skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top two answers here: http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/67598/how-are... are a good summary of why there isn't a useful DIY effort for actual manufacture in your basement.

The process for designing and producing chips is extremely waterfall, requiring various specialist skills and software that aren't particularly cheap. It's not impossible for smaller startups - I've actually been a consultant as part of a team for an outsourced mixed-signal chip design, under half a million dollars.

The problem is that now you've made hardware, with all the woes of a hardware startup, with the addition that you don't make any money until people incorporate your product into their product. It requires deep pockets and you're vulnerable to either straight cloning or existing companies pushing out competing products, while it doesn't really have the same unicorn potential upside.

There's plenty of failed processor startups around if you look, but only really one successful one: ARM.
The people I've met who fail at life tend to think they're working much harder than they are, and also have a tendency towards non-productive work. I don't care how fast you can run, if you're going in the wrong direction you're never going to win races.

By the same token, I've met people who excel at pretty much everything they do because they understand that there is a process to mastery.
Where should we send them, if we think of any later?

PS Love the idea of your calendar and hope to consult it....
Anyone with physical access and lots of money to pay for a bespoke exploit (assuming you're using a phone where that's possible), sure they have can have access if they're willing to put in the time and considerable money it would take.

If you're ok with the risk posture of not locking your phone that's your decision, but you're quite wrong about the level of access granted merely by possession of a modern smartphone.
+1 I couldn't agree more.

The idea that growth and rapid change is always required is wrong.

I used to write about a possible distant future when a large fraction of the software that runs the world is ancient open source code: thouroughly debugged and error free, and meets requirements so well that there is no motivation to change it.
C++ Function tracing with LTTNG
You know that there are many different types of poems, some of them don't even rhyme.

Yes they are more painful to type. But long alpha numeric passwords with symbols are painful to type too.
Children's lives are entirely run by adults. They love to envision a world where that isn't true, as do the rest of us
I completely agree with you. I can't find any software developer who hates Hitchhikers; it's always the inverse and they're always appalled that I don't like it. I'm sorry but I saw the movie and I tried reading through it and I just didn't find any of it entertaining or funny.
Trump will bring a new level of fear to non-WASPs. A true authoritarian. I really hope he does not receive the presidency.
A test that assesses the future success of West Point candidates might not be valid in assessing the future success of, say, a programmer or a lawyer. It does not necessarily takes the same thing to succeed in the military than to succeed in other spheres. I know of a lot of people who don't have that "grit", and would therefore probably fail at West Point, but they did not in that particular thing that they're doing.
> Did you actually do that stuff to get a job as a programmer?

No, I just climbed the academic ladder as I was very fond of teaching. Unfortunately the academic world has too few jobs..

> I don't think the investing comparison is apt either. When a taxi driver is paying attention to the stock market, it is getting a lot of attention from the public.

The idea behind the saying is that when everyone is paying too much attention to the stock market it's because it has been rising so fast, lots of "dumb money" has been coming in, and a crash is imminent. I see something similar when I read about learning how to program in 5 months.

> This is a different phenomenon than companies offering high wages for (presumably) relatively basic skills.

These workers with basic skills is similar to the "dumb money" that is entering the market, with all its consequences..
A chapter on SOE (State Owned Enterprises) seems mainly targeted at China and other state-controlled economies. It basically prevents SOEs to discriminate against other entities (private owned and/or foreign) when buying/selling products/services.

In western world SOEs do majority of business via tenders, where they are already prohibited to discriminates based on non-business related reasons.

See "A snapshot of the TISA annex": https://wikileaks.org/tisa/Annex-on-State-Owned-Enterprises/...

In all honesty, it does not look like a doomsday scenario.
This is a fantastic read. But I'm now really curious what things look like at the big end of the spectrum: does the solution scale (or do similar benefits emerge) for 747-scale electric aircraft?
What if Uber was a subscription business?
Dredging my comment history for rhetorical ammunition is rather creepy. I defended Moldbug's right to free speech because I saw no credible argument that he deserved to be punished for it.

I did get angry at the smugness of tptacek's dishonesty, which was obvious to me a priori. That was a moment of weakness on my part but has nothing to do with my choice to defend Moldbug, which I stand by until I am persuaded otherwise.

> so just say you're happy because Gawker is a bunch of SJWs and move on.

That is also true but I yet attempt to be objective and rational in the (rapidly dwindling) hope that reason and discourse will prevail over the coercion and dishonesty of culture warfare.
I'm not sure what Meyer brought to the table that non ex Googlers don't have, other than a general reputation for being successful uber geniuses. Which in this case did jack and shit for Yahoo, though they coasted along on her celebrity for a while.
s/better/more click-baity

Please let's don't encourage the buzzfeedification of everything, maybe?
Ask HN: What's your technique to damage-control interruptions to flow?
My third kid was born two months ago, so I'm working from home a lot to help with everything. Even though I'm at my desk, interruptions are common.

Are there any techniques to resume your flow-requiring task more efficiently?
If you bought the software and can't understand the EULA, aren't you entitled to legal counsel by the makers? I imagine you could stir up quite a shitstorm if they refuse, i.e. "company X tries to bind you to terms they DENY TO EXPLAIN".
sorry for the confusion but I meant you can carry your kindle etc inside your carry on bag and don't have to take it out and put it into a tray etc. Your laptop for some reason has to be taken out and put into a separate tray (in Indian airports)
> 3. What about Python ?

Is there any practical way to use Python for mobile apps? Realm is only targeting mobile platforms AFAIK.
I think this comment is good at pointing out (if not directly) that there's an assumption often made - success may or may not be correlated with hard work, but failure is very often assumed to be the result of a lack of hard work. In fact I'd argue the hardest working people you'll ever meet are blue-collar, and often struggle continuously in life. "Grit" has nothing to do with it.

Edit: I am not saying @akavi holds this belief. Don't know if that was clear.
A Chat with Andy LeCates About FileMaker 15 Platform
Google always seems to betting on several horses — for authentication, Google is also backing the FIDO U2F standard. This is basically a standard that allows you to authenticate with a physical security token, connected to your computing device via USB, NFS, or Bluetooth LTE, and reusable for as many U2F-enabled services as you like, without those services being able to correlate that device across services (so if you authenticate as user Alice at GMail, and later on authenticate as user Bob at Youtube, Google won't know you used the same U2F device due to the way keys are generated).

No need to type in some generated value (as with OTP), just press the button on the key, or swipe it past your NFC/Bluetooth LTE-enabled device to authenticate. Logins can be optionally strengthened with a weak knowledge-factor such as a PIN.

It already works in Chrome, it will be supported in Firefox and probable Edge at some point, and you can choose which manufacturer you want (e.g., Yubico).

I really hope U2F gains traction, because biometrics really creep me out (in addition to the many arguments against its use mentioned in this thread).
What about your ability to refuse to tell law enforcement a password? In the U.S. at least there is some precedent that giving a password could be a self-incriminating act, so you can be protected under the Fifth Amendment. I wonder if biometrics to unlock a device would count as an "act". If not, people could be forced by courts to hand over their passwords.
Exactly. For professional sports or for the top elite of anything, you need luck and talent and grit and support and more. Miss one and you're in the minor leagues. It provides no insight on what is most important because they're all important.

For insight into how relatively important those factors are, we're probably better of studying the minor leagues...
There are countless ways to find challenge and creativity that don't involve working for money. In fact, most paying jobs are pretty bad at satisfying that need.
On-line SVG turtle graphics in Python
My point is that if you prove that 91 has as its prime factors 7 and 13, I don't care if you did that proof using infinite methods or not.

In general, I am only proving theorems that are useful to me, so "a bit less useful" doesn't apply to these situations. If I needed that "bit more usefulness", I would go ahead and prove it (if I could).

Your reasoning mostly only applies if you prove theorems for their own sake, and not because you already know what you want them for.
It doesn't touch everyone. When I was 11 years old (in 1984) they were a revelation to me. Like someone finally wrote something just for me. My son is a voracious reader, and I encouraged him to read them, but he just said "this is weird" and put it down after 5 pages.

Thinking back on it, I was introduced to the radio show first (I had a 2nd generation bootleg, on cassette). Maybe that made me ready for the characters?
> If anything, 'this business' showed us what you need to do is grow to a level where you can throw not 10, but 100 rocks against the wall, and once one of them hits, get another 4 dozens and hurl them at the same spot immediately.

Isn't this pretty much what Google does? Outside their core areas of search and advertisement, they try numerous projects until something gains friction. When something does, they work on variations on the theme (to their detriment perhaps, see their numerous chat offerings now). If it doesn't, or it isn't profitable, they scrap it.
DA would probably love you the most for being among a minority who hates his book
I think pointing out the death of a attempted murder over the people he was trying to kill would be an outrage in any city in the US.
Ditto to that! At the end of the day the one left standing is the one with the endurance. Of course, at the right place and the right time.
I had exactly the same thought, thinking of that dish sending out a signal instead...
How Shoelace's Founders Jumped into the Startup Abyss – Ryerson Futures Inc
How to use Cocos 3D games on VR platforms
Isn't this just type 2 (slow) thinking? The "grit" required to focus on complex tasks is the same brain function as ability to suffer for long periods during exercise, problem solving, etc. Many books and science cover this subject, I can think of two, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" and "Iron War".
Related: "An estimated 14.0 percent of American households were food insecure at least some time during the year in 2014," http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err-economic-research-r...

I question the assumptions at the foundations of these experiments. What if the decision to eat a marshmallow when you have the chance is a good strategy for a large number of people? It's easy to imply that people just need a bit of grit and hard work to succeed in life, when maybe the conclusion we should draw is that poor people often have to live hand-to-mouth. Maybe if we want to increase future life success we should focus on improving the security of their environment instead of attempting to teach them to be grittier.

I don't really know. Maybe they controlled for those variables. IANAS (I am not a scientist).
I know what gradient descent is, thanks, I was referring to the rest of that mess.
It is a style of writing, and you may not enjoy it (your entitled).

I would be curious to know how you feel about Fear and Loathing, and anything by Hemingway.
The audiobook read by Stephen Fry is fantastic. Reading it is so-so. Audio definitely brings the characters alive.
The ink part doesn't scale either — try pricing larger sizes. This is the failed promise, that they'd be able to just manufacture sheets of the stuff cheaply.
What exactly is Realm's business model? The core is closed-source, but as far as I can tell, it's free for application developers to use.
I see what you are saying. In principle, I agree that laws shouldn't restrict people's freedom to choose to do such things but reality is messy, as always: This issue is more complex than a simple principle and there are different, equally valid ways to conceptualize it:

* Most importantly, we often preserve people's fundamental freedoms by protecting them. You can't agree to be slave, for example; that is, you can say you agree and even play the role, but at any moment you can walk away and sue for unpaid wages and the employer/owner will be guilty of having violated labor laws. I think people's rights to privacy should similarly be protected.

* While maybe we shouldn't outlaw people's rights to sell private data, we can outlaw others from buying them.

* In some circumstances, people have literal freedom but not a realistic ability to make a choice, due to lack of expertise or exploitation: We don't let people choose to be part of dangerous medical experiments, for example; the experiments must be approved. People lack the expertise to make an informed choice (and even approved medical experiments take care with how prospective subjects are informed). We don't let vulnerable populations be used for medical experiments; For example, prisoners and children can too easily be pressured into participating, against their will. I'm honestly not sure to what degree privacy fits this category; people understand the concept, but they have no idea of how their information is used and the risks of that.
There is such a thing as radioactive decay. It's a very widely studied and replicated phenomenon, and is used in many practical applications (e.g. smoke detectors). It's about as close to objective fact as any scientific result can get, and that will not change.

Perhaps you mean that radioactive decay may have a causal mechanism involving dark matter? Possibly. For such a model to be taken seriously, it would need to agree with our (presumably very numerous and precise) existing observations, as well as either predict the outcome of some new, falsifiable experiment; and/or simplify/unify some disparate existing results into a common framework.

Even if such a model manages to overcome all of those filters, radioactive decay would still be a very real phenomenon. For example, discovering that light is an electromagnetic wave doesn't at all imply that "there's no such thing as light"; discovering that gravity is curvature of spacetime doesn't mean "there's no such thing as gravity"; etc. Like radioactive decay, those are phenomena which we have very direct evidence for, and which theories and models must try to explain.

In comparison, some theories/models postulate the existence of entities which we have no direct evidence for, such as phlogiston, luminiferous aether, dark matter, etc. The only evidence for these is the success of the model that predicts them; that evidence may be undermined if a better model is discovered which doesn't require these entities (e.g. the kinetic theory of gases for phlogiston and special relativity for luminiferous aether).

Hence, if we discover a better model for predicting flat galactic rotation curves, gravitational lensing in excess of the visible matter, etc. which doesn't require an exotic form of matter, then we might claim "there's no such thing as dark matter".

However, even if that were to happen, we certainly couldn't claim that "there's no such thing as flat galactic rotation curves", "there's no such thing as gravitational lensing in excess of the visible matter", etc. since, like radioactive decay, those are phenomena we have observed.

If a theory disagrees with observed phenomena, or claims "there's no such thing" as the observed phenomena, then the theory is wrong. That's precisely what empirical falsification is about. We've observed the phenomena, so that theory cannot describe the world we live in.
I attempted to Google and figure out what you meant by "...with 60k wsw". Sorry I'm not versed in the terminology of chip fabrication, so I was curious what wsw means. What does it mean?
Sorry my edit was after your answer.

Yeah well, literally ORM has relational in it, but you probably know what I mean.

So it behaves more like a graph store?
- Can I query bottom up / through collections ?

I'm really interested in the technical details and their implications.
Funny you say that, that's what I started with. Stephen Fry is the only thing that kept me going through this far.
> Notably missing is support for merging, which ZFS does not have direct support for as far as I'm aware.

That insight is critical, especially now that we are heading towards Dropbox Infinite, IPFS, Ceph and so many other non-centralized file systems.

Syncing is not a solved problem at all yet. Advances can bring the same revolution as 3-way merging did to SCMs, previously dominated by file-locking mechanisms.
Shortcut launches AI powered growth engine for apps
I agree but I'd add that, for me, "grit" has a connotation of toughing it out and completing a task however painful/unpleasant/difficult it is. Conscientiousness is more about reliably doing things you've said you would do on schedule. The two are related but one suggests doing what it takes to make it through a really difficult stretch while the other is more akin to turning in assignments promptly because you stuck to a schedule and didn't go out partying the night before.
They dont stop using because there is no real reason not to. Nothing is free, every 'free' app takes something. Everyone knows this so they dont really care and why should they?
You get around that by having one or two people "front of house" as the face of the restaurant. People can't see their food being prepared now and don't care that they're eating frozen mostly-burger patties. I don't think a robot flipping said mostly-burger patties will change that.
I am an older programmer, and what you described is my career, more or less. And I fight off recruiters with a stick, switch jobs every year, and laugh at the articles about how there's ageism in the industry.

The problem I typically see isn't that someone focused on a technology for too long and became unemployable. It's that they focused on an employer for too long and became unemployable. I started my career doing C and sql 20+ years ago. I could still easily make a living at them if I wanted. My second major technology was enterprise Java. I could still make a living at that if I wanted (and to an extent, I still do).

But people spent 10-20 years in a culture. They don't know how to even look for a job anymore. Their skills may be great, but they've never put in a job application online. They're unknown to the recruiters. They don't know how to write a good resume that reflects their abilities. I watched my wife go through it last year. Laid off after 15 years at one company, her problems were twofold. First, she had narrow but deep domain expertise. Second, she was rusty at job hunting and out of touch with industry standards that had evolved without her. She still believed in waterfall and thought agile was a joke - not good for someone looking for product owner roles! She learned, but it took a while.
It's pretty easy to understand. Nokia was bought by the previous CEO.
I can second that the audio book is very entertaining. Lively character voices.
I don't call them as such too, I just don't like when link poster constructs his own inaccurate or factually wrong interpretation of the material behind the link, and I tend to point to the wrongness of the title only in these situations.

I like the "A2: Analog Malicious Hardware" work, but I'm quite sure even Thompson wouldn't claim that what's in the work is exactly what he presented in his talk. His talk is more nuanced and has one much more interesting consequence: that unless you decompile the compiler binary with some very clever tools, just the simple modification in one generation of the compiler can make the following compilers carrying Trojan payload without the payload being visible in the source of the given compiler. "A2: Analog Malicious Hardware" doesn't have this "payload propagation through the generations" property.

Very different from what the person who gave the false title here believes. What I claim is that "ltcode" misunderstood the intention of the Thompson's work and therefore the ersatztitle he gave here is very inadequate.

Well, at least he didn't create the title that involves Einstein.
Android isn't much worse off..
Huh, I did not know that. But an interesting move, let's see if it pans out.
I interviewed at Wideload in downtown Chicago when they were owned by Disney and working on that Marvel mobile game. They were located in a floor of a building that kind of looked like a huge studio apartment. The people there were nice and it looked like a fun place to work. I only went with another company because they gave me an offer first.

But even though the company I went with instead proceeded to have a super rough year of losing multiple clients that ultimately resulted in my getting laid off, Disney had shuttered Wideload several months before that. It didn't make any sense to me, since these people were clearly talented (check out Guilty Party on the Wii, it's excellent).

And then I saw them shut down studio after studio, and it just makes them look inept in the game space, to me. Then another Disney company contacted me last year asking me to move across the country so I could work on their mobile park app. Couldn't really trust them anymore, so I passed.
Fear and Loathing I think may have been more enjoyable, because I loved the movie, so I related a lot of what I saw, to the events in the book. Certainly had more of the elements I listed, than Hitchhikers did.
They apparently crossed several legal boundaries in publishing what they did and were blatantly unrepentant about it. I hardly see requiring news companies to follow the law to be something to be unhappy about.

That aside, the wealthy and powerful have always had more influence than ordinary people. Why are people surprised about that?