skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing to discourage the efforts here but close to 10 companies were closed which tried to enter in FPGA market in last 10 years alone. Here is the list : TierLogic , CSwitch, Ambric, MathStar, Agate Logic, Nusym, AboundLogic (M2000)

Only one successful acquisiton.
Lattice acquired --> Silicon Blue

In the past, ST Micro tried 2 times to enter in FPGA Market, once even with the "open Source " concept - GOSPL. Intel for once for sure. Other several companies failed too.

Xilinx and Altera hold close to 90% market share in FPGA market. 90% of other efforts to enter this market have failed earlier. Mostly because, companies underestimated Software importance.
Everyone thinks they are able to distinguish it, clearly not everyone can. Therefore we might be wasting our time with Dart and ClojureScript (they may be shiny and new, but not much better, or we might be right that they truely are better hammers).
You run Bonanza? Cool, I have a bill for you.

2 years ago I caught a lady selling handbags (that she didn't really have) from your site. I caught her because she was having people pay through an account with our service (nextproof.com).

Guess who had to eat the chargeback fees? I did

Guess who had to call other people, inform them the handbag they ordered as a Christmas gift was bogus, then listen to them cry? I did

All that to say, if you (or anyone else) has a successful marketplace, shady folks will swarm to you and you will have no choice but to figure out buyer and seller protection policies.
I completely agree. The fact that math = language, and that it's built into our DNA, is astounding. And from there that the Halting Problem is basically tied into our DNA, that is, how we think, how our brains work, our ability to conceive ideas, is just mind-blowing. What Chomsky has done in his academic career in on par with the greatest scientists in our history.
It was all about the race to the RCP90 on stack in multplayer - that white corridor of death...
Starts off by appearing to agree with an insightful remark by Alan Kay, proceeds to reverse course and sympathise with the status quo, ends with a sentimental appeal to the 'humanity' of popular culture. Sadly proves the very point Alan Kay was making.
Consumerist performed the escalation.
Even the best in hardware making failed because they underestimated the software. Investor sentiment for FPGAs is so low for these obvious reasons.
If you use OpenBSD, you should order a CD set. It supports the project.
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It's much easier to understand the EFF if you recognize them as a libertarian organization at heart.
The choice you made was between the two options they gave you. Either outcome is part of their system, and perfectly fine by them. There was also third option wherein you notify them that the debt is invalid because no services were rendered, and that it is not your responsibility to convince their systems and processes of that fact.
I'm about as aware of those buttons as I am of individual grasshoppers in tall grass during summer, i.e. not very. They're everywhere, and I hardly ever want to press them. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness
The author mentions Kijiji ... which eBay owns.
It doesn't seem to be working on Chrome either for me.
> it's built into our genetics at a very fundamental level.

I'm sorry - but when did Chomsky get a degree in biology or neuroscience.
Moreover, Mobile Apps industry has paid out close to $6B in last 4-5 years. The revenue of whole EDA industry is $6-8 billion USD , though annually.

Over that entry barrier is so high in programmable logic industry that , making en effort in this direction makes it less viable option.
I think the standard method is coffee shops in the good part of town.
I agree with your post and general outlook on electric vehicles - they are definitely the future.

However, I do not agree with Mr. Buffett's statement - if it were the case, no one would ever make a single statement.
I wish this was installable on the new Chromebooks. I would LOVE to have OpenBSD installed on a 3G connected device.
Perceptron learning with the overused Least Squares method
> You can't choose to have the benefits of cheap cable, then complain when the company wants to keep making profit, and enforces a contract you signed.

Cheap? $120+ a month for television is not cheap.
So wait, you basically got around $68 back and you posted this blog post ABOUT losing less than 5% (around 3%) from a failed transaction? Whereas there are other people who have legitimate complaints having lost >50% of their item value along with fees. Wow..... I really do want to understand the rationale behind this. Explain.
A business goal is to make ever increasing profit, but that does not absolve them from unethical behavior. After all, most mobsters viewed themselves as a company, just out for profit.

This is when society should step in. There should be consumer laws (and some countries has those) that protect the consumer in cases of service contracts and natural catastrophes. For example in Sweden, such protection exist which covers both natural catastrophes, and wars (Lightning strikes are excluded).
I've seen that feed come and go quite a few times over the recent months. They're probably testing and/or working on something new. It is highly frustrating when the feed disappears.
I suppose in some sense OpenBSD "competes" with Linux, but although I don't know for sure, I doubt Theo sits around developing strategies for competing against any other OS. OpenBSD is what he wants it to be, take it or leave it.
RMS has been in the business of providing realistic solutions to problematic legal environments for 30 years.

Nothing to be surprised about.
I'm surprised he brought that up, it's a weird point. Because a different part of the brain processes the constructed language it's no longer language? It's also untrue. We construct language patterns, poetry for example, where the positional number of a word or a syllable changes its meaning.

That said his point about the brain being wired to take the less computationally intensive route is a very important insight which I think extends beyond genetics and throughout the evolution of all biological processes.
Traversty: a tiny JavaScript library for DOM collection management and traversal
To be fair, that Wipeout clone demo also runs fine at full quality on a Core 2 E6400+8800GT. That's also before noting that on that old rig the demo never went above 20% CPU or GPU, which still says nothing about how well optimized the demo is.

Of course, you're absolutely spot on in that all this is stuff non-web devs were doing over a decade ago, the real benefit of web technologies not being that they're as capable as native solutions, but that they benefit from the web's ubiquity.
Here's some insight which I had with a senior partner at a "big 4 consulting" firm and their attitude to age.

The buy up highly educated people in their 20's because they're cheap and eager to work. In fact, they're cheaper than most people when you do an hourly analysis (probably cheaper than cleaners).

BUT... the simple fact is, they also know they burn out by their 30's. Life takes over. The doubt. What am I doing with my life? Why don't I have a family? Maybe I missed out on other things my friends were doing?

By that stage, they no longer care about you because they've got a new batch of cheap 20's burning the midnight oil.

However, the good news is that they noticed that there's a reversal when people reach their 40's. They've got experience in life and business. They're no longer in doubt mode.

Ironically, these organizations have standard pitches to sell the career delusion. "People are our greatest assets" and similar rhetoric. The reality is ... THE DO NOT GIVE A CRAP ABOUT YOUR CAREER. Careers do NOT exist. It's like selling women the idea of being a "homemaker" in the 1950's.

I have noticed that people are more likely to be successful in their 30's and 40's (read some evidence that suggested that too but can't remember the reference). People getting rich in their 20's is an aberration.

Neuroplasticity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_That_Changes_Itself) also suggests that we never stop learning, so I have to disagree with point 3 "Your brain finishes forming in your 20′s." Dribble! That's like the rhetoric about careers. People just get lazy.

What people have going for them in their 20's is no commitment and all the time in the world. But no experience which can also be a disadvantage. If you can recreate "no commitment" in your 30's-40's (20's + real experience), then you should excel because your ideas are more mature and hopefully clearer!

You're more likely to be successful as an actor in your 30's for the same reasons!
you should really take a look at what they "copied"
If your blog has "pivots", HN voters should stop humoring you.
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I agree with you. Probably the meaning of "serious" has to be understood better. "Serious" doesn't mean lack of fun. If that would be the case, there would be no lounges, beer bars, cafes in bay area for entrepreneurs.

And on the other hand, no point in getting HIV in 80s either :)
It's hard for me to even enumerate how many ways this is wrong. But I'll try.

Batteries are still too heavy

Changing. Rapidly.

take too long to charge

Improving, rapidly. Much more rapidly than, say, gas mileage.

(batteries) are too expensive

Sorry to be a broken record, but this too is improving rapidly.

require materials that in widespread use will probably become far more of a problem than fossil fuels in terms of scarcity

This assumes that battery tech will remain static, and use the same materials, forever. Bad assumption, there.

Or the amount of infrastructure retro-fitting that needs to happen (power to parking garages being just one).

This is already starting to happen and will only accelerate. I'm working on a gigantic office building project which will have hundreds of charging stations in its parking area. This will be the norm, very soon. And perhaps you forgot, but building tens of thousands of gas stations all over the place wasn't easy, either...nor is maintaining them. We already have a beefy electrical infrastructure; we just have to keep working on that.

Or ignoring issues or range and recharge times.

Tesla's range is already over 250 miles; this is getting very close to that of many gas guzzlers. And again, this is rapidly improving, even though we're not working very hard on it as a society. Imagine what would happen if we tried!

Power is not free. An electric vehicle still needs to get power from somewhere and that power requires all the normal transmission infrastructure.

Yeah, and we already have that infrastructure. By the way, gas isn't free, either. Nor is it nearly as efficient as electric power can be.

Someone brought up what's happening in NJ but if you had an electric car you'd be even more screwed. At least now you can transport gas to people.

Uh, you can transport electricity to people, too. We have power lines for that.

Seriously, out of cost, weight, range and charging time all of them need to get an order of magnitude better to even be on par with fuel-driven vehicles.

Er, no. Do you know what an order of magnitude IS? Cost: we're within a factor of 2-3 of this being affordable, even if you use the very expensive Tesla as your test case. Weight: Already at parity with many cars. Range: Already discussed above; near parity with many gas vehicles. Charging time: This doesn't have to get much better at all; you can recharge at night.
Language theory predates Chomsky. The earliest known activities in descriptive linguistics have been attributed to Panini around 500 BCE, with his analysis of Sanskrit in Ashtadhyayi.[6] So, while Chomsky is famous his actual contributions are far less than you might suppose.
Anyone worrying about range won't be driving a M5, they will have a 520d ED - which can probably do nearly a thousand miles on one tank.
OpenBSD has maintained their own hardened fork of Apache 1.x for years. I think that switching to 2.x would be a monumental effort for them and set them back quite a ways in terms of security. I think that nginx is a great move for OpenBSD.
I've used eBay to buy and sell furniture locally with some success. This is, however, a very small niche that is starting to be better served by http://gumtree.com.au here.
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get access to quality products

A marketplace of only actually awesome stuff that I can buy right now sounds good.
Looking forward to write both a technical and a non-technical book in the future, that quote is really hard to digest.
Yet Xerox PARC is still sitting in a basement.
I don't like being manipulated. Every time I see a "You should follow me on Twitter" kinda thing I make it a point to not follow the author, or maybe even unfollow them.

Holding your readership in higher regards than a meaningless metric can be worth a lot in the long run, too.
Chomsky's work has been cited by many papers in both fields.
And the procedure will ask them if you indeed owe them, find out that you do indeed owe them this amount, and uphold the debt.
Partially Unobfuscated Compiled Elm Lang Example
posted this to see if anyone can help shed insight on the javascipt implementations of Haskell functions like lift, foldr, foldl. The rest are still pretty obfuscated, any ideas?
Speaking of buy it now, I find it moronic that the buy it now button disappears when even one bid has been entered for the item.

This weekend I bid for an item, then 1 hour later decided that I wanted to pay the 10% extra for buy it now, discovered to my dismay that the buy it now option was gone, thought that the seller had manually removed it, got annoyed and retracted my bid, then saw the buy it now button come back (!) and then managed to buy it now.

I have no idea why they'd make the behavior like this...
Springboard launches accelerator targeting Internet of things
Not sure if any other venture than Mc D was started in post-30s. I guess Mc D was started in 40s but otherwise most of the startups were founded by its owners in 20s itself.
Summly seems to have been redesigned (http://summly.com)... It looks pretty cool, at least from their website and a few sample summaries...
Like Amazon, you mean.
Apple's business model
Do Apple executives see the similarity in the business model Apple adopted in the 1990's and the current business model they use for mobile devices?

BUSINESS MODEL FOR COMPUTERS:

Apple's business model 1990's ---> Bundle software and hardware together for computers. Instead of dedicating all its energy to streamlining and mastering one element of computing, Apple chose to "master" both the hardware and software.

Competitor's (Microsoft) business model ---> Focus on software, leave the hardware to others. Make money by licensing software. The price of the hardware is driven down due to competition among hardware manufacturers so the software becomes more ubiquitous. The lack of Mac to Window compatibility strangles Apple into submission.

BUSINESS MODEL FOR MOBILE DEVICES:

Apple's business model ---> Bundle software and hardware for mobile devices.

Competitor's (Google) business model ---> Focus on software, leave the hardware to others. License mobile software instead of selling it outright. The price of the hardware is driven down due to competition among hardware manufacturers so the software becomes more ubiquitous. The lack of iOS to Android compatibility results in over 60% market saturation of Android.

Would it be worth it for Apple to consider separating iOS from its mobile devices? How would the Hacker community feel about a Samsung S3 running iOS6?
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Personally I think the FSF should go full dystopia: promote and strengthen software patents.

They are so influential right now, and are changing the very fate of the infrastructure of this planet.

It isn't just about money, it's about how the whole ecosystem is poisoned. Either there needs to be massive reform sponsored by the major corps. or small countries will start to break out of treaties to promote "IP freedom" for shell corps.
http://gumtree.com.au is on the rise for things like your bookcase, but I agree, the market on eBay is much larger.
relevent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2h_GIP019c
I really loved the menu screen showing you what levels you'd done and what difficulty level you'd done them on. Simple, efficient.

It took me weeks to realise that the cut-scene graphics were actually useful and not just fluff. They often provided hints and tips or let you know about enemies.

There's a bunch of stuff still in the rom code that isn't accessible from the game - the hidden island; some glitchy levels. And there's some bits left over from the "notorious" but removed "put your face in the game" mode. (Which used the GB camera to map face photos onto game models for multiplayer but got removed after a mass shooting.)

I loved the train; I loved the tunnel in the damn. I hated trying to keep the bloody hostages alive on the boat. The first few times I set the alarm off were scary.

This was an amazing game. The N64 was a peculiar sweet spot for games and I'm not sure why.
Imploding Gay Power
How to make a great game sequel - analysis of Extreme Road Trip 2
So much hate in this thread for one of men who laid the foundations of Computer Science. We may disagree with his ideas now, and possibly his theories are out of date, but the magnitude of his contribution to linguistics, and by extension, neurology, psychology, and computer science, puts him in the very highest rank of scientists.
Is it ?? what is the patent number.
That is what they say. You say that the modem wasn't worth USD 500 when it was new and certainly isn't worth that much after five years of depreciation. In a civilized society, when two people disagree they go before the judge. If the judge says you owe the debt, then you do. If he says you do not, then you don't.

Can someone explain where the people defending iffy business practices are coming from? Has no one here rented from a shady landlord who tried to charge you $$$ for stains on the ten-year-old stained carpet that was already worthless when you moved in, and the practice didn't appear indefensible then?
If you work hard enough on becoming a good writer, you shouldn't fear anything.

Basically, it just expresses the fact that that only 5% of people are on the 95th percentile.
Posted this to see if anyone can help shed insight on the javascipt implementations of Haskell functions like lift, foldr, foldl that are obvious in the unobfuscated code. The rest of the fuctions, which are heavily recursive and spread their instructions over several functions, are still quite obfuscated. Fully unobfuscating this code is the goal. By understanding this code, really powerful tools regarding real-time communication and real-time graphics can be unlocked as a standalone pure js implementation.

Source: the extremely clever Elm; http://elm-lang.org/
> And this gets at the author's third point:

This third point is, by the way, completely wrong. Not only does he blow a minor thing completely out of proportion by applying it to the whole brain and intelligence, there hardly is any real evidence to back up that you cannot learn new things later in life - on the contrary, check out "Guitar Zero", Gary Marcus does a great job of debunking the "not worth it to try anymore" myth.
Here's a more thorough explanation:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/
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I can't imagine how to solve the problem in an acceptable manner. Without something like certificates and encryption, some concept of identity, you're just not going to get anywhere, and I'm about fifteen miles into the "unacceptable" territory with that suggestion ("hey, guys, let's just rewrite the entire infrastructure from the very bottom!"). Your primitives are broken, any system built with them will be broken, and it's going to be more years before people are ready to even think about that.
Not really the same. You can take a dozen jerrycan of gas that will last you for a long time, and that does for the same price as the gas you'll buy at the station, which is precisely what people did before you could find gas stations every few miles.

Not so for electricity: charging and taking 10 batteries with you on a trip is much more of a hassle and quite expensive. Fuel is really the deal-breaker for the buyers who won't go with an electric car until "fuel" is available everywhere. The other points are moot until this issue is solved.
We wrote it in Java. We had some tools for the parsing (something like yacc for Java), we built a parser but it was in another class.
Google Plus already does this, and its free. You can share any image/post with anyone via email, and you can make circles for batch send.