skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if the base circuit elements are made of memristors instead of transistors, the traces on top of them still need to be laid out in the traditional manner. So the fixed cost of bringing even a small memristor device to market is millions.

Memristors are not some magic stuff that suddenly makes FPGAs as efficient as ASICs, nor do they make then dramatically cheaper.
I've lived in four different states over the past ten years, and found that most people I have met are indeed like that. The difference becomes especially obvious when I hang out with visitors or other immigrants. European women for example are much more comfortable with holding hands or throwing their arms around my waist when walking down the street, and they do it even when we are just friends. Americans are the opposite: they seem to have "touch-phobia".
I agree Crashplan's is pretty bad

I'd say so... They just reset my backup for no discernible reason.
Different parts of the US have different customs. Some folks are very personal space (myself and a lot of my family) and some are very - well - "huggy" (my brother's in-laws errr).
PyPDF2: The New Fork of pyPdf
No, but why waste the time with a tool that seems so ineffective that one almost wonders if it isn't designed to make people feel like they're doing something while they actually accomplish nothing – essentially it's starting to look like a bit of a dark design pattern, in my eyes.

Has any substantial change come from a Whitehouse.gov petition? (I'm genuinely asking and would really like my above cynicism to be wrong).
If they spend shareholder capital to enforce someone else's copyright out of the goodness of their hearts, they're legally guilty of breach of fiduciary duty.

The argument that they're abusing the DMCA is a slippery slope. Who else should be helping the copyright holders freeload on their enforcement duties? Your ISP? Computer manufacturers? Your landlord, for not not searching your home regularly for copyright-violating media?
How the hell did the word "learnings" catch on? There's already a word for that: "lessons."

/rant
The implication is that it's ok when homeless people get TB. An outbreak that is confined to that "underclass" should only raise alarm when it infects people that actually matter.

And the number of cases isn't the metric used. Imagine if the TB outbreak only effected owners of yachts? There's certainly fewer yacht owners than there are homeless people!
If you don't mind me asking; how much did it make?
My biggest fear is Ouya being anything other than another Android device that runs Android software. I'm terrified the company tries to create their own platform, rather than just creating a very solid reference hardware that'd be ideal for Android gaming.

The completely non-standard gamepad with display is a terrifying hint that Ouya is trying to do their own thing, not build a good solid ecosystem device.
You're right that I don't know his work that well and probably extrapolated too much from this interview. I just get a little irritated at people (even smart, famous people) who criticize successful projects like the Web or Wikipedia for not being good enough, or inferior to their own work, without acknowledging that their success in the marketplace shows that they must have done something right.

I'm glad he's working on STEPS; I'm eager to see him push the boundaries of what is possible, and if it succeeds, it will validate his ideas. But Smalltalk and Squeak have been around for decades, and yet the Web and Wikipedia are orders of magnitude more popular. So why does he have to bash their creators as "amateurs" or "lacking imagination" when their ideas have caught hold in a way that his work has not? What does he have to back up this criticism? Sure, a lot of the ideas from Smalltalk and his early work on object-oriented design have influenced other programming languages, but he himself says that the way in which object-oriented design evolved runs counter to his vision, not in support of it.
Yes, especially considering that you can get a used xbox (with games) much cheaper than that.

One place where this might do well is in developing economies, in which case you better make sure that your games are well internationalized and also be prepared that 99% of your players are going to be running a pirate version.
Meetings.io (YC W11) now has screen sharing and file sharing built in.
BountyOSS: Crowdfunding for Open Source Software
Let's be real, the word democracy doesn't just mean direct democracy. Our "republic" is and always has been a representative democracy, and it's perfectly appropriate to classify the U.S. as a democracy. Republic and democracy are orthogonal concepts, we are both. The word republic just means our leaders aren't chosen by blood or inheritance. Since we elect our leaders, we are a democracy.
Thanks for that, I've bookmarked it and will watch it.
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Actually, a large part of the US government system - for example, the division between federal and state governments - was copied from the Ottoman Empire.
it's called hallucination.
You can't drag from the prompt and select the line below it without also selecting the right-hand prompt and all the whitespace that leads up to it. Not a huge issue, but it means extra editing every time that comes up.
I'm not sure what you are getting at, but it sounds like you are attempting to argue in favor of "your" system over another.

Enumerating relatively minor differences between democratic capitalist countries doesn't make your "Soviet Union" analogy any more appropriate.

However :

>> There's also at-will employment in the USA (used by Zynga recently to screw employees out stock options), and lack of employee discrimination (AFAIK it's not illegal in US to fire someone for being gay or trans, while it is in EU).

As seen in Spain, guaranteed / tenured employment is not all sunshine and roses. Even prior to the most recent economic troubles, younger employees were vastly over-represented among those with short term contracts. Likewise in France.

For reference, sexual identity and gender orientation are protected (or not) at the state level :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_discrimination_law_i...
Missing from the specs because of Apple's patent?

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
I think that post has less to do with my opinions of feature testing and more to do with the environment presented by that usergroup.

As to why jQuery moved to feature testing, we discussed that in the jQuery 1.3 release notes:
http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.3
To adapt the OP's original phrase, I think the US can lay legitimate claim to being the first modern republic, except maybe for the Dutch.

Yes, there were nations with a republican form of government before that, but the purpose of that form was fundamentally different.

The pre-modern republics were set up to allow all the aristocracy a turn at being king, while modern republics are set up to allow the non-aristocracy to prevent there being an aristocracy.

For example, the ancient republics of Athens, Rome, and even Carthage were noted by their neighbors as being especially warlike precisely because, to take Rome as an example, everyone only got six months as consul and so they had to make it by launching wars immediately, both because the plunder would form the basis of their personal and family fortunes and because glory from war was the only goal worthy of an aristocrat. Regular kings, by contrast, could take their time.

In the modern world, we don't respect glory in battle or plunder like we used to, and so we use the republican form of government to prevent anyone from amassing too much power on a permanent basis at all. People often think the purpose of voting today is to select the best leader, or at least a good one, but really it's simply to ensure that the current one has to leave since no one can please the majority of an electorate indefinitely.
Is a "JavaScript ninja" conceptually similar to a "my little pony samurai"?
It's really hard to overstate how bad the government is at software development. I've worked in several contracts with various agencies, and I know people who still stay in the game, and the best ones I've seen are ten years behind everybody else and spending about 50x what they should to get things done. They're simply swamped in bureaucratic molasses.

For instance, even though the "business" of the government (things like tax collection or tracking shipping containers) uses much less data than say a Google does, not only do they have a CIO, they have an entire battalion of CIOs. There's a whole club of just government CIOs. Each of those, of course, has a full staff. When contracts are paid, it usually goes through some completely different set of people than the people who actually receive the value.

If you're a company trying to help the government, you'd laugh your ass off if it weren't so damned sad. Your programmers -- and you gotta love this -- are all considered little cardboard cutouts, like cookies. If you have a problem to solve, the correct answer isn't what technology you would use to solve it. Usually that's outside your control anyway. The correct answer is how many "standard" programmers it would take to get it done. The quality of a "standard" programmer varies, but it's usually somebody with a few weeks of training and a desire to be anywhere but here. Many times your government partners are incompetent and a danger to themselves and others when it comes to technology. They want the moon but they don't want to take any political risk at all. I had one guy just flat out tell me: you guys make all the tough choices and if it goes well I'll take all the credit. If it fails it's all your fault. At least he was honest.

I could go on, but I don't want to get into a rant. Ever wonder how the IRS spent billions on upgrades with nothing to show for it? Or how the FBI's new case management system was a total Charlie Foxtrot? Geesh. 33.3 million is getting off lucky.
you seem to be presenting a false dichotomy. can't go be a success in some place in between c and python?

my haskell is faster than python and more expressive. therefore you should stop using python immediately, right? of course not, because anyone using the shooutout to make sweeping generalizations has of course read the massive disclaimer warning against that...
> most people in the world don’t really think about us or care about us

French newspaper has a front page article about Obamacare http://www.lemonde.fr/

German newspaper has a front page article about the US election http://www.spiegel.de/

UK paper has videolink of Romney on front page http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Italian newspaper has Romney and Obama on front page http://www.repubblica.it/

For better or worse, the US has a commanding place in the politics, technology, and economics of the planet.
Guy builds particle accelerator in kitchen
There is compound failure at your organization as running _5.0_ is reckless and dangerous.
Tricorder 1.0
You should put up a screenshot on the front page. Also, the demo link just looks like regular text.
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Damn skippy. I signed a similar petition campaigning against airport user fees that would basically charge pilots to talk to air traffic control.

What I got in response was a paragraph of bad analogies and poor logic...basically a "FYVM for your time" letter.

The comments box at Dunder-Mifflin was more effective than petitions.whitehouse.gov
Actually, to expand on that: The American War for Independence precipitated a major and unprecedented shift in British politics. For the first time the Liberal party gained power in Parliament, and leaders like Edmund Burke instituted major reforms to the political system. That's not to mention the amount of inspiration the French Revolution took from the American one. Italian unification also took inspiration from the American Revolution and there are streets in Rome named after George Washington.

The American Revolution, no matter the particulars, was a huge watershed moment in history. It was the first practical application of Enlightenment ideas to a political system at a great scale and it's unlikely that the world would look anything the same had it not happened. Rome or any other country from antiquity having it first does not change that.
Like a caption contest for articles?
This is Japan's "Cool Aid".

The truth is that there are no laws or contracts preventing companies from laying off its workers en masse, yet the individual deludes himself into thinking that there is some concrete social contract exists. The thing is, when the economy was growing at 5% a year, companies could uphold this (ephemeral) social contract by employing people for a lifetime and guaranteeing a great pension.

I personally know CEOs of smaller companies in Japan who vowed to not lay off a single person during the tough times of 2008-2010. The C-suite guys took zero salary for at least 2008, and all other employees took a temporary 30% pay cut. However, this is not the norm. While outright firings may be more rare, things go on underneath the surface. Fulltime employment slots replaced with contract workers in factories, significant amounts of employment moving overseas to SE Asia, etc.

Layoffs aren't as common as the US, but that's actually not necessarily a good thing. Hiring of new grads has gone down significantly (the last graduating class with decent job prospects was the class of 2008), while the older workers (even those who underperform) are kept on board. Like kalleboo says, Japan is about "family". They are kind towards members of their family, and strikingly cold to those who are not. Those who are part of the company are "family", and are protected. New grads who cannot find work are not part of the family, and don't receive the same empathy. Even those who can find work, even at the best and brightest companies, are faced with a situation where their lifetime earnings will be significantly lower than those of the boomers. (on the order of $2.5MM vs $3~4MM lifetime)

There are no good figures about the employment rate of college graduates, but if you discount students who have gone onto become 'part time / contract' workers, the employment rate may be around 60%. (The problem is that all the stats are wildly skewed - for instance, employment rates that include 'underemployed' new grads, or only counting graduates from mid-tier colleges and above) No one really knows how bad the true youth unemployment situation is in Japan.

College students are very risk averse, particularly in the turmoil following the financial crisis. I recall that a poll among college students back in 2011 declared that they wanted to become public workers above all other options (public workers cannot be fired, afaik).

Japan's leaders are very talented at keeping a sinking ship afloat. But they can't avoid the inevitable. Like the country's debt problem, there will come a moment when things catastrophically implode.
This issue isn't resolved yet:

http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=47

So Google Go programs won't run on any RHEL or Fedora with SELinux enabled. Requiring users to disable SELinux in order to run programs is just insane... even a lax SELinux like the default policy from Red Hat is still very effective.

Whoever thought an executable stack was a good idea... well they certainly don't have any clue about OS security.
I thought among the first things the titled referred to was "how to do HA dbs;" "how to shard in wp-config"; "how not to get hackernewsed"
Also, there is no 'cure for cancer', because there are hundreds of types of cancer. Some cancers have cures for them already.
So where's your chunky fantasy trilogy then, if they're so easy to write?

Edit, since I'm being downvoted, and that was written in a hurry on the train: I wrote a book too. It was really fucking hard, and took a long time, but I'm ultimately happy with the way it came out, and that I took the time to do it properly. The reward for that care and hard work seems to be not "great book, thanks!" but people bitching about how long it took to write.

Hence, I now have a very low tolerance for people complaining about other people's work and being whiny and entitled.
Let's face it, the only petition that will make a difference is the big one on November 6th. I'm amazed the TSA's policies and practices have not become a campaign issue. If you care about this, then petition the candidates to take a stance for civil liberties.
Our email addresses are actually @fb.com -- as for the rest of your comment, wat?
We built something just like this in house, but of course as with any internal tool no one ever has time to update and maintain the damn thing.

Would be fantastic to switch over to this service if it works well. Ping me at mike at tophatmonocle.com if you have room in the beta.
Yeah, malandrew probably would. But what about the 95% of the world that has no idea what TLS is?
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Startups as Art or Is Silicon Valley the 21s Century's Renaissance Italy?
I'm not talking about magic; that's why I would like to see some (even expensive) developer version (as this is how new tech these days usually starts right?) come from HP. HP has the millions I would imagine and they know/see the potential (even though a lot of investment needs to go in to harvest that potential).
The market has no incentive to create a system that hands users a microscope that shows what is happening at the cellular level, that can, as a natural science not programming, demonstrate what is happening. To say the market has demonstrated that people don't care about comprehending is false: the market has not found a marketable way to sell explodable systems, and CS has not created runtimes that can illustrate their functionality, can be introspected into, in a high level or compelling systems view.

_The big problem with our culture is that it's being dominated, because the electronic media we have is so much better suited for transmitting pop-culture content than it is for high-culture content. I consider jazz to be a developed part of high culture. Anything that's been worked on and developed and you [can] go to the next couple levels._

I'm not sure that our media is necessarily better suited towards transmission: I suspect we just lack mediums that make looking at what is happening evident and interesting (even with X years of programming experience, watching another persons webapp run is rarely fun or an obvious exercise). This is a failure of our runtimes and the weak structures we use to build code.
Designing an OSM Map Style
Why did I get downvoted? Did I offend someone? I think my questions were valid and I'm glad that someone stepped up and answered them. I meant no harm otherwise.
I may be off but I don't think the Ottoman Empire had a legislator with one house based on population and the other house appointed by the states on an equal basis.
Melinda Gates to dedicate the rest of life to improving access to contraception
Thanks for the answer...seemed a bit odd there for a second.
Hacker News Kansai (West Japan) First Ever Meetup - Saturday 14th in Kyoto
For those HN readers who can never join the HN meetups in Tokyo, here's another alternative.

On this Saturday (14th), we are organizing the first Hacker News Meetup, at the heart of the Gion Festival in Kyoto. Here's where we can meet, in front of the CitiBank at Shijo/Karasuma streets: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=214961744925826245810.0004c48e9d5786b766294&msa=0&ll=35.003514,135.758936&spn=0.00086,0.001278

Time: You can come anytime in the afternoon, but please contact me or Captaintaco beforehand to let us know when you are available, either in the comments below and through our profiles' emails.

Thanks for upping this story to gain visibility !
Yep, this is really the point. If we think hypermedia APIs give you evolvability, then we've got to figure out how to do it; we don't have libraries for that sitting around, so someone has to do some work somewhere.

HAL is going for "start with something clean for machines (JSON and XML), layer in hypermedia, get people to adopt it." This seems like a perfectly reasonable approach.

I'm suggesting another approach, which is "start with something that supports hypermedia and is already ubiquitous on the web, and figure out how to get machines to make sense of it."

I'm not sure either one is easy, so it's worth having multiple horses in the race, I think.
It is not clever, it is the way to do it. That's what the scheme is there for.
Interestingly, jQuery was the first major library to switch to a feature detection model. Looking around it appears that a number of other libraries still use browser sniffing (such as MooTools, Prototype, and Dojo). The reason why I switched jQuery over to that model is largely due to my personal research into the matter during the process of writing Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja (largely as a desire to future-proof jQuery against upcoming bug fixes by major browsers).

It's rather amusing to see a case where I, unfortunately, fed the trolls trotted out as an example of future decision making. In this case the decision behind this was my own and largely done through my personal examination of the jQuery code base.
Because using a stronger password somehow nullifies security holes in an OS?
A lot of Mike Amundsen's work you've listed here is a direct inspiration for this article. Thanks, MCA!
Are any of you seeing a lot of duplicate Signature #'s? http://o7.no/NhQtfu
Ah yes, standing around and taking pictures in the bike lane. Just like everyone else in NYC...
I do think that's a factor. Also, in general Tokyo has a lot of cultural influence from the west, (having a decent number of foreign professionals there probably helps) and its inhabitants exhibit more western tendencies as a result. I think it's primarily at the individual level, rather than the corporate level though.

Kagoshima is so close to Okinawa, that I imagine there is some cultural undertones that have permeated from the controversies regarding the US Army's isolated (but still brutal) incidences of poor behavior. (iirc they were the subject of the relocation of the Futenma base as well?)

Kyuushuu people are pretty oldschool from what I understand. At least you're caucasian though, you would be truly doomed if you were non-Japanese & non-White. At least they treat you as if you're going to murder their daughter, rather than treating you as an untouchable :(
Were are you pulling that fact from as the that is not the case under UK libel law.

The winner gets there costs covered by the loser - realy rather simple and fair.
ok i'll make sure to vote for the candidate that has a reasonable anti anti-terror terror policy
I don't see what they are trying to achieve with free access here.

Probably the same thing they're trying to achieve with free streets, trees, parks, and so on: making the city more livable for those that pay taxes there. (And trust me, we pay a lot of taxes.)
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Haha. Well said. There are certainly certain circumstances where you cannot be "entitled" to vacation when your life depends on it :)
"it will still not be available for your PC to replace your RAM"

RAM? I thought this was a replacement for HDD and SSDs.
We were tired of telling people what gadget to buy, so we did something about it