skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the languages front, there is Chisel, which looks promising. I'm not a hardware guy, but Chisel looks a lot more reasonable to work with than VHDL/Verilog, and it's good enough for doing real work on RISC-V. As someone who has thought about dabbling in this space, I'm curious about the thoughts of anyone who has worked with it: https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/

For the rest; yeah, it looks like it's pretty eye-bleeding and hacked together from decades worth of odd little one-off tools: http://opencircuitdesign.com/qflow/, https://opencores.org/howto/eda, https://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/papers/FEL12ReleaseNotes.p...
It's a bit aggressive to assume OP's metrics of what "looks like" a rocket science includes being an old white male.

Actually, you're the one who introduced these features as being relevant, and thus the only one perpetuating these features as being stereotypes right now is you.
I don't think corruption has much to do with "militarization"

Not the corruption of individual cops on the street, but I bet there are some kickbacks given for purchase of heavy equipment. Don't want to get political about it but tear gas is pretty aggressive, and is ironically banned for use on the battlefield but it's considered totally normal for police to use it to control civilian populations.
a mix of the following works for me:

1. resources (time) required to get mvp together to test assumptions

2. amount of long-term work needed to get foothold in market

3. total size of market vs costs over growth -> projections

4. if you fail, what have you lost? sunk costs vs variable ones.. redeemable experience at the end..?

5. most importantly, which actually interests you more?
Space debris is a huge problem. One car gets hit bit tiny debris at any point, and the number of debris flying around multiplies.
One of the first phrases I try to learn when visiting a foreign country is how to apologize for bumping somone, or ask someone to move aside. "Excuse me" in English, "entschuldigen" in German, "jièguāng" in Mandarin. It's so much less awkward being when you can communicate with words. Is there a phrase you would use for this in Norwegian, or would you just clear your throat and tap your foot?
Launch HN: Vacucu – Define and book customized outdoor activities
I have never used facebook or snapchat but this is what drove me off of linkedin too, it used to be 100% updates from people I knew, and somehow morphed into 99% "news feed" crap that I never want to see, ever.

I don't care what your analytics say about user engagement, they are wrong. Just stop the "relevancy game" and the stupid news feeds everywhere.
Vacucu is an online portal where individuals can request, search, and book customized sports activities & sports activities related services. Anyone can define trips based on their needs and requirements (include transport, accommodation, extra services) and will get customized quotes from verified providers. You can then book the offer with no additional costs.

Built using JS stack (Node.js & React.js) with server-side rendering thanks to the awesome framework https://github.com/zeit/next.js/

Any feedback/criticism is highly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ejaz.
Dim lit = Dimwit; rodents exposed to dim light lost 30% capacity in hippocampus
Yes. This was a very minor failure in comparison to the overall launch. But this lack of transparency played right into the undercurrent of sleaziness that seems to hang around Elon Musk industries.

I'm a big fan of SpaceX and of Musk as well, but he's still winning even if he fesses up to the minor setbacks.
I generally let life decide this for me. Interest, traction, whatever can cause one project to suck up more of my time than the other. At some point, this becomes a formal decision to stop sinking resources into some half baked idea that is failing to launch and get more serious and organized about the thing that has legs.
They measure 4 by 5 feet, so we can estimate they are probably made from a solid chunk of titanium that was at least 20 cubic feet or almost 5,000 pounds. That would be nearly $150,000 in raw material and probably another 5x that in processing (guesstimating cost per cubic inch of titanium removal).

Either that or they were specially made castings, which are similarly expensive in low volume, if not more.
I really appreciate that you called me out for it. I wasn't being clear in my meaning, and I totally see your point. Too late for an edit now unfortunately.
This won't be a huge flashy milestone when it happens, but future historians will point to that achievement as an inflection point in space travel.

Remember a few short years ago when humans always threw away the rocket after every trip?
Because they're too busy trying to save millions of people in third-world countries to care about first-world problems.

Less snarkily, the pitch of Elon Musk is surprisingly selfish--he's basically doing this as much so he can get to Mars as anyone can. By contrast, people like Rockefeller and Carnegie in the past are largely responsible for endowing public culture in the form of museums, concert halls, public libraries and the like, and the modern day equivalents like Gates and Buffett are attempting to eradicate malaria from the world.

Nevertheless, you should reserve ire for those who have the ability to do philanthropy and fail to engage in it in any form as opposed to those whose philanthropy isn't in the areas you'd prefer.
> I think a better solution would be to legally protect anyone that's honestly reporting a vulnerability; make companies liable for those vulnerabilities; offer a failsafe reporting mechanism to the government in place of the company, in case they just ignore it; and guarantee that reporting a vulnerability can't ever be used against you in any kind of criminal or civil trial.

This would also very useful for more generalised whistle-blowing too..
It's a term carried over from the military/aerospace field.

https://www.f35.com/about/life-cycle/software
Flat earther's rocket launch fails spectacularly, disappointing tens
Yes, in a carefully controlled way
You're of course welcome to your opinions, but I strongly suspect that you need more experience as a developer to understand the answer to your question, if you don't have a sense of what things are demanding in JS and if you think that being able to write C++ is clearing some sort of high bar.
Low-cost alternatives to interposers could have a big impact on chip design
Flip a coin and see whether you feel disappointed by the outcome.
You still haven't stated why an attorney is necessary...
> or bad tuning (they set the heap needlessly large)

The claim "for equivalent Java code", might be slightly exaggerated, but looking at the claim as a whole: "Rust is Tilde's Competitive Advantage", "bad tuning" is part of the point.

"bad tuning" usually means "no tuning". Which means they spent the time they could have been tuning and used it to build features instead, or optimize their code instead.

From that perspective I wouldn't use "bad tuning" as an argument for continuing to use Java.
They definitely did go into full PR mode after they lost signal to the drone ship. But I think they did that in part because this launch had so many moving parts that if someone had just tuned in to that moment and seen a massive rocket exploding against the drone ship they may have thought that the launch had fail.

And considering that the core booster landing on the drone ship was a mere side benefit of the overall launch it was probably the best thing to do.
From '02-'06 (or even '02-'017) did Musk send anything to another planet/leave Earth orbit? No.

Maybe you could argue the Falcon 1 was an expensive hobby, but interplanetary spaceflight is certainly not.
Anecdote, we drank unfiltered water from a melt pool on a glacier and were fine. Glacial melt pools are probably some of the only places on earth anymore where you can do that. Two days later, only 2000 feet below the glacier, a girl with us drank unfiltered water from a river and got sick
Thank you for the follow up. I think it's probably too elaborate for my small team, but I'll keep an eye on the project.
While we're on car safety, remember to put the damned cellphone away while you're driving!

I've been rear-ended 3 times in the last 8 years by people on their cellphones! Two were at 40+mph (blithely drove into my rear at full speed) and totaled both cars.

I'm OK, but I can't take a lot more of this!
> the Space Shuttle was substantial progress

Marginal at best. The Space Shuttle lofted 833 astronauts at a cost of $209 billion [1]. In 2013, NASA was paying Russia $70 million per astronaut for a Soyuz lift [2]. That comes to $58 billion in 2013 dollars. That leaves $151+ billion, ignoring inflation, to justify everything else the Shuttle did. $150+ billion is 10x SpaceX's lifetime capital expenditures. (It's about what NASA expects it will cost to put humans on Mars.)

At first, the Space Shuttle (conceived as a shuttle to an American space station, the latter never built) was an expensive way to low-earth orbit. After the ISS, the Space Shuttle became an expensive way to the ISS. It pioneered virtually nothing and nowhere and was better at nothing than any other craft.

It was not worthless. But for the cost we could have achieved vastly more. Opportunity cost is real; the Space Shuttle set spaceflight back at least a generation.

It's not fun to trash these programs. But over time, I've realized it's necessary. We cannot correct failures we refuse to recognize. The Space Shuttle's dismal ROI was a motivating factor behind the Bush administration's support of COTS [3]. Without that programme, SpaceX wouldn't be what it is today.

[1] https://www.space.com/12376-nasa-space-shuttle-program-facts...

[2] https://www.space.com/20897-nasa-russia-astronaut-launches-2...

[3] https://www.nasa.gov/commercial-orbital-transportation-servi...
I did exactly this to my PC, and it feels almost like new again. I think my i7-2600k might give up soon, but for a seven year old CPU, it is running suprisingly well. 500$ was all I spent altogether for RAM (16 GB Corsair), GPU (GTX 1060 Ti) and SSD (Samsung 500 GB 850-EVO).
> but to put together a PowerPoint presentation about my life

Wait what? This seems like a big red flag to me.
I still drink out of some of our creeks and springs in our NF areas when backpacking and hiking in the Ozarks. You have to know the terrain and what's on and around it to do that though. I've never gotten sick from that here.

I did the same back in the `70-80s in the Sequoia NF. I was taught by old timers there when I was a kid to take your water where it was running clear over rock and sand, not from still pools, and take a good look upstream and around you for carcasses or other contaminants.

I've still never seen a carcass near where I decided to take a drink, but I always look.
With double the effort too ie instead of 10-20 budget for 20-40 hours each week.
I think we need an add-on to Zawinski's law, "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail." These days, every program seems to expand until it includes an unwanted news feed.
Yes, really. It's not the length, it's the density of interesting content.
I said "in the middle of nowhere or shit areas". Since you're on a tech site, I assume you are familiar with how the word "or" works.
Much of the militarization is the DoD giving the stuff away to police departments. Baltimore PD can't afford to buy MRAPs.
If even a big fan thinks it, it must be very true indeed.
Well, to me, motherboard + CPU is the computer -- but yes, I could.
Good points all, though I'm wary of debt merely having shifted into things like student loans and subprime auto loans (which have a worryingly high default rate). It's not the same by any means, but I feel the combination of an overdue correction and political uncertainty could prove a toxic one.
I haven't tried it, but if so I'll let you know.
"Most americans are unwilling to work on farms..."

at the wages offered by farm owners!!! This is very similar to arguments trotted out in support of shitty H1B jobs. You want workers for your jobs? Increase the wages. Increased wages will make you raise the prices for your customers? Do so, or find the efficiencies in your business. Increased wages might drive consumers to produce grown in foreign countries? Have appropriate trade agreements protecting vital industries like agriculture, similar to what we have for defense (and after all, trade agreements are not a suicide pact (TM)).
Elon mentioned in the press conference that two of the engines on the droneship (it has four, one on each corner) were damaged.
Nah. In general, I wouldn't call that kinda thing creepy. It seems like you should be able to state that you retract what you said after further consideration.

However, I guess it would really depend on the situation. I suppose it is possible to dream up some scenario in which apologizing would come off as creepy. For example, if you ran into some girl or guy you knew from high school and decided to apologize for some mundane thing you did that no one would ever remember and, thereby, let on that you've been thinking of them for years despite never having had any actual contact. Not saying your situation was anything like that. Just a hypothetical.
How can you avoid places like that if your mom or dad can only afford places there ?
Anyone notice all the comments are deleted on the Reddit post?
Holy sh*t! Is this effect typically taught / introduced in a GR course? Why did I not know this!?

EDIT> Is there any way to derive this outside of GR?

EDIT2> I notice that you were careful to say "heavier", not more "massive". Does this point to the effect being part of the gravitational interaction specifically?
Cryptos are volatile.

Check news stories and price charts back few years and see if you notice any patterns.

Buying at wrong time is painful.

Selling at wrong time is double painful.
In the book The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe writes about some thing similar, the first astronauts in the Mercury program had nothing much to do, and NASA was considering choosing people like trapeze artists, who are used to stress and high acceleration for the role.
The $90m price is for a fully reusable FH, yes. The cores in this particular flight, however, were not intended for reuse either way.
That's a great idea. I really loved Eloquent JavaScript online version, a forum would make it even better.
Because the government has at its disposal many legal tools of which an individual developer may not be properly equipped or knowledgeable enough to deal with.

Subpoenas, search warrants, etc.
Hopefully the proof for this assertion is not simply that the majority of the ten longest spaceflights were conducted by the USSR/Russia, and rather the most impactful information was gathered from them.
I’m absolutely not taking a position on what is _real_ AI and was isn’t.

I was just providing evidence against the claim of the last paragraph of your previous message.

While you are waiting for AI that meets your specs, the world is flying real spacecraft with software that most people are happy to call AI right now.
Man that has to be framed and put on a wall for all entrepreneurs trying to catch a break.

My original message could not be more strongly emphasised than by reading the "but hey I can just use FTP" in that thread.

Here's the bit that I love the best:

"It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. "

That must be the quote of the century. DropBox is one of the MOST viral and revenue generating ideas there was - but here on HN when DropBox is announced, the idea killers all pop up quickly with "Hey this thing is the same as some unix utility and won't make money".

Just magnificent.

Also classic: "you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem"

I love this - it's such a techhead way of thinking - you don't need an integrated easy to use product, all you need to do it type 40 arcane commands for exactly the same thing - it's trivial!
I do think compared to Facebook, Snapchat has been slow to open up their platform. I think that has actually helped Snap as I don’t know that the ways in which Facebook has opened up it’s platform has contributed much in terms of value to the share price.
Why Ethical Robots Might Not Be Such a Good Idea After All
Or The Wire...
>it just 99% of programmers wouldn't know what to do with more cores

Fixed that for you. Remember that every time you experience an unresponsive GUI anywhere, and that's the easy case.

Beyond that, parallelization is generally not easy.
Counter-Strike co-creator charged with paying minor for sex
Yes it could happen. But today February 8th, 2018. Every iPad that ever existed can view videos on Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, CW, etc. They can all connect to a standard mail server or Exchange server, sync Calendars using standard protocols, read ebooks from Apple, play music with Spotify, Airplay to the latest devices, or use Bluetooth, print to any AirPrint compatible printer (most consumer wireless printers), etc.

I know because I own a first generation iPad that does all of the above - after a reset last year and downloading older versions of apps.

The only thing I can't do is view the modern web with a tablet with a measly 256MB of RAM.

The capabilities of the first generation iPad in 2010 compared to a modern iPad is like night and day.

I have a 2008 Core 2 Duo 2.66Ghz laptop with 4GB of RAM, Gigabit ethernet, that runs the latest version of Windows. The average consumer laptop only comes with 8GB of RAM and gigabit ethernet is still the fastest consumer networking protocol. It serves as my Plex Server.

A modern iPad has 8 times the amount of RAM, a processor that's orders of magnitude faster, etc. You can't compare the improvements in mobile to the lack of improvements in desktop computers.

Back in 2008, could you imagine using a 10 year old computer and still expecting support from a new OS like you can with a 10 year old computer today?
What can Uber teach us about the gender pay gap?
This acquisition reeks of some C level exec trying to play or at least attempting to play catch-up to the likes of Amazon and Google and other online major retailers.
This project looks awesome. Do you know if you have any plans to push some wild/experimental webVR features into this? I am desperately looking for a browser that will support:

- webVR multitasking (>1 tab rendering to display a time)

- tab content sharing

- obtaining textures from html elements to project into VR

so I can watch twitch in WebVR while browsing Reddit in VR. So far I have a sketchy fork of Firefox that somewhat works but I'd love for something more stable to recommend to people. What I want is described in more detail here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JzxKqir57c4RnpHhpH8nED8C...

Let me know if you have any thoughts. Thanks.
I was surprised to see this post never mention the terms “lawyer” or “general counsel.” If you are a developer at a company and receive an NSL, it’s a company legal matter. Do not address it yourself. It would be prudent to also ask your own lawyer for advice around what you should and should not do, on your own volition or at the company’s direction. If you are personally served an NSL, absolutely retain a lawyer.
People need attorneys for DUIs, and often for less serious moving violations. So for NSLs, having an attorney is essential. There are two primary reasons. First, you want to comply only as legally required. And second, you want to avoid making mistakes that have criminal penalties.

Edit: Even if your firm has general counsel, it's not uncommon to hire outside attorneys for specific matters.
Fine, I'll bite then(although I think my point still stands).

According to the spec current_exception() returns a smart pointer which the storage isn't specified. Part of that is implied allocation(returning bad_alloc for instance) which means you may be making a heap allocation for a pointer that could have been handled on the stack. That's going to rule out cases like the embedded space and gamedev where allocations during runtime is a big no-no.

I'm no stranger to C++ but I've been bitten so many times by exceptions. Either in libraries that didn't say they'd throw them(but then did), ABI pollution and having to get new binary drops from vendors because turning them on bloated RTTI which caused binary sizes that didn't fit. They really have no place if you plan to use the language at any sort of scale.
It's not about planned obsolescence. Mobile has seen the same type of dramatic performance increase you use to see in PCs back in the day. Can you imagine using a computer from 1996 in 2008?
Building a Photo Gallery with CSS Grid and Tailwind CSS
I have to imagine that deer would be picked clean inside of a month max
If you're incorrect enough at spotting stereotypes, and then flatly assert their use, well...

There's now a stereotype being applied, and you're the one that did it.

Even if you're arguing against it, that's not a positive thing to do.
Yep! Though I did have a fire extinguisher handy as well. Afterwards I bought a second one, and an additional smoke/CO detector.

It was super lucky: I had already gone to bed, but got up again for just a minute when I discovered the fire. Counted my blessings that day for sure.
What’s interesting about this in terms of user interface is that as user interface evolves into natural language user interface a.k.a. things like Siri, is that I do wonder if voice first devices will eventually exude some authority over the user.
Musk attributed it to low levels of triethylborane—a hot-burning propellant that essentially acts as rocket engines' starter fluid—in the center booster.

The center core is a special structurally enhanced model, so I'll give them a pass since they're flying a new bird. I'm sure they'll get it right.
Bears, deer, and other animals make this an issue even in the absence of cattle.

US natural water sources are actually relatively very clean. We don’t have any issues with viruses or chemicals, which means we can safely use ~0.2 micron filters while some regions require more expensive ~0.02 micron filters.
>Do these shoes fit my unusual shape feet

I feel this is the biggest opportunity : how will these clothes fit you.
Let me use my smartphone to register my body automatically(ios or android, they have enough sensors to map my body just with the camera and ML), then show me how this jean will fit me.

Of course one of the biggest issue would be that clothes have pretty large size variation (most of the fabrication is still done manually).
Thought this was a well-worded draft for ECMAScript language specification Edition 3.
Because whether or not we like it, the law is non-obvious to people who haven't studied it deeply, this is a particularly non-obvious area of the law, and you will be better off with an expert.

Same reason you want to find someone who knows C very well to review your security-sensitive C code. It would be nice if C didn't come with rules about undefined behavior that are surprising to people who haven't deeply studied C, but it does, and no amount of wishing it didn't will change the fact that you are inviting immense and needless risk by not finding an expert (or, if you'd prefer, spending years becoming one yourself, which you can certainly do if you have the luxury of years).
Not arguing with that, but the FUD around NSLs is powerful.
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How to integrate Salesforce data into your Data Warehouse using Scala
Which is the vast majority of public recreation land in the U.S.
No they haven't. Netflix works on all of the devices Apple has introduced since 2010. I know. I have all three of them.