skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is because latency is not relevant when it comes to streaming videos from Netflix. A consumer will not be able to notice their video took 40 milliseconds longer to start streaming. They will, however, notice when the video stops to buffer every 10-15 minutes because their ISP can't keep up with the throughput.
I wish Nvidia would join Mesa already, and stop having such a Not Invented Here mentality.

I wish Nvidia would drop Cuda and focus on openCL already, and stop having such a Not Invented Here mentality.

I wish Nvidia would use Miracast already, and stop having such a Not Invented Here mentality. (with regards to their proprietary game streaming)

I wish Nvidia would push edp (/ displayport 1.4 variable refresh) instead of their in-house proprietary gsync already, and stop having such a Not Invented Here mentality.

I wish Nvidia would standardize unencumbered physx, and stop having such a Not Invented Here mentality.
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> It's comments like these that make me not like net neutrality. There is no way you are going to stop people who spend more money from being able to enjoy better Internet connections.

Agreed, so there's no need to give them more ways to enhance their advantage. They are too far ahead already. Because that's what is all about...
We're in the bay area.
http://peerjs.com/
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Although in his case he apparently didn't take other forms of compensation since apparently he didn't need the income.

He received millions in stock options (e.g., a December 2001 grant of 7.5 million options to Jobs that subsequently ended in a backdating scandal) and an Apple-sponsored private plane beyond his salary.
This is not correct. I work on H1b and have tons of friends on L1 visa. When employee is transferred from India to US, they are supposed to get salary based on US County ( that's right, its COUNTY) they will be working in. Before coming to US ( or filing visa) lawyer is supposed to file LCA ( called Labor Condition Application) which mentions prevailing wages for that particular job title. If anyone is getting paid less than what is mentioned as LCA then its blatant violation of law. You can call USCIS/ICE helpline and within 24 hrs action will be taken and most likely employer will be fined severely.
A Long is 64 bits. An Int is 32 bits. A Float is 32 bits (8 bits exponent, 23 fraction, 1 sign). I don't see how anyone could expect a Float to have enough bits to represent the difference. The only different behaviour I can envisage is an error, but it is standard practice to disable these for performance reasons.
They're also more motivated to succeed.

I have a wife and two kids (both under 5) and a big mortgage. I pay myself barely enough for us to get by (the lowest salary that I've ever earned). The difference is made up in savings and my wife's occasional consulting work. I'm the lowest paid in the company.

The cost of failure is so much higher, which simply means you're far more driven to succeed.
much thanks, very generous, wow :)
Function that converts two numbers into one so that they can always be extracted
Thanks, I found this[1] 4k 28" Asus that does 60hz natively for $799. Lenovo seems to be releasing one in the second quarter too. Seems like Dell is really shooting themselves in the foot by limiting their monitor to 30hz.

[1]http://pcdiy.asus.com/2014/01/pb287q-4k-for-the-masses/
He's hanging out with the wrong mathematicians. Or the ladies have, um, made a judgment, and don't want to intimidate him by their superior STEM achievements.

CS is a sausage fest as we all know here on HN. What most HN readers don't know is around 46% to 48% of all math undergrad degrees in the USA have gone to women since the early 80s.

You can read some hilarious articles online about the "crisis" that women have declined to a mere 45% in some years. I make fun of it because my EE classes had zero female grads, everyone knows CS is a sausagefest, why I remember a decade ago in an advanced C++ class I got to work with "the" girl in the class, all true stories, but if there's one thing not to fret about, its that an office staffed by recent math grads (McDonalds? Applebees?) would have either 10 of each or at worst 11 men to 9 women, hardly a staggering imbalance like you see in CS/IT.
I was thinking about looking into Go, but this changed my plans. Aparapi + HSA chip looks far more fun and interesting. Combined with Java 8, and easy GPU programming is finally here.
Could it be that, given the existing setup of the market, Uber is a good guy in the US, but a bad guy in France? This is probably not a popular opinion here, and I'm neither USian nor French, but hear me out:

In the US, there is a system of taxi medaillons whose result is that rentiers get rich [0]. The tl;dr: the right to operate a taxi is bound to license of which there is an artificially limited supply. These licenses typically do not belong to drivers but to rentiers, who rent them out to drivers. The drivers lose, the passengers lose, the rentiers win.

France has unions, which makes it unlikely that there are third party rentiers who profit off the system in the same way as it happens in the US. Perhaps the passengers still lose, but the drivers probably don't.

That makes the framework in which Uber is trying to enter very different, and it means that Uber just may not be the good guy there. After all, pretty much everybody can agree that "rentiers = bad". On the other hand, "workers = bad" has far less support.

[0] http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/47636506327/the-tyranny-of...
Maybe I'm missing something, but I think physics prevents this. An excellent lens has a numerical aperture of maybe 0.95 at best, so with Abbe's formula you get a resolution limit of maybe 200 nm at best. With an oil immersion microscope (still a light microscope, albeit not an ordinary one) you might get as low as 100 nm, but that doesn't mean you could see that fact that the tubes are square. It's a long time since I've heard physics and that I've been in an laboratory, so maybe I'm wrong.
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agree, there are several companies in SV who are paying full time employees even less than 50K working in technology.
Name-dropping Milton Friedman would be useful to court Friedmanites, not necessarily libertarians. I'm guessing that his son David (http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/), who is even more libertarian than his father, would likely have a different opinion.
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50K in california will be like 2K in saving after being ultra-frugal.
This talk of "salary" is misleading. Everyone must know by now that the smartest guys in the room get compensated by other means, if only because if you say the "s" word, the IRS hears it.

If your founder is only making $75k as salary in Silicon Valley, and he looks like he still eats and showers regularly, he's getting compensated in some other way as well. Who knows where it is coming from, but you're definitely not eligible for it as a mere salaried worker bee.
Learning Erlang a few years ago was one of the most enjoyable programming experiences I've had in a long time. It took about a day and a half for the syntax and semantics to click
>So, according to you allowing a light weight to fight a heavy weight is ethical?

It's neither ethical nor unethical, that's all I'm saying. It's like saying "tax-cuts are unethical because of one thing or another". You can try to argue that, sure, but I think it'd be irrational.

By the way, I do support Net Neutrality because it's a good policy that makes everyone better off.
It's an intern position, so I'll have to look for another position after two months anyway. I am working for this position for just 4 months(or more if I want to)

How bad can it get to work in a not so good company for 4 months as an intern?
Anyway this is the only offer I have so far(I'm waiting for another)
> co-founder of Typesafe (who has quit) gave a talk explaining why Scala is doing everything wrong

If that's what you've understood from that talk, then you haven't heard basically anything he said.

> val x1: Float = Long.MaxValue

OK, I'll byte, name your (safe for startups) programming language that presumably doesn't do that.
You can: by closing the tab.

Which is what I plan to do to any tab that plays sound I didn't ask for.
Start with Khan Academy, work from the beginning until the calculus/precalculus sections. (it won't take long for you to blaze through the really early math and get to the point where you're reviewing highschool stuff) Then you'll be at a point to do early calculus and linear algebra courses online.
The scary thing for me in ditching the old code base has been those undocumented corner cases. You generally find them by saying "We don't need that" to some piece of code and later find out it was a bug fix 5 years ago. It always seems worse with stored procedures when moving databases.

If the only spec is the old code base, then you are probably doomed.
"All data was collected via my own Jelly account using publicly accessible (if undocumented) API endpoints"

Can someone explain how this was done?
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Wait, did they just release the Aura/ChromeOS desktop as a Metro app?
Not a Big Deal, A Semi-Casual Comparison of the New Human Reference Genome
> shell code

I see what you did there.
Google's grand plan for Nest goes way beyond the Internet of things
A Float on the other hand, by definition, is only an approximation. You can use fixed-point numbers, but they are either too slow or lack the required precision.

> val x: BigDecimal = Long.MaxValue

Problem solved. Or is it?
Both.
The last time anything like this was proposed (and then it had the support of Google, etc), there was a huge showdown.

The problem you have here is simple: The messaging is very hard to get to politicians in a way that makes it clear what a big deal this is, and how bad it's been.

They have no concept of things like "broadband speeds".
On one side, they get told by the telecom union, verizon, comcast, ex-FCC chairs who are now lobbying, etc, that "if you impose these rules, we'll lose jobs and money, and it'll make the world a worse place. Plus, regulation has been stifling us for years. We want to do amazing things like increase speeds in your area, but we can't afford to invest if we have all these regulations, and if these guys won't pay their fair share" (The telecoms have their own made up presentations about how they really didn't waste billions of dollars and give people nothing in return but higher prices)

There is a lot inaccurate with this message, but it's still hard to counter. When what you mostly have is industry groups and tech companies arguing on the other side, it is hard for politicians to not believe their main beef is "we don't want to pay for this".

The "consumers are already paying these costs, people shouldn't pay twice" argument doesn't really fly.

If it affected politicians and their constituents ability to watch football, this would be easy.

Instead, it usually seems like it just affects some confusing and far away thing they don't want to bother understanding, or worse, take the telecom companies side on.

This would be a lot easier if there were millions of tech people arguing on the right side here, but that never actually happens

(I'll also point out Google took a huge hit back then for getting what it could out of this, when it was fairly clear even then that the FCC's position was going to be a loser in court. It was raked over the coals by everyone, including the same organizations now commenting on this court decision saying how the FCC should do something different. It was clear the FCC wasn't going to change its mind then, and Google at least got people something out of this nothing. Of course, i'm quite biased here).
I just posted to the list, trying to explain that EME is not a requirement, it is an implementation.
Amen. This is a wonderfully eloquent summary.
"Kaveri" is name of one of major river in India. Must have involved ( or headed) by Indian guy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaveri
Same here. I didn't realize tabs playing music was such a rampant problem that needed to be addressed. The supervised users feature has a lot of appeal to me as well. My kids' computer (Mac Mini) has Chrome set as the default browser. I'll need to look into this more closely.
Well, at least the Internet in the US. Other countries have their own laws and regulations.
> No, they have an accepted meaning among practicioners of that art.

You are getting close to the point here.

Why does a term of art have a specific meaning to a practitioner of that art? Answer that, and you will have determined why words have meanings in any context.
It was for quantitative engineer roles at Yodle (adtech startup). The goal wasn't really to get to a solution since it's not possible without sitting down to code but more to get them thinking about it and how they'd structure the problem. I don't remember offhand how many people got it but the ones with a statistics/data background ended up having the right approach and the ones that didn't got it with a few hints.
> This may be a subtle way that older founders are discriminated against.

I would prefer to say that this is a way that younger founders are exploited.

And, it illustrates a bigger problem:

If startup founders cannot afford to pay themselves a living salary, this limits startups to people who can comfortably afford to fail. (Essentially, the rich).
the cheap 4k monitors @60hz are all (all the currently announced ones at least) TN panels though, so sure you get a cheap 4k monitor but color quality/viewing angles suffer as a result. coming from a IPS/PLS 1440p panel which i use now, im not sure if i would be ok with that trade off. what i truly want/am waiting for is a 4k IPS or PLS panel capable of 60hz at the sub/near $1k mark
USA's main export these days is culture, so yeah, I'd say marketing is top-notch.
Thanks. Khan looks good.
I would like to learn C#, mainly because there are 20-30 applications that I would like to see on Windows Phone that I can't find, so I feel like I will have to write them myself as no one else owns a Windows Phone.

Seriously though I'm learning Go at the moment. From that list, I am comfortable with C, haskell and pearl, and I dabble with JS, and C#. So I guess I'll choose "Other" as I'm keen on learning erlang and I also want to give lua a go.
As I understand it the way an aqui-hire works is that the buyer pays enough to buy off the liquidity preferences of the investors with little left over for the founders. But the founders, along with the much of the rest of the staff, gets jobs and golden handcuffs with the acquirer -- which puts their total compensation a few years out somewhere between a 'real' exit and what they would have gotten if they had gone to work for the acquirer in the first place.

In this case, there were only a few investment rounds, all of which were reported to be big 'up' rounds, and the (huge) deal was reported to be all cash. All of which suggests that at least the co-founders, and probably at least several others, are going to be very very rich on day one working at Google. Which in turn is not a circumstance very conducive to effective golden handcuffs.
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I used something else - don't want to give too much away but the general idea is to try it on a smaller problem (4 flips, $5, etc) and seeing if any patterns develop.
Was about to say but didnt want to hijack the topic. Also there is plenty of problems with low-level graphics cards rendering links and bold text. It looks very blurry now.
Absolutly. For some stuff node.js works perfectly well and knowlage is often the hardest thing to come by.
Really? How about turning that around: how is it okay for me to pay more for something, solely because I live in a different country?

This is known as the 'Australian Tax' here, and is at the point where for some software products (Microsoft's dev tools, e.g.) it's cheaper to buy a budget flight to the USA, buy them there, then return.

Geographical pricing is morally indefensible.
Later in the thread Einz gives a fix that might work.
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> Germans should start understanding, that they don't live in freedom at all. It is just a mock-up.

Replace Germans with "Everyone".
"lobbyist payola,"

This isn't what stops it. Most honestly believe they are doing the right thing when they oppose it.

Ignorance, not maliciousness.
>When he said "rich", I assumed the rich people who own the ISPs

Your interpretation is ... strange. The big telecoms are publicly owned. So those "rich people who own the ISPs" are shareholders?

I'm pretty sure zem referred to "rich" and "poor" consumers of internet services. Not telecoms, not corporations.
That's a good point. If you pay yourself below the poverty line, you can get food and housing subsidies while you defer your compensation and accrue unrealized interest and gain unadjusted-basis capital and pump your defined contribution retirement plan and permanent life insurance up to mind-bogglingly high levels.
Older founders have had more time to prove themselves and should in theory have a nest egg large enough to take a sabbatical to start a business.

For example, when I decided I wanted to start a business, I talked with my significant other about it at length. When we bought a house, we bought a duplex where the other half pays the entire mortgage.

Now, I'm actually able to focus on my business (or projects, or whatever really) better than most 20-somethings could because I have a supportive spouse with an income, previous income-generating projects under my belt, a nest egg and no rent to speak of.

So, while low (or no) salaries may have an anti-age effect, I'd suggest it's not by design and more relative to what people have previously accomplished and what their priorities have been.
I recently went through the stats courses... it was a great refresher from college.
I even heard that Sony was trying to make their games pirat-able in order to promote them faster and kill the competition, LOL. Don't know if was true, but worked fine.
similar:

"AMD launches Kaveri processors aimed at starting a computing revolution (venturebeat.com)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7057733
Here's data for Customer.io for comparison:

* Currently based in NYC

* Raised ~$700k.

* Both of us founders are each @ $80k and have been the same with the exception of a couple of months at minimum wage.

The goal with these salaries, was to be able to not think about money while working on the company. It kind of worked. 80k in NYC doesn't get you very far unless you're making huge lifestyle changes and not eating out with friends, or traveling for fun etc... I moved out of Manhattan to Brooklyn to save a bit on rent.

I'm planning to raise our salaries later in 2014 (don't tell John, it'll be a surprise).

For other examples, check out what Joel @ Buffer has shared about their salaries:

http://open.bufferapp.com/introducing-open-salaries-at-buffe...
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Target process is HORRIBLE to work with. It is so slow and displays so badly on even normal 13inch macbooks.

It is functionally superior to Trello in the sense that you can have an added dimension in your cards (useful for features, etc). Because of this TP is like a mountain bike with better gears, better suspensions, better tires, but without a saddle. I can bike without suspension, but not without a saddle.

As an aside:
Trello would be a lot better if there weren't a limit on the color labels.
I got a bit confused when he compared the Kaveri to the Intel. Not one of the charts had the Intel CPU even showing up. And at the end, the graphic compares the Kaveri A10-7860 to the i5-4670K whereas the charts were using the i7-4770R.
I noticed this not too long ago. It's a very welcome addition since there are so many audio/video ads that autoplay these days.
Why not just link there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_design#Examples
I wrote this a long time ago when I was beginning to learn webrtc. It's really straightforward and has examples for voice+video chat and voice only.
https://github.com/phowat/simple-webrtc-chat. Feel free to drop me an email if you have any questions (it's in my profile here.)
The page linked includes techniques for both variable height content (e.g. translate -50%) and fixed content.
Agreed. I've gained a lot from his comments even if I don't always agree with them. I think at the very least many of his observations are incredibly astute and intellectually interesting, even if some may turn out to be ultimately wrong. That's just my opinion, and maybe I just enjoy the fervent contrarian narrative amidst the hoohah of HN, but I think his karma suggests that many others enjoy it and derive some meaningful insight from it as well.
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A plugin that can track all activity on a WordPress multisite network installation (the first one to date if I am not mistaken)
I don't think living in India makes consumer electronics, cars, worldwide travel, world class education, clean neighborhoods, reliable electricity, good plumbing, or anything like that cheaper. I've moved between developed and developing countries, and I have found that first world goods and services are more expensive in developing countries, the only thing that is cheaper is labour. In other words if you want people to cook and clean for you, serve you food, mend your clothes and fix your car, it will be cheaper. The cost of living only feels cheaper in developing countries if you consider the population of that country to be your peers and you generally do the same things for food, entertainment and running a household as them.
Based on what has been reported, the color quality between the Seiki and the Dell are worlds apart. As someone who does color-sensitive work often (and as someone who just enjoys good color reproduction) I'd take this over the Seiki any day of the week.
Wow indeed it is not mentioned. I was sure I had read about it there. I was wrong. My bad.
That was a really fascinating experiment. Here's a pretty approachable writeup, if anyone is interested:

http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/
I don't understand why no-one talks about 1440p. It's all 720, 1080 and now 4k.
The Java Chips are here! I remember reading about these back in the day. (Byte cover story, November 1996).
EME is a good example of harm.
Now perhaps in 10 years idiots in suits will finally stop demanding ridiculous pixel perfect control over website designs.
They still have uses for disambiguating implicits. There are at least four monoids for the Int: 0/+, 1/*, MinValue/Max, and MaxValue/Min. It is useful to tag them so one can specify which monoid one wants.
Aside from the official rules, its socially frowned upon given the magic power of google. At least that was my experience. Private repo, fine, just as long as google can't find it.
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I can't possibly imagine that the 1000000 lines of code couldn't be replaced piecemeal (in giant blocks). Then again, I've never seen 1000000 lines of code.
I liked s1e02 "Fifteen Million Merits" and s2e02 "Fifteen Million Merits" best. Although I agree the whole series is worth watching.
Ironically I think the worst culprit for the fixed-width revolution was early CSS. There was a lot more variable-width scaling pages back when everything was tables, but IE-compatible CSS made that nigh-impossible.
The author is not confused about non-native resolutions; they pointedly mentioned that regardless of settings, they could not get lower screen resolutions to fill the entire panel:

Regardless of panel scaling options, the UP3214Q would not
fill the screen at lower resolutions.

Since they were talking about the nVidia card in the context, I assume they're talking about the nVidia control panel settings for this. But it's possible they were referring to some options the display offered.