skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Xilinx Spartan-3E 1600"

Hey I have one of those Digilent spartan 1600 boards at home! Those are nice boards. Needless to say the cray is not going to fit in a little CPLD, and a 1600 is moderately big for home use. The Xilinx software to compile and download bitstreams is not open source but is free and trivially installable under Debian linux. I have a very long G+ post explaining how to go from a bare Debian linux install to compiling and running CPLD code, but it boils down to, other than taking a long time and being a PITA there's nothing terribly difficult about it. Its fun and easy to mess with FPGAs/CPLDs at home. Xilinx uses basically the same software (plus or minus various utilities) to program their whole line from five year old CPLDs to the latest FPGAs.

You can also download 80s microcomputers, PDP10s and PDP11s, PDP8s, all manner of classic fun onto a FPGA of that size.
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Please. I hate nothing more than a male-dominated work environment. The point I'm trying to make is that there is more to choosing an executive than diversity. Diversity is necessary, but not sufficient. The reason I brought Sarah Palin up is to illustrate that sometimes the results of focusing on diversity above all else sometimes produces painful results.

Beyond that, Yahoo has a history of making bad choices in terms of executive leadership. Perhaps they finally made a good choice this time, but I'm skeptical until I see proof otherwise.

Honestly, I fully expect that Mayer will set equality back.
> I wonder why blame shifting seems so central to american way of thinking.

Because blame goes down, and reward goes up, so its a lot more important to make sure that the blame for wrong doesn't get to you than to make sure you get the credit for right, since the reward for right is an "attaboy" where those above you reap the substantive benefits, while the punishment for wrong remains substantive.

TL;DR Because capitalism, mostly.
A friend tried something like this a few years ago. He built a resume site where recruiters had to pay to contract you about a job. If you didn't respond in 24 hours they got a full refund. If you responded (even if the answer was, not interested)then you and the site shared the revenue (70/30 IIRC). Each person set their own price.

I thought it was a cool idea but he launched in 2008 just as the economy tanked and he never got any traction.
Ohio officials implement statewide face recognition program without debate
However, the back has had nubs since around March: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/28/4157304/google-nexus-4-des...
You'd need to pay enough attention not to agree to anything.
Why am I being endorsed for skills and expertise I do not claim on my profile?
> The Humble Bundle team spends a few cents on bandwidth for each sale

It should be significantly less than that.
This seems backwards. "Authenticity" and "identity" aren't monolithic. To steal from Walt Whitman, we all contain multitudes.

What I express on IG is no more or less authentic than what I express here or on Quora or at a quiet meal with friends. They all express a sometimes-idealized aspect of myself. The goal is not a quest for "real identity." The idea itself is incoherent.
Your product doesn't judge you; people do.
Came here to say the same thing. Tig's performance alone makes this worth purchasing. Truly unforgettable.
A good indicator is the maximum number of upvotes a thread gets.

https://news.ycombinator.com/best
Interesting idea. Incorporate BDD tools for definition and validation to minimize ambiguity.
But isn't Dalvik register-based, not stack-based? Missing the name could be excusable, while getting the architecture wrong might have been a relevant factor.
CSS Sprites vs. Data URIs: Which is faster on mobile?
One would think they changed the line in the manual about cooperating with law enforcement to something more detailed.

Note: I'm saying "something more detailed", not "something more appropiate to situation". The robot must not be required to think ever.
Phone Gap SQLite plugin (No limits)
The arrangement could be improved in a few places,

1. i and em, and b and strong, should be related. They should appear in two column? e.g., i over em, b over strong

2. The most common form elements (input, select, textarea, button) should be near the top. select should be directly over option.
Yep, except quite clearly full of heavily single platform linked assumptions.
Very sneaky! I wish I'd thought of it!
With no early Windows 8.1 RTM bits, what's a developer to do?
narcissism is getting love from
people about your "awesome" life - it applies to selfies too .. but I also think taking photos of yourself gives you control over how you want the photo framed, the face you make, etc.. think control might be a bigger factor?
An attempt to create the highest resolution real-time map of global temperature
Not really, you can still pay what you want for the content, they just offer an incentive to meet a threshold. Note that you can still direct the entire amount that you pay the way you choose, so you could donate the entire purchase if you wanted.
I've checked it out on your recommendation. I like the syntax even better than Nimrod's, it has better support for scientific work, and the floating-point performance is virtually identical. The only problem is that global variables are apparently not allowed to be typed as plain primitives, so this program:

s = 1.0
while s<1.0e10
s = s*1.00000001
end
println(s)

Has mysteriously terrible performance. You have to use:

function test()
s = 1.0
while s<1.0e10
s = s*1.00000001
end
println(s)
end
test()

to see what Julia can really do.
Autorespond to recruiters with a link to your "updated resume", but make it an Amazon affiliate link instead. Any purchase they make in Amazon in that same day = commission
I realize they must run tight margins with the prices they charge, but I keep craving a nice client for all this non-game content on my Android device - I have the eBook bundle and it's a bit of a rigamarole to get the ebooks into the Kindle app, and the Android bundle client doesn't even list the ebooks.
Project Quicksilver
Oops. Will correct it ASAP. Thanks for letting me know.
"Tell me more"

.....

"I'm not sure I get it?"

.....

"How much does this cost?"

....

"Could you go over the benefits again?"

....

"You have me convinced, I don't want it. Bye."
So what would be the difference between a masters in "Big Data" versus a masters in computational science?
Only accepting encrypted email would be a start, I guess – at the very least, the sender has to know the ~1 kB for the public key and he also has to encrypt every email individually.
> There is absolutely zero reason why HR/recruiting people should have final say on a candidate. None. It should be inconceivable, at a technical company, to hand over that much hiring power to a non-technical person.

Welcome to the world of Asian Bigcos, where HR not only has the final say on the candidate hire, they also have enormous influence on what department/team that candidate ends up in.
Interesting that you can divide how the money is distributed to the artists. Is that new? Once upon a time for video games you could split dev/charity/tip but you could not control the split per dev. Am I mistaken?
Does lifting weights really fix your posture if it's already bad? Also, where do you guys read about proper eating?
It really does not look like the most ergonomic device Nintendo have created.
I just read that. Thanks for pointing it out. The parallels to the present day are striking and disturbing.
With step #1 ... apt-get install mysql ... what happens when the network repos go down? Like when you have to rebuild the same system four years later? You might wind up with an epic fail. That's not very stable as a packaging format then, is it? But this is just an example challenge from a much larger set... all of which derive from the fact that state is being allowed to seep in from random places. It's not clean.

This is essentially one of the core complaints I have with some of these tools. In my own as-yet-unfinished tool's architecture that tackles similar domains, network access is disallowed at deployment time. If a package cannot be installed without network access, then it is not considered a valid package.
All well and good ... until Spideroak stops syncing, customer support can't explain it and you're told it will be ... get ready ... at least one month before one of their tech guys can look at the problem. I was with Spideroak for over a year before this happened to me, and I switched to competitor's product. sure, no real security, but at least it's backing up my files.
Audio, My New Found Enjoyment
I would love to see TV advertisements for premium numbers for recruiters to call, I can see the ad copy now ... "Want to talk to a hot hot prospect? Maybe someone who not only can program in .NET but they are an open source GOD? They hit all the right buzzwords on their CV? They not only went to the right school but they are school chums with the CEO of the company you're working for! Call 1-976-NERD-4-HIRE and get some hot candidate talk now."
One such system is Hashcash [0], there is an extension for Thunderbird [1] which uses it.

The only thing is that legitimate mass emails (think mailing lists) will be delayed as well, unless some sort of exception is added.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash

[1] http://pennypost.sourceforge.net/PennyPost
I actually went to my first Startup Weekend this year. It's interesting to read about what goes into making it happen.

I definitely want to go to another SW. Does anyone know how many lasting companies actually make it out of these events?
> The point I'm trying to make is that there is more to choosing an executive than diversity

Oh, thanks for the heads-up.
Ask HN: Am I good enough for a developer internship/job?
I'm about 1.75 years into learning software development. I went to business school but figured I wanted to be in technology, so I started with developing iOS apps.

I've shipped 2m downloads since starting, and I make an average income from my apps. I would like to learn more and code more by interning at a startup.

The problem: I don't know a lot of things. I don't know terminal, git, any semblance of code review or QA, etc. I don't know a lot of CS fundamentals. I've always just hacked what I need to get my product working. I cut corners, use open source, paste StackOverflow. If I had to do a coding test or hold a technical conversation, I might embarrass myself.

Am I too green for an internship? Am I the wrong type of person for a developer role?
this is true if you consider cases where sometimes your online interactions seem more real or authentic than anything you do offline and identity comprise both. I prob should bifurcate my idea that "real" here means where you spend the majority of your life, for me i'd rather be offline, and it feels like we're caught trying to one up each other talking about our offline lives on these social networks that may not be the most accurate representation of what really goes on. I guess I'm interested in the "multitudes" too, just see a very edited version on FB, Instagram, etc (they serve their purposes)
That's been proposed from time to time. If everybody charged a dime to accept an email, you could email back and forth with your friends at no net cost, but spammers would be out of business.
Its easy to run a groupon for a real physical product where you lose money on each individual transaction, and if you make enough transactions such that X*Y exceeds the net worth of the company, its toast.

Its not possible, so far as I know, to get an individual transaction net loss from a humble bundle, so make one sale or a billion its not possible to end up a net negative much less a negative greater than the net worth of the sponsoring company. If you want to see something funny, try typing in a custom amount on a humble bundle less than $1. You get a pop up graphic and she doesn't look amused. This would imply to me that CC processing/amazon processing costs less than $1 for a $1 transaction.

I don't think the potential sales loss exists unless you put a new product on HB. No one does that, its always something older. Frankly a "fan" of these comedians would have bought it a long time ago, so all thats going to happen is they'll get a small stack of cash and a bunch of new fans. Which is cool.
That is why you put a hard percentage cap of assets on any speculative ventures.
Here's how you can catch phish like Twitter
Solaris Zones support would be awesome.

Still a longshot, but more likely than native Windows support, at least.
Thank you so much for doing this. If hackernews fails to return to its roots I think it is prime time to create a spinoff community.

I submitted my javascript library last week and was bummed it didn't get upvoted more, even though it was well received on github. I've spent a horrible lot amount of time on it, https://github.com/amark/theory if anybody is interested. And my Twitter account is the same as my username here.
That's pretty cute. I was kind of hoping that singletons would be over on the far right in the "noble gases" column, as an analogy to reactivity, or perhaps some other analogy about nesting relationships.
I wouldn't be surprised if Newark/Arrow/Avnet are still stocking these.
FYI, I've initiated an investigation about your problem for you: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phusion-passenger/oVGAsITg8s...
My company was pissed off with these new Microsoft policies. One of our bigger customers, Trend Micro, uses our components in their Titanum Security Solution (million users audience). They found an issue in the Windows 8.1 (build 9477) but we don't have access to it as MSDN subscribers! only to the "official preview" (build 9431). We saw new changes in the UIRibbon.dll that triggered the bug in our software.
No argument here, but I think the delta between a dog and a watchdog is much smaller than the delta between dog and no dog, if what you're worried about is preventing intruders. I believe that the overwhelming majority of burglaries are opportunistic, and a dog that barks is going to be pretty much sufficient to send the thief down to the next house.
This is just how Medium is. Of debatable merit.
I would prefer a more specific definition that would match more closely to people's intuition about what is and isn't a state, and also allows for discussion about what the state should and shouldn't do. If we define "state" as to include animals protecting their territory, I don't see how the term will be very useful in any discussion.
Get a system76 laptop with dual SSD drives and 16gb ram for 1,400!

Best machine I've ever had
Their shipping options completely suck for anything but trivial sales, too, unless it has changed in the last month or two.

(Example: most products are free shipping but a few large products are not free; there was no control to exempt products from free shipping, nor any control to say products were not eligible for certain shipping methods. Not all merchants can overnight a 50kg box, for example.)
There's a difference between willful and non-intentional infringement. If you use H.264 and you get sued by MPEG LA, you can be damn sure that they'll win and that you'll pay up a fortune for it.

On the other hand, patents really aren't so broad and those that are can be and have been overturned in court for being too general - with exceptions of course, of which you hear because they are so outrageous (like Amazon's 1-click patent).

In reality, it's really hard to prove that something is infringing on a patent, if the infringement wasn't intentional. In the Oracle versus Google case, Oracle was hoping they'd get Google with copyright infringement (of APIs no less), the patents involved being just in case the copyright infringement claims wouldn't work. Google won on all fronts.

The reason for why threats of patents infringement are so dangerous is because few companies are willing to make a stand and would rather settle.
Cool site. Is it yours? Can you add e-mail subscriptions for new titles?
Unfortunately, Wuala was bought by the French company LaCie. No idea where they have their data nowadays, but I'm guessing France, since LaCie made them give up P2P storage functionality, likely leading to a sudden higher storage demand.
30 second sprint, 1 minute walk, rotate until you can't move. Then do it again. Oh, and do it a few more times. Then do that every morning and every evening. You will shed weight like no tomorrow.

Note: SPRINTING, not steady state cardio. As intense as you can for 30 seconds, then walk. That's all.
It may be just as you say. But I still think that while it's ok for Corbet to share it widely, it's not ok for just any other one. That is why submitter on HN should add comment that the link was shared by Corbet on reddit in the first place.
Looked at Elance (https://www.elance.com/) or oDesk (https://www.odesk.com/)?
Somewhat tangential, but LinkedIn has turned to email to increase engagement with such desperation that I am starting to short the future of the company.

"SomeRandomPerson has endorsed you. Click here to find out what they endorsed."

etc. It is a invirtuous cycle of trying to essentially trick people into doing things that trigger these emails for other people (recall Classmates.com being an earlier crash-into-Earth example of this pattern). They're trying, desperately, to fight the fact that many people simply have no need to use the service with any regularity at all, so it becomes gaming about endorsements.
The paper mentions mixing services but suggests that they are unsuitable for large-scale laundering due to their relatively low volume. That is, if someone wanted to cash out thousands of bitcoins, it would not be possible to disconnect the block chain trail as the value of bitcoins being transferred would dwarf the rest of the transactions being mixing in.
Depends how bad, consult a doctor. Mine was kind of shitty, and it did fix it, but that's because I only progressed my lifts if I had 100% perfect form throughout all sets and reps.

bodybuilding.com about diet and how to work with macros.
I wonder whether what we need is, in fact, some sort of collective scheme - like a form of indemnity insurance. Patent trolls are stronger than individual companies, and rely on them not being able to fund the legal defence, but they're in no way stronger than even a small expense from all the companies that they might sue put together.
>Because he works from home, Mr Beaumont has been able to increase his revenue by keeping cold callers talking - asking for more details about their services.

This where I started to dislike this guy. A deterrent to cold calls is great but tricking the other party to stay on the line is fraud if you ask me.
Take a bunch of strangers and give them 72 hours to organize into teams and bring someone's brain child to life... yea, better have your ducks in a row as an organizer. I would think that any tools that a startup weekend organizer could use to make it easier for attendees to navigate through the weekend would be a huge plus. solid article. thanks.
So wait Matt Cutts being paid by Google makes him a puppet and we shouldn't take him to be a useful voice on anything related to search?
It'd be better to have an actual measure of the unbuffered read rate after a seek. That's pretty much all the spin rate is good for, unless you're worried about its angular momentum or something.
... and "insurer of insurance not paying" insurance.

It's insured turtles all the way down.
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Sparrow (http://sprw.me/) is still my primary client even though there will be no future updates for it.

I've also heard good things about Airmail (http://airmailapp.com/).
See whether any of your friends, preferably who run businesses like yours, have recommendations for a good lawyer for this area. Or, if they don't, whether they can recommend a good lawyer in another area who can recommend a good lawyer for patent law.
The problem here is that it's very hard for people to not discriminate at all based on attributes not relative to ability such as gender, race, religion, etc.

For example, many people have racist tendencies but rationalize them as something else.

"There is a big group of male magentas dressed the same over there, I should avoid them because they are almost certainly a gang"

is rationalized as:

"I don't avoid the group of male magentas dressed the same because I'm racist and assume that most magentas are in a gang, but because I've been taught common sense. Common sense dictates people that look like that must be gangsters."

Perhaps if we interviewed people without being able to see them, their name, or anything about them and using voice obfuscation we could eliminate a lot of bias?
> Kinda like how nobody sells mining drills because "if using that drill were profitable, they would use it themselves"?

Which is a really awful comparison as real world mining requires things like:

- mining rights

- land title

- skilled workers

- processing plants that will take your ore

- government connections

Mining bitcoin requires only a computer or specialized gear.

Or in other terms, its an awful comparison as anyone can mine bitcoin, while only a very few select folks can mine in the real world.
The incredibly technical solutions suck if you live in the USA. If you have $10k and are stopped in a car, there is a high likelihood that the government thugs (police) will attempt to relieve you of the money, or you will have to prove where you earned it. Doubly so if you are a minority in the south.

Otherwise you might be able to get a Swiss bank acct, set up an offshore investment trust in some tax haven like the caymans (invest everything for awhile), transfer the money to a third country and then to a US bank. Another way would be to open up a quickie-mart/nail salon/hotdog stand and over-report income - this is what criminals do.

If you are an actual criminal with $billions then you could just talk to one of the big banks like Wells Fargo (which absorbed Wachovia) and ask them to launder it for you. So the government has already made criminals of anyone that decides to cash out large chunks of btc and bring the cash home.
Related: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/get-a-job-the-craigslist-expe...
So there was never only a single human in existence?
Be pedantic towards hyperbole and save ALL the fish!
First off keep on learning. You just listed areas you are weak at, I would suggest you buy some books or read websites on those technologies.

Take some online resources http://www.noexcuselist.com/ and learn what you can on your own time. When you work you won't have much time to learn, because you will be coding.

I worked with interns, and tried to teach them how to program and use tools associated with programming. Sometimes management didn't like me teaching them and decided to make them move boxes around instead. I just had one Intern from 1999 contact me on LinkedIn that I helped and he seems to be doing well. The law firm I worked at decided to make him move boxes and do manual labor after I tried to teach him how to program. So it really depends on management and your work environment.

Trust me if you don't know data structures and algorithms, your code won't be as good as someone who knows how to use those things. It is never too late to learn, I am taking a course on algorithms right now and I am 45, learning all over again as I forgot because I was disabled and out of work for a decade.

Good luck and never stop learning, technology changes every day, learning to adapt to change is what makes you a good programmer, learning from your mistakes and learning new tricks of the trade makes you a better programmer.
Also,"beat the average" has always been a gimmick they use, back to humble bundle 1. Its not a new mechanic they've introduced.
>Truly an aircraft for those with a discerning palette.

or a lifesaver for aircrews stationed in "dry" countries like Yemen :)
No, but only because that stops them being taken advantage of fully by their boss/shareholders [categorically not my point of view].