skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I made a few devices like that in the medical sector. Back then it was Windows CE, today Linux would be the way to go i guess. If you are like me, using Raspberry pi & co after decades of windows development, check out VisualGDB. Microsoft recently released a similar product as native Visual Studio Plugin. I understand they plan to support cross compiling as well. That will be so awesome.
Maybe this is coming from a generational gap, but your experience does not mirror mine at all. I went to an engineering school where women in CS were either assumed to be a management major or people assumed that they were taking the easiest courses available. I've had my wife answer questions for people thoroughly and correctly, and had them come to ask me the same question 20 minutes later and trust that my answer was right.

I've talked to women who left computer science, not because of the difficulty of the courses, but because of the attitude that men at our university had towards them. The data supports this, take a look at the charts of women in CS over time.

And honestly, talking to women older than me, a refrain I hear from nearly all of them is "I'm not a math person". I had a relative in her 80's with a math PhD who would not tell people because she thought it was "too manly."

My coworker, who got into tech because she thought it was the only way she could stay in Seattle, frequently says "I'm not a coder." She just did a code review of one of the projects she's working on that is significantly better than any of the other work I've seen coming out of QA or DevOps at my job.

Your wife is an anomaly. So is mine. It doesn't take much effort to see that in our field.
It's not just intel's (and ipads) fault that pc sales are down.

I think the big mistake PC makers are making right now, is that the PCs they make aren't improving from generation to generation for their mass market products. Sure the processors aren't doubling in MHz like they used to, but the rest of the machine isn't improving either. If I go into a shop with $3-400 today and buy a laptop, the machine I get is the same as I would have gotten 3 years ago:

1. 768 line display

2. 5400 rpm hdd

3. 2 GB of ram (4 if I'm lucky)

4. Similar weight

5. Similar poor battery life

6. loads of crapware.

The pc manufacturers aren't pushing hardware manufacturers to improve the cheapest spec. Why don't cheap new laptops have greater DPI on their LCDs than 3 years ago? Because manufacturers haven't changed their main production lines. They are saving money on retooling, but on the other hand their product isn't improving, and now they're paying the price. Apple is doing the same thing with their Air line, which is only improving the processor generation, it has the same body and screen as years ago.

If manufacturers improved their cheapest line every 3 years, people would see enough of an improvement in their price range to buy a new machine every 3 years like they used to.
Exactly. I think the more casual gamers find the iGPU to be "good enough" (even if it doesn't match my personal preferences). So if Intel's customers are seeing the benefit, good for Intel.
A lot of people, especially here, believe that matters of equality are solved by treating peers as equals regardless of differences, rather than praise the differences, put them on a pedestal and give the people handicaps for being different.

I'd also love to see all that "empirical evidence". HN is one of the most respectful communities in tech I've frequented. Sexist remarks and the like tend to be downvoted and flagged.
The point is that when someone asks for code and output, the user with the anomaly either has to show some, or people give the question up as unresolvable. We need the data.

People don't just say 'well multiple teams have written code and gotten output that agrees with what I'm saying.' We need the actual information, not vague reports that a friend of a friend thinks there were test cases.
Their methodology is stated very explicitly. They do a questionnaire in all of the relevant countries and have a formula to derive the scores.

You cannot begin with an intuitive notion of the countries that you want to have a high "press freedom" index and when the actual scores don't match your intuition blame it on the assumed bias of the source.

I'm certainly open to the idea that this report is crap, but they have data, numbers, a sample, formulas, and reasoning and arguments for why they did things the way they did. If you think they are incorrect, explain why, don't just say "this doesn't fit my preconceived notions about the countries I want to believe are more free, so the people who did it are lying".

For example, I'm not at all shocked that they rated Lebanon as having higher press freedom than Israel, in fact that's probably to me an indicator that they are doing something right and not just picking out statistical proxies for western european-style nations.
The existence of the Unruh effect in it self is currently quite debatable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_effect
don't forget that Intel also made a big bet at a critical time on a partnership with Nokia. that was another couple of years wasted .. further behind Intel fell.
aapl = pretentious
Itanium was a RISC-y endeavour by Intel and it had it's problems but you can't really say it died because of x86_64.
Microsoft adopted it and dropped IA-64 like a hot potato. Intel dropped Yamhill and other projects that attempted to bring IA-64 to the desktop as soon as they realized MS wanted x86-64. Performance didn't factor in because AMD would have never had the chance to provide the world all the CPUs it wanted (supply constraints)
They have preferred targets.

The methods discussed in the article can be targeted on a per species basis. The action could be limited to mosquito species that prefer to target humans.

(the sterile male method is already being used)
Mobile SoCs use DDR3 or DDR4 RAM, just like Desktops and Laptops.

HBM is only being used on AMD's R9 Fury Graphics Card, as far as I'm aware. A rather high-end solution that simply doesn't exist in the phone market right now.
no one tried Win 10 IOT yet? ;)
I wonder which of these other nations are. Perhaps their engineering cultures are more gender-egalitarian than ours.
You are missing the point, it is not about the girls or records; it is an infomercial aimed at girl coders.
The Amount of Questionable Online Traffic Will Blow Your Mind
Agreed, so glad he's getting some exposure on HN. His mild mannered explanations are great, and it's heightened by the contrast provided by his name and appearance (which I can only describe as ex-biker). Such a brilliant channel.
Yep. Do we know each other?
BMW, Daimler Reject Cooperation with Apple Over Privacy Concerns
Why are you moving away from Qt?
So there's c, which is essentially a conversion factor between space and time, and also happens to be the speed at which massless particles move. If photons happen to not be massless, the speed of light might change, though 'c' wouldn't have to.
I'm still waiting for a Database as a Service that has RethinkDB that also has a free-tier/freemium model and not insanely expensive.
Researchers say commonly used medicines tied to brain changes
More importantly, the current deficit is ~1 trillion / year. Adding Sanders' proposals will increase this by ~200%. I would like to see an analysis of how to make up that extra ~2 trillion / year in spending by increasing taxes and closing loopholes. Include the savings from not paying for healthcare. I would bet the median taxpayer would see their costs go up.
how exactly is it "working for google for free" when people got to host their videos for free on google's platform...

there's a reason why you don't directly pay for these services, you know?

> I, as a student, can’t afford it. You, if you wish to start such a startup, can’t afford it.

well, if I wish to start such a startup, I would probably work on an alternative e.g. technology that could overcome the need for all that data..
> significantly reducing manufacturing costs

I am pretty sure that if keeping the memory controller, northbridge, and iGPU separate, Intel would have kept these things separate.

My bet? I think the cheaper manufacturing costs associated with motherboard construction beat-out the slightly increased cost of tighter integration. But I'm not an Intel Engineer. Just a hunch... considering that Apple A9, Qualcomm Snapdragon, AMD A10 "APUs" , and Intel have all decided to integrate everything together.

> better thermal envelope processing speeds

What, are people actually using iGPUs for difficult tasks all the time? As far as I can tell, most people surf Facebook all day and ping the CPU.

iGPU isn't slowing down anything with Facebook surfing. Besides, a crappy integrated GPU on the MoBo would still use up RAM bandwidth.

If anything, integrating the GPU has made the process cheaper for Intel. The Northbridge, Memory Controller, and iGPU are all integrated into modern CPUs, because Intel has done the number crunching and has determined that its cheaper to do it this way.
This might have been useful last year.

But as it stands this race is effectively over. So whilst all of these are nice there really just needs to be a single button that shows who your downstream candidates are and how to help them.
For anybody who's interested, there's a NASA forum devoted to the EmDrive:

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=39772.1440
Ravens score just as high as big-brained chimps on cognitive tests
I'll join your stupid shit social website! What's the link?
Kick ass team. They will surely nail it.
> manufacturing costs

The iGPU needs to be manufactured anyway. And with memory controllers integrated into the CPU, it seems rather complicated to push the iGPU off the chip.

> and more RAM bandwidth

Cheap iGPUs on Motherboards would recycle the CPU's memory controller anyway. Did you work with computers in 2006 or so? Its definitely cheaper and more efficient to just integrate everything into the die in contrast to the designs of the past.
It's sad that many places call it x86_64 while it's actually amd64. If Itanium had been a success and AMD built such chips, they wouldn't call it aa64 but ia64 like the existing name. Hence, it would only be fair to keep calling it AMD64. I don't know if it's just Intel not being comfortable with selling CPUs that implement AMD64. Maybe that's why we have ARM64 and AArch64 for the same thing, one vendor neutral, one with ARM in it. I really don't understand what's so wrong with giving credit. It's not like Intel's shareholders would care.
I'd be inclined to agree. I do not know anyone who doesn't also own a laptop, even the most extreme mobile junkies. They may keep their laptop for longer, and perhaps do not bring their laptop everywhere, which means less coffee spilled on it. But they won't work, refresh their CV, plan the design of their new kitchen or build their budget for the holidays on a mobile or a tablet. Are mobiles and tablet really substitutes for laptops? They probably become obsolete more quickly. But even that is not really the case anymore as the slow down in iPhone sales is showing.
> I believe both Truffle and byteocde are then represented as internal Graal ASTs.

I hope Graal converts both JVM bytecode and Truffle ASTs directly into an internal SSA form, without first building an AST from JVM bytecode.

Actually, come to think of it, if I were a Graal author, I'd be tempted to have a JVM bytecode interpreter, two non-optimizing Wirth-style compilers that emitted native code directly from JVM bytecode and Truffle ASTs, two middle-ends that generated SSA from JVM bytecode and Truffle ASTs, and an optimizing SSA-based native code back-end.

> I don't know how useful it would be because I think Truffle has an interpreter fallback.

Every Truffle AST node contains Java code for evaluating that node, so a tree-walking interpreter is trivial.
This is an obviously biaised text by an author with a fundamentalist religious agenda.

He cites all well-known and not at all surprising problems with peer review, which means that a sizeable proportion of published science is wrong -- wrong as in somewhat innaccurate and likely perfectible, and in now way as wrong as only religious ideas can be, i.e. completely false and unfounded. Asimov wrote a great essay about this Relativity of Wrong [1].

Indeed, that fact that science isn't regressive, and our knowledge is getting more accurate with each passing day, is self-evident. Suffice to compare what we have now with what we had 20 years ago, and its clear that we are not regressing.

Now, as to the specific examples that are falsely used to proove how wrong this wicked science can get:

1. "one hundred published psychology experiments".

Seriously, anyone in the field knows that these studies are rubbish, and all correlations are obtained after running so many statstical tests that they are clearly due to chance.

2. "half of all academic biomedical research will ultimately prove false".

Again, this is obvious. Many initially positive findings will be due to chance, especially when we are talking of small, exploration studies. Yes, many initially promising molecules did not live out to the hype, but others did, and spectacularly so. For instance, progress in oncology has been amazing lately. People who had life expectancies of mere weeks in early 2000s now routinely survive for years with their metastatic cancers.

3. "but are unlikely to mention a similar experiment conducted on reviewers of the prestigious British Medical Journal." [as opposed to Sokal's Social Text hoax].

Apples and oranges. Sokal's article is plain old gibberish, whereas the experiments in medical litterature were to assess the reviewers capacity to assess for methodology failures of otherwise plausible studies. Most of these methodology failures are weeded out by dedicated statistical and clerical staff.

Indeed, I would argue that some of those methodological problems were pretty minor, e.g. :

"Poor justification for conducting the study;
No ethics committee approval;
Failure to spot word reversal in text leading to wrong interpretation of results;
No explanations for ineligible or non-randomized cases;
Safety. No mention was made of monitoring patients for untoward effects;
Format. The abstract was not written in the structured form requested by Annals;
References. No reference cited was more current than 1989 despite the fact that there were numerous more recent studies;
5.Presentation. There were multiple grammatical and spelling mistakes, including the misspelling of propranolol as “propanalol." [2,3]

[1] http://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2586872/

[3] http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(98)70006-X/ful...
This seems to be a great way to stick a small wifi-tracking device (skyhook based, report location whenever it finds open wifi network) in any AA powered device. You'd have to figure out how to put a 1.5v battery on the board so the overall voltage of the battery pack would be correct.
Indeed. That's because "X occurs, even if Y" means something like, "In spite of the expectation that X doesn't occur because of confounding factor Y, X occurs anyway".
You forgot about one Uber sized success story, lovingly born and bred in New York City: Foursquare.
BTW, having a look at your link just now. This will be very helpful. Thank you.
"The satellites that actually measure the temperature showed no significant warming whatsoever".
Humans do not like seeing their family and friends die. The motivational force to prevent that from happening is very strong. Ultimately, that's why we're killing the mosquitos.
I think that's confusing liability with speed. Running interrupt-free code on an ARM or AVR is incredibly reliable. I would argue much more reliable than going to the length of patching the kernel.

Just because it's slow doesn't mean you can't predict what's going to happen, they're two separate issues.
Beauty and the Battleship: Marine Camouflage in World War I
Everyone focuses on the Pi Zero, but yeah, I agree with you. Ever since I discovered the ESP, my Arduinos have been gathering dust.
PS4 launched cheaper. And sony was way more aggressive on sales.

all my friends that do have PS4s got them for 'free' when buying a new TV.
I think you are mixing a few things here Yamhill was supposed to be a x86_64 CPU (under license from AMD) it was dropped in favor of promoting Intels own IA64 instead.
http://www.geek.com/chips/intels-otellini-says-no-to-yamhill...

Microsoft dropped support for IA64 only a few years ago with Windows Server 2008 R2 being the last OS that supported it due to the limited market share.
This was quite long after Intel has killed IA64 internally on it's own.
The most important part of the article is easily missed unless you've read The Innovator's Solution. Which is the follow up book and spends a lot of time looking inside of organizations to see why it is so darned hard to catch the disruptive train.

A company with a profitable niche and a profitable technology will wind up with high internal costs. That's fine in their main business because they have a profit margin to play with. But it is surprisingly hard to trim back that "fat" to go after much lower margin revenue with a cheaper technology. (Fat is in quotes because it isn't really fat. It is necessary for the high margin business.) It is common to try, and to conclude that it is a failure.

That is why Intel made this mistake.
Why Comcast and GM need to be more like Netflix and Uber to survive
So, your argument is "no one has ever said men are better at writing programs than women"?
well not really http://official.imo2011.nl/participant_r.aspx?id=19624 but still impressive
> WSJ has floors of smart, trained, inquisitive journalists who assemble real original data and break real original stories, and who try hard–through single, double, and triple verification–to ensure the accuracy of every single figure and fact they report.

<InsertJournalNameHere> has floors of smart, trained, inquisitive journalists who assemble real original data and break real original stories, and who try hard–through single, double, and triple verification–to ensure the accuracy of every single figure and fact they report.

> Which is why it's sometimes annoying to see people treat paywalls as though they were moral disgraces.

The reason people don't like the WSJ paywalls is because they behave differently for google (allowing the page to be indexed) than for the readers. Care to provide a source for 'Paywalls as moral disgraces' that would convince me it's not a strawman?
I have a first generation Xbox 360. Microsoft repaired the RRoD three times under warranty. The fourth time it RRoD'd was out of warranty and so it sat for a couple of years. Later I fixed with about $15 worth of parts [1] in an afternoon. It's still running after 10 years with the same 20gig hard disk.

Analyzing my experience, the out of band warranty extension is a feature of an underlying value Microsoft placing on gaming. It's not just that the repairs were the right way to make something that was going to suck suck less. It's that the core proposition of the Xbox 360 was that the experience of using it would keep getting better and that it would get better because games would get better. Playing FIFA 16 is better than playing FIFA 12 was better than playing FIFA 07.

Beyond that, the software keeps getting better because Microsoft values developers. They're not all just share croppers who pay 30% to enter a downward race toward ninety-nine cents.

[1] 8 cheeseheads, a tube of thermal paste, and a sheet of .070. aluminum from the hobby shoppe.
> Here in Canada it is illegal to operate a spirits distillery in your home. I wouldn't be surprised if it is not legalized, as it opens up avenues for "criminal selling", ie: people growing at home and selling it - bypassing taxation.

Stills are also very dangerous which is a good enough reason to keep them out of homes. Your pot plant isn't going to explode as a high pressure fireball.
Yes, but even with rt-linux, you've got a jitter of potentially several dozen microseconds, and each interrupt routine will vary. With an AVR, your delay is 4 clock cycles every time, which comes out to .2 microseconds at 20 Mhz. This is the kind of guarantee you can get with being on an intimate level with the chip which you can't get with any OS.
Do you mean valid as in there are no NY startups at or above that valuation? There are definitely some NY based startups above the $5b mark, though the ones I know of are B2B, not B2C.
It seems like the blog post stays accessible as long as it isn't the URL at the top of HN, so we've reverted to what you had originally. Sorry for the distraction.
Tripping.com sees non-hotel lodgings draw “420-friendly” travelers
And now I wait for a poor soul to summarize those 100 pages in a paragraph or two.
Smashing record? What they had done for humanity?

In my opinion is a bad idea to add too much pressure to kids, making them compete in contest with absolutely no useful outcome.

When I was a kid I entered Mensa but went out soon because of the ill competition "I am smarter than you" stupidity from tests that had nothing to do with the real world. A constant ego battle between (in lots of non testable ways) retarded people.

For me it was mental onanism, most of the people there will score enormously in the IQ scores or playing chess but then fail in life: fail in love, fail in relationships and fail in health. They will use excuses to rationalize the fact that was known to them but I could see why: the environment was vicious.

In contrast at 15 or so I joined a group of crackers that were dam smart and we were doing things. Forty years old experts would say a protection was impossible to break and we will break it that same weekend.

It was so fun and we were doing things that nobody had done before. We did not earn a penny but it was one of the most useful experiences I ever had: Getting used to do things nobody has done before with a good team does improve other people's lifes(and your own as a result) dramatically.

Had I been forced to do that when I was a kid I would never had done it.

I was told I was genius, then that I was not(when I refused to make IQ scores anymore),just a precocious kid, and it was a great release, I had not pressure over my shoulders to please others' expectations.

I could do as much dumb things as kids do. I was happy as a kid, and I am very happy as an adult.

I feel sorry for this girls. Let girls be girls. Don't make them symbols of women fight against XY chromosomes. Let those girls decide if the want to become activist when they had grown up and could decide for themselves.
Do you (or does anyone) know how much power something like that would use? I've been wanting to make a tiny tracking device (using 2G instead of Wifi), but I didn't pay very good attention in my high school physics class, so I don't know if a tiny cell chip + tiny gps chip could last long without power.

I've looked in to little tumble generators (I don't know the actual term, something that could generate power off of movement) but again, my knowledge is lacking in that department.

Would make for neat little animal tracking devices, if they could generate power from movement, store in a battery, and then 'pulse' out on a regular interval (whatever interval is allowed by the generation from the shake/tumble generator).
Although it's not legal in Vic, unless you're caught with a substantial amount or dealing then it's not really an issue for casual smokers. Enforcement is generally pretty lax.
That's demonstrating you can make a fast BASIC on an ARM. What I'm talking about is making a faster ARM cpu. According to Wikipedia, StrongArm debuted at 233 MHz. I can't remember how fast the contemporary implementations were at the time, but I remember that 233 MHz was a lot faster. (For the record: I'm neither fan of ARM nor x86).