skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The equation for CMOS switching power (as opposed to leakage power) is

capacitance * voltage^2 * frequency

but the voltage limits the clock frequency. The exact scaling of maximum clock frequency with voltage depends on the circuit and the process, but from taking a glance at the voltage tables it looks like the main cores in current Snapdragons are generally running in the 0.8-1.2v range across their entire frequency range.
I'll give the disclaimer that this paper isn't in my field, and I'm merely an observer. However, I'll do my best to explain, since it's a little unclear.

Based on my perspective, there were three sets of videos:

1) The several hours of "training" video, that they used to learn how the test subject's brain acted based on different stimuli. (The paper (which I've only skimmed) says 7,200 seconds, which is two hours)

2) 18,000,000 individual seconds of YouTube video that the test subject has never seen.

3) The test video, aka the video on the left.

So, the first step was to have the subject watch several hours of video (1), and watch how their brain responded.

Then, using this data, they predicted a model of how they thought the brain would respond for eighteen million separate one second clips sampled randomly from YouTube (2). They didn't see these, but they were only predictions.

As an interesting test of this model, they decided to show the test subject a new set of videos that was not contained in (1) or (2), the video you see in the link above, (3). They read the brain information from this viewing, then compared each one second clip of brain data to the predicted data in their database from (2).

So, they took the first one second of the brain data, derived from looking at Steve Martin from (3), then sorted the entire database from (2) by how similar the (predicted) brain patterns were to that generated by looking at Steve Martin.

They then took the top 100 of these 18M one second clips and mixed them together right on top of each other to make the general shape of what the person was seeing. Because this exact image of Steve Martin was nowhere in their database, this is their way to make an approximation of the image (as another example, maybe (2) didn't have any elephant footage, but mix 100 videos of vaguely elephant shaped things together and you can get close). They then did this for every second long clip. This is why the figure jumps around a bit and transforms into different people from seconds 20 to 22. For each of these individual seconds, it is exploring eighteen million second-long video clips, mixing together the top 100 most similar, then showing you that second long clip.

Since each of these seconds has its "predicted video" predicted independently just from the test subject's brain data, the video is not exact, and the figures created don't necessarily 100% resemble each other. However, the figures are in the correct area of the screen, and definitely seem to have a human quality to them, which means that their technique for classifying the videos in (2) is much better than random, since they are able to generate approximations of novel video by only analyzing brain signal.

Sorry, that was longer than I expected. :)

Edit: Also, if you see the paper, Figure 4 has a picture of how they reconstructed some of the frames (including the one from 20-22 seconds), by showing you screenshots whence the composite was generated.
Try drawing lager pages. That is the bottleneck in one of my applications.
You don't even need metrics to figure out that, for example:

> The old design was worse for many of the things we value and try to improve. Like how much people share and converse with their friends. [old design: http://img.svbtle.com/gpnggaky8d1gog.jpg]

The "only icons" on the left + "icons AND text labels" for "Share/Like/Comment" + much higher text density on the right constantly shift your thinking form "photo/visual" to "reading/writing", it mind-fucks you in a very subtle way, so your brain ends up focusing on the only thing that makes sense: (a) the overall visual structure (that was beautifully designed, I admit) and (b) the photos.

If you want user engagement beyond the "click like" level you need to focus people towards the "reading/writing/verbal" mode of interaction. Like, if you have to read a button's label to know what it does, this puts your mind into "reading mode" so the comment that immediately follows the link/button has more chances of actually being read and of the people actually writing a reply instead of just clicking a like and staring at a cute picture. They really got this right (either through someone's insight or metrics, I dunno) with the "Like Comment Share" links - getting rid of the icons pushed you more towards "text/words mode" thinking, which is exactly the mode you need to be in to actually post a comment, and a comment is more content so it will be a positive feedback loop for even more and so on.

(Also, another obvious bad idea was the left bar - while theoretically good for screen estate, it's essentially "mystery meat navigation" to unsophisticated desktop users. Also it puts less focus on the Apps. Also by putting the active contacts list in the bottom left corner pushes them out of your mental focus.)

EDIT+: ...now that it really got me thinking of it, I can't believe how incredibly bad the "old new" design was. How did they even chose to deliver that? It looked like textbook "design driven design", it didn't focus at all on how the users think and what they actually do on Facebook.
All the apps must have 'Manual Override'. Save is desirable in ethical scenarios.
I struggle with nicotine, caffeine, and porn. I take Chantix and run at the gym which in combination helps a great deal, but I still relapse now and then on the nicotine. The others I seem to have overcome completely. I had to change my life and I also found spirituality, something I had denied due to insecurity and unwillingness to accept others. I wish you luck.
One thing I hate is how all these screenshots are made with unrepresentatively interesting posts and high quality photographs.

Show what the feed looks like with a news stories posted by a few people (fortunately FB is now smart enough to coalesce them), a bunch of moronic memes, one line stupid text, and a few long posts with ~100 comments with lots of debate, and that's more representative of my facebook newsfeed.
Why does Microsoft offer not only the single apps but also one app with all single apps included? That seems to be rather unusual for iOS apps.

As a side note, App Store search is still lacking: Looking for 'microsoft office' did not result in a single hit related to actual apps from Microsoft. Googling for App Store links to the four new apps was easier in the end …
Not a direct answer, but it's not just GPUs: on ARM "System on a Chip", you can get all sorts of components: audio, hardware codecs, networking, radio, and low-power companion cores (littlebig).

So, your vision of general-computation-in-silicon has occurred, just static, not dynamic.
Yeah, I think we're all pretty clear that the pending-comments feature is a different thing from conventional anti-spam measures, which have fairly reliable programmatic solutions in this kind of scenario.
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Which is really good, because at Microsoft's size, there's often a non-trivial number of companies who drank the kool-aid and invest hundreds of man-years to building a system using those false starts.
> We plan to remove this restriction in the coming months

This is great news.
The stock save icon in Ubuntu hasn't been a floppy disk for years. Here it is:http://ubuntuhandbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/firefox...
Actually, early 90s, and they were second!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing

(Watch some of the youtube demos, really cool)
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Correct. Vacancies that accrue speculative value, or vacancies that are covered by rental insurance destroy the housing supply chain. Rentals on the other hand are amazing. They are a great way for people to start on their way to home ownership, and they are great for labor mobility. Robust rental markets should be supported by the type of residences allowed by planning - granny units, alley units, secondary units, etc. Plus smaller rental units as well.
I mentioned those because they have the highest valuations. It usually takes several years to reach that sort of valuation, so the most highly valued companies are never the recent ones.
Exactly! And really, we already have a flagging system: the downvote. My understanding is that comments on HN should only really be downvoted for the same reasons as pending comments would not be approved. So why not improve on that existing system? When a comment is downvoted, it should ask the reason for the 'flag', with choices representing the various commenting rules. This should help ensure that people are using downvotes correctly, which should allow them to be acted on more strongly. Sufficient downvotes (or sufficient downvotes with the same reason) could hide the comment entirely.
On one hand FP lets you program without thinking too hard about the numerical properties of your program - until you hit a gotcha. On the other hand FP is pretty powerful for many domains if you're a FP wizard. Like physics simulation.

There have been other approaches besides fixed that people have tried out, such as interval arithmetic and exact (rational) arithmetic, but they all have their own problems.
It depends on what the company is building. Some things take a long time to launch. With others it's a bad sign if the company takes more than a month or two to launch.
OT: What's the meaning of 'tyro' in this context?

'Novice' as provided by http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tyro doesn't seem right.
Look into Responsive Web Design. Poster seemed to be questioning UI and UX choices for different screen sizes. Facebook is behind the curve on RWD...shocking.

Being able to save and display options or settings has been done...at scale.
> People all of a sudden start to notice that House Of Cards plays more smoothly over their 4G cell connection...

That's not too likely. Most folks (unless their vaguely-savvy 4G-connection-having not-afraid-to-tether friends clue them in) will decide that Netflix sucks and stop right there.

As a datapoint, look at Obamacare. Alabama rejected any and all Federal premium assistance subsidies. This means that in Alabama, regardless of your ability to pay, or employment status, you pay full price. In California, low-income folks get reduced or totally subsidized premiums. The talk in Alabama is not about the insurance is gobs cheaper for poor people in California, it's about how Obamacare has made insurance so goddamn expensive for everyone.

People are soulcrushingly incurious.
>So if you put your heart and soul into something, and then someone comes along, tweaks your thing and makes it better, the way to respond isn't to ask people to respect how hard you worked; it's to look closely at the new thing, understand why people like it better, and then bring that understanding to your next iteration or your next product.

It doesn't have be better or even different for a clone to be successful.

Someone copies it exactly and starts making money off it. Or more likely, 100 different people. What's your response to that supposed to be then?
You probably shouldn't leave your job to work on an indie game.
Man, breath of fresh air, have never bothered tweaking GIMP as out of the box it's usable but frustrating compared to photoshop or fireworks (yes, I've got the latter running in a Windows VM).

On Fedora here so GIMP is what I've been using for quick image optimizations when I can't be bothered to fire up a virtual machine.

Am definitely going to integrate some of the suggested tips, thanks to whoever posted this...
Market share != Usage share

If more people are buying product A, but product B has a longer useful life, then it conceivable for product B to have a higher usage share.

The problem is that usage share is a lot harder to measure than market share. But ultimately it's the more important number when it comes to things like network effect and developer and consumer mindshare.
Surely there are better ways. For example, you keep track of which posts a user has already seen, and when they hit the next page button, show them the X most highly ranked posts that they haven't yet seen. Breaking the link is just the easiest way to deal with the problem.
Seems unlikely. YC doesn't need the money, so it would just be a distraction.
Somewhat surprising move considering their earlier statement[1] on unlimited storage. Still, my renewal is coming up soon anyway, so the extra 25$ (against the 100$ annual for 100GB) doesn't seem like a bad deal.

[1]https://spideroak.com/blog/20110202135038-whaaaat-unlimited-...
You are totally right. Open sourced planning, and changes in real estate financing would help put all the parts together. My main point was that it's not an unsolvable problem. And it's not a matter of political will. It's a matter of the specific structure of Real Estate, as a commodity class. Everything can be political if we want an excuse to stall it. Solutions don't have to be.
I've made a note of the term "orthogonal edge routing", hopefully for eventual incorporation into my own software (http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/docs/palace/). Thanks.
I don't know if you realise that by converting a double "0.1" into the python decimal of a much larger size, you're
bound to get garbage.

Edit:
I see what you're doing now. I didn't appreciate enough how converting to decimals had such unpleasant effects :)
Thanks.
maybe you liked them better when scores were displayed? have you thought about displaying them again to see if that changes your perceived quality?
That's cool. Four days later, there's a shout-out to Threes:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140314133031/http://gabrieleci...

It looks like the guy credited Threes within four days of his game's release, and has yet to remove that credit. It's entirely possible that he was only aware of 1024 at the time that he made is game.

Please get angry about something that matters. We need people to not waste their anger on unimportant things. :)
Or just a re-signed ipa file if you have a developer account. I guess there are such solutions out there.
More taxes, will not reduce the actual costs inherent in building something on a piece of land.

The IRC is a building code that is incorporated by reference into almost all building ordinances across the USA. https://archive.org/details/gov.law.icc.irc.2012

Your foundation example is a strawman argument.

I said "expensive and onerous licensing" - if there are 3 towns in close geographic proximity, should a tradesman have to pay $500 or more, to each of those 3, in order to be licensed in each town - and have to file more tax forms for each jurisdiction, even if he did not work in that town during the year?

Who ultimately will pay the necessarily higher rates that will be charged? (Unfortunately the SF government website either gives me broken links or requires all kinds of online forms to fill out to determine what the cost is for contractors, so I can't easily give you an example.)

The collusion and corruption of local pols is well known - it even reached the Supreme Court in the form of the Kelo case regarding eminent domain.
Wow Google, as if your embarrassment couldn't go any further on this story.

Not to get dramatic, but we're talking about dignity, integrity, the moral center to understand the difference between right and wrong. Didn't anyone at Google have the ability to get beyond groupthink?

All that money and resources and control and influence, and the only thing that mattered to everyone was....getting more of it. How sad for all of you in those companies to act like this and affect the livelihood of others, all in the name of a few bucks.

Funny thing about money; it's so damn expensive.
They are in a tight spot.

This is one of the most simple, elegant and original game ideas of recent times. One of those that make you wonder how has no one managed to stumble on it before. It is inevitable it got copied.

The reason why it got copied and why 1024/2048 got really popular is that they have overdone the original. The interface is just too funky, there's fluff, fluff and decoration. Rubbery UI makes you feel like you are fighting with the app every time you use it. There are also those smileys on tiles too. So what you have is an idea that looks more complicated than needed (with 1s and 2s being special) and the execution that looks cluttered. That's just asking for a simpler clone - exactly what they got in 1024 and 2048.

Now they have an unenviable task of trying to convince players that added complexity in their version is by design. That or try and slim down the game for faster pace (and perhaps add "basic" mode that mimics clones' simpler mechanics).
I thought the "you need a PhD to do anything real in chemistry/bio/etc. research" was well understood. I guess SM + MD would be fine too.

(Chem Eng and industrial chemistry seem fine with an SB, and maybe an employer-provided SM, but that's not research.)
$0.02 regarding the name of the feature, which I think anchors too much in the "censorship/free speech" principle discussion when it seems you have much more tactical goals (moderator workload, foster specific topics, etc.).

Consider renaming the feature from "pending comments" to "civility filter." In prose one would say Moderators now can require civility via special-purpose moderation on specific threads.

Similarly, consider changing the "[pending]" text to "[Pending civility check]" and changing the "endorse" link to "Affirm civility" (or just "Civil" to keep with one-word nav elements).

Why?

"All speech must be endorsed" --> "Bad Thing"

"All speech must be civil" --> "Good Thing"
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I think it's fairly easy to come up with reasons after the fact why a design is bad, but it certainly didn't look bad and many people in the more tech community felt it was better than the new redesign: in particular the guy who wrote the article to which this one is a response to.
My own experience from academia tells me that a big part of the problem is the fact that everyone is competing for a small pool of faculty positions and those positions are filled based on individual performance. This means you can never win as a team, only as an individual, and everyone needs to get their share. Only a professor can build a team, but even those teams are temporary.
Add to this the fact that only new things count as science, which means that good work can easily turn out worthless if the desired results are not achieved. For this reason, science then is naturally elitist, and has big differences in the status of participants (tenured vs not), and heavy competition. Might it be that this environment breeds nasty behavior such as misogyny and bullying?

If a professor treats a student badly (I don't mean harassment, I mean overwork and bad guidance) then that is rarely punished in any way, it is probably beneficial for his career.
And so yet another reason for "not migrating" to 3.x is off the table...
The gift and the curse of being yourself!!
Dude, just go build stuff. It's cheap! If you were able to spare the 6 months of 80 hour weeks to learn Ruby, Rails and JS then you have the spare to start building things on free or very cheap hosting.

And you probably overshot a bit. I'm sure most of the interesting bootstrapped tech businesses out there were probably started by people who could barely code. Don't focus too much on the tools, focus on the end results.

As for pairing, what is it that you are really looking for? Are you looking for a job? Just looking to be a great programmer first and then figure something out later?

Don't pair for free. Get paid. If it's a job, then you should be fully on the team as an equal to everyone else. Otherwise you are probably just dead weight.

Better yet, build something! FFS, what I wouldn't give for 6 months just to block out to build something. I haven't been able to do something like that since high school. That's why I roll my eyeballs when somebody posts on there that they are 14 and they built X app. If I had the spare time that I did when I was that age and access to the stuff people have today, I would be flying on a rocket to Mars by now. ;)

Edit: Okay, building rocket ships isn't cheap.
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I would strongly argue that building code is the driver of costs. In China, there's hardly a building code, yet the housing supply is vastly overpriced. Besides, building codes are a great thing. They are the minimum standards of occupancy that we've developed after fires, building collapses, earthquakes, and everything else that we've had to deal with.

As to compliance changes. I've never seen a building torn down because it's out of compliance. Most buildings get grandfathered as the code changes. Perhaps you can show me an example.

I think you can argue that the artificial control of labor by unions in some areas (NYC) leads to an increased price of construction, but the response might be that those labor costs are necessary to avoid exploiting the local workers where living costs are higher too. But licensing alone? I doubt it. Certainly some licensing is overdone, but generally I'm extremely glad to have licensing standards for the trades - see the changes in structural steel in the trades because of the LA earthquake. Only licensing gets that information out there fast.

I've never seen code over enforced.

However, I certainly have seen my share of corruption and collusion between developers and politicians. It means that bad projects get built, but I'm not sure how much it impacts affordable housing per se. It something that we need to be vigilant about though. I agree.
The new design delivers headlines that I can't highlight to copy. Pain in the ass.
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Unfortunately, for me, I noticed that none of the cars (apparently) driving on the road had any people in them. It really sticks out to me, where are the people? I love his work, though, but it's like looking at pictures of that town near Chernobyl where all the people suddenly left, leaving all their belongings behind.
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You're right of course. I was thinking about associtivity, not seeing what's really written. Sorry. I didn't expect discussing commutativity in the context (it's the non-associativity that doesn't allow all the "automatic" optimizations expected by some) where the formula in the same sentence is with three elements and the different order of computation. Which doesn't change the fact that I've made an error.
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Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7430082
From the article: "Promises, 'nuff said."

There are two schools of thought here. One says that concurrent programming is actually an optimization and that the language and frameworks should make it as transparent as possible. The other says that concurrent programming is fundamentally different from sequential programming and it should look differently, too.

Out of curiosity, which language you think gets concurrency right? My personal favourites are Erlang, Io and Clojure, but even there concurrency is not completely transparent.