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"No, they don't. The FPGA's have LUTS that represent other logic gates in weird ways for flexibility."

LUTs are composed of gates. By gates I mean literal transistors etched in the silicon. They're the simplest form of optimization that FPGAs use to get around the cost of re-routable interconnects.

However, you seem to be missing my point: that complex tiles will no longer be an advantage, for performance or for differenciation. We're reaching the bottom of what silicon can do, and the rules of the game are going to change - the future isn't going to be just smaller and faster versions of the same thing we have now.

And while I agree that differenciation is a powerful driver, it happens just as often as not that the ability to differenciate goes away. That's how we get commoditization. Certainly there will be still be the ability to differenciate based on the various analog peripherals on the chip (GPIOs, DACs, etc.), but in terms of the actual digital FPGA fabric, I think that will go away, and the benefits of standardization and reduced SKUs (i.e. in terms of supply-chain management and economies of scale) will start to win out.

And, certainly the market-driven complexity you talk about will always exist, but it will be driven from the silicon side of it.
Though, IIRC, the tank that's based off of was already designed to carry some passengers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkava#Specifications_of_mode...
Likely no. There is a dearth of 'literature' in terms of books and the like right now, it does seem. But everything is 'exploding' in the arts right now. Banksy is not a painter, but his work hangs in museums and is collected. Breaking Bad is not a play to read, but it is a strong work nonetheless. Iron Man is a movie, but Tony Stark is a character we all can reference just like John Galt.

I think the post-post-modern era will not be so easy to define. There will be common works, but nothing as ubiquitous as 1984 or Romeo and Juliet. Things are changing too fast these days, and it is unlikely to stop, we are splintering and that is not a bad thing maybe.
Server Name Identification divulges the hostname (in the clear) during the key exchange.
I didn't say Larry wasn't keen on a multi-language VM in 2003.[1] I said that Parrot's pursuit of that goal contributed to (an intricately braided series of) technical and political conflicts with Rakudo, culminating in a breakdown of relations between them across 2013-2015.

Why would I think that? I am aware of your recollections. I have read everything you blogged about the collapse of Parrot.

I have also read everything several other people wrote about the inception of MoarVM and the suspension of Parrot support, including key figures from both sides and several third-party observers. I have read the IRC logs of Parrot design meetings, including negotiations with the Rakudo leads, for the period leading up to the rupture. I have read key announcements by Parrot and Rakudo lead designers from earlier than this, wherein I think I see the seeds of the breakdown sown.

I made a detailed study of all this last spring, when I learned about the suspension. I have also been checking in intermittently on Parrot since 2002, and on every Perl 6 implementation I could find since the post-Pugs revival. And since last spring I have been kept aware of your position in particular through sundry comments here and on Reddit; you are a reliable presence whenever someone mentions Perl 6 or Rakudo without condemning it.

I can't speak to specific differences between my opinions and your recollections, since you did not see fit to say what those were. But I am hardly uninformed and I know of no error in what I said (viz., the actual words that I typed).

[1] If I wanted a document to make my point for me, I could hardly do better than the 2003 State of the Onion. Here's where Larry's head was in 2003: Yes, he thought a multi-language VM was just what Perl needed. He also thought that the Perl 6 design was basically done. He clearly didn't think there would be too much difference in kind between Parrot and the p5p runtime, as shown by his speculating that Ponie could be ready to support 5.10 and could entirely replace p5p by 5.12. He had not yet written the Apocalypse on the object system; its release in 2004 is really when it became clear how deep and structural the changes from 5 to 6 would be, and consequently it's also when it really became clear what a VM would need to provide to be good for Perl 6. Heck, in 2003 Larry thought "slow progress" meant a couple of major redesign documents a year, and he thought slow progress was just coming to an end. About the only thing that address was right about is that Larry didn't know very much. (Well, that and the switch statement.) If I'm saying reality disproved early conceptions about the realization of Perl 6, SotO 2003 is Exhibit A.
10. Release a quality app

It's not a buggy, slow, unusable piece of crap that a lot of low-end software is. It's easy to use and it works well.
Tides in the Bay of Fundy here in the Maritimes Canada are 15m (50 feet). And in some places the water comes in so fast there is a mini-tidal wave the tidal bore.
We had a test that was calculating a total value of a counter (so based on differences between counter values) for "yesterday" (as well as "today", "this week", etc). I committed code and within a few minutes get notified that my code caused a failure in this test -- unexpected as my change didn't even touch anything remotely related to this functionality.

As I start asking if anyone has any idea, someone else mentions they've seen that before too, many weeks ago, but then it "fixed itself".. Today was the 1st, and when I looked at the previous failure for this test, it was also on the 1st, but it was a couple months ago. Last month the tests were passing on the 1st. So I start to dig into it.

To put this in perspective, we had dozens of other tests that were checking the same calculation for various time spans across months (including explicitly for months with both 30 and 31 days, and February-to-March for both leap and non-leap years), and all sorts of combinations of different values, missing data, etc, that had mostly been there for well over a year. We had actually spent a fairly significant amount of time thinking about how to test this for all the different combinations of dates and data.

As it was the 1st, one of the other tests was actually running with the exact same start and end date/times as this "yesterday" test, but was passing. So I started looking at the mock data each was using.

Turns out it was in fact a legitimate bug, but only happened if it was currently the 1st, AND yesterday was not the 31st, AND there were no values at all for the current month (or anytime later).

The mock data for the "yesterday" test didn't have any values after whatever yesterday was. The explicit date test for 31st-to-1st happened to have a 0 value on the 1st, which meant this bug didn't happen.

Mostly out of curiosity, I looked further back in test history. There were in fact 3 or 4 separate times this test failed, all of which were on the 1st of either March, May, July, October or December. But not all of those dates -- because sometimes the 1st was on a weekend, or just no code was pushed, and no build was run.

This was also in production, but probably was never seen by any customers (none had reported it) because the "yesterday" value was only ever displayed in the UI, and most of the time data is added hourly, so by the time a user logged in on the 1st (say, 8 am), it was almost certain there was some piece of data added (even if it was 0).

We added an explicit test with the data for this situation, and of course fixed the bug.

However, this will live on as by far the most obscure time-based test failure I've ever had to deal with.
The only solace I have that the only data the webserver will have is activity on that one server rather than all of my activity aggregated and analyzed by google or microsoft.
I use PHP for my freelance work mainly because I have no option on hosting. I never got the appeal for PHP (besides being cheap to host). All my personal projects are either done in Python or Node + (Angular, react & now Vue)

Python: PURE elegance

Node: io breeze

PHP: ?

Q: is the "module" system still achieved by dumping file content or is there a linking system?
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We’re constantly striving to ensure that we offer the most encouraging, supportive and efficient environment possible. We want everyone on the team to participate in making architectural decisions. The whole team is involved in prioritising and evaluating our work and we regularly program in pairs to share knowledge, promote collaboration, and improve code quality.

We don't just pay lip service to work-life balance, we actively and strongly encourage it. Flexible working hours and the ability to regularly work from home let you work in a way that fits you and your family, and we have generous maternity and paternity leave policies. We see our contractual obligation to offer 25 days' paid holiday as a /lower/ bound for everyone in the organisation, not a limit. We actively contribute to personal and professional development and have a minimum budget allowance to be spent on courses, books, and conferences. We also run fortnightly "innovation days", where everyone has complete freedom to work on anything that interests them, from contributing to open-source projects to learning a new skill or improving our internal tools and processes.
That's actually not what I mean. It's not being critical of Israel, but rather, substandard journalistic integrity when writing on Israeli-Palestinian affairs. For example, the use of the passive voice when describing Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis, purposefully burying the lead, or other such media malpractice.
Thinking about it I guess the more relevant question is: can the "hyperloop" stop faster than a train? If not, why should we let them run at anything like the capacity Musk claims?
Selection bias. Life expectancy at birth has little impact when astronauts are all selected much latter in life.

At the extreme edge, the average age of people in nursing homes is much older than life expectancy at birth. That does not mean nursing homes are good for you.
Kazakhstan is possibly more democratic than all its neighbours save maybe Kirghizstan (I'm not up do date on the current government position). More democratic as in I can't make up who's more of a despot between Putin and Nazarbayev, after all they both win open elections, albeit with an iron grip on medias... But then Kirghizstan is likely depending on its neighbours for connectivity (also landlocked).

The other neighbours are shining beacons of democracy such as Russia, China and Uzbekistan...
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I wish we would stop repeating the "10,000 hours rule". It was a good soundbite in (at least what I think was) a good book, Outliers, but rigorous analysis of the data doesn't back it up. It's like the "drink 8 glasses of water a day" rule - sounded good until someone realized there actually wasn't evidence to back it up.

See http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/10000-hour-rule-not...
couldn't they hire a dutch firm to help reclaim the land. we should create a whole sea wall around it as an alternative to seasteading.
Check out Dwarf Therapist. It is what makes the game accessible IMHO.
Shoutout to the kids throwing rocks at the drone: https://media.giphy.com/media/d2YUC2fu21BTda4U/giphy.gif
Pop quiz: What is the singular cause of SQL injection, XSS, and stack overflows that causes a security vulnerability?

...

The answer is: Data being treated as an instruction.

Solution: Separate them so that data can never be interpreted as an instruction!

In SQLi, this solution is to use parameterized queries. You send the query in one packet, then the parameters in a second one. SQLi is thus prevented.

(Not that SQLi is the only vulnerability possible.)
Philosophy is the criticism of categories for better or for worse.
Christmas decorations for the hacker
DOI Citations in Wikipedia: A Crossref Labs Experiment with Raspberry Pi Zero
One way to source market price benchmarks is to start shopping for a good commercial property/farm lease attorney in Maryland.

Try the State Bar for a referral, ask for any specialists in solar >http://www.msba.org/default.aspx

Then ping the attorney, ask for a brief 10-15 minute call. You may be surprised to find some helpful ones. Those will be the individuals you shortlist for a retainer. More importantly, a good attorney will help protect your lessor rights.
Things are heating up around autopilot tech!
I think it's important to differentiate between the effects the products these companies create have, and the effects the companies themselves have on world/US culture.

Clearly the products have had a profound impact on culture, but I think the impact would have been the same if they had been developed by Exxon or Halliburton.

As far as the cultural impact of the companies themselves, I think it's been modest at best.
= One of the most interesting cold war AFVs was an M113 chassis with a cherry picker and 15 TOW missiles on it. Armor is nice, but a hill is even nicer. =

Interesting, never heard of that one! Any links by any chance? I would be curious to look at pictures :)
(Edit: looks like another reply has a link!)

And IMO it makes perfect sense for the first priority to be always prepared for the toughest opponent: a TOW missile will destroy a pickup truck just fine, but it also forces the opponent to be much more careful with their tanks.
That sounds like a tragic case of shooting the messenger. The sad outcome is that people learn to keep their mouths shut rather than tell unpalatable truths - and it's the whole group that loses out in the long fun.
It's a good PDF utility.
In addition to some constraints on the type of product (i.e. watch apps have to be focused, super-quick interactions), there's another reason we haven't seen a lot of app, imo:

This year was an unusually crazy year for iOS developers. Apple released:
- watchOS 1, with a slow and clunky experience
- iOS 9, with adaptive multitasking
- watchOS 2, requiring a rewrite of the watch app
– tvOS, a whole new platform, with more easily translatable app experiences.

Additionally, with the "2-versions behind" strategy for Xcode, a lot of app developers (myself included) dropped iOS 7 support. This was actually one of the most complex transitions ever. (So many backwards incompatible changes (size classes, presentation controllers, push notifications).)

So something had to give. For me, and for many others, I'd say it was probably the watch.
Where is the flag functionality when you need it :)
Well, you specifically mentioned trains in Germany. I've ridden quite a few, and I can tell you, they almost never go that fast, and not for long periods of time. With all the stop and go, all the slow tracks, quiet areas, and whatever else, the average speed isn't that high. So in general the US should probably not focus on superfast trains, since they don't pan out usually, but just getting some decent trains that are on-time and reasonably fast.
Can you give me one example of where communism has been attempted and failed? I don't know of any.

Note that I'm talking about communism as a way to structure societies, which Wikipedia describes as 'a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state.'.
Looking forward to enhancements as your time permits. Four requests for your list:

- An App Setting to disable animation (it can be disorienting)

- After navigating a cross-link, provide either a back button, or multiple breadcrumb trails in the navbar, when there are multiple "parents" or inbound paths. On Android, NoteLynX Pro supports cross-references / multiple parents, http://astrodean.blogspot.com. This is a valuable feature that few apps attempt, so thanks for including internal cross-ref links. With the new "Back to App" feature in iOS9, cross-app hyperlink support would enable use of Mindscope as a contextual launcher.

- Keyboard support, e.g. Delete to go back (cross-link) or up one level in the navigation hierarchy, hotkeys (e.g. Cmd-H for home, Cmd-W to "close" a sub-task and go up one level in the navigation hierarchy), Cmd-N to create a new entry centered in available whitespace. Mobile Safari supports similar key combos. Especially useful on iPad Pro.

- For sync, please consider open-standard CalDav
Interesting, I always thought of Frankenstein as very soft Sci-Fi, but at the time it probably seemed far more reasonable. As you can get dead flesh to twitch with electric currents.
This is why I don't try out beta drivers (until some brave canaries have tried them first)!
Ask HN: Cheap VOIP call forwarding options
Hello HNers!

I was wondering if for the US market, there is any service which allows for cheap call forwarding. We are issuing a new business phone number but we map this new business phone number to an existing cell number. The cost of call forwarding is about 2-3 cents on Twilio/Nexmo and Plivo. I was wondering if there was a cheaper mechanism to do call forwarding? Like setting up your own gateway? Has anyone had any luck with this?
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I'm surprised you felt that way. I only read the (linked) introduction so far and I was bent over laughing. The story, punctuated by the tweets, is hysterical. I don't see how the length (Candide was also short) or physicality of it matters. I find that it is, indeed, poignant satire, and that is enough for me.
Kazakhstan is authoritarian state that censors. This is in no way or form slippery.
charm seems to be in the physicality of it

From what they are saying, they are impressed by the typesetting and graphics. And the novelty of having one of 140 books in production.
> It's the job of police to actively investigate crimes.

In the US, this is not true. The police, at large, are there to control a situation and assign blame. Investigation is to those ends.
I don't think that kind of data would be useful. It's kind of like asking "what do I have to do to make my song a #1 hit?" It depends entirely on what the mood is of the people who happen to be looking at your resume, and the culture that guides the judgements they make about it.

I had spent a good deal of effort building a very simple and pleasing resume using LaTeX, and I ended up having a professional career counselor look at it, and she said "Did you use a template? It looks too much like a template." So what? Templates are templates because they look good. If it didn't look like a template, it wouldn't look professional. And something that should've elicited a complement was instead peddled as disappointment.

Instead, I'll just figure that I wouldn't want to work for anybody that trusts people who are too petty or too clueless to make good hiring decisions.
Based on Penrose's work there may be non randomness in the CMB, with better imaging tech we may find that this is not a good source of randomness: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1302.5162v1.pdf
Perhaps the Universe is simulated by a distributed computing system. The speed of light could ensure that state remains consistent throughout the system without requiring synchronization of all of the nodes. Only spatially adjacent nodes need to communicate with each other and the speed of light could be tuned such that the bandwidth limit between the nodes would be never be reached.
Goldman Sachs patents SETLcoin for settlements and clearing of securites
So are you commentating on attitude, or on people's actual real world efforts towards charitable giving?
It's a pretty cool vehicle, but with the $3MM price tag I'm not sure how suitable it is for an infantry carrier... But I agree, this type of vehicles are surely going to get more common.
I certainly concede the possibility.

People who are healthiest in their mid to late 30s being more likely to live into old age than those who are not is a plausible explanation for what I have observed.
They look great. Installing pandoc is a pain, though. My CV is LaTeX as well—using the moderncv template—and I build it regularly on both GNU/Linux and Mac OS X:

https://github.com/alanorth/cv
What should these companies responses be? And why should the kazach goverment care? They'd prefer if the poeple used russian (or kazach) copy cats like vkontakte anyway.
Right, this surprised me. They're doing IPMI, so why not SOL (Serial over LAN) to get the raw stream?

Actually, on second thoughts, I'm not surprised so much. I've read many threads on Supermicro IPMI and people's frustration with it (reliant on outdated Java, and hacked together wrappers over VNC) that make it seem like a deliberate choice to obfuscate things -just- enough to make other tools difficult.
I couldn't get it to work on Windows previously.. is it any better now? :O
Why can't Internet companies simply block the entire backward country? I can't imagine Borat's motherland traffic monitizes well anyway. You want to MITM? Fine, build your own Kazakh Google.
This is great. Thank you
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I hope most people understood this. In fact bulk of the worlds rich is invisible, they become rich through mundane savings and investment methods everybody else avoids.

World is a strange place. Very few millionaires win and lose spectacularly. Nearly all of rich people out there are silent and invisible.
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> Getting up in middle of the night multiple times to soothe a crying baby or go to the bathroom impacts your mood and cognitive abilities the next day, new research has found.

Thanks, new research, we totally owe you one!
Whether that is what it suggests to you does not mean, necessarily, that it suggests that to anyone else. To me, it suggests that the author may have been a little hasty, but I would by no means take it to mean that the author doesn't understand categories... that seems like a leap to me. Of course, my presumption might also be seen as a leap.

Might be just me, but being that this article in total is not about a scientific understanding of the color blue but rather about consciousness, it seems reasonable to me to read on.
An HTTP server for files in npm packages
It scratches an itch.

It is polished.

It works well.

They marketed it like hell.
Purely from a user's perspective, the Mac app store has a considerable advantage in centrally managing updates. Non-MAS apps each have their own eclectic ways of updating. Some support automatic update checks, while users have to explicitly check others. For the ones with automatic updates, there are a number of ways it's handled. Users don't generally want scores of update daemons running, and the whole business of "On launch, check for update, notify the user and let them choose whether to update now" really feels like the web page pop-ups that are so popular. ("I launched the app to do work, not to see if there was an update. The update prompt is in my way.") This cries out for a better user experience.
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