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> but could you explain to me how this is available here for free, yet it costs $32 to read the final published version?

Nature put a paywall on top of the article and then someone published the paywalled link on HN.
They are in control of their storage space and streaming, and they've already found their spot in the trade off between disk/bandwidth and video quality. Providing extra options for "advanced users" would leave that open for abuse.
You can have multiple CUDA kernels running simultaneously on the same GPU, but you have no direct control over which SM(X) core is assigned to which kernel AFAIK. So it actually works pretty similarly to multi threaded programming on CPU if you take away thread affinity. In general I find a good way to approximate a top-of the line NVIDIA GPU is to think of it as an ~8 core with a vector length of 192 for single precision and 96 (half of full length) for double precision. It has a high memory bandwidth which has the limitation of requiring memory accesses to 32 neighbours simultaneously in order to make full use of the performance. The CUDA programming model is particularly set up in a way that the programmer doesn't have to handle this manually - (s)he just needs to be aware of it. I.e. you program everything scalar, map the thread indices to your data accesses and make sure that the first thread index (x) maps to the fastest varying index of your data.
> no way that the drivers can meaningfully coordinate with one another

Except that 100% of drivers have a smartphone on a public network.
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It is literally illegal to say certain words on free-to-air television between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.
> No, while nostalgic, the Commodore and Atari scene were tiny in comparison.

Uhh, no they weren't. They were the focus of home computing during that time period. IBM-compatibles running DOS (or, previously, CP/M) were still the purview of businesses needing personal computers.

The reason why BASIC-oriented systems like those of Commodore and Atari are "nostalgic" is because they were ubiquitous in households during their heyday, and contributed heavily to the same memes and tropes of video game design that are being recycled to this day in big-budget games running on Windows 10 64-bat Supreme Home Edition Republic-of-Gamers PC-Master-Race monstrosities with Core i9 processors and NVodia GeFarce 96000000GTXXX 16TB 525600-CLUTA-core EXTREME-GRASS-RENDERING GPUs and all the other baloney that's dominated the thoughts of gamers nowadays.

> Since the mid nineties people have learned graphics programming and reverse engineering primarily on Windows.

By your logic, the concept of the automobile was invented by Toyota when they came out with the Prius.

There's a lot more to the history of video game development, demoscene, etc. than just the 90's; you're leaving out literally half of those subcultures' very nuanced histories chronologically-speaking - and, in fact, opting to leave out probably the most important half.
> I doubt Google wants to be reliant on a third-party company with reputation problems to introduce these cars to the world.

This is a great point that may not be getting enough play in this conversation. You could easily imagine Larry being nervous that Uber won't not be evil (pardon the double negative). I know people can probably point to examples where Google has lost their way on the 'Don't Be Evil' front, but I'm sure it's still a big part of their decision-making process. I use Uber and love the experience, but you have to think there's some truth to the horrible reputation they're earning themselves; Uber doesn't scream 'Don't Be Evil' to me.
True, they have only been working on the problem for 15 years. The challenge is that human adversaries are creative.
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Ageism is easier to pull off when you pretend it's something else.

I suspect they'd be fine with someone 18-24 who isn't a student being in the program - after all, they almost certainly expect you to drop out and focus on your startup fulltime if it gets traction.

If you're not comfortable with lying on the application, just enroll in online classes somewhere - voila, you're now a student! (Of course you still need to be an otherwise impressive candidate.)

On a related note, I'm toying with a new investment thesis: "old" entrepreneurs (above, say, 35) strike me as an interesting arbitrage opportunity. They seem wildly undervalued by silicon valley. Anyone want to start a syndicate with me to explore this idea?
I assume your second whiteknight link was meant to be this[1]. It's interesting comparing his view of Parrot with yours. He may share some feeling with you about Perl 6, but it appears his conclusion about why Parrot didn't work out is quite different. It appears he goes out of his way to explain that Perl 6 did what it had to to get past Parrot's failings:

The P6 folks were developing their own bindings which used the (much nicer) 6model and the (much nicer) P6 native bindings instead. After a while I had to ask myself why I was fighting in the weeds so much, when the P6 people were rising above the problems of Parrot and doing things better? If my writing these things wasn’t helping anybody, why bother with it?

Notice that the P6 folks were having their biggest successes when they bypassed Parrot, which isn’t exactly a roadmap for synergy and mutual success.

He goes on to say he doesn't really like Perl 6, and doesn't believe in it's direction or that it can achieve it's goals. That's fine. Nobody has to like everything.

I have to say I agree with his assessment that Parrot's goals have largely been met by multiple other projects at this point. This post has convinced me even more that not relying on Parrot was the right choice, which is sad because I was a big fan for many years. Parrot was a train wreck. Some people think Perl 6 was or still is a train wreck. But that wreck has been making progress, and may actually arrive at the station. Can the same be said of Parrot? Can you really lay all that blame, or even a majority of it on Perl 6? If people wanted to work on Parrot, they would.

1: http://whiteknight.github.io/2015/01/15/parrottheend.html
From the link you posted:

>All research papers from Nature will be made free to read in a proprietary screen-view format that can be annotated but not copied, printed or downloaded...

>Annette Thomas, chief executive of Macmillan Science and Education, says that under the policy, subscribers can share any paper they have access to through a link to a read-only version of the paper’s PDF that can be viewed through a web browser.

The person who linked the original article didn't use the special link to the "free, but proprietary" format.
I agree. Meanwhile, screeps.com is a fairly interesting AI-only RTS. (At the moment it's more of a tower defense kind of game with more to come.)
That Dr. Dobbs article you link is indeed wonderful - and very relevant today. I made a separate hn-submission -- maybe we can get some interesting software design advice/discussion going?:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8988358

As for VisionFS - how sad to see yet another project locked up at Oracle. On that note: there's still no decent support for DavFS in/for (free for) windows (8+10)?
I don't think that's quite right. Arxiv is a third party for academics to publish paper to get informal peer review outside of journals. My guess is that any edits made based on feedback from Nature's author network as well as the actual paper in the Nature format are under Nature's copyright.

But yes, my understanding is that anybody with institution access to Nature can now share a link to the Nature publication.
I suspect it has to do with the definition of "Optimal" in this case. It has likely been defined as "least number of steps". It would be cool to see how it would play if the goal was changed to "shortest amount of time".
> I'm not talking about pre-90s

And that's where your problem lies, since the pre-90s era is far more important historically than the post-90s era (when the idea of a "demoscene" started to die entirely and game development shifted full-force toward massive companies - trends which have only recently begun to reverse beyond very tiny niches).
The SAFE refers to a YC standard financing document loosely modeled after convertible debt: https://www.ycombinator.com/documents/
Despite the "wall" between the two organizations from a knowledge-standpoint, there isn't one from a financial standpoint. If you had ambitions to be a $100+ billion company (see: Uber), and think Google might eventually want to compete with you, why would you want to fuel your competitor via your own success?
>Do we have the "right" to do what we want to our planet

You have a right to make good decisions. Don't sweat about whether we have rights to modify the planet, and instead worry about whether it is a good decision.

At this point there is not enough data or control to ensure success. We are already changing our planet, and we can't even tell if it's good or bad, so this is not the year to make that kind of determination.
Do partners from google ventures have a board seat in Uber. If so, isn't this a conflict, as Google is privy to all the internal strategy at Uber
I suspect it is more like "this part of the company wants to invest" and "this part of the company wants to build" and they are too big and dysfunctional to get both parts to talk to each other to come up with a single strategy. Or they are doing the Microsoft thing and pitting the departments against each other.
Human-level performance in this domain will probably take more than 15 years to be created, but I'm pretty confident it will be done. We did solve chess, after all.
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>> Witness the many retirees that get part time jobs because they can't stand sitting around all day.

Hobbies are what they need. But after a life of working some can't trasition. I once heard that life expectancy drops 2 years for every year after XX that you retire. IIRC XX was like 55 or 60 but its a fuzzy memory. Of course thats an average.
That is a misguided, asinine attempt to legislate some form of "equality".

I'm reminded of efforts to legislate for pi = 3...
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And yet none of what he talks about does anything to help that. I'm not against oversimplifying, but what he's saying is entirely bogus, shadows being expensive has nothing to do with how many threads the CPU can issue commands with.

He's setting up this notion that the problem with graphics is a lack of threading, which is ridiculous. Graphics code is incredibly parallel, and his assertion that graphics work spends most of it's time constrained by waiting for the CPU just does not add up to me. Except in poorly written systems, I just haven't seen this be the case often at all.
Every now and then people (on HN and elsewhere) like to rediscover pilot-wave theory and other similar ideas that posit that billiard-ball-like-particles still describe the universe. In these interpretations the wave-function, which is the probabilistic field that modern physics uses to model particles, is just an effective representation about our knowledge about the system. I tend to see these theories as paying a price of drastic increase in complexity to retain classical intuition about the system.

The mainstream view in modern physics (for the past 30 or so years, I believe) is rather that the wavefunction is the fundamental description of reality, at least in the sense that classical effective knowledge theories are not plausible models.

My interpretation of this paper on quick glance is that it is an attempt to experimentally demonstrate that only effective knowledge theories with very strange properties would suffice to explain observations, thus strengthening the "wave-function is fundamental" viewpoint.
One possibility, is that if they can get good enough inital mapping data, and good enough self-driving cars, the cars could update the mapping data while they're working.

That's a lot of trust on the self-driving cars, though.
I think you're confusing Chromebooks for Android devices; running non-Google operating systems on Chromebooks is very-well-documented.

I think you're also missing the parent commenter's point: that even on ChromeOS (via Crouton), his daughter's newly-learned skills will be much more universally-applicable, since she's working directly with free development tools available universally and on virtually all modern platforms (plus Windows) instead of working with toolchains specific to only one not-really-all-that-modern platform.
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It has worked out alright for Goldman so far:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/books/money-and-power-abou...
They seem wildly undervalued by silicon valley

Many "older" entrepreneurs are simply building businesses and quietly earning success. Let's be real -- $20K is significantly lower than unsecured credit lines many established adults have. This is pitched to students for the same reason that a paper route is pitched to elementary school kids: because it's so meager of a benefit that, from a relative perspective, it only appeals to them.
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Arxiv shows that the most recent revision of their document was published on January 20, 2015 (less than three weeks ago).

I suppose it is possible that Nature's version is substantially different, but if that were the case it would cast a huge shadow of doubt over Nature's editorial process, as well as the claims made in the paper itself.
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Imagining a shorter path here would be Google buying Lyft and integrating into maps?
> You are right, there is no competition without choice. That has nothing to do with net neutrality.

Well, except it does. It has everything to do with NN. If you can't choose your ISP unless said ISP has agreements with, oh I don't know, the WB or Netflix or HBO (or whatever) then the competition has been stifled, or in terms your sponsors might understand better: freedoms have been curtailed. So, in short: Stop trying to mislead people.
I'm kind of interested in knowing why you don't think that there isn't an isomorphism along the ordering of the monad transformers. Wouldn't it just be a question of rebuilding combinators so that they're targetting the right depth? Or am I missing something
Just think what a cash cow it would be to have google self driving cars run an uber like service...
Visicalc played a large roll. The father of a friend of mine bought an Apple II in large part to do spreadsheets. While we're at it, I remember reading the inventor of the spreadsheet went to the computer clubs as showed his work. They all said "well yeah it can do that, so what" and he showed it to accountants and they all ran out to get Apple computers to run it. I think a lot of hackers focus on neat hacks that interest themselves, but overlook relatively easy solutions that could be a big deal to others.
They are now sending people debit Mastercards, which presumably is much more convenient for non-tech folks to use in the contexts you're referring to

https://support.google.com/wallet/answer/3529204?hl=en
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The plan itself looks reasonable to me. It's fairly buzzword-free (comparing to the plans nowadays), but maybe the buzzword back then just became common vocabulary to us.

The most interesting thing on the plan to me is the staff page: specifically how non-impressive the credentials of everyone on the team is. It's fun to think that Jobs might have embellish a little there (attended Stanford part) just to look better. Even the one with most credentials (Markkula, I believe) just read like a normal upper-middle management bio nowadays. And Woz & Jobs ... well, I don't think any company nowadays would be able to raise fund if the founder s' bios look like that.

Am I wrong?
I feel that what Google has built (self-driving cars) is harder to replicate, but Google doesn't have the killer instinct that Uber does.

You need more than "killer instinct" to match a decade of research in autonomous vehicles.

What you call "killer instinct" I would call delusional or "dumb money".
That depends on how strictly it is applied. Imagine a bank decided to buy iphones for all employees. Or what about all the little electronic devices already in place in a bank building. Locks, fire protection, power control, security circuits, cameras, routers, office computers + accessories, etc. etc. etc.

Banks need a LOT of technology.

Also consider the consequences of government employees having backdoors into every single part of the banking system, PLUS the public at large (including many techy people) having knowledge that such backdoors exist.
FYI, LLVM was a byproduct of Chris Lattner's PhD thesis titled "Macroscopic Data Structure Analysis and Optimization", which aimed to do exactly that. It is still a great paper. Alas, it was found that doing the basics well is much harder and larger task than doing the proof of concept of very clever optimizations.
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> The solution in the past to this problem has been unions.

How? Does a union provide a path from the factory floor to being an engineer without needing a degree, or... what?

I honestly don't see how unions would even be relevant here.
So, this is literally the post where I find out that my account has been restricted in some way, and that is why I keep having conversations cut short because I can only reply to a half-dozen or so things in a day. (I had assumed that this was a new thing that applied to everyone, since to my knowledge there is no reason for you to be restricting my account in particular, this way.)

Why the secrecy? Why not just tell people all the various passive-aggressive BS you perform to degrade experience for certain users? If you don't want me posting here, why not just tell me or ban me or whatever? Bonus points if you give an actual reason, but that might be asking for too much.

How many different bans do you have in the toolbox now, is there a list somewhere? Is there a way to check which ones apply to my account, aside from finding out second-hand?

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8964992 <- several posts here I wanted to reply to, it was an interesting discussion. I was not able to apparently because I caught the wrong admin on the wrong day in the wrong mood? And of course I have no idea what post of mine caused this... Despite whatever 'efforts' you're putting into this site, moderation here is bad and steadily getting worse.
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> In 1922, in “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

The amount of times this particular proposition has been quoted and rehashed by ignorant people in completely irrelevant contexts is staggering. (On the plus side it saved me the ~ twenty minutes that reading the rest of the article normally would have taken)
Sure they will. You wouldn't believe how many new games Steam is trying to throw at me on Linux.

The big studios might not care too much (though even this isn't really universal, since there are plenty of big studios that do target Linux/SteamOS), but there's a lot of activity from indie developers, many of whom are targeting SteamOS before they even target OS X (though there still aren't any SteamOS exclusives that I know of).
I thought of Make Space as well - but there's a quite a difference between "Manhattan" and "middle of Australia".
Anyone who enjoyed this article should pick up the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. My all time favorite book and a good intro to Stoic ethics.
That doesn't remotely address anything I nor the person above said. Nobody is debating if HDMI as sinks and sources, it does, what is being asked is how you'd design the source so that it could not act like a sink on the electronic lines on an all-digital system.

I just read over the spec again looking for what you might be referencing but I cannot locate it. Here's a link:

http://www.microprocessor.org/HDMISpecification13a.pdf

Can you be more specific.
The differences are likely a few small sentence additions, citations and comparisons to other work. I think the results would remain unaltered.
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it's been well over a year since the neo900 project was announced, and I've never seen any goldelico project actually ship more than a handful of prototypes.

I really hope the neo900 succeeds, but sending money to goldelico is generally a bad bet.
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That's like saying "software should become bug-free over time." I'm not sure it's actually getting worse over time, but it sure isn't getting better. Have you ever had to find a bug in a Wordpress plugin written in PHP by a part-time developer, that generates JavaScript, that in turn generates buggy HTML? I doubt wonky driverless cars trying to optimize a bunch of conflicting metrics (operation cost, utilization, revenue (from fares/ads/analytics), security, etc.), plugged into a constantly updating global mapping system, will have a decreasing number of bugs over time.