jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What do you mean specifically by "design a RAM chip"? (obviously RAM chips that you can buy are designed before they are made, so that's probably not what you are after?)

FPGAs typically do contain dedicated RAM areas, because implementing it out of FPGA logic slices is terribly inefficient.
If the course is interactive and not just a lecture where students listen silently then you can easily observe what is going on. In college we have something called "seminars" where the teacher or teacher assistant work on problems and projects with small groups of students, that is highly interactive.
I have licenses for both Nine and AquaMail with the same purpose (operates with work-required MFA via O365+adfs+RSASecureID token) and would highly encourage you to look at AquaMail. If you thought Nine was configurable, hold on to your hat - AquaMail is all that and more, I highly prefer AquaMail to Nine for business email.
I don't see any obvious reason. Send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com so they can take a look.
Or “no and we don’t like your attitude; offer retracted.” I think it’s rare, but it happened to me once and I was sore about it and am a bit less confident in my negotiating now (but I still do).
It's about time really. Here in the UK equity crowdfunding has given much needed capital to businesses.

Does everyone invest? Hell no. Do wealthy people now diversify their portfolios with risky start ups? Yes.

There are vigilant checks every investor has to go through that limits the amount of capital they are allowed to invest which limits the risk for even the littlest of guys.

When you go to invest you are warned, I mean REALLY warned several times that you will probably lose your investment.

This could actually reduce said "bubble" as private investors are not stupid and the valuations you see are very modest.

My final point would be that the fundraising activities are open. The companies are subject to heavy scrutiny through Q&A's and all potential investors can see these conversations occurring.

I personally have chosen not to invest in companies that others are flocking too as their answers to my questions are so theoretical and I know many investors who have felt the same.
Yeah, the issue was not that they were checked in as "miss", which presumably was correct - there is no indication that these women were married, or preferred "ms" - but that the software incorrectly interpreted "miss" as meaning "child".
Right. But wouldn't that system still count just one adult and assign them, e.g., 69kg of "standard weight"?
It was fraud, and submission of false documents to further their conspiracy. There was code involved, to further the fraud. Not a hapless software dev.
Which is in just a few months.
Very fair point. You have to throw both against each other and see what stick.
What a wonderful and completely non-scalable solution to the question of public transportation.
You said "Achilles geek". Look at your keyboard. That's the best typo ever.
I haven't done much C# programming but it looks to me from studying language tutorials that you can have the best of both worlds in many cases in C#. You can have value objects and densely packed arrays of structs if you need them but Java-esque reference semantics everywhere else.
This is why laws need change logs for when they are modified. I knows bills have something of the sort, but they are hard to follow. Anyone who finds a specific set of laws relevant can subscribe to them and get an email when the law is changed.
I think the Internet Archive's UI isn't all that pretty/fashionable, but I never had much trouble finding what I was looking for: In most cases either the prominently places Wayback Machine or the Search does it for me. The categories also seem clear to me. It could be prettier/slicker but it seems quite usable to me for a site of this type with a huge amount of content that has to be organized and made accessible somehow. Seems to be more a matter of fashion or taste than usability to me.

Sidenote: On the other hand, the OP's blog is a horrible experience on my mobile phone (or a small browser window): First I have to scroll through the superlong sidebar advertising another blog of the author, then, when I finally reach the article, after two short paragraphs, I have two scroll through another advertisement for this other blog. I almost flagged the submission as blog spam, before realizing that the article continues for a bit after the next advertisement.

Edit: Also, the IA's links work without Javascript. Something which can't be said about a lot of modern site, where often basic functionality like this breaks with NoScript.
$10,000,000.00 For something you could make with a Raspberry Pi, mic, webcam, wifi adapter?

"RockCam included a 900MHz Spread Spectrum Frequency Hopping
Microhard Spectra 910 radio..."

This is ostensibly to avoid detection, but with the proliferation of wifi all over the place, one station named "Linksys" or even one without broadcasting SSID will go unnoticed for a long time.

"The custom mainboard we developed would enter in a deep sleep mode to
conserve energy, and would be woken up whenever the PIR sensor was
triggered to capture high resolution pictures that were then transmitted
via spread spectrum radio link to a central concentrator that was
Internet-connected."

So, it's using the same technology as those "advanced" hunting cameras you can buy on Amazon. Shouldn't be too hard to do something similar.

"RockCam included deep cycle batteries which provided at least three (3)
years of operation without recharging in the field"

A solar panel + battery pack would accomplish the same. Or if there's a lamp post nearby, you can tap into the power feed by running a small wire underground.

The biggest expense seems to be specialized hardware that provided encryption, custom data uplinks and secure RockCam-to-RockCam communication etc...

Edit: Further reading, the price isn't for hardware, but for software and other "data"? Er... If that isn't inviting a visit from MIB, I don't know what is.
At least it comes with free shipping...
If AdBlock were to become more common, don't you think websites that depend on ad money (almost everything) would start building around it like Hulu has done?
As graue and David wrote, the main point is not to win on this microbenchmark, but that core.async is competitive. Since a bare-bones version of promises is easy to code, though, I tried it out for myself:

https://gist.github.com/darius/6326461

In Firefox Nightly it's usually slower than both of the OP's examples, while in Chrome it's substantially faster than both. So I'm curious how when.js goes faster on Firefox while supporting more features, and whether it could be tuned to catch up with my naive code on Chrome.
I'm not logging into facebook just to watch your video, sorry.
Very nice article, would have saved me time last year when I was looking into the same things. One question though: why file a C-corp instead of an S-corp?
I put it there; thanks for the suggestion.
You are just adding another layer of abstraction. Something created God or God has existed forever.

If the universe existed forever, you don't need to create a God to create the universe.
Agreed. At first I couldn't tell if this was an Onion-style article satirizing the type of kool-aid that's passed around at these kind of conferences. Actually, if you read it that way, it's pretty amusing.

That said, if he's really passionate about it, more power to him. Personally, I think Kinect is overhyped but will find a niche audience and grow from there.
> Unfortunately, radiation lends itself very well to sensationalism

It's strange, but it wasn't always this way. If you look back into older literature, there was a sense that radioactive things would bring about a bright, promising future. So much so that people did some pretty crazy things (at least, knowing what we know now) like those foot x-rays that shoe stores once gave (which caused some pretty high radiation exposure), or those "health" drinks that got people to drink Radium water a long time ago[1].

But once the problems came to light along with the fears of nuclear war and the demonstration of the power of atomic weapons, radiation became something to be feared, even irrationally much. I really hope that things even out over time, so that we fear it neither too much nor too little. It certainly can be dangerous. There were even some really scary criticality accidents[2] with people working on the cores to nuclear bombs. But at the same time, people point out that we don't have to fear every bit of radiation. After all, there's plenty of natural background radiation all around us, from bananas to Brazil nuts.

I wish that we could come up with a happy medium, but I think it will require a lot of time and education.

[1] If you want to see the Radium water, read this: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/healthy-glow-d...

[2] The "walking ghost" phase after massive exposure is especially creepy. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticality_accident
In 2008 510GBP was around 1000USD. Now 500GBP is 750USD and 650GBP is a 1000USD. It's the exchange rate that's changed not Apple's price.
We do, gladly - det er dejlig å være norsk i danmark!! :)
yes, but why would anyone buy mini over say macbook? it costs almost as much, doesn't have display nor battery, hardware expansion options are very limited etc.
I like it, the internal power supply is a great feature also worth mentioning (the old one had a block attached almost as big as the device itself). What I don't like is the pricing, why do I have to pay 799 EUR (=$975!) here in the Netherlands when you can get the exact same device in the US for $699. That's a $275 difference!
Cheapest new model in Finland (and many other european countries) is now 799€. Previously you could get the cheapest one for 549€.

Apple seems to think that 150€ price raise won't affect the sales, but I think it will hurt them.
how is it prettier?

i liked previous design much better!
How did you shelter and feed yourself at $0/hour ?

Somebody or something was providing you liquidity.
It allows for expensive, obvious data exfiltration. (Expensive in the sense that somebody else could take the data, unless you're the highest bidder for those categories – assuming Google Ads still shows ads with a bid of 0, which I'm not confident in.)
That was no terrorist act backed by 90 million. Other more popular “movements” routinely get many more supporters to show up.
CLRS is a literal algorithm textbook. They recommended grinding HackerRank or LeetCode too.
I could remember initially paying for a Whatsapp subscription a couple of years ago, I was happy to do so as I believed they were providing an essential service.

I think that model could've worked.
I used to have the same thinking, lurked on Signal for a while, then suddenly all my contacts started to show up.

Even my 14 year old got all her friends on Signal (without my direct influence) because they are very aware of instagram/FB addiction and want to stay away from it.
We have a system in place to address societal concerns. We came to this system after 2000 years of human history. The place is called the parliament + courts in a democracy. Yet, we don't want to follow that structure and continue on media + social media trials. So now, we as a society are "hacked" on social media + media. If we don't have the discipline, we deserve to see this played. Worse - we will only seen incessant complaints and rarely any action towards change.
Thanks! It does and it does not. Here's 100 rounds where it does: https://github.com/PEZ/ghost-chase-condition/tree/master/tes...

But in other cases I have it seems to not help that much. Not sure how to minimize those, but will try figure it out.
Just for independent verification purposes, I tried to find a free copy of this book using his search terms, and didn't come up with anything in a few minutes of clicking after results.

It appears that there is a 5th edition of his Javascript book and a 6th edition of another author's HTML book easily reachable from those terms, but no free electronic copy of a 6th edition Javascript book.

Google will remove links to pirated copies of books, one needs only submit a DMCA request. I doubt that DMCA requests will drive publicity for your book launch like an entitled blog post, though.
By design I don't mean rounded corners and typography -- I mean things like limiting the networks to universities to begin with, having the Facebook graph mirror real-life social networks, the timing and characteristics of News Feed, Platform, Connect, etc.
Maybe a bad idea to direct more revenue to major studios -- and thus to the MPAA's legal and lobbying budgets. They, more than the BSA, led to the DMCA which hardware and software makers now wield against the public.
Yes, but with Netflix the price is right. Also, amidst all that crap there are a decent number of good movies.
My sense is that it's always a bad idea to ask for a picture and chances are that sending one won't help. The resume is in French, though, so this is likely different in Europe.
Show me a single creator who can't feed him or herself due to a site like this.
My port is already being used for my own stats gathering. So they need to supply a hub or splitter.
Great article, http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/are-computers-mak... which talks about human/computer chess competitions. So rather than computer versus computer or human versus human, it's a hybrid.

What I'd be curious about though, is there ever a case where the strongest computer program + a human could beat the strongest computer program?
How would that modulate a gravity field?

If you're thinking that the matter and antimatter have gravity and that gravity disappears when they annihilate because their mass is gone, that's not the case. All energy and momentum produces gravity, not just mass.
"I initially agreed with these methods and chose to volunteer to help defend my country. It was not until I was in Iraq and reading secret military reports on a daily basis that I started to question the morality of what we were doing. It was at this time I realized in our efforts to meet this risk posed to us by the enemy, we have forgotten our humanity."

One of my best friends spoke similarly when I met him after his tour as a Marine in the first Gulf War in 1991. Based on what he saw, after long introspection, he applied for conscientious objector status. He felt he was sent around the world not to protect his country's freedom or safety, but government and corporate interests. He felt his conscience could only oppose all wars he could possibly imagine his country fighting. He could only learn that by going, not from what his government told him before going.

The situation today seems more objectionable than then. I feel like the more we learn about the government's actions, the yet more objectionable they seem.

I shudder when I connect the data point then to today's and extrapolate a few years out.

But I still take inspiration from people who honor the Constitution over what seems opposing policy.

(Edit: since people are asking about what happened to my friend, instead of evaluating his conscientious objector intent, they gave him bureaucratic run-around for years until it was easier for him to get his Honorable Discharge on schedule.)
> A 51% attack seems inevitable.

So, what are you going to do with your 51% of the network? Somehow double spend $150m before everyone upgrades their clients?
I've never commented on an author's English before, but why does this person write somewhat like Yoda?

> In our opinion not ideal, this markup pattern.

> Not too scary, this markup.

Is this an acceptable form of English grammar that I'm unfamiliar with? (I'm a native speaker, and this is an honest question.) Is he just trying to be playful with words?
As much of a "bad wrap" that PHP has - you can still build a modern, functional app with it. You might not be able to move as quickly as with say Node these days - but it can be built. Although, knowing Rails, Php, Node, and a few others very well - I would spend the few weeks to teach the team node. The productivity saved down the road would be immense (I say this from having started a few tech startups 1php, 2rails, 1node)
They will be providing a hosting service later on.
This is exactly it. I run http://sysadmincasts.com/ and this is the system that I have used. Also, expect that high quality audio/video takes time, each minute of video takes me about 1-2 hours (research, planning storyboard/transcript, recording, editing, transcoding, review, etc) to produce.
I haven't heard about the microbes, really interesting. I will definitely share this article with my team.

As for the actual tree-planting, it's done by WeForest (www.weforest.org).

I don't remember full details about this method, so don't quote me on that (I am a developer). It seems it's mostly about the soil preparation. They displace the top layer in a shape that's more efficient for water storage, preserving it from evaporating too fast, it lasts for longer.

As far as I remember seed selection and proper mixing of different species plays a huge role.
The forest starts small (which is simple and efficient) from grasses, shrubs to bushes and finally to trees which then become mature.

This is a nice piece of nature hacking. I could try to find some sources on the details of tree planting tomorrow.

What is even nicer this is nearly 100% done by the locals so it empowers the local communities, gives them not only hope but real opportunities.

We make it easy for people who care to contribute while doing everyday tasks on the Internet.
And if developers would just write bug-free code then also life would be much simpler. Sadly neither of these things is going to happen, so we need to deal with it somehow.
I don't know about you, but I boil water several times every day. I don't go outside to freezing temperatures every day. So this is all relative.

In fact, the heater I have at work has a nice digital temperature display, and it works nicely as an indication how long to wait, a bit like a charging/loading indication...
It's a bit like asking if I'd want to use an Ipad 1 which is less than 5 years old. If Apple focused on iterating on iOS 5 and kept it running on an iPad 1, and all the developers in the world were developing for the iPad 1, I think we'd be much worse off. We also mustn't forget there's compounding development. i.e. if you have a 1-year release cycle on small updates (4 -> 4S, 5 -> 5S) and a 2-year release cycle for major updates, you compound developments much faster than a 5-year cycle as you can do mini-experiments every year, see how the response is and act on it. Touch ID is a great example, used as an alternative to unlocking with pin on the 5S, well received, then integrated into Apple Pay for in-store payments, appstore payments, paypal payments etc.

Does that mean we're 'to blame'? Well in a way, yes. But I don't really feel it's a big problem. It's a side-effect of something awesome: new technology iterating fast. If you compare mobile tech between 2008 - 2014, I'm pretty amazed. But you offered a pretty extreme 5-year case. I think most obviously would say no to that. But software problems being deprecated on a 2-year old phone (that should have already been resolved anyway) is pretty weak and I don't think it's got much to do with consumers. That's a business choice for which I think enough resources should be made available to fix, unless it's not important. But we're talking a Voip call for a smartphone here, it doesn't get much more elementary than that. It's just bad practice and I don't think we are to blame for that. I wouldn't expect a Voip call to echo madly from an HTC or Apple phone and then not get fixed in the 2 years after.
You've been bitten by the contrarian dynamic, which I just wrote about elsewhere—see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21475106 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Your comment is a classic phase-2 voter-upper, which was sitting at the top of the thread until I marked it off topic. Apologies for quoting myself, but: After that first wave of comments, we frequently see a second wave of comments objecting in a reflexive way to the first wave. Although they take the opposing position—defending the article and criticizing the comments—it's the same contrarian dynamic, the same mechanism, driving them. Usually the second wave gets upvoted the most, leading to the paradox of the top comment in a thread expressing how bad the thread is, or the most popular comment expressing how wrong the populace is.

Once this subthread was marked off topic, which lowers it on the page, one sees that the top subthreads are all pretty thoughtful. In other words, once you account for the contrarian dynamic (first wave of dismissive comments, second angry wave dismissing the dismissals and getting voted to the top), HN is doing reasonably well in this case. The contrarian dynamic happens in general; it has nothing to do specifically with climate, any more than with race (which was the context in the thread I just linked to).
Which is why postmortem blog posts are always infinity more enlightening than the "How we build X" posts
Bigotry and Sexism aren't reputation-threatening for large swaths of the business world.
That's a fair point. I've updated the post to read, "That translates to thousands of requests per second per core" instead of saying it's linear scaling. Thanks for the feedback!
Obviously some people use video calls successfully. I don't know what else to say...
And yet US citizens resident abroad still have to file US taxes, even if they are dual citizens and have never lived in the US.
Two thoughts without getting into the morality or ethics of existing law: The legal standard for giving money is different than taking money. A tax incentive that is legal (i.e. mortgage interest deduction) would be illegal as a giveaway (giving money to only taxpayers with mortgages) as it would fail equal protection under the law. Second, often times tax incentives help avoid having the government use taxpayers as the bank. For example, if I take deductions for my dependents on my w-2, I have less money taken out of my paycheck. The other way around, no loopholes, would a) discourage having dependents and b) would force me to act as the bank for the government.
When I was young I though that good writers are the ones who write such complex sentences that nobody can understand. Later I learned that good writers are clear and understandable.

I used to write complex code because I found it elegant. Now I write simple code because I enjoy breaking down a complex problem into its simplest form, which for me means I fully understand the problem.
A used copy of this book sells for roughly $250.

And yes, it's written with tonguw-in-cheek.

Also be aware that there is some nudity in this book, so maybe not safe for all work environments.

Otherwise, absolutely great book, best source for card throwing that you will ever find.
My best friend feels exactly as you do. While I agree on the urban aspect, nothing makes me feel better than living in a desert. Yes, it makes my breathing and allergies better, but the real reason is the sense of well-being I get in hot, dry, sparse environments that I get nowhere else. It really is sublime.
I like React's paradigm of declarative programming, and I like that it has static site generators like Gatsby, react-static and Next.js. React is interesting because it combines both a programming paradigm with the method of delivery, so it's nice that one can decouple that from the other.