skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
+1. The gradient just makes the page look confusing, and my eyes gained none of the imagined advantage of "you were just looking at red, so look for red... look for red... there's the next line!"

I might actually like it better if it just colored one line red, the next line blue, and so on. Absolute positioning instead of all this clever gradient stuff.
It wouldn't be as much as you'd think. For one thing, Titan uses ECC nVidia GPUs, which (if I remember correctly), are NOT optimal for producing bitcoin; AMD GPUs are better. I know you mentioned not paying for electricity, but the power bill for Titan would far exceed any bitcoin produced.
I don't follow. Most 'facts' are considered facts because there is overwhelming data in support of their accuracy. I can't actually think about a 'fact' that isn't based on such study outside what are considered fundamental laws (which often time are discovered based on data collection).

For a fact to exist without massive supporting evidence via test data is outside the realm of science which doesn't make it much of a fact in my opinion.
What is the Future of Vert.x?
That isn't incredibly interesting at all. The members of Players Associations are the best at what they do in the entire world. Leagues immediately suffer financially when these players aren't competing. Leagues are contractually obligated to fulfill agreements to various television networks, which is impossible if the best players are not competing. Likewise, teams make a large amount of money on the likenesses of players through advertising and merchandising.

Players Associations differ from most other unions because of artificial constructs like free agency, the draft, and the salary cap which are ultimately beneficial to both the players and the leagues. Beneficial, but illegal in the US. PAs collectively bargain with the leagues and give their right to sue for these things away in order to secure long term benefits agreements with sports leagues.

Disbanding the union in order to file an antitrust suit is the nuclear option, and the owners know it.
I hate to be "that guy" but I'm genuinely having a hard time reading this page.

* thin white text on light grey buttons
* thin light grey text on almost matching light grey background
(anti-spam message below email input)
* small thin light grey text on white background
* on highlight, dark grey text on... burnt orange?!

I'm in the target market for this program -- a developer whose design skills are pretty weak -- but the landing page is a big turn-off. Even I can recognize when fonts are needlessly small and low-contrast.

EDIT: Pull up your favorite color contrast analyzer and run this site through it. Using AccessColor, the results are ~4% failure and ~75% warning for WCAG 1.0 standards.
High availability with anycast routing
I wish Mozilla (and other browsers) also blocked plugins that don't behave while updating. I want to have java installed so I can decide to run java programs, but I don't want to have a browser plugin, so I disable it. Every single time java updates itself it enables the browser plugin again. Users should not have to put up with every installer under the sky silently installing browser plugins, or worse, updaters enabling them again.
Agreed. The introductory statistics class that I took as a computer science major wasn't enough. It really needs to be integrated into computer science curriculum's with specific attention to how it applies to writing software.
Coming from a research background I can totally understand your feeling. Once you have read enough of those papers, you start to kind of skim through them more easily.

Unfortunately, quality of papers and their readability highly depend on the skill of the author. There are some papers which are easy and entertaining to read because of the writing skill and effort put into it. Many though are not nice at all.

Here is an entertaining but serious one...
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/cocaine.pdf
Please refer to the correction at the bottom of the article. I have no problem admitting when I'm wrong. True&Co. doesn't not have a subscription. But isn't the Warby of the bra world and they have not proven that their algorithm works. 1) True does NOT make the process of bra shopping easier. That's what Warby does best while offering a great product at a very affordable price. Warby has great branding. In fact, True takes a traditionally feminine and sexy product and makes shopping for it a BORING and painful experience. 3 minutes of questioning was boring. 2)There is no animosity towards the team. My post is no different than an article on Pando - actually it's no where as snarky some of the articles I've seen. Pando can be really, really snarky. Check out this article: http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/21/dominatefund-badly-misses-t.... 3) If True's algorithm works, they should really show proof. Have they done any claims testing? That's what consumer brands do when they have $ and they are trying to prove that their tech works. Otherwise, it's flimsy, BS marketing ==> No true fit, no true fitting algorithm. 4) Where are the panties? I could not find them after 10 minutes. It's worse that True says they sell them, but I couldn't find them after 10 minutes. The founders don't understand basic business, marketing or branding. That's key for a consumer goods business like a lingerie brand. 5)It's a shame because I do know several other BETTER lingerie startups that should have gotten funding which presented at DecodedFashion Lingerie Startup Showcase. One founder is in serious debt trying to get funding. Unfortunately she isn't a former VC, so fundraising is a lot harder for her.
Ok well blocks generate at an average of 1 / 15 minutes, so about 96 blocks a day.

Each block generate 25 BTC reward. At ~14.00 USD/BTC on MtGox right now that about $34k.

So the maximum reward in USD if you could totally control the block chain per day is $34,000. Compare hashing rate of your super computer to total mining hash rate of the btc mining swarm and that is your fraction of 34,000.
In the initial headline / sub-header there's too much focus on "free". Scanning it quickly, I missed "painting" completely.

Here's my suggestion:
http://d.pr/i/5ajG

Tulip
"Just swipe to start painting"
"Free, and easy to use"
I was thinking to a similar project, once I saw the poor quality of modules out there. Very happy to see someone like you working out the problem.
Nuestro Bufet está compuesto por Abogados experimentados que han representado a los demandantes y consumidores de todo el pais en muchos asuntos de litigio complejos y de alto perfil.
Model the expansion of the universe assuming a foam like structure and a non-zero cosmological constant at different values. Then model the path of light rays traveling large distances over long periods of time. The patterns of hydrogen absorption lines should be pretty distinctive and could be used to test various cosmological possibilities.

This was my 1995 final year Physics project with inadequate hardware and poor language options.

Of course back then the assumptions were considered a bit radical but now much more accepted as reflecting something approaching reality.

I think it would be an interesting project to do it again with modern tools and some real computing horsepower.
For example Zynga seems quite successful at stealing/cloning game ideas. But they seems to steal only after seeing how successful other games are. Because copying an already successful idea has a lower risk then working on an unproved new idea. So only those will work on a new idea who really believes in it, which is probably the one who thinking about and working on it the most (hopefully you). So don't worry too much about others stealing your idea before you successfully execute it.
Why Is Google Fiber the Country’s Only Super-Speed Internet?
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Dealer wants to sell you a car, but installs an internal monitoring camera to do maintenance in order to see the condition of the roads you drive on. But doesn't tell you.
One to two cents a task. Anytime you have a language agnostic task (identifying/classifying objects, etc), the tasks can be done very cheaply. Just make sure you do triplicate validation.

Language dependent/creative tasks run much higher (smaller worker pool, more brain power needed).
I suspect Heisenberg would like in on that conversation.
Hey everybody, OP here. Thanks for the great feedback! We're really happy that so many people have checked this out.

One thing that I want to mention: our service was built favoring Precision over Recall; we reasoned that we'd rather have a low number of false positives and make sure that when we do report a detection, that it actually is one. Thus, our service may occasionally miss instances.

I'm going to implement a button on the Experiment page that lets you flag a detection as something that we need to work on; we will use your feedback to improve the accuracy.
Of course, when Google breaks them they'll write a fully-fledged browser for those phones that works as smoothly as the thin-client one. Because they merely chose to do that not because the former is impossible, but because they wanted to be evil. They'll just "change their tune".
I tried to sleep with my watch to see if I would sleep with a vibrating watch if it would exist. I saw that it's very uncomfortable to sleep with a watch. And existing vibrating watches aree too expensive I think. Also vibrating gadgets make noise.
somebody had to call a spade a spade.

I hate marketing jargons myself, but I realise Oracle Network Computer vision has been realised , but calling it a cloud makes it easier for lot of common folks.

can somebody coin a meme/jargon for Internet Of Things
~20Pflops = 3 terahashes/sec, which will earn you about $274/hour. Probably not the best use of supercomputer resources. :)
The big difference is that NFL players are typically drafted at the age of 22 after they've gone through college. NHL players are typically drafted at 18.

Very few of them go the NCAA route. Those that do go that route can't be paid in any way by NHL teams, so these players are just like their NFL brethren with the exception that NFL players are a known commodity coming out of the NCAA. NHL teams picked their players before they entered college, so it's a little bit of a crap-shoot whether or not they'll turn into an NHL player.

Those who don't go the NCAA route either play for the CHL or in Europe. When they turn 18, if they don't make their respective NHL teams, they typically join a teams AHL affiliate or maybe even their ECHL affiliate. Both of those lower tiers are supported by the NHL clubs.
There is a reason that classic game developers don't become front-end web developers. We've already dealt with bitchy little machines that demand precise instructions to get the flashy results we want out of them, why do we want to do that all over again for a web browser? :)

Before most of us had an idea what a coprocessor was, or independent GPUs, we approached the copper (blew my mind when a month after deving for the Amiga I figured out that copper was being used as a diminutive of co-processor) as a brain-dead but stupidly fast CPU with only three instructions.
Devops/Sysadmin Cheatsheet for Linux

Most of the commands listed rely on various GNU extensions to the various utilities or are only applicable to Linux.

FreeBSD:

strace -> dtrace/ktrace/
lsof -> sockstat/fstat
watch -> no idea

sudo -> Almost never installed by default on FreeBSD
ps aux --sort=-resident|head -11 -> --sort is not valid ...

And the list goes on ...
Pycoder's Jobs
Looks cheesy, but it might work:
http://www.sleepphones.com
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2260912/iSlee...
The collective bargaining agreements are prefered by the Owners because they limit free agency. Without such limitations the idea of an amateur draft falls apart - absent an agreement prospects could negotiate with any team because (IANAL) otherwise limiting their rights would be illegal.
There is a site dedicated to the topic actually:
http://contrastrebellion.com/

I think there is a difference between "looks good aesthetically" and "readable" and sometimes making it more readable doesn't overlap with pure artistic choices, so sometimes it's the best designers that fall into this trap.

Edit: see previous discussion on this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807047
This was one of the links from the discussion: http://riskcalc.sts.org/STSWebRiskCalc273/de.aspx

The tl;dr = Society of Thoracic Surgeons reduced a dataset and built a website. For people dealing with some pretty heavy heart issues, it's a damn useful item.
I think there is something to be said for having some kind of visual element whose job it is to track "where the reader is in the text".

Lacking this, I (and I suspect many others) improvise by using a mouse selection, and constantly growing the selection by shift-clicking. This breaks if the UI has messed with the relevant UI events (e.g. disabling selection or popping up something on mouse clicks).

I wouldn't mind some controls for this designed specifically around the activity of reading. Maybe tap to advance one sentence or one paragraph. Keep the current paragraph entirely in view (unless it's too big; then keep the current sentence entirely in view). Shift the text a paragraph at a time. Make it advance both the marker and the text, so the reader doesn't have to manage those two things separately.

I'd especially like a good tablet solution to this, since reading is my primary activity on a tablet, and there's no mouse in that case.
Correct. I added the day and time for reference, in the evenings during the week, the internet speed can be rated as "lol" in both directions.

w1ntermute, I'm fully aware those speeds are most definitely not fast, but relatively speaking it's usually worse than that.

(I love going to South Korea, I land at Incheon, there's free WiFi in the coach to the city, and the internet is FAST)
Natural convection in a system heated from below - try and detect when the heat transfer switches from conduction to convection - maybe compare Nusselt numbers computed versus what's predicted by Navier-Stokes (no inter molecular interactions) ?

Edit: Another one - model the human circulatory system - trying to find optimal postures for maximum heart efficiency. Also simulate blood-flow keeping track of anti-coagulant factor concentration to detect high-risk areas for blood-clot formation.
My work computer is windows, and it was driving me nuts to have to reverse scroll... I found that I could invert scrolling on windows with the AutoHotKey app. Works pretty well.
I have a choice of ISPs (none run by the government) through the TV cables that run into my home. Fiber-optic cables haven't reached our outer-ring metropolitan neighborhood. DSL took a long time to come here, because of where the telephone substations are in this town.
Just like solar panels (Made In China), I hope that this significantly brings down the price of fiber optic cable.
Your right of course, it was more rant than argument.

The paper claims that $1000 per patient is extortionate as compared against the 'free' cost of existing web based tools. However it never supports that claim except through that single comparison. Thus, I am not persuaded that $1000 per patient is extortionate.

Lets take that cost as legitimate. The structured system exists for the life time of the patients who use the hospital, so understanding that cost requires understanding how the cost of that system is recouped over the lifetime of the patient. Picking three cohorts, a 5 year patient, a 10 year patient, and a 25 year patient, they would have lifetime costs of $16/month, $8/month, and $3.33/month to recoup a $1000 cost to both enter them into the system and pay for the system (these costs weren't split out in the article).

One of the arguments for electronic records is a reduction in unneeded tests. So for example when Bob comes in for a physical do you order a cholesterol test or not? If the previous test is still valid, you don't, but if you miss the previous test in the record? The doctor re-orders the test "to be sure." which occurs because insurance companies can find you partially negligent if a test was available and you didn't order it but should have.

In order to quantify the 'value' of electronic records, either structured or un-structured, you really have to compare the patient costs for hospitals with such systems and those without. And any thorough treatment of that question would also cover the ingress process of a new patient coming from a hospital with a function structured electronic record capability and one without.

I can see why its hard to see that this was what I was saying in my original comment.
I hope China goes the way of South Korea and Taiwan. A transition to democracy once the economy's improved enough. The only problem is that its size means that China can't take the export oriented path to growth at the same rate that SK/Taiwan did.
Design an alarm pillow. Have it slowly escalate so that it wakes you with the minimum necessary signal.

If you're like me, you'll want it to be controlled wirelessly from across the room so that you have to get out of bed to actually turn it off.
Efficency is mostly about the cost of the hardware (purchase and running costs), power usage and performance. Purchase, running cost and power usage are not part of your efficiency calculation.

ATI cards have traditionally had better hashing (in general, rainbow table gen, jtr, BTC) because they have a larger number of Execution Units per core, however clocked slower, than the nvidia. Higher number of EU allows better exploitation of parallelism important for the performance of hashing.

This is the fastest damn computer, its not a brand loyalty GM vs Ford, Coke vs Pepsi, Android vs iOS duality. Oh it's got nvidia, not optimized for hashing. It's going to kick the arse of any consumer or professional grade GPU on the market...
Reminds me of Uchuu no Stellvia, where the kids could place their laptop screens next to one another to make bigger displays. It's cool to see that some people are considering it seriously.
Of course it's not that different at all. Rationalizations happen on all sides. We're all guilty of them. I just think we should try to be honest with ourselves and each other.
Clickable link: http://subvertapps.com/Tulip
I was at a dinner in 1999 when I first came to Silicon Valley. Don Valentine was speaking. He said something that's stuck with me:

"Entrepreneurs spend the first two years of their idea keeping it a closely guarded secret, and then spend the rest of their lives shouting it from the rooftops hoping someone cares".

Don't be stupid and needlessly expose every facet of a good idea to someone better geared up to execute on it than you are, if they're heavily incentivized to do so. But don't over-value keeping it to yourself.
It seems to be one of the biggest misconceptions out there right now. People think you can just make a few posts on HN & Reddit to fuel the growth of an entire business. It worked for a few, such as Imgur, but it's not the norm.
The problem is what you mean by the word idea. I get tired of hearing "execution is everything" because what that really means is "details matter."

Instagram is a good example of this. "A mobile app where people can share photos" is not a very valuable idea. "A mobile app where people can add filters to imbue meaning into photos, combined with a quick and beautiful interface, combined with a social stream, commenting, favoriting, and notifications, packaged into a easy to use app" turned out to be more valuable. Even more valuable is that idea combined with a number of sketches, designs, user surveys, and proofs of concepts. These levels of detail all fall under the umbrella of "idea" -- but it's understanding the core thesis of an idea combined with being able to see it's consequences in the details that can actually be valuable.

This means sharing your idea can be dangerous if a) you are sharing it at a sufficient level of detail and b) you are sharing it with someone who can empathize with the thesis of the idea and draw the same logical conclusions in terms of implementation details. Basically, if someone "gets it" and can execute on that understanding.
Considering that Zavers is almost unknown, going forward with the name essentially is a new branding effort.
The problem I am having with this scrolling scheme is that when I forget to scroll I find myself reading what I already read (and getting a few words into it before noticing). I can't forget to scroll in the normal scheme since if I don't scroll there is nothing more to read.
Agreed.

I kept mousing over the low contrast areas expecting it to dynamically change to a darker font.... no dice.
Why I won’t be closing down BetaPunch: A formal apology
You under estimated human's desire to deny the truth, it could have easily be centuries if not millennia or more had he didn't do it.
my 2c, It has to be plugged in and it has earphones. I don't think it's a good idea. What ist difference between this and normal earphones?!
I'll try to put this more politely:

Since you apparently neither understand what was discussed (an optional rather than an "Orwellian" kill-switch), nor the implementation options (a signed message via any broadcast mechanism), nor why using twitter as the transport would be feasible and "low-tech" versus most alternatives, you should perhaps refrain from commenting on this thread at all. - And especially not in that tone.
Yeah I see what you're saying. It is now this:

iOS meets Finger Painting

The best part is its price. No Monet necessary.
Fiber costs very little already.
Suggestion to use Google Docs for medical records published on Harvard.edu? Ehm...
Isn't that a tad black and white?
Hey tunnuz and limejuice, sorry to hear we only picked up on 4 of the planes. We've biased our service towards precision rather than recall; thus, we try to be wrong about detected objects as little of the time as possible at the expense of perhaps missing a few object instances.

I want to clarify: the 4 object concurrent detection refers to 4 classes of objects. On the Experiment page, you can only choose one class to detect on (whether that is person, bottles, cars, etc). However, by using the API, you can simultaneously search for cars, planes, people, and motorcycles, for example.
It can be done on a moderately powerful GPU these days, but only to about 10x zoom (or maybe less, I don't remember) before it starts to look weird. The main problem is floating point precision (or lack thereof) causing distortion :(
How did you calculate that? Those units don't quite work out. It's a totally different architecture to your standard i7/radeon home mining rig.
What about a sleep mask, that turns on some lights right in your eyes, of course soft light or make it gradually increase in intensity, but this may only work if you are a light sleeper and any stimuli wakes you up. I can also think of changing the temperature of the sleep mask, get it to be sufficiently hot or cold to wake you up.
I don't see much advantage to doing the 'honorable' thing in the face of corporations that won't. If doing the right thing anyway is your cup of tea, then knock yourself out, but I'm really not interested in that.
I think you're exactly right: the danger isn't outright theft, but inspiring something even better. As you say, that's progress. SOTSOG.

But it would be nice to reap some reward for your blood, sweat and tears; to at least have your day in the sun before being eclipsed.
How about calculating the entry conditions of asteriod Apophis (or something along the line of computational fluid dynamics). That would be something important, something worth the power and time of Titan, and pretty much a big deal, if you pull it off! The latest data for it would be available soon, given you convince Goldstone the nature of your request.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_fluid_dynamics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99942_Apophis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communicat...