skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is closer like this: ARM, and all the companies that have their own ARM designs, have a library of parts. They assemble those parts as needed to complete designs for themselves and for customers.

What people don't understand is, Intel does the same. Look at how modern E3s, E5s, E7s, i3/5/7s, modern Atoms, etc, all work: similar designed parts, all paired with what is minimally required for that design to work and perform the way they want.

Intel doesn't throw designs out, they keep them and periodically make sure they still work on smaller fab sizes and newer fab techs.

A more striking example than the Phi is the Intel Quark, featured in the Edison platform, which is Intel's equivalent of an ARM Cortex-M series (such as the M4s used in a lot of cell phones as a GPS/motion sub-processor and other things). The Quark really is a modernized P54C (Pentium 1 pre-MMX) core, and more so than the Xeon Phi is (although, obviously, there is shared part design through both of them).

I think the thing with Phi is, its rapidly evolving. Larrabee was closer to this design than first gen Phi was, and now they're shipping second gen Phi, and it looks more like how some GPUs have been historically designed than just x86 core spam (look at how the bus design is evolving, they're getting closer and closer to how AMD and Nvidia design theirs, and also how post-Skylake on-die GPU integration is evolving on multi-socket platforms).

So, yeah. I don't agree that the Phi can be flat out called a P54C, but I agree they have been reusing modernized parts from that era because it is easier to do that than continually strip down existing designs to look like that.

The Quark, however, looks a lot like how embedded family 286 and 486s have been kept alive for the embedded hardware sector, and now they're positioning the Quark for the IoT era (which, hey, they have my interest with that product, so they did something right); the Quark is more of a P54C than the Phi is.
Might be Hacker Hoaxer Whistleblower Spy, which I wrote http://www.amazon.com/Hacker-Hoaxer-Whistleblower-Spy-Anonym...

I do raise the trickster there. You can find a pdf of it out there too if you google for it.
As a general rule, smaller companies that release their code under the GPL have almost no recourse against huge companies violating their copyrights. One of the big flash drive makers released their own portable browser based on PortableApps.com's Firefox Portable a few years back and distributed it on millions of drives with my name and all copyrights stripped off of it. This happened after I'd been in negotiations with them about using our software platform and fully informed their subsidiary in charge of their resulting software platform of the legal obligations of the GPL including a direct call with the subsidiary's CEO. The most I could do was send them a C&D.

To add insult to injury, the subsidiary released a hardware product years later and another company released a similar but different product in the same segment. The subsidiary sued the other company and had this PR story published about how the CEO was so offended by the "theft" and had to sue them to be able to look his kids in the face.
Actually if you see ?no-ist at the end of the URL, this is their anti-adblock measure. Short for 'no-interstitial' means they didn't get to show you an ad, so don't show the article either. If you simply delete this part of the URL, it will load properl.
But if you throw in wine... I say this in jest, but it does make me wonder.
> Then maybe you should maybe spend some time studying these topics instead of acting up on HN.

Chances are, I implemented more varieties of type systems than you can name.

> This is where I lost the last doubts about the reality and your lack of closeness with it.

Scala fanboys are much more detached from the reality. The reality rejected bondage&discipline languages long ago.
Happy to buy any shares you have in any of the YC unicorns.
This is probably the forum post they are talking about:

https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3713&p=134...
I guess part of this is that I'd prefer the concierge to hand me a list of restaurants than have to have a whole conversation about what the options are. I don't want expertise, I want curated information.
Somewhat OT, but maybe related.

Does anyone actually work as a QA for documentation? I've been in many projects where "just read the docs" or "go read this doc", and... nearly always it's out of date, or missing key information (like who wrote it, who to contact for access to systems in the document, etc) or so scantily written as to be useless.

Saying "I wrote docs" but having them be abysmal seems to be the norm. People now accept that having unit tests for code is a thing (not always done, but at least a thing) - is there an equivalent for documentation?
It's not a merely semantic argument. Google's system did not learn that the sound 'cat' is associated with that particular concept. You need some kind of supervised learner to make that association.
It would be great to see how many jobs YC has created too.
The followup to that though, is whether they were hooking up with other married dudes...
Except that GDP is a perfectly fine definition for that. A national healthcare system is something which is strongly inflenced by things like economies of scale; measuring by any metric other than GDP and government budget would make very little sense. If the DoD can afford to burn trillions on a jack-of-all-trades fighter that sucks at pretty much all the jobs it's meant to take on, it can almost certainly afford to give every American free healthcare, free college educations, and at least two moon colonies to boot.

The point of the "richest country in the world" remark is that the U.S. could very well afford to be the most progressive modern society if it chose to do so. Instead, it opts to sink money in failed fighter projects and nebulous "terrorist"-hunting surveillance and drone strike programs.
Hah! Sounds like my story, except mine involved the main newspaper in the next big city over from my hometown. Totally uninteresting.
Over 900 companies, and all we're getting are 10 numbers? Am I missing something?
The assistant has to make the connection, not the user. I've seen it work against quite a few different APs including some obscure ones, so I'm not sure there's a list or not. The online docs suggest that it does some performance testing before connecting.
https://www.google.com/search?q=grsecurity+forum+patch+porte...
Google Started Working on PHP Support in App Engine's Managed VMs
Yes but then they will execute at the same time instead of sequentially.
FWIW, I generally agree. Particularly here in the US where last-mile internet is terrible. :/
For example, if you calculate the magnitude of a thousand-dimensional vector, you end up with a single scalar. If you calculate the magnitude of a thousand one-dimensional vectors, you'd end up with a thousand scalars.
Additionally, if given a thousand-dimensional vector, the ordering is important, whereas if given a thousand one-dimensional vectors, ordering isn't neccesarily something we know about.

The difference is subtle and occasionally pedantic, but can be very important depending on what exactly one is doing.
I think they are more like modern days terrorists. The kind that will burn a farm just because they can.
It boils my blood to read about such incidences.

US is turning into the India that I came here to avoid. Policemen in India will stop you at their whim and find a reason to fine you (exact a bribe really).

A cop followed my car in Salt lake city for 10 miles before he stopped me for turning on my blinkers for only 2 seconds before changing lanes. Apparently the law in Utah says that it should be 3 seconds. I wish I had recorded that incident, simply because it is so unbelievable.

The incident smelled racist, and made sure I will never live in Utah / Salt Lake City.
> Scala got no macros. Which makes it infinitely less powerful than any language with macros, including even something like Clojure.

Scala has macros since 2.10

http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/overview.html
I am very excited to hear this news. I feel that InfluxDB has some great devs pushing this product.
It's not bordering on. It's definitely fraud. The whole point is to deceive in order to achieve financial gain. Not all fraud is a crime. Proving false advertising, in this case, might be both challenging and amusing.
Yea I bought a Nexus 6 when I signed up. I thought that was the only supported device though.

edit: I also had no previous Google Voice account to transfer FWIW
In case you're interested, this is something we're working on. Consider subscribing to this issue:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/issues/701
Some companies have a dedicated technical doc team for this purpose yeah.
Transwheel – parcel delivery drone
Not enough naming consistency in Linux UI
Bingo.

Article pitches aren't all inherently bad ideas for articles either. A good example from my industry that I'm pretty sure was from a pitch is this one from the WSJ [1]. The basic concept of regaining focus at work is a strong one that resonates with people right now, but all the blog post ends up being is an ad for the product.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2015/04/19/the-office-chair-desi...
Holy cow, that is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing that.
Plain HTML is Ugly
As I'm sure you know, Bitcoin's scripting language, as originally designed, is deliberately not Turing complete[1]. That's one of Ethereum's key points of difference with Bitcoin.

It's a very difficult challenge to keep control of resource use in any such decentralized system, and even more of a challenge when scripts can loop. It's going to be interesting to see if Ethereum can eventually work without frequent human intervention to modify the code. Even Bitcoin didn't quite get to that state yet.

[1]https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
I like the initial apps selection :)

By the way, this is a model (click-install) employed by countless hosting providers. From that point-of-view, I don't see a clear value proposition in this project, but still wish you good luck!
This is particularly screwed up because they had the option of a structured settlement vs. lump-sum at the outset, and were shepherded into the structured settlement. Later, when their circumstances generally have NOT changed, it's absurd that they'd give up 70-90% of NPV to transition.

I wonder if there could be a requirement written into the structured settlements that the settlement provider handle a market-rate transition to lump sum at any time, as part of creditworthiness of the settlement provider. Then, petition a judge in jurisdiction of residence to do the transition.

I'm pretty far-right libertarian, but this is just gratuitous abuse of people who aren't able to take care of their own affairs. Selfishly, I want it destroyed with fire because otherwise people will see this abuse and think they need more regulation even in other areas where it's not necessary.
Upvotes solve this concern.
This is something we're actively working on! :) "Share by identity" (i.e. to a Sandstorm user, or a Github user, or a Google account, or an email address, rather than by secret link) is high on the todo list. "Folders" are something that will be naturally enabled by the Powerbox, which allows apps to connect to each other -- a "folder" could actually be a very simple app whose purpose is to hold a set of capabilities to other grains, implicitly giving anyone who access the folder access to the contents.

(FWIW, back when I was at Google I spent a couple years working on Google Docs sharing, so I have a pretty good idea of what is needed here. Just have to write code.)
The problem is using the words "valuation" and "worth" interchangeably. Just because someone pays $50 million for 5% of startup doesn't make it magically worth $1 billion. No one would actually pay anything close to $1 billion for the whole thing, hence it is not worth anything close to $1 billion. That's just the implied valuation.
cat list.txt | xargs -n 1 -P 20 wget

Queues up 20 concurrent downloads with wget, for example.
Optical-Based Computers;High Temp Metal Alloy;Microfluidics Device for Cancer
I used to work at British telecom with a guy who had been a phreak and got caught hacking Prestel - one day one of BT's security (SD Directorate) guys who had busted him bumped into him at work and was not pleased.

I also worked for the Systems administrator who was in charge of the machine in the Prince Philip hack.
YouTube's Approach to Copyright Claims Could Scare Off Streamers
- Gnome 2, KDE 3 - The old-style interfaces. Simplicity.

- Old Slashdot

- Old style Thinkpads

- 4chan before it had captcha

- Kazaa (do these networks still work?)

- Suprnova (warez has gone downhill, since we now have open source alternatives)

- Turntable.fm

- Runescape Classic

- Old Firefox (when it was light, phoenix 0.1

- Utorrent (before they wrecked it with adware)

- Windows 2000 classic interface, XP

- Nokia N900 (debian phone, nokia abandoned linux and maemo for microsoft.)

- Razr 3 / Old nokia "Dumbphones" - built like tanks. Solid. Reliable.

- I miss the old innocence of PHP Vbulletin, early CMS systems like PHP-Nuke - which at the time were cool.

- Photoshop 6 (before they put CRM callhomes everywhere)

- BZFlag - no one cares about this anymore :(

- MySpace - I liked how you could customize it. It was more
individualistic

- AOL / MSN / Yahoo Chat. People were more open to making friendships online.
Why someone wants to hack “insignificant you”
What's more intriguing is how was YC able to see through what the other investors saw as an issue?

Even to this day I'm astonished that AirBnB exists and yet YC was able to see something in them years ago.
Great comment. I feel this principle should be applied to all ‘terrorists’. Try them under existing criminal law; no need to make new terrorist laws which only help promote their standing as ‘terrorists’ and, by extension, the causes they seek to promote.

The whole terrorism thing is essentially a ‘game’ between the authorities and the self-perceived cause-warriors, with the general public being pulled in as collateral damage (both as direct victims and, more broadly, as the losers of individual and social freedoms). The people, acting in their own self-interest, should refuse to let this sick, manufactured drama continue and that means refusing both sides their roles (as ‘terrorists’ or ‘defenders from terrorism’).
"I would be willing to bet that at some point all those things have been covered by different patents"

I agree, but whether they have been covered and whether they should have been are very different things.

"The company who patented a chair rocking mechanism would not be affected by the inventor who made a door with soft springs"

Probably not, given how messed up the patent system is, but if you read Thomas Jefferson's writings on patents, it isn't too hard to imagine him spinning furiously in his grave at where the patent system is now because of this sort of thing.

See, for example:

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letter...

What the founding fathers considered "non-obvious" was a vastly higher standard than what is passed off as non-obvious these days (these days it seems like most people who talk about patents consider "non-obvious" to be about the equivalent of "could someone have come up with in in a minute off the top of his or her head?", but for Jefferson, et al, these "X but on Y" patents would have been considered laughably weak and extremely damaging to the public good.
Works great for me, I got the N6 with the service.
In one paragraph you've given me a better understanding of Ethereum than several blog posts and even the Ethereum website itself. Good job and thank you.
Displaying overt ads of a specific type at a specific time, probably. Displaying general ads at a general or specific time, possibly. Using that information to do advanced analysis of customers, or do custom tailored time-sensitive (it's payday!) sales, of select inventory they are likely to be interested in? Curtailing them in that manner may be harder to get companies to swallow and live with, and harder for the public to get worked up over. Loopholes would be found, or rules would be ignored, etc.

It's sort of analogous to the friendly neighborhood general store owner Bob knowing his customer Carl is into fishing, getting an expensive but interesting lure, and noting to Carl right after his payday that he has this interesting item Carl might be interested in... I don't see legislation preventing Amazon from doing the same going anywhere.

Sharing that data with outside companies, or restricting it to specific portions of a company with many businesses might be a good candidate for legislation, and also the ability to request specific purchases and associated data or all purchase data for you prior to X be removed.
I have no doubts that if you greenfield it, Google has that flow tested.

Many of us had pre-existing 6's and I think most people with troubles are there. Be thankful you haven't had to interact with support. Individually they're all nice and want to help, but collectively they have no agency and minimal education.
If Darwin uses a Microkernel then so does Microsoft Windows. They are very similar designs.

In case you are wondering: I don't think that Microsoft Windows uses a microkernel.

Some versions of Mach are micro, other versions are not. OS X doesn't use a microkernel, neither does Darwin. They use XNU kernel. XNU has code from Mach and it also uses code from FreeBSD.

People call it a 'hybrid kernel', but I think that is a misnomer and only really exists through the effectiveness of Apple's marketing. XNU is a monolithic kernel with message passing capabilities inspired from microkernels. Makes it so they can isolate certain features and drivers better then, say, Linux can.

Unlike Apple, Microsoft actually did release a version of NT that was a true microkernel, but they quickly realized that it is not a practical approach to creating a OS that was competitive with Unix.

Regardless...

This seems pretty much Darwin grafted with FreeBSD.

For a commercial network appliance device it's probably a good approach. They get all the benefits from using source code from Apple, FreeBSD, and ZFS without having to actually provide much source code in the way of real improvements that could be used to enhance a competitor's product.
I'm obviously misunderstanding something about this.

Since grsecurity is GPL'd (being modifications to the GPL'd kernel), anyone that is "a customer of any product that uses grsecurity in binary form, [is] entitled to the complete corresponding source code." Which means their stable patches will get requested and released by someone anyway.

Help me understand how this will have any effect on the actual availability of their stable series?
Metaprogramming in ES6: Part 2 – Reflect
The problem is that people's tastes differ, and what content someone will hate, another person will happily consume. For example, Brad Frost appears to hate 24-hour news network...I actually like them. Why? Because I find those 24-hour news networks "genuinely useful things". Brad Frost doesn't.

But let assume that we do live in a world where 90% of the Internet is trash, and we agree that they are trash. The idea that consumers will gravitate towards the remaining 10% still seems fairly odd. It takes a lot of time and effort to actually find good, quality content, and it seems more likely that consumers will just tune out everything, and avoid going anywhere.
Because we expect more from YC. No one doubts that YC has been a hugely positive impact in the startup world. It seems below YC's standard to share selective metrics that might not tell the whole story.
The final Terry Pratchett novel – The Shepherd's Crown – set for release tonight
A song for Ashley Madison fans
Youtube introduced live streaming in April 2011 [1], while Twitch launched in June 2011 [2]. Sure, adoption of live streaming on Youtube has been slow, but it has been there. Twitch just came and made it targeted to gaming. I'd say having live streaming available for anything is actually a greater feat, Twitch just made it easier for users to discover and use.

There has been a gaming videos culture on Youtube long before Twitch existed, and Twitch's audience would undeniably be much smaller without it.

[1] http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/04/08/1746247/google-rolli...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch.tv
A UDP packet walks into a bar
I believe we don't want an equivalent to Google/Yahoo -- we need an improvement over search. Rather than trusting corporations to deliver the knowledge we seek, we should rely on our personal trust graph -- like we did in the old days. Otherwise the constant influx of biased, irrelevant information will be overwhelming.

What if you could get a recommendation from your friend's friend without asking them, and without violating trust or privacy? This is what I am building today.
I'll give a try...

Imagine three, 4-by-1 vectors, each "one-dimensional". Twelve total scalars, each vector with four rows and one column. Arrange these three vectors side by side and merge them into a single 4-by-3 matrix. This matrix is "two-dimensional".

Now, let's imagine five such matrices, each 4-by-3. Stack the five matrices one on top of the other. We currently have a 4x3x5 matrix. This matrix, which contains 60 scalars, is "3-dimensional".

Repeat a similar exercise 997 more times and you have a 1000-dimensional matrix.

Compare that matrix to this: 1000 of our original 4-by-1 vectors arranged side by side, which gives a 4x1000 matrix, which is simply a "two-dimensional" matrix with 4000 elements.
Condition Red: The Financial System Is Now Out of Control
Public stock prices are decided by supply-demand balance. In no way does this valuation resemble that mechanism.
I no longer have to look for the obscure Herzog stuff. He finds me, which is just how I like it.
If I ask someone I know what's a good place to eat, the odds are actually quite high that I'll give it a try. I wouldn't have asked otherwise.

The issue here is one of trust, which is built on an individualized relationship over time. When I ask someone I know for a recommendation, I'm doing so because I already have a sense of their judgment. That's more the key here- build a history of reliable judgment. That's the goal.
They were real dicks for sure. Fortunately I was 15 and it was pre-9/11 (by about 7 months). I'm not so sure things would have gone as well for me today.
Birth tourism [wikipedia]
Epidemiology and etiology of meningioma [pdf]
And I am suggesting that the value created is much lower than the value captured.
Sounds like a great product!

I wonder what the app plans to do about insurance? Say if they move a TV and the TV gets cracked during the duration of the trip.
Never had the chance to meet him, but I still have a lot of respect for what he's done for Computer Science. Thank you Joseph, and may you rest in peace.
Why Your Business Should Be More Active on Instagram Than Facebook [Infographic]
Read a Book and Ride the Bus for Free
The sponsors use it (Kernel+Grsecurity), they don't distribute it.

Since they don't distribute it, they also don't distribute the patches.
Peskov, the guy who found the family, used to put together expeditions once a year during summers to visit the family with a helicopter full of food and supplies. He'd write about it in Komsomolskaya Pravda every once in a while. I remember reading KP when I was 10 (20 years ago) and being totally fascinated by these stories.
Doesn't even mention the Star-Spangled Banner, which is literally Francis Scott Key's "Defence of Fort McHenry" sung to the tune of "To Anacreon in Heaven".
UDP uses a simple connectionless transmission model with a minimum of protocol mechanism. It has no handshaking dialogues, and thus exposes any unreliability of the underlying network protocol to the user's program