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typedef_voidon Google Instant Search Released

Anyone else find the constantly refreshing search results annoying? If so, do you know of any cognitive psychology literature to explain why? I personally find this instant search infuriating and just want my standard old Google search back, where things do NOT change unless I'm mentally prepared for them to change.

typedef_voidon Ask HN: How to handwrite faster? To get into Stanford.

I'm missing something important. How does this relate to Stanford?

typedef_voidon Ballmer: An iPad Killer is Job One

Anyone else ironically hoping MS creates a better iPad just for the opportunity to install Linux on it?

typedef_voidon Bye-Bye, Batteries - Radio Waves as a Low-Power Source

Didn't Tesla claim to have developed wireless power a long time ago. Those more familiar with Tesla/Physics ... is this the same technology?

typedef_voidon Machine learning revolutionizes software development

How is this better than JITting?

It seems like most recent performance gains come from runtime/dynamic optimizations, not static/compile time optimizations.

typedef_voidon "A sleep(1) is put into all SSL_read() and SSL_write() calls..."

on second thought, my comment makes little sense,

if they wanted noisy sleep, it should be something like

sleep(func(rand()))

typedef_voidon "A sleep(1) is put into all SSL_read() and SSL_write() calls..."

is sleep(1) noisy?

if so, it might be vs timing attacks

typedef_voidon 3D pictures without glasses

This looks pretty cool.

However, if it's actually useful, why wasn't it invented layer as part of OpenGL / taught in standard graphics courses?

Given that OpenGL already has the 3D model, and has to redraw everything 30 or 60fps anyway, there's no performance hit to slightly change the camera angle.

What are the limitations / side effects of this technique that cause it to not be used in practice?

typedef_voidon Compressive Imaging: A New Single-Pixel Camera

Yeah ... but what type of real world data is sparse?

typedef_voidon Compressive Imaging: A New Single-Pixel Camera

Besides MRI research, has any useful applications come out of this?

typedef_voidon Ask HN: Books on human nature that changed your interactions

Why is 48 laws of power BS? There are rules in the book that contradict each other, but it provides a framework for recognizing patterns of human behavior and analyzing it.

typedef_voidon Actel rolls mixed-signal FPGA with hard ARM core

GPUS: nVidia/ATI have amazing toolchains, especially CUDA.

FPGAS: we have amazingly bad toolchains