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We've posted a follow-up article where we analyze further optimizations and compare memory traffic and rendering speed for ray traced shadows vs. cascaded shadow maps:
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> After 6 weeks of work, I didn’t get to invest.

That's supposed to be considered a bummer :).

Hey, at least you still have your money !

In fact, who knows, maybe with your investment, Airbnb wouldn't have turned out that great after all.

Maybe you would have lost your money, which would have reduced your reputation and you would have ruminated over it, got depressed, separated, started using drugs and drinking, get arrested for a drunk mishap, resisting arrest and attacking an officer with a tennis ball, then jail time... the wheel of misfortune once set in motion is hard to stop :).
Who said that Russian is a difficult language to learn?
Or encrypt the spreadsheet.
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Its probably because the majority or Romanians that you will encounter are gipsies. And they have a bad reputation.
If anything causes people to get medical check-ups more often it's still beneficial, even if the reason for doing it may be irrational (fear of radiation leaked from a nuclear reactor). Such fears may even trigger a statistical increase in cancer rates from increased detection.
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The author of the linked paper, Philip Wadler, is just phenomenal.

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/

>"I was a principal designer of Haskell. With Simon Marlow, I developed
a type tool for Erlang. I am a founding member of IFIP WG 2.8 Functional
Programming, and served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Functional
Programming."
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Yes, but what does that have to do with this discussion? If you're just going to expand the scope like that we might as well include the entire animal kingdom. Female spiders eat their mates. How is that for unfair treatment?

We're talking about "internet people." Stay on topic. Anyone can successfully argue any point by simply presenting a moving target and by veering off-topic.

I fail to understand how Saudi has anything to do with GG and anti-GG harassing people. If you think that harassment can be excused because Arab countries marginalize a gender you are delusional. You don't fix problems by making more problems.
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I still sometimes catch myself staring out of the window thinking, "when tweetle beetles battle in a puddle that's a tweetle beetle puddle battle. And when tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle that's a tweetle beetle puddle paddle ba....stop it! Stop it, brain!"
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So I don't know the first thing about software patents, but most central banks (including the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, etc.) -- offer web interfaces for manipulating and retrieving economic time-series (say, taking logarithms, adjusting for inflation or PPP, etc). Does this count as "prior art"?

The European Council also has a large, useful system called Eurostat.
Given that most Bitcoin mining is done behind the Great Firewall[1], what happens if a midlevel bureaucrat partitions the network? (inadvertently or not) Seems there'd be a greater partion behind the firewall, and a lesser partition outside the firewall.

How does the protocol deal with that? Assuming it's partitioned for days, weeks, or months?

[1] Chun Wang comment from http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bitcoin.devel/8001

"Ignorant. You seem do not understand the current situation. We suffered from orphans a lot when we started in 2013. It is now your turn. If Western miners do not find a China-based VPN into China, or if Western pools do not manage to improve their connectivity to China, or run a node in China, it would be them to have higher orphans, not us. Because we have 50%+."
Because it's a power game. Power is naturally capped (like land); shifts therefore don't increase the amount of power in the game.
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you didn't work for a competitive software corp. did you? to me, all three are wrong.

-Regulations? if you are good, you can do anything you want. you are powerful. regulations are there to stop dreamers. dreamers are stopped in startup world a lot harsher.
-Permissions? only around %2 of employees work on that. actually less. do you think those kind of systems are worth the effort? (works! done.)
-Avg worker age? this is simply not true. the acquihires we had, were older than my -corp- team avg.
I realise now I forgot to reference my source; I didn't do any of the reverse engineering myself:

https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv

I believe it was figured out from a combination of analysis of the blob, examining the patents (which contain quite a lot of information), trial-and-error, and careful examination of the fragments of VC4 source released by Broadcom (their big source release a year or so back contained quite a lot). I know that at least one person wrote a program which would run arbitrary instructions on the Pi and analyse the state of the registers afterwards, which is a neat trick.

The VC4 is a really nice processor, BTW. Dual core, lots of registers, efficient instruction packing, 64x64x8bit vector unit, integrated single-precision FPU using the integer registers (no double-precision, alas), 1kB on-chip lookup table... but, bizarrely, no adc or sbc instructions, so 64-bit arithmetic is hard. Very weird.
I think you mean brass.
Edit: maybe not as the other commenter pointed out.
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Exactly!

Charging that amount of money for the beta version is kind of silly to me.
I worked at both, but there are perhaps exceptions.
No questions, but thanks for Font Awesome. I hope you make fat stacks.
Could the noise be the main factor?

My office is directly underneath the flightpath to London Heathrow Airport, and my house is under the secondary approach path. There's a landing about every 90 seconds for most of the day (average 1290 flights per day, maximum 15 between 23:00-0600). Planes tend to be < 2000ft overhead, and Heathrow has lots of big planes.

I don't need to go to the countryside to notice the peace and quiet, and feel much better rested. Hotels in the centres of Sheffield and Birmingham have had the same effect.

http://www.flightradar24.com/51.48,-0.46/12
Does anyone know what the growth in the dimension is for cover trees? I'm guessing it's exponential in some way?
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Allwinner SoCs also have a 2D graphics accelerator which can speed up things like text and line drawing and scrolling.
I can see a competitor using the fast food model to effectively compete with Uber.

By having a large enough number of clean, reliable and uniform cars a competitor would provide a more consistent and predictable ride than Uber, which relies on its drivers subsidizing the cost of a variety of different vehicles.

Sure, you would be getting a McTaxi instead of an a la carte experience, but at least you would know what you order is what you get.
One interesting memory that I still have trouble explaining to people - multiple video modes on the same screen. I remember having a 640x400(ish) 256 color screen, then pulling it down halfway and having a 320x200(ish) workbench screen behind it. "Huh?" is what I usually get. Then "why would you want that?"
That was my first thought too.

But maybe you could cover it with some kind of disposable plastic wrap? Every person would just throw the old cover away and new one would be automatically in it's place.

Edit: There's a condom joke in here somewhere....
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Tangentially related, but I remember reading a "Top Tip" in Viz (which is an adult comic - think Onion but more English and stupid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viz_(comics)) which was along the lines of:

When at your friends house, subtly announce to them that you need a poo by asking for their wifi password.
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> ..YC smartly moved in after this closing dinner and booted me out.

Do you think YC told AirBnB "We won't accept you on our programme if you take investment from Paige", or do you reckon it was AirBnB's decision to join the YC programme instead of taking your investment?
Does anyone know the meaning of the bolded words in the passage? Are those the only ones legible?
It's about the direct perception of impermanence, which in a timescale of a walk in a park is much more striking in nature, where everything is in a constant flux.
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I want to avoid a shameless plug because the only reason we chose this solution was because we bought the company that make it so we essentially own it now.

For anyone else it breaks the self-hosted requirement since it's a Monitoring as a service called monitorscout.com.
Seems you can't sue the USPTO for issuing bad patents according to this[1]. But I think you should be compensated for the cost of a lawsuit based on bad patents.

[1] http://patentlyo.com/patent/2012/12/suing-the-uspto-for-issu...
I can see your point, but I would never pay for a product like this without a free demo version.

These Visual Studio extensions often have the side effect of taking up way too much of the computers resources. Without having a fully functioning (time limited?) version of the product on my machine, working with a large VS solution, I will just move on and probably have forgotten about this by tomorrow...

With a free version available, I would have tested it and if it works as well as in the video, I'd most likely pay for it and recommend it to colleagues by the end of the day.
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Me too, but corp culture perhaps changes as fast as software development practices change.
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that's pretty bad. I just tested it, and it does, indeed work.
I got an Amiga 500 the following year (or 2 years later? I can't remember). I was a kid, so 99% of my time was spent on games; most of my friends had a C64 or a ZXSpectrum, so basically they queued to come to my house...

My father went on to use Logistix extensively in his work, and even to compute results for some school election -- printing tons of pie charts with a dot-matrix.

He also used some graphic effects software (3dtext? Videotext? Can't remember). Because we did not have any video equipment or laser printer, he ended up taking pictures of the screen with his Reflex and then have them printed on actual slides. His colleagues were in awe. Now I can't believe he went to all that trouble!

By the time I actually paid some attention to the manuals and tried my hand at Workbench stuff, Amiga was on its way out. I ended up using an IBM emulator to run WordPerfect, and then just moved to a Windows 3.1 laptop; by then, "real" games had moved to consoles anyway.
can you give a breakdown on how the business model is sustainable? No real data but x number of projects, y number of staff, with total revenue of N and profit of M.
Three parts:

- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1996709 - [PATCH 1/3] doc: Update doc about journalling layer

- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/97939 - PATCH 2/3 was too big for the list. Commit here: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs.g...

- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1996707 - [PATCH 3/3] block: Remove forced page bouncing under IO
I think this is quite normal in much of Europe.

Kettering in England is a typical town — few people would recommend visiting it. Look at the official (government-produced) map: http://binged.it/1SDXCaH (the layer should say "Ordnance Survey", I hope it works outside the UK). The pink dotted/dashed lines are walking, cycling or horseriding paths. There are lots!

Kettering was chosen at random. Scroll north and some pink lines have pink diamonds — these are long-distance leisure routes, often with some kind of theme or historical purpose to the route.

I spent a lot of time as a child touring the USA with my parents. The national parks were great! But outside these parks, are footpaths rare?
This is obviously a trivial point, but the word blockchain seems to have lost its definite article.

eg (from the linked article):
"Last month, Symbiont, which plans to use blockchain to make ..."

"Other firms investigating finance-related uses of blockchain ..."
BEWARE: do NOT add random Telegram bots to your groups!!!

Some bots copy the phone numbers of the users and add them to spam lists. So do not get surprised if you get spam messages in your telegram from Russian phone numbers offering fake glasses or home made soda (yeah that happened to me!)

This stuff just started -- no one is controlling it. I have no idea how to report this. Blocking offenders doesn't do any good after your number is on spam list. Hopefully, they do something about it.
I don't see the reason to send no signals. There must have been at least one situation where investing in a followup was bad. Declaring a strategy like that is puzzling, I assume they have run a simulation
Can you name any other huge scale user facing software product that isn't shitty by your standards?
Basically, now Chrome sends the header
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when issuing a request over HTTP to notify it "prefers" HTTPS.

However, this header is (or was) used by several HTTP servers/proxies (including Apache, I believe) to notify the application that the client connection is established in HTTPS. Wordpress reacts to this header by generating https:// URLs, which may not work if the server doesn't serve HTTPS with a properly configured certificate.
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In a car accident if someone dies two days after in hospital as a result because of injuries (a consequence of the accident), people say that they died of a car accident.

Yes, exactly. We say they died of a car accident.

Not in one.

See the difference?
> why the hell we need those ultracomplicated
> can-do-everything filesystems?!

We don't but some people do. Or think they do, but that's the same. It's not like I'm losing something because I can always use the simpler filesystems myself. I went with ReiserFS for over a decade: never really had to think about my file systems which is what I want, after all. Once you find a good file system, you stop thinking about file systems.

For me, this means two things.

I want my file system to be safe and transactional: either my change gets in or it doesn't, but I don't want to find my file system in some degraded in-between state. Ever. I'm willing to pay for that with cpu time or i/o speed, that's like the first 90% of my requirements.

The second criteria is that it's generally lean and doesn't do anything stupid algorithmically. It should support big files, provide relatively fast directory lookups (so that 'find' will run fast), and have some decent way of packing files onto the disk that doesn't defragment the allocations too badly, and ideally do some book-keeping during idle i/o so that I don't really have to run a defragmenter, ever. But these are kind of secondary requirements that aren't worth anything unless the file system keeps my files uncorrupted and accessible first and foremost.
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First computer was a PC1211. Then I got an ORIC ATMOS and an Atari ST. Never really had a chance to play with an Amiga and couldn't buy it (a bit pricey - although maybe an other way to play that hand would have been to save the money spent in other computers to only buy the Amiga. But at that rate, I'd probably still be waiting for something better to come around.

"The Future Was Here" really got me to understand what was so great about the Amiga (because, the ST also had the Boing demo - but the sound wasn't as nice.)
Got my amiga 500 down from the loft about a year ago. It had lay dormant for at least a decade. Plastic had yellowed. I plugged it in and turned on the power switch, expecting to hear a fizz/pop and declare it dead. It booted up fine. And ran kick-off 2.

Seems the only thing to degrade in those 10 years is my reaction time.
All it would take is a SINGLE bitcoin user in all of China to figure out a way to sneak 50mb of data a day through the wall to prevent such a network partition.
Did Norway just got itself an unicorn?
This is one of the reasons why the Bitcoin Blockchain is not necessarily the best choice as a platform for non-Bitcoin purposes. That's why most of the interest from banks is in blockchain technology - i.e. they're looking at creating their own blockchains.
It would be very interesting for youtube to include a date of capture/production field. It would make navigating this a lot easier.
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Need to add to the Amiga love anecdotes.

- My first Amiga was an A500, eventually ended up with a chip RAM upgrade, an A520 20MB hard disk and some extra Fast RAM.

- I owned several Amigas in the early 90s, but I actually cried when I sold my A1200 to buy a 486 DX2 66! Why you may ask? Doom. It changed everything.
Being called "{Apple product there} killer" never turned out to be good for the "killer" involved.
Intuitively, yes. But unfortunately that doesn't guarantee it to be the case from a legal perspective.
Hi Smirnoff, Telegram bots are designed to run within a limited environment.

Bots do not get access to phone number or anything such. Read more here -->

https://telegram.org/blog/bot-revolution

https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
I think I just puked in my mouth a little reading this.
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Actually I think it's very natural. If not femenism and journalistic ethics it would be communism and witchcraft. This is what people do. We form teams. We are 'us' they are 'them'.

What I've noticed from this latest battle is that once it get's off the internet and is talked about in normal venues it just fails. Outside of Twitter and Tumbler no one seems to care either way.
The lines for the bathroom at our office are so bad, I actually want to block the wifi in there so people will hurry up and get off the can...
See http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/VC4/ I think - not quite sure where the latest version lives these days.
It is so terrible that all these services use phone numbers for ID. Couldn't they do some UUIDish thing instead?
They developed and tuned a fairly elaborate process designed specifically for generating those images out of classification NNs.

The difference between the two demos is that the impressiveness of those images is mostly subjective, while handwriting replication has pretty well-established criteria to judge it by. Also, it sounds like priming is fast and does not require tons of samples.
Effectively left. The fact and the reason why he was effectively forced to are irrelevant to this article.
I always get bummed out over @i0n1c's tweets, so many security issues that are just ignored by apple.

Anyone have stats on # of exploits per type of OS X. I would want to see how many known security updates were pushed during 10.6 era vs now. At least in the 10.6 era, the OS you were using ( if it was a previous generation) was still getting security updates.
Alexjikim, you are 100% right. I was thinking about classic casino games that are pure games of chance (where my statement would be correct). However, the OP crablar wants to offer games of skill where alexjikim's analysis is spot on. Would still be a huge improvement over the status quo though.

I find that Wikipedia article on "Gambler's ruin" pretty misleading. What is not mentioned there is that in a 0% edge game, the party with the higher bankroll has a lower chance of loosing it all, but she'd be losing a lot in that case. If she wins (very probable) she'd only be winning a small amount. That's still a fair game.
"Introducing a new command line feature to restore access after losing your password"...
I can't believe this got 27 million views though: https://archive.org/details/AboutBan1935
What is that domain? This is a Register post, here it was submitted as http://www.theregister.stfi.re/2015/07/22/os_x_root_hole/?sf... which looks like social media tracking crap.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/22/os_x_root_hole/ is the actual URL.
Hi codewithcheese, Telegram is known for it's security, so we started our first build on it.
and I seem to remember "the 6 million dollar man" as the most awesome series ever, and yet once every couple of years when I get the urge to look up an episode for old times sake I need to confront reality, that it actually totally sucked.

take a look at this top 10 games video for the Amiga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82kwS9fU7N4 , it may have rated as awesome in 1985-1990 but comparing it with anything today is totally ridiculous; and gaming is just an example, since this comparison extends to any other software genre, such as office, communication, engineering, scientific tools, programming tools, etc...
While I in no way agreeing with this decision why are these people responsible for the terrible decision of the USPTO? They just get to apply for a patent, not issue one. The employee(s) at the USPTO that approved this patent are the ones that should be ashamed.
A bit younger (I was in my last year of primary school when I graduated from the C64 to the Amiga 2000). I fondly remember reading through the back of the Amiga 2000 reference manual (the ring-bound one) on Christmas day. It had schematics and everything! (back at that age, schematics just LOOKED cool - I couldn't really read them as such).

I remember those $5 shareware disks you used to be able to get at the markets.

By the end though, several years later.... Oh man.... Games weren't as smooth as on the Amiga, but OH THOSE SIERRA VGA GAMES ON THE PC!!!! Especially compared to their horrible Amiga ports (which were also Sierra abandoning the platform.... the port of King's Quest VI that was done by Revolution Software shows how much better they could have been).

Awesome memories!
A very quick skimming of the patent suggests that they are talking more about the online / distributed / dataflowish query evaluation engine than about a simple timestamped data storage widget. (Not that this makes it much more novel.)
Hi anc84, exactly it uses the UUIDish thing, not the other way around :)
This paper fully documents a date and time library for use with C++11 and C++14
There's a cool video on YouTube of the Monkey Island theme playing on different systems with varying sound cards, from the farty PC speaker, across a decade's worth of sound cards playing the MIDI differently, all the way up to the modern WAV audio mix. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a324ykKV-7Y
So much this!

Haven't read self glorification like this in a long time.
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Inevitably we arrive at the next iteration of the iLoo: make both the keyboard [1] and the toilet [2] out of copper.

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