skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scientists create artificial bone marrow that helps stem cells thrive
Thanks taprun! That's some really great advice.
I agree. They compared the GPU to Intel Iris GPU, but only on certain benchmarks. Seems like the meat of the review was thrown together and they attempt to distract from that with excruciating levels of technical detail.
My first impression was this person attempted to inject race into everything at Oracle and higher-ups simply just had enough of it and fired him.

50K is unthinkable of an offer while but 60K is not... Whatever.

It's clear the offer made was 50K because the employee was willing to take it to get the benefit of working US-side. Not because he was being discriminated against.

The only issue was someone said something stupid.
German scientists deploy modified enzyme to seek and destroy HIV in mice
Nice. I'll try on there as well.
Humans don't care about fish, except maybe for some aesthetic value of "nature" which an AI might not have. We do kill lower species all the time anyways, in our pursuit of expanding civilization and supporting our economies. One could only imagine what a superintelligence with advanced technology could do to the Earth to serve it's purposes.
you are not allow to dissect an article and make fuzy math and strawmen claims with TL;DR!!!!!
This was a lot to read so I tried to find a quote that boiled it down:

"The reality is quite clear by now: AMD isn't going to solve its CPU performance issues with anything from the Bulldozer family. What we need is a replacement architecture, one that I suspect we'll get after Excavator concludes the line in 2015.
"

And from the last paragraph I took that it would be a good CPU for a budget gaming box.
I became obsessed with this problem recently:

http://projecteuler.net/problem=436

and couldn't solve it. I found an article on mathworld that says the number of expected rolls is e so that the sum is over 1. I don't know how to figure out what the value of the roll that gets you over 1 is, it's something like 0.64 from simulation but what does that number mean and why?
I'm working on para.io [1] which is in this same space, solving the same problems. We should talk!

[1]: http://para.io
Welcome to the Internet of Stupid
I don't know what the author at Treehouse is doing, but I use the PSD as a visual representation of what I will end up creating as CSS/HTML/JS. Who was still seriously drawing grids and cutting out PNGs/JPGs?

The take away for many reading this article is going to be: Photoshop is not the way to design a website. The article does attempt to address this is not the case, near the bottom.

In the end, the author admits that you do need some design reference point (Photoshop, Illustrator, paper, etc). I do remember the days of cropping out many images, backgrounds, etc., but that was at least 6-7 years ago.
Well, that's made my mind up.

I'm actually about to upgrade my monitor setup, and I've been considering the merits of one large 4k monitor vs 3 27" monitors at 1440p.

4k would be lovely. A 4k 39" monitor with decent refresh rate for All Of The Screen Real Estate would be awesome.

But it looks like that ain't happening at a reasonable price, and there are just too many bugs with the early iterations of the hardware.

Time to give it a year and then reconsider.

Plus, all the 4k hype should drive the price of smaller monitors down...
Could it be that a founder who is making decent coin and in control of their life doesn't need to make $1B to be happy?

Also, isn't the founder generally the primary equity holder? If so how can equity holders and the founders interests be misaligned?
Props to Digital Ocean for their $5k donation!
Respectfully, I'm not sure I buy this comparison. Yeah, CoffeeScript adds some cleaner syntax and OO niceties onto JS, it's still basically just a higher level abstraction that get boiled down to JS. Elixir is a multi-paradigm language that that gets turned into the same type of byte code that Erlang does and is interoperable with Erlang. Its more like jRuby and Java both living on the JVM and being able to call Java code in jRuby, or maybe its a bit like ClojureScript and Clojure?
Maybe it will be possible to unlock the Dell 28" 4k to do 60hz on displayport. The panel should be capable of supporting it, it might be a firmware restriction. edit: Looks like the Dell 28" is a TN as well, that's unfortunate.
I fear you may be underestimating the United States government, especially when it comes to the Internet.
Agree 100%.

Spending 30% of my time coding is just self-indulgent. My team knows I can code, knows I understand their work, and they need me to do the crap they can't afford to deal with, so they can focus on coding.

Also, I'm way to unreliable as a coder because my work can be interrupted at any time. Time blocking a few hours doesn't work, because being a developer is not just writing code for a few hours.

If I want to code in production, I have to participate in code reviews, handle pull request, take part in ad hoc discussions. Otherwise I'm just a tourist getting in the way. If I want to code as a hobby, I should just do it in my own time.
I think it's "fixed" as opposed to "over time". You can view the latter by clicking the little button on the right that looks like a chart.

EDIT: I'm wrong. It still says fixed when you use the "over time" view.
Show HN: Lama – Open-Source Python Droplr Alternative
For what, to be captured by the NSA?

There was a person with a German passport years ago, he was wrongly held in Guantanamo for a while ... against all international rights. Even after they concluded, that there is no evidence against him, they still kept him for some years.

See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murat_Kurnaz

Do you think, only because Snowden has got some German looking waste-paper, the NSA will stop hunting him down?

Dream on!
Generally, the general counsel doesn't actually handle active trial matters. They farm it out to a law firm who specializes in the area of law the case is about.

They cannot afford to keep teams of lawyers at the ready. A case through trial is about 2-10 thousand lawyer hours.
perhaps it will be good to state profit/revenue rate and/or if it is funded and what stage.

This is not really clear cut to use and make your own decision.
I'm going to learn Javascript mainly because every programming interview seems to have Javascript questions.
That's never slowed down interview question fads before ...
You misunderstood me, I think if there should be standardization of some kind of platform indepndent "plugin" it should address what flash, applets, ActiveX and Silverlight does but in a standardized way.
I don't think it would cost the AIs much at all to improve the Earth, and if they cared at all about humanity they would want to do so.

And if they don't care, well that's a far more scary scenario.
I'm surprised this doesn't interfere with accessibility guidelines.
I would just like to mention that salaries are not very comparable across countries or even cities. The cost of living in silicon valley (San Francisco area) is twice as much as living in Chicago and several orders of magnitude greater than living in India.
AMD's APUs have crossfire support built in. So if/when your graphics needs get to the point where you need more oomph, you can add a discrete gpu and take advantage of both the on-die and the plug-in gpu.
Tool to measure available bandwidth without server instrumentation
From the issue tracker:

> In UI review we decided that these scrollbars are OK for an M32 release, and that if there's bad user uproar we can live with it for one milestone then change in M33.

I wonder how pervasive this view is within the Chrome team. It actually explains a lot of issues I have run into that suddenly get fixed in the next release. I thought they were just bugs that had slipped by, but now am wondering how many were by design.
Yes I know but it is a completely different architecture so thats a completely different topic.
It's coincidental that this should be on the front page of HN the night before my team and I release a big migration that has taken the best part of a year.

The codebase he describes is an eerily accurate representation of where we started, with the added complication that it was built by a sole developer than wasn't using any version control at all.

There are roughly 600k lines of Perl code in the back-end alone, but because there was a lot of duplication in lieu of version control, I have no way of knowing how much of this was actually in use. I suspect roughly 100-150k.

Our approach was pulling the platform apart into distinct (Ruby) services and putting HTTP interfaces around some of the legacy services where possible. We've ended up with < 15k of Ruby, including the front-ends. It's not perfect but there haven't been many major issues in our pilot release, and the team is happy. Fingers crossed.
Already, decidingly zero. Hires always tend to depreciate the work and risk a founder has goes through years up to investment and thereafter.
I've never seen a designer that knows anything about UX and doesn't know html and css. The look of a page is not graphic design, it is UI. The only thing that is purely graphic design is literally designing graphics, like a logo.
Yeah, a Seiki 4k is fine if you don't care about image quality.
Aver (plural - averi) - means friend in bulgarian too (I'm bulgarian, but more commonly people would use "priatel" or "drugar")
someone should start a poll with the question "As a founder, what is your total yearly compensation?"
Echoes with all parents for sure
> the power consumption will range from 45 watts to 95 watts. CPU frequency ranges from 3.1 gigahertz to 4.0 gigahertz.

I was fairly dispassionate until the last paragraph. My last Athlon (2003-ish) system included fans that would emit 60dB under load. Even if I haven't gotten exactly the progress I would have wanted, I have to admit that consumer kit has come a long way in a decade.
Definitions from US Code Title 47:

"(1) Advanced communications services
The term “advanced communications services” means—
(A) interconnected VoIP service;
(B) non-interconnected VoIP service;
(C) electronic messaging service; and
(D) interoperable video conferencing service."

"(11) Common carrier
The term “common carrier” or “carrier” means any person engaged as a common carrier for hire, in interstate or foreign communication by wire or radio or interstate or foreign radio transmission of energy, except where reference is made to common carriers not subject to this chapter; but a person engaged in radio broadcasting shall not, insofar as such person is so engaged, be deemed a common carrier."

"(24) Information service
The term “information service” means the offering of a capability for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing, retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via telecommunications, and includes electronic publishing, but does not include any use of any such capability for the management, control, or operation of a telecommunications system or the management of a telecommunications service."

I'm not a lawyer, but consider myself well grounded in tech and telecom, but reading these definitions I'm kind of at a loss. In common law, my understanding is that a "common carrier" is someone that makes transport services available to the public. These can be physical, such as shipping a crate, or technological (telecom) in nature. By that inference, transporting packets of information is essentially same as transporting normal packages.

Unfortunately, the "by wire or radio or interstate or foreign radio transmission of energy" is so period-specific that one could argue that it doesn't apply and the (24) Information Services is so broad and vague, it could practically be applied to anything.

One interesting bit, which makes me think that there is hope, is the definition of advanced communications, that include both VoIP and messaging services. Sadly, their definitions are not that broad...
Also needs to state what stage they are in..
Zero, but zero revenue.

It will need to hit $100k once revenue can support it, for the sake of marital bliss. Worse, until there's revenue, I'm dayjobbing to make ends meet. I can live on savings for a while, but not pre-revenue.
I haven't used it recently, but a few years ago? AI was terrible compared to PS. I mean, I like vector graphics and was willing to struggle with a lot of pain for the advantage of using vectors instead of rasters for a project... holy crap AI was awful. Crashy, cumbersome, cringeworthy.

I'm an amateur, so I'm not going to be an expert on the professional features, but a few days with AI led me to go right back to Inkskape.

I have no idea why they put their resources into that thing over Fireworks.
Sausage Peppers Mushrooms and Tomato Casserole Recipe#.UtWlBdiA0iR
Crappy App Creation Strategy and $2892 in profit with no bloody idea
So the research shows that good marketing works.
I don't see the point of Jelly.

Limited format (image and a little text). No incentives to answer. As with most things people will spam and ask stupid questions.

As far as getting a question answered nothing beats Quora right now.
I'm just gonna ask this as someone whose mind begins to waver when all the numbers are thrown out.

If I have a desktop (macmini running Ubuntu, custom build running Ubuntu) and all I do is program and watch some videos (netflix, amazon, ripped), what is the best option when taking in consideration price?

I don't game and I don't do precise color stuffs, so I think the Seiki 4k would do just nicely, but I'm just plain confused, tbh.

As a side note, I have all Dells right now. I love the build quality of the Dell monitors, though I feel I am paying a premium for the brand name.
Time to have a way to switch this off as a phone owner.
> As someone who does color-sensitive work often ..

On a TV? Because that's what this thread was about, using that thing in the living room as a TV?
um, wat? I was commenting regarding ugly OEM themes ruining the paragon of perfection that is AOSP. I think you may have meant to reply to someone else.
Treaty obiligations make some onerous US law viral.
Finally! I have wanted this feature since I started using tabs, about 10 years ago. Yet another win for Chrome.
Wait a minute...

Last time I checked, France was still a quite functional first world economy, independent of recent attempt by certain press outlets to place it near every ideological precipice you can think of (I'm looking at you, The Economist).

Taxi drivers have higher costs than Uber drivers because of two reasons: Firstly, they must comply with lots of regulations that are specific to taxis and the driving thereof. Secondly, they are unionized, thus keeping the taxi rates from dropping too low.

Both points deserve to be debated and none of them is a no-brainer in favor of Uber. Especially regarding the regulation issue, I personally am not inclined to sympathize with Uber. Most of that regulation is there for a reason.
Definitely not the type of update I was hoping to see from Ben/Dwolla - it leaves a bit of an ominous outlook for those of us trying to save some money on credit card exchange fees in 2014.

I will look on the bright side and just assume this is his way of leaving some difficult times behind...
^ bootstrapper love.
Totally agree with everything you said here. The general response here is (understandably for HN) biased a bit too far in favor of coders.

As a lifelong programmer who only reluctantly does management, I have to say that it sometimes seems just as hard for an engineer to understand what a good manager does as it is for a manager to understand what an engineer does. It's easy to make fun of a non-technical person because the terminology they don't understand is concrete but people management is every bit as difficult.

Perhaps the problem is that it's relatively easy to weed out an incompetent programmer, but bad middle managers can often blend in or otherwise find ways to make themselves look good to upper management. In that sense a manager who codes is at least some kind of positive signal.

But as a pure programmer I have to say this: two of the best managers I've had were not technical in any way shape or form. It's a mistake to think a good manager has to be technical in all cases. Good managers can add value in invisible ways dealing with the higher ups and shielding the team from politics and distraction. If the technical team is good and the manager has the appropriate level of trust then lack of specific technical knowledge need not always be a problem.

As you say, it varies according to circumstance, but a lot of commenters here seem ignorant to the fact that there's more to the job than simply understanding the programmers world.
Healthcare IT VC Funding Hits Record $2.2 Billion
I think Dell also released a TN $700 4k monitor alongside the Ultrasharp. Might want to look at that. Not sure how many 1440p monitors on the budget side are IPS. Though it might be 30hz, which is right out.

If it were between 2 28" TN 2160p 60hz screens and 3 27" TN 1440p 60hz screens, I'd go with the UHD ones just because of pixel density.

The only stipulation seems to be you need to be using displayport 1.3 because any of these gerryrigged hdmi implementations suck.
All software relies on hardware. (parent (parent)) is imagining AI software as being grown, not written, and sees a strong likelihood that such "grown" software will rely strongly on emergent properties of its hardware substrate. Circuits "grown", actually evolved by means of a genetic algorithm, on FPGAs, are known to behave in this fashion; see the "On the Origin of Circuits" cite for examples at small scale -- in short, you can, with an FPGA as substrate, evolve a circuit capable of distinguishing 1KHz from 10KHz tones, but what you end up with is so tightly bound to that particular environment that, when you "pull the plug" and copy the FPGA configuration from the chip where it evolved onto another chip from the same production run, it doesn't work at all.

Of course, it's reasonable to question whether the technique described in the cite could possibly scale to "growing" something like a general AI, or at least whether it could do so in any remotely practicable span of time. But among AI theorists it's a fairly common surmise, and given results already seen for the technique, it's entirely plausible that a general AI grown by such methods would be so intimately bound to the hardware where it "grew up" that, even assuming you could copy it from its "home machine" to another machine of identical configuration, there's no reason to assume the copy would work correctly, or indeed at all.

(And all of this goes to the question of where precisely you draw the line between hardware and software, anyway. Into which category does a given FPGA's configuration of gates fall? Does your answer change depending on whether that configuration has origin in a Verilog file, or in the result of a process of directed evolution? What about the configuration of neurons in your brain on which runs the consciousness that calls itself "I"? I don't pretend to have definitive answers, or indeed any answers, to such questions as these, but they are certainly worth considering in such a discussion as this one.)
I'm not giving you what you want, but here's a visual example of using a computational microscope to understand how drug actually works and finds its binding site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGqCeSjNuTY&t=50m27s

If you can't see a difference between that and say, X-Ray crystallography then well..
The important things are not easily proven. The important people of the world cover up, what they do and what power they have. Because, if they would do it openly, people would find out, that democracy is just a mock-up.
Sounds like a startup opportunity. Like Kumon, but online and free. Or does it have to be free?
Stickiness and client-server session guarantees
I think that would make more sense. The majority of mine is in dividends, for example. I'm not convinced by stock as measurable compensation for pre-IPO companies though since they may never be liquid.
That is a sensible choice if you're in a position to wait. The desktop display industry is finally awakening from a decade-long slumber. This is a very good thing.

We picked up a bunch of the 30Hz Seikis and they are a massive upgrade for us (I blogged about this a few days ago). But the 30Hz lag is the most significant weakness. If you're not at wit's end with your current monitor and can wait for a 60Hz version that's the right price, I think you will be happy.

I am optimistic the industry will not go back to sleep after meeting this demand. I remain optimistic that I will eventually have a ~50-inch high-DPI, high-speed, high-quality display that is within my budget. Maybe in 5 years' time.
I like the idea of Jelly, and maybe this says more about my friends than anything else, but most of the questions I've gotten have been spam and garbage.
Wall Street rental empire
Android Developer Interest Is Catching Up To Its Market Share
The more I look at how startup funding works, the more I want to bootstrap and never take a damned cent from anyone who isn't a customer!
Yes, and developers should manage 30% of the time and do design work 30% of the time. You know, because good management and good design is essential to a good product, and just saying that you have "done some" design or management in the past isn't good enough.
Hi folks!

I'm from Python Istanbul community. One of our leading members (@emre at github) build a python package named "lama" which actually does the same thing with Droplr's screen sharing part, using Imgur.

Since Droplr started to take money from the base plan Lama is a very close alternative to it. And it's free in all meanings. Written in Python and you can install it using PIP.

I created the http://github.com/f/lamahelper. It's a mac client for Lama. I'm not a Cocoa guy; if you want to improve it feel free to contribute :)

Sure, you won't have lots of features of Droplr; like custom domain or custom logo. Or sharing text, etc. But it's one of the best alternatives in screenshot sharing. :)

Hope you'll like, and thank you github.com/emre for this useful tool :)
Whatever I can afford to pay myself based on the previous month's net income. The more net income, the more I pay myself.
Well, as long as we're making controversial statements (those in the "____ is dead" usually are)....

I think Photoshop as a design/layout tool may have done more damage to front-end design/development productivity than Internet Explorer. And this article is just an indicator that there's a growing awareness of how.

Photoshop is an amazing raster image manipulation tool. But the dominant mechanics have always been about composing a series of fixed-dimension bitmapped layers (outside some shoehorned not-quite-layers-but-actually-layers there's really no other kind of entity to work with). For that reason there's always going to be an impedance mismatch between the tool and the web.
Ok, you are right. But I wanted to make a statement about Germans in particular.
Does anyone have a good solution for this argument? I find myself wildly sympathetic to both sides of it. Is there any way to decentralize internet access in the future (something like what the utopian ideal of solar powering your home would be for electricity)?
Retro networking app - meet people in person again
We are building Treatings to facilitate 1-on-1 meetups over coffee. OkCupid meets LinkedIn.
$90 million, is that the best we can do?
In Windows 7 at least, Firefox breaks out each tab into its own subpanel in the Volume Mixer and each instance of Flash (for example) that might be producing sound. It's pretty easy from there to determine which tab is making a racket.
A lightweight, in-browser note taking tool
It could be a great learning experience, even if you only learn "how not to do things".

With regards to the glassdoor reviews, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle of disgruntled ex employees, and the current employees trying to hold the ship together.