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If you want a multi-layer board done up on the cheap (or fast, pick one haha) Oshpark is my go-to. They do 4-layer PCBs for $10/sq in.

Small Batch Assembly (haven't used them yet) should be able to put it together for you if you'd rather not DIY. If you'd like to, though, Osh Stencils, tweezers, some solder paste and a rework station (or a heat gun if you're feeling brave) and you can do a lot at home.
"Making of the atomic bomb" is a real classic and can't come more highly recommended.

Model rockets are great for kids. I wish there were an equivalently accessible set of programmable RC plane projects.
Perhaps you can kill a bunch of birds (especially those that hurt your privacy :)) with one stone: install Firefox ;)
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This is probably a good reason why political discussions aren't worthwhile on HN right now. All those terrifying prospects like Muslim internment camps and millions dying from lack of health coverage are completely in the realm of speculation right now (if not outright falsehood - I've been seeing a lot of scary, widely-believed fakes out there). Without any kind of factual specifics to ground the argument in, it just turns into an increasingly nasty faith-based fight between people who believe that this will never happen and those who disagree are maliciously fearmongering, and those who believe it's obviously going to happen and anyone who disagrees is an evil mass-murder-supporting Nazi. Neither side can prove the other wrong.
"does anybody else think the only time they've ever heard of Lex is Lex Luther"

TBH, Lex Luthor is probably a better association than the spaceship Lexx. At least he doesn't make every household item into a not-even-disguised dick joke. :)
If Hacker News is the place where racist, misogynist, fascist hackers can feel particularly safe, that's going to be the kind of people you attract, at the expense of marginalized hackers.

I appear to be the top ranked openly female member here and my experience of HN dramatically improved when Dan Gackle (aka dang) took over the role as lead moderator of the site. I have faith in his judgment, plus I have substantial soft skills myself. I do not believe he is going to do anything to shape HN into the sort of thing you are positing here.
The crazy thing is that these stacked model architectures are starting to become another layer of "lego blocks" so to speak.
This may be the same problem as DRM, i.e. someone has to care first. Even Litecoin eventually got ASICs.
Lex who?

My only connotation for "Lex" is 'lexical analysis' and derived terms ('to lex', 'a lexeme', 'a lexer').
Yes - recruit a technical co-founder :)
Very political board members need safe spaces too.

It's time for HN to move to an independent forum.
That's a lot of very strong claims. Could you clarify them?
If you're trying to de-solder a BGA component, I can't help, but any other surface mount stuff check out Chip Quik Alloy. It's a super-low melting point solder that you can use to take off pretty much any non-BGA component with a standard iron and a pair of tweezers. Cleans off with braid.
It seems like you're doing a dry run of your ability to censor the community. By asking members to flag posts pertaining to politics, you're going to drastically offer what people see by default.

And when are you going to use this newfound ability again? When you arbitrarily get tired of some other topic? And even if you use this responsibly, what about the person who has your job next?

I've been active on this site for over eight years now. We've managed to govern ourselves just fine. I really hope this isn't a moment we all point back to in the future.
1. You made a claim.

2. I provided a citation against your claim.

3. You assert there's evidence ... somewhere.

Do you have anything to back your claim?
From your profile, you've been around the block more than a few times here on HN. Your disagreement here has me puzzled, as it seems to be disagreement for its own sake rather than understanding the intent of the detox week and attempting to refine the language explaining it. I understand dang's "politically combative" to describe what you state as "tribal displays that aren't debate". Or am I completely misreading your comment? If that's the case, would you elaborate? Also, how would you handle behavior such as that displayed in

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13095475

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13041886

What actually constructive on balance came out of these discussions? How can we improve the signal-to-noise ratio/reduce the tribal displays? This is a topic I'm genuinely interested in, so your take on it given your experience here on HN is of particular interest to me. I think it's not putting words in dang's mouth to say reducing the tribal displays (as opposed to stifle intellectual curiosity) is exactly what detox week is attempting to accomplish.
States legalizing marijuana are simply removing separate state criminal prohibitions on marijuana and deciding not to spend resources helping the Feds enforce their prohibition.

It is still illegal under federal law, though the current administration is presently not prioritizing enforcement of federal law regarding marijuana when the offense is within the scope permitted under state law.
I'd love to see some close-ups of the console screens. Maybe even a dump of the geometry of the fonts (I'm guessing it's a calligraphic display)
That's right, although they said something like 'Please decide within the week' or something to that effect. I'd have to dig up old, old paperwork to get the exact phrasing, but it wasn't 'Hey dude, it's chill, whenever you make up your mind'
I assumed it was specifically from 'a lexer', an homonym.
In theory, yes, of course.

In practice, that distinction doesn't hold up—not on the public internet and not at scale. The discussions are tribal.

I'd be happy to say "No Tribalism on HN" but how would we enforce it and how could anyone comply? Tribalism is not something people have conscious control over.
being outside US, I strongly support this. I couldn't care less about who leads team america world police, it's all the same anyway. HN is my tech news site, and politics is just a distraction. I understand that US citizens feel strongly about their government, but it's not really tech news.
Whatever I know Gates is a reading machine. I am sure he has read everything he recommends.

When Jon Stewart did the Daily Show I always wondered if he had read guests' books because he had pretty detailed questions.
Or upvote/downvote could be replaced by two completely value-free congruent triangles, pointing in opposite directions.
It is a real old desalination plant from 80s that is being re-activated.
Are people forgetting the legal perspective?

You can't charge your customer for an item they didn't buy. Trying to make the computer "dumb" doesn't change this. You're going to get angry customers on twitter, chargebacks, and possibly sued.
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Do you mean you don't see it in this interview, or in Petersons' work in general?

"revolutionary language" possibly means soviet language reform?:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=stqV47DuteoC&pg=PA103
Nice! Takes 5 minutes to read through all code and all makes sense - and probably all works too.

Kubernetes and nomad are a bear to get started with in comparison.
Demography is destiny.
Is Healthcare in the US really this bad?
Malicious is probably not the right word, more like thoughtless and lazy. The same mentality that leads people to abandon carts willy nilly in the parking lot.
JavaScript is pretty much average for a dynamic language.

Also, it doesn't matter how many people think its awful. What matters are the facts they present.
[OP]

I knew that healthcare costs were high in this country hearing from a friend who owed $25K from two days of medical treatment. But, the charts show a huge problem and gets scarier with the Trump administration.

I didn't know or face the wrath of it because I'm an non-immigrant alien in this country, and my works pays my insurance. But, regular citizens, and entrepreneurs go through this?
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Really good comment. I just wanted to thank you.
It should be noted that he used Racket to teach his son game programming. He mentioned in his QuakeCon 2013 talk that he was enthusiastic about FP concepts, but is too entrenched with C++ to make a change.
Probably depends more on the price of energy (solar?) than on the absolute reductions in energy requirements for desalination. The Israeli's have been making great strides in making more economical plants, but they're still off on price for agricultural use.
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The big "A" suggests it is an ammeter measuring the current, not a voltmeter. An analog display is often quicker and easier for a human to interpret when only a rough measurement is wanted.
I think we can read PG's tweet a little more favorably.

I consider myself liberal, and generally in favor of things such as unions, workers'-rights, and anti-discrimination regulations, that serve to balance power in our society.

That said, I can definitely see an argument that unions are inefficient - they slow down rate of change, introduce barriers to new innovation, and require one-size-fits-all negotiation. This doesn't mean we need to remove unions, just recognize the tradeoffs.

Furthermore, I would myself argue that unions are a response (and a rational one) to an inefficient, asymmetric power structure. i.e., unions are a symptom of a problem, not a problem.

example:

Let's say there's an industry, where in a competitive, open, and rights-respecting market, workers could typically get $15/hr.

If there's a monopoly-employer and un-unioned employees, they can suppress the wage to $10/hr, concentrating profits to the employer. If there's a union, and no monopoly of employers, the union can force the wage to $20/hr, stifling the industry, and possibly preventing new employees from entering the marketplace freely. If the employers and union are at equal power levels, the wage sits around $15/hr, but there's a lot of red tape, and slowed rate of innovation, because of the nature of negotiations.

If you create a company that hires non-union workers, but treats them as well or better as unioned workers would be treated, you should have a competitive advantage.
This is amazingly naive. "We apply them less rather than more in cases where YC itself or a YC startup is at issue." You realize, of course, that YC, PG, and SA all drive the tech zeitgeist to some extent or another. News that affects YC itself is all tech and politics, because YC affects these things.
Shoe Dog might have been my favorite read of the year, its a very inspiring and highly entertaining story. Regardless of what you think of Nike you can learn a lot about determination and grit from this book. I would recommend it to anyone with an entrepreneurial spirit.
I agree with what I believe is your central point

What part don't you agree with?
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The introduction to the article is the second best introduction to any article ever. The first, which is in a totally unrelated field, is:

"THEY do a lot of things wrong in the United States, but they do a lot of things right, too.

The NFL draft is at, or at least near, the top of the good list."

(see http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-04-30/uncle-sams-draft-week-...)
But wouldn't this clearly be politics? And is this really necessary for HN?
No one knows, so is the trouble with opaque economic systems.
Good point. I tried to be pretty conservative so it didn't feel like I was fudging numbers to make a point about speed in earlier rounds, but I wonder if I should clarify.

I'll definitely include this when I write more for an audience of applicants. Resumes are soooooo boring, so anything to stick out is a big deal.
I haven't had higher quality discussion with this many people anywhere else on the internet. Sometimes there are not so great comment threads, sometimes people decide to take things too seriously and fail to pick up on humor... but generally I think this is a great place.
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Community operated and moderated. It's amazing how the entire tech community has come together on a message board run by venture capital. It's not a neutral forum. At the very least, a GNU-friendlier alternative would be appreciated.
you successfully censored the story about that giant censorship engine.
Technologists have above average wealth, and have influence on the future of technology and society. There are many here. At some point the size and power of a news site increases beyond the point where its just a toy - like it or not (see Facebook).

And with power comes responsibility.

I can understand adjusting the amount of political discussion, but banning it seems like a derogation of responsibility - certainly if the ban were to persist.

Alternatively, if another leak like Snowden's comes out this week, would discussion be prohibited? What if a big tech company was found to be building a Muslim registry? Could you please clarify whether stories that are both technology and political will remain?

> What Hacker News is: a place for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive comments.

If that's the clear extent of the mission, that's a pity.

I'd argue there was always a subtext on HN, whereby hackers giving prominence to their intellectual curiosity is justified because this path also eventually produces Good Stuff, technology which solves real problems, and eventually creates wealth and makes people's lives better. I would thus recommend against drawing a bright line around 'gratify intellectual curiosity'.

If we're just clicking stories purely because it gratifies us, how's it different to just eating candy? It'd be a pity if that was all the community is intended to be.
This is a great point.

When I talk about intentionally frustrating candidates, it's mostly based on a technical interview we would do that a lot of people would struggle with. It hit the critical thinking itch, I think, and some people can't handle that. Y'all have me thinking that this section could use a little revision, though.
It's also to do with the homebrew scene not wanting their code to be used by pirates, and wanting to be seen to be actively preventing that, to try and protect themselves.
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This is really exciting. The lack of a build service has been apparent for a while: https://convox.com/blog/aws-missing-build-service/

I wrote up how we plan to use this in the Convox platform here: https://convox.com/blog/codebuild/

Practically speaking, we're working through PCI compliance. Getting builds off of production services and root-enabled docker daemons is a huge win.
I find this experiment a bit strange/disturbing, avoiding political subjects is a way of putting the head in the sand.

To support your point, there's a press release circulating from Google and Facebook right now. They've launched a program to share hashes (fingerprints) through a database identifying offending ("extremist") content so it can be more efficiently removed from the web. Yet, we aren't allowed to comment on this - I just posted it and the story was flagged.

There's a huge difference between saying "No more gratuitous flamebait about the US Election", and "no technical discussion permitted about any topic that could possibly be controversial."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110823
Customers has always been liable for these things. It's only because of customer service nightmares that they aren't. It's really not much different except now they store has slightly better data.
Adobe had this years ago with their Multiple Master fonts [1]. Good to see the tech making a comeback, although it's a lot of work to do properly - I don't think we'll see many implementations.

I'd like to know how this will make web pages faster, since I don't think it results in less downloaded data in total. Is it just because there are fewer separate font requests?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_master_fonts
You are contributing to making racist an insult word devoid of any descriptive content. Please stop.
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For many, HN is a source of news, not just conversation.

Perhaps a reasonable compromise could be to 'close' comments on such stories, rather than removing the links altogether?

In re your tribalism update - is 'tribalism' itself an issue? I don't think I personally mind someone being 'tribal' so long as their arguments are polite and reasoned.
I disagree: better an informative signal than a quick proxy of one. If HN's ranking algorithm does make informed upvotes less useful, then it's the algorithm that needs changing.
I am sorry; your catchie name is already being used by another project . Please go make a fancy coffee beverage and try again .

https://wiki.netbsd.org/rumpkernel/
This is a great example of why _alloc is an abstraction over virtual memory.

What this doesn't express is that dealing with page allocation directly can be quite annoying to get correct cross platform. You generally don't want to do that unless a) you're optimizing past the "knuth level" and know you need to for performance (e.g. mapping files to memory), b) you're writing something where you run dynamic code (JIT or dynamic recompilation) or c) you're writing your own allocator and/or using page faults to get some functionality, ala Go's stop-the-world hack.

Basically, don't bypass _alloc unless you have a reason.
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That's why this is a good time to experiment with a ban. The USA is in a transition between two presidents of different parties and the UK has an unelected supremeo with two chaotically contradictory mandates.

The status quo is fuzzily defined at this moment so bias towards it is not as harmful as usual.
You claimed "United States of America is an imperial power" by "US Imperialism".

How can a former colony be now a colonizer? The pre-ww2 colonialism simply doesn't exist. It's not in America's interest to strip a country of their resources causing regional unstability. America's vision is to put everybody on their trading platform eventually in order to instill global prosperity and maintain their hegemony status. There's more benefits of being a US ally than joining China or Russia at this point and we've seen even countries like Vietnam, put away their differences and gravitate towards the US, their arch nemesis because the idea of Chinese regional hegemony scares them.

So you graduated from a lower tier Ivy League school do you seriously think you will send your offspring to Beijing University while their elite are sending their offsprings to attend US Ivy League instead of BU? Obviously, China has not managed to attract the world's elite to move their for the Chinese dream, it has managed to chase away all of their wealthy class with it's draconian policies and human rights violations money can't buy.

Please help me understand how US is equally violating of human rights and freedom of speech on the level China & Russia is getting away with. I'm genuinely curious to hear what an Ivy Leaguer has to say.

Again my question, if you seriously believe that the US is equal in terms of quality of life to China, what is preventing you from chasing the Chinese dream instead of the American dream?
On first glimpse, looks very interesting!
Yes, and that is exactly my point.

The article says you should use calloc because it provides these optimizations. I am saying no, that's goofy, because it is not specced to provide these optimizations.
> avoiding political subjects is a way of putting the head in the sand

It's more like going on a week long vacation to a tropical island and deciding not to check email/go online for the entire time.

The rest of the world will still be there when you get back, and you won't have missed anything substantive by unplugging while you were away.
This question has been asked a lot. He's impressive in that more often than not, he reads the books cover-to-cover.
> And at least we aren't trashing the cache hierarchy up front – if we delay the zero'ing until we were going to write to the pages anyway, then that means both writes happen at the same time, so we only have to pay one set of TLB / L2 cache / etc. misses.

Ooh, nice one. My first impression was that calloc was just lazy-allocating, which is fine in most cases but when you want precise control over timing, maybe you want to be sure that memory is zero'd at allocating time rather than pay the cost unexpectedly at use time.

But the cache-awareness makes that a moot point. You'd be paying double cache-eviction costs if you were clearing that memory up front: once at clearing time, and once at actual-writing time. This implementation of calloc avoids that.
> Your disagreement here has me puzzled, as it seems to be disagreement for its own sake rather than understanding the intent of the detox week and attempting to refine the language explaining it.

I'd love to understand the intent of detox week. I don't (either in terms of the intended scope of the policy or the motivation and intended goal state.)

And the issue I'm taking with elements of the description of either by dang (in a couple places in this thread) are both because I disagree with them phrased, and hope that pointing that out will lead to responses that better elucidate the whole picture.

But I suspect that the whole thing is trying to deal with a change in the political climate outside HN by modifying what is already a near-optimal policy in HN to one that is far worse.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to give it some thought because it seems like I failed to explain this well enough (though I may just straight up be wrong about it altogether).

The candidates who ended up frustrated weren't feeling that way because we were jerks to them (I don't think). Maybe what I'm getting at is don't be afraid to push people to the limit a little bit in a task, because their reactions to it say as much as their approach.
Corrected on XE: http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=CNY&view=1D
Uh oh! Now you've really thrown down the gauntlet! If the message forum has an immune system, you're one tough white blood cell.
Here's one that may fit into your list of must read books.

Twinkie, Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger. This book is about the ingredients that go into a Twinkie and how they are created. Super informative on the ingredients of everyday foods.
XE has fallen back to earth: http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=USD&to=CNY&view=1D
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Yes, only US English. It's quite unfortunate that the most commonly spoken language on earth - Mandarin - has such poor speech recognition. Using Google Translate or Siri with Mandarin is almost useless. Hopefully people start throwing more resources towards Mandarin speech technology.
I was hoping not to seem pedantic on this, but it's potentially a key detail to a reader and I wouldn't want anyone to think they have 5 minutes to make an impression when the reality is much closer to 5 seconds to make an immediate positive impression. Then you likely get some more review time once the initial gut reaction is over.

Nicely written article BTW.
But that doesn't mean there should be only one kind of website.