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> Zuo Charge – The World's smallest keyring charger for iOS and Android

I find this misleading because (according to the linked page) it's "the worlds [sic] most portable smartphone cable."

I would expect a charger to ... charge.

Also I get the feeling the submission seems to be from an employee of the company.
Evernote is doing a pretty good job of it right now.

It's not a glamorous business model, but with so many online services aiming for the stars, one can make a decent living gathering up the wreckage.
Art is subjective, some people don't like this art. Why is this news?
I'm with you on that. I recall back when there were affordable PPC systems really competing with Intel running alternative OS's. Fun stuff. I've even told people about each new POWER chip because they're often badass in some way. Yet, it's constantly out of reach for most of us because the numbers don't add up at these prices.

Further, I speculate this is harming it in the long-run because so much code out there comes from the scratching an itch phenomenon. People usually do that on whatever boxes they like working with. If basically none have POWER machines, then basically none of that code is going to be for POWER architecture. I don't have the data to test or prove this but I'm sure there's network effects there.

Just look at the explosion of code for ARM following the explosion of cheap devices. And Intel before it. And the major microcontrollers. And so on.
The only job experience I have with Haskell was in education technology, and part of that was focused on prototyping some things with Elm and PureScript for some boring business web tooling.

What I like working on in Haskell is numerical linear algebra / machine learning / data analytics toolkits.

But I also know Python pretty well (much more experience than with Haskell) and Python has the advantage of actually having a decent-paying job market, so I mostly stick to that. The few times I've interviewed for possibly decent-paying Haskell roles, they have been with large banks whose tech dysfunction was so large that it destroyed any credibility that may have been assumed due to the usage of Haskell.

One of the most eye opening things in my working experience has been that when someone says they use "functional programming" in a business setting, it generally means they don't follow any of the established practices or ideas that make functional programming worthwhile in the first place. So for jobs, seeking functional programming perhaps makes me overly skeptical.

I have heard of a few start-ups that really do functional programming, and one or two even using Haskell. But the pay and work environment are just too poor to consider it.
Just like people reading comments 13 days ago on buried threads. Very very nice story.
Ferguson and the Modern Debtor's Prison (2014)
You might be surprised. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rksd80-FCAw
The NES emulators and hosted ROMs do get C&D notices all the time, they just flat out ignore them. There are lots of sketchy overseas hosting sites that flat out ignore DMCA notices and abuse@ emails.
The other one where D'Angelo takes his girlfriend to the restaurant and also when Stringer realizes he has been played are good examples.
Yes, it's is. You are paying twice into two different jurisdictions. It is called double taxing.
If I were bernie sanders, I'd push for it to be illegal to ask about education status in job interviews (same as family status or sex stuff). This would hamper the signaling value of a college degree and get us back to the value of the skills conferred (if any).

... not that I'm bernie sanders.
This is the problem when the gatekeepers (recruiters) are not your peers.

It's a shame that we've somehow structured our systems so that we clearly do candidates a disservice, even though we keep saying that attracting talent is of the utmost priority.
But you are paying more.
Well... if you're going for something stupidly small/underpowered (ATTiny level of power consumption), but run out of cycles to handle multiple I/Os at the same time, FPGA allows you to cheat a little bit by doing things in parallel. For example with 10 inputs on standard CPUs you have to spend some cycles checking each one separately. With FPGAs you can have block for each and just get a signal propagated when something "interesting" actually happens. Then again, you could just invest in bigger batteries and better CPU instead :)
Really, I considered this one to have no charm, no vintage, nothing. Really cheap 90s crap from the low end of the generic bike shelves at your mall.
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And here's an FPGA optimized RISC-V RV32IM core for that device (Altera Cyclone IV): https://github.com/VectorBlox/orca

I haven't tried this particular one.
For PHP, you upload index.php, go to yoursite.com/index.php, and it works. Node isn't like that at all. For example, here's the "Hello World" guide for getting Node started:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

This is basically the problem `now` is solving... "what if Node was as easy as PHP?"
chicken, duck, goose, pheasant, squab / poultry?
"Education on the individual level just doesn't work. People are too dumb."

Honestly, If this is the case, drugs should never be fully legalized. People just can't handle the responsibility. Will addiction be the fault of the company that sold it to you?

"and arguably the game of chicken at teaching responsibility by making it illegal to discharge student loans in bankruptcy has just made things worse."

It hasn't really made things worse. If it wasn't illegal to discharge loans, students would know full well that they most likely would never have to pay it back and just declare bankruptcy when they graduated. That would be a much worse situation for our economy. On top of this, banks would never even take on these loans knowing full well that they would probably never get their money back.

The student debt problem has been bad for at least a decade. Students continue to knowingly put themselves in this position and then cry afoul when they can't pay the debt back. Lack of knowledge is no longer an excuse. Anybody with half a brain and an Internet connection can clearly see the risks (and nearly everyone now is connected to the Internet 24/7 through their phone).

I see it more as a millennial problem: the culture is to no longer take responsibilities for your own actions and blame others for all of your failures.

"full nationalized colleges"

I can't see this working out with the current climate, unless it completely ruins the intent of a university.

Fully national colleges aren't based on money any longer, they are based on making the grade. IE: if you can't pass the entrance exams, you won't get into school (as seen in pretty much any country with nationalized universities).

The system we have setup now was a response to people complaining that not everyone has a chance to go to school (back in the 50s, college was a luxury only the wealthy could afford). Now that pretty much everyone does have a chance, there are further complaints that some people made an irresponsible decision. You can't force someone to major in something that will make the ma decent living.

When I was in college, I met many people that really had no business being there (didn't care, didn't put the effort in, or just couldn't handle any of the subjects). With the dumbing down of the SATs and many other measures to make it easier to get into school not based on academics, it seems we are well on our way to ruining our institutions. The ultimate form of anti-intellectualism.
> Won't specialized companies offer a lower price and a better product, more reliably than hobbyists ?

Not necessarily; specialized companies are rarely interested in small-batch production (Shapeway's 3d printing being the exception). Quality is largely unknown unless they have a large enough customer base.

Hobbyists typically have a day-job other than their "maker" hobby, so yes, they would still be interested in spending off-work time.

With millions of laser cutters about to come online from Glowforge and others, some of those people will be looking for opportunities beyond simply their personal projects.
I think this is really great. I have just tasked the people in my company to use this to explain our company in 100 words or less, without losing context and making sense. :p
Your product pitch is very similar to the product pitch for Neo4j, a graph database which already has significant adoption: http://neo4j.com/product/

How does your database differ from graph databases?
Ha! I often find myself wishing I had an FPGA. It's very common that I have to control external devices that would be straight forward with logic but requires all soft of hacks and tricks using a microcontroller.

Here's just one simple example: controlling servos. Sure you can do that with most uC simply enough, say using timer interrupts, but what if I need to control 100 of them? In logic, I can just instantiate 100 very trivial pulse controllers where as this typically is impossible with a microcontroller or at the very least leaves no cycles free for any computation.

Another example: you want to implement a nice little crypto, like ChaCha20. Even though ChaCha20 is efficient, it's still a lot of cycles for a microprocessor, where as an FPGA can implement this is a nice pipeline, potentially reaching speeds like 800 MB/s, while still having ample resources left for other work.

I could go on.
Ironically, there have been topics in HN about the wealthy in San Francisco being privileged enough to ride busses to work, while the lower classes sweat it out in their own cars.
I use Typinator too, for similar reason (had some trouble with TextExpander many versions ago). So far, Typinator's not given me any trouble to justify switching to anything else.
Only 100 bytes? That's easy... Sheesh.
OSVDB: FIN
Clickables:

http://qbix.com/blog

http://qbix.com/platform

> When Fred Wilson recently said this at Le Web, he was speaking about the platform we built: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R43OKYmGbhU&t=24m0s
The only reason they have trolleybuses in Seattle, however, is because of the hills. Electric provides much more torque for getting a big bus up a steep hill. If hills aren't involved, the bus is usually diesel given the flexibility and lack of infrastructure need. (They used to run electric in the bus tunnel, but went with hybrid instead)
As someone pointed out already, they will garnish your wages. Regular banks, car dealerships and so on don't get to do that. The government absolutely can enforce things like that.
Seattle also can run tracks across the 520 bridge for $200M and can use an existing 100 foot wide rail corridor on the Eastside from Renton to Bothell for a song. This would nearly double the trackage and communities served by light rail for well under $1B.

But that's nowhere in the $50B plan.
6.8% that can't be defaulted on is low?
It seems as though you know that hyperlocal businesses have not done well in the past. What is the unique thing you bring to the table that might save you from their fate?
Cars are the worst. Not individually, but collectively bad drivers cause exponential chaos and massive inefficiency. I see this a lot as a motorcyclist. I have a 6th sense for when to go around/between cars because the road will be open ahead and someone just REALLY wants to make a right turn from the far left lane -- like right now!

But I do agree with other people that we need to redesign our transportation infrastructure in ways that reduce or prohibit cars.
This sounds like a pretty bad deal for the developer: Not only a really small percentage, but worth pretty much nothing when and if it is ever vested.

It would be better to just donate to an open source project.
What's wrong if the submission is from an employee of the company?

That said, it doesn't charge? I have to read the post again now on what it is :-)
> The alternative is closing doors.

No, it isn't. That assumes college exclusively opens doors, which is not always the case. Many Americans are leaving college with more debt than they are able to pay off. Crippling debt is not a door everyone knows they are opening, nor what that actually means or feels like.

Furthermore, the "best" college by rankings does not translate to the best college for that individual. The "data" around college rankings and binary maxims like "go to college" hide the nebulous benefits and individual circumstances.
Other commenter's claim is inaccurate. I have a detailed history, with references, of how C became what it was:

http://pastebin.com/UAQaWuWG

That its predecessor compiled on an EDSAC, it compiled on a PDP-11, and was the language of UNIX (its killer app) was why it spread everywhere. Network/legacy effects took over from there. There were languages like Modula-2 that were safer, efficient, easy to implement, and still close to the metal. Such languages kept being ignored and mostly are to this day for system programming. They even ignore the ones that are basically C with enhanced safety (eg Cyclone, Popcorn).

It's all social and economic reasons justifying C both at its creation, during its spread, and for its continuing use. The technical case against such a language has always been there and field-proven many times.
Upvoted.

Not that it makes the problem of being a developer who may need to convince other developers they're a good developer go away. Just that it puts the problem in context and shows a way one might be able to make it go away.
I wasn't aware that tram rails had their own physics.
I actually was taught a lot about personal finance in highschool and was absolutely horrified at the way higher education was financed to the point of avoiding it for years.
I don't believe that a concrete roadway is in any way cheaper to build than railroad tracks.
You can only deduct 2,500 dollars of student loan interest (Hilariously, even if you're married this doesn't go up. My spouse has no student loans, but I still can only deduct 2,500 filing jointly). When I went back to school to finish my degree I put my loans into deferment, so now I am paying a bunch of interest back.

Seems like a shitty situation. Before I got my degree I was making less than a third of what I make now, even though I worked more and got paid overtime. That was at a job I had worked at for five years and was likely maxed out of earning potential in that industry. I made little enough to have almost no federal tax burden. By providing loans the government has essentially turned a tax burden into a revenue generator. In just two years I am making this much more money, paying a bunch more in taxes, and my lifetime earning potential has increased significantly. But they still try to screw you from both ends, of course.
Direct link to the PDF:

http://riscv.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/RISC-V-Offers-Si...
Actually, a version of this as an aspell dictionary would be lovely. Have your favorite editor highlight all the words that don't fit.
That's because the former wasn't updated yet. Thanks for pointing it out, I've fixed it.
So are you just providing an API and the database will be stored on your server? Or will users install it on their own hardware?
/ # uname -n
ucbvax
/ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
CPU info: PUNT!
/ #

Amusing.
I think that helping people who are suffering is a good idea. Nobility doesn't really enter in to it.

If you put a US doctor into a hospital for wounded ISIS fighters they'd probably help. Humans are humans.
Just look at the explosion of code for ARM following the explosion of cheap devices. And Intel before it. And the major microcontrollers. And so on.

Exactly. This is why I never understood why IBM didn't do more to appeal to the experimenter / hobbyist / consumer market, even if their primary market was big enterprise accounts. Getting hardware out there for the tinkerers, OSS developers, etc., to seed the software space could only be beneficial to them.
From an end-user perspective, what advantage do you feel decentralization provides?
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> Somewhere, there must be a "how to" guide for social class.

The upper classes constantly change the performance, because when lower classes catch on to a certain performance, it is immediately discarded. The elites are trend-setters, and they are constantly making damn sure that it's hard to quickly learn how to perform.
To be fair, the stop does work for students who want to get to campus (via a bridge). It is about the same walk from the stadium or the Ave to the campus center.
" C has brought a lot of good"

I've seen no evidence that C brought us anything good. Anything I can do with C I can do with a Modula-2-like language with better safety and compiler robustness. If a check is a problem, I can disable it but it's there by default. Nonetheless, I'll look into any benefits you think C brought us that alternatives wouldn't have done.
No RISC-V post would be complete without a link to lowRISC:

http://www.lowrisc.org/
It's very easy. Personally, I find Reduceron [0,1] far more interesting.

[0] https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/reduceron/

[1] https://github.com/reduceron/Reduceron
I absolutely hate tips in Lyft. I wish the service just cost 15% more. The Uber experience is just slicker. Hit a button, get in, get out, and the only impediment is rating. Tips, you have to guess amount ($1? 15%? 20%?) and it's always an extra step. I'd be 100% Lyft if they killed tips or let you opt out of tips/opt into recommended tips.

Or if they were very optional. But they feel obligatory. I wouldn't mind the ability to pay extra.
Hmm; but most streets in major city centers already have some kind of video surveillance. Does that mean street-facing cameras are now criminal if a cop walks past? Under eavesdropping case law, you can record anywhere there's no expectation of privacy (this may vary by state).

ADA challenge -- what if I'm blind and using an assistive device that uses video?

If this precedent stands (it won't, the 3rd district is dumb but not this dumb) it will be a let them eat cake moment. Any form of civil disobedience that involves videoing something with your cellphone will catch on like wildfire.

Though the EFF's argument that there is no distinction between publishing and its antecedents (i.e. photography) is bogus. The go-to case for where art becomes harm is child porn. Not prohibited to videotape your young kids in the bath, not okay to sell the photos to perverts.
I don't honestly see anything not nice in what you said (and I've learned as a Midwesterner nice is very important to me). You didn't insult anyone, there isn't condescension dripping from the comment, you didn't trivialize anything, you didn't even throw shade. You made some direct statements without being a jerk. Sounds good to me!

I think the confusion is in whether conflict-avoidance is the same as nice-ness. I certainly was brought up to mostly think that way, but now that I've spent a lot of time arguing about math I have let go of some of that training.
Ask HN: How to make a clickable link in the Ask HN description text?
In the apply hn thread(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11440627), at the end of the description, there's a clickable link to hn.algolia.com

Is there a way to for me to do the same? That'd be very convenient for an "Apply HN" submission.
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Cool idea. I looked at your demo, but all I could get from it was a report of visit counts by diagnosis/symptom. Can you explain how the example question you offered (Sarcoidosis, headache, readmit) could be answered?

Is your goal to build a business or a non-profit?

Who pays for it? There are lots of potential users of this data, but some already have access to this data; do you open up the data to users who wouldn't have been able to access it before?
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I did not know this. I guess I will be doing the same or starting an IRA.
There are many other, equally if not more interesting implementations...
Wow, thanks for sharing. Now this is encouraging. Looks like there are several servers available (well, announced), including ones from Penguin Computing and Mark III.

Maybe this does bode well for the eventual availability of affordable POWER based kit in the not-too-distant future.
Community colleges are WAY underrated. Although most of the worth of a degree is the networking you do earning it.
Militarism is a cult, and there are worse jobs, however blaming the soldiers for wars doesn't solve the problem. It's like blaming bank managers for the state of the economy.

Idealistically, if you could convince all of the soldiers on both sides to not fight, then you stop the wars, but realistically you need to convince the populations and leaders of the states they are fighting on behalf of that war is a bad idea in the first place.

This cult is propagated by civilians more than soldiers.
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>Guidance councilors,

This is a profession which needs to be eliminated ASAP. Councilors are absolutely clueless and are misleading millions of youth. They have no experience on the job market and just regurgitate what they are told. They mislead students, have trouble spotting floundering students and are just dead weight in school bureaucracy.
as a current resident of nearly 25 years, i agree wholeheartedly.
The amount saved affords an extra C-level hire. What intrigues me though, is what required them jumping from 25 to 80 people.
My impression as someone who went to a large public state school for undergrad, and an expensive private for grad...

Most undergrads (more than 50% less than 80%) spend 4 years doing enough to get by, and do a lot of socializing. This is cheap at in state publics, expensive otherwise. The people who get in-demand majors are fine no matter what. Those with other majors who really apply themselves need grad school and more debt to break out.

An English major at Yale or an in state school is fine. The Yale student will manage no matter what. The in state person got off cheap. Everyone else he an expensive lesson in literature.

Despite that, life in most fields is much tougher without he degree.

The guidance counselors are partially wrong in suggesting loans for overpriced schools. They are also wrong for suggesting soft majors at mediocre schools.
I don't think that's true if it had been a black woman. I'd argue that it was the sex of the person more than the color that got him in trouble. Men commit a lot more violent crime than women do.
It's kind of like "limit" and "dx/dy" in calculus compared to the crazy long prose people in ancient times had to write.
Hemingway[1] is a good editor too. It does not have word limitations. It does a good job to make sure your sentences are not complex, long, and boring.

1. http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
The chroot apps are the easiest and most integrated way to have both Debian and Android installed and running at the same time. If you have the skills to do more advanced things, obviously that is better for you. With skills you can also completely get rid of Android and run a Debian UI.

Re (physical) keyboard, check out the Pyra/Neo900.
This is just speculation on the part of this web site. You can patch the software and that will not change the CHANGELOG.txt. Please post again when you have proof.
But if there are very few qualified engineers that exist, maybe we should slow down on the bridge building?
lowRISC is the only project that aims to distribute ASICs AFAIK. Are there others?
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