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Ah, I see.

However the Firefox builds I'm using are the generic ones from Mozilla, Debian doesn't supply Firefox due to IP issues, they do their own "Iceweasel" build (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_r...).
Cloud is definitely better if you need to scale out, but if you need either raw performance, have requirements for particular hardware (e.g. Backblaze with their custom disk shelves, certain hardware appliances, tape backup requirements), or if you want the cheapest cost per month then a colo may be right for you. Remember it's cheaper because you're paying for the sysadmin time and remote hands, versus Amazon with their people.

You could also do hybrid approach - colo for core infrastructure and cloud to scale out, but that's more difficult to setup.

At a certain scale of colo or with very heavy security requirements you'll find it's cheaper to have your own datacenter.
I am old already....

This is a very interesting site, and I see they got a ton of visitors in the first week. But is there a business model for this? Its seems like just another novelty site that will be exciting for the next month and then no one will remember it. How could you make money from a site like this.
About 4 years ago, I switched from KDE/Kubuntu to OSX. Not because I hated KDE, but because my job needed OSX. It takes divvy, sizeup, apptivate, bartenderapp to do, what I was able to do with KDE out of box. The dual monitor support in OSX is still not in par with KDE.

I have been using Kubuntu/KDE as my main workstation for last couple of months and I love depth of how much is possible with window environment. I think KDE works pretty well for powerusers as well as beginners and I am excited to see its new update!
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Good timing, because in about 1 hour from now, at 14:00 BST / 13:00 UTC (as if there were such a thing as British Summer), the London Black Cabs will stage a protest that will gridlock London. Not that anyone stuck in London traffic will be able to tell the difference.

Article from the Beeb: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27783218

edit: DST is hard
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So if you know what the domain name is (obviously, how else would you know it is now taken), then why the obfuscation with "somewhereintheworld.com"? Why not just post the actual, albeit fake, domain?

Note, unless:

1) an smtp server is actually listening at the domain (have you tested this?);
2) is configured to receive any address at the domain;

Then your confirmation emails from yahoo are getting refused by the other domain. So there is no guarantee the other domain has, or does not have, your reset emails. In any case, unless you want to try to buy that other domain just to get your own reset emails, you'll need to contact yahoo support, they are the only ones who can help you now.

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Practically, it depends on whether the markup is in line with the spread for street currency exchange, or in line with vending machine markup versus wholesale cost of goods.
"Microsoft has no easy solution to the problem"

Part of Microsoft's solution to the problem is getting this headline published. While the article suggests that this has been going on since before the Snowden information disclosures arose, demonstrating that they're resisting is a change from the perception many had regarding Microsoft's stance on these issues when the Snowden content first began to be published. This excerpt supports this point:

"Microsoft’s efforts to push back against the government in this and other cases, company officials say, predate the disclosures by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden about the reach of U.S. surveillance. But the revelations, which began a year ago, “certainly put a premium on demonstrating to people that we are fighting,” said one Microsoft official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for the company."
My guess is it's more about politics than actual service. Basically saying "hey, taxis are so much different we can even offer them as a completely separate service. UberX / Uber are not taxis." This may come useful if/when TfL changes their mind, or some court forces this discussion.