skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A patent can stifle work without being litigated. See the recent kerfuffle with react and graphQL. The simple matter of a patent that might exist was enough for people to change tooling.

Patents for AI might very well cool business R&D into AI.
Do you think you represent 99% of the population?
Thing is, even if you completely ignore wine flavor there is so much to talk about. One, wine is often grown in picturesque areas that make great travel destinations. Wine has it's own battles like oak vs. no oak which brings people to same level of arguing as vi vs. emacs debate. If you're at all a history buff, wine intersects all throughout. Then there are generally cool, geeky things about wine. For example, how the wine in Santorini is cultivated is fascinating: http://www.winesfromsantorini.com/the-vineyard.html

I don't find any of this pretentious, and more general interesting conversation.
I read a fascinating book called The Cosmic Serpent [0] wherein a team of biologists went to Peru to document the kinds of things that shamans have learned by taking Ayahuasca.

If you want to know more about this, I highly recommend it as basic reading.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/865516.The_Cosmic_Serpen...
In terms of value: For red, Portugal can't be beat. For white, Gascogne.
A group of 54 oenology (study of wine) students could somehow taste a difference between a white wine and the same white wine dyed red.

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infamo...
Would you say that someone who believes in the Communist Manifesto, is convinced by the arguments in Das Capital, who’s heroes are Lenin and Trotsky, joins a Union, tries to organise labour industrial action, writes articles for newspapers and magazines promoting communism, tries to persuade people of communist goals and values is not a communist because they are not a member of any particular formal communist party? I believe Trotsky died without being a member of a communist party. Was he not a communist? Was Goering not a Nazi when he died, and all the former members of the communist party stop being Nazis with the end of the war?

I suppose that’s one way to look at it, but why do you think that approach is useful? What does it offer us that the more straightforward approach of judging people by their convictions, statements and actions does not?
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You just described a few different sub-fields of computer engineering:

1. Processes, which involves lots of materials science, chemistry, and low-level physics. This involves the manufacturing process, as well as the low-level work of designing individual transistors. This is a huge field.

2. Electrical circuits. These engineers use specifications given to you by the foundry (transistor sizes, electrical conductance, etc.) and using them to create circuit schematics and physically laying out the chip in CAD. Once you finish, you send the CAD file to the group from #1 to be manufactured. Modern digital designs have so many transistors that they have to be laid out algorithmically, so engineers spend lots of time creating layout algorithms (called VLSI).

3. Digital design. This encompasses writing SystemVerilog/VHDL to specify registers, ALUs, memory, pipelining etc. and simulating it to make sure it is correct. They turn the dumb circuit elements into smart machines.

It's worth noting that each of the groups primarily deals with the others through abstractions (Group 1 sends a list of specifications to group 2, Group 3 is given a maximum chip area / clock frequency by group 2), so it is possible to learn them fairly independently. Even professionals tend to have pretty shallow knowledges of the other steps of the process since the field is so huge.

I'm not super experienced with process design, so I'll defer to others in this thread for learning tips.

To get started in #2, the definitive book is the Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill. Can't recommend it enough, and most EEs have a copy on their desk. It's also a great beginner's book. You can learn a lot by experimenting with discrete components, and a decent home lab setup will cost you $100. Sparkfun/Adafruit are also great resources. For VLSI, I'd recommend this coursera course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/vlsi-cad-logic

To learn #3, the best way is to get a FPGA and start implementing increasingly complicated designs, e.g. basic logic gates --> counters --> hardware implementation of arcade games. This one from Adafruit is good to start: https://www.adafruit.com/product/451?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhKPax..., though if you want to make games you'll need to pick up one with a VGA port.

Silicon design & manufacturing is super complicated, and I still think that it's pretty amazing that we're able to pull it off. Good luck with learning!

(Source: TA'd a verilog class in college, now work as an electrical engineer)
> There is a fine line between collaboration and dialogue.

I think this is a very important point that a lot of people don't quite get.

For example, I am a pacificist. When I tell this to people, they sometimes assume I would stand aside and do nothing if a loved one was threatened with violence.

In fact, the opposite is true: I would act aggressively and assertively (or I hope I would).

Pacifist != Passive

Acting with compassion for those who hate you does not disarm your ability to aggressively support and defend your rights. Really, in such a case, one should strive to be increasingly effective.

The author of this article found a point of leverage that was effective in achieving his goals. I don't think I'd call what he was doing "dialogue," even though talking was part of it.
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I'm not sure what was going on. It was definitely working in some scenarios, since I can see active users (with Heatmap.TV, naturally).

The Google Auth stuff has been a complete nightmare.
And to that, I would add http://www.armscontrolwonk.com/podcast/
> If software represents a "process," what exactly is "processed?"

Class 719:

A coherent sequence of steps undertaken by a program to manipulate data such as an internal or external data-transfer operation, handling an interrupt, or evaluation of a function.

https://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/glossary/gl...

> Basically, the only meaningful way to patent software is to have a patent that covers infinitely many "processes," ...

No. There are the judicial exceptions: law of nature, natural phenomenon, or abstract idea. Really, the software patents you don't like are covered by the abstract ideas exception.

Basically, I don't think I'll change your mind and that's ok. But I do want to know how you expect to incentivize software developers to take risks without protecting their work?
Thanks for the tip on cheap trial lens sets. I've been eye hacking with variable lenses, but that tech isn't quite baked yet.
>Tucows

Now there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time...
They used it for light loads, and used oxen for heavier loads. Both weren't used at their maximum pulling capacity. (this is in the article)
DNS and CDNs may have solved this problem in a limited context, but they're hardly accessible, and are too dependent on centralized infrastructure for a lot of peoples' needs.

I hear you on the added complexity of it all, and I think that's why its taken so long for this stuff to be developed. It's been stewing for a long time. LANs have been around since before the internet, but a lot of stuff that's relatively easy on the internet is much, much harder in distributed and mesh networks. I think we're currently witnessing an epiphany.

Having the ability to recognize the same resource, and to request it, from multiple, disparate devices in just about any network setting is a totally different level.

And on a human level, I believe it could foster healthier social interactions around the sharing of digital content. When content is in its infancy, these kinds of applications create incentives, however slight they may be, to share it in closer physical proximity to people. It gives us back the awesome joy of the LAN party. Facebook says "you need to share your content via ISP and it must be stored on our servers at all times." Whereas distributed network applications invite us to imagine more humane, local, trusted environments for sharing digital content. If you want to share old family videos, get together for dinner, watch them on the TV and then share them privately over the WIFI. If you're in a band, make arrangements with local cafes to host your album. People who come for coffee will have the best bandwidth on it. If you're an artist, host your portfolio on your phone. Share it with people like you'd share a business card. If they like it, they may choose to help seed it, even without your asking. We're talking about the internet for LANs.

This stuff has the potential to refresh the art of digital collection and curation, something that's been co-opted by centralized content providers.
I always thought those were what Americans meant when they said their credit cards used magnet stripes because credit cards were rare and my country had already moved past magnet stripes when I saw the machines in American movies as a child. Using physical imprints seems like an obvious recipe for fraud, even more than magnet stripes (which already seem reckless compared to chips).
From the testing we've done internally, not much difference between React Native, Xamarin, Native and Cordova. Was it scientific? Nope. But most couldn't tell.
> I'm upset with myself that I don't know what to do to make it better. Maybe someone here will know.

Inform yourself about the candidates and vote. Encourage everyone you know to inform themselves similarly and go out and vote. Help those who are restricted by time, poverty, or other issues to get out and vote.

We are being ruled by those chosen by the public who cared enough to exercise their vote. If we want to be ruled better, it can only be through choosing better leaders.
I enjoy orange juice too, but it doesn't go well with food.
So does YouTube Red.
Was he really a Nazi? He could be a German soldier in World War Two without being a Nazi, just as a Russian could have fought in WW2 against the Germans without being a Communist.
I think what we have is a glut of people who don't want to enter the workforce, and have this naive dream of academia, tenure, and doing research. In my humble opinion, the purpose of a professor at a university is to TEACH. Not research, that should be secondary to their teaching duties. Universities are deceiving PhD students into thinking this magical world of research, and lifetime tenure awaits them at the end of the PhD rainbow.
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Personally, I've found it very effective in forums where there is anonymity (not pseudo, where people identify emotionally with their handles), and no voting.
The vast majority of people I've met who claim to have a problem with sulfites in wine have zero problem consuming sulfites in other foods.
I was specifically referring to the US flavor of Neo-Natzism. I'm unfamiliar with the current German flavor. The US flavor seems to be all talk. For example, the leader of the Charlottesville protests where the lady was run over and killed, cried on the internet when he found out the cops were going to arrest him. They act fierce, but when it comes down to it, they're all talk.
Sorry if this comes out wrong, but it have read about a similar approach when dealing with would be IS fighters.
> The ones that oppose the referendum also do it for selfish reasons. They don't want to lose something that in their view belongs to them.

Is not so complicated to understand. Spanish constitution grants clearly and explicitly that all citizens co-own the country and (unless this right is retired for things like committing a crime and losing their freedom) they can benefit of the use of any public space. The ramblas are also mine, as from millions of other people. Not, is not "my point of view", and not, is not "debatable". All Catalonian people are also co-owners of Doñana and this is not debatable either (not even in the hypothetical case that the current and temporal president of Catalonia wouldn't stand Andalucia).

They will lose this rights, and many other, because somebody is starting flames every day and acting as a troll for fun and profit since years

What was happened in Spain was just tyranny of a minority using people, women, elder and children as human shields with the purpose to steal people from their rights, by any means. Some people came from their home with urns closed and loaded with ballots, before voting. I ask you, second-person plural, was it funny to use your computer skills helping scammers to commit a big fraud?. Sorry, but I can't see where is the fun. Some people got beaten and there is a man in the hospital with a severely damaged eye.

What you would expect from the police in case that somebody would announce that, for a small ramson, will not distroy unilaterally the future, bussiness and current rights of millions of non-independentist people in 48 hours? Would you negociate and pay?

To fight for your constitutional rights and for the respect to the law is to fight by saving the society from falling into the law of the jungle. Is the opposite to "being selfish" and benefits everybody.
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This person's life sounds like it has been hard. They have some justification to feel scared and angry at the world. However, I would say that channeling that anger into racist terrorism does in fact make them evil. They had alternatives. In fact, most people in the world have hard lives but do not join organizations committed to racist terrorism.
I really think that the humanitarian problem is not a real problem for China. A country this size could easily swallow 10 million Koreans (let's be real, surely not more than half of population would flee), allow them to work and assimilate and not even notice it really. I think the issue is that China is afraid that united Korea will become a US ally and allow US forces to station there. Also it could expose China to the world as a weak player that could not handle Korea by itself.
> your opinion is that Unspeakable Opinions should be disallowed topics of conversation?

This breaks the site guidelines, which say:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

Would you mind (re-)reading and following them when commenting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The PhD system is a Ponzi scheme. First and foremost, a PhD program trains one to become a professor. During a professor career, one is expected to graduate 5, 10, 20 PhD students. It is mathematically impossible for the majority of these students to find a professor job. The explosion of higher education, internally and globally, masks the problem to some extent, just like a good old fashioned Ponzi scheme appears solvable for a period of time.

Edit: It is pretty well known that there is exactly "One True Path" for a research career. See [0] or [1]

[0] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/care...

[1] http://ethicsandscience.scientopia.org/2008/11/20/excuses-fo...
Franklin also describes a technique whereby you don't directly tell someone they're wrong, you simply tell them that in this particular case the circumstances are different.

E.g., the bad way to do it:

Person A: "We should do X!"

Franklin: "You are wrong. We should do Y!"

E.g., the better way to do it:

Person A: "We should do X!"

Franklin: "You are, of course, right that X would work if P and Q were the case, but here R is the situation. Don't you then agree that Y would work better here?"

This way, your "opponent" gets to preserve the feeling of being right, or at least avoids the defensiveness that follows being told you're wrong.
>The belief that a nation is like a living being and must do everything to protect itself as it is at that moment and try to grow, and that might makes right on a national scale. It's the belief that Darwinian principles of the survival of the fittest do not only apply to creatues, but also to nations and that this is also how the world should be.

I don't mean to sound snarky, but this sounds an awful lot like US foreign policy since the start of the Cold War.
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This is a known result of using what is called "NHST", null hypothesis significance testing, to come to conclusions. It will automatically generate conflicting results and does nothing to lead to cumulative knowledge. Some discussion of that aspect can be found here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10153165
http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1996-04469-001
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> You realize North Korea can't take a dump without China saying so, right?

Do you have any backup for that statement?
>>Despite our moans about hours of work, pay, and pensions, being an academic is still the best job in the world for those of a particular temperament and talents.

I have a slave temperment and enjoy being hauranged by my PI?

My talents include falsifying experiments and writing endless papers about how our method is superior to all other methods? Yet we, much like the communist revolutions in the 20th century, have been working on it for the last 20 years?
As the child of a tenured professor, the employment contract didn't even used to mention teaching, the job was to do research.
I'm very interested in this. I read that one small design (which I knew was very small, but not quantitatively so) cost approximately $5k per small run.

How is the cost calculated? I presume size of final wafer (ie, number of chips produced) at least; does transistor count per chip influence anything too?

Finally, is it possible to produce and maintain a fully open-source design that's the chip-fab equivalent of the book publishing industry's "camera-ready copy"? I get the idea that this is specifically where things aren't 100% yet, but, using entirely open tools, can you make something that is usable?
Will there be a time when ZFS is the defacto standard on Linux or is it only suited to specific use cases?
But surely Antifa has no problem whatsoever with firmer Nazis and racists that renounce their former beliefs and adopt more moderate views. Would you agree that Nazis and racists, by the nature of their beliefs, are not capable of offering the same accommodation while remaining racists and Nazis?
Academia is one sink for PhDs. The whole idea of "too many educated people" has to torn down!
> Its too bad how economic migrants are giving them a bad reputation.

Racist propagandists are giving them a "bad reputation".

Tacitly reinforcing it helps the racist propagandists.

Maybe don't do that.
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The are two main issues we should consider first:

1. Hurricane Irma had impacted the island about a week before. Debilitating or destroying some lf the infrastructure.

2. The goverment wad already working 24/7 to recover from Hurricane Irma.

This had been a perfect storm of sorts. The area was recovering from a hurricane, the economic environment was weak, and people's outlook was less than stellar.

Combine all of this with a catastrophic event and you get what we have: an overworked government with scarce resources, an infrastructure that was in need of updating and repair, and a general sense of hopelessness from the population.

The federal government is helping a lot but this is an unprecedented event that piles up on the work they were doing on Houston and Florida. Couñd they do more? I dont know if they have the resources. You just cant expect one entity to handle multiple incidents plus being at war on the middle east (and possibly NK).

There is little to do in efficiency. You can surely bring in logistics experts (like the military did), but you cant bring in enough human resources in a timely manner.

Airlifting sounds practical but Im not sure if it would have helped when the ports authority was just overworked and understaffed.

This was just the perfect storm. It destroyed my beautiful country. That's life. Its why we gotta live in the moment and stop to smell the flowers from time to time.
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. I also agree that it’s hard to see what China’s angle is with NK. It makes sense that Kim is a useful idiot for them and for Putin to rattle the US cage, but at some point it’s just too risky and both those countries share a border with NK.

At what point does Kim become a liability for China or possibly Putin? These seem like the wrong people to be on the wrong side of and unless those guys are OK with his current actions Trump’s “suicide mission” assessment actually sounds accurate.

All of this points to the fizzle you speak of... surely Kim’s masters are going to rein him in.
Yes that's true, but there's actually even more like packaging, testing, etc. I took a free online course from Stanford called "nanomanufacturing" but it really was mostly about about chip manufacturing, packaging etc. Even though I worked in the semiconductor industry for 12 years (mostly bench testing preproduction ASICS) I still found it really useful. Not sure if you can still view the archives here if you sign up for an account (I can but I took the class)

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/Nano/Summe...

No substitute for learning the physics, but at least it kind of gives you some idea of what's involved. In addition to all the crazy technology involved in fabricating the chips, the packaging technology has gotten really sophisticated. It can be very confusing about what's the difference BGA, WLCSP, stacked dies, etc. Anyway the course covered a lot different types of processing with examples.
Command-H does the trick for me.
Indeed-- car's sirens are going at the end & he's using a walkie talkie
I did read that.

And they also strangled oxen.

It just doesn't make sense.
Good historical perspective: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/09/catalonia-independence-re...
no, I know that's what he's referring to, but I wanted to know how s/he was actually using it in practice, for a real-world task
The real risk is that NK will nuke the Pacific Ocean, under the illusion that people/countries won't care much.

Remains to be seen but I think that will be seen as an attack on the world, not on no-one.
I suspect you overstate Chinese control over North Korea. Certainly they have influence and going against their wishes may have repercussions, but don't think that possible repercussions are the only thing that matters and don't assume that what is obvious and appropriate in your mind is the same for Kim Jong Un or Donald Trump.

Heck, for a lot of the folks Trump has surrounded himself with these two statements have identical connotations: "North Korea may kill thousands of South Koreans with artillery," and "Brown Asians may kill thousands of other brown Asians with artillery." I'm 100% positive that there are people in this administration whose private response to statements like that is "you say that as if it's a bad thing?"
What I've started doing is looking at the ice40 line of FGPA's that are supported under the Ice Storm project. It's not a perfect way to avoid that kind of lock in but it seems like a decent way to start without having to worry too much about that. That said i'm a total beginner and someone else might have better advice.

http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has various in-depth articles on Philosophy of Mathematics

https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=Philosop...
I thought your other response about forgetting the password for a throwaway was satisfactory.

Why is it that you don't take Kaepernick at his word about what he's protesting?
Both sides would be smart to delay any diplomatic actions before the National Congress in China is over.

Now is the "election season" in the middle kingdom.
Why does everyone think PhDs want or need to go into academia? I never planned to be an academic when I decided to start my PhD. I think that's fairly common.