skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The consumables involved in stripping off metal and oxide layers have a negligible price point. Most of the cost is engineer time, though how much depends on what equipment/techniques are used (liquid chemistry, manual polishing, plasma processing, etc.).

This isn't the case with all circuit forensics techniques: once you start loading parts into more expensive equipment (even electron microscopes) you're paying for tool time to offset training and tool value depreciation.

I know that's not really quantifying things, but that's something you'd have to get from the lab that actually performed the work.

EDIT: if it helps, the actual process of removing a metal layer and an oxide layer varies with the process, but would generally take under an hour (and usually well under). There exist techniques to skip all that and go straight to silicon significantly faster, though as these are all destructive processes, you lose the ability to go back and see what was there before.
What was your first job in Japan and how did you get it?
The Linux-based Red Star system borrows heavily from early versions of Microsoft and has knock-off copies of the computer giant’s word processing, spread sheet and power point programmes, the report said.

ha, excellent, OpenOffice is now a knock-off copy of MS Office
Twissandra is also a good one, it's a simple Twitter clone built on Cassandra - http://github.com/ericflo/twissandra
Myoelectricity -- muscles that are unused/unusable but still have nervous control are tapped for motive signals, and the user learns to associate the path fairly quickly. The feedback is generally by direct electrical stimulation from pressure-sensitive receptors in the "fingertips" -- the intensity of the stimulation and the pattern can both be used to indicate pressure, heat (a burn may not cause injury to the wearer, but it could cause harm to the prosthesis) and so on, and may be paired with mechanical feedback (a series of "joy buzzers", if you will).
Office’s Support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict
A Coder’s Journey
You mean the one that RSA clearly said it owns? Let's be clear: this is a question about one certificate, that seems to ship with a number of different browsers and systems. Internet Explorer, however, isn't one of them.
Good writing comes from practice. You can learn guidelines, but they are just that -- guidelines. (I posted Skunk and White below as something I used for training wheels a long time ago.) I think programmers typically start out writing stylistically worse than non-programmers because they are used to both tools that supervise syntax and semantics that are easily testable (i.e. does this work.)

Expressing ideas in written word is far less rigid. Happily, readers are capable of parsing near non-sense. The can lex smyobls form gibebrsih and construct meaning from ambiguity. Unfortunately, readers are under no obligation to read what you have written. Whether you are trying to inform, influence, or entertain, you first have to engage. Programmers -- and engineers -- forget this lesson easily (if they ever knew it to begin with.)
All it takes is for a new law to state that the FCC has the responsibility to keep the internet an open medium. Then the FCC is explicitly given the authority to maintain net neutrality and disallowed from censoring it.
I often find myself thinking this is why capitalism attracts so much enmity, as it is a major economy system that only makes sense when you consider second-order effects, perhaps the only such major system. Socialism and communism all have soothing first-order stories

Most intelligent socialists know about the "second-order effects", to use your terminology. Some of the effects of redistribution are good (better-educated populace, social stability) and some are bad, depending on the extent of it and how it is done.
God yes. I remember when I started with C++ I was coming from Python so I was using ' and " interchangably (I guess the fact that they were different hadn't been covered in class yet). I don't remember how I caught that I was doing it wrong, but the exception messages sucked.
I'm not totally sure what you mean by tool. Whatever framework you're using surely can include an external file, and if not, even Apache itself can handle this via SSI. It really depends what your web app looks like.
The Ethicist: E-Book Dodge
New Angel Fund Turns Entrepreneurs Into Angels
Really clever augmented reality advertising
If someone could show that they could extract personally identifiable information from the aggregated database that isn't immediately obvious from browsing the site, I'd expect Facebook could make the case that distributing the database could cause serious damages, much like it did for Netflix.
http://scr.im works very well for e-mail address obscuring.
Are people already missing the point of the iPad?
Personally, I'd prefer that Apple would release all their code on some sort of open-source license that enables me to compile and study it at will, in addition to the freedom of letting me re-distribute that software any way I want to.

The main problem with any company that releases a piece of software and demands that you pay for it is that the company is trying to create value that isn't there. Information, be it code or anything else, is not valuable because it isn't scarce; I can get the number of copies I have of any piece of data arbitrarily close to infinity very easily. Apple, however, denies this simple fact and decides to use copyright law to extract some artificial value that would not exist under true free-market principles. Granted, Apple is not the only company that does this, but they're not more moral than Microsoft or any other corporation that uses these same tactics.

The main problem with this imaginary value is that it's very difficult for companies to adopt open-source licenses when they don't want to lose their steady stream of revenue. Of course, customers should be free to pay for code if they want, but they shouldn't be coerced by government-granted monopolies in the form of copyright law.
I think the point there is that you need to name a number first, and be very aggressive about the number you pick. If you start with a number that you think is "agreeable", you'll end up with less than you could have gotten.
Immer live dabei mit FootieFox - RSS - kicker online
Jeff Jarvis on the Need for Undergrad Web Science Degrees
Only if the adjudicators agree with statute and regulation -- and there is clear parallel with every other application of common carrier law, so what the courts should be finding is that the ISPs are de facto and de jure common carriers, despite legislation to the contrary. To put it technically, they are the same in essence, and the rule of law says that when two things are the same in essence, they cannot be treated differently.
Of course you should listen to your customers. But the wrong way to listen to your customers, is just to add features or just to read their emails and take them literally. You have to analyse the reasons behind their requests. Why do they want this feature? What problem are they trying to solve with that?

When you are doing usability tests, you don't just listen to the user explaining whats going wrong you are watching him. Often the user explains that there is a problem with your buttons but in reality he just has a problem with some descriptions. What the user thinks and what he does are two different sides of the same coin. You need to find out "What is the problem?" and solve it.

The user might say "I need larger buttons on my phone, they are too small" but the problem might be that he makes many mistakes. Now this is a totally different problem and you can solve it in many way (auto correct features, voice recogn,... or something totally new).

Now if you find a big problem with big business potential most users will have this problem, but the won't be aware of it.

Think about Dyson, everyone had this problem, you have to buy bags for your vacuum cleaner, but this wasn't problem most people were aware of. Now Dyson solved it and instantly everybody was aware of it.

Think about phones, they ahd more and more features, but most user were not able to use them. Now Apple solved that, most features of iphone where available before the iphone but suddenly people where aware these features existed and they could use them.

Listen to customers, but don't do it "literally" ;-)
Git for the nervous developer
#31 is annoying, and I don't understand why people keep bringing it up. The computer industry has had the Newton Message Pad, IBM Thinkpads, bajillions of mouse pads, umpteen pieces of software with pad in the name: notepad, launchpad, inkpad, sketchpad,...

Yet people just won't stop snickering at the iPad.
It does say a lot when non-techies view fairly recent linux desktops as "10 year old" software. I guess if they used kde4, the article might be calling it a Vista knockoff.
You'd like to know how fast they're scrolling and in which direction so you can decide which resources to cache given finite disk and memory bandwidth as well as finite texture memory.

Apple's implementation doesn't bother loading the cover if the album in question is going to be past the edge of the screen before the load would complete. Instead it loads covers further down the line and renders a placeholder image.

Deciding which covers to load without knowing what the user is going to do next (stop the flow, go backwards, speed up) is a classic example of an online scheduling problem.
Bray · What’s New in Tablets
Coincidentally, I came across this article on my own last weekend. Definitely a great read if you're trying to learn Cassandra, though it doesn't explain why you should learn it.

Does anyone know of a resource that clearly explains the advantages and disadvantages of the various RDBMS alternatives?
Really impractical with current technology for augmented reality. Maybe with an overlay on glasses or something, but this is stupid.
Underhyping your startup
2010 Entrepreneur Census, sponsored by Yale School of Management
The problem with what the FCC did here was to take upon itself the role of having a roving commission to regulate carrier activities on the internet.

By law, the FCC is an administrative agency - that is, it is charged with administering an act of Congress that gives it express authority to regulate an industry. An administrative agency can only regulate things over which it has been given such authority. In this case, the FCC did not have any express authority in any statute empowering it to impose rules of net neutrality concerning a carrier's attempt to restrict peer-to-peer usage across the carrier's network. The FCC admitted as much and argued that it had so-called "ancillary" authority to make the ruling that it did in this case. In other words, it claimed implied authority to act as it did. The court disagreed.

The Second Circuit's decision goes through a painstaking analysis of technical doctrines of administrative law relating to the FCC's attempt to justify its decision based on "ancillary" authority. The court concluded that the FCC, in failing to tie this assertion of authority to any "statutorily mandated responsibility," had overstepped its proper function. Accordingly the court struck the order down as illegal.

A reasonably informed legal discussion of the case appears here (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202447593360&Appe...). As noted in that piece, this is a "decision with far-reaching implications for the future of the Internet and the role of the Federal Communications Commission."

Whatever the merits of net neutrality, the FCC cannot disregard the rule of law. Congress can empower the FCC to regulate the net in this manner and that is where this battle should be fought.
I knew the title couldn't mean what it literally meant. But I find that style of title if not "wrong" at least "bad." That the literal interpretation is obviously wrong is the intent; it lures you into reading the post to find out what exactly the author means by it. This is in opposition to a good title, which succinctly states the main point and lures you into reading by being an interesting idea.

I consider this technique linkbaiting.
Ask HN: I am looking for a Firefox extension for HN.
something like https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/geancnifhbkbjijfkcjjdnfemppmcjmk

Any extension that lists all the posts and keeps track of the ones that I have read. I currently use Google Reader and I am not happy with it. It doesn't really help me participate in the conversations here :(.
The iWantMyName DomainApp for iPhone would be another good tool for your list: http://iwantmyname.com/iphone
Ah, but now you _know_ the trick, and you can remove the "\+[^@]+" before mailing your spam, you evil, evil spammer!
I think he's correctly assumed that this will get him more readers.
Because most people want to look reasonable at a job interview.

However, one thing people miss is that the anchoring can be to any number whatsoever, so you don't even need to talk about what you want per hour. I remember a paper that asked participants to note down the last two digits of their social security, and subjects anchored themselves to that (statistically significantly- one of the authors was Dan Ariely).

So, at the job interview, I am guessing just saying "You know, at my previous company, they had 98,000 employees" could anchor the interviewer to that number. Of course, this anchoring would be weaker than "$1M", but you could cut out the embarrassment bit.
Lessons learned developing a practical large scale machine learning system
I'd consider Subversion to be better than both Git and Mercurial if those changes were made (and implemented well). Subversion has a long history and plenty of tools already interacting with it that make it worth saving.
US ISP Redirecting DNS For Google Toolbar Search Queries In Firefox
The FCC has shown itself to be tremendously sensitive to lobbying efforts from cultural conservatives.

All it will take are a few "harmless" bills that penalize content that everyone already agrees is offensive, and the next thing we know we have to worry about typing "fuck" in a HN comment, unless HN uses a NC17 SSL cert (for example)
You're thinking of the wrong definition of "depressant". Alcohol is a physical depressant.
The trouble with the iBot was that it was only reimbursed as a wheelchair. You wouldn't believe the hassle Dean Kamen went through with various government agencies and legislators trying to get it reimbursed at a reasonable rate, but it never happened.

I think prosthetics are better in this regard. Kamen went after arms specifically because prosthetic legs are already really advanced (therefore expensive and properly reimbursed).
If you look at Alphalab's FAQ, you'll see that they expect companies to stay in Pittsburgh after the program. This is different from other seed accelerators, and should be a major factor if you're considering it.
Sure, it's not as closed as Apple's systems. However, it's still not a real computer. I want a tablet that is just a laptop running a normal OS, with accommodations for a touch screen. There's no indication a ChromeOS tablet will be anything like that.
I'm really going to disagree with one point and say hierarchical folders are the problem. Just look at how people deal with their desktop (hundreds of docs). People get search. If someone found a way to make tagging documents more intuitive then just search for content keywords, then there would be no contest.

The problem comes with shell users, how does a non-filesystem terminal session work? I'm can't get a clear visual right now.
FPGA/ASIC programming using Python
As dazmax said, not only is it removing frustration, it actually can make you more happy every time you realize you don't have to pack up your cord. This probably mostly applies to people who are used to having to pack up cords a couple times a day to move around.
Yeah, great resource Jasber -- I think you linked to it on another thread, but wanted to share it for everyone. For things like this I know I get stuck using the same tools over and over, and while they may work, it is nice to have a listing like this so I can check-out anything new/unknown that might make it easier or give better results.
From DOS Games to BBSes: Five Ways To Reminisce About Your Online Past
Give HN: Beta Invites to Glass, a Social Annotations Service
Reading HN in college, I became excited about the start-up atmosphere. Because of you, I moved across the country and started working full-time as a Firefox extension developer. I've been having a great time, and it's all your fault :)

The project I'm working on is currently in Beta, and I want to share it with you. The first 100 people to use the code "erdos" on http://www.writeonglass.com can try it out.
They built a crippled Linux distro? Didn't China try the same thing with red flag os?
So, basically two extra-light desktops? Is this satire?
Clickable url: http://www.writeonglass.com
Though the apps are at $9.99+ on iPad. With the "anchoring" of the iPhone apps at $0.99 and $2.99 (and free), Apple and other companies are having to fight a slightly different battle of re-anchoring everyone higher.
http://xkcd.com/208/ . Why i only use services that obscure email addresses when I find a questionable site.
I'm not sure where people got the idea that it's controlled by myoelectrics, because it's not. (They're not ruling it out for future versions.) The current version is controlled by reading physical force on pads placed on various muscle groups and in the shoes. You have to actually contract muscles/curl your toes to control the arm.
I have used this feature exactly one time since they introduced it. For me, this decision was not surprising at all.
That wasn't decades in the past. Western Digital's VelociRaptor 600GB drive has 3 platters. Some of the new 4k sector drives have 3 platters. The first 1TB hard drives (obviously in the past) had 4 or 5 platters.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/1tb-hdd-rou...
Funny, they have properties that they let go to pot and are actively destroying (as in shutting down vs selling them), and at the same time are in the market for buying new ones.
I have often gone to
http://www.morewords.com/
to search for dictionary words that end in a TLD I'm looking at, or contain buzz words I want in a domain.
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that's the best advice I've seen in while. Definitely gonna try this in my next job interview!
Changelog 0.2.0 - node.js w/Felix Geisendorfer
A good interview covering all the hype around node.js and what it is all about
To turn these off, modify your ~/.gemrc file and add the line:
gem: --no-rdoc --no-ri

Great tip. I sometimes remember to add these while I'm typing gem install..., but most of the time I forget, so this will help.
Beach Bums & Bureaucrats: Where The iPad's Early Adopters Live
Even when using RAID1 like that for cloning, it's the cloning that is the backup, not the RAID1. You're cloning data that just happens to contain RAID1 configuration data. You could also clone the partition as presented to the OS or the logical files. It's all cloning, just at different levels.
32 years on, K&R's "The C Programming Language" still stands alone
When copying links out of your feed reader, it's useful to get rid off the tracking parameters they add. For example, in this link, the ?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29 part is unnecessary.
My advice? Go legit. Open a cafe.
I've heard this advice too and wonder the same thing.

Perhaps not naming a number early is important because it takes time to figure out what the other side would potentially pay. Asking for $10,000 when someone could only pay $100 might be a terrible strategy. But if you figure out they could pay $1,000, then asking for $10,000 might not be too bad.

The trick is to wait until you know more before you set the anchor.
QoS can be used for good and some people (e.g. George Ou) have been pushing this angle, but when broadband ISPs talk about QoS (or any kind of "improvement" to their networks), it's always for evil. Many techies, seeing an environment where "innovation" is solely used for evil, are responding bluntly: if the ISPs can't use these tools responsibly, let's take them away completely.
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Addressing Concerns about Padrino
More discussion over here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1244720
Yes you are right about everything you've stated and make a very well-reasoned argument, and I basically agree. I'm just not comfortable with accepting that we sitting here can perfectly predict the interesting use-cases and list them. That's all.

But then again there are all kinds of multitasking devices on the market, so nothing is really stopping the innovation of new use-cases. So I guess we do totally agree. I'm not so much worried about multitasking on the iPhone, since you're right that it's only currently preventing the (arguably) limited set of use-cases you describe.
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I like that. A lot.

I'm going to create a feelgood.txt on my work computer right now. I'm also thinking about creating a feelbad.txt - so I know what to avoid in my life.
Creativity Bootcamp: Move Your Body for Creativity
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Below is my personal experience with different job situations:

Between 17 and 20 I never travelled more than a few miles for work. I worked as a server at a resort ($14/hr), as a night auditor at hotel where I had 1 hour of work to do and 8 hours to do it ($8.25/hr) and as an entry-level web developer ($10-15/hr). All of the jobs paid more than I needed and I had ample free time.

The main drawback for these jobs was that I wasn't treated as well as I wanted. With one of the web companies, I happened to see a recent hire's check and saw that he made more than me. I asked the owner why this person made more than me when I had more experience, and her answer was that I made a lot for my age and that the other person had a degree.

From 20-24 years of age I worked as a freelancer, starting at $25/hr and going to $90/hr, billing about 30 hours a week and working about 50. I always worked remotely, and for a year during this period I lived in Hawaii.

The perks of working from home are many. I always lived near the beach and could take beach breaks during the middle of the day. I had a lot more time because I had no commute at all. The main drawback was that I didn't have enough social interaction. I'm still discovering what a huge, negative effect this has had on my life.

These days I make $100/hr, 40 hours a week, and I commute between an hour and half and two hours every day, depending on traffic. I listen to audiobooks on the ride in, but going home they make me too sleepy. Because of the audiobooks, I don't mind the commute as much as I would otherwise. I feel like I learn valuable things during my time in the car.

Also, because I earn more and bill for more hours, I make about twice as much as I did previously. This year I'm planning on traveling around the world, something I've never been able to do. I've also been able to afford a lot of little niceties like improv lessons and snowboarding lessons. I'm very glad that I'm able to buy these experiences.

I'm also trying to make friends with the people I work with. I already consider my immediate colleagues to be good friends and great people, and it makes me very happy to know them and see them every day.

The long-ass commute does get me down sometimes. I'm still trying to figure out how to make more time for my personal projects. With the amount of money I'm making, though, it's feasible that I'll be able to take little vacations just to work on my ideas, something which wasn't possible before. So overall, the long commute is definitely worth it.
I'd be interested to see what has happened to these numbers in the past five years - particularly through the great run-up in oil prices that peaked in summer 2008 and the sharp economic crash that followed.

Disclosure: my daily commute is a refreshing 15 minute bike ride.