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931.
by new299 14y ago
I applaud the article for not using the word "Atlantis" once.
932.
by new299 14y ago
Interesting, I'd not seen that before thanks. Not clear to me if I can actually buy one yet, there contact page doesn't list the 64bit servers which is weird. Anyway I've pinged them for more information would be interested in playing with
933.
by new299 14y ago
I'm still betting it'll be largely impossible to run a standard Linux distro on the device without a massive amount of hacking. The kernel will no doubt require binary blobs for OpenGL drivers (IIRC it's an OMAP CPU so this is likely) and b
934.
by new299 14y ago
In general this law appears to be a force for good, and should throw a bunch of images that the authors don't really care about into the public domain. Should make for an interesting dataset in the future.
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by new299 14y ago
Depends who your donating them too, in my experience it's generally a really bad idea to donate them to staff members or even individuals outside the company. People tend to assume you wont mind helping out and with software installation et
936.
by new299 14y ago
IT departments generally run on extremely tight human resources and tend toward spending money on equipment rather than people, so I can kind of see this happening.
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by new299 14y ago
>As 64bit ARM becomes more performance competitive with x86 (is that happening?) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are actually any 64bit cores available for consumers yet. A quick google suggests they are just getting th
938.
by new299 14y ago
You can do similar things on the Arduino with an Ethernet shield. There a single IC which contains a hardware implementation of the TCP/IP stack which takes the load of the AVR itself.
939.
by new299 14y ago
Or possibly "Government monitoring citizens movements by cell phone tracking" if done elsewhere.
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by new299 14y ago
Yep, quite possible. I guess they may also forget to reissue share options to non-execs in the process. ;)
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by new299 14y ago
Not only that, but aren't the kind of things he's accused of stealing those that would be covered by fairly weak software patents? I don't think we're talking about him really using his insider knowledge of when they're planning to release
942.
by new299 14y ago
The flipside of that in anecdotally I've heard that companies that really /should/ die limp along from a long time and get more funding in the US. Is this true or just a myth?
943.
by new299 14y ago
Not sure, there appears to be a reasonable amount of hooey here too, but then it's a subject that we're only really just gaining the tools to handle. I quite like John Searle take on the philosophy of mind, his book "Mind: A Brief Introduct
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by new299 14y ago
Yea, it's a shame really, I actually still really like HTML 1.0 pages. The fact that it was all markup and not layout was great and left a lot more up to the browser.
945.
by new299 14y ago
I think that's the most useful comment I've read on HN. For me working on the firmware for the Safecast Geiger counter was one of those projects. I guess this is one of the real benefits of hacking on some personal open source project too,
946.
by new299 14y ago
Sure, but it would be entirely possible for Appstores to make their terms less restrictive, I don't blame people for using licenses like the GPL which are designed to push people in that direction.
947.
by new299 14y ago
It would also be nice (actually nicer) if those app stores would allow GPL code.
948.
by new299 14y ago
Because everyone in Japan does not live in central Tokyo and outside central Tokyo decent coffee is rare. By Nescafe I mean that some of the the coffee I've been served is on par with Nescafe...
949.
by new299 14y ago
Those are in central Tokyo I think? There are a few decent places here (I've just moved to Setagaya) but outside of central Tokyo (I was living in North Tokyo) it's a different story. Even around here, if you just walk into a random chain,
950.
by new299 14y ago
yep, there are more decent coffee shops in the UK, even so decent independents can be hard to find. There was an interesting blog post about Yelp a while back. He talked about how Starbucks and Yelp were trying to solve the same problem in
951.
by new299 14y ago
Hey, unfortunately Starbucks is what passes for good coffee in Japan. I know they're not great, but if it's that or Nescafe...
952.
by new299 14y ago
This is not true. In Japan Starbucks is one of the few coffee shops chains that offer free wifi, and they only started doing that recently. Reasonable coffee is relatively thin on the ground in Japan as well, Starbucks is really the only ch
953.
by new299 14y ago
I think that actually makes for a better list in this case, filters out all the things everyone has seen and leaves the ones that people might have missed (I'm certainly going to be trying to hunt a few of these down, thanks!)
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by new299 14y ago
> well, you don't. unless you reimplement the code from the methods and see if it's reproducible. except that nobody does this. but let's say they did and found completely different results, that are also new and amazing. who is right?
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by new299 14y ago
If the paper is based on the analysis of sequence data, it's almost certainly been processed by closed or "shared source" primary data analysis tools. That's true of Illumina/Roche/ABI. Biotech vendors have quite a long way to go in this re
956.
by new299 14y ago
Thanks for these recommendations, "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" made great reading.
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by new299 14y ago
I wrote my notes up here last time this was doing the rounds: http://41j.com/blog/2012/10/my-take-on-the-adapteva-parallel... I'm pretty skeptical, having played with the Tilera I'm not sure it gives you enough of a benefit to warrant the
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by new299 14y ago
If a few blocks is 3 or 4, you might want to keep that HD around. Could be worth sending it to a professional data recovery firm and having the platters removed etc.
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by new299 14y ago
yep now: "13:36 UTC We're continuing database maintenance and remain in maintenance mode. We'll update as we return to normal operation." I need push ma code. ^^
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by new299 14y ago
Scheduled maintenance? https://status.github.com "13:16 UTCAs per our scheduled window, we are starting brief database maintenance. GitHub will be in maintenance mode for approximately 10 minutes."

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