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The biggest problem with reconfigurable computing is it's either an afterthought, tools are too narrow/proprietary or an extra add-in card.

Add a million LUTs and several thousand special-purpose blocks (ALUs, CAM, SRAM, DSPs, etc.) on CPU die that can be reconfigured within a few 10k cycles (ie process context), and then future AI-enabled optimizing compilers could incrementally profile and accelerate applications with reconfigurable resources in new, creative and interesting ways. IRAM and similar zillion core approaches are another approach to solve traditional performance locality bottlenecks: distribute processing, interconnect and RAM amongst each other. It makes the most sense to co-evolve such a radical undertaking gradually with compiler vendors and large customers so that support and usability is working from launch, rather than just throwing silicon over the wall and using the "hail mary" method of product (non)design.

PS: Intel could push almost any new on-die CPU technology service/product into the mainstream right now on the server side because of their de-facto monopoly oligopoly dominance. I don't think they will as there is immense organizational pressure to not innovate too much.
Think again--since when do graphs depict only cold, dry data? Graphs have always been useful for depicting relationships--real or proposed. Line graphs in particular are often found depicting proposed relationships rather than real data (though often inferred from data,) since for all cases where the real data is discrete, this would result in a scatter plot rather than a line.
It just doesn't deliver on performance, or energy consumption. That was always going to be the case (you are adding a layer of abstraction at the silicon level). So for anything that is measured on "operations / second" or "operations / joule", FPGAs will always lose out. By now industry has learned that the key is to tailor algorithms for what we can do fast (vector+branching on CPU, everything branchless on GPU), not shoehorn silicon into algorithms.

So what can FPGA do? Fast, low latency, high bandwidth interaction with peripherals. The irony here is that to have this work out, you kind of want to have your peripheral connected to the FPGA.. which takes away all the fun from the reconfigurable stuff, because you can't reroute your PCB. So now 99% of FPGAs deployed end up running in the same configuration always and companies with the necessary scales pour it into ASICs.

FPGAs solve a niche problem of interacting with very fast, massively parallel data buses and systems (think CCD sensors, ADC sampling, ..) that a linear execution, Turing style processor isn't suitable for. And pretty much only for applications where you don't have the volume to convince a chip manufacturer to put your peripheral into silicon.
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That's how our codebase evolves at a large internet company. A new shiny product is desired by sales, and to cheer us up into building it they promise we'll be allowed to delete the crappy old stuff when done. Rinse, repeat, 10 years later we have 10 legacy systems to support. Makes me think of "The Girl Who Sold Matches" whenever one of these comes up...
Wow that is a solid plan. I propose you or whomever builds it calls is Nitro or something to that affect. Speed how you need it. Imagine an open library or FPGA profiles for popular apps. Build one for Photoshop and you have yourself a nice biz.
The YC provided money is the least important benefit to doing YC. The parent very specifically notes that money wasn't the most important thing, you appear to have glossed over that.

The value of getting accepted and how that acts as a filtering mechanism to prime venture firms. The network: YC alumni, investors, executives in the industry, mentors, etc.

In other words, getting into YC will usually: enable you to raise venture capital from the best VC firms far more easily; it'll open doors that you previously likely could not open (especially for newer entrepreneurs); it'll help you with recruiting talented and experienced employees (critical to success); it's a halo, by getting accepted into it, you get to borrow reputation from what YC has built up.
You can make the same kind of argument about this criticism of Graham. When it comes to YC's business principles, we have more to go on: the success of YC startups, and the way YC has transformed the funding landscape for startups. Those are real changes that YC was right in the middle of.

I'm not interested in looking to Paul Graham for advice on how to handle general issues in society (and am usually disappointed by what he has to say about them), but I'm also not interested in pretending that YC has been unsuccessful because it's politically convenient to make him a villain.
That is pretty much the ARM and POWER problem too, they think they can grow in new markets with these hugely expensive machines in quantities of ten racks.

Both would have significantly more traction if they offered a reasonable desktop class machine, but they don't seem to be able to do it. For some reason there are dozens of RPi type devices but making a $200-$300 device with a reasonable set of expansion ports (sata+USB3+pcie gen3+m.2+10g ethernet+etc) seems all but impossible. POWER has a similar problem, with the only inexpensive devices being old NXP parts (yah NXP is still selling a core that turns 20 years old this year https://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors... thats great if your still selling car parts from 20 years ago, not so great if your designing a part today.).
The respondents here seem knowledgeable enough that I should take the opportunity to be more precise with my question:

Why does North Korea need ICBMs when they presumably already possess a regional nuclear deterrent, which itself should be adequate to secure their country against invasion?

I guess the obvious answer would be that they want to be even more secure. But that is just a deduction on my part and as such, it feels like a bit of an unconfirmed piece in my understanding of the situation.
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Yep, these folks are a total time waste. Both me and a coworker had the exact same experience you described.
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State mental institutions were not without there problems, I'd recommend reading about Greystone Psychiatric Hospital in Morris county New Jersey.
I've always wanted a service that lets me have something like an RSS/JSON feed of new artists, albums, etc added to a streaming service during a timeframe (day, week, etc).

Does anyone know if Google, Apple, or Spotify provide any such APIs or services?
Wouldn't rust be a better fit?
Maybe I am missing something, but wouldn't this be vulnerable to a man in the middle attack?
The purpose of moving the capital from Philadelphia was to prevent any one state from exerting military control over the federal government.

The thought that "people aren't supposed to live here" makes no difference to the matter; people do live there, a lot of people, more than the entire states of Wyoming and Vermont, and without those residents the government would cease to function.

It would be feasible to enfranchise the citizens of DC by granting statehood while also maintaining the original intent of the city, by requiring the new state constitution to yield all physical security to the authority of the federal government.
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> However, Puerto Rico has been voting on statehood for a very long time and has historically voted against it.

That's not entirely true; pro-status-quo groups have boycotted all or part of ballots, or advocated voting for some other option than continued territory status to avoid clear wins for Statehood. That was true in 2017 where they boycotted the whole ballot, in 2012 where they boycotted the second (alternative status) part of a two part ballotmarking that called for a vote up or down on current status and then a separate vote on what the replacement status should be; in 1998 where they called for a vote for “none of the above” so their votes would be added to genuine NOTA votes.

It's true that Commonwealth (territory) status won in 1967 and, narrowly, 1993, but it's clearly been declining over time, which is why that faction has been trying to deny clear results since 1998.
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Argue what?

That Google should manually de-list 4-Chan?

No, that's not hard to argue with at all. There are plenty of good reasons they should not do that.

BTW, that article is despicable. It basically takes a tragedy and then goes and finds some obscure links as argument why the publication and it's fellows should be the sole source of available information.
Going off of your Walmart comment, I must say that company has shown the world what logistics can be. They have brought RFID to the state of the art, such that an entire container can be inventoried at the loading dock automagically. Amazon has 10X as many innovations, and keeps many of them pretty out in the open. I agree will OP’s chilling assessment, but appreciate the effect of innovation at scale on the rest of the world.
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For smaller pages (one page sites, not SPA):

- Use one of bootstrap/semanticui, include their dist files directly (dont get into
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- Use their kitchen sink to pick up components (both bootstap/semanticui have loads of examples)

- Include JS dependencies the old way (copy the min.js manually in your project), keep try to keep this number low

- Try to avoid using frontend frameworks for these (say vue/angular/react)

For slightly larger sites (SPAs/Multiple page sites)

- Choose one particular frontend framework and stick to it (the productivity gain does not come from using a tool, it comes from using a tool repeatedly)

- Get the closest looking template from somewhere in above chosen tech (i usually pick one from https://themeforest.net/ but there are many free resources, like AdminLTE etc)

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There are other solutions being pushed in Hong Kong, called BlockStack. It looks very similar to ZeroNet

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2113521/n...
Wasn't there some famous scientist (Feynman?) who said that if it requires a statistical test, it's not real science? (Or am I making this up?)

In any case, while I can't say I agree (and you gave the reason why), it sure is a more _exiting_ experiment if the result is immediately apparent!
> The ideas of freedom of information, of freedom of expression are repugnant to the aristocrat (who always consider they know best), but these are founding principals of so far the most innovative and productive societies history has known.

I'm not entirely sure this is true. Before Internet, what we had was mostly freedom of the press - which is to say, the freedom to spread information (or disinformation) by those with financial means to do so. This is far more free than the preceding eras of widespread censorship, where the only one spreading information (or disinformation) was the government and its agents. But it's not quite a free for all. In effect, the ability to spread information on a large scale was still restricted to the "elite", defined in financial terms.

Internet, and especially social networks with their graphs, changed that. A little money, and a carefully crafted story, go a long way in terms of dispersal and effect. Big money still gives you more opportunities, but even small players can make a difference. And we've yet to see the full effect that this is going to have on our societies.
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> People need to make up their own minds regarding what is true and what isn't

We kind of tried that with religion and people still persist in believing all kinds of stuff
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The original replier doesn't sound as if they're extropolating to me. You're also telling a story, and shouldn't be the only one in the conversation to do so.

> Over time, the noise is stripped away and what we get is the official narrative and that is one we can "count" on.

I'd ask why fixing Facebook or Google isn't the answer, but that would play into _your_ extropolating narrative. Instead, why shouldn't Google and Facebook be responsible, and held accountable, for posting absolutely fake news automatically? It's not a "firehose" or "unsubstantiated" information, it's projected as "news".
Sadly, I suspect all the small developers combined are smaller than one hyperscale customer.
this (or something very close to this) has been described in 1993 (!) paper/article called 'processor reconfiguration through instruction set metamorphosis' or PRISM.

perhaps you might find it interesting. have fun :)
Google is more a conduit of news rather than a gatekeeper. FB is both a gatekeeper and a conduit to news as well as a news producer (since it pays or underwrites some orgs to produce news for it).

That said, I think The Atlantic is wrong in placing blame on Google when they themselves engage in questionable journalism (clickbait as well as often biased news-source).

There is no way we're going to come up with something "objectively truthful" because, news as it exists today is not about facts. It's journalism and journalism has always been about putting a slant on things --quoting unauthoritative sources ("man named Joe claims," etc.) loose factchecking, and more. All to sell more news (packaged with ads or for subscriptions, where you don't want to alienate your subscriber "base".

This is an attempted landgrab by establishment news orgs to corner what is news. They want to be the only sanctioned sources of news and punish alternative sources --using an obvious outlier to promote their pov.
It does not take a significant amount of research to determine the above characterization of Wakefield's actions are, at best naively optimistic about either his competency, his ethics, or both.

The publicly available and extensively detailed [1] findings of the review board that rescinded his license show with little room for interpretation an impressive list of conflicts of interest, improper treatment of patients, poorly conducted research, and fraudulent activities.

Also extensively researched was the journalism efforts of Brian Deer [2], which uncovered an impressive level of data fraud. His work is worth reading, but in the interest of brevity I will quote the abbreviated synopsis found in Mr. Wakefield's wikipedia entry [3]:

The paper in The Lancet was a case series of 12 child patients; it reported a proposed "new syndrome" of enterocolitis and regressive autism and associated this with MMR as an "apparent precipitating event." But in fact:

1. Three of nine children reported with regressive autism did not have autism diagnosed at all. Only one child clearly had regressive autism;

2. Despite the paper claiming that all 12 children were "previously normal", five had documented pre-existing developmental concerns;

3. Some children were reported to have experienced first behavioural symptoms within days of MMR, but the records documented these as starting some months after vaccination;

4. In nine cases, unremarkable colonic histopathology results—noting no or minimal fluctuations in inflammatory cell populations—were changed after a medical school "research review" to "non-specific colitis";

5. The parents of eight children were reported as blaming MMR, but 11 families made this allegation at the hospital. The exclusion of three allegations—all giving times to onset of problems in months—helped to create the appearance of a 14 day temporal link;

[1] http://briandeer.com/solved/gmc-charge-sheet.pdf

[2] http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347.full

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield
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Nah. Automobiles are clearly our moloch. Firearms would be an asherah or baal at best.

2015:
35,092 motor vehicle deaths[0]
13,500 "gun" deaths[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
[1] http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls
This used to be my opinion as well upon learning of the history of DC's foundation, but in retrospect it seems like it should not be outrageous to think of a compromise that enfranchises DC citizens without compromising the security of the capital.
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Long Time HNer reader posting under a new account.

I’m the PM for an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) project at a large US company. We are currently undertaking a market survey looking for partners and vendors to support our IIoT project. As a large company, we traditionally do business with other large companies, however, as a HNer, I suspect there are many excellent startup / small / medium IIoT companies flying under our radar.

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There is a macro available for the Eagle PCB design software that converts BSDL to schematic and foot print. BSDL although originally for boundary scan has info about footprint but it is not a big deal since so few manufacturers make it available.
The pro-status-quo groups have been actively avoiding honest participation from the 1998 vote on, because they'd rather a vote with unclear results than a clear loss (though even so, they clearly lost in 2012, though their non-participation in the “if not status quo, then what” part of that ballot was used as grounds to deny the import of the substantial win by Statehood on that ballot.)
> The statement that he could easily implement coroutines via go seems like oversimplification or lack of problem domain understanding.

For someone with a lack of problem domain understanding, could you elaborate on this? :)
There are some other pages about MS Word here too:
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I'm wondering why the article doesn't say more about drones? Seems like they could be even cheaper.
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> YC is also a startup itself, and (what’s more difficult) must remain one. ... YC has to be fast, cheap, informal, and focused on essentials.

It's always interesting seeing how different people define 'startups'. Generally there seem to be two groups (though there are others) - the "designed to grow fast" group, and this group, where the definition is indistinguishable from "being a small business".
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The whole things smells like monopoly dragging its heels. It bought the competition to slow adoption, claiming that CPU-FPGA hybrids were just around the corner. What we need is a new FPGA based fabric that has the major building blocks to create any number of RISCV cores. Tiles that can be RISCV, or if "sacrificed" turn into clusters of LABs for general purpose use. And the chip company with the software vision for this is AMD with HSAIL.
This also may have something to do with it:
http://www.voltairenet.org/article185860.html

See also: http://www.npr.org/2016/02/22/467210492/u-s-navy-brings-back...
Well, that's where the monetary contributions would come in.

There would be a subscription service like Netflix. And people would contribute all kinds of things to it, including citizen journalism with their own cellphone videos etc. But it would be collaborative, not competitive. Only one story per news item.
my 2c, as a casual, third party observer:

Kudos:
afaict, yc is a "good actor" in contrast to "bad actor" VCs that have received recent notoriety

yc does its part in putting out knowledge into the world re: how to build startups (cynically, this is to promote brand, PR)

yc funds non-profits

yc promotes diversity esp relative to its SV peers

Criticism:
yc is elitist. with a few exceptions (you have PMF), you have to know someone

yc is incredible for the 1% that get in, to the detriment (broadly) of the 99% that don't. they get a disproportionate amount of attention, capital and support

yc is a VC firm (+bootcamp), but with a vastly superior economic model, which is pretty incredible given how good VC economics are

the part about it not being about the money rings hollow. my guess is it's 90-95% about the money. YC partners have made hundreds of millions (in the future, YC will probably mint a few billionaires) of dollars. every batch, 7% of the equity of 100-150 "cream of the crop" startups goes to a handful of partners. if YC's primary goal was social impact, the batch would look a lot different -- not saying yc doesn't do good, but i think a typical VC is at least straightforward that their goal, and fiduciary responsibility is to make $. i think YC sugarcoats this for branding purposes when they de-emphasize this.

the narrative around SV has really taken a turn for the worse. income inequality is a real problem, and also getting worse. one could easily argue SV is exacerbating this, and YC is a factory of many of the startups causing this. the future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed
FPGA's are the shit but the software is the key. To make them really fly we need some really brilliant software to configure them. Someone is going to disrupt this space soon and whoever does I think will make a unicorn. Just my guess.
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You wrote:

>is there a nonzero number of people who wholly subscribe to the nazi party's politcal platform, and want that specific party to be reborn? i suppose that's likely

That's about as truthful as, "Did Hitler kill Jews? i suppose that's likely."