skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you won't get 18 watts, so fn what?????

Try to think bigger, that this project might inspire few more students that will get it to 2 watts, and then 5 watts...

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
― Winston Churchill
More cats please. Everyone knows the internet is for cats.
>Because they broke the web for their users.

If you want web to progress forward, then things are going to get broken. WebP is an efficient format, and face-book is doing a good thing by increasing it's adoption speed.
I think he was trying to say he wouldn't have bought a $40 poster without some charitable tie in. I imagine it wasn't the only worthy cause that would have swayed him. That said, Watsi is popping up a lot with the "cool kids" lately. Chelsea Clinton tweeted about them yesterday. Getting PG on the board got lots of buzz. They're trendy, and that's fine as long as it gets more people the medical care they need.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun.
Donald Gennaro: It's hardly appropriate to start hurling generalizations...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: If I may... Um, I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now
[bangs on the table]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: you're selling it, you wanna sell it. Well...
John Hammond: I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
Bomb detectors - not the same thing at all.
Cliche at this point, but got to be said.

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
John Maynard Keynes, (attributed)
English economist (1883 - 1946)
I believe the use cases are different, which drives a difference in at least the user experience. AeroFS is designed for business use, so we strive to balance simplicity in UI/UX with security/privacy while trying to avoid things like side-channel sharing of secrets. We focus on functionality like managing your team, the ability to remotely wipe devices, control sharing within your organization, and so on, while providing the "Dropbox experience" that end users within the organization ask for, and without us storing any of the data itself.

I agree that the main gripe with AeroFS that people have voiced in this thread is certainly valid. AeroFS _did_ slow down in performance for some users recently. We actually just released a version today that addresses this bug (0.4.181 - see http://ae.ro/Ln2YJJ for the release notes, but it specifically had to do with the way we were initializing our jingle library), and in our own internal tests the performance has improved dramatically.
It's not just two different passwords, it's one password that you know and another password sent to some physical device (usually a mobile) that you must be in possession of
SpaceX uploaded a version without music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvbh-Z8Abk
Approaching/meeting lawyers is something that is considered extremely formal in society today. They're obviously trying to show that it CAN be a laid back and simple process through Lawdingo...and I think they did quite a good job with it.
I believe that he pointed it out as a valid scenario of a goal becoming a deadline by the constraint of time. Otherwise it was trying to have a sound strategy/goal to ensure winning the game.

There is many ways to interpret the posted article.
Source: http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/25/3555664/apple-ipad-mini-m...

The way I think about it, the iPad Mini requires largely the same components as the regular iPad but runs at hundreds of dollars less. This is slightly mitigated by a cheaper screen and smaller battery, but I'd have thought it's still a lower margin product.
One wonders if Dr. Fernandez is now similarly concerned with his name being associated with popes and/or hats.
Many gamers are using BitTorrent through Valve's Steam. By which I mean, that p2p file sharing is hardly nefarious. It's just a clever use of bandwidth.
"Try-hard" is the most confusing derogatory term I've ever come across.
That's an interesting way of looking at things, but I think Sync has a long way to go before it becomes a textbook case for BitTorrent advocates to point to productive usage. I think that supporting anonymous, distributed protocols like BitTorrent should be our prerogative as proponents of a free society.
It did immediately send up red flags with the "hey, lemme check your password safety by you GIVING me your password!" As I thought about it for a second though however, I tried to envision from memory what's the difference between these particular login forms versus legit twitter logins? (I'm at work so no twitter access) It looks pretty similar from what I can remember besides the submission button I suppose..
I only pushed the code a few minutes ago, but binaries should probably be up at http://x264.nl/ relatively soonish (it's not my site though, so I wouldn't know exactly).

If you want to test without a physical Haswell, the Intel Software Development Emulator should work okay, albeit somewhat slowly. I'd post overall numbers for real Haswells, but Intel has apparently said we can't do that yet.

Regarding FMA, FMA3/4 are floating point only. Since x264 has just one floating point assembly function, only two FMA3/FMA4 instructions get used in all of x264 (not counting duplicates from different-architecture versions of the function). An FMA4 version has been included for a while; the new AVX2 version does include FMA3, but of course that won't run on AMD CPUs (yet).

XOP had some integer FMA instructions, but I generally didn't find them that useful (there's a few places I found they could be slotted in, though).
Is there a algorithm or standard method for doing "inflation adjusted terms"?
Isn't there also the flip side - that the disruptive tech businesses represented by YC actually remove jobs from the economy on some level?

For example hotel workers who are displaced because of AirBnb etc. Not that I'm the kind of person who advocates for keeping people employed for employments sake, but I'd be curious how many jobs are actually made obsolete by tech startups...
Stanford Online Course: Graph Partitioning and Expanders
You want to test software on a device that doesn't exist in the market yet, but you don't want to build it yourself? The time you'll spend figuring out whatever emulator you're going to use is far longer than the time it takes to build x264 from a developer branch...
The soccer analogy fails because there is nothing else to coordinate besides scoring a goal. When you work for a company there are so many other areas waiting for that feature or release you just can't say something like that, I'm afraid.
Engineers Use Brain Cells to Power Smart Grid
As Elon Musk put it, it's the difference between filling up your car at the end of a trip, and then going on another trip immediately, versus having to build a whole new car almost from scratch at the end of each trip.
>>* we strengthen existing patterns of advantage and disadvantage because our friends, neighbors and children's classmates are overwhelmingly likely to share our own racial, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds.*<<

It's interesting that the article (and presumably the researchers) presume this is a bad thing. This is, in essence, natural selection playing out. Adopting the behaviors of those closest to us is also how will advance (or retreat) as a species.
I remember being a young man and searching for a word to generally describe this.

I settled on predilection.

Anecdotally, I'd say it's extremely common. I've confronted a few people about it and heard the same arguments in each case. It seems to boil down to a notion that anything which can be phrased in positive terms can't possibly be bad - quite a handy rationalization.
This tends to happen when a startup has nothing to lose and everything to gain. If you have a team that has a shared goal and understood roles they can be productive.
This is why two-factor authentication is important. In one of my favorite examples of how effective it can be, Gabe Newell demonstrated his confidence in Steam Guard by giving out his Steam username and password.
“Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
― Thomas L. Friedman
I find this kind of stuff awesome. Makes the developers seem more relatable, I guess.
> All that hassle to reduce the terminal velocity by a couple hundred miles an hour.

That's the TLDR. The delta-vee from the parachute is not worth the trouble.
Awesome, that was actually my first thought upon seeing this
That's probably true if you don't have >$100B in the bank
With absolutely no data to back this up, I'll posit the following speculation:

In the short- and medium-run, these business cost more jobs than they create.

In the long run, they rid the economy of relative inefficiency (relative to the 'improved' marketplace), which creates a healthier economy (creating jobs being one symptom of a healthier economy).
Using specific macroeconomic assumptions, I estimate $100 trillion. What's the point of the article if the methodology is excluded?
it's actually impressive that they sold 37.4M iPhones this quarter considering they sold an amazing 47.8M iPhones last quarter. Compare that to last years numbers.

Q1 2012 = 37M iPhone, 15.4M iPads

Q2 2012 = 35.1M iPhones, 11.8M iPads

Q1 2013 = 47.8M iPhones, 22.9M iPads

Q2. 2013 = 37.4M iPhones, 19.5M iPads
> I imagine there's a lot less fuel required to land than is required to take off.

Right.

At take off, the delta vee is the escape velocity PLUS all the losses due to friction, which are tremendous.

At landing, the delta vee is only equal to terminal velocity. EDIT: Okay, plus some flying time on top of the landing point.
What you are talking about is social darwinism, not simply natural selection, and I think there has been enough said on why it is problematic that I don't need to reiterate it here.
Right, but the thing is, licensing Archer for Netflix is a fraction of what it costs to actually MAKE the show. That's the challenge.
Four must-read predictions about the Chinese mobile game market in 2013
Was down, but responding for me again.
The data I got from the EIA is inflation adjusted using the consumer price index.
Extremely uninteresting- It is like a page of "C-S 1XX: Intro to C" fell out of its bindings and landed on Hacker News.

This might have been mildly interesting if there had been the assembly for a few different architectures (x86, MIPS, ARM, PowerPC, etc) showing how the C code was translated to assembler for each. And could have been very interesting with an additional discussion of memory barriers and atomic operations in C and their relation to assignments and pointers.
Do you know any successful salespeople who aren't intensely competitive? (I'm just curious, because I haven't met one.)
>A six degree of freedom inertial unit was $125,000 in 1970 and resolved differences of .1G. A 9 degree of freedom unit from Sparkfun Electronics [1] is now $125, and reliably resolves 1/4096'th of a G.

And the 1970s one weighed a lot more than 3.52 oz!

http://i.imgur.com/nrm2fUb.jpg
Absolutely. This is literally "rocket science" - the cutting edge of space transportation research.
For the reasons that you've specified and others, I rolled my own very simple sync system based on Git.

The biggest problem I personally have with Dropbbox et. al, is that none of the commercial solutions sync symbolic links opaquely. ("Opaque" syncing of symlinks means to sync the links themselves and not what the symlinks link to.) I use symlinks heavily and so I absolutely require this feature. Most of the commercial solutions just ignore symlinks, but Dropbox does the worst thing possible and treats symlinks transparently. This is utterly wrong and, in fact, downright dangerous!

Another feature that I need for telecommuting software development is to be able to exclude artifacts from what is synced. Eclipse, for instance, constantly churns out artifacts, and I certainly don't want or need those artifacts to be synced.

Two problems with my roll-your-own little syncing system remain: (1) The large file issue that you mentioned. (Sparkleshare is much worse in this regard than my system, last I tried.) (2) I know of no way to have the Git instance that I use for syncing not pay attention to the .gitignore files that are used by the Git instance that I use for version control. Annoying!

In any case, I'm very glad to hear that BitTorrent seems to be coming up with a solution that will address all my issues, and I won't have to roll my own anymore.
Gmod is on Kickstarter
To further this conversation I think it's important to discuss continuous deployment or even shipping velocity that is both robust, lean, and efficient.

Consider this: If software, at a given state, is ready for consumption how long does it take until it is actually consumed and why is it that long? Could it be shorter? Could it be longer? Does it ever get consumed?
I completely agree with your statement, but what is the alternative? Dell? Look at most PC manufacturers based in the United States and they've been completely decimated by the race to the bottom in prices. I'm not a fan of Apple's pricing but I prefer that they make a profit and continue hopefully producing decent products.

I believe that Microsoft and Intel are going to face the same margin issues as the price of hardware continues to fall and manufacturers question the cost of the O/S and Intel CPUs.
And yet that's exactly what Porsche did with the Boxster. It's exactly what BMW did with expanding their product line with the 1 series. I guess if you want continued growth, eventually you might have to expand into lower margin products.

It's not so black and white between expensive products and commodities, by the way. Both Boxster and 1 Series are still relatively expensive.
A conglomerate refusing their customers as a retaliation for exercising their rights to consumer protection is exactly why we have class action lawsuits in the first place (I think). The TOU may have clauses in there that reserve their right to cancel your Origin account, but I think the situation gets murky when you prevent paying customers from using products they may have purchased at brick & mortar retailers, etc.

Someone, someday, is going to challenge this. Its one of the many unanswered legal questions we have with licensing and ownership rights.
Building quantum states with individual silicon atoms
In Haskell:

Variables? What state? Everything is puuuuuuuuure.

In Python:

Everything is an object (numbers, true/false values, strings, etc), some are mutable and some are not. Variables are temporary labels on objects (think of them as hard links).

In Rust/C++:

There are various types of boxes / smart pointers (shared, unique, heap, etc), and unsafe / raw pointers should be avoided when possible.

In C:

Not every variable has a data type, e.g. void or function pointers.
NZ telcos face new obligations under interception law
Nice gains. Thanks for the writeup and explanations!
It means Chrome comes with a built-in pdf reader that, when you decide to save the file you're looking at, does not re-download it. This is significant when dealing with large files, and not a feature present in all competing products.

However, I would recommend re-downloading any pdf files instead of saving them from Chrome's reader, since I've encountered a couple that Chrome corrupted upon saving.
What happened was, we shipped estimates, instead of shipping what the customer wants. Estimates makes you lose the forest for the wrong trees.
> Potentially we could use advanced engines

Nuclear rockets would be so awesome if they weren't so nasty.
Business Productivity: The Business Demon Lurking Over Your Shoulder
If I have a penny every time I hear this...
tech companies are generally not well known for giving dividends. But there's also never been a tech company generating the kind of cash apple is.
1980's Baseball Players. So far, we have:

Mattingly, Dawson, Puckett, Sandberg, Gwynn, Ripken, Saberhagen, Joyner, and Rickey. We also had Gooden, but it had problems and we had to shut it down.
The difference is that men's issues and women's issues are really tightly intertwined. You cannot put pressure on men not to have work-life balance and not to be the one looking after the kids without also pushing women into becoming the main carer for them, and likewise you can't lift that load from women without some way for the men to pick up the slack.

Sadly, what generally happens is that once activists for women's rights have categorised something as a men's issue, they stop caring about it. So you get articles like this one which never question the underlying assumption that women are the ones that need to compromise their careers in order to raise a family, and that men have no interest in doing so. The article talks about women being locked out of positions of power because of this - if we could change things and make it just as normal for men to put their career goals aside to raise kids, that'd have huge implications, but that's a men's issue and hence ignored.
They are working on reimplementing ARM support in the next release. It is in an incomplete state ATM.
I don't understand what's supposed to happen, and I don't want to give access to my friends list to you.
That looks like it, I didn't realize it was still going on, or that it was that big across the nation.
I completely understand that and I appreciate any effort to make the world of lawyers more accessible.

Maybe I just no that by the video cus it's just tried a bit too hard to be funny. Plus, the memorable points for the video were some guys drinking tea not why I should care about the product. I took me a visit to the site to figure out what they meant by claiming to have Lawdingo.

Edit: To sound a bit more positive (sorry) I should mention I did like this line

"One reputable source declared it “the way of the future,” and we’re not about to argue with ourselves."
Apple has consistently warned that margins on the iPad mini are lower and it will impact overall gross margin.
I think Steve Jobs was against that kind of thing but he's not there anymore. He seemed to like hording money and I'd guess it was due to the history of Apple having financial trouble years ago.
Right, I'm not saying that you should either. Just an observation of my own reaction.
I couldn't imagine going to a restaurant and getting a discount because the owner and I are both white.

Think about all the times you went shopping at a department store and weren't hassled by store security. That's your preferential treatment.
A major problem with saving all pdf files to be opened in a separate program is having to delete the temporary files afterwards. That's not very unix-y.

Another, less common, problem is erasing the URL in the process.
In all fairness, Intel's emulator is incredibly easy to use; it literally works like this:

sde -- ./myprogram myargs

instead of

./myprogram myargs

There's also probably a decent number of people at this point who have prerelease CPUs; they tend to breed quite explosively in the month or two before the official release.
IMO his purchasing decision is legitimate. I think he liked the poster regardless of the charity element of it, that aspect just makes paying $40 palatable.
Just out of curiosity, and if you don't mind answering, are these offers $150k base? Or is that the value of the whole compensation package, including signing bonuses and stock options?
It's like the Internet.

First, you need a massive government program to get the technology from the pie in the sky stage to something usable - a multi-decade, arduous process that produces no short-term profits, if any. Once that's done, it's time for the private sector to step in.
Vundle makes me for productive because I use my .vimrc across several machines. I also had some weird issue that went away with a :BundleUpdate. It is essential simply for the fact that it tees up easy plugin management and is a pre-requisite for the rest.

All of these plugins were installed to solve specific problem I have with Vim.

As a very new Vim user, it is comforting to know that some of the more irritating aspects that are difficult to understand out of the box can be removed. Thanks for the tip about `netrw`.
I wonder how this will affect Space Monkey. Thoughts?
Any thought on making a run of Zen of Python? I'd be interested in that more than this version. Would pay $40.
So true, so true.
Never leave the couch again: Order Pizza Hut over Xbox
"Like re-fueling your car" - he uses that analogy a lot. It's probably not exactly like that, but it gives an idea what the real goal is.
"the marginal value to society of huge profits drops to zero, and that Apple is past that point"

It wasn't a discussion about value to society. It was discussion about too much money being a bad thing for Apple, which I disputed.
Really just mind-boggling numbers. Just the ability to ship that many. Mind you they are smaller-sized consumer products, still need a lot of factories making them though.
I couldn't agree more, and I probably should have linked this previous thing[1] I wrote. One of the biggest barriers I had to actually using VIM was going nuts with the plugins.

[1] http://joelhooks.com/blog/2013/04/09/getting-to-know-vim/
I believe owners of many news outlets would prefer an occasional goof-up like re-tweeting a false story, rather than missing out, even for a few minutes, on a very big story.
It appears to me that there is a very high cost for news outlets to be late on big stories. So no doubt journalists don't "waste" time in verifying facts.
With such a small volume, what if the price increased by $.25 for every poster sold. Max price still wouldn't be that unreasonable if you're buying it with charity in mind.
Every time I named piece of hardware Nyarlathotep, it either died on me or turned weirdly buggy. True story. Don't name your machines after an avatar of the Outer Gods.
You can run the canonical bitcoind app in JSON RPC mode and it is your wallet and gives you the API. You don't need to use an external service.