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There was another "Dark Ages" period in 1200BC [1] when dome building was again forgotten for 1400 years although it was quite usual in tomb building [2].
During that dark ages 500 year period most cities near the Mediterranean were destroyed, and it is attributed to the "Sea Peoples" [3]. Population in eastern mediterranean was reduced to 1/9 of its previous numbers and commerce that numbered thousands of ship transports ceased.

One can only imagine were we would be, if we had not forgotten printed type by 2500BC[4] or small gear mechanisms by 100 BC [5]

Non "Dark-ages" years are less than the "dark ages" years in recorded history, we just like to think that civilization improves over time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse
[2] http://traveltoeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/wpid-
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Peoples
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[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaistos_Disc
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
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> but for what I hear from parents and teachers I would bet that a large majority of this very loyal following are still < 16 years old.

Well, yes, I'd expect parents and teachers to talk largely about < 16 year olds.
I wonder if it is possible to train yourself to be open-minded, or even to spot if you aren't open-minded. After all, while it is easy to spot open or closed-mindedness in others, I expect that almost everyone thinks that they are open-minded.
I don't think it's worthy of front page at all, personally...
I'd say it's an overstatement.

Superficially things are posted about America, but usually that's more a problem with the site that's linked to being written for an American audience - the majority of articles that make it to the front page are about things that have global impact. Actual content within HN is pretty much entirely for a global audience - Show HN is usually about startups/projects with global reach. Ask HN is usually about things that affect an individual. Hiring threads are very often for remote jobs where people can work anywhere.
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Hello,

In November we're going at the Web Summit partecipating at the Alpha Program. We're looking to connect with other startups and raise funds for the project.

I have in mind how much funds we'd need, but I'm not sure about the actual valuation of the startup.

I've read many articles about, but talking with someone might be more usefull.

Best,
Filippo
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You're misunderstanding that which you call "pretentious programmer culture".

I show up at (0700-1200) or maybe whenever the meeting starts. I wear jeans or shorts. I leave at 5 if nobody has a reason to keep me there || I'm not interested anymore. I'm available the rest of the time for a quick fix or it's interesting.

If I'm awake and I can wave my magic wand and make a coworker's life easier, why not? I'm never very far. Because computer, network.

Non-programmers are mere mortals. So am I. Maybe I'm awesome, maybe you're awesome. Not knowing one way or the other I try to satisfy myself with the idea that, eh, we probably don't completely suck. Go us!

The community you think we should all belong to, the heroes you think we should worship, and the society you say we live in: Who's the pretentious one here?
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Never gained any traction and it wasn't even Berlin-centered.
Exactly. Constant focus on a single thing is a recipe for burnout. 'Downtime', whether that's a hobby, exercise, cooking, or watching mindless TV, is a good thing. Humans need time to rest their brains; every person who has described themselves this way (and actually appeared to do it) has been miserable IME.

Never apologise for having a life.
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Huh, I didn't realize 24 hour time was so scarcely used in the US.
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But it's not open source so you don't get to check.
... and we control the key distribution.
We also do control your device, so technically, we don't need the key.

Fixed that for him.
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Not the OP, and it's not about AT&T, but I once knew a HR person who worked for a big and world-renowned telecom company in my (East-European) country. At some point she started to suspect her then-boyfriend of cheating on her, and to convince herself she "nicely asked" one of her IT colleagues at her job to look through the SMS messages of her boyfriend stored in the company's systems (because, presumably, she couldn't lay her hands on her boyfriend's phone directly). Said IT guy did just that, i.e. informed my former acquaintance of the SMS messages on her boyfriend's phone.
If its about explaining the attitude of forming their own cool hangout, I do agree with you. But I don't buy that an attitude inspired by revenge is justified because they were abused.
Using arrows in both directions on your diagrams is very confusing. Only keep the right ones. Good write-up by the way.
I was reading a book about how people remember certain kinds of stories of success, and these are better for marketing purposes, but the reality was that it was a bit of luck and a hard slog mixed together.

The example was how the eBay founders had this big mission to build a huge barter platform but the public didn't care until the 'marketing story' about how one of the founders had the idea because his wife wanted to 'trade pez dispensers'.

I forget the book, but it reminds me of this. The truth of the matter is there is probably no such thing as shining brilliance, it's just smoke and mirrors when advertised, and true achievements are partially luck based, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't live our lives studying and working and giving a shit.

But we don't need to do it 24/7, and we don't need to sacrifice our lives to be good enough.
No floating point article is complete with a reference to the Fast Inverse Square Root [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
May be. Just that Apple Watch is launching with two size options, whereas in case of other products that you mention, options were introduced years after the first launch of the products.
I think you nailed it, it's formalized common sense (the article hints at this conclusion too). However, the unique addition of a way to track and improve forecasting performance over time is what makes this project work. This was accomplished through a few attempts at custom software in the last few years, and for this year they are using Inkling Markets, so far it is best platform I've experienced for tracking and improving prediction performance.
"he consistent manner with which Markus, Jakob and Carl steered Mojang out of the principle of doing the community right, is outright admirable."

That sentence made my brain hurt.
1. Find 20,000 people to participate in Coin Predicting.

2. Flip a coin. Sort out all participants that were wrong.

3. Repeat step 2 until there are 10 people left. These 10 people now have a track record of predicting the future. Some of them even will continue to predict the future for a number of times. Eventually, all will be wrong.

The thing is, you don't know who will be the expert forecaster in the first place and the same is true for the Good Judgement Project.
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Get to know yourself. Stop asking strangers on Hacker News.

How? By being of service to others. People who need help are everywhere.
Seems like this was fixed in C++14 by adding a std::string&& overload.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/regex/regex_match
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Dammit, I hope this crap will not spread to EU as well trough the Transatlantic Parternship.
Well, Netflix did launch in Germany at midnight today ;)

But I agree; looking at the HN front page just now, I only see a couple of things that could be said to be US-specific (or any-country-specific), one of which is a job posting.
german or european Hacker News would have been better.
Just another friendly reminder that when your lawyers do whats safest for your company from a legal perspective, that's not automatically whats best for your company from a business perspective. This goes triple when it comes to "IP".
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There's a FAQ-section you might want to read, as it specifically mentions location. They don't care where you're based, but you do have to follow the YC program in the US. After YC, you could return to Europe, but it's probably a good idea to stick around. Provided you get a suitable visa, of course...
http://www.ycombinator.com/faq/
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I am not generalizing programmers. I am commenting on the culture which is unfaithfully becoming a hallmark of true programmer. The problem with culture is that you can remove the core values (that you work hard) and still flaunt the culture to pretend that you are a part of that group. Just like you can dress up and act like a rich person without being rich.
also I'm really not sure I want to use a service that hasn't quite figured out how to use basic HTML forms yet: http://imgur.com/bQFKTzB

Password in cleartext.. really? Everyone around me at St. Oberholz can see my passworrd now.
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After the fact however, it should be easy. Did the person with the phone call to open a ticket? Were there any tickets? Who accessed the information....

The data's already there to run that sort of analysis. Unless they for some ... very difficult to imagine... reason don't log the actions of their own staff.
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Isn't this what the police are for? If she just up and left, they didn't get a divorce and he should have certain rights to contact with his kids. Even if they got a divorce he'd probably still have certain rights established when custody was worked out.
Their own "cool hangout"? I'll let you in! The secret handshake goes like this:

Open your right hand, palm down.

Make a fist.

Now let your middle/long/tall finger extend.

Rotate your hand 180deg clockwise.

Bend your wrist upward.

Congrats. Welcome.
They can issue an "update" for the system that adds that functionality, they have the trusted keys to sign apps.
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Being from Berlin myself, I hope this is not going to split up the community. Of course the original HN seems kind of US centric but do we seriously want a separate HN for each city?

Moreover one should keep in mind that there are just way more hackers in the US, so there's no need to worry that there isn't always a post about Berlin on the front page... ;) It's rather a reason to cheer when there is one more success story from Berlin...
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Why should we care if it's justified? Was the abuse justified?
I think cultural and educational background is a factor, but not in the fashion of "persons who had an education of X type in culture Y have superior prescience", but rather "persons who had education experiences of X, Y, Z, and developed in cultures A, B, C, D, Q, R have superior prescience", as having a broader gamut of experiences to draw from allows you to eliminate many biases from which you'd otherwise suffer.
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What the hell? The woman took his kids and somehow he's a monster because he called her a bitch?
If you're close-minded, you're not going to be conscious of it - that's the nature of the beast.

You can't force someone's mind open, as all you're doing then is teaching them to be close-minded with a different set of axioms that you've behooved upon them.

As to yourself - it's hard to say, as having any objective view of self is challenging to say the least.

I like to think I'm extremely open-minded, but I might be wrong.
I don't think most people see it as the jurors being "dumb hicks" but rather the jurors (a fair number of whom are likely local business owners) having a vested interest in having legal teams from all over the country continue to bring cases to this district to prop up local businesses (which is far more likely to happen if they find for infringement because it the plaintiffs who move the cases there).

Wouldn't matter if this sort of thing were happening in NYC or SF (though, practically speaking it would be less likely since the business brought in through the lawsuit treadmill would be far less of the overall local economic pie), it would still be a huge problem. When local jurors find in favor of the plaintiff so often and with a significant amount of those cases being so egregious that circuit courts are later forced to find that "that no reasonable jury could have held the patent valid", then it seems likely there are some fundamental perverse incentives that have to be addressed.

[1] see the EFF link that paulgb provided in another post: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/after-setback-texas-fi...
> playing games

I've managed to address this by only playing games with an excellent plot/atmosphere/gameplay, ones with a specific beginning and an ending. So it's like reading a good book or watching a good film.
People could possibly pull that off with me even for museums I have been to a few years ago. I won't remember all the paintings, I won't really remember all the interior room styles (even when they are pretty unique, a few single photos usually don't capture that, unless you do it on purpose). Even if I saw a painting that I'm sure I've seen somewhere else, they do move/loan them to different expositions over time, I've seen that happen in reality too (I'd remark on that, hey I think I've seen that one at museum X--ok, maybe that's when I would start to get a clue).

Add to that the fact that you simply don't expect to be lied to in such a straightforward manner, I see no shame in being able to be fooled in this way.
And that was with a helium booster, along with a smidge of lithium. My guess is that with only hydrogen it would have taken even longer.
Apple can remotely delete apps on iPhones. They've used it to delete apps that were removed from the app store. Apple can force your phone to download the latest U2 album. Upgrading your apps silently is probably not outside their control if they wanted to.
ATI would probably be a better example. Nvidia has historically been more precise and has implemented specs pretty faithfully. ATI has of course become AMD, and the reputation of modern AMD graphics cards among developers seems to be pretty great.

It would surprise me if sending the value 1.0 from a vertex program to fragment program ever resulted in anything except 1.0 on a desktop GPU. It's not unusual to truncate a float in a fragment program and the use the resulting integer as an index. I think Nvidia has a fairly rigorous battery of tests which they use to ensure compliance with specs. The tests check to make sure that values are being interpolated correctly, to check for off-by-one errors at the edges of triangles, and other such corner cases. The tests are automated, because once you implement a graphics spec correctly, you can generate an output image which should be the same every time it's generated. That way, if an error creeps into the driver, it should be caught pretty quickly, since it will cause a deviation in the rendered output examined by the test suite.

I'm not sure how often a problem occurs in an Nvidia consumer card but not their 'compute' line. Nvidia tries to use the same driver codebase across as many of their products as possible.

Here's an interesting thread where someone points out that certain OpenCL code was giving the correct result on x86 and Nvidia cards, but not AMD cards: http://devgurus.amd.com/thread/145582

In that thread, it's suggested that the reason Nvidia gave the correct result was because their CUDA compute specs had better error margins compared to OpenCL specs. So in that case, it would appear that Nvidia's compute line actually enhanced their accuracy in other contexts such as OpenCL. Rather than implement a different driver for OpenCL, CUDA, and consumer graphics, it seems that Nvidia uses the same driver to power all three, which seems to enhance accuracy rather than hinder it.

While writing up this comment and researching this, I stumbled across this interesting paper from 2011 that details exactly what programmers can expect when programming to an Nvidia GPU (in this case using CUDA): https://developer.nvidia.com/sites/default/files/akamai/cuda... ... It's a pretty fun read which helps to solidify the impression that Nvidia cares deeply about providing accurate floating point results.

I also came across this article which was too awesome not to mention: http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-d... ... It's not really related to GPU floating point, but it's an excellent exploration of floating point determinism and the effect of various floating point settings.

For mobile graphics stacks like those in cellphones / iPads etc, I share your skepticism. I'm not sure how rigorously tested mobile GPUs are, or how faithfully those stacks adhere to specs. I was hoping to get more info from the original commenter about how to reproduce the bug in the A7 to get a better idea of what to watch out for on mobile.
Yup, when somebody takes away your kids be sure to just call the cops and wait. Surely this will solve the whole thing right up.
... And 1.25 LA Clippers.

> Microsoft - Mojang deal will do more to get people into (games) programming than a million $ adspend by codecademy would

Definitely. And it will get more developers into the MS ecosystem than any Microsoft Certification tests would.
This seems very similar to a creation of mine that I entered in Ludum Dare last year, http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview...

In the link, you can see that it placed 21st overall in >1600 compo entries, and 18th in most fun. It was later featured in PCGamer magazine: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4557250388134&l=0f7d...
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Is there a site for the business grad type community in London that you'd care to suggest?
The Good Judgement Project does encourage forecasters to make informed predictions. In fact there is an RSS feed of relevant news stories on the topic up for trade.

Your coin example is a game of pure chance while trading on current events have much more context to inform predictions. It's really quite a difference.
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> The thing is, you don't know who will be the expert forecaster in the first place and the same is true for the Good Judgement Project.

They should turn it on itself - make anonymous profiles of the participants, and see if they can predict who will make a good forecaster!
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Traveling, and would love to meet up!
simply have the logo there, not much else needs to be done. People will equate,conflate the two. Hence subconsciously if they enjoyed the game they will be predisposed to other products?
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I get “∀X[∅∉X⟹∃f:X→⋃X∀A∈X(f(A)∈A)]” – i.e. the Unicode representation (without having configured anything). I’d even argue that this is correct/desired in this particular case, although of course not all formulae can be correctly expressed in pure Unicode characters without formatting commands.
> It's amusing the way FACE-DETECTION in my spiffy digital camera (an Olympus EM1) will find faces in all kinds of inanimate objects.

They set out to specifically look for faces. So that's what they'll find.
Winning the Champions with your fav little club in FM is in now way a waste of time! (Proof : it made you happy)

Seriously, live your life. There is much more to it than reading tech books or whatever career-related stuff.
Just do what makes you & your family happy. Keep an healthy balance.
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https://cambridge.nuvustudio.com/studios/interactive-art-at-...

Those are some of the projects from HS students.
Some we have taken further and added to our own art -
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Again, we know our text/branding/video are less than awesome. My Cofounder and I agree on the "big" things, but it emerged at some point that we don't agree at all stylistically. What we are looking for are a few curious individuals and/or startups to take a chance on us. What we lack in polish we make up for in experience, passion and determination. Bunnie even likes us. https://twitter.com/bunniestudios/status/510269089118289920
Doesn't it have mmap?
But aren't prices in Russia less than half of those in EU/US?
I remember that region locking controversy a few years back, where people bought the cheap eastern European boxed copies over the Internet and found that they wouldn't be able to redeem them from a US IP.
That's a lot of copying. Sounds like minecraft could do with a proper package manager. Maybe Microsoft will give it nuget support(har har).
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Jailbreak, patch the vulns that made it jailbreakable, then re-secure it. Most people vulnerable to this could not do that, though.
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