skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably not very much power. Diode transistor logic with 10k and 100k resistors in a 9V circuit, worst case you're looking at about 1 mW per resistor. I suspect LED driving current dominates the power consumption of the device.
Haha, interesting, but I thought this was going in a different direction. There's a lot of work going on lately to try to model molecular potentials (for molecular dynamics / quantum chemistry) using neural networks. Accurate potentials are extremely expensive to calculate.
Still, it does the world no good to refrain from using one's advantage because other people don't share it.
>The young people of today are different...

"They have exalted notions, because they have not yet been humbled by life or learnt its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning; and whereas reasoning leads us to choose what is useful, moral goodness leads us to choose what is noble."
JPEG DRM is not a political problem. It's more of a copyright problem although, more accurately, it's a digital content management problem, because content doesn't have to be copyrighted to use DRM. For something to be political it can't just be related to government (because everything is related to government in some way), or even managed by government. For that word to have any meaning at all, it needs to be a more direct reference to government and politics.

And technical solutions to actual political problems have worked great. The recent revamping of government websites has made information more accessible to the public than ever. I can't imagine Obamacare holding much value if it wasn't possible to make healthcare.gov so people could actually navigate through the complexities.
Actually, I think that the clickbait junk makes us think that it will ping our reward systems. For me, at least, it doesn't really reward me very well (even in a junk food way).

Maybe this means that the real clickbait trash is training me not to click on it, so I don't need the fake to do so?
Well good luck to you.

I think differences in policies are irrelevant given the current setup. If Obama's two terms have proven anything, it's how ineffective the system is. You don't see leader's, in any other field stand at the podium and sigh, groan and just look as frustrated/helpless as he does.

And telling people to vote for this kind of ineffectiveness (14 years now in the middle east, just to pick one issue) is like telling Snowden to keep his mouth shut and soldier on.

The political class feel like the medallion based taxicab union just waiting to be subverted.
I feel sorry for people that were laid off but to be honest does Twitter need 4100 employees? I cannot imagine what all these people do for not such a complicated product.
> “pop software” as Alan Kay calls it. There was a natural trend in the PC era to make computing devices available to everyone, which I think was a positive thing; this necessitated moving away from software that needed training or methodologies, for example. It also required software that many people would use, as opposed to more niche applications, in order to make the profit necessary to support a company. Unfortunately this has made it harder to create the more expert-oriented applications that could co-evolve with users via training and methodology that would be akin to calculus or music notation, or “bicycles of the mind” as Steve Jobs said;

The greatest productivity boost I have yet found, and the closest I've been able to come to a mind-machine interface is debian linux + tiling window manager + command line proficiency + customization of text files for creating shortcuts, tailoring work environment.

It has a learning curve, but the payoff is immense. I think we should be teaching linux and the command line in schools, even if we don't teach kids to code.

The computer is the most powerful and important tool we have, and we all use it daily. Not teaching expert level proficiency is the same as sending kids into the world handicapped.
Sure, but a good author is someone who has read many books. Standing on the shoulders of giants and all that. (I admit that I don't know much of modern philosophers, but I find it hard to believe they are not making good use of those who came before.)
Great work! Add some branching and it's Turing-complete :)
> immediately stop looking for work [...] after they've found a stable job

As opposed to what?! Any potential employer will ask you in an interview, "Why are you looking to leave your job so soon?". What are you going to say? "Oh, I'm just trying to find something better." - a surefire way to instill trust in your interviewer and get hired /sarcasm.
A lot of the loans that people hold are not federal loans.
Wasn't XAML deprecated some time ago? (Sorry, I'm out of the loop with Windows development).
True, I had managed to miss that, although it's working on 200 dimensional vectors rather than single letters as in the small shakespeare dataset. That feels like it might make it harder to train. I've personally found more problems dealing with Glove vectors compared to the word2vec ones, but I don't have any hard data for that.
Reminded me of lob[1] and I think their colors / branding is too similar to your own which could be something to consider at this early stage.

How does the pricing compare to traditional printers? I think a better pricing user experience could go a long way to converting users into customers. Something like choose the product and a slider for quantity that shows the cost, discount and comparison to competitors would be a huge improvement. Tables also have their place so they should be accessible.

When's the API going to go public? I'd be interested to see how it's designed.
That's interesting, because my first year, I optimized for aerodynamics (and maximized the weight) but lost severely.

In later years, I realized that it had more to do with the wheel friction, and I made cars that were more interesting than perfect teardrop shapes and which also went much faster due to careful attention to wheel placement and lubrication.
Hey how valid is this information? I didn't quite grasp if they counted in other factors, for example, people incurrent jobs that will pass away. Additionally data such as baby boomers are getting older and will create markets in stagnant areas at the moment.
True, and the horn is the loudest part of the train. The rest of the train can still be pretty loud, though, if operating at high power.
Joe Tucci Finally Finds a Way to Retire from EMC, and Other Stories
Pocket / Instapaper alternative with Dropbox
Dropbox has just added an url bookmarking feature. So it's inevitable to see a Pocket / Instapaper alternative based on this.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/9118
Emacs is a GNU package. While you are correct to call it "open source", its maintainers prefer to call it "free software", in order to emphasise freedom.
I dunno, I think that's some bullshit doublespeak right there. He conflates emacs and the gnu project, while claiming to want the best possible emacs.

The GNU Emacs maintainer's responsibility is to take charge of Emacs
on behalf of the GNU Project, and produce the best possible GNU Emacs
-- which means, the one that advances our aim the most.
[...]
It includes making sure dynamic loading resists GPL violation. [1]

Non bs would be to say, eg, "the task of our maintainer is to build the best emacs possible subject to the political goals of the gnu project."

Note that I'm not sharing my opinion of whether this is good or bad; I just dislike bs.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-10/msg00...

edit: I take it back; you're talking about the message to the NSA? I skipped over everything in brackets while reading...
WOW, thank you for posting this. That is astounding and I had no idea it was that magnitude when I wrote my previous post. If anyone wants a source, the $1 trillion number is from the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau[1] and CFPB has even made available a detailed breakdown of the federal government's student loan portfolios[2]

[1] http://www.consumerfinance.gov/newsroom/student-debt-swells-...

[2] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/data-center/student/portf...
We've build Reddo. It visualizes your online identity. What do you think?
Again I must take offense at your misconstruing what I said.

If I actually had said that Jews are trying to destroy the world, you'd be able to quote that. In fact I do not think Jews are trying to destroy the world, and this can be easily verified by the fact that most of them are content to live their lives as normal human beings.

Secondly, if I thought Jews were trying to destroy the world, then I would be incredibly paranoid of talking about this subject, seeing that those who do foolishly believe in such an outrageous idea receive quite a bit of unpleasantries.

Instead, I am trying to civilly talk to you about a book I've read and the knowledge it imparted to me, and I'm even offering you to pay for the book and shipping so that you too can glance at this knowledge which you already basically understand half of, and your reply to my offer is to slander me and say you wouldn't talk to me in person. I would never expect this level of intolerance coming from a trans person who I'd assume has experienced first-hand the pangs of ostracism.

Please, listen to me. You are severely downplaying the influence of the schools of thought we have been talking about. I extend my offer once again to pay for the book and shipping if you promise me you will read it.
We could maybe create a DRM blocker plugin for JPEG files with this property, just as the way people are using AdBlocker.
But the difference with AdBlocker is that we accept format that conform to our standard.
In more rural locations, many "intersections" (crossings) don't have bells.
Laser hair removal doesn't work well with light hair from what I recall, they usually require you to use electrolysis instead.

I imagine that we're not doing something radically different here, so the answer to this would probably be 'it won't work'.
He also sold Instapaper to betaworks for an undisclosed sum of money.
Somewhat ironic and paradoxical
http://imgur.com/Z2BIMcw
It's really well explain on the video linked by nns https://youtu.be/KDiLEyT9spI?t=624
Stallman's had a long history of hating on Apple, up to and including organizing a GNU boycott of them back in the 90s.
How does switching formats affect the will of content providers to stuff DRM in your pictures?
FLIF is not really a format so much as an experiment. There isn't a spec that I can find, nor is there any sort of formal description of the format. Right now, the only available spec is the source code and that leaves a lot of open-ended questions about what to do about inconsistencies in implementations. I hope it develops into something good, but for now it doesn't seem a viable option.
Not necessarily, for example a few MSBs of Y, Cr, and Cb DC and AC could be encoded with the current JFIF markers and new ones used the for rest in an encrypted representation. In that manner a current decoder could produce a lower fidelity version still:

http://www.jpeg.org/items/20150910_privacy_security_summary....
The quality of the tracking has a big effect on noise, too.
A build tool for Erlang that just works
Too add different anecdotal evidence. Circa 2006-2007 all of my peers who were entering the job market had to send out >100 applications to get a 1-2 interviews, if they did not get referred by someone. Based on stories from younger family and friends, the situation was the same for first time jobs in 2011-2013
I'm so glad I grew up in an era where people's only concern was making things work AT ALL. Trying to make things work for licensed users only, or only for certain devices, or anything else is just bullshit.
Understanding Sleep Paralysis: A Terrifying but Unique State of Consciousness
> I'm not convinced he analogue hole won't ever be plugged.

The analogue holes for visual media are the two holes in your skull where your eyeballs sit. The analogue hole won't be plugged until you can implement a secure path into the human brain.
From "A Short History of Cataract Surgery":

"Cataract surgery in its simplest form is at least 4000 years old. Couching for cataract was the earliest method at about 2000 BC, and even then was evidently practiced in the Tigris / Euphrates area, as well as India and Japan. The earliest records are from The Bible and The Red Sea Scrolls as well as early Hindu records of Susruta’s time."

http://www.rila.co.uk/issues/free/001/2001/v4n2/p61_65/p61_6...
The actual 'torture report' by the Senate intelligence committee is worth reading at least in part (it's long...) and goes into some good detail about how the psychologists were recruited and operated.

http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf

Take an hour or two to read the executive summary at the beginning and you will be better informed that just about anyone. Going to the primary sources is easy enough, and it's really enjoyable (a weird word in this context) to form opinions based on the rawest information available. Of course the actual report is a political document in itself, but that aspect is as much a part of the coverage of the report as the contents itself.
Couldn't we just keep using JPEG without enabling any DRM features? Is there an actual practical issue with JPEG that theoretically supports DRM, or is this more of a stand on principles?
My grandparents take pictures of their monitor and sends them to me. Right click save as is about as foreign as screenshots to them.
This comes a month after he released a content blocker (Peace), it topped the iOS App Store paid charts, and then decided to remove it from sale and issue a refund to everyone.

Topping the charts for a day amounts to tens of thousands of dollars. To most people that's a non-trivial amount of money to toss away to maintain one's sense of morality.
Just don't bring it to school with you.
> By rejecting nuclear, you are choosing coal, de facto, for the base load.

I'm not. I'm picking natural gas, which while still a fossil fuel, is much cleaner and releases far less CO2 per kwh generated.

Nuclear still takes a decade to build. A decade. I don't have to show you the batteries today, as long as they're built and in production in the next 10 years, which they will be. The Tesla Gigafactory will produce 50GWh of battery capacity per year: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/corner-office-mar...

Nuclear isn't the least worst method. Solar, wind, and batteries are the least worst method.

> but choosing to wait for some mythical future technology to become available is choosing to let coal plants continue polluting the world.

Safe nuclear is this mythical future technology you speak of.
I think you meant two thirds would lose their jobs :)

And yes, I don't know where the funding would come from if math education was commoditized, as perhaps it should be.
Yes. But that requires some thought, decisions, why this not that. People will hate you.

Bureaucracy grows organically and almost no one notices and people are happy because they have more jobs.
Author of blog post calling out sexist men in tech explains why she did it
This current phenomenon about crowdsourcing products is similar to the GroupOn/flash sale phenomenon, and as the products get shittier and shittier, and as more and more get disillusioned by it, the entire space will die.

Kickstarter and IndieGoGo need to do a much, much better job policing this, otherwise they will be out of business in 2 years. There are too many shitty products with great marketing videos that are taking a lot of money, and they will likely all be disappointing as hell.
Meet the Man Behind the ‘Solarized’ Color Scheme
"We are the government"? Come on, we're not in high school social studies class here. The government of the country I live in answers to bankers and oil companies, with the democratic process providing little more than a glossy sheen of respectability.

There is no meaningful difference between a process I cannot influence and a process which could theoretically be influenced if I could put more time and money into it than I actually have. Either way, it is best regarded as an immutable aspect of the universe, damage to be routed around if possible and accepted if not. If the system were amenable to change it would already have changed.
I bought a Magic Mouse a few years ago. I couldn't use it because getting the cursor from one side to the other required me to move the mouse so far that it caused shoulder pain. I had to replace it with a 1000 dpi Logitec.

Do the new mice have higher dpi as well?
I took this course last year and loved it. As a self taught developer as well, these videos really helped me understand some concepts that I still hadn't wrapped my head around yet.
The intensely overwrought style of Pitchfork is really one of the things I love most about it - that you sometimes have to fight even to figure out what genre an album is.

For the types of music I care about, I find their reviews are really very often in accordance with my own tastes, and their best-albums-of-the-year compendia are always worth a browse.
Sure, but if people were moving up on aggregate, we would see the middle class growing as children of the poor made their way up. Instead, we see the middle class shrinking, the poor growing, and the wealth collecting to a smaller proportion of the population as families are being pushed down due to the recession.
It's mostly a stand on principles. I don't have any reason to believe that there's anything wrong with JPEG in it's current form. I commend the EFF for representing the internet at large but I want to remind the hacker community that we can do something about it if we don't like the outcome.
Link for everyone: https://www.amazonrobotics.com/#/careers#open
Many programmers talk about Ada Lovelace, who was certainly awesome, but should be talking about Margaret Hamilton. Before anyone heard of Dijkstra's work, Hamilton was straight up inventing everything from real, software engineering to properly handling fault-tolerance and human interfaces. Here's what she was doing (see Apollo Beginnings rather than USL):

http://htius.com/Articles/r12ham.pdf

Her Wikipedia page gives her due credit and shows just how much she and her team pulled off:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_%28scientist...

Also note the size of that printout of her program. Try to think about how many people make one like that which doesn't fail in the field even when parts of its environment and hardware are failing. Also while using low-level code with little to no tool support on 60's era, embedded hardware rather than a JVM, etc. Margaret Hamilton was the first in the field of high-assurance programming that I've seen. A lot of firsts.

So, I give her credit where possible. The industry should even more as she wasn't a theoretical programmer like Ada Lovelace: she engineered actual software, co-invented many of the best practices for it, deployed them successfully in production, and then made a tool that automated much of that from requirement specs to correct code.

While programmers and industry ignore her, at least NASA gave her positive mention as the founder of software engineering and ultra-reliable software along with the biggest check they ever cut to an innovator:

https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/sep/HQ_03281_Hamilton_...

Where would our systems and tools be if more attention was put into her methods, even just principles, than informal use of C? ;)
I guess it only counts time right with the (US) 60 Hz power supply? Then, it's strange that they made it show time in 24-hour format.
USB Killer 2.0
ZeroStack Brings ‘Easy to Configure’ Private Cloud to the Enterprise
> Assuming you are paying them a living wage, what economic output could [200-300 million people] accomplish that would be "worth" say 5 to 15 trillion dollars a year?

A good thought experiment! My initial thought was a spiritual successor to WPA-like projects of the depression, but I'm not very well-read on the economic outcomes. My layman view at least sees the humanitarian and creative output of such projects.

But your last sentence is key: would it be "worth" 5-15 trillion/year? Is there a way to "measure" such a number of WPA-like projects?
Well, as there's no Cocoa on Windows and no WPF on OS X it doesn't really matter.

Also that SO post reads a lot like "I can't stand Interface Builder" (which is understandable if you aren't prepare to embrace it).

I find the Cocoa model of not having to do anything with XML far better for my sanity. But then again I guess there are people who prefer XML artistry to drawRect overriding. :)
>I'm curious about the Ukrainian response here. Did they not consider the possibility that the rebel forces would be able to operate their BUK, or was it willfully ignored?

it was the issue of propaganda and responsibility (imagine yourself an officer in the chain of command related to the captured BUKs). 2/3 of their Navy switched allegiance to Russia. Other regular forces also didn't have much enthusiasm for fighting. Ukraine claimed that the captured BUK systems were made un-operational before being captured. Which as far as i know - my general understanding of the situation and various sources i've read - is just not true.
Watch the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TidRpVWXBE
Currently people who work volunteer more than people who don't work. Further more volunteers give only an average of 3 hours/week. That's not much, in the context of our discussion.
To be fair, ask webcomics guys and photographers about piracy - they get the worst of it. Big companies that would never dream of encouraging you to pirate videos and songs functionally encourage you to swap images around constantly, stripped and re-watermarked and whatnot.

So yes, I do feel a bit bad for small independant artists who watch the standards bodies work themselves into a fury to protect video and audio content while they have to deal with Google Image Search and 9gag.
That's not how probability works.

10 trials with a 10% success rate yields a 65.13% chance for at least one success.

100 trials with a 0.33% success rate yields a 28.39% chance for at least one success.

You have to use the binomial probability theorem to determine any particular number of hits.

trials! / ( successes! * failures! ) * P_success ^ successes * P_failure ^ failures
Tips on journalism from Soledad O'Brien
Perhaps you should consider a career path that to you is more than a paycheck. There are zillions of options.
Like what?

Long gone are the days in which one could put themselves through school with a part time job.
Taking job you do not love is like saving sex for old age
“There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”

It's really great quote and I am staring it for 30 mins and it really feels hurt. Hmm come out of your comfort zone and pursue your idea and make a startup is really scary when you yourself not sure about it.