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Perhaps they missed the mark with VCs by not calling it "Juiceyourmom".
This law suit is absolutely ridiculous. What's next, let's sue farmers for farming cows that belch methane into the atmosphere? Or how about we sue all parents for creating people, since people create so much environmental damage. No matter where you stand on the policy of climate change, this law suit sets a dangerous presedent: Using the courts to afflict political change that should be done through other means.

I'm all for reducing climate change. But there are ways to do that. First of all, get rid of all the oil subsidies! That's the first thing that should be done. Then, tax the oil industry and others pollutants proportionately to the amount of climate change produced, perhaps measured by the amount of resultant Co2.
Thanks for posting!

I'm curious about what motivated your design choice to use serial EEPROM instead of serial Flash? You could fit a 64 Mbit (2000x larger), 100 MHz (5x faster) Flash IC in the same package.

Downsides would be a few tens of microamps of standby power consumption (a rounding error given the other devices on the board/in the package), page-level erase and re-write (you have plenty of RAM to handle that hassle), and slightly reduced write endurance (but at a few hundred thousand cycles instead of a few thousand cycles, what applications would possibly notice the difference?).

The difference between 4kB (enough to store a serial number and a small bootloader) and 8 MB (large enough for small applications) is significant! The board could be half the size if it didn't need the uSD socket.

What is the EEPROM used for where Flash wouldn't be a better choice?
"Others said they were too grossed out to touch her product"

What the hell? These were grown men?
Well that would be part of serious diligence in looking to invest. Is the price high because of low-volume? If the product is shipping in low volume and what the business needs is an injection of money to do a risk commitment for higher volume in manufacturing in combination with marketing to get it out to an audience - that would seem like it could be within the realm of VC funding.
It's the same processor as used in the BeagleBone, circa 2011.

Just shrunken down incredibly by Octavo.

6 years is a long time in processor years, though.

The AM335x is becoming middle aged...
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A hobby project of mine. It's an environment where users can run PWA's. The platform allows web apps to synchronize data with the platform so when users log in they can continue where they left off.

It's sort of comparable with an OS in the sense that it handles the app dashboard for you and handles communication between PWA's. It also has it's own storage drive so web apps have access to a "Hard drive". And it has its own store so users can easily find web apps for their dashboard. We are planning to add much more features such as the ability to control screens (For example use your phone as a controller for your laptop's screen). And much more.
Can't we just have lotteries that have lifelong basic income as prices? It would mean free research data.
I found Seveneves felt quite different to his other work in that it seemed that the first 2/3 was setup for the last third which was the story he really wanted to tell. Unfortunately I enjoyed the setup much more than the payoff - didn't help that it had a much more powerful climax.

Conversely in many of his other books he's having fun describing the world early on but drawing it back together at the end doesn't work as well - Diamond Age is probably the clearest example. In the end the experience is very broadly similar but it seems to come from different causes.
non-story, nothing more than SF Liberal circle jerking wasting peoples time and money.
I enjoyed Seveneves, but found it to be the one of the most depressing books I've ever read, right up to the final act. Not only because of the dark underlying theme, but also because you get invested in so many characters who then end up dying in a myriad of ways. The ending feels like the setup of a sequel book which I doubt will follow.
Hi Thomas, I have a conceptual question.

In the past there was a common idea that NSA's classified research might be a decade or more ahead of the academic world, even in an era when the academic world had gotten interested in crypto in earnest, and that they might know of entire classes of vulnerability that other people didn't. Probably the clearest precedent in support of this concern was differential cryptanalysis.

Recently I've heard more of a suggestion that we understand crypto dramatically better than we used to, that cryptanalysis that appears to be hard generally is hard, and that spy agencies have been migrating largely to side-channel attacks and exploitation of vulnerabilities (and maybe also supply-chain attacks). (The weak Diffie-Hellman thing is apparently not a counterexample because there was open literature giving appropriate defensive guidance about that for many years.) Famously Snowden said that "crypto works" and reportedly leaked very little information about novel cryptanalysis, although there's also the counterargument that he might not have access to the relevant compartments to know how crypto doesn't work.

I've even heard the claim that most of the unknowns for pure cryptanalytic attacks are in some way now known unknowns. At least, academic understanding of the mathematical problems has really matured significantly.

What do you think about this question? If someone said "but what if NSA has the next mathematical breakthrough akin to to differential cryptanalysis, which Nadia Heninger is only going to discover in 2027?", would you say "that's really implausible nowadays given the maturity of our understanding of the math here"?

(And I know Nadia mainly works on number theory and algebra rather than block ciphers.)
"Using" doesn't require it to be open source. Only if you distribute the resulting binaries, which is basically the "SaaS loophole".

If it were AGPL, then what you said would be more accurate.
The same Canadian goverment that decided to transfer all their IT systems to one vendor Shared Services Canada which turned out to be another failed system that almost every department including statistics canada blame for delays and failures.
and why would your experience of one terminal app based on Electron apply to all other terminal apps based on Electron? You even say that you don't notice latency in VSCode. A text editor and a terminal have similar problems to solve.
Another major problem in consulting projects is accountability. There is no central repository of data on major consulting firm's success rates, and there is no way for most administrators to objectively determine the risk associated with a given consulting project. However, there is significant risk associated with the failure of an in-house initiative from the perspective of government employees, just as there is in the corporate world: it is easy and low-risk to blame contractors for failure, but if you are the one managing development there is no one to blame but you.
VCs are prone to the same sort of investment "analysis" that regular schmoes are. "Do I like the product?" "Do the people I hang out with use it?"

Needless to say, the answers for a breast pump aren't great when you're a 30-45 yr old man who mostly hangs out with other men and, if you're married with children, likely has a wife that didn't need to pump.
> none of the key stack holders involved,

Robert Griesemer, Ian Lance Taylor have put in their comments (apart from other core contributors).

So, I would say this statement is false now.
Like in the case of the Islamic State, for example? Hemmm...not.
SDR has completely changed the landscape. I'm the developer for the digital television component of GNU Radio. There are transmitters for ATSC, DVB-T, DVB-T2, DVB-S, DVB-S2 and cable QAM. Here's a video of DVB-S2 being transmitted with a LimeSDR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed7iy0gVywo
Can anyone share good sites or resources for a frequent 'technology-watch' of the latest embedded hardware platforms and platform developers such as this? I do a quick scan of the various embedded hardware brand websites (RPi, BB, Gumstix, etc.) every few months but I'd like to be more ahead of the curve.
Where do you think the book is going to go from "the moon blew up?" Orbital mechanics follows logically from the premise. Again, people who have read the book, myself included, are telling you: this is not a spoiler.
Exactly my reaction. I have never been in a corporate culture even remotely that retrograde, and I'm in my 50s.
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> China is playing a long game

the majority of people in the west, the US especially, thinks all china does is make cheap walmart crap. it's perfectly fine to say horrible, racist things about the chinese. nobody seems to care.

what's really happening is the chinese government runs the show and facilitates the dumping of cheap stuff into the west to manage expectations/anxiety about their rise, and to fund the real manufacturing and mineral extraction empire. if your competition doesn't take you seriously, that's a net asset, not a liability.

"All warfare is based on deception."
But Anathem is his best work!
Could you explain the "are a lot bigger" part?

I get the sense Hoppe is repulsive to you, but I am very open-minded to hearing a counter-argument and find out what I got wrong about him. For example, are you against a complete free-market in schooling? Or do you want a voter-based approach on the city/state/federal levels?
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Didn't the same company recenly foul up a contract with another sovereign government in Sweden? http://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-data-breach-privacy-se...
GDP does not measure production and should not use as a measuring stick of how productive a country is.

US government spending is 1/3 of the US GDP. If you accounting for state and local government, the number is much higher. This level of spending is unsustainable.

No, the US government cannot just auction it's assets to the public to pay off debt. If it is that easy, the Federal Reserves can just print 20 trillions and pay it off
My wife's pump was covered by her insurance company. Do you think this might be covered too? If so, I can't imagine why a VC wouldn't want to get into a business where consumers WANT the product and don't even have to make a financial decision about it.
Years ago governments tried suing gun manufacturers for handguns used in crimes. To my knowledge though they've never sued automakers for making get-away cars.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerc...
A grown woman at CNN recently went off the rails because her guest said "boobs". Mammary glands are apparently highly upsetting and I think we should respect people's sensitivities. However, it'd be even better to find people built of tougher stuff and put them in economically relevant positions.
The Cortex-M3 is for power management. You can find details from TI (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Debugging_AM335x_Sus... http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/AM335x_Linux_Power_M...).

The OSD335x-SM uses the same power management solution as the BBB. The chip itself will consume less power than the BBB since it doesn't have all the additional peripherals.

We currently have stock as DigiKey and Mouser and will maintain stock. If you have additional questions on supply, feel free to contact us (https://octavosystems.com/contact/)

We do have other development boards for this processor (https://octavosystems.com/octavo_products/osd3358-sm-red/) more expensive, but more features.

There are still some issues around RTC. The PMIC that we use (TPS65217C) doesn't support RTC-only mode, so unfortunately, you will still probably want to use the discrete RTC to get the standby time you need.
Check out https://www.pgexercises.com/ . If you like learning by doing, it's a great resource.
I'd also like to shamelessly point out something I work on: https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire-python

It is a python wrapper around https://github.com/arrayfire/arrayfire and allows the code you write to use CUDA, OpenCL or x86.
Wind turbine gearboxes are all fixed ratio, as far as I can tell. The blade pitch is adjusted to maintain a constant speed in synchronous machines. Ones with AC-DC-AC converters don't need to do that. There's also something called a "doubly fed machine", which is a 3-phase generator where the field windings are actively driven to rotate the magnetic field to compensate for minor speed variations of the rotor.

Wind turbine gearboxes take a lot of pounding as the wind shifts. Wear is a big problem and not fully understood. The trend is toward gearless systems.
Transmission repair atop a wind turbine is not fun. Power semiconductors are good enough that it's easier to deal with this electrically.
You're assuming that there can only be one cause of real estate price increases.

Housing prices are a function of income elasticity - raising the income for everyone will raise housing prices for everyone. Note - this is not the only way that real estate prices can increase (as you described urbanization), but it is one that BI would cause.
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Ring formation has an intermediate dust phase. http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/66-our-solar-syste...

Another consideration the moon does not orbit the earths equator but Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter's rings do. This suggest tidal forces play a major role and you would not end up with a ring in the same inclination as the Moon's orbit.
Referred from your reply to my comment[0]; Algorithms can be backdoored due to having a novel technique to defeat them that you have not disclosed and has not otherwise been discovered yet. We are constantly adopting and discarding encryption algorithms that have not withstood the test of time.

If someone has gotten a jump on research and found a novel attack against their math, but the math looks good enough to convince others to use, that is an enormous advantage.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15305331
> Some folks don’t want to chat but in my experience that’s pretty rare.

My favorite part is the plethora of entertainment options these days, catching up on all the movies, which seems to be the more common thing people opt to do.

I've been on a lot of flights over the past several years and what you describe seems to be a serious outlier.
What's the situation with control of TrustZone on this chip? In particular, are there any manufacturer-fused keys, and are there any user-fusable signing keys?
>Are your customer protection laws super weak ?

Yes. The same companies also fight right to repair laws. It's frequently illegal to repair the broken thing yourself.
> Make sure they have the ... authority to issue stock (yes, that's what the coins on the block chain legally are, if they're selling them at launch)

I hadn't thought about a launch of e-coins as stock. This is interesting and helpful, as someone who's only been lightly following blockchain and e-coin news. I have some fear of missing out, and Ray's perspective makes me think I've worried about the wrong things.
You're entirely right on the first two points. But you do implicitly opt in by being a consumer of credit. I recognize that's a bit mealy-mouthed, since it's rather hard to exist in modern America without being on Equifax's radar, but nevertheless there is at least some illusory optionality. I completely agree with your final point about a need for greater transparency. But this is the situation we are in.

I think the much more interesting discussion is about how those economic holes are filled, and it's why I posed that question in my note above. Of all the corners of the internet where you might expect such a solution to be proposed, HN is surely the best. What does post-bureau creditworthiness attestation look like? Presumably it's decentralized, to minimize aggregate harm to people in the event of a hack. Presumably it's de facto (and de jure) verifiable and correctable by each individual. It must also have some sort of graduated 'need to know' disclosure mechanism, with crude aggregate scores available to low-ranked creditors (cellphone companies, for example), and much more detailed information available to senior stuff like mortgage lenders. And why wouldn't it also have a facility, which didn't disclose creditworthiness data, for authenticating users to various services?

But then why not go one step further. Why have this stuff in one place per consumer at all? Why not have lenders jus reach out over an API to every other lender to ask in effect "How good a debtor has scrumper, with SSN 01-234-5678, been for you? How long have you done business with her?" and get various answers back, all of which can be factored into some model which conforms minimally to a regulator-provided specification? The size or risk of the loan dictates the depth of that pan-industry query. Companies don't hold any more than they already hold, and there's no nexus for that data at all. And all the lender is allowed to keep is the model result, some sort of FICO equivalent, for a particular applicant.
I believe it's covered up to $200 dollars. But I could be wrong.
It's simply creating a local cache of a remote database that runs on Oracle.
My main point was in browser fingerprinting.

LocalStorage is just an icing on top to better cross-reference users in the scope of the same site.
> Both Evans and Danesi set out to explain [...] why we can ignore naysayers who cite them as another example of the erosion of standards.

The use of inline pictographs to enrich the text is not bad by itself and actually well supported by their arguments. We had them in instant messengers and chatting systems for a long time. But it is a completely different matter to put them into the Unicode standard.

The original set of Emoji was highly culture-dependent (for examle there had been only 10 country flags, as those were the most relevant countries to Japaneses---Unicode correctly recognized this problem and yet picked a bad solution!), defined by glyphs and not by its supposed meaning unlike most scripts in Unicode (that's still true today, and we are still suffering from different Emoji glyphs for multiple vendors), and could be very quickly declining in use for whatever reason (like emoticons trending and declining).

So Emoji is quite unsuitable for encoding without a compelling reason. Here the compelling reason turned out to be the interoperability with Japanese carriers [1], and that's why Emoji is an inevitable but ugly addition to the Unicode standard. I feel it is correct to claim both that (the contemporary usage of) Emoji is a great cultural trend and that (the Unicode addition of) Emoji is absurd.

[1] The original proposal http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2009/09025r2-emoji.pdf is very clear in this regard.
> you will still probably want to use the discrete RTC

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Thanks for the responses Eric!
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I am also skeptical. I would love to be proven wrong and see ARM as a successful competitor to Intel's monopoly first and the x86 monoculture second. (I'm also excited by AMD's recent successes in the CPU sphere. The Threadripper 1950X is a phenomenal CPU — 16 real cores at 3.4GHz is nuts and like nothing Intel sells.)
This is ridiculous case
- lets sue sugar manufacturing for making sugar, which caused us to gain weight and other over weight related problems.
- heck, lets sue the farmer that grew the sugarcane and beet that were used to manufacture sugar.

The lawyers of Oakland and SF don't drive cars? Or travel on planes?

If the intention is to put pressure on the Oil companies to stop lobbying against clean energy - I don't think, this is the right approach.
Another one is MS and Sony PSN
I hate to even imagine how many billions of dollars of scams and failures and thefts have been perpetrated by abusing people's faith in and enthusiasm for that technology by now. And I have no idea how we could possibly have prevented it.

If Bitcoin had stable value instead of a built-in boom-bust cycle then we wouldn't have crypto scam mania today. Dillinger praises Satoshi's honesty, but Bitcoin's monetary policy is "a blatant bribe to early adopters". https://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin-is-Worse-is-Better
ehhh its a low bar I wouldn't even try to split hairs, only the flights between continents are good, unless you get unlucky with the wrong plane model.
"If you believe the address on file is outdated please mail a notarized copy of X of the Y documents to us at Z"

Getting a notarized copy of an ID and proof of address and mailing it in isn't too terrible of a hoop for poor people (who aren't so poor that an organization that cares about credit ratings is considering lending to them) to jump though. It doesn't scale well and provides a substantial hurdle for monetizing ID information.
No increase in the rate does not mean no increase. Clearly there is an increase. You want a hockey stick? Wait for Greenland to melt. You may well live to see that.
To be fair, that guest threw it out into the middle of a conversation that had nothing to do with it just to rile people up. The exact quote was "I’m a first amendment absolutist. I believe in only two things completely, the First Amendment and boobs"[1] while talking about ESPN mixing politics into their sports coverage

[1]http://www.dailywire.com/news/21140/meltdown-sports-analyst-...
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As a woman VC should I not be allowed to be grossed out without you questioning my gender?
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I've always thought of it in terms of knowledge and experience available at developing ages.

Consider how babies/children so easily pick up tablets and smartphones while their grandparents have a difficult time discovering any kind of functionality.

Consider also that as these children mature (thinking teen years) and start to seriously develop their world view, they're exposed to a different slice of technology and ideas from us, many of which enable them far more than we were at our respective formative periods.

Now consider that all of this is internalized almost totally. It is a core part of who this average person is; a product of their environment and technology era.

This is what I think about when I hear about some 20 year old coming out with a major advancement in a field, or who built an app at age 10, or someone at age 24 built some revolutionary device.

They've had the advantage of growing up with and internalizing and thinking and reasoning with a set of ideas and assumptions that we from different generations don't have. With a degree of freedom that we didn't have. Pair that with other arguments here (less pressure, more financial freedom, etc) and to me it seems like a very fertile ground for powerful and enabled ideas. Especially in the last decade.
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The argument from the parent posts rely on ACA being repealed already. If the ACA does get repealed then the above arguments hold but this hasn't happened yet.
sorry for the typo. Fixed.