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That "TPU advantage" might be slowing Google down (though likely not as much as their internal bureaucracy). Porting CUDA-based research, debugging, and overall experimentation spe…

Dozens of responses, and not one mention of Dropbox. Works perfectly for this exact purpose on Android.

Having traveled to several countries without formal addresses, this looks like a godsend for navigation. It has no regional segmentation (i.e. no drill-down reference like country-…

The technology Jenison relies on can replicate art, but it does so synthetically, with no understanding of art's inner life What a bunch of rhetorical diarrhea. This was nothing mo…

I haven't done the math, but seeing the chapels in Cappadocia, Turkey seems to prove this. Most of the chapels contain frescoes that are significantly color-faded, but Karanlık Kil…

For what it's worth Buildasofa.com in the US seems to be making custom more affordable. I can't speak to the quality as I haven't ordered anything, but several friends speak highly…

Almost all DSLRs and I assume many point-and shoots have an automatic focus tracking mode for moving subjects. Canon's is called AI servo. That said, most people don't move beyond …

As much as I dislike the stereotypical criticism on HN I agree completely. I still don't know what problem Lytro is trying to solve or what benefit it provides, and I've yet to hea…

Getting a bit pedantic, but a few corrections: 1. That origin is just urban legend. Americanos started in the 70's. 2. Per ounce, you're technically correct about the strength of e…

Your inference was incorrect. I said my job was to keep our sales reps from making false promises, which includes (but is not limited to) bending the truth, lying by omission, maki…

I deal with this everyday selling software, and it's much more complex than being truthful and lying. My job as a technical consultant to our sales staff is to bridge the gap betwe…

I had a similarly poor experience[1]. Many people are retorting that you have to go through this process with all financial institutions. To those, I say you're missing the point. …

The flipside of this is that Walmart does not charge extra for small, individual items, and I suspect they're losing a lot of money by doing so. I'm a heavy Amazon user, but as an …

From the article and throughout the comments here it seems Backblaze prefers cheaper drives over a few percentage points of reliability. It would be interesting to see some data sh…

I love that this is still alive and well in 2014. Psychoacoustics are still very much apart of the audiophile world; although, the internet has helped reduce the hype to some degre…

Coinbase handled the recent surge in traffic pretty poorly. When prices tanked / fluctuated heavily, they turned off the ability to buy citing "a lack of bitcoin" and told users th…

Can any artists on HN comment on how useful styli are with tips this thick? I suspect the added thickness is required for capacitive touch screens, but I always thought my fingerti…

Agree completely, and well done to the OP. So far I've seen "you can't print this out!" (who cares?) and "some of the transitions could be smoother!" This one is my favorite: "This…

My first thought would be to scoff at your criticism. Would the birds' travel patterns be any less impressive if they were resting for very short periods during these 200 days? The…

I have almost hit several emergency vehicles during the day due to my car's sound dampening and my car stereo (which doesn't have to be loud to block out sirens). At night, this ha…

This was my initial thought given the dealership limitations in North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Minnesota, and New York, but do you know for sure how out-of-state sales work? I'm …

Yes, but this shouldn't come as a shocker to anyone that uses Facebook and Android. You can arrange to have contacts synced in Android so that you can see updates / photos / phone …