skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mostly whether the mechanism for passing data to and from the main program is sound; but also whether things like interrupt priority make sense and whether your re-trigger handling or re-entrancy are going to work properly (an interrupt happens while you're in the handler for the same interrupt). It might be sufficient simply to have a good set of primitives for this, rather than an actual proof.

Basically whether it's going to deadlock or miss interrupts. Deadlock is immediate disaster, but at least the JTAG will help you .. if the device hasn't self-destructed. Missing interrupts is worse because it's extremely hard to debug.

Forcing DMA to behave would also be great, although this isn't strictly a microcontroller issue. I've seen a few war stories where people are trying to debug memory corruption where the program is completely correct - but some other device has simply DMA'd over it. I think this was involved in https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/over-air-ex... too.
I'm surprised it's taken this long for me to see a WebRTC game on hacker news. I think that's a very promising technology for realtime games in the browser. When more websites can hide source code with web assembly, I wonder if that's what it'll take for more to come out.
That domain is expired:
http://whois.domaintools.com/docketdaily.com
Or those masks in mission impossible.
Making humans change their habits is extremely difficult, though. Scandinavia and Germany are outliers — and I say that as a Scandinavian (who has spent a lot of time in Germany).

Here in New York, I recently lived in a building where people would, on a weekly basis, discard pizzas, soiled napkins and rotisserie chicken carcasses in the recycling bin. This was a modern building with just two different recycling bins (one for plastic/metal, the other for paper/cardboard). It's amazing how little people care.

In my current NYC neighbourhood, there are no recycling bins at all, and people have to sort and bag their recycling and put it on the street one night of the week. Not surprisingly, almost nobody bothers. Other than myself, I've only observed bags from my neighbour next door. The US can be pretty infuriating/depressing sometimes.
I'd argue it's a very good thing we're not an inter-planetary or even inter-solar-system civilization yet. Imagine carrying all of the injustice that is done on this planet out there and making it even more widespread.

Even worse, imagine if we stumbled upon something like a galactic council of sorts. They'd nuke us to oblivion for being the savages we are. (Actually, if they are more civilized and technologically advanced than us, it's more likely for them to only forbid us from expanding any further, but you get the general idea.)
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Vocalytics analyzes your body language to make you a better public speaker
Thanks, and I can't wait to see systems that will fuse cheap multi-pose structured light sensor data together too! These devices are all measuring proxies of the same thing: 3D structure.
I really like the idea of a proof-of-work captcha, but can it work? The hash requirement needs to be low enough for mobile devices, but scraping and automation are usually done on powerful servers. Is there an equilibrium where it's comfortable for end users, but a real deterrent for servers?
As wary as I am of Google and Facebook, governments can arrest me.
The Google Tango devices have this. Unfortunately the tech has limited range and doesn't work well outdoors, since it relies on projecting an IR pattern into the world. The projected image is easily overwhelmed by ambient IR.
> you're still allowed to re-install the OS on a commodity x86 system like a laptop

Remember when Microsoft tried to change that with Secure Boot? If it hadn't been for the public outcry in the tech columns, they probably would've proceeded with it.
I don't see why would that make the original response wrong?
This mythos of "working demos" needs to be put to rest.

At least in the form that many people consider "working demos".

Not everyone can, needs to, or wants to code. The ideas a person can express shouldn't be limited by the wood they can whittle. There are many game and ux folks who envision systems w/o having demos. They story board, animate or write Haiku.
It's not an entirely separate solution, but a Java standard. In any event, it's probably overkill if all you need are acceptable pause-times for games (RTSJ is for hard-realtime, safety-critical systems, where even 2us jitter may kill someone). There are "pauseless" GCs for the JVM (with 1-10ms max pause, depending on the GC) without hard realtime guarantees. We just need more free implementations.
A 4th Company Is Now Offering Open-Source MatLab
So by that token, the ability to pay off ransomware authors gives bitcoin value?
The exchange is not a counterparty. You have market makers there as well. Even in very liquid markets, it may be common to trade against market makers, just at a tighter bid-ask spread.
Human-Human-Interface
> I wonder at what point we'll start seeing people simply stop paying for in-home internet via WiFi in favor of relying solely on their mobile data package, in the same way that people stopped paying for corded phone lines and are starting to stop paying for cable television.

I'm surprised there hasn't been more movement in the other direction. There are very inexpensive WiFi-first phone plans ($20/month + data), which in combination with the fact that WiFi exists in the places where many people spend 95+% of their time means that the plan ends up just being the $20/month, because you so rarely actually have to use any cellular data.
I understand a lot of the top performing hedge funds operate via insider information.
Spoiler Alert: They don't care about residents.
I wish as technology becomes available which could be used for more Orwellian surveillance someone stood back and thought about ways it could be used for good rather than defending some absurd fear of terrorist attacks.

Like... I remember a few years back there was an article about using high framerate cameras to detect the heartbeat of people the camera viewed in hospitals. I wish surveillance could be used to watch people at risk for heart attacks, bring it to their notice if one is detected in the early stages, and direct them to their nearest hospital - in a way that involves a concert of technologies/devices.

Instead of CCTV cameras on every corner being used for criminals, use them to watch for health risks? Alert the person through their Apple Watch, send directions to the watch and phone, alert nearby first responders, notify family, etc... A route could even be established for an ambulance ahead-of-time, rather than as an ambulance rolls up to a signal.

I'm tired of worrying about terrorists. Maybe I want to be blind to the small chance a carbomb is possible. I know the most innovative stuff is often a result of defense spending/planning, but I hate thinking a driving force behind technology today is people afraid of other people.

</end-rant>
No it's precisely the opposite. You're gambling that you can beat the market for those 15 funds, index linked funds are gambling that the value of the market (index) as a whole will increase and will try to perform to the market. To do that they buy shares in all of the companies that are in the linked index (in proportion).
Dude, I know you would like to brag that you created a language, but you
did not. It's not domain specific language, it's just Ruby API.
Ted's whole Youtube account is a treasure trove.

Incredible how some of the videos only have a couple of hundred views. More people need to see and listen.

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTedNelson
Maybe you would agree with the statement "reality is broken"? I certainly don't think it's meaningful.

The unfortunate associations of wanting society to "execute better" (i.e. the merger of industry and the state found under fascism) just underline the fact that applying performance measurements to human life/social phenomena is misguided. We don't all agree on the purpose of life or the nature of happiness, nor should we.
No there isn't, that's why it won't work.
When doing anything with FPGAs for example, 90 minutes for a compilation is actually in the low side of things (and incremental builds with EDA tools have essentially never worked for me except in a tiny and unpredictable subset of cases).
There are cognitive benefits to talking to an imaginary person.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/smarter-living/benefits-o...
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2017/05/the-perks-of-talking-to...
I think that's an important point. The problem good funds have is not finding more capital but being able to manage it without cannibalizing their own returns. Anybody trying to sell you a hedge fund is probably not selling a very good one.
This gets back to time horizon and risk tolerance, which are independent of return.

These are two things you should think about when investing no matter what the vehicle is.
To each their own investment style (and there are many), but markets (in my view, and in the view of many others) are not efficient. (More than) half of what determines the stock price is psychology and herd mentality. It's not just numbers, and more an art than it is a science. Larger cap stocks however are generally priced more correctly than small- or mid cap stocks.

Second to that is that your returns will also depend on the risk you are willing to take. Investing through index funds and ETFs will correlate with a certain alpha, but that doesn't mean returns can't be higher if you are less diversified (and thus taking more risk).

Depending on the type of companies you are investing in, you might be comfortable taking a bigger risk with the goal of achieving a higher return.

Say you're working in technology and truly understand it, you can probably outperform the market significantly by investing in 3 to 5 technology stocks. Is it riskier? Yes. Is it worth it? Some people will say yes, others say no. And that is absolutely fine.
Why does the local authority have to fund this anyway? Isn't 'innovation' one of the reasons public transport outside London was sold off?
Aka "9 women won't give birth to a child in 1 month". An example often used to describe how adding more developers doesn't necessarily solve an issue quicker.
I guess it's possible that Apple never considered the Sun when they were designing this.
congrats, but it I got too much lag while playing
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"Silicon Valley Story" — a Very Short Romantic Comedy by Ted Nelson

A playful story about the microcircuitry of love, with Ted Nelson as an absentminded genius, featuring Doug Engelbart as Ted's father and Stewart Brand as the villainous CEO.

Closing song: "Information Flow", sung by Donna Spitzer and the auteur.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXlyMrv8_dQ
Unfortunately the cynic in me says there's more money in keeping people fearful.
Why I can't defend Equifax CISO
Mozilla has a demo for the use of WebGL which is pretty impressive: http://kripken.github.io/misc-js-benchmarks/banana/index.htm...

Web assembly even extends the possibilities game creators already have for creating browser-based games.
They already check fingerprints. I don't see how this would be significantly different.
It seems we agree on all points. If Adobe was good, flash could have been the mobile platform. That's too large a risk for Apple to take.
> No it isn't. If the guy was smart about what was being bet on he'd have picked RenTech and he'd have won.

Yeah, I don't really understand this. People give me flak for saying it, but I can think of five or so funds off the top of my head (Renaissance included) that I would have happily picked and handily beaten Buffett. I'd make the bet again, today. But like I also always say - Buffett wouldn't have taken that bet up with me, because Buffett doesn't believe in efficient market hypothesis either and is almost certainly aware that individually chosen hedge funds could beat an index fund.

He lost the bet because he chose a fund of funds reflecting the aggregate hedge fund industry; anyone who is even casually familiar with hedge fund returns as an industry wouldn't be surprised at all by the outcome. His choice doesn't even reflect the decision that most rational investors have to make: given a diversified index fund tracking the market and an index composed of the (much smaller) hedge fund market, choosing the latter is silly. A more coherent (and successful) strategy would have been to choose a single fund, or a small basket of funds, known for beating the market for decades at a time. An index fund is a curated portfolio of companies with criteria that make them attractive investments by definition; the fund of hedge funds, in contrast, tracks an industry that mostly doesn't beat the market except for a few outliers.

In other words, the bet didn't really prove anything other than that the hedge fund industry overall is less attractive than the broader market. But I really don't think that was ever up for serious debate among the informed, and now this bet has been modified as a talking point for something it doesn't prove whatsoever: that individual hedge funds are incapable of beating index funds (which is trivially and demonstrably false).
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It will probably turn out just like the rest of the history of the internet - as a huge "public/private partnership" (/s)

FB/Google jump on the train and enable new possibilities you don't want to miss, meanwhile Government gets nothing done, so in the end the three letter agencies will just arrive at the doorstep snagging all data anyway (formerly known as PRISM).

I mean why go to the trouble of installing expensive hardware identifying anyone if they all incriminate themselves for free on Snapchat?

Welcome to the new world.
Also true for Finland.
A conversational bot. One where you can not determine if you are talking to a human or not. This could disrupt the huge call center business.
This tech can be incorporated into public CCTVs.
How about we stop building apps for refugees and top up their phones instead?
I gave up on proportional fonts after a while. That was about 15 years ago, though... I think using clang-format and Comment Reflower/Emacs M-q/etc. would solve most of the problems I had with creating code that looked sensible when other people looked at it. If you've got the whole team layout out their code using tools like that, then the proportional font people won't find themselves having to line things up and whatnot.

Still doesn't solve the issue of having ASCII art diagrams in your comments. Though... the comment word wrap plugin I use for Visual Studio has markup to say that it should leave a section of the comment alone (I use this for ASCII art bits). And clang-format has similar directives for blocks of code that it should leave alone. Would be nice if text editors could recognise these (and other similar markup - or perhaps markup could even be standardized between tools?) and render the appropriate sections in a monospaced font. That might be a useful compromise.
Generally, checking the solution is trivial. Hashing billions of hashings to find what you want is want takes resources.
It definitely lacks some feature indicating where the room is hosted. This would make it easier to find rooms with a lower latency.

Disclaimer: I am not related to the game creator.
Implementing a simple compiler in JavaScript
If you like Iosevka as much as I do, throw a few bucks the way of the creator via Patreon.

(I’m not affiliated, just a big fan of the font).
The Origins of Language: An Exploration of Prehistoric Linguistic Phases
There are serious implications to that conclusion. The citizens are the watchers in a democracy. If they can't be trusted to come to reasonable conclusions on their own, there is no other authority qualified to ensure they are properly informed and vetted.

It is circular, to say the least, to have the government regulate how to educate citizens about how to pick the next government.
I agree! Fira Code and Input are my top choices, and Inconsolata / Ricty Diminished Discord are pretty close second.

I wish Input didn't remove ligatures from their latest release.
Wow, that is a great idea. I mean, propelling a vehicle at 5 mph using jet engines optimized for 600 mph has to be one of the most energy inefficient means ever invented.
Element kinds in v8
> Remember that porn sites are always the front line of innovation on the web

Often stated, rarely with any actual support.
Vue.js
Even if they get funded by special interest groups to spew the group's narrative, at least this will be a quantization of how correct or incorrect the pundits are.
I highly recommend nerdkits (http://www.nerdkits.com) for someone in your shoes. You basically build an Arduino and it explains each part along the way. The included PDF is worth the price alone.
Haha... The irony that his free() probably passed the tests better than complicated solutions that crashed.
Entering any place where there are armed security personal with a paper bag on your face is a good way to get shot.
Annoying, having to login is not practical without knowing what the app is. So, I could not get past the 1st screen. You lost me and I'm sure many others.
Paying 2 different groups of people that are equally qualified is called illegal discrimination. It doesn't matter what the reason is for the discriminatory pay difference.

It doesn't matter if it is capitalistic to illegal discriminate against certain groups.

So no, they do not have that right, if the result is an illegal pay disparity. The company would be required to correct the pay disparity, even if the reason why the pay disparity exists is solely because 1 group didn't ask for more money.
Also true for Germany.
If you preallocate memory, you're not reclaiming it, are you?
Top 10 Causes of Nasty Firmware Bugs

https://embeddedgurus.com/blog/2010/12/top-10-causes-of-nast...

it would be great if all those would be easy issues, or solved.
China to Ban Gasoline, Diesel Cars
A common problem that we have is that there is no such thing as the perfect drug. Any drug that is stronger than placebo will inevitably have side-effects (note that even placebo has side effects). It is always a cost-benefit and this is a tricky thing to fully convey to patients - what does 10% risk of side-effect mean? For the patient that gets the side-effect they usually have it a 100%.

I wish that we doctors were immune to the industry's influence but unfortunately we also sometimes fall prey to the cunning tricks. I think the OxyContin scandal says it all http://theweek.com/articles/541564/how-american-opiate-epide... Mind-blowing that doctors actually believed that there is a free lunch - a morphine product without addiction...

There is hope though, here in Sweden doctors during the 90:s were frequently taken to nice dinners and other events in the name of drug companies representative costs. In early 00 this basically disappeared and today we get a sandwich during lunch break in order to hear about the new thing that they want to sell us. I think the awareness of the "no free lunch" concept (see http://www.nofreelunch.org/) is much higher today than 20 years ago when I started med-school.

One cost that you have to be prepared for is that the system becomes "communistic": if we prescribe any drug that is outside the recommended set of drugs our clinic has to cover the costs. The adoption of new drugs is generally slower (although not for important drugs e.g. cancer treatments) and we are no longer allowed to make local deals with suppliers, everything has to go through centralized deals (even if we can get a better deal). In my mind it's a small price to pay if it keeps our patients safe and we get to spend the money on our health-care where it matters, but I think this system would never pass the American legislative system...
Draw a face on the bag.
Equifax has been showing us just how hellish private companies can make our lives, without any recourse.

The state may have a monopoly on violence, but private companies have more than enough power to ruin us even if they don't arrest us.
I hate these idiots. I got into an argument with one who was concerned with the RF from their smart electric meter. I tried to explain the difference between ionizing radiation and non-ionizing, DNA 'damage', and such. No such luck getting through to them even when presented with scientific fact. I usually tell them they should be more concerned with sun exposure than anything, if they are worried about DNA damage.

It's like they want a handy excuse for feeling like crap. Superstitious magical thinking. 300 years ago they'd be blaming a witch for their problems. I always think of the character Chuck from Better Call Saul whenever I run into someone like this.
It's 1/100 of the Kinect's size, that is the innovation and a pretty big leap
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Consumer_Personal_Informa...

Added: I haven't looked closely at either, but it seems at a glance that the initiative is far broader than the bill (which only applies to ISPs), so would guess the initiative will attract a truly massive negative campaign if it makes it to the ballot.
I wonder if someone could come up with a more direct way of converting tectonic drift into electricity. The total amount of energy available would be stupendous, but there seems to be a problem with it being low-density from being spread over such a large area.
This is awesome - thank you!
A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol
A man from Jieshou county of Anhui province was frustrated by traffic police, who had established a late night checkpoint for drunk driving. In a chat room that he created, he wrote: “Are they nuts? Checking in the rain? [They are] a bunch of assholes who just want money.” As the insulting comments created negative social impact within his circle, the man was detained for five days for picking a quarrel.

At this point, it would seem the cost of running a chat room would be a bit too high if that's the punishment for "negative social impact" for the writer. I would expect the owner to be just as on the hook.
Distributed and decentralized AI a la things like Synapse https://synapse.ai/
They should be obligated to do something for the same reason that it is illegal for a phone company to eavesdrop on your phone calls and censor certain words.

There are tons of protections, already in place, on large networks.
There are a few people doing studies on whether or not automatic passport gates in some countries are more likely to fail you if your mobile phone is switched off.
That's because WebRTC really isn't a great fit. It doesn't guarantee a UDP pipe so it can fallback to TCP with disastrous results and the dependency chain on the server side makes it really painful to integrate.
How solar power can protect the US military from threats to the electric grid
This is already happening. People visiting the US and entering through airports have had their fingerprints and facial biometrics captured since 2004, and it's been progressively expanded since then. All visa applications have the same information captured at interview, too.

The current large expansion planned is capturing facial biometrics at exit, and using this to confirm departure (instead of relying on airline manfiests).