skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This board should deliver about 90 GFLOPS of performance, or — in terms
PC users understand — about the same horse-power as a 45GHz CPU.

That doesn't seem too outrageous to me.

Edit: They state the real fact and then give another figure explicitly stating it's an attempt to translate this into a metric the average user can somewhat relate to.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Computing it seems that they're off by a factor of two, but I'm guessing that's just an honest mistake.

Second edit: I was under the impression that this was the result of dumbing down by a journalist, however it seems it's from Parallela itself. That is a bit disingenuous indeed.
What is it about the word "viable" that seems to make everyone read right past it?
Fascinating. As a native English speaker, I was never taught this ordering, but swapping around the examples a bit emphasizes how "unnatural" any other ordering sounds.

This paper linked in the comments is intriguing:

http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wccfl/25/paper1473.pdf
Indeed. Add to that the lack of camera access (among other things), and it leaves me wondering whether it's even possible to build something worthwhile.

Especially given Google's own statements saying that pictures/video are the (current) main use case (that they've discovered so far).
Google Glass Tech Specs Revealed
Reader isn't the first project Google (or Google.org) lost interest in or shut down. For me the big eye-opener was their "Project 10 to the 100": they got 150,000 entries for where to focus philanthropic funds, waited a few years with no updates and then donated a total of $10 million to 5 organizations.

Kudos for donating money, but they announced a big contest, got tons of input and made this seem like a big focus, and then when that toy wasn't fun to play with anymore they ignored it for a few years until somebody remembered they had money to give away.
Songza Raised $3.8M, Amazon Still In The Frame As An Investor
They don't share the user's email address. Kinda rules out using them for authentication, IMO.
Possibly, based on the apps demonstrated at SXSW, one is allowed to create free (and advertising free) Glass apps that provide some sort of access to content or services that you separately charge for: a New York Times subscription or sending a note to a premium Evernote account.

Not that I'd spend any time on such efforts in the absence of clarity from Google on this point.
You are completely right. Sorry i just wrote it in one go.

I tried to restructure it. Hope it is now a bit clearer.
Not enough. Don't bother.
Most of the games by Wadjet Eye are great. I specially recommend Gemini Rue.

Also, almost anything by Ben Chandler[2], but that's usually short form. My favorite is Eternally Us[3]( I know, yucks at the name, but it's a beautiful game).

And Donna[4] is one of the best games I played las year, so there is that.

[1]http://www.wadjeteyegames.com/
[2]http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/author/Ben30...
[3]http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1303/
[4]http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/1523/
Yup, it is looking like American kooks did this.
I agree with you. This might be good for bitcoin mining. :)
3 Faces of Business Dysfunction
Ten Year Time Machine - follow news from 10 years ago
Facebook is a hyper-successful product that, among some people, has a bad image for various reasons: uncool, invasive, socially destructive etc.

The goat ad is self-aware and funny. It is the opposite of faceless, bland, tech-centric, and obvious. It also deflects expectations that Facebook Home will be perfect straight out of the chute.

Seems to me it's just right.
Pre-Processor for CSS in Oxford English
The Hunt for the Boston Marathon Bomber
>If Flattr was really all about helping others, the fee would be much less.

How much less? Five percent? One percent? The only other micropayment processor I'm aware of that has better rates than Flattr is Paypal's micropayment service at five percent plus five cents. Given Paypal's massive size advantage I'd say Flattr's doing well so far.

>...talked about how everything should be shared/free.

I'd think founding a startup aimed at micropayments for all kinds of artists and other creators would indicate that Peter's ideas about distribution of art and creator compensation are more nuanced than simply "everything should be shared/free." He says as much in TPB AFK. He certainly doesn't believe that copyright as it stands has any place in a digital world and Flattr seems to be his manner of investigating ways to share content while still giving back to creators.

>With the amount of advertising on TPB (and traffic), I know he was making a profit (and paying his salary).

I've found no numbers on just how much has been made via adverts or what it was spent on, though I'd imagine the costs of bandwidth for coordinating the majority of the planet's bit torrent traffic could easily reach thousands per month. The recently released documentary has one of the prosecutors arguing that there were 64 unique ads on the site at any given time, each costing 500 dollars per week, coming out to about 1.7 million in revenue each year. Gottfried says in the documentary that there were four unique ads, and that even 110k annual revenue was bigger than they had typically gotten but a more realistic figure. I'd love to see the actual balance sheets, though I doubt anyone from the defense or prosecution has any to speak of.

>...at the same time saying they shouldn't be able to earn a living?

90% of flattrs that cost next to nothing for the creator to take advantage of constitutes an incapacity to earn a living? Sounds better than what an artist would get via itunes or an old-fashioned record deal. Of course, this is all operating on the poor assumption that most artists would ever be able to earn a living off their work, no matter how draconian copyright law became or how perfectly DRM was designed and implemented.
You're going to need to be more specific than that. What, exactly, do they need to do differently, and why?

At 'serious' technical conferences, presentations are based on papers, papers are based on work already done. The conference itself is an end game of months or years of work that already happened.

At less serious conferences, talks, presentations, and panels are selected to maximize interest by choosing people of significant stature and interest in the community. Again, this is the end game of months or years of work that already happened.

Where is it the conferences responsibility (and to what advantage) to extend themselves to garnering talks and presenters from a minority industry segment (and which minority segments?). Do you actually have demonstrable evidence that presenters and papers of merit are being excluded from conferences? This would serve as evidence that conferences were failing in the missions to provide top tier content.

It seems that your position is focused more on who is presenting content than what the content actually is.
As someone who uses supercomputers, I'm not sure I entirely understand the market of this product. It's really cool and I'd love to have one to tinker with, but due to its high parallelization, I see no benefit of using this over a graphics card. I'm not sure if $99 can get you a GPU that reaches 90 GFlops though... perhaps that's where the benefit lies.

EDIT: After reviewing their website, I notice they state

> One important goal of Parallella is to teach parallel programming...

In this respect, I can see how this is useful. Adapting scientific software to GPUs can be difficult and isn't the easiest thing to get into for your average person. This board, with its open-source toolkit and community could make this process a lot easier.
So how fast is this really? It doesn't sound like much of a supercomputer to me. If it were so super for $99, it'd have been hyped everywhere already and gamers would not buy desktops anymore. It rather sounds like a platform to practice multithreading on.
Three Improvements for the Oculus Rift
I had the pleasure of using the Oculus Rift, and it is substantially more immersive than any other gaming I've ever done, but there were some significant shortcomings to the technology.

1. By far the biggest issue, the lenses were not good enough. The Oculus Rift (dev version) comes with 3 sets of lenses for people with different prescriptions (one for people with perfect vision). Even if one of the lenses matched your prescription, there was a sweet spot for clarity. Any game that had you moving your head (read: all of them) jostled the Rift such that the lenses were no longer in the sweet spot. Things were blurry and it strained your eyes, especially after 30 or more minutes.

2. The straps. The Rift was heavy, and the straps didn't adjust well. We probably had special difficulties because we kept trading it around, but it was very hard to adjust the straps on your own and getting things adjusted perfectly took time. And if they weren't adjusted well, they compounded issues the with the lenses.

3. The resolution. The version we were using had a resoluiton of 1280x800, or 640x800 per eye, and the screen was so close to your face that pixels were easily visible. This was less of a problem on some of the demos, I'm guessing this was because they were made to be played at a low resolution. But when you played TF2 the resolution was a huge issue. Even if you could get the screen in focus (difficult at best), things were blurry and pixelated, and text was almost impossible to read. TF2 was probably the worst, but most non occulus-specific games suffered. The consumer version is supposed to be 960x1080 per eye, which is slightly more pixels than 720p TV, but the screen is so close to your face that I doubt it will bring the clarity of 720p TV.
Bullshit, have you read the first hand accounts? They weren't there to apprehend anyone. And of course you "resist" if a bunch of people with guns storm into your home.
Thanks! No worries. It's a cool product keep it up :-)
When coding, I frequently find myself wishing that English used noun-adjective-adjective ordering. It works so much better for organizing sub-categories into nice, sortable, searchable trees. I sometimes try to use naa naming in my code, but it's a constant struggle to not accidentally fall back to aan out of life-long habit.
Daily Report: European Regulators and Google Reach an Antitrust Deal
Use Project Management to Win Content
You do understand that HN is hosted in the US, right? If HN was hosted in Syria, it would most likely cover that.
Order sushi from your chrome console
This is being heavily flagged because it is an inconvenient truth. Oh the irony.
This post under another title:

How a web programmer created a whole spreadsheet inside a web browser
From what I've read about SCUMM, it was designed to be very similar to writing a regular script for, say, a TV show.

There's a programming language for writing textual interactive fiction games, Inform 7 ( http://inform7.com/ ), which reads as a natural language. For example, here's part of the "programme" of a game (copied from http://www.hpiweb.com/newmedia/i7/cbrk/source.html )

The Forest is a room. "This forest is cold and damp. Sunset is drawing very near and shelter must be found soon. The only apparent direction to go is north." A room called Before the Castle of the Big Red Key is north of the Forest. "The castle looms before you. Its massive front door has a lock that seems to glow a fiery red. You must continue north past that door. The only other exit is to the south."
The big_red_key is here. The description is "It's a big red key." The printed name is "big red key". Understand "big", "red", and "key" as the big_red_key. It unlocks the massive front doorway. The massive front doorway is north of Before the Castle of the Big Red Key and south of the Castle Vestibule. The doorway is a door.

It would be interesting to have a graphical equivalent.
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The real question is: How much power does it consume compared to its hashing power?
Me neither. The only catch is that you can't get serial computation that fast, but I assume anyone buying something called "Parallella" would realize that already.
It would be nice to see one in Node.
I think they were getting at that "what(most) people want" is usually on the low end of the spectrum… in the same league of honey boo boo and reality tv, which aren't very useful if you ask me…

Also I don't really see this as a short coming if the glassess have access to the internet where a user wants to spend money on something. Sure its a website, but most apps anyways require the use of the internet (at least the data driven ones).
All that is really irrelevant to my point, whixh is that the nature of the word "justice" shows that people are concerned about social order, not just the individual likelihood of being killed. One can argue about the extent to which any given response helps maintain order.

That's why people care about "justice" for murderers even though more people are killed by auto accidents. Murder upsets the social order. A car accident doesn't.
Death toll at 3 in Boston Marathon bombing seen by White House as terrorism
The case is clearly without merit. They almost certainly sued her hoping that she doesn't have the resources to respond to it, which would result in a default judgment against her. If she is able to get an attorney, she will wind up being awarded her legal expenses and potentially other damages since the case was pretty clearly filed in bad faith.

The choice to include eBay as a defendant in the suit, however, is clearly not well thought out. Med Express has filed a precedent-setting, must-win case against a company that effectively has unlimited resources. eBay will eviscerate this company in court and almost certainly ensure that they never do business through the site again. Since no attorney in their right mind would have advised such a move, this sounds like a misguided individual that managed to borrow enough money for the filing fee rather than a serious attempt at litigation.
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Online education trumps the cost disease
A single Ivy Bridge core has 8 Flops/MHz of computing power. 45GHz Ivy Bridge would be able to do 360GFlops.
Why wouldn't you? HN is hosted in the US. It's going to have US news occasionally. The bombing only killed 3 people because of all of the first responders. It could have easily been in the double-digits. There are 150 people injured by the blasts.
I disagree with the first part. The crowd should support the artist vision and give him total freedom. If is not a substitute for having a publisher, what's the point?

I agree with your conclusion and I don't think it is necessarily the opposite, you can have artist freedom and access to the backstage.
In another era, maybe 5+ years ago, any API provider that had such draconian service terms such as Twitter would have been promptly dropped by most API developers.

Why do people continue to develop to Twitter's API? It's obvious that Twitter doesn't want people to use their API. In my years of developing on top of 3rd party APIs from Microsoft, Oracle, etc, I've never seen such contempt for developers as I see from Twitter and Facebook. Developers should abandon Twitter en masse.

But they don't. Developers keep using the Twitter API and they keep getting shut down after spending significant time developing their app. Fool me once, shame on them, fool me twice, shame on me.

I think developers keep doing it because they are still hoping for that one app that will get them acqu-hired by Twitter or Facebook, so that they can become fabulously rich. It's the one big difference between now and 5+ years ago, and especially before the Instagram acquisition.
Vendors, Don't Be that Creepy Guy, OK?
E commerce is expensive to develop and ISPs operate on razor thin profit margins. Most ISPs grow organically, so their code-base is older.

The ISP 'grave yard' is full of companies that tried to roll their own billing system in PHP.
Much, much less than the specialized ASIC platforms do.
> " looking at kids aged 22 to 24 who have just graduated it seems like they're, well, fucked. Nobody will hire them in a big company for lack of work experience and they can't get any experience because nobody wants to hire them."

IMO this makes a strong case for working with small companies. Big companies are relatively risk averse and will look for external validation of the candidate - certifications, degrees, impressive prior experience, etc.

It's much easier for a young person lacking experience today to approach a small business and successfully pitch them on an internship or some contract work. A large corporation is too hamstrung by HR, by policy, and by its own approval chain, to take advantage of things like this.
In several ways its actually worse than that, you can't release an app showing other user generated content, because a spammer could result in serving up advertisements, which aren't allowed. So no apps involving communication with other people. Even worse you can't make an app capable of displaying any 3rd party internet content because the 3rd party might embed an advertisement.

So you're limited exclusively to content owned/licensed by the app developer. It can't involve social networking or user provided content in any way.
Echo360 acquires ThinkBinder to add online collaboration tools
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Who's winning, iOS or Android? All the numbers, all in one place.
The power of ebay resides in being able to find any product that comes to mind on auction at virtually any given time. Therefore, no one I know bothers to check the competition (if it even exists) before they bid. The same known problem occurs with Facebook regarding friends. I don't see any solution, this ease of use is more important to most customers than ToS.
Yah but actually choosing to USE apples iGoggles instead of a platform where you're not constantly baited and taunted by disingenuous assholes trying to exploit you for a buck, is frankly, insane.

This was the best move Google could of possibly made, I assumed Google glass was just gonna be another orgy of bait and switches like everything else right now in smartphones and tablets and the hilariously useless walled gardens people find themselves in. This actually has a chance of being a useful tool now. A useful tool!

Take money out and the only thing left is pragmatism.

I am very happy.
I am not a TDD advocate. As it tends to be too cost intense in early stage startups.

But if you are working on critical parts or products you know will be in use for a longer time it is usually the right approach.

To defend why you should throw spike results away in TDD:

- Usually during a spike you learn how to use an api/framework. You are focusing on very low level solutions.

- You made it work the first time. But now when you do it again you wouldn't do it the same way. You don't redo usually.

- Usually the second time the solution is clean and proper strcutured.

TDD is very focused around proper software design. And for the areas where you actually need that it is a great tool.
The claim is that they will have something usable in 6 months. I'll revisit it then and see if they make that promise :)
Thanks! Yes, totally true your suggestion.
Baidu muscles in on Google’s turf with Silicon Valley deep learning lab
They say 90 GFlops.

(https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=26824.20;wap2)

> For example a Radeon 6990 has 5.2 gigaFLOPS of computing power[1] and yields roughly 800 megahash/s in bitcoin mining.

That was in July 2011. Mining is harder now.
You seem to be unacquainted with the realities of capitalism.

In a retail business, your customers want to be served by you and are willing to pay for that privilege. They don't particularly care what it takes for you to provide them with the service, or what the consequences to you are if they express displeasure over the value not received for the money spent. You are not a charity that deserves to exist on principle. They have no commitment to you. In a real sense they fire you every time they choose to go to your competitor (be that Walmart, Amazon, or wherever) and feel absolutely no remorse over it.

People move from a contracting relationship to being employed explicitly because they want more security. That's the deal. Firing employees is asymmetric because every time you do it, all of your other employees get concerned that the same may happen to them. Also an employee represents a fairly large sunk cost to you in your search to find one, and training - reasonable employers don't throw that away lightly.

These are at opposite ends of a spectrum. Generally the closer and more complex the relationship between two commercial entities, the more important maintaining that relationship becomes, and the more that you care about maintaining the business relationship. Someone who bought something from you once on eBay doesn't have a relationship to care about, and really doesn't care. An employer/employee relationship is very close and complex, so you care a lot. Any kind of frequent commercial relationship (be it going to a restaurant you go to regularly, dealings with a supplier, etc) will likely be somewhere between those extremes.
Even back in 2002, the writing was on the wall for ColdFusion as the costs went up and many bugs[1] had gone unfixed for multiple major expensive releases during the legacy-customer milking phase of fading out of the market. Forget PHP4, even PHP 3 was a big step up in features, performance (e.g. simply issuing a database query was over an order of magnitude faster!), reliability and even security – it was easy to find advice for fixing the risky defaults and libraries for common tasks like sanitization.

My guess is that this was either licensed or not considered a core feature and handed off to someone who was already invested in Cold Fusion.

1. e.g. nested loops were broken so for i: for j would repeat j[0] i times rather than correctly iterating the inner loop. The app server tended to leak memory and crash, particularly on non-Windows platforms, and the automatic restart mechanism was completely broken.
This article is ridiculous, leading with quotes from Bjorn Lomborg and Richard Tol, neither of whom are scientists or conduct climate research.

It even undercuts its own headline, but waits until nearly the end to do so:

"The IPCC has consistently said that fluctuations in the weather, perhaps caused by variations in sunspots or a La Nina cooling of the Pacific, can mask any warming trend and the panel has never predicted a year-by-year rise in temperatures."
If something could take html markup, and a print stylesheet, and render it into a PDF, that would make me very happy.

Also, if you are using PHP to do this, I would be interested to hear what libraries you are using. The last time I looked, using PHP to convert to HTML was a total mess.
Supercomputer =/= "a fast computer".
There's a song (I think the band is Mumford and Sons?) called "White Blank Page", which always reminded me of Tolkien's "green great dragon", mentioned in the second answer there.
As much as I hate the term Synergist, he has a point. There is natural friction in different strong personality types, and value to a leader who can create an environment where people co-exist.
According to this chart:

http://www.planetseed.com/files/uploadedimages/Science/Earth...

We are due for another 100K years of dropping temperatures.
Comparing it with a GPU is a natural discussion to have. I believe there is more information on their website to answer the question. But maybe someone else can explain the programming paradigm difference.
http://www.adapteva.com/introduction/