skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say that the fabrication process doesn't influence the characteristics of the final chip, I was stating that the design itself takes the bigger role of the chip's optimization and that from the end user's point of view, it doesn't matter if the A9 is fabricated in TSMC or in Samsung's fabs.

Actually, if they are dual sourcing the same chip from a 14nm process and from a 16nm process as well, it's very likely that they had to use different analog designs, so the 14nm chip probably has advantages that the 16nm chip has and vice-versa.

It's pointless for the end user to nitpick differences of the same chip in 2 equivalent processes when the software is going to mask everything out.

And I'm not saying this because I read it in the media, I affirm this from experience in the semiconductor industry.
Actually, a lot of airbnbs are even more expensive than good hotels
As opposed to the real world?

Try driving through Kansas sometime - it's pretty empty and boring too :P
I wasn't particularly excited for this update but when my phone switched over I was truly wowed by how much easier the font was on my eyes. Kudos to the Apple typographers, it's really improved my iPhone 6 experience.
I vow never to hire someone who comes in for an interview accompanied by their parent (unless it's support for a physical disability).

Can't such helicopter parents see the perception problem that they're creating?
Will always limit? Android supports manual control and DNG raw files. Also, plenty of enthusiast cameras don't have interchangeable lenses.
Not to be a smartass, but usage. Take a bunch of photos and go figure out how to manage and improve them in LR. Google and youtube are awesome ways to find out specific things, but nothing beats playing around.
I had the same initial reaction, however I did sign up for the free plan with a great deal of skepticism. The performance was actually quite impressive, all things considered. Since I already have a significant amount of virtual and dedicated infrastructure at my disposal, and I live most of my life on the command line, I don't have much of a use for it. That said, it does seem like a very neat concept, and if I had more options for distributions and desktop environments, I'd consider renting one if only as a test machine for the rare graphical software I do run.
Design and Implementation of the Wave Transactional Filesystem
I enjoy the blog posts with substance, however the majority of the posts are "guess the mystery unlabeled circuit board" which isn't really my thing. Take a look at the last 12 posts:

- Sex, Circuits & Deep House

- Name that Ware, September 2015

- Winner, Name that Ware July 2015

- Name that Ware, July 2015

- Winner Name that Ware June 2015

- Name that Ware, June 2015

- Winner, Name that Ware May 2015

- Name that Ware, May 2015

- Winner, Name that Ware April 2015

- Name that Ware April 2015

- Winner, Name that Ware March 2015

- The Heirloom Laptop’s Custom Wood Composite

See what I mean?
Your comment is the equivalent of "no, it's not, nananana"…
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yeah i guess, to you, nonfiction (text writing on paper), fiction (text writing on paper), poetry (text writing on paper), short story (text writing on paper), biography (text writing on paper), diary (text writing on paper), they're all the same old same old.
Oh, I totally buy it. I'm just joking around :). I said in another comment:

> Some companies end too early because the technology or capital wasn't there to let it get to its full potential.

Blogger is a clear case for that. If it was founded 5 years later, it could have had sharing features and been Tumblr.

Similarly, if Tumblr was founded now, it'd probably have a better comment system, cleaner design and collections. The real question is - is that enough to move the network effect over to Medium. I see Tumblr v. Medium as very similar to MySpace v. Facebook in that regard...
In my experience it's even more important in small software shops because you're going to be good at different things and there's no room for ego.
Faculty grade on totally arbitrary metrics, what is a "curve" and what grade does it mean you get. And then are mystified when students are upset that their grades were arbitrary. How do they know how much to curve it? Who knows, it's basically just a whim. Yes they say they grade on a standard distribution, but that could be equally meaningless--depending on how the exam is scored in the first place.
Try these, the data in the other direction is very strong:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/11/opinion/the-downward-ramp....

http://economics.mit.edu/files/5554

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2011/04/27/how-do-yo...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/28/ho...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/09/the-holl...

Not just a US phenomenon either. Here's a UK perspective:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9000951/the-missing-midd...
Solar system life may turn turn out t chemically similar. That is because it arose on one body, then cross-infected other other bodies by meteorite transfer over many millions of years.

Mars became geologically stable before Earth, so it could have been the earliest place for life. Then Martian meteors infected Earth.
So, if you're not saving money, why would you go with AirBnB at all?
In the future, the internet could come through your lightbulb
First light-based memory chip puts SSDs on notice
I think this is a common expectation, but consider this: what did Airbnb get from you when you signed up to rent a room? Not much right? They only get very slightly more than that from the people renting the rooms.

Over time they can weed out bad actors, but there is very little chance that they are going to eliminate them upfront.
This presupposes that American debt is unsustainable. The American debt-to-GDP is pretty average for a developed country. What matters is not the total amount of debt, but rather the cost of maintaining it. And US Treasury bonds carry negative real interest rates.

The US has many crises, but debt isn't on of them.
Agree, I just checked it out there's a lot going on. Sort of reminds me of McAfee's ramblings
"We" is "students", and they vote with their feet, bringing their dollars with them. The enrollment numbers are below, but the total funding (including public funding) for "party" schools is about 1.22x the total funding of the overall best schools. We can argue about rankings, public/private funding, personal debt, etc., but the overall point seems to be that people like party schools, and they love taxpayer-funded "party" schools.

Top10 Party Schools: Tulane - 13531; U. of Georgia - 35197; WVU - 29175; Miami - 18456; U. of Iowa - 31387; UofT - Austin - 51313; U. of Wisconsin - 43193; UCSB - 23051; Howard - 10265; Ohio University - 29217
Total: 284785

Top10 Schools (overall): Princeton - 8125; Harvard - 21000; Yale - 12336; Columbia - 29870; Stanford - 16136; U. of Chicago - 14467; MIT - 11319; Duke - 14850; U. of PA - 24806; Caltech - 2209
Total: 155118
Matthew from Strone here.
Yes just use the supplied ethernet cable to connect the Roam to the internet!
For the love of all that is holy, why do their sample code fragments have `smart' quotes in them?
The only one I can think of without actually going to medium and digging through posts is Steven Levy.

But I like the curated front page/top articles. I will go there to specifically check that page out when I have a spare moment.

There's probably a price point that I would pay to have that list sent to my inbox daily.
> why is Medium so popular?

It's not. I only have heard about it b/c of the YC connection, reading articles here posted from Medium.
That's a really interesting point. Personally, I think there is a ton of value in the social experiences you are exposed to in school that are critical for a successful future.

That said, while I don't love the idea of homeschooling, I would have LOVED an approach of "learn the material at home on your own and use class time to ask questions/review homework" or something of the sort. I'm a strong visual learner, and one of my big frustrations with schooling was that so much of it was auditory. Between scrambling to take notes and such, I often missed out on large chunks of the content.

By learning at home, I could spend as much (or as little) time as needed on topics, and then ensured my comprehension by using class time to review with the expert and learn from my mistakes vs. just getting something back with a letter grade and little/no opportunity to dig further.

People learn differently and schools need to start supporting that.

The point about sitting around an office after completing work is something I've heard before too. I've never really been in a professional job where "I completed my work" for the day. In situations where that is the expectation, I think companies should either make it clear they are paying for you to fill a seat regardless, or respect the time off and allow you to manage your time as you see fit with the assumption you are a responsible adult.

Even when there is more to do, there are days where I'm just not feeling productive, and I can stare at a screen and not make any progress. Rather than force myself I shift mental gears and do things to break me out of it (which may or may not be work related). I wish schools did a better job of this too instead of forcing you to plow through (which often leads to dozing off in class).
How many years were in you in school before you dropped out? If you had a couple of years of college, you might still want to note that on your resume, especially if you were majoring in CS or some other STEM field.
G+ happened to it.
Better experience? I'm not saying that's actually something you get with AirBnB, but thinking something different than the typical hotel-style experience might be better is certainly one of the reasons that has driven users to alternative rental systems in roughly the same space, like VRBO.
That's funny, I loathe Helvetica's keming, and think that San Francisco's is much improved. I can always distinguish 'rn' from 'm' in the new font.
I think it's more about "governed by local hotel regulations."
And a rebuttal:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/micros...
depends on server count, pvpness, and the sizes of what you like to build -- on a pvp heavy server i bet running 5-10k blocks from spawn before you build is not unheard of.
It's popular in the Twitterverse as the go-to longform blog platform for people without a personally hosted blog who also want to avoid Tumblr. A big reason for that is probably because a Twitter co-founder created it. ;)

I heard about it before I even browsed HN or new what YC was. Mostly I read the "War is Boring" articles, specifically by David Axe.
It may be "super obvious" in general but a lot of the value is in the numbers and the graphs....
Just a note before anything else: it's not a "manufacturing process". Nobody is laying out the transistor by hand, it's a fabrication process. (I apologize for nitpicking in the wording, but it's important)

Apple does these kind of things for two main reasons: Because they have the money and because they want to test both fabrication processes for future products

The differences between a 14nm process and a 16nm process are quite minimal mostly because one process can offer some advantages over the other one. For example: it's expected that the smaller process has bigger leakage current, increasing power consumption, while it's expected for the bigger process to produce more heat.

In the end, you could say that if you sum the advantages and disadvantages of both, you will not reach any conclusion if you are not the engineering team looking for extreme optimization and with Apple's resources at your disposal.

It's just hard to come to a concrete conclusion from a consumer's point of view.
Thanks for jumping in, you got me. I reckon the reason for downvotes is that others didn't then. Ambiguity didn't occur to me until I've read your comment.
I agree, if you want good people you need to create an environment in which they can thrive. They need challenging problems, stake in the company, and most importantly get out their way and let them build stuff. Great companies are built by engineers and not the HR dept. or CEO's with an accounting background.
As a designer, my job isn't to "design a website," it is to design patterns of UI/UX and a framework to build new features and interactions for a particular application. Basically, a designer's first job is to design the lego blocks. Then she can build stuff with it.

The application in this case is the U.S. Government. The purpose of this design is to provide the lego blocks and framework for developers and designers to build an interaction layer for the federal government.
Here's an infographic from PBS on the relative size of a solitary confinement.

http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/art/progs/solitar...
Independent of the io9 switch, that's an interesting post for the science of fonts. Very relevant for web design work.
Ohio State University, Middle Tennessee State University, and Tennessee Tech University. The experiences described were spread across all three. Oddly enough the school where I (mostly) didn't experience those kinds of problems was the local community college I attended for an associates (a better way to get gen ed requirements out of the way, imo).
Please don't just submit from one site. We want users to post articles that they personally find intellectually interesting, not just because they have something to promote. If you'd like to mix up these submissions with others from around the web, that'd be great—there are never enough interesting stories!
I encourage people to check out 18F's Github repos...there's a lot of useful tools and libraries, for starters. And then there's full projects to learn from, such as APIs and front-facing static sites.

I don't know if they use any other kind of project manager besides Github Issues, but their projects have among the most active Issues activity...it seems that the USDS/18F team uses them as project discussion rooms that also happen to be public...as they should be for government, public facing work. And they accept pull requests from the public...here's one I made to make their style guides more readable on mobile/non-traditional-browsers:

https://github.com/18F/content-guide/pull/43

They talked about it amongst themselves (in public) and then merged it in. I know that's part for course for most industry teams...but not for the federal government. Think about all the regulations and CYA-guideliens (cover-your-ass) that have built-up over the years that would've made accepting code, or any input, from a total outsider, to be...not a priority. A few years ago I remember finding a very obvious, easily fixable XSS vulnerability across all of the Department of Homeland Security sites...not only was it hard to find a point of contact, but I was pretty much ignored until I sent emails to US-CERT, and then also threatened to have a tech journalist write about it.

With the USDS projects, it's a completely different paradigm to work via systems like Github. At the very least, you can more easily take credit for suggestions/fixes you made.
> This presupposes that American debt is unsustainable. The American debt-to-GDP is pretty average for a developed country.

That's equivalent to 'but everyone else is doing it!' Our debt either is, or is not, sustainable.
I feel like you are not getting the point.
And not everyone wants neighbors who destroy their quality of life because of their perceptions of a "nanny state."
One thing Vagrant does right is to use a DSL. I have no idea why this has been abandoned in favor of the common error of inventing Yet Another XML/JSON/YAML/TOML/INI.
Better font smoothing on Windows?
Can anyone think of a "writing mistakes" version of this blog?

Making public another's writing may be too far.... But it would be interesting to mine the data and classify non-grammatical writing mistakes, specifically to ease the stress of grading college junior research papers -- some of which are written at a middle-school writing level -- by parsing sentences and auto-applying applicable writing mistake classification, to which I can gently glide my eyes to and convert to something intelligible.
Please don't invent hostile motives in my post when none were being offered. I was simply pointing out the impasse expressed in the article. This isn't NASA's internal blog of scientists, so I'd think that possibly dumb speculation could be offered.

The iteration explanation makes some sense, although these seem like very expensive iterations.
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/10/19/roboto-v-helveti...
It depends on what you're trying to achieve. US Government sites aren't about creating an artistic experience. It's more important that digital services are delivered consistently and give citizens a good UX. As an experience, the design hinges on creating trust, accessibility, and being able to carry what you've learned about the interface to different sites. These things won't degrade easily with time. For instance, the significance of the color blue won't change rapidly (barring a large scale invasion by blue extraterrestrials).
I agree with that. San Francisco seems optimal for button captions, app names and other more unique, short pieces of texts, but seems sub-optimal for running text.
Look at the front page on HN. At any given time, at least 2-4+ of the top 30 posts are written on Medium. There doesn't have to be a rhyme or reason (why did people gravitate to WhatsApp or Slack, when hundreds of others existed before them).

Medium, in my mind, faces the same problem as YouTube did (still does). Their entire growth potential is subject to them transitioning from a content hosting platform to a content destination. YouTube will not survive if it remains a portal for people to link & host videos or search for specific pieces of content. They must train users to browse YouTube.com (as one does Facebook) and rely on it for consistent content delivery. Amazon has managed to do this. Medium will have to do so as well. Once they have their users captive, they can offer many VAS ranging from sponsored posts to premium pay-per-read content.
When two income families arose, San Francisco ultimately required two incomes to buy into a house. Now we will be creating a necessity in that only those who operate private hoteling will be able to afford to buy in the city anymore.

Those who don't operate an AirBnB business in their homes will be economically priced out as a disadvantage to those who do. This means that residency in SF will ultimately require it ... and that entire neighborhoods will ultimately be transformed to be dominated by private hoteliers. Squeezing out the poor sap who doesn't optimize reselling each unused square foot of their home.
I think the "don't own your content" part is neatly explained in this post: http://practicaltypography.com/billionaires-typewriter.html

Essentially, authors give up a lot of control to put their work on Medium. It's not that they no longer own their words but that they've given up specific notions of value to publish on Medium. And Medium has specific ideas about the value of the writing published on it reflected in its advertising, etc.
This is 2G, so I wouldn't use this in something that needs a very long time horizon. Carriers are beginning to announce end of life on their 2G services. (For a hack it might be useful, provided you don't mind replacing it in a few years.)
> Perhaps the most significant is improved compiler performance with a new Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) class reader in place of using class loading tricks. The Groovy compiler starts by compiling scripts to a Concrete Syntax Tree (CST)

Rather than talking so much about AST improvements, perhaps these Groovy developers should explain why the process for compiling to the CST still uses the Antlr 2.x lexer/parser which hasn't been worked on since 2005, and both Antlr 3 and Antlr 4 have long since arrived in the meantime. When they got a Google SoC student to attempt an upgrade to Antlr 4 in 2011 and another one last year, they both failed, and Groovy didn't get any SoC students this year despite Scala, Clojure, and JRuby getting plenty each.
Article seems heavy on faith and assumptions with surprisingly little justification for the assumptions on those Laffer curves. For context, monthly capital movement through the stock market is in hundred billion dollar range (28,835,420,916 NYSE, 81,677,535,478 NASDAQ for last month).

Given the current political clamor about economic inequality, I can see the financial class having "some" incentive to claim that any of the proposed fixes would not work and it would be best to leave the current system as is, ie with them owning all the money. Quoting Upton Sinclair
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
> The Apple brand. Nothing more.

So maybe you can explain why review after review also said it was the first decent smartwatch?

If all you had to do is slap an Apple logo on things the original apple tv, iphone 5c, g4 cube, ROKR (well itunes), 20th anniversary mac, various ipod flops would have all been hits.

Instead it tends to be the case that people like to buy the best products. Apple products that sell very well also tend to be reviewed very well. This could be because the press is also in thrall of Apple but we could also look at the reception of Apple maps, bendgate, and antennagate and say maybe the press is more than happy to savage apple when they can.

> Early adopters are 2011.

Early adopters are associated with products that ship before a product goes mainstream. Currently even people with an Apple Watch are early adopters in my view.

> Unless the Pebble (1), Galaxy Gear (1), LG Watch, etc didn't ship for the last three or four years...

Zero of those watches shipped 3-4 years ago.
What to ask:

We look for a time the candidate wanted something so badly, they were unstoppable in pursuing it. Or a time they overcame an obstacle,” Hamilton says. As you listen to the answers to those questions, pay close attention to both the tasks and the duration described. “Try to get a sense of how long that person can stick it out. How long are they going to beat their head against a stats problem?”

Good qualities for an academic (or inventor type), but doesn't seem to have much correlation with the kind of "grit" needed for most commercial development work.

In which, the vast majority of the time, we benefit the most from "triaging": that is, discerning when not to go down rabbit holes, and when not to "bang our heads" against problems when it may be better to simply... route around them, or leave them be until some sunny day arrives when there's a legitimate business need to properly resolve them, and we have appropriate resources available to do so.
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> What matters is not the total amount of debt, but rather the cost of maintaining it.

Classic.
It would have been fun if they'd used the original Mac "San Francisco" font instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(1984_typeface)
I'm afraid your joke will be lost without context. GE seems to have paid no tax in 2010: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/ges-tax-return-cont_6091... They are really, really good at sheltering money from taxes. http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2014/02/17/wheres-my...
It's HCL. Same format used by Terraform and the just-announced Nomad.
Yeah, I don't know if I'd pay for access to anything on Medium, but the writing tools, commenting, cross-publication management, etc are good enough that I'd easily consider paying some nominal amount to run a site on it, presuming it came with site-specific branding, some ability to make static pages separate from articles, etc.
Thanks. Useful stuff, especially the telemetry section.