skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder: what ratio of FLOPs would you get, between this chip, and an array of "low power mobile whatever thing"s adding up to an equivalent power-draw?
I would be interested in the numbers.
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The only reason it's free is so WhatsApp can make money at some point. If there are people who won't pay, ever, then there's less reason to keep them as users.

Not "no reason", however. I'm sure WhatsApp could find a way to monetise them, or just leverage them for network effect. WhatsApp is a lightweight replacement for text messages, not a full-blown social network. You pay a buck, you get free text messages, not unending trickery to overcome your privacy options. I have WhatsApp contacts worldwide, so even if some countries reduce their usage there's benefit in sticking with it. For $100 I'd stop using it. For $10, I'd think about it. $1 is a no-brainer, and I live in Africa.

Now I just wish they had a supported, paid-for API I could integrate with.
Check out Haswell GT3e with 128 MB of L4 cache. It helps, but probably not enough to justify what they're charging for it.
What would you have proposed? Leaving Korea in a state of complete anarchy until they somehow sorted things out?

The Allies destroyed whatever government Korea had. Without someone to step in to keep the roads maintained, the local cops on their beat, and the courts running, the country would have otherwise collapsed. So of course you step in and try to set up elections so the people in the country can vote in a new constitution and a new government, and then you leave. Unless you're Stalin, in which case you pick some crazy guy, install him as a dictator, and call the country a "Democratic People's Republic" to make it look legitimate. You'd think no one would fall for that, but you did.
That is the sole reason I chose iOS this time around is that the software is same across the board. Interoperability within apple ecosystem is bar none.

I like standard Android OS from google and I don't know why vendors try so hard to gimmickify standard Google UI. There are things that they should be able to do. But they should be there upon request, not by default and with no obvious way to opt out of crappola of vendor modifications.
> I fear a future where "all men are created equal", but only some can afford to become immortal and others cannot.

That future is now. We already have first-world countries with medical technology that allows its citizens to live an average lifespan much longer than those in countries where such tech is unavailable. Not to mention the everyday technologies that indirectly extend "effective" lifespan -- every hour not spent gathering cooking fuel, preparing food, washing clothes, etc. is an hour you can spend "living". Even in said first-world countries, there is a dichotomy: those who are rich & influential enough to take advantage of expensive & cutting-edge medical treatment, and those who are not.

Actual life extension therapies are just the above, writ large. I don't see any difference between this tech and any other "early adopter" tech, which is always expensive and limited in availability. We can only hope that such technology will become cheaper & more widespread and trickle down to the rest of us in time for us to make use of it.
Watched Riddick in cinema last night and there was an ads for Grand Theft Auto V. It is rare to see computer game ads in theatre.
You don't think people already do this?
Why would you ever install DivX when VLC exists?
With partitions, at least I don't have to watch the office gumbies milling around flapping their arms and smacking their pieholes. Half of my monkey brain is tracking their movements for threats, and the other half is struggling to prevent me flinging handfuls of my faeces at them out of annoyance.

For sound? I can just put on headphones.
I Need A Trial, Not A Sales Pitch
Because #4chat is the culture of them interwebs and is the foundation likes of craigslist.
It's water. I think the people will be fine.
And this game deserves it.
InvokeDynamic For All?
I agree Dribbble favors visual designers. But, there are some really great UX people on there too. Follow the right people and you will get a nice blend of UX and Visual Design.
Trolls were happy to post MLP once they found out it makes people upset.
I tried industrial earmuffs for a while (-25 dB), when I was in a noisy office, and they work. With another "layer" of in-ear phones you can work anywhere. They also send a stronger signal of "don't bother me", but some will find it rude.
Oakland is a big place, and the BART stations are generally either downtown, where the rent is relatively high, in places you don't want to live, or far away from you.
I'm not sure that is a fair comparison, Movies have a very strict number of people who can see the movie the first weekend (seats in movie theaters and not opening around the world, though the highest movie in the list was harry potter which I think had "world premier"). Where games have no limit on how many can buy it the first day, which is especially true since digital download has become so popular.
Cool, so sounds like having a dialed-in routine & setup is a big factor.

It's interesting your productivity goes up in Starbucks. I'm the same way too. Distracting conversations are bad but white noise is fine. Plus there may be something to the whole anonymity thing, in that you don't think about or engage the people around you as much.
Their house, their rules. And they don't sound so crazy to begin with.
Strangely enough, my corp allows 4chan.org requests. It seems fairly sensitive otherwise.
/d/ can be a pretty nice community considering the focus. I don't know if I can put into words the effect it had on me, but in retrospect it seems to have been mostly positive.

Thanks for running the site for so long, moot. It's great fun.
why not release the app and try to get that discovered and get feedback. Unless your video is viral material, its hard to get it discovered. You could try virool.com, youtube.com ads, collegehumor.com, facebook promotions. If you release your app in the app store, try freemyapps.com, submit to app review sites (search google), email to some campus list servers to get college students to use it. If worried about ratings, release it with different name than planned, get feedback, tune, and release it again with planned name / branding.
A simple way to get rid of the snooze problem is simply to put your phone in a location not accessible from your bed.
My alarm clock is in my bathroom. I have to get up to stop it.

Once it´s done, I am 30 cms away from a hot shower :)

I used not to have an alarm clock in the past. The problem I had is that it definitely means that you cannot stay up late the day before, not to wake up too late.
Correct, it just gets call "indoctrination" as that sounds nicer and it is often (though far from always) more subtle as it is more of a "long game" thing.

It is one of those "one person's X is another person's Y" comparisons: indoctrination/brain-washing, religion/cult, freedom-fighter/terrorist, cute cat / insane evil sharp edged ball of allergens, ...
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> Oh yeah, then why didn't they shut-down Gmail like the folks at Lavabit did?

As to that specific question, I bet it's because Google's Privacy Policy says:

> We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of Google if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:

> meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request.

Lavabit's policy[1] said:

> [...] we will not surrender any private information without a court order; [...].

... so I guess they kind of indicated that they could be convinced to share private information, although they didn't do it in the form of a positive assertion like Google.

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20130805154359/http://lavabit.com...
Ideally, I'd want every store to reject minified code but at the same time I'd want them to automatically minify extensions while making their full sources available as a separate download.
There was a similar politically-motivated drone "attack" against Gary Kasparov 5 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbnySBqioB0
The machine learning I did was never limited by CPU power, but rather my algorithm and especially the states. Asking for better performance without better states is garbage-in-glory-out.
I would go small instead of targeting the masses. Figure out who would be your most passionate users and go after them. If you can get traction there, then target the next group of people.
Though speed bumps aren't exactly as crazy as the old days. I remember my next upgrade from a 50Mhz 486 ended up being a 266Mhz Pentium 2. This was over a span of about 3 years.
First off, you're absolutely right. The difference in IPC between a modern CPU and a 2002 vintage Pentium 4 is pretty incredible, and the way forward is all about power efficiency and cramming more cores onto one die.

However, I think it's unfair to say clock speed is an unfortunate marketing gimmick "anymore" when it was a gimmick all the way back in 2002 when Intel released the 3.06 GHz "Northwood" Pentium 4 that the OP's linked article references. In fact, it was a gimmick that caused one of the biggest strategy/roadmap blunders Intel ever made.

Intel designed NetBurst (the architecture that the P4 was based on) to do one thing really well: allow Intel to ramp up clock speeds quickly. The architectural choices they made to enable this severely hobbled the P4's performance, especially the 20 (later 31!) stage pipeline that made the penalty for branch mispredictions pretty awful.

Intel eventually released P4s that clocked as high as 3.8 GHz and had an unheard of (in the x86 space) 115 watt TDP, but when the Athlon 64 was released, AMD could smoke Intel's fastest P4s using slower clocked CPUs with lower TDPs. Instead of focusing on raw clock speed, AMD focused on architectural improvements like x86-64, HyperTransport, and an integrated memory controller. (Intel CPUs wouldn't see QPI or an integrated memory controller until Nehalem, released five years after the first Athlon 64.)

As you say, the tables are now turned — clock for clock, the IPC of AMD's Piledriver core is behind that of even Intel's (two generations old) Sandy Bridge core, and all AMD seems to be able to do is add more cores and crank up the clock speed. Unfortunately for AMD, adding more cores doesn't help single-threaded performance, and a very nasty side-effect of increasing clock speed is that the processor's TDP increases disproportionately: the 4.7 GHz FX-9590 has a whopping 220 watt TDP, while the 4.0 GHz FX-8350's TDP is 125 watts.
LOL where is your office?
I agree. The problem occurs when the chatter occupies nearly 30% of my working day. I'm okay if it's 10-15% I guess. But not really. Ideally it'd be like 0-5%.

I don't like feeling like an unproductive schlub at work.

Y'all are paying me all this money to work, not to socialize.

Sorry it took so long to get to that point, but ultimately that's it. I'm getting paid a lot of money to work. Not to socialize. And I will gladly work my ass off so don't think I need to socialize a whole bunch throughout the day to get shit done or to enjoy myself.
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Presumably, you might want DirectShow codecs for use in something else. VLC is just a binary blob; you can't harness its power to do, say, batch watermark insertion.
Does anybody find it odd that the only reputable shred of journalistic integrity that the wall street journal vomited into this entire article was in a FOOTNOTE about how blackberry's Z30 was just released today, of all days!

Since when has 'people familiar with the matter' become a reputable source for such an inane accusation? Now the entire internet is repeating this like a bunch of parrots yet nobody seems to stop and ask for facts?

I wouldn't be surprised if Dow Jones is happy. Let's stop and consider who owns the Wall Street Journal for a moment. Because I think their pagerank just went through the roof:

http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/dow/

I'm not sure what to say about this.
It could be carried by an African quadcopter.
Yeah. As a developer, whenever I see minified code I cry.

It means I work with people who have no sense of reality, and it means all my debugging sessions are going to be way harder and much less productive.

That's a real loss for a fictional gain. Minifying needs to die.
I don't know about Rockstar, but from what I've heard from game developers from big studios, they're driven like slaves. Crunch time, unpaid overtime, wages that are not paid on time, etc etc.

It's easier to be on time and on budget if you break rules like 8 hour days and proper remuneration of the workforce.
The answer is in the comments of that site. Lua is used in lots of places, but the earliest "famous" one is World of Warcraft, where it is used to make extensions. The folder where those extensions are stored is called WTF (Warcraft Text File), so on every warcraft extension the string WTF appears multiple times. See http://www.wowwiki.com/WTF
What do you do when you need more help and can't afford to hire someone?

You sell them on your vision and convince them to work for equity, just like you're doing.

Or...

You find a potential customer who just plain "gets it" and can see your vision even before the thing is done, and you sell it to them before it's even done, and let them help fund development.

Or you find a potential partner and convince them that it's in their best interest to help you finish developing your thing, so you can co-brand it when it's done (maybe you let them focus on a vertical or demographic that you aren't interested in).

Or you scrape together whatever $$$ you can, maybe even doing a dreaded "friends, fools & family round" and hire offshore developers to chip in.

Or you find a local university and engage with them and get some of their students involved on a "work study" basis, so that helping you becomes a project they get course credit for.

Apply for grants that might be available to you. Call the "economic development" office of your local city / state / county / parish / whatever, and see if they can do anything for you. Those guys have a goal of attracting businesses and creating jobs, and sometimes have access to grants and what-not. At worst, they may be able to make some beneficial connections for you.

If it's applicable, look into a Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign for your thing.

If you need salespeople, advertise on Craiglist and recruit part-time salespeople who will work for just commissions. Yes, there are actually people out there who want that sort of arrangement.

Be creative, use every arrow in your quiver.
Alao if the religious beliefs are agnosticism? Basically, by this definition, all parenting is brainwashing.
The other day I went to github.com/trending and found some decent repositories to go through. You can filter by programming language with is really cool. Heck, You could build a site that helps people discover open source repositories and projects.
At the end of the day grammar is convention, and 'singular they' seems like a sensible one. (in part as it's got a long history, in part as I don't know a better alternative)
If you have more cores, and a single task then you have to deal with partitioning of a dataset for a task - if it is partitionable. Thats where the problem lies with SMP computing. Branch predictors have gotten whole lots smarter just as compilers better at giving code that fits better into multiple pipelines.
Why is he grey? Who downvoted him? The way people communicate here is getting down to levels of imgur, do I have to post pictures of cats to get votes?
Exactly. I remember a greater inbalance in the Call of Duty series, where marketing dwarfed development. I can't seem to find the source though.
>What would that 150g of explosives do without the shrapnel shell?

Most likely lower the kill zone < 5m, though if one wanted to not sacrifice that and shave off some weight they could use ceramic ball bearings[0].

[0] http://www.ebay.com/itm/10-pcs-Ceramic-Diff-Balls-Si3N4-5-32...
In this particular context, it shouldn't be the developers task to minify code anyway. If the browser engineers deem that there is reasonable speedup to be gained from minifying extensions, then they should do it as part of chain from developer to user.
> A functional without aesthetic car would be a garbage truck.

Though a jeep looks great and is iconic. I'd argue that's because it doesn't have aesthetic applied but that it emerges from purely functional design (and by comparison off-road styling of city cars always looks lame). There are loads of examples of functional 'ugly' things that are yet design classics - e.g. adjustable wrench, Leica M6, Brompton folding bike, yellow school bus, band-aid, Lego, paperclip.
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Not trying to be purposefully antagonistic but water can cause some serious harm when fired out of a high-pressure hose (e.g. the types used in riot "control" situations).

Fly the drone low enough and you have people in the "firing" line.

EDIT - (although, I hope they would realise they do not need the same level of pressure to knock a drone out of the sky. On the other hand, they have the cannons anyway so they might just use those to save having to have a smaller "anti-drone" one.)
Congrats! Would you like to show it off via SideProjectors too?

https://www.sideprojectors.com/showcase/submit
Do you have any benchmarks to offer as evidence that the effect is significant?

I thought people minified code in extensions just for the two reasons: force of habit (they do it for all their JA that is served online) and obfuscation.

(not sure why you are getting downvoted: your point is valid, though probably insignificant)
God yes. Particularly when part of the team has no real life outside their job and they get to spend the social-life meeting handwaving around that fact. It's useless and sad. So glad I don't work there anymore.
Open office does not scale beyond 6-10 people. There was an article though about a firm that did have open office but had special function areas - like quiet work area or meeting room are. If you are in quiet room area, you don't talk there at all. Huge open office I think is bad as it invites distraction.

Many companies grow from open offices as startups but then they have to change they way they do the open office if they want to preserve the "open office".
my 2c.
Multi-tenant Java 8 VM in beta
Change "custody of the children" to "meth lab" and you'll suddenly understand why the neighbors have an interest in what happens at that other house.
Why does weekly spreadsheet suck for them? Are you interested in tracking time or the specific activities SE did with an account?

Any software replacement for spreadsheet for SE will be swapping time spent on filling spreadsheet to filling online form unless software pulls information automatically from what SE already doing in other repositories.

If spreadsheet has standard format, it may be of help to have a file upload tool that imports the data from uploaded spreadsheet to a database. And, if you have database expertise, you can manipulate the data in database whichever way you prefer for reporting purposes or have a few standard reports developed for you.
Why Rails is hard (2012)
Somebody needs to be educated on the difference between nerds and geeks.
They also release a phablet phone amid all this nonsense.

The timing of all this is very, very odd.
If I knew there were 100 veggie-oil cannons on a stadium ready to protect the populace, I'd join a kickstarter campaign to attack that stadium just to see what 100k people covered in oil looks like. I'm equally enthused by the idea of a fire engine following the Prez' car around, or by the Secret Service agents carrying two guns: an Uzi and a water pistol. I do suggest colouring the oil in red, white and blue just for a bit of extra pizzazz.

The future just got brighter!
I'd never thought of stabbing someone with a drone. How much pressure does it take to puncture the average human's skin? How fast can a quadcopter fly? How much does a steak knife weigh? We can build the future weapons of war...
> Medicine, sanitation, pooping indoors, and not dying at 20 is very appealing.

IIRC, the low life expectancy of hunter-gatherers is mostly due to the high infant/child mortality. You can see similar life expectancy graphs in several animal species. Basically, once you reach a certain age, you have a high probability of living up to a decently high age.

Regarding "Medicine, sanitation, pooping indoors", well, all of these became problems because of the Agricultural Revolution, where people lived in densely populated areas together with their domesticated animals. Diseases slowly spread from the animals to the humans, and the density and lack of sanitization increased mortality by helping disease spread quickly. The Agricultural Revolution also forced humans to do back breaking jobs for which our bodies were not built for (working hunched over in the fields, or carrying heavy weights on our backs), and shrunk our varied diet into mostly eating grains and grain-based foods.

So I think you should probably re-think your poor view of hunter-gatherer societies.
> The drone was harmless, aside from potential political collateral damage to Merkel's Christian Democratic Party, and the pilot of the drone was released after being briefly held by police.

Can you imagine where this guy would be right now if he had attempted this near President Obama?
I wonder how hard it would be to taser a quadcopter.
Ask HN: moving company to Bangalore
Has anybody moved their company or based operations for a startup to Bangalore, India.

We are in Australia, and looking at costs for developers it looks like we can save significant money in developer costs.

We'd be looking at hiring 5 initially then. expanding the team to 20.

Does anybody have experience with this?
The crazy thing is there are a lot of jobs in major corporations where you could do them over and above the expectations in 10-15 hours a week, whereas you are contracted to sit there for 40. This is a waste of resources in so many ways, and really needs to be addressed.
"The game spent four years in full development, by a team of an estimated 250 people. Media analyst Arvind Bhatia estimated the development budget for the game exceeded US$137 million, and The Scotsman reporter Marty McLaughlin estimated that the combined budget of the development and marketing efforts exceeded £170 million (US$265 million), which would make Grand Theft Auto V the most expensive video game ever made."
Unfortunately, many machine learning algorithms aren't easily parallelizable. Consider any boosting ensemble learner, such as the popular random forest, which optimizes the result from the previous iteration. (I run the machine learning startup diffbot.com and we could really use faster cycles.)
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We couldn't occupy them like we did Iraq?

I just want to see Korea reunited.
One would be arguing wrongly. There are a lot of things that gets abbreviated to wtf other than "what the fuck".
I don't think I can beat the market, I do beat the market. I've beat it every year since I started investing in 2006.

No, I'm not a professional.

Because that's not what I want to do with my life.
This is exactly what I feel. I don't understand why more companies do not subscribe to this way of working.