skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's implemented on an FPGA, it's more-or-less recreating the original (digital) hardware. The author pointed out, implementing the original CPU instructions per the spec isn't that challenging. In my 2nd and 3rd year computer engineering courses we implement CPUs which are similar in complexity. Admittedly, getting them to run in hardware versus simulation is a bit of a hurdle sometimes.

The thing is, game designers are all about juicing functionality. If they could take advantage of something that isn't in the spec ( like the extra instructions the author mentions ), they probably did. So you have to find all the common mis-behaviours, some of which might have been side effects of analog components included in the console. Similarly, the analog hardware on your FPGA board is probably nothing like what the original console contained; the sound and video output are hard or impossible to get right.

In short, you can avoid the conditions that they discuss like deadlocks more easily in a VHDL design, but things like the colours in the video may be impossible to get right (the author points this out as well).

On a side note, I don't fully agree with the linked article's 'twice as accurate, twice as slow' hypothesis. A lot of the cases they discuss are either analog effects which are expensive to reproduce in a digital emulator, or just hardware edge cases which don't add a lot of processing overhead. Basically, recreating a quirk can be very expensive or pretty cheap computationally, and there's no reason to say they'll average out over time.
Sigh. We know that Ortiz asked for disproportionate penalties and piled-on charges to try to force a plea bargain. We know that even if all the Government's assertions are true, the alleged crime was quite minor, causing neither monetary harm nor physical harm to any person or entity, and yet the prosecutor was seeking decades in Federal prison for punishment. (The idea that she was seeking less punishment has no evidence behind it, and if were true, she wouldn't have needed to add nine extra felony charges a few months ago.)

All those things are undisputed fact, and they are enough, in the eyes of many, to represent prosecutorial misconduct.
As a developer, I'd just like to say: thank you for doing this. A good PM is literally worth their weight in silver (at today's price, anyway).
I believe the last slide shows that the restart takes 48 milliseconds, and I get similar results with one of my own processes running on our server. This doesn't seem like a big deal at all.

For large node programs, this approach may require careful optimization of the start process in the same way that we optimize the client-side page loading process.
I've observed (non scientifically I concede) the same thing than Marco. Also another thing he wrote I find particularly true is the need for Android users to try to convince others people to switch to Android as if there was no good reason to own an iPhone. That's strange.
Thanks for demonstrating my point exactly. You are so far removed from the actual facts of the case, let alone any actual impact, and yet the fury and vitriol you're showing -- along with the certitude you have in your judgments -- suggest that, frankly, you feel entitled to have a say about anything you please. No justification necessary, you have an opinion, therefore your opinion matters.
Profiting off hunger: Wall Street makes big gains over food price spikes
The future of the world is more Allstate commercials.

Seriously though, on-demand everything would already be common place if society could adapt to this new method of doing things. That being said, one need look no further than Max's own example of Uber, which has had quite the regulatory joust so far, to see the battlefield all great ideas have always had to cross.

Transformative change takes a long time and an instant in ancient industries. Advertising has changed formats, but the idea of advertising on television has been static for a very long time. Then the hopper came out, CNET/CBS blew a gasket and there is a threat of major disruption.

My point is this: Max makes a lot of compelling arguments, but one of the biggest ones for me is that if you're aiming for a financial services career, learning to build complex insurance instruments is the place to be (as it sort of has been for the last 10 years in the form of CDOs and their corresponding insured counterparties). All of the technical innovations he writes about have tall regulatory hurdles, but insurance will become increasingly necessary (and complicated) in the coming years.
I can do it on our internal corporate mail using Exchange.
UX in Sandwich Making
Microsoft's Q2: Time to Kick Ballmer and PCs to the Curb
From the comments, many people are arguing the death of PC. They said that tablets could not replace a developers' laptops. But as I understand, the death of PC really means the death of Windows, which is unproductive to use in any sense now.
Here are a few more versions of the story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090807 (venturebeat.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092088 (telegraph.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092123 (bloomberg.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092327 (guardian.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092447 (latimes.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092764 (lohud.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092889 (bbc.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093489 (cnn.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094517 (ft.com)

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That's interesting. I went to see them today and it didn't seem like they were coerced into expelling him. They seem to really have something that makes them strongly believe it was necessary. Gah, I'd love to know.
> In considering people’s motivations for killing themselves, it is essential to recognize that most suicides are driven by a flash flood of strong emotions, not rational, philosophical thoughts in which the pros and cons are evaluated critically.

That sounds very likely to me, but given my utter inexperience with suicidal thoughts or acquaintances, I'm wondering if there is any proper evidence corroborating it. What percentage of suicides are evaluated critically? Obviously, "evaluated critically" is difficult to define, let alone measure, but I'd like to see any studies done in this area.
As joke acronyms go, I preferred "Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping" back when Eight Megs was a lot of memory. "Eighty Megs" worked for a while after that. These days you'd have to rename it EGACS to use that joke.
Exactly, I cringed at that scene.
Using Stack Exchange to be better at what you do.
I find this quote from the article ironic:

"Nayar said he can't go into specifics about what will change, but transparency is a major focus."
Planetary's approach to microsatellites is VERY daring. Instead of flying bulletproof, radiation-hardened single vehicles (like NASA or JPL), they plan to put up scads of cheap, disposable spacecraft using off-the-shelf hardware.

This is an uncommon approach, and IMO it perfectly meshes with their exclusive use of unmanned vehicles. Who cares about reliability, it's just a robot and there are many more where it came from...

As an example of the "off-the-shelf hardware" thing, they are even looking at using WiFi (and high-gain antennas) to communicate with orbiting satellites until they can get laser communications (or enough money to buy time on the Deep Space Network).

EDIT: Another example is that instead of a purpose-built real-time OS (like VxWorks, which JPL used on the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers), they are using Linux with a real-time patch. Maybe it's not quite as reliable, but it's much more powerful.

Source: Planetary recently gave a talk at my university. I'm sure most of this is up on their website as well.
Here's the problem as I see it: most natural interactions you have with other people almost always involve a "social object" (Here's a good introduction on the concept: http://gapingvoid.com/2007/12/31/social-objects-for-beginner... ).

Online dating sites really don't provide any useful social objects other than photos and "interests". Even socially intelligent people are going to generally fumble around a bit if they're forced to try to create a conversation with no real context. "So.. uh.. you're interested in skiing. I also like skiing too!"

The other problem is that expressions of interest are incredibly overt. I think the sites tend to ignore the power of flirting. The whole point of flirting is that there has to be a sense of uncertainty. That you MIGHT be interested, if they're cool... Without a sense of flirting, you end up with the uncomfortable "shopping" sort of metaphor. I mean, think about something like facebook -- I can comment on a girls link and say something clever, without being incredibly obvious about being interested, but if she's also interested there's at least a little bit of play that can go on there, right?

I don't think the solution to the dating problem is social networks per se, but there has to be some way of signalling some interest without the incredibly overt mechanisms dating sites currently offer, and there has to be a way of interacting that is a bit more indirect.

Incidentally, while I don't think World of Warcraft is a great dating model, I know a few friends who have met their current girlfriends on there. It's inefficient given the amount of time sunk, but I do think it sort of highlights what I said above -- in this sense, World of Warcraft (and the things that happen in the game) are the "social object", and natural relationships were able to evolve out of that.

I do, though, agree with the article that the entire idea of "matching" is ineffective.
That's because Bitcoin is an alternative currency and Paypal is a credit card processor. Until all of our mothers are comfortable with and capable of exchanging USD to Bitcoin and then paying with it (as well as paying the BTC exchange's percentage in addition to the purchase price of what they're buying), Bitcoin is not an alternative to traditional USD credit card processors and should not be treated as one.
A couple more things I encountered when trying to sign-up:
1. I could not see New York, SFo on this list. Which are the current target cities?
2. Upload a JPEG only picture. Really?
Here's a book written specifically for the mental health issues faced by activists: http://www.microcosmdistribution.com/catalog/books/3977/

Atwood's suggestion that anybody who "chooses the path of the activist" should be prepared to face the consequences does not even begin to address the challenges of being so engaged in such a thankless fight for so long, and then having to bear the weight of these insane charges with almost no publicity for your cause or public support.

Not to mention the weight of a wide swath of people not even understanding the problem Aaron was trying to solve in the first place.

Activism, especially on nearly invisible issues like this one, and most especially when you're on the opposite side of entrenched interests with shitloads of cash, is really hard work. It's also hard work for the people on the other side, except in exchange for their hard work they're earning millions of dollars.
A comment is in the eye of the beholder. No doubt, to an Apple fan, a pro-Apple comment on an Android thread can seem reasonable and unbiased, whilst the same comment would seem trollish to an Android fan.

When it comes down to it, most of us, regardless of the platform we individually use, can appreciate the relative pros and cons of each platform. It's just that we're not the ones commenting on articles like that, and so the dialogue gets driven by "fanboys." That ultimately results in articles like this, which is responding to the voices of a few while the silent majority of the sensible is under-represented.
Non sequiturs:

1. > One of Chomsky's transformative insights was that most sentences that are reasonably long are completely unique in human history

... as with a sufficient amount of information in every error-tolerant format.

Every photo ever taken of the Mona Lisa is unique because the pixels are different, but has a very similar high-level meaning, echoing the paraphrase detection task results discussed in http://www.socher.org/index.php/DeepLearningTutorial/DeepLea....

2. > One consequence of this is that people realized that the mimicry argument could not really account for the robust well-formed structure of sentences and give us an infinite set of them.

What about gradient well-formedness? Does anyone even in generative linguistics believe in programming language-hard grammaticality? What about acceptability?

3. > What we need to generate an infinite set of well-structured sentences is a grammar. Thus the universal grammar was born ... the field of linguistics has seldom looked back.

...which grammarless statistical models have no problem doing (or if you want to reject them for making mistakes, do you reject people?)

Which linguistic univerals, if any, have survived the test of time? What are some testable predictions it has made?

I hope I'm not missing the point, and apologies if this has already been said (but not in these exact words, ha ha...)
> I have quite a few close female friends and they all have a minimum set of standards which exclude 95%+ of men.

So do I... in their 30s'. But in my case, that's why they're all still (deservedly) single
I don't think so, as he's only taught the class once and I didn't fail it:

http://cr.yp.to/courses.html
I feel like you may be right for the wrong reasons. "Any software that is desirable on its own will be sought out on its own." is the prelude to many a failed software project. People say the same thing about films, games, apps, etc... and it's almost universally untrue.

If you are right, it's not because no good software aught to be promoted and thus this (and by extension of your logic most any type of promotion) can't be legit, but rather that there doesn't exist a non-scummy way of conducting this particular type of promotion. Is that true?
What you're talking about is a great example of good-faith communication. Unfortunately, it relies on both parties dealing in good faith, and I've had too much experience with people who won't do that -- they won't give an honest assessment of what happens if their request isn't met. I wish I knew how to handle that.
Here are a few more versions of the story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090807 (venturebeat.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092088 (telegraph.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092123 (bloomberg.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092327 (guardian.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092447 (latimes.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092764 (lohud.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092889 (bbc.co.uk)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5093489 (cnn.com)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5094529 (wsj.com)

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Today’s Atari bankruptcy latest in a long history of corporate deaths
One example of many: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2013/01/sport_app.htm...
I'd be surprised if there weren't more than a few HN users who'd installed a Linux distribution by age 12.
There's a bit of a barrier to entry for Datomic because it really doesn't look quite like anything that you're familiar with if you're just used to SQL and NoSQL. The basic starting point is one big many-to-many relation, what in SQL might be one big table of (db_id, subject_id, verb_id, object_id, timestamp) of these "facts" which are (subject verb object) tuples, and these queries can be limited by the transaction timestamp. I'd say more about it but honestly, because it's closed-source, I've had real trouble figuring out what exactly is going on in the backend; a lot of the organization is done with namespaced keywords so I am not sure how exactly the datatypes are organized, but you can query based on subject, verb, or object quite rapidly. As Rich Hickey says, one instrumental thing is that these tuples are only inserted -- they are never updated or deleted. This enables a "many readers, one updater" architecture without violating consistency when you're updating the data: nobody uses a timestamp greater than their recorded one until the model (in the MVC sense) tells that view that it's ready to update. There is a mechanism for naming new elements in your transactions so that you can insert a bunch of facts at once.

It's also a little difficult because it is substantially meta -- instead of a special syntax ("CREATE TABLE" etc.) for handling structure, the information about how the database is organized is stored in the same "fact" tuples that make up the rest of the database, just with some automatic verbs that come bundled in. I'm always a fan of self-expressing systems, but that might throw some newcomers for a loop.

I guess my main comment about Datomic is, "I wish there were an open-source version out there." I'm interested in seeing what the plumbing of such a system looks like and perhaps learning something from it -- and I'd like to peek at their Datalog engine and so forth. Unfortunately, just from peeking inside the JAR, it appears that one might need a good understanding of Google Guava and Apache Ant and the Jetty server and a bunch of other things to be able to read the source, which might make it prohibitive to peek inside the code. I'm more interested in learning from the system than I am in using it.
> It's not the prosecutor's job to decide if the law is just or if the punishment is commensurate. The prosecutor's job is to prosecute.

> Unfortunately, a primary tool in that job seems to be plea-bargaining.

I cannot reconcile those statements. If a prosecutor's job is to prosecute then they should charge with crimes, and say what the maximum sentences might be, and go to court. But they clearly think that part of their job is to adjust the sentence to be commensurate.
WSO2 Now Has API Reporting With Google Analytics
Why does the amount of effort I put into communicating with my elected representatives matter? If my view is worth taking seriously, it should be taken seriously regardless of whether I email or snail mail him.

After all, it's not much effort to vote for his opponent at the next election.
incredible. simply incredible.
From the comments, many people are arguing the death of PC. They said that tablets could not replace developers' laptops. But as I understand, the death of PC really means the death of Windows, which are unproductive to use in any sense now.
At least there's always Siracusa.
That 7W isn't the maximum power consumption, it's the typical power consumption. Maximum is a less impressive 13W - and that's not counting the power used by the chipset, since this isn't a SoC.
If you found this useful, take a look at 365psd.com (with whom I'm not affiliated)- they're really high quality and have been very useful.
The author seems to be something of a rightwing crank (see his writings on diversity for example), which of course does not invalidate anything purely technical he writes on statistics, but it certainly lowers my confidence in anything he says. Or, in probabilistic terms Being wrong in one area correlates well with being wrong in others.
"perhaps an irrecoverable self from a happier past"

This bums me out.
Ask HN: What's the logic behind the large group interview?
A large group interview usually consists of you having 7 or so individual interviews, a lunch interview with another 3 people, an afternoon interview with a manager - all with no or little breaks in the middle.

This interview style is very popular with a lot of tech companies. What's the logic behind it? What output does it produce?
I'm not saying that "no good software ought to be promoted", but rather that the promotion should happen at the places where people would seek them out (e.g. Google). Advertise for photoshop where designers would go to look for software (e.g. in design magazines, google, etc).
Care to know total Facebook Shares, Likes & Comments for an entire domain?
Calling that action manipulative is inherently hostile. That's counterproductive.
Please disregard that comment. I misunderstood the meaning of "direct mail" (I'm not from US). I apologize.
keeps asking me to fill out my profile, but looks cool - I like it so far, gj!
Read-Me-The-News App Umano Launches On Android
Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes
as a rubyist who has dabbled a bit in haskell, i think the two camps are exactly the same in terms of proselytising. it's just frustrating to see people using "less-capable" languages and imagining how much happier/more productive/safer they'd be if they only adopted yours.
"24. Send a personal note (with meaningful feedback) to every person you interview. Thank them for their time, be transparent with your decision (whether successful or not), and if appropriate, offer constructive feedback. The last point won’t work for everyone, but will be appreciated by most (reasonable) candidates, by giving them something to work on."

This is probably the best point in the entire article.
They all look human on the way up.

The moment they are voted into legislative and/or executive branch under current "democracy", they will become a part of the Status Quo.

Which operates on the following rule: Why bother about the spokes when you control the hub?

Having said that, a third party vote is the best option under the circumstances.
Be Succinct and Stand Out. Networking Advice from Techstar's David Cohen
Ditto. I'm hesitant to use the word "elitism" to describe the outspoken Apple fans, but it's especially aggravating when someone writes up extremely harsh reviews or descriptions of a competing product when it doesn't act or perform in the way that matches their ideal.

Also, I know everyone has the right to freedom of speech and such, but I find it to be somewhat disgusting and irresponsible for people with large followings to take cheap shots at competing platforms just to get people riled up.
I really enjoyed reading this an hadn't seen it before. I think that posting the date, like you did, should remove anybody's expectation that this was fresh content anyway. Regardless of previous posts on HN.
What I meant was, what, if any, legal standing does someone have for being in a frame of video. If there was prior case law regarding this, they would have established an objective test which granted copyright or some protection to those deemed 'critical actors'. This is all speculation, I doubt if any such test exists.

If it doesn't, the subject of videos and the extras in the background have the same standing. I don't know what standing that is. I'm just flailing my metaphorical arms hoping for a real lawyer to show up.
Creator here. If you have a spare dribbble invite and think this is worthy, I'd love one!
When it comes to the idea of treatment, there is an interesting hiccup. I can't find the statistic right now unfortunately, but I've heard it in many instances that somewhere near half of mentally ill individuals don't believe they are mentally ill. I've been through the situation myself, I struggled with dysthymia (a form of chronic depression) and anxiety for more than a decade, and had been near suicide before, but to my absolute core didn't believe that there was something wrong with me. I thought that this was just what life looked like to everyone and I was just too weak to handle it. Such is the nature of mental illness at times, that the disease itself is working to convince you that it doesn't exist. It wasn't that I chose not to treat myself, it was that I didn't know the option existed.
Yeah, and on the flip side I doubt most men will be comfortable with women initiating until the social norms around turning women down become less messed up.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5048260
good catch on the 8 people. title changed :)
disqus has been acting up for us in the past few weeks. thanks for pointing it out!
spot on. loop holes (especially in SEO) will hurt you in the long run if you abuse them. best idea is to just stay away from them and provide lots of value.. which is easier said than done.