skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, this is a paper about FPGA use internally for Microsoft for their datacenters for select applications. You're probably never going to be exposed to the fabric yourselves, unless you have ungodly amounts of money to pay them behind closed doors, or just buy your own custom systems. Average individuals are no closer to these hybrid, re-programmable systems than they were before.

Anyway -- doesn't Chisel just generate Verilog, like basically every other alternative HDL does? What's the problem with just plugging that resulting code into your synthesis tool and going at it?

Granted, the "plugging" part is the annoying bit, since most EDA toolchains seem to be fundamentally hostile to the outside world. But it doesn't really seem like Chisel should be the limiting factor here, at all. (As an alternative case study -- it was very easy for me to integrate a 3rd party HDL (Clash) with tools like IceStorm, but it did require some automation boilerplate)
You have to be logged-in for the opt-out to be effective... so now they know exactly who you are...
You mean your comment? Yeah, it's gotten bad like that.

If you mean the article, it's on HN because HN is a social bookmarking site, and it was upvoted.
I've been downvoted, but I think people didn't get my point at all. There is no way that YCombinator is removing this comment, just because they host this platform, and for emphasis I pretend to be critical.

There is no WAY youtube would remove a video of an exploding samsung, just because samsung is a partner.
Let's Encrypt now supports IDNs
And yet I suspect the government could pick up a phone, hop in a vehicle, etc and communicate with the right people.

Which means it falls under what he said.
Automatic exploratory data analysis
be the one
That second one isn't living space; it's being a hotel.
It's really hard to see a version of this story that supports your claim that these laws are "hammers in search of nails".

In one telling, you --- or, the proverbial you, the 10 less-responsible versions of you that exist for every equally-responsible you --- bringing a massive flow of short-term renters to buildings and neighborhoods zoned and coded for long-term tenants, overriding those regulations based entirely on your personal hunch that people are generally better than the democratic process of your municipality has decided they are.

In another telling, you are more or less stating outright that, because after buying a building designed for three families you discovered you don't like letting two other families have long-term leases, you've converted your three-family dwelling into a hotel. Even putting zoning aside, you're like living proof of how Airbnb impacts housing stock.

I'm not saying you're doing anything wrong. I'm saying that you're making a pretty clear case that there is a significant public policy stake in whether or not you should be able to continue doing it it.

I'm not even saying that the zoning concern or the housing stock concern should prevail or are dispositive or anything! I happen to find them compelling, but, whatever. I'm just saying, if I was trying to convince people that the state should mind its own business and let a hundred Airbnbs bloom, this is probably not the thing I would brag about in public.
The uncertainty around their origin (a foreign country who until a few years ago was hostile to the US) would preclude them being used by US government agencies (who depend on NIST for the stamp of approval).
What are the best alternative email services with a privacy focus?
Also relevant:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.java/aSPAJO0...
Well, there's pretty much no way to impose the geographic borders of the US onto the Internet. Our networks here in the US are all global and integrated with other networks all around the world. The only places where this kind of geographic control is possible are countries like Iraq, Iran, China and others where the government controls all the ISPs. Countries with more freedom have a free flow of information and packets - and to me that is a very GOOD thing.
My comment here might be relevant to your interests: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12765051

It could suit your needs or we can help with custom deployments. In any case I'd like to learn more about your needs and your expectations. Can I drop you an email?
You're assuming we'll build immunity fast enough. What if we don't?

Attacks at this scale can bring a significant part of Internet down. The economic affect can be just as bad as a war.
Named Data Networking (NDN): Motivation and Details
A lot of people seem confused at why an earnings boost in cloud revenues at the expense of traditional licensing revenues would result in positive market response. But you have to remember, there's a whole lot more to an earnings report than the sum of all the numbers in the balance sheet. Even more important is the story they tell.

In the last few years, IT has seen growth in new business lines such as SaaS, cloud etc. and a growth stall n traditional revenue (HW, on-prem & licenses etc.)

Older companies like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle have been making their bread and butter for decades in traditional technologies whilst new upstart companies like Salesforce, Amazon & Google have all established themselves as leaders within newer fields.

In a sector where being an early winner within new technologies is key for future revenue (like Microsoft & Windows in the 90's) the market is judging these older giants not at the revenue they bring in, but in their ability to retain market share and beat new players in the innovation game.

The boost in share price should be seen as a recovery from previous depreciation of share price (Nokia & Windows phone anyone?) and a belief the company has finally woken up to reality and is moving in the right direction.
It seems that many people who have dealt with them have a story about their overly aggressive nature, me included. It's really a turn off.
well sure, if we're talking not responding to the initial application then yea I don't think the expectation is to get a response from every single company.

but if I as much as have a screening call with a recruiter, unless they flat out tell me "no" I would expect some sort of communication at that point.
Not as a news source, but a news aggregator. The self defense shootings are buried as a 2nd tier link on a web site, or back of news paper. Crime is on the front page. Of course the gun lobby does not highlight crime or negligent shootings, so I'll give you that.
I guarantee you'll get lots of weird traffic. We do all the time on our ELB-fronted app servers.
It's good to know things are clam, I was just quoting the article. Not sure where they got that from

> Finland is becoming increasingly worried about what it sees as Russian propaganda against it, including Russian questioning about the legality of its 1917 independence
No, I don't think "timeshare" is the same. In a timeshare, there's no exchange of funds between you and the people with whom you're sharing; you and your co-sharers are collectively purchasing a thing from a third party and sharing it (in this case, a rental property). It's like if I said I was "sharing a cab": you would assume I meant some other person or people and I all got in a cab and split the fare. The other passengers and I would be the ones doing the sharing, with each other. The driver is not sharing with us, and I would never use the word "share" to describe taking a cab alone.
Entire History of You is my favourite too, then the Xmas special and Be Right Back. White Bear was an interesting idea though, but not so believable.
Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites
Minecraft: Education Edition World Library
Skype calls expose user keystrokes. researchers
(Shrug) Send the money to Greece, or bury it in a crater on Mars. What's the difference?
really didn't like Utopia
Shut up, we all know that's a silent error!
If everything is a network, nothing is a network
Update Regarding DDoS Event Against Dyn Managed DNS on October 21, 2016
https://xkcd.com/695/
I interviewed with Twitter a while back and it was astounding how little concern they had for my time. I had a few phone screens and two of them had to be rescheduled as the person never called me. Then they gave me a take home coding assignment that required coordinating with one of their engineers who then missed not one but two appointments.
No, the amount of speed you gain (delta-v) is, at an ideal condition, twice the orbital velocity of the planet (or moon) you're flying by.

(Imagine throwing a ping-pong ball at a truck. If the truck is at rest, you get the same speed back. If the truck is running at 60 mph, you may go to jail, but assuming you don't, you get back a 120 mph ping-pong ball.)

A planet that far away from the sun must be moving at a very slow speed (otherwise it will escape the solar system altogether), so you can't gain much speed flying by.
> Steinberger’s book No Circus collects photographs of buildings tented for termite fumigation
And yes, authorities do shut down lemonade stands: https://www.google.com/search?q=authority+shut+down+lemonade...

I think it's silly, but there it is.
He's posting for his wife for a meetup he wants to have at his house where presumably he can stand guard.

Not to be offensive but I think the main thing he's trying to limit is temptation from his precious wife.
You may be right. But if I'm right, I'll help more kids faster. And that's what I care about. And I think I am right, because I see what I'm talking about every day.

With the exception of a few incredible teachers and mentors out there (I myself had several), education today isn't genuinely exciting for most students. Many teachers are truly great people and are valuable to students. But are they a necessity, or a luxury? Either way, in order for educational content to stay current in today's system, teachers need to be taught new information first before they can then teach their students. Physical teacher-to-student teaching is an O(n^k+1) solution that will never be in every city let alone the developing world. If -- and that's a big "if" -- learning could come from a single software-based source of information in a way that was just as good or better than physical teaching today, a world-class education and credit for it could be accessible everywhere. All a student would need is a smartphone, which is relatively nothing compared to the current cost of education. Look at Duolingo as a great example of this for language learning and language-fluency credentialing. And on top of that, is the role of the teacher to in fact teach, or to guide and mentor? Great mentorship is invaluble, but that can also come from anybody great even if they're not in a formal teaching role.

Most learning today, whether technology, science or art, happens through books and YouTube videos and students teaching each other anyways. This peer-to-peer model works. And because through this model, young, radiant students are the primary source of content delivery, this model is also addictively social and exciting. All you have to do is remove the system and let kids do their thing. There's a reason products like Reddit are so popular -- it's an Internet ecosystem for youth all over the world.

Almost everyone who's been largely successful in any field has been self-taught. This isn't a coincidence. Those who truly love what they do enough to commit themselves to becoming world class by definition transcend the limits imposed by conventional educational standards. The problem, then, is not a teaching problem, but an exposure problem and an excitement problem to help kids find their passions and solve problems with friends in person who they love. Could an edtech platform be as viral as a Snapchat, Twitter, Netflix, Twitch Reddit, Buzzfeed? That's what I'm set to find out.

Edit: For context:

Harkness table
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harkness_table

Sugata Mitra: Kids can teach themselves
https://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_...

The best prep school in the world Phillips Exeter Academy, where I went, ironically is designed around kids teaching themselves. And parents pay $40,000+ per year for it.
Java disable_offers
The printer is the gateway into a recurring purchase so they are going to make them as cheap as possible. Same as SIM cards are free to get you onto a phone network.
I assume they are using the theory/algorithm from the MIT video magnification work: http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/
my fiance and I would love to. Are there any discounts available for the HN community?
The iPhone has a secret one-handed keyboard you're not allowed to use
Because IP addresses are often shared resources. Your ISP gives each customer an IP address (often a temporary one), and then that customer's router system handles assigning private, local-network-only IP addresses to any devices connecting through the network.

So if a DNS provider starts banning public IPs (which are the only IPs it sees), you could end up with an entire college getting banned because of one hacked webcam in one student's dorm room.

Or someone in an apartment somewhere with (unknowingly) a hacked thermostat finds their internet no longer works (DNS provider has banned them), so they reboot their modem, which causes their ISP to provide them with a new IP address. Guess what happens to their old IP address? It goes back into the pool of available IPs that that ISP can assign to other customers, and more and more banned-from-DNS addresses keep getting passed along to innocent, un-hacked customers.
While I am sympathetic to the issue, I'm concerned about how we can achieve our goals within the limits of the legal framework. Should we break up Kelly services or Robert half staffing? Should we break up GitHub?
Good write-up. I hear you about the patterns of debate that prop up in these threads. My favorites are the ones where people show up with specific logics, techs, or R&D suggestions that others and I learn from. Such an approach might lead to people solving hard problems over time.

My favorite counter to the Godel thing, esp about termination, was sklogic showing how far from reality these concerns were by illustrating that a while loop counting down toward zero with "stop if zero" condition will guarantee a termination of any algorithm working piece-by-piece in inner loop so long as hardware functions. No magic math at all required to defeat the termination requirement in real-world. I added watchdog timers or even shelf-life of modern parts can do the same.

I did something similar when I was concerned about infinite loops or DOS attacks from malicious input. Just box it up in something I know will work with something checking up on it. Another was algorithm theory telling me QuickSort performed better but choose HeapSort if worst-case is a problem. A smarter programmer told me to just time average for QuickSort, run it with a watchdog, kill it on any instance it takes too long, and use HeapSort for that instance. Those are the kind of tips I appreciate about these terrible problems the theoretical side brings me. Hell, if only theory people would find, generalize, and expand on all the effective cheats in engineering instead of idealistic or abstract stuff. :)
Wikileaks Claims Credit for the DDoS Attack on the US Internet
My apologies: I'm familiar with CVSS and other scales that exist, was more asking if a score is known for these particular disclosures so I can guesstimate how much of my other work I'll be sidelining to rush out the new fixed version.
Apache Commons Lang/Version 3.5/Release Notes
They're legal because the government has not decided to make them illegal. If the government decides that your lemonade stand is a danger to public health, or that your stamp collection is a national patrimony and cannot leave the country, it will make new laws that enforce those decisions.
I still run desktops with Windows 2000... does that make Windows desktops Immortal?
Leases tend to be very clear about the scenario you describe. Ditto for city and state rental laws.

Sure you can add family to the lease in NYC. I never said otherwise. But if your sibling is repeatedly violating the provisions of the lease, and being a nuisance to the other tenants in the building, you can both be evicted. A landlord would rather vacate a problem tenant than have multiple non-renewals due to the nuisance.

I mentioned that I've never personally encountered this situation because I sincerely doubt this is a common scenario here in NYC. Apartments are quite small in Manhattan. Most people have enough sense not to allow a sibling with a drug problem to live in their already-cramped living space long-term.

Regardless, I still don't see how any of this is comparable to transient AirBNB renters being disruptive to one's neighbors. In reponse to GP's claim that this law is only helping hotels, I provided a personal example of whole-unit AirBNB renters negatively impacting my quality of life, in violation of the lease and now in violation of the law as well. You're responding with hypotheticals about a completely different scenario (long-term guests and/or adding people to leases).
Journalist and security researcher Brian Krebs believes this is someone doing a DDoS as payback for research into questionable "DDoS mitigation services" that he and Dyn's Doug Madory did. Doug just presented his results yesterday at NANOG and Krebs believes this is payback. Read more: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twit...
Also, just to answer your actual question: If you're going to use a language like Chisel or Clash, I'd probably recommend you at least have working familiarity with the languages they're based in -- e.g. Scala or Haskell (or Python for MyHDL, or whatever). Start there, learn some of the fundamentals, and you'll be more equipped to start describing actual hardware. If you've been doing VHDL/Verilog for 20 years, but haven't done FP/software, then some things will probably seem obvious, while others may be harder to initially understand (e.g. designs in Scala or Haskell are going to heavily leverage abstractions present in the base language, so familiarity with them helps).

Generally, these tools are going to expect some level of familiarity with the base language, and most of the material around them is going to be rooted on that assumption. So if you've never done FP, or Scala, or Haskell, it'll likely be more difficult. Although I don't think its insurmountable.

I've been thinking recently it might be fun to write an article introducing Clash from a hardware design perspective, for people without prior Haskell/FP/etc experience. It certainly seems there isn't much material out there along these lines, IMO.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12759643
Perhaps the pitch call is done differently via Triplebyte, but for the most part, the initial non-interviewing phone call is with someone in HR or with little technical knowledge. Most questions are answered with "oh, let me find out and get back to you". I want the phone screen.
For general purpose usage and for gamers it is "fact", but there are certainly people who prefer high dpi displays in Windows. The first thing I did on my Macbook Pro running Windows was to turn off the terrible scaling, and lower the resolution. The panel's upscaling is better than Windows.

I don't mind high dpi on my Android phone since Android handles high dpi well.

Eventually high dpi will catch up in Windows, and I'll be "forced" to accept the horror of a 4K OLED ;-)
> If AirBnb residents are noisy and disrespect the laws, call the cops on them.

And what happens when that leads to calling the cops every weekend, for a different group of people?

I'll tolerate my neighbour having a loud party on his 25th birthday, or him accidentally banging his suitcase down the stairs at 5.30 when he's catching an early flight. I'll do the same, equally infrequently.

It's simply not fair to have that behaviour every fucking weekend, which was what happened when an apartment in the building was put on AirBnB.

Fortunately, the listing was removed the day after I sent it to the landlord, and the noise has stopped. I highly doubt any tax was paid on the income, which is also wrong.
Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – October 2016/Java
Yes but NIST holds requests for crypto standards that are used widely around the world. As far as I know there's no requirement that the algorithm be created in the United States to be considered, but I'm not entirely sure about the process.

It seems to me that if the standard was better, faster, and more secure, then it would become the greater standard by merit. Unfortunately there's been a shadow on NIST since Dual_EC_DRBG was "pushed" through. I would like to think it's greater mission is still intact.
> Groovy on Grails

The source you quote says "Groovy on Rails", which was the official name until it was contracted to "Grails" due to the insistence of the Rails crowd that "on Rails" not be used in any other product names. The "Groovy on Grails" phrase you wrote was a later unofficial but intended mispronunciation of the earlier name put out by the Grails crowd to make it sound like "Ruby on Rails" as a snipe at the Rails crowd. To those of us who thought Groovy would make a good language outside of its use in Grails, the mispronunciation made it sound like someone in the Grails crowd thought Groovy's only use was for scripting Grails.
Yes, it's obviously BS on AirBnB's part, but this line of speech is their best chance of not being shut down in NYC.

The priority should be alleviating the burden of sclerosing bureaucratic regulations, and if AirBnB can do that with a BS narrative about "the sharing economy", more power to them. The same goes with Uber and the taxi medallion system.

This isn't a fair debate where we should weigh the merit of each's side argument. This is a battle where one side will ultimately resort to violence to enforce its decision.
Was Today a Wakeup Call? For Most, Probably Not, but It Could Be for You
Do you perceive that your sarcasm was effective? Did it convey your point clearly and concisely, so that you can share your perspective and point of view?

Or did it do more harm to what is otherwise a legitimate viewpoint and possibly deserving of discussion?
Is that true for an open-source algorithm? I'm sure that the Russian Government still uses things like SHA256, even though it's an approved NIST standard.
A janitor!
One Note runs on Mac.
Well heres the thing, the house I am in is non-conforming multi-family.

Its only allowed to be mutli-family because its grandfathered in. Believe me, the town and neighbors would rather it be single-family, because multi-family brings in a lower class of occupant.

And heres the other thing. It was originally a single family house that was converted to multi family. So things change, markets change, demand changes.

Codifying usage in zoning laws and making it immutable might be a luxury affordable for places like NYC, but its not affordable for places with tons of sellers and little buyers, places where foreclosure rates threaten the value of homes with current mortgages.

The occupants of my house go to restaurants, rent kayaks, go to the local attractions. This is a tourist town, and vacation rentals are expanding our reach.

People will stay at a vacation rental that wouldnt stay at a hotel. Because they get a kitchen and a room for the kids. They will stay for a week in the summer. Who wants to stay for a week in a hotel room with four kids?

Vacation rentals are keeping this town alive, and I don't think this is being represented in this debate.

There is near unlimited affordable housing available in this area.
Because Emacs made it.