skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't hold your breath waiting for that. The GFP inside the cell is the gain medium, but all the energy is coming from another laser outside the cell. So, while a self-lasing organic structure is marginally more plausible today than yesterday, the hard part of that problem still remains, and it is much harder, and this paper doesn't even attempt to solve that problem.

If a chemist figures out how to generate enough power inside a cell to get a population inversion in a laser's worth of an organic fluorescent protein, it will make this result seem positively boring by comparison, and "powering a cell laser" will be the least of the applications.
What would happen to top level domain names like .com, .net etc ? Even they use non-latin characters before .com, .net etc "com", "net" is still Latin.
Interestingly, the github page that the marketing page is hosted on, is quite responsive.

Just resized it to all different sizes and it still looks good.

Even the code snippets fold gracefully.
Compass is slow to compile...
At this point you know it is a non-issue because Arstechnica is covering it about six weeks too late[1].

I have talked to many different developers and every one of them that is developing in C# and .NET are not worried at all. Main reason? This stuff is not really going to fly well within the corporate world, corporations still need their custom built applications (using older source bases most of the time), they still need to use all of their productivity apps, and they don't think the office team is suddenly going to re-write Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for a touch based graphical user interface.

All the noise I've heard so far are just the news sites blowing it out of proportion. Frankly it is getting annoying seeing it pop up every couple of days.

[1] (I really don't care what the actual timeframe is)
Anecdotal: yes, that's exactly the thinking of my friends and I who have given up Facebook. It's turned us off the very concept.
Hah, I just went to a talk by Karl Deisseroth last week.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/dlab/
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These are extremely interesting instructions. It's worth noting, however, that things like gather/scatter live and die by the quality of their implementation. I would hope that these are considered worth delivering high-quality implementations, but let's just say that Intel has occasionally been known to deliver complex instructions that are all but useless due to poor latency and reciprocal throughput. SSE4.2, I'm looking at you.

I suspect that for these ones, it's going to be good - this looks too fundamental to the sorts of changes first described in Larrabee programming guides. The hope is that many of these functions (conditional loads, scatter/gather, etc) will allow a much larger proportion of loops to be parallelized than is currently the case. Obviously not everything is amenable to parallelization due to serial dependencies, but having scatter/gather to do multiple load/store stuff makes it a lot easier.

I think it is interesting the extent that this seems to be converging on some of the stuff in Larrabee - is the game plan to converge type of cores with GPU functionality so the difference between CPU/GPU cores is provisioning and access to some GPU-specific canned functionality for traditional T&L operations?

Overall it's like a wet dream for bit-bashers. PDEP? PEXT? Byte field extract? Scatter? 256-bit integer SIMD? I was almost too excited to speak when I first skimmed this (moderated somewhat by the 2013 release date and lingering concerns that some of the better insns will have latency 8 and reciprocal throughput 5 or something disappointing like that).
Sounds like my own game, Shintolin (http://www.shintolin.co.uk). It was a mostly text-based multiplayer game set in the stone age, where players started from scratch but could gradually develop the tools to build a village and farm. I planned to have a whole technology progression through bronze and iron age technology, but I stopped working on it a while ago (it still has a few players though). Don't know if it's the one you're talking about.
Why the media has made Microsoft developers horrified about their random speculation.
This article seems to be making the assumption that the Windows 8 api will be vanilla HTML5/JS. My impression from the presentation was that they might be using HTML as the layout format and JS as the language but that there would be a lot of non-standard widgets and APIs exposed to both layers.

If so, it's too early to dismiss the technology as "inadequate".
I invite you to reread my original comment on the subject, particularly the bit in parentheses. The point isn't that Facebook is the place where things will happen, but that all this seemingly inane social software focus will likely reap indirect benefits that are being ignored by the original author.
Their reporting on geopolitics and finance can be very sketchy at times, too - support for the Iraq war and George Bush, for instance.

Or, in the developing world, their near religious insistence that trade liberalization will solve damn near everything.
Why run the build steps as root? Fakeroot seems to work for Debian.
> The fact that most developers don't understand how the API works

This signals a usability fail in my mind.
Terrible Article, I am surprised to see the from The Economist. It seems like they just want to name drop the most popular tech companies of late.

Facebook has just as much chance of disappearing in 5 years as it does of being around in 100 year.

Google probably has a better chance than any of these companies of being around in 100 years, they are in the oldest industry of all time. Advertising. Plus they have shown they are willing to invest in new technologies to stay current, ala self driving cars.

Amazon has massive potential, but by no means are they guaranteed.

Apple, Google and Microsoft all have ridiculous piles of cash, provided they don't make any stupid big bets, all of these companies will easily be here for the next 100 years just on these cash piles alone.
I don't think they would let . be part of beginning or ending of the domain name.
I'm not trying to be a naysayer. I'm trying to give you info because we've done a number of RFID and e-ink designs and I'm very familiar with both technologies. Neither of our designs involve a card.

BTW, some credit cards Visa is doing a field trial with have a display but it is LCD COG + Polymer battery for exactly the e-ink restrictions I've laid out below.

1. To fit inside a card you'll need wafer level thickness. Any package will be at least 2mm thick.

2. The screen will break if you put any force on it. I have dozens of samples of this to show you. Get a kindle, take the screen out, use a a dremel to cut it down into a card size, now put it in your wallet and sit on it.

3. That number is actually a low ball. We're seeing close to 2mW for switching. 1mW is from the datasheet. We turn on the controller, update the scree and go back to sleep -- close to 2.8mW gone. Also switching requires +25, -25 and a VCOM, I'd love to see how you're going to put a dual supply charge pump in such a small package and power it from a coil.

4. --

5. Well the pricing we have is for 100K volume but maybe you guys can get it down to couple of cents.

6. E-Ink requires custom waveforms which you can only get under license from PVI. They don't even give it to Epson, Motorola, or TI. You put the controller then e-ink gives you a file w/ the waveforms for that batch of screens.

Also, the e-ink display + substrate is much thicker than you think. Even their segmented display stuff which has much simpler requirements can't be driven off of what you want to drive it off of.

No one minds a challenge, provided the circumstances are realistic. Anyhow, good luck with the project.
On the off chance that you posted this seriously instead of as a troll (which is frowned upon here), recycling electronics generally produces a lot of toxic waste and uses an enormous amount of energy, manufacturing the new electronics also produces toxic waste and uses an enormous amount of energy, and the new electronics still have to be shipped, usually internationally by air.

By contrast, the carbon cost of shipping ten grams of electronics is minuscule. A little multiplication: a forty-foot truckload is about 26500 kg, a truck gets about 10 miles per gallon of diesel, and diesel is about twelve fourteenths carbon by weight, and about 0.83 g/cc. 12/14 * 0.83 g/cc / (10 miles per gallon) / 26500 kg = 1.12 × 10⁻⁸ tons of carbon emitted per kilogram mile.

So if you were to ship ten grams of electronic components from New York to San Francisco, the carbon footprint would be about ¼ gram of carbon for the long-distance part of the trip.
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> Reply as politely and respectfully as you possibly can.

Right now the only way to reply politely and respectfully is on the main comment page, where such a comment, no matter how polite, is off-topic. My suggestion is merely to move such off-topic (but still personable) comments out of the way.
Saw your code, couldn't believe how awesome it was, and made an effort to make it shorter just for kicks. (Warning though, I'm pretty new to Haskell.) Did a bit of "cheating" here and there, since the purpose is for it to be as concise as possible, and got it to 50 characters. I'm sure someone can get it lower :P

f=filter
q[]=[]
q(h:t)= q(f(<=h)t)++[h]++q(f(>h)t
I found this J example on StackOverflow. 43 characters, excluding name, assignment operator, and optional whitespace.

quicksort =: (($:@(<#[) , (=#[) , $:@(>#[)) ({~ ?@#)) ^: (1<#)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2603739/what-is-the-most-...
MS has lost a lot of trust when they killed off VFP and then VB6. People with large codebases had to migrate and it means loss of competitive advantage making new code do old things.
Do you know that as fact or are you speculating?
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.....Oh wow...I truly have NO idea how to read this >.<
I see it more like sometimes shit is just hard to do well, taking time and effort to learn, and some developers don't put in the required work to reap the rewards.
Further to the other comments on this thread, the articles comments re "HTML5 remains true to its text mark-up heritage; its structure and semantics are still geared towards creating structured text documents, not application user interfaces"
can't possibly be true, or we wouldn't have the vast number of very usable web-apps we have today.

Corporations should be (and are) embracing the capabilities of web technologies for building internal tools quickly and enabling quick changes.
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I've seen it too, but it's not regular pasta, it has some other ingredients, so I'm not sure you could make it by hand successfully.

I don't actually know if you can or not, I was just wondering.
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Suppose you're in a room with 5 close friends having a conversation. You're comfortable, animated, energetic, outgoing. In the midst of this engrossing conversation 400 other acquaintances silently enter the room. Suddenly you notice them and realize they can all hear every word you're saying.

Most people find this scenario a bit socially uncomfortable and clam right up.

Facebook's growth has created this scenario for a lot of people. The basic currency of Facebook (voyeurism) relies upon a loose security model that prevents a person from walling off his/her 5-10 closest friends and using FB for the bulk of their online socializing. Eavesdropping is essential to the business model. The problem is, thusfar most FB users are not really aware just how intricately engineered this voyeurism is and how publicly their lives are being broadcast.
I was addressing one specific piece of your point and quoted the piece I intended to address. I do not see any real value in actively encouraging basically a "dog pile" of critical/negative remarks with a permanent public record. That wasn't intended to suggest that some kind of meta comment system has no value. It was intended only to suggest that any active encouragement of ganging up on someone on permanent public record is generally very bad for a forum culture.

It's late. I'm only online due to insomnia. I am vaguely aware that my own post violates my stated suggestions and could have been delivered more smoothly. Please don't take it to be busting on the general idea. I hope others who have experience with such meta comment systems, which I do not, will have a lively discussion about the merits (or lack thereof). My thought had a very narrow intended focus -- that encouraging too much blunt public feedback on why some comment is bad is, itself, probably bad and possibly very very bad.

Peace.

PS: Congratulations on your newly acquired privileges.
In related news for the first time ever, LinkedIn trumped Facebook in a survey about which social networks people care about.

http://www.bnet.com/blog/business-research/linkedin-trumps-f...

Apparently helping get you sucked in to Farmville is not as valuable to people as helping you get a job and stay connected with what is happening with old co-workers. Go figure.
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'Once the "content" becomes less interesting, people will slowly tune out. I am personally seeing fewer and less interesting updates from my friends.'

Same here. Most of my friends who have something interesting to say will contact me via IM/e-mail or I'll read it via Twitter.

So I'm left with a lot of status updates that... really don't resonate (except from a handful of key people).
Are we talking about the same service? The User experience is horrible. I am not just talking from a hacker perspective, as most of the people I know that complain about facebook are very NON technical people. They just complain about the same things that I also hate: That facebook makes it impossible ( by design ) to hide the endless stream of inane auto-generated SPAM that fills your news stream. The worst is that this spam is directly from facebook. My news stream is now 90% "X is now friends with 10 new people", "Y and 15 other friends changed their profile pic", "That book you [Liked] has a fun factoid to blather about".

The iPhone app is worse. You can't even see your own lists at this point, and clicking on youtube links doesn't just play the video, it opens an embedded browser that gleefully suggests that you try adding youtube to your Home screen.

The iPad optimized site is so useless for reading anything a friend links to that I don't even bother clicking anymore, I just wait until I am at a PC.

The message viewer makes it impossible to quickly mark as-read or delete the vast numbers of messages that I never open because the popup notification on my phone contained enough information to never need to open the full message.

The reason that facebook is still going strong is not good user interface or experience, it is that it is incredibly sticky. They managed to become the new email for a lot of people, and that utility is enough to force a lot of people to grind their teeth and ignore the horrible parts.
Well, if the artifacts actually disappeared, yes. But if they just got buried somewhere until they rusted into unusability, we could dig up the rust and smelt it.
You have to resort to trade secrets anyway. There's never going to be a legal system that is dynamic enough to move with the whims of a collaborative technology team.

> So I think it's a tough problem and society should err on the
> side of benefits for the inventor.

I tried to explain above - supporting patents doesn't err on behalf of the inventor. It errs against them. Patents granted to non-inventors and used to hit inventors over the head with.

There's a great book I recommend, "Against Intellectual Monopoly". It goes back to the original patent on the steam engine, and what a bad deal for innovation and innovators that was, and proceeds from there.
I know Peter personally, and he is one of the more well-educated, intelligent, and astonishingly competent developers I know.

Nice flamebait, though.
By that logic, MySpace is also unchallengeable.

There's a class of kids out there who are 12 right now; by the time they're 16 or 18 are you sure they're going to want Facebook accounts? According to researcher danah boyd, these kids will probably have created and disposed of many different social networking accounts by that time.
They made it very easy to get things up and going, and easy to optimize if you understand that graphics and WPF work. Most people don't, which is why most OpenGL and D3D apps that haven't been heavily optimized over time are very slow; graphics are hard, even without the extra burden of understanding how your GUI layer functions. It's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with WPF, but it also makes it easy for people to design really efficient apps if they take the time to learn how it differs from other GUI toolkits.
Anecdotal 'evidence':

I'd say 10-15% of my friends list (age 24-28) have left Facebook.

Some users just focused on websites catering to specific communities.

Some just focused most of their time on Twitter/Tumblr.

And some just realized they got by day-to-day without a social network and elected to get out of the game altogether.
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Anybody willing to make any predictions about the world 100 years from now is much braver than I am.
. is by itself a Latin character.
I think you're right. But the consequence of that is, of course, that the touch driven "immersive" part is only going to be skin deep. Which in turn means that Windows 8 is going to fail spectacularly on tablets, for the exact same reasons every previous Windows tablet failed.
There should be a website to index all this useless crap; I've got two bins of extra cables that I have to hold onto in case I ever get something that needs that cable. I should probably just take it to a flea market one day...
We're still defining IT. The building blocks are the same from card-punching days but what we've built on top of that foundation is light years ahead and evolving faster. Information technology has the most potential to displace or swallow other industries and even redefine the human race. The survival of Google or Apple as a going concern seems pretty immaterial in that context.
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If they are really smart they'll make it even easier for niche communities to use their social graph, or to create custom data records within it. For a lot of site owners it makes sense to outsource account and user info management to someone else. FB has had trouble being reliable enough for that kind of service in the past, but it's not like they don't have the talent and money to do this.

If you look at the Like button, and their other endeavors, I don't think Facebook's ambitions are limited to just getting visits and clicks. They want to become a utility as indispensable as HTTP.

And Facebook are really smart. Keep in mind that if there is a drop, they've probably known about it for months and months, and we're just finding out it about now indirectly.

That said, I hope they don't succeed and a distributed system does succeed.
This is way cool, but mostly because it clued me in on pandaboard.
You use phrases like "improve consumer choice" and "regulatory structure" as if it was possible for your interests to be aligned with those of the regulators and politicians. Nevermind those being regulated are donating many, many times more to politicians than your interest group is, to either not be regulated or regulate their competitors out of the market.
Not exactly. There are already IDN TLDs in existence.

More specifically, the "." is still a separator. Any component of the domain name can independently have xn-- and it will be interpreted as Punycode. Today you could register ujjvala.السعودية and it would be completely valid.
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I read that a couple days ago and here are the two most interesting posts...

Microsoft's own immersive html application is just a thin layer over native code

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/26404-Windows-8-(79...

.NET Ahead-Of-Time compiler is probably coming

http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/26404-Windows-8-(79...

[EDIT]

And for those worried Silverlight developers, scan that thread for DirectUI.
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I am a subscriber and what I like most is that the articles are long, full of detailed reasoning behind any policy they advocate for, and mostly non-partisan. When they argue for or against something (say business regulation), they don't make sweeping generalizations (all regulation is bad! corporations are bad!), but rather are specific about where and when they would apply the policy, are careful to admit unknowns and limit their scope, give examples of the opposing view, and give detailed reasons for advocacy (as a opposed to general principles).

I personally want to vomit whenever I read the WSJ or the Nation -- both full of smart people who are true believers -- I think true believers are the bane of rational conversation and social progress.
Why doesn't twitter just change the username to something ELSE instead of deleting/banning the account?
Awesome, I'll definitely pick up that book.
Yeah, that caught my eye too. I assume they just got Hadoop mixed up with Google's C++ MapReduce implementation.
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Wow! Don't think I've ever seen a stream of comments so uniformly negative anywhere.
I'm pretty sure it's a string method so it can take any iterator as an argument.
'except from a handful of key people'

Agreed. If I was only facebook friends with the 10 people I really am interested in, I'd hardly notice the difference. I don't want to go through and remove all the loose friends I met in college one-by-one, though.

Twitter is much more relevant to me; I'm only following around 50 people, all of which I deliberately chose.
The same idea that made Palm developers jump for joy makes Microsoft developers "horrified"? Yeah, sure.
I'd rethink this business plan if I were you.
There seems to be a lot of focus on a company disappearing by dying, but it's far more likely that any of these companies will disappear via merger or acquisition.

When you look at it from that perspective, any of them could go through a downturn in the next 80+ years that leads to some hot new company just buying them outright.
So you think really hard and you rise up?