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AMD and Intel publish ISA documentation and design docs for their gpu parts. Intel usually does it same day as release, AMD usually do it a few months post release. Nvidia, Qualcomm, etc all release nothing, and therefor everything is proprietary and must be reverse engineered from scratch.
Not really - if you are into open source because of the ideology and not just for the price then GitLab makes a lot more sense.

If I find a bug in GitLab I can feasibly submit a patch for it.
How about GAE learns to recognize google web crawlers and does not penalize GAE users for that traffic?
Pick up the book Elements of Programming Interviews and practice.
It's good for the brand though.
It was not competing with bitbucket or github, but still a shame to see.
Synthesis of many types of organic small molecules using one automated process
I ran into this a few years back. In a gawk program, I had to build a 300,000,000 character string by concatenating about 10,000,000 32-character strings. My naive code of doing 10,000,000 "a = a+str" took forever. I finally did sqrt(n) iterations of sqrt(n) concatenations and it took about 10 seconds.
It would be the open-source world's equivalent to Geocities shutting down. There are still times when I'm trying to search for something (usually some obscure programming or hardware hacking topic) and the only source of information was a Geocities site. I can't imagine how much of a royal pain in the ass it will be if Google Code experiences the same fate.

> I get it, we all hate Google on HN (for reasons unclear to me)

The reasons should be clear to anyone with historical context; this isn't the first time Google has spontaneously pulled the plug on some "non-core" project it decided wasn't making quite enough money, in complete disregard of said project's use by the real world. It's these sorts of things that make me very reluctant to invest heavily in Google's ecosystem; I've personally been burned in the past by these sorts of things.

A part of me wants XKCD #1361 to come true.
Native JavaScript performance is not generally what makes web apps slow.
There is some interest from LunarG to reimplement OpenGL in Mesa on top of Vulcan eventually. So yes. Its the same way Gallium3d can implement Direct3d and OpenGL against one intermediary representation (TSGI) and backend hardware interface (winsys).
Crowdsourced home page
For an ultra-rich jet-setter type I would hardly call that a loose requirement.
Back in my days of credit card fraud and identity theft no one knew what I was doing. I simply refused to talk about what I did to earn money with friends. It was kind of fun to make it like a game.

It was a little sketchy but I never seemed like a sketchy guy so maybe they suspected porn or something like that. It's not hard to have an online life that's different from the real world, that you hide from everyone.
Hasn't FireFox mobile browser been doing this for a few years? I've had qz.com as an icon for a while.
The founding fathers envisioned a militia which could counter and if necessary overthrow a standing army. They unquestionably envisioned a militia having all weapons that the army had.
I think what made it particular bothersome in this case is how easy the HFT narrative fits with his standard template, but in the opposite way than he wrote it.

He could of easily written the "smart guys take on the rich insiders" using the HTF folks as the heroes. Plus, I felt the narrative suffered because of all the convolutions he had to do to make the millionaire trader bros at IEX meet that template.

Further, I doubt you'd find a more Moneyball loving population sample than at HFT shops.
IMO all arrays should be double-ended.
An AR-15 is just a semiautomatic rifle, so the founding fathers basically had AR-15's. And I would find it very hard to believe that, given the notion of guns, a reasonably intelligent person wouldn't expand the concept to a gun that fires repeatedly.
The bigger question to me, is how would game developers
on the PC market (OSX/Linux included) would scale their
games? You would need different assets (level of detail?
mip-mapped texture levels? meshes?) - but tuning this to
work flawlessly on many different configurations is
hard...

This isn't really any different from what it has been until now. All AAA games have different levels of detail for meshes/textures/post-processing etc. Even when not exposed to the user as options in a menu these different levels of detail exist to speed up rendering of for example distant objects or shadows where less detail is needed. DX12/Vulkan is not going to change anything in that regard.

Doing a good PC port is not as easy as it may seem at first glance. Different hardware setups and little control over the system cause lots of different concerns that simply don't exist on consoles, which means nobody bothered taking that into account when the game was originally built. These new APIs will help though; the slow draw calls on PC are a pain compared to lightning fast APIs on consoles (even Xbo360/PS3!).
"Nash Equilibrium"

Maybe in a situation where you have time for strategy. In a dynamic real-time situation where training and instinct kicks in (no time to think), maybe not.
> maybe the next language you should consider studying is English

Personal swipes are not allowed in Hacker News comments, regardless of how annoying or provocative some other comment may have been.

(I'm inclined to say that pronoun wars shouldn't be, either, considering the madness that this thread devolved into.)
That definition of ordering is of course the standard, everyday definition. And to guarantee correct compensation for transmission factors in the same frame, do we not require perfectly synchronized local clocks: impossible in general?
Can you name any gang or mafia group that uses racket money to build and maintain roads, telephone lines, and other public infrastructure?
Excellent analysis. I can't believe they don't solicit a recurring donation to the universal fund immediately after a one time donationd! The donor is clearly already in the giving mindset.

I wonder how this SaaS "subscription" giving model would work for non profits that don't have a humanitarian mission. The model seems well suited to open source projects or advocacy groups.
Nope. That's the wrong explanation for empathy. This won't be popular. Empathy forms in environments where individual outcomes are determined by group perception. Everyone romantacizes it's benevolence but it's really all about manipulating people. Empathy is actually on the rise. Compassion on the other hand...
For some drugs, sure. For the group of chemistry students cooking up a batch of MDMA or LSD inside the US and selling it directly to consumers through USPS, not so much.
> Of course V8 and its multimillion dollar development cost rivals probably only have this superpower because programers kept writing quadratic code.

…and because SunSpider does it.

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/blob/master/PerformanceTest...
Does anyone know of anyone keeping a database of state supreme court / federal district rulings and what the supreme court decided on them (held, overturn, refused to hear)?

// I'm in the camp that this will be overturned
Ben's accompanying post is pretty good too:

http://www.bhorowitz.com/the_past_and_future_of_systems_mana...
Incoming armchair psychiatrist...

I think any perceived universal lack of empathy is more a projected personal lack of empathy. I think that if you assume and expect the worst from others you'll in turn hold yourself to the same standard. Everyone's been in a bystander position before, where they knew they could do something but didn't; this is empathy without action, which is mistakenly labelled as a lack of empathy.

Hence the problem is not that we can't empathize but that there's no obligation to do anything, which reflects a general preference towards identifying and branding over the actual work of change and action.
Would you pass the test to get a job with Thomas A. Edison?
Payments APIs Finally Get Credit Where Credit's Due
The spreads can't reduce much more than they are now due to the regulation issue.

The order makers do see part of that rebate in the lowering of the fees they explicitly pay to trade.

Robinhood is a particularly good example of this. They seem to be financing a no-fee model based purely on selling the order flow.
Not sure why you say heavily inspired. Indexing popular media is far from unique and the designs of both websites are quite different.
> My guess is that use of these services is much more closely correlated with income, than it is age.

> on average the 20-40 demographic is engaging in an entirely different form of economic interaction

And that is mostly out of necessity, not choice. People can choose to spend money faster than they make it or not. But the rising tide that floats all boats is gone and with it the perpetual growth and prosperity.

Worse for the economy is that when you're heavily indebted the only thing you can do is pare back on your expenses in order to both service the debt and build savings so that you never have to go into debt again. In some cases bankruptcy is also an option, but not if they're student loans. Which is a predicament many find themselves in.
This looks absolutely great. I am a big scraping nerd, so this will be a nice addition to my toolbox. Just looking at the thinking behind how Yakuza works, I am impressed. Good job, I will gladly provide feedback and contribute where I can if I run into any issues.
This explanation might have made sense in explaining sluggish sales of Vista and 7 machines (if indeed such sales were sluggish). Now that people are getting into 10, it strains credulity a bit to blame poor results for this specific quarter on customers' hanging onto XP. Is this truly the first time Intel have noticed this phenomenon? If they've seen it in previous quarters, why did it surprise them this time?
The court that made this ruling would also ban most guns as well.

It will likely be overturned on appeal, as they might have well interpreted arms as the things attached to your shoulders.
Whenever I use Windows, Clink is usually one of the first things I install.

And this is my favorite inputrc. Search backward/forward history when using the arrow keys.

# c:\users\username\AppData\Local\Clink\clink_inputrc
"\e`H": history-search-backward
"\e`P": history-search-forward
"\t": clink-menu-completion-shim
> I spread around the condescension equally

Please don't spread any more condescension on Hacker News. Although I'm sure you don't mean to, it's one of the worst things you could do to damage this community.
Then I fail at empathy. ;-)

I'm saying that being able to communicate your ideas requires that you step into the mind of the listener - i.e, empathy. If you do this successfully, you express them in a language that is already familiar to him, and so (to him) it seems like you're saying something obvious. If you have to resort to "just agree with me and stop with all your opinions otherwise", then you don't actually understand how he thinks or how to reach him, i.e. you have failed at empathy.

We agree, but I am trying to add a little extra detail and a meta-example to the discussion. :-)
Who was the instructor?
My friend is an Uber driver. I asked him why he chose Uber over Lyft, and he says he actually contracts for both. All the other drivers he talks to also do the same thing.
From the Ars op-ed, it sounded like his best chance would have been to file a legal declaration of interest in the Iceland server and proceed to challenge its discovery- a course of action that the judge hinted at but that his attorney refused.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/op-ed-ross-ulbric...
I tell you what: I did a lot better on this test than I have done during certain programming technical interviews in the past. Interesting and diverse set of questions Edison asked potential employees, at the same time kind of cool the questions were more general knowledge than they were specific to electronics or science.
And hopefully some the army didn't.
> Dinosaur.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News.
I've seen, 9 definitions of empathy on this thread so far. That might be a place to start :)
I'm not going to be surprised if it's over that - compression included.

What does surprise me is that people find the natural progression of data required for a game surprising.... We've recently had the push by manufacturers to get consumers interested in 4K and 8K displays. Sure, GPUs will need to catch up, but it is expected that game designers will be supporting 4K, 8K and 16K textures IMHO.

Edit: I'm looking forward to the game! :)
Wow, this sounds like it should be an article in The Onion.
Google acts as a sort of proxy for those images, so by setting certain http headers, the marketers can make the proxy access the original image every time the email is being opened. So they can track the time you open their email.
The SCOTUS specifically addresses 'military' weapons in Heller.

This is going down in flames.
Wow, way to miss my point. Gitlab might be better. But when the best location on the frontpage is a direct swipe at the leading competitor, to me that reads as very weak. You know who doesn't bother to take jabs at their competitors? Winners.
There are no signals of value under socialism. It's a well-known problem in economics.

Yes, academic CS is socialism---I am a CS grad student, I know. CS academics are just sucking the public teets instead of trading value for value.
>> "50 year old with 90 million in the bank are a dime a dozen in some circles"

First time I ever heard about this, actually.
>Would it be ok for Google to delete Usenet archives?

If it's their archives, yes.

And if those are the only archives of Usenet in existence, then it's not Google's fault no one else cared to back it up.
I hear you on most of that, and largely I agree.

But marijuana is now straight up legal with similar restrictions and regulations as alcohol in several states. And it seems like there's serious momentum to legalize in the rest of them.

I doubt we're going to see radical legalization where the drug war completely ends in the next 5-10 years but I wouldn't be surprised if it happened well within my lifetime.

"Life of crime" can have a highly temporal definition and thus introduce far, far more grey area than you're letting on by your very binary assertions.
> This is just blatant non-sense.

This violates the HN guidelines.

Telling someone that their factual recounting of their own experience is "blatant non-sense" is a serious breach of civility, which is the #1 rule people are required to abide by here.
This is elitism in the bad sense of the word.
Your "clearance windows" are known as a batch auction and are frequently mentioned as a way to prevent speed shenanigans but they don't actually address the problem for a few reasons:

- If there are more orders on one side of a price than on the other, how do you handle tie breakers? FIFO leaves the need for speed, Pro rata is already being gamed in other ways, random has transparency issues.

- Speed is just as important (if not more sore) for canceling existing orders. Does your batch allow you to cancel orders before the auction takes place? If so you still have a speed game. If not, it is very risky for market makers to participate and they will either leave your exchange or price the spread more conservatively. Both of those put you at a price disadvantage compared to other exchanges.

- Your exchange doesn't exist in a vacuum. There are other exchanges. You cannot prevent with your batch auction people using that speed advantage to arbitrage differences between your exchange price and other exchanges.
One aspect I haven't seen anyone mentioned is that Uber does not prompt you for tips where as Lyft does.

This is a pretty big deal and is why I always choose Uber over Lyft.
So Samsung 850 PRO is not an enterprise SSD?
The problem I had with "code is data" or "homoiconicity" is that they didn't really help me to code in Lisp. Although they were obviously big, mouth-watering hints that something is there! :) From an operative point of view, I think "chainable action perimeters" delivers more.

Also, both "code is data" and "homoiconicity" are notions that ends up showing concretely in macros. And the conflict with the notion of "chainable action perimeters" is twofold but always harmful to properly operate as a programmer.

First, we don't deal directly with the true results of macros, which are codes. We let the evaluator compute theses codes internally and it then automatically chains with a call to... itself!

So yes, it can be said one can teach the evaluator new tricks but the infrastructure enabling that and justifying the expressions "code is data" and "homoiconicity" feels a bit too much like a three-card trick to me. The fact what seems the best advice on how to use macros is to not use them when functions would do appears to be, I think, another thumbs-up for the expression "chainable action perimeters".
FWIW, Google were happy for a lot of other people to invest time and resources into putting their projects there in the first place - you don't think there's some reasonable expectation that Google would expend some extremely minimal resources at their scale - to ensuring those peoples effort wasn't wasted/lost?

Having said that, I'm not part of any movement to "demand Google do something different", but I've been a longtime member of the "Warn friends/family/colleagues about the dangers of participating in Google services in any way that'll have any downside when they close it down, because they've got a strong track record of doing that" movement.

If _I_ were the person making this decision at Google, my announcement would have been more along the lines of "blah blah shutdown blah blah apologies/excuses blah blah, so we're going to donate enough to archive.org to ensure everything on code.google.com gets archived permanently, and automatically redirect all future code.google.com requests to that permanent archive".
I can see this ending in a not-so-good way. It's all fun and games until someone uses the marquee tag (they've already used it). Cool idea, but you can't trust the internet as a whole to always do the right thing in situations like this. Kind of reminds me of this burger place a friend worked at, they had a few around the place with TV screens displaying Tweets. You Tweeted and they literally showed up on the screens at all store locations, they weren't checked or anything which made for an interesting situation when a competitor started advertising their own company through the burger chains account in-between people Tweeting profanity and jokes like, "Don't eat the secret sauce, it's not mayonnaise".

It'll be interesting to see how quickly this gets out of hand. Good luck.
Let me clarify several things. I have no stake in this game. I am neither an entrepreneur nor a VC. I am not seeking money. I have no vested interest in this question and it will not affect my life. I am not trying to advocate a change in policy.

I have no particular knowledge of the frequency with which VC firms have sensible conflict of interest policies, but my naive assumption would be that this is again similar to having good HR policies. (Which is to say I am not particularly suprised when a company gets into public trouble in this regard.)

It seems perfectly reasonable, however, for the article author or anyone else to opine on how they'd prefer to see the VC industry run. For comparison, though I am not a resident of Texas it's perfectly reasonable for me to have an opinion about Texas's education policy, especially when the secondary effects impact the entire country.

I am somewhat frustrated and dismayed by (what I perceive as) an inability on your part to respond to my points or questions and a tendency to assign to me ideas I don't hold. As such, I'm tapping out of this discussion here.
This list isn't all that meaningful because they have a narrow definition of "CS theory."

It's perfectly meaningful of course if you want a ranking based on that narrow definition.
I can't see this ending anything other than in a positive way
I really enjoy Eliezer's writing.

But I too wonder what on Earth he's actually accomplished other than just words about existential risks.
"An AR-15 is just a semiautomatic rifle, so the founding fathers basically had AR-15's"

Wait, what? Not really an expert on 18th century weaponry, but even I know from grade school that the best weapons of that era were muzzle loaded which significantly impacts the number of rounds you can fire per unit of time.

So I googled...

An AR-15 can fire 45 rounds per minute. A Pennsylvania Long Rifle from that era could approximately fire 1 round per minute.
Heller contained this paragraph:

We also recognize another important limitation on the right to keep and carry arms. Miller said, as we have explained, that the sorts of weapons protected were those “in common use at the time.” 307 U. S., at 179. We think that limitation is fairly supported by the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of “dangerous and unusual weapons.” See 4 Blackstone 148–149 (1769); 3 B. Wilson, Works of the Honourable James Wilson 79 (1804); J. Dunlap, The New-York Justice 8 (1815); C. Humphreys, A Compendium of the Common Law in Force in Kentucky 482 (1822); 1 W. Russell, A Treatise on Crimes and Indictable Misdemeanors 271–272 (1831); H. Stephen, Summary of the Criminal Law 48 (1840); E. Lewis, An Abridgment of the Criminal Law of the United States 64 (1847); F. Wharton, A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States 726 (1852). See also State v. Langford, 10 N. C. 381, 383–384 (1824); O’Neill v. State, 16 Ala. 65, 67 (1849); English v. State, 35 Tex. 473, 476 (1871); State v. Lanier, 71 N. C. 288, 289 (1874).

The Massachusetts court found that electrical weapons are "unusual" and "dangerous per se". The US Supreme Court, which is the only court that may overturn this ruling, might disagree, but it's hardly a slam dunk.
" Empathy forms in environments where individual outcomes are determined by group perception."

Can you give some examples or cites for this.

I can give lots of real-world examples where self concern is second and group put first. Animals in nature and humans in groups. This is from an anthropology observational point of view.

"Oh so you were perceiving them then? ;)"

Animals in nature, yes. Humans in real-life under stress, yes.
It varies. Some hosts send a delegate to give you a key at best and it's a bit charmless. But it's not always like that. One host in NZ had us around for dinner and wine which was really nice.

But in general, there's not much "nb" in Airbnb. I think that would limit their market quite a lot if they over-emphasised that.
I'm an ex-CS grad student; they even gave me a piece of paper called a PhD for my trouble.

Academics isn't socialism. There is definitely an aristocracy in there and whether your work is accepted (not just published, but appreciated) or not depends on how you fit into that. The aristocracy serves on grant and program committees; yes they direct money from the state, but that is where the socialism ends and the rat race begins.

You'll learn that eventually :)
Rohingya Screen Light Portraits (“Internet Huts” Used by Refugees)
Why salaries don’t rise
> In a camp for displaced Rohingya Muslims residents frequent bamboo “internet huts” where they can communicate with relatives who left the country, escaping the violence that led to 200 deaths and left over 140,000 homeless in 2012. Some arrive safely, while others are held hostage for ransom by human traffickers at jungle camps in Thailand or Malaysia. Each relative tells their own story of a family member they are still trying to keep in touch with and how they came to be separated.