skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this would be awesome. But what if the person accidentally burns their hand while welding? That's why one of AirBnB's highest execs is a lawyer.
He should have just asked to see a model without the (assumed, but very likely) upgraded system. Cheaper, and excludes the terrible bits that will be outdated in 2-3 years anyway. My Audi has just the basic system (radio, satellite, aux-in, and Bluetooth) and it has no discernible boot time. Excludes the navigation, but my phone does that perfectly fine, and I get free map updates for it every couple months. (Windows Phone has offline mapping capabilities for a few gigabytes worth of storage space.)
I don't really know. I worked for a startup once that was acqui-hired by Google and they hired all technical staff and other than the executives they made all the non-technical stuff redundant.

Perhaps they are paying a little premium on hiring themselves to get a single team started and working on something very quickly?
You are way, way off on your calculations.

The Cyclone IV "MIPS" you are talking about comes from the built-in ARM cores so you're comparing ASIC to ASIC here.

An FPGA vs ASIC, FPGA will lose every time. It is a simple matter of architecture. You have more crap to make the FPGA an FPGA, whereas in ASIC you have optimized gates. So it doesn't make sense for Intel to ship FPGA + CPU for consumer/mobile. Period. You burn more power and no one needs it. FPGAs are also more expensive because they take a ton of silicon space for a comparable function.

FPGA SoCs like Xilinx Zynq or Altera's offerings are widely used but for specific applications, none of it really consumer/mobile/desktop.

Stratix IV FPGAs that you are talking about are many thousands of dollars, each. You can get them today and hang them off your PCIe bus and do whatever you want with them. There is nothing stopping you. Putting it on the same die as a CPU won't buy you anything you don't get today -- except a lot of more heat you have to get rid of.

I don't think electrical engineering works the way you think it does.

For reference: I've designed ASICs and have done a lot of FPGA work in the past 10 years.
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Non-competes are pretty much unenforceable in California, though.
Thumbtack is funded by Google Capital. Homejoy was funded by Google Ventures.

I know that the two entities are distinct, so I guess this is Kosher?
It's not a software upgrade

One catch: unlike most Tesla Model S tuning enhancements, this one isn’t
a software update — and it’s not free. Why? Because Tesla had to make new,
physical hardware to make this possible. Specifically, they had to make a
fuse that didn’t melt when you pulled ridiculously high amperages over it.

The fuse upgrade will be a $10k option for new buyers, and cost $5k (before
installation) for existing P85D owners.
That's optimistic. I don't hear about many non-Latino Americans watching Univision...
This is FUD and politics. It sounds like a defense of analysis paralysis as a survival tactic; as if the only goal is to never get fired, even if it means that nothing ever gets accomplished.
All excellent points, but even given the earlier reports, we don't know for sure that Google is moving into a related space. They didn't pay any money for the company. Maybe they simply wanted some good, proven engineers.

Edit in reply to edit
We know very well Jason, the founder of Irokotv, we had some discussions with him just a few days ago.

Irokotv is very centered on movies from Nollywood, and has started to have some movies from Hollywood.

We have another point of view :
We are not the Netflix of a specific region, or the Netflix for certain people. We are the Netflix of the African Diaspora powered contents. We want to show what Afro descendants are capable of, and we want to solve the distribution problem of theses movies all over the world.

Irokotv was here first, and yes we will have Nigerian contents. But we have other goals. We want to distribute, create and show to the world how some contents you couldn't see are incredible. We want to show that we could have our black Superman, or our black James Bond. We want to expose all of the richness of all the African cultures (in USA, Brazil, France, UK, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Angola, Nigeria and more), all over the world
That's my understanding, but it's important to keep this in mind when touting the merits of battery tech. Of course, the battery production and charging process can become drastically more green (and will do so once the Gigafactory is operational), so even this is somewhat of a moot point.
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Thanks Colin - it sounds like it was a business to be bootstrapped and run as a lifestyle business.
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Thanks for the turn-of-phrase, below, that made my day :-)
Not only are the ideas impressive, but the computations are also.
For a fair comparison we should compare PRMan's RIS with Cycles though, not REYES. RIS is what Pixar are focusing on and rendering their movies with now.

Yes, REYES is great at subpixel shading, rendering fast motion blur, using brickmaps with indirect light, and using very little memory for detailed displacement. But with RIS all those things are gone. PRMan's implementation might still be more efficient, I don't know, but with the switch to path tracing they are definitely giving up various advantages that REYES had.
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Golden parachutes, they don't just exist in finance.
I mean, the Google search bar is still first in all those results ;)
The only-slightly-more complex hostport hashing scheme solves your problems, but...
TCP OOO is almost never an issue. Out-of-order packets happen all the time, and if you're not moving huge quantities of data with hugely lagging packets, it won't matter. If you swap the positions of every pair of packets, BADCFE style, your machine will hold B, process A, and make AB available to the upper layer - almost zero real cost. There's a ringbuffer involved in nearly every TCP connection that's several packets long, and B can be delivered to it's proper place in the queue before A arrives.

Sure, it'll look bad in wireshark, but you can simply disable the reporting of OOO, and the stream is perfectly interpretable anyway.
Obviously this raises a question about the moral limits and applicability of the law.

If I make a server accessible and someone accesses it, even in a way I didn't expect, I don't think a crime has been committed against me.
If you turn off data and don't use the screen, you'll get much better battery life (and have approximately the same feature set as your old phone).

Old phones didn't have apps that required constant connectivity and didn't have screens at all, essentially.

So the problem is that this is comparing yesterday's phone with today's pocket-sized computer.

Note: you can still buy a feature phone today if you'd like.
Everyone wants more great engineering to happen. You're not a snowflake in that regard.

You're complaining because you can imagine it happening faster than it is, which is unhelpful and unpleasant. Thus, downvotes.
Looks like an 2012 model that is not the P85 and did not have the OTA performance update from last year could do it in about 9 seconds. For a reference, that's faster than a BMW M5. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_03g4UHtCWo
At Perfect Audience we told our potential hires this info at the time of giving them an offer sheet. It seemed only fair to let them know how the company was doing and how much money they stood to make from an acquisition.

At the time it seemed like the only fair approach. We founders honestly didn't know that most startups tell potential hires as little as possible about company finances.

Knowing what I know now, I'd still tell folks this info as it unwittingly gave us a hiring advantage over companies that don't.
I've found I need to do a factory refresh every time there is an Android OS upgrade, because my battery life goes in the tank. ADB shows processes going crazy, trying and retrying to access things that are no longer there.
Ask HN: What happened to hnwatcher.com?
I miss the e-mail notifications on replies of my HN posts.

http://hnwatcher.com/
That doesn't really match up with the next page(8), it shows BEV beating traditional cars in both graph and quote:

"Our base case results suggest that a BEV uses the least amount of energy of all the vehicle types analyzed in this study, followed by a hybrid and a CV. The results of the CV
lifecycle analysis show that by far the greatest source of energy intensity is the use phase, at
95% of the lifecycle energy. This is due to the amounts of energy required to extract and process the gasoline and the energy intensity of the gasoline itself."
It's a fallacy to think markets exist only to connect buyers and sellers. Another giant consideration is mitigating counter party risk. This is a very complicated & risky problem. Solving it therefore requires incentives. Those incentives frequently push towards capturing transactions rather than making them open.
Absolutely agreed.

This car gets better after you have bought it. For free! They are continually adding features that just "magically" appear. Kind of amazing.
"Tough"?

Does the company not have an accountant?
I agree with you right now, but is that still an issue for self-driving cars? Ideally I want to get in, say drive to work, and then take a nap. If I still need to pay attention then it's not really a self-driving car just an upgraded form of cruise control.
I run my own mail server with full SPF, DKIM and SRS, routing the mail through a relay at a reputable VPS provider on high-reputation IPs. Over the last few months, there seems to be this pattern where if I email someone @gmail who I've never mailed before, they don't seem to ever get it. I wonder if this is the issue.
Not necessarily for #1. After my first cleaning was good, I requested the same cleaner for all following appointments.
thanks for checking it out. i'm the person who made it. there are also iOS and android apps if you'd like to get notified for each one...
Drama Fever is the Netflix for Asian Contents primarly,
80% of the users are non Asian.

We are convinced it's possible to other segments, and that's why we will open the door for all of you on Afrostream
A Palestinian version would be much more alarming considering that 10 times more palestinians are killed compared to Israelis.
not on the internet I don't.
As a fellow F1 buff, the upgrades takes years to roll down to production cars. And in software parlance, they shouldn't be focusing on the MVP at this point.

they have also innovated in other areas like the house batteries

That right and that may be more profitable and they may pivot and leave the car manufacturing to the incumbents.
I think an answer to this is raw data. Data is data and you can of course massage the information to do what you want[1] and it can also be argued that it's been misinterpreted and improperly reported since the beginning of time. The truth is that the only "true" judgement that can be made is by the person who reads and interprets the raw data. If we make more "actualizations" like this where it takes a raw information stream and leaves it to the viewer to interpret, it will become less exploitable.

Akin to a thermometer, there are reporters and newscasters who can tell you the weather outside and we hope they are not deceitful but if you look at a thermometer, you have the raw data and you can make that judgement yourself.

[1]http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/lie-factor.php
Too bad "NERVA" never was developed for unmanned missions like this. Forget the little thermocouple can for electricity - give me an ENGINE, "Heinlein" style!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
Haha, understood. Thanks, can't wait to try it out. Best of luck!
They should have called themselves 'Edison'. Bring back a bit of the old rivalry.
How much of this is caused by people marking mailing list emails as SPAM instead of properly unsubscribing?
I've always had problems with Gmail's spam filter, unfortunately.
It might not be related, but I've been seeing some spam in my gmail inbox in the past month. It seems that something has upset the balance. For example, this went to my inbox:

From: [...] Baby <[...]baby@gmail.com>

Subject: HELLO HANDSOME

Body: HOW ARE YOU DOING
A Dutch auction [1] would be the way I would auction of these passes. This way you find out the top price that the people on the far end of the bell curve think the pass is worth.

1.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction
I'll second this. Getting your data store right is way too important to leave to the inexperienced (and I say that being, if I had to judge, the semi-experienced; I've refused gigs centered around HA data stores because I won't put my name on something I am not 100% sure will work for them without issues).
But Unicode isn't in the business of cataloguing all the possible meanings in the world. They're a catalog of glyphs.

Looking into it further, I see that indeed "Cyrillic Capital Letter A", "Greek Capital Letter Alpha", and "Latin Capital Letter A" are different, despite not actually being different in any way. That supports the idea that "Latin small letter i" and "Turkish small letter i with dot" should be different points. But it also supports the idea that "Latin Capital Letter A", "English Capital Letter A", and "French Capital Letter A" should all be different points, which they're not. This approach is incoherent.

In Chinese writing, the same syllable shì is encoded differently depending on whether it means "be", "circumstance", "the world", "city", "style", "respectable person", "Shì, the surname", "room", "test", "look at", "indicate", "suitable", "knowledge", etc. And those examples I've listed are just the shì's that I personally know -- there are plenty more. This was, by any standard at all, a terrible, terrible decision (to be fair, Japanese writing is even worse). Why would you want Unicode to be more like that?
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Incidentally I did something very similar with my private projects and I've been using it for the last weeks. It's basically Electron, with a few lines of code that runs the script you pass in the argument and opens Chrome's dev tools. It's awesome, and much, much better than node-inspector.
There has to be a "Flexible Frank" prototype here somewhere. And a door into summer.
Feel free to send me an email, and I'll let you know if it arrives in my gmail spam folder.
> Can you truly force someone to work for you though, legally?

Can you force them? Generally, no.

Can they be substantially penalized for failing to honor contract terms, potentially beyond merely returning any unused leftovers of what they received in exchange for their promises? Yes.
Existing battery's energy density is already a long obstacle to prevent us from making lighter smaller EVs. And super capacitors energy densities are even lower[1]! Now with new materials like graphene or carbon nanotubes are promising, but they are definitely not ready for primetime in 2017 [2]!

[1] http://my.teslamotors.com/fr_CA/forum/forums/use-battery-pac...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor
This move discriminates against those with limited home internet. The change means you can't just manage when big downloads and upgrades will occur. I can think of a stack of circumstances Ive been in where a large auto update is a terrible thing, think 100mb daily limit at the local library for example.
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Interesting, I've been getting very similar spam messages slip into my gmail inbox.
Sounds like a great way to make your employees work extra hours.

"Hey youre such a hacker here's a hack day where you can work on anything you like as long as youre improving our product"
Maybe issues with intellectual property? VC's lawyers could be ready to pounce if the former employees do things very close to what they were doing. (IANAL).
Well, I'd say they're twofold:

* Obviously, whether the guy is going to try and kidnap you. Well, Uber has rating, but the background checks are pretty flimsy. Still, I'll concede that it may well be just as good.

* The second thing affects non-customers and it's ensuring the roads aren't congesting with a glut of taxis driving around looking for fares all day (with all the attendant problems that causes). While the average car spends 2 hours or less on the road in a day a taxi or an Uber is going to spend a lot more than that. I'm not really convinced Uber has an answer to that.

There are also issues like insurance/liability and so on that are rarely encountered, but are something of a big deal if they do come up. And there's the worker protection aspect of it.
Here's one example why this is a bad decision. From a sailing forum [1]:

"I just read an article... that says that there will be no way to turn off updates on Windows 10. That's going to impact cruisers with limited access to the internet. Trying to download an important email? Please wait while we phone home to Microsoft first, then download 1.2GB of updates..."

Granted, if you have Pro, maybe it's not as much an issue because you can delay it for months. But I still think MS is making a bad decision in their attempt at control.

[1] http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f13/windows-10-and-manda...
Happened to me as well.
Some of the eMail were just "updates" email that I like to receive but if they get lost is not a big deal.
But a couple of them were very important one, and to make things worst, they were answer to email in which I was in CC. So, a colleague of mine send an email to someone and CC me. The second person answer and that mail is marked spam for me but not for the person who wrote the original eMail.
Doesn't make sense that an answer to a legitimate conversation is by default a legitimate eMail?
I regularly get 40+ MPG(US) on road trips in this little car. The info system being stupid is way overshadowed by how nice it is to drive, given the price. It's still a loud econobox with paper-thin sheet metal, but it drives a lot better than I expected.
I've had the same experience with the LKML lately (been subscribed for about 8 months, generally spam filter has had v. few false positives), can't remember exact numbers, but big, big chunks have been incorrectly labelled.

There seems to be a fair bit of spam sent to the LKML, I don't know whether there's been more lately, but perhaps the large amount of email sent to many people for the LKML and the fact there's a decent amount of real spam sent there, combined with a more aggressive setting is an explanation?
I wrote an article about spam filtering sometime ago. Context was "Spam Filtering should not have any False Positives, ever!".

If anyone is interested they can read it here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141202174235-36852258--spam...
Runaway DMARC policies perhaps?
Assumedly my corpus is much lower than his, but I noticed similar things starting some time "this week".
This has to be one of the most significant barriers, I'd suppose.
Forward path tracing is what is used to render more than 95% of graphics you see in movies today. It's not great for closed spaces and VCM is better, but it's definitely possible to render everything with forward path tracing. People have been doing it for years, bidirectional methods have only started to get used in production very recently.
I could see 20% false positives on spam for Linus equating to 0.1% of false positives across the board since I suspect the people emailing Linus are 200 times more likely to be running their own mail server than the general public.
I've had a problem with false positives in my spam folder for months. A large percentage of the email newsletters I subscribe to end up in my spam folder every day, and clicking Notspam doesn't help. I can Notspam a certain newsletter every day for a week, and then the next day that same newsletter will end up in my Spam folder once again.

I'm starting to think that Notspam signals have no effect at an individual level. Either that or the button is simply a placebo.

Fortunately, the false positives for personal correspondence from individuals are still extremely rare, at least for me.
I fear SMTP is going to go the way of RSS at the hands of these giant corps. Closed protocols within machine gun lined walled gardens are the future. Sorry old idealistic computer hipies, we've failed you.
Data point: of the 28 messages in my spam folder just now (recently cleared down after picking out real LKML messages), 8 are LKML, though all are legitimately spam atm.
Why would anyone work a paying job if all of these necessities were provided to us? Wouldn't an individual choose to peruse a passion or educational / research goal full time, rather than possibly working a job he or she didn't like but need to pay the bills?
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I'm wondering for those really into starting a company, but lacking a complementary cofounder - did you end up just starting out yourself? How did it turn out?

Thanks.
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Google recently posted "The mail you want, not the spam you don’t":

http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-s...
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You give me an idea with iranian movies ;)

you don't understand my point here : We do not do a service for specific people, we do a service with specific contents.

I will try with another argument : Tyler Perry is one the most prominent performer of the USA. He did movies, series, theater. All successful. He is maybe the most complete artist in the USA. These productions were distributed in the USA. You can't find these production in France by example, but either in a lot of countries.
Why ?

Afrostream's goal here is to distribute Tyler Perry and other talents all over the world. As I said, I don't know if this is positive dsicrimination, but Afrostream is my political statement to this 'Why'
I had mail that was in my Inbox, shown to me as a notification in Android... and when I went to find it later it had been moved to the spam folder. Highly unacceptable IMO.
Don't get me wrong, it isn't enough to make me hate the rest of the car. It drives great. About the only thing I use the infotainment system for is the neat fuel consumption statistics screen.
As someone who has dabbled, I have to recommend the "Business Card sized Raytracer"[0]. Learning how it worked, modifying it, trying to make it faster or sharper, display different shapes, etc. may serve to whet one's appetite on the subject.

First thing I recommend is trying to get it to show your name[1] instead of the original authors initials.

[0] - http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/

[1] - http://lelandbatey.com/anim07.gif