skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely hardware-controlled vs. purely software-controlled devices are somewhat difficult to evaluate (partly because purely X-controlled is somewhat of a rarity).

The "trick", or rather, the true test of a design when it comes to this is judiciously balancing the advantages that each of these categories bring you. You generally want to use "hardware" means in order to nullify the important risks of programmable logic (i.e. the major consequences of a blunder in the logic that was programmed on the device), and use programmable logic for those sections that require flexibility, ease of programming, potential fixes or enhancements and so on.

Real-life example from a device I worked on: the linear actuator (that was essentially sticking needles into people's brains) had a physical barrier past the safe distance limit. Literally a big hunk of metal that the actuator could not be moved past.

Of course, there was a limit in software as well (the software would refuse to move the motor past the safe limit). However, with the physical barrier in place, it protected the motor more than anything else.

It's worth noting that design decisions in these fields are done not so much based on the amount of brokenness in existing implementations (to put it bluntly, there's about as much broken hardware as there is broken software), but based on the amount of risk that a solution introduces. Many regulating bodies (e.g. FDA) will classify your device in a higher risk class if there's programmable logic in it, simply because software tends to be harder to write and test reliably (not only because of bad programmers, but also because of a lack of standards, or at least consensus and metrics on testing).

Edit: I can't quote numbers right now; there is data that shows the risks involved in purely software-based approaches, and it's easy to see why even in the example above. A software-enforced limit on the distance of movement can fail due to a bunch of reasons, not all of them bugs. Bugs are one thing, but the system could also fail due to a broken connection between the motor driver and the CPU, due to a bug in the hardware implementation of the motor driver itself, due to glitches on the bus and so on.

There are software mitigations for all of these cases, too (e.g. you continuously monitor the position of the motor; if the motor still moves after you tried to stop it, you reset the system, and the hardware is wired so that all power to the motor is cut when you come out of reset), but nothing is as efficient as making sure that the motor just won't be able to move the load past a certain distance by placing a physical barrier in its way. By an uncanny chain of events, maybe all the software mitigations can fail; nothing, however, can make a big hunk of metal disappear into thin air.
> 1) There is a clear value to voting Green in terms of building the party. The more people vote Green, the more visible the success of the party, the better they do in future elections. Not all of what happens in an election need be about winning the current contest.

That makes sense in the abstract. In concrete reality, Trump is going to do his best to persecute hundreds of thousands of Americans, notably Hispanics and Arabs. (I don't say "Muslims" because I don't think his policies, or the people carrying them out, will recognize a functional distinction.) Shall we tell those people as they're being persecuted and deported that their suffering is okay, because they're contributing to the Greens possibly having a chance at winning in 20 years?

I don't think we can reasonably ask that of people.
Unless the wealthy somehow manage to consume all the excess production the average can't buy because they're too poor, wealth will have a hard time increasing without general economic growth. There is a pretty hard limit on how much even the most ostentatious trillionaire can consume.
Virtually no one has access to a network they own end to end that is big enough to create and test a credible alternative. Google, and the tiny number of people inside it who work on this stuff, are one of probably 10 orgs in the world qualified and well placed to do it. Other contenders would be MS, US Navy, Apple..who else?
Shirky seems to have been entirely right. Microtransactions haven't really succeeded except inside games - and there they're successful but unpopular.
Degrowth[0] is an interesting related perspective/solution to check out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth
YouTube Red seems to be a form of micropayments that works well. I signed up for the service as part of Google's July 4th promotion and its made YouTube so much better as a product. I assume the monthly fee is somehow distributed to content creators as a micropayment, as replacement for viewing an ad.
Agreed. I stopped caring about the Olympics after 1988, when a pair of hometown girls won the silver in synchro swimming.
pretty good piece on some possible changes
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202705
I completely agree. This is actually better than a lot of cases because Java import statements are just lisp symbols delimited by periods. This is mostly only useful if you're transforming lisp statements into code. Transforming java to java or c to c is just a mess. Still, If I need to do some ugly code transformation, I'd rather it be in scheme than c. :)

Also, the example could and probably should be rewritten more cleanly. Hence the comment. That was the first thing I used the tool for and my scheme has improved since.
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The latest version of the play store identifies apps that show ads or have in-app purchases.

https://files.derf.us/Screenshot_20160801-105001.png
Send a message to who? The newly elected President from the 15% win? Some message. Get out and look for a candidate you believe in and spread the word.
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this a relatively recent change, 1992. from the basketball "dream team" wiki:

In 1989 FIBA modified its rules allowing professional athletes, such as NBA players, to compete internationally.[8] FIBA agreed in April 1989 to allow professionals to play in the Olympics, despite American and Russian votes against the proposal. USA Basketball asked the NBA to supply players for its 1992 roster;

if 24 years is recent. I just realized that I'm an old man now.
It's called Postgres because it was the second DBMS that Stonebraker started after Ingres. So it's "post Ingres", or "post gres"
Two words: Nash Equilibrium.
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If we're willing to deal with the (technologically but not politically manageable) consequences, nuclear rockets are a proven technology and can reach most of the solar system within a year's traveling time.
Paying for travel to the games, maybe.

Amateurs, except for the tennis players, the football players, and the bicycle riders. All of which are the big name stars who get paid to compete in other dedicated tournaments. I'm sure there are others too but those are the most promoted sports.

I don't think the ones above get paid for the Olympics though.
Some aren't sponsored at all [1] and may end up not even making it [2] (sorry for this one, it's in Portuguese).

Basically athletes need to raise money by their own/crowdfunding.. Its sad news having in mind countries are being represented.

[1] http://www.kshb.com/news/family-of-olympic-athlete-raises-mo...

[2] http://www.revistaport.com/nadador-portugues-promove-crowdfu...
I used Sublime for a couple years before switching to Atom. As a disclaimer, I just do HTML/CSS/JavaScript so I'm rarely working with massive files. That's where I hear most complaints. However, I have yet to come across a problem with Atom that really gets my goat. There are occasional flukes - that is to say it feels like a fairly-early-on open-source piece of software - but nothing that prevents me from using it in a professional capacity.
Rephrased another way, relatively few voters actually (1) register and (2) vote in the party primaries. These registered voters apparently represent the "most politically involved" 10% of the overall population. (It's also somewhat misleading to include minors or non-citizen residents in the denominator when they aren't able to vote - it makes the result artificially small.)

The primary system, while still susceptible to party insiders, is a lot more democratic than a system where political parties pick their candidates and say to the electorate "these are your choices, take it or leave it". (I won't address whether "more democratic" is a good thing, as that's a whole different can of worms.)
Yea would be amazing to see an innodb backend for PG!

( I'll let myself out ;)
The Olympics is just a venue. Its not an employer. Its your home country that would pay you any salary. Often a base salary plus whatever bonus for getting a medal.
For the interested: A working group to standardize QUIC was accepted into the Transport and Services area of the IETF at the last meeting in Berlin a couple of weeks ago [1].

The WG charter is this one [2]:

Define a new standards track IETF transport protocol based on deployment experience with QUIC. Four focus areas:

* Core transport work: wire format, basic mechanisms

* Security: TLS 1.3 to protect QUIC header and payload

* Application semantic mapping: initial focus on HTTP/2

* Extension to multipath for migration and load sharing

[1]: http://etherpad.tools.ietf.org:9000/p/notes-ietf-96-quic?use...

[2]: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/96/slides/slides-96-quic-0....
Also check out The Children's Machine. Some similar content to what's in Mindstorms, but it was written years later, based on further research.

A favorite quote: [O]n my reckoning, the fraction of human knowledge that is in the [school] curriculum is well under a millionth and diminishing fast. I simply cannot escape from the question: Why that millionth in particular?
Perfect excuse for Didi to raise prices after gaining monopoly share of the market...
I don't agree with that. What I agree with is 'they shouldn't' and 'this year they haven't exercised the option that they have to do so'. As I said earlier, Johnson poses no threat to the GOP, and Stein isn't seen as a significant threat (and isn't).
> Honestly, I find it horrifying people feel the need to vote for the "least worst option".

I find it disconcerting that one could use such hyperbolic language when voting for the "least worst" option is clearly the rational thing to do when there are direct, personal stakes from the *outcome. The ramifications to minorities by electing a very conservative Republican, or a pretend-Conservative who is a not-pretend racist like Trump, are quite significant. By doing anything, by action or inaction, to put Trump in the White House, there is a substantial risk of reduced voting access for minority voters. For poor voters, there is a substantial risk of losing the social safety net. For women, a likely increase in barriers to reproductive health.

No, you don't have to vote for the least-bad option. But we all know that a third-party candidate is not going to win the election. You're expressing at horror that people with skin in the game, where the stakes are quite high (or seem to be), are unwilling to make a political and philosophical stand at the expense of their own best interests. Until there is some level of voting system reform, we're likely stuck with first-past-the-post system that encourages two-party rule.

Of course I think you should vote for a third-party candidate if you want to. It's your vote! Maybe it'll lead to funding for their campaign next time. But I take great umbrage with the disgust and horror shown to people acting pragmatically because of what a third-party vote may lead to for them.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/28985...

This is the year to do it. There is enough general dissatisfaction with the two parties that there is an opening for both the Green and Libertarian Parties to actually do something that's never been done before.

Which instead of spoiling one major party (Perot and Nader), they would spoil both.

Your wasting your vote if you don't use it to vote your mind.
In practice, money is siphoned away from cities to subsidize suburbs making the cities more expensive.
Huh. I've seen people say this in relation to the Star Citizen alpha, didn't realize it was a real term.

In the words of my loaner Hornet F7C:

Collision alert: front! Scanning! Collision alert: front!
Scanning! Scanning! Contact! Collision alert: Left! Contact!
Scanning! Sca- Contact! Collision alert: Front! Contact!

If you're flying anywhere near another object it just never shuts up. Are real planes that bad?
Often applications come with their own fonts as well.
No it's premature optimization.
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From the article:

In major American sports leagues — such as the NFL, Major League Baseball and the NBA — management typically shares about 50 percent of the revenue with the athletes. In promotional materials, the USOC advertises that more than 90 percent of its spending goes to “areas that support U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes.” That same 2012 study by former athletes found that just 6 percent of USOC spending actually goes to athletes as cash payments.
> 8 digit valuation according to...whom?

You are right to doubt the valuation - in fact, you would be right to question any valuation, since all parties involved benefit from inflated valuations (to a point).
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"Reward" doesn't always equal money. Yes, of course, receiving money for what one does allows comfortable living, but there are plenty of professions and things people do that are not centered around accumulating money.
The term refers to work on syntax (or phonology) that does not extend into semantics. So, basically anything Chomsky writes is on narrow syntax, whereas anything (say) Irene Heim or Barbara Partee writes is concerned with a broader notion of syntax (which includes semantics).
This is the same percentage that chose Obama and McCain.
Hate to post something this silly on HN, but you might enjoy this old SNL skit:

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/update-all-drug...
Yes, that's what I recall too. Most kids were confused by the relativity of orientation since left when facing down is right ... After that classes were about the word processor and paint program.

Something I wish I could investigate; was the network infrastructure. I don't know if my school was special but there was a bit networked server that could communicate with other schools (we even had online contests). I also remember seeing its screen trashed. Teacher said "there's a virus.".
Felons tend young, poor, and uneducated and adding those together they tend not to vote at all, although you're correct, if they live long enough, get a job, or graduate from school, THEN they'd be in demographic groups that do tend to vote D.

Both of you are more or less correct. OP is correct that they don't vote, you are correct that if they were in a higher social class that did vote they'd tend to vote D.

Most of the R party complaining about D party enfranchisement of felons is just BAU "must oppose anything my opponent does automatically" not an actual existential threat to the R party.
not in the US. the article states:

"Unlike national Olympic committees in many other countries, Blackmun noted, the USOC receives no government support to help it pay athletes."

the Olympic Training Center has some limited housing for athletes but you have to live in Colorado Springs.
I think hyperloop is the product of mismanaged communication. People need to move on about this one, not much to see.

Tesla and Solar City on the other hand seems to make perfect sense. Why do you think it's shady? (ahah, shady, solar...)
>Isn't the appeal created by the media though?

Not really. I dislike most events but I tune in for those that I like. All the marketing in the world isn't going to make me watch weightlifting, women's wrestling, dressage, synchronized swimming, etc. The Olympics works because its so varied. Single event tournaments don't remotely compare.
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Even if the President was elected by only 15-17% of eligible voters, they would still wield 100% of the power of the presidency.
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Nope. First, it's not L3 cache and secondly comparing 3D-stacked in-package memory (MCDRAM, HBM, HBM2) with your examples is misleading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory
You mean like the array[1] that's in the standard library?

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html
He is still far more so than the other candidates.
You're moving the goalposts. Information proving that a Raspberry Pi Zero is available at $5 was provided.

The point is, the Raspberry Pi Zero is $5 and stores sell them for that amount. There is more than one vendor out there. There's also a large demand and shortage of them.
The biggest reason SCTY went up to ~$26.70 was because of the announcement a few weeks ago (which speculated $26 to $28 buyout price).

I don't think anything unfair happened to you.
To be sure, I use it too! But almost never in public; I still use the headphone jack daily.
Olympic games were originally for amateurs, but the concept of "full-time amateur athlete" as developed in Eastern Block starting 1950's made this completely ridiculous by 1970's.

Since 1988, the international federations of each sport have been allowed to set the rules for professional participation. For instance, in the largest of global sports, football (soccer), the players can be professionals, but they have to be under 23 years old, with just three over-age players allowed.
Looks neat, the API seems nice, and it'll be interesting to see a new framework now that Leaf[1] has been abandoned. Also fantastic to see a linear algebra library for Rust: that's useful for lots of applications other than just machine learning. I'll be keeping an eye on this :D

[1] https://medium.com/@mjhirn/tensorflow-wins-89b78b29aafb
Is this really that crazy to believe both statements are true?

Facilities, as one example, don't pop up out of thin air for free.
Agreed; this is a normal part of renting.
I see some comments call this a "very specific user case". This is not. Pretty much every major web project is going to have tables like that. User sessions are just one example. Sure, you can design around this, but it is a problem and no design is going to make it completely go away.
Sanders and Johnson couldn't be more far apart on economic policy. It's a false equivalence to say that they are similar.

One is inherently for welfare the other vehemently against it in most forms.
FYI, Edward Snowden is too young to qualify for president of the US, at least in this election season.
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That was 1st gen CloudSQL right? 2nd Gen CloudSQL seems much more similar to running your own MySQL server. (Both the pros and cons of that)
The politicians don't care. Vote third party and get someone in there who will actually enact change.
Actually, when you look at any kind of programming, it is:

Turtles, turtles all the way down.

RIP
I can sort of understand that you mean that you think they have the option to have a monopoly, if they felt they needed to exercise it.
The polarized political landscape is probably a result of the voting system though. In a winner take it all systems, you can get a vote at "any cost" since you won't have to make any coalition later.

The only thing in favor of the system is that it creates a clear winner, proportional systems might be more fair, but if parties fail to create a majority coalition you are back to square one.

An ideal system might need to mix these two approaches (and some other like vote ranking, lists, etc)
areas that support U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes

Such as making sure the executives are very well compensated, which supports the athletes! wink and nod.
Why and how does our economy depend on growth? I've head this claimed a lot but never understood it.
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I'm glad people are looking into this, but this "study" is actually pretty poor. Mostly it's just recounting grumpy opinions of drivers.

Fundamentally, the potential issues relating to information asymmetries come from the fact that such asymmetries might result in a market failing to clear. Absolutely nowhere does it attempt to discuss this issue. It spends a fair bit of time discussing Uber's attempts to transmit information to drivers, thereby reducing said asymmetries (e.g., "demand is high in your area").

Absolutely nowhere does it attempt to quantify the harms caused by information asymmetries.

Nowhere does it discuss the fact that Uber's primary role is that of a Walrasian auctioneer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walrasian_auction) in a market with sparse goods and where actually processing the relevant information is probably too complex for any agent to do. There is actually a fair bit of theoretical economic literature on this - the net result is generally that the best strategy for an auctioneer who taxes transaction value is to approach market clearing (i.e. what would happen with perfectly rational agents and perfect information).

Overall, this article is just a thin academic veneer on top of what is basically just typical journalistic griping about Uber. What's the point?
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Competition with free (from a direct monetary perspective) is certainly a problem with charging upfront for many types of content generally. However, that's not a problem that's especially unique to micropayments.

It's been a while since I've read it but Shirky's original piece most focused on the mental transaction costs with deciding to pay a nickel (or whatever) to read an article. Assuming you accept that argument--which I'm largely inclined to--nothing has really changed. The arguments against micropayments have never been primarily about technology. Sure, you need a way to make low-cost transactions very low friction and very low cost overhead but that's the easy part.

Subscriptions seem to be the way paid content access has mostly headed. The problem with making subscriptions more broadly apply to online text content is that you need to get a critical mass for a platform and you need to deal in some way with the standard issues of paywalls.