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austinlyonson The smallest transistor reported to date

Anyone with access to the full text know if they are reporting results on only one transistor or if they were able to fabricate and test several transistors?

austinlyonson Ask HN: Team for Hire?

Curious: From your perspective, what are some reasons you prefer Chattanooga over Boulder?

austinlyonson Show HN: Give 7B people an instant physical address

Address in South Austin, TX: "Grounded Bastard 1780"

http://i.imgur.com/xgHFFJD.png

austinlyonson Show HN: Neural Network Visualizer Classifying Handwriting – D3/Redux

Or maybe just show a spinner to communicate "doing some intense computation"?

austinlyonson Show HN: CSS Quality Guide

Wouldn't you just instead write the CSS as follows?

  .sidebar.title {
    text-decoration: underline;
  }

austinlyonson Early Retirement in the N.F.L. and at Google, and the Paradox of Success

Boise, ID? :)

a funny related t-shirt from Raygun: Ohio, the great potato state (above an outline of Iowa).

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2f/ea/93/2fea932c7...

austinlyonson 42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team, Refocuses on Search

This "our idea didn't work out, so we are letting you go" probably happens more than we realize. Props to Jason for being open and honest about it.

austinlyonson 42Floors Lays Off Half of Staff as It Cuts Brokerage Team, Refocuses on Search

I'm not sure the interviewee would know they are interviewing to join an "experimental" team.

austinlyonson Authy is joining Twilio

Can anyone with experience give an estimate of the acquisition price?

austinlyonson Luna – Hack your sleep

Agreed. Would definitely need the "cooling" version.

austinlyonson Cost to Develop New Pharmaceutical Drug Now Exceeds $2.5B?

That's on the order of the cost to buid new Intel fab.

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

austinlyonson Tesla Autopilot

Every single Model S now rolling out of the factory includes a forward radar, 12 long range ultrasonic sensors positioned to sense 16 feet around the car in every direction at all speeds, a forward looking camera, and a high precision, digitally controlled electric assist braking system.

austinlyonson Programmers At Work: Bill Gates (1986)

Many libraries and abstractions that I come across don't have much/any documentation (or it's out of date, etc), so the ability to quickly look at the source and understand it still seems valuable to more than just low level programmers.

austinlyonson 12 tips for Front End Web Performance

Great tips, thanks

austinlyonson The Gift

Paul, thank you for taking the time to write this. I appreciate it.

austinlyonson Gmail was down

google fonts api was down for me... but wait... it seems to be back up. my gmail seems to be back now too

austinlyonson Lockitron exceeds $2,000,000 in reservations

Well deserved

austinlyonson Show HN: If you're too busy to meditate...bandu: The watch that slows you down

the idea of a stress map is very interesting. It would be insightful to create stress maps of college campuses and see if it could be used to research & aid suicide prevention.

austinlyonson The Hardware Renaissance

"We know there's room for the next Steve Jobs"

I'm not sure if hardware hackers want to be Steve Jobs... they want to be Woz!

"Woz soon followed with the machine that made the company, the Apple II. He single-handedly designed all its hardware and software—an extraordinary feat even for the time. And what's more, he did it all while working at his day job at Hewlett-Packard"

http://www.foundersatwork.com/steve-wozniak.html

austinlyonson Kickstarted video game project Haunts gets mothballed

oh thanks, I hadn't seen that. I think it would make more fiscal sense to open source it now and get it finished rather than let it sit, reimburse backers and then open source it.

austinlyonson Kickstarted video game project Haunts gets mothballed

I agree. For all the people wanting to learn/practice Go, finishing Haunts would be a great opportunity

austinlyonson Kickstarted video game project Haunts gets mothballed

why don't they just open source it?

austinlyonson Three day health hackathon. Investors pitch problems they'd love to fund

Good problem to have :)

austinlyonson Three day health hackathon. Investors pitch problems they'd love to fund

Did they hit their app engine daily limit?

austinlyonson Hey Entrepreneur – Please Don’t Get an MBA

I went to a Stanford MBA talk here in Austin TX this summer. They noted that upwards of 40-50% of their MBA alumni pursue an entrepreneurial endeavor at some point in their career.

austinlyonson Like Alibaba, But Safer: HD Trade Services (YC S12) For Goods Traders

Looks awesome. Know of anyone currently using their platform? Any feedback?

austinlyonson A circuit and PCB editor in the browser

any plans to get this in use by any high school or college courses? Could you create a Udacity/Coursera "EE 101" course that uses circuit.io?