skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea I remember reading that DWAVE could tackle classical computing problems at 20 petaflops. All of Google today is 20 petaflops, across many cartoon colored datacenters.

If you can produce small numbers of expensive computers that are more efficient than millions of cheap computers cobbled together, you are still advancing how much computational power each person has access to.

But a significant problem with this approach is most real time video games aren't practical when the computer is far away.
It's only 'bias' if you don't want to see it as true.
Gnome revolutionary wins case against Wroclaw
How about if I store it in a faraday cage?
Prose.io is a completely client side editor that authenticates against github to allow you to directly edit your markdown files in the repo.

It has a tiny tiny server-side component that exists only to complete the oauth handshake (for the remote server to have something to call back to), called gate keeper.

It's completely open source and self-hostable. They also make a webhook so you can trigger rebuilding on your own server.

They built it to be able to replace their need on a traditional CMS when they switched from Drupal to Node.JS many years ago.

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/07/27/build-cms-free-we...

DevelopmentSeed was the company that eventually spun off into MapBox.com, the open source open data map tile hosted service.

They have a long history with the open source community, and are spearheading
a lot of the open source mapping stack by employing the lead developers of
mapnik, leaflet and much more.

Other than Mapbox.com and Prose.io they also built :

TileMill - https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/ - An node-webkit based map designer

Id - http://ideditor.com/ - The OpenStreetMap editing interface

(disclaimer: I used to work for them, and left around the time they spun off into mapbox)
Prose is tweaked specifically to offer additional features to sites built with Jekyll.

They have a markdown editor, similar to the one github offers, but have a few extra features to deal with Jekyll specific stuff like drafts, image uploading and a distraction free writing mode.
Anthony Bourdain: Under The Volcano
I personally know people who have gone Amish, who have gone Entrepreneur, or have gone Corporate.

I guess I also know people who have gone Government, or even Military.

If you personally know people who have made other choices, please inform us, rather than just insult. You must be French.
Interactive Rust disassembler
Not the only one. If you access them from a German IP address, most game download services will only let you buy games that are rated 18+ in Germany between 10pm and 6am CET/CEST or some such time range. (I found this out because I have a VPN tunnel that terminates in Germany)
Ha, this is a load of shit.

The magic in being a carpenter or a painter or a builder of any kind(including programming) is that you can create something from nothing. The jobs may suck but I still have the power to, whenever I want, execute and actualize my ideas.

I pity those with vision but no means to at least prototype that vision themselves. That's dead end to me.

Builders are magicians and they're certainly not inoxorably linked to their boring day jobs.
I'm amazed that a talking head movie like Glengary Glen Ross (0.11) ranks lower than The Shining (0.73), with its long tracts of imagery and music.

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Glengarry-Glen-Gross.html
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Shining,-The.html

I guess that's a testament to David Mamet's distinctive writing style, and his technique of characterization (...and probably the stage directions, as mentioned in the article).

Also, out of 956 movies, nothing ranks above 6th grade.
Watergate was an attack against half the US political establishment: one of the business party's two wings (as Chomsky puts it). Instructive because it's a minor attack against a powerful entity, so there's hell to pay.

We'd need to consider far worse attacks against the powerless.
Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asians? (2013)
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html points out some of the problems with this outlook.
Except that, for most classes of problems, creating a software solutions that uses a massively-parallel system efficiently is much more difficult - and thus more expensive. This may be the real economic limit to using more transistors.
Ask HN:  How do I bring our web search service to market?
My company has developed a search engine for our internal use for a specific vertical market. Now we want to release the search service as a product but independent of our company. Is there a company out there that will bring our product to market and "own" it so we don't have to maintain and service?
The UI is hosted on Github pages: there's no server-side code. The only required server-side component is https://github.com/prose/gatekeeper - an app that makes OAuth possible with CORS.
And people wonder why inequality is supposedly increasing. Did we not ever stop to think that we're putting up barriers that prevent the poor from equalizing with the rich?
Ask HN: What's the best European City for a remote worker?
I work with a company that allows me to work remote, we do a lot of video conferencing, which city in Europe would be the best for calling back to the states?
I'd say that the two communities here are just people working at opposite ends of a continuum of applications that run on large clusters. The HPC community is all the way at the end with tightly coupled applications, low data to computation ratios, and diverse communication patterns. The big data community is characterized by giant data to computation ratios, highly constrained and regular communication patterns, and loose coupling.

The fundamental problems are similar (fault tolerance, load balancing, scheduling) but the best approaches depend on where you are on that continuum.
The name made me think it was about the vim plugin, vim-R for statistical programming. https://github.com/vim-scripts/Vim-R-plugin
high quality cross translations only take you as far, reading "crap" on the internet - is a much bigger data-source. and lets be honest, google is damn good in reading crap on the internet. http://bit.ly/1hnKrbA
No it's biased because the article spends half its time talking about scandals in Samsung's history and praising Jobs/Apple as unbelievable visionaries brutally screwed by corporate Korea.
Considering what was available before the iPhone debut, what was known in the pipeline, and the comments made by some competitors about starting over, its not hard to side with Apple. Given it took how long after the iPhone came out for Samsung to copy it? Yeah, I said copy. Smart phones before it were anything but.
One problem with these prediction markets is that they don't allow you to make predictions on margin. Many bets in prediction markets have very large time horizons. As long as your asset is tied up in the bet, you are losing out on the time-value of money.

For example, if you bet $100 on Hillary Clinton winning the 2016 election, you don't get to invest that $100 in treasury bonds or the S&P or whatever, which is a pretty significant cost. On real futures exchanges this is mitigated with margin requirements and the legal threat of suing or bankrupting you if you don't make good on your promise to pay.
One should not under any circumstances deal with Mircea Popescu. See the other reply to you in order to understand why. (Mircea is the owner of BitBets, the creator of the "no refunds" policy in question, and also the owner of the MPOE-PR account that defends the policy on the forum. I think Mircea may deny that last part, I forget, but it's not actually in question.)
I've been hearing about the end of Moore's Law ever since I was a kid.
I remember smart people citing wave lengths and economics convincing me that there as no way we'd go beyond 300nm. Oh yes, and that would mean the end of x86 as well (since intel wouldn't have the process advantage to compensate for the less efficient CISC).

Well, maybe they are right this time, who knows, but I'm way more skeptical.
3.5 years for commodity 4TB SSD or less. I have a 1TB SSD, would gladly switch to a 2TB model for twice the price. As the Sandisk announcement shows, it is market not physical forces that will get us to 4TB.
Yep. He simply asserts that

> Paying attention to the business doesn’t equal warped coverage.

which would be nice if it were true, but it begs the question of why we should believe that there is a business model out there that doesn't grossly warp coverage (worse than what we already have). The news-focused business models I've seen in the wild warp coverage fairly heavily in directions I don't entirely approve of and it seems that the new models are just as bad if not worse than the old ones. Why should I believe this will change?
NoTex: An online text editor for reStructuredText, Markdown, LaTex
Relevant, though not yet practical: quantum error correction [1]. There's a threshold we have to get over, then it gets a lot easier.

edit and a reddit commenter mentioned this link saying that the current record for storing a qubit is 39 minutes [2]. Which is about three orders of magnitude larger than I would have expected, if you discount "just shoot the photon into space!" solutions.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_error_correction

2: http://www.livescience.com/41217-long-quantum-bit-achieved.h...
There's also a flip side of this: a manager of a team of N is responsible for representing the collective results of a team of N.

If the team is successful and hits a home run, then the manager benefits a lot.

If the team crashes and burns, then the manager is at significant risk of job loss.

(Yes, office politics will come into play and managers will do their best in the latter case to diffuse blame, but the point is, they are the most visible elements of their respective teams.)
On that note, question. Is there an easy way to create mirror servers?

For instance, have a Github repo but also a personal Git server and Bitbucket. Whenever you do `git push`, it'd update all three. And all three would be in sync.
The pattern this article shines a light on is that American companies continue to innovate - while other countries can only follow. Imagine if no one copied each other and spent all that time and treasure on innovation.
Well he's right for his life. You are what you believe.
A programmer, can easily invent something that makes you a trillionaire.
Ah the power of imagination and belief :)
What kind of jobs do the software engineers who earn $500k
They are hybrid drives, though. The only pure HDD option seems to be the 3 TB drive.
I've observed that people doing big data typically have systems backgrounds while while those doing HPC are usually specialists in something else (graphics, speech recognition) who stumble on HPC because it's necessary. Of course, this is changing...machine learning people now need big data.

Companies are also forcing the two communities onto the same clusters, so much hilarity ensues when trying to satisfy both of their IO, fault tolerance, affinity, and processing needs together. Also, god forbid if the HPC people are into CUDA as well as MPI...now each machine needs a couple of pricey GPUs.
Of course they don't count. People commenting on youtube videos are there because of YT's content, not because of +.
It's not LAX, it's the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Center.

Quoting from the link: "As a result, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) had to stop accepting flights into airspace managed by the L.A. Center, issuing a nationwide ground stop..." including a stop at LAX.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Air_Route_Traffic_C... - "the Los Angeles ARTCC controls en route air traffic over southern and central California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah, and western Arizona with the exception of military airspace and lower-level airspace controlled by local airport towers and TRACONs." This includes Vandenberg.

The last SR-71 flight was in 1999, which is well before the ERAM computer system which failed here was turned on.

Yes, there have been some launches from Vandenberg. What I don't know is if rockets are required to have a transponder. I did only a brief search, and what I found suggests a "no" answer, at least in 2007:

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...

It notes that commercial Mode C transponders have/had "cannot currently report an altitude greater than 62,000 feet."

That's suspiciously close to the 60,000 feet reported in the link.
Here is one such account: http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=2055
Worst formatting I've ever seen. Anyway:

Colwell said that for the Defense Department, he uses the year 2020 and 7 nanometers as the "last process technology node." But he adds, "In reality, I expect the industry to do whatever heavy lifting is needed to push to 5nm, even if 5nm doesn't offer much advantage over 7, and that moves the earliest end to 2022. I think the end comes right around those nodes."

Let's assume that in 10 years time everyone agrees we have hit the wall on how small we can go. What then? Is there any reason to believe that popular architectures of today are necessarily optimal? I'm curious to hear people's ideas about what we do instead of shrinking dies.

My personal guess is that we move towards massively parallel systems with large numbers of low-power cores, but bare-metal programming completely and work on developing smarter and smarter compilers to take advantage of parallelism. My personal hope is that we find some sort of cold optical switching technology that lets us build ridiculously fast computers that look like glowing crystal cubes. Of course, I have no idea how that would work, or I'd be out pitching it XD
Ugh.. one of his arguements for not selling this tech right now seems flawed.

-- "Hydrogen is the most powerful fuel, but it's a gas. If I gave you hydrogen right now you wouldn't know what to do with it."

-- For now, he says, he'll have to work on convincing people to find ways to make hydrogen "fuel cell" technology easy-to-use.

How about a system right there and then to burn the hydrogen as it is being created and store it in a battery. Why does this need to be any different than using solar cells to store electricity in deep cycle batteries in the home?

Also, saying "I'm not releasing a way to make cheap hydrogen until people have ways to use it" seems very self defeating. This is like saying, I'm not giving you a computer until you can write a bunch of programs to run on it.

It is his invention and he can do whatever he can to monetize it. I was just thinking that an altruistic release of this would change the world overnight.
not sure but why this appeared in front page, i dont see anything special on it.
The next sentence is

"The exact definition of the term commodity is specifically used to describe a class of goods for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market."
Sounds like impulse purchases, nothing I would plan ahead on...
For what it's worth, people have said the same thing about C: "As long as (many) people look closely enough at it, it'll be fine."
Agreed. A lot of sensationalism. But on the other end, our BS meters are getting better at detecting the latter. Hopefully not jaded though :)
While it's true that more accurate translation is more computationally expensive, and we do have good knowledge of the structures and algorithms for machine translation, it's far from being a solved problem, mostly because it requires a relevant multilingual corpus for training (see [1])
That's also why translation performance varies greatly depending on which kind of prose you are translating (yes, there are attempts to translate poetry as well, see [2]).

There is a huge amount of potential information on the web but it's rarely well curated and the next big problem is how to extract it.

[1] See http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/fea...

[2] http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/10/poetic-machine-tr...
He never claims otherwise.

Right, I just think it's a bit weird to laud the increase of subjective reporting when it realistically also represents a decline in objective reporting; an effect which is decidedly not new and could reasonably be argued to be suboptimal. (Don't get me wrong, I am aware that there was no magical era in the history of journalism where reporters were magically unbiased, but I do think that objective reporting is valued less now than it once was, and I think it's unfortunate.)

Regarding ad sales; it's true that ads have always existed but in the age of subscription newspapers buying an ad in the more reputable ones cost more. Now page views are king, and long-term objectives of maintaining and increasing journalistic standards are no longer economically justified (or less so, at any rate). The new reality is that producing "viral" content (ie. link bait) is the key to making money in news, and I believe that to be at odds with high quality journalism.
The scandals characterize the behavior of the company. You can't pretend they didn't happen.
I just learned that commercial transponders register from -1000 to +62,000 feet, so another possibility is a built-in assumption that no transponder will be above that point.
Moore's Law broke a while ago. Note the past tense.

nVidia couldn't get their economics at 28nm. RAM cells are now more expensive in 20nm than 28nm. There are lots of other examples.

Remember: the strong form of Moore's law was that transistors get cheaper ever 12-18 months. The original formulation of Moore's law was always about economics, not technology.

The problem is: nobody knows what to do.

You now need clever circuit design and humans who can squeeze another 15-20% out of existing technologies. Unfortunately, all the humans who knew how to do custom VLSI design are dead, retired, or doing something else since custom VLSI was fool's errand for so long (see DEC, IBM, Silicon Graphics, etc.).
for those wondering what this is it's a proof of concept vim gui based on a embeddable macvimframework (mainly based on bjorn winklers macvim)[1]

it's great to see so much work on vim/neovim lately. while not related to the macvimframework idea, the author of ultisnips lately chimed in on the issue tracker of neovim. i think the end result of the discussion was that thiago was working on json-rpc now, wanted to implement a has('neovim') feature and move the python code running in an external thread. i can't find the issue right now.

i'm getting more and more annoyed with osx though. a cold boot on my 8gb macbook air has about 3gb of resident memory. redraws are extremely slow. iterm while much faster than terminal, is still just a textview which is slow, causing a lot of annoying flicker in vim terminal. it's gotten so annoying for me that i actually have a heavily patched dwm(i used to run awesome, but that's just annoying to setup in osx) with dwb browser, pidgin(yes, sadly otr in osx won't be fixed until adium 2.0 comes out, whenever that will be). and just general cmus/newsbeuter/mutt etc.

so why not just run linux on the macbook? if linux had a half decent gui toolkit that was as easy to use as cocoa(no not gtk) we wouldn't to switch to osx or windows all the time for utility applications.

[1] https://github.com/qvacua/macvim
If I were your manager, I'd be looking for these kinds of things:

- How well can you manage yourself? If, as an individual contributor, you can't manage yourself, I wouldn't expect you to be good at managing others. For example... Do you take responsibility for your work or blame someone else for every problem? Do you take the initiative, or only do things when you're told to do them? Are you good at solving problems yourself, but also capable of reaching out to others when you need help? Can you provide a reasonable estimate on how long it would take to get something done? Are you good at managing your time and do you meet deadlines? If I delegate a task to you, can I trust you to get it done and to inform me if things are not going according to plan?

- Communication: Can you communicate effectively with your manager and your peers on technical and business issues? If not, I wouldn't expect you to be good at communicating with people who report to you. Can you communicate effectively with less-technical people like product managers and designers?

- Leadership potential: Have you done things like mentoring junior employees or proactively fixing some technical issue that needed to be fixed? Do you look for better ways of doing things? Have you voluntarily taken on increased responsibilities?

- Interpersonal skills: Can you get along with people, especially those whose personal characteristics are different from your own? Would I be able to bring you with me to a meeting with upper management without risking embarrassment (e.g., would you be playing with your phone while the CEO is talking)? Can I trust you to behave legally and ethically (e.g., not sexually harass other employees, have sexual relationships with your subordinates, discriminate based on race or gender or engage in bullying behavior)?

- Technical competence: Are you a good enough programmer that the programmers who you'd supervise could respect you and learn things from you? You wouldn't have to know more than everyone else on your team, but your reason for wanting to manage programmers shouldn't be that you can't cope with programming yourself.

(Disclosure: I've been a manager and have promoted others to management roles with varying degrees of success.)
I didn't say they didn't happen. I said the article is biased because it focuses on one side alone.
Startup founders don’t have to be jerks
There's a major difference between when a revolutionary new product has the same name as a defunct product line (Linksys iPhone, which got revived specifically to cash in on Apple iPhone) or a local failing product line (Proview Shenzhen's iPad), and when Samsung produces rip-off products that have confusing similarities to Apple's successful product lines.

Apple certainly is a terrible company, and I think many of their patents should not be patentable, but this is one area where I think Samsung is in the wrong.

The most annoying part for me is that Samsung is winning with inferior quality. The Samsung devices that I've seen have annoying bugs and low build quality, and Samsung keeps stuffing Touchwiz onto their Android devices, and their own UX development always seems gimmicky. But, hey, it worked for Microsoft.
Nope, not Georgia. You weren't at "Nourish" by chance? They're somewhere in Savannah, and helped inspire this other store, which carries their product line among others.
D didn't have a big company behind it. I believe the main implementation is also closed source, mainly the work of one guy initially, who happens to be around on HN.
That's not what my analytics say.
That is the precise inverse of what LinkedIn is doing.

Never used LinkedIn before, no account - see exactly what Google SERP shows.

Never used EE before, no account - you get a page asking you to "sign up" instead of the Google SERP page.
> Apple certainly is a terrible company, and I think many of their patents should not be patentable, but this is one area where I think Samsung is in the wrong.

For doing what? Producing a Smartphone? Using Apple's logic any majority touchscreen device with icons is an infringement upon their patents/trade dress.
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Two years of software development experience, I'm looking for a company that looks to move forward with their technology. I implemented my latest project at work as a RESTful API, and used JavaScript's history.pushState to avoid reloading any page. I'm currently in LA but I've plans to relocate to TX (currently looking at Houston/Austin) by end of year (sometime after August).