skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a different condition but similar outcome in terms of not being taken seriously and finding that frustrating. But I will suggest you need to look for support from a position of strength -- what do you have to offer -- not from complaining about what has gone wrong. I know that's hard to do -- I often don't manage to pull it off myself -- but you need to figure out what you do have to offer.

I get told constantly (including again today) that I will not be financially successful with my projects. The reality is that I do make some money online, just not as much as I really need. That amount is sporadically improving. I have worked super hard on my health. Getting myself stable and more productive is one of the keys.

If you lived 5 years longer than you were supposed to (my count is 13 so far), then you must have some competencies. What are they? What is the position of strength you have to offer the world? What is the unique value proposition you bring to the table? There has to be one.

Finding a path forward is hard and my frustrations with other people not taking me seriously is a very big thing in my life. But I keep working on what I can do and I keep working on what I do have to offer and I keep working on my various projects and things are slowly improving. I expect them to pick up speed in the near future. This past month has been a major positive turning point in my health. I expect to be more productive, more able to communicate, etc in the future.

((HUGS)) if you want them.
You would presumably use ICC on windows or linux.
Would that be related to the reversible computing I heard about a few years ago, in terms of reserving the energy?
Ask HN: Are any of you former IC designers who switched into web development?
Do NOT forget 8.8.4.4!
I think the important things to teach in journalism never change:

ethics in media

psychology of mass media

effective communication

I don't think understanding the history of the internet (which is something I do think people should know) is critical to journalism, unless you are a tech journalist.

The method of communications delivery doesn't matter.
The justice system is ripe for reform in many ways.
Parse.com seems to be down – 4/28 20:30 Eastern
I'm the author, just wanted to say thanks for the hat tip. As far as a response, as much as I enjoy a good old fashioned internet flame war, a response isn't necessary. I'd be happy with their thinking about how they message their product going forward.

And by the same token, I'd hope that if our group was ever was similarly overreaching in our marketing, that someone would bring it to my attention so I could try to address it internally.
Stanford bioengineers create circuit board modeled on the human brain
It depends on the nature of authority and the safety of work environment. GitHub-according-to-the-media promotes exactly that. Not forgetting GitHub's engineers are probably good enough to land another job almost immediately after they quit GitHub.
That makes it much worse.
Or do the opposite: scrape facebook to get all the names of people at the school and train an insult generator. Flood the site with random rumors about random people, but let everyone know that's what you're doing so no one knows what is authentic and what isn't.

The real rumors are lost in the noise, kids learn a lesson about trusting anonymous sources and the manipulation of mass opinion, and everyone realizes highschool brattiness is nonsense because you can literally auto-generate it.

Bonus if google makes this a summer-of-code project: eventually the app creators will force everyone to login with their google+ profiles.
I'm not trying to take a cheap shot. The fact that meritocracies are 'messy' doesn't mean you get rid of the central message - which is that people are awarded commensurately with their talent and effort. That seems completely in line with the 'justice is fairness' version of liberal democracy - which is what I thought most progressives were fighting for.

And this idea that someone rejected the employee in question because of a rug sounds very implausible.
I've been getting frequent 502 errors from the service today.

The status page shows intermittent issues over the past day it seems.
crassus may be referring to the crowd shouting for Barabbas: that would be in keeping with the implied interpretation of "democracy" as "mob rule".
Clickable link for those like me who haven't read it. http://xkcd.com/1361/
I wonder if this is what being a telepath would be like. Hearing all the vile thoughts of everyone in a certain radius. If everyone had the ability would we develop a sense akin to smell with BO standing for Brain Odour?
what is the fascination with the word "founder"? I think it puts unnecessary importance on the team that started the business. A company has different needs at different times in its life and a "founder" is always the best to carry out that change. "Partner" would be a more appropriate word and allow for additional "partners" as the company grew and needed other skillsets.
I remember reading that some prisoners get upset when they are not given a death penalty, but instead life without parole. The reason why is that there are lots of high quality lawyers that will work pro bono on your case if you are on death row, but if you are just another lifer then nobody wants to know you.

If I was poor, innocent and convicted of murder I would want to be given a death sentence for exactly this reason. Crazy system.
It's a dual ARM core Zynq SoC + the Epiphany. The Zynq has an on-die FPGA. Part of the FPGA is used for "glue" for the Epiphany, but you can update the FPGA config as well, with some care.

The main CPU is substantially faster than the Pi, but it doesn't have HW accelerated graphics, so it's not a speed daemon for desktop/workstation type use.

As for the Epiphany, assume that it'll be slower than most GPU's for tasks that GPU's are good for. That is, if you can make do with few instruction streams, the Epiphany is not well suited for it, as most GPUs will blow the current chips out of the water in terms of performance.

If, on the other hand, your problem is poorly suited for GPUs due to lots of independent instruction streams, it may be better suited.

One of the most interesting aspects of the Epiphany is that is can also be connected into a grid - each chip has four high speed links that can be connected to other Epiphany chips, or be used to interface with the main CPU or off-chip memory.

The cores can all access each-others memory without any special instructions, including that of the cores on other Epiphany chips that are hooked up via the external links - the only difference between in-core and out-of-core memory access is the speed.
Is that really the choice - death or "daily verbal and physical abuse from guards and inmates"?

Nope, there is another problem here - the US prison system is an utter disgrace.
Please direct criticism to the proper source:
regulatory capture
I'd be surprised if it did. The Parallella cores are far larger, with far more in-core RAM.
Recovering would be a better term I think. You could read the wikipedia article to see if it is what you remembered.
Shouldn't your comparison widget also have a pure CSS option?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not seeing anything to back up the claims that this is more performant than pure CSS animations?
Crowdfund-a-thon courtesy Indiegogo and Stanford Design Initiative
I might not get hacker news in prison, but I would probably get some books that I would enjoy even more. Prison can be really bad, but on average I think it is far better than death.
I work a lot on GreenArrays, and I highly, highly doubt this claim. An F18 core has 1152 bits of SRAM on it, much less than these cores, which I believe I read have 32 KB. Moreover, while the Parallella is clocked (like almost every computer out there) the F18 is asynchronous.

From reading the parallella docs, it looks like that chips runs 5 W on a "typical workload" while the GA144 runs .25 W at an absolute theoretical maximum, for a 20x difference in energy consumption.

http://www.parallella.org/board/
Awesome recommendation.
Also a designer can tell a dev exactly what he/she wants in terms of animation values (assuming they're using origami)
I was hoping to buy a few of their 16-core model for a commercial application, and have been in touch with Adapteva but got no reply. It seems like they really don't have the ability to supply the demand for their product.
I got mine today.

I don't have the video cable yet and still have to attach the heat sink. They'd really like you to have a fan, so I have some work to assemble one.

http://www.parallella.org/quick-start/
Transit doesn't incur much overhead: https://github.com/rstacruz/jquery.transit/blob/master/jquer...

Either way, there'd need to be some sort of chaining implementation for the sake of the demo -- and at that point you might as well be using Transit.

As for performance vs. CSS transitions, try out the Performance Comparison #1. Select Transit as the engine and run it at high element counts. It chokes pretty quickly. These effects tend to be exacerbated on mobile.

I'll note that Velocity also combines features from jQuery, jQuery UI, and transitions -- so it's a feature play as well as a performance play.
So they should just then believe what another third-party vendor CPU says, and ship the compiler and hope for the best?
Not what I would do. I would only enable specific optimizations when I could guarantee the output would be optimal or a given model. "Hope is not a plan."
"Hate speech" is legally protected in the United States, unless it incites imminent violence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#Supreme_Court_case...

With regard to the first amendment in the Bill of Rights, the only "limitations it imposes" are on Congress, not anyone's speech.
This delusion is why there are periodic economic crashes. It sticks around because if you are powerful you can take advantage of the thinking when times are good and skip the consequences when times are bad. When too many believe it's true, they allow it to be true.

The cost? An ever increasing chasm between powerful and powerless, a chasm which itself goes through periodic crashes which tend to be significantly more violent... e.g. the fall of Rome, the French Revolution, and WWII.
Eric Schmidt said a while back that they have the technology and is probably pretty accurate, but they want to avoid building a facial recognition database.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/01/facial-recognition-...
The official press release is sort of lacking in details. You can find more on the research group's website.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neurogrid.html

http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/goals.html

The gist of how it works is that analog circuits model the ion channels in neurons. You "program" the chip by adjusting parameters controlling the activation pattern of the "neurons" and connect the neurons through virtual "synapses".
Death penalty would be applied much more responsibly if, in case an innocent person got executed, everyone involved in the verdict, police, forensics experts, prosecutors, judge and jurors, would have to be charged of at least manslaughter.

Realistically, this would only bring the systematic destruction of any exculpatory evidence.
Interesting to see a YC company pick on other YC people (LikeALittle and Andrew Mason), and I don't mean that in a bad way.
Stop Telling Me What My 20s Should Look Like
This is amazing! I used to actively participate in a group that made and delivered food to the homeless a long time ago (about 11 years ago) and that is something I miss doing. I think that organizations like this one, who are doing what they are doing for no other reason (religious, political, ideological or otherwise) than to help those who need help the most are very inspiring. I wish them all the best and hope that they eventually start expanding to other cities like Tampa and Orlando.
It certainly is. If you wanted to design a system for getting innocent people to plead guilt you would be hard pressed to come up with a better system.

I wish that some prosecutor would "go rogue" and start applying all these tactics on nice middle class people. The outcry after a couple of weeks would be so great that something might be done about changing things.
If you want a quick deployment without much hassle, I don't think you can get much easier than PHP with a framework.

Laravel (http://laravel.com/) if you want to pick up best practices (yes, there are best practices in PHP) and mess around with MVC and such, or Slim Framework (http://www.slimframework.com/) if you want little more than the bare essentials. In both cases, I would recommend using Twig for templates. None of this is particularly controversial, though, but in my opinion the only faster way to get a site up is wordpress, but on the programming side, that's a lot messier to work with.

Of course, the people who will recommend Ruby and Python and whatnot are right too - you can get a reasonable set of frameworks and deployment strategies in various languages. But the case for PHP is, essentially, lack of overhead and low cost deployment. If you can stand an ugly looking weakly typed ad-hoc language, that is.
Those two charts are begging to be combined into one two-axis chart, with average hours per week on one axis, and productivity per hour worked on another axis.

As it is, as two separate one-axis bar charts, they are mostly incomprehensible for the intended purpose.
Consider that the Parallella is not their intended product. The Parallella is a dev platform/proof of concept to get people to design the Epiphany into new products.

They're not likely making money on the Parallella - in fact a lot of the delay for the Kickstarter campaign was due to issues related to cost (e.g. the design is cut to the bone, and they managed to eventually get very good pricing from Xilinx for the Zynq etc.). It looked like they were in trouble for a while until they got a cash injection from Ericsson and Carmel Ventures early this year.

As such, while they'd certainly benefit from more exposure, and getting it in the hands of more people, they also have every reason to manage the process so building boards doesn't get in the way of actually evolving their chip designs etc. too.
I would grab the .net and go with it or try to find a close variation on the .com.

With all of the ways of promoting & finding websites (SEO, ads, social channels, links, etc) I think the .com is less valuable than it used to be.

Good luck!
I don't know if Blackberry is quite the same. They were more than a fad or a novelty. Blackberry was the first mobile device that really solved problems for business users: seamless integration with office email and documents (caveat, I have never owned one, but that's my observation).
What happens to remote working when design gets "real"?
Nice to see more open source push notification tools, and the quality is generally getting better.

The main drawbacks to PushServer seems to be that it's not cross platform, and it doesn't interact with Apple's feedback service. Apple has an ominous warning for people who decide to do this: "APNs monitors providers for their diligence in checking the feedback service and refraining from sending push notifications to nonexistent applications on devices." [1] Though it's unclear what the penalty really is, and this is listed as a TODO item by PushServer [2]

My company decided to build a push notification system in house. We needed it to be cross platform, able to handle very large volumes, and fully follow all of Apple and Google's guidelines. We recently released it as a service for other game developers: https://gamethrive.com

Having built something like this myself and wrestling through the all the edge cases, I've come to the conclusion that unless you have a good reason for doing so, you should outsource sending of push notifications to a 3rd party service. Parse, Urbanairship, and GameThrive (our service) do a good job and are way less expensive than maintaining it yourself, especially if you plan to deliver a high volume or have multiple platforms to deal with.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Networ...

[2] https://github.com/jazzychad/PushServer/blob/master/TODO.md
Aren't search problems equivalent to sampling problems in the first place? At least, that's the premise of something I read recently: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2014/3/the-quest...
As usual, the press overstates the results, the article ends with a long quote from the principle researcher, which includes this gem:

"What we need to do now is to attempt to validate these hypotheses...."

But it's really interesting, and sounds pretty solid to this non-specialist. Especially since that gem above correctly indicates as far as I can tell that this is testable/falsifiable.
Why "after 1980"? What happened?
The tooltip is an integral part of xkcd.
(and Mac and Windows and Android.)
IF you want to do something, you could support The Innocence Project: http://www.innocenceproject.org/

Or support this defense attorney (former NYC prosecutor) who is working to educate people about the justice system by drawing The Illustrated Guide to the Law: http://lawcomic.net/
http://www.patreon.com/nathanburney
Costs for supplies should decrease, and why would employees expect raises greater than inflation if the company is not growing or doing anything new?
Look at a McDonalds franchise, for a good example of steady state.
Patent Litigation Cost US Business About A Trillion Dollars In A Quarter Century
You don't need to pay them $250, you can download your data at 1MB/sec or so. I just needed my data ASAP and paid them to overnight the disk.
Just a question out of sheer curiosity from a business perpective, how were you monetizing the site? What prompted a buyer to pay what I assume is real money for the site? Was it a 1k, 10k, 100k exit?
Group video was only free for a very limited time on the beta only on the Windows application. It became a paid product over a year before Google Hangouts launched.
What would be a good way to help a person who is mentally ill, homeless and is not fitting any structure like a hospital? I.e. if the person agrees to undergo treatment program, stay in the facility, etc. it's fine but what to do if they are not?
I tend to agree with you on this after having watched the first two episodes, but I'm keeping an open mind (I'm still keen to see what happens, so it hasn't lost me just yet).

The show just seems like this really weird combination where on the one hand it tries to be ultra-realistic (hey look here's a TED talk; here's something else mentioned in the netsphere! <insert other random SV/HN/tech cultural reference/buzzwords just because>) but then you have that stupid premise about the company inventing some kind of magically-impossible compression algorithm. Plus I think it was far too quick to show it's cards; BIG COMPANY vs LITTLE COMPANY?!?! REALLY WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT?!?!

Maybe I don't get the humor either but I can't decide whether the show is actually trying to be a comedy or a drama. It definitely seems much more like a drama to me. I remember genuinely laughing more at parts of 'Pirates of Silicon Valley'.
Well Erlang could run, after all they supply a Ubuntu distro for it. However, you cannot run Erlang on the Epiphany, you need to code some BIFs to take advantage of the multitude of cores.
Sounds about right.

I briefly worked at a place migrating from Trac to Jira. Oh, and they still had some stuff in Bugzilla. This team wasn't more than 2 years old.
New 3-D Printer Makes Soft Interactive Objects
You might find "the origin of consciousness in te breakdown of the bicameral mind" interesting. It references studies as such. It's from 1975, and either a stroke of genius or complete crackpot. But it is interesting, well argued, and potentially mind blowing. I have no idea if anyone studied voices among normal people since this book was published.
Great point, was not considering that. I'd love to see some stats on maximum car utilization as a percentage during each minute of rush hour.

You could imagine that in addition to single-serve autocab services, you could have auto "micro" buses, sitting 4 people. Your "bus" is guaranteed to stop at no more than 7 other stops. With tens of thousands of people using the service it should be possible to pick optimal batches of people for each bus, to minimize how far the bus has to deviate from an ideal path for any given rider. It would be a giant logistical problem, but I think theoretically you can get a service working that was almost as seamless as an autocab service. Would be interesting to work on.
> If growth is so important and defines success then eventually is will plateau due to limited resources and no longer be successful which is obviously not true.

That is actually untrue.

One theory says that a business should grow with GDP.
It does work with just the heat sink, but if you want to keep it on for extended periods, the fan is probably a good idea.

I can recommend this kit for a case/fan: http://shop.abopen.com/ - that fan is enough to keep everything feeling cool to the touch.

The design is on Github too, if you want to do your own (and if nothing else the instructions shows you how to hook up a 5v fan directly to the board)

It takes some assembly and very light soldering, but not more than that you can get away with any crappy soldering iron and ideally a pair of wire cutters (but scissors will do)
that was great, but funny that literally every adsense ad on those articles was for herbalife products.
My comfort zone when writing is short posts on no real schedule. As a result I have a couple of hundred outlines and fragments of posts that might well never get published, mostly because they require writing at greater length than I'm used to. But recently I've been pushing my own envelope by writing a series of longer (1500-2500 word) guest posts to an externally imposed deadline. My 'process' has been to:

a) Agonize and procrastinate all day for several weekends,
b) Somehow miraculously come up with an idea and write a lot,
c) Circulate a first draft to a couple of friends that nobody understands,
d) Use their comments to publish a much improved post that's still of questionable intelligibility.

It's been a great experience even if just to help me clarify what's in my own head: http://www.ribbonfarm.com/blogging-residencies/#consensualhe...
The problem is that we humans throw a wrench into the mix. Slow drivers even cause irrationality in other drivers; I would like to consider myself competent, but I'm willing to admit that a bumbling old fart in his Mercedes can get on my nerves.

I realize that, "if all other circumstances are equal," was specifically mentioned.
Thank you for rebutting the whole "travel" thing. Traveling's more expensive than ever these days, especially if (god forbid) your travel destinations are international.
Microsoft, Nokia and that mountain photo
Or both. Brain is arguably the most complex system in the human body, and understanding of how it works is, AFAIK (I'm not an MD or a scientist), still not very comprehensive, much less than, for example, the heart. Treating extremely complex system which we don't know how exactly it works and are very limited in experiments (pigs or mice can have hearts not unlike ours, but their brains probably differ much more and while one can observe heart disease in mice, I wonder how you could observe mental illness like schizophrenia?) would probably be not easy at all.
I started off in web and frontend development, but I know of IC designers who switched to web work.
I don't get your biz at all...

Guess I'm not privileged to your revenue model (I hope its not dependent on ad spend), but usually when its hard for investors to see a business without a presentation from management, it's a pass.